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Book SynopsisThe studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance in the second quarter of the 19th century because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclusions to the limit. While adopting their goal of reconstructing the contingent history of the earth, he claimed that the physical processes observable in action in the present could explain far more about the past than was commonly believed, and that it was unnecessary to postulate occasional catastrophic events of still greater intensity. Far more controversial was Lyell's further claim that the earth and its life had always been in a stable steady state, rather than developing in a broadly linear or directional fashion. His younger friend Charles Darwin first made his name as a Lyellian geologist; Darwin's early work in geology, studied here, provided important foundations for his later and more famous research on speciation and other biological problems.Trade Review'Rudwick's books The meaning of fossils (1972), The great Devonian controversy (1985) and Scenes from deep time (1992) are already classics. It is very convenient that his shorter and less known papers are now made available in these Variorum reprint collections.' Archives of Natural HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Notes on the articles; Bibliography. Lyell's Concept of Uniformity: Uniformity and progression: reflections on the structure of geological theory in the age of Lyell; Lyell and the Principles of Geology. The Making of the Principles: Poulett Scrope on the volcanos of the Auvergne: Lyellian time and political economy; Lyell on Etna, and the antiquity of the earth; Historical analogies in the early geological work of Charles Lyell; Charles Lyell's dream of a statistical palaeontology. The Reception of the Principles: Caricature as a Source for the History of Science: De la Beche's anti-Lyellian sketches of 1831; Charles Lyell, F.R.S. (1797-1875) and his London lectures on geology, 1832-33. Darwin as a Geologist: Charles Darwin in London: the Integration of Public and Private Science; Darwin and Glen Roy: a 'Great Failure' in Scientific Method?; Index.

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Book SynopsisComprehensive and analytical, A History of the ArabIsraeli Conflict presents a balanced and impartial overview of this centuries-old struggle. Taking a clear and chronological approach to this complex subject, and placing events in the context of their longer-term histories, Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner examine the issues and themes that have characterized and defined the conflict over the course of its history, bringing the coverage up to date with a twenty-first-century perspective. Starting in the nineteenth century, the book moves through the British Mandate, World War II, and the proclamation of the state of Israel, the widening and deepening conflict and attempts at a peace process, the impacts of 9/11 and the Arab Spring, and finally it discusses events to the end of 2021. In a completely revised Conclusion the authors examine how we interpret many of the startling, rapidly changing, and somewhat unpredictable events of the last five years. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Palestine in the Nineteenth Century 2. Palestine during the Mandate 3. World War II, Jewish Displaced Persons, and the Partition of Palestine 4. The Proclamation of Israel and First Arab–Israeli War 5. The Conflict Widens: Suez, 1956 6. The Turning Point: June 1967 7. Holy Days and Holy War: October 1973 8. The Search for Peace, 1973–1979 9. Lebanon and the Intifada 10. The Peace of the Brave 11. The Peace Progresses 12. Collapse of the Peace Process 13. The Arab–Israeli Conflict in the Post-9/11 World 14. Perilous Times: 2006–2009 15. Dramatic Events: 2010–2013 16. Years of Increasing Turbulence and Uncertainty: 2013–2021 Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1977, looks at the two peasant revolts that occurred in 1549, in the troubled period following the death of Henry VIII. The uprisings reveal a harsh background of economic and social injustice, intensified at the time by inflation. Peasants in North Devon rose against the imposition of the English Prayer Book, and with the local authorities paralysed and the government wavering between conciliation and repression, a general rebellion broke out. Reinforced by Cornishmen, rallying to the defence of their national identity, the peasants assembled a formidable army and laid siege to Exeter itself. Only after three major battles was the revolt suppressed. The Norfolk peasants rose against agrarian abuses, routing a small royal force and occupying Norwich. Ably led by Robert Kett, they expelled the gentry and governed the county on a programme of social justice until they were crushed by the forces released by the collapse of the other risings. These revolts Table of Contents1. Agrarian Problems and Others 2. A Land Apart 3. Protest and Provocation 4. Half Measures 5. The Siege of Exeter 6. War of Words 7. The Norfolk Rising 8. The Battle of Fenny Bridges 9. Fiasco at Norwich 10. Clyst St Mary and the Relief of Exeter 11. Sampford Courtenay and the Pacification of Cornwall 12. Dussindale 13. The Reckoning

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Book SynopsisThis book examines European history and politics between two very well-known but flawed treaties: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Maastricht.Taking the Treaty of Versailles, signed following World War I, as a starting point, the volume argues that while it was well-intentioned to the point of being utopian, it was also totally impractical, rearranging the map of Europe in a way which led to the tragic descent into conflict and barbarism in World War II. The volume then moves through the post war period, the outcome of the war producing the uneasy stability of a Cold War divided continent, and with the establishment of NATO in 1949, the process of European integration ushered in the era of cooperation. Under the influence of Charles de Gaulle, the newly created European Community acted as an association of sovereign states led by France and Germany, spurring economic growth and encouraging other countries to apply to join. After de Gaulle's retirement in 1969, this Trade Review"From Versailles to Maastricht is an excellent overview of key historical moments in the context of European political developments in the 20th Century. It should be widely read by students, practitioners and the intelligent reader interested in the subject."Neil Winn University of Leeds, UKTable of Contents1. The legacy of the Versailles Treaty 2. Mussolini’s ‘Roman Empire’ 3. German foreign policy from Stresemann to Hitler 4. International implications of the Spanish Civil War 5. Soviet foreign policy 1918 – 1941 6. Chamberlain, Churchill and the appeasement debate 7. Diplomatic and political objectives of the Axis powers 8. Diplomatic and military objectives of the Allied powers 9. Origins of the Cold War in Europe 10. Suez 1956: Anglo French humiliation as Cold War America asserts it power 11. Origins of European integration after 1945 12. Why Britain did not join the EEC in the 1950’s 13. How Britain joined the EEC in 1973 14. 1973 enlargement: Denmark and Ireland join but not Norway 15. De Gaulle, Brandt and relations with USA and USSR 16. From customs union to Werner Report, 1957 – 1970 17. 1970’s crisis and the abandonment of the Werner Plan 18. Jacques Delors, the Single Market, Eastern Europe and German unification 19. Margaret Thatcher: Resisting Delors and opposing the Maastricht Treaty

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Book SynopsisAn innumerable number of young women were taken from Korea during the Pacific War to provide sexual services to Japanese soldiers. These women, including teenagers, euphemistically referred to in Japanese documents as Comfort Women, were shipped to the vastly expanded battlefronts throughout the Japan-occupied territories covering Northern China to Myanmar and to the South Pacific Islands. Many of these girls died, were killed or abandoned during and after the war, but a small percentage of them returned only to face yet another devastating war at home and lasting social stigma.In Voices of the Korean Comfort Women, nine survivors tell their traumatic life stories as to how they were taken, how they had been treated with atrocities at the Comfort Stations, and how they had survived through not only the Pacific War but also the Korean War and beyond. These often-harrowing personal testimonies are each expanded by the interviewer's observational notes, thereby providing Table of ContentsAcknowledgments, Preface to the English Translation, “Now Halmŏni (Grandmother) Talks to Us in English”: Method of Translation and Its Significance, Introduction to Korean Compilation: How to Read This Collection of The Testimony Team, Glossary, Guide to Typographical Symbols, Testimonies of Comfort Women 1. Hwa-sŏn Kim (김화선) 2. Ch’ang-yŏn Kim (김창연) 3. Ok-sŏn Han (한옥선) 4. Yŏng-ja Kim (김영자) 5. Kap-sun Ch’oe (최갑순) 6. Yun-hong An (안윤홍) 7. Sun-man Na (나순만) 8. Pok-tong Kim (김복동) 9. Pŏp-sun An (안법순) Appendix I. Comfort Women and the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery System Appendix II. Discussion Group Guide Appendix III. [Map] Places where the Victims were Stationed as Comfort Women

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first study of music in convent life in a single Hispanic city, Barcelona, during the early modern era. Exploring how convents were involved in the musical networks operating in sixteenth-century Barcelona, it challenges the invisibility of women in music history and reveals the intrinsic role played by nuns and lay women in the city's urban musical culture.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this innovative study offers a cross-disciplinary approach that not only reveals details of the rich musical life in Barcelona's nunneries, but shows how they took part in wider national and transnational networks of musical distribution, including religious, commercial, and social dimensions of music. The connections of Barcelona convents to networks for the dissemination of music in and outside the city provide a rich example of the close relationship between musical networks, urban society, and popular culture.Addressing how music was understood Table of Contents1. Mapping convents’ sounds in the city 2. Music as a commodity: Music, convents, and the economy of the city 3. Music as a symbol of political power and social status 4. Music to reach heaven 5. Beyond the city: Religious orders as national and international music networks

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines five early modern novels from the seventeenth century in Spain and France as examples of literature as a form of skeptical inquiry: Cervantes's Don Quijote, Zayas's Desengaños amorosos, Scarron's Roman comique, Cyrano de Bergerac's L'Autre Monde, and Mme. de Lafayette's Zayde.These early modern novels encourage readers to take a critical stance toward accepted beliefs, through content that stages multiple encounters with the shockingly unfamiliar as well as through experiments in literary form, especially the interpolated story. At its broadest reach, this study asserts the fundamental value of literature as a means of encouraging discernment, recognizing the illusory, and honing critical acuity. In terms of the particularity of the historical moment, the volume also identifies the early modern novel as uniquely able to represent the conflicting value spheres of early modernity because of its ability to present multiple Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Don Quijote and the Lessons of Shock" 2. "Interrogating Social Categories in María de Zayas’s Desengaños amorosos" 3. "Scarron’s Roman comique and the Dangers of Undifferentiability" 4. "Cyrano de Bergerac’s L’Autre Monde and the Critique of Fixity" 5. "Madame de Lafayette’s Zayde and the Insuperability of Alienation" 6. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisProviding an introduction to the artistic and architectural traditions of the Islamic world, A Story of Islamic Art explores fifty case studies, taken from different regions of the Islamic world and from the seventh to the twenty-first centuries. The novel aspect of these case studies is that they are presented as fictional narratives, allowing the reader to imagine art and architecture, either in their original cultural settings or at some later point in their histories. These stories are supported by a scholarly framework that allows the reader to continue their exploration of the chosen artefacts and their historical context.The fifty case studies take the form of short stories, each of which focuses on one or more object from the Islamic world. These encompass portable items in a wide variety of media, book illustrations, calligraphy, photographs, architectural decoration, buildings, and archaeological sites. The book also provides a detailed introduction,Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsNotes for the ReaderList of FiguresIntroductionGlossaryTimelineChapter 1: Sanaʿa, 660Chapter 2: Aswan, 691Chapter 3: Aleppo, 695Chapter 4: Damascus, 714Chapter 5: Qusayr ʿAmra, 745Chapter 6: Akhmim, 751Chapter 7: Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi, 774Chapter 8: Basra, 841Chapter 9: Samarra, 856Chapter 10: Qayrawan, 863Chapter 11: Bukhara, 930Chapter 12: Rusafa, 998Chapter 13: Baghdad, 1000Chapter 14: Tripoli, 1070Chapter 15: Samarqand, 1085Chapter 16: Kharraqan, 1093Chapter 17: Harran, 1104Chapter 18: Herat, 1183Chapter 19: Mecca, 1199Chapter 20: Kashan, 1201Chapter 21: Wasit, 1236Chapter 22: Palermo, 1248Chapter 23: Tabriz, 1306Chapter 24: Cairo, 1361Chapter 25: Granada, 1375Chapter 26: Xi’an, 1402Chapter 27: Panjakent, 1490Chapter 28: Nizwa, 1531Chapter 29: Venice, 1547Chapter 30: Erzincan, 1568Chapter 31: Sofia, 1582Chapter 32: Isfahan, 1637Chapter 33: Agra, 1642Chapter 34: Hawizeh Marshes, 1673Chapter 35: Istanbul, 1733Chapter 36: Breslau, 1766Chapter 37: Lahore, 1799Chapter 38: Nafplio, 1831Chapter 39: Kuala Lumpur, 1886Chapter 40: London, 1892Chapter 41: Edirne, 1899Chapter 42: Simunul, 1902Chapter 43: Qalʿat Bani Hammad, 1908Chapter 44: Manzala, 1910Chapter 45: Hindiyya, 1918Chapter 46: Rabat, 1937Chapter 47: Cleveland, 1956Chapter 48: Djenné, 1985Chapter 49: New York, 2015Chapter 50: Anywhere, 2020Appendix: Notes on Chapters 1–50Further Reading

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Book SynopsisFirst published to wide critical acclaim in 1987, Family Fortunes has become a seminal text in class and gender history, and its influence in the field continues to be extensive today. The book explores the middle-class family and its place in the development of capitalist society. It argues that gender and class need to be thought about together â that class was always gendered and gender always classed. Divided into three parts, the book covers religion and ideology, economic structure and opportunity, and gender in action across two main case studies: the rural counties of Suffolk and Essex and the industrial town of Birmingham. This third edition contains a new introductory section by Catherine Hall, reflecting on some of the major developments in historical thinking over the last fifteen years and discussing the evolution of key themes such as the family. Providing critical insight into the perception of middle-class society and gender relations between 178Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction to the third edition Introduction Prologue Setting the scene Part One Religion and Ideology 1 ‘The one thing needful’: religion and the middle class 2 ‘Ye are all one in Christ Jesus’: men, women and religion 3 ‘The nursery of virtue’: domestic ideology and the middle class Part Two Economic Structure and Opportunity 4 ‘A modest competency’: men, women and property 5 ‘A man must act’: men and the enterprise 6 ‘The hidden investment’: women and the enterprise Part Three Everyday Life: Gender in Action 7 ‘Our family is a little world’: family structure and relationships 8 ‘My own fireside’: the creation of the middle-class home 9 ‘Lofty pine and clinging vine’: living with gender in the middle class 10 ‘Improving times’: men, women and the public sphere Epilogue Appendices Notes and references Select bibliography People index Subject index

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The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England became a market society. In times of dearth, concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a maturing politics of provisions. Over three centuries, some eight hundred riots crackled in waves across England. Crowds seized wagons, attacked mills and granaries, and lowered prices in marketplaces or farmyards. Sometimes rioters parleyed with magistrates. More often both acted out a well-rehearsed political minuet that evolved from Tudor risings and state policies down to a complex culmination during the Napoleonic Wars. ''Provision politics'' thus comprised both customary negotiations over scarcity and hunger, and ''negotiations'' of the social vessel through the turbulence of dearth. Occasionally troops killed rioters, or judges condemned them to the gallows, but increasingly riots prompted wealthy citizens to procure r

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Book SynopsisThere is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with ''host communities'' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nature of identity, perception and legal status of groups, on relations within and between them, and on the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which the towns were subjected. Many of the places examined were notable for the complexity of tTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: segregation, zoning and assimilation in medieval towns, Derek Keene; Various ethnic and religious groups in medieval German towns? Some evidence and reflections, Felicitas Schmieder; Russians in Livonian towns in the 13th and 14th centuries, Anti Selart; '... propter disparitatem linguae et religionis pares ipsis non esse': 'minority' communities in medieval and early modern Lviv, Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv; Foreign ethnic groups in the towns of Southern Hungary in the Middle Ages, Istvan Petrovics; Buda: the multi-ethnic capital of medieval Hungary, Andras Vegh; Late medieval ethnic structures in the inland towns of present-day Slovenia, Boris Golec; Gradation of differences: ethnic and religious minorities in medieval Dubrovnik, Zdenka Janekovic-Romer; Minorities and foreigners in Bulgarian medieval towns in the 12th to 14th centuries: literary and archaeological fragments, Kazimir Popkonstantinov and Rossina Kostova; Nobiles, cives et popolari: 4 towns under the rule of Carlo I Tocco (c.1375-1429), Nada Zecevic; The towns of medieval Hungary in the reports of contemporary travellers, Balazs Nagy; Crown, gown and town: zones of royal, ecclesiastical and civic interaction in medieval Buda and Visegrad, Jozsef Laszlovszky; Integration through language. The multilingual character of late medieval Hungarian towns, Katalin Szende; The visual image of the 'other' in medieval urban space: patterns and constructions, Gerhard Jaritz; Index.

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Book SynopsisFarmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. They brought together the capital and the technical and management skills which allowed food to be produced. It was they - and not landowners - who employed and supervised labour. They accepted the risk inherent in agriculture, paying largely fixed rents out of fluctuating and uncertain incomes. They are the rural equivalent of the small businessman with his own firm, employing people and producing for markets, sometimes distant ones. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented, but in fact farmers were normally literate and kept records - day books, journals, accounts. This volume goes some way to counter the claim that a history of the farmer cannot be written by showing the range of materials available and the diversity of approaches Trade Review'This is an excellent, well-presented book that will richly repay detailed study.' Journal of British Studies ’...a pot-pourri of rich pickings. At its heart lies a series of compelling lifestories of individual farmers, which, to borrow the words of Crowe (p. 292), give ’a texture, warmth, personality and life which is otherwise missing in generalisation’. In helping us to see the history of farming through the eyes of the key players-the farmers themselves-this is a welcome volume.’ English Historical ReviewTable of Contents1: Introduction: Recovering the Farmer; 2: A New View of the Fells: Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor and her Cashbook; 3: Why Was There No Crisis in England in the 1690s?; 4: The Farming and Domestic Economy of a Lancashire Smallholder: Richard Latham and the Agricultural Revolution, 1724–67; 5: The Seasonality of English Agricultural Employment: Evidence from Farm Accounts, 1740–1850; 6: Farmers and Improvement, 1780–1840; 7: Farmers of the Holkham Estate; 8: The Landowner as Scientific Farmer: James Mason and the Eynsham Hall Estate, 1866–1903; 9: The ‘Lady Farmer': Gender, Widowhood and Farming in Victorian England; 10: ‘Murmurs of Discontent': The Upland Response to the Plough Campaign, 1916–1918; 11: Rex Paterson (1903–1978): Pioneer of Grassland Dairy Farming and Agricultural Innovator; 12: Compost in Caledonia: The Work of Robert L. Stuart, Organic Pioneer

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Book SynopsisBy turns exotic, valuable and of cardinal importance in the development of world trade, spices, as the editor reminds us, are today a mundane accessory in any well-equiped kitchen; in the 15th-18th centuries, the spice trade from the Indian Ocean to markets all over the world was a major economic enterprise. Setting the scene with extracts from Garcia da Orta''s fascinating contemporary Colloquies on the drugs and simples of India [Goa 1563], this collection reviews trade in a wide variety of spices, exploring merchant organisation, transport and marketing as well as detailing the quantitative evidence on the fluctuations in spice trade. The evidence and historical debates concerning the 16th-century revival of the Mediterranean and Red Sea spice trade at this time, are fully represented hereTrade Review'European and Non-European Societies and Christianity and Missions along with the other volumes in An Expanding World should become a standard collection for any academic library. The invaluable bibliography, the variety of themes, and the historical problems will engage students of all levels, undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral, in many aspects of early modern and world history for years to come.' Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Colloquies on the simples and drugs of India: cinnamon, cloves, mace and nutmeg, pepper, Garcia da Orta; The spice trade of Mamluk Egypt, Walter J. Fischel; Spice prices in the Near East in the 15th century, E. Ashtor; Pepper prices before da Gama, Frederic C.Lane; Le repli vénitien et égyptien et la route du Cap, 1496-1533, Vitorino Magalha]es Godinho; The Mediterranean spice trade: further evidence of its revival in the 16th century, Frederic C. Lane; The return cargoes of the Carreira in the 16th and early 17th century, Niels Steensgaard; The changing pattern of Europe’s pepper and spice imports, ca. 1400-1700, C.H.H. Wake; The Portuguese factory and trade in pepper in Malabar during the 16th century, Jan Kieniewicz; Pepper gardens and market in precolonial Malabar, Jan Kieniewicz; The Portuguese impact on the production and trade in Sri Lanka cinnamon in Asia in the 16th and 17th centuries, C. R. de Silva; The Portuguese and the trade in cloves in Asia during the 16th century, C.R. de Silva; A note on Portuguese reactions to the revival of the Red Sea spice trade and the rise of Atjeh, 1540-1600, C. R. Boxer; The changing balance of the southeast Asian pepper trade, John Bastin; Restrictive trade regimes: VOC and the Asian spice trade in the 17th century, Om Prakash; The economics of uncertainty: the structural revolution in the spice trade, 1480-1640, Peter Musgrave; Index.

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Book SynopsisAiling seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical advice. This study, the first full-length examination of the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French society in the latter part of the early modern period. It explores how and why changes occurred in the relationships between those who sought and those who provided medical advice. Previous studies of epistolary medical consulting have limited attention to the output of one or two practitioners, but this study uses the consultations of around 100 individual practitioners from the mid-seventeenth century to the time of the Revolution to give a broad picture of patients and physicians perceptions of illnesses and how they should be treated on a day-to-day basis. It makes a unique contribution to the history of medicineTrade Review'Weston has identified some fascinating material at an interesting period in European medicine and composed a valuable contribution to medical history.' Vesalius ’This work fits well into the popular trend of social history, demonstrating medical practice in action, rather than described in theoretical texts. One of the greatest benefits of Weston’s work is his synthesis between patient and physician perspectives. Most historical works focus either on the perspective of the professional medical worker, or the patient. Correspondence necessitates two parts, emphasizing the element of dialogue in early modern medicine. Weston allows time for both voices and demonstrates the importance of their reciprocal relationship.’ Seventeenth CenturyTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Contexts: Textual, Professional and Social: Correspondence: practices and context; The dynamic medical marketplace; Relationships between medical correspondents; Knowledge, status and power: negotiating authority. Part II Body, Health and Illness: University medical knowledge in epistolary practice; Patients' perceptions of the body, health and illness; The deployment of therapies; From complaint to cure; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisMonumental Conflicts examines 20th century wars from the First World War to the First Gulf War, each chapter analyzing how public memory has evolved over time. The chapters raise fascinating questions about war and memory: Why are wars remembered as they are? What factors drive changes in public perception? What implications arise from remembering and commemorating a war or particular aspects of a war? What does public memory of a war say about us as a society? The volume is divided into three sections focusing on political evolution, negotiated memories of war, and national pride and covers international wars from Afghanistan to Vietnam and German deserter monuments to Vietnamese war tourism.Table of Contents1. Introduction Derek R. Mallett Section I: Monumental Conflicts: The Sacred and the Political 2. ’There Is Absolutely Nothing Like the Carving of Names’: Imperial War Graves Commission Sites and First World War Memory Hanna Smyth 3. War Mall: Civic Art, Memory, and War on America’s National Public Space William Thomas Allison 4. Re-Carving the Stone: Reinterpreting World War II Monuments in Brazil Uri Rosenheck 5. Memorializing the ‘Unknown Heroes’ of World War II: German Deserter Monuments Steven R. Welch Section II: Negotiated Memories of War 6. Emperors, Bones, and Dissonant Memories: Japanese Commemoration of the Battle for Peleliu Island Stephen C. Murray 7. Divided Nation, Divided Memories Brendan Wright 8. War Tourism and Geographies of Memory in Vietnam Christina Schwenkel Section III: Expeditionary Wars and National Pride 9. ’Curse you, Red Baron!’: World War I Aviation’s Impact on Popular Visions of Flight Guillaume de Syon 10. The British Public and the Falklands War Davide Borsani 11. Remembering the Soviet-Afghan War in Russia Roger R. Reese 12. The Persian Gulf War in American Popular Memory Robert T. Jones 13. Conclusion Derek R. Mallett

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Book SynopsisVisualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project, this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models, GIS mapping and historical cartography, databases, video animations, and applications for mobile devices and the web. The volume is one of the first collections of essays to integrate the theory and practice of visualization technologies with art, architectural, and urban history. The chapters demonstrate how new methodologies generated by technology can change and inform the way historians think and work, and the potential that such methods have to revolutionize research, teaching, and public-facing communication. With over 30 images to support and illustrate the project's work, Visualizing VeniceTable of ContentsOverview: The Visualizing Venice Enterprise Part 1: Introductory Essays 1 The Role of Digital Visualization for the History of the City 2 Visualizing Venice: Teaching, Training, and Imagining a New Kind of Urban and Architectural History 3 Visualizing Venice: Developing a Methodology for Historical Visualization Part 2: Historical Case Studies 4 Buildings that Never Were: The Unbuilt Projects for the Civic Hospital of Venice 5 Architectural and Urban Change Over Time: The School, Church, and Monastery of Santa Maria della Carità 6 Mapping Change and Motion in the Lagoon: The Island of San Secondo 7 Visualizing the Treves Botanical Garden in Padua: From Documentary Research to Laser Survey and 3D Modeling 8 Research on Lost Buildings in Venice: The Cathedral of San Pietro di Castello Part 3: Tools, Technologies, and Training 9 Visualizing Venice: An Historical Overview of the Role and Application of Architectural and Urban Modeling 10 The History of Cities and HGIS 11 Digital Technologies and Exhibition Culture: Reactivating Art Installations through Virtual Reconstructions 12 Interactive Exhibitions: New Interfaces for Engaging Visualizations 13 Guidebooks and Mobile Applications: A New Mode of Communication 14 Digital Art History: Building a "Model" for Student Engagement 15 Visualizing Venice Summer Workshops for Graduate Students and Beginning Scholars Visualizing Venice to Visualizing Cities: Future Horizons Conclusion Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe regular Mounted Infantry was one of the most important innovations of the late Victorian and Edwardian British Army. Rather than fight on horseback in the traditional manner of cavalry, they used horses primarily to move swiftly about the battlefield, where they would then dismount and fight on foot, thus anticipating the development of mechanised infantry tactics during the twentieth century. Yet despite this apparent foresight, the mounted infantry concept was abandoned by the British Army in 1913, just at the point when it may have made the transition from a colonial to a continental force as part of the British Expeditionary Force. Exploring the historical background to the Mounted Infantry, this book untangles the debates that raged in the army, Parliament and the press between its advocates and the supporters of the established cavalry. With its origins in the extemporised mounted detachments raised during times of crisis from infantry battalions on overseas imperiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 The Quest for Mobile Firepower Chapter 2 Foundations Chapter 3 DoctrineChapter 4 Forging an IdentityChapter 5 Training the Mounted InfantryChapter 6 Colonial Warfare and the Mounted Infantry ParadigmChapter 7 Imperial PerspectivesChapter 8 A Wild Goose Chase: South Africa 1899-1902Chapter 9 Remonstrance, Renaissance and Re-designationChapter 10 DemiseChapter 11 ConclusionsAppendices Biographies of Senior Mounted Infantry OfficersMounted Infantry Camel Regiment 1884–85 CompositionThe Square at Abu Klea 1885Development of the regular Mounted Infantry in South Africa 1899–1902Evolution of tactics in South Africa 1899 – 1902: the ‘galloping charge’BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAlastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). Bringing together an updated selection of his previously published essays - together with one entirely new chapter and two that appear in English here for the first time - this volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the early modern Netherlands. Firstly it analyses the emergence of a common identity amongst the amorphous collection of states in north-western Europe that were united first under the rule of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy and later the Habsburg princes, and traces the fortunes of this notion during the political and religious conflicts that divided the Low Countries during the second half of the sixteenth century. A second group of essays considers the emergence of dissidence and opposition to the regime, and explores how this was expressed and disseminated through popular culture. Finally, the volume shows how in the age of confessionalisation and civil war, challenging issues of identity presented themselves to both dissenting groups and individuals. Taken together these essays demonstrate how these dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period.Trade Review'Alastair Duke has long been recognised as the leading authority on the Dutch Reformation. This superb collection of recent essays offers the fruits of prolonged reflection on issues that have been at the heart of his research, religious identity, responses to persecution, the emergence of a sense of nation. Other essays represent new departures, with stimulating pieces on the history of print and propaganda. All scholars of sixteenth-century politics and religion will welcome publication of this outstanding volume.' Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews, UK 'Over the last fifty-odd years our understanding of the Revolt of the Netherlands has become completely transformed. Alastair Duke is among the historians who have done most to achieve this. These eleven essays - three of them entirely new, the others significantly revised - brilliantly illuminate the stark choices that religious dissidents and political rebels in the sixteenth century had to make. Using a tremendously varied and vast array of sources Duke elegantly invokes the anxieties of sixteenth century men and women, often with strong convictions, who nevertheless had no idea about the eventual outcome of the civil war that we call the Revolt of the Netherlands.' Henk van Nierop, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 'It will be clear that this collection of essays is of utmost importance for all scholars interested in the political, religious and cultural history of the 16th-century Low Countries.' Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 'These and all of the other chapters in this work are interesting and we should be grateful to the editors and to Ashgate for bringing them together in a single work.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'Altogether, this is an exquisite collection that will be appreciated by students at all levels who are interested in the fascinating yet often complex history of the early modern Low Countries.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: By way of introduction; The elusive Netherlands: the question of national identity in the early modern Low Countries on the eve of the Revolt; In defence of the common fatherland: patriotism and liberty in the Low countries, 1555-1576; Moulded by repression: the early Netherlands Reformation, 1520-55; The 'inquisition' and the repression of religious dissent in the Habsburg Netherlands, 1521-1566; A legend in the making: news of the 'Spanish Inquisition' in the Low Countries in German evangelical pamphlets, 1546-1550; Dissident propaganda and political organisation at the outbreak of the Revolt of the Netherlands; Posters, pamphlets and prints: the ways and means of disseminating dissident opinions on the eve of the Dutch Revolt; Calvinists and 'papist idolatry': the mentality of the image-breakers in 1566; Martyrs with a difference: Dutch Anabaptist victims of Elizabethan persecution; The search for religious identity in a confessional age: the conversions of Jean Haren (c.1545-c.1613); Calvinist loyalism. Jean Haren, Chimay and the demise of the Calvinist republic of Bruges; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.Trade Review'... Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland stands on its own for its breadth of approach and wide appeal. Although historians of Scottish gender history will certainly embrace this collection for the ways in which it moves forward discussions and debates regarding Scottish women in the early modern and modern periods, this book will also prove useful for European historians of these topics seeking comparisons with their own research. Similarly, given the wealth of approaches utilized by the authors of these essays, this collection will also be valued by those studying other disciplines ...' Early Modern Women: an Interdisciplinary Journal '... this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity.' The Bootle Imp '... succinct introduction weaves the strands together into a cohesive whole, presenting the book as an appreciation of the current strength of research into women’s and gender history in 18th-century Scotland... the gathering together of these articles marks a moment to reflect on what we have learned about Scottish women and where future research must be directed to enhance our understanding.' Reviews in History '... represent[s] some of the most exciting developments in a now flourishing field.' Eighteenth-Century ScotlandTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Katie Barclay and Deborah Simonton; Part I Intimate Lives: Female birthing customs and beliefs, Anne Cameron; Love and courtship in 18th-century Scotland, Katie Barclay; When a lass goes ’so round’, with her ’tua sides high’: oral culture and women’s views on illegitimacy, Svetla Baloutzova; Family, politics and reform in Margaret Cullen’s Home: a Novel (1802), Jane Rendall. Part II Intellectual Lives: The value of feminine culture: community involvement in the provision of schooling for girls in 18th-century Scotland, Lindy Moore; The depiction of literacy, schooling and education in the autobiographical writings of 18th-century Scottish women, Betty Hagglund; Making mechanics modern: Mary Somerville’s translation of Laplace’s Mécanique céleste, Margaret Carlyle and James Wallace; Tourist sites and travellers: women and late 18th-century Scottish tourism, Pam Perkins; Scarred, suffering bodies: 18th-century Scottish women travellers on slavery, sentiment and sensibility, Corey E. Andrews. Part III Public Lives: Women, land and power: a case for continuity, Rosalind Carr; Negotiating the economy of the 18th-century Scottish town: female entrepreneurs claim their place, Deborah Simonton; The display and trading of fashionable dress and its impact on women in Scotland’s growing urban centres, c.1780-1825, Louisa Cross; ’Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions’: criminal women in 18th-century Scotland, Anne-Marie Kilday; Further reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Middle East in Modern World History examines how global trends over the last 200 years have shaped the Middle East and how these trends were affected by the region's development. Covering a key period in the history of the Middle East, this book highlights three major trends within the region's development over the past two centuries: the role of the region as a strategic conduit between East and West, the development of the region's natural resources, especially oil, and the impact of a rapidly globalizing world economy on the Middle East.This new edition extends coverage to the present day and includes more thematic and interpretive discussion on the impact of global migration and the evolution of the roles of women. It also provides more theoretical insights into current historical research and recent developments in the region, firmly placing these developments within their historical context. Clearly written and supported throughout by maps, imTrade Review'Tucker's updated narrative is an artful balance of broad coverage and concise explanation. Students will be able to quickly assimilate the "big picture" presented in each chapter. But, those same chapters provide many productive points of departure for further analysis, discussion, and research. Reading The Middle East in Modern World History is like having both a great conversation with an enthusiastic TA who wants to tell you everything and a chat with an experienced professor who knows exactly what details are the most valuable windows on the past. It is hard to imagine another book that will serve students better, both as the first book they read about the Middle East and as the first book they'll seek out over the years to quickly remind themselves of the essential background to the complexities of the contemporary Middle East.'Camron Amin, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA'Ernest Tucker's The Middle East in Modern World History hits the "sweet spot" for undergraduate textbooks, providing full and nuanced coverage of the history of this vital region in the modern era in engaging and readable prose. Tucker underscores the connections across the region as well as between the Middle East and the rest of the world to demonstrate the long-term implications of globalization. Of particular value in teaching are the discussion questions and substantive bibliographies for further reading found at the end of each chapter.'Mark Stein, Muhlenberg College, USATable of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Chronology Note on Transliteration Chapter 1: The Middle East in Early Islamic History Chapter 2: Islamic Civilization: The Classical Era Chapter 3: Ottoman and Safavid Empires Chapter 4: The Middle East and Early Modern Europe Chapter 5: From "New Order" to "Re-Ordering": The Tanzimat Chapter 6: Indirect European Influence in the Middle East Chapter 7: Responses to Increased European Presence Chapter 8: Experiments in Popular Sovereignty Chapter 9: World War I: The Last Ottoman War Chapter 10: Redefining the Middle East Chapter 11: Birth of New Nations Chapter 12: Making New Nations from Imperial Regions Chapter 13: World War II and Its Aftermath Chapter 14: War over Israel/Palestine Chapter 15: Impact of the 1948 War Chapter 16: Six-Day War Chapter 17: Turkey and Iran after World War II Chapter 18: From Six-Day War to October War Chapter 19: Arab Middle East in the 1970s Chapter 20: Revolution in Iran, Saddam, and the Iran-Iraq War Chapter 21: Middle East at the End of the Cold War, 1979–1993 Chapter 22: The Middle East after the Cold War Chapter 23: The Middle East in World History after September 11 Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisFueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New Yorkâs built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New Yorkâs modernization and cosmopolitanismâthe product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the cityâs economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New Yorkâs late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the cityâs cultural ascendancy.Trade Review"Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike."--Nineteenth-Century Art WorldwideTable of ContentsIntroduction Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea BrunerPart I. Creating the Art and Cultural Capital1. Looking West from the Empire City: National Landscape and Visual Culture in Gilded Age New York David Scobey2. The François Premier Style in New York: The William K. and Alva Vanderbilt HouseKevin D. Murphy3. Aestheticizing Tendencies in Hudson River School Landscape Painting at the Beginning of the Gilded AgeAlan WallachPart II. Institutionalizing Art and Culture in the Capital4. The Lenox Library: New York’s Lost Treasure HouseSally Webster5. Publishing and Promoting a New York City Art World: Scribner’s Illustrated Monthly, 1870–1881Page Knox 6. An Unsung Hero: Henry Gurdon Marquand and His 1889 Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of ArtEsmée Quodbach7. Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Private Gain at the Genesis of the American Art MuseumJohn Ott8. Un-Domesticating the Ideal: William Wetmore Story and The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLauren LessingPart III. Depicting the Capital in Art and Culture9. Before the Farragut: Who Was Augustus Saint-Gaudens? Thayer Tolles10. Crossing Broadway: New York and the Culture of Capital in the Late Nineteenth CenturyDavid Jaffee11. Bulls, Bears, and Buildings: William Holbrook Beard’s Wall StreetRoss BarrettAfterword Joshua Brown

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Book SynopsisâThis extraordinary collection is a game-changer. Featuring the cutting-edge work of over forty scholars from across the globe, The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties is breathtaking in its range, incisive in analyses, and revolutionary in method and evidence. Here, fifty years after that iconic 1968, Western Europe and North America are finally de-centered, if not provincialized, and we have the basis for a complete remapping, a thorough reinterpretation of the Sixties.â âJean Allman, J.H. Hexter Professor in the Humanities; Director, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. LouisâThis is a landmark achievement. It represents the most comprehensive effort to date to map out the myriad constitutive elements of the Global Sixties as a field of knowledge and inquiry. Richly illustrated and meticulously curated, this collection purposefully provincializes the United States and Western Europe while shifting the loci of interpretation tTable of ContentsPreface, Odd Arne Westad Introduction, Martin Klimke and Mary Nolan I. TRANSNATIONAL SPACES 1. Transnational Connections of the Global Sixties as Seen by a Historian of Brazil, Victoria Langland 2. Liberation in Transit: Eduardo Mondlane and Che Guevara in Dar es Salaam, Andrew Ivaska 3. Subversive Communities and the "Rhodesian Sixties": An Exploration of Transnational Protests, 1965–1973, Dan Hodgkinson 4. Building Anti-Colonial Utopia: The Politics of Space in Soviet Tashkent in the "Long 1960s", Masha Kirasirova 5. The Meanings of Western Maoism in the Global 1960s, Quinn Slobodian II. FOREIGN AND CIVIL WARS 6. The Revolution before the Revolution: Student Protest and Political Process at the End of the Portuguese Dictatorship, Guya Accornero 7. Red Arabia: Anti-Colonialism, the Cold War, and the Long Sixties in the Gulf States, Toby Matthiesen 8. Making a "Second Vietnam": The Congolese Revolution and Its Global Connections in the 1960s, Pedro Monaville 9. Australia, the Long 1960s, and the Winds of Change in the Asia-Pacific, Jon Piccini III. LIFESTYLES AND COUNTERCULTURES 10. Rebellious Bodies: Urban Youth Fashion in the Sixties and Seventies in Mali, Ophélie Rillon 11. Mexico 1968: Events, Assessments, and Antecedents, Mary Kay Vaughan 12. Operación amor: Hippies, Musicians, and Cultural Transformation in El Salvador, Joaquín M. Chávez 13. A Mediterranean 60s: Cultural Politics in Turkey, Greece, and Beyond, Kenan Behzat Sharpe 14. From the Maiak to the Psichodrom: How Sixties Counterculture Came to Moscow, Juliane Fürst 15. East Looks West: Belgrade’s Young People Evaluate Western Counterculture and Student Activism, Madigan Fichter IV. WOMEN AND FEMINISM 16. Hypervisibility and Invisibility: Asian/American Women, Radical Orientalism, and the Revisioning of Global Feminism, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu 17. The Global Left-Feminist 1960s: From Copenhagen to Moscow and New York, Francisca de Haan 18. Unraveling a Tradition, or Spinning a Myth?: Gender Critique in Czech Society and Culture, Libora Oates-Indruchová 19. Modernizing Palestinian Women: Between Colonialism and Nationalism—Reflections on the 1960s and 1970s, Islah Jad V. THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER: DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMICS 20. Détente and the Global Sixties, Mario Del Pero 21. In the Wake of Czechoslovakia, 1968: Reflections on Beijing’s Split with Moscow and Rapprochement with Washington, Chen Jian 22. "Beautiful Americans": Peace Corps Iran in the Global Sixties, Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi 23. Where Was the Economy in the Global Sixties?, Mary Nolan VI. AFRICA 24. 1968—A Post-Colonial Phenomenon?: The "Mays" of France and Africa, Françoise Blum 25. May ’68 in Africa: Dakar in the Worldwide Social Movement, Omar Gueye 26. 1969—Ethiopia’s 1968, Bahru Zewde 27. Tanzanian Ujamaa in a World of Peripheral Socialisms, Priya Lal VII. ASIA 28. The Chinese Sixties: Mobility, Imagination, and the Sino-Japanese Friendship Association, Zachary A. Scarlett 29. The US Cold War and the Japanese Student Movement, 1947–1973, Naoko Koda 30. Making Non-Dissident Youth: The IFYE and Agrarian Youth in Asia and America, Gregg Andrew Brazinsky 31. The Global Sixties in Southeast Asia: Indonesia and Malaysia, Claudia Derichs VIII. THE MIDDLE EAST 32. The Iranian Student Movement and the Making of Global 1968, Manijeh Nasrabadi and Afshin Matin-asgari 33. Matzpen: A Different Israeli History, Lutz Fiedler 34. An Un-Revolutionary Decolonization: The 1960s and the United Arab Emirates, Shohei Sato 35. Cairo and the Cultural Cold War for Afro-Asia, Elizabeth M. Holt 36. The Revival of Protest in Egypt on the Eve of Sadat, Abdullah Al-Arian 37. Shafiq’s Bag of Memories, Mohamed Elshahed IX. REPRESENTATIONS, LEGACIES, AFTERLIVES 38. Disseminating the Tricontinental, Robert J. C. Young 39. Heroine of the Other America: The East German Solidarity Movement in Support of Angela Davis, 1970–73, Sophie Lorenz 40. Let Them Eat Meat: The Literary Afterlives of Castro’s and Nasser’s Dietary Utopias, Eman Morsi 41. The Dialectics of Liberation: The Global 1960s and the Present, Christopher Connery

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1962, this book examines Germany's Free Youth Movement, a revolt of the younger generation in Germany from 1896 to 1933. This movement was one of the most significant factors in shaping modern Germany. Laqueur, who grew up in Germany, retraces the history of the movement, its central ideas, and its cultural background. He begins with its origins in 19th century, and goes on to examine the Jewish question, before moving on to the movement's roots in Germany around the time of the rise of National Socialism in the late 1920's and early 1930's. This book inspires all the ideas which continue to preoccupy proponents and students of generational conflict today.  Table of ContentsPlates; Preface; Introduction by R. H. S. Crossman; Part One 1. Romantic Prelude 2. The Beginning 3. The New Style 4. At The Hohe Meissner Part Two 5. Metapolitics 6. Blüher and Wyneken 7. The War of the Sexes 8. Other Youth Movements 9 . The Jewish Question Part Three 10. The First World War 11. 1919 – Left Vs. Right 12. Years of Disillusion 13. The End of The Beginning Part Four 14. The ‘White Knight’ 15. Ernst Buske and The Freischar 16. Panorama or The Bünde 17. Tusk or The Triumph of Eccentricity 18. National Bolshevism Part Five 19. In Hitler’s Shadow 20. The Road To Ruin 21. The Post-War Period; Conclusion; Appendix: The Foreign Policy of The Bünde; Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest sense by selecting a variety of sources not commonly used in history books, such as plays, popular songs, sketches, and documents created by ordinary people.Extending from 1480 to 1820, the book traces the flourishing cultural life of key European cities and the opportunities that emerged for ordinary people to engage with new forms of creative expression, such as literature, theatre, music, and dance. Arranged chronologically, each chapter in the volume begins with an overview of the period being discussed and an introduction to the key figures. Cultural issues in political, religious, and social life are addressed in each section, providing an insight into life in the cities most important to the creative developments of the time. Throughout the book, narrative historyTrade Review'A wonderful book both insightful and stimulating, demonstrating to students how to see relationships in history that they never suspected existed and leading them directly to a bibliography of the kinds of books in which they could explore these relationships.'Paul Sonnino, University of California, Santa Barbara, USTable of ContentsChapter I. The End of the Renaissance, 1480.Chapter II. Reformation Culture, 1520-1559.Chapter III. Culture in Peril: The Religious Wars, 1560-1599.Chapter IV. Baroque Culture in a Disordered Europe, 1600-1649.Chapter V. Classical Culture, 1650-1699.Chapter VI. The Culture of the Rococo and the Enlightenment, 1700-1739.Chapter VII. The Culture of the Age of Reason, 1740-1784.Chapter VIII. The Culture of Revolution and War, 1785-1820.

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Book SynopsisThe Global 1960s presents compelling narratives from around the world in order to de-center the roles played by the United States and Europe in both scholarship on, and popular memories of, the sixties. Geographically and chronologically broad, this volume scrutinizes the concept of the sixties as defined in both Western and non-Western contexts. It provides scope for a set of analyses that together span the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Written by a diverse and international group of contributors, chapters address topics ranging from the socialist scramble for Africa, to the Naxalite movement in West Bengal, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, global media coverage of Israel, Cold War politics in Hong Kong cinema, sexual revolution in France, and cultural imperialism in Latin America. The Global 1960s explores the contest between convention and counter-culture that shaped this iconic decade, emphasizing that while the sixties are wellTrade Review"Our memory of the 1960s, unlike the events of the decade itself, has been provincial, focusing on a rather small number of activist groups and urban centers. And yet, from the most intimate forms of sexuality to the most public of geopolitical transformations, this was a period of global entanglement and exchange. This outstanding collection of essays show how a truly global account can enrich our understanding of the 1960s by placing themes of transnational circulation, international organization, and decolonization at the center of the story."James Chappel, Duke University, USATable of ContentsList of figuresList of contributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tamara Chaplin and Jadwiga E. Pieper MooneyChapter 1: The Politics of Colonial History: Bourguiba, Senghor, and the Student Movements of the Global 1960s / Burleigh HendricksonChapter 2: Unity and Conflict in the Socialist Scramble for Africa, 1960-1970 / Nick RutterChapter 3: "We shall create a New World, a New Man, a New Society": Globalized Horizons among Bengali Naxalites / Milinda Banerjee Chapter 4: Challenging British Sovereignty: Transnational Activism and Political Power in Northern Ireland, 1968-1973 / Steffen BruendelChapter 5: Social Science, Cultural Imperialism, and the Ford Foundation in Latin America in the 1960s / Patrick IberChapter 6: The Global Erotics of the French Sexual Revolution: Politics and "Arab Men" in Post-Decolonization France, 1962-1974 / Todd ShepardChapter 7: Left Out: Writing Women Back Into Japan’s 1968 / Chelsea Szendi Schieder Chapter 8: Refashioning Spain: Fashion, Consumer Culture, Gender, and International Integration under the Late Franco Dictatorship / Alejandro Gomez-del-MoralChapter 9: Hong Kong at the Movies: Cold War Masculinity, Action Melodrama and Sixties Martial Arts Films / Jing Jing ChangChapter 10: Artists’ Networks in the 1960s: The Case of El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn (Mexico City, 1962-1969) / Gabriela Aceves SepúlvedaChapter 11: "Kill that Gook, You Gook": Asian Americans and the Vietnam War / Karen L. IshizukaChapter 12: The export of Zionism? Global images of Israel in the 1960s / Jérôme Bourdon Chapter 13: Looking Out, Cheering On: Global Leftist Vocabularies among Palestinian Citizens of Israel / Maha NassarChapter 14: Herbert Marcuse: Media and the Making of a Cultural Icon / Marvin MennikenIndex

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study offers a comprehensive analysis of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Providing full historical context and drawing on a wide range of literature, this book explores the continuous economic and social transformation of the post-socialist world. While the future is yet to be determined, understanding the present phase of transformation is critical. The book's core exploration evolves along three pivots of competitive economic structure, institutional change, and social welfare. The main elements include analysis of the emergence of the socialist economic model; its adaptations through the twentieth century; discussion of the 1990s market transition reforms; post-2008 crisis development; and the social and economic diversity in the region today. With an appreciation for country specifics, the book also considers the urgent problems of social policy, poverty, income inequality, and labor migration. Trade Review“A new book on transition economies, with a strong historical perspective, knowledge of the area and languages, lots of empirics and discussion of new issues like migration and remittances.” – Branko Milanovic, Visiting Presidential Professor, Graduate Center – CUNY; Former Lead Economist, World Bank Research Department.‘This comprehensive analysis of transition processes is a welcome addition to the transition literature. It is rich in historical analysis and presents a sobering and factually rich presentation of the diverse evolutions in Central and Eastern Europe. A must-read for all those interested in transition and countries of the region.’ – Gerard Roland, E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, USA‘Professor Gevorkyan’s book is a must-read for those interested in the cataclysmic changes that occurred in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and that are still playing out towards as yet unknown destinations. The author has produced a thorough and insightful, yet questioning, account of the transition economies of that vast region and diverse collection of countries. As an economist, he has analyzed that aspect well and thoroughly, but has gone far beyond that rather simplistic view of economic transition to analyze the far more complex topic of broad societal transformation. He has done so with attention to the historical, social, political and institutional changes that occurred during and as result of the transition. Another important contribution is the author’s insistence on viewing the transition and transformation of the individual countries involved, as he has done in his analyses, rather than considering the region as a single entity as might have been implied from the book’s title. Professor Gevorkyan has provided a highly analytical and nuanced view of an enormously important topic, but with a framework and writing style that produce a comfortable, as well as valuable, reading experience.’ – Daniel J. McCarthy, Emeritus University Distinguished Professor and McKim-D’Amore Distinguished Professor of Global Management & Innovation, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, USA‘In his enlightening book, Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan systematically unpacks the nuanced complexities of economic history and social dynamics of the post-socialist Eastern Europe and former Soviet Union. This creatively novel exploration will be an interesting and engaging must-read!’ – Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group, Executive Director for Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Panama, Philippines, Suriname and Trinidad & Tobago‘This excellent book is an important tool for graduate students, scholars and policy makers.’ – Andrea Bernardi, Senior Lecturer in Employment and Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University in the UK‘Transition Economies […] summarises the major economic and many social indicators of the changes which have taken place in the 29 European and Central Asian countries of what was previously called the Soviet bloc […] Its strength lies in summarising an enormous amount of statistical information concerning post-socialist developments in this area […] Transition Economies will prove a useful source for many students of transformation seeking detailed knowledge of the recent economic history of the European post-socialist states.’ - David Lane, Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge University, UK, in LSE Review of Books“This monograph is an invaluable reference book for classrooms to understand the rocky paths for transition in post-Communist states in this mega-region, and a great general interest resource on economic history, international economics, or comparative economic systems.”- Hovhannes Nikoghosyan is an Adjunct Lecturer, Political Science and International Affairs program at American University of Armenia“I hope Gevorkyan’s book will re-ignite further research into the topic […] I highly recommend the book and applaud the method, analysis and conclusions. A must-read for students and scholars of international development.” – John Marangos in Eurasian Geography and Economics.“This book is much needed on the bookshelves of those who want to understand how historical experiences can inform state-market relationships and dynamics of capital accumulation at the start, during and at the end of the Former Soviet Union.” – Lorena Lombardozzi in Review of Radical Political Economics“This fascinating account of the dramatic and complex transformation of 29 countries is essential reading not just for students of development and economics—for which it would be a great classroom resource—but also for seasoned economists and development professionals. Its lessons go beyond those of the countries and period in question and remind us of the importance of paying attention to institutional details, cultural and historical contexts, and the general complexity of human systems—social, economic and political.” – Jacob Assa, Policy Specialist, UNDP, Human Development Report Office, USA, in Europe-Asia Studies, 72:7, 1265-1266."Aleksandr Gevorkyan’s study is an absorbing exploration of the economic history of the former socialist bloc, of what went wrong, of what went right, and of what could have been. … Gevorkyan is consistently effective in dismantling the optimistic myths surrounding the rapid liberalization of the economies of the former USSR and Eastern Europe." - Artyom H. Tonoyan (University of Minnesota), Review of Political Economy"Professor Gevorkyan’s book represents a successful attempt to shed light on one of the greatest unknowns of development economics: the transformation that the countries which used to be under the direct sphere of influence of the Soviet Union experienced when they faced the traumatic transition from planned to market economies. [...] This book is equally relevant for researchers in the field, providing in-depth and critical analysis, and for the curious reader with a reasonable degree of technical knowledge, since every issue is presented in a very accessible manner. At the same time, the book contributes to the filling of the knowledge gap, by offering a well-reasoned heterodox interpretation of Eastern European and former Soviet Union countries’ transition processes. […] This book will certainly prove to be very useful for several courses on the region for years to come." – Gonzalo Luis Fernández in Review of Keynesian EconomicsTable of Contents1. The great unknowns – post-socialist economies and societies in motion2. Transition vs. transformation: what is clear and not so clear about transition economics3. The economic and social context at the turn of the twentieth century: from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union4. The war economy and the post World War II reconstruction in the USSR5. From war to wall to common market: the dialectics of the Eastern European socialist economy6. The socialist economic model, market socialism, stagnation, perestroika, and the end of plan7. Free market reform: liberalization, privatization, shock therapy, and policy misfortunes8. Poverty, income inequality, labor migration, and diaspora potential9. Contours of the new era post-transition economy: they are all different10. Facing the present by knowing the past

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Book SynopsisTo mark the 800th anniversary of the ratification of the Magna Carta by King John at Runnymede, Magna Carta provides the central European perspectives on this monumental document and its impact on the political and legal experiences of freedom, from the medieval period to the present day. The volume gives rise to a discussion about the legacy of the Magna Carta as one of the fundamental elements of European identity.Supported by previously untranslated sources at the end of each chapter, the team of contributors consider the lasting legacy of Magna Carta in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Lithuania. The authors present the successful attempts to limit royal power by law while protecting the priveleges of the nobility carried out throughout the region from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries. Each chapter considers the historical and political contexts behind these efforts, the processes by which political and legal institutions were subsequently formed andTrade Review"Reputable scholars have researched the far-reaching legacy of Magna Carta concerning such fundamental liberties as due process in administering justice, governance according to law, and the values of liberty and equality as these universalist qualities have played out in the histories of Hungary, the Czech lands, Poland, and Lithuania... This volume could be eye-opening for readers who consider the legacy of Magna Carta to be confined to Britain, the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Summing Up: Recommended." — A. C. Reeves, CHOICE ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface by Robert Blackburn Acknowledgements List of Contributors 1. Why Do We Central Europeans Celebrate the Anniversary of Magna Carta? Introductory Remarks Zbigniew Rau, Marek Tracz-Tryniecki, Przemysław Żurawski vel Grajewski 2. a) The Hungarian experience of freedom – the tradition of the Golden Bull Attila K. Molnar and Levente Völgyesi b) The Hungarian Sources 3. a) King, Estates and the Czech Crown. The Legal Sources of the Ideas of Freedom in the Medieval and Early Modern Czech LandsJana Janišová – Dalibor Janiš b) The Czech Sources 4. a) The nobility’s privileges and the formation of civil liberties in old Poland Dorota Malec b) The Polish Sources 5. a) Ruling by Law and by Consent: Monarchy and Noble Estate in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Artūras Vasiliauskas b) The Lithuanian Sources

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of Victory in the East: A Military History of the First Crusade, this book offers a wide-ranging and innovative survey of crusading warfare, and is intended as a standard reference for students and professional historiansTrade Review'I am full of admiration for this excellent story of the practice of warfare in the Central Middle Ages. It is a work of both scholarship and synthesis, full of insight, and communicated in an accessible and professional way.' - Norman Housley, University of LondonTable of ContentsThe means of war; the men of war; causes, aims and objectives; battle and war, 1000-1152; war and the state in the 12th century; war, ideology and chivalry in the 11th and 12th centuries; Bouvines and its myth; battle and warfare in the 13th century; civilization versus the barbarians; warfare and change.

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Book SynopsisTens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both challenges and enhances existing interpretations of the phenomenon. Locating its origins 400 years earlier in the growing perception of threats to Western Christendom, Robert Thurston outlines the development of a persecuting society' in which campaigns against scapegoats such as heretics, Jews, lepers and homosexuals set the scene for the later witch hunts. He examines the creation of the witch stereotype and looks at how the early trials and hunts evolved, with the shift from accusatory to inquisitorial court procedures and reliance upon confessions leading to the increasing use of torTrade Review"comprehensive account of one of the most malign periods in Eureopean history" - Glasgow Herald`Lively and readable. It is written in a style as personal and attractive as any I have encountered...It has just the right balance of magisterial detachment and personal insight.' Ronald Hutton, Universityof Bristol 6 page feature article on book in History Today, November 2006Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. New fears in Europe: 700-1500 2. Toward the Witch Pyres: Images and Realities of European Women to 1500 3. The Spread of the Witch Trials 4. Victims and Processes 5. The Decline and End of the Hunts Conclusion

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Book SynopsisDuring the nineteenth century, Liverpool became the heart of an international maritime network. As the ''second city'' of Empire, its merchants and shipowners operated within a transnational commercial and financial system, while its trading connections stimulated the development of new markets and their integration within an increasingly global economy. This ground-breaking volume brings together ten original contributions that reflect upon the development of the city''s business community from the early-nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War with an emphasis on the period from 1851 to 1912. It offers the first detailed analysis of Liverpool''s merchant community within a conceptual and historiographical framework which focuses on the economic, social, and cultural role of business elites in the nineteenth century. It explores the extent to which business success was predicated on the maintenance of networks of trust; analyses the importance of business cuTable of Contents1. Networks of influence and power: the forging of Liverpool’s merchant community. 2. The Mercantile Liverpool Project Database: Sources and Findings. 3. The business environment. 4. Ethics, trust and reputation. 5. ‘THE VISIBLE EMBODIMENT OF MODERN COMMERCE’: The development of Liverpool’s commercial centre. 6. Kinship, Friendship and Partnership: The social networks of the Liverpool merchant community. 7. Intersecting worlds: women, the family, and merchant culture. 8. ‘THE MARK OF OPULENCE, TASTE AND SKILL’: Liverpool merchants’ houses, c.1750-c.1900. 9. ‘To Purer Air and Brighter Skies’: Escaping from the City. 10. Suburbanisation, Community Building and the Fragmentation of Business Culture: the impact on Liverpool of residential development on the Wirral. 11. Deconstructing Liverpool’s Merchant Networks: transience, religion, politics and business interests. 12. Associational Culture, Social Influence and the Cultural Embeddedness of Merchant Networks: a reassessment. 13. Postscript.

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Book SynopsisExploring the ways in which transatlantic relationships functioned in the nineteenth century to unsettle hierarchical models of gender, race, and national and cultural differences, this collection demonstrates the generative potential of transatlantic studies to loosen demographic frames and challenge conveniently linear histories. The contributors take up a rich and varied range of topics, including Charlotte Smith''s novelistic treatment of the American Revolution, The Old Manor House; Anna Jameson''s counter-discursive constructions of gender in a travelogue; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville, and the ''Queer Atlantic''; representations of indigenous religion and shamanism in British Romantic literary discourse; the mid-nineteenth-century transatlantic abolitionist movement; the transatlantic adventure novel; the exchanges of transatlantic print culture facilitated by the Minerva Press; British and Anglo-American representations of Niagara Falls; and Charles Brockden Brown''s intervenTrade Review'The essays in Transatlantic Literary Exchanges examine spaces where national attachments are mixed, multiple, and/or ambiguous. In focusing on such liminal spaces in an impressive range of works and authors, the collection offers many important new insights into the construction of-and contestation over-key conceptual categories, such as sexuality, nature, and genre. These insights pose profound questions about the way we approach particular authors, how we think of American and British literature in general from the late eighteenth through mid-nineteenth centuries, and, ultimately, about the stories we tell about this period in literary history.' Jim Egan, Brown University '[This book] is interdisciplinary and consistently thorough in its analyses, being concerned with transatlantic culture in all its many facets - historical, political, philosophical and theological - and the combined effect is to read the nineteenth-century Atlantic world as an imaginative space where social, economic and political exchange occurs in frequently surprising, and often destabilising, cultural forms.' Literature and History '[This book] brings together a range of topics and methodologies relevant to transatlantic studies, providing a current introduction to the field by describing ongoing trends and highlighting particular researches.' RomanticismTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: mobilizing gender, race, and nation, Kevin Hutchings and Julia M. Wright; Part 1 Transatlantic Mobility: Gender and Sexuality: Charlotte Smith and the spectre of America, Jared Richman; Romantic aesthetics, gender, and transatlantic travel in Anna Brownwell Jameson's Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, Charity Matthews; Felicia Hemans, Herman Melville and the queer Atlantic, Daniel Hannah. Part 2 Reconfiguring Race: Prophets of resistance: Native American shamans and anglophone writers, Tim Fulford; Frederick Douglass and transatlantic echoes of 'the color line', Bridget Bennett; Pirates and patriots: citizenship, race and the transatlantic adventure novel, Sarah H. Ficke. Part 3 Cultural Exchanges: Print, Tourism, and Politics: Charles Brockden Brown and England: of genres, the Minerva Press, and the early republican reprint trade, Eve Tavor Bannet; Romantic Niagara: environmental aesthetics, indigenous culture, and transatlantic tourism, 1794-1850, Kevin Hutchings; Beyond the American empire: Charles Brockden Brown and the making of a new global economic order, Wil Verhoeven; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? How did political expansion, cross-cultural trade, scientific exploration and discrete religious practices require new ways of rendering the unknown visible, and of making what was seen knowable? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures argues that distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had epistemic consequences: in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. The essays here consider prints and panoramas, sculpted works of stone and corn pith cane - and their physical presence in the lived world - calling attention to the materiality and sensuality of visual experience. Anchored in writings on art history and visual culture, Seeing Across Cultures also engages histories of transcultural encounters and vision.Trade Review'Ranging from viceregal Mexico to Akbar's India, the authors of this timely and diverse collection practice what theorists of early modern globalization have only lately preached: that the world was understood to be connected and mutually intelligible in the age of sail and gunpowder. There was plenty of wonder, mutual discovery, and violent misunderstanding, but the hard nationalist and regionalist divisions came later, and for too long they clouded scholars' vision of the early modern past. In addition to their efforts to reveal early modern worlds in their own terms, the authors offer new insights to scholars beyond art history both by rigorous comparisons and through re-examination of venerable theoretical models and disciplinary boundaries. It is sure to provoke considerable discussion, and likely some controversy.' Kris Lane, Tulane University, USA 'The latest entry from Ashgate in one of the most innovative and stimulating new art history publication series, 'Transculturalisms 1400-1700,' this collection of essays takes up the complex issue of what some scholars are calling 'visuality,' a conception of vision itself in a given culture... a fascinating collection...' Cassone 'The most important question these essays raise ... especially from the perspective of early modern scholars not in the field of art history, is the problem of commensurability. Commensurability has become a central theme of early modern studies as the field has moved away from its European roots and become increasingly global. The study of encounters in the early modern world inevitably raises the question of how culture translates across racial, ethnic, and geographic divides, and this issue becomes more urgent as scholars abandon their Eurocentric focus and binary categories of European versus other.' Sixteenth Century Journal '... thought-provoking ...' Journal of Historical GeographyTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: geographies of sight, Dana Leibsohn; Part I Perspective and Mimesis: Perspective and its discontents or St Lucy's eyes, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia M. Mochizuki; Perceiving blackness, envisioning power: Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico, Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and complementary visions of the court of the Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II Blindness and Memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness, Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease, decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description de l'Egypte (1809-1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman. Part III Colonial Visualities: Without a face: voicing Moctezuma II's image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen; Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India, ca.1750-1858, Natasha Eaton. Part IV Seeing Across Time: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago; Index.

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Book SynopsisGermany''s imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an ''extraordinary body of historical scholarship'', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to refTrade Review’This volume is an extraordinary achievement. Written by leading authorities in the field of modern German history, it provides a rich and up-to-date survey of the vast historiography of Imperial Germany. Without doubt, this latest Ashgate Companion will become an indispensable reference work for students and researchers alike.’ Stefan Goebel, University of Kent, UK ’What distinguished the German Second Empire from other nation-states and what does this mean for subsequent German history? Such concerns have stimulated innovative research and fierce debates. The contributors to this volume analyse this historiography in a wide-ranging, up-to-date and accessible way. This is a valuable resource for anyone studying this complex and dynamic period of German history.’ John Breuilly, London School of Economics, UK ’As Matthew Jefferies reminds us, German history remains as highly charged with relevance as ever. Students can find no better guide to current research, new departures, and grounds of debate than this comprehensive and carefully judged Companion.’ Geoff Eley, University of Michigan, USA ’This scintillating collection presents the state of the art on the German Empire - what made it tick, how it fits within the larger sweep of history, why scholars disagree about its problems and prospects. The chapters expand the limits of the genre, offering remarkable breadth and unique depth. With its vivid prose and judicious analysis, this book will be indispensable to novices and experts alike.’ James Retallack, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction, Matthew Jefferies. Part I State and Monarchy: Imperial governance, Katharine Anne Lerman; Prussian governance, Hartwin Spenkuch; The German monarchies, Frank Lorenz Müller. Part II Politics and Society: Elections, Thomas Kühne; Liberalism, Eric Kurlander; Conservatism, Oded Heilbronner; Nationalism, Mark Hewitson; Antisemitism, Lars Fischer; Political Catholicism, Jeffrey T. Zalar; Socialism, Stefan Berger and Stefan Braun. Part III Culture and Identity: Particularism and localism, Jennifer Jenkins; Popular culture, Kaspar Maase; Gender, Ann Taylor Allen; Religion, James E. Bjork; Class, Dennis Sweeney. Part IV Economy and Environment: Trade policy and globalization, Cornelius Torp; Agriculture labour, Simon Constantine; The environment and environmentalism, Thomas Rohkrämer; Population: demography and mobility, Steve Hochstadt. Part V International Relations, Militarism and War: International relations, Andreas Rose; Militarism, Benjamin Ziemann; The army, William Mulligan; The navy and the sea, Jan Rüger; Germany and the origins of the First World War, Annika Mombauer; Colonialism and genocide, Jürgen Zimmerer. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western Asia Minor. Between the disintegration of the Byzantine Empire after 1204 and the consolidation of Ottoman power in the fifteenth century, the area was a complex political, ethnic and religious mosaic, made up of Frankish lordships, Italian colonies, Turkish beyliks, as well as a number of states that professed to be the continuators of the Byzantine imperial tradition. This volume brings together western medievalists, Byzantinists and Ottomanists, combining recent research in the relevant fields in order to provide a holistic interpretation of this world of extreme fragmentation. Eight stimulating papers explore various factors that defined contact and conflict between Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, highlighting common themes that run through this period and evaluating the changes that oTrade Review'... this edited volume provides a wide range of topics in essays that go into great and fascinating scholarly depth. The book makes a solid attempt at getting historians from a variety of different historical periods to share their scholarship and work to expand their fields by making interesting cross-cultural comparisons in their studies. In this regard, Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean is certainly a step in the right direction.' HortulusTable of ContentsContents: Preface, Jonathan Harris; Introduction, Nikolaos G. Chrissis and Mike Carr; Part I Frankish Greece between East and West: New frontiers: Frankish Greece and the development of crusading in the early 13th century, Nikolaos G. Chrissis; The Latin empire and Western contacts with Asia, Bernard Hamilton. Part II Byzantine Reactions to the Latins: Golden Athens: episcopal wealth and power in Greece at the time of the crusades, Teresa Shawcross; Demetrius Kydones’ 'History of the Crusades': reality or rhetoric?, Judith Ryder. Part III Latins between Greeks and Turks in the 14th Century: Trade or crusade? The Zaccaria of Chios and crusades against the Turks, Mike Carr; Sanudo, Turks, Greeks and Latins in the early 14th century, Peter Lock. Part IV The Ottomans’ Western ’Frontier’: A Damascene eyewitness to the Battle of Nicopolis: Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari (d.833/1429), Ilker Evrim Binbas; Bayezid I’s foreign policy plans and priorities: power relations, statecraft, military conditions and diplomatic practice in Anatolia and the Balkans, Rhoads Murphey; Conclusion, Bernard Hamilton; Index.

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Book SynopsisThroughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term ''luxury'' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles, it takes the reader on a journey back from the market place, to the commercialisation of rich fabrics by an international network of traders, before arriving at the workshop to explore the Italian and Burgundian world of production of damasks, silks and tapestries. The first part of the volume deals with the consumption of luxury textiles, through an investigation of courtly purchases, as well as urban and clTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: Luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and neighbouring territories (14th to 16th centuries): a conceptual investigation, Bart Lambert and Katherine Anne Wilson. Part I Consumption of Luxury Textiles: ’In a chamber, in a garderobe, in a chest’: the possession and uses of luxury textiles. The case of later medieval Dijon, Katherine Anne Wilson; ’o per honore, o per commodo mio’: displaying textiles at the Gonzaga court in the 15th and 16th centuries, Christina Antenhofer; Between mass and ’mystère’: the Life of Saint Remigius and the ceremonial function of choir tapestries, Laura Weigert. Part II Commercialisation of Luxury Textiles: ’Se fist riche par draps de soye’: the intertwinement of Italian financial interests and luxury trade at the Burgundian court (1384-1481), Bart Lambert; Florence, Nuremberg and beyond: Italian silks in central Europe during the Renaissance, Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli; Trading silks and tapestries in 16th-century Antwerp, Jeroen Puttevils. Part III Production of Luxury Textiles: The move to quality cloth. Luxury textiles, labour markets and middle class identity in a medieval textile city. Mechelen in the late 13th and early 14th centuries, Peter Stabel; Woolen luxury cloth in late medieval Italy, Franco Franceschi; A luxury industry: the production of Italian silks 1400-1600, Luca Molà ; Centres, peripheries and the performative textile: by way of conclusion, Graeme Small; Index.

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Book SynopsisAnne Middleton''s essays have been among the most vigorous, learned, and influential in the field of medieval English literature. Their ''crux-busting'' energies have illuminated local obscurities with generous learning lightly wielded. Their historically- and theoretically-informed meditations on the nature of poetic discourse traced how the generation of Chaucer and Langland devised a category of the literary that could embody a ethos of engaged, worldly consensus and make that consensus available to imaginative and rational consideration. And their reflections on the enterprise of literary study found a rational way, free of cant, to understand the work of the literary scholar. This volume reprints eight essays: 'The Idea of Public Poetry in the Reign of Richard II,' 'Chaucer''s ''New Men'' and the Good of Literature in the Canterbury Tales,' 'The Physician''s Tale and Love''s Martyrs: ''Ensamples Mo than Ten'' as a Method in the Canterbury Tales,' 'The Clerk and His Tale: Some LiteTable of ContentsContents: Publications of Anne Middleton; Introduction, Steven Justice; The idea of public poetry in the age of Richard II; Chaucer's 'new men' and the good of literature in the Canterbury Tales; The Physician's Tale and love's martyrs: 'ensamples mo than ten' as a method in the Canterbury Tales; The Clerk and his tale: some literary contexts; Playing the plowman: legends of 14th-century authorship; Narration and the invention of experience: episodic form in Piers Plowman; Making a good end: John But as a reader of Piers Plowman; William Langland's 'kynde name': authorial signature and social identity in late 14th-century England; Life in the margins, or, what's an annotator to do?

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Book SynopsisThis work centres on the post-Roman period of Narbonne and its territory, up to its capture by the Arabs in 720, encompassing not only recent archaeological findings but also perspectives of French, Spanish and Catalan historiography that have fashioned distinct national narratives. Seeking to remove Narbonne from any subsequent birth of France, Catalonia and Spain, the book presents a geopolitical region that took shape from the late fifth century, evolving towards the end of the eighth century into an autonomous province of the nascent Carolingian Empire. Capturing this change throughout a 300-year period somewhat lacking in written sources, the book takes us beyond an exclusive depiction of the classical city to an examination of settlement in various forms. Discourses of literary criticism also lie behind aspects of this study, mapped around textual commentaries which highlight a more imaginative biography of a city. Narbonne''s role as a point of departure and travel across the MTrade Review'...Riess monograph exhibits the virtues of a regionalist approach while, at the same time, persuasively arguing for Narbonnes relevance to the greater political, military, and diplomatic affairs of the post-Roman Mediterranean world.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review 'Riess excites with the interplay of textual and material evidence. Valuable and informative set pieces result; examples include an investigation of the location of Sulpicius Severus’s retreat, Primuliacum (pp. 66-69); analysis of Narbonne’s Christian origins (pp. 115-17); and examination of Narbonne’s hinterland in light of recent archeological categorizations for rural settlements (pp. 194-203). In sum Riess’s book exemplifies the outstanding scholarship one can achieve by mastering the intertwining of textual and archaeological evidence.’ Journal of Late Antiquity '... thoroughly impressive ... Riess persuasively argues that the region of Narbonne was integral to events ranging across Hispania and was in turn shaped by events in an even wider political theatre that involved Visigothic, Frankish, Burgundian, Ostrogothic, Byzantine and Arab interests.' H-France ReviewTable of ContentsNarbonne and the Roman world of the 4th century. Christian and Classical histories of Narbonne. Sidonius and the passing of Roman Narbonne. The Visigothic kingdom: from Liuva I to Reccared. The North-east and the territory of Narbonne. Rebellion on the border: the Regnum Orientalis. The Arabs and the fall of Narbonne. The first and last city.

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