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Book SynopsisSUSAN DORAN is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of many books and articles on the Tudor period, including Monarchy and Matrimony: The Courtships of Elizabeth I, Elizabeth I in the British Library Historic Lives series and Mary Queen of Scots: An Illustrated Life. She is the co-editor (with Thomas S. Freeman) of The Myth of Elizabeth and Tudors and Stuarts on Film (Palgrave Macmillan).THOMAS S. FREEMAN was the Research Officer for the British Academy John Foxe Project and is now affiliated with the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University. He is the co-editor (with Thomas F. Mayer) of Martyrs and Martyrdom in England, 1400-1700 and (with Susan Doran) of The Myth of Elizabeth and Tudors and Stuarts on Film. He is the co-author (with Elizabeth Evenden) of Religion and the Book in Early Modern England: The Making of Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs'.Trade Review'This excellent collection of essays should do much to question assumptions and dispel prejudice, as well as making a substantial contribution to our knowledge and understanding of Mary and her reign.' -Lucy Wooding, King's College London, Recusant HistoryTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Abbreviations Introduction; T.Freeman PART I: OLD PERSPECTIVES A 'Sharp Rod' of Chastisement: Mary I Through Protestant Eyes During the Reign of Elizabeth I; S.Doran Her Majesty, Which is Now in Heaven: Mary Tudor and the Elizabethan Catholics; V.Houliston The Exclusion Crisis of 1553 and the Elizabethan Succession; P. Kewes 'Thus Like A Nun, Not Like a Princess Born': Dramatic Representations of Mary Tudor in the Early Years of the Seventeenth Century; T.Grant Inventing 'Bloody Mary': Perceptions of Mary Tudor from Restoration to the Twentieth Century; T.Freeman PART II: NEW PERSPECTIVES Ad Omne Virtutum Genus?: Mary Between Piety, Pedagogy and Praise in Early-Tudor Humanism; A.W.Taylor Religion and Translation at the Court of Henry VIII: Princess Mary, Katherine Parr and the Paraphrases of Erasmus; A.Pollnitz Maids and Wives: Representing Female Rule during the Reign of Mary Tudor; T.Betteridge The Religious Policy of Mary I; W.Wizeman, SJ Burning Zeal: Mary Tudor and the Marian persecution; T.Freeman Reassessing Mary Tudor: Some Concluding Points; J.Richards Appendix: List of the Marian martyrs Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisIntroduction; D.Cannadine Britain, the Sea, the Empire, the World; F.Fernandez-Armesto Empire, Europe and British Naval Power; S.Conway Empire and British Identity: the Maritime Dimension; P.J.Marshall Cargoes: the Trade in Luxuries from Asia to Europe; M.Berg Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge; R.Drayton Instruments, Surveys and Maritime Empire; S.Schaffer Black Experience in Britain's Maritime World, 1763-1833; P.D.Morgan Gender and Empire; C.HallTable of ContentsIntroduction; D.Cannadine Britain, the Sea, the Empire, the World; F.Fernandez-Armesto Empire, Europe and British Naval Power; S.Conway Empire and British Identity: the Maritime Dimension; P.J.Marshall Cargoes: the Trade in Luxuries from Asia to Europe; M.Berg Maritime Networks and the Making of Knowledge; R.Drayton Instruments, Surveys and Maritime Empire; S.Schaffer Black Experience in Britain's Maritime World, 1763-1833; P.D.Morgan Gender and Empire; C.Hall

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Book SynopsisJONATHAN RILEY-SMITH is Dixie Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK.

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Book SynopsisThe first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors 'The Lady's Not For Turning': New Cultural Perspectives on Thatcher and Thatcherism; L.Hadley & E.Ho PART I: THATCHER 'There Is No Such Thing!': On Public Service, Broadcasting, The National Health Service and 'People' in the 1980s; P.Holland & G.Eglezou 'New Times' Television?: Channel 4 and My Beautiful Laundrette ; A.Beaumont The Gospel of Gandhi : Whiteness and State Narcissism in Thatcherite England; J.Mezey Rural Heritage and Colonial Nostalgia in the Thatcher Years: V. S. Naipaul's The Enigma of Arrival ; L.Loh There's No Place like Home: Margaret Thatcher at Number 10 Downing Street; K.A.Morrison PART II: AFTER Shameless?: Picturing the 'Underclass' after Thatcherism; H.Nunn & A.Biressi Carving Up Value: The Tragicomic Thatcher Years in Jonathan Coe; R.Trimm Let's Dance: The Line of Beauty and the Revenant Figure of Thatcher; K.Duff Sarah Kane: Cool Britannia's Reluctant Feminist; G.Saunders Parodic Reiterations: Representations of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism in Late Twentieth-Century British Political Cartoons; H.Joyce Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe Haunted is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating.Trade Review'A general, accessible history of ghosts and ghosts beliefs is much-needed, particularly one like this which manages to be empathetic to the beliefs involved while rescuing the topic from the enthusiasts of the 'ghost-hunting' fraternity. The quality of the writing is a major bonus: Davies wears his erudition lightly, and weaves it into accessible and often witty prose. This book manages the difficult feat of representing a real advance in scholarship, while appealing to a wider general readership. It's an admirable achievement.' - Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, UK 'A fascinating and authoritative cultural history, packed with illuminating stories. From medieval revenants and headless horsemen to the sensational hauntings at Cock Lane and Borley Rectory, all England's ghosts are here. With great skill and sensitivity, Owen Davies takes these strange tales at face value in order to peer into the obscure mental world of our ancestors. It is a fine achievement.' - Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia, UK 'Owen Davies has produced the most comprehensive, lively and perceptive cultural history of English ghosts ever written. It is an amazingly broad survey, which covers every angle that I might have expected, and plenty that I did not: painstakingly researched, imaginative, and generous to all involved in his case-studies.' - Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol, UK 'I enjoyed Owen Davies' book enormously. He has written a remarkably detailed account of largely English ghosts and ghostly phenomena in an intelligent, fascinating, and very readable narrative which answers most of the questions one is likely to ask about them. I commend it as one of the best books I have read on the subject' - Peter Maxwell-Stuart, University of St Andrews 'A provocative and splendidly, comprehensively researched new book.' - Laurie Taylor, Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 'What is a ghost? Owen Davies suggests that no single definition can cover revenants, angels, devils, fairies, will-o'-the-wisps, or demonic cadavers. The context in which ghosts appear is influenced by contemporary philosophy, religion and science. So, the Reformation in England eradicated the worship of saints and reduced the relevance of angels, leaving ghosts 'the sole manifest representatives of the afterlife for most Anglicans'. Davies is no debunker: with the best rational will in this world (and in the next) he considers the phenomena from the Dark Ages to our own New Age.' - Iain Finlayson, The Times 'Rather than simply focusing on reported manifestations of ghosts through the ages, Owen Davies's meticulously researched work puts the events in context, investigating not only the origin of such reports, but also how they're spun or rationalised, based often upon the social climate of the time...Hardcore followers...will find this a treasure trove of information and insight.' - Beyond Magazine '...this is exactly what the world needs: a fresh, original and thorough analysis of the torrent of ghost stories that have been with us since probably the beginnings of language...As the book is both informative and enlightening, I've no hesitation in recommending it.' - Bob Rickard, Fortean Times 'This is a well-written and researched book that gives an interesting overview of the common beliefs about ghosts from the Middle Ages to the 18th century...Recommended.' - The Cauldron 'In his exhaustive, intelligent and impeccably researched new book, The Haunted:A Social History of Ghosts, Owen Davies entertainingly delineates the sheer scope of the phenomenon - from medieval superstition to nineteenth-century spiritualism to the present-day abundance of psychics who haunt the murkier channels of digital television.' - Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement 'Davies packs his book with a wealth of detail and constantly referes to contemporary documents, but the wider scope makes for a more interesting read, with the reader able to follow various strands down through the years.' - Peter Tennant, Black Static No. 4 'Over the last few years scholars in the humanities have begun to take historical narratives featuring ghosts seriously and Davies makes a significant contribution to the emerging debates on the subject. In summing up the book I cannot better the view of P.G. Maxwell-Stuart given on the back of the dust jacket, "intelligent, fascinating and very readable.' - John Newton, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 'Davies' book is an impressive achievement, particularly in its handling of the intellectual and cultural dimensions of ghost-beliefs.' - Thomas Kselman, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: EXPERIENCE Manifestation Geography of Haunting Seeking Ghosts PART 2: EXPLANATION Debating Ghosts All in the Mind PART 3: REPRESENTATION Imitating the Dead Projecting Ghosts Treading the Boards and Under the Covers The Future for Ghosts

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Book SynopsisPeter Wilson provides a concise yet comprehensive account of the Holy Roman Empire and its profound impact during its last three centuries of existence. Drawing on a wealth of research, the expanded new edition has been fully revised and updated throughout and now features a new chapter on 'Nation and Identity'.Trade Review'Peter Wilson's book provides solid and reliable information on the complex history and structures of the Empire, reflecting the current state of the historiography.' - Robert Rebitsch, German HistoryTable of ContentsA Note on References Editors' Preface Preface to the Second Edition Maps The Holy Roman Empire Explained Constitutional Development Key Institutions and Trends Nation and Identity Conclusions Appendix Select Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisBy theorising the idea of 'formative tensions' between cultural Modernism and Christianity, and by in-depth case studies of James Joyce, David Jones, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, the book argues that no coherent account of Modernism can ignore the continuing impact of Christianity.Trade Review“As a general introduction and overview to the relationship between modernism and Christianity, Tonning’s book is a remarkable success, one that will be of great value for both graduate students and junior scholars as they engage in the burgeoning interest in this hybrid area of study.” (Jack Dudley, James Joyce Quarterly, Vol. 52 (1), 2014)Table of Contents1. Rethinking 'Modernism and Christianity' 2. Catholic Modernisms: James Joyce and David Jones 3. Old Dogmas for a New Crisis? Hell, Usury and Incarnation in T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W. H. Auden 4. Samuel Beckett, Modernism and Christianity Conclusion: Modernism and Christianity as a Field of Study

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Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Conventions andReferences A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma No Great Expectations Early Manhood A Scandal in Bohemia Richer Than All his Tribe The Fault Is Not in our Stars Some Achieve Greatness Go, Captain, Greet the Danish King At the Parting of the Ways The Wheel Is Come Full Circle Once More unto the Breach From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us Of Peace and Other Demons Decline and Fall Assassination Is the Quickest Way But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious References Bibliography IndexTrade Review'...thanks to his profound knowledge of the Thirty Years War and his wide reading of both the older and most recent historiography, he is able to offer a very informative, trustworthy and readable account of Wallenstein's life.' The Journal of Military HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Conventions and References A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma No Great Expectations Early Manhood A Scandal in Bohemia Richer Than All his Tribe The Fault Is Not in our Stars Some Achieve Greatness Go, Captain, Greet the Danish King At the Parting of the Ways The Wheel Is Come Full Circle Once More unto the Breach From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us Of Peace and Other Demons Decline and Fall Assassination Is the Quickest Way But Brutus Says He Was Ambitious References Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Map Preface to Palgrave Edition Acknowledgements to Palgrave Edition A Desolation they called Peace: The Destruction of London in AD 60 'Offence - A Londoner': The Peasants' Revolt to Evil May Day 'We'll no need the Papists noo!': Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes Free-Born John: Levellers, Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women Murderous Fantasies: The Great Fire to the Popish Plot George's War: From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots The Ape-Like Irish: The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots, the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots 'Wilkes and Liberty': The Political Riot The United States of England: The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators Monster Rallies: The War with the Chartists, the 'Sally Army' and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London Persecuting Pigeons: Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday 'Good Old Dynamite': London's War with the Bombers Women Behaving Badly: The Suffragettes Huns and Hashish: The YellTrade Review'This isn't just a history of riots and revolts: because each disturbance has to be placed in context, this is a political history which is made all the more interesting because it concentrates on the flashpoints, and the events which caused them. ' - The Guardian ' [an] ambitious and erudite chronicle of protest in the capital assiduously researched...' - The Times 'Clive Bloom's rigorous examination and analysis of radical protest in the UK throughout the ages stretches across 600-odd pages, and justifies every word. Acts of violent rebellion in the distant past are discussed, with their relevance to modern times cleverly pointed up, and Bloom colourfully evokes insurrections from AD 60 onwards. Little wonder, in fact, that JG Ballard was generous in his praise for an earlier edition of the book.' Barry Forshaw, The Good Book Guide Reviews of 1st edition (Pan): 'An exhilarating rush through countless riots, insurrections and full-blown street wars...written in a racy and accessible style...As I read this superb history, I looked out at my quiet suburban garden, disappointed not to hear the sound of trumpets.' - J. G Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'A breathless but exhilarating journey from Boudica to such recent events as the aftermath of September 11th and the march of the Countryside Alliance, Bloom's viewpoint is nicely balanced, critical of government and especially of the police, but not unreasonably so, and not too passionately keen that the rebels should win every time.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Seamless, full of information, connections and insights.' - Juliet Gardiner, BBC History Magazine ' [A] masterful study.' - Max Dunbar, 3:AM Magazine 'Clive Bloom's rigorous examination and analysis of radical protest in the UK throughout the ages stretches across 600-odd pages, and justifies every word. Acts of violent rebellion in the distant past are discussed, with their relevance to modern times cleverly pointed up, and Bloom colourfully evokes insurrections from AD 60 onwards. Little wonder, in fact, that JG Ballard was generous in his praise for an earlier edition of the book. Violent London is a thoroughgoing literary exploration of London's 'secret' history, from the world of radicals and subversives (including Wat Tyler to the Anti-Globalization Movement via the Gordon Riots, the Cato Street Conspirators, the Suffragettes, Mosleyites and the IRA)'. - Barry Forshaw, Good Book GuideTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Map Preface to Palgrave Edition Acknowledgements to Palgrave Edition A Desolation they called Peace: The Destruction of London in AD 60 'Offence - A Londoner': The Peasants' Revolt to Evil May Day 'We'll no need the Papists noo!': Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes Free-Born John: Levellers, Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women Murderous Fantasies: The Great Fire to the Popish Plot George's War: From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots The Ape-Like Irish: The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots, the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots 'Wilkes and Liberty': The Political Riot The United States of England: The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators Monster Rallies: The War with the Chartists, the 'Sally Army' and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London Persecuting Pigeons: Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday 'Good Old Dynamite': London's War with the Bombers Women Behaving Badly: The Suffragettes Huns and Hashish: The Yellow Peril to the German Pogrom Comrades All: Red London to Red Ken Brave Boys of the BUF: The Origins of London Fascism Not Quite Kosher: The Jews of London, Jeffrey Hamm and the Return of Oswald Mosley Alien Nation: Indian Assassins and Black Radicals The Tiber Flowing with Much Blood: Enoch Powell, Notting Hill and Hackney Like Rorke's Drift: Hackney, Brick Lane and Lewisham Anarchy in the UK: Private Armies, Vigilantes and the New Cross Fire Living on the Front Line: Brixton to Broadwater Farm; the Stephen Lawrence Case to the Soho Bomber One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?: Grosvenor Square to Moon at the Monarchy 2000 Back to the Future: Poll Tax Rebels and Tenant Strikers The Free Republic of Wanstonia: The Fight for London's Green Spaces Never Underestimate a Minority: Guerrilla Gardeners and the Countryside Alliance The Man in the Third Carriage - 7/7 and its Consequences Operation Glencoe – G20, Ian Tomlinson and the Future of Street Protest Epilogue: Watching the River Flow: Surveillance and Terror Appendix One: Shadow of a Warrior Queen: Boudicca and the Destruction of London: Unanswered Questions Appendix Two: The Huguenot and Italian Legacy Appendix Three: Assassination Attempts on the Royal Family Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBrian Golding was formerly Reader in History at the University of Southampton, UK.Trade ReviewPraise for the revised first edition: 'A very good survey, whose clarity is much appreciated by students.' - Professor David Bates, University of Glasgow, UK '...an ideal survey for an undergraduate audience...' - Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History Reviews of the first edition: 'Brian Golding's Conquest and Colonisation provides a valuable map of the terrain, including Wales and Scotland as well as England and Normandy ... it is (a book) which can be read with great profit both by specialists and by undergraduates, to whom it will come as a particular boon.' - Ann Williams, English Historical Review 'Mr Golding's scholarly work sheds a welcome shaft of sense and realism on these formative years.' - The Cornish Banner Praise for the second edition: 'Golding's Conquest and Colonisation has long been an excellent first port of call for students of the Norman Conquest, that pivotal event in European history. This revised edition brings an interpretation that remains both authoritative and engaging fully up to date with current debates' - Charles West, Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Sheffield, UKTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Acknowledgements 1. Maps 2. The Sources 3. Prelude to the Conquest 4. The Norman Conquest, 1066-1100 5. Settlement and Colonisation 6. Governing the Conquered 7. Military Organisation 8. A Colonial Church? 9. Anglo-Norman England Notes Select Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisPropaganda during theBattle of Britaincontributed to high national morale and optimism, with 'The 'Few's' prowess and valour projected through Air Ministry communiqués and daily claims 'scores'. The media was a willing partner in portraying their heroism, also later consolidated in wartime publications, films and historiography.Trade Review'An immense, highly detailed, and careful work of scholarship full of subtle nuance and considered judgment as well as informative fact. For anyone seriously interested in the nature and content of the propaganda surrounding the Battle of Britain, The Good Fight will prove indispensable reading. - S.P. MacKenzie, British Scholar 'This is a deep, analytical examination of morale maintenance in a beleaguered island.' - Flypast 'This is the most authoritative account of the Battle of Britain that I have ever encountered. It covers the events of the Battle itself and its importance to the course of Word War II, but it also exhaustively analyses the contemporary reaction to the Battle in official and unofficial propaganda, in newspapers, films, radio, painting and literature, and the process of mythification which the Battle underwent. Written in a thoroughly accessible style, the book is a remarkable achievement in its breadth, its depth and its mastery of the large array of disparate sources.' - Jeffrey Richards, Lancaster University, UK 'In the seventy years since it was fought scores of books have been written about the Battle of Britain. It might have seemed impossible to produce, at this late stage, a thoroughly original contribution to the literature, but this is exactly what Garry Campion has achieved...Campion's rigorous and scholarly analysis takes us as close to the truth as we are ever likely to get.' - Paul Addison, Cerecles 'Garry Campion has undoubtedly made a significant and lasting contribution to Battle of Britain historiography. Although the extent to which Britain actually faced invasion during the summer of 1940 is now debated by historians, the fact remains that it was a significant event - one which continues to arouse great interest amongst enthusiasts and academics alike. That being so, this new and comprehensive study of how the conflict, and the RAF aircrew who fought it, was presented in British wartime propaganda is crucial to our wider understanding of the dramatic events concerned. As scholars seek to further contextualise the Battle of Britain, Garry Campion's "The Good Fight" will become a benchmark in historiography - and an essential point of reference to any student of summer 1940'. - Dilip Sarkar MBE FRHistS BA(Hons), leading authority on the Battle of BritainTable of ContentsList of Figures Chronology Introduction 'A Tangle of Vapour Trails' – British Propaganda and Propagandists 'Squadrons Up' – The Battle of Britain 'Arise To Conquer' – RAF Morale and Tributes to the Few 'Winged Words' – The Aircraft Claims Propaganda War 'Mastery of the Air' – BBC Home Front Propaganda 'Finest Hour' – Newspaper and Magazine Propaganda 'Men Like These' – The Few in Newsreels and MOI 'Shorts' 'The Sky's the Limit' – The Few and Iconographic Propaganda 'Combat Report' – Reaching Britain, America, the Axis and the World 'The R.A.F. in Action' – The Few on Film 'To So Few' – Wartime Literature and the Few Conclusion Bibliography Appendix

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Book SynopsisCarl J. Griffin is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Understanding Rural Protest 1. Work, Worklessness and the Poor Law 2. Rural Workers, Custom and the State 3. Land and Environmental Change 4. Community, Custom and Religion: Unsettling the Everyday 5. Protest Practice 6. Rural Rebellion 7. Rural Popular Politics Conclusion Notes Further Reading Index.

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Book SynopsisBritish women were deeply invested in foreign policy between the wars. This study casts new light on the turn to international affairs in feminist politics, the gendered representation and experience of the Munich Crisis, and the profound impression made by female public opinion on PM Neville Chamberlain in his negotiations with the dictators.Trade Review“This is a valuable addition to the literature on women’s involvement in foreign affairs. A focus on gender encourages the reader to look at appeasement differently, while the author’s attempt to dig below the rhetoric of politicians and newspapers and to seek to uncover the perspectives of rank and file women is to be welcomed, and should provide an incentive for further research in this area.” (June Hannam, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 28 (2), March, 2017) “This book provides an enormous amount of information on British women’s interest in foreign affairs in the 1930s … . Readers interested in British women in the political arena will find plenty to draw upon here.” (Robert Boyce, Cercles, cercles.com, November, 2016)“Julie Gottlieb has done the scholarly community an enormous service by providing the first gendered history of British foreign policy in the age of appeasement. … Guilty Women undoubtedly provides a much-needed and long-overdue corrective to the tendency within the existing literature to position women on the periphery … . This is a work of admirable scholarship and ambition, and the ever-expanding canon of appeasement literature is richer for the contributions it makes.” (Professor Daniel Hucker, Reviews in History, history.ac.uk, July, 2016)“Julie Gottlieb’s impressive study is a wonderful example of their complementarity and, in her skilful hands, their combination profoundly recasts the familiar story of the ‘Munich Crisis’ of 1938. … Bringing gender and women’s history together, Julie Gottlieb has thus provided us with an immensely rich and rewarding analysis of appeasement. … this work of stunning craftswomanship and path-breaking scholarship.” (Marc Calvini Lefebvre, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, rfcb.revues.org, July, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Guilty Women? Gendering Appeasement 1. British Women and the Three Encounters: International, European, and Fascist 2. Women's War on Fascism 3. 'Guilty Women': Conspiracy and Collusion 4. 'Guilty Women': Powers behind Thrones 5. 'To Speak a Few Words of Comfort to Them': Conservative Women's Support for Chamberlain and Appeasement 6. 'Women are the Best Friends of Mr Chamberlain's Policy': Gendered Representations of Public Opinion 7. 'Anyway Let's Have Peace': Women's Expressions of Opinion on Appeasement 8. 'Don't Believe in Foreigners': The Female Franchise Factor and the Munich By-elections 9. The Women Churchillians and the Politics of Shame

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Book SynopsisMargaret, saint and 11th-century Queen of the Scots, remains an often-cited yet little-understood historical figure. Keene's analysis of sources in terms of both time and place – including her Life of Saint Margaret , translated for the first time – allows for an informed understanding of the forces that shaped this captivating woman.Trade Review“Saint Margaret, Queen of Scots: A Life in Perspective will prove to be an exceptionally valuable resource for those working both on St. Margaret and on early medieval queeuship and female sainthood more generally. Keene's work will also surely pave the way for even more much-needed scholarship on ‘the other queen of Scots’ … .” (Emily Wingfield, Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Vol. 167 (252), 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Noble and Unknowable Lineage 2. An Exile in Hungary 3. An Anglo-Saxon Princess 4. A Wife of the King 5. A Queen of the Scots 6. A Pious Woman 7. The Cornerstone of Margaret's Cult 8. A Dynastic Saint 9. A Canonized Saint Conclusion Appendix: Translation of the Dunferline Vita

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Book SynopsisJEREMY BLACK is Professor of History at the University of Exeter, UK.

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Book SynopsisThe Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.Trade ReviewWon Book of the Week at the University of Buckingham (7th August 2013) "The [historiographical] landscape is altered in sometimes startling, but always refreshing, ways and, for those interested in the English revolution, the development of constitutional thought and the sources and character of early modern radicalism, this is an indispensable text." - J.C. Davis, Parliamentary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: The History and Historiography of The Agreements of the People; E.Vernon & P.Baker Oaths, Covenants, Associations and the Origins of the Agreements of the People: The Road To and From Putney; E.Vallance The People of the Agreements: The Levellers, Civil War Radicalism and Political Participation; J.Peacey Constitutionalism: Ancient, Modern and Early Modern in the Agreements of the People; D.A.Orr The Levellers, Decentralisation and the Agreements of the People; P.Baker Freedom of Conscience and the Agreements of the People; R.Foxley The New Model Army and the Constitutional Crisis of the Later 1640s; I.Gentles Drafting the Officers' Agreement of the People: A Reappraisal; F.Henderson 'A Firme and Present Peace; Upon Grounds of Common Right and Freedome': The Debate on the Agreements of the People and the Crisis of the Constitution, 1647-59; E.Vernon Diggers, True Levellers and the Crisis of the English Revolution; A.Hughes The Agreements of the People and the Constitutions of the Interregnum Governments; D.L.Smith Appendix I

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Book SynopsisPATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Officer at the History of Parliament Trust, UK. His publications include Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland and (with David L. Smith) Parliament and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate.

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Book SynopsisPATRICK LITTLE is Senior Research Officer at the History of Parliament Trust, UK. His publications include Lord Broghill and the Cromwellian Union with Ireland and Scotland and (with David L. Smith) Parliament and Politics during the Cromwellian Protectorate.

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Book SynopsisJOHN HENRY is aReader in the History of Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely on the history of science from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisGEORGE SOUTHCOMBE is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of History and Somerville College, Oxford, UK. GRANT TAPSELL is Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews, UK.

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Book SynopsisChallenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events between the First and Second World Wars.Trade Review'This is a splendid piece of scholarship, finely written, exhaustively researched, and interpretively bold. With his emphasis upon the symbiotic relationship of economics and politics, Boyce sees in the late 1920s the real beginnings of the drift toward a new war, and the Anglo-Americans as especially important players in that slow-motion collapse.' - Robert J. Young, University of Winnipeg 'Robert Boyce merits the gratitude of all students of the 1930s for his ambitious effort to bring economics and finance together with diplomacy. In offering this exquisitely detailed and lavishly footnoted volume to the public, Boyce faced a difficult strategic choice. He could have simplified the argument, cut the text to half the length, abbreviated the notes, and addressed a general audience. Instead, he chose to give scholars the unabridged benefit of his strenuous archival labors. The book thus constitutes a vast quarry in which the specialist will find a wealth of material to use and reprocess' - Stephen A. Schuker, H-Diplo 'The subject of Robert Boyce's thoughtful, deeply researched book is the failure of the victor powers in the First World War to create effective mechanisms to ensure global stability. ' - History Today, Adam I.P. Smith, Senior Lecturer in History at UCLTable of ContentsList of Tables Preface Abbreviations Introduction The Liberal Powers, Peace-making and International Security, 1914-19 The Emasculation of International Security after the Great War The Limits of Globalisation The Crisis Begins, 1927-29 The Crisis, September 1929 - April 1931 In the Eye of the Storm, May 1931 – February 1932 The Collapse of the Postwar Order, 1932 - 34 Conclusion: From the Great Interwar Crisis to the Present Bibliography

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Book SynopsisForeword: "Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Antifascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria" by Karl-Heinz Shopes The Beginning of the Tragedy The City of God The Sword The Last Whore King of the Sewer Desperate Hope Starvation Day of Wrath Lest I Be Burned in Eternal FireTrade Review"This book provides an imporant point of access to the phenomenon of Inner Emigration in Germany during the Third Reich. The vivid parallels between Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's 1937 account of the Münster Anabaptist uprising in 1534 and Hitler's Third Reich in Germany make this intriguing work a fascinating document of opposition to the Nazi regime." - Neil H. Donahue, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Hofstra UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: "Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's Antifascist Novel Bockelson: A History of Mass Hysteria" by Karl-Heinz Shopes The Beginning of the Tragedy The City of God The Sword The Last Whore King of the Sewer Desperate Hope Starvation Day of Wrath Lest I Be Burned in Eternal Fire

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Book SynopsisA genuine renaissance is presently underway in the study of biblical interpretation and biblical culture in the early Christian age. The profundity and complexity of the early Christians'' engagement with Holy Scripture, in theology, in ecclesial and liturgical life, in ethics, and in ascetic and devotional life, are providing a rich resource for contemporary discussions of the Bible''s ongoing afterlife within ecumenical Christian communities and contexts. The Bible in Greek Christian Antiquity is a collection of wide-ranging essays on the influence of the Bible in numerous and varied aspects of the life of the Greek-speaking churches during the first four centuries. Essays appear under the general themes of (I) The Bible as a Foundation of Christianity; (II) The Bible in Use among the Greek Church Fathers; (III) The Bible in Early Christian Doctrinal Controversy; (IV) The Bible and Religious Devotion in the Early Greek Church. Individual essays probe topics as diverse as thTrade Review"Full of interesting, informative articles and broad in scope...." —Perspectives in Religious Studies

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines depictions of Christ in the writings and art of the medieval Dominicans. The multidisciplinary essays provide perspectives on the life and thought of the Order of the Preachers, focusing on the role of Christ within the devotion and imagination of the Order.Trade Review“This collection of conference papers deals with the way Christ was portrayed in the art and writings of the medieval Dominicans and those who were influenced by them. Most of the papers are in English, though three are in French. The papers deal with the order as a whole and with individual writers such as Stephen Langton, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and others. The essayists, however, examine a wide range of themes, including catechists, marriage, medieval philosophy, and the way Dominic himself was remembered and compared to Christ, among others. The goal of the essayists was to examine the way the Dominicans perceived Christ and then to examine how that perception influenced their work. This book would be an excellent addition to academic, research, and especially theological libraries.” —Library Journal“(This volume) is a high-quality collection of rare breadth . . . The collection provides a vast overview of medieval Dominican Christology which manifests, in spite of the differences, the profound continuity of theological and spiritual reflection in the Order of the Preachers. But the first merit of this book is to recall that the Dominicans, before doing philosophy, have been primarily theologians searching to accont for the heart of their faith: the person of Christ. These studies thus contribute to rediscover the specifically theological matter of the Dominican tradition, which the philosophical enterprise of twentieth-century neo-Scholasticism has sometimes obscured.” —The Thomist“This volume helps the modern reader to correct some widely held misconceptions about medieval Dominicans. Emery and Wawrykow’s work admirably suceeds in accomplishing its goal of shedding new light on old, but central, topics of concern for medieval studies.” —Church HIstory, Studies in Christianity & Culture“The wide range and generally high quality of the contributions makes this an important and stimulating collection.” —The Heythrop Journal“Christ Among the Medieval Dominicans provides a comprehensive and detailed look at the position of Christ in Dominican thought, life and practice in the medieval period. It is a multi-faceted window on a period and movement of considerable significance.” —The Art Book

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Book SynopsisThe Soul as Virgin Wife presents the first book-length study to give a detailed account of the theological and mystical teachings written by women themselves, especially by those known as beguines, which have been especially neglected. Hollywood explicates the difference between the erotic and imagistic mysticism, arguing that Mechthild, Porete, and Eckhart challenge the sexual ideologies prevalent in their culture and claim a union without distinction between the soul and the divine.The beguines'' emphasis in the later Middle Ages on spiritual poverty has long been recognized as an important influence on subsequent German and Flemish mystical writers, in particular the great German Dominican preacher and apophatic theologian Meister Eckhart. In The Soul as Virgin Wife, Amy Hollywood presents the first book-length study to give a detailed textual account of these debts. Through an analysis of Magdeburg''s The Flowing Light of the Godhead, Marguerite PoreTrade Review“The Soul as Virgin Wife is a learned, subtle, and deeply intelligent study of three mystical theologians. Informed by feminist theory as well as thorough familiarity with late medieval religious culture, Amy Hollywood sifts through everything and takes nothing for granted. By reading Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart ‘with and against’ each other, she is able to recontextualize all three in a powerfully original way.”—Barbara Newman, Professor of English and Religion, Northwestern University“This book is a ‘marguerite,’ a pearl. It can be read as a major contribution to our understanding of Mechthild, Marguerite, and Eckhart, and also as a major contribution to the study of women’s religion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. As if that were not enough, it is also studded with telling theoretical observations and enlivened by a running dialogue with a large array of current work in critical theory and feminist studies.”—The Journal of Religion"[Hollywood] offers valuable and insightful discussions of specific aspects in the works of all three mystics. . . . [T]his is a well-researched book...."—Studi Medievali“[Hollywood’s] study stands out as a scintillating and heuristic contribution to the critical literature surrounding three pivotal figures in the mystical revolution of late medieval Europe.” —Anglican Theological Review“Amy Hollywood offers to the reader a brilliant and detailed study of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart on ‘the interrelated themes of body, will, and work and the interplay of pain, visionary imagination, and apophasis.’ In so doing she has produced a complex analysis of the reasons for ‘their desomatizing transformation of female mysticism.’” —Church History“Hollywood offers such a careful examination of the interpretive problems and historical contexts (her vastly detailed footnotes alone are worth the price of admission), and such a nuanced reading of the gender issues involved, that I felt her quite focused study would have significantly widespread implications.” —Pro Ecclesia“Since the publication of Caroline Bynum’s pathbreaking study of religious women in medieval Europe, female mystical writing has been all too easily characterized in essentialist and universalizing terms, especially in terms of the primary roles that the body and somatic visionary experience are assumed to have played in such women’s writings. Hollywood sets out to complicate this trend in her detailed study of the theological underpinnings of three mystical writers: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart. She warns critics that women’s visionary experience has too often been characterized through prescriptive works often written by men for women (such as hagiography) rather than through works by women themselves and first suggests that we pay more careful attention to the latter. Second, she urges critics not to universalize the somatic character of women’s writing; her constellation of these three figures shows that while the body was of concern to all three thinkers, for Mechthild it was not central, and for Marguerite Porete and Eckhart it was to be overcome entirely. By bringing together two female mystical writers and one male writer she demonstrates the commonality, rather than the distinction, between many male and female mystical writers’ concerns and the ways in which Eckhart was particularly influenced by beguine (female lay religious) thought. Furthermore, she shows how Eckhart, perhaps because of his privileged position as a male in terms of institutional authority and education, was able to crystallize and extend the thought of his beguine predecessors, producing a utopian theology of union with God more coherent and ultimately with more radical potential than that of Mechthild or Marguerite Porete.” —Speculum

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Book SynopsisIn this volume Robert Morrissey explores a millennium's worth of history and myth surrounding Charlemagne (768-814). His plasticity, Morrissey argues, endows Charlemagne with both legitimizing power and subversive potential.Trade Review"... a solid book that can be of use to anyone interested in European, particularly French, history. ... remarkably accessible ...." -- History: Reviews of New Books, Fall 2003, Vol. 32 No. 1"... a rich and provocative study that shows [Morrissey's] mastery of medieval and modern historiography and literature ..." -- American Historical Review, April 2004

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Book SynopsisGod's image as Judge can engender shame and guilt in women. This study explores the underworld journeys of women like Demeter and Psyche, and their reflections in works by such women as Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf, arguing that the tradition they represent has much to offer modern Christians.Trade Review“Gagné explores women's psychological and spiritual journeys through the lens of three ancient myths and modern literature. Many feminists seek to recover the goddess of preliterary civilizations. Gagné claims that the literary myths of underworld journeys of the goddesses Innana, Demeter/Persephone, and Psyche are integral to her wholeness as a Christian woman. She says that Innana illustrates that one cannot move from powerless to compassionate without first venting anger, while Demeter/Persephone shows that the discovery of wholeness is never once-and-for-all; Psyche demonstrates the struggle to discover self within passionate relationships. Gagné is convinced these stories are useful because they integrate sexuality and suffering, leading to a new experience of God. Explaining how these themes are explored in the works of Sylvia Plath, Joan Didion, Mary Gordon, Virginia Woolf, and other authors, she concludes with reflections drawn from the diary of Etta Hillesum—a woman who exemplified the underworld experiences and encountered God. Erudite and well written, this book offers a fresh perspective for Christian feminist-heirs to a tradition that has distanced bodily experience from spiritualities. Those unfamiliar with the literature that Gagné refers to will have limited appreciation of the study—those who know it will find her work masterful. For libraries supporting women's studies, literature, and spirituality; upper-division undergraduates and above.” —Choice * Choice *“Three Years of Writing, twelve years of teaching a course on the “Woman’s Journey,” and a lifetime of intense introspection have resulted in a hypnotic, ...monolog that describes the author’s journey towards achieving an edifiying sense of self-knowledge.” —Utopian Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“An invaluable resource for early European political thought. Nederman’s careful reading and thorough scholarship fill an important gap in our understanding of the influence of Cicero in this neglected period.”—Dean Hammer,author of Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine“In showing that Cicero’s influence was greater than many have thought, Nederman has filled a gap in scholarship in a way that will please admirers of Cicero.”—David Fott Political Theory“Nederman’s meticulous research has done a wonderful service to scholars working on medieval and Renaissance philosophy and the history of ideas.”—T. Brian Mooney The European Legacy“For Nederman, it is clear, the insights gained through following his careful evaluations of the many ways in which Cicero’s works spoke to the social and political theorists . . . represent an investment not only in deeper knowledge and understanding of the past but also the acquisition of methods and ideas that will support mature and healthy analysis of present-day problems in human social and political association.”—Catherine Keen Speculum

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