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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThe graphic history of the Nazi attempt to destroy the Jews of Europe during the Second World War is illustrated in this series of 363 detailed maps. The maps, and the text and photographs that accompany them, powerfully depict the fate of the Jews between 1933 and 1945, while also setting the chronological story in the wider context of the war itself. The maps include: Historical background from the effects of anti-Jewish violence between 1880 and 1933 to the geography of the existing Jewish communities when the Nazi Party came to power The beginning of the violence from the destruction of the synagogues in November 1938 to Jewish migrations and deportations, the ghettos, and the establishment of the concentration camps and death camps throughout German-dominated Europe The spread of Nazi rule the fate of the Jews throughout Europe including Germany, Austria, Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Russia, Denmark, Norway, France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, anTable of ContentsForeword, Preface, Acknowledgements, Notes to Fifth Edition Updates, List of Maps, Bibliography, Index of Places, Index of Individuals
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Scotland Before the Scots
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory. Using archaeological evidence, the author distinguishes 6 stages from the earliest definable groups of immigrants to the Iron Age. There are 10 appendices, devoted to the typology and classification of tombs, pottery, implements and fortifications. Table of Contents1. Classification of the Data 2. Stone Age Societies 3. The Early Bronze Age 4. The Heroic Age 5. The Late Bronze Age 6. The Celtic Iron Age. Appendices: 1. The Typology of Chambered Cairns and Their Contents 2. Typology of Beakers 3. Recumbent Stone Circles 4. Classification of Food Vessels 5. Extended Burials and Chieftain’s Graves of Stage 4. 6. List of Dagger Graves 7. Typology of Bronzes 8 Cinerary Urbs and Their Contents 9. Absolute Chronology 10. Bronze Age Graves in Orkney and Shetland 11. List of Gallic and Vitrified Forts 12. List of Abbreviations.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy
Book SynopsisIn the early Middle Ages (ninth to eleventh centuries), Italy became the target of Muslim campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruled her for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During that period, however, Christians and Muslims did not always fight each other. Indeed, sometimes they traded with the other' and visited the lands of the other'. By presenting the annotated English translation of the early medieval primary sources about how Muslims and Christians perceived each other, the circulation of news about them, and their knowledge of their opponents, this book aims to clarify the relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval Italy. Moreover, it proves that in that period the faithful of the Cross and those of the Crescent were not so ignorant of one another as is commonly believed.Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: A Sourcebook is the ideal resource for upper-levelTable of Contents1. Definitions and information about the other 2. Religious Otherness 3. Perceptions 4. Some ‘Light’ in the ‘Darkness’ 5. Supernatural Events 6. The Enemy is Coming 7. Prisoners 8. Going to the ‘Other’ 9. Encounters
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shadow Economies in the Globalising World
Book SynopsisFrom West Indian sugar and bottles of Southeast Asian arrack to French red wines, English felt cloth, and Mediterranean lemons, many global wares ended up in the Scandinavian borderlands during the late eighteenth century. This book explores how and why these goods came to be there and analyses what smuggling can reveal about the emergence of global trade, the formation of the nation state, and the development of consumer society in Europe's northernmost outskirts. This book shows that the global underground was ubiquitous in the Nordic countries and fundamentally altered them, politically, economically, socially, and culturally. Through re-evaluating the role of smuggling the book complements and challenges established historical accounts about state building, market dynamics, consumer culture, and ideas and identity. It also offers a roadmap for how to think about illegal global trade and how to approach this notoriously difficult research field. By integrating illegality, Trade Review'This innovative book reconceives smuggling not just as a national phenomenon but as both global and globalizing. At the same time, it shows how smugglers and smuggled commodities – such as coffee – profoundly influenced Nordic culture, politics, cultural mores, and even foreign policy.'Margaret R. Hunt, Professor of History, Uppsala UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Trade in Conflict 3. Porous Borders 4. Racketeering Retailers 5. Consuming Contraband: Worsteds & Coffee 6. Smuggling and the Perpetual War 7. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Monarchs and Hydrarchs
Book SynopsisAs the politico-economic exploits of vikings in and around the Frankish realm remain, to a considerable extent, obscured by the constraints of a fragmentary and biased corpus of (near-)contemporary evidence, this volume approaches the available interdisciplinary data on a cumulative and conceptual level, allowing overall spatiotemporal patterns of viking activity to be detected and defined â and thereby challenging the notion that these movements were capricious, haphazard, and gratuitous in character. Set against a backdrop of continuous commerce and knowledge exchange, this overarching survey demonstrates the existence of a relatively uniform, sequential framework of wealth extraction, encampment, and political engagement, within which Scandinavian fleets operated as adaptable, ambulant polities â or âhydrarchiesâ. By delineating and visualising this framework, a four-phased conceptual development model of hydrarchic conduct and consequence is established, whose validity isTrade ReviewMonarchs and Hydrarchs is an original and potentially important piece of work, which challenges widely accepted particularist interpretations of Viking activity in northern continental Europe, and rather seeks a coherent and dynamic understanding of the phenomenon. In applying the concept of ‘hydrarchy’ to the analysis of a range of sources (both well-known and under-researched), the study provides not only new data, but a new theoretical framework for their interpretation. Elegantly written and impressive in its interdisciplinary scope, this volume should be of significant interest to early medieval historians, archaeologists, and other scholars with or without previous knowledge of Scandinavian activity on the Continent. Dr Steven Ashby, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York, UK This book is an essential read for anyone engaging on research on the Viking Age in Francia. In Monarchs and Hydrarchs, Cooijmans has combined detailed analysis of viking activity and politics with the application of abstract conceptual models to identify overarching patterns of behaviour. One of the great strengths of the book is Cooijmans’s ability to draw on sources in a variety of languages and from different disciplines to develop an original and overarching survey of this field. Dr Clare Downham, Reader in Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, UK The contacts between the Scandinavian world and the Frankish realm of Charlemagne and beyond have been commonly viewed through the lens of near-contemporary sources of variable bias, limited onomastic elements, and even fewer archaeological finds. An awareness of the incursions along the major waterways underpins our basic knowledge of the region. These rivers, selected as case study regions (Loire, Seine, and the Lower Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt basin) are viewed here by Cooijmans as ‘representing expansive corridors of waterborne commerce and communication’ and, crucially, the points of convergence of mariners from various origins – not only those from the northern neighbours. However, in exploring and indeed characterising the so-called hydrarchy established through targeted contact (up to the 840s CE) and intensive activity (840s–930s CE) in the region, Monarchs and Hydrarchs enables insight into changes from passing contact to permanent settlement in Francia.Through the development of a temporal model, where the contact is subdivided into four distinct elements, commencing before the death of Charlemagne in 814 and progressing in intensity into the 930s, the author critically assesses the sources and demonstrates a clarity in the expedient decision-making of the vikings, based on ‘exchanges of intelligence, cumulative experience, and the collective need for socioeconomic subsistence and enrichment’. These words are the author’s, succinctly phrased and economically expressed, a true feature of the writing style of this volume. Through the detailed examination of the written sources in combination with a critical assessment of earlier scholarship, this author makes full use of the views of earlier scholars – building upon their strengths rather than fashionably demolishing all that has been written before. This is a valuable and major contribution to scholarship which will be well-cited for many years to come. Dr Colleen Batey,Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK"Monarchs and Hydrarchs is an original and potentially important piece of work, which challenges widely accepted particularist interpretations of Viking activity in northern continental Europe, and rather seeks a coherent and dynamic understanding of the phenomenon. In applying the concept of ‘hydrarchy’ to the analysis of a range of sources (both well-known and under-researched), the study provides not only new data, but a new theoretical framework for their interpretation. Elegantly written and impressive in its interdisciplinary scope, this volume should be of significant interest to early medieval historians, archaeologists, and other scholars with or without previous knowledge of Scandinavian activity on the Continent." ~ Dr Steven Ashby, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of York, UK "This book is an essential read for anyone engaging on research on the Viking Age in Francia. In Monarchs and Hydrarchs, Cooijmans has combined detailed analysis of viking activity and politics with the application of abstract conceptual models to identify overarching patterns of behaviour. One of the great strengths of the book is Cooijmans’s ability to draw on sources in a variety of languages and from different disciplines to develop an original and overarching survey of this field." ~ Dr Clare Downham, Reader in Irish Studies, University of Liverpool, UK "The contacts between the Scandinavian world and the Frankish realm of Charlemagne and beyond have been commonly viewed through the lens of near-contemporary sources of variable bias, limited onomastic elements, and even fewer archaeological finds. An awareness of the incursions along the major waterways underpins our basic knowledge of the region. These rivers, selected as case study regions (Loire, Seine, and the Lower Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt basin) are viewed here by Cooijmans as ‘representing expansive corridors of waterborne commerce and communication’ and, crucially, the points of convergence of mariners from various origins – not only those from the northern neighbours. However, in exploring and indeed characterising the so-called hydrarchy established through targeted contact (up to the 840s CE) and intensive activity (840s–930s CE) in the region, Monarchs and Hydrarchs enables insight into changes from passing contact to permanent settlement in Francia.Through the development of a temporal model, where the contact is subdivided into four distinct elements, commencing before the death of Charlemagne in 814 and progressing in intensity into the 930s, the author critically assesses the sources and demonstrates a clarity in the expedient decision-making of the vikings, based on ‘exchanges of intelligence, cumulative experience, and the collective need for socioeconomic subsistence and enrichment’. These words are the author’s, succinctly phrased and economically expressed, a true feature of the writing style of this volume. Through the detailed examination of the written sources in combination with a critical assessment of earlier scholarship, this author makes full use of the views of earlier scholars – building upon their strengths rather than fashionably demolishing all that has been written before. This is a valuable and major contribution to scholarship which will be well-cited for many years to come." ~ Dr Colleen Batey,Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Glasgow, UK"Monarchs and Hydrarchs provides the field with a new way of examining and understanding viking activity. It is worth noting that, although this monograph is part of the Routledge Archaeologies of the Viking World series, Cooijmans draws upon both archaeological materials and literary sources, and does so effortlessly in a way to which all scholars of the early medieval period should aspire. Accompanied by excellent summaries of the context, and well-illustrated throughout with maps, genealogical tables and spatial representations of the model, the book will be especially useful to early career researchers, yet there is much here that more experienced scholars will also want to consider." ~ Richard Broome, Sehepunkte"Monarchs and Hydrarchs will undoubtably push the study and discussion of Franco-Scandinavian interaction forward. Beyond the thorough analysis itself, the book is replete with useful charts, tables, and maps which will delight both graduate students and established scholars alike. No more will each individual have to scour the numerous annals to compile a list of attacks, encampments, and tribute payments, for instance. In this, Cooijmans has given a gift to the field. Above all, no work of this detail and breadth exists and it was sorely needed. With his thoughtful analysis of the available data, and his ability to read between the lines and extrapolate out patterns, Cooijmans exposes the complexity of Viking activity on the Continent. He champions new ways of conceptualizing Viking activity and organization, centered on the agency, rationality, and flexibility of the Norse. The work is without a doubt a must read whether one is specifically interested in Franco-Scandinavian engagement or in the Viking Age as a whole." - Daniel F. Melleno, The Medieval Review"Cooijmans has assembled a marvellous collection of primary sources, absolutely bursting with practical information on viking logistics. Maps and charts illustrate and summarise references to envoys from Scandinavia, viking camps, Frankish countermeasures, tribute payments, hostages, ransomed individuals, and more. His argument — that vikings were very organised, very plugged-in to local networks— is extremely persuasive. He avoids the familiar stereotypes and offers instead vikings in context: they were serious, dangerous, and resourceful, but not aberrations or incomprehensibly strange." ~ Prof. Lesley Abrams, Peritia"The volume benefts from Cooijmans’ clear, lucid prose. It is well illustrated, with a number of maps and family trees to orientate the reader, as well as representations of the phased spatial schematic. The meticulous tables alone — of raids, leaders or hydrarchs, and encampments mentioned in the annals — are a valuable resource for those interested in viking activity in Francia. This book overall helps to fill an important gap in the market." ~ Dr Caitlin Ellis, The Mediæval Journal"…a very useful and accessible volume for teaching and as a point of departure for anyone working on Scandinavian–Frankish contact in this period." - Robert Evans, Early Medieval Europe"This book is probably the best discussion of logistics and motivations of monarchs and hydrarchs of this period. It is to be highly recommended not just to students of 'the vikings' but to any mediaevalist." ~ Dr. Alex Woolf, Saga-BookTable of ContentsI. Introduction; II. The Scandinavian Perspective; III. Carolingian Francia; IV. Earliest Franco-Scandinavian Contact (up to 814); V. Early Viking Encounters (up to 840); VI. Intensified Viking Activity (c. 840s-930s); VII. Conceptual Development Model; VIII. Concluding Remarks and Discussion
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Taylor & Francis The Turkic Peoples in World History
Book SynopsisThe Turkic Peoples in World History is a thorough and rare introduction to the Turkic world and its role in world history, providing a concise history of the Turkic peoples as well as a critical discussion of their identities and origins.The Turks stepped on to the stage of history by establishing the TÃrk Qaghanate, the first trans-Eurasian empire in history, in 552 CE. In the following millennium, they went on to create empires that had a profound impact on world history such as the Uyghur, Khazar, and Ottoman empires. They also participated in building the Mongol empire, and these Turko-Mongol empires are credited with shaping the destinies of pre-modern China, the Middle East, and Europe. By treating the history of the Turkic peoples as a process of amalgamation and integration, rather than simply categorizing the Turkic peoples chronologically or geographically, this book offers new insights into Turkic history.This volume is a comprehensive guide for stuTrade ReviewLee’s book is an outstanding contribution, an important introduction to the Turkic-speaking world and its role in world history. It is a very convenient, readable introduction to a highly complicated area of study (the Central Asian and Middle Eastern Turkic world). Halford Mackinder (1861-1947), one of the founders of modern geographical studies, termed Central Asia "the pivot" of Eurasia, a role it is again playing in modern affairs. For those seeking background knowledge of the Central Asian/Central Eurasia states, Lee’s book offers a very solid introduction. This is an excellent introduction to the history of the Turkic peoples.Dr. Peter B. Golden, Professor Emeritus of History, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University (and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Lee’s book is an excellent piece of scholarship which gives a well-proportioned introduction to the theme. The author yields an in-depth narrative which is readable nonetheless. The book is useful for both undergraduate and graduate students.István Vásáry m.p. Emeritus Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, BudapestThe movement of Turkic peoples into western Eurasia represents one of the major world historical events during more than half a millennium that stretched between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. It culminated with the establishment of the Ottoman Empire by Oghuz Turks. Joo-Yup Lee’s book The Turkic Peoples in World History offers readers a lucid guide to the complex process of Turkic migration, settlement and empire-building. Dr. Lee is the author of the widely praised work, Qazaqliq or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs: State and Identity in Post-Mongol Central Eurasia, as well important scholarly articles on the history and identity of Turks and Mongols. His work is informed by an ability to utilize sources in half a dozen languages of the Eurasian region as well as by a specialized knowledge of the genetic relationships of Central Asian peoples. His new book is, quite simply, the best new introduction to the broad geographical and historical expanse of Turkic history.Stephen Frederic Dale, author of The Garden of the Eight Paradises, Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) and The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and MughalsThis survey is an excellent addition to the study of world history. Joo-Yup Lee provides a concise study with depth and substance that demonstrates the importance of the Turkic peoples in world history, while lucidly connecting the past with the present that both student and specialist will appreciate.Timothy May, Professor of Central Eurasian History, University of North GeorgiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Earliest, Nomad Turkic Peoples of the Mongolian Steppe: Tiele, Türks, and Uyghurs 2. The Various Turkic Peoples of South Siberia, Central Asia, and the Qipchaq Steppe: Qirghiz, Khazars, Bulghars, Qarakhanid Türks, and Qipchaqs 3. The Oghuz Turkic Peoples of West Asia and the Middle East: Seljuks, Ottomans, and Other Turkmen Groups 4. The Turko-Mongols (or "Mongol Turks") of the Qipchaq Steppe and Central Asia Epilogue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nation and the Writing of History in China and
Book SynopsisNation and the Writing of History in China and Britain explores, through a comparative approach, the reception of the nationalist worldview and its effects on the practice of history in China and Britain. This book proposes that nationalism, rather than a political doctrine, is a way of making sense of the world which results from the combination of a set of definite assumptions. The work analyzes how each one of these premises was accepted and negotiated by literati, intellectuals, historians, and other scholars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The results of this research showcase how the reception of the new nationalist worldview crucially affected images of the past, the present, and the future in both societies and decisively framed cultural, social, and political debate. In addition, they likewise evidence the fundamental role that historical narratives play in the crystallization of national identities.This book is perfect for readers intereTable of Contents1. The Mirror of the Nation: the importance of national histories 2. History in China and Britain during the 19th century 3. The Age of Disorder: The breakup of Whig history and Classical historiography 4. The Echo of the Popular Mind: the nation as a collective 5. Nations United: the evolving politics of national belonging 6. The quest for national continuity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe
Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century. Border regime is interpreted widely, including inbound and outbound travels, permanent and temporary movements, distance and local border traffic, borderland fortifications, penalties for borderland offences, and also restrictions of free movement, even inside a given country. Based on archival sources from Hungary and the Czech Republic, extensive literature and more than two decades of research, the author distinguishes between two basic border regimes: the restrictive eastern and the permissive western systems, and a transitional zone between them. The historical development of these regimes is discussed in the framework of waves of globalisation and territorialisation. Border Regimes in Twentieth Century Europe offers the first-ever systematic comparison of European Table of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter 1 Theoretical background / Chapter 2 The emergence of the western and eastern model / Chapter 3 The period of the two World Wars / Chapter 4 Cold War tendencies / Chapter 5 Border regimes of East Central Europe, 1945–1989 / Conclusions / Sources and bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd This WorkingDay World
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 191445. The volume describes women's activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees. Each essay, from an international list of contributors, is based on new research which will complement existing studies in a range of disciplines by adding information on, among other topics, women's teacher training colleges, and women in the BBC, in medical laboratories and in Art schools. The book does not, however, idealise women: the militarism and racism of the period infected women too, and this is revealed in the account of women in the British Union of Fascists, and the analysis of the Pankhursts' merging of patriotism and gender issues.Through studies and personal accounts, This Working-Day World reveals past issues that are still pertinent to debatesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Section I: Social History, 1. The Weekly Wash, 2. A ‘Trade Union for Married Women’: The Women’s Co-operative Guild 1914–1920, 3. The Women’s Institute Movement – The Acceptable Face of Feminism?, 4. A Woman’s Right to Work? The Role of Women in the Unemployed Movement Between the Wars, 5. The Culture of Femininity in Women’s Teacher Training Colleges 1914–1945, 6. The Diary of Doreen Bates: Single Parenthood and the Civil Service, Section II: Political History, 7. Gendering Patriotism: Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst and World War One, 8. England’s Cassandras in World War One, 9. Women in the British Union of Fascists, 1932–1940, 10. British Feminists and Anti-Fascism in the 1930s, 11. Working with the ‘Kindertransports’, 12. An Austrian Refugee in Wartime Manchester, Section III: Cultural History, 13. ‘A Fair Field and No Favour’: Women Artists Working in Britain Between the Wars, 14. British Women Surrealists – Deviants from Deviance?, 15. Hilda Matheson and the BBC, 1926–1940, 16. ‘Nothing is Impracticable for a Single, Middle-Aged Woman with an Income of her Own’: The Spinster in Women’s Fiction of the 1920s, 17. Chloe, Olivia, Isabel, Letitia, Harriette, Honour, and Many More: Women in Medicine and Biomedical Science 1914–1945, Notes on Contributors, Appendix: Archive Resources for Research on 20th Century British Women, Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque
Book SynopsisLandscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country, 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography, it analyses the process of historical construction of the Basque landscape, highlighting its multiple political, social and cultural meanings.The book is divided into two parts: the first examines the discourses, images and representations of the Basque landscape; the second examines landscape practices through tourism, hiking and mountaineering. Focusing on the Basque case but establishing numerous connections with comparable phenomena in Western Europe, the book demonstrates that the landscape became a structuring element insofar as it helped shape individual identities while participating in the creation of social links. This book examines the processes of identity construction from below by means of new interpretative tools, such as Trade ReviewThrough the study of the landscape and its practices, mainly sports, Maitane Ostolaza shows us the whole of Basque society, in all its astonishing complexity. This ambitious book undertakes a true history of the environment "from below", where the realms of historicity and geography are intimately linked.Stéphane Michonneau, Professor of Contemporary History, University of LilleThanks to her vast knowledge of the scholarly literature and sources, the author beautifully analyses the process of construction of a Basque identity landscape. Her attention to the actors of this process allows her to present with great insight the different landscape grammars that demonstrate the multiple facets of the mountain, the forest and the sea.François Walter, Professor of History, University of GenevaThis original and engaging book is required reading for anyone attempting to understand not only the pivotal role of landscape (the sea, the mountains) in Basque history and identity but also the fascination exerted by Basque places (Biarritz, Gernika, Bilbao, San Sebastian) on travellers, tourists and scholars worldwide, particularly since the Romantic period. Joseba Zulaika, Emeritus Professor, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, RenoTable of ContentsAcronyms and AbbreviationsPREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITIONACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONPart OneDISCOURSES, IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LANDSCAPECHAPTER 1: Narratives of LandscapeRomantic Landscapes, Mythical LandscapesLandscapes of Fuerismo: Between the Oasis and the Indomitable MountainsIn Search of a Vernacular LandscapeFrom Region to Nation via LandscapeRegional Landscapes National LandscapesCHAPTER 2: The Dissemination of Landscape Discourse and Language: The Role of the PressThe Modern Press and the Dissemination of Landscape DiscourseJournals and Periodicals: Pioneers in Extolling the Basque Landscape The 1920s Press: Landscape as a Means of Nation BuildingThe Basque-Language Press and the Popular View of LandscapePart TwoLANDSCAPE PRACTICESCHAPTER 3: Tourism and ExcursionsTourism, Identity and LandscapeExcursionsTouristic and Recreational ExcursionsCHAPTER 4: Mountaineering, Landscape and IdentityDiscovering the MountainsLandscape and Gender: Women Take to the MountainsFrom the Mountains to the Nation: The MendigoizalesCONCLUSIONSELECT BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Short History of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisA Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians' interpretations of these events.The book covers all aspects of the Revolution, including the political, social, and cultural origins of the Revolution, and its causes, events, and aftermath. It provides readers with a full, and yet concise, overview of the Revolution that helps them easily understand the key elements of the subject. Fully updated and revised, this new edition allows students to engage with the most current work on the subject with increased attention given to women's role in the Revolution, full coverage of the struggles over race and slavery, a new emphasis on the populist element in revolutionary politics, and an expanded discussion of the historiography of the era.Supported by learning objectives, critical thinking questions,Table of Contents1 The Origins of the French Revolution / 2 The Collapse of the Absolute Monarchy, 1787–1789 / 3 The Revolutionary Rupture, 1789–1790 / 4 The Defeat of the Liberal Revolution, 1790–1792 / 5 The Convention and the Radical Republic, 1792–1794 / 6 The Return to Order, 1794–1799 / 7 The Napoleonic Consulate, 1799–1804 / 8 The Napoleonic Empire, 1804–1815 / 9 The Revolutionary Heritage / 10 Chronology of Principal Events During the French Revolution / 11 Suggestions for Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Three Faces of Antisemitism
Book SynopsisThree Faces of Antisemitism examines the three primary forms of antisemitism as they emerged in modern and contemporary Germany, and then in other countries.The chapters draw on the author's historical scholarship over the years on the form antisemitism assumed on the far right in Weimar and Nazi Germany, in the Communist regime in East Germany, and in the West German radical left, and in Islamist organizations during World War II and the Holocaust, and afterward in the Middle East. The resurgence of antisemitism since the attacks of September 11, 2001, has origins in the ideas, events, and circumstances in Europe and the Middle East in the half century from the 1920s to the 1970s. This book covers the period since 1945 when neo-Nazism was on the fringes of Western and world politics, and the persistence of antisemitism took place primarily when its leftist and Islamist forms combined antisemitism with anti-Zionism in attacks on the state of Israel. The collection inTrade Review'Herf's analyses provide outstanding insights into the historical nature of anti-Semitism. More, it is a decisive read to understand that anti-Semitism is an element not just in National Socialism, but in leftwing extremism and Islamic fundamentalism and a troubling political threat that looms to the present day.'Magnus Brechtken, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin, Germany'Jeffrey Herf has given us an indispensable collection of essays on how contemporary antisemitism cross-pollinated between the Nazis, Cold War Communists and New Leftists, and the Arab/Muslim allies of both. The essential thread throughout is that there is not, nor has there ever been, separation between the hatred of the Jews and the “anti-Zionism,” which supposedly makes it respectable.'Norman JW Goda, author of The Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945'With the defeat of Hitler and Stalin, many thought the antisemitism of the modern era was over. To understand the shocking, worldwide resurgence of antisemitic ideology and violence in recent years, the renowned historian Jeffrey Herf dissects the contemporary in light of the historical. His essays are thoughtful, profound, and crucially important.'Susannah Heschel, Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor, Dartmouth College, USA'Jeffrey Herf is a superb historian, meticulous in his research, thoughtful and morally acute in his analyses, and uniquely capable of training his spotlight across large swaths of the globe. Read his essays––you will see this for yourself.'Paul Berman, author of Terror and Liberalism and The Flight of the Intellectuals'In analysing links between antisemitism on the right, the left and within Islamist thinking, Herf demonstrates just how pervasive and corrosive the hatred of Jews can be. Three Faces of Antisemitism is an incisive, timely and judicious study of forms and expressions of antisemitism in the 20th and 21st centuries.'Bill Niven, Professor Emeritus for Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University, UK'An immensely valuable book by one of the most inspiring experts on antisemitism. Jeffrey Herf's essays span from Nazi antisemitism as the precondition for the Holocaust to contemporary forms of hatred of Jews and Israel. This reveals how totalitarian thinking has been targeted at the "Jewish Enemy" for a century.'Martin Cüppers, Scientific Head Research Institute Ludwigsburg, University of Stuttgart, Germany"Jeffrey Herf has made a scholarly commitment to document the words of Islamic Jew-hatred from their origins in Egypt and wartime Berlin. That has made him a lonely voice in the American professoriate, which has been largely colonized by the pro-Palestinian Left..For the rest of us, though, Herf’s books teach us that we should always take the Islamists’ words and promises seriously. For the Jewish state, this is now a matter of life and death."Excerpt from Sol Stern, "A Historian for Our Moment", review for Quillette: https://quillette.com/2024/01/10/a-historian-for-our-moment/Q&A Interview with Deborah Kalb: https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2024/01/q-with-jeffrey-herf.htmlTable of ContentsForeword for Jeffrey Herf’s Three Faces of AntisemitismDavid HirshAcknowledgments Introduction: Three Faces of Antisemitism1 Reactionary Modernism, the Jews, and Anticapitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany2 The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Germany’s Core Antisemitic Conspiracy Theory 3 Nazi Anti-Zionism4 Nazi Propaganda Aimed at Arabs and Muslims during World War II and the Holocaust5 The Importance and the Limits of Husseini’s Influence in Nazi Berlin6 East German Communists and the Jewish Question: In Memory of Sigrid Meushel (1944–2016) and for Anetta Kahane7 East Germany from Antifascism to Undeclared Wars with Israel, 1967–19898 The West German Left and Israel, 1967–19779 Antisemitism and White Racism: Similarities and Differences10 Antisemitic Conspiracies Yet Again: White Racism, Holocaust Denial, and Ideological Assaults on IsraelEssays on Antisemitism and Contemporary History Since September 11, 200111 What is Old and What is New in the Terrorism of Islamic Fundamentalism?12 Why They Fight: Hamas’ Too-Little-Known Fascist Charter13 Is Donald Trump a Fascist?14 Ideological Exceptionalism: Taking Iran’s Antisemitism Seriously15 Antisemitism and the Academy since 9/1116 Conclusion: The Era of Simultaneity of Antisemitism’s Three FacesSelected BibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nemesis at Potsdam
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive. How did this extraordinary event come about? Was it necessary for the peace of Europe? What role did Britain and the United States play in authorizing the transfer'? The book answers these questions and relates the integration of the German expellees to the phenomenal resurgence of West Germany, and traces the development of Ostpolitik and détente through to the Helsinki Declaration. It will be of interest to students of history, international relations, and political science.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Principle of Population Transfers 2. The Germans of Czechoslovakia 3. The Genesis of the Oder-Neisse Line: The Conferences of Tehran and Yalta 4. The Flight: Prelude to the Expulsions 5. Anglo-American Plan of Limited Transfers 6. ‘Orderly and Humane’ Transfers 7. From Morgenthau Plan to Marshall Plan 8. Peace Without a Peace Treaty 9. Recognition or Revision of the Oder-Neisse Line 10. Towards the Future Notes Appendix Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press Art and Rhetoric in Roman Culture
Book SynopsisRhetoric was fundamental to education and to cultural aspiration in the Greek and Roman worlds. It was one of the key aspects of antiquity that slipped under the line between the ancient world and Christianity erected by the early Church in late antiquity. Ancient rhetorical theory is obsessed with examples and discussions drawn from visual material. This book mines this rich seam of theoretical analysis from within Roman culture to present an internalist model for some aspects of how the Romans understood, made and appreciated their art. The understanding of public monuments like the Arch of Titus or Trajan's Column or of imperial statuary, domestic wall painting, funerary altars and sarcophagi, as well as of intimate items like children's dolls, is greatly enriched by being placed in relevant rhetorical contexts created by the Roman world.Table of ContentsPreface Michel Meyer; Introduction Jaś Elsner; Part I. Architecture and Public Space: 1. On the sublime in architecture Edmund Thomas; 2. Sublime histories, exceptional viewers: Trajan's Column and its visibility Francesco de Angelis; 3. Corpore enormi: the rhetoric of physical appearance in Suetonius and imperial portrait statuary Jennifer Trimble; 4. Beauty and the Roman female portrait Eve D'Ambra; Part II. The Domestic Realm: 5. The Casa del Menandro in Pompeii: rhetoric and the topology of Roman wall-painting Katharina Lorenz; 6. Agamemnon's grief: on the limits of expression in Roman rhetoric and painting Verity Platt; Part III. The Funerary: 7. Rhetoric and art in third-century AD Rome Barbara Borg; 8. Poems in stone: reading mythological sarcophagi through Statius' Consolations Zahra Newby; 9. The funerary altar of Pedana and the rhetoric of unreachability Caroline Vout; 10. Rational, passionate and appetitive: the psychology of rhetoric and the transformation of visual culture from non-Christian to Christian sarcophagi in the Roman world Jaś Elsner; Part IV. Rhetoric and the Visual: 11. The ordo of rhetoric and the rhetoric of order Michael Squire; Coda: the rhetoric of Roman painting within the history of culture: a global interpretation Michel Meyer.
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Cambridge University Press Economy Family and Society from Rome to Islam A Critical Edition English Translation and Study of Brysons Management of the Estate
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Cambridge University Press Hellenistic and Biblical Greek A Graduated Reader
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Cambridge University Press Classical Victorians Scholars Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity Classics after Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Fighting the Peoples War
Book SynopsisFighting the People''s War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the ''citizen armies'' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa, the core of the British and Commonwealth armies in the Second World War. Drawing on new sources to reveal the true wartime experience of the ordinary rank and file, Jonathan Fennell fundamentally challenges our understanding of the War and of the relationship between conflict and socio-political change. He uncovers how fractures on the home front had profound implications for the performance of the British and Commonwealth armies and he traces how soldiers'' political beliefs, many of which emerged as a consequence of their combat experience, proved instrumental to the socio-political changes of the postwar era. Fighting the People''s War transforms our understanding of how the great battles were won and lost as well as how the postwar societies were forged.Trade Review'[A] weighty, admirably uncomfortable account [by] an impressively diligent and thoughtful young historian … This is a fascinating and important book, which brings together a mass of information … never before assembled under one roof.' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times'Incredibly well-researched, brilliantly written and quite frankly, an outstanding book.' History of War'A richly documented, provocative and convincing study.' David French, The Times Literary Supplement'Fennell draws on a wide literature and deep archival research to explore how the Commonwealth armies fought key battles and campaigns, but he never loses sight of the role of citizen soldiers and how they exerted agency in calamitous defeats and gritty victories. Fighting the People's War offers new interpretations in the global fight against Fascism, and will be required reading for scholars and the historically-minded public.' Tim Cook, author of The Necessary War and Fight to the Finish'This is an outstanding book, based on immersion in archives across the globe. Rich in insights, it demands that we rethink the way we view the armies of the British Empire in the Second World War.' Gary Sheffield, author of A Short History of the First World War'Indispensable for understanding both World War II and the modern British experience. Fennell's major contribution integrates three themes usually compartmentalized. Its base is the analysis of Britain's development of an army able to fight and win a global war. That costly achievement both fostered and depended on growing cohesion within the participating societies. Wartime cohesion and comradeship in turn brought classes together in the postwar 'quiet revolution' that ended the Empire and redefined the Commonwealth.' Dennis Showalter, author of Hitler's Panzers: The Lightning Attacks that Revolutionized Warfare'Comprehensive, detailed and authoritative, Fennell breaks out of the national straitjackets that restrict our understanding of how the Commonwealth fought WWII - a triumph of multi-national research.' Peter Stanley, author of 'Terriers' in India'This is a hugely impressive, sweepingly ambitious book which brings together the military histories of all the British Commonwealth nations for the first time. It asks vital questions about the relationship between wartime experience, society, and politics in a unique transnational way. A remarkable and valuable achievement.' Alan Allport, author of Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War 1939–1945'An absolutely fascinating and fresh account of the Commonwealth armies at war … very well written and totally accessible. It contains a wealth of information that is fresh and new, and Fennell's insights on subjects that many might imagine are familiar will be of real interest … Highly recommended.' Taylor Downing, Military History Matters'Jonathan Fennell's astonishing book is full of compelling arguments that complete the puzzle of British, Commonwealth and Imperial victory in WW2. It's quite fantastic and revealing … an incredible story. Absolutely recommend it.' Al Murray, Comedian and TV Personality'The size, scale, and significance of this book is nothing but staggering.' Munitions of the Mind (www.blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-the-mind)'Jonathan Fennell has produced a compelling and magisterial history of the British and Commonwealth armies between 1939 and 1945 … Fighting the People's War establishes Fennell as among the leaders of the next generation of Second World War scholars.' Jonathan Boff, History Today'This is a major contribution to the literature of the war, and a useful read for anyone interested in understanding how perceptions of war change over time.' New York Military Affairs Symposium Review'Fighting the People's War will serve for years to come as the standard work on the British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War. It deserves the widest possible audience.' Mark Klobas, Michigan War Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of figures; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Overview of maps; Introduction; Part I. The Military and Political Context; 1. Interwar: 1.1 Materiel and manpower; 1.2 Doctrine; 1.3 Training and organisation; 1.4 Politics and public morale; 1.5 Structure and contingency; 2. Mobilisation: 2.1 The political context; 2.2 Mobilisation; 2.3 Equality of sacrifice?; 2.4 The social contract; 2.5 Rhetoric and reality; Part II. The Great Crisis of Empire; 3. Defeat in the West: 3.1 The 'Phoney War'; 3.2 The Norwegian campaign; 3.3 The Battle of France; 3.4 Assessments and recriminations; 3.5 Preparing for invasion; 4. The Middle East: 4.1 Operation 'Compass'; 4.2 From East Africa to the Balkans; 4.3 The Battle for Crete; 4.4 Strategic overstretch; 4.5 Operation 'Crusader'; 4.6 Spring 1942; 4.7 Gazala; 4.8 The July battles; 5. The Far East: 5.1 The strategic context; 5.2 Preparations; 5.3 The Malaya campaign; 5.4 The invasion of Burma; 5.5 The fall of Singapore; 5.6 Retreat to India; 5.7 The cost of failure; 6. The great imperial morale crisis: 6.1 The anatomy of defeat; 6.2 Morale crisis; 6.3 The ideological deficit; 6.4 The soldier and the state; Part III. Transformation; 7. Victory in North Africa: 7.1 No retreat; 7.2 Alam Halfa; 7.3 Colossal cracks; 7.4 War Office initiatives; 7.5 El Alamein; 7.6 The Tunisian campaign; 8. New Guinea and Burma: 8.1 The 'Battle for Australia'; 8.2 Kokoda; 8.3 Wau; 8.4 Quit India; 8.5 The Arakan; Part IV. The Limits of Attrition; 9. The Mediterranean: 9.1 Strategy and preparation; 9.2 The Sicilian campaign; 9.3 Opportunity lost; 9.4 The invasion of Italy; 9.5 Advance to the 'Gustav Line'; 9.6 Winter in Italy; 10. Remobilisation?: 10.1 The British Army and the Beveridge Report; 10.2 The New Zealand Furlough mutiny; 10.3 The UDF and the 'Blue Oath'; 10.4 Procedural justice; 11. Cassino: 11.1 Anzio and the First Battle of Cassino; 11.2 The Second Battle of Cassino; 11.3 The Third Battle of Cassino; 11.4 The Fourth Battle of Cassino (Operation 'Diadem'); 12. Transformation in the jungle: 12.1 Training and doctrine; 12.2 Institutional reform; 12.3 The South-West Pacific area; 12.4 Operation 'Postern'; 12.5 Burma; 12.6 Second Arakan; 12.7 Imphal and Kohima; 12.8 Turn around; Part V. Redemption; 13. D-Day: 13.1 Training and doctrine; 13.2 Selection and morale; 13.3 The assault; 13.4 Controversy; 14. Normandy: 14.1 The battle for Caen; 14.2 Operation 'Goodwood'; 14.3 Breakout; 14.4 Encirclement; 14.5 The trap; 15. The victory campaigns: 15.1 Operation 'Market Garden'; 15.2 Operation 'Olive'; 15.3 Manpower crisis; 15.4 The Scheldt and the 'Siegfried Line'; 15.5 Operational and tactical transformations; 15.6 Victory in Italy; 15.7 The surrender of Germany; 15.8 The South-West Pacific area; 15.9 Burma; 15.10 Operations 'Capital' and 'Extended Capital'; Part VI. The Post-War World; 16. Soldiers and social change: 16.1 From combat cohesion to social cohesion; 16.2 The forces vote and the 1945 British General Election; 16.3 The forces vote and New Zealand's great experiment in social citizenship; 16.4 The forces vote and the formalisation of apartheid in South Africa; 16.5 Soldiers, veterans and the partition of India; 16.6 Soldiers, veterans and social change; Conclusion: C.1 A deficit of political legitimacy; C.2 Military performance; C.3 Consequences; C.4 Fighting the people's war; Appendix 1. The censorship summaries; Appendix 2. The morale reports; Appendix 3. Quantitative indicators of morale; Appendix 4. Defining morale; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ancestral Fault in Ancient Greece
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Cambridge University Press The British End of the British Empire
Book SynopsisHow did decolonization impact on Britain? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? These questions are explored in an account of the ways in which domestic institutions reconfigured their activities for a postcolonial world, and continued to assert influence after the end of empire.Trade Review'With this book Sarah Stockwell emerges as the one of the foremost economic historians of the British Empire. By studying the linkages between the colonial service, the universities, the Bank, the Army and above all the Mint, she explains the reasons British overseas businesses were able to carry on and move with the times, with difficult and painful adjustments, eventually finding significant success hardly imaginable in the era of decolonization.' Roger Louis, University of Texas'Any sophisticated grasp of the peculiarly British dimensions of global decolonization in the decades after 1945 needs to come to grips with the empire's domestic institutional stakeholders. In this meticulous study, Sarah Stockwell delivers just that. Brimming with insights, The British End of the British Empire reveals how the institutional framework of empire persisted, and at times even flourished, in a changing world.' Stuart Ward, University of CopenhagenTable of Contents1. The imperial roles of British institutions; 2. Technical assistance and state building at the end of empire; 3. Teaching what 'the natives need to know': the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and training for overseas public administration; 4. 'Education and propaganda': the Bank of England and the development of central banking in African states at the end of empire; 5. Making Money: the Royal Mint and British decolonization; 6. 'Losing an empire and winning friends': Sandhurst and British decolonization.
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Cambridge University Press Prokofievs Soviet Operas
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Ireland
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Cambridge University Press Learn Latin from the Romans
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Cambridge University Press Justifying Injustice
Book SynopsisPost-war legal scholars commonly consider the Third Reich''s judicial system to be the paradigm of ''evil law''. By examining how crucial parts of this distorted normative order evolved and were justified by regime-loyal legal theorists, we can appreciate how law can bend to a political ideology and fail to keep state power from transgressing elementary standards of humanity and the rule of law. From 1933 to 1939, a flood of publications reflected on the question of how to adapt law to the political ends of National Socialism, debating both the normative and constitutional foundations of the National Socialist state, and the proper form and content of criminal and police law in this new political framework. These debates, the main threads of which are central to this book, reveal the normative ideas driving the Führer state and the legal subtext to the Nazi regime''s escalating atrocities.Trade Review'At long last, we have a reliable primer on Nazi law. Justifying Injustice provides a terrific introduction to the theory and history of authoritarian legalism in a much-misunderstood case. To say that the law of the 'Third Reich' was morally odious, insists Pauer-Studer, is not enough. Far more important is reconstructing the socio-legal context in which the norms and institutions of Nazi law were invented, weaponized, and wielded. With tact and care, Pauer-Studer offer just such a reconstruction. She faults legal positivists and natural lawyers for their shared inability to come to terms with the really existing practices of Nazi legality. Although written from the perspective of legal theory, Justifying Injustice allows us to see the violence of law at the point of its application, thereby illuminating brightly the legal origins of Nazi dictatorship.' Jens Meierhenrich, Director of the Centre of International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political ScienceTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. From the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich; 3. The Führer state: facts and ideology; 4. National Socialist criminal law; 5. Racial legislation; 6. Police law; 7. The SS jurisdiction; 8. The moralization of law in National Socialism.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history. In that way the wealth of material found around these great coasts is brought together with the best methodology in all fields of study. This landmark book broadens the whole concept and range of theatre outside Athens. It shows ways in which the colonial world of the Black Sea may be compared importantly with Southern Italy and Sicily in terms of theatre and performance. At the same time, it shows too how the Black Sea world itself can be better understood through a focus on the development of theatre and performance there, both among Greeks and among their local neighbours.Table of ContentsPart I. Approaches: 1. Introduction – embarking on a voyage around Black Sea theatre David Braund; 2. The spread of Greek theatre to the West – and to the North-East? Oliver Taplin; 3. The northward advance of Greek horizons Stephanie West; Part II. Places: 4. The tragedians of Heraclea and comedians of Sinope Edith Hall; 5. The Phanagoria Chous – comic art in miniature in a luxury tomb in the Cimmerian Bosporus Jeffrey Rusten; 6. Theatre and performance in the Bosporan Kingdom David Braund; 7. Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesus Sergey Saprykin; 8. Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea Valeriya Bylkova; 9. Celebrating Dionysos in Istros and Tomis – theatrical manifestations and artistic life in two Ionian cities of the Black Sea Madalina Dana; 10. Ancient theatres and theatre-art of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and Thracian Hinterland Alexander Minchev; Part III. Plays: 11. Space, place and the metallurgical imagination of the Prometheus trilogy Emmanuela Bakola; 12. Fragmentary Greek tragedies set in the Black Sea Rosie Wyles; 13. Black Sea back story – Euripides' Medea Edith Hall; 14. Mind-games in the Crimea – Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris Felix Budelmann; 15. Visualising Euripides' Tauric Temple of the Maiden Goddess Edith Hall; Part IV. Performative Presences: 16. Music and performance among Greeks and Scythians Marina Vakhtina; 17. A new mask and musical instruments from the Eastern Bosporus Vladimir Bochkovoy, David Braund, Roman Mimokhodov and Nikolay Sudarev; 18. The Cult of Dionysus in Ancient Georgia Manana Odisheli; 19. Paratheatrical performances in the Bosporan Kingdom – the evidence of terracotta figurine Maya Muratov; 20. Historiography and theatre: the tragedy of Scythian King Skyles David Braund; 21. Life trajectories – Iphigenia, Helen and Achilles on the Black Sea Froma Zeitlin; Epilogue: dancing around the Black Sea – Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian's bacchants David Braund.
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Cambridge University Press Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England
Book SynopsisSarah Elliott Novacich explores how medieval thinkers pondered the ethics and pleasures of the archive. She traces three episodes of sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - across works of poetry, performance records, and iconography in order to demonstrate how medieval artists turned to sacred history to think through aspects of cultural transmission. Performances of the loss of Eden blur the relationship between original and record; stories of Noah's ark foreground the difficulty of compiling inventories; and engagements with the Harrowing of Hell suggest the impossibility of separating the past from the present. Reading Middle English plays alongside chronicles, poetry, and works of visual art, Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England considers how poetic form, staging logistics, and the status of performance all contribute to our understanding of the ways in which medieval thinkers imagined the archive.Trade Review'The examples she [Novacich] chooses out of representations of sacred history in drama and poetry offer an elegant case study of how literature might explicate a historical crisis, providing a brilliant argument for even greater exchange between fields in the humanities.' Hannah Leah Crummé, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Model worlds; 2. Ark and archive; 3. Uxor Noe and the drowned; 4. Infernal archive; 5. The Harrowing of Hell: closure and rehearsal.
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Cambridge University Press A Historical Introduction to English Law
Book SynopsisEnglish law is often taught and understood in a non-historical way, but historical context helps us see how many of the ideas and institutions that we think of as being fixed are nothing of the sort. Accessibly written for those new to studying law, this book provides the fascinating 'back story' of how the English common law developed.Trade Review'Russell Sandberg continues his laudable mission to persuade law students to bring a historical dimension to their studies, encouraging them to do so with his useful and lively account of important stories and debates about the common law's origins and developments, from the Old English kingdoms to the seventeenth century.' Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol'A refreshing and thoughtful appraisal of the place and importance of early English legal history and of the historical approach to law. Engagingly written, this text will be an invaluable and enlightening companion to all students of law, enabling them to contextualise and rationalise their legal studies.' Chantal Stebbings, University of Exeter'An edgy, erudite and engaging story of English legal history. Eschewing a smooth narrative of progress, this volume shows how the common law tradition grew by fits and starts over the centuries. Students will love this bouncy and buoyant introduction to legal history, and seasoned scholars will learn much from this 'subversive' account.' John Witte, Jr, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsPrologue: The Man of Law's Tale; 1. The need for legal history; 2. The architects of legal history; 3. The Anglo-Saxon legacy; 4. The Norman Conquest (c.1066–1154); 5. The father of the common law (c.1154–1215); 6. The myth of Magna Carta (c.1215–1272); 7. The English Justinian (c.1272–1307); 8. The Black Death (c.1307–1485) ; 9. The Tudor transformation (c.1485–1603); 10. The Stuart suicide (c.1603–1649); Epilogue: Destiny of the common law; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press The French Army and the First World War Armies of
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive new history of the French army's critical contribution to the Great War. Ranging across all fronts, Elizabeth Greenhalgh examines the French army's achievements and failures and sets these in the context of the difficulties of coalition warfare and the relative strengths and weaknesses of the enemy forces it faced. Drawing from new archival sources, she reveals the challenges of dealing with and replenishing a mass conscript army in the face of slaughter on an unprecedented scale, and shows how, through trials and defeats, French generals and their troops learned to adapt and develop techniques which eventually led to victory. In a unique account of the largest Allied army on the Western Front, she revises our understanding not only of wartime strategy and combat, but also of other crucial aspects of France's war, from mutinies and mail censorship to medical services, railways and weapons development.Trade Review'There's far too much in this book to summarize here, but let it suffice to say that this is an essential read for anyone interested in the Great War.' A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review'The Anglophone military history of the Great War runs something like this: French generals callously massacred their own infantry in fruitless offensives in 1914–15; the French poilus heroically held Verdun in 1916; and in 1917, an exhausted French Army came near to collapse, only to be rescued by a revitalized British Army, the Americans, and the tanks. Greenhalgh's impressive new work provides an important corrective to this myth. The French Army was, in fact, the linchpin of the entire Allied effort, and the story of its victory is central to understanding the real war. Based on printed primary sources as well as archival research, the volume offers not only a comprehensive history of the army's operations on multiple fronts, but adds significant detail on the mobilization of French manpower to sustain a war of attrition fought primarily on French soil … This fine book is an important corrective to most Great War narratives. Bottom line: mandatory for modern history collections. Summing up: essential.' G. P. Cox, Choice'A cogent and eminently readable rebuttal to the inaccurate stereotypes that have long dominated non-specialist view of the French Army in World War I. She shows a French Army that was flawed, but whose officers and men continually sought new ways to overcome the momentous challenge they faced.' Andrew Orr, H-France'The French Army and the First World War is a tour de force and will remain the single best book on its subject for the foreseeable future. Enhanced by well-chosen photographs, detailed tables, and a helpful, concise bibliographic essay, it is essential reading for all students of the French military, World War I, and military history in general.' Michigan War Studies Review'Elizabeth Greenhalgh has written an indispensable book on France in the Great War. In fact, the book is indispensable more broadly to the history of the First World War, and to the history of modern France.' Richard Fogarty, H-WarTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The pre-war army; 2. 1914: from the frontiers to Flanders; 3. 1915: on the offensive; 4. 1916: Verdun and the Somme; 5. General Nivelle and his 1917 offensive; 6. Restoring the Army; 7. 1918: German offensives; 8. The path to victory; 9. Armistices and demobilisation; 10. From 1914 to 1919: aux armes, citoyens!; Bibliographic essay; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Ravenna in Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisRavenna was one of the most important cities of late antique Europe. Between 400 and 751 AD, it was the residence of western Roman emperors, Ostrogothic kings, and Byzantine governors of Italy, while its bishops and archbishops ranked second only to the popes. During this 350-year period, the city was progressively enlarged and enriched by remarkable works of art and architecture, many of which still survive today. Thus, Ravenna and its monuments are of critical importance to historians and art historians of the late ancient world. This book provides a comprehensive survey of Ravenna''s history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works. A synthesis of the voluminous literature on this topic, this volume provides an English-language entry point for the study of this fascinating city.Trade Review'… in the past one had to deplore the fact that there is no comprehensive book in English on this subject. With the publication of the present book, this situation has changed dramatically, because [it] not only tells the full story of Ravenna, but also documents all the scholarly interpretations and controversies surrounding its art …' International Review of Biblical Studies'Deliyannis succeeds in her purpose to a commendable extent. Her work is scholarly, lucid, balanced and well organized throughout … The author concentrates on the great monuments of the city, offering not just meticulous and informed descriptions, but also judicious and knowledgeable examination of the context of each … This sensitive and informed treatment of the monuments combined with an impressive knowledge of secondary literature makes for a volume which should reinforce detailed understanding of an unparalleled survival from the antique world, and encourage more scholarly interest among both historians and art historians.' T. S. Brown, Early Medieval EuropeTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Roman Ravenna; 3. Ravenna and the western emperors 400–489 AD; 4. Ravenna the capital of the Ostrogothic kingdom; 5. Religion in Ostrogothic Ravenna; 6. Ravenna's early Byzantine period: AD 540–600; 7. Ravenna capital: 600–850.
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Cambridge University Press The Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Book SynopsisRussia's conquest of Central Asia was perhaps the nineteenth century's most dramatic and successful example of European imperial expansion. Alexander Morrison provides a definitive diplomatic and military history, explaining how and why a vast region of steppe, desert, mountain and oasis, mainly populated by Muslims, came under Russian rule.Trade Review'In a masterful work of history and historiography, Morrison demolishes the 'Great Game' story of Russia's expansion, so entrenched in English language scholarship. His long-duree account of Russia's Central Asia conquests offers compelling narrative, deep dives into camels and weapons, and comparisons of battles and encounters from the pens of Central Asian participants and observers as well as the far more abundant Russian accounts.' Marianne Kamp, Indiana University'This wonderfully intelligent, original and well-written book is based on years of meticulous research conducted in many languages in archives across Eurasia, some of them previously almost inaccessible to foreign historians. Not only does it offer unique insights into the thinking of Russian policy-makers, it also adds crucially to our understanding of nineteenth-century European imperialism. This work should transform the Anglophone world's understanding of the 'Great Game'.' Dominic Lieven, University of Cambridge'The Russian Conquest of Central Asia is a major work. Based on the supreme command of a large body of material, scattered across a dozen archives between present-day Russia, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, Morrison's book is destined to have a deep and long-term impact on the field of Russian imperial history, the comparative history of colonialism in Asia, and Central Asian history.' Paolo Sartori, Austrian Academy of Sciences'Alexander Morrison's The Russian Conquest of Central Asia provides a detailed and comprehensive account of how and why the Russians came to conquer this vast territory in the century between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and 1914.' Daniel Beer, Times Literary Supplement'The book delivers a comprehensive and much-needed analysis of the conquest of Central Asia and its place in the history of nineteenth-century global expansions.' Malika Zekhni, War in History Book Reviews'The book should become the standard work on the subject and take a prominent place in the literature on Russian imperial and military history.' Andrew Monaghan, RUSI Journal'Alexander Morrison has exploded the myth of the great game in his seminal study largely because of his long term research in archives in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and India. In addition, he comprehensively works through the myriad of published memoirs, official published sources, and a broad range of secondary works which taken together has resulted in a meticulously researched study of the long campaign the Russians undertook to conquer and colonise Central Asia in the 19th century.' John W. Steinberg, War and Society'Recommended.' M. Chakars, Choice Connect'[Morrison] is to be highly commended for this work of scholarship, which is essential reading not only for those with a serious interest in Central Asia, but also for those inclined to offer their commentary, expert or otherwise, on Russian foreign policy today.' Sophie Ibbotson, Asian Affairs'No one who seriously wants to concern themselves with the history of relations between Russia and Central Asia will be able to do without this standard work.' Beate Eschment, Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas'In his splendid new history, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia, Alexander Morrison firmly rebuts the notion of the Great Game - that tsarist imperial expansion into the region was driven by a desire to expel Albion from South Asia. Indeed, if most previous books about the topic tended to ascribe the conquest to a single motive, Morrison wisely avoids a monocausal explanation … Taking full advantage of freer access in the post-Soviet era, Morrison spent ten years in nearly a dozen archives throughout the former Russian Empire, as well as collections in London, Amsterdam, and Delhi. Together with a bibliography of well over 1,000 published primary and secondary sources, The Russian Conquest of Central Asia is by far the most thoroughly documented study in any language.' David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History'Morrison's work reveals the momentous hubris of a great power that not only was able but also felt entitled by its own military strength to conquer, subjugate and rule over others.' Moritz Florin, Historische Zeitschrift'In this magisterial and much-anticipated book, Alexander Morrison aims to create a new narrative of the tsarist conquest of Central Asia, to escape the shackles of the extant historiography by dint of deep empirical research. Eschewing overarching explanations in favour of a series of microhistories in which the particularities of environment and personality come to the fore, he succeeds admirably in his task.' Ian Campbell, Ab Imperio'a superbly well-done military history … This study will be the definitive source on the conquest for at least another generation.' Shoshana Keller, Russian ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Russia's steppe frontier and the Napoleonic generation; 2. 'Pray for the camels': the winter invasion of Khiva, 1839–1841; 3. 'This particularly painful place': the failure of the Syr-Darya line as a frontier, 1841–1863; 4. From Ayaguz to Almaty: the conquest and settlement of Semirechie, 1843–1882; 5. The search for a 'natural' frontier and the fall of Tashkent, 1863–1865; 6. War with Bukhara, 1866–1868; 7. The fall of Khiva, 1872–1873; 8. 'Those who should be spared': the conquest of Ferghana, 1875–1876; 9. 'The harder you hit them, the longer they will be quiet afterwards': the conquest of Transcaspia, 1869–1885; 10. Aryanism on the final frontier of the Russian empire: the exploration and annexation of the Pamirs, 1881–1905; Epilogue: after the conquest.
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