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Book SynopsisCalled an uneasy peace, the twenty years between the wars were a time of turmoil - Britain saw a general strike and the worst economic crisis in its history, armed rebellion in Ireland and open revolt in India, a Prime Minister''s resignation and the King''s abdication. Crisis followed crisis until Britain was engulfed in the Second World War - a catastrophe that could have been foreseen, possibly even prevented. But there were also moments of triumph: England regained the Ashes and Britain ran to glory in the ''Chariots of Fire'' Olympic Games; the BBC was born and became the envy of the free world; there was a renaissance in poetry, sculpture of genius, and cinema lightened the darkness for millions. However it is the politicians who failed who have really come to personify the interwar years - in particular Ramsey MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. Both prime ministers were better men than history allows. And Winston Churchill? Right or wrong, success or failure, he is the irrepressibTrade Review** 'Interesting, thoughtful, well-written . . . Hattersley's description of the real meaning of poverty in the 30s is masterly * GUARDIAN *** 'Hattersley brings freshness and clarity to his account of the 1920s and 1930s * HERALD *** 'Beautifully written and wonderfully readable * SUNDAY TRIBUNE *** 'Hattersley is excellent at depicting the social and cultural aspects of Britain between the war s' EXPRESS * ** 'A vigorous, well-paced account of two turbulent decades for Britain and her people. Hattersley's Hatterisms . . . Inject an entertaining, even ribald note into an otherwise grim story’ *

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Book SynopsisBlaikie explores how our different ways of seeing influence the relationship between place and belonging. He argues that our memories, however brief or complex, invoke imagined pasts. But do our recollections share a common frame of reference? Blaikie's cross-disciplinary exploration sets out to answer this question. Includes numerous case studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of illustrations; Chapter 1 Scotland and the places of memory; SECTION 1 ENCOUNTERING MODERNITY: Chapter 2 Before and after modernity: the legacy of Adam Ferguson; Chapter 3 The eyes of modernity: John Grierson's sociology; SECTION II PLACING IDENTITIES: Chapter 4 Among the wee Nazareths: myths of moral community; Chapter 5 Retrieving 'that invisible leeway': landscapes, cultures, belonging; SECTION III LOCAL VISIONS: Chapter 6 A pattern of islands: photographs in the cultural account; Chapter 7 Remembering 'The Forgotten Gorbals'; Chapter 8 Finding ways home; Index

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Book SynopsisStorm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances. This book preseTable of ContentsTable of Contents; Preface; How to use this book; Part One: Debates; Chapter One: Debating the Highland Clearances; I Leaving the Highlands; II Definitions; III The Original Controversy; IV Contemporary Reactions; V The Modern Debate; VI Responsibility; Chapter Two: Before the Clearances; I The Benchmark Problem; II Conditions of Life; III Security and Food Supplies; IV Population before the Clearances; V Change before the Clearances; VI Emigration Before the Clearances; VII Mobility and Capital Flows.; Chapter Three: The Age of the Clearances; I Harris, Arichonan and the Uses of Eviction; II The New Sheep; III The Timetable of Clearance; IVYears of Pessimism; V Landlord Power, Landlord Weakness; VI Perceptions, Contemporary and Retrospective; Chapter Four: Protest and Resistance During the Clearances; I The Passive Highlanders; II The Common Pattern; III Three Exceptions; IV A disgruntled and pious people; V Resistance in Perspective; Chapter Five: The Blame Game; I Reputations and Decline; II Indictments and Good Intentions; III Responsibility for Famine and Decline; IV The Dislocated Society;; Part Two: Documents;; Chronology; Glossary; Guide to further Reading; Works Cited; Essay questions and projects; Brief Guide to places, museums, libraries, galleries, websites.; Maps; Illustrations; Statistical tables; Index.

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Book SynopsisAlthough much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedomin Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838.Trade ReviewA tightly argued and illuminating history. This is a spendid and rigorious new account of the Scots' involvement in this great humanitarian crusade. -- Eric J. Graham, Edingurgh Scottish Studies Review A tightly argued and illuminating history. This is a spendid and rigorious new account of the Scots' involvement in this great humanitarian crusade.

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Book SynopsisOn 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional innovations introduced during the revolutionary period in an attempt to secure the royal prerogative and prevent a repeat of rebellion from below. This book traces the background to the restoration of the monarchy in Scotland, explains why the Scottish political elite were so willing to relinquish power back to the king and assesses the impact of the restrictive Restoration constitutional settlement on subsequent parliamentary sessions in the reign of Charles II. It provides for the first time a detailed account of Charles II''s Scottish parliament - who attended and why, what they did and parliament''s role under an increasingly authoritarian crown. Tracing the path from the widespread popular royalism that marked the beginning of Charles II''s reign to the increasing violence and resistance which the attempted reassertion of the royal prerogative provoked, each session of parliament is set within the political and historical context of the time in which it sat, to provide a fresh perspective on a previously neglected area of Scottish history.Trade ReviewThat a book has been published which combines a study of the Scottish parliament and the Restoration era is to be doubly welcomed... Gillian MacIntosh has provided, for the first time, a thorough account of the institution and its role in the government of Scotland under Charles II. But she has done much more than that, for this book goes beyond the closed doors of parliament house during sittings of the estates. The result is an invaluable and authoritative account of the political manoeuvrings of central government under Charles II. -- Alan MacDonald, University of Dundee Innes Review Written in clear and brisk prose and based on an exhaustive range of printed and manuscript sources, this book is the work of an accomplished parliamentary historian who evinces both a mastery of chronological and legislative detail and an easy familiarity with a large cast of dramatis personae! a professional, informative and well-researched book. -- Clare Jackson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge Parliamentary History Not least of the virtues of MacIntosh's work is that for the first time it provides a clear narrative of parliamentary politics during the reign... MacIntosh's valuable study has brought out - however one rates the performance of the Parliament itself - just how fascinating its politics were, and how unjustly neglected it has been. -- Paul Seward Scottish Historical Review That a book has been published which combines a study of the Scottish parliament and the Restoration era is to be doubly welcomed... Gillian MacIntosh has provided, for the first time, a thorough account of the institution and its role in the government of Scotland under Charles II. But she has done much more than that, for this book goes beyond the closed doors of parliament house during sittings of the estates. The result is an invaluable and authoritative account of the political manoeuvrings of central government under Charles II. Written in clear and brisk prose and based on an exhaustive range of printed and manuscript sources, this book is the work of an accomplished parliamentary historian who evinces both a mastery of chronological and legislative detail and an easy familiarity with a large cast of dramatis personae! a professional, informative and well-researched book. Not least of the virtues of MacIntosh's work is that for the first time it provides a clear narrative of parliamentary politics during the reign... MacIntosh's valuable study has brought out - however one rates the performance of the Parliament itself - just how fascinating its politics were, and how unjustly neglected it has been.

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Book SynopsisSet against the background of post-revolution Scottish ecclesiastical politics, this book addresses the hitherto largely neglected religious dimension to the debates on Anglo-Scottish Union. Focusing predominantly on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the book examines the attitudes and reactions of Presbyterians to the treaty and challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the role of the church and other groups during the debate. The focal point of the Kirk''s response was the Commission of the General Assembly. Through the extensive use of church records and other primary sources the work of the commission in pursuit of church security through its debates, committees and addresses, is discussed at length. The book also examines the church and groups like the Cameronians and Hebronites in relation to the parliamentary debate, the pursuit of alternatives to incorporation, popular protest, addressing and armed resistance.Trade ReviewFocussing primarily on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the author has meticulously researched the attitudes of the Church of the time ... Historians with a particular interest in the role of the Church will undoubtedly appreciate the insight offered by this work. Life and Work A particular strength of Dr Stephen's book is the way he has untangled the several strands of opinion on union amongst the presbyterian community... it is an important piece of research, which challenges old assumptions and confirms and supplements other recent revisionist work on the union. -- Christopher Whatley, University of Dundee Parliamentary History Focussing primarily on the period between April 1706 and January 1707, the author has meticulously researched the attitudes of the Church of the time ... Historians with a particular interest in the role of the Church will undoubtedly appreciate the insight offered by this work. A particular strength of Dr Stephen's book is the way he has untangled the several strands of opinion on union amongst the presbyterian community... it is an important piece of research, which challenges old assumptions and confirms and supplements other recent revisionist work on the union.Table of ContentsContents.; 1. Union; The Religious and Political Background 1689-1706.; 2. And the Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail Against It: Securing the; Church in the event of a Union.; 3. 'Upon the Watchtower of This Church': The Commission of the; General Assembly.; 4. Presbyteries and Parishes: Addressing Against Union.; 5. The Church and Popular Protest.; 6. Incorporating Union; the Search for an Alternative.; 7. 'That God may Mercifully Bring Good out of the Union.'; Appendix.; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisOffers fresh insight into and new perspectives on key cultural phenomena, from the iconic role of the Scottish regiments to the role of tartan in rock music. This book argues that tartan may be fun, but it also plays a wide range of roles in Scottish and international culture.

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Book SynopsisWith a revised foreword by Brookings President Strobe Talbott and a new introduction by Berlin's editor, Henry Hardy.George Kennan, the architect of US policy toward the Soviet Union, called Isaiah Berlin the patron saint among the commentators of the Russian scene. In The Soviet Mind, Berlin proves himself fully worthy of that accolade. Although the essays in this book were originally written to explore the tensions between Soviet communism and Russian culture, the thinking about the Russian mind that emerges is as relevant today under Putin's post-communist Russia as it was when this book first appeared more than a decade ago.This Brookings Classic brings together Berlin's writings about the Soviet Union. Among the highlights are accounts of Berlin's meetings with the Russian writers in the aftermath of the war; a celebrated memorandum he wrote for the British Foreign Office in 1945 about the state of the arts under Stalin; Berlin's account of Stalin's manipulative artificial dialectic; portraits of Pasternak and poet Osip Mandel''shtam; Berlin's survey of Russian culture based on a visit in 1956; and a postscript reflecting on the fall of the Berlin Wall and other events in 1989.Henry Hardy prepared the essays for publication; his introductory discussions describe their history. In his foreword, revised for this new edition, Brookings's Strobe Talbott, a long-time expert on Russia and the Soviet Union, relates the essays to Berlin's other work.The essays and other pieces in The Soviet Mindwhich includes a new essay, Marxist versus Non-Marxist Ideas in Soviet Policy, and a summary of a talk on communismrepresent Berlin at his most brilliant, and are invaluable for policy-makers, students and anyone interested in Russian politics and thoughtpast, present and future.

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Book SynopsisIn response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's report, Arrows in a Quiver provides an overview of Indigenous-settler relations, including how land is central to Indigenous identity and how the Canadian state systematically marginalizes Indigenous people. Illustrating the various arrows in a quiver that Indigenous people use to fight back, such as grassroots organizing, political engagement, and the courts, Frideres situates settler colonialism historically and explains why decolonization requires a fundamental transformation of long-standing government policy for reconciliation to occur. The historical, political, and social context provided by this text offers greater understanding and theorizes what the effective devolution of government power might look like. A comprehensive political and legal overview of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada, written at a level appropriate for post-secondary students, this book is an essential primer for understanding these key relati

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Book SynopsisPeter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and he directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.Trade ReviewHemmersam charts the unique motives and circumstances that have produced a distinct form of urbanism with comprehensive aplomb. The book provides urgent insight into the formation of Arctic cities and their trajectories from both a global polar view and from on the fragile ground in which they emerge. * Mason White, University of Toronto, Canada, founding partner, LATERAL OFFICE *In an increasingly relevant and global North, Peter Hemmersam brings a perspective of urbanism. Russia, Canada and Greenland of the last century offer Hemmersam ideas of relationships, and the historical and political frameworks that drive the built form. Hemmersam recognizes Indigenous communities and knowledge that provide a blueprint for thriving within the landscapes, which has been both embraced and ignored by settlers. With a sense of utility and in a place of extremes, we consider a new architecture and a new plan for imagining urban futures in the Arctic. * Julie Decker, Museum Director/CEO, Anchorage Museum, USA *Within a context of accelerated climate change, Hemmersam’s book brings much needed expertise to fill a void in scholarship that is long overdue for understanding the legacy and future of architecture and urban design in the incredibly important, complex, and rapidly changing Arctic region. * Matthew Jull, PhD, Arctic Design Group, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction Part One: Framing the Arctic City 1. Introducing the Arctic 2. Building cities in the Arctic 3. Studying Arctic cities Part Two: Arctic urban development 4. Developing Russia's Arctic cities 5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities 6. Developing Greenland's cities Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city 7. Defining Arctic urbanism 8. The architects of the Arctic city 9. Learning from the Arctic city Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the ways in which the global south reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. The end of the Second World War and the eclipse of empires brought a wave of efforts to reimagine the future world order. When nation states emerging from colonial rule met at Bandung to chart alternative destinies and challenge global inequalities, they hoped to create a less hierarchical, more pluralistic and more distributive world. This volume considers the alternative visions put forth by the third world at the close of WWII to recover their world-changing aspirations as well as its cultural and intellectual breakthroughs. Demonstrating how the invention of the third world sought to create new institutions of solidarity, new expressions and alternative narratives to the imperial ones that they had inherited, this book reveals how writers, artists, musicians and phoTrade ReviewThis splendid volume does an excellent job of extending the history of the Bandung moment in both directions to frame it in the long twentieth century, and revises its spatial framework to show how Latin America is a crucial part of a picture too often confined to Eurasia, Africa and the Arab world. * Arjun Appadurai, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, USA *The concept of the “Third World,” a term frequently used pejoratively in Euro-America, comes to live here in its full potential and promise. This is a story of transnational networks and nodal points, and of the quest to create an alternative, more equitable global order beyond empire. An important intervention and fascinating reading! * Sebastian Conrad, Professor of Global History, Free University of Berlin, Germany *Bringing together leadings scholars of decolonization and global history, this volume embodies the political and geographic scale of the Third World. Mapping the cross-cutting itineraries of third worldism and traversing its lesser-known tributaries, these essays highlights the Third World’s emancipatory possibilities as well as the geopolitical and ideological differences that fractured solidarities. * Adom Getachew author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination *Inventing the Third World recovers the inspiring aspirations, neglected actors, and persistent tensions of anticolonial internationalism in its struggle to create liberatory futures. This collection is a magnificent contribution to the global history of our present and a precious resource for imagining how the world could be otherwise. * Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. *Inventing The Third World could not be a more timely or trenchant intervention into the engorged ambitions of the accumulative, all embracing, globalization that dominates our current predicament. To portray the “third world” as an alternative or antidote to the bipolar condition of a world divided by the Cold War is to shrink its ambition and downscale its significance. The Third World --- as idea, ideology, aspiration --- was an experiment in transformational living and thinking on a world scale. The very concept itself was a call to create a cosmopolitical political culture of hospitality and equality, that embraced the diversity of the arts, and the regional autonomy of custom and culture. To read Prakash and Edelman’s volume is to encounter an optimism about what might once have been, and what may be yet to come. * Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and author of The Location of Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface, Homi Bhabha Introduction: Imagining the Third World: Genealogies of Alternative Global Histories, Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman 1. The Third World Before Afro-Asia, Cindy Ewing (University of Toronto, Canada) 2. From Peace to National Liberation: Mexico and the Tricontinental, Patrick Iber (University of Wisconsin, USA) 3. A Voice for the Yugoslavs in Latin America: Oscar Waiss and the Yugoslav-Chilean Connection, (Agustín Cosovschi, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, France) 4. The End of Ideology and the Third World: The Congress For Cultural Freedom’s 1955 Milan Conference on the “Future Of Freedom” and its Aftermath (Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Wesleyan University, USA) 5. Latin American Network in Exile: A Communist Cultural Legacy for the Third World, (Marcelo Ridenti, State University Of Campinas, Brazil) 6. Radical Scholarship and Political Activism: Walter Rodney as Third World Intellectual and Historian of the Third World, (Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Germany) 7. From London 1948 to Dakar 1966: Crises in Anticolonial Counterpublics, (Penny M. von Eschen, University of Virginia, USA) 8. Francis Newton Souza’s Black Paintings: Postwar Transactions in Color, (Atreyee Gupta (University Of California, Berkeley, USA) 9. Listening to the Cold War in Bombay, (Naresh Fernandes (Independent Writer) 10. Imagining a Progressive World: Soviet Visual Culture in Postcolonial India, (Jessica Bachman (University of Washington, USA) 11. The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War, (Monica Popescu, Mcgill University, Canada) 12. The Death of the Third World Revisited: Curative Democracy and World-Making in Late 1970s India, (Srirupa Roy, University Of Göttingen, Germany) Coda (Samuel Moyn, Yale University, USA) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial. Self-confessed islomane Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind of human experiences that islands inspire. Journeying all around the globe to take in the most fascinating stories of Earth's half a million islands, this book considers the unique geography, politics and economics of islands and their cultures. It traces their singular place in literature, religion and philosophy, and disentangles the myths and the facts to reveal just why islands exert such an insistent grip on the human psyche.Trade Review“Magisterial… A harrowing, enthralling piece of work that bears comparison with John Prebble’s equally dense, equally passionate classic, The Highland Clearances … [A] fascinating, scrupulous, angry, scholarly book.” Jim Perrin, The Great Outdoors; "Fascinating and wide-ranging." Island Review; "A fascinating survey of the interplay between those little dots of land and the human imagination … Smith is excellent on the ways in which islands have always been pawns in geopolitical games…witty." Geographical

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Book SynopsisEine neue historische Perspektive auf die brasilianische Erinnerungskultur

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Book SynopsisDas ist die Geschichte des GÃttinger GÃnseliesels und seiner Zwillingsschwester aus Leipzig.

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