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Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.Trade Review'This is an impressive work of synthesis which tracks more than a century of bourgeois life in Europe. And the bourgeois world Seigel conjures is a complex one, born of ever more tightly woven patterns of communication and exchange, never fixed but changing over time, and always an unstable mix of the structured and the fluid. Rarely has the subject been treated with such sweep and sympathy.' Philip Nord, Princeton University'A virtuoso performance in a powerful survey with an eye for the telling contrast and the shrewd comparison: England - at once the most bourgeois and the least; France - homeland of revolution yet slow to change, and Germany, where bourgeois politics was expressed by not yet modern bourgeois classes.' Donald Sassoon, Queen Mary, University of London'Jerrold Seigel dazzles the reader with an array of original arguments across European time and space, and gives new credibility to transformational claims for Western Europe's middle classes. He convincingly shows how the articulation of new bourgeois networks in various spheres of activity cumulatively altered European society and culture.' Isser Woloch, Columbia University'Jerry Seigel's ambitious and important new book offers a fresh interpretation of Europe's 'great transformation' (1750–1914) that is as cogent as it is challenging. Immensely learned, vividly detailed and impressively comprehensive, Modernity and Bourgeois Life combines a broad synthesis of the social and cultural history of modern western Europe with an original and compelling argument regarding the place of bourgeois actors in the gradual and uneven emergence of modern life in economic, cultural and political realms. Beautifully written and sharply argued, Seigel's narrative is shot through with luminous insights, telling individual portraits and clear and engaging explanations of sometimes quite difficult material. A pleasure to read, [this book] invites its readers on a genial voyage of discovery, or re-discovery, of recent European landscapes they thought they already knew.' Laura Lee Downs, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris'In this masterful interpretation of modern European history, Seigel … persuasively and lucidly argues that the essence of change has been the growth and transformation of the bourgeoisie … This work belongs in every academic library; it also deserves to be taken off the shelves and read by all students of European history. Uncommonly good. Summing up: highly recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: ends and means; Part I. Contours of Modernity: 2. Precocious integration: England; 3. Monarchical centralization, privilege, and conflict: France; 4. Localism, state-building, and bürgerliche gesellschaft: Germany; 5. Modern industry, class, and party politics in nineteenth-century England; 6. France and bourgeois France: from teleocracy to autonomy; 7. One special path: modern industry, politics, and bourgeois life in Germany; Part II. Calculations and Lifeworlds: 8. Time, money, capital; 9. Men and women; 10. Bourgeois morals: from Victorianism to modern sexuality; 11. Jews as bourgeois and network people; Part III. A Culture of Means: 12. Public places, private spaces; 13. Bourgeois and others; 14. Bourgeois life and the avant-garde; 15. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisBetween the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, and industry were disparately but profoundly transformed. Revised, updated, and expanded, this second edition of Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe narrates and analyses the diverse trends that greatly enlarged European commerce, permanently modified rural and urban production, gave birth to new social classes, remade consumer habits, and altered global economic geographies, culminating in capitalist industrial revolution. Broad in chronological and geographical scope and explicitly comparative, Robert S. DuPlessis'' book introduces readers to a wealth of information drawn from throughout Eastern, Western and Mediterranean Europe, as well as to classic interpretations, current debates, new scholarship, and suggestions for further reading.Trade Review'A sweeping and compelling account of the changing contours of Europe's economy from the mid-fifteenth century to the early-nineteenth century. With a deep and abiding interest in a broad interpretation of capitalism, Robert DuPlessis weaves together with exceptional clarity and fairness debates and polities both well-known and obscure. This book will become a focus of debate and a prod to research.' David Hancock, University of Michigan'This is considerably more than a survey of the economic history of early modern Europe. Based on sure control of the relevant scholarly literature, it is a lucid analysis of Europe's agricultural, industrial and commercial sectors and how the changes they underwent from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth made modern capitalism possible.' Martha Howell, Miriam Champion Professor of History, Columbia University'A state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental changes that European economies and societies experienced in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution. Its sensitivity to regional and temporal variations, and to historians' conflicting interpretations of these variations, makes this book an ideal introduction to this fascinating topic.' Maarten Prak, Utrecht University'With this second addition DuPlessis raises his already fine analysis to a higher level. Extended bibliographies reflect the proliferation of recent research on global trade networks (including slavery), patterns of consumption, and women's work. DuPlessis gives full weight to regional variations in economic development. Altogether, this is an outstanding account, lucidly and fluently written.' Tom Scott, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsPreface; Part I: 1. Issues and interpretations; 2. European economies on the eve of globalization; Part II: Introduction: the long sixteenth century; 3. Goods and people on the move; 4. The limits of agricultural growth; 5. Industrial tradition and innovation; Part III: Introduction: from seventeenth-century crisis to long eighteenth century; 6. Commerce, capital, consumption; 7. Agriculture: divergence, development, disappointment; 8. Proto-industry to early Industrial Revolution; 9. Transitions; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisAntifascism has received little attention compared to its enemy. No historian or social scientist has previously attempted to define its nature and history - yet antifascism became perhaps the most powerful ideology of the twentieth century. Michael Seidman fills this gap by providing the first comprehensive study of antifascisms in Spain, France, the UK, and USA, with new interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, French Popular Front, and Second World War. He shows how two types of antifascism - revolutionary and counterrevolutionary - developed from 1936 to 1945. Revolutionary antifascism dominated the Spanish Republic during its civil war and re-emerged in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II. By contrast, counterrevolutionary antifascists were hegemonic in France, Britain, and the USA. In Western Europe, they restored conservative republics or constitutional monarchies based on Enlightenment principles. This innovative examination of antifascism will interest a wide range of sTrade Review'Michael Seidman makes us rethink our understanding of the ideologies and practices of anti-fascists in their struggles with fascist parties and fascist regimes before and during the war. His typology of antifascisms and his critical analysis of their nature and effectiveness enables historians and all citizens to engage in new ways with a fundamental political conflict of the twentieth century. Transatlantic Antifascisms is of real importance to those who identify as antifascists today as well as historians of the modern world.' Donald M. Reid, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'Transatlantic Antifascism is an admirable study: for its scope, its subtlety, its conceptual rigour and its many ideas and insights. This is a lively and enjoyable account of antifascism which will appeal to scholars, students and the general reader alike.' Nigel Townson, Universidad Complutense de Madrid'Michael Seidman makes a powerful case for giving antifascism the analytical attention scholars have long given to fascism. His erudite and lively study of Spain, France, Britain, and the US does that and more. It breaks open the subject with fresh, provocative ideas, and it explores the many dimensions of antifascism - its politics, its religious and cultural wellsprings, its place in working-class life - with deft authority. A remarkable contribution.' Herrick Chapman, New York University'Transatlantic Antifascisms makes a significant contribution to the study of antifascism. As with his previous works, Seidman does not shy away from challenging some of the dominant trends within the relevant historiography, and the field is the better for it.' Christopher Bannister, H-France Review'The work of Michael Seidman offers a brilliant interpretation of these decisive years of the 'short twentieth century'.' Gilles Vergnon, European History QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Revolutionary antifascism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–39; 3. The antifascist deficit during the French Popular Front; 4. British and French counterrevolutionary antifascism; 5. Counterrevolutionary antifascism alone, 1939–40; 6. American counterrevolutionary antifascism; 7. Antifascisms united: 1941–44; 8. Beyond fascism and antifascism: working and not working; 9. Antifascisms divided, 1945; 10. Conclusion and epilogue.

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Book SynopsisOne of the greatest hopes and expectations that accompanied American colonialism from its earliest incarnation was that Atlantic settlers would be able to locate new sources of raw silk, with which to satiate the boundless desire for luxurious fabrics in European markets. However, in spite of the great upheavals and achievements of Atlantic plantation, this ambition would never be fulfilled. By taking the commercial failure of silk seriously and examining numerous experiments across New Spain, New France, British North America and the early United States, Ben Marsh reveals new insights into aspiration, labour, environment, and economy in these societies. Each devised its own dreams and plans of cultivation, framed by the particularities of cultures and landscapes. Writ large, these dreams would unravel one by one: the attempts to introduce silkworms across the Atlantic world ultimately constituted a step too far, marking out the limits of Europeans'' seemingly unbounded power.Trade Review'Written with verve and wit, Marsh's strikingly original commodity study reshapes our understanding of the Atlantic World. Marsh masterfully employs both macro and micro history to detail the importance of silk making efforts – and its failures – to colony, empire, and nation building. Sophisticated yet accessible, Unravelled Dreams is a magisterial must read.' Zara Anishanslin, author of Portrait of a Woman in Silk'A deeply researched, felicitously written, probingly analytical examination of bright promise and repeated failure. Marsh's expansive account of raw silk cultivation illuminates subjects from trade to technology, empire to environment, silks to slavery, enriching while complicating our understanding of early modern European and American textile, consumption, and economic histories.' Robert S. DuPlessis, author of The Material Atlantic'Rarely has a history of 'failure' been so skilfully evoked. Ben Marsh explores the western imperial hopes for silk production in the colonial Atlantic world – the stuff of competing politics, regional ecologies and assorted adventures. His sharp analyses reveal vital new perspectives, set within globally entangled material histories.' Beverly Lemire, author of Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures'… a much-needed counterbalance to triumphalist tales of innovative success and unsettling easy assumptions of inevitable technological progress … This excellent book relies on meticulous research spanning an unusually wide range of times, places and cultures … Beautifully produced with lavish colour illustrations, Unravelled Dreams … reveals a substantial facet of imperial history that has previously been neglected.' Patricia Fara, The British Journal for the History of Science'… Unravelled Dreams recovers the causes and consequences of a forgotten history, highlights contemporaries' coping and compromising with contingencies, and, like all good books, inspires the readers to think and explore more into the story.' Dan Du, Enterprise & Society'… a titanic work … [a] masterpiece.' José María Luque Pecci, EH.net (Economic History Association)Table of ContentsList of figures; List of colour plates; List of maps; List of tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Prologue; Part I. Emergence: 2. Spain and New Spain; 3. England and Virginia; 4. France and New France; Part II. Persistence; 5. Persistence; 6. Lower South: South Carolina and Georgia; 7. New England; Part III. Convergence; 8. Convergence; 9. Pennsylvania and sericultural revolution; 10. Silk production in the wake of revolution; 11. Epilogue; Selected bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAs the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site of contestation and cooperation between the traditional forces of religion and the emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments, this book problematizes the divergent religion-state power configurations that have developed. There are two central arguments. First, states carved out more sovereign space in places like Greece and Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state policies that seek to facilitate equality through the recognition of religious difference and state policies that seek to eradicate such diffeTrade Review'Kristin Fabbe has written a highly engaging study of the historical relationship between religion and state-building in the Middle East and Balkans … Fabbe's study should appeal to historians and political and other social scientists interested in state-building, secularization, and nationalism.' Mark Biondich, Journal of Church and StateTable of Contents1. Introduction: religion and the quest for state soverignty; 2. Creating disciples of the state; 3. The Ottoman imperial footprint and international context; 4. The first reformer: Egypt under Muḥammad ʿAlī; 5. Synthesizing the religious and the national in a revolutionary and irredentist Greece; 6. The religious roots of the 'secular' state: understanding Turkey's sacred-synthesis of the religious and the national; 7. How the religious and the national diverge: evidence from Egypt; 8. Sacred-synthesis, the politics of exclusion, and the prospects of liberal democracy; 9. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisWorld War II is enshrined in our collective memory as the good war - a victory of good over evil. However, the bombing war has always troubled this narrative as total war transformed civilians into legitimate targets and raised unsettling questions such as whether it was possible for Allies and Axis alike to be victims of aggression. In Bombing the City, an unprecedented comparative history of how ordinary Britons and Japanese experienced bombing, Aaron William Moore offers a major new contribution to these debates. Utilising hundreds of diaries, letters, and memoirs, he recovers the voices of ordinary people on both sides - from builders, doctors and factory-workers to housewives, students and policemen - and reveals the shared experiences shaped by gender, class, race, and age. He reveals how it was that the British and Japanese public continued to support bombing elsewhere even as they experienced firsthand its terrible impact at home.Trade Review'An intimate and thoroughly original breakthrough in comparative history that skillfully interweaves the diaries and recollections of ordinary British and Japanese civilians to bring alive the horrors of German and American terror bombing in World War II.' John Dower, author of Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq'Bombing the City is an important book that reminds us, through a focus on the second World War, that 'total war' transforms civilians into targets in new and devastating ways. Drawing on archival sources from Britain and Japan, Moore tells the story of aerial bombardment in the words of those below the bombs.' Lucy Noakes, author of War and the British: Gender and National Identity, 1939–1991'Much ink has been spilled on the rise of air power in World War II. Aaron William Moore's extraordinary new book manages to bring fresh perspective to this story, focusing on the experience of the bombed in England and Japan. In evocative detail, he shows us how the transformation in battle tactics also transformed cities and urban life. Social history at its best.' Louise Young, author of Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism'The reading of Bombing the City is enthralling … recommended for anyone interested in the history of aerial bombardment and civilian experiences of total war.' Jean-Michel Turcotte, Canadian Military History'… this is a richly informative and thought-provoking book that will be enjoyed not only by scholars of Japanese and British history, but also by anyone with an interest in the horrors of indiscriminate bombing campaigns.' Simon Partner, The Journal of Japanese StudiesTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Featured diarists; Introduction: attacking the people: democracy, populism, and modern war; 1. Give unto Moloch: family and nation in WWII; 2. The muses of war: terror, anger, and faith; 3. Romancing stone: human sacrifice and system collapse in the city; 4. Defending our way of life: gender, class, age, and other oppressions; Conclusion: victory for the people: pacifism and the ashes of the post-war era; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisNearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the social sciences. This groundbreaking work from Oleh Havrylyshyn offers a new perspective. Havrylyshyn, a former official in the post-independence Ukrainian government, provides a unique, primary source account of the people and problems at the heart of economic transitions. Grounded in three decades of data, along with experiential research gleaned from nearly thirty countries, this book contains the most up-to-date assessment of economic transitions in post-communist regions. It critically examines questions of gradual versus radical reforms, the relationship between democracy and market liberalization, and how history, individual personalities, and foreign influence determined political choices. Thorough research and accessible style make this work a valuable resource for students and specialists of economics, political science, and history as Trade Review'Oleh Havrylyshyn, an academic and a former policy maker, provides a fascinating account of the liberalizing transitions of former socialist countries. His unique knowledge allows him to present the basic facts and to unmask popular myths about the post-socialist transformations. He deals in a comparative way both with the economics of transition and with the political economy of this process. Writing clearly and elegantly, Havrylyshyn makes a very important contribution to a very important subject.' Leszek Balcerowicz, Warsaw School of Economics'… the most widely referenced book on this topic.' P. Rutland, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Diverse Paths Taken in Transition: 1. Review of key debates at the beginning; 2. Reforms and results of transition: first some facts; Part II. Choice of Strategy: Was it History? Politics? Or People?: 3. Historical legacies: hysteresis vs critical juncture; 4. Reform commitment of political leaders and populations; 5. The role of technocrats; 6. External incentives and pressures; Part III. Domestic Vested Interests and Reforms: 7. The old guard: politicians, technocrats, and red directors; 8. Formation of the oligarchs; 9. Corruption: pervasive, persistent and pernicious; Part IV. Outcomes and Prospects: 11. The transition tapestry: wefts of history, warps-at choice; 12. Quo vadis post-communa?: an epilogue.

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Book SynopsisFriendly societies provided mutual aid to many working class Britons during the nineteenth century. But these societies were just one iteration of a larger conceptual mode of organizing reciprocity. This book traces the ways in which contemporaries adapted the concept to make promises of collective responsibility effective - even among strangers.Trade Review'Few books actually change the way we conceptualize British history, yet this is one of those rare achievements. Penelope Ismay excavates the larger landscape of mutuality and reciprocity, revealing the vital significance of friendly society in the industrial age. We are all in her debt.' Deborah Valenze, Barnard College, New York'Penelope Ismay adds much to what we thought we knew about British friendly societies, especially their technologies for maintaining trust as their membership expanded in the nineteenth century. But she also locates them in a context we never thought to ask about, namely the varied political strategies, dating back into the sixteenth century, for 'organizing reciprocity', including Christian charity, the Elizabethan poor law, savings banks, and, ultimately, the welfare state. With this insight, Trust among Strangers forces us to rethink the persistent and multifaceted place of community in modern life.' Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, City University of New York'This groundbreaking study re-evaluates the foundation of friendly societies, focusing on how they maintained long-held notions of sociable, trust-based mutuality throughout the nineteenth century, in the face of opposition from actuarial science. It convincingly shows how the friendly society was an institution through which the working class was able to embed its own welfare in communities, and will be necessary reading for anyone interested in the social history of the subject.' Craig Muldrew, University of Cambridge'An exceptional work of history revealing how the principle of mutuality, built upon notions of friendship and trust, and embedded in the practices of friendly societies from the time of Daniel Defoe, played a central role in the formation of the modern welfare state. It played a special role in the thinking behind the National Health Service, which might be considered a friendly society writ large.' Gareth Stedman Jones, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: new beginnings; 1. Friendly society before friendly societies; 2. Friendly societies and the meaning of the new poor law; 3. The battle between savings banks and friendly societies; 4. Trusting institutions: making the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity; 5. Trusting numbers: sociability and actuarial science in the Manchester Unity; Epilogue: alternative endings.

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Book SynopsisIrish Literature in Transition, 19802020elucidates the central features of Irish literature during the twentieth century''s long turn, covering its significant trends and formations, reassessing its major writers and texts, and providing path-making accounts of its emergent figures. Over the past forty years, life in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has been transformed by new material conditions in each polity and by ideological shifts in the way people understand themselves and their relation to the world. Amid these remarkable changes, culture on both sides of the border has emerged as a global phenomenon, one that both reflects and intervenes in rapidly changing contemporary conditions. This volume accounts for broad patterns of literary and cultural production in this period anddemonstrates the value of Irish contemporary literature within anglophone and European traditions and as a body of work that has kept its eye trained on the particularities of the island and itsTrade Review'This is an extraordinary achievement, a hugely enjoyable and instructive read. It does not leave Irish Studies as it found it, instead renovating and extending the subject.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'These reckonings acutely register the 'future's productively uncertain relation to the present world', as Falci writes of Boland and Heaney, and establishes the strengths and challenges of Irish Studies within this unpredictable present.' Liam Harisson, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eric Falci and Paige Reynolds; Part I. Times: 1. The contemporary conditions of Irish language literature Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh; 2. The cultures of poetry in contemporary Ireland David Lloyd; 3. Troubles literature and the end of the troubles Julia Obert; 4. Contemporary Irish theatre and media Paige Reynolds; 5. Writing childhood: young adult and children's literature Patricia Kennon; Coda: Eavan Boland and Seamus Heaney Eric Falci; Part II. Spaces: 6. Habitations: space, place, real estate Adam Hanna; 7. Crossings: Northern Irish literature from Good Friday to Brexit Stefanie Lehner; 8. Adaptations: commemoration and contemporary Irish theatre James Moran; 9. Relocations: diaspora, travel, migrancy Ellen McWilliams; 10. Arrivals: inward migration and Irish literature Anne Mulhall; Coda: Tom Murphy and Brian Friel Patrick Lonergan; Part III. Forms of Experience: 11. The Irish realist novel Joe Cleary; 12. Faith, secularism, and sacred institutions Diarmaid Ferriter; 13. Writing the tiger: economics and culture Sarah Townsend; 14. Violence, trauma, recovery Christopher Langlois; 15. Modes of witnessing and Ireland's institutional history Emilie Pine, Susan Leavy, Mark Keane, Maeve Casserly and Tom Lane; Coda: Edna O'Brien and Eimear McBride Clair Wills; Part IV. Practices, Institutions, and Audiences: 16. Mediation and translation in Irish language literature Rióna Ní Fhrighil; 17. Irish studies and its discontents Ronan McDonald; 18. Historical transitions in Ireland on screen Barry Monahan; 19. Irish blockbusters and literary stars at the end of the millenium Stephen Watt; 20. Contemporary literature and public value Margaret Kelleher; Coda: The Irish Times, Tramp Press, and the future present Paige Reynolds.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the Virgin Mary''s life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled territories that was intended for a variety of settings and audiences and seeks to explain why Byzantine artisans and writers chose to tell stories about Mary, the Mother of God, in such different ways. Sometimes the variation reflected the theological or narrative purposes of story-tellers; sometimes it expressed their personal spiritual preoccupations. Above all, the variety of aspects that this holy figure assumed in Byzantium reveals her paradoxical theological position as meeting-place and mediator between the divine and created realms. Narrative, whether ''historical'', theological, or purely literary, thus played a fundamental role in the development of the Marian cult from Late Antiquity onward.Table of ContentsIntroduction Thomas Arentzen and Mary B. Cunningham; Part I. Telling Visual Stories: The Virgin Mary in Art: 1. Embodied word: telling the story of Mary in early Christian art Maria Lidova; 2. Female devotion and Mary's motherhood before iconoclasm Andrea Olsen Lam; 3. The theological substance of St Anne's motherhood in Byzantine homilies and art Eirini Panou; 4. Krater of nectar and altar of the Bread of Life: the Theotokos as provider of the Eucharist in Byzantine culture Maria Evangelatou; 5. The Virgin at Daphni Leslie Brubaker; Part II. Song and Celebration: Festal Hymnography on the Theotokos: 6. The dialogue of Annunciation: Germanos of Constantinople versus Romanos the Melode Thomas Arentzen; 7. Singing Mary: the Annunciation and Nativity in Romanos the Melode Georgia Frank; 8. Mary and Adam on the threshold of Lent: counterpoint and intercession in a Kanon for Cheesefare Sunday Derek Krueger; 9. The spiritual and material temple: Byzantine Kanon poetry for the Feast of the Entrance Damaskinos Olkinuora; Part III. Preaching Her Story: Narrative Discourse in Homiletics: 10. The Coptic homily on the Theotokos attributed to Cyril of Jerusalem: an aberrant and apologetic 'life' of the Virgin from Late Antiquity Stephen J. Shoemaker; 11. Mary as 'scala caelestis' in eighth- and ninth-century Italy Francesca Dell'Acqua; 12. Christological and ecclesiological narratives in early eighth-century Greek homilies on the Theotokos Evgenios Iverites; 13. The homilies of James of Kokkinobaphos in their twelfth-century context Elizabeth Jeffreys; Part IV. New Narratives in the Middle Byzantine Period: Marian Hagiography: 14. The life of the Theotokos by Epiphanios of Kallistratos: a monastic approach to an apocryphal story Mary B. Cunningham; 15. The story of an edition: Antoine Wenger and John Geometres' Life of the Virgin Mary Maximos Constas; Afterword Susan Ashbrook Harvey.

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Book SynopsisDaniel Whittingham presents the first comprehensive study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell. His book explores the development of British military thought to shed new light on colonial warfare, counterinsurgency, the South African War, tactics, maritime strategy, and the First World War.Trade Review'… an excellent read for anyone interested in how the man shaped British military thought.' A. A. Nofi, The NYMAS Review'Whittingham has produced a well-researched, lucid, and valuable account which will be of interest to a wide variety of readers interested in military affairs and strategic thought more broadly.' David Morgan-Owen, War in History Book Reviews'Whittingham has produced a book that does full justice to Callwell as a military theorist and, in the process, has made a major contribution to the historiography of the British army.' Ian F. W. Beckett, IJMH review of WhittinghamTable of Contents1. Introduction: Charles E. Callwell and British strategy; 2. Callwell's early career; 3. 'An art by itself': Charles E. Callwell and small wars; 4. 'Another page in the history of tactics': Charles E. Callwell and the South African war; 5. Khaki-clad maritime theorist: Charles E. Callwell and amphibious warfare; 6. 'I did my best to throw cold water on the scheme as a whole': Charles E. Callwell and the Dardanelles; 7. Not 'one of that band of dug-outs who became dug-ins': Charles E. Callwell, the war and retirement, 1914–28; 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the history of Irish writing between the Second World War (or the ''Emergency'') in 1939 and the re-emergence of violence in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. It situates modern Irish writing within the contexts of cultural transition and transnational connection, often challenging pre-existing perceptions of Irish literature in this period as stagnant and mundane. While taking into account the grip of Irish censorship and cultural nationalism during the mid-twentieth century, these essays identify an Irish literary culture stimulated by international political horizons and fully responsive tochanges in publishing, readership, and education. The book combines valuable cultural surveys with focussed discussions of key literary moments, and of individual authors such as Seán O''Faoláin, Samuel Beckett, Edna O''Brien, and John McGahern.Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The final essay of the collection, by Shaun Richards, is a very useful overview of the development of critical approaches and practices in the period. Irish Literature in Transition 1940-1980 is an expertly-edited collection of essays. The essays are lucid, insightful and jargon-free. For Irish Studies scholars of this period, it is indispensable.' Eoghan Smith, Irish Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Eve Patten; Part I. After the War: Ideologies in Transition: 1. The Second World War and its literary legacies Guy Woodward; 2. Outside the whale: Seán O'Faoláin and the European public intellectual Brad Kent; 3. Irish writers and Europe Aidan O'Malley; 4. Becoming a Republic: Irish writing in transition Nicholas Allen; Part II. Genres in Transition: 5. Intermodernism and the middlebrow in Irish writing John Brannigan; 6. Transitional life writing: Frank O'Connor and the autobiographical tradition Muireann Leech; 7. Somehow it is not the same: Irish theatre and transition Chris Morash; 8. Samuel Beckett, Flann O'Brien and the literature of absurdity David Wheatley; Part III. Sex, Politics and Literary Protest: 9. Censorship, law and literature Eibhear Walshe; 10. Sex, dissent and Irish fiction: reading John McGahern Frank Shovlin; 11. History, memory and protest in Irish theatre Emilie Pine; 12. Violence, politics and the poetry of the troubles Rosie Lavan; Part IV. Identities and Connections: 13. State, space and experiment in Irish language prose writing Máirín Nic Eoin; 14. Anglo-Ireland: the big house novel in transition Heather Ingman; 15. American-Irish literary relations Ellen McWilliams; 16. 'Home rule in our literature': Irish-British poetic relations Tom Walker; Part V. Retrospective Frameworks: Criticism in Transition: 17. Literary biography in transition Paul Delaney; 18. Publishing, Penguin and Irish writing Paul Rooney; 19. Curriculum to canon: Irish writing and education Margaret Kelleher; 20. Critics, criticism and the formation of an Irish literary canon Shaun Richards.

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Book SynopsisThe years between 1880 and 1940 were a time of unprecedented literary production and political upheaval in Ireland. It is the era of the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish Revival, and a time when many major Irish writers - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett, Lady Gregory - profoundly impacted Irish and World Literature. Recent research has uncovered new archives of previously neglected texts and authors. Organized according to multiple categories, ranging from single author to genre and theme, this volume allows readers to imagine multiple ways of re-mapping this crucial period. The book incorporates different, even competing, approaches and interpretations to reflect emerging trends and current debates in contemporary scholarship. As ongoing research in the field of Irish studies discovers new materials and critical strategies for interpreting them, our sense of Irish literary history during this period is constantly shifting. This volume seeks to capture the richness and complexity of the years 1880-Trade Review'… a remarkably ambitious project, taking the temperature of Irish literature from 1730 to the present in approximately 2,400 pages.' Anthony Roche, Irish Times'The overarching achievements of this collection are its extensions of the scope for critical intervention into the years during and immediately succeeding the Revival. The collection also greatly bene!ts from its inclusion of criticism on overlooked writers such as George Egerton, Katherine Cecil Thurston, and George Moore alongside regular stalwarts such as Joyce, Yeats, and Bowen. Eclectic, necessarily diverse, and rigorous, Irish Literature in Transition, 1880-1940 is an important investigation into two periods of distinctive artistic and critical creativity that manages to seamlessly survey the development of cultural discourses and identify the cultural movements that made them possible.' Loic Wright, Irish Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Marjorie Howes; Part I. Revisionary Foundations: 2. The apotheosis of the vernacular: dialects and the Irish revival Brian Ó'Conchubhair; 3. Origins of modern Irish poetry, 1880–1922 Alex Davis; 4. Theatrical Ireland: new routes from the Abbey Theatre to the Gate Theatre Paige Reynolds; 5. Recovery and the ascendancy novel 1880–1932 Vera Kreilkamp; Part II. Revoutionary Forms: 6. Print culture landscapes 1880–1922 Niall Carson; 7. Revolutionary lives in the rearview mirror: memoir and autobiography Karen Steele; 8. The Hugh Lane controversy and the Irish revival Lucy McDiarmid; 9. New Irish women and new women's writing Tina O'Toole; Part III. Major Figures in Transition: 10. Aging Yeats: from fascism to disability Joseph Valente; 11. 'I myself delight in Miss Edgeworth's novels': gender, power, and the domestic in Lady Gregory's work Lauren Arrington; 12. Synge and disappearing Ireland Gregory Castle; 13. Drumcondra modernism: Joyce's suburban aesthetic Enda Duffy; 14. London Irish: Wilde, Shaw and Yeats Nicholas Grene; Part IV. Aftermaths and Outcomes: 15. Reimagining realism in post-independence Irish writing Mark Quigley; 16. The free state of poetry Lucy Collins; 17. Live wires and dead noise: revolutionary communications Emily C. Bloom; 18. The dead, the undead, and the half-alive: the transition from narrative plot to formal trope in late modern Irish writing Clair Wills; Part V. Frameworks in Transition: 19. Irish literary criticism during the revival Gerry Smyth; 20. Retrospective readings: the rise of global Irish studies Peter Kuch.

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Book SynopsisThe Roman Empire traditionally presented itself as the centre of the world, a view sustained by ancient education and conveyed in imperial literature. Historiography in particular tended to be written from an empire-centred perspective. In Late Antiquity, however, that attitude was challenged by the fragmentation of the empire. This book explores how a post-imperial representation of space emerges in the historiography of that period. Minds adapted slowly, long ignoring Constantinople as the new capital and still finding counter-worlds at the edges of the world. Even in Christian literature, often thought of as introducing a new conception of space, the empire continued to influence geographies. Political changes and theological ideas, however, helped to imagine a transferral of empire away from Rome and to substitute ecclesiastical for imperial space. By the end of Late Antiquity, Rome was just one of many centres of the world.Trade Review'… the contributions are first-rate essays, sure to benefit any student who reads them … Overall, this is a worthwhile collection.' J. A. S. Evans, Choice'Without a doubt, each study in this volume presents a piece of fine scholarship in itself, even though some certainly carry more weight or offer more food for thought than the others. In that regard, this is a welcome collection.' Hrvoje Gračanin, Bryn Mawr Classical Review'… these individual yet (loosely) related studies offer us different approaches and methodologies to explore a rich and diverse number of texts and authors, some familiar and some less well-known, and to raise questions and to illuminate another aspect of the late antique world.' Fiona K. Haarer, HistosTable of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: from imperial to post-imperial space in Late Ancient historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 1. Constantinople's belated hegemony Anthony Kaldellis; 2. Beside the rim of the ocean: the edges of the world in fifth- and sixth- century historiography Peter Van Nuffelen; 3. Armenian space in Late Antiquity Tim Greenwood; 4. Narrative and space in Christian chronography: John of Biclaro on East, West, and orthodoxy Mark Humphries; 5. The Roman Empire in John of Ephesus' Church history: being Roman, writing Syriac Hartmut Leppin; 6. Changing geographies: West Syrian ecclesiastical historiography, AD 700–850 Philip Wood; 7. Where is Syriac Pilgrimage literature in Late Antiquity? Exploring the absence of a genre Scott Johnson; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisHow were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the ''moral economy'', the web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a penetrating portrait of a changing world. Anglo-Saxon lords were powerful in many ways but their power did not stem directly from their ownership of land. The values of early medieval England - principally those of rank, reciprocity and worth - were shared across society. The Norman Conquest brought in new attitudes both to land and to the relationship between lords and peasants, and the Domesday Book conveyed the novel concept of ''tenure''. The new ''feudal thinking'' permeated all relationships concerned with land: peasant farmers were now manorial tenants, owing labour and rent. Many people looked back to better days.Trade Review'In the third of a sequence of magisterial and thought provoking books about early English rural society, Rosamond Faith forces us to face the problem of how lordship managed to establish itself in Anglo-Saxon England at all. Her profound and radical understanding of how peasant life works on the ground shines through at every point. Everyone who is interested in English society before 1200, or indeed later, will have to read this book.' Chris Wickham, University of Oxford'Representing the fruit of over five decades' work on the medieval peasantry, this book takes us closer to the lived world of the Anglo-Saxon peasantry than I would have ever thought possible. It revises traditional wisdom on a host of important subjects, from the origins of feudalism to the impact on the Norman Conquest, and will be the go-to book on early English rural society and life for many years to come.' Levi Roach, University of Exeter'Like her previous works, this is a dynamic contribution to the study of an often neglected but vital segment of society. Though attempting, as she does, to get into 'the hearts and minds' of the English peasantry is always fated to be an uphill struggle given the nature of the surviving sources … this volume will become a valuable touchstone for future scholars studying medieval social relations.' Stuart Pracy, Agricultural History ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: the moral economy; Part I. Rank: 2. Lordship; 3. Our island story; 4. Honour and respect in peasant society; Part II. Reciprocity: 5. Hospitality; 6. Hearth, household and farm; Part III. Reputation and Witness: 7. Neighbours and strangers; 8. Markets and marketing; Part IV. The Wolf Sniffs the Wind: 9. HWILOM WÆS: Archbishop Wulfstan's old social order; 10. Land, law and office; Part V. The Aftermath of Conquest: 11. New words in the countryside; 12. Narrating the new social order; Part VI. In the World of the Manor: 13. Establishing custom; 14. Thinking feudally; 15. From rank to class; 16. Conclusion: forward into the past; Appendix. The family farm in peasant studies; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this study Céline Dauverd analyses the link between early modern imperialism and religion via the principle of ''good government''. She charts how the Spanish viceroys of southern Italy aimed to secure a new political order through their participation in religious processions, alliance-building with minority groups, and involvement in local charities. The viceroys'' good government included diplomacy, compromise, and pragmatism, as well as a high degree of Christian ethics and morality, made manifest in their rapport with rituals. Spanish viceroys were not so much idealistic social reformers as they were legal pragmatists, committed to a political vision that ensured the longevity of the Spanish empire. The viceroys resolved the tension between Christian ideals and Spanish imperialism by building religious ties with the local community. Bringing a new approach to Euro-Mediterranean history, Dauverd shows how the viceroys secured a new political order, and re-evaluates Spain''s contrTrade Review'… the revisionist character of many of her points will likely invite further scholarly investigation regarding Spain's governance of European territories outside Iberia.' R. C. Figueira, Choice'… a fresh and interesting perspective on religion and politics in early modernity.' Spencer Scott, Journal of Church and State'[This] studies value for our increased understanding of early modernity Empire building is substantial and fascinating.' Anders Jarlert, Publications of the Swedish Society of Church History'The value of the study for our increased understanding of early modern empire building is substantial and fascinating.' Daniel Mladenovic, Swedish Society of Church HistoryTable of Contents1. The Spaniards in charitable institutions; 2. Viceroys, Jews, and Conversos; 3. The miracle of San Gennaro; 4. Easter processions; 5. Corpus Domini celebration; 6. San Giovanni a Mare.

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Book SynopsisThe First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil defence. Susan R. Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object the civilian gas mask through the years 19151945 and, in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive empire. Drawing on records from Britain''s Colonial, Foreign, War and Home Offices and other archives alongside newspapers, journals, personal accounts and cultural sources, she connects the histories of the First and Second World Wars, combatants and civilians, men and women, metropole and colony, illuminating how new technologies of warfare shaped culture, politics, and society.Trade Review'Grayzel's book is a compelling account of the social life of gas masks. She tells the history of war through one object – the gas mask – highlighting the tsunami of emotions it incites, the intensity of people's imagination, and their terror in the face of bodily violence. It is a book guaranteed to destroy any complacency about the inhumanity of war.' Joanna Bourke, author of Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives'This book encourages us to think about the idea of total war in the 20th century in new and surprising ways, through the lens of material culture, and the 'weaponisation of the air'. Grayzel illuminates novel ways of thinking about the relationship between individual citizens and states, and the way that war permeated all aspects of life, for both men and women. Britain, and its empire, appear as fresh sites for understanding total war. I expect this will be a landmark book for the social and cultural history of the First and Second World Wars.' Yasmin Khan, author of The Raj at War: a People's History of India's Second World War'One of the most horrifying strategies of twentieth-century warfare involved poisoning the air. Grayzel's meticulous study of popular and political responses to this awful prospect opens out the meanings and the legacies of efforts to protect the civilian body and offers new ways of understanding modern war.' Penny Summerfield, author of Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War'Grayzel's impressive archival collection reveals the value of tracing one technological object as it moved from the battlefield onto civilian bodies and eventually into the minds of an entire generation.' Peter Thompson, Technology and CultureTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Inventing an object for modern conflict: The gas mask in war and peace, 1915–1929; 3. Defending civilians: Developing the gas mask in Britain and its empire, c. 1930–1936; 4. Unveiling the gas mask: Designs and dissent, 1936–1938; 5. Curating the good citizen: The gas mask goes to war, 1939–1941; 6. Facing wartime: The civilian gas mask's rise and fall, 1941–1945; 7. Conclusion; Epilogue: Five brief ways of looking at a gas mask.

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Book SynopsisSpanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, this first history of Irish divorce places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law, and its reform, on Irish society.Trade Review'Covering the past four hundred years, this is a major contribution to legal, social and gender history. Urquhart's work is highly revealing about the double-standards towards sexual behaviour, Irish exceptionalism, Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards moral questions, and absence of legal uniformity under the Union.' Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin'This is a superb book - ambitious in scope, yet securely anchored in a formidable array of sources: it is characterised both by judiciousness and by an unflagging empathy. Diane Urquhart has rescued a centrally important theme from neglect and over-simplification - and has thereby consolidated her position within the front rank of modern Irish historians.' Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh'Based on extensive archival research, including parliamentary and court evidence, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Irish Divorce provides a nuanced understanding of a practice that concerned itself with both property and gendered propriety. Urquhart makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated relationship between church, state, and Irish society since 1700.' Karen Steele, Texas Christian University'Urquhart's book represents an insightful and compassionate foray into a very new field. The first all-Ireland history of divorce, it demonstrates how marriage breakdown reflected society's need to regulate succession, sexuality, and legitimacy. This exceptional work charts divorce's role in shaping, and reflecting, modern Ireland's attitude to gender and citizenship.' Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University'(A) balanced and masterful treatment of complex issues.' Brian Maye, Irish Times'As lucid as it is thorough, Irish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation. It offers a profoundly humane and empathetic analysis of what, for many, proved an elusive necessity that was cordoned off—for centuries—by ideological, nationalistic, imperial, and/or political boundaries and further inflected by class and gender. As a result, this study has much to teach us not only about divorce, but also about the ways the self-fashionings and political maneuverings of a nation-state can subvert the very citizens they are purportedly meant to serve …' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Estudios IrlandesesIrish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation.' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'anatomy of a divorce'; 1. Divorce in two legislatures: Irish divorce, 1701–1857; 2. The failings of the law: the cases of Talbot and Westmeath; 3. A non-inclusive reform: Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857; 4. Divorce in the post-reform era of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the rich'?; 5. The widening definition of marital cruelty; 6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922; 7. 'An exotic in very ungenial soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939; 8. With as 'little provocative as possible': the Northern Ireland move to court; 9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce in independent Ireland, 1922–1950; 10. Marriage law 'in this country is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda; 11. A 'curiosity [and]…an oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995; 12. The 'last stretch of a long road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 people in Castile, around 10 percent of the population. Plague is traditionally understood to have triggered chaos and madness. By contrast, Ruth Mackay focuses on the sites of everyday life, exploring how beliefs, practices, laws, and relationships endured even under the onslaught of disease. She takes an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of plague, and explores how the epidemic was understood and managed by everyday people. Offering a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic history of Spain, this original and engaging book demonstrates how, even in the midst of chaos, life carried on.Trade Review'Mackay revisits the most deadly early modern Spanish epidemic to challenge the time-worn cliché of the utter collapse of political and social order. This is extensive archival research - and well-honed critical thinking - at its best.' James Amelang, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid'MacKay's account stands out for the originality of its approach. Through innumerable examples, she tells the story of a society that does not passively succumb to the approach of disease but looks for ways to halt its onward march and deal with its consequences. In doing so she brings us poignantly close both to the victims and the survivors.' John Elliott, University of Oxford'Plague studies are legion, but this is in a class by itself. Beautifully written and deeply- researched, this engaging study breathes life into one of those moments in history otherwise associated with suffering, stagnation and death.' Richard L. Kagan, The John Hopkins University'MacKay excavates the extraordinary experience of epidemic disease to lay bare the values and concepts that structured the lives of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spaniards. Deeply researched, elegantly argued, this book brings to life the everyday political culture of early modern Spain.' A. Katie Stirling-Harris, University of California, Davis'This is a truly astonishing book, a work of immense scholarship … This is a book about the indestructibility of the human spirit, the primeval urge to live, to hang on to life. But above all else, it is one of the best histories available of the towns and villages of northern Spain at the end of the sixteenth century, their people, their structures, their day-to-day existence, made possible by hours and hours of working in local archives. We can only be grateful that there are still some historians who have not given up on archival work.' Trevor J. Dadson, Hispanic Research Journal'… Ruth MacKay's Life in a Time of Pestilence … is a well-researched, engaging, and enlightening book.' Kathryn Wolford, H-Net Reviews'In this extraordinary book, Ruth MacKay masterfully explores the topic of plague in Castile at the end of the 16th and start of the 17th century through a deep and thoughtful contextualization that leads to valuable insights to advance our understanding of plague and the broader historical period in which the epidemic surfaced and played out. In this book MacKay has sought to find the ordinary in the extraordinary and, along the way, she has uncovered the ways in which both were embedded in the very fabric of society in law, custom, memory, and the common good.' Dean Phillip Bell, English Historical Review'MacKay's beautifully written account of the Castilian pestilence shows us the utual business of plague. Stories of individual lives, often cut short, make the plague a very human experience here. MacKay's admirable work in many Spanish archives gives us a thick view of the continuation of life, as the bodies piled up at the turn of the seventeenth century.' Colin Rose, Renaissance Quarterly'If I had to put a label on this book, which I imagine the author would not want, I would say this is a magnificent study of social and cultural history, and at the same time of microhistory … Or, for a more neutral term, it is a magnificant study of early modern history.' Mauro Hernández, Historia Moderna (UNED)'This book is a fundamental contribution to our knowledge of one of the most important epidemics in early modern Spain and Europe. It is a fascinating and brilliantly written book that hews closely to the documents the author consulted in many archives, and relies upon an exhaustive number of secondary sources concerning the Castilian, or Atlantic plague at the end of the 16th century. It is a necessary, original, and unique book in terms of its structure. There are many local and regional monographs about the Second Pandemic, but few, if any, that embrace so deeply an entire country or territory as vast as the Crown of Castile.' Vicente Pérez Moreda, Economic History Research'In her eloquent and deeply researched study of the plague that ravaged Castile for five years at the end of the sixteenth century, which may have killed half a million people, MacKay provides a fine-grained detailed depiction of how Castile's inhabitants responded to the plague through a close reading and analysis of dozens of archival collections and the rich contextual knowledge that she has acquired through her previous work on early modern Spain.' Justin Stearns, Journal of Interdisciplinary History'… this is a well-researched, engaging, and enlightening book.' Kathryn Wolford, H-Environment'MacKay's book will be of interest for the windows it opens into the texture of everyday life and the mechanisms of power relations that underpinned the world of Golden Age Theater.' Claire Gilbert, Bulletin of the ComediantesTable of ContentsIntroduction, 1. Site 1: palace; 2. Site 2: road; 3. Site 3: wall; 4. Site 4: market; 5. Site 5: street; 6. Site 6: town hall; 7. Site 7: sickbed; Postmortem.

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Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive account of revolutionary and socialist thought after France's nineteenth-century revolution with new interpretations of the French revolutionary tradition. Drawing together material from around the world, Nicholls pieces together the nature and content of French revolutionary thought in this often overlooked era.Trade Review'Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune is an excellent contribution to the scholarship on revolutionary ideas and our understanding of 1871 … the book is well written, based upon a command of primary and secondary sources, and fairly balances both the successes and failures of the post-1871 revolutionary movement.' Casey Harison, European History Quarterly'This is an important contribution to intellectual and modern French history collections.' G. P. Cox, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Paris Commune and Accounting for Failure: 1. The commune as Quotidian event; 2. The commune as violent trauma; Part II. Revolution and the Republic: 3. The French revolutionary tradition; 4. Rehabilitating revolution; Part III. Marx, Marxism, and International Socialism: 5. Texts in translation; 6. The origins of Marxism in modern France; Part IV. Empire and Internationalism: 7. Deportation, imperialism, and the Republican State; 8. Exile and universal solidarity; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first history of Irish divorce. Spanning the island of Ireland over three centuries, it places the human experience of marriage breakdown centre stage to explore the impact of a highly restrictive and gendered law and its reform. It considers the accessibility of Irish divorce as it moved from a parliamentary process in Westminster, the Irish parliament and the Northern Ireland parliament to a court-based process. This socio-legal approach allows changing definitions of gendered marital roles and marital cruelty to be assessed. In charting the exceptionalism of Ireland''s divorce provision in a European and imperial framework, the study uncovers governmental reluctance to reform Irish divorce law which spans jurisdictions and centuries. This was therefore not only a law dictated by religious strictures but also by a long-lived moral conservatism.Trade Review'Covering the past four hundred years, this is a major contribution to legal, social and gender history. Urquhart's work is highly revealing about the double-standards towards sexual behaviour, Irish exceptionalism, Catholic and Protestant attitudes towards moral questions, and absence of legal uniformity under the Union.' Mary E. Daly, University College Dublin'This is a superb book - ambitious in scope, yet securely anchored in a formidable array of sources: it is characterised both by judiciousness and by an unflagging empathy. Diane Urquhart has rescued a centrally important theme from neglect and over-simplification - and has thereby consolidated her position within the front rank of modern Irish historians.' Alvin Jackson, University of Edinburgh'Based on extensive archival research, including parliamentary and court evidence, memoirs, letters, and diaries, Irish Divorce provides a nuanced understanding of a practice that concerned itself with both property and gendered propriety. Urquhart makes a significant contribution to understanding the complicated relationship between church, state, and Irish society since 1700.' Karen Steele, Texas Christian University'Urquhart's book represents an insightful and compassionate foray into a very new field. The first all-Ireland history of divorce, it demonstrates how marriage breakdown reflected society's need to regulate succession, sexuality, and legitimacy. This exceptional work charts divorce's role in shaping, and reflecting, modern Ireland's attitude to gender and citizenship.' Oonagh Walsh, Glasgow Caledonian University'(A) balanced and masterful treatment of complex issues.' Brian Maye, Irish Times'As lucid as it is thorough, Irish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation. It offers a profoundly humane and empathetic analysis of what, for many, proved an elusive necessity that was cordoned off—for centuries—by ideological, nationalistic, imperial, and/or political boundaries and further inflected by class and gender. As a result, this study has much to teach us not only about divorce, but also about the ways the self-fashionings and political maneuverings of a nation-state can subvert the very citizens they are purportedly meant to serve …' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Estudios IrlandesesIrish Divorce: A History contributes a comprehensive look at a fraught social issue through exhaustive research and careful contextualisation.' Kate Costello-Sullivan, Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. The 'anatomy of a divorce'; 1. Divorce in two legislatures: Irish divorce, 1701–1857; 2. The failings of the law: the cases of Talbot and Westmeath; 3. A non-inclusive reform: Ireland and the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857; 4. Divorce in the post-reform era of 1857–1922: 'Like diamonds, gambling, and picture-fancying, a luxury of the rich'?; 5. The widening definition of marital cruelty; 6. Divorce in court, 1857–1922; 7. 'An exotic in very ungenial soil': divorce in the Northern Ireland parliament, 1921–1939; 8. With as 'little provocative as possible': the Northern Ireland move to court; 9. An 'unhappy affair': divorce in independent Ireland, 1922–1950; 10. Marriage law 'in this country is an absolute shambles': the reform agenda; 11. A 'curiosity [and]…an oddity': referenda in 1986 and 1995; 12. The 'last stretch of a long road': the Family (Divorce) Law Act of 1996; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe idea that we are mutually dependent on the recognition of our peers is at least as old as modernity. Across Europe, this idea has been understood in different ways from the very beginning, according to each country''s different cultural and political conditions. This stimulating study explores the complex history and multiple associations of the idea of ''Recognition'' in Britain, France and Germany. Demonstrating the role of ''recognition'' in the production of important political ideas, Axel Honneth explores how our dependence on the recognition of others is sometimes viewed as the source of all modern, egalitarian morality, sometimes as a means for fostering socially beneficial behavior, and sometimes as a threat to ''true'' individuality. By exploring this fundamental concept in our modern political and social self-understanding, Honneth thus offers an alternative view of the philosophical discourse of modernity.Table of Contents1. Methodological Remarks on the History of Ideas vs. The History of Concepts; 2. From Rousseau to Sartre: Recognition and the Loss of Self; 3. From Hume to Mill: Recognition and Self-Control; 4. From Kant to Hegel: Recognition and Self-Determination; 5. A Historical Comparison of Recognition: An Attempt at a Systematic Summary.

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Book SynopsisAt the centre of the Roman empire stood the emperor and the court surrounding him. The systematic investigation of this court in its own right, however, has been a relatively late development in the field of Roman history, and previous studies have focused on narrowly defined aspects or on particular periods of Roman history. This book makes a major contribution to understanding the history of the Roman imperial court. The first volume presents nineteen original essays covering all the major dimensions of the court from the age of Augustus to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The second volume is a collection of the ancient sources that are central to studying that court. The collection includes: translations of literary sources, inscriptions, and papyri; plans and computer visualizations of archaeological remains; and photographs of archaeologic sites and artworks depicting the emperor and his court.Table of Contents1. Conceptualizing the Roman court Benjamin Kelly; 2. Court spaces Benjamin Kelly and Michele George; 3. Relationships Angela Hug, Benjamin Kelly and Neil W. Bernstein; 4. Rituals and ceremonial Caillan Davenport, Matthew B. Roller and Fanny Dolansky; 5. Picturing the court Olivier Hekster, Kelly Olson, Angela Hug and Robyn Gillam; 6. Narratives of court crises Angela Hug and Benjamin Kelly.

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Book SynopsisVolume 3 of The Cambridge History of the First World War explores the social and cultural history of the war and considers the role of civil society throughout the conflict; that is to say those institutions and practices outside the state through which the war effort was waged. Drawing on 25 years of historical scholarship, it sheds new light on culturally significant issues such as how families and medical authorities adapted to the challenges of war and the shift that occurred in gender roles and behaviour that would subsequently reshape society. Adopting a transnational approach, this volume surveys the war''s treatment of populations at risk, including refugees, minorities and internees, to show the full extent of the disaster of war and, with it, the stubborn survival of irrational kindness and the generosity of spirit that persisted amidst the bitterness at the heart of warfare, with all its contradictions and enduring legacies.Trade Review'… both scholarly and deftly drafted, a joy to read. It provides broad as well as deep analysis of just about every conceivable facet of this global catastrophe. It deserves close reading and contemplation.' Len Shurtleff, World War One Historical Association'The global perspective on the war, represented in these volumes, adds further layers of complexity to our understanding of this foundational moment in modern history. The conjunction of early twentieth-century patterns of globalization and industrialized great power war was singular, distinguishing it from earlier European conflicts fought across the globe and the Second World War, which followed the collapse of globalization in the 1930s.' William Mulligan, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction to Volume 3 Jay Winter; Part I. Private Life: Introduction to Part I Jay Winter and Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau; 1. The couple Martha Hanna; 2. Children Manon Pignot; 3. Families Jay Winter; Part II. Gender at Home: Introduction to Part II John Horne and Jay Winter; 4. War work Laura Lee Downs; 5. Gender at home Susan R. Grayzel; 6. At the Front Margaret Higonnet; 7. Gender roles in killing zones Joanna Bourke; Part III. Populations at Risk: Introduction to Part III Heather Jones and Laurence Van Ypersele; 8. Refugees and exiles Peter Gatrell and Philippe Nivet; 9. Minorities Panikos Panayi; 10. Populations under occupation Sophie de Schaepdrijver; 11. Captive civilians Annette Becker; Part IV. Bodies in Pain: Introduction to Part IV Jay Winter and Anne Rasmussen; 12. Military medicine Leo van Bergen; 13. Shell shock Jay Winter; 14. The Spanish Flu Anne Rasmussen; 15. Mourning practices Joy Damousi; Part V. The Social History of Cultural Life: Introduction to Part V Nicolas Beaupre and Annette Becker; 16. Mobilising minds Anne Rasmussen; 17. Beliefs and religion Adrian Gregory; 18. Soldier-writers and poets Nicolas Beaupre; 19. Cinema Laurent Veray; 20. Arts Annette Becker; 21. War memorials Bruce Scates and Rebecca Wheatley; Part VI. A Reckoning: Costs and Outcomes: Introduction to Part VI Jay Winter; 22. The dead Antoine Prost; 23. The living John Horne; 24. The Great War at its centenary John Horne; 25. Visual essay: civil society Annette Becker.

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Book SynopsisViceroys tells the important story of the British aristocracy sent to govern India during the reigns of five British monarchs and the role it played in the shaping of the modern British identity.Trade ReviewA richly rewarding work of history * Military History *

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Book SynopsisBetween 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards.The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easilTrade ReviewA richly rewarding work of history * Military History *

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Book SynopsisCovers the effects of the Great War on Tunbridge wells

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Book SynopsisWritten by an experienced and prolific author, the book Includs many illustrations not seen for 100 years and some never before published.

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Book SynopsisA light-hearted look at England's, often less than noble, nobility between 1066 and 1707.

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Book SynopsisRichard III is England's most controversial king. Forever associated with the murder of his nephews, the Princes in the Tower, he divides the nation. As spectacular as his death at Bosworth in August 1485 - the last king of England to die in battle - the astonishing discovery of his bones under a Leicester car park five centuries later renewed interest in him and re-opened old debates. Is he the world's most wicked uncle; or is he (in the words of the man who most smeared him) 'a prince more sinned against than sinning'? Richard was not born in the North; neither did he die there, but this detailed look at his life, tracing his steps over the thirty-three years that he lived, focuses on the area that he loved and made his own. As Lord of the North, he had castles at Middleham and Sheriff Hutton, Penrith and Sandal. He fought the Scots along the northern border and on their own territory. His son was born at Middleham and was invested as Prince of Wales at York Minster, where Richard planned to set up a college of 100 priests. His white boar device can be found in obscure corners of churches and castles; his laws, framed in the single parliament of his short reign, gave rights to the people who served him and loved him north of the Trent. And when he felt threatened or outnumbered by his enemies during the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses, it was to the men of the North that he turned for support and advice. They became his knights of the body; members of the Council of the North which outlived Richard by a 150 years. They died with him at Bosworth. Although we cannot divorce Richard from the violent politics of the day or from events that happened far to the South, it was in the North that Richard's heart lay. The North was his home. It was the place he loved.

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Book Synopsis'I squealed laughing at this but now worry that my knowledge of history has been dangerously ruined' Matt FordeA fascinating and hilarious gallop through twentieth-century British history, by comedian Al Murray.An awful lot has happened in the last 100 years or so. In fact, when you look at how much went on in the 20th century, it's amazing it didn't take longer than that. And what have we learnt? A few obvious lessons include: megalomaniac men with moustaches in charge of countries tend to turn out to be BAD; anyone who thinks they can explain let alone sort out the Middle East is WRONG; France simply cannot be relied upon; America may or may not be the cause of everything GOOD and BAD in the world (depending on who you ask).This isn't your bog-standard history book. We all know that history books (Which Shall Not be Questioned because they ARE ALL TRUE according to our History Teachers of Yore) are dry and dull, and they go on as if there's only ONE version of history (spoiler: it's all about perspective). Enter Al Murray, alter-ego of everyone's favourite Pub Landlord.Al knows his way around 20th century Britain, and he's good enough to illuminate it for you. From the Big Bang of the 20th Century, DOUBLEYOUDOUBLEYOU ONE, to the eve of the new Millennium (when all the computers in the World DIDN'T stop working and the Queen had to do the Hokey Cokey with Tony Blair) and all the forgotten tales in between, this is a brilliantly funny, irreverent and eye-opening whistle-stop tour of Britain since 1914.

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Book SynopsisThis book, originally published in 1901, provides an introduction to the industrial and social history of England from prehistoric times to the early nineteenth century. Topics discussed include: the organization or rural life and town life; medieval trade and commerce; the Black Death and the Peasants Rebellion; the end of the medieval system; the expansion of England; the Industrial Revolution; the extension of government control; and the extension of voluntary associations, trade unions, and trusts.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a compilation of CRS reports on Russia today. The first chapter examines Russias 2018 presidential election, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin was widely expected to secure reelection (and since then, has won). The second chapter examines recent developments in Russian policy, including the increasingly authoritarian governance since Vladimirs Putin return to the presidential post in 2012, Russias 2014 annexation of Ukraines Crimea region and support of separatists in eastern Ukraine, violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty; Moscows intervention in Syria in support of Bashar al Asads government; increased military activity in Europe and cyber-related influence operations, that, according to the US intelligence community, have targeted the 2016 US Presidential election and countries in Europe. The next two chapters go into further detail on Russian compliance with the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and the new START Treaty (a new strategic arms reduction treaty that the US and Russia signed on April 8th 2010. The last chapter included in this book is a 3-page report on the Balkans uneasy relations with Russia. Despite Russias effort to influence the Balkans political orientation, which has led the US and, more significantly, the EU to increase attention to the region, some observers believe that Moscow likely will not be successful in realigning any of the Balkan states away from the West in the long run.

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Book SynopsisThis work presents the first monographic study of Tedo Zhordanias life (1853 1916) as a scholar tirelessly exploring the history of Georgia, whose heritage presents a genuinely significant case of 19th century Georgian historiography.Following the tendency practised in the 19th century, scholars exploring issues of Georgian studies did not observe thematic and chronological boundaries; therefore, the heritage of Zhordania is various and multicoloured. He was involved in studying manuscripts and sources as well as in exploring issues of social-political and Church history of the medieval period. This fact makes the description of the scholars heritage even more interesting as it gives the reader an opportunity to follow the development of research regarding the issues Zhordania was interested in from the 19th century up to 1900.The monograph explains why historical studies should know more about the scholarly heritage of Zhordania and the methodology of his research. In addition, it substantiates the significance of the conclusions made by him from the modern standpoint and determines the extent of the impact on the enhancement of Georgian historical thought. In order to achieve this, the full picture of Zhordanias life as a statesman and public figure has been confirmed. His contribution, both to the development of Georgian historical thought and maintaining and enhancing Georgian mentality whilst suffering Russian assimilatory politics has been revealed. Zhordanias works have also been studied in order to reconstruct the process of work attached to him. The best way to explore Zhordanias work is via notes made by the scholar in his writing pads, block notes as well as his inscriptions in the margins of books read by him and articles written by him or about him in the periodicals of the 19th century [such as Iveria, Mtskemsi (The Shepherd), Tsnobis Purtseli (Information Leaflet); Kvali (The Trace),Духовныйвестник Грузинского экзархата (The Spiritual Herald of the Georgian Exarchate), and Кавказ ( The Caucasus)]. All were explored and analysed.Due to the emerging and increasing interest in the development of general scholarly thought of the 19th century, this book is notable for readers interested in Georgian history. They can follow the development of Georgian historical science in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century when the Georgian in-group was being consolidated under the Russian colonial regime.As is known, actualisation of the historical past acquired a special significance in that period. Thus, presenting the facts of social and scholarly work by Zhordania seems crucial for reconstruction of the full picture of this process. Due to the above-mentioned factors, the portrayal of a Georgian historian is equally interesting from the point of view of the history of the Georgian identity.The scholarly heritage of Tedo Zhordania is explored in this monograph based on the comparative method. The previous research concerning the issues he worked on, his personal contribution and the development by subsequent Georgian researchers is taken into account.

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Book SynopsisVagabonding Through Changing Germany is an account of the authors travels in Germany in 1919, a few months after World War I. The author highlights the economic hardships and growing anti-Semitism of the that time.

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Book SynopsisBeacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lords lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lords work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors.

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Book SynopsisBeacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lords lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lords work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors.

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Book SynopsisBeacon Lights of History is a 14-volume set first published in 1902. This collection of John Lords lectures spans 6,000 years of European and American history. The first 12 volumes are all Lords work; the 13th was completed from his notes and the 14th is follow-ups by other authors.

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Book SynopsisAthens and Rome stand side by side as the parents of Western civilisation. The resemblances between Rome and Greece even from the first are very clearly marked. In many respects they are visibly of the same family, and, though we no longer speak as confidently of "Aryan" and "Indo-European" as did the ethnologists and philologists of the nineteenth century, yet there remains an obvious kinship of language, customs, and even dress.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Perspective of Roman History: Latinism: Italy and the RomanThe Beginnings of RomeConquestThe Last Century of the RepublicAugustusAugustan RomeThe Growth of the EmpireEpilogueChronological SummaryBibliographyIndex.

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Book SynopsisThis book covers a period of a little more than three-quarters of a century. It begins with the first attempt at English colonization in America, in 1576, and ends with the year 1652, when the supremacy of Parliament was recognized throughout the English colonies. The original motive of colonization is found in English rivalry with the Spanish power; and the first chapter of this work tells how this motive influenced Gilbert and Raleigh in their endeavors to plant colonies in Newfoundland and North Carolina. Though unfortunate in permanent result, these expeditions familiarized the people of England with the country of Virginia-a name given by Queen Elizabeth to all the region from Canada to Florida-and stimulated the successful settlement at Jamestown in the early part of the seventeenth century. With the charter of 1609 Virginia was severed from North Virginia, to which Captain Smith soon gave the name of "New England"; and the story thereafter is of two streams of English emigration-one to Virginia and the other to New England. Thence arose the Southern and Northern colonies of English America, which, more than a century beyond the period of this book, united to form the great republic of the United States.

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Book SynopsisThe writer, an observer and student of European affairs for fifteen years feels that host of people are seeking an unbiased presentation of contemporary events, so that sentimentality will not obscure common sense in forming their opinion on the important problem of America''s place in the world and America''s duty toward the world. We must know how things actually are in order that we may help effectively to make them what they ought to be.

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