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Book SynopsisAsia After Versailles addresses an important watershed for Asian nations - the response to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It marked the end of a conflict which, although intrinsically European, had globalized the world on many levels and stood at the beginning of a new order that saw the power centre shift towards the US and Asia.

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

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Book SynopsisCrusading kings such as Louis IX of France and Richard I of England exert a unique hold on our historical imagination. For this reason, it can be easy to forget that European rulers were not always eager participants in holy war. The First Crusade was launched in 1095, and yet the first monarch did not join the movement until 1146, when the French king Louis VII took the cross to lead the Second Crusade. One contemporary went so far as to compare the crusades to 'Creation and man's redemption on the cross', so what impact did fifty years of non-participation have on the image and practice of European kingship and the parameters of cultural development? This book considers this question by examining the challenge to political authority that confronted the French kings and their family members as a direct result of their failure to join the early crusades, and their less-than-impressive involvement in later ones.Trade Review‘Constructing Kingship is a valuable book which engages seriously with a theme, the impact of the crusades on royal action and ideology, which has been, as Naus points out (pp. 6-7), overlooked for far too long. Its central thesis is a stimulating argument which will hopefully inspire further research on this topic, and throughout the book Naus highlights many fascinating links between the crusades and the Capetian monarchy which are rarely considered together. The highlight of the book is undoubtedly the third chapter’s marvellous textual analysis of Suger’s Gesta Ludovici Grossi, which sheds important new light on one of 12th-century France’s most important narrative sources.’Mr Niall Ó Súilleabháin, Trinity College Dublin, Reviews in History‘Naus has put his stamp on this most critical topic, and his book will now serve as a starting point for discussion of it.’Jay Rubenstein, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, H-France Review Vol. 17 (February 2017), No. 34‘A book that will be of use to students of kingship, holy war, and the cultural tumult of the central Middle Ages.’ Matthew Gabriele, Virginia Tech, Medieval Review‘Naus has produced a work for which there has been a sore need, which is engaging, well written, and thought-provoking.’Stephen Donnachie, Royal Studies Journal'Overall, one will find this book an intelligently well written study, which is to serve as basis/groundwork for further research on this subject.'Boris Gübele, Göttingen, Historischen Zeitschrift Heft 309/1 -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Crisis1 Framing the Capetian Miracle2 The First Crusade and the new economy of status, 1095-1110Part II: Response 3 Suger of Saint-Denis and the ideology of crusade4 Louis VII and the failure of crusade5 Philip Augustus, political circumstance and crusadeIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study is the first in-depth analysis of the Fulbright exchange program in a single country. Drawing on previously unexplored archives and oral history, the authors investigate the educational, political and diplomatic dimensions of a complex bi-national program as experienced by Australian and American scholars. The book begins with the postwar context of the scheme’s origins, moves through its difficult Australian establishment during the early Cold War, the challenges posed by the Vietnam War, and the impacts of civil rights and gender parity movements and late 20th century economic belt-tightening. How the program’s goal of ‘mutual understanding’ was understood and enacted across six decades lies at the heart of the book, which weaves institutional and individual experiences together with broader geopolitical issues. Bringing a complex and nuanced analysis to the Australia-US relationship, the authors offer fresh insights into the global significance of the Fulbright ProgramTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 ‘Free gift’ or ‘infiltration’? Negotiating the Fulbright Agreement2 ‘A steady stream of new problems’: Politics and teething issues3 ‘Bright scientific moles’ v. ‘goodwill ambassador extroverts’: Choosing a Fulbright scholar 4 ‘Mutual benefit’ v. ‘the needs of the country’: Programming academic fields5 ‘Meeting [our] domestic Communism problem’: Cold War governance and the public university6 Education, or ‘part of our foreign policy’? At war in Vietnam7 ‘Experience is the only teacher’: Academic ambassadors interpret ‘mutual understanding’8 ‘Just because one is a woman’: Forging careers and changing the gender landscape9 From ‘White Australia’ to ‘the race question in America’: Confronting racial diversity10 ‘In the climate of continuing financial restraint’: Finding a sustainable future in the neo-liberal universityConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a stimulating new perspective on the history of historical studies. Through the prism of ‘scholarly personae’, it explores why historians care about attitudes or dispositions that they consider necessary for studying the past, yet often disagree about what virtues, skills, or competencies are most important. More specifically, the volume explains why models of virtue known as ‘personae’ have always been contested, yet also can prove remarkably stable, especially with regard to their race, class, and gender assumptions. Covering historical studies across Europe, North America, Africa, and East Asia, How to be a historian will appeal not only to historians of historiography, but to all historians who occasionally wonder: What kind of a historian do I want to be?Trade Review'Historians’ identities form the subject matter of this geographically wide-ranging, well-researched and theoretically framed collection of essays.'R. C. Richardson, University of Winchester, Times Higher Education, July 2019 -- .Table of ContentsNotes on contributorsIntroduction. Scholarly personae: what they are and why theymatter – Herman Paul1 The contested persona of the historian: on the origins of apermanent conflict – Ian Hunter2 Ranke vs Schlosser: pairs of personae in nineteenth-centuryGerman historiography – Herman Paul3 Fixing genius: the Romantic man of letters in the universityera – Travis E. Ross4 Generational continuities and composite personae: Frenchhistoriography from the 1870s to the 1950s – Camille Creyghton5 Pasha and his historic harem: Edward A. Freeman, EdithThompson and the gendered personae of late-Victorianhistorians – Elise Garritzen6 Interpretative and investigative: the emergence andcharacteristics of modern scholarly personae in China,1900–30 – Q. Edward Wang7 Coalescence and conflict: historians and their personae in thePortuguese New State – António da Silva Rêgo8 The emergence of the English Marxist historian’s scholarlypersona: the English Revolution debate of 1940–41 – SinaTalachian9 Of communism, compromise and Central Europe: the scholarlypersona under authoritarianism – Monika Baár10 What is an African historian? Negotiating scholarly personae inUNESCO’s General History of Africa – Larissa Schulte Nordholt11 The finitude of personae: Bryce Lyon, François Louis Ganshofand the biography of Pirenne – Henning TrüperIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; the British called them 'half-castes'. Black GIs, in this segregated army, were forbidden to marry their white girl-friends. Nearly half of the children were given up to children's homes but few were adopted, thought 'too hard to place'. There has been minimal study of these children and the difficulties they faced, such as racism in a (then) very white Britain, lack of family or a clear identity. The book will present the stories of over fifty of these children, their stories contextualised in terms of government policy and attitudes of the time. Accessibly written, with stories both heart-breaking and uplifting, the book is illustrated throughout with photographs. -- .Trade Review'Lucy Bland's stories of Britain's Brown Babies evoke a potent mix of rage, tears, joy and thankfulness: rage at everyday racisms, both institutional and individual, tears for the cruelties suffered, joy at the love and care that some found and thankfulness that we can hear these voices.' Catherine Hall, Emerita Professor of History, UCL 'Using oral histories as well as revealing analyses of governmental policies and the politics of racially warped institutions, Lucy Bland's wonderful book lays out in no uncertain terms how the stigma of illegitimacy coupled with racism shaped the experiences of children born to white British women and African American G.I.s during and in the aftermath of World War II.' Sonya O. Rose, Professor Emerita of History, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan 'In this thoughtful and poignant work, Lucy Bland not only meticulously details the history of Britain's 'brown babies' but, by placing their voices at the very centre of her scholarship, offers invaluable fresh perspectives. Bland's compassionate and insightful foregrounding of these moving memories of racial mixing and mixedness can't be applauded strongly enough. An outstanding achievement.' Dr Chamion Caballero, Goldsmiths, University of London -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. British women meet black GIs 2. Keeping the 'brown babies' 3. 'Brown babies' relinquished: experiences of children's homes 4. Adoption, fostering and attempts to send the babies to the US 5. Secrets and lies: searching for mothers and fathers 6. After the war and beyond Appendix: the case study 'brown babies' Bibliography Index -- .

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Book SynopsisThis book recounts a little-known history of the estimated 2,000 babies born to black GIs and white British women in the second world war. The African-American press named these children ‘brown babies’; the British called them ‘half-castes’. Black GIs, in this segregated army, were forbidden to marry their white girl-friends. Nearly half of the children were given up to children’s homes but few were adopted, thought ‘too hard to place’. There has been minimal study of these children and the difficulties they faced, such as racism in a (then) very white Britain, lack of family or a clear identity. The book will present the stories of over fifty of these children, their stories contextualised in terms of government policy and attitudes of the time. Accessibly written, with stories both heart-breaking and uplifting, the book is illustrated throughout with photographs.Trade Review'In this thoughtful and poignant work, Lucy Bland not only meticulously details the history of Britain's 'brown babies' but, by placing their voices at the very centre of her scholarship, offers invaluable fresh perspectives. Bland's compassionate and insightful foregrounding of these moving memories of racial mixing and mixedness can't be applauded strongly enough. An outstanding achievement.'Chamion Caballero, Goldsmiths, University of London‘Lucy Bland’s stories of Britain’s Brown Babies evoke a potent mix of rage, tears, joy and thankfulness: rage at everyday racisms, both institutional and individual, tears for the cruelties suffered, joy at the love and care that some found and thankfulness that we can hear these voices.’Catherine Hall, Emerita Professor of History, UCL‘Using oral histories as well as revealing analyses of governmental policies and the politics of racially warped institutions, Lucy Bland’s wonderful book lays out in no uncertain terms how the stigma of illegitimacy coupled with racism shaped the experiences of children born to white British women and African American G.I.s during and in the aftermath of World War II.’Sonya O. Rose, Professor Emerita of History, Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan'Lucy Bland’s book beautifully and carefully recovers the intimate, painful and sometimes joyous stories of Britain’s ‘brown babies’. […] Throughout Bland writes with sensitivity, care and an astute sense of her positionality as interviewer, offering an exemplar of undertaking this essential oral history research. […] Her meticulous attention to the ways in which these children navigated their own sense of belonging and difference – at home, in the care system, in British society and with their American families – is a tremendous achievement, with important findings for historians of migration, Black Britain, childhood and family alike.'Women's History'An important advancement of the historio-graphy and, due to its clear style and unique source material, is ideally suited for use in the classroom, as well. Graduate students will benefit in particular from Bland’s careful discussion of her methodology ; for undergraduates and graduate students alike, Bland’s skillful use of oral history and biographical material makes her book highly accessible and engaging.'Res Militaris'[...] Professor Bland seamlessly weaves the stories of more than forty of these children for whom she has obtained in-depth interview material and who form the core of the book. The result is a work of substantial scholarship, accompanied by forty pages of notes and an extensive bibliography. The story appears close to the author’s heart which also makes it a humane and compelling narrative that is written with lucidity and precision.'Peter J. Aspinall (2021), Ethnic and Racial Studies'Meticulously researched and sensitively handled, Britain’s 'Brown Babies' not only makes a major contribution to the history of black people in Britain, but through it, shines a light on attitudes to illegitimacy and, in particular, race in the 1940s and 1950s – attitudes which are shockingly familiar to us still today.'History Workshop Journal -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. British women meet black GIs 2. Keeping the ‘brown babies’ 3. ‘Brown babies’ relinquished: experiences of children’s homes 4. Adoption, fostering and attempts to send the babies to the US 5. Secrets and lies: searching for mothers and fathers 6. After the war and beyond Appendix: the case study 'brown babies' Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBohemond of Taranto, Lord of Antioch, unofficial leader of the First Crusade, was a man of boundless ambition and inexhaustible energy - he was, in the words of Romuald of Salerno, 'always seeking the impossible'. While he failed in his quest to secure the Byzantine throne, he succeeded in founding the most enduring of all the crusader states. Yet few substantial accounts of the life of this remarkable warrior have been written and none have been published in English for over a century - and that is why this absorbing new study by Georgios Theotokis is of such value. He concentrates on Bohemond as a soldier and commander, covering his contribution to the crusades but focusing in particular on his military achievements in Italy, Sicily, the Balkans and Anatolia. Since medieval commanders generally receive little credit for their strategic understanding, he examines Bohemond's war-plans in his many campaigns, describes how he adapted his battle-tactics when facing different opponents and considers whether his approach to waging war was typical of the Norman commanders of his time.

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Book SynopsisMost people have always been interested in sex, love and marriage. Now, this entertaining and informative book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth's England. A range of writers, from the famous, such as Shakespeare, John Donne and Ben Jonson, and lesser-known figures popular in their time, provide, in their witty stories, poems and plays, vivid pictures of Elizabethan sexual attitudes and experiences, while sober reports from the church courts tell of seductions, adulteries and rapes. Here we also encounter private journals and scenes from ordinary marriages, with complaints of women's fashions, bossy wives and domineering husbands. Besides this, there are accounts of the busy whores of London brothels, homosexual activity and the Court's amorous carousel of predatory aristocrats, promiscuous ladies and hopeful maids of honour. We conclude with the frustrations of The Virgin Queen herself. This lively review of Elizabethan sexuality, in its various forms, much of it brought together for the first time, should intrigue and amuse anyone with an interest in history, and how love used to be lived, 'in good Queen Bess's golden days'.

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Book SynopsisThe history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For the Age of Princes, an era defined by ever-increased threats of foreign hegemony, internal dynastic strife and constant warfare, the comings and goings of women are little noted in sources. This misfortune touches even the most well-known royal woman of the time, Joan of England (d. 1237), the wife of Llywelyn the Great of Gwynedd, illegitimate daughter of King John and half-sister to Henry III. With evidence of her hand in thwarting a full scale English invasion of Wales to a notorious scandal that ended with the public execution of her supposed lover by her husband and her own imprisonment, Joan's is a known, but little-told or understood story defined by family turmoil, divided loyalties and political intrigue. From the time her hand was promised in marriage as the result of the first Welsh-English alliance in 1201 to the end of her life, Joan's place in the political wranglings between England and the Welsh kingdom of Gwynedd was a fundamental one. As the first woman to be designated Lady of Wales, her role as a political diplomat in early thirteenth-century Anglo-Welsh relations was instrumental. This first-ever account of Siwan, as she was known to the Welsh, interweaves the details of her life and relationships with a gendered re-assessment of Anglo-Welsh politics by highlighting her involvement in affairs, discussing events in which she may well have been involved but have gone unrecorded and her overall deployment of royal female agency.

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Book SynopsisBetween the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. While remaining faithful to the beliefs, behaviours, and language of their tradition, Italian Jews proved themselves open to a rapidly evolving world of great richness. The crisis of Aristotelianism (which progressively touched upon all fields of knowledge), religious fractures and unrest, the scientific revolution, and the new perception of reality expressed through a transformation of the visual arts: these are some of the changes experienced by Italian Jews which they were affected by in their own particular way. This book explores the complex relations between Jews and the world that surrounded them during a critical period of European civilisation. The relations were rich, problematic, and in some cases strained, alternating between opposition and dialogue, osmosis and distinction.Trade Review“Nine momentous essays in intellectual history of Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Period, by one of the most skilled specialists of the field. Topics deal with a wide range of issues, such as philosophy, Kabbalah, humanism, politics, allegorical representations of space, and others. Although deeply scholarly, the well-designed approach of the author will undoubtedly fascinate many broadminded ordinary readers.” — Robert Bonfil, Emeritus Professor of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|“Alessandro Guetta is one of the leading scholars of the cultural history of Italian Jewry in early modern times today. Italian Jewry in the Early Modern Era brings together a fine collection of papers published over the last ten years, some of which were originally published in Italian and French, and now reproduced in an English translation. These nine studies, covering the period from the late fifteenth century to the early nineteenth century, focus on the diverse aspects of the process of modernization of Italian Jewish culture from the Renaissance until the Jewish Enlightenment.” — Abraham Melamed, Professor of Jewish History and Thought, University of Haifa

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Book SynopsisA case history on the vitality of organised labour in the twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisThis book captures the story of the Taratuta family and their struggle to flee the hardships of the USSR and repatriate to Israel in the late twentieth century. The narrative follows the lives of three family members, Aba, his wife Ida, and their son Misha, as they endure countless struggles throughout their journey to freedom. Tense moments ensue as the refuseniks print copies of forbidden Zionist literature and textbooks, publicly support those detained in prison and the Gulag, organize scientific and legal seminars in their apartment, receive Western visitors, and secretly partake in weekly Hebrew lessons. Well-recognized in the West as central players in the Soviet Jewish movement in Leningrad throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Taratutas underwent constant surveillance by the KGB until they were finally able to repatriate to Israel. In spite of their hardships, the family attempted to live a life of normalcy and to cherish moments of happiness and togetherness.Table of Contents From the Academic Editor, Michael Beizer, From the Authors 1. Grandmother Ida 2. Grandfather Aba 3. Father Misha 4. Hebrew, Leonid Fridkin: How I Studied Hebrew 5. Samizdat (Underground Literature) 6. Demonstrations: December 24, 1975 7. Telephone 8. Seminars 9. Unsanctioned Exhibition 10. Pesach 1977 11. Warning 12. Visits to Places of Detention 13. Search 14. Interrogation in the Prosecutor’s Office 15. Jewish Library 16. KGB Interrogation, 1982 17. Burglary 18. Contacts with the West 19. Three Demonstrations in 1987 20. Not by Zionism Alone… 21. Israel Afterword, Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisDefining Documents in World History: Renaissance & Early Modern Era explores vital documents from important world figures from the 15th and 16th centuries, including Thomas Aquinas, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marco Polo, and many more. This new addition to the Defining Documents series offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events that shaped these documents and the authors behind them. This text closely studies more than forty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of various peoples and events throughout history.Renaissance & Early Modern Era provides detailed, thought-provoking analysis of: Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae Leon Alberti: On Painting Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou . Articles begin by introducing readers to the historical context surrounding the document, followed by a description of the author's life and circumstances in which the document was written. Next, a detailed analysis of the document provides an in-depth examination of the issues surrounding the document and its historical significance. An historical timeline and bibliography of supplemental readings will suport readers in understanding the broader historical events and subjects in the period.

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Book SynopsisThe Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.Trade Review'required reading ... not to be missed for its fearless and comprehensive grasp of the past and its relevance for today' * Ileach *'Eric Richards is a fluent, lucid writer' * Herald *

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Book SynopsisDavid Lloyd George is widely regarded as one of the most effective British prime ministers of the twentieth century. A dynamic speaker and committed social reformer, he led Britain successfully through the devastation of World War I and had a powerful impact on international politics. In the post-war peace treaties, he sought a just, rather than a vengeful, settlement for the defeated powers in an attempt to preserve a peaceful international order. Whilst Lloyd George's achievements were undoubtedly substantial, his political record was not entirely without blemish and, in his personal life, he was a fascinating and complex character. Renowned as a womaniser, after 1913 he retained two separate households - one with his wife and one with his mistress, his former private secretary. Based on extensive research, Travis L. Crosby provides a fresh appraisal of the life of one of Britain's most conflicted politicians.Trade Review'This book provides a new assessment of a somewhat enigmatic figure. Travis Crosby cuts through the thicket of views and suggests persuasive explanations of Lloyd George's behaviour. In the process the Lloyd George laid bare is neither an opportunist nor an ideologue; instead, he is shown to be someone who calculated and responded to situations and sought to produce resolutions.' Peter Catterall, Reader in History, University of Westminster 'This is a deeply considered, vivid, lucid and genuinely illuminating book that deals as frankly and comprehensively with Lloyd George's capacity to encounter and foment conflict in his public life as with his tendency to take similar risks in his private affairs.' - Denis Judd, author of Empire: The British Imperial Experience 1765 to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroduction The Education of a Statesman To England, To Parliament With Radical Intent? In the Cabinet Robbing the Hen Roost Triumph Scandal and Failure Imperial Matters and Foreign Affairs Nightmare ‘The Righteousness That Exalteth a Nation’ Prime Minister in War Prime Minister in Peace Reconstruction and Resistance The Irish Revolution ‘To Straighten Ragged Edges’ The Long Good-Bye 18. Return to Wales

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Book SynopsisInternational History: A Cultural Approach offers an innovative history of modern international relations that stresses cultural themes. In place of the usual focus on great-power rivalries, diplomatic negotiations, military conflict, and other phenomena in which sovereign nations are the key players, this book focuses on intercultural relations as individuals, races, religions, and non-state actors interact across national boundaries, to provide a fresh perspective on modern international history. Among the themes covered are: - Nationalism and cosmopolitanism - Migration - Cross-cultural encounters - Consumerism and youth cultures - Environmental transformations - Economic and technological globalization Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde's approach offers a deeper understanding of international history, focusing on people and their cultures rather than just state level interactions.Trade ReviewA brilliantly conceived book that reshapes the field of international history. Incisively illuminating a breathtaking array of international developments across the world over two centuries, this tour-de-force decisively demonstrates that culture is not an adjunct to international relations but is always constituent of it. * Barbara Keys, Author of Reclaiming American Virtue: The Human Rights Revolution of the 1970s *This is an excellent overview of the cultural dimensions of international history. Exploring the emergence of transnationalism as a key feature of the modern world, Goedde and Iriye demonstrate that understanding culture is vital if we are to explain how that world came to be. * Andrew Priest, Senior Lecturer, University of Essex, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Illustrations Introduction Part I The Rise of the Modern 1. Dialectics of Nationalism and Internationalism 2. Cross-Cultural Encounter 3. Imagined Communities 4. Modern Consciousness Part II Movement and Empire 5. Movements 6. Imperial cultures 7. Racial Formations 8. Cultural Internationalism Part III Global Cultures 9. Visions of Modernity 10. Modernity in Crisis 11. Cold War Cultures 12. Challenging the Cold War Consensus Part IV Transnational Connections 13. Cultural Globalization, 1970-1990 14. The Growth of Non-State Actors 15. The Post-Cold War World 16. The World Today Conclusion Further Readings Notes Index

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Book SynopsisJonas of Bobbio was an Italian monk, author, and abbot, active in Lombard Italy and Merovingian Gaul during the seventh century. He is best known as the author of the Life of Columbanus and His Disciples, one of the most important works of hagiography from the early medieval period, that charts the remarkable journey of the Irish exile and monastic founder, Columbanus (d. 615), through Western Europe, as well as the monastic movement initiated by him and his Frankish successors in the Merovingian kingdoms. In the years following Columbanus’s death numerous new monasteries were built by his successors and their elite patrons in Francia that decisively transformed the inter-relationship between monasteries and secular authorities in the Early Middle Ages. Jonas also wrote two other, occasional works set in the late fifth and sixth centuries: the Life of John, the abbot and founder of the monastery of Réomé in Burgundy, and the Life of Vedast, the first bishop of Arras and a contemporary of Clovis. Both works provide perspectives on how the past Gallic monastic tradition, the role of bishops, and the Christianization of the Franks were perceived in Jonas’s time. Jonas’s hagiography also provides important evidence for the reception of classical and late antique texts as well as the works of Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours.This volume presents the first complete English translation of all of Jonas of Bobbio’s saints’ Lives with detailed notes and scholarly introduction that will be of value to all those interested in this period.Trade ReviewReviews 'There is a richness to the material which O'Hara and Wood have done us a great service in making more accessible.' Jamie Kreiner, The Medieval Review'This book is a timely and meaningful contribution to the scholarship on Merovingian Gaul. It is important not only for its accessible translation of a large and difficult corpus of works set against a complicated historical and textual background, but also for its clear synthesis of current scholarship. Finally, it elegantly succeeds in navigating the “Irish” vs. “Frankish” controversy, which seems to have reawakened of late.' Yaniv Fox, Speculum'This very welcome new translation is also a highly sophisticated scholarly edition. It is particularly rich in bibliography, with an extensive listing of virtually all the secondary literature on Columban and his times.' Terrence Kardong, American Benedictine Review 'This very welcome addition to Liverpool University Press’s Translated Texts for Historians more than lives up to expectations for this esteemed book series [...] Alexander O’Hara and Ian Wood’s volume will be an essential companion for its valuable introduction, detailed footnotes, half-dozen appendices, up-to-date bibliography, and, not least of all, high-quality translation of Jonas’s often challenging Latin. [...] In sum, this is an important book, not only for the early medieval texts it makes available to a much wider potential readership but also for the exceptional scholarship that went into the presentation and translation of those texts.'Westley Follett, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies‘Whatever the final outcome of contemporary debates about Columbanus, ‘Columbanian Monasticism’, and the influence of the Irish in continental Europe in the early Middle Ages, this volume will provide invaluable evidence (for both sides!) for many years to come.’ Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Early Medieval Europe'The publication of an erudite, readable, and heavily annotated translation of Jonas of Bobbio’s hagiographical corpus is a cause for celebration. Although one of the recognized classics of seventh-century hagiography, Jonas’s Vita Columbani until now has not been available in an unabridged English translation, while the comparatively brief lives of John of Réomé and Vedast appear for the very first time in English. [...] O’Hara and Wood thus have produced not only an invaluable teaching resource, but a significant contribution to the new wave of Columbanian studies.' Gregory I. Halfond, The Mediæval JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The works of Jonas of Bobbio.2. Francia in the Days of Columbanus.3. The Gallic Church of the Late Sixth Century.4. Columbanus and his ascetic exile to the continent.5. Columbanus’s legacy.6. Jonas of Bobbio: an Italian monk in Merovingian Gaul.7. The manuscripts of the Life of Columbanus and the structure of the text.8. Jonas the hagiographer and his Christian sources.9. The Second Book of the Life of Columbanus and his Disciples.10. Language and Style.11. Jonas’s Life of John.12. The Life of Vedast of Arras. Author and text.13. Conclusion - the influence of Jonas’s hagiography.14. A note on the text and translations of the Life of Columbanus.Jonas, The Life of Columbanus. Book I. Verses and Hymn. Book II.Jonas, The Life of John.Jonas (?), The Life of Vedast.Appendices1. Textual Variants.2. Distribution of Biblical Quotations.3. Parallels between Regula cuiusdam ad virgines and Jonas’s hagiographical works.4. Three diplomas associated with Bobbio and Faremoutiers in the time of Jonas.BibliographyMaps1. Ireland in the Days of Columbanus,2. Francia, c. 590.3. Burgundy c. 590-610.4. Luxeuil and its environs.5. Francia, c.610.6. Early Columbanian foundations.7. The World of Jonas.8. The World of the Life of Vedast.9. Arras in the Merovingian period.

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on a lengthy experience of teaching graduates how to approach medieval books. It leads the reader through the stages of the editorial process, using part of Richard Rolle's Commentary on the Song of Songs as the working exemplar. In the humane sciences, the need for texts is ubiquitous; they provide the regular objects of study. But far less prevalent than editions is any discussion of the premises underlying these objects, or the mechanisms by which they have been constructed. This volume takes up both challenges. First, in a preliminary chapter, it discusses what is at stake in any edition one might read; the persistent argument is that these represent products of modern scholarly decision-making, the imposition of various kinds of unity on the extremely diverse evidence medieval books offer for any literary work. This chapter also explains broadly various options for the presentation of texts – and the difficulties inherent in them all. The remainder of the volume is given over to a step-by-step guide to the process of editing (and eventually to a finished presentation of) a heretofore unpublished medieval text. The discussion seeks to exemplify the decisions editors routinely face, and to suggest ways of addressing them.Trade ReviewReviews ‘In this smart handbook, Ralph Hanna shares his insights about the process of creating an edition of a medieval Latin text, based on his extensive experience editing English vernacular poetry of the later Middle Ages. This is a book for beginners. It provides a clear and thoughtful introduction to the steps necessary to progress from an unedited text in a premodern manuscript to the formal presentation of a textual edition. One of the virtues of this book is its practical approach; Hanna walks the reader through his preparation of an edition of a small portion of a straightforward Latin prose text: Richard Rolle's commentary on the biblical Song of Songs, composed in the 1330s. Reading over Hanna's shoulder, scholars can follow the reasoning behind his editorial decisions and pick up a great deal of practical knowledge about scribal practice in the process.’ The Medieval ReviewTable of ContentsForewordPreliminary: On Editions 1 Collecting the Witnesses 2 Finding a Copy-text and Transcribing it 3 Comparing the Witnesses, or Collation 4 The Examination of the Variants 5 AnnotationRichard Rolle, ‘Super Canticum’ 4: Edition, Collation, and TranslationAppendix: Additional Manuscript Descriptions; the Manuscripts and the TextNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated account of the buildings of the friars in the Middle Ages, bringing them vividly to life. with contributions from Ian M. Betts, Jens Röhrkasten, Mark Samuel, and Christian Steer. Nominated for the Current Archaeology Book of the Year Award 2019 The friaries of medieval London formed an important partof the city's physical and spiritual landscape between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. These urban monasteries housed 300 or more preacher-monks who lived an enclosed religious life and went out into the city to preach. The most important orders were the Dominican Black friars and the Franciscan Grey friars but London also had houses of Augustine, Carmelite and Crossed friars, and, in the thirteenth century, Sack and Pied friars. This book offers an illustrated interdisciplinary study of these religious houses, combining archaeological, documentary, cartographic and architectural evidence to reconstruct the layout and organisation of nine priories. After analysing anddescribing the great churches and cloisters, and their precincts with burial grounds and gardens, it moves on to examine more general historical themes, including the spiritual life of the friars, their links to living and dead Londoners, and the role of the urban monastery. The closure of these friaries in the 1530s is also discussed, along with a brief revival of one friary in the reign of Mary. NICK HOLDER is a historian and archaeologist atEnglish Heritage and the University of Exeter. He has written extensively on medieval and early modern London. IAN M. BETTS is a building materials specialist at Museum of London Archaeology; JENS ROHRKASTEN was Lecturerin Medieval History at the University of Birmingham; MARK SAMUEL is an independent architectural historian; CHRISTIAN STEER is an independent historian, specialising in burials in medieval churches.Trade ReviewSure to be the main resource on the subject for the foreseeable future. * SPAB MAGAZINE *[A] splendid survey. * CHURCH MONUMENTS *The volume is handsomely produced by Boydell and Brewer and its primary contribution is an examination of the traces of the conventual complexes once occupied by the Blackfriars, Greyfriars, Whitefriars, Austin Friars and the Crossed Friars. * HISTORY *An original, well-researched and readable account.extremely well designed and illustrated. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *Nick Holder has given scholars and those interested in the religious life of medieval England, in particuliar London, a valuable resource. Using maps, architecture, archeological discoveries, and written records, he has produced a valuable study of London friaries and their numerous influences on the city's population. * AMERICAN BENEDICTINE REVIEW *[An] important study. [The author has] done a considerable service to monastic studies in London, and nationally, with this fine, clear and eminently readable book. * CURRENT ARCHAEOLOGY *Table of ContentsIntroduction The First Black Friars in Holborn, c. 1223-1286 The Second Black Friars, 1275-1538 The Third Black Friars at St Bartholomew's, 1556-1559 Grey Friars, 1225-1538 White Friars, c. 1247-1538 Austin Friars, c. 1265-1538 Crossed Friars, c. 1268-1538 Sack Friars, c. 1270-1305 Pied Friars, 1267-1317 Churches Precincts and the use of space Architecture and architectural fragments of the London friaries [Mark Samuel] Floor tiles and building materials from the London friaries [Ian Betts] Water supply Economy Spiritual life and education in the London friaries [Jens Röhrkasten] Burial and commemoration in the London friaries [Christian Steer] London friars and Londoners Dissolution Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisInterrogates the standard view of turbulent and violent town-abbey relations through a combination of traditional and new research techniques. The power of the medieval Church stretched far beyond the religious sphere. Bishops and monasteries held lordship over vast areas of the realm, often wielding political and judicial powers beyond those of secular lords. Early twentieth-century scholarship tended to view towns with monastic lords as highly distinctive, characterised by robust lordship and violent town-abbey relations, and though subsequent studies have done much to modify this view of relationships between towns and their monastic lords, the shadow of this dramatic interpretation still colours our understanding of these situations. Conversely, through a detailed examination of the governmental, guild, parish, and testamentary records of Reading, one of the more populous monastic towns of the period, this book presents a view of town-abbey relations as largely non-violent, thus problematising the more traditional characterisation and interrogating its universality. Uncovering a remarkably swift transition from monastic lordship to self-government, it illuminates how urban society functioned under two very different regimes, both before and after the dissolution of the monasteries. By combining traditional research methods with Social Network Analysis, the author moves beyond a focus on the political elites and institutionalised bodies, such as the corporation, to look at lower-status members of society and how they interacted with the successive governing authorities. In particular, it investigates what continuities and changes to local governance they experienced during this turbulent period.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Setting and Society 2. Political Life 3. Economic Life 4. Religious Life Conclusions and Outlook Appendices A: Social Network Analysis Datasets and Forms of Analysis B: Trades Categorised by Status C: Trades Categorised by Sector Timeline Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.Trade Review “…the range and rigour make this handbook a useful point of entry for specialists and students alike interested in understanding the transformation of Germany in the last half century.” • European History Quarterly “[The volume] provides over 500 pages of stimulating reading. It will be of interest to scholars researching in relevant fields and to graduate students embarking on doctoral work. It would also be excellent for a postgraduate seminar.” • Journal of European StudiesTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Divided and Connected: Perspectives on German History since the 1970s Frank Bösch Chapter 1. Political Transformations in East and West Frank Bösch and Jens Gieseke Chapter 2. Economic Crises, Structural Change, and International Entanglements Ralf Ahrens and André Steiner Chapter 3. Entangled Ecologies: Outlines of a Green History of Two or More Germanys Frank Uekötter Chapter 4. Social Security, Social Inequality, and the Welfare State in East and West Germany Winfried Süß Chapter 5. Rationalization, Automation, and Digitalization: Transformations in Work Rüdiger Hachtmann Chapter 6. The Individualization of Everyday Life: Consumption, Domestic Culture, and Family Structures Christopher Neumaier and Andreas Ludwig Chapter 7. Paths to Digital Modernity: Computerization as Social Change Jürgen Danyel and Annette Schuhmann Chapter 8. Educational Rivalries: The Transition from a German-German Contest to an International Competition Emmanuel Droit and Wilfried Rudloff Chapter 9. Mobility and Migration in Divided Germany Maren Möhring Chapter 10. Sports and Society in the Rivalry between East and West Jutta Braun Chapter 11. Bridge over Troubled Water? Mass Media in Divided Germany Frank Bösch and Christoph Classen Index

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Book SynopsisWhen Muhammad Ali died, many mourned the life of the greatest sportsman the world had ever seen. In Redemption Song, Mike Marqusee argues that Ali was not just a boxer but a remarkable political figure in a decade of tumultuous change. Playful, popular, always confrontational, Ali refashioned the role of a political activist and was central, alongside figures such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, to the black liberation and the anti-war movements. Marqusee shows that sport and politics were always intertwined, and this is the reason why Ali remained an international beacon of hope, long after he had left the ring.Trade ReviewA beautiful book. -- Arundhati RoyAmong the slew of recent Ali books, here's one that returns the political sting to 'The Greatest' ... As Marqusee portrays him, Ali is still the righteous outlaw, as badass as ever and still in the eye of a global storm. * Time Out *A thrilling book about a true and enduring hero ... Mike Marqusee has done him, and us, proud. -- John PilgerExcellent ... Reminds us just how explosive and divisive a figure Ali was. * Independent on Sunday *Fascinating, well-written, entertaining and significant. Redemption Songprovides rare and important insights into Muhammad Ali and his immense global impact on a turbulent and ground-breaking era. -- Leon GastAs Marqusee charts how Ali helped create a global consciousness, he succeeds in knocking Ali off the respectable pedestal on which American culture had placed him, resurrecting him as the radical figure he truly was ... a vibrant historical essay. * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisLenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's true greatness can be better grasped in the very last couple of years of his political life. Russia had survived foreign invasion, embargo and a terrifying civil war, as well as internal revolts such as at Kronstadt in 1921. But the new state was exhausted, isolated and disorientated in the face of the world revolution that seemed to be receding. New paths had to be sought, almost from scratch, for the Soviet state to survive and imagine some alternative route to the future. With his characteristic brio and provocative insight, Zizek suggests that Lenin's courage as a thinker can be found in his willingness to face this reality of retreat lucidly and frontally.Trade ReviewScience & Society -- Alan Shandro

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Book SynopsisAt the start of the twentieth century in China, the Hans were married in an elaborate ceremony before they were even born. While their future was arranged by their families, this couple had much to be grateful for. Not only did they come from similar backgrounds – and as such were recognized as a good match - they also had a shared passion in their deep love of ancient Chinese poetry. They went on to have nine children and chose colours portrayed in some of their favourite poems as nicknames for them - Red, Cyan, Orange, Yellow, Green, Ginger, Violet, Blue and Rainbow. Fate, and the sweep of twentieth century history would later divide these children into three groups: three went to America or Hong Kong to protect the family line from the communists; three were married to revolutionaries having come of age as China turned red; while three suffered tragic early deaths. With her trademark wisdom and warmth, Xinran describes the lives and loves of this extraordinary family over four generations. What emerges is not only a moving, beautifully-written and engaging story of four people and their lives, but a crucial portrait of social change in China. Xinran begins with the magic and tragedy of one young couples wedding night in 1950, and goes on to tell personal experiences of loss, grief and hardship through China’s extraordinary century. In doing so she tells a bigger story – how traditional Chinese values have been slowly eroded by the tide of modernity and how their outlooks on love, and the choices they've made in life, have been all been affected by the great upheavals of Chinese history. A spell-binding and magical narrative, this is the story of modern China through the people who lived through it, and the story of their love and loss.Trade ReviewReporting on four generations of one Chinese family and their diverging paths, Xinran shows how the country’s social norms have changed through politics and the rise of modernity. * New York Times *Xinran Xue is a gifted storyteller and The Promise reads like an unputdownable novel. William Spence’s translation from Chinese into English cannot be over-praised. * Washington BookReview *[A] graceful work that restores a lost generation to history. * Kirkus Review *‘An absorbing, often startling, always persuasive exploration of contemporary China.’ -- Hilary Spurling on 'Buy Me The Sky' * The Spectator *One would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved. * The Economist on 'Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother' *Groundbreaking… This intimate record reads like an act of defiance, and the unvarnished prose allows each story to stand as testimony. * The New Yorker on 'The Good Women of China' *‘Right here we see the red lines that many Chinese still draw for themselves in public discourse, or even privately, the boundaries they dare not cross even today. No other style of storytelling could have exhibited them with more clarity or greater rawness.’ -- Oliver August on 'China Witness' * THE TIMES *Exploring love and loss in modern China is a big job but it is in simplifying the overwhelming that Xinran excels. And in the introduction to this compelling and moving book, the author clarifies just how she has managed the task...In these carefully told vignettes, Xinran takes the reader through a century of tumult and change in China, her writing beautifully reflecting the intimate and honest voices of the women whose stories of love she tells. * The Weekend Australian *'Xinran writes with a fine balance of economy, compassion and wisdom, and manages to be at once proud, critical, forward-looking, nostalgic, sad, angry and hopeful.’ * The New Statesman *‘Xinran evokes the multiple, layered cultures and customs of modern China with bright, memorable detail and empathy for her characters.’ * The Guardian on 'Miss Chopsticks' *Xinran’s The Promise is an epical account depicting the emotional life of four generations of a Chinese family. It is an important book that paints a multi-faceted portrait of a society undergoing radical social transition. This book cracks the code of love, loneliness, and belonging of contemporary China. -- Xiaolu Guo, author of 'I Am China'A brilliant storyteller -- Hilary SpurlingTable of ContentsPromises and ‘talking love’: my inspirations for this book Map of China Key Dates Introduction Note on the Text Part I. A Love Coloured by Wars and Political Movements First sister, Red Part II. A Communist Family Tree Second sister, Green Part III. A Bird’s Love during the Cultural Revolution Green’s daughter, Crane Part IV. Diverse ‘Lovers’ The 3D Generation: Lili, Yoyo, Wuhen Afterword: In and Out the Door of Life Author’s Heartfelt Thanks

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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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