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Book SynopsisIn the Footsteps of Flora Tristan is the first ever study devoted to Jules Puech (1879–1957), and is a double biography that examines his life’s work on Flora Tristan (1803–1844), feminist and socialist. It begins by examining newly found press reports of Flora Tristan during her lifetime and subsequently, then positions Puech’s discovery of her, as a postgraduate student in Paris in the 1900s. It continues with an account of how he embarked on the first in-depth biography published in 1925. Puech was unmatched in his expertise as a writer on Flora Tristan having discovered her papers through his numerous political connections and having become a historian of Proudhon’s legacy on the international aspirations of the labour movement. Together with his wife Marie-Louise Puech, née Milhau (1876-1966), suffragist feminist, he was a militant in the early twentieth-century pacifist movement that advocated international arbitration. His research on Flora Tristan was enriched by his other projects but was thwarted by the wars of 1914–1918 and 1940–1945. The circumstances of the long gestation of Puech's biography are drawn from his letters and papers, hitherto unseen. The correspondence curated brings a new understanding to the multi-faceted nature of Puech’s activism and rate of progress in the publication of his findings on his subject, Flora Tristan.Trade Review‘This is an important biography which fully complements other works in the Studies in Labour History series, prompting us to recognize Flora Tristan as a transnational activist whose ideas and published works addressed issues that mattered to feminists and socialists in Britain as well as Europe.’ Joan Allen, Labour History Review‘[In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan] contains such a wealth of research and analysis that Máire Fedelma illuminates, whole areas of socialist, feminist, and labour history. It should shape all future studies on Flora Tristan.’ Andrew Coates, Chartist ‘Following an original approach, the book intertwines two biographies… Máire Cross powerfully demonstrates how Puech himself traced the footsteps of Flora Tristan's presence in the memory of the labor movement, how he saved her legacy too.’ Isabelle Matamoros, Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (translated from French)‘The story told in Máire Cross’s book is a fascinating one… it highlights both the feminism and the socialism of Flora Tristan, and the difficulty of making people accept the fact that these two aspects are inseparable. It makes Jules Puech known. It should, one hopes, contribute to the development of studies on his favourite subjects.’ Michèle Audin, Modern & Contemporary FranceTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: A political biography Chapter 1: Tracing the origin of Flora Tristan studies Chapter 2: Flora Tristan in the press Chapter 3: The whirlwind effect of Flora Tristan Chapter 4: The curious circumstances of Flora Tristan’s death Chapter 5: War and peace for the Flora Tristan biographer Chapter 6: The Long wait Conclusion: In the footsteps of Flora Tristan and Jules-Louis Puech Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPrime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of António de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; some consider him more authoritarian than his predecessor, others more liberal. After providing background on his childhood and entry to university, the author explains his growing activism in the Integralismo Lusitano and in the Catholic Church; his monarchist and nationalist ideology. Caetano's decision to support the Salazar Regime coincided with publications in the mainstream media on corporatism, colonialism, European politics and the relationship between Brazil and Portugal. His role in the office of General Secretary of Mocidade Portuguesa (MP), an organization of Portuguese youth similar to the fascist youth organizations in Italy or Germany, was at odds with his neutrality policy in the Second World War. The leadership of União Nacional (the single party of the regime) and the presidency of the Câmara Corporativa (a parliament for corporative interests) led to national recognition at a time when the Portuguese regime had to reform its colonial policy. His tensions with other notables of Salazarism resulted in his political demotion and devotion toward the University in the 1960s. As Rector of Lisbon University he supported universities' autonomy, dividing public opinion. Caetano's Presidency (beginning in September 1968) reflected the tense relationship between the government and the liberal wing on the colonial crisis. Ultimately this led to the final crisis of the New State regime; the fragmentation of the armed forces; and the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974. During his exile in Brazil between 1974 and 1980 Caetano maintained correspondence with his Portuguese friends. These correspondences, introduced and explained by Francisco Martinho, are of exceptional importance in understanding Portugal's contemporary political history.

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Book SynopsisWhen a failed right-wing military coup provoked civil war in Spain, in July 1936, the Spanish government made a worldwide plea for help. In Britain, Aid Spanish Committees sprang up nationwide. Nowhere was empathy more keenly felt for the working people of Spain than among the people of Glasgow, which became the hub of the Scottish Aid for Spain movement. Glasgow was also home to an enterprise which was to make a significant contribution to the Spanish Republic the Scottish Ambulance Unit (SAU). The Unit was the brainchild of a wealthy Glaswegian philanthropist, Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson (18511944). The Units valiant and tireless work soon earned it an excellent reputation among Republican forces and as news of its remarkable work spread, volunteers became affectionately known as Los Brujos The Wizards. However, the off-duty activities of some of the SAUs members earned it an altogether different kind of reputation, and the Unit was soon to become immersed in scandal which tarnished its good name. Donald Gallie was a member of the first SAU team to arrive in Madrid (there would be three successive expeditions). He was 24 years old when Civil War broke out. His family shared a strong sense of commitment, and this, together with Donalds love of travel and adventure, is what impelled him to volunteer for service. His skills as mechanic would prove invaluable in the aid and transport given to casualties. His Diary is a remarkable document, and its publication a significant event in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War.

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Book SynopsisDr. Juan Negrín López (1892-1956) was a man of immense talent, energy, and socialist convictions who served the Spanish people in different capacities: as a physiologist of international reputation and as chairman of the medical faculty of the Complutense University in Madrid during the 1920s; as an active member of the Parliamentary wing of the Socialist Party, 1931-1936; during the Civil War as Minister of Finance in the Popular Front government led by Francisco Largo Caballero (September 1936-May 1937); and as Prime Minister from late May until March 1939. In all these roles he was highly competent: improving the laboratories and experimental methods in physiology, obtaining scholarships for students, suggesting subjects for doctoral theses, encouraging his students to learn foreign languages and read scientific literature in the original, and also to think of public health as a national, public responsibility. As Minister of Finance he conceived of Spain's relatively large gold reserve as the only means by which the Republic could buy the quality of modern arms that were being supplied to General Franco by Hitler and Mussolini. In European politics of the mid-1930s he understood much better than did the English, French, and United States political classes that Nazism and Fascism were a much greater threat to European democracy than was Soviet Communism. But the appeasement policy culminating in the Munich Pact of September 29, 1938 sealed the fate of the Spanish Republic as well as that of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. From 1940 onward Negrín was reviled in Franco Spain for having supposedly delivered the Republic into the hands of the Communists; many republican and socialist exiles also rejected him for continuing his Numantian policy of resistance when, after Munich, the military possibilities of the Republic were truly hopeless. Gabriel Jackson sets out to understand the moral and political thinking of Dr. Negrín of those who supported him to the end and of those who felt that the last months of the war merely prolonged the suffering of the population. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.

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Book SynopsisAlejandro Lerroux (18641949) was one of the most polemical figures of early twentieth century Spanish politics. As leader of the Radical Republican Party and six-time prime minister between 1933 and 1935, his admirers saw him as a patriot determined to create a Republic for all citizens, while his critics denounced him as an opportunistic demagogue willing to sacrifice the Republic to its enemies. Like his French republican contemporary Georges Clemenceau, Lerrouxs long political journey took him from the fiery radical leftism of his youth to centrist consensual politics. Thus while Lerroux was the most significant advocate of a revolutionary break with Spains monarchical and authoritarian past before 1931, after the proclamation of the Second Republic he wished to build an inclusive and tolerant democracy. This book is the first scholarly biography in any language of this titan of modern Spanish politics. Nigel Townsons The Crisis of Democracy in Spain (2000) is the only book in English to discuss Lerrouxs career in any detail, but his study is restricted to the Second Republic. Utilising neglected primary material, Villa Garcia argues that Lerroux embodies the transition from the elitist liberal politics of the nineteenth century to the modern mass politics of the twentieth. Like the Second Republic itself, Lerrouxs political career ended in failure. The work is a timely reminder to students of modern Spain that the demise of Republican democracy was not inevitable. Nevertheless, after the abrupt end to Lerrouxs effort to sustain a broadly based moderate and democratic government, Spain would never again achieve stable and constitutional rule until 1977. The political defeat of Lerroux was a major turning point in the countrys history, a fateful step in the failure of democracy and the coming of civil war.

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Book SynopsisThe Biography includes a Preface by Cuban Commander Fidel Castro Frei Bettos roles as a revolutionary Christian, popular educator, social movement articulator, and journalist/writer provide insight into the political and religious history not only of Brazil, but of Cuba and former socialist countries of Eastern Europe. His lifepath is one of engagement with the revolutionary struggle against the Brazilian military dictatorship in favor of social transformation. His arrest in 1969 for coordinating the safe departure of political militants from Brazil, and his concern to eliminate hunger and suffering from the poorer classes, were strong credentials as he promoted dialogue between political bodies, the religious establishment and the population at large. Strongly influenced by the propositions of Liberation Theology, a defining thread of its activities was to seek an understanding, an accommodation, between Christianity and socialism. Friar Betto maintained close relations with former Brazilian President Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolutionary government, and wrote about how the internal dynamics of the Cuban religious universe could be applied to other countries and to different political circumstances. His writings on socialist countries, especially Paradise Lost, are aimed at promoting understanding on several levels: between the Church and the communists; between the military and politicians; between religious leaders and the people. Frei Bettos biography is an invitation to understand five decades of a personal pursuit of revolutionary ideals through the prism of religious tolerance and the pursuit of socialism. The Portuguese edition was a finalist in the biography section of Jabuti the prestigious national literary prize granted by the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL).

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Book SynopsisAlejandro Lerroux (18641949) was one of the most polemical figures of early twentieth century Spanish politics. As leader of the Radical Republican Party and six-time prime minister between 1933 and 1935, his admirers saw him as a patriot determined to create a Republic for all citizens, while his critics denounced him as an opportunistic demagogue willing to sacrifice the Republic to its enemies. Like his French republican contemporary Georges Clemenceau, Lerrouxs long political journey took him from the fiery radical leftism of his youth to centrist consensual politics. Thus while Lerroux was the most significant advocate of a revolutionary break with Spains monarchical and authoritarian past before 1931, after the proclamation of the Second Republic he wished to build an inclusive and tolerant democracy. This book is the first scholarly biography in any language of this titan of modern Spanish politics. Nigel Townsons The Crisis of Democracy in Spain (2000) is the only book in English to discuss Lerrouxs career in any detail, but his study is restricted to the Second Republic. Utilising neglected primary material, Villa Garcia argues that Lerroux embodies the transition from the elitist liberal politics of the nineteenth century to the modern mass politics of the twentieth. Like the Second Republic itself, Lerrouxs political career ended in failure. The work is a timely reminder to students of modern Spain that the demise of Republican democracy was not inevitable. Nevertheless, after the abrupt end to Lerrouxs effort to sustain a broadly based moderate and democratic government, Spain would never again achieve stable and constitutional rule until 1977. The political defeat of Lerroux was a major turning point in the countrys history, a fateful step in the failure of democracy and the coming of civil war.

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Book SynopsisThis book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). Baskerville was a Birmingham inventor, entrepreneur and artist with a worldwide reputation who made eighteenth-century Birmingham a city without typographic equal, by changing the course of type design. Baskerville not only designed one of the world’s most historically important typefaces, he also experimented with casting and setting type, improved the construction of the printing-press, developed a new kind of paper and refined the quality of printing inks. His typographic experiments put him ahead of his time, had an international impact and did much to enhance the printing and publishing industries of his day. Yet despite his importance, fame and influence many aspects of Baskerville’s work and life remain unexplored and his contribution to the arts, industry, culture and society of the Enlightenment are largely unrecognized. Moreover, recent scholarly research in archaeology, art and design, history, literary studies and typography, is leading to a fundamental reassessment of many aspects of Baskerville’s life and impact, including his birthplace, his work as an industrialist, the networks which sustained him and the reception of his printing in Britain and overseas. The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing history, eighteenth-century studies and the dissemination of ideas.Trade ReviewReviews 'A fascinating account of the printer, type designer, and manufacturer, John Baskerville, which sheds new light on the history of this polymathic figure. Focusing on previously unexplored details of his personal life, the book explores his contribution to fields beyond printing, and his relationship with the broader technologies and ideas of Enlightenment Birmingham.'Dr Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh‘This book brings to light the life of this relatively unknown 18th century figure…This volume is an important addition to the story of Birmingham and the power of networks that brought together art and industry during the Industrial Revolution.’The William Shipley Group Bulletin'This enterprising volume of essays makes a determined effort to…underline the influence that Baskerville had in the Midlands, Britain and beyond.'Paul Elliott, Midland History'This collection of papers is a useful contribution to the study of Baskerville [...] There is valuable original work here, especially in filling out some of the gaps in our knowledge of Baskerville’s life.' John Feather, Publishing History'Due to the variety of its chapters, and the depth of their investigations, John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment is a most welcome title, and one can only hope that it may be the first in what will become a series of 'Baskerville studies' addressing a range of topics from authors in a variety of fields.'Dan Reynolds, Journal of the Printing Historical SocietyTable of ContentsList of Figures viiAcknowledgements xiForeword xiiiTimeline xvBaskerville Family Tree xviiIntroduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry ofthe Enlightenment 1Caroline Archer-Parré and Malcolm Dick1 The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping JohnBaskerville since the Eighteenth Century 9Malcolm Dick2 Baskerville’s Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance 25John Hinks3 Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville’s Birthplaceand Buildings 42George Demidowicz4 John Baskerville: Japanner of ‘Tea Trays and otherHousehold Goods’ 71Yvonne Jones5 John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks 87Susan Whyman6 John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Typein the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 113Ewan Clayton7 A Reappraisal of Baskerville’s Greek Types 133Gerry Leonidas8 John Baskerville’s Decorated Papers 151Barry McKay and Diana Patterson9 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 166Aurélie Martin10 After the ‘Perfect Book’: English Printers and their Use ofBaskerville’s Type, 1767–90 185Martin Killeen11 The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press 206Caroline Archer-ParréAppendix 1 The ‘Baskerville Bindings’ 222Appendix 2 Members of the Baskerville Club 226Appendix 3 Comparative Bibliography 230Further Reading 248General Bibliography 255Notes on the Contributors 260Index 263

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Book Synopsis'In 1958, Britain and Denmark both advocated closer European cooperation through the looser framework of the Free Trade Area (FTA) rather than membership of the nascent European Economic Community (EEC). By 1972, however, the situation had changed drastically. The FTA was a long-forgotten concept. Its replacement, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), seemed economically and politically inept. Now, at the third time of asking, both countries were on the verge of joining the EEC as full members. This compelling analysis compares how the European policies of the British Labour Party and the Danish Social Democrats evolved amid this environment. Based on material from 12 archives in four countries, it updates our knowledge of key moments in both parties’ interaction with the integration story, including in the formative stages of the EEC in 1958¬–60 and the negotiations for British and Danish EEC membership in 1961–63, 1967 and 1970–72. More innovatively, this book argues that amid an array of national and international constraints the reciprocal influence exerted by Labour and the SD on each other via informal party contacts was itself a crucial determinant in European policymaking. In so doing, it sheds light on the sources of Labour European thinking, the role of small states like Denmark in the integration process, and the prominence of the Anglo-Scandinavian nexus in the broader narrative of British foreign policy in this period.'Trade ReviewReviews 'Clearly written, logically structured and underpinned by an impressive base of archival material, this is a strong comparative analysis of British Labour and the Danish Social Democrats.' Dr Paul Corthorn, Queen’s University Belfast'The book is an impressive piece of scholarship, using a broad range of secondary sources in English and the Scandinavian languages as well as a few in French and German. Its anchoring in primary sources is exemplary. The author has trekked not just to the obvious archives in Britain and Copenhagen, but even to Amsterdam and Oslo in pursuit of his project.'European History Quarterly'Broad’s book is a fine accomplishment which sets an example on how government centred analysis can be hugely enriched by supplementing it with a transnational approach that moves beyond and below the state level – and still helps us to understand government agency.' Thorsten Borring Olesen, Journal of European Integration History

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Book SynopsisIn the Footsteps of Flora Tristan is the first ever study devoted to Jules Puech (1879–1957), and is a double biography that examines his life’s work on Flora Tristan (1803–1844), feminist and socialist. It begins by examining newly found press reports of Flora Tristan during her lifetime and subsequently, then positions Puech’s discovery of her, as a postgraduate student in Paris in the 1900s. It continues with an account of how he embarked on the first in-depth biography published in 1925. Puech was unmatched in his expertise as a writer on Flora Tristan having discovered her papers through his numerous political connections and having become a historian of Proudhon’s legacy on the international aspirations of the labour movement. Together with his wife Marie-Louise Puech, née Milhau (1876-1966), suffragist feminist, he was a militant in the early twentieth-century pacifist movement that advocated international arbitration. His research on Flora Tristan was enriched by his other projects but was thwarted by the wars of 1914–1918 and 1940–1945. The circumstances of the long gestation of Puech's biography are drawn from his letters and papers, hitherto unseen. The correspondence curated brings a new understanding to the multi-faceted nature of Puech’s activism and rate of progress in the publication of his findings on his subject, Flora Tristan.Trade Review‘This is an important biography which fully complements other works in the Studies in Labour History series, prompting us to recognize Flora Tristan as a transnational activist whose ideas and published works addressed issues that mattered to feminists and socialists in Britain as well as Europe.’ Joan Allen, Labour History Review‘[In the Footsteps of Flora Tristan] contains such a wealth of research and analysis that Máire Fedelma illuminates, whole areas of socialist, feminist, and labour history. It should shape all future studies on Flora Tristan.’ Andrew Coates, Chartist ‘Following an original approach, the book intertwines two biographies… Máire Cross powerfully demonstrates how Puech himself traced the footsteps of Flora Tristan's presence in the memory of the labor movement, how he saved her legacy too.’ Isabelle Matamoros, Clio. Femmes, Genre, Histoire (translated from French)‘The story told in Máire Cross’s book is a fascinating one… it highlights both the feminism and the socialism of Flora Tristan, and the difficulty of making people accept the fact that these two aspects are inseparable. It makes Jules Puech known. It should, one hopes, contribute to the development of studies on his favourite subjects.’ Michèle Audin, Modern & Contemporary FranceTable of Contents Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: A political biography Chapter 1: Tracing the origin of Flora Tristan studies Chapter 2: Flora Tristan in the press Chapter 3: The whirlwind effect of Flora Tristan Chapter 4: The curious circumstances of Flora Tristan’s death Chapter 5: War and peace for the Flora Tristan biographer Chapter 6: The Long wait Conclusion: In the footsteps of Flora Tristan and Jules-Louis Puech Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNational Jewish Book Awards 2019 Winner of the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies and Finalist for Education and Jewish Identity.Sarah Schenirer is one of the unsung heroes of twentieth-century Orthodox Judaism. The Bais Yaakov schools she founded in interwar Poland had an unparalleled impact on a traditional Jewish society threatened by assimilation and modernity, educating a generation of girls to take an active part in their community. The movement grew at an astonishing pace, expanding to include high schools, teacher seminaries, summer programmes, vocational schools, and youth movements, in Poland and beyond; it continues to flourish throughout the Jewish diaspora.Naomi Seidman explores the movement through the tensions that characterized it, capturing its complexity as a revolution in the name of tradition. She presents the context which led to its founding, examining the impact of socialism, feminism, Zionism, and Polish electoral politics on the process, and recounts its history, from its foundation in interwar Kraków to its near-destruction in the Holocaust, and its role in the reconstruction of Orthodoxy in subsequent decades.A vivid portrait of Schenirer shines through. The book includes selections from her writings published in English for the first time. Her pioneering, determined character remains the subject of debate in a culture that still regards innovation, female initiative, and women’s Torah study with suspicion.Trade ReviewFascinating new book ... Seidman is one of the most interesting scholars working in Jewish studies today.'Rokhl Kafrissen, Tablet Magazine'Professor Seidman recounts stories, legends, and myths about Schenirer. Here is a towering figure, a revolutionary who changed Jewish Orthodoxy, but who also embodied the values that tradition associated with femininity: simplicity, humbleness, and maternal care… We have empirical proof: Bais Yaakov gave birth to many ethically engaged, Jewish-educated women, among them, Naomi Seidman, author, scholar, and feminist.'Brian Horowitz, H-Judaic'[Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement] serves as an important first major study of a figure and a movement that marked a significant shift in the position of Orthodox women… Seidman writes with passion, scholarship, and lucid prose.' Jackie Rosensweig, Tradition'Seidman’s study brings women’s voices back to the centre of the history of Orthodoxy. Much of the reason that women have been overlooked in the study of Orthodoxy has been the subjects that scholars and fields of study define as worthy of attention. As Seidman’s study reveals there is an abundance of data and archives to present a full—not simply a male—history of Orthodoxy.' Eliyahu Stern, Shofar'By combining her thoughtful monograph with a full translation of Schenirer’s available Yiddish writings, Seidman has made these important documents widely available in English for the first time… her nuanced portrait will only encourage other scholars to delve further into the many unanswered questions surrounding a movement that she has amply and subtly shown to be “a revolution in the name of tradition.”' Eliyana R. Adler, Shofar'An extremely valuable aspect of the book is its broad context, which allows the reader to see Schenirer’s work against the background of the changes taking place at that time not only within Orthodox Judaism itself but also in the emergent feminist, socialist, Zionist, and Yiddishist movements.' Joanna Lisek, Shofar'Sarah Schenirer and the Bais Yaakov Movement, which so many have been waiting for, does not disappoint. Only after seeing how significant Sarah Schenirer was can we both wonder why it took so long for a rigorous study of Bais Yaakov to appear, and realise how appreciative we have to be to Seidman for removing the veil of hagiography from this subject.' Marc B. Shapiro, Shofar'Naomi Seidman’s book fills a void in the study of modern Jewish history… This book is a building block in the future research of Orthodoxy and opens new frontiers for scholarship.'Ilan Fuchs, The Lehrhaus'Naomi Seidman is uniquely qualified to write the definitive biography of Sarah Schenirer... Seidman portrays Schenirer as a learned, charismatic educator, worthy of being taken seriously in the field of modern Jewish thought... I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of Jewish women’s education or allied fields.'Debbie Weissman, NashimTable of ContentsIntroductionPART ONE. Reading Bais Yaakov1. ‘In a Place Where There Are No Men’: Before Bais Yaakov2. ‘A New Thing that Our Ancestors Never Imagined’: Beginnings (1917–1924)3. ‘Building Bais Yaakov’: Institution and Charisma4. ‘So Shall You Say to the House of Jacob’: Forging the Discourse of Bais Yaakov5. ‘A New Kind of Woman’: Bais Yaakov as Traditionalist Revolution‘Bais Yaakov, Let Us Walk in the Light of the Lord’: Destruction and Rebirth PART TWO. Collected Writings of Sarah SchenirerI. Pages from My LifeII. Bais Yaakov and Bnos Agudath IsraelIII. The Jewish YearIV. Jewish Women’s Lives: The Sacred Obligations of the Jewish WomanV. Ten Letters to Jewish ChildrenVI. A Letter from Mrs Schenirer, May Peace Be Upon HerVII. With Perseverance and Faith: From Kraków to New York AppendicesA. Sarah Schenirer’s DiaryB. Sarah Schenirer’s Family TreeC. Map of Sarah Schenirer’s KrakówD. Maps of Bais Yaakov Schools, 1935E. The Bnos Agudath Israel Anthem BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisEvelyn was at the centre of English social and political life in the17c, friend of Charles II, member of Royal Society. The Diary of John Evelyn (1620-1706) is one of the principal literary sources for life and manners in the English seventeenth century. Evelyn was one of an influential group of men which included Wren, Pepys and Boyle; afounding member of the Royal Society, he was also a friend of Charles II, a Commissioner for sick seamen and prisoners of war during the Dutch Wars, a prime mover behind Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, and a prolific author who wrote about architecture, art, arboriculture, fashion, and pollution. In his Diary he recorded the events and experiences of his long and remarkable life; there are also extensive references to his family, including hispoignant recollections of the children who predeceased him. This edition has been based on the only comprehensive and accurate transcription, by E.S. de Beer, published by Oxford University Press in 1955, but the text hasbeen reworked into individual years and months while retaining the original spelling and grammar throughout. GUY DE LA BÉDOYERE holds degrees in history and archaeology from the Universities of Durham and London.Trade ReviewEvelyn's social life, his contacts with public figures, his accounts of the Royal Society, his personal reflections, his comments on current events... his playgoing (of Hamlet he writes `but now the old playe began to disgust this refined age') - all these are here in full. For those who go to Evelyn for his literary qualities and his picture of his life and times, this is a well made selection, excellently presented. -- Austin Woolrych * HISTORY *The diary's record of Evelyn's own life and that of his family, and the entries giving his comments on current events and on the great and good of his day...are what most readers are likely to value in the diary, and this readable volume should therefore serve its purpose well. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *

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Book SynopsisBiography of Humphrey Newton offers a unique view of gentry life at the time. The public and political lives of the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century gentry have been extensively studied, but comparatively little is known of their private lives and beliefs. Humphrey Newton of Pownall, Cheshire, offers a rare and fascinating opportunity to redress the balance, thanks to the fortunate survival of a commonplace book he compiled c.1498-1524. Drawing upon this unique manuscript, this interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional study of Newton explores his family life, landed estate, legal work, piety, and his literary skills [he composed nearly twenty courtly love lyrics]. It charts his social advancement and the self-fashioning of his gentle image, while placing him in the context of current discussions of gentry culture. What makes Newton even more noteworthy is that he was among the unsung and little known stratum of English society historians have labelled the 'lesser' gentry. As such, this book provides the first comprehensive biography of an early Tudor gentleman. Dr DEBORAH YOUNGS is lecturer in medieval history at Swansea University.Trade Review[A] significant contribution to gentry studies. [...] The point of Youngs's book is to contribute to the all too small pool of insights into the people and personalities at the heart of local society in early Tudor England, something she achieves with aplomb. * EUROPEAN REVIEW OF HISTORY *A lively and sympathetic assessment of [Newton's] life and his way of living it. [...] A highly readable and enjoyable volume: less a biography than a reconstruction of a Tudor life lived well away from the turmoil of the royal court. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *[Gives] a wonderful impression of the man and his affairs. [...] This is an important study for all historians of early Tudor social history. * AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW *Such a book could only be written by a scholar with an impressive range of interdisciplinary skills. [It] contributes to two rather neglected areas of late medieval studies: the literary culture of early Tudor England and the literature of the minor gentry. [...] A careful, compelling, and well researched discussion of Newton's life - accentuating in careful detail both its socio-economic and cultural aspects. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Essential reading for any local historian working on the late medieval period. * THE LOCAL HISTORIAN *In her detailed and multi-dimensional study, Deborah Youngs succeeds in locating Humphrey Newton in both his local environment and broader social and cultural context, providing the reader with an insight into the mind of 'an ordinary gentleman'. * THE RICARDIAN *A fascinating history of one individual: his background, means of making a living, religious beliefs and cultural life. [.] Thoroughly researched, well written and clearly presented [.] Young's research has created something of great importance: a vivid recreation of what it was like to live in a particular area. * TRANSACTIONS OF THE HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCASHIRE & CHESHIRE *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Newton Family Humphrey and the Law Land and Lordship Beliefs Lifestyle Writer Humphrey: the Man and his World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDetails Thomas Trotter's important contributions, as a naval surgeon and after, to the eradication of scurvy and typhus, to the study of addiction, and to improved health and safety in mines. Thomas Trotter, after studying medicine at Edinburgh, began his naval career as a surgeon's mate in 1779 and saw continuous service up to the peace of 1802, rising as a result of great abilities and the right patronage to become Physician to the Channel Fleet, and being present at the great battles of Dogger Bank in 1781 and the Glorious First of June in 1794. As Physician to the Channel Fleet, he was a major player in the conquest of scurvy and the control of typhus and smallpox in the navy. After the peace he settled in Newcastle where he produced pioneering work on alcoholism and neurosis, as a result of which he is regarded as one of the founders of the field of addiction studies. This book provides an intimate account of naval life in the great age of sail from the perspective of a surgeon, describing the impact of Enlightenment ideas and new medical techniques, and showing how improved health was a crucial factor in making possible the British fleet's great victories in this period. BRIAN VALE is a maritime historian, whose books include Independence or Death: British sailors and Brazilian Independence (Tauris 1996), A Frigate of King George, Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War (Tauris 2001) and The Audacious Admiral Cochrane (Conway 2004). GRIFFITH EDWARDS, Emeritus Professor at King's College, London, is one of the country's leading experts on addiction. His publications include Alchohol: the Ambiguous Molecule (Penguin 2000) and Matters of Substance (Penguin 2005).Trade ReviewAs expected from Boydell, the book is well-produced and illustrated. * ANNUAL BULLETIN OF HISTORICAL LITERATURE *The authors' evident enthusiasms and meticulous scholarship will surely encourage maritime historians, particularly those interested in naval medicine, to search out this book. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *A well-written and well-paced book that is essential reading for any historian of Nelson's Navy. * MEDICAL HISTORY *A commendable history. * JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES *[The authors] must be commended for their excellent contribution to furthering our understanding of this period. Their well-written and superbly researched biography will be welcomed by scholars and students of naval history, medical history, slavery and the Atlantic World. * THE NORTHERN MARINER *A core addition to any history collection with a focus on medicine or military. * THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *Table of ContentsThe Edinburgh Experience Medicine at Sea HMS Berwick Surgeon of a Slaver Northumbrian Interlude Recalled to the Colours The Royal Hospital, Haslar Physician to the Channel Fleet The Conquest of Scurvy Shore-based in Plymouth Honours and Half Pay Married Life and Civilian Practice An Essay on Drunkenness A War of Pamphlets A View of the Nervous Temperament Physician as Poet and Playwright Thomas Trotter and the Great Theatre of Life

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Book SynopsisThe first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "founding father" of architectural history. WINNER of the Cambridge Association for Local History book award 2016 Robert Willis was the archetypal nineteenth-century polymath. Officially, as Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he specialized in the study of mechanism, which he also taught at the Royal School of Mines in London. In the field of science he was an experimentalist, inventor and educational innovator. Meanwhile, in his spare time, he pursued his passion, pioneering the serious study of architectural history. Initially his work was aimed at architects - his role in providing an intellectual underpinning to the contemporary Gothic Revival was acknowledged by the award of the gold medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1862. However his main contribution was more historical. Starting with Canterbury, in 1844, over the course of his career, he investigated almost every English cathedral and developed an approach, combining documentary and archaeological research, which remains in use today. His studies culminated in the monumental Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, still the definitive account of its subject. In this fascinating and lavishly illustrated intellectual biography, drawn from extensive archival and architectural research, the author sheds new light on the interconnections between Willis's varied fields of interest and his fundamental role in the creation of a discipline. ALEXANDRINA BUCHANAN is both an architectural historian and an archivist; her introduction to archives came throughcataloguing the papers of Robert Willis at the Cambridge University Library. She is now Lecturer in Archive Studies at the University of Liverpool.Trade ReviewA work of outstanding scholarship, comprehensive in its coverage of Willis's life and activities, elegantly written, eminently readable, well-illustrated and meticulously referenced.. [A] superbly scholarly volume of lasting value. It will not be superseded for several generations. * ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL *[A] meticulous, well-crafted intellectual biography.... If Willis had anything to say about the matter, then this is the intellectual biography he would have wanted. * THE BURLINGTON *An impressive work of scholarship about one of the superstars of the nineteenth-century architectural firmament. ... It is superbly researched and brings to the fore a major figure to whom all ecclesiologists and archaeologists have good reason to be grateful. * ECCLESIOLOGY TODAY *This intelligent and well-researched book throws much new light on the career and influence of a remarkable Victorian scientist and scholar. * THE VICTORIAN *[A] fascinating...richly illustrated volume. ... This comprehensive biographical work is a worthy and engaging read for anyone interested in architectural history, medieval architecture, ecclesiology, antiquarianism or the Gothic Revival. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *This book is a tremendous achievement and overdue chance to give [Willis] the recognition he deserves. * SPAB MAGAZINE *A very rich book. * SALON *Table of ContentsIntroduction London and the Early Years Cambridge and Scientific Work to 1841 Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages and the Membrological Approach Evidence and its Uses in Architectural History The Cathedral Studies: 'Landmarks' of Architectural History Public Scientist, Private Man The Practice of Architecture: Willis as designer, arbiter and influence 'Architectural and Social History': Canterbury and Cambridge Appendix: Willis on Restoration

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Book Synopsis'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. Unique features of the book include a detailed examination of biographical details in his letters, analysis of the symbolism in his sermons and books (especially his anti-Catholic rhetoric), the importance of his three missionary journeys into France, and the effectiveness of his international diplomatic efforts in England, Holland, and Prussia.Trade Review"...well worth the attention of serious scholars of seventeenth-century France." -- Seventeenth-Century News.

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Book SynopsisThis first full biography of Mrs. Nassau Senior, 1822-1877, tells how an extraordinary woman escaped from the constraints of Victorian domesticity to become the first woman in Whitehall and one of Britain's great social reformers. An ardent Christian Socialist radical, like her brother Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays), Jeanie Senior pioneered social work with Octavia Hill, co-founded the British Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war and battled as 'Government Inspector' on behalf of exploited Workhouse girls. She was ferociously attacked for advocating the fostering of all pauper orphans rather than their incarceration and for indicting Workhouse 'Barrack' schools for producing prostitution fodder. Her fight to defend her findings against male hostility politicised her and she became an icon for the late 19th century women's movement. Jeanie Senior was also a significant figure in the worlds of art, music and literature, even being, it is argued here, the vital inspiration for her friend George Eliot in creating Dorothea, heroine of Middlemarch. Her life was a great 'human story' as she struggled in the teeth of multiple bereavement, an unhappy marriage and cancer in order to rescue others more desperate and vulnerable still. Florence Nightingale told her she had been 'a noble Army of one' and later grieved that her 'premature death was a national and irreparable loss'.Trade Review"The fascinating biography of a Victorian who should never have been forgotten. Both the poignant private life and the heroic public life of 'Mrs Nassau Senior' here find an ebullient, witty and passionate chronicler." -- Barbara Hardy, Professor Emeritus, University of London."This tender and engaging portrait of Jeanie Senior, champion of the workhouse girl, reveals not just that she was admired by the great and good of Victorian Britain, but that now we must count her as one of them." -- Seth Koven, Rutgers University.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Tom Brown's Sister -- Jeanie Hughes; Being 'Mrs Nassau Senior', 1848-1853; Enter Watts and Merimee, 1852-1856; Surviving Four Hard Years, 1856-1860; Life at Elm House, 1861-1864 -- 'Come to us!'; Father and Son; Politics and Society in the Late 1860s; Interlude: Music and Friendships; George Eliot's Dorothea?; War on Two Fronts; The First Woman Civil Servant; The Government Inspector Goes on a Girl Hunt; Mrs Senior's Report; Reception of the Report; Birth of a New Woman, 1875-1876; A Bonny Fighter; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisLieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military expedition to Lhasa (Lhasa and its Mysteries). Waddell was also in the limelight due to his acquisition of Tibetan manuscripts which he donated to the British Museum. His overriding interest was in 'Aryan origins'. After learning Sanskrit and Tibetan, and in between military expeditions and gathering intelligence from the borders of Tibet in the Great Game, Waddell researched Lamaïsm. He extended his activities to Archaeology, Philology and Ethnology, and was credited with discoveries in relation to Buddha. His personal ambition was to locate records of ancient civilisation in Tibetan lamaseries. Waddell is little known as an archaeologist and scholar, in contrast with his fame in the Oriental field, due to the controversial nature of his published works dealing with 'Aryan themes'. Waddell studied Sumerian and presented evidence that an Aryan migration fleeing Sargon II carried Sumerian records to India. He interrupted his comparative studies of Sumerian and Indian king-lists to publish a work on Phoenician origins and decipherment of Indus Valley seals, the inscriptions of which he claimed were similar to Sumerian pictogram signs cited from G. A. Barton's plates, which are reproduced in this volume. Waddell's life is reconstructed from primary sources, such as letters from Marc Aurel Stein at the British Museum and Theophilus G Pinches, held in the Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. Special attention is paid to the contemporary reception of his theories, with the objective of re-evaluating his contribution; they are contrasted to past and present academic views, in addition to an overview of relevant discoveries in Archaeology.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: The Controversial Scholar; Quest and Career - A Tour of the Himalayas; Excavations in Pataliputra, 1895-1903; Quest for Manuscripts in Lhasa, 1903-1904; Sumerian, Decipherment, and 'Shinar'; Decoding the Dragon and Rise of Man (The British Edda); The Phoenician Origin of the Britons; Identification of the first Sumerian Dynasty; Ur-Nina, Ruler of the Gardens of Sumeria; Menes was Sumerian; Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilisation; Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered; Findings about the 'Second Edin'; Decipherment of the Seals; Epilogue: The Forgotten Scholar; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of one of the most charismatic leaders of the opposition to the Nazis within Germany. Adam von Trott zu Solz was a boy when Germany was defeated militarily in 1918 and in his youth witnessed its economic collapse. He was studying at Oxford University when Hitler came to power in 1933 and was convinced that opposition to the Nazis must come from within Germany and not outside it. Hitler enjoyed enormous support as the economy improved and, after 1939, as the German armies ravaged at will through Western Europe. Yet von Trott, by now a senior official in the Foreign Office, travelled frequently to Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey to talk with British and American contacts, pleading unsuccessfully for recognition of the resisters. In July 1944 he was one of the leaders of the group which attempted to assassinate Hitler. Refusing all offers to smuggle him out of Germany -- 'I shall take the blame for everything' -- he was executed on 26 August, aged only 35. Based on extensive research and talks with some of those who knew him, this book details the life of a man of brilliant intellect who refused to compromise his conscience and sacrificed himself in a noble cause.Table of ContentsPreface; Foreword by Diana Walford, Principal of Mansfield College; Foreword by David Marquand, Former Principal of Mansfield College; Early Years; University Life -- Munich & Goettingen; Mansfield College; University Life -- Goettingen & Berlin; Rhodes Scholar; The Years 1933-1936; The Far East; Return to Germany & to Resistance; The 3rd of September 1939; The Plea for Recognition; The Kreisau Circle; Fanning the Flames of Resistance; The Year 1944; Final Preparations; The 20th of July 1944; Aftermath; The Allied Reaction; The Military Situation; Epilogue; Index.

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Book SynopsisRobert Knox is now remembered chiefly as the Edinburgh doctor who dissected corpses supplied by Burke and Hare. His contemporaries knew him as the most celebrated anatomist in Britain, the author of a controversial book on race, and a radical natural philosopher with revolutionary ideas, who taught a generation of medical students that species and races were produced by the operation of biological laws, independent of design or providence. Though he did not achieve the theoretical breakthrough he hoped for, his writings offered a challenging alternative to Darwinism that anticipated later theories of rapid evolution. This academic biography is the first to examine the influence of Knox's radical upbringing, Parisian training and ethnological studies in the Cape Colony on the development of his 'higher' anatomy, which traced the multifarious forms of the animal kingdom to an ideal body plan supposedly common to all. New evidence is presented that the subsequent decline in his career, often attributed to the murder for dissection scandal, was a consequence of his opposition to the 1832 Anatomy Act and his refusal to comply with state regulation of anatomy schools. His uncompromising position is shown to have inspired the portrayal of anatomy in fiction -- where Knox appears more often than any other British doctor -- as a savage and ungovernable science. The book will appeal to all those interested in the far-reaching influence of Knox's anatomy on nineteenth-century medicine, evolutionary theory, aesthetics, physical anthropology, and the representation of anatomical science in popular culture.

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Book SynopsisRaymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history, releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other, rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe. Born in humble circumstances, he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentieth-century British history, vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy, even becoming a keen huntsman. Familiar with the intricate and secret highways and byways of Oxford, both as an undergraduate at Christ Church and, later, as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College, he eventually became Warden of St Antony's. Throughout his Oxford life, he met and befriended some of the most important, eccentric, and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire twentieth century. But he was also on first-name terms with aristocrats, prime ministers, artists, spies, the foremost U.S. players in the Cold War, and military leaders in Francoist Spain. This biography tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction. By tracing the various facets of Raymond Carr's life and personality -- as intellectual, traveller, social chameleon, academic mover and shaker, lover of politics, and unrepentant enquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history -- the author builds a masterly picture of the society into which he was born, the politics and culture of a England that is now lost to us, and the work of one of England's major Hispanists. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Trade Review"Raymond Carr is a very important and also attractive figure in British academic life and nobody could have written a better biography than this one. This book not only brings an unusually interesting person to life, but fills a large gap in the literature -- the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain." -- Professor Eric HobsbawmRaymond Carr is a very important and also attractive figure in British academic life and nobody could have written a better biography than this one. This book not only brings an unusually interesting person to life, but fills a large gap in the literature the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain. Professor Eric Hobsbawm

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. Most men in it gained prestigious appointments through Croker's patronage, but at the price of giving him their unswerving loyalty. From diaries, personal letters, newspaper articles, Chancery papers and Government documents, the book brings the character of family members to life and shows how they interacted. Their personalities are portrayed through a wealth of entertaining anecdotes recorded by their contemporaries. Discussion focuses on the family in the nineteenth century, but how it evolved is also described. With their varied occupations and far-flung travel, the people whose stories are narrated give insight into fascinating but little frequented byways of British social and colonial history, such as intelligence gathering in the seventeenth century and the Newfoundland cod trade in the eighteenth. Their direct participation in events included riding from Dorset to London to warn James II personally of the Duke of Monmouth's landing and rescuing Marie Antoinette's daughter from Napoleon. The book takes us on a meandering journey through British history brought to life by the experiences of one family over more than two centuries.

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Book SynopsisShaykh Yusuf Yassin (18921962) marked the contemporary history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in his capacity as a favorite advisor who was the founder monarchs confidential secretary, relentless envoy and chief foreign policy consultant. Born in Latakiyyah, Syria, Yassin earned the confidence of King Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud, and moved to Riyadh even before the Third Saudi Kingdom was inaugurated in 1932. After obtaining citizenship he participated in critical decisions reached by the ruler as regional and international actors honed in on the wealth of the Arabian Peninsula. Over the course of several decades Yusuf Yassin met with and negotiated on behalf of three monarchs, Abdul Aziz and his two successors, Saud and Faysal, with Arab and global leaders. He was present at the creation of the country and suggested that al-Saudiyyah be added to its very nameAl-Mamlakah al-Arabiyyah al-Saudiyyahwhich reflected his personality and political outlook as an Arab nationalist who cherished the founder. Joseph Kechichian has written the first political biography of the statesman, based on original documents [the Yassin Papers] as well as Western diplomatic correspondence. Kechichian provides insights into the Nationalist Al Saud Advisor who left his mark on Saudi Arabia. The volume provides essential background on a man who rose from humble origins in Syria to espouse Arabian values, and walks the reader through nearly five decades of Arab history, including the repercussions of the infamous 1916 SykesPicot Agreement, the creation of the League of Arab States, and various Arab crises. These events, experienced and engaged with by Shaykh Yusuf Yassin at the highest political and diplomatic levels, set the stage that empowered Saudi Arabia, along with other Arab States, with the wherewithal to succeed for their respective peoples.

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Book SynopsisIt is a commonplace wisdom that from the authoritarian roots of the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 grew the gulags and the police state of the Stalinist epoch. The Dictator, the Revolution, The Machine overturns that perspective once and for all by showing how October was inspired by a profound mass movement comprised of urban workers and rural poor -- a movement that went on to forge a state capable of channelling its political will in and through the most overwhelming form of grass-roots democracy history has ever known. It was a single, precarious experiment whose life was tragically brief. In a context of civil war and foreign invasion the fledgling democracy was eradicated and the Bolshevik party was denuded of its social basis -- the working classes. While the party survived, its centrist elements came to the fore as the power of the bureaucracy asserted itself. From the ashes of human freedom there arose a zombified, sclerotic administration in which state functionaries took precedence over elected representatives. One man came to embody the inverted logic of this bureaucratic machine, its remorseless brutality and its parasitic drive for power. Joseph Stalin was its highest expression, accruing to himself state powers as he made his murderous, heady rise to dictator. This book examines his historical profile, its roots in Georgian medievalism, and shows why Stalin was destined to play the role he did. In broader strokes Tony McKenna raises the conflict between the revolutionary movement and the bureaucracy to the level of a literary tragedy played out on the stage of world history, showing how Stalinism's victory would pave the way for the Midnight of the Century.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a novel focus to social history. It is a study of a "group family" -- an extended family closely structured though marriages that were either internal or with trusted associates. Its members strove cooperatively for their own mutual benefit. This kind of social entity evolved down the centuries, reaching its zenith in the early nineteenth century. The family portrayed, the Pennells, provides a supreme example of such a united body. John Wilson Croker, his two half-nieces and his best friend all married into it. The size of this "group family" gave ample scope for marriages between cousins. Most men in it gained prestigious appointments through Croker's patronage, but at the price of giving him their unswerving loyalty. From diaries, personal letters, newspaper articles, Chancery papers and Government documents, the book brings the character of family members to life and shows how they interacted. Their personalities are portrayed through a wealth of entertaining anecdotes recorded by their contemporaries. Discussion focuses on the family in the nineteenth century, but how it evolved is also described. With their varied occupations and far-flung travel, the people whose stories are narrated give insight into fascinating but little frequented byways of British social and colonial history, such as intelligence gathering in the seventeenth century and the Newfoundland cod trade in the eighteenth. Their direct participation in events included riding from Dorset to London to warn James II personally of the Duke of Monmouth's landing and rescuing Marie Antoinette's daughter from Napoleon. The book takes us on a meandering journey through British history brought to life by the experiences of one family over more than two centuries.

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Book SynopsisSpanish by birth, Parisian by adoption, Semprún (1923-2011) was a legendary figure on the front lines of twentieth-century European history. During the first half of his life he was an exile of the Spanish Civil War, a member of the French Resistance, a Nazi camp survivor, and clandestine agent for the Spanish Communist Party. After repeatedly risking his life from the 1930s to the 1960s, he reinvented himself as a prolific writer who turned the extraordinary material from his own life into a series of autobiographical novels, beginning with The Long Voyage, his 1963 masterpiece about his deportation to Buchenwald. Semprún was equally at home amongst the madrileños of his childhood, fellow prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, politicians, and artists and writers, such as his close friend Yves Montand or Gabriel García Márquez. He is best known internationally as a prize-winning novelist and memoirist, and an Oscar-nominated screenwriter. In collaboration with Alain Resnais and Costa-Gavras he wrote the screenplays for, respectively, La guerre est finie and Z. In Spain, his extraordinary achievements were recognised when in 1988 he was named Minister of Culture. The research for this biography draws on archival materials from Spain, France, Germany, the United States and Russia; it includes many interviews with family members, close friends, politicians, and artists including former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González, and film director Costa Gavras. Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies.Trade ReviewAfter reading this lively and intriguing biography, Im amazed that most of us know so little about Jorge Semprun, even though weve likely seen films that he inspired or wrote. This man of great zest, talent and courage who played so many roles in the crises of his timeunderground resister, novelist, cabinet minister and more--reminds me of no one so much as Andre Malraux. Its a pleasure to have his remarkable life now available to us in English. - Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Jorge Semprun packed four or five lives into one. Artist, prisoner, freedom fighter, diplomat, organizer--in his 87 years he quite literally embodied the story of a whole continent. Soledad Fox's superb biography tells his story with clarity, grace, and high style, just as Semprun lived. This is an essential book, biography and history told with novelistic precision. - Jonathan Blitzer, The New YorkerIn this fascinating biography, Soledad Fox demonstrates how Sempruns many lives not only fueled his writing, but also freed him to reinvent them as auto-fiction. No less important, Fox throws the spotlight on a man little known in the English-speaking world whose extraordinary life and literature mirror the multiple traumas of Europes 20th century. - Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Knopf)The most complete possible portrait of an intense and complex life, a voyage through the 20th century seen through the eyes of one of Spains most internationally relevant and well-known intellectuals. Andres Seoane, June 6, 2016. El Cultural, El MundoThis is a very well written biography, thoroughly researched, and both passionate and dispassionate at the same time. Highly recommended. - Jose Maria Noguerol, Interviu. September 9, 2016With the precision of a surgeon, Soledad Fox Maurabrings to life the voice of the unforgettable author of Le grand voyage, and former Minister of Culture. - Josep Maria Cortes, Alternativas EconomicasThis is an excellent biography that will be of great interest to all those readers who have been fascinated by the life and writing of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura writes respectfully, but without shirking the controversial aspects of Sempruns life. And she brings new facts to light. A good biography is one that transforms its subject into a person made of flesh and blood. The operation may cause certain readers to feel disenchanted. I am sure, however, that for most readers of this biography, the figure of Jorge Semprun will not lose any of its power. What is made clearer than ever is that Semprun had a very difficult life. He risked it on more than one occasion, and he always survived, something which would be unfair to hold against him. He lived intensely, on the front lines of the great upheavals of the European 20th Century. And he then had the talent, the intelligence, and the knowledge to turn the ensemble of his books into one of the most accurate chronicles of the period. What would we know about the Europe we have just left behind without the work of Semprun, Koestler, London, and other survivors? - Agusti Pons, Nuvol, September 26, 2016Professor Soledad Fox Maura has published Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate), a biography of the former Spanish politician that aims to humanize him and to recover the recognition of his figure in Spain, where he was not always well received.The author, a specialist in history and literature of the Spanish Civil War, struck upon her interest in this personality who was an irresistible Pandoras box.Fox has interviewed nearly fifty people who knew Semprun, and the book has close to 400 footnotes. The author, who met the politician through mutual acquaintances, says that the book required a total commitment on her part, and that she tried to put together the jigsaw puzzle of someone who led multiple lives. - Europa Press, Published in La Vanguardia, May 20, 2016.This biography dives into the secrets and pain of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura has published a study that pays special attention to the childhood of the Spanish author and Buchenwald concentration camp survivorHis struggle was full of shadows; Fox unveils, diminishes, or disproves them. - Juan Cruz, El Pais, 11 de mayo, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras biography sheds light on the darker corners of this intellectuals life, and puts words where there was only silence. - Javier Ors, La Razon, may 20, 2016After years of research, Soledad Fox Maura has just published Ida y vuelta: La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate-Penguin Random House), an up-to-date and complete biography of the Spanish writer, politician, and intellectual. Ida y vuelta offers a panoramic vision of Semprun, a complex figure who constantly played at inventing and reinventing himself; first, by becoming Federico Sanchez, and second, through literature. He turned his life into fiction, and fiction into life. - Anna Maria Iglesia, El Asombrario, El Publico, September 9, 2016This biography by Fox Maura, originally written in Englishis a vindication of Sempruns relevanceIt is also a complement to what he tells in his own books. It fills in the gaps, and contextualizes his own memories. - Sara Barderas, dpa, Sin embargo, Mexico. May 21, 2016Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun is the is the best biography written about Jorge Semprun. It is by Soledad Fox Maura and was published by Debate. - Julia Saez-Angulo, Euromundo Global, June 30, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras exhaustive and excellent researchover five years worthcovers the multifaceted and personal experiences of this emblematic protagonist of the 20th century. She raises a number of crucial questions, and offers many answers, all of which are backed up by primary materials, and an objective outlook. She is precise, inspiring, and her prose is fluid and a pleasure to read. A highly recommended volume, packed with exciting and emotionally charged events. - Jorge de Arco, Andalucia Informacion, 28 de septiembre, 2016.Soledad Fox Maura says that when she reads Jorge Semprun she imagines a Humphrey Bogart-like narrator, an inscrutable hero with his trench coat collar turned up. But in real life nobody is like Bogart, not even SemprunHence this biography. - Luis Alemany, El Mundo, May 22, 2016In this biography, Soledad Fox Maura analyzes the life of this intellectual, who was also Minister of Culture, and who loved Spain more than it loved him - Manel Manchon, Economia Digital, July 1, 2016After reading this lively and intriguing biography, Im amazed that most of us know so little about Jorge Semprun, even though weve likely seen films that he inspired or wrote. This man of great zest, talent and courage who played so many roles in the crises of his timeunderground resister, novelist, cabinet minister and more--reminds me of no one so much as Andre Malraux. Its a pleasure to have his remarkable life now available to us in English. - Adam Hochschild, author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Jorge Semprun packed four or five lives into one. Artist, prisoner, freedom fighter, diplomat, organizer--in his 87 years he quite literally embodied the story of a whole continent. Soledad Fox's superb biography tells his story with clarity, grace, and high style, just as Semprun lived. This is an essential book, biography and history told with novelistic precision. - Jonathan Blitzer, The New YorkerIn this fascinating biography, Soledad Fox demonstrates how Sempruns many lives not only fueled his writing, but also freed him to reinvent them as auto-fiction. No less important, Fox throws the spotlight on a man little known in the English-speaking world whose extraordinary life and literature mirror the multiple traumas of Europes 20th century. - Alan Riding, author of And The Show Went On: Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris (Knopf)The most complete possible portrait of an intense and complex life, a voyage through the 20th century seen through the eyes of one of Spains most internationally relevant and well-known intellectuals - Andres Seoane, June 6, 2016. El Cultural, El MundoThis is a very well written biography, thoroughly researched, and both passionate and dispassionate at the same time. Highly recommended. - Jose Maria Noguerol, Interviu. September 9, 2016With the precision of a surgeon, Soledad Fox Maurabrings to life the voice of the unforgettable author of Le grand voyage, and former Minister of Culture. - Josep Maria Cortes, Alternativas EconomicasThis is an excellent biography that will be of great interest to all those readers who have been fascinated by the life and writing of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura writes respectfully, but without shirking the controversial aspects of Sempruns life. And she brings new facts to light. A good biography is one that transforms its subject into a person made of flesh and blood. The operation may cause certain readers to feel disenchanted. I am sure, however, that for most readers of this biography, the figure of Jorge Semprun will not lose any of its power. What is made clearer than ever is that Semprun had a very difficult life. He risked it on more than one occasion, and he always survived, something which would be unfair to hold against him. He lived intensely, on the front lines of the great upheavals of the European 20th Century. And he then had the talent, the intelligence, and the knowledge to turn the ensemble of his books into one of the most accurate chronicles of the period. What would we know about the Europe we have just left behind without the work of Semprun, Koestler, London, and other survivors? - Agusti Pons, Nuvol, September 26, 2016Professor Soledad Fox Maura has published Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate), a biography of the former Spanish politician that aims to humanize him and to recover the recognition of his figure in Spain, where he was not always well received.The author, a specialist in history and literature of the Spanish Civil War, struck upon her interest in this personality who was an irresistible Pandoras box.Fox has interviewed nearly fifty people who knew Semprun, and the book has close to 400 footnotes. The author, who met the politician through mutual acquaintances, says that the book required a total commitment on her part, and that she tried to put together the jigsaw puzzle of someone who led multiple lives. - Europa Press, Published in La Vanguardia, May 20, 2016.This biography dives into the secrets and pain of Jorge Semprun. Soledad Fox Maura has published a study that pays special attention to the childhood of the Spanish author and Buchenwald concentration camp survivorHis struggle was full of shadows; Fox unveils, diminishes, or disproves them. - Juan Cruz, El Pais, 11 de mayo, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras biography sheds light on the darker corners of this intellectuals life, and puts words where there was only silence. - Javier Ors, La Razon, may 20, 2016After years of research, Soledad Fox Maura has just published Ida y vuelta: La vida de Jorge Semprun (Debate-Penguin Random House), an up-to-date and complete biography of the Spanish writer, politician, and intellectual. Ida y vuelta offers a panoramic vision of Semprun, a complex figure who constantly played at inventing and reinventing himself; first, by becoming Federico Sanchez, and second, through literature. He turned his life into fiction, and fiction into life. - Anna Maria Iglesia, El Asombrario, El Publico, September 9, 2016This biography by Fox Maura, originally written in Englishis a vindication of Sempruns relevanceIt is also a complement to what he tells in his own books. It fills in the gaps, and contextualizes his own memories. - Sara Barderas, dpa, Sin embargo, Mexico. May 21, 2016Ida y vuelta. La vida de Jorge Semprun is the is the best biography written about Jorge Semprun. It is by Soledad Fox Maura and was published by Debate. - Julia Saez-Angulo, Euromundo Global, June 30, 2016Soledad Fox Mauras exhaustive and excellent researchover five years worthcovers the multifaceted and personal experiences of this emblematic protagonist of the 20th century. She raises a number of crucial questions, and offers many answers, all of which are backed up by primary materials, and an objective outlook. She is precise, inspiring, and her prose is fluid and a pleasure to read. A highly recommended volume, packed with exciting and emotionally charged events. - Jorge de Arco, Andalucia Informacion, 28 de septiembre, 2016.Soledad Fox Maura says that when she reads Jorge Semprun she imagines a Humphrey Bogart-like narrator, an inscrutable hero with his trench coat collar turned up. But in real life nobody is like Bogart, not even SemprunHence this biography. - Luis Alemany, El Mundo, May 22, 2016In this biography, Soledad Fox Maura analyzes the life of this intellectual, who was also Minister of Culture, and who loved Spain more than it loved him - Manel Manchon, Economia Digital, July 1, 2016

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Book SynopsisThomas Balogh (1905-1985) had a conspiratorial nature and deliberately kept to the shadows so that his substantial role in political life has been little known. His predictions were usually right and he looked at economic and political issues from unconventional angles, but he was an exasperating man who thrived on controversy. He made many enemies and had numerous fallings-out, especially with the civil service, and this affected the way his advice was perceived. This first and only biography covers his life and work: from his youth in Budapest, to his coming to Britain in 1930 and being taken up by Keynes; his advance to being a well known if highly controversial political economist; his reputation as a brilliant though eccentric don at Balliol College, Oxford; his burgeoning interest in politics (both domestic and in underdeveloped countries); and the time of his greatest influence as economic advisor to his close friend Harold Wilson, and later as a Minister of State. The author provides new insights into the Labour Party and Labour government policies between the mid 1950s until 1982. Balogh was such an acute observer of the values and mores of the time that his diary comments throw new and entertaining light on social as well as on political life at the highest level. Interviews with over thirty of the most eminent people in the political/economic world of his era also throw new light on the issues and events of the period.

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Book SynopsisYigal Allon was a major contributor to the nation building process of the State of Israel. He did so from multiple positions he held in government. Between 1961 and 1968 he served as Labor Minister. In 1968 he became the Absorption minister and from 1969 to 1974 he served as Minister of Education. In his last role, 1974-1977, he held Israel's foreign policy helm, encouraging countries and leaders to engage with Israel. Throughout his 17 years in government, Allon was a pivotal player in the cabinets security and foreign relations endeavours. From 1968 to 1977 he was also vice prime minister. This fabulous career notwithstanding, his political legacy has been ignored. In 2004 a long anticipated biography of Allon was published in Hebrew by historian Anita Shapira, 24 years after his sudden death, when he was 62. However, this eloquently written and well documented biography only covered Allon's military career to the end of Israel's War of Independence in 1949. The 2004 biography ended by claiming that Allon's next 31 years (1949-1980) - his political years - was not worth a historical account. Yigal Allon: A Neglected Political Legacy, 1949-1980 sets the record straight, and reverses the injustice of ignoring his multi-faceted political talent in the service of the State of Israel. This English-language edition is a revised and smaller edition based on the widely acclaimed and reviewed Hebrew version (2016). Allon's perceptions regarding the Territories have been borne out; equally critical, he foresaw that government policies would lead to a decline in Israel's international status, and that Israel would be held accountable for lack of peace in the region.

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Book SynopsisYigal Allon was a major contributor to the nation building process of the State of Israel. He did so from multiple positions he held in government. Between 1961 and 1968 he served as Labor Minister. In 1968 he became the Absorption minister and from 1969 to 1974 he served as Minister of Education. In his last role, 1974-1977, he held Israel's foreign policy helm, encouraging countries and leaders to engage with Israel. Throughout his 17 years in government, Allon was a pivotal player in the cabinets security and foreign relations endeavours. From 1968 to 1977 he was also vice prime minister. This fabulous career notwithstanding, his political legacy has been ignored. In 2004 a long anticipated biography of Allon was published in Hebrew by historian Anita Shapira, 24 years after his sudden death, when he was 62. However, this eloquently written and well documented biography only covered Allon's military career to the end of Israel's War of Independence in 1949. The 2004 biography ended by claiming that Allon's next 31 years (1949-1980) - his political years - was not worth a historical account. Yigal Allon: A Neglected Political Legacy, 1949-1980 sets the record straight, and reverses the injustice of ignoring his multi-faceted political talent in the service of the State of Israel. This English-language edition is a revised and smaller edition based on the widely acclaimed and reviewed Hebrew version (2016). Allon's perceptions regarding the Territories have been borne out; equally critical, he foresaw that government policies would lead to a decline in Israel's international status, and that Israel would be held accountable for lack of peace in the region.

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Book SynopsisPrime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; some consider him more authoritarian than his predecessor, others more liberal. After providing background on his childhood and entry to university, the author explains his growing activism in the Integralismo Lusitano and in the Catholic Church; his monarchist and nationalist ideology. Caetano's decision to support the Salazar Regime coincided with publications in the mainstream media on corporatism, colonialism, European politics and the relationship between Brazil and Portugal. His role in the office of General Secretary of Mocidade Portuguesa (MP), an organization of Portuguese youth similar to the fascist youth organizations in Italy or Germany, was at odds with his neutrality policy in the Second World War. The leadership of Uniao Nacional (the single party of the regime) and the presidency of the Camara Corportiva (a parliament for corporative interests) led to national recognition at a time when the Portuguese regime had to reform its colonial policy. His tensions with other notables of Salazarism resulted in his political demotion and devotion toward the University in the 1960s. As Rector of Lisbon University he supported universities' autonomy, dividing public opinion. Caetano's Presidency (beginning in September 1968) reflected the tense relationship between the government and the liberal wing on the colonial crisis. Ultimately this led to the final crisis of the New State regime; the fragmentation of the armed forces; and the Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974. During his exile in Brazil between 1974 and 1980 Caetano maintained correspondence with his Portuguese friends. These correspondences, introduced and explained by Francisco Martinho, are of exceptional importance in understanding Portugal's contemporary political history.

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Book SynopsisThis first full account of Obasanjo's life from 1937 to 2010 combines an analysis of an exceptionally vital and complicated man with a history of an exceptionally vital and complicated country. Olusegun Obasanjo was Nigeria's military head of state (1976-9) and President (1999-2007). His career is made the focus for a history of Nigeria's first fifty years of independence (1960-2010) and of African continental affairs during the same period (Obasanjo having been an active opponent of apartheid and an architect of the African Union). The most important African leader of his generation, Obasanjo has had an extraordinarily diverse career as soldier, politician, statesman, farmer, author, political prisoner, Baptist preacher, and family patriarch. As a soldier, he secured the victory in Nigeria's civil war. As military head of state, he returned the country to civilian rule. For the next 20 years he was ceaselessly active, before spending three years as a political prisoner. Released from prison, Obasanjo served Nigeria as elected President from 1999 to 2007, until his growing authoritarianism and his manipulation of his successor's election ruined his reputation among many Nigerians. This book argues that the controversial end to his presidency must be understood in the light of his earlier career. The author has used mainly published sources, especially Nigerian newspapers and political memoirs, as well as recently released FCO documents in Britain. John Iliffe is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He retired as Professor of African History at Cambridge in 2006 and has published widely on African history including: A Modern History of Tanganyika; The Emergence of African Capitalism; The African Poor: A History; Africans: the History of a Continent; Honour in African History and The African Aids Epidemic: A History. Nigeria: HEBN [PB]Trade ReviewA comprehensive and engaging survey of Obasanjo's life and career from his birth in 1937 and humble origins to his retirement after 2007. [...] Iliffe's analysis of Nigerian politics makes excellent reading, and underlines just how difficult it is for anyone to manage the Nigerian state. * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *There is little that John Ilife's clear and unvarnished biography [...] fails to uncover. * SURVIVAL: GLOBAL POLITICS & STRATEGY *A nuanced biographical narrative stewed with Nigerian history in global context. [...] This is an imaginative and ambitious study. * THE HISTORIAN *A rich and dispassionate biography [that] offers a revealing and remarkably comprehensive overview of postcolonial Nigerian history. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *Will surely add to John Iliffe's reputation as one of the world's most acclaimed African historians. [...] The book is an ingeniously scripted history taking a thoughtful and often critical approach to governance in Nigeria under Obasanjo. * THE ROUND TABLE *An important new biography. [...] Iliffe's biography is of a statesman but it is also an outstanding study of a half century of Nigerian politics. His book sets an admirably high as well as a new standard for African biography by which the work of his successors will have to be judged. * THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW *A scholarly and very highly recommended study of an international figure who has put Nigeria on the course it is today, for better or for worse. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *John Iliffe's biography is the most authoritative, comprehensive and well informed account of Obasanjo's rule and personality up to now. * H-SOZ-U-KULT *This is an important examination of possibly the most controversial personality in modern Nigerian politics. The strength of this study is that it is an outsider's calmer examination of a man who evokes such strong emotions that studies of him within Nigeria are necessarily tainted by widespread perceptions of who he is. - -- Abdul Raufu Mustapha, University of OxfordTable of ContentsPreface A man of controversy Part I MAKING A CAREER (1937-70) Yoruba boy Nigerian soldier Coups & civil war PART II MILITARY RULE (1970-79) Chance and power State-directed development African liberation Return to civilian rule PART III PRIVATE CITIZEN (1979-99) The farmer The author The statesman The politician The prisoner The candidate PART IV FIRST PRESIDENTIAL TERM (1999-2003) Containing conflict Salvaging the economy Restoring international relationships President and politicians Re-election PART V SECOND PRESIDENTIAL TERM (2003-7) The imperious presidency Economic reform Africa's elder statesman Managing the succession Retirement

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Book SynopsisPoet and anti-apartheid activist Dennis Brutus recorded a series of tapes in the 1970s which have been edited and annotated by Bernth Lindfors to give valuable insights into Brutus's life and works. Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) is known internationally as a South African poet, anti-apartheid activist and campaigner for human rights and the release of political prisoners. His literary works include Sirens Knuckles Boots (1963), Letters to Martha, and Other Poems from a South African Prison (1968), A Simple Lust (1973), and Stubborn Hope (1978). When Dennis Brutus was a Visiting Professor at The University of Texas at Austin in 1974-75, he recorded on tape a series of reflections on his life and career. In addition, he frequently responded to questions about his poetry and political activities put to him by students and faculty in formal and informal interviews that were also captured on tape. Transcripts of a selection of these tapes, as well as reprints of two interviews recorded earlier, are reproduced here in order to put on record fragments of the autobiography of a remarkable man who lived in extraordinary times and managed to leave his mark on the land and literature of South Africa. Brutus was an effective anti-apartheid campaigner who succeeded in getting South Africa excluded from the Olympics. His opposition to racial discrimination in sports led to his arrest, banning, and imprisonment on Robben Island. Upon release, he left South Africa and lived most of the rest of his life in exile, where he continued his political work and simultaneously earned an international reputation as a poet who often sang of his love for his country. The tapes are edited by Bernth Lindfors who has added an Introduction and a transcript of a 1970 interview as well as other transcripts of lectures and discussions. Bernth Lindfors is Professor Emeritus of English and African Literatures, The University of Texas at Austin, and founding editor of Research in AfricanLiteratures. He has written and edited numerous books on African literature, including Folklore in Nigerian Literature (1973), Popular Literatures in Africa (1991), Africans on Stage (1999), Early Soyinka (2008), and Early Achebe (2009).Trade ReviewAn exceptionally well-edited volume, greatly enriched by a comprehensive index and by succinct footnotes that offer essential biographical details. * JOURNAL OF THE AFRICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION *An important and useful publication. [...] Brutus emerges here as modest and self-critical, courageous and articulate, convinced of the need for political commitment and artistic integrity. * WASAFIRI *This collection valuably fills out our picture of Dennis Brutus. [...] Bernth Lindfors is to be commended for producing this posthumous tribute to one of South Africa's most significant writer-activists. * RESEARCH IN AFRICAN LITERATURES *[A] fascinating and highly readable volume. [Brutus'] fascinating account is greatly enriched by editor Lindfors who meticulously provides a succinctly footnoted biographical sketch of every individual identified in the story. * JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY *A vivid and moving portrait of a man who contributed significantly, through his actions and words, to the fight against apartheid. [It] is a deeply informative and very personal portrait of both the public and private man. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *Table of ContentsIntroduction by the Editor - Part I: Life Recollections Family Background Attempt to Escape (Tapes 1, 2 and 3) Robben Island Interlude Notes on My Activities Notes on My Life - Part II: Writings Somehow Tenderness Survives Talking with Students Reviewing a Review On My Poetry On Literature and Commitment

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Book SynopsisA deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians. I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa. TERENCE RANGER was Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxfordand author of many books including Are we not also Men? (1995), Voices from the Rocks (1999) and Bulawayo Burning (2010), and co-editor of Violence and Memory (2000). Zimbabwe & Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Namibia): Weaver PressTrade ReviewAn immensely readable account of Ranger's political career. * JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY *A tribute to the years of social consciousness enacted; to the relationships with nationalists and nationalism made and sustained; and to a perceptive mind which has documented and interpreted southern Africa and its politics for generations trapped in their preconceptions. * AFRICAN ARGUMENTS *[An] absorbing work. * COMMONWEALTH JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION *A remarkable work and one I would urge anyone with an interest in this period to read. * NEW LEFT PROJECT *A profoundly personal yet pulsating new book. * ZIMBABWE REVIEW *Scholars interested in the behind-the-scenes making of and writing on African nationalism will find much to consider in this refreshingly personal narrative. * AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW *Table of ContentsPreface 1929-57 A Very Ordinary Boy 1957 The University College of Rhodesia & Nyasaland 1958 The Southern Rhodesia African National Congress 1959 The Central African Emergencies 1960 The National Democratic Party 1961 Citizens Against the Colour Bar 1962 The Zimbabwe African People's Union 1963 and afterwards: Deportation, the Nationalist Split, Dar es Salaam and Writing Revolt Appendix of Names Select References

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Book SynopsisCommanding biography that tells the full story of this enigmatic political leader's life and political career for the first time, from township youth and student activist to president of the post-apartheid state. President Cyril Ramaphosa is South Africa's fifth post-apartheid president. He first came to prominence in the 1980s as the founder of the National Union of Mineworkers. When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, Ramaphosa was at the head of the reception committee that greeted him. Chosen as secretary general of the African National Congress in 1991, Ramaphosa led the ANC's team in negotiating the country's post-apartheid constitution.Thwarted in his ambition to succeed Mandela, he exchanged political leadership for commerce, ultimately becoming one of the country's wealthiest businessmen, a breeder of exotic cattle, and a philanthropist. This fully revised and extended edition charts Ramaphosa's early life and education, and his career in trade unionism - including the 1987 21-day miners' strike when he committed the union to the wider liberation struggle - politics, and constitution-building. Extensive new chapters explore his contribution to the National Planning Commission, the effects of the Marikana massacre on his political prospects, and the real story behind his rise to the deputy presidency of the country in 2014. They set out the constraints Ramaphosa faced as Jacob Zuma's deputy, and explain how he ultimately triumphed in the election of the ANC's new president in 2017. The book concludes with an analysis of the challenges Ramaphosa faces as the country's fifth post-apartheid president. Based on numerous personal conversations with Ramaphosa over the past decade, and on rich interviews with many of the subject's friends and contemporaries,this new biography offers a frank appraisal of one of South Africa's most enigmatic political figures. ANTHONY BUTLER is Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. He has been a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a past Director of the Policy and Administration programme at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Chair in Political Studies at the University of the Witswatersrand. Exclusive sales rightsin the UK, Europe and North America, non-exclusive elsewhere (not for sale in South Africa - Jacana)Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the first edition: Fluent and deeply informed. [...] A fine biography. * LEEDS AFRICAN STUDIES BULLETIN *A very good biography. * NEW YORK TIMES *[T]he text has become a necessary and important contribution to available resources for scholars, authors and leisure readers of politics, history, and developmental psychology. -- African Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface PART ONE: FORMATIVE YEARS No place to rest High school Turfloop Detention June '76 Behind enemy lines PART TWO: BUILDING UNION POWER Black unions Small beginnngs The great negotiator Entrenching union power August 1987 PART THREE: APARTHEID'S DOMESTIC ENDGAME Domestic opposition Becoming ANC By Mandela's side ANC secretary-general PART FOUR: NEGOTIATING THE TRANSITION BC: Negotiations, 1984 to 1991 Return of the great negotiator Triumph and disappointment PART FIVE: TREADING WATER Chairman Cyril Statesman, philanthropist and farmer PART SIX: NO LONGER BUSINESS AS USUAL Planning the future Marikana Mangaung and after Back to Marikana Being Zuma's Deputy The billion rand election A visionary pragmatist in the Union Buildings?

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Book SynopsisLluís Barbé has recreated the background and life of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth through a fascinating reconstruction that succeeds in shaping the first detailed biography ever published of this major economist and statistician.Originating from previously unexplored letters and documents stored in archives and registers in Ireland, England and Catalonia, Edgeworth?’s relationships with his academic fellows ?- including Sully, Jevons, Marshall, Galton, Pearson, Walras, Pantaleoni, Fisher, Pareto, Keynes ?- are meticulously depicted. Stemming from undiscovered primary sources, this book also reveals a detailed insight into the academic world of the period 1875?1925 in the fields of economics and statistics.With a descriptive survey of Edgeworth?’s work, this book will prove a captivating read for academics and postgraduate students in economic analysis, the history of economic thought and the history of statistics. Anyone with an interest in Francis Ysidro Edgeworth?’s life should also read this book.Trade Review‘Barbé’s work is a well-done, almost unique study and it is a pleasure to recommend it to historians of economic theory in particular.’ -- Warren J. Samuels, EH.NET‘Barbé’s aim was to provide a “portrait” of Edgeworth, and in that it succeeds admirably. . . a trove of new personal information, all presented with an unfailingly intelligent commentary and a very high level of scholarship. . . this book surpasses all previous biographical accounts to such a degree as to be in a class of its own.’ -- Stephen M. Stigler, History of Political Economy‘This is a welcome biography of Edgeworth.’ -- Peter Groenewegen, Economic History Review‘Barbè’s book is bound to become the bibliographical reference on Edgeworth.’ -- Alberto Baccini, Storia del Pensiero EconomicoTable of ContentsContents: Preface by John Creedy Introduction F.Y. Edgeworth’s Relatives 1. Edgeworth’s Background 2. The Making of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 3. Professor F.Y. Edgeworth 4. The Esquire of Edgeworthstown Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Marquis de Condorcet (1743-94) was a founding father of social science. He believed that what he called the moral sciences could be studied by the same exacting methods as the natural sciences, and he developed many of the tools for doing so. Condorcet has had two quite unconnected reputations: as the doomed and foolish Enlightenment scholar, writing about the perfectibility of mankind while in hiding from the Terror that would shortly claim his own life; and as the incomprehensible founder of social choice, whose Essai of 1785 was not understood until the 1950s. This book shows that he was not so foolish, nor so incomprehensible, as even sympathetic treatments have made him sound. A long introduction uses the latest French and English sources to put his work into context, explains the unity of his thought and explicates his difficult arguments in probability theory and social choice. The extracts from Condorcet's work that follow are in two parts. Part I, 'The Theory of Voting', includes some extracts from the notorious Essai of 1785 but also later work which is more accessible and makes new points. Part II, 'Human Rights', shows Condorcet the passionate campaigner for rights for slaves and for women, and the American constitutionalist. His poignant 'Advice to his daughter' and 'Testament' show the spirit of a man who knew he was almost certain to be killed, and would never see his daughter again.Most of the works translated here have never appeared in English before. They will be an essential reference source for everybody working in social choice, the history of mathematics and human rights, and the Enlightenment.Trade Review'Even now, all too few understand that a society may change its decisions, even if every single voter's preferences remain unchanged, merely because of such things as differences in the order in which alternatives come up for decision or because of seemingly innocuous changes in voting rules. Let us hope that, because of this translation, insights of Condorcet's that went unappreciated a couple of centuries ago will, in the light of the modern theory of collective choice, come to receive the wide recognition they deserve. This is a most welcome book.' -- Mancur Olson, formerly University of Maryland, US'Condorcet was a powerful influence on modern thought in many directions, but it is only in fairly recent times that his role in political theory has begun to be appreciated. His analysis of social choice far exceeds that of any of his predecessors and raises virtually all the issues still being wrestled with. His work, scattered through many publications, has been brought together with outstanding scholarship by McLean and Hewitt and made more easily available to English-speaking readers. All those interested in mechanisms of political and social choice should be grateful.' -- Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University, US'Readers may well find some remarkably clear and refreshing insight into the most important and least understood mechanical aspect of democracy - majority voting.' -- J.D. Robertson, Choice'Iain McLean and Fiona Hewitt have done a great service to social choice theory by edited and translating a collection of Condorcet's major political writings.' -- Robert Sugden, The Economic Journal'This book will certainly be useful to students who need a quick contemporary, initiation to Condorcet's life and ideas. It will be also an important reference for scholars working in social choice, human rights and the Enlightenment. This book belongs in the library of anyone planning to do research in social choice an political theory.' -- Laur Razzolini, Public Choice'My own judgment, on the basis of reading the Condorcet extracts and reflecting on them in light of McLean and Hewitt's excellent introduction, is that there is a case for reading Cordorcet in the original - that there are important distinctive qualities in Condorcet's work which make it something rather more interesting than a mere inframarginal rendering of modern social choice insights. This judgment was not my initial inclination. What I had not realized is that the famous 'jury-theorem' is really the point of departure for Condorcet's pre-occupations and that his interest in electoral cycling has to be seen through that lens. It is this that sets Condorcet apart from his modern social choice counterparts, and makes the work of considerable independent intellectual interest.' -- Geoffrey Brennan, History of Economics ReviewTable of ContentsPart I the theory of voting. Part II Human rights.

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Book SynopsisThe Austrian Theory of Value and Capital provides a meticulous account of Eugen von Bohm-Bawerk's life, his theory of value, capital and interest within the context of 19th century German economic thought and the development of neoclassical economic theory.This book provides an insight into Bohm-Bawerk's intellectual development, his political leanings and personal background, including a wealth of previously unknown facts. The study also considers the development of economic thought in the 19th century in Germany and Austria. It critically analyses the work and contribution of Bohm-Bawerk and concludes that his analysis belongs to traditional 19th century German economic thought. Closely related to this is the clarification made by the author of what is genuinely 'Austrian' in the 'Austrian theory of value and distribution'. To complement the study of Bohm-Bawerk, the book also contains the first English translation of his letters to Knut Wicksell.This book will be of interest to economic theorists, those interested in Austrian economics and the history of economic thought and economic historians.Trade Review'It will be applauded as a great discovery illuminating the essence of the School and its founder, by European ('modern'/Bohm-Bawerkian) Austrians.'Table of ContentsContents: Preface Heinz D. Kurz Preface Klaus H. Hennings 1. Introduction and Abstract 2. The Life and Career of a Public Servant: Eugen Ritter Böhm von Bawerk (1851–1914) 3. Economic Theory in Germany and Austria, ca 1860–80 4. The Genesis of a Theory 5. The Theory of Value: Consumer Behaviour 6. The Theory of Value: Producer Behaviour 7. The Theory of Interest 8. The Theory of Capital 9. The Theory of Value, Capital and Interest 10. Conclusion Bibliography Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisDorothea Bleek (1873 to 1948) devoted her life to completing the ‘bushman researches’ that her father and aunt had begun in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. this research was partly a labour of familial loyalty to Wilhelm, the acclaimed linguist and language scholar of nineteenthcentury Germany and later of the Cape Colony, and to Lucy Lloyd, a self-taught linguist and scholar of bushman languages and folklore; but it was also an expression of Dorothea’s commitment to a particular kind of scholarship and an intellectual milieu that saw her spending her entire adult life in the study of the people she called ‘bushmen’. How has history treated Dorothea Bleek? Has she been recognised as a scholar in her own right, or as someone who merely followed in the footsteps of her famous father and aunt? Was she an adventurer, a woman who travelled across southern Africa driven by intellectual curiosity? Or was she conservative, a researcher who belittled the people she studied? These are some of the questions with which Weintroub starts her thoughtful biography of Dorothea Bleek. The book examines Dorothea’s life story and family legacy, her rock art research and her fi eldwork in southern Africa, and, in light of these, evaluates her scholarship and contribution to the history of ideas in south Africa. The compelling and surprising narrative reveals an intellectual inheritance intertwined with the story of a woman’s life, and argues that Dorothea’s life work – her study of the bushmen – was also a sometimes surprising emotional quest.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Re-visiting the life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek; Colonial childhood, European learning; Tracing rock art in the field with Helen Tongue, 1905 to 1907; Return to the Kalahari, July to August 1913; Ambiguities of interaction: Sandfontein, Angola and Tanganyika, 1920 to 1930; Testimony of the rocks: A "cave journey", 1928 to 1932; Intimacy and marginality in rock art recording 1932-1940; Making the Bushman dictionary, 1934 to 1956.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1916, Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa’s most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje’s pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje’s investigative journeying into South Africa’s rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa – and the resistance to it.Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond.The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to refl ect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa’s heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.Trade Review"This suite of essays focuses on a remarkable individual - but is about so much more than just one man. This is a superb collection of poems, provocations, photos, stories and academic essays - some of which are delightfully at odds with one another." - Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch UniversityTable of ContentsAbbreviations; List of Illustrations; Foreword - Njabulo Ndebele; Reproduction of Bessie Head's Foreword to Ravan Edition (1982); Poetic Tributes; 'Lefatshe, nkometse' - SeTswana Poem with English translation 'Earth, Swallow Me' (Sabata-mpho Mokae); 'What is in a Name? In Memory of Sol T. Plaatje' (Violet Plaatje, 1933); 'Segopoco Sa Moshui Sol T. Plaatje' (James M. Malebaloa, 1933) with English translation from SeTswana (Nhlanhla Maake); Introduction (Editors); Chapter 1: Native Life in South Africa: Writing, Publication, Reception (Brian Willan); Chapter 2: Modernist At Large: The Aesthetics of Native Life in South Africa (Bhekizizwe Peterson); Chapter 3: The Print World of the Press and Native Life in South Africa (Peter Limb); Chapter 4: Going Places - Native Life in South Africa and the Politics of Mobility (Janet Remmington); Chapter 5: Native Life in South Africa and the World at War (Albert Grundlingh); Chapter 6: African Intellectual History, Black Cosmopolitanism and Native Life in South Africa (Khwezi Mkhize); Chapter 7: 'Native Lives' behind Native Life: Intellectual and Political Influences on the Early ANC and Democracy in South Africa (Andre Odendaal); Chapter 8: Whose Past? Native Life in South Africa and Historical Writing (Christopher Saunders); Chapter 9: Women and Society in Native Life in South Africa: Roles and Ruptures (Heather Hughes); Chapter 10: African Progressivism, Land, and Law: Rereading Native Life in South Africa (Keith Breckenridge); Chapter 11: Land Questions: On the Tomb ya ga Solomon Plaatje (Jacob Dlamini); Chapter 12: Revisiting the Landscapes of Native Life in South Africa: A Photo Essay (Sean O'Toole); A Contemporary Reimagining 'Ask Those You Meet along the Way' - A Short Story (Sabata-mpho Mokae); Notes on Contributors; Plaatje Resources and Archives; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisJohn B. Bannon excelled in four distinct capacities: as a pastor of a thriving Catholic congregation in St. Louis; as a chaplain with the First Missouri Confederate Infantry at Pea Ridge, Corinth, and Vicksburg; as a diplomat winning Irish support for the cause of the Confederacy; and as Ireland's greatest preacher in the 1880s. William Barnaby Fatherty's latest book, Exile in Erin: A Confederate Chaplain's Story, looks at new historical research and covers the entire life of this great man. It examines Bannon's boyhood in Ireland and his early years as a priest in St. Louis. Bannon gave up a major parish to serve the spiritual needs of the soldiers in the field - the only chaplain in either army to do so. He turned Irish opinion to sympathy for the South, then reoriented himself in his native land after the war. His preaching was part of a devotional revolution that put new life in the Irish Church. In reading Exile in Erin, Civil War buffs will view the conflict from an unusual vantage, students of Irish history will understand the Celtic religious scene from Catholic emancipation in 1827 to the vote for home rule, and all readers will meet an inspirational personality.

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Book SynopsisAs Democratic ward committeeman for more than twenty years (a position that controlled many patronage jobs), Bill Clay, Sr. was also a congressman putting him at the epicenter of most local political storms. Clay recounts his forty-one-year odyssey through a career filled with controversy, conflict, and confrontation.

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Book SynopsisWhen Robert Campbell left his family farm in Ireland in 1822 and immigrated to the United States, he never dreamed that he would accumulate a huge personal fortune. He moved to St. Louis to become one of the rugged 'mountain men' fur trappers. A few years later, he and his partner, William Sublette, formed their own trading company - and so began a bitter rivalry with John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. This rivalry was eventually ended by an agreement that divided up the rich trapping areas, after which time Campbell and his partner went on to prosper and build the famous Fort Laramie. Campbell's increasing importance in the financial and political sphere (he became a friend of President Grant) kept pace with his increasing prosperity.In his private life Campbell was not so fortunate. Against the wishes of his brother and his partner, he actively courted a fourteen-year-old girl whom he married five years later. Their family story was tragic; of their thirteen children, ten died in childhood from a variety of diseases. Two of the surviving sons died before Campbell's estate could be settled, and the third was judged mentally incompetent. These difficulties, along with some ambiguity in Campbell's will, led to lengthy litigation. It took Robert Campbell fifty-seven years to accumulate a personal fortune that today would be worth $69 million; it then took sixty-eight years of litigation before the money was distributed to his ultimate heirs.Author Patrick MacCulloch, whose father was one of those heirs, has drawn on his family's papers and unearthed more than two hundred nineteenth-century interfamily letters and diaries in archives in America, Ireland, Scotland, and England. Extracts from these primary sources provide authentic firsthand accounts of both nineteenth-century life on an Irish farm and pioneer life on the American western frontier. They also show how increasing wealth caused the unity of a close and loving Irish family to disintegrate into discord and personal violence.

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Book SynopsisOn March 15, 1939, Helen Waldstein’s father snatched his stampedexit visa from a distracted clerk to escape from Prague with his wifeand child. As the Nazis closed in on a war-torn Czechoslovakia, onlyletters from their extended family could reach Canada through thebarriers of conflict. The Waldstein family received these letters asthey made their lives on a southern Ontario farm, where they learned tobe Canadian and forget their Jewish roots. Helen Waldstein read these letters as an adult – this changedeverything. As her past refused to keep silent, Helen followed thetrail of the letters back to Europe, where she discovered livingwitnesses who could attest to the letters’ contents. She has hereinterwoven their stories and her own into a compelling narrative ofsuffering, survivor guilt, and overcoming intergenerational obstacleswhen exploring a traumatic past.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements Map Family Tree Opening the Box Leaving Home Letters to Antwerp Starting Over Letters to Canada Searching In Europe: 1997–1998 My Aunts and Uncles My Grandparents War Breaks Out The Family Copes The Letters Stop Imagining After the War Finding Home Searching for Family Again Searching for Family One Last Time Epilogue Endnotes Selected Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCatherine Glynne was born in 1812, in the same year as Charles Dickens. An earl's daughter she married the son of a self-made merchant, William Ewart Gladstone, who became Queen Victoria's Prime Minister on four occasions. While the Queen and the PM loathed each other, they both loved Catherine, Gladstone's wife. After a long and indecisive courtship, Gladstone said of his new wife that my Cathie forever twinkles. Society remarked that her beauty showed a profound intelligence. Catherine loved being in the main stream of action but disliked politicians, fashion and social niceties. Unusual for the time Gladstone was present at the birth of each of their eight children and Catherine insisted on feeding them herself. Mrs Gladstone's primary concern was support of the poor - in particular those suffering from cholera, near-starving mill girls and homeless orphans. She established the concept of free convalescent homes and her common-sense influenced the Poor Laws. To maintain her genius for charity she took every opportunity to approach Gladstone's friends for financial support for her good works. In return she found places for her husband's 'rescue' women - young girls forced into prostitution as a result of poverty. When her brother's ironworks failed Catherine and her family faced poverty. It was Gladstone's financial skills that saved the family from bankruptcy. Catherine died on 14th June, 1900. Pertinent to this biography is the letter the author wrote to the Church Times about the reasons behind the riots in London and elsewhere in the United Kingdom, in August 2011. The letter header - "Mrs Gladstone! thou shouldst be living at this hour" - drew attention to a personality who in her time confronted severe social need through community action (the letter text is reproduced on the Press website).

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Book Synopsis'Bellicose Dove' is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson for 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698. Unique features of the book include a detailed examination of biographical details in his letters, analysis of the symbolism in his sermons and books (especially his anti-Catholic rhetoric), the importance of his three missionary journeys into France, and the effectiveness of his international diplomatic efforts in England, Holland, and Prussia.Trade Review"Utt and Strayer retain the merit of having distanced themselves from a Protestant hagiography that treated Brousson as but a holy martyr above reproach, as one who died heroically for his reformed beliefs. They convincingly reveal a human Brousson more complex than a faultless saint. This book is well worth the attention of serious scholars of seventeenth-century France." -- Seventeenth-Century News."...we are indebted to Walter Utt and ultimately to Professor Strayer for skilfully illuminating another misunderstood and unfamiliar aspect of Louis the XIV's later reign." -- Mark Bryant, French History, Vol 21, no 4, December 2007.Table of ContentsContents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Dove is Born (1647-1683); The Dove Turns Bellicose (1683-1684); The Dove Flies Abroad (1683-1688); The Dove Returns to France (1689-1693); The Lion and the Dove; The Hawk and the Dove; The International Dove (1693-1696); The Mystical Dove; The Sacrificial Dove (1697-1698); Epilogue: Reconsidering the Revocation; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the personal story of Dugald Stewart (1753-1828), whose circular memorial monument on Calton Hill is one of Edinburgh's best known landmarks. Originally a mathematician like his father, Stewart held the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University for 25 years and became the most distinguished philosopher in Britain. He was a gifted teacher whose character and eloquence influenced students who were to become famous in many walks of life. Two of them became Prime Minister. A lifelong Whig, Stewart was in France at the outbreak of the French Revolution, and there knew Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. He wrote biographical memoirs of Adam Smith and two other contemporaries. He gave Britain's first course on economics, attended by all four founder members of the 'Edinburgh Review', and his political, as well as his philosophical influence extended well into the 19th century. His wife was a generous hostess whose lively and amusing letters are quoted extensively in the book, and she and Stewart are shown to have been significant figures in the cultural life of the time.Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Who was Dugald Stewart?; Family Background and Infancy; At School and University (1761-1772); The Young Stewart, Mathematician (1772-1780); Boarders, Travels, Marriage and Change (1780-1785); The Young Stewart, Philosopher (1785-1787); Stewart and Robert Burns; Revolutionary France and Remarriage (1787-1790); Liberal Philosopher in a Harsh Climate (1790-96); Students and Travels (1796-1800); The Stewarts and the Palmerstons (1800-1803); Social Life and the Leslie and Ashburton Affairs (1803-1805); Towards Retirement (1806-1810); The Teacher and the Man; The Early Years of Retirement (1810-1815); Deaths of Friends and the Final Break (1815-1820); The Last Years (1820-1828); Epilogue; Index.

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