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Taylor & Francis Ltd European Borderlands
Book SynopsisThe expectations of European planners for the gradual disappearance of national borders, and the corresponding prognoses of social scientists, have turned out to be over-optimistic. Borders have not disappeared not even in a unified and predominantly peaceful Europe but rather they have changed, become more varied and, in a certain sense, mobile, taking on an important role in the everyday lives of more people than ever before. Furthermore, it is now widely accepted that borders do not just hinder communication and the formation of relationships, but also channel and prefigure them in a positive way. Presenting a number of studies of everyday life in European borderlands, this book addresses the multifarious and complex ways in which borders function as both barriers and bridges. Focusing on established' Western European borderlands with the exception of three contrasting cases the book attempts a turn from conflict to harmony in the study of borderlands and thus examines the moTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living in European BorderlandsPart I. Border Crossings and Border Politics1. A Routine-Based Model of Everyday Mobility in Border Regions2. Dybbøl 2014 – Constructing Familiarity by Remembrance?3. Cross-Border Urbanism on the German-Polish Border – Between Spatial De-Boundarization and Social (Re-)FrontierizationPart II. Communities, Relationships and Identities in Borderlands4. What Makes a Place – Traces of the Border in Rural Villages Affected by Cross-Border Residential Migration5. Crossing Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries? Observations on the German and French Workforce in the Spa Town of Baden-Baden, c. 1840–18706. Crossing Borders – Politico-Geographical and Mental Borders in Contemporary German-Language Literature in Belgium7. The Impact of Commuting on Close Relations – Case Study of Estonian Men in Finland Part III. Living Across the Border8. Residential Cross-Border Mobility of People Working in Luxembourg – Developments and Impacts9. Dwelling in (Un)Familiarity – Examples from the Luxembourg-German Borderland10. The Residential and Symbolic Dimensions of Cross-Border Mobility – Looking at Members of the French Middle Class in the Agglomeration of Lille11. Asymmetries in the Formation of the Transnational Borderland in the Slovak-Hungarian Border Region
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Taylor & Francis Witchcraft The Basics
Book SynopsisWitchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world. Through the use of two case studies, this book delves into the emergence of the witch as a harmful figure within western thought and traces the representation of witchcraft throughout history, analysing the roles of culture, religion, politics, gender and more in the evolution and enduring role of witchcraft. Key topics discussed within the book include: The role of language in creating and shaping the concept of witchcraft The laws and treatises written against witchcraft The representation of witchcraft in early modern literature The representation of witchcraft in recent literature, TV and film Scholarly approaches tTrade Review'Marion Gibson is one of the nation's finest scholars of the literature of witchcraft, in the broadest sense, and this book represents a crown to the decades of research and authorship which have won her that distinction. Like all she has done before, it is original, accessible, and has a wonderfully wide sweep.' Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol, UK 'Marion Gibson offers an outstanding introduction to witchcraft and to the texts that have created and shaped our understanding of witchcraft over time. She deftly unpacks early modern demonologies and trial records, as well as plays and poetry, providing expert guidance on how to read these sources and decipher the depictions of witchcraft they convey. She also examines trends in modern scholarship and in modern popular culture that have shaped and reshaped the notion of what a witch could be. This book offers a truly interdisciplinary blend of history, literature, and cultural studies.' Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University, USA "This is an excellent introduction to witchcraft studies." Dawn Hutchinson, Christopher Newport University Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter One The early modern context: a case study of early modern Britain; Chapter Two The seventeenth and early eighteenth century context: America as the major case study; Chapter Three Witchcraft in early modern literature: "the witchcraft renaissance"; Chapter Four Witchcraft Studies; Chapter Five Witchcraft Today: Religious Redefinitions; Chapter Six Reinventing the good witch; Further Study Reading List; Index
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Cambridge University Press AAS Level History for AQA The Wars of the Roses
Book SynopsisA new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the AQA 2015 A/AS Level History.Table of ContentsPart 1. The Fall of the House of Lancaster, 1450-1471; 1. The Origins of Conflict,1450-1459; 2. The War of the Barons, 1459-1461; 3. The Triumph of the Yorkists, 1461-1471; Part 2. The Fall of the House of York, 1471-1499; 4. 'The Sun in Splendour': The Reign of Edward IV, 1471-1483; 5. The Downfall of the Yorkist Monarchy, 1483-1486; 6. The end of the Yorkist Dynasty, 1486-1499.
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning
Book SynopsisThis accessible textbook examines political, social, and cultural developments in the Soviet Union - from the revolution, through the years of the New Economic Policies, and into the Stalinist order and the post-Soviet period. The third edition includes substantial new material, discussing the challenges Russia faces in the era of Putin.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The revolution, 1917–21; 3. New Economic Policies, 1921–9; 4. The first five-year plan; 5. High Stalinism; 6. A great and patriotic war; 7. The nadir: 1945–53; 8. The age of Khrushchev; 9. Real, existing socialism; 10. Failed reforms; 11. Leap into the unknown; 12. Illiberal democracy; 13. Putin returns.
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Cambridge University Press Procopius of Caesarea The Persian Wars
Book SynopsisThe first stand-alone English translation of the Persian Wars, a work that not only describes the wars between Byzantium and Sasanian Persia, but also provides a detailed account of the Nika riot that nearly unseated Justinian and the first outbreak of bubonic plague in Constantinople.
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Liveright Publishing Corporation Mr. Churchill in the White House
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sexuality in Modern German History
Book SynopsisA History of Sexuality in Modern Germany offers both a detailed survey of this key subject and a new intervention in the history of sexuality in modern Germany. It investigates the diverse and often contradictory ways in which individuals, activists, doctors, politicians, artists, social movements and cultural commentators have defined normal' or natural' sexuality in Germany over the past two centuries. Katie Sutton explores how these definitions have been used to shape identities, behaviors, bodies and practices, particularly around norms of heterosexual, marital, reproductive sex. At the same time, she examines how such ideas enabled the policing of unnatural' or deviant' bodies and practices. Covering a range of crucial themes, including birth control, prostitution, homosexual rights and heterosexual intimacy, this important text comes with 30 illustrations, a useful glossary and interesting biographical vignettes which help to illuminate the narrative. Primary source extracTrade ReviewThis fascinating, authoritative study places topical debates into historical context, revealing the multifaceted nature of modernities and the shifting, heterogeneous nature of past sexualities and the moral norms that shaped them. Foregrounding questions of conformity and resistance, the book sheds light on the hotly-contested debates over gender and sexual identities that confront contemporary scholars. * Ingrid Sharp, Professor of German Cultural and Gender History, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. *Katie Sutton’s Sexuality in Modern German History deftly weaves the important topics in the history of modern sexuality—mariage, prostitution, homosexuality, and trans identities—with the turns in German history, from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. An invaluable resurce for beginning students as well as established scholars! * Robert Deam Tobin, Henry J Leir Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Clark University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction. Sexuality in Modern German History 1. Enlightening Intimacy: From Reformation to Unification 2. Sexual Modernity and Nationhood: 1871-1918 3. Babylon Berlin? Liberation, Violence and Politics in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 4. Pronatalism to Persecution: Sex in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 5. Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Divided Germanies 6. Sexual Evolutions and Revolutions: From Rock’n’Roll to Gay Liberation Conclusion. Political Transitions and Intimate Transformations since the Berlin Wall Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of
Book SynopsisPicturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war -- genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) -- the book examines the origins, history and legacy of violent images. Notably, this book pays special attention to the politics of the atrocity photograph. It explores how images were strategically and selectively mobilized at different times, and by different memory communities and stakeholders, to do different things: justify retribution against political opponents in the immediate aftermath of the war, sustain the discourses of national unity on which socialist Yugoslavia was founded, or, in the post-Trade ReviewThis thoughtful and persuasively argued book explores images of Ustasha atrocities to shed light not only on Yugoslavia’s troubled and divided visual memory but also on the broader social and cultural history of the socialist country and its post-socialist successors. Byford’s thought-provoking and nuanced analysis of these graphic photographs and their many uses opens an unexpected window onto some of the most important moments, transitions and conflicts in Yugoslav history. * Ana Antic, Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia is a theoretically-sophisticated and painstakingly-researched book. It debunks several major mythologies about the postwar memory of genocidal Ustasha violence during World War II. Byford approaches the history of atrocity photography in Yugoslavia and its successor states with strong ethical commitments and razor-sharp analysis, and illuminates the questions of production and consumption of atrocity photography in changing historical contexts more generally. * Emil Kerenji, Applied Research Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Picturing Genocide 2. Evidencing ‘Unprecedented Savagery’: Atrocity Photographs in Occupied Yugoslavia 3. ‘Gather Photographs!’: The Birth of the Visual Memory of Ustasha Violence 4. Why Look at Fascism? Visual Propaganda and Revolutionary Justice in Post-war Yugoslavia 5. Ustasha Violence through the Prism of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’: The Dilemmas of Visual Memory in Socialist Yugoslavia 6. ‘The Dead Open the Eyes of the Living’: Atrocity Images after Tito 7. Mobilising Images: Visual Memory of the Second World War and the Yugoslav Conflict of the 1990s Conclusion: Atrocity Photographs beyond Idolatry and Oblivion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Life in Revolutionary France
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as:* Political identities and activism * Gender, race, and sexuality* Transatlantic responses to war and revolution * Local and workplace surveillance and transparency * Prison communities and culture* Food, health, and radical medicine * Revolutionary childhoodsWith an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, Life in RevoluTrade Review[A]n outstanding, often brilliant, collection which deserves recognition and frequent consultation for its refreshing insights into the myriad worlds of revolutionary experience. * French Studies *I have never seen such an edited volume before. Every chapter offers original scholarship and new methodological approaches, which could help any student of history read their sources with fresh eyes. This book not only teaches social and cultural history but also instructs students how to become better historians. I can offer no greater praise than the fact that I am excited to use this book in my French Revolution classes, and it also helped me to reframe my own research projects. * H-France Review *With this engaging collection, Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer take distance from notions of the French Revolution as an engine of abstract change to explore how that event shaped individual lives and to examine how seemingly private choices intersected with broad social, political, and cultural movements. * Canadian Journal of History *Life in Revolutionary France revivifies the social history of the French revolution. Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer’s fine team of experienced and emergent scholars offer bright, insightful coverage of topics that range from religion to revolutionary justice, from prisons to prostitution, from émigrés to Caribbean slaves, from armies to waxworks, from crime to diet - and much besides. * Colin Jones, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Ranging from peasant resisters and Caribbean prisoners of war to prostitutes and the orphaned children of executed revolutionary leaders, this remarkably original collection opens dramatic new perspectives on the French Revolution. The ordinary is shown to be extraordinarily fascinating when lives are transformed by dramatic events. Anyone interested in the meaning of revolution will want to read these essays. * Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor of History, UCLA, USA *The anthology is therefore an overall highly readable, inspiring and important contribution to the research debate. * Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday, Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Part I. Revolutionary Identities and Spaces 1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the French Revolution, Jill Maciak Walshaw Source: Trial of Thomas Bordas, a weaver from Segonzac, department of the Dordogne, accused of having publicly stated that he wanted to be governed by a king. 28 pluviôse–12 prairial year IV (February 17, 1796–May 31, 1796) 2. Mapping Women’s Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille, Laura Talamante Source: Deliberation of the Dames Citoyennes from the Saint-Martin District, no. 7, 7 July 1790 3. Emigration, Landlords, and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris, Hannah Callaway Source: Overview of Rentals in the Boulainvilliers Market on 24 Fructidor VI (September 10, 1798) 4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army, Warfare, and the Revolutionary Experience, Christopher Tozzi Source (a): “It should come as no surprise if I want to make a Jew into a soldier.” Speech by the Abbé Henri Grégoire at the National Assembly, 23 December 1789 Source (b): From the Petition of the Jews Established in France addressed to the National Assembly, 28 January 1790 5. Race, Freedom, and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain, Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Source: Undated Report on the State of the Prisons and Hospitals of Portchester and Forton (likely from the end of 1796), TNA (The National Archives) ADM 105/44 Part II. The Right To? – Revolutionary Justice at Work 6. Crime, Law, and Justice, Claire Cage Source: Penal Code of 25 September 1791 7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac, Ralph Kingston Source: Defense Statement by Citizen Bonnet, former employee of the [French Ministry of] External Relations. Written after his termination for theft on 7 Fructidor VIII (August 25, 1800) 8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris, Clyde Plumauzille Source: Letters by a Woman arrested for Prostitution under the “Terror” 9. Doctors, Radicalism, and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution, Sean M. Quinlan Source: The French Doctor and Legislator François Lanthenas on Freedom, Health and Hygiene: De l’influence de la liberté sur la santé (1792) Part III. Revolutionary Experience, Practices, Sensations 10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution, E. C. Spary Source: Anon., “L’Hydre aristocratique,” Paris, 1789 11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World, Ashli White Source: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), December 25, 1795, page 3: This Evening – Advert for Bowen’s Museum 12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution, Jonathan Smyth Source: Extract from Robespierre’s Speech on Freedom of Worship, made at the Jacobin Club, Paris on November 21, 1793 (1 Frimaire Year 2 of the Revolution) 13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison, Sophie Matthiesson Source: Hubert Robert (1733–1808), Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) as he prepares to be transferred from Sainte-Pélagie to Saint-Lazare, 1794 14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress, Siân Reynolds Source: The Families of Revolutionaries Recommended Readings Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Russian Populism
Book SynopsisRussian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia''s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideology in modern Russia to date.Christopher Ely explores the complete story of Russian populism. Starting from the cursed question of how to reconnect the popular masses with the Europeanized elite, he examines the populist obsession with the peasant commune as a model for a future socialist Russia. He shows how the desire for revolution led Russian radicals to flood into the countryside and later to pioneer terrorism as a form of political action. He delves into those artists influenced by populist ideals, and he tells the story of the collapse oTrade ReviewDr Ely has written a book, accessible to students, on the populist movement among educated Russians after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. He explains how populists understood the newly-freed peasantry, how they imagined the peasants could be incorporated into the rest of society, and their hopes for a progressive future for Russia. The book ranges from terrorism to populist-inspired literature, art and music. Tracing the movement’s origins before 1861, examining its theory and practice, its legacy in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, and making astute comparisons with American populism, the author breathes new life into the topic. * David Moon, Emeritus Professor, University of York, UK *Taken as a whole, this book has two features unusual in a work introduced as “a survey for the use of students and those unfamiliar with the history of Imperial Russia”. First, it is original. … It is still the first attempt known to me to write a cultural history of Russian populism—the first attempt to consider the great Russian writers and artists as part of the history, which also includes the going-to-the-people movement and Narodnaya Volya. The second striking feature of this book is its sensitivity to the complexity of the subject. Simplification is the common coin of textbook writing, and the history of Russian populism is a topic that would seem to require simplification at numerous points. But somehow Ely has managed to produce a history of Russian populism that conveys a sense of the difficulties of the topic—the complexity of motives and arguments and the narrative twists and turns—and still remains clear and compelling. This is a most impressive book. * H-Net *Russian populism has long needed reexamination, and Christopher Ely brings new research and fresh insights to the task. Moving beyond the traditional definition of populism solely as a form of revolutionary ideology, Ely approaches it as a cultural phenomenon extending throughout the political spectrum and manifested in all forms of creative expression. His account is a rich but concise intellectual and cultural history addressing critical issues driving intellectual debates and political struggles in late Imperial Russia. With its clear and accessible style, the book provides a valuable synthesis for students while offering scholars a compelling perspective on a topic that has often proven elusive. * Nathaniel Knight, Professor of History, Seton Hall University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Toward a Definition of Russian Populism 1. Origins 2. Foundations 3. Populism in Theory 4. Populism in Action 5. Reverberations and Regrets 6. Neo-Populism in a Revolutionary Epoch Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Foreign Political Press in NineteenthCentury
Book SynopsisIn a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion, this book offers a rare long-term specialist perspective into the cosmopolitan and multilingual world of the foreign political press in London, with an emphasis on periodicals published in European languages. It furthers current research into political exile, the role of print culture and personal networks as intercultural agents and the dynamics of transnational political and cultural exchange in global capitals. Individual chapters deal with Brazilian, French, German, Indian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish American, and Russian periodicals. Overarching themes include a historical survey of foreign political groups present in London throughout the long 19th century and the cTrade Review[A] must-read for anybody with a taste for the Victorian press, Victorian politics, cosmopolitanism, and immigration in late nineteenth-century London. It resolutely convinces readers that the foreign political press is a fully fledged part of the British press. * History: Reviews of New Books *[The] potential benefits of this work for any number of audiences are myriad. Its chapters can easily be incorporated into numerous college courses on journalism, anticolonial or revolutionary studies, or the history of nineteenth-century radicalism, to name a few … Bantman’s and da Silva’s volume will likely, and certainly should, stand as a model contribution for the discipline. * JHistory *[A] fascinating book ... Ultimately, the reader is impressed with the volume’s overall sense of topicality, not only, as Bantman suggests, concerning London and multiculturalism, nor with the wider concept of transnational print culture, but with a more radical questioning of the role and responsibility of the press in the development of extremist international politics. * Journal of European Periodical Studies *Provides a wide and viable foundation for future research, thereby fulfilling its stated goals by delivering a valuable collection of studies. * Anarchist Studies *This is an important contribution to print history as well as transnational and migration studies. Its perceptive and revelatory essays break new ground, opening up areas of press activity hitherto downplayed, ignored or unknown. While authoritative, the volume will no doubt inspire a great deal more work in this area. This is a significant book that deserves to be widely read. * Andrew King, Professor of English Literature and Literary Studies, University of Greenwich, UK *This is an invaluable, scholarly, and original book. By exploring the work of many European, Russian, and Indian activists and journalists who were based in London and published newspapers there during the long 19th century, the contributors cast light on the politics of exile and empire, the shifting meanings of liberalism and protest, the uses of print and language, and the transmission of information across national and continental boundaries. * Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *A highly significant contribution to the field of Victorian periodical studies. Through case-studies, the contributors present a thorough analysis of the print cultures of many foreign national groups in 19th-century London. This is the first endeavour to consider the foreign political press in Britain globally, and it is set to encourage fruitful discussions and enrich the historiography of the transnational press. * Stéphanie Prévost, Senior Lecturer in 19th-Century British History, Paris Diderot University, France *A solid collection that provides the reader with a detailed geography of the Victorian London publishing world and sheds some light on aspects hitherto neglected. * European Review of History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Local and Transnational Contexts, Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 1: Newsprint Nations: Spanish American Publishing in London, 1808-1827, Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada) Chapter 2: Cultural Identity and Political Dissidence in the Spanish Periodicals in London, Daniel Munoz-Sempere (King's College London, UK) Chapter 3: Hipólito da Costa, o Correio Braziliense and the Dissemination of the Enlightenment in Brazil, Isabel Lustosa (Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janiero) and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (University College London, UK) Chapter 4: The Press as a Reflection of the Divisions among the Portuguese Political Exiles (1808-1832), Daniel Alves (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) and Paulo Jorge Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Chapter 5: From Republicanism to Anarchism: 50 Years of French Exilic Newspaper Publishing, Thomas C. Jones, University of Buckingham, UK) and Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 6: The Italian Anarchist Press in London: A Lens for Investigating a Transnational Movement, Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln, UK) Chapter 7: Political Contestation and Internal Strife: Socialist and Anarchist German Newspapers in London, 1878–1910, Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 8: News of the Struggle: the Russian Political Press in London 1853-1921, Charlotte Alston (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 9 : The Indian Nationalist Press in London, 1865-1914, Ole Birk Laursen (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Appendix: Biographies of Journalists Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisUnder the Swastika in Nazi Germany begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat in 1945. Kristin Semmens tells that story from five different perspectives over five chronologically distinct phases in the Third Reich's lifespan. The book offers a much-needed integrated history of insiders and outsiders Nazis, accomplices, supporters, racial and social outsiders and resisters that captures the complexity of Germans' lives under Hitler. Incorporating recent research and the voices of those who often remain silent in histories of this period, Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany delivers an up to date, engaging and accessible introduction. Its narrative is further supported by well-chosen images, some familiar and others rarely seen. By revealing the potent combination of coercion and consent at work during the dictatorship, the book allows a deeper understanding of Nazi Germany and provides a vital platform for further inquiryTrade ReviewWide-ranging, clearly written, well structured and conceptually innovative, Kristin Semmens' survey of life and death in Nazi Germany is a masterpiece of compression, comprehensive in its coverage and taking in the most recent research. I can think of no better introduction to the subject. * Sir Richard J Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cambridge, UK *Kristin Semmens deepens our understanding of the remarkably varied German responses to Nazi violence and expansionism. * Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, University of Akron, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Series Editors’ Preface Preface Acknowledgements Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: The Nazi Rise to Power 1 Beginnings (1933–1935) 2 The ‘Good Old Days’ (1936–1937) 3 Victory and Persecution (1938–1940) 4 Descent (1941–1943) 5 The End (1944–1945) Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Nazi Germany Notes Selected Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic
Book SynopsisIn 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved. Now, eighty years after its first publication, this exceptional eyewitness account of the war is republished with a new introduction by acclaimed scholar Paul Preston.The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic is a unique account of Spanish politics throughout the Second Republic, from its foundation of 14 April 1931 to its defeat at the end of March 1939. It combines personal recollections of meetings with the great politicians of the day and intimate accounts of dramatic events with a deep understanding of Spain its people, politics and culture. Providing a fascinating portrait of a crucial decade of contemporary Spanish history and based on an abundance of the witneTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Humane Observer: Henry Buckley, Paul Preston (London School of Economics, UK) Foreword 1. The Spain I Found 2. Death of a Dictator 3. Jaca: A Successful Failure 4. Curtain to a Régime 5. A Republic is Born 6. The King’s Record 7. Trouble in the Republic 8. Words – not Deeds 9. A Middle-Class Republic 10. August Fireworks 11. Bad Days for the Republic 12. Vatican Policy in Spain 13. Lerroux in Charge 14. Semana Santa 15. Juan March 16. The Storm-Clouds Gather 17. To Save the Republic 18. No Dictatorship 19. The Republic Marks Times 20. Azaña has the Answer 21. Victory 22. Adrift After Victory 23. Personal Reactions 24. The Explosion 25. Off to the Front 26. Moors in Castile 27. Franco Advances from the South 28. Toledo in Peace and War 29. The Telephone Building 30. Madrid is Saved 31. A Count in Gaol 32. Attempts to Surround Madrid 33. The Battle of Guadalajara 34. New Tactics 35. Coronation Interlude 36. Admiral Raeder Shells Almeria 37. In Caux-sur-Montreux 38. Prieto as War Minister 39. Teruel for the Republic 40. Franco wins the Battle of Aragon 41. Enrique Lister 42. On Valencia, Journalism and Other Matters 43. The Toll of Human Suffering 44. Dr Juan Negrin 45. A Closed Frontier and a Crumbling Front 46. Parliament in a Dungeon 47. The End of a Republic Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War
Book SynopsisIn examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.Trade ReviewEngaging with cutting-edge social theory and illustrating [the book's] arguments with examples from Hungary and Lithuania. * The Russian Review *Memory Politics succeeds in being both accessible and authoritative: it can be read with interest by specialists and by advanced undergraduates. It traces the political debates during the Soviet, Yeltsin, and Putin eras around the legacy of the “Whites,” who defended Tsarism during the Russian Civil War (1918–21). * CHOICE *The book is very compact and provides a lively and informative overview of memory politics in contemporary Russia, focusing mostly on the period between the late 1980s and 2017. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *What an enlightening and compelling book! Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War proffers a compelling and uniquely rich tapestry of politicized memory that WEAVES together past and present, secular and religious, left and right, in a mix of vibrant narratives that continue to inform the ideological struggle for the “Russian soul” driving the Russian body politic under Putin. * Nina Tumarkin, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Harvard University, USA *Powerful, rich and timely book exploring the collective memory (and political uses and abuses thereof) of one of the most conflicted pages in Russian history – Russian civil war. Laruelle and Karnysheva give us one more key to understanding contemporary Russian identity through the lens of Russia's uneasy relations with its own past. * Elena Morenkova Perrier, Independent Scholar, France *Laruelle and Karnysheva’s study of the reception of the White movement in Russia today is a timely and important contribution on post-Soviet memory politics. In exploring inter-connected and sometimes competing varieties of ‘memory activism’ amongst both state and non-state actors, the authors highlight significant debates concerning conservatism, nationalism and Russian identity. * George Gilbert, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, University of Southampton, UK *This book is much broader than the title suggests. Through the prism of debates over the rehabilitation of major figures once vilified by the Soviet regime, it provides a handy guide and introduction to the knotty problem of defining Russian patriotism today. Compact and lively, it will be of interest to anyone interested in contemporary Russia and will make an excellent text for the classroom. * Eric Lohr, Professor and Carmel Chair of Russian History and Culture History, American University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Images Introduction 1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics 2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic? 3. The Church’s Conquest of the Memory Market 4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime’s Ideology? 5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past Conclusion Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A Short History of the Reformation
Book SynopsisHelen L. Parish is Professor of History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2015), Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hitlers Mein Kampf and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisFor decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time, Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated international scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler's venomous attack on the Jews in his text. Split into three main sections which focus on contexts', eugenics' and religion', the book reflects carefully on the point at which the Fuhrer's actions and policies turn genocidal during the Third Reich and whether Mein Kampf presaged Nazi Germany's descent into genocide. There are contributions from leading academics from across the United States and Germany, including Magnus Brechtken, Susannah Heschel and Nathan Stoltzfus, along with totally new insights into the source material in light of the 2016 German critical edition of Mein Kampf. HiTrade ReviewWith in-depth studies of Mein Kampf as a genre (an anti-Semitic Bildungsroman), analyses of its context, esthetics, and its religious overtones, this collection of essays illuminates the most lethal and darkest of books. The close readings of Hitler's language of crusade against the enemy and of his prophetic and apocalyptic discourse show how his breviary of hate led to the Holocaust, and how rhetorical violence can become a pathway to mass murder. * Clemence Boulouque, Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor in Jewish and Israel studies, Columbia University, USA *Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust is a very important anthology about one of the most influential books in modern world history, written by Adolf Hitler in 1923/24 during his imprisonment in the small Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech. After its first appearance in 1925 it was destined to unfold its fatal effect as an ideological manifest of National Socialism. The anthology sheds light on key aspects of the complex history of the impact of Mein Kampf and represents a standard work on this subject. * Stefan Paulus, Research Associate in Faculty of Philology and History, Augsburg University, Germany *Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword, Timothy Ryback Introduction Part I. The Mise en scène of Mein Kampf, 1924-2016 1. Focus Landsberg: A Bavarian Town and its History Tied to Hitler, Karla Schoenebeck (Independent Scholar, Germany) 2. Mein Kampf: Part of the Right-Winged German Post-War Literature, Othmar Ploeckinger (Brandeis University, USA) 3. Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective, Magnus Brechtken (Institute of Contemporary History, Germany) Part II. Maintaining Power 4. Hitler, Leadership and The Holocaust, Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) 5. Violence in Mein Kampf: Tactic and Political Communication, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) and Ryan Stackhouse (Independent Scholar, USA) Part III. Eugenics and Aesthetics in Mein Kampf 6. Blood, Race and the Holocaust, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA) 7. Degeneracy: Attack on Modern Art and Music, Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Boston College, USA) and Barbara S. Gawlick (Boston College, USA) Part IV. Mein Kampf and the Crusade against Germany’s ‘Enemies’ 8. The Auroras of the Final Solution: Intimations of Genocide in Mein Kampf, Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA) 9. Pathway to the Shoah: The Protocols, ‘Jewish Bolshevism’, Rosenberg, Goebbels, Ford, and Hitler, David Crowe (Chapman University, USA) 10. Marxism: Enemy of the People in the Political Party and Military System, Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA) 11. Being Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf as Anti-Semitic Bildungsroman, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College, USA) Part V. Religious Overtones in Mein Kampf 12. Mein Kampf: Catholic Authority and the Holocaust, Martin Menke (Rivier University, USA) 13. The Apocalypse of Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf and the Eschatological Origins of the Holocaust, David Redles (Cuyahoga Community College, USA) Part VI. Epilogue 14. Holocaust Education and (Early) Signs of the Erosion of Democracy, Tetyana Kloubert (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany) Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
£20.89
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC West Germany
Book SynopsisJulia Sneeringer's book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany's division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political and economic moments, it illuminates how West Germans experienced social, economic, and cultural change across four decades.Chronologically structured and supplemented with timelines, each chapter in the book presents the major themes, events and developments occurring during the period. A focused bibliography is also included to offer guidance on further reading. Among the notable topics covered are: The redefining of German identity after Nazism Democratization The explosion of consumer culture The protest movements of 1968 Changing gender and sexual roles Immigration and multiculturalism Pop culture Environmentalism
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Women Defying Hitler
Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices beinTrade ReviewWomen Defying Hitler is a thorough volume that tackles the historiographical imbalance against women’s rescue activities and provides guidance for how we can remember these sacrifices and apply them to the modern day. * Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire *A major contribution to Holocaust studies, Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis brings together leading international scholars to illuminate the myriad of different roles played by women in resisting Nazism. It will be invaluable for scholars and essential reading for anyone interested in war, women’s history, and the increasingly important field of feminist studies of the Holocaust. * Zoe Waxman, Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford, UK *Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis is essential reading for anyone interested in women and women's studies, Jewish history, the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany. While many contributions provide new perspectives on prominent incidents of resistance such as the "Red Orchestra" or the Rosenstrasse protests in Berlin, many hitherto little-known women's groups and individual heroes in a variety of countries are also covered. Moreover, this volume is important not just for the rich empirical detail, but also for advancing theories regarding what constitutes resistance, what is unique about women's agency in such a context, and the complicated ways that women (and men) tried to push back and delegitimize a genocidal regime. Finally, the integration of several survivors' and descendants' testimonies adds to the import of this cutting-edge collection. * Eric Langenbacher, Teaching Professor of Government, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword, David Gill (New York German Consul-General, USA) Women Defying Hitler: An Introduction, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) and Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 1. Cumulative Radicalization: Intermarriage under Hitler and Remembrance, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 2. Whoever Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World: The Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 3. Resisting Obliteration: Learning about the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women during the Holocaust Judy Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University and the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Israel) 4. Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class and Generation, Volker Berghahn (Columbia University, USA) 5. The Women's Protest on Rosenstrasse between Commemoration, Idealization and Debate, Susanne Heim (Freiburg University, Germany) 6. Rescue through Intervention in the Nazi Decision Making Process: Protest in Goebbel's Berlin, Nathan Stoltzfus and Chris Osmar (both Florida State University, USA) 7. Gariwo's Philosophy: Educate to Optimism and Responsibility through the Memory of the Righteous, Gabriele Nissim (Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Organization (GARIWO), Italy) 8. Women and Resistance: New Perspectives on Germany and France, Anne Nelson (Columbia University, USA) 9. Jewish Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecia Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 10. Is Food Protest Political? Women's Demonstrations in Occupied France, Paula Schwartz (Middlebury College, USA) 11. Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an Excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives -- A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945, Ruth Wiseman (Rita Kuhn's daughter) 12. The Mischlinge Expose: Stories of Assimilation and Conversation, Carolyn Enger (descendant of an intermarried couple Epilogue, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) Appendix Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC To Lose an Empire
Book SynopsisBringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War of American Independence, Jeremy Black shows that this rests on a misleading understanding of the relationship between policy and strategy. Encompassing both the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence and grounded in archival research, this book considers a violent and contentious period which was crucial to the making of modern Britain and its role in the wider world. Offering a reinterpretation of British strategy and foreign policy throughout this time, To Lose an Empire interweaves British domestic policy with diplomatic and colonial developments to show the impact this period and its evTrade ReviewIt is refreshing, therefore, when a scholar seeks to break out of standardised chronological frameworks. Jeremy Black does so in To Lose an Empire ... It is ... a highly welcome addition to the corpus of literature on eighteenth-century international history. * Diplomacy & Statecraft *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Means of Policy 2. The Context of Debate 3. To Win America, 1758-60 4. Winning a Peace, 1761-3 5. A Post-war Order? 1763-70 6. Muddling Through? 1771-4 7. Strategies under Pressure, 1775-8 8. Strategies Collapse, 1778-82 9. Picking up the Pieces, 1783-1790 10. Conclusions Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Liberty in Their Names
Book SynopsisTelling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality and social justice, before the French Revolution. As they became engaged in its efforts, their political writing became more urgent. At a time when women could neither vote nor speak at the Assembly, they became influential through their writings. Yet instead of Gouges, Grouchy and Roland, we speak of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot. Sandrine Bergès examines the lives and writings of these trailblazing women philosophers, and their impact on philosophical thought during the French Revolution. Featuring pictures, a timeline and a bibliography of their works, this book offers exciting new insights into the history of political philosophy and of the French Revolution.Trade ReviewImaginative, instructive, and engaging, Liberty in their names lifts Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Jeanne Roland and Sophie de Grouchy from under the historical carpet where they were swept despite their significant contributions to the social and political thought of the French Revolution. * Sylvana Tomaselli, Sir Harry Hinsley Lecturer in History, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK *This brilliant book fills an important need, shedding light on the female philosophers of the Revolutionary period in France. Bergès sets the women in historical context while also exploring the brilliance of their ideas. An essential read that addresses a true gap in the history of ideas and women’s history. * Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of English, Endicott College, USA *Shedding light on less-familiar philosophers and their influence, this book is well worth the read and accessible to anyone interested in issues during this time in history. A valuable resource for those interested in philosophy, history, women’s studies, and literature. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Timeline of the French Revolution Glossary of People and Places 1. Women in the Revolution 2. The Women and the Prisons: A Walk-Through 18th-Century Paris 3. Awakening to Injustice: The Formative Years of Gouges, Roland and Grouchy 4. Making her own Way: Olympe de Gouges 5. Speaking for Herself: Marie-Jeanne Roland 6. Working Together: Sophie de Grouchy 7. The Women on the Other Side of the Channel 8. The American Dream: From Republican model to Asylum of Freedom 9. The Abolitionist Movement and the Revolution 10. Women in the City Epilogue: Writing out the Women: Sophie de Grouchy After the Terror A Revolutionary Bookshelf Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reconciliation and Resistance in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia. It uses the eventful career of Hernando de Baeza an interpreter, intermediary, and author positioned at the intersection of the so-called three cultures' of medieval Iberia (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) as a thread to connect the conflicts, controversies and preoccupations of an age in which Christianising the whole world seemed an attainable dream. Teresa Tinsley draws on a wealth of extensive archival evidence, together with Baeza's own memoir on the downfall of Muslim Granada (translated here for the first time), to demonstrate the widespread resistance to the authoritarian and exclusionary Christianity which would come to be associated with Spain, the Inquisition, and the Catholic Monarchs of the period. In the process, Tinsley provides a nuanced alternative account of the tensions, compromises and competing interests which underlay Spain's emergence as a world power.Trade ReviewThis volume is a sensitive and well-researched study of a foundational period in the history of early modern Spain. Through an analysis of the career and writings of Hernando de Baeza, it offers a fresh and nuanced perspective that brings to the fore questions of religious difference, inter-cultural contact, and good government. * Rosa Vidal Doval, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *A sensitive and revealing portrait of a deliberately elusive figure, who delicately negotiated a path through the thicket of religious antagonism and intolerance that marked the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs. Tinsley uncovers a cultured, well-connected, and cross-cultural character with converso origins who, while trusted by 'both sides'--Christian and Muslim--and personally known to Ferdinand and Isabella, subtly rejected ethnic binaries and the forced erasure of cultural identities, thus de-Othering both Muslims and Jews. * Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History, Hofstra University, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Alternative Eye on the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs 2. Cordoba, the Frontier, and the Inquisition, 1450-1487 3. Granada, 1488-1492 4. Learning and Culture among the Andalusian Élite - 1492-1510 5. The Spanish in Italy 6. Reconciliation and Resistance: A Society in Transition 7. A Dissident Representation of the Conquest of Granada Conclusion Appendix: Hernando de Baeza’s Memoir Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Fascism in Europe and Beyond
Book SynopsisFascism in Europe and Beyond examines fascism from its origins to the present. It begins in the fin-de-siècle era when the various ideas that eventually coalesced into fascism first emerged and concludes with the re-emergence of fascist ideas in recent times. Historiographical discussions, illustrations, biographical textboxes and maps are interwoven into the text, while a valuable collection of primary documents can be found at the end of the book to facilitate further study.Paul Baxa focuses primarily on European experiences in countries such as Germany, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, the UK, France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, but there is also significant coverage of imperial Japan and Cold War fascism in the shape of North American movements and leaders like Rockwell's American Nazi Party. Baxa even discusses The World Union of National Socialists and its attempt to build a universal fascist movement after the Second World War.The aims of the fascist movements, their social composition, and their actions are explored extensively in the book, while an emphasis is placed on the cult of personality' in driving fascism in its many manifestations. Baxa's underlying assertion that fascism is primarily a cultural movement a political cult in fact that relies on charismatic leaders who have been able to articulate and project the fantasies and desires of their followers provides a consistent position throughout, one that both enriches and enlivens the text itself and that offers a useful jumping-off point for classroom discussions.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Catherine the Great and the Culture of Celebrity
Book SynopsisThis highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful.In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agentsintriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and morethe 18th-century's media workerslaboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities.This book presents long neglected material evidence of tTrade ReviewRuth P. Dawson’s meticulously researched and copiously illustrated study of Catherine the Great as a pathbreaking modern female celebrity traces the emergence of stardom and fandom during the eighteenth century. It has implications for transnational history and politics, ideas of gender and sexuality, nascent feminism, imperial self-fashioning and branding, not to mention evolving international communications and the mediated, mutual interplay of lay and aristocratic culture in the period. It’s a fascinating examination of a famous but understudied figure at the center of Enlightenment European life and the popular imagination. * Alessa Johns, Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis, USA *Elegantly written, this is a brilliant book whose author has mastered her subject matter. Particularly fascinating is the expertise and critical care with which Ruth P. Dawson analyses the many different sources on which her narrative is based. It is not only this immense wealth of sources that is impressive. Time and again, one is also fascinated by what she can elicit from them. A genuine model of historical research! * Falko Schnicke, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Modern History and Contemporary History, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria *Table of ContentsList of Images 1. From Fame to Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century Part 1 - Celebrity Ingredients 2. Celebrity-Making Coup of 1762: The Crucial Role of Story 3. More Celebrity Ingredients: Scandal and Engrossing Coup Backstories 4. Media Workers and Their Commodities in Words and Images 5. Fans and Anti-fans for a Commodity Empress 6. The Star as Contributing Subject and Living Object Part 2 - Engaging Themes, Sustaining Celebrity 7. Woman Philosopher on the Throne 8. Consuming Catherine II: Gender and Wealth 9. Disconcerting Mother of Her Country: Gender and Power Again 10. Empress of the Other Part 3 - Transgressions Accruing and Secrets Revealed 11. Final Eight Years: Reassessment and Satirical Critique 12. Still Relishing the Failed Marriage, the Coup, and the Deadly Aftermath 13. The Lovers: Dabs of Fiction, Grains of Truth, Gobs of Scandal 14. Celebrity after Death Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Locating Queer Histories
Book SynopsisRanging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The History of Birobidzhan
Book SynopsisGennady Estraikh's book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the Jewish question', arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and entitlements in the Soviet world. Estraikh brings together a broad range of Russian and Yiddish sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles, travelogues, memoirs, belles-letters, and scholarly publications, as he describes and analyses the project and its realization not in isolation, but rather in the context of developments in both domestic and international life. As well as offering an assessment of the Birobidzhan project in the contexts of Soviet and Jewish history, the book also focuses on the contemporary Jewish' role of the region whiTrade ReviewThe Russian Shorts series by Bloomsbury Academic has been enriched with another title. To the list of such comprehensive works as a brief but extremely fact rich history of Birobidzhan, or the Jewish Autonomous Region within the Russian Federation has been added… Gennady Estraikh’s History of Birobidzhan presents a rich collection of diverse facts from various sources (some of which are rather hard to access), often capable of surprising even seasoned experts in the history of Soviet Jewry in general and Birobidzhan in particular, and pointing to new directions for potential research. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Infrastructure of Jewish Life 1. The Spectre of a Jewish Republic 2. Growing Pains 3. The Repression 4. The 1940s: New Hope 5. An Almost-Lost World of Jewish Life 6. A Propaganda Facade 7. Afterlife Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Sources of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive?This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. From the origins of Christian antisemitism and the creation of monstrous Others' to the immediate aftermath of these crimes against humanity and the rise of right-wing ideologies in the 21st century, this book is structured both chronologically and thematically in order to clearly explain the ideas that made the Holocaust possible, how people mounted resistance at the time, and the Holocaust's legacy today. On top of this unparalleled access to the voices of the Holocaust, Steve Hochstadt's authoritative and scholarly commentaries on each source ensures readers gain a comprehensive understaTrade ReviewSources of the Holocaust assembles a powerful record of the Holocaust’s long incubation and Nazi-led implementation in the 1930s and 1940s. Supporting commentaries on the language which normalized discrimination and manifested murder, the defiant responses of its victim groups, and postwar societal resonances, further embed the Holocaust’s centrality in European and global history. Highly recommended. * Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer, Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Steve Hochstadt has produced a highly useful collection of Holocaust-related documents. The sources assembled here provide broad chronological, geographical, and thematic coverage of the subject. Each document is accompanied by a brief and insightful commentary. I recommend this volume for any college-level course on the Holocaust. * Alan E. Steinweis, Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Context of Christian Antisemitism 1. Excerpts from the New Testament 2. Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096 during the First Crusade 3. Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543 4. Papal bull about Jews, ‘Cum nimis absurdum by Pope Paul IV, 14 July 1555 5. Excerpts from article ‘Jewish Morality’ in Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893 Part II. The Creation of Monsters in Germany: Jews and Others 6. Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January 1850 7. Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, ‘Our Views’, 1879 8. Excerpt from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920 9. Excerpts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 10. Court judgment in the murder of a Polish laborer by SA men on 10 August 1932 Part III. The Nazi Attack on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933–1938 11. Bavarian state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933 12. Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933 13. Minutes of a meeting about Jewish “attacks against the race”, 5 June 1934 14. Report of underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August 1935 15. Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German citizens, 15 September 1935 16. Form for Jehovah’s Witnesses to renounce their religious beliefs, 1936 17. Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders on homosexuality, 18 February 1937 18. Excerpts from the Nazi Party training manual for Hitler Youth, About the German People and its Living Space: Handbook for Training the Hitler Youth, 1938 19. Children’s story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938 20. Decree by Heinrich Himmler on “Combatting the Gypsy Plague”, 8 December 1938 Part IV. The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939 21. Memoir by Walter Grab about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938 22. Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938 23. Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938 24. Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938 25. British memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938 26. Report of Darmstadt SA on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938 27. Transcript of Nazi Party meeting led by Field Marshall Hermann Göring after Kristallnacht, 12 November 1938 28. Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees, 17 November 1938 29. Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht destruction, 26 November 1938 30. Instruction from Foreign Office on eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939 31. Instruction from US Secretary of State on preventing Jewish refugees from entering Shanghai, 18 February 1939 Part V. The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy, 1939-1943 32. Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning the‘concentration’ of Polish Jews, 21 September 1939 33. War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth about massacres of Polish civilians on 7–8 October 1939 34. Announcement that Jews in the Lódz region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939 35. Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of intellectually disabled people on 4 January 1940 36. Minutes of conference about deportation of Poles, Jews and Roma, 30 January 1940 37. Report of meeting of German mayors concerning murder of disabled people, 3 April 1940 38. Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940 39. Report of the murder of Jews by Lithuanians in Vilna by Grigorij Schur, June 1941 40. Table of money saved by murdering disabled people, 1941 41. Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Soviet Union, 2 October 1941 42. German Army orders on the ‘Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories’, 10 October 1941 43. Plan for ‘solution of the Jewish question’ by mass gassing, 25 October 1941 44. Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941 45. German Army report on shootings of Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia, 27–30 October 1941 46. Report on police battalion murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941 47. Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941 48. Minutes of the Wannsee Conference about the ‘final solution’, 20 January 1942 49. Report on use of trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942 50. Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June 1942 51. Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6 July 1942 52. Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation of Jews, 8 July 1942 53. Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against deportations in France, 26 August 1942 54. Report by Himmler to Hitler on mass murder of ‘partisans’ in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942 55. Gestapo report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943 56. Protest by Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March 1943 57. Order by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943 58. Speech by Himmler to SS-Gruppenführer in Posen, 4 October 1943 59. Postwar testimony about exhumation and cremation of corpses in 1943–44 60. Report by Odilo Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943 Part VI. 'Arbeit Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos 61. Normal murders at Buchenwald in 1941 62. Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of Lódz Jewish Council, 17 January 1942 63. Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto by Abba Kovner, 31 December 1941 64. Letter about feeding Soviet POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942 65. Order to Warsaw Jewish Council to organize deportation ‘to the East’, 22 July 1942 66. Diary of Oskar Singer in Lódz Ghetto, 27 July 1942 67. Diary of Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942 68. Report of SS Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942 69. SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943 70. Diary of Hanna Lévy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945 71. Mauthausen death list, 19 March 1945 72. Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March 1945 Part VII. Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps 73. Postwar deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942 74. Memoir by Filip Müller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942 75. Memoir by Irene Schwarz of Gestapo office work at Birkenau 76. Memoir by Shalom Kohn of the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943 77. Postwar statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 78. Report on Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 by escaped prisoners Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, April 1944 79. Letter by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944 80. Memoir by Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944 81. List of transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944 Part VIII. The Aftermath 82. London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes trial, 8 August 1945 83. Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at Nuremberg Trial, August 1946 84. West German law to compensate victims of persecution, 29 June 1956 85. Statement of Lutherans about Christians and Jews, July 1983 86. Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagan’s planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985 87. Resolution of the East German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990 Part IX. The Holocaust in Contemporary Life 88. Website about memorial Stolpersteine 89. Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998 90. Article ‘In Defense of Hitler’ in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May 2001 91. International Tribunal judgement against Radislav Krsti_ for Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001 92. Joint resolution of Maine legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002 93. Speech by Björn Höcke in Dresden, organized by the Youth Organization of the Alternative für Deutschland, 17 January 2017 Conclusion Sources Select Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Child Migrant Voices in Modern Britain
Book SynopsisAlmost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler's Europe in the 1930s to those escaping war in Ukraine in 2022. It follows the journeys of war-traumatised children from Mogadishu to Mile End and from Syria to a Scottish isle. Some followed their parents to the motherland' from the former British Empire. Others came independently to escape forced marriage or military conscription.These powerful testimonies shed light on children's motivations, trials and achievements, including in adult life, providing critical insight into how the British both individually and collectively have welcomed or shunned child migrants. Importantly, Eithne Nightingale links these stories with contemporary issues such as the Windrush Scandal and Britain's Illegal Migration Act 2023.Situated in its historical and political context, Child Migrant Voices in Modern BritTrade ReviewThis is a superb piece of committed scholarship weaving together, through oral history, a powerful range of child migrant voices from the 1930s through to the present day. When the British government is treating young asylum seekers and others with disdain, it is crucial to restore their humanity; Eithne Nightingale’s book does with care, subtlety and compassion * Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of History, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Researching Child Migration 1. “If Then, Why Not Now?”: Blanca Stern (nee Schreiber) and Necha (Natalie) Gluck (nee Dux) who arrived from Austria, aged 8 and 10 respectively, in 1938 2. No Man’s Land: Duncan Ross who arrived from India, aged eight, in 1956 3. Precious Cargo: Argun Imamzade who arrived from Cyprus, aged fourteen, in 1964 4. Following Mum to the ‘Motherland’: Richard Lue and Roberta who arrived, aged 7 and 8 respectively, from Jamaica in 1964 5. “I Much Prefer Roasted Rat”: Maurice Nwokeji who arrived, aged nine, from Nigeria, in 1970 6. The Battle of Brick Lane: Six young people who arrived from East Pakistan subsequently Bangladesh, aged eleven to sixteen, between 1969 and 1973 7. A Pakistani Scot with a Mid-Atlantic Drawl: Zohra who arrived from Pakistan in 1975 8. Out of her depth: Linh Vu who arrived, aged seven, from Vietnam in 1979 9. A Child Soldier Who Knew Too Much: Henry Bran who arrived, aged seventeen, from El Salvador in 1981 10. “Caught in a Flow of Water”: Eylem Binboga who arrived, aged twelve, from Turkey in 1987 11. Love of the Motherland: Ahmed Ali, originally from Somaliland, who arrived, aged eleven, via Djibouti in 2004; Said who arrived, aged sixteen, from Somalia in 2012 12: Girl Power – finding a talent and following a dream: Bilqis who arrived from Yemen in 2005 and Nimo, aged fifteen, who arrived from Somaliland, in 2009 13: Chapter 13: On Her Own: Mariam who arrived, aged sixteen, from Guinea in 2006 14: “Home is Where the Love Is”: Yosef, originally from Eritrea, who arrived aged sixteen, in 2011 15. Seeking Sanctuary on a Scottish Island Syrian children who arrived from Lebanon, aged six – sixteen, on the Isle of Bute, Scotland in 2015 16“We will win”: Mariia who arrived, aged thirteen, from Ukraine in 2022 Conclusion: “If I had a magic wand”: Final thoughts and insights
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Bloomsbury Academic The Roma and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisHalf a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar to that suffered by the Jewish people. However, the persecution and torment of Roma in Hitler''s Europe has little presence in the history books. The Roma and the Holocaust places the Roma genocide in the context of the widespread violence of the Second World War, while offering an explanation that places it within a broader trajectory of anti-Roma persecution in modern societies.The book explores the separation and destruction of families, the sterilisation of adults and children, the plunder of property and deprivation of livelihoods, slave labour, medical experiments, the horror of extermination camps and the mass murder that the Romani people were subjected to. María Sierra uses the first section of the book to provide a much-needed critical overview and synthesis of the fragmented research and scholarship in the area that has be
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Objects of Poverty
Book SynopsisJoseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.Vicky Holmes is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Notre Dame London, The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England, UK.
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Bloomsbury Academic The English Civil War
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Holocaust in Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisWaitman Wade Beorn is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (2014, winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize).
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Russian Culture under Putin
Book SynopsisThis timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia''s media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia''s independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under mysterious circumstances.Eliot Borenstein looks at the manufactured cult of Putin, the competing models of Russianness put forth in the media, the obsession with nostalgia and the limits on imagining the future, the rise of aggressive patriotism and the myth of ancient Russian ''traditional'' values, the significance of the fight against gay propaganda', and the absurdist strategies used by the opposition in the face of increasing restrictions on free speech. Though the book''s title invokes Putin, Russian Culture under Putin
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Soviet and Nazi Posters
Book SynopsisThis book examines the key content and propaganda value of posters in the dictatorships of Stalin's USSR (1927-53) and Hitler's Germany (1933-43), using posters as a point of entry for discussing key Soviet and Nazi policies. In so doing, Soviet and Nazi Posters provides a compelling account of the posters utilised by both regimes for the first time. Kees Boterbloem and Lisa Pine employ a comparative approach throughout, analysing commonalities and differences, and inspecting the regimes' use of posters as propaganda. Richly illustrated with 50 images, 25 of which are in colour, Soviet and Nazi Posters encourages the development of vital source skills in the pursuit of understanding the complexities of 20th-century European dictatorships. What do these posters yield to the historian? What do they tell us about the regimes and their intentions? Ultimately they offer a compelling visual point of entry into Nazism and Stalinism here explored in rewarding detail.Boterbloem a
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Mass Observing the Coronation of Charles III
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Making of Modern Kosovo
Book SynopsisJakup Azemi is affiliated with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London, UK, where his research primarily focuses on the political history of Kosovo. Over the years, he has frequently contributed to Kosovo and Albanian media on political affairs related to Albanians in the Balkans.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Soviet Internment
Book SynopsisMaria Cristina Galmarini is Associate Professor of History and Global Studies at the College of William and Mary, USA. She is the author of Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold War (2024) and The Right to Be Helped: Deviance, Entitlement, and the Soviet Moral Order (2016).
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Single Mothers in Twentieth Century Ireland and Britain
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Environmental History of France
Book SynopsisThe French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked like it does today. An Environmental History of France instead presents the countryside in which people live and work and through which they travel as a human creation across 250 years of economic and cultural change, war and revolution. It is a book about the making' of the French landscape and an engrossing story linking human geography, history, agriculture and culture.Showing an awareness of the origins and nature of current ecological and social challenges, Peter McPhee uses a blend of environmental and cultural approaches to paint a vivid picture of rural France's modern history. From the aristocratic control of agrarian resources in the 1770s, to widespread mechanisation in the 19th century, through to the impact of the World Wars and an intriguing discussion about the uncertain future of French r
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) A A Concise History of Byzantium
Book SynopsisWarren Treadgold is National Endowment of the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies at Saint Louis University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Russias Arctic
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transatlantic Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisHoward LeRoy Malchow is Walter S. Dickson Professor of English and American History, Tufts University, USA. He is the author of many books including History and International Relations (2020) and Special Relations: The Americanization of Britain (2011).
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Austin Macauley Publishers Atticus Fighter of Rome Series A Hero is Born
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Marching from Defeat
Book SynopsisA German soldier's graphic first-hand account of his escape from Soviet captivity during the Red Army's offensive on the Eastern Front in 1944.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Breaking Seas Broken Ships
Book SynopsisFollowing Britain and the Ocean Road, Ian Friel expertly navigates the history of Britain and the sea from the Middle Ages to modern times. With Breaking Seas, Broken Ships, we follow the story of Britain's maritime history through some of it's most dramatic shipwrecks. From the country's imperial zenith to the very different world of the early twenty-first century we encounter an extraordinary range of people, ships and events, includingthe crew and passengers of a state-of-the-art Victorian steamship who vanished in the Atlantic;the sailors of a doomed collier brig in the dying days of sail and the wives and children they left behind;a lowly ex-naval stoker who went into showbiz with his version of a disaster caused by an admiral;a First World War merchant ship captain who fought a running battle with German U-Boats;the courage and compassion shown by British sailors who escaped their dive-bombed ships;the people who confronted the black tide' left by the oil tanker Torrey Canyon;ho
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Eight King Henrys of England
Book SynopsisDuring the 1,000-year history of the English monarchy there have been eight kings with the name of Henry. The Eight King Henrys of England is the history of the reigns of these sovereign lords. In 1100 King William II of England was killed by a wayward arrow while hunting and his younger brother, Henry I, succeeded to the crown of England. As king, Henry I secured and strengthened his governing powers over the English kingdom. The second king of England named Henry crossed the English Channel in 1153 with his army to overthrow his cousin, King Stephen of Blois. Henry III reigned over England for fifty-six years, where he was occupied with the revolts of his recalcitrant nobles. In 1398 the future King Henry IV was exiled from England and spent the next year in France orchestrating the downfall of King Richard II. He returned to England in 1399 with a small band of advocates and was joined by numerous English lords, who supported him in the overthrow of the king, recognizing Henry IV as
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Night Fighter Navigator
Book SynopsisOne of the top scoring night fighter navigators of WWII
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Ladies of Magna Carta
Book SynopsisLadies of Magna Carta examines the impact and influence that women had on the Baron's Rebellion and the production of the Magna Carta.
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Into Touch
Book SynopsisWritten by celebrated author and script writer (Silent Witness/All the Kings Men, Under the Guns of the Red Baron).
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