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Book SynopsisThe key to understanding technology lies not in the future--but in the past. That's the contention of Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories, a grand tour through past and present to explore the practical--and sometimes revolutionary--possibilities of our digital age.Searching for new ways to think about our networked world, O'Shea asks what the Paris Commune can tell us about the ethics of the Internet and finds inspiration in the revolutionary works of Thomas Paine and Frantz Fanon. She examines Elon Musk's futuristic visions only to find them mired in a musty Victorian-era utopianism. Instead of current-day capitalist visionaries, O'Shea returns us to the Romantic age of wonder, when art and science were as yet undivided, narrating the collaboration between Ada Lovelace--the brilliant daughter of Lord and Lady Byron--and polymath Charles Babbage, who together designed the world's first computer. In our brave new world of increased surveillance, biased algorithms, and fears of job automation, O'Shea weaves a usable past we can employ in the service of emancipating our digital tomorrows.Trade Review"There has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where it belongs. Lizzie O'Shea brings a hacker's curiosity, a historian's reach and a lawyer's precision to bear on our digitally saturated present, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking. " -- Scott LudlamA potent, timely, and unrepentantly radical reminder of history's creative potential. Lizzie O'Shea's Future Histories should be required reading for anyone planning on surviving-and even repairing-our grim technological moment. -- Claire L. EvansThere has never been a better time to pull the politics of platform capitalism into the foreground where they belong. Lizzie O'Shea brings a hacker's curiosity, a historian's reach, and a lawyer's precision to bear on our digitally saturated present, emerging with a compelling argument that a better world is there for the taking. -- Scott Ludlam, Australian Greens * endorsement *In this splendid and entertaining book, arrestingly subtitled 'what Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine and the Paris Commune can teach us about digital technology', Lizzie O'Shea sets out to construct what she calls a 'usable past' in order to better understand our digital present and the head-spinning future which technology is devising for us. This 're-purposing' of history is not, O'Shea explains, simply an alternative interpretation of facts, rather it is an argument about what the future could be, based on 'what kinds of traditions are worth valuing and which moments are worth remembering.'In setting out her case, the author deftly defines the iniquities of the digital age; a dystopia of corporate control, data-mining, face recognition software and ubiquitous monitoring by security agencies. In other words, 'surveillance capitalism'; our modern world in which we are not the user but the product. In the context, O'Shea suggests 'smart' means 'Surveillance Marketed As Revolutionary Technology.' If Future Histories did no more than anatomize our present digital entanglement, it would merely be a useful addition to an established area of inquiry. It is the yoking together of technological advancement and progressive social movements that makes this book truly valuable. In viewing our networked world through the prism of the long (and ongoing) struggle for human rights, O'Shea has given us usable tools in the struggle to wrest control of the digital world from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. As the old Trade Union slogan has it; 'The Past we inherit, the Future we build.' -- Peter Whittaker * The New Internationalist *

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Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian Peninsula. Meeting for the first time in 1968, the Seminar covers a wide range of subjects including but not limited to archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the early twentieth century. The 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies consisted of 73 papers and 6 posters presented over the course of two weekends. These papers included four special sessions: a session on the recent research in North West Arabia, two sessions on the historical and cultural relations between Iberia and Arabia, and one session on maritime practices. The special sessions on North West Arabia and Iberian-Arabian interactions will be published as supplemental volumes while many of the papers submitted on maritime practices are included in the present issue.Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword ; In memoriam Alasdair Livingstone, 1954–2021 ; The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: a comparative summa orientalis? – Juan Acevedo ; Neolithic settlement patterns and subsistence strategies on Marawah Island, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates – Mark Jonathan Beech, Noura Hamad Al Hameli, Richard Thorburn Cuttler, Kevin Lidour, Howell Roberts, Rémy Crassard, Nurcan Yalman & Talfan Davies ; The stars in sixteenth-century nautical literature: a comparative study – Inês Bénard ; Multi-species analysis of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data from Qalʿat al-Baḥrayn – Caitlin Bonham Smith & Judith Littleton ; Petrographic analysis of ceramics from Murwab, an early Islamic site in Qatar – José C. Carvajal López, Alexandrine Guérin & Myrto Georgakopoulou ; Al-Arid, an Early Bronze Age settlement site in the interior of the Oman peninsula. Results of the second season’s excavations (2020) – Corinne Castel, Jacques É. Brochier, Olivier Barge, Blandine Besnard, Elsa Ciesielski, Lionel Darras, Yasmine Kanhoush, Georges Mouamar, Frédéric Rivière, Séverine Sanz, Margareta Tengberg & Pauline Vézy ; Traditional architecture of Ras al-Khaimah: digital mapping and characterization of a key heritage resource – David Connolly & Hana Kdolska ; New evidence from excavations at the Iron Age settlement of Shimal (Ras al-Khaimah) – Michel de Vreeze, Samater Ahmed Botan, Tibor Paluch & Stefan Weijgertse ; Late Bronze and Iron Age animal exploitation in Masāfī, Fujairah, UAE – Delphine Decruyenaere, Marjan Mashkour, Kevin Lidour, Karyne Debue, Thomas Sagory, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Julien Charbonnier & Anne Benoist ; Renewed excavations at Tell Abraq, Umm al-Quwain, 2019–2020 — insights into the site’s occupation from the mid-second millennium BC to the late pre-Islamic period – Michele Degli Esposti, Federico Borgi, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Simona Spano, Camille Abric & Rania Houssein Kannouma ; Walk the line: the 2020 field season of the Al-Mudhaybi Regional Survey – Stephanie Döpper ; Boats, horses, and moorings: maritime activities at al-Balīd in the medieval period – Alessandro Ghidoni & Alexia Pavan ; Settlement patterns in Qatar during the early Islamic period (7th–10th century) — house, mosque, and complex in the North Qatar Region – Alexandrine Guérin ; Mapping the Shimal plain, Ras al-Khaimah: introducing the Shimal Plain Palm Gardens Project – Hana Kdolska & David Connolly with contributions from Michel de Vreeze, Therese McCormick, Andrew Blair, Samatar Ahmed Botan & Tibor Paluch ; Study and mapping of wells in the oasis of al-ʿŪla (poster) – Céline Marquaire, Julien Charbonnier, Gaël Gourret, Ahmad Fraidoon Said, Vincent Bernollin & Yasmin Kanhoush ; Documentation and evaluation of maritime endangered archaeology in the Kingdom of Bahrain (the MarEA project) – Rodrigo Ortiz-Vazquez, Robert Carter, Lucy Blue & Salman Al-Mahari ; Eleventh–twelfth century — political and economic balances in the western Indian Ocean in the light of historical and ceramic evidence from the site of Banbhore/Daybul – Valeria Piacentini Fiorani & Agnese Fusaro ; The inscriptions in Ancient South Arabian script from Ḥimā: a preliminary historical and cultural appraisal – Alessia Prioletta ; From raw materials to finished products: pottery production at Sumhuram (Khor Rori, Sultanate of Oman) – Carlotta Rizzo, Stefano Pagnotta, Marco Lezzerini, Alexia Pavan & Giulia Buono ; On the root NḪY in Ancient South Arabian inscriptions: an etymological and contextual study – Irene Rossi ; Funerary archaeology in Qatar: old data and new discoveries – Ferhan Sakal, Marica Baldoni, Muna Al-Hashmi, Sara Tomei, Cristina Martinez-Labarga & Faisal Al Naimi ; Kalba: new insights into an Early Bronze Age trading post on the Gulf of Oman – Christoph Schwall, Michael Brandl, Mario Börner, Katleen Deckers, Susanne Lindauer, Ernst Pernicka, Eisa Yousif & Sabah A. Jasim ; Al Ain Museum: an ancient landscape beneath the carpark – Peter Sheehan, Timothy Power, Steve Karacic & Sophie Costa with Mohammed Khalifa, Hamad Fadel, Abdullah Al Kaabi, Ali Al Meqbali, Jaber Al Merri, Peter Magee, Anne Mortimer, Waleed Omar, Firas Othman, Dia Al Tawalbeh, Malak Al Ajou & Ona Vileikis ; Navigating the Gulf: Aḥmad b. Mājid’s poem on Gulf navigation – Eric Staples ; Foodstuffs and organic products in ancient south-east Arabia: preliminary results of ceramic lipid residue analysis of vessels from Hili 8 and Hili North Tomb A, al Ain, United Arab Emirates – Akshyeta Suryanarayan, Sophie Méry, Arnaud Mazuy & Martine Regert ; A new example of proto-hamzah in the early Islamic graffiti of Wādī al-Khirqah (poster) – Risa Tokunaga ; The Jabal al Yamh tombs (Hatta, Dubai, UAE): the architecture, spatial distribution, and reuse of prehistoric tombs in south-east Arabia – Tatiana Valente, Fernando Contreras, Bernardo Vila, Adrián Fernández, Domingo Lopez, Ahmed Mahmud, Mansour Boraik Radwan Karim, Mahra Saif Al Mansoori & Hassan Mohammed Zein ; Cross-cultural maritime technological exchange in the first-millennium Indian Ocean – Tom Vosmer ; Reconstructing a changing landscape of human activities in the Iron Age II at Saruq al-Hadid (Dubai) – Zuzanna Wygnańska, Otto Bagi, Joanna Rądkowska, Iwona Zych, Sidney Rempel, Karol Juchniewicz & Mansur Radwan Boraik ; Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held on 2–4 and 9–11 July 2021

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Book SynopsisWhile Saudi Arabia’s first inscribed World Heritage Site, Ḥegrā (al‑Ḥijr) — Nabataean sister city of Petra — may be the best-known archaeological site in north-west Saudi Arabia, the region is extremely rich in cultural heritage beyond it. The special session Revealing Cultural Landscapes in North-west Arabia, included in the 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies (delayed from 2020 to 2021), presented the latest findings at a range of sites in this critical but understudied area of Saudi Arabia, showcasing a deep and complex past through many millennia. Since the establishment of the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) in 2017, a result of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, extraordinary attention and resources have been exacted on the study of the archaeological assets and cultural heritage of al‑ʿUlā County, within its oases and beyond, and shortly after of Khaybar, when parts came under RCU’s jurisdiction. A strategy and initial programme of research projects were established, and in 2019 the French Agency for the Development of AlUla (Afalula), the key partner of RCU, began sponsoring archaeological research as well. Unsurprisingly, therefore, recent work in al‑ʿUlā and Khaybar predominate the volume. The results and analyses offered in the articles derive from survey, extensive targeted excavation at multiple sites, and intensive excavation and studies at single sites. Together the papers present a range of recent discoveries that demonstrate north-west Arabia’s centrality to understanding the greater region and further, and to begin to clarify the extraordinary richness of life in this pivotal zone of the Arabian Peninsula from the Palaeolithic through to the Islamic period.Table of ContentsGuidelines and Transliteration Editor’s Foreword Discovering al‑ʿUlā (AlUla): extensive landscape survey and targeted excavations in the al‑ʿUlā Core Area – Laura Morabito, Jamie Quartermaine, Kirk Roberts, Christopher A. Tuttle & Wael Abu-Azizeh Results from the aerial archaeology in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, al‑ʿUlā (AlUla) and Khaybar Projects: 2018–2021 – Hugh Thomas, Melissa A. Kennedy, Matthew Dalton, Jane McMahon, Rebecca Repper, David D. Boyer & Aimee-Leah Gellard Mapping an Arabian oasis: first results of the UCOP systematic survey of al‑ʿUlā (AlUla) Valley (2019–2021) – Julien Charbonnier, Yasmin Kanhoush, Julie Gravier, Gaël Gourret, Imane Achouche, Vincent Bernollin, Sofian Boudia, Walter Bucci, Barbara Chiti, Pascale Clauss-Balty, Vincent Colard, Emmanuelle Devaux, Armance Dupont-Delaleuf, Alexandre De Smet, Cassandra Furstos, Julie Goy, Mathias Haze, Tobias Hofstetter, Romuald Housse, Thomas Huet, Céline Marquaire, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Catherine Raad, Jean-Daniel Ricart, Alexia Rosak, Ahmad F. Saïd, David Serres, Pierre Siméon, Francelin Tourtet & Jessica Giraud Khaybar through time. First results of the Khaybar Longue Durée Archaeological Project (2020−2021) in the light of historical sources – Guillaume Charloux, Rémy Crassard, Munirah AlMushawh, Diaa Albukaai, Guillaume Chung-To, Bruno Depreux, Kévin Guadagnini, Laurence Hapiot, Yamandú H. Hilbert, Stephen McPhillips, Jérôme Norris, Emmanuelle Régagnon, Shadi Shabo & Saifi Alshilali The Camel Site reliefs — an investigation of the site’s original layout and use – Maria Guagnin, Guillaume Charloux, Mathew Stewart, Pascal Mora, Abdullah M. Alsharekh, Yamandú Hilbert, Huw S. Groucutt, Ahmad AlQaeed & Yasser AlAli The Horn Chamber Mustatil: a Neolithic open-air sanctuary evidencing pastoral nomadic ritual activity in the north-western Arabian Desert (al‑ʿUlā [AlUla]) – Wael Abu-Azizeh, Jacqueline Studer, Saeed Alahmari, Angela Boyle, Lucie Dausse, Jamie Quartermaine, Laura Strolin, Olivier Tombret & Antoine Zazzo New clues to the development of the oasis of Dadan. Results from a test excavation at Tall al‑Sālimīyah (al‑ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) – Jérôme Rohmer, Fabien Lesguer, Charlène Bouchaud, Louise Purdue, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Francelin Tourtet, Hervé Monchot, Vladimir Dabrowski, Alexia Decaix, Xavier Desormeau, Rozan Alkhatib Alkontar & Hugo Reiller Ḥegrā (al-Ḥijr), a Lihyanite caravan city? A reassessment of the early settlement in Ḥegrā/Madāʾin Ṣāliḥ – Caroline Durand & Thomas Bauzou

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Book SynopsisThe so-called 'Templar of Tyre' is the third and longest section of an important 14th-century chronicle known as the Gestes des Chiprois. Written by a Cypriot knight who served the Templar Master William of Beaujeu as an Arabic translator and a member of his immediate retinue, the 'Templar of Tyre' provides precious contemporary insights, often drawn from the author's personal experience, into events beginning in the early 1230s and ending in 1309 in the East and 1314 in the West. Notably, it covers the last days of the mainland Crusader states and the fall of Acre in 1291 (providing our only eyewitness chronicle of this disaster), as well as providing information on the period following 1291. The author also reports various events in the West, including the wars of the Hohenstaufen in Italy, the rise and fall of Simon de Montfort in England, the trial and dissolution of the Templars in France, and the interminable wars of Genoa and Venice across the Mediterranean. This is the first complete translation of the 'Templar of Tyre' into English.Trade Review'... exemplary annotated translation... The text is a lively and sometimes moving account of the last years of Outremer written by a man who lived through the tumultuous events and witnessed many of them at first hand. His is the only eye-witness account of the fall of Acre in 1291 and his description of this last desperate engagement is one of the most vivid portrayals of battle in medieval literature.... This work makes a worthy addition to the Ashgate series of Crusader texts in translation which is proving so useful to teachers and students alike...' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The 'Templar of Tyre'; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the Clearances of the 19th century, crofts - once the mainstay of Highland life in Scotland - were swept away as the land was put over to sheep grazing. Many of the people of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were forced from their homes by landowners in the Clearances. Some fled to Nova Scotia and beyond. David Craig sets out to discover how many of their stories survive in the memories of their descendants. He travels through 21 islands in Scotland and Canada, many thousands of miles of moor and glen, and presents the words of men and women of both countries as they recount the suffering of their forbears.Trade Review'He has the eye, the imagination and the descriptive density of early Bruce Chatwin' * Toronto Globe & Mail *'A powerful, poetic, personal Highland Odyssey' * Times Literary Supplement *'An outstanding book' * The Herald *

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Book SynopsisIn the mid-1930s, three giants of the international Modern movement, Bauhaus professors Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and László Moholy-Nagy, fled Nazi Germany and sought refuge in Hampstead in the most exciting new apartment block in Britain. The Lawn Road Flats, or Isokon building, was commissioned by the young visionary couple Jack and Molly Pritchard and designed by aspiring architect Wells Coates. Built in 1934 in response to the question ‘How do we want to live now?’ it was England’s first modernist apartment building and was hugely influential in pioneering the concept of minimal living. During the mid-1930s and 1940s its flats, bar and dining club became an extraordinary creative nexus for international artists, writers and thinkers. Jack Pritchard employed Gropius, Breuer and Moholy-Nagy in his newly formed Isokon design company and the furniture, architecture and graphic art the three produced in pre-war England helped shape Modern Britain. This book tells the story of the Isokon, from its beginnings to the present day, and fully examines the work, artistic networks and legacy of the Bauhaus artists during their time in Britain. The tales are not just of design and architecture but war, sex, death, espionage and infamous dinner parties. Isokon resident Agatha Christie features in the book, as does Charlotte Perriand who Jack Pritchard commissioned for a pavilion design in 1930. The book is beautifully illustrated with largely unseen archive photography, and includes the work of photographer and Soviet spy Edith Tudor-Hart, as well as plans and sketches, menus, postcards and letters from the Pritchard family archive. In Spring 2018, the Isokon building and Breuer, Gropius and Moholy-Nagy were honoured with a Blue Plaque from English Heritage. Trade Review'Extremely good' * The Art Newspaper *'Sumptuous' * Foyles Newsletter *'Insightful exploration of an iconic building.' * Morning Star *'A must read' * Homes & Antiques *'Jam-packed with fascinating and often unexpected detail.' * Pedro Silmon Blog *

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Book SynopsisOffers a revisionist angle to the question of sacral kingship, showing the continued importance of liturgical ceremonial in the twelfth century and onward. The long twelfth century heralded a fundamental transformation of monarchical power, which became increasingly law-based and institutionalised. Traditionally this modernisation of kingship, in conjunction with the ecclesiastical reform movement, has been seen as sounding the death knell for sacral kingship. Increasingly concerned with bureaucracy and the law, monarchs supposedly paid only lip service to the idea that they ruled in the image of God and the Old Testament rulers of Israel. The liturgical ceremony through which this typology was communicated, inauguration, had become a relic from a bygone age; it remained significant, but for its legally constitutive nature rather than for its liturgical content. Through a groundbreaking comparative approach and an in-depth engagement with the historiographical traditions of the three realms, this book challenges the paradigm of the desacralisation of kingship and demonstrates the continued relevance of liturgical ceremonial, particularly at the moment of a king's accession to power. In integrating the study of male and female rites and by bringing together multiple source types, including liturgical texts, historical narratives, charter evidence and material culture, the author demonstrates that the resonances of liturgical ceremonial, and the biblical models for kingship and queenship it encompassed, continued to shape concepts of rulership in the high Middle Ages.Table of ContentsIntroduction Liturgical Texts: The Spoken Word and Song Liturgical Ritual: Rubrication and Regalia Who and Where? Actors, Location and Legitimacy What and When? Consecration and the Liturgical Calendar Royal Titles, Anniversaries and their Meaning: The Charter Evidence Seal Impressions and Christomimetic Kingship Conclusion Appendix 1: Editions and Manuscripts of the Selected Ordines Appendix 2: Prayer Formulae Incipits Appendix 3: Tables of Ritual Elements in the Ordines Appendix 4: Brief Descriptions of Royal and Imperial Seals and Bullae Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe British Archaeological Association’s 2013 conference was devoted to the study of Westminster Abbey and the Palace of Westminster. It also embraced Westminster School, which was founded at the Reformation in the Abbey precinct. Collectively, these institutions occupy a remarkable assemblage of medieval and later buildings, most of which are well documented. Although the Association had held a conference at Westminster in 1902, this was the first time that the internationally important complex of historic buildings was examined holistically, and the papers published here cover a wide range of subject matter.Westminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had become the principal seat of government in England, and this series of twenty-eight papers covers new research on the topography, buildings, art-history, architecture and archaeology of Westminster’s two great establishments — Abbey and Palace.Part I begins with studies of the topography of the area, an account of its Roman-period finds and an historiographical overview of the archaeology of the Abbey. Edward the Confessor’s enigmatic church plan is discussed and the evidence for later Romanesque structures is assembled for the first time. Five papers examine aspects of Henry III’s vast new Abbey church and its decoration. A further four cover aspects of the later medieval period, coronation, and Sir George Gilbert Scott’s impact as the Abbey’s greatest Surveyor of the Fabric. A pair of papers examines the development of the northern precinct of the Abbey, around St Margaret’s Church, and the remarkable buildings of Westminster School, created within the remains of the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries.Part II part deals with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval palace. William Rufus’s enormous hall and its famous roofs are completely reassessed, and comparisons discussed between this structure and the great hall at Caen. Other essays reconsider Henry III’s palace, St Stephen’s chapel, the king’s great chamber (the ‘Painted Chamber’) and the enigmatic Jewel Tower. The final papers examine the meeting places of Parliament and the living accommodation of the MPs who attended it, the topography of the Palace between the Reformation and the fire of 1834, and the building of the New Palace which is better known today as the Houses of Parliament.Table of ContentsCONTENTS [PART I THE ABBEY]INTRODUCTION TIM TATTON-BROWN The Medieval and Early Tudor Topography of WestminsterMARTIN HENIG ‘A Fine and Private Place’: The Sarcophagus of Valerius Amandinus and the Origins of Roman WestminsterWARWICK RODWELL The Archaeology of Westminster Abbey: An Historiographical OverviewFRANCIS WOODMAN Edward the Confessor’s Church at Westminster: An Alternative ViewSTUART HARRISON AND JOHN MCNEILL The Romanesque Monastic Buildings at Westminster AbbeyRICHARD JONES Numerical Archaeology: Gleanings from the 1253 Building Accounts of Westminster Abbey RevisitedPAMELA TUDOR-CRAIG The Iconography of Henry III’s Abbey: A Note Towards Elucidation of ThemesWARWICK RODWELL The Cosmati Pavements and their Topographical Setting: Addressing the Archaeological IssuesPAUL BINSKI AND EMILY GUERRY Seats, Relics and the Rationale of Images in Westminster Abbey, Henry III to Edward IIHELEN HOWARD AND MARIE LOUISE SAUERBERG The Polychromy at Westminster Abbey, 1250–1350JANE SPOONER The Virgin Mary and White Harts Great and Small: The 14th-Century Wall-Paintings in the Chapel of Our Lady of the Pew and the Muniment RoomRICHARD MORTIMER History and Chronicles at Westminster Abbey, 1250–1450NICOLA COLDSTREAM The Abbey and Palace as Theatres for CoronationTIM TATTON-BROWN The New Work: Aspects of the Later Medieval Fabric of Westminster AbbeySTEVEN BRINDLE Sir George Gilbert Scott as Surveyor of Westminster Abbey, 1849–78RICHARD FOSTER An Historical Sketch of the North Precinct of Westminster Abbey with Special Reference to its PrisonsEDDIE SMITH Westminster School Buildings, 1630–1730

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Book SynopsisWestminster came into existence in the later Anglo-Saxon period, and by the mid-11th century, when Edward the Confessor’s great new abbey was built, it was a major royal centre two miles south-west of the City of London. Within a century or so, it had become the principal seat of government in England, and this series of twenty-eight papers covers new research on the topography, buildings, art-history, architecture and archaeology of Westminster’s two great establishments — Abbey and Palace.Part I begins with studies of the topography of the area, an account of its Roman-period finds and an historiographical overview of the archaeology of the Abbey. Edward the Confessor’s enigmatic church plan is discussed and the evidence for later Romanesque structures is assembled for the first time. Five papers examine aspects of Henry III’s vast new Abbey church and its decoration. A further four cover aspects of the later medieval period, coronation, and Sir George Gilbert Scott’s impact as the Abbey’s greatest Surveyor of the Fabric. A pair of papers examines the development of the northern precinct of the Abbey, around St Margaret’s Church, and the remarkable buildings of Westminster School, created within the remains of the monastery in the 17th and 18th centuries.Part II part deals with the Palace of Westminster and its wider topography between the late 11th century and the devastating fire of 1834 that largely destroyed the medieval palace. William Rufus’s enormous hall and its famous roofs are completely reassessed, and comparisons discussed between this structure and the great hall at Caen. Other essays reconsider Henry III’s palace, St Stephen’s chapel, the king’s great chamber (the ‘Painted Chamber’) and the enigmatic Jewel Tower. The final papers examine the meeting places of Parliament and the living accommodation of the MPs who attended it, the topography of the Palace between the Reformation and the fire of 1834, and the building of the New Palace which is better known today as the Houses of Parliament.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations -- Preface -- An Introduction to the Topography of the Medieval Palace of Westminster/john crook -- Romanesque Westminster Hall and its Roof/roland b. harris and daniel miles with an appendix by thomas hill -- The Great Hall at Caen and its Affi nities with Westminster/edward impey -- Henry III’s Palace at Westminster/virginia jansen -- St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster/john goodall -- Late-14th-Century Reconstruction of Westminster Hall/julian munby -- Parliaments, MPs and the Buildings of Westminster in the Middle Ages/david harrison -- A Monument to St Edward the Confessor: Henry III’s Great Chamber at Westminster and its Paintings/christopher wilson -- ‘The New Tower at the End of the King’s Garden’: The Jewel Tower and the Royal Treasure/jeremy ashbee with an appendix by paul everson -- The Topography of the Old Palace of We stminster, 1510–1834/mark collins -- The New Palace of Westminster/steven brindle.

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Book SynopsisThe Versailles Settlement does not enjoy a good reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world's affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have set the world on the path to a second major conflict within a generation. Woodrow Wilson's controversial principle of self-determination amplified political complexities in the Balkans, and the war and its settlement bear significant responsibility for boundaries and related conflicts in the Middle East. Furthermore, other objectives of the peacemakers, such as global disarmament and minority protection, are yet to be realised. A century on, the settlement still casts a long shadow. This book, fully revised and updated with new material for the centenary of the Paris Paris Conferences at Versailles in 1919 sets the consequences - for good or ill - of the Peace Treaties into their longer term context and argues that the responsibility for Europe's continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919-23.

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Book SynopsisSaint Christina the Astonishing was born into a poor Belgian family in 1150. She 'died' aged 22 but at her requiem she rose from her coffin and flew away like a bird, wanting to escape the smell of sinful humanity. This was the first of many mad, disobedient exploits in her long and remarkable life. Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders retell - through their own poems as well as brief extracts from medieval religious writers - Christina's story as a woman's search for selfhood. The book includes artworks from Peter Hay, which he created for the original edition in direct response to the poetry. First published in 1998 and long out of print, this new edition makes Jane Draycott and Lesley Saunders' sensual and exhilarating poetic collaboration available once more. 'Ascetic and excessive, exasperating, sometimes absurd, the life of the little-known St Christina provokes fantasies and questions. Was she a wonder worker? Or an anorexic, fuelled by hatred of the flesh? Or a powerful woman whose legendary flights set her free from her time and her place? Rather than offering pieties or diagnoses, Lesley Saunders and Jane Draycott, invite us to a feast of soul food. Their two distinctive voices meet the voices of the Middle Ages in an extraordinary blend of the sacred and the profane, the rapt and the irreverent, playful, sensual and deeply felt.' Philip Gross 'Poetry as exciting as this is rare: fusing an earthy sensuality with the spiritual, it lets us hear Christina's voice ringing clearly from the rafters.' Robyn BolamTrade Review'Christina the Astonishing is strange, wild, exhilarating: as in a piece of medieval polyphony, the authors mingle their voices, making connections between history and fantasy, between inner life and outer witness. I was intrigued, entertained, and - yes - astonished.' Marina Warner

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Book SynopsisFew images of chivalry are stronger in the popular mind than that of two armoured knights in a joust, crashing together astride their chargers. Yet, considering the importance of formal combat to the medieval aristocracy, we possess surprisingly few detailed accounts of tournaments, jousts or duels. As the great sporting event of its day, fans of feats of arms enjoyed hearing about them, but extensive descriptions of the actual events involving contemporary warriors were not what they were looking for. Sometimes, however, there was an upswing of interest that inspired poets and chroniclers to write more detailed descriptions of both combats and accompanying celebrations. One particularly rich time for source material are the years 1389-90, when diplomatic competition between Charles VI of France and Richard II of England inspired the kings to sponsor some of the most spectacular formal combats of the entire Middle Ages. These feats of arms attracted a great deal of attention from contemporary writers and they were not soon forgotten. As a result, we have valuable descriptions of how jousting was performed and appreciated at the highest social levels in the two great rival kingdoms of the West. Bringing together some of the most important accounts of medieval jousting, especially those of the jousts at St. Inglevert, Royal Jousts is a direct look at the sources that have influenced our modern notion, and every modern reconstruction, of late medieval jousting. It is also the first entry in our new Deeds of Arms series a series of short, colour-illustrated readers that make primary source accounts of famous displays of martial and chivalric prowess of the High and Late Middle Ages and early Renaissance accessible to a broad audience. Trade Review Table of Contents1. War, Peace, and Jousting, 1389-90 The Joust at St. Denis, May 1389 The Joust Accompanying Queen Isabella's Entry into Paris, August 1389 The Joust at St. Inglevert, March-April 1390 The Joust at Smithfi eld near London, October 1390 Some Notes on the Translations 2. The Joust at St. Denis, May 1389 Deschamps' Poetic Invitation The Monk of St. Denis' Account of the St. Denis Joust 3. The Joust Accompanying Queen Isabella's Entry into Paris, August 1389 Deschamps' Poetic Invitation Froissart's Account of the Jousts at Paris 4. The Joust at St. Inglevert, March-April 1390 Froissart on the Preparations for the Joust Chronographia Regum Francorum on St. Inglevert An Anonymous Poem on St. Inglevert Monk of St. Denis on St. Inglevert Froissart on the Jousting at St. Inglever Book of the Deeds of Boucicaut on St. Inglevert (Anonymous) 5. The Joust at Smithfi eld near London, October 1390 The Cry (Announcement) Froissart's Account of the Joust Appendix - Summarizing Froissart's Account of the St. Inglevert Jousting Bibliography Texts and Translations Secondary Works

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Book SynopsisIn the waning years of the fourteenth century, the household of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster was scandalized when twelve petulant English knights publicly mocked the twelve ladies-in-waiting to the Duke's wife, calling them ugly to their faces. Outraged, the ladies sought immediate redress, but so fearsome were the knights' reputations that none would step forward. Desperate for help, the Duke appealed to his son-in-law King Joao I of Portugal to find champions ready to fight for the ladies' honor. Enter the 'Twelve of England,' a band of battle-hardened Portuguese knights. Led by the redoubtable Alvaro Gonçalves Coutinho, known as 'Magriço,' or 'The Lean One,' these twelve fearless men set out for England to fight the English knights in judicial combat, prepared to shed their blood to save the honour of ladies they had never met. Such tales of valour and derring-do, which often hinge on the notion of a team of warriors venturing into hostile territory on a quest for vengeance or redress set against a sweeping historical backdrop, have captured the imagination of audiences through the ages, from Jason and the Argonauts to Lieutenant Aldo Raine and the 'Inglorious Basterds.' Although undoubtedly a fictional tale inserted into historical reality, the action does not end at the household of the Duke of Lancaster, and other adventures ensue in France, Germany and Burgundy, as the twelve heroes spread the fame of Portuguese chivalry throughout the great courts of Europe. The third volume of the Deeds of Arms series presents a complete translation of the earliest known version of the Twelve of England, which has survived in only one manuscript. Professor Fallows presents the text in both the medieval Portuguese and an accompanying English translation. A facsimile of the original manuscript and an extensive introduction covering the historical context of both the text and the deeds it discusses are also included. An overview of the arms and armour used by the combatants, colour illustrations, genealogical tables, maps and a comprehensive bibliography further complement the text. Trade Review Table of ContentsForeword Preface 1.Introduction Text and Context The Cast of Characters Deeds of Arms Conclusion 2. A Note on Armor 3. A Note on the Edition and Translation 4. The Deeds of the Twelve of England: Portuguese Text 5. The Deeds of the Twelve of England: English Translation Appendix 1: Facsimile of Ms. 87, fols. 260r-265v Appendix 2: Genealogical Tables Appendix 3: Maps Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDie multiethnischen Großreiche und ihre Bedeutung fÃr die Entwicklung der europÃischen Geschichte.

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Book SynopsisIn this exhaustive study of the NWFP and its adjoining area of Afghanistan, Raghvendra Singhargues that with an increasingly powerful China knocking on India''s door, it is imperative torecognize that the docile acceptance of NWFP''s loss in 1947 may have serious consequences forIndia''s security in times to come.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the interaction between law and religion in the Nordic region and Germany in the post-World War II period. It examines how religion has been conceptualized and managed within secular law and pays particular attention to the growing influence of international law on the regulation of majority and minorty religion. The volume investigates different ways of understanding the secularity of law, and it analyzes the relationship between conceptions of secularity within law and theology in the region. Finally, it also discusses renegotiations of theological positions with regard to the law of the land and tendencies towards re-confessionalization of law governing religion.

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Book SynopsisThe Celestine monks of France represent one of the least studied monastic reform movements of the late Middle Ages, and yet also one of the most culturally impactful. Their order - an austere Italian Benedictine reform of the late thirteenth century, which came to be known after the papal name (Celestine V) of its founder (Pietro da Morrone / St Peter Celestine) - arrived in France in 1300. After a period of limited growth, they flourished in the region from c.1350: they added thirteen new houses over the next hundred years, taking their total to seventeen by 1450. Not only did the French Celestines expand in this century, they gained a distinctive character that separated them from their Italian brothers. More urban, better connected with both aristocratic and bourgeois society, and yet still rigorous and reformist, they characterised themselves as the 'Observant' wing of their order, having gained self-government for their provincial congregation in 1380 following the arrival of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417). But, as Robert L.J. Shaw argues, their importance runs beyond monastic reform: the late medieval French Celestines are a mirror of the political, intellectual, and Christian reform culture of their place and time. Within a France torn by war and a Church divided by schism, the French Celestines represented hope for renewal, influencing royal presentation, lay religion, and some of the leading French intellectuals of the period, including Jean Gerson.Trade Review"This is a concise monograph on the development in the French territories of the late medieval Benedictine reform congregation known as the Celestines. [...] The great merit of this study is the way it weaves the French Celestine experience into the tapestry of the French religious and political world."- Bert Roest, Radboud University Nijmegen, Speculum 96/3 (July 2021) "This book is an important contribution to the study of Observant reform, especially as a case study that cogently highlights the diversity that characterized reform’s many inflections. [...] Thanks to Shaw’s book, [the] influence [of the French Celestines] is more visible and accessible than before, as is the challenge of recovering religious life’s many neglected late-medieval stories."- James D. Mixson, H-France Review, Vol. 19 (2019) "With his book, Robert Shaw has tackled a significant research gap that he has begun to fill with many more far-reaching results, putting research on the Celestines on a completely new footing."- Robert Friedrich, H-Soz-Kult, July 2019 (Translated from German)Table of ContentsTable of Contents Maps and Figures Abbreviations Introduction: The Celestine monks of France and the rise of 'Observant' reform 6 The Celestines and the French Celestines Later medieval monasticism and reform PART 1: The French Celestines in their World Chapter 1. The Vita of Jean Bassand (c.1360-1445) Provenance and purpose Defeating 'the lion of arrogance' The observance of monastic legislation: 'the regular ladder' Affection, unity and the 'opinion of friends' Chapter 2. The French Celestine Constitutions and their Heritage: Statute and Spirituality in Later Medieval Monastic Reform Purity, danger and the 'regular castle' The legacy of St Peter Celestine The constitutions inherited by the French Celestines The French Celestine vision of purity: urban extremism Reform, law, and the perfection of community Man's divine likeness Enforcement and the return of hierarchy Chapter 3. The Challenges and Adaptation of Regular Observance Ascetic standards Rank-and-file discipline The Celestine leadership The Celestine Quodlibeta: the moderation of 'regular observance' Multiple paths: the literary culture of the French Celestines The works of Pierre Pocquet I: Editing Cassian's Conferences and Climacus's Ladder of Perfection II: The Orationarium in vita Domini nostri Jhesu Christi et de suffragiis sanctorum: building the inner man and communities at peace III: St Joseph - a model for monastic superiors? PART 2: The World of the French Celestines Chapter 4. Foundations, Benefactions and Material Maintenance Giving to the Celestines Founders and foundations Other benefactors and benefactions Financial insecurity and the problem of foundation masses The reduction acts of 1414 and 1436: war, fragile rents, and financial crisis The moral difficulties of foundation masses Chapter 5. The Cultural Outreach of the French Celestines The French Celestines as a political symbol 'Grand buildings' and humble authority: the legacy of Charles V The age of Charles VI and the Great Schism Lancastrian aspirations 'A fertile school': the doctrinal outreach of the French Celestines Conversion patterns Lay religious direction Reformist outreach The Celestines and Jean Gerson Epilogue and Conclusion Appendix 1. Lists an Map Appendix 2. Reductions of Foundation Masses (beyond anniversary masses) at the Celestine Monastery of Paris, 1414 and 1436 (drawn from Paris, Arch. Nat LL/1505 and Paris, Bibliothèque Mazarine, MS 3330) Appendix 3. Reduction of Foundation Masses (beyond anniversary masses) at the Celestine Monastery of Sens, 1414 ('Célestins de Sens, obituaires', in Obituaires de la Province de Sens, ed. A. Molinier, Receuil des historians de la France, obituaires, 4 vols (Paris, 1902), i, 900-16) Maps and Figures Map Figures 1. The Celestine Constitutions: The Renunciation of St Peter Celestine and Introduction (Celestines of Avignon - Saint-Pierre Célestin, c.1380s; Avignon, BM MS. 727, fol. 1r). 2. Entrance to the church at the Celestine house of Paris, including the statues of Charles V, Jeanne de Bourbon, and St Peter Celestine (H. Millin, Antiquités nationales, 5 vols (1790, Paris), i, 11. N.B.: the image is reversed). Index

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Book SynopsisEarly modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and reimagining landscape as a mediating space in the interplay between the natural and the artificial, the real and the imaginary, the internal and the external. The lens of the “unruly” reveals the latent landscapes that undergirded their conception, the elemental resources that resurfaced from the bowels of the earth, the staged topographies that unsettled the boundaries between nature and technology, and the fragile ecologies that undermined the status quo of human environs. Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity: Picturing Unruly Nature argues for an art history attentive to the vicissitudes of circumstance and attributes the regrounding of representation during a transitional age to the unquiet landscape.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Landscape, Mutability, and the Unruly Earth: An Introduction (Christine Göttler) Part 1 Latent Landscapes 1. Waterland and the Disquiet of the Dutch Landscape (Mia M. Mochizuki) 2. Landscape and Autography (Victoria Sancho Lobis) 3. Painted Landscape before Landscape Painting in Early Modern England (Karin Leonhard) Part 2 Elemental Resources 4. Unruly Indigo? Plants, Plantations, and Partitions (Romita Ray) 5. A Natural History in Stone: Medusa’s Unruly Gaze on bardiglio grigio (Steffen Zierholz) 6. The Cosmologies of the Early Modern Mining Landscape (Tina Asmussen) Part 3 Staged Topographies 7. Aurea Aetas Antverpiensis: Land(scapes) in the Blijde Inkomst for Ernest of Austria into Antwerp, 1594 (Ivo Raband) 8. An Overlooked Landscape Installation: The Winter Room at Copenhagen’s Rosenborg Castle (Michèle Seehafer) 9. Insidious Images: Veiled Sight and Insight in Pieter Bruegel’s Landscapes (Michel Weemans) Part 4 Fragile Ecologies 10. “In einem Augenblick”: Leveling Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Disaster Flap Prints (Suzanne Karr Schmidt) 11. Performative Landscapes: A Paradigm for Mediating the Ecological Imperative? (Peter J. Schneemann)

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Book SynopsisFew island nations have stirred the soul like Cuba. From Hemingway’s intoxicating Havana to Ry Cooder’s Buena Vista Social Club, outsiders have persistently been fascinated by Cuba for its music (jazz to rumba), its rich literature, its art and dance (danzón to mambo) and perhaps above all for its bold experiment of a socialist revolution in action. Antoni Kapcia shows how the thaw in relations between Cuba and the USA now makes a fresh appraisal of the country and its modern history essential. He authoritatively explores the ‘essence’ of the Cuban revolution, revealing it to be a maverick phenomenon tied not so much to socialism or Communism for their own sakes but instead to an idealistic vision of postcolonial nationalism. Reassessing the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, the author examines the central personalities: not just the famous trio of Che Guevara, Fidel and Raúl Castro in shaping the ideas of the revolution but, still further back, the visionary ideology of José Martí. Kapcia’s book reflects on the future of the revolution as Raúl and his government begin to cede power to a new generation.Trade ReviewAs with all the work that Antoni Kapcia has produced on Cuba “A Short History of the Cuban Revolution. Revolution, Power, Authority and the State” is excellent, superbly researched and highly nuanced in its approach. Kapcia both charts Cuban history from the colonial period, while also addressing the enduring nature of the Cuban Revolution. In doing this Kapcia contests many long-held assumptions concerning the Cuban Revolution and expertly examines the myriad of actors within the Cuban decision-making process with its vertical structures of power, participation and governance and horizontal processes of negotiation and consultation. Kapcia also examines the evolution of the word “revolution” within Cuba and its significance for Cuban history since January 1959. In sum, this work is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Cuba. * Mervyn Bain, Professor of International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK *

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Book SynopsisAnglo-American relations, the so-called ‘Special Relationship’, reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Richard Carr reveals the untold story of the transatlantic ‘Third Way’­ by analysing how Tony Blair and Bill Clinton won power and ultimately how they lost it. Using newly unearthed archives and interviews with key players, he investigates the relationship between the administrations and sheds new light on big events such as the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, the handover to George W. Bush, and the controversial Iraq War.Trade ReviewMarch of the Moderates is grounded in a detailed analysis of the New Labour/New Democrats' legacy. It sheds new light on the relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, and unearths unpublished information on figures such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Neil Kinnock. As such it provides a valuable record of a slice of history. * Cambridge Independent *Carr’s story makes engaging history. * The Herald *Engaging … 7/10. * The Irish Times *A convincing case is made for progressive pragmatism, as the academic Richard Carr traces how New Labour and the US Democratic Party found their way out of such political wilderness. * The i *A vivid, accessible, detailed account of a key moment in the Left ... Full of illuminating detail and revealing vignette, allowed by the author’s huge range of interviews, correspondence and archival research. As the Left again struggles in the wilderness, it should be required reading for Democrats and Labour members seeking a leader and a programme. * Journal of Contemporary History *An engaging history. * Western Daily Press *Timely ... An insightful guide to the benefits of the centre-left working together on both sides of the Atlantic. * Tides of History Books of 2019 *March of the Moderates is an authentic and clear-eyed analysis of Anglo-American politics in the eighties and nineties. Readers may not agree with all its conclusions, but its commentary should make all rethink their perspectives on this vital period. * Dick Gephardt, Democratic Minority/Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, 1989-2003, and Presidential Primary Candidate, 1988 and 2004 *March of the Moderates is a clear, informed and informative account of the ways in which Bill Clinton’s ‘New Democrats’ and Tony Blair’s ‘New Labour’ were able to build successful political movements of the centre left. It has much to consider for British and American audiences alike - and offers insights into both the policies and the personalities. * Charles Clarke, former British Home Secretary and distinguished visiting fellow at the Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California *March of the Moderates is a well-researched, illuminating analysis of the realignment of progressive politics in the US and UK. Anyone looking to understand how Bill Clinton and the New Democrats and Tony Blair and New Labour regained their electorates’ trust and, ultimately, managed to change their countries for the better would do well to read it. * Al From, founder of the Democratic Leadership Council and author of The New Democrats and the Return to Power *An engrossing account of the journey to power for inspirational leaders on both sides of the Atlantic. It shows how they crafted a new future for their countries, charting both the successes and the failures. This readable book brings it home that vision and courage are needed to unlock opportunity for those who are so frequently overlooked. A timely reminder that progressive politics is about building opportunity for all, and that there is no crime in aspiration. * Baroness Helen Liddell, former Secretary of State for Scotland *At a time when trust in politics and hope for a better future is ebbing away, this book shows it is worth a trip back to the 1990s to remind ourselves how the New Democrats and New Labour built up that trust, won five elections between them and then used that power to build a more optimistic and equal society. Of course, mistakes were made - and we should learn from them - but Blair and Clinton were the most successful centre-left leaders since FDR in the US and Attlee in the UK. * Rachel Reeves MP, Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee, and author of Women of Westminster *The book is absolutely brilliant. It’s not just for those who are into that sort of thing, but if you are into relatively recent British and American politics it’s a fantastic read with some great interviews in it. * Matt Forde, The Political Party Podcast *Table of Contents1. Too Tied to Myth; Too Rooted in the Past 2. Acceptable in the Eighties 3. Harbingers of the Revolution 4. Office and Opposition 5. New Democrats, New America 6. Learning from the Best 7. Blair and Brown's Britain 8. The Third Way International 9. Intervention and Iraq

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Book SynopsisIn eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. In China’s Philological Turn, Ori Sela foregrounds the polymath Qian Daxin to reconstruct the history of eighteenth-century Chinese learning and its long-lasting consequences.Trade ReviewOri Sela clearly and persuasively argues for the importance of the philological turn in the late eighteenth century, explaining fully the larger moral and intellectual justification for the turn and its significance for the whole course of Chinese intellectual history. This book also treats an extremely important figure in the history of Chinese scholarship, Qian Daxin. Sela makes clear both the remarkable range and depth of Qian’s philological scholarship and the crucial moral and ethical importance that Qian saw in what has often been dismissed as dry pedantry. -- Cynthia Brokaw, Brown UniversityIn China’s Philological Turn, Sela explicates the superlative classical scholarship championed by the literatus Qian Daxin (1728–1804). Among the leading classicists in Qing China, Qian and his students and colleagues were forgotten after the Opium War. Overlapping the prisms of society, ideas, and science, Sela reexamines China’s eighteenth-century philological revolution and convincingly shows that modern historians have generally overlooked the ‘philological turn’ from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. -- Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton UniversityIn this rich and lucidly argued account of the mid-Qing revolution in Chinese intellectual thought and identity, presented on its own terms and within the contexts of social history and the history of science, Ori Sela definitively lays to rest outdated understandings of China's relation to the modern world. It is a timely reminder of the contemporary resonance of historical understanding. -- Joanna Waley-Cohen, Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University and Provost, NYU ShanghaiA well-researched work and offers a new standard for the comprehensive study of high-Qing polymaths. For yearsto come, it will be an important reference for conceiving the relationship between Han learning and Song learning, philology and science, social network and scholarly pathway. * East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Way and Its CrossroadsPart I. The Way of Man: Scholarly Networks and the Social History of Scholarship 1. Learning to Be a Scholar2. Official Scholars and the Growing Philologists’ Networks3. Private Scholars, Private Academies, and the Community of KnowledgePart II. The Way of Antiquity: Searching for the True Way in the Past4. The Way of Ancient Learning: Philology, Antiquity, and Ru Identity5. Philology and the Message of the Sages: The Classics and the Four Books6. Historical Philology: Navigating the SourcesPart III. The Way of Heaven and Earth: The Mandate of Scholarship and the Search for Order 7. Astronomy, Mathematics, and Calendar: Historical Perspective8. Ancient Learning Encounters Western Learning: Scientific Knowledge and Its Cultural Baggage9. Fate, Ritual, and Ordering All Under HeavenConclusion: The Consequences of the Eighteenth-Century Intellectual TurnsAppendix A: Selections from Qian Daxin’s 1754 Palace Examination AnswerAppendix B: Major Shuowen and Erya Studies of the Qian-Jia Period (and Related Works)Appendix C: Qian Daxin’s Letter to Dai ZhenAppendix D: Questions and Answers About AstronomyAppendix E: Essay on the Value of Pi ΠAppendix F: Qian Daxin’s Writings on Mathematics, Astronomy, and DivinationAppendix G: On SaṃsāraAppendix H: Sources for the Works of Qian DaxinNote on Abbreviations and CitationsNotesSelected Bibliography of Chinese and Japanese TitlesIndex

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Book SynopsisA survey of contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. It considers musical composition against this changed backdrop, placing it in the context of globalization, digitization, and new media.Trade Review"...an essential survey of contemporary music." * New York Times *"...Rutherford-Johnson catalogues the bewildering diversity of twenty-first-century composed music, and, more important, makes interpretative sense of a corpus that ranges from symphonies and string quartets to improvisations on smashed-up pianos found in the Australian outback..."Music After the Fall” is the best extant map of our sonic shadowlands, and it has changed how I listen." Alex Ross * The New Yorker *"In relaxed and readable prose, Rutherford-Johnson describes in detail how pieces of new music might be received, experienced or understood by a general audience, without any need for a background in musical training...an informed, engaged and thoughtful account." * The Journal of Music *"Music After the Fall succeeds, faced with a bewildering range of styles, in showing us how to approach the at times forbidding terrain of contemporary music." * Gramophone *2017 Music Book of the Year -- Alex Ross * The New Yorker *"This remarkable feat of synthesis and analysis...has fundamentally changed my vision of the music of our time. No one who seriously follows contemporary music should be without it." -- Alex Ross * The Rest is Noise *"Music After the Fall is sharp, provacative and always on the money. The listening list alone promises months of fresh discovery, the main text a fresh new way of navigating the world of sound." * The Wire *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgments 1. 1989 and After 2. Mediation and the Marketplace 3. Permission: Freedom, Choice, and the Body 4. Fluidity: Digital Translations, Displacements, and Journeys 5. Mobility: Worldwide Flows, Networks, and Archipelagos 6. Superabundance: Spectacle, Scale, and Excess 7. Loss: Ruins, Memorials, and Documents 8. Recovery: Gaps between Past and Present Appendix 1: Recommended Listening Appendix 2: Further Reading Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe letters of Bartolomeo Fonzio—a leading literary figure in Florence of the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Machiavelli—are a window into the world of Renaissance humanism and classical scholarship. This first English translation includes the famous letter about the discovery on the Via Appia of the perfectly preserved body of a Roman girl.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you want to understand why illiberal democracy is not the newest of ideas, or how a raft of leaders has emerged in Hungary, Poland and the Balkans who seem to echo a dark time in our continent’s history, this compelling book, covering the last 200 years in the region, is a good place to start. . . . Few recent works have made the past so relevant to our times."---Victor Sebestyen, Sunday Times"Connelly captures superbly the divergences and rivalries within his basket of nationalities: how little coordination took place between them; how little they recognised what he calls their ‘common predicament.’"---R.J.W. Evans, Literary Review"A rich narrative history of Central and Eastern Europe."---Damir Marusic, Washington Examiner"[From Peoples into Nations] will doubtless emerge as a landmark contribution to the study of nationalism as a political force in Eastern Europe." * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *"The author has provided his reader not only with a detailed ‘crash course’ on how the people of Eastern Europe formednations there, but also with a ‘road map’ for further intellectual immersion. John Connelly’s monograph, therefore, serves as a valuable contribution to the broader understanding of Eastern Europe and an introductory textbook on a geographic space where more good and bad happened during the twentieth century than anywhere else."---Paweł Markiewicz, Slavonic and East European Review"A magisterial account about Eastern Europe that forcefully reminds us of the enduring and adaptable power of national passions in modern history. . . .Connelly is undeniably one of the best experts in regional history of central and eastern Europe, but most of all, he is a comparative historian of nation-states. . . .[B]efore any vast global comparisons can be made, we need rich, rigorous, and authoritative regional histories. From Peoples into Nations delivers just that."---Małgorzata Mazurek, H-Diplo

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This well-conceived work is a must-read for students interested in the global history of the bourgeoisie and its relationship with the emergence of modern capitalism worldwide."---Giampaolo Conte, Journal of European Economic History"This is a very important book that makes abundantly clear that the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture in the nineteenth century was by no means exclusive to Europe or even necessarily emanated from Europe."---Jeffrey Auerbach, World History Connected"The impressive breadth of the chapters is matched by a sense of analytical depth stressing the connections among global bourgeois elites and comparisons of the characteristics, behaviors, and visions that cut across national cases. . . . Reading The Global Bourgeoisie affirms the view that global history as a subfield has matured remarkably over the last three decades."---J. Laurence Hare, International Social Science Review"One of the major intellectual projects in central European history during the last two decades of the 20th century was the study of the Bürgertum. . . . Since that time, global history—global in expanding the comparative perspective outside the wealthier countries of the North Atlantic, but also in placing world-wide interactions at the center of historical structures and developments—has become steadily more influential. The current volume, a collection of essays based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2015, is an attempt to take the Bürgertum project global."---Jonathan Sperber, Francia Recensio

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Book SynopsisA history of the feminist movement that changed how we see women's work foreverTrade Review'An important resource for students of the bold and brilliant 1970s wages for housework movement' -- Kathi Weeks, author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries'This is a precise reconstruction of a legendary and almost-forgotten feminist campaign in Europe and North America. It includes a broad and balanced analysis of the theoretical background of the claim for wages for housework as well as of the controversies around it. An exciting and well-written memory of the 1970s!' -- Gisela Bock, Professor at the Free University BerlinTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: A Political and Personal History Part I: The International Feminist Collective: Historical Overview and Political Perspective 1. 1972: Wages for Housework in the Universe of Feminism 2. A Wage as a Lever for Power: The Political Perspective 3. The International Feminist Collective, 1972–77 Part II: Mobilizations around Women’s Invisible Work Overview 4. Mobilizations around Women’s Invisible Work in the Home 5. Mobilizations around Women’s Invisible Work Outside the Home 6. Mobilizations by Groups on the Periphery of the Network Conclusion Afterword – From Yesterday to Today: The Intellectual Journeys of Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Silvia Federici, from 1977 to 2013 Interview with Mariarosa Dalla Costa Interview with Silvia Federici Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssays reconsidering key topics in the history of late medieval Scotland and northern England. The volume celebrates the career of the influential historian of late medieval Scotland and northern England, Dr Alexander (Sandy) Grant. Its contributors engage with the profound shift in thinking about this society in the light of his scholarship, and the development of the "New Orthodoxy", both attending to the legacy of this discourse, and offering new research with which to challenge or amend our understanding of late medieval Scotland and northern England. Dr Grant's famously wide and diverse historical interests are here reflected through three main foci: kingship, lordship and identity. The volume includes significant reassessments of the reputations of two kings, Alexander I of Scotland and Henry V of England; an examination of Richard III's relationship to the lordship of Pontefract; and a study of the development of royal pardon in late medieval Scotland. Further chapters consider the social influence and legal and tenurial rights vested in aristocratic lineages, regional gentry communities, and the leaders of burghal corporations. Finally, the relationship between saints cults, piety and regnal and regional identity in medieval Scotland is scrutinised in chapters on St Margaret and St Ninian.Trade ReviewThese essays, and others, offer the reader a sense that Grant's legacy will continue in the exploration of new areas of research and that English and Scottish historiography will remain in productive and illuminating conversation with each other. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *

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Book SynopsisThis volume continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages, demonstrating its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past. Volume 33 of the Haskins Society Journal continues the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research from the early and central Middle Ages and demonstrates its belief that the close interrogation of primary documents yield new insights or important revisions into our understanding of the past. After an investigation of the role of Anglo-Saxon bishops in the provision of coastal defense, the subsequent articles explore different dimensions of the Anglo-Norman period: the place of sex at the royal court, the penitential sensibilities of Anglo-Norman prelates and their geographical expression, the complexity of using Anglo-Norman land surveys as evidence for the nature of and changes in peasant labor and obligations, and the office of sheriff and its place in the developing common law. The Denis Bethell Prize winning essay, through its close analysis of Denis Piramus' French translation of the Life of Edmund, king of England, explores the role of translated texts in the formation of Anglo-Norman elite identity. Essays on Queen Ingeborg of Denmark's conception and expression of her role as a Capetian queen. and on the use and meaning of direct and metaphorical references to art and artists in French sermons in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, round out the volume. Contributors: Yaoling Dai, Gabrielle Faundez-Rojas, P.D.A Harvey, Charles Insley, Tom Licence, Sara Lipton, Anne C. Schlender, Nigel Tringham.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Editors' Note Abbreviations 1 Naval Warfare, the State, and the Archbishops of Canterbury in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Charles Insley 2 Sex at the Court of William Rufus Tom Licence 3 The Rural Community in Twelfth-Century England P. D. A. Harvey 4 Penitence and piety: the death-bed charters of Ranulf, earl of Chester (d. 1153) Nigel Tringham 5 The Queen of Orléans: Ingeborg of Denmark, Female Rulership, and the Capetian Monarchy Anna C. Schlender 6 Denis Piramus's La Vie Seint Edmund: Translating Cultural Identities in the Anglo-Norman World Gabriela A. Faundez Rojas 7 The Sheriff and the Common Law: 1188-1230 Yaoling Dai 8 Ut Artifex: Art, Artifice, and Instruction in High Medieval Sermons Sara Lipton

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2019 Foreword INDIES Awards - Performing Arts & Music Honorable Mention, Graphis 2021 Design Annual Competition Popular music has long been a powerful force for social change. Protest songs have served as anthems regarding war, racism, sexism, ecological destruction, and so many other crucial issues. Music Is Power takes us on a guided tour through the past one hundred years of politically conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia, rap, punk, folk, and soul, Brad Schreiber demonstrates how musicians can take a variety of approaches— angry rallying cries, mournful elegies to the victims of injustice, or even humorous mockeries of authority—to fight for a fairer world. While shining a spotlight on Phil Ochs, Gil Scott-Heron, the Dead Kennedys and other seminal, politicized artists, he also gives readers a new appreciation of classic acts such as Lesley Gore, James Brown, and Black Sabbath, who overcame limitations in their industry to create politically potent music Music Is Power tells fascinating stories about the origins and the impact of dozens of world-changing songs, while revealing political context and the personal challenges of legendary artists from Bob Dylan to Bob Marley. Supplemental material (Artist and Title List): https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/24001955/Music_Is_Power_Supplementary_Artist_Title_List.doc Trade Review"Talk with Ted" interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-s3b37-e5cbf5— Talk with Ted podcast "Madame Perry's Salon" interview with Brad Schreiber, part two https://www.blogtalkradio.com/madameperryssalon/2020/05/14/writer-producer-brad-schreiber— Madame Perry's Salon, part two Parallax Views with J.G. Michael interview with Brad Schreiber https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/schreiber/— Parallax Views "Coast to Coast AM" interview with Brad Schreiber, part 3— Coast to Coast AM, part 3 "A fun and informative read from first page to last."— Midwest Book Review Louisiana Radio Network "Talk Louisiana" interview with Jim Engster and Brad Schreiber https://www.wrkf.org/post/monday-january-20th-faye-williams-daryl-glasper-brad-schreiber— Louisiana Radio Network “Brad Schreiber understands both music and politics, as well as the jagged lines where they overlap and intersect. His clarity, intelligence, and insight provide lasting rewards.” — Anthony DeCurtis, Grammy Award–winning journalist, for Rolling Stone, author of Lou Reed: A Life "Brad Schreiber Visits Madame Perry's Salon" podcast interview https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/brad-schreiber-visits-madame-perrys-salon/id1063919048?i=1000465223311 — Madame Perry's Salon "Coast to Coast AM" interview with Brad, Schreiber, part 1— Coast to Coast AM, part 1 "Episode 37: "Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and The Will to Change" with Brad Schreiber" https://allmusicbooksdeepdive.podbean.com/e/episode-37-music-is-power-popular-songs-social-justice-and-the-will-to-change-with-brad-schreiber/— Deep Dive podcast "Brad Schreiber talks about this topic perfectly...You did a lot of research." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gaim6C8E3wfeature=youtu.be— The Allan Handelman Show interview with Brad Schreiber: Music Is Power" "How Tom Odell’s Another Love became an unlikely anthem for Ukraine," by James Hall— The Telegraph Unstructured Podcast interview with Brad Schreiber https://unstructuredpod.com/psychotically-eclectic-author-brad-schreiber/— Unstructured Podcast Music Is Power mention in Planet Proctor, December 2019 issue— Planet Proctor Brad Schreiber's Playlist for His Book "Music is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice, and the Will to Change"— Largehearted Boy "Passing Through" KAAD-LP 103.5 FM interview with Brad Schreiber — Passing Through “A stirring survey of the sometimes sad, sometimes joyful, sometimes angry but ever hopeful music that is the soundtrack for America’s struggle to become a more fair and just society.” — Seth Rosenfeld, journalist, winner of the George Polk Award, author of Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radical "Brad Schreiber interview – Episode 288" http://readingandwritingpodcast.com/brad-schreiber-interview/— Reading and Writing podcast "Tuesday, December 8th: Andrea Gallo, Brad Schreiber"— "Talk Louisiana," WRKF "Coast to Coast AM" interview view Brad Schreiber, part 2— Coast to Coast AM, part 2 The Stuph File Program interview with Brad Schreiber— The Stuph File Program "Music Is Power covers the socio-political history of important music, from Bob Dylan to hip-hop, including genres like punk, comedy, folk, psychedelia, RB/soul and major musicals, and encourages listeners to respond to this powerful music with real world activism. It’s a timeless New Year’s gift!"— Planet Proctor "What’s better than a book you didn’t know you needed? Music Is Power is a history of the nexus of music and protest, from Wobbly-turned-musician Joe Hill to Green Day, from folk to hip-hop."— Razorcake "Chatting with Sherri," BlogTalkRadio interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.blogtalkradio.com/rithebard/2020/06/25/chatting-with-sherri— Chatting with Sherri - Blog Talk Radio "Music is Power: Author Brad Schreiber digs into he history and power of protest music" interview with Brad Schreiber https://wgnradio.com/2019/12/10/music-is-power-author-brad-schreiber-digs-into-he-history-and-power-of-protest-music/— Nick Digilio Show - WGN INTERVIEW WITH BRAD SCHREIBER ON ‘MUSIC IS POWER’: PART 1—DIXIE CHICKS, MARVIN GAY https://shadowproof.com/2020/03/31/music-is-power-interview-schreiber-dixie-chicks-marvin-gaye/— Shadowproof "Much has been written about these artists elsewhere, but Schreiber’s focus sets this study apart. He goes beneath the surface to detail how their social consciousness evolved during the course of their careers, and how they came to understand their music’s power to address social ills. This carefully researched book is suitable for fans and scholars alike. Recommended." — Choice "In Music Is Power, Brad Schreiber argues that socially or politically conscious music emerges from practically every genre of popular music, and he takes the reader on a journey through the various ways that musicians have addressed the issues of their day."— Shalon Van Tine, Western Folklore journal “Music Is Power - Part 3: Black Sabbath, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy” https://shadowproof.com/2020/04/28/music-is-power-schreiber-gil-scott-heron-black-sabbath/— Shadowproof, Part 3 "Brad Schreiber, 'Music Is Power: Popular Songs, Social Justice And The Will To Change'" https://www.wortfm.org/brad-schreiber-music-is-power-popular-songs-social-justice-and-the-will-to-change/— Madison Bookbeat Interview with Brad Schreiber on The Stuph File Program— The Stuph File "MWN Episode 144 – Music is Power (Part 2) with Brad Schreiber" https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-144-music-is-power-part-2-with-brad-schreiber/— Midnight Writer News Interview on "Deep Dish Radio with Tim Powers" with Brad Schreiber https://play.acast.com/s/deepdishradio/7424927b-bdc3-4183-a884-a84f4ba85c5f— Deep Dish Radio with Tim Powers Brad Schreiber interview on “Passing Through” on KAAD-LP 103.5 FM— Passing Through, part 2 "INTERVIEW WITH BRAD SCHREIBER ON ‘MUSIC IS POWER’: PART 2—JIMI HENDRIX, PINK FLOYD"— Shadowproof, Part 2 “An inspiring tour through the history of making change with music and an important call for retrieving music’s intrinsic ability to challenge power.” — Douglas Rushkoff, documentarian, professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY/Queens, author of Team Human *Special episode * Music is Power: Donna and Dr Adam in conversation with author Brad Schreiber— Love's A Secret Weapon podcast "An intensively researched yet rollicking tour of socially charged music...A compelling read on the intersection of popular music and social activism, from Pete Seeger to Zappa to Public Enemy and beyond."— American Songwriter Beyond Reality Paranormal Podcast - Hidden History episode interview with Brad Schreiber https://anchor.fm/brparanormal/episodes/Hidden-History---Brad-Schreiber---102020-elclvh— Beyond Reality Paranormal podcast MWN Episode 136 – Popular Songs , Social Justice, and the Will to Change with Brad Schreiber— Midnight Writer News Law and Disorder Radio interview with Brad Schreiber https://lawanddisorder.org/2019/11/law-and-disorder-november-25-2019/— Law and Disorder High Road to Humanity - Music Is Power! Popular Songs, Social Justice, with Guest Brad Schreiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55j15fa54NIfeature=youtu.be— Nancy Yearout's High Road to Humanity Music's Connection to Societal Issues The Patty Hearst/SLA Case - interview with Brad Schreiber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHdxbXK6Ys— Beyond Reality Radio "In-Depth Interview: Author Brad Schreiber Talks..." interview on the Peter B. Collins Show https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/peter-b-collins-newscomment/e/66984975— The Peter B. Collins Show "A fun read. It provides the old timer with a quick sail down the streams of memory and the younger reader with a useful and concise look at the music of the West that helped form the culture of today."— CounterPunchTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Musical Workers of the World Unite: Joe Hill, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger Chapter 2: There For More Than Fortune: Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan Chapter 3: Caged Artists: Lesley Gore, Janis Ian, P.F. Sloan Chapter 4: Parody and Poetry: Tom Lehrer, Peter, Paul and Mary, The Smothers Brothers Chapter 5: Psychedelicate Situation: Jimi Hendrix and Pink Floyd Chapter 6: Reason and Blues: Marvin Gaye and The Temptations Chapter 7: Say It Loud, We’re Blocked but Proud: James Brown and Curtis Mayfield Chapter 8: Hard Rock Turns Metallic: The Who and Black Sabbath Chapter 9: More Than a Working Class Hero: John Lennon Chapter 10: Out of Place and In Your Face: The Dead Kennedys and The Sex Pistols Chapter 11: Word: Gil Scott Heron and Grandmaster Flash Chapter 12: Global Music Consciousness: Bob Marley and Peter Gabriel Chapter 13: Weird, Funny, Angry: Frank Zappa vs. Everybody Chapter 14: Rap, Not Hip Hop: N.W.A. and Public Enemy Chapter 15: Weapons of Mass Deconstruction: Dixie Chicks and Green Day Epilogue Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWinner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic SlaveryWhen the United States emerged as a world power in the years before the Civil War, the men who presided over the nation's triumphant territorial and economic expansion were largely southern slaveholders. As presidents, cabinet officers, and diplomats, slaveholding leaders controlled the main levers of foreign policy inside an increasingly powerful American state. This Vast Southern Empire explores the international vision and strategic operations of these southerners at the commanding heights of American politics. At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy. Also lost was the memory of the prewar decades, when Southern politicians and pro-slavery ambitions shaped the foreign policy of the United States in order to protect slavery at home and advance its interests abroad. With This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp recovers that forgotten history and presents it in fascinating and often surprising detail.Fergus Bordewich, Wall Street JournalMatthew Karp's illuminating book This Vast Southern Empire shows that the South was interested not only in gaining new slave territory but also in promoting slavery throughout the Western Hemisphere.David S. Reynolds, New York Review of BooksTrade ReviewAn essential and compelling account of the slaveholding elite’s grip on national and foreign policy in antebellum America. Provocative, engaging, and beautifully written, this book will endure. -- Stephanie McCurry, author of Confederate ReckoningMatthew Karp demonstrates vividly how Southern control of the national government in the antebellum generation resulted in a foreign policy designed to protect slavery from threats both outside and inside the United States. Full of new information and original insights, this book expands our understanding of the ways in which Southern domination of the federal government provoked increasing sectional tensions that brought on the Civil War. -- James M. McPherson, author of The War That Forged a NationA pathbreaking work—extremely polished, imaginatively conceptualized, shrewdly organized, engagingly written, and exhaustively researched. -- Robert E. May, author of Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the TropicsAdept and detailed…Karp’s thorough and polished study will be eagerly welcomed by scholars. * Publishers Weekly *At the close of the Civil War, more than Southern independence and the bones of the dead lay amid the smoking ruins of the Confederacy. Also lost was the memory of the prewar decades, when Southern politicians and pro-slavery ambitions shaped the foreign policy of the United States in order to protect slavery at home and advance its interests abroad. With This Vast Southern Empire, Matthew Karp recovers that forgotten history and presents it in fascinating and often surprising detail…Karp makes a persuasive case that we cannot grasp our country’s history without taking account of slavery’s dreams and ambitions. -- Fergus Bordewich * Wall Street Journal *Karp has written a comprehensive history of the Davisonians that shows how a pro-slavery foreign policy dominated the executive branch from the presidency of John Tyler (1841–45) through the Buchanan administration, which ended in 1861… Combining immense erudition with an engaging style, Karp sheds light on an important but poorly understood era in American foreign policy and provides much food for thought about the ways in which the Davisonian legacy continued to influence the United States long after slavery died. -- Walter Russell Mead * Foreign Affairs *The book is essential, if unsettling, reading. -- Ibrahim Sundiata * Public Books *Matthew Karp’s illuminating book This Vast Southern Empire shows that the South was interested not only in gaining new slave territory but also in promoting slavery throughout the Western Hemisphere. Far from insular, proslavery leaders had a far-reaching awareness of the international status of human bondage, which they regarded as essential to progress and prosperity. Holding the reins of political power, slave owners largely determined American foreign policy from the 1830s through the 1850s. As Karp reveals, they were well positioned to use the resources of the federal government to push their agenda around the world…While the emancipation of the British West Indies is widely recognized as a significant event in the history of abolition, no one has described its effect on U.S. international relations as fully or persuasively as Karp does…One of Karp’s contributions is to reveal ways in which the South was not isolated, either nationally or internationally. He shows that it appropriated the main structures of federal power. In this sense, through much of the era leading up to the Civil War, the South, effectively, was the United States, at least in its contacts with the rest of the world. -- David S. Reynolds * New York Review of Books *This Vast Southern Empire is a much-needed redirection of focus away from the eccentric filibusters who dominated memory of antebellum proslavery expansion toward the actual policymakers who were more directly influential in shaping the government’s relations with slavery, expansion, and America’s neighbors to the south. The irony inherent in their story is that these southern policymakers were the leading proponents of the military and diplomatic power that contributed to their own destruction…Ultimately, although the Civil War officially ended slavery, the key elements of the foreign policy crafted by slaveholders lived on. -- Roger Bailey * H-Net Reviews *Modern Americans have a false image of Southern slaveholders as isolated reactionaries who presided over and eventually lost a feudal kingdom. In his superb book, This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy, historian Matthew Karp argues slaveholders were worldly men. The political and economic elites of their age, slaveholders worked tirelessly to build a world in which bondage could thrive. Their chosen means was the foreign policy apparatus of the federal government. -- Tim Reuter * Forbes *

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Book SynopsisDag Nikolaus Hasse shows how ideological and scientific motives led to the decline of Arabic traditions in European culture. The Renaissance was a turning point: on the one hand, Arabic scientific traditions reached their peak of influence in Europe; on the other, during this period the West began to forget, or suppress, its debt to Arabic culture.Trade ReviewA must-read for people working on the histories of philosophy, medicine, or science in Renaissance Italy. In this important book, Hasse challenges a reigning paradigm in Renaissance studies, documenting the continuing centrality of the Arabic tradition in Italy and the complex interactions of humanism and Arabism in scientific and philosophical teaching and debates. -- Katharine Park, Harvard UniversitySuccess and Suppression is rich not only in its coverage of topics, but also in the variety of sources consulted and implications pursued. No matter which approach one takes or what background one brings to this book, the very exercise of reading it will bring unmitigated pleasure, if for no other reason than the vast tour d’horizon Hasse offers to the reader. -- George Saliba, Columbia UniversityThe fruits of Hasse’s groundbreaking research are now available to a wide readership in [this] lucid and well-documented monograph that offers a nuanced, convincing, and utterly captivating narrative…This is an imminently important and enjoyable book… In a field where he has been a pioneer, Hasse does justice to the complex circumstances which account for the presence or absence of Arabic theories. -- Anna A. Akasoy * Intellectual History of the Islamicate World *

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Book SynopsisThe first history of sisters Isabella and Catherine de Valois, who both married English kings amid the brutal Hundred Years War

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Book SynopsisEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity, military innovation, religious tolerance and intellectual development. This is the first textbook to present this period of early modern Dutch history in a global context. It makes an active use of illustrations, objects, personal stories and anecdotes to present a lively overview of Dutch global history that is solidly grounded in sources and literature. Focusing on themes that resonate with contemporary concerns, such as overseas exploration, war, slavery, migration, identity and racism, this volume charts the multiple ways in which the Dutch were connected with the outside world. It serves as an engaging and accessible introduction to Dutch history as well as a case study in early modern global expansion.Trade Review'A clear, fascinating, and comprehensive guide to a truly global Netherlands; setting diplomatic, military, and imperial history in a rich cultural context.' Tony Claydon, University of Bangor'Vividly written and original in approach, this book is an impressive achievement. Onnekink and Rommelse take a broad view of international history, linking the Dutch Republic's policy in Europe with its trading ventures in Asia, Africa and the Americas. In the process they throw much fresh light on their subject, from the culture of diplomacy to the science of overseas expansion. For all this and more, their account will be widely welcomed.' Hugh Dunthorne, University of Swansea'A well written narrative of Dutch foreign policy from revolt (1579) to revolution (1795) and set those developments within a wider socio-economic and cultural context. This work represents the best of the New Diplomatic history and fills lacunae in both Dutch and Early Modern European history. A carefully crafted and wittily argued tale, this book is highly recommended.' Linda Frey and Marsha Frey, University of Montana and Kansas State University'A fast-paced, well-informed account of the rise, decline and fall of the Dutch Republic 1600–1800. It offers many challenging new insights, interweaving as it does the dynamics driving Dutch culture and society with the global maritime power of its merchant empire.' Reinier Salverda, University College London'It can certainly be useful as a handbook for students.' Joris van den Tol, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The emerging republic (1579–1609); 2. The confident republic (1609–50); 3. The ascendant republic (1650–72); 4. The combatant republic (1672–1713); 5. The stagnant republic (1713–47); 6. The dissolving republic (1747–95); Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisJohannes de Hauvilla’s satirical allegory Architrenius, completed in 1184, follows the quest for moral education of its eponymous protaganist, the “arch-weeper,” who confronts the vices of school, church, and court. This edition brings together the most authoritative Latin text with a new English translation of an important medieval poem.Trade ReviewIts stylistic ambitions, complex figurative language, and impressive knowledge of ancient literature and mythology made the Architrenius a classic in the Middle Ages and a canonical school text equal to the works of Bernardus Silvestris, Alan of Lille, and Walter of Châtillon. However, in a strange and, perhaps some would argue, justified, twist of fate (as did Petrarch, who disliked the poem intensely), scholarly interest in Johannes’s work has lagged far behind that afforded his more famous contemporaries…This elegant volume is clearly a labor of love: it provides students and scholars with an eminently useful translation of an often misunderstood and misjudged twelfth-century Latin epic…It is to be hoped that both edition and translation will change the fate of the Architrenius, bringing this distinctive, if unusual work to the attention of both Latin aficionados and the wider public. -- Greti Dinkova-Bruun * Speculum *

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