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Book SynopsisNew insights into one of the most important episodes in British labour historyTrade Review'Fascinating ... reminds us, with passion and vigor, of the years of political and trade union organisation of the English workers' movement on the eve of the Great War. Unmissable’ -- Raquel Varela, labour historian, professor at FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa and author of ‘A People's History of Europe: From World War 1 to Today’'A timely warning from history. Rising poverty and strike action. Collective bargaining, a tool for managing workers discontent. Westminster failing workers. An active rank & file holding unions accountable. All vital lessons we must apply during this current period of unrest' -- Henry Fowler and Robert Poole, Co-Founders, Strike Map'Based on meticulous historical research, this important study refutes once again the myth of working-class 'quiescence'. Addressing the remarkable eruption and trajectory of the great Labour Revolt in the years before World War I, Ralph Darlington reconstructs the many forms of autonomous worker resistance and its entanglement with trade union officialdom, as well as close links to radical socialist politics ... Provides a highly significant new contribution to the analysis of the limits and potential of industrial militancy and its relationship to political action and organisation' -- Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam'In the first book-length study of the 1910–14 labour revolt, Ralph Darlington convincingly conveys the breadth, depth, and limitations of its many strike movements. Within ten years, British politics, trade unionism, and industrial relations would be transformed' -- Dave Lyddon, Keele University, founding editor of 'Historical Studies in Industrial Relations''Drawing on modern historical research, Darlington depicts a broad working-class revolt in which radical activists played an important catalysing role. In discussing both the successes and the failures of the movement, he demonstrates its continued contemporary relevance' -- Richard Hyman, Emeritus Professor of Industrial Relations, Founding Editor, 'European Journal of Industrial Relations', Fellow of the British Academy‘Details a great moment in British and Irish working-class history, one where fundamental change seemed possible.’ -- ‘Counterfire’‘Incisive, erudite’ -- ‘Times Literary Supplement’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Part I BACKCLOTH 1. Contexts and Causes 2. Influence of the Left Part II REVOLT 3. Scope, Harbingers and Springboard 4. Spirit of Revolt 5. Gathering Momentum 6. Diversity of Struggles 7. Challenges and Expectations Part III ASSESSMENT 8. Rank-and-File/Union Official Dynamic 9. Striking Organisation 10. Countermobilisation and Violence 11. Political Radicalisation 12. Industrial Militancy and the Radical Left Part IV AFTERMATH 13. Dénouement, Sequel and Political Legacy Tables Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTennis is much more than Wimbledon! This story reveals the hidden history of the sport.Trade Review'Berry's potted history makes for a lively, informative read ... and, above all, makes you want to pick up a racquet' -- Emily Bootle, New Statesman'Engaging and thoughtful' -- William Skidelsky, Guardian 'A persuasive case for tennis as a great democratic game' -- Tim Adams, Observer'A fluent and enjoyable history of tennis' -- Norma Clarke, Literary Review‘The central thesis of David Berry’s excellent A People’s History of Tennis is that despite establishment credentials, tennis is surprisingly radical.' -- Robert Domenghetti, Times Literary Supplement‘Great news – playing tennis is not inconsistent with radical politics. This is just one of the fascinating facts in this amazing history of our sport’ -- Lord Richard Layard, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the LSE co-author of the ‘Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapy’‘We might think of lawn tennis as a sport of the privileged, but this fascinating, beautifully written book reveals that in its 150-year history it has been played with passion by women, lesbians and gays, ethnic minorities and socialists alike’ -- Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University and author of 'Britain's 'Brown Babies'''David Berry's delightfully gossipy book delves into the personal histories of tennis players famous and unknown. He lovingly charts the progress of the game since its beginnings in the Victorian period and explains why so many people, players and spectators, love it' -- Elizabeth Wilson author of 'Love Game: A History of Tennis, from Victorian Pastime to Global Phenomenon''A suffragette plot to burn down Wimbledon, Jewish quotas at your local tennis club, All England Married Couples Championships - you think you know tennis and then along comes this compelling little gem by David Berry, positing a progressive social history of the sport that surprises and delights. Hugely enjoyable and highly informative' -- David Cohen, Investigations Editor at the London Evening Standard'Fascinating' -- Simon Kuper, Financial TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Mavericks 2. Feminists 3. Members 4. Stars 5. Players 6. Socialists 7. Entrepreneurs 8. Performers 9. Enthusiasts 10. Immigrants 11. Outsiders 12. Trailblazers 13. Professionals 14. Amateurs Conclusion Timeline of (Lawn) Tennis Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisA smart and succinct history of the Labour leftTrade Review'A welcome corrective, This book astutely appraises British politics’ most frustrating but important dissident tradition' -- 'Guardian''Admirably clear-sighted' -- 'New Statesman''At a very crucial time in British politics, this book helps us to fill in important gaps in our knowledge' -- David Coates, author of 'Prolonged Labour: The Slow Birth of New Labour in Britain''A well-timed explanation of the class contradictions at the root of the Labour Party from its creation to the present day' -- 'Labour Briefing'Table of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition by Nadia Whittome MP Foreword to the First Edition by John McDonnell MP Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Divided Beginnings 2. Second Time as Disaster 3. The Age of Consent 4. The Civil War 5. 'Though Cowards Flinch...' 6. The Broad Church Collapses 7. The Single Idea 8. The Corbyn Supremacy 9. From Ancient Grudge Break to New Mutiny… Conclusion: …Where Civil Blood Makes Civil Hands Unclean Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrue crime meets political thriller in an explosive exposé of US meddling in MexicoTrade Review'An impressive piece of sleuthing. Mckenzie's dogged search for answers shines a spotlight on AIFLD with its CIA links.' -- Anthony Carew, author of 'American Labour's Cold War Abroad: From Deep Freeze to Detente''An in-depth study of the rot existing within the foreign policy leadership of the AFL-CIO. Expunging this rot is essential to the revitalization of the US labor movement' -- Kim Scipes, Professor of Sociology, Purdue University NorthwestTable of ContentsList of Photographs Series Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue PART I U.S. LABOR’S COLD WAR IN LATIN AMERICA 1. The Birth of AIFLD and the Coup in British Guiana 2. Labor’s Foreign Policy Contested and the Military Takeover in Brazil 3. AIFLD and the Battle of Chile 4. El Salvador, Nicaragua, and AIFLD’s Agenda for Central America PART II EL GOLPE 5. Mexico in the 1980s 6. U.S. Auto Companies Move South 7. The Coup 8. The Strike PART III TRACKING THE ASSASSINS 9. Detroit 10. St. Paul 11. Washington, DC Conclusion: Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle Appendix: On the Home “Front” Photographs Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA popular history of the emergence of football in early twentieth century RussiaTrade Review'Football is an excellent way in to understanding any country, and if there's one country we need to understand better now, it's Russia. An extremely timely book.' -- Simon Kuper, co-author of 'Soccernomics''A fascinating, thorough and at times revealing investigation into the origins of football in the USSR.' -- Jonathan Wilson, author of 'Inverting the Pyramid''A fascinating, brilliantly researched insight into the patchwork origins of the ruthless powerhouse that Soviet football would become.' -- Robert O'Connor, author of 'Blood and Circuses'Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Infancy Part Two. Adolescence Part Three. Youth Epilogue Bibliography Acronyms

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Book SynopsisAward-winning illustrated chronicle of the modern Arab world, combining travelogue, memoir, history and gorgeous full-colour artTrade Review'A stunningly stylish, breathtakingly evocative tribute in words and art to the cosmopolitan Levant that exists in defiance of war and empire. I treasure my copy.' -- Molly Crabapple, artist and author of 'Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War''... a personal, impassioned account ... evocative, personal texts with illustrations whose bold, colorful style seems to hark back to hand-painted movie posters' -- 'The New York Review''Lamia Ziade works as an alchemist' -- 'Elle''Extraordinary' -- 'Ms Magazine'

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Book SynopsisA moving memoir chronicling the friendship of two gay men coming of age in 1950s BritainTrade Review'Part eulogy, part memoir, this is a wonderfully clear-eyed piece of writing. And for anyone who has ever dreamt of leaving a small-town childhood behind them, this is going to really wring your heart. It certainly did mine' -- Neil Bartlett, author of 'The Disappearance Boy'

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Book SynopsisA sweeping, magisterial work of abolitionist feminist political theoryTrade Review'In Become Ungovernable, H.L.T. Quan offers us possibilities for rescuing the concept of democracy from its fatal entanglement with racial, heteropatriarchal capitalism. This phenomenal text urges us to seek radical democratic futures, not in more equitable modes of governance, but rather in revolutionary community-making practices - especially those emanating from anti-racist and abolition feminist traditions.' -- Angela Y. Davis'Quite simply a brilliant, original, and capacious work of political theory anchored in an erudite analysis of core concepts like representative democracy, democratic elitism, authoritarianism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, justice, and governance. A compelling and inspiring book that belongs in our movements and our classrooms.' -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of 'Feminism Without Borders, Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity''An elegantly written masterpiece that covers a breathtaking amount of intellectual, political, and geographic territory: from the pre-Civil War American South to rebellions in northern China to the Zapatista experiment in Chiapas, Mexico. Building on a vast body of feminist, Black radical, and abolitionist literature, H.L.T. Quan calls for a feminist ethic of care as a guiding principle for the future, rejecting state-centered solutions as non-solutions to our collective longing for freedom and free spaces.' -- Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, author of 'Making All Black Lives Matter''A masterpiece expression of H.L.T. Quan's lifework. Reflecting analytical, theoretical, and creative insights cultivated through 25+ years as a documentary filmmaker and several decades as one of the most careful, uncompromising, thoughtful critical caretakers of the living Black radical archive conceptualized by the late, great Cedric Robinson, this book is a gift to all who are serious about the conjoined tasks of abolition and liberation.' -- Dylan Rodrguez, University of California at Riverside, founding member of Critical Resistance and Cops Off Campus'An unruly book. Leaping across broad swaths of time and space, H.L.T. Quan exposes the prison house of liberal antidemocracy and the accumulation of rebellions inside in order to construct a theory of democracy as radical praxis. "Democratic living," as she calls it, refuses the tyranny of order, embraces the unruliness of collective struggle, and recognizes freedom not as a destination but practicean abolitionist, feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, radically inclusive practice. In other words, to preserve life and break liberalism's hold, we have to make a living. Quan shows us a way.' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Table of ContentsPreface Part I: Antidemocracy in America 1. Against Tyranny: An Introduction 2. The Myth of White Autarky 3. Democratic Thought and the Unthinkable 4. Love of Freedom: Jeffersonian Antidemocracy and the Politics of Governing 5. The Empty Sounds of Liberty Part II: Life Beyond Governing 6. From Home Politicus to Robo Sapiens: An Interlude 7. iLife and Death: The New/Old Capitalist Algorithm 8. Governments Reform, People Revolt 9. Speculative Justice and the Politics of Mutuality 10. Toward a Democratic Ethic of Living

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Book SynopsisQuestioning energy transition in the Arab region using a climate justice lensTrade Review'Demonstrates that the climate crisis - along with mainstream responses to it - is playing out along colonial lines. It's time to face up to this reality and build an anti-colonial struggle in response.' -- Jason Hickel, economic anthropologist and author of 'Less is More''This groundbreaking volume by scholars deeply embedded in the region's political and knowledge production milieus, offers a timely, indeed acute, analysis of what a just transition might mean for the region. The authors examine in theoretically and empirically rich essays contestations over the Sahara, greenwashing Israel's colonisation of Palestine, agricultural and mineral extractivism, green capitalism and finance and a range of other urgently pivotal subjects.' -- Laleh Khalili, author of 'Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula''A brave and timely book that offers hope for our planet. These essays from the Arab world analyse the complexity of the environmental issues at play in the region and offer an optimistic, global, democratic vision of transformative sustainability centred around climate justice.' -- Ahdaf Soueif, novelist and political and cultural commentator'A much-needed decolonized examination of the climate crisis for all sacrificial zones. A focus on the situation in North Africa, an area of intense contestations pitching the peoples against the relentless push by fossil fuel speculators and other forces of neoliberalism is both welcome and a clear warning that must not be ignored.' -- Nnimmo Bassey, author of 'To Cook a Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Change Crisis in Africa''A must-read thought-provoking book for every researcher, policymaker and activist working on climate, energy, development and social justice issues in the Arab region. This volume educates and empowers its readers to think about the roots of the problems in clear, systematic, and transformative ways. A significant contribution to the literature on just transition, greenwashing, neocolonialism, extractivism, and neoliberalism.' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity'This book is crucial for those seeking alternative visions and policies to the complete disaster currently being produced by capitalism, and to capitalism’s failing global and local projects to deal with an issue that is a question of life and death. Despite the multi-dimensional crisis that the Arab region – and the whole world – is going through […] the Arab region remains largely absent from the intensifying debate over the future.' -- Wael Gamal, Egyptian writer and researcher in political economy'Just as the science is telling us loud and clear that the current situation of climate deterioration may be our last chance “before it is too late”, so the research and knowledge presented in this book, including its practical and feasible recommendations (which are directed to people rather than to the indifferent, comprador regimes in the Arab region), serves as wake-up call, reminding us of the urgent need to act before it is too late.' -- Nahla Chahal, Professor of political sociology, Editor-in-Chief, 'As-Safir Al-Arabi'‘[T]his book serves as a crucial link in the collective efforts and common priorities of climate experts and climate justice advocates in Arab countries who, moreover, refuse the new colonialism that is disguised in some agendas around addressing climate change and harnessing renewable energies. I hope this book can be a catalyst that will prompt governments and civil society organizations and institutions to pursue climate justice and achieve energy democracy in North Africa.’ -- Houcine Rhili, Development specialist, Tunisia'For anyone committed to putting the Just into Just Transition this is a vital intervention that connects the past to the present and challenges us not only to reimagine the future, but to stand with those on the frontlines fighting for it.' -- Asad Rehman, War on Want, UK'The inevitable consequences of climate change caused by extractivism will mostly affect vulnerable communities ... The authors push us to be critical of green projects and remind us that not everything green should be blindly accepted.' -- 'The New Arab'Table of ContentsTables and Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Just in Time – The Urgent Need for a Just Transition in the Arab Region - Hamza Hamouchene and Katie Sandwell PART I: ENERGY COLONIALISM, UNEQUAL EXCHANGE AND GREEN EXTRACTIVISM 1. The Energy Transition in North Africa: Neocolonialism Again! – Hamza Hamouchene 2. An Unjust Transition: Energy, Colonialism and Extractivism in Occupied Western Sahara - Joanna Allan, Hamza Lakhal and Mahmoud Lemaadel 3. Arab–Israeli Eco-Normalization: Greenwashing Settler Colonialism in Palestine and the Jawlan - Manal Shqair 4. What Can an Old Mine Tell Us about a Just Energy Transition? Lessons from Social Mobilization across Mining and Renewable Energy in Morocco - Karen Rignall 5. Towards a Just Agricultural Transition in North Africa - Saker El Nour 6. The Electricity Crisis in Sudan: Between Quick Fixes and Opportunities for a Sustainable Energy Transition - Razaz H. Basheir and Mohamed Salah Abdelrahman PART II: NEOLIBERAL ADJUSTMENTS, PRIVATISATION OF ENERGY AND THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 7. International Finance and the Commodification of Electricity in Egypt - Mohamed Gad 8. The Energy Sector in Jordan: Crises Caused by Dysfunctional and Unjust Policies - Asmaa Mohammad Amin 9. Renewable Energy in Tunisia: An Unjust Transition - Chafik Ben Rouine and Flavie Roche 10. The Moroccan Energy Sector: A Permanent Dependence - Jawad Moustakbal PART III: FOSSIL CAPITALISM AND CHALLENGES TO A JUST TRANSITION 11. A Transition to Where? The Gulf Arab States and the New 'East-East' Axis of World Oil - Adam Hanieh 12. The Challenges of the Energy Transition in Fossil Fuel Exporting Countries: The Case of Algeria - Imane Boukhatem 13. Unjust Transitions: The Gulf States' Role in the "Sustainability Shift" in the Middle East and North Africa - Christian Henderson About the Contributors Index

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Book Synopsisaeo A lively, accessible introduction to the history of nature and the environment. aeo An outline of the major understandings of a naturea in the western world since classical times from nature as higher authority to its more recent meaning of a threatened form of life.Trade Review"Common green wisdom attributes modern treatment of the environment to all sorts of legacies from history, usually Western, Judaeo-Christian and capitalist. Peter Coates examines all the usual suspects, from the Ancient Greeks, to Renaissance man and the thinkers of the Enlightenment, and no less critically the usual eco-heroes, from St Francis and the Zen Buddhists to the American Indians. He places shifting ideas and attitudes in the full and proper context of their time, and rightly condemns the tendency to raid the past for handy quotations to legitimize the campaigns of the present. He shows us how landscapes in England and elsewhere are related to these ideas, particularly show pieces like National Trust properties and American National Parks, but they are often landscapes of dispossession as well as landscapes of conservation. He takes us into the immediate antecedents of modern environmentalism and shows us a green side to Engels and (alarmingly) to Himmler as well as to Wordsworth and William Morris. Always judicious, Peter Coates's book will prove the best possible guide to the history of environmental ideas. Anyone who seriously wants to find a way through the maze of the past and to judge how we have arrived at the present and who prizes scholarship above polemics, will need to read this book." Professor T. C. Smout, Institute for Environmental History, University of St Andrews "For some years it has struck me as intriguing that there is no good recent history of nature - though in a sense hardly surprising since one could not imagine a more daunting subject for a historian to tackle.... I am delighted to say that Peter Coates's text fills the bill particularly well: it is clear, cogent, comprehensive, and well organized.... This is a stunning book." Roy Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine "I am very impressed with this book. It offers much more depth on most of the historical periods than any other book I've read.... and I couldn't stop reading it." Michael Barbour, University of California, "Peter Coates's Nature is an engaging book, written in a lucid and accessible style and enlivened by the author's wry humour." Professor Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge "Coates' prose is lively and his critical perspactive engaging...students and general readers will find this an enjoyable and thought-provoking introduction to some of the key ideas and debates within environmental history." Andrea Gaynor, University of Western Australia 'Peter Coates's book is a welcome, updated introduction to environmental history. Presuming no prior knowledge of the field on the part of his readers, Coates confirms the discipline's "status as one of the most enthralling...pursuits within historical studies" (p.viii). Though faced with a monumental task of synthesis - even within a considerably narrowed scope - Coates succeeds admirably.' Journal of the History of the Behavioural SciencesTable of ContentsPreface. 1. The Natures of Nature. 2. Ancient Greece and Rome. 3. The Middle Ages. 4. The Advent of Modernity. 5. The World Beyond Europe. 6. Nature as Landscape. 7. Reassessments of Nature: Romantic and Ecological. 8. The Disunited Colours of Nature. 9. The Future of Nature. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness. English men and women in the mid-nineteenth century imagined themselves at the centre of a great empire: their mental and emotional maps encompassed ''Aborigines'' in Australia, ''negroes'' in Jamaica, ''coolies'' in the Indies. This sense of the other provided boundaries and markers of difference: ways of knowing who was ''civilised'' and who was ''savage''. This fascinating book tells intertwined stories of a particular group of Englishmen and women who constructed themselves as colonisers. Hall then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial and cultural issues. One story focuses on the Baptist missionaries in Jamaica and their efforts to build a new society in the wake of emancipation. Their hope was to make Afro-Jamaican men and women into people like themsTrade Review"Civilising Subjects provides a compelling account of the ways in which the various imperial projects of the nineteenth century shaped domestic political, evangelical, and cultural agendas. This detailed study of Victorian empire and English national culture is sure to become the definitive study of the decade and beyond." Kathleen Wilson, author of The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715-1785 "Civilising Subjects does for colonial history what E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class did for social history. It triumphantly achieves what many have hoped to do: show how empire impacted on metropolis while the home culture shaped colonial development. This is a work of great scholarship, but also of passion and imagination." Roy Porter, author of The Creation of the Modern World: The Untold Story of the British Enlightenment 'This is a brilliant piece of detective work, uncovering half-forgotten debates and hidden connections linking England and Jamaica in the first half of the Victorian era...The argument that all collective identities are formed through drawing up boundaries between "us" and inferior "others" has become a cliche...Hall is the first historian to give a really convincing account of how that happened. Her story also illuminates how West Indians, and their descendents in Britian, came to occupy such an ambivalent "inside-outsider" place in that picture. Civilising Subjects is not just important for historians of Britain and empire. Anyone concerned with issues of race, citizenship and identity in Britiain today can learn a great deal from it.' The Independent "This book has the fine detail and rich colours of a Vermeer painting." Denis Judd, Historian, BBC History Magazine "...a landmark text, bringing national and imperial history into conjunction and providing a significant contribution to the new cultural history. Civilising Subjects desrves to be widely read." Michael Pickering, Journal of Contemporary European Studies "Civilising Subjects is a tour de force and promises to deepen our understanding of how Empire rebounded back on Britain." Social History "What a book! What a breeze of fresh air in British colonial history! Let there be no doubt about it: this book is cultural history at its best and most advanced." Journal for the Study of British CulturesTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. List of Maps and Illustrations. Introduction. Prologue: The Making of an Imperial Man. Australia. New Zealand. St.Vincent and Antigua. Jamaica. Part I: Colony and Metropole:. Mapping Jamaica:the Pre-Emancipation World in the Metropolitan Mind. 1. The Missionary Dream 1820-1842:. The Baptist Missionary Society and the Missionary Project. Missionaries and Planters. The War of Representation. The Constitution of the New Black Subject. The Free Villages. 2. Faultlines in the Family of Man 1842-1845:. Native Agency and the Africa Mission. The Baptist Family. Brother Knibb. 3. A Jamaica of the Mind 1820-1854:. Phillippo's Jamaica. 'A Place of Gloomy Darkness'. 4. Missionary Men and Morant Bay 1859-1866:. Anthony Trollope and Mr.Secretary Underhill. The Trials of Life. Morant Bay and After. Part II: Metropolis, Colony and Empire:. Mapping the Midland Metropolis. 5. The 'Friends of the Negro': Baptists and Abolitionists 1825-42:. The Baptists in Birmingham. 'Friends of the Negro'. The Utopian Years. 6. The Limits of Friendship: Abolitionism in Decline 1842-59:. 'A Population Intellectually at Zero'. Carlyle's Occasion. George Dawson and the Politics of Race and Nationalism. Troubles for the Missionary Public. 7. Town, Nation and Empire 1859-1867:. New Times. Morant Bay. Birmingham Men. Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.Trade Review'This book is of the highest intellectual quality, carefully argued in a non-confrontational tone. Sørenson's emphasis on what archaeology can contribute to the social science discussion about gender is a refreshing change from much of the existing literature on the topic.' Elizabeth Scott, Zooarch Research 'For a penetrating analysis of the state of gender archaeology today, and an extended discussion of the ways in which archaeology can best contribute to understanding gender, this book is extremely important ... Clear and cogent, this book will be of interest to all archaeologists because of its emphasis on the materiality of gender.' Journal of Anthropological Research 'This is not just another book about the history or nature of gender archaeology or the problems associated with making women visible in the past. The author addresses these subjects, but also contributes both theoretical insights into defining gender and practical approaches to excavating "gendered" objects ... Although engendering the archaeological record is a complex endeavor, she documents ways in whch it is an achievable goal. Her book is thorough, well footnoted and well argued.' ChoiceTable of ContentsList of illustrations. Acknowledgements. PART I. 1. Gender into the Past. 2. Gender and Archaeology: a History. 3. Theorizing Gender: Sex and Gender. 4. Theorizing Gender: Negotiation and Practice. 5. The Materiality of Gender: The Gendered Object. PART II. 6. Food: The Performance of Feeding and Eating. 7. Dressing Gender: Identity through Appearance. 8. The Engendering of Space. 9. Contact: The Short-lived Triangle. 10. The Beginning: On Becoming Gendered. 11. Reflections. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie.Trade Review'In Peter Burke's scholarly hands the notion of a social history of knowledge sheds its philosophical provocation and becomes judicious, prudent and historically rich. A beautifully written and accessible exercise in historical synthesis.' Steven Shapin, author of "A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England" (1994) and Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego 'Peter Burke is an exceptional historian: a polyglot, at home in a dozen languages; an intellectual, who is well versed in theoretical developments adjacent to history; a superb expositor, with the capacity to distil his findings in unpretentious and limpidly accessible prose; and an author of unflagging vitality, whose prolific studies in the cultural history of early modern Europe and in modern historiography constitute a formidable oeuvre ... He has succeeded in producing a balanced, judicious and highly stimulating work of synthesis. His book will be an indispensable starting point for years to come.' Keith Thomas, History Today 'Burke has made a significant contribution to cultural history ... [He] shows how knowledge was a form of exchange and how it became what we would recognize it as today. Burke's achievement in A Social History of Knowledge is to remind us that people in the past did not view knowledge in the same way as we do today.' HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Sociologies and Histories of Knowledge: an Introduction. 2. Professing Knowledge: the European Clerisy. 3. Establishing Knowledge: Institutions Old and New. 4. Locating Knowledge: Centres and Peripheries. Classifying Knowledge: Curricula, Libraries and Encyclopaedias. 6. Controlling Knowledge: Churches and States. 7. Selling Knowledge: the Market and the Press. 8. Acquiring Knowledge: The Reader's Share. 9. Trusting and Distrusting Knowledge; a Coda. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis'Mark Harrison's book illuminates the threats posed by infectious diseases since 1500. He places these diseases within an international perspective, and demonstrates the relationship between European expansion and changing epidemiological patterns. The book is a significant introduction to a fascinating subject. ' Gerald N.Trade Review'Harrison has done an especially nice job in his treatment of major historiographical trends and debates, sketching them in with a light touch, and offering compelling and clear examples of the impact and limitations of different approaches. For this, all of us teaching (and indeed researching) the history of medicine should be thoroughly grateful.' --Roberta Bivins, Cardiff University, British Society for the History of Science "This thoroughly researched and thought-provoking book is an easy and enjoyable read...an excellent introductory text on the history of disease and medicine." --Choice, February 2005 "Harrison's book is a masterful mix of narrative and historiographic analysis. his thesis about disease and the modern state, as well as the clarity of his text, will make this an accessible book even for beginner students, yet the breadth of his research and his explication of debates will make it useful to even the most advanced student and scholar." --History: Reviews of New Books, Winter 2005 "In short, this is a well-crafted and well-written synthesis that meets the goal of accessibility for undergraduate courses." Bulletin of the History of MedicineTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction - Disease and Modernity. Chapter 1 - Disease and Medicine before 1500. Chapter 2 - Early Modern Europe. Chapter 3 - Disease and Social Order: The Enlightenment and its Legacy. Chapter 4 – The World Beyond Europe. Chapter 5 – Disease in an Age of Commerce and Industry. Chapter 6 – The Individual and the State. Chapter 7 – Disease, War and Modernity. Chapter 8 – Health for All: Affluence, Poverty and Disease Since 1945. Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book tells the story of how the British economy has been managed over the last 30 years. The story is told by those who should know more about it than anyone else the former Chancellors of the Exchequer in both Labour and Conservative administrations. The Chancellors'' Tales offers a unique insider view of the management of a modern economy, charting the opportunities and constraints that each chancellor faced. The book provides a rare historical record of the difficulties and dilemmas of managing the British economy in an increasingly global age. Written with both deep insight and wit, the chapters follow the period in office of each of the chancellors. Each chapter offers a detailed account of the handling of the economy during that chancellors period of office. Taken together they provide a privileged insight into the way the British economy has been run and why. The chapters are written by Lord Healey, Lord Howe, Lord Lawson of Blaby, Lord Lamont Trade Review"Memoirs are all very well, but usually too long. This invaluable book gives us chancellors on their feet, after most of them have been on the ropes. I couldn’t put it down." William Keegan, The Observer "Anyone who remembers the episode of Father Ted in which he uses his Golden Cleric award acceptiance speech to stick the boot in to everyone who has ever crossed him will find many of the reminiscences strangely familiar." EN Magazine "One of the many fascinating sub-themes to emerge from this collection is how little regard even the more cerebral holders of the office since 1974 had for the craft of the professional economist ... the inclusion of the discussion transcripts [from the original lectures] is a great bonus." Peter Hennessy, Times Literary Supplement "Sir Howard Davies had the ingenious idea of getting every chancellor from Denis Healy, except John Major who held the office for only a year before being translated to higher things, to give an account of how they saw things." Financial Times "Davies writes a careful but typically elegant introduction." Public "A crucial text for those interested in British economic policy since the breakdown of Bretton Woods." Chris Huhne, Business Economist "Almost all the chancellors holding office between 1974 and 1997 set out their personal interpretation of their experiences, with disarming openness at times – and Howard Davies brings the recurring themes together with great skill. Taken collectively these essays give us an absorbing insight into the conduct of economic policy." Lord Burns, Former Treasury Permanent SecretaryTable of ContentsForeword Introduction by Howard Davies Lord Healey: Why the Treasury is so difficult Questions and Answers Lord Howe: Can 364 Economists all be Wrong? Questions and Answers Lord Lawson of Blaby: Changing the Consensus Questions and Answers Lord Lamont: Out of the Ashes Questions and Answers Kenneth Clarke MP: The Quest for the Holy Grail – Low Inflation and Growth Questions and Answers Afterword by Howard Davies Appendix: Schedules

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Book SynopsisIn Einstein: A Biography, Jurgen Neffe presents a clear and probing portrait of the man behind the myth. He recounts Einstein's life with detail and accuracy, presenting a comprehensive account of the educational, religious, psychological and historical conditions that enabled Einstein to become the ber-physicist of all time.Trade Review"Exhilarating [...] Neffe's zingy, dramatic style - for which we must offer congratulations to his translator, Shelley Frisch - sometimes calls to mind the New Yorker's John McPhee: his pages are rich in odd facts, take us deep into what one might call the Einstein industry and display both reverence for the genius and lèse-majesté before the man." Washington Post

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Book SynopsisThis is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz.Trade Review"'A unique participant's account of everyday death and life,' the jacket says. That sense of existential inversion is what comes across most strongly in this book, more strongly than even Levi's greatest work can convey." The Australian "Venezia reports soberly and seemingly without emotion - and yet the book becomes breathtaking in its forcefulness."Holocaust and Genocide Studies "Venezia's experiences during the war is at once both fascinating and disturbing. His description of prewar Salonika and his complicated ethnic/national background certainly help illuminate our picture of the multicultural societies of Europe that the Second World War nearly completely eliminated. He also captures the violence and brutality of Auschwitz in a very readable fashion. His descriptions of the inhumanity of the camp will remain with me for quite some time."H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online "A deeply sincere, unadorned description of Venezia's journey through hell ... There are few, if any, better descriptions of the impact of massive psychic trauma on the human soul." Jewish Book World "Venezia comes across as a very reliable witness. His language is clear, and he certainly does not idealize the members of the 'Sonderkommando' or his own role in the extermination process. It is a detailed and heartbreaking story, told in very restrained language."Journal of Contemporary History "A harrowingly matter-of-fact account."Boston Globe"Most Sonderkommando members were systematically killed by the SS. But fate allowed Shlomo Venezia to survive, and the horrific privilege to bear witness."History Wire "Shlomo Venezia's unnervingly dispassionate personal record demands to be heard. Interviewer Beatrice Prasquier's brusque questions, answered with painful truthfulness, bring home the lifelong scars this Greek Italian Jew must carry from the ever-present memories of the numberless innocents he helped lead to their grotesque slaughter." Morning Star "What is remarkable is on the one hand the lack of anger, the simple language dealing with events that are unforgettable and beyond reality, and on the other hand the fact of Venezia's daily life ever since ... He has never, in his mind, lived outside the camp." Atsmi Uvsari "I read many accounts of former deportees, and each time they take me back to life in the camp. But the story told by Shlomo Venezia is especially overwhelming because it is the only complete eye-witness account that we have from a survivor of the Sonderkommandos." Simone Veil "This holocaust survivor's testimony, like all others, will be read with fear and trembling." Elie Wiesel, Nobel LaureateTable of ContentsPreface (Simone Veil). Note (Béatrice Prasquier). Acknowledgments. I. Life in Greece before the Deportation. II. The First Month in Auschwitz-Birkenau. III. Sonderkommando: Initiation. IV. Sonderkommando: The Work Continues. V. The Revolt of the Sonderkommando and the Dismantling of the Crematoria. VI. Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee. Historical Notes. The Shoah, Auschwitz and the Sonderkommando (Marcello Pezzetti). Italy in Greece: A Short History of a Major Failure (Umberto Gentiloni). About David Olère. Selected Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisWhat is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have often derided them as narrow-mindedly studying the ideas of dead white men.Trade Review"What is Intellectual History? is a powerful statement of the importance and relevance of its subject. From a history of the field's development, with a particular focus on the transformation of the history of political thought by John Pocock, Quentin Skinner and Istvan Hont, Richard Whatmore explores the possibilities as well as the limits of intellectual history, demonstrating the multiple ways in which it better enables us to understand the rich tapestry of human intellectual achievement."—John Robertson, University of Cambridge "The ideal starting-point for anyone who wants to understand what intellectual historians are doing and why it matters. In this timely and useful book, Whatmore provides a lucid and refreshingly personal introduction to both the history of Intellectual History and the ways it is practised today in the English-speaking world."—Ann Thompson, European University InstituteTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction The identity of intellectual history The history of intellectual history The method of intellectual history The practice of intellectual history The relevance of intellectual history Intellectual history present and future Conclusion Notes Further reading Index

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Book Synopsis* An award-winning account of Stalin s reign of terror when 1. 5 million people lost their lives in a single year. * Karl Schlogel reconstructs the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraled into the Great Terror .Trade ReviewWinner of the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding "An almost impossibly rich masterpiece. The density and seriousness, the deliberation and literary art of this exhilarating tour de force testifies to the enduring value and purpose of that perhaps now-vanishing triumph of the human intellect, the book." The Atlantic, best five books of 2012 "A dizzyingly brilliant panorama of the enormous variety of events and processes unfolding in Moscow between 1936 and 1938. Schlogel succeeds admirably - indeed, better than any historian to date - in reproducing the atmosphere and grotesque contradictions." Times Higher Education "Exceptionally readable. An extraordinary, thought-provoking masterpiece." Literary Review “An excellent and original book. Not only is it a highly detailed account of a city in turmoil (containing many more fascinating stories than a review can ever do full justice), but it reveals clearly how 1937 was a year of extreme contradictions” Europe/Asia Studies "Schlögel's total history of Moscow during the fateful year ranks among the best of Sovietology." International Affairs "No book could be more equal to the task of restoring Stalin’s victims to Western memory than Schlögel’s Moscow, 1937 - it is an extraordinary work of scholarship, prose and remembrance." Times Literary Supplement "“A brilliant achievement of historical writing, one that can be read profitably by specialist and the general reader alike.” American Historical Review "Schlogel's comprehensive overview gives a profound overall view of what it was like to live in such a crucial place in such a crucial year." Dublin Review of Books "It is great. Moscow, 1937 teaches us that life goes on as usual, even in the midst of great catastrophe, but it also teaches that great catastrophe can look a lot like life going on as usual." Vol. 1 Brooklyn "Compelling in every way, the book startles the mind and stirs the imagination in the way that only poetry and music can sometimes do. An instant classic." Wichita Eagle "Karl Schlögel’s Moscow 1937 draws a living, multi-dimensional portrait of the megacity in a crucial year of upheaval that evokes all the hope, despair, creativity, horror, escapism, terror, fear, and striving that enveloped the Muscovite cityscape and its inhabitants. Schlögel is an unusually inventive historian and a brilliant stylist; it’s a great boon to have his latest work available in English." Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University and author of Stalin’s Genocides "This book’s focus is one year, 1937, and one place, Moscow, but it is no narrow history. The narrative has sweep and depth, encompassing the mundane, the spectacular, and the nightmare dream world of Stalin’s purges; an incomparable book about people during one of the most grandiose and terrifying epochs of the twentieth century." David Shearer, University of Delaware "Starting from a birds-eye view of the city from above, a homage to the flight of Bulgakov’s Margarita, Schloegel captures the complex specificity of a time and place of immense significance in Soviet and twentieth-century history. In this multivalent historical moment, interrogations at the Lubyanka coexist with happy summer vacations and the triumphant conquest of the North Pole by Soviet aviators. Schloegel brings into play an ingenious variety of sources, ranging from architectural blueprints and city directories to execution records, not forgetting diaries and literary evocations. This is a masterful, panoramic work by a gifted story-teller who is also a highly innovative, sophisticated and erudite historian." Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago "In brilliant fashion Karl Schlögel presents Moscow as a rotating stage of Soviet desire and Stalinist nightmares. Like no other author before him, he charges his prose and the sequence of scenes with the hallucinatory power of the Communist project. The vertiginous and terrifying effect is his very point and singular achievement." Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University "Karl Schlogel's Moscow 1937 is a brilliant essay of "Total history" on a crucial episode of Soviet history, on one of the greatest historical catastrophes of the Twentieth Century.This is the first book which goes beyond totalitarianism and revisionism and brings us a totally new interpretation of this tragic event by presenting together opposing experiences and manifestations such as the preparation for universal, free, direct and secret elections and carefully planned, organized mass killings. Or, in other words, Dream and Terror." Nicolas Werth, Institut d’histoire du temps présent "This is a montage of a great city in tumult, in equal parts depicting the optimism of progress and the horror of the show trials, all in the shadow of a looming war." Andrew Cornish, Readings "While most historians see both terror and civilisation as important to understanding the Soviet experience of the 1930s, they tend to spend their time investigating either one or the other. Schlögel is the first to attempt to knit them together so intricately. Moscow 1937 is an act of remembrance as well as a work of history.” London Review of Books "There is no book that so perfectly and completely captures the stark contradictions of Soviet life. Each scene is a marvel, and together they recreate for us a multisided and vanished world." Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsPreface x Acknowledgements xiii Reproduction Acknowledgements xvii Translator's Note xx Introduction 1 1 Navigation: Margarita's Flight 10 Margarita's fl ight – Manuscripts don't burn: a writer in 1937 – Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts – Dramatis personae and their portrayal: dual characters – NKVD, the organization – 'People vanished from their apartments without trace' – Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle – 'It can't be!' 2 Moscow as a Construction Site: Stalin's General Plan in Action 33 Aleksandr Medvedkin's film New Moscow – A new cityscape: Stalin's General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow – Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction – Moscow beyond the ring roads – Human landscape, struggle for survival 3 A Topography of the Disappeared: The Moscow Directory of 1936 54 Snapshot of the status quo: directories as documents of their age – Topography of power and other locations – Traces of the disappeared – Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses 4 The Creation of Enemies: The Criminal Prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, 19 - 24 August 1936 68 World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the fi rst Moscow show trial – The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language – 'Double-dealers' – The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law – The ideal enemy 5 'Tired of the Effort of Observing and Understanding': Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 81 A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin – The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to generate a point of view – The end of the fl âneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD – The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum – Leave-taking at Belorusskii Station 6 In the Glare of Battle: Spain and Other Fronts 95 Moscow maps: the scene is Spain – A world in meltdown, war scare – The Soviet nation as a patriotic fi ghting unit – Metastases: show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad – Barcelona transfer: Moscow experiences 7 Blindness and Terror: The Suppressed Census of 1937 109 A journey into the interior of society – 6 January 1937: snapshot of an empire – Ten years after the census of 1926: balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward – Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition – The shock of the missing millions – Statistics as crime 8 A Stage for the Horrors of Industrialization: The Second Moscow Show Trial in January 1937 125 'The Business-like atmosphere' – The language of expert witnesses – The topography of the Five-Year Plan – Human sacrifi ce, nemesis, chorus – Postscript 9 'A Feast in the Time of Plague': The Pushkin Jubilee of 10 February 1937 144 The New York Times: 'All Russia was Pushkin-mad today' – 'Comrade Pushkin': consecration of a classic – A feast in the time of plague: coded discourses – Platitudes of a new culture – Russian genius and imperial rule 10 Public Death: Ordzhonikidze's Suicide and Death Rites 160 The shock: Sergo is dead – Escape into ritual – Suicide as a weapon – A hopeless situation and protest – Death as a group experience: speaking of death in times of mass murder 11 The Engine Room of the Year 1937: The February-March Plenum of the Central Committee 177 A leadership at its wits' end: the voice of panic – Testing the limits and exceeding them: the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov – The shock: 'universal, free, secret elections' – Audit report: ungovernability and fear of chaos – Wreckers at work in the NKVD – The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one – Setting the machinery in motion 12 Moscow in Paris: The USSR Pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 198 The exhibition trail: a journey through the map of the Soviet Union – The theme park of twentieth-century civilization – Marginal encounters 13 Red Square: Parade Ground and Place of Execution 209 14 Chopin Concert and Killing Ritual: Radio and the Creation of the Great Community 215 Radiofi katsia: the two faces of progress – Radio as the background noise of the new age – The sphere of feelings – Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world' – Stalin: the original soundtrack: the direction of the historical moment – Wreckers at work in the ether 15 Soviet Art Deco: Time Preserved in Stone 229 The First All-Union Congress of Architects, 16–26 June 1937 – Moscow as a building site – Chaos and stress – The Soviet universe as exhibition – The creation of a new style during a state of emergency – Closing speech: Frank Lloyd Wright 16 'Brown Bodies, Gaily Coloured Shorts': Sports Parade 248 'The glorious beauty of young people' – Fizkul'turnik, fi zkul'turnitsa: icons of the new age – 'Stalin's tribe': tableaux vivants in Red Square 17 Wealth and Destruction: The Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow 256 The emergence of Soviet geologists: science and the dream of an affluent nation – Pioneers the nation does not need: geologists as enemies of the people – Vladimir Vernadskii: a patriot without fear – Excursion to the Moscow–Volga Canal: science and slave labour 18 A City by the Sea: The Opening of the Moscow–Volga Canal 274 After the White Sea Canal: Stalin's second arterial highway – A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk: the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape – Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital: the parallel society of the camp zone – Perekovka/ reforging: the laboratory of the new man – 'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp' 19 Year of Adventures, 1937: A Soviet Icarus 294 Triumphs, records: a city in a fever – Non-stop to America – The conquest of the Arctic – Twentieth-century adventures – Heroes of the age: Stalin's aviators – 'There are thousands of dreamers like me' – 'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror 20 Moscow as Shop-Window: The Abundance of the World, Hungry for Goods and Dizzy with Hunger 314 André Gide: on luxury and shortages – Advertisements, window displays: objects of desire and how to present them – Dizzy with hunger – A hopeless struggle: a nation of speculators – The queue as grapevine 21 Open Spaces, Dream Landscapes: Cruising on the Volga, Holidaying on the Red Riviera, Conspiracies in the Dachas 326 22 The National Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov: His Return Home and Death 332 Returning home from exile: establishing contact with the new Russia – National Bolshevism and Stalin's 'Socialism in One Country' – The world of 'former people' and 1937 – A double reading: a diary with comments by the NKVD 23 Celebrating the October Revolution on 7 November 1937 344 In the diplomats' box – Conversations in the inner circle of power 24 A Miniature of High Society before the Massacre 355 The bombs come closer – Beau monde, illustrious society – Masked ball at the American Embassy – Interior with piano and nursemaid – Yezhov's salon: art and the secret police – Postscript: inventory of luxury and fashion 25 Soviet Hollywood: Miracles and Monsters 372 Lenin in October: the Revolution corrected – The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars – Mosfi lm 1937: chaos in the film factory – Volga-Volga: directors as conspirators, actors as spies – Terror and good entertainment 26 Death in Exile 387 Dimitrov's diary: a record of self-destruction – Vanishing point Moscow: biotope – Foreign comrades – Vulnerability: world communism as world conspiracy – Lists, dossiers and card indexes 27 Arcadia in Moscow: Stalin's Luna Park 404 'A centre of culture and rest' – 'What a summer!' – The locus of public opinion 28 'Avtozavodtsy': The Workforce of the Stalin Car Factories 413 'Shanghai': city of immigrants, city on the periphery – Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry – Factory patriotism: the factory as melting pot – 'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair 29 Dzhaz: The Sound of the Thirties 433 Dzhaz (Utesov) – Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii) – Classical music (Shostakovich) 30 Changing Faces, Changing Times 444 31 America, America: The Other New World 450 Ili' a Il' f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America – Special relations: Soviet Americanism and the New Deal – The American way of life in 1937 – Utopia as present-day reality 32 'I Know of No Other Country . . .': 1937 and the Production of Soviet Space 463 The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses – Moscow as an image-making machine – Homogenizing labour: purges and the unity of the Soviet nation 33 The Butovo Shooting Range: Topography of the Great Terror 472 Looking for traces: the archaeology of the graveyard – Mass murder on the outskirts of the city – Sociology of the mass grave – Killing by quota: Order No. 00447 – World war, civil war 34 Lonely White Sail . . .: Dreamtime, Children's Worlds 505 35 Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Cheka 510 At the heart of Moscow: power made visible – Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders – Ovations for the executioners: morituri salutant 36 Bukharin Takes his Leave 519 Bukharin's final plea – The show trial: exercises in dialectics – The Lubianka: prison as a production site – Letter to Koba – A Moscow childhood in 1900 37 'For Official Use Only': Moscow as a City on the Enemy Map 538 38 The Foundation Pit 544 The imaginary centre: a support for the empire – The dome that disappeared: Russian Byzantium – Labouring away at a vacuum: fantasies of the building of the century – Rome, New York, Moscow: the genius of Boris Iofan – War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency 39 Instead of an Epilogue 558 Notes 559 Select Bibliography 619 Index 638

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Book SynopsisColin Heywood s rich account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War provides a concise and readable synthesis of the extensive literature on childhood.Trade Review"This is a lively, accessible and compelling overview of how childhood has been thought about and experienced over the last 800 years. Grounded in recent scholarship it provides a very effective summary of key debates, approaches and themes. It is an excellent introduction to the topic for students, and essential reading for all those interested in the ways in which children's lives have changed for better or worse across time."Louise Jackson, University of Edinburgh "Anyone interested in the history of childhood will do well to start with Heywood's fine work. It covers necessary topics, like child labor, schooling and health, but also subtler ones including child agency, the relationship of children to good and evil and the "value" of children. It is also a great read."Carl Ipsen, Indiana University “Looking for a good book about childhood’s past, I waited for the new Second Edition of A History of Childhood. Although written with scholarly correctness, it’s accessible, and it turns out to be a pretty good story, too.”Howard Blumenthal, Digital InsiderTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Changing Conceptions of Childhood 1 Conceptions of Childhood in the Middle Ages 2 The Quest for a Turning Point 3 Some Themes in the Cultural History of Childhood Part II: Growing up in the Family 4 The Start of a New Life 5 A Precarious Infancy 6 Early Childhood, Age Two to Seven 7 Later Childhood, Age Seven to Fourteen Part III: Children in a Wider World 8 Children at Work in Agricultural Societies 9 Child Labour and Industrialization 10 Children's Leisure Activities 11 Children's Health 11 The Child and the School Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis* This is a new addition to Polity s highly successful What is History series.Trade Review"This is a wide-ranging survey which reveals urban history in a European as well as a British context. It is deeply informed, with ideas, approaches and anxieties explained, and shows how urban history opens the way to many histories, illustrated by an innovative section on transnational histories."Robert Morris, Edinburgh University"Strongly recommended. Truly international in scope, this much-needed introduction to the field offers a balanced survey of the issues that have engaged urban historians over the past century. It will be welcomed by historians and non-historians alike."Richard Harris, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Why Urban History?Chapter 1: The Development of Urban HistoryChapter 2: Cities, Spaces, and IdentitiesChapter 3: Governing CitiesChapter 4: Cities and the EnvironmentChapter 5: Urban Culture and ModernityChapter 6: Transnational Urban HistorySuggestions for Further ReadingNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisEvil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or refusal to understand them and in the casual turning away of one s ethical gaze.Trade Review“In order to overcome moral blindness, we have to break the vicious circle of consumerism: politics has to address, again, real problems, universities have to provide us with ‘intellectual slow food’, but most of all we have to regain our dialogic nature – the ability to tell stories and listen to them. Moral Blindness is definitely a good lesson of that.” European Journal of Cultural and Political SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Theory of Human Secrecy and Unfathomability, or Exposing Elusive Forms of Evil 1 1. From the Devil to Frighteningly Normal and Sane People 17 2. The Crisis of Politics and the Search for a Language of Sensitivity 50 3. Between Fear and Indifference: The Loss of Sensitivity 94 4. Consuming University: The New Sense of Meaninglessness and the Loss of Criteria 131 5. Rethinking The Decline of the West 168

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Book SynopsisWhat is the history of knowledge? This engaging and accessible introduction explains what is distinctive about the new field of the history of knowledge (or, as some scholars say, knowledges in the plural ) and how it differs from the history of science, intellectual history, the sociology of knowledge or from cultural history.Trade Review"It is rare for a tour d'horizon also to be a tour de force, but this compact introduction to the new field of the history of knowledge qualifies on both counts. In less than two hundred pages, Burke maps out a new Republic of Letters, far more inclusive than the old one. Burke's vast learning is lightly worn, and the reader is rewarded with glittering aperçus and striking comparisons on almost every page."Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin"What counts as ‘knowledge’ and how can it be said to have a ‘history’? Peter Burke, the world’s foremost authority in the field, provides an eminently lucid guide to the momentous shifts that have been taking place in a gamut of intellectual disciplines. Intellectual history will never be the same again."Geoffrey Lloyd, Needham Research InstituteTable of Contents1: Knowledges and their Histories2: Concepts3: Processes4: Problems and ProspectsTimelineFurther ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis fully revised edition of Martin Shaw s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea s history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like ethnic cleansing and politicide.Trade ReviewIn this second edition of his wonderful book, Shaw shows that definitions matter in explaining genocide. Incorporating recent work he gives a highly-intelligent view of genocide, broadly defined as in Raphael Lemkin?s original coining of the term. If you want to read a general work on genocide and ethnic cleansing, this should be your first choice. Michael Mann, University of California, Los Angeles The first edition of What is Genocide? rightly became an instant classic. The second edition adds depth on Raphael Lemkin, the notion of genocidal massacre and the structural dimensions of genocide. It is essential reading for teaching and thinking about this troubling subject. Dirk Moses, European University InstituteTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition 1 Introduction: The Importance of Definition PART I: THE GENOCIDE IDEA 2 Raphael Lemkin and the Idea of Genocide 3 The Concept after Lemkin 4 The Holocaust Standard 5 The 'Cleansing' Euphemism 6 The Many 'Cides' of Genocide PART II: AGENCY AND STRUCTURE IN GENOCIDE 7 From Intentionality to a Structural Concept 8 The Structure of Genocide: Conflict and War 9 Actors and Process in Genocidal Conflict 10 Structural Contexts: Explaining Modern Genocide 11 Conclusion: New Definitions Index

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Book SynopsisWhat is environmental history? It is a kind of history that seeks understanding of human beings as they have lived, worked, and thought in relationship to the rest of nature through the changes brought by time. In this new edition of his seminal student textbook, J.Trade Review"Anyone seeking help in navigating the shifting shoals of environmental history will give fulsome thanks to Don Hughes for this book. It is far and away the best guide yet to the issues and historiography of this emerging field, spanning the globe and delving into the deep as well as recent past."—J. R. McNeill, Georgetown University "What is Environmental History? is a masterfully condensed overview of one of the most urgent and rapidly developing fields of history. Written by a scholar of classical antiquity, it gracefully covers ancient, medieval, and modern periods – with a global vision. A state-of-the-art report for any scholar, and a perfect introduction for the student."—Sverker Sörlin, Royal Institute of Technology, StockholmTable of Contents1. Defining Environmental HistoryIntroductionThe Themes of Environmental HistoryAmong the Scholarly DisciplinesEnvironmental History and the Older History2. Forerunners of Environmental HistoryIntroductionThe Ancient WorldMedieval and Early Modern Environmental ThoughtThe Early Twentieth Century3. The Emergence of Environmental History in the United StatesIntroductionAmerican History from Conservation to EnvironmentStrands of Environmental History in the United StatesCollaborators with Environmental History4. Local, Regional, and National Environmental HistoriesIntroductionCanadaEuropeThe MediterraneanThe Middle East and North AfricaIndia, South and Southeast AsiaEast AsiaAustralia, New Zealand, and the Pacific IslandsAfricaLatin AmericaThe Ancient World and the Middle AgesConclusion5. Global Environmental HistoryIntroductionBooks on World Environmental HistoryTopics of Global ImportanceEnvironmental MovementsWorld History TextsConclusion6. Issues and Directions in Environmental HistoryIntroductionProfessionalismAdvocacyEnvironmental DeterminismPresentismDeclensionist NarrativesPolitical-Economic TheoryThe Next IssuesConclusion7. Thoughts on Doing Environmental HistoryIntroductionGuidance on MethodologyThe Search for SourcesResourcesConclusion: The Future of Environmental HistoryNotesSelect BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist.Trade Review"For too long, there have been multiple Mores: Thomas More – the 'man for all seasons' – has also seemed to be a man of many faces: More's identities as a statesman, humanist, and saint have seemed riven from each other and bafflingly incompatible. In this brilliant, lucid, and pithy account, Joanne Paul reunites More with himself by identifying the central idea that animated his thought and action. This is an original and illuminating work that should be compulsory for any reader of Utopia."�Suzannah Lipscomb, New College of the Humanities "A well-organized introduction to Thomas More's body of writing, some published only posthumously, which deftly introduces a general university-level reader to his written corpus."�Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania "Fascinating...Paul shows an impressive mastery of the assorted, disparate aspects of More�s work."� Spiked ReviewTable of ContentsPreface vi Abbreviations ix Key Dates xi Introduction: The Thought of Thomas More 1 1 Early Life, Education and Poetry 15 2 Utopia and ‘Common Things’ 29 3 Richard III and the Stage Play of Politics 60 4 The Common Corps of Christendom 83 5 Influence 116 Conclusion 141 Notes 146 References 158 Recommended Reading 169 Index 174

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Book SynopsisThe inside story of the sufferings of Christians in Iraq and Syria from 2003 onwards.Table of ContentsCONTENTSMap of Iraq and Syria xiPreface: Pay Money xiiiPART 1 : War and Peace1. Insaf ’s Journey 32. Right of Return 113. No Guarantees 194. Fire like Cold Water 355. The War Before 516. Window of Opportunity 63PART 2 : Chasing Peace7. Vanished 818. Crusaders and the Mujahideen 919. Places of Exile 10510. The Keeper of Nahum’s Tomb 12711. A Church of Martyrs 13912. Fasting and Flight 157PART 3 : Inside the House of War13. The Coming of a New Caliphate 17114. The Death of One American 18515. The New Jihad 19716. Emptying Mosul 21317. Enlisted 22918. The Final Fall 23919. Fighting ISIS 25520. Cities of Refuge 26921. A Garden by Night 285Acknowledgments 299Time Line of Key Events in Iraq and Syria 303Notes 309Index 317About the Author 321

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Book SynopsisPam Rhodes shares an endearing collection of gloriously green stories and poems that are bound to appeal to green-fingered readers.Trade Review'A timely reminder of the humour and solace of the garden in a frantic world.' -- Alan Titchmarsh

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction 6The Rations Challenge: Pre Week One 10Week One: What Happened to My Unlimited Choice? 15Week Two: Waste and Landfill 25Week Three: What our Mums Have Taught Us 37Week Four: Living Below the Breadline 49– Food Banks and Austerity BudgetsWeek Five: Local Versus Imported 61– Eating Seasonally and SustainablyWeek Six: Gratitude 71Living on Rations: Other People’s Accounts 83Wartime Cookery 101Seasonal Calendar 147Conclusion 153References and Further Reading 155

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Dr John Sentamu, former Archbishop of YorkIntroduction 9 Part One: The Early YearsChapter 1 Beginnings 14Chapter 2 Yet More Beginnings 20Chapter 3 Becoming Established 31Chapter 4 Handicrafts and More 37 Part Two: Into the 1990sChapter 5 A Hard Act to Follow 48Chapter 6 A New Way of Working Overseas 52Chapter 7 New Partnerships in the UK 60Chapter 8 Not Just Fair Trade 65Chapter 9 Hard Times and Big Changes 71 Part Three: A New MillenniumChapter 10 New Leadership, New Approach 82Chapter 11 Growth and Influence 91 Part Four: Part of a Global MovementChapter 12 Early Years 104Chapter 13 Fairtrade Labelling 109Chapter 14 Working with EFTA 118Chapter 15 Membership of WFTO and Other Collaborations 122 Part Five: Innovation – A History of Fair Trade “Firsts”Chapter 16 A Fair Brew 130Chapter 17 A Coffee Legacy That Never Seemed to be Forgotten 144Chapter 18 Sweet Justice: a Sugar Journey 149Chapter 19 Cocoa and Chocolate 157Chapter 20 Not Such a Dirty Oil 165 Part Six: Traidcraft and SupermarketsChapter 21 Engaging with the Big Players 172Chapter 22 A Natural Ally: The Co-op 180 Part Seven: Christian Roots and MissionChapter 23 A Christian Organization? 190Chapter 24 A Christian Response to Poverty 204Part Eight: Traidcraft’s Most Recent HistoryChapter 25 Not Such a Flourishing Business 216Chapter 26 One Traidcraft? 220Chapter 27 Averting Disaster and a New Hope? 226Chapter 28 Reflections on a Forty-Year Journey 235 Epilogue: A Personal Reflection by Richard Adams 248Appendix 1: Traidcraft’s Objectives 253Appendix 2: Traidcraft website blog post, 2015 260Appendix 3: WFTO: Ten Principles of Fair Trade 263Appendix 4: Timeline 269

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Book SynopsisShows how the author build his legend: running for sheriff in Aspen, Colorado, creating the seminal road book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, twisting political reporting to new heights for Rolling Stone and making sense of it all in the landmark Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.

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Book SynopsisNapoleon Bonaparte's rise to power was neither inevitable nor smooth; it was full of mistakes, wrong turns and pitfalls. This book examines the evolution of Napoleon's character and the means by which at the age of thirty he became head of the most powerful country in Europe and skilfully fashioned the image of himself.Trade Review'This life of his hero in two volumes is the work that Dwyer was placed on earth to write ... We are clearly in the presence of what will be a monumental work ... meticulously researched and well-written first volume, which leaves the reader keenly anticipating the second' Andrew Roberts, Literary Review 'Remarkable ... a satisfying, psychologically convincing account of Napoleon's early years and ascent to power. Even-handed and authoritative, this fascinating and highly enjoyable book will be an eye opener even to those who think they know the subject well' Adam Zamoyski, Sunday Times 'Bonaparte's staggering ambition and penchant for blaming others for his mistakes are apparent throughout' Financial Times Summer Books 'An extraordinary story ... Dwyer has his own way of telling the story and this makes his book more than just a canter across familiar terrain ... an attractive addition to the literature on one of the most controversial figures in modern European history' Thomas Munch-Petersen, BBC History Magazine

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Book SynopsisReveals how the author chose to abandon her ambition to become Prime Minister in favour of another ambition - to have a life.Trade Review'Oona King delivers the most intimate political diary ever ... the Bridget Jones of the Commons' Mail on Sunday 'Painfully honest, frequently hilarious ... She tells her story with humility, wisdom and considerable wit' Guardian 'Pacy, perceptive, frank, funny, free of the sludge of most political diaries. This is authentic Oona. It would make a good novel - but people would think it a little far-fetched' Neil Kinnock 'Tremendous - funny, revelatory, and above all authentic' David Hare

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Book Synopsis'Agnes Humbert bears devastating witness to her time An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William BoydTrade Review'Sober and testifying, sardonic and humorous A beautiful and powerful work of literature' Michele Roberts, The Times 'Humbert's memoir bears witness to innumerable horrors, presented here with a pugnacious courage What makes this horrific account so affecting is Humbert's sense of humour, her indomitable refusal to submit' Carmen Callil, Guardian 'An astonishing work, almost unbearable to read in places, yet ultimately inspiring A remarkable book by a remarkable and brave woman' Allan Massie, Literary Review 'Her book adds to the small record of how the human mind can preserve the heart and soul intact against all attempts to annihilate it' Linda Grant, Observer

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Book SynopsisViking raids, and the subsequent Scandinavian settlements in the ninth and tenth centuries, had a major effect on many parts of Britain and Ireland. This book examines the distinctive archaeology of each phase, aspect or area of Norse impact in turn, with sufficient historical background to put the archaeological discoveries into context.

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Book SynopsisJet, a hard, black, shiny gen, closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewellery and trinkets for generations, but during the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. This book traces the history of jet and the Whitby jet industry.

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Book SynopsisThe history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door, and a Morrison shelter in the kitchen.

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Book SynopsisThough most of us will have enjoyed strolling through beautiful British woodlands, we might not be aware of the ancient and often complex origins of our surroundings. From medieval times, woodlands were carefully managed commodities with hotly contested resources: conflicting demands from landowners, the Crown, the peasantry and local and national wood-based industries have all left their marks on today''s woodland. Ian D. Rotherham here explains the various uses of British woods and their industries, such as coppicing, charcoal-burning, basket-making and bodging, and helps the reader to seek out the clues to their woodland''s past.Table of Contents?Introduction / What is an ‘Ancient’ Wood? / Woods, Parks and Forests / Worked and Working Trees / Woodland Crafts and Other Industries / Woodland Archaeology and Ecology / The Future: Re-discovering the Old Crafts / Further Reading / Places to Visit / Index

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Book SynopsisSir William Lyons enjoyed a seemingly unstoppable rise to fame and fortune in the motor industry, and the Jaguar brand which he introduced became world-famous. Yet it did not happen overnight. In the 1920s he was in Blackpool, styling motorcycle sidecars, in the 1930s he was in Coventry developing the SS motor car, and the stand-alone Jaguar company did not appear until 1945. Until 1972, when he retired from business, Sir William was the mainstream, the chairman, the chief stylist, and the inspiration of all things Jaguar.Helped along by the amazing new XK engine of 1948, by motor racing success at Le Mans, and by the stunning style of cars like the XK120, the Mk 2 saloons and the extraordinary E-Type, Jaguar soon became world-famous. Along the way the company absorbed Daimler and Coventry-Climax, then merged voluntarily with BMC in 1966, and returned to Le Mans racing with great success in the 1980s.Although the company was later commercially buffeted by its involveTable of Contents?In the Beginning: Sidecars and Rebodied Specials / SS, SS-Jaguar and the SS 100 / Post-war Expansion: the XK-engined Era / E-type and Mark 2: the Cars that Changed Jaguar / XJ6, V12 Engines and British Leyland / Motor Racing from the 1950s to the 1990s / Independence, Ford, Land Rover and Tata / Further Information / Index

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Book SynopsisBletchley Park, known to those who worked there as Station X, was the scene of one of the greatest Allied triumphs of the Second World War. The breaking of the Nazi Enigma cyphers by Britain''s wartime code-breakers continues to fascinate, with well over 100,000 people visiting the scene of their successes every year. Bletchley Park provided the intelligence that ensured Allied victories in the Battle of Atlantic, the war in North Africa and, most crucially, the D-Day invasion of Europe, and it was also the birthplace of the modern computer. The code-breakers were led by men like Dilly Knox and Alan Turing, but also included thousands of ''ordinary'' people, the vast majority of them young women. This book contains previously unpublished photographs showing them at work and play. It not only explains how their work influenced the battle against Nazi Germany and its Italian and Japanese allies, but also describes how they lived and loved.Table of ContentsCaptain Ridley’s Shooting Party Breaking Enigma Sink the Bismarck A Crime Without a Name The Shark Blackout Colossus: the World’s First Programmable Computer D-Day and Double Cross Further Reading Places to Visit Index

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Book SynopsisMore than a footnote to the Second World War, or a foreword to the youth-obsessed exhilaration of the Sixties, the Fifties was a thrilling decade devoted to newness and freshness. The British people, rebuilding their lives and wardrobes, demanded modern materials, vibrant patterns and exciting prints inspired by scientific discoveries and modern art. Despite the influence of glamorous Paris couture led by Dior, home-grown fashion labels including Horrockses and the young Queen Elizabeth's couturier Norman Hartnell had an equally great, if not greater impact on British style. This book, written by an assistant curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is a fascinating look back to the days when post-war Britain developed a fresh sense of style.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The End of Rationing Everyday Fashion: Work and Pleasure Hats: Crowning Glory Formal Wear: Going to the Ball Underwear: Things Seen and Unseen Menswear: Genesis of the Peacock Epilogue: Slipping into the Sixties Further Reading Places to Visit Index

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Book SynopsisFor British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often veiled real achievement, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s. But while television advertisements told of an ''Age of the Train'', Monday morning misery remained for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Yet when BR launched new electrification schemes and introduced new suburban trains in the 80s, focus fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under the full media glare. In British Rail in the 1970s and ''80s, Greg Morse takes us through a world of Traveller''s Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period, which began with the aftershock of Beeching and ended with BR becoming the first nationalized passenger network in the world to make a profit.Table of ContentsIntroduction / The Quest for Passengers / The Network Spreads / Age of the Train? / Serpell, Strikes and Sectorisation / Towards the 1990s / Places to Visit / Further Reading and Viewing / Index

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Book SynopsisHarley-Davidson: words that evoke the open American road and the Made in America tradition like no others. The sweeping chopper handlebars, the distinctive throaty low-speed rumble of the engine and the unmistakable logo are recognized the world over. This book expertly ties together the mechanical evolution of Harley's engines from the earliest motorized pedal bicycles to the iconic heavyweight twin-cylinder V-engines we know and love today and the social history of the brand's phenomenal rise in the twentieth century, as innovative survivor of the Great Depression, supplier of the military during both World Wars and enduring symbol of freedom and rebellion. It is fully illustrated with pictures of the bikes and those who have ridden them as well as examples of Harley-Davidson's distinctive design aesthetic in advertising and collectibles.Table of ContentsIntroduction / Mechanical Beginnings / Sidevalves and the Depression / The Chopper Era-Motorcycles become Popular Again / Evolution / The Harley-Davidson Community-Clubs and Racing / Conclusion / Further Reading / Places to Visit / Photograph Acknowledgements / Index

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