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Belcouver Press Ireland out of England
Book Synopsis''Ireland out of England'' plays with the ironies and follies of the campaign for a unified independent Ireland that has expressed little insight or care about what's involved.The title essay recounts the constant trouping of Southern Irish artists and professionals to Britain where they live, are welcomed and flourish. They are the talented crests of historic waves of Irish for whom England is the land of opportunity, as warmly familiar as the towns and fields of Leinster, Munster and Connaught. How do we square the Irish in Britain with the anti-Britishness of the politicians and pundits back home in Ireland, or with the clamour for the removal of Northern Ireland from the very UK in which so many Irish prosper?The book reveals other inconvenient truths about the push for a united Ireland that benign-sounding destination that to be reached seems to require a flight from reality and a refusal to let Northern Ir
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Jollies Publishing The Fourth Reich The EU An Emerging German
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Orpington Publishers Ithaka Odysseus
Book SynopsisAll you need to know about the Island's myths, legends and its gods.
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Cambridge University Press Practical Utopia
Book SynopsisDartington Hall was a social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality, founded in Devon in 1925, where ambitious ideals were turned into a reality. Practical Utopia explores its compelling history, through the lives of its founders and participants, and opens a window onto British and international social reform between the wars.
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Cambridge University Press Between Community and Collaboration
Book SynopsisA comparative analysis of the 'Jewish Councils' in Western Europe during World War Two. Based on a wide range of documentation,Laurien Vastenhout identifies the differences and similarities between Jewish representative bodies across occupied Western Europe and reveals that their histories were far more complex than has been previously recognized.
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Cambridge University Press Royal Heirs
Book SynopsisAgainst the odds, monarchies flourished in nineteenth-century Europe. Royal Heirs paints a vivid picture of this late flowering. It focuses on what the heirs to the throne contributed to this phenomenon, and how monarchies succeeded in adapting to change and defending their position.
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Cambridge University Press Measuring in the Renaissance
Book SynopsisDuring the Renaissance, measuring played a critical role in shaping trade, material production, warfare, legal studies, and even our understanding of the heavens and hell. This Element delves into the applications of measuring, with a particular emphasis on the Italian states, and traces its wide-ranging cultural effects.Table of Contents1. Warnings; 2. Elimination of Time; 3. Elimination of Matter; 4. Elimination of Interpretation; References.
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Cambridge University Press Feeding the Mind
Book SynopsisFeeding the Mind explores how European intellectual life was rebuilt after the cataclysm of the First World War. Learned communities were left in ruins by the conflict and its consequences; cultural and educational sites were destroyed, writers and artists were killed in battle, and tens of thousands of others were displaced. Against the backdrop of an unprecedented post-war humanitarian crisis which threatened millions with starvation and disease, many organisations chose to focus on assisting intellectuals and their institutions, giving them food, medicine and books in order to stabilise European democracies and build a peaceful international order. Drawing on examples from Austria to Russia and Belgium to Serbia, Feeding the Mind analyses the role of humanitarianism in post-conflict reconstruction and explores why ideas and intellectuals were deemed to be worth protecting at a time of widespread crisis. This issue was pertinent in the century that followed and remains so today.
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Cambridge University Press Entertainment Pleasure and Meaning in Early
Book SynopsisThe people of early England (c. 450?1100 CE) enjoyed numerous kinds of entertainment, recreation and pleasure, but the scattered records of such things have made the larger picture challenging to assemble. This volume illuminates the merrier aspects of early English life, extending our understanding of the full range of early medieval English culture. It shows why entertainment and festivity were not merely trivial aspects of culture, but had important functions, in ritual, in community-building, in assuming power, and in resistance to power. Among the activities explored are child''s play; drinking and feasting; music, dance, and performance; the pleasures of literature, festivals and celebrations; hunting and sport; and games.
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Cambridge University Press Friends Neighbours Sinners
Book SynopsisFriends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
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Cambridge University Press Frontiers of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Herder and Enlightenment Politics
Book SynopsisBy situating his evolving ideas in pan-European debates on the problems and prospects of modern European politics, this book proposes a radically new interpretation of the political thought of Johann Gottfried Herder, and shows that Herder was deeply committed to finding ways to achieve moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe.
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Cambridge University Press Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisAnxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of openly-expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. This book offers a detailed analysis of three cases, and contrasts the real 'assurance' shown by such figures with the doubts expressed, often privately, by believers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Problem of 'Atheism' in Early Modern England; 3. Atheism among the Godly: The Covert History of Religious Doubt; 4. 'This degenerate Age… so miserably over-run with Scepticism and Infidelity': The Culture of Atheism after 1660; 5. 'Aikenhead the Atheist': The Context and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the late Seventeenth Century; 6. An Atheist Text by Archibald Pitcairne: Introduction to Pitcairneana; 7. The Text of Pitcairneana: Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1114; 8. The Trial of Tinkler Ducket: Atheism and Libertinism in Eighteenth-century England; Appendix; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Emigrant Soldiers
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Cambridge University Press Love Spells and Lost Treasure
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Cambridge University Press Politics of the Past
Book SynopsisThe inter-war period (19181939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
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Cambridge University Press Social Justice in TwentiethCentury Europe
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Cambridge University Press Late Republican Rome 8831 BC
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. Narrative: 1. A prologue: Land and politics in Republican Italy, 133-88 BC; 2. Narrative, 88-44 BC; 3. The triumviral period (and beyond); Part II. Key Themes: 4. Rome and Italy; 5. Rome and the empire; 6. The imperial economy; 7. Law, lawyers and lawcourts; 8. Intellectual life; 9. Wives and daughters in late Republican society and politics; 10. Politics in the late Republic.
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Cambridge University Press Frankish Jerusalem
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the gradual urban transformation of Jerusalem under Frankish rule. A key text for readers interested in the Crusades and the Latin East, the history of Jerusalem, and medieval cities.
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Cambridge University Press Domestic Service in the Soviet Union
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Cambridge University Press Migration at the End of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Americas French Orphans
Book SynopsisThis unique study explores American support of destitute French children during and after World War I. It will interest scholars and students of World War I, humanitarianism, American society, childhood, and women's studies.
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Cambridge University Press Love Class and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Insularity and Identity
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Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon England Volume 50
Book SynopsisContributions to the fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England range from the seventh century with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus,and Aldhelm's Irish influences, into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus, and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Cambridge University Press The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine
Book SynopsisRobert Greville, 2nd Lord Brooke, was a prominent figure in the English Civil War. This volume publishes the annual household accounts kept for Brooke and his widow, Katherine, between 1640 and 1649. Illuminating Brooke's activities and the administration of his estates, the accounts are crucial sources for historians of 17th-century England.
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Cambridge University Press Land Law and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Writing Politics in Modern Britain
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Cambridge University Press Making Merchants
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Cambridge University Press Race on Screen
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Legare Street Press A Queen of Queens and the Making of Spain
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Legare Street Press Return of Agrarian Outrages Reported by Royal
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Legare Street Press Storia Dellaccademia Platonica Di Firenze
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Legare Street Press The Origins Of Contemporary France The Modern
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LEGARE STREET PR Madeira CaboVerde E Guiné
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LEGARE STREET PR Tableau De Paris Volume 1...
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Taylor & Francis Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. Networks and Institutions looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world, especially Africa. Cultural Diplomacy focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book publishing and the circus. Artists and Agency explores how West African filmmakers (Ousmane SembÃne and Abderrahmane Sissako) and European authors (Brecht and Ibsen) were harnessed for different kinds of Cold War strategies. Finally, Cultures of Things investigates how everyday objects such as books and iconic theatre buildings became suffused with affect, nostalgia, and ideology.This book will be of interest for students of the Cold War, postcolonial studies, theatre, film, and literature.Chapters 1, 4, 8, and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Funded by the European Research Council Project Developing Theatre.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Voice of the People
Book SynopsisOver the last two centuries, Europe has developed various forms of political representation from which democratic parliamentary systems gradually emerged. This book unravels the conditions, scale and impact under which political participation of common burghers and peasants emerged.Trade Review'[...] he aims to find an explanation for the way in which political participation has or has not taken shape over the centuries and in different places [the liberal revolutions before and after 1800].'Lauren Lauret, the low countries, 2024 - https://www.the-low-countries.com/article/the-struggle-for-political-participation-is-never-overTable of ContentsCONTENTSAcknowledgementsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations1. Historical roots of political voice - Voice and Representation 1 o A Unique Achievement 10o Continuity? 15- The State of Research 19o Terminology 23 o Theoretical Points of Departure 25o Political Participation Today 30o This book 332. The Playing Field Is Demarcated: Communities and Political Landscapes- Increasing differences in development 3- The geographic environment 6 - The formation of political units from a dominant core 13- The imperial obsession 16- Alliances of free communities 20- Coasts, Rivers, and Land masses 26 - The Political Geography 28- The Playing Field 383. The Players: the Formation of Political Communities - Estates and their Representation 3 o The First Estate: the Clergy 5 o The Estate of the Nobility 9o Peace Movements 12o Precedence 15- Concentration of Power 24 o Counsel and Aid 24o England: the Early Kingdom 26o Dynastic Wars, Bad Kings, and Rebellious Barons 29- Balances of Power: Catalonia and Aragon 38 - Dynastic Discontinuity 43 o Castile and León 45o Brabant and Castile 48- The Leading Actors 524. Game Changers: the Third Estate Makes Itself Heard - The Italian Polyarchy 2 o The Astonishing North 2 o The Social Composition of the Tuscan Population 13o The Papal States 16 o The South 17 o Balances of Power 22 - Popular Sovereignty in Flanders 23- Commercial Interests 33- Peasants’ Voice 38o The common concern for water managementin the Low Countries 47 - Core Concepts in the Political Debate 51 - The Triangular Relationship: Prince, Nobility, Cities 56 5. Within the Lines: Institutionalized Political Voice - The Vulnerability of Princes 2- The Iberian Cortes and Languedoc 5 - Abuse of Power and Tiranny in England 15 o Political Voice on War 22 o Representation of the Land? 27 - City Leagues in the German Realm 32 - The Microcosm of the Low Countries 39 o From the Meuse Region Urban League to theLand of Liège 39o The First Social and Political Revolution: Flanders 43o From City Leagues to the Brabant Constitutional Tradition 47 o Estates and Princely Ambitions 53 o Contrasts 57- Expansion and Emancipation 65 6. Spectators Invade the Pitch- The First Religiously Inspired Revolution: Bohemia 1 - The Bourgeois Revolution in the Low Countries 5o Church and Religion as Sources of Disruption 10oThe First Sovereign Popular Representation 13 - Religious Polarization in the German Realm 27 - Elective Kingship and Regional Power in Central Europe 41 oPoland 41 oHungary 45 o Swiss Confederation 46 - Seizure of Power by the Privileged in France 48 - Republics Among Monarchies 56- The Reformation as Catalyst 59 7. Distribution of Gain and Loss - Societies in Figures 2o Numbers of People and Concentrations 3o Composition of the Population 9- Forms of Aristocratic Rule in Central and Eastern Europe 16- Balances of Power in the Holy Roman Empire 31o A Dramatic Case: Saxony 42- Estates’ Members as Brokers in the French Periphery 45- The Subjugation of Catalonia and the ‘long sleep’ of Iberia 51- Conclusion 60 8. The Champions and the Excluded - Sovereign Republics 1- Revolution Turning into Oligarchy: the United Provinces 5 - England and the United Kingdom: the Monarchal Republic 16o The Bloody Road to a Constitutional Monarchy 17o The Consolidated Parliament 27- Sweden, a Separate Case 33o The Formative Period 33o Royal Voluntarism and Parliamentary Opposition 36o Political Parties 44- Colonies and the other Excluded 50o Ireland 51o North America 53- Ascending and Descending Power 609. Conclusions. Participation versus Effectivity - A Dash of Political Anthropology 1- Phases of Expansion and Contraction 4o Political Voice? The development phase, 1100-1350 5o Consolidation and trials of strength, 1350 -1600 9o Constitutional Representation or Fiscal-military Monarchy, 1600-1800 15 - The fundamental dynamics 19o Emancipation and Stiffening 19o Representation from below 23o State Power 25o Institutional Inertia 30o Continuity of Political Cultures 33 General Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Catalonia A New History
Book SynopsisCatalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain where political ideologies have sought to impose their interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of nation-making. Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter One Origins, from Pre-History to the Romans / Chapter Two New Influences. Visigoths, Christianity and the Arabs, 400-800 / Chapter Three Consolidation and Expansion 800 to 1150 / Chapter Four Aragon and the Mediterranean Empire 1150 to 1410 / Chapter Five Decline and Revolt 1415 to 1660 / Chapter Six Political incorporation, economic advance 1660 to 1830 / Chapter Seven Social conflict, national revival and ideological dispute 1830-1939 / Chapter Eight Francoism and the Democratic Experience 1939-2008 / Epilogue The failed push for Catalan independence
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Taylor & Francis Coastal Environments in Popular Song
Book SynopsisThis book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups â all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable.Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potterâs Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as âcentral to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relationsâ. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change.Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social histor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials
Book SynopsisWomen come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. From each country, three trials are chosen for close reading of courtroom discourse and the narratological approach enables various individuals to speak. Throughout the study, a choir of 24 voices of accused women are heard which reveal valuable insight into the field of mentalities and display both the individual experience of witchcraft accusation and the development of the trial. Particular attention is drawn to the accused women's confessions, which are interpreted as enforced narratives. The analyses of individual trials are also contextualized nationally and internationally by a frame of historical elements, and a systematic comparison between the countries shows strong similarities regarding the imTrade Review‘A compelling study of women’s words in witchcraft trials across many countries located around the North Sea, it provides different methodological approaches and a transnational regard, giving valuable insight into the field of mentalities. Not only the voices of the accused come alive, but also those of the judges, the scribes, the witnesses, and all those involved in a large number of trials carefully chosen by the author.’Marina Montesano, University of Messina, Italy‘The volume offers a useful model for using classical narratology in history and the history of witchcraft in general, backed up by a variety of sample analysis from various parts of Europe. The methodology is used to analyse questions of gender and agency, but it will be useful for scholars of various other perspectives on the history of witchcraft, too, including topics such as transfer of knowledge, creation of opinions, controlling of emotion and deconstruction of persecutions.’Raisa Maria Toivo, Tampere University, FinlandTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Spanish Netherlands – Holy Water, Witchcraft Powder, and the Collar 3. Northern Germany – Bloksberg, Red Rider, and Torture ‘in a humane way’ 4. Denmark – Weather Magic, Witches’ Dance, and Personal Demons 5. Scotland – Devil’s Pact, Gatherings, and Sleep Deprivation 6. England – Familiars, Teats, and Witchfinders 7. Norway – Charms, Blåkoll, and Chasing Fish 8. Sweden – Kullen, Blåkulla, and the Water Man 9. Finland – Magic Salt, Uncovered Hair, and Blåkulla 10. Comparison and Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Irish Republican Counterpublic
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the critical factors and processes by which the Provisional Irish Republican movement campaign from 1969 to 1998 transformed a once acquiescent nationalist population in Northern Ireland into a counterpublic of resistance demanding national self-determination and social justice. Considering the establishment of Irish Republican community institutions, prison protests, Republican Feminism, and Provisional IRA media and communications, this volume explores the emergence of Republicanism as a mass social movement in the nationalist Catholic ghettos and rural regions of Northern Ireland in the 1970s a development that helped to sustain the armed struggle of the Provisional Irish Republican Army for three decades. An examination of the emergence and transformative power of the counterpublic discourse and action of the Irish Republican movement, this volume provides a framework for conceptualizing counterpublics in social movement studies. As such it will appeal to sTrade Review"Scholars still know relatively little about the communities of support that stand behind the more visible face of movement activism. In this fascinating volume, the authors show that Northern Irish Republicans’ thirty-year struggle for independence was sustained by a 'counterpublic' forged in tenants associations, prison protests, local broadsheets, street art, and mothers’ support committees. Deeply researched and elegantly argued, the volume provides a genuinely new perspective on the ideas and institutions that fuel movements." -Francesca Polletta, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine"Organizing its detailed, highly innovative empirical investigations around concepts of counterpublic and civil sphere, this volume makes a critical theoretical intervention. Its publication is a major event, not only for studies of Irish Republican resistance but for social movement studies more broadly." -Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction: Social Movements and Counterpublics: the Northern Irish Republican Movement, 1969-1998 2. The Northern Ireland Republican Movement and Counterpublic Construction, 1969-1976 3. Irish Republican Counterpublics and Media Activism since the Troubles 4. Troubled Mothers: The Mobilization of Republican Motherhood during the Northern Ireland Conflict 5. The Republican Counterpublic in the H-Blocks, 1983-1989 6. The Prisoners' Support Campaign: How Hunger Strikes Facilitated the Counterpublic 7. Commentary
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Hitlers Allies
Book SynopsisThis book examines the significance of alliances in the international system, focusing on the dynamics between great and regional powers, and on the alliances Nazi Germany made during World War II, and their implications for Germany. It examines a variety of case studies and looks at how each of the respective states contributed to or weakened Nazi Germany's warfighting capabilities. The cases cover the principal Axis members Italy and Japan, secondary Axis allies Hungary and Romania, as well as neutral states that had economic and military significance for Germany, namely Bulgaria, Iran, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and Vichy France. Additional case studies include topics such as the German attempts to cultivate Arab nationalism, focusing on German involvement in the coup in Iraq against the pro-British government, and the wartime state of Croatia, whose creation was made possible by Germany, with the rivalry between Germany and Italy for control being a major foTable of ContentsChapter 1: The significance of great/small power alliances; Chapter 2: Italy and Germany; Chapter 3: Germany and Japan during World War II: allies at a distance; Chapter 4: Hungary; Chapter 5: Romania; Chapter 6: Finland: the co-belligerent of Nazi Germany; Chapter 7: Vichy France: the occupied ally; Chapter 8: Spain: the friendly neutral; Chapter 9: Bulgaria: an ally at a distance; Chapter 10: Croatia: the vassal state; Chapter 11: Switzerland and Sweden: the armed neutrals; Chapter 12: The Islamic world and Nazi Germany; Chapter 13: Conclusion: the pitfalls of great and small power alliances
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World
Book SynopsisTaking a broad geographical, temporal, and cross-disciplinary approach, this volume explores new and innovative research which focuses on rivers and waterways from across the Roman world.Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World brings together cross-disciplinary chapters focussing on theoretical approaches, new digital and scientific methods and analytical techniques, and related surveying and excavation case studies to examine the Romans'' extensive use of rivers and inland waterways around the Empire. Roman seafaring is well studied, but this book expands our knowledge of Roman transport, communication, and trade networks inland. The book highlights the challenges of archaeological work in the dynamic environments of rivers and waterways and showcases the use of new methodologies, including the increasing availability and accessibility of digital technologies that have led to a growth in the development and application of new archaeological and analytical techniquesTable of ContentsPart One: General; 1. The Archaeology of Rivers: Processes and Patterns; 2. New Approaches to Roman River Finds; 3. Geoarchaeology and Archaeology of Navigable Canals in River Deltas During the Roman Period: Technical, Methodological and Conceptual Approaches; Part Two: Mediterranean Region; 4. One City, Two Tibers? Reintegrating the Supply Networks of Imperial Rome; 5. Understanding the Cultural Landscape of the Stella River Through Underwater Archaeology; 6. ‘Carrying Up It All The Products Of The Seas’; 7. The River Ljubljanica: Evidence for the Change in Celtic Cult Practices Between the Late Iron Age and the Early Roman Period; 8. The Nile: A Maritime Pacemaker in Roman Egypt; Part Three: Northern Europe and Britain; 9. River Finds from the Netherlands: An Overview; 10. Nodes and Networks: Military and Civilian Trade and Transport in the Roman Dutch Southwest Delta; 11. Roman Waters? Military Usage of Waterways in 1st Century Scotland; 12. Waterways and Community Identities in Early Roman Sussex: A Multiscalar and Multivariate Approach; 13. Back and Forth: Roman River Crossings at Stirling, Scotland and Their Impact on Native Settlement; 14. Do Rivers Make Good Frontiers? Environmental Change and Military Policy Along the Roman Rhine; 15. Rivers and Walls: The Materiality of Roman Frontier Waterscapes on Hadrian’s Wall and the Lower Danube
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Taylor & Francis Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe
Book SynopsisExploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered
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Taylor & Francis The Early Slavs
Book SynopsisThis book presents an introductory and comprehensive history of the Slavic-speaking peoples who inhabited Eastern and Southern Europe during the seven-hundred-year period stretching from the first archaeological and historical records to the establishment of their first organised polities. The book is organised thematically (social organisation, politics and government, economy, religion, culture) in order to present some of the most recent scholarly advances in a range of fields, showing new light in some historical scholarly polemics. It is a political and cultural history that incorporates recent findings in areas previously overlooked in scholarly literature, such as slavery, the role of women, the importance of Jewish communities, and the problematic relations of all these emerging polities with neighbouring empires. Instead of focusing exclusively on any specific geographic area, or dealing mainly with linguistic and cultural aspects, the book provides a much-needed ove
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renaissance Surgeons
Book SynopsisThis book examines the lives, careers, and publications of a group of Spanish Renaissance surgeons as exemplars of both the surgical renaissance occurring across Europe and of the unique context of Spain.In the sixteenth century, European surgeons forged new identities as learned experts who combined university medical degrees with manual skills and practical experience. No longer merely apprentice-trained craftsmen engaged only with healing the exterior wounds and rashes of the body, these learned surgeons actively engaged with the epistemic shifts of the sixteenth century, including new forms of knowledge construction, based in empiricism, and knowledge circulation, based in printing. These surgeons have long been overshadowed by the innovative work of anatomists and botanists but were participants in the same intellectual currents reshaping many aspects of knowledge. Active in communities across both Castile and Aragon, learned surgeons formed an intellectualTable of Contents0. Introduction 1. Physicians and Surgeons: Medical Learning and Licensing 2. Spanish Learned Surgeons: A Broad and Connected Movement 3. Sharing Knowledge: Learned Surgical Texts 4. Refining Knowledge and Practice: Empiricism, Tradition, and Innovation 5. Expanding Expertise: New Problems and New Treatments 6. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis A Social History of Amateur MusicMaking and
Book SynopsisLate Victorian Scotland had a flourishing music publishing trade, evidenced by the survival of a plethora of vocal scores and dance tune books; and whether informing us what people actually sang and played at home, danced to, or enjoyed in choirs, or reminding us of the impact of emigration from Britain for both emigrants and their families left behind, examining this neglected repertoire provides an insight into Scottish musical culture and is a valuable addition to the broader social history of Scotland.The decline of the music trade by the mid-twentieth century is attributable to various factors, some external, but others due to the conservative and perhaps somewhat parochial nature of the publishersâ output. What survives bears witness to the importance of domestic and amateur music-making in ordinary lives between 1880 and 1950. Much of the music is now little more than a historical artefact. Nonetheless, Karen E. McAulay shows that the nature of the music, the song and
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