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South Dakota State Historical Society Pioneer Girl The Annotated Autobiography
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography offers Wilder’s complete first draft of her own story, enhanced by scrupulous and wide-ranging new research. . . . And I’m happy to say is a treasure. . . . Wilder pulls off the difficult trick of telling a rich, satisfying story about good people being good. The Pa of Pioneer Girl is still a selfless provider, Ma is a skilled homemaker, Mary a prim playmate, and Laura a good-hearted tomboy. Their stories may have been tidied up on the path between nonfiction and fiction, but their characters remain reassuringly intact. . . . Pioneer Girl is a welcome reminder of the power, even the genius of the Little House books. . . . this annotated edition of Pioneer Girl will deepen and enrich a great American story." - Ruth Graham, The Slate Book Review"Wilder’s memoir is a fascinating piece of American history, but it’s the annotations that set Pioneer Girl apart as the most important work of its kind. . . . It thrills with new insights and mature content, educates with historical facts and documentation, and enlightens with cultural perspective and commentary, all while maintaining the spirit of adventure and integrity that is the backbone of the Little House world and Wilder herself. . . . in and of itself, Pioneer Girl is a fascinating slice of Americana, but it is Hill’s annotations, based on years of research and the efforts of the Pioneer Girl Project contributors, that set Pioneer Girl apart as the most important and relevant work of its kind. . . . With Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography, Hill has ensured that not only will Laura Ingalls Wilder continue to inspire, but that her audience will grow and expand for generations to come." - Pallas Gates McCorquodale, Foreword Reviews Magazine"Pioneer Girl Perspectives is a valuable contribution to Wilder scholarship, assembling new essays from many of the more familiar names in the field. . . . The collection does a fine job of historicizing the Little House books. Those who teach these books and struggle to separate the history from the fiction will find it a useful resource." - A. Waller Hastings, Children’s Literature Association QuarterlyPioneer Girl Perspectives "was originally meant to address how the publication of Pioneer Girl shapes our understanding of Wilder and her work. However, contributors take their considerations in a number of new directions, including the life and works of Wilder’s daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, the popularity of the Little House books, and the books’ literary value. . . . An excellent book. . . . It includes many illustrations from the original Helen Sewell editions of the Little House books as well as historical photos of Wilder, Lane and others. Many essays fill gaps in Wilder scholarship or bring together what is already known in helpful ways. It is a worthy companion to Pioneer Girl on the shelves of anyone interested in the Little House books and the way that they depict the West—and the Midwest." - John J. Fry, Annals of Iowa"The essays offer a rich diversity of subject matter. . . . [striking] a balance between hagiography and exposé; all are even-handed in their treatment of Wilder’s life and writing, not glossing over views she held that clash with modern sensibilities. These informative essays will be of considerable interest to Wilder fans and scholars." - Publishers Weekly"Pioneer Girl Perspectives is a scholarly investigation of the life and literary endeavors of the beloved author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. . . My favorite part was the additional information about Laura Ingalls Wilder’s life and legacy beyond the Little House on the Prairie series. Pioneer Girl Perspectives is not light reading, but worth the effort for someone who grew up reading Laura Ingalls Wilder and is interested in delving into the social implications of her work." - Candace Simar, Western Writers of America: Roundup Magazine"This is a wonderful addition to Laura Ingalls Wilder collections, particularly if you’re interested in learning more about Laura, beyond the books. Any Wilder fan would be happy to have this one in their personal library, I’m sure!" - The Geeky Bibliophile"Speaking as a lifelong reader of all things Little House-related, I can’t recommend this book too highly. Following the publication of the peerless Pioneer Girl, The Annotated Autobiography, this new book is the perfect appendix, and then some. Edited (superbly) and introduced by Nancy Tystad Koupal, . . . this collection of scholarly, informative, and compelling essays provide the reader with much invaluable information, lore, facts, and in-depth studies of every nature of Laura’s life, the inception, composition and publication of her books, what the back stories are; the realities, myths, and clarification of life out on the harsh, brutal prairies, the nature of pioneer living, and much in the way of psychological, cultural, and societal insights. Much of it is sobering, and even grim, but as always with the Ingalls and the Wilders, their steadfast spirit is a sure testament to their learned toughness and fortitude. Many lessons for living come through these pages." - Niel Rishoi, Amazon Reviewer"This collection features essays by scholars and are written in an accessible, readable way. The articles will appeal to fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder and others who are interested in learning more about her writing/books/career, life, family and the times she lived in. After reading these essays, I now want to go back and re-read the annotated Pioneer Girl." - Goodreads reviewer"This a very interesting book that I would recommend for anyone that would like to learn more about the little house series and Mrs. Wilder herself. This book does explain some of the hardships that Mrs. Wilder faced and explains about her writing style. Also, it provides information about the sometimes difficult relationship she shared with her daughter Rose Wilder Lane. There is a great deal of information about the challenges that Mrs. Wilder faced in getting her little house series published." - Goodreads reviewer
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The History Press Ltd AngloSaxon Crafts
Book SynopsisThe art and craftmanship of the Anglo-Saxons has been much admired, but this is the first book to look closely at the background to the skilful work and the techniques involved in its creation. The author covers the way in which the objects were made, as well as the materials and tools used in the process - all of which are shown in detailed drawings. Objects explored in this study include brooches, swords, woven materials and buildings, many of which are superbly illustrated in colour.
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Cornell University Press Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThis highly original book is both a study of emotional discourse in the Early Middle Ages and a contribution to the debates among historians and social scientists about the nature of human emotions.Trade Review"This is a landmark book, not only for the early middle ages but also for the emerging field of the history of emotions. Barbara H. Rosenwein evaluates with superb intelligence the strengths and weaknesses of the various methods that have been applied in this field, and fashions an approach of her own that will serve as a useful model for many other researchers. Using this carefully constructed method, she is able to bring to life for us, as no other scholar has, the emotional communities whose existence is implied in the scattered texts and epigraphs of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries. A real tour de force." -- William M. Reddy, William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University"Thoroughly discrediting the view of many scholars that medieval people, in contrast to modern ones, were 'emotionally childish, impulsive, and unrestrained,' Barbara H. Rosenwein ably develops and deploys the concept of 'emotional communities' to investigate several groups in early Medieval Europe whose members adhered to 'the same norms of emotional expression and valued—or devalued—the same or related emotions.'." -- Stephen D. White, Candler Professor of Medieval History, Emory University"What did people 1400 years ago mean when they told a woman that they 'were moved by her tears,' or found an event 'hell raising'? Historians have always been puzzled by medieval descriptions of emotions. They interpreted them in simplistic terms, or at best explained displays of emotion as ritual performances quite unconnected to what people really felt. Barbara H. Rosenwein, using recent psychological theory, opens doors to a completely new understanding of past emotions. Instead of a general and necessarily blurred picture of a 'typical' medieval set of emotions, she subtly reconstructs feelings and attitudes,'emotives' and passions shared by specific 'emotional communities.' Various languages of emotion connected stereotypes and metaphors with inner feelings. The book opens fascinating new ways of access to a 'dark age,' and should be read not only by medieval historians but also by anyone interested in the study of emotions past or present." -- Walter Pohl, Professor of Medieval History, University of Vienna, and Director, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences"With her original book, Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein opens new perspectives on the history of emotions. This includes a persuasive critique of Norbert Elias's influential notion of the civilizing process. Proposing that people lived (and live) in emotional communities, each having its own particular norms and emotional expressions, Rosenwein has written a groundbreaking book that is highly important to historians as well as to social scientists working on the history of emotions." -- Ingrid Kasten, Freie Universitët Berlin"With this book Barbara Rosenwein has made the emotions an essential component of our approach to the changing social history." -- Jacques Le GoffTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Ancient Legacy2. Confronting Death3. Passions and Power4. The Poet and the Bishop5. Courtly Discipline6. Reveling in RancorConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
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Faber & Faber The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots of
Book Synopsis'An epic tale . . . told relentlessly well. If you want to read a serious account of the price of Zionism, and a sobering review of Israel's new role as conqueror and occupier, then Hirst is your man.' Christopher HitchensA myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Gun and the Olive Branch traces events right back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of repeated aggression.Banned from six Arab countries, kidnapped twice, David Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, is the ideal chronicler of this terrible and seemingly insoluble conflict. The new edition of this 'definitive' (Irish Times) study brings the story right up to date. Amongst the many topics that are subjected to Hirst's piercing analysis are: the Oslo peace process, the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, the destabilising effect of Jewish settlement in the te
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Simon & Schuster Anatomy of a Genocide
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. Bartov’s anatomy of genocidal destruction is a monument of a different sort. It is an act of filial piety recollecting the blood-soaked homeland of his parents; it is a substantive contribution to the history of ethnic strife and extreme violence; it is a harrowing reminder that brutality and intimacy can combine to destroy individual lives and reshape the destiny of a region and its peoples: history as recollection and as warning." —Wall Street Journal"Fascinating...This resonant and cautionary history demonstrates how the peace was incrementally disrupted, as rage accumulated and neighbors and friends felt pitted against one another." — Los Angeles Times"If you imagined there might be no more to learn, along comes this work of forensic, gripping, original, appalling brilliance." — Philippe Sands, author of East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity""Combines a long historical perspective with an intimate reconstruction of who the perpetrators and victims of the Holocaust had been. A local history opening our understanding of the phenomenon at large. A brilliant book by a master historian." — Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland"This is a gripping, challenging, and masterfully written book...Understanding the destruction of the Jews as part of genocidal perils that have not passed even today, the horrific case of Buczacz thus comes as a powerful warning against bigotry everywhere at any time." — Tom Segev, author of The Seventh Mllion: The Israelis and the Holocaust and Simon Wiesenthal:The Life and Legends"Omer Bartov's masterful study of Buczacz — marked by comprehensive scholarship and a compelling narrative — exemplifies the very best in current Holocaust history writing." — Christopher R. Browning, author of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland"A long-awaited and essential contribution to the history of the Holocaust. This thoroughly researched and beautifully written study of the deep roots and immediate circumstances of genocide in an East Galician multiethnic town...is an exemplary microhistory of the Holocaust, a model for future research." — Saul Friedlander, author of Nazi Germany and the Jews"The result is breathtaking, painful and astonishing…" — The Spectator"Bartov’s book is a significant contribution to the holocaust literature. However, the book’s contribution is even more significant in understanding the complexity of interethnic conflicts...Anatomy of a Genocide furnishes well-lit imagination, though shaded with sadness, beneficial for the communities trapped into mutual impairment in various parts of the world, including Chechnya, Palestine, Kashmir, Burundi, and Rwanda." — New York Journal of Books"Fascinating...This resonant and cautionary history demonstrates how the peace was incrementally disrupted, as rage accumulated and neighbors and friends felt pitted against one another." —National Book Review"At once a scholarly and a personal book." —Jerusalem Post"Remarkable." —The New Yorker
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The History Press Ltd The Men of the Mary Rose
Book SynopsisThe Mary Rose was one of King Henry VIII''s favourite warships until she sank during an engagement with the French fleet on 19 July 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology. Apart from the Captain and the Vice Admiral, nothing is known about the crew of the Mary Rose - the only evidence about her complement of 415 men rests with their skeletal remains. In The Men of the Mary Rose A.J. Stirland uses archaeological and skeletal evidence to give the reader a welcome insight into the soldiers of the Mary Rose, from their ages and height to their health, diet and physical condition.This book examines the building, sinking and raising of the Mary Rose and her historical context, before moving on to the examination of what the remain of the crew can reveal to us about the fighting men of that period. Many new findings have been made through analysis of their bones, including the effects of some activities and occup
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The History Press Ltd Cars We Loved in the 1980s
Book SynopsisRelive everything car-related in Britain in the 1980s with Giles Chapman.
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The History Press Ltd Cars We Loved in the 1950s
Book SynopsisGiles Chapman investigates the fascinating motoring history of the 1950s
£11.69
Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Imperialism Race and Resistance Africa and Britain 19191945
Book SynopsisImperialism, Race and Resistance marks an important new development in the study of British and imperial interwar history.Focusing on Britain, West Africa and South Africa, Imperialism, Race and Resistance charts the growth of anti-colonial resistance and opposition to racism in the prelude to the 'post-colonial' era. The complex nature of imperial power in explored, as well as its impact on the lives and struggles of black men and women in Africa and the African diaspora.Barbara Bush argues that tensions between white dreams of power and black dreams of freedom were seminal in transofrming Britain's relationship with Africa in an era bounded by global war and shaped by ideological conflict.Table of ContentsList of illustrations. Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction: why imperialism, race and resistance? 1. Africa after the First World War: race and imperialism redefined? West Africa. 2. Britain's imperial hinterland: colonialism in West Africa 3. Expatriate society: race, gender and the culture of imperialism 4. 'Whose dream was it anyway?' Anti-colonial protest in West Africa, 1929-45 South Africa. 5. Forging the racist state: imperialism, race and labour in Britain's 'white dominion' 6. 'Knocking on the white man's door': repression and resistance 7.'Fighting for the underdog': British liberals and the South African 'native question' Britain. 8. Into the heart of empire: black Britain 9. Into the heart of empire: the 'race problem' 10. The winds of change : towards a new imperialism in Africa? Retrospective: Africa and the African diaspora in a 'post-imperial' world Notes and references. Bibliography. Index.
£36.09
The University of Michigan Press Pierio Valeriano on the Ill Fortune of Learned
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Vintage Publishing 1913
Book SynopsisIf Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective' Scotsman2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great War. What was the year before the war really like? 1913 is usually seen as little more than the antechamber to apocalypse. Our images of the times are too often dominated by last summers of upper-class indulgence or by a world rushing headlong into the abyss of an inevitable war. 1913: The World before the Great War proposes a strikingly different portrait: told through the stories of twenty-three cities Europe's capitals at the height of their global reach, the emerging metropolises of America, the imperial cities of Asia and Africa, the boomtowns of Australia and the Americas Charles Emmerson presents a panoramic view of a world crackling with possibilities, from St Petersburg to Shanghai and from Los Angeles to Jerusalem. What emerges is a rich and complex world, more familiar than we expect, connected as never before, on the threshold of events which would change the course of global history.A masterful, comprehensive portrait of the world at that last moment in its history' SpectatorTrade ReviewEvery so often a book comes along that simply must be read. 1913 is such a work. Luminous and majestic, rich in detail and stunning in its depth of research, 1913 is a sweeping and haunting portrait of the world on the edge of the precipice… Read this book, but be prepared to stifle at the end of every page an urge to scream out a warning to those long since dead that they must take another road -- Wade DavisCharles Emmerson explores an endlessly interesting question: How did the great glossy world of the European Empires come to grief in 1914? This is a most elegantly written book and should stand comparison with the much older classic, Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower -- PROFESSOR NORMAN STONE, author of World War One: A Short HistoryA masterful, comprehensive portrait of the world at that last moment in its history… -- David Crane * Spectator *If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective -- David Robinson * Scotsman *One of the great merits of Charles Emmerson’s global panorama is to show events in the months leading up to the summer of 1914 as something other than a precursor to mass slaughter -- Mark Damazer * New Statesman *
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The History Press Ltd A Century of Hull
Book SynopsisThis fascinating selection of photographs illustrates the extraordinary transformation that has taken place in Hull during the 20th century. The book offers an insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people and gives the reader glimpses and details of familiar places during a century of unprecedented change. Many aspects of Hull''s recent history are covered, famous occasions and individuals are remembered and the impact of national and international events is witnessed. The book provides a striking account of the changes that have so altered Hull''s appearance and records the process of transformation. Drawing on detailed local knowledge of the community, and illustrated with a wealth of black-and-white photographs, this book recalls what Hull has lost in terms of buildings, traditions and ways of life. It also acknowledges the regeneration that has taken place and celebrates the character and energy of local people as they move through the first years of this new century.
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McFarland & Company The Battle of Olustee 1864 The Final Union Attempt to Seize Florida
Book SynopsisCompiled from primary sources such as diaries and journals, this work tells the story of the failed Union attempt to wrest control of eastern and central Florida away from the Confederacy. From the legislature to the battlefield, it details manoeuvres military and political that went into the Florida campaign.
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Protea Boekhuis Disputed Land: The Historical Development of the
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Cornell University Press Holy Entrepreneurs Cistercians Knights and
Book SynopsisThe twelfth century was characterized by intense spirituality as well as rapid economic development. Drawing on unprecedented research, Constance Brittain Bouchard demonstrates that the Cistercian monks of Burgundy were exemplary in both spheres...Trade ReviewA signal strength of this book is the author's care to show that contemporaries understood and expressed in the charters the different transactions in which a monastery might engage. There was no confusion among pawns, leases, purchases, and gifts. In addition to being an important revisionist study of Burgundian Cistercian economic practices, this clear book is an excellent brief introduction for anyone wishing to understand twelfth-century charters and cartularies. * American Historical Review *
£27.90
Manchester University Press Rhetoric and the Writing of History 4001500
Book SynopsisRhetoric and the writing of history provides an analytical overview of the vast range of historiography which was produced in western Europe between c.400 and c.1500 and argues that its sophistication and complexity provides a much-needed perspective on more modern debates over the relationship between history and literary theory. -- .Trade ReviewA dense, meticulously researched "handbook" that is designed to guide students through the methodological thickets connecting medieval historiography and rhetoric.S. Morillo, Wabash College, CHOICE, 01/04/2012This is a very substantial work of scholarship, by an author who is absolutely on top of his material despite its bulk, and of the vast historiography on it, and who also offers a wealth of original insights, inspiring students to analyse source-texts critically for themselves.History Workshop Journal 74 (1) Autumn 2012'Important, exciting and stimulating ... comprehensive, lucid, and extraordinarily wide-ranging.'B. Weiler, English Historical Review, July 2013This substantial book is likely to become a major work on history, historiography, and rhetoric during the medieval period.'A magisterial, synthetic introduction to the subject, aimed principally at students and scholars new to the field and encompassing some 550 pages of elegantly written, exhaustively supported argumentation.'Cam Grey, University of Pennsylvania, Rhetorica, July 2016 -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. History and Historiography 2. Rhetoric and History 3. Invention and Narrative 4. Verisimilitude and Truth 5. Historiography and History Conclusion BibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Great Exhibition 1851 A sourcebook
Book SynopsisAn invaluable compendium of sources relating to the Great ExhibitionTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Origins and organisation 2 Display 3 Nation, empire and ethnicity 4 Gender 5 Class 6 Afterlives Index
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Pan Macmillan The King's Assassin: The Fatal Affair of George
Book SynopsisNow a major TV series starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas GalitzineThe rise of George Villiers from minor gentry to royal power seemed to defy gravity. Becoming gentleman of the royal bedchamber in 1615, the young gallant enraptured James, Britain’s first Stuart king, royal adoration reaching such an intensity that the king declared he wanted the courtier to become his ‘wife’. For a decade, Villiers was at the king’s side – at court, on state occasions and in bed, right up to James’s death in March 1625.Almost immediately, Villiers’ many enemies accused him of poisoning the king. A parliamentary investigation was launched, and scurrilous pamphlets and ballads circulated London’s streets. But the charges came to nothing, and were relegated to a historical footnote.Now, new historical scholarship suggests that a deadly combination of hubris and vulnerability did indeed drive Villiers to kill the man who made him. It may have been by accident – the application of a quack remedy while the king was weakened by a malarial attack. But there is compelling evidence that Villiers, overcome by ambition and frustrated by James’s passive approach to government, poisoned him.In The King’s Assassin, acclaimed author Benjamin Wooley examines this remarkable, even tragic story. Combining vivid characterization and a strong narrative with historical scholarship and forensic investigation, Woolley tells the story of King James’s death, and of the captivating figure at its centre. What emerges is a compelling portrait of a royal favourite whose charisma overwhelmed those around him and, ultimately, himself.Trade ReviewColourful * The Times *A fascinating portrait of a flawed and complex man, demonstrating how Buckingham achieved greatness but lacked the substance to retain it. It is an utterly gripping read, vivid with incidental detail and dark Jacobean politics, that offers a ringside seat for the spectacle of a powerful man, very publicly, sowing the seeds of his owndemise . . . I devoured it. -- Elizabeth Fremantle, author of Queen’s Gambit and The Girl in the Glass Tower
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Batsford Ltd King Arthur Pitkin Guides
Book SynopsisLearn about the origins of stories about the Round Table, Excalibur and Camelot in this informative full-colour guide, exploring the mysterious King Arthur and the accompanying images of power, chivalry and romance.
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Faber & Faber Stalin and the Scientists A History of Triumph
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way to the future with the fitful glow of science. It succeeded through terror, folly and crime but also through courage, imagination and even genius. Stalin believed that science should serve the state and with many disciplines having virtually unlimited funds, by the time of his death in 1953, the Soviet Union boasted the largest and best-funded scientific establishment in history at once the glory and the laughing stock of the intellectual world. The human cost of this peculiar marriage between the state and its scientists was horrendous, yet, in Stalin and the Scientists, Simon Ings makes clear what Soviet science has done for us.
£12.34
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press The History of the Ottomans
Book SynopsisText in Arabic. This book is one of the most important Orientalist works that explores Ottoman history written by the English historian Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy in the middle of the 19th century. The book is divided into twenty-five chapters, most of which follow the chronological order of events, except for some chapters which shed light on certain details concerning the administrative or military systems of the state and its development. Sir Edward Creasy relied mainly on Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, or, in other words, he followed his path in the writing of Ottoman history until 1774, but on the other hand, as he himself noted, his book is not a shortcut to von Hammers work. At the time, von Hammers work was not translated into English but relied on many contemporary European sources of events, memoirs and reports of leaders, diplomats and travelers who were sometimes subject to bias. Additionally, von Hammer included partial studies that dealt with political, economic and social dimensions and analyses, comparisons and causalities of events. Sir Edward Creasy provides an English perspective on the circumstances and the events during the period after 1774 and until the period after the Crimean War (1853-1856), where this book ends, which is undoubtedly one of the most important times in contemporary history.
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Berghahn Books From Weimar to Hitler: Studies in the Dissolution
Book Synopsis Though often depicted as a rapid political transformation, the Nazi seizure of power was in fact a process that extended from the appointment of the Papen cabinet in the early summer of 1932 through the Röhm blood purge two years later. Across fourteen rigorous and carefully researched chapters, From Weimar to Hitler offers a compelling collective investigation of this critical period in modern German history. Each case study presents new empirical research on the crisis of Weimar democracy, the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship, and Hitler’s consolidation of power. Together, they provide multiple perspectives on the extent to which the triumph of Nazism was historically predetermined or the product of human miscalculation and intent.Trade Review “These detailed, readable essays offer valuable evidence of how particular actors made the Nazi takeover possible, whether through active choice or passive behavior…This volume shows the combination of bad faith, naiveté, and outright moral hollowness that prevailed between 1932 and 1934, offering lessons about Germany’s past that remain relevant to our current political moment.” • Central European History “The editors have brought together a dozen contributions that are concise as well as gratifyingly homogenous and succeed in offering various corrections to a fairly well-known historical terrain.” • Historische Zeitschrift “The issues that the volume raises are not new…However, the essays offer valuable new perspectives on longstanding questions. The editors have written very helpful introductory and concluding essays which both provide an overview as well as suggesting future avenues of historical inquiry…This review cannot do justice to the high level of research and analysis which characterizes the scholarship in this volume. The essays provide an outstanding overview of new scholarship on the Nazi seizure of power and the early years of the Nazi dictatorship. From Weimar to Hitler should be of great interest to any scholar working in the field of modern German history.” • German History “This excellent, accessible volume will be of great interest to scholars and informed readers looking to gain new insight into the topic of Hitler’s seizure and consolidation of power.” • Barry Jackisch, University of Saint FrancisTable of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Nazi Seizure of Power in Historical and Historiographical Perspective Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones Chapter 1. Taming the Nazi Beast: Kurt von Schleicher and the End of the Weimar Republic Larry Eugene Jones Chapter 2. Ausnahmezustand, Staatsnotstandsplan, and Ermächtigungsgesetz: Reappraising Carl Schmitt’s Political Constitutionalism and the Demise of Weimar Joseph W. Bendersky Chapter 3. Ludwig Kaas and the End of the German Center Party Martin Menke Chapter 4. The Nazi Seizure of Power in Bavaria and the Demise of the Bavarian People’s Party Winfried Becker Chapter 5. German Big Business and the Nazi Revolution, 1933–34 Peter Hayes Chapter 6. Violence against ‘Ostjuden’ in the Spring of 1933 and the Reaction of German Authorities Hermann Beck Chapter 7. The SA in the Gleichschaltung: The Context of Power and Violence Bruce B. Campbell Chapter 8. Nationalist Socialism against National Socialism?: Perceptions of Nazism and Anti-Nazi Strategies in the Circle of the Neue Blätter für den Sozialismus, 1930–34 Stefan Vogt Chapter 9. Nationalism, Socialism, and Organized Labor’s Response to the Dissolution of the Weimar Republic William L. Patch, Jr. Chapter 10. From Collegiality to the Führerprinzip: The 1933 Introduction of the Episcopacy in the Hamburg Landeskirche Rainer Hering Chapter 11. Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Protestant Appeasement of the Nazi Regime, 1933–34 Edward Snyder Chapter 12. In Search of Allies: Catholic Conservatives, the Alliance of Catholic Germans, and the Nazi Regime, 1933–34 Larry Eugene Jones and Kevin P. Spicer Chapter 13. German Youth between Euphoria and Resistance: Political Coercion and the Coordination of German Youth André Postert Chapter 14. “German Youth, Your Leader!”: How National Socialism Entered Elementary Schools in 1933 Katharine Kennedy Conclusion: Reaffirming the Value of Political History Hermann Beck and Larry Eugene Jones Index
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LUP - University of Georgia Press The Ebbs and Flows of Fortune The Life of Thomas Howard Third Duke of Norfolk
Book SynopsisThomas Howard became the third duke of Norfolk during the reign of Henry VIII and was intimately involved in many of the most controversial episodes of that era. This biography of Norfolk confronts the central paradox of Norfolk's career - one that lies in his unpleasant personality, marked by vain and tyrannical behavior.
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FreeLance Academy Press Fiore dei Liberis Armizare The Chivalric Martial
Book SynopsisRobert Charrette here brings together his experience as a martial artist and respected 14th century historian to take readers on a tour of Fiore's manuscripts, and into the mindset behind its creation. This is a tool-kit that reveals Fiore dei Liberi's brilliance as a fighter, and as a martial arts teacher. Illustrated in b&w throughout.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Weapons of Armizare The Four Openings The Protection of Armor Il Fior di Battaglia's Organization Stance The Way Four Steps Three Turns Masters & Scholars Interplay of Masters and Scholars Lessons of Abrazare Abrazare Guards Abrazare Plays Lessons of the Dagger Dagger Guards Dagger Plays Lessons of the Sword: Sword in One Hand Holding the Sword Sword in One Hand Guards Sword in One Hand Plays Lessons of the Sword: Sword in Two Hands Sword in Two Hands Guards Sword in Two Hands Guards Lessons of the Sword: Sword in Armor Sword in Armor Guards Sword in Armor Plays Lessons of the Axe Axe Guards Axe Plays The Axe is a Sword Lessons of the Spear Spear Guards and Plays Lessons of Mounted Combat Appendices Distribution of Imagery in Il Fior di Battaglia Glossary Learning from the Many Faces of Donna Master and Scholars Organization Charts
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American University in Cairo Press On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel
Book SynopsisA colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperbackSince Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge, visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country’s wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site, for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century, Thomas Cook of Leicester, England, revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these ‘floating palaces,’ with their private cabins, and dining, smoking, and viewing salons, red-uniformed dragoman guides, and organized donkey excursions, carried the aristocratic, moneyed, and adventurous of international society of the time.Using period photography, and colorful vintage posters and advertising material, this book tells the story of the people, the places, and the boats, from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon, through to famed later passengers, such as Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and, of course, Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.Trade Review"A sense of romance positively oozes from every page of this delightful book."—Country Life"Fascinating"—Daily Mail"This is a nostalgic look at the beginnings of tourism on one of the world’s most romantic rivers … Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated with publicity posters, menus, photos and maps, this brilliantly evokes the golden age of steam travel on the Nile."—Good Book Guide"Profusely illustrated throughout, On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel is an extraordinary and unique history that will prove to be and enduringly popular and welcome addition to personal reading lists and community library Travel History & Guide collections."—Midwest Book ReviewPraise for Grand Hotels Egypt:"Humphreys has a great talent for taking contemporary writing and using it to portray a coherent and fully visual impression of each town, hotel and its occupants, bringing the life of Westerners in Egypt to life."—Egyptological"We must thank Andrew Humphreys for providing a real treat for his readers."—ASTENE"A remarkable and entertaining book."—Cairo 360
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McFarland & Co Inc Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
Book Synopsis The fate of Richard III''s two nephews, Edward V and Richard of York, who disappeared after his coronation in 1483, has remained controversial centuries after Thomas More''s history and Shakespeare''s play laid the blame on their conniving uncle. Some later writers, unconvinced of the king''s guilt, have tried (with little success) to portray him as an innocent victim of Tudor propaganda, pointing instead to a number of unlikely culprits, including Henry Tudor and the Duke of Buckingham. This book sifts through the available evidence about the fate of the two boys. The author examines the facts, discusses who may or may not have had information and offers a reasoned solution to the question, What really happened to the two princes?
£20.89
John Murray Press 50 Speeches That Made the Modern World
Book SynopsisThroughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right content, and the right delivery. 50 Speeches That Made The Modern World is a celebration of the most influential and thought-provoking speeches that have shaped the world we live in. With comprehensive, chronological coverage of speeches from the 20th and 21st centuries, taken from all corners of the globe, it covers Emmeline Pankhurst''s patiently reasoned condemnation of men''s failure to improve ordinary women''s lives in 1908 through speeches by Vladimir Lenin, Mahatma Gandhi, David Ben-Gurion, Albert Einstein, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev, Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Benazir Bhutto, Osama Bin Laden and Aung San Suu Kyi, right up to the most compelling orato
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Oxford University Press The Russian Cosmists
Trade Reviewconcise and engaging * Eric Naiman, The Times Literary Supplement *This amasingly well-written book allows the reader a rare glimpse behind the curtain and see the crystal-clear clarity that it offers on essential questions of Russian philosophy. * Zsofia Kata Vincze, Journal of Contemporary Religion *Table of ContentsPreface ; Chapter 1: The Spiritual Geography of Russian Cosmism ; Chapter 2: Forerunners of Russian Cosmism ; Chapter 3: The Russian Philosophical Context ; Chapter 4: The Religious and Spiritual Context ; Chapter 5: The Russian Esoteric Context ; Chapter 6: Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829-1903), the Philosopher of the Common Task ; Chapter 7: The "Common Task" ; Chapter 8: The Religious Cosmists ; Chapter 9: The Scientific Cosmists ; Chapter 10: Promethean Theurgy ; Chapter 11: Fedorov's Twentieth-Century Followers ; Chapter 12: Cosmism Today ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
£40.04
Yale University Press The Huguenots
Book SynopsisFollowing the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win - however briefly - freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. This book tells the full story of the Huguenots' rise and fall.Trade Review"[An] enjoyable and authoritative account, which, in telling the story of the Huguenots, doubles as a fine political and religious history of France over the course of two troubled centuries.”—Peter Marshall, Literary Review -- Peter Marshall * Literary Review *“A rich distillation of French history.”—David J. Davis, Books and Culture -- David J. Davis * Books and Culture *Geoffrey Treasure’s thoughtful study charts the story of these Protestants, known as Huguenots, across nearly two centuries. It is a history of theology and high politics more than a ground-level study of Huguenot life, beginning with illuminating potted histories of the French monarchy and movements for religious reform.'—John Gallagher, The Sunday Telegraph -- John Gallagher * Sunday Telegraph *Winner of the 2014 National Huguenot Society award for the best original work of scholarship covering any aspect of the Huguenot movement. -- Naitonal Huguenot Society Award * National Huguenot Society *‘A richly detailed study of the politics and personalities of a religious minority.’—P D Smith, The Guardian -- P D Smith * The Guardian *“With clarity and depth . . . Treasure’s work tells brilliantly the history and life experience that the Huguenots carried out of France.”—James Blackburn, New York History Blog -- James Blackburn * New York History Blog *
£16.99
Batsford Ltd Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry
Book SynopsisEver since it came to the world's attention in the 17th century, the world's most famous tapestry has been a source of never-ending speculation. This book highlights the background of its construction and the events of 1066 that it portrays. It details warfare and weaponry, armour and costumes, depictions of everyday life, houses and farming.
£6.00
FreeLance Academy Press The Medieval Dagger
Book SynopsisThe term 'medieval martial arts' conjures images of armoured knights wielding sword, lance and axe. While the image is correct, at the foundation of knightly combat was a sophisticated form of close quarter combat, centred on fighting with - and against - the dagger, a deadly weapon of both self-defense and last resort. In Mastering the Art of Arms, Volume One: The Medieval Dagger, Guy Windsor presents a complete guide to the principles and practice of Italian dagger combat, as set down in Il Fior di Battaglia a manuscript written in 1410. Readers are guided step-by-step through the process of mastering this six hundred year old art, from choosing a dagger to striking with it; from guard positions to steps and turns; from disarms to locks and takedowns; from safe falling practice to formal drills, and finally pressure testing their skills with sparring. Both a primer on the art and a methodology for on-going training, this book will give the complete novice a solid starting point, while providing useful drills and ideas for advanced martial artists. Those who study other traditional knife arts, and modern military combatives, will find many familiar techniques present in this ancient system. Trade Review Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Mastering the Art of Arms Series Introduction to Volume 1 The Medieval Dagger Chapter One: Fundamental Principle Chapter Two: Foundations from Fiore Chapter Three: Mechanics and Movement Chapter Four: Falling Free Chapter Five: Is This a Dagger which I See Before Me? Chapter Six: Grips, Strikes and Breaks Chapter Seven: Remedy Masters: Control the Weapon Chapter Eight: The System in Brief Chapter Nine: Counter-Remedies Chapter Ten: Dealing with the Backhand Chapter Eleven: When in Doubt, Use Both Hands! Chapter Twelve: The Low Blow Chapter Thirteen: Defense Against the Grab-and-Stab Chapter Fourteen: A Knife for a Knife: Defense with the Dagger Chapter Fifteen: A Dagger Disarm Flowdrill Chapter Sixteen: Armoured Combat Chapter Seventeen: Expanding Your Skills Chapter Eighteen: One System, Many Weapons Chapter Nineteen: Sword vs Dagger Acknowledgments Bibliography Glossary
£20.42
John Donald Publishers Ltd Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland
Book SynopsisThe kingdoms of the Picts and Dal Riata, by the time of their union in the ninth century, formed the nucleus of medieval Scotland. This book by Marjorie O. Anderson remains the most significant study of the regnal lists and irish annals as sources of evidence for these kingships and early Scottish history in general. It analyses these texts in turn, identifying inter-relationships between surviving copies in order to establish the probably contents and dates of earlier ancestral versions. It then compares the results in detail, to produce a chronological history of the kingdoms of Dal Riata and the Picts from the sixth to ninth centuries AD. The book also contains an important collection of early texts, making these original sources available to the public. This is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand the early history of Scotland. This edition includes a new introduction, and a bibliography on Marjorie O. Anderson and recent scholarship by Nicholas Evans, honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow.
£27.00
John Donald Publishers Ltd The Kingdom of the Isles: Scotland's Western
Book SynopsisThis study explores the history of the western seaboard of Scotland (the Hebrides, Argyll and the Isle of Man) in a formative but often neglected era: the central middle ages, from the mightly Somerled to his descendant John MacDonald, the first Lord of the Isles (c. 1336). Drawing on a variety of sources, this very readable narrative deals with three major and closely interrelated themes: first, the existence of the Isles and coastal mainland as a kingdom from c.1100 to 1266; second, the rulers of the region, Somerled and his descendants, the MacDougalls, MacDonalds and MacRuaris; and third, the often complex relations among the Isles, Scotland, Norway and England. A fully rounded history emerges, which transcends national viewpoints. While political history predominates, the changing nature of society in the isles is emphasised throughout, and separate chapters address the church and monasticism as well as the monuments – the castles, monasteries, churches and chapels that form an enduring legacy.
£22.50
Taylor & Francis The European WitchHunt
Book SynopsisThe European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of intermittent witch-hunting throughout Europe and North America. Combining perspectives from history, sociology, psychology and other disciplines, this book provides a comprehensive account of witch-hunting in early modern Europe. Julian Goodare sets out an original interpretation of witch-hunting as an episode of ideologically-driven persecution by the godly state' in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Full weight is also given to the context of village social relationships, and there is a detailed analysis of gender issues. Witch-hunting was a legal operation, and the courts' rationale for interrogation under torture is explained. Panicking local elites, rather than central governments, were at the forefront of witch-hunting. Further chapters explore folk beliTrade Review"This is a wonderful work, with real pace, clarity and sparkle which combines excellent scholarship with a full recognition of the emotive quality of the material. It will exactly suit the intelligent, enquiring and thoughtful among students and general readers, and be of real interest and value to scholars."Ronald E. Hutton, University of Bristol, UK "This book excellently presents the different layers of meaning of witchcraft and witch trials all over Europe. Julian Goodare combines a sublime understanding of the topic with a personal interpretation in writing about one of the greatest enigmas in history: What was a witch and why were witches persecuted by their neighbors as well as by the state? The book provides a most fruitful resource for students and scholars in presenting new research and new perspectives on the history of witchcraft."Rita Voltmer, University of Trier, Germany"Julian Goodare's The European Witch-Hunt is a valuable addition to the study of early modern witchcraft and witch-hunting. Goodare devotes extra attention to explaining the mentalities, both illiterate and erudite, that converged to create the stereotype of the witch. His explanations of recurrent themes in ideas about witchcraft will be particularly helpful to students and prepares them for a better understanding of primary texts and more specialized secondary studies." Walter Stephens, John Hopkins University, USA“In this illuminating book, Goodare (Univ. of Edinburgh, Scotland) explores the subjects of witches and witch-hunts in early modern Europe, 1400–1750, maintaining that these years rather than the Middle Ages were the "witch years." He makes it clear that "although everyone feared witches, they did not all fear them in the same way" and offers readers a linked, fourfold concept of witchcraft to support this view … An excellent bibliography, a map, charts, and a helpful appendix accompany the book, which complements studies by Brian Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (CH, Sep'87; 4th ed. 2016); Robin Briggs, Witches & Neighbors (1996); and Lyndal Roper, Witch Craze (CH, Nov'05, 43-1819)."L. B. Gimelli, Eastern Michigan University"This is a wonderful work, with real pace, clarity and sparkle which combines excellent scholarship with a full recognition of the emotive quality of the material. It will exactly suit the intelligent, enquiring and thoughtful among students and general readers, and be of real interest and value to scholars."Ronald E. Hutton, University of Bristol, UK "This book excellently presents the different layers of meaning of witchcraft and witch trials all over Europe. Julian Goodare combines a sublime understanding of the topic with a personal interpretation in writing about one of the greatest enigmas in history: What was a witch and why were witches persecuted by their neighbors as well as by the state? The book provides a most fruitful resource for students and scholars in presenting new research and new perspectives on the history of witchcraft."Rita Voltmer, University of Trier, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction: THE WITCH-HUNT AND YOU Chapter 1: WITCHCRAFT! Chapter 2: TOWARDS WITCH-HUNTING Chapter 3: WITCHCRAFT AND THE INTELLECTUALS Chapter 4: WITCHES IN THE COMMUNITY Chapter 5: WITCHCRAFT AND FOLK BELIEFChapter 6: WITCHES AND THE GODLY STATE Chapter 7: WITCHES IN COURT Chapter 8: THE DYNAMICS OF WITCH-HUNTING Chapter 9: WOMEN, MEN AND WITCHCRAFT Chapter 10: THE END OF WITCH-HUNTINGChapter 11: PERSPECTIVES ON THE WITCH-HUNT FURTHER READING APPENDIX: INTENSITY OF WITCH-HUNTING IN EUROPE INDEX
£43.69
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Hollywood Renaissance
Book SynopsisPeter Krämer is a Senior Fellow in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is the author and editor of eight academic books, among them The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars (2005) and the BFI Film Classic on 2001: A Space Odyssey (2010).Yannis Tzioumakis is Reader in Film and Media Industries at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of four books, most recently of American Independent Cinema: An Introduction, 2nd edition (2017) and co-editor of four collections of essays, most recently of The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics (2016).Trade ReviewKrämer and Tzioumakis present 13 thoughtful, concise essays ... The Hollywood Renaissance adds to previous studies by cogently placing each film within the larger industrial, cultural, and sociopolitical context of US cinema. * CHOICE *Launches compelling new perspectives on 'American cinema's most celebrated era' ... The Hollywood Renaissance’s corps of contributors ensures a high overall quality. Each chapter, organized chronologically around a single ?lm, delivers perspicacious analysis. Methodologies vary, but always to pro?table effect. * The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *Foregrounding form, style, and content, not only do Tzioumakis and Krämer privilege these themes as the central philosophy at the heart of American cinema’s new generation of filmmakers in the 1960s and early ‘70s (writers, designers and producers as well as directors), they offer us a collection of essays that are formative and stylish in their own right. Assembling some of the best scholars for the task, The Hollywood Renaissance is less an exercise in nostalgic remembrance and much more a persuasive and brilliant updating of the reasons why this coterie of filmmakers, and this era, continues to matter today. Superbly conceived and wonderfully realised throughout every chapter, if you want to know what made the Hollywood Renaissance the creative force it was, and the overriding influence it continues to be, this book has all the answers. Quite simply, Indispensable. * Ian Scott, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Manchester, UK *The Hollywood Renaissance digs deep and goes wide to change dramatically the way we think about this much-studied, legendary period of American filmmaking. Instead of emphasizing the auteurist approach of previous studies, this marvelous volume emphasizes the overlooked element of collaboration among filmmakers in a multi-faceted industrial context that produced landmark titles such as Bonnie and Clyde but also included significant if less-studied films such as Funny Girl and Lady Sings the Blues. The result is a volume full of lively, always enlightening new essays into a celebrated period fifty years on. * Matthew H. Bernstein, Goodrich C. White Professor and Chair of Film and Media Studies, Emory University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction (Peter Krämer, University of East Anglia, UK; and Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool, UK) 1. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966): The Commercial and Regulatory Impact of the First American Art Film, Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 2. The Film Editors who Invented the Hollywood Renaissance: Ralph Rosenblum, Sam O’Steen, and Dede Allen’s Bonnie and Clyde, Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 3. ‘I smell money!’ Class Product, The Graduate, and the Corporatisation of Embassy, Anthony McKenna (Shanghai Jiatong University, China) 4. ‘A Triumph of Aura over Appearance’: Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance, Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia, UK) 5. The Auteurist Special Effects Film: Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and the ‘Single-Generation Look’, Julie Turnock (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA) 6. ‘About as Brutal, Relevant and Exploitable as They Come’: Medium Cool and Political Filmmaking, Oliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth, UK) 7. From Exploitation to Legitimacy: Easy Rider (1969) and Independent Cinema’s Journey into Hollywood, Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool) 8. Hollywood Trade: Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Underground Cinema, Gary Needham (University of Liverpool, UK) 9. Zabriskie Point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni and European Directors in Hollywood, Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Turkey) 10. Becoming Hal Ashby: Intersectional Politics, the ‘Hollywood Renaissance’ and Harold and Maude (1971), Philip Drake (Edge Hill University, UK) 11. A Matter of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues (1972) and the Hollywood Renaissance Canon, Charlene Regester (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) 12. De Niro and Scorsese: Director-Actor Collaboration in Mean Streets (1973) and the Hollywood Renaissance, R. Colin Tait (Texas Christian University, USA) 13. Coppola's The Conversation (1974) and Walter Murch's Sound Worlds, Frederick Wasser (CUNY, Brooklyn College, USA) Index
£27.54
Harvard University Press The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes
Book SynopsisProgymnasmata, exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite education from Hellenistic through Byzantine times. The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes, translated here into English for the first time, illuminate teaching and literary culture in one of the most important epochs of the Byzantine Empire.Trade Review[This translation] brilliantly captures Basilakes’s individual style as well as the intricacies of his rhetorical skills…The volume’s presentation is meticulous. -- Sophia Xenophontos * Speculum *
£25.46
Manchester University Press Chronicles of the Investiture Contest
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle, one of the most significant chronicles of the Middle Ages. -- .Trade Review‘Frutolf's text will now be accessible to English-speaking historians, both students and professionals who are not at ease with Latin, and therefore unfamiliar with the sources for this crucial period of medieval history. But the translator has done far more than one would ordinarily expect from a translation. The modest and annotated by on the title page next to the translator's name hides a significant accomplishment. McCarthy provides in the long introduction of eighty pages a succinct, knowledgeable and clearly written survey of the historical background of the last hundred years or so of the chronicle that is up-to-date and focused on English secondary sources, but includes older essential bibliography in languages other than English as well. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography divided into primary and secondary sources (286-311).’Uta-Renate Blumenthal, The Catholic University of America (emerita), The Medieval Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Frutolf of Michelsberg, Chronicle (1001–1101) 2. The 1106 Continuation of Frutolf’s Chronicle (1096–1106) 3. The Bamberg Imperial Chronicle (1096–1114) 4a. Ekkehard of Aura, Chronicle, book 5 (1106–16) 4b. Ekkehard of Aura, Hierosolimita 5. The 1125 Continuation of Frutolf’s Chronicle (1117–25) Bibliography Index
£18.99
MB - Cornell University Press Certain Sainthood Canonization and the Origins
Book SynopsisCertain Sainthood draws on the insights of a new generation of scholarship that integrates both lived religion and intellectual history into the study of theology and canon law.Trade ReviewCertain Sainthood focuses on the expansion of papal authority in the Middle Ages during the Gregorian reform. Well-written and persuasively argued, Donald S. Prudlo asserts that papal infallibility developed organically during this period in tandem with papal canonizations. * READING RELIGION *Prudlo argues that from the modern perspective, Catholics concentrate on canonical or theological history, with little appreciation for the social or cultural meaning of saints and canonization, especially during the medieval period.... But [he] integrates it with cultural history and lived religion during the period when papal centralization led to claims of infallibility in canonization. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. "By the authority of Blessed Peter" Making Saint-Making2. "They trust not in the suffrages of the saints": Saintly Skirmishes3. "That the Perversity of Heretics Might Be Confounded": From Practice to Theory4. "Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark...": The Assault on Mendicant Holiness(1234–60)5. "That God Might Not Permit Us to Err": The Articulation of Infallibility in Canonization6. Sancti per fi dem vicerunt regna: "The Saints, by Faith, Conquered ;Kingdoms"Conclusion
£43.20
The History Press Ltd Harthacnut
Book SynopsisHarthacnut was the last of three Danish kings to rule in England between 1013 and 1042. Although he was king of Denmark for many years, Harthacnut only ruled England directly for the last two years of his life. Yet he shaped the course of English history most profoundly. Because his mother was Emma of Normandy, Harthacnut ensured that Emma''s son by a previous marriage, Edward the Confessor, should succeed him as king of England. This established the Norman claim to the English throne. An understanding of Harthacnut''s adventurous career, his complicated family relationships, and the manner in which he created a northern empire based upon sea power and trade now enables us to appreciate more fully why the Norman Conquest of England came about.
£23.06
The History Press Ltd Churchills Third World War
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating insight into the upheaval as the Second World War drew to a close and former alliances were shattered. Operation Unthinkable became the blueprint for the Cold War.
£22.11
The History Press Ltd The Prisoner King
Book SynopsisAn intimate and evocative account of an absolute ruler’s relentless descent into impotence, isolation and ultimate submission to the unthinkable.
£17.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Horse Racing and British Society in the Long
Book SynopsisHorse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. Horse racing was the first and longest-lasting of Britain's national sports. This book explores the cultural world of racing and its relationship with British society in the long eighteenth century. It examines how and why race meetings changed from a marginal and informal interest for some of the elite to become the most significant leisure event of the summer season. Going beyond sports history, the book firmly places racing in its cultural, social, political and economic context. Racing's development was linked to the growth of commercialized leisure in the eighteenth century, a product of rising wealth amongst the middling group; changes in transport; the expansion of the newspaper press; and the new democratic and individualistic spirit of the age, especially the more flexible social codes of the late Georgian and Regency eras. In this book, horse racing emerges as the first 'proto-modern'sport, with links with the widespread popularity of gaming and betting which forced ever-increasing codification, regulation and event organization. Racing also gave expression to highly nuanced concepts of local, regional, national, class, gender (primarily male) and political identities. Drawing on the fields of social, cultural and sports history and utilizing many hitherto ignored or under-exploited sources, the book revises current histories of eighteenth-century leisure and sport, showing how horse racing links to debates about commercialization, consumer behaviour, the 'urban renaissance' and human-horse relationships. It also sheds new light not only on racehorse ownership,but also on the hitherto hidden world of racing's key professionals: jockeys, trainers, bloodstock breeders, stud grooms and stable hands. MIKE HUGGINS is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cumbria.Trade ReviewLays fascinating, thought-provoking and enjoyably readable groundwork for further research on the history of horse racing and pre-modern sport history at large. * LUDICA *Readers seeking insight into the history of British horce racing will find a 'sure thing' when they open the newest historical treatise on racing from Mike Huggins. . . . Huggins's latest book successfully combines developments affecting the sport over a period of more than one hundred years, while still providing meticulous details of both famous and forgotten racecourses, gentrified owners, clever trainers, brave jockeys, and legendary horses. * JOURNAL OF SPORT HISTORY *No scholar could be better placed to write the book about how thoroughbred racing began, both as an institution and as a culture. . . . Written in clear, polished language, blessedly free of jargon, and displaying great breadth and depth of research, Horse Racing and British Society delivers. * H-NET *Mike Huggins is a well-established authority on aspects of British popular culture, and sporting history in particular . . . [This book] offers a great deal of food for thought in terms of further research into his subject. * HISTOIRE SOCIALE/SOCIAL HISTORY *An authoritative tome full of information and insight into racing's rich history. * RACING POST *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Setting the Scene The 'race week' in British Social Life The Secret World of Wagering Horse Racing and British Politics Racing and its Rules Running the Race Meeting The Racehorse, its Ownership and Breeding Vital Professionals: Jockeys, Grooms and Trainers Conclusion Bibliography
£76.00
FreeLance Academy Press The Complete Renaissance Swordsman Antonio
Book SynopsisTranslated into English for the first time, this book includes a valuable and extensive technical introduction, with illustrations from both original sources and modern photographs. Antonio Manciolino's instructions are easy to follow, sword-in-hand, even by beginners, while providing years of training for veteran martial artists.Trade Review Table of ContentsForeword Author's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Martial Arts in Renaissance Italy Martial Arts and the Italian Renaissance: What They Were, Who Taught Them, Who Learned Them Tackling Manciolino's Opera Nova: A Primer of Bolognese Swordsmanship Lines, Measure, Tempo and Stances The Guards (Guardie) Footwork (Passeggiare) The Attacks (Offese): Moving Between the Guards Defense (Difese): Parries and the Role of the Buckler Other Actions and Definitions The Assalto and the Main Parts of the Play Attitude and Mental Disposition In Bolognese Swordsmanship Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, the Great Devil: A Portrait of a Famous Swordsman of the Bolognese Style A Note on Language, the Translation, and on Editorial Decisions Opera Nova OPERA NOVA TO LEARN How to Fight and Defend with any Sort of Arms, Written by Antonio Manciolino, Bolognese HERE BEGIN A FEW Main Rules or Explanations on the Valiant Art of Arms The Complete Renaissance Swordsman OF COMBAT AND FENCING WITH ALL SORTS OF WEAPONS IN SIX BOOKS BOOK ONE BOOK TWO BOOK THREE BOOK FOUR BOOK FIVE BOOK SIX
£29.45
Harvard University Press The Law of Blood
Book SynopsisThe scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with such ruthless ambition? Johann Chapoutot says we need to understand better how the Nazis explained it themselves, and in particular how steeped they were in the idea that history gave them no choice: it was either kill or die.Trade ReviewThe Law of Blood does invigorating work in attempting to explain how such a wildly repulsive ideology could take hold in the hearts and minds of shopkeepers, artisans, soldiers, and housewives—how a solid percentage of a modern nation could have aligned itself with such obvious, ham-handed, manipulative cruelty. The book has many strengths, but its greatest is a kind of stern empathy, a cold understanding of the complexities of the exchange that was taking place in Germany in the 1930s…Those conditions—crowds of glassy-eyed young men and women chanting ‘blood and soil’ in organized marches, civilized, compassionate people averting the gaze while government agencies carry out brutalities in their name, statesmen remaining mute while their government leaders pitch them into new antagonisms around the world—have seldom had an examination as detailed and ambitious as they get in these pages. The Belknap Press is to be praised for bringing the book to an English-speaking audience. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *The Law of Blood is a useful addition to the literature on Nazi ideology…Readers will find much here to further their understanding of what Nazis thought and why they behaved the way they did. -- Dan Stone * Times Higher Education *The author’s consistent refrain is a warning that scholars must take seriously what the Nazis said and wrote…Chapoutot adds to our understanding of Nazi ideas and their results by excavating the ‘moral universe’ from which myriad atrocities emerged. -- Chad S. A. Gibbs * Religious Studies Review *Chapoutot [is] one of the most brilliant historians of his generation… The Law of Blood…is not only absorbing and informative but important—an event. -- Pierre Assouline * La République des Livres *A vertiginous reflection on the dialectic of culture and barbarism. -- Grégoire Kauffmann * L’Express *In this ambitious study, Johann Chapoutot contributes an extremely innovative, in-depth, and comprehensive picture of the mental world created by Nazism. He goes beyond the abstract notion of Weltanschauung and masterfully shows what Nazi thinkers affirmed about the origins of the world, about all life as a constant battle, and about their goal to reign over the world in an achievable eschatological time as a pure race. This mode of thinking, which pervaded all spheres of life, allowed for killing in general and the killing of the Jews—the ultimate Weltpest—in particular. The war against the Jews was a culmination of the essential features of National Socialism. This book is pathbreaking, and a must for anyone interested in National Socialism, the Shoah, or the collective behavior of genocidal societies in general. -- Dan Michman, Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research and Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History, Bar Ilan UniversityChapoutot, one of the most gifted European historians of his generation, has enriched the French historiography of the Second World War, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust. He has personally altered the European discussions of Nazi ecology, Nazi law, and the Nazi view of the past. At a time when Nazi self-understanding should be of interest to us all, this book is very welcome indeed. -- Timothy Snyder, Yale UniversityChapoutot offer[s] many illuminating discussions of the ways in which Nazi intellectuals reinterpreted Germany’s history…Scholars of the Holocaust and modern European intellectual history will find much of value in this rich analysis of a diverse and perverse Nazi intellectualism. -- Alice Weinreb * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Chapoutot’s analysis casts important new light on the ideological texts the Nazis produced and their relation to the fearful crimes they committed…A compelling, deeply researched, and morally astute contribution to our understanding of Nazism. -- Casper Tybjerg * European Legacy *
£25.46
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Queen Victorias Matchmaking
Book SynopsisA captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted most international power and influence: her role as matchmaking grandmother. In the late nineteenth century, Queen Victoria had over thirty surviving grandchildren. To maintain power in Europe, she hoped to manoeuvre them into dynastic marriages with royalty across the world. Yet her grandchildren often had plans of their own, fuelled by strong wills and romantic hearts. Her matchmaking plans were further complicated by tumultuous international upheavals; revolution was in the air and after her death, her most carefully laid plans fell to ruin. Queen Victoria's Matchmaking travels through the glittering palaces of Russia and Europe, weaving in scandals, political machinations and family tensions, to enthralling effect. It is at once an intimate portrait of the royal family and an examination of the conflict caused by the power, love and duty that shaped the marriages that Queen Victoria arranged. At tTrade ReviewWonderfully compelling and packed with new material - a gripping story beautifully told -- Jane RidleyCadbury is an adroit storyteller. Her lively, colourfully written book, Queen Victoria’s Matchmaking, recounts the courtships and marriages of a handful of the Queen’s grandchildren … a panoramic family saga, its players by turns pragmatic and romantic, wilful, dutiful, misguided and, occasionally, tragic … Cadbury writes with verve -- Matthew Dennison * Daily Telegraph *[An] absorbing book ... The fall of the Romanovs occupies the superb last pages of Cadbury’s book ... Dynastic mergers, we may deduce from Deborah Cadbury’s account, offer no defence against the whims of history. This catastrophe-laced slice of royal history offers a ripping read -- Miranda Seymour * Observer *Engrossing … Cadbury engagingly presents [Queen Victoria] as a mesmerising Mrs Bennet, summoning her children and then her grandchildren to Balmoral ... The stories of [Queen Victoria’s] descendants are mesmerising and often stranger than fiction … From the pen of a writer of skill and style, this surprising narrative leaves you wanting more -- Paula Byrne * The Times *A skilfully woven account -- Stephan Halliday * Times Higher Education Supplement *Cadbury’s account of Victoria’s attempts to bend her unruly grandchildren to her matrimonial will is the stuff of melodrama … covered with verve and insight by Deborah Cadbury in her new history -- Daisy Goodwin * Sunday Times *An entertaining, well-written and well-conceived book … perceptive and revealing in the light it throws on the mind and attitudes of Victoria. Cadbury has consulted sources in numerous archives, including the Royal Archives at Windsor, and has chosen her quotations with skill * Literary Review *In this enjoyable story for fans of royal machinations, Cadbury ably shows not just the successes, but also the damage inflicted by Victoria's single-mindedness. An instructive European history * Kirkus *Impeccably researched, and written with all the brio and understanding of a major historical novel, Princes at War takes us intimately and even shockingly into the human dynamics of a barely functional family at the time of our greatest peril -- Praise for 'Princes at War', David Kynaston, author of 'Austerity Britain'One of the most riveting tales of the nonfiction season, rendered with novelistic drama but deliberate detachment. The inner tensions of the palace during wartime and the inner tensions of a remarkable family make for one of the best, and ultimately most uplifting, stories of the war years -- Praise for 'Princes at War' * Boston Globe *A moving and deeply researched account ... Her story is gripping, illuminating and generous in its recognition of the central, dramatic role of the monarchy in Britain's finest years -- Praise for 'Princes at War', William ShawcrossDeborah Cadbury combines the family drama against the backdrop of the war with terrific narrative verve -- Praise for 'Princes at War', Daisy Goodwin * The Times *Fascinating, fresh insights into a story of four brothers -- Praise for 'Princes at War', Stephen Halliday * Times Higher Education Supplement *
£13.49
University of Toronto Press Disruptive Power
Book SynopsisDisruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic. Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminTrade Review"Disruptive Powers deals with a myriad of themes in a complex, ambitious narrative based to a great degree on primary sources from numerous state and church archives…O’Sullivan gives us much to ponder in his thought-provoking, challenging work." -- Kevin P. Spicer, Stonehill College * Contemporary Church History *"O’Sullivan’s wonderful study of early-twentieth-century German Catholic miracles, Disruptive Power, keeps social structures, clerical and lay leadership and institutions in view while also illuminating forms of popular piety and their political impact both within the Catholid community and at regional and national levels…Michael O’Sullivan has written a richly descriptive and carefully argued book that makes a serious and important contribution to a vibrant and expanding field." -- Monica Black, University of Tennessee * German History *"O’Sullivan aptly demonstrates the ways in which power from below – grassroots movements as well as localized individual efforts – can influence and shape figures and events at regional and national levels. While his book will be of most interest to German studies scholars, his subject also has broad appeal to social and cultural historians of modern Europe." -- Lauren Faulkner Rossi * German Studies Review *"O’Sullivan offers a compelling argument for reconfiguring the conventional narrative about piety and secularization in modern Germany." -- Lauren N. Faulkner Rossi * Journal of Modern History, Vol.92, No. 4 *"O’Sullivan’s book is fascinating reading, meticulously researched, and well written." -- Stephen Bevans, SVD, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Michael E. O’Sullivan’s deeply researched, equally imaginative and provocative book Disruptive Power tells the fascinating story of Therese Neumann (1898–1962)." -- Benjamin Ziemann, University of Sheffield * American Historical Review *"This beautifully written monograph deserves wide readership, especially by students and scholars of Europe and sexuality. Employing the case of Catholic mystic Therese Neumann, Michael O’Sullivan challenges conventional narratives about German history to argue for ‘the central place of Catholic miracles to the politics of modern Germany.’" -- Maria Mitchell, Franklin & Marshall College * EuropeNow *Table of ContentsList of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Germany between Apocalypse and Salvation: Bloody Images and Miraculous Cures 2. The Rise of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth during the Weimar Republic 3. Saving Souls and Making Enemies: The Struggle over Konnersreuth and the Downfall of Political Catholicism 4. Between Feminine Agency and Moral Utopia: Gender and Sex in Konnersreuth 5. Disruptive Potential: Catholic Miracles under the Third Reich 6. Miraculous Times in West Germany: Marian Apparitions during the Early Federal Republic 7. Therese Neumann between Catholic Traditionalism, Cold War, and Economic Miracle Conclusion Bibliography Index
£51.00
Helion & Company Lebanese Civil War: Volume 1: Palestinian
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£17.95
The University of Chicago Press Engineering the Eternal City Infrastructure
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pamela Long's wonderful book brings the reader into the streets and squares of late Renaissance Rome, and recreates the lost cultures of knowledge and practice that took shape there. She shows in vivid detail how scholars and engineers, artists and prelates struggled to recreate ancient Rome and rebuild the infrastructure of the modern city."--Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University "In Engineering the Eternal City, Pamela Long recaptures the energy and efflorescence of the Eternal City in the late sixteenth century, when Rome appeared to many visitors to be a vast and never-ending construction site. During these crucial decades after the Sack of Rome popes, architects, engineers, physicians, antiquarians, humanists, and city officials devised numerous solutions to the problems of repairing an ancient city as part of making an early modern city a magnificent expression of Rome's unique legacy as the heart of an ancient empire renewed by faith. Readers who love this city and want to learn more about it will enjoy this book."--Paula Findlen, Stanford University
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