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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1996 and now available in paperback, a historical account of Anglo-Irish history between 1560 and 1602.

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Book SynopsisThe definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's PeopleThe clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis. —A. S Byatt, Times Literary SupplementImpressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in analysis, fluent in style, and humane in judgment, this work could only have been produced by a master historian. —Sir Ian KershawThere is no story in twentieth-century history more important to understand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich, Richard J. Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians, has written the definitive account for our time. A masterful synthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated with important new research and interpretations, Evans’s history restores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early 1930s for such a takeover to occur. The Coming of the Third Reich is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book by which all others on the subject will be judged.

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Book SynopsisA tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster. - Roy Porter, London Review of BooksWhy were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks in Hamburg, while most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As Richard J. Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a “free city” within Germany that was governed by the “English” ideals of laissez-faire. The absence of an effective public-health policy combined with ill-founded medical theories and the miserable living conditions of the poor to create a scene ripe for tragedy. The story of the “cholera years” is, in Richard Evans’s hands, tragically revealing of the age’s social inequalities and governmental pitilessness and incompetence; it also offers disquieting parallels with the world’s public-health landscape today, including the current coronavirus crisis.Trade Review"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomaster." - Roy Porter, London Review of Books"A brilliantly written work of great analytical penetration." —Gordon A. Craig, The New York Review of Books"A marvelous book, splendidly written, full of wit and anecdote, exuding scholarship and wisdom." —New Scientist

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Book SynopsisA gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle of Delphi was one of the most influential figures in ancient Greece. Human mistress of the god Apollo, she had the power to enter into ecstatic communion with him and deliver his prophesies to men. Thousands of years later, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist William J. Broad follows a crew of enterprising researchers as they sift through the evidence of history, geology, and archaeology to reveal—as far as science is able—the source of her visions.

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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1701, missionary-minded Anglicans launched one of the earliest and most sustained efforts to Christianize the enslaved people of Britain''s colonies. Hundreds of clergy traveled to widely-dispersed posts in North America, the Caribbean, and West Africa under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) and undertook this work. Based on a belief in the essential unity of humankind, the Society''s missionaries advocated for the conversion and better treatment of enslaved people. Yet, only a minority of enslaved people embraced Anglicanism, while a majority rejected it. Mastering Christianity closely explores these missionary encounters. The Society hoped to make slavery less cruel and more paternalistic but it came to stress the ideas that chattel slavery and Christianity were entirely compatible and could even be mutually beneficial. While important early figures saw slavery as troubling, over time the Society accommodated its messageTrade ReviewWhile the book is constructed largely as a study of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, religion, race, and the institution of slavery, it also has broader importance to the study of the often surprisingly complex and multifaceted world of imperial and colonial society where religion functioned with a motivational power only misleadingly reduced to material or social forces. Nevertheless, Glasson also impressively demonstrates the degree to which economic, worldly realities forged the environment of empire and influenced religious beliefs, often in ways that contradicted and corroded Christian ethical precept, and in the eighteenth century, reinforced the emergence of new racial hierarchies while providing support for the institution of slavery. * Steven S. Maughan, Journal of Early Modern History *This important book by Travis Glasson extends and deepens our understanding of the earliest English Protestant missionary society, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. ... To read Glasson's book is to glimpse an age when Anglicans sought to forge a new, expansive imperial identity, but also struggled to square their commitment to maintaining social order with supporting the radical Christian notion of the equality of souls. ... Mastering Christianity represents an important addition to our knowledge of the spread of multiple, competitive forms of Christianity in the developing British imperial framework. With a sure command of the historiography and sources, Glasson's careful scholarship has produced the first full history of one of the most important institutional forces in the British Empire in the eighteenth century in its relationship to slavery. * Journal of Early Modern History *Mastering Christianity is a welcome addition to the burgeoning historical literature on slavery and the Atlantic world. ... [It] provides a rich if sobering introduction to how a Christian organization dedicated to the salvation of 'heathen' servants became a servant to the status quo, supporting slavery and its perpetual extension. ... His book provides a compelling explanation for that wavering trajectory. * Dee E. Andrews, Journal of American History *Travis Glasson's marvelous new study of the SPG's operations among African slave populations in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Atlantic world is such a welcome addition to our understanding of the dynamics of imperial Christianity. Deeply researched and thoroughly engaging Glasson's thesis is an original and compelling one. * Brent S. Sirota, Journal of British Studies *Over the years the tangled story of the changing relationship of the Anglican Church with the institution of slavery between the late seventeenth century and the eventual ending of that institution by the British in 1838 has received its fair share of scholarly attention. This ambitious study fully succeeds in its objective of casting the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, its activities and shifting perceptions of slavery and African peoples, in an entirely fresh light. It is scholarship of the very highest quality, of immense intellectual power and authority, and promises to stand as the definitive study for many years to come. * Betty Wood, Girton College, Cambridge *At last we have a history of the Anglican missions that appreciates the scale and impact of their religious enterprise. Mastering Christianity provides the best analysis yet of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, a crucial instrument in the cultivation of a British Atlantic world made possible by enslaved laborers. By closely examining the entanglement of Anglicanism and slavery, rather than skipping forward to the evangelical revivals, Glasson offers fresh insight into why so many black people joined the Church of England * and why most did not.Vincent Brown, author of The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery *Travis Glasson's pioneering and revisionist Mastering Christianity reconstructs the always vexed and increasingly corrosive relationship between the evangelical agenda of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and the reality of its economic and ideological involvement with black chattel slavery. Mastering Christianity is a significant contribution to studies of race, religion, slavery, and abolition in the British circum-Atlantic empire. * Vincent Carretta, co-editor of The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary *Travis Glasson has written the definitive history of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel's evangelization mission to enslaved Africans and their descendants in the British Atlantic World. Brilliantly conceived and exhaustively researched, Mastering Christianity explores the intellectual and practical evolutions of the SPG mission from the dawn of the eighteenth century to the abolition of British West Indian slavery in 1838. Glasson's readable prose yields fresh insights about the work of Anglican missionaries, the people they sought to convert, and the impact these missions had upon the struggles over Atlantic slavery's future. * Edward B. Rugemer, author of The Problem of Emancipation: The Caribbean Roots of the American Civil War *Mastering Christianity is an important reconsideration of the intersection of religion, race and slavery in the eighteenth-century Atlantic. Like few others, Glasson takes us inside the complex world of missions to enslaved people and of Christianity's complicity in slavery and racial hierarchies. * Jon F. Sensbach, author of Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World *We can be very grateful to Travis Glasson for showing us what can happen when we turn our voices from the service of our Lord to the service of our own corps and ourselves. * Elena Thompson, Anglican Theological Review *Glasson's excellent new book repositions the eighteenth-century Church of England as a critical imperial institution with an Atlantic reach…[and] its struggles to engage and convert enslaved and native people while also sustaining its relationship with the Atlantic planter class."-Rebecca A. Goetz, Journal of Religion<"Mastering Christianity examines why Anglican authorities came (belatedly) to the missionary impulse, how they sought to put this desire into practice, and why they proved so ineffectual, at least in regard to the conversion of the Africans who lived under British rule. This is a fascinating, if also somewhat depressing, study of an institution whose religious and moral principles, and potential for doing good, were fatally compromised by its social and political ties and ambitions.>"-Robert Olwell, American Historical ReviewMastering Christianity presents a deeply informative account of contemporary beliefs and activities; it is both rigorously researched and clearly (and dispassionately) argued. Broadly speaking, it adds perspective to how Anglicanism has struggled to adapt to historical change, and one suspects that the stalwarts of the SPG would be surprised by the Church's modern demographics. * Charles W. A. Prior, Church History *In this richly detailed study the author sets out to revise the conventional wisdom about Anglican humanitarianism...and to explain Anglicanism's failure to draw into its fold the black peoples who were the focus of its missionary efforts....The book succeeds....Highly useful and is likely to stand as the definitive work on the subject for years to come. * Sylvia R. Frey, English Historical Review *An important contribution to the literature on the intersection of race and religion in the Atlantic world. * Edward L. Bond, Anglican and Episcopal History *The book's strength is in engaging with the questions of SPG intellectual contributions to growing racial awareness, and in recognizing and giving a place to the agency of non-Europeans who both resisted and adopted missionary Anglicanism in the eighteenth century....An unquestionably important intervention into the literature on missionary humanitarianism and the missionary relationship with slavery and abolition. * Bronwen Everill, Britain and the World *Glasson's excellent study reveals how devout men came to put profits and the perspective of slave masters ahead of concern for the souls and the bodies of the enslaved people it might have helped. * Carla Gardina Pestana, Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Institutional and Intellectual Foundations 1. "My Constitution is Constellated for Any Meridian": Creating Trans-Atlantic Missionary Anglicanism 2. Natural Religion and the Sons of Noah: The Society, Human Difference, and Slavery Part II: The Society and Colonial Slavery 3. "The Two Great Articles of Faith and Obedience": Anglican Missionaries and Slavery, 1701-1740 4. Masters and Pastors: Anglicanism, Revivalism, and Slavery, 1740-1765 Part III: Sites of Missionary Encounter 5. "A Sett of Possitive Obstinate People": Missionary Encounters on Codrington Plantation 6. "One of their Own Color and Kindred": Philip Quaque and the SPG Mission to Africa Part IV: Responses to Antislavery 7. "Themselves Under this Very Predicament": The Society and the Antislavery Movement, 1765-1838 Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Trade ReviewIn a monograph that now appears on many course syllabi, Hardwick uncovers how women in early modern Lyon took charge of their sexual and reproductive lives with much community support. The scope of the book pertains to "young urban workers"...The book makes bold contributions to contemporary conversations about gender violence and abortion. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in the recent Dobbs decision, drew on seventeenth century barrister Matthew Hale's writings to claim that "an unbroken tradition of prohibiting abortion on pain of criminal punishment" had "persisted from the earliest days of the common law until 1973." Hardwick takes her readers across the channel and behind the law's normative façade to show how popular urban mores contrasted with such interdictions and how extensive early modern women's bodily autonomy could be. * Benjamin Bernard, Eighteenth Century Studies *Grounded in the archival stories of young workers in early modern Lyon, this study effectively challenges much accepted wisdom about the mechanisms of sexual discipline. Hardwick explores intimacy, illegitimacy, marriage formation and pregnancy through a holistic rending of what she terms the 'archive of reproduction'. This approach offers a nuanced and provocative reading of the complexities of intimate relations that applies far beyond her archival focus on Lyon.... In excavating how local regulation and informal policing worked about reproduction, Hardwick resituates our understanding of the pressures and possibilities for women as a matter of gendered power in significant ways. Simply put, this is an absolute must read for anyone interested in the history gender, sexuality and power. * Katherine Crawford, Social History of Medicine *Captivating reading for anyone interested in early modern European social or gender history. By weaving together subtle analysis with deeply human stories, Hardwick gives us unparalleled insight into an almost inaccessible aspect of working people's lives: the world of intimacy and emotion, courtship, and reproduction in early modern France. * Suzanne Desan, H-France *Hardwick's book...lays out not just the precarious and contingent lives of workers but also makes a forceful argument for integrating the history of sexuality more fully into the social history of work, showcases an innovative approach to the archives, and redefines our understanding of the relationship between the state and ordinary life in the Old Regime.... The reader comes away with an understanding of both the familiar and unexplored ways that young women and men engaged with one another three centuries ago. We witness their fears about sex and pregnancy, for example, and the ways a single night could change the course of an entire life....Ultimately, Hardwick paints a picture of working-class sexual life that revolved around navigating the constraints and opportunities constructed by a community invested in ensuring that young people could find and keep sexual partners. * Andrew Israel Ross, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas *Hardwick has produced a nuanced and persuasive case-study of early modern urban sexual behaviour which deserves a wide readership.... The richness of the material enables Hardwick to situate her subjects within the built environment and rural hinterlands of the early modern city too, and her attention to space (as practised place) and topography enables her to offer evocative reading of the evidence. * Tim Reinke-Williams, Urban History *Hardwick's... monograph, based on a diligent exploitation of the municipal and departmental archives of Lyon,...provides a usefully thought-provoking corrective, and an evocative illustration of one of the most important general discoveries of the past half-century of historical scholarship. * Henry C. Clark, French Studies *A new, sometimes surprising, and always compelling approach to the history of intimacy in the early modern period....It is also a book about growing up, settling down, or breaking up in old regime Europe....This book represents an incredible feat of archival research....[and] is written in such a lively style that these details lie under the surface....Hardwick's book is part of a major new approach to understanding women's lives in the early modern period in terms of their lived experiences and not only the prescriptions of moralists and men. * Tom Hamilton, Gender & History *Hardwick's book convincingly challenges current arguments about eighteenth-century attitudes toward sexuality and, in particular, the disciplining of women's sexuality. This alone make the book worth the read. * Carol L. White, Clayton State University, XVIII New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century *Historiography has come a long way since Foucault and first-wave feminism. In Julie Hardwick's compelling study of youthful intimacy in early modern Lyon, the word 'patriarchy' never even appears. This is not because the city was a sexual utopia...but because our understandings of the early modern state, law and gender have changed. A royal edict of 1556 against clandestine pregnancy which supported much of the disciplining narrative turned out to be misunderstood by historians and mostly ignored at the time....Her close reading of hundreds of cases reveals not a parade of sexual transgressions in need of discipline but commonly accepted courtship practices that went wrong.... Far from disciplining young women, then, the Lyon court disciplined men for failing to keep their promises. In so doing they restored women's honour. * Jan Machielsen, Times Literary Supplement *Through an examination of young workers' intimacy, Hardwick...upends the commonly accepted idea that disciplining women's sexuality was a major goal of the early modern state and shows how communities pragmatically accepted and managed consequences of physical intimacy, including out-of-wedlock pregnancy....She finds that communities accepted young people's intimacy and pragmatically worked with couples to manage the consequences....The community support systems that developed, encompassing clerics, lawyers, wet nurses, midwives, and landladies, were part of the larger old regime economy and sought to minimize the disruptions of pregnancy to women's roles in the labor force and their chances of marriage later on. * CHOICE *An eye-opener and a veritable tour-de-force, Hardwick's book offers a fascinating window into sexual standards in ancien régime France and reveals a stunning and complex system of communal complicity. Her careful exploration of Lyon's archival records sheds new light on the lives and intimate stories of ordinary working-class young adults pre-1789 and offers a new historiography of sex at the time. * Evelyne M. Bornier, Seventeenth-Century News *A superb reconstruction of a lost world of intimacy and power. Julie Hardwick's absorbing, enriching work reveals the common language of love; the balance of force and caresses in courtship; the pragmatic concerns of marriage; and the solutions to unplanned pregnancies, showing the capacity of young women and men to shape their own circumstances and tell their stories. * Laura Gowing, King's College London *Sex in an Old Regime City explores a topic that seems well beyond the reach of historians: sexual intimacy between urban adolescents at a quarter of a millennium remove. Julie Hardwick's remarkable study is based on the 'archive of reproduction' accumulated around the biological and emotional consequences of that intimacy — ranging from pregnancy declarations, paternity suits, notarial documents, doctors' prescriptions, religious injunctions, infant autopsies and hospital archives through to billet-doux and foundlings' tokens. Hardwick's humane and sympathetic eye reveals a richly delineated world that has poignant continuities as well as contrasts with our own. * Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London *A boldly written and brilliantly researched tour-de-force. Drawing upon meticulous archival work, Julie Hardwick explodes our understanding of what we thought we knew about pregnancy declarations, licit intimacy, and patriarchal discipline and reveals a far more complex system of communal complicity. Sex in an Old Regime City is a must-read for all scholars of the early modern world, especially those interested in legal, social, and gender history. * Meghan Roberts, Bowdoin College *This well-written and impressively researched book sheds important new light on sexual intimacy, reproduction, and marriage among young adults in eighteenth-century France. Stories of the lives and loves of ordinary working people bring their previously inaccessible intimate world to life. * Clare Crowston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Hardwick invites us to ponder the distress and relief of mothers who consigned newborns to fathers or strangers, not to mention latrines and limbo, without implying that they shared our sensibilities or that we can penetrate their sentiments...This searching and subtle account of safety netting in another place and time provides much food for thought. It is not a long book, but it is a big one. It provides an object lesson in how to make the most of records from a world we have lost, with humility and humanity. * Jeffrey Merrick, American Historical Review *This remarkable book supplies a model for how creatively to read legal documents to listen in on the secret and the unspoken...Sex in an Old Regime City recounts many intimate relationships between male and female workers, but even more effectively brings to life an entire urban community and animates the ways that love and sex took place within a dense matrix of landladies, bosses, notaries, and priests. * Jennifer M. Jones, Rutgers University, Early Modern Women *In her impressive new book, Julie Hardwick provides a compelling account of young workers' intimate lives in Old Regime Lyon based on extensive and exacting archival research. With hermasterful command of the sources,Hardwick vividly illuminates working class heterosexual intimacy in this beautifully nuanced study. * E. Claire Cage, University of South Alabama, Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Foundling's Garter and the World of Young People's Intimacy Ch.. 1. Sourcing Intimate Histories: The Social World of Young Workers Ch. 2. Peril Stories: Licit Intimacy, Space, and Community Safeguarding Ch. 3. Holding Men Responsible: Fertility, Community, and Court Ch. 4. "Remedies" and Remedies: Managing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy Ch. 5. Intimate Labor: Paid Work and an Intimate Economy of Reproduction Ch. 6. Foundlings and Makeshift Coffins: Community Complicity and Dead Babies Conclusion: The End of the Old Regime? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDescribed as ''one of the most tragic human experiences in human history'', the Soviet Union as an empire holds much intrigue and fascination for the Western world. It held unquestionable status as an empire, with its coverage of over 100 nationalities. Its status as the ''Last of the Empires'' depends on what the future may hold, but any future ''empires'' will undoubtedly be based on intellectual and institutional foundations far different from those developed during the Soviet era. Here John Keep presents the narrative history of the USSR, from the last years of Stalin, to the checkered fate of Gorbachev''s reform policies, and the ultimate collapse of the empire under manifold centrifugal pressures. Focusing upon political, economic, social, and cultural developments, the book is divided into four parts: the last years of Stalin; Nikita Krushchev''s abortive attempts to reform Communist rule; the years 1964-1985, covered largely by Breshnev''s long tenure of power; and lastly GorbaTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Written in a clear, scholarly but penetrable style, it provides an abundance of information in a form that is accessible to anybody who wants or needs to remind himself of the chronology and content of those tumultuous years in the Soviet Union. It incorporates much of the new information that is emerging in post-communist, post-Soviet Russia, as formerly top-secret archives are opened to Russian and western scrutiny. * Economist *A shrewd, well-sourced history of the Soviet Union ... [Keep's] fluent narrative heeds murmurs from below as well as diktats from above. * New Statesman & Society *It is as fortunate as it is productive that Keep is a distinguished and vastly experienced historian of Russia in its several phases, that he should apply the rigour of exacting scholarship and the advantage of perspective to the death of a system whose antecedents and birth he had earlier chronicled. The temperate, scholarly analysis of Last of the Empires provides an exhaustive explanation for this complex, protracted tragedy whose consequences are yet fully to unfold. * Times Higher Education Supplement *Last of the Empires is filled with interest information gathered from a very broad range of sources which Keep recounts and analyses in a thoroughly professional manner ... judicious and well-informed work. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. STALIN'S LAST YEARS; 2. A REFORMER IN THE KREMLIN; 8. FOR FAITH AND FREEDOM; 16. REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE

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Book SynopsisHanging people for small crimes as well as grave, the Bloody Penal Code was at its most active between 1770 and 1830. In those years some 7,000 men and women were executed on public scaffolds, watched by thousands. Hanging was confined to murderers thereafter, but these were still killed in public until 1868. Clearly the gallows loomed over much of social life in this period. But how did those who watched, read about, or ordered these strangulations feel about the terror and suffering inflicted in the law''s name? What kind of justice was delivered, and how did it change?This book is the first to explore what a wide range of people felt about these ceremonies (rather than what a few famous men thought and wrote about them). A history of mentalities, emotions, and attitudes rather than of policies and ideas, it analyses responses to the scaffold at all social levels: among the crowds which gathered to watch executions; among `polite'' commentators from Boswell and Byron on to Fry, ThackTrade Review[a] classic study * The Sunday Times Culture Magazine *There is plenty to incite horror, but the cleverness of the book is the way it puts the English way of execution into a political context * Jeremy Paxman, Independent *monumental in the subtlety and richness of the argument ... a rare combination of pellucid clarity and passion that carries the reader on to the final chapter without a single longeur. * John Adamson, Sunday Telegraph *A quite outstanding book, moving, perceptive ... richly imaginative. * Linda Colley, Observer *

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Book SynopsisThe Industrial Revolution has sometimes been regarded as a catastrophe which desecrated the English landscape and brought social opporession and appalling physical hardship to the workers. In this book, however, it is presented as an important and beneficial mark of progress. In spite of destructive wars and a rapid growth of population, the material living standards of most of the British people improved, and the technical innovations not only brought economic rewards but also provoked greater intellectual ingenuity. Innovation is therefore seen by Ashton not just as an economic course but as a social and cultural process influenced by factors such as war and peace and the framework of law and institutions. Lucidly argued and authoritative, this bookplaces the phenomenon of the Industrial Revolution in a stimulating perpsective. A new Preface by Professor Pat Hudson outlines the results of recent research precipitated by Ashton''s themes: the true causes of population growth in the eiTable of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; 1. The Earlier Forms of Industry ; 2. The Technical Innovations ; 3. Capital and Labour ; 4. 'Individualism' and 'Laisser-faire' ; 5. The Course of Economic Change ; Bibliography; Index; Map

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Book SynopsisSlavery and the British Empire provides a clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, from the Cape Colony to the Caribbean. The book combines economic, social, political, cultural, and demographic history, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world and the plantations of North America and the West Indies from the mid-seventeenth century onwards. Kenneth Morgan analyses the distribution of slaves within the empire and how this changed over time; the world of merchants and planters; the organization and impact of the triangular slave trade; the work and culture of the enslaved; slave demography; health and family life; resistance and rebellions; the impact of the anti-slavery movement; and the abolition of the British slave trade in 1807 and of slavery itself in most of the British empire in 1834. As well as providing the ideal introduction to the history of British involvement in the slave trade, this book also shows just how deeply Trade ReviewA first rate-work that deserves much praise. * Jeremy Black, History. *A clear overview of the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade * Spartacus Review *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; 1. Slavery and the Slave Trade ; 2. Merchants and Planters ; 3. The Triangular Trade ; 4. Slave Demography and Family Life ; 5. Work, Law, and Culture ; 6. Slave Resistance and Rebellion ; 7. The Abolition of the British Slave Trade ; 8. Slave Emancipation ; Epilogue ; Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisG.M. Trevelyan's accomplishments both as an eminent scholar and as a writer of exceptional ability enabled him to write a book of two-fold importance, as a piece of literature and as an outstanding contribution to historical inquiry.Trade Review"Keep it in print! American students can read it. Still by far the best value for money..."--Professor Daniel A. Baugh, Cornell University "Written in a style of great clarity and persuasiveness, this little book presents the traditional Whig view at its best--the view of Locke, Burke, and Macaulay."--The Manchester Guardian "No one is better qualified to write of the revolution of 1689 than Professor Trevelyan. In the crisp, brisk narrative...one acknowledges the hand of a master historian."--Garrett Mattingly, Saturday Review of Literature

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Book SynopsisHow has it happened that the United States and the Soviet Union have managed to get through more than four decades of Cold War confrontation without going to war with one another? Historian John Lewis Gaddis suggests answer to this and other vital questions about post-war diplomacy in this new book.Gaddis uses recently declassified American and British documents to explore several key issues in Cold War history that remain unresolved: Precisely what itwas about the Soviet Union''s behaviour after World War II that American leaders found so threatening? Whether the United States really wanted a sphere of influence in post-war Europe? What led the Truman administration first to endorse, but then immediately to avoid American military involvement on the mainland of Asia? This is a provocative exercise in contemporary history, certain to generate new insights on both past and present aspects of the age we live in.Trade Review`However circumscribed the tropics, Gaddis manages to infuse into each one a richness of association, of apposite generalization, which lifts them beyond the level of standart academic treatment. he is revealed above all as a highly rational and liberal-minded observer, a sharp dissector of human folly, who is yet quick to appreciate strengths where they are to be found ^times higher education-august 1988'Gaddis writes superbly well, no mean task when mixing narrative, analysis, personal reflection and advocacy ... Gaddis' powers of synthesis are, as ever, most impressive of all.' The Washington Post'Gaddis raises some interesting and timely questions ... This provocative and well-argued work is recommended' Library Journal

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Book SynopsisNechama Tec''s incisive account of the rescue of Jews by Christians in Nazi-occupied Poland draws heavily on her own childhood experiences. Her in-depth study - the first of its kind - contrasts the attitudes and behaviour of altruistic helpers, and paid rescuers. She discovers a fascinating pattern, in which altruistic Christians applied their customary practise of helping the needy, without regard for their own safety, whereas paid rescuers acted with the motive of removing the Jews and the danger they represented to Poland. This is a deeply affecting book, which deals squarely with the ingrained anti-Semitism in Polish society, yet pays tribute to the extraordinary risks taken by Polish people on behalf of their Jewish compatriots.Trade Review`A book that is a long overdue and valuable contribution to both Holocaust history and the study of human nature.' Jewish Reporter

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses utopian ideals and experimentation before, during, and after the Russian Revolution of 1917. Richard Stites grounds his study in the larger field of Russia''s social, intellectual, and cultural history, examining party programmes, economic policy, and moral practices to recreate the vast tableau of revolutionary life. Above all, he reveals how people expressed revolutionary sentiment through myth, ritual, symbol, cult, and community.Trade Review`Stites has produced a dazzling compendium of the manifold ideas and projects that flashed across Russia after 1917.' Times Higher Education Supplement'a comprehensive and sympathetic look at a long-gone age of revolutionary dreamers and utopia builders' SLOVO (from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies)'thoroughly researched and extremely informative book ... A book to be enjoyed.' Political Studies'Richard Stites' book is a lively, charismatic catalogue of the many manifestations of Russian 'pre-figurative behaviour' ... Stites profitably indulges the historian's love for accreted details and anecdotes, which add up to a cultural mosaic and suggest a scholarly proof.' Spencer Golub, Brown University, Theatre Research International, 1992

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Book SynopsisThe dramatic events of the twentieth century have often brought about the mass migration of intellectuals, professionals, writers, and artists. One of the first such migrations occurred in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when more than a million Russians were forced into exile. What distinguishes this emigration from other such episodes in European history is the extent to which the émigrés succeeded in reconstituting and preserving their cultural creativity in the West. Marc Raeff has written the first comprehensive cultural history of the `Great Russian Emigration''. He concludes with an assessment of the Russian emigration''s impact on the development of modern Western culture.Trade Review'Professor Raeff's magisterial overview of the two decades from 1919 to the outbreak of war in Europe ... comes at a time of heightened interest ... The clarity ... and the control of extensive and varied material are exemplary.' Arnold McMillin, SSEES, University of London, Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 4, No. 2, Dec '91

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Book SynopsisUtilizing the records of several Venetian courts that dealt with sex crimes, Ruggiero traces the evolution of both licit and illicit sexuality during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through this examination of illicit sexuality, Ruggiero sheds light on the institutions, languages, social life, and values not only of this shadow-culture, but also of Venetian society and, ultimately, the Renaissance itself.Trade Review`Colourful groundbreaking ... Ruggeriero's vivid survey of sexual behavior is an important contribution to Venetian historiography which no social, political, or cultural study will be able to ignore.' Renaissance Quarterly`Extremely welcome for its systematic attempt to squeeze information about changing attitudes to sexuality from the judicial records.' London Review of Books'fascinating and pioneering work ... particularly satisfying ... a triumph of historical reconstruction' Journal of Social History'This is an important and fascinating study that provides a new perspective on Renaissance culture and society. Highly recommended.' Library Journal

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Book SynopsisDescribes how the Nazi propaganda machine produced conscripts for Hitler's army who were fully convinced of the view of "inferior peoples", and argues that these ideas, rather than the exigencies of war, motivated the atrocities of the SS during World War II.Trade Review'exciting and provocative essay ... This book is a chilling reminder of how rapidly State-led violence can degenerate into military barbarism, no less in Iraq or Kampuchea than in Hitler's war' Richard Overy, The Observer'a well-researched, gripping account of the Wehrmacht's titanic efforts to win Hitler's war despite the blunder of invading Russia' Anglo-German Review'an impressively researched and imaginatively presented contribution' George H. Stein, State University of New York, American Historical Review, October 1992`a stimulating work about the problem of military solidarity and its relation to fighting efficiency.' Sociology'A sombre account, using much first-hand evidence.' The Observera frightening analysis of the effect of continuous criminal propaganda on the rank-and-file of an army * Christopher Logue, The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisNolan's book explores the impact of America on the German imagination in the critical interwar period of the 1920s, when the USA became Weimar Germany's model in a broad-based movement for economic reform and social modernization. The USA was seen as an intriguing vision for a revitalized economy and a new social order.Trade Reviewstimulating and wide-ranging new study...the real interest in Nolan's study lies less in her discussion of production itself than in the issue of social engineering and the creation of the 'rational family * German History *

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Book SynopsisWhen Barbara Hanawalt''s acclaimed history The Ties That Bound first appeared, it was hailed for its unprecedented research and vivid re-creation of medieval life. David Levine, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Hanawalt''s book as stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides and he concluded that one comes away from this stimulating book with the same sense of wonder that Thomas Hardy''s Angel Clare felt [:] ''The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.'' Now, in Growing Up in Medieval London, Hanawalt again reveals the larger, fuller, more dramatic life of the common people, in this instance, the lives of children in London. Bringing together a wealth of evidence drawn from court records, literary sources, and books of advice, Hanawalt weaves a rich tapestry of the life of London youth during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Much of what she finds is eye opening. She shows for instaTrade Review`densely informative, fluid, and often charming study ... exemplary scholarship that blends traditional painstaking research with contemporary approaches and understanding Kirkus Reviews'Hanawalt skillfully transforms her archival data into a textured, vivid history of youthful experience ... a highly significant contribution to the study of childhood in general as well as an important exploration of a medieval urban culture which collectively exhibited 'growing concern about children and adolescents'.' Marilynn Desmond, History Workshop Journal, Vol 37, Spring 1994the book contains a mass of extremely useful material on the demography, affective relations and household economy of the medieval London family * History Today June 1995 *lively and vigorous survey which justifies her subtitle * D.M. Palliser, The Historical Association 1996 *her book leaves a vivid collection of images of that almost irrecoverable past * Gervase Rosser, St Catherine's College, Oxford, EHR Nov. 96 *

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Book SynopsisDrawing on newly-opened Soviet archives, especially the letters of complaint and petition with which peasants deluged the Soviet authorities in the 1930s, Stalin''s Peasants analyses peasants'' strategies of resistance and survival in the new world of the collectivized village. Stalin''s Peasants is a story of struggle between transformationally-minded Communists and traditionally-minded peasants over the terms of collectivization: a struggle of opposing practices, not a struggle in which either side clearly articulated its position. But it is also a story about the impact of collectivization on the internal social relations and culture of the village, exploring questions of authority and leadership, feuds, denunciations, rumors, and changes in religious observance. For the first time, it is possible to see the real people behind the facade of the Potemkin village created by Soviet propagandists. In the Potemkin village, happy peasants clustered around a kolkhoz (collective farm) tractTrade Reviewwell-researched and richly detailed ... It adds a great deal of new information on rural conditions and attitudes in the 1930s. No other work comes close to it in recounting the tragedy of collectivization from the peasant's point of view. * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book Synopsis''British propoganda brought America to the brink of war, and left it to the Japanese and Hitler to finish the job.'' So concludes Nicholas Cull in this absorbing study of how the United States was transformed from isolation to belligerence in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. From the moment it realized that all was lost without American aid, the British Government employed a host pf persuasive tactics to draw the U. S. to its rescue. With the help of talents as varied as those of matinee idol Leslie Howard, Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin and society photographer Cecil Beaton, no section of America remained untouched and no method - from Secret Service intrigue to the publication of horrifying pictures of Nazi attrocities - remained untried. A fascinating story of how a foreign country promoted America''s involvement in its greatest war, Selling War will appeal to all those interested in the modern cultural and political history of Britain in the twentieth century and WorTrade ReviewCull records in fascinating detail the activities of a small group of dedicated individuals who coalesced around what became the New York-based British Information Services. * Anthony G. Pazzanita, Journal of Strategic Studies *A major study of Britain's potent efforts to get a reluctant United States to fight. * International Herald Tribune *A brilliant original study * Donald Cameron Watt, The Independent *An excellent account of the influence of British propaganda in leading America from neutrality in 1939 to intervention in World War II in 1941 ... The book is extremely well-written, and it is full of perceptive insights into the formation of the wartime Anglo-American special relationship. * American Studies in Europe *Working from an impressive array of sources including interviews and, unusually, Canadian archives, Nicholas Cull...makes a quite convincing case for strong British influence in the direction of U.S. foreign policy between 1939 and 1941...By adopting an all-encompassing and yet detailed approach to the topic, Cull has bridged a serious gap in academic knowledge. * History *exhaustively researched and well-written book ... His study leaves virtually no significant question either unraised or unanswered. A particularly enlightening and definitive work. Cull possesses exceptional talent as a historian, and he does great credit to Taylor, under whose guidance this study was originally undertaken as a Ph.D. thesis at Leeds University. * Robert Cole, Utah State University, American Historical Review, June 1996 *magnificent ... Using an impressive range of sources from both sides of the Atlantic, including interviews with many of the most prominent surviving actors involved, Cull traces the parallel development of British propaganda towards the United States ... This is populist history, a readable story elegantly written. A highly recommended book which contributes to a more rounded history of alliance relationships in World War II, and serves as a useful prelude to a consideration of Anglo-American propaganda during the Cold War. * Gary D. Rawnsley, University of Nottingham, Intelligence & National Security, Vol. 12, No. 2, April '97 *

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Book SynopsisA study of Elizabeth I which focuses on her difficulty in building up power in a patriarchal society. The author uses literary and historical examination of three crises in her reign to trace the queen's struggle to retain control over the iconography of both her physical self and her political domain.Trade Review`impressively researched ... a book with many good things in it, and the introduction especially is a lucid critique of and response to work in the field' Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisA Common Woman in medieval England was a prostitute, distinguished as such less for taking money for sex than for belonging to all men in common. Karras's book tells the story of these women, their experiences, relations, and treatment under the law, and concludes that prostitution was central to the medieval understanding of feminity.Trade ReviewThis is a useful and perceptive addition to the ever growing collection of works on medieval sexuality. * Corinne Saunders, Medium Aevum. *Karras s style is approachable and pleasingly uncluttered by theoretical vocabulary; her conclusions are both sensible and sensitive. * Corinne Saunders, Medium Aevum. *this is an admirable academic study, the product of careful research over years. * The Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisRoaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlars and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as asocials, harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution has been overlooked or distorted.In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents - many never before used - from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Lewy traces the escalating vilification of the Gypsies as the Nazis insigated a widespread crackdown on the work-shy and itinerants. But he shows that Nazi policy towards Gypsies was confused and changeable. At first, local officials persecuted Gypsies, and those who behaved in Gypsy-like fashion, for allegedlTrade Review"Lewy's study is an extremely important addition to the study of the persecution of the Gypsies during the Nazi period, a subject that has been little researched until now...Lewy's meticulously researched and methodically presented study is based on the study of primary documents in archives and in various governmental agencies. The book includes some photos and reproductions of documents and an extensive bibliography."--Multicultural Review "Guenter Lewy's The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies is an outstanding achievement. It will become the standard work on the subject. It documents and analyses an aspect of Nazi criminality that hasn't received sufficient attention and corrects some unfounded statements. It is a work of great compassion and exemplary scholarship."--Saul Friedlander, Department of History, Tel Aviv University and University of California, Los Angeles "Lewy's account of Nazi measures against the powerless Gypsies is unsurpassed in the English language. It tells a story in painstaking, footnoted detail that is totally bizarre. This book is a platform for much reflection."--Raul Hilber, author of The Destruction of the European Jews "In his level-headed way Guenter Lewy challenges many stereotypes about the Gypsies, exploring their culture including their 'ritual purity'. He also argues that despite all Nazi crimes against them the Third Reich's policy towards them lacked the single-mindedness of its murderous assault on the Jews. Meticulously researched, this book is innovative and courageous in its conclusions."--Klemens von Klemperer, Department of History, Smith College "A moving account of the fate of a small people caught in a maelstrom."--Kirkus "The tragic story of the Gypsies during Nazi Germany is presented in this comprehensive volume, which provides details on the fates of individuals and families...Lewy contradicts existing scholarship in showing that however much they were persecuted, there was no general program of extermination that was comparable to the 'final solution' of the Jews."--The Topeka Capital-Journal "In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Lewy...draws upon thousands of documents--never before used--from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime."--Gadfly Online "The sterling value of Mr. Lewy's book rests on his research of the available sources including 29 German and Austrian archives at federal and other levels...These...give the book the air of social history at its soberest but best"--Washington Times "Lewy has written a major work on the Nazi persecution of the Gypsies which is accessible to the general reader as well as to scholars."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Based on solid archival sources, this should become the standard work on the subject."--Frederic Krome, Library Journal "A startling new interpretion of the Nazi policy toward the Gypsies. Lewy argues that in contrast to the Final Solution of the 'Jewish Question', the Nazis had no comparable plan to exterminate the Gypsies. And when the latter were sent to the concentration camps for extermination, it was not solely because of their biological existence, like the Jews, but because their wandering way of life challenged the social and cultural construct of the Third Reich...His theory may be controversial, but he argues his case carefully."--Publisher's Weekly "[E]specially welcome. Mr. Lewy's account id the most comprehensive treatment of the subject in English to date."--Tom Gross, Wall Street Journal "A reasoned, academic overview of the often historically neglected Nazi persecution of the gypsies. The book is very accessible to the general reader, filled with poignant details of individual and community struggles with the growing Nazi terror."--ForeWord "Our understanding about the persecution of the Gypsies by the Nazis has been fairly limited until now. To date, there has been only one work on the subject in English and it is highly inadequate. Part of the reason for this paucity of information is that there were few Gypsy intellectuals, and not one Gypsy was called to testify at any of the tribunals that followed the war. Moreover, many of the experiences in the camps...violated a number of Gypsy tabus so that the survivors were reluctant to discuss what had transpired. Outsiders who sought to penetrate this wall of silence were generally rebuffed...Drawing on documentary material from twenty-nine Austrian and German archives, the National Archives and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum...,Lewy has written a groundbreaking work. By examining the decrees promulgated in Berlin and determining how these policies were implemented at the local level, he has provided a detailed account of the persecution of the Gypsies."--Together

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Book SynopsisThis collected volume, edited by Ron Suny and Terry Martin, shows how the Soviet state managed to create a multiethnic empire in its early years, from the end of the Russian Revolution to the end of World War II. Bringing together the newest research on a wide geographic range, from Russia to Central Asia, this volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Soviet history and politics.Trade ReviewA State of Nations gives a very useful overview of the actual situation of American studies on empire and nation-making from the late tsarist empire to the end of the Stalin era. * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsContributors Ronald Gregor Suny and Terry Martin: Introduction Part I: Empire and Nations 1: Ronald Grigor Suny: The Empire Strikes Out: Imperial Russia, "National" Identity, and Theories of Empire 2: Terry Martin: An Affirmative Action Empire: The Soviet Union as the Highest Form of Imperialism Part II: The Revolutionary Conjuncture 3: Joshua Sanborn: Family, Fraternity, and Nation-Building in Russia, 1905-1925 4: Peter Holquist: To Count, to Extract, and to Exterminate: Population Statistics and Population Politics in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia 5: Adeeb Khalid: Nationalizing the Revolution in Central Asia: The Transformation of Jadidism, 1917-1920 Part III: Forging "Nations" 6: Daniel E. Schafer: Local Politics and the Birth of the Republic of Bashkortostan, 1919-1920 7: Douglas Northrop: Nationalizing Backwardness: Gender, Empire, and Uzbek Identity Part IV: Stalinism and the Empire of Nations 8: Matt Payne: The Forge of the Kazakh Proletariat? The Turksib, Nativization, and Industrialization during Stalin's First Five-Year Plan 9: Peter A. Blitstein: Nation-Building or Russification? Obligatory Russian Instruction in the Soviet Non-Russian School, 1938-1953 10: Davd Brandenberger: "...It is Imperitive to Advance Russian Nationalism as the First Priority": Debates within the Stalinist Ideological Establishment, 1941-1945 Index

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Book SynopsisAlgeria sits at the crossroads of the Atlantic, European, Arab and African worlds. Yet, unlike the colonial wars in Korea and Vietnam, the Algerian war for independence has rarely been viewed as a primarily international conflict. Rather, prevailing accounts of the war interpret it as a domestic French crisis that was resolved when Charles de Gaulle granted Algeria independence. Yet, as Matthew Connelly here demonstrates, from the very start of the bloody eight year struggle, the Front de Liberation Nationale pursued self-rule on the world stage. Exploiting Cold War competition and regional rivalries, the spread of mass communications, and international and non-governmental organisations, such as human rights groups, foreign press conferences, and the United Nations, the rebels harnessed international forces to bring pressure to bear on the French government, which became obsessed with the conflict''s impact on its reputation. By winning rights and recognition from the global communityTrade Review... indispensable for any detailed study of the Algerian war. * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *This book must rate as one of the most important works not only on Algeria but also on decolonisation that has appeared in recent years. It is fully and meticulously researched, the chapter sequence admirably structured, and the writing, despite the complexities of the argument, clear and effective. * The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History *The book is well-written, thought provoking, thoroughly documented (67 pages of notes, 25 of bibliography), and altogether a welcome contribution to the literature on the Algerian war. Coming at a moment of re-examination of the war in France, with the recent confirmations of the practice of torture put forward by General Aussaresses and other participants in this great human drama, it is timely as well. * The Journal of North African Studies *... a well-researched and provocatively fresh account of one of the great episodes of twentieth-century decolonisation. * The Journal of North African Studies *Connelly offers a novel interpretation of the struggle between France and the Algerian nationalists, seeing it as a harbinger of the post-Cold War international system. * The Journal of North African Studies *[Connelly's] multiarchival research is impressive, especially his pioneering work in the recently available Algerian records. Above all, he has taken an innovative analytical approach, and engaging alternative to traditional diplomatic historiography. * The International History Review *

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Book SynopsisIrish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.Trade ReviewUppermost in the presentation of Doyle and Miller's findings has been the extensive and sensitive use of sources, many of them uncovered and made available for the first time, and this is one of the most remarkable features of this remarkable book. * Irish Studies Review *

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Book SynopsisThis brief textbook chronicles the political, economic, and social changes that revolutionized Europe during the nineteenth century. Designed to allow professors to assign supplemental readings of their choice, and including chronologies, supplemental reading lists, maps, and illustrations for ease of reference, this book is the perfect choice for any undergraduate course on 19th-Century European history.Table of ContentsPreface by Robin Winks Introduction Modernity Eighteenth-century Background The Enlightenment The French Revolution 1. Restoration and Revolution, 1815-1840 The Congress of Vienna, 1814-1815 The Persistence of Revolution, 1820-1823 Serbian and Greek Independence, 1804-1829 The Decembrist Revolt in Russia, 1825 The Revolutions of 1830 France National Independence in Belgium Nationalist Revolutions in Poland, Italy, and Germany Reform without Revolution: Great Britain The Counter Revolution in Russia The Lessons of 1830 2. Romanticism An Age of Feeling and Poetry, 1790-1830 Music Painting Architecture Religion and Philosophy Romantic Nationalism and the Return of the Past Melodrama and Popular Romanticism 3. The Industrial Age Begins Industrial Growth Precursors: Agriculture, Demography, and Markets Momentum Trains: The Ultimate Machine Why Britain? The Challenge of Industrialization France Germany Italy Austria The Balkans "Core-Periphery" Industrialization Russia 4. Social Change and Social Life Class Population Growth and Redistribution Rural Society Peasants Rural Elites Cities Workers Social Mobility Middle Classes Religious Minorities 5. Ideas and Ideologies Conservatism Liberalism Economic Liberalism Utilitarian Liberalism Humantarian Liberalism Toward Democracy: The Vote Socialism Utopian Socialism Karl Marx and Marxism Marxism after 1848 Apostles of Violence and Non-Violence Anarchists Christian Socialists and Christian Democrats Mass Political Movements 6. The Revolutions of 1848 Causes Nationalism in the 1840s Political Activism The Hungry Forties The Revolutions of 1848 France Italy Germany Austrian Empire Great Britain and Russia Consequences of 1848 7. Building the Modern Nation-State, 1850-1880 The Crimean War France: The Second Empire Unification of Italy and Germany Italy Germany The Paris Commune Germany: The Nation-State The Habsburg Empire Compromise and the Dual Monarchy The Nationality Question under the Dual Monarchy: Austria The Nationality Question under the Dual Monarchy: Hungary New States in Ottoman Europe Poles of Reform The Russian Empire and the Great Reforms Great Britain and the Cult of Progress 8. Realism, Reason, and Respectability The Economic Boom and Second Industrial Revolution France and Germany Russia and Italy Austria-Hungary Urbanization and Migration Respectability Darwinism, 1859-1871 Realism in the Arts Literature Music Painting Sculpture, Monument, Architecture Photography 9. The Age of Imperialism, 1870-1914 Motives for Imperialism Money Power Security Ideology British Rule in India Imperialism in East Asia The "Scramble for Africa" Conflicts in Africa After Partition Fashoda The Boer War Russia: Between Nation and Empire Imperialism at Home Mass Nationalism and Racism Economic and Political Consequences of Imperialism 10. Challenges to Modernity, 1890-1914 City Life: Fin de siécle and Belle Époque Growth of the Urban Population The Workers' Challenge The Women's Challenge Leisure and Mass Culture The Cultural Challenge: Modernism Painting Music The Other Arts Modern Scientific Theory: Discontinuity, Randomness, and Relativity Social Sciences 11. Political Polarization and Conflict, 1870-1914 Imperial Germany, 1880-1914 Great Britain: Protest on Three Fronts, 1867-1914 France: The Third Republic, 1870-1914 Italy after Unification, 1870-1914 Russian Reaction and Revolution, 1881-1914 The Revolution of 1905 The Austro-Hungarian Empire, 1867-1914 Conflicts among Nationalities The Road to War

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Book SynopsisCritics have long treated the most important intellectual movement of modern history--the Enlightenment--as if it took shape in the absence of opposition. In this groundbreaking new study, Darrin McMahon demonstrates that, on the contrary, contemporary resistance to the Enlightenment was a major cultural force, shaping and defining the Enlightenment itself from the moment of inception, while giving rise to an entirely new ideological phenomenon-what we have come to think of as the Right. McMahon skillfully examines the Counter-Enlightenment, showing that it was an extensive, international, and thoroughly modern affair.Trade Review"A well-written study...of an early culture war that will not be unfamiliar to us today -- a war of mutual simplification and caricature spiraling downward into suspicion and hate....Presents a useful genealogy of a brand of conservatism that remained influential through the mid-20th century, and, more pressingly, a rough template for a host of counter-Enlightenment ideas that are with us still today, from Cambridge to Kabul."--Wall Street Journal"[I]n this sophisticated deconstruction of conservative opposition to the Enlightenment, McMahon...reenvisions intellectual history from 1750 to 1830 as an ideological dialectic foreshadowing the culture wars of our own time and helping to define modernity."--Publishers Weekly"This well-researched and beautifully written study applies insights of recent Enlightenment historiography to the heretofore neglected area of the anti-philosophes." --Choice

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Book SynopsisAt its height, the Russian empire covered eleven time zones and stretched from Scandinavia to the Pacific Ocean. Arguing against the traditional historical view that Russia, surrounded and threatened by enemies, was always on the defensive, John P. LeDonne contends that Russia developed a long-term strategy not in response to immediate threats but in line with its own expansionist urges to control the Eurasian Heartland. LeDonne narrates how the government from Moscow and Petersburg expanded the empire by deploying its army as well as by extending its patronage to frontier societies in return for their serving the interests of the empire. He considers three theaters on which the Russians expanded: the Western (Baltic, Germany, Poland); the Southern (Ottoman and Persian Empires); and the Eastern (China, Siberia, Central Asia). In his analysis of military power, he weighs the role of geography and locale, as well as economic issues, in the evolution of a larger imperial strategy. Rather Trade ReviewA fascinating fusion of geopolitics and military history. * Jeremy Black, Times Higher Education *does contain some interesting ideas * Robert I Frost, The English Historical Review *his work alters the way we think about grand strategy and presents Russia more systematically than one normally expects; and for this achievement LeDonne deserves praise. * Ab Imperio *[a] detailed analytical exposition. * British Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies *

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Book SynopsisThe Augustan Succession is an historical commentary on Books 55-56 of Dio's Roman History. These books recount the last half of the reign of the Emperor Augustus, above all his orchestration of the first imperial succession. Addressed to both students and scholars, the new commentary is the first since the eighteenth century to offer full and fresh treatment of this segment of Dio's work.Trade ReviewAn excellent historical commentary... which will be of great help to all students and scholars who study the last twenty years of Augustus' reign. * Lukas de Blois, Gnomon *

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Book SynopsisFrances Finnegan traces the development of Ireland''s Magdalen Asylums - homes that were founded in the mid-nineteenth century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform. The inmates of these asylums were discouraged - and many forcibly prevented - from leaving,and sometimes were detained for life. Put to work without pay in adjoining laundries, these women were subject to penance, harsh discipline, enforced silence, and prayer. As the numbers of prostitutes began to dwindle, the church looked elsewhere for this free labor, targeting other ''fallen'' women such as unwed mothers and wayward or abused girls. Some were incarcerated simply for being ''too beautiful'', and therefore in danger of sin. Others were mentally retarded. Most of them were brought to the asylums by their families or priests, and many were forcibly prevented from leaving. Unbelievably, the last of these asylums was closed only in 1996. Drawing on hitherto unpublished material, Finnegan presents case historieTrade Review"The definitive account of the Magdalen Asylums..." --The Guardian"Frances Finnegan's pioneering works on poverty and prostitution in Victorian Britain are classics, and so is this beautifully-produced book, the eagerly-awaited fruit of two decades' research. This is what social history should be... This excellent book represents a coming of age for Irish women's history... This is 'nasty' women's history; as feminist historians we will have to find a way of understanding (without excusing) women who perpetrated and perpetuated cruelty and inhumanity." --Women's Studies"There is much fascinating detail, prompting questions about class, power, and religion... Frances Finnegan, provocatively sympathetic to her subject, has written a book that ascribes significance to lives that were carefully hidden" --Saothar, the Journal of the Irish Labour History Society

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Book SynopsisThe Medieval and Early Modern World tells the colorful story of a pivotal period in human history, an era that is crucial to understanding our own times. The expansion of trade and city life, the spread and reform of religious institutions, the rise of regional empires and local feudal regimes, and revolutionary advances in science and technology laid the foundation for the modern world. Told through the words and experiences of the people who lived it kings, queens, and commoners, priests and lay people, explorers, scientists, artists, and world travelers this is a world history for a new generation.

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