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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Late
Book SynopsisFirst large-scale study of widespread saint's cult reveals valuable detail of medieval life.The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria enjoyed great popularity throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, retaining a wide appeal right up to the Reformation; she appears in a wide variety of contexts, in association withconcepts of royal and civic power, by the end of the period becoming identified as a British saint, and acting as a model of the ideal lay Christian and a paradigm of femininity and young womanhood. This study, the first full-scale interdisciplinary examination of a saint's cult in late medieval England, looks at the processes by which she came to have such a prominent place in the devotions of English men and women from across the wide social scale; using written and visual narratives of Katherine's life, in combination with documentary evidence provided by wills, inventories and gild returns, the author shows how devotees perceived and responded to her, and the various religious, social and cultural roles assigned to her. Dr KATHERINE J. LEWIS teaches at the University of Huddersfield.Trade ReviewThis fine study should be commended to students of church history and medieval literature. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY *A most useful overview of the interactive raltionship between the cult of St Katherine and the social context of late-medieval England... brings together a wealth of material from sources that are too often overlooked or segregated by discipline. * SPECULUM *The first full-length study of an individual saint cult in late medieval England... Demonstrat[es] the wide popularity of St Katherine, leaving little doubt that this was one of the most important saint cults in late medieval England. * ALBION *Table of ContentsPreface - the life of St Katherine; the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in late medieval England - an introduction; St Katherine as virgin martyr; reading St Katherine in the parish - the aquisition of knowledge and power; reading St Katherine in the household - education, household managers and the pursuit of the Mixed Life; St Katherine and women.
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Boydell Press The Sacred Isle Belief and Religion in
Book SynopsisThe first modern study of prehistoric religion in Ireland to draw on the combined evidence of archaeology, literature and folklore to illuminate practice and belief from the earliest human habitation in the island down to the advent of Christianity in the fifth century AD. An excellent book... a highly accessible and lively assessment of continuity and change in belief and religion from pre-Celtic times through to the arrival of St Patrick. ...Afine book and to be recommended to a wide readership, especially to all those who think that Irish history started in 1601. IRISH STUDIES REVIEW DAITHI O HOGAIN was Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin.Table of ContentsPre-Celtic cultures; basic tenets in the Iron Age; the Druids and their practices; the teachings of the Druids; the society of the gods; the rites of sovereignty; the triumph of Christianity.
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University of Manitoba Press Nitinikiau Innusi I Keep the Land Alive
Book SynopsisLabrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. This book began as a diary written in Innu-aimun, in which Tshaukuesh recorded day-to-day experiences as well as speeches, court appearances, and interviews with reporters.Table of Contents PrologueEditor's Introduction Part 1: 1987-1990 Part 2: 1991-1997 Part 3: 1998-2001 Part 4: 2002-2016 Epilogue
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Heron Books Glossary and Notes The Hobbit
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Heron Books Glossary and Notes Inherit the Wind
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Heron Books Glossary and Notes The Autobiography of Benjamin
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd The Zulu War Then and Now After the Battle S
Book SynopsisThis work is one of the most widley known military campaigns of the Victorian era. It contains graphic eyewitness accounts from both sides and additional chapters cover what remains to be seen today, in museums, the battlefields, and the lonely graves of the fallen.
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Bloomsbury Academic Monarchy Magnates and Institutions in the
Book SynopsisThe study of Anglo-Norman history has been greatly enhanced in recent years by seeing the political context of the day not as a static feudal network, but as a changing pattern of personal and political allegiance, in which the careful control of reward and punishment by the monarch to ensure loyalty was of prime importance in ensuring the stability of the crown. Few historians have done more to show the working of this system than Warren Hollister. Monarchy, Magnates and Instututions in the Anglo-Norman World brings together a collection of his work pubished since 1968 and makes available a coherent and clear view of the major features of the period. Professor Hollister shows how the threat of civil war after the death of William the Conqueror dominated political loyalties until the battle of Tinchebray (1106), and the skill of Henry I in ensuring the support of the magnates both before and after the defeat of Roberrt of Normandy; the careers of three magnates, Robert Malet, William o
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Parrot House The Lucayan Tano First People of the Bahamas
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Sylph Maid Books Children of Death
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Cambridge University Press Altered Earth
Book SynopsisAltered Earth aims to get the Anthropocene right in three senses. With essays by leading scientists, it highlights the growing consensus that our planet entered a dangerous new state in the mid-twentieth century. Second, it gets the Anthropocene right in human terms, bringing together a range of leading authors to explore, in fiction and non-fiction, our deep past, global conquest, inequality, nuclear disasters, and space travel. Finally, this landmark collection presents what hope might look like in this seemingly hopeless situation, proposing new political forms and mutualistic cities. ''Right'' in this book means being as accurate as possible in describing the physical phenomenon of the Anthropocene; as balanced as possible in weighing the complex human developments, some willed and some unintended, that led to this predicament; and as just as possible in envisioning potential futures.Trade Review'We all remember hearing the term the 'Anthropocene' for the first time, and the way it suddenly catalyzed fresh conversation between human and physical scientists. Julia Adeney Thomas and her distinguished colleagues rightly call us all on matters of accuracy as well as analysis. The stakes are too high not to get the Anthropocene right: we have a better chance of doing so in the light of this landmark book.' Alison Bashford, Laureate Centre for History & Population, UNSW, Sydney'This book is a welcome intervention in the Anthropocene discourse, one that takes the science seriously while also positing the multiplicity of visions, voices, and approaches in the humanities as essential to understanding the profound predicament of ongoing planetary destabilization.' Meehan Crist, writer in residence in Biological Sciences, Columbia University'Altered Earth is a dazzling epistemological experiment that weaves creative genres with the natural and human sciences to illuminate our collective planetary predicament. I have rarely encountered a more sensitively choreographed account of the empirical, cultural, socio-political, and moral challenges posed by the Anthropocene. A tour de force that jolts us even as it resists a foreclosed future for planet earth.' Debjani Ganguly, University of Virginia'Getting the Anthropocene 'right' means taking seriously the diverse voices rippling outwards from the challenge of stratigraphic and Earth System science, to prioritize a planetary perspective. This brilliant volume tells many stories about what this could look like, incorporating work that bridges divisions between the physical sciences, history, politics, and literature, but which does not artificially flatten out their differences. The result is both experimental, and engaging.' Duncan Kelly, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface Dipesh Chakrabarty; Introduction: The growing anthropocene consensus Julia Adeney Thomas; Part I. Strata and Stories: 1. Science: Old and new patterns of the anthropocene Jan Zalasiewicz; 2. Humanities and social sciences: Human stories and the anthropocene earth system Julia Adeney Thomas; Part II. One Anthropocene: Many Stories: 3. Earth system science: Gravity, the earth system and the anthropocene Will Steffen; 4. Deep History and disease: Germs and humanity's rise to planetary dominance Kyle Harper; 5. Anthropology: Colonialism, indigeneity, and wind power in the anthropocene Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer; 6. The ascent of the anthropoi: a story Amitav Ghosh; 7. Politics in the anthropocene Manuel Arias-Maldonado; 8. Very recent history and the nuclear anthropocene Kate Brown; 9. Stratigraphy: Finding global markers in a small Canadian lake Francine McCarthy; 10. Curating the anthropocene at Berlin's house of world culture Bernd Scherer; Part III. Future Habitations: 11. Anthropocene ethics, as seen from a Mars mission: a story Clive Hamilton; 12. Mutualistic cities of the near future Mark Williams, Julia Adeney Thomas, Gavin Brown, Minal Pathak, Moya Burns, Will Steffen, John Clarkson and Jan Zalasiewicz; Afterword: Jürgen Renn and Christoph Rosol.
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Cambridge University Press Ethiopia and the World 3301500 CE
Book SynopsisThis Cambridge Element offers an interdisciplinary introduction to the histories of the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands from late antiquity to the late medieval period, updating traditional Western academic perspectives.
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Cambridge University Press Empire of Influence
Book SynopsisAn important new account of how the East India Company established a transregional system of indirect rule in India in the early nineteenth century. Callie Wilkinson argues that the formation of the Company's empire of influence is a story of debate, resistance and uncertainty.Trade Review'Based on extensive research in British and Indian archives, Callie Wilkinson's Empire of Influence adds vital new dimensions to our understanding of the development, under the East India Company's aegis, of concepts and practices of British paramount power on the subcontinent. Her analysis of how the balance of power within the subsidiary alliance system shifted decisively toward the British in the early nineteenth century recognises the agency and strategic nous of both Indian and Company agents, powerfully revealing the political and diplomatic processes by which both aspirations to rule and claims to legitimacy were contested, negotiated, won and lost. A must-read title for historians of the Company, the Uprising of 1857–58 and Crown rule in India.' Margot C. Finn, FBA FRHistS, Professor of Modern British History, University College London'A valuable contribution to our understanding of British rule.' Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Note on Translation and Transliteration; Chronology; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; 1. A Time of Trouble; 2. Negotiating the disinformation order; 3. Warfare and 'wanton provocations'; 4. The price of pageantry; 5. Weak ties in a tangled web; 6. Kinship, gender, and dynastic dramas; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Heroes to Hostages
Book SynopsisIt is easy to forget, given the oppositional dynamic between Iran and the United States of the last 50 years, that these two countries once shared productive partnership. Tracing US-Iran relations over two turbulent centuries, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet considers when and how this relationship went awry. With careful attention to social and cultural as well as diplomatic developments, Kashani-Sabet shows that the rift did not originate in flashpoints of crisis, like the 1953 coup or the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but was instead long in the making. Drawing from a wealth of English and Persian-language sources, many of which were previously unavailable or unacknowledged, this book considers the relationship from the vantage point of Iranian society and the experiences of an evolving Iran that strived to accommodate American and great power politics. Following these two nations through wars, decolonization, and revolution, Kashani-Sabet presents an invaluable history of a diplomatic rivalry thTrade Review'Professor Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet analyses and historicises the broken bridges within the US-Iranian relationship. She weaves a story that is both personal and political, rich in detail and insight that is placed within a broader Middle Eastern scope. The book challenges stereotypes of Iran and Islam, moves away from simplistic explanations for the present, and holds governments and leaders on both sides accountable. She restores humanity in history and seeks common ground from which some mutual understanding can emerge.' Rowena Abdul Razak, London School of Economics'A fascinating account of a vital relationship. Kashani-Sabet's penetrating and balanced analysis of the US-Iran relationship over the last two centuries illuminates and contextualises a relationship which is far more complex, nuanced and interesting than the current political mythology would have us believe.' Ali Ansari, University of St Andrews'Based on meticulous research, this book is a panoramic, authoritative, and richly detailed account of the U.S.-Iran relationship over the past two centuries. It pays careful attention to the changing cultural, societal, and political conditions that shaped each side's narratives of its own, and the other's, stance and interests at every stage in the course of this fraught relationship.' Ali Banuazizi, Boston College'This is a brilliant account of a surprisingly neglected topic: the history of Iran's long and troubled relationship with the USA. A work of original and scrupulous scholarship, it will certainly become a classic in the field while its elegant writing style makes it accessible to the general reader as well as the specialist.' Stephanie Cronin, University of Oxford'This is a fascinating, deeply-researched cultural history of American-Iranian relations. Based on an impressive range of sources, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet skillfully traces cultural encounters and mutual perceptions and provides a profound insight into the last two hundred years of Iran's history.' Bianca Devos, Philipps University Marburg'The roots of U.S.-Iranian relations go back further than the hostage crisis of 1979–1981. They go back farther than the U.S.-led coup of 1953. Professor Kashani-Sabet, an eminent historian of Iran, traces U.S.-Iranian relations - governmental and non-governmental - back to the nineteenth century, including longstanding cultural exchanges that offer a path beyond current hostilities.' Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'The Iranian revolution of 1979 with its iconic anti-American slogans and the subsequent hostage crisis inaugurated a period of hostility between Iran and the US that has occluded a history of engagement and cooperation between the two nations dating back to the nineteenth Century. This book is an invaluable reminder of that rich history.' Nasrin Rahimieh, University of California, Irvine'This book brings Iran to the centre stage of world politics, explaining how Western economic and military power was built on a predatory relation to Iran's national body, geography, and resources, and how, in spite of it, Iran protected its independent agency. An authentic global history of Iran-US relations.' Paola Rivetti, Dublin City UniversityTable of ContentsPreface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part I. Uncertain Overtures (1796-1914): 1. Pluralist Persia: a land of many religions; 2. The portals of Persepolis: Persian antiquity and American curiosity; 3. A martyr and many masters: America and Iranian constitutionalism; Part II. Desultory Mordernities (1914-1941): 4. Iran in transition: war, famine, and recovery, 1914-1925; 5. Flirting with secular modernity: America and social change in Iran, 1925-1939; 6. Investing in Iran: frontiers and foreign competition, 1925-1939; Part III. Cataclysms (1941-1963): 7. Unwelcome visitors: the occupation of Iran during World War II; 8. Subverting sovereignty: the politics of oil; 9. Roots of revenge: cultural flux and specters of violence; Part IV. A Troubled Middle East (1960-1979): 10. The anti-Aryan moment: decolonization, race, and human rights; 11. A political minefield: Iran between Israel and pan-Arabism; 12. The Shah's fight for hegemony: from the Persian Gulf to the Vietnam war; Part V. The Schism (1978-1988): 13. The picketers come of age: from civil disobedience to armed protest; 14. Burning bridges: revolution and the rift in US-Iranian relations; 15. Neither heroes nor hostages.
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Cambridge University Press The Anticolonial Transnational
Book SynopsisThe first volume to explore transnational anticolonialism as a global phenomenon spanning the entire twentieth century.Leading scholars demonstrate that anticolonial movements everywhere in this period were invariably transnational in terms of their imaginaries, mobilities, and networks, and that their legacies fundamentally shaped the present.Trade Review'The transnational history of anticolonialism has long been assumed, but now there can be no doubt. This collection tracks the recurrent relays between nationalist ambitions and transnational networks, and imaginaries. In doing so, it underscores the irrepressible, disruptive mobility of empire's critics, and of its enemies, across the long twentieth century.' Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign'The Anticolonial Transnational provides a comprehensive map of intellectual and political challenges to empire that looked far beyond the nation-state. “Ranging around the world and across the twentieth century, exploring revolutionaries and Rotarians, the book is an excellent introduction to crucial currents of anti-imperialism as they flowed between continents and empires.' David C. Engerman, Yale University, Connecticut'The excitement of this book is not least the brilliant young scholars who feature. Exploiting the capaciousness of The Anticolonial Transnational they remind us of the fundamental historical importance of the international past.' Glenda Sluga, European University Institute, FlorenceTable of Contents1. Introduction Erez Manela and Heather Streets-Salter; PART I. The Many Anticolonial Transnationals: 2. Philippine Asianist thought and pan-asianist action at the turn of the twentieth century Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz; 3. All empires must fall: international proletarian revolution and the anti-colonial cause in British India Zaib un Nisa Aziz; 4. Indoamerica against empire: radical transnational politics in Mexico city, 1925-29 Tony Wood; 5. Carlos romulo, rotary internationalism, and anticolonialism on the right Mark Reeves; PART II. Solidarities and Their Discontents: 6. From wife to comrade: Agnes smedley and the intimacies of anticolonial solidarity Michele Louro; 7. Cheikh Anta Diop's Recovery of Egypt: African History as Anticolonial Practice Sarah C. Dunstan; 8. Anticolonial petitions and platforms for South-South solidarities Cindy Ewing; 9. African nationalism, colonial afterlives, and the development of China-Tanzanian relations, 1960-1966 Ruodi Duan; Part III. Anticolonialism in a Postcolonial Age: 10. The unexpected anticolonialist: Winifred armstrong, American empire, and African decolonization Lydia Walker; 11. Beyond the NIEO: the rise of self-reliance as an alternative vision of postcolonial development Vivien Chang; 12. The quest for indigenous chamorro self-determination in the age of pacific anticolonialism Kristin Oberiano; 13. Poor People & Governors: reggae, sound systems, and decolonization in Bermuda Quito Swan; 14. Epilogue: the national and the colonial in the anticolonial transnational Michael Goebel.
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Cambridge University Press Making Global Society
Book SynopsisBarry Buzan combines the abstract approach of social science with the narrative approach of historians to convey a living sense of the human story across three eras. His detailed assessment of the material conditions and social structures of humankind transcend Eurocentrism and open the way to understanding global society.Table of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Laying the Foundations for a Global Society: 2. Pre-prelude – the hunter-gatherer era; 3. Prelude – the era of conglomerate agrarian/pastoralist empires 2310BC to 1800AD; Part II. The Transition to Modernity and the Making of Global Society: 4. Material conditions; 5a. Social structure I – CAPE instructions carried forward into the transition; 5b. Social structure II – institutions new with the transition; 6. Where are we within the transition from CAPE to modernity; Part III. Deep Pluralism: More Transition or Modernity Proper?: 7. Material conditions; 8. Social structure; Part IV. Conclusions: 9. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Selling French Sex
Book SynopsisSelling French Sex challenges contemporary understandings of trafficking by exploring the discourses and experiences surrounding the migration of French women for work in the early-twentieth-century sex industry. It will interest students and scholars of French, immigration, women's and gender, and world history.Trade Review'With a cast of colorful characters - pimps, prostitutes, policemen, consular officials, and more - moving from Paris and other French cities to Havana, Buenos Aires, and throughout the Americas, Elisa Camiscioli links theories of embodiment and melodramas of trafficking to the experiences of women who sought adventure and livelihood by selling sex. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically innovative, this book reconceptualizes the history of prostitution through the history of migration and immigration control to trouble the boundaries between agency and coercion, public and private, work and leisure. A major achievement!' Eileen Boris, author of Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919–2019'Elisa Camiscioli's impressive book is both an essential contribution to French history and a necessary reference in the global history of migration and sex trafficking in the twentieth century. Demonstrating clearly that the simple alternatives of 'coercion' and 'agency' cannot fully encompass the lives of trafficked women, Camiscioli's book provides a nuanced and humane account of a disturbing and often hidden subject.' Joshua Cole, University of Michigan'A groundbreaking work. Elisa Camiscioli brilliantly imbeds the history of twentieth-century French sex trafficking within the global history of migration, bringing a fresh perspective to both phenomena. Her analysis of the term 'white slavery' gives us novel insights into the links between sex and race. Lucidly written and impressively researched, Camiscioli has given us a vibrant transnational history of immigration, women, sexuality, and France.' Mary Louise Roberts, author of What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France'Camiscioli constructs an intimate history of marginalized young French female migrants under surveillance as victims of 'trafficking.' She shrewdly resists assessing their experience according to the stark dichotomies of coercion and consent. Instead, her protagonists appear as vulnerable, yet resourceful migrants driven by economic precarity and propelled by aspirations to upward mobility. This is a deeply researched, brilliantly crafted and 'human scale' study.' Judith R. Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures; Acknowledgements; Terminology; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The French Paradigm: Reconciling Individual Liberty and Sexual Slavery; 2. Desiring Undesirable Women: Fantasies of French Vice in the United States and Cuba; 3. Coercion and Choice: The Road to Buenos Aires; 4. The Gender of Identity Documents: Passports, Forgeries, and Fraud; 5. Rejecting Honest Work: Pimps, Apaches, and Other Undesirable Men; 6. Reputation and Repatriation: The Road Back to France; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Medicine on a Larger Scale
Book SynopsisIn a world of growing health inequity and ecological injustice, how do we revitalize medicine and public health to tackle new problems? This ground-breaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community initiatives, grassroots movements and an array of revolutionary sensibilities. This truly global history offers a more usable past to imagine a new politics of social medicine for medical professionals and healthcare workers worldwide. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press World Cities in History
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Cambridge University Press Intellectual PostFascism
Book SynopsisThis Element analyses the ideological development of post-fascism, focusing on the intellectual contribution of four major national conservatives. An excellent resource for political scientists focusing on the political theory of fascism and national populism.
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Cambridge University Press East Asia and the Modern International Order
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