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Penguin Books Ltd Britains Europe
Book Synopsis''Dazzling ... a trenchant, provocative account of the intimate relations of Britain and Europe and how each shaped the other'' Prospect Magazine''Elegant, refreshing and wide-ranging ... this is essentially a brief history of the UK but a deliciously different one'' Literary ReviewBritain has always had a tangled, complex, paradoxical role in Europe''s history. It has invaded and been invaded, changed sides, stood aloof, acted with both brazen cynicism and the cloudiest idealism. Every century troops from the British isles have marched across the mainland in pursuit of a great complex of different goals, foremost among them the intertwined defence of parliamentary liberty in Britain and the ''Liberties of Europe''. Dynastically Britain has been closely linked to countries as varied as Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and France.In this bracing and highly enjoyable book, Brendan Simms describes the highlights and low-points in the Euro-Trade ReviewEntertaining and cogently argued... an eloquent argument -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *A dazzling perspective on the current EU referendum debate * Prospect Magazine *Like all truly stimulating and original works, this is a book worth reading even if one ultimately disagrees with the author's conclusions, or if the time is not yet ripe for their realisation -- Robert Gerwarth * Irish Times *Entertaining -- Dominic Sandbrook * The Times *With supreme confidence, Simms distils 1,000 years of history into a simple constant: Britain's role has always been to prevent the domination of the Continent by a single power...Britain, in other words, has always been part of Europe. To deny that fact is to ignore the past. -- Gerard Degroot * The Times *In his spirited new book, "Britain's Europe", Brendan Simms, a historian at Cambridge University, argues that the whole notion of an island story is wrong. Britain's history, he says, is above all about continental Europe...Mr Simms makes a powerful case. * The Economist *His book aims to demonstrate that the history of the British isles has never been an isolated one, and that "our island story" has always, in reality, been continental. -- Mark Mazower * New Statesman *A fascinating, engaging book, which exemplifies how a balanced and mature long-term historical perspective might have informed present-day political policy -- Joad Raymond * BBC History Magazine *Wide-ranging and thoughtful... a timely and important study that places Brexit and the difficulties of the EU in an illuminating historical context. -- PD Smith * Guardian *
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Oxford University Press Inc Republics of Difference Religious and Racial
Book SynopsisSpanish monarchs recognized the jurisdictions of many self-governing corporate groups, including Jews and Muslims on the peninsula, indigenous peoples in their American colonies, and enslaved and free people of African descent across the empire. Republics of Difference examines fifteenth-century Seville and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lima to show how religiously- and racially-based self-governance functioned in a society with many kinds of law, what effects it had on communities, and why it mattered. By comparing these minoritized communities on both sides of the Spanish Atlantic world, this study offers a new understanding of the distinct standings of those communities in their urban settings. Drawing on legal and commercial records from late medieval Spain and colonial Latin America, Karen B. Graubart paints insightful portraits of residents'' everyday lives to underscore the discriminatory barriers as well as the occupational structures, social hierarchies, and networks in wTrade ReviewRepublics of Difference is an ambitious and compelling study of the Iberian republic as a tool for managing religious and cultural difference and as a unit of self-governance for legal minorities. Through meticulous transatlantic analysis across a broad swath of time, Graubart reveals the fungibility of the republic as imperial strategy while underscoring how leaders and residents of diverse republics mobilized notions of difference for their own ends. Her argument that republics catalyzed early modern legal pluralism and racial thinking in the Atlantic world represents a landmark contribution to multiple fields of history. * Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University *Jurisdiction is the fabric of power. Graubart's book delves into the question of what happens when two jurisdictions—for instance, one of Indian laborers and officials living in a walled city, another one founded in colonial rule and Jesuit ideas of work—overlap. Republics of Difference demonstrates both the jurisdictional and institutional creativity of imperial subjects and the ways in which colonial rule kept such creativity at bay. * Jesús R. Velasco, author of Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages *Republics of Difference is a fascinating transatlantic discussion of the role of self-governing republics as a tool not only for managing distinctive subgroups within the Iberian empire, but also for self-preservation for racial and religious minorities...Using an impressive array of legal and commercial records from both sides of the Atlantic, Graubart demonstrates how disenfranchised groups in Seville and Lima employed the distinction and legal status of a republic to preserve their own identity and exert agency within the Spanish Empire at the same time that the empire attempted to use republics to reinforce imperial control. This work is enhanced through the extensive use of GIS to cartographically present...statistical analysis. This well-written study makes important contributions to discussions of race, identity, and self-governance in the Spanish Empire, as well as to broader discussions within Atlantic studies. * Choice *
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Oxford University Press Inc Venice
Book SynopsisA sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, another world. During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Venice was celebrated as a model republic in an age of monarchs. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it became famous for its freewheeling lifestyle characterized by courtesans, casinos, and Carnival. When the city fell on hard times following the collapse of the Republic in 1797, a darker vision of Venice as a place of decay, disease, and death took hold. Today tourists from around the globe flock to the world heritage site as rising sea levels threaten its very foundations. This comprehensive account reveals the adaptations to its geographic setting that have been a constant feature of living on water from Venice''s origins to the present. It examines the lives of the women and men, noble and common, rich and poor, Christian, Jew, and Muslim, who built not only the city but also its vast empire that stretched from Northern Italy to the eastern Mediterranean. It details the urban transformations that Venice underwent in response to environmental vulnerability, industrialization, and mass tourism. Alongside the city''s commercial prominence has been its dramatically changing political role, including its power as a city-state, regional stronghold, and overseas empire, as well as its impact on the development of fascism. Throughout, Dennis Romano highlights the city''s cultural achievements in architecture, painting, and music, particularly opera.This richly illustrated volume offers a stunning portrait of this most singular of cities.
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Oxford University Press Inc Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily A Social and Economic History Greeks Overseas
Book SynopsisAncient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of migrants who were shaped by Sicily and its inhabitants. On the other hand, other scholars have argued that the Greeks acted as the main source of innovation and achievement in the culture of ancient Sicily, a culture that was still removed from that of mainland Greece. Neither of these positions is completely satisfactory. What is lacking in this debate is a basic framework for understanding ancient Sicily''s social and economic history. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily represents the first ever systematic and comprehensive attempt to synthesize the historical and archaeological evidence, and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed over the past two centuries. It adopts an interdiscipTrade ReviewAnglophone readers with a general interest in Greek Sicily are wellserved by this book, which summarises recent work, much of it in Italian, and offers an update to the first eight chapters of Moses Finley's classic, Ancient Sicily (2nd ed. 1979) * Tony Spawforth, Classics for All *The present work impresses with its large number of methodological points, fundamental findings, useful calculations, and important observations....This book summarizes current knowledge of the social and economic history of Greek Sicily in a very comprehensible manner, clarifies the situation regarding the sources, and gives an account of the methods used and the limitations of our knowledge. It forms an important milestone for the exploration of Greek Sicily. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Drawing on textual testimony as well as the latest archaeological findings and palaeoecological data, De Angelis offers a new authoritative narrative on the history of ancient Sicily. Through the judicial employment of social, economic, and anthropological theories, he demonstrates the fundamental interconnectedness of the island within Mediterranean-wide networks. * Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago *Drawing on an unrivaled knowledge of recent archaeological work, De Angelis demonstrates the rich potential of new archaeological methods. His account of ancient Sicily is full and compelling, and, by focusing on social and economic developments, he is able to set the political changes within the larger continuities and trends that shaped them. Much the best overview of ancient Sicily available. * Nigel Nicholson, Reed College *This is the book we have been needing for many years * a history of ancient Sicily written in English on the basis of a thorough and up-to-date knowledge of the archaeology, as well as of the literary sources, and that enables the complex political history to be seen against the constraints of economy and settlement. This will become the place to start from for all future students and scholars.Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge *The book is remarkable for its interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach. De Angelis' impressive command of historical, archaeological, and textual evidence, coupled with his sophisticated use of sociological and economic theory, has produced a fresh, contextual analysis of the political and economic developments of Greek Sicily that reveals new and unexpected societal trends. This book not only provides us with a more complete picture of the ancient island, but it also will undoubtedly influence future studies of the history and economics of Greek Sicily. * Classical JournalOnline *A book remarkable in erudition and key not only for the historical archaeology of Sicily but also for all of archaic and classical Greek history. Through his integration of and extrapolation upon archaeological discoveries, De Angelis demonstrates the connections of Sicily with the Mediterranean as a whole...The book, with its superb maps, charts, illustrations, and an 89-page bibliography, makes obsolete all earlier accounts. Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations: Bibliographic Abbreviations: Chronological Introduction Chapter 1: The Geographical and Historical Setting Chapter 2: Settlement and Territory Chapter 3: Societies Chapter 4: Economics Conclusions References Index
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OUP Oxford Modern Spain 18751980 Revised
Book SynopsisThe word ''liberal'', as part of our political vocabulary comes from Spain. It was first used to describe a group of radical patriots cooped up in Cadiz, refugees from the French invasion of 1808. In 1812 they drew up a constitution enshrining the sovereignty of the people which struck the very basis of the old monarchy and became the model for advanced democrats from St Petersburg to Naples. Universal male suffrage was established in Spain in 1890 - earlier than Britain. The imposition of advanced liberal institutions on a conservative society, both economically and socially backward, inevitably caused tensions, and these, Raymond Carr argues, explain much of modern Spanish history. His analysis, incorporating much new research, starts at the ''September Revolution'' of 1868 and goes right up to the present day. In the 1970s and 80s the country suffered less from the violent social disruption experienced in previous decades, but - as always - Spain is beset with acute regional problems which become more pressing the longer they remain unsolved.Table of ContentsChronology: Main Political Events 1868-1979 ; Glossary of Political Terms and Organizations ; Map of Twentieth Century Spain ; 1. Revolution and Restoration 1868-1875: The Liberal Heritage ; 2. The Economy 1875-1914: Stagnation and Progress ; 3. Society in Transition 1875-1914 ; 4. Regenerationism and the Critics of the Regime ; 5. Politics 1898-1917: The Failure of the Revolution from Above ; 6. The Crisis of the Parliamentary Monarchy 1927-1923 ; 7. The Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and the Fall of the Monarchy 1923-1931 ; 8. The Second Republic 1931-1936 ; 9. The Civil War 1936-1939 ; 10. Francoism 1939-1975 ; 11. The Monarchy of Juan Carlos: The Transition to Democracy ; Select Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Codebreakers
Book SynopsisWith many colourful anecdotes and vivid descriptions, this is the first authentic account of daily life at Government Communications Headquarters, Bletchley Park, the most successful intelligence agency in history. Described by Churchill as the ''secret weapon'' that ''won the war'', the men and women of Bletchley Park here combine to write their story in full.This book gives fascinating insights into recruitment and training, together with a full and accurate account of codes and ciphers and how they are broken.Trade Reviewit is an exciting story they have to tell. * Tom Greenwell, Yorkshire Post *... because of its intense secrecy, the work of the men and women at Bletchley received no public recognition for many years after the war, and many of those who made important contributions are no longer alive.This volume of personal recollections by some 30 of the survivors is ... especially welcome. Conditions of life and work at Bletchley, and its principal achievements, are faithfully sampled in Codebreakers, which is worth reading both for its historical interest and for the sidelights it throws on the problems encountered in the rapid assembly and organization of one of the greatest collections of talent that has ever occurred in Western civilization. * Nature *This unique volume will be of great interest to cryptologists in particular, and intelligence buffs in general. * Surveillant *While some of the chapters are so technical that Stella Rimmington would struggle to unscramble them, one still gets a strong sense of the excitement and frustrations of a war fought on the airwaves. * Daily Telegraph *the anecdotal material is fascinating in the insight it gives into everyday life at the institution. * Sunday Times *Hinsley and Stripp have assembled 30 reminiscers - most geniuses, a few slaves, all highly informative. * Robin Blake, Independent on Sunday *it is a remarkable tribute to the men and women who worked to crack the Germans' Enigma code. * David Hall,Oxford Times *The most interesting thing about this collection of essays is the light it throws on the personalities concerned. * Times Higher Education Supplement *These essays on the diverse activities at Bletchley Park (which remained secret until the 1970s) are enthralling. * The Observer *What makes Codebreakers so absorbing is that it has been written by the men and women who worked at Bletchley Park, all of whom were forbidden to talk about their work at the time. Codebreakers gives a fascinating insight into their daily lives. * Madeleine Burton, Hitchin Gazette *... one gets a strong sense of the excitement and frustrations of a war fought on the airwaves. * Daily Telegraph *Interesting stuff. * The Marine Society *This book has been put together from the personal memories of people none of whom would now be under 65. That they are so readable attests to the skill of the editors, who were themselves part of the Bletchley operation. Above all, it highlights the painstaking effort that intelligence work demands; but, as this volume shows, intelligence is useless there is force and a willingness to take advantage of it. * John Farquharson, Canberra Times *This new book is the first full account of Bletchley written by those who worked there. The book is superbly edited by F.H. Hinsley and Alan Stripp, Expositions are lucid and understandable to the layman - a considerable achievement. There are good photographs including those of Enigma cipher machines. Altogether, this is a splendid book for military historians, operational planners and especially intelligence officers. * Howard, Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Air Power History *This is a fascinating saga. * M. G. Bond, Army Quarterly and Defence Journal *editors and contributors have made Codebreakers an essential work ... It must be read by anyone and everyone concerned with intelligence during the Second World war .... It will be fundamental to anyone concerned with the techniques used during the Second World War to attack ciphers, super-enciphered codebooks or machine ciphers. * John Ferris, University of Calgary, Intelligence and National Secuirty *... a very intimate, anecdotal history. Despite the grim and far-reaching nature of their work, the reader goets a sense of a world bounded by four walls and shared with a few close associates whose common work made for very close relationships. The work of the codebreakers ... is fascinating, if sometimes barely comprehensible. ... a dramatic insight into just how remarkable the codebreakers' accomplishments were. * British Heritage *It comes with impeccable references in the shape of its editors' background and reputation, and does not disappoint. * The British Army Review *fascinating insiders' account of wartime code-cracking... and absorbing read. * Niall Fergusson *a highly revealing, even exciting book... that lays fascinating former secrets bare... It is a delight to have so crucial a subject so clearly and entertainingly described, by some thirty people who really understand what they are discussing and can set the record quite straight. * M. R. D. Foot, The Times *Anyone interested in the Second World War will sit up all night, and chess players and puzzle-solvers will be captivated by the later chapters. * Noel Annan, Independent on Sunday *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. THE INFLUENCE OF ULTRA IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR; PART ONE. THE PRODUCTION OF ULTRA INTELLIGENCE; PART TWO. ENIGMA; PART THREE. FISH; PART FOUR. FIELD CIPHERS AND TACTICAL CODES; PART FIVE. JAPANESE CODES; APPENDIX. HOW THE BLETCHLY PARK BUILDINGS TOOK SHAPE
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Oxford University Press The Greeks
Book SynopsisThis book provides an original and challenging answer to the question: ''Who were the Classical Greeks?'' Paul Cartledge - ''one of the most theoretically alert, widely read and prolific of contemporary ancient historians'' (TLS) - here examines the Greeks and their achievements in terms of their own self-image, mainly as it was presented by the supposedly objective historians: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. Many of our modern concepts as we understand them were invented by the Greeks: for example, democracy, theatre, philosophy, and history. Yet despite being our cultural ancestors in many ways, their legacy remains rooted in myth and the mental and material contexts of many of their achievements are deeply alien to our own ways of thinking and acting. The Greeks aims to explore in depth how the dominant group (adult, male, citizen) attempted, with limited success, to define themselves unambiguously in polar opposition to a whole series of ''Others'' - non-Greeks, women, non-citizens, slaves and gods. This new edition contains an updated bibliography, a new chapter entitled ''Entr''acte: Others in Images and Images of Others'', and a new afterword.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition a useful antidote to British sentimentality about ancient Greece * Philip Howard, The Times *Paul Cartledge's sharp and unsentimental new introduction to [the Greeks'] mentality ... forcefully shows that freedom-loving citizens could live at ease among hordes of slaves. * Boyd Tonkin, New Statesman & Society *the lively and succinct development of many ancient nad modern arguments makes The Greeks a welcome and timely contribution to a number of continuing and important debates * Times Literary Supplement *lively, and very topical, book ... I know of no better book with which to introduce this 'portrait of self and others' to students at the sixth-form level or above. * Greece & Rome *He adopts a lightly unusual approach and discusses the 'dominant' group - male citizens - in its relations with woman, slaves, barbarians and the gods. It is an interesting approach. * Contemporary Review *With The Greeks Cartledge has achieved an up-to-date synthesis of Hellenic central concepts, thus furnishing teachers of ancient history and civilization with a valuable instrument, as I experienced in Greece when teaching European youth about their identity. * Mnemosyne *Cartledge's The Greeks is bracingly enthusiastic with inter-disciplinary influences and interests. * The Sunday Times *a study of the rise of a mentality, written in brilliant style, important, sometimes iconoclastic * Il pensiero politico *Table of ContentsPrologue ; 1. Significant Others: Us v. Them ; 2. Inventing the Past: History v. Myth ; Entr'acte: Others in Images and Images of Others ; 3. Alien Wisdom: Greeks v. Barbarians ; 4. Engendering History: Men v. Women ; 5. In the Club: Citizens v. Aliens ; 6. Of Inhuman Bondage: Free v. Slave ; 7. Knowing Your Place: Gods v. Mortals ; Epilogue ; Further Reading ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Rise and Fall of the Peoples Parties
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Across Europe, people are deeply concerned about the state of democracy. The Rise and Fall of the People''s Parties shifts the attention away from ever-changing populist politicians that capture newspaper headlines to the centre-left and centre-right people''s parties that used to buttress the democratic order over the past decades, but which are now in steep decline. Why does the crisis of these parties contribute so profoundly to today''s crisis of democracy? And why were these parties so important for the stabilization and legitimation of democracy in the past century in the first place?By providing a long-term and transnational account of the history of democracy in modern Europe, The Rise and Fall of the People''s Parties reveals the striking parallels between the hist
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Oxford University Press Courtier Scholar and Man of the Sword
Book SynopsisLord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars.Table of ContentsIntroduction GREAT EXPECTATIONS 1: A Promising Youth 2: Chafing at the Bit COURTLY ADVENTURES 3: French Leave 4: Courtier and Swordsman 5: Citizen of the World DIPLOMATIC INTERVENTIONS 6: Changing Times 7: My Lord, the Ambassador 8: The Fickleness of Princes INTELLECTUAL OCCUPATIONS 9: Intellectual Ambitions and Interests 10: Philosopher and Theologian 11: Royal Historian 12: Musician and Poet COURT AND COUNTRY 13: Noble Preoccupations 14: 'Treacherous Herbert' or Man of Honour? Epilogue
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Oxford University Press Waiting on Empire
Book SynopsisThe expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia.Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment.In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype.Trade ReviewWaiting on Empire is a landmark book, giving long overdue attention to the most significant population of colonized women workers in Victorian Britain. Ayahs enabled British colonizers to maintain families despite their global mobility, critical to the resilience of British imperial rule. This beautifully written book restores these neglected women to the historical record, offering a sophisticated interpretation of women's agency and deftly recasting traveling ayahs as knowledgeable, enterprising, and resourceful skilled workers. * Laura Tabili, Professor of Modern European History, University of Arizona *This book forever changes the history of domestic colonial service. Datta argues that traveling ayahs are a prism for the workings of imperial power from both above and below. Readers will be stunned by the photographic archive she has curated and by the way she practices care work for the subjects she so brilliantly moves out of the waiting room of history. * Antoinette Burton, author of The Trouble with Empire *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Mobile Caregivers for the Empire 1: Becoming Travelling Ayahs and Supporting the Empire: Historical And Contextual Background 2: Waiting in the Heart of Empire: Abandoned Travelling Ayahs and the Contradictions of a Liberal Empire 3: Creative Resilience in Contexts of Crisis: Making Arguments and Evoking Sympathy 4: Capitalizing on Waiting: Creative Use of Time by Travelling Ayahs 5: Travelling Ayahs and Ayahs' Homes: Humanitarianism, Evangelism and Profit 6: Travellers' Tales: Negotiating Waiting in Wars And
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Oxford University Press Tudor England
Book SynopsisA compelling account of political and religious developments from the advent of the Tudors in the 1460s to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.Trade ReviewThe most comprehensive history of Tudor England for more than thirty years. * Observer *
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Oxford University Press Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea
Book SynopsisShipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period, exploring the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II.Trade ReviewDavid Cressy, a historian of early modern Britain, wants to rescue these customs from such condescension. He argues that salvaging goods from wrecked ships formed part of the 'moral economy' of maritime communities, borrowing E.P. Thompson's famous explanation for early modern food riots. * Tom Johnson, London Review of Books *There are already a number of scientific writings from various disciplines that deal with shipwrecking. Few, however, address the social and legal implications of such events, further activities they prompted, and the interactions among the groups involved. Cressy shows more clearly than previous studies, a transition to a different phase, with new actors and conditions on the coast than those at sea. * Michael W. Jung, H-Net Reviews *Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a welcome addition to a growing field within maritime studies. For those interested in the subject, this is a very enjoyable read. While Cressy covers a wide range of topics, the target audience is more for specialists in maritime history or studies, especially those of the Elizabethan and Stuart periods. Those with an interest in Wreccum Maris, or the intersections between culture and the sea in the early modern period, will find this work of great interest. * Patrick Klinger, Virginia Military Institute, H-Net Reviews *It's never too late to learn new stuff, even about shipwrecks. Like, for instance, I knew that things floating were flotsam; things deliberately thrown overboard were jetsam. * Dennis Simanaitis, Simanaitis Says *David Cressy is to be congratulated on producing an empirical and very well-illustrated study of a subject too often consigned to the realms of myth, legend and exaggeration. * The Local Historian *Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a book of learning and erudition, and it succeeds ably in highlighting the scale of shipwrecks and salvage and their importance to the very fabric of early modern Britain. It is recommended to all those interested in understanding Britain's history as an island nation at a period when maritime trade and travel were rapidly expanding. * International Journal of Maritime History *
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Oxford University Press Before the Holocaust
Book SynopsisAs the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar.While previous historical research assumed that this violence happened much later, Hermann Beck counteracts this, drawing on sources from twenty German archives, and focussing on this early violence, and on the reaction of German institutions and the elites who led them.Before the Holocaust examines the antisemitic violence experienced in this period - from boycotts, violent attacks, robbery, extortion, abductions, and humiliating ''pillory marches'', to grievous bodily harm and murder - which has hitherto not been adequately recognized. Beck then analyses the reactions of those institutions that still had the capacity to protest against Nazi attacks and legislative measures - the Protestant Church, the Catholic Church, the bureaucracies, and Hitler''s conservative coalition partner, the DNVP - and the mindset of the elites who led them, to determine their various responses to flagrant antisemitTrade Review5* review: "...It is a book all students of the Nazi regime should read..." * Paul Donnelley, Daily Express *Relentlessly concise and nigh monumental within its outstanding sphere of research...nothing less than an astonishing achievement. * David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews *an important book... a major contribution to readers' understanding of the beginnings of the Third Reich. * R. Spickermann, Choice Reviews *The initiation of Hitler's violence against the Jews has long been neglected in the massive literature on the Holocaust. Hermann Beck's Before the Holocaust fills this lacuna with a monumental study of its very first months. The book fully contextualizes and also describes in thorough detail the initial phase of what became a policy of "cumulative radicalization," as well as the very muted reaction to it. An indispensable preliminary to Holocaust studies. * Stanley G. Payne, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of A History of Fascism 1914-1945 *Based on extensive archival research, Beck's outstanding book accomplishes something that surprisingly has never been done before: a great piece of erudite and original research, Before the Holocaust charts out anti-Semitic violence and other acts of Jew-hatred in the months following Hitler's takeover of power in 1933. In doing so, the book investigates the transition of pre-Nazi German anti-Semitism to National Socialist persecution of the Jews in Germany. Beck accomplishes something extraordinary, namely, to say something genuinely new about the origins and the emergence of the Shoah. * Thomas Weber, Chair in History and International Affairs & Director, Centre for Global Security and Governance, University of Aberdeen *Hermann Beck's Before the Holocaust is a powerful book. Using extensive new research, the study throws a glaring light on the extent and murderous brutality of antisemitic persecution from the very outset of Hitler's accession to power. Moreover, it demonstrates how the Protestant and Catholic churches, as well as the conservative elites, united in their enthusiastic support for the "national revolution", abstained from immediate protest, whatever initial or later misgivings there may have been. For any student of Nazi Germany, Beck's study is a must. * Saul Friedländer, Emeritus Professor of History, UCLA; author of Nazi Germany and the Jews: vol I: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 *Hermann Beck has painstakingly uncovered a whole range of antisemitic violence that began during the first weeks of Hitler's dictatorship. He discovered these events by working through over a dozen national and regional archives in Germany, as well as numerous collections of published documentary material and newspapers. The appalling terror he reveals often occurred in full public view in cities and towns across the country - horrendous attacks that have been overlooked, ignored, or neglected by generations of historians. In what is sure to become the standard work on the topic, Beck shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Nazi-led violence rained down on the Jews during the Nazi takeover. Without question, this early and vicious brutality signaled the beginning of the inhumane process that would culminate in the Holocaust. * Robert Gellately, Earl Ray Beck Professor of History, Florida State University; author of Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis *This is an important book...This book is a major contribution to readers' understanding of the beginnings of the Third Reich. * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Search for Archival Evidence Part I: Violence against Foreign Jews 1: Violence against 'Ostjuden' in the Winter and Spring of 1933 2: 'Ostjuden' as Predetermined Targets - a History of Marginalization 3: Attacks against American and West European Jews, among Others Part II: Violence against German Jews 4: Violent Attacks 5: Pillory Marches and the Perfidy Decree 6: Murder 7: Boycott 8: Legal and Economic Discrimination Part III: Reactions to Anti-Semitic Violence 9: The Protestant Church and the 'Jewish Question' 10: Protestant Church Leaders and the 'Jewish Question' 11: The Protestant Church between Action and Silence 12: The Reaction of the Catholic Church 13: Reactions of the German Bureaucracy 14: The Reaction of Hitler's Conservative Coalition Partner Epilogue: How could it happen?
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Oxford University Press The History of Llanthony Priory Oxford Medieval
Book SynopsisThe text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Monmouthshire, from its origin around 1100 as an isolated hermitage, through the introduction of the Augustinian Order and the move to a more secure location outside Gloucester, to the later twelfth century.
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Oxford University Press Roman de Brut
Book Synopsis''Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.''Wace''s Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth''s Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon''s Brut (c. 1200). Wace''s poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, iTable of ContentsIntroduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography Summary of the Text ROMAN DE BRUT Explanatory Notes Manuscripts Glossary Index of Personal Names Index of Geographical Names
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Oxford University Press The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisUntil surprisingly recently the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and was commemorative, rather than analytical. This study uses the Troubles as a case study to evaluate the role of the Catholic Church in mediating conflict.During the Troubles, these priests and bishops often worked behind the scenes, acting as go-betweens for the British government and republican paramilitaries, to bring about a peaceful solution. However, this study also looks more broadly at the actions of the American, Irish and English Catholic Churches, as well as that of the Vatican, to uncover the full impact of the Church on the conflict. This critical analysis of previously neglected state, Irish, and English Catholic Church archival material changes our perspective on the role of a religious institution in a modern conflict.Trade ReviewMargaret Scull's monograph offers an important contribution to the historical literature on Northern Ireland and, moreover, it is widely relevant to the study of organised Christianity in divided communities in times of civil unrest. * Eugenio F. Biagini, Sidney Sussex College, Journal of Contemporary History *The author has looked at a commendably wide range of material and has interviewed some key figures in Church and politics ... these interviews give real insight into the complementarities and antagonisms between the Church, nationalism and republicanism * Oliver P. Rafferty SJ, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *This is an important book and it should certainly be read carefully and mulled over by anyone interested in Northern Ireland specifically and in the intersections between politics and religion more generally, with all of the moral, ethical, and cultural considerations therein. * Margo Shea, H-Diplo *Margaret Scull's book The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998 transcends the parochial view on the Catholic Church during the Northern Ireland Conflict and instead situates it in a transnational framework. Thereby, she challenges established views and provides fresh insight...Scull's book hopefully will rekindle the interest of the Church's role in the conflict and will do away with the stereotype that the conflict was primarily the concern of the Irish Catholic Church with the English Catholic Church playing the part of a bystander. * Jan Freytag, British Catholic History *This volume is an important contribution to the scholarship of the 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland; it is painstakingly researched and engagingly written...Margaret Scull has made a very significant contribution to the literature of the Northern Irish conflict; it is to be hoped that the book will be widely read and made available in paperback. * Stephen Hopkins, University of Leicester, Cercles *Dr Scull has injected fresh impetus into chronicling the often secretive roles played by the Catholic and Protestant Churches in the Irish Troubles. * John Cooney, The Irish Times *A rich and carefully-researched new book, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1999, offers fresh insights on the changing role of the Catholic Church and the personalities that drove its interventions during that fraught period. * Gladys Ganiel, slugger o'toole *It has been some time since Catholicism has been the subject of such a focused academic study. * Gladys Ganiel, Queen's University Belfast, Slugger O'Toole *
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Oxford University Press Europe after Rome
Book SynopsisThis is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of the early Middle Ages as a dynamic and formative period in European history. Written in an attractive and accessible style, it makes extensive use of original sources to introduce early medieval men and women at all levels of society from slave to emperor, and allows them to speak to the reader in their own words. It overturns traditional narratives and instead offers an entirely fresh approach to the centuries from c.500 to c.1000. Rejecting any notion of a dominant, uniform early medieval culture, it argues that the fundamental characteristic of the early middle ages is diversity of experience. To explain how the men and women who lived in this period ordered their world in cultural, social, and political terms, it employs an innovative methodology combining cultural history, regional studies, and gender history. Ranging comparatively from Ireland to Hungary and from Scotland and ScandinaviaTrade ReviewReview from previous edition This book is a masterpiece of condensed exposition. It is also a break-through - a truly New Cultural History - in the quiet determination of the author to approach very old themes from angles refreshingly different from those from which they have usually been approached ... It is, above all, the first complete account of the early middle ages as a civilisation in its own right. It catches the living texture of western Europe, from Rome to the Hebrides, for a half millennium of its history. It is truly the study of a civilization in its entirity ... Reading Europe After Rome I was constantly reminded of another synthesis of genius which now lies at the root of the modern study of the high middle ages - that is, Richard Southern's The Making of the Middle Ages ... It was a 'Portrait of an Age'. Julia Smith has done the same for the half millennium which preceded Southern's Middle Ages. * Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: FUNDAMENTALS ; 1. Speaking and Writing ; 2. Living and Dying ; PART II: AFFINITIES ; 3. Friends and Relations ; 4. Men and Women ; PART III: RESOURCES ; 5. Labour and Lordship ; 6. Getting and Giving ; PART IV: IDEOLOGIES ; 7. Kingship and Christianity ; 8. Rome and the Peoples of Europe ; Epilogue
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Oxford University Press The Oxford History of the Reformation Oxford
Book Synopsis''a vital resource''TLS ''Compelling collection''Literary Review The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world. Martin Luther''s protests against the marketing of indulgences in 1517 were part of a long-standing pattern of calls for reform in the Christian Church. But they rapidly took a radical and unexpected turn, engulfing first Germany, and then Europe, in furious arguments about how God''s will was to be ''saved''. However, these debates did not remain confined to a narrow sphere of theology. They came to reshape politics and international relations; social, cultural, and artistic developments; relations between the sexes; and the patterns and performances of everyday life. They were also the stimulus for Christianity''s transformation into a truly global religion, as agents of the Roman Catholic Church sought to compensate for losses in Europe with new conversions in Asia and the Americas. Covering both Protestant and Catholic reform movements, in Europe and across the wider world, this compact volume tells the story of the Reformation from its immediate, explosive beginnings, through to its profound longer-term consequences and legacy for the modern world. The story is not one of an inevitable triumph of liberty over oppression, enlightenment over ignorance. Rather, it tells how a multitude of rival groups and individuals, with or without the support of political power, strove after visions of ''reform''. And how, in spite of themselves, they laid the foundations for the plural and conflicted world we now inhabit.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition ...a scintillating state-of-the-art survey of the Reformation... a marvellous collection of essays. * Henry A. Jefferies, Iris h Historical Studies *authored by leading reformation scholars.... The book is learned, although unencumbered by footnotes, being cognizant of the latest developments in reformation research, and sometimes challenging them...the resulting work is informative, readable, and authoritative. * Benjamin B. Saunders, Reading Religion *provid[es] an easily accessible distillation of some of the best recent scholarship of the Reformation. A work of this kind is a vital resource for anyone concerned to understand what ideas, events and convictions compelled the sea changes in Christianity that took place in the sixteenth century, and, no less important, to understand the repercussions of these changes which are still felt today. * Anne Dillon, Times Literary Supplement *This short volume does a magnificent job in providing a birds eye view of the Protestant Reformation * Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, Huguenot Society Journal *This book does a fine job of unfolding the intricately decorated and richly textured fabric of this extraordinary era... a scintillating collection of essays that challenges conventional views of the Reformation. * Lucy Wooding, The Tablet *Expert essays * Theology, Diarmaird MacCulloch *An outstanding work of church history * Church of England Newspaper *Splendid book * Catholic Herald *Compelling collection...Brilliantly assembled by Peter Marshall * Literary Review, Paul Lay *it bears comparison with the very best studies and compendia... a hearty 'bravo' is in order * Herald, Jonathan Wright *Wonderful... It's a huge achievement by Marshall, and by OUP, that cleverly gets the ball rolling head of the 500th anniversary of Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses * Oxford Today *a text from some of the leading experts in the field, who present a fine panorama of current thinking on this formative era for the modern West. * Diarmaid MacCulloch, University of Oxford, and author of A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years *An outstanding work of church history. * Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper *Seven leading scholars present Reformation history from diverse and informed perspectives... Highly recommended. General readers through faculty. * Choice *The seven essays in this edited volume accomplish what few other texts on the market do in providing a brief account of the Reformations from different, interwoven, and at times contrasting perspectives. * Eric Demeuse, Newman Studies Journal *Table of ContentsEditor's Foreword 1: Late Medieval Christianity by Bruce Gordon 2: Martin Luther by Lyndal Roper 3: Calvinism and the Reform of the Reformation by Carlos Eire 4: The Radical Reformation by Brad S. Gregory 5: Catholic Reformation and Renewal by Simon Ditchfield 6: Britain's Reformations by Peter Marshall 7: Reformation Legacies by Alexandra Walsham Further Reading Chronology Picture Acknowledgements Index
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Oxford University Press Englands Revelry
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the relationship between popular recreations and the spaces in which they took place, and in doing so it provides a history of how England enjoyed itself during the long eighteenth century.Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes. Such recreations included: parish wakes and feasts; civic fairs and celebrations; football, cricket and other athletic sports; bull- and bear-baiting; and the annual celebrations of Shrove Tuesday and Guy Fawkes.Three case studies form the core of this book, each looking at the recreations and spaces to be found in different types of settlement: first, the streets and squares of provincial market towns; then the diverse vacant spaces to be found in industrialising towns and villages of the west Midlands and West Riding of Yorkshire; and finally the village greens of rural England. Through a detailed examination of contemporary books, diaries and newspapers, and records in over fortyTrade ReviewA masterly piece of scholarship, based on assiduous and detailed research, yet written in an accessible style. * Roger Munting, Sport in History *This monograph builds upon Emma Griffin's excellent 2001 Cambridge PhD thesis and offers a cultural history of parish wakes and feasts; civic fairs and celebrations; football, cricket and other athletic sports; bull - and bear - baiting; and the annual celebrations of Shrove Tuesday and Guy Fawkes day in the long eighteenth century. [It is] an important and useful, as well as an entertaining, read. * Continuity and Change *...an important and useful, as well as an entertaining, read. * Patrick Driscoll, Cambridge University Press, Continuity and Change *
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Oxford University Press The BrightMeyler Papers
Book SynopsisThe documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain''s Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds.The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and social, economic and demographic conditions in eighteenth-century Bristol and Jamaica. A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period, this volume shows that British merchants connected with the West Indies were centrally concerned with improvement, independence, and social mobility.Trade ReviewKenneth Morgan should be congratulated for making available a rich and important set of documents. * Economic History Review *A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period * Spartacus Review *a well-produced and expertly-edited volume that should prove extremely valuable to scholars and postgraduates working on the Caribbean and wider Atlantic connections. * K. Mason, English Historical Review *
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Oxford University Press The BordeauxDublin Letters 1757
Book SynopsisThe book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the Irish community in Bordeaux and their relatives, friends and trading partners in Ireland communicate the concerns and understandings of ordinary people in a diasporic community during wartime. Written by sailors, merchants, servants, prisoners of war, priests, clerks, and many women, the letters vividly illustrate social and economic structures familiar to historians of early modern trade and the expatriate communities of the Atlantic world. They underline the central role of familial relationships in structuring commerce, and illustrate how communities were sustained across wide expanses of ocean by streams of correspondence, by favours asked and received, and by a flow of commodities, gifts,Trade ReviewHere the case is made that together the letters offer a precious series of insights into the multifarious links between Ireland and southern France under the ancien régime, links severely tested by the onset of a war fought mainly on the seas. * William Doyle, Irish Economic and Social History *fascinating and unique publication * Oliver OHanlon, Irish Studies Review *This is much more than a mere edition of letters. It should be read by anyone interested in eighteenth-century Britain, France, trade or war. * David Hancock, Huguenot Society Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; I. The Two Sisters of Dublin ; II. 1757 ; III. The Irish Community in Bordeaux ; IV. The Letters ; V. Methodology ; THE BORDEAUX-DUBLIN LETTERS, 1757 ; Appendices
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Oxford University Press Inc Politics of Uncertainty
Book SynopsisIn 1989 three Soviet republics--Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, known as Baltic countries--started a determined push for independence, risking to destabilize the Soviet Union and to derail international negotiations on German reunification. Politics of Uncertainty traces Soviet and American responses to Baltic claims for independence and, in doing so, sheds light on the end of the Cold War.Trade ReviewThe Soviet Union's sudden and surprising collapse continues to resonate, nowhere more so than in the Baltics. Long subjugated, sometimes pawns, and oftentimes a thorn in the side of Kremlin leaders, the region's recent past tells us much about life next to a superpower. No scholar has better brought the Baltics and the end of the Cold War into focus than Una Bergmane, whose Politics of Uncertainty is certain to set the standard for any future study of this critical geopolitical hotspot. * Jeffrey A. Engel, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University *An excellent work of scholarship, thoroughly researched, original, and incisive. Based on a vast array of sources from the USA, USSR, and Europe, Bergmane gives us a whole new perspective on the Balts' independence struggle and their crucial role in Soviet collapse and the Cold War endgame. This book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the strategic significance of the Baltic region today. * Kristina Spohr, author of Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989 *Bergmane is a brilliant chronicler of the Baltic quest for independence from Moscow's rule. Juxtaposing Baltic, Russian, and American sources, she tells a very nuanced and yet highly readable story of how Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania negotiated their exit from the USSR, helping to undermine the Soviet empire in the process. A required read for any student of the Soviet collapse. * Sergey Radchenko, author of Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War *While the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev was met with appreciative recollections of his legacy of peace and democratization, Russia's brutal war against Ukraine reminds us that the causes and consequences of Soviet disintegration have not been fully established. As the world re-focuses on the process of Russia's imperial decline, Una Bergmane's analysis of the Baltic role in Soviet collapse is revelatory. With its rare and balanced analysis of the internal and international forces in play at the end of the Cold War, Politics of Uncertainty is essential reading for the post-post-Cold War world. * Violeta Davoliūtė, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Origins of the Baltic Question Chapter 2: "Have you not noticed our absence?" The Baltic Question during the Annus Mirabilis of 1989 Chapter 3: Building a New World Order? The Lithuanian Crisis of Spring 1990 Chapter 4: The End of Perestroika? The Baltic Quest for Visibility and the Soviet Crackdown Chapter 5: The Rise of Republics, the Fall of the Center: The Baltic Exception and the Collapse of the USSR Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Saving Europe
Book SynopsisFirst we crushed our enemy, then saved him from starvation, Walter Cronkite intoned in a 1963 episode of the CBS television series The Twentieth Century. Designed to commemorate the upcoming fiftieth anniversary of US aid to Europe during World War I, the episode explained that the American military had crushed other nations in both world wars, a violence described as a necessary corrective in order to subsequently unleash the spirit of the American people. This humanitarian spirit manifested as material relief not only to friend but also to former foe. With only a small commentary on the ingratitude of some recipients, the documentary emphasized for Americans their unique role in global peacekeeping and prosperity, functioning as a global patriarch, bearing both carrots and sticks.Saving Europe offers a transnational history of American aid and intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924, a period when the US simultaneously tightened its borders and expanded its reach. In that crucial decade after the outbreak of World War I, Americans saw themselves in a novel role as protectors of European cultural heritage and as rescuers of vulnerable populations, making them worthy successors to earlier global powers. Saving Europe shines a light on how the US wielded soft power in the interwar period through food, dollars, and reconstruction projects. In case studies of Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, and Poland, it traces the development of American views of their role in the wider world as well as European responses to this intervention, providing valuable context for later US global aid and development regimes after World War II.
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Oxford University Press Inc Picturing Russian Empire
Book SynopsisPicturing Russian Empire offers a new way to approach the history of Russia as an empire and as a state located in a world characterized by a churning, dynamic exchange of people, ideas, and practices. It presents readers with a visual tour of the lands and peoples that constituted the Russian Empire and those that confronted it, defied it, accommodated to it, and shaped it at various times in more than a millennium of history. Bringing together scholars and experts from across the world and from various disciplines, Picturing Russian Empire consistently raises big historical questions to stimulate readers to think about images as embedded in the diverse, lived worlds of the Russian empire. The authors challenge the reader to not only to see images as the creations of individuals, but as objects circulating among viewers in a variety of contexts, creating new impressions, meanings, and experiences.Trade ReviewPicturing Russian Empire is a wonderfully original volume that is a welcome addition to the pedagogical tools we use to introduce students to Russia's empires. The book's paramount advantage lies in its much-needed presentation of tangible artifacts that bring ostensibly distant, perhaps abstract, topics closer to the students. This visual representation of Russian history enables students to appreciate, understand, and critique the narratives they have grown accustomed to analyzing from printed sources"- Stephen Riegg, Texas A&M UniversityPicturing Russian Empire's strengths include innovative ways of thinking about Russian/Eurasian history and its breadth of coverage and scholarship. The text is comprehensive and accessible, with helpful discussions about how to analyze visual sources in historical research."- Shoshana Keller, Hamilton CollegeThis is a uniquely comprehensive and rich survey of more than a millennium of Russian history that makes use of visual images and their explication by expert specialists to give students and other readers a compelling perspective on the richness and complexity of that country's society and its experiences. While it would serve as an excellent complement to any existing textbook, it can serve as a text in its own right, by prompting discussion that the instructor can use to expand on or situate critical junctures or interpretative questions in Russian history."- David McDonald, University of Wisconsin-MadisonThis is a rich, multi-faceted overview of the visual, non-verbal traditions and representations of the Russian empire, starting from the Kievan Rus', ending with the current realities of the Russian Federation. Taken together, the chapters explore the issues of identity, power, homogeneity, agency, reality, and perceptions in an accessible, yet thoroughly analytical way."- Natalie Bayer, Drake UniversityPicturing Russian Empire offers more than fifty essays written by scholars of history, film, literature, and art that together offer a guided visual tour of the peoples, landscapes, dilemmas, relationships, representations, and worlds of Russia's empires. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsI. Medieval Rus among the Empires 1. Monica White, Early Rus: The Nexus of Empires 2. Irina Konovalova, Placing Rus among World Empires in Tenth-Century Arab Geography 3. Sergei Kozlov, The "Imperial Mirage" of Sviatoslav (12th century) II. Muscovy and the Expansion of Empire 4. Nancy S. Kollmann, Empire and Culture: The Sixteenth-Century English Encounter the Samoyedy 5. Valerie A. Kivelson, Racial Imaginary and Images of Mongols and Tatars in Early Modern Russia (1560s-1690s) 6. Ekaterina Boltunova, Visual Polemics: The Time of Troubles in Polish and Russian Historical Memory (1611-1949) 7. Maria Grazia Bartolini, The Image of the Good Orthodox Ruler between Kyiv and Moscow (1660s) 8. Erika Monahan, Tents or Towns: The Limits of Sovereignty in the Russian North in the Late Seventeenth Century 9. Evgeny Grishin, Divine Creation and Russian Exploitation of the Environment in Siberia (circa 1700) III. Imperial Russia 10. Ernest A. Zitser, Re-visioning Empire under Peter the Great: How Muscovite Russia became Imperial 11. Gregory Afinogenov, Depictions of China from a Caravan Journal (1736) 12. Catherine Evtuhov, A "Complete" Atlas of the Russian Empire (1745) 13. Nathaniel Knight, What's in a Hat? Representations of Ethnicity and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Russia 14. Alison K. Smith, Annushka, the Kalmyk (circa 1767) 15. Erin McBurney, "If fate had not given her an Empire...": Catherine the Great and the Optics of Power (1783) 16. Anna Graber, Depicting Expertise and Managing Diversity in the Urals Mining Industry (1773-1818) 17. Willard Sunderland, Father Hyacinth's Chinese Portrait (Early Nineteenth Century) 18. Richard Wortman, Vignettes of Empire: "Asiatic Peoples" at Nineteenth-Century Imperial Russian Coronations 19. Nadja Berkovich, The Women of Empire Strike Back (1856) 20. Bart Pushaw, The Peasant and the Photograph: Gender, Race, and the Sunlight Picture in the Baltic Provinces (1866) 21. Olga Maiorova, Severed Heads on Display: Visualizing Central Asia (1868-1872) 22. Sarah Badcock, The Cautious One: Identity and Belonging in Late Imperial Russia (1877) 23. Fedor Korandei, Siberian Travelogues: Images of Asiatic Russia during the Transport Revolution (1860s-1890s) 24. Maria Taroutina, "To the Caucasus": Representations of Empire in the Visual Arts at Abramtsevo (1870s-1890s) 25. Louise McReynolds, Archeological Imagery Colonizes the Caucasus 26. Alison Rowley, Chained to a Wheelbarrow: Hard Labor on an 1890s Picture Postcard from Siberia 27. Rosalind P. Blakesley, Siberian Roots in an Imperial Space: Ermak's Conquest of Siberia by Vasily Surikov (1895) 28. Anna Kotomina, Alexander Borisov and Tyko Vilka: Two Artists Who Made Worlds of Their Own from the Arctic Wilderness 29. Galina V. Lyubimova, Yermak from Yenisei Province: A Peasant Painting from the Early Twentieth Century 30. Katherine M. H. Reischl, Imperial Color in the Present Tense: The Photography of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky IV. The Revolutionary Era 31. Naomi Caffee and Robert Denis, "Go Be Russian:" Political Caricature and the Tbilisi Press After the 1905 Revolution 32. Ronald Grigor Suny, In the Claws of the Imperial Eagle: Finland, Georgia, and Joseph Stalin (1906) 33. Laura Engelstein, Agit-Empire: Bolshevik Civil War Art 34. Angelina Lucento, Breakfast in Suuk Su: The Rise of Visual "Tatarism" (1917-1923) V. The Soviet Union: Introduction 35. Mollie Arbuthnot, Propaganda in Translation: Imagined Muslim Viewers in Early Soviet Posters (circa 1926) 36. Craig Campbell, Two Laws: The Image of the Tungus in Soviet Dreamworlds (1920s) 37. Oksana Sarkisova, Views from the Roof of the World: 1920s Film Expeditions to the Pamir Mountains 38. Emma Widdis, A Shared Soviet Space: Filming the Caucasus in the 1920s-1930s 39. Helena Holzberger, Socialist Orientalism: Picturing Central Asia in the Early Soviet Union (1920s-1930s) 40. Nick Baron, "Fascist Colors": Stalinist Spatial Ideology, Cartographic Design, and Visual Learning 41. Robert Weinberg, Representing Jewishness in the Red Zion: The Jewish Autonomous Region in the 1930s 42. Charles Shaw, Love Letters to O'g'ulxon: Photography and Imperial Intimacy in the Second World War 43. Nikolai Vakhtin, From Ethnographic Reality to Socialist Realism: Illustrations in Soviet Primers for the Indigenous Minorities of the North 44. Erika Wolf, The Stalinist Imperial Body Politic: Photomontage in a Soviet Poster 45. Stephen M. Norris, Caricatured Empire: Cold War Political Cartoons 46. Yana Skorobogatov, "Where the Sun Begins its Path Over our Soil": El'dar Riazanov's Documentary Sakhalin Island (1954) 47. Olessia Vovina, Crafting the Art of Tradition: Chuvash Embroidery Reframed 48. Erik Scott, The Imperial Iconography of the Georgian Table (1900-1980s) 49. Jessica Werneke, Representations of Women in the Soviet Periphery: Tartu Photography Exhibitions in the 1980s VI. The Post-Soviet Era: Introduction 50. Yulia Mikhailova, Competing Nationalisms in Russia's Empire and Its Aftermath: Sviatoslav of Kiev and the Diorama of His Last Battle 51. Evgeny Manzhurin, Return of the Sables: Interpretations of the Symbol of Imperial Siberia (Seventeenth Century to Today) 52. Karen Petrone, Soviet War Memorials in Post-Soviet Spaces 53. Elizabeth A. Wood, Crimea in my Heart: Visualizing Putin's Resurgent Empire in 2014 54. Joshua First, The Maidan: Anti-Imperial Modes of Mythmaking in Documentary Film (2014-2015) 55. Olga Shevchenko, The Post-Soviet Body Politic: Media, Diaspora, and Photographs in the Immortal Regiment 56. Joan Neuberger, Photo Essay: Picturing Wartime 2022
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Oxford University Press Inc Gdansk
Book SynopsisIt was where World War II began on September 1, 1939. Its wartime experience was immortalized in Gunter Grass`s The Tin Drum. Later it attracted worldwide attention as the site where workers` strikes led by Lech Walesa and the ensuing Solidarity movement led to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe. Proud Hanseatic port, heart of the Baltic Sea trade, twice a Free City, present-day liberal, cosmopolitan center: Gdansk''s story between Germany and Poland is rich and fascinating.As Peter Oliver Loew colorfully shows, Gdansk, also known as Danzig, is incomparable not only because of its recent past but also in how it has so uniquely embodied the tensions of the European continent over the last millennium. Situated geographically and culturally within these tensions, the city has developed a fascinating identity amid frequent conflict and shifting national affiliations. From prehistoric amber workers to early Slavic dukes, the conquest of the Teutonic Order, and submission to the Polish
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Oxford University Press Inc Sacred Rivals Catholic Missions and the Making of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this engaging and insightful study, Joseph Peterson explores the myriad ways in which Catholic missionary experiences animated debates about race, civilization, and imperial ideology in nineteenth-century French Algeria. What emerges is a rich and troubling story of how lasting perceptions of Muslims and 'the Arab' were wrought in the fires of religious and political competition. Sacred Rivals is an essential book for anyone interested in the intellectual, social, and cultural history of modern empire. * J.P. Daughton, Stanford University *Sacred Rivals renews our understanding of the Catholic-Muslim encounters during the colonization of Algeria by France in the nineteenth century. Drawing from Catholic discourses on Islam and missionary practices on the ground, Joseph W. Peterson analyzes brilliantly the shift from the admiration, by conservative Catholics, for the devout piety of Algerian Muslims to a condemnation of Islam as fanatical and inconvertible by liberal Catholics. These new exclusionary discourses and practices fed religious orientalism, the formation of modern stereotypes of Muslims as the enemies of civilization, and, above all, the racialization of Islam. This wonderful book provides us with an important genealogy of modern Islamophobia while suggesting that Catholicism had also produced earlier resources for the toleration of Islam. * Emmanuelle Saada, Columbia University *This deeply researched and carefully argued book offers new insight into how a specifically 'Catholic Orientalism,' alongside and in tension with a secular state 'civilizing mission,' shaped the ideology and practice of colonial government in nineteenth-century French Algeria. Peterson reveals the surprising ways in which internal contests between conservative and liberal Catholics shaped attitudes towards missionary work, shifting over the course of the nineteenth century from an ambivalent philo-Islamism to an increasingly hostile, racialized view of Muslim fanaticism and the perceived menace of 'pan-Islamism.' It will be of great interest to scholars of religion, race, and colonialism in the French Empire and beyond it. * Judith Surkis, Rutgers University *Weaving its argument seamlessly from the stories of colonizers and colonized in Algeria, Sacred Rivals shows how religion served to articulate and extend French imperial domination, and how colonial occupation offered resurgent Catholicism a field of action it had lost in France. Peterson argues convincingly that conservative Catholics viewed Islam more 'positively' as a model of unified religiosity France had lost; yet failing to find more than a handful of converts, they rationalized their disappointment with increasingly bitter racial and cultural generalizations about Arabs and Muslims. This is a 'social history of ideas' that will be read eagerly by scholars of French empire and the church, and more broadly by readers interested in the roots of French Islamophobia. * Ian Coller, University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Sincerely Religious: Louis Veuillot and Catholic Representations of Islam and Empire Chapter 2: God and Caesar: Missionaries and Militaires in Colonial Algeria Chapter 3: White unto Harvest: Religion, Race, and the Jesuit Mission Arabe at Constantine Chapter 4: Crusade of Charity: Liberal Catholic Roots of the Civilizing Mission Chapter 5: Conspiracy to Massacre: Liberal Catholics and the Invention of Pan-Islam Chapter 6: Worthy of his Hire: Charles Lavigerie, Algerian Muslims, and Missionary Fundraising Chapter 7: Compel Them to Come: Algerian Students and Colonial Racism between France and Algeria Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Inner Life of Catholic Reform
Book SynopsisIn The Inner Life of Catholic Reform, Ulrich Lehner offers a longue durée overview of the sentiments and spiritual ideas of the 250-year long time span following the Council of Trent, known as Catholic Reform. While there have been many studies of the so-called Counter-Reformation, the political side of Catholic Reform, and of its institutional and social history, the sentiments, motivations and religious practices of Catholic Reform--what Lehner calls the inner life--have been mostly neglected. Reform, Lehner argues, was not something that occurred merely through institutional changes, new laws, and social control. For early modern Catholics, church reform began with personal reform and attempts to live in a state of grace. Lehner seeks to take these religious commitments seriously and understand them on their own terms. The central question he asks is What did Catholics do to obtain salvation, to make themselves pleasing to God? Lehner examines how the spiritual ideas that emerged from attempts to wrestle with the question of the salvation of souls changed the Catholic view of the world.Drawing on a plethora of published and unpublished sources and a wide array of secondary literature--with an emphasis on Europe, but integrating material from Africa, America, and Asia--Lehner documents this transformative period in history, when Catholicism became a world religion.Trade ReviewUlrich Lehner's book is a masterpiece of sympathetic understanding of the religious aspirations of the Catholic Reform...His scholarship and sympathetic openness to the aspirations of the Reform, while recognising its limitations, equips him to give the reader a particularly helpful portrait of this period of Catholic history. * Robert Gascoigne, Journal of Religious History *Lehner's book successfully addresses the historiographical gaps of the Catholic Enlightenment from the lenses of theology and history. Due to its brevity, topics such as controversies that shook Catholicism as well as early modern authors and works, information about popes, and religious orders are left out. This gives readers space to simultaneously study Lehner's book with other scholarship on these topics. This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students of history, philosophy, and theology as well as those who are interested in learning more about the history of the Catholic Church during the early modern period. * Kyra Sanchez Clapper, World History Encyclopedia *This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students of history, philosophy, and theology as well as those who are interested in learning more about the history of the Catholic Church during the early modern period. * World History Encyclopedia *Ulrich Lehner unfolds a rich new vision of early modern Catholicism. Doctrine could not change, but practices could, and the Catholic Church devised effective ways, many of them new, to instruct and engage, frighten and console parishioners across the world. Most of the faithful were poor, many were illiterate, but through preaching and confession, prayer and catechism, the Church tried to reach them all. * Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University *The Inner Life of Catholic Reform charts a history that is significant for ecumenical discussions of early modern period and insists, for then and now, that the reform of the church is about the care of souls. * Christine Helmer, Peter B. Ritzma Chair of Humanities, Professor of German and Religious Studies, Northwestern University *A distinguished authority on Catholic enlightenment and "outer reform," Ulrich Lehner focuses here on the much-neglected issue of "inner reform," namely those central practices that aimed not at correct belief but at the sanctification of the individual and community. The result is a brief, readable, and exceptionally rich account that uncovers an array of pious practices central to the self-understanding of Catholics in the early modern period—and that touch upon something abiding and central to Catholic identity to this day. * Kevin Madigan, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Harvard University *Although Roman Catholicism is known for its profuse material culture and visible institutional presence, Lehner demonstrates his nuanced mastery of its richly multifaceted interior life from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. The pervasive emphasis on Catholics' inner reform animated the Church's exuberant external expressions and established its global footprint between the Middle Ages and the modern era. * Brad S. Gregory, author of The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society *Presenting a picture of reformed orthodoxy that reads remarkably like a manual, almost a catechism, for present-day Catholics, he (Lehner) has succeeded in recovering a way of living the faith that has been largely obscured by the conflicts of the Reformation era. * Victor Houliston, Heythrop Journal *The Inner Life of Catholic Reform: From the Council of Trent to the Enlightenment is a welcome and enlightening book...Lehner's work is a welcome addition to the field and should be required reading in courses on early modern Catholicism. * Christian D. Washburn, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA *This text would be useful for studying spirituality as well as the history of this largely unknown time period...Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals; general readers. * Choice *Lehner's very readable book is a hybrid between a monograph and a textbook. * Moshe Sluhovsky, Church History *Ulrich Lehner's book presents a detailed description of early modern Catholic devotional theology and the various methods 'charismatic church reformers' advocated to support the spiritual renewal of individual believers...The book is thorough and deeply erudite while remaining clear and accessible. * Marc R.Forster, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *
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Oxford University Press Inc Policing Empires
Book SynopsisThe police response to protests erupting on America''s streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that effort. Julian Go tracks when, why, and how British and US police departments have adopted military tactics, tools, and technologies for domestic use. Go reveals that police militarization has occurred since the very founding of modern policing in the nineteenth century into the present, and that it is an effect of the imperial boomerang. Policing Empires thereby unlocks the dirty secret of police militarization: Police have brought imperial practices home to militarize themselves in response to perceived racialized threats from minority and immigrant populations.Trade Review<"Meticulously researched, deftly argued, and beautifully written-Go unearths the transnational roots and imperial seeds of today's brutal police policies and culture. As we learn, the racist patrol practices, automatic weaponry, and armored vehicles that dominate the streets of Ferguson and London are not a deviation from policing's original ethos, but a perfection of counter-insurgency tactics hatched in colonial Manila and Madras. One of the best books on law enforcement in decades, Go has shifted the way we will think about policing, justice, and resistance for years to come.>" Forrest Stuart, author of Down, Out, and Under Arrest<"Julian Go's Policing Empires is an indispensable work of historical sociology, tracing the waves of police militarization in the United States and Britain over time that have cumulatively rendered nearly meaningless the lines between what police do to some people at home and what imperial forces do to people abroad. We see here the very particular ways by which the tools of imperial subjugation and control (military weapons, but also imperial logics and technologies), as well as the racialization of both colonial subjects themselves and of supposed deviance and disorder in the colonies, come home to roost in an imperial boomerang, to be used against citizens in Britain and the U.S. - especially racialized citizens and moral/crime panics that are racialized. This is the most nuanced and important book I have yet read when it comes to understanding police militarization.>" Simon Balto, author of Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power<"In this meticulous and innovative study, Julian Go unearths the deep imperial roots of the militarization of policing in Britain and the United States. The thesis is bold and its implications far-reaching. It is sure to excite, surprise, and challenge students of the penal state, colonialism, urban marginality, and racial domination.>" Loïc Wacquant, author of The Invention of the <"Underclass>" and Bourdieu in the City<"This original and fascinating history of colonial policing, is a must-read for anyone concerned by racist state violence. Policing Empire combines detailed research with a compelling and urgent argument challenging militarised policing across the Anglophone world in the 21st century>" Adam Elliott-Cooper, author of Black Resistance to British Policing<"Turning his keen and critical eye toward police militarization, Julian Go reveals how the modes, means, and technologies of the police were forged in empire's cauldron. This brave and provocative genealogy shows how the disdain of a racialized other and the fear of their revolt brought the tactics of imperial conquest home. Ambitious in scope yet effortlessly readable, Policing Empires takes us from the advent of the civil police in London, where the threat of Irish rebellion and the revolt of black Caribbean slaves shaped the formation of the modern police force, to the counterinsurgent practices developed and honed in the Philippines and in Vietnam which would be deployed in Harlem and Watts, but also in Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, Ferguson and Minneapolis. Reuben Jonathan Miller, Author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incar<" Policing Empires painstakingly reveals the colonial roots of modern policing across the globe. Dismissing simple narratives of police militarization or individualized racism, Go shows how racialized fear of crime and the mobilization of counterinsurgency practices have been the organizing logics of the institution of policing. Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of PolicingPolicing Empires painstakingly reveals the colonial roots of modern policing across the globe. Dismissing simple narratives of police militarization or individualized racism, Go shows how racialized fear of crime and the mobilization of counterinsurgency practices have been the organizing logics of the institution of policing. * Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction: A Civil Police? The Coloniality of Policing 1. The Birth of the Civil Police in London, 1829 2. Cotton Colonialism and the New Police in the US and England, 1830s-1850s The New Imperialism at Home 3. Police "Reform" and the Colonial Boomerang in the US, 1890s-1930s 4. "Our Problems...are not so Difficult": Militarization and its Limits in Britain, 1850s-1910s Informal Empire and Urban Insurgency 5. Tactical Imperialism in the US, 1950s-1970s 6. Cycles of Policing & Insurgency in Britain, 1960s-1980s Conclusion: Policing Beyond Empire? Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Peoples Patriarch
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Oxford University Press Inc Company Politics Commerce Scandal and French
Book SynopsisFocusing on the little-known French East India Company, Company Politics explores corporate politics, financial scandals, and rival empires, shedding light on both the rise of European rule in India and the origins and economic consequences of the French Revolution.Trade ReviewFrom the Seven Years' War through the Revolution of 1789, the history of the French East India Company is a tangle of corruption, reformist illusions, and imperial ambitions. Company Politics offers a commanding interpretation of this episode that explains the curious durability of the much-reviled trading companies, and company states, well into the nineteenth century. Elizabeth Cross is a skilled researcher, a discerning interpreter of politics, and an urbane writer. * Paul Cheney, University of Chicago *Company Politics offers an arresting account of how the Third French East India Company came to embody a new type of global trading corporation, one divested of sovereign attributes and relying instead on economic power to project royal influence abroad. This book adds a critical new perspective to the growing literature on the dynamic relationship between imperial governance and political economy in the final decades of the eighteenth century. * Rafe Blaufarb, author of The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property *This superb study of the last French East India Company examines the final decades of the old regime French empire in India, making clear the geopolitical and economic possibilities it still appeared to present. Following the company into the 1790s, when it was at the center of the French Revolution's greatest corruption scandal, Cross examines how revolutionary republicanism destabilized the patrimonial norms that underpinned the absolutist order. Comprehensively researched, deeply conceptualized, and a pleasure to read. * John Shovlin, author of Trading with the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order *Company Politics is written with remarkable fluency, combining meticulous empirical research with nuanced yet authoritative analysis. Cross makes sense of France's New East India Company as a remedy—a concoction of trade-offs and contradictions, commerce and state, war and peace—prescribed to heal the wound of France's painful loss to the British in India. She guides us with ease and assurance from metropolitan debates and disputes, from old regime to new, across a great gap to the lived realities of France's disparate trading posts in India. This is an invaluable study of continuity underpinning revolutionary change that deepens our understanding of French commercial and imperial strategy in Asia far beyond the period it addresses. * Natasha Pairaudeau, author of Mobile Citizens: French Indians in Indochina, 1858-1954 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Timeline of the Compagnies des Indes Introduction Chapter 1 The Company's Two Bodies Chapter 2 The Revolution of India Chapter 3 Diplomatic Intentions Chapter 4 Between the Colossus and the Tiger Chapter 5 Discredit Chapter 6 Revolutionary Regeneration Chapter 7 Notes on a Scandal Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Light of Learning
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Oxford University Press Inc Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Book SynopsisTwenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries.Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside.Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanaTable of ContentsAbbreviations Used in Footnotes Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition Introduction Ch. 1 Whiteboys, Ribbonmen, and Molly Maguires Ch. 2 The World of Antracite Ch. 3 Enter the Molly Maguires Ch. 4 The Rise of a Labor Movement Ch. 5 The Reading Railroad Takes Control Ch. 6 The Return of the Molly Maguires Ch. 7 Rough Justice Ch. 8 The Molly Maguires on Trial Ch. 9 Black Thursday Epilogue Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Radegund
Book SynopsisA princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers. And, lastly, a saint, remembered for her healings, exorcisms, and extreme self-mortification. Such was Radegund, a woman who lived through an era defined by headlong change. Honored as a mother by subsequent Frankish kings and as a holy woman by her nuns and devotees, Radegund enjoyed a reputation for righteousness that spread throughout the whole of medieval Europe, with later queens emulating her pious achievements. For generations, she defined medieval queenship, female monastic practice, and the expectations associated with holy women. Today, she is often envisioned as a pan-European saint.Radegund presents a new interpretation of this remarkable wTrade ReviewE.T. Dailey's Radegund is both meticulously researched and supremely readable, imbued with a rare, propulsive energy. Here, finally, is Radegund fully-realized-audacious and imperfect, pioneer and survivor. * Shelley Puhak, author of The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry That Forged the Medieval World *E.T. Dailey has produced a sparkling new biography of Radegund. He does so by a meticulous reading of the sources, and by reminding the reader of her cultural context, steeped as it was in the Bible. As a result, the royal saint appears freshly minted, as does her community of the Holy Cross, and those around her, even the leading members of the Merovingian family. * Ian Wood, Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds, FBA *Table of ContentsMap 1: Gaul in the Sixth Century Map 2: Poitiers in the Time of Radegund List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. And the Lots Were Cast Chapter 2. A Temple Consumed by Fire Chapter 3. What Can Man Do Unto Me? Chapter 4. They Will Be as Bears and Wolves Chapter 5. The Lord Knows His Own Chapter 6. Veil of Veils, Holy of Holies Chapter 7. Like Eve Driven from Paradise Chapter 8. Amen Appendix 1: Radegund's Letter Dominis sanctis Appendix 2: Family Tree of Select Merovingians Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Strongest Link
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Oxford University Press Inc The Migrants Spirit
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Oxford University Press Liberty and Locality
Book SynopsisThis is a study of local government and permissive legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that permissive legislation facilitated local initiative and debate, and that local initiatives were often more effective than national legislation.In the eighteenth century, every locality which wished to improve or police its streets had to obtain its own private Act of Parliament. By the nineteenth century, when the construction of a habitable urban environment had become a matter of urgency, Parliament had recourse to `permissive'' or `adoptive'' legislation, which the localities were free to adopt, or not, as they chose. Parliament facilitated, but did not require, local action, and so long as initiative and responsibility remained in local hands, relations between central and local government were relaxed. In the 1850s and 1860s, the House of Commons conceived itself to be an imperial parliament, not a vestry, and Local Boards thought of themselves as parliaments in miniature. Trade Review'His analysis of the functioning of parliament offers a fresh and stimulating insight on the importance of a national legislative assembly in mid-Victorian governing arrangements ... he has provoked a good deal of thought and the book will be essential reading for some time to come.' Alan O'Day, Polytechnic of North London, History, Feb '92'he demonstrates, with clarity and objectivity, the overwhelming significance of what took place at local level, whether it was action or inaction, altruistic idealism or selfish calculation' W.R. Cornish, The Journal of Legal History, Volume 12, No. 3, December 1991'well researched and finely written study of nineteenth-century rural protest ... Reay writes ... with elegance and clarity, integrating the quantitative findings of his family reconstitution study with analysis of popular participation in the revolt ... The narrative descriptions (based on family reconstitution data) of the participants and what became of the survivors are among the most innovative and moving parts of the book, and help make it a genuine tour de force of anthropological history.' Albion M. Urdank, Southern History, XIII'John Prest produces some tricky missing pieces to help full in the picture of the functioning of central-local government relations. ... a number of subtle and important conclusions are drawn.' Valerie Cromwell History of Paliament, London. EHR Feb '94Table of ContentsAbbreviations; Parliament and the localities; The Isle of Wight; Huddersfield and District; Local and central government; Index
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Clarendon Press The True Law of Kingship Concepts of Monarchy in
Book SynopsisIn the 16th century, commoners were told to fear God and honour the King. But what if the King ordered one thing and God's law said another? In this study, the author examines the dilemma by focusing on the Scottish response to monarchial government during this period.Trade Reviewa significant and thoughtful result of many years of research and writing devoted to the history and development of Scottish speculation on the nature of monarchy ... contributes to a significant change in the historiographical outlook toward early modern Scottish history that has characterized the scholarly work of the past generation of Scottish academic writers ... a learned pioneering study. * Sidney A. Burrell, Albion *A subtle and thought-provoking account of a difficult problem and a fascinating period. * The Scotsman *
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Oxford University Press, USA A Freeborn People Politics and the Nation in
Book SynopsisThis text examines how the political cultures of the elite and of the common people intersected during the 17th century in England. It looks at politics at all social levels and investigates how it was affected by expectations about women's roles in politics.Trade Reviewit is when we come to the relation between elite and popular culture during the Interregnum that the strengths of Underdown's approach - and the freshness of his conclusions - are most apparent ... A Freeborn People is stimulatingly and... courteously argued. * Times Literary Supplement *This is a book full of insights and fertile connections, based on a lifetime of research in the field. * David L. Smith, Selwyn College, Cambridge, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Underdown's crisply written, stimulating volume takes the agenda one step further to challenge the compartmentalization of elite and popular politics ... an impressive survey of a century of English politics and culture, including the place of England's revolution in this period of change and continuity ... no one has advanced the argument before with such range and scholarly panache. * Barry Reay, University of Auckland, History *Underdown is incapable of writing uninterestingly ... the book suggests and stimulates * Blair Worden, History Today, January 1998 *This fine book provides an excellent brief summary of the thinking of David Underdown, one of the foremost living scholars of early modern English history ... In elegant and lucid prose, he presents compelling arguments against fashionable modern views about central questions in seventeenth-century English history and outlines his own interesting interpretation ... This is an excellent brief analysis of Stuart political life and its links with the social, cultural, and regional history of the period. * Johann P. Sommerville, American Historical Review *
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Clarendon Press Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum The
Book SynopsisThe Deeds of the Franks and the other Pilgrims to Jerusalem. With a facing-page English translation from the Latin text.
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Oxford University Press Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy
Book SynopsisPlease note this title is suitable for any student studying:Exam Board: AQALevel/Subject: AS and A Level HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: June 2017Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy has been approved by AQA and matched to the 2015 specifications. This textbook covers AS and A Level content together and covers in breadth issues of change, continuity, and cause and consequence in in this period of British history through key themes such as how far did the monarchy change during Stuart Britain, why were there disputes over religion, how effective was opposition, and how important were ideologies and individuals. Its aim is to enable you to understand and make connections between the six key thematic questions covered in the specification.Students can further develop vital skills such as historical interpretations and source analyses via specially selected sources and extracts. Practice questions and study ti
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Oxford University Press The Crisis of Communism The USSR and the Soviet
Book SynopsisPlease note this title is suitable for any student studying:Exam Board: AQALevel/Subject: AS and A Level HistoryFirst teaching: 2015First exams: June 2017Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions, The Crisis of Communism: The USSR and the Soviet Empire 1953-2000 has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification. This textbook explores in-depth a period of the practice and demise of Soviet communism. It focuses on key ideas such as de-Stalinisation, ''people power'', leadership and legitimacy, and covers events and developments with precision. Students can further develop vital skills such as historical interpretations and source analyses via specially selected sources and extracts. Practice questions and study tips provide additional support to help familiarise students with the new exam style questions, and help them achieve their best in the exam.
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Oxford University Press The Children of Henry VIII
Book SynopsisBehind the façade of politics and pageantry at the Tudor court, there was a family drama. Nothing drove Henry VIII, England''s wealthiest and most powerful king, more than producing a legitimate male heir and so perpetuating his dynasty. To that end, he married six wives, became the subject of the most notorious divorce case of the sixteenth century, and broke with the pope, all in an age of international competition and warfare, social unrest and growing religious intolerance and discord. Henry fathered four living children, each by a different mother. Their interrelationships were often scarred by jealously, mutual distrust, sibling rivalry, even hatred. Possessed of quick wits and strong wills, their characters were defined partly by the educations they received, and partly by events over which they had no control. Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, although recognized as the king''s son, could never forget his illegitimacy. Edward died while still in his teens, desperately plotting tTrade ReviewJohn Guy is that rare cross: a scholar who also writes for the popular market. It shows here, as he sketches with verve and fluency the education and the beliefs, as well as, briefly, the reigns of these last Tudors. But where he excels is in illuminating the relationships between the squabbling siblings. They say if you've got lemons, make lemonade, and in Guy's hands the story of The Children of Henry VIII is fresh, sparkling and sharp. * Literary Review *[A] smart, lively little book enriched by the reliable pleasure of Guy's prose, his pen dancing as deftly about his compact historical portraits as Horenbout's brush once did over his stunning miniatures. * The Sunday Times *Guy, whose prose is commendably readable, has a real gift for bringing Tudor history to life for 21st-century readers... * The Independent on Sunday *This may be a well known story, but Guy presents it with typical narrative flair and attention to detail, producing a book with obvious appeal. * BBC History Magazine *The stunning psychodrama that was the Tudor court is brilliantly evoked in John Guy's little book * The Lady *Well-written, well-researched and a lot of fun. * The Glasgow Herald *Table of ContentsPrologue ; 1. In the Beginning ; 2. Smoke and Mirrors ; 3. Prince or Princess? ; 4. Sons and Lovers ; 5. A Family Feud ; 6. Ruling from the Grave ; 7. Faith and Exclusion ; 8. Sisters, Rivals, Queens ; 9. Uncharted Waters ; Abbreviations ; Notes on Dates and Quotations ; Notes and References ; Index
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Oxford University Press The Fall of Tsarism
Book SynopsisThe Fall of Tsarism contains a series of gripping, plain-spoken testimonies from some of the leading participants of the Russian Revolution of February 1917, including the future revolutionary premier Alexander Kerenskii. Recorded in the spring of 1917, months before the Bolsheviks seized power, these interviews represent the earliest first-hand testimonies on the overthrow of the Tsarist regime known to historians. Hidden away and presumed lost for the better part of a century, they are now revealed to the world for the first time.Trade ReviewFor anyone with even a passing interest in the last days of Tzarism. * K. C. O'Connor, CHOICE *This is an extremely important book, both because of the remarkable treasure trove of unique new primary sources that it brings to light and because of Lyandres preliminary assessment of their utility and meaning. It reopens important issues in the history of the February Revolution and is a book that anyone interested in the Russian Revolution will want, indeed need, to read. * Revolutionary Russia *Semion Lyandres shines fresh light on the causes of the February Revolution. He has found important new sources and shows how they can be used to re-interpret the behaviour of leading figures like Alexander Kerensky and Mikhail Rodzyanko. This is an outstanding contribution to early twentieth-century Russian history. * Professor Robert Service, St Antonys College, Oxford *fascinating and important... the intrinsic interest and importance of these accounts is sufficient to captivate the reader and enhance our understanding of the February Revolution. * Catherine Andreyev, English Historical Review *This is a landmark publication that will change the interpretation of the February Revolution of 1917 in Russia ... Lyandres has made an immense contribution. From now on, no book on the February Revolution shall be written without careful examination of these interviews. * Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The Historian *an exemplary scholarly edition ... This book is a very valuable addition to the sources available for the study of February 1917 * Peter Waldron, European History Quarterly *The volume, which scholars will eagerly welcome, should also prove of interest to a wider reading public. We owe a debt of gratitude to Semion Lyandres for his persistence and his admirable presentation of these important testimonies of the revolution. * Jonathan Daly, History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ; List of Maps ; Note to the Reader ; Chronology of Main Events Mentioned in the Interviews ; Part I: The Story of the Interviews ; 1. The Quest for the Lost Oral Histories of the February Revolution ; 2. M.A. Polievktov and the First Oral Histories of the February Revolution ; Part II: The Interviews ; 3. Engel'gardt ; 4. Chikolini ; 5. Gerasimov ; 6. Rodzianko ; 7. Tugan-Baranovskii ; 8. Nekrasov ; 9. Chkheidze ; 10. Skobelev ; 11. Kerenskii ; 12. Tereshchenko ; Conclusion: The Interviews and the Political History of the February Revolution
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Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
Book SynopsisOver the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation''s history since the sixteenth century as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Such major themes as the Reformation, the Union of 1707, the Scottish Enlightenment, clearances, industrialisation, empire, emigration, and the Great War are approached from novel and fascinating perspectives, but so too are such issues as the Scottish environment, myth, family, criminality, the literary tradition, and Scotland''s contemporary history. All chapters contain expert syntheses of current knowledge, but their authors also stand back and reflect critically on the questions which still remain unanswered, the issues which generate dispute and controversy, and sketch out where appropriate the agenda for future research. The Handbook also places the Scottish experience firmly into an international historical perspective with a considerable focus on the age-old emigration of the Scottish people, the impact of successive waves of immigrants to Scotland, and the nation''s key role within the British Empire. The overall result is a vibrant and stimulating review of modern Scottish history: essential reading for students and scholars alike.Trade Review[The book] is like a banquet, in which every dish is tempting ... This is a book every library and school should purchase * Rosemary Goring, Glasgow Herald *a splendid choice of contributors * Owen Dudley Edwards, Scottish Affairs *hugely impressive on a number of levels ... the contributors also provide thoughts and direction to drive future research,making this impressive work a living document and not just a passive account of the past ... a timely,approachable and professional look at Scotland in the modern era. * CHOICE USA *If you want to know about the latest thinking in Scottish history since 1500,this is where to start...characterised by the most formidable learning * TC Smout, Herald Books of the Year 2012 *Without doubt,a milestone in pos-1500 Scottish history...absorbing with an impressive breadth of coverage * Journal of Scottish Historical Studies *Table of ContentsPART ONE: SOME FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN SCOTTISH HISTORY; PART TWO: REFORMATION, REGAL UNION AND CIVIL WARS 1500 - C.1680; PART THREE: UNION AND ENLIGHTENMENT C.1680 - 1760; PART FOUR: THE NATION TRANSFORMED 1760 - 1914; PART FIVE: THE GREAT WAR TO THE NEW MILLENNIUM 1914 - 2010
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Oxford University Press Menagerie
Book SynopsisMenagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and -- on occasion -- the downright bizarre.From Henry III''s elephant at the Tower, to George IV''s love affair with Britain''s first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh''s recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson''s tour through the centuries amounts to the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More''s monkey, James I''s cassowaries in St James''s Park, and Lord Clive''s zebra -- which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen whTrade Review4*: Both scholarly and pleasurable to read [a] comprehensive history of the British fascination with non-native creatures. * Chris Josiffe, Fortean Times *Captivating... celebrates our passion for exotic wildlife. * Jane Shilling, Daily Mail *5*: The first comprehensive study of the subject, this is an engaging social history with a unique angle. * Juanita Coulson, The Lady *Menagerie is a fact-driven narrative with exemplary commitment to detail. * Mary Wellesley, London Review of Books *Combining a zoologist's knowhow with an historian's tenacity for detail, Caroline Grigson has scoured archives to produce a comprehensive study of animal collections in England from earliest times until the founding of London Zoo in 1828. From archaeological finds to illuminated bibles, auction catalogues to court cases and even a 1705 gravestone commemorating the first woman killed by a tiger it is a story replete with as much comedy as tragedy, peopled by naturalists, aristocrats and showmen who were often as strange as the animals they collected ... Filled with lively anecdote and scholarly commentary, Grigsons book is a delightful guide to our long national obsession with wildlife. * Wendy Moore, The Guardian *In Menagerie, the zoologist Caroline Grigson presents an impressive study of the country's ... obsession with exotic animals ... Menagerie is full of fascinating and often charming tales ... As a study of a trend that stems back almost 1,000 years ... it is undeniably and ambitiously comprehensive. * Guy Pewsey, The Independent *Grigson is terrific at sleuthing down the remains of famous beasts. She also opens a few small windows onto national character ... [and] unearths some surprising historical gems. Who knew that the novelist Daniel Defoe went bankrupt trying to breed civet cats? Or that British hunts were once so desperate for foxes that they had to import them? Although private citizens would continue to keep menageries, this book ends with the demise of the collection at the Tower of London and the foundation of the London Zoo. It all makes the modern reader feel incredibly grateful that today we can enjoy exotic wildlife on our television screens, with the objects of our fascination in their natural habitats and no viewers gored. * Helen Brown, The Daily Telegraph *Grigson provides a supremely detailed account of England's exotic animals. Her zoological expertise enables her to identity more obscure species exhibited by showmen, while her archival work allows her to untangle their complex journeys to and within the British Isles ... an entertaining and informative read. * Helen Cowie, BBC History magazine01/04/2016 *[A] fascinating, well-researched and delightful book. * Lawrence James, The Times *... [an] incisive chronicle of exotic visitations to England's shores. * Nature *Grigson [throws] many sidelights on our compulsion to own and associate with animals ... There is much in [this spellbinding book] to suggest that alongside fascination, benevolence and affection lies much ignorance, indifference and active cruelty. * Patrick Scrivenor, Literary Review *With lively prose and thoroughly researched anecdotes, it becomes clear that [Grigson] shares a soft spot for the truly extravagant, eccentric and purely bizarre people involved in the world of menagerie. * Bath Chronicle *What sets this volume apart is that the author, Caroline Grigson, is not only a fine historian but also a zoologist who knows her possum from her pademelon. As you would expect from a book from Oxford University Press, this is no superficial treatmeny of a complex subject, but an exhaustively researched treatise with extensive quotes from original letters and papers written at the time. * Russell Tofts, Chairman of The Bartlett Society *Grigsons abundance of evidence creates a useful resource for historians of both science and art, and everything in between. * Katherine McAlpine, British Journal for the History of Science *a hugely enjoyable read and makes a valuable contribution that will only serve to enrich what is fast becoming a fascinating field of research * Archives of National History *Table of ContentsList of Plates List of Figures Juliet Clutton-Brock: Foreword 1: The Normans to the Tudors 2: The Stuarts, 1603-1688 3: William and Mary to George II, 1688-c.1760 4: George III, c.1760-1811 5: George IV as Regent and King, c.1811-1830 6: William IV, c.1830-1837 7: Conclusions Glossary Notes References Picture Credits Index of Animals General Index
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Oxford University Press The Fall of Robespierre 24 Hours in Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThe day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight at the close of the day, following a day of uncertainty, surprises, upsets and reverses, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He felt that his whole life and his Revolutionary career were drawing to an end. As indeed they were. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off in grisly fashion the next day.The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these 24 hours.Trade ReviewIt's almost as dramatic as the fall of Boris. * Iain Martin, Reaction *The melodramatic story of Maximilien Robespierre's fall has been told many times before, but never in such gloriously sensual detail... Colin Jones brings the French Revolution to life in all its colour and horror... Above all he is brilliant on the psychological twists of politics, which would cost Robespierre his life. * Dominic Sandbrook, 21 Best History Books of 2021, The Times *The book is suspenseful because, even though we know the way things end, it relates the build-up to Robespierres execution in breathless detail. Mining abundant archival material (from the reports of government functionaries, soldiers and spies to the diaries and letters of private citizens of all political beliefs), Jones shows how turbulence, confusion and contingency shaped each moment of that day. * Caroline Weber, London Review of Books *... a thrilling blow-by-blow account of that fateful day in the summer of 1794. One can almost hear the ticking of the clock, minute by minute, second by second, counting down to the guillotine. * Joseph Hone, Books of the Year 2021, History Today *A brilliant hour-by-hour recreation... He has a marvellous eye for colour: the sweat and fear in the Parisian prisons, the exhausted paranoia of the government committees, the stench of the guillotined bodies in the death pits outside the city. He is excellent on the contingency of political history... And, above all, he is brilliant on the psychology of politics, the way the mood of an assembly can switch in a moment with devastating consequences. * Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times *Jones insists that to understand 9 Thermidor it's necessary to dig down to the level of "infinitely small" details. In his admirable account he meticulously reconstructs the day on an hour-by-hour basis, crisscrossing the city as he does so. * Gerard deGroot, The Times *Colin Jones, a professor of history at Queen Mary University of London, handles a huge amount of material with skill and verve. He creates an extraordinarily vivid minute-by-minute portrait of Paris and its people on that pivotal day... * Constance Craig Smith, Daily Mail *The Historian Colin Jones has a gift for examining events afresh. * New Statesman *... minutely detailed and unfailingly gripping... Jones's superbly researched and strikingly original book produces an optic of a radically different kind. 'Only by getting "up close" and drilling down into the "infinitely small" details of the revolutionary process', its author insists, can the day's course and outcome be understood. And for once this counsel of perfection can be put into practice. * John Adamson, Literary Review *Behind the books general reader-friendly narrative structure, academics will find historical virtuosity on display. * Katie Jarvis, The English Historical Review *This is a remarkable, barnstorming doorstop of a book. * David Andress, French History *The greatest merit of Colin Jones's microscopic study of those deadly days in the summer of 1794 is that he succeeds in conveying the terrified uncertainty of the many actors, including large numbers of ordinary Parisians...His account required a massive amount of archival work, and his bibliography is testimony to his labors... The broader educated public with an interest in this extraordinary period will enjoy Jones's lively narrative... * Peter McPhee, H-France *An incisively argued and thrilling moment-by-moment examination of one of the French Revolution's most dramatic days... Colin Jones achieves the exceptional feat of putting 9 Thermidor in a new perspective... Jones's enthralling, incisively argued book is a fine contribution to the debate. * Tony Barber, Financial Times *The story of the Ninth of Thermidor has been told many times, but never so well as in Colin Joness The Fall of Robespierre. * David A Bell, The New York Review *... Colin Jones, as well informed about eighteenth century France as any professor of history could be, leads us through Paris on the exceptional day of 9 Thermidor, Year II. * Johan Hakelius, Engelsberg Ideas *Jones offers a new perspective on the Terror and nature of the Thermidorian Reaction. The unconventional narrative structure and style bring contingency to the fore and, in so doing, lead to new interpretations not only of Maximilien Robespierres downfall but of the course of the French Revolution. * Katlyn Carter, Age of Revolutions *... overall this is a classic: living up to the title exactly, it does so with full marks for style and substance... If you have any interest in the French Revolution, or politics in general, or the "processes of history" you will find The Fall of Robespierre a riveting, rigorous and thought-provoking read. * Anthony Webb, Popular History *This is a remarkable, barnstorming doorstop of a book. * , French History *The work Jones produced to support his point is remarkable... With its minute detailing of human characters, The Fall of Robespierre has the texture of literature and is good material for a mini-series or...how about another Hamilton?... * David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express *Vital, incisive, revelatory, The Fall of Robespierre offers a crisis anatomised, 'by the map and by the clock.' Its close-focus intensity makes us question everything we thought we knew about the bloody events of Thermidor Year II. It takes us to the place, to the instant, to the heartbeat of revolution in the making. * Hilary Mantel, author A Place of Greater Safety and the Wolf Hall trilogy *This is an astoundingly scholarly book, written with a beautifully assured hand... a book for the historian of the French Revolution itself... The minutiae of detail, and the ability to convey it, along with the mounting tension, is a specific talent, and which has been so obviously achieved by the author of this fascinating and superb volume. * Sandra Callard, On: Yorkshire Magazine *This is a remarkable, barnstorming doorstop of a book. * David Andress, French History *Colin Jones's micro-history can be fundamental reading. * Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine, Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE UP CLOSE PRELUDE: AROUND MIDNIGHT PART 1: ELEMENTS OF CONSPIRACY (Midnight to 05.00 a.m.) PART 2: SETTINGS FOR A DRAMA (5.00 a.m. to Midday) PART 3: A PARLIAMENTARY COUP (Midday to 5.00 p.m.) PART 4: A PARISIAN JOURNÉE (5.00 p.m. to Midnight) PART 5: AT MIDNIGHT, AROUND MIDNIGHT, AFTER MIDNIGHT AFTERWORD: 9 THERMIDOR FROM AFAR NOTES LIST OF CHARACTERS NOTE ON SOURCES BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRINTED SOURCES INDEX
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Oxford University Press Turncoats and Renegadoes Changing Sides during the English Civil Wars
Book SynopsisTurncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and Ireland. The first half identifies side-changers among peers, MPs, army officers, and common soldiers, before reconstructing the chronological and regional patterns to their defections. The second half delivers a cultural history of treachery, by adopting a thematic approach to explore the social and cultural implications of defections, and demonstrating how notions of what constituted a turncoat were culturally constructed. Side-changing came to dominate strategy on both sides at the highest levels. Both sides reviled, yet sought to take advantage of the practice, whilst allegations of treachery came to dominate the internal politics of royalists and parliamentarians alike. The language applied to ''turncoats and renegadoes'' in contemTrade ReviewBased on impressive and wide-ranging research in national and local archives in the United Kingdom and in the Folger and Yale University Libraries in the United States, this is the first full-length study of its subject and its significance for the course, and ultimate outcome, of the English Revolution. * R.C. Richardson, Clio *a thoroughly researched study of changing sides during the Civil Wars. ... a very original and stimulating study. * Northern History *Hoppers thoughtful book is a useful addition to those crowded student reading lists, but it needs to be read beside other studies. * Anthony Fletcher, The Journal of the Historical Association, *Hopper's book provides a very useful examination of the choosing of sides in the first place. ... We owe Hopper a great deal for bringing their justifications before us in so well analysed a manner. * Martyn Bennet, War in History *a significant and lively contribution * Ronald Hutton, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsPART I: A PROFILE OF SIDE-CHANGING IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1642-1646 ; PART II: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SIDE-CHANGING
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Oxford University Press Enlightened Metropolis Constructing Imperial Moscow 17621855 Oxford Studies In Modern European History
Book SynopsisImperial Russia, is was said, had two capital cities because it had two identities: St. Petersburg was Russia''s window to Europe, whereas Moscow preserved the nation''s proud historical traditions. Enlightened Metropolis challenges this myth by exploring how the tsarist regime actually tried to turn Moscow into a bridgehead of Europe in the heartland of Russia. Moscow in the eighteenth century was widely scorned as backward and Asiatic. The tsars thought it a benighted place that endangered their state''s internal security and their effort to make Russia European. Beginning with Catherine the Great, they sought to construct a new Moscow, with European buildings and institutions, a Westernized middle estate, and a new cultural image as an enlightened metropolis. Drawing on the methodologies of urban, social, institutional, cultural, and intellectual history, Enlightened Metropolis asks: How was the urban environment - buildings, institutions, streets, smells - transformed in the nine dTrade ReviewEnlightened Metropolis offers an important revisionist challenge to Moscow's marginal status in the modernization of the Russian Empire. * Daniel Beer, The Times Literary Supplement *[a] fine new history of Moscow * James Cracraft, English Historical Review *This work will become and should remain a standard reference point for studies of Moscow and indeed Russia of this period for decades to come. * Paul Keenan, History *Enlightened Metropolis is a prodigiously researched book ... The reader is amazed by the wealth of sources and statistics and the relentless comparison of Moscow with Russian and other European cities ... [Martin] has significantly advanced the urban, social, institutional, and cultural study of the empire during the watershed period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. * Cynthia Hyla Whittaker, Journal of Modern History *The book will become essential to any course on Russian cities, and would be equally well suited to courses on comparative urban history, or on Russian social history because of its nuanced and original perspective on Russian social hierarchies ... the book offers scholars rich detail on material culture, everyday life, urban personal narratives, the development of Russian urban ethnography, and memory and nostalgia. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the history of imperial Russia. * Katherine Pickering Antonova, Ab Imperio *Alexander Martin's Enlightened Metropolis is important and admirable work, which gives to Moscow its rightful place in a Russian Enlightenment ... masterful * Albert J. Schmidt, Journal of Social History *an enormously rich account based on extensive historical research ... contextualizing Moscow's history within the wider history of urban Europe, and providing an account illuminating the city's history from a number of competing perspectives -- including those of the rich, poor, and middling, as well as those of foreigners. Martin's is thus a well-rounded history of Moscow as an idea, a built environment, and a lived community. * Comments from the Urban History Association on the award of the 2015 prize for the best book of 2013-2014 in non-North American urban history *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Enlightened Metropolis and the Imperial Social Project ; 2. Space and Time in the Enlightened Metropolis ; 3. Envisioning the Enlightened Metropolis: Images of Moscow under Catherine II ; 4. Barbarism, Civility, Luxury: Writing about Moscow in the 1790s-1820s ; 5. Government, Aristocracy, and the Middling Sort ; 6. The 1812 War ; 7. Common Folk in Nicholaevan Moscow ; 8. Complacency and Anxiety: Representations of Moscow under Nicholas I ; Conclusion
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