History Books
Cambridge University Press Mind and Psychology in Early China
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Cambridge University Press Clarence Streit and TwentiethCentury American Internationalism
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Cambridge University Press Monody in Euripides
Book SynopsisReveals Euripides' ground-breaking use of monody, or solo actor's song, in his late tragedies. Contributing to the current scholarly debate on music, emotion, and characterization in Greek drama, Claire Catenaccio examines the role of monody in the musical design of Ion, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Phoenician Women, and Orestes.
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Cambridge University Press The Local Horizon of Ancient Greek Religion
Book SynopsisAddresses all those interested in the manifold links between ancient Greek religion and society. Illustrates what can be gained from paying careful attention to the various ways in which ancient Greek religious beliefs and practices were encoded in and in communication with their various local environments.
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Cambridge University Press Networks of Faith and Profit
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Cambridge University Press Revolutionary Transformations
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Cambridge University Press The Gods of the Sea
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Cambridge University Press Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political
Book SynopsisBetween the 1910s and the 1970s, an eclectic group of Indian thinkers, constitutional reformers, and political activists articulated a theory of robustly democratic, participatory popular sovereignty. Taking parliamentary government and the modern nation-state to be prone to corruption, these thinkers advocated for ambitious federalist projects of popular government as alternatives to liberal, representative democracy. Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought is the first study of this counter-tradition of democratic politics in South Asia. Examining well-known historical figures such as Dadabhai Naoroji, M. K. Gandhi, and M. N. Roy alongside long-neglected thinkers from the Indian socialist movement, Tejas Parasher illuminates the diversity of political futures imagined at the end of the British Empire in South Asia. This book reframes the history of twentieth-century anti-colonialism in novel terms ? as a contest over the nature of modern political representation ? and pushes readers to rethink accepted understandings of democracy today.Table of Contents1. Popular sovereignty and the end of empire; 2. 'The genius of the people': The 1923 Constitution of Mysore; 3. 'A vast subterranean democracy': Pluralism in the 1920s; 4. 'A living union': The project of Gandhian democracy; 5. Representation, popular sovereignty, and the Indian founding; 6. 'Towards total revolution': the aftermath of independence; 7. Conclusion: The challenge of representative democracy; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press StatesinWaiting
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Cambridge University Press Catharine Macaulay
Book SynopsisThe first modern scholarly edition of the published writings of historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay, who made a significant contribution to debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she wrote about education, the rights of women, and animal rights.Table of ContentsSelections from The History of England (1763–83); Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's 'Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society', with a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, in a Letter to Signor Paoli (1767); Observations on a Pamphlet entitled 'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770); A Modest Plea for the Property of Copy Right (1774); An Address to the People of England, Scotland and Ireland on the Present Important Crisis of Affairs (1775); Selections from The History of England from the Revolution to the Present Time in a Series of Letters to a Friend (1778); Selections from Letters on Education, with Observations on Religious and Metaphysical Subjects (1790); Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France (1790).
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Cambridge University Press Neutrality and Collaboration in South China
Book SynopsisHelena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpicks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau.
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Cambridge University Press Lordship State Formation and Local Authority in
Book SynopsisDrawing on untapped archival records, this book provides new insights into lord-tenant relations, state formation, social inequality, political participation and everyday life in rural societies. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
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Cambridge University Press The Coming of the Kingdom
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Cambridge University Press The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern
Book SynopsisThe battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is a story of gender, religion, social change, and failing efforts to reaffirm Irish moral exceptionalism.Trade Review'A magisterial survey, rich in archival material and full of surprises while deftly charting the various players and high stakes in the battle to control female fertility. Essential reading for those who want to understand why the 'Irish solution to an Irish problem' prevailed for as long as it did.' Alana Harris, King's College London'Mary Daly's book is substantially more than an extended case history, examining as it does developments which reflected underlying currents and factors of social and political change in what had been, up to the mid-twentieth century, a society and a polity hall-marked by the regressive forces of poverty, emigration and overarching institutional power.' John Hogan, Dublin City University'The Battle to Control Female Fertility in Modern Ireland offers a brilliantly detailed examination of the history of family planning in independent Ireland. Professor Daly rightly casts Ireland's convoluted and often controversial birth control reform process as a long contest between church, state, the medical profession, moral conservatism and individualism.' Diane Urquhart, Queen's University BelfastTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Late marriages and large families: 'the enigma of the modern world'; 2. The pill, the Pope and a changing Ireland; 3. 'A bitter blow: humanae vitae and Irish society, 1968–1973; 4. Contraception, access and opposition, 1973–80; 5. 'Against sin': an Irish family planning bill, 1973–79; 6. The 1983 Pro-Life Amendment; 7. 'Bona-Fide family planning': the 1980s and 1990s; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Ethical Empire
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Cambridge University Press Being the Heart of the World
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Cambridge University Press Anthropological Archaeology Underwater
Book SynopsisAnthropological archaeology underwater is a new field. What type of research is this and how do anthropologists go about it? When most people hear the phrase ''underwater archaeology'', they think of shipwrecks and dramatic images of lost ships at sea, but the underwater archaeological record is vast. In addition to historic vessels, water preserves some of the oldest landscapes on the planet. While archaeologists are interested in the past, those working underwater apply the latest technologies to provide fresh understandings about ancient human behaviour. Underwater environments provide preservation that is unmatched on land and therefore the data collected is novel ? providing information about human lifeways and creating a picture of the past we would otherwise never see. This Element will explore the world of anthropological archaeology underwater, focusing on submerged sites, and review the techniques, data, and theoretical perspectives which are offering new insights into the human story.
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Cambridge University Press Bankrolling Empire
Book SynopsisSudev Sheth presents the downfall of the Mughal Empire and the rise of its successor states as experienced directly by family entrepreneurs. Using hitherto untapped sources in multiple languages, he reveals how local persons and elites participated in the financial crisis that shook Indian society to its very foundations.
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Cambridge University Press Against Moab
Book SynopsisKnown as a place, a people, and a kingdom at various points in the second and first millennia BCE, Moab has long sustained the attention of archaeologists, philologists, and historians, in part because of its adjacent location to ancient Israel. The past 150 years of research in what is today west-central Jordan has proffered a significant corpus of evidence from the region''s archaeological sites. However, a critical analysis of this evidence reveals significant gaps in knowledge that challenge attempts to narrate Moab''s political, economic, and social history. This Element examines the evidence as well as the debates surrounding Moab''s development and decline. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Cambridge University Press Relative Distance
Book SynopsisDrawing from extensive fieldwork in Kenya and the United Kingdom, Leslie Fesenmyer considers the kinship dilemmas moral, material, and affective facing transnational families. By asking who is responsible for whom, she reveals that questions of intergenerational care are at the heart of relations between individuals, societies, and states.
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Cambridge University Press Enemy Literature
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Cambridge University Press Enemy Literature
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Cambridge University Press A Tale of Two Granadas
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Cambridge University Press The Taft Court 2 Volume Paperback Set Volume 10
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Cambridge University Press The Making of the Chinese Civil Code
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Cambridge University Press Politics of the Past
Book SynopsisThe inter-war period (19181939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Politics of the Past explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
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Cambridge University Press Politics of the Past
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Cambridge University Press Mercenaries of Knowledge
Book SynopsisFrom Lisbon to Rome via the islands of the Gulf of Guinee and the sugar mills of Northern Brazil, this book explores the strategies and practices (e. g. bibliopolitics) that displaced scholars cultivated to navigate the murky waters of Late Renaissance politics, through the life of the Portuguese jurist-scholar, Vicente Nogueira (15861654).
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Cambridge University Press The Metamorphosis of the Amazon
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Cambridge University Press Connecting Communities in Archaic Greece
Book SynopsisA new history of Greece in the seventh and sixth centuries BC written for the twenty-first century. It brings together archaeological material from over 100 years, employing experimental modelling techniques from the digital humanities to reveal new patterns about how Greece's first city-states traded with one another and made alliances.
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Cambridge University Press Mooring the Global Archive
Book SynopsisThe first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world.Trade Review'Martin Dusinberre challenges us to engage critically with the idea of a 'global archive' in writing global history in this fascinating study of the 'Yamashiro-maru', a Japanese steamship which transported Japanese migrants in the Pacific Ocean. This is an innovative and thought-provoking book, sensitively written.' Naoko Shimazu, Yale-NUS College and Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore'In this engaging study, Martin Dusinberre situates migrant Japanese plantation workers, sex workers, and others in relation to imperialism, extractive capitalism, and formations of indigeneity in the Pacific. Challenging the epistemologies of the modern discipline of history, Dusinberre demonstrates how scholars might listen for other voices when assembling their archives.' David Ambaras, Professor of History, North Carolina State UniversityTable of ContentsNote on the Text; Preface; 1. Archival traps; 2. Between the archives; 3. Outside the archive; 4. Archival country, counter claims; 5. The archive and I; 6. The burned archive; Epilogue.
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Cambridge University Press Black Soldiers in the Rhodesian Army
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Cambridge University Press Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally
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Cambridge University Press WorkingClass Raj
Book SynopsisFocusing on the military men, railway workers, and wives and children of the British working-class who went to India after the Rebellion of 1857, Working-Class Raj explores the experiences of these working-class men and women in their own words. Drawing on a diverse collection of previously unused letters and diaries, it allows us to hear directly from these people for the first time. Working-class Brits in India enjoyed enormous privilege, reliant on native Indian labour and living, as one put it, ?like gentlemen.? But within the hierarchies of the Army and the railyard they remained working class, a potentially disruptive population that needed to be contained. Working in India and other parts of the empire, emigrating to settler colonies, often returning to Britain, all the while attempting to maintain family ties across imperial distances-the British working class in the nineteenth century was a globalised population. This book reveals how working-class men and women were not atomised individuals, but part of communities that spanned the empire and were fundamentally shaped by it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details
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Cambridge University Press China and the Philippines
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Cambridge University Press A Colonial Book Market
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Cambridge University Press Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran
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Cambridge University Press Imagining the Roman Emperor
Book SynopsisA fresh approach to the Roman emperor, the most widely discussed figure and disseminated image in the Roman empire. Panayiotis Christoforou delves into the many underappreciated mythical and fictional stories about the emperor to uncover the perspectives of his subjects, which oscillated between love and hate, fear and reverence.
£21.84
Cambridge University Press Ukraine not the Ukraine
Book SynopsisThis Element is a historical tour of Ukraine from the medieval Kyivan prince Volodymyr the Great through to Ukraine's twenty-first-century rock star president Volodymyr Zelensky. It explains how the people living on its lands have their distinct history, how they shaped it, were shaped by it, and had an impact on both European and global history.
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Cambridge University Press Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
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Cambridge University Press Social Justice in TwentiethCentury Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Last Treaty
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Cambridge University Press Sparta
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Section A: Sparta from contemporary Spartan poetry; 2. Section B: historical inscriptions relating to Sparta; 3. Section C: Sparta in religion and religious festivals; 4. Section D: Spartan institutions in theory; 5. Section E: Spartan institutions in practice. 6. Section F: the Spartan mirage; 7. Section G: contemporary Athenian views of Sparta; 8. Section H: an historical overview; 9. Section K: Sparta and Lakonia.
£19.99
Cambridge University Press The Flavians
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. Sources: 1. Section A: the acts of the Arval brothers; 2. Section B: list of consuls, AD 69 to 96; 3. Section C: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 66; 4. Section D: Cassius Dio, Roman History, Book 67; 5. Josephus, Jewish War; 6. Flavian municipal law in Spain; 7. Juvenal, Satire 4; Part II. Themes; 8. Section H; 9. Section J: imperial family; 10. Section K: Rome and Italy; 11. Section L: religion; 12. Section M: administration of empire; 13. Section N: war and expansion; 14 section P: conspiracies, revolts and scandals; 15. Section Q: popular entertainment; 16. Section R: literature, arts and culture; 17. Section S: society; 18. Section T: panegyric and invective; 19. Section U: the upper classes.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of Augustus
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. By Sources: 1. Res Gestae Divi Augusti; 2. List of consuls, 31 BC to AD 14; 3. The calendars; 4. Livy; 5. Velleius Paterculus; 6. Tacitus; 7. Augustan poetry; Part II. By Themes: 8. Triumvate to principate; 9. Imperial family; 10. Rome and Italy; 11. Religion; 12. Administration of empire; 13. War and expansion; 14. Conspiracies, scandals, free speech; 15. Maecenas and the arts; 16. Social legislation; 17. Augustan society.
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Cambridge University Press Ciceros Cilician Letters
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Date chart; 3. Cicero's Cilician letters.
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Cambridge University Press Late Republican Rome 8831 BC
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of ContentsPart I. Narrative: 1. A prologue: Land and politics in Republican Italy, 133-88 BC; 2. Narrative, 88-44 BC; 3. The triumviral period (and beyond); Part II. Key Themes: 4. Rome and Italy; 5. Rome and the empire; 6. The imperial economy; 7. Law, lawyers and lawcourts; 8. Intellectual life; 9. Wives and daughters in late Republican society and politics; 10. Politics in the late Republic.
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Cambridge University Press The High Tide of Empire
Book SynopsisOne of a well-established series of sourcebooks catering to the needs of ancient history students at schools and universities. Each volume focuses on a particular period or topic and provides a generous and judicious selection of primary texts in new English translations, with annotation and supporting materials.Table of Contents1. Developments in imperialism; 2. Imperialism on three continents; 3. How the provinces were governed; 4. The personality of the emperor: Cult and activity; 5. The impact of her provinces on Rome.
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