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Cambridge University Press Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700 3 Volume Set Cambridge Library Collection British and Irish History General
Book SynopsisBorn in Philadelphia, James Peller Malcolm (1767â1815) travelled to London in 1787, remaining there until his death. Initially hoping for a career as a landscape painter, he became well known for his engravings, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1792, and for his books on history that made extensive use of original local records. First published in 1808, Anecdotes gives a typically personal and often light-hearted account of the history and customs of Malcolm's adopted city. Illustrated with his engravings, the work ranges from considering the diet and dress of the ancient Britons to suggesting that the Great Fire of London was state-sanctioned to rid the city of plague. This is the 1811 second edition of a valuable and often entertaining insight into English social history. The volumes cover such topics as the origin of English character, religion and superstition, and amusements and popular pastimes.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars 3 Volume Hardback Set
Book SynopsisThe Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars is a definitive history of the Napoleonic Wars drawing on a wealth of modern scholarship and leading expertise in the field. It offers a comprehensive account of the Wars from their origins in eighteenth-century diplomacy to the memory and political legacy they left behind. The three volumes cover the grand strategies of the combatants, the campaigns they fought, and the composition of the forces at their disposal; they analyse their conflicting ideologies, alliances and diplomacy, and the varieties of resistance and occupation; and they assess their legacy for future generations. They challenge conventional assumptions about the nature of war in the period and apply methodologies derived from social and cultural history as well as from the new military history of recent years. These volumes take full account of the latest research and present a history of the Napoleonic Wars for the twenty-first century.
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Cambridge University Press Brexit Time
Book SynopsisThe result of the UK referendum in June 2016 on membership of the European Union had immediate repercussions across the UK, the EU and internationally. As the dust begins to settle, attention is now naturally drawn to understanding why this momentous decision came about and how and when the UK will leave the EU. What are the options for the new legal settlements between the UK and the EU? What will happen to our current political landscape within the UK in the time up to and including its exit from the EU? What about legal and political life after Brexit? Within a series of short essays, Brexit Time explores and contextualises each stage of Brexit in turn: pre-referendum; the result; the process of withdrawal; rethinking EU relations; and post-Brexit. During a time of intense speculation and commentary, this book offers an indispensable guide to the key issues surrounding a historic event and its uncertain aftermath.Table of ContentsIntroducing Brexit Time; Part I. Time before Brexit: 1. Before and after membership; 2. Referendum and renegotiation; 3. Referendums and European integration; 4. 2016 referendum; 5. Campaign times; Part II. Time of Brexit: 6. Control over borders; 7. Control over money; 8. Democratic control; 9. Control over laws; 10. Control over trade; Part III. Time for Brexit: 11. Defining Brexit, redefining Britain; 12. Future trade: deals and defaults; 13. Differentiated Brexit; 14. Taming of control: the Great Repeal Bill; Part IV. Time to Brexit: 15. Article 50 TEU: how to withdraw from the EU; 16. Litigating Brexit; 17. Time to organise; 18. The parliamentarisation of Brexit; 19. Negotiation time; Time for the future; Epilogue; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Transatlantic Antifascisms
Book SynopsisAntifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history - yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive study of antifascisms in Spain, France, the UK, and USA, with new interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, French Popular Front, and Second World War. He shows how two types of antifascism - revolutionary and counterrevolutionary - developed from 1936 to 1945. Revolutionary antifascism dominated the Spanish Republic during its civil war and re-emerged in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. By contrast, counterrevolutionary antifascists were hegemonic in France, Britain, and the USA. In Western Europe, they restored conservative republics or constitutional monarchies based on Enlightenment principles. This innovative examination of antifascism will interest a wide range of sTrade Review'Michael Seidman makes us rethink our understanding of the ideologies and practices of anti-fascists in their struggles with fascist parties and fascist regimes before and during the war. His typology of antifascisms and his critical analysis of their nature and effectiveness enables historians and all citizens to engage in new ways with a fundamental political conflict of the twentieth century. Transatlantic Antifascisms is of real importance to those who identify as antifascists today as well as historians of the modern world.' Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'Transatlantic Antifascism is an admirable study: for its scope, its subtlety, its conceptual rigour and its many ideas and insights. This is a lively and enjoyable account of antifascism which will appeal to scholars, students and the general reader alike.' Nigel Townson, Universidad Complutense de Madrid'Michael Seidman makes a powerful case for giving antifascism the analytical attention scholars have long given to fascism. His erudite and lively study of Spain, France, Britain, and the US does that and more. It breaks open the subject with fresh, provocative ideas, and it explores the many dimensions of antifascism - its politics, its religious and cultural wellsprings, its place in working-class life - with deft authority. A remarkable contribution.' Herrick Chapman, New York University'Transatlantic Antifascisms makes a significant contribution to the study of antifascism. As with his previous works, Seidman does not shy away from challenging some of the dominant trends within the relevant historiography, and the field is the better for it.' Christopher Bannister, H-France Review'The work of Michael Seidman offers a brilliant interpretation of these decisive years of the 'short twentieth century'.' Gilles Vergnon, European History QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Revolutionary antifascism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39; 3. The antifascist deficit during the French Popular Front; 4. British and French counterrevolutionary antifascism; 5. Counterrevolutionary antifascism alone, 1939–40; 6. American counterrevolutionary antifascism; 7. Antifascisms united: 1941–44; 8. Beyond fascism and antifascism: working and not working; 9. Antifascisms divided, 1945; 10. Conclusion and epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State
Book SynopsisAs the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such diffeTrade Review'Kristin Fabbe has written a highly engaging study of the historical relationship between religion and state-building in the Middle East and Balkans … Fabbe's study should appeal to historians and political and other social scientists interested in state-building, secularization, and nationalism.' Mark Biondich, Journal of Church and StateTable of Contents1. Introduction: religion and the quest for state soverignty; 2. Creating disciples of the state; 3. The Ottoman imperial footprint and international context; 4. The first reformer: Egypt under Muḥammad ʿAlī; 5. Synthesizing the religious and the national in a revolutionary and irredentist Greece; 6. The religious roots of the 'secular' state: understanding Turkey's sacred-synthesis of the religious and the national; 7. How the religious and the national diverge: evidence from Egypt; 8. Sacred-synthesis, the politics of exclusion, and the prospects of liberal democracy; 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Donor Portraits in Byzantine Art
Book SynopsisThis book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown between ordinary, mortal figures and their holy, supernatural interlocutors. The topic is approached from a range of perspectives, including art history, theology, structuralist and post-structuralist anthropological theory, and contemporary symbol and metaphor theory. Rico Franses argues that the term ''donor portraits'' is inappropriate for the category of images to which it conventionally refers and proposes an alternative title for the category, contact portraits. He contends that the most important feature of the scenes consists in the active role that they play within the belief systems of the supplicants. They are best conceived of not simply as passive expressions of stable, pre-existing ideas and concepts, but as dynamic proponents in a fraught, constantly shifting landscape. The book is important for all scholars and students of Byzantine art and religion.Trade Review'This is a book that takes a broadly synchronic look across the Byzantine world, a view that different works of art in different media from different times and places nonetheless speak to the same broad Christian world-view, to similar structures … This is a perspective that makes us think and it makes us question, and that is what the best scholarship should do.' Liz James, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: methodologies for the study of donor portraits; 1. The history and problematic of the donor portrait; 2. On meaning in portraits. The knot of intention and the question of the patron's share; 3. Awaiting the end after the end. Sin, absolution, and the afterlife; 4. Exchange and non-exchange. The gift between human and divine; 5. The literal, the symbolic, and the contact portrait. On belief in the interaction between human and divine; Postscript: the problem of terminology again. Donor portraits and contact portraits.
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Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State
Book SynopsisAs the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such diffeTrade Review'Kristin Fabbe has written a highly engaging study of the historical relationship between religion and state-building in the Middle East and Balkans … Fabbe's study should appeal to historians and political and other social scientists interested in state-building, secularization, and nationalism.' Mark Biondich, Journal of Church and StateTable of Contents1. Introduction: religion and the quest for state soverignty; 2. Creating disciples of the state; 3. The Ottoman imperial footprint and international context; 4. The first reformer: Egypt under Muḥammad ʿAlī; 5. Synthesizing the religious and the national in a revolutionary and irredentist Greece; 6. The religious roots of the 'secular' state: understanding Turkey's sacred-synthesis of the religious and the national; 7. How the religious and the national diverge: evidence from Egypt; 8. Sacred-synthesis, the politics of exclusion, and the prospects of liberal democracy; 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Socialism across the Iron Curtain
Book SynopsisThis innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the ways in which the French, Italian and Polish socialist parties and the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party dealt with the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction. Drawing on archival documents in seven languages, De Graaf reveals the profound divide which existed in all four countries between socialist elites and their grassroots as workers reacted hostilely to calls for industrial discipline and for further sacrifices towards the reconstruction effort. He also provides a fresh interpretation of the political weaknesses of socialist parties in post-war continental Europe by stressing the importance of political history and social structure. By placing the attitudes of the continental socialist parties in their proper socio-historical context he highlights the many similarities across and divergences within the two putative blocs.Trade Review'Jan De Graaf's book is fascinating from start to finish and its sharp reading is indispensable to any historian or anyone interested in the period.' Gilles Vergnon, translated from L'ours'De Graaf's comparative method is effective. By the end of the book, one is largely convinced that European socialist parties did not form two separate Eastern and Western blocs in the immediate years after 1945. On several key issues (forms of local popular democracy, attitudes towards strikes and towards the urban industrial working class more generally, cooperation with communists, confidence in parliamentary democracy, the legitimacy of violence to gain political power, and relations with socialist parties abroad) the fault lines ran across East–West divisions.' Talbot Imlay, International Review of Social History'Using a transnational focus, De Graaf restores a sense of agency to the historical actors - socialist leaders and the party rank and file - and brilliantly makes sense of their actions, dilemmas, and views against the backdrop of European reconstruction.' Kevin J. Callahan, Central European History'... De Graaf's study will stand for a long time as a reference point for the ways post-war socialism in Europe is perceived and appreciated.' Kasper Brasken, European History Quarterly'Socialism across the Iron Curtain is an important book.' Gerd-Rainer Horn, JacobinTable of Contents1. The national road to socialism; 2. Bread, butter and egalitarianism; 3. Discipline, sacrifice, and production; 4. The morale of the story; 5. The lessons of the past; 6. Elections, parliaments, and constitutions; 7. Democracy from below; 8.The international road to socialism.
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Cambridge University Press Great Christian Jurists in Spanish History
Book SynopsisThe Great Christian Jurists series comprises a library of national volumes of detailed biographies of leading jurists, judges and practitioners, assessing the impact of their Christian faith on the professional output of the individuals studied. Spanish legal culture, developed during the Spanish Golden Age, has had a significant influence on the legal norms and institutions that emerged in Europe and in Latin America. This volume examines the lives of twenty key personalities in Spanish legal history, in particular how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law. Each chapter discusses a jurist within his or her intellectual and political context. All chapters have been written by distinguished legal scholars from Spain and around the world. This diversity of international and methodological perspectives gives the volume its unique character; it will appeal to scholars, lawyers, and students interested in the interplay between religion and law.Table of ContentsIntroduction Rafael Domingo and Javier Martínez-Torrón; 1. Isidore of Seville Philip Reynolds; 2. Raymond of Penyafort José Miguel Viejo-Ximénez; 3. Alfonso X Joseph F. O'Callaghan; 4. Francisco de Vitoria Andreas Wagner; 5. Bartolomé de Las Casas Kenneth Pennington; 6. Martín de Azpilcueta Wim Decok; 7 Domingo de Soto Benjamin Hill; 8. Fernando Vázquez de Menchaca Salvador Rus; 9. Diego de Covarrubias y Leiva Richard Helmholz; 10 Luis de Molina Kirk R. MacGregor; 11. Francisco Suárez Henrik Lagerlung; 12. Tomás Sánchez Rafael Domingo; 13. Juan Solórzano Pereira Matthew C. Mirow; 14. Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos Jan-Henrik Witthaus; 15. Francisco Martínez Marina Aniceto Massferrer; 16. Juan Donoso Cortés Jose María Beneyto; 17. Concepción Arenal Paloma Durán y Lalaguna; 18. Manuel Alonso Martínez Carlos Petit; 19. Álvaro d'Ors Rafael Domingo; 20. Pedro Lombardía Alberto de la Hera and Javier Martínez-Torrón.
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Cambridge University Press Bombing the City
Book SynopsisWorld War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.Trade Review'An intimate and thoroughly original breakthrough in comparative history that skillfully interweaves the diaries and recollections of ordinary British and Japanese civilians to bring alive the horrors of German and American terror bombing in World War II.' John Dower, author of Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq'Bombing the City is an important book that reminds us, through a focus on the second World War, that 'total war' transforms civilians into targets in new and devastating ways. Drawing on archival sources from Britain and Japan, Moore tells the story of aerial bombardment in the words of those below the bombs.' Lucy Noakes, author of War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939–1991'Much ink has been spilled on the rise of air power in World War II. Aaron William Moore's extraordinary new book manages to bring fresh perspective to this story, focusing on the experience of the bombed in England and Japan. In evocative detail, he shows us how the transformation in battle tactics also transformed cities and urban life. Social history at its best.' Louise Young, author of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism'The reading of Bombing the City is enthralling … recommended for anyone interested in the history of aerial bombardment and civilian experiences of total war.' Jean-Michel Turcotte, Canadian Military History'… this is a richly informative and thought-provoking book that will be enjoyed not only by scholars of Japanese and British history, but also by anyone with an interest in the horrors of indiscriminate bombing campaigns.' Simon Partner, The Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Featured diarists; Introduction: attacking the people: democracy, populism, and modern war; 1. Give unto Moloch: family and nation in WWII; 2. The muses of war: terror, anger, and faith; 3. Romancing stone: human sacrifice and system collapse in the city; 4. Defending our way of life: gender, class, age, and other oppressions; Conclusion: victory for the people: pacifism and the ashes of the post-war era; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Present at the Transition
Book SynopsisNearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the social sciences. This groundbreaking work from Oleh Havrylyshyn offers a new perspective. Havrylyshyn, a former official in the post-independence Ukrainian government, provides a unique, primary source account of the people and problems at the heart of economic transitions. Grounded in three decades of data, along with experiential research gleaned from nearly thirty countries, this book contains the most up-to-date assessment of economic transitions in post-communist regions. It critically examines questions of gradual versus radical reforms, the relationship between democracy and market liberalization, and how history, individual personalities, and foreign influence determined political choices. Thorough research and accessible style make this work a valuable resource for students and specialists of economics, political science, and history as Trade Review'Oleh Havrylyshyn, an academic and a former policy maker, provides a fascinating account of the liberalizing transitions of former socialist countries. His unique knowledge allows him to present the basic facts and to unmask popular myths about the post-socialist transformations. He deals in a comparative way both with the economics of transition and with the political economy of this process. Writing clearly and elegantly, Havrylyshyn makes a very important contribution to a very important subject.' Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics'… the most widely referenced book on this topic.' P. Rutland, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Diverse Paths Taken in Transition: 1. Review of key debates at the beginning; 2. Reforms and results of transition: first some facts; Part II. Choice of Strategy: Was it History? Politics? Or People?: 3. Historical legacies: hysteresis vs critical juncture; 4. Reform commitment of political leaders and populations; 5. The role of technocrats; 6. External incentives and pressures; Part III. Domestic Vested Interests and Reforms: 7. The old guard: politicians, technocrats, and red directors; 8. Formation of the oligarchs; 9. Corruption: pervasive, persistent and pernicious; Part IV. Outcomes and Prospects: 11. The transition tapestry: wefts of history, warps-at choice; 12. Quo vadis post-communa?: an epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press The Battle for Christian Britain
Book SynopsisPost-war British culture was initially dominated by religious-led sexual austerity and, from the sixties, by secular liberalism. Using five case studies of local licensing and a sixth on the BBC, conservative Christians are exposed here as the nation''s censors, fighting effectively for purity on stage, screen and in public places. The Anglican-led Public Morality Council was astonishingly successful in restraining sex in London''s media in the fifties, but a brazen sexualised culture thrived amongst the millions of tourists to Blackpool, whilst Glasgow and the Isle of Lewis were gripped by conservatism. But come the late 1960s, tourists took Blackpool''s sexual liberalism home, whilst progressive Humanism burrowed into Parliament and the BBC to secularise moral reform and the national narrative. Using extensive archival research, Callum G. Brown adopts a secular gaze to show how conservative Christians lost the battle for the nation''s moral culture.Trade Review'Grounded in meticulous archival research, Callum G. Brown's insightful historical explication is a vital contribution to understanding the how and why of contemporary non-religion. Brown expertly demonstrates why it is important for all of us interested in non-religion to pay careful attention to the historical forces that shape the present.' Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa'A fascinating examination of how the resurgent religious culture of 1950s Britain was undermined by the intellectual, political and social shifts of the 1960s and 1970s. Deeply researched, and written with the author's customary verve, Brown's regional approach offers an important challenge to London-centric narratives of permissiveness.' Adrian Bingham, University of Sheffield'This work admirably illuminates both the miasmatic conservative Christian moral vigilantism that pervasively afflicted the 'long 1950s', and its collapse. It makes a powerful case for looking beyond narratives that centre London and 'the establishment' to explore regional differences and localised initiatives in social change.' Lesley Hall, author of Sex, Gender and Social Change in Britain since 1880'This rollicking survey of the defeat of a formidable Christian social, cultural and moral hegemony by sex, drugs, rock and roll and TV satire fundamentally reappraises religious change in Sixties Britain. A daring and devastating sortie on the scholarly consensus.' Alana Harris, King's College London'For twenty years Brown has set the international agenda for histories of secularisation. He now breaks new ground by highlighting the rising influence of Humanists in the 1960s and 70s, through campaigning and especially through television. Well-researched, forcefully argued and highly readable, the book will stimulate a lively debate.' Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham'Brown's work is a meticulously researched meditation on the entanglements between sex and religion … this book will provoke lively debate among historians of modern Britain.' David Geiringer, Journal of British Studies'… The battle for Christian Britain makes a valuable contribution to questioning and rethinking the ways in which historians research and write about the religious and sexual transformations of the period. Its most significant contribution is likely to be in provoking further discussion and debate on these issues.' Laura Ramsay, Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. The Battle in Context: 1. Introduction; Part II. The Heyday of Christian Vigilance 1945–1965: 2. Moral vigilance; 3. Licensing at the front line: London and Blackpool; 4. Licensing in the provinces: Sheffield, Glasgow and Lewis; 5. Battle at the Beeb part I; Part III. The Sixties Crisis and its Legacy, 1965–1980: 6. The privatisation of moral vigilance; 7. The sixties liberalisation of licensing; 8. The Humanist challenge; 9. Battle at the Beeb part II; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. The birth of civilised Britain.
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Cambridge University Press More Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Book SynopsisMost of the Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegms) have survived in Greek and most of them are now available in English, almost 2500 in number. A further six hundred items in six languages have been available in French for some time, but often in second- and even third-hand translations. These have now been newly translated directly from the original languages by scholars skilled in those languages and are presented, alongside an Introduction and brief notes, to the English reader who wishes to know more of those men and some women who rejected ''the world'' and went to live in the desert regions of Egypt and elsewhere in the fourth to seventh centuries.Table of ContentsPreface Samuel Rubenson; 1. Introduction John Wortley; 2. Sayings preserved in Greek John Wortley; 3. Sayings preserved in Latin John Wortley; 4. Sayings preserved in Syriac Robert Kitchen; 5. Sayings preserved in Armenian Robert W. Thomson; 6. Sayings preserved in Coptic Tim Vivian; 7. Sayings preserved in Ethiopic (Ge'ez) Witold Witakowski.
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Cambridge University Press Subversive Seas
Book SynopsisThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It highlights the importance of shipping, port cities, and maritime culture to the political struggles of the 1920s and 30s. Port cities such as Jeddah, Shanghai, and Batavia were hotbeds for the spread of nationalism, communism, pan-Islamism, and pan-Asianism, and became important centers of opposition to Dutch imperialism through the circulation of passengers, laborers, and religious pilgrims. In response to growing maritime threats, the Dutch government and shipping companies attempted to secure oceanic spaces and maintain hegemony abroad through a web of control.Techniques included maritime policing networks, close collaboration with British and French surveillance entities ashore, and maintaining segregation on ships, which was meant to ''teach'' those on board their position within imperial hierarchies. This innovative study exposes how anti-colonialism was shaped not only within the terrestrial confines of metropole and colony, but across the transoceanic spaces in between.Trade Review'Alexanderson demonstrates that we cannot understand imperialism by simply focusing on the terrestrial claims of colonial powers. Rather, she reveals the myriad ways maritime networks, including actual ships themselves, helped define colonial structures and also provided unique, cosmopolitan spaces of connection for colonial subjects. Subversive Seas makes crucial contributions to Southeast Asian history, maritime history, and transnational/world history.' Heather Streets-Salter, Northeastern University, Massachusetts'Extensively researched and gracefully written, Subversive Seas demonstrates that Dutch shipping companies and maritime priorities both informed and reflected colonial policies during the period that would prove to be the twilight of Dutch imperial rule in Asia. Scholars working in numerous subfields - science and technology studies, maritime history, imperial history, decolonization studies, East Asian history, and modern Dutch history, among others - will value the insights Alexanderson offers in this important book.' Jennifer L. Foray, Purdue University, Indiana'Elegantly written, a joy to read, and aided by plentiful footnotes, Alexanderson's study is all the stronger for its concluding discussion of the decolonization of Indonesia in the post-1945 era and the subsequent historiographical 'decolonization of the Dutch colonial past', to which her book ably contributes.' Nicholas J. White, Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: transoceanic mobility and modern imperialism; Part I. At Sea: 1. Kongsi Tiga: security and insecurity on Hajj ships; 2. Java-China-Japan Lijn: Asian shipping and imperial representation; 3. The Dutch mails: passenger liners as colonial classrooms; Part II. In Port: 4. Pan-Islamism abroad: regulation and resistance in the Middle East; 5. Policing communism: ships, seamen, and political networks in Asia; 6. Japanese penetration: imperial upheavals in the 1930s; Conclusion: oceanic decolonization and cultural amnesia in the twenty-first century.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions Volume 3 The Iberian Empires
Book SynopsisVolume III covers the Iberian Empires and stresses the ethnic dimension of the independent processes in Spanish America and Brazil. An important reference text for historians of the Atlantic World with a keen interest in the Iberian Empires.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Wim Klooster; Part I. The Spanish Empire: 1. The Spanish Empire: general overview Stefan Rinke; 2. The Spanish Empire on the Eve of American Independence Emily Berquist Soule; 3. The Cortes of Cádiz and the Spanish Liberal Revolution of 1810–1814: Atlantic and Spanish American dimensions Roberto Breña; 4. The Constitutional Triennium in Spain, 1820–1823 Juan Luis Simal; 5. Mexico: from Civil War to the War of Independence 1808–1825 Juan Ortiz Escamilla, 6. Central America Timothy Hawkins; 7. War and revolution in the Southern Cone, 1808–1824 Juan Luis Ossa Santa Cruz; 8. Caribbean South America: free people of color, Republican experiments, military strategies, and the Caribbean connection on the path to independence Ernesto Bassi; 9. The southernmost revolution: the Rio de la Plata in early nineteenth century Gabriel di Meglio; 10. Royalists, monarchy, and political transformation in the Spanish Atlantic world during the Age of Revolutions Marcela Echeverri; 11. Africans and their descendants in the Spanish Empire in the Age of Revolutions Jane Landers; 12. Concepts on the move: constitutionalism, citizenship, federalism, and early liberalism across Spain and Spanish America Javier Fernández Sebastián; 13. Patriarchy, misogyny, and politics in the Age of Revolutions Mónica Ricketts; 14. Impact of the French-Caribbean Revolutions in continental Iberian America, 1791–1833 Alejandro E. Gómez; 15. Deferred but not avoided: Great Britain and Latin American independence Karen Racine; Part II. Brazil, Portugal, and Africa: 16. Overview: the independence era in the Luso-Brazilian world Gabriel Paquette; 17. Portugal's social and political change from the Ancien Régime to liberalism Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro; 18. Conservative tracks towards independence: transfer of the court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, Brazilian autonomy Jurandir Malerba; 19. Building new Brazilian institutions Jeffrey D. Needell; 20. Slaves, Indians, and the 'classes of color': popular participation in Brazilian Independence Hendrik Kraay; 21. Brazil and the independence of Spanish America: parallel trajectories, linked processes (1807–1825) João Paulo Pimenta; 22. Waves of sedition across the Atlantic: liberal politics in Angola in the wake of Brazilian independence (ca. 1817–1825) Roquinaldo Ferreira.
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Cambridge University Press Charles E. Callwell and the British Way in
Book SynopsisDaniel Whittingham presents the first comprehensive study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell. His book explores the development of British military thought to shed new light on colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, the South African War, tactics, maritime strategy, and the First World War.Trade Review'… an excellent read for anyone interested in how the man shaped British military thought.' A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review'Whittingham has produced a well-researched, lucid, and valuable account which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers interested in military affairs and strategic thought more broadly.' David Morgan-Owen, War in History Book Reviews'Whittingham has produced a book that does full justice to Callwell as a military theorist and, in the process, has made a major contribution to the historiography of the British army.' Ian F. W. Beckett, IJMH review of WhittinghamTable of Contents1. Introduction: Charles E. Callwell and British strategy; 2. Callwell's early career; 3. 'An art by itself': Charles E. Callwell and small wars; 4. 'Another page in the history of tactics': Charles E. Callwell and the South African war; 5. Khaki-clad maritime theorist: Charles E. Callwell and amphibious warfare; 6. 'I did my best to throw cold water on the scheme as a whole': Charles E. Callwell and the Dardanelles; 7. Not 'one of that band of dug-outs who became dug-ins': Charles E. Callwell, the war and retirement, 1914–28; 8. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Chemistry
Book SynopsisNieto-Galan explores the links between chemistry and industrial and military projects, national rivalries and international endeavours in twentieth-century Spain. He unveils the chemists' positions of power and their engagement in fierce ideological battles, drawing out elements of co-production between science and politics.Trade Review'Scientists were prominent in building Spain's democratic Republic - two, the chemist José Giral and the physiologist Juan Negrín, became prime ministers. Science under the Franco dictatorship was dominated by one chemist, José María Albareda while another, Manuel Lora-Tamayo, was Minister of Education and Science in the 1960s. This fascinating and totally original work examines the links between chemistry and politics in a way that casts its light far beyond the specifics of Spain.' Paul Preston, London School of Economics and Political Science'After taking sides during the Spanish Civil War, chemists either emigrated, endured persecution in Spain, or supported the Franco regime - the latter often selling out their colleagues in the process. Today the Fascist chemists are honored in Spain, but not their victims, an injustice this path-breaking and important book will correct.' Mark Walker, Union College, New York'Anyone interested in the history of chemistry, the relationship between power and science, and the formations of scientific communities and identities would find this carefully researched book an open invitation to follow further research and explore the unresolved topics that the book elucidates.' Santiago Guzmán Gámez'The book provides a rich account of the political dimension of chemistry … the book provides an extraordinary understanding of the role of chemistry and its practitioners in the shaping of science and society in the twentieth century.' Ignacio Suay-Matallana'… Nieto-Galan's account is very convincing … has not only written an inspiring book on the 'moral ambiguity of chemistry,' but has also contributed significantly to the intersection of science, power, and politics in the twentieth century.' Anna Catharina Hofmann, Technology and CultureTable of ContentsList of figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Biographies of power; A political chemistry; 1. Dreams of Modernity; 1.1 Cosmopolitanism; 1.2 Laboratories and schools; 1.3 Useful chemistry; 2. A republican science; 2.1 A new enlightenment; 2.2 Nobel visitors; 2.3 The Silver Age of industry; 3. War weapons; 3.1 A chemical civil war; 3.2 A damaged community; 3.3 Tortured skills; 4. Totalitarian ambitions; 4.1 Fascist chemistry; 4.2 Chemistry and religion; 5. Autarchic ambiguities; 5.1 'Our' chemicals; 5.2 'Technical' chemistry; 5.3 Chemical diplomacy; 6. Technocratic progress; 6.1 'Neutral' expertise; 6.2 Cold war allies; 6.3 Corporate chemistry; 7. Liberal dissent; 7.1 Chemists in exile; 7.2 Internal refugees; Conclusion: the moral ambiguity of chemistry; Pure-applied chemistry; Modernisation paradoxes; A troubled identity; Chemists as intellectuals; History and memory; Addendum: Juan Julio Bonet Sugrañes (1940–2006); Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Historical Roots of Political Violence
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the wave of revolutionary terrorism in affluent countries, focusing on the development paths followed by countries during the interwar period. It will appeal to researchers and students interested in studying political violence, conflict, and terrorism.Trade Review'Sánchez-Cuenca's truly path-breaking study of revolutionary terrorism in affluent countries is original, deep, broad-ranging, highly readable, and chock full of new and intriguing insights. An absolutely real gem.' Stathis Kalyvas, Gladstone Professor of Government, University of Oxford'This is a fascinating explanation of what seems, in retrospect, to be a very hard-to-understand wave of transnational terrorism - the revolutionary terrorist groups that operated in multiple advanced industrial countries in the 1970s and 80s. Sánchez-Cuenca handles multiple methods with a rare combination of creativity and common sense, making notable progress on the difficult problem of how to understand the interactive effects of ideology, historical legacies, and transnational shocks on political violence.' James Fearon, Stanford University, California'This book is about the causes of leftwing terrorism in the developed world, but this is not all. It goes beyond the conventional narratives focused on the radicalization processes sparked by May '68 by digging deep into history to carve out the different long-term development paths that broadly influenced political conflicts in the western world. Sánchez-Cuenca's book reads like a mystery, in which the shocking discovery of the culprit opens extraordinary new avenues for further research about the determinants of violence in our societies.' Luis De La Calle, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico'In summary, this book is truly a tour de force, highly recommended for experts on the matter and for those who wonder about the crossover between the right methodology to analyse long term processes, ideas, culture, institutions and specific facts that give results where luck and the individual and collective actions are also involved.' Carmen Lopez Alonso, Revista Española de Investigaciones SociológicasTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The argument: from development paths in the interwar years to revolutionary terrorism in the 1970s; 2. Revolutionary terrorism and its ideological roots; 3. The major cases of revolutionary terrorism; 4. Contemporary effects and background conditions; 5. The long-term determinants of revolutionary terrorism; 6. Historical mechanisms: radicalism and repression; 7. Individualism, modernization and violence.
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Cambridge University Press Storied Places
Book SynopsisPilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic life, Virginia Reinburg examines the impact of the Reformation and religious wars on French society and the French landscape. Divided into two parts, Part I offers detailed studies of the shrines of Sainte-Reine, Notre-Dame du Puy, Notre-Dame de Garaison, and Notre-Dame de Betharram, showing how nature, antiquity, and images inspired enthusiasm among pilgrims. These chapters also show that the category of ''pilgrim'' included a wide variety of motivations, beliefs, and acts. Part II recounts how shrine chaplains authored books employing history, myth, and archives in an attempt to prove that the shrines were authentic, and to show that the truths they exemplified were beyond dispute.Trade Review'Virginia Reinburg provides a profoundly empathetic yet incisive reading of the ways in which communities which had suffered so much during the French religious wars managed to defend and refurbish their archives of faith. This is a masterpiece of the historian's craft: both utterly compelling and deeply moving.' Simon Ditchfield, University of York'Virginia Reinburg's study of shrines in early modern France paints them into the landscape of healing powers, mythic origins, and local forces. Her well-documented case studies tell the story of the powerful wellsprings of belief that the Protestant Reformation had contested, but that Catholic revival successfully reinvigorated.' Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield'Storied Places masterfully illuminates the important role that pilgrimage shrines played in the Catholic renewal that took place in the wake of France's Wars of Religion. As Virginia Reinburg persuasively demonstrates, the apparitions and miracles reported at these shrines, marrying grace to nature, re-affirmed Catholic truths in places where the church and its truths had been most contested. Reinburg's nuanced examination of the shrines as products of both place and story makes a strikingly original contribution to our understanding of early modern religious culture.' Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University'Storied Places is a compelling investigation of how pilgrimage shrines were remade, materially and mentally, in the wake of the French Wars of Religion. Bringing the histories of text and territory, authority and archive, into creative dialogue, Virginia Reinburg offers fresh insight into how early modern Catholicism overcame the challenges of iconoclasm, discord, and doubt. Her book persuasively recasts our understanding of the relationship between sacred landscapes and religious truth in the Counter-Reformation world.' Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge'What happened to pilgrimage, that quintessential medieval activity of Catholic worship, after the advent of the Reformation and the shock of Protestant iconoclasm? Reinburg traces the renewal and growth of pilgrim shrines in early modern France, emphasizing their relations to the natural world, their ancient but sometimes mythic origins, and their powers to heal and inspire. … Those sites that survived the violence of the religious wars faced a new challenge, as writers strove to counter doubts about religious truth with assertions of these shrines' antiquity and authenticity. The 'shrine books' that resulted combined myth, history, and archives to counter iconoclasm, oblivion, and doubt. The works and their authors employed print culture to convince those shaken by religious turmoil that the Catholic Church possessed the one true faith.' L. C. Attreed, Choice'The author helps her readers to understand the impact of the religious wars on Catholic survivors. Reinburg thoughtfully highlights the ordeal Catholic communities faced and their efforts to avoid confronting trauma in future generations by creating and recreating shrines. She convincingly asserts that the rebuilding of structures and communities was a way for Catholics to tell a story of their history that was coherent and could overlook the religious wars … What makes Reinburg's book so engaging is its multifaceted approach to telling the history of the shrines and the regions she studies.' Susan E. Dinan, H-France Review'This is an excellent book which merits a wide readership. It displays deep scholarship, sophisticated use of a wide range of sources including site visits - which are illustrated - and it is written with clarity and gracefulness. It is a seminal essay, which makes one reflect on spirituality and landscape in new ways.' Elizabeth Tingle, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'… an illuminating exploration of how the appeal of significant shrines was constructed and maintained, with insights as well into what the experience of visiting these places as a pilgrim might have been like.' Philip Benedict, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Legendary Locations: 1. An antique land: Sainte-Reine in Burgundy; 2. Pilgrims and nature in the Pyrenees; 3. Notre-Dame du Puy: image, pilgrimage, and the religious wars; Part II. Text, Territory, and Truth: 4. Histories and archives of faith; 5. In the beginning: origins, legends, and fables; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Falklands War
Book SynopsisWhy did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival of Britain''s imperial past? Despite widespread conjecture about the imperial dimensions of the Falklands War, this is the first history of the conflict from the transnational perspective of the British world. Taking Britain''s painful process of decolonisation as his starting point, Ezequiel Mercau shows how the Falklands lobby helped revive the idea of a ''British world'', transforming a minor squabble into a full-blown war. Boasting original perspectives on the Falklanders, the Four Nations and the Anglo-Argentines, and based on a wealth of unseen material, he sheds new light on the British world, Thatcher''s Britain, devolution, immigration and political culture. His findings show that neither the dispute, the war, nor its aftermath can be divorced from the ongoing legacies of empire.Trade Review'This thoughtful and timely book will be read with interest by those wanting to understand the Falklands War and the legacies of Empire in Britain. Mercau shows the importance of an idea of a Greater Britain and how the 1982 Falklands War signalled its unravelling, opening questions about Britain's national identity that still persist.' Helen Parr, Keele University'In this accomplished and engaging book, Mercau provides a penetrating analysis of the association between the Falkland Islands and empire. It is a skilful illumination of the continued purchase and contradictions of the idea of Greater Britain in the later twentieth century.' Sarah Stockwell, King's College London'This is a deeply researched and highly original work which casts valuable new light on Britain's post-imperial condition in general and the Falklands War in particular. Essential reading.' Richard Toye, University of Exeter'Mercau gives readers a valuable study of the power of obsolete ideas to drive current policies.' R. A. Callahan, Choice'I found The Falklands War to be a comprehensive, well-researched contribution to military literature. This is a book that is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of that conflict.' Mike Kennedy, eVeritas'… a groundbreaking study of the Falklands War through the lens of British political culture. Mercau's book is a must-read for scholars and advanced students interested in the Falklands dispute and the complex history of British decolonization.' Paula O'Donnell, H-Net Reviews'… the text is a groundbreaking study of the Falklands War through the lens of British political culture. Mercau's book is a must-read for scholars and advanced students interested in the Falklands dispute and the complex history of British decolonization.' Paula O'Donnell, H-WarTable of ContentsFigures; Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on terminology; Abbreviations; Introduction: the Falklands and the legacies of empire; 1. Adrift in the South Atlantic: the Falklands amid the turmoil of decolonisation; 2. 'Dream island': the long prelude to war; 3. 'Goodbye and the best of British': echoes of Greater Britain at the onset of war; 4. 'The ghost of imperial Britain': militarism and the memory of empire; 5. War of the British worlds: the Anglo-Argentines and the Falklands; 6. 'Beyond the quieting of the guns': the Falklands factor and the after-effects of war; Conclusion: the legacies of Greater Britain; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Empire of Law
Book SynopsisEuropean legal integration is often justified with reference to the inherent unity of European legal traditions that extend to ancient Rome. This book explores the invention of this tradition, tracing it to a group of legal scholars divided by the onslaught of Nazi terror and totalitarianism in Europe. As exiles in Britain and the US, its formulators worked to build bridges between the Continental and the Atlantic legal traditions, incorporating ideas such as rule of law, liberty and equality to the European heritage. Others joined the Nazi revolution, which promoted its own idea of European unity. At the end of World War Two, natural law and human rights were incorporated into the European project. The resulting narrative of Europe, one that outlined human rights, rule of law and equality, became consequently a unifying factor during the Cold War as the self-definition against the challenge of communism.Trade Review'Kaius Tuori convincingly demonstrates how a narrative from Roman law to European identity was constructed in the twentieth century, and the ideological purposes the fiction was made to serve, including across the divide between National Socialist Europe and a self-styled continent of human rights. There is much to learn from Tuori's erudition and insight.' Samuel Moyn, Yale University'Tuori is to be commended for producing a rich and textured work filled with important insights. This book will undoubtedly reframe the debate about the ideologies supporting the narratives of European legal history to a significant extent.' Paul J. du Plessis, University of Edinburgh'A deeply learned investigation of a somber history, Kaius Tuori's Empire of Law tracks the fate of the study of Roman law through the Nazi years and into the post-War effort to rebuild Europe. Indispensable reading for understanding the Roman legal tradition in Western history.' James Whitman, Yale University'Tuori's Empire of Law is a thoughtful investigation of the complex relationship between legal scholars exiled from Nazi Germany and the emergence of the idea of a European legal tradition rooted in Roman law.' R. W. Lemmons, Choice'... Tuori's study is a very good example of how to make use of actor-centered methods to engage with legal intellectual history and the legal history of Europe.' Sara Weydner, H-Soz-KultTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Legal refugees from Nazi Germany and the idea of liberty; 3. Redefining the rule of law, jurisprudence and the totalitarian state; 4. The long legal tradition and the European heritage in Nazi Germany; 5. Reconfiguring European legal tradition after the war; 6. The European narrative and the tradition of rights; 7. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Many Mouths
Book SynopsisThis compelling study explores food programs initiated by the British government across two centuries, from the workhouses of the 1830s to the post-war Welfare State. Challenging the assumption that state ideologies and practices were progressive and based primarily on scientific advances in nutrition, Nadja Durbach examines the political, economic, social and cultural circumstances that led the state to feed some of its subjects, but not others. Durbach follows food policies from their conception to their implementation through case studies involving paupers, prisoners, famine victims, POWs, schoolchildren, wartime civilians and pregnant women. She explores what government food meant to those who devised, executed, used, and sometimes refused, these social services. Many Mouths seeks to understand the social, economic, and political theories that influenced these feeding schemes, within their changing historical contexts. It thus offers fresh insights into how both the administratorsTrade Review'Many Mouths is an absorbing study of when, why and how the modern British state sought to feed its most vulnerable subjects. Durbach's major achievement is to show us how the state was literally made manifest – locally, nationally and imperially – through the practices used to feed people. This compelling book should be read by all those interested in the politics of food and its central place in modern British history.' James Vernon, University of California, Berkeley'Many Mouths is a sweeping, richly textured, and important study of government feeding that takes us from the Dickensian workhouse of the 1830s to the debates surrounding the cups of welfare orange juice served to expectant mothers and children after the Second World War. Throughout, we see how food (and drink) is good to think with and to govern with as well.' Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa Barbara'Many Mouths is a magisterial study of the complex history of British state feeding from the 1830s to the 1960s. Durbach provides a compelling analysis of how the distribution of food is an elemental field through which power relations were (and are) articulated and contested. This is an extremely important book.' Christopher Otter, Ohio State University'… goes back to the 19th century to examine some of the origins of our current 'food system' and how embedded attitudes to food - and of who is deserving of feeding - have shaped policy to the present day … casts an interesting light on the way in which people's relationships with food became entwined with their relationships to the British state.' Erica Wagner, Financial Times'… the author is to be praised for moving beyond the conventional top-down focus on planners and administrators and conveying the voice of the recipients of relief.' M. J. O'Brien, Choice'… Durbach's study provides compelling evidence that there are certain irreducible realities about food itself that resist even well meaning attempts at ameliorating undernutrition no matter what form it may take.' Travis A. Weisse, Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsIntroduction. The politics of pickles; 1. Old English fare: festive meals, the new Poor Law, and the boundaries of the nation; 2. Gendered portions and racialized rations: the classification of difference in British and colonial prisons; 3. Famine, cooked food, and the starving child: rethinking political economy in colonial India; 4. Tommy's tummy: provisioning POWs during the first world war; 5. The science of selection: malnutrition and school meals in the interwar years; 6. Every sort and condition of citizen: British restaurants and the communal feeding experiment during the second world war; 7. Nations out of nurseries, empires into bottles: the colonial politics of welfare orange juice; Conclusion. How the sausage gets made.
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Cambridge University Press Consciousness Creativity and Self at the Dawn of Settled Life
Book SynopsisOver recent years, a number of scholars have argued that the human mind underwent a cognitive revolution in the Neolithic. The proposed volume seeks to test these claims at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey and in other Neolithic contexts in the Middle East.Trade Review'… an introduction by Hodder (Stanford Univ.), which presents the central problem of paleocognition and the Çatalhöyük site, the cognitive scientists consider whether cultural change could cause or encourage cognitive change, while the archaeologists look at various classes of artifacts and their distributions in time and space at Çatalhöyük and other Neolithic sites in the Near East to see if their changes could be related to cognitive changes in the people who made and used them.' L. L. Johnson, Association of American PublishersTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction to the Themes, Site, and Region: 1. Introduction to the themes of the volume – cognition and Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder; 2. Hunter-gatherer home-making? Building landscape and community in the Epipalaeolithic Lisa Maher; 3. When time begins to matter Marion Benz; Part II. Higher Levels of Consciousness: 4. Cognitive change and material culture – a disturbed perspective Michael Wheeler; 5. Conscious tokens? Lucy Bennison-Chapman; 6. Brick sizes and architectural regularities Marek Z. Baranski; 7. The meronomic model of cognitive change, and its application to Neolithic Çatalhöyük Chris Thornton; 8. Containers and creativity in the Late Neolithic Upper Mesopotamian Olivier Nieuwenhuyse; 9. Creativity and innovation in the geometric wall paintings at Çatalhöyük Ian Hodder and Nazli Gurlek; Part III. Greater Awareness of an Integrated Personal Self: 10. Personal memory, the scaffolded mind, and cognitive change in the Neolithic John Sutton; 11. Adorning the self Milena Vasic; 12. From parts a whole? Exploring changes in funerary practices at Çatalhöyük Scott D. Haddow, Eline M. J. Schotsmans, Marco Milella, Marin A. Pilloud, Belinda Tibbets and Christopher J. Knusel; 13. New bodies – from houses to humans at Çatalhöyük Anna Fagan.
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Cambridge University Press British Envoys to the Kaiserreich 18711897 Volume 2 18841897
Book SynopsisBritish Envoys to the Kaiserreich, 1871â1897 concentrates on Anglo-German history prior to German Weltpolitik. Volume II presents official diplomatic reports from the British embassy at Berlin (German Empire) and from the four independent legations in Darmstadt (Hesse and Baden), Dresden (Saxony), Stuttgart (WÃrttemberg), and Munich (Bavaria) during the years 1884 to 1897. The selection reveals the attitudes and perceptions of British observers in a period of great diplomatic activity and complex Anglo-German relations. The dispatches offer new perspectives on the rise of German colonialism and imperialism, the early years of Wilhelm II's reign, the final years of Bismarck's chancellorship and the New Course under his successor Leo von Caprivi, as well as on the varied British interests in Germany and its regional peculiarities. They also mirror the diplomats' increasing attention to German press coverage of both domestic and foreign affairs, and especially to Anglophobic tendencies inTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Editorial principles and technical details; Reports: 1. German Empire (Berlin); 2. Baden and Hesse (Darmstadt); 3. Württemberg (Stuttgart); 4. Bavaria (Munich); Annotated index of names; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThis exploration of a Jewish-born Catholic missionary in the Ottoman Empire is ideal for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the experiences of converts in the early modern Mediterranean and beyond, and the larger implications of conversion for the identities of individuals and societies.Trade Review'Robert Clines's informed and sensitive reconstruction of Gian Battista Eliano's life asks critical questions about early modern conversion: how it was felt, constructed, and revisited. This case study comprehends the full complexity of early modern conversion and the many anxieties, enthusiasms, and suspicions it engendered. It shows how conversion remained a lifelong event, requiring converts to negotiate and renegotiate their past lives and also their new selves, constantly proving loyalty amid unstable circumstances and shifting affiliations. In examining how Eliano crossed many borders of faith, region, and community, Clines also shows us more broadly how to see early modern selfhood.' Emily Michelson, University of St Andrews'… Clines tells a remarkable story based on original sources, chiefly Eliano's letters.' P. Grendler, ChoiceTable of Contents1. Becoming a Jewish Jesuit: Eliano's early years; 2. Jesuit missionary or Jewish renegade? Eliano's confrontation with his Jewish past; 3. Jesuit anti-Judaism and the fear of Eliano's Jewishness on the first mission to the Maronites of Lebanon; 4. Textual transmission, pastoral ministry, and the re-fashioning of Eliano's intellectual training; 5. Revisiting Eliano's Jewishness on his return to Egypt; 6. The Coptic mission, Mediterranean geopolitics, and the mediation of Eliano's Jewish and Catholic identities; 7. Eliano's reconciliation with his Jewishness in his later years.
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Cambridge University Press History and the Law
Book SynopsisFocusing on everyday legal experiences, from that of magistrates, novelists and political philosophers, to maidservants, pauper men and women, down-at-heel attorneys and middling-sort wives in their coverture, History and the Law reveals how people thought about, used, manipulated and resisted the law between the eighteenth and the twentieth centuries. Supported by clear, engaging examples taken from the historical record, and from the writing of historians including Laurence Sterne, William Godwin, and E. P. Thompson, who each had troubled love affairs with the law, Carolyn Steedman puts the emphasis on English poor laws, copyright law, and laws regarding women. Evocatively written and highly original, History and the Law accounts for historians'' strange ambivalent love affair with the law and with legal records that appear to promise access to so many lives in the past.Trade Review'Steedman writes the sort of book we have come to expect - stunningly original, steeped in local archives and literature, distinctive in its methods and voice. History and the Law concerns the everyday legal encounters of ordinary people, and the attraction of the law for historians keen to understand hearts and minds in the past.' James Epstein, Vanderbilt University, Nashville'The always engaging and reflective Carolyn Steedman here chronicles her own and others' struggles to understand and make use of eighteenth-century law - others from that time and others from our time. Taken together, these essays sketch an important agenda for historical enquiry, as well as providing insights into the historian's craft.' Joanna Innes, University of Oxford'Steedman cleverly recounts the history of everyday experiences of the law in modern Britain. Beautifully written and drawing on a wealth of sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it will appeal to historians as well as literary and legal scholars alike.' Julia Moses, University of Sheffield'A distinctively approachable, eclectic and stimulating series of reflections on law and history's interactions, both in theory and practice, over the past four centuries, from a leading exponent of modern British cultural and social history.' Wilfrid Prest, Professor Emeritus of History and of Law, The University of Adelaide'Steedman provides a fascinating account of the interactions between the law and the English people in the decades around 1800, touching not only upon such well known figures as Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin but also a host of 'ordinary' men and women whose stories enter the historical record so infrequently. Readers of this book will come away with a novel, and perhaps surprising, understanding of the interactions between the law and society in the past.' James Sharpe, Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History, University of York'History and the Law is an intriguing volume that navigates fields and disciplines as distinct as plebeian culture, literary theory, and historiography … the reader's reward is watching a consummate historian at work.' J. A. Jaffe, Choice'… based on an abundance of printed and archival sources as well as extensive secondary literature, [this book] is an impressive monument of this fondness.' Mia Korpiola, Comparative Legal History'… based on an abundance of printed and archival sources as well as extensive secondary literature, [this book] is an impressive monument of this fondness.' Mia Korpiola, Comparative Legal History'… a stimulating and a thought provoking read.' Anne Logan, Cultural and Social HistoryTable of ContentsA beginning: 'history' Stephen Dunn; 1. Its ziggy shape; 2. Law troubles: two historians and some threatening letters; 3. Letters of the law: everyday uses of the law at the turn of the English nineteenth-century; 4. The worst of it: Blackstone and women; 5. Who owns Maria; 6. Sisters in laws; 7. Hating the law: Caleb Williams; 8. The kind of law a historian loved; An ending: not a story; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Americanisation of Ireland
Book SynopsisIrish emigration to America is one of the clichés of modern Irish history; much less familiar is the reverse process. Who were the people who chose to return to Ireland? What motivated them? How did this affect Irish society? While many European countries were somewhat Americanised in this period, the Irish case was unique as so many Irish families had members in America. The most powerful agency for Americanisation, therefore, was not popular culture but circumstantial knowledge and personal contact. David Fitzpatrick demonstrates the often unexpected ways in which the reverse effects of emigration remoulded Irish society, balancing original demographic research with fascinating individual profiles to assemble a vivid picture of a changing Ireland. He explores the transformative impact of reverse migration from America to post-Famine Ireland, and offers penetrating insights into its growing population of American-born residents.Trade Review'This splendid study is classic Fitzpatrick: a mixture of imaginative, and sometimes provocative, question-framing with rigorous hypothesis testing. Reverse migration is a topic rarely touched in Irish historical work; this will be recognised as a genuinely seminal work.' Donald H. Akenson, Queen's University, Ontario'Historians have assumed that the Irish returned from America in tiny numbers. In a book filled with brilliant insights and vivid details, Fitzpatrick demonstrates that reverse migration was considerable and had a significant impact. Drawing strikingly original conclusions from statistical sources, he offers a major new interpretation of Irish migration history.' Kevin Kenny, New York University'Statistically rich and based on a range of sources, this provocative study challenges how we currently perceive returned migrants and urges a new exploration of the field. Fitzpatrick provides the map and there is no doubt that this book will lead to further reinterpretations of the 'Americanisation' of Irish society.' Maria Luddy, University of Warwick'Challenging orthodoxies of Ireland as an insular sender of emigrants, Fitzpatrick's original study reverses priorities to explore those who came to Ireland. An original study of rich empirical quality, this book reframes our study of migratory cultures in post-Famine Ireland.' Donald M. MacRaild, University of Roehampton'A highly original study by one of Ireland's greatest historians. Making imaginative use of a rich body of archival sources and demographic data, this ground-breaking study of 'the returned Yank' raises important new questions about the relationship between migration and modernity.' Fearghal McGarry, Queen's University, Belfast'Fitzpatrick's methodology of collating statistics, alongside common sense deduction, paints this fascinating picture of America in Ireland.' David Doolin, Family & Community History'In the Americanization of Ireland the late Fitzpatrick (formerly, Trinity College Dublin) breaks new ground in the study of migration to and from Ireland … imaginative and rigorous … suggesting a new area of research for other scholars.' W. H. Mulligan Jr., Choice'Migration historians will have much to ponder as they delve into Fitzpatrick's data. It is as impressive as it is illustrative. But they will not be the only ones. Fitzpatrick has also unearthed an important set of issues that he has engaged in his previous work and that rising generations of scholars would be wise to revisit in light of his data-driven story of return migration.' Patrick Griffin, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsPrologue; Ireland's American question; 1. Beyond emigration; 2. Cosmopolitan Ireland, 1841–1911; 3. America on show, 1901–1911: profile; 4. America on show: people; 5. America on show: special cases; 6. Americans in Leitrim, 1901–1911: profile; 7. Americans in Leitrim: people; 8. Visitors from America, 1914–1925: profile; 9. Visitors from America: motives; 10. Visitors from America: faces; Epilogue; Questions unanswered.
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Economy of the Countryside
Book SynopsisHow were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the ''moral economy'', the web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a penetrating portrait of a changing world. Anglo-Saxon lords were powerful in many ways but their power did not stem directly from their ownership of land. The values of early medieval England - principally those of rank, reciprocity and worth - were shared across society. The Norman Conquest brought in new attitudes both to land and to the relationship between lords and peasants, and the Domesday Book conveyed the novel concept of ''tenure''. The new ''feudal thinking'' permeated all relationships concerned with land: peasant farmers were now manorial tenants, owing labour and rent. Many people looked back to better days.Trade Review'In the third of a sequence of magisterial and thought provoking books about early English rural society, Rosamond Faith forces us to face the problem of how lordship managed to establish itself in Anglo-Saxon England at all. Her profound and radical understanding of how peasant life works on the ground shines through at every point. Everyone who is interested in English society before 1200, or indeed later, will have to read this book.' Chris Wickham, University of Oxford'Representing the fruit of over five decades' work on the medieval peasantry, this book takes us closer to the lived world of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry than I would have ever thought possible. It revises traditional wisdom on a host of important subjects, from the origins of feudalism to the impact on the Norman Conquest, and will be the go-to book on early English rural society and life for many years to come.' Levi Roach, University of Exeter'Like her previous works, this is a dynamic contribution to the study of an often neglected but vital segment of society. Though attempting, as she does, to get into 'the hearts and minds' of the English peasantry is always fated to be an uphill struggle given the nature of the surviving sources … this volume will become a valuable touchstone for future scholars studying medieval social relations.' Stuart Pracy, Agricultural History ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: the moral economy; Part I. Rank: 2. Lordship; 3. Our island story; 4. Honour and respect in peasant society; Part II. Reciprocity: 5. Hospitality; 6. Hearth, household and farm; Part III. Reputation and Witness: 7. Neighbours and strangers; 8. Markets and marketing; Part IV. The Wolf Sniffs the Wind: 9. HWILOM WÆS: Archbishop Wulfstan's old social order; 10. Land, law and office; Part V. The Aftermath of Conquest: 11. New words in the countryside; 12. Narrating the new social order; Part VI. In the World of the Manor: 13. Establishing custom; 14. Thinking feudally; 15. From rank to class; 16. Conclusion: forward into the past; Appendix. The family farm in peasant studies; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany
Book SynopsisBetween 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones, where the Americans, British, and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first in-depth study compares internment by all four occupying powers, asking who was interned, how they were treated, and when and why they were arrested and released. It confirms the incomparably appalling conditions and death rates in the Soviet camps but identifies similarities in other respects. Andrew H. Beattie argues that internment everywhere was an inherently extrajudicial measure with punitive and preventative dimensions that aimed to eradicate Nazism and create a new Germany. By recognising its true nature and extent, he suggests that denazification was more severe and coercive but also more differentiated and compleTrade Review'This book is a clear and detailed account of the internment by the Allies of more than 400,000 Germans after the Second World War. Building upon impressive research, Andrew H. Beattie corrects commonly-held assumptions about the contrasts between Soviet camps on the one side and western Allies' camps on the other. Altogether, a valuable re-assessment of an important subject.' Richard Bessel, University of York'In this deeply researched and carefully argued study of the Allied internment of over 400,000 Nazis and other Germans in post-World War II Germany, Andrew H. Beattie explores a critical yet little-known dimension of the occupation. Among other significant findings, Beattie effectively demonstrates that the Soviet zone 'special camps' should not be considered as markedly distinct from internment camps in the Western zones.' Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University, California'Beattie provides a new perspective on the history of internment in post-1945 Germany … Andrew Beattie offers an essential contribution to our understanding of postwar internment.' Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-War'… it is a well-structured and very well written book that provides an excellent introduction to a topic that has long been neglected by historical research.' Kerstin Schulte, German Historical Institute London Bulletin'… Beattie has written a comprehensive and instructive history that would be useful to anyone studying post-war Germany, occupation, transitional justice or the legacies of Nazism.' Samantha K. Knapton'... an excellent book that should become the standard treatment of the subject.' Frank Biess, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'It will be desirable on political grounds': the development of internment policy, 1943–1946; 2. 'Not consistent with civil liberties': internment in practice, 1945–1950; 3. Internees: the 'worst Nazis' or a 'colourful assortment'?; 4. Internment camps: 'the main task of the camp is the complete isolation' of the detainees; Conclusion;
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Cambridge University Press Security in the Gulf
Book SynopsisThe British Empire employed a diverse range of strategies to establish and then maintain control over its overseas territories in the Middle East. This new interpretation of how Britain maintained order, protected its interests and carried out its defence obligations in the Gulf in the decades before its withdrawal from the region in 1971 looks at how the British government increasingly sought to achieve security with great economy of force by building up local militaries instead of deploying costly military forces from the home country. Benefitting from the extensive use of recently declassified British Government archival documents and India Office records, this highly original narrative weighs the successes and failures of Britain''s use of ''indirect rule'' among the small states of Eastern Arabia, including Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the seven Trucial States and Oman. Drawing important lessons for scholars and policymakers about the limitations of trying to outsource security to local partners, Security in the Gulf is a remarkable study of the deployment of British colonial policy in the Middle East before 1971.Trade Review'A must-read for all who are interested in the British period in the Gulf. It gives all the vital details as to how the British maintained internal security in the Gulf Arab shaikhdoms, amirates and sultanates in the mid-twentieth century. This is of vital significance to understanding the foundation and nature of the current security regimes in the Gulf Arab states.' Saul Kelly'Security in the Gulf fills an important lacuna in the scholarly literature about the last period of the Arabian states under British protection. Rossiter's book is engagingly written, deeply thoughtful, and extensively researched – it is a major contribution to the historical scholarship on the Gulf and the British Empire.' Zoltan Barany, University of TexasTable of ContentsIntroduction. Local militaries and imperialism; 1. Patterns of protection in the Gulf; 2. British India and local security arrangements; 3. Local militaries and intensified British interests; 4. Intervention or local means of coercion?: unrest in Bahrain and Qatar; 5. Local forces and Britain's Silver Age in the Gulf; 6. Securing the Gulf after Britain's withdrawal; Conclusion. Security on the cheap?
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Cambridge University Press Church and State in Spanish Italy
Book SynopsisIn this study Céline Dauverd analyses the link between early modern imperialism and religion via the principle of ''good government''. She charts how the Spanish viceroys of southern Italy aimed to secure a new political order through their participation in religious processions, alliance-building with minority groups, and involvement in local charities. The viceroys'' good government included diplomacy, compromise, and pragmatism, as well as a high degree of Christian ethics and morality, made manifest in their rapport with rituals. Spanish viceroys were not so much idealistic social reformers as they were legal pragmatists, committed to a political vision that ensured the longevity of the Spanish empire. The viceroys resolved the tension between Christian ideals and Spanish imperialism by building religious ties with the local community. Bringing a new approach to Euro-Mediterranean history, Dauverd shows how the viceroys secured a new political order, and re-evaluates Spain''s contrTrade Review'… the revisionist character of many of her points will likely invite further scholarly investigation regarding Spain's governance of European territories outside Iberia.' R. C. Figueira, Choice'… a fresh and interesting perspective on religion and politics in early modernity.' Spencer Scott, Journal of Church and State'[This] studies value for our increased understanding of early modernity Empire building is substantial and fascinating.' Anders Jarlert, Publications of the Swedish Society of Church History'The value of the study for our increased understanding of early modern empire building is substantial and fascinating.' Daniel Mladenovic, Swedish Society of Church HistoryTable of Contents1. The Spaniards in charitable institutions; 2. Viceroys, Jews, and Conversos; 3. The miracle of San Gennaro; 4. Easter processions; 5. Corpus Domini celebration; 6. San Giovanni a Mare.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the European Union Volume 1 European Integration OutsideIn
Book SynopsisVolume I considers the history of the European Union from an outside-in perspective, evaluating which outside forces shaped and guided the process of European integration. Taking an innovative, thematic approach, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of European integration.Table of ContentsReflections on the history and historiography of European integration Mathieu Segers and Steven Van Hecke; Part I. Critical Junctures: 1. The emergence of a divided world and a divisible west Kenneth Weisbrode; 2. European integration and the temporary division of Germany Henning Türk; 3. Europe, decolonisation and the challenge of developing countries Guia Migani; 4. European integration and globalisation since the 1970s Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol; 5. A Europe of reunification? Stefania Bernini and Jan Zielonka; 6. Moderately failing forward: the EU in the years 2004–2019 Ferenc Laczó; Part II. Multilateralism and Geopolitics: 7. A pillar of the golden age? European integration and the Trente Glorieuses Antonio Varsori and Lorenzo Mechi; 8. The end of Bretton Woods: origins and European consequences Martin Daunton; 9. The vicissitudes of market Europe Gilles Grin; 10. European integration and the challenges of free movement Mathilde Unger; 11. The EU as a global trade power Kolja Raube; 12. The enduring relationship between NATO and European integration Luca Ratti; 13. European integration and the United Nations Edith Drieskens; 14. The European nuclear dimension: from Cold War to post-Cold War Leopoldo Nuti; 15. From 'Helsinki' and development aid to multipolar hard ball Angela Romano; 16. European integration, the environment and climate change Katja Biedenkopf and Tom Delreux; 17. The space policy of the European Union Emmanuel Sigalas; Part III. Perspectives and Ideas: 18. Researching the Eurocrats Cris Shore and Renita Thedvall; 19. Elite networks of allegiance Giles Scott-Smith; 20. The multi-dimensional nature of public EU attitudes Claes H. de Vreese, Andreas C. Goldberg and Anna Brosius; 21. Ideas of Europe: a view from inside-out, the 1880s to the 1910s (and beyond) Matthew D'Auria; 22. Beginning with culture: a certain idea of Europe Joep Leerssen; 23. The European union and memory Ana Milosevic; 24. European culture(s) Markus Thiel; 25. The catholic narrative of European integration Madalena Meyer Resende; 26. European integration and the churches Sergei A. Mudrov; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of the Gas Mask
Book SynopsisThe First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil defence. Susan R. Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object the civilian gas mask through the years 19151945 and, in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive empire. Drawing on records from Britain''s Colonial, Foreign, War and Home Offices and other archives alongside newspapers, journals, personal accounts and cultural sources, she connects the histories of the First and Second World Wars, combatants and civilians, men and women, metropole and colony, illuminating how new technologies of warfare shaped culture, politics, and society.Trade Review'Grayzel's book is a compelling account of the social life of gas masks. She tells the history of war through one object – the gas mask – highlighting the tsunami of emotions it incites, the intensity of people's imagination, and their terror in the face of bodily violence. It is a book guaranteed to destroy any complacency about the inhumanity of war.' Joanna Bourke, author of Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives'This book encourages us to think about the idea of total war in the 20th century in new and surprising ways, through the lens of material culture, and the 'weaponisation of the air'. Grayzel illuminates novel ways of thinking about the relationship between individual citizens and states, and the way that war permeated all aspects of life, for both men and women. Britain, and its empire, appear as fresh sites for understanding total war. I expect this will be a landmark book for the social and cultural history of the First and Second World Wars.' Yasmin Khan, author of The Raj at War: a People's History of India's Second World War'One of the most horrifying strategies of twentieth-century warfare involved poisoning the air. Grayzel's meticulous study of popular and political responses to this awful prospect opens out the meanings and the legacies of efforts to protect the civilian body and offers new ways of understanding modern war.' Penny Summerfield, author of Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War'Grayzel's impressive archival collection reveals the value of tracing one technological object as it moved from the battlefield onto civilian bodies and eventually into the minds of an entire generation.' Peter Thompson, Technology and CultureTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Inventing an object for modern conflict: The gas mask in war and peace, 1915–1929; 3. Defending civilians: Developing the gas mask in Britain and its empire, c. 1930–1936; 4. Unveiling the gas mask: Designs and dissent, 1936–1938; 5. Curating the good citizen: The gas mask goes to war, 1939–1941; 6. Facing wartime: The civilian gas mask's rise and fall, 1941–1945; 7. Conclusion; Epilogue: Five brief ways of looking at a gas mask.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Divorce
Book SynopsisSpanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, this first history of Irish divorce places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law, and its reform, on Irish society.Trade Review'Covering the past four hundred years, this is a major contribution to legal, social and gender history. Urquhart's work is highly revealing about the double-standards towards sexual behaviour, Irish exceptionalism, Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards moral questions, and absence of legal uniformity under the Union.' Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin'This is a superb book - ambitious in scope, yet securely anchored in a formidable array of sources: it is characterised both by judiciousness and by an unflagging empathy. Diane Urquhart has rescued a centrally important theme from neglect and over-simplification - and has thereby consolidated her position within the front rank of modern Irish historians.' Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh'Based on extensive archival research, including parliamentary and court evidence, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Irish Divorce provides a nuanced understanding of a practice that concerned itself with both property and gendered propriety. Urquhart makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated relationship between church, state, and Irish society since 1700.' Karen Steele, Texas Christian University'Urquhart's book represents an insightful and compassionate foray into a very new field. The first all-Ireland history of divorce, it demonstrates how marriage breakdown reflected society's need to regulate succession, sexuality, and legitimacy. This exceptional work charts divorce's role in shaping, and reflecting, modern Ireland's attitude to gender and citizenship.' Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University'(A) balanced and masterful treatment of complex issues.' Brian Maye, Irish Times'As lucid as it is thorough, Irish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation. It offers a profoundly humane and empathetic analysis of what, for many, proved an elusive necessity that was cordoned off—for centuries—by ideological, nationalistic, imperial, and/or political boundaries and further inflected by class and gender. As a result, this study has much to teach us not only about divorce, but also about the ways the self-fashionings and political maneuverings of a nation-state can subvert the very citizens they are purportedly meant to serve …' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Estudios IrlandesesIrish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation.' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'anatomy of a divorce'; 1. Divorce in two legislatures: Irish divorce, 1701–1857; 2. The failings of the law: the cases of Talbot and Westmeath; 3. A non-inclusive reform: Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857; 4. Divorce in the post-reform era of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the rich'?; 5. The widening definition of marital cruelty; 6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922; 7. 'An exotic in very ungenial soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939; 8. With as 'little provocative as possible': the Northern Ireland move to court; 9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce in independent Ireland, 1922–1950; 10. Marriage law 'in this country is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda; 11. A 'curiosity [and]…an oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995; 12. The 'last stretch of a long road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century
Book SynopsisExploring republican ideas and concepts that developed in sixteenth-century Poland under the impact of humanism and the Renaissance, as well as political and constitutional changes, this is a landmark study of republican discourse in sixteenth-century Poland-Lithuania. It provides a conceptual and contextual analysis of the rich political literature and debate which animated intellectual life and political reasoning during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and effectively demonstrates its republican character. Using a comparative perspective, Dorota Pietrzyk-Reeves situates the Polish republican discourse within both the classical and early modern republican traditions, bringing together contexts and ideas that have traditionally been overlooked by scholars of early modern Europe. In addition, she also underlines the originality of Polish concepts such as the relationship between law, liberty and virtue as key elements of a well-ordered commonwealth and the vision of a mixed res publica that had a monarchical character. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in European intellectual history and the early modern republican tradition.Trade Review'Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century will be read with interest by students and scholars of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as historians of early modern political theory.' Tomasz Grusiecki, Comptes RendusTable of ContentsIntroduction: classical republican tradition and the Polish republican discourse; 1. Polish sixteenth-century political thought in context; 1.1 The fifteenth-century origins of Polish humanism and political thought; 1.2 The political and constitutional background; 1.3 Specific features of sixteenth-century Polish political thought; 2. The commonwealth (res publica): a free political community; 2.1 The commonwealth (res publica) and the concept of political order; 2.2 Justice and law; 2.3 The paradigm of liberty; 3. Virtue and the common good; 3.1 Moral foundations of good order; 3.2 Virtue and the public good; 3.3 Citizenship and duties to the commonwealth; 3.4 Manners, education, emendation; 4. Mixed constitution and the institutional foundations of the commonwealth; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The sources of power and the principle of supreme authority; 4.3 The mixed form of government and the monarchia mixta; 4.4 The king, senators, and parliamentary envoys; 4.5 Free election; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press A Renaissance of Violence
Book SynopsisBased on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence in the region grew to frightening levels, despite the efforts of courts and governments to reduce social conflict. In this detailed study of violence in early modern Europe, Colin Rose shows how major crises, such as the plague of 1630, reduced the strength of social bonds among both elite and ordinary Italians. As a result, incidents of homicidal violence exploded - in small rural communities, in the crowded urban center and within tightly-knit families. Combining statistical analysis and close reading of homicide patterns, Rose demonstrates how the social contexts of violence, as much as the growth of state power, can contribute to explaining how and why interpersonal violence grew so rapidly in North Italy in the seventeeTrade Review'Deftly melding new quantitative data with rich qualitative materials, this book adds a little explored 'southern' dimension to debates about how violence declined in modernizing European societies. Alert to the political, institutional, social, and gendered particularities of early modern Bologna, Rose smartly challenges the optimistic hypothesis that homicide readily succumbed to the progress of 'civilization'.' Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Toronto'In this in-depth analysis of homicide cases that followed the catastrophic plague and misery of 1630, Rose unravels the cultural and political fabric of an intractable Bolognese nobility, shedding important light on how local elites resisted the centralizing and pacifying attempts of an early modern state.' Joanne M. Ferraro, San Diego State University and author of Venice: History of the Floating City'With archival precision and narrative skill, Rose reveals a society in crisis and those who make killing a strategy for living. Plague, famine, and violence unravel an ineffective and illegitimate government, and trigger civil war as the Bolognese seek their own solutions with knives and guns.' Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto'Colin Rose's compelling analysis of seventeenth-century Bologna shows how easily a peaceful society can degenerate into a society of murderers. This marvellous book erodes the notion that modern Western societies are on a trajectory toward ever less personal violence.' Edward Muir, Northwestern University, Illinois'… a riveting contribution to the historiography on interpersonal violence in the early modern world… This book is a highly recommended read for anyone interested in the history Italy, violence and peace-making, and the relationship between people and criminal courts in the early modern world.' Sanne Muurling, Crime, History & Societies'… an excellent orientation for those beginning the study of interpersonal violence … specialists will appreciate this decisive contribution to the debate on the decline of violence. Rose shows how civilization and violence, far from being mutually exclusive, work together.' Umberto Cecchinato, Annali Recensioni Online'… contributes to a broader understanding of the role violence played in ancien-regime European society.' Yaakov Andrea Lattes, H-net'… Renaissance of Violence is not only an excellent study of homicidal violence, but also a useful model for future studies in the field …' Peter Sposato, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books (Rutgers)Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The tower of justice; 3. Homicide in Bologna, 1600–1700; 4. Gender and homicide in early modern Bologna; 5. The days after no future: post-plague homicides in rural Bologna; 6. It's good to have land: the defense of noble privilege through violence; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Quest for Security
Book SynopsisThe British Empire entered the twentieth century in a state of crisis, with many in the legal establishment fearing that the British constitution could no longer cope with the complexity of imperial institutions. At the same time, the military establishment feared the empire was becoming impossible to defend from multiplying threats. In this innovative study, Jesse Tumblin shows how Britain and its largest colonies, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa, were swept up in a collective effort to secure the Empire in the early twentieth century. The hierarchy of colonial politics created powerful incentives for colonies to militarize before World War I, reshaping their constitutional and racial relationships toward a dream beyond colonial status. The colonial backstory of a century of war and violence shows how these dreams made ''security'' the dominating feature of contemporary politics.Trade Review'This is the best work of its kind since Max Beloff's Imperial Sunset a full fifty years ago. But it goes further than that earlier study by grappling with the racial and nationalist dimensions of the many endeavours to establish a lasting British imperial federation throughout the storm-tossed twentieth century.' Paul Kennedy, Yale University, Connecticut'A brilliant work of original scholarship. Tumblin's theoretical approach and archival globetrotting provides a much-needed new perspective on the constitutional evolution of the British Empire. An important read for any student of colonialism and the First World War.' John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit, Pennsylvania'A highly revealing exploration of the nexus between imperial security concerns and international sovereignty that ultimately led to the Statute of Westminster. The Quest for Security is especially valuable for its inclusion of Ireland and India alongside the white settler dominions. Strongly recommended.' John Beeler, University of AlabamaTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Colonial federationism, security, and the South African War; 2. Lessons of South Africa: security and political culture in the British world, 1902–1906; 3. Security, race, and dominion status, 1907–1909; 4. The collapse of consensus and control, 1910–1914; 5. Race, conscription, and the meaning of sovereignty in war; 6. The sharp sickle: new realities of sovereignty in the British Empire, 1918–1926; Epilogue – the Statute of Westminster: a once and future sovereignty;
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Cambridge University Press Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune 18711885
Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after France's nineteenth-century revolution with new interpretations of the French revolutionary tradition. Drawing together material from around the world, Nicholls pieces together the nature and content of French revolutionary thought in this often overlooked era.Trade Review'Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune is an excellent contribution to the scholarship on revolutionary ideas and our understanding of 1871 … the book is well written, based upon a command of primary and secondary sources, and fairly balances both the successes and failures of the post-1871 revolutionary movement.' Casey Harison, European History Quarterly'This is an important contribution to intellectual and modern French history collections.' G. P. Cox, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Paris Commune and Accounting for Failure: 1. The commune as Quotidian event; 2. The commune as violent trauma; Part II. Revolution and the Republic: 3. The French revolutionary tradition; 4. Rehabilitating revolution; Part III. Marx, Marxism, and International Socialism: 5. Texts in translation; 6. The origins of Marxism in modern France; Part IV. Empire and Internationalism: 7. Deportation, imperialism, and the Republican State; 8. Exile and universal solidarity; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Dictionary of Irish Biography 2 Volume HB Set
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Modern European Thought 2 Volume Hardback Set
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Cambridge University Press Hell in the Byzantine World 2 Volume Hardback Set A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterranean
Book SynopsisThe imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published for the first time. Crete was at the centre of artistic production in the late Byzantine world and beyond and its imagery was highly influential on traditions in other regions. The Cretan examples accompany rich comparative material from the wider Mediterranean â Cappadocia, Macedonia, the Peloponnese and Cyprus. The large amount of data presented in this publication highlight Hell's emergence in monumental painting not as a concrete array of images, but as a diversified mirroring of social perceptions of sin.
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Cambridge University Press Irish Divorce
Book SynopsisThis is the first history of Irish divorce. Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, it places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law and its reform. It considers the accessibility of Irish divorce as it moved from a parliamentary process in Westminster, the Irish parliament and the Northern Ireland parliament to a court-based process. This socio-legal approach allows changing definitions of gendered marital roles and marital cruelty to be assessed. In charting the exceptionalism of Ireland''s divorce provision in a European and imperial framework, the study uncovers governmental reluctance to reform Irish divorce law which spans jurisdictions and centuries. This was therefore not only a law dictated by religious strictures but also by a long-lived moral conservatism.Trade Review'Covering the past four hundred years, this is a major contribution to legal, social and gender history. Urquhart's work is highly revealing about the double-standards towards sexual behaviour, Irish exceptionalism, Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards moral questions, and absence of legal uniformity under the Union.' Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin'This is a superb book - ambitious in scope, yet securely anchored in a formidable array of sources: it is characterised both by judiciousness and by an unflagging empathy. Diane Urquhart has rescued a centrally important theme from neglect and over-simplification - and has thereby consolidated her position within the front rank of modern Irish historians.' Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh'Based on extensive archival research, including parliamentary and court evidence, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Irish Divorce provides a nuanced understanding of a practice that concerned itself with both property and gendered propriety. Urquhart makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated relationship between church, state, and Irish society since 1700.' Karen Steele, Texas Christian University'Urquhart's book represents an insightful and compassionate foray into a very new field. The first all-Ireland history of divorce, it demonstrates how marriage breakdown reflected society's need to regulate succession, sexuality, and legitimacy. This exceptional work charts divorce's role in shaping, and reflecting, modern Ireland's attitude to gender and citizenship.' Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University'(A) balanced and masterful treatment of complex issues.' Brian Maye, Irish Times'As lucid as it is thorough, Irish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation. It offers a profoundly humane and empathetic analysis of what, for many, proved an elusive necessity that was cordoned off—for centuries—by ideological, nationalistic, imperial, and/or political boundaries and further inflected by class and gender. As a result, this study has much to teach us not only about divorce, but also about the ways the self-fashionings and political maneuverings of a nation-state can subvert the very citizens they are purportedly meant to serve …' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Estudios IrlandesesIrish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation.' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'anatomy of a divorce'; 1. Divorce in two legislatures: Irish divorce, 1701–1857; 2. The failings of the law: the cases of Talbot and Westmeath; 3. A non-inclusive reform: Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857; 4. Divorce in the post-reform era of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the rich'?; 5. The widening definition of marital cruelty; 6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922; 7. 'An exotic in very ungenial soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939; 8. With as 'little provocative as possible': the Northern Ireland move to court; 9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce in independent Ireland, 1922–1950; 10. Marriage law 'in this country is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda; 11. A 'curiosity [and]…an oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995; 12. The 'last stretch of a long road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Politics for Profit
Book SynopsisBusinesspeople run for and win elected office around the world, with roughly one-third of members of parliament and numerous heads of states coming directly from the private sector. Yet we know little about why these politicians choose to leave the private sector and what they actually do while in government. In Politics for Profit, David Szakonyi brings to bear sweeping quantitative and qualitative evidence from Putin-era Russia to shed light on why businesspeople contest elections and what the consequences are for their firms and for society when they win. The book develops an original theory of businessperson candidacy as a type of corporate political activity undertaken in response to both economic competition and weak political parties. Szakonyi''s evidence then shows that businesspeople help their firms reap huge gains in revenue and profitability while prioritizing investments in public infrastructure over human capital. The book finally evaluates policies for combatting politiTrade Review'Businesspeople in politics? What could go wrong? Read this fantastic book if you want to know - and you should - how non-market strategy can transform politics and undermine policymaking.' Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago'Szakonyi's research unearths a wealth of data - both qualitative and quantitative - to shine a bright light on the political strategies business people in Russia adopt, and on the outsized rewards they can reap. Politics for Profit is a model of empirical investigation and innovative theorizing. Anyone interested in how business translates money into power should read this book.' Ben Ross Schneider, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'David Szakonyi makes an exceptional contribution to our understanding of the politics of post-Soviet Russia, and of other countries with over-controlled market economies, by bearing down on businesspersons who run for and gain control of political office. The theory is sharp, the empirics dazzling, and the execution smooth.' Timothy J. Colton, Harvard University'In his analysis of the intersection between business and politics, David Szakonyi makes two compelling arguments. First, members of the business community have strong incentives to run for political office. Why settle for a hit-or-miss strategy of influencing politicians and public policy from the outside when you could take the more direct route of running for political office? Second, while many politicians with a business background like to argue that they will restore efficiency to government, their impact - as the Russian case study makes clear - is quite the opposite. They do not just reduce competition by championing their businesses over others; they also invariably favor the interests of business over the interests of the citizenry.' Valerie Jane Bunce, Cornell University'The question of how business people influence politics has never been more topical. With careful arguments and original field research, David Szakonyi disentangles the relationship between money and power in Putin's Russia. Politics for Profit offers numerous insights into the political economy of countries where rule of law is weak.' Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles'Makes for a stimulating read and is a promise of great things to come.' George Regkoukos, Eurasian Geography and Economics'The book offers valuable contributions to the theoretical literatures on state capture, corruption, democratization, regional politics, and political and economic development in middle-income countries.' Hilary Appel, Comparative Politics'The author draws on a broad range of data, including numerous interviews with regional businesspeople. His rigorous scientific methods complement an enjoyable and convincing narrative.' Maria Lipman, Foreign Affairs'Szakonyi's Politics for Profit is clear, well-organised and grounded in a wealth of evidence … [it] is an ambitious and thorough book that considerably advances existing scholarship on the influence of business in politics. Policymakers would do well to consider Szakonyi's recommendations, and researchers should seize the opportunity to test his conclusions in other cases.' Isabelle DeSisto, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. A Theory of Businessperson Candidacy; 2. Identifying Businesspeople Who Run for Office; 3. Economic Competition, Weak Parties, and Businessperson Candidacy; 4. Choosing Ballots, Parties and Delegates; 5. Firm-Level Returns to Businessperson Candidacy; 6. Businesspeople as Policymakers; 7. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations.
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Cambridge University Press AngloSaxon England Volume 47
Book SynopsisThe contributions to the forty-seventh volume of Anglo-Saxon England focus on various aspects of Anglo-Saxon culture and history across a period from the sixth to the thirteenth century, from skaldic art at Cnut's court to the Germanic context of Beowulf. Each article is preceded by a short abstract.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of abbreviations; 1. Record of the eighteenth conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, 31 July‒4 August 2017; 2. An edition of the four sermons attributed to Candidus Witto Christopher A. Jones; 3. Extra alliteration on stressed syllables in Old English poetry: types, uses and evolution Mark Griffith; 4. Sworn swords: the Germanic context of Beowulf 2064, aðsweord Benjamin D. Weber; 5. A taste for knottiness: skaldic art at Cnut's court Roberta Frank; 6. Wulfstan the Forger: the 'Laws of Edward and Guthrum' Nicholas P. Schwartz; 7. St Kenelm, St Melor and Anglo-Breton contact from the tenth to the twelfth centuries Caroline Brett; 8. The northern world of the Anglo-Saxon mappa mundi Helen Appleton; 9. The 'old books of Glastonbury' and the Muchelney breviary fragment: London, British Library, Additional 56488, fols. i, 1–5 Jesse D. Billett; 10. 'In me porto crucem': a new light on the lost St Margaret's crux nigra Francesco Marzella; 11. A fourth supplement to Hand-List of Anglo-Saxon Non-Runic Inscriptions 365 Elisabeth Okasha.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Urban History of Europe Volume 1 Ancient Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Intellectual World of Late Antique Christianity
Book SynopsisThis book is for scholars and students of the ideas, literatures, and cultures of early Christianity and late antiquity, ancient philosophers, and historians of theology. It offers new perspectives on early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge in relation to changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity.Table of Contents1. Modes of knowing and the ordering of knowledge in early Christianity Lewis Ayres, Michael Champion, Matthew R. Crawford; 2. The beginnings of a Christian doctrine of the spiritual senses before Origen Jane Heath; 3. Health, medicine, and philosophy in the school of Justin Martyr Jared Secord; 4. The structure of the ascetic self in Irenaeus of Lyons Paul Saieg; 5. The order of education and knowledge in clement of Alexandria Matyáš Havrda; 6. Origen's institutions and the shape of biblical scholarship Peter Martens; 7. Dialogue and catalogue: Fate, free-will, and epistemology in the Book of the Laws of the Countries Scott Johnson; 8. Iamblichus on divination and prophecy Peter Struck; 9. Cyprian, scripture and socialisation: forming faith in the catechumenate and beyond Edwina Murphy; 10. Sacrificial knowing: Cyprian and early Christian ritual knowledge Andrew McGowan; 11. Learning the language of God: tables in early Christian texts Andrew Riggsby; 12. The Aëtian Placita and the church fathers: creative use of a distinctive mode of ordering knowledge David Runia; 13. Nicaea's frame: the organisation of creedal knowledge in late antiquity and modernity Andrew Radde-Gallwitz; 14. The Arian controversy and the problem of image(s) Rebecca Lyman; 15. Imaging Ephrem the author Jeffrey Wickes; 16. Homilies as 'Modes of Knowing': an exploration on the basis of Greek patristic sermons (ca. 350-ca. 450 CE) Johan Leemans; 17. Dissemination of biblical narratives, motifs, and figures through early Christian inscriptions and homilies Cilliers Breytenbach; 18. How to make use of pagan knowledge without separating oneself from the church's milk: the function of otherness in Gregory of Nyssa's theory of self-perfection Jan Stenger; 19. Female characters as modes of knowing in late imperial dialogues: the body, desire, and the intellectual life Dawn LaValle Norman; 20. The Christianity of Latin Christian poetry Mark Edwards; 21. Ambrose's hymns as modes of knowing the 'Real' Brian Dunkle; 22. Confused voices: sound and sense in the later Augustine Carol Harrison; 23. Precision and the limits of human autopsy in Augustine's critique of pagan divination Michael Hanaghan; 24. Duplex via: authority and reason at Cassiciacum Gerald Boersma; 25. The object of our gaze: visual perception as a mode of knowing Robin Jensen; 26. Reconsidering the tholos image in the Eusebian canon tables: symbols, space, and books in the late antique Christian imagination Matthew Crawford; 27. Condemning the glutton of the monastery: rhetorical strategies and the epistemology of Philoxenus of Mabbug Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent; 28. Evagrius of Ponticus on lupē: Distress and cognition between philosophy, medicine, and monasticism Jonathan Zecher; 29. Liturgical modes of knowing: coming to know God (and oneself) in sixth-century hymns and homilies Sarah Gador-Whyte; 30. Prolegomena to philosophy and the ascetic ordering of knowledge Michael Champion; 31. Bureaucratic modes of knowing in the late roman empire Sara Ahbel-Rappe; 32. The dissemination and appropriation of legal knowledge in the age of Justinian Peter Sarris; 33. The ordering of knowledge in four late patristic Christological handbooks Dirk Krausmüller; 34. World and empire: contrasting the cosmopolitan visions of Maximus the Confessor and George of Pisidia in seventh century Byzantium Paul Blowers; 35. Boethius on the ordering of knowledge John Magee; 36. Ordering emotional communities: modes of knowing in Gregory the Great Bronwen Neil; 37. Creating knowledge and knowing creation in late antique theological and scientific writing Helen Foxhall Forbes; 38. Hierarchies of knowledge in the works of Bede Zachary Guiliano; 39. Epilogue Teresa Morgan.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Urban History of Europe Volume 3 Modern and Contemporary Europe
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Cambridge University Press Love between Enemies
Book SynopsisLove between Enemies explores the forbidden relationships which formed between foreign prisoners of war and German women during the Second World War. From the desire to have fun to deep love commitments, this study examines the range of motivations which lay behind these relationships, tapping into new documents and drawing on thousands of court cases to offer a transnational analysis of personal relations between enemies. Highlighting gender roles, the contradictory reactions of the communities surrounding the couples, and the diplomatic tensions resulting from the severe punishments, this is a history of everyday life which throws light on this subversive aspect of intimacy in wartime Nazi Germany. Comparing the ''transgressing'' couples to other groups persecuted for their cultural or private choices, Scheck demonstrates how the relationships were silenced or justified in the post-war memory of prisoners, while the German women, who had been publicly shamed, continued to live with tTrade Review'A scholarly masterpiece. It tackles one of the most fascinating problems and most flaunted prohibitions of the Nazi racial state, the love affairs between prisoners of war from the western Allies and German women. Drawing on an unparalleled range of sources from all sides, Raffael Scheck has written the definitive account. A must read.' Nicholas Stargardt, University of Oxford'Scheck's meticulous investigation of the military prosecution of illicit relationships reveals the contradictions and absurdity of the Nazi faith in 'the healthy feeling of the Volk' as a means of enforcing racial consciousness. His juxtaposition of surprising tolerance and harsh punishments demonstrates the power of the human need for connection in face of the hatreds of war.' Annette Timm, University of Calgary'Based on wonderfully rich archival sources, this important addition to scholarship takes seriously intimate relationships between prisoners of war and civilians in twentieth-century Europe. Raffael Scheck is to be commended for his on-going insistence that narratives of 'everyday' women and men in wartime deserve to be highlighted.' Lisa Todd, University of New Brunswick'This ground-breaking work brings to light the many intimate relationships between Western POWs and local women in Nazi Germany. Resisting simple narratives of guilt, innocence or heroism under duress, Scheck underlines the complexities of relationships 'between enemies'. With consummate skill, he connects these moving individual stories to much broader questions about wartime justice, ground-level war experiences, and international relations.' Julia Torrie, St. Thomas University'… fascinating … Scheck is to be congratulated, not only for the sheer amount of legwork he has put into archival research in several different countries, but also for his careful, nuanced interpretations.' Matthew Stibbe, European History Quarterly'Built from a rich collection of archival material across six countries, Scheck's rigour and insightful analysis is due wide applause. This is much more than a study of the policing of illicit relationships on the German home front. Love Between Enemies will be of great interest and influence to those studying everyday lives and emotions during wartime.' Alan Malpass, International Journal of Military History and Historiography'… a fascinating insight into everyday life on the German home front, the wartime politicisation of the private sphere, and the gap between propaganda and lived experience.' Fionnuala Walsh, Family & Community HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgements, List of abbreviations; Current place names; Introduction; 1. The prisoners of war and the German women; 2. The legal framework, 3. The relations; 4. Discovery; 5. The trials; 6. Behind bars; 7. Case studies; 8. Memory; Conclusion. Resistance, dissent, opposition?; Bibliography.
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