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John Wiley & Sons The D233votes Women and Church in SeventeenthCentury France
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John Wiley & Sons Creating Kashubia
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John Wiley & Sons Early Modern Spectatorship Interpreting English
Book SynopsisEssays that converge on the idea of spectatorship in the theatre, in criminal punishment, in religious worship, in urban perambulation, and even where least expected.Trade Review"Early Modern Spectatorship brings together and expands the concept of spectatorship by effectively demonstrating its wide applicability. It also makes a strong case for digital humanities by showing how digital materials enhance the ability of literary scholars to make use of artifacts from material and popular culture, as well as sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century science and technology." Elizabeth Skerpan-Wheeler, Texas State University
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McFarland & Company Jewish Edinburgh
Book SynopsisThis first full-length history of the Jews of Edinburgh chronicles their immigration to Scotland's capital city from Russia during the 1880s in the wake of Tsarist persecution, and examines their reception by native Scots.
£41.94
State University Press of New York (SUNY) Imagined Londons
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Church Militant and Iberian Expansion
Book SynopsisBoxer finds that the mere survival of these Christian minorities through the vicissitudes of over three centuries is a tribute to the work of the dedicated missionaries of the Church Militant in times past.
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Northwestern University Press Emergency Writing
Book SynopsisTaking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, the Emergency, Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.Trade ReviewAn engaged reading of the politics of language use in Ireland during World War II, Emergency Writing demonstrates how the war years mark a particular moment of emergence in post-independence Irish writing, as the legacy of literary modernism comes to empower diverse stylistic challenges to official narratives of Irish identity."" - Damien Keane, author of Ireland and the Problem of Information
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Northwestern University Press The Hygienic Apparatus
Book SynopsisTraces how the environmental effects of industrialization reverberated through the cinema of Germany's Weimar Republic. Framing hygiene within the project of national reconstruction, the book explores cinema's material contexts alongside its representations of housework, urban space, traffic, pollution, disability, aging, and labour.Trade Review“This study brilliantly unpacks the imbrications between early German cinema and a pervasive concern with hygiene, understood as a set of ideas and techniques for managing the interactions between bodies and environments. Dobryden shows how hygienic thinking impacted not only filmic representations and the development of distinct genres, but also the understanding of cinema more broadly: its spaces of production and reception, its technological development, and its power to bolster or disrupt the disciplinary regimes of industrial capitalism.”—Michael Cowan, author of Walter Ruttmann and the Cinema of Multiplicity: Avant-Garde Film—Advertising—Modernity“The Hygienic Apparatus beautifully weaves together two aspects of German modernity that are usually considered separately: the simultaneously unfolding trajectories of hygienic discourse and of cinema during the early decades of the twentieth century. It demonstrates on the one hand how nonfiction films on topics as diverse as the design of urban and domestic space, the perils of big city traffic, and sexual and reproductive life helped define a new hygienic imaginary, and on the other hand how feature films forged a counter-hygienic alternative to the powerfully normative schemas that emerged from the modern obsession with efficiency, order and health.” —Andreas Killen, author of Homo Cinematicus: Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany“In this superb reconsideration of Weimar cinema, Paul Dobryden places film at the heart of a struggle for environmental and hygienic control that is at once fascinating and unnervingly timely. Connecting architecture and infrastructure, biopolitics and disability, and both canonical and forgotten figures of early German cinema, The Hygienic Apparatus offers a model of how capacious cultural film histories should be written and important lessons for scholars of German history and the environmental humanities.” —Brian R. Jacobson, author of Studios Before the System: Architecture, Technology, and the Emergence of Cinematic SpaceTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Hygiene, Cinema, and German Modernity 1. The Hygienic Dispositif: Health and the Movie Theater Environment 2. Hygienic Modernization: Visions of Environmental Order in the Weimar Kulturfilm 3. Matter Out of Place: Pollution and Distraction in F.W. Murnau's Faust 4. Bodies Out of Place: Images of Disability and Aging 5. Landscapes of Exploitation: Environmental Disorder and Late Weimar Oppositional Filmmaking Afterword: Hygiene and Media, Then and Now Filmography Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Temptations of Trade
Book SynopsisThe British and the Spanish had long been in conflict, often clashing over politics, trade, and religion. But in the early decades of the eighteenth century, these empires signed an asiento agreement granting the British South Sea Company a monopoly on the slave trade in the Spanish Atlantic, opening up a world of uneasy collaboration. British agents of the Company moved to cities in the Caribbean and West Indies, where they braved the unforgiving tropical climate and hostile religious environment in order to trade slaves, manufactured goods, and contraband with Spanish colonists. In the process, British merchants developed relationships with the Spanish—both professional and, at times, personal.The Temptations of Trade traces the development of these complicated relationships in the context of the centuries-long imperial rivalry between Spain and Britain. Many British Merchants, in developing personal ties to the Spanish, were able to collect potentially dTrade Review"Finucane brings to bear significant research on company agents who brokered a difficult commerce while enriching themselves. Her work dramatizes the on-the-ground experiences of imperial loyalty and rivalry through their stories. It also greatly adds to previous scholarship on the South Sea Company, which has mainly focused on its presence in Britain . . . The Temptations of Trade provides a fascinating and granular work on transimperial contact and the formation of Atlantic communities." * Latin American Research Review *"In The Temptations of Trade, Adrian Finucane puts a human face on the Caribbean's imperial and commercial struggles by bringing to life the stories of the South Sea Company's agents in Spanish America. In the process, she answers a number of important questions about the nature of eighteenth-century trade and illustrates how British and Spanish empires, despite their unrelenting rivalry, depended on one another." * April Hatfield, Texas A&M University *Table of ContentsPrologue: Before the Asiento Chapter 1. Britain Hopes for the "Riches of America," 1713-1716 Chapter 2. The Stuttering Success of the Early Trade, 1717-1728 Chapter 3. "Unjust Depredations" and Growing Tensions, 1729-1738 Chapter 4. The End of the British Asiento, 1739-1748 Epilogue: Beyond the Asiento List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Syracuse University Press Unaccompanied Traveler
Book SynopsisWith its wide-ranging introduction, detailed notes, and eye-catching maps, this book retrieves the remarkable travel accounts of Kathleen M. Murphy from obscurity and presents them to a new generation of readers interested in travel and adventure.
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University of Minnesota Press German Autumn
Book SynopsisThe first U.S. edition of Dagerman’s account of postwar life in GermanyTrade Review"Dagerman wrote with beautiful objectivity. Instead of emotive phrases, he uses a choice of facts, like bricks, to construct an emotion."—Graham Greene"German Autumn is one of the best collections ever written about the aftermath of war. It is on par with John Reed’s classic articles from the Soviet Union as well as with Edgar Snow’s articles about the great political revolution in China. Stig Dagerman depicts the tragic realities of post–World War II Germany with astonishing clarity and artistic skillfulness. He provides the reader with a profound insight, which ultimately is the story of every war. To anyone interested in understanding what great journalism means, German Autumn is indispensable. It should be compulsory reading for all young people who might consider becoming a journalist, and it is as alive as it was when first published in 1947. Read it."—Henning Mankell"German Autumn is a very important book and it is a very good thing that an English language version is becoming available for Americans. We need this book. "—Mark Kurlansky, from the ForewordTable of ContentsForeword: Pitiless FallMark KurlanskyIntroductionRobin Fulton Macpherson1. German Autumn2. Ruins3. Bombed Cemetery4. Poor Man’s Cake5. The Art of Sinking6. The Unwelcome7. The Rivals8. Lost Generation9. The Course of Justice10. Cold Day in Munich11. Through the Forest of the Hanged Boys12. Return to Hamburg13. Literature and Suffering
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Duke University Press Architecture in Translation
Book SynopsisEsra Akcan describes the introduction of modern architecture into Turkey after the Kemalist political elite took power in 1923 and invited German architects to redesign the new capital of Ankara.Trade Review"This study is seminal on two counts: it analyzes the relatively new concept of cultural translation, and it affords the reader an extremely interesting account of the evolution of Kemalist cultural policies."—Kenneth Frampton, author of Form Material Assembly: The Work of Francis-Jones Morehen Thorp"Tracing the surprisingly intertwined twentieth-century histories of German and Turkish residential housing and urban planning from the garden city via the urban Siedlung to the national house, Esra Akcan brilliantly deploys lingual translation theory as a flexible template to analyze zones of asymmetrical exchange in architecture and urban planning. Architecture in Translation moves compellingly beyond modernist universalism and nationalist regionalism toward a cosmopolitan ethics as a goal for a global architecture."—Andreas Huyssen, editor of Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age“While Architecture in Translation constitutes clearly a ‘next step’ in scholarly works that examine the histories of the Turkish nation’s architectural and planning projects, it is also an ideal ‘first step’ toward analyzing more critically the dynamics of interaction and exchange that we today otherwise generalize under terms like modernization, globalization, or development. Charting the origins, diffusions, and transformations of ideas, approaches, and key actors through multiple historical and geographic contexts, Akcan’s book also emerges as a most readable and thoughtful history of ideas.” -- Kyle T. Evered * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *“Esra Akcan’s excellent book, Architecture in Translation, focuses on the history of German-Turkish exchanges in residential architecture in the 20th century...Directing her attention towards questions of urbanity, population, and housing, Akcan successfully situates architecture within the modernization paradigms of the new Turkish republic.” -- Nazan Maksudyan * Middle East Media and Book Reviews *“Akcan’s book is a significant contribution to the historiography of modern architecture by transcending ‘East-West’ polarization. This is a monumental undertaking and an excellent introduction to the brave new world of multipolar histories where the old fictions of a centerand a periphery no longer apply.” -- Can Bilsel * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *“The readers of this book will find a history of modernism that goes beyond an imperial cartography, and will encounter multiple voices of modernism including those of patrons, clients, and inhabitants of modern architecture. In this cartography, the map that Akcan draws is a rich historical study of houses in Germany and Turkey.” -- Tülay Atak * Journal of Architectural Education *"An important contribution to cultural theory and architectural history, Architecture in Translation is specifically recommended for those interested in cultural translations in the history of the Middle East. Given the richness of its literary and visual references as well as its fluent writing style, it is an intellectual joy to read." -- Namkik Erkal * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Modernity in Translation 1 Translation beyond Language 6 The Theoretical Possibility or Impossibility of Translation 9 Appropriating and Foreignizing Translations 15 The Historical Unevenness of Translation 17 The Ubiquity of Hybrids and the Scarcity of Cosmopolitan Ethics 21 1. Modernism From Above: A Conviction about Its Own Translatability 27 New City: Traveling Garden City 30 New House: Representative Affinities 52 New Housing: The Ideal Life 76 From Ankara to the Whole Nation: Translatability from Above and Below 93 2. Melancholy in Translation 101 The Melancholy of Istanbul 107 A Journey to the West 119 The Birth of the "Modern Turkish House" 133 3. Siedlung in Subaltern Exile 145 Siedlung and the Metropolis 148 Siedlung and the Generic Rational Dwelling 175 Siedlung and the Subaltern 195 4. Convictions about Untranslatability 215 Untranslatable Culture and Translatable Civilization 215 "The Original" 218 Against Translation? The National House and Siedlung 233 5. Toward a Cosmopolitan Architecture 247 Ex Oriente Lux 249 Melancholy of the East 252 Weltarchitektur—Translation of a Treatise 263 Toward Another Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture 277 Epilogue 283 Notes 291 Bibliography 337 Sources of Illustrations 375 Index 383
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Duke University Press Diplomatic Material Affect Assemblage and
Book SynopsisApplying new materialism to international relations, Jason Dittmer offers a counterintuitive reading of foreign policy by tracing the ways that complex interactions between people and things shape the decisions and actions of diplomats and policymakers.Trade Review"A valuable contribution to the field of political geography.... Dittmer... provides a refreshing take on foreign policy by tracing the material circulations that continually influence how political elites understand the international community." -- Ed Bryan * Geopolitics *“The world is a much more complicated place than simple assumptions of international relations between autonomous territorial states often suggest; our task as scholars is to explicate the complexities, and Jason Dittmer has done us all a favour here by offering an exemplary text that shows us both how to do it and why it matters.” -- Simon Dalby * Social & Cultural Geography *"Dittmer’s achievement in the book (and perhaps that for which he should be most lauded) is that of dragging insights from the deepest, darkest depths of theoryland into the light of the everyday." -- Stephen Legg * Antipode *"Diplomatic Material is an innovative study that substantially broadens how we think about the makings of foreign policy." -- John A. Gentry * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Geopolitical Assemblages and Everyday Diplomacy 1 1. Materializing Diplomacy in the Nineteenth-Century Foreign Office 25 2. UKUSA Signals Intelligence Cooperation 49 3. Interoperability and Standardization in NATO 73 4. Assembling a Common Foreign and Security Policy 99 Conclusion 123 Notes 141 Bibliography 161 Index 171
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University of Hawai'i Press The Most Offending Soul Alive The Life of Tom
Book SynopsisAn English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of civilized society. This story of Harrisson's controversial life offers an insightful look at a charismatic figure who offended as many people as he impressed at the twilight of colonialism.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Copleston F History of Philosophy Volume 5
Book SynopsisCopleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.Trade ReviewA monumental history ... learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive. * New Statesman *We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface I Hobbes (1) II Hobbes (2) III The Cambridge Platonists IV Locke (1) V Locke (2) VI Locke (3) VII Locke (4) VIII Newton IX Religious Problems X Problems of Ethics XI Berkeley (1) XII Berkeley (2) XIII Berkeley (3) XIV Hume (1) XV Hume (2) XVI Hume (3) XVII Hume (4) XVIII For and Against Hume Appendix: A Short Bibliography Index
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Vanderbilt University Press Cartographies of Madrid
Book SynopsisOne of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination. Scholars, investigative journalists, political activists, and a filmmaker combine to document the vast array of Madrid's grassroots movements.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC New Model Army 164560 110 MenatArms
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC France 1940
Book SynopsisFeaturing archive photography and full-colour maps, a rich analysis of the Germans'' early success in France.The German victory of 1940 stunned the world. France, major European power and owner of the world''s largest armies had fallen in less than seven weeks to the might of the German Wehrmacht. The secret of the Wehrmacht''s success lay in its carefully thought out organization and the tactics of blitzkrieg. Fast moving tank divisions supported by armoured, mobile infantry swept over opposition, helped by both conventional bombers and deadly Stuka dive-bombers.Alan Shepperd''s highly detailed text examines the tactics, organization and equipment of the Allied and German forces, and provides a daily account of the most crucial period of the battle.Table of ContentsBackground for War/The Opposing Commanders/The Opposing Armies/The Opposing Plans/The Battle for France/The Result/Chronology/A Guide to Further Reading/Wargaming France 1940
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Balaclava 1854
Book SynopsisOsprey''s examination of one of the most important battles of the Crimean War (1853-1856). The port of Balaclava was crucial in maintaining the supply lines for the Allied siege of Sevastapol. The Russian attack in October 1854 therefore posed a major threat to the survival of the Allied cause. This book examines in detail the crucial battle of Balaclava, including: the attack on the redoubts; the action of the thin red line in which an assortment of about 700 British troops, some invalids, were abandoned by their Turkish allies; the subsequent charge of the Heavy Brigade; and the most famous part of the battle: the infamous charge of the Light Brigade.Table of ContentsPreparation: Advance to Balaclava/Prelude to Battle/Phase 1: Fall of the Redoubts/Phase 2: The Thin Red Line/Phase 3: Charge of the Heavy Brigade/Phase 4: Charge of the Light Brigade/Aftermath: Counting the Cost/Chronology/A Guide to Further Reading/Wargaming Balaclava
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late
Book SynopsisFirst large-scale study of widespread saint's cult reveals valuable detail of medieval life.The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety of contexts, in association withconcepts of royal and civic power, by the end of the period becoming identified as a British saint, and acting as a model of the ideal lay Christian and a paradigm of femininity and young womanhood. This study, the first full-scale interdisciplinary examination of a saint's cult in late medieval England, looks at the processes by which she came to have such a prominent place in the devotions of English men and women from across the wide social scale; using written and visual narratives of Katherine's life, in combination with documentary evidence provided by wills, inventories and gild returns, the author shows how devotees perceived and responded to her, and the various religious, social and cultural roles assigned to her. Dr KATHERINE J. LEWIS teaches at the University of Huddersfield.Trade ReviewThis fine study should be commended to students of church history and medieval literature. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *A most useful overview of the interactive raltionship between the cult of St Katherine and the social context of late-medieval England... brings together a wealth of material from sources that are too often overlooked or segregated by discipline. * SPECULUM *The first full-length study of an individual saint cult in late medieval England... Demonstrat[es] the wide popularity of St Katherine, leaving little doubt that this was one of the most important saint cults in late medieval England. * ALBION *Table of ContentsPreface - the life of St Katherine; the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England - an introduction; St Katherine as virgin martyr; reading St Katherine in the parish - the aquisition of knowledge and power; reading St Katherine in the household - education, household managers and the pursuit of the Mixed Life; St Katherine and women.
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Boydell Press The Sacred Isle Belief and Religion in
Book SynopsisThe first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation in the island down to the advent of Christianity in the fifth century AD. An excellent book... a highly accessible and lively assessment of continuity and change in belief and religion from pre-Celtic times through to the arrival of St Patrick. ...Afine book and to be recommended to a wide readership, especially to all those who think that Irish history started in 1601. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW DAITHI O HOGAIN was Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin.Table of ContentsPre-Celtic cultures; basic tenets in the Iron Age; the Druids and their practices; the teachings of the Druids; the society of the gods; the rites of sovereignty; the triumph of Christianity.
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Spokesman Books The Prehistory of European Society
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British Archaeological Reports Lordship and the Landscape
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Taylor & Francis History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent 10001200
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Universities Medicine and Science in the Medieval West Variorum Collected Studies
Book SynopsisThe papers collected here first of all reflect Vern Bullough''s concern to examine how knowledge was transmitted from one generation to the next and the impact this had on new developments in medicine and science. Universities, Medicine and Science in the Medieval West brings together the author''s pioneering studies on the medical universities of the medieval Latin world, their foundation and their influence on scientific thought, and those on the professionalization of medicine, respectively the focus of the first and second sections in the volume, along with three previously unpublished essays. The third part looks at developments in medical practice outside the university, and at topics such as nursing and medical care, medieval views of women, and female longevity and diet; it also includes the author''s much-cited study on the age of menarche.Trade Review’This book is well referenced and heavily annotated for the researcher. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in medicine and the medieval period.’ Studia Historiae EcclesiasticaeTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Medical Study and the Development of Five Medical Universities: The study of medicine and the medieval university; The development of the medical university at Montpellier to the end of the 14th century; The medieval medical university at Paris; Medieval Bologna and the development of medical education; Medical study at mediaeval Oxford; The mediaeval medical school at Cambridge. Medicine and Science in the Universities: Science vs. humanities: a conflict in the 15th century Italian universities?; Science and the university in the 15th century; The emergence of medicine as a profession; Achievement, professionalization, and the university; Medieval medicine and the search for status; Population and the study and practice of medieval medicine. Medical Developments Outside the University and the Medieval Medical Tradition: Training of non university-educated medical practitioners in the later middle ages; The development of the medical guilds at Paris; Medieval nursing; A note on medical care in medieval English hospitals; Female longevity and diet in the middle ages (with Cameron Campbell); Medieval medical and scientific views of women; Sexology and the medievalist; Age at menarche: a misunderstanding; The term 'doctor'; A 15th-century prescription; Duke Humphrey and his medical collections; The teaching of surgery at the University of Montpellier in the 13th century; Medical practice in the middle ages, or who treated whom; Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early
Book SynopsisProfessor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to relationships between towns and the Crown, to the evidence for migration into towns, and to the vexed question of urban fortunes in the 15th and 16th centuries. Two essays set urban history in a broader framework by considering recent work on town and village formation and on the development of parishes. The collection includes two hitherto unpublished studies and is introduced and put in context by a new survey of English towns from the 7th to the 16th centuries.Trade Review'All in all, this book confirms Palliser's position as our major urban historian in the pre-industrial period... Both he and his publishers are to be congratulated.' Economic History Review '... the essays gathered here provide a model of how urban history should be written.' Urban History ’Overall [...], this collection is well worth seeking out for anyone, specialist and non-specialist alike, with an interest in pre-modern urban history.’ Local Population Studies ’As a collection, the papers showcase a mastery of topographical and archaeological as well as documentary material; the net result is that, while the accent is firmly on urban history, there is more than enough to appeal to those interested in the broader evolution of townscapes... In summary, this excellent volume stands as an essential point of reference for scholars interested in all aspects of medieval urbanism.’ Landscape History ’[The papers] are smoothly written, highly readable, and reflect the author's profound understanding of town history and his insistence on urban continuities. This collection thus presents a distinguished contribution to regional history, effectively set in a wider context.’ Northern History ’This book brings together a very important collection of studies in urban history, ranging across political, social, economic and cultural aspects, and over the medieval and early modern periods... These essays show some of the many contributions that David Palliser has made towards our understanding of that importance.’ The Local Historian ’Anyone who wishes to explore the medieval and early modern urban environment will find Towns and Local Communities very useful. Palliser effectively presents historiography, theories, and arguments in myriad branches of urban studies... This collection of Palliser's work provides a thorough and understandable overview of medieval English urban history.’ Sixteenth Century Journal ’Almost every aspect of medieval urbanTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: the origins and growth of English towns. Local Communities: Town and village formation in medieval England; The English parish in perspective. Archaeology and Topography: The archaeology of British towns 1066-1530; Town defences in medieval England and Wales. Towns and Power: Towns and the English state, 1066-1500; Towns and the Crown in England: the counties and the county towns. Late Medieval Society: The role of minorities and immigrants in English medieval towns; Urban society; Civic mentality and the environment in Tudor York; A regional capital as magnet: immigrants to York, 1477-1566. Urban Decline?: A crisis in English towns? The case of York, 1460-1640; Urban decay revisited. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Family and the Legitimation of Power England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century Variorum Collected Studies
Book SynopsisThis collection of studies by Pauline Stafford brings together a series of essays on Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England. Virtually all focus on political life, and with the highest levels of English society: with the king, the royal family and the elites, though one hitherto unpublished essay treats the interactions of king, lord and community across a broad social spectrum. All are concerned with issues of family, succession, inheritance and land holding. The perspectives of these essays range from that of a women''s history chiefly interested in restoring women to a place in these politics, to one which focuses attention on the textual uses of women and family. Re-readings of charters and narrative histories, especially from these gendered perspectives, offer new insight into English political history, raise questions about central sources, such as Domesday Book, and question some received historiographies.Trade Review’This is a valuable collection for both students and specialists, reprinting a group of influential essays by, and an 'intelligent biography' of, an eminent scholar.’ Medium Aevum ’... many [papers] are from difficult-to-find, often out-of-print, essay collections. It is therefore extremely valuable to have these influential papers united in one volume, with an index to aid consultation.’ English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Preface. 9th-Century Politics and Gender: Charles the Bald, Judith and England; Political women in Mercia, 8th to early 10th centuries; Succession and inheritance: a gendered perspective on Alfred's family history. The 10th and Early 11th Centuries: The reign of Æthelred the II, a study in the limitations on royal policy and action; Kinship and women in the world of Maldon: Byrhtnoth and his family; The laws of Cnut and the history of Anglo-Saxon royal promises; Political ideas in late 10th-century England: charters as evidence; King and kin, lord and community: England in the 10th and 11th centuries. Queens and Queenship: The king's wife in Wessex 800-1066; Emma: the powers of the queen in the 11th century; Queens, nunneries and reforming churchmen: gender, religious status and reform in 10th- and 11th-century England; Cherchez la femme. Queens, queens' lands and nunneries: missing links in the foundation of Reading Abbey. 1066 - and Beyond: The 'farm of one night' and the organization of King Edward's estates in Domesday; Women in Domesday; Women and the Norman Conquest. Index.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Iliad
Book SynopsisGripping. . . . Lombardo''s achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer''s dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly hardbitten reworking of a great classic. Daniel Mendelsohn, The New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"It is hard to overstate the attractions of this translation. In a rhythm sinewy and flexible, with language that is precise, lyrical and fresh, Lombardo's Iliad pulses with all the power and luminosity of the Greek. He shows extraordinary sensitivity to the images and aural effects of the ancient poem. There are brilliant touches on every page. . . . Altogether this is as good as Homer gets in English." —Richard P. Martin, Princeton University"The most daring, rapid and colloquial translation of Homer's Iliad that I know. [Lombardo's] taut and punchy verse conveys admirably and accurately the excitement and desperation of the battle, the urgency of the commanders, the occasional flashes of humor, the passion of Homer's narrative and the vivid and subtle humanity of his characters." —Richard Janko, University College, London"Lombardo's Iliad should be required for every History of Civilization class in America!" —David R. Wilson, Brigham Young University"[R]emarkably true to the centrality of performance in Homer, the varied pacing and tone, the clarity, speed, narrative drive, and moments of breathtaking beauty." —Rachel Hadas, Rutgers University"Homer has been well served in recent years by good translators. But this reviewer predicts that the dominant translation for the 21st century will be this masterful version by Stanley Lombardo. . . . In her extremely useful Introduction, Murnaghan lucidly summarizes and makes available for the student and general reader the results of complex scholarship on Homer, and she offers sensitive guidance for reading the Iliad as a work that documents the triumph of the human spirit and not merely as a war poem." —Leon Golden, CHOICE"Accessible as Lombardo's translation is, it is rendered even more so by the superb Introduction by Sheila Murnaghan, which provides a rich but lucid discussion of the classical context of the epic. This handsome, superbly done Iliad will be enjoyed by everyone. Highly recommended." —T. F. Merrill, Library Journal
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Great Bath on the Lechaion Road
Book SynopsisThe large Roman bath situated on the Lechaion Road must have been conspicuous in the architecture of ancient Corinth at the beginning of the third century A.D. and for several centuries afterward. The author relates the history of the site and its excavation.
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East European Monographs Essays on World War I
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays from military historians focus on various aspects of the eastern front during World War I.Trade ReviewEssays on World War I is a valuable collection, which helps broaden our understanding of the Great War in the East. -- Borislav Chernev Canadian Slavonic Papers
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni The Huguenots and French Opinion 16851787 The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration
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Second Hand Book Houses in Roman Cirencester
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Byrom Projects The Messenger
Book SynopsisJoy Hancox reveals the culmination of an amazing journey she began 35 years ago when she received the Byrom Collection of geometric drawings in two brown paper bags.
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Warland Books Nine Days in Italy The Highs and Lows of Driving
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Savory Adventures Publishing The Venice Experiment A Year of Trial and Error
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Orpington Publishers Santorini Thira The Lost Island of Atlantis Put
Book SynopsisThe myth of how Poseidon, God of the sea, was given the island, and how the people angered him and he caused their deaths in the eruption. The Caldera and the Akrotiri Archaeological site. It is one of six 'Put It in Your Pocket series' on Greek islands.
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Orpington Publishers Tinos The MiracleWorking Icon
Book SynopsisAll you need to know about the island's myths, legends and its gods.
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Shilka Publishing Combat Engineering Equipment of the Warsaw Pact 2
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Cambridge University Press The British Home Front and the First World War
Book SynopsisThe First World War required the mobilisation of entire societies, regardless of age or gender. In the fullest account to-date of the home front, leading historians chart how its impact changed Britain for ever from political and economic transformation to social and domestic life.Trade Review'This is the most comprehensive reassessment of the 'Home Front' in the United Kingdom that has been published for a generation. It will provide an indispensable starting point for future scholars of the war and helpful and enlightening reading to those who have a general interest in Britain and Ireland during this period.' Adrian Gregory, author of The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War'In the fullest study in a generation, leading historians use social, economic, cultural, and political history to shine new light on Britain's home front in the Great War. They show why civilians were central to a 'total war' and integrate Ireland as part of the United Kingdom of the period.' John Horne, editor of A Companion to World War I'This collection makes a vital contribution to the political, economic and social history of the First World War. Drawing on the expertise of leading scholars in their fields, it provides a comprehensive study of the British Home Front. It forms an essential addition to the historical literature of the war.' Jessica Meyer, author of Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain'Hew Strachan's edited volume adds a strong scholarly voice to the chorus of commemoration still echoing from the centenary of the Great War. Here is a book which respects local identities and imperial loyalties, and shows how British initiatives in the management of manpower, production and finance underwrote victory in the 1914-18 war.' Jay Winter, author of Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction Hew Strachan; 1. The United Kingdom in 1914 Catriona Pennell; Part I. Government: 2. The monarchy Heather Jones; 3. The growth of cabinet government George Peden; 4. The defence of the realm act G. R. Rubin; 5. Local Government: The experience of Essex Stuart Hallifax; 6. The clergy and cultural mobilisation Edward Madigan; Part II. Resources: 7. Iron and steel Peter Claughton; 8. Timber Rob Newman; 9. Fishing Robb Robinson; 10. Agriculture Keith Grieves; 11. Coal David Howell; 12. Finance Jonathan Boff; Part III. People: 13. Labour, the labour party and the trades unions Chris Wrigley; 14. Enlistment and conscription Ian Beckett; 15. Charities Peter Grant; 16. Refugees Pierre Purseigle; 17. Prisoners of war and internees Panikos Panayi; Part IV. Production: 18. Munitions Gerard Charmley; 19. Clothing and uniforms Krisztina Robert; 20. Shipbuilding and ship repair Hugh Murphy; 21. Railways Christopher Phillips; 22. Seaborne trade and merchant shipping Martin Wilcox and David J. Starkey; 23. Food Mary Elisabeth Cox; Part V. Social Impacts: 24. Press and propaganda David Monger; 25. Pacifism Martin Ceadel; 26. Homes and families Maggie Andrews; 27. Crime and policing Louise A. Jackson; 28. Children Rosie Kennedy; 29. The home front as war front Susan R. Grayzel; 30. The United Kingdom in 1919 Martin Daunton.
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Cambridge University Press Impunity and Capitalism
Book SynopsisImpunity and Capitalism examines the evolution of economic impunity in Europe across the long eighteenth century with a focus on several international financial crises: 1709, 1720, 179397 and 1825. Trevor Jackson considers how these crises happened, who was responsible for stopping them, and how financial capitalism created new forms of impunity.Trade Review'Jackson's account is well worth reading because of the power and continuing resonance of his central insight - impunity facilitated capitalism.' Robert Kuttner, The New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Preface: Impunity at the Origins of Financial Capitalism: 1. Professionalizing impunity: from the failures of 1709 to the crisis of 1720; 2. The crisis of 1720 and the invention of discredit; 3. Between independence and impunity: the legitimacy of central banking after the crisis of 1720; Part II: Preface: Revolutionary Impunity: 4. The end of the old financial regime, 1781–1793; 5. Recasting financial capitalism, 1796–1821; Part III: Preface: The Gold Standard and a Stable Impunity, 1815–1830: 6. The panic of 1825 and the systematization of impunity; Conclusion: monetary policy as conscience management.
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Cambridge University Press Churchill Chamberlain and Appeasement
Book SynopsisWas Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill''s views on foreign policy and strategic priorities, explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the military, economic and political context of the 1930s and where Chamberlain and Churchill agreed and disagreed on how best to deter Germany. Beginning in 1931 when Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer, this book explores the evolution of British policy towards Germany through to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath within the context of Britain''s power to influence international affairs in the 1930s and of contemporary intelligence.Trade Review'A masterly analysis that takes a fresh approach to appeasement, based on the author's expert knowledge and understanding of both policies and personalities.' Gill Bennett, Former FCO Chief Historian'A rigorous and compelling new look at one of the most important episodes in twentieth-century British and European History.' Richard Toye, University of ExeterTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Churchill, Chamberlain and historians; 2. Personalities and policymaking; 3. Britain and the balance of power; 4. The darkening scene; 5. The Ethiopian and Rhineland crises ; 6. Chamberlain takes charge; 7. From the Anschluss to Munich; 8. From Munich to Prague; 9. Deterrence by guarantee; 10. The test of war; 11. Counterfactuals and conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Orientation in European Romanticism
Book SynopsisExploring the experiments in individual and national self-consciousness conducted during the Romantic period, this essential comparative study of European literature, philosophy and politics makes original and often surprising connections and contrasts to reveal how personal and social identities were re-orientated and disorientated from the French Revolution onwards. Reviving a contested moment in the history of aesthetic theory, this study shows how the growing awareness of irresolution in Kant''s third Kritik allowed Romantic writers to put the aesthetic to radical uses not envisaged by its parent philosophy. It also recounts how they would go on to force philosophy to revise received notions of authority, empowering women and subordinated ethnic groups to re-orientate existing hierarchies. The sheer range and variety of writers covered is testament both to the breadth of writing that Kant''s philosophy so rashly legitimated and to the wider importance of philosophy to the understanTable of ContentsPart I. Disorientating Kant: 1. Introduction: sublimity and abjection; 2. Kleist and the Kant-crisis; 3. Hölderlin and the philosophers; Part II. The Uses of Abjection: 4. The feminist humanism of Felicia Hemans: the poetics of Records of Woman (1828); 5. Thomas Moore and the national lyric; 6. Ugo Foscolo's literary hypocrisy; Part III. Optimism and Pessimism: 7. Balzac's comic pessimism; 8. George Sand's optimism; Part IV. Romancing the Modern: 9. Retrospect: Rilke translates Leopardi.
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Cambridge University Press Futures of Socialism
Book SynopsisFutures of Socialism overhauls the history of 'modernisation' and the British Left and recasts our understanding of New Labour. It provides an innovative, iconoclastic history of debates over the 'modernisation' of the Labour Party, beginning with the shocks of the 1970s and ending with the emergence of New Labour.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The plural modernisations of the British left; Part I. Social Democracy and the Challenge to the Nation-State: 1. 'Keynes is dead, Beveridge is dead': modernisation, globalisation, and European integration; 2. Industrial democracy, market socialism, and stakeholder capitalism: modernisation and socioeconomic democracy; Part II. Identities and Mmodern Socialism': 3. 'An old working class may be waning, but a new one is being born'? Gender, Labour, and modernisation; 4. A telling absence: race, multiculturalism, and modernisation; Part III. The Search for a Modernising Social Democracy; 5. 'A modern democracy': modernisation and constitutional reform; 6. White heat to interactive whiteboard: modernisation and Labour's economic strategy; Conclusion: contested futures of socialism in Britain's late twentieth century.
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Cambridge University Press WorkingClass Raj
Book SynopsisWorking-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British working-class history in a global perspective.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family histories and remaking class in British India; 2. Writing family together across Imperial distances; 3. Military domesticity: creating working-class worlds in British India; 4. Servants in empire: wives, daughters, and domestic service; 5. Class and colonial knowledge: miseducation for empire; 6. Fragmented families: tracing the afterlives of working-class India.
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Cambridge University Press From the Gracchi to Sulla
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Brief Notes on the Sources and Authorities; 3. The Sources.
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Legare Street Press Chronological Tables of Greek History Accompanied
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Life of King John Sobieski John the Third of
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Legare Street Press Bolshevist Russia a Philosophical Survey
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