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Taylor & Francis British Politics
Book SynopsisFully updated and expanded, the second edition of this still compact text on British politics expertly analyses the major changes in British political life, placing them revealingly within the context of the evolution of British society from absolute monarchy to representative democracy.The author considers each of the major components of British politics in digestible chapters, such as the Monarchy and the House of Lords, the Commons, voting behaviour, parties and pressure groups, the prime minister and cabinet, devolution, local government, and foreign policy. The book includes two new chapters on the EU referendum and Brexit, and the extraordinary December 2019 election, as well as coverage of events such as the coronavirus pandemic, and the respective travails of the increasingly split two major political parties.This readable and comprehensive introduction will be of key interest to A-level students, undergraduates and those new to the study of British politics.Trade Review"So much changed in British politics between 2015 and the 2020s. Only a genuine expert could explain successfully its significance within a broader understanding of the Basics of that politics. Unsurprisingly Bill Jones is the author who has achieved that."Alan Ware, Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK"Comprehensive enough to tell students what they need to know yet concise enough to ensure it's a resource to which they will want to return to again and again, this update is a very welcome addition to introductory texts on the ever-changing politics of the UK."Tim Bale, Queen Mary University of London, UK"Bill Jones manages to cover an amazing amount of ground in this clear and succinct book. It works brilliantly as a compact introductory guide to the British political system, to its history and wider context, and to British politics today."Kevin Theakston, University of Leeds, UKTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. British Politics in Flux 2. The Evolution of Britain’s Political System Part II: The Political Context 3. Introductory Overview of the British Political System 4. The Social and Economic Context 5. Political Culture 6. The Flexible Unwritten Constitution 7. Political Ideas I: Up to New Labour 8. Political Ideas II: From New Labour to Brexit Part III: The Mediating Agencies 9. Political Parties 10. Pressure Groups 11. The Mass Media Part IV: The Legislature 12. The Monarchy 13. The House of Lords 14. The House of Commons 15. Voting Behaviour in the UK 16. The 2019 General Election Part V: The Executive 17. The Prime Minister and Cabinet 18. Ministers and Civil Servants 19. Policy-Making in British Government Part VI: Sub-national Government 20. Devolution 21. Local Government: Provenance and Decline 22. The Judiciary and Politics 23. The Extraordinary Brexit Saga 24. Britain and the World 25. Concluding Comments: An Uncertain Future
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Taylor & Francis The Silent Dictatorship The Politics of the
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1976 and based upon the extensive use of original archival material, this book provides a detailed account of the 2 years in which the German army enjoyed unprecedented power and influence. The rise of Hindenburg and Ludendorff is seen against the background of the failure of the army to win a decisive victory in the early stages of the war. The book provides insights into the dynamics of German militarism and imperialism, and is an important contribution to the discussion of the continuity of German history. Table of Contents1. The Appointment of Hindenburg and Ludendorff 2. The Organisation of the High Command 3. The Economic Policy of the High Command 4. First Steps in Foreign Policy 5. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare 6. The July Crisis 1917 and its Consequences 7. Brest Litovsk 8. The Treaty of Bucharest 9. The Baltic and Finland 10. Eastern Policy 1918 11. The High Command and the Armistice
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Taylor & Francis Governing Europe in a Globalizing World
Book SynopsisThe complex relationship between globalization and European integration was largely shaped in the 1970s. During this decade, globalization began, for the first time, to threaten Western European prosperity. Using an innovative approach, the book shows how western Europeans coped with the challenges of globalization during a time of deep economic crisis during the period 1973-1986. It examines the evolution of economic and social policies at the national, European and global level and expands beyond the European Economic Community (EEC) by analysing the various solutions envisaged by European decision-makers towards regulating globalization, including the creation of the Single Market. Based on extensively examined archives of transnational actors, international organizations and focusing on the governments of France, Germany and the UK, as well as the European Commission, the book uncovers deep, previously unknown, economic divisions among these actors and the roles they playTrade Review"This is an important and stimulating attempt to explain how Western Europe eventually chose a market orientated approach to European integration. It highlights the range of choices that faced Western Europe’s major governments during the 1973 to 1986 period. And it provides a persuasive account of how and why the key decisions were made." - N. Piers Ludlow, London School of Economics, UK."Warlouzet delivers a masterpiece dealing very successfully with the response by European policy-makers to the challenges of globalization during the 1970s and 1980s. The author offers a thoroughly multi-level analysis. He combines international as well as transnational history and presents comparative contemporary European integration history at his best. The study is highly recommendable." - Michael Gehler, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, University of Hildesheim/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria."Let me say from the outset: this book is deemed to become a classic and compulsory reading for any scholar in these three disciplines, like those written by the maestro [Alan Milward] [...] This book is both an original interpretative proposal and a newly documented synthesis of this crucial period, still considered in handbooks the dark ages of European integration. After reading this book I am convinced that this period was the bedrock of an epochal historical transformation, which has structurally marked European integration and still frames today the debate about its nature and objectives in the framework of globalization." - Sigfrido M. Ramirez Perez, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History."...Although Warlouzet is sometimes tempted to exaggerate the range of potential choices governments faced, in the end, his book proposes some clear answers. Governments freed up markets because they had little choice... Leaders turned to the EU to coordinate the shift not because European idealists persuaded them to do so but because it seemed the optimal way to commit one another to collective liberalization: the EU was large enough to be effective without being as diverse and unwieldy as global institutions..." - Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University, USA. Book Review in Foreign Affairs, May/June 2019 Issue.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Three Responses to the Shock of the Global2. A Social Regulation of Globalization3. Controlling Multinationals4. Organizing Global Markets5. Managing Decline in Traditional Manufacturing6. Creating European High-technology Champions7. National Financial Crisis and Monetary Cooperation8. The Rise of Competition Policy9. The New Institutional Arrangement to Regulate Globalization (1984-86)10. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisIn early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and became explicitly connected with a kind of knowledge available only to experts in the respective fields. With contributions by historians of art and historians of science, and with geographic coverage focusing on the Low Countries and their multiple connections to different parts of the world, this volume reframes recent scholarship on what the editors term âcultures of knowledge and discernmentâ in the early modern period. The collection is innovative in its focus on investigating types of knowledge linked to what was then called the âscienceâ (scientia) of art, to artistic expertise and connoisseurship, and to âsecrets of art and nature.âTable of ContentsTable of ContentsIllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Hidden ArtificesSven Dupré and Christine Göttler Part I: Sites of Discernment1 Transforming Nature into Art: Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) by Pieter Bruegel the ElderTine Luk Meganck2 Vulcan’s Forge: The Sphere of Art in Early Modern AntwerpChristine Göttler Part II: Artifices and Imitation3 Superb Craftsmanship in Antwerp: Baroque Goldsmiths’ Work in Competition with the Visual ArtsLorenz Seelig 4 The Veronica according to Zurbarán: Painting as Figura, and Image as VestigioFelipe Pereda 5 ‘The Various Natures of Middling Colours We May Learne of Painters’. Sir Kenelm Digby Looks at Rubens and Van DyckKarin Leonhard Part III: Secrets and Knowledge6 Oil Painting as a Workshop Secret: On Calumnies, Legends, and Critical InvestigationsOskar Bätschmann 7 Peiresc in the Parisian ‘Jewel House’ Peter N. Miller 8 Germanic Antiquity in Rembrandt’s CircleThijs Weststeijn Part IV: Mechanical Science and Technique9 Rembrandt and Painting as a Mechanical Science in Dutch Seventeenth-Century ArtJan Blanc10 From Mechanism to Technique: Diderot, Chardin, and the Practice of Painting Paul Taylor
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early English Queens 650850
Book SynopsisThis book offers the first dedicated and comprehensive examination of the lives of nearly thirty women known to occupy the office of queen in the English kingdoms between 650 and 850.The queens of early England are often shadowy figures in the historical record, beset by numerous issues which have largely confined them to the margins of history. Through careful analysis, the volume presents a ground-breaking appraisal of the role of queens in early England, and how their actions and identities shaped their practice of queenship. Organised thematically, it offers an overview of queens in many different roles, such as agents of Christianity, mothers, and peace-weavers. From high profile queens such as Æthelthryth of Ely and Cynethryth of Mercia, to the shadowy Leofrun of East Anglia and the nameless queen of Anna of East Anglia, the book engages with sources to advance fuller narratives about even the most obscure queens of the era.Aided by resources such as genealogicalTrade Review“The voiceless queens are the most poignant reminders of what happens when women are overshadowed by men and overlooked in the historical record. Wragg’s careful, painstaking research and analysis goes beyond conjecture and highlights the richness of these voiceless women. This book brings out of the shadows both the prominent and the voiceless queens and will be a valuable addition to the ever-growing library of all scholars of English history and queenship.”Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Christian Queens, 2. Queens as Mothers, 3. The Peaceweaver (freoðuwebbe): a Queenly Custom?, 4. The Voiceless Queens, 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The First World Empire Portugal War and Military
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive overview of the early modern military history of Portugal and its possessions in Africa, the Americas, and Asia from the perspective of the military revolution historiographical debate. The existence of a military revolution in the early modern period has been much debated in international historiography, and this volume fills a significant gap in its relation to the history of Portugal and its overseas empire. It examines different forms of military change in specifically Portuguese case studies but also adopts a global perspective through the analysis of different contexts and episodes in Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Contributors explore whether there is evidence of what could be defined as aspects of a military revolution or whether other explanatory models are needed to account for different forms of military change. In this way, it offers the reader a variety of perspectives that contribute to the debate over the applicability of the militaryTrade Review"No single volume can of course cover all aspects of Portuguese military history in Europe and overseas, but this book makes a valuable contribution to the field. Especially for a non-Lusophone audience, this is a very good first start to examine the military revolution debate in relation to the Portuguese case."Erik Odegard, Ler HistóriaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Fortifications and Military Revolution 1. Negotiating Early-Modernity in Azemmour, Morocco: Military Architecture in Transition 2. Early Modern Fortification: The Portuguese Experience and Engineer Education 3. Military Engineers, the Military Revolution, and the Defence of Portugal, 1640-1668 Part 2: Size of the Armies and the Rise of the Fiscal State 4. Army Size, State Expenditure, and Warfare Culture in Sixteenth-Century Portugal 5. Was there an Early Modern Military Revolution in Mainland Portugal? 6. “Small Government or Big Government”? Assessing State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil Part 3: Tradition and Innovation in Warfare 7. Transformation of Military Technology in Portugal: The Impact of the Iberian Union on Artillery 8. Portuguese Military Expeditions to Southeast Asia, 1597-1606 9. Reassessing Portuguese Military Superiority in Asia in the Sixteenth Century - the Case of Land Warfare Part 4: Cultural Exchange and Circulation of Military Knowledge 10. The Portuguese Conquest of Angola in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1575-1641). A Military Revolution in West Central Africa? 11. Suppliers, Knowledge Brokers and Brothers-in-arms. Portuguese Aspects of Military Innovation in Makassar 12. Military Innovation and Intrastate Warfare: Portuguese Artillery and Sieges During the Woukou Raids of the Mid-Sixteenth Century 13. The Military Revolution in Global History. East Asian Perspectives Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Revolutionary Ukraine 19172017
Book SynopsisThis book examines four dramatic periods that have shaped not only Ukrainian, but also Soviet and Russian history over the last hundred years: the revolutionary struggles of 1917-20, Stalin's second revolution of 1928-33, the mobilization of revolutionary nationalists during the Second World War, and the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14. The story is told from the perspective of insiders. It recovers the voice of Bolshevik historians who first described the 1917-21 revolution in Ukraine; citizens who were accused of nationalist conspiracies by Stalin; Galician newspapers that covered the 1933-34 famine; nationalists who fomented revolution in the 1940s; and participants in the Euromaidan protests and Revolution of 2013-14. In each case the narrative reflects current memory wars over these key moments in history.The discussion of these flashpoints in history in a balanced, insightful and illuminating. It introduces recent research findings and new archival materials, and Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Revolution, 1917-21 1. Repressed Memory: Bolshevik Accounts of the Ukrainian Revolution Part II: Stalin’s "Second Revolution," 1929-34 2. Fabrication of Nationalist Plots by the Secret Service in Ukraine, 1929-34 3. Ukrainization, Terror and Famine: Coverage in Lviv’s Dilo and the Nationalist Press of the 1930s 4. Call to Violence: Red Terror of 1918-22 and Literary Rhetoric of 1932-34 Part III: Nationalist Revolution, 1938-45 5. The Cult of Strength: Khmelnytskyi in the Literature of Ukrainian Nationalists Literature During the 1930s and 1940s 6. The War for Carpatho-Ukraine in 1938-39 and the Contemporary Retrospective 7. The Ukrainian Underground of the 1940s in Today’s Memory Wars Part IV: Euromaidan and War, 2013-17 8. Archival Revolution and Contested Memory: Changing Views of Stalin’s Rule in the Light of New Evidence 9. Ukrainian Intellectuals on the Euromaidan, Revolution and War with Russia: A Snapshot from 2015 10. Living with Ambiguities: Meanings of Nationalism in the Russian-Ukrainian War 11. The Landscape of Contemporary Memory
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Temples of Luxury
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Taylor & Francis Temples of Luxury
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) The Lions Share
Book SynopsisUpdated to incorporate a substantial new epilogue considering Brexit and its âimperialâ implications, the sixth edition of The Lionâs Share remains an essential introduction to British imperialism from its Victorian heyday to the present.Well-known for its vigorous and readable style, this book presents a broad narrative of events and explores a number of general themes, challenging more conventional and popular interpretations of British imperialism, as well as the simplistic âforâ and âagainstâ arguments put forward in todayâs âhistory warsâ. Bernard Porter sees imperialism as a symptom not of Britain's strength in the world, but of her decline, and he argues that the empire itself both aggravated and obscured deep-seated malaise in the British economy. This sixth edition includes a final epilogue that engages with what Brexit means for British Imperial History, and whether it represents an extension of or final conclusion to Britainâs Imperial Career. In so doing, the book offers readers a thorough understanding of the history of British imperialism and its heritage, extending right into the present day.Supported by maps, images and an updated chronology, The Lionâs Share is the perfect resource for both students and those interested in British and Imperial History from the Victorian era to the modern day.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. An empire in all but name: the mid-nineteenth century 3. Shifts and expedients: 1857–75 4. Conquests forced on us: 1875–90 5. Struggles for existence: 1890 6. A limited area of heather alight: 1890–1905 7. An essential compromise: 1905–14 8. Everything becomes fluid: 1914–20 9. Difficult times: 1920–39 10. Moving quickly: 1939–70 11. A sudden shift: 1970–95 12. Coming out of the closet: circa 2000 13. After-image 14. Brexit and the Empire
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Taylor & Francis Demonology and WitchHunting in Early Modern
Book SynopsisDemonology â the intellectual study of demons and their powers â contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologistsâ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judgesâ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures.The bookâs chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting.Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Demonology and Witch-Trials in Dialogue 1. Demonology and the Relevance of the Witches’ Confessions 2. The Metamorphoses of the Anti-Witchcraft Treatise Errores Gazariorum (15th Century) 3. "I Confess that I Have Been Ignorant:" How the Malleus Maleficarum Changed the Universe of a Cleric at the End of the Fifteenth Century 4. "In the Body:" The Canon Episcopi, Andrea Alciati, and Gianfrancesco Pico’s Humanized Demons 5. French Demonology in an English Village: The St Osyth Experiment of 1582 6. English Witchcraft Pamphlets and the Popular Demonic 7. Witches’ Flight in Scottish Demonology 8. Demonology and Scepticism in Early Modern France: Bodin and Montaigne 9. Judge and Demonologist: Revisiting the Impact of Nicolas Rémy on the Lorraine Witch Trials 10. Demonological Texts, Judicial Procedure, and the Spread of Ideas About Witchcraft in Early Modern Rothenburg ob der Tauber 11. To Beat a Glass Drum: The Transmission of Popular Notions of Demonology in Denmark and Germany 12. "He Promised Her So Many Things:" Witches, Sabbats, and Devils in Early Modern Denmark 13. Board Games, Dancing, and Lost Shoes: Ideas about Witches’ Gatherings in the Finnmark Witchcraft Trials 14. What Did a Witch-Hunter in Finland Know About Demonology? 15. The Guardian of Hell: Popular Demonology, Exorcism, and Mysticism in Baroque Spain 16. Interpreting Children’s Blåkulla Stories in Sweden (1675) 17. Connecting Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Streets of Splendor
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the unresolved question of how urban retailing and consumption changed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It replaces the usual focus on just one (type of) shopping institution with that of the urban shopping landscape in its entirety. Based on secondary sources for comparable cities and an in-depth empirical analysis of primary sources for Brussels, the author demonstrates that the unbridled commercialisation of cities in the nineteenth century cannot be understood without taking into account the entirety of the shopping landscape. Through a quantitative and qualitative analysis, she shows how and why the culture and spaces of shopping evolved. Table of ContentsContents;List of Figures ;List of Maps ;List of Tables ;Acknowledgements ;List of Abbreviations;Setting up shop. Introduction;1 Bursting blossoms. Brussels shops & shopping, 1830s;Late bloom;Portrait of a town;Sequences and dots;The shop and its keeper;Around the corner; 2 Shopping in style. The Galeries Saint-Hubert and the Chaussée;Brussels when it sizzles;A site of modernity;hopping in ‘space’;Close encounters;Conclusion: a site of modernity? ;3 Cleaning house. Markets and halls;Chronicle of a demise foretold?; Under pressure;The best laid plans;Exploring shadows;Conclusion: divide and conquer; 4 Bigger and brighter. Downtown and the department store;Noah’s ark;Department stores in Brussels;Location, location, location;A frenzy for more;Conclusion: shopping on speed; 5 Shopping Galore. Brussels shops & shopping, 1910s;Full bloom;Portrait of a city: Belle Epoque Brussels;Density and diversity;Conclusion: shopping galore; 6 Closing time. Conclusion;Bibliography ;Appendix 1 ; Appendix 2; Index
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Taylor & Francis Claudius
Book SynopsisClaudius became emperor after the assassination of Caligula, and was deified by his successor Nero in AD 54. Opinions of him have varied greatly over succeeding centuries, but he has mostly been caricatured as a reluctant emperor, hampered by a speech impediment, who preferred reading to ruling.Barbara Levick's authoritative study reassesses the reign of Claudius, examining his political objectives and activities within the constitutional, political, social and economic development of Rome. Out of Levick's critical scrutiny of the literary, archaeological and epigraphic sources emerges a different Claudius - an intelligent politician, ruthlessly determined to secure his position as ruler.Now updated to take account of recent scholarship, Claudius remains essential reading for students and historians of the early Roman Empire.Trade Review"Levick’s work on Claudius continues to make a valuable contribution to the field and offers not just a strong foundation of information for those interested in Claudius, but also worthwhile material for anyone studying the Julio-Claudians or the Roman world of the first century CE." - Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface1. Principate and Dynasty 2. Education3. Unfit for a public career?4. Accession 5. Princeps and Imperator 6. Establishment of the Court: Messalina7. The Dominance of Agrippina8. Imperial Policies?9. Senate and Knights: Claudius and the Aristocracy10.The People of Rome and Italy11. Legislation, Justice, and Society12. Finance and the Economy13. Claudius’ Invasion of Britain 14. Warfare on Three Continents 15. Claudius and his Provincial Subjects16. Aftermath: Claudius in Literature and HistoryReferences and NotesConcordance BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the multifaceted history of the domestic sphere in Europe from the Age of Reformation to the emergence of modern society. By focusing on daily practice, interaction and social relations, it shows continuities and social change in European history from an interior perspective.The Routledge History of the Domestic Sphere in Europe contains a variety of approaches from different regions that each pose a challenge to commonplace views such as the emergence of confessional cultures, of private life, and of separate spheres of men and women. By analyzing a plethora of manifold sources including diaries, court records, paintings and domestic advice literature, this volume provides an overview of the domestic sphere as a location of work and consumption, conflict and cooperation, emotions and intimacy, and devotion and education. The book sheds light on changing relations between spouses, parents and children, masters and servants or apprentices, and humansTable of ContentsIntroduction: continuities and transformations in the history of the domestic sphere Part 1: Language and discourse 1. Domestic terminologies: house, household, family 2. Domestic advice literature: an entangled history? Part 2: Legal settings and domestic hierarchies 3. Spouses and the competition for wealth 4. Constructing and challenging dependence: masters and servants Part 3: The domestic sphere as space of work 5. Paid and unpaid work 6. Lower state servants and home office work 7. Scholarly households Part 4: Leisure and sociability 8. Leisure and the household 9. Domestic sociability and the emergence of the bürgertum Part 5: Consumption and material culture 10. Gender and consumption in the household economy 11. Making the material home: consumption, craft and gender Part 6: Domestic conflict and violence 12. Sexual violence and domesticity 13. Managing conflicts and making peace Part 7: Emotions and intimacy 14. A space of emotions 15. Sexuality and intimacy Part 8: Child-rearing and education 16. Parental care and the emergence of a new pedagogical discourse 17. Learning at home: class, religion, gender and family Part 9: Privacy and the emergence of separate spheres? 18. From open house to privacy? Domestic life from the perspective of diaries 19. Gender implications of the separate spheres Part 10: Semi-public spaces 20. The urban Balkan home: the flower garden as a young girl’s place 21. Negotiating intermediate spaces: caretakers, doormen and concierges Part 11: The domestic sphere as a religious space 22. Shaping confessional identities in the urban home 23. Religion and domesticity Part 12: Health and food preparation 24. The domestic culture of health 25. Food preparation and meals in a gendered perspective Part 13: Animals and plants 26. Dogs as domestic animals 27. Houseplants and the invention of indoor gardening Part 14: Images and identity constructs 28. Dutch paintings of interiors and the invention of a bourgeois identity 29. The national house and home in the Polish literature and culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urbanizing Nature
Book SynopsisWhat do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity's interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be urbanizing: turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as natural disaster. Confronting insights derived from Environmental History, Science and Technology Studies or Political Ecology, Urbanizing Nature aims to counter teleological perspectives on the birth of modern urban nature as a uniform and linear process, showing how new technological schemes, new actors and new definitions of nature emerged in cities from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction Introduction: Did Cities Change Nature? A Long-Term Perspective Part II: Nature into Urban Hinterlands 1. Long-Term Transitions, Urban Imprint and the Construction of Hinterlands 2. Concepts of Urban Agency and the Transformation of Urban Hinterlands: The Case of Berlin, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries 3. A Place in Its Own Right: The Rural-Urban Fringe of Helsinki from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Present Part III: Nature as Urban Resource 4. Urbanizing Water: Looking Beyond the Transition to Water Modernity in the Cities of the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to Nineteenth Centuries 5. Cities Hiding the Forests: Wood Supply, Hinterlands and Urban Agency in the Southern Low Countries, Thirteenth to Eighteenth Centuries 6. Energizing European Cities: From Wood Provision to Solar Panels – Providing Energy for Urban Demand, 1800-2000 7. Re-Use and Recycling in Western European Cities Part IV: Nature as Urban Challenge 8. Hydraulic Experts and the Challenges of Water in Early Modern Times: European Colonial Cities Compared 9. Stockholm’s Changing Waterscape: A Long-term Perspective on a City and Its Flowing Water 10. Air Pollution as Urban Problem in France, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the 1970s Part V: Visions of Urban Nature 11. Urban Fringes: Conquering Riversides and Lakeshores in the Nineteenth Century – Examples from Austrian and Swiss Medium-Sized Cities 12. Twentieth Century Wastescapes: Cities, Consumers, and Their Dumping Grounds 13. The Roots of the Sustainable City: The Visible Waters of the City in Modern Mainz and Wiesbaden Part VI: Concluding Essay 14. Beyond Cities, Beyond Nature: Building a European Urban Stratum
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom
Book SynopsisShipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at this major industry under private enterprise, then under state control, and finally back in private hands.The chapters trace the evolution of public policy regarding shipbuilding, ship repair, and large marine engine building through the tenures of radically different Labour and Conservative governments, and through the response of the board of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, trade unions, and local management also. The book benefits from comprehensive archival research and interviews from the 1990s with leading players in the industry, as well as politicians, shipbuilders, trade union leaders, and senior civil servants.This authoritative monograph is a valuable resource for advanced students and researchers across the fields of business history, economic history, industrial history, labour history, maritime Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. British shipbuilding under the Labour government, 1966–70 2. British shipbuilding under the Conservative government, 1970–74 3. The long road to nationalisation of shipbuilding under two Labour governments, 1974–77 4. British Shipbuilders: the first two years under a Labour government 5. British Shipbuilders under the Conservative government, 1979–83 6. Privatisation of British Shipbuilders under two Conservative governments, 1983–90 Conclusions Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Legacies of an Imperial City
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past has changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries' shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.At its 1976 opening, the Museum of London differed from other museums in its treatment of empire and colonialism as central to its galleries. In response to the public's evolving social and political attitudes, the museum's 19931994 The Peopling of London' exhibition marked a new approach in creating inclusive displays, which explore the impact of immigration and multiculturalism on British history. Through photos, planning documents, and archival research, this book analyses museums' role in enacting change in the public's understanding of history, and this book is the first to critically engage with the Museum of London's theme of empire, particularly in consideration of recent exhibitions.Table of ContentsPart 1: The Origin Story 1826-1976 1. Introduction: Museums and Empire 2. Prelude to the Museum of London, its origins in the Guildhall and London Museums 1826-1976 3. Empire at the Museum of London, 1976 Part 2: The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 4. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1989-1993 Concept and Approach 5. The ‘Peopling of London’ 1993-1994 Exhibition and Displays 6. The ‘Peopling of London’ Catalogue and Educational Resources Part 3: Reception and Legacy of ‘Peopling’ 1994-2007 7. Understanding Visitor Responses 8. The Spirit of ‘Peopling’ 1993-2007, Legacies and Echoes 9. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisAn exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866â1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME1 To Be Connected: Perspectives on Autonomy and Risk from the Electric Age 7MANU LUKSCH AND MUKUL PATEL2 Cyborg Imperium, c. 1900 48DUNCAN BELL3 Universal Visual Languages in the Age of Telegraphy 71GRACE BROCKINGTON4 Plotting Passengers at a Metropolitan Station: Paddington in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 96NICOLA K IRKBY5 ‘Some Sentient Creature’. The Cable Body and the Body of Labour: Robert Dudley, William Howard Russell and the 1865 Voyage of the Great Eastern 114KATE FLINT6 Signal Markings in Victorian Miscellanies: Noise and Signal from the Idyll to Aestheticism 137CAROLINE ARSCOTT AND CLARE PETTITT7 ‘Recoding the Sea’: Uneven and Combined Capitalism in the Work of Allan Sekula (Telegraph Version) 161GAIL DAY AND STEVE EDWARDS8 random international 189INTERVIEW BY ANNE CHAPMAN AND NATALIE HUME
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WW Norton & Co The Seine
Book SynopsisA vibrant, intimate tour of the Seine.Trade Review"I learned so much from this book. Elaine Sciolino is a graceful, companionable writer, someone who speaks about France in the most enjoyably American way... [She] proceeds from colorful detail to revealing detail, gently informing even as she entertains... Sciolino has laid one more beautiful and amusing wreath on the altar of the City of Light." -- Edmund White - The New York Times"A soulful, transformative voyage along the body of water that defines the City of Light. Elaine Sciolino is the perfect guide to the world’s most romantic river." -- Lauren Collins - The New Yorker
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Literary Texts and the Greek Historian
Book SynopsisOur knowledge of Greek history rests largely on literary texts - not merely historians (especially Herodotus, Thucylides and Xenephon), but also tragedies, comedies, speeches, biographies and philosophical works. These texts are themselves among the most skilled and highly wrought productions of a brilliant rhetorical culture. How is the historian to use them? This book addresses this problem by taking a series of extended test-cases, and discussing how we should and should not try to exploit the texts. In some instances we can investigate ''what really happened'', and the ways in which the texts manipulate, remould, or colour it according to their own rhetorical strategies; in others the most illuminating aspect may be those strategies themselves, and what they tell us about the culture - how it figured questions of sex and gender, politics, citizenship and the city, the law and the courts and how wars happen. Literary Texts and the Greek Historian concentrates on Athens in the secondTable of ContentsChapter 1 A culture of rhetoric; Chapter 2 Rhetoric and history (415 BC); Chapter 3 How far would they go? Plutarch on Nicias and Alcibiades; Chapter 4 Rhetoric and history II; Chapter 5 Explaining the war; Chapter 6 Thucydides’ speeches; Chapter 7 ‘You cannot be serious’; Chapter 8 Aristophanes’ Acharnians (425 BC); Chapter 9 Tragedy and ideology; Chapter 10 Lysistrata and others; Chapter 11 Conclusions;
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Women Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over womenâs roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by womenâs religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.Trade Review'This volume makes an excellent contribution to the field of religious and gender history, properly marking the revival of interest in religion within British cultural and social history that has been quietly developing over the past decade ... as a whole this book provides exactly what the field needs: a discussion of British Christianity which explores women's agency in their encounter with Christian discourses; which offers an interrogation of the categories of the sacred and the secular; and which examines the profound connections between (expansive and flexible) Christian cultures and the histories of sexuality, reform, feminism, the family and domesticity.' – Reviews in History'Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940, should be read and used by anyone interested in nineteenth-century British women's history.' – Anglican and Episcopal History'Morgan and deVries's collection...rethinks popular trends and assumptions in the scholarship of gender studies and religion, demanding a high level of intellectual rigor regarding topics that often encourage glib assumptions and simple dichotomies. Anyone doing work on gender and religion would profit from reading this book.' – Victorian Studies Table of ContentsIntroduction Sue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries 1. Is there a Bible in the house? Gender, Religion and Family Culture Sarah Williams 2 Women, Writing and the Creation of Theological Cultures Julie Melnyk 3 Women and Philanthropic Cultures Susan Mumm 4 Women, religious ministry and female institution-building Carmen Mangion 5 ‘With fear and trembling’: women, preaching and spiritual authority Pamela Walker 6 Professionalising their faith: Women, religion and the cultures of mission and empire Rhonda Semple 7 Women, religion and reform Clare Midgley 8 ‘The Word Made Flesh’: Women, Religion and Sexual Cultures Sue Morgan 9 More than Paradoxes to Offer: Feminism, History and Religious Cultures Jacqueline DeVries 10 Modernity, Heterodoxy and the Transformation of Religious Cultures Joy Dixon Afterword: Women, Gender and Religion in post-1940 Britain Sue Morgan and Jacqueline DeVries Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age
Book SynopsisIt is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed many aspects of her wide learning to present a clear, penetrating, and, above all, accessible survey of the occult movements of the Renaissance, highlighting the work of John Dee, Giordano Bruno, and other key esoteric figures. The book is invaluable in illuminating the relationship between occultism and Renaissance thought, which in turn had a profound impact on the rise of science in the seventeenth century. Stunningly written and highly engaging, Yates'' masterpiece is a must-read for anyone interested in the occult tradition.Trade Review'Among those who have explored the intellectual world of the sixteenth century, no one can rival Frances Yates. Wherever she looks, she illuminates . . . No one has done more than she to recreate, from unexpected material, the intellectual life of past ages.' – Hugh Trevor-Roper'A welcome new edition of this classic work ...' – NetworkTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Preface, Introduction, PART I The Occult Philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, PART II The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, PART III The Occult Philosophy and Rosicrucianism and Puritanism. The Return of the Jews to England, Epilogue, Notes, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region. Subjects covered include: Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire the impact of the region''s powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours rival concepts of ''Central'' and ''Eastern'' Europe the experience and consequences of the two World Wars varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s post-Communist democratization and marketization the eastward enlargement of the EU. A History of Eastern Europe now includes two new chronologies one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe anTable of ContentsPart 1: The Balkan Peninsula from Graeco-Roman Times to the First World War Part 2: East Central Europe from the Roman Period to the First World War Part 3: From National Self-determination to Fascism and the Holocaust: the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1918–45 Part 4: In the Shadow of Yalta: The Communist-Dominated Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945–89 Part 5: Post-Communist Transformations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook for Classical Research
Book SynopsisOne of the glories of the Greco-Roman classics is the opportunity that they give us to consider a great culture in its entirety; but our ability to do that depends on our ability to work comfortably with very varied fields of scholarship. The Handbook for Classical Research offers guidance to students needing to learn more about the different fields and subfields of classical research, and its methods and resources. The book is divided into 7 parts: The Basics, Language, The Traditional Fields, The Physical Remains, The Written Word, The Classics and Related Disciplines, The Classics since Antiquity. Topics covered range from history and literature, lexicography and linguistics, epigraphy and palaeography, to archaeology and numismatics, and the study and reception of the classics. Guidance is given not only to read, for example, an archaeological or papyrological report, but also on how to find such sources when they are relevant to research. Concentrating onTrade Review'Many sections represent the sort of avuncular guidance one might expect from a thesis advisor, with helpful summaries such as "How Laws Were Made in Ancient Rome" and "Reading a Published Papyrus." Libraries will have a hard time deciding whether this handbook belongs in the reference collection, on reserve as a course textbook, or as part of the circulating collection. Institutions supporting programs in classical studies may want copies in all three locations. Summing Up: Essential. Undergraduate classics majors, graduate students, and faculty/researchers.' – Choice"Schaps has written a remarkable book ...there is something in here to benefit anybody, from beginners to seasoned researchers... [it] is truly a guidebook, as his desire is to produce "an orientation" (xiv) that will lay out the basics of a given field and then point people to the right resources for further study… this book thus represents a significant achievement, one that will likely find a regular place on researchers’ shelves and in graduate seminars for years to come." – Mark Thorne, Bryn Mawr Classical Review Table of ContentsPart 1: The Basics 1. The Nature of the Field 2. The Stages of Research 3. Assembling a Bibliography 4. What are your Sources? 5. Book Reviews Part 2: Language 6. Lexicography 7. Grammar 8. Language and Linguistics 9. Using Classical Texts Part 3: The Traditional Fields 10. Reading and Understanding Literature 11. Oratory and Rhetoric 12. Philosophy 13. History Part 4: The Physical Remains 14. Archaeology 15. Mycenaean Studies 16. Numismatics Part 5: The Written Word 17. Epigraphy 18. Papyrology 19. Palaeography 20. Editing Classical Texts Part 5: The Classics and Related Disciplines 21. Art 22. Music and Dance 23. Science and Technology 24. Ancient Religion and Mythology 25. Law 26. Sociology, Anthropology, Economics and Psychology Part 7: The Classics Since Antiquity 27. The Classical Tradition and Classical Reception 28. History of Classical Scholarship Chapter 29. Reconstructing the Ancient World 30. Translation
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Taylor & Francis The Weimar Republic Questions and Analysis in
Book SynopsisThe Weimar Republic provides a comprehensive introduction to Germany in the aftermath of the First World War. Exploring themes including the formation of the Republic, the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the Republicâs problems and achievements, it is an invaluable study guide.This second edition includes two new chapters: the first looks at the Chancellors and Presidents of the Republic, the second assesses the career of Gustav Stresemann. It also contains a timeline and updated analysis to enhance readersâ understanding of events and controversies. Integrating historical interpretation, exam-style questions, and evaluation of sources, this book provides students with a clear understanding and a foundation for examination success.Trade Review'Lee's books are a 'must have' in the toolkit of students and teachers of Advanced courses in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.' – Mike McCabe, S.A.T.H. Resources ReviewTable of Contents1. The German Revolution, 1918–19 2. Versailles and its Impact 3. The Constitution and Political System, 1919–33 4. Chancellors and Presidents of the Republic, 1918–33 5. Crisis and Recovery, 1920–3 6. A Period of Stability, 1924–9? 7. Foreign Policy, 1919-33 8. Gustav Stresemann: An Assessment 9. Social and Cultural Achievements, 1918–33 10. Crisis and Collapse, 1929–33
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) A History of the Roman World
Book SynopsisWith a new foreword by Tim CornellCan anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?' Polybius, Greek HistorianThe city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard's definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar genius of the Roman people, their predilection for law and order and their powers of organization and administration, all of which created a confederation the like of which the Greek World had never seen. He explores the political, military, economic and social history of this incredible empire, showing how the Romans realized an ecumenical ideal and embraced Western Civilization within one political system. Celebrated for iTable of ContentsList of Maps Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to first edition Preface to second edition Preface to third edition Preface to fourth edition Introduction Part 1 Rome and Italy 1. The Land and Its Peoples 2. Regal Rome 3. The New Republic and the Struggle of the Orders 4. The Roman Republic and Its Neighbours 5. The Union of The Orders and The Constitution 6. Rome's Conquest and Organization of Italy Part 2 Rome and Carthage 7. The First Struggle 8. The Entr'acte 9. Hannibal's Offensive and Rome's Defensive 10. Scipio and Rome's Offensive Part 3 Rome and the Mediterranean 11. Rome and Greece 12. Rome and Antiochus 13. Rome and the Eastern Mediterranean 14. Rome, Italy and the Western Mediterranean 15. Roman Policy and the Government Part 4 Roman Life and Culture 16. Economic and Social Organization 17. Literature and Art 18. Roman Religion 19. Sources and Authorities Chronological Table Select Bibliography Abbreviations Notes Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Disease Health Care and Government in Late
Book SynopsisThis book addresses fundamental issues about the last decades of Tsarist Russia, exploring the social, economic and political impact of successive outbreaks of cholera and the politics of public health policy. It makes a significant contribution to current debates about how far and how successfully modernisation was being implemented by the Tsarist regime.Trade Review"[A] very important and thoroughly researched book with well-contextualised arguments on cholera and medical professionals in Russia."- Tricia Starks, University of Arkansas; Revolutionary Russia, Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2011Table of Contents1. Cholera in Russia 2. Saratov on the Eve of the Epidemic 3. Cholera in Saratov, 1892 4. Sanitised Politics and the Politics of Medicine 5. The Revival of Cholera: 1904-1914 Conclusion: Saratov, Cholera, and the Empire
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Taylor & Francis Domitian Tragic Tyrant
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Taylor & Francis The German 1918 Offensives
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of the Ludendorff Offensives of 1918 based extensively on key German records presumed to be lost forever after Potsdam was bombed in 1944. In 1997, David T. Zabecki discovered translated copies of these files in a collection of old instructional material at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He presents his findings here for the first time, with a thorough review of the surviving original operational plans and orders, to offer a wealth of fresh insights to the German Offensives of 1918. David T. Zabecki clearly demonstrates how the German failure to exploit the vulnerabilities in the BEF's rail system led to the failure of the first two offensives, and how inadequacies in the German rail system determined the outcome of the last three offensives. This is a window into the mind of the German General Staff of World War I, with thorough analysis of the German planning and decision making processes during thTrade Review"Zabecki ... has earned a reputation as an outstanding military historian. An essential read for students of the Great War, and an important one for those interested in military operations since its end." - The NYMAS Review, The New York Military Affairs SymposiumTable of Contents1. Why do we Still Bother with World War I? 2. The Operational Art 3. The Tactical Realities of 1918 4. The Strategic Reality 5. The Operational Decision: 11 November 1917 to 21 January 1918 6. Operations MICHAEL and MARS 7. Operation GEORGETTE 8. Operations BLÜCHER, GOERZ, and YORCK 9. Operations GNEISSENAU and HAMMERSCHLAG 10. Operation MARNESCHUTZ-REIMS 11. Operations HAGEN and KURFÜRST 12. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs RLE Witchcraft
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Taylor & Francis The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece
Book SynopsisThe Greek polis has been arousing interest as a subject for study for a long time, but recent approaches have shown that it is a subject on which there are still important questions to be asked and worthwhile things to be said.This book contains a selection of essays which embody the results of the latest research, yet are presented so as to be accessible to non-specialist readers. Beyond the historical development of the Greek polis, the authors ask questions about the civic institutions of ancient Greece as a whole, and their relationships to each other. Questions of power, or the significance of a written code of law are discussed as well as the nature of Greek overseas settlements.The Development of the Greek Polis presents up-to-date research and asks up-to-date questions on various aspects of an important topic. It will be essential reading for all students and teachers of early Greek history and of the institutions of the ancient world.Trade Review'This is likely to become a standard collection of papers for those who already have a grounding in Archaic history' - Graham Shipley, The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsTables. Figures. Contributors. References. 1. Introduction P.J. Rhodes 2. The Copenhagen Inventory of Polis and the Lex Hafniensis de Civitate Mogens Herman Hansen 3. The 'Origins of the Greek Polis': where should we be looking? John K. Davies 4. The relations of power in the pre-state and early state politics Walter Donlan 5. Soldiers, citizens, and the evolution of the early Greek polis Kurt A. Raaflaub 6. Lopping off the heads: tyrants, politics and the polis John Salmon 7. Law and laws: how do we join up the dots? Robin Osborne 8. The development of Spartan society in the Archaic period Stephen Hodkinson 9. A new solution to the riddle of the Seisachtheia Edward M. Harris 10. A view from the top: evaluating the Solonian property-classes Lin Foxhall 11. New wine in old wineskins: Solon, Arete and the Agathos Lynette G. Mitchell 12. Evaulating the citizen in the Archaic Greek lyric, elegy and inscribed epigram George I.C. Robertson 13. Themis: religion and order in the Archaic polis Emma J. Stafford 14. The archaeology of sanctuaries in early Iron Age and Archaic Ethne: a preliminary view Catherine Morgan 15. The nature of Greek overseas settlements in the Archaic period: Emporion or Apoikia? John-Paul Wilson 16. Servius Tullius, Cleisthenes and the emergence of the polis in central Italy Christopher Smith Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis The Russian Revolution of 1905
Book Synopsis2005 marks the centenary of Russiaâs âfirst revolutionâ - an unplanned, spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to the âBloody Sundayâ massacre of 9th January 1905. A wave of strikes, urban uprisings, peasant revolts, national revolutions and mutinies swept across the Russian Empire, and it proved a crucial turning point in the demise of the autocracy and the rise of a revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system for the rest of the twentieth century.The centenary of the Revolution has prompted scholars to review and reassess our understanding of what happened in 1905. Recent opportunities to access archives throughout the former Soviet Union are yielding new provincial perspectives, as well as fresh insights into the roles of national and religious minorities, and the parts played by individuals, social groups, political parties and institutions. This text brings together some of the best of this new research and reasTable of ContentsList of contributors, Acknowledgements, Note on style, 1. Introduction, 2. Psychohistorical approaches to 1905 radicalism, 3. 1905: the view from the provinces, 4. The 1905 Revolution in Russia’s Baltic provinces, 5. Finland in 1905: the political and social history of the revolution, 6. Revolution and revolt in the Manchurian armies, as perceived by a future leader of the White movement, 7. Retrospectively revolting: Kazan Tatar ‘conspiracies’ during the 1905 Revolution, 8. Peasant protest and peasant violence in 1905: Voronezh province, Ostrogozhskii uezd, 9. Jews and revolution in Kharkiv: how one Ukrainian city escaped a pogrom in 1905, 10. Socialists, liberals and the Union of Unions in Kyiv during the 1905 Revolution: an engineer’s perspective, 11. Kadet domination of the First Duma and its limits, 12. Lenin and the 1905 Revolution, 13. Leon Trotsky and 1905, 14. The 1905 Revolution on Tyneside, Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Caligula The Abuse of Power Roman Imperial
Book SynopsisThe Roman Empire has always exercised a considerable fascination. Among its numerous colourful personalities, no emperor, with the possible exception of Nero, has attracted more popular attention than Caligula, who has a reputation, whether deserved or not, as the quintessential mad and dangerous ruler.The first edition of this book established itself as the standard study of Caligula. It remains the only full length and detailed scholarly analysis in English of this emperorâs reign, and has been translated into a number of languages. But the study of Classical antiquity is not a static phenomenon, and scholars are engaged in a persistent quest to upgrade our knowledge and thinking about the ancient past. In the thirty years since publication of the original Caligula there have been considerable scholarly advances in what we know about this emperor specifically, and also about the general period in which he functioned, while newly discovered inscriptions and major archaeological projects have necessitated a rethinking of many of our earlier conclusions about early imperial history. This new edition constitutes a major revision and, in places, a major rewriting, of the original text. Maintaining the reader-friendly structure and organisation of its predecessor, it embodies the latest discoveries and the latest thinking, seeking to make more lucid and comprehensible those aspects of the reign that are particularly daunting to the non-specialist. Like the original, this revised Caligula is intended to satisfy the requirements of the scholarly community while appealing to a broad and general readership.Trade Review"Barrett first turned his attention to the emperor Gaius Caligula in 1990, with his Caligula: The Corruption of Power. Now, 25 years later, he has produced a thoroughly revised new edition, with the words 'Corruption of Power'emended to 'Abuse of Power.' The change is significant...This is a fine study, well researched and reliable in its conclusions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. " - J. A. S. Evans, emeritus, University of British Columbia, CHOICE ReviewTable of Contents1.Family Background 2. The Struggle for the Succession 3. Private Pursuits 4. The New Emperor 5. Signs of Strain 6. Conspiracy 7. North Africa 8. Britain and Germany 9. Divine Honours 10. Assassination 11. Aftermath 12. Caligula and the Jews 13. Caligula the Builder 14. Fit to Rule? 15. Reception Appendices: a. Caligula’s Named Victims b. Coins, Inscriptions and Sculpture.
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Taylor & Francis Social Capital Trust and the Industrial
Book SynopsisThe first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for studentsâ studying nineteenth century British history as well as historically minded sociologists.Analytical in style and comprehensive in approach, Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution covers a range of themes, including: the forms of behaviour, institutions and strategies that contributed to the formation of trust the circumstances that could lead to its rise or fall the presence of distrust the relationship and links between trust and power. Although research has shown that high levels of social capital and trust promotes economic growth, low crime rates and improved labour relations, little work has been done on the historical impact of this essential resource. David Sunderlandâs incisive monograph is resets the balance and demonstrates how social capital played Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Middle Class Trust 2. Working Class and Inter-Class Trust 3. Formal Networks 4. Philanthropic, Religious and Education Networks 5. Informal Networks and Miscellaneous Trust Determinants 6. Governments and Trust 7. The Law and Trust 8. Kin, Geographic and Masculine Trust 9. Business Trust 10. Employer-Employee Trust. Conclusion
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The University of Michigan Press Fragile Dreams Tales of Liberalism and Power in
Book SynopsisExamines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance from the fields of comparative politics and sociology, to feminist and gender studies.Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Revolutions: The fall of communism as witnessed from a beer barrel and beyond Chapter 2. Communism: The political importance of telling a good story Chapter 3: Neoliberalism: Why BMWs don’t just randomly explode! Chapter 4. Nationalism: Liberalism’s evil twin screws up the Enlightenment Chapter 5: Ethnic Conflict: The breakup of Yugoslavia through a feminist lens Chapter 6. “Transitology”: How I joined the global conspiracy against Slovakia Chapter 7. Humanitarian Intervention: Liberalism weaponized in the Western Balkans Chapter 8. International Relations: The West Gets Cocky Chapter 9. Homophobia: Intersectionality and the political uses of fear Chapter 10. Populism: Austerity, fear and loathing on Central Europe’s periphery Chapter 11. Illiberal Democracy: The Political Economy of Hungary’s Liberal Unraveling Liberalism’s fragile dream
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University of California Press The Jews of Europe after the Black death
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Cambridge University Press More Boys and Girls of History
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1928, the studies in this book illustrate the lives of children within various different times and social contexts. Created following the enthusiastic response which greeted the original Boys and Girls of History, this volume concentrates on the period subsequent to the Middle Ages in the history of Britain and home and overseas. As with the original, reconstructions of daily life are used as a means of avoiding the generalised tone employed in many historical accounts, the aim being to develop the young reader's knowledge through a sense of empathy with the figures being described. Highly readable, and containing a large number of beautiful illustrations, the text was again co-authored by the renowned historian Eileen Power, together with her sister Rhoda Power. It will be of value to anyone with an interest in early twentieth-century history books for young readers.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The Bristol apprentice; 2. The childhood of Mary Queen of Scots; 3. The voyage of the Bonaventure; 4. Your honour's slave; 5. The eagle of the North; 6. Pocohontas, the little tomboy; 7. Martin on the Isle of Devils; 8. Nick and the mutineers; 9. Meg's story; 10. From Christ's Hospital to Surat; 11. The strange white bird; 12. The Boston tea party; 13. Muradhana of Kandy; 14. The emigrants' journey; 15. In the Blackfellows' camp; 16. News in Ujiji; A note on books.
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Cambridge University Press Childhood and Child Labour in the British
Book SynopsisThis is a unique account of working-class childhood during the British industrial revolution, first published in 2010. Using more than 600 autobiographies written by working men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Jane Humphries illuminates working-class childhood in contexts untouched by conventional sources and facilitates estimates of age at starting work, social mobility, the extent of apprenticeship and the duration of schooling. The classic era of industrialisation, 1790â1850, apparently saw an upsurge in child labour. While the memoirs implicate mechanisation and the division of labour in this increase, they also show that fatherlessness and large subsets, common in these turbulent, high-mortality and high-fertility times, often cast children as partners and supports for mothers struggling to hold families together. The book offers unprecedented insights into child labour, family life, careers and schooling. Its images of suffering, stoicism and occasional childish pleasuTrade ReviewReviews of the hardback: 'This is a deeply humane book which breathes new life into the debate over the impact of industrialisation on the standard of living. It uses a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine the evidence provided by more than 600 working-class autobiographies dating back to the 1600s. It will surely become essential reading for all scholars and students of modern economic and social history, as well as for all those interested in the history of childhood, the family and human well-being.' Bernard Harris, Professor of the History of Social Policy, University of Southampton'Jane Humphries has cast considerable new light on many important questions about the economic, social, and demographic history of that era. We are provided with much new information on the nature and role of child labor, family relations, and education, among its many issues. This is an unusually well-done work of scholarship, based on the imaginative use of traditional sources to interpret long-standing topics in a most convincing manner.' Stanley Engerman, Professor of Economics and History, University of Rochester'Jane Humphries' ingenious use of a remarkable assemblage of working class autobiographies brings new dimensions to this long-discussed subject by illuminating the contributions of children to the first Industrial Revolution. It is written with great empathy for the social and economic costs that these younger generations carried in facilitating this historical divide. It will be essential reading for economic, social, demographic and family historians and those whose interests focus on child labour in Third World countries.' Richard M. Smith, Professor of Historical Geography and Demography, University of Cambridge'This is a work of economic history that is at once rigorous and humane. Jane Humphries' use of workers' autobiographies opens the black box of the household economy to reveal family relations and the circumstances that led young boys into the workplace. Humphries takes the reader from the highly particular to the reliably general with a rare and enviable mastery of both economics and history.' Jan de Vries, Professor of History and Economics, University of California, Berkeley'These life stories treat us to colourful detail about what it was like to be a working child in industrialising Britain … [Humphries] has conveyed more about the nature and importance of children's employment than any previous study …' The Times Higher Education Supplement'The industrial revolution brought immense prosperity to the British Empire … But as a new book by Jane Humphries, a professor of economic history, shows, a terrible price was paid for this success by the labourers who serviced the machines, pushed the coal carts and turned the wheels that drove the Industrial Revolution. Many of these labourers were children.' Daily Mail'Britain's industrial revolution - the first in the world - would have never happened without child labour. That's the startling conclusion drawn by a leading economic historian following the most detailed analysis of relevant contemporary sources ever carried out.' BBC History Magazine'There are too many strengths in this book to pack into a short review. The scale and impact of the Napoleonic Wars on ordinary families is fully appreciated. The situating of child labour within an Industrial Revolution that slowly gathers force through the eighteenth century is another one. … this monograph is a tremendous achievement.' Pamela Sharpe, Local Population Studies'… eloquently written account … meticulous and brilliant research …' Journal of Economic Geography'Children were increasingly at the heart of economic life in the acute age of industrialisation, and the historical community and the public alike owe Humphries a debt of gratitude for bringing this point into sharper focus.' The English Historical Review'Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution is richly innovative in its marrying of economic data with life stories. The voices of the children - stoical, matter of fact, and moving in their ordinariness - jump off the page. There is no other historical study of British labour during the industrial revolution that so vividly brings to life the world of the working-class child.' History Workshop Journal'… offers unique insights into working-class childhoods and sheds light on the significant role of child workers during industrialisation. This important book is essential reading for historians of childhood and the family.' Mary Nejedly, Family & Community HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Sources, models, context; 3. Families; 4. Household economy; 5. Family relationships; 6. Wider kin; 7. Starting work; 8. Jobs; 9. Apprenticeship; 10. Schooling; 11. Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Scandinavian Reformation
Book SynopsisThis volume provides a history of the Scandinavian Reformation from its evangelical beginning in the 1520s to its institutionalisation by the mid-seventeenth century. It reassesses the role of the Catholic Church in trying to halt the reformation and traces the evangelical movements in their social context.Trade Review"The product of a team of Scandinavian scholars, this book is a compact and well-integrated introduction to the Reformation in Scandinavia." Choice"The contributors to the volume are well-established Nordic scholars within the fields of history and church history....the volume includes an impressive amount of information and would seem a good introduction to sixteenth-century Scandinavian church history for the English speaking reader....on the whole, the volume should be most readable to anyone with an interest in the history of the Reformation." Jonas Alwall, JOurnal of Church and State"This volume is a welcome addition to the literature available in the English language devoted to the Scandinavian Reformation....the present volume greatly illuminates the English-speaking reader's understanding as to how and why the Catholic Church disappeared in Scandinavia within two decades of the onset of evangelical preaching." Trygve R. Skarsten, Church HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction Ole Peter Grell; 2. The Early Reformation in Denmark and Norway 1520–1559 Martin Schwarz Lausten; 3. The Early Reformation in Sweden and Finland ca. 1520–1560 E. I. Kouri; 4. The Catholic Church and its Leadership Ole Peter Grell; 5. The Consolidation of Lutheranism in Denmark and Norway Thorkild Lyby and Ole Peter Grell; 6. The Institutionalisation of Lutheranism in Sweden and Finland Ingun Montgomery; 7. Faith, Superstition and Witchcraft in Reformation Scandinavia Jens Chr.V. Johansen; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Settlement and Social Organization
Book SynopsisThis book is a regional study of what is now northern Lorraine during the period between the end of the Roman Empire and the accession of Charlemagne. Integrating historical and archaeological evidence, it argues that early medieval society was not stagnant but diverse and subject to constant change.Trade Review"This is a beautifully produced book, written with great clarity and founded upon a broad and scrupulous familiarity with its sources....This book ought to generate detailed critiques of the evidence and stimulate new debate." Bailey K. Young, American Jourbal of Archaeology"Settlement and Social Organization^i will be used by Mervingian historians and others for a long time to come." Steven Muhlberger, Speculum"This is an informative and important book. It is one of the few comprehensive discussions of the textual and archaeological evidence from early medieval Europe, and one of the very few in English. The book should be required reading for archaeologists and historians of the early Middle Ages, and will be useful for all historical archaeologists. For any archaeologist grappling with problems of social organization, this synthesis of a well developed context of text-aided archaeology will be very instructive. Halsall has done an excellent job with a complex interdisciplinary topic." Peter S. Wells, Journal of Field ArchaeologyTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Social Organization: 2. Social organization: descriptive analysis of the documentary evidence; 3. Creating a model: cemeteries of the Merovingian civitas of Metz; 4. Testing the model: cemeteries outside the civitas of Metz; Part II. Settlement: 5. Rural settlement; 6. Intermediate settlement: Castra, vici, palaces and monasteries; 7. Urbanism in Metz; Part III. Conclusions: 8. Town and country, c. 450–c. 600; 9. The later Merovingian period; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The British Industrial Revolution in Global
Book SynopsisWhy did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.Trade Review'Robert Allen has for decades been one of the broadest-ranging and most imaginative scholars in economic history. In this highly original and superbly-researched book, he has set new standards for the study of one of the most critical episodes of human history, the British Industrial Revolution. A must-read for scholars ranging from eighteenth-century history to the economics of modern growth.' Joel Mokyr, author of The Gifts of Athena and The Enlightened Economy'This important book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins of the industrial revolution. It puts technological change centre stage and places success in invention firmly in the context of economic incentives and business realities that made 18th-century Britain different. This is a stellar demonstration of how subtle economic analysis informed by detailed historical knowledge can provide a persuasive new interpretation of a defining moment in world economic history.' Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick'Bob Allen has written, in his usual transparent style, a brilliant book on two of the main questions of economics (or economic history): why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Great Britain, and why did it cause a fundamental break in long term economic development. He argues convincingly that relative prices - high nominal and real wages, and low energy costs - were fundamental in inducing British entrepreneurs and inventors to search for technological solutions that would be labour saving and energy (and capital) using, and that the same relative prices explain why this search process was successful on the British Isles, and much less so on the European Continent. He also demonstrates that, once this process of creative destruction was set in motion, the efficiency of the technologies increased so sharply, that they became highly competitive in different environments - and therefore, after 1820, began to revolutionize the world economy. One of the main strengths of the book is the intimate knowledge the author has acquired of both the technological processes involved, and the economics of industrialization - it is based on a perfect marriage between technological insights and economic analysis.' Jan Luiten van Zanden, author of The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution'Robert Allen's analysis will delight many economists, for he deals in measurable factors such as wages and prices … This is a beautifully written book, the language as clear as a brook and with the same tumbling energy.' The Economist'… the smartest thing I have read in at least a year.' Professor J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley'Robert C. Allen's The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective shows that it is still possible to say something new and important on this most crowded of topics, and to do so with lucidity.' Linda Colley, The Times Literary Supplement'… stunningly good study of the Industrial Revolution … The book is well written and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the origins of industrial change in the eighteenth century.' Historical Association'This is the book you should use to teach the Industrial Revolution.' Journal of Economic History'The relationship between shari'a and politics is obviously complex. Feldman's book provides an excellent starting point for a subject notoriously difficult and little understood. Feldman gives us a good place to start from, from, for it runs counter to most Western thinking on the subject.' The European LegacyTable of Contents1. The Industrial Revolution and the pre-industrial economy; Part I: 2. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain; 3. The agricultural revolution; 4. The cheap energy economy; 5. Why England succeeded; Part II: 6. Why was the Industrial Revolution British?; 7. The steam engine; 8. Cotton; 9. Coke smelting; 10. Inventors, enlightenment, and human capital; 11. From industrial revolution to modern economic growth.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Greek Text and Vocabulary
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1978, Reading Greek has become a best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. It combines the best of modern and traditional language-learning techniques and is used widely in schools, summer schools and universities across the world. It has also been translated into several foreign languages. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors, including Herodotus, Euripides, Aristophanes and Demosthenes, in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. Generous support is provided with vocabulary. At the same time, through the texts and numerous illustrations, students will receive a good introduction to Greek culture, and especially that of Classical Athens. The accompanying Grammar and Exercises volume provides full grammatical support together with numerous exercises at different levels, Greek-English and English-Greek vocabularies, a substantial reference grammar and language survTrade Review'… a comprehensive guide to learning ancient Greek … Moreover, the book is accessible to independent learners and those on distance-learning courses.' The Journal of Classics TeachingTable of ContentsPart I. Athens at Sea: Section 1. A-J. The insurance scam; Section 2. A-D. The glorious past; Section 3. A-E. Athens and Sparta; Part II. Moral Decay?: Section 4. A-D. Lawlessness in Athenian life; Section 5. A-D; Section 6. A-D. 'Socrates corrupts the young'; Section 7. A-H. Socrates and intellectual inquiry; Part III. Athens through the Comic Poet's Eyes: Section 8. A-C. Aristophanes' Birds and visions of Utopia; Section 9. A-J. Aristophanes' Wasps; Section 10. A-E. Aristophanes' Lysistrata; Section 11. A-C. Aristophanes' Akharnians; Part IV. Women in Athenian Society: Sections 12–14. The Prosecution of Neaira: Section 12. A-I. Neaira as slave; Section 13. A-I. Neaira as married woman; Section 14. A-F. Guarding a woman's purity; Section 15. A-C. Alkestis in Euripides' play; Part V. Athenian Views of Justice: Sections 16–17. Official and Private Justice: Section 16. A-H. Official justice, ships, state and individuals; Section 17. A-E. Private justice: trouble down at the farm; Section 18. A-E. How Zeus gave justice to men; Part VI. Gods, Fate and Man: Section 19. A-F. The story of Adrastos; Part VII. Homeric Hero and Heroine: Section 20. A-G. Odysseus and Nausikaa; A total Greek-English vocabulary of all words to be learnt.
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Cambridge University Press Augustus
Book SynopsisAugustus, Rome's first emperor, is one of the great figures of world history and one of the most fascinating. In this lively and concise biography Karl Galinsky examines Augustus' life from childhood to deification. A transformative leader, Augustus engineered profound change in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.Trade Review'Of all the great men of the ancient world, Augustus is the most elusive. Doing equal justice to his ruthlessness and his statesmanship is a difficult task, but Karl Galinsky manages it with clarity, sympathy, and good sense. Learned but readable, this portrait of the first of the Roman emperors is a brilliant achievement.' T. P. Wiseman, Emeritus Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter'Drawing on a lifetime's research, Galinsky has produced a magisterial summation of Augustus's life, combining precision and clarity with the readability of a best-selling biography.' Carin Green, University of Iowa'Galinsky's study is the best succinct introduction to the age of Augustus in English. His insightful synthesis of the whole range of evidence (prose and verse texts, monuments, coins, and objects of art) provides an excellent account of Augustus's personal story within the larger context of the political and social conditions of his day.' Harriet I. Flower, Princeton University'Galinsky's mastery of the material is on display on every page of this new biography of Augustus. Generously illustrated and enhanced by many tools to help the beginner, this will surely become the standard introduction to the life and times of Rome's first emperor.' Carlos Noreña, University of California, Berkeley'Students starting a course on the wider period or Augustus in particular will find this invaluable. Anyone else with an interest in the theme, or who simply wants to gain a glimpse of such a remarkable and important historical figure, can do no better than to start with this short book.' Dr Adrian Goldsworthy, adriangoldsworthy.comTable of Contents1. From Velitrae to Caesar's heir; 2. Power struggles and civil war; 3. The experiment of the principate; 4. The challenge of pax Augusta; 5. Augustus at home: friends and family; 6. Cultural vitality; 7. The Augustan empire: unity and diversity; 8. The final days and an assessment.
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