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Brill War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations
Book SynopsisThis treatise investigates the emergence of the early modern law of nations, focusing on Alberico Gentili’s contribution to the same. A religious refugee and Regius Professor at the University of Oxford, Alberico Gentili (1552–1608) lived in difficult times of religious wars and political persecution. He discussed issues that were topical in his lifetime and remain so today, including the clash of civilizations, the conduct of war, and the maintenance of peace. His idealism and political pragmatism constitute the principal reasons for the continued interest in his work. Gentili’s work is important for historical record, but also for better analysing and critically assessing the origins of international law and its current developments, as well as for elaborating its future trajectories.Table of ContentsForeword by David Sugarman F.R. Hist. S. Preface Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Note on Terminology and Translations 1 The Varied Fortunes of Alberico Gentili 1.1Introduction 1.2Methodological Framework 1.3Chapter Plan 1.4The Fame and Fortunes of Alberico Gentili 1.5The State of the Art 1.6Key Challenges 1.7Conclusions 2 The Adventurous Life of Alberico Gentili 2.1Introduction 2.2The Early Years in San Ginesio 2.3Studying Law at the University of Perugia 2.4The Italian Reformation 2.5Gentili’s Religious Belief 2.6Fleeing to London 2.7The Oxonian Years 2.8Family Life 2.9Advocate at the Admiralty Court 2.10Conclusions 3 Gentili, International Law, and the Humanities 3.1Introduction 3.2The Sixteenth-Century Revolution in the Methodology of Law 3.3From Mos GallicusandMos Italicus towards theUsus Modernus 3.4Gentili’s Sources 3.5Gentili’s Method 3.6Gentili and the Humanities 3.7The Gentilian Sonnets 3.8Debating Theatre in Elizabethan England 3.9Dialectical Antinomies 3.10Conclusions 4 Gentili and the Law of Nations 4.1Introduction 4.2The Founder(s) of International Law 4.3The Notion of International Community 4.4The Notion ofIus Gentium 4.5Diplomatic Law 4.6The Settlement of International Disputes 4.7The Secularization of Legal Theory 4.8Final Remarks 5 Gentili and the Law of War 5.1Introduction 5.2De iure belli 5.2.1 Defining War 5.2.2 The Causes of War 5.2.3 Neutrality 5.2.4 TheIus in Bello233 5.2.5 TheIus Post Bellum239 5.3Freedom of Religion 5.4Preventive War 5.5The Balance of Power 5.6Critical Assessment 5.7Conclusions 6 Gentili and the Law of the Sea 6.1Introduction 6.2The Sea: Between Freedom and Sovereignty 6.2.1 The Freedom of the High Seas 6.2.2 The Territorial Sea 6.2.3 Impact 6.3The Freedom of Communication, Movement and Commerce 6.3.1 The Freedom of Communication 6.3.2 The Freedom of Movement 6.3.3 The Freedom of Commerce 6.4Piracy and Privateering 6.5Advocacy at the High Court of Admiralty 6.6Critical Assessment 6.7Conclusions 7 Gentili and the Injustice of Empire 7.1Introduction 7.2Cultural Diversity and the Law of Nations 7.2.1 The Challenge of Cultural Diversity 7.2.2 Slavery and Freedom 7.2.3 Gross Violations of Natural Law 7.2.4 Critical Assessment 7.3The (Il)legitimacy of European Expansion 7.3.1 Discovery 7.3.2 Occupation 7.3.3 Ius Praedicandi369 7.3.4 Freedom of Movement 7.3.5 Just War 7.3.6 Converging Divergences 7.4The Roman Model: Empire or Commonwealth? 7.4.1 The Wars of the Romans 7.4.2 Diverging Interpretations 7.4.3 International Law and Empire 7.5TheRegales Disputationes 7.5.1 The Emergence of Absolutism and the Royal Disputations 7.5.2 Conceptualizing Sovereignty 7.5.3 The Royal Prerogative 7.5.4 Taming the Leviathan? 7.5.5 Critical Assessment 7.5.6 Epilogue: Gentili and Hobbes 7.6Critical Assessment 7.7Conclusions 8 Alberico Gentili and Hugo Grotius 8.1Introduction 8.2Comparing Gentili and Grotius’ Respective Works 8.3Diverging Writing Styles 8.4On Method 8.5Converging Arguments? 8.6Critical Assessment 8.7Conclusions Conclusions Bibliography Index
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Brill Emblems and the Natural World
Book SynopsisSince its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.Trade Review“Emblems and the Natural World is not simply a series of motif studies; instead, it offers the first major foray into what must become a vital subject of analysis for emblem scholars. […]. With its painstakingly researched essays and gorgeous and plentiful full-color illustrations, [it] will surely inspire new growth in the field of emblem studies and further research into the complex literary and artistic symbolism of the natural world.” Deanna Smid, Brandon University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1 (spring 2019), pp. 281-283. “Emblems and the Natural World is a handsomely produced volume, laid out clearly, sturdy in the hand, and generously illustrated throughout, often in color, and with a crisp quality that throws up a pleasing degree of detail. […] this is a volume to be highly commended, full of interest, variety, depth of argument, and fresh insights into one of the defining territories of the early modern emblem: its dependence upon the rich abundance of the Liber naturae.” Simon McKeown, Marlborough College. In: Emblematica, Vol. 2 (2018), pp. 371-378.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations 1 Introduction: Emblems and the Natural World (ca. 1530–1700) Karl Enenkel and Paul J. Smith Part 1: Emblemetic Zoology—Zoological Emblem Books 2 “Natural” or “Unnatural”? Representation of the Animal World in Early French Emblem Books Alison Saunders 3 Camerarius’s Quadrupeds (1595): A Plinius Emblematicus as a Mirror of Princes Karl Enenkel 4 Joachim Camerarius’s Emblem Book on Birds (1596), with an Excursus on America’s Great Seal Paul J. Smith 5 Ichthyology and Emblematics in Conrad Gesner’s Historia piscium and Joachim Camerarius the Younger’s Symbola et Emblemata Sophia Hendrikx 6 The Daphnic Fate of Camerarius. Sweden’s First Printed Emblem Book Revealed in Olof Rudbeck the Younger’s Botanical Dissertation (1686) Bernhard Schirg 7 Tradition and Empirical Observation—Nature in Giovio’s and Symeoni’s Dialogo Dell’ Imprese from 1574 Maren C. Biederbick Part 2: Emblem Books on Physical Phenomena 8 Comets—Celestial Objects in the Emblem Tradition of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Sabine Kalff 9 Atmospheric Pressure: Natural Philosophy, Political Didactics and the Exigencies of Praise in Franz Reinzer’s Meteorologia Philosophico-Politica (1698) Christian Peters Part 3: The Applied Use of Natural Emblems, Especially in Monarchial and Courtly Contexts 10 Transcending the Natural World: A Developing Sublime in André Félibien’s Tapisseries du Roy Frederik Knegtel 11 ‘Maiestatis Hungariae Aquila’: Christoph Lackner and the Hieroglyph of the Habsburg Eagle Agnes Kusler 12 The Secretion of a Pearl as a Symbol for the Birth of a Prince Aline Smeesters 13 The Taming of the Lion: Passions, Power and Religion in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicae Quaestiones (Bologna, 1555) Anne Rolet Part 4: The Hermeneutic and Didactic Use of the Natural World 14 The Sagacity of Owls and the Mimetic Obscurity of Emblems in Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements Marisa Anne Bass 15 The Owl and the Birds: Speeches, Emblems, and Fountains Astrid Zenkert 16 Hermeneutic Animals—Johann Fischart’s Use of Emblems in his German Translation of Rabelais Tobias Bulang 17 Orbis pictus For Boys—Emblematics for Men: Some Remarks on Learning by Studying Pictures and Interpreting Riddles Sonja Schreiner Index Nominum
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Brill Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame
Book SynopsisThe willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are rarely clear cut and are often subjective. Set against the framework of modern political concerns, Treason: Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame considers the various forms of treachery in a variety of sources, including literature, historical chronicles, and material culture creating a complex portrait of the development of this high crime. Larissa Tracy artfully brings together younger critics as well as seasoned scholars in a compelling and topical conversation on treason. Contributors are Frank Battaglia, Dianne Berg, Tina Marie Boyer, Albrecht Classen, Sam Claussen, Freddy C. Domínguez, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Ana Grinberg, Iain A. MacInnes, Inna Matyushina, Sally Shockro, Susan Small, Peter Sposato, Sarah J. Sprouse, Daniel Thomas, and Larissa Tracy.Trade Review'Tracy’s volume offers a great deal to those interested in the workings of treason (and loyalty) in the medieval and early modern periods, not least for anyone interested in German and French literature and history, as well as in religious forms. I have left discussion of other fine chapters out due to constraints of space, but let those mentioned here recommend the others, as well. Tracy is right that an understanding of the history of treason is useful to thinking about the uses and abuses of accusations of treason today. The chapters assembled in this collection testify to the enduring struggle with how treason was defined, punished, used in the interest of the state, and sometimes deployed as a legitimate form of rebellion against the tyrant.' Cristina León Alfar, in Journal of British Studies 59.4, October 2020.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Shameful Business of Betrayal and Treason Larissa Tracy Part 1: The Politics of Treason 1 Wiglaf’s Sword: The Coming of the State Frank Battaglia 2 In Sickness and in Health: the Boethian Narrative of the Two Geralds of Brecon Sarah J. Sprouse 3 Treasonous and Dishonorable Conduct: the Private Dimension of Treason and Chivalric Reform in Late Medieval Florence Peter Sposato 4 Royal Punishment and Reconciliation in Trastámara Castile Samuel A. Claussen 5 “A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain”: Royal Punishment of Rebels, Traitors, and Political Enemies in Medieval Scotland, c. 1100–c. 1250 Iain A. MacInnes Part 2: Religious Treason and Heresy 6 Revolt in Heaven: Lucifer’s Treason in Genesis B Daniel Thomas 7 Blessed Betrayal: The Opportunity of Treachery in Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Texts Sally Shockro 8 Legal Ramifications of Ordeals and Treason in Morant und Galie Tina Boyer 9 Religious Identity, Loyalty, and Treason in the Cycle du Roi Ana Grinberg 10 Traitors Respond: English Catholic Polemical Strategies against Accusations of Treason at the End of the Sixteenth Century Freddy C. Domínguez Part 3: Treasonous Love: Adultery and Shame 11 Treason and Deception in Late Medieval German Romances and Novels Königin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis Albrecht Classen 12 Treacherous Women at King Arthur’s Court: Punishment and Shame Inna Matyushina 13 Treason and the Feast in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur Melissa Ridley Elmes 14 ‘Tis Fearful Sleeping in a Serpent’s Bed’: Arden of Favershamand the Threat of the Petty Traitor Dianne Berg 15 The Spatial Configuration of Shame in La Princesse de Clèves Susan Small Conclusion: the Shame Game, from Guinevere to Cersei: Adultery, Treason, and Betrayal Larissa Tracy Select Bibliography Index
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Brill Tōhoku Unbounded: Regional Identity and the Mobile Subject in Prewar Japan
Book SynopsisIn 1870, a prominent samurai from Tōhoku sells his castle to become an agrarian colonist in Hokkaidō. Decades later, a man also from northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but show how mobility is central to the history of Japan’s Tōhoku region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines how multiple mobilities converge in Japan’s supposed hinterland. Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph demonstrates that Tohoku’s regional identity is inextricably intertwined with Pacific migrations.Table of ContentsPreface: Reading Harry Potter in Japan Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction Region Matters 1 Looking North Assessing the Boundaries of the Meiji State 1 Before Tōhoku: Placing Ōu Cartographically and Politically 2 Becoming a Borderland-in-Transition and Catalyzing Frontier-to-Frontier Migration 3 Dismantling Ken, Dismembering Maps, and Defining Tōhoku 4 Settling Hokkaidō through Patronage: Tōhoku Families Move North 5 Repositioning Power through Co-dependence: Date Kunishige in Iburi 6 Identifying a Pattern: Regionalism as Cornerstone of Private Settlement 7 Mobilized Regionalism and Reframing the Soldier-Settler Villages 8 Tondenhei in the Imperial Army: Confounding Loyalties and Readjudicating the Modern 9 Pragmatism and the Hokkaidō Modern: Blurring Class and Rising Regionalism 10 Conclusion 2 Exporting Regionalism Tōhoku-Japanese Immigrant Culture 1 To Be ‘Japanese’ Abroad: The Hegemonic Culture of Japan’s Southwestern Issei 2 Emigrants as Embodiments of National Prestige 3 Imagining ‘Japan,’ Discovering the ‘Japanese’ 4 To Be from Both Japan and ‘Tōhoku,’ Regionalism from the Outside 5 To Be Both Emigrant and Immigrant: The Institutionalization of Difference within Unity 6 Tōhoku-Based Kenjinkai in Southern California: Sharing Wealth and Building Community 7 Sojourners and Settlers: Building Bridges between Japan and Canada through Kenjinkai 8 Conclusion 3 Normalizing the Exceptional History, Myth, and Memory in Immigrant Ethnicity 1 Narrating the Exceptional: History and Mythmaking 2 Gannen-Mono and Boshin War Refugees: Revisiting Wakamatsu Colony 3 Martyred Memories: The Ghost of Okei and the Nobility in Failure 4 The Roots of Migrant Lineages: ‘Fathers of Migration’ Narratives 5 Katsunuma Tomizō, Progenitor of a Migrant Network 6 Oikawa Jinzaburō, Patriarch of a Trans-Pacific Village 7 The Afterlives of Oikawa and the Suian Maru Story 8 Remembering to Forget: The Filipino-Japanese Community 9 Conclusion: Memorialization and Mobilization 4 Writing Domestic Regionalism Seeking ‘Authentic’ Tōhoku in Interwar Japan 1 Rooting Modernity in Tradition: Seeking Authenticity to Combat Modern Alienation 2 “Where Are You From?”: Linking People to the Land to Combat Alienation 3 Tōhoku and Tōno Monogatari: A Heterochronic Region Outside of Time 4 Tōhoku in the In-betweens: Region in International Waters and at Emigration Centers 5 The Postwar Satire of Inoue Hisashi: A Tōhoku Native Revisits Tōno Monogatari 6 Conclusion 5 “Leading Tōhoku Asia” Regional Identity within Imperial Japan 1 Love of Hometown as Love of Nation: Placing Empire through the Periodical Furusato 2 Patriotic Emigration to Greater Japan: An Extreme Makeover of the Countryside 3 Historicizing Manchurian Emigration: Hokkaidō and ‘Father of Migration’ Narratives 4 Divided Villages: Manufacturing Bridges to Greater East Asia 5 Tōhoku at War: Patriotic Expansionism as Regionalist Discourse 6 Conclusion: Coupling Patriotic Nationalism to a Mobile Tōhoku Identity Epilogue Tōhoku-damashī: Viewing Regionalism after the Triple Disaster of 11 March 2011 Bibliography Index
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Brill Juan de Torquemada: Tractate against the Midianites and Ishmaelites
Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of one of the most important treatises written during the late-Middle Ages in defense of converts from Judaism, favoring religious tolerance in the face of religious and racially motivated prejudice and violence. The book also includes a fresh Latin edition, drawing on all known manuscripts. The text was written in response to the actions of the "Old Christians" of Toledo against the "New Christians," also called conversos, in 1449. A letter of Pope Nicholas V favouring the converts is included.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Juan de Torquemada’s Defense of the Conversos 1 The Revolt in Toledo, 1449 2 The Manuscripts, Editions and Translation 3 Conspectus siglorum Tract against the Midianites and Ishmaelites, Foes and Detractors of the Faithful Who Originated from the Israelite People [Prologue] 1 In Which It Is Shown from a Description of the Quality of the Aforesaid Trial That It Is of No Force or Moment 2 In Which the Things Cited against Christ’s Faithful Descended from the Israelite People Are Proved to Be Erroneous 3 In Which It Is Shown That the Second Foundation Cited by the Foe in Favor of Their Impiety against Those Newly Converted to Christ’s Faith Descended from the Israelite Nation Is Erroneous and Blasphemous 4 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Refuted in a Second Way, with Reasons 5 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Divine Promises Made to the Israelite People 6 In Which the Aforesaid Error Is Reproved from the Deeds Done by Christ among the Jewish People 7 In Which One Authority Cited in Favor and Proof of Their Aforesaid Errors Is Answered 8 In Which the Second Authority Cited on the Part of the Foe Is Answered 9 In Which the Third Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered 10 In Which the Fourth Authority Cited for the Adverse Part Is Answered 11 In Which the Fifth Passage Cited by the Often-Mentioned Midianites and Ishmaelites in Favor and Support of Their Sacrilegious Presumption Is Answered 12 In Which the Principal Conclusion of the Foe Is Shown from the above to Be False and Erroneous 13 That the Unbelief of Those from Whom They Descend Must Not Be Imputed to Those Converted to Christ’s Faith from the People of the Jews 14 In Which Reasons Are Assigned Why Converts to Christ’s Faith, and Especially Those from the Israelite People, Are Not to Be Despised by the Other Faithful, but Rather Loved and Honored 15 In Which the Error and Malice of Those Who Presume to Posit a Difference between Those Converted from the Israelite People and Other Christians Is Confuted 16 In Which Those Things Which the Aforesaid Adversaries Cite in Favor of Their Rashness Are Answered Appendix: Pope Nicholas V: Humani generis inimicus (Fabriano, 24 September 1449) Bibliography Index of Scripture References Index of Classical and Medieval Authors Index of Scholars Cited
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Brill Constitutional Moments: Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions through History
Book Synopsis“Constitution” is a rich term in Western political culture, encompassing political and juridical doctrine as well as government practices through the ages. This volume examines “constitutional moments” in history, those occasions or episodes when significant steps were taken in the definition or redefinition of polities. Their actors were writers or politicians, rulers or ruled, who found inspiration in a distant past or instead looked towards a future to be drawn anew. This book sheds light on such moments from Ancient Greece to the present day, mostly in Europe but also in the Ottoman world and the Americas, thereby uncovering a revealing variety of constitutional thinking and action throughout history. Contributors are: Jon Arrieta, Niall Bond, Luc Brisson, Peter Cholakov, Nora Chonowski, Angela De Benedictis, F. Sinem Eryilmaz, Hakon Evju, Pablo Fernández Albaladejo, Javier Fernández Sebastián, Merieke Gebhardt, Xavier Gil, Mark J. Hill, Ferenc Hörcher, Jaska Kainulainen, Thomas Lorman, Adriana Luna-Fabritius, Ere Nokkala, Brian Kjaer Olesen, András Pap, Nikola Regent, Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez, Pablo Sánchez León, José Reis Santos, and Ersin Yildiz.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Xavier Gil Part 1 Ancient and Medieval Times 1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato’s Political Doctrine Myth and Reality Luc Brisson 2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues Petar Cholakov Part 2 Renaissance and Early Modern Era Section 1 Myths and Politics 3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries) Jon Arrieta 4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World A Reassessment Angela De Benedictis 5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman “The Lawgiver” Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz Section 2 Governance and Change 6 After Revolts Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe Xavier Gil 7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions Jaska Kainulainen 8 The Monarchical Moment Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism Brian Kjær Olesen 9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example Nikola Regent 10 The Union of Utrecht An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579–1621) Alberto Mariano Rodríguez Martínez Part 3 The Enlightenment 11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment The Case of Denmark-Norway Håkon Evju 12 Rousseau and Poland Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms? Mark J. Hill 13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought Charting Mediterranean Liberalism Adriana Luna-Fabritius 14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719–1772) Ere Nokkala Part 4 The Nineteenth Century 15 “Dark Spots of Our History” Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain Pablo Fernández Albaladejo 16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought Ferenc Hörcher and Thomas Lorman 17 Constitutional Imagination and “Catholic” Political Anthropology The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism Pablo Sánchez León Part 5 The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict Ersin Yildiz 19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order José Reis Santos 20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany Niall Bond 21 From 1989 to 2010 Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary Nóra Chronowski and András L. Pap Part 6 Theoretical Issues 22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination Javier Fernández-Sebastián 23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration Mareike Gebhardt Index
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Brill Spectral Memories of Post-crash Iceland: Memory, Identity and the Haunted Imagination in Contemporary Literature and Art
Book SynopsisHow does the spectre appear in Icelandic literature and visual art created in the aftermath of the economic crash in Iceland in 2008? Why does it emerge at that specific point in time and what can it tell us about repressed collective memories in Iceland? The book explores how the crash becomes an implicit background setting in novels that address the silences and gaps of the family archive, and how crime fiction employs generic features of horror to explicitly tackle the ghosts residing in the lost homes of the financial crash. Spectral space is an apparent theme of cultural memories produced in times of crisis, and the book explores how this is made apparent in visual art of the period.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction 1 Spectral Memory: What and Why? 2 What is Cultural Memory? 3 Spectral Memory as a Dynamic and Transformative Encounter Between Past and Present 4 Outline of Chapters Part 1:Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis 1 The Spectral Spaces of the Economic Crisis: Visual Art 1 The Crash: A Collective Shock 2 The Crash: Crisis of Memory and Identity 3 Aesthetic Response to the Crash: The Spectral-Uncanny 4 Roles: Photorealist Drawings of the Unhomely Space 5 Roles: The House and the Human Subject 6 Waiting: Crash-Photographs of Emptiness and Melancholia in the Urban Space 7 Waiting: Contemporary Urban Space and Memory 8 Waiting: Capitalist Ruins 9 Spectral Mourning in the Urban Space: Conclusion 2 Ghosts and Specters of Crash Fiction: Literature 1 I Remember You: A Crash-Horror in the Time of Economic Crisis 2 I Remember You: Two Stories of Hauntings in the Wake of the Crash 3 I Remember You: The Haunted House 4 Reactions and Agency: Why Does the Ghost Return? 5 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Three Different Types of Spectral Presence 6 Hauntings in Ísafjörður: Spectral Mourning as Haunting 7 Significance of the Haunting for the Narrative and Broader Context 8 Hvítfeld: Uncanny Family Novel 9 Hvítfeld and the Crash: The Falseness and Collapse of the Ideal 10 Hvítfeld: Unhomely Family Life and Melancholic Characters 11 Hvítfeld: Melancholic Mourning 12 Hvítfeld and the Spectral Space: The Unhomely Home 13 Literary Ghosts and Spectral Memories of the Financial Crisis:Conclusion Part 2: Spectral Memories From the Post-Crash Archive 3 Spectral Memories From the Institutional Archive: Visual Art 1 The Archive as Storage for Spectral Memories 2 Modernisation of the Archive: Colonialism and Photography 3 Musée Islandique and Das Experiment Island by Ólöf Nordal 4 Musée Islandique 5 The Colonial Archive and Historical Context 6 Das Experiment Island 7 The Uncanny Associations of the Archive 8 What Kind of Memories? 9 Traces by Unnar Örn Auðarson 10 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: Part II 11 The Photograph as an Archival Record 12 Photograph as Spectre 13 Fragments From the Deeds of Unrest: The Photograph and National Imagery 14 Fragments: Murmur of a Nation 15 Spectral Memories of the Institutional Archive: Conclusion 4 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Literature 1 The Family Archive in Fórnarleikar: The Spectral State of Postmemories 2 Postmemory and the Family Trauma 3 Postmemory and the Family Archive 4 Family Pictures: Archived Photographs 5 Fórnarleikar: The Impossibility of Writing a Life Story 6 Spectral Memories of the Childhood Archive in Elín, Ýmislegt 7 “Enigmatic Time-Capsules” and Archive Fiction 8 Archived Material: Spectral Memories 9 Elín, Ýmislegt: A Novel on Forgetting? 10 Spectral Memories From the Family Archive: Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Heroines of History
Book SynopsisWomen in Heroines of History are portrayed as courageous and influential figures who defied societal norms. From princesses turned heroines to activists and spies, these women reshaped their worlds through their bravery and resilience, leaving a lasting impact on history.
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Springer A Study on Peoplecentered Urbanization
Book SynopsisChapter 1 New Forms and New Context of People-centered Urbanization.- Chapter 2 People-centered Urbanization and Farmers' Actions and Choices.- Chapter 3 The Citizenization of Rural-dwelling Farmers.- Chapter 4 People-centered Urbanization and the Issues Related to Farmers, Agriculture and rural areas.- Chapter 5 People-centered Urbanization and Rural Social Governance.- Chapter 6 People-centered Urbanization and Poverty Alleviation through Urbanization.- Chapter 7 People-centered Urbanization and the Construction of Publicness.- Chapter 8 Institutional Improvements for People-centered Urbanization.
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Marge Books Fem les paus i no la guerra
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Unbound Press Books The Ghost Dance War
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Revolution in Mind
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Womb
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Penguin Random House LLC Bicycle Design An Illustrated History The MIT Press
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ABC-CLIO Heritage of Care
Book SynopsisFounded in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was the nation's first animal welfare organization.
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ABC-CLIO PhilippineAmerican Relations
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Little, Brown and Company The Everything Store Jeff Bezos and the Age of
Book Synopsis The definitive story of Amazon.com, one of the most successful companies in the world, and of its driven, brilliant founder, Jeff Bezos. Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now. Brad Stone enjoyed unprecedented access to current and former Amazon employees and Bezos family members, giving readers the first in-depth, fly-on-the-wall account of life at Amazon. Compared to tech's other elite innovators -- Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg -- Bezos is a private man. But he stands out for his restless pursuit of new markets, leading Amazon into risky new ventures like the Kindle and cloud computing, and transforming retail in the same way Henr
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A History of British Socialism Vol 1 Labour and
Book SynopsisThis is volume 1 in the set A History of British Socialism. These volumes study the political thought experienced as a result of the massive transition of the British countryside to capitalist agriculture and capitalist industry.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Road Signs
Book SynopsisFeaturing road signs, direction, warning, boundary, and advisory, this book covers various aspects of traffic signage and signs.Table of ContentsBeginnings Wardning, mandatory, regulatory and prohibition signs Direction signs Boundary and other location signs Further reading Places to visit
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cash Carriers in Shops Shire Album 438 Shire
Book SynopsisMost people born before 1950 can remember visiting or working in shops that had cash carriers - cash balls that ran on wooden rails, wire systems where the carrier was catapulted along an overhead steel wire, or pneumatic tube systems where the carrier was whisked off to the cash office. This title reveals details about these devices.
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Edinburgh University Press The History of the Scottish Parliament
Book SynopsisThese three volumes comprise a new history of Scotland's first parliament from the first surviving official records in the thirteenth century to its final dissolution in 1707.Trade ReviewThese essays greatly broaden our understanding of the political and institutional dynamics of the Scottish Parliament. -- Paul Seaward, History of Parliament Trust, London Parliaments, Estates and Representation The most detailed, authoritative and wide-ranging treatment of the Scottish parliament so far published. The organisation of the three volumes is ingenious and highly effective. The first two are arranged chronologically and contain analytical studies of particular parliaments, whereas the third is organised thematically, with articles on various aspects of the parliament's role and functions throughout its history. This combination of analytical and thematic approaches produces a rich variety of perspectives that are both illuminating and informative... Together, they bring our understanding of Scottish parliamentary history to an entirely new level of sophistication, and the editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated on their achievement. -- David L Smith, Selwyn College, Cambridge Scottish Historical Review These essays greatly broaden our understanding of the political and institutional dynamics of the Scottish Parliament. The most detailed, authoritative and wide-ranging treatment of the Scottish parliament so far published. The organisation of the three volumes is ingenious and highly effective. The first two are arranged chronologically and contain analytical studies of particular parliaments, whereas the third is organised thematically, with articles on various aspects of the parliament's role and functions throughout its history. This combination of analytical and thematic approaches produces a rich variety of perspectives that are both illuminating and informative... Together, they bring our understanding of Scottish parliamentary history to an entirely new level of sophistication, and the editors and contributors are to be warmly congratulated on their achievement.Table of ContentsContents:; Introduction: Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1567-1707; Keith M. Brown and Alastair J. Mann; 1. The Parliament of 1592: a crisis averted?; Alan R. MacDonald; 2. Constitutional conflict after the Union of the Crowns:; contention and continuity in the parliaments of 1612 and 1621; Vaughan Wells; 3. Charles I and the 1633 Parliament; John R. Young; 4. The Rise and Fall of the Covenanter Parliaments, 1639 to 1651; John J. Scally; 5. Arise King John: Commissioner Lauderdale and Parliament in the Restoration Era; Gillian H. MacIntosh; 6. 'James VII, King of the Articles': political management and parliamentary failure; Alastair J. Mann; 7. Unconventional Procedure: Scottish Electoral Politics after the Revolution; Derek J. Patrick; 8. Party-Politics and Parliament: Scotland's last election and its aftermath, 1702-3; Keith M. Brown.
£99.00
Edinburgh University Press Contributions to Annuals and GiftBooks
Book SynopsisLike other well-known writers of the time, Hogg was a contributor to the annuals, and this book brings together all the Hogg texts that were either written for, or first published in, annuals and gift-books.Trade Review[Contributions to Literary Annuals] seems to me an admirable entry in this prestigious edition. -- Penny Fielding This ... will add significant new material and scholarship to the Stirling/ South Carolina Edition. -- Jill Rubenstein A truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about. Textualities This unconventional collection is nonetheless a crucial contribution to the Collected Works of James Hogg, and a testament to the Stirling/South Carolina edition's aims at inclusiveness and expansiveness ... Janette Currie's informative and comprehensive Introduction does much to reveal Hogg's publishing activity in Annuals and Gift-Books, but also uncovers an alternative literary context which is under-researched and neglected by critics. Scotia [Contributions to Literary Annuals] seems to me an admirable entry in this prestigious edition. This ... will add significant new material and scholarship to the Stirling/ South Carolina Edition. A truly monumental project, the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg is a major Scottish publishing event that is worth shouting about. This unconventional collection is nonetheless a crucial contribution to the Collected Works of James Hogg, and a testament to the Stirling/South Carolina edition's aims at inclusiveness and expansiveness ... Janette Currie's informative and comprehensive Introduction does much to reveal Hogg's publishing activity in Annuals and Gift-Books, but also uncovers an alternative literary context which is under-researched and neglected by critics.
£90.25
Edinburgh University Press Scottish Education in the Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisScotland''s education system has been claimed by many to be one of the most successful in the world and its alleged decline in recent decades has generated a great deal of controversy. This book is the first full account of the history of twentieth-century Scottish education, by Lindsay Paterson, a leading specialist in the area.Scottish Education investigates Scotland''s response to the key question faced by all mass systems of education. How can democracy be reconciled with the necessity of selection - both selection of culture in the maintenance of excellence, and selection of people, allocating them to differentiated occupations while also preparing them for life as equal citizens in the common culture of the community?Paterson argues that the Scottish answer to this has been recurrent attempts to give wide access to common types of educational institution, but continuing to define that education in fairly traditional academic terms. This is then also Scotland''s attempt to reconcile the tension beTrade ReviewIn this ambitious book Lindsay Paterson provides an incisive analysis of the key features of Scottish education as the system evolved! The author's historical analysis sheds welcome light on whether claims of the distinctiveness of Scottish education are indeed sustainable. It is refreshing that, wherever possible, Scottish education is set against wider international perspectives rather than being examined solely within the more customary British context. An important contribution to our understanding of a relatively under-researched area, which affected many levels of Scottish society ! This book should be essential reading for all those interested in Scottish education since it explains how the system has arrived at the present stage of its development. This outstanding and meticulously researched book is essentially an overview of the history of 20th century Scottish Education dealing not just with schools but with the entire gamut of post compulsory education ! It is without doubt a major contribution to the history fo Scottish education and essential reading for all who claim an interest in the subject. One can only hope that those who shape education policy in twenty-first-century Scotland pay attention to it. Paterson can certainly be relied upon to produce a lively, concise and scholarly work. -- Professor Robert Anderson, University of Edinburgh In this ambitious book Lindsay Paterson provides an incisive analysis of the key features of Scottish education as the system evolved! The author's historical analysis sheds welcome light on whether claims of the distinctiveness of Scottish education are indeed sustainable. It is refreshing that, wherever possible, Scottish education is set against wider international perspectives rather than being examined solely within the more customary British context. An important contribution to our understanding of a relatively under-researched area, which affected many levels of Scottish society ! This book should be essential reading for all those interested in Scottish education since it explains how the system has arrived at the present stage of its development. This outstanding and meticulously researched book is essentially an overview of the history of 20th century Scottish Education dealing not just with schools but with the entire gamut of post compulsory education ! It is without doubt a major contribution to the history fo Scottish education and essential reading for all who claim an interest in the subject. One can only hope that those who shape education policy in twenty-first-century Scotland pay attention to it. Paterson can certainly be relied upon to produce a lively, concise and scholarly work.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Expansion and Democracy; Part I: Competition and Opportunity, 1880s-1930s; Introduction; 3. Elementary Education; 4. Post-Elementary Education; 5. University Education; 6. Technical and Adult Education; Part II: Welfare and Individualism, 1940s-1990s; Introduction: Effects of War; 7. Primary Education; 8. Secondary Education; 9. Higher Education; 10. Further and Community Education; 11. Conclusions; Bibliography.
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Edinburgh University Press People and Woods in Scotland
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them.Trade ReviewBeautifully illustrated with photographs, prints, sketches and maps, and clearly written, this is a fascinating historical introduction to the complex association between people and woods in Scotland. A detailed, richly-illustrated exploration of the varied ways in which people have interacted with woodlands in Scotland...an enjoyable and seamless read, from which both specialists and general readers will profit. The writing is lively and uniform! well illustrated! highly recommended This is a milestone book, with a very readable summary in non-technical language of what we know about the history of woods and their relationship with people since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago ! This is a great book for people who share a fascination with woodlands and how they came to be like they are. Everyone who is interested in Scotland's woodlands should read it. This is an attractive publication with a nice cover design, and inside the eye is drawn immediately to some excellent colour plates. In addition there are also no less than 89 black and white plates and 17 figures .. .naturalists with an interest in environmental history will find it a worthwhile addition to their library Beautifully illustrated with photographs, prints, sketches and maps, and clearly written, this is a fascinating historical introduction to the complex association between people and woods in Scotland. A detailed, richly-illustrated exploration of the varied ways in which people have interacted with woodlands in Scotland...an enjoyable and seamless read, from which both specialists and general readers will profit. The writing is lively and uniform! well illustrated! highly recommended This is a milestone book, with a very readable summary in non-technical language of what we know about the history of woods and their relationship with people since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago ! This is a great book for people who share a fascination with woodlands and how they came to be like they are. Everyone who is interested in Scotland's woodlands should read it. This is an attractive publication with a nice cover design, and inside the eye is drawn immediately to some excellent colour plates. In addition there are also no less than 89 black and white plates and 17 figures .. .naturalists with an interest in environmental history will find it a worthwhile addition to their library
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Edinburgh University Press People and Woods in Scotland
Book SynopsisThis is a history of the trees, woodlands and forests of Scotland and of the people who used them.Trade ReviewBeautifully illustrated with photographs, prints, sketches and maps, and clearly written, this is a fascinating historical introduction to the complex association between people and woods in Scotland. Scottish Economic and Social History A detailed, richly-illustrated exploration of the varied ways in which people have interacted with woodlands in Scotland...an enjoyable and seamless read, from which both specialists and general readers will profit. Landscape History The writing is lively and uniform! well illustrated! highly recommended Choice This is a milestone book, with a very readable summary in non-technical language of what we know about the history of woods and their relationship with people since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago ! This is a great book for people who share a fascination with woodlands and how they came to be like they are. Everyone who is interested in Scotland's woodlands should read it. Reforesting Scotland This is an attractive publication with a nice cover design, and inside the eye is drawn immediately to some excellent colour plates. In addition there are also no less than 89 black and white plates and 17 figures .. .naturalists with an interest in environmental history will find it a worthwhile addition to their library BSS News Beautifully illustrated with photographs, prints, sketches and maps, and clearly written, this is a fascinating historical introduction to the complex association between people and woods in Scotland. A detailed, richly-illustrated exploration of the varied ways in which people have interacted with woodlands in Scotland...an enjoyable and seamless read, from which both specialists and general readers will profit. The writing is lively and uniform! well illustrated! highly recommended This is a milestone book, with a very readable summary in non-technical language of what we know about the history of woods and their relationship with people since the last ice age, 10,000 years ago ! This is a great book for people who share a fascination with woodlands and how they came to be like they are. Everyone who is interested in Scotland's woodlands should read it. This is an attractive publication with a nice cover design, and inside the eye is drawn immediately to some excellent colour plates. In addition there are also no less than 89 black and white plates and 17 figures .. .naturalists with an interest in environmental history will find it a worthwhile addition to their library
£32.29
Edinburgh University Press American Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.Trade Review"In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable." -- Lisa Merrill, Ph.D., Professor of Performance Studies, Hofstra University, USA "In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Heritage; 1. Defining American 'Drama'; 2. European Forms; 3. Performance and Strife in Eighteenth-Century Theatre; 4. Politics and Plays in the Nineteenth Century; 5. 'Modern' American Theatre and the Twentieth Century; Notes; Works Cited/Consulted; Index.
£23.74
Edinburgh University Press Exploring Environmental History
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history.Trade ReviewExploring Environmental History is a collection of essays and papers which distil the professor's latter-day researches and reflections. They are characteristically acute and uncompromising. -- Roger Hutchinson Scottish Review of Books The modest title of this book gives little idea of the excitements that lie within... This is a memorable book, rich in scholarship and full of argument, and elegantly written... the brilliance of the essays must make 'Exploring Environmental History' a thoroughly worthwhile purchase or gift. -- Paul Ramsey Recorder News Christopher Smout is, in my opinion, the best environmental historian in Britain; indeed, he practically invented the term. He is worth being read by every conservationist, not just for his specialist knowledge, but also because he is extremely readable. It ought to be a commonplace view that, as he asserts, environmental problems can be understood properly only from a historical perspective. -- Peter Marren British Wildlife That the book should end with provoking thought in its readers cannot be anything but good and reinforces our sense of gratitude that these essays should exist and that the publishers should bring them all together. -- Ian Simmons, Emeritus Professor, University of Durham Environment and History Good, scholarly and accessible environmental history like this does carry with it empowerment, vision and the very necessary context (that Nature, like us, has a history) that can only benefit those charged in society and politics with planning our future. I will certainly be encouraging my undergraduate and postgraduate environmental history students to dip into this book: they are after all (whether they welcome it or not!) the next environmental generation. -- Rob Lambert Landscape History In the growing debate over future environmental choices, these essays constitute a powerful corrective to the extremes on both sides. -- Richard Oram, University of Stirling Scottish Historical Review Exploring Environmental History is a collection of essays and papers which distil the professor's latter-day researches and reflections. They are characteristically acute and uncompromising. The modest title of this book gives little idea of the excitements that lie within... This is a memorable book, rich in scholarship and full of argument, and elegantly written... the brilliance of the essays must make 'Exploring Environmental History' a thoroughly worthwhile purchase or gift. Christopher Smout is, in my opinion, the best environmental historian in Britain; indeed, he practically invented the term. He is worth being read by every conservationist, not just for his specialist knowledge, but also because he is extremely readable. It ought to be a commonplace view that, as he asserts, environmental problems can be understood properly only from a historical perspective. That the book should end with provoking thought in its readers cannot be anything but good and reinforces our sense of gratitude that these essays should exist and that the publishers should bring them all together. Good, scholarly and accessible environmental history like this does carry with it empowerment, vision and the very necessary context (that Nature, like us, has a history) that can only benefit those charged in society and politics with planning our future. I will certainly be encouraging my undergraduate and postgraduate environmental history students to dip into this book: they are after all (whether they welcome it or not!) the next environmental generation. In the growing debate over future environmental choices, these essays constitute a powerful corrective to the extremes on both sides.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Maps, Figures and Tables; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One: The Environmental Historiography of Britain; Chapter Two: The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness; Chapter Three: Exploiting Scottish Semi-natural Woods, 1600-1990; Chapter Four: The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900; Chapter Five: The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter Six: Bogs and People in Scotland since 1600; Chapter Seven: Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800; Chapter Eight: Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods; Chapter Nine: Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland; Chapter Ten: The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin; Chapter Eleven: Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity; Chapter Twelve: History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation; Chapter Thirteen: Environmental Consciousness; Select Bibliography.
£95.00
Edinburgh University Press American Theatre
Book SynopsisThis book provides a brief yet informative evaluation of the variety and complexity of theatrical endeavours in the United States, embracing all epochs of theatre history and situating American theatre as a lively, dynamic and diverse arena.Trade Review"In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable." -- Lisa Merrill, Ph.D., Professor of Performance Studies, Hofstra University, USA "In this compact and highly readable volume, Theresa Saxon introduces readers to a wide breadth of over four hundred years of American theatre and performance history. Given that mandate, Saxon's choice to draw upon a wide range of sources not generally available in theatre history texts and to highlight the early performance histories of Native Americans and African Americans is particularly noteworthy and commendable."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Heritage; 1. Defining American 'Drama'; 2. European Forms; 3. Performance and Strife in Eighteenth-Century Theatre; 4. Politics and Plays in the Nineteenth Century; 5. 'Modern' American Theatre and the Twentieth Century; Notes; Works Cited/Consulted; Index.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Exploring Environmental History
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together the best of T. C. Smout's recent articles and contributions to books and journals on the topic of environmental history.Trade ReviewThat the book should end with provoking thought in its readers cannot be anything but good and reinforces our sense of gratitude that these essays should exist and that the publishers should bring them all together. -- Ian Simmons, Emeritus Professor, University of Durham Environment and History The modest title of this book gives little idea of the excitements that lie within... This is a memorable book, rich in scholarship and full of argument, and elegantly written... the brilliance of the essays must make 'Exploring Environmental History' a thoroughly worthwhile purchase or gift. -- Paul Ramsey Recorder News Christopher Smout is, in my opinion, the best environmental historian in Britain; indeed, he practically invented the term. He is worth being read by every conservationist, not just for his specialist knowledge, but also because he is extremely readable. It ought to be a commonplace view that, as he asserts, environmental problems can be understood properly only from a historical perspective. -- Peter Marren British Wildlife Exploring Environmental History is a collection of essays and papers which distil the professor's latter-day researches and reflections. They are characteristically acute and uncompromising. -- Roger Hutchinson Scottish Review of Books In the growing debate over future environmental choices, these essays constitute a powerful corrective to the extremes on both sides. -- Richard Oram, University of Stirling Scottish Historical Review Good, scholarly and accessible environmental history like this does carry with it empowerment, vision and the very necessary context (that Nature, like us, has a history) that can only benefit those charged in society and politics with planning our future. I will certainly be encouraging my undergraduate and postgraduate environmental history students to dip into this book: they are after all (whether they welcome it or not!) the next environmental generation. -- Rod Lambert Landscape History That the book should end with provoking thought in its readers cannot be anything but good and reinforces our sense of gratitude that these essays should exist and that the publishers should bring them all together. The modest title of this book gives little idea of the excitements that lie within... This is a memorable book, rich in scholarship and full of argument, and elegantly written... the brilliance of the essays must make 'Exploring Environmental History' a thoroughly worthwhile purchase or gift. Christopher Smout is, in my opinion, the best environmental historian in Britain; indeed, he practically invented the term. He is worth being read by every conservationist, not just for his specialist knowledge, but also because he is extremely readable. It ought to be a commonplace view that, as he asserts, environmental problems can be understood properly only from a historical perspective. Exploring Environmental History is a collection of essays and papers which distil the professor's latter-day researches and reflections. They are characteristically acute and uncompromising. In the growing debate over future environmental choices, these essays constitute a powerful corrective to the extremes on both sides. Good, scholarly and accessible environmental history like this does carry with it empowerment, vision and the very necessary context (that Nature, like us, has a history) that can only benefit those charged in society and politics with planning our future. I will certainly be encouraging my undergraduate and postgraduate environmental history students to dip into this book: they are after all (whether they welcome it or not!) the next environmental generation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; List of Maps, Figures and Tables; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter One: The Environmental Historiography of Britain; Chapter Two: The Highlands and the Roots of Green Consciousness; Chapter Three: Exploiting Scottish Semi-natural Woods, 1600-1990; Chapter Four: The Pinewoods and Human Use, 1600-1900; Chapter Five: The Atlantic Oakwoods as a Commercial Crop in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Chapter Six: Bogs and People in Scotland since 1600; Chapter Seven: Energy Rich, Energy Poor: Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, 1600-1800; Chapter Eight: Improvers and the Scottish Environment: Soils, Bogs and Woods; Chapter Nine: Trees as Historic Landscapes: from Wallace's Oak to Reforesting Scotland; Chapter Ten: The Alien Species in Twentieth-Century Britain: Inventing a New Vermin; Chapter Eleven: Modern Agriculture and the Decline of British Biodiversity; Chapter Twelve: History, Nature and Culture in British Nature Conservation; Chapter Thirteen: Environmental Consciousness; Select Bibliography.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Balancing Act US Foreign Policy and the
Book SynopsisVaughn P. Shannon argues that US foreign policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict has been determined at three levels of analysis: that of systemic strategic context, that of domestic politics, and that of individual decision-makers. In this book he explores the role of each level of influence, as well as the implications for the posture which the US has chosen. Reflecting changing circumstances, the volume examines the Cold War, the Gulf War and the new ''War on Terror'' and how they have each placed differing pressures on US policymakers as they strive to maintain the ultimate strategic goal of preserving regional oil from becoming dominated by hostile forces. It is suitable for courses on American foreign policy, world politics and politics of the Middle East.Trade Review'In a concise yet wide-ranging analysis, Vaughn Shannon traces America's complex undertaking in the Middle East since World War Two. He shows clearly and persuasively that the formulation of US policy has been constrained by two competing pressures: the geo-strategic need for security and access to oil which requires good relations with the Arabs ranged against electoral and interest-group politics that entail a pro-Israeli stance. The result is that on many occasions, successive American administrations tried to please all parties to the conflict, but often ended up pleasing no one. The prose is fluid and accessible, yet analytically rigorous, and a volatile subject matter is treated with admirable neutrality.' Adeed Dawisha, author of Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair 'This work is especially recommended for undergraduates who seek to understand the dynamics shaping US policy toward the Middle East in recent decades. It is especially useful in highlighting the role of domestic politics in affecting foreign policy.' Professor Gifford B. Doxsee, Ohio University, Athens '...a very structured and analytical approach...an excellent monograph...Shannon does a masterful job of situating and assessing US policy success or failure within this three-cornered framework.' Journal of Energy Literature '...Vaughn Shannon's work offers a significant contribution to our existing knowledge of the conflict and enriches our understanding of it...Shannon's well-documented monograph is timely.' Etudes internationales 'Shannon has written a concise and thorough introduction to the Israeli-Arab problem...This book should be more than adaquate as a research tool or as a graduate reader. Yet its easily followed prose makes it suitable for the layman as well...this book is a recommendable read.' Contemporary Security Policy '...a timely contribution to the understanding of US foreign policy toward the Arab-Israeli conflict...On balance, Balancing Act is well researched and analytically sound. It is recommended for policy makers, journalists, and upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes related to Middle East politics, US foreign policy, and the Arab-Israeli conflict...' International Journal of Middle East StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Context of conflict: perspectives on the Arab-Israeli conflict; Present at the creation: US policy to 1949; Evolution of a 'Special Relationship': 1949-1967; War and peace: 1967-1979; From Cold War to Gulf War: new threats and new opportunities, 1979-1991; Implementing Oslo: 1991-2000; After Oslo: the politics of peace and terror, 2000-2002; Conclusion: assessing the balance sheet; Bibliography; Index.
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University Press of Kentucky Foundations of the Nazi Police State
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Lewis Masonic The Hall in the Garden
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Saqi Books A Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle
Book SynopsisTraces the development of the Late Babylonians' ingenious schemes for modelling planetary motion. This work reveals how medieval Islamic advances in the study of the heavens, and the design of precise astronomical instruments, led to breakthroughs by Renaissance practitioners such as Copernicus and Kepler.
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Carnegie Publishing Ltd CLITHEROE CASTLE
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Macmillan US Europe Against the Jews 18801945
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The History of Britain and Ireland
Book SynopsisThe History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.Written in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall demonstrations, The History of Britain and Ireland examines the history of Britain and Ireland at a time when it asks difficult questions of its past and looks to the future. Campbell places Black history at the forefront of his analysis and offers a voice to marginalised communities, to craft a complete and comprehensive history of Britain and Ireland from Prehistory to Today. This book is unique in that it integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to provide a balanced view of British history.Building on the successful foundations laid by the first edition, the book has been updated to include: COVID-19 and earlieTrade ReviewKenneth Campbell has written a thoughtful, up-to-date and eminently readable history of Britain and Ireland. Covering essential events and packed with fresh storied in its second edition, readers, especially students, will come away having learned a great deal indeed. * John Cramsie, Professor of British and Irish Studies and World History, Union College, USA *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Inventing the Third World
Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the ways in which the global south reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. The end of the Second World War and the eclipse of empires brought a wave of efforts to reimagine the future world order. When nation states emerging from colonial rule met at Bandung to chart alternative destinies and challenge global inequalities, they hoped to create a less hierarchical, more pluralistic and more distributive world. This volume considers the alternative visions put forth by the third world at the close of WWII to recover their world-changing aspirations as well as its cultural and intellectual breakthroughs. Demonstrating how the invention of the third world sought to create new institutions of solidarity, new expressions and alternative narratives to the imperial ones that they had inherited, this book reveals how writers, artists, musicians and phoTrade ReviewThis splendid volume does an excellent job of extending the history of the Bandung moment in both directions to frame it in the long twentieth century, and revises its spatial framework to show how Latin America is a crucial part of a picture too often confined to Eurasia, Africa and the Arab world. * Arjun Appadurai, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, USA *The concept of the “Third World,” a term frequently used pejoratively in Euro-America, comes to live here in its full potential and promise. This is a story of transnational networks and nodal points, and of the quest to create an alternative, more equitable global order beyond empire. An important intervention and fascinating reading! * Sebastian Conrad, Professor of Global History, Free University of Berlin, Germany *Bringing together leadings scholars of decolonization and global history, this volume embodies the political and geographic scale of the Third World. Mapping the cross-cutting itineraries of third worldism and traversing its lesser-known tributaries, these essays highlights the Third World’s emancipatory possibilities as well as the geopolitical and ideological differences that fractured solidarities. * Adom Getachew author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination *Inventing the Third World recovers the inspiring aspirations, neglected actors, and persistent tensions of anticolonial internationalism in its struggle to create liberatory futures. This collection is a magnificent contribution to the global history of our present and a precious resource for imagining how the world could be otherwise. * Ayça Çubukçu, Associate Professor in Human Rights and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. *Inventing The Third World could not be a more timely or trenchant intervention into the engorged ambitions of the accumulative, all embracing, globalization that dominates our current predicament. To portray the “third world” as an alternative or antidote to the bipolar condition of a world divided by the Cold War is to shrink its ambition and downscale its significance. The Third World --- as idea, ideology, aspiration --- was an experiment in transformational living and thinking on a world scale. The very concept itself was a call to create a cosmopolitical political culture of hospitality and equality, that embraced the diversity of the arts, and the regional autonomy of custom and culture. To read Prakash and Edelman’s volume is to encounter an optimism about what might once have been, and what may be yet to come. * Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and author of The Location of Culture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface, Homi Bhabha Introduction: Imagining the Third World: Genealogies of Alternative Global Histories, Gyan Prakash and Jeremy Adelman 1. The Third World Before Afro-Asia, Cindy Ewing (University of Toronto, Canada) 2. From Peace to National Liberation: Mexico and the Tricontinental, Patrick Iber (University of Wisconsin, USA) 3. A Voice for the Yugoslavs in Latin America: Oscar Waiss and the Yugoslav-Chilean Connection, (Agustín Cosovschi, Ecole Des Hautes Etudes En Sciences Sociales, France) 4. The End of Ideology and the Third World: The Congress For Cultural Freedom’s 1955 Milan Conference on the “Future Of Freedom” and its Aftermath (Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Wesleyan University, USA) 5. Latin American Network in Exile: A Communist Cultural Legacy for the Third World, (Marcelo Ridenti, State University Of Campinas, Brazil) 6. Radical Scholarship and Political Activism: Walter Rodney as Third World Intellectual and Historian of the Third World, (Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, Germany) 7. From London 1948 to Dakar 1966: Crises in Anticolonial Counterpublics, (Penny M. von Eschen, University of Virginia, USA) 8. Francis Newton Souza’s Black Paintings: Postwar Transactions in Color, (Atreyee Gupta (University Of California, Berkeley, USA) 9. Listening to the Cold War in Bombay, (Naresh Fernandes (Independent Writer) 10. Imagining a Progressive World: Soviet Visual Culture in Postcolonial India, (Jessica Bachman (University of Washington, USA) 11. The Battle of Conferences: Cultural Decolonisation and Global Cold War, (Monica Popescu, Mcgill University, Canada) 12. The Death of the Third World Revisited: Curative Democracy and World-Making in Late 1970s India, (Srirupa Roy, University Of Göttingen, Germany) Coda (Samuel Moyn, Yale University, USA) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History
Book SynopsisLukas M. Verburgt is Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and guest researcher at Leiden University, the Netherlands.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction: History of Science – Past, Present, Future, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 1. Global History of Science, James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) a. Comment: Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Cambridge and Royal Institution, UK) b. Response: James Poskett (University of Warwick, UK) 2. Gender History of Science, Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) a. Comment: Joanna Wharton (University of York, UK) b. Response: Donald L. Opitz (DePaul University, USA) 3. Post/Decolonial History of Science and STS, Suman Seth(Cornell University, USA) a. Comment: Meredith Alberta Palmer (Cornell University, USA) b. Response: Suman Seth & Meredith Alberta Palmer (both Cornell University, USA) 4. Neo-Kantian/Post-Kuhnian History and Philosophy of Science, Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) a. Comment: Katherina Kinzel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) b. Response: Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech University, USA) 5. Integrated History and Philosophy of Science (&HPS), Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) a. Comment: Hasok Chang (The University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Max Dresow (University of Minnesota, USA) 6. Historical Epistemology, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) a. Comment: Massimiliano Simons (Maastricht University, The Netherlands and KU Leuven, Belgium) b. Response: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Technical University of Berlin, Germany) 7. Environmental History of Science, Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) a. Comment: Libby Robin (Australian National University, Australia) b. Response: Johan Gärdebo (University of Uppsala, Sweden) 8. Multispecies History of Science, Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter, UK) b. Response: Raf de Bont (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) 9. Material and Performative History of Science, Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Pamela Smith (Columbia University, USA) b. Response: Marieke Hendriksen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Netherlands) 10. Computational History of Science, Julia Damerow and Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) a. Comment: Colin Frederick Allen (University of Pittsburgh, USA) b. Response: Julia Damerow & Manfred Laubichler (both Arizona State University USA) 11. History of Knowledge, Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) a. Comment: James A. Secord (University of Cambridge, UK) b. Response: Peter Burke (University of Cambridge, UK) 12. History of Scientific Ignorance, Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) a. Comment: Jouni-Matti Kuukanen (University of Oulu, Finland) b. Response: Lukas M. Verburgt (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Netherlands) 13. Agnotology in History of Science, Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) a. Comment: Anna Lisa Ahlers (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany) b. Response: Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University, USA) Bibliography Index
£24.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC English MPs
Book SynopsisWhat was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinions reflecting the needs of the kingdom? Most authorities have accepted Edmund Burke's depiction of 18th-century MPs, insisting it was their right to form their opinions without reference to the instructions of constituents. This study provides answers to these important questions and, in doing so, reveals that Burke's vision does not represent how the House of Commons functioned during the last two decades of the 18th century. Rather than focusing on specific issues or demographic groups, English MPs brings to the fore the legislative activity of a broad segment of late 18th-century English MPs. This book shows they were diligent legislators who attended to the needs of constituents, in the process developing strong connections with them. It demonstrates that these connections did not rest on shared beliefs in reformist ideologies except in, andTrade ReviewAn important study of how MPs helped shape the changing face of industrialising Britain in the second half of the 18th century against the backdrop of war and slavery. Professor McCahill’s extensive research into the work of MPs, constituencies, lobbies and petitioners transforms our understanding of the so-called ‘unreformed’ Parliament. * Miles Taylor, Professor of British History & Society, Humboldt University, Germany *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction: English MPs and Legislation, 1754-1790 2. Knights of the Shire 3. Borough members: Plymouth, Kingston-upon Hull and Bristol 4. More Borough members: Blackstone, Newdigate and Windham 5. Thomas Gilbert, Legislator, par excellence 6. Essex Imbroglios 7. Interest Groups: The West India Interest 8. Lobbies: Birmingham, Leeds and the Fisheries 9. Parliamentary reform: instructions and representation 10. The Commons and the Lords: A Legislative Partnership? 11. Conclusion Bibliography
£80.75
Simon & Schuster Ltd Witchcraft
Book SynopsisSalem, King James VI, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch hunts and witch trials sounds antiquated, relics of an unenlightened and brutal age. However, 'witch hunt' is heard often in the present-day media, and the misogyny it is rooted in is all too familiar today. A woman was prosecuted under the 1735 Witchcraft Act as recently as 1944. This book uses thirteen significant trials to explore the history of witchcraft and witch hunts. As well as investigating some of the most famous trials from the middle ages to the 18th century, it takes us in new and surprising directions. It shows us how witchcraft was decriminalised in the 18th century, only to be reimagined by the 1780s Romantic radicals. We will learn how it evolved from being seen as a threat to Christianity to perceived as gendered persecution, and how trials against chieftains in Africa stoked anger against colonial rule. Significantly, the book tells the stories of the
£13.49
State University of New York Press Black Womens Yoga History
Book SynopsisExamines how Black women elders have managed stress, emphasizing how self-care practices have been present since at least the mid-nineteenth century, with roots in African traditions.How have Black women elders managed stress? In Black Women''s Yoga History, Stephanie Y. Evans uses primary sources to answer that question and to show how meditation and yoga from eras of enslavement, segregation, and migration to the Civil Rights, Black Power, and New Age movements have been in existence all along. Life writings by Harriet Jacobs, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Eartha Kitt, Rosa Parks, Jan Willis, and Tina Turner are only a few examples of personal case studies that are included here, illustrating how these women managed traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression. In more than fifty yoga memoirs, Black women discuss practices of reflection, exercise, movement, stretching, visualization, and chanting for self-care. By unveiling the depth of a struggle for wellness, memoirs offer lessons for those who also struggle to heal from personal, cultural, and structural violence. This intellectual history expands conceptions of yoga and defines inner peace as mental health, healing, and wellness that is both compassionate and political.
£999.99
Edinburgh University Press Reinventing Liberty
Book SynopsisReturning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Sensational Internationalism
Book SynopsisIn refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
£85.50
Edinburgh University Press Reinventing Liberty
Book SynopsisReturning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Sensational Internationalism
Book SynopsisIn refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, 'Sensational Internationalism' radically changes our understanding of the relationship between France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Chile the CIA and the Cold War
Book SynopsisJames Lockhart reinterprets Chile and southern South America's Cold War experience from a transatlantic perspective. He argues that Chileans made their own history as highly engaged internationalists while reassessing American and other foreign-directed intelligence, surveillance and secret warfare operations in the region.
£999.99
