European history Books

Book SynopsisAn annotated edition of an American''s engaging account of culture and politics in England during a crucial period in British history. This new edition features an extensive introduction, numerous primary-source appendices, and other critical apparatus.Trade Review"An amusing and interesting account of cultural encounter, Joseph Ballard's account provides sharp observerations on everything from architecture to Zaphna portraits, pleasure gardens to prisons, capturing the collision of high and low culture that was so characteristic of late Georgian London. Supplemented with useful editorial apparatus, it provides an excellent window into discussion and debate on British and American history and the study of cultural difference." - Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony BrookTable of ContentsIntroduction to England in 1815 Title Page and Introduction to The Journal of Joseph Ballard The Journal of Joseph Ballard: March 12- November 9, 1815

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe (and sometimes, by extension, the West more broadly) has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of flux in the international relations of the European continent. This cooperation has, at times, been fragile and has not prevented some obvious and deep-seated disagreements. It has, however, survived. Indeed, Russia and Europe have increasingly ''routinized'' their relationship in a range of formal multilateral institutions.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Russia and Europe, Conflict or Cooperation?; M.Webber The Place of Europe in Russian Foreign Policy; M.Bowker Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; C.Kennedy-Pipe Russia and the European Union; J.Gower Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; D.Lynch Russia and the Council of Europe; M.Webber Russia and Issues of Demilitarization; D.Averre Russia and the Former Yugoslavia; M.Andersen Conclusion: Russia and Europe, Trajectories of Development; M.Webber Index

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Book SynopsisUpon his death, Hendrik van Loon was described in The Times obituary as 'one of the most engaging products of the marriage between Holland and the United States'.Trade Review"Hendrik Willem van Loon, the Dutch-American writer and illustrator, was an extraordinary character. Larger-than-life, he overflowed with exuberance and gusto, and he devoted his talent to writing popular history in a delightful way. Cornelis van Minnen has written an arresting biography of van Loon and is to be congratulated in restoring the memory of this fascinating Dutch-American personality with his vast appetite for freedom, courage, friendship, and debate." - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., writer and historian, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Jackson and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. "Cornelis van Minnen succeeds brilliantly in recreating the endlessly fascinating universe of Hendrik Willem van Loon. Readers will not want to put down his swiftly paced account of the literary and erotic adventures of this exuberant, larger-than-life man who was one of the most famous writers of the era between the two world wars." - William E. Leuchtenburg, William Rand Kennan Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940, winner of the Bancroft and the Francis Parkman Prizes "This is a first-class telling and the exceptional story of Hendrik Willem van Loon: a noteworthy and memorable figure in American culture, yet hardly recalled today. In his meticulously researched and well-written biography, Cornelis van Minnen accurately captures the fascinating life and works of this influential historian, journalist and Roosevelt confidant that was a household name for the first part of the twentieth century. This is van Loon's definitive biography." - Douglas Brinkley, Distinguished Professor of American History, Tulane University, New Orleans and author of FDR and the Creation of the U.N. and The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter s Journey Beyond the White House. "In his compelling biography of the larger-than-life Hendrik Willem van Loon, Cornelis van Minnen has provided a fascinating, meticulously researched account of the public life and chaotic private life of the too-easily forgotten 'prince of popularizers' who explained the Dutch to the Americans and America to the Dutch. Best-selling author and friend of FDR, van Loon deserves the attention that this wonderful biography pays him." - Tony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History and Master of Clare CoIlege, Cambridge University, author of The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 "In this gripping biography, Cornelis van Minnen rescues Hendrik Willem van Loon from archival obscurity and brings alive a fascinating, eccentric man of many talents. Van Minnen has combined factual observation with wit and humor and painted an engaging portrait of van Loon who was once a respected voice in the worlds of history and art and one of the era's more colorful observers and pundits." - David B. Roosevelt, author of Grandmère, A Personal History of Eleanor RooseveltTable of ContentsPreface; A.M.Schlesinger Jr. Acknowledgments Prologue PART I: THE FORMATIVE YEARS A Troubled Youth in Holland (1882-1902) Cornell-Harvard-Cornell (1902-1905) Associated Press Journalist in Russia and Poland (1905-1907) Historical Training in Munich (1907-1911) PART II: IN SEARCH OF A PLACE Washington Years of Trial and Error (1912-1914) The Great War (1914-1918) Life in The Village (1918-1920) PART III: THE JAZZ AGE The Breakthrough (1921-1922) The Prince of Popularizers (1922-1928) The Veere Paradise (1928-1931) PART IV: THE THIRTIES The Educator (1931-1935) For Roosevelt and The Arts (1936-1937) The Prophet of the Coming Wrath (1938-1940) PART V: THE GREAT FIGHT: WORLD WAR II For the Cause of Freedom (1940-1941) The Reincarnation of Erasmus (1942) Living on Borrowed Time (1943-1944) Epilogue Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality, identity, social values, power, and justice, both in the past and the present.Trade Review"This book asks us to consider the gaps between the real and the staged, between truth and performance. More compellingly, it asks us to think about whether we can ever know the difference, whether we are so caught in prison houses of textual manipulation that resistance is, finally, futile. The book looks to medieval narratives of conversion, parody, temptation, power, torture, and finds resonances (both continuities and discontinuities) in such contemporary spectacles as reality television shows, images of the Bush White House, and photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison. Sometimes wild, often audacious, at times funny, and with haunting moments, this collection is always provocative, and it will be much discussed." - Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University "Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages stages a dazzlingly original, and a deeply provocative intervention at the intersections of past and present, high and low culture, scholarship and entertainment, and truth and fiction. The essays included here deftly interweave critical theory, medieval scholarship, and popular culture in ways that are both impassioned and informative. This collection shows how a period that is usually cast as distant and remote can provide lenses through which we can productively rethink our current preoccupations; likewise, the collection demonstrates how familiar cultural forms that we might be tempted to dismiss as mere ephemera can resonate richly with the medieval literary traditions that represent the foundations of our western intellectual heritage." - Anne Clark Bartlett, DePaul University "Contemporary entertainment, current politics and medieval history and culture are brought together in an attempt to investigate the intersecting relations between reality and fiction in relation to issues such as morality, identity, and justice, both in the past and the present." - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsThrough a Glass, Darkly; E.A.Joy& M.J.Seaman Medieval Presentism Before the Present; N.Partner Medieval Histories and Modern Realism: Yet Another Origin of the Novel; N.Partner Back to the Future: The Limits of Living in the Liminal Past; B.McCormick Torture, Inquisition, Medievalism, Reality, TV - Steve Guthrie The Crisis of Legitimation in George Bush's America and Lancastrian England; D.Kline Models of (Im)perfection: Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas; K.K.Bell Vexed Lies and Videotape: Truth, Authority, and the Media; M.K.Ramsey Sacrificing Fiction in The Quest for [the Real] King Arthur; M.J.Seaman& J.Green Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Moral Lessons from Handlyng Synne and Survivor; C.Ho& J.Driggers Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf; E.A.Joy 'She appears as brightly radiant as she once was foul': Medieval Conversion Narratives and Contemporary Makeover Shows; A.J.Weisl Wolves, Outlaws, and Enemy Combatants; M.E.Moore Coda: Opening Time: Psychoanalysis and Medieval Culture; M.Uebel Intertemporality; J.Jerome Cohen

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.Trade Review"Drayson's study contributes fresh insights into the existing scholarship on the subject. The first three chapters of her study, in particular, provide an invaluable resource on the background of the 'King Roderick and La Cava' legend, as Drayson painstakingly and comprehensively differentiated between history and legend, and with great clarity documents the differernt directions the legent takes early in its existence . . . a worthwhile and engaging study." - Sixteenth-Century JournalTable of ContentsThe Birth of the Legend Cultural filters: Roderick and La Cava in the Eyes of Medieval Historians The Master Forger: Miguel de Luna's 'true history' of King Roderick Metamorphosis into Song New Life in Drama and Music The Eighteenth Century: Censored! Romanticism and Renewal in England and France Multiple Perspectives in Hispanic Romanticism The Once and Future King Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThrough a variety of case studies, Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century examines the emergence of youth and young people as a central historical force in the global history of the twentieth century.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: The Transnationality of Youth; Richard Ivan Jobs and David M. Pomfret 1. Youth and Rural Modernity in Japan, 1900s-1920s; Sayaka Chatani 2. Boy Scouts under the Aztec Sun: Mexican Youth and the Transnational Construction of Identity, 1917-1940; Elena Jackson Albarrán 3. 'These Heroic Days': Marxist Internationalism, Masculinity and Young British Scientists, 1930s-1940s; Heather Ellis 4. A Malayan Girlhood on Parade: Colonial Femininities, Transnational Mobilities and the Girl Guide Movement in British Malaya; Jilian Christina Wu 5. Colonial Circulations: Vietnamese Youth, Travel and Empire, 1919-1940; David M. Pomfret 6. Youth Mobility and the Making of Europe, 1945-1960; Richard Ivan Jobs 7. On the Revolutionary Road: Youth, Displacements and Politics in the 'Long' Latin American Sixties; Valeria Manzano 8. Movement Youth in a Global Sixties Hub: The Everyday Lives of Transnational Activists in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam; Andrew Ivaska 9. 'Belonging to Many Homes': Argentine Sephardi Youth in Buenos Aires and Israel, 1956-1976; Adriana M. Brodsky 10. Swinging across the Iron Curtain and Moscow's Summer of Love: How Western Youth Culture Went East; Juliane Fürst 11. Deng's Children: 'Youth' and the 1989 Movement; Fabio Lanza 12. A Transnational Generation: Franco-Maghribi Youth Culture and Musical Politics in the Late Twentieth Century; Paul A. Silverstein

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of fashion. This pioneering book offers a different story. Arguing that Paris retained its hold on the international haute couture industry right throughout WWII, eminent dress historians and curators come together to show that, amid political, economic and cultural traumas, Paris fashion remained very much alive under the Nazi occupation and on an international level.Bringing exciting perspectives to challenge a familiar story and introducing new overseas trade links out of occupied FrancTrade ReviewEssential reading for all students of fashion history in this period. It will undoubtedly endure as a definitive work on the subject of Parisian haute couture during German occupation and serve as a critical guide for the reassessment of fashion history during the wartime era. * The Journal of Dress History *If readers are looking for high-quality, colorful, and plentiful reproductions of wartime fashion items (gowns, hats, lingerie, shoes etc.) as well as historic photographs and art reproductions, they will find them in ... Paris Fashion and World War Two. ... Anyone attracted to the rise of fashion as an indelible part of twentieth-century modernity and interested in an informed, analytical approach to the social and aesthetic implications of fashion development will find that [this volume] offer[s] much to readers. * H-Soz-Kult *The book provides an excellent source on global fashion networks in wartime, and the ways fashion is disseminated and adapted within particular cultures, while acting as inspiration for further investigations of these fascinating and important international histories. * Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society ISSN: *Stimulating, analytical, at times very moving, and enhanced by a judicious choice of illustrations. It will become a standard work, one that I cannot recommend highly enough. * Colin McDowell, author of 'The Literary Companion to Fashion' and contributor to The Business of Fashion website *An extraordinary achievement … it transforms our picture of Paris fashion under the Nazi Occupation. * Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator at the Museum at FIT, New York, USA *Bringing together an international cast of scholars and gorgeously illustrated, Paris Fashion and World War Two will become the standard reference on the subject. * Steve Zdatny, University of Vermont, USA *A ‘must read’. It is a kaleidoscopic history of the contradictions faced by those who made, sold and wore luxury fashions during the darkest years of the war. * Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada *This book is a rarity in fashion scholarship in that it tells a story that engages the heart as much as the head, a story of human courage in the face of a great evil. * Brenda Polan, author of 'The Great Fashion Designers' *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Lou Taylor and Marie McLoughlin 1. From Berlin to Paris Lou Taylor 2. The Lyon haute nouveauté fashion textile industry during World War Two: design, making, exhibition and diffusion Lou Taylor 3. The Impact of Shortages on Couture Fashion Accessories in Paris, 1940-44 Dominique Veillon 4. 'Much News from the Fashion Front’ – Swedish Neutrality and the Diffusion of Paris Fashion during World War Two Ulrika Kyaga 5. From Paris to New York: the methods used by Paris haute couture to maintain its domination on the fashion world on both sides of the Atlantic, 1939-46, through women’s magazines Sophie Kurkdjian 6. The Fashion worlds of Paris and the USA during World War Two: competition, contact and business, 1939-45 Sandra Stansbery Buckland 7. Lisbon as a centre of couture fashion in World War Two and its Paris and international connections Alexandra Gameiro and Lou Taylor 8. Fashion in Denmark in the ‘Five Dark Years' Kirsten Toftegaard 9. The diffusion, reception and use of Paris style information by the press and haute couture salons in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1939-45 Claudia de Oliviera 10. Annexed, Neutral and Occupied – The Paris Influence on Couture Fashion in Austria, Switzerland and Belgium Lou Taylor 11. 1944: London plans to become the ‘Meridian’ of world fashion Marie McLoughlin 12. Paris Fashion: An international product for an international clientele Marie McLoughlin with post-script by Nancy Yeide 13. The business of Paris couture from Liberation to Rejuvenation. Late August 1944 to February 1947 Lou Taylor with Marie McLoughlin 14. The End of the War in Europe: Rejuvenating the International Business of Paris haute couture Lou Taylor with Marie McLoughlin Conclusion: Marie McLoughlin and Lou Taylor with post script: A Letter from Nuremberg, 1946, Lou Taylor Index

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Book SynopsisSeeking Love in Modern Britain charts the emergence of the modern British single through an account of the dating industry that sprang up to serve men and women. It shows how amid a period of unprecedented sexual and social change the single' became a key unisex identity and lifestyle. From around 1970, a growing, cottage-style matchmaking industry in Britain was offering the romantically solo a choice between computer dating firms, such as Dateline or Compudate, introduction agencies and the lonely hearts pages of Private Eye, Time Out and others. Zoe Strimpel reveals how this rapidly expanding landscape of services was catering to a new breed of single people, and how by the late 1990s singleness had become the culturally mainstream, wholly expected part of the romantic life cycle that it is today. Refuting the widespread idea that the Internet invented modern dating, this book uses an eclectic and engaging range of first-person accounts and snapshots from Trade Review5 stars ... An intelligent history of the dating industry between 1970 and 2000 – post sexual revolution and pre-internet – that makes you rethink the way we get what we want (or don’t). Be warned: this is a serious piece of social history and not written in layman’s language. Casual readers might find sections of it difficult to navigate, but I think it adds to the book’s charm. It’s like watching Love Island in the company of Michel Foucault. * The Telegraph *This volume explores an important subculture of heterosexual relationships in late 20th-century Britain ... The author explores the frequently painful subjectivities of singleness during this period and excels at integrating an enormous amount of bibliographical material into her analysis ...[This book] illuminates a neglected area of gender studies in Britain. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *The book [is] a wonderfully rich resource for academics, and it is also of great interest to the informed general reader. * Journal of British Studies *Seeking Love in Modern Britain is many books at once: a history of singlehood; a study of the transformation of matchmaking from the lonely hearts era to Internet dating; an analysis of the deep enmeshment of intimacy with consumer culture. It will quickly become compulsory reading for anyone – scholars and general readers -- interested in understanding the state of modern love and sexuality. * Eva Illouz, Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University, Israel *This is an empirically rich history of the modern ‘single’. Revealing the developing tensions between pragmatism and feeling – or, as Strimpel rather beautifully puts it, ‘the methodical and the magical’ – in a changing world and pointing to the confusions, contradictions and impossibilities of modern dating, this is interdisciplinary work at its best. * Claire Langhamer, Professor of Modern British History, University of Sussex, UK *An enthralling, serious and deeply-researched account of singleness in contemporary Britain. * Harry Cocks, Associate Professor of British History, University of Nottingham, UK *The book is a lively account of mediated courtship that manages to seamlessly marry complex theoretical frameworks ... Strimpel’s book is welcome reading to scholars of gender and sexuality, in addition to those interested in the social and cultural history of late-twentieth-century Britain more broadly. * European Review of History *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1. Live Alone and Like It? Singleness in Late 20th-Century Britain 2. The Matchmaking Industry, 1970-2000 3. Representations of the Dating Industry 4. Mediated Daters and the Experience of Matchmaking Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn October 2013, one of the largest anti-migrant riots took place in Moscow. Clashes and arrests continued late into the night. Some in the crowd, which grew to several thousand people, could be heard chanting Russia for the Russians with their animus directed towards dark-skinned labor migrants from the southern border. The slogan Russia for the Russians is not a recent invention. It first gained notoriety in the very last years of the tsarist regime, appealing primarily to individuals drawn to the radical right. Analyzing a wide range of printed and visual sources, Racism in Modern Russia marks the first serious attempt to understand the history of racism over a span of 150 years. A brilliant examination of the complexities of racism, Eugene M. Avrutin's panoramic book asks powerful questions about inequality and privilege, denigration and belonging, power and policy, and the complex historical links between race, whiteness, and geography.The ebook editions of this book areTrade ReviewWell written, combining a synthesis of the most recent historiography with the author’s original research, this book is long overdue. Despite many conceptual and archival innovations in the field of Russian imperial and Soviet history, race and racism have always remained the last bastions for those who insisted on Russia’s special historical path. Avrutin helps the reader to think about race in Russian and Soviet imperial formations as a form of rationalizing, organizing, and controlling messy human diversity. This concise book covers the science of race, politics of race, ideologies of race, various racialized social experiences, and racial violence, but it does not offer a linear narrative. Instead Avrutin shows how different combinations and applications of the above depended on a specific context (“the Jewish question”; “Yellow peril”; Soviet nation-building; post-Soviet racism with its fixation on whiteness, and so on). Avoiding using the sophisticated analytical apparatus of critical race theory in the text, Avrutin nonetheless embraces its intersectional approach to race, explicating how social, gender, and class differences were construed and experienced as essentialized qualities of particular imperial and Soviet subjects. In addition, the reader is constantly reminded about the global nature of “race,” especially in the Soviet part of the narrative, which features protagonists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and other Western and “third world” travelers to the USSR and dwells on their politics of comparison. The combination of quality of analysis, style, and size makes this book a great source for educators like myself, who until now have had very little to offer our students on a topic as politically pertinent as race and racism in the Russian and Soviet past and the post-Soviet present. This book is also an inspiration for professional researchers interested in exploring Russian and Soviet experiences through the lens of “race.” * Marina Mogilner, Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History; Associate Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA *Racism in Modern Russia is a welcome contribution to the field … Avrutin has succeeded in writing a book that poses interesting … questions about the place of racism in modern Russia. … Racism in Modern Russia will surely be of interest to professors, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in understanding Russia’s place in, and construction of, a “white man’s world.” * H-Net *Written by a leading expert on the issue of race in Russia, this innovative book treats ‘race’ as a lens through which to investigate fluctuating discriminatory and exclusionary discourses and practices, thus going beyond the understanding of race as a stable biological category. In so doing it offers an excellent overview of the discourses and practices of race in Russia from the imperial era to the post-Soviet period. * Vera Tolz, Professor of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Empire’s Races 2. Boundaries of Exclusion 3. “The Most Hopeful Nation on Earth” 4. White Rage Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlmost three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, today more often than ever, global media and intellectuals rely on the concept of homo sovieticus to explain Russia's authoritarian ills. Homo sovieticus - or the Soviet man - is understood to be a double-thinking, suspicious and fearful conformist with no morality, an innate obedience to authority and no public demands; they have been forged in the fires of the totalitarian conditions in which they find themselves.But where did this concept come from? What analytical and ideological pillars does it stand on? What is at stake in using this term today? The Afterlife of the Soviet Man' addresses all these questions and even explains why at least in its contemporary usage this concept should be abandoned altogether.Trade ReviewA very timely book about major attempts to analyse Soviet-Russian identity before and after the collapse of the USSR. Combining methodological clarity with empathy and erudition, the author rejects a reductionist ‘totalitarian’ approach in favour of nuanced observation. A useful corrective to any current analysis of Russia, in peace and at war. * Vladislav Zubok, Professor of History, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *[The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’] does an excellent job at historicizing the idea of the Homo Sovieticus as a human type and a set of core traits associated with a political system. Sharafutdinova’s book is a powerful warning to how dangerous the feeling of being “on the right side of history” can be for any thinker. * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. On Riding Bicycles and Human Judgement 2. Homo Sovieticus as Eastern European Dissent 3. Homo Sovieticus as Soviet Dissent 4. Homo Sovieticus as a Perestroika Child 5. Homo Sovieticus as Post-Soviet Empathy 6. Homo Post-Sovieticus as a Fight for the Continent Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the establishment, growth and partial decline of one of the most important Jewish communities in the world. In the late 15th century the Polish-Lithunaian commonwealth became the centre of Jewish intellectual and legal activity. The culture created by the Polish Jews survived the decline and partition of the Polish state in the 19th century, and the area that was formerly the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth became a seedbed for further Jewish intellectual developments. The essays in this book provide a picture of the Jewish community in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth during the periods of its finest flowering and initial decline.Table of ContentsJews in medieval Poland, Jerzy Wyrozumski; Judaizers in Poland in the second half of the 16th century, Zdzislaw Pietrzyk; the Jewish population in the light of the resolutions of dietines in the 16th-18th centuries, Andrzej Link-Lenczowski; the private life of Polish Jews in the Vasa period, Daniel Tollet; Jews and Armenians in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th & 17th centuries, Krystyn Matwijowski; the four years' sejm and the Jews, Artur Eisenbach; the council of the four lands, Shmul Ettinger; the pinkas of the council of the four lands, Israel Bartal; the language of documents relating to Jewish autonomy in Poland, Moshe Altbauer; the terminology of the bodies of Jewish self-government, Anatol Leszczynski; the Jewish sejm - its origins and functions, Jacob Goldberg; regional aspects of the autonomy of Polish Jews - the history of the Tykocin Kehilla, 1670-1782, Mordekhai Nadav; the kehilla and the municipality in private towns at the end of the early modern period, Gershon David Hundert; Hasidism and the Kehilla, Chone Shmeruk; the Krakow Voivode's jurisdiction over Jews, Stanislaw Grodziski; the individual versus the Community in Jewish Law in pre-eighteenth century Poland, Shmuel Shilo; the condition of the Jewish population of Wschowa at the start of the second half of the 18th century, Jacek Sobczak; the chronology & distribution of Jewish craft guilds in old Poland 1613-1795, Maurycy Horn; Jewish trade at the end of the 16th century & in the first half of the 17th century, Jan M. Malecki; Jewish trade in the century of Krakow's decline, Janina Bieniarzowna; Jews & the village in the Polish Commonwealth, Antoni Podraza; the Jewish population in the towns on the West Bank of the vistula in Sandomierz Province from the 16th to the 18th centuries, Zenon Guldon & Karol Krzystanek.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a critical examination of over 300 historical works about the French Revolution, published in Europe (in particular in France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Russia) as well as in the United States between 1789 and 1989. It also goes on to examine recent trends in French Revolution historiography and consider where histories of this landmark event may go in the future.By emphasizing the elements which have been valued or hidden, exalted or silenced, Historicizing the French Revolution shows how reflections on 1789 are always fundamentally tied to the times in which they are formulated. Antonino De Francesco looks at the ways in which these historical accounts can be seen to support and, at times, contrast with the formation of political modernity both in national and international contexts as it has taken shape in the hundreds of years that have followed this key moment in world history.Trade ReviewAntonino De Francesco’s Historicizing the French Revolution is far and away the finest and best-informed account we have of the historiography of the French Revolution, and destined for classic status. In addition, by viewing the French Revolutionary tradition in wider European, then global and transnational frameworks, marks a turning point in our understanding of what remains for many a seminal event. * Colin Jones, Author of The Fall of Robespierre (2021) *This is an enormously lucid, learned and instructive work that brims with insight into the many different ways the French Revolution has been interpreted over time. It will prove enormously useful to students and professional historians alike * David A. Bell, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Era of North Atlantic Revolutions; Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Strict Rules of Each History of the Revolution, 1789-1815 2. Before the Revolutionary Past, 1815-1847 3. The National Myth and the Myth of Nations, 1848-1875 4. A Republican History, 1875-1914 5. The Revolutionary Use of History, 1914-1945 6. Revolutionary Orthodoxy and Historical Heresy, 1946-1989 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on the latest archaeology and research this is the most detailed study in recent years of Alexander's Macedonian army, the most efficient and successful war machine of its era.

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Book SynopsisGraphic account of the two major battles fought at Copenhagen during the Napoleonic Wars. Confirms Gareth Glovers reputation for pioneering work on the less-well-known aspects of the Napoleonic Wars.

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Book SynopsisThe 'boy-king' is finally shown in a new light: not as an overshadowed son, but as a notable King of England.

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Book SynopsisA study of the autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634 1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister.Trade Review"Out of the seventeenth-century Highlands, often thought a place apart, steps a determinedly cosmopolitan individual. David Worthington's study of James Fraser Gael, linguist, scientist, historian, continent-wide traveller and locally rooted parish minister is a masterly portrayal of a well lived and productive Highland life." -James Hunter, University of the Highlands and Islands

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Book SynopsisExamines the life and ministry of John Kennedy (1819 84), minister of Dingwall Free Church of Scotland. Explores how Kennedy became the effective leader of the Highland Evangelicals through his preaching, writing and public speaking.Trade Review"This is a superb study of the life and times of John Kennedy of Dingwall, eminent Scottish preacher, theologian and church politician. Through extensive research and balanced historical analysis, Alasdair Macleod shows Kennedy's immense influence in shaping and preserving a distinctive Highland Presbyterian evangelical culture in nineteenth-century Scotland. " -Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisStudies the first half of Sidonius' fifth book of letters from a philological, literary and historical perspectiveTrade Review"In the first commentary ever published on Book 5 of the letters of Sidonius, Giulia Marolla combines philological, literary and historical expertise to offer a profound new insight into the coherent artistic unit created from the largely secular matters that preoccupy the bishop in Book 5. Fresh discoveries abound in this tour de force." -Roy Gibson, Durham University

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Book SynopsisThis book is aimed at students coming to the study of western European medieval history for the first time, and also graduate students on interdisciplinary medieval studies programmes. And it concludes with an exploration of the relevance of medieval history in today's world.Trade Review'This book is erudite, thoughtful, sometimes provocative, sometimes inspiring, always stimulating, and it is informed by a profound understanding of both the middle ages and the discipline of history. Marcus Bull has a real feeling for his subject and for the way that those embarking on a study of the middle ages might receive it. And a further bonus is that it is written well. Marcus Bull draws the reader along with a style that is compellingly page-turning...This book is both informative and useful and it ought to be required reading for all medievalists, for all students embarking on a study of the middle ages.' - Stephen Church, Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is 'Thinking Medieval'? Popular Images of the Middle Ages What are the 'Middle Ages'? The Evidence for Medieval History Is Medieval History Relevant? Conclusion Suggested Reading

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Book SynopsisAddressing questions about the musical life in English nunneries in the later Middle Ages, Yardley pieces together a mosaic of nunnery musical life, where even the smallest convents sang the monastic offices on a daily basis and many of the larger houses celebrated the late medieval liturgy in all of its complexity.Trade Review'...a text of limitless value and timeless relevance to all students of music, the middle ages and women religious.' - Lisa Padden, History of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland 'This excellent and accessible study is heartily recommended not only to those studying women's history, but also to anyone who is interested in gaining a better insight into medieval religious life, literature, music and spirituality.' - Lisa Colton, Early Music '...a labour of love...Yardley's book is a major contribution and highly recommended to readers interested in English ecclesiastical history, monastic spirituality and musical practices in the Middle Ages.' - Ecclesiastical History '...[Anne Bagnall Yardley] writes convincingly and persuasively of a topic she knows intimately. A richly rewarding book, it will be of great use for scholars of medieval monasticism and music history for years...Performing Piety is an impressively thorough and well-written monograph, and an entirely enjoyable read to boot. Yardley has made an outstanding contribution to our knowledge of medieval musical practice.' - Ars LyricaTable of ContentsIntroduction The Monastic Rules Musical Leadership in the Nunnery The Reality of Musical Life Everyday Musical Practices: Psalters, the Office of the Dead, and Polyphony Pomp and Piety: Processional Practices in Nunneries The Bride of Christ: Liturgies for the Consecration of Nuns A Case Study in Benedictine Practices: Barking Abbey Syon Abbey: The English Manifestation of St. Bridget's Order Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artifacts. The term visual culture has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and other contemporary representational forms and functions. But this interest in visuality is not only a modern phenomenon. Discourses on visual processes pervade the works of medieval theologians, scholastics, and secular poets alike. The Middle Ages was a highly visual period in which images, objects, and performance played a dominant communicative and representative role in both secular and religious areas of society. The essays in this volume, which present various perspectives on medieval visual culture, provide a critical historical basis for the study of visuality and visual processes.Trade Review'Together, these essays give an excellent overview of the state of the art by sampling these scholars' main concerns. They furnish proof that work on the German Middle Ages has much to offer to cultural studies as a whole.' - Times Literary Supplement 'This collection of essays...ought to play an important part in bridge-building between European and Anglo-American scholarship in medieval literary studies.' - Medieval StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Visual Culture in the Middle Ages PART I: NEW VISIONS IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES Word and Image as a Research Field: Sound Methodologies or Just a Fashionable Trend?; N.H.Ott PART II: INTERMEDIALITY Writing Speech-Image: The Concurrence of Signs; J.Muller The Shield as a Poetic Screen: Early Blazon and the Visualisation of Medieval German Literature, 1150-1300; H.Wandhoff Intermediality in the Middle Ages: Representations of Writing in the Illustrated Epic; U.Ernst PART III: RETHINKING MANUSCRIPT CULTURE Images at the Interface: Orality, Literacy and the Pictoralization of the Roland Material; J.Rushing Visualizing Performance?: Of Music, Word and Manuscripts; V.Mertens PART IV: SPIRITUAL VISIONS The 'Handwritings of Humanity': Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingern's Liber Scivias; J.F.Hamburger Scripture, Vision, Performance: Visionary Texts and Medieval Religious Drama; N.Largier PART V: WORD, IMAGE, AND TECHNOLOGY Logos and the Press: Christ in the Wine Press and the Development of Printing; H.Wenzel From God's Word to Emblem: Justifying the Printed Word; T.Cramer Contributor Notes

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Book SynopsisOffers a broad and unique look at Ancient Egypt during its long age of imperialism Written for enthusiasts and scholars of pharaonic Egypt, as well as for those interested in comparative imperialism, this book provides a look at some of the most intriguing evidence for grand strategy, low-level insurgencies, back-room deals, and complex colonial dynamics that exists for the Bronze Age world. It explores the actions of a variety of Egypt's imperial governments from the dawn of the state until 1069 BCE as they endeavored to control fiercely independent mountain dwellers in Lebanon, urban populations in Canaan and Nubia, highly mobile Nilotic pastoralists, and predatory desert raiders. The book is especially valuable as it foregrounds the reactions of local populations and their active roles in shaping the trajectory of empire. With its emphasis on the experimental nature of imperialism and its attention to cross-cultural comparison and social history, this book offers a fresh perspectiveTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chronology of Ancient Egypt xi Introduction 1 1 Trade Before Empire; Empire Before the State (c. 3500–2686) 11 2 Settler Colonialism (c. 2400–2181) 39 3 Military Occupation (c. 2055–1773) 67 4 Transculturation, Collaboration, Colonization (c. 1773–1295) 89 5 Motivation, Intimidation, Enticement (c. 1550–1295) 117 6 Organization and Infrastructure (c. 1458–1295) 141 7 Outwitting the State (c. 1362–1332) 165 8 Conversions and Contractions in Egypt’s Northern Empire (c. 1295–1136) 187 9 Conversions and Contractions in Egypt’s Southern Empire (c. 1550–1069) 223 Epilogue 253 References 269 Index 301

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Book SynopsisThis concise study of Ireland's revolutionary years charts the demise of the home rule movement and the rise of militant nationalism that led eventually to the partition of Ireland and independence for southern Ireland. The book provides a clear chronology of events but also adopts a thematic approach to ensure that the role of women and labour are examined, in addition to the principal political and military developments during the period. Incorporating the most recent literature on the period, it provides a good introduction to some of the most controversial debates on the subject, including the extent of sectarianism, the nature of violence and the motivation of guerrilla fighters. The supplementary documents have been chosen carefully to provide a wide-ranging perspective of political views, including those of constitutional nationalists, republicans, unionists, the British government and the labour movement. The Irish Revolution 1916-1923 is ideal for students andTable of ContentsPART ONE BACKGROUND. 1. THE IRISH QUESTION, 1870-1916. PART TWO ANALYSIS. 2. THE EASTER RISING. 3. THE REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE, 1917-18. 4. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN FOR INDEPENCE, 1919-21. 5. THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN FOR INDEPENDENCE, 1919-21. 6. PEACE AND CIVIL WAR, 1921-23.

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Book SynopsisThis debate, Fox argues, became a contest for the hearts and minds of the French citizenry.Trade ReviewIn writing a history of science and cultural politics in nineteenth-century France, Fox has achieved a formidable and admirable synthesis. -- Mary Jo Nye Metascience Such a bold undertaking would flounder in the hands of anyone not possessed of superior scholarship and decades of experience. Savant and the State could have been written by no one other than Robert Fox. -- Clifford Cunningham Sun News Network A skilful balance between speculative and thought-provoking thematic work and accounts of the specific, the confined, and the material... Brilliant and well-researched. -- Sophie Waring British Journal for the History of Science This work should be of inestimable value to all historians of science, France, and European culture. -- Martin S. Staum American Historical Review A valuable synthesis of the variety of political and cultural roles played by the scientific enterprise in France from the end of the First Empire to the outbreak of World War I... A broad-ranging, balanced survey of the state of the field... In The Savant and the State, Fox has written what is likely to remain the definitive survey of public science in nineteenth-century France for some time to come. -- Alex Csiszar Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Science and the New OrderThe Return of the BourbonsPatronage, Authority, and the Profession of ScienceScience and the Industrial AgeA Philosophy for the Times: The Roots of Positivism2. Voices on the PeripheryAcademies and SocietiesThe Devotee: Nature, Learning, and LocalityScience and DecentralizationThe Triumph of the Center3. Science, Bureaucracy, and the EmpireThe Trials of Academic ScienceEducation, Industry, and the Imperial StateThe Bureaucracy of LearningThe Roots of Academic Reform4. Science, Philosophy, and the Culture of SecularismThe Midcentury: Conformity and Dissent in French PhilosophyThe Nature of Life: Pasteur–Pouchet RevisitedThe Radical Synthesis and Its EnemiesA Faith for the Age: The Religion of Humanity5. Science for AllFashioning the AudienceMasters of the Mass Market: Flammarion and FiguierThe Spoken WordBroader Audiences, Bigger Stakes6. The Public Face of Republican ScienceThe Savant at War and PeaceCountercurrents: Science in the Catholic TraditionThe Republic of the SavantsFin de Siècle: From Inspiration to AnxietyConclusionAppendix A: The French System of Education and ResearchAppendix B: Exchange Rates and Incomes in Nineteenth-Century FranceAbbreviationsNotesBibliographical NoteIndex

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Book SynopsisIn order to survive, the university would have to institutionalize a new order of knowledge, one that was self-organizing, internally coherent, and embodied in the very character of the modern, critical scholar.Trade ReviewAn important story, told by Wellmon... His exposition is deeply grounded in intellectual, rather than social, history. Choice Organizing Enlightenment is an intriguing book for readers with significant prior knowledge of educational and German history...this reviewer found the material on lexica and encyclopedias a fascinating new perspective. History of Education QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Science as Culture2. The Fractured Empire of Erudition3. Encyclopedia from Book to Practice4. From Bibliography to Ethics5. Kant's Critical Technology6. The Enlightenment University and Too Many Books7. The University in the Age of Print8. Berlin, Humboldt, and the Research University9. The Disciplinary Self and the Virtues of the PhilologistAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of the thoroughly Victorian origins of dog breeds. For centuries, different types of dogs were bred around the world for work, sport, or companionship. But it was not until Victorian times that breeders started to produce discrete, differentiated, standardized breeds. In The Invention of the Modern Dog, Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange, and Neil Pemberton explore when, where, why, and how Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding dogs. Though talk of breed was common before this period in the context of livestock, the modern idea of a dog breed defined in terms of shape, size, coat, and color arose during the Victorian period in response to a burgeoning competitive dog show culture. The authors explain how breeders, exhibitors, and showmen borrowed ideas of inheritance and pure blood, as well as breeding practices of livestock, horse, poultry and other fancy breeders, and applied them to a species that was long thought about solely in terms of work andTrade ReviewCharles Darwin, Charles Dickens and P. T. Barnum walk into a pub . . . a classic comic set-up that can only lead to one punch line: The Invention of the Modern Dog. This chronicle—by science historians Michael Worboys and Neil Pemberton and historian Julie-Marie Strange—charts the confluence of biology, class, and popular entertainment that resulted in an unprecedented burst of nineteenth-century canine breeding. That tumult, they argue, stares out at us today from the eyes of our dogs.—NatureReveals how the Victorians invented the modern way of ordering and breeding man's best friend.—The Sunday PostIn The Invention of the Modern Dog, the authors show how our modern attitudes to breeds have been shaped by Victorian cultural ideals. The book makes for a fascinating read for anyone interested in the origins of today's dog breeds.—Pets MagazineWorboys, Strange and Pemberton have produced a magnificent book . . . a wonderfully lively text that traces the sources of our own obsession with doggy design and offers a gentle warning about what is at stake when we fiddle too far.—The GuardianHighly entertaining and plentifully illustrated.—Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Part I. 1800-1873Chapter 1. Before Breed, 1800-1860 Chapter 2. Adopting Breed, 1860-1867 Chapter 3. Showing Breed, 1867-1874 Part II. 1873-1901Chapter 4. Governing Breed Chapter 5. Improving Breed I: Experience Chapter 6. Improving Breed II: Science Chapter 7. Whither Breed Conclusion. The Present in the Past Notes Index Color plates appear following page XX

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Book SynopsisHow landowners, drainage projectors, and investors worked with the Crown to transform England's waterlogged Fens. 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe draining of the Fens in eastern England was one of the largest engineering projects in seventeenth-century Europe. A series of Dutch and English projectors, working over several decades and with the full support of the Crown, transformed hundreds of thousands of acres of putatively barren wetlands into dry, arable farmland. The drainage project was also supposed to reform the sickly, backward fenlanders into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. As projectors reconstructed entire river systems, these new, artificial channels profoundly altered both the landscape and the lives of those who lived on it. In this definitive account, historian Eric H. Ash provides a detailed history of this ambitious undertaking. Ash traces the endeavor from the 1570s, when draining the whole of the Fens became an imagiTrade ReviewStunningly relevant and beautifully written . . . This remarkable book is about nation building, economics, and environmental and social history. It is thoroughly researched, and historian Ash tells his story in a compelling way that is accessible to any reader. Essential. All levels/libraries.—ChoiceAsh's book is a sound study of the drainage of one part of the southern fens over a period of less than a century that was without doubt the most formative era in its taming. It is well-written, informative, assiduously referenced with copious endnotes, and an excellent testimony to the wealth of documentation that survives in the archives.—Environment and HistoryAn excellent contribution to the history of engineering projects, particularly from an environmental and political point of view.—MetascienceThis comprehensive account is likely to become the standard textbook for the history of the Fens. It is thoroughly researched, drawing on a wide range of printed material in addition to archival sources including court records, petitions, correspondence, and state papers.—Renaissance QuarterlyThe book is certainly the account for our generation.—American Historical ReviewAsh's work will long remain an essential account of these important events.—Journal of British StudiesAsh supplies a rousing narrative of 'improvement' schemes in the wetlands of eastern England, written in an engaging Whiggish style that imbues the early Stuart dynastic state.—Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsDedicationTable of ContentsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction. The Unrecovered Country: Draining the Land, Building the StatePart I: Popular Politics, Crown Authority, and the Rise of the ProjectorChapter 1: Land and Life in the Pre-Drainage Fens Chapter 2: State Building in the Fens, 1570-1607Chapter 3: The Crisis of Local Governance, 1609-1616Chapter 4: The Struggle to Forge Consensus, 1617-1621Part II: Drainage Projects, Violent Resistance, and State Building Chapter 5: Draining the Hatfield Level, 1625-1636Chapter 6: The First Great Level Drainage, 1630-1642Chapter 7: Riot, Civil War, and Popular Politics in the Hatfield Level, 1640-1656Chapter 8: The Second Great Level drainage, 1649-1656Epilogue. The Once and Future Fens: Unintended Consequences in an Artificial LandscapeGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for this private, consensual act were in 1835, but the effort to change the law that allowed for those executions was intense and precarious, and not successful until 1861. In this groundbreaking book, Beyond the Law, noted historian Charles Upchurch pieces together fragments from history and uses a queer history methodology to recount the untold story of the political process through which the law allowing for the death penalty for sodomy was almost ended in 1841. Upchurch recounts the legal and political efforts of reformers like Jeremy Bentham and Lord John Russellthe latter of whom argued that the death penalty for sodomy was beyond the law and above the law. He also reveals that a same-sex relationship linked the families of the two men responsible for co-sponsoring the key legislation. By recovering the various ethical, religious, and hTrade Review“Convincing and stimulating, Upchurch’s book is grounded in a rich and complex archive and is a triumph of historical detective work. His patient piecing together of quite disparate materials to develop a case strengthens the sense that he is genuinely breaking new ground. ‘Beyond the Law’ is a very important book that will change our understanding of what happened before 1861 when the death penalty for sodomy in England was abolished.”—Jeffrey Weeks, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at London South Bank University, and author of Between Worlds: A Queer Boy from the Valleys“‘Beyond the Law’ reveals hitherto almost unknown efforts to repeal the death penalty for sodomy in the early nineteenth century in England and provides a new interpretation of the 1885 Labouchere Amendment on that topic. Upchurch offers amazing research, new discoveries, and fascinating stories of the people behind these legislative efforts, as well as rich discussions of the tragic persecutions of many men who had sex with men. His book is a very interesting and compelling read.”—Anna Clark, Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, and author of Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets, 1762–1917"[I]t is a great pleasure to receive a work based on such deep and solid scholarship as this book by Charles Upchurch. What Upchurch meticulously uncovers are the unfulfilled possibilities that the death penalty for the ‘crime unfit to be named’ might have been abolished well before the Offences against the Person Act (1861) undertook a major tidying-up of the legislation across a range of crimes falling under that heading.... The author demonstrates a thorough grasp of the legal and political contexts, and a nuanced apprehension of the ways particular individuals might intervene to ameliorate the severity of laws that could still only be discussed obliquely and euphemistically."—English Historical Review"Where Upchurch has done much valuable service has been through his detailed research into the personnel involved in the various inconclusive parliamentary debates. This research has exposed a mass of interesting information about the progress of the movement for reform.... Historians of sexuality can benefit from Upchurch’s heavy hinting that there is a bigger historical project waiting to be carried out into the queer reasons why so little was done and by so few."—Journal of the History of Sexuality"[A] comprehensive picture of the experience and politics of same-sex desire in Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century. It should be of value to those generally interested in the history of sexuality in Britain, to historians of the queer past, and to scholars of British politics in a complex period of change. It is a rich study that connects the personal and the political, the intellectual and the social, based on the results of amazingly diligent sleuth work.... Upchurch has deepened our understanding of the politics of sodomy law reform at the tail end of Britain’s great nineteenth-century age of reform."—History: Reviews of New Books"[A] queer history of politics that ambitiously and innovatively brings together queer, legal, and intellectual histories.... This is an impressive book in some respects and will be of interest to historians of sexuality, criminal law, and intellectual history alike. There is some excellent historical detective work at points. Almost no stone is left unturned in piecing together the background to the key events and figures."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms political, cultural, social, and economic upon Italy s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy.Trade Review'A Companion to Roman Italy will be of interest to a wide public and shows that the study of the Greek and Roman civilizations is anything but dry as dust .' - Peter Wellburn, Reference Reviews, Vol 30 No 8. The wonderful thing about A Companion To Roman Italy is the sheer breadth of subject matter. Within this book are essays by twenty four academics whose contributions build toward a coherent and deeply insightful picture of Italy under Roman rule, covering the political, cultural, economic, social, and historical relationships of those peninsular regions surrounding the eternal city. - Marc Ollard, UNRV.comTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii List of Tables xii Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgements xvi Introduction: Setting the Scene 1 1 Italy Before the Romans 2 Elena Isayev Part I The Impact of Rome – Unification and Integration 33 2 Rome’s Encroachment on Italy 35 Rafael Scopacasa 3 Italy and the Greek East, Second Century BC 57 Celia E. Schultz 4 The Social War 76 Edward Bispham 5 The Civil Wars and the Triumvirate 90 Edward Bispham 6 Coming to Terms with Dynastic Power, 30 BC–AD 69 103 Alison E. Cooley 7 Italy during the High Empire, from the Flavians to Diocletian 121 Alison E. Cooley 8 Late Roman and Late Antique Italy: from Constantine to Justinian 133 Neil Christie Part II Local and Regional Diversity 155 2.1 Cultural Diversity 157 9 Funerary Practices 159 Emma‐Jayne Graham and Valerie M. Hope 10 Diversity in Architecture and Urbanism 181 Margaret L. Laird 11 Language and Literacy in Roman Italy 217 Kathryn Lomas 2.2 Greek Italy 235 12 Roman Naples 237 Kathryn Lomas 13 Magna Graecia, 270 BC–AD 200 253 Kathryn Lomas 2.3 Case-study: Becoming Roman in Cisalpina 269 14 The Changing Face of Cisalpine Identity 271 Clifford Ando Part III Town and Country 289 3.1 Settlement Patterns 291 15 Urbanization 293 Joanne Berry 16 Urban Peripheries 308 Penelope J. Goodman 17 Villas 330 Nigel Pollard 3.2 Case-studies of Towns and their Territories 355 18 Republican and Early Imperial Towns in the Tiber Valley 357 Simon Keay and Martin Millett 19 Cosa and the Ager Cosanus 378 Elizabeth Fentress and Phil Perkins 20 Pompeii and the Ager Pompeianus 401 Ray Laurence 21 Ostia 417 Janet DeLaine Part IV Economy and Society 439 22 Regional Interaction 441 Rebecca R. Benefiel 23 Agricultural Production in Roman Italy 459 Robert Witcher 24 Local Elites 483 John R. Patterson 25 Sub‐Elites 498 Jonathan S. Perry Index 513

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Book SynopsisA gripping and fascinating account of the Great War - told through the events of 100 key dates between 1914 and 1918.Trade ReviewOriginal and effective...Professor David exceeds the reader's expectations...one of the best measured accounts. * Times Literary Supplement *A splendid read... a specialist in 19th century colonial wars and a fine writer, David has intelligently boiled down recent scholarship on the war. * The Observer *Saul David has come up with an ingenious approach... The charm of this unorthodox technique becomes clear as soon as you open the book... a remarkable book. * Daily Mail *Splendidly well written - fluent, engaging, well paced and, despite the grim subject matter, often entertaining. * New Statesman *Fascinating, original...vivid...brilliantly conveys the global scale of the conflict...if you usually find military history rather turgid you must read this. * The Bookseller *A free-flowing work of great originality and insight. * Charles Spencer *All the really important dates are here, as well as some inspired choices ... If any book will inspire readers to investigate further, this one will. * Mail on Sunday *David picks out 100 individual days from the war that allow him to paint the entire picture ... as ever, he is at his best when shells are landing and whistles are blowing. * Sunday Times *Absorbing because of, not despite, the harrowing detail. * The Independent *100 Days to Victory adopts a remarkably original approach to telling the story of the First World War in an accessible fashion ... the author is gifted with acute judgement as well as accomplished narrative skills. His book offers a really admirable introduction to the conflict. -- Max Hastings * The Times *

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Book SynopsisWritten by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2014, The Churchill Factor is essential reading for anyone who wants to know what makes a great leader in a time of crisis.Trade ReviewThe must-read biography of the year. * Evening Standard *Genuinely clever... this book sizzles. * The Times *Churchill's own energy - his indefatigable pursuit of excitement, glory, place and power - demands a writer of fizz and passion to do history justice. Johnson is that writer. * Mail on Sunday *A bravura performance...Johnson has not only celebrated Churchill in this book: he has emulated him with comparable panache. * Financial Times *A characteristically breathless romp through the life and times of our greatest wartime leader...high on entertainment as it is on providing an appraisal of the great man's achievements. * Telegraph *Readable, engaging and often funny. * Evening Standard *An engagingly written romp through the elder statesman's greatest achievements. * Observer *Riveting...Boris is a superb, accessible writer, with an easy, good-humoured touch. * Independent *The book's style is often chatty, enthusiastic and as funny as you would expect. * The Spectator *Splendidly enjoyable... It is rare to find a serious study of a politician that's this entertaining. * Daily Express *

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Book SynopsisAuthor Nigel Sadler challenges misconceptions of the built British landscape and shows how profits from slavery went into the construction of many iconic buildings.

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Book SynopsisNew B-format paperback edition. The murders but also the exciting escapes of the wider Romanov family - the Tsarâs mother, siblings and cousins. Did George V let his cousin the Tsar and his family die?Trade Review‘The final days of Russia’s last ruling family have long been blurred. Coryne Hall, aware that officialdom has yet to give up all its secrets, tells a story of courage and cynicism, deceit and savagery.’ -- Anthony Summers, co-author of The File on the Tsar and two-time winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Non‑Fiction

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Book SynopsisIn this intellectual history, Minkah Makalani reveals how early-twentieth-century black radicals organised an international movement centred on ending racial oppression, colonialism, class exploitation, and global white supremacy. In the Cause of Freedom examines the ideas, initiatives, and networks of interwar black radicals, as well as how they communicated across continents.Trade ReviewAn invaluable source for those researching the development of black radicalism during the interwar years." - Journal of Caribbean History"An intriguing, detailed, study. . . . A substantial achievement." - American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisMirsad Hadžkadic never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mirsad made the life-changing decision to run, despite the fact that he had a successful, thirty-year career as a professor at the University of North Carolina.

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Book SynopsisThe World Crisis is considered by many to be Winston S. Churchill's literary masterpiece. Published across five volumes between 1923 and 1931, Churchill here tells the story of The Great War, from its origins to the long shadow it cast on the following decades. At once a history and a first-hand account of Churchill's own involvement in the war, The World Crisis remains a compelling account of the conflict and its importance. Volume I covers the origins and earliest days of the war from 1911-1914, as well as the longer history of the collapse of the Great Power system from the Franco Prussian war onwards. Churchill here explores the international tensions over the Balkan states that triggered the conflict as well as the arms race between the British and German navies.Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1. The Vials of Wrath 2. Milestone to Armageddon 3. The Crisis of Agadir 4. Admirals All 5. The German Navy Law 6. The Romance of Design 7. The North Sea Front 8. Ireland and the European Balance 9. The Crisis 10. The Mobilization of the Navy 11. War: The Passage of the Army 12. The Battle in France 13. On the Oceans 14. In the Narrow Seas 15. Antwerp 16. The Channel Ports 17. The Grand Fleet and the Submarine Alarm 18. Coronel and the Falklands 19. With Fisher at the Admiralty 20. The Bombardment of Scarborough and Hartlepool 21. Turkey and the Balkans Appendixes Appendix A: Naval Staff Training Appendix B: Tables of Fleet Strength Appendix C: Trade Protection Appendix D: Mining Appendix E: First Lord's Minutes

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