European history: medieval period, middle ages Books
Cambridge University Press The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination 18601930
Book SynopsisTowards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany''s bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt''s seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today.Trade Review'From Jacob Burckhardt and Friedrich Nietzsche to Thomas Mann, Ernst Kantorowicz and Hans Baron, the idea of the Renaissance has played an inspirational if contested role in the German cultural imagination. With great erudition and critical insight, Martin A. Ruehl traces the adventures of this idea, demonstrating its politics, complexities, and enduring appeal. Ruehl's book is simply superb, a powerful specimen of intellectual history at its very best.' Peter E. Gordon, Amabel B. James Professor of History, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Martin A. Ruehl's study is a model of modern intellectual history: accessible yet learned, soberly objective but politically astute, and focused on large cultural shifts without neglecting careful attention to nuance and detail. Thoughtfully illustrated and engagingly written, it will change how we think about 'the Renaissance problem' in the years between the Second and Third German Empires.' Robert E. Norton, University of Notre Dame, Indiana'[Ruehl's] book is recommended to anyone wishing to understand the trajectories of this fascinating area of intellectual history.' Neil Gregor, The Art Newspaper'Martin A. Ruehl has written a lucid, intelligent and erudite study which, moreover, is beautifully illustrated.' Henk de Berg, History Today'Martin A. Ruehl opens his impressive study with two impressionistic vignettes that describe the respective journeys of Goethe and Thomas Mann to Italy and frame what he calls a 'transformation in the German Geschichtsbild or historical imagination'. … tremendously compelling … This rich account of the diverse stages of the Renaissancebild opens new territory in intellectual history and promises a new perspective on the diverse political thinkers, who, at the time, were occupied with notions of political sovereignty, most notably Carl Schmitt. Furthermore, it offers a new perspective on a larger cultural obsession with the idea of the tyrant - and dictator - as intimately wed with our construction of modernity.' Michael K. House, German History'The legacy of the late Georg G. Iggers graces The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930, Martin A. Ruehl's elegant exploration of the German idea of the Renaissance from Jacob Burckhardt to Hans Baron. … The book's lavish illustrations supplement the literary, textual approach with an evocative glimpse at neo-Renaissance art and architecture.' Tuska Benes, The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Quattrocento Florence and what it means to be modern; 2. Ruthless Renaissance: Burckhardt, Nietzsche and the violent birth of the modern self; 3. Death in Florence: Thomas Mann and the ideologies of Renaissancismus; 4. 'The first modern man on the throne': Reich, race and rule in Ernst Kantorowicz's Frederick the Second; 5. The Renaissance reclaimed: Hans Baron's case for Bürgerhumanismus; 6. Conclusion: the waning of the Renaissance - death and afterlife of an idea; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Princely Education in Early Modern Britain
Book SynopsisThis book shows how liberal education transformed the political and religious culture of early modern Britain. Rather than pursue vainglorious warfare, humanists taught monarchs, including Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, James VI, and Charles I, to wield their pens like swords to extend their imperial authority over church and state.Trade Review'This highly original and beautifully written book explores the liberal education received by royal children in Tudor and Stuart Britain … It succeeds admirably in demonstrating the wider significance of princes' education by drawing connections between childhood learning and royal policies in later life during a stormy and eventful period. This rich and deeply textured book is certain to provoke interest and debate for many years to come.' Judges, 2016 Whitfield Prize, Royal Historical SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Thys boke is myne': how humanism changed the English royal schoolroom, 1422–1509; 2. Chivalry, ambition, and bonae litterae, 1509–33; 3. Erasmus' Christian prince and Henry VIII's royal supremacy; 4. Educating Edward VI: from Erasmus and godly kingship to Machiavelli; 5. Fortune's wheel and the education of early modern British queens; 6. Education and royal resistance: George Buchanan and James VI and I; 7. Britain's lost Renaissance? The Stuart princes; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ordinary Workers Vichy and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisShould French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy regime, cohabitated with the Germans and stole from their employer. Moreover, by intertwining the history of the working classes with Holocaust history, she highlights unexpected histories under Vichy and sensitive memories of the post-war period. Ultimately, this book bursts the myths of cheminot resistance and collaboration in the Holocaust, and reveals that there is more to their story than this. The cheminots fed both the French nation and the German military apparatus, exemplifying the complexities of personal, professional and political life under occupation.Trade Review'… well researched, well organized and well written, and it establishes thoroughly and clearly several ground-breaking points. The target of the book is to discuss myths, representations regarding the French railway system, and its collaboration with the Nazi, including résistance, strikes, sabotage and the solution finale.' Marie-Noelle Polino, The Journal of Transport History'The cheminots highlight an interesting tension in the dichotomy of resistance and collaboration, and Broch enriches this vein in the historiography with a rich, focused and much-needed reconsideration of France's railway workers. Her book offers a valuable insight into the complex legacy of a group with a strong professional identity and a strongly felt role in the story of France's Occupation.' Andrew W. M. Smith, The English Historical Review'As a study in everyday life under Vichy, this is exceptional. Any historian interested in the Occupation would do well to read this book, which is not only thoroughly well researched but also eminently readable.' David Lees, French HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Cheminots; 2. Vichy; 3. Bahnofs; 4. Theft; 5. Protest; 6. Sabotage; 7. Shoah; 8. Liberation; Epilogue: memory; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Afterlives of Greek Sculpture
Book SynopsisThe Afterlives of Greek Sculpture is the first comprehensive, historical account of the afterlives of ancient Greek monumental sculptures. Whereas scholars have traditionally focused on the creation of these works, Rachel Kousser instead draws on archaeological and textual sources to analyze the later histories of these sculptures, reconstructing the processes of damage and reparation that characterized the lives of Greek images. Using an approach informed by anthropology and iconoclasm studies, Kousser describes how damage to sculptures took place within a broader cultural context. She also tracks the development of an anti-iconoclastic discourse in Hellenic society from the Persian wars to the death of Cleopatra. Her study offers a fresh perspective on the role of the image in ancient Greece.It also sheds new light on the creation of Hellenic cultural identity and the formation of collective memory in the Classical and Hellenistic eras.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Afterlives of Greek Sculptures: 1. Dangerous afterlives: the Greek use of 'voodoo dolls'; 2. Use and abuse: toward an ontology of sculpture in ancient Greece; Part II. Barbaric, Deviant, and Unhellenic: Damage to Sculptures and its Commemoration, 480–31 BC: 3. 'Barbaric' interactions: the Persian invasion and its commemoration in early classical Greece; 4. Deviant interactions: the mutilation of the herms, oligarchy, and social deviance in the Peloponnesian war era; 5. Collateral damage: injury, reuse, and restoration of funerary monuments in the early Hellenistic Kerameikos; 6. State-sanctioned violence: altering, warehousing, and destroying leaders' portraits in the Hellenistic era; Conclusion: the afterlives of Greek sculptures in the Roman and early Christian eras; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Clothing the Poor in NineteenthCentury England
Book SynopsisIn this pioneering study Vivienne Richmond reveals the importance of dress to the nineteenth-century English poor, who valued clothing not only for its practical utility, but also as a central element in the creation and assertion of collective and individual identities.Trade Review'Vivienne Richmond demonstrates the power of clothing in the lives of the working and indigent poor of nineteenth-century England: children, women and men. This is an innovative exploration of clothing cultures, both those crafted by individuals and those imposed by state and institutional authorities. Subtle and insightful, Richmond brings new perspectives to this important topic.' Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta'Vivienne Richmond tells a very sad historical story, about the bodily and psychological misery of a large proportion of the population in nineteenth-century Britain; but she is not afraid to be wry, or ironic, or outraged and sometimes very funny, when appropriate.' Carolyn Steedman, University of WarwickTable of ContentsIntroduction: identifying the poor, locating their clothes; 1. Setting the standard: working-class dress; 2. 'Frankly a mystery': budgeting for clothes; 3. 'Poverty busied itself': buying clothes; 4. 'Woman's best weapon': needlework and home-made clothing; 5. 'The struggle for respectability'; 6. The sense of self; 7. 'The bowels of compassion': clothing and the Poor Law; 8. 'An urgent desire to clothe them': ladies' clothing charities; 9. 'We have nothing but our clothes': charity schools and servants; 10. 'The greatest stigma and disgrace': lunatic asylums, workhouses and prisons; Conclusion: no finery; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Law and the Formation of Modern Europe
Book SynopsisContaining contributions by leading historians, lawyers and sociologists, this book examines the formative processes underlying the legal order of contemporary Europe. It offers sociological explanations of both the national and the supranational factors which have shaped the European legal structure.Table of Contents1. Introduction: law and the formation of modern Europe: perspectives from the historical sociology of law Mikael Rask Madsen and Chris Thornhill; Part I. Legal Institutions and European State Formation: 2. Fascism and European state formation: the crisis of constituent power Chris Thornhill; 3. The beginnings of constitutional justice in Europe Thomas Olechowski; 4. Judicialization in sociohistorical perspective – lessons from the case of France Antoine Vauchez; 5. Towards a sociology of intermediary institutions: the role of law in corporatism, neo-corporatism and governance Poul Kjaer; Part II. Law and Europe's Ideological Transformations: 6. Private, public and collective: the twentieth century in Italy from fascism to democracy Irene Stolzi; 7. Nazism and its legal aftermath: coming to terms with the past after World War II Ditlev Tamm; 8. Between socialism and liberalism: law, emancipation and 'solidarność' Jacek Kurczewski; Part III. Law and the Supranational Reinvention of Europe: 9. Europe in crisis – an evolutionary genealogy Hauke Brunkhorst; 10. International human rights and the transformation of European society: from 'free Europe' to Europe of human rights Mikael Rask Madsen; 11. Lawyers and the transformations of the fields of state power: osmosis, hysteresis and aggiornamento Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth.
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Cambridge University Press The Rise and Fall of Comradeship
Book SynopsisThis is an innovative account of how the concept of comradeship shaped the actions, emotions and ideas of ordinary German soldiers across the two world wars and during the Holocaust. Using individual soldiers'' diaries, personal letters and memoirs, Kühne reveals the ways in which soldiers'' longing for community, and the practice of male bonding and togetherness, sustained the Third Reich''s pursuit of war and genocide. Comradeship fuelled the soldiers'' fighting morale. It also propelled these soldiers forward into war crimes and acts of mass murders. Yet, by practising comradeship, the soldiers could maintain the myth that they were morally sacrosanct. Post-1945, the notion of kameradschaft as the epitome of humane and egalitarian solidarity allowed Hitler''s soldiers to join the euphoria for peace and democracy in the Federal Republic, finally shaping popular memories of the war through the end of the twentieth century.Trade Review'Probing into the Janus-faced quality of comradeship, Thomas Kühne illuminates the moral world of Nazi Germany on its own terms, a world in which most German soldiers acted as they did, not because they were forced to do so, but because they thought it was right. Obsessed with the 'virtue' of being held in high esteem by their 'masculine' comrades, they had scant concern for their victims. This book makes an essential contribution to understanding the capacity to commit terrible atrocities without remorse in Nazi Germany.' Christopher Browning, University of North Carolina'War is a powerful generator of solidarity. Thomas Kühne explores the rise and decline of the German version of this phenomenon, Kameradschaft. It was a myth that was lived in World War II and came to shape male identity into the late twentieth century. How, why and with what consequences this happened is the subject of this powerful exploration.' Michael Geyer, University of Chicago'An original, comprehensive, and incisive analysis of the concept, myth, reality, and ultimate disintegration of soldiers' comradeship in modern Germany and its profound implications for the manner in which German men imagined war, perpetrated violence, and for long managed to avoid coming to terms with their complicity in the crimes of the Nazi regime. Set within the larger context of European and American ideas and practices of military cohesion, this is an important book that should be read by all students of modern and military history.' Omer Bartov, Brown University, Rhode IslandTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: a concept from a different world; Part I. The Myth of Comradeship, 1914–1939: 1. Healing; 2. Coalescence; 3. Steeling; Part II. The Practice of Comradeship, 1939–1945: 4. Assimilation; 5. Megalomania; 6. Nemesis; Part III. The Decline of Comradeship: 7. Privatisation; 8. Integration; 9. Demonisation; Conclusion: protean masculinity and Germany's twentieth century; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Continental Drift Britain and Europe from the End of Empire to the Rise of Euroscepticism
Book SynopsisA fascinating new account of Britain's uneasy relationship with the European continent since the end of the Second World War, set against the backdrop of decolonization, the Cold War and the Anglo-American relationship. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon charts Britain's evolution from an island of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics.Trade Review'What a timely and illuminating book this is! In his richly detailed study of Britain's tempestuous relationship with the European Union, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon shows that the shift from the post-war conviction that a unified Europe was beneficial to Britain to the current wave of Euroscepticism needs to be set in the context of the loss of empire and a longing for its return. A first-rate history that offers real insight into the roots of Euroscepticism.' Dane Kennedy, author of Decolonization: A Very Short Introduction'This is an intensely readable and engaging study of that most perennial issue in post-war British public life: 'Europe'. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon deftly weaves personalities, parties, and policies in a compelling study which places Britain and Europe in the context of Britain and the world, to the further illumination of each. Continental Drift deserves to become a standard work.' Martin Farr, author of Reginald McKenna'In this absorbing study, Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon tackles head-on a theory routinely invoked by politicians and pundits but almost never subjected to serious scholarly scrutiny - that Britain's turbulent membership of the European Union has long been plagued by the unreconciled longings of empire. Continental Drift not only offers a compelling diagnosis of a major scholarly oversight, but also brings Britain's imperial past into a fascinating dialogue with its troubled European present.' Stuart James Ward, editor of British Culture and the End of Empire'No other book does as good a job of making clear the critical connection between the dissolution of the British Empire and Britain's evolving relationship with Europe. The reader remains fully engaged throughout while discovering sophisticated yet clear, reasoned arguments and conclusions based on original sources and a sure grasp of post-Second World War British history.' Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas'Supercedes every other study of the political-diplomatic history of Britain's involvement with Europe from the 1940s … Explode[s] the myth of British exceptionalism.' Denis MacShane, The Tablet'The author relies on extensive archival research to trace how imperial decline sowed distrust and frustration among Britons who found it difficult to reconcile themselves with their neighbors across the channel. This impressive study concludes that Britain's troubled history with Europe owes much to the passing of an empire … Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.' P. Kurzer, Choice'It is maybe the best book to read on Britain's earlier relations with the European Union.' Tyler Cowen, 'Best Non-fiction Books of 2016', Marginal Revolution'Eminently readable and meticulously researched. … This is a fascinating read for anyone looking for a single volume explaining Britain's Euroscepticism.' Andrew White, Gartner Blog Network (www.blogs.gartner.com)'… the book offers a vivid, well-written, and entertaining general narrative of British attitudes toward European integration since 1945. … many of Grob-Fitzgibbon's arguments are intriguing and suggestive; they may well provide a fresh impetus for future research on Britain's postwar relationship with Europe and the wider world.' Mathias Haeussler, H-Net'Continental drift provides a valuable single-volume study of changing British attitudes to Europe since 1945 … Grob-Fitzgibbon's work is refreshing in shifting attention away from European integration and focusing instead on the long history of Euroscepticism.' David Thackeray, Twentieth Century British History'This is a timely book with a compelling objective. Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon explores the connections between the end of Britain's Empire and the growth of 'Euroscepticism'.' Helen Parr, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Imperial Europeans: 1. A world undone; 2. Mr Churchill's Europe; 3. Mr Bevin's response; 4. The German problem; 5. A disunited Europe; 6. The continental surprise and the fall of the Labour government; 7. The realities of government; 8. Perfidious Gaul; 9. The decline and fall of the imperial Europeans; Part II. Post-Imperial Eurosceptics: 10. At sixes and sevens; 11. Towards the Common Market; 12. The rise of the anti-marketeers; 13. Empire eclipsed, Europe embraced, Britain rejected; 14. Entering the promised land? Britain joins 'Europe'; 15. Seasons of discontent; 16. Half-hearted Europeans; 17. Mrs Thatcher, John Major and the road to European Union; Conclusion: post-imperial Britain and the rise of Euroscepticism; Bibliographical note; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Performing Orthodox Ritual in Byzantium
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric as an alternative to acting, as well as the transmission of ancient methods of musical composition into the Byzantine era, White demonstrates how Christian ritual was in effect a post-theatrical performing art, created by intellectuals who were fully aware of traditional theatre but who endeavoured to avoid it. The book explores how Orthodox rites avoid the aesthetic appreciation associated with secular art, and conducts an in-depth study (and reconstruction) of the late Byzantine Service of the Furnace. Often treated as a liturgical drama, White translates and delineates the features of five extant versions, to show how and why it generated widely diverse audience reactions in both medieval times and our own.Trade Review'Andrew Walker White, professor at Stratford University (Virginia), is the first American theatre historian who has deeply analyzed Byzantine performance. This monograph is the result of his long research, which includes the staging of the Service of the Furnace at the University of Maryland campus.' Maria Pia Pagani, SinestesieonlineTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Byzantine Spatial, Performance and Musical Practices: 1. Spatial practices in Byzantium; 2. Ritual versus theatrical performance in Byzantium; 3. Musical practices in Byzantium; Part II. A Study of the Service of the Furnace: 4. Origins of the Service; 5. The Service's historical context; Conclusion; Appendix 1. The Service of the Furnace, Athens 4027; Appendix 2. The Service of the Furnace, Athens 2406; Appendix 3. The Service of the Furnace, Iviron 1120; Appendix 4. The Service of the Furnace, Sinai 1527; Appendix 5. The Service of the Furnace, Lavra 165; Appendix 6. Archbishop Symeon's Dialogue in Christ; Appendix 7. The Russian Furnace Play; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press The Discovery of the Third World
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative account of how the concept of the 'Third World' emerged in France among leftist intellectuals in the 1950s and was subsequently used in the 1960s and 1970s as a key term, both in struggles to position France within the globalizing world and in conflicts about social reform within France itself.Trade Review'Kalter's hugely impressive study … essays a variety of disciplinary approaches: conceptual history, political history, intellectual history, exemplary archival and oral history, memory studies, and media studies.' Martin Shipway, The American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: from 'discovery' to historiography; 2. A new picture of the world: the Third World in the social sciences and politics; 3. Conflicts, new diversity, and convergence: the new radical Left in France; 4. 'From the Résistance to anti-colonialism': the politics of memory in the new radical Left; 5. 'Today we have to learn a lesson from them': the journal Partisans and the opening up to the Third World; 6. 'With socialist greetings': the PSU, the CEDETIM, and the praxis of 'international solidarity'; 7. Conclusion: eyes on the world; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Nicolaus of Damascus The Life of Augustus and The Autobiography
Book SynopsisNicolaus of Damascus, the chief minister of Herod the Great, was an exact contemporary of the first Roman emperor Augustus; he spent considerable time in Roman society and knew Augustus. The extensive remains of his Bios Kaisaros contain the earliest and most detailed account of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar and his assassination. The Bios also presents the most extensive account of the boyhood and early development of Augustus. This edition presents the Greek text and translation of the Bios and Nicolaus'' autobiography, along with a historical and historiographical commentary. The Introduction situates the text in relation to the considerable evidence for the life and career of Nicolaus preserved in the works of Josephus, addresses the problem of its date of composition, analyses the language and narrative technique of Nicolaus and discusses the Bios in relation to the evidence for Greek biographical encomium.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Text and translation of The Life of Augustus; Commentary; Text and translation of The Autobiography; Commentary.
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Cambridge University Press Civil Liberties and Human Rights in TwentiethCentury Britain
Book SynopsisThe National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) was formed in the 1930s against a backdrop of fascism and ''popular front'' movements. In this volatile political atmosphere, the aim of the NCCL was to ensure that civil liberties were a central component of political discourse. Chris Moores''s new study shows how the NCCL - now Liberty - had to balance the interests of extremist allies with the desire to become a respectable force campaigning for human rights and civil liberties. From new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s to the formation of the Human Rights Act in 1998, this study traces the NCCL''s development over the last eighty years. It enables us to observe shifts and continuities in forms of political mobilisation throughout the twentieth century, changes in discourse about extensions and retreats of freedoms, as well as the theoretical conceptualisation and practical protection of rights and liberties.Trade Review'… a revealing account of a long-lived NGO, with many insights into British politics and society through its lifetime. … Moores provides an excellent survey and analysis of the many, complex activities of NCCL/Liberty and its shifting fortunes over time.' Pat Thane, CerclesTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Civil Liberties in the Age of the Popular Front: 1. Decent citizens and agitators: civil liberties activism in the 1930s; 2. From civil liberties to human rights: British civil liberties activism and Universal human rights; Part II. Civil Liberties, a Rights Revolution, and New Social Movements: 3. The progressive professionals: the National Council for Civil Liberties and the politics of activism in 1960s Britain; 4. From progressive to radical: the 1970s and a crisis of civil liberties; Part III. NGOs and the Consolidation of Human Rights: 5. The road to freedom: civil liberties, human rights and the evolution of the NGO in the age of Thatcher; 6. The politics of vigilance: human rights activism during and beyond the age of New Labour.
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Cambridge University Press Mussolini in Ethiopia 19191935 The Origins of Fascist Italys African War
Book SynopsisMussolini in Ethiopia, 1919â1935 looks in detail at the evolution of the Italian Fascist regime's colonial policy within the context of European politics and the rise to power of German National Socialism. It delves into the tortuous nature of relations between the National Fascist Party and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), while demonstrating how, ultimately, a Hitler-led Germany proved the best mechanism for overseas Italian expansion in East Africa. The book assesses the emergence of an ideologically driven Fascist colonial policy from 1931 onwards and how this eventually culminated in a serious clash of interests with the British Empire. Benito Mussolini's successful flouting of the League of Nations' authority heralded a new dark era in world politics and continues to have its resonance in today's world.Trade Review'Historians who have been anxiously waiting for a successful updated history of the lead-up to Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 need wait no longer. Robert Mallett's meticulously researched account skilfully ties together Italy's diplomacy, military strategy and political calculation. Professor Mallett carefully guides us through Mussolini's tortured manoeuvrings in holding Hitler at bay from seizing Austria while proceeding with his own overseas invasion plans. The Duce's aggression was no bizarre flight of fancy but integral to Fascism's way of doing business. Resting his narrative on solid archival sources, Professor Mallett, in marvellous prose, gives us an eminently readable narrative that at the same time is an historical tour de force of research and creative thought.' H. James Burgwyn, West Chester University'This is diplomatic history at its best. Mallett's excellently researched and trenchant study underscores the brutal expansionism at the heart of the fascist regime and its responsibility for the destruction of collective security and the outbreak of the Second World War.' Christopher Duggan, Centre for Modern Italian History, University of Reading'This fascinating and clearly written study of Italy's determined drive to launch its war on Abyssinia in 1935 provides an important missing link in understanding the European crisis of the 1930s.' Martin Conway, Balliol College, University of Oxford'An important contribution to the literature from a brilliant scholar, Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935 is a must-read for anyone interested in European interwar politics. Mallett's command of the subject matter is impressive.' Robert von Maier, Editor-in-Chief, Global War Studies'Using a good mix of primary and secondary sources … this diplomatic history focuses on the background of Italy's invasion of Ethiopia (1935). Understanding the origins of the war could be challenging, given the fluid nature of the alliances, agreements, and interests (domestic, military, and geopolitical) within and among the contending countries (primarily Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, and Yugoslavia). However, Mallett, a recognized authority on Italian Fascism, does a wonderful job of explaining what happened while 'keeping alive' other possible outcomes.' ChoiceTable of Contents1. Post-war realities: Italy 1919; 2. A mutilated peace: Italy, 1919–29; 3. The impending war of revenge: Europe and Africa, 1932; 4. Containing the Führer: 1933–4; 5. Achieving an empire: 1934–5; 6. Darkening waters: January–May 1935; 7. Facing down the British: May–July 1935; 8. Battle lines: August–October 1935.
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Cambridge University Press Martial Law and English Laws c.1500c.1700
Book SynopsisJohn M. Collins presents the first comprehensive history of martial law in the early modern period. He argues that rather than being a state of exception from law, martial law was understood and practiced as one of the King''s laws. Further, it was a vital component of both England''s domestic and imperial legal order. It was used to quell rebellions during the Reformation, to subdue Ireland, to regulate English plantations like Jamestown, to punish spies and traitors in the English Civil War, and to build forts on Jamaica. Through outlining the history of martial law, Collins reinterprets English legal culture as dynamic, politicized, and creative, where jurists were inspired by past practices to generate new law rather than being restrained by it. This work asks that legal history once again be re-integrated into the cultural and political histories of early modern England and its empire.Trade Review'[Collins] offers a comprehensive history of a law that has been 'hiding in plain sight', neglected, or misunderstood by generations of lawyers and historians influenced by martial law's subsequent history. The result is a rich and important study that has implications for the wider histories of empire, governance, and the nature of legal change.' Tim Stretton, Journal of Modern History'The book is well written and follows a logical structure. … achieves much in its wider aims of helping readers make sense of the many forms martial law took in the Anglophone world over this long and complicated period.' Andrew Hopper, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Prologue; Part I. A Jurisprudence of Terror: 1. Making martial law; 2. Making summary martial law; 3. Transforming martial law; Part II. Martial Law and English Parliaments: 4. Bound by wartime: martial law and the petition of right; 5. Unbound by parliament: martial law and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms; 6. Bound and unbound: martial law in the Restoration empire; 7. The rise of martial law; Conclusion; Manuscript bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought Volume 1 The Nineteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of Modern European Thought is an authoritative and comprehensive exploration of the themes, thinkers and movements that shaped our intellectual world in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth century. Representing both individual figures and the contexts within which they developed their ideas, each essay is written in a clear accessible style by leading scholars in the field and offers both originality and interpretive insight. This first volume surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment on European intellectual life. Spanning twenty chapters, it covers figures such as Kant, Hegel, Wollstonecraft, and Darwin, major political and intellectual movements such as Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism and Feminism, and schools of thought such as Historicism, Philology, and Decadence. Renouncing a single ''master narrative'' of European thought across the period, Warren Breckman and PeterTrade Review'This is simply an incredible resource: essay after essay, written by leading intellectual historians that provide concise, lucid and engaging introductions to the main currents of European thought over the past two centuries. Everyone from students to seasoned scholars will want copies of these books on their shelves.' David A. Bell, Lapidus Professor, Princeton University'In these well-nigh encyclopedic volumes, Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon engage in a daunting feat. They offer compact and informative introductions to essays on very many crucial dimensions of thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. And they furnish, along with their own substantive chapters, contributions from an array of prominent scholars of intellectual and cultural history, all of whom demonstrate impressive expertise in their varied areas of inquiry. The result is an important work of both scholarly and general interest.' Dominick LaCapra, Professor Emeritus of History and Bowmar Professor Emeritus of Humanistic Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon; 1. German idealism: the thought of modernity Terry Pinkard; 2. European romanticism: ambivalent responses to the sense of a new epoch Nicholas Halmi; 3. History, tradition and skepticism: the patterns of nineteenth-century theology David Fergusson; 4. The young Hegelians: philosophy as critical praxis Warren Breckman; 5. Utilitarianism, God, and moral obligation from Locke to Sidgwick Philip Schofield; 6. Capital, class, and empire: nineteenth-century political economy and its imaginary Francesco Boldizzoni; 7. Positivism in European intellectual, political, and religious life Mary Pickering; 8. European liberalism in the nineteenth century Jerrold Seigel; 9. European socialism from the 1790s to the 1890s Gareth Stedman Jones; 10. Conservatism: the utility of history and the case against rationalist radicalism Jerry Muller; 11. The woman question: liberal and socialist critiques of the status of women Naomi Andrews; 12. Darwinism and social Darwinism Gregory Radick; 13. Historicism from Ranke to Nietzsche John Toews; 14. Philology, language, and the constitution of meaning and human communities Tuska Benes; 15. Decadence and the 'second modernity' Mary Gluck; 16. Nihilism, pessimism, and the conditions of modernity Christian Emden; 17. Civilisation, culture and race: anthropology in the nineteenth century Adam Kuper; 18. The varieties of nationalist thought Erica Benner; 19. Ideas of empire: civilization, race, and global hierarchy Jennifer Pitts; 20. Rethinking revolution: radicalism at the end of the long nineteenth century Claudia Verhoeven.
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Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon England Volume 43
Book SynopsisThe forty-third volume of Anglo-Saxon England contains three contributions on Latin learning in the early part of the period and three articles on Old English poetry. Old English prose and its audience are also discussed, as are the Leofric Missal and differing representations of King Cnut.Table of Contents1. Record of the sixteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at Dublin, 29 July-2 August 2013 Susan Irvine; 2. Isidore's Etymologiae at the school of Canterbury David Porter; 3. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, CLM 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury school Evina Steinova; 4. Rewriting the ecclesiastical landscape of early medieval Northumbria in the Lives of Cuthbert Joey McMullen; 5. Old English poetic diction not in Old English verse or prose and the curious case of Aldhelm's five athletes Mark Griffiths; 6. Reading, writing, and resurrection: Cynewulf's runes as a figure of the body Jill Clements; 7. Constructing the monstrous body in Beowulf Megan Cavell; 8. The sevenfold-fivefold-threefold litany of the saints in the Leofric Missal and beyond Robin Norris; 9. The audience for Old English texts: Ælfric, rhetoric and the 'edification of the simple' Helen Gittos; 10. National-ethnic narratives in eleventh-century literary representations of Cnut Jacob Hobson; 11. Kings and books in Anglo-Saxon England David Pratt.
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Cambridge University Press To Be Free and French
Book SynopsisThe Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and ''Frenchness'' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of color for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French Republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labor in the colonization of Africa. They defined an alternative French citizenship, which recognized difference, particularly race, as part of a ''universal'' French identity. Spanning Atlantic port cities in Haiti, Senegal, Martinique, Benin, and France, this book is a major contribution to scholarship on citizenship, race, empire, and gender, and it sheds new light on debates around human rights and Trade Review'Semley seeks to understand the intersection of citizenship, race, and gender within the 19th- and 20th-century French Atlantic empire. She does this through a series of engaging and well-researched chapters centered on important imperial events where the local and imperial intersect and where imperial subjects see themselves within both French and local identities. … As a whole, the work illustrates the complexity of race, citizenship, and gender in that they often worked together while they were also at odds. Many of the figures described in the book embraced the larger revolutionary ideals of citizenship, but then had to negotiate them within their local contexts. Finally, even as slaves became free and freed men became citizens, women had to wait. … Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' T. M. Reese, Choice'Semley combines outstanding archival research from three continents with insightful analysis and engaging prose. She consistently shows her ability to tell a good a story in an intriguing location. To Be Free and French is full of surprises and fascinating individuals who actively sought to define themselves within the context of French imperialism. Like her subjects, Semley refuses to fall into the simplistic dualities of colonizer and colonized, French or not-French, and white or black.' Michael G. Vann, World History Connected'… this book responds brilliantly to a decades-old call to better represent Africa, Africans and their diaspora in Atlantic history. In doing so, Semley provides us with an exemplary model for grounding broad historical concerns in close readings of primary evidence from disparate and connected places. I field-tested this book in an upper-division undergraduate course. To Be Free and French received high praise from young people in need of nuanced analysis and innovative methods to critique racialized and gendered inequities in their own complex and globalizing worlds.' Sarah Zimmerman, European History Quarterly'Lorelle Semley's work ambitiously integrates the fields of African diaspora and Atlantic studies with the history of citizenship, French empire, gender, law, transnationalism, and urban studies. … Semley's work offers a praiseworthy contribution to the existing literature on French empire and colonial citizenship as well as an important foundation for understanding contemporary debates about citizenship in France.' Elizabeth Heath, The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Preface: coincidental crossings; Acknowledgments; Part I. Revolutionary Foundations: Prologue: citizens of the world; 1. To live and die, free and French; 2. Signares before citizens; Part II. Colonial Constructions: 3. When Blacks broke the chains in the 'Little Paris of the Antilles'; 4. The trans-African origins of Porto-Novo; 5. An 'evolution revolution' in Paris; Part III. Planning after Empire: 6. A more perfect French Union; Epilogue: the art of citizenship; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Criminal Law in Liberal and Fascist Italy
Book SynopsisBy extending the chronological parameters of existing scholarship, and by focusing on legal experts'' overriding and enduring concern with ''dangerous'' forms of common crime, this study offers a major reinterpretation of criminal-law reform and legal culture in Italy from the Liberal (18611922) to the Fascist era (192243). Garfinkel argues that scholars have long overstated the influence of positivist criminology on Italian legal culture and that the kingdom''s penal-reform movement was driven not by the radical criminological theories of Cesare Lombroso, but instead by a growing body of statistics and legal researches that related rising rates of crime to the instability of the Italian state. Drawing on a vast array of archival, legal and official sources, the author explains the sustained and wide-ranging interest in penal-law reform that defined this era in Italian legal history while analyzing the philosophical underpinnings of that reform and its relationship to contemporary penaTrade Review'Professor Garfinkel's book is one of those rare works of original scholarship that succeeds in covering both the Liberal and Fascist eras in Italian history at the national level. By concentrating on common crime rather than political crimes, he has developed an extremely original thesis that challenges the established interpretations of jurisprudence in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.' Anthony Cardoza, Loyola University, Chicago'Paul Garfinkel's vivid account of the development of Italian criminal justice from the perspective of prominent criminal law practitioners relies on a stunning array of sources to craft a convincing argument. An insightful contribution to the study of European law and society, the book offers an important counterpoint to prevailing historiography.' Maura Hametz, Old Dominion University, Virginia'Eloquently written, and with a welcome focus on the treatment of ordinary rather than political crime, Garfinkel's ground-breaking book persuasively challenges scholarly understandings of the ideas and debates inspiring penal reform in Liberal Italy and the first decade of Mussolini's fascist regime.' Jonathan Dunnage, Swansea University'This elegantly written and widely researched study of criminal law in liberal and fascist Italy challenges the widely accepted view that Italy's 1930 criminal law code was fascist, positivist and anti-liberal in inspiration. Engaging with the wider debates on the relationship between liberalism and fascism, Paul Garfinkel's conclusions will attract the attention of scholars in many different fields.' John Davis, University of ConnecticutTable of Contents1. Body count; 2. Civilized violence; 3. Force of habit; 4. Tomorrow's criminals; 5. Grapes and wrath; 6. Coup, casualty and catalyst: the Ferri Code, 1919–25; 7. Fascism's legal Risorgimento, 1925–31; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Bavarian Tourism and the Modern World 18001950
Book SynopsisBavarian Tourism and the Modern World, 1800–1950 examines the connections between Bavarian tourism and German modernity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries using a variety of tourist propaganda. By promoting an image of 'grounded modernity', Bavarian tourism reconciled continuity with change, tradition with progress, and nature with science.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A brief history of German travel; 2. Landscape tourism in Franconian Switzerland; 3. Nature, modernity, and the spa culture of Bad Reichenhall; 4. The Augsburg tourism industry and the German past; 5. The Nazified tourist culture of Munich and Nuremberg; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Ireland
Book SynopsisThe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an era of continuity as well as change. Though properly portrayed as the era of ''Protestant Ascendancy'' it embraces two phases - the eighteenth century when that ascendancy was at its peak; and the nineteenth century when the Protestant elite sustained a determined rear-guard defence in the face of the emergence of modern Catholic nationalism. Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and architecture, and the Irish abroad. It provides new and original interpretations of a critical phase in the emergence of a modern Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Interpreting late early modern Ireland James Kelly; Part I. Politics c.1730–c.1845: 1. Irish Jacobitism, 1691–1790 Vincent Morley; 2. The politics of Protestant Ascendancy, 1730–1790 James Kelly; 3. Ireland during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, 1793–1815 Thomas Bartlett; 4. The impact of O'Connell, 1815–1850 Patrick M. Geoghegan; 5. Popular politics, 1815–1845 Maura Cronin; Part II. Economy and Demography: 6. Society and economy in the long eighteenth century David Dickson; 7. The Irish economy, 1815–1880: agricultural transition, the communications revolution and the limits of industrialisation Andy Bielenberg; 8. Population and emigration, 1730–1845 Brian Gurrin; 9. Women, men and the family, 1730–1880 Sarah-Anne Buckley; Part III. Religion: 10. The Catholic Church and Catholics in an era of sanctions and restraints, 1690–1790 Thomas O'Connor; 11. The re-energising of Catholicism, 1790–1880 Colin Barr; 12. Protestant dissenters, c.1690–1800 Ian McBride; 13. Protestantism in the nineteenth century: revival and crisis Andrew R. Holmes; Part IV. Shaping Society: 14. Language and literacy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Aidan Doyle; 15. Futures past: enlightenment and antiquarianism in the eighteenth century Michael Brown and Lesa Ni Mhunghaile; 16. Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century Christine Casey; 17. Civil society, 1700–1850 Martyn J. Powell; 18. Sport and recreation in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries James Kelly; 19. Bourgeois Ireland, or, on the benefits of keeping one's hands clean Ciaran O Neill; 20. The growth of the state in the nineteenth century Virginia Crossman; Part V. The Irish Abroad: 21. The Irish in Europe in the eighteenth century, 1691–1815 Liam Chambers; 22. 'Irish' migration to America in the eighteenth century? Or the strange case for the 'Scots/Irish' Patrick Griffin; 23. Ireland and the empire in the nineteenth century Barry Crosbie; Part VI. The Great Famine and its Aftermath: 24. The Great Famine, 1845–1850 Peter Gray; 25. Irish emigration, c.1845–1900 Kevin Kenny; 26. Post-famine politics, 1850–1879 Douglas Kanter; 27. Afterword Toby Barnard.
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Cambridge University Press Advancing Empire
Book SynopsisIn Advancing Empire, L. H. Roper explores the origins and early development of English overseas expansion. Roper focuses on the networks of aristocrats, merchants, and colonial-imperialists who worked to control the transport and production of exotic commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, as well as the labor required to produce them. He is primarily interested in the relationship between the English state and the people it governed, the role of that state in imperial development, the socio-political character of English colonies and English relations with Asians, Africans, American Indians, and other Europeans overseas. The activities stimulated the expansion and integration of global territorial and commercial interests that became the British Empire in the eighteenth century. In exploring these activities from a wider perspective, Roper offers a novel conclusion that revises popular analyses of the English Empire and of Anglo-America.Trade Review'In this bold, bracing, and invigoratingly comprehensive reinterpretation of the foundations of the seventeenth-century English Empire in Asia and the Americas, L. H. Roper illustrates the important role of private interests and fundamentally reshapes the understanding of the formation of imperial power in the founding period by looking at the English Empire in the round.' Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne'In this innovative reconsideration of England's rise to empire, Roper studies the seventeenth century and emphasizes private enterprise and individual initiative rather than a pre-eminently powerful state apparatus. Balancing current intellectual trends, he reads history forward instead of anachronistically reinterpreting it backwards.' Daniel Littlefield, University of South Carolina'This impressive book examines the seventeenth-century origins of England's global empire, locating its roots not in state initiatives but in a myriad of chartered corporations and individuals who traded and colonized from America to Asia. Roper provides one of the best portraits of the modest beginnings of what would later become the world's premier empire.' Owen Stanwood, Boston College'In this engaging new book, Roper introduces us to a coterie of private 'colonial-imperialists' who advanced and promoted English overseas expansion across the globe in the seventeenth century. This book is a welcome addition to the body of recent scholarship that has, perhaps, placed too much emphasis on English empire-building as an intended outcome of early modern state formation.' Ken MacMillan, University of Calgary'Roper examines the creation and development of England's overseas empire, questioning the new historiographical trend that characterizes the pre-1688 English state as the central driving force in overseas expansion. Instead, he argues that up until and even after 1688, private interests were essential to building and expanding the empire. Roper explains that overseas expansion began with individuals who, after establishing overseas connections, sought to strengthen their relationship with the state to ensure preference and the protection of their gains and profits. Individuals and their endeavors thus drew the state into the colonial world, rather than the other way around. The author provides three fascinating chapters on expansion in America, Africa, and Asia, followed by an extended analysis of the overseas empire from the civil war to 1688. The book's focus on individuals' roles in building and expanding the empire adds balance to an ongoing debate and should be read by advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and specialists. Highly recommended.' J. Rankin, Choice'Who created the English empire? The state or private initiative? In a well-written study, L. H. Roper shows that the English state might have backed individual noblemen in their overseas endeavours, but never took the lead.' Pieter Emmer, The English Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Foundations; 2. The expansion of English overseas interests: America; 3. The expansion of English overseas interests: Guinea; 4. The expansion of English overseas interests: Asia; 5. Civil War and English overseas interests; 6. New modelers; 7. Interregnum, restoration, and English overseas expansion; 8. Climax; 9. A new empire?; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press European Elites and Ideas of Empire 19171957
Book SynopsisWho thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired. Even though Germany lost its credit as a world power twice in that century, in the global cultural memory, the old Germanic families remained associated with the idea of Europe in areas reaching from Mexico to the Baltic region and India. Gusejnova''s book sheds light on a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe''s future regeneration. In the minds of transnational elites, the continent''s future horizons retained the contours of phantom empires. This title is available as Open Access.Trade Review'European Elites and Ideas of Empire, 1917–1957 has much to say about post-World War I elite attitudes toward the downfall of continental empires and postwar identity among German-speaking European elites. Rather than retreat into lives of resentment, resignation, or quiet dissolution, these men coped with the trauma of empire's end not only by re-envisioning European 'imperial' units but also by taking steps, whatever their results, to make it happen. … [Gusejnova's] study reveals a fascinating and distinctly eastern European branch of the intellectual genealogy of European unification.' Matthew G. Stanard, H-EmpireTable of ContentsPart I. Celebrity of Decline: 1. Famous deaths: subjects of imperial decline; 2. Shared horizons: the sentimental elite in the Great War; Part II. Power of Prestige: 3. Soft power: pan-Europeanism after the Habsburgs; 4. The German princes: an aristocratic fraction in the democratic age; 5. Crusaders of civility: the legal internationalism of the Baltic Barons; Part III. Phantom Empires: 6. Knights of many faces: the dream of chivalry and its dreamers; 7. Apostles of elegy: Bloomsbury's continental connections; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Book SynopsisBuchanan Sharp examines governmental and crowd responses to famine, from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era. This wide-ranging book will be of interest to academic researchers and graduate students studying the social, economic, cultural and political make-up of medieval and early modern England.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Early market regulation to 1327; 2. The response of Edward II and his government to the Great Famine; 3. The food riots of 1347; 4. Royal paternalism and the response to dearth, 1349–1376; 5. Scarcity and food riots, 1377–1439; 6. Harvest failure and scarcity in the reign of Henry VIII; 7. The official language of the Commonwealth and the popular response to scarcity in the reign of Henry VIII; 8. The moral economy, 1547–1631 and beyond; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law
Book SynopsisThomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ''s glorified body was present in the Eucharist, the most central of the seven sacraments, and the Real Presence became explained as transubstantiation by university-trained theologians. Expressions of this belief included the drama of the elevated host and chalice, as well as processions with a host in an elaborate monstrance on the Feast of Corpus Christi. These affirmations of doctrine were governed by canon law, promulgated by popes and councils; and liturgical regulations were enforced by popes, bishops, archdeacons and inquisitors. Drawing on canon law collections and commentaries, synodal enactments, legal manuals and books about ecclesiastical offices, Izbicki presents the first systematic analysis of the Church''s teaching about the regulation of the practice of the Eucharist.Trade Review'The influence, construction, and use of medieval canon law is richly illuminated through such a focused study.' Kriston R. Rennie, Renaissance Quarterly'Izbicki begins with an indispensible guide to the canon lawyers themselves. The reader will find herself drawn back to this useful reference often as she gets lost among the thicket of references necessary to the field. … The material that Izbicki brings to light in this book offers a host of valuable information on the everyday devotional life of medieval Christians as they celebrated the central ritual of their religion. Any scholar of the great medieval drama will find this book an invaluable source for uncovering the rich religious life of a millennium of western civilisation.' Gary Macy, Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: the sacraments in medieval canon law; 1. The real presence of Christ, the minister and the materials of the sacrament; 2. The form of the sacrament and the elevation of the host; 3. Communion: union with Christ and unity in the sacrament; 4. Custody of the Eucharist and communion of the sick; 5. Corpus Christi and wonder hosts; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain 19451977
Book SynopsisIn this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as ''human rights activists''. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in ''the field of human rights'', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.Trade Review'This is a major intervention in the study of human rights. Buchanan's enthralling history of Amnesty International is superbly researched and written. It explores one of the key organizations involved in developing both the conceptual and practical meaning of human rights – itself one of the defining terms of the post-war period. Transnational in its range across the British empire, Chile, Greece and beyond, it offers refreshing new perspectives on British political culture from the 1940s to 1970s.' Lawrence Black, University of York'A meticulous account of how human rights sprang into life in post-War Britain. Packed with personalities and progressive societies – especially Amnesty – Tom Buchanan has shown how the shaping of human rights in the decades before the Human Rights Act made that measure possible, and shown as well how human rights must always be about more than law if they are to thrive. A considerable scholarly achievement.' Conor Gearty, London School of Economics and Political Science'If one organisation is synonymous with human rights, it is Amnesty International. In unprecedented detail, Tom Buchanan shows us Amnesty in its postwar context, skilfully weaving together the various strands of social, political and religious activism that gave birth to it and which led, in time, to the global human rights movement as a whole. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of human rights.' Stephen Hopgood, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'The conclusion is excellent, dealing with individual agency compared to 'the winds of history,' visionaries compared to effective managers, and law compared to social movements.' D. P. Forsythe, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Dawn: 1934–50; 2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s; 3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945–64; 4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961–4; 5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964–68; 6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights; 7. Torture states: 1967–75; 8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s; Conclusion. The winds of history.
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Cambridge University Press The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179
Book SynopsisAlexander III''s 1179 Lateran Council, was, for medieval contemporaries, the first of the great papal councils of the central Middle Ages. Gathered to demonstrate the renewed unity of the Latin Church, it brought together hundreds of bishops and other ecclesiastical dignitaries to discuss and debate the laws and problems that faced that church. In this evaluation of the 1179 conciliar decrees, Danica Summerlin demonstrates how these decrees, often characterised as widespread and effective ecclesiastical legislation, emerged from local disputes which were then subjected to a period of sifting and gradual integration into the local and scholarly consciousness, in exactly the same way as other contemporary legal texts. Rather than papal mandates that were automatically observed as a result of their inherent papal authority, therefore, Summerlin reveals how conciliar decrees should be viewed as representative of contemporary discussions between the papacy, their representatives and local bishops, clerics, and scholars.Trade Review'Undergraduate and graduate students interested in the impact of canon law should profit greatly from this work, as should those interested in dialogues between sacred and secular, theology and canon law, and the papacy and regional churches.' Jessalynn Lea Bird, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Historical survey; 2. Disputes, decretals, and the 1179 conciliar canons; 3. The 1179 canons and the schools; 4. The dissemination of the 1179 canons; 5. Use of the canons, ca. 1179–ca. 1191; Conclusions; Appendix 1. Manuscript listing of the 1179 canons.
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Cambridge University Press Turin and the British in the Age of the Grand Tour
Book SynopsisThis book examines crucial aspects of the important cultural relationship between Turin and Britain in the period 1600–1800, when Savoy-Piedmont was one of the principal political powers of modern Europe, through a series of twenty-two essays by an international group of scholars exploring a range of disciplines.Trade Review'An in-depth study of Turin in the context of the Grand Tour is welcome both because the city was a significant ‘stagingpost’ on the way to Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice and because it has often been left on the margins of Grand Tour scholarship.' Clare Hornsby, The Burlington MagazineTable of ContentsList of figures; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements Christopher J. Smith and Andrea Merlotti; Foreword Martin Postle; Introduction Paola Bianchi and Karin Wolfe; Part I. Britain in Turin: Politics and Culture at the Savoy Court: 1. England and Savoy: dynastic intimacy and cultural relations under the early Stuarts Toby Osborne; 2. Marriage proposals: seventeenth-century Stuart–Savoy matrimonial prospects and politics Andrea Pennini; 3. The court of Turin and the English succession, 1712–20 Edward Corp; 4. The British diplomatic presence in Turin: diplomatic culture and British élite identity, 1688–1789/98 Christopher Storrs; Part II. Turin: Gateway to Grand Tour Society: 5. The British at the Turin Royal Academy: cosmopolitanism and religious pragmatism Paola Bianchi; 6. Thomas Coke in Turin and the Turin Royal Academy Andrew Moore; 7. 'Never a more favorable reception than in the present juncture': British residents and travellers in and about Turin, 1747–8 Edoardo Piccoli; 8. The British and Freemasonry in eighteenth-century Turin Andrea Merlotti; Part III. Torino Britannica: Diplomacy and Cultural Brokerage: 9. John Molesworth: British envoy and cultural intermediary in Turin Karin Wolfe; 10. Silver from London and Turin: diplomacy by display and George Hervey, Earl of Bristol, Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Savoy 1755–8 James Rothwell; 11. The 'Savoyard': the painter Domenico Duprà and his British sitters Jonathan Yarker; 12. The culture of confession: the Sardinian Chapel in London in the eighteenth century Paola Cozzo; Part IV. Turin and Britain: Architectural Crossroads: 13. Architects and kings in Grand Tour Europe Tomasso Manfredi; 14. A homage from Turin: Filippo Juvarra's sketches for Lord Burlington Cristina Ruggero; 15. Crossing borders: the pioneering role of the architect-engineer Giovanni Battista Borra between Piedmont and Britain Olga Zoller; Part V. Britain and Turin: Chinoiserie as an International Aesthetic: 16. Chinoiserie in Piedmont: an international language of diplomacy and modernity Christopher M. S. Johns; 17. 'Alla China': the reception of international decorative models in Piedmont Cristina Mossetti; 18. The British garden in Piedmont in the late eighteenth century: variations on the picturesque, the Anglo-Chinese and the landscape garden Paolo Cornaglia; Part VI. Turin in Britain: Cultural Exchange in Grand Tour Europe: 19. A plurality of pluras: the Plura family of sculptors between Turin and Britain Alastair Laing; 20. 'A memorable era in the instrumental music of this kingdom': Piedmontese musicians in London in the latter half of the eighteenth century Annarita Colturato; 21. The British Baretti: didactics and criticism Cristina Bracchi; 22. Vittorio Alfieri and the 'English Republic': reflections on an elective affinity Francesca Fedi; Appendices: I. British diplomats and visitors to Turin in the eighteenth century Christopher Storrs; Sabaudian diplomats to London in the eighteenth century Andrea Merlotti; II. British attendees at the Turin Royal Academy Paola Bianchi; III. Letters from the Molesworth–Galilei correspondence, 1721–5 Karin Wolfe; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Morale and the Italian Army during the First World War
Book SynopsisItalian performance in the First World War has been generally disparaged or ignored compared to that of the armies on the Western Front, and troop morale in particular has been seen as a major weakness of the Italian army. In this first book-length study of Italian morale in any language, Vanda Wilcox reassesses Italian policy and performance from the perspective both of the army as an institution and of the ordinary soldiers who found themselves fighting a brutally hard war. Wilcox analyses and contextualises Italy''s notoriously hard military discipline along with leadership, training methods and logistics before considering the reactions of the troops and tracing the interactions between institutions and individuals. Restoring historical agency to soldiers often considered passive and indifferent, Wilcox illustrates how and why Italians complied, endured or resisted the army''s demands through balancing their civilian and military identities.Trade Review''Italians welcomed the Fascist salute because they were tired of putting up both hands.' Such dismissals of Italy's military morale in World War I remain the subtext of much work on the subject. Wilcox makes a correspondingly major contribution by concentrating on compliance as central to sustaining fighting power in a war where motivation was otherwise limited. Italy's soldiers, still subjects as much as citizens, came from a culture of obligation tempered by reciprocity and negotiation. Wilcox demonstrates how that balance, often unstable, nevertheless sustained a war effort often brave and ultimately victorious.' Dennis Showalter, Professor Emeritus of History, Colorado CollegeTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Army Policies and Morale: 2. Leadership, command culture and organisation; 3. Incentivising high morale; 4. Discipline; 5. Combat readiness; Part II. Italians under Arms: 6. Endurance: experience and the negotiation of identity; 7. Consent and compliance; 8. Refusal: indiscipline, protest and nervous collapse; 9. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity
Book SynopsisWhat happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. Work in the last decades has emphasized the likely fictionality of nearly all of the ancient evidence about the lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this book now sets out to show what we might nevertheless still do with the rich surviving testimony for ''creative lives'' - and the evidence that those traditions still shape how we narrate modern lives too.Trade Review'Overall it is a study in receptions, and frequently the reception of receptions as audiences of one period or culture layer impressions upon those of their predecessors.' Eleanor Winsor Leach, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Part I. Opening Remarks: 1. Orientation: what we mean by 'creative lives' Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher; 2. 'Lives' as parameter: the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research c.1900 Constanze Güthenke; Part II. Dead Poets Societies: 3. Close encounters with the ancient poets Barbara Graziosi; 4. Recognizing Virgil Andrew Laird; Part III. Lives in Unexpected Places: 5. A poetic possession: Pindar's Lives of the poets Anna Uhlig; 6. What's in a Life? Some forgotten faces of Euripides Johanna Hanink; 7. Lives from stone: epigraphy and biography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Polly Low; Part IV. Laughing Matters and Lives of the Mind: 8. On bees, poets and Plato: ancient biographers' representations of the creative process Mary Lefkowitz; 9. The life and philosophy of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles Kurt Lampe; 10. Imagination dead imagine: Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning Richard Fletcher; Part V. Portraits of the Artist: 11. 'It is Orpheus when there is singing': the mythical fabric of musical lives Pauline A. LeVen; 12. The artists as anecdote: creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history Verity Platt; 13. Freud and the biography of antiquity Miriam Leonard; Envoi John Henderson; Works cited.
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Cambridge University Press Imperial Unknowns
Book SynopsisIn this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new approach to the history of ignorance: how can we understand the very act of ignoring - in political, economic, religious, cultural and scientific communication - as a fundamental trigger that sets knowledge in motion? Zwierlein explores whether the Scientific Revolution between 1650 and 1750 can be understood as just one of what were in fact many simultaneous epistemic movements and considers the role of the European empires in this phenomenon. Deconstructing central categories like the mercantilist ''national'', the exchange of ''confessions'' between Western and Eastern Christians and the bridging of cultural gaps between European and Ottoman subjects, Zwierlein argues that understanding what was not known by historical agents can be just as important as the history of knowledge itself.Trade Review'Imperial Unknowns is a thoroughly fascinating book. Zwierlein has succeeded in linking the history of mercantilism, religion, historical knowledge and science in the Mediterranean, and he has demonstrated convincingly that a study of what historical actors did not know is as important as the study of what they did know. … In addition, Imperial Unknowns represents an important contribution to Mediterranean historiography.' Dzavid Dzanic, Mediterranean Historical Review'Cornel Zwierlein's Imperial Unknowns is the first detailed study of British-French relations in the Mediterranean basin. … The book is lucid and carefully referenced: it is magisterial in its breadth. … it remains essential reading for every student of the early modern Mediterranean.' Nabil Matar, American Historical Review'This book is a highly ambitious, complex, challenging, and genuine attempt at engaging with interdisciplinary developments within the investigation of the 'history of ignorance(s) in late medieval and early modern times'.' Maria Fusaro, German Historical Institute London Bulletin'The approach to take the Mediterranean space as the starting point for a comparative French-British history of knowledge has many merits without doubt, the amount of findings is impressive.' Christian Windler, translated from Historische Zeitschrift'This study demonstrates in an impressive way and with a stupendous [or amazing] erudition [or scholarship] that the question for forms of ignorance and how men and women of the past were coping with the borders of their knowledge can lead to new research questions.' Mark Häberlein, translated from Zeitschrift für Historische ForschungTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Politics and economy: nationalizing economics; 2. Religion: empires ignoring, learning, forgetting religions; 3. History: how to cope with unconscious ignorance; 4. Science: Mediterranean empires and scientific unknowns; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Rights of the Roma
Book SynopsisThe Rights of the Roma writes Romani struggles for citizenship into the history of human rights in socialist and post-socialist Eastern Europe. If Roma have typically appeared in human rights narratives as victims, Celia Donert here draws on extensive original research in Czech and Slovak archives, sociological and ethnographic studies, and oral histories to foreground Romani activists as subjects and actors. Through a vivid social and political history of Roma in Czechoslovakia, she provides a new interpretation of the history of human rights by highlighting the role of Socialist regimes in constructing social citizenship in postwar Eastern Europe. The post-socialist human rights movement did not spring from the dissident movements of the 1970s, but rather emerged in response to the collapse of socialist citizenship after 1989. A timely study as Europe faces a major refugee crisis which raises questions about the historical roots of nationalist and xenophobic attitudes towards non-citTrade Review'Donert places the lives of Roma in twentieth-century Czechoslovakia within the larger context of citizenship and human rights. What results is a superbly researched history that resonates far beyond this small country's borders.' Paulina Bren, Vassar College, New York'The Rights of Roma is the best work available on the history of Roma in twentieth-century Europe. Donert's powerful social and political history of the Romani population simultaneously forces us to rethink our understanding of Socialism, minority rights, and human rights in twentieth century Czechoslovakia.' Tara Zahra, University of Chicago'Histories of Roma in Eastern Europe have often focussed on their experience as victims: in this important work, Donert provides a much more complex and intriguing account, not only highlighting their varied idealisation and suppression by a socialist state, but also giving them agency as advocates for their own rights under socialism. This will be invaluable reading for those interested in understanding the historical roots of Roma issues in contemporary post-Communist Europe.' James Mark, University of Exeter'… offers a rich analysis of Romani history in Czechoslovakia based on extensive archival research … Donert offers a uniquely detailed reconstruction of Romani life between World War Two and the fall of communism … a careful,multi-perspectival history of Romani life in a communist state over the course of many decades.' Ari Joskowicz, Journal of Contemporary History'… [a] strength of the book is its efforts to show how Roma activists emerged and shaped the ongoing struggle for Romani rights … Donert's work contributes much to a greater understanding of their social and economic lives as well as their political activism - something that has been almost completely overlooked in western analyses of the Roma.' David W. Gerlach, Austrian History Yearbook'Both books are serious and lucid works of scholarship. Both do an exemplary job of embedding a Czechoslovak case in larger literatures and contexts … Gerlach and Donert put Czechoslovakia on the map of dystopian history.' Jeremy King, The Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Legacies of 1919; 2. Stalinist Gypsy workers; 3. But Roma are rural!; 4. Cracking down on nomadism; 5. Politics get personal; 6. Prague Spring for Roma; 7. Human rights, minority rights, Roma rights; 8. Losing rights after 1989; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo
Book SynopsisStrabo''s Geography, completed in the early first century AD, is the primary source for the history of Greek geography. This Guide provides the first English analysis of and commentary on this long and difficult text, and serves as a companion to the author''s The Geography of Strabo, the first English translation of the work in many years. It thoroughly analyzes each of the seventeen books and provides perhaps the most thorough bibliography as yet created for Strabo''s work. Careful attention is paid to the historical and cultural data, the thousands of toponyms, and the many lost historical sources that are preserved only in the Geography. This volume guides readers through the challenges and complexities of the text, allowing an enhanced understanding of the numerous topics that Strabo covers, from the travels of Alexander and the history of the Mediterranean to science, religion, and cult.Trade ReviewThe publication of this guide concludes one of the major achievements of contemporary classical scholarship: the first complete English translation in almost a century of Strabo's Geography that reflects current scholarship on its text and content. Strabo's Geography is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek scholarship. It is the principal source for the history of ancient geography and Greek knowledge of the cultural and historical geography of the inhabited world from India to Britain. Roller published his translation, The Geography of Strabo, in 2014. In this massive new volume, he provides a detailed exegesis of Strabo's text; each of the 17 chapters is devoted to one book of the Geography, explicating paragraph by paragraph Strabo's geographical, zoological, botanical, historical, and mythical allusions. Three maps, a comprehensive bibliography, and indexes of ancient sources cited in the text and proper names complete the work. Additional maps would have been desirable, but their absence does not detract from the value of this outstanding work. All university and college libraries. ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; Maps: 1. The ancient world as known to Strabo; 2. The inhabited world (Oikoumene); 3. The geographical extent of the books of the Geography; The guide to the Geography: Book 1; Book 2; Book 3; Book 4; Book 5; Book 6; Book 7; Book 8; Book 9; Book 10; Book 11; Book 12; Book 13; Book 14; Book 15; Book 16; Book 17; Bibliography; Index of passages cited; General index.
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany 19451980
Book SynopsisWere Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church''s relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church''s relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society - in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream.Trade Review'This is a timely and fascinating account of how, under pressure from Pius XII, the Catholic Church in Germany propagated a narrative of Catholic martyrdom in the Third Reich, and in so doing ignited a controversy over the Catholic role in Nazi Germany that lasted for more than three decades and in which both the Church's defenders and detractors distorted its actual record in the Third Reich for reasons of state and ideology. Armed with an impressive mastery of both the primary sources and the enormous volume of often contentious secondary literature this conflict engendered, Ruff reviews the way in which the Church's efforts to whitewash its Nazi past provoked a vigorous counterattack from Social Democrats and liberals. But perhaps the most impressive aspect of Ruff's work is the objectivity and empathy with which he reconstructs a conflict that excited the passions of those on both sides of the debate and that directly challenged the Church's moral authority in postwar Germany.' Larry Eugene Jones, Canisius College, New York'In his extraordinary study, Mark Edward Ruff revisits debates about the Catholic past, from the stance of German Catholics in 1933 to the choices of their Pope in wartime. He showcases each controversy in its time (for it very much mattered precisely when each happened), and achieves an exemplary study of the relevance of religion to the making of Europe after World War II.' Samuel Moyn, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History'Ruff has produced an engaging and masterful account that will be consulted for decades to come.' Noel D. Cary, The Journal of Modern History'… is highly persuasive. As such, the book will have ramifications for historians of modern Germany and Europe, as well as for intellectual historians and historiographers.' Lauren Faulkner Rossi, The American Historical Review'Future historians beginning work on this subject would do well to consult The Battle for the Catholic Past as both an indispensable guide to the field's historiographical genealogy, and simultaneously an aid for discerning those topics and methodologies neglected by the post-war period's culture wars, and thus required to break new intellectual ground.' Thomas Brodie, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The first postwar anthologies, 1945–9; 2. The battles over the reichskonkordat, 1945–57; 3. Generation gaps and the Böckenförde controversy; 4. Gordon Zahn versus the German hierarchy; 5. The storm over the deputy; 6. Guenter Lewy and the battle for sources; 7. The Repgen–Scholder controversy; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy 13001600
Book SynopsisThis book studies family life and gender broadly within Italy, not just one region or city, from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Paternal control of the household was paramount in Italian life at this time, with control of property and even marital choices and career paths laid out for children and carried out from beyond the grave by means of written testaments. However, the reality was always more complex than a simple reading of local laws and legal doctrines would seem to permit, especially when there were no sons to step forward as heirs. Family disputes provided an opening for legal ambiguities to redirect property and endow women with property and means of control. This book uses the decisions of lawyers and judges to examine family dynamics through the lens of law and legal disputes.Trade Review'This book is a fascinating study of law as a living thing in Renaissance Italy. As Kuehn demonstrates with his characteristic mastery, the elaborate provisions of substantive law were inadequate to the complexities posed by real families. Family law, accordingly, was constantly made and remade by the jurists operating at the interface between doctrine and practice.' Daniel Lord Smail, Harvard University, Massachusetts'There is no better text for grasping the complicated dynamics of law, gender, and family life that shaped culture and social life in Renaissance Italy. Kuehn's acute analysis and clear prose bring readers directly in to the most significant archival research, suggest fascinating research questions, and open lively conversation on current debates.' Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto'Innovative in its comparative approach, Kuehn's study examines the intersection of law and family life in cities and towns during the Italian Renaissance. His impressive mastery of legal sources allow him to map the complexity of gender and family across three centuries. Scholars of the Renaissance, legal history, gender and the history of the family will find this work a critical point of departure for their studies and an invaluable synthesis of recent research.' Caroline Castiglione, Brown University, Rhode Island'Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600 is a magisterial study of the relationship between law as well as medieval and Renaissance Italian society (family, gender, marriage, inheritance, religion) by the pre-eminent scholar in the field.' William P. Caferro, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee'Law was a ubiquitous dimension of life in medieval and early-modern Italy, not least in relation to private life: gender, family, household, marriage, patriarchy, and inheritance. Thomas Kuehn's book offers a sure guide to this world. The fruit of a career dedicated to understanding both the common law and local statutory law, Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600 is a virtuoso meditation on the early Italian family.' Lawrin Armstrong, University of Toronto, Canada'Kuehn (Clemson) bases this sociolegal study of Renaissance Italy on litigation documents and texts of the 'common law' (ius commune) of Continental Europe (whether Roman, canon, feudal, or local) regarding paternal power (over families, households, wives, and children), marriage, property transfer across generations, societal considerations of gender, and kinship or lineage. Kuehn's use of printed consilia - the formal opinions written by lawyers acting as their clients' advocates or as counsel for judges - provides the pioneering methodology for his interlocking inquiries. … While the densely textured discussion of consilia regarding inheritance provides the heart of the study, Kuehn subsequently illustrates how growing state paternalism, the increasing privileging of agnatic lineage, and reluctance by jurists and legislators to craft a reformed doctrinal order led to a legal stasis in family matters that lasted beyond the 16th century. A listing of important jurists, a glossary of legal terms, and a bibliographic essay complete the volume. … Recommended.' R. C. Figueira, CHOICE'Kuehn masterfully maps the complexity of law across three centuries. … Kuehn's rich work is a masterclass in how to bring together a richly-illustrated multi-layered historical account from complex legal sources. The annotated bibliographies at the end of each chapter invite further exploration. This is a must-read for any student of gender and family in Renaissance Italy, as well as any student of legal history.' Liise Lehtsalu, European History Quarterly'Already the author of three books on law and social practice in Renaissance Florence, Thomas Kuehn now extends the scope of his work to cover Italy as a whole, including Southern Italy, on a comparative basis.' Christine Meek, Renaissance Quarterly'Few historians have treated the legal underpinnings of the social fabric so deftly and in such detail as Thomas Kuehn. Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy is a sweeping survey that consolidates the findings of the author's earlier studies on emancipation, illegitimacy, heirs and creditors, and law, family, and women. … Kuehn's major point is quite well taken: that neither the history of the family nor the history of law considered separately will provide a satisfactory understanding of the early modern social and political order. For that observation, developed cogently throughout, we are deeply in the author's debt.' Philip Gavitt, The American Historical Review'The book complements Kuehn's previous work on the intersections of law, family ties, women's roles, illegitimacy, and issues of inheritance in Renaissance Florence … which offers new avenues for scholarly exploration. This excellent study vividly exposes the ambiguities found in legal and social practices that created more flexible forms of family life than one rigid patriarchal and patrilineal system in Renaissance Italy.' Megan Moran, Journal of Social HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; List of jurists; Consilia; Statutes; Introduction. Families, culture, and law in Renaissance Italy, 1300–1600; 1. Family in law and culture; 2. Gender in law and culture; 3. Family life and the laws; 4. Household: marriage and married life; 5. Inheritance: intestacy; 6. Inheritance: testaments; 7. Paternalism: family and state; 8. Crisis of family and succession?; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia
Book SynopsisThis is a major new study of the successor states that emerged in the wake of the collapse of the great Russian, Habsburg, Iranian, Ottoman and Qing Empires and of the expansionist powers who renewed their struggle over the Eurasian borderlands through to the end of the Second World War. Surveying the great power rivalry between the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan for control over the Western and Far Eastern boundaries of Eurasia, Alfred J. Rieber provides a new framework for understanding the evolution of Soviet policy from the Revolution through to the beginning of the Cold War. Paying particular attention to the Soviet Union, the book charts how these powers adopted similar methods to the old ruling elites to expand and consolidate their conquests, ranging from colonisation and deportation to forced assimilation, but applied them with a force that far surpassed the practices of their imperial predecessors.Trade Review'In this thorough study, Rieber analyzes the struggle for control of Eurasia's borderlands from the collapse of the Romanov, Habsburg, Ottoman, Qing, and Persian empires through the end of WWII. He focuses on Stalin, emphasizing the ways in which the Soviet leader's foreign policy echoed approaches of his imperial predecessors. Stalin was a 'man of the borderlands', shaped by his experiences growing up in Transcaucasia and building a revolutionary state on the ruins of a multiethnic empire … 'Stalin's pragmatism', writes Rieber, 'was the pragmatism of a Marxist-Leninist tempered by his grasp of the historical foundations of Russia's status as a great power'. Summing up: highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' M. A. Soderstrom, Choice'Beautifully written and richly documented … based on many archival materials made available in the post-Soviet era … Those with some knowledge of Soviet domestic and foreign policies will benefit the most from this book, but even those lacking a background in Soviet affairs would still benefit from reading it. It is an extremely timely work providing an understanding of the turbulent relations of Russia and the USSR with its neighbors, including Ukraine and, in that regard, provides an important tool for helping us understand Russian-Ukrainian relations today.' Nathaniel Richmond, The Russian Review'This is an ambitious and overarching reinterpretation of Stalin's domestic and foreign policies - or actually the connections between the two - from the revolution and civil war periods through World War II and the dawn of the Cold War … Rieber's book provides some insights and historical background to the current Kremlin's profound and clearly long-standing fear of hostile states on its periphery, and the belief that a ring of friendly buffer states around Russia are vital to the security of the state.' Paul Stronski, Slavic Review'Rieber's elaboration of the borderlands thesis in Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia is a tour de force. The problem is that its brilliance dazzles as well as illuminates.' Geoffrey Roberts, H-Diplo'Stalin and the Struggle for Supremacy in Eurasia is a very rich text and readers from many fields and area studies will find useful information to mine.' David Wolff, H-DiploTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Stalin: man of the borderlands; 2. Borderlands in Civil War and intervention; 3. The borderland thesis: the West; 4. The borderland thesis: the East; 5. Stalin in command; 6. Borderlands on the eve; 7. Civil wars in the borderlands; 8. War aims: the outer perimeter; 9. War aims: the inner perimeter; 10. Friendly governments in the outer perimeter; Conclusion: a transient hegemony; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Ireland Volume 2
Book SynopsisThis volume offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland and situates these discussions in global and comparative contexts. The opening chapters focus on ''Politics'' and ''Religion and War'' and offer a chronological narrative, informed by the re-interpretation of new archives. The remaining chapters are more thematic, with chapters on ''Society'', ''Culture'', and ''Economy and Environment'', and often respond to wider methodologies and historiographical debates. Interdisciplinary cross-pollination - between, on the one hand, history and, on the other, disciplines like anthropology, archaeology, geography, computer science, literature and gender and environmental studies - informs many of the chapters. The volume offers a range of new departures by a generation of scholars who explain in a refreshing and accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.Trade Review'The new approaches and topics set out here will certainly … [attract] a new generation of historians while revitalizing the field and those already working in it, ensuring the continued growth of interest in early modern Ireland. Each of the essays, too numerous to consider individually here, set out larger developments and themes in clear and accessible language suitable for undergraduates and those new to the subject … while offering novel and nuanced interpretations sure to reinvigorate advanced scholars.' Valerie McGowan-Doyle, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Ireland in the early modern world Jane Ohlmeyer; Part II. Politics: 2. Politics, policy and power, 1550–1603 Ciaran Brady; 3. Political change and social transformation, 1603–1641 David Edwards; 4. Politics, 1641–1660 John Cunningham; 5. Restoration politics, 1660–1691 Ted McCormack; 6. Politics, 1692–1730 Charles Ivar McGrath; 7. The emergence of a protestant society, 1691–1730 D. W. Hayton; Part III. Religion and War: 8. Counter reformation: the Catholic Church, 1550–1641 Tadhg Ó Hannracháin; 9. Protestant reformations, 1550–1641 Colm Lennon; 10. Establishing a confessional Ireland, 1641–1691 Robert Armstrong; 11. Wars of religion, 1641–1691 John Jeremiah Cronin and Pádraig Lenihan; Part IV. Society: 12. Society, 1550–1730 Clodagh Tait; 13. Men, women, children and the family, 1550–1730 Mary O'Dowd; 14. Domestic materiality in Ireland, 1550–1730 Susan Flavin; 15. Irish art and architecture, 1550–1730 Jane Fenlon; 16. Ireland in the Atlantic world: migration and cultural transfer William O'Reilly; Part V. Culture: 17. Language, print and literature in Irish, 1550–1630 Marc Caball; 18. Language, literature and print in Irish, 1630–1730 Bernadette Cunningham; 19. The emergence of English print and literature, 1630–1730 Deana Rankin; 20. A world of honour: aristocratic mentalité Brendan Kane; 21. Irish political thought and intellectual history, 1550–1730 Ian Campbell; Part VI. Economy and Environment: 22. Economic life, 1550–1730 Raymond Gillespie; 23. Plantations, 1550–1641 Annaleigh Margery; 24. The down survey and the Cromwellian land settlement Micheál Ó Siochrú and David Brown; 25. Environmental history of Ireland, 1550–1730 Frank Ludlow and Arlene Crampsie; Part VII. Afterword: 26. Interpreting the history of early modern Ireland: from the sixteenth century to the present Nicholas Canny.
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Cambridge University Press Amnesty International and Human Rights Activism in Postwar Britain 19451977
Book SynopsisIn this definitive new account of the emergence of human rights activism in post-war Britain, Tom Buchanan shows how disparate individuals, organisations and causes gradually came to acquire a common identity as ''human rights activists''. This was a slow process whereby a coalition of activists, working on causes ranging from anti-fascism, anti-apartheid and decolonisation to civil liberties and the peace movement, began to come together under the banner of human rights. The launch of Amnesty International in 1961, and its landmark winning of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1977 provided a model and inspiration to many new activist movements in ''the field of human rights'', and helped to affect major changes towards public and political attitudes towards human rights issues across the globe.Trade Review'This is a major intervention in the study of human rights. Buchanan's enthralling history of Amnesty International is superbly researched and written. It explores one of the key organizations involved in developing both the conceptual and practical meaning of human rights – itself one of the defining terms of the post-war period. Transnational in its range across the British empire, Chile, Greece and beyond, it offers refreshing new perspectives on British political culture from the 1940s to 1970s.' Lawrence Black, University of York'A meticulous account of how human rights sprang into life in post-War Britain. Packed with personalities and progressive societies – especially Amnesty – Tom Buchanan has shown how the shaping of human rights in the decades before the Human Rights Act made that measure possible, and shown as well how human rights must always be about more than law if they are to thrive. A considerable scholarly achievement.' Conor Gearty, London School of Economics and Political Science'If one organisation is synonymous with human rights, it is Amnesty International. In unprecedented detail, Tom Buchanan shows us Amnesty in its postwar context, skilfully weaving together the various strands of social, political and religious activism that gave birth to it and which led, in time, to the global human rights movement as a whole. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of human rights.' Stephen Hopgood, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'The conclusion is excellent, dealing with individual agency compared to 'the winds of history,' visionaries compared to effective managers, and law compared to social movements.' D. P. Forsythe, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Dawn: 1934–50; 2. Africa, decolonisation and human rights in the 1950s; 3. Political imprisonment and human rights, 1945–64; 4. The early years of Amnesty International, 1961–4; 5. 'The crisis of growth', Amnesty International 1964–68; 6. 1968: the UN Year for Human Rights; 7. Torture states: 1967–75; 8. 'All things come to those who wait': the later 1970s; Conclusion. The winds of history.
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Cambridge University Press The Jew the Cathedral and the Medieval City Synagoga And Ecclesia In The Thirteenth Century
Book SynopsisIn the thirteenth century, sculptures of Synagoga and Ecclesia - paired female personifications of the Synagogue defeated and the Church triumphant - became a favoured motif on cathedral faÃades in France and Germany. Throughout the preceding centuries, the Jews of northern Europe prospered financially and intellectually, a trend that ran counter to the long-standing Christian conception of Jews as relics of the prehistory of the Church. In this book, Nina Rowe examines the sculptures as defining elements in the urban Jewish-Christian encounter. She locates the roots of the Synagoga-Ecclesia motif in antiquity and explores the theme's public manifestations at the cathedrals of Reims, Bamberg, and Strasbourg, considering each example in relation to local politics and culture. Ultimately, she demonstrates that royal and ecclesiastical policies to restrain the religious, social, and economic lives of Jews in the early thirteenth century found a material analog in lovely renderings of a doTrade Review'Rowe's approach to her work is impressively versatile, drawing historical, textual, and material evidence into synthesis with formal and stylistic observations to walk the line attentively between the worm's-eye and the bird's-eye view of her subject. The breadth and soundness of the resulting book will interest a wide range of scholars in fields from art history and Jewish studies to theology, anthropology and beyond. The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City … represents a masterful scholarly accomplishment and a signal contribution to medieval studies.' The Medieval Review'Rowe's study represents a valuable contribution to the corpus of scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction, medieval urban history and Gothic art. Scholars and students alike will want to familiarize themselves with Rowe's arguments and imitate her interpretative methodologies.' German History'The Jew, the Cathedral and the Medieval City is an excellent example of a study on the border between history and art history. … Rowe's work … sheds new light on the Synagoga-Ecclesia theme through a probing study of the political and ecclesiastical milieux that generated the monumental ensembles at three important cathedrals: Reims, Bamberg and Strasbourg.' Bulletin monumental'Rowe's book is one of very few studies of German Gothic sculpture in English; that alone makes it a significant contribution. … What makes Rowe's study novel is her integration of the images into the social and political circumstances of their production and consumption, above all, those that involved the resident clergy's interactions with and attitudes toward Jews. The Art Bulletin'Nina Rowe has succeeded in providing scholars with a provocative foray into the difficult problem of the relationship of artistic evidence to the lived realities of social and political life. Often she is forced to speculate, but she is always forthright about the limitations of her evidence. Not everyone will agree with all her conclusions, but no one working in the general area of her concerns can afford to ignore them. SpeculumTable of ContentsIntroduction: the Jew, the cathedral and the city; Part I. Imagining Jews and Judaism in Life and Art: 1. The Jew in a Christian world: denunciation and restraint in the age of cathedrals; 2. Ecclesia and Synagoga: the life of a motif; Part II. Art and Life on the Ecclesiastical Stage - Three Case Studies: Introduction to Part II: nature, antiquity and sculpture in the early thirteenth century; 3. Reims: 'our Jews' and the royal sphere; 4. Bamberg: the empire, the Jews and earthly order; 5. Strasbourg: clerics, burghers and Jews in the medieval city; Epilogue: the afterlife of an image.
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Cambridge University Press Modernity and Bourgeois Life
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.Trade Review'This is an impressive work of synthesis which tracks more than a century of bourgeois life in Europe. And the bourgeois world Seigel conjures is a complex one, born of ever more tightly woven patterns of communication and exchange, never fixed but changing over time, and always an unstable mix of the structured and the fluid. Rarely has the subject been treated with such sweep and sympathy.' Philip Nord, Princeton University'A virtuoso performance in a powerful survey with an eye for the telling contrast and the shrewd comparison: England - at once the most bourgeois and the least; France - homeland of revolution yet slow to change, and Germany, where bourgeois politics was expressed by not yet modern bourgeois classes.' Donald Sassoon, Queen Mary, University of London'Jerrold Seigel dazzles the reader with an array of original arguments across European time and space, and gives new credibility to transformational claims for Western Europe's middle classes. He convincingly shows how the articulation of new bourgeois networks in various spheres of activity cumulatively altered European society and culture.' Isser Woloch, Columbia University'Jerry Seigel's ambitious and important new book offers a fresh interpretation of Europe's 'great transformation' (1750–1914) that is as cogent as it is challenging. Immensely learned, vividly detailed and impressively comprehensive, Modernity and Bourgeois Life combines a broad synthesis of the social and cultural history of modern western Europe with an original and compelling argument regarding the place of bourgeois actors in the gradual and uneven emergence of modern life in economic, cultural and political realms. Beautifully written and sharply argued, Seigel's narrative is shot through with luminous insights, telling individual portraits and clear and engaging explanations of sometimes quite difficult material. A pleasure to read, [this book] invites its readers on a genial voyage of discovery, or re-discovery, of recent European landscapes they thought they already knew.' Laura Lee Downs, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris'In this masterful interpretation of modern European history, Seigel … persuasively and lucidly argues that the essence of change has been the growth and transformation of the bourgeoisie … This work belongs in every academic library; it also deserves to be taken off the shelves and read by all students of European history. Uncommonly good. Summing up: highly recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: ends and means; Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England; 6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy; 7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany; Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital; 9. Men and women; 10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people; Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces; 13. Bourgeois and others; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde; 15. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The First Crossing of Greenland 2 Volume Set
Book SynopsisThis two-volume work chronicles the first successful crossing of the Greenland interior by Fridtjof Nansen (18611930) and five colleagues over two months in 1888. The books cover their journey to Greenland as well as the journey westward across the 'inner ice', and also include appendices detailing the expedition's discoveries.
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Cambridge University Press Hodge and his Masters 2 Volume Set Cambridge Library Collection British and Irish History 19th Century
Book SynopsisRichard Jefferies (1848â87) remains one of the most thoughtful and most lyrical writers on the English countryside. He had aspirations to make a living as a novelist, but it was his short, factually based articles for The Live Stock Journal and other magazines, drawn from a wealth of knowledge of the rural community into which he had been born, which, when brought together in book form, brought him recognition (though not wealth), and which continued to be read and admired after his early death. This two-volume work, first published in 1880, contains a collection of essays first published in The Standard. Jefferies describes the daily life and circumstances of Victorian English farmers, labourers and their wives without sentimentality, illustrating daily hardships as well as idyllic pastimes, and providing an accurate and thus valuable description of a now vanished way of life.
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Cambridge University Press A History of Agriculture and Prices in England 7 Volume Set in 8 Pieces From the Year after the Oxford Parliament 1259 to the Commencement of the British and Irish History General
Book SynopsisSince early times, agriculture has been pivotal to England's economy. This seven-volume, eight-piece set compiled by the economist James E. Thorold Rogers (1823â90), represents the most complete record of produce costs in England between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on a variety of sources including college archives and the Public Record Office, Rogers documents the fluctuating prices of commodities such as livestock, wheat, hay, wool, textiles and labour in a time of great economic change, when the growing economy of the early middle ages was shaken by famine and the Black Death, and then gradually recovered towards the Agrarian Revolution. Published between 1866 and 1902 (Volume 7 having been edited by Rogers' son and published after his death), the whole work provides the statistical basis for research into English agrarian history, and essays which help to interpret the raw data.
£355.30
Cambridge University Press Diplomatarium venetolevantinum 2 Volume Set Cambridge Library Collection European History
Book SynopsisThis two-volume work contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300â1454. They refer to Venice's dealings with her own empire across the eastern Mediterranean and with foreign powers, including Turkish sultans and Byzantine emperors. At that time, Venetian power was at its zenith (the doges boasted of being rulers of 'one-quarter and one-half of a quarter of the whole world'), but there were dangers to Venetian naval and mercantile supremacy from the continuous advance of the Ottoman Turks across the territory formerly ruled from Constantinople. Volume 1, published in 1880, covers the period 1300â50. It was edited by the German scholar G. M. Thomas (1817â87), who in the 1850s had published with Gottlieb Tafel on Venice's earlier relations with Byzantium. Volume 2, prepared for the press after Thomas' death by Riccardo Predelli (1842â1909) and published in 1899, contains documents from 1351 to 1454.
£999.99
Cambridge University Press Relazioni degli ambasciatori Veneti al senato 15 Volume Set Series I II and III Cambridge Library Collection European History
Book SynopsisThese editions of reports sent back by Venetian ambassadors to the Great Council of the Republic in the sixteenth century were edited by Eugenio AlbÃri (1807â78) and published between 1839 and 1863. (Reports from earlier centuries had been destroyed in a fire at the Doge's Palace in 1577.) As AlbÃri notes in his preface to the first volume, a law of 1296 decreed that all embassies and legations should submit a written report to the Council at the end of their mission, and the surviving records provide an invaluable resource for both political and economic historians. The fifteen volumes are divided into three series, on relations with European states outside Italy, with other Italian states, and with the Ottoman Empire. Ranging from a mission to France in 1492 to an embassy to Savoy in 1601, the reports cover all the significant political events in sixteenth-century Europe.
£519.65
Cambridge University Press Matthaei Parisiensis Chronica majora 7 Volume Set Cambridge Library Collection Rolls
Book SynopsisA Church of England clergyman and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Henry Richards Luard (1825â91) edited a number of works in the Rolls Series, for which he was noted for the quality of his indexing and the depth of his commentary. This seven-volume work, first published between 1872 and 1883, has been hailed as one of the best editions in the series. It is a rich source for English history from the Creation to 1259, written by England's greatest medieval historian. Matthew Paris (c.1200â59) became a monk at St Albans in 1217 and had access to a wide variety of documents as an acquaintance of such men as Bishop Robert Grosseteste and King Henry III, whom he knew well.
£331.55
Cambridge University Press Historical Memoirs of my Own Time 2 Volume Set Cambridge Library Collection British Irish History 17th 18th Centuries
Book SynopsisSir Nathanial William Wraxall (1751â1831), traveller and writer, served as an MP from 1780 to 1794 and was made a baronet in 1813. Upon publication in 1815, his memoirs were an immediate, though controversial, success: 1,000 copies sold out within five weeks. Accused of libelling a Russian diplomat, and found guilty, Wraxall brought out this second edition later that same year, with the offending passages removed. Volume 1 covers 1772â81, a period of extensive travel, which took him across several European countries, including Portugal, France, Germany and Italy, returning to London in 1780. Volume 2 comprises the majority of the second, and more controversial, part of the work, which covers 1781â4 and Wraxall's early parliamentary years under Lord North's administration. The memoirs make for an entertaining read, and few from the distinguished circles in which the author moved are spared from his merciless facility for description.
£78.84
Cambridge University Press Memoirs of the Life of Sir Samuel Romilly 3 Volume Set Written by Himself with a Selection from his Correspondence Cambridge Library Collection British Irish History 17th 18th Centuries
Book SynopsisA friend of Wilberforce and Bentham, Sir Samuel Romilly (1757â1818) combined considerable legal expertise with commitment to progressive political causes such as the abolition of the slave trade. During his time in Parliament - he was Solicitor General in Lord Grenville's 'Ministry of All the Talents' - he sought to lessen the archaic severity of English criminal law regarding corporal and capital punishment. Though he met with resistance, his efforts raised awareness and influenced later reforms. Compiled by his sons and published in 1840, this three-volume collection of autobiographical writings and varied correspondence illuminates the development of his outlook and the principles which guided him. The volumes include Romilly's two-part narrative of his life from 1757 to 1789, letters from eminent friends such as the French revolutionary Mirabeau, selected correspondence with Genevan writer Ãtienne Dumont and others, and Romilly's diary of his parliamentary life between 1806 and 181
£101.65
Cambridge University Press Chartularium Universitatis Parisiensis 4 Volume Set Sub auspiciis consilii generalis facultatum parisiensium Cambridge Library Collection Medieval History
£227.00
