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Palgrave MacMillan UK St Petersburg and the Russian Court 17031761
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century.Trade Review“Keenan does a fine job of giving us a sense of the period’s byt’, Russian for ‘everyday life’. … excellent and novel feature of the book is Keenan’s frequent comparison of St Petersburg to other contemporary European cities such as London, Vienna and Paris. … Keenan’s book offers a much better sense of what was typical and exceptional in St Petersburg in the eighteenth century than has previously been available.” (Simon Werrett, History, Vol. 100 (341), July, 2015)"Like his mentor Lindsey Hughes's work, Keenan's book is clear, authoritative and lively. It is therefore a worthy monument to her memory." - G. M. Hamburg, Slavonic & East European Review"In St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703-1761, Paul Keenan offers a comprehensive and succinct analysis of the city ... Its value to scholars of eighteenth-century Russia goes without saying." - Colum Leckey, Canadian Slavonic PapersTable of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Location: Situating the City 2. Regulation: Policing the City's Inhabitants 3. Organisation: The Court and its Celebrations 4. Interaction: The City's Social Life 5. Instruction: Fashioning an Audience Conclusion Bibliography Key to Maps
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Transnational Turkish Islam
Book SynopsisTransnational Turkish Islam provides an overview of Turkish organized Islam in seven European countries. It shows how Turkish Islamic organizations have developed from typical migrant associations in the 1970s and 1980s into present-day European Islamic associations with their own cultural and religious specificities and agendas.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Islam and Politics in Turkey 2. Turkish Organized Islam in Europe 3. Diyanet 4. Süleymanl?s 5. Milli Görü? 6. Gülen-movement (Hizmet) 7. Alevis 8. Other Movements and Organizations Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poor in Western Europe in the Eighteenth and
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1986, this book examines poverty and changing attitudes towards the poor and charity across England, France and Italy. It discusses the causes of poverty and the distinctions between the poor and the class-conscious proletariat. Taking early nineteenth-century Italy as a special study, it uses the exceptionally rich documentary sources from this time to examine such issues as charity, repression, the reasons why families suffered poverty and what strategies they adopted for survival. In this study, Stuart Woolf takes full account of recent work in historical demography and in sociological studies of poverty and the welfare state to produce this original and thoughtful work.This book will be of interest to those studying the history of poverty, class and the welfare state. Table of ContentsNote; 1. Introduction: the poor and society in western Europe 2. The poor, proto-industrialization and the working class: Italy (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) 3. The treatment of the poor in Napoleonic Tuscany, 1808-14 4. The reliability of Napoleonic statistics: the ‘List of the poor and beggars in each commune’ in the department of Arno, 1812 5. Problems in the history of pauperism in Itally, 1800-15 6. Language and social reality: job-skills in Florence in the early nineteenth century 7. Charity, poverty and household structure: Florence in the early nineteenth century 8. Charity and family subsistence; Bibliography; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Life and Times of Sir Edwin Chadwick
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1952, this is a full-scale and definitive account of the life and work of Sir Edwin Chadwick. Among the sources used are the Chadwick Papers, the Peel, Place, Russell and Gladstone Papers, the Home Office, Treasury and Ministry of Health papers and the minutes and documents of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. Centred on this mass of material, this book demonstrates that the great social reforms of the Victorian age should be attributed, not so much to the Cabinets, but to the labours of a handful of civil servants. It also argues that Edwin Chadwick was the most influential of these civil servants and through this illuminating biography, Professor Finer gives an account of early Victorian administration as seen from inside.This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian social reform, the history of the welfare state and social policy.Table of ContentsBook One: A Young Man and a Great Radical; Book Two: Barrister into Civil Servant; Book Three: The Domestic Fiend of Somerset House; Book Four: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Five: The People and the New Poor Law; Book Six: Andover; Book Seven: The Triumph of the Public Health Movement; Book Eight: The Cholera; Book Nine: The Struggle for London; Book Ten: The Struggle for the Provinces; Book Eleven: The Third Career of Edwin Chadwick; Illustrations
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Global Seven Years War 17541763
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of The Global Seven Years War, Daniel Baugh emphasizes the ways that sea power hindered French military preparations while also furnishing strategic opportunities. Special attention is paid to undertakings always French that failed to receive needed financial support.From analysis of original sources, the volume provides stronger evidence for the role and wishes of Louis XV in determining the main outline of strategy. By 1758, the French government experienced significant money shortage, and emphasis has been placed on the most important consequences: how this impacted war-making and why it was so worrying, debilitating and difficult to solve. This edition explains why the Battle of Rossbach in 1757 was a turning point in the Anglo-French War, suggesting that Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick's winter campaign revitalized the British war effort which was, before that time, a record of failures. With comprehensive discussion of events outside ofTrade Review‘Daniel Baugh’s book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the global dimensions of this pivotal conflict between Britain and France. Meticulously researched and based on an impressively wide range of evidence, Baugh’s engaging and accessible account charts the war across continents and oceans, offering penetrating insight and acute analysis of this global contest and its long-lasting ramifications.’ John Mcaleer, University of Southampton, UK‘Especially strong on the global dimensions of the conflict, with in-depth attention to North America, the Caribbean, the high seas, and India, Baugh narrates the campaigns lucidly and examines the strategic, diplomatic, logistical, and financial contexts that shaped the war’s course. An accessible and lively introduction to the Seven Years’ War for students, the book engages experts with arguments on key points of interpretation. This new edition provides fuller attention to the role of Louis XV and to the crucial financial dimensions of the war. The best, one-volume account of the Seven Years’ War available today.’ John Shovlin, New York University, USATable of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Statesmen and regimes 3. Origins: the contested regions, 1748-54 4. Risking war, 1754–55 5. War without declaration: North America, 1755 6. Indecision in Europe: May to December 1755 7. French triumphs, British blunders, 1756 8. France’s European war plan, 1756–57 9. The tide turns, 1758 10. The Atlantic and North America, 1758 11. The West Indies and North America, 1759 12. The British victory at sea, 1759 13. Britain conquers afar, disunity looms at home 14. The chance of peace, 1761 15. Peacemaking 1762: concessions before conquests 16. Conclusion and aftermath
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Revivals Metropolis London 1989
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1989, this book seeks to demonstrate the social and political images of late-twentieth century London the post-big-bang city, docklands, trade union defeats, a mounting north-south divide do not mark as decisive break with the past as they may appear to. It argues that the most striking thing about London's history since 1800 is the continuities and recurrences which punctuate it. The essays collected in this book focus on these themes and address important questions about class, nationality, sexual difference, and radical politics. They combine the established strengths of social history with more innovative approaches such as the history of representations.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction David Feldman and Gareth Stedman Jones; The social problem; 1 Jennings’ Buildings and the Royal Borough: The construction of the underclass in mid-Victorian England Jennifer Davis 2 The People’s Palace: An image for East London in the 1880s Deborah E.B. Weiner 3 The importance of being English: Jewish immigration and the decay of liberal England David Feldman 4 Free from chains? The image of women’s labour in London, 1900-20 Deborah Thom; Politics: visions and practices; 5 Radical clubs and London politics, 1870-1900 John Davis 6 ‘The millennium by return of post’: Reconsidering London Progressivism, 1889-1907 Susan Pennybacker 7 Popularism and proletarianism: Unemployment and Labour politics in London, 1918-34 James Gillespie 8 The suburban nation: Politics and class in Lewisham Tom Jeffery; Identities; 9 ‘Fierce questions and taunts’ Married life in working-class London, 1870-1914 Ellen Ross 10 Becoming a women in London in the 1920s and 1930s Sally Alexander 11 The ‘cockney’ and the nation, 1780-1988 Gareth Stedman Jones; Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intelligence and Espionage Secrets and Spies
Book SynopsisIntelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies provides a global introduction to the role of intelligence a key, but sometimes controversial, aspect of ensuring national security. Separating fact from fiction, the book draws on past examples to explore the use and misuse of intelligence, examine why failures take place and address important ethical issues over its use. Divided into two parts, the book adopts a thematic approach to the topic, guiding the reader through the collection and analysis of information and its use by policymakers, before looking at intelligence sharing. Lomas and Murphy also explore the important associated activities of counterintelligence and the use of covert action, to influence foreign countries and individuals. Topics covered include human and signals intelligence, the Cuban Missile Crisis, intelligence and Stalin, Trump and the US intelligence community, and the Soviet Bloc. This analysis is supplemented by a comprehensive doTrade Review'What is intelligence, and how does it relate to the image of the spy in popular culture? How does the process of gathering, analyzing, and applying it actually work? And why is the word "intelligence" so often coupled with the word "failure"? Combining incisive conceptual analysis with wide-ranging historical case studies, Intelligence and Espionage: Secrets and Spies offers a timely introduction to a relatively new and rapidly burgeoning field of contemporary scholarship.'Bruce Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz, USATable of ContentsChronologyWho’s whoPART ONE: ANALYSISIntroduction What is ‘intelligence’? Theoretical approachesGlobal intelligence: a brief historyChapter 1 Gathering intelligence: spies and signalsChapter 2 Intelligence analysisChapter 3 Intelligence and policyChapter 4 Intelligence liaisonChapter 5 Catching spies: counterintelligenceChapter 6 The ‘hidden hand’: covert actionAssessmentPART TWO: DOCUMENTS
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Restoration and History
Book SynopsisOnce a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or simply create them? How does the past shed light on our environmental efforts, and how does the present influence our environmental goals? Can we predict the future of restoration?This book explores how a consideration of time and history can improve the practice of restoration. There is a past of restoration, as well as past assumptions about restoration, and such assumptions have political and social implications. Governments around the world are willing to spend billions on restoration projects in the Everglades, along the Rhine River, in the South China Sea without acknowledging that former generations have already wrestled with repairing damaged ecosystems, that there have been many kinds of former ecosystems, and that there are many former ways of understanding such systems. ThiTrade Review'Reconnecting people to nature is all to the good, and history can help tomake the process more meaningful and effective ecologically.' – Brian Donahue, Brandeis University'[T]he volume features geographers, sociologists, environmental scientists, historians, anthropologists and paleoecologists working on North America, Europe and East Asia. Readers will be pleased by their skilful interrogation of the idea of restoration and the volume's attentiveness to real-world projects. ... Restoration and History exemplifies the benefits of cross-disciplinary dialogue.' – Joshua Specht (Harvard University), Environment and History'The authors present intriguing ideas that force a larger discussion among academics, practitioners, and students about what it means to live on this on planet.' – James E. Sherow, Kansas State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Tempo and Mode in Restoration. Marcus Hall. Restoration in History. 2. Reflections on Humpty-Dumpty Ecology. David Lowenthal. 3. Spontaneous Rewilding of the Apostle Islands. James Feldman. 4. Changing Forests, Moving Targets in Finland. Timo Myllyntaus. 5. Sidebar: Clementsian Restoration in Yosemite. William Rowley. History in Restoration. 6. Does the Past Matter in Scottish Woodland Restoration? Mairi J. Stewart. 7. Palaeoecology, Management, and Restoration in the Scottish Highlands. Althea Davies. 8. Conservation Lessons from the Holocene Record in "Natural" and "Cultural" Landscapes. Nicki J. Whitehouse. 9. The Shifting Baseline Syndrome in Restoration Ecology. Frans Vera. 10. Regardening and the Rest. Chris Smout. 11. Sidebar: Reforestation, Restoration, and the Birth of the Industrial Tree Farm. Emily K. Brock. Restore To What? Selecting Target States. 12. Informing Ecological Restoration in a Coastal Context. Anita Guerrini & Jenifer E. Dugan. 13. South Yorkshire Fens: Past, Present, and Future. Ian Rotherham & Keith Harrison. 14. Uneasy Relationships between Ecology, History, and Restoration. Jan E Dizard. 15. Sidebar: Designing a Restoration Mega-Project for New York. Mark B. Bain. What To Restore? Selecting Initial States. 16. Reflooding the Japanese Rice Paddy. David Sprague & Nobusuke Iwasaki. 17. American Indian Restoration. David Tomblin. 18. Restoring for Cultural-Ecological Sustainability in Arizona and Connecticut. David G. Casagrande & Miguel Vasquez. 19. Models for Renaturing Brownfield Areas. Lynn M. Westphal, Paul H. Gobster, & Matthias Gross. 20. Sidebar: Conflicting Restoration Goals in the San Francisco Bay. Laura A. Watt. Changing Concepts In Restoration. 21. Nature Without Nurture? Kathy Hodder & James Bullock. 22. Toward a Multiple Vision of Ecological Restoration. Josef Keulartz. 23. Rewilding the Restorer. David Kidner. Implementation: Rewilding, Regardening, & Renaturing. 24. Implementing River Restoration Projects. Daniel McCool. 25. Cloning in Restorative Perspective. Eileen Crist. 26. NLIMBY: No Lions In My Backyard. C. Josh Donlan & Harry W. Greene. Conclusions. 27. Restoring Dirt Under the Fingernails. Eric Higgs. Contributors. References. Index.
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Abstracts of the Feet of Fines for Kent temp
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Notes on the Parishes of Fyfield Kimpton Penton
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Bishop Percys Folio Manuscript ... Edited by John
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British Library, Historical Print Editions West India Directory Containing Instructions for
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Narratives of J Pritchard P C Pambrun and F D
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British Library, Historical Print Editions A few words on No 90 of the Tracts for the Times
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British Library, Historical Print Editions History of Nairnshire Second Edition
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Zes Jaren in Suriname. Schetsen En Tafereelen Uit
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British Library, Historical Print Editions An Historical Account of the Ten Tribes settled
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Erindringer fra Felttoget 1864
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Biblioteca Historica de PuertoRico que contiene
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British Library, Historical Print Editions Where to buy at Glastonbury An illustrated local
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Odd Dot Impossible Histories
Book SynopsisAcross 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sideswhat happened and what would have happened had things gone differently. The results are by turns strange, hilarious, tragicand always fascinating.Imagine a world in which...- Hitler builds a thousand-year Reich- Columbus gets driven from the Americas by mounted knights- Robespierre decapitates Caesar Augustus- The Inca Empire has an air force- Jimmy Carter presses the ButtonThese brave new worlds are merely our own, familiar worldif something small had happened differently. We''re all one elephant away from peace in the Middle East, one knife thrust away from nuclear Armageddon. This book examines twenty pivotal moments in history, asks what if?...,and drags the answers kicking and screaming into the light. History--factual and counterfactual has never been so entertaining.A whirlwind ride through history
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WW Norton & Co Catholicism
Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between progress and tradition in the world's largest international institutionTrade Review"Through vivid portraits and nuanced analysis of Catholic traditionalists and reformers, McGreevy shows how persistent divisions within Catholicism have shaped as well as mirrored central conflicts in modern world history. Catholicism reveals why the Catholic church generates intense hatred and fierce loyalty, enraging conservatives by changing so much while frustrating progressives by changing so little. A landmark book." -- James Kloppenberg, author of Toward Democracy"In an epic about moral globalization since the French Revolution, John T. McGreevy narrates a quest for understanding and conversion, a tale of diasporas and missions. This is truly a majestic book." -- Jeremy Adelman, coauthor of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart"For those of us pained by how political divisions manipulate and distort Catholicism today, John T. McGreevy offers essential perspective and the mixed consolation that this is nothing new. His book unfolds an epic drama as power contends with democracy, authority with diversity, world with spirit." -- Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking"If you want to understand the world, don’t ignore the history of its most global institution. John T. McGreevy exposes the paradoxes of the Church: an institution surprisingly adaptable to different cultures, riven by faction, yet called to common action. With admirable candor, impartiality, elegance, and economy, he tells a story of failings and faith." -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Out of Our Minds"[A] wonderful new study… One of the book's many strengths is the confidence to range across the world from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa. Intellectually this would be a challenge for any historian, though McGreevy effortlessly guides us with a steady hand through this complex history over the last two centuries and more." -- Enda Delaney - The Irish Times"In this appealing, easily readable and amply noted volume, McGreevy identifies phases in the development of Catholicism over the past two-and-a-half centuries with the overriding interests, themes or controversies for each period in his view… a truly engaging and substantially reliable narrative on how Catholicism has arrived at its current phase as a global Church." -- John Borelli - The Tablet"Catholicism: A Global History does justice to the vast scope and influence of this multicultural and multilingual creed… it covers vast ground with disciplined concision." -- Daniel Rey - History Today"Beautifully written… a sweeping study that casts into relief, on a global stage, the paradoxes and contradictions of Roman Catholicism… This book reads beautifully, and even the seasoned expert in Catholicism will learn a great deal." -- Piotr H. Kosicki - The Times Literary Supplement
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Palgrave Macmillan Muslim Women of the British Punjab
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the forces which brought about a change in the status and position of the Muslims of Punjab during the British rule of the province, from 1849, up to its independence in 1947. It examines the role of the government, reformers and political leaders in bringing about a transformation in their position. It is a useful study for understanding the predicament of the modern day South Asian Muslim women, who sometimes emerge in powerful political positions in an otherwise conservative society.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Foreword Map Introduction Customary Law Legislation For Women Education in a Changing Environment Purdah and Emancipation Political Activists Conclusion Appendix A Appendix B Bibliography Glossary Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Environment Health and History
Book SynopsisThe environment is currently a matter of international public and academic concern, but is often considered separately from health issues. This book brings together work from environmental and health historians to conceptualise the connection between environment and health at different times and in different geographical locations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Preface; A.Haines Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Environment, Health and History; V.Berridge & M.Gorsky Housing and Health in Early Modern London; V.Harding Environment and Disease in Ireland; C.Hamlin The Handbuch der Hygiene – A Manual of Proto-Environmental Science in Germany of 1900?; D.Schott Leagues of Sunshine: Sunlight, Health and the Environment; S.Carter Healthy Places and Healthy Regimens: British Spas 1918-1950; J.Adams Rethinking the Post War Hegemony of DDT: Insecticides Research and the British Colonial Empire; S.Clarke Health Crusades': Environmental Approaches as Public Health Strategies against Infections in Sanitary Propaganda Films, 1930 – 1960; C.Bonah Cross-Nationalizing the History of Industrial Hazard; C.C.Sellers The Gardener in the Machine: Biotechnological Adaptation for Life Indoors; C.Warren Exposing the Cold War Legacy: The Activist Work of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1986 and 1992; L.Rumiel The Impacts on Human Health and Environment of Global Climate Change: A Review of International Politics; I.Palmlund Epilogue; P.Wilkinson
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Palgrave Macmillan Terrorists Creed
Book SynopsisTerrorist''s Creed casts a penetrating beam of empathetic understanding into the disturbing and murky psychological world of fanatical violence, explaining how the fanaticism it demands stems from the profoundly human need to imbue existence with meaning and transcendence.Trade Review'...a nuanced analysis that is at once philosophical, psychological, political and historical...Griffin's work makes an important contribution to the field.' -Christina Hellmich, University of Reading, Times Higher Education '...an original, insightful, and innovative contribution to the literature on terrorism' - Jeffrey M. Bale, Monterey Institute of International Studies '...among the most original and sweeping theoretical works to come from the terrorism studies genre in the last decade.' - Jeffrey B. Cozzens, White Mountain Research LLC 'It is rare to find a work of such originality in a field like terrorism studies, which is dominated either by journalistic cliches or a crudely logistical analysis. Griffin locates terrorism in a richly conceived context that is ethical and epistemological as much as it is political.' - Dr. Faisal Devji, University of Oxford 'In an analysis that is at once philosophical, psychological, political, and historical, Roger Griffin brings to the study of modern terrorism the same breadth of knowledge, aquaintance with specialized literature, and empathic insight he brought to his study of Modernism and Fascism. This new book builds upon the foundation of Griffin's study of modernism and the responses to it which determined the epochal nature of the twentieth century. For him, "terrorism" is a product of a fear of loss of meaning in the world combined with the conviction that the world must be remade if meaning is to be saved. Thus, terror is a response to a historical situation that regularly recurs, but modern terrorism can be understood only within the context of the threats to meaning posed by modernism itself. The book has a practical aspect as well as a theoretical one. It tries to provide insight into the "inside" of modern terrorism - what motivates, sustains, and reproduces "the terrorist."' - Hayden White, Professor Emeritus of Historical Studies, University of California ...both innovative and original...' - The Bookseller 'Since 9/11 there have been any number of detailed studies of terrorist groups, many of them by counter-terrorism professionals or reporters specialising in a particular region. Meanwhile, a small band of academics have tried to step back from the present so as to metaphysically locate what all or most terrorists are seeking to achieve, whether they realise it or not. Roger Griffin is a well-known expert on political violence and European Fascism. He brings a great deal of conceptual clarity and prodigious learning to a subject where emotion and prejudice are often uppermost. This is a valuable contribution to understanding the terrorism phenomenon"' - Michael Burleigh, author of Blood and Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism '...a compelling historical and political overview of ideologically driven terrorist violence....Any psychologist interested in terrorism and violence should read Griffin's book.' - The PsychologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Liquid Fear of Terrorism Terrorism as Zealotry: Defending the Nomos Modernist Terrorism: Creating the Nomos The Metapolitics of Terrorism in Fiction The Metapolitics of Terrorist Radicalization Modern Zealots of the Sacred Homeland Modernist Terrorism Red, Black, and White The Hybrid Metapolitics of Religious Terrorism Islamism's Global War against Nomocide Afterthoughts on the Nature of Terrorism Endnotes Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Challenging US Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisSome categorisations of US power have long governed analyses of American foreign policy - concepts such as ''empire'', ''decline'', ''superpower'', ''the Cold War'' and ''the War on Terror'' - and have led to a distortion that sees US policy measured by broad labels, rather than on its own terms. This fresh new approach seeks to challenge these terms.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction; B.Sewell & S.Lucas PART I: AMERICA POWER AND THE WORLD Reflex Actions: Colonialism, Corruption and the Politics of Technocracy in the Early 20th Century United States; P.Kramer Ambassador W. Averell Harriman and the Shift in U.S. Policy toward Moscow after Roosevelt's Death; F.Costigliola The Kennan Diaries; D.Milne Ideology, Race, and Nonalignment in U.S. Cold War Foreign Relations: Or, How the Cold War Racialized Neutralism without Neutralizing Race; J.Parker America's Great Game: The CIA and the Middle East, 1947-67; H.Wilford The Perfect and Sustainable Road to Economic Development?: The Eisenhower Administration and Latin America; B.Sewell The Defeat of Ernest Lefever's Nomination: Keeping Human Rights on the United States Foreign Policy Agenda; S.Snyder PART II: CONTEMPORARY NARRATIVES: POWER AND INTERVENTION Areas of Concern: Area Studies and the New American Studies; J.C. Rowe Libertas or Fri? On US Liberty, Decline, Freedom and Pluralism; D.Ryan The United States and the United Nations: Hegemony, Unilateralism and the Limits of Internationalism; A.Johnstone The US War in Iraq: Confronting the Vietnam Analogy; A.Priest Domesticating Katrina: Eliding the International Coordinates of a 'Natural' Disaster; A.Hartnell From Ends to Means: American Foreign Policy and Women's Rights; H.Laville Conclusion; S.Lucas Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Engineering Society
Book SynopsisExplaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective; B.Ziemann , R.F.Wetzell , D.Schumann & K.Brückweh Embedding the Human Sciences in Western Societies, 1880-1980. Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research; L.Raphael PART I: SOCIAL AND PENAL POLICY Contesting Risk. Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1920; J.Moses Politics through the Back Door. Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations; M.Lengwiler Rationalizing the Individual – Engineering Society. The Case of Sweden; T.Etzemüller The Neurosciences and Criminology: How Experts have moved into Public Policy and Debate; P.Becker PART II: DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY The Psychological Sciences and the 'Scientization' and 'Engineering' of Society in Twentieth-century Britain; M.Thomson Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900-1985; H.Oosterhuis Human Sciences, Child Reform and Politics in Spain, 1890-1936; T.Kössler Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America; E.Lunbeck PART III: POLLING, MARKETING, AND ORGANIZATIONS Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States; S.Igo Observing the Sovereign. Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945-1990; A.Kruke & B.Ziemann Consumers, Markets and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920-1960; S.Schwarzkopf Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890-1960; E.Walter-Busch Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945-1980; B.Ziemann & C.Dols Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisOver the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.Trade Review“This work bridges an important gap between two eras of English political and social history. ... this work deserves the wide audience it will undoubtedly find.” (Aaron Graham, The Journal of the Historical Association, October, 2016)“This is an enlightening and detailed study, ambitious in its scope and depth. David Lemmings has produced an excellent body of research on law and governance in the eighteenth century and his vast knowledge is reflected in this book. … this book reveals a fascinating aspect of eighteenth-century society and its governance, and will appeal broadly to anybody with an interest in early modern English history.” (Tessa Morrison, Parergon, Vol. 33 (1), 2016)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements List of Tables Note on Works Cited in Endnotes Introduction: Law, Consent and Command The Local Experience of Law and Authority: Quarter Sessions, JPs, and the People Going to Law: the Rise and Fall of Civil Litigation Crime and the Administration of Criminal Law: Problems, Solutions, and Participation Parliament, Legislation and the People: the Idea and Experience of Leviathan Conclusion: Governance, People and Law in the Eighteenth Century
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Palgrave Macmillan Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan
Book SynopsisA new exploration of the relationship between the Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan administrations in domestic policy. Using recently released documentary material and extensive research interviews, James Cooper demonstrates how specific policy transfer between these ''political soul mates'' was more limited than is typically assumed.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction PART I: MONETARY POLICY Origins and Implementation From Prescribed Policy to Pragmatism PART II: TAXATION Origins and First Term Cuts Second Term Cuts and Policy Transfer PART III: TRADE (LABOUR) UNIONS, PRIVATISATION AND DEREGULATION Trade (Labour) Unions Privatisation and Deregulation Conclusion Bibliography Appendices Interviewee biographies
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Palgrave Macmillan Russia and Europe Conflict or Cooperation
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on how Russian policy toward Europe (and sometimes, by extension, the West more broadly) has developed since the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It argues that important aspects of cooperation have endured in the relationship despite all the vicissitudes of Russian domestic politics and at a time of flux in the international relations of the European continent. This cooperation has, at times, been fragile and has not prevented some obvious and deep-seated disagreements. It has, however, survived. Indeed, Russia and Europe have increasingly ''routinized'' their relationship in a range of formal multilateral institutions.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Russia and Europe, Conflict or Cooperation?; M.Webber The Place of Europe in Russian Foreign Policy; M.Bowker Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; C.Kennedy-Pipe Russia and the European Union; J.Gower Russia and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; D.Lynch Russia and the Council of Europe; M.Webber Russia and Issues of Demilitarization; D.Averre Russia and the Former Yugoslavia; M.Andersen Conclusion: Russia and Europe, Trajectories of Development; M.Webber Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Kingship Rebellion and Political Culture
Book SynopsisTaking as its starting point two uprisings in England and Germany (Richard Marshal in 1233-4 and Henry (VII) in 1234-5), this book offers a new take on the political culture of high medieval Europe. Themes include: the role of violence; the norms of political behaviour; the public nature of politics; and the social history of political exchange.Trade Review'Weiler has...written a highly original and very readable book, one which is as important for the questions it asks as for the precise answers given to them. For that reason alone it has a significance beyond the period in which it is set. In terms of engaging with Weiler's ideas and the detailed evidence on which they are based, some readers will doubtless find themselves handicapped by being unable to match his command of the German background and its sources; in itself a reason why the book is so valuable.' - D.A. Carpenter, English Historical Review 'Tremendously useful for anyone interested in thinking about how historians have conceptualized the political structures of the medieval period.' - Jonathan R. Lyon, German History 'Björn Weiler continues to lead the way in comparative studies of medieval European politics, especially in the area of the role of practical symbolism in monarchical government...a thoroughly absorbing and stimulating book full of important insights and scholarly discussion.' - Sean McGlynn, HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: KINGDOMS IN TURMOIL: THE STRUCTURES AND FRAMEWORK OF REVOLT To be king in name as well as deed: the revolt of Henry (VII) in Germany The Marshal rebellion in England (1233-4) Rebellion in Context PART II: THE IDEALS AND NORMS OF POLITICS Loyalty, justice, and honour: Henry (VII) and Frederick II Justice, loyalty and the absence of honour: Frederick II and Henry (VII) as seen by their contemporaries Loyalties true and false: political values in England PART III: THE WAYS AND MEANS OF POLITICS Creating a Public Addressing the public: rituals, gestures and charters Townsmen, clergy, and knights: the public in politics Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Land Nation and Culture 17401840
Book SynopsisOver the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and aesthetics, law and representation.Trade Review- 'Thoughtful elaboration of each of the concepts contained in its title.' Denise Gigante, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.2, 2009 -'The editors have a done a masterful job of selection, arrangement, and attention to style so that, should one wisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reforming Landscape: Turner and Nottingham; S.Daniels The Simple Life: Cottages and Gainsborough's Cottage Doors; A.Bermingham The Other Half of the Landscape: Thomas Heaphy's Watercolour Nasties; D.H.Solkin Chardin at the Edge of Belief: Overlooked Issues of Religion and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century French Painting; T.Crow The Sabine Women and Lévi-Strauss; T.J.Clark 'Love and Madness': Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in Late Eighteenth-Century Romance; J.Brewer 'A Submission, Sir!': Who has the Right to Person in Eighteenth-Century Britain?; P.de Bolla Suspicious Minds: Spies and Surveillance in Charlotte Smith's Novels of the 1790s; H.Guest Wordsworth and Empire - Just Joking; D.Simpson Burns, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Vernacular Poetry; N.Leask Organic Form and it's Consequences; F.Ferguson Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Identity Crime and Legal Responsibility in EighteenthCentury England
Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation.Trade Review- '[Rabin] give[s] weight to abstractions like 'sensibility' as actual forces in the courtroom and in the reform movement.' Paul Baines, Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.42, no.1, 2008Table of ContentsCrime, Culture, and the Self 'Of Persons Capable of Committing Crimes': Pleas of Mental Distress in the Eighteenth-Century Courtroom Old Excuses, New Meanings: "Temporary Frenzy," Necessity, Passion, and Compulsion Bodies of Evidence, States of Mind: Infanticide, Emotion, and Sensibility 'An indulgence given to great crimes'? Sensibility, Compassion, and Law Reform The End of Excuse? James Hadfield and the Insanity Plea From Self to Subject Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Using History Making British Policy
Book SynopsisThe extent to which history has been used to inform policy remains a neglected topic. Focusing upon the 1957 Whitehall policy initiative, this book enhances our knowledge of post-1945 Britain, illuminates debates about the nature and the use of history in the contemporary world, most notably the relationship between history and policy.Trade Review'This interesting, well-written and clearly-organised book will be of value to those interested in British governmental policymaking in the third quarter of the last century and, more generally, to those concerned with the potential relevance of historical study in the public sphere. 'Drawing on a wide range of sources and reflecting a sound grasp of administrative practice and culture, Beck ably demonstrates the extent of the neglect by government in its deliberations of the historical work it had commissioned. His meticulous scholarship demonstrates that, despite claims of the value of the historical perspective, policy, instead, was the function of what was negotiable within Whitehall. 'At times, the perspective seems very recent. The historical report on what Burke Trend termed the deplorable history of the Festival Gardens project, established as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, would have been useful reading for those considering the Millennium Dome. Similarly, Rohan Butler's 1962 History of the Abadan Crisis of 1951 offers an interesting viewpoint on the more recent Iraq crisis' 'This first-rate study deserves wide attention as an exemplary treatment of its subject.' - Professor Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, and author of Using History (2005). 'Beck's book draws into question the practicality of marrying history with policy making. It provides case studies into the limited abilities of academic historians to write administrative histories. Additionally, it serves as an implicit warning to historians who seek to make history the justifier of war or specific policy. Should historians stay away from political debates? This book does not seek to answer that question. The question it does ask how did the British government use histories to determine policy - should at least make people and policy makers think twice before calling for or writing individual histories to explain everything. In the end Beck achieves for policy makers what a positive historical narrative could not: doubt about the uses of history in policy. Paradoxically, this solidly written book provides exceedingly practical lessons to historians and policy makers alike.' - British Scholar (Book of the Month) 'Quite apart from illuminating my father's career, most notably his belief in the value of the historical dimension in the conduct of government, this book reminds policymakers like me about the merits of making history a more significant part of the policymaking process. At the same time, by pointing to the frequent tendency merely to pay lip service to the concept, the book makes policymakers more aware of the constant need to overcome the difficulties of using history in government.'' - Charles Clarke, Home Secretary in the Blair Government, 2004-2006 'A fascinating and genuinely original study by Peter Beck...He has researched the subject thoroughly in The National Archives and among private papers, he writes in a lucid style and...he has succeeded in opening up an area about which most historians of post-war Britain have hitherto said little. Indeed, this is a book that could be read with profit by a wide range of historians...because it raises questions about the value and application of history in the modern world.' Professor John Young, University of Nottingham, Archives: The journal of the British Records AssociationTable of ContentsList of Tables and Boxes Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION: USING HISTORY IN BRITAIN British Policymakers and History Using Official Histories and Public Records to Present Britain's Past to a Global Audience PART II: USING HISTORY IN THE TREASURY The Treasury Becomes 'Very Historically Minded' 1957-1960 Pushing Ahead with 'Funding Experience', 1960-62 The Public Enterprises Division (PE) as a Case Study, 1962-65 The 'New Stage' in the Treasury's Historical Work, 1965-68 Retuning the Treasury's Historical Activities after Fulton, 1968-70 Moving Towards the Closure of the Treasury's Historical Section, 1971-76 Using History in the Treasury PART III: USING HISTORY IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE The Foreign Office's 1962 Abadan History Using Butler's Abadan History to Reappraise British Foreign Policy Using History in the Foreign Office PART IV: CONCLUSION Making British Policy, Using and Ignoring History Appendix: Treasury Historical Memoranda Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East
Book SynopsisThis vital book examines why states seek to gain Weapons of Mass Destruction, a crucial issue in developing strategies against proliferation. Leading experts examine specific countries and the interplay among political, economic, cultural and regional factors driving decisions whether to acquire WMD.Trade Review"This is a marvelous in-depth examination of one of the most complicated and dangerous security issues facing the United States, its friends and allies, and potential opponents in this critical region. This book represents a major contribution to the literature on WMD proliferation in the Greater Middle East at the same time that it probes the domestic interests that have shaped several Middle Eastern governments quest for a nuclear silver bullet." - Judith Yaphe, Senior Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies "This book is a welcome addition to the literature on WMD developments in the Middle East. Particularly valuable are the insights provided about Saudi Arabia and Syria, and the nonproliferation lessons derived from Iraq and Libya." - William C. Potter, Institute Professor and Director, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies "James A. Russell has assembled an outstanding collection of essays on the challenges posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, with particular focus upon the impact of this process in the Middle East. The volume contains a series of excellent case studies on WMD acquisition activities in this critical region, including descriptions of Israel's extensive nuclear weapons development efforts, the illicit nuclear proliferation networks of Pakistan's A. Q. Khan, and the intriguing tale of Libya's recent voluntary renunciation of its WMD programs. The collection closes with a series of insightful policy discussions on a variety of non-proliferation, counter-proliferation, and threat reduction initiatives in and relevant to the Middle East." - Dr. Edward L. Warner, III, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy & Threat Reduction "A series of balanced and objective insights into one of the world's most critical security problems." - Anthony H. Cordesman, Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies.Table of ContentsSECTION I: REGIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW Theoretical, Historical, and Policy Baseline; J.A.Russell Proliferation, Asymmetric War and the Contemporary Threat Environment; S.Blank SECTION II: REGIONAL PROLIFERATION PROBLEMS Israeli Threat Perceptions Following Operation Iraqi Freedom; A.Cohen A Nuclear Iran: Has the Train Left the Station?; R.Takeyh Syrian Threat Perceptions and Strategic Objectives; M.Jouejati Syria's WMD Programs: Priorities and Options; A.Hashim A.Q. Khan and the Emerging Supplier Network; C.Clary Saudi Arabia's Strategic Conundrum; J.A.Russell Nuclear Weapons: A New Saudi Security Calculus?; G.Segell Iraq and Libya: Nonproliferation through Regime Change or Change in a Regime?; R.Litwak Tracking Nuclear Issues in Open Sources:The Case of Libya, Pre- and Post-December 2003; W.Bowen SECTION III: REGIONAL POLICY SOLUTIONS Counter Proliferation vs. Nonproliferation in the Middle East after Saddam; M.Friend Demand Side Policy Options; M.Kraig Threat Reduction and the Middle East; R.Gottemoeller Conclusion; J.A.Russell
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Women and Race in Contemporary U.S. Writing
Book SynopsisThis study discovers how contemporary writers have imagined possible relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, using novels and autobiographies and focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams, and Toni MorrisonTrade Review'This is a solid study of 'the complexities of interracial friendship' among black and white women in a variety of American literary texts. Reames presents a sobering argument about the lasting legacies of racial antagonism as well as the ways in which a range of American women writers work to critique and reimagine ideas and practices of racial difference.' - Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University 'In this important new work, Reames presents cogent analysis of relationships between African American and white women, both in and through American literature.By examining an impressiverange of texts, Reames demonstrates how the tensions between black women and white women cannot begin tobesolved until white women work to become more aware of their whiteness.By interrogating literary depictions of relationships between black and white women, she exploreshow thoughtful readers - especially white feminists - can learn to raise their consciousnesses as they read works by and about black women and thus seek to prevent a reinscription of racist hegemony.While engaging her predecessors, Reames's original perspectives provide a needed addition to scholarship on race and gender dynamics in American literature.' - Kristine Yohe, Associate Professor of English, Northern Kentucky UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 'Sisters in Sin' : William Faulkners's Requiem for a Nun 'The Image of you, True or False, Last[s] a Lifetime' : Lillian Hellman's Memories of Black Women 'The Very House of Difference' : Audre Lorde's Autobiographies 'Just This Side of Colored' : Ellen Foster and Night Talk 'Girl from a Whole Other Race' : Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif,' Beloved, and Paradise Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The King and the Whore
Book SynopsisThis study explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Spanish legend of King Roderick and La Cava in plays, poems, novels and operas from the Eighth century to the present day.Trade Review"Drayson's study contributes fresh insights into the existing scholarship on the subject. The first three chapters of her study, in particular, provide an invaluable resource on the background of the 'King Roderick and La Cava' legend, as Drayson painstakingly and comprehensively differentiated between history and legend, and with great clarity documents the differernt directions the legent takes early in its existence . . . a worthwhile and engaging study." - Sixteenth-Century JournalTable of ContentsThe Birth of the Legend Cultural filters: Roderick and La Cava in the Eyes of Medieval Historians The Master Forger: Miguel de Luna's 'true history' of King Roderick Metamorphosis into Song New Life in Drama and Music The Eighteenth Century: Censored! Romanticism and Renewal in England and France Multiple Perspectives in Hispanic Romanticism The Once and Future King Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.Japanese Relations 19191941
Book SynopsisThis study explores U.S-Japanese relations in the interwar period to find that the seeds of the Pacific War were sown in the failure of cultural diplomacy and the growth of mutually antagonistic images. While most Americans came to see Japan's modernity as a façade, the Japanese began to group Americans with the warlike European powers.Trade Review"The focus is on changes over time in public opinion in Japan and the US about each other and the bilateral relationship leading up to 1941 through analysis of the writings of missionaries, intelligentsia, academics, and reporters. Secondarily, the focus is on private diplomacy of these same groups conducted through organizations such as the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR). On these topics, Davidann makes valuable contributions." - Choice "While there exist numerous studies of 'the origins of Pearl Harbor' and of mutual images across the Pacific, this book makes a new contribution by examining how these images influenced one another. No scholar has examined the English-language material in the two countries as thoroughly as Professor Davidann." - Akira Iriye, Harvard University "Jon Thares Davidann's valuable study of the 'unofficial' side of U.S.-Japan relations during the interwar era offers scholars a deeper understanding of the role played by private citizens and opinion-makers. In a highly readable narrative, Davidann offers a fresh cultural analysis of the gradual breakdown of relations that preceded the Pacific War." - Emily S. Rosenberg, Department of History, University of California, Irvine and author of A Date Which Will Live "Jon Thares Davidann skillfully applies the cutting-edge analytical approach in international history of exploring cross-cultural contacts to provide a deeper understanding of U.S.-Japanese relations between the world wars. Thoughtful and insightful, his examination exposes how skewed images private American and Japanese citizens had of 'the Other' helped make war inevitable in 1941. Demonstrating with clarity and power the impact of public opinion on foreign policy, Davidann concludes that nationalism ultimately poisoned the unofficial diplomacy that Charles Beard, Nitobe Inazo, and a host of other informal diplomats practiced during the interwar period to promote U.S.-Japanese cooperation." - James I. Matray, California State University, ChicoTable of ContentsThe Seeds of War American Perceptions of Japan: Liberal Modernity or Feudal Militarism Japanese Response to Orientalism War Talk and John Dewey: Tensions Concerning China The Washington Conference, the Kanto Earthquake and Japanese Public Opinion: Victories for Liberals? Immigration Exclusion The Liberal Challenge: Responses to Immigration Exclusion New Emperor, New Tensions in Manchuria 'Oriental' Duplicity or Progress and Order: The Manchurian Incident 'America is very difficult to get along with:' Anti-Americanism, Japanese Militarism, and Spying, 1934-1937 'A Certain Presentiment of Fatal Danger:' The Sino-Japanese War and U.S-Japanese Relations, 1937-1939 The March to War Impact on the Postwar World
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Palgrave Macmillan The Origins of Modern Spin
Book SynopsisVirtually every government communication in a modern democracy is formulated and evaluated in the context of spin. Based on original, archival research, this book explodes the notion that information management is a recent phenomenon.Trade Review'Moore successfully interweaves context and human action, illuminating both the circumstances in which a continuous government management of information could emerge, and the human choices and lobbyings which caused it to do so... Moore has with great clarity and thoroughness charted one important moment in the accommodation of British political parties to the practice of high minded deviousness that Max Webber called the pact with the devil. - Rodney Barker, Archives: The journal of the British Records AssociationTable of ContentsIntroduction: What is Modern Spin? PART I: ORGANISING GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION Idealistic Intentions: Striving to Speak to the People Expedient Outcomes: Communication Proves Harder than Expected Slipping Towards Spin: The Film-Making Experiment 'Information Management' Becomes a New Tool of Governance PART II: GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE: THE PRESS Neither Free nor Fair?: Government Opinion of the Press Can Newspapers be Made 'More Responsible'? 'Press Freedom' Triumphs; Government Turns to Spin PART III: GOVERNMENT COMMUNICATION IN PRACTICE: BROADCASTING A Model Communicator? The BBC Objects to Being a Mouthpiece of the State 'Necessity' Justifies New Techniques of Manipulation Conclusion: Communication Moves Centre Stage
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Cultural Creativity in the Early English Renaissance
Book SynopsisThis book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores inheritance strategies, personal possessions, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life.Trade Review'Salter's strikingly original and intelligent new book explores how individuals in this period sought to articulate a sense of selfhood to themselves and others through a variety of textual and cultural transactions: to literally create themselves...The implications of this book are potentially wide-ranging, though it is likely to be of most value to social and cultural historians'. - Matthew Woodcock, Medium AevumTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Reconstructing Perception and Experience I: Evidence Reconstructing Perception and Experience II: Vocabularies Inheritance and Property Possessions Life Fashioning Death Fashioning The Creativity of Reading Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Representations of Indian Muslims in British Colonial Discourse
Book SynopsisThis study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through revisionary readings of a wide range of texts, it re-examines the basis of the British misperception of Muslim ''conspiracy'' during the ''Mutiny''. Arguing that this belief stemmed from conflicts inherent to the secular ideology of the colonial state, it shows how in the ensuing years it produced representations ridden with paradox and requiring a form of descriptive segregation.Trade Review'...a welcome addition to the field of post-colonial literature on South Asia. It provides an overview of key British colonial texts, elaborating specifically the context in which the Mutiny took place. Arguably its most important contribution is to open fresh avenues for studying the effects of colonial discourses on contemporary social and political identity construction among Muslims in India,South Asia generally and the world today.' - Faris Nasrallah, SOAS, University of London, South Asia ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: 'NOT AT HIS BEST IN INDIA' Indian Muslims and India Identification and Disavowal in Colonial Representations The 'Heroic Self-Denial' of 'Christian Rulers' PART II: 1857: RAISING THE GREEN FLAG Introduction The Pre-'Mutiny' Discourse on Indian Muslims A Writer of 'The Known and the Knowable' Fantasy and Civilian Identity Forms of Prophylaxis in Civilian 'Mutiny' Accounts Some Preliminary Conclusions PART III: THE INDO-MUSLIM 'STRANGER' Sorting 'The Inside' from 'The Outside' 'A Wild and Ardent Faith': Testing Oppositions in the Post-'Mutiny' Discourse Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Irish Rebellion
Book SynopsisThe 1798 Rebellion unleashed a paper war involving contemporary historians and pro-Establishment literary reviews. This volume traces this paper-warfare against the background of the Union, Catholic Emancipation, Young Ireland, Gladstone and the Fenians, Victoria's jubilees, the 1898 centenary and the South African War.Trade Review'Irish Rebellion is a measured, well-researched study, that profitably inserts the Irish debates about the 1798 rebellion into the wider British cultural and political response to the aftermath of the French Revolution. It is groundbreaking on the crucial role played by Musgrave's Rebellions, a seminal volume that influenced British perceptions across the whole of the nineteenth century, impacting on the Catholic Emancipation and Disestablishment debates, and finally waning in appeal only after the centenary commemoration of 1898.' - Professor Kevin Whelan, Director of the Keough-Naughton Centre of the University of Notre Dame in Dublin. 'Stuart Andrews offers a nineteenth-century perspective on the conflict by looking at the paper warfare that followed. His previous work on British Unitarianism is impressive, and here it ensures that he is able to employ a much broader perspective than most when looking at Irish politics. - Martyn Powell, The Historical Association's Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature.Table of ContentsPreface 1798: Bicentennial Verdict Musgrave's Rebellions Musgrave as Reviewer Contrary Voices Debating the Union Opposing Emancipation, 1801-12 Opposing Emancipation, 1813-29 O'Connell, Emancipation and Repeal Violence Re-visited: Young Ireland and '98 Gladstone, Fenians and Disestablishment Jubilees, Centenaries and Historians Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic
Book SynopsisThe demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of France, but also highlights the challenges that the party faces in a society disillusioned with politics, and the new strategies that it is developing in order to revive its fortunes.Trade Review'Raymond's book thus complements the works of Jacques Fauvet, François Fejtö, Philippe Robrieux, Maxwell Adereth, Irwin Wall, Marc Lazar, and others. Scholars will find this book useful as a resource. Instructors of history and political science should also consider Raymond's book for use in the classroom, as he provides a sophisticated analysis of one of France's most complex political parties.' - W. Brian Newsome, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE PREMIER PARTY OF FRANCE Political Credibility Dynamics of the Counter-Culture The Anti-System Party PART II: THE SEEDS OF FAILURE The Rise of the Socialists Failing the Presidential Challenge Speaking for the Party: George Marchais and the Discourse of Declining Authority PART III: A PARTY WITHOUT A ROLE? A Tale of Clashing Counter-Cultures The End of Ideology
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Reinterpreting Revolutionary Russia
Book SynopsisThis is a stimulating and highly original collection of essays from a team of internationally renowned experts. The contributors reinterpret key issues and debates, including political, social, cultural and international aspects of the Russian revolution stretching from the late imperial period into the early Soviet state.Trade Review'The volume as a whole provides a much welcome revisionist approach to our understanding of revolutionary movements and events in Russia, as well as their broader international context, mainly focusing on the period from 1905 through to the Civil War, but also extending into the Stalin period.' - Melanie Ilic, Europe-Asia Studies 'Ian Thatcher has assembled an impressive collection of highly readable essays in honour of James White.' - Harold Shukman, SEER, The Slavonic and East European ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; I.D.Thatcher Terror in 1905; J.Keep Mariya Spiridonova: Russian Martyr and British Heroine? The Portrayal of a Russian Female Terrorist in the British Press; J.McDermid The First World War and the End of Tsarism; D.Saunders The October Revolution, the Constituent Assembly, and the End of the Russian Revolution; R.A.Wade Trotsky and the Russian Civil War; G.Swain A Bolshevik in Brixton Prison: Fedor Raskol'nikov and the Origins of Anglo-Soviet Relations; J.D.Smele Retrieving the Historical Lenin; C.Read In Lenin's Shadow: Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik Revolution; J.McDermid & A.Hillyar Soviet 'Foreign Policy' and the Versailles-Washington System; P.Dukes From 'State of the Art' to 'State Art': The Rise of Socialist Realism at the Tretyakov Gallery; M.H.Byers Politics Projected into the Past: What Precipitated the 1936 Campaign Against M. N. Pokrovsky?; D.Brandenberger
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