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Book SynopsisHighlights how West Germany leveraged its economic power to become a key pillar of NATO, the European Community, and the global economy in the 1960s and 1970s; how it reduced Cold War tensions with the Soviet bloc; and how it renounced military status symbols such as nuclear weapons.

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Book SynopsisRather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century. This is an important reassessment of the history of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.Trade Review'Morieux offers a useful corrective to the new British history or 'archipelagic studies', whose challenge to Anglocentric history has a tendency to overlook Europe. It's a cliché to say a book is timely, but in the midst of another debate on borders this book presents a bigger picture.' Willy Maley, Times Higher Education'Morieux's work here indicates in exemplary fashion how much more difficult to define was the political and juridical status of a murky, evershifting, and often downright dangerous stretch of water. Morieux repeatedly plays off the overlaps and tensions between the economic and political realms, noting further in the conclusion how merchants might balance natal allegiance with naturalization elsewhere.' David Andress, The American Historical Review'A rich and rewarding text, based on extensive research on both sides of la Manche, The Channel opens new perspectives on the sea as a connection, and the fluidity of maritime space.' Andrew Lambert, International Journal of Maritime History'… a powerful antidote and alternative perspective to those who see Anglo-French relations only through the prism of conflict. It is a profoundly optimistic view and in that, as much as in the subject it deals with, it is a timely and welcome intervention.' John McAleer, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Border Invented: 1. The impossibility of an island: before the Channel was a sea; 2. When the sea had no name; Part II. The Border Imposed: 3. Defending the military frontier; 4. Who owns the Channel? The overlap of legal rights; 5. The fight for natural resources; Part III. Transgressing the Border: 6. The fisherman: 'friend of all nations'?; 7. The game of identities: fraud and smuggling; 8. Crossing the Channel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisRobert Brier examines how human rights emerged as the dominant political language of our time. By showing how Polish dissidents were entangled in international debates on human rights and political resistance, he demonstrates how human rights became a contested source of legitimacy.Trade Review'In this brilliant and carefully researched book, Brier recasts the role of human rights in the history of the late twentieth century by removing Solidarity from teleological narratives about the alleged centrality of human rights for 'winning' the Cold War and instead offers a rich and deeply contextualized account of the movement's complex political, economic and social valences. A magnificent achievement.' Mark Philip Bradley, University of Chicago'Imaginatively researched and elegantly argued, this book goes well beyond the 'what happened' to explore how the language of human rights shaped the end of the Cold War. Brier has taken apart our assumptions about the role of human rights in the fall of communism and reassembled the pieces – the intellectual positions, the political strategies, and most important the icons – in an original and compelling way.' Padraic Kenney, Indiana University'One of the most important books on human rights history to appear in the last decade, Robert Brier's masterful study of Polish dissent weaves the domestic and the international to offer a fundamentally new – and utterly fascinating – account of global human rights in the 1980s.' Barbara Keys, Durham University'A breath of fresh air in a dense scholarly field long in need of an imaginative new history. Brier's broad lens, meticulous research, and lucid prose offer a rare work that will be indispensable to a range of readerships, from Polish studies to global intellectual history, that might otherwise never intersect.' Piotr H. Kosicki, University of Maryland'… reading Robert Brier's book is useful for understanding not only the past but also the present.' Jan Olaszek, H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Rise of Dissent in Poland; 2. Dissent and the Politics of Human Rights; 3. 'The Principle of Non-Interference as Laid Down in the Helsinki Final Act': the Polish crisis, the Cold War, and Human Rights; 4. The End of the Ideological Age: Human Rights and Ostpolitik; 5. Solidarity, Human Rights, and Anti-Totalitarianism in France; 6. The 'Bedrock of Human Rights': US Labor, Neoconservatism, and Human Rights; 7. Letters from Prison: the Prisoner of Conscience and the Symbolic Politics of Human Rights; 8. Lech Wałęsa, the symbolism of the Nobel Peace Prize, and Global Human Rights Culture; 9. General Pinochecki: Poland, Chile, and the Global Politics of Human Rights Culture; 10. Human Rights and the End of the Cold War; Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisA prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices. This was the single most important economic reality of Europe''s daily life in the early modern period. Jan de Vries uses the Dutch Republic as a case study of how the market functioned and how the regulatory system evolved and acted. The ways in which consumer behaviour adapted to these structures, and the state interacted with producers and consumers in the pursuit of its own interests, had major implications for the measurement of living standards in this period. The long-term consequences of the Dutch state''s interventions reveal how capitalist economies, far from being the outcome of unfettered market economics, are inextricably linked with regulatory fiscal regimes. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.Trade Review'Like Galileo's telescope, The Price of Bread lets us see and understand a distant world - early modern Europe and especially the Dutch Republic. We learn what consumers ate, how standards of living changed, and why, in the capitalist Netherlands, taxation and market regulation took a fascinating and strikingly different turn.' Philip T. Hoffman, author of Why Did Europe Conquer the World?'This intriguing masterpiece explores the municipal system of Broodzetting introduced in the Netherlands in the 1590s that led to high bread prices in both good times and bad. How did they get away with it? Why did the poor not starve? Jan de Vries finds the answers in the precocious commercialisation and growth of the early modern Dutch economy.' Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Famine: A Short History and co-editor (with Guido Alfani) of Famine in European History'The Price of Bread is Jan de Vries at his best. By analyzing the price of bread, he uncovers deep underlying institutional structures that characterize the Dutch Republic and had important consequences for the country's development. His analysis sheds new light on political economy, consumption patterns and real incomes, and famines.' Jan Luiten van Zanden, author of The Origins of Globalization'With The Price of Bread, Jan de Vries offers us new insight into the pre-industrial Dutch economy through the prism of one sector. The book is rich in analysis and has ramifications that extend far beyond the regulation of bread prices. A must-read for anyone interested in institutional economies, standards of living, consumption, fiscal policies and state formation, and moral economies.' Bruno Blondé, co-editor of City and Society in the Low CountriesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Regulatory Regime: Protecting the Consumer and Strengthening the State: 1. Bread price regulation in Europe before the 1590s; 2. Free trade in grain?; 3. The Dutch broodzetting: the introduction of a 'new system' of bread price regulation; 4. Administering and enforcing the new bread price regulations; 5. The Dutch 'peculiar institution'; Part II. Industrial Organization: The Producers in a Regulated Industry: 6. Grain: the interaction of international trade and domestic production; 7. The milling sector: a trade harnessed to raison d'état?; 8. The baking enterprise: efficiency versus convenience; 9. The structure of bread prices; Part III. Consumer Welfare and Consumer Choice: 10. Crise de subsistence: did price regulation shelter consumers from food crises?; 11. Choosing what to eat in the early modern era; 12. Bread consumption: a wheat bread revolution?; 13. Measuring the standard of living: a demand-side approach; Part IV. Perspective and Demise: 14. Dutch bread price regulation in international perspective; 15. Bread price regulation renewed and abolished, 1776–1855; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisWhy did Britons get up a play wherever they went? Kathleen Wilson reveals how the performance of English theater and a theatricalized way of viewing the world shaped the geopolitics and culture of empire in the long eighteenth century. Ranging across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans to encompass London, Kingston and Calcutta, Fort Marlborough in Sumatra, St. Helena and Port Jackson in New South Wales as well as London and provincial towns, she shows how Britons on the move transformed peripheries into historical stages where alternative collectivities were enacted, imagined and lived. Men and women of various ethnicities, classes and legal statuses produced and performed English theater in the world, helping to consolidate a national and imperial culture. The theater of empire also enabled non-British people to adapt or interpret English cultural tradition through their own performances, as Englishness became also a production of non-English peoples across the globe.Trade Review'The vibrancy of Britain's domestic theaters during the long eighteenth century has long been established. But in this rich, sophisticated, and adventurously researched book, Kathleen Wilson excavates theater's importance for Britain's overseas empire. Ranging from St. Helena to Jamaica, and Sydney to Calcutta, she shows how a wide range of actors and impresarios used and invested in plays to communicate, to set out arguments, and to offer cultural and racial assertions. Strolling Players of Empire is an arresting and significant work.' Linda Colley, author of The Gun, The Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World'Both audiences and actors play a necessary role in the magic of theater. By reading old texts anew, and tracing lives and plays across a global stage from Kolkata to the Caribbean, Kathleen Wilson has changed how we understand eighteenth-century race and empire.' Tim Hitchcook, co-director of The Old Bailey Online.'Revealing for the first time the full scope of the globe-circling ambition of the English-speaking colonial theater, Kathleen Wilson also re-writes the history of the British Empire in the eighteenth century. Her stunning thesis is that theatrical and related kinds of public enactments did not merely reflect the expanding imperium but rather created it by enabling the performance of Englishness by people of all nations. Sustaining its bold claims by making both new archival discoveries and original arguments, Strolling Players of Empire raises the stakes for what research in the field will be for decades to come.' Joseph Roach, author of Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic PerformanceTable of ContentsPrologue: Strollers without Borders; Introduction: Britain's Theatrical Empire; Part I. Playing: 1. Peripheralizing the Spheres: Theatrical Assemblages of the Imperial Provinces; 2. Rowe's Fair Penitent as Global History: Colonial Family Strategies and the Imperatives of Nation; 3. The Lure of the Other: Jews, Nabobs and Enslaved Africans in a Transcolonial Imaginary; Part II. Theatres of Empire: 4. Performances of Freedom: Jamaican Maroons in Imperial Transit; 5. Blackface Empire: or, the Slavery Meridian; 6. Zanga's Colony: Revenge in Sydney; Part III. East India Company Peripheries and the History of Modernity; 7. Performing The Wonder in Sumatra: Theatrical Ethnography in a New World History; 8. In Conclusion: Napoleonic Gothic, or St. Helena as Center of the British World.

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Book SynopsisLiberalism is a critically important topic in the contemporary world as liberal values and institutions are in retreat in countries where they seemed relatively secure. Lucidly written and accessible, this book offers an important yet neglected Russian aspect to the history of political liberalism. Vanessa Rampton examines Russian engagement with liberal ideas during Russia''s long nineteenth century, focusing on the high point of Russian liberalism from 1900 to 1914. It was then that a self-consciously liberal movement took shape, followed by the founding of the country''s first liberal (Constitutional-Democratic or Kadet) party in 1905. For a brief, revelatory period, some Russians - an eclectic group of academics, politicians and public figures - drew on liberal ideas of Western origin to articulate a distinctively Russian liberal philosophy, shape their country''s political landscape, and were themselves partly responsible for the tragic experience of 1905.Trade Review'Historian of ideas Rampton (McGill Univ.) has written a book that provides a surprisingly clear and cogent introduction to liberal ideas and writing in the final third of the Romanov dynasty.' J. C. Sandstrom, Choice'… the book contains much fascinating detail that tells us a great deal about intellectual culture in turn-of-the-century Russia, and as such, I would consider the book to be a … rewarding read.' Stefan Kirmse, H-Soz-KultTable of ContentsIntroduction: conceptions of liberalism in Imperial Russia; 1. Inside out: freedom, rights and the idea of progress in nineteenth-century Russia; 2. Progress, contested: positivist and neo-idealist liberalism; 3. Freedom, differently: liberalism in 1905 and its aftermath; 4. Liberalism undone: the loss of cohesion on the eve of 1917; 5. Conversations with Western ideas I: conflict between values; 6. Conversations with Western ideas II: progress and freedom; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis engaging history of dynastic power in medieval Europe explores the role of family dynamics and family consciousness in the politics of royal and imperial dynasties. From royal marriages and the birth of sons, to female sovereigns, mistresses and wicked uncles, Robert Bartlett casts fresh light on an essential feature of the medieval world.Trade Review'Integrating numerous translated quotes from key primary sources into a fluently written history, this wide-ranging, authoritative and colourful overview will prove to be of enduring relevance, as a great story for the general reader and a treasure trove for researchers.' Jeroen Duindam, author of Dynasties. A Global History of Power 1300-1800'Blood Royal is a magisterial, comprehensive and imaginative exploration of dynastic principles and practices in medieval Europe, including the risks and perils of dynastic succession…Quite frankly, in terms of originality, there is no other book I know to rival it on any aspect of dynastic history.' William Chester Jordan, author of The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX'Blood Royal is a tour de force. In dynastic politics, Bartlett has found a huge subject that has yet been little explored. He has researched it magisterially, ranging Europe-wide across vast numbers of sources in classical and vernacular European languages.'' Janet L. Nelson, author of King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne'Dynasty – where kinship and politics meet – is the subject of Robert Bartlett's latest ambitious exploration of Europe's medieval centuries. He commands an impressive range of regional experiences, explores change over time and uses helpful concepts in this study of the idea that made European kingdoms and nations – and still does.' Miri Rubin, author of Cities of Strangers: Making Lives in Medieval Europe'Bartlett's eye for the graphic and revealing incident, as well as for the historical insights encoded in medieval personal names, is just as evident here as it is in his previous books and in his several television series.' Len Scales, Times Literary Supplement'Absolutely brilliant.' Dan Snow, History Hit'Political stability in medieval Europe depended in the last resort on the births, marriages and deaths of ruling families. Scholarly and a pleasure to read, Bartlett's new book draws on an impressive range of sources in explaining how unpredictable dynastic politics shaped the history of Latin Christendom Byzantium from 500 to 1500.' Tony Barber, Financial Times, Best Books of 2020'Blood Royal bears all the hallmarks of a classic.' Levi Roach, Literary ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. Royal Families; Part I. The Life Cycle: 1. Choosing a bride; 2. Waiting for sons to be born; 3. Fathers and sons; 4. Female sovereigns; 5. Mistresses and bastards; 6. Family dynamics; 7. Royal mortality; Part II. A Sense of Dynasty: 8. Names and numbering; 9. Saints, images, heraldry, family trees; 10. Responses to dynastic uncertainty: prophecy and astrology; 11. Pretenders and returners: dynastic imposters in the Middle Ages; 12. New families and new kingdoms; 13. Dynasties and the non-dynastic world; Conclusion; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisA History of Anti-Semitismexamines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long history of antisemitism starting with ancient Greece and Egypt, through the anti-Judaism of early Christianity, and the medieval era in both the Christian and Muslim worlds whenJews were defined as ''outsiders,'' especially in Christian Europe. This portrayal often led to violence, notably pogroms that often accompanied Crusades, as well as to libels against Jews. The volume also explores the roles of Luther and the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the debate over Jewish emancipation, Marxism, and the social disruptions after World War 1 that led to the rise of Nazism and genocide. Finally, it considers current issues, including the dissemination of hate on social media and the internet and questions of definition and method.Trade Review'an important resource - though frequently an unsettling read.' Alexander Faludy, Church TimesTable of ContentsPart I. The Classical Period: 1. Antisemitism in the pagan world Erich Gruen; 2. New Testament origins of Christian anti-Judaism Adele Reinhartz; 3. Anti-Judaism in early Christian writings Pierluigi Piovanelli; 4. Church fathers and antisemitism from the second century through Augustine (end of 450 CE) Joshua Garroway; 5. Christians, Jews, and Judaism in the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, c. 150–400 CE Andrew Jacobs; 6. Christianizing the Roman Empire: Jews and the law from Constantine to Justinian, 300–600 CE Andrew Jacobs; 7. Antisemitism in Byzantium, fourth-seventh centuries Steven Bowman; Part II. Medieval Times: 8. The medieval Islamic world and the Jews Reuven Firestone; 9. Medieval Western Christendom Robert Chazan; 10. Christian theology and papal policy in the Middle Ages Jeremy Cohen;11. Crusades, blood libels, and popular violence Emily Rose; 12. Jews and money: medieval origins of a modern stereotype Julie Mell; 13. Jews and anti-Judaism in Christian religious literature Miri Rubin; 14. Antisemitism in medieval art Debra Higgs Strickland; Part III. The Modern Era: 15. Martin Luther and the Reformation Debra Kaplan; 16. The enlightenment and its negative consequences Alan Arkush; 17. Modern antisemitism in Western Europe: romantic nationalism, racism, and racial fantasies Shulamit Volkov; 18. Antisemitism in late Imperial Russia and Eastern Europe up to 1920 Laura Engelstein; 19. Marxism, socialism, and antisemitism Jack Jacobs; 20. Antisemitism in modern literature and theatre: 20A. French literature Maurice Samuels; 20B. German literature Michael Mack; 20C. English literature Bryan Cheyette; 21. Antisemitism in America, 1654–2020 Jonathan Sarna; 22. Antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich Steven T. Katz; 23. New Islamic antisemitism: mid-nineteenth to the twenty-first century Esther Webman; 24. Anti-Zionism as antisemitism Dina Porat; 25. New issues Deborah Lipstadt; 26. Antisemitism in social media and on the Web Mark Weitzman; 27. Theories on the causes of antisemitism Bruno Chaouat.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the liturgical experience of emotions in Byzantium through the hymns of Romanos the Melodist, Andrew of Crete and Kassia. It reimagines the performance of their hymns during Great Lent and Holy Week in Constantinople. In doing so, it understands compunction as a liturgical emotion, intertwined with paradisal nostalgia, a desire for repentance and a wellspring of tears. For the faithful, liturgical emotions were embodied experiences that were enacted through sacred song and mystagogy. The three hymnographers chosen for this study span a period of nearly four centuries and had an important connection to Constantinople, which forms the topographical and liturgical nexus of the study. Their work also covers three distinct genres of hymnography: kontakion, kanon and sticheron idiomelon. Through these lenses of period, place and genre this study examines the affective performativity hymns and the Byzantine experience of compunction.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The liturgical world of compunction; 3. Romanos the melodist; 4. Andrew of crete; 5. Kassia; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhy were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston''s magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.Trade Review'Aston's forensic attention to detail, penetrating insight and comprehensive mastery of her subject are on show from the first page. This is a book that could only have been written after a lifetime of scholarly enquiry, and is a worthy testament to Aston's formidable skills as both writer and historian. … Broken Idols remains a suitably powerful, perceptive and significant final contribution to the field by a truly brilliant and inspirational scholar.' Jonathan Willis, Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: 1. The call to destroy; 2. Answering the call; 3. Steps to the temple; Part II: 4. Saints popular and unpopular: St Thomas of Canterbury and St George; 5. Reforming sound: bells and organs; 6. Images of the Trinity; Part III: 7. Windows; 8. The cross; 9. Word against image; Conclusion.

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The Irish Revolution was a pivotal moment of transition for Ireland, the United Kingdom, and British Empire. A constitutional crisis that crystallised in 1912 electrified opinion in Ireland whilst dividing politics at Westminster. Instead of settling these differences, the advent of the First World War led to the emergence of new antagonisms. Republican insurrection was followed by a struggle for independence along with the partition of the island. This volume assembles some of the key contributions to the intellectual debates that took place in the midst of these changes and displays the vital ideas developed by the men and women who made the Irish Revolution, as well as those who opposed it. Through these fundamental texts, we see Irish experiences in comparative European and international contexts, and how the revolution challenged the durability of Britain as a global power.

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable papal history known as the Liber pontificalis permanently shaped perceptions and the memory of Rome, the popes, and the many-layered past of both city and papacy within Western Europe. Rosamond McKitterick offers pioneering insights into the evolution of this extraordinary source, and its significance.Trade Review'With this book, Rosamond McKitterick makes a powerful contribution to medieval history. Her thorough study demonstrates the construction of the papacy through the act of collective biography embodied in the Liber Pontificalis, enabling us to look with new eyes at the city of Rome during its momentous transition from imperial capital to centre of western Christianity.' Marios Costambeys, University of Liverpool'McKitterick shows how the Liber pontificalis, never objective or neutral, both chronicled and was itself an instrument in the transformation of Rome from imperial city to Christian capital, a capital in which the popes replaced the Emperor as its master.' Patrick J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study'A key narrative on the authority of papal Rome, the Liber pontificalis still carries so much weight that many historians take it for granted. This is no longer possible with Rosamond McKitterick's book at hand. It is an absorbing enquiry into the creation and dissemination of a powerful text.' Mayke de Jong, Utrecht University'McKitterick's masterful book offers a novel approach to the Liber pontificalis, showing how diligently it shaped medieval views of Christian Rome, of the papacy and of the Church as an institution. She combines careful manuscript scholarship with a thorough explanation of the changing historical context and a broad sweep of ideas. This is a highly rewarding read for anyone interested in medieval Rome, in the formation of the Western Church and in the cultural transformation of post-classical Europe.' Walter Pohl, University of Vienna'This is the kind of book whose every page makes the reader sit back and think.' Thomas F. X. Noble, Early Medieval EuropeTable of Contents1. The Liber pontificalis: text and context; 2. The Liber pontificalis and the city of Rome; 3. Apostolic succession; 4. Establishing visible power; 5. Bishop and pope; 6. Transmission, reception and audiences: the early medieval manuscripts of the Liber pontificalis and their implications; Conclusion: the power of a text

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Book SynopsisThrough penetrating interpretations of Georg Simmel's reflections on the essence of modernity and modern civilisation, this study places the German philosopher and social thinker's ideas on culture, education and civilisation within the context of intellectual life in Imperial Germany.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Bildung, Kultur, Crisis; 2. Unity in Variety; 3. Unity versus Variety; 4. Unity above Variety; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisArguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.

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Book SynopsisANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period. DAVID NASH is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900 with Anne-Marie Kilday, with whom he co-edited Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000.Trade ReviewMurder and Mayhem provides a timely and accessible study of crime and criminality in twentieth-century Britain. Exploring and contextualising key themes in the history of crime, the text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike. * Samantha Pegg, Nottingham Law School, UK *Every student of twentieth-century British crime should read this book. Written by experts in the field, each chapter addresses a key theme in the history of crime and criminal justice. Not only do the chapters summarise what we know, but also what we don't about the chosen themes. Students looking for research project ideas will find plenty to inspire them. * Mark Roodhouse, University of York, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Britain in the Twentieth Century, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday Britain's Most 'Wanted': Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900, Anne-Marie Kilday Serious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century, Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey Racial Hate Crime in Britain,David Nash Offences Against Children: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse,Kim Stevenson Anarchism, Assassination and Terrorismin Modern Britain, Johannes Dillinger ‘Hope I Die Before I Get Too Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases, Clifford Williamson Organised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster', Heather Shore Punishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration, Helen Johnston Law Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives,Neil Davie

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Book SynopsisAlan Sharp is Emeritus Professor of International History at the University of Ulster, UK.Trade ReviewAlan Sharp’s book offers an invaluable overview of the post-First World War peace treaties for students and for the general reader. It is a pleasure to see a new and updated third edition that includes an excellent survey of the historical debate on the topic. * David Stevenson, LSE, UK *The comprehensive chronology of key events, the long list of dramatis personae, and especially the excellent annotated bibliography which reviews the historiography of the subject since the last edition, admirably complements the superb text to qualify the third edition of The Versailles Settlement as the most valuable treatment of the subject available. * William R. Keylor, Boston University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Maps Foreword Chronology Note to the Second Edition The Peacemakers 1. The Old World Falls Apart 2. The Paris Peace Conference 3. The League of Nations 4. Reparations 5. The German Settlement 6. The Eastern European Settlement 7. The Colonial, Near and Middle Eastern Settlements Conclusion End Note to the Third Edition: Changing Perceptions of the Versailles Settlement Abbreviations Notes Bibliographical Note Bibliography Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking early nineteenth-century Italy as a special study, it uses the exceptionally rich documentary sources from this time to examine such issues as charity, repression, the reasons why families suffered poverty and what strategies they adopted for survival. In this study, Stuart Woolf takes full account of recent work in historical demography and in sociological studies of poverty and the welfare state to produce this original and thoughtful work.This book will be of interest to those studying the history of poverty, class and the welfare state. Table of ContentsNote; 1. Introduction: the poor and society in western Europe 2. The poor, proto-industrialization and the working class: Italy (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) 3. The treatment of the poor in Napoleonic Tuscany, 1808-14 4. The reliability of Napoleonic statistics: the ‘List of the poor and beggars in each commune’ in the department of Arno, 1812 5. Problems in the history of pauperism in Itally, 1800-15 6. Language and social reality: job-skills in Florence in the early nineteenth century 7. Charity, poverty and household structure: Florence in the early nineteenth century 8. Charity and family subsistence; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the Chadwick Papers, the Peel, Place, Russell and Gladstone Papers, the Home Office, Treasury and Ministry of Health papers and the minutes and documents of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. Centred on this mass of material, this book demonstrates that the great social reforms of the Victorian age should be attributed, not so much to the Cabinets, but to the labours of a handful of civil servants. It also argues that Edwin Chadwick was the most influential of these civil servants and through this illuminating biography, Professor Finer gives an account of early Victorian administration as seen from inside.This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian social reform, the history of the welfare state and social policy.Table of ContentsBook One: A Young Man and a Great Radical; Book Two: Barrister into Civil Servant; Book Three: The Domestic Fiend of Somerset House; Book Four: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Five: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Six: Andover; Book Seven: The Triumph of the Public Health Movement; Book Eight: The Cholera; Book Nine: The Struggle for London; Book Ten: The Struggle for the Provinces; Book Eleven: The Third Career of Edwin Chadwick; Illustrations

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about London's history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which punctuate it. The essays collected in this book focus on these themes and address important questions about class, nationality, sexual difference, and radical politics. They combine the established strengths of social history with more innovative approaches such as the history of representations.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction David Feldman and Gareth Stedman Jones; The social problem; 1 Jennings’ Buildings and the Royal Borough: The construction of the underclass in mid-Victorian England Jennifer Davis 2 The People’s Palace: An image for East London in the 1880s Deborah E.B. Weiner 3 The importance of being English: Jewish immigration and the decay of liberal England David Feldman 4 Free from chains? The image of women’s labour in London, 1900-20 Deborah Thom; Politics: visions and practices; 5 Radical clubs and London politics, 1870-1900 John Davis 6 ‘The millennium by return of post’: Reconsidering London Progressivism, 1889-1907 Susan Pennybacker 7 Popularism and proletarianism: Unemployment and Labour politics in London, 1918-34 James Gillespie 8 The suburban nation: Politics and class in Lewisham Tom Jeffery; Identities; 9 ‘Fierce questions and taunts’ Married life in working-class London, 1870-1914 Ellen Ross 10 Becoming a women in London in the 1920s and 1930s Sally Alexander 11 The ‘cockney’ and the nation, 1780-1988 Gareth Stedman Jones; Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre's God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de Vinci, and the paintings of Magritte, this third volume of Pierre Legendre's Lessons focuses on the relation of the subject to the institution of images. Legendre tracks the origins and vicissitudes of the specular metaphor within western history, carrying out a critique of its dependence on the discourse of the Imago Dei. A crucial landmark within Legendre's ongoing reconsideration of a medieval revolution of interpretation', this book dissociates the western normative tradition from its mythic foundation, separating theology and law. It thereby documents the advent of modern rational doubt, as a new legal foundation or ground: one that, for Legendre, was not only a revoTable of ContentsPrologue. To fabricate man so that he resembles man: The question of images and the reproduction of humanity Chapter 1. The constitutive alienation of the subject: Prolegomena to every theory of the image Chapter 2. The relational nature of identity and society: Remarks on the deployment of the mythological function Aside Chapter 3. ‘Id efficit, quod figurat’ (The efficient is the symbol): Social constitution of the word and the normative emergence of images Conclusion. The link of the image: link to the foundations of the image

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Book SynopsisThe seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England''s social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.A History of England, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1714 focuses on the key social, economic, cultural, environmental, intellectual, and political events and themes of English history up to the early eighteenth century. Topics include the Viking and Norman conquests of the eleventh century, the creation of the monarchy, the Reformation, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The text discusses events in Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as they affected developments in England. There is a new section dealing with the decline of belief in witchcraft.This book is essential introductory reading for students of the history of England and Britain.

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Book SynopsisSince its earliest days, the Christian Church sought to draw up rules by which its members could live together in religious communities. Whilst those of Augustine (c.400 AD) and Benedict (c.530 AD) provided detailed guidance for monastic life, it took another two centuries for equivalent rules for secular clergy to become accepted on a wide scale. The earliest surviving set of comprehensive rules for canons are those written in the mid-eighth century by St Chrodegang (c.712-766), Bishop of Metz. Writing initially for secular clergy at Metz Cathedral, this work shows how Chrodegang''s rule borrowed much from the Benedictine tradition, dealing with many of the same concerns such as the housing, feeding and disciplining of members of the community and the daily routine of the divine offices. At a time when there was no consensus on how clergy should live - whether they should marry or were eligible to own property - Chrodegang''s rule provided clear guidance on such issues, and inspired Trade Review'... provides a useful and accessible place in which to study some important but often neglected early medieval documents.' Catholic Historical Review 'Students and teachers of medieval history will find this work a welcome source for the changing milieu of clerical common life in the early Middle Ages... The Latin is carefully translated into clear and comprehensible English, with many footnotes to satisfy the scholar.' American Benedictine ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; The common life of the secular clergy; The Rule of Chrodegang; The Council of Aachen and the Canonical Institute; The Longer Rule; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisSeventy years after the end of the Second World War we still do not fully appreciate the intensity of the lived experience of people and communities involved in resistance movements and subjected to German occupation. Yet the enduring conjunction between individuals, things and place cannot be understated: from plaques on the wall to the beloved yellowing relics of private museums, materiality is paramount to any understanding of conflict experience and its poetics. This book reasserts the role of the senses, the imagination and emotion in the Italian war experience and its remembrance practices by tracing a cultural geography of the everyday material worlds of the conflict, and by digging deep into the multifaceted interweaving of place, person and conflict dynamics. Loneliness, displacement and paranoia were all emotional states shared by resistance activists and their civilian supporters. But what about the Fascists? And the Germans? In a civil war and occupation where shifting aTable of ContentsIntroduction: a poetics of civil war and resistance Baldini dies in the end: journey through a world at war Armchair strategists vs. affective archivesThe materialities of absence The interview process 1 8 September 1943, ‘end of days’: Italy’s capitulation and its dystopian aftermath 1.1 My family history as a story of the resistance 1.2 The genesis of civil war and German occupation 1.3 Materiality and memory1.4 The poetics of storytelling: interviewing, imagining, mapping 2 Unsettling identities 1944 2.1 Identities and the uneasy materiality of conflict 2.2 Materialities and the uncanny 2.3 The partisan experience 2.4 Understanding the Fascists 2.5 Who were the Germans, and what did they want? Germans . . . or Austrians? German self-reflections 2.6 Why weren’t the Allies more helpful? 2.7 Spies: the ultimate uncanny element 3 The lost bodies of the Italian resistance and civil war 3.1 Bodies in the snow 3.2 The body of the fighter Sex Bodily hygiene 3.3 The female body 3.4 The Jewish body in the resistance 3.5 Other bodies 3.6 Saved or dead: the body’s tale 3.7 Reconnaissance in no man’s memory: the grim legend of Buss de la Lum 4 The haunting materiality of storytelling 4.1 Storying affects: wartime rumour as inter-corporeal practise 4.2 The ontogenetic nature of storytelling: the snowball effect 4.3 Action! The historical workings of affect 4.4 Story one: constructing an American OSS agent as the Other 4.5 Story two: the Golden Column of Menarè 4.6 Story three: expected and unexpected emotions 4.7 Conclusion 5 Competing materialities: presence and absence in the material world of the war 5.1 The material turn in the social sciences: things ‘matter’ 5.2 The materiality of the interview 5.3 Wartime tangibilities: on emotional absence-presence 5.4 Frontline materialities: evocative objects and booby traps The eagle and the death cult: Fascists and their materiality Frontline objects 5.5 Absence as an affect: the shadow-play of memory 5.5.1 A paper cenotaph: Bruno’s memento 5.5.2 The night is a thing: the poetics of sleep and sleep deprivation 5.5.3 ‘I shouldn’t have asked them for it’. Wilma’s guilty prize 5.6 Reflections 6 Landscapes of fighting, feeling and hoping: place as material culture 6.1 Hostile landscapes and the vernacular of terror 6.2 The making of places: opportunity and consolation6.3 The unmaking of places Home, falling apart The unlikely comfort of the uplands 6.4 Searching for invisibility: stealth and secrecy in everyday materialities 6.5 The marginality of bodies, the liminality of the river 6.6 Going back 7 The conclusion of a journey through regions of silence By way of foreword 7.1 Compassionate scholarship: using affect and postmemory towards a recognition of the uncanniness of civil war An intermission: Levi, the partisan 7.2 Making place for a future 7.3 Engaging with the poetics of conflict experience 7.3.1 The poetics of violence 7.3.2 The poetics of exclusion 7.4 A past we can know 7.5 Engaging humanely with the materialities of others Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers'' communities, and the accompanying transformations in social status, family structure, and collective life and culture of the workers. An especial focus is the cultural transformations which occurred at the time of the 1905-1907 revolution in the Kingdom of Poland, incorporating it into tsarist Russia. In parallel with this, Professor Zarnowska has been concerned to examine the gender-determined inequalities of the life opportunities of women and men, and how these altered as social modernisation in Poland progressed. She looks at the changing legal and social status of women and their life chances, as well as the emergence of new social models of women''s roles. Several studies are also devoted to the impact exerted by urban civilisTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 The Working Class and Social Change in Poland in the Final Decades of the 19th Century and in the Early 20th Century - The Working Class Culture: La classe ouvrière polonaise à la charnière des XIXe et XXe ss.: integration et differenciation; Die soziale Herkunft des städtischen Proletariats im Königreich Polen; Probleme der Herausbildung und politischen Formierung der Arbeiterklasse. Ost-mitteleuropäische Besonderheiten; Rural immigrants and their adaptation to the working-class community in Warsaw; Working-class culture or workers' culture? The problem of working-class culture in Poland at the turn of the 20th century; Religion and politics: Polish workers c. 1900; Education of working-class women in the Polish kingdom (the 19th century - beginning of the 20th century). Part 2 The Political Culture of Society Early in the 20th Century - The Revolution of 1905-07 in the Polish Kingdom: Determinants of the political activity of the working class in the Polish territories on the turn of the 19th century; Some aspects of the democratization of political life in congress Poland at the beginning of the 20th century; Revolution of 1905-07 and the political activation of the working class in the Polish kingdom; Die Genese der Spaltung in der Polnischen Sozialistischen Partei im 1906. Part 3 The Changing Family and the Socio-Cultural Position of Women: Working family in the kingdom of Poland at the end of the 19th century; Women in working class families in the Congress kingdom (the Russian zone of Poland) at the turn of the 19th century; Changes in the occupation and social status of women in Poland since the Industrial Revolution till 1939; Family and public life: barriers and interpenetration - women in Poland at the turn of the century; Social change, women, and the family in the era of industrialization: recent Polish research; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys developments in sacramental and liturgical discourse and discord, exploring the writings of English and Scottish divines, and focusing on baptism and the Lord''s Supper. The reigns of James I and Charles I coincided with divergence and development in teaching on the sacraments in England and Scotland and with growing discord on liturgical texts and the ceremonial. Uniquely focusing on both nations in a single study, Bryan Spinks draws on theological treatises, sermons, catechisms, liturgical texts and writings by Scottish theologians hitherto neglected. Exploring the European roots of the churches of England and Scotland and how they became entwined in developments culminating in the Solemn League and Covenant and Westminster Directory, this book presents an authoritative study of sacramental and liturgical debate, developments, and experiments during the Stuart period.Trade Review’There is no comparable study which provides such a synoptic account of liturgical development and discord in Scotland and England in the seventeenth century. With that deftness which comes only from detailed knowledge of the source material, Bryan Spinks brings fresh and compelling readings of many hitherto neglected documents. This is an invaluable book.’ Professor Iain Torrance, Head of the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen, Scotland 'In this remarkable book...he fills a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of English and Scottish sacramental theology through the turbulant Stuart era... achieves a number of significant ends...deserves to be read by anyone interested in rediscovering our common roots... Many will benefit from the insights of this book, particularly Evangelicals, who would find in the sacramental controversies of this era some significant precedents... It is a scandal that an historical theologian of Spinks's calibre should be lost to British academe.' Church Times 'This is an erudite and impressively researched book, drawing on often neglected seventeenth-century churchmen and theologians. As a national synoptic study of sacramental theology it is peerless, and will undoubtedly become a key work for theologicans of the period.' H-Net Reviews 'By any counts it is an ambitious venture, but [Spinks'] skills as an historical theologian at home with both doctrine and liturgy place him in an admirable position for this important task. The resulting book is a lively, if at times technical, read... All in all, Spinks has written a significant ecumenical study of the sacraments. It is hoped that Anglican evangelicals will take the chance to delve into their own past, and perhaps see some contemporary debates in a wider context.' Journal of Theological Studies 'Bryan Spinks' study is to be welcomed, providing as it does a guide through this critical period in the development of sacramental theologTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The sacramental legacy of the 16th-century Reformation; Lex Ritualis, Lex Credendi? From Hampton Court to the Five Articles of Perth; The development of conformist Calvinist and patristic reformed 'sacramentalism', and the sacramental rites of the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer; From the Long Parliament to the death of Cromwell; Kingdoms and churches apart: the Restoration; After-thoughts; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisBy 1976, the National Front had become the fourth largest party in Britain. In a context of national decline, racism and fears that the country was collapsing into social unrest, the Front won 19 per cent of the vote in elections in Leicester and 100,000 votes in London.In response, an anti-fascist campaign was born, which combined mass action to deprive the Front of public platforms with a mass cultural movement. Rock Against Racism brought punk and reggae bands together as a weapon against the right. At Lewisham in August 1977, fighting between the far right and its opponents saw two hundred people arrested and fifty policemen injured. The press urged the state to ban two rival sets of dangerous extremists. But as the papers took sides, so did many others who determined to oppose the Front.Through the Anti-Nazi League hundreds of thousands of people painted out racist graffiti, distributed leaflets and persuaded those around them to vote against the right. ThiTrade Review"I was gripped and loved the way it took me through different elements of popular culture, personal reflection and policy. It is the best account of the relationship between punk and the Anti-Nazi League/Rock Against Racism." Lucy Robinson, Professor in Collaborative History, University of Sussex"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the post-war history of racist and fascist movements and the strategies of resistance to them." Hsiao-Hung Pai, author of Angry White People"David Renton's book helps us understand a pivotal moment in the defeat of fascism; it addresses the militant tradition of anti-fascism with real consideration." Louise Purbrick, contributor to Physical Resistance: A Hundred Years of Anti-Fascism"For an insight into how to build a mass, popular and victorious movement around anti-fascism and racism there is no better book than David Renton’s latest, Never Again, a historiography of Rock against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League, 1976-1982." Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football "Renton’s brisk yet rigorous book excels on the political context. He elucidates the toxic internal politics of the NF...and he doesn’t skimp on the numerous disagreements that churned beneath the surface image of multi-racial solidarity in the anti-fascist camp....Yet there are broader lessons here for anyone seeking to build an effective mass movement without being derailed by purity politics or egos....Never Again explains exactly how something was done." Dorian Lynskey, The Spectator"David Renton’s Never Again is a forensic retelling of the story of the two organisations that organised the Hackney event and the anti-fascist march through London that accompanied it, and the political ferment that gave rise to them....At least a quarter of Renton’s text is devoted to a history of the National Front and its leadership....But the book comes to life when it zeroes in on their opponents, and...the stories he tells of Rock Against Racism gigs are vivid and stirring." John Harris, New Statesman."David Renton who has written indefatigably on this subject...returns with another exhaustive journalistic account of this most toxic period in recent British political history....The momentous public confrontations that took place in Lewisham in 1977 and Southall in 1979...are documented here with all the meticulous scrutiny of the military historian." Stuart Walton, The London Magazine."The publication of Never Again comes at a time when the extreme right wing that RAR and the ANL were set up to oppose are on the march again.In this sense, it is an important means of taking stock." Neil Cooper, The Herald."Never Again is an arresting and atmospheric account. To say the book is timely is unnecessary, given the rise of a very different Tommy Robinson to the Tom Robinson of 1970s. Renton’s book is clear that the cultural and political response now will differ from the response then – but what he is equally clear about is the growing need for a response." Colin Revolting, Red Flag.Table of Contents1. In England, dreaming 2. A history of coups and expulsions 3. The other young believers 4. Reggae, soul, rock 'n' roll 5. Lewisham 6. Even God has joined the Anti-Nazi League 7. We all got high, we touched the sky 8. Southall 9. Keeping on keeping on10 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. By exploring urban spaces in relation to themes such as politics, economies, religion, and crime, this edited collection shows that streets were not only places where people came together to work, shop, and eat, but also to fight, celebrate, show their devotion, and express their grievances. The volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and applies new approaches and methodologies to the historical study of urban experience. In doing so, Early Modern Streets provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship in early modern history.Accompanied by over 50 illustrations, Early MTable of ContentsPart 1: Contours and Foundations 1. Framing the street 2. Sources and methods for studying historical streets 3. Representing the street in words and images 4. Sensing the street Part 2: Street Use 5. Street politics 6. Street economies 7. Religion in the streets 8. Street crimes

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Book SynopsisBy drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical narrative of King James VI & I's life from his birth in 1566 to his accession to the throne of England and Ireland in 1603.The only son of Mary Stuart and heir (apparent but not uncontested) to Elizabeth I, James VI of Scotland was, from the moment of his birth, a focal point of countervailing hopes and fears for the confessional and dynastic future of the kingdoms of the British Isles. This study examines material from across the UK and beyond, as well as the newly deciphered letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, to reveal James as a highly capable, resourceful, deeply provocative and ruthless political actor. Analysis of James's own writings is integrated within the narrative, providing fresh insights into the king's inventive tactical engagement in the politics of publicity. Through a chronological approach, the events of his life are

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Book SynopsisPopular interest in Cromwell has often exceeded the originality of what has been written about him. Barclay's study comes out of meticulous research on a huge range of newly discovered primary sources, transforming our understanding of the life and career of Oliver Cromwell during the period from his birth in 1599 until 1642.Table of ContentsChapter 1 The Man from Huntingdon; Chapter 2 The Biographer; Chapter 3 The Fishmonger; Chapter 4 The Kinsmen; Chapter 5 The Nonconformists in the Fens?; Chapter 6 The Drainers, the Protesters and the Bishop; Chapter 7 The Ely Petitioners; Chapter 8 The two Elections of 1640; Chapter 9 Another Election; Chapter 10 The War Years; Chapter 11 Back to the Restoration; Chapter 12 Conclusion;

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Book SynopsisThe Italian Wars 14941559 outlines the major impact that these wars had, not just on the history of Italy, but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars, covering all the campaigns and placing the military conflicts in their political, diplomatic, social and economic contexts.Throughout the book, new developments in military tactics, the composition of armies, the balance between infantry and cavalry, and the use of firearms are described and analysed. How Italians of all sectors of society reacted to the wars and the inevitable political and social change that they brought about is also examined, offering a view of the wars from a variety of perspectives. Fully updated and containing a range of maps as well as a brand-new chapter on propaganda and images of war, this second edition of The Italian Wars 14941559 is essential reading for all students of Renaissance and miliTrade Review"This revised edition of the 2012 collaboration between Dr. Shaw (Oxford) and the late Prof. Mallett (Warwick) is a masterful overview of the protracted conflict between France and Spain for control of Italy that came to involve virtually every major European power, including the Ottoman Empire, with everyone demonstrating a remarkable flexibility in their loyalties and alliances. In a clear, highly readable account, the authors managed to integrate in an almost seamless fashion complex matters of dynastic ambition, personalities, diplomatic interactions, strategic maneuvering, war finance, and military operations, including some good battle pieces."NYMAS ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The genesis of the wars and the first French expedition; 2. Milan and Naples overwhelmed, 1496-1503; 3. The conflict widens; 4. New orders struggling to be born, 1512-1519; 5. The contest for supremacy in Italy, 1520-1529; 6. Testing the boundaries, 1529-47; 7. The French challenge, 1547-1559; 8. The transformation of war; 9. The resources of war; 10. Propaganda and images of war; 11. The legacies of the wars; Index

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Book SynopsisCapetian France 9871328 is an authoritative overview of the country's development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period. When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in 987, his powers were weak and insignificant, but from an inauspicious beginning he founded a dynasty that was to last over 300 years and that came to dominate western Europe. This carefully updated third edition draws extensively on new scholarship that has emerged since the previous edition. It contains images, maps, family trees and a discussion of key sources, allowing the reader to develop a strong contextual knowledge as well as a greater connection with the material world of the period.Maintaining a balance between a compelling narrative and an in-depth examination of central themes of the age, Capetian France 9871328 provides a comprehensive account of this significant era within FranTable of ContentsChapter 1: French Society in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; Chapter 2: Politics and Society: A Regional View; Chapter 3: The Early Capetians, 987–1108; Chapter 4: The Revival of Royal Power, 1108–1226; Chapter 5: Louis IX: The Consolidation of Royal Power, 1226–70; Chapter 6: The Last Capetians, 1270–1328: The Apogee of Royal Power; Chapter 7: Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Crouch's William Marshal, now in its third edition, depicts this intriguing medieval figure as a ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and a brutal but efficient soldier. Born the fourth son of a minor baron, he ended his days as Earl of Pembroke and Regent of England, and was the only medieval knight to have a contemporary biography written about him. Using this biography in addition to the many other primary sources dedicated to him, the author provides a narrative of William Marshal and a survey of the times in which he lived and also considers the problems and questions posed by the History. The third edition has been extensively updated and revised, and now includes: expanded sections on the reality of medieval tournaments and warfare as it is described in the biography an in-depth study of Marshal's family life and children based on the latest research including material from the new edition oTrade Review"David Crouch’s third edition of the life and times of William Marshal further extends our knowledge of this significant man and his society. His scholarship on the significance and relevance of the concept of courtoisie in William Marshall’s world, over the later construct of chivalry, is a must for any student of medieval society and gendered codes of conduct." Kathryn Smithies, University of Melbourne, Australia. "This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in knighthood, family, the royal court, warfare and lordship in the medieval world. It provides a compelling account of the career of one of the most extraordinary figures of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, played out against the rise and fall of the fortunes of the sons of King Henry II: Henry the Young King, Richard the Lionheart, and John."Paul Webster, Cardiff University, UK "David Crouch’s William Marshal is a welcome and greatly appreciated addition to the study of chivalry and knighthood in Medieval Europe. Crouch presents "The Marshal" as human -- a great military and political leader, exemplary to other knights of the period, but capable of error, poor judgment, and even vulnerable to defeat as well. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and engaging throughout, this is a book that will please both researchers and students alike."Michael Furtado, University of Oregon, USA Praise of the previous edition: 'a tour de force... The world of the Angevin court is splendidly recreated, and Dr Crouch succeeds admirably in explaining the reality of the chivalric ethos. For him, the celebrations after a battle had more in common with the atmosphere in the bar of a rugby club than with that of the enclosures at Henley or the ski-slopes of Klosters - Dr crouch is adept at finding striking modern parallels.' History Today 'a refreshingly readable book, it makes a contribution to medieval studies quite out of proportion to its size.'TLS 'Crouch resurrects a lost world in fluent, economic and readable prose, often enlivened by colloquialisms and contemporary parallels.' Southern History 'Written in a racy, accessible, idiosyncratic style, which might have appealed to the Marshal himself, it should be read by everyone interested in medieval people, politics and society.' Archives "David Crouch’s third edition of the life and times of William Marshal further extends our knowledge of this significant man and his society. His scholarship on the significance and relevance of the concept of courtoisie in William Marshall’s world, over the later construct of chivalry, is a must for any student of medieval society and gendered codes of conduct."Kathryn Smithies, University of Melbourne, Australia. "This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in knighthood, family, the royal court, warfare and lordship in the medieval world. It provides a compelling account of the career of one of the most extraordinary figures of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, played out against the rise and fall of the fortunes of the sons of King Henry II: Henry the Young King, Richard the Lionheart, and John."Paul Webster, Cardiff University, UK "David Crouch’s William Marshal is a welcome and greatly appreciated addition to the study of chivalry and knighthood in Medieval Europe. Crouch presents "The Marshal" as human -- a great military and political leader, exemplary to other knights of the period, but capable of error, poor judgment, and even vulnerable to defeat as well. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, and engaging throughout, this is a book that will please both researchers and students alike."Michael A. Furtado, University of Oregon, USA Praise of the previous edition: 'a tour de force... The world of the Angevin court is splendidly recreated, and Dr Crouch succeeds admirably in explaining the reality of the chivalric ethos. For him, the celebrations after a battle had more in common with the atmosphere in the bar of a rugby club than with that of the enclosures at Henley or the ski-slopes of Klosters - Dr crouch is adept at finding striking modern parallels.' History Today 'a refreshingly readable book, it makes a contribution to medieval studies quite out of proportion to its size.'TLS 'Crouch resurrects a lost world in fluent, economic and readable prose, often enlivened by colloquialisms and contemporary parallels.' Southern History 'Written in a racy, accessible, idiosyncratic style, which might have appealed to the Marshal himself, it should be read by everyone interested in medieval people, politics and society.' Archives Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Childhood and Squirehood 2. The Household Knight 3. The Making of a Magnate 4. The Rise of the Marshals 5. Earl of Pembroke and Lord of Leinster 6. The Duel with King John 7. The Saviour of the Angevin Dynasty 8. The Marshal and his society 9. The Marshal at War 10. Love and Lordship 11. The Marshal's Men 12. La Bone Fin va Tout Appendix I The Knights of William Marshal Appendix II The Marshal and the Earl Marshal General Bibliography Maps Index

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Book SynopsisUkraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other attributes of the modern nation-state such as borders, symbols, myths and national histories. Extensive primary sources and interviews with leading members of Ukranian elites, show that state building is an integral part of the transition process and cannot be divorced from democratization and the establishment of a market economy.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 STATE AND NATION BUILDING IN UKRAINE IN THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERS PECTIVE; Chapter 2 SOVIET TO UKRAINIAN ELITES; Chapter 3 FORGING A POLITICAL COMMUNITY; Chapter 4 FEDERALISM, REGIONALISM AND THE MYTH OF SEPARATISM; Chapter 5 THE STRATEGIC SIGNIFICANCE OF BORDERS; Chapter 6 IN SEARCH OF A NATIONAL IDEA; Chapter 7 NATIONAL IDENTITY AND CIVIL SOCIETY; Chapter 8 LANGUAGE POLICIES; Chapter 9 HISTORY, MYTHS AND SYMBOLS; Chapter 10 CONCLUSIONS;

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