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Book SynopsisRevised for its third edition, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change vividly traces the development of Brazil over the last 500 years.Trade ReviewWith clear and comprehensible explanations of the zigzag trajectory of Brazil's recent politics, this edition brings the story right up to the present, presenting information on mid-2021 pandemic conditions, and exposes the historical foundations of contemporary crises ... The book is an altogether fitting practical tribute to the work of the late Professor Skidmore. * A. B. Cochran, CHOICE *Outstanding update and revision. The new material on post-2000 typical of Skidmore's deft style * following a basic economic and political narrative, while at the same time revealing important information about society and culture. No other book comes even close to Green and Skidmore's coverage of the 20th century. -James H. Sweet, University of Wisconsin *Brazil is scholarly without being stuffy, and covers the broad sweep of Brazilian history. - Mary Ann Mahoney, Central Connecticut State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Exhibits and Images Preface Introduction Why Read a History of Brazil? Chapter 1 The Making of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1694 The First Occupants of the Land Everyday Life, War, and Rituals Portuguese Overseas Expansion Early Consolidation of the Portuguese Monarchy Setting up a Global Trading Network The Portuguese Encounter Land to the West First European Impressions Portuguese Land Claims Brazilwood and Indigenous Slavery Go-betweens Imperial Reorganization French Claims The Sugar Industry Enslaved Africans Resistance to Slavery Unification of Spain and Portugal Dutch Occupation of the Northeast Emergence of the Myth of the Bandeirante Imperial Control Gold Chapter 2 A New Colonial Order, 1695-1821 Manumission of slaves Religious Orders Conflicts in the Mining Region Tensions in the Northeast Pombaline Reforms Indigenous Resistance The Influence of Enlightenment Ideas The Mineira Conspiracy Tailors' Revolt in Salvador The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil Creating a New Portuguese America Indigenous Resistance Pernambuco Revolution, 1817 A Portuguese Revolt and its Impact on Brazil Chapter 3 Independent Brazil and the Consolidation of a Nation, 1822-1850 Brazilian Hierarchies A Constitution The Emperor's Tribulations The Regency Regional Revolts Recentralization Pedro II as Emperor The Rise of Coffee Land Ownership Growing Challenges to Slavery Chapter 4 Late Imperial Brazil, 1851-1889 Gradually Ending Slavery The Emperor and His Pedestal The Paraguayan War The Effects of the War The Viscount of Mauá The Great Drought and the Amazon Rubber Boom New Roles for Middle-class Women Positivism, Republicanism, and the Military Question The Move toward Abolition Immigration The End of the Empire Chapter 5 Republican Brazil, 1889-1929 Modernizing Brazil" Whitening Brazil The Reality behind the Façade Indigenous Brazil Coffee Price Fluctuations and Emerging Industry The Roots of Industrialization Worker Organization and Employers' Strategy Evaporation of the Oligarchical Consensus A Message from Below Economic Strains The Shock of World War I The Economy after the War Brazil's Uneven Development Rebellion in the Army The Modern Woman and an Emerging Feminist Movement Modernism, Brazilian Style Rise of Anti-Liberal Thought The Disintegration of the Old Politics The Revolution of 1930 Chapter 6 Getúlio Vargas in Power, 1930-45 Swing toward Centralization Electoral rights Ideological Polarization Getúlio Vargas as Dictator The Vargas Style Corporatist Inroads A New Search for National Identity Juggling the International Options World War II and the Rise of U.S. Influence Brazil and the War Effort Collapse of the Dictatorship at Home Chapter 7 Experiments in Democracy, 1946-64 The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period Vargas Returns From Oligarch to Populist Vargas's Legislative Program Runs into Trouble Vargas's Demise Suicide Population Growth, Regional Disequilibria, and Migration A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected Political Strategy The Economic Development Program A New Capital Dealing with the World Economy The Brief Presidency of Jânio Quadros The Succession of João Goulart Populists versus the Military Brazilian Culture The National Union of Students The Economic Crisis Escalates Chapter 8 Rule of the Military, 1964-1985 The Generals in Power Growing Repression, Growing Opposition Strengthening the Military Regime Indigenous Policy under Military Rule Growing Opposition Crackdown The Economic Miracle Hyper-Nationalism The Arrival of the Guerrillas Cultural Resistance Mass Media during the Dictatorship The Use of Torture Exile An Economic Turn for the Worse The Winners and Losers The Road to Redemocratization Manipulating the Electoral System and Continued Repression New Social Movements The Working Class Takes Center Stage The Last General Chapter 9 The Return to Democracy, 1985-1994 An Unintended Succession Sarney and the New Democracy The Cruzado Plan The Debt Crisis and the Economy Lost Investment and a Brain Drain Widening Gaps between Rich and Poor Education and Medical Care Roads and Communications Public Health: A Success Story Changes Affecting Women Race Relations The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy The Left The Right The Center The Armed Forces Presidential Elections New Policies The End Another Vice President in Command Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real The Presidential Election of 1994 Chapter 10 Consolidating Democracy, 1994-2006 The Cardoso Government's First Term More Economic Problems A Second Term in Office Social Justice Delayed On-going Challenges The Presidential Race Lula's Governmental Team The PT in Power Exports Take Center Stage Poverty Alleviation and Education Enhancement The PT Tastes Scandal The Last Year of Lula's First Term Prisons Riots 2006 Elections Chapter 11 A Nation Polarized, 2006-present Lula Reaches New Heights Recognition Abroad Continuity at Home Presidenta in Power The 2013 Protests Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) A Fourth PT Term A Conservative Tidal Wave The Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff Temer government Lula Ensnared The 2018 Election The Past Returns Suggestions for Further Reading Film, History, Culture, and Society Index

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Book SynopsisIn the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, THE VERGE tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author Patrick Wyman examines two complementary and contradictory sides of the same historical coin: the world-altering implications of the developments of printed mass media, extreme taxation, exploitative globalization, humanistic learning, gunpowder warfare, and mass religious conflict in the long term, and their intensely disruptive consequences in the short-term.As told through the lives of ten real people -- from famous figures like Christopher Columbus and wealthy banker Jakob Fugger to a ruthless small-time merchant and a one-armed mercenary captain -- THE VERGE illustrates how their lives, and the times in which they lived, set the stage for an unprecedented globalized future.Over an intense forty-year period, the seeds for the so-called "Great Divergence" between Western Europe and the rest of the globe would be planted. From Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic to Martin Luther's sparking the Protestant Reformation, the foundations of our own, recognizably modern world came into being.For the past 500 years, historians, economists, and the policy-oriented have argued which of these individual developments best explains the West's rise from backwater periphery to global dominance. As THE VERGE presents it, however, the answer is far more nuanced.

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Book SynopsisNow in a fully updated edition that goes through the Trump administration and the election and formative period of the Biden administration, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the country to the present. Joyce P. Kaufman provides students and general readers with a clear and concise understanding of key foreign-policy decisions and why they were made. She identifies the major themes that have guided foreign policy and the reasons that the United States pursued certain policies in the context of specific periods in the nation’s history. Kaufman focuses on the major actors involved in the making of foreign policy and the changing relationships among them. She also explains the major theoretical perspectives within international relations and contextualizes key foreign policy decisions as they fit these frameworks. This edition puts a particular focus on the creation of Cold War foreign policy, and why the end of the Cold War has continued to be such a challenge to the United States. Kaufman concludes with a look at the threat that the United States is facing and will continue to face, including existential threats such as climate change and disease, and how Americans can be prepared to face them.

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Book SynopsisAn untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions. Official record at the time scarcely made mention of the campaign, and in the years since only lukewarm acknowledgment of the violence has surfaced. When the Iron Bird Flies, by Jianglin Li, breaks this decades long silence to reveal for the first time a comprehensive and explosive picture of the six years that would prove definitive in modern Tibetan and Chinese history. The CCP referred to the campaign as "suppressing the Tibetan rebellion." It would lead to the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in India, as well as the Tibetan diaspora in 1959, though the battles lasted three additional years after these events. Featuring key figures in modern Chinese history, the battles waged in this period covered a vast geographical region. This book offers a portrait of chaos, deception, heroism, and massive loss. Beyond the significant death toll across the Tibetan regions, the war also destroyed most Tibetan monasteries in a concerted effort to eradicate local religion and scholarship. Despite being considered a military success, to this day, the operations in the agricultural regions remain unknown. As large numbers of Tibetans have self-immolated in recent years to protest Chinese occupation, Li shows that the largest number of cases occurred in the sites most heavily affected by this hidden war. She argues persuasively that the events described in this book will shed more light on our current moment, and will help us understand the unrelenting struggle of the Tibetan people for their freedom.Trade Review"In this book we have the for the first time a Chinese historian presenting conclusive research on Tibet's recent history. It is my hope that through this historical documentation establishing the truth of what happened, Chinese intellectuals, and all other readers, will come to understand the real situation and be able to deepen their approach to and understanding of the Tibet problem in the spirit of seeking truth from facts. With my praise and admiration for the author on the fruition of her many labours." –His Holiness the Dalai Lama"Jianglin Li is a treasure. The confines of our knowledge about Tibet have expanded dramatically as a result of her dogged research. She has done for Tibet what Chinese historians like Yang Jisheng have done for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution: uncovered, at considerable personal cost, a history that the Communist Party tried hard to conceal."—Barbara Demick, author of Eat the Buddha"Jianglin Li has pieced together by far the most comprehensive and compelling picture of the devastation wreaked by China upon Tibet. This book is likely to remain the definitive source, and therefore required reading, for anyone interested in this history."—Anne F. Thurston, co-author with Gyalo Thondup of The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong"To have this kind of detail about these events is exceptional. Until now, historians had assumed that 1959 marked the end of major conflict between the PLA and Tibet. This important study corrects those notions, and expands our understanding about the deep tensions that continue to reverberate in much of China's western territories."—Robert Barnett, editor of Forbidden Memory: Tibet during the Cultural Revolution"When the Iron Bird Flies provides the most comprehensive account to date of the brutal and bloody conflicts that took place between the PLA and Tibetans. Combining rigorous research with extensive interviews with Tibetan refugees, this book sheds light on those violent critical years of state incorporation."—Emily T. Yeh, author of Taming Tibet"Authoritative, exhaustive, and reliable, Jianglin Li's account sets a new standard for the history of Sino-Tibetan relations and deftly depicts the momentous historical transition of a region little known to outsiders."—David G. Atwill, coauthor with Yurong Y. Atwill of Sources in Chinese History"This extraordinarily important book reveals for the first time the ruthless military campaign against local rebellions that the PLA waged across vast Tibetan regions. This long-hidden story, told in a series of powerfully dramatic vignettes, reshapes our understanding of the formative years of the People's Republic of China."—Andrew G. Walder, author of China Under Mao"[When the Iron Bird Flies] provides many startling details about how the Chinese Communist Party cracked down on Tibetans from 1956 through 1962. The work of Li, an independent scholar born in China, has an aspect of a detective story because the Chinese government has never disclosed much of what happened... Does any of this matter now, decades later? I think so. As I read Li's study, I thought of the current Chinese government crackdown on the Uyghurs of far northwestern China. I suspect that many of the lessons the Communist Party learned in Tibet are being applied now."—Thomas E. Ricks, The New York Times Book Review"Li draws on interviews with exiled Tibetans and on classified Chinese-language sources to describe battle after battle and the enormous destruction and loss of civilian life that the PLA caused... The story is all the more heartbreaking for the clinical tone of Li's reporting."—Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign AffairsThe book's strength is Li's detailed account and descriptions of events based on rarely accessed Chinese sources supplemented by interviews with Tibetans living in exile. Li sees the book as a personal exploration in pursuit of truth.... Overall, Li tells a powerful story of the Tibetan resistance and provides vivid details about the clash between vastly different value systems that underlay that conflict."—Tsering Shakya, Pacific AffairsTable of Contents1. The Storm Rising in the Mountains 2. Rebellion Sparked in the Year of the Fire Monkey 3. Lithang: The Fallen Buddha of the Future 4. Chatreng: The Broken Mala 5. Nyarong: The Wrath of the Dragoness 6. The First Bend in the Yellow River 7. Tibet: Occupation and "Reform" 8. The Chamdo Pilot Project and "Six Years without Change" 9. Diplomatic Clashes: Zhou Enlai, Nehru, and the Dalai Lama 10. Obscure Events in 1957 11. Gunshots in the Golok Grasslands 12. The Yellow River Massacre 13. Yulshul in Flames 14. Tubten Nyima, a monk from the area, confirmed to the author the location of the battles referred to as the "battle of encirclement and annihilation in southeastern Xinghai" in Chinese sources. It was one of the major campaigns of Qinghai's 1958-1959 suppression of the Tibetan resistance and fleeing Tibetans. 15. The Crossed-Sword Banner at Drigu Lake 16. The 1958 "Religious Reform Movement" 17. Lhasa, the Last Hope 18. "Lhasa Is No More!" 19. The Battle of Lhoka 20. From Namtso to Mitikha 21. Encircling the Plateau in the Depths of Winter 22. The Men Who Fell from the Sky 23. Chamdo's Fight to the Death 24. The Life-or-Death Journey 25. When the Iron Horse Raced Across the Plateau

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Book SynopsisIn The Atlantic Realists, intellectual historian Matthew Specter offers a boldly revisionist interpretation of "realism," a prevalent stance in post-WWII US foreign policy and public discourse and the dominant international relations theory during the Cold War. Challenging the common view of realism as a set of universally binding truths about international affairs, Specter argues that its major features emerged from a century-long dialogue between American and German intellectuals beginning in the late nineteenth century. Specter uncovers an "Atlantic realist" tradition of reflection on the prerogatives of empire and the nature of power politics conditioned by fin de siècle imperial competition, two world wars, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Focusing on key figures in the evolution of realist thought, including Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and Wilhelm Grewe, this book traces the development of the realist worldview over a century, dismantling myths about the national interest, Realpolitik, and the "art" of statesmanship.Trade Review"One may believe there is little left to know about the realist theory of international relations and its founder Hans Morgenthau. But through the complex figure of Morgenthau, Matthew Specter is able not only to work out the ambivalent pathways of the German mandarins who emigrated to the USA, but also put the theory of political realism itself into a wholly new light as a transatlantic exchange of ideas between the US and Germany. This dates back to the geopolitical thought and social Darwinistic milieu of both rising industrial powers in the 1880s. A particular gem is the surprising chapter on Wilhelm Grewe—a student of Carl Schmitt, who continued his Nazi career in the Federal Republic unbroken—and here, in postwar Germany, played a role similar to that of Morgenthau in the USA. An original, an illuminating, a brilliant book."—Jürgen Habermas, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Goethe University Frankfurt"A singular aspect of the German-American relationship is the cross-pollination of political and constitutional thought going back to the Revolutionary era. Matthew Specter's fascinating study shows that the concept of realism made several Atlantic crossings—beginning not, as has long been assumed, in the global cataclysm of World War II, but in the heyday of US and German empire. His trenchant critique of the 'imperial blindspots and democratic deficits' of realism is also a useful warning to the current advocates of restraint seeking to wrap themselves in the mantle of the Atlantic realist tradition."—Constanze Stelzenmüller, Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and trans-Atlantic relations, Brookings Institution"Matthew Specter's rich history rewrites the genealogy of realism. Specter lays bare the intellectual foundations of the default setting of American foreign policy. This is not just a major addition to trans-Atlantic intellectual history. In a world of escalating international tension, it is an urgent book."—Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Davis Professor of History and Director of the European Institute, Columbia University"An intensively grounded study of a carefully defined body of thought, ambitiously pitched, and persuasively contextualized, The Atlantic Realists brings both clarity and challenge to some vital cross-disciplinary conversations, from international relations and political theory to intellectual history and political history. Among its many particular virtues is a thought-provokingly helpful commentary on the influence of Carl Schmitt."—Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan"Specter's important cultural-historical reinterpretation of Realism relocates its intellectual origins from the Weimar Republic back to late nineteenth-century imperialism. He shows how American and German thinkers, steeped in provincial assumptions about imperialism and competition, developed the apologies for empire and the international use of force that still haunt international relations theory today."—Isabel Hull, John Stambaugh Professor of History Emerita, Cornell University"Matthew Specter has written a superb study that spans the intellectual history of realism across two centuries and between two continents, and traces in a most original way the network of interconnections among Atlantic Realists, notably between the US and Germany."—Karl Kaiser, Harvard Kennedy SchoolA Financial Times Best summer book of 2022: Politics"Atlantic Realists stands as a significant and important contribution to the history of international political thought and to continuing debates over what it means to be realistic in world politics."—Michael C. Williams, Contemporary Political Theory"Specter makes a solid case that the classical realists in many ways invented a noble lineage for themselves, identifying great historical philosophers whose work fit in with their notions of the world (such as Hobbes) while eliding or avoiding altogether their more questionable historical antecedents. ...This intellectual genealogy of realism is an impressive contribution."—Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs"[Specter] makes the innovative choices of studying the timespan from the late 19th century to the present to show the long emergence of post-WW II realism and identifying relevant currents of thought between Europe, especially Germany, and the United States. These choices reveal new sources for tracking the development of realism, and readers come to appreciate that the key tenets of the theory are historical constructs that evolved somewhat erratically as currents of German and American thought interacted. ... Recommended."—M. A. Morris, CHOICE"[Specter's] criticisms are compelling and they are grounded in a close reading of the published writings and private correspondence of key figures in Germany and the United States. Specter shows that modern realism does indeed have connections to imperial pretensions from the late nineteenth century, and it smuggles subjective value judgments and political aims into its naturalized discourse. The realist worldview is not any more organic than non-realist frameworks, including liberal internationalism, Leninism, or others."—Jeremi Suri, Diplomatic History"By forcing us once more to confront the quixotic character of realism as both aggressively imperial, but with a hyperromantic attachment to politics as the art and exercise of power, Specter compels us to consider very carefully what exactly we think we are doing if we are also teachers of political thought in the first place."—Duncan Kelly, Perspectives on Politics"Specter'sThe Atlantic Realistsis an invaluable, thought-provoking addition to the history of International Relations and sheds further lights on the debates that made this discipline. Readers will learn a great deal about American-German intellectual relations since the end of the nineteenth century and how they shaped International Relations. More of this kind of work is needed."—Felix Rösch, E-International Relations

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Conchophilia seven scholars dissect why Renaissance-era collectors braved maritime hazards to beachcomb. Finding the pearliest treasures at shorelines called for avoiding crocodiles, spiny urchins and ‘burning sea slime’. . . . Painters depicted shells, with names as wonderful as ‘precious wentletrap’ and ‘speckled episcopal miter,’ arrayed on banquet tables or in the hands of exulting deities. Metalsmiths set nautiluses on gold pedestals sculpted with mermaid and sea foam motifs. Collectors had favorite shells cemented onto grotto walls, sometimes in the bristly shapes of pine cones and artichokes."---Eve M. Kahn, New York Times"This richly illustrated collection of essays conceptualises the shell and how it was used in material and visual culture, philosophy, and aesthetics as a ‘vessel’ to comprehend early modern society, primarily in a Dutch and German context. . . . [A] well-produced and beautiful book, even its softly glowing endpapers reminiscent of polished shells and nacre. Of interest to art historians, historians of science, and historians of visual and material culture, the essays are also clearly written and approachable, offering many pearls of wisdom. I highly recommend it."---Anna Marie Roos, Early Modern Low Countries"The exquisitely illustrated, thought-provoking book examines the complicated provenances, varied uses, and key role of shells in shaping this period’s visual and aesthetic culture."---Lauren Moya Ford, Hyperallergic"[Conchophilia does] an excellent job in surveying both art history and the history of science to discuss the uses of shells in art. . . . The lavish illustrations alone are worth the price of purchase. . . . Truly a feast for the eyes."---Alan R. Kabat, American Conchologist"Conchophilia is well-designed and beautifully illustrated, a book that deploys wonderful narratives about the love of shells in early modern Europe. . . . A captivating combination of the material and the social, of shells and people."---Marlise Rijks, Early Science and Medicine"A very handsome book replete with full-color photographs, Conchophilia is a joy to read, as appealing and stimulating as the curiosities it considers."---James Clifton, Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews"All the studies in this beautiful book command respect: they are distinctly original and relevant and unfold with keen intelligence. With a novel, methodical approach, and by means of very subtle and magnificently illustrated analyses, they illuminate European collections of the first modern era."---Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, Renaissance and Reformation"A thought-provoking and beautifully produced book. . . . [A]s all authors convincingly show in their chapters, a case can be made for the particular poignant love of shells from the early sixteenth century onward. Both as literal and metaphorical vessels, it is argued, shells prompted reflection, contemplation, and discussion, as material manifestations of exoticness, (natural and divine) craftmanship, and aesthetics."---Marika Keblusek, Renaissance Quarterly"A fascinating book."---Christopher Stocks, Country Life

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Book SynopsisEveryone’s favourite motorcycles of the 1980s in this lavishly illustrated little book

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Book SynopsisThe Great Tapestry of Scotland is an outstanding celebration of thousands of years of Scottish history and achievement, from the end of the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep and Andy Murry’s Wimbledon victory of 2013. More than 1000 stitchers spent a total of 55,000 sewing hours on the 160 panels that make up this extraordinary work of art. This book shows in full colour all the finished panels of the tapestry – one of the biggest community arts projects ever to take place in Scotland – together with descriptive and explanatory material on each panel and lists of all the stitchers involved.Trade Review'A real people’s history that has humour and pathos, erudition and wit, and where in every panel you feel the presence and the engagement of the makers' * BBC Radio 4, ‘Museums That Make Us’ *'This remarkable teamwork has made Andrew Crummy's artistic vision a reality, and The Great Tapestry of Scotland is now a gift to the nation' * Edinburgh Life *'[T]he most ambitious attempt to capture the past in needle and thread since the Bayeux Tapestry ... The result is not just visually stunning but intensely moving and occasionally very funny' * The Times *'The beauty of this book lies in the ample space devoted to illustrating each panel of the tapestry, allowing the reader to study the detail in the crafting of each story at their leisure' * Scottish Field *'This sumptuous book details every single panel in rich detail, giving a real sense of the scale of the project [. . .] perfect as an introduction to this wonderful work of art, or as a reminder for anyone who has seen the exhibition' * National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies *'If you are unable to see the Tapestry in all its glory, this wonderful book will take you through the country’s history from the Ice Age to the present day as told in the stitches of 160 panels' * New Stitches *

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Book SynopsisIn Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance of Indonesia''s contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world''s palm oil. They attend to the exploitative nature of plantation life, wherein villagers'' well-being is sacrificed in the name of economic development. While plantations are often plagued by ruined ecologies, injury among workers, and a devastating loss of livelihoods for former landholders, small-scale independent farmers produce palm oil more efficiently and with far less damage to life and land. Li and Semedi theorize “corporate occupation” to underscore how massive forms of capitalist production and control over the palm oil industry replicate colonial-style relations that undermine citizenship. In so doing, they question the assumption that corporations are necessary for rural development, contending that the dominance of plantations stems from a political system that privilTrade Review“Plantation Life is an eye-opening book on many fronts. It offers up an ethnographically and historically rich account of forms of life in Indonesia's corporate plantation zone and has much to give about method, collaboration, and evidence. Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi show how the plantation is a presence both fickle and contradictory, at once an occupying force and a source of neglect: occupation and abandonment, order and disorder, theft and calculability, alignment and fracture all coexist in a rough-and-tumble assemblage in which political economy and technologies of power are simultaneously in play. An important book.” -- Michael Watts, Class of '63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley“Palm oil is one of the most ubiquitous ingredients in consumer products in industrialized countries and the principal driver of landscape transformation in the Indo-Malay tropics. This, the first ethnography of oil palm plantations, convincingly demonstrates that they neither achieve their purported goal of modernizing the rural peasantry nor---remarkably---make money for the corporations involved, a paradox and perversity of modern capitalism. This is a must-read for everyone interested in tropical peoples and environments and the impact on them of consumerism in the global North.” -- Michael R. Dove, author of * Bitter Shade: The Ecological Challenge of Human Consciousness *"A useful primer on oil palm plantations in Indonesia but even more useful for illustrating how ethnographic research can be carried out across borders and languages. Recommended. Undergraduates and two-year program students. Recommended. Undergraduates and two-year program students." -- Z. McLaughlin * Choice *“Rather than the typical colonial pattern of the local Indonesian collecting the data but having little involvement in the analysis or writing, [Plantation Life] involved the constitution of a real partnership in all aspects of the work. . . . Plantation Life represents an important contribution to the literature . . . and has a lot of potential for class adoption.” -- Ian G. Baird * Antipode *“Plantation Life is a pathbreaking book. Its approach to corporate presence as a state-licensed form of occupation represents an advance in the understanding of the forms of violence that emerge in plantation zones. . . . Since the authors critically engaged in joint research and writing, the book also sets the parameters for future developments in the practice of scholarly collaboration.” -- Miryam Nacimento * Journal of Peasant Studies *"Plantation Life stands out with its powerful combination of the depth of intensive ethnographic study and the refreshing conceptualization of corporate occupation and its 'world-making' consequences. Furthermore, for a book written with academic rigour, the flowing storytelling makes it easy to read for everyone." -- Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction 1 1. Establishing Plantations 29 2. Holding Workers 59 3. Fragile Plots 90 4. Forms of Life 122 5. Corporate Presence 158 Conclusion 185 Appendix. Collaborative Practices 193 Notes 199 Bibliography 219 Index 239

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women's liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life.After addressing the first British Women's Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership.Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks, communal houses and squats, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.Trade ReviewRowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second wave. -- Melissa BennRowbotham is a leading feminist historian, and an unapologetic utopian -- Barbara Taylor * Guardian *Rowbotham has a marvelous gift for explication and an eye for the illuminating quotation. -- Elaine Showalter * Daily Telegraph *For Rowbotham, women's liberation was bound up with the dismantling of capitalism. But it also required-and here they departed from the Old Guard left-a rethinking of everyday patterns of life, relating to sex, love, housework, child rearing. -- Amia Srinivasan * New Yorker *Frank, powerful and vibrant. -- Rachel Collett * Tribune *Daring to Hope captures [Rowbotham's] youthful Utopian spirit. In it, she looks back at a decade of social change and recounts her experiences on the frontline of feminism. -- Rosa Silverman * Telegraph *Thoroughly engaging...I felt aligned with the frank and personal account of a young woman's life changing throughout the decade. -- Cathy Crabb * Northern Soul *A deeply compelling story about the making of our own times ... Rowbotham's humanity and craft shines through. -- Rana Mitter * BBC History Magazine’s Books of the Year 2021 *Rowbotham has wisdom - and wit. -- Yvonne Roberts * Observer *Rewarding. -- Clare Griffiths * Times Literary Supplement *[Daring to Hope] shows us what is possible, but that it is our job to go out and do it. -- Lydia Hughes * Red Pepper *A very enjoyable read, chronicling the ways in which the author engaged with the increasing challenges of the 1970s, while maintaining her hopes for an alternative future -- Marjorie Mayo * Morning Star Online *Exciting ... I read it over a weekend. -- Ross Bradshaw * The Spokesman Journal *Beautifully-measured account of a radical decade ... [Rowbotham] meets and makes friends with suffragettes, old communists and an ageless Dora Russell. This book is a valuable bridge between today's feminism and that of our forebears. -- Erica Smith * Peace News *

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Book Synopsis''Written in a lively, accessible style, The Waiting Game is full of insight'' Suzannah Lipscomb, Literary ReviewEvery Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen''s ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded expertly by women. The Waiting Game explores the daily lives of ladies-in-waiting, revealing the secrets of recruitment, costume, what they ate, where (and with whom) they slept. We meet María de Salinas, who travelled to England with Catherine of Aragon when just a teenager and spied for her during the divorce from Henry VIII. Anne Boleyn''s lady-in-waiting Jane Parker was instrum

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Book SynopsisThe text covers the geography, people, history, and expeditions in Sikhim and Bhutan, including early reminiscences, royal visits, and missions to Bhutan.

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Book SynopsisAs Napoleon himself once said, 'History is a version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.' Noted down in historical documents, copied and widely repeated, it doesn't take long for a version of the truth to become accepted as fact. But who invents these false accounts in the first place, and why do they gain traction so quickly? Far from concerning the obscure and insignificant parts of our history, these fundamental inaccuracies and downright lies colour the depiction of many of those pivotal characters and events we learnt about at school. Cleopatra, Marco Polo, Captain Cook, Joan of Arc; most of us could reel off a fact or two about each. But as this intriguing book reveals, a closer examination of these core parts of our social and political history shows that often all was not as it seemed, and that the agendas of those responsible for recording these events had a huge impact on what was reported and what was covered up.

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Book Synopsis'A glorious green adventure story.' Ann Treneman, The Times 'Books of the Year''The most enthralling historical book I’ve read this year.' Claire Tomalin, New Statesman 'Books of the year' Daringly innovative when it opened in 1848, the Palm House in Kew Gardens remains one of the most beautiful glass buildings in the world today. Seemingly weightless, vast and yet light, the Palm House floats free from architectural convention, at once monumental and ethereal. From a distance, the crowns of the palms within are silhouetted in the central dome; close to, banana leaves thrust themselves against the glass. To enter it is to enter a tropical fantasy. The body is assaulted by heat, light and the smell of damp vegetation. In Palace of Palms, Kate Teltscher tells the extraordinary story of its creation and of the Victorians’ obsession with the palms that filled it. It is a story of breathtaking ambition, of scientific discovery and, crucially, of the remarkable men whose vision it was. The Palm House was commissioned by the charismatic first Director of Kew, Sir William Hooker, designed by the audacious Irish engineer, Richard Turner, and managed by Kew’s forthright curator, John Smith, who battled with boilers and floods to ensure the survival of the rare and wondrous plants it housed.Trade ReviewThe most enthralling historical book I’ve read this year. -- Claire Tomalin * New Statesman 'Books of the year' *Teltscher skilfully brings to life the human story behind the growth of Kew and the creation of its extraordinary centrepiece. What's more remarkable, however, is her command of the details of the new technology that went into the construction of the Palm House . . . she makes such matters unexpectedly fascinating. * Literary Review *A fascinating and rip-roaring account of the building of one of the great – and experimental – glass buildings of the Victorian age. * Daily Telegraph *A glorious green adventure story. -- Ann Treneman * The Times 'Books of the Year' *Stories of botanical exploration are combined with biographies of the characters behind the famous building, transporting the reader to 19th-century London and the countries that supplied the palms for the glasshouse. One can only marvel at the scale of the achievement and feel humbled by how much we owe to the enslaved peoples who enabled countless plants to be brought to our shores from the colonies. -- Rachel de Thame * Sunday Times *The fascinating story of one of the greatest showpieces of Victorian Britain: the Palm House in Kew Gardens. -- Sam Leith * Spectator *The story of the creation of the Palm House and the men whose vision it was, are engrossingly told. * Choice Magazine 'Hardback Book of Month' *I stand corrected by this exhilarating book - but also delighted, astounded and vastly entertained . . . This is gardening history at its best - a sparkling window on the colourful and contradictory Victorian era. -- Ambra Edwards * The Garden *This beautifully crafted book invokes a world of breathtaking Victorian engineering, glass houses and lush tropical vegetation to tell a tale of exploration, botanical science and the making of new imaginaries. -- Vinita Damodaran, Professor of South Asian History and Director, Centre for World Environmental History, University of SussexLively . . . vividly drawn . . . Wearing her research lightly, Teltscher tells her tale of politicking and financial wrangles, domestic tragedies and epic plant hunting expeditions with a pace and vibrancy more commonly found in novels than in academic study. * Gardens Illustrated *Kate Teltscher skilfully distils the historical facts of the creation of the Palm House into a piece of storytelling that is difficult to put down. * English Garden *Truly, this is a work of which all interested in the history of natural history and the history of botany should immediately take note. -- Johannes E. Riutta * The Well-read Naturalist *The story of its [the Palm House's] creation and the plant collections in it encompass all the qualities that make a great story: personal ambition, disagreements, eccentricity, struggles, fashions, fights and ultimately a building that triumphs. * This England *Not since Anna Pavord's The Tulip has a book so brilliantly captured the spirit of its subject. Kate Teltscher's Palace of Palms is a glorious headrush into Victorian history via one of the most iconic and beautiful glasshouses in the world. This is a bright, shining jewel of a book, a hedonists' delight and an escapists' antidote to the humdrum. -- Amanda ForemanIn this fascinating book, Kate Teltscher introduces us not just to the Palm House at Kew, but to the world of the palm. In so doing, she roams from botany and horticulture, through plant hunting expeditions and literary traditions, to engineering and architecture. Some of the people met on this journey are the privileged members of society, some technical geniuses, others working men who toiled in gruelling conditions to transport a tropical world to Victorian London. -- Margaret Willes, author of The Gardens of the British Working ClassTeltscher is a remarkable new historian . . . wholly original -- William DalrympleThis book gives a marvelous glimpse into a lost and luscious Victorian world, peopled not only with plants but with energetic, ambitious - and sometimes frankly bonkers - characters. -- Lucy WorsleyKate Teltscher’s highly readable account breathes life into the key characters and events that shaped the remarkable evolution of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew during the 19th century, and its most iconic building, the Palm House. -- Toby MusgraveThe Palm House is unarguably the iconic building at Kew Gardens, and in my opinion, the most beautiful glasshouse in the world. The Victorians created this glorious temple to house their precious palms and today, 170 years later, it continues to delight and awe millions of visitors every year. This book tells its story. -- Richard Deverell, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, KewThe Palm House at Kew has been a world attraction since it was opened in 1848 - and Kate Teltscher's brilliantly researched account of the botanists and architects responsible is as thrilling as a novel. -- Claire TomalinThe establishment of Kew Gardens and the building of the great Palm House is a most remarkable story, that touches on every aspect of 19th century life. Kate Teltscher knows it all – the politics, the science, the engineering – and writes about it with effortless elegance to weave the most wonderfully compelling narrative. -- Michael Frayn

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Book SynopsisThe international bestselling story of one British soldier's brave choice to exchange places with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz.Trade ReviewThis is a most important book, and a timely reminder of the dangers that face any society once intolerance and racism take hold. * Sir Martin Gilbert *This memoir is an important contribution to a terrible chapter in history. * Daily Express *Denis is a hero in time of terror, a man of limitless moral and physical courage. * Henry Kamm, New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner *'This is the most amazing Holocaust memoir it's been my good fortune to read...this is a beautiful, uplifting book about a real ben adom, a mensch, who saw evil and, instead of averting his eyes, did what he could to help the victims'. * Washington Jewish Week *an excellent memoir of survival. * Publishers Weekly *A unique war story from a brave man. * Kirkus *This is the incredible story of British soldier Denis Avey who broke into Auschwitz to uncover the horrors that were concealed there by the Nazis...This is a brutal account of what he experienced. There are some who doubt his story but don't let that ruin this extraordinary book. * Press Association *THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ will take your breath away. * La revista de Ana Rosa (Spain) *What starts as an act of reportage then becomes a moving and ultimately triumphant story of survival. * Belfast Telegraph *'Exceptional'. * Morgenpost (Germany) *An astonishing heroic tale of a steady character. * Jüdische Zeitung (Germany) *'An admirable story'. * Periodista digital (Spain) *'A remarkable story'. * De Telegraaf (Holland) *A 'strange, brave and bracing story'. * Canberra Times *

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Book SynopsisThis is a new history of Britain''s imperial wars during the nineteenth century. Including chapters on wars fought in the hills, on the veldt, in the dense forests, and along the coast, it discusses wars waged in China, Burma, Afghanistan, and India/Pakistan; New Zealand; and, West, East, and South Africa. Leading military historians from around the world situate the individual conflict in the larger context of British domestic history and British foreign policy/grand strategy and examine the background of the conflict, the war aims, the outbreak of the war, the forces and technology employed, a narrative of the war, details about one specific battle, and the aftermath of the war. Beginning with the Indian Rebellion and ending with the South African War, it enables readers to see the global impact of British imperialism, the function of the army in the service of British political goals, and the evolution of military technology.Trade Review'Stephen M. Miller has provided a pathbreaking collection of case-studies, each written by an internationally recognised expert, each showing how and why a clear understanding of its wars and their conduct has become indispensable to the history of the British Empire at its height.' Stephen Badsey, author of Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry'Stephen M. Miller's excellent new edited volume confirms the fundamental truth that the British imperial experience during the Victorian era was defined as much by the obstruction and resistance of those subject to its impositions than by simplistic tropes of territorial extension or brutal hegemony.' Christian Tripodi, author of Edge of Empire'Framed by the empire-defining conflicts of the 1857 Indian rebellion and the South African War, Queen Victoria's Wars demonstrates how so-called 'small wars' shaped and scarred the British empire in the nineteenth century. Ranging from wars of conquest and punitive expeditions to guerrilla and 'pacification' campaigns, the interconnections of empire – whether in the form of troops and human capital, geopolitics or intelligence flows – are drawn out in great detail.' Erica Wald, author of Vice in the Barracks'This book is definitely a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the historical context of asymmetrical warfare and great-power involvement abroad … Recommended.' A. M. Wainwright, Choice MagazineTable of Contents1. Introduction Stephen M. Miller; 2. The Indian Rebellion, 1857–1858 Douglas M. Peers; 3. Punitive expeditions in China, 1857–1860 Bruce Collins; 4. The expedition to Abyssinia, 1867–1868 Christopher Brice; 5. The New Zealand Wars, 1845–1872 John Crawford; 6. The Third Anglo-Asante War, 1873–1874 Ryan Patterson; 7. The Second Afghan War, 1878–1880 Rodney Atwood; 8. The Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 Ian Knight; 9. The First Anglo-Boer War, 1880–1881 John Laband; 10. Egypt and the Sudan, 1881–1885 Rob Johnson; 11. The Third Anglo-Burmese War and the pacification of Burma, 1885–1895 Ian F. W. Beckett; 12. The Tirah Campaign, 1897–1898 Sameetah Agha; 13. Reconquest of the Sudan, 1896–1898 Edward M. Spiers; 14. The South African War, 1899–1902 Stephen M. Miller; 15. Conclusion Stephen M. Miller.

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Book SynopsisThe first history of the Soviet home front experience during World War II and of the civilians who bore the burden of total war and played a critical role in the global victory over fascism.After Hitler''s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, German troops conquered the heartland of Soviet industry and agriculture and turned the occupied territories into mass killing fields. The country''s survival hung in the balance.In Fortress Dark and Stern, Wendy Z. Goldman and Donald Filtzer tell the epic tale of the Soviet home front during World War II. Against the backdrop of the Red Army''s early retreats and hard-fought advances after Stalingrad, they present the impact of total war behind the front lines in a chronicle of spirited defense efforts, draconian state directives, teeming black markets, official corruption, and selfless heroism. In one of the greatest wartime feats in history, Soviet workers rapidly evacuated factories, food, and people thousands of miles to the east. After long and dangerous journeys in unheated boxcars, they built a new industrial base beyond the reach of German bombers. As the Soviet state reached the height of its power, imposing military discipline and sending millions of people to work thousands of miles from home, ordinary people withstood starvation, epidemics, and horrific living conditions to supply the front and make the Allied victory possible This book examines the dark and painful war years from a new perspective, telling the stories of evacuees, refugees, teenaged and women workers, runaways from work, prisoners, and deportees.Based on a vast trove of new archival materials, Fortress Dark and Stern reveals a history of suffering, sacrifice, and ultimate triumph largely unknown to Western readers.Trade ReviewTwo well-established authors...have combined efforts to create a truly masterful narrative of the gigantic task of mobilizing the home front for a war of unprecedented scale. The story that they tell is as dynamic as the unstable fronts of the war and yields numerous surprises....The wealth of archival sources they have brought to bear, command of the secondary literature, and strongly mounted argument combine to create a book that not only provides a concise account of a major historical event but also gives us a new and convincing interpretation....Most impressively, throughout the book Goldman and Filtzer do an exemplary job of toggling between the grand scale of events and what they meant to individual people....Their narrative is gripping....We now have an authoritative, multifaceted account of the largest labor mobilization in human history. * Brandon Schechter, American Historical Review *A brief review cannot do justice to the breadth and depth of Goldman and Filtzer's account of the Soviet homefront. The book makes an important contribution to understandings of Stalinism as a system, exploring both its power and its limits ... A monument to the contributions and suffering of Soviet civilians, the book reclaims the Soviet victory for "all the world's people, part of an ongoing international struggle against virulent nationalism, race hatred, anti-Semitism, and exploitation" (378). * Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Fortress Dark and Stern is a welcome and long overdue addition to the literature that doesn't just fill a gap-it fills a gaping hole!... [It] sheds light on a relative Soviet success story of the early war period that tends to be lost among the battles being fought and hundreds of thousands of casualties suffered at the front. Although it may seem too obvious to state, without the efforts and sacrifices of those in the Soviet rear, the Red Army would have been unable to keep on fighting. How and why the Soviet home front held up, in the face of wartime trials that would have crippled many other nations, is undoubtedly a story worth telling. * Alexander Hill, Journal of Slavic Military Studies *A sweeping, yet detailed account of the Soviet home frontDEL. The true innovation of this bookDELconsists in its presentation of the home front as a core constituent of the war effort as a whole, a dynamic constellation of factories, farms, railways, and offices that kept the Red Army (RA) armed, clothed, and fed and whose ability to do so ultimately depended on the RA's own ability to hold and liberate the country's territoryDEL.The authors also pay tribute to the resilience and resourcefulness of the Soviet people, arguing that they remained overwhelmingly committed to the war effort throughout its durationDEL.A piece of stellar scholarship * Yiannia Kokosalakis, Journal of Slavic Military Studies *Goldman and Filtzer's volume is a major contribution to the study of WW II and a worthy addition to any library. * C. C. Lovett, CHOICE *Most readers lack an understanding of the Great Patriotic War that began with the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941....Unfortunately, historians have overlooked a significant decision by Stalin that made a German victory highly unlikely—the order that all vital industries and agriculture, including workers, in the path of the Wehrmacht be evacuated. Goldman and Filtzer examine the role the Soviet home front played in their new study, Fortress Dark and Stern. The authors not only relate the political ramifications of the decisions made by Soviet leadership, both their successes and failures, but also, and more important, they recount the pain and suffering of the Russian people by drawing on personal accounts of that herculean task. The final defeat of the Third Reich was made possible by those sacrifices. Goldman and Filtzer's volume is a major contribution to the study of WW II and a worthy addition to any library. * Choice *Fortress Dark and Stern...depicts in vivid and often horrifying detail what life was like for noncombatants, whose enormous sacrifices supported the army's efforts and contributed to the victory over the Nazis....The fullest story to date of the Soviet home front, of the civilians who lived in dire conditions, often working double and triple shifts and sometimes dropping dead on the factory floor, in order to keep the army and the country going. * Maria Bloshteyn, Los Angeles Review of Books *This book describes the extraordinary experience of people on the Soviet home front during World War II; specifically the devastating anguish of the war, and Soviet citizens' grim determination to prevail... Much has been published about the wartime Soviet Union since 1991, but this book's forceful style and its use of Soviet sources ensure it will have lasting value in World War II scholarship. The use of personal anecdotes and statistical evidence is laudable. * Zachary Irwin, formerly with Penn State Behrend, Library Journal *Fortress Dark and Stern presents a definitive social history of the Soviet Union at war. Impeccably researched by two of the most distinguished historians in the field, this book conveys the triumphs and tragedies of what was a total war like no other. It is a major contribution to the study of the Soviet Union and the Second World War. * Lynne Viola, author of Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial *How did Stalin's Soviet Union claim victory in the Second World War? In Fortress Dark and Stern, two consummate historians at the peak of their powers investigate the Soviet people's epic struggle on the home front to arm, feed, and clothe soldiers who marched against fascism from Stalingrad to Berlin. Based on prodigious archival evidence, memoirs, and new scholarship, this beautifully written book tells a story essential for a new generation of students and citizens. * Dan Healey, University of Oxford *To be a Soviet civilian during the war with Germany was to strive and to suffer. Many faced bad or impossible choices. Fortress Dark and Stern describes the predicaments, fates, and accomplishments of the millions behind the lines in unforgettable detail. * Mark Harrison, University of Warwick *Drawing on a vast array of new archival sources, Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer offer the most comprehensive account to date of the Soviet Home front during World War II. The authors' novel findings about the role of the Stalinist state during the war will give rise to debates and disagreements among historians. No future study of the Soviet Home front and the Eastern Front generally will be complete without reference to this book. * Oleg Budnitskii, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow *For decades, historians have debated how the Soviet Union managed to withstand the immense blow dealt by the German invasion in 1941. As Fortress Dark and Stern persuasively argues, it was the home front that assured Soviet survival in 1941 and, ultimately, victory in 1945. Drawing on rich, newly discovered archival materials, this book shines a bright light on the lives and the labor of millions of ordinary citizens, predominantly women, who emerge as the unsung heroes of the Soviet war epic. * Jochen Hellbeck, Jochen Hellbeck, author of Stalingrad: The City That Defeated the Third Reich *Offers...an unparalleled overview of the Soviet home front. In clear and lucid prose, Goldman and Filtzer tell the story of the vast movement east in the wake of the invasion, the gargantuan efforts to provision the population, the desperate mobilization of labor, and the struggle to maintain the population's physical health and retain their loyalty in the face of formidable challenges to both... Wartime labor mobilization and labor discipline have received only limited attention from historians, and in Fortress Dark and Stern they finally get their due... It paints a compelling picture of the tremendous costs of waging war as they were experienced far from the frontlines. * Rebecca Manley, Russian Review *This book could not be more timely. Wendy Goldman and Donald Filtzer have written an impressively comprehensive account of the support system that, they argue, was essential to the World War II victory of the Red Army in Europe. Using extensive archival materials, they paint a picture of a government based on an ideology of rationalism and science trying desperately to manage the chaos of an initially successful invasion, huge losses of land, people, and property, the decimation of its military, a massive evacuation, plagues, corruption, poor planning, and an exceptionally brutal occupying force... This book is... also a reminder of the resonance that the enormous suffering of the peoples of the Soviet Union still has today and the way that memories of the war shape so many of the actions of current leaders. * Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Aspasia *That text made excellent use of the then-available Russian language sources. * Home Front Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Oxford University Press Spring/Summer 2021 Trade Catalog Introduction: Total War Ch. 1 Panic, Scorched Earth, and Evacuation Ch. 2 Rolling East and Resettlement Ch. 3 The Staff of Life: Feeding the People Ch. 4 Illicit Provisioning: Inequality, Leveling, and Black Markets Ch. 5 "All for the Front": Free Labor, Prisoners, and Deportees Ch. 6 Millions in Motion: The Labor System in Crisis Ch. 7 Runaways: Labor Desertion and State Coercion Ch. 8 The Public's Health Ch. 9 "Our Cause is Just": Loyalty, Propaganda, and Popular Moods Conclusion. 'Brick Dust and Ashes': Liberation and Reconstruction Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBullhe Shah’s work is among the glories of Panjabi literature, and the iconic eighteenth-century poet is widely regarded as a master of mystical Sufi poetry. This striking new translation is the most authoritative and engaging introduction to an enduring South Asian classic.Trade ReviewThe lucid and informative introduction by the volume’s editor and translator, Christopher Shackle, takes readers through the trajectory of Sufism from Persia to India and the several orders within the movement in India. But most useful is a short essay on the themes of the lyrics. The poems that follow open up in all their appeal, universal and timeless in their great subject of love, endearing in their simplicity of expressiveness. -- Neel Mukherjee * New Statesman *Drawing from the Sufi tradition of mysticism, Bullhe Shah wrote poetry that is sharp, simple and immortal. His verses question strictures of organized religion and societal norms. They are beautiful paeans to romantic and mystical love underpinned by rich spiritual philosophy. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *

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Book SynopsisA two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s investigation of the "deep state".Trade Review"Pulitzer-winner David Rohde dismisses the Deep State theory–but also shows government does pursue entrenched interests… Under the subtitle “The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth About America’s ‘Deep State’”, the two-time Pulitzer-winner rejects the nomenclature of conspiracy theorists." -- The Guardian"… when the author gets to Trump… the two disparate threads of his narrative come neatly together. Here Rohde skilfully makes clear that it is precisely by pedalling the myth of the Deep State that the President has been able to undermine efforts at oversight." -- Lawrence Douglas - Times Literary Supplement"… a tour of the decades-long effort to square that most unsquareable of democratic challenges: how to run clandestine intelligence and security agencies in a system that is ostensibly accountable to the people." -- Financial Times"David Rohde’s In Deep demolished the theory of the “deep state”." -- 2020 in US politics books - The Guardian"Fascinating.... The idea of the deep state, Rohde writes, is inextricably linked to a particular view of presidential power.... After reading In Deep, one can’t help wondering how much Trump’s suspicion of and disdain for expertise and experience (and the so-called ‘policy elite’) has affected his response to the coronavirus. The sad policy question is: How many lives have been lost because of his belief in the deep state?" -- Dina Temple-Raston - The Washington Post"In Deep is a compassionate critique of the simmering grievance that has now found its way to the White House, where it threatens to upend the tenets of American democracy: truth, justice, and, above all, the rule of law. Reported in stunning and tenacious detail, In Deep is a wholly satisfying read—and a necessary one for anyone wanting to understand the forces at play in our government today." -- Andrea Bernstein, Peabody Award–winning co-host of the WNYC/ProPublica podcast Trump, Inc. and author of American Oligarchs ."David Rohde has written a remarkable book that is both urgent reporting and sweeping history. He brings the same vitality and precision that animated his storied reporting on war zones to this portrait of the decades-long battle over the powers of the intelligence community, and the erosion—under recent administrations of both parties—of rules put in place to protect American citizens’ rights. And he brings fresh insight to the phrase ‘deep state,’ and the role it may play in the future of American politics." -- Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill

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Book SynopsisA rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES.So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's most sustained creator.In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, award-winning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful and dramatic stories - truly a Nile red in tooth and claw.The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human and pre-human history, and an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour and violence.Trade ReviewTwigger's book on the history of the river Nile is one of the those unexpected great reads... This is a non-fiction book that reads like a great, page-turning novel. * CATHOLIC HERALD *Red Nile is a scintillatingly colourful account of a river and a region that explorer/adventurer Twigger knows well... probably the author's magnum opus. * SUNDAY TIMES *Red Nile by Robert Twigger is how history should be written and taught. The reader is taken on a sweeping journey through the endless story of the Nile, where so much began and so much is still happening. -- Robin Hanbury-Tenison * COUNTRY LIFE *gives great insight into a place where the growth of civilisation is so closely lined to the power of nature. * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *This torrent of tales sweeps up everything from hippos (the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar kept four Nile hippos at his mansion in Medellín) to erotic papyrus. * The Daily Telegraph *Robert Twigger's ambitious biography of the Nile is an unexpected triumph...a scintillatingly colourful account of a river and a region Twigger knows intimately...an elegiac moving book...hugely entertaining...probably the author's magnum opus -- James McConnachie * THE SUNDAY TIMES *a tour de force; a brilliantly written scrapbook of history and travel, geography and science, myth and legend both ancient and modern... Twigger allows the river's ever changing shape to inform this engrossing biography. It's a vast subject but he never becomes overwhelmed by the material and has written an elegant, amusing and fascinating book, buoyed by his own enthusiasm, that draws you along in its current -- Carl Wilkinson * FINANCIAL TIMES *Like the vast, fast-flowing river itself with its waters teeming with crocodiles, hippopotami and bilharzia, so Red Nile teems with arcane facts and high spirited asides... Red Nile provides a feast of quirky, fascinating bits of knowledge, both funny and memorable -- Caroline Moorehead * THE SPECTATOR *Crocodiles, dams, feluccas, pharaohs and papyrus, disputation about sources, literary and riverine, myths and realities of fecundity: only someone as crazy as Robert Twigger would attempt to tell the whole story of the Nile from soup to nuts, yet in Red Nile that's exactly what he has done, filtering the vast flood of his subject matter through an infectious individual style -- Giles Foden * CONDE NAST TRAVELLER *Using the physical presence of the river, the tumultuous recent events that have occurred along it and his own experiences... Twigger succeeds in capturing the key features of Africa's greatest river: that it is wide-reaching as it is long, touches every era of human history, from nobility to the baseless violence that has so often stained the waters red -- Anthony Sattin * THE SUNDAY TIMES *the Nile's own source has always been mysterious - in the Ethiopian highlands of in the Kagera River, which flows into Lake Victoria and on into the Nile proper, or in Lake Tanganyika? This is one of the previously unanswered questions tackled by Robert Twigger in this impressive book - a biography of the River Nile. [Twigger] knows the geography of this region well and is equally au fait with its turbulent history...many entertaining snippets of information -- Theo Walden * THE LADY *if you have read Twigger before, you will know to expect divergence, wit, a weakness with the esoteric, an ability to make even the most obscure details seem relevant. All of which is perfectly suited to this subject and makes for an entertaining and absorbing read * THE OBSERVER *Hugely impressive in its research, Red Nile is a torrent of fanatical rulers, assassinations, wild explorers and dastardly goings-on -- Philip Marsden * MAIL ON SUNDAY *The Nile has attracted adventurers since ancient times, and Twigger heads for the source of the river... The history of the river and the countries it passes through is interwoven with many interesting snippets - for example that Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat said that the "attractive lines of the slim-fit uniform would be spoilt by wearing a bullet-proof vest" on the day he was assassinated -- Tom Chesshyre * THE TIMES *Red Nile's mixture of factual and fictional narratives of heroic adventurers, lost tribes, vanished cities, trackless forests and lethal wildlife brought me back to the pleasures I derived as a child from reading old copies of the Boy's Own Paperand Chums Annual * TLS *Taking a characteristically idiosyncratic approach, [Twigger] tells the river's history through its most colourful stories, from Egypt's racy mythology to the visionaries and madmen who have plied its waters. Combining wide-ranging knowledge with first-hand forays upstream, it's a suitably Nilean accomplishment. A meandering insight of genuine depth * LONELY PLANET TRAVELLER *In Twigger's biography of 'the world's greatest river', he tackles the source of ancient Biblical tales through to exploring the downfall of Mubarak. There's enough bloody, treacherous history to make Game of Thrones look like a Mr Men book, which is to say that it's a relentlessly good read...a fresh revitalising dunk into these much-navigated waters * WANDERLUST *Explorer Robert Twigger has sailed Canada in a birch-bark canoe and walked the Egyptian Sahara. Now, he explores the Nile, taking in traces left by Cleopatra, Moses, Agatha Christie and the world's deadliest creature, the Nile crocodile * CARA (AER LINGUS) magazine *You'd be right to think that the world's longest river would have enough history to fill a book 12 times this size. Fortunately, that's the delight of Twigger's latest work: it filters out the drab and pumps in the peculiar without missing any crucial undulations along the way. Expect tales of passion, violence and splendour * EASYJET TRAVELLER INFLIGHT MAGAZINE *a compelling take on thousands of years of life on the banks of the world's longest river ... Twigger - an engaging author whose CV includes training in martial arts with the Tokyo riot police and an attempt to capture a nine-metre-long python - provides us with a leisurely, readable collection of stories that introduce us to a wide cast of authors and explorers, fierce baboons and murderous crocodiles -- Joyce Tyldesley * BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE *Twigger has lived in Cairo for seven years, is married to an Egyptian and stares at the Nile every day from his study; he has fallen in the Nile, swum the Nile, drunk the waters of the Nile, kayaked and rafted, and travelled the length of it by plane. He is, in fact, an Old Hand, Twigger of the Nile... Rambling, discursive, chatty, anecdotal, funny... it's a series of ripping yarns, and highly entertaining... I think Twigger may have invented a new genre - the Ramblelogue -- Robert Carver * THE INDEPENDENT *Intrepid and amusing, Twigger delivers a deeper (and happier) view of Egypt - and its neighbours - than today's headlines allow. With its lavish cargo of histories, myths and full-on ripping yarns, his journey down the river flows fast and strong * i NEWSPAPER *this book will teach you a great deal: from the wisdom of avoiding hippos, crocodiles and baboons to the central role played by the river in the earliest stages of human history...Twigger's accounts are both reliable and entertaining...this is a wide-ranging and well-researched book. All of the usual suspects are here - from Cleopatra to the Rosetta Stone - but Twigger has unearthed an impressive number of neglected facts and tales -- Jonathan Wright * GEOGRAPHICAL *fuses history and geography with a travelogue and cultural history of the peoples who have made their home along the river, and it gives great insight into a place where the growth of civilisation is so closely linked to the power of nature * GOOD BOOK GUIDE *All to Twigger's credit, his masterful and enthusiastic prose guides readers on a pleasing passage through the river's unbelievable past, from biblical tales to the recent Arab spring. He strikes the perfect balance, creatively covering crucial elements while leaving out the lacklustre and pouring in plenty of gripping stories. Loaded with interesting asides...Red Nile is also disarmingly charming and witty at times. Twigger's years of literary research and on-the-ground experience in Africa shine through in this tour de force * TRAVEL AFRICA *Twigger treats us to an entertaining and idiosyncratic journey from prehistoric and ancient times right up to the Arab Spring. This is a book that will satisfy both the serious student and the casual reader. The former will delight in a close reading of the text and will learn a lot from what is, in essence, a serious academic study. The latter will enjoy dipping into it and the many anecdotes, and the author's humorous turn of phrase... Highly recommended * HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW *Red Nile is a scintillating account of a river and a region that explorer/adventurer Twigger knows well... A fine, if flawed work that it probably the author's magnum opus." * SUNDAY TIMES *

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Book SynopsisAn innovative approach to the history of the First Persian Empire, offering an accessible historical narrative for students and general readers alike A History of the Achaemenid Empire considers archaeological and written sources to provide an expansive, source-based introduction to the diverse and culturally rich world of ancient Achaemenid Persia. Assuming no prior background, this accessible textbook follows the dynastic line from the establishment and expansion of the empire under the early Achaemenid kings to its collapse in 330 BCE. The text integrates the latest research, key primary sources, and archaeological data to offer readers deep insights into the empire, its kings, and its people. Chronologically organized chapters contain written, archaeological, and visual sources that highlight key learning points, stimulate discussion, and encourage readers to evaluate specific pieces of evidence. Throughout the text, author Maria Brosius emphasizes thTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix List of Maps xv List of Special Topics xvii List of Sources in Translation xix List of Boxed Texts xxi List of Abbreviations xxiii The Achaemenid Dynasty xxvii Preface xxix Acknowledgements xxxi Author’s Note xxxiii 1 Introduction 1 2 The Arrival of the Persians on the Iranian Plateau 5 2.1 The Persians 5 2.1.1 Parsua and Parsumash 6 2.1.2 Kurash of Parsumash 8 2.2 The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites 8 2.3 The Neighbours in the North: The Medes 10 2.3.1 Media in Herodotus 11 2.3.2 Near Eastern Sources on the Medes 11 3 The Establishment of Empire: Cyrus the Great 17 3.1 Cyrus II and Media 17 3.1.1 A Folktale or a Tool for Legitimacy? 18 3.2 The Conquest of the Lydian Kingdom 19 3.3 Cyrus and the Ionian Greeks 20 3.4 The First Royal City of the Persians: Pasargadae 20 3.5 The Conquest of Babylon 24 3.5.1 A Peaceful Conquest? 27 3.5.2 Political Astuteness 28 3.6 The Scythian Campaign 30 3.7 Cyrus II, Conqueror and Empire‐Builder 30 4 A Worthy Successor: Cambyses II 33 4.1 The Succession of Cambyses II 33 4.2 The Power of Propaganda 36 4.2.1 The Demotic Papyrus 39 4.3 Cambyses’s Depiction in Herodotus 39 4.4 The Apis Bull 41 4.4.1 The Apis Bull and the Death of Cambyses 43 4.4.2 The Killing of His Sister‐Wife 43 4.4.3 Fratricide 44 5 From Bardiya to Darius I 47 5.1 The Succession of Darius I 47 5.1.1 Herodotus’s Version of Events 47 5.1.2 Darius’s Version: The Inscription of Bisitun 48 5.2 The Death of Bardiya 49 5.2.1 Herodotus and the Bisitun Inscription: A Comparison 60 5.2.2 A Murder Mystery 61 5.2.3 Darius the Achaemenid 61 5.2.4 Teispes 63 5.2.5 The Royal Line of Kings 63 5.2.6 Dynastic Marriages 64 5.3 The Consolidation of Empire 64 5.3.1 Royal Cities 67 5.3.1.1 Pasargadae 67 5.3.1.2 Susa 67 5.3.2 Parsa – City of the Persians 68 5.4 Foreign Policy 73 5.4.1 The Scythian Campaign 75 5.4.2 The Athenian‐Persian Alliance of 508/7 76 5.4.3 The Ionian Revolt 77 5.4.4 The Sequence of Events 78 5.4.5 Problems in the Historical Account 80 5.4.6 The Punitive Campaign of 490 81 6 The Face of Empire 85 6.1 Achaemenid Kingship 85 6.1.1 The Power of Royal Imagery 87 6.2 Royal Ideology 90 6.3 Persian Religion 93 6.3.1 Funerary Customs 95 6.4 Persepolis: The Microcosm of Empire 98 6.4.1 The Royal Court 99 6.4.2 Gift‐Giving 100 6.4.3 Rhyta 101 6.4.4 The Women of the Court 102 6.4.5 The King’s Friends and Benefactors 105 6.4.6 Courtiers 105 6.4.7 Refugees and Foreigners 106 7 The Organisation of Power 113 7.1 The Satraps 113 7.1.1 The Satrapies 114 7.1.2 The Great Satrapy of Bactria 115 7.1.3 The Status of the Caucasus Region and Thrace 116 7.2 Administering the Empire 122 7.2.1 Royal Correspondence 122 7.2.2 Taxes and Tribute 125 7.2.3 The Administration of Persepolis 126 7.2.4 Royal Roads 127 8 Taking up the Baton: Diplomacy and Foreign Policy from Xerxes I to Artaxerxes II 137 8.1 The Reign of Xerxes 137 8.1.1 Xerxes’s Succession 137 8.1.2 Quashing Rebellions in Egypt and Babylonia 139 8.2 The War in Greece 139 8.2.1 The State of Play in Greece 140 8.2.2 The Persian Army on the March 140 8.2.3 Thermopylae and Artemisium 140 8.2.4 The Fall of Athens and the Battle of Salamis 141 8.2.5 Attempts at Diplomacy 141 8.2.6 The Battle of Plataea 142 8.2.7 Xerxes in Asia Minor 142 8.2.8 The Story of Xerxes and the Wife of Masistes 143 8.2.9 … And a Story Retold 143 8.2.10 The Beginning of the Myth 148 8.2.11 Medising 149 8.2.12 Perserie 149 8.2.13 After the War 150 8.3 Artaxerxes I 152 8.3.1 The Death of Xerxes I and the Succession of Artaxerxes I 152 8.3.2 Revolts in Bactria and Egypt 153 8.3.3 Rebellion in Egypt 464–454 153 8.3.4 The Revolt of Megabyxus 154 8.3.5 The Peace of Callias 157 8.3.6 Judaea Under Artaxerxes I 158 8.3.7 Continuity in Persepolis 158 8.4 Succession Trouble in 424 158 8.4.1 Rebellions in the Empire 161 8.4.2 The Royal Building Programme Continued 161 8.4.3 Persia Re‐enters Greek Politics 161 8.4.4 The Bilateral Treaty of 411 163 8.5 Artaxerxes II 166 8.5.1 The War of the Brothers 166 8.5.2 Persian Affairs in Asia Minor 168 8.5.3 Evagoras of Salamis 172 8.5.4 Revolt in Egypt 404/400–343/2 174 8.6 The Winds of Change 175 8.6.1 City‐Rulers and Local Dynasts of the Western Empire 175 8.6.2 The Hecatomnids 176 8.6.3 Perikle of Limyra 180 8.6.4 The Political Level 181 8.6.4.1 The kings of Sidon 181 8.6.5 Stele of the King of Byblos/Gubal 183 8.6.6 Rebellions in Western Asia Minor 366–359/8 187 8.6.7 Datames 187 8.6.8 Ariobarzanes 188 8.6.9 Orontes 189 8.6.10 The Death of Artaxerxes II 189 9 A Whole New Ballgame: The Reign of Artaxerxes III and Artaxerxes IV 199 9.1 The Succession of Artaxerxes III 199 9.2 Egypt 200 9.3 Athenian–Persian Relations 349–342 200 9.4 The Death of Artaxerxes III and the Reign of Artaxerxes IV 204 10 A Good King in the End: Darius III 207 10.1 The Succession of Darius III 207 10.1.1 Battling Negative Propaganda 207 10.2 External Threat 209 10.2.1 The Macedonian Invasion 209 10.2.2 Granicus 209 10.2.3 Issus 210 10.2.4 Gaugamela 211 10.2.5 The Royal Cities 212 10.2.6 The Death of Darius III 216 10.3 In the Footsteps of the Persian Kings? 217 11 Epilogue 221 Bibliography 225 Index 233

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Book SynopsisLooking at the history of Whitby and how Count Dracula has become so linked to the area.

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Book SynopsisAn evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated irrepressible youth and promoted defiance and revolt.

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Book Synopsis"A complete facing-page translation of the Tarjuman, which consists of sixty-one poems composed between 1202 and 1215 CE and published in 1215 at the earliest. The first word of the title can refer to a translator, interpreter, or biographer, on the one hand, and to a translation, interpretation, or biography on the other"--Trade Review"Michael Sells, a highly regarded expert on the history and literature of Islam, and translator of this splendid book, provides all we might need to understand the poems in their broader historical context. . . . It is the clarity of his translations that bring these poems back for us, their marvels intact."---Allan Graubard, American Book Review

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Book SynopsisEvery ancient author writing about the Low Countries, was preoccupied with the complete contrast between the civilized people of the Roman Empire and the tribes of noble savages or barbarians living outside it. Julius Caesar exploited this preconception to enhance his own reputation, boasting that he had overcome the "bravest of all Gauls"; Tacitus employed the same stereotypes when he described the Batavian Revolt; and, in Late Antiquity, the Franks were still described as resembling monsters.The reality was different. The presence of the Roman army along the River Rhine radically changed the way of life in the small Roman province of Germania Inferior, and the need to maintain and feed this large army became a significant incentive for economic change. The tribes living along the lower reaches of the Rhine and close to the North Sea gradually began to resemble their occupiers.Historian Jona Lendering and archaeologist Arjen Bosman have combined their considerable expertise to create a successful synthesis of historical and archaeological evidence, in this history of Rome s Lower Rhine frontier.Trade Review...will be of interest to enthusiasts who are looking for an interesting collection of information about the areas of the “lower Rhine” during the times of ancient Romans. * Imperium Romanum *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPálffy offers a complex representation of the two centuries by not only depicting the military and political struggle for the liberation and the restoration of the unity of the Kingdom of Hungary. The result is a differentiated description of the developing institutions, infrastructure, economy, social structure and demographic development. -- Marta Fata * Sehepunkte *Written in an elegant and seductive way, well-balanced, with assessments that are not only unique, but also solidly argued, with an exceptional iconographic support (maps, illustrations etc.) wonderfully distributed throughout the book, professor Gèza Pálffy's book will surely impose itself as an original synthesis with a substantial echo among the readers who are both historians and history enthusiasts. -- Ionut Costea * Philobiblon *This important volume introduces English readers to one of the most critical periods of Central European history when "Hungary became the periphery and battleground of two empires, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Monarchy." . . . Pálffy has written a masterpiece that goes well beyond introductory accounts so common in English-language academic publishing. The author provides both a window on the fascinating complexities of early modern Hungarian history as well as a refreshing reevaluation of traditional Hungarian historiography. In a more general sense, anyone interested in Central and Eastern Europe will appreciate how Pálffy illustrates the richness of Hungarian political, demographic, economic, and cultural developments. The book will benefit specialists, students, and general readers interested in the history of Hungary, its relationships with the Habsburg and Ottoman empires, and Hungary's place in early modern Europe. Students and scholars alike are well advised to put Pálffy's volume on their reading lists. -- Georg B. Michels * Hungarian Studies Review *Filling a glaring lacuna in the English-language literature on late medieval and early modern Hungary, Pálffy's study critically challenges modern scholarship in ways that feel both timely and relevant given the troubling political climate in modern Hungary and much of the West. -- Christopher M. Van Demark * Hungarian Cultural Studies *Pálffy has written a masterpiece that goes well beyond introductory ac- counts so common in English-language academic publishing. The author provides both a window on the fascinating complexities of early mod- ern Hungarian history as well as a refreshing reevaluation of traditional Hungarian historiography. In a more general sense, anyone interested in Central and Eastern Europe will appreciate how Pálffy illustrates the rich- ness of Hungarian political, demographic, economic, and cultural devel- opments. -- Georg B Michels - University of California * Hungarian Studies Review *Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of MapsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsNote on Terms and NamesList of AbbreviationsPolitical and Military Chronology, 1526–1711IntroductionPart I: Hungary after Mohács: A Century of Direction Seeking, 1526–16061. On the Frontier of Two Empires2. Roads from Istanbul to Vienna: The Ottomans in Hungary3. The Bumpy Road to Vienna: The Habsburgs and the Hungarians4. The Road to Istanbul: The State of King John Szapolyai and His Son5. On a Narrow Path: The Principality of Transylvania6. Society Finds Its Way7. The Economy and Its Roads to Europe8. The Search for a New Home: Ethnic and Demographic Changes9. Finding Faith: Hungary's New Religion10. Seeking a Language: A Cultural Golden Age11. Looking in Vain for a Way Out: The Long Turkish War, 1591–1606 Part II: Decay and Rejuvenation: The Janus-Faced Seventeenth Century, 1606–17111. Peace or Civil War on the Border of the Two Empires?2. New Ottoman Campaigns to Achieve an Old Goal3. The Rise of the Hungarian Estates and the Break with Vienna4. Transylvania Flourishes, Then Decays5. Militarization and Self-Administration: Changes in Society6. Economic Decline and Reorganization7. Hungarian Populations Fall—Other Ethnic Groups Rise8. The Revival of Catholicism—a Prolonged War of Religion9. Half a Century of Cultural Progress—Half a Century of Military Crisis10. A Country Liberated but Ravaged: The Long Turkish War, 1683–169911. Independence Movement and Civil War: The Rákóczi Uprising, 1703–1711GlossaryList of Rulers and Highest DignitariesSelect Bibliography (Monographs and Collected Studies)Name IndexPlace Index

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Book SynopsisConfessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved toward his conversion. Cast as a prayer addressed to God, it offers a gripping personal story and a philosophical exploration destined to have broad and lasting impact.Trade ReviewHammond’s translation, while always elegant and lucid, stays close enough to the Latin to give us invaluable assistance… An accessible and scholarly introduction provides a way into many aspects of Augustine’s thought which will reward both those who are new to Augustine and more experienced students. -- Edward Dowler * Church Times *

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Book SynopsisThis is an exciting new biography of Themistocles of Athens, architect of the Greek victory over the Persian invasions of 490 BC and 480 to 479 BC. While his role in the Persian wars is naturally a major theme, Themistocles' career before and after those conflicts is also considered in detail. Themistocles was a leading exponent of a new kind of populist politics in the young democracy of Athens, manipulating the practice of ostracism (exile) to get rid of his political rivals. Jeffrey Smith explains Themistocles' rise to a position of virtual hegemony which allowed him to institute his far-sighted policy of preparation against the growing Persian threat. In particular he strengthened Athens' fleet and thereby secured the support of the poor thetes, who found employment as rowers. During the first invasion, Themistocles fought, and possibly held joint command, at the decisive battle of Marathon. When the Persians struck again in 480, he commanded the fleet at Artemisium and Salamis. The latter battle he won by subterfuge and secured Athens' liberation and survival. Ironically he was himself eventually ostracized by his fellow citizens and ultimately entered Persian service, ending his days as governor of Magnesia in Asia Minor.

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Book SynopsisTHERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN ORDINARY ANIMAL. EVERY ONE HAS A HEROIC STORY TO TELL. Discover how . . . Able Seacat Simon rescued the crew of HMS Amethyst Bobby the Wonder Dog crossed a continent to find his family Galipolli Murphy carried 250 wounded soldiers to safety Pickles tracked down the stolen World Cup And the Tamworth Two managed to save their baconClare Balding's stories of daring, courageous, remarkable creatures who changed our world for the better: from the dog that inspired Lassie to the bear that fought the Nazis.Trade ReviewAnimal magic * Sunday Telegraph *Extraordinary * Daily Mail *Riveting * Daily Telegraph *Wonderful * Women's Weekly *An inspiring fireside read * Horse & Hound *Perfect for animal lovers everywhere! * People's Friend *Heart warming and at times very funny . . . her love of animals shines through in these accounts, which bring to life the amazing moments and special bonds between humans and animals * Radio Times *Inspiring * Daily Mirror *Heartwarming * Yours *Incredible stories * Woman & Home *Some stories are awe-inspiring, some are moving, while others are simply laugh-out-loud funny * BBC *Heartwarming * Woman *Moving * Sunday Express *The perfect book to read on a cold winter's day with your dog snuggled up beside you * Your Dog *

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Book SynopsisNever be lost for words again...with this book of lost words. Have you ever wanted to wield the silver tongue of Loki, or to hammer home your point like a Thundergod? Old Norse is the language of legends and the stuff of sagas, the inspiration for Tolkien and Marvel, for award-winning manga and epic videogames. It is the language of cleverly crafted kennings, blood-curdling curses, and pithy retorts to RagnarÖk. Old Norse for Modern Times gives you the perfect phrase for every contemporary situation—from memorable movie quotes ("We’re going to need a bigger boat." Þurfa munu vÉr skip stÆrra) to battle-cries to yell on Discord ("Do I look to be in a gaming mood?" SÝnisk ÞÉr ek vera Í skapi til leika?), from mead hall musings ("This drink, I like it! ANOTHER!" LÍkar mÉr drykkr Þessi! ANNAN!) to tried-and-tested pickup lines ("Nice tattoo!" Fagrt er hÚÐflÚriÐ"). With over 500 phrases inside (plus the chance to add your own!) it is the perfect guide for Vikings fans, whether they are re-enactors, role-players, or simply in love with Ragnar.

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Book Synopsis'A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history' Guardian. ***************** SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 England, 1651. Oliver Cromwell has defeated his royalist opponents in two civil wars, executed the Stuart king Charles I, laid waste to Ireland, and crushed the late king's son and his Scottish allies. He is master of Britain and Ireland. But Parliament, divided between moderates, republicans and Puritans of uncompromisingly millenarian hue, is faction-ridden and disputatious. By the end of 1653, Cromwell has become 'Lord Protector'. Seeking dragons for an elect Protestant nation to slay, he launches an ambitious 'Western Design' against Spain's empire in the New World. When an amphibious assault on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1655 proves a disaster, a shaken Cromwell is convinced that God is punishing England for its sinfulness. But the imposition of the rule of the Major-Generals – bureaucrats with a penchant for closing alehouses – backfires spectacularly. Sectarianism and fundamentalism run riot. Radicals and royalists join together in conspiracy. The only way out seems to be a return to a Parliament presided over by a king. But will Cromwell accept the crown? Paul Lay narrates in entertaining but always rigorous fashion the story of England's first and only experiment with republican government: he brings the febrile world of Oliver Cromwell's Protectorate to life, providing vivid portraits of the extraordinary individuals who inhabited it and capturing its dissonant cacophony of political and religious voices. ***************** Reviews: 'Briskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade' John Adamson, The Times. 'Providence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence' Jessie Childs, Guardian. Trade ReviewBriskly paced and elegantly written, Providence Lost provides us with a first-class ticket to this Cromwellian world of achievement, paradox and contradiction. Few guides take us so directly, or so sympathetically, into the imaginative worlds of that tumultuous decade -- John Adamson, Sunday TimesProvidence Lost is a learned, lucid, wry and compelling narrative of the 1650s as well as a sensitive portrayal of a man unravelled by providence -- Jessie Childs, GuardianIn telling us what Cromwell believed, Lay helps us to understand the man, but his witty and incisive book is also a reminder why the English, in particular, hate the bossy pieties of the puritanical elite, and distrust radicalism * The Times *Lay offers a vivid, clear and highly engrossing narrative of these fast moving and complicated events * Financial Times *An enlightening study of the often overlooked rule of Oliver Cromwell * Sunday Telegraph *A book for the general reader, based on a thorough knowledge of the sources, and written with perceptiveness as well as narrative zest – a lively, attention-holding account of what is surely the strangest decade in British history * Sunday Telegraph *A superb summary of the ebbs and flows of the Interregnum, a strangely 'lost' decade * Herald *[An] absorbing and beautifully written book * BBC History Magazine *A readable and witty guide to England's republican interregnum * The Times. *A highly readable book, full of wit, sober thought and scholarly rigour * Observer. *A spirited and vivid survey of the brief period in which Cromwell held the dangerously ill-defined role of "lord protector" * New Statesman *A history of Cromwell's republic that contends this was actually a period of intense creativity * Sunday Times *Fascinating new history of the English interregnum * Sunday Times *A compelling and exciting account of a critical period in early modern British history * New Books Network *A brilliant aid to understanding modern Britain and, indirectly, the United States; the lessons of the Protectorate were not lost on the founding fathers * Catholic Herald *Told in gripping fashion; each chapter is filled with enough intrigue to fuel a TV soap opera. The various warring factions are explained with vigour and clarity, while lesser-known events, such as a failed attempt to assassinate Cromwell, are packed with detail * Discover Britain *Paul Lay is bracing and undeceived in his judgments... Lay shows us what a distinctive period it was, full of frenetic excursions and alarms but for most people not unendurable, shallow-rooted in the good sense... Lay treats each volcanic caprice of the Protector's with the amused scepticism it deserves, not struggling overmuch to discern some consistent purpose behind it' * London Review of Books *What Lay gives us is a warts-and-all picture of a man with the weaknesses of any other, and who struggled heroically to stabilise, and to attempt to unite, a country shattered by a decade of civil wars * The Critic Magazine *Cromwell's republic was more energetic than we thought, reveals this brisk study * Sunday Times *Fascinating * The Times *Interesting material on the rule of Cromwell's major generals and on the debate on the succession to Cromwell and the falling out with John Lambert, who had been seen as Cromwell's deputy * Chartist *

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Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2020A SPECTATOR, FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020''A stunning achievement'' Max Hastings, Sunday TimesPart Two of Daniel Todman''s epic history of the Second World War opens with one of the greatest disasters in British military history - the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Unlike the aftermath of Dunkirk, there was no redeeming narrative available here - Britain had been defeated by a far smaller Japanese force in her grandly proclaimed, invincible Asian ''fortress''.The unique skill of Daniel Todman''s history lies in its never losing sight of the inter-connectedness of the British experience. The agony of Singapore, for example, is seen through the eyes of its inhabitants, of its defenders, of Churchill''s Cabinet and of ordinary people at home. Each stage of the war, from the nadir of early 1942 to the great serTrade ReviewA stunning achievement, offering a new generation of readers and students an authoritative and original version of the greatest event in human history. -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times *The best one-stop shop for those wanting to understand our country during its last existential crisis ... epic, compendious, written with confidence and verve. -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *Magisterial. Virtually no aspect of British life is left untouched ... I cannot recommend this history highly enough. -- Keith Lowe * Literary Review *The book is a superb work of research and synthesis, and with its predecessor it completes an account of the British war that will prove hard to surpass... Todman takes us to the threshold of the world in which we live in. One of the prime ordinances of history is that it should help those who read it understand why we are where we are, who we are and how we are. Todman achieves that goal magnificently. -- Simon Heffer * Daily Telegraph *This second volume is as skilful as the first ... Todman brings youth, energy, industry and, above all, rare historical talent to his formidable task. -- Peter Clarke * The Guardian *Deserves to become a classic ... Todman is superb at human detail; but he is equally at home discussing grand strategy, war economics, campaigning, socio-cultural aspects and the political-military interface... a magnificent book. -- Allan Mallinson * The Spectator *Exceptional ... Todman's angle of vision does not follow the conventional Anglo-American narrative of the last three years of war. He rightly sees the imperial dimension as a critical factor in the formation of British strategy. -- Richard Overy * Times Literary Supplement *A staggering look at this country and the second world war... Todman is as good on the social aspects of the war as he is on the political and military. Both volumes come highly recommended. -- Paul Donnelley * Daily Express *Meticulously researched and densely detailed, shrewdly observed... excellent. -- Alan Allport * Wall Street Journal *Dan Todman has written a truly global history of Britain's Second World War. His second volume opens in December 1941. Even then, Britons knew that victory would come; not when, not at what cost, but they knew victory would be theirs one day. How they got there is at the core of this book. His account is particularly striking on the tides of war in the Middle East and in Asia; on the Labour party electoral victory of 1945, and on the origins of the Cold War. Fast-paced, accessible, comprehensive; in short, a triumph. -- Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University

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Book Synopsis'Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power.And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people.' Daily MailGlossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue.Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness. Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans 22 countries, has an international print readership upwards of 12 million and nets over 67 million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognisable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the establishment. But what - and more importantly who - made Vogue such an enduring success?Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the reader through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures and blinding successes, as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.Trade ReviewDame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that.When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power.And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people. * Daily Mail *Riveting * The Arts Desk *Fashion never seemed more relevant than in this engrossing and unputdownable history of the Queen of them all...the story of Vogue's war years in France is extraordinary . . . wonderful * Miranda Seymour *An enthralling history. * Daily Mail *Nina-Sophia Miralles' Glossy takes readers on an in-depth voyage through the history and workings of Vogue, from the brand's establishment to the people who made it such a success. Branded "the definitive story of Vogue", the insightful retrospective details the 129-year-old publication's triumphs and tribulations, from its humble New York beginnings to its international influence today. * Country and Town House *Glossy: The Inside Story of Vogue, a new book by Nina-Sophia Miralles, is at least as much about the women, and occasional man, who have been the faces of the most potent fashion magazine brand as the actual publication. Rightly so * The Times *Full of stories.... Miralles has an eye for the telling detail. * Irish Times *VOGUE THE LAST WORD IN PUBLISHING GLOSSINESS If ever a magazine understood the special relationship between women and shiny paper, it is Vogue. Launched as "a dignified authentic journal of society, fashion and the ceremonial side of life," its pages have drawn the curious to its privileged glow since 1892. Whether they come to gawp at the hilarious prices or are genuinely seeking clues as to handbag silhouettes for autumn/winter, Vogue is fashion. So after 130 years a history is overdue, and Glossy tells a jaunty story of elite relationships, acute business acumen and some alluringly strange individuals. The great magazine entrepreneur Condé Nast saw its potential when he bought the title in 1909 and aimed it squarely at a market no one had spotted: extremely rich women. The creation of a luxuriant home for advertisers by using the finest editorial ingredients became the Condé Nast brand, and Vogue was its flagship. Nast, with his forensic socialising, is deserving of a book on his own, but the real stars are the outré terrors who have plotted their way into the editor's chair. GLOSSY by NINA-SOPHIA MIRALLES ,a vivacious and gossipy history of Vogue sees it less as a magazine, more as a school of philosophy, based on hauteur, social exclusivity, impeccable taste, and editors whose ideas at times verged on the lunatic. * Strong Words Magazine *Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power. And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people. * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisINQUISITION is the latest thrilling novel from Sunday Times bestselling author David Gibbins. Jack Howard will be tested to his limits on the trail of the fabled Holy Grail. ''[The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea'' Daily Express258As the blood of martyred Christians runs through Rome''s catacombs, Pope Sixtus entrusts their most sacred object to a devoted follower. Soon after, the Holy Grail disappears into the darkness of time. 1684 While overseeing the evacuation of the English colony of Tangier, Samuel Pepys attempts to retrieve a treasure which has resurfaced after more than a thousand years. Meanwhile, a Jewish merchant is tortured by the Altamanus, a secret group determined to locate the Grail. PRESENT DAYA wreck off the Cornish coast reveals clues to a mystery that marine archaeologist Jack Howard had thought beyond solving. He embarks on an epic quest that takes him to the sunken ruins of the pirate citTrade ReviewPraise for David Gibbins - -What do you get if you cross Indiana Jones with Dan Brown? Answer: David Gibbins - MirrorFascinating... [The] Da Vinci Code of the deep sea - Daily ExpressThe diving sequences are marvellous... there isn't another thriller hero like Jack Howard and I treasure him - For Winter NightsA brilliantly written thriller that remains in the believable and yet rides the edge of the fantastical, the boundaries of exploration... and expectation - Parmenion Books

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A study in power.… The parallels with the present are eerie." -- David Treuer - Foreign Affairs"Unworthy Republic is a powerful and lucid account.… Saunt has written an unflinching book that reckons with this history and its legacy." -- Jennifer Szalai - New York Times"Claudio Saunt sets a bold, new, and urgently needed standard for the way we should understand the history of Indian Removal.… Sweeping and astute." -- Tiya Miles, professor of history, Harvard University, and author of The Dawn of Detroit"Claudio Saunt has written the definitive history of this widely remembered but seldom understood central episode in American history. In his subtle and exceedingly well documented account, Saunt shows how planters eager for land, southern politicians consolidating their power, and New York bankers launched one of the largest mass deportations in U.S. history. They encountered resourceful Native Americans who deployed all means at their disposal to retain their land. This harrowing account of theft, dispossession, novel bureaucratic capacities, and unimaginable violence drew me in in ways that few history books do. Unworthy Republic will make you think in new ways about the history of the United States and will help you understand the roots of some of today’s inequalities. It is one of the most important books published on U.S. history in recent years and should be required reading for all Americans." -- Sven Beckert, Laird Bell Professor of History, Harvard University, author of Empire of Cotton"Claudio Saunt… offers a damning synthesis of the federal betrayals, mass deportations, and exterminatory violence that defined the 1830s.… Lining up his own calculations alongside recent studies of slavery, Saunt casts indigenous expulsion and the domestic slave trade as twinned trails of tears, economic successes rooted in profound moral failures." -- Caitlin Fitz - Atlantic"A major achievement.… [Saunt] manages to do something truly rare: destroy the illusion that history’s course is inevitable and recover the reality of the multiple possibilities that confronted contemporaries." -- Nick Romeo - Washington Post"There has been insufficient ‘reckoning with the conquest of the continent,’ Claudio Saunt relays in this excellent new book. In many accounts of U.S. history, the discussion of the mass deportation of Native nations during the 1830s remains far too brief. Deportation’s legacies in law, culture, and community continue to this day and find powerful exploration in this important addition to the field." -- Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), professor of history and American studies, Yale University"A much-needed rendering of a disgraceful episode in American history that has been too long misunderstood." -- Peter Cozzens - Wall Street Journal"Unworthy Republic offers a much-needed corrective to the American canon, showing how a heavy-handed president, a deadlocked Congress, and a lust for profit combined to construct a shameful national legacy.… A riveting story that invites us all to reflect on how we got where we are today." -- Elizabeth Fenn, Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World"Thoroughly researched and quietly outraged." -- Chris Hewitt - Star Tribune

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Book SynopsisIn this book, photographer Gabriel Fuchs takes the reader on a journey around one of the most beautiful regions of the UK â Cornwall.Trade Review'Breathtaking photographs illustrating the emerald landscapes of Cornwall have been released just as the fourth series of hit period drama Poldark begins filming across the county.' -- Mail Online by Sadie Whitelocks"Spectacular scenes from around county" -- Cornish Times Article

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Book SynopsisHuman-animal studies is an interdisciplinary field that explores the spaces that animals occupy in human social and cultural worlds. Margo DeMello provides a broad overview of this rapidly growing field. This second edition is fully updated and expanded throughout, enhancing the book’s relevance for student and activist readers alike.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments Part I: Constructing Animals: Animal Categories1. Human-Animal Studies 2. Animal-Human Borders3. The Social Construction of AnimalsPart II: Using Animals: Human-Animal Economies4. Animals “in the Wild” and in Human Societies5. The Domestication of Animals6. Display, Performance, and Sport7. The Making and Consumption of Meat8. The Pet Animal9. Animals and Science10. Animal-Assisted ActivitiesPart III: Attitudes Toward Animals11. Working with Animals12. Violence to Animals13. Human Oppression and Animal SufferingPart IV: Imagining Animals: Animals in Human Thought14. Animals in Symbol and Art15. Animals in Religion and Folklore16. Animals in Literature and FilmPart V: Knowing and Relating to Animals: Animal Behavior and Animal Ethics17. Animal Behavior Studies and Ethology18. The Moral Status of Animals19. The Animal Protection Movement20. The Future of the Human-Animal RelationshipBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFrom the Great Exhibition''s showcasing of British national achievement in 1851 to the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Stratford in 2012 and on to Brexit, an insightful exploration of the transformation of modern BritainThis revised and updated fourth and final volume in the concise Brief History of Britain series begins in the specially-constructed Crystal Palace, three times the length of St Paul''s Cathedral, in Hyde Park at the beginning of the second half of the nineteenth century. The Great Exhibition it housed marked a high point of British national achievement, at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution, at the heart of a great empire, with Queen Victoria still to reign for fifty years. It was a time of confidence in the future, and exuberant patriotism for Britain''s role in it.The beginning of the Second World War in 1939 marks a turning point because of the great change it heralded in Britain''s global standing. At its peak, protected by thTrade ReviewPraise for Jeremy Black's The HolocaustA demanding but important work. -- R. S. Levy, University of Illinois at ChicagoPraise for Jeremy Black's Insurgency and Counterinsurgency: A Global HistoryA significant and timely contribution to understanding the new meaning of war. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisAn Athenian general of the fifth century B.C. chronicles the disastrous 27-year conflict between Athens and Sparta. Thucydides traces the conflict's roots and provides detailed, knowledgeable analyses of battles and the political atmosphere.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of translated primary sources for Ottoman history shows how the major institutions of Ottoman government developed, and how they functioned in practice. Each text benefits from a brief contextualising introduction, annotations and a glossary explaining technical terminology and problems of interpretation.

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Book SynopsisThis Companion provides a comprehensive overview of American Catholicism''s historical development and distinctive features. The essays - all specially commissioned for this volume - highlight the inner diversity of American Catholicism and trace the impact of American Catholics on all aspects of society, including education, social welfare, politics, and intellectual life. The volume also addresses topics of contemporary concern, such as gender and sexuality, arts and culture, social activism, and the experiences of Black, Latinx, Asian-American, and cultural Catholics. Taken together, the essays in this Companion provide context for understanding American Catholicism as it is currently experienced, and help to situate present-day developments and debates within their longer trajectory.Trade Review'… an outstanding overview of the US's distinctive Catholic history … Recommended.' R. A. Boisclair, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPart I. Historical Overview: 1. American Catholicism's early foundations Maura Jane Farrelly; 2. The immigrant church, 1820-1908 Steven M. Avella; 3. The Catholic century James M. O'Toole; Part II. Catholic Life and Culture: 4. Catholic worship Katharine E. Harmon; 5. Catholic intellectual life William L. Portier; 6. Catholic education James T. Carroll; 7. Social welfare and social reform Mary Elizabeth Brown; 8. Women religious Mary Beth Fraser Connolly; 9. Catholics and politics Lawrence J. McAndrews; 10. Arts and culture Debra Campbell; 11. Anti-Catholicism in the United States Mark Massa, SJ; 12. Gender and sexuality James P. McCartin; 13. American Catholics in a global context Angelyn Dries; Part III. Many Faces of Catholicism: 14. American Catholic laywomen and feminism Paula M. Kane; 15. Black Catholics Cecilia A. Moore; 16. Latinx Catholicism Lauren Guerra and Brett C. Hoover; 17. Asian American Catholics Robert E. Carbonneau; 18. Cultural Catholicism Tom Beaudoin; Conclusion: 19. US Catholicism in the twenty-first century Mary L. Gautier.

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Book SynopsisCarmina Burana, the largest surviving collection of secular Medieval Latin verse, features poems on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. This new, two-volume presentation of the medieval classic makes the anthology accessible in its entirety to Latin lovers and English readers alike.Trade Review[Traill] brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript…These are, indeed, translations worth having…The DOML Carmina Burana is a wonderful resource. -- Thomas C. Moser, Jr. * Speculum *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Impressive. . . . Lakota America takes us from the sixteenth century to the present, with painstaking, carefully marshaled detail, but its real feat is in threading how the Lakota philosophy and vision of the world guided their reinventions and their dealings with colonial powers. . . . Hämäläinen has the novelist’s relish for the strange, pungent detail . . . [in this ] accomplished, and subtle, study.”—Parul Sehgal, New York TimesNamed one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019“A brilliant, bold, gripping history.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019“[A] profound history of the Lakota people. . . . Hämäläinen’s book emphasizes that to understand American history it is vital to understand Lakota—and, by extension, Native American—history. . . . Lakota America joins, and in many respects leads, a growing body of work centered on single-tribe histories through which we can see, for the first time, the wild making of America.”—David Treuer, New York Review of Books“Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out.”—Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019“A comprehensive history of the tribe.”—The Economist“You’ll catch something roiling beneath that professional composure: a lively truculence that gives this book its pulse, and its purpose. Pekka Hämäläinen’s impressive history is also a quarrel with the field, with how history—especially the history of indigenous Americans—has been told and sold.”—Parul Sehgal, International New York Times“There are comparative lessons here about the vulnerability that can lie behind apparent power and the strength that comes from apparent weakness.”—David A. Nichols, Reviews in HistoryCHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, 2020Finalist in the PROSE Awards North American and U.S. History category, sponsored by the Association of American PublishersLonglisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize, sponsored by McGill University Shortlisted for the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation.Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies“Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse live in history as great warriors. Hämäläinen’s brilliant exploration of the history and culture of the people that produced these two men is destined to become a classic.”—Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University“Deeply researched, epic in scale, interpretatively adventurous, and ambitious, Lakota America will influence historians for years.”—Richard White, Stanford University“Like the Lakotas he studies, Pekka Hämäläinen is a shapeshifter. He is nuanced, nimble, and wise, with an uncanny capacity for reinvention as new understandings come to light. The result is stunning. To read Lakota America is to rethink American history itself.”—Elizabeth Fenn, University of Colorado, Boulder“Lakota America is beautifully researched, persuasively argued, and justifiably audacious in its reach and implications. It is both a landmark in American Indian history and a provocative rethinking of North American history generally.”—Elliott West, University of Arkansas

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide through our whole human past that takes the reader on a tour through time and across the globe to every site of archaeological importance.Trade Review'An excellent accessible reference guide' - Current World Archaeology'Strikes the right balance between detail and readability, and the visuals are well chosen, well reproduced and, well, abundant' - AntiquityTable of ContentsIntroduction • 1. Deep Prehistory – From Apes to Modern Humans • 2. From Hunters to Farmers • 3. The Bronze Age and the Rise of Civilizations • 4. The Iron Age and the Ancient World • 5. The Medieval World • 6. The Modern World • 7. How Archaeology Works

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In its comprehensive sweep, deep probing and acute critical analysis, Finkelstein’s study stands alone.” * Noam Chomsky *"Readers with fixed positions, either in agreement or disagreement with Finkelstein, will find much to engage with here." * Publishers Weekly *"No one who ventures an opinion on Gaza . . . is entitled to do so without taking into account the evidence in this book. For that, at least, the people of Gaza owe a debt to Norman Finkelstein. . . . Offers what may well be the definitive history of one of the most horrifying and sustained campaigns of collective punishment in modern world history."" * The Intercept *"Norman Finkelstein has the moral gravity of an Old Testament prophet, the scrupulous attention to detail of a Talmudic scholar, and the mordant sense of humor of a Yiddish novelist. All these attributes are on display in Gaza: An Inquest Into its Martyrdom. . . . The cumulative impact of Finkelstein’s meticulously-documented 408-page chronicle is devastating, and it will leave the reader stunned that the worldwide reaction is so muted." * Mondoweiss *“Recommended . . . for a review of the evidence of Israel’s wrongdoing that is buried or downplayed.” * Current Affairs *“Gaza is a tour de force. Finkelstein unravels the facade that Israel and its allies aim to create, exposing the double standards of the US government, the UN and even human rights organisations." -- Neve Gordon, * Times Higher Education *"Finkelstein’s book is a stark reminder of the facets which have incarcerated Gaza to an extent that its political voice has been rendered irrelevant by the international community. The unravelling of misrepresentation and collaboration to ensure Israel’s impunity at an international level are brought together as referenced, detailed facts. Finkelstein’s demolition of colonial and international propaganda vindicates his objective 'to refute that Big Lie by exposing each of the little lies." * Middle East Monitor *"The factual record compiled here will be of interest to future historians on all sides." * CHOICE *“One would be hard pressed to find such crucial analysis in the US press, or the wider western media for that matter. . . . For both seasoned and newer readers of the conflict, Gaza is a must read; a serious commitment to revealing hard truths in their rawest form.” * New Arab *"Anyone who chooses to read Gaza: An Inquest into its Martyrdom bears witness to the harrowing Truth and preserves it in the collective memory." * Palestine Chronicle *"A meticulous 440-page study of international law, of Israel’s sustained attacks against Gaza and its people and offers what may well be the definitive history of one of the most horrifying and sustained campaigns of collective punishment in modern world history." * The Intercept *"An extraordinary book." * Bullet *“Its passionate and painstaking attempt to counter Israeli deception deserves our close attention.” * CounterFire *"His research and his precise inquest into Israel’s wars on Gaza raises many questions about not only the vicious right-wing nature of successive Israeligovernments, but also the failure of international law, the human rights industry and the UN to be anything other than bystanders . . . Finkelstein’s systematic and analytical exposé is a necessary read." * Socialist Lawyer *"Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom is a powerful call to intensify our campaign to bring about justice for the Palestinian people which has been denied them for so long . . . It is a work of exacting and thorough scholarship, encyclopedic in its coverage of the detail of the terrible treatment of the Palestinians of Gaza, and stands both as a reference guide to the subject and an appeal for justice." * Spokesman: Journal of the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments PART ONE OPERATION CAST LEAD 1 • Self-Defense 2 • Deterring Arabs, Deterring Peace 3 • Spin Control 4 • Human Shields PART TWO THE GOLDSTONE REPORT 5 • A Zionist Bears Witness 6 • The Star Witness Recants PART THREE THE MAVI MARMARA 7 • Murder on the High Seas 8 • Whitewash I: The Turkel Report 9 • Whitewash II: The UN Panel Report PART FOUR OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE 10 • Stalled Juggernaut 11 • Israel Has the Right to Defend Itself 12 • Betrayal I: Amnesty International 13 • Betrayal II: UN Human Rights Council Conclusion Appendix: Is the Occupation Legal? Index

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