General and world history Books

Book SynopsisRise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyid Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire . . .Combining breathtaking scope with masterful concision, Paul Strathern traces connections across four millennia and sheds new light on these major civilizations - from the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty to the Aztec and Ottoman, through to the most recent and biggest Empires: the British, Russo-Soviet and American. Charting 5,000 years of global history in ten succinct chapters, Rise and Fall makes comprehensive and inspiring reading to anyTrade ReviewI find them hard to stop reading . . . seductive . . . Mr. Strathern's books are well-written, clear and informed; they have a breezy wit about them - The New York Times on PHILOSOPHERS IN 90 MINUTESStrathern combines diligent archival research with an exemplary narrative verve and keeps the pages turning - Financial Times on DEATH IN FLORENCELust and greed is a fascinating study in itself, and Paul Strathern's Death in Florence grips the reader from the first page . . . It is an arresting and horrifying tale, and Strathern tells it with immense skill and verve - New Statesman on DEATH IN FLORENCE

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Book SynopsisAs a quarry for data, testing-ground for theory and site of investigation, history has been one of the unacknowledged partners of International Relations. The last two decades has witnessed both a substantial increase in the scope of historical IR scholarship and in the sophistication of methodological approaches to history, accompanied by a rapidly increasing (and multidisciplinary) interest in the history of international thought, as well as an ever more sophisticated historiography of the discipline itself. This Major Work is structured in a way to engage with the key recent developments in the field of international relations, providing the reader with an overview of approaches to history in IR; the history of international thought/historiography; and the emergence of the state and the state system. Volume One: Doing Historical International Relations Volume Two: The History of International Thought

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Book SynopsisWinner of the World War One Historical Association's 2021 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. PrizeGlobal War, Global Catastrophe presents a history of the First World War as an all-consuming industrial war that forcibly reshaped the international environment and, with it, impacted the futures of all the world's people. Narrated chronologically, and available open access, the authors identify key themes and moments that radicalized the war's conduct and globalized its impact, affecting neutral and belligerent societies alike. These include Germany's invasion of Belgium and Britain's declaration of war in 1914, the expansion of economic warfare in 1915, anti-imperial resistance, the Russian revolutions of 1917 and the United States' entry into the war. Each chapter explains how individuals, communities, nation-states and empires experienced, considered and behaved in relationship to the conflict as it evolved into a total global war. Above all, the book argues that only by integratiTrade ReviewThis book is impressive in its breadth, elegantly written, and provides a short and succinct introduction to the state of the art of research into an ever more global First World War. * European History Quarterly *In blending economic, diplomatic, and social history, Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames convincingly demonstrate that the gradual shift from a European war to a global conflict dramatically affected neutral states and communities alike, and subsequently destabilized their economies and everyday activities ... Abbenhuis and Tames offer a stunning contribution to the global conflict and furthered Bloomsbury Academic’s reputation as an authoritative publisher. * Journal of Military History *Wonderfully well written and organized, this book is an excellent synthesis of recent scholarship and a major contribution to the existing literature on an important but under researched topic. It also has much to tell us about neutral states in our own world of great power competition. * Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I, USA *This book emerged from the desire of the authors to integrate neutral countries and neutrality into a general history of the First World War. It does this and much more. Above all, this book fully exposes the inescapability of the war’s global influences and how ‘the dynamics of destruction’, to use the authors’ words, affected every part of the world. This book is a revelation of the First World War’s pervasive and destructive reach. * Glyn Harper, Professor of War Studies, Massey University, New Zealand *In this inspiring study, Maartje Abbenhuis and Ismee Tames have succeeded in presenting a truly global view of the First World War. Including states, peoples and individuals of both belligerent and neutral countries, they paint a comprehensive picture of this catastrophic period. * Prof. Dr. Wim Klinkert, Netherlands Defence Academy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *Abbenhuis and Tames have written a fine and rich global history of the Great War. They explore the devastating effects of the 1914-18 conflict on societies and families all over the world, and show how a new kind of war, industrialized and transgressive, created political expectations and hopes that could never be realized. * Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History emeritus, Yale University, USA *This innovative book highlights the global scope of World War I and the transformations it introduced in societies all around the world, showing its multiple and totalizing echoes. It offers a fascinating and comprehensive perspective of the conflict that reassesses the connections, exchanges and interactions between neutrals and belligerents. * María Inés Tato, PhD in History, CONICET/Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina *The authors turn the conventional history of the Great War inside out. By focusing on colonies, neutral states, the naval war and the world economy, they provide a fresh and powerful analysis of how a world conflict indeed transformed the globe. A bravura performance. * John Horne, emeritus, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland *This book bracingly reappraises the First World War’s global dynamics. Lucidly defining total war as a process, not a model, it shows how the conflict, from its inception, corroded notions of limited war. Importantly, Abbenhuis and Tames demonstrate how neutrality was part and parcel of the war’s logic. * Sophie De Schaepdrijver, Walter L. and Helen P. Ferree Professor of Modern European History, The Pennsylvania State University, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Sources List of Illustrations Introduction: A Total Global Tragedy 1. A World of War before 1914 2. Germany’s Invasion of Belgium and the Expectations of ‘Civilized’ War 3. Short-War Ambitions: The Global Importance of Britain’s Declaration of War 4. Long-War Realities: Economic Warfare and the Evolution of Total War in 1915 5. The ‘Barbarian’ Next Door: Total War at Home and Abroad in 1915 6. The Test of Endurance: Rethinking the War in 1916 7. Nothing Stays the Same: Revolutionary Transformations in 1917 8. The End of Neutrality? The Global Importance of the United States’ Declaration of War 9. Exit… 1918-1919 Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates the ways in which a medieval Islamic movement harnessed Quranic visions of utopia to construct one of the most brilliant and lasting empires in Islamic history (979-1171).

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Book SynopsisThis book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992.

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Book SynopsisThis book studies the complex relationship of religion to modernity and argues that modernity should be understood as the consequence, not the cause, of the new intellectual landscape of the 19th century. Shows how the adoption of historicism in the 19th century engendered Islamic modernism as a theological reform movement.

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Book Synopsis The 13th Century was a fascinating era in world history. Genghis Khan established the largest contiguous land empire in history. The Magna Carta was drafted. Marco Polo travelled through Asia and trade expanded across the Indian Ocean and Baltic Sea, setting the stage for greater expansion in the 15th century. The Native Americans of Cahokia, Mesoamerica and the Chimor State flourishedwhile Mali, Ethiopia and Great Zimbabwe throve in Sub-Saharan Africa. This world history chronicles the important events in this pivotal century, while exploring many of the relevant figures of the era, including King John of England, St. Francis of Assisi, Balban of India and many others.

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Book Synopsis The Westford Knight is a mysterious, controversial stone carving in Massachusetts. Some believe it is an effigy of a 14th century knight, evidence of an early European visit to the New World by Henry Sinclair, the Earl of Orkney and Lord of Roslin. In 1954, an archaeologist encountered the carving, long known to locals and ascribed a variety of origin stories, and proposed it to be a remnant of the Sinclair expedition. The story of the Westford Knight is a mix of history, archaeology, sociology, and Knights Templar lore. This work unravels the threads of the Knight''s history, separating fact from fantasy.This revised edition includes a new foreword and four new chapters which add context to the myth-building that has surrounded the Westford Knight and artifacts like it.

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Book SynopsisUsing cultural theory, author R. Bruce Brasell investigates issues surrounding the discursive presentation of the American South as biracial and explores its manifestation in documentary films, including such works as Tell about the South, bro-ken/ground, and Family Name. After considering the emergence of the region's biraciality through a consideration of the concepts of racial citizenry and racial performativity, Brasell examines two problems associated with this framework. First, the framework assumes racial purity, and, second, it assumes that two races exist. In other words, biraciality enacts two denials, first, the existence of miscegenation in the region and, second, the existence of other races and ethnicities.Brasell considers bodily miscegenation, discussing the racial closet and the southeastern expatriate road film. Then he examines cultural miscegenation through the lens of racial poaching and 1970s southeastern documentaries that use redemptive ethnography

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Book SynopsisTaha Hussein (1889–1973) is one of Egypt's most iconic figures. A graduate of al-Azhar, Egypt's oldest university, a civil servant and public intellectual, and ultimately Egyptian Minister of Public Instruction, Hussein was central to key social and political developments in Egypt during the parliamentary period between 1922 and 1952. Influential in the introduction of a new secular university and a burgeoning press in Egypt—and prominent in public debates over nationalism and the roles of religion, women, and education in making a modern independent nation—Hussein remains a subject of continued admiration and controversy to this day. The Last Nahdawi offers the first biography of Hussein in which his intellectual outlook and public career are taken equally seriously. Examining Hussein's actions against the backdrop of his complex relationship with the Egyptian state, the religious establishment, and the French government, Hussam R. Ahmed reveals modern Egypt's cultural influence in the Arab and Islamic world within the various structural changes and political processes of the parliamentary period. Ahmed offers both a history of modern state formation, revealing how the Egyptian state came to hold such a strong grip over culture and education—and a compelling examination of the life of the country's most renowned intellectual.Trade Review"The Last Nahdawi is a breakthrough biography of one of the most important figures of modern Arab thought. Hussam R. Ahmed brings to light much new material about Taha Hussein's illustrious career and impressive oeuvre in a masterful, original, and important critical assessment of this towering intellectual."—Khaled Fahmy, University of Cambridge"In The Last Nahdawi Hussam R. Ahmed provides a lucid, insightful, and nuanced reassessment of Taha Hussein's key role in twentieth-century Egypt's cultural and political life. Anyone interested in modern Egypt will find this book of value."—Zachary Lockman, New York University"As we wonder about the role of the humanities today, The Last Nahdawi suggests that some solutions to our present predicament might be located in interwar and postcolonial Egypt. This brilliant work not only richly contextualizes a mesmerizing public intellectual, but pays homage to his humanity and his democratic vision of education and language."—Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago"The institutional approach adopted by Ahmed in The Last Nahdawi... adds much-needed nuance to Hussein's public positions by revealing the bureaucratic constraints and opportunities within which he operated. The book not only reveals the hidden side of Hussein's otherwise well-documented story but also elucidates the birth of Egypt's key cultural institutions from the interwar period, which has merited little attention by researchers. It is against this backdrop that Ahmed's book will hopefully spark new conversations in the field of Arab intellectual history on the ways in which cultural bureaucracies participate in thought production."—Giedrė Šabasevičiūtė, International Journal of Middle East Studies

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the "tribe" became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the "empty land" they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land.Trade Review"Bedouin Bureaucrats is a marvel. It is necessary reading for anybody interested in the complexities of state-building, governance, and sovereignty. Nora Barakat has given us a book that will be debated and admired for years to come."—Pekka Hämäläinen, author of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America"A remarkable feat. Nora Barakat guides us through the contingencies of modern transformation, with an eye for global implications beyond Ottomans down to the present. Truly a ground-breaking work, it is a must-read for anybody interested in global micro-history, and in new ways of writing history."—Huricihan Islamoglu, Bogaziçi University"Through rigorous research and exceptional prose, Nora Barakat shows how Bedouin chiefs participated in the creation of new state structures to ensure their power and privilege and the long-term survival of their communities. Bedouin Bureaucrats convinces us to rethink our assumptions about tribes and their place in the modern Middle East."—Reşat Kasaba, University of Washington"Bedouin Bureaucrats presents a compelling case that seasonally migrating Bedouin were crucial players in modern Ottoman governance, state building, and economic development.... Recommended."—R. A. Miller, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction Chapter One: Beyond the Tribal Frontier Chapter Two: Commercial Capital in the Syrian Interior Chapter Three: Producing Tribes and Property Chapter Four: Bureaucracy in Crisis Chapter Five: Taxation, Property, and Citizenship Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the "tribe" became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the "empty land" they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land.Trade Review"Bedouin Bureaucrats is a marvel. It is necessary reading for anybody interested in the complexities of state-building, governance, and sovereignty. Nora Barakat has given us a book that will be debated and admired for years to come."—Pekka Hämäläinen, author of Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America"A remarkable feat. Nora Barakat guides us through the contingencies of modern transformation, with an eye for global implications beyond Ottomans down to the present. Truly a ground-breaking work, it is a must-read for anybody interested in global micro-history, and in new ways of writing history."—Huricihan Islamoglu, Bogaziçi University"Through rigorous research and exceptional prose, Nora Barakat shows how Bedouin chiefs participated in the creation of new state structures to ensure their power and privilege and the long-term survival of their communities. Bedouin Bureaucrats convinces us to rethink our assumptions about tribes and their place in the modern Middle East."—Reşat Kasaba, University of Washington"Bedouin Bureaucrats presents a compelling case that seasonally migrating Bedouin were crucial players in modern Ottoman governance, state building, and economic development.... Recommended."—R. A. Miller, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: Introduction Chapter One: Beyond the Tribal Frontier Chapter Two: Commercial Capital in the Syrian Interior Chapter Three: Producing Tribes and Property Chapter Four: Bureaucracy in Crisis Chapter Five: Taxation, Property, and Citizenship Conclusion: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. 1368 maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Ali Humayun Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses arriving in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China, which the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. But during the British Industrial Revolution, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions to propel them into the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with both the West and a resurgent Asia.Trade Review"An original global history that tells a compelling story of the interconnectedness of the world in premodern times."—Fabio Rambelli, UC Santa Barbara"This book provides us with a valuable historical understanding of one of the big questions of our time: how and why has China become a 21st -century global superpower?"—Roger Crowley, author of Conquerors"1368 is an exciting and important book that broadens our understanding of the Ming and Qing centuries, two momentous eras in Chinese and world history."—Hyunhee Park, author of Mapping the Chinese and Islamic Worlds"A brilliant reorientation of 600 years of history. Its global perspective explores afresh a number of multifaceted encounters with high points in China's civilization and successfully avoids both Sinocentric and Eurocentric narratives. A remarkable story succinctly told."—Wang Gungwu, author of The Eurasian Core and its Edges"Akhtar's smooth and rich narrative, grounded in extant scholarship, archival sources, literary texts and material culture, makes 1368 accessible and thought-provoking for readers of different backgrounds."—Chiara Formichi, author of Islam and Asia"Ali Akhtar writes a longue durée history from an Asian perspective. His masterly exploration of global-Asian interaction leaves readers mulling over an important question: How are we to understand Asia's and specifically also China's role in the evolving global order? The light of history offers some answers."—Peter Borschberg, author of The Singapore and Melaka Straits"A wide-ranging and very thought-provoking book. 1368 presents a vision of how the world became knitted together by the seams."—Eric Tagliacozzo, author of The Longest Journey"A remarkably concise and well-illustrated volume that commands attention for its Asia-centered approach to global history as well as its erudite and original coverage of a broad range of subjects, from the history of the Silk Road, the Spice Trade, the European overseas empires, to modern Japan and global China in the 21st century, and more."—André Wink, author of The Making of the Indo-Islamic world c.700–1800 CE"This exciting study reveals the place of global China in the modern world's economic system and its layered history. From the book's long-duration understanding of history, we can learn many perspectives on our relationship with China as a new global power."—Eiji Nagasawa, The University of Tokyo"Ali Akhtar's 1368 reveals the Indian Ocean, the Silk Road, and China's relations with the Persianate World to be significant strands in the weaving of global modernity."—Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Dao Of Muhammad"Ali Humayun Akhtar's book offers an important intervention in scholarly considerations of the transitions to the global modern age. Akhtar builds upon the recent turn to the study of social networks while at the same time challenging us to think more creatively about the dynamic nature of such networks. The work highlights elements such as the prominent role of Muslims in the renewed promotions of network ties based on premodern relations between China, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Chinese governments and related networks, including Japanese governments, were international and, arguably, globalizing influences, long before their appearance as global players in the 20th century."—Brian Ruppert, Kanagawa University, author of Jewel in the Ashes"With deep research and engaging prose, 1368 upends orthodox trajectories of research that have long inquired about the impact of 'the west' upon 'the rest' through a vivid exploration of how travelers and wanderers became conduits of Chinese culture to the rest of the world. 1368 is a timely book and positively engrossing read."—William Noseworthy, Cornell University"[1368] is an enlightening look into a vital historical era that has been understudied in the West"—Publisher's Weekly"Today's China is a manufacturing powerhouse producing much of the world's trade goods. Akhtar makes the case that this phenomenon is a reoccurrence of China's manufacturing dominance in international trade before the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, which tipped the balance to Western Europe and the United States."—Joshua Wallace, Library Journal"Akhtar synthesizes more than 500 years of global history with style and economy. He fluidly construes Zen Buddhism, Timurid travel accounts, Islam in Korea, so-called "peace marriages" with Malay vassals, Vermeer's "The Milkmaid" (ca. 1660), Thomas Paine and Voltaire on Confucius, and the rise and fall of the Tokugawa shogunate—and contrasts the divergent strategies and legacies of the Europeans on one hand, and those of the Chinese and Japanese on the other."—Maxwell Carter, The Wall Street JournalTable of Contents2. Global Beijing under the Great Ming 3. Picturing China in Persian along the Silk Routes 4. Trading with China in Malay along the Spice Routes 5. Europe's Search for the Spice Islands 6. A Sino-Jesuit Tradition of Science and Mapmaking 7. Porcelain across the Dutch Empire 8. Tea across the British Empire 9. China's Eclipse and Japan's Modernization

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Book SynopsisIn War and Conflict in the Middle Ages, Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across China and the central Asian steppes to southwest Asia, western Europe, and beyond, Morillo explores the technological, social, cultural, and environmental determinants of warfare and the tools and tactics used by warriors on land and at sea. Part I explains the geographical, political, and technological rules that shaped patterns of military activity everywhere. Part II explores how these rules played out in various historical contexts. Armed conflict played a central role in the making of the medieval world, and medieval people used war and conflict to create, expand, and defend their communities and identities. But the devastating effects of climate change and epidemic disease continually reshaped these communities and the nature of their conflicts. Broad in its scope and rich in detail, War and Conflict in the Middle Ages will be the go-to guide for students and aficionados of military history, medieval history, and global history.Trade Review“A fundamental book not only for those interested specifically in the Middle Ages, but also for those engaged with the broad range of military history as both description and analysis.”Jeremy Black, author of A Short History of War “Morillo has written a cohesive and illuminating volume about a topic that until now hasn’t been effectively approached from a global perspective, and he’s done it with verve and clarity. Highly recommended!”Professor Tonio Andrade, Emory UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures PART ONE: The Basic Rules of Medieval Warfare 1 Three Battles 2 Questions and Methods 3 Geography, Politics, and War 4 Technology and War or The Common Rules of Combat PART TWO: Three Scenarios: Medieval Warfare in Changing Conditions 5 The Early Middle Ages, 540-850: Wars of Medievalization 6 The High Middle Ages, 850-1300: Wars of Encounter and Connection 7 The Late Middle Ages, 1300-1500? Or 1800?: Wars for New Worlds 8 Conclusions Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisExam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: HistoryGet your best grade with comprehensive course notes and advice from Scotland's top experts.This revision guide contains all the advice and support that you need to revise successfully for your Higher History exam. It combines an overview of the course syllabus with advice from top experts on how to improve exam performance, so you have the best chance of success.> Refresh your knowledge with comprehensive, tailored subject notes> Prepare for the exam with top tips and hints on revision techniques> Get your best grade with advice on how to gain those vital extra marks

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Book SynopsisAs a poet, author, and keen observer of life in 1870s Boston, Harriet Robinson played an essential - if occasionally underappreciated - role in the women's suffrage movement during Boston's golden age. Going to Boston will appeal to readers interested in both the history of Boston and the history of American progress itself.

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Book SynopsisSharply intelligent, often personal reflections on the global crises of 2020 that are still ongoing By all accounts, 2020 was the longest year in recent memory, as people in the United States and across the globe careened from one unfolding catastrophe to another. The consequences of this devastating year are sure to impact the planet for decades, if not centuries, to come. This collection considers the question of that long 2020 from the perspective of the lived experience of the year, its long and deep roots in various human and nonhuman pasts, and the transformation of our sense of the future.The Long 2020 assembles a strikingly interdisciplinary group of scholars and thinkers to address how the many crises of 2020—epidemiological, political, ecological, and social—have unfolded, examining both their origins as well as their ongoing effects. The contributors address questions of time, history, and scale as they have played out, and continue to play out; the relationship between home and environment, with a focus on architecture, breathing, and human–nonhuman relations; and the experience of cultural, political, and social life, deploying cultural and political theory to explore questions of race, gender and sexuality, and democracy.The global pandemic has still not abated, reflecting the need to rethink our interrelatedness to viruses and other species. In bringing together this diverse group of authors, The Long 2020 offers a variety of perspectives on the impacts of that fraught year, the effects of which continue to permeate daily life.Contributors: Stacy Alaimo, U of Oregon; Elisabeth Anker, George Washington U; Janelle Baker, Athabasca U, Alberta, Canada; Daniel A. Barber, U of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design; Adia Benton, Northwestern U; Levi R. Bryant, Collin College; Beatriz Colomina, Princeton U; William E. Connolly, Johns Hopkins U; Cary Gabriel Costello, U of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; Megan Craig, Stony Brook U; Wai Chee Dimock, Harvard U; Paulla Ebron, Stanford U; Nirmala Erevelles, U of Alabama; Roderick A. Ferguson, Yale U; Rosa E. Ficek, U of Puerto Rico at Cayey; Stefanie Fishel, U of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland; Jonathan Flatley, Wayne State U; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; David Gissen, Parsons School of Design and the New School, New York; Dehlia Hannah, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts; Karen Ho, U of Minnesota; Bonnie Honig, Brown U; Frédéric Keck, Laboratory of Social Anthropology (CNRS Paris); Eben Kirksey, Deakin Institute in Melbourne, Australia; Bernard C. Perley, U of British Columbia, Vancouver; Tom Rademacher; Renya Ramirez, U of California, Santa Cruz; Zoe Todd (Métis); Anna Tsing, U of California, Santa Cruz; Sarah E. Vaughn, U of California, Berkeley; Rebecca Wanzo, Washington U; McKenzie Wark, Eugene Lang College, New York City.

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers a timely reappraisal of the origins and nature of the first British empire, in response to the ‘cultural turn’ in historical scholarship and the ‘new imperial history’. It addresses topics that have been neglected in recent literature, providing a series of political and institutional perspective; at the same time it recognises the importance of developments across the empire, not least in terms of how they affected imperial ‘policy’ and its implementation. It analyses a range of contemporary debates and ideas – political and intellectual as well as religious and administrative – relating to political economy, legal geography and sovereignty, as well as the messy realities of the imperial project, including the costs and losses of empire, collectively and individually.Table of Contents1 Introduction – Jason Peacey2 The pivot of empire: party politics, Spanish America and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) – Steve Pincus3 Party politics and empire in the early eighteenth century – J. H. Elliott 4 From anti-popery and anti-puritanism to orientalism – William J. Bulman5 Protestantism and the politics of overseas expansion in later Stuart England – Gabriel Glickman6 Reconciling empire: English political economy and the Spanish imperial model, 1660–90 – Leslie Theibert7 Legal geography and colonial sovereignty: the making of early English ‘Bombay’ – Philip J. Stern8 Compensating imperial loyalty, 1700–1800 – Julian Hoppit9 Sheffield’s vision: the American Revolution and the 1783 partition of North America – Eliga H. Gould10 Legal pluralism and Burke’s law of nations – Jennifer Pitts Index

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Book SynopsisThere can be little doubt that the Romans experienced many of the illnesses that are still encountered today, and individuals have always had to decide how best to deal with their health-related concerns. The Roman Empire was an amalgam of many cultures, often with dissimilar ideas and beliefs. The Greek impact on health was particularly dominant and, therefore, this book focuses on Greco-Roman medicine as it was practised during the Pax Romana, the period between the accession of Augustus and the death of Marcus Aurelius. Drawing on ancient literature supplemented with evidence from archaeology, paleopathology, epigraphy and numismatics the Greco-Roman medical context is carefully examined. A particular focus is on the effectiveness of approaches to both preventing and treating a range of physical and psychological problems. Detailed consideration is also given to the ancient technical and hygienic achievements in addition to the place of healers within Roman society. Uniquely, within each chapter, the author draws on his own clinical and public health experience, combined with modern research findings, in assessing the continuing relevance of Greco-Roman medicine. For example, Galen`s focus on access to fresh air, movement, sensible eating and getting sufficient sleep matter as much today as they did in the past. Our classical forebears can also assist us in determining the best balances between prevention and treatment, centralised control and individual responsibility, as well as the most appropriate uses of technology, drugs and surgery. Some ancient pharmaceutical compounds are already showing promise in treating infections. In addition, practising Stoicism and getting some locotherapy should be considered by anyone struggling to cope with the stresses and strains of modern life.

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Book Synopsis Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. THE NAUGHTY NINETIES examines the scandal-ridden decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. David Friend offers an unfiltered look into the captains of the culture wars and an indispensable roadmap for understanding the path that led us to the Trump era. With keen wit and meticulous reporting, David Friend shares firsthand accounts from the unforgettable personalities who shaped the decade, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Demi Moore to Madonna—not to mention Lorena Bobbitt and Heidi Fleiss. He also uncovers new revelations about the accidental discovery of Viagra, how

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Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Empire stretched from the Black Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic. It included islands such as Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and many smaller ones in the Aegean, Adriatic, and Black Seas. These islands were its frontiers, and many of the battles against Christian enemies were fought here; they were also bridges to the outside world beyond the empire. They were often fortified by magnificent castles, and sometimes served as bases for corsairs. The chapters deal with significant events in naval history, collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

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Book SynopsisAs the multi-national Ottoman Empire began to fall apart in the aftermath of the Russo-Turkish war of 1878, the Albanian people faced the peril of being absorbed into the surrounding newly formed nation-states of Southeastern Europe. Albanian leaders met at Prizren in 1878 to devise a strategy to defend their national rights. The Formation of the Albanian National Consciousness explores the origins of the movement that ultimately led to the creation of the modern-day Albanian nation-state.Had a national consciousness failed to develop prior to the crisis of 1878, the creation of a national movement, which not only sought to protect Albanian lands against foreign annexation but also strove to unite the four Albanian vilayets into a single autonomous administrative unit, would not have been possible. The development of a national consciousness during the decades preceding 1878 built the foundation for the national movement that culminated in the creation of the League of Prizren and ultimately led to the formation of an independent Albanian nation-state in 1912.

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Book SynopsisThe generation of young men and women who joined the British Army during the mid to late 1980s would serve their country during an unprecedented period of history. Unlike the two world war generations, they would never face total war – there was never any declaration of war and there was no one single country to defeat. In fact, it was supposed to have been the end of a war, a time of peace and stability. Politicians started to use the term, Peace Dividend, with government officials even planning on how and where it should be spent. But for those in the military, the two decades following the end of the Cold War would not be a time of peace. Government spending and the size of the military was reduced but the Army's commitments increased exponentially. Those serving not only faced continuous deployment in overseas operations, they would also be involved in immense upheavals that took place within the army. When the Berlin Wall came down, the British Army had not changed for decades. The ending of the Cold War, combined with a technological revolution, a changing society at home, and new global threats mean that the Army of the second decade of the twentieth-first century – the army this generation of soldiers is now retiring from – is unrecognizable from the one they joined in the late 1980s. This is the story of the soldiers who served in the British Army in those tumultuous decades.Trade Review...a powerful, brutally honest, soldier’s account of the operational, societal and morale challenges faced by the British Army from the moment the Berlin Wall fell. * Military Historical Society Bulletin 11/05/2021 *…an enjoyable and well researched history. […] It is a must read for anyone with an interest in how the army has continued beyond 1991, and probably should be read by many of ARRSE's old and bold who are still stuck in the cold war. * Army Rumour Service 16/08/2021 *This is an absorbing analysis of what it was like to serve during the most intense series of operations since the Second World War. […] It is an insightful review fo the cultural shifts, the impact of almost continuous overseas deployment and the disruption created by ever-changing policies. * Soldier Magazine 11/05/2021 *Andrew Richards provides a thoroughly absorbing account made all the more interesting due to the wide-ranging contributions of men and women who were there, did the jobs, experienced the changes and often have the scars to prove it. An excellent read. * Love Reading 02/08/2021 *Table of Contents1. Growing up in Thatcher's Britain; 2. Tear Down the Wall; 3 Train hard, Fight easy; 4. The Short Peace; 5. The Peace Dividend and Options for Change; 6. Racism and the ECHR Ruling – No Option but Change; 7. The Balkans; 8. Model Military Intervention – Kosovo and Sierra Leone; 9. Women in the Army; 10. The Home Front; 11. Northern Ireland the Good Friday Agreement; 12. 9/11; 13. The invasion of Iraq; 14. Afghanistan; 15. Terrorism, Security, the Olympic Games and Royal Wootton Bassett; The Aftermath

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Book SynopsisRocket Age traces the history of spaceflight innovation from Robert Goddard’s early experiments with liquid fuel rockets, through World War II and the work of Wernher von Braun and his German engineers, on to the postwar improvements made by Sergei Korolev and his team in the Soviet Union, and culminating with the historic Moon walk made by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20, 1969. From designers to engineers, and even communication specialists and the builders who assembled these towering rockets, hundreds of thousands of people worked on getting humans to the Moon, yet only a few have been recognized for their contributions. George D. Morgan sets the record straight by giving these forgotten figures of space travel their due. The son of rocket scientists who worked directly on NASA projects Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, Morgan gives behind-the-scenes details on the famous missions, including a rare interview with Dieter Huzel –Wernher von Braun’s right-hand man and a chief engineer on every major manned space program. Even the most voracious readers of US space flight history will discover things in this book that they have never read before. Rocket Age shines a light on those that have for too long been left out of the picture of the race to land on the Moon.

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Book SynopsisThis is an account of the battle of Kham Duc, one of the least known and most misunderstood battles in the American Phase of the Second Indochina War (1959 to 1975). At the time it was painted as a major American defeat, but this new history tells the full story.The authors have a unique ability to reassess this battle – one was present at the battle, the other was briefed on it prior to re-taking the site two years later. The book is based on exhaustive research, revisiting Kham Duc, interviewing battle veterans, and reading interview transcripts and statements of other battle participants, including former North Vietnamese Army (NVA) officers.Based on their research, the authors contend that Kham Duc did not 'fall' and was not 'overrun'. In fact, it was a successful effort to inflict mass attrition on a major NVA force with minimum American losses by voluntarily abandoning an anachronistic little trip-wire border camp serving as passive bait for General Westmoreland's 'lure and destroy' defensive tactics, as at Khe Sanh.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays achieving a deeper understanding of the historical roots and theoretical assumptions that inform the realities and fantasies of German female leadership. The Western tradition of excluding women from leadership and disparaging their ability to lead has persisted for centuries, not least in Germany. Even today, resistance to women holding power is embedded in literary, cultural, andhistorical values that presume a fundamental opposition between the adjective "female" and the substantive "leader." Women who do achieve positions of leadership are faced with a panoply of prejudicial misconceptions: either considered incapable of leadership (conceived of as alpha-male behavior), or pigeonholed as suited only to particular forms of leadership (nurturing, cooperative, egalitarian, communicative, etc.). Focusing on the German-speakingcountries, this volume works to dismantle the prevailing disassociation of women and leadership across a range of disciplines. Contributions discuss literary works involving women's political authority and cultivation of community from Maria Antonia of Saxony to Elfriede Jelinek; women's social activism, as embodied by figures from Hedwig Dohm to Rosa Luxemburg; women in political film, environmentalism, neoliberalism, and the media from Leni Riefenstahlto Petra Kelly to Maren Ade; and political leaders Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel. Contributors: Dorothee Beck, Seth Berk, Friederike Brühöfener, Margaretmary Daley, Aude Defurne, Helga Druxes, Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge, Anke Gilleir, Rachel J. Halverson, Peter Hudis, Elisabeth Krimmer, Stephen Milder, Joyce Marie Mushaben, Lauren Nossett, Patricia Anne Simpson, Almut Spalding, Inge Stephan, Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker. Elisabeth Krimmer is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. Patricia Anne Simpson is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.Trade ReviewKrimmer and Simpson bring together literary, historical, political, and media analyses to chart the shifting parameters for women's societal contribution and leadership since the eighteenth century. . . . [T]he contributions provide valuable insights into the strategies that women throughout German history have adopted to legitimate themselves amongst skeptical audiences. . . . German Studies scholars with interests in the history of women's writing and contemporary politics will find this volume particularly valuable; its historical and thematic depth promise new insights to any reader. -- Katharine Stone * GERMAN QUARTERLY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Elisabeth Krimmer and Patricia Anne Simpson Women's Political Authority in Maria Antonia Walpurgis von Sachsen's Talestris: Königin der Amazonen (Thalestris: Queen of the Amazons, 1763) - Seth Berk Maxims of Leadership for a Silent Readership: Sophie von La Roche's Pomona für Teutschlands Töchter and Mein Schreibetisch - Margaretmary Daley Marcus Aurelius, Also for Girls: Discussions on the Best Form of Government in Enlightenment Hamburg - Almut Spalding Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature; Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Anke Gilleir Dux Femina Facti: Gender, Sovereignty, and (Women's) Literature in Marie Antonia of Saxony's Thalestris and Charlotte von Stein's Dido - Aude Defurne Crossing the Front Lines: Female Leadership, Politics, and War in Die Familie Seldorf - Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge Power Struggles between Women in Schiller's and Jelinek's Works - Inge Stephan Age and Purpose: Unmarried Women and Female Agency in the Works of E. Marlitt and Hedwig Dohm - Lauren Nossett "Heroism of the Mother": Women's Right's Pioneer Jeannette Schwerin, Motherlove, and Women's Leadership in German-Speaking Central Europe, 1890-1914 - Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker Strategic Optimism: Bertha von Suttner's Activism for Peace - Elisabeth Krimmer Humanizing Socialism: The Feminist Dimension of Rosa Luxemburg's Intellectual Leadership - Peter Hudis Follow-the-Leader: Tracing Male Influence on Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph des Willens - Rachel J. Halverson "Leaning In": The Career Woman as Instrument of Neoliberal Critique - Helga Druxes Change, Persistence, and Contradiction: The Representation of Female Political Leadership in Gendered Media - Dorothee Beck Petra Kelly: A Green Leader out of Place? - Stephen Milder and Friederike Brühöfener "Mama Merkel" and "Mutti-Multikulti": The Perils of Governing While Female - Patricia Anne Simpson Women Leaders in Troubled Times: The Leadership Styles of Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton - Joyce Marie Mushaben Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Plot to Change America exposes the myths that help identity politics perpetuate itself. This book reveals what has really happened, explains why it is urgent to change course, and offers a strategy to do so. Though we should not fool ourselves into thinking that it will be easy to eliminate identity politics, we should not overthink it, either. Identity politics relies on the creation of groups and then on giving people incentives to adhere to them. If we eliminate group making and the enticements, we can get rid of identity politics.The first myth that this book exposes is that identity politics is a grassroots movement, when from the beginning it has been, and continues to be, an elite project. For too long, we have lived with the fairy tale that America has organically grown into a nation gripped by victimhood and identitarian division; that it is all the result of legitimate demands by minorities for recognition or restitutions for past wrongs. The second myth is that identity politics is a response to the demographic change this country has undergone since immigration laws were radically changed in 1965. Another myth we are told is that to fight these changes is as depraved as it is futile, since by 2040, America will be a minority-majority country, anyway. This book helps to explain that none of these things are necessarily true.Trade Review“Michael Gonzalez shows us that the idea of ‘identity’ did not just innocently emerge. It was invented for the purpose of dividing citizens into groups to be used as political pawns in a plot to change America. Identity politics turns citizens into ‘innocent victims’ in need of governmental carve-outs, and promotes brokers who do their bidding. Gonzalez lays out just how this madness can be brought to an end. A very timely book. Highly recommended.” —Joshua Mitchell, author of American Awakening“Penetrating and insightful....Mr. Gonzalez's illuminating research is particularly relevant now.” —Roger Clegg, National Review Online“Gonzalez goes beyond standard critiques, performing much-needed spadework to trace the left’s steady infiltration of universities, government agencies, courts, foundations, and school boards since the 1960s. His perspective as an assimilated Cuban-American lends authenticity and urgency to the book.” —Eric Kaufmann, Law & Liberty“Gonzalez’s book should be widely read for its valuable insights.” —George R. La Noue, The Federalist “Identity politics is at risk of tearing apart a nation which aspires to be 'indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.' Mike Gonzalez explains in The Plot to Change America how identity politics starting in the 1970s has tried to tear the nation apart—and how, sometimes, it has boomeranged on its practitioners.” —Michael Barone, Senior political analyst, The Washington Examiner, Longtime co-author, The Almanac of American Politics“Persuasive and clarifying, this book is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand how we arrived at the sordid identity politics of today and what must be done to tear it down. Gonzalez reminds Americans of all races and ethnicities that we are better off choosing individual agency, pride, and success over a culture of victimhood.” —Ying Ma, author of Chinese Girl in the Ghetto“Mike Gonzalez is a tremendous voice for conservatism. In his new book, The Plot to Change America, Mike irrefutably wrecks the identity politics arguments of the political Left, which have been tearing the country apart for years.” —Ben Shapiro, host of “The Ben Shapiro Show” and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Right Side of History“A forceful call to stop the cancerous spread of identity politics and begin to undo the terrible damage it has done to our country.” —David Azerrad, Hillsdale College

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Book SynopsisEvery four years presidential hopefuls and the national media travel the primary election circuit through Iowa and New Hampshire. Once the dust Settles in these states, the nation's focus turns to South Carolina, the first primary in the delegate-rich South. Historically Iowa and New Hampshire have dominated the news because they are first, not because of their predictive ability or representativeness. In First in the South, H. Gibbs Knotts and Jordan M. Ragusa make the case for shifting the national focus to South Carolina because of its clarifying and often-predictive role in selecting presidential nominees for both the Republican and Democratic Parties. To establish the foundation for their claim, Knotts and Ragusa begin with an introduction to the fundamentals of South Carolina's primary. They then detail how South Carolina achieved its coveted "First in the South" status and examine the increasing importance of this primary since the first contest in 1980. Throughout the book they answer key questions about the Palmetto State's process, using both qualitative information--press reports, primary sources, archival documents, and oral histories--and quantitative data--election results, census data, and exit polls. Through their research Knotts and Ragusa argue that a key factor that makes the South Carolina primary so important is the unique demographic makeup of the state's Democratic and Republican electorates. Knotts and Ragusa also identify major factors that have bolstered candidates' campaigns and propelled them to victory in South Carolina. While the evidence confirms the conventional wisdom about endorsements, race, and being from a southern state, their analysis offers hope to political newcomers and candidates who have not mastered the art of fundraising. Succinct and accessible, First in the South is a glimpse behind the curtain of the often-mysterious presidential primary process.

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Book SynopsisIntimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thought In his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity’s political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with populism on the rise and the number of liberal democracies decreasing worldwide, Fukuyama revisits his classic thesis. A series of in-depth interviews between Fukuyama and editor Mathilde Fasting, After the End of History offers a wide-ranging analysis of liberal democracy today. Drawing on Fukuyama’s work on identity, biotechnology, and political order, the book provides essential insight into the rise of authoritarianism and the greatest threats faced by democracy in our present world. Diving into topics like the surprise election of Donald Trump, the destruction of social and political norms, and the rise of China, Fukuyama deftly explains the plight of liberal democracy and explores how we might prevent its further decline. He also covers personal topics, reflects on his life and career, the evolution of his thinking, and some of his most important books. Insightful and important, After the End of History grants unprecedented access to one of the greatest political minds of our time.Trade ReviewStudents of geopolitics and world history will find Fukuyama’s thoughts both provocative and inspiring. * Kirkus Reviews *After the End of History offers unmatched insights into Francis Fukuyama’s biography and scholarship and combines them with wide-ranging reflections on liberal democracies and global politics. * Review of Democracy *Indeed, for anyone who lacks the time to absorbhis numerous books and essays, this volume offers a useful introduction to thecore ideas of one of America’s most consequential (and often misunderstood) contemporary thinkers. * National Review *...Fukuyama provides an interesting counterpoint to the current pessimism about the future of democracy. * MoneyWeek *The book is a horn of plenty. Every page presents a novel idea, a new fact, or an unexpected perspective. * Journal of Peace Research *This extended conversation between Fasting and the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama takes readers on an engaging intellectual journey in which Fukuyama reflects on the global crises and transformations that have unfolded in the three decades since his famous essay on “the end of history.” * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. What Has Happened after the End of History? 2. How Have World Politics Changed? 3. How Do Illiberal Attacks Threaten Democracy? 4. Will the US Cease to Be the Beacon of the Liberal Order? 5. Will Orwell’s 1984 Dystopia Come True? 6. Is Fukuyama a Classical European Liberal? 7. What Led Fukuyama to International Politics? 8. What Is the End of History? 9. Why Do We Go to Denmark? 10. How Do We Build Liberal Democracies? 11. How Can We Understand How Societies Work? 12. Is Identity Politics a Question of Thymos? 13. How Do Society and Capitalism Interact? 14. How Does Human Nature Shape Society? 15. Is China a Serious Contender to Liberal Democracy? 16. Are We Experiencing a Clash of Civilizations? 17. How Can We Make Liberal Democracies Thrive? 18. The Future of History Epilogue Literature

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Book SynopsisIn 1838, a rebellion began in northern Mexico. A loose collective sought to establish a "Republic of the Rio Grande": the rebellion lasted two years, failed, and was then forgotten by history. This regional effort to establish an independent republic achieved some fleeting victories, although they were flanked by triumphs of the Supreme Government. Initially fed by a desire to defend the federalist system against a consolidated and unsupportive central government, zealous leaders such as Antonio Zavala and Antonio Canales led the popular uprising.As the skirmishes continued, these norteamericanos resorted to increasingly desperate measures, including soliciting aid from the newfound Republic of Texas, which supplied covert support for the rebel cause in the form of manpower, funding, and supplies. When the chastened Anglo Texans finally fled back to their homeland with the tacit compliance of the government of the Republic of Mexico, the states of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas became entirely free of the norteamericanos, who faced almost unanimous hatred in Mexico by the time of their departure. Leaders from both Mexican factions in the civil conflict then sought peace and partnership against the threatened aggrandizement of the Republic of Texas. In that regard, this inconclusive regional revolt had many precursive elements to the aggression of the United States that resulted in war against Mexico from 1845 to 1848, fulfilling the imperial dreams previously uttered by Anglo Texans during this federalist revolt of 1838–1840. Searching for the Republic of the Rio Grande reads the smoke that would soon fan into the flames of open war against the Mexican Republic.

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Book SynopsisThe Brandeis University Library’s Archives and Special Collections is a rich and varied set of rare books and unique manuscripts that spans several centuries—yet as a collection they have a comparatively short history. The foundations of the Special Collections, like the foundations of Brandeis University itself in 1948, were built by people who believed in the mission of Brandeis to welcome faculty and students from all backgrounds and who wanted to see the new enterprise succeed and flourish. The Brandeis Library now holds thousands of rare books and tens of thousands of linear feet of manuscript collections—the manuscript boxes laid end-to-end would stretch further than the length of the Boston Marathon.This special-edition book features sixty of these rare books and manuscripts from the library’s Special Collections. Full-color images accompany descriptions written by Brandeis faculty, graduate students, librarians, and scholars. The featured items include rare books, artistic works, photographs, manuscript collections, Judaica materials, historically significant archival collections, and more. Honoring the History of the Brandeis Library is an illuminating look at Brandeis’s unique and invaluable rare text collection. Table of ContentsForeword by Beth Bernstein, Preface by Matthew Sheehy, Acknowledgments, Introduction by Sarah Shoemaker, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica; A Few Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts at Brandeis; The First Bookplate; Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum); The Walter F. and Alice, Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints; Geneva Bible. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1589; Perry Miller Collection on the Colonial Religious Experience in America; Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science; McKew Parr Collection: Magellan and the Age of Discovery; Dante's Divine Comedy, censored by Spanish Inquisition; Shakespeare collection; Three Books of Renaissance Cryptography and the Secret of Shakespearean Authorship; Judaica materials in Special Collections; L'Encyclopédie; More than Just a John Hancock: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Collections; Jack J. and Therese G. Katz collection of Chinese snuff bottles; Bernice and Henry Tumen collection; Burmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts; Fore-edge paintings; Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe Library collections; Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs; Michael Lally Civil War letters, 1861-1865; Diary (1859-1886) of William Ayrton; Paris Commune posters; Buffalo Bill Dime Novels; Louis Dembitz Brandeis collection; The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye and the Kelmscott Press; Consistoire Central Israélite de France collection; Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica; Native American watercolors; Pauline Trigère papers; Leo Frank Trial Collection, 1909-1961; Nahum Goldmann collection, 1910-2004; Marcel Proust letters; Diary of a World War I Aid Worker; Colonel Edward H. McCrahon Family Collection of World War I Posters; World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection; Sacco and Vanzetti collections; Spanish Civil War periodical collection, 1923-2009; Spanish Civil War Poster Collection; Lewis S. Feuer Papers; Hugo Oehler collection; Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964; Victor Young Collection; Le TemoinSpitzer family papers; Theresienstadt concentration camp documents, 1939-1945; Eric M. Lipman collection of Nazi documents; Jewish Resistance Collection; World War II Guernsey scrapbook; Hall-Hoag Collection of Extremist Literature in the United States; The Lenny Bruce Collection; Leo Rosten papers; Arthur Laurents collection; Joseph Heller Catch-22 manuscript and correspondence; Sophie Tucker scrapbooks; Radical Pamphlet Collection; Havurat Shalom records; Marcia Freedman papers.

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