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Lexington Books Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity
Book SynopsisA fundamental problem in studying early modern Russian history is determining Russia’s historical development in relationship to the rest of the world. The focus throughout this book is on the continuity of Russian policies during the early modern period (1450–1800) and that those policies coincided with those of other successful contemporary Eurasian polities. The continuities occurred in the midst of constant change, but neither one nor the other, continuities or changes alone, can account for Russia’s success. Instead, Russian rulers from Ivan III to Catherine II with their hub advisors managed to sustain a balance between the two. During the early modern period, these Russian rulers invited into the country foreign experts to facilitate the transfer of technology and know-how, mostly from Europe but also from Asia. In this respect, they were willing to look abroad for solutions to domestic problems. Russia looked westward for military weaponry and techniques at the same time it was expanding eastward into the Eurasian heartland. The ruling elite and by extension the entire ruling class worked in cooperation with the ruler to implement policies. The Church played an active role in supporting the government and in seeking to eliminate opposition to the government. Trade ReviewThis informative book provides a thematic analysis of Russian history during the early modern period. Challenging the familiar notion that the reign of Peter I (“the Great”) marked an epochal turning point in Russian history, Ostrowski insists that “between 1450 and 1800, there are no turning points, just more or less continuous trends” (p. 13). Rather than focus on Russia’s relation to a vaguely conceptualized Europe or West, he emphasizes the importance of “influence flows” (p. 9) across the Eurasian continent as a whole, arguing that the periodization of world history into premodern, early modern, and modern is more appropriate for Russia than the familiar division between pre-Petrine and modern periods. He depicts a “continuity of change” during Russia’s early modern period in thematic chapters on the expansion of the empire, court politics, the military, the economy, government institutions, the relationship between church and state, and culture and education. His provocative claims are accompanied by detailed historiographical discussion, making the book a useful overview of and contribution to key debates that have shaped the field. Highly recommended. Graduate students and faculty. * Choice Reviews *[This] book provides a valuable, one-stop corrective to long-outdated paradigms. Scholars of global early modern history looking to integrate Russia into their research would do well to place Ostrowski’s book at the top of their reading list. Historians of early modern Russia might debate aspects of Ostrowski’s interpretation, but they are likely to concur more than they disagree. The conclusion is a masterful summary of the argument, cogent and accessible even to those readers who cannot spare the time to read through the lengthy previous chapters, and at an appropriate level for undergraduate students. * The Russian Review *Ostrowski has produced a major reconceptualization not only of Russian history in the early modern period, but of world history between the mid-fifteenth and close of the eighteenth centuries. This ambitious book starts with a challenge to a fundamental assumption—that Peter the Great’s reign constituted a fundamental, “revolutionary” break in Russian history—and develops a vast and convincing model of early modern Russian history as a continuous, if uneven, process of borrowing, growth, adaptation, and innovation that both fits the patterns in world history and singles out Russia as a distinct cultural matrix. It is the kind of book only someone with vast experience in primary sources and the secondary literature in multiple fields and disciplines could write, and highlights something we all already knew—that Ostrowski is one of the great masters of the craft of history working in our midst. -- Russell E. Martin, Westminster CollegeDon Ostrowski’s new book offers us a sweeping examination of unresolved questions in early modern Russian history; it is at once erudite and eminently readable. He scrupulously evaluates conflicting interpretations, and presents them to the reader in the context, not just of Europe, but of similarities and differences across Afro-European civilizations. It's a pleasure to be challenged by such a buffet of ideas and interpretations, by such a provocative invitation to appraise, to question and to reconsider. -- Carol B. Stevens, Colgate UniversityRepresenting a lifetime of universal curiosity, of widespread reading and immense erudition, of theoretical daring with openness to other scholars’ approaches, and of well targeted, dogged source criticism, Professor Ostrowski has produced an original, thought-provoking, analytical history of late medieval and early modern Russia situated within the context of the rest of the Afro-Eurasia of 1450-1800 and of world history in general. As this remarkable achievement unfolds, with focus specifically on the ecology of territorial expansion, the landed ruling class, the military, the economy, secular institutions, church-state relations, and culture, and the oft exaggerated place of Peter the Great these developments, we observe a master teacher in action and are treated to unexpected ways of envisioning the past of Russia and other societies. -- David Goldfrank, Georgetown UniversityDon Ostrowski leaves few historiographical stones unturned in this deeply erudite and thought-provoking reassessment of how we conceptualize Russian history. As is true of any bold reinterpretation, some may take issue with certain aspects of Ostrowski’s sweeping history; but in the wake of this scholarly achievement, history departments and teachers of Russian history everywhere who regard Tsar Peter the Great as ushering in a new epoch of Russian history will be hard-pressed to justify that periodization. -- Erika Monahan, author of The Merchants of Siberia: Trade in Early Modern EurasiaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Problem with Russian History Chapter 1.Ecological Zones and Expansion Strategies: The Russians Establish an Empire Chapter 2. A Roadmap to the Landowning Class and Court Politics Chapter 3.Military Techniques, Tactics, and StrategiesChapter 4.Gunpowder, Germans, and Iron: Early Modern Russia’s Pre-Industrialized EconomyChapter 5.Governmental Institutions, Organizations, and the Legal System in the Afro Eurasian context Chapter 6.The Three-Cornered Relationships: Church and State Chapter 7.The Icon and the Chronicle: An Interpretive Commentary on Early Modern Russian Culture Conclusion: Putting Peter in His Place GlossaryBibliographyAbout the Author
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Gibson Square Books Ltd Farthest North: The Greatest Arctic Adventure
Book SynopsisLike a modern Viking 32-year-old Nansen set sail from Norway in 1893 to reach the North Pole. Experts warned him that his voyage was tantamount to suicide. Compact and nimble, his ship the Fram had been specially built to withstand the relentless, devastating pressure of the polar ice cap. At the right moment, he intended to strike out into the polar desert and finish the final leg by sledge.Nansen's vivid memoir became an international phenomenon when, having been given up for dead, he emerged three years later. His epic struggle against snowdrifts, ice floes, polar bears, scurvy, gnawing hunger and the loneliness of the polar night would inspire young explorers such as Scott and Amundsen a generation later to make new conquests. This first unabridged edition since 1897 includes photographs not previously published.Trade Review'Nansen was the last of the Nordic gods... Tall, blond, and ridiculously handsome... The First Crossing Of Greenland is a... thrilling account of his earliest adventure... It was a hideous journey... Hair froze fast to headgear, beards solidified so that the lips could not be opened to speak... Polar exploration tends to attract more testosterone than talent... One man towers over the other ice-encrusted sledgers: Fridtjof Nansen, colossus of the glaciers... Of all the frozen beards... only Nansen communicated a sense of the true subjugation of the ego that endeavour can bring. Failure, he acknowledged, would mean "only disappointed human hopes, nothing more".' Sara Wheeler, Guardian; 'Seminal... demythologised the polar environment and revolutionised modern polar travel with the introduction of skis.' Roland Huntford, The Times; 'Nansen defied that conventional wisdom, which dictated explorers proceed from the known to the unknown to maintain a line of retreat, by sailing first to the largely uncharted eastern coast of Greenland.' Times Higher Education; 'The visionary Norse explorer.' Jon KrakauerTable of ContentsThe Route of the Fram and Nansen and Johansen's Sledge JourneyPreliminary-Sketch Map of Franz Joseph LandIntroduction by Fergus FlemingThe FramI. IntroductionII. Preparations and EquipmentIII. The StartIV. Farewell to NorwayV. Voyage Through the Kara SeaVI. The Winter NightVII. The Spring and Summer of 1894VIII. Second Autumn in the IceThe Sledge JourneyIX. We Prepare for the Sledge ExpeditionX. The New Year, 1895XI. We Make a StartXII. We Say Good-bye to the FramXIII. A Hard StruggleXIV. By Sledge and KayakXV. Land at LastXVI. The New Year, 1896XVII. The Journey SouthwardConclusion by Fridtjof NansenEndnotesList of Equipment Used for the Sledge Journey
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Harvard University Press Saints at the Limits
Book SynopsisThe legends collected in Saints at the Limits, despite sometimes being viewed with suspicion by the Church, fascinated Christians during the Middle Ages—as cults and retellings attest. These Byzantine Greek stories, translated into English here for the first time, continue to resonate with readers seeking to understand universal fears and desires.Trade ReviewWhat makes this volume truly invaluable is the translations. As knowledge of ancient languages diminishes, the translations make these texts more accessible than ever. It seems likely that all these texts will attract more scholarly interest over the next few years…This is a very valuable volume to have. -- Roger Pearse
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HarperCollins Publishers The Full English
Book SynopsisA Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Waterstones Travel Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the YearTrade Review‘Maconie is a funny, astute writer, alert to the absurd.’ Sunday Times Book of the Week ‘Observant and witty.’ The Times ‘The deceptive lightness and accessibility of Maconie’s writing lead us gently though what is actually a deep dive into this most mysterious of peoples.’ Jonathan Coe, The Guardian 'Chatty and cheerful.' Graham Robb Spectator Books of the Year ‘Thoughtful and characteristically entertaining.’ Waterstones Books of the Year ‘Maconie catches the exhausted national mood beautifully.’ New Statesman ‘Takes the temperature of the English at this point in time.’ Hugo Rifkind ‘This might be Maconie’s best book yet. … What a treat to read such a clear-eyed but warm-hearted evocation of the country.’ Daily Express Praise for Stuart Maconie… ‘As funny as Bryson and as wise as Orwell.’ The Observer ‘The best thing to come out of Wigan since the A58 to Bolton.’ Peter Kay ‘A fine writer: sharp, funny, tender and thoughtful.’ The Spectator ‘A funny, lyrical writer who prefers to persuade rather than browbeat.’ Mail on Sunday ‘Maconie's engaging, conversational prose is full of telling detail, jokes and deft quotation.’ The Telegraph
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HarperCollins Publishers The Full English
Book SynopsisA Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the Year
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Yale University Press Morozov
Book SynopsisThe first English-language account of Ivan Morozov and his ambition to build one of the world’s greatest collections of modern artTrade Review“[A] jewel-like focus yet epic scope, reads as sumptuously as a 19th-century novel, and makes stunning use of material still emerging from Soviet archives to illuminate dark corners of history”—Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times“A century of Russian culture distilled in the story of the life, family and collection of the lavish, lazy, kindly, eccentric grandson of a serf who brought Monet and Matisse to Moscow, waited three years for the right “blue Gauguin”—and survived the first years of Bolshevik rule.”—Jackie Wullschläger, Financial Times ‘Best Books of 2020: Visual Arts’“Semenova was wise to widen the focus, and make this the biography of a family, and also of a collection...The descriptions of their activities read like raw material for Gogol or Dostoevsky.”– Martin Gayford, Spectator “A narrative skilfully told by the art historian Natalya Semenova”—Martin Bentham, Evening Standard“Natalya Semenova, who told the story of Shchukin and his collection three years ago, now brings her expertise and narrative verve to the less well-known Morozov.”—Lesley Chamberlain, Times Literary Supplement“After [Semenova’s] exhaustive searches, it is difficult to imagine what further revelations might usurp her volumes on Morozov and Shchukin as the definitive studies of their patronage.”—Rosalind P. Blakesley, Literary Review “This book is a tribute to the commitment of a patron of the arts and a timely warning about the arbitrary power of the state to destroy and mishandle material.”—Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art “Drawing on a lifetime of research, Natalya Semenova has produced a riveting biography of an intensely private man who became one of the world's greatest collectors of modern art. Her pioneering account of the life and times of Ivan Morozov restores a vital lost page in the cultural history of imperial Russia. Morozov's importance has always been unfairly eclipsed by the better-known and more flamboyant Sergei Shchukin. Natalya Semenova has been able to redress the balance, and her latest biography completes a magnificent diptych chronicling the life and times of Russia's two great collectors.”—Rosamund Bartlett
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OUP India Operation Barbarossa The History of a Cataclysm
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Basic Books Stalin's War: A New History of World War II
Book SynopsisA prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin—not Hitler—was the animating force of World War II in this major new history.World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia—and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did not fight in multiple theaters, his empire did not span the Eurasian continent, and he did not inherit any of the spoils of war. That central role belonged to Joseph Stalin. The Second World War was not Hitler’s war; it was Stalin’s war. Drawing on ambitious new research in Soviet, European, and US archives, Stalin’s War revolutionizes our understanding of this global conflict by moving its epicenter to the east. Hitler’s genocidal ambition may have helped unleash Armageddon, but as McMeekin shows, the war which emerged in Europe in September 1939 was the one Stalin wanted, not Hitler. So, too, did the Pacific war of 1941–1945 fulfill Stalin’s goal of unleashing a devastating war of attrition between Japan and the “Anglo-Saxon” capitalist powers he viewed as his ultimate adversary. McMeekin also reveals the extent to which Soviet Communism was rescued by the US and Britain’s self-defeating strategic moves, beginning with Lend-Lease aid, as American and British supply boards agreed almost blindly to every Soviet demand. Stalin’s war machine, McMeekin shows, was substantially reliant on American materiél from warplanes, tanks, trucks, jeeps, motorcycles, fuel, ammunition, and explosives, to industrial inputs and technology transfer, to the foodstuffs which fed the Red Army. This unreciprocated American generosity gave Stalin’s armies the mobile striking power to conquer most of Eurasia, from Berlin to Beijing, for Communism. A groundbreaking reassessment of the Second World War, Stalin’s War is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the current world order.
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Prison Poems of Nikolai Bukharin
Book SynopsisNikolai Bukharin (18881938), an original Bolshevik leader and a founder of the Soviet state, spent the last year of his life imprisoned by Stalin, awaiting a trial and eventual execution. Remarkably during that time, from March 1937 to March 1938, Bukharin wrote four book-length manuscripts by hand in his prison cell. Seventy years later, The Prison Poems is the last of the four prison manuscripts, which include How It All Began: The Prison Noveland Socialism and Its Culture, to be published, allowing readers to grasp Bukharin's vision in its full extent. Bukharin organized the nearly 180 poems in this volume, written from June to November 1937, into several series. One dealing with forerunners to the 1917 Russian Revolution and another focusing on the Russian Civil War contain commentary not found in the other prison manuscripts. The same is true of the Lyrical Intermezzo poems for and about Anna Larina, his young wife, from whom he was separated by his imprisonment. This first En
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Gardens of Mars: Madagascar, an Island Story
Book SynopsisA journey – both historical and contemporary – among the fantastical landscapes, resourceful inhabitants and isolated tribes of the world's fourth-largest island of enduring fascination for its rich biodiversity: Madagascar. 'A beautifully written depiction of the history of this beguiling island' Literary Review 'Courageous, exploratory, humane and with a wry sense of humour' Spectator 'A feat of journalism, observation and determination' Dr Alyson Hitch 'Wonderfully witty and wry' Benedict Allen We think we know Madagascar but it's too big, too eccentric, and too impenetrable to be truly understood. As well as visiting every corner of the island, John Gimlette journeys deep into Madagascar's past. Along the way, he meets politicians, sorcerers, gem prospectors, militiamen, rioters, lepers and the descendants of seventeenth-century pirates. Insightful and wryly humorous, here's an encounter with the people, landscapes, politics and history of one of the most remarkable places on Earth.Trade ReviewFew writers have delved into [Madagascar's] history and none as thoroughly and mercilessly as Gimlette... His descriptions of the everyday sights of Madagascar are wonderful... Enjoy the book as an evocation of this extraordinary island, in all its complexity and all its contradictions' * Literary Review *A beautifully written depiction of the people and history of this beguiling and perplexing island -- Edward PaiceCourageous, exploratory, humane and with a wry sense of humour * Spectator *Destined to scoop whatever travel book awards are still in existence these days * The Bay (Swansea) *The best English-language travel writer out there * Travel Mag *A fabulous new book * Timeless Travels *John Gimlette's latest thoughtful study sees him explore the relatively recent human history of the world's fourth largest island * Wanderlust *This is classic Gimlette – an utter delight. Here is the tale of an enchanted island, one enlivened by its spirited inhabitants and mysterious past. But what makes the book so readable is the author's unfailing eye for the quirky and unexpected. It's a wonderfully witty and wry book, the author's wanderings through Madagascar lit all along the way by his telling eye for detail and accustomed panache -- Benedict AllenIn this chronicle of the fascinating strangeness of Madagascar [...] incredulity, horror and amusement coalesce in Gimlette's customarily talented narration of the weird * Irish Times *Gimlette's 'walk-through history' is a tour de force, taking in slavery, Welsh missionaries, ancestor worship, French conquest, and forts whose ramparts are rendered in millions of egg whites * Telegraph *[Gimlette] takes us to the beautiful but extremely weird tropical island where everything – especially its history and fauna – is larger than life -- Andrew Roberts, Engelsberg Ideas
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Cornell University Press Russia Gathers Her Jews
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewProfessor John Klier was a pioneering historian of Russian Jewry and a pivotal figure in academic Jewish studies and East European history in the UK and beyond. * The Times of London *[Klier] did more than anyone to improve understanding of the tormented relations among Jews and Russians from the late eighteenth century to the present day. * The Guardian *Klier's analysis of the motivations behind government policies and attitudes is well documented and convincing.... [An] important and well-researched monograph. * The Journal of Modern History *
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St. Martin's Griffin Labyrinth of Ice
Book SynopsisNational Outdoor Book Awards WinnerWinner of the BANFF Adventure Travel AwardA thrilling and harrowing story. If it's a cliche to say I couldn't put this book down, well, too bad: I couldn't put this book down. Jess Walter, bestselling author of Beautiful RuinsPolar exploration is utter madness. It is the insistence of life where life shouldn't exist. And so, Labyrinth of Ice shows you exactly what happens when the unstoppable meets the unmovable. Buddy Levy outdoes himself here. The details and story are magnificent. Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington Based on the author''s exhaustive research, the incredible true story of the Greely Expedition, one of the most harrowing adventures in the annals of polar exploration. In July 1881, Lt. A.W. Greely and his crew of 24 scientists and explorers were bound for the last region u
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Haymarket Books Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander
Book SynopsisIn the first full-length biography of Alexander Bogdanov, James D. White traces the intellectual development of this key socialist thinker, situating his ideas in the context of the Russian revolutionary movement. This sweeping and informative volume examines the part Bogdanov played in the origins of Bolshevism, his role in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and his conflict with Lenin which lasted well after the revolution. The book goes on to examine Bogdanov's intellectually legacy—a legacy that, despite being deliberately obscured and distorted, was considerable and of lasting significance. Bogdanov was an original and influential interpreter of Marx. He attained mastery of many spheres of knowledge, and employed this varied expertise in writing his chief theoretical work, Tectology, which anticipates modern systems theory.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface 1 Tula 1 Early Life 2 Radicalisation 3 Back in Tula 4 The Short Course of Economic Science 5 The Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature 6 The Second Edition of the Short Course 7 Agitation 8 Kharkov 2 Kaluga 1 Lunacharsky 2 Mach 3 Avenarius 4 Avenarius and Mach 3 Vologda 1 The Exiles 2 Berdyaev 3 The Debates 4 What is Idealism? 5 Perception from the Historical Point of View 6 Problems of Idealism and Studies in the Realist World View 7 External Relations 4 The Alliance 1 Pravda 2 Meeting with Lenin 3 Our Misunderstandings 4 The Alliance 5 Pamphlets 6 In St Petersburg 5 The 1905 Revolution 1 After 9 January 2 Novaia zhizn 3 Revolution and Philosophy 6 Empiriomonism 1 Empiriocriticism 2 The Meaning of Objectivity 3 Universal Validity 4 Socially-Organised Experience and Individually-Organised Experience 5 Parallelism 6 Life and the Psyche 7 The First Volume of Empiriomonism 8 Akselrod-Ortodoks's Criticism 9 The Second Volume of Empiriomonism 10 Plekhanov's &'thing-in-itself' 11 The Fourth Congress 12 The Third Volume of Empiriomonism and the Conflict with Plekhanov 7 Years of Reaction 1 The Fifth Congress 2 The Kotka Conference 3 Religion and Socialism 4 The Open Letter to Plekhanov 5 Materialismus Militans 6 Adventures of One Philosophical School 7 Studies in the Philosophy of Marxism 8 Socialist Society 9 Red Star 8 End of an Alliance 1 Ten Questions 2 The Paris Conference 3 God-Building 4 The Extended Editorial Board of Proletarii5 Materialism andEmpiriocriticism 6 The Fall of the Great Fetish 9 Vpered 1 Party Schools 2 The Translation ofMarx'sDasKapital 3 The Platform of Vpered 4 The Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee 5 The Bologna Party School 6 Longjumeau 7 Cultural Tasks of Our Times 8 The Course of Political Economy 9 Engineer Menni 10 The Fate of Vpered 11 Pravda Articles 10 Tectology 1 The Secret of Science 2 Tectology as Science 3 Organising Methods 4 Regulative Mechanisms 5 The Stability of Forms 6 Divergence and Convergence of Forms 7 Crises C and D 8 Tectology and General System Theory 11 The Philosophy of Living Experience 1 Philosophy in Tectological Perspective 2 The Materialism of Modern Times 3 Empiriomonism 4 The Science of the Future 5 A Decade of Excommunication from Marxism 6 Reaction to the War 12 War and Revolution 1 Bogdanov in the War 2 The Science of Social Consciousness 3 World Crises Peaceful and Military 4 Disagreement with Skvortsov-Stepanov 5 Bukharin 6 Will It Be Tomorrow? 7 The February Revolution 8 Bogdanov in 1917 9 What Is It That We Have Overthrown? 10 The Commune State 11 On Party Unity 12 Questions of Socialism 13 Proletkult 1 Proletarskaia Kultura 2 Methods of Labour and Methods of Perception 3 The First Conference of Proletkult 4 Elements of Proletarian Culture 5 The Proletarian University 6 The Workers' Encyclopaedia 7 International Proletkult 14 The Final Decade 1 Bogdanov's Influence 2 Oppositions 3 Lenin's Offensive against Bogdanov 4 Bogdanov's Arrest 5 The Communist Academy 6 Blood Transfusion 7 The Struggle for Viability 8 A Martyr to Science 9 Obituaries Conclusion: Bogdanov in Retrospect Bibliography Index
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HarperCollins Publishers The End of the Road
Book SynopsisA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites.Trade Review‘An entertaining and strangely cheering read… full of fascinating stories’ – Country Life ‘A unique insight into Britain’s landscape’ – The Observer , '…utterly compelling – The Oldie Magazine ‘If a younger, more upbeat Bill Bryson was happy to travel Britain while using a hearse as a mobile home, this is the kind of book we’d get.’ – Reader review ‘Who’d have thought a trip in a hearse would be so enjoyable?’ – Reader review ‘A fantastic read for anyone who has loved spending a while looking through old graveyards and soaking up all the history within.’ – Reader review
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HarperCollins Publishers The End of the Road
Book SynopsisA wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-lovedThe Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous and not so famous tombs, graves and burial sites.Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18thcentury suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.Trade Review‘An entertaining and strangely cheering read… full of fascinating stories’ – Country Life ‘A unique insight into Britain’s landscape’ – The Observer , '…utterly compelling – The Oldie Magazine ‘If a younger, more upbeat Bill Bryson was happy to travel Britain while using a hearse as a mobile home, this is the kind of book we’d get.’ – Reader review ‘Who’d have thought a trip in a hearse would be so enjoyable?’ – Reader review ‘A fantastic read for anyone who has loved spending a while looking through old graveyards and soaking up all the history within.’ – Reader review
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HarperCollins Publishers All the Wide Border
Book SynopsisA Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023 A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the England–Wales border: Britain’s deepest faultline. Trade Review‘I loved this book. Mike Parker weaves together a great deal of wide reading, hard thinking and soulful tramping in his funny, thoughtful and evocative investigation of the Welsh–English border.’ Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession and Peep Show ‘Delightful and perceptive … Poses searching questions about identity, culture and political power.’ Waterstones Books of the Year ‘A joyful canter through the Marches. Delightfully engaging. Blending history, literature and personal anecdote, Mike Parker writes with energy and wit.’ TLS ‘No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker.’ Ayesha Hazarika ‘A brilliant, fascinating book; Parker is funny and lyrical whilst always choosing brutal truth over sentimentality.’ Miles Jupp 'Classic Parker – a delicious, learned tour through a fascinating place.' Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen ‘Genuinely great.’ Adrian Chiles 'I gobbled this up.' Jude Rogers ‘A beautifully written journey through the history and landscape of the border country and a clear-eyed analysis of its physical and psychological dividing line – the best kind of travelogue.’ Richard King, author of Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97 ‘This enthralling journey beautifully celebrates our ancient frontier land and is a present-day reminder of its’ enduring duty.’ Tudur Owen, BAFTA winning comedian and presenter ‘I was often overcome by “fierce wonder”. Fine writing indeed.’ John Sam Jones, author of The Journey is Home ‘Engaging, entertaining and very readable.’ Nation.Cymru ‘A likeable, highly literate companion.’ New Welsh Review ‘A kind of mini-biography of the British psyche emerges from Parker's work, its learning lightly worn and its tales well told, full of interest and incident’ Horatio Clare
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HarperCollins Publishers All the Wide Border
Book SynopsisA Waterstones Travel Book of the Year 2023A funny, warm and timely meditation on identity and belonging, following the scenic route along the EnglandWales border: Britain's deepest faultline.There is a line on the map: to one side Wales, small, rugged and stubborn; on the other England, crucible of the most expansionist culture the world has ever seen. It is a line that has been dug, debated, defined and defended for twenty centuries.All the Wide Border is a personal journey through the places, amongst the people, and across the divides of the border between England and Wales. Taking in some of our loveliest landscapes, and our darkest secrets, this is a region of immeasurable wonder and interest. It is here that the deepest roots and thorniest paradoxes of Britishness lie. The border between the countries, even as a concept, is ragged, jagged and many-layered.Garlanded author Mike Parker has adored and explored these places his entire life. Born in England but settled in Wales, he finTrade Review‘I loved this book. Mike Parker weaves together a great deal of wide reading, hard thinking and soulful tramping in his funny, thoughtful and evocative investigation of the Welsh–English border.’ Jesse Armstrong, creator of Succession and Peep Show ‘Delightful and perceptive … Poses searching questions about identity, culture and political power.’ Waterstones Books of the Year ‘A joyful canter through the Marches. Delightfully engaging. Blending history, literature and personal anecdote, Mike Parker writes with energy and wit.’ TLS ‘No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker.’ Ayesha Hazarika ‘A brilliant, fascinating book; Parker is funny and lyrical whilst always choosing brutal truth over sentimentality.’ Miles Jupp 'Classic Parker – a delicious, learned tour through a fascinating place.' Tom Bullough, author of Sarn Helen ‘Genuinely great.’ Adrian Chiles 'I gobbled this up.' Jude Rogers ‘A beautifully written journey through the history and landscape of the border country and a clear-eyed analysis of its physical and psychological dividing line – the best kind of travelogue.’ Richard King, author of Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962–97 ‘This enthralling journey beautifully celebrates our ancient frontier land and is a present-day reminder of its’ enduring duty.’ Tudur Owen, BAFTA winning comedian and presenter ‘I was often overcome by “fierce wonder”. Fine writing indeed.’ John Sam Jones, author of The Journey is Home ‘Engaging, entertaining and very readable.’ Nation.Cymru ‘A likeable, highly literate companion.’ New Welsh Review ‘A kind of mini-biography of the British psyche emerges from Parker's work, its learning lightly worn and its tales well told, full of interest and incident’ Horatio Clare
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HarperCollins Publishers English Journey The finest book ever written
Book SynopsisThe finest book ever written about England and the English' Stuart MaconieJ. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.' Dame Judi DenchThree years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North in The Road to Wigan Pier, celebrated writer and broadcaster JB Priestley cast his net wider, in a book subtitled a Rambling but Truthful Account of What One Man Saw and Heard and Felt and Thought During a Journey Through England During the Autumn of the Year 1933.' Appearing first in 1934, it was a huge and immediate success. Today, it still stands as a timeless classic: warm-hearted, intensely patriotic and profound.An account of his journey through England from Southampton to the Black Country, to the North East and Newcastle, to Norwich and home English Journey is funny and tender. But it is also a forensic reading of a changing England and a call to arms as passionate as anything in Trade Review'A vastly talented and exceptionally versatile and wise writer.' Iris Murdoch 'Priestley was volcanic, fertile … and never dull.' Anthony Burgess ‘Priestley never wrote better than in these pages. They remain required reading for all of us.’ Dame Margaret Drabble ‘A marvellous writer.’ David Hockney ‘English Journey is one of the great travelogues of English literature. A work of bracing televisual intensity.’ Graham Robb, author of The Debatable Land ‘We all know his plays, now is the time to be re-introduced to his novels.’ Timothy West ‘He belongs in a great English realist tradition that includes Bennett and Galsworthy.’ Michael Billington ‘An important book that has a literary importance and social value that far exceeds the time it was written.’ Dame Beryl Bainbridge ‘Written in the elegant, simple language which was an essential part of Priestley’s brilliance. It is, in consequence, a masterpiece.’ Roy Hattersley
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc N4 Down
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted, a saga that journalist Mark Piesing retells in N-4 Down. ... Gripping. ... This is a book with much to enjoy and a good illustration of what human curiosity, determination and courage—and sometimes a healthy dollop of vanity—can achieve." — Wall Street Journal "In compelling prose, Piesing draws us into the feverish efforts to conquer the Arctic by air. ... Refreshingly well-written. ... Piesing deserves credit for bringing this forgotten bit of aerospace history back to light." — Forbes "Mark Piesing evocatively brings to life a lesser-known tale in the ill-fated history of polar exploration. Like the stories of Franklin and Shackleton, it combines triumph, disaster, heroism, hubris and mystery—but unlike them it features dashing aviators in airships and seaplanes. It is an epic tale that deserves to be far more widely known." — Tom Standage, New York Times bestselling author of A History of The World in 6 Glasses "A meticulously researched and utterly gripping account of adventure, airships and adversity, Mark Piesing's N-4 Down is a brilliant book. Packed with a cast of vivid characters, magnificent flying machines, political machinations and tales of survival against all imaginable odds, it depicts one of the most extraordinary stories of not just aviation and exploration, but the twentieth century as a whole. You will never forget General Nobile, the airship and the endless ice they faced." — Michael Bhaskar, author of Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking “N-4 Down is a gripping, detailed tale of exploration, betrayal and rescue. Mark Piesing has crafted a fascinating recounting of a liminal time when flying and polar expeditions were equally risky, so of course people tried to combine them. Think The Terror, but with airships.” — Charles Arthur, author of Social Warming and Digital Wars, former technology editor at The Guardian "A gripping telling of the story of the crash of N-4 Italia and the deadly attempt at rescue.. ... N-4 Down is an engrossing read." — New York Journal of Books "One of the joys of reading accounts of events a century ago is that authors gain access to letters, diaries, journals and other handwritten material that provide so much texture to narratives. Consequently, the stories are rich in detail. Piesing provides great context about the aviation era. ... A fine book." — Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star “Takes readers on a thrilling, nail-biting adventure of the largest arctic rescue operation in history as famed Norwegian explorer, Roald Amundsen, rushed to save the surviving crew of the airship Italia, which crashed during its attempt to land men at the North Pole in 1928. The history and aeronautical buffs on your holiday shopping list are going to absolutely love it.” — Engadget “The author has visited the places about which he writes, and his sketches of remote locales make for interesting reading. He also offers useful insights on the strange blend of competition and cooperation that characterized Arctic exploration. … Of interest to would-be Arctic explorers and armchair adventurers.” — Kirkus Reviews “N-4 Down is the work of a real writer, who can create a difficult balance among facts, characters and history coming from so many sources, also daring 'to nose' into situations of which he tries to see what is behind and beyond appearances. Besides, the book is the testimony that the true hero’s feats never have an end, especially in our times where we rarely witness such examples." — Antonio Ventre, Director of Umberto Nobile Museum
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Abyss
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Abyss
Book SynopsisBestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified world that followed each moment as it unfolded.In The Abyss, Max Hastings turns his focus to one of the most terrifying events of the mid-twentieth century—the thirteen days in October 1962 when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. Hastings looks at the conflict with fresh eyes, focusing on the people at the heart of the crisis—America President John F. Kennedy, Soviet First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and a host of their advisors.Combining in-depth research with Hasting’s well-honed insights, The Abyss is a human history that unfolds on a wide, colorful canvas. As the action moves back and forth from Moscow to Washington, DC, to Havana, Hastings seeks to explain, as much as to describe, the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and to recreate the tension and heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance. Reflecting on the outcome of these events, he reveals how the aftermath of this momentous crisis continues to reverberate today.Powerful, and riveting, filled with compelling detail and told with narrative flair, The Abyss is history at its finest.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Spy Who Knew Too Much
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Vintage Publishing The Future History of the Arctic
Book SynopsisCHARLES EMMERSON was born in Australia and grew up in London. After graduating top of his class in Modern History from Oxford University he took up an Entente Cordiale scholarship to study international relations and international public law in Paris. The author of 1913 : The World Before the Great War, he has also written numerous articles for a variety of newspapers, as well as speaking widely on geopolitics to university, literary, government and business audiences.He is a Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs).Trade ReviewAs reviving as a blast of polar air, bringing the Arctic into wonderfully clear focus; one of the most impressive accounts of the contemporary Arctic I've read -- Joanna Kavenna * Spectator *An excellent primer to the economic issues of a region so recently and rudely thrust into the geopolitical limelight -- Sara Wheeler * Financial Times *It's rare to find books that treat [the Arctic] as something other than a chilly adventure playground or an excuse for reams of purple prose. Thank goodness, then, for Charles Emmerson... Ruthlessly efficient * Scotland on Sunday *A fascinating, personal and visionary book. Splendid -- Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, author of A Blueprint for a Safter PlanetAn expert on geopolitics, he writes with insight and authority * Independent on Sunday *
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Penguin Random House Australia Sea of Glory
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Worst Journey in the World Penguin Classics
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Penguin Publishing Group The Girl from the Metropol Hotel
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Penguin Putnam Inc Stalin Waiting for Hitler 19291941
Book Synopsis“Monumental.” —The New York Times Book ReviewPulitzer Prize-finalist Stephen Kotkin has written the definitive biography of Joseph Stalin, from collectivization and the Great Terror to the conflict with Hitler's Germany that is the signal event of modern world history In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost. What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building and running a dictatorship, with life and death power over hundreds of millions, made Stalin into the uncanny figure he became. Stephen Kotkin’s Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929–1941 is the story of how a political system f
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Penguin Putnam Inc Whats Cooking in the Kremlin
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History Oxford
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction Matthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History 1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in Nigeria Toyin Falola 2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of Nigeria Constanze Weise 3. Islamic Education in Nigeria Mustapha Hashim Kurfi 4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of Nigeria Sati U. Fwatshak Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century 5. Prehistoric Developments in Nigeria Peter Breunig 6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial Nigeria Vincent Hiribarren 7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800 Osarhieme Benson Osadolor 8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria Aribidesi Usman 9. Religion in Precolonial Nigeria Shobana Shankar 10. European Contact with Nigeria and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Matthew M. Heaton 11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in Nigeria Ayodeji Olukoju 12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth Century Nigeria Toyin Falola Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria 13. The Conquest of Nigeria Abubakar Babajo Sani 14. The Colonial Administration of Nigeria Olufemi Vaughan 15. Colonial Economies of Nigeria Steven Pierce 16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial Nigeria Funmilayo Idowu Agbaje 17. Nigeria and the World Wars Oliver Coates 18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945-1960 Lynn Schler Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence 19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960-1966 Rotimi T. Suberu 20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its Legacies Roy Doron 21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier State Adeoye O. Akinola 22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966-1999 Eghosa E. Osaghae 23. Religious Nationalisms in Nigeria Matthews A. Ojo 24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in Nigeria Akin Iwilade and Iwebunor Okwechime 25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in Nigeria Toyin Falola 26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century Nigeria Adanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe 27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in Nigeria Chima J. Korieh 28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in Nigeria Toyin Falola 29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First Century Nigeria Jamaine M. Abidogun 30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Cyril Obi and Godwin Onuoha 31. Dimensions of Nigeria's National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global Contexts N. Oluwafemi Mimiko Part V: Nigeria in the World 32. Nigeria's Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the Americas Matt D. Childs 33. Nigeria and the Global Umma Brandon Kendhammer 34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian Diaspora Onoso Imoagene 35. Nigeria and African Affairs Adebayo Oyebade 36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International Entanglements Toyin Falola Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Indigenous Governance
Book SynopsisAfter decades of federal dominance and dependence, Native governments now command attention as they exercise greater degrees of political, economic, and cultural power. Given the weight and importance of many issues confronting Native peoples today, these governments arguably matter even more to their peoples and to the broader society than ever before. Native governments have become critically important as the chief providers of basic services and the authors of solutions to collective problems in their societies. As major actors within the realm of democratic politics, they increasingly wield their powers to educate and advocate regarding Indigenous concerns. For many communities (including non-Native neighbors) they are the largest spenders and employers. They have also become adept at negotiating intergovernmental agreements that protect their peoples and resources while strengthening their unique political status. Native peoples and governments are also navigating the devastating and lingering health and economic impact of COVID-19; the profound environmental problems that have been exacerbated by climate change; and jurisdictional conflicts with local, state, and federal actors.Indigenous Governance is a comprehensive, critical examination of Native political systems: the senior political sovereigns on the North American continent in terms of their origin, development, structures, and operation. Author David E. Wilkins provides the recognition and respect due Indigenous governments, while offering a considered critique of their shortcomings as imperfect, sovereign institutions. This appraisal will highlight their history, evolution, internal and intergovernmental issues, and diverse structures.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Three Sovereigns: A Comparison of Native nations, the federal & state governments Chapter 2: Political Organization B.C. (Before Contact) Chapter 3: European Intrusions/Native Political Transitions Chapter 4: Another Star on the Flag: Attempts to Create an Indigenous State Chapter 5: Modern Native Constitutionalism Chapter 6: Governing Systems Chapter 7: The Enigmatic Nature of Leadership Chapter 8: Citizenship and Membership Chapter 9: Electoral Politics Chapter 10: Political Economics Chapter 11: International Diplomacy in the 21st Century Chapter 12: Indian Country Justice Chapter 13: Governments & the Media Chapter 14: Peoples of Alaxsxaq & Kanaka Maoli Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Inc The Arctic
Book SynopsisAs the threat of global climate change becomes a reality, many look to the Arctic Ocean to predict coming environmental phenomena. There, the consequences of Earth''s warming trend are most immediately observable in the multi-year and perennial ice that has begun to melt, which threatens ice-dependent microorganisms and, eventually, will disrupt all of Arctic life. In The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer a concise introduction to the circumpolar North, focusing on its peoples, environment, resource development, conservation, and politics to provide critical information about how changes there can and will affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall shed light on how the Arctic''s importance has grown over time, the region''s role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic''s governance, among other crucial topics. The Arctic is an essential primer for those seeking information about one of the most important regions in the world today.Table of ContentsForeword Chapter One: One Arctic, Many Arctic(s) Chapter Two: Placing the Arctic Chapter Three: Land, Sea and Ice Chapter Four: From Colonialism to Collaboration Chapter Five: Warming Arctic Chapter Six: Resourceful Arctic Chapter Seven: Global Arctic
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Oxford University Press The BrightMeyler Papers
Book SynopsisThe documents collected here illuminate the conduct of British trade and investments in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain''s Atlantic empire. Pertaining to the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families connected through marriage and business, the documents include correspondence, wills and inventories, partnership agreements, insurance policies and property deeds.The introduction addresses issues of the slave trade and sugar cultivation, capital accumulation, the ways in which a West India fortune was created, the risk environment of the Caribbean, and social, economic and demographic conditions in eighteenth-century Bristol and Jamaica. A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period, this volume shows that British merchants connected with the West Indies were centrally concerned with improvement, independence, and social mobility.Trade ReviewKenneth Morgan should be congratulated for making available a rich and important set of documents. * Economic History Review *A valuable source for historians of the Georgian period * Spartacus Review *a well-produced and expertly-edited volume that should prove extremely valuable to scholars and postgraduates working on the Caribbean and wider Atlantic connections. * K. Mason, English Historical Review *
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology
Book SynopsisIndigenous sociology makes visible what is meaningful in the Indigenous social world. This core premise is demonstrated here via the use of the concept of the Indigenous Lifeworld in reference to the dispossessed Indigenous Peoples from Anglo-colonized first world nations. Indigenous lifeworld is built around dual intersubjectivities: within peoplehood, inclusive of traditional and ongoing culture, belief systems, practices, identity, and ways of understanding the world; and within colonized realties as marginalized peoples whose everyday life is framed through their historical and ongoing relationship with the colonizer nation state.The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous Sociology is, in part, a response to the limited space allowed for Indigenous Peoples within the discipline of sociology. The very small existing sociological literature locates the Indigenous within the non-Indigenous gaze and the Eurocentric structures of the discipline reflect a continuing reluctance to actively recogniTrade Review<"In this volume, Indigenous scholars confront the manifold injuries of the past and the ongoing impact of these harms on our present, and respond with Indigenous solutions that critically engage, analyse, and offer ways forward. Power, and the exercise of power, is critical to the discipline of sociology. It is apparent in this collection in the way the authors articulate the manifestations of power in the everyday life of our communities. Among other things, Indigenous sociologists and scholars are well-placed to interrogate issues arising from the reproduction of both privilege and disadvantage as they relate to Indigenous peoples. This does not mean a return to a deficit lens but in the hands of these authors it demonstrates profound honesty alongside an evidence base and intellectual vitality that supports practices of restoration, resurgence, and flourishing. It is the text of our future.>"—Tracey McIntosh (Ngãi Tûhoe), Professor of Indigenous Studies, University of AucklandTable of ContentsPreface C. Matthew Snipp 1. Introduction: Holding the Discipline of Sociology to Account Maggie Walter, Tahu Kukutai, Robert Henry, and Angela A. Gonzales 2. Conceptualizing and Theorizing the Indigenous Lifeworld Maggie Walter 3. All of Our Relations: Indigenous Sociology and Indigenous Lifeworlds Tahu Kukutai 4. Beyond the "Abyssal Line": Knowledge, Power, and Justice in a Datafied World Donna Cormack and Paula King 5. Social Systems and the Indigenous Lifeworld: Examining Gerald Vizenor's Notion of Survivance in Street Lifestyles Robert Henry Social Class and Indigenous Lifeworlds 6. Indigenizing the Sociology of Class Maggie Walter 7. Indigenous Peoples' Earnings, Inequality and Wellbeing: Known and Unknown Components Randall Akee 8. Could Assistance Dogs Improve Wellbeing for Aboriginal Peoples Living with Disability? Bindi Bennett 9. Dispossession as Destination: Colonization and the Capture of Maori Land in Aotearoa New Zealand Matthew Wynyard 10. Rangatahi Maori and Youth Justice in New Zealand Arapera Blank-Penetito, Juan Tauri, and Robert Webb 11. Making Space in Canadian Sociology: Human and Other-than-Human Lifeworlds Vanessa Watts 12. Decolonizing Climate Adaptation by Reacquiring Fractionated Tribal Lands Melissa Watkinson-Schutten Race and Indigenous Lifeworlds 13. Indigenizing the Sociology of Race Tahu Kukutai 14. Reversing Statistical Erasure of Indigenous Peoples: The Social Construction of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the U.S. using National Datasets Kimberly R. Huyser and Sofia Locklear 15. Rendering the Future a White Possession: Producing Contingent Self-determination via Racialized Conceptions of Indigenous Youth Lilly Brown 16. Segregation and American Indian Reservations: Places of Resilience, Continuity, and Healing Tennille Larzelere Marley 17. Kids Feeling Good About Being Indigenous at School and its Link to Heightened Educational Aspirations Huw Peacock and Michael Guerzoni 18. Race and Indigeneity: Accounting for Indigenous Kinship in American Indian Racial Boundaries Allison Ramirez 19. Tribal Sovereignty and the Limits of Race for American Indians Desi Small-Rodriguez and Theresa Rocha Beardall 20. Closing the Gap: Negotiating Indigenous Power and the Council of Australian Governments Ian Anderson 21. Colonialism and the Racialization of Indigenous Identity Angela A. Gonzales and Judy Kertész 22. Indigenous Societies and Disasters Simon Lambert 23. Living Whiteness and Indigeneity: An Autoethnographic Confrontation Alex Red Corn 24. Race, Racism, and Well-being Impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples in Australia Makayla-May Brinckley and Ray Lovett Gender and Indigenous Lifeworlds 25. Indigenizing the Sociology of Gender Robert Henry 26. Indigenous Womxn's Embodied Theory and Praxis: Auntie-ing On the Frontlines Yvonne P. Sherwood and Michelle M. Jacob 27. Indigenous Gender Intersubjectivities: Political Bodies Bronwyn Carlson, Tristan Kennedy, and Andrew Farrell 28. Deep Consciousness and Reclaiming the Old Ways: Aboriginal Women Leading a Paradigm Shift Joselynn Baltra-Ulloa 29. Berdache to Two-Spirit and Beyond Micha Davies-Cole and Margaret Robinson 30. American Indian Leadership: On Indigenous Geographies of Gender and Thrivance Andrew J. Jolivétte 31. Gender, Epistemic Violence, and Indigenous Resistance Nikki Moodie 32. Decolonizing Australian Settler-Colonial Masculinity Jacob Prehn
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Oxford University Press The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening interpretation of the infamous Gallipoli campaign that sets it in the context of global trade.In early 1915, the British government ordered the Royal Navy to force a passage of the Dardanelles Straits-the most heavily defended waterway in the world. After the Navy failed to breach Turkish defenses, British and allied ground forces stormed the Gallipoli peninsula but were unable to move off the beaches. Over the course of the year, the Allied landed hundreds of thousands of reinforcements but all to no avail. The Gallipoli campaign has gone down as one of the great disasters in the history of warfare.Previous works have focused on the battles and sought to explain the reasons for the British failure, typically focusing on First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. In this bold new account, Nicholas Lambert offers the first fully researched explanation of why Prime Minister Henry Asquith and all of his senior advisers--the War Lords--ordered the attacks in the first plTrade ReviewEssential reading for anyone interested in the political economy of the Great War....Lambert is to be congratulated for re-framing the historiography of the political decisions that led to the Gallipoli campaign ... The War Lords offers a more sophisticated interpretation of how Prime Minister Asquith and the War Cabinet decided on the military option to solve Britain's grain supply problem ... Asquith deserves as much (if not more) of the responsibility for deciding to go ahead with the operation than Churchill. * M. Stephen Salmon, The Prospectus *Lambert [is] the most rounded and able historian of British maritime strategy in the First World War. His sophisticated, holistic, and archival-dominant approach clearly re-creates and analyses the complex and multi-faceted reality that was the British strategy-making process....The book could also be seen as a sterling example of the best of what is now known as international history: multidisciplinary, multinational, multi-archival, and multi-lingual.... Lambert weaves economic, military, and foreign policy threads into the richest tapestry yet created to give irrefutable evidence and analysis of 'why' Gallipoli occurred: the need to secure the movement of Russian wheat back into the global marketplace.... This book comes at an opportune time as Western nations and navies once again consider the ideas of blockade, sanctions, choke points, supply chains,...and fighting modern industrial warfare. * Greg Kennedy, Diplomacy & Statecraft *Essential reading for anyone interested in the political economy of the Great War....Lambert is to be congratulated for re-framing the historiography of the political decisions that led to the Gallipoli campaign.... The War Lords offers a more sophisticated interpretation of how Prime Minister Asquith and the War Cabinet decided on the military option to solve Britain's grain supply problem....Asquith deserves as much (if not more) of the responsibility for deciding to go ahead with the operation than Churchill. * M. Stephen Salmon, The Prospectus *A vivid and unwelcome demonstration of enduring strategic considerations...lie at the heart of Nicholas Lambert's excellent new book. It situates British decision-making in the First World War in the context not simply of the shifting obligations of alliances and the calculation of how best to deploy military and naval assets, but also the dangers arising from financial entanglements with Russia and the risk of social unrest from price inflation....Looking beyond the purely military and naval considerations, Lambert draws on economic and financial data to piece together the shifting picture....Lambert explains his book 'is an attempt at intent-based, rather than outcome-based history', and in recreating the breadth of concerns that the War Lords had to contend with, sometimes hour by hour, he has made a superb and original contribution to the field. * Jenny Macleod, English Historical Review *A new, compelling and insightful interpretation of one of history's most famous ill-fated expeditions....Lambert argues compellingly that the primary driving rationale behind the operation was the need to address pressing social and economic perils weighing on the British War Council.... Lambert's cautionary tale of Britain's war lords can be read with great profit by senior U.S. policymakers today as they struggle with the challenges of waging war during the second great age of economic globalization. Over a century ago, a complex combination of factors found the British government conducting a military operation widely viewed as a forlorn hope out of economic and social necessity....Like policymakers in the fall of 1914, today's American war lords may find themselves facing a choice between greater involvement in a war they hope to avoid or incurring unacceptable economic and social discontent at home. * Andrew Krepinevich, American Purpose *One of our finest naval historians...Lambert shows how economic and social factors rooted in Britain's global trade network shaped the decision by the British War Council (the "War Lords" of the title) to order British (joining with French) naval and land forces to capture the Dardanelles in 1915. Lambert has read the military histories of the Gallipoli campaign, but his research shows that comprehending why that campaign occurred—and occurred the way it did—requires an understanding of the role of wheat in Britain's war strategy.... For Lambert, the failure at Gallipoli—especially the thinking and discussions that preceded the actual military assault—illustrates the dilemma facing the builders of any global economic system in wartime. * Thomas C. Hone, Naval War College Review *Rooted in the study of a wealth of primary material, Lambert's work attempts to understand not why Winston Churchill pushed for the attack, but why the War Cabinet agreed to it....Lambert convincingly shows that wheat prices did play a role in decision-making, but so did innumerable other factors—and he outlines them in enlightening detail....What makes this book so valuable is that the author emphasizes that the only certainty in politics and war—as in life itself—is uncertainty. He has the skill of clearly explaining complex ideas, while leavening the narrative with fresh insights into familiar events and dramatic personae. * John Spencer, Stand To!: The Journal of the Western Front Association *Lambert's book ... is a remarkable piece of historical scholarship, one that finds an important new perspective about a subject seemingly explored to exhaustion. ... It is a book that nobody concerned with the Dardanelles campaign, the First World War more generally, or the complex history of globalization can afford to ignore. * Mark Klobas, The Northern Mariner *The author is well-placed to throw out all the usual Gallipoli analyses. They often begin, he says, with a fixed idea of Winston Churchill, seen through a triumphal lens of 1939-45, projected backwards to his disastrous handling of Britain's attempt to open up the Dardanelles Straits against formidable Turkish defence in 1915. That's wrong in the final sense because Churchill wasn't the person who decided to proceed, it was the Prime Minister and his War Lords. Secondly, Lambert shows with enormous elegance how the whole matter was changing in complexion daily. [...]The subtitle of this fine work of history is, 'How Globalized Trade Led Britain to Its Worst Defeat of the First World War.' * Richard Lofthouse QUAD *The detail that is assembled in this book is compelling; it immerses the reader in the chaos of British strategic thinking. [...] What Lambert shows convincingly is why wheat mattered so much to the Asquith government. Britain's Achilles heel in time of war was its dependence on food imports. * Joan Beaumont, Australian Book Review *To understand the strategic and tactical decisions whereby governments commit large numbers of troops and resources to deter or defend far from their own shores requires a deep dive into the details that can take a considerable amount of time and patience. Nicholas Lambert does just that in his wonderful account, The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster....This book accomplishes its objective by demonstrating how politicians, operating on incorrect assumptions, lack of intelligence, or incomplete information, can blindly rush to failure, exacerbating an already difficult crisis. With all the tension and crisis in the world today, it would behoove U.S. military leaders to hit 'pause,' read this book, and consider their actions carefully in the High North, western Pacific, or Middle East. * Admiral James Foggo III, Proceedings *Lambert...has done a remarkable job linking the 19th-century transformations in shipping, finance, and agriculture to the bloody detritus left in Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay....What's fascinating about The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster are the echoes today of what Lambert characterized as the trade-offs that had resulted from the first big era of globalization in the late 19th century.... For any serious student of history, and especially the Great War, it's a great read—and a timely reminder that politics and economics always color military decisions, then and now. * Keith Johnson, Foreign Policy *Nick Lambert has long had a reputation among historians as being scholarly, controversial, and highly readable, but now he has surpassed himself. We have had expert studies of the First World War by economic and financial experts to supplement the usual political and military narratives, but Lambert displays a familiarity with all these fields as well as a mastery of sources and a vivacity of style that makes this book almost compulsively readable. He not only examines the Dardanelles controversy in considerable detail but also explains what the British government, and its various components, thought the war was all about—or should be about. Anyone who thought that the Dardanelles question had been settled for good needs to think again. * Sir Michael Howard *Nicholas Lambert's exemplary scholarship and original thinking are displayed at their best in this formidable re-evaluation of the strategic determinants of the Gallipoli campaign. A meticulously documented, analytically provocative, and compelling narrative. * Cameron Hazlehurst, Australian National University *In The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster, Nick Lambert guides us through the labyrinths of economic globalization to unpack the making of one of history's most famous military debacles. This compelling book, ambitious, engagingly written, and methodologically innovative, shows how economic history can illuminate the history of war. * Marc Flandreau, University of Pennsylvania *The War Lords and the Gallipoli Disaster is a masterful work of uncanny contemporary relevance—one that resonates with the very human art of strategic decision making. Nick Lambert's innate understanding of national power, in all its dimensions, brilliantly illuminates the competing considerations and grave consequences in the creation of national-security and naval policy. Any current or aspiring practitioner of global security, civilian and uniformed alike, will be educated and enlightened by this fascinating case study. * Adm. Bill Moran, USN (Ret.) *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Dramatis Personae Introduction Chapter 1: Britannia's Achilles Heel Chapter 2: War in a Globalized World Chapter 3: The Turkish Irritant Chapter 4: The Beggar Giant Chapter 5: The Military and Diplomatic Strands Chapter 6: The Political and Economic Strands Chapter 7: Two Problems, One Solution Chapter 8: Seven Days in January Chapter 9: Not Such a Bargain Chapter 10: The Fortunes of War Chapter 11: This Wicked Gamble Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc A Brilliant Commodity Diamonds and Jews in a
Book SynopsisThe first history of Jews in the nineteenth-century transatlantic diamond industry, A Brilliant Commodity shows how Jews became key players in the trade from its earliest days-from South Africa to Amsterdam and London to New York-to its place as a lucrative commodity in the global economy.Trade ReviewThe author's scholarship is exceptional, the writing is clear and concise, and the book is an essential account of that tumultuous time in history. * Russell Shor, Journal of Gemmology *A product of deep research, this admirable book illuminates the circuits of people, commodities, and capital in the diamond trade. In tracing Jewish enterprise and expertise through networks that encompass the Cape, London, Amsterdam, and New York, Coenen Snyder provides a convincing study of material culture set in the dynamic contexts of societies old and new. * Saul Dubow, Cambridge University *If diamonds, as De Beers would have us believe, are forever, the full story of the modern diamond trade has slipped from memory. Saskia Coenen Snyder reminds us of the central and multi-faceted role of Jews on three continents in transforming rough-hewn stones from the mines of Kimberley to the brilliant jewels sold to eager customers in the United States. This is transnational history at its best, revealing the global networks that made the diamond trade possible, teaching us about how diamonds reshaped local economies and everyday lives, and illuminating the lasting cultural impact of the relationship between Jews and diamonds. * Adam D. Mendelsohn, author of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War: The Union Army *Ever wonder how and why the magic words 'I do' are coupled with a diamond ring? If so, this book is for you. Sweeping, vivid, and resonant, Saskia Coenen Snyder's account of the global traffic in diamonds encompasses economics and etiquette, diamond mines and curb-side markets, intimate courtship rituals and public displays of affluence. A Brilliant Commodity is a triumph of the historical imagination. * Jenna Weissman Joselit, author of A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and The Promise of America *This intriguing book is a model of transnational Jewish economic history. Assorted histories—imperial, Jewish, economic, and labor—converge in Coenen Snyder's fascinating account of how diamonds became a niche dominated by Jews in the world of luxury goods. This comprehensive but comprehensible study takes the reader from the minefields of Africa to the exchange floors of London to the 'Jewish factories' of Amsterdam to the retail storefronts of New York City as it brings to life the enterprising people who made diamonds a ubiquitous luxury by the twenty-first century. * Rebecca Kobrin, Columbia University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Clarity, Cut, Carat, and Color Chapter 1: "Like Dewdrops in the Waving Grass": Diamonds in South Africa Chapter 2: An Empire Made Portable: London Chapter 3: "As Long As It Sparkles!": Amsterdam Chapter 4: "Luxuries Have Now Become Necessities": New York Chapter 5: Jews and Diamonds in the Public Imagination Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Ruble
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking history of Russia, from empire to the Soviet era, viewed through the lens of its money.Money seems passive, a silent witness to the deeds and misdeeds of its holders, but through its history intimate dramas and grand historical processes can be told. So argues this sweeping narrative of the ruble''s story from the time of Catherine the Great to Lenin. The Russian ruble did not enjoy a particularly reputable place among European currencies. Across two hundred years, long periods of financial turmoil were followed by energetic and pragmatic reforms that invariably ended with another collapse. Why did a country with an industrializing economy, solid private property rights, and (until 1918) a near perfect reputation as a rock-solid repayer of its debts stick for such a prolonged period with an inconvertible currency? Why did the Russian gold standard differ from the European model? In answering these questions, Ekaterina Pravilova argues that politics and culture must be Trade ReviewPravilova has carried out prodigious archival research. * Simon Dixon, Literary Review *Groundbreaking history of Russia - from empire to the Soviet era - viewed through the lens of its money. Important and timely in the face of recent events. * Frederick Studemann, Books to Read in 2023, Financial Times *This wonderfully intelligent, knowledgeable, and imaginative book on the ruble and financial policy fills an immense gap in our understanding of government, politics, and society in imperial Russia. * Dominic Lieven, Trinity College, Cambridge University *The Ruble: A Political History is a magisterial account of the Russian currency as a tool of autocratic control—from Catherine the Great to the early Soviet times. Today, when the Russian imperialism is back and when Russian ruble is once again returning to nonconvertibility, Ekaterina Pravilova's book is more timely than ever. * Sergei Guriev, Sciences Po *Award-winning author Ekaterina Pravilova asks, 'Can money have a story?' As regards the Russian imperial ruble from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, she shows that most certainly it can—and what a story it can tell about a country, an economy, and a society! Her deeply researched and sharply argued book demonstrates how repeated Russian governments deployed currency and financial resources as a tool of domestic rule and geopolitical competition. Yet her work also elucidates unexpected and important currents of both liberal and conservative thought not visible in other accounts. A valuable and important account for historians of Russian imperial history, broader European history, and economic history. * Peter Holquist, University of Pennsylvania *...original, fascinating and meticulously researched. * Eamonn Gearon, Wall Street Journal *Ekaterina Pravilova's book displays admirable imagination and originality - as well as obvious, and dire, relevance to Russia's here and now. * Catriona Kelly, TLS *The Ruble: A Political History is an impressive accomplishment. * The Russian Review *Ekaterina Pravilova's The Ruble: A Political History persuasively offers Russia's currency as a case study in the entanglement of money and power, and in so doing, encourages us to understand what catalyzes these global trends. A 200-year 'biography of a currency,' the book positions the ruble as both an important part of imperial organization and an unexpected anchor of Soviet influence. The ruble also emerges, amid political and financial crisis, as a potential instrument of Russian democracy-yet its history ultimately demonstrates how a currency can become a primary tool for creating and maintaining an autocracy. * Carey K. Mott, Foreign Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Ruble's Stories Part I: The Age of Assignats Chapter 1: Assignats: From Paper Substitutes to Paper Money Chapter 2: Autocracy or Representation? The Political Philosophy of Money in the Age of Napoleon and After Chapter 3: The End of Assignats Part II: Autocratic Capitalism Chapter 4: Paper Money in the Era of the "Great Reforms" Chapter 5: Ruble's Wars Part III: The Gold Reform Chapter 6: Witte's Rollercoaster Chapter 7: The Autocratic Standard Chapter 8: Practicing the Gold Standard Part IV: Ruble, Wars, and Revolutions Chapter 9: The Gold Syndrome Chapter 10: War and the End of the Gold Ruble Chapter 11: A Revolution That Did Not Happen Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Manufacturing Catastrophe
Book SynopsisAmerican economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industrial decay. Offering a reappraisal of this pattern, Manufacturing Catastrophe traces the successive rise and fall of the whaling, textile, garment, electronics, and high-tech industries in Massachusetts over the past two hundred years. It shows how business, labor, and political leaders repeatedly mobilized the lure of crisischeap labor, low taxes, and generous manufacturing subsidiesto pull and push both capital and workers across the continents, repeatedly remaking the pioneering industrial cities of Fall River and New Bedford. Workersranging from migrating Azorean seamen to British weavers to Quebecois farmersand capitalistsincluding mobile manufacturers, globetrotting whalers, and multinational conglomeratorsparticipated in the creation of regional growth and, with it, American industrial ascendance. Exploring the paradoxical and recurring
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Oxford University Press Inc Manufacturing Catastrophe
Book SynopsisAmerican economic history has traditionally been told as a narrative of industrialization and affluence collapsing into globalization and industrial decay. Offering a reappraisal of this pattern, Manufacturing Catastrophe traces the successive rise and fall of the whaling, textile, garment, electronics, and high-tech industries in Massachusetts over the past two hundred years. It shows how business, labor, and political leaders repeatedly mobilized the lure of crisischeap labor, low taxes, and generous manufacturing subsidiesto pull and push both capital and workers across the continents, repeatedly remaking the pioneering industrial cities of Fall River and New Bedford. Workersranging from migrating Azorean seamen to British weavers to Quebecois farmersand capitalistsincluding mobile manufacturers, globetrotting whalers, and multinational conglomeratorsparticipated in the creation of regional growth and, with it, American industrial ascendance. Exploring the paradoxical and recurring
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OUP India Belarus in Crisis
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Oxford University Press Inc Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet
Book SynopsisWe now live in the Anthropocene, the first epoch of our own making. We have altered the Earth''s atmosphere, landscapes, and bodies of water. The burning of fossil fuels has warmed the planet enough to change weather patterns, melt glaciers, and raise sea levels, a situation made worse by rampant deforestation and resource depletion. Many look to governments to confront these existential challenges. In Maya Wisdom and the Survival of Our Planet, Lisa Lucero looks to the Maya, past and present. Through the lens of the traditional Maya inclusive worldview--one in which humans are part of the world, not separate from it, and where everything is connected--Lucero provides a practical roadmap on how to sustainably address climate change and environmental degradation. She shows how the Maya collaborate with rather than try to subjugate forests, animals, soils, water, and other nonhuman entities. The Maya sustainably farmed for millennia and provided goods, labor, and services to their kings in cities. In return, kings performed vital ceremonies to the Rain God Chahk, other gods, and ancestors to replenish urban reservoirs that lasted throughout the long dry season--a balancing act that worked for over 1,000 years. Lucero shows how approaches to tackle climate change from the bottom-up, beginning with the family or household, are just as important as top-down governmental mitigation, and how learning from traditional knowledge is vital for the survival of us all. She brings to life the tropical jungles of Central America and reveals the valuable solutions its ancient and contemporary inhabitants offer us to save our planet.
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Oxford University Press Russia in Africa
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Oxford University Press The Arctic
Book SynopsisVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringThe Arctic is demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities that call the Arctic ''home'' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic brings with it the spectre of costly disruption and interference in indigenous lives and communal welfare. For others, the disappearance of sea ice makes the Arctic appear more accessible and less remote. This also brings with it dangers such as the prospect of a new era of great power rivalries involving China, Russia, and the United States. Submarine and long-range bomber patrolling are now commonplace. New terms such as ''global Arctic'' are being used to capture the dynamic of change while others muse about the ''return of a Cold War''.The reality is inevitably more complex. The physical geography of the Arctic is highly varied and variable. Environmental change brings opportunities for indigenous and non-indigenous life-forms to survive and even thrive. The Arctic''s four million people are not helpless pawns in a game of global geopolitics. The Arctic is not only a resource hotspot but also a place where sustainable energy systems are being introduced. A warming Arctic with less ice and permafrost is not unique in the longer history of the Earth either. The Arctic is a complex space. In this Very Short Introduction, Klaus Dodds and Jamie Woodward consider the major dimensions of the region and the linkages beyond - from the geopolitical to the environmental. They examine the causes, drivers, and effects of cultural, physical, political, and economic change, and ponder the future of the Arctic. As they show, it is a future which will affect us all.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewThis book is an excellent introduction to the region and will appeal to almost every geographer. * Robert A. Francis, Progress in Physical Geography (2022) *This book will be of significant use to students and publics new to the Arctic. The authors have achieved exactly what is suggested by the title: a short but detailed introduction to the Arctic. Accessible and concise but comprehensive, tackling both physical and human Arctic worlds, The Arctic is a strong and necessary addition to the Very Short Introduction series. * Alice Oats, The Polar Journal *Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Arctic world Chapter 2: The physical environment Chapter 3: Arctic ecosystems Chapter 4: Peoples of the Arctic Chapter 5: Exploration and exploitation Chapter 6: Arctic governance Chapter 7: The Arctic carbon vault Chapter 8: Arctic futures
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Oxford University Press Inc Americans in a World at War
Book SynopsisA vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans'' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways'' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York''s Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war.Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century''s most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort. The intriguing biographies of the Yankee Clipper''s passengers--among them an Olympic-athlete-turned-export salesman, a Broadway star, a swashbuckling pilot, and two entrepreneurs accused of trading with the enemy--upend conventional American narratives about World War II. As their travels take them from Ukraine, France, Spain, Panama, Cuba, and the Philippines to Java, India, Australia, Britain, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Belgian Congo, among other hot spots, their movements defy simple boundaries between home front and war front. Americans in a World at War offers fresh perspectives on a transformative period of US history and global connections during the American Century.Trade ReviewBlower shows us the Second World War from wholly novel and thought-provoking points of view. Recounting the doomed transatlantic flight of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper in 1943, Blower re-creates the strikingly worldly view of American civilians borne aloft and into a global cataclysm. Blower's original research and powerful prose carry us along on the journey, making us feel as if we know these people and allowing us to worry about their fates as if their story were happening right in front of us. * Eric Rauchway, author of Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal *In this brilliant, creative, and compelling work, Brooke Blower brings readers into World War II through the lives of travelers on an ill-fated transatlantic flight, allowing readers to see the world on the edge of war. The author's beautiful writing and astonishing range of sources make this book a model of the integration of biography and global history. * Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences *By expertly blending the international and the personal, Brooke Blower gives us a new and fascinating way to understand American reactions to the Second World War. This powerfully written and originally researched book shows the complexities and contradictions of America's rise to global superpower. Americans in a World at War is a prime example of the new and exciting generation of scholarly analyses of World War II. * Michael S. Neiberg, author of When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Relationship *It's a satisfyingly fresh perspective on the era. * Publishersweekly.com *Table of ContentsPreface Cast of Characters Maps Note on Names and Language Introduction: Into the Vortex Part I: 1914-1920 1. Balloon Work: George hopes to fight in France 2. Autumn Flies: Tamara survives civil war in Ukraine 3. Blood of the Earth: Harry learns the oil business in Romania 4. Tramp Trade: Manuel watches the Great War tear Spain apart Interlude: New York to Bermuda: Sully greets his passengers Part II: 1920-1939 5. Free Lunches: Frank competes in the Amsterdam Olympics 6. Unfinished People: Tamara struggles in the Bronx 7. The Silk-Stocking Revolt: George runs for Congress against the New Deal 8. Twelve Mile River: Ben falls in love with Roosevelt's Washington 9. Woman and Bird: Tamara finds fame on Broadway 10. Tea-Time: Frank moves to the Philippines 11. Stolen Soil: Manuel's schemes reach Mexico and Cuba Interlude: Bermuda to the Azores: Sully flies past the Point of No Return Part III: 1939-1942 12. Three-Minute Channel: Ben endures the London Blitz 13. Back to Porridge: Frank contends with the fall of the Netherlands 14. Ship's Stores: Manuel is arrested for smuggling 15. Easy Dish: Frank braves the invasion of Java 16. Red Mississippi: Ben reports from Russia 17. Hold Your Hats: George joins the army Interlude: The Azores to Portugal: Sully prepares for arrival Part IV: 1942-1943 18. Patent Denials: Harry manages his company's German ties 19. Dangerous Acts: Tamara volunteers to entertain troops 20. The Charter Offer: Manuel makes a bargain 21. Small Potatoes: Frank broadcasts from Australia 22. Acid Test: Ben witnesses the Quit India campaign 23. Hot Questions: George testifies before Congress Conclusion: A Strange and Frightening World Appendix: The Yankee Clipper's Last Passenger Manifest Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Russia
Book SynopsisThe history of Russia - from Kievan Rus to Vladimir PutinRussia: A History cuts through the myths and mystery that have surrounded Russia from its earliest days, with startling revelations from classified archives that until comparatively recently were not even known to exist.A distinguished team of historians has stripped away the propaganda and preconceptions of the past to tell the definitive story of Russia, from tenth-century Kiev and Muscovy through empire and revolution to the fall of Communism and the ''new order'' of the 1990s and early 21st century. A compelling story in its own right, it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Russia and its place in the world. This updated edition now covers the developments in the Putin era in the first decade of the 21st century.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years ... stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose * Los Angeles Times *brings together the latest research into all aspects of Russian history and ... lends itself to reading by the general public as well as the undergraduate. * Contemporary Review *a lavishly illustrated volume, with a heavy-weight text * Edward Acton, The European *Table of ContentsEditor's Preface ; Glossary of Terms ; 1. From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450 ; 2. Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598 ; 3. From Muscovy towards St Petersburg, 1598-1689 ; 4. The Petrine Era and After, 1689-1740 ; 5. The Age of Enlightenment, 1740-1801 ; 6. Pre-Reform Russia, 1801-1855 ; 7. Reform and Counter-Reform, 1855-1900 ; 8. Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914 ; 9. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1921 ; 10. The New Economic Policy (NEP) and the Revolutionary Experiment, 1921-1929 ; 11. Building Stalinism, 1929-1941 ; 12. The Great Fatherland War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953 ; 13. From Stalinism to Stagnation, 1953-1985 ; 14. A Modern 'Time of Troubles': From Reform to Disintegration, 1985-1999 ; 15. Meltdown, Rebuilding, Reform, 1996-2008 ; Maps ; Chronology ; Further Reading ; Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Coldest Crucible Arctic Exploration and
Book SynopsisIn the late 1800s, "Arctic Fever" swept across the nation as dozens of American expeditions sailed north to the Arctic to find a sea route to Asia and, ultimately, to stand at the North Pole. This book argues, was an activity that unfolded in America as much as it did in the wintry hinterland.Trade Review"Concerned with the perception of Arctic exploration in the United States, rather than with the exploration itself, [Robinson]... lays greater emphasis on the role of elites-whether politicians, scientists, or newspaper owners-in supporting and financing the expeditions.... Robinson has a real thesis, and he presents it with admirable clarity and a firm understanding of its shadings and nuances." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits Loneliness and Longing in
Book SynopsisIt is common to think of the Arctic as remote, perched at the farthest reaches of the world--a simple and harmonious, isolated utopia. But the reality, as Janne Flora shows us, is anything but. In Wandering Spirits, Flora reveals how deeply connected the Arctic is to the rest of the world and how it has been affected by the social, political, economic, and environmental shifts that ushered in the modern age. In this innovative study, Flora focuses on Inuit communities in Greenland and addresses a central puzzle: their alarmingly high suicide rate. She explores the deep connections between loneliness and modernity in the Arctic, tracing the history of Greenland and analyzing the social dynamics that shaped it. Flora's thorough, sensitive engagement with the families that make up these communities uncovers the complex interplay between loneliness and a host of economic and environmental practices, including the widespread local tradition of hunting. Wandering Spirits offers a vivid pTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
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The University of Chicago Press Wandering Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A masterful integration of sensitive fieldwork and analytical insight on an extraordinary landscape. Through a tender narrative of people's lives, Flora faithfully transmits a whole world of understanding and feeling. This book will challenge any reader's assumptions about the possible meanings of life and death, belonging and--especially--isolation."--Piers Vitebsky, author of Living without the Dead "With this rich ethnographic work, Flora clearly masters the art of finding a place for herself within a tightly knit social space and of hearing the unsaid, which allows for new and moving insights into feelings of loneliness and of relatedness--to people as well as landscapes."--Kirsten Hastrup, University of Copenhagen
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