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Byrom Projects The Messenger
Book SynopsisJoy Hancox reveals the culmination of an amazing journey she began 35 years ago when she received the Byrom Collection of geometric drawings in two brown paper bags.
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Warland Books Nine Days in Italy The Highs and Lows of Driving
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Rainbow Publications UK Norfolk the County of my Birth
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Orpington Publishers Santorini Thira The Lost Island of Atlantis Put
Book SynopsisThe myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Caldera and the Akrotiri Archaeological site. It is one of six 'Put It in Your Pocket series' on Greek islands.
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Orpington Publishers Tinos The MiracleWorking Icon
Book SynopsisAll you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.
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Lulu Press Edom and Germany
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Cambridge University Press After the Virus
Book SynopsisWhy was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal the deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a powerful manifesto for change post-Covid-19. They argue that our commitment to a flawed neoliberal model and the associated disinvestment in our social fabric left the UK dangerously exposed and unable to mount an effective response. This is not at all what made Britain great. The long history of the highly innovative universal welfare system established by Elizabeth I facilitated both the industrial revolution and, when revived after 1945, the postwar Golden Age of rising prosperity. Only by learning from that past can we create the fairer, nurturing and empowering society necessary to tackle the global challenges that lie ahead - climate change, biodiversity collapse and global inequality.Trade Review'… original and compelling.' Will Hutton, The Observer'… (a) wonderfully readable and historically informed account.' Michael Marmot, The Lancet'A critically important assessment of the current state of governance of healthcare and the economy in the UK - uniquely placed in historical context. The disastrous mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic provides an ideal launch-pad for this critique, which also demonstrates a clear path to a better future. It should be in the hands of everyone in the country who cares about and has responsibility for our future.' Sir David King, former UK Chief Scientific Adviser and Climate Envoy, Chair of Independent SAGE'What lessons does the past hold for shaping a better post-pandemic future? This book, with its powerful account of the intolerable inequalities of the present, argues for a revival of the moral foundations of the successful social contracts of earlier periods of British history.' Diane Coyle, author of Markets, State and People: Economics for Public Policy'It is quite a feat to trace the vagaries of English social history from the Elizabethan Poor Law, through mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the seven pillars of what a good society should look like. But these wonderfully accessible authors have done it. Bravo.' Sir Michael Marmot, author of Build Back Fairer: The COVID-19 Marmot Review'Impressive analysis of how 40 years of neoliberalism severely increased inequalities and the impact of the pandemic, and how a secure, mutually supportive society with a strong economy can be restored. Let's hope our government finds it inspiring and acts accordingly.' Pat Thane, author of Divided Kingdom. A History of Britain, 1900 to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. COVID-19 was always a matter of 'when' not 'if'; 1. The extraordinary history of pandemic control; 1.1 An ever-present threat; 1.2 The myth of progress; 1.3 How pandemics spread; 1.4 Pandemics and the changing role of the state: from divine to human responsibility; 1.5 A plague on all our houses – learning to control pandemics; 2. Pandemics are not random 'Black Swans'; 2.1 We were expecting a pandemic, so why was the UK so unprepared?; 2.2 Your money or your life; 2.3 Light at the end of the tunnel; Part II. Why COVID-19 was a perfect storm; 3. The fragile society of a neoliberal state; 3.1 The neoliberal project; 3.2 The capture of democracy; 3.3 How COVID-19 was able to wreak havoc; 3.4 A 'Just in time' health service; 3.5 A 'Cinderella' social care service; 3.6 A diminished state; 4. Inequality saps resilience; 4.1 Inequality and the laissez faire state; 4.2 'This is not an easy life any more, chum'; 4.3 Are we bothered?; 4.4 It's the economy stupid; 4.5 The 'Burning Injustices'; 5. The pandemic onslaught; 5.1 Those who lived and those who died; 5.2 The tattered safety net; 5.3 The COVID generation; 5.4 Where's next?; 5.5 Looking to the future; Part III. COVID-19 and the choices we now face; 6. 'Too big to fail?' – we need a payback this time; 6.1 Lessons from the 2007–08 financial crash; 6.2 What does all this have to do with a 2020 pandemic?; 6.3 A first look at the winners and losers; 6.4 Securing the pandemic payback – how are things looking this time?; 6.5 Is the old order beginning to crack?; 7. No time for austerity now; 7.1 So we found the magic money tree; 7.2 When austerity was in vogue; 7.3 Let's just put it on the tab; 7.4 Storm clouds ahead?; 8. Who has the deepest pockets?; 8.1 A better future and a proactive state; 8.2 Will we find the pot of gold?; 9. Re-thinking welfare; 9.1 Is it time for a no-strings attached Universal Basic Income?; 9.2 'Dignity and Security'; 9.3 Universal services; 9.4 Who cares?; 9.5 What of later life?; Part IV. After the virus – Who do we want to be?; 10. Casting aside the neoliberal state; 10.1 Homo Economicus and the myth of rationality; 10.2 History and Morality; 11. The birth of a collectivist individualism; 11.1 How Elizabeth I gave us the world's first welfare society; 11.2 The turn away from collectivist individualism after 1834; 11.3 The Boer War and the 'New Liberal' reforms; 11.4 Slaying the giants – Beveridge and the 'Golden Age'; 11.5 Wealth, redistribution and progressive taxation; 11.6 What lessons can we take from history?; 12. An empowering state to build a nurturing society; 12.1 What does it mean to have an empowering state?; 12.2 Freedom and the state; 12.3 Collective commitment to a nurturing society; 12.4 The case for fair and progressive contributions; 12.5 Democratic participation and devolved power; 12.6 Our natural environment and the empowering state; 13. Seven Pillars of Empowerment; 13.1 A Nurturing Society: Respect and inclusive support for all; 13.2 Ethical Capitalism: Working with business to redefine our values; 13.3 Fair Contributions: Full participation by the prosperous; 13.4 Open Public Discourse: Enabling all voices to have an equal hearing; 13.5 Measuring what we value: Signalling the changes we need; 13.6 A Sustainable Future: Responsible stewardship of our planet's resources; 13.7 Participatory Politics: Reviving democracy and civic engagement; 14. Greater even than a pandemic; 14.1 Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The British Home Front and the First World War
Book SynopsisThe First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. In the fullest account to-date of the home front, leading historians chart how its impact changed Britain for ever from political and economic transformation to social and domestic life.Trade Review'This is the most comprehensive reassessment of the 'Home Front' in the United Kingdom that has been published for a generation. It will provide an indispensable starting point for future scholars of the war and helpful and enlightening reading to those who have a general interest in Britain and Ireland during this period.' Adrian Gregory, author of The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War'In the fullest study in a generation, leading historians use social, economic, cultural, and political history to shine new light on Britain's home front in the Great War. They show why civilians were central to a 'total war' and integrate Ireland as part of the United Kingdom of the period.' John Horne, editor of A Companion to World War I'This collection makes a vital contribution to the political, economic and social history of the First World War. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in their fields, it provides a comprehensive study of the British Home Front. It forms an essential addition to the historical literature of the war.' Jessica Meyer, author of Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain'Hew Strachan's edited volume adds a strong scholarly voice to the chorus of commemoration still echoing from the centenary of the Great War. Here is a book which respects local identities and imperial loyalties, and shows how British initiatives in the management of manpower, production and finance underwrote victory in the 1914-18 war.' Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Hew Strachan; 1. The United Kingdom in 1914 Catriona Pennell; Part I. Government: 2. The monarchy Heather Jones; 3. The growth of cabinet government George Peden; 4. The defence of the realm act G. R. Rubin; 5. Local Government: The experience of Essex Stuart Hallifax; 6. The clergy and cultural mobilisation Edward Madigan; Part II. Resources: 7. Iron and steel Peter Claughton; 8. Timber Rob Newman; 9. Fishing Robb Robinson; 10. Agriculture Keith Grieves; 11. Coal David Howell; 12. Finance Jonathan Boff; Part III. People: 13. Labour, the labour party and the trades unions Chris Wrigley; 14. Enlistment and conscription Ian Beckett; 15. Charities Peter Grant; 16. Refugees Pierre Purseigle; 17. Prisoners of war and internees Panikos Panayi; Part IV. Production: 18. Munitions Gerard Charmley; 19. Clothing and uniforms Krisztina Robert; 20. Shipbuilding and ship repair Hugh Murphy; 21. Railways Christopher Phillips; 22. Seaborne trade and merchant shipping Martin Wilcox and David J. Starkey; 23. Food Mary Elisabeth Cox; Part V. Social Impacts: 24. Press and propaganda David Monger; 25. Pacifism Martin Ceadel; 26. Homes and families Maggie Andrews; 27. Crime and policing Louise A. Jackson; 28. Children Rosie Kennedy; 29. The home front as war front Susan R. Grayzel; 30. The United Kingdom in 1919 Martin Daunton.
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Cambridge University Press Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy
Book SynopsisExplains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press The Enclosure of Knowledge
Book SynopsisThe rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise, challenging the dominant narrative of an agricultural 'enlightenment' and showing how farming books appropriated traditional knowledge in pre-industrial Britain.
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Cambridge University Press A Nation of Petitioners
Book SynopsisBetween 1780 and 1918, over one million petitions from across the four nations were sent to the House of Commons. This first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom, as well as the history of modern British politics.
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Cambridge University Press Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisEnglish society in the eighteenth century was allegedly marked by a 'gambling mania'. Drawing on a vast range of new empirical evidence, Bob Harris explores the growth and prevalence of gambling across Britain and investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
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Cambridge University Press Corruption Protection and Justice in Medieval Europe
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Cambridge University Press Lucky Valley
Book SynopsisWritten in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.
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Cambridge University Press The Atrocity of Hunger
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, German racial policy designated Jews 'useless eaters', and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation impacted every aspect of Jewish life inside the ghettos as people tried to survive through a range of coping mechanisms and survival strategies.
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Cambridge University Press Berlin
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Cambridge University Press Berlin
Book SynopsisNow capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages. Through a series of ten vignettes, Mary Fulbrook discusses the periods and regimes that shaped its character ? whether Prussian militarism; courtly culture and enlightenment; rapid industrialisation and expansion; ambitious imperialism; experiments with democracy; or repressive dictatorships of both right and left, dramatically evidenced in the violence of World War and genocide, and then in the Wall dividing Cold War Berlin. This book also presents Berlin''s distinctive history as firmly rooted in specific places and sites. Statues and memorials have been erected and demolished, plaques displayed and displaced, and streets named and renamed in recurrent cycles of suppression or resurrection of heroes and remembrance of victims. This vivid and engaging introduction thus reveals Berlin''s startling transformations and contested legacies through ten moments from critical points in its multi-layered history.
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Cambridge University Press The Colonate in the Roman Empire
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Cambridge University Press Publishing in a Medieval Monastery
Book SynopsisThis Element contributes to the burgeoning field of medieval publishing studies with a case study of the books produced at the Benedictine monastery of Engelberg under its celebrated twelfth-century abbot, Frowin (114378).Table of Contents1. Introduction: Publishing in Medieval Monasteries; 2. Engelberg's 'Scriptorium'-What Do We Know?; 3. Colophons-What's in a Name?; 4. Auctor and auctoritas; 5. Conclusion; Appendix: Colophons in Manuscripts from Engelberg.
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Cambridge University Press The Quislings
Book SynopsisThe Norwegian ''treason trials'' were the most extensive post?Second World War ''reckoning'' with wartime collaboration in all of Europe. Following the war, tens of thousands of Norwegians were sentenced for their wartime actions, including the notorious leader of Norway''s collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling, Vidkun Quisling. And yet many wartime actions also went unpunished, including, in the vast majority of cases, violence perpetrated against Norway''s Jewish minority. The Quislings examines how the Norwegian authorities planned, implemented and interpreted this reckoning between 1941 and 1964. In doing so, it looks at the broader political purposes the treason trials served, how these changed over time and the mechanisms that brought these changes about. This wide-ranging study argues that the trials were not driven by the agenda of any one institution or group. Instead, their ?nal shape was the result of a complex process of weighing up demands for legal form and consistency against a fast-changing political and social environment.
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Cambridge University Press Vernacular Law
Book SynopsisAda Maria Kuskowski traces the impact of writing, language, learned ideas and court practices on the development of customary law in medieval France. Applying a multidisciplinary approach, this book will interest scholars of medieval France across law, literature and history.Trade Review'This book is a marvel, mixing erudition and imagination. Describing the cultural upheaval of the writing of custom, Ada Kuskowski opens new doors to the understanding of medieval law.' James Q. Whitman, Yale Law School'In the first comprehensive study of the earliest Northern French lawbooks known as coutumiers, influential myths about the rules and procedures of lay courts known as customary law are met with challenging scrutiny. Kuskowski compellingly argues that, with no prototype available, the coutumier authors imaginatively shaped a new form of learned and official law for lay jurisdiction and for a new audience of regional secular elites. Coutumiers were the paradigm-shifting achievement of expert legal minds who, in creating an idiom to think with and about custom, profoundly affected medieval legal culture.' Brigitte M. Bedos-Rezak, New York University'This study is a revelation. Early French customary law emerges from it as the dynamic creation of sophisticated juridical thinkers, who worked not to record local traditions, but to shape and teach a distinct form of legal practice and thinking for secular courts across thirteenth-century France. By studying the first coutumiers as a coherent whole, with a focus on language and manuscripts and an eye toward recent scholarship in legal history generally, Kuskowski defines a subject every bit as complex, interesting, and influential as the medieval Roman and canon laws that overshadow it in the historiography.' Adam Kosto, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: vernacular writing and the transformation of customary law in Medieval France; Part I. Written Custom and the Formation of Vernacular Law: 1. What is custom? Concept and literary practice; 2. Composing customary law as a vernacular law; 3. Writing a 'ius non scriptum': writtenness, memory and change; Part II. Political and Intellectual Tensions: 4. Uneasy jurisdictions: lay and ecclesiastical law; 5. Roman law, authority and creative citation; Part III. Implications: 6. Custom in lawbooks and records of legal practice; 7. Dynamic text: dialectic, manuscript culture and customary law; 8. Implications of circulating text: crafting a French common law; Conclusion: lasting model and professional community; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Propaganda and Ideology in the RussianUkrainian
Book SynopsisDrawing on tens of thousands of historical and legal documents, Jon Roozenbeek offers the first comprehensive analysis of the key role of propaganda in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and its use in modern military conflict. Suitable for scholars and students in political science, peace and conflict studies, psychology, and communication.
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Cambridge University Press Heretical Orthodoxy
Book SynopsisLev Tolstoi, one of the world's most famous writers, wasalso a religious thinker and influential critic of the Orthodox Church. This book offers a new account of his relationship with the Church, showing how most of his main ideas drew on his Christian heritage a radical reinterpretation of the faith he encountered in his own life.
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Cambridge University Press Globalizing Europe
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Cambridge University Press Futures of Socialism
Book SynopsisFutures of Socialism overhauls the history of 'modernisation' and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The plural modernisations of the British left; Part I. Social Democracy and the Challenge to the Nation-State: 1. 'Keynes is dead, Beveridge is dead': modernisation, globalisation, and European integration; 2. Industrial democracy, market socialism, and stakeholder capitalism: modernisation and socioeconomic democracy; Part II. Identities and Mmodern Socialism': 3. 'An old working class may be waning, but a new one is being born'? Gender, Labour, and modernisation; 4. A telling absence: race, multiculturalism, and modernisation; Part III. The Search for a Modernising Social Democracy; 5. 'A modern democracy': modernisation and constitutional reform; 6. White heat to interactive whiteboard: modernisation and Labour's economic strategy; Conclusion: contested futures of socialism in Britain's late twentieth century.
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Cambridge University Press Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe
Book SynopsisEnmity, a state or feeling of mutual opposition or hostility, became a major social problem during Europe's transition to modernity between 1500 and 1800. This book transforms our understanding of that process, exploring how ordinary people felt about their enemies, the violence it engendered and the solutions that helped create modern society.Trade Review'Based on extensive research in several languages, this book is the first major study of enmity across western Europe in the early modern period. Stuart Carroll argues that enmity remains one of the greatest challenges to liberal democracy and, as such, the concept of enmity remains of central importance today. This book makes a direct challenge to our very understanding of early modern Europe and it is an original and significant contribution to the histories of the state, violence, the law, and emotions.' Jonathan Davies, University of Warwick'… a seminal work of meticulous scholarship and solidly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library European History collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.' James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review'Stuart Carroll's latest book is testimony to a career of reading in multiple archives and languages. It vividly synthesises a large body of new historical scholarship into a coherent vision of the early modern obsession with justice, and the violent paths that people trod on their quests for it.' Colin Rose, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction; Italy; 1. The use of the law; 2. The politics of vendetta; 3. The culture of vendetta; 4. The decline of vendetta; Germany; 5. Rethinking the feud; 6. The culture of enmity in Early Modern Germany; 7. Sühne: the theory and practice of peace-making; France; 8. Village politics and vendetta; 9. Peace and justice under the absolute monarchy; England; 10. Justice and violence; 11. Enmity in Early Modern England; Comparisons; 12. The experience of enmity; 13. Enmity and sacred space; 14. Living with the enemy.
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Cambridge University Press Towns and Commerce in VikingAge Scandinavia
Book SynopsisThis volume offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. It tracks the diverging characteristics of urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world.Trade Review'In world archaeology, the Baltic Sea in the Viking Age is blessed by 150 years of exceptional excavations and study. This compelling book maps the rise and importance of towns and trade, drawing on this research. It uniquely describes how special economic zones serviced the Viking homelands, intersecting with the sea kings in the West and the Caliphate in the East. More, Kalmring skilfully shows this was part of a larger European history, in which archaeological evidence brings to life the essential background to Viking piracy and colonisation. It is a tour de force worthy of the rich archaeology of the Baltic.' Richard Hodges, OBE, FSE, author of Dark Age Economics: A New Audit (2012)Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The Viking-age town: Context and academic debate; 3. The Viking world; 4. Cult, jurisdiction and markets: Things and regional fairs at traditional centres of power; 5. Local society and Viking-age towns; 6. An urbanisation based on harbours; 7. Jurisdiction and taxes; 8. Free trade within narrow boundaries; 9. Special economic zones of their time; 10. Development after the inception phase; 11. Discussion: Hedeby's abandonment and the foundation of Slesvig; 12. Summary and conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Gender and Policing in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis new volume traces the history of gendered policing back to its emergence from the patriarchal household. It describes how a recognisable form of gendered policing emerged from practices of local government by patriarchs.
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Cambridge University Press Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThis timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective.
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Cambridge University Press On Laudianism
Book SynopsisLaudianism was both a way of being Christian and a political ideology. This definitive account of this intensely controversial movement explores how it helped cause the English civil war, but over the long term provided one of the visions of the national church, one that has been in contention to define ''Anglicanism'' ever since--Table of ContentsIntroduction: Part I. Laudianism, where it Came From: 1. A Trinitarian and incarnational theology; 2. Andrewes' political theology; 3. Andrewes' anti-puritanism; 4. Puritan politics; 5. The tree of repentance and its fruits; 6. Absent presences; the role of predestination in Andrewes' divinity; 7. The visible church and its ordinances; Part II. Laudianism, what it was: 8. The house of God; 9. The house of God and the beauty of holiness; 10. The beauty of holiness and ceremonial conformity; 11. Church ceremonies, the authority of the church and the authority of scripture; 12. Prayer; 13. Preaching; 14. The sacrament and the altar; 15. The sacrament and the social body of the church; 16. The altar and visible succession; 17. The feasts and festivals of the church, or putting the sabbath in its place; 18.Sunday sports and the re/constitution of the Christian community and the social order; 19. The sabbath and the Laudian attitude to authority; Part III. Laudianism, what it was n't: 20. Order, puritanism and the state of the English church; 21. Puritan 'privacy', or the forms of puritan voluntary religion anatomized; 22. A religion of the word and the question of authority; 23. Puritanism, popularity and politics; 24. Of moderate puritans and popular prelates; 25. The puritan threat, the church of England and the Personal Rule as a period of reformation; Part IV. Laudianism and Predestination: 26. Laudianism, puritanism and Arminianism revisited; 27. The language of mystery; 28. Fatal necessity; 29. Predestination, the positive case: of justice and mercy, prescience and predestination; 30. Faith, hope and charity; 31. Effort without merit; repentance, amendment and the works of penitence; Part V. Laudianism as Coalition, the Constituent Parts: 32. Dis-aggregating, or the pleasures and benefits of splitting; 33. Of converts, collaborators and apostates, i, puritans; 34. Of converts, collaborators and apostates, ii, Calvinist conformists; 35. Of apparatchiks, zealots and coming men; 36. The Laudian avant garde, (i) young men in a hurry; Cambridge University in the 1630s; 37. The Laudian avant garde, (ii) old men in a hurry; Robert Shelford, James Buck and Edward Kellett; 38. Tacking and trimming; negotiating the end of 'the Laudian moment'; 39. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Streetscapes of War and Revolution
Book SynopsisHow did it feel to experience the Habsburg Empire's fall into war and revolution? Morelon reconstructs the sights, sounds and material culture of a city in turmoil. From imperial city to nation-state capital, she traces Prague's emerging place within the post-Versailles world order, and what this meant for its citizens.
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Cambridge University Press Global Ships
Book SynopsisGlobal Ships examines the major seafaring traditions and technologies that engendered long-distance connections across the world's oceans during the Global Middle Ages. Global Ships highlights essential historical context, technological case studies, and logics of seafaring around the world before the modern age.
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Cambridge University Press WorkingClass Raj
Book SynopsisWorking-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family histories and remaking class in British India; 2. Writing family together across Imperial distances; 3. Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India; 4. Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service; 5. Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire; 6. Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.
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Cambridge University Press Vichys Double Bind
Book SynopsisVichy''s Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind. On the one hand, many of the threats to France''s territory, colonial empire and power came from Rome as well as Berlin. On the other, Vichy was caught between the irreconcilable yet inescapable positions of the two Axis governments. Unable to resolve the conflict, Vichy sought to play the two Axis powers against each other. By exploring French dealings with Italy at diplomatic, military and local levels in France and its colonial empire, this book reveals the multi-dimensional and multi-directional nature of Vichy''s policy. It therefore challenges many enduring conceptions of collaboration with reference to Franco-German relations and offers a fresh perspective on debates about Vichy France and collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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Cambridge University Press Good Jews
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Cambridge University Press The Power of Emotions
Book SynopsisEmotions make history, and emotions have a history. Through engaging analysis of twenty essential and powerful emotions including anger, grief, hate, love, pride, shame and trust Ute Frevert explores the emotional worlds of Germans to tell a very different story of the 20th century.Trade Review'Ute Frevert's new book is an encyclopaedic history of the social and cultural framing of emotions. It is an entrancing and lively account of the power of emotions to change worlds. A 'must read' for anyone curious about lived, felt experiences in the twentieth century.' Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London'Written by one of the world's leading historians of Germany at the top of her game, Ute Frevert's The Power of Emotions is an unusually marvellous and a marvellously unusual book. This book looks at German history from about 1900 onwards through the prism of 20 emotions. Every chapter on an emotion is a kind of tour down 120 years of German memory lane, furnishing highly original re-readings through a history of emotions lens.' Jan Plamper, University of Limerick'In this elegantly written book, Ute Frevert demonstrates how emotions make history and are also made by history. She analyses twenty different emotions from anger to nostalgia and from disgust to pride and uses them to shine a light on the five political regimes of twentieth-century Germany.' Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, University of OxfordTable of ContentsIntroduction: the power of emotions in German history; Anger; Belonging; Curiosity; Disgust; Empathy; Envy; Fear; Fondness; Grief; Hate; Honour; Hope; Humility; Joy; Love; Nostalgia; Pride; Shame; Solidarity; Trust.
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Cambridge University Press Modern Britain 1750 to the Present
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Kingship in Late Medieval England
Book SynopsisThis book offers a series of concise and accessible chapters on the workings of English kingship c. 12001500, exploring not only how kings ruled, but also what made their rule more or less effective. It is for students, scholars, and interested readers of history and politics in late medieval England.
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Cambridge University Press Dio
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Dio: Greek aristocrat and Roman politician; 2. Dio and the writing of history, c. A.D. 200; 3. The nature of Dio's history; 4. The purpose of Dio's history; 5. Conclusion: Dio's value as a historical source; 6. Cassius Dio, Roman History, Books 58-63: Selections; 7. Historical commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Uprooted
Book SynopsisThis book explores how mass displacement affects social and economic development, showing that the resettlement of millions of Germans and Poles after WWII produced stronger states and more prosperous societies. It advances research on ethnicity, migration, and state-building and provides lessons for policymakers dealing with forced displacement.
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Cambridge University Press Money and Irish Catholicism
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to the Spanish Inquisition
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Cambridge University Press Ulsters Lost Counties
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Cambridge University Press A Republic of Sympathy
Book SynopsisSophie de Grouchy was a political philosopher and activist practising at the centre of Revolutionary events in France between 1789 and 1815. Despite this, her contributions to the development of political thought are often overlooked, with Grouchy commonly falling under the shadow of her husband Nicolas de Caritat, the marquis de Condorcet. A Republic of Sympathy instead situates Grouchy as a significant figure among her contemporaries, offering the first complete exploration of her shifting thought and practice across this period of societal upheaval. Kathleen McCrudden Illert analyses texts newly attributed to Grouchy and examines her intellectual collaborations, demonstrating how Grouchy continued to develop a unique philosophy which placed sympathy as the glue between the individual and the political community. The study also explores Grouchy''s connections with her peers and interlocutors, from Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, to Thomas Paine and Jacques Pierre Brissot. In doing so, it argues powerfully for Grouchy''s reintegration into the history of European political thought.
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Cambridge University Press Unwilling to Know
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Cambridge University Press Sailing Away from Byzantium Toward East Roman
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Cambridge University Press Debating Papal History c. 250c. 1300
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Cambridge University Press The Power of Peasant Consumers
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