General and world history Books

Book SynopsisThis collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in early modern medicine. It provides an array of interpretive strategies while also highlighting new trends in the field.Each chapter serves as a study of a different type of source, including the benefits and limitations of that source and what it can reveal about the history of medicine. Contributors provide practical strategies for locating and interpreting sources, putting texts and objects into conversation, and explaining potential contradictions. A wide variety of sources, including account books, legal records, and personal letters, provide new opportunities for understanding early modern medicine and developing skills in historical analysis. Together, the chapters highlight emerging methodologies and debates, while covering a range of themes in the field, from reproductive health to hospital care to household medicine.With wide geographical br

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Book SynopsisFascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia by the International Refugee Organisation between 1947 and 1952. It explores the far-right backgrounds and continuing political activism of these displaced persons in Australia, adding to our knowledge of the development of Australian anti-communism in the 1950s. These individuals argued that they had been caught between National Socialism and Soviet communism. What might that have meant for their migration and resettlement trajectories? Beyond âNazi-hunting,â what can this tell us about the challenge they posed to international and national forms, both in Europe and in Australia? This book demonstrates that fascist ideation could not only survive the warâs end but that it continued to be transnational and transcultural. At the same time, anti-fascist protests and then the war crimes investigations of the late 1980s exposed problematic pasts, a legacy with which Australia is still reckoning. The text will appeal to those with an interest in the far right, Australian migration and refugee issues. Trade Review“Jayne Persian’s book provides a gripping narrative of how war criminals entered Australia after 1945 and the lengthy debates that ensued. Sadly, as fascist ideologies spread once again, Persian’s searching account of Australia’s war crimes programme is both timely and instructive.”Martin Dean, War Crimes Historian “Jayne Persian vividly recounts the post-1945 resettlement of Displaced Persons including individuals who managed to conceal their wartime collaboration and complicity in war crimes. She reflects on the legacy of concealment and subsequent fitful attempts to prosecute when, decades later, the Australian government ceased turning a blind eye. Her book is a notable achievement and deserves to be widely read.”Peter Gatrell, Professor, University of Manchester, UK“Given the passage of time, one would have expected that World War II would have been confined to the dustbin of history. Yet, given the re-emergence of European fascist organisations, together with the increase of antisemitism, Jayne Persian’s new book, Fascists in Exile, is an important and timely publication. As recently demonstrated, the Croatian Ustase is alive and well in Australia. Persian’s concise account of the post-war Australian migration policies through the International Refugee Organisation sheds light on the origins of these fascist movements in Australia. It is a valuable, timely and important contribution to the literature.”Suzanne Rutland, Professor Emeritus, University of Sydney, Australia“An important book that, on the basis of solid archival work, clearly and fairmindedly illuminates a key aspect of the history of the Right in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century. This is the story of migrants from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union whose participation in Nazi war crimes in the Second World War, at first largely concealed from Australian view, were finally after decades subject to (unsuccessful) prosecution. But it is also the story of how the migrants’ anti-communist and anti-Soviet concerns, notably in the “Captive Nations” movement, impacted Australian anti-communism and thus helped to shape Australian politics”Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction Prologue: War Criminals, Collaborators, Quislings and Traitors 1. Screening for War Criminals: UNRRA and the IRO 2. Australian Migration Selection Policies and Processes 3. Anti-Fascist Protests 4. The ‘Whole Exiles’ Set-up in Australia 5. War Crimes Investigations Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge History of Global War and Society offers a sweeping introduction to the most significant research on the causes, experiences, and impacts of war throughout history. This collection of twenty-seven essays by leading historians demonstrates how war and society studies have dramatically expanded the chronological, geographic, and thematic breadth of the field of military history. Each chapter addresses the ways in which recent scholarship has integrated cultural, ethical, environmental, medical, and ideological factors to explain both conventional conflicts and genocide, terrorism, and other forms of mass violence. The broad scope of the collection makes it the perfect primer for scholars and students seeking to understand the complex interactions of warfare and those affecting and affected by conflict.Trade Review"A superb summary , topically and chronologically organized in some 27 essays, of the more recent studies and controversies in this field."Peter Karsten, Editor-in-Chief of the prize-winning 3 volume Encyclopedia of War and American Society"An essential volume for scholars and students alike: providing masterful summations, by prominent historians, of the now rich historiography of war and society: including key thematic issues and a regional coverage that, crucially, extends beyond the traditional focus on Europe and North America to incorporate the often-neglected non-European world." Joan Beaumont, The Australian National UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction -- Matthew S. Muehlbauer and David J. Ubrich Part I: Regional and Temporal Approaches War and Society in East Asia -- Kenneth M. Swope War and Society in Southeast Asia -- Richard A. Ruth War and Society in Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania – Peter J. Dean and Tristan Moss War and Society in South Asia -- Kaushik Roy War and Society in the Middle East and Northern Africa – Eileen Ryan War and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Bruce Vandervort and Marilyn Zilli War and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean -- Matthew Trundle War and Society in Early Modern Europe -- Aaron Graham War and Society in Modern Europe -- Adam R. Seipp War and Society in Modern England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales – Margaret Sankey War and Society in Latin America -- Ellen Tillman War and Society: North America to 1877 -- Matthew S. Muehlbauer War and Society: North America since 1877 -- Antulio J. Echevarria II ? Part II: Thematic Approaches Media and War -- Jay Lockenour War, the Body, and Health – Bobby A. Wintermute The Combatant Experience -- Eric W. Klinek Prisoners of War and Repatriation – Paul J. Springer Home Fronts -- Bianka J. Adams War and Environment – Jason W. Smith War, Atrocity, and Genocide -- Hilary Earl War and Terrorism -- Stephen Connor Religion, Ethics, and War – Jacqueline E. Whitt Race and Ethnicity – David J. Ulbrich and Alexander M. Bielakowski Gender and Sexuality -- Heather Marine Stur Nationalism and Militarism -- Ingo Trauschweizer Memory and Memorialization -- Michael Dolski War and Culture -- Matthew S. Muehlbauer ?

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history.Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about the task Table of ContentsPart 1: Philosophies 1. From the ancients to the Christians 2. From the Middle Ages to the Early Modern 3. Enlightenment and Romanticism 4. The English Tradition 5. The North American Tradition 6. Histories of Revolutions; Revolutionary histories 7. Postmodernism and Postcolonialism Part 2: Varieties 8. Political History 9. Economic History 10. Social History 11. Cultural History 12. Feminism, Gender and Queer History 13. Public History 14. Visual History 15. Global history 16. Environmental history Part 3: Interdisciplinarities 17. Archaeology 18. Anthropology 19. Literature 20. Geography Part 4: Methods 21. Proof and the problem of objectivity 22. Ordering of time 23. Archives in a Digital World 24. Oral History

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Book SynopsisThe study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610â1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern Catholic and Calvinist thought. The book aims to analyse the intellectual roots of fundamental ideas in Catholic and Calvinist missionary writingsâamong others idolatry, conversion, civility, and policeâby examining the classical, Augustinian, neo-thomist, reformed Protestant, and contemporary European influences on their writings. Missionariesâ insistence on the necessity of reform, emphasising an experiential, practical vision of Christianity, led them to elaborate conversion strategies that encompassed not only religious, but also political and social changes. It was at the margins of empire that the essentials of Calvinist and Catholic soteriologies and political thought could be enacted and crystallised. By a careful analysis of these missiologies, the study thus argues that missionariesâ common strategiesâhabituation, segregation, social and political regulationsâstem from a shared intellectual heritage, classical, humanist, and above all concerned with the Erasmian ideal of a reformation of manners. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Custom as Ethos and Habituation: Native Paganism and Idolatry 2. Conversion: Will, Grace and Good Works 3. Nomadic Lifestyles: Civility, Law, and Godly Government 4. Assimilation versus Segregation: Two Competing Missiologies 5. Community Building: Commonwealth and Christian Missions 6. Conflict: Rejection of European Political and Religious Authority. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe county of Tripoli in what is now North Lebanon is arguably the most neglected of the so-called âcrusader statesâ established in the Middle East at the beginning of the twelfth century. The present work is the first monograph on the county to be published in English, and the first in any western language since 1945. What little has been written on the subject previously has focused upon the European ancestry of the counts of Tripoli: a specifically Southern French heritage inherited from the famous crusader Raymond IV of Saint-Gilles. Kevin Lewis argues that past historians have at once exaggerated the political importance of the countsâ French descent and ignored the more compelling signs of its cultural impact, highlighting poetry composed by troubadours in Occitan at Tripoliâs court. For Lewis, however, even this belies a deeper understanding of the processes that shaped the county. What emerges is an intriguing portrait of the county in which its rulers struggled to exert their power over Lebanon in the face of this regionâs insurmountable geographical forces and its sometimes bewildering, always beguiling diversity of religions, languages and cultures. The counts of Tripoli and contemporary Muslim onlookers certainly viewed the dynasty as sons of Saint-Gilles, but the countyâs administration relied upon Arabic, its stability upon the mixed loyalties of its local inhabitants, and its very existence upon the rugged mountains that cradled it. This book challenges prevailing knowledge of this little-known crusader state and by extension the medieval Middle East as a whole..Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction Sons of Saint-Gilles1 The Succession of Cousins: Counts Raymond I (1103–05), William Jordan (1105–09) and Bertrand (1109–12)2 The Forging and Freedom of the County: Count Pons (1112–37)3 Military Decline and Matrimonial Discord: Count Raymond II (1137–52)4 Count and Captive: Count Raymond III (1152–74)5 The Regent Thwarted: Count Raymond III (1174–87)Conclusion Alien and NativeAppendix 1 SourcesAppendix 2 Troubadour poetry and TripoliBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHere''s a new installment of the phenomenal  bestseller that Publishers Weekly  selected as one of the twelve graphic books of all  time. Spanning ages and continents from Ancient  India to Rome and China in A.D. 600, Volume II is  hip, funny, and full of info. B & W  illustrations.

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Book SynopsisFrom the The New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.Trade Review"The history of paper is a history of cultural transmission, and Kurlansky tells it vividly in this compact, well-illustrated book." -- The New York Times"Kurlansky’s book is published with a deckle edge finish, a process that replaces the regular clean-cut trim of a page with a jagged, pulped roughness... It is a beautiful thing to hold and feel, and it presents a fine argument for the retention of paper as an aesthetically lusty object, let alone one that’s thrived through centuries of change." -- The Observer"Kurlansky expertly argues a case for its [paper's] continuing survival." -- The Scotsman"Kurlansky... explains how something so simple came to play such a vital part in history." -- The Sunday Business Post"Paper is not what you would call a learned book, but one learns an awful lot from it, all packaged in Kurlansky’s whipsmart prose." -- The Times

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Book SynopsisA blend of contemporary travelogue and historical narrative about the Alps from "a graceful and passionate writer" (The Washington Post).Trade Review"Stephen O'Shea's sardonic, science-rich travelogue…" -- Nature"... this book is for the most part a great pleasure to read, and provides a remarkable summary of the life of the high mountains." -- Times Literary Supplement"Veteran traveller Stephen O’Shea takes the reader on a delightful 500-mile historical romp through the Alps... It is well worth making space in the rucksack for this on your next Alpine holiday." -- Geographical"His [Stephen O'Shea's] account of his journey, all 500 miles and seven countries of it, is a soaring success, erudite, entertaining and human... the Alps cry out to be explored. Start with this book." -- i paper

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Book SynopsisA narrative history of the unlikely Maoist rebellion that terrorised Peru even after the fall of global Communism.

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Book Synopsis“An engaging piece of historical detective work and narrative craft.” —Chicago TribuneTrade Review"The intertwined stories of Revolution Song give a sense of how far-reaching a phenomenon the War of Independence was. It leaves to readers the pleasure of judging what each of the figures in the book—or perhaps the combination of them all—contributed to an event that changed the world." -- The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisAn entertaining and informative voyage through cultural fantasies of the North, from sea monsters and a mountain-sized magnet to racist mythmakingTrade Review" German historian of culture and science Bernd Brunner, in his book Extreme North, weaves a darker tapestry, layering legends over the science and history of the north to describe a place that is real, remote, inscrutable and cold." -- Josie Glausiusz - Nature"A collection of curiosities… There may not be a great deal of sunniness here, or for that matter warmth, but the book makes up for that with fascinating anecdotes, useful digressions and little nuggets of interest." -- James Lovegrove - Financial Times"Brunner’s own cabinet of curiosities offers both a delightful series of vignettes of the north, including Mary Wollstonecraft’s description of the perpetual summer light as the ‘noon of the night’, and a gallery of the preconceptions and agendas which successive visitors have carried with them...Brunner’s work is a dizzying tour of the ways in which successive ages have engaged with the idea of the north… More than anything, though, the book is a reminder that the north is both a place and a perspective." -- Philip Parker - Literary Review"In 31 chapters, each as self-contained and pointed as a shard of ice, Brunner presents a different historic, political, natural or cultural facet of his subject... Thought-provoking and wide-ranging, Extreme North resembles the 'cabinet of wonders' that he uses as the book’s embarkation point." -- Liesl Schillinger - The New York Times Book Review"Engaging… Those who seek out cultural histories to see the world through a strange new lens may particularly enjoy the section exploring how the North was misperceived in antiquity." -- Cal Flyn - Times Literary Supplement

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Book SynopsisThis timely book provides a general overview of Great Power politics and world order from 1500 to the present. Jeremy Black provides several historical case-studies, each of which throws light on both the power in question and the international system of the period, and how it had developed from the preceding period. The point of departure for this book is Paul Kennedyâs 1988 masterpiece, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. That iconic book, with its enviable mastery of the sources and its skilful integration of political, military and economic history, was a great success when it appeared and has justifiably remained important since. Written during the Cold War, however, Kennedyâs study was very much of its time in its consideration of the great powers in âWesternâ terms, and its emphasis on economics. This book brings together strategic studies, international relations, military history and geopolitics to answer some of the contemporary questions left open by PrTable of Contents1.Introduction: The Kennedy Thesis Considered 2.Bids for Mastery, 1500-1590 3.Seventeenth-Century Crises, 1590-1680 4.The Rise of the Great Powers, 1680-1774 5.A Reshaped World, 1775-1860 6.Accelerated Change, 1860-1913 7.Bids for Power, 1914-1943 8.The Fall of Empires, 1944-1991 9.American Hegemony, 1991-2007? 10.Into the Future 11.Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume brings together a range of essays by individuals who are centrally involved in the debate about the role and utility of theory in intelligence studies. The volume includes both classic essays and new articles that critically analyse some key issues: strategic intelligence, the place of international relations theory, theories of âsurpriseâ and âfailureâ, organisational issues, and contributions from studies of policing and democratisation. It concludes with a chapter that summarises theoretical developments, and maps out an agenda for future research. This volume will be at the forefront of the theoretical debate and will become a key reference point for future research in the area.This book will be of much interest for students of Intelligence Studies, Security Studies and Politics/International Relations in general.Table of ContentsIntroduction Peter Gill, Stephen Marrin, and Mark Phythian1. An Historical Theory of Intelligence David Kahn2. Intelligence as Risk Shifting Michael Warner3. Sketches for a Theory of Strategic Intelligence Loch K. Johnson4. Intelligence Theory and Theories of International Relations: Shared world or separate worlds? Mark Phythian5. Theory of Surprise James Wirtz6. Analysis, War, and Decision: Why intelligence failures are inevitable Richard Betts7. Intelligence in a Turbulent World: Insights from organization theory Glenn Hastedt and B. Douglas Skelley8. Intelligence Analysis and Decision-Making: Methodological challenges Stephen Marrin9. Defending Adaptive Realism: Intelligence theory comes of age Jennifer Sims10. Policing, Intelligence Theory and the New Human Security Paradigm: Some lessons from the field James Sheptycki11. Theory and Intelligence Reconsidered Philip H. J. Davies12. Theories of Intelligence: Where are we, where should we go and how might we proceed? Peter Gill

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an unparalleled range of comparative studies considering both persecution and genocide across two thousand years of history from Rome to Nazi Germany, and spanning Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.Topics covered include the persecution of religious minorities in the ancient world and late antiquity, the medieval roots of modern antisemitism, the early modern witch-hunts, the emergence of racial ideologies and their relationship to slavery, colonialism, Russian and Soviet mass deportations, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust. It also introduces students to significant, but less well known, episodes, such as the Albigensian Crusade and the massacres and forced expulsions suffered by the Circassians at the hands of imperial Russia in the 1860s, as the world entered an ''age of genocide''.By exploring the ideological motivations of the perpetrators, the book invites students to engage with the moral complexities of the past and to reflect upo

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Book SynopsisForty years of confrontation in Europe have produced a complex set of conditioned reflexes in western military thinking. With the ending of the Warsaw pact, planning and analysis specialists have had to look again at the basic principles of war: there is no sure ground any more. The analysis of threat and response has been transformed and new patterns of likely action, such as the Gulf intervention, have been accommodated. In practical terms, this affects what is taught to both new officers and senior officers about to assume command responsibilities. The essays in the Science of War attempt to develop a broader understanding of the factors that operate at the higher levels of war, and to study the operational level of war from a general, speculative and penetrating viewpoint. Many contributors also attempt to integrate military theory and historical experience. The aim throughout is to lay down a theoretical grounding in the principles of the planning and conduct of war at the operTable of ContentsList of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Preface, Introduction, 1 THE LESSONS OF THE 1920s AND MODERN EXPERIENCE, 2 THE CONTRIBUTION OF ORIGINALITY TO MILITARY SUCCESS, 3 ECONOMY OF EFFORT: A PASSIVE PRINCIPLE, 4 LIDDELL HART AND THE INDIRECT APPROACH TO STRATEGY, 5 BURMA, 1943–5: WHAT LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE?, 6 INCREASING TEMPO ON THE MODERN BATTLEFIELD, 7 DEPTH FIREPOWER: THE VIOLENT, ENABLING ELEMENT, 8 THE FUTURE OF SURPRISE ON THE TRANSPARENT BATTLEFIELD, 9 THE IMPACT OF THE MEDIA ON THE PROSECUTION OF CONTEMPORARY WARFARE, 10 A STUDY OF EUROPEAN DEFENCE NEEDS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, Index

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Book SynopsisThe story of our Universe, from its beginning in the first milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present moment and beyond, told in a gripping narrative. We have entered a new age of exploration and discovery, enabling us to probe ever more distant reaches of space and greatly advance our knowledge of the Universe. Today, telescopes peer not only into outer space, but also into the deep past. Paul Murdin takes us on an original and breathtaking journey across the lifetime of the Universe, from the first milliseconds of the Big Bang right up to our present moment and even beyond. Murdin draws on the latest discoveries in astronomy to describe the most important characters and events in the life of our Universe: the most powerful explosions, the most curious planets, and the most spectacular celestial bodies. He charts our developing understanding of the cosmos, showing how thinkers have deduced profound truths from even the simplest observations â everyone can see that itTrade Review'A biography that contains all biographies and a stunning read from the Big Bang to the birth of our efforts to understand the Universe. I highly recommend it to anyone with even a passing interest in the life of our cosmos' - Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate in Physics 2011'A magnificent guided tour through the cosmos … the next best thing to actually flying out into space and seeing the Universe for yourself' - Jim Al-Khalili'Marvellous … A refreshing perspective and some unusual lines of evidence that explore roads less travelled in other popular accounts … It’s Murdin’s text that takes centre-stage, and rightly so, as it’s a model of concision and clarity' - BBC Sky at Night'[A] beautiful tour through the cosmos ... Murdin offers easy-to-grasp explanations of knotty physics concepts[...]and also shows how the invention of radio astronomy, satellites and ever-more complex telescopes has led to a deeper understanding of space ... Beautifully illustrated ... For readers interested in space but new to the game, this is a fine place to start' - Publishers Weekly'A super biography … would appeal to both the historian of astronomy and to those who wish to know more about the origin of the Universe' - Astronomy NowTable of ContentsPreface 1. The Questions that Revealed the Universe was Born 2. The Big Bang: The Birth of It All 3. Randomness Becomes Structure: The Formation of the First Galaxies 4. The Dark Ages and the Emerging Cosmic Dawn 5. Our Galaxy: Birth and Cannibalism 6. Ancestors, Siblings and Children: The Stars and the Sun 7. The Sun: A Star in Its Maturity 8. Stars that Die: The Biggest Bangs since the Big Bang 9. The Birth of the Solar System 10. Chaos and Collisions in the Solar System 11. The Earth: A World of Difference 12. Sequel: The Future Life of the Universe 13. Prequel: What Caused the Big Bang Expansion?

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Book SynopsisThe story of thirteen Empires, showing their key role in the foundation of today's global civilization.Trade Review'A book to be enjoyed for the most part at leisure, as a kind of stimulant for the mind and senses' - The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction: Imperial Overview • 1. The Ottoman Empire: A Diverse Society • 2. Spain: The Genealogy of Modern Colonialism • 3. Portugal Overseas: Asia and America • 4. The Enrichment of the Netherlands: Dutch Colonial Rule and Its Aftermath • 5. Scandinavia: An Outsider in European Imperialism • 6. Britain: The Empire of Good Intentions • 7. France: Empire and the Mère-Patrie • 8. The Two Russian Empires: Tsarist and Soviet • 9. The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy: Re-inventing Central Europe • 10. The Belgian Colonial Empire: Free State or ‘Heart of Darkness’? • 11. The German Empire as Colonial Power: The Latecomer • 12. Italy: The Last Empire • 13. The United States: Empire or Way of Life?

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Book SynopsisA collection of intimate and revelatory first-hand accounts of pandemics through the ages. Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19. People living through the crises have always recorded what they saw, what they felt, and what they did. Some presented sober facts laced with anecdote, while others produced emotional outpourings; moralists speculated on the origins of the horror, poets distilled the suffering. Doctors described how they were able to advance their understanding of disease and scientists how to cure it, while survivors and the families of victims gave the inside story of the nightmare that develops when a long-feared disease enters your home or your body. There was a time when to read accounts of the Plague in Wittenburg by Martin Luther or the Great Plague of 1665 by Samuel Pepys scenes of anguish and woe, empty streets, quarantined houses, closeTrade Review'Insightful, moving and empathetic' - BBC History Magazine'Fascinating… Through tracing the social, political and public-health responses evoked by disease-related disasters across the globe, readers can empathise with individuals separated by centuries and oceans… resonates strongly in today’s world' - MinervaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Plagues of Egypt 2. Athenian plague – 5th century BC 3. Antonine Plague – 2nd century AD 4. Plague of Justinian – 6th century 5. Leprosy – 11–14th centuries 6. Black Death – 14th century 7. Sweating sickness – 15–16th centuries 8. Syphilis – 16th century 9. Cocolitztli epidemic, Mexico – 16th century 10. New World Smallpox – 16–17th century 11. Great Plague (or Marseilles plague) – 1660s 12. Russian Plague – 1770s 13. Cholera – 1850s 14. Flu – 1890s 15. Spanish flu – 1910s 16. Polio – 1911 – 1980s 17. Asian flu – 1950s 18. Hong Kong flu – 1968 19. AIDS – 1980s 20. Swine flu – 2000s 21. SARs, MERs et al. – 2010s 22. Covid-19 – 2020s Conclusion Timeline of Catastrophes Index

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Book SynopsisSolve intriguing and challenging puzzles based on the world-renowned British Museum collection. The Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Assyrian reliefs, the Lewis Chessmen: many mysteries of the past are found within the walls of the British Museum, home to some of the most magnificent treasures in the world. Now you can learn more about its famous artefacts as you work your way through this beautifully designed, generously illustrated puzzle book. Created by the internationally renowned puzzle expert Dr Gareth Moore, this enticing mix of general knowledge, brainteasers, word games, crosswords and decipherment challenges offers a wealth of insight into the Museumâs widely varied collection. The puzzles are arranged in six thematic sections: the British Museum, Everyday Living, Bestiary, Myth and Magic, the Written Word, and Treasure. Additional facts about the Museum and its objects are provided throughout the book, affording readers a wider understanding of the role of the M

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Book SynopsisOffers an account of how Peruvian emigrants raise and remit money and what that activity means for themselves and for their home communities.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments 1. The Social Life of Remittances 2. Peru: Migration and Remittances 3. Compromiso: The Family Commitment 4. Voluntad: The Community Commitment 5. Superacion: The Personal Commitment 6. After Remittances References Index

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Book SynopsisNature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994. It traces the origins of the concept, discusses the thinkers who have shaped it, and shows how it in turn has shaped the modern perception of our place in nature. Our view of the living world is a product of culture, and the development of ecology since the eighteenth century has closely reflected society's changing concerns. Donald Worster focuses on these dramatic shifts in outlook and on the individuals whose work has expressed and influenced society's point of view. The book includes portraits of Linnaeus, Gilbert White, Darwin, Thoreau, and such key twentieth-century ecologists as Rachel Carson, Frederic Clements, Aldo Leopold, James Lovelock, and Eugene Odum.Trade Review'A major purpose of this book, written at a time when ecology burgeons as both a science and a cult, is to show that ecological science has always been shifting ground … Worster's style is warm, intellectually strong, and eloquent.' Frederick E. Smith, Science'The in-depth treatment Worster has given to many who contributed to the evolution and revolution of the discipline reflects scholarship of high order. To write in a highly readable and absorbing style makes it even more praiseworthy. Graduates in ecology at baccalaureate to doctoral levels, and many practitioners of the discipline, basic and applied, would do well to take stock of where they came from. Worster is a very worthwhile guide.' Edward J. Kormondy, Ecology'Donald Worster's book, a gracefully written account of select events in the history of ecology, is designed to show how this field developed prior to the mid-twentieth century explosion of concern about the subject … Worster has written a volume that should be read and pondered.' Keir B. Sterling, The American Historical Review'Worster has produced a fascinating book. One reading left a copy littered with checkmarks, underlined passages, exclamation, and a note paper of quotations and ideas. The book is well written, well organized, interesting, and provocative.' Frank B. Golley, Human EcologyTable of ContentsPreface; Part I. Two Road Diverged: Ecology in the Eighteenth Century: 1. Science in Arcadia; 2. The empire of reason; Part II. The Subversive Science: Thoreau's Romantic Ecology: 3. A naturalist in concord; 4. Nature looking into nature; 5. Roots and branches; Part III. The Dismal Science: Darwinian Ecology: 6. A fallen world; 7. The education; 8. Scrambling for place; 9. The ascent of man; Part IV. O Pioneers: Ecology on the Frontier: 10. Words on a map; 11. Clements and the climax community; 12. Dust follows the plow; Part V. The Morals of a Science: Ethics, Economics, and Ecology: 13. The value of a varmint; 14. Producers and consumers; 15. Declarations of interdependence; Part VI. The Age of Ecology: Science and the Fate of the Earth: 16. Healing the planet; 17. Disturbing nature; Notes; Glossary of terms; Selected Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the history of environmental ideas. The book shows how the new critique of the colonial impact on the environment depended on the emergence of a coterie of professional scientists, especially in the Dutch, French and English maritime empires. The prime importance of the oceanic island 'Eden' as a vehicle for new conceptions of nature is emphasised, and the significance of colonial island environments in stimulating conservationist notions is underlined, revealing how, for the first time, the limitability of local and global resources could be recognised.Trade Review'Green Imperialism is a succinct yet richly nuanced study of the genealogy of European environmentalism …'. Economic History ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Edens, islands and early empires; 2. Indigenous knowledge and the significance of South-West India for Portuguese and Dutch constructions of tropical nature; 3. The English and Dutch East India companies and the seventeenth-century environmental crisis in the colonies; 4. Stephen Hales and some Newtonian antecedents of climatic environmentalism, 1700–1763; 5. Protecting the climate of paradise: Pierre Poivre and the conservation of Mauritius under the ancien regime; 6. Climate, conservation and Carib resistance: the British and the forests of the Eastern Caribbean, 1760–1800; 7. The beginnings of global environmentalism: professional science, oceanic islands and the East India Company, 1768–1838; 8. Diagnosing crisis: the East India Company medical services and the emergence of state conservationism in India, 1760–1857; Conclusion: the colonial state and the origins of western environmentalism; Select bibliography, Index.

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Book SynopsisAn engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.Table of Contents1. The origins of the First World War, 1871-1914; 2. The historians and the origins of the First World War; 3. The origins of the Second World War: 1 War and the fragile peace, 1914-38; 4. The origins of the Second World War: 2 From peace to global war, 1933-41; 5. The historians and the origins of the Second World War.

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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 Synopsis''Because it was fought so close to his old home ground, Homer might have seen this war on the Gallipoli Peninsula as an epic. Brief by his standards, but essentially heroic. Shakespeare might have seen it as a tragedy with splendid bit-parts for buffoons and brigands and lots of graveyard scenes. Those thigh bones you occasionally see rearing out of the yellow earth of Gully ravine, snapped open so that they look like pumice, belong to a generation of young men who on this peninsula first lost their innocence and then their lives, and maybe something else as well...''Gallipoli remains one of the most poignant battlefronts of the First World War and L. A. Carlyon''s monumental account of that campaign has been rightfully acclaimed and a massive bestseller in Australia. Brilliantly told, supremely readable and deeply moving, Gallipoli brings this epic tragedy to life and stands as both a landmark chapter in the history of the war and a salutary reminder of all that is fine anTrade Review'Superb...Carlyon's writing is so vivid that you almost imagine yourself present. A stunning achievement' -- Saul David * Daily Telegraph *'Incisive, emotionally-charged and visceral...blends a real feel for the fighting soldier with a firm grasp of the strangely beautiful countryside which saw such a bewildering mix of tragedy, missed opportunity and wasted heroism. A hard-hitting and heart-breaking book' -- Richard Holmes'Carlyon is a gifted writer...his book deserves to take its place alongside other classic accounts of Gallipoli. He conveys the beauty of the place and its ugliness 90 years ago' -- John Keegan * Daily Telegraph *'The book of the year...the most stunning account of the Anzac boneyard' -- Alan Ramsey * Sydney Morning Herald *'A brilliantly managed narrative and remarkably even-handed...a superb account' -- Trevor Royle * Glasgow Herald *

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Book SynopsisJohn Man is a historian and travel writer with a special interest in Mongolia. After reading German and French at Oxford he did two postgraduate courses, one in the history of science at Oxford, the other in Mongolian at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His Gobi: Tracking the Desert (Weidenfeld, 1997) was the first book on the subject in English since the 1920s. He is also the author of The Atlas of the Year 1000, (Penguin 1999), Alpha Beta (Headline, 2000) on the roots of the Roman alphabet, The Gutenberg Revolution (Headline 2002) on the origins and impact of printing, and the bestselling Genghis Khan. His latest book, Kublai Khan, is now available from Bantam Press.Trade Review'One could not wish for a better storyteller or analyst than John Man... His Attila is superb, as compellingly readable as it is impressive in its scholarship: with his light touch, the Huns and their king live as never before... There is something fascinating and new on every page' -- Simon Sebag Montefiore'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live . . . a gripping present day quest' * Guardian *'Attila is known as a savage but there was much more to this great warrior. Man takes his readers on a thrilling ride alongside the man who marauded across Europe, striking terror into the hearts of entire nations' -- The Good Book Guide'Racy and imaginative...sympathetically and readably puts flesh and bones on one of history's most turbulent characters' -- Sunday Telegraph'Man's excellent writing breathes new life into a character whose spirit lives on in China and Mongolia today' -- Historical Novels Review

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Book SynopsisGuy Walters is the author of several books on the Second World War, including Hunting Evil. A former journalist on The Times, he writes widely on historical topics for the national press. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife, the author Annabel Venning, and their two children.Trade ReviewGuy Walters strips away the myths to reveal the real story behind the film and finds the truth to be no less thrilling. This is utterly compelling and once again shows there is no better investigator in this field. * James Holland *

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Book SynopsisJamaica used to be the source of much of Britain''s wealth, a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.Jamaica is now a country in despair. It has become a cockpit of gang warfare, drug crime and poverty. Haunted by the legacy of imperialism, its social and racial divisions seem entrenched. Its extraordinary musical tradition and physical beauty are shadowed by casual murder, police brutality and political corruption.Ian Thomson shows a side of Jamaica that tourists rarely see.He met ordinary Jamaicans in their homes and workplaces; and his encounters with the white elite, who still own most of Jamaica''s businesses and newspapers, are unforgettable. Thomson brings alive the country''s unique racial and ethnic mix; the all-pervading influence of the USA; and the increasing disillusionment felt by its people, who can''t rely on the state for their most basic security. At the heart o

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Book SynopsisPopular uprisings in Poland and Hungary shake Moscow''s hold on its eastern European empire. Across the American South, and in the Union of South Africa, black people risk their livelihoods, and their lives, in the struggle to dismantle institutionalised white supremacy and secure first-class citizenship. France and Britain, already battling anti-colonial insurgencies in Algeria and Cyprus, now face the humiliation of Suez. Meanwhile, in Cuba, Fidel Castro and his band of rebels take to the Sierra Maestra to plot the overthrow of a dictator... 1956 was one of the most remarkable years of the twentieth century. All across the globe, ordinary people spoke out, filled the streets and city squares, and took up arms in an attempt to win their freedom. In response to these unprecedented challenges to their authority, those in power fought back, in a desperate bid to shore up their position. It was an epic contest, and one which made 1956 - like 1789 and

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Book SynopsisBefore the Communists came to power, China lay broken. Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought to protect China from aggression and ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras.Trade ReviewWritten with verve and insight, this will become the go-to book for anyone interested in the foundations of China’s grand strategy under Communist rule. -- Odd Arne Westad, author of The Cold War: A World HistoryKhan’s brilliant analysis will help policymakers understand the critical rise of China in the twenty-first century. He has written the essential guidebook to the evolution of China’s strategy—crucial if we are to avoid conflict with this emerging superpower. -- Admiral James Stavridis, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Supreme Allied Commander of NATOHaunted by Chaos is an ambitious and masterful study. In seeking to crack the ‘operational code’ of successive Chinese leaders, Khan argues that they all have been deeply driven by a profound sense of national insecurity. His book is a useful reminder that for all of China’s apparent strengths today, its fragilities and insecurities continue—a paradox worth watching as Beijing becomes a world power. -- David Shambaugh, author of China’s FutureBy emphasizing geography, Khan has unraveled the mystery of Chinese grand strategy, showing why insecurity lies at the root of Chinese power projection. A wise and seasoned book; readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do. -- Robert D. Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography[A] fine survey of Chinese grand strategy. -- Richard Aldous * American Interest *The foreign policy cognoscenti in Washington have spent the past three years in a collective China reckoning, based in part on the presumption that China’s foreign policy has radically changed. Khan argues that since before the People’s Republic of China’s founding, Chinese rulers have held remarkably consistent objectives, even as their definition of security has expanded. -- Mira Rapp-Hooper * War on the Rocks *An authoritative treatment of Chinese statecraft since Mao Zedong…Given China’s outsize presence on the world stage, Khan’s insights into the underlying rationale of its leadership will afford his own effort an audience beyond the field of international relations. * Publishers Weekly *Useful for decision-makers who might not understand that Beijing’s grand strategy is structural and firm and will not be charmed away or pared back by trade deals. * Choice *An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that most urgent of contemporary geopolitical questions: what does China want? Khan shows that Chinese grand strategy has always been a blend of ideology and pragmatism—sometimes skillful, sometimes careless, but always crucial to understanding global history and politics. -- Rana Mitter, author of Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""[A] riveting history. . . . The author navigates a complex story, bringing to life the passions and ideologies that shaped the early American lexicon." * New Yorker *"Wonderfully told. . . . For a tale of lexicographic intrigue, Mr. Martin’s book is unexcelled."---Bryan A. Garner, Wall Street Journal"Engaging and informative. . . . The Dictionary Wars . . . forays into copyright law, educational policy, religious revivalism, and other pressures on the verbal life of the nation."---Christopher Benfey, New York Review of Books"Martin is a steady and thorough guide to what he calls the ‘endless labyrinths of lexicography’, and in Dictionary Wars he succeeds in dramatising what could have been mere bibliography."---Max Norman, Literary Review"An informative and often pleasantly surprising cultural history." * Kirkus *"With an impressive breadth of research, The Dictionary Wars invites contemplation of the ways in which language itself can affect the soul of a nation."---Meagan Logsdon, Foreword Reviews"Reanimates a 19th-century ‘civil war over words’ that shaped how Americans speak and write. . . . Anyone who loves words for their own sake will be entertained." * Publishers Weekly *"What [The Dictionary Wars] does best is to demonstrate that while characters win or lose, the very viciousness of the fight ended up benefiting the whole language and all of us who use it. For those of us nerdy and wordy enough to love the language as well as use it, this is profound."---Nicholas Clairmont, Washington Examiner"Martin’s account of the dictionary feuds of the 19th century is as lively and entertaining as the battle itself."---Patricia T. O’Conner, New York Times"Peter Martin’s The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language shows Noah Webster as every bit the sort of ideologue who is convinced he has a historical mission and carries himself accordingly."---Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed"The Dictionary Wars is a fascinating unveiling of how American English became what it is today." * Desi News *"[The Dictionary Wars] celebrate[s] the development of literature and language that would give the United States of America its own cultural identity. [It] provide[s] a foundational context for the study of our literature and communication and help[s] us celebrate American culture."---Michel L. Ramsey, Roanoke Times"Martin’s book includes a substantial amount of archival research which will undoubtedly be a boon to scholars of the dictionary wars."---Kory Stamper, Times Literary Supplement"Martin gives a textured account of the personal, scholarly, and business conflicts that erupted with Webster’s first dictionary. . . . Folded into this tale are aspects of print capitalism, material culture, and business history."---Matthew Garrett, ALH Online Review"As well as providing an unparalleled account of the making of American English and the ineffable Anglo-American connection, Martin’s study is an invaluable contribution to the field. It is a prolific reference work of commendable scholarship drawing on laborious documentation, consistent, informative, and copious in exemplification, one that reads like a passionate saga and an academic resource at one and the same time."---Adriana Neagu, American, British and Canadian Studies

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Book SynopsisChallenging conventional history, Amity Shlaes offers a striking reinterpretation of the Great Depression that devastated America in the early part of the twentieth century. She shows how both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt failed to understand the prosperity of the 1920s and heaped massive burdens on the country that more than offset the benefit of New Deal programs. From 1929 to 1940, federal intervention helped to make the Depression great by forgetting the men and women who sought to help themselves. In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader. She takes a fresh look at the great scapegoats of the period, from Andrew Mellon to Sam Insull of Chicago. Finally, she traces the mounting agony of the New Dealers themselves. Authoritative, original, and utterlyTrade ReviewThat rare thing - an original, readable, compelling book about economic depression and how politicians can make things worse. The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes is a counterintuitive study of the Wall Street Crash and how politics turned chaos into crisis * The Times *Amity Shlaes not only manages to keep you wide awake, she also sets your blood to boiling. Even if you don't always agree with her conclusions, she defines the debate over what we ought to do and gets you thinking constructively about the problems she identifies * New York Times *Combines the lively narrative style of a first-rate journalist with the careful scholarship of a born historian. But her book is much more than an enjoyable narrative. It is a highly original reinterpretation that turns the received wisdom about the Depression on its head * Sunday Telegraph *Readers have waited eagerly for this book for decades. Amity Shlaes has delivered it -- Paul JohnsonAmity Shlaes' brilliant and highly readable book surely must be the best analysis of the Great Depression ever * Washington Times *

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Book SynopsisSince its first publication in 1994 Richard Killeen's Short History of Ireland has been widely accepted as the most accessible introduction to Irish history. It presents the history of Ireland in attractive double paged spreads, which can be quickly read to give an easy overview of the key events of Irish history. It is superbly illustrated with over 150 full colour photographs, paintings and drawings.Over the past 10 years almost 150,000 copies have been sold in English, French and German language editions. This new edition brings the story up to date including the days of the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday agreement.

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Book SynopsisThe first history of the special relationship between Ireland and Scotland from acclaimed historian Jonathan Bardon, based on his BBC Radio seriesBased on the popular BBC Ulster radio series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of Ireland's relationship with Scotland, exploring the myriad connections, correlations, personalities and antagonisms that have, over the centuries, defined the relationship between these two spirited neighbours.In 120 brief, episodic chapters, A Narrow Sea offers a stirring and panoramic view of a connection that has shaped the course of history. Roving freely across the centuries, from the first migrations of the regions' paleolithic tribes and their encounters with Greek and Roman explorers, to the grand colonial projects of the Vikings, Normans and Stuarts, this is the story of how a shared culture laid the basis for two very different nations.Jonathan Bardon's lively and engaging history of the interactions between Ireland and Scotland over two millennia is a vastly pleasurable read and history at its most accessible.' Dublin Review of Books

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Book SynopsisPerspectives on the perils and pitfalls of ageing, viewed through the lens of novels, plays and poems from across history.Trade Review'Among the many joys of this inspiringly high-spirited heart-to-heart with the literature of ageing, is the zest with which it seizes the opportunity of age to read again for pleasure, the better to enjoy what's left of life, or the better to endure it. If getting old has consolations, David Ellis's engrossing conversations with works we are strangers to, or thought we knew but didn't, is one of them.' - Howard Jacobson, novelist and essayist 'Blasted With Antiquity is a full-throated celebration of the literary imagination, and of how books and reading - those cherished, old-fashioned tools - provide us with rich aids to thought about age and aging.' - Professor Andrea Charise, University of Toronto, author of The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel 'Witty, insightful, and ambitious, Blasted with Antiquity reflects on ageing and old age across the Western literary canon. Organized around themes such as retirement, nostalgia and self-consciousness and sex, Ellis's book is a delight to read - a significant publication for scholars in literary age studies and an accessible volume for anyone interested in literary representations of growing older.' - Dr Jacob Jewusiak, Newcastle University, author of Aging, Duration, and the English Novel 'David Ellis's wit, honesty, humanity, learning lightly worn, and relish for dark humour make Blasted with Antiquity a pleasure to read. His approach to aspects of old age such as the loss of power and position, nostalgia for the past, the experience of physical weakness and the will to control, through well written and accessible discussions of Shakespeare, Stendhal, Chaucer, Austen, Philip Larkin, James Joyce and Alan Bennett and many others, make this book highly enjoyable and even exhilarating. Ellis has written a new classic.' - Professor Janet Montefiore, University of KentTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Referencing 1. Introduction 2. Retirement 3. Ageing, Decrepitude and the Wisdom of the Elders 4. Self-­consciousness and Sex 5. ­Family ­Matters 6. Leaving One's Mark 7. ­Will Power 8. Nostalgia 9. Taking Stock 10. Doctoring and ­Dying 11. Ending Up 12. Postscript: On 'the Stages of Life' List of Works Cited Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisRe-Discovering the Past is SHP''s ideal series for mixed-ability teaching in Key Stage 3, combining clear author text, accessible but worthwhile activities and clear lines of enquiry. About the seriesThrough this series you can ensure your teaching of National Curriculum History is totally accessible, interesting and worthwhile. It is based on the Schools History Project''s awarding-winning series Discovering the Past but for this series SHP have: streamlined the content, simplified the language, scaffolded the tasks, while retaining their characteristic emphasis on challenging readers to think deeply and pursue historical enquiry.SHP have also provided extensive support for further differentiation through FREE online support material via the Hodder History Nest.About this titleRe-Discovering the Twentieth Century World provides an accessible textbook for the studying the revised History National Curriculum theme: ''Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901-the present day''. It also offers an effective transition to GCSE History providing an overview of the content covered by many Modern World History courses. It covers four key topics: -The First World War (causes and life on the Western Front)-The rise of the dictators and the causes of the Second World War-The Second World War (overview and depth)-The Cold War Era (including the Cuban crisis, the Berlin Wall and Gandhi)The Twentieth Century Special Needs Support Materials and Re-Discovering the Twentieth Century World Teacher''s Resource Book are available FREE from the Hodder History Nest.The full series:-Re-discovering Medieval Realms 1066-1500-Re-discovering the Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750-Re-discovering Britain 1750-1900-Re-discovering the Twentieth Century World

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Book SynopsisA history of the world that proves that nothing can stay the same.Trade Review'In a world of deepening danger where reactionary narratives continue to hijack the mainstream, Neil Faulkner makes a powerful and necessary case reminding us of the truly radical history driving human social and political evolution' -- Rachel Holmes, author of 'Eleanor Marx: A Life''One of the finest historians on the left' -- John Newsinger, author of The Blood Never Dried: A People's History of the British Empire (Bookmarks, 2006)'Staggeringly ambitious' -- New InternationalistTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction 1. Hunters and Farmers c. 7 million-3000 BP 2. The First Class Societies c. 3000-1000 BC 3. Ancient Empires c. 1000-30 BC 4. The End of Antiquity c. 30 BC- AD 650 5. The Medieval World c. AD 650-1500 6. European Feudalism c. AD 650-1500 7. The First Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions 1517-1660 8. Absolutist Europe and Capitalist Globalisation 1660-1775 9. The Second Wave of Bourgeois Revolutions 1775-1815 10. The Rise of Industrial Capitalism c. 1750-1850 11. The Age of Blood and Iron 1848-1873 12. Imperialism and War 1873-1918 13. The Revolutionary Wave 1917-1928 14. The Great Depression and the Rise of Fascism 1929-1939 15. World War and Cold War 1939-1967 16. The World on Fire 1968-1975 17. The New World Disorder 1975-2008 18. Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis? The Early Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Making the Future Timeline Sources Bibliographical Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis'Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject. ' Gerald N.Trade Review'Harrison has done an especially nice job in his treatment of major historiographical trends and debates, sketching them in with a light touch, and offering compelling and clear examples of the impact and limitations of different approaches. For this, all of us teaching (and indeed researching) the history of medicine should be thoroughly grateful.' --Roberta Bivins, Cardiff University, British Society for the History of Science "This thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book is an easy and enjoyable read...an excellent introductory text on the history of disease and medicine." --Choice, February 2005 "Harrison's book is a masterful mix of narrative and historiographic analysis. his thesis about disease and the modern state, as well as the clarity of his text, will make this an accessible book even for beginner students, yet the breadth of his research and his explication of debates will make it useful to even the most advanced student and scholar." --History: Reviews of New Books, Winter 2005 "In short, this is a well-crafted and well-written synthesis that meets the goal of accessibility for undergraduate courses." Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction - Disease and Modernity. Chapter 1 - Disease and Medicine before 1500. Chapter 2 - Early Modern Europe. Chapter 3 - Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its Legacy. Chapter 4 – The World Beyond Europe. Chapter 5 – Disease in an Age of Commerce and Industry. Chapter 6 – The Individual and the State. Chapter 7 – Disease, War and Modernity. Chapter 8 – Health for All: Affluence, Poverty and Disease Since 1945. Glossary

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Book SynopsisWhat is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J.Trade Review"Anyone seeking help in navigating the shifting shoals of environmental history will give fulsome thanks to Don Hughes for this book. It is far and away the best guide yet to the issues and historiography of this emerging field, spanning the globe and delving into the deep as well as recent past."—J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University "What is Environmental History? is a masterfully condensed overview of one of the most urgent and rapidly developing fields of history. Written by a scholar of classical antiquity, it gracefully covers ancient, medieval, and modern periods – with a global vision. A state-of-the-art report for any scholar, and a perfect introduction for the student."—Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, StockholmTable of Contents1. Defining Environmental HistoryIntroductionThe Themes of Environmental HistoryAmong the Scholarly DisciplinesEnvironmental History and the Older History2. Forerunners of Environmental HistoryIntroductionThe Ancient WorldMedieval and Early Modern Environmental ThoughtThe Early Twentieth Century3. The Emergence of Environmental History in the United StatesIntroductionAmerican History from Conservation to EnvironmentStrands of Environmental History in the United StatesCollaborators with Environmental History4. Local, Regional, and National Environmental HistoriesIntroductionCanadaEuropeThe MediterraneanThe Middle East and North AfricaIndia, South and Southeast AsiaEast AsiaAustralia, New Zealand, and the Pacific IslandsAfricaLatin AmericaThe Ancient World and the Middle AgesConclusion5. Global Environmental HistoryIntroductionBooks on World Environmental HistoryTopics of Global ImportanceEnvironmental MovementsWorld History TextsConclusion6. Issues and Directions in Environmental HistoryIntroductionProfessionalismAdvocacyEnvironmental DeterminismPresentismDeclensionist NarrativesPolitical-Economic TheoryThe Next IssuesConclusion7. Thoughts on Doing Environmental HistoryIntroductionGuidance on MethodologyThe Search for SourcesResourcesConclusion: The Future of Environmental HistoryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPam Rhodes shares an endearing collection of gloriously green stories and poems that are bound to appeal to green-fingered readers.Trade Review'A timely reminder of the humour and solace of the garden in a frantic world.' -- Alan Titchmarsh

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Book SynopsisThe history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door, and a Morrison shelter in the kitchen.

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