History of other geographical groupings Books
Cornell University Press Antler on the Sea
Book SynopsisAnna M. Kerttula, an anthropologist, offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki, a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup''ik community, it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup''ik, native hunters of sea mammals; the Chukchi, nomadic reindeer herders who had been required by the state to turn their animals over to cooperative farms; and Russians of European ancestry enticed to the region by incentive programs designed to colonize the Russian Far East. Kerttula, who lived among the villagers for eighteen months, draws on her experiences to explore how each group''s beliefs and customs have transformed those of the other two. Her book shows the endurance of the indigenous cultures of Far Eastern Russia despite years of intrusion by the Soviet state.The author describes in rich detail how the Yup''ik, the Chukchi, and the Russian newcomers developed a sense of cultural difference because of their separate symbolic systTrade ReviewAnna M. Kerttula offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki. * Cultural Survival Quarterly *
£25.64
Cornell University Press Violent Entrepreneurs
Book SynopsisEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market...Trade ReviewViolent Entrepreneurs offers an engaging glimpse into the darker recesses of Russia's shadow economy.... Volkov's work is exceptionally well researched, relying on statistical data as well as surprisingly candid firsthand interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of private protection companies, active and former police employees, experts, and businesspeople to present its case. * Perspectives on Political Science *A richly documented, complex book.... Volkov establishes a critical distance from the state and its agencies, important in principle and particularly so in a period of rapid social change, with new legal codes shifting the boundaries of crime and the enforcement of public order moving, in practice, into private hands. * International Affairs *This impressive study by Russian sociologist Vadim Volkov investigates the economic and social evolution of the nascent entrepreneurial class in Russia and accounts for its disturbingly intimate liaison with violence and crime.... Volkov considers the implications of the weakened and discredited state against the background of new economic agents who, desperate to secure their property and monopoly rights in various markets, have become accustomed to the use of force. * Russian Review *This is a splendid book, a well-written and well-researched contribution to the field that deserves a wide and appreciative readership.... This excellent, literate, and insightful work is both scholarly enough to advance study of Russian criminality and 'violent capitalism' into fruitful new avenues and readable enough that it need not scare off undergraduates—and as such to be welcomed wholeheartedly. * Slavic Review *Volkov supplies the missing link between almost everything else you may read about business in post-Communist Russia and almost everything else you can read about organized crime there. He treats the two activities, business and crime, with equal respect as fields of sociological inquiry, and so arrives at the first satisfying account of how they affect each other. * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface1. Veblen's Warning2. Violent Entrepreneurship3. The Violence-Managing Agency4. Bandits and Capitalists5. The Privatization of the Power Ministries6. The Politics of State FormationKey to InterviewsGlossaryIndex
£19.99
Cornell University Press Architectures of Russian Identity 1500 to the
Book SynopsisFrom the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl—across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have used...Trade ReviewThis fascinating, highly rewarding book performs a pioneering role in our fast-growing studies of national identity formation. It adds the largely hitherto ignored element—architecture—in the creation of a self-image for the Russian state, its rules, and citizens.... This innovative and informative book is highly recommended, both for classroom instruction and individual enjoyment. -- Elizabeth Kridl Valkenier, Columbia University * Canadian Journal of History *For the most part this is a book about the many identities of Russia's built environment and the truths that unfold from them.... This is an important book; really the first of its kind, so far as this reviewer knows, to attempt interpreting Russian architectural history. Letting the artifacts speak for themselves is a splendid idea, one that could easily lend itself to other works of this type. These are scholarly essays, well documented and adequately illustrated. -- Albert J. Schmidt, The George Washington University * Slavic Review *This is a volume which engages with many popular scholarly concerns of recent times, for example the study of identity, nationalism, Orientalism, colonialism, memory, and the invention of tradition. It also illustrates very well the recent erosion of boundaries between academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Surveying a period of over four hundred and fifty years, from the age of Ivan the Terrible to the post-Soviet era, the fourteen contributors approach subjects such as architecture, town planning, painting, and sculpture from a variety of perspectives, including the perspectives of intellectual history, literary history, and political science as well as architectural history and the history of art. In the process they persistently explore the contexts in which various artifacts, buildings, gardens, designs, literary works, representations of landscape, and monuments were produced and the meanings that they may yield.... The volume has a pleasing coherence. This merit is partly due to judicious editing and cross-referencing. However, it also stems from the consistency of the contributors' multidisciplinary approach and the recurrence of certain themes, notably the exploitation of buildings or other artifacts for political purposes and their function as a means of establishing, confirming or reformulating national identity. Moreover, the standard of scholarship (supported by plentiful black-and-white illustrations) is consistently high. Scholars working in this relatively unploughed territory are therefore likely to find the volume a useful source of reference and inspiration for many years to come. -- Derek Offord, University of Bristol * Slavonica *Although architectural history intersects with other disciplines, for example, history, anthropology, sociology, and politics, those fields have not traditionally made architecture a primary concern. In recent years, all that has changed. The essays in Architectures of Russian Identity are by historians primarily, but linguistics, literature, geography, and political science are also represented. Despite the diverse academic disciplines of its contributors, the book is remarkably seamless in tone and methodology, perhaps because architecture has long been understood as an art particularly rich in social and historical symbolism. -- Janet Kennedy, Indiana University * The Russian Review *
£33.25
University of Nebraska Press Shackleton of the Antarctic
Book SynopsisTwenty-eight men stood on a desolate Antarctic ice floe one thousand miles from the nearest human contact. In a few months the ice would melt. To survive they would have to be safely on land before that happened–if they did not starve first. The odds were stacked against them. The single advantage they did have, however, proved decisive. They were led by Ernest Shackleton.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Discovery2. On the Move3. Nimrod4. From Nimrod to Endurance5. The Greatest Adventure of All Time6. Into the Boats7. The Attempt at the Long CrossingAfterword: The Road Back HomeNotes
£11.39
University of Pittsburgh Press Strategic Frames
Book SynopsisStrategic Frames analyzes minority policies in Estonia and Latvia following their independence from the Soviet Union. It weighs the powerful influence of both Europe and Russia on their policy choices, and how this intersected with the costs and benefits of policy changes for the politicians in each state.Trade Review"Schulze shows how we should consider Estonian and Latvian minority policies within the context of both European and Russian pressures. It provides a corrective to what has been too strong an emphasis on only European Union influences. The book analyzes a wealth of material in the local languages in making the argument, and is an interesting and convincing read." - Sherrill Stroschein, University College London"Drawing on extensive and original research, Schulze provides an in-depth look into the policymaking processes around citizenship, language, and minority inclusion in Estonia and Latvia since the break-up of the Soviet Union. An important contribution to the study of minority politics in the post-Soviet space, Russian kin-state activism, and the impact of European norms and institutions on domestic policies." - Myra A. Waterbury, Ohio University"A meticulously researched and valuable study of minority politics that will be of particular worth to scholars interested in Estonia and Latvia. [...] The book should serve as a fundamentally important reference point for all future scholarship in the field." - Europe-Asia Studies
£49.56
Cornell University Press Old Believers in a Changing World
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£34.40
Cornell University Press Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia
Book SynopsisExplores the Russian Enlightenment with reference to the religious Enlightenment of the mid-to late-eighteenth century. Grounded in close readings of the sermons and devotional writings of Platon Levshin, court preacher and metropolitan bishop of Moscow, this book examines the blending of European thought into the teachings of Russian Orthodoxy.Trade ReviewWirtschafter offers a detailed and engaging exposition of Platon's sermons. * Times Literary Supplement *A fine achievement that deserves attention from non-Russianists. * European History Quarterly *Wirtschafter provides a fascinating, well-researched, persuasively argued case study though a close reading of the sermons of one of the Russian Orthodox Church's most important clerics, Metropolitan Platon. * The Journal of Modern History *
£29.45
Cornell University Press Underground Petersburg Radical Populism Urban
Book SynopsisAlthough the radical populist movement that arose in Russia during the reign of Tsar Alexander II has been well documented, this important study opens with questions that haven't yet been addressed: How did Russian radical populists manage to carry out a three-year campaign of revolutionary violence, killing or wounding scores of people...Trade ReviewThis is a fresh, well-written and well-argued study rooted in extensive archival research that convincingly demonstrates the importance of St. Petersburg as a cradle of revolutionary activity, the divorce of that activity from ideology, the malleability of that ideology, and the way the city space actively shaped the radical populist movement. Ely has made a significant and fascinating contribution to imperial Russian history, both methodologically and in shaping our understanding of radical populism in a profoundly new way. * Slavic and East European Journal *This is a well-written and engaging book that deserves a wide readership and will be of primary interest to historians and other scholars of Russia. * Journal of Modern History *A scintillating, well-written examination of the early Populist experience. * The Russian Review *This work contributes much to the history of Russia, Russian radicalism, and terrorism with a fresh perspective that presents the physical space in St. Petersburg, Russia, in a new light. * Choice *This is a book that greatly increases our knowledge of the populist movement and radical politics. It should interest not only those with an interest in the history of late imperial Russia, but those researching urban history and the history of terrorism. * The Slavonic and East European Review *
£33.25
Cornell University Press Framing Mary The Mother of God in Modern
Book SynopsisFraming Mary introduces readers to the cultural life of Mary from the seventeenth century to the post-Soviet era. It examines a broad spectrum of engagements among a variety of people--pilgrims and poets, clergy and laity, politicians and political activists--and the woman they knew as the Bogoroditsa.Trade ReviewThis multidisciplinary anthology of articles on Mariology in Russian culture documents a remarkable range of functions served by the figure of the Mother of God (Bogoroditsa) in the spheres of art, social history, folk belief, poetry, politics, prose, religious culture, and theology. Editors Amy Singleton Adams and Vera Shevzov handle the vastness of the topic well through a chronological arrangement of the subject matter (seventeenth to twenty-first centuries), by a fine introduction delineating the notion of 'frames' placed around Mary, and by deftly weaving cross-references between the pieces. * The Russian Review *Kudos to Adams and Shevzov for assembling such a fruitful harvest of consistently stimulating researches. Can't wait for volume 2 * Journal of Modern History *
£29.75
Cornell University Press On the Periphery of Europe 17621825
Book SynopsisThroughout the eighteenth century, the Russian elite assimilated the ideas, emotions, and practices of the aristocracy in Western countries to various degrees, while retaining a strong sense of their distinctive identity. In On the Periphery of Europe, 17621825, Andreas Schönle and Andrei Zorin examine the principal manifestations of Europeanization for Russian elites in their daily lives, through the import of material culture, the adoption of certain social practices, travel, reading patterns, and artistic consumption. The authors consider five major sites of Europeanization: court culture, religion, education, literature, and provincial life. The Europeanization of the Russian elite paradoxically strengthened its pride in its Russianness, precisely because it participated in networks of interaction and exchange with European elites and shared in their linguistic and cultural capital. In this way, Europeanization generated forms of sociability that helped the elite consolidTrade ReviewWithout a doubt, this book is a great contribution to the imagination of emancipation in different spheres of elite life, providing a map of this complex process. This volume will be the principal basis of further research in this field. * European History Quarterly *
£29.75
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Bastions of the Cross
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£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia
Book SynopsisEssential reading for historians, political scientists, and policymakers, this reissued edition is being published to coincide with the centennial observation of the genocide.Trade ReviewSokol's recitation of events has a compelling clarity. In 180 pages, he conveys the flavor of a region, a historical snapshot of a massacre, and several important observations.—International Journal on World PeaceSokol carefully recreates events on the ground while relating some of the more instructive moments of the uprising . . . Sokol's account of the uprising—made possible by the publication of archival documents—remains topical and accurate.—Aminat Chokobaeva, University of Sydney, Europe-Asia StudiesTable of ContentsForeword, by S. Frederick StarrPreface1. The Revolt of 19162. The Economic Background to the Revolt of 19163. The Political Background to the Revolt of 19164. The Revolt of 1916: First Phase5. The Revolt of 1916: Second Phase6. The End of the Revolt7. The Revolt in RetrospectBibliographyIndex
£28.23
Johns Hopkins University Press The Berlin Crisis of 1961
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1973. This book uses the Berlin Crisis of 1961 as a starting point to investigate Soviet-American relations in the Kruschev period. The book first chronicles the timeline of the succession of events during the Berlin Crisis and their interrelation. It then turns to the close interaction between Soviet and foreign policy before situating the event into the broader timeline of Soviet history.Trade ReviewDemonstrates with admirable cogency that a well-founded interpretation [of the Kennedy-Khrushchev era] is possible . . . Lay[s] bare the workings of the Russian political process in the age of collective leadership.—Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Opening Phase: The Soviets Stake Their Claim Chapter 2. Framing a Western Position Chapter 3. The Soviets Increase the Pressure Chapter 4. The Western Riposte, June 29-July 25 Chapter 5. The Soviets Decide on the Minimum Objective Chapter 6. The West Looks for an Opening Chapter 7. Climax : The Soviets Act Chapter 8. The Collective Leadership Reviews the Situation Chapter 9. Second Climax: The Twenty-second Party Congress Glossary List of Works Cited Abbreviations of Works Most Frequently Cited Acknowledgments Subject Index Name Index
£46.35
Johns Hopkins University Press The Russian Revolutionary Emigres 18251870
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1986. Martin A. Miller, author of the definitive biography of the exiled revolutionary Peter Kropotkin, traces the history of the first generations of Russians who went to Western Europe to devote their lives to anti-tsarist politics. Refusing to assimilate abroad and unable to return home, the emigres political orientations were influenced by intellectual and social currents in both Russia and Europe. Miller undertakes a major reassessment of the emigre contribution to the Russian revolutionary movement. Starting with Nikolai Turgenev, who in 1825 was declared the first emigre by a special act of the Russian government, the exiles formed a unique social and political group. Miller takes a biographical approach in tracing the progression from a disparate community of intellectuals, unable to act together to promote their own program for change, to a more cohesive second emigre generation that provided the foundation for collective action and the development of aTrade ReviewAn interesting and well-written book that illuminates the career of a group of significant, yet previously little known Russian radicals.—American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. The First GenerationChapter 1. The World of Emigration in Nineteenth-Century Europe Chapter 2. N.I. Turgenev: The First Political Emigre Chapter 3. I.G. Golovin: Emigre Individualism Chapter 4. N.I. Sazonov: Marx's First Russian Follower Chapter 5. P.V. Dolgorukov: The Republican Prince Chapter 6. Perspectives on the First Generation Part II. The Second GenerationChapter 7. The Origins of Collective Action AbroadChapter 8. A. A. Semo-Solov' evich: Beyond Herzen Chapter 9. On the Eve: Toward the Development of Ideology Chapter 10. N. I. Utin: Emigre Internationalism Part III. The Turning PointChapter 11. The Russian Emigre Press: In the Shadows of Kolokol Chapter 12. The Emigration and Revolution AppendixesA. Regulations for the Aid of Political Exiles from Russia, 13 December 1855 (Geneva)B. Police Surveillance at Herzen's House in London, 1862 C. The League of Peace and Freedom, 1867-1868 D. Natalie Herzen's Dream, 1869 Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Toronto Press The Roots of Ukrainian Nationalism
Book SynopsisTo the surprise of many, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, and out of its ruins arose an independent Ukraine. This was a remarkable achievement, and one that owed much to activities in Galicia, as Paul Robert Magocsi reveals here.Magocsi begins with a brief historical survey of Galicia, where Ukrainian national and cultural interests have long flourished. His subsequent essays focus on the role played by Galicia during the nineteenth century, when Ukrainians were struggling for recognition as a distinct nationality. He places Galicia in the larger context of Ukrainian and eastern European politics, then follows with studies of the nuts and bolts of nation building – language, culture, ideology and so on. He also explores the influence of the Habsburg Empire in creating unique conditions for Ukraine's national and social revival, and considers the impact of both Habsburg and Soviet rule on the Ukrainian national psyche.This study provides a solid bac
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Novel Cleopatras
Book SynopsisAdvocating a revised history of the eighteenth-century novel, Novel Cleopatras showcases the novel's origins in ancient mythology, its relation to epic narrative, and its connection to neoclassical print culture.Trade Review"This book is by no means the last word on the topics of eighteenth-century fiction, women’s writing, and the use of epic or myth, nor does it claim to be. It stands, rather, as a mark of the vibrancy of these interconnected fields. As such, it should be read by all who are interested in the fiction of the eighteenth century, with all its complexities, and in all its incarnations." -- Gillian Dow, University of Southampton * Eighteenth-Century Fiction *Table of ContentsIntroduction Rites of Initiation: Reading Epic in Eighteenth-Century Britain Returning to Narrative Origins: Finding Alternatives in Vergil’s Aeneid Dido in Barbados: The Case of Spectator Part 1: Demythologizing Dido: Epic and Romance 1 “‘Pulcherrima Dido’: Jane Barker and the Epic of Exile” The “Glory of the Scipio’s”? Exilius’ Romance Rewriting of History Resembling Dido: Reinventing Carthage and Rome Becoming Roman: Exilius and Jacobite Identity Representing Troy Town: Barker’s Jacobite Nostalgia 2. “‘What is there of a Woman Worth Relating?’ Revising the Aeneid in Henry Fielding’s Amelia “A Fortress on a Rock”: New Epic Foundations in Amelia “A Good Woman and Yet”: Harrison and Epic Precedents Dalila, Jezebel, Medea? Miss Mathews Mrs. Bennet-Atkinson and “All the Fortune given her by her Father” Part 2: Mythologizing Cleopatra: Romance Historiography and the Queens of Egypt 3. “‘Making History out of Nothing’: Creating a Women’s Classical Canon in Charlotte Lennox’s Female Quixote” The Example of Outlandish People: Romance Values and the Geopolitical Landscape Laws of its Own: An Empire of Love? “But for the famous Scudéry”: Reviving Classical Precedents “A Position almost too Evident for Proof”: Arabella and the Divine 4. “‘Shame’—or ‘Courtly Glory’? Scripting Augustan History in Sarah Fielding’s Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia” On Pleasing Delusions: Reading The Lives Against the Grain Imagining Power: Fielding’s Cleopatra and the Construction of History Being Made a Sacrifice: Octavia and Roman Virtue 5. “Whose ‘Wild and Extravagant Stories’? Challenging Epic in Clara Reeve’s Progress of Romance” Epic in Prose: Redefining Women’s Fiction Revising Origins: The Bible as Oriental Tale Penelope, Medea, Deianeira: Classical Epic Revisited Seizing Narrative Control: Lessons from Cleopatra and Scheherazade
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Devastation and Laughter
Book SynopsisIn Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.Trade Review"Gérin’s work is theoretically informed but not overburdened, her focus being cultural history and close reading of visual materials. It is in the selection and dissection of such print materials as posters and journals that Gérin truly excels." -- Tom Haxhi, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University * Canadian Slavonic Papers, vol 61 no 3 *"Deploying both contemporary and historical theories of the comic, Gérin makes a persuasive case for the continuity of Russian humor culture through the centuries." -- Maya Vinokour, Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University * Slavic Review *"Gérin reveals that the Bolsheviks understood theories of laughter and sought to shape it for their own purposes. Satire and its laughter, they believed, could destroy the old bourgeois attitudes needed to create new people." -- Stephen M. Norris, Department of History, Miami University * American Historical Review *"Gérin’s book, thoroughly researched, convincingly argued, and lavishly illustrated, sharpens the appetite for more discussions on satire and on caricature, as much from the early Soviet era as from the years of the Cold War and perestroika." -- Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Birkbeck College, University of London * H-SHERA *"Gérin’s book tackles many interesting issues that can inspire future humour-related research across a variety of disciplines." -- Anastasiya Fiadotava, University of Tartu * European Journal of Humour Research *"Carefully documented, Gerin’s book provides a very precious contribution on Soviet visual humour." -- Ada Ackerman, THALIN/CNRS * RACAR *"A valuable resource for teachers of Russian culture and students interested in the Soviet arts." -- Olga Velikanova, University of North Texas * Kritika *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Transliteration, Translations, Dates Acknowledgments Introduction: Devastation and Laughter 1: Anatoly Lunacharsky and the Power of Laughter 2: Soviet Satirical Print Culture, a Serious Affair 3: Laughter in the Ring, in the Street and on Stage: The Emergence of a "Satirical Scene" 4: Laughter on the Silver Screen: From Satire to Optimistic Comedy 5: The Strategies and Targets of Satire 6: The Rhetorics of Satire and Socialist Realism Conclusion Appendix: "On Laughter" (1931) Notes Bibliography Index
£51.00
MY - University of Toronto Press Toronto Trailblazers Women in Canadian
Book SynopsisInformed by the works of international publishing historians, Toronto Trailblazers artfully captures the lasting influence of women on Canadian publishing.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Exceptional in building a Canadian company": Irene Clarke 2. A "Principal Architect" of the University of Toronto Press: Eleanor Harman 3. The "Editorial Conscience" of the University of Toronto Press: Francess Halpenny 4. "She knew the business ... and the Canadian literary market": Sybil Hutchinson 5. A "tremendous job of editing": Claire Pratt 6. Publishing "Maestro" and Cultural Advocate: Anna Porter 7. The "Grande Dame" of Literary Agents: Bella Pomer Conclusion
£54.40
University of Toronto Press Suspect Others
Book SynopsisSuspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self. Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1.Settlement and Self-Doubt 2.A Fragmented Unity: Hindu Selves, Doubt, and Shakti Ritual 3.Mediated Selves: Ndyuka Knowledge, Suspicion, and Revelation 4.Painful Interactions 5.Dreams at the Limits of Knowledge 6.Revealing Ironies of Racecraft Conclusion Bibliography
£41.65
University of Toronto Press Toronto Trailblazers
Book SynopsisInformed by the works of international publishing historians, Toronto Trailblazers artfully captures the lasting influence of women on Canadian publishing.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "Exceptional in building a Canadian company": Irene Clarke 2. A "Principal Architect" of the University of Toronto Press: Eleanor Harman 3. The "Editorial Conscience" of the University of Toronto Press: Francess Halpenny 4. "She knew the business ... and the Canadian literary market": Sybil Hutchinson 5. A "tremendous job of editing": Claire Pratt 6. Publishing "Maestro" and Cultural Advocate: Anna Porter 7. The "Grande Dame" of Literary Agents: Bella Pomer Conclusion
£22.49
University of Toronto Press New Soviet Gypsies
Book SynopsisNew Soviet Gypsies provides a unique history of Roma, an overwhelmingly understudied and misunderstood diasporic people, by focusing on their social and political lives in the early Soviet Union.Trade Review‘New Soviet Gypsies is an impressive and suggestive study of the link between nation making and citizenship in the early Soviet context. It’s also wonderfully written and richly researched. Anyone interested in the history of nationality in the twentieth century should read it.’ -- Willard Sunderland * Journal of Modern History vol 88:02:2016 *‘This is a meticulously researched and well-written work… O’Keeffe is very good at showing the proverbial bigger picture within which we ought to locate the attempted Sovietization of Russian Roma.’ -- David Z. Scheffel * Anthropos vol 110:2015 *‘Brigid O’Keeffe’s book is an intelligent study of Soviet nationalities that an instructor who teaches ethnicity and nationalism in any context should include as required reading in his or her syllabus.’ -- Ali Igmen * American Historical Review, October 2014 *‘This brilliant new study of the Roma’s plight in the early decades of Soviet power in Russia opens up new avenues of discussion and study of this fascinating ethnic group’s history… This study will certainly become a classic in Roma studies.’ -- David M. Crowe * Slavic Studies vol 73:03:2014 *‘Stories of trivialization and stylization of local historic culture and their music and language abound in this fascinating account… O’Keeffe’s book is well researched and tells an important tale of Roma history and struggle. Highly recommended. Most levels/Libraries.’ -- L.De Donaan * Choice Magazine, vol 51:06:2014 *"This book is a welcome addition to the study of minority groups in the former USSR, particularly of a stigmatized group. O’Keefe explores questions that will be of interest to folklorists, anthropologists, linguists, and historians studying the peoples of this region and also minority ethnic identity and how it is negotiated in institutional contexts." -- Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby * Journal of Folklore Research Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations A Note on Terminology and Transliteration Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Backward Gypsies, Soviet Citizens: The All-Russian Gypsy Union Chapter 2 A Political Education: Soviet Values and Practical Realities in Gypsy Schools Chapter 3 Parasites, Pariahs, and Proletarians: Class Struggle And the Forging of a Gypsy Proletariat Chapter 4 Nomads into Farmers: Romani Activism and the Territorialization of (In)Difference Chapter 5 Pornography or Authenticity? Performing Gypsiness on the Soviet Stage Epilogue and Conclusion: “Am I a Gypsy or Not a Gypsy?”: Nationality and the Performance of Soviet Selfhood Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Suspect Others
Book SynopsisSuspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for belonging, political power, and control over natural resources, Surinamese Ndyuka Maroons and Hindus look to spirit mediums to understand the causes of their successes and sufferings and to know the hidden minds of relatives and rivals alike. But although mediumship promises knowledge of others, interactions between mediums and their devotees also fundamentally challenge what devotees know about themselves, thereby turning interpersonal suspicion into doubts about the self. Through a rich ethnographic comparison of the different ways in which Ndyuka and Hindu spirit mediums and their devotees navigate suspicion, Suspect Others shows how present-day Caribbean peoples come to experience selves that defy concepts of personhood inflicted by the colonial past. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1.Settlement and Self-Doubt 2.A Fragmented Unity: Hindu Selves, Doubt, and Shakti Ritual 3.Mediated Selves: Ndyuka Knowledge, Suspicion, and Revelation 4.Painful Interactions 5.Dreams at the Limits of Knowledge 6.Revealing Ironies of Racecraft Conclusion Bibliography
£21.59
University of Toronto Press Early Ukrainian Settlements in Canada 18951900
Book SynopsisDr. Kaye has set out to fill in some of the gap sin the story of the settlement of the Canadian West through this documentary history of the beginnings of Ukrainian settlement in Canada. He became interested in the history of settlement by various ethnic groups, especially those of Slavic origin, while serving in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. This book contains a valuable compilation of original documents which provides students of the period with excellent source materials, and makes an important contribution to the history of the settlement of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories between 1895 and 1900. It will also assist in bringing about a better understanding of the nature of the Ukrainian agricultural immigration, and in correcting some common misconceptions. For example, Dr. Kaye points out that the Ukrainian economic migration has been erroneously compared with the Irish immigration a few decades earlier: the majority of the Irish immigrants were ev
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University of Toronto Press Guide to the Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 19171967
Book SynopsisA ‘decision’ of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union occupies a central place in the party and in the Soviet system. At times, it is the internal law of the party, at times the command issued by the party to some branch of the state or society. Scholars have long been aware of the importance of these documents in the study of all aspects of soviet affairs, but there has not hitherto existed – even in Russia – any systematic compilation of decisions, or any listing of bibliographic sources. This book lists, in chronological order, the almost four thousand CPSU decisions made from 1917 to 1967. Each entry indicates where the entire text of the decision may be found, and an index locates decisions by subject area. The listing and index are in Russian. An introduction in English explains the nature of party decisions and their place in Soviet politics.
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University of Nebraska Press Brand Antarctica
Book SynopsisAntarctica is, and has always been, very much “for sale.” Whales, seals, and ice have all been marketed as valuable commodities, but so have the stories of explorers. The modern media industry developed in parallel with land-based Antarctic exploration, and early expedition leaders needed publicity to generate support for their endeavors. Their lectures, narratives, photographs, and films were essentially advertisements for their adventures. At the same time, popular media began to use the newly encountered continent to draw attention to commercial products. These advertisements both trace the commercialization of Antarctica and reveal how commercial settings have shaped the dominant imaginaries of the place. By contextualizing and analyzing Antarctic advertisements from the late nineteenth century to the present, Brand Antarctica identifies five key framings of the South Polar continent: a place for heroes, a place of extremity, a place of purity, a placTrade Review“Innovative and engaging. . . . Brand Antarctica is packed full of intriguing reflections about a myriad of advertisements, packaging, and sensationalist materials. Hanne Nielsen shows remarkably clearly how Antarctica has been and continues to be commodified, marketized, and thematized.”—Klaus Dodds, professor of geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London and author of Antarctica: A Very Short Introduction“This exploration into the materiality of place, and how it manifests in the Antarctic, offers surprising insights to readers who are less familiar with the Antarctic while also appealing to Antarctic research scholars. . . . Brand Antarctica includes a wide array of polar scholars, which offers others interested in the environmental humanities a ‘golden Rolodex’ of contemporary researchers.”—Leslie Carol Roberts, author of The Entire Earth and Sky: Views on Antarctica
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Cornell University Press Knowledge and the Ends of Empire
Book SynopsisIn Knowledge and the Ends of Empire, Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist officials were desperate to obtain reliable information about an unfamiliar environment and population. This thirst for knowledge created opportunities for Kazak intermediaries to represent themselves and their landscape to the tsarist state. Because tsarist officials were uncertain of what the steppe was, and disagreed on what could be made of it, Kazaks were able to be part of these debates, at times influencing the policies that were pursued.Drawing on archival materials from Russia and Kazakhstan and a wide range of nineteenth-century periodicals in Russian and Kazak, Campbell tells a story that highlights the contingencies of and opportunities for cooperation with imperial rule. Kazak intermediaries were at first able to put forward their own idiosyncratiTrade ReviewCampbell makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of Russian imperial rule of the Kazakh Steppe.... This fascinating study weaves through the complexities of gathering, disseminating, and leveraging the empire's growing bureaucratic and scholarly knowledge base of the steppe to more effectively develop and exploit the territory. Joining a group of excellent works from the last decade focused on late-imperial Russian colonial rule in Central Asia, such as Alexander Morrison's Russian Rule in Samarkand, 1868–1910: A Comparison with British India (2005) and Jeff Sahadeo's Russian Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923 (CH, Mar'08, 45-3949), Campbell's meticulously researched work highlights how this era of at-times cooperative acquisition of knowledge devolved into a one-sided colonial enterprise that led to chaos for the Kazakh Steppe at the end of Romanov rule. * Choice *Knowledge and the Ends of Empire does succeed in adding to the picture. Any fresh engagement with the Qazaq colonial period is valuable, but perhaps more thought-provoking is the book's joust with the hoary question of the empire's col- lapse. * Slavic Review *Makes a strong intervention into work on the Russian Empire.... On the whole, Knowledge and the Ends of Empire is a well-written study.... Campbell skillfully brings insights from the literature on empire to bear on the Kazak steppe. His decision to address the relationships of knowledge and power as expressed in assessments of nomadic pastoralism, land norms, and economic practices yields an important and original view. * The Russian Review *The book contributes unquestionably to the academic literature on Russian colonialism. It is a must-read for specialists and graduate students focusing on Russian eastward colonial expansion in general, and Central Eurasia in particular. Most certainly, the book yields an exceptionally compelling account on the role of the Kazak intermediaries in shaping imperial policies. * Acta Via Serica *Campbell assembles wonderfully rich biographies of many leading Kazakh figures.... the fascinating details that Campbell offers on many of these figures, such as their noble origins or claims to belong to sacred lineages, raise questions as to how the composition of this group of intermediaries, as Campbell defines it, changed over the course of the... period that Campbell covers in his study and how, in turn, Russian imperial rule altered Kazakh political culture. Like all good books, Campbell's study uncovers new questions for other researchers to take up. * Canadian American Slavic Studies *This is an impressively researched and argued study of the construction of knowledge by an imperial power with the ultimate aim of subjugating and transforming an outlying region with an environment, population, way of life, economy and culture that was quite different to the empire's heartland. His book merits wide readership and will facilitate the growing assimilation of such studies of Russian Empire and Soviet Union into global environmental histories. * Environment and History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Seeing Like a Half-Blind State: Getting to Know the Central Eurasian Steppe, 1731–1840s2. Information Revolution and Administrative Reform, ca. 1845–18683. An Imperial Biography: Ibrai Altynsarin as Ethnographer and Educator, 1841–18894. The Key to the World's Treasures: "Russian Science," Local Knowledge, and the Civilizing Mission on the Siberian Steppe5. Norming the Steppe: Statistical Knowledge and Tsarist Resettlement, 1896–19176. A Double Failure: Epistemology and the Crisis of a Settler Colonial EmpireConclusion
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Cornell University Press Revolutionary Acts
Book SynopsisDuring the Russian Revolution and Civil War, amateur theater groups sprang up in cities across the country. Workers, peasants, students, soldiers, and sailors provided entertainment ranging from improvisations to gymnastics and from propaganda sketches to the plays of Chekhov. In Revolutionary Acts, Lynn Mally reconstructs the history of the amateur stage in Soviet Russia from 1917 to the height of the Stalinist purges. Her book illustrates in fascinating detail how Soviet culture was transformed during the new regime''s first two decades in power. Of all the arts, theater had a special appeal for mass audiences in Russia, and with the coming of the revolution it took on an important role in the dissemination of the new socialist culture. Mally''s analysis of amateur theater as a space where performers, their audiences, and the political authorities came into contact enables her to explore whether this culture emerged spontaneously from below or was imposed by the revoTrade Review"Mally traces the fascinating history of Soviet amateur theater from its heady origins in 1917 to its gradual ossification in the 1930s. The chapter on the TRAM amateur company is particularly engaging, nicely illustrating many of the the themes and debates in the amateur theater world."-Choice "Mally effectively situates the amateur theatrical movement within the larger context of cultural revolution. Mally places her study within the ongoing discussion of the genesis of totalitarian culture in general and of Socialist Realism in particular."-Russian Review "Mally sees true amateurism as original art and dilettantism of mere copying of professionals. The overarching theme of Revolutionary Acts is how Soviet amateur theater flourished luxuriantly (if contentiously) in a dozen varieties and was then 'de-amateurized' or semiprofessionalized under Joseph Stalin."-American Historical Review "Lynn Mally has found an underutilized focus through which one can view the dynamic evolution of Soviet culture, the interaction of intellectuals with Soviet power, and of elite culture with mass culture. It makes fascinating reading and given its interdisciplinary nature makes a valuable contribution to a variety of fields."-Katerina Clark, Yale University "Of all the arts in Russia and the USSR, theater possessed a special resonance with mass audiences. This superb book elegantly explores how a central feature of the cultural revolution was affected by the Soviet effort to transform everyday experience."--Diane P. Koenker, University of IllinoisTable of Contents1. The Revolution Loves the Theater2. Small Forms on Small Stages3. From "Club Plays" to the Classics4. TRAM: The Vanguard of Amateur Art5. Shock Workers on the Cultural Front6. Amateurs in the Spectacle State
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MB - Cornell University Press Nested Nationalism Making and Unmaking Nations
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a meticulous study of Soviet nationality policy, focusing on Azerbaijan, based on extensive archival research and oral history from 120 interviews. * Choice *Across this book, Goff juggles a laudable range of detail with clarity and persuasion, reminding at each turn how much further one could go. * Slavonic and East European Review *To find out how things worked in the republics, you have to go to Krista Goff's fascinating story of the Caucasus, the product of dauntingly difficult research in recalcitrant archives and with oral history informants inclined to look anxiously over their shoulders. * London Review of Books *In this impressive first monograph, Krista Goff offers new insight into Soviet nation-building in the non-Russian republics, particularly in the Southern Caucasus. [T]he book offers rich, archivally grounded detail on a range of complex issues in the South Caucasus. Written in accessible prose and with clear argument, it will prove to be essential reading for scholars of Soviet nation-building and the South Caucasus. * The Russian Review *[A] pioneering study, illuminating a hitherto unknown perspective on the history of the Soviet nationality policy, and the USSR generally. Moreover, it will serve future generations as an essential reference work on the history of Soviet Azerbaijan and the development of Soviet Azeri national consciousness, surpassing all other previous works on this subject. Enriched by lively and engaging prose, and a first-rate source base of archival materials and interviews, it makes for insightful and dynamic reading. A new classic in the field, it is a highly recommended work! * The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review *A core value of the book lies not only in the originality of its thesis but also in the utilization of archival and oral history sources that are presented to us for the first time. It is a testament to Goff's investigative tenacity that the final product is an empirically rich and cogent work of scholarship. * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Krista A. Goff produces a groundbreaking work of historiography that examines Soviet nationality politics in the context of the "nontitular" ethnicities of the Caucasus, with particular attention given to minority groups in the Azerbaijan SSR. Nested Nationalism is an achievement in its own right. * Ab Imperio *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Making Minorities and National Hierarchies 2. Territory, War, and Nation-Building in the South Caucasus Interlude: After Stalin: Reform and Revenge 3. Defining the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic 4. The Vanishing Minority: Scholars, Politicians, and the Production of Soviet Assimilation Narratives 5. Minority Activism and Citizenship after Stalin Conclusion
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Cornell University Press The Vortex That Unites Us
Book SynopsisThe Vortex That Unites Us is a study of totality in Russian literature, from the foundation of the modern Russian state to the present day. Considering a diversity of texts that have in common chiefly their prominence in the Russian literary canon, Jacob Emery examines the persistent ambition in Russian literature to gather the whole world into an artwork. Emery reveals how the diversity of totalizing figures in the Russian canonoften in alliance with ideologies like the totalitarian state or enlightenment reasonstrive for the frontiers of space and time in order to guarantee the coherence of the globe and the continuity of history. He expores subjects like romantic metaphors of supernatural possession; Tolstoy''s conception of art as a vector of emotional contagion; the panoramic ambitions of the avant-garde to grasp the globe in a new poetic medium; efforts of Soviet utopians to harmonize the whole of social life along aesthetic lines; Mandelstam''s evocation Trade ReviewIndeed, while the aesthetic visions analyzed in the book aim for closure, Emery dwells in their details and ambiguities, offering terrific insights into numerous texts. * The Russian Review *thought-provoking.erudite.Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * TLS *Thought-provoking and erudite, Emery's core contention that Russian culture is a continuum of totalizing aesthetic and ideological tendencies is persuasive. * Times Literary Supplement *
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Cornell University Press The Will to Predict
Book SynopsisIn The Will to Predict, Egle Rindzeviciute demonstrates how the logic of scientific expertise cannot be properly understood without knowing the conceptual and institutional history of scientific prediction. She notes that predictions of future population, economic growth, environmental change, and scientific and technological innovation have shaped much of twentieth and twenty-first-century politics and social life, as well as government policies. Today, such predictions are more necessary than ever as the world undergoes dramatic environmental, political, and technological change. But, she asks, what does it mean to predict scientifically? What are the limits of scientific prediction and what are its effects on governance, institutions, and society? Her intellectual and political history of scientific prediction takes as its example twentieth-century USSR. By outlining the role of prediction in a range of governmental contexts, from economic and sTrade ReviewThis book reviews the intellectual and political history of scientific prediction. Rindzeviit (criminology and sociology, Kingston Univ., London) is concerned with prediction as used to inform governance, including economic forecasting. The author focuses mainly on Soviet Russia (the former USSR) with its specialized emphasis on prediction and planning. * Choice *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The New Turks: Pioneers of the Republic, 192-195
Book SynopsisThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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University of Calgary Press Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
Book SynopsisBenjamin Leigh Smith discovered and named dozens of islands in the Arctic but published no account of his pioneering explorations. He refused public accolades and sent stand-ins to deliver the results of his work to scientific societies. Yet, the Royal Geographic Society's Sir Clements R. Markham referred to him as a polar explorer of the first rank.Travelling to the Arctic islands that Leigh Smith explored and crisscrossing England to uncover unpublished journals, diaries, and photographs, archaeologist and writer P.J. Capelotti details Leigh Smith's five major Arctic expeditions and places them within the context of the great polar explorations in the nineteenth century.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing,
Book SynopsisLoretta Czernis applies her sociological training in document analysis to study one government prescription for what ails Canadians. The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity rewrote Canada by reinventing patriotism, essentially inviting Canadians to imagine a new Canada. The Report itself is the product of what she calls the "federal writing machine" which exists to continually rewrite and thus reinvent Canada. Czernis' contextual reading of the Report occurs on two levels: reading technically, she examines the Report 's anonymous writing style that asks readers to imitate its own conclusions (be patriotic, buy a flag, shop at home). Gestural reading invites reading as performance. Canadians are invited to participate in reshaping Canada by reading Canada allegorically, as a social body, capable of changing its form. What a document may intend is not always the same as what is read into it. Mistakes can and do occur in the reading. Czernis suggests that these "mistakes" constitute a significant form of resistance to the anonymous writing machine. Weaving a Canadian Allegory will be of special interest to Canadianists, sociologists and to those involved in cultural, political and textual studies.Table of ContentsTable of Contents for Weaving a Canadian Allegory: Anonymous Writing, Personal Reading by Loretta Czernis Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Concerning Contexture 2. Reading and Projection 3. Confederation and the Body of Conflict 4. Writing a Body of Unity: Rewriting âCanada and the Search for Unityâ 5. Mytho-history to Allegory: Tomorrowâs Unity as Patriotâs Progress 6. Misreading Nietzche, Rewriting Bloom Afterword Appendix: Outlining The Report of the Task Force on Canadian Unity Notes Bibliography Index
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University of North Texas Press,U.S. Tracing Darwin's Path in Cape Horn
Book SynopsisCharles Darwin spent the majority of his 1831–1836 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn region seem to have triggered his first ideas on human evolution. Darwin was not only a field naturalist, but also a scholar of the observations of the European explorers who preceded him.Richly illustrated with maps and color photographs, this book offers a guide to the sites visited by Darwin, and a compass for present-day visitors who can follow Darwin’s path over the sea and land that today are protected by the UNESCO Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Kyiv as Regime City: The Return of Soviet Power
Book SynopsisCharts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation and the returning Soviet rulers' efforts to retain political legitimacy. Kyiv as Regime City charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation, focusing on the efforts of returning Soviet rulers to regain legitimacy within a Moscow-centered regime still attending to the warfront. Beginning with the Ukrainian Communists' inability to both purge their capital city of "socially dangerous" people and prevent the arrival of "unorganized" evacuees from the rear, this book chronicles how a socially and ethnically diverse milieu of Kyivans reassembled after many years of violence and terror. While the Ukrainian Communists successfully guarded entry into their privileged, elite ranks and monitored the masses' mood toward their superiors in Moscow, the party failed to conscript a labor force and rebuild housing, leading the Stalin regime to adopt new tactics to legitimize itself among the large Ukrainian and Jewish populations who once again called the city home. Drawing on sources from the once-closed central, regional, and local archives of the former Soviet Union, this study is essential reading for those seeking to understand how the Kremlin reestablished its power in Kyiv, consolidating its regime as the Cold War with the United States began. Martin J. Blackwell is Visiting Professor of History at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida.Trade ReviewWell-written, accessible to scholars and general readers alike, with a balanced, logical structure, advancing compelling arguments substantiated by the wealth of archival sources, the book is a welcome addition to the historiography of the postwar Soviet Union. * AB IMPERIO *An excellent source of information on the rich and complex period at wars end, and will be interesting to scholars of Soviet history, Ukrainian and Jewish history, and urban history as well. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *[Blackwell's] use of Kyivan archival material is impressive...scholars interested in the history of Kyiv and the Great Patriotic War will find this work extremely valuable. * THE RUSSIAN REVIEW *Blackwell's useful monograph is a tightly knit examination of multiethnic Kyiv between November 6, 1943 and early 1947. * SLAVIC REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction "The Capital Is Being Settled All Over Again": Resettlement from Fall 1943 to Fall 1944 "There Was No Real Battle against Illegal Entry": Resettlement from Fall 1944 to Fall 1946 "People Are Going for the Party Who Are Forcing Us to Be Justifiably Careful": The Reassembled Elite "A Textual Implementation of the Law . . . Was Not Carried Out": The Reassembled Masses "The State's Dignity Is Higher Than His Own Dignity": The Relegitimization of Soviet Power "Tashkent Partisans" and "German Bitches": Relationships with Soviet Power Conclusion Notes Index
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Franciscan University Press Theodore Metochites: Statesman and Philosopher,
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University of Calgary Press The First Century of the International Joint Commission
Book SynopsisThe International Joint Commission oversees and protects the shared waters of Canada and the United States. Created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909, it is one of the world's oldest international environmental bodies. A pioneering piece of transborder water governance, the IJC has been integral to the modern Canada-United States relationship. This is the definitive history of the International Joint Commission. Separating myth from reality and uncovering the historical evolution of the IJC from its inception to its present, this collection features an impressive interdisciplinary group of scholars and practitioners. Examining the many aspects of border waters from east to west The First Century of the International Joint Commission traces the three major periods of the IJC, detailing its early focus on water flow, its middle period of growth and increasing politicization, and its modern emphasis on ecosystems. Informative, detailed, and fascinating, The First Century of the International Joint Commission is essential reading for academics, contemporary policy makers, governments, and all those interested in sustainability, climate change, pollution, and resiliency along the Canada-US Border.Table of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Murray Clamen and Daniel Macfarlane Section 1 - Beginnings From IWC to BWT: Canada-US Institution Building, 1902-1909 David Whorley Construction of a Keystone: How Local Concerns and International Geopolitics Created the First Water Management Mechanisms on the Canada-US Border Meredith Denning Section 2 - From Coast to Coast The IJC And Water Quality in the Bacterial Age Jamie Benidickson The Boundary Waters Treaty and the International Joint Commission in the St. Mary-Milk Basin B. Timothy Heinmiller The International Joint Commission and Hydro-Power Development on the Northeastern Borderlands, 1945-70 James Kenny A Square Peg: The Lessons of the Point Roberts Reference, 1971-1977 Kim Richard Nossal The IJC and Mid-Continent Water Issues: The Garrison Diversion, Red River, Devils Lake, and NAWSP Norm Brandson and Al Olson The IJC's Unique and colourful Role in Three Projects in the Pacific Northwest Richard Moy and Jonathan O'Riordan Section3 - Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin The IJC and Great Lakes Water Levels Murray Clamen and Daniel Macfarlane The IJC and Air Pollution: A Tale of Two Cases Owen Temby and Don Munton Origin of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: Concepts and Structures Jennifer Read The Great Lakes Remedial Action Plan Program: A Historical and Contemporary Description and Analysis Gail Krantzberg The IJC and the Evolution of the GLWQA: Accountability, Progress Reporting, and Measuring Performance Deborah VanNijnatten & Carolyn Johns Section 4 - Legacies From “Stakeholder to Rights Holder”: Re-examining the Role of Indigenous Peoples in The International Joint Commission as the Third Sovereign Frank Ettawageshik and Emma Norman The Boundary Waters Treaty, International Joint Commission, and Evolution of Transboundary Environmental Law and Governance Noah D. Hall, A. Dan Tarlock & Marcia Valiante The Importance of the IJC John Kirton and Brittaney Warren The International Joint Commission: Continually Evolving Approaches to Conflict Resolution Ralph Pentland and Ted R. Yuzyk Conclusion Conclusion Murray Clamen and Daniel Macfarlane
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Liverpool University Press The Anarchy: War and Status in 12th-Century
Book SynopsisThe turbulent reign of Stephen, King of England (1135–54), has been styled since the late 19th century as 'the Anarchy’, although the extent of political breakdown during the period has since been vigorously debated. Rebellion and bitter civil war characterised Stephen’s protracted struggle with rival claimant Empress Matilda and her Angevin supporters over ‘nineteen long winters’ when, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, ‘Christ and his Saints slept’. Drawing on new research and fieldwork, this innovative volume offers the first ever overview and synthesis of the archaeological and material record for this controversial period. It presents and interrogates many different types of evidence at a variety of scales, ranging from nationwide mapping of historical events through to conflict landscapes of battlefields and sieges. The volume considers archaeological sites such as castles and other fortifications, churches, monasteries, bishops’ palaces and urban and rural settlements, alongside material culture including coins, pottery, seals and arms and armour. This approach not only augments but also challenges historical narratives, questioning the ‘real’ impact of Stephen’s troubled reign on society, settlement, church and the landscape, and opens up new perspectives on the conduct of Anglo-Norman warfareTrade ReviewReviews '[This book] successfully combines detailed archaeological considerations with careful historical assessment and thereby offers an important source for a range of scholars of military history, landscape studies and medieval archaeology... Certainly we learn a lot more about the ‘Anarchy’ and its various impacts and manifestations, and the ongoing problems with finding and reading the archaeology of the period.' Dr Neil Christie, University of Leicester'This excellent book reexamines the Anarchy, or the period of civil war between King Stephen and his cousin Mathilda (1135–54), integrating into the substantial historiography of the period a growing data set of archaeological findings and the insights of landscape studies to better illuminate the problems of the period. Although the book necessarily constitutes a sort of interim report, given the ongoing accumulation of material culture finds and excavations, it is a completely successful one that both synthesizes extant knowledge and points to potentially fruitful paths for further field research. For archaeologists and social, cultural, and military historians.'S. Morillo, Wabash College, CHOICE'For historians who study the Anarchy period specifically, several of the archaeological insights that Creighton and Wright provide will be helpful. For those who do not, this book stimulates thinking about the study and incorporation of material culture into historical discussion and debate for any era. Some of the maps and renderings are beautiful and offer interesting perceptions on the geographical scope of a long period of conflict but short span of time in ways that written description cannot match.'Laurence W. Marvin, Berry College, Cambridge‘This is an enormously valuable and engaging book, and it should now become essential reading for any who study Stephen’s reign, Anglo-Norman warfare, or indeed the social history of twelfth-century England.’Matthew Strickland, Landscape History'This excellent and elegantly produced volume not only offers challenges to some of these more established orthodoxies, but points up how studies of material evidence — the datasets for which will only grow thanks to the Portable Antiquities Scheme — can contribute to the bigger questions of the period.'Robert Liddiard, University of East Anglia, Medieval Archaeology'It is an agenda-setting work, positioning archaeology as neither a subservient adjunct to history nor its wilfully ignorant antagonist. Instead, it sensitively positions conflict archaeology (generously defined) as a complementary and powerful array of approaches and sets of evidence with the potential to unlock regions of historical enquiry that other disciplines cannot reach. Overall, this a very useful introduction to the issues surrounding twelfth-century warfare in Britain and in many ways a pioneering work.' Thomas J.T. Williams, British Museum, Cambridge Archaeological Journal‘The material evidence that the book brings out from twelfth-century England is fascinating and valuable … it certainly shows the broader material milieu within which the conflict was fought, and thus valuably serves to advance our understanding of the Anarchy.’ Medieval Review'Creighton and Duncan Wright have gathered a generation of archaeological, art historical, sociological and historical research into a single study which presents a compelling and convincing multi-dimensional reinterpretation of King Stephen’s reign [...] what Creighton and Wright have achieved is a transformative argument that will impel archaeological and historical study in new directions. The challenge has been laid down to other scholars to test the new prescription.'Richard Oram, Archaeological Journal‘The Anarchy is an incredible example of the kind of innovative scholarship that can be produced through interdisciplinary methods. Although Creighton and Wright delve into the details of archaeological excavations, they do so with a style that is easy to comprehend and free from jargon. This style of research shows the fruits that come from integrating archaeological studies into historical narratives informed heavily by texts, while recognizing the shortcomings of both pools of evidence.’ Matthew King, H. NetTable of ContentsList of Figures Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Historical Outline and the Geography of Anarchy Chapter 3: Waging War: Fields of Conflict and Siege Warfare Chapter 4: Architecture and Authority: Castles Chapter 5: Artefacts and the Arts: Twelfth-Century Material Culture Chapter 6: Performing Violence: Arms, Armour and Military Apparel Chapter 7: Faith and Fortification: The Church Chapter 8: Village, Town and Country Chapter 9: Anarchy on the Fen Edge: Case Study of the Isle of Ely Chapter 9: The Twelfth-Century Civil War in Context: An Assessment Appendix: Sites to visit Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press 'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the
Book SynopsisAn ‘Irish Cuba’ – on Britain’s doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviet Union's influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state’s non-aligned status to prevent them joining the West’s struggle against communism. Leading officials, such as Colonel Dan Bryan in G2, the Irish army intelligence directorate, argued that Ireland should assist the NATO powers. British and Irish officials believed communists in Ireland were directed by the British communist party, the CPGB. If Moscow's express adherents were too isolated to pose a threat in either Irish jurisdiction, the republican movement was a different matter. The authorities, north and south, saw that a communist-influenced IRA had potential appeal. This Cold War nightmare arrived with the outbreak of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Whitehall feared Dublin could become a Russian espionage hub, with the Marxist-led Official IRA acting as a Soviet proxy. To what extent did the Official republican movement's Workers’ Party serve the Soviets’ Cold War agenda?Trade ReviewReviews'A well-written work based on extensive use of state archives backed up by contemporary newspapers and periodicals. It successfully establishes that a broader international context is a useful way of adding to our understanding of how perceptions of a communist/subversive threat influenced both British and Irish policymakers.'Henry Patterson, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Ulster University'A fresh and original study of the Irish republican left, as seen from the strangely neglected, but as Mulqueen demonstrates, crucial, perspective of Cold War geo-politics. Clearly written and finely detailed, one of the more notable features of this book is the creative use of the British and American diplomatic archives. Altogether, An Alien Ideology makes a significant contribution to our understanding of later twentieth-century Ireland – a time which now seems at once so near and so far away.' Jim Smyth, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Notre Dame'An arresting account and a valuable contribution to the growing body of academic research into the [Northern Ireland] conflict.' Tom Wall, Dublin Review of Books'The main strength of this impressive study... lies in Mulqueen’s assiduous charting and sophisticated assessment of the spectrum of [the Official republican movement’s] links to major international actors, not least the Soviet Union.' Ruan O'Donnell, History Ireland'As a history of state intelligence on Ireland's far left, it's original, engaging, and recommended.'Emmet O'Connor, Socialist History'Mulqueen has written a much needed and very welcome book.'Dianne Kirby, European History Quarterly'An Alien Ideology deserves to join the essential reading lists on the Cold War’s impact on the island of Ireland... Mulqueen’s book reminds us to always consider the influence of international affairs on domestic politics.'Thomas Leahy, Irish Political Studies'The 1970s and 80s were challenging times for intellectuals, and the high-water mark of historical revisionism, censorship, and self-censorship. Many historians flattered themselves that they were in the front line of the struggle to defend civilization from the Provisionals and that liberal democracy was more important than academic integrity. By contrast, Mulqueen is impressively objective, and skillfully negotiates the controversies.'Emmet O'Connor, Irish Literary Supplement'[An Alien Ideology] is the first attempt to quantify and analyse the extent and nature of UK/US surveillance of the Irish left… I strongly recommend this book.'Padraig Mannion, LookLeft'Mulqueen draws upon an impressive range of primary sources… I commend this book as a valuable and original addition to the literature on Ireland and the Cold War, which will appeal to both scholars of recent Irish history and of the Cold War internationally.'Gerard Madden, Labour History'This carefully researched and illuminating study broadens our knowledge of the Irish republican left… For specialists on the fraught relationship between Irish republicanism and socialism, Mulqueen’s book represents another valuable addition to their bookshelves.'Stephen Hopkins, Labour History Review'John Mulqueen's excellent study on the Cold War in Ireland... throw[s] new light on the history of Northern Ireland during the Troubles and why they need to be seen as part of something larger. By doing so, he has added significantly to the literature on the Cold War.'Michael Cox, Cold War History'An Alien Ideology… is refreshingly welcome and challenges the often-insular view of the Troubles period through consideration of the global context. Mulqueen’s use of the archival sources is superb and the Cold War contextual analysis braces the book and situates it well as a significant contribution to the developing historiography of this period of Irish history.'Adrian Grant, Irish Historical Studies'John Mulqueen's fair-minded and well-researched study... carefully examines the evolution of leftist republicanism during the Cold War, against the widespread perception that Marxism was indeed 'an alien ideology' for Ireland... [T]his intriguing book... rightly avoids dismissing or patronising the ultimately misguided and unsuccessful revolutionaries whom it valuably restores to their Cold War context.'Richard English, Diplomatic History'This is an important contribution to our understanding of the Irish left in the Cold War era and John Mulqueen performs a very useful service by researching British and American diplomatic and intelligence sources... [I]t is a welcome addition to... other studies of the Official republican movement.' Padraig Yeates, Saothar‘An Alien Ideology provides a fascinating account of how the Cold War helped shape … the Troubles … and demonstrates that a transnational lens should be [used in the study of] the conflict.’ Evan Smith, Australasian Journal of Irish Studies '[A] balanced and accessible work. [An Alien Ideology] is a welcome addition to the historiography of the Irish left, which, by viewing the momentous tumult in Irish republicanism during the late Cold War period from an international perspective, adds substantially to our knowledge and understanding of it.' John Cunningham, Twentieth Century Communism '[Alien Ideology] is a very worthwhile [work] of historical research... and its reappearance in paperback format is very much to be welcomed.' John Kirkcaldy, Books Ireland‘[W]ell researched and thought-provoking … John Mulqueen has written an important book and has certainly contributed to rendering the Troubles less parochial.' Jérôme aan de Wiel, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies'This carefully researched and illuminating study broadens our knowledge of the "Irish Republican left".' Stephen Hopkins, Labour History Review'This is an original and extensive study ... a readable and lively account, illustrated by some well-chosen photographs. The author's own contacts in the Official republican milieu also provided important insights. Anyone interested in the Irish left, and indeed Irish politics more broadly, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s, would benefit from reading this book.' Brian Hanley, Studia Hibernica'This paperback version of a work which first appeared in 2019 will make available to a wider audience a remarkable book about Ireland’s position in the Cold War... determined largely by the Troubles... [F]ascinating... easy to read, and the production values are of a high order... by any standard an excellent [study].' Oliver Rafferty, StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionI. Communists: Ireland’s ‘fifth column’?II. ‘Communists’, the IRA and the Northern Ireland crisisIII. A ‘near-Communist’ movementIV. The KGB and IrelandV. Left-wing republicans align with MoscowVI. ‘A party of the extreme left’VII. Soviet policies in Dáil ÉireannVIII. EpilogueConclusion
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Liverpool University Press Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949
Book SynopsisThis book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence and Irish participation in the British armed and colonial service up to the declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here examine who southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to them, how they expressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish independence and their experiences afterwards. The collection offers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution and the early years of southern independence, based on original archival research. It addresses issues of particular historiographical and political interest during the ongoing ‘Decade of Centenaries’, including revolutionary violence, sectarianism, political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923, this book – like the lives with which it is concerned – continues into the first decades of southern Irish independence. List of contributors: Frank Barry, Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald Wood Trade Review'The chapters in this volume provide a variety of insights into the southern Irish loyalist experience in the early years of the new state... In addition to being of interest to scholars of Irish Unionism and Protestantism, this book will be of use to those interested in local politics, social upheaval during the revolution, and Irish service in the military and imperial civil service.' Nicola K. Morris, Journal of British Studies‘This is a carefully conceived volume which succeeds in its intent to explore the many faces of loyalism within twenty-six counties Irish society in the period. It has done a lot of service to expanding the historical record on political allegiance between 1912 and 1949.’ Ida Milne, A Church of Ireland JournalTable of ContentsSouthern Irish loyalism from Home Rule crisis to Republic: an introductionBrian Hughes and Conor MorrisseyCrisis and Decline? Protestants and Unionists in Revolution1. Protestant population decline in southern Ireland, 1911–26Donald Wood2. Voting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood’Elaine Callinan3. Southern Protestant voices during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War: reports from Church of Ireland synodsBrian M. Walker4. The southern unionist business community and the economics of Home Rule and successionFrank BarryServants of the Crown5. Loyal to what? Identity and motivation in the southern Irish Protestant involvement in two world warsIan d’Alton6. ‘The future welfare of the Empire will depend more largely on our women and girls’: southern loyalist women and the British war effort in Ireland, 1914–1922Fionnuala Walsh7. Southern Irish loyalists and imperial serviceSéan Gannon8. ‘It was the done thing’: southern Irish Protestants and the Second World WarJoseph QuinnThe Provincial Experience 9. Henry Lawrence Tivy (1848–1929): the rise and fall of a Cork loyalistAlan McCarthy10. A beleaguered community? Waterford loyalists during the revolution, 1912–1924Pat McCarthy11. Loyalists in a garrison county: Kildare, 1912–1923Seamus CullenLost Counties? Loyalism at the Border12. ‘Cast Out!’ Cavan and Monaghan loyalists and partition, 1916–1923Daniel Purcell13. Adaptive coexistence? Lord Farnham (1879–1957) and southern loyalism in pre- and post-Independence IrelandJonathan Cherry14. Defying the partition of Ulster: Colonel John George Vaughan Hart and the unionist experience of the Irish Revolution in East Donegal, c.1919–1944Katherine MageeAfterword: layers of loyaltyBrian Hughes and Conor Morrissey
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives
Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays, a range of established and early-career scholars explore a variety of different perspectives on Oliver Cromwell’s involvement with Ireland, in particular his military campaign of 1649-1650. In England and Wales Cromwell is regarded as a figure of national importance; in Ireland his reputation remains highly controversial. The essays gathered together here provide a fresh take on his Irish campaign, reassessing the backdrop and context of the prevailing siege warfare strategy and offering new insights into other major players such as Henry Ireton and the Marquis of Ormond. Other topics include, but are not limited to, the Cromwellian land settlement, deportation of prisoners and popular memory of Cromwell in Ireland. Overall, a picture emerges of a more moderate Cromwell than the version that has been passed down in Irish history, tradition and folklore.CONTRIBUTORS: Martyn Bennett, Heidi J. Coburn, Sarah Covington, John Cunningham, Eamon Darcy, David Farr, Padraig Lenihan, Alan Marshall, Nick Poyntz, Tom Reilly, James Scott WheelerTrade Review'This volume represents a substantial addition to our knowledge of Cromwell and the period... Above all, it places Cromwell in his context, his position within a wider military machine, his influence on Ireland after his return to England, and it helps to understand his role in the collective memory.'Coleman A. Dennehy, The Seventeenth Century 'This is a book about the physical and mental worlds within which Cromwell operated in his nine months in Ireland... it is a rich and well-written compendium.'John Morrill, Cromwelliana'[Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives] represents a tangible advance on the contrasting and incompatible depictions of the Cromwellian era as years of unrelenting repression or years of reform ... the volume helps to explain the enduring fascination with a man who was convinced he was doing God's work.' James Kelly, Studia Hibernia‘[Cromwell and Ireland] does indeed offer important new perspectives… Cromwell’s legacy in Ireland is a complicated one, and the nuanced insights offered here will go a long way to complicating interpretations, increasing understanding, and generating further debate. Students and scholars alike will find many new and provocative insights in this collection.’ John Patrick Montaño, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsCromwell at War in Ireland Drogheda and Wexford, 1649Tom ReillySiege Massacres in Ireland, 1641–1647Padraig LenihanOliver Cromwell and the Siege of Clonmel, April-May 1650Alan MarshallOfficersHenry Ireton in Ireland, 1649–1651: Oliver Cromwell’s “second self”?David FarrGod’s Wall of Brass: Cromwell’s Generals in Ireland, 1649–1650Martyn BennettOrmond and Cromwell: The Struggle for IrelandJames Scott WheelerThe Settlement of IrelandCromwellian Transplantations of the Irish to the ColoniesHeidi J. CoburnA Scramble for Ireland: Cromwell and the Land SettlementJohn CunninghamCromwell’s LegacyThe Social Memory of Oliver Cromwell in Ireland c.1660s–c.1730sEamon Darcy“This day by letters severall from hands”: J. G. Muddiman and News from DroghedaNick PoyntzThe Folkloric Afterlife of Oliver Cromwell in IrelandSarah Covington
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions to the reshaping of authority in the modern age. At a time when age-old sources of social, political, spiritual and cultural authority were eroded in the Western world, Ireland witnessed both the restoration of older forms of authority and the rise of figures who defined new models of authority in a democratic age. Using new comparative perspectives as well as archival resources in a wide range of fields, the essays gathered here show how new authorities were embodied in emerging types of politicians, clerics and professionals, and in material extensions of their power in visual, oral and print cultures. These analyses often eerily echo twenty-first-century debates about populism, suspicion of scholarly and intellectual expertise, and the role of new technologies and forms of association in contesting and recreating authority. Several contributions highlight the role of emotion in the way authority was deployed by figures ranging from Daniel O’Connell to W.B. Yeats, foreshadowing the perceived rise of emotional politics in our own age. This volume demonstrates that many contested forms of authority that now look ‘traditional’ emerged from nineteenth-century crises and developments, as did the challenges that undermine authority. CONTRIBUTORS: Marguerite Corporaal, Patrick Geoghegan, Patrick Maume, Michelle McCann, Caroline M. McGee, James H. Murphy, Shane Nagle, Niamh NicGhabhann, Richard Parfitt, Colleen M. Thomas, Tom WalkerTable of ContentsIntroductionRaphaël Ingelbien and Susan GalavanThe Making of Political Icons1. The O’Connellite Persuasion Patrick Geoghegan 2. William Johnston, Populism and Authority in Ulster Protestant Politics Richard ParfittAuthority and Local Governance 3. Undermined Authority: John Reynolds and Dublin Corporation James H. Murphy 4. Property, Privilege and Politics: A History of the Coroner in Pre-Famine Ireland (1801–1846) Michelle McCann The Authority of History 5. A Comparative Perspective: The Problem of Monarchical Authority in National Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Germany Shane Nagle 6. Sermons and the Performance of Historiographical Authority in the Construction of the Roman Catholic Built Landscape, 1880–1890 Niamh NicGhabhann Assertions and Subversions of Catholic Power7. Power, Patronage, and the Production of Catholic Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Caroline M. McGee 8. Michael McCarthy’s Campaigns against Clerical Authority Patrick Maume Aesthetic Authority9. Invoking the Authority of the Middle Ages in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The ‘Irish Crosses’ of Earley & Powells Colleen M. Thomas10. W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Tom Walker 11. Local-Colour Writers: Figures of Authority? Marguérite Corporaal
£87.50
Liverpool University Press Happiness in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Book SynopsisOne of the most enduring tropes of modern Irish history is the MOPE thesis, the idea that the Irish were the Most Oppressed People Ever. Political oppression, forced emigration and endemic poverty have been central to the historiography of nineteenth-century Ireland. This volume problematises the assumption of generalised misery and suggests the many different, and often surprising, ways in which Irish people sought out, expressed and wrote about happiness. Bringing together an international group of established and emerging scholars, this volume considers the emerging field of the history of emotion and what a history of happiness in Ireland might look like. During the nineteenth century the concept of happiness denoted a degree of luck or good fortune, but equally was associated with the positive feelings produced from living a good and moral life. Happiness could be found in achieving wealth, fame or political success, but also in the relief of lulling a crying baby to sleep. Reading happiness in historical context indicates more than a simple expression of contentment. In personal correspondence, diaries and novels, the expression of happiness was laden with the expectations of audience and author and informed by cultural ideas about what one could or should be happy about. This volume explores how the idea of happiness shaped social, literary, architectural and aesthetic aspirations across the century. CONTRIBUTORS: Ian d'Alton, Shannon Devlin, Anne Dolan, Simon Gallaher, Paul Huddie, Kerron Ó Luain, David McCready, Ciara Thompson, Andrew Tierney, Kristina Varade, Mai YataniTrade Review‘[L]ively and absorbing… this volume is a brave attempt to bring together a variety of perspectives on happiness, and it contains much good and promising research.’ Caitriona Clear, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsIntroductionMary HatfieldHappiness and the Irish Nation 1. Expressions of Joy Among Catholic, Ribbon and Hibernian Processionists During the Long Nineteenth CenturyKerron Ó Luain2. The Crimean War, 1854-6: Ireland’s Happiest Nineteenth-Century WarPaul HuddieSocial Conditions and Prescriptions for Happiness3. ‘Money Can(’t) Buy Me…?’ Health and Wealth in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Fiction and MemoirKristina Varade4. A Consecrated Word: Happiness in the Thought of Alexander Knox (1757-1831)David McCready5. ‘Was the carver happy while he was about it?’ Trinity’s Museum Building (1853-7) and the Ruskinian Principle of HappinessAndrew Tierney6. Children’s Happiness and Unhappiness in the Irish Workhouse Institution, 1850-1914Simon GallaherCultures of Expression: Representations of Happiness 7. ‘Hope for happier days’: Happiness in the Letters between Siblings in Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Ulster FamiliesShannon Devlin8. Finding Happiness in Irish Lullabies, 1860-1910Ciara Thompson9. ‘Happiness is a warm gun’: What Were the Determinants of Happy Lives for the Irish Gentry?Ian D’alton 10. ‘To us, books were the great joy in life’: Emotional Expression in Female Reading Records in Early Twentieth-Century Ireland Mai Yatani11. ‘Hardly worth your while’: The Pursuit of Happiness in Twentieth-Century Ireland? Anne Dolan
£109.50
Liverpool University Press Southern Irish Loyalism, 1912-1949
Book SynopsisThis book brings together new research on loyalism in the 26 counties that would become the Irish Free State. It covers a range of topics and experiences, including the Third Home Rule crisis in 1912, the revolutionary period, partition, independence and Irish participation in the British armed and colonial service up to the declaration of the Republic in 1949. The essays gathered here examine who southern Irish loyalists were, what loyalism meant to them, how they expressed their loyalism, their responses to Irish independence and their experiences afterwards. The collection offers fresh insights and new perspectives on the Irish Revolution and the early years of southern independence, based on original archival research. It addresses issues of particular historiographical and political interest during the ongoing ‘Decade of Centenaries’, including revolutionary violence, sectarianism, political allegiance and identity and the Irish border, but, rather than ceasing its coverage in 1922 or 1923, this book – like the lives with which it is concerned – continues into the first decades of southern Irish independence. List of contributors: Frank Barry, Elaine Callinan, Jonathan Cherry, Seamus Cullen, Ian d'Alton, Sean Gannon, Katherine Magee, Alan McCarthy, Pat McCarthy, Daniel Purcell, Joseph Quinn, Brian M. Walker, Fionnuala Walsh, Donald Wood Trade Review'The chapters in this volume provide a variety of insights into the southern Irish loyalist experience in the early years of the new state... In addition to being of interest to scholars of Irish Unionism and Protestantism, this book will be of use to those interested in local politics, social upheaval during the revolution, and Irish service in the military and imperial civil service.' Nicola K. Morris, Journal of British Studies‘This is a carefully conceived volume which succeeds in its intent to explore the many faces of loyalism within twenty-six counties Irish society in the period. It has done a lot of service to expanding the historical record on political allegiance between 1912 and 1949.’ Ida Milne, A Church of Ireland JournalTable of ContentsSouthern Irish loyalism from Home Rule crisis to Republic: an introductionBrian Hughes and Conor MorrisseyCrisis and Decline? Protestants and Unionists in Revolution1. Protestant population decline in southern Ireland, 1911–26Donald Wood2. Voting to maintain the Union in 1918: ‘the strongest pillars upon which they stood’Elaine Callinan3. Southern Protestant voices during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War: reports from Church of Ireland synodsBrian M. Walker4. The southern unionist business community and the economics of Home Rule and successionFrank BarryServants of the Crown5. Loyal to what? Identity and motivation in the southern Irish Protestant involvement in two world warsIan d’Alton6. ‘The future welfare of the Empire will depend more largely on our women and girls’: southern loyalist women and the British war effort in Ireland, 1914–1922Fionnuala Walsh7. Southern Irish loyalists and imperial serviceSéan Gannon8. ‘It was the done thing’: southern Irish Protestants and the Second World WarJoseph QuinnThe Provincial Experience 9. Henry Lawrence Tivy (1848–1929): the rise and fall of a Cork loyalistAlan McCarthy10. A beleaguered community? Waterford loyalists during the revolution, 1912–1924Pat McCarthy11. Loyalists in a garrison county: Kildare, 1912–1923Seamus CullenLost Counties? Loyalism at the Border12. ‘Cast Out!’ Cavan and Monaghan loyalists and partition, 1916–1923Daniel Purcell13. Adaptive coexistence? Lord Farnham (1879–1957) and southern loyalism in pre- and post-Independence IrelandJonathan Cherry14. Defying the partition of Ulster: Colonel John George Vaughan Hart and the unionist experience of the Irish Revolution in East Donegal, c.1919–1944Katherine MageeAfterword: layers of loyaltyBrian Hughes and Conor Morrissey
£32.99
Liverpool University Press Figures of Authority in Nineteenth-Century
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection investigates the forms that authority assumed in nineteenth-century Ireland, the relations they bore to international redefinitions of authority, and Irish contributions to the reshaping of authority in the modern age. At a time when age-old sources of social, political, spiritual and cultural authority were eroded in the Western world, Ireland witnessed both the restoration of older forms of authority and the rise of figures who defined new models of authority in a democratic age. Using new comparative perspectives as well as archival resources in a wide range of fields, the essays gathered here show how new authorities were embodied in emerging types of politicians, clerics and professionals, and in material extensions of their power in visual, oral and print cultures. These analyses often eerily echo twenty-first-century debates about populism, suspicion of scholarly and intellectual expertise, and the role of new technologies and forms of association in contesting and recreating authority. Several contributions highlight the role of emotion in the way authority was deployed by figures ranging from Daniel O’Connell to W.B. Yeats, foreshadowing the perceived rise of emotional politics in our own age. This volume demonstrates that many contested forms of authority that now look ‘traditional’ emerged from nineteenth-century crises and developments, as did the challenges that undermine authority. CONTRIBUTORS: Marguerite Corporaal, Patrick Geoghegan, Patrick Maume, Michelle McCann, Caroline M. McGee, James H. Murphy, Shane Nagle, Niamh NicGhabhann, Richard Parfitt, Colleen M. Thomas, Tom WalkerTable of ContentsIntroductionRaphaël Ingelbien and Susan GalavanThe Making of Political Icons1. The O’Connellite Persuasion Patrick Geoghegan 2. William Johnston, Populism and Authority in Ulster Protestant Politics Richard ParfittAuthority and Local Governance 3. Undermined Authority: John Reynolds and Dublin Corporation James H. Murphy 4. Property, Privilege and Politics: A History of the Coroner in Pre-Famine Ireland (1801–1846) Michelle McCann The Authority of History 5. A Comparative Perspective: The Problem of Monarchical Authority in National Historiography in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Germany Shane Nagle 6. Sermons and the Performance of Historiographical Authority in the Construction of the Roman Catholic Built Landscape, 1880–1890 Niamh NicGhabhann Assertions and Subversions of Catholic Power7. Power, Patronage, and the Production of Catholic Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Caroline M. McGee 8. Michael McCarthy’s Campaigns against Clerical Authority Patrick Maume Aesthetic Authority9. Invoking the Authority of the Middle Ages in Nineteenth-Century Ireland: The ‘Irish Crosses’ of Earley & Powells Colleen M. Thomas10. W.B. Yeats, Scholastic Aestheticism and Cultural Authority in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland Tom Walker 11. Local-Colour Writers: Figures of Authority? Marguérite Corporaal
£29.99
Palgrave Macmillan Seeing Christ in Australia Since 1850
Book SynopsisPART I: FOUNDING MYTHS.- ?1. Christ as Story Teller; Alison Overeem.- 2. Christ as Lost Innocent; Kerrie Handasyde.- 3. Christ as Outlaw; Glen O'Brien.- 4. Christ as Anzac; Kyle Moffitt.- 5. Christ as Worker; Katharine Massam.- PART II: CONTEMPORARY SIGHTINGS.- 6. Christ as Social Conscience; Amanda Burritt.- 7. Christ as Princess of Pop; Rebekah Pryor.- 8. Christ as Strange(r): Christological Soundings in Australian Art; Jason Goroncy.- 9. Christ as Outsider: Queer Christology and the Catholic Imagination of Justin O'Brien; Alana Harris.- 10. Christ as Son and Brother: Jesus in Christos Tsiolka's Damascus; Sean Winter.- 11. Christ as Saviour of the West; Geoff Thompson.
£113.99
Campus Verlag Traces of Modernism – Art and Politics from the
Book SynopsisTraces of Modernism surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributors consider an extensive range of philosophical and artistic ideologies—from Bauhaus and Italian futurism to plans for totalitarian state-building—that bloomed in the wake of the World War One and the ensuing worldwide revolutions. These ideologies developed amid the uneasy backdrop of new kinds of international cooperation that were periodically punctuated by sharp bursts of fervid nationalism. At the center of each essay in Traces of Modernism stands the image of the machine, a metaphor for technological innovation and new systems of order that stood unfortunately ready for corruption by forces of authoritarianism.
£52.25
Koc University Press First International Sevgi Gönül Byzantine Studie
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£98.80
