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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. viii*Preface, pg. ix*I. A New Administration, pg. 1*II. The President as Chief Executive, pg. 27*III. Presidential Decisionmaking, pg. 48*IV. The President's Cabinet, pg. 60*V. The Making of the Annual Message, pg. 72*VI. The Four Departments, pg. 87*VII. The Executive Complement, pg. 134*VIII. Appointments and Removals, pg. 165*IX. Executive-Congressional Relations, pg. 188*X. The Anatomy of Congressional Committees, pg. 214*XI. A Deliberative Body, pg. 253*XII. Parties and Pressures in Congress, pg. 273*XIII. The Process of Petition, pg. 294*XIV. The Jeffersonian Experience, pg. 316*Appendix I, pg. 325*Bibliographical Note, pg. 333*Index, pg. 339

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION, pg. vii*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix*CONTENTS, pg. xi*CHAPTER I. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER II. Myth and Reality: The Conflict in Northern Ireland from Three Perspectives, pg. 14*CHAPTER III. Northern Ireland's Status: An Analysis of the Constitutional Position of Ulster, pg. 91*CHAPTER IV. Uncivil Strife: The Ulster Struggle and the Law of Civil Strife, pg. 122*CHAPTER V. Limits of War: The Applicability of the Laws of War to the Ulster Conflict, pg. 159*CHAPTER VI. Human Rights-Human Wrongs: An Examination of the Leading Issue of the Ulster Struggle, pg. 198*CHAPTER VII. The Internationalization of Civil Strife: A Possible Role for the United Nations in Northern Ireland, pg. 237*CHAPTER VIII. Vox Clamantis in Deserto: Proposed Solutions and Yesable Propositions, pg. 256*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 273*INDEX, pg. 307

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Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. 1*Chapter I. Introduction, pg. 3*Chapter II. The Oath in 16th-Century Writings, pg. 18*Chapter III. False Fueros I-IV, pg. 31*Chapter IV. False Fueros V and VI: The Sagarra Story, pg. 64*Chapter V. The Sobrarbe Legend and the False Fueros: 1450-1588, pg. 102*Chapter VI. Royal Oaths in Aragon and the Oath of the Aragonese, pg. 158*Chapter VII. If Not, Not Slogan and Legend, pg. 227*Appendices, pg. 247*Selected and Indexed Bibliography, pg. 257*Index, pg. 269

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. ix*List of abbreviations, pg. 1*I. The Origins of Revolution, pg. 3*II. Kurt Eisner, pg. 34*III. The November Revolution, pg. 75*IV. Problems of Peace and Order, pg. 110*V. Council System and Cabinet Crisis, pg. 143*VI. Party System and Burgerwehr Crisis, pg. 176*VII. The Statistics of Deterioration, pg. 212*VIII. The End of the Eisner Regime, pg. 242*IX. The Second Revolution, pg. 273*X. The Soviet Republic, pg. 304*Conclusion, pg. 332*Postscript. The Communist View of the Bavarian Revolution, pg. 337*Bibliography, pg. 347*Index, pg. 363

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Book SynopsisPraise for the exhibition ***** The Telegraph ***** The Times ***** Daily Telegraph **** The Evening Standard âœPlunge into the infinity pool of ancient Egyptian history with this dizzying array of artworksâ - Waldemar Januszczack, Sunday Times Culture magazine Today the history of ancient Egypt is known around the world, recognisable in precious museum collections and countless retellings from popular culture. Yet for hundreds of years, from the late Roman Empire to the 19th century, the wonders of this ancient civilisation were frozen in time, locked in artefacts that could not be understood due to the loss of the ancient Egyptian language. In 1799 the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, a slab inscribed in three scripts, hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek, changed the course of history, unlocking thousands of years of ancient culture and eventually becoming one of the worldâs most famous museum artefacts. The British Museumâs exhibition Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt and thisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The truth in translation: the journey to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs 2. The race to decipherment 3. Legacy and impact 4. The future of Egyptology Notes and select bibliography List of contributors Acknowledgements and credits Index

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Book SynopsisExamines the development of lordship, peasant status and estate structures in the Northern Danelaw (now Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire), placing the region in its European context and addressing issues concerning the nature of early medieval society.Trade Review"A very useful contribution."--Choice, July 2001"D. M. Hadley has written a judicious and provocative study of the evolving social, tenurial, administrative, and ecclesiastical organization of the northern Danelaw...a flawed but important book...The approach is truly interdisciplinary...the positions she advances are persuasive....Hadley...is to be congratulated. The Northern Danelaw is a book that Anglo-Saxon historians and early medievalists in general cannot afford to ignore." --Speculum, 10/02Table of ContentsEArly medieval societies; territorial organizaiton; lords and peasants; ecclesiastical organization; the Scandinavian impact.

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Book SynopsisFrom civilisational frontier risks associated with new challenges like disruptive technologies, to the shifting nature of great-power conflicts and subversion, the 21stcentury requires a new approach to statecraft. In 21st-Century Statecraft, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan proposes five innovative statecraft concepts. He makes the case for a new method of geopolitical analysis called ''meta-geopolitics'', and for ''dignity-based governance''. He shows how, in an interdependent and interconnected world, traditional thinking must move beyond zero-sum games and focus on ''multi-sum and symbiotic realist'' interstate relations. This requires a new paradigm of global security premised on five dimensions of security, and a new concept of power, ''just power'', which highlights the centrality of justice to state interests. These concepts enable states to balance competing interests and work towards what the author calls ''reconciliation statecraft''. Throughout, Professor Al-Rodhan brings his philTrade ReviewIn a world of accelerating global crises this volume offers a comprehensive attempt to update and extend geopolitical theorizing. Its innovative ideas of symbiotic realism and sustainable national security add essential new concepts to help tease out the complexities of international politics. Essential reading for students of our global predicament. Professor Simon Dalby, author of Anthropocene Geopolitics The reheating of European conflicts and great-power rivalries combined with the meteoric rise of disruptive technologies reminds us that a new, inter-disciplinary approach to statecraft is long overdue. 21st-Century Statecraft presents a sobering analysis of the challenges faced by modern statesmanship that is in tune with the times. With insightful pointers and a glimmer of hope, Professor Al-Rodhan's thrilling examination of the transformation of state power over the last two decades, is required reading for students and practitioners of diplomacy, power, and justice. Emmanuel Dupuy, President of l'Institut Prospective et Sécurité en Europe This is the ultimate geopolitics reader. At a moment in which great power competition has once again taken front seat in global debates, Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan has relaunched a fresh edition of this modern classic of international relations theory. An invaluable resource to both scholars and the interested public, this volume will help you understand states' complex interests, dilemmas, trade-offs, systemic competition and potential cooperation.Writing in a highly accessible style and drawing from an impressive breadth of expertise, Al-Rodhan manages to explain the core elements of global geopolitics in a dense yet gripping fashion. Illustrating solid theoretical background with many practical examples, Al-Rodhan suggests a paradigm shift in how we understand and conduct contemporary statecraft to find sustainable, ethical solutions to the multi-layered challenges of our time. If you read only one book about geopolitics, it should be this one. Kristina Kausch, Senior Resident Fellow, The German Marshall Fund of the United States Al-Rodhan (Oxford Univ., UK) aspires to be a peacemaker and settle the ongoing battle between those who view the nation-state as the foundation of international relations and those who see the nation-state disappearing amid the relentless pressure of globalization. He uses various labels to describe this new synthesizing approach. The one that caught this reviewer's eye was described at length in Chapter 5, "Dignity-Based Governance." Al-Rodhan rightly appreciates that most, if not all, humans seek dignity. Further, he correctly understands that nation-states are institutional vehicles that protect and advance the dignity of their citizens. However, the book starts to go off track by arguing that the quest for dignity is grounded in neuroscience. Al-Rodhan's attempt to craft a "neurophilosophy" that state leaders can use is less than convincing. Readers may applaud the effort to forge a new synthesis, but results-oriented state leaders will be left scratching their heads over how to use neurophilosophy as the new form of statecraft. The 27 case studies toward the end of the book do little to help. Neither nation-state realists nor globalists will abandon their entrenched positions for this approach. J. A. Stever, emeritus, University of Cincinnati, CHOICE, April 2023 Praise for the original edition: This book provides a carefully crafted description of how the international system is being transformed and defines the challenges facing contemporary statecraft in handling that transformation. Nayef Al-Rodhan has undertaken this enormous task by defining the concept of meta-geopolitics and addressing potential future problems while making full use of the analytical tools that he has developed. It is a unique and intellectually courageous undertaking that will help us gain deeper insights into the many dimensions of current and future security challenges. Ambassador Rolf Ekéus, Chairman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Stockholm, Sweden This book offers a refreshing and ambitious re-examination of the nature of statecraft and geopolitics and contains a number of relevant concepts that can be translated into brand-new research and ambitious policy goals. Building on a number of his previous concepts, the author continues a remarkable endeavour aimed at updating and adapting traditional geopolitical perceptions. Step by step, brick after brick, the author is clearly building a major comprehensive contribution to strategic thinking and diplomacy. Professor François Géré, Director of Research at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and President of the French Institute for Strategic Analysis (IFAS)Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements 1. Statecraft in the Twenty-First Century: In Search of a New Paradigm 2. Traditional Approaches to Statecraft 3. Rethinking Geopolitics 4. Meta-Geopolitics and the Seven Dimensions of State Power 5. Statecraft and Neurophilosophy 6. Just Power 7. The Concept of Reconciliation Statecraft 8. Case Studies: Geopolitical Realities and Dilemmas of Twenty-seven Selected States 9. Case Studies: Geostrategic Imperatives and Future Trajectories of Twenty-seven Selected States 10. The Tripwire Pivotal Corridor and its Geopolitical Significance 11. The Future State of the World and the Way Forward Appendix: Understanding the Conflict betwen Russia and Ukraine Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic, looking beyond the tales of persecution that have dominated traditional historiography, focusing on the realities of Catholic existence. -- .Table of Contents1. Shifting identities in hostile settings: towards a comparison of the Catholic communities in early modern Britain and the Northern Netherlands – Willem Frijhoff 2. Cooperative Confessionalisation: lay-clerical collaboration in Dutch Catholic Communities during the Golden Age – Charles H. Parker 3. ‘So they become contemptible’: clergy and laity in a mission territory – Michael Mullett 4. Integration vs. segregation: religiously mixed marriage and the `Verzuiling’ model of Dutch society – Benjamin J. Kaplan 5. ‘Getting on’ and ‘getting along’ in parish and town: Catholics and their neighbours in England – William Sheils6. Burying the dead; reliving the past: ritual, resentment and sacred space in the Dutch Republic – Judith Pollmann 7. Beads, books and bare ruined choirs: transmutations of Catholic ritual life in Protestant England – Alexandra Walsham 8. The southern Netherlands connection: networks of support and patronage – Paul Arblaster 9. Priests, nuns, presses and prayers: the southern Netherlands and the contours of English Catholicism – Claire Walker 10. Second-class yet self-confident: Catholics in the Dutch Generality Lands – Charles de Mooij11.Between conflict and coexistence: the Catholic community in Ireland as a 'visible underground church' in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries – Ute Lotz-Heumann12. Orphans and students: recruiting boys and girls for the Holland Mission – Joke Spaans 13.Harbourers and housekeepers: Catholic women in England 1570–1720 – Marie B. Rowlands 14.Paintings for clandestine Catholic churches in the Republic: typically Dutch? – Xander van Eck15.Cultures of dissent: English Catholics and the visual arts – Richard L. Williams16.Conclusion: Catholic communities in Protestant states, Britain and the Netherlands c.1580–1720 – Ben Kaplan and Judith PollmannIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning haunts Hélène Cixous.Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Between two worlds' 1. 'The lowest room': Christina Rossetti through Irigaray's 'Speculum' other than writing 2. The buried lives of silence: Foucault after Arnold 3. Dieu: from Browning , from Derrida Part II: Specters of sludge, or Mr Derrida the medium 4. 'no one dreams': Where Hopkins was, there Lacan will be 5. 'the ends of being': Between Aurora Leigh and Helene Cixous

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Book SynopsisAnalyses the role of workers both in Titoâs Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against MiloÅevic in October 2000 -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Tito years 3. Serbia in the world economy 4. Neoliberalism imposed 5. The workers’ movement 6. Serbia’s new period of crisis Serbia timeline References Index

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Book SynopsisBroadcaster James Naughtie takes a spellbinding journey through the history of musicTrade ReviewRomantic and rapturous, divertingly anecdotal and enthusiastic * The Times *[Naughtie's] real passion ... should easily entice anyone who reads about the works he praises to go and listen to them as soon as is practicable * Sunday Telegraph *'Immensely readable ... a cracking good yarn' * Scotsman *Consistently engaging ... It is enthralling, a very fine book. For Everyman * Herald *A genial, meandering but ultimately purposeful journey through the social history of music . . . this book is rich in anecdote, and it is all the better for it * Guardian *

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Book SynopsisThe twentieth century is as remarkable for its world wars as it is for its efforts to outlaw war in international and constitutional law and politics. Japan in the World examines some of these efforts through the life and work of Shidehara Kijuro, who was active as diplomat and statesman between 1896 until his death in 1951. Shidehara is seen as a guiding thread running through the first five decades of the twentieth century. Through the 1920s until the beginning of the 1930s, his foreign policy shaped Japan''s place within the community of nations. The positive role Japan played in international relations and the high esteem in which it was held at that time goes largely to his credit. As Prime Minister and ''man of the hour'' after the Second World War, he had a hand in shaping the new beginning for post-war Japan, instituting policies that would start his country on a path to peace and prosperity. Accessing previously unpublished archival materials, Schlichtmann examines the work of this pacifist statesman, situating Shidehara within the context of twentieth century statecraft and international politics. While it was an age of devastating total wars that took a vast toll of civilian lives, the politics and diplomatic history between 1899 and 1949 also saw the light of new developments in international and constitutional law to curtail state sovereignty and reach a peaceful order of international affairs. Japan in the World is an essential resource for understanding that nation''s contributions to these world-changing developments.Trade ReviewKlaus Schlichtmann has written an impressive, ambitious book in which he traces the evolution of Japanese pacifism and internationalism through the career of an eminent diplomatist, Shidehara, and in the framework of the history of global affairs and thought. Anyone interested in the shift from prewar militarism to postwar pacifism in Japan, as well as in the contemporary debate on the revision of its "peace constitution," would find here an excellent guide to connecting developments in Japan to those elsewhere. An admirable study that corrects the "exceptionalist" accounts of Japanese history that still abound in the literature and places it in a comparative and transnational context. -- Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History, Harvard UniversityThis book details the origins and principled development of Japan's peaceful diplomacy during the 1920s until the the Japanese military frustrated it by the Pearl Harbor attack; but war did not deter the architect of the policy, Shidehara Kijuro, who later crafted Article IX in Japan's postwar Constitution. It continues to inspire all nations to deal peaceably with their neighbors. Japan in the World is a real contribution to the field. -- John F. Howes, Professor Emeritus, Department of Asian Studies, University of British ColumbiaIt is quote refreshing to see that Schlichtmann takes Shidehara head-on….the book provides an in-depth examination of Shidehara's foreign policy while also analyzing the crucial role that he played in maintaining the nation's course firmly upon the path of Japan's traditional internationalist foreign policy. * Pacific Affairs, December 2010 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 A World without War: Shidehara as Foreign Minister, 1924-1931 Chapter 2 From the Manchurian Crisis to the End of the Second World War, 1931-1945 Chapter 3 Shidehara, 1945-1951 Chapter 4 Japanese Pacifism and Politics after the Second World War

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Book SynopsisTalks about the watershed year of 1948, when the United States reversed its position of political and military isolation from Europe and agreed to an entangling alliance with ten European nations. This book traces the tortuous and dramatic process, which struggled to reconcile the conflicting concerns on the part of the future partners.Trade ReviewKaplan starts with the worsening of relations between the Soviet Union and the Western nations, and follows the twists and turns in the difficult negotiations that led to a treaty marking a radical change in US foreign policy. . . . Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This meticulously researched and well-written analysis builds on Kaplan's extensive earlier research on NATO's importance in the Cold War. . . . Its richly detailed analysis makes a significant contribution to the historical record. This judicious appraisal will be of interest to students of diplomatic history and international relations alike. -- Meena Bose, Hofstra University * Journal of American History *Larry Kaplan’s book brings back to life the unique period in 1948–1949 that witnessed the birth of America’s first 'entangling alliance.' His is an exceptionally lively, richly documented, and always enthralling study of the events that led to the greatest transformation of American diplomacy, of the men who made it happen, and of the challenges they had to overcome. -- Pierre Melandri, Sciences PoLawrence Kaplan, a foremost specialist in the history of NATO, has written an insightful account of its birth. The relationship between the United States and Europe has suffered in recent years, making this book an especially timely reminder to a wider readership of just how much effort the past generation put into making the North Atlantic Alliance a reality in the aftermath of the Second World War. Elegantly written and cogent, the book should be read by all students of NATO, European affairs, and U.S. foreign policy on both sides of the Atlantic. -- Saki R. Dockrill, King's College LondonThere is no better team than Lawrence Kaplan together with Morris Honick to recall the events that led to the creation of the West’s chief Cold War instrument in opposing the Soviet Union. It is easy, in these post–Cold War days, not to acknowledge the difficulties that surrounded the creation of the international political-military institutions that are still in use today. Although constantly adapting to a changing international political environment, their basic functions of reinforcing common interests and denying 'divide and conquer' opportunities to actual or potential enemies, are still with us. It is also easy to forget the extreme reluctance on the American side to become 'entangled' in matters of European defense. For these reasons the detailed exposition of the debates and related considerations that underlay the formation of an anti-Soviet 'West' is a welcome addition to the extensive literature, most of it out of necessity based on secondary sources, that chronicles this vital period of our history. -- Robert S. Jordan, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: The Isolationist Tradition, 1800–1947 Chapter 2: The "Speech": January 22, 1948 Chapter 3: The Brussels Pact: March 17, 1948 Chapter 4: The Vandenberg Resolution: June 11, 1948 Chapter 5: The "Exploratory" Talks: July–September 1948 Chapter 6: The Western Union Defense Organization: 1948–1949 Chapter 7: The Hiatus: September–December 1948 Chapter 8: The Treaty of Washington: April 4, 1949 Chapter 9: In Retrospect: The Relevance of NATO Today (or in the Post–Cold War Era)

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Book SynopsisThe unrelenting conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East is reported daily, but the ongoing dialogue and cooperation between the two is less known. Holy Land Mosaic chronicles the less reported side of the Middle East scene: the ongoing projects of conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Daniel Gavron presents a personal journey through the different movements, projects, organizations, and NGOs that promote tolerance and understanding between the two warring peoples, depicting some remarkable Jews and Arabs. Among the projects described are the village of Neve Shalom, where Jews and Arabs have lived together for three decades; the Hand-in-Hand bilingual schools, where Arab and Jewish children study in Hebrew and Arabic; and an Israeli group that rebuilds demolished Arab houses. In no way does the author play down the grim reality of the Middle East conflict, but his narrative shows that the enmity is not endemic. The current atmosphere is far from one of harmony and tranquility, but it can be different.Trade ReviewDaniel Gavron is an indefatigable believer in Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. In this delightful, moving, and thought-provoking book, he tells the stories of many others who in their daily lives translate that belief into reality. -- David Landau, editor in chief, HaaretzWithout overlooking the vicious cycle of hatred and violence in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this remarkable book records many stories of cooperation and friendship between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews in various fields of life. Daniel Gavron presents these little-known glimpses of sanity and hope in a well-written and vivid account. -- Moshe Ma'oz, former director, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University; Harvard UniversityDaniel Gavron's book is a bombshell read. Gavron looks behind the tired cliches for thrilling, living-and-breathing indeed spine-prickling personal stories, full of drama and comedy. A saga of love, hate and almost superhuman endurance, on both sides. The book is also wonderfully useful for its concise summary of the Middle East troubles and as a practical guide in how to jostle if not entirely break the log jam. A terrific and inspiring read. -- Clancy Sigal, National Book Award nominee, journalist, PEN Lifetime Achievement Award WinnerIn its accumulation of small, promising revelations, this book makes a larger impact. * Publishers Weekly, December 2007 *Holy Land Mosaic is an excellent and important book....It should be required reading at schools and universities around the world. -- Sir Arnold Wesker, playwright, playwright and authorUnlike many books about Israel/Palestine relations, this one conveys some optimism. The author...sets out to show that cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians has been viable and productive. While he brilliantly outlines the political history of Israel, Gavron focuses mostly on the individual rather than on the political and social system that developed in Israel....It is an eminently readable and honest book that leaves a bittersweet taste. * Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue Chapter 2 Chapter One: Human Rights in the Shadow of Conflict Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Courage to Listen Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Refusing to be Enemies Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Ultimate Symbol of Peace Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Learning together Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Living together Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Island of Sanity Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: An encounter that spans the centuries Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Building Blocks of Equality Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: Creativity and Recreation Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Donkey Garden of Eden Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve: Academy for the Environment Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen: Thinking together Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen: Joint Media Initiatives Chapter 16 Chapter Fifteen: The Veterans in the Field Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen: Religious Faith: Problem or Solution Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen: First Among Equals Chapter 19 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisAn all-encompassing look at three forces that shape human history, from the Stone Age to the present day.Trade Review'An extremely ambitious attempt to explain the history of humankind. Thompson's historical materialism provides him with a reliable compass on his journey and the end result is nothing short of inspiring' -- Stefan Berger, Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany'An engaging and concise world history that is both analytically ambitious and lucidly argued' -- John Callaghan, Professor of Politics, University of Salford'A powerful book derived from decades of historical research and reflection on the essence of what it is to be human. A must read' -- Dianne Kirby, Reader in International History, University of Ulster'A welcome addition to the history of change in the global human condition and situation' -- Dr KAJ McLay, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Canterbury Christ Church UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Historical Timeline Introduction: The Fabric of History 1. Cosmos, Creatures and Consciousness 2. Cooperation, Stone, Bone and Dispersal 3. The Neolithic Transformation and Its Consequences: Settlement, Wealth and Social Differentiation 4. Gender Differentiation, Sex and Kindred 5. Status Differentiation, Hierarchy and Hegemony 6. Exploitation and Violence 7. Ethics, Ambitions, Crime and Punishment 8. The Origins of Belief in the Supernatural and the First Salvation Religions 9. Monotheism 10. Imagined Communities: Signs and Symbols, Identities and Nations 11. A Broad View – The Rhythm of Empire 12. Human Reality in Transformation: Modern Population, Migration and Labour 13. Inhuman Powers: Capitalism, Industry and Their Consequences 14. No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Trade-Offs, Opportunity Cost and the Dynamic of Unintended Consequences 15. Social Critique 16. Socialism: Its Promise and Paradox 17. Desperately Seeking Significance Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe nineteenth century saw huge changes in design and technology. This book looks at the social history of rooms in the Victorian home and at how, thanks to industrialised mass production, people were empowered to make choices about how to decorate their homes.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions.Trade ReviewA volume that is bound both to set a standard and to cause some controversy! Crone's contribution ought to achieve iconic status as a volume of broad scope and, based on her outstanding scholarly reputation will set a standard for all such subsequent works. This rich and wide-ranging book ! is stimulating and provocative ! Crone's lucid style aims to make a complex, ostensibly alien, tradition intelligible to the general reader as well as to the Islamic specialist. The book combines erudition with analytical brilliance. The author knows how to make sense of things, highlight them, and put them in perspective. Readers should come away with a satisfying depth of understanding of the full range of medieval Islamic political thought. -- Professor Michael Cook, Princeton University 'Patrica Crone's wide-ranging study is a substantial achievement, as it succeeds in clarifying the political thought of six centuries ... Written in a lively and unpretentious style, this is an excellent introduction to the subject which deserves to be widely read outside academic circles. -- Abeer Al-Abbasi, University of Leeds British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies A volume that is bound both to set a standard and to cause some controversy! Crone's contribution ought to achieve iconic status as a volume of broad scope and, based on her outstanding scholarly reputation will set a standard for all such subsequent works. This rich and wide-ranging book ! is stimulating and provocative ! Crone's lucid style aims to make a complex, ostensibly alien, tradition intelligible to the general reader as well as to the Islamic specialist. The book combines erudition with analytical brilliance. The author knows how to make sense of things, highlight them, and put them in perspective. Readers should come away with a satisfying depth of understanding of the full range of medieval Islamic political thought. 'Patrica Crone's wide-ranging study is a substantial achievement, as it succeeds in clarifying the political thought of six centuries ... Written in a lively and unpretentious style, this is an excellent introduction to the subject which deserves to be widely read outside academic circles.Table of ContentsPreface; Part 1: The Beginnings; 1. The Origins of Government; 2. The First Civil War and Sect Formation; 3. The Umayyads; Part 2: The Waning of the Tribal Tradition, c.700-900; 4. General; 5. The Kharijites; 6. The Mu'tazilites; 7. The Shi'ites of the Umayyad Period; 8. The 'Abbasids and Shi'ism; 9. The Zaydis; 10. The Imamis; 11. The Hadith Party; Part 3: Coping with a Fragmented World; 12. General; 13. The Persian Tradition and Advice Literature; 14. The Greek Tradition and 'Political Science'; 15. The Ismailis; 16. The Sunnis; Part 4: Government and Society; 17. The Nature of Government; 18. The Functions of Government; 19. Visions of Freedom; 20. The Social Order; 21. Muslims and Non-Muslims; (a) Infidels; (b) Muslisms as Infidels; 22. Epilogue: Religion, Government and Society Revisited; Bibliography, Abbreviations and Conventions; Index and Glossary.

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Book SynopsisThrough examinations of Gandhi''s critics, both individuals and groups, this book shows the complexity of Indian society and opinion at the time of the Indian Independence Movement.Although Gandhi has been the subject of hundreds of books and an Oscar-winning film, there has been no sustained study of his engagement with major figures in the Indian Independence Movement who were often his critics from 1920?1948. This book fills that gap by examining the strengths and weaknesses of Gandhi''s contribution to India as evidenced in the letters, speeches, and newspaper articles focused on the dialogue/debate between Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Bhim Rao Ambedkar, Annie Besant, and C. F. Andrews. The book also covers key groups within India that Gandhi sought to incorporate into his Independence Movement-the Hindu Right, Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs-and analyzes Gandhi''s ambiguous stance regarding the Hindi-Urdu question and its impact on the Independence struggle.

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Book SynopsisIn this inspiring and bestselling true story, a young mom shares what she saw and heard while in heaven--and how dying taught her to truly live.

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Book SynopsisOffers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets, and ultimately prepare the path for human spaceflight.Trade Review"For anyone familiar with the history of spaceflight—particularly in America—this book will be immensely rewarding."—Hunter Hollins, Quest"Highly recommended."—Midwest Book Review"Rockets and Revolution brings a variety of new sources and a refreshing perspective into the debates about the cultural dimensions of spaceflight."—Slava Gerovitch, CritCom"Rockets and Revolution succeeds in offering a cultural history of the space age."—Paul Josephson, American Historical Review"A remarkably rich study."—Michael K. Launer, Slavic and East European Journal“A refreshing perspective on the universal thrust for space exploration.”—Colin Burgess, Outward Odyssey series editor and author of Liberty Bell 7: The Suborbital Mercury Flight of Virgil I. GrissomTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesIntroductionPart 1. The Surveillance of Outer Space and the Russian Empire1. Envisioning the Biological Universe2. Mystical Economies of Earth and Space3. The Mechanics of Interplanetary TravelPart 2. The Mastery of Time and the Bolshevik Revolution4. Lyrical Cosmism of the Russian Revolution5. The Pioneers and the Spaceflight Imperative6. Rocket Spaceships as Science Fictions7. The Origins and Ends of Life on EarthPart 3. The Rise of Rocket Science and the Soviet Union8. The First Foundations of Astronautics9. A Race into the Stratosphere10. Stalinism and the Genesis of CosmonauticsConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.Trade Review"The comparative study of revolutions has been left to sociologists and political scientists for too long. This book is long overdue and will undoubtedly become a landmark in the comparative study of revolutions and a spur to further research on revolutions."—Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College"An important and exciting book in several respects, this volume provides a rare opportunity for today's historians to engage in some hard-nosed, systematic comparative history in a highly constructive manner while greatly widening their own personal perspective on the spectrum of modern revolutions. It also makes a splendid teaching tool." —Jonathan Israel, H-France"Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein have edited an important and timely book that reassesses how the concept of revolution has evolved over the past three centuries....[T]he editors are right to insist that humanists can and should get back into the comparative revolutions business."—Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? chapter abstractThis chapter examines the various resonances the word revolution held in seventeenth-century England. When used in a political context, it rarely meant turning full cycle or returning to the status quo ante, but rather a sudden and dramatic change, a turning quite around, or a regime change. The English commonly used the term revolution (or its plural revolutions) to refer to the political and religious upheavals of the period, and although revolutions did not necessarily have to involve fundamental or radical change, they could do, and by the end of the century there had emerged the notion that these revolutions had been beneficial and desirable because they had delivered England (and Scotland and Ireland) from tyranny. England's script for revolution was linked to the question of how to bring about the desired regime change and thus whether it was possible to resist a monarchy that was deemed absolute. 2God's Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the mid-Seventeenth Century chapter abstractThis chapter explores the early use of the word and concept of "revolution" as deployed during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. The politicized usage of the word was chiefly adapted from continental sources, reflecting both intensifying parallel political conflicts in several parts of Europe, and increasingly efficient networks for the transnational dissemination of news and information. After the regicide in 1649, the term "revolution" appeared with growing frequency in England, as contemporaries groped for a new vocabulary to describe the churning constitutional instability and change that plagued their polity. Although used in several ways, the word was appropriated with particular enthusiasm by radical puritan republicans, who often invoked it to describe God's providential disruption of established forms and constitutional order. 3Every Great Revolution is a Civil War chapter abstractThe conceptual categories of 'revolution' and 'civil war' are as contested as they are porous. This essay argues that the modern 'script' of revolution was not as original as some scholars have claimed. As a narrative of the violent and transformative reorganization of sovereignty, the revolutionary script developed after 1789 had morphological and genealogical similarities to an earlier and much more enduring script of political change: the Roman script of civil war. The essay traces the various narratives derived in classical and post-classical texts from the Roman experience of civil war and shows how Roman conceptions of civil war shaped later narratives of revolution. It concludes that civil war was the original genus of which revolution was only a late-evolving species. 4Revolutionizing Revolution chapter abstractThis chapter draws on digitized databases and other materials to investigate meanings of the term "revolution" and its cognates in English, American, and French imprints in the century between the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. It traces a shift from the notion of revolution as a fact, an expression of change and vicissitude generally recognized ex post facto, to a conception of revolution as a collective political act oriented toward the future. It points to the role of Enlightenment thinking in the revalorization of revolution as long term transformation and, more particularly, to the significance of Raynal'sRévolution de l'Amériquein narrativizing revolution as immediate and ongoing political action. It concludes by examining the emergence of a revolutionary script in the French Revolution. 5Constitutionalism: The Happiest Revolutionary Script chapter abstractTwo "stories" provide the essential script for the major aspects of the American Revolution. One script is a story of colonial resistance to imperial policies. Here the Americans followed familiar arguments about the careful yet calculated ways in which "a long train of abuses" could lead an unjustly governed people to assert their rights, including a right to revolution, against the threat of tyranny. The second story is about the remarkable way in which Americans worked out the central problems of constitution making in the decade after independence. This story provides an ideal happy ending to the complicated dynamics of revolution, by solving problems few other revolutions have mastered. 6From Constitutional to Permanent Revolution: 1649 and 1793 chapter abstractIn early-modern times, the telos of revolution was generally perceived as the ratification of a new constitution. Constitutions provided the foundation for the political authority of the new regime; they derived their own legitimacy as expressions of popular sovereignty. This revolutionary theory was first enacted during the English Civil War; it culminated with the American Revolution. The French Revolution started off during this same path, but in the years 1792-94, a new model of revolution emerged. In a dizzying circuit, it made "revolution" the new source of authority for the revolution, and eschewed constitutionalism for what later theorists (starting with Marx) would refer to as the "permanence" of revolution. This new, future-oriented model could legitimate actions undertaken by the State, rather than just a revolutionary people. 7Scripting the French Revolution, Inventing the Terror: Marat's Assassination and Its Interpretations chapter abstractDespite the deconstruction since the 1960s of many of its dominant historiographical discourses, the French Revolution remains hostage to a script that distinguishes it from contemporary European and American sister revolutions: the myth of the Terror, according to which the Jacobins instituted a centralized dictatorship in Paris, in the hands of Robespierre, and exercised a systematic violence against its opponents. Marat's assassination is a prime example of how pivotal events of the Revolution were immediately integrated into systems of representation and contributed to the construction of the most enduring scripts. By radicalizing and opposing in a Manichean manner the positions of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary actors, the numerous discourses and emotions surrounding the violent death of l'Ami du peuple thereby participated in forging the simplifying myth of the Terror, producing a distorted image of France, split between a dictatorship of public safety, external war, and civil war. 8The Antislavery Script: Haiti's Place in the Narrative of Atlantic Revolution chapter abstractThe notion that free people of color and slaves in Saint-Domingue might have been acting out a drama first performed elsewhere has a long and troubling history. This essay considers the two most oft-mentioned precedents (the American and French revolutions) and finds that neither explains the manner of Haiti's path out of the Old Regime. Revolutionary-era influences must be balanced against prior experiences and understandings of slavery and racial subordination, including those embodied in colonial law. Such an approach helps to clarify the ambiguities of emancipation as it ultimately took form in Haiti, where liberation from slavery was obscured by the imperatives of independence from France. The very nations that sought to contain Haiti's example would later struggle with their own variations on this Haitian theme. 9Scripting the German Revolution: Marx and 1848 chapter abstractTheCommunist Manifestowas treated by generations of Marxists as an example of scientific class analysis and materialist conception of history. When it was written, it was intended as a set of formulations addressed to a radical German readership. This essay sets theManifestoin the context of previous attempts to characterise the situation of Germany after the French Revolution. Despite the transformative importance of the achievements of German philosophy in the preceding eighty years, the political reality of Germany was disappointing: a docile and obedient people unaffected by the 1830 revolutions in neighbouring countries. After attempting to sketch a German route to revolution in 1844, Marx and his friends left Germany and adopted an abstract and universal discourse embracing the whole of the modern world. The resultingManifesto conjured up a largely imaginary conflict between fabricated entities and proved to be of little value in confronting events in 1848. 10Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France chapter abstract"Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France"examines the emergence, transformation, and cultural and political effects of the"discourse of revolutionary mimicry" in nineteenth-century France. First, a reading of Gustave Flaubert's 1869 novelL'Education sentimentaleillustrates how fears regarding the reading and repeating of revolutionary scripts existed not only the political, but also the literary sphere during the Second Empire (1852-1870). The chapter then considers the political effects of this discourse upon the Paris Commune of 1871 and how it directly influenced the day-to-day decisions and actions of the Communards. Together, these analyses strongly suggest that the post-1848 discourse of revolutionary mimicry served to de-legitimize unambiguously positive or romantic conceptions of "revolution," ultimately shaping how nineteenth-century revolutions were not only represented and judged, but also how they were actually performed. 11"Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique": Russian Terrorism, the Escape from the European Orbit, and the Invention of a New Revolutionary Paradigm chapter abstractFor the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia, terrorism, or the "terrorist revolution," came to trump the revolutionary script that had been received from the West over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This chapter explains when and why this exchange happened, as well as what made it thinkable. In doing so, the chapter places a special emphasis on the various ways the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia understood history and historical time. The chapter first traces the history of the idea of revolution in Russia, then analyzesthe emergence of the "terrorist revolution" in a set of political proclamations and manifestos from the mid to late nineteenth century, and ends with some conclusions about the ways in which terrorism allowed Russians to theorize an escape from the European revolutionary paradigm. 12Scripting the Russian Revolution chapter abstractThe Russian Revolution witnessed competing and overlapping scripts that contained fundamentally divergent projections of revolutionary change. This chapter outlines the main scripts within the liberal, moderate socialist, extreme left, national, and popular traditions. Historians usually prioritize intellectuals and their visions as driving the agenda of the Russian revolution. It is clear, however, that it was the radical consequences of the people's program of, for example, land distribution from below that pushed Russian politics to the far left, affecting each of the major scripts. It was precisely a peculiar intersection of peasant aspirations and extreme left discourse that produced a triumphant Bolshevik outcome. This hybrid script was riddled with contradictions that isolated and undermined Soviet communism. 13You Say You Want a Revolution: Revolutionary and Reformist Scripts in China, 1894-2014 chapter abstractChinese reformers and revolutionaries have long looked for inspiration to various parts of the world, as well as to China's own past, when carving out positions and seeking support for their stance on how the country needed to and could be best changed. Focusing particular on two periods, around the turn of the last two centuries, this chapter compares and contrasts such things as the significance that Japan's Meiji Restoration and the American and French events of 1776 and 1789, respectively, had for reformers, who sought to maintain some kind of imperial system, and revolutionaries, who sought to establish a republic in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Similarities but also differences between the reform vs. revolution debate then and that of recent decades are also discussed. 14Mao's Little Red Book: The Spiritual Atom Bomb and Its Global Fallout chapter abstractThis chapter explores the metaphor of Mao Zedong Thought as a "spiritual atom bomb," an idea expressed in Lin Biao's famous foreword to the Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao). By relating this metaphor to other concepts found in the Little Red Book, the chapter argues that Maoism was an expression of and a response to existential anxieties of the atomic age. The discussion proceeds from an exegesis of "The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains" to the role of voluntarism in the strategy and tactics of people's war; explains the weaponization of ideology and Cultural Revolution ideal of spiritual fission, or the struggle against one's own subjectivity; addresses Maoist denigration of the physical atom bomb as a "paper tiger"; and presents Mao's alternative view of postcolonial global power in the Theory of Three Worlds. 15The Reel, Real and Hyper-Real Revolution: Scripts and Counter-Scripts in Cuban Documentary Film chapter abstractFocused on the work of the black Communist filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, this chapter argues that the Cuban government interpreted visual, racial and cultural critiques of revolutionary policies as endangering both national security and citizens' trust in the absolute victory of the Revolution over the past. Charged with documenting change and narrating national progress, Guillén Landrián broke with standard techniques meant to guide viewers' understanding of lived reality through "hyper-real" (that is, bigger-and-better-than-life) representations of events by refusing to engage in state-generated scripts, especially the formulaic stories and formats typical of the government-controlled media. For his boldness, Guillén Landrían suffered imprisonment, forced labor and ultimately electro-shock treatments meant to nullify his ability to challenge or disrupt oficial metanarratives, especially those authored by "Commander-in-Chief" Fidel Castro. 16Writing on the Wall: 1968 as Event and Representation chapter abstractThe global upheaval of the Sixties marked a significant transition in scripts of revolution, for which 1968 was both a pivotal year and a trenchant symbol. Contemporaneous consideration of the category of "event" itself, notably by French critical thinkers, emphasized the open-ended and anti-systematic qualities of happenings that year. Since then, endless debate on the multiple meanings and experiences of "1968" has confirmed its representational plurality. Together, reflection on the events and representations of 1968 helps us understand the historic shift from an earlier monolithic notion of violent revolution to new models of pluralistic non-revolutionary social contestation. 17Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran chapter abstractWas the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran part of a divine script, mandated in heaven? Was it a foreign conspiracy by Britain, US, Communists, Seven Sisters? All of the above? Was the Shah's indecision, or his cancer the cause of his downfall? Was the 1979 revolution inevitable, and if so, was Ayatollah Khomeini's eventual hegemony no less unavoidable? "Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran" offers a critical sketch of these scenarios while attempting to map out the endogenous and exogenous factors that contributed to the "perfect storm" that was the revolution of 1979 – as much the result of mangled social engineering as the unintended consequence of utopian ideologies. 18The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolutions chapter abstractThis chapter examines the scripts of the Arab revolutions. It argues that, unlike many previous revolutionary movements where ideological debates occurredwithina largely shared revolutionary worldview, such debates during the so-called Arab Spring occurredbetweendifferent revolutionary groups over contradictory visions of the future political system. The chapter then examines the Egyptian and Yemeni revolutions and argues that the different revolutionary groups – secularists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Salafis – briefly set aside their ideological differences in order to achieve a common goal and overthrow the regime; but, once this was achieved, the fissures between them led to continuing conflict. Finally, the chapter considers how, despite these contradictions and conflicts, the failure for any single revolutionary group to claim revolutionary authority over others may make it possible for genuine popular sovereignty to succeed inadvertently. Afterword: Afterword chapter abstractThe article returns to the themes raised by the editors in the Introduction, analyzing why social scientific approaches have generally prevailed over hermeneutic ones in the comparative study of revolutions. It summarizes the main contributions of the volume, raises questions about the nature of political "scripts," and speculates about various common factors in the "scripts" analyzed in the volume, including appeals to the emotions, the suspension of ordinary constitutional rules, and intellectuals as political actors.

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Book SynopsisA World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. This first volume covers the United Kingdom.Table of ContentsVolume I. The United Kingdom Table of ContentsAuthor AcknowledgementsPart 1: The Rocket, Rainhill Trials, and Early Promotion of Railways1. Early Illustrations of the Rocket and Liverpool and Manchester trains.Figure 1. The Rocket with wagon car from the cover of Mechanics’ Magazine, 24 October, 1829. Figure 2. Isaac Shaw’s lithograph of Liverpool and Manchester passenger train. S. G. Hughes aquatint (1831). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. Figure 3. Isaac Shaw’s lithograph of Liverpool and Manchester freight train. S. G. Hughes aquatint (1831). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.2. The Rainhill Trials and Inauguration of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, "Account of the Competition of Locomotive Steam-Carriages on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway," in Mechanics’ Magazine 12: 322 (October 10, 1829), 114-116; 12: 323 (October 17, 1829), 135-141; 12: 324 (October 24, 1829), 146-147; 12: 325 (October 31, 1829), 161; 14: 372 (September 25, 1830), 64-69.3. Charles Maclaren. Railways Compared with Canals & Common Roads, and Their Uses and Advantages Explained. Edinburgh: Constable, 1825, pp. 48-54. 4. Nineteenth-Century Engravings, Lithographs, and Prints.Figure 4. "View of the Entrance to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway." Mechanics’ Magazine XIV: 342 (September 25, 1830).Figure 5. Isaac Shaw. "View on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway with the Locomotive "Twin Sisters" in a Siding." (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.Figure 6. Isaac Shaw. "Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway," (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.Figure 7. Isaac Shaw. "Railway Office Liverpool," (1830). Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.Figure 8. "Metropolitan Railway." The Wonders of the Universe: A Record of Things Wonderful and Marvelous in Nature, Science, and Art (New York: Cassell & Co., 1885), 53.Part 2: Engineering Enemies5. Joseph Sandars. A Letter on the Subject of the Projected Rail Road between Liverpool and Manchester. Second ed. London: W. Wales, 1824, pp. 3-32.6. "Second Prospectus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Company," Liverpool Mercury XV (30 December 1825), 203.7. George Eliot. Middlemarch. New edition. Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood, 1874, pp. 407-414. 8. The Creevy Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the Late Thomas Creevy. Ed. Sir Herbert Maxwell. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1904, pp, 429-431, 545-546.9. William Wordsworth, ‘On the Projected Kendel and Windermere Railway’, 147, "Letters on the Kendal and Windermere Railway, 301-311" From Vol. 8 of The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. William Angus Knight. (Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1888-1889), p. 147, 301-311Part 3: Cultures of Railway Construction10. John Francis. A History of the English Railway: Its Social Relations and Revelations. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1851. Vol. 2, Chapter 3 pp. 67-91. 11. Benjamin Disraeli. Sybil or The Two Nations. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1913, pp. 433-441. 12. Stephen W. Fullom, "The Brawl Viaduct", "English and Irish" and "The Reward of Merit," in The Great Highway: A Story of the World’s Struggles. Third ed. London: G. Routledge & Co., 1854, pp. 119-146. 13. Patrick MacGill. Children of the Dead End: The Autobiography of a Navvy. London: H. Jenkins, 1914, pp. 129-145, 209-212, 225-229, 254-262. 14. Patrick MacGill. "A Platelayer’s Story" and "The Navvy’s Sunday" and from Gleanings from a Navvy’s Scrapbook. Second ed. Derry, North Ireland: Derry Journal, 1911, pp. 52-53, 55. Part 4: Novel Impressions: Early Victorian Railway Cultures15. Frances Ann Kemble. Records of a Girlhood. Second ed. New York: H. Holt, 1884, 278-284.16. ‘Railroad Travelling’, Herapath’s Railway Journal [The Railway Magazine] 1 (Mar.-Dec. 1836), 110-112. 17. Charles Greville. Memoirs (Second Part): A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852. 3 vols. Ed. Henry Reeve. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885. I, p. 11. 18. William Makepeace Thackeray, ‘Two Days in Wicklow’, in The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, The Irish Sketch Book, & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo. New York: Caxton, 1840, pp. 491-493.19. William Makepeace Thackeray, "Physiology of the London Idler," Punch 3 (1842), p. 102, "Railway Parsimony," Punch 13 (1847), 150, "Natural Phenomenon," Punch 14 (1848), 87, and "Railway Charges," Punch 14 (1848), 218. 20. Albert Richard Smith. The Struggles and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole at Home and Abroad. London: Willoughby, [1847], pp. 481-483. 21. Charles Dickens, "Paul’s Second Deprivation," in Dombey and Son. 2 Vols. New York: Harper & Bros, 1852. I: 70-72. 22. Charles Dickens, "Mugby Junction" in Stories from the Christmas Numbers of "Household Words" and "All Year Round." New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896. PP. 464-465, 500-512. 23. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (New York: Macmillan, 1907), p. 720.24. Charles Dickens, "A Flight," in Reprinted Pieces. New York: University Society, 1908. PP. 151-161. Part 5: Timetables, Calendars, and Stations: Mid-Victorian Railway Cultures25. Henry Booth. An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, "Considerations, Moral, Commercial, Economical." Liverpool: Wales and Baines, 1830, pp. 85-94.26. "Easter Travelling," Illustrated London News, 29 April 1905, 626.27. Figure 9. William Powell Frith. "The Railway Station." [Paddington Station] (1862).28. George Catlin. Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium. Third ed. London: n.p., 1852, pp. 15, 17, 20-26, 34-35, 123-127, 129, 145-146.29. John Overton Choules, Young Americans Abroad. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853, pp. 48-52, 92-95.30. Miss [Julia] Pardoe, ‘On the Rail’, Reginald Lyle. New York: Burgess & Day, 1854, pp. 103-106.31. Elizabeth Gaskell, ‘Mischances’ North and South. London: Oxford University Press, 1908, pp. 312-317.32. George Augustus Sala, "The Art of Sucking Eggs" in, Temple Bar 1 (1861), 558-564.33. Miss. Muloch (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik), A Life for a Life: A Novel. New York: Carleton, 1864, pp. 196-197.34. Frances Eleanor Trollope, Veronica, "The Railway Waiting Room.", in All the Year Round, New Series V.2 (September 25, 1869), p. 386.35. G. K. Chesterton, ‘The Prehistoric Railway Station’, in Tremendous Truffles (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1909), pp. 260-267.Part 6: Subterranean Railways and the Underground: High Victorian Railway Cultures36. ‘The Metropolitan Subterranean Railway’, The Times (London), 30 November 1861, p. 5.37. Mortimer Collins, The Vivian Romance (New York: Harper, 1870), pp. 31-32.38. M. E. Braddon, ‘On the Track’, from Henry Dunbar: The Story of an Outcast, Three Vols. (London: J. Maxwell, 1866), III, pp. 187-201. 39. M. E. Braddon, The Lovels of Arden (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1871), pp. 92-97. 40. Figure 10. Gustave Doré. The Workmen's Train, Ludgate Hill, and Over the City by Railway. Illustrations originally printed in Doré and Blanchard Jerrold, London: A Pilgrimage. London: Grant, 1872. 41. Lady Margaret Majendie, ‘A Railway Journey’, Blackwood’s Magazine 121 (April 1877), pp. 497-503.42. Figure 11. Cover Illustration of H. L. Williams’s adaptation of Dion Boucicault’s play After Dark (1880s), depicting railway rescue scene in the London Underground/Subterranean Railway. 43. Dion Boucicault, scene II from After Dark: A Drama of London Life in 1868, in Four Acts. (New York: DeWitt, n.d.) pp. 36-37.Part 7: Netherworlds and Nostalgia: Late Victorian and Edwardian Railway Cultures44. George Gissing, ‘10 Saturnalia!’, in The Nether World (London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1890), pp. 105-113.45. James John Hissey, Through Ten English Counties (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1894), pp. 392-393. 46. Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896), pp. 341-343.47. Arthur Quiller-Couch, ‘The Cuckoo Valley Railway’ and ‘Punch’s Understudy’, in The Delectable Duchy: Stories, Studies, and Sketches (New York: C. Scribners’ Sons, 1898), pp. 61-69, 107-115.48. George John Whyte-Melville, The Brookes of Bridlemere (London: Ward, Lock, 1899), pp. 156-161, 200-205.49. H. G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes (New York: Harper & Bros., 1899), pp. 201-211. 50. Henry James, ‘London’, English Hours (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1905), pp. 36-39. 51. Henry James, ‘Isle of Wight’, Portraits of Places (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1911]), pp. 292-294. 52. E. Nesbit, ‘Saviours of the Train’, The Railway Children (London and New York: Macmillan, 1906), pp. 127-137.53. E. M. Forster, Howards End (New York: G. P. Putnam Sons, 1911), pp. 12-19.Part 8: The Railway Accident, Public Health, and Military Deployment54. ‘Wolverhampton’, The Spectator, February 24, 1838, pp. 176-177.55. ‘In the Temple Gardens’, Temple Bar 2 (July, 1861), pp. 286-287. 56. ‘Armagh’, The Spectator, June 15, 1889, 813.57. ‘The Influence of Railway Travelling on Public Health’, The Lancet, 1862, pp. 15-17. 58. John Charles Hall, ‘Railway Accidents’, in Medical Evidence in Railway Accidents (London: Longmans & Co. 1868), pp. 27-42. 59. ‘Navvies for the Crimea’ and ‘The Balaclava Railway Corps’, Illustrated London News, 13 January 1855, 28-29, 304.60. ‘The Invasion of the Free State’, The Spectator 17 March 1900, 229. 61. Boer War: Diary of Eyre Lloyd, 2nd Coldstream Guards, Assistant Staff Officer, Colonel Benson’s Column, killed at Brakenlaagte, 30th October 1901 (London: Army and Navy Cooperative Society, 1905), pp. 3-6, 17-19, 27-28, 43, 45, 56-58, 63, 66-67, 71-78, 105-118, 124, 131, 137-141, 153, 169-171, 187, 242, 249-250, 260, 288-289. Part 9: The Great War and Interwar Railway Cultures62. ‘Railways and the War’, in The Times History of the War 6 (1915), pp. 161, 167, 169-174.63. Edwin A. Pratt, ‘Employment of Women and Girls’, in British Railways and the Great War: Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties and Achievements, 2 vols. (London: Selwyn and Blount, 1921), pp. 475-482.64. Thomas Hardy, ‘Midnight on the Great Western’, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy, 2 vols. (London: Macmillan, 1919), I, pp. 483.65. Lord Monkswell, ‘Making Up Lost Time’, The Railway Magazine 50 (Jan.-June 1922), pp. 157-160.66. ‘Railway Art and Literature in 1922’, The Railway Magazine 51 (July-Dec. 1922), pp. 59-66.67. ‘Flying Scotsman’s First Run’, Times (London), 2 May 1928, p. 13. 68. Frank Parker Stockbridge, ‘Cargoes through the Clouds’, Harper’s 140, 1919-1920, pp. 189-191.Part 10: Railway Cultures of Scotland and Ireland69. Anon. [David Croal], Early Recollections of a Journalist, 1832-1859 (Edinburgh: Andrew Eliot, 1898), pp. 8-10.70. Charles Richard Weld, Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye (London: Longmans, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), pp. 4-6.71. W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, Norman Sinclair 3 vols. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1861), I, pp. 250-251, 271-274, II, pp. 102-114.72. C. F. Gordon Cumming, In the Hebrides (London: Chatto & Windus, 1883), pp. 201-204, 420-422. 73. C. F. Gordon Cumming, Memories (Edinburgh: W. Blackwood, 1904), pp. 440-441.74. ‘The Dublin and Kingstown Railway’, Dublin Penny Journal 3, 113, 30 August 1834, pp. 65-68.75. J. Jay Smith, A Summer’s Jaunt across the Water (Philadelphia: J. W. Moore, 1846), pp. 46-47.76. Frederick Richard Chichester, Masters and Workmen: A Tale Illustrative of the Social and Moral Condition of the People, 3 vols. (London: Newby, 1851), I, pp. 7-17. 77. Andrew Dickinson, My First Visit to Europe (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 48-50. 78. Sir Francis Bond Head, A Fortnight in Ireland, 2nd ed. (London: John Murray, 1852), pp. 70, 108-114. 79. George Foxcroft Haskins, Travels in England, France, Italy and Ireland (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1856), pp. 265-266, 269. 80. Michael Cavanagh (ed.), Memoirs of General Thomas Francis Meagher Comprising the Leading Events of His Career (Worcester, Mass.: The Messenger Press, 1892), pp. 245-253.81. C. O. Burge, The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents (London: Alston Rivers, 1909), pp. 8-13, 47-53.82. J. M. Synge, In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara (Dublin: Maunsel, 1911), pp. 65-67, 157-165.83. J. M. Synge, The Aran Islands, 4 vols. (Dublin: Maunsel, 1912). I, pp. 115-120.84. Joseph Tatlow. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland (London: The Railway Gazette, 1920), pp. 110-111. 85. Padraic Colum, ‘Into Munster: On the Train’, The Road Round Ireland (New York: Macmillan, 1926), pp. 416-419.

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Book SynopsisA World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. The second volume spans the British Empire.Table of ContentsVolume II. The British EmpirePart 1: Mobility and Mutability 1. Amelia Cary, Chow-Chow. 2 vols. (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), I, pp. 46-50.2. Robert Bowne Minturn, From New York to Delhi, Second ed. (New York: D. Appleton, 1858), pp. 6, 122-126.3. Bholanauth Chunder, The Travels of a Hindoo to Various Parts of Bengal and Upper India (London: N. Trubner, 1869), I, pp. 139-141, 149-150, 162-173, 326-327, 332-333, 348, 433 II: 130-131.4. Figure 1, ‘Modes of Travelling in India’, Illustrated London News, September 19, 1863, 284.5. Sidney Laman Blanchard, The Ganges and the Seine, 2 vols. (London: Chapman and Gall, 1862), II, pp. 6-13.6. William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858-1859, 2 vols. (London: Routledge, 1860), I, pp. 154-162, II, pp. 407-409.7. G. O. Trevelyan, The Competition Wallah, Second ed. (London: Macmillan, 1866), pp. 21-30.8. Mary Carpenter, Six Months in India, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, 1868), I, pp. 27-31, 227-228, 234-235, 238-239. 9. John Matheson. England to Delhi: A Narrative of Indian Travel (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870), pp. 278-286, 347-348, 509-510.Part 2: Modernity and the Masses10. Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, trans. George M. Towle (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1873), pp. 55-56, 60-62, 70-78. 11. C. F. Gordon Cumming, In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains (London: Chatto & Windus, 1884), pp. 44-47, 76, 266-268, 274-277, 593-594.12. James Hingston. The Australian Abroad: Branches from the Main Routes Round the World, 2 vols. (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879), pp. 98-101, 163-164, 200-203, 209-210.13. W. S. Caine, A Trip Round the World in 1887-8 (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1888), pp. 264-269, 273-276.14. Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage: 1887 (London: Longmans, Green, 1889), pp. 99-102, 104-105. 15. Mrs. Brassey, Around the World in the Yacht "Sunbeam": Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (New York: H. Holt, 1889), pp. 398-399.16. C. F. Gordon Cumming, Two Happy Years in Ceylon, 2 vols. (London: Blackwood and Sons, 1892), I, pp. 155-159, 1716, II, pp. 27-29, 184-186, 238-239.17. Flora Annie Steel, ‘In the Permanent Way’, In the Permanent Way and Other Stories (London: William Heinemann, 1898), pp. 27-42.Part 3: Kipling’s Railway Kingdom18. Rudyard Kipling, ‘An Escape Northwards’, in Out of India: Things I Saw and Failed to See in Certain Days and Nights at Jeypore and Elsewhere (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1895), pp. 116-119.19. Rudyard Kipling, ‘Namgay Doola’, from Mine Own People, in Works, 15 vols. (New York: Lovell, n.d.), I, pp. 31-37.20. Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Man Who Would Be King’, in Works, 15 vols. (New York: Lovell, 1899), V, pp. 92-99.21. Rudyard Kipling, Letters of Marque’, Works, 15 vols. (New York: Lovell, 1899), XII, pp. 5-9.22. Rudyard Kipling, ‘Among the Railway Folk’, Works, 15 vols. (New York: Lovell, 1899), VII, pp. 65-93.Part 4: Anglo-Indian Junctions23. Rabindranath Tagore, ‘A Journey with My Father’, in My Reminiscences (London: Macmillan, 1917), pp. 77-81, 86-87.24. Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman, Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain (London: T. F. Unwin, 1904), pp. 6, 48, 63-64, 66, 102, 204-207, 226.25. Walter Del Mar, The Romantic East: Burma, Assam, & Kashmir (London: A. and C. Black, 1906), pp. 106-110.26. Robert Maitland Brereton, Reminiscences of an Old English Civil Engineer, 1858-1908 (Portland, Ore.: Irwin-Hodson, 1908), pp. 11-16.27. C. O. Burge, The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents (London: Alston Rivers, 1909), pp. 73-74, 98-101.28. Frank A. Swettenham, The Real Malay: Pen Pictures, Second ed. (London: John Lane, 1907), pp. 37-42.29. Malcolm Watson, The Prevention of Malaria in the Federated Malay States, Preface by Ronald Ross (Liverpool: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, 1911), pp. 111, 121, 134.Part 5: Colonial Railways: Third-Class Passengers, Famine, and the Drain 30. John L. Stoddard, Lectures, Ten vols. (Boston: Balch, 1899), IV, India, pp. 23-24. 31. Mahatma Gandhi, Third-Class in Indian Railways (Lahore: Gandhi Publications League, 1917), pp. 3-7.32. ‘Third-Class Passenger Complaints and Indian Pilgrims’, from East India Railway Committee, 1920-21. Report of the Committee Appointed by the Secretary of State for India to Enquire into the Administration and Working of Indian Railways. Vol. I. (London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office for the India Office, n. d.), pp. 54-55.33. M. Gandhi, ‘The Question of Real Convenience’, Young India 2, 8, February 25, 1920, pp. 1-2.34. ‘Treatment of Indians Abroad’, Young India 2, 44, November 3, 1920, 7.35. M. Gandhi, ‘Carping Criticism’, Young India 3, 19, May 11, 1921, 146. 36. Sir Richard Temple, The Bengal Famine (1874)’, in The Story of My Life, 2 vols. (London: Cassell, 1896), I, pp. 229-248.37. Vaughan Nash, The Great Famine and Its Causes (London: Longmans, Green, 1900), pp. 12-13, 102-104, 110-114, 144-152, 163-165, 175-182, 229.38. Romesh Chunder Dutt, Open Letters to Lord Curzon on Famine and Land Assessments in India (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1900), pp. 124-125, 305, 314-315. 39. Dadabhai Naoroji, Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (London: S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1901), pp. 193-196, 227-229.Part 6: Railways and the Spread of Epidemic Disease40. R. Senior White, ‘Studies in Malaria as it Affects Railways’, Railway Board Technical Paper 258 (Part I), (Reprint, Indian Medical Gazette, LXII (Calcutta: Government of India, 1928), 55-59.41. J. A. Sinton, ‘The Effects of Malaria on Railways’, Records of the Malaria Survey of India 5, 4 (December 1935), 471-476.42. R. Nathan, The Plague in India, 1896, 1897, 4 vols. (Simla: Government Central Printing Office, 1898), I, pp. 291-297.43. James Knighton Condon, ‘Railway Inspection’, The Bombay Plague, Being a History of the Progress of Plague in the Bombay Presidency from September 1896 to June 1899 (Bombay: Education Society, 1900), pp. 141-146.Part 7: Railways and Crime44. L. F. Morshead. Report on the Police Administration in the Bengal Presidency (Calcutta: Bengal Secretariat Book Depot, 1907), pp. 36-38. 45. S. T. Hollins, The Criminal Tribes of the United Provinces (Allahabad: Government Press, 1914), pp. 2-5, 90-94, 109-110, 115-117.46. M. Pauparao Naidu, The History of Railway Thieves with Illustrations & Hints on Detection Fourth ed. (Madras: Higginbothams, 1915), pp. 4-19.47. Report of the Railway Police Committee, 1921 (Simla: Government Monotype Press, 1921), pp. 2-5.48. Abstract of Evidence Recorded by the Railway Police Committee, 1921 (Calcutta: Superintendent Government Printing, 1921), pp. i-iv, 1-8.Part 8: The Railway as Oasis: Egypt, the Near East, and the Middle East49. Isabella F. Romer, A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine in 1845-6, 2 vols. (London: R. Bentley, 1846), pp. 98-100.50. James Hingston, The Australian Abroad on Branches from the Main Routes Round the World (Melbourne: W. Inglis, 1885), p. 348.51. C. F. Gordon Cumming, Via Cornwall to Egypt (London: Chatto & Windus, 1885), pp. 102-104. 52. Hadji Khan (Gazanfar Ali), Armin Vamberry and Wilfrid Sparroy, With the Pilgrims to Mecca (London: J. Lane, 1905), pp. 83-84, 87. 53. Norma Lorimer, By the Waters of Egypt (London: Methuen, 1909), pp. 1-3, 425-427.54. E. L. Butcher, Egypt as We Know It (London: Mills & Bonn, 1911), pp. 6-16, 22-23, 153-155. 55. E. L. Butcher, Things Seen in Egypt (London: Seeley, Service and Co., 1914), pp. 177-178.56. Francis E. Clark and Harriet E. Clark, Our Journey around the World (Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington, 1896), pp. 377-380, 383-389.57. Louisa Jebb Wilkins, By Desert Ways to Baghdad (London: T. Nelson & Sons, [1912]), pp. 55-87.Part 9: Railways and the Re-Partitioning of British Africa58. Thomas Joseph Willans, The Abyssinian Railway (London: 1870), pp. 163-176. 59. Rudyard Kipling, The Light that Failed, in Works, 15 vols. (New York: Lovell, 1899), III, pp. 296-303. 60. Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage: 1887 (London: Longmans, Green, 1889), pp. 435-437. 61. Frank Vincent, Actual Africa; or, The Coming Continent (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1895), pp. 208-210, 295-296, 298-306, 312-314, 376-379, 414-415, 419-428. 62. Henry M. Stanley, Through South Africa (London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1898), pp. 4-19, 22-23, 76-79.63. Joseph Conrad, ‘Heart of Darkness’, in Youth, and Two Other Stories (New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1903), pp. 71-80. Originally published in Blackwoods Magazine 165, 1,000-1,002 (February, March, and April 1899), 193-220, 479-502, 634-657.64. Lions. The Spectator, March 3, 1900, 307-308.65. J. H. Patterson, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures (London: Macmillan and Co., 1910), pp. 61-74.66. C. O. Burge, The Adventures of a Civil Engineer: Fifty Years on Five Continents (London: Alston Rivers, 1909), pp. 154-155.67. Charlotte Mansfield, Via Rhodesia: A Journey through Southern Africa (London: S. Paul, [1911]), pp. 161-168. 68. John R. Raphael, Through Unknown Nigeria (London: T. W. Laurie, [1914]), pp. 43-53, 130-138.Part 10: Australiana and Aborigines: Possession and Dispossession 69. Figure 2, Samuel Calvert, Engraving, ‘Skipton Jacky Jacky and His Tribe at the Opening of the Beaufort Railway’, September 7, 1874. 70. Figure 3, Eastern Excursionists. The Early Morning Train at Spencer Street Station (Melbourne, Victoria), May 4, 1881. 71. James Hingston. The Australian Abroad on Branches from the Main Routes Round the World (Melbourne: W. Inglis, 1885), pp. viii-ix, 151-153.72. Hume Nisbet, A Colonial Tramp: Travels and Adventures in Australia and New Zealand 2 vols. (London: Ward & Downey, 1891), pp. 166-172, 233-234, 274-276.73. May Vivienne, Sunny South Australia (Adelaide, Australia: Husse & Gillingham, 1908), pp. 299, 301, 303, 305-312, 314, 316-318. 74. May Vivienne, Travels in Western Australia, Second ed. (London: W. Heinemann, 1902), pp. 325-326, 329-330.75. Robert Watson, Queensland Transcontinental Railway. Field Notes and Reports (Melbourne: W. H. Williams, 1883), pp. 85-86. 76. Mark Twain, More Tramps Abroad, Third ed. (London: Chatto & Windus, 1898), pp. 201-206. 77. Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage: 1887 (London: Longmans, Green, 1889), pp. 233-239. 78. Julius M. Price, The Land of Gold (London: S. Low, Marston & Company, 1896), pp. 15-21, 23-24.79. Albert Frederick Calvert, My Fourth Tour in Western Australia (London: W. Heinemann, 1897), pp. 4, 6, 8.80. Daisy Bates, The Passing of the Aborigines: A Lifetime Spent among the Natives of Australia. London: John Murray, 1938), pp. 163-164, 168-171, 190-192, 194-195, 207-208.81. Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1873), pp. 210-213, 222-224.

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Book SynopsisThis 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, this third volume explores the railways through Eurasia.Table of ContentsVolume III. Continental EurasiaPart 1: Mentalité and the Machine Ensemble: France and Colonies 1. Paul Verlaine, ‘The Scene behind the Carriage-Window Panes’, in Poems of Paul Verlaine Trans. Gertrude Hall (New York: Duffield, 1906), p. 22.2. William Makepeace Thackeray, The Paris Sketchbook of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; The Irish Sketch Book; & Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo (New York: Caxton, 1840), pp. 265-267.3. Michael J. Quin, Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, & the Rhine, with Railroad Visits to the Principal Cities of Belgium, 2 vols. (London: H. Colburn, 1843), II, pp. 71-75.4. George Musgrave, The Parson, Pen, and Pencil: Or, Reminiscences and Illustrations of an Excursion to Paris, Tours, and Rouen in the Summer of 1847 (London: R. Bentley, 1848), I, pp. 124-135, II, pp. 251-252. 5. George Musgrave, By-roads and Battle-fields in Picardy, 2 vols. (London: Bell and Daldy, 1861), I, pp. 12-13, 212-218. 6. George Musgrave, A Ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1870), I, pp. 91-94. 7. Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Impressions of a Wanderer in Italy, Switzerland, France, and Spain (London: H. Colburn, 1850), pp. 261-264.8. Andrew Dickinson, My First Visit to Europe (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1851), pp. 158-160.9. Frank B. Goodrich, Tricolored Sketches in Paris during the Years 1851-2-3 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855), pp. 202-203, 205-206, 210, 216.10. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 106-112. 11. Henry James, A Little Tour in France (Leipzig: B. Tauchnitz, 1885), pp. 258-261.12. Henry James, Portraits of Places (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1911]), pp. 81-86. 13. Émile Zola, Germinal (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), pp. 1-10.14. Mary Raymond Williams, July and August of 1914 (Cleveland: [Press of the Brooks Company], 1915), pp. 78-103.15. Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, 2 vols. Trans. C. K. Moncrieff (New York: Holt, 1922), I, pp, 154-155 II, pp. 104-105, 232-234.16. Angus B. Reach, Claret and Oliver, from the Garonne to the Rhone (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1853), pp. 63-68. 17. Charles Richard Weld, The Pyrenees, West and East (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1859), pp. 29-35, 45-46, 49. 18. Gordon Casserly, Algeria To-day, (New York: F. A. Stokes, n.d.), pp. 170-185. 19. Lewis Gaston Leary, Syria, the Land of Lebanon (New York: McBride, Nast, 1913), pp. 72-78, 80-84, 86-87.Part 2: Pathbreakers and Stone Breakers: Belgium, Holland, and Colonies 20. E. H. Derby, Two Months Abroad (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 36-38. 21. W. C. Dana, A Transatlantic Tour (Philadelphia: Perkins & Purves, 1845), pp. 195-197, 216-219. 22. Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l’industrie, Brussels, The Congo Railway from Matadi to the Stanley-Pool (Brussels: P. Weissenbruch, 1889), pp. 106-110. 23. E. D. Morel, Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing in the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906. With an Introduction by Sir Harry Johnston (New York: The Nassau Print, 1906), pp. 91-103. 24. Reverend J. H. Whitehead, ‘Reports and Letter of Protest to the Governor-General’, in E. D. Morel, Recent Evidence from the Congo (Liverpool: J. Richardson & Sons, 1907), pp. 14-17.Part 3: Incongruous Eisenbahn: Railways in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, and Colonies25. J. G. Kohl, Austria, Vienna, Hungary, Bohemia, and the Danube (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843), pp. 156-158, 160.26. John W. Corson, Loiterings in Europe (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1848), pp. 222-227, 234-239, 263-266.27. Rachel Harriette Busk, The Valleys of Tirol: Their Traditions and Customs, and How to Visit Them (London: Longmans, Green, 1874), pp. 148-149, 168-170, 327.28. Robert L. Jefferson, A New Ride to Khiva (New York: New Amsterdam Book Co., 1900), pp. 32-43.29. E. H. Derby, Two Months Abroad (Boston: Redding & Co., 1844), pp. 20-32, 34-36.30. Samuel Laing, Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy, and Other Parts of Europe, Second ed. (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1846), pp. 165-169. 31. Nathaniel Parker Willis, Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure (New York: Baker and Scribner, 1849), pp. 288-289.32. Mark Twain, A Tramp Abroad (Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, 1899), pp. 24, 103, 547-549.33. Peter Rosegger, The Light Eternal [The Eternal Light] (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1907), pp. 246-248.34. Adolf Friedrich (Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin), From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile, 2 vols. (London: Duckworth & Co., 1913), I, pp. 3-10, II, pp. 196-198.35. A. D. C. Russell, ‘The Bagdad Railway’, Quarterly Review 235, 1921, 307-315. Part 4: Italia, España, Lusitania: Railways in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Colonies36. William J. L. Maxwell, Letters of an Engineer while on Service in Syria in Connection with the Proposed Euphrates Valley Railway and the Beyrout Waterworks (London: Marcus Ward & Co., [1886]), pp. 5-10.37. Lina Duff Gordon (Lady Duff Gordon, Caroline Lucie Duff Gordon, Mrs. Aubrey Waterfield), Home Life in Italy: Letters from the Apennines, Second ed. (London: Metheun, 1909), pp. 12-14, 147-151, 174-175, 181-182.38. Edmondo de Amicis. Spain and the Spaniards (New York: Putnam, 1885), pp. 277-278. 39. Henry N. Shore, Three Pleasant Springs in Portugal (London: S. Low, Marston & Company, 1899), pp. 307-314.40. James Johnston, Reality versus Romance in South Central Africa (New York: F. H. Revell Company, 1893), pp. 32-35.Part 5: Iron Roads to the Iron Mountains of Scandinavia: Railways in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark41. Edwin Coolidge Kimball, Midnight Sunbeams, or, Bits of Travel through the Land of the Norseman (Boston: Cupples and Hurd, 1888), pp. 78-86.42. William Eleroy Curtis, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (Akron, Ohio: The Saalfield Publishing Co., 1903), pp. 118-124, 127-128.43. Francis E. Clark and Sydney A. Clark, The Charm of Scandinavia (Boston: Little, Brown, 1914), pp. 153-156.44. Theóphile Gautier, A Winter in Russia Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 22-24.45. Finland Johnson Sherrick. Letters of Travel (N.p.: N.p., 1905), pp. 79-82. Part 6: Railways among the Ruins: Greece, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), Czechoslovakia, and Serbia46. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1875), pp. 417-418. 47. Mrs. Brassey, Sunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1880), pp. 354-357, 362-364.48. Olive Gilbreath, ‘Men of Bohemia’, Harper’s Magazine 138, 1918-1919, 251-254.49. Mary Heaton Vorse, ‘Milorad’, Harper’s Magazine 140, 1919-1920, 256-262.Part 7: Russian Prologues, Dialogues, Travelogues50. Theóphile Gautier, A Winter in Russia, Trans. M. M. Ripley (New York: H. Holt and Company, 1874), pp. 236-242. 51. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Trans. Nathan Haskell Dole (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1886), pp. 721-725. 52. The photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944), Prokudin-Gorskii Collection. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Washington D.C.CaptionsFigure 1. Steam Engine with Prokudin-Gorskii carriage in background. 1910.Figure 2. On the handcar outside Petrozavodsk on the Murmansk railway. 1915.Figure 3. Uneven tracks near the Ladva Station on Murmansk railway. 1915.Figure 4. Bashkir Switchman. 1910.Figure 5. Peasant Girls of the Russian Empire. 1909. Figure 6. Bashkir woman in a folk costume. 1910.Figure 7. Catholic Armenian Women in customary dress. 1905-1915. Figure 8. Georgian women in holiday attire in the park of Borzhom. 1905-1915.53. Maurice Baring, Russian Essays and Stories, Second Ed. (London: Methuen, 1909), pp. 1-24, 52-55, 63-70.Part 8: Strategic Russian Railways, Resources, and Representations54. George Dobson, Russia’s Railway Advance into Central Asia; Notes of a Journey from St. Petersburg to Samarkand (London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1890), pp. 71-73, 102-104, 109-113, 125-132, 139-144.55. C. E. Biddulph, Four Months in Persia and a Visit to Trans-Caspia (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1892), pp. 112-117. 56. Sir Henry Norman, All the Russias: Travels and Studies in Contemporary Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1903), pp. 231-235, 237.Part 9: Test of the Russian Will: The Trans-Siberian Railway57. Robert L. Jefferson, Roughing it in Siberia (London: S. Low, Marston & Co., 1897), pp. 1-11. 58. James Young Simpson, Side-lights on Siberia; Some Account of the Great Siberian Railroad, the Prisons and Exile System (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1898), pp. 147-149.59. Isabella L. Bird, Korea and Her Neighbors: A Narrative of Travel, with an Account of the Recent Vicissitudes and Present Position of the Country (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1898), pp. 239-244.60. Annette M. B. Meakin, A Ribbon of Iron (Westminster: A. Constable, 1901), pp. 21-25, 110-118, 156-159, 166-172, 273-277.61. Leo Deutsch, Sixteen Years in Siberia (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905), pp. 140-144, 324-327. 62. Lindon Bates Jr., The Russian Road to China (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910), pp. 71-74.63. Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 231-234.Part 10: The Iron Road Meets the Silk Road: Railways in Japan and China64. Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry Comp. Francis L. Hawks, (New York: D. Appleton, 1856), pp. 414-418. 65. Lilias Dunlop Finlay Swainson, Letters from China & Japan (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1875), pp. 177-178, 181-183, 194-196.66. Isabella Bird, Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. An Account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior, 2 vols. (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1880), pp. 26-32.67. E. G. Holtham, Eight Years in Japan, 1873-1881. Work, Travel and Recreation (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883), pp. 6-11, 101-112, 122-131, 211-213, 216-217, 247-249, 253-254. 68. W. S. Caine, A Trip Round the World in 1887-8 (London: G. Routledge & Sons, 1888), pp. 159-164. 69. Lafcadio Hearn, Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899), pp. 275-279. 70. Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Letters from Japan (New Edition. New York: Macmillan Co., 1904), pp. 43-45, 326-328, 331.71. Marie C. Stopes, A Journal from Japan. A Daily Record of Life as Seen by a Scientist (London: Blackie, 1910), pp. 46, 105-106.72. Baroness Albert d’Anethan (Eleanora Mary Anethan), Fourteen Years of a Diplomatic Life in Japan (London: S. Paul & Co., [1912]), pp. 358-359. 73. Frank E. Younghusband, The Heart of a Continent (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1896), pp. 50-52. 74. John Foster Fraser, The Real Siberia (London: Cassell, 1902), pp. 220-230.75. R. Logan Jack, The Back Blocks of China (London: E. Arnold, 1904), pp. 89-93.76. Richardson L. Wright and Bassett Digby, Through Siberia: An Empire in the Making (New York: McBride, Nast & Company, 1913), pp. 203-208.77. Sir Alexander Hosie, On the Trail of the Opium Poppy, 2 vols. (London: G. Philip & Son, 1914), I, pp. 3-4, 165-167, 169-172, II, pp. 82-84.78. C. E. Bechhofer, A Wanderer’s Log (London: Mills & Boon, 1922), pp. 91-93.

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Book SynopsisA chronicle of the Civil War era in one of Alabama's least studied regions. Deep in the Piney Woods offers a comprehensive account of a historically rich region of the state, challenging many commonly held assumptions about the area's formation and settlement, economy, politics, race relations, and role in secession and the Civil War.Trade ReviewOlder views of the Piney Woods held that the region only half-heartedly supported secession and, once the war began, was characterized by a less than enthusiastic participation on the battlefield, as well as the home front. Brown uses a wealth of primary documentation to make the point that this region demonstrated its loyalty to the cause by, among other things, raising and equipping numerous companies, thereby showing as much enthusiasm as other parts of the state."" - Lonnie A. Burnett, author of The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the “Mobile Register” and Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist: Selected Essays on Revolution, Recognition, and Race""An outstanding contribution to Alabama history, and a long overdue chronicle of a too-often overlooked region, perhaps painting one of the most complete portraits of any region in the state during the war era."" - Mike Bunn, author of Civil War EufaulaTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction 1. “The Wilderness is All Before You”: Settlement 2. “Of All the Hardy Sons of Toil”: Class and Race in the Piney Woods 3. “Let the Union Stand”: Piney Woods Politics, 1819–1845 4. “Disruption of the Ties Which Bind Us Together”: The Politics of Secession, 1845–1861 5. “From the Lights Before Us I Think War is Close at Hand”: The War Begins 6. “I Have No One to Assist Mee on Earth”: The Piney Woods War, 1862 7. “I Feel Like We Are Almost Ruined”: The War Takes Its Toll, 1863–1865 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTells the remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears. The book explores the complexities of race and gender in this region of the antebellum South and the real impacts of racism on the community.Trade ReviewTheir Determination to Remain is a wonderful book. Lance Greene unearths stories from soil and archives alike to craft a vivid and humane Cherokee history. The writing is clear and concrete, bringing characters to life in a cacophony that reverberates across the hills and valleys of the Great Smoky mountains. We have much to learn not just from Greene’s narrative but also from the methods by which he creates it." - Elizabeth Fenn, author of Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People"Lance Greene adeptly weaves together historical and archaeological evidence in this insightful study of survivance in Cherokee town areas of southwestern North Carolina during and after the tumultuous and tragic episodes of the Removal era. Aspects of Cherokee landscape and lifeways and the social fabric of towns enabled communities of Native Americans, African Americans, and Anglo Americans to endure. Connections between people, place, and the past persisted, and this history shapes the Cherokee towns present in the area today. Recommended reading for anybody interested in Indigenous studies, archaeology in the southern Appalachians, and the history and culture of the American South." - Christopher B. Rodning, author of Center Places and Cherokee Towns: Archaeological Perspectives on Native American Architecture and Landscape in the Southern Appalachians"Greene reveals a remarkably complex and thoroughly unexpected story of successful Cherokee resistance to the US Indian Removal policy, followed by the resurgence of Cherokee community in the aftermath of the Trail of Tears. At the center of these efforts was the enigmatic Welch family of southwestern North Carolina, a well-informed and well-connected Anglo-Cherokee household that applied nuanced legal strategies and extralegal maneuvers to shield themselves and their community from deportation. Their story weaves complicated intersections of race, gender, class, and ethnicity as they bridged the divides between the indigenous and white worlds. Greene’s archaeological examinations of the Welch family plantation bring material immediacy to that intersectionality and the family’s struggles to create and maintain their distinctive identity in the antebellum mountain South." - Brett Riggs, author of May We All Remember Well: A Journal of the History Cultures of Western North Carolina"In Their Determination to Remain, Lance Greene tells the fascinating, but heretofore little-known story of the Cherokee Welch family, slaveholding planters who resisted removal in the 1830s and helped to establish a new Cherokee community in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina after the Trail of Tears. Combining archaeology with meticulous archival research, Greene explores the methods used by Cherokee people to rebuild their lives in the wake of removal, while tracing relationships among the Welches, their enslaved African American workers, and the culturally traditional Cherokee community that shared the family's land. Microhistory at its best, the book represents a significant contribution to the literature on Cherokee and southern Appalachian history, as well as studies of slavery in Indian country." - Andrew Denson, author of Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory"Greene's study of the Welch family and Welch’s Town is unique, Their Determination to Remain will contribute to the larger body of scholarship on Cherokees, Indian Removal, community studies, and family history. The latter, in particular, has been growing in popularity and offers opportunities for cross-over interest by general readers as well as academic/student readers." - Rose Stremlau, author of Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

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Book SynopsisPresents forty-seven early houses of worship from all areas of Georgia. Nearly three hundred stunning colour photographs capture the simple elegance of these sanctuaries and their surrounding grounds and cemeteries.

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Book SynopsisA timely and original short biography reintroducing Fanon for a new generation of readers. Written with clarity and passion, Christopher J. Lee’s account argues for the pragmatic idealism of Frantz Fanon and his continued importance today.Trade Review“Lee’s marvelous and careful biographical study is now the go-to book for those seeking to understand Frantz Fanon in his historical and intellectual context. It is, simply put, synthesis and analysis at their best.”“This book provides the reader with an invaluable guide to Fanon’s life and an accessible gateway to those interested in further exploring the intellectual worlds in which he developed his thinking..” * Africa at LSE *“Christopher Lee has written a delightfully compelling introduction to Frantz Fanon. Well-researched and thoroughly grounded, Lee’s study admirably situates Fanon in the broadest historical context, while subtly explaining Fanon’s powerful legacy today. This book taught me many things, revealing in intriguing ways the works of a black thinker from Martinique who so passionately embraced the Algerian Revolution, and so ardently desired to be embraced by it.”“In Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism, Christopher J. Lee takes on the task of introducing a complex thinker in a short tract…. [He] provides a whirlwind tour of Fanon’s life, ideas and context…. Lee’s reading of Fanon provides a much needed nuance that is often missing when dealing with Fanon.” * Marx and Philosophy *“This smart and much-needed study persuasively resituates the life and thought of Fanon for a twenty-first-century audience.”

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Book SynopsisAnalyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.Trade Review“Raw Material adds much to the existing literature on the Victorians. With its enlightening case studies and its author’s solid understanding of the state of medical art in the latter half of the nineteenth century, this is a first-rate piece of work.”—Sander L. Gilman, author of Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery“Industry makes it possible to understand the Victorian body, according to Erin O'Connor, as so much raw material. O'Connor's mind is a pleasure to watch at work and Raw Material will make a significant contribution to Victorian studies, to work on the body, and to cultural studies.”—Mary Ann O'Farrell, author of Telling Complexions: The Nineteenth-Century English Novel and the Blush“The body in distress and deformation—black from cholera, excrescent from breast cancer, monstrous, and repaired through prosthesis—offers a prism through which O’Connor refracts the crisis of the self in the world’s first industrial society. This is a complex, empirically rich, reflective and vigorously argued book that will be welcomed by literary critics, by historians of the body and of the nineteenth century, and by anyone engaged with cultural theory.”—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex : Body and Gender from the Greeks to FreudTable of ContentsList of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 ONE/ Asiatic Cholera and the Raw Material of Race 21 TWO/ Breast Reductions 60 THREE/ Fractions of Men: Engendering Amputation 102 FOUR/ Monsters. Materials, Methods 148 AFTERWORD/ The Promises of Monsters, or, A Manifesto for Academic Futures 209 Notes 219 Works Cited 251 Index 267

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Book SynopsisContinually Working tells the stories of Black working women who resisted employment inequality in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the 1940s to the 1970s. The book explores the job-related activism of Black Midwestern working women and uncovers the political and intellectual strategies they used to critique and resist employment discrimination, dismantle unjust structures, and transform their lives and the lives of those in their community. Moten emphasizes the ways in which Black women transformed the urban landscape by simultaneously occupying spaces from which they had been historically excluded and creating their own spaces. Black women refused to be marginalized within the historically white and middle-class Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association (MYWCA), an association whose mission centered on supporting women in urban areas. Black women forged interracial relationships within this organization and made it, not without much conflict and struggle, one of the most socially prTable of Contents Acknowledgments Prologue Introduction 1. "More than a Job": Black Women's Midcentury Struggles at the Milwaukee Young Women's Christian Association 2. "A Credit to Our City as well as Our State": Black Beauticians' Professionalization, Progress, and Organization in Milwaukee, 1940s and 1950s 3. Working Toward a Remedy: Exposing the Experiences of Black Women during the Civil Rights Era 4. "What the Mothers Have to Say": Welfare Rights Activism in 1970s Milwaukee 5. "No Longer Marching": Dismantling the Jim Crow Jobs System in a Post-Civil Rights Era Epilogue Bibliography Notes Index

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