History Books
Cambridge University Press The SinoIndian Rivalry
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive work draws on a wide body of theoretical literature on international rivalries to explain the origins and evolution of the Sino-Indian rivalry. It argues that the Sino-Indian rivalry has systemic implications at both global and regional levels.Trade Review'This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Sino-Indian strategic rivalry. It demonstrates that the rivalry is rooted not simply in a territorial dispute, but also in a larger struggle for influence in the Asia-Pacific region. As the authors explain, this rivalry, though regional in nature, could trigger systemic war.' S. Paul Kapur, US Naval Postgraduate School'Here is an impressive book explaining the positional dimensions of the China-India rivalry, a topic that hitherto has been neglected in the literature. As such the book is a must read for all interested in the larger causes of this enduring rivalry, its implications for theory and policy, especially for balance of power and status competition.' T.V. Paul, McGill University'Ganguly, Pardesi and Thompson have written a timely and thorough analysis of one of the most significant yet understudied rivalries in contemporary international relations. Highly recommended.' Andrew Scobell, United States Institute of PeaceTable of ContentsPart I: 1. Introduction; 2. The Sino-Indian rivalry: spatial and positional contestation; Part II. Spatial and Positional Considerations and Violence: 3. The Sino-Indian rivalry: the positional dimension (1940s–1950s) ; 4. Positional issues and the 1962 Sino-Indian War; Part III. The Evolution of the Rivalry: 5. Crises in Sino-Indian relations; 6. Asymmetries and rivalry: economic, nuclear, naval; Part IV. Interconnected Rivalries and Systemic Considerations: 7. The emergence of a triadic rivalry; 8. The Sino-Indian rivalry in regional and global context; Part V: 9. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Historicity of International Politics
Book SynopsisThe past is constantly present, not least in the study of imperialism and imperial forms of power in international politics. This volume shows how historical trajectories have shaped international affairs covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings in international politics, substantiating the claim that imperial and colonial legacies - and how they have transformed over time - are foundational to the historicity of international politics. It contributes to debates on the role of history in International Relations (IR) by combining theoretical arguments on the role of history through the concept of ''historicity'' with concrete empirical analyses on a wide range of imperial and colonial legacies. This volume also advances interdisciplinary perspectives on this topic by fostering dialogue with Historical Sociology and Global History. It will interest scholars and advanced students of IR, historical sociology and global politics, especially those working on the history of international politics, and the legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
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Cambridge University Press Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Book SynopsisIn this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poet, a sheikh and his deputy, Hammond re-evaluates the lives and legacies of three key figures who chose exile in Egypt as radical secular forces seized power in republican Turkey: Mehmed Akif, Mustafa Sabri and Zahid Kevseri. Examining a period when these scholars faced the dual challenge of non-conformist trends in Islam and Western science and philosophy, Hammond argues that these men, alongside Said Nursi who remained in Turkey, were the last bearers of the Ottoman Islamic tradition. Utilising both Arabic and Turkish sources, he transcends disciplinary conventions that divide histories along ethnic, linguistic and national lines, highlighting continuities across geographies and eras. Through this lens, Hammond is able to observe the long-neglected but lasting impact that these Late Ottoman thinkers had upon Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology.
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Cambridge University Press Lifescapes
Book SynopsisWhy does landscape matter to us? Lifescapes develops a new approach to landscape history based on comparative biography, offering a penetrating and richly empathetic study of the relationship between individual lives and landscapes, through eight compellingly varied modern British examples.Trade Review'This is an important - and genuinely affecting - book. By focusing on how landscape was lived, made sense of, and imagined by eight 'ordinary' women and men, Burchardt offers a vital rethinking of what landscape means and does in everyday life. The result is a compelling account that artfully demonstrates how, in a period of rapid urbanisation, the countryside and the natural world remained keystones of identity, wellbeing and hope.' Carl Griffin, author of The Politics of Hunger: Protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840'Lifescapes explores the profound role of rural landscape in the lives of ordinary people. It offers a 'deep history of landscape' - a history attentive less to abstract cultural discourse than personal, affective, real-life experience. Few books have the potential genuinely to be described as field-defining. This is one of them.' Paul Readman, author of Storied Ground: Landscape and the Shaping of English National Identity'Lifescapes offers a deep history of landscape by revealing how people remembered and traced their lives in relation to the landscapes and places in which they lived. Exploring the life-histories of eight diarists living in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, Burchardt reveals the value and richness of undertaking a biographical approach to landscape history. His work makes a significant contribution to understanding our emotional attachments to landscapes in the past, while raising important questions on how we dwell and find meaning in landscapes today.' Nicola Whyte, author of Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500–1800Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Diaries, life writing and popular ruralism; Adherers; 2. Beatrix Cresswell: Exeter antiquarian; 3. William Henry Hallam: Swindon turner; Withdrawers; 4. Katherine Spear Smith: Hampshire artist; 5. Violet Dickinson: itinerant craftswoman; Restorers; 6. Dr John Johnston: Bolton doctor; 7. Bert Bissell: Dudley probation officer; Explorers; 8. Sadie Barmes: London clerk; 9. Fred Catley: Bristol bookseller; Conclusion: towards a deep history of landscape; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador
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Cambridge University Press The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa
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Cambridge University Press Caring for Mom and Dad
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Cambridge University Press This Is Not Who We Are
Book SynopsisWhat kind of country is America? Zachary Shore tackles this polarizing question by spotlighting some of the most morally muddled matters of WWII. Should Japanese Americans be moved from the west coast to prevent sabotage? Should the German people be made to starve as punishment for launching the war? Should America drop atomic bombs to break Japan''s will to fight? Surprisingly, despite wartime anger, most Americans and key officials favored mercy over revenge, yet a minority managed to push their punitive policies through. After the war, by feeding the hungry, rebuilding Western Europe and Japan, and airlifting supplies to a blockaded Berlin, America strove to restore the country''s humanity, transforming its image in the eyes of the world. A compelling story of the struggle over racism and revenge, This Is Not Who We Are asks crucial questions about the nation''s most agonizing divides.Trade Review'What would we see if we held a mirror to America? Zachary Shore uses key moments in history to find out. He examines the country at its best and its worst, exploring the roots of both smart and senseless decisions. In the process, he points us toward who we really are.' Dayna Barnes, author of Architects of Occupation: American Experts and the Planning for Postwar Japan'In this elegantly narrated tale, Zachary Shore weaves together a rich tapestry of heroes and villains, some of whom often switch roles. That alone would make for fascinating reading, but the surprises that Shore reveals do more than entertain. They spotlight the moral quandaries that plagued Americans as their wartime thirst for vengeance wrestled with their loftier ideals.' Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918'As America emerges from the traumas of recent years, it will be important to restore confidence in our common identity and strengthen our social fabric. Zachary Shore's This Is Not Who We Are has arrived just in time to foster thoughtful introspection and meaningful discussion of how our past can help us to understand the present and build a better future.' H. R. McMaster, former US National Security Advisor and author of Battlegrounds and Dereliction of Duty'By examining several difficult decisions made during World War II, Zachary Shore's thoughtful and original book sheds new light not only on wartime policymaking, but also on the deep moral conflicts at the core of Americans' aspirations and experience.' James Sheehan, author of Making the Modern Political Order: The Problem of the Nation State'Zachary Shore is a historian of great humanity and insight, and a gifted writer. He brings all these qualities to this penetrating yet sensitive analysis of the moral dilemmas Americans faced in first perpetrating, and then later confronting, acknowledging and atoning for heinous acts during World War II. Shore's detailed recounting of the complexities and drivers of wartime decisions and events provides the frame for a deeper examination of our country's ongoing struggle to live up to its ideals and aspirations.' Fiona Hill, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe and Russia'Full of fascinating historical tidbits and sharp character sketches...this is a potent survey of America's ongoing battle to live up to its ideals.' Publishers Weekly'An instructive history that speaks to the better angels of the American nature.' Kirkus ReviewsTable of ContentsList of figures; Prologue: The Friendship Train; Introduction: From vengeance to virtue; Part I. Enemies:; 1. Concentrate; 2. Sabotage; 3. Coordinate; 4. Cover-Up; 5. Disintegrate; 6. Collude; 7. Deny; 8. Maneuver; 9. Regret; 10. Fallout; 11. Reckoning; Part II. Saviors:; 12. Rescue; 13. Sacrifice; 14. Reform; 15. Revive; 16. Hunger; 17. Resurrect; 18. Uplift; 19. Atone; 20. Afterlife; Acknowledgments; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy
Book SynopsisThe inspiring and unknown story of how the villagers of Graignes joined in solidarity with US paratroopers following the invasion of Normandy. Inspired by his own father's experience, Stephen G. Rabe recounts how the villagers supported and saved paratroopers from marauding Nazi SS forces in the post-D-Day period.Trade Review'Lost no longer, the American paratroopers who helped to liberate Normandy find a sympathetic chronicler in Stephen G. Rabe. This is micro-history at its most intimate. In granular detail, Rabe recounts the story of how American troops and French villagers rescued Graignes from German occupation. Drawing on deep research and even deeper feeling, the author pays tribute to his veteran father, to a generation, and to enduring ties between two nations bound together by collective sacrifices and shared valor.' Susan Carruthers, author of Dear John: Love and Loyalty in Wartime America'Compelling and suspenseful, The Lost Paratroopers of Normandy highlights the bravery and resourcefulness of American soldiers and the people of Graignes while further demolishing the myth of a blameless Waffen SS.' Steven P. Remy, author of The Malmedy Massacre: The War Crimes Trial Controversy'Stephen G. Rabe's exhaustively researched work breaks the silence surrounding the heroic roles played by French men and women to assure the success of the American landings. Engagingly written, the story emphasizes the courage of both soldier and civilian in the face of SS murder and atrocity. A must-read for anyone who wishes to explore another view of the D-Day landings. Highly recommended.' Mary Louise Roberts, author of D-Day Through French Eyes: Memoirs of Normandy 1944'Stephen G. Rabe provides a fascinating and multi-layered military, diplomatic, and social history of US World War II paratroopers, French villagers, and the protection they gave each other in June 1944. In the process, he provides a fitting tribute to his father, who was one of those paratroopers.' Mark A. Stoler, author of Allies in War: Britain and America against the Axis Powers, 1940–1945'… this history combines heroism and tragedy in equal measure. WWII buffs will be engrossed.' Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Paratrooper; 2. Overseas; 3. Occupied France; 4. Liberators and friends; 5. Days of friendship, hope, and waiting; 6. The longest day in Graignes; 7. Escape, exile, and annihilation; 8. Graignes in historical memory; Afterword.
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Cambridge University Press Uncivil Liberalism
Book SynopsisUncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India''s pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by focussing on Naoroji''s pre-occupation with social interdependence and civil peace in an age of growing cultural diversity and economic inequality. It shows how Naoroji used political economy to critique British liberalism''s incapacity for civil peace by linking periods of communal rioting in colonial Bombay with the Parsi minority''s economic decline. He responded by innovating his own liberalism, characterized by labour rights, economic republicanism and social interdependence maintained by freely contracting workers. Significantly, the author draws attention to how Naoroji seeded ''Western'' thinkers with his ideas as well as influencing numerous ideologies in colonial and post-colonial India. In doing so, the book offers a compelliTrade Review'This important book brings to us a new Dadabhai Naoroji by taking him out of the confining narrative of economic nationalism and showing him as a global figure who redefined liberalism by putting the question of labour and labour rights at its very heart. The author offers us an opening towards a new history of global economic thought that could transform how we understand the remit of political philosophy today.' Prathama Banerjee, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi'By far the most sophisticated study of Naoroji's career, Visana's book is also an account of the making of Indian liberalism in its most universal form – that defined by political economy. Rather than being derived from a dialogue with European ideas, however, he explores the paradox of how this universal form emerged within the lifeworld of one of India's smallest communities, the Parsis of Bombay.' Faisal Devji, University of Oxford'Uncivil liberalism is a fascinating and innovative analysis of one of the most perceptive liberal thinkers of the nineteenth century. In this impressive monograph, Visana unpacks the sophisticated and multi-layered political philosophy of 'the Grand Old Man of India', places it in its historical context and explains its relevance and long-term significance.' Eugenio F. Biagini, University of Cambridge'Uncivil Liberalism recovers Dadabhai Naoroji's radical liberalism in all its complexity. The author's rich and engaging account sets in its global context Naoroji's famous argument that imperial monopoly capitalism was draining India of its wealth and its moral resources. Visana takes us from Naoroji's roots in the Parsi social reform movements of 1840s Bombay to his encounters with Irish republicans, Fabians, and his own working-class constituents in Britain to explore Naoroji's capacious political vision of a diverse commercial society grounded in labour rights.' Jennifer Pitts, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Sociality in an Imperial and Industrial Age; 2. Sociality and the Parsis of Western India; 3. Civil Society and Social Reform; 4. Conceptualizing the Drain Theory; 5. Making Commercial Society in India; 6. Making Commercial Society in Britain; 7. The Afterlives of Naoroji's Political Thought; Conclusion; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Mesoamerica the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America is rich and varied but relatively little-known. In this ground-breaking book, Alexus McLeod introduces the philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focussing in particular on their treatment of language, truth, time, creation, personhood, knowledge, and morality. His wide-ranging discussion includes important texts of world literature such as the K''iche Maya Popol Vuh and the Aztec Florentine Codex, as well as precolonial glyphic texts and imagery. This comprehensive and accessible book will give students, specialists and other interested readers an understanding of Mesoamerican philosophy and a sense of the current scholarship in the field.Trade Review'This book arrives at a timely moment, as non-canonical philosophical traditions are getting increased attention. This is an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to one of the least well known of these traditions, Mesoamerican philosophy. McLeod shows that this culture produced challenging and unique perspectives on many central questions in philosophy, including the nature of language, knowledge, and reality itself.' Peter Adamson, University of MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Cultural and Historical Background; 1. The Nature of Philosophy in Mesoamerica; 2. The Nature of Language, Truth and Meaning; 3. Time; 4. Identity, Self and Personhood; 5. Creation and the Gods; 6. Being and Worlds; 7. Knowledge, Seeing; 8. Ethics; Conclusion – Mesoamerican Philosophy and the Contemporary World.
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Cambridge University Press Nothing More than Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Nothing More than Freedom
Book SynopsisAfter examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An important study for scholars of slavery and the US Civil War.Trade Review'The monumental history of Emancipation and Reconstruction is irresistible, but it can be deceptive. Giuliana Perrone directs us to the quieter lanes of American common law discourse, where the bitter realities of abolition's adjudication are to be found - the 'smaller, private legal matters' that piled up routinely, remorselessly, in the shadow of slavery. Those of us who wonder at Reconstruction's rejection and Emancipation's dire legacy can learn much from this eloquent history of legal failure.' Christopher Tomlins, author of In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History'Nothing More Than Freedom is the first comprehensive history of state appellate law, where the afterlife of slavery lasted for decades. Giuliana Perrone shows us that even the supposed common-law rights of property and contract were limited by previous enslavement across former slave states, where the badges of servitude outlived emancipation.' Ariela Gross, co-author of Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana'Nothing More than Freedom is a fresh and provocative take on legal change at a crucial juncture in American history. Judges who confronted slavery's demise in the aftermath of the Civil War made active choices about whether to adjust legal rules to accommodate this transformation in minimal ways or to root the edifice of slavery entirely out of the law.' Cynthia Nicoletti, author of Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson Davis'Perrone delivers an unflinching look at how American judges perpetuated the vestiges of slavery through state-based private law, fatally undermining the abolitionist promise of the Reconstruction Amendments. Now, when so many are entranced by the fiction of colorblindness, Perrone's excavation of ongoing slavery-based logics in American law and commerce is a welcome counterpoint.' Dylan C. Penningroth, author of The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South'… a rigorous, essential work of legal history, far from easy reading but fascinating throughout. … Highly recommended.' P. Harvey, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: an abolitionist vision; 1. The contract controversy; 2. 'Wreck and ruin'; 3. 'By force it was destroyed'; 4. Confederate reckonings; 5. Life after the death of slavery; 6. 'Back into the days of slavery'; 7. 'The grave question'; 8. Final failure; Epilogue: an abolitionist revision.
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Cambridge University Press Friends Neighbours Sinners
Book SynopsisFriends, Neighbours, Sinners shows the crucial role of religious difference in shaping English culture and society after 1689. By throwing into relief the cultural impact of England's unstable religious settlement, it highlights the centrality of religious difference to understanding social and cultural change after 1689.
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Cambridge University Press Myths History Wars and IndigenousSettler Reconciliation in Canada and Other Settler States
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Cambridge University Press Black Shakespeare
Book SynopsisIn his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the pernicious influence of systemic whiteness on our interpretation of Shakespeare's plays. Unmissable reading for students and scholars of drama, cultural and early modern studies.Trade Review'Ian Smith's Black Shakespeare begins by asserting that lingering contemporary resistance to the evidence that people in the early modern world believed that race was real and that it mattered participates in a larger denial of the kinds of work that race performs in our own time. In a series of subtle and revelatory readings-I am thinking particularly of the dazzling chapter on Hamlet-Smith implicitly argues that learning to recognize race's subtle and extensive operations in Shakespeare can be an important first step toward our own achievement of what he calls 'racial literacy'. To see and to know, Smith believes, is to begin to be able to recognize and resist white supremacy's purchase in our field and in the culture that shapes it. Persuasively argued and deeply ethically engaged throughout, Black Shakespeare is the work of a mature scholar who believes that Shakespeare matters and who calls on us both to embrace and to question the conditions under which he has achieved his place in our world.' Joyce MacDonald, University of Kentucky'Ian Smith delivers an indisputable, learned and earth- shattering intervention into our habits and practices of reading the works of William Shakespeare. If, Smith is right that Shakespeare's plays are read, taught and interpreted on stage overwhelmingly through the lens of whiteness, then racial illiteracy informs our relationship with the Bard. To read Shakespeare rigorously, thoroughly and with intention, is to acknowledge what Smith calls our 'racial blindspots'. Smith's novel readings of Shakespeare's tragedies are unflinching as he asks us to confront what is actually before our eyes. Black Shakespeare is essential reading for all those studying, teaching and performing these works.' Farah Karim Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe and King's College London'In Black Shakespeare, Ian Smith trenchantly demonstrates how white epistemology and systemic whiteness cause readers to sanitize, distort, and elide key parts of Shakespeare's texts. Theoretically and historically grounded, Black Shakespeare also deploys dazzling acts of close reading to show exactly what a white reading practice misses or gets wrong. Throughout, Smith makes the stakes of his argument clear: readers must acquire an expanded racial literacy both to read Shakespeare well and also to become citizens fit for the demands of a democratic polity.' Jean E. Howard, Columbia University'Black Shakespeare is an important and timely study of how race affects reading and interpretation. Smith not only illuminates various functions of whiteness within Shakespeare's plays, but also demonstrates that whiteness has shaped the idea of Shakespeare in Shakespeare Studies. Beyond the brilliant insights that it offers about Shakespeare, Black Shakespeare requires literary scholars to reckon with how white supremacy is perpetuated through interpretive practices.' Dennis Britton, The University of British Columbia'Black Shakespeare is revelatory, stunning, and arresting! Crafting a disorienting tour de force, Ian Smith has written an essential book for all readers of Shakespeare that demonstrates not only how we have misread the plays, but also how we might rectify readings in the future. A requisite read!' Ayanna Thompson, Arizona State University'In an argument that is both elegant and forceful, Smith makes the obvious but heretofore underappreciated point that the act of 'reading historically' is itself saturated with a racial history that must be a subject of analysis. For putting this argument on the table, and for its convincing reappraisal of some of Shakespeare's best-known plays, Smith's study is destined to be a landmark in a field that continues to pose powerful, searching questions in the humanities.' Michael Witmore, Folger Shakespeare LibraryTable of ContentsIntroduction. Toward racial literacy; 1. The racialized reader; 2. Racial blind spots: Misreading bodies, misreading texts; 3. Antonio's 'Fair Flesh' and the property of whiteness; 4. Hamlet: Playing in the dark; 5. We are Othello; Epilogue. Forms of whiteness.
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Cambridge University Press Caesar Rules
Book SynopsisFor centuries, Roman emperors ruled a vast empire. Yet, at least officially, the emperor did not exist. No one knew exactly what titles he possessed, how he could be portrayed, what exactly he had to do, or how the succession was organised. Everyone knew, however, that the emperor held ultimate power over the empire. There were also expectations about what he should do and be, although these varied throughout the empire and also evolved over time. How did these expectations develop and change? To what degree could an emperor deviate from prevailing norms? And what role did major developments in Roman society such as the rise of Christianity or the choice of Constantinople as the new capital play in the ways in which emperors could exercise their rule? This ambitious and engaging book describes the surprising stability of the Roman Empire over more than six centuries of history.Trade Review'Hekster's magisterial survey of Roman emperorship puts the subject on a new footing. Drawing on a wide range of literary, documentary, and visual evidence, it provides a rich and three-dimensional account of emperors in action and in the imagination. It will be of interest not only to Roman historians, but to all students of premodern rulership.' Carlos Noreña, Associate Professor of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley'The emperor was the single most unifying concept in the political imagination of a population of incredible cultural, ethnic and linguistic plurality. Furthermore, communicating the centrality of the emperor to this audience required being attentive to an historical landscape that changed dramatically over centuries. Hekster's new book approaches this important issue with intelligence and circumspection, noting the overdue need for a return to traditional political history, while engaging with the fruitful models of cultural and literary history. As a result, Caesar Rules is a sensitive study that will be of interest to historians, classicists and students of political science for many years to come.' Shane Bjornlie, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College'Pleasingly iconoclastic … this is not just another tired study of the gap between representation and reality in ancient rulership. Working pragmatically with a wide range of sources, Hekster demonstrates how consistent imperial roles and attributes remained over 600 years of Roman history, however variously they were inflected.' Michael Kulikowski, Times Literary Supplement'… Hekster does an admirable job of covering a truly impressive range in almost every aspect of his subject matter, from the materials consulted to the topics considered. As this volume demonstrates, the most powerful office in the ancient world was also its most ambiguous, its holder capable of both appearing and behaving in utterly different ways to different constituencies at different moments in imperial history.' Kevin Feeney, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Emperors and expectations; 1. Portraying the Roman Emperor; 2. Playing imperial roles; 3. Being around the emperor; 4. The emperor in capital and provinces; Conclusions: Emperors in a changing world.
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Cambridge University Press In the Footsteps of the Etruscans
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Cambridge University Press History in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Book SynopsisThis inter-disciplinary volume explores the benefits of historical understanding in leading disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including economics, politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology, and shows how the relevance of historical approaches has changed and shifted over time.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Law and history, history and law Michael Lobban; 2. History, law, and the rediscovery of social theory Samuel Moyn; 3. The uses of history in the study of international politics Jennifer Pitts; 4. International relations theory and modern international order: the case of refugees Mira Siegelberg; 5. The Delphi syndrome: using history in the social sciences Stathis Kalyvas and Daniel Fedorowycz; 6. Power in narrative and narratives of power in historical sociology Hazem Kandil; 7. History and normativity in political theory: the case of Rawls Richard Bourke; 8. Political philosophy and the uses of history Quentin Skinner; 9. The relationship between philosophy and its history Susan James; 10. When reason does not see you: feminism at the intersection of history and philosophy Hannah Dawson; 11. On (lost and found) analytical history in political science Ira Katznelson; 12. Making history: poetry and prosopopoeia Cathy Shrank; 13. Reloading the British Romantic canon: the historical editing of literary texts Pamela Clemit; 14. Economics and history: analysing serfdom Sheilagh Ogilvie; 15. The return of depression economics: Paul Krugman and the 21st-century crisis of American democracy Adam Tooze; 16. Anthropology and the turn to history Joel Isaac.
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Cambridge University Press Frontiers of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Womens Rights and Global Socialism Volume 30 Part
Book SynopsisWomen's emancipation was a central but contested pillar of socialist and communist internationalism during the twentieth century. The collapse of state socialism has led to renewed interest in the history and legacies of women's movements across the former socialist world during the era of decolonisation, and their significance for global feminisms in the present day. Responding to these debates, this collection of essays explores the history of transnational socialist feminisms during the global Cold War from the perspective of mid-ranking activists, officials and functionaries in international communist and left-revolutionary movements in Eastern Europe and the postcolonial world. Drawing on new sources, including private correspondence, interviews, memoirs and institutional archives, the essays ask how these activists defined women's rights from the era of the Popular Fronts in the 1930s until the United Nations Decade of Women (1976â1985).Table of Contents1. Introduction – Women's Rights and Global Socialism: Gendering Socialist Internationalism during the Cold War Celia Donert; 2. “Warphans” and “Quiet” Heroines: Depictions of Chinese Women and Children in the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme's Campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War Jasmine Calver; 3. Between National and International: Women's Transnational Activism in Twentieth-Century Chile María Fernanda Lanfranco González; 4. Radicalizing Feminism: The Mexican and Cuban Associations within the Women's International Democratic Federation in the Early Cold War Manuel Ramírez Chicharro; 5. International Solidarity as the Cornerstone of the Hungarian Post-War Socialist Women's Rights Agenda in the Magazine Asszonyok Zsófia Lóránd; 6. Women Labour Models and Socialist Transformation in early 1950s China Nicola Spakowski; 7. The WIDF's Work for Women's Rights in the (Post)colonial Countries and the “Soviet Agenda” Yulia Gradskova; 8. A Gendered Approach to the Yu Chi Chan Club and National Liberation Front during South Africa's Transition to Armed Struggle Allison Drew; 9. Women's Transnational Activism against Portugal's Colonial Wars Giulia Strippoli; 10. “The Call of the World”: Women's Memories of Global Socialist Feminism in India Mallarika Sinha Roy.
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Cambridge University Press The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions, on the basis of secular natural law, an anti-metaphysical epistemology, and new social ethics. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant ''moderate'' Enlightenment? Martin Mulsow offers fresh and surprising answers to these questions by reconstructing the emergence and dissemination of some of the radical writings created between 1680 and 1720. The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment explores the little-known freethinkers, persecuted authors, and secretly circulating manuscripts of the era, applying an interdisciplinary perspective to the German Enlightenment. By engaging with these cross-regional, clandestine texts, a dense and highly original picture emerges of the German early Enlightenment, with its strong links with the experience of the rest of Europe.
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Cambridge University Press Rome and America
Book SynopsisBoth Rome and the USA created national identities of belonging based on founding myths of the dislocation of strangers. Dean Hammer explores the tensions that have thereby arisen and uses this lens to reassess a wide range of texts and cultural and political phenomena from Virgil's Aeneid to the western.
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Cambridge University Press The Ottoman Ibadis of Cairo
Book SynopsisPaul M. Love, Jr. explores the history of the minority Ibadi Muslim community in Cairo from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Using a unique range of sources, Love both illuminates the events of Egyptian history and highlights the role of the Ibadis in shaping political, religious, and commercial life in Ottoman-era Cairo.
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Cambridge University Press Fatwa and the Making and Renewal of Islamic Law
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Cambridge University Press Justice After Mao
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Cambridge University Press Herder and Enlightenment Politics
Book SynopsisBy situating his evolving ideas in pan-European debates on the problems and prospects of modern European politics, this book proposes a radically new interpretation of the political thought of Johann Gottfried Herder, and shows that Herder was deeply committed to finding ways to achieve moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe.
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Cambridge University Press Painting in Renaissance Perugia
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on Italian Renaissance painting in Perugia, its focus is on Pietro Perugino, Raphael Santi, and artists in their circles. Richly illustrated in color, it will interest readers of books on the Renaissance and Renaissance art history, Italian art, European cultural history, Economic history of Art, and Art Patronage.Table of Contents1. Pietro Perugino and his Perugian workshop; 2. Giannicola di Paolo, case study of a prominent local painter; 3. Berto di Giovanni, Eusebio da San Giorgio, and the Società del 1496; 4. Raphael Santi and the Perugians; 5. Domenico Alfani, the next generation.
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Cambridge University Press The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj
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Cambridge University Press Atheists and Atheism before the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisAnxiety about the threat of atheism was rampant in the early modern period yet, paradoxically, examples of openly-expressed irreligious opinion are surprisingly rare. This book offers a detailed analysis of three cases, and contrasts the real 'assurance' shown by such figures with the doubts expressed, often privately, by believers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The Problem of 'Atheism' in Early Modern England; 3. Atheism among the Godly: The Covert History of Religious Doubt; 4. 'This degenerate Age… so miserably over-run with Scepticism and Infidelity': The Culture of Atheism after 1660; 5. 'Aikenhead the Atheist': The Context and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the late Seventeenth Century; 6. An Atheist Text by Archibald Pitcairne: Introduction to Pitcairneana; 7. The Text of Pitcairneana: Houghton Library, Harvard, MS Eng 1114; 8. The Trial of Tinkler Ducket: Atheism and Libertinism in Eighteenth-century England; Appendix; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Emigrant Soldiers
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Cambridge University Press Theatre in the Chocolate Factory
Book SynopsisA symbol of Britain's industrial heyday, Cadbury's offered recreational and educational schemes that included an astonishing amount of theatre. Focusing on the staff and performances central to the tale, Catherine Hindson situates theatre at the heart of understanding Cadbury's operation and the wider industrial histories it represents.Table of ContentsPart I. Factory Theatre: 1. Staging Bournville's spirit: Cadbury's industrial performances; 2. Theatre in the Bournville factory: performance at work; Part II. Theatre in the Factory Garden; 3. Marketing fresh air: outdoor performance at Bournville's factory in the garden; 4. Serious play: John Drinkwater's masques at Bournville; Part III. Theatre, Education, and Worker Wellbeing: 5. Keeping on the right lines: making theatre in Bournville's recreational societies; 6. Dramatic methods of teaching: theatre and education at Bournville.
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Cambridge University Press Brooding over Bloody Revenge
Book SynopsisFrom the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor expertly reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. The stories presented, which span centuries and legal contexts, demonstrate that these acts of lethal force were carefully pre-meditated. Enslaved women planned how and when their enslavers would die, what weapons and accomplices were necessary, and how to evade capture in the aftermath. Original and compelling, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge presents a window into the lives and philosophies of enslaved women who had their own ideas about justice and how to achieve it.Trade Review'Nikki Taylor presents a compelling narrative not only of Black women's deadly force, but also of their organized and collective resistance. This study complicates the agency of women such as Nelly, Betsy, and Ellen, and dispels the idea that enslaved women were passive and powerless.' Karen Cook Bell, author of Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America'Brooding Over Bloody Revenge is a brilliant tour-de-force. This powerful set of case studies create a prism for illuminating African American women's intellectual arc, their lived experience as enslaved bodies, and their powerful response to slavery's lash and legacy. Nikki Taylor's voice offers remarkably fresh and convincing insights concerning violence, gender, and American slave culture.' Catherine Clinton, author of Harriet Tubman: The Road to FreedomThis book is a powerful, gripping, and violent telling of enslaved women's resistance. It is hard, but necessary scholarship. The past five years have led to an explosion of cutting-edge research that centers black women in nuanced ways. I count Nikki Taylor's new book as part of this welcome wave.' Kellie Carter Jackson, author of Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence'Nikki Taylor's framing of murderous actions as part of a larger practice of black feminist justice helps us understand these actions were not just about freedom and resistance. Taylor shows that enslaved women made many attempts to ameliorate their conditions, including coordinating with others, in search of justice.' Kelly A. Ryan, author of Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America'… a cogent reconsideration of long-held assumptions about the gendered experience of American slavery.' Publishers Weekly'A scorching, stunning look at private revolts against bondage.' Washington Independent Review of Books'Spanning from the colonial period through to the early national and antebellum eras, Taylor's extensively researched book not only powerfully depicts the trauma endured by enslaved women, it also details how federal and state governments and judicial systems propped up the institution of slavery and allowed or enacted its overwhelming violence.' Beth Farrell, Library Journal'…an extraordinary, and necessarily gruesome, account of the ways in which enslaved women resisted the violence and oppression they encountered daily. By challenging existing narratives, Taylor sheds new light on the lengths some went to for safety, dignity, revenge and justice.' Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine - Best Books of 2023Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Phillis and Phoebe; 2. Annis, Phillis, and Lucy; 3. Cloe; 4. Rose Butler; 5. Jane Williams; 6. Nelly, Betsy, and Ellen; 7. Lucy; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Navigating Local Transitional Justice
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Cambridge University Press The Politics and Poetics of Ciceros Brutus
Book SynopsisCicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a magisterial dialogue on Rome's oratorical and political history, was written amidst Julius Caesar's rise to power. This book examines how Cicero, in responding to the civic crisis and contemporary intellectual developments, ultimately created the first complex account of literary history in the European tradition.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Ciceropaideia; 2. The intellectual genealogy of the Brutus; 3. Caesar and the political crisis; 4. Truthmaking and the past; 5. Beginning (and) literary history; 6. Perfecting literary history; 7. Cicero's Attici; 8. Minerva, Venus, and Cicero's judgments on Caesar's style; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
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Cambridge University Press Slavery Resistance and Identity in Early Modern
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Cambridge University Press The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition
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Cambridge University Press The Shang Economy
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Cambridge University Press Love Spells and Lost Treasure
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Cambridge University Press Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Law and Religion in Colonial America
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Cambridge University Press Policing Freedom
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Cambridge University Press The Pashtun Borderland
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Cambridge University Press Resetting the Origins of Christianity
Book SynopsisThe author boldly challenges understandings of one of the most momentous social and religious movements in history, as well as its reception over time and place. Provides novel ways of reading well-known major historians (Gregory of Tours, Orosius, Eusebius a.o.) and key texts (Irenaeus, Seneca- Paul letters, NT Gospels, Ignatius).Trade Review'… bold and provocative … There is a great deal to enjoy in Vinzent's panorama of Christian history writing from the sixth century backwards, and it is always worth allowing one's assumptions to be challenged and entertaining a new perspective.' Teresa Morgan, The Tablet'Recommended.' G. M. Smith, ChoiceTable of Contents1. The Romans, Christ, and Paul; 2. 'The older, the better': Eusebius of Caesarea and his construction of early Christian beginnings; 3. The Apostolic and Prophetic Church according to Iulius Africanus, Origen and Tertullian; 4. Scriptures and Tradition in Irenaeus and the Canonical New Testament; 5. The Twelve Apostles – the Praxapostolos, the Epistula Apostolorum, and the Acts of the Apostles; 6. Traditions of Paul and the Ignatian Letters; Outlook: How did it really happen?; Appendix.
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Cambridge University Press Intertextuality in Plinys Epistles
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.Table of ContentsIntroduction Margot Neger and Spyridon Tzounakas; Part I. Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity in Pliny's Letters: 1. Pliny, Man of Many Parts (Lucretius, Cicero, Valerius Maximus, Tacitus) Christopher Whitton; 2. Intertextuality in Pliny Epistles 6 Roy Gibson; 3. Discourses of Authority in Pliny, Epistles 10 Alice König; Part II. Models and Anti-Models: Pliny's Interaction with Oratory and Natural History; 4. Oratorical Speeches and the Political Elite in the Regulus Cycle Matthew Mordue; 5. Again on Corinthian Bronzes and Vases and on the Use of Cicero's Verrine Orations in Pliny's Works Stefano Rocchi; 6. The Elder Pliny as source of inspiration: Pliny the Younger's reception of the Naturalis Historia and his uncle's writing by the light of a lamp (lucubratio) Judith Hindermann; Part III. Pliny and Seneca: Discourses of Grief and Posthumous Reputation; 7. Pliny's Seneca and the Intertextuality of Grief Michael Hanaghan; 8. Intertextuality and Posthumous Reputation in Pliny's Letter on the Death of Silius Italicus (Plin. Ep. 3.7) Spyridon Tzounakas; Part IV. Pliny's Villas and their Poetic Models: 9. The Villa and the Monument: Horace in Plin. Ep. 1.3 Alberto Canobbio; 10. The Villas of Pliny and Statius Christopher Chinn; Part V. Pliny Turns Nasty: Satire and the Scoptic Tradition; 11. A Busy Day in Rome: Pliny Ep. 1.9 Satirized by Horace Sat. 1.9 Ábel Tamás; 12. Putting Pallas out of Context: Pliny on the Roman Senate voting Honours to a Freedman (Ep. 7.29 and 8.6) Jakub Pigoń; 13. Risus et indignatio: Scoptic Elements in Pliny's Letters Margot Neger; Part VI. Final Thoughts: Discourses of Representation and Reproduction; 14. Pliny's Calpurnia: Filiation, Imitation, Allusion Ilaria Marchesi.
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Cambridge University Press Intertextuality in Plinys Epistles
Book SynopsisEssential reading for anyone interested in the artistry of Pliny's Epistles and, more broadly, in Latin prose intertextuality, in the generic enrichment of Latin epistolography and in the literary and cultural interactions of the Imperial period. The book also serves as an advanced introduction to Latin prose poetics.
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Cambridge University Press Child Slavery and Guardianship in Colonial
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