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Book Synopsis#1 New York Times bestselling author of Iceberg, Jennifer A. Nielsen inspires readers with a brand-new thriller based on the remarkable true story of a young Polish girl who bravely fought, participating in the Warsaw city uprising, and took a stand in the name of freedom.Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather''s house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi cross on each wing. Before the bombs hit the ground, Lidia realizes her life is about to change forever. Poland has fallen under German occupation, and her father makes the brave decision to join the Polish army to fight against the Nazis. Lidia wants to follow him into war, but she''s far too young, and she''s needed by her mother and brother.After her family returns to Warsaw, where life has changed irrevocably, Lidia continues to play the piano, finding comfort in Chopin, Bach, and Beethoven. But she also wants to aid the Jewish people held captive in the Warsaw Ghetto. W

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Book SynopsisMany of the present problems of ''globalization'' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800.Trade Review'This work presents a fine addition to the international relations literature and world systems theory. Following in the footsteps of Chase Dunn and Eric Wolf, Carlson offers us a detailed analysis of four 'peripheral' systems that were gradually incorporated into the European world system, and he brings a rich historical perspective to the current discussions around globalization. Contrary to state centric perspectives that dominate neo-liberal and structural realist accounts, the author demonstrates how incorporation into the European world system entailed profound military, political, economic, and social transformations at the micro-level. Thus, to understand the macro-level outcome that led to the creation of the current state system, one needs to understand how all four spheres interacted. From his analysis one must conclude that the current pattern of globalization challenges not merely the Westphalian state system but every aspect of social and political life. As Carlson's narrative shows, all the given assumptions of day-to-day life become malleable and uncertain, and indeed the very understanding of what 'the international system' means should be subject to re-examination.' - Hendrik Spruyt, Norman Dwight Harris Professor of International Relations, Northwestern University 'In this well-written and carefully argued work, Jon D. Carlson forces us to consider, through a comparative examination of how different regions have historically been incorporated into the world system, the representational devices of the myths of expansion. Equally fascinating, creative, and rigorously executed, Carlson's theoretically rich work engages, synthesizes, and implicates a variety of core assumptions centralized by International Relations scholars.' - Brent Steele, associate professor of Political Science, University of Kansas and author of Defacing Power: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Global Politics 'A benchmark for addressing issues of incorporation and globalization. The book also has pedagogical value both for explicit content and as a model of how such work can be done. It will have broad appeal to scholars of world history, archaeology, geography, sociology, and international relations.' - Thomas D. Hall, Professor Emeritus, Depauw UniversityTable of ContentsBroadening and Deepening: Systemic Expansion, Incorporation and the Zone of Ignorance New World Empires and Otters: The Scramble for Nootka Sound, the Northwest Passage, and the China Trade West Africa and the Rise of Asante: Rivers of Gold, a Short Route to China, and the Globalization of Labor Ethiopia and the Middle East: The Red Sea Trade, Prester John and Christians in the Muslim World Japan and the Far East: Zipangu, Roofs of Silver and the Lure of the Orient Conclusion: Myths, Incorporation & Systemic Expansion

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Book SynopsisEssential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian. The book begins with an examination of the historical discipline and its relevance to contemporary culture. It then guides readers through the steps of developing a research project, using two sample projects that illustrate the connections between core proficiencies such as critical thinking and effective time management, and professional proficiencies such as source criticism and historical interpretation. By following these source projects as they develop, the book also highlights the importance of sound historical practice and a critical understanding of the past in contemporary society. Finally, the book discusses the outcomes of historical research and reveals the wide array ofTrade ReviewA clearly-written guide that will help students in history courses at every level develop the overlapping skills they need to tackle research projects small and large. With practical exercises that build historical habits of mind by providing students the opportunity to immediately apply what they have learned, from conceptualization to finished product. The lively personal voice and descriptions of the authors’ own experiences lessen the distance between beginning researchers and veteran historians, demystifying the process of research and helping students gain confidence as producers of history in the classroom and the larger community beyond. * Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Distinguished Professor Emerita of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA *This primer provides a nuts-and-bolts, step-by-step guide to students of what history is, how we study it, and how they can write it. It is also inspirational, showing why we should be enthusiastic about historical writing and the great value of studying history. Students and instructors will not only benefit from this book, but will be excited to read it; it truly is essential to our field. * Thomas Zeiler, Professor of Diplomatic History, University of Colorado Boulder, USA *A really informative book that will provide both students and researchers with the basic and advanced skills required to successfully research the past. * Ian Miller, Ulster University, UK *Table of ContentsPART I: Encountering the Past 1. History as a Discipline 2. From Critical Thinking to Historical Thinking PART II: Exploring the Past 3. Designing a Project 4. Information Literacy and Research Strategies 5. Using Active Reading Skills for Effective Source Criticism 6. Numbers, Narratives, and Other “Texts” 7. Effective Writing and Historical Arguments 8. From Academic Integrity to Professional Ethics PART III: The Uses of the Past 9. Outcomes of Historical Research 10. History as a Career Further Reading and Resources Index

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Book SynopsisA History of Sexuality in Modern Germany offers both a detailed survey of this key subject and a new intervention in the history of sexuality in modern Germany. It investigates the diverse and often contradictory ways in which individuals, activists, doctors, politicians, artists, social movements and cultural commentators have defined normal' or natural' sexuality in Germany over the past two centuries. Katie Sutton explores how these definitions have been used to shape identities, behaviors, bodies and practices, particularly around norms of heterosexual, marital, reproductive sex. At the same time, she examines how such ideas enabled the policing of unnatural' or deviant' bodies and practices. Covering a range of crucial themes, including birth control, prostitution, homosexual rights and heterosexual intimacy, this important text comes with 30 illustrations, a useful glossary and interesting biographical vignettes which help to illuminate the narrative. Primary source extracTrade ReviewThis fascinating, authoritative study places topical debates into historical context, revealing the multifaceted nature of modernities and the shifting, heterogeneous nature of past sexualities and the moral norms that shaped them. Foregrounding questions of conformity and resistance, the book sheds light on the hotly-contested debates over gender and sexual identities that confront contemporary scholars. * Ingrid Sharp, Professor of German Cultural and Gender History, University of Leeds, United Kingdom. *Katie Sutton’s Sexuality in Modern German History deftly weaves the important topics in the history of modern sexuality—mariage, prostitution, homosexuality, and trans identities—with the turns in German history, from the early nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. An invaluable resurce for beginning students as well as established scholars! * Robert Deam Tobin, Henry J Leir Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Clark University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction. Sexuality in Modern German History 1. Enlightening Intimacy: From Reformation to Unification 2. Sexual Modernity and Nationhood: 1871-1918 3. Babylon Berlin? Liberation, Violence and Politics in the Weimar Republic, 1918-1933 4. Pronatalism to Persecution: Sex in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 5. Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Divided Germanies 6. Sexual Evolutions and Revolutions: From Rock’n’Roll to Gay Liberation Conclusion. Political Transitions and Intimate Transformations since the Berlin Wall Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies:Period Study: The Persian Empire, 559465 BC by James RenshawDepth Study: From Tyranny to Democracy, 546483 BC by Sam BaddeleyDepth Study: Athens in the Age of Pericles, 462429 BC by Paul Fowler and James Renshaw Depth Study: Alexander the Great, 356323 BC by Lucy NicholasWas propaganda Persia's greatest weapon? How did Athens create democracy? Does Pericles' Athens deserve to be remembered as civilised or barbaric? How did Alexander dominate the ancient world by the age of 32?This book raises these and other key questions. GCSE students and their teachers will explore key political and social developments of the Greek and Persian worlds through the eyes of ancient historians and archaeology. This book invites us to look at anciTable of ContentsIntroduction How to Use This Book Period Study: The Persian Empire, 559–465 BC Depth Study Option 1: From Tyranny to Democracy, 546–483 BC Depth Study Option 2: Athens in the Age of Pericles, 462–429 BC Depth Study Option 3: Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisPicturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia examines the role which atrocity photographs played, and continue to play, in shaping the public memory of the Second World War in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. Focusing on visual representations of one of the most controversial and politically divisive episodes of the war -- genocidal violence perpetrated against Serbs, Jews, and Roma by the pro-Nazi Ustasha regime in the Independent State of Croatia (1941-1945) -- the book examines the origins, history and legacy of violent images. Notably, this book pays special attention to the politics of the atrocity photograph. It explores how images were strategically and selectively mobilized at different times, and by different memory communities and stakeholders, to do different things: justify retribution against political opponents in the immediate aftermath of the war, sustain the discourses of national unity on which socialist Yugoslavia was founded, or, in the post-Trade ReviewThis thoughtful and persuasively argued book explores images of Ustasha atrocities to shed light not only on Yugoslavia’s troubled and divided visual memory but also on the broader social and cultural history of the socialist country and its post-socialist successors. Byford’s thought-provoking and nuanced analysis of these graphic photographs and their many uses opens an unexpected window onto some of the most important moments, transitions and conflicts in Yugoslav history. * Ana Antic, Associate Professor of History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark *Picturing Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia is a theoretically-sophisticated and painstakingly-researched book. It debunks several major mythologies about the postwar memory of genocidal Ustasha violence during World War II. Byford approaches the history of atrocity photography in Yugoslavia and its successor states with strong ethical commitments and razor-sharp analysis, and illuminates the questions of production and consumption of atrocity photography in changing historical contexts more generally. * Emil Kerenji, Applied Research Scholar, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Picturing Genocide 2. Evidencing ‘Unprecedented Savagery’: Atrocity Photographs in Occupied Yugoslavia 3. ‘Gather Photographs!’: The Birth of the Visual Memory of Ustasha Violence 4. Why Look at Fascism? Visual Propaganda and Revolutionary Justice in Post-war Yugoslavia 5. Ustasha Violence through the Prism of ‘Brotherhood and Unity’: The Dilemmas of Visual Memory in Socialist Yugoslavia 6. ‘The Dead Open the Eyes of the Living’: Atrocity Images after Tito 7. Mobilising Images: Visual Memory of the Second World War and the Yugoslav Conflict of the 1990s Conclusion: Atrocity Photographs beyond Idolatry and Oblivion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArt, Politics and the Pamphleteer brings together a collection of text-based and visual essays, commissioned artworks and graphics. This richly illustrated book responds to the concept, aesthetics and function of the political pamphlet. It is diverse in content, interpreting the pamphlet' in the broadest terms, and encompassing a number of case studies that offer historical or specific examples of contemporary pamphleteering practice that can be seen to perform a clear political implication' or protest. Besides exploring the radical history and diverse cultures of the pamphlet, it also celebrates the rich visual rhetoric, typography and contemporary relevance of the format for both artists and activists. Contributions include an historical overview and essays by: Andy Abbott, Angeliki Avgitidu, Aziz Choudry and Désirée Rochat, David Murrieta Flores, Michelle Kempson, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Rachel Schreiber, Jane Tormey, Gillian Whiteley; visual contributions by Gary AndTrade ReviewPassionately engaged, impressively researched and seasonably distilled ... Do not be deceived by its scrappy demeanour. Art, Politics and the Pamphleteer will serve scholars and practitioners of aesthetic engagement in social movements for decades to come. In this service, the collection’s wealth of sources, depth of critical appreciation and clarity of expression will enhance any move that builds on it. * Journal of Design History *This book entices us into the prismatic fringe of the ‘pamphlet’ and its unruly disciple the ‘pamphleteer’. True to its object, here design, text, form, matter, and affect fold in and pull apart in multiple ways. Immersed in the present, past, and emerging future of pamphleteering, the book leaves readers in no doubt that this disreputable form presents an adventure in art, politics, and publishing that is poorly served by the word ‘writing’. * Nicholas Thoburn, author of "Anti-Book: On the Art and Politics of Radical Publishing" *An absorbing critical anthology of pamphlet formats with the exhilarating whiff of something improvised, uncontrolled, it melds research, personal insights and DIY fanzine monochrome mayhem. Pamphlets are transient, oriented to the moment, but, gathered here, they receive a continued life – tactile too - amidst a spiky volley of political and artistic attitudes. This is history and its reflection, but it is also a manual for future campaigns devising a renewed common culture. * Esther Leslie, Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Table of ContentsSee list of contributors above.

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Book SynopsisThis fully updated and expanded edition of The Crusades: A History provides an authoritative exploration of one of the most significant topics in medieval and religious history. From the First Crusade right up to the present day, Jonathan Riley-Smith and Susanna Throop investigate the phenomenon of crusading and the crusaders themselves. Now in its 4th edition, this landmark text includes: - A new and more balanced book structure with updated terminology designed to help instructors and students alike - Deliberate incorporation of a wider range of historical perspectives, including Byzantine and Islamic historiographies, crusading against Christians and within Europe, women and gender, and the crusades in the context of Afro-Eurasian history - A dramatically expanded discussion of crusading from the 16th through to the 21st century- A fully up-to-date bibliographic essay - Additional textboxes, maps, and images The Crusades: A History is the definitive text on the subjTrade ReviewThe Crusades remains the ‘go-to’ text for anyone interested in the history of the crusades. This wide-ranging and engaging updated edition is grounded in the superlative scholarship of Susanna Throop and the late Jonathan Riley-Smith, and offers new insights into the nature, practice and memory of holy war. A classic. * Megan Cassidy-Welch, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Australian Catholic University, Australia *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Lists of Text Boxes Note on Names and Terminology Preface to the 4th Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Studying the History of the Crusades 2. The Emergence of the First Crusade 3. The First Crusade 4. The Early Crusader States, 1099-1150 5. Diversification, 1099-1150 6. Development, 1150-1198 7. Intensification, 1198-1240 8. Institutionalization, 1198-1240 9. Ambitions and Rebellions, 1240-1300 10. Reimagined, 1300-1370 11. Reconfigured, 1370-1520 12. Persistent, 1520-1750 13. Legacies, 1750 to the 21st Century Afterword Chronology Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThey are among the most famous and compelling photographs ever made in archaeology: Howard Carter kneeling before the burial shrines of Tutankhamun; life-size statues of the boy king on guard beside a doorway, tantalizingly sealed, in his tomb; or a solid gold coffin still draped with flowers cut more than 3,300 years ago. Yet until now, no study has explored the ways in which photography helped mythologize the tomb of Tutankhamun, nor the role photography played in shaping archaeological methods and interpretations, both in and beyond the field. This book undertakes the first critical analysis of the photographic archive formed during the ten-year clearance of the tomb, and in doing so explores the interface between photography and archaeology at a pivotal time for both. Photographing Tutankhamun foregrounds photography as a material, technical, and social process in early 20th-century archaeology, in order to question how the photograph made and remade ancient Egypt' in the waning agTrade Review'A beautifully written and fascinating account of the photographs and photographic practices related to Tutankhamun. It will be a landmark study in the relationships between archives, photographs, and archaeology.'--J.A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK'Photographing Tutankhamun is a remarkable achievement for many different reasons, but it is perhaps this contribution that makes the book stand out. [...] Riggs’s ability to look across social, empirical and theoretical domains and not lose sight of the idiosyncrasies of Tutankhamun offers a valuable case study in recognising the oscillations and contingencies underpinning the work of photographs in archaeological practice.'--Antiquity'A beautifully written and fascinating account of the photographs and photographic practices related to Tutankhamun. It will be a landmark study in the relationships between archives, photographs, and archaeology.' --J.A. Baird, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK'Photographing Tutankhamun is a remarkable achievement for many different reasons, but it is perhaps this contribution that makes the book stand out. [...] Riggs’s ability to look across social, empirical and theoretical domains and not lose sight of the idiosyncrasies of Tutankhamun offers a valuable case study in recognising the oscillations and contingencies underpinning the work of photographs in archaeological practice.'--AntiquityTable of ContentsTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPrefaceChapter 1. Photographing Tutankhamun: An Introduction Chapter 2. Mirrored Memories: Excavating the Photographic Archive Chapter 3. 'The first and most pressing need': Photographic Practice at the Tomb of Tutankhamun Chapter 4. Tutankhamun's Treasures: Objects, Artworks, Bodies Chapter 5. Men at Work: The Resurrection of the Boy-king Chapter 6. Worlds Exclusive: Mediating TutankhamunChapter 7. The Looking-glass: Egyptology’s Archival AfterlivesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as:* Political identities and activism * Gender, race, and sexuality* Transatlantic responses to war and revolution * Local and workplace surveillance and transparency * Prison communities and culture* Food, health, and radical medicine * Revolutionary childhoodsWith an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, Life in RevoluTrade Review[A]n outstanding, often brilliant, collection which deserves recognition and frequent consultation for its refreshing insights into the myriad worlds of revolutionary experience. * French Studies *I have never seen such an edited volume before. Every chapter offers original scholarship and new methodological approaches, which could help any student of history read their sources with fresh eyes. This book not only teaches social and cultural history but also instructs students how to become better historians. I can offer no greater praise than the fact that I am excited to use this book in my French Revolution classes, and it also helped me to reframe my own research projects. * H-France Review *With this engaging collection, Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer take distance from notions of the French Revolution as an engine of abstract change to explore how that event shaped individual lives and to examine how seemingly private choices intersected with broad social, political, and cultural movements. * Canadian Journal of History *Life in Revolutionary France revivifies the social history of the French revolution. Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer’s fine team of experienced and emergent scholars offer bright, insightful coverage of topics that range from religion to revolutionary justice, from prisons to prostitution, from émigrés to Caribbean slaves, from armies to waxworks, from crime to diet - and much besides. * Colin Jones, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *Ranging from peasant resisters and Caribbean prisoners of war to prostitutes and the orphaned children of executed revolutionary leaders, this remarkably original collection opens dramatic new perspectives on the French Revolution. The ordinary is shown to be extraordinarily fascinating when lives are transformed by dramatic events. Anyone interested in the meaning of revolution will want to read these essays. * Lynn Hunt, Distinguished Research Professor of History, UCLA, USA *The anthology is therefore an overall highly readable, inspiring and important contribution to the research debate. * Zeitschrift fur Historische Forschung (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Rethinking the Revolutionary Everyday, Mette Harder and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Part I. Revolutionary Identities and Spaces 1. Republicans and Royalists: Seeking Authentic Rural Voices in the Sources of the French Revolution, Jill Maciak Walshaw Source: Trial of Thomas Bordas, a weaver from Segonzac, department of the Dordogne, accused of having publicly stated that he wanted to be governed by a king. 28 pluviôse–12 prairial year IV (February 17, 1796–May 31, 1796) 2. Mapping Women’s Everyday Lives in Revolutionary Marseille, Laura Talamante Source: Deliberation of the Dames Citoyennes from the Saint-Martin District, no. 7, 7 July 1790 3. Emigration, Landlords, and Tenants in Revolutionary Paris, Hannah Callaway Source: Overview of Rentals in the Boulainvilliers Market on 24 Fructidor VI (September 10, 1798) 4. Home Fronts and Battlefields: The Army, Warfare, and the Revolutionary Experience, Christopher Tozzi Source (a): “It should come as no surprise if I want to make a Jew into a soldier.” Speech by the Abbé Henri Grégoire at the National Assembly, 23 December 1789 Source (b): From the Petition of the Jews Established in France addressed to the National Assembly, 28 January 1790 5. Race, Freedom, and Everyday Life: French Caribbean Prisoners of War in Britain, Abigail Coppins and Jennifer Ngaire Heuer Source: Undated Report on the State of the Prisons and Hospitals of Portchester and Forton (likely from the end of 1796), TNA (The National Archives) ADM 105/44 Part II. The Right To? – Revolutionary Justice at Work 6. Crime, Law, and Justice, Claire Cage Source: Penal Code of 25 September 1791 7. Surveillance at Work: A Theft on the Rue du Bac, Ralph Kingston Source: Defense Statement by Citizen Bonnet, former employee of the [French Ministry of] External Relations. Written after his termination for theft on 7 Fructidor VIII (August 25, 1800) 8. Sex as Work: Public Women in Revolutionary Paris, Clyde Plumauzille Source: Letters by a Woman arrested for Prostitution under the “Terror” 9. Doctors, Radicalism, and the Right to Health: Three Visions from the French Revolution, Sean M. Quinlan Source: The French Doctor and Legislator François Lanthenas on Freedom, Health and Hygiene: De l’influence de la liberté sur la santé (1792) Part III. Revolutionary Experience, Practices, Sensations 10. Tasting Liberty: Food and Revolution, E. C. Spary Source: Anon., “L’Hydre aristocratique,” Paris, 1789 11. Spectacles of French Revolutionary Violence in the Atlantic World, Ashli White Source: Massachusetts Mercury (Boston), December 25, 1795, page 3: This Evening – Advert for Bowen’s Museum 12. Practice and Belief: Religion in the Revolution, Jonathan Smyth Source: Extract from Robespierre’s Speech on Freedom of Worship, made at the Jacobin Club, Paris on November 21, 1793 (1 Frimaire Year 2 of the Revolution) 13. Facing the Unknown: The Private Lives of Miniatures in the French Revolutionary Prison, Sophie Matthiesson Source: Hubert Robert (1733–1808), Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794) as he prepares to be transferred from Sainte-Pélagie to Saint-Lazare, 1794 14. Revolutionary Parents and Children: Everyday Lives in Times of Stress, Siân Reynolds Source: The Families of Revolutionaries Recommended Readings Index

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Book SynopsisHow the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the immediate aftermath of the genocide to the present day, Holocaust Representations in History explores this in detail.Daniel H. Magilow and Lisa Silverman examine film, drama, literature, photography, visual art, television, graphic novels, memorials, and video games as they discuss the major themes and issues that underpin the chronicling of the Holocaust. Each chapter is focused on a critical debate or question in Holocaust history; the case studies range from well-known, commercially successful works about the Holocaust to controversial examples which have drawn accusations of profaning the memory of the genocide. This 2nd edition adds to the mosaic of representation, with new chapters analysing poetry in the wake of the Holocaust and video games from the here and now.This unique volume provides an unmatched survey of key and controTrade ReviewIn engaging prose, Magilow and Silverman show that influential works on the Holocaust were shaped by the historical moment in which they were produced. Their lesson is an important one: what we know of this horrific event is mediated by present concerns and so evolves with time and, once taken to heart, you’ll never read these canonical and controversial texts the same way. * Lisa Leff, Professor of History, American University, USA *This book is an excellent interdisciplinary statement on the narrative challenges of the Holocaust to art, film, literature and memorialisation. A must-use text of close readings for teachers and students alike. * Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer in Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Preface to the 2nd Edition Introduction Part I - The 1940s and 1950s 1. The Boy in the Warsaw Ghetto (Photograph, 1943): What do Iconic Photographs tell us about the Holocaust? 2. Nazi Concentration Camps (Documentary Film, 1945): Can the Holocaust be Adequately Represented on Film? 3. Death Fugue (Poem, 1948): What is the Relationship between the Holocaust and Language? 4. Yizker-bukh Chelm (Memorial Book, 1954): How did the Jews Talk about the Holocaust in its Aftermath? 5. The Diary of Anne Frank (Drama, 1955): What is the Americanization of the Holocaust? 6. Night (Memoir, 1958): What Does it Mean to be a Holocaust Survivor? Part II - The 1960s and 1970s 7. Eichmann in Jerusalem (Magazine Reports, 1963): What Roles do Trials Play in how we Remember the Holocaust? 8. The Deputy (Drama, 1963): What Role did the Catholic Church play in the Holocaust? 9. The Night Porter (Film, 1974): What is the Ongoing Appeal of the Holocaust and Nazism? 10. Holocaust: The Story of the Family Weiss (Television, 1978): Do Representations for Mass Audiences Trivialise the Holocaust? Part III - The 1980s and 1990s 11. Shoah (Film, 1985): What is the Role of Witness Testimony in Representations of the Holocaust? 12. Maus (Graphic Novel, 1991): How is the Memory of the Holocaust Transmitted across Generations? 13. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Museum, 1993): How do Countries outside Germany Commemorate the Holocaust? 14. Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (Fiction, 1996): What Does it Mean to Lie about the Holocaust? Part IV - The 2000s until Today 15. The Children's Holocaust Memorial and Paper Clip Project (Memorial, 2001): How is the Holocaust Used to Teach about Diversity? 16. Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art (Visual Art, 2002): Has the Memory of the Holocaust become too Commercial? 17. Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Memorial, 2005): Is there an End to Holocaust Memory? 18. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Video Game, 2017): What role do Games play in Holocaust Representation? Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisRussian populism, the belief that the peasantry embodied authentic Russian identity and once liberated from their poverty would lead the country to a brighter future, has animated Russian thought across the political spectrum and inspired much of Russia''s world-historical literature, music and art in the 19th century. This book offers the fullest and most authoritative account of the rise, proliferation and influence of populist values and ideology in modern Russia to date.Christopher Ely explores the complete story of Russian populism. Starting from the cursed question of how to reconnect the popular masses with the Europeanized elite, he examines the populist obsession with the peasant commune as a model for a future socialist Russia. He shows how the desire for revolution led Russian radicals to flood into the countryside and later to pioneer terrorism as a form of political action. He delves into those artists influenced by populist ideals, and he tells the story of the collapse oTrade ReviewDr Ely has written a book, accessible to students, on the populist movement among educated Russians after the abolition of serfdom in 1861. He explains how populists understood the newly-freed peasantry, how they imagined the peasants could be incorporated into the rest of society, and their hopes for a progressive future for Russia. The book ranges from terrorism to populist-inspired literature, art and music. Tracing the movement’s origins before 1861, examining its theory and practice, its legacy in the 1905 and 1917 revolutions, and making astute comparisons with American populism, the author breathes new life into the topic. * David Moon, Emeritus Professor, University of York, UK *Taken as a whole, this book has two features unusual in a work introduced as “a survey for the use of students and those unfamiliar with the history of Imperial Russia”. First, it is original. … It is still the first attempt known to me to write a cultural history of Russian populism—the first attempt to consider the great Russian writers and artists as part of the history, which also includes the going-to-the-people movement and Narodnaya Volya. The second striking feature of this book is its sensitivity to the complexity of the subject. Simplification is the common coin of textbook writing, and the history of Russian populism is a topic that would seem to require simplification at numerous points. But somehow Ely has managed to produce a history of Russian populism that conveys a sense of the difficulties of the topic—the complexity of motives and arguments and the narrative twists and turns—and still remains clear and compelling. This is a most impressive book. * H-Net *Russian populism has long needed reexamination, and Christopher Ely brings new research and fresh insights to the task. Moving beyond the traditional definition of populism solely as a form of revolutionary ideology, Ely approaches it as a cultural phenomenon extending throughout the political spectrum and manifested in all forms of creative expression. His account is a rich but concise intellectual and cultural history addressing critical issues driving intellectual debates and political struggles in late Imperial Russia. With its clear and accessible style, the book provides a valuable synthesis for students while offering scholars a compelling perspective on a topic that has often proven elusive. * Nathaniel Knight, Professor of History, Seton Hall University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Toward a Definition of Russian Populism 1. Origins 2. Foundations 3. Populism in Theory 4. Populism in Action 5. Reverberations and Regrets 6. Neo-Populism in a Revolutionary Epoch Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTaking American mobilization in WWII as its departure point, this book offers a concise but comprehensive introduction to the history of militarization in the United States since 1940. Exploring the ways in which war and the preparation for war have shaped and affected the United States during The American Century', Fitzgerald demonstrates how militarization has moulded relations between the US and the rest of the world. Providing a timely synthesis of key scholarship in a rapidly developing field, this book shows how national security concerns have affected issues as diverse as the development of the welfare state, infrastructure spending, gender relations and notions of citizenship. It also examines the way in which war is treated in the American imagination; how it has been depicted throughout this era, why its consequences have been made largely invisible and how Americans have often considered themselves to be reluctant warriors. In integrating domestic histories with internationaTrade ReviewInformative and thorough ... Militarization and the American Century is an instructive and comprehensive book, a fine piece of scholarship that will inform and provoke. * H-Net *As David Fitzgerald shows in this intelligent, humane, and elegantly written book, since World War II the military has defined modern American society as much as anything else. Building on the recent scholarship on militarization, Fitzgerald reveals the fascinating extent to which the United States has been shaped by war. * Andrew Preston, Cambridge University, UK *Fitzgerald’s book offers a persuasive account of how American militarization accelerated in the context of Cold War competition, rather than grounding it in the Second World War moment. * International Affairs *This innovative examination of everything from social welfare policies to base politics and the southern border reveals both the centrality of militarization to American domestic politics and foreign relations and its increasing invisibility. An important work for those interested in how militarism took hold and whether its tentacles can be disentangled. * Kara Dixon Vuic, LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in Twentieth-Century America, Texas Christian University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Liberal Empire and the Paradoxes of War: Militarization before 1941 Militarized Encounters: Armed Americans Abroad ‘National Security’ and the Militarization of Statecraft Bases, Borders and Gun Belts: The Evolution of Militarized Spaces in the United States and Beyond Military Service and the Meanings of Citizenship War in the American Imagination Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWriting Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture. Looking at archaeology, anthropology, art history and literary studies, the book provides students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. The book addresses the role of museums, the impact of the digital age and the representations of objects in public history, bringing together students and specialists from around the world. This new edition includes: A new substantive introduction from the editors, providing a useful roadmap for students and specialists. A more balanced and easy-to-use structure, including methodological chapters and object in focus' chapters consisting of case studies for classroom discussion. New chapters showing greater engagement with 20th-century material culture, non-European artefacts and the definitions and limits of material culture as a discipline. Offers global coverage and discTrade ReviewGerritsen and Riello offer us a rich and eclectic collection of essays devoted to the multiple methodologies associated with the study of material artifacts, as well as fascinating and instructive case studies of particular objects, all well-suited for undergraduate teaching and the training of future researchers. That this book should merit a second, and expanded, edition in so short a period (a scant five years) is testament to the vitality of the field of material culture studies. Noteworthy areas of new attention include the political study of objects, the material history of urban space, and the application of new technologies (3-D printing or big data for example) to the study of material culture. If historians have indeed “experienced a Damascene conversion to material culture” as Gerritsen and Riello argue, then surely they should be credited in large measure for bringing it intellectual coherence and a global reach. This book, now expanded, will be essential reading for those who join them. * Anne EC McCants, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *The volume is an impressive collection of different views on material culture, written from anthropological, historical, and art historical perspectives. It should be an essential text in the appreciation of artefacts, and the role they play in the interactions of cultures over time and space. * Ruth Barnes, Thomas Jaffe Curator of Indo-Pacific Art, Yale University Art Gallery, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Material Culture History: Methods, Practices and Disciplines, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello Object in Focus 1. Broken Saints, House Cats, Other Historical Matter, Dana Leibsohn Part I: The Disciplines of Material Culture 1. Material Culture and the History of Art(efacts), Viccy Coltman 2. Written Texts and the Performance of Materiality, Catherine Richardson 3. Anthropology, Archaeology, History and the Material Culture of Lycra®, Kaori O’Connor Object in Focus 2: Material Culture, Archaeology and Defining Modernity: Case Studies in Ceramic Research, David Gaimster Object in Focus 3: Father Amiot’s Cup: A Qing Imperial Porcelain Sent to the Court of Louis XV and - Kee Il Choi Object in Focus 4: Broken Objects: Using Archaeological Ceramics in the Study of Material Culture, Suzanne Findlen Hood Object in Focus 5: Writing Our Maritime Pasts: The Belitung Shipwreck Controversy, Natali Pearson Object in Focus 6: Identity, Heritage and Memorialisation: The Toraja Tongkonan of Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams Object in Focus 7: History by Design: The UK Board of Trade Design Register, Dinah Eastop Part II: The Methods of Material Culture 4. Spaces of Global Interactions: The Material Landscapes of Global History, Anne Gerritsen and Giorgio Riello 5. Material Culture and Materialism: The French Revolution in Wallpaper, Ulrich Lehmann 6. How Things Shape Us: Material Culture and Identity in the Industrial Age, Manuel Charpy Object in Focus 8: Invisible Beds: Health and the Material Culture of Sleep, Sandra Cavallo Object in Focus 9: Material Culture and Sound: A Sixteenth-Century Handbell, Flora Dennis Object in Focus 10: Interwoven Knowledge: The Understanding and Conservation of Three Carpets, Jessica Hallett and Raquel Santos Object in Focus 11: Lustrous Things: Luminosity and Reflection before the Light Bulb, Ann Smart Martin Object in Focus 12: Cosmopolitan Relationships in the Crossroads of the Pacific Ocean, Christina Hellmich Object in Focus 13: Digital Microscopy and Early Modern Embroidery, Stefan Hanß Object in Focus 14: Objects of Emotions: The London Foundling Hospital Tokens, 1741-60, John Styles Object in Focus 15: Time, Wear and Maintenance: The Afterlife of Things, Victoria Kelley Part III: The Preservation and Interpretation of Material Culture 7. The Return of the Wunderkammer: Material Culture in the Museum 225, Ethan W. Lasser 8. Handle with Care: The Future of Curatorial Expertise, Glenn Adamson 9. As Seen on the Screen: Material Culture, Historical Accuracy and the Costume Drama, Hannah Greig Object in Focus 16: Europe 1600-1800 in a Thousand Objects, Lesley Ellis Miller Object in Focus 17: Reading and Writing the Restoration History of an Old French bureau, Carolyn Sargentson Object in Focus 18: Objects of Empire: Museums, Material Culture, and Histories of Empire, John McAleer Object in Focus 19: The Lost Heritage of China: Dismantling Beijing, Digitizing Beijing, Di Lou Object in Focus 20: ‘Black Gold’: Industrial Heritage of the Nineteenth-century Ruhr Area, Christian Kleinschmidt Object in Focus 21: Indigeneity and Race and the Politics of Museum Collections, Beverly Lemire Object in Focus 22: Acts of creation: debating Indigenous American repatriation from Britain, Jack Davy Index

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Book SynopsisThe Beatles are widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history and their career has been the subject of many biographies. Yet the band''s historical significance has not received sustained academic treatment to date. In The Beatles'' Reception in the 1960s, Kenneth L. Campbell uses the Beatles as a lens through which to explore the sweeping, panoramic history of the social, cultural and political transformations that occurred in the 1960s. It draws on audience reception theory and untapped primary source material, including student newspapers, to understand how listeners would have interpreted the Beatles'' songs and albums not only in Britain and the United States, but also globally. Taking a year-by-year approach, each chapter analyses the external influences the Beatles absorbed, consciously or unconsciously, from the culture surrounding them. Some key topics include race relations, gender dynamics, political and cultural upheavals, the Vietnam WaTrade ReviewAuthor Ken Campbell has given an intriguingly personal, yet historical account ... The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution and Social Change (Bloomsbury, 2021) captures what few volumes are able to do: give those details that are already familiar to the devoted and yet place these memories inside a contextual, readable and relatable narrative, not usual for this style of book ... a highly important historical treatise, gathering steam from Kennedy to Kennedy, from Profumo to Paris. * Beatles-Freak's Reviews *Kenneth L. Campbell’s The Beatles and the 1960s: Reception, Revolution, and Social Change explores the Fab Four’s extraordinary cultural achievements through a trenchant historical lens. In so doing, Campbell affords readers with a powerful window into the group's reception with each passing masterwork. By tracing the Beatles’ artistic growth within the context of key sociocultural shifts during the 1960s, Campbell not only demonstrates the manner in which their work acted as a response to contemporaneous factors, he presciently reveals the ways in which their music continues to resonate into our present day. * Kenneth Womack, John Lennon 1980: The Last Days in the Lie *Whether you grew up with the Beatles or are discovering them for the first time, The Beatles and the 1960s will give you a fresh understanding of the group's historical context, their reception by critics and fans, the growth of their music and personalities alongside their listeners' lives, and their lasting social and cultural legacies. Guiding us from England to Germany, the U.S. and the world beyond, from Beatlemania through films, stadium tours, godlike personae, psychedelia, and revolutionary experimentation to the most crushing breakup in pop history, Kenneth Campbell offers the reader a new appreciation shaped by both contemporaneous opinion and Brexit-era reconsideration, thereby joining social attitudes across the decades that separate one set of culture wars from another. College-newspaper record reviews, comments by world-shaking recording artists, and dozens of perceptive fan interviews are just some of the newly curated sources that bring the Beatles, their audience and their world to life in this volume. * Walter Everett, Professor of Music, University of Michigan, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction: The Beatles, the Sixties, and Us 2. Post-War Britain, American Rock and Roll, and the Birth of the Beatles 3. Post-War Germany, the Beatles, and the Birth of the Sixties 4. Profumo, the Pill, and Please, Please Me: The Rise of the Beatles 5. 1964: Beatlemania in Historical Context 6. 1965: Help! The Beatles and the Culture of the Mid-1960s 7. 1966: The Beatles on a Global Stage 8. 1967: All You Need is Love - War, Peace, the Beatles, and the Summer of Love 9. 1968: Revolution, Rock Music, and the Beatles - The White Album in Historical Context 10. 1969: Woodstock, the Beatles, and the End of the Sixties 11. Let It Be: Contemporary Responses to the Beatles’ Last Albums and the Breakup of the Beatles 12. Conclusion: Post-Sixties Politics and the Absence of the Beatles Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a period of turmoil when European and international politics were in constant reshaping, immigrants and political exiles living in London set up periodicals which contributed actively to national and international political debates. Reflecting an interdisciplinary and international discussion, this book offers a rare long-term specialist perspective into the cosmopolitan and multilingual world of the foreign political press in London, with an emphasis on periodicals published in European languages. It furthers current research into political exile, the role of print culture and personal networks as intercultural agents and the dynamics of transnational political and cultural exchange in global capitals. Individual chapters deal with Brazilian, French, German, Indian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Spanish American, and Russian periodicals. Overarching themes include a historical survey of foreign political groups present in London throughout the long 19th century and the cTrade Review[A] must-read for anybody with a taste for the Victorian press, Victorian politics, cosmopolitanism, and immigration in late nineteenth-century London. It resolutely convinces readers that the foreign political press is a fully fledged part of the British press. * History: Reviews of New Books *[The] potential benefits of this work for any number of audiences are myriad. Its chapters can easily be incorporated into numerous college courses on journalism, anticolonial or revolutionary studies, or the history of nineteenth-century radicalism, to name a few … Bantman’s and da Silva’s volume will likely, and certainly should, stand as a model contribution for the discipline. * JHistory *[A] fascinating book ... Ultimately, the reader is impressed with the volume’s overall sense of topicality, not only, as Bantman suggests, concerning London and multiculturalism, nor with the wider concept of transnational print culture, but with a more radical questioning of the role and responsibility of the press in the development of extremist international politics. * Journal of European Periodical Studies *Provides a wide and viable foundation for future research, thereby fulfilling its stated goals by delivering a valuable collection of studies. * Anarchist Studies *This is an important contribution to print history as well as transnational and migration studies. Its perceptive and revelatory essays break new ground, opening up areas of press activity hitherto downplayed, ignored or unknown. While authoritative, the volume will no doubt inspire a great deal more work in this area. This is a significant book that deserves to be widely read. * Andrew King, Professor of English Literature and Literary Studies, University of Greenwich, UK *This is an invaluable, scholarly, and original book. By exploring the work of many European, Russian, and Indian activists and journalists who were based in London and published newspapers there during the long 19th century, the contributors cast light on the politics of exile and empire, the shifting meanings of liberalism and protest, the uses of print and language, and the transmission of information across national and continental boundaries. * Linda Colley, Shelby M.C.Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University, USA *A highly significant contribution to the field of Victorian periodical studies. Through case-studies, the contributors present a thorough analysis of the print cultures of many foreign national groups in 19th-century London. This is the first endeavour to consider the foreign political press in Britain globally, and it is set to encourage fruitful discussions and enrich the historiography of the transnational press. * Stéphanie Prévost, Senior Lecturer in 19th-Century British History, Paris Diderot University, France *A solid collection that provides the reader with a detailed geography of the Victorian London publishing world and sheds some light on aspects hitherto neglected. * European Review of History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: The Foreign Political Press in Nineteenth-Century London: Local and Transnational Contexts, Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 1: Newsprint Nations: Spanish American Publishing in London, 1808-1827, Karen Racine (University of Guelph, Canada) Chapter 2: Cultural Identity and Political Dissidence in the Spanish Periodicals in London, Daniel Munoz-Sempere (King's College London, UK) Chapter 3: Hipólito da Costa, o Correio Braziliense and the Dissemination of the Enlightenment in Brazil, Isabel Lustosa (Casa de Rui Barbosa, Rio de Janiero) and Ana Cláudia Suriani da Silva (University College London, UK) Chapter 4: The Press as a Reflection of the Divisions among the Portuguese Political Exiles (1808-1832), Daniel Alves (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) and Paulo Jorge Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Chapter 5: From Republicanism to Anarchism: 50 Years of French Exilic Newspaper Publishing, Thomas C. Jones, University of Buckingham, UK) and Constance Bantman (University of Surrey, UK) Chapter 6: The Italian Anarchist Press in London: A Lens for Investigating a Transnational Movement, Pietro Di Paola (University of Lincoln, UK) Chapter 7: Political Contestation and Internal Strife: Socialist and Anarchist German Newspapers in London, 1878–1910, Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 8: News of the Struggle: the Russian Political Press in London 1853-1921, Charlotte Alston (Northumbria University, UK) Chapter 9 : The Indian Nationalist Press in London, 1865-1914, Ole Birk Laursen (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) Appendix: Biographies of Journalists Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDespite recent research, the 19th-century history of domestic service in empire and its wider implications is underexplored. This book sheds new light on servants and their masters in the British Empire, and in doing so offers new discourses on the colonial home, imperial society identities and colonial culture. Using a wide range of source material, from private papers to newspaper articles, official papers and court records, Dussart explores the strategic nature of the relationship, the connection between imperialism, domesticity and a master/servant paradigm that was deployed in different ways by varied actors often neglected in the historical record. Positioned outside the family but inside the private place of the home, the domestic servant' was often the foil against which 19th-century contemporaries worked out class, race and gender identities across metropole and colony, creating those places in the process. The role of domestic servants in empire thus lay not only in the labouTrade ReviewFae Dussart’s powerful analysis of master/mistress- servant relationships in the British Empire is essential for understanding the intimacy of colonialism’s racial hierarchies. Dussart shows us how the terms of domestic service were conditioned through a conversation between Britain and India, and how those terms shaped Empire as a vehicle of white supremacy. * Alan Lester, Professor of Historical Geography, University of Sussex, UK *In the Service of Empire is a nuanced, sensitive and elucidating analysis of domestic service in the British Empire. Putting India and Britain into the same analytic frame, Dussart skilfully draws out the overriding structures of service and specificities of regional difference in her work, richly demonstrating the prevailing power of race, gender and class in the making of the imperial world. * Dr Esme Cleall, Lecturer in the History of the British Empire, University of Sheffield, UK *Dussart's monograph is an excellent contribution to a growing field and adds to the increasingly sophisticated literature of feminist history. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking Mastery, Thinking Servanthood 1. The Structure of Domestic Service in Nineteenth Century Britain 2. Domestic Service and the Colonial Home in India 3. Intimate Knowledge and the Private Servant/Employer Relationship in Britain 4. Colonising the Private Sphere: The Making of a Home from 'Home' in Colonial India 5. Violence, Domestic Authority and the Politics of Imperial Governance 6. Servants Resistance to Mastery in the Imperial Metropole 7. Servant Agency in Colonial Households Conclusion

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Book SynopsisTracing the evolving nature of popular and official beliefs about the purported nature of the Jews from the 18th century onwards, Russia and the Jewish Question explores how perceptions of Jews in late Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union shaped the regimes' policies toward them. In so doing Robert Weinberg provides a fruitful lens through which to investigate the social, economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Russia. Here, Weinberg reveals that the Jewish Question' and, by extension anti-Semitism emerged at the end of the 18th century when the partitions of Poland made hundreds of thousands of Jews subjects of the Russian crown. He skillfully argues the phrase itself implies the singular nature of Jews as a group of people whose religion, culture, and occupational make-up prevent them from fitting into predominantly Christian societies. The book then expounds how other characteristics were associated with the group over time: in particular, debateTable of ContentsList of Illustations 1. Defining the Jewish Question in the Modern World 2. The Jewish Question in the Nineteenth Century 3. Pogroms, Politics, and Revolution 4. Communism and the Jewish Question 5. The Jewish Question in the Post-Soviet World Index

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Book SynopsisDepicting one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, The Battle of Maldon immortalises the bloody fight that took place along the banks of the tidal river Blackwater in 991, poignantly expressing the lore and language of a determined nation faced with the advance of a ruthless and relentless enemy. But, as Mark Atherton reveals, The Battle of Maldon is more than a heroic tale designed to inspire courage and unity in a time of crisis: rather, it celebrates ideals of loyalty and friendship and commemorates an event which changed the face of English culture. Using Atherton's own vivid and illuminating translations from Old English, The Battle of Maldon: War and Peace in Tenth-Century England evokes the chaotic ebb and flow of the battle while also placing Maldon' in the context of its age. Seeking to reconstruct the way of life, the spirituality and the worldview of the original audience, Atherton examines how and why the poem encouraged its readers to reTrade ReviewIn this fascinating and highly readable book, Mark Atherton discusses ‘The Battle of Maldon’, one of the most famous of all poems to survive from early medieval England, providing an insightful analysis of its Old English text, and situating it in its proper late tenth-century historical and literary context. An extremely informative and engaging contribution. * David Woodman, Senior Tutor and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, UK *A work of devoted scholarship and a treasure trove for research into the history and literature of the Anglo-Saxons, Atherton offers a model of how to read a single poem with reference to its exact language as well as to the fine grain of topography, social history, religious observance, and related matters from falconry to friendship. This book should be welcomed by students and specialists alike. * John D. Niles, Professor Emeritus of Humanities, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA *This book has transformed my understanding of a poem I’ve been teaching for years. It is essential new reading for specialists and students of Old English literature, yet it is also written to appeal to any reader with an interest in English history, language, and landscape. I’ll be adding it to my syllabus and also recommending it to family and friends. * Hannah M. Bailey, Lecturer in English Literature and Language, University of Oxford, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. Approaches to The Battle of Maldon 1. The Grounds of Maldon 2. Horse and Hawk 3. Hearth and Home 4. 'Here stands an earl' 5. 'Blessed is the man': Byrhtnoth's Prayer 6. 'From a great kindred in Mercia' 7. Feud and Friendship 8. The Battle of the Holme 9. Beowulf and Maldon Part II. After the Battle 10. 'And so to Maldon': The Account of the Battle in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 11. Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Life of St Oswald 12. Memories of a Golden Age: 'Maldon' in The Book of Ely Appendix 1. The Battle of Maldon: Text and Translation Appendix 2. 'The Battle of the Holme': Text and Translation Appendix 3. The Case of Æthelric of Bocking: Text and Translation Appendix 4. The Will of Leofwine: Text and Translation Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how American sports, especially basketball, baseball and American football, have projected the US into the world, and brought the world into America. Taking a chronological approach it traces the development of American sports from the turn of the 20th century, highlighting how international forces such as immigration, geopolitics and war have influenced the trajectory of sport in the US, and thus the American experience. DuBois also considers the globalization of American sport and how this soft power shaped international relations throughout the American century. Addressing key questions about the role of sport in the rise of the United States, it frames themes that have come to define sports history; gender, race, economics and politics. It argues that while sport has not necessarily been a catalyst for change, it has often mirrored social issues, and sometimes served as an important tool of progress. Synthesizing major works alongside primary sources, the chapterTable of ContentsDedication List of Illustrations Part I: The Huddled Masses Immigration And The Emergence Of Modern Sport in America Basketball and Urban Space Jack Johnson and the Global Business of Boxing American Football, Collegiate Athletics, and the Amateur Sport Movement America and the Modern Olympic Movement Pierre de Coubertin and the 1896 Revival of the Olympic Games The 1900 Olympic Games in Paris The 1904 Games and the St. Louis World’s Fair Olympic Fatigue, European Rivalry and the 1908 London Games Melting Pot Athletes and the 1912 Stockholm Games Baseball and American Empire Foreigners to Fans Cannons in the Outfield Baseball’s World Tours Conjuring the National Pastime Notes Athlete Spotlight #1: Jim Thorpe Part II: In Service of the State The Growing Business of Baseball Babe Ruth and the New Sport Media The Negro Leagues and Baseball’s Continued Growth Abroad Professionalization in Other Corners of US Sport Professional Football, Hockey, and Basketball in Interwar America Re-Professionalizing Boxing in the Nativist Twenties and Thirties The Olympics and War Olympic Growth in the Twenties and Thirties Hitler, Jesse Owens, and the 1936 Berlin Olympics US Sport in World War II Notes Athlete Spotlight #2: Babe Didrikson Zaharias Part III: The Dawn of the Activist Athlete Post-War Professional Sport in America The NFL Sets the Edge The Making of the NBA Jackie Robinson, the Black Press, and Baseball’s Integration after World War II Sport Diplomacy and the Cold War The Harlem Globetrotters and Cold War Civil Rights Wilma Rudolph, Femininity, and the Cold War Bill Russell and the Transnational Power of Sport Muhammad Ali v The United States Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London is well known. Much has been written about the later history of this megalopolis which, like a seductive dark star, has drawn incomers perpetually into its orbit. Yet, as Rory Naismith reveals in his zesty evocation of the nascent medieval city much less has been said about how close it came to earlier obliteration. Following the collapse of Roman civilization in fifth-century Britannia, darkness fell over the former province. Villas crumbled to ruin; vital commodities became scarce; cities decayed; and Londinium, the capital, was all but abandoned. Yet despite its demise as a liTrade ReviewExcellent history… Among the most fascinating aspects of this work are Naismith’s careful and cogent explanations on the interpretation of findings and artifacts. * CHOICE *Naismith’s service to old London is heroic. In carefully sorting and untangling its post-Roman rebirth he allows a crucial phase in its long life to take its rightful place in the annals of the great and monstrous city. * The Spectator *Impeccably researched, engagingly written and handsomely presented ... this is a timely reminder that the prominence of London was historically contingent rather than inevitable. * BBC History Magazine *With his deft use of archaeology, the tenuous literary sources and numismatic evidence ... Naismith manages to weave together a very effective account of London’s political and economic development. * Literary Review *Written with an evocative turn of phrase and a sharp eye for interesting detail, Citadel of the Saxons is packed full of information, and impressive in its scope. * Current Archaeology *An essential, impressively informative, and core addition to personal reading lists, as well as community, college, and university library Medieval Studies collections, "Citadel of the Saxons" is a non-fiction history that reads as smoothly as the most well crafted novel. * Library Bookwatch *[The book] give[s] us a strong sense of the richness of early medieval urbanism. * Early Medieval Europe *'Citadel of the Saxons is the first comprehensive treatment of Anglo- Saxon London. Rory Naismith ranges widely across archaeology, coinage and written sources – showing an impressive command of multiple sub-disciplines in the process – to piece together a fresh picture of the early medieval metropolis. Engagingly written yet authoritative, this is everything a history book should be!' -- Levi Roach, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History, University of Exeter, author of Æthelred: The Unready‘No one can know yet to what degree Brexit will affect the fortunes of England’s capital. But Rory Naismith’s riveting history of Anglo-Saxon London is a reminder of how – despite all that the city suffered during its first millennium, and the rivalries with which it had to contend – it survived such that possession of it emerged as the key to power during the Norman Conquest. Sacked by Boudicca in the first century, deserted by the Romans in the fifth, economically outdone by Ipswich in the seventh, and overshadowed both by the metropolitan status of Canterbury and York and by the royal glamour King Alfred and his successors bestowed on Winchester, London nonetheless emerged in 1066 as the place where Duke William needed to be accepted and where it was essential for him to stage his coronation. The strength of Rory Naismith’s narrative derives from his mastery of the disparate sources needed to understand London’s developing success. The author’s deep knowledge of the complexities of Anglo-Saxon coinage is matched in this book by an acute sense of the importance of the recent archaeological discoveries that have revealed how the city took shape within, and beyond, and then again within its ancient Roman walls. Anyone who loves London – that “place of the overflowing river” (which is probably the ancient meaning of its name) – will want to buy this superb book.’ -- Henrietta Leyser, Emeritus Fellow and Former Lecturer in History, St Peter’s College, Oxford, author of A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons and of Beda: A Journey Through the Seven Kingdoms in the Age of Bede‘Rory Naismith in his new book displays remarkable control of an extraordinarily diverse range of evidence and constructs a narrative with many unfamiliar details and dimensions. His story begins in Roman Britain, and extends here to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. By virtue of its position on the river Thames, and at the hub of a network of roads, London continued to prosper throughout the Anglo-Saxon period. It was always, the author shows, at the centre of events and was renowned too as a significant centre of commerce. From the foundation of St Paul’s to the building of Westminster Abbey, Dr Naismith ably and authoritatively guides the reader through all the city’s twists and turns, while at the same time bringing to life a rich supporting cast of Mercians and West Saxons, English and Danes. This is an original and compelling account of early London.’ -- Simon Keynes, Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of CambridgeTable of ContentsPreface List of Maps and Figures Abbreviations Timeline Introduction 1. Roman London and its End: First to Fifth Centuries AD 2. Among the Ruins: Post-Roman London 3. London between Kingdoms: c.600–800 4. Lundenwic: 'An Emporium for Many Nations' 5. Alfred the Great and the Vikings 6. London in the Tenth Century: c.900–75 7. Late Anglo-Saxon London 8. London in 1066: The Battle of Hastings and After Notes Select Bibliography Where to See Anglo-Saxon London Index

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Book SynopsisThis major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original ''Opium War''. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to ''Mother China'', the most powerful Communist state in the world.

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Book SynopsisUnder the Swastika in Nazi Germany begins in flames in 1933 with Adolf Hitler taking power and ends in the ashes of total defeat in 1945. Kristin Semmens tells that story from five different perspectives over five chronologically distinct phases in the Third Reich's lifespan. The book offers a much-needed integrated history of insiders and outsiders Nazis, accomplices, supporters, racial and social outsiders and resisters that captures the complexity of Germans' lives under Hitler. Incorporating recent research and the voices of those who often remain silent in histories of this period, Under the Swastika in Nazi Germany delivers an up to date, engaging and accessible introduction. Its narrative is further supported by well-chosen images, some familiar and others rarely seen. By revealing the potent combination of coercion and consent at work during the dictatorship, the book allows a deeper understanding of Nazi Germany and provides a vital platform for further inquiryTrade ReviewWide-ranging, clearly written, well structured and conceptually innovative, Kristin Semmens' survey of life and death in Nazi Germany is a masterpiece of compression, comprehensive in its coverage and taking in the most recent research. I can think of no better introduction to the subject. * Sir Richard J Evans, Regius Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cambridge, UK *Kristin Semmens deepens our understanding of the remarkably varied German responses to Nazi violence and expansionism. * Shelley Baranowski, Distinguished Professor of History Emerita, University of Akron, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Series Editors’ Preface Preface Acknowledgements Glossary of Abbreviations and Terms Introduction: The Nazi Rise to Power 1 Beginnings (1933–1935) 2 The ‘Good Old Days’ (1936–1937) 3 Victory and Persecution (1938–1940) 4 Descent (1941–1943) 5 The End (1944–1945) Conclusion: Coming to Terms with Nazi Germany Notes Selected Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisFocusing on examples from medieval theatre, women's suffrage campaigns, and the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, this is the first book to offer a critical overview of pageant as a dramatic form. By enacting highly selective historical episodes, pageants manipulate audiences' sense of the past. Through iconic music, affecting images, and vernacular forms, pageants express and, in turn, shape religious, civic, or political allegiances. Freely appropriating elements of history plays, patriotic celebrations, opera, and film, pageants create spectacles of sensory overload. Impressive recent scholarship recognizes pageants as public history, but this is the first authoritative account of the origins, characteristics, and techniques of pageants as a theatrical idiom. Performed in sporting arenas, the open air, or purpose-built theatres, these paratheatrical events express identity through what Erika Fischer-Lichte calls the re-theatricalization of theatre. Pageants are intimately connected wTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Introduction: Ritual and religious origins of pageants Chapter 1: Pageants in the Middle Ages Chapter 2: Pageants and Power in the Twentieth Century Chapter 3: Pageants and the the Invention of Tradition Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSociety has long been fascinated with the freakish, shocking and strange. In this book Gary Cross shows how freakish elements have been embedded in modern popular culture over the course of the 20th century despite the evident disenchantment with this once widespread cultural outlet. Exploring how the spectacle of freakishness conflicted with genteel culture, he shows how the condemnation of the freak show by middle-class America led to a transformation and merging of genteel and freak culture through the cute, the camp and the creepy. Though the carnival and circus freak was marginalised by the 1960s and had largely disappeared by the 1980s, forms of freakish culture survived and today appear in reality TV, horror movies, dark comedies and the popularity of tattoos. Freak Show Legacies will focus less on the individual freak' as the other' in society, and more on the audience for the freakish and the transformation of wonder, sensibility and sensitivity that this phenomenon entTrade ReviewGary Cross makes some intriguing and troubling connections between an earlier fascination in American culture, and contemporary blind spots. An imaginative use of historical perspective. * Peter N. Stearns, Provost Emeritus and University Professor, George Mason University, USA. *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Carnival Culture and the Challenge of Gentility in the Early 20th Century 2. Marginalizing the Freak 3. Domesticated Freaks: Varieties of the Cute and the Wondrous Childhood 4. Countercultures of the Freakishly Camp 5. The Dark Side of the Freak Returns 6. Modern Pop Culture: Conventionality in Counterculture

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Book SynopsisThe American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world''s first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists'' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something of a mythic character. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere''s ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; and from the American travails of Bunker Hill (1775) to the final humiliation of the British at Yorktown (1781), the entire contest is now emblematic of American national identity. Stephen Conway shows that, beyond mythology, this was more than just a local conflict: rather a titanic struggle between France and Britain. The Thirteen Colonies were merely one frontline of an extended theatre of operations, with each superpower aiming to deliver the knockout blow. This bold new history recognizes the war as the Revolution but situates it on the wider, global canvas of European warfare.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Dramatis Personae Timeline 1. The Long Road to Lexington 2. The War for America 3. The World War 4. Civilians 5. Endings and Explanations 6. Epilogue Notes Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisPublished in the Bloomsbury Revelations series and featuring a new preface by the author, this classic biography by acclaimed historian Richard Overy takes the reader on a chilling journey into the heart of Hitler''s inner circle.Hermann Goering was Hitler''s most loyal supporter, his designated successor and the second most powerful man in the Third Reich. One of the main architects of the Nazi regime, he was also instrumental in the creation of the Gestapo and directly ordered the Final Solution. But who was the man behind the carefully-constructed mask? Self-indulgent and ruthless, sybaritic and brutal, egotistical yet capable of self-effacement, weak-willed yet fiercely calculating, Goering was a contradictory, complex and often bufoonish character. He styled himself as the ''Iron Man'' but was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits. A brilliant World War I fighter pilot, military leader and mercurial Luftwaffe commander, he also loved the opera and took aTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the 2012 Edition 1. The 'Iron Man' 2. Building the Goering Empire 3. Goering and the German Economy 4. Goering and Hitler's War 5. Building the Nazi Empire 6. The Era of Egotism and Incompetence 7. The Failure of the Luftwaffe 8. The Decline of the Goering Empire 9. Goering and the Politics of the Third Reich Notes Bibliography and Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn 1940, Daily Telegraph correspondent Henry Buckley published his eyewitness account of his experiences reporting form the Spanish Civil War. The copies of the book, stored in a warehouse in London, were destroyed during the Blitz and only a handful of copies of his unique chronicle were saved. Now, eighty years after its first publication, this exceptional eyewitness account of the war is republished with a new introduction by acclaimed scholar Paul Preston.The Life and Death of the Spanish Republic is a unique account of Spanish politics throughout the Second Republic, from its foundation of 14 April 1931 to its defeat at the end of March 1939. It combines personal recollections of meetings with the great politicians of the day and intimate accounts of dramatic events with a deep understanding of Spain its people, politics and culture. Providing a fascinating portrait of a crucial decade of contemporary Spanish history and based on an abundance of the witneTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Humane Observer: Henry Buckley, Paul Preston (London School of Economics, UK) Foreword 1. The Spain I Found 2. Death of a Dictator 3. Jaca: A Successful Failure 4. Curtain to a Régime 5. A Republic is Born 6. The King’s Record 7. Trouble in the Republic 8. Words – not Deeds 9. A Middle-Class Republic 10. August Fireworks 11. Bad Days for the Republic 12. Vatican Policy in Spain 13. Lerroux in Charge 14. Semana Santa 15. Juan March 16. The Storm-Clouds Gather 17. To Save the Republic 18. No Dictatorship 19. The Republic Marks Times 20. Azaña has the Answer 21. Victory 22. Adrift After Victory 23. Personal Reactions 24. The Explosion 25. Off to the Front 26. Moors in Castile 27. Franco Advances from the South 28. Toledo in Peace and War 29. The Telephone Building 30. Madrid is Saved 31. A Count in Gaol 32. Attempts to Surround Madrid 33. The Battle of Guadalajara 34. New Tactics 35. Coronation Interlude 36. Admiral Raeder Shells Almeria 37. In Caux-sur-Montreux 38. Prieto as War Minister 39. Teruel for the Republic 40. Franco wins the Battle of Aragon 41. Enrique Lister 42. On Valencia, Journalism and Other Matters 43. The Toll of Human Suffering 44. Dr Juan Negrin 45. A Closed Frontier and a Crumbling Front 46. Parliament in a Dungeon 47. The End of a Republic Index

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Book SynopsisThe decisive role of Britain's wartime newspaper journalism in shaping public opinion and government policy has been majorly overlooked. Much of the existing historiography has framed Britain's newspapers as mouthpieces of state propaganda, readily conforming to the wishes of the wartime coalition. Tim Luckhurst challenges this through an analysis of illuminating and largely forgotten controversies which underscore the function the press held as guardians of democracy and propagators of dissenting opinion in British politics and society - from the overseas evacuation of children to the Allies' carpet bombing of German cities.Reporting the Second World War is a timely and important intervention that duly recognises the place of national, regional and specialist titles in speaking truth to power in a democracy at war.Trade ReviewTim Luckhurst’s magisterial Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-1945 does two things: It provides a scholarly, deeply-researched account of how British journalists reported the Second World War, and, in doing so, it shines a light on the practices of journalism. That a history book should succeed in doing both things is a mighty achievement. * Journalism *Reporting the Second World War is a book which makes you feel good and proud to be a journalist and leaves you with the feeling that the history of journalism itself can be written with so much more optimism, truth and inspiration. * The Journal: Magazine of the Chartered Institute of Journalists *One of the very best journalism history books ever written. Outstanding research into the story of the Second World War through a critical, inspirational and brilliant study of the newspaper reporting by courageous British journalists still holding power to account while fighting to protect their country's democracy and freedoms. * Tim Crook, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *Tim Luckhurst is that rare creature, a Professor of Journalism who actually believes in a free press. He charts with brilliant clarity how, after abdication and appeasement, it was the radical and irreverent tabloids, led by the Mirror, which reminded ordinary Britons that freedom means a press which serves its readers, not their rulers. * Peter Wright, Editor Emeritus, Daily Mail Group Media, UK *An engrossing critical history of journalism through one of the most profound periods of the 20th Century. Addressing contentious issues of the time, Tim Luckhurst provides original insight and compelling evidence into how our wartime newspapers shaped readers' opinions and challenged government. * Robert Lynes, Professor, CMG. Stephenson College, Durham University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. A Very Brief History of Newspapers 3. The Press Barons, the Abdication of Edward VIII and the Era of Appeasement 4. Newspapers in the Phoney War 5. Churchill, Norway and Dunkirk 6. Overseas Evacuation 7. Battle of Britain 8. The Blitz 9. Morale, Intimidation and Censorship 10. Britain and Russia: ‘One Touch of Hitler Makes the Whole World Kin’ 11. Banishing Want from Cradle to Grave: A Symbol of a New Britain 12. Peculiar Problems: Reporting the American Presence 13. 'Bomb Back and Bomb Hard': Allied Bombing of Germany 14. Auschwitz, Belsen and Buchenwald 15. ‘What a hair-trigger business the world has become’:Victory in Europe, a General Election, Atomic Bombs and VJ Day Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kremlin has been giving preference to a Soviet-lite nostalgia that denounces the 1917 Bolshevik revolution but celebrates the birth of a powerful Soviet Union able to bring the country to the forefront of the international scene after the victory in World War II. Yet in parallel, another historical narrative has gradually consolidated on the Russian public scene, one that favours the opposite camp, namely the White movement and the pro-tsarist groups defeated in the early 1920s. This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of this White Revenge', looking at the different actors who promote a White and pro-Romanov rehabilitation agenda in the political, ideological and cultural arenas and what this historical agenda might mean for Russia, both today and tomorrow.Trade ReviewEngaging with cutting-edge social theory and illustrating [the book's] arguments with examples from Hungary and Lithuania. * The Russian Review *Memory Politics succeeds in being both accessible and authoritative: it can be read with interest by specialists and by advanced undergraduates. It traces the political debates during the Soviet, Yeltsin, and Putin eras around the legacy of the “Whites,” who defended Tsarism during the Russian Civil War (1918–21). * CHOICE *The book is very compact and provides a lively and informative overview of memory politics in contemporary Russia, focusing mostly on the period between the late 1980s and 2017. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *What an enlightening and compelling book! Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War proffers a compelling and uniquely rich tapestry of politicized memory that WEAVES together past and present, secular and religious, left and right, in a mix of vibrant narratives that continue to inform the ideological struggle for the “Russian soul” driving the Russian body politic under Putin. * Nina Tumarkin, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Harvard University, USA *Powerful, rich and timely book exploring the collective memory (and political uses and abuses thereof) of one of the most conflicted pages in Russian history – Russian civil war. Laruelle and Karnysheva give us one more key to understanding contemporary Russian identity through the lens of Russia's uneasy relations with its own past. * Elena Morenkova Perrier, Independent Scholar, France *Laruelle and Karnysheva’s study of the reception of the White movement in Russia today is a timely and important contribution on post-Soviet memory politics. In exploring inter-connected and sometimes competing varieties of ‘memory activism’ amongst both state and non-state actors, the authors highlight significant debates concerning conservatism, nationalism and Russian identity. * George Gilbert, Lecturer in Modern Russian History, University of Southampton, UK *This book is much broader than the title suggests. Through the prism of debates over the rehabilitation of major figures once vilified by the Soviet regime, it provides a handy guide and introduction to the knotty problem of defining Russian patriotism today. Compact and lively, it will be of interest to anyone interested in contemporary Russia and will make an excellent text for the classroom. * Eric Lohr, Professor and Carmel Chair of Russian History and Culture History, American University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Images Introduction 1. White Historical Romanticism in Soviet Culture and Politics 2. Rehabilitation: Judicial, Cultural, Symbolic? 3. The Church’s Conquest of the Memory Market 4. White Thinkers: What Room in the Regime’s Ideology? 5. Cultural Reverberations of the White Past Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisHelen L. Parish is Professor of History at the University of Reading. Her previous books include Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe: A Reader (Bloomsbury, 2015), Monks, Miracles and Magic: Reformation Representations of the Medieval Church (2005) and Clerical Marriage and the English Reformation: Precedent, Policy and Practice (2000).

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Book SynopsisThis timely book explores immigration into the United States and the effect it has had on national identity, domestic politics and foreign relations from the 1920s to 2006. Comparing the immigration experiences of Chinese, Japanese, Mexicans, Cubans, Central Americans and Vietnamese, this book highlights how the US viewed each group throughout the American century, the various factors that have shaped US immigration, and the ways in which these debates influenced relations with the wider world. Using a comparative approach, Montoya offers an insight into the themes that have surrounded immigration, its role in forming a national identity and the ways in which changing historical contexts have shaped and re-shaped conversations about immigrants in the United States. This account helps us better understand the implications and importance of immigration throughout the American century, and informs present-day debates surrounding the issue.Trade ReviewIf a historian’s job is to challenge established narratives, then Benjamin Montoya has certainly delivered. This work offers a groundbreaking reinterpretation of US immigration policies, skillfully weaving together domestic elements—from legislation to citizenship—and the longstanding racial biases in immigration with the intricate dynamics of international relations. The outcome is a compelling and fresh perspective on the making of the USA into “a nation of immigrants.” This book deepens our understanding of a pivotal aspect of US society - and politics. It merits a broad readership on both sides of the Atlantic. * Christoph Rass, Professor of Modern History and Historical Migration Research, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies, Osnabrueck University, Germany *In this thoughtful, analytical, and humane new book, Benjamin Montoya demonstrates how U.S. foreign policy decisions have shaped the migration choices of millions—and vice versa. Drawing on case studies of European, Asian, and Latin American migrants, and spanning more than two centuries of history, this book offers a valuable overview for students and fresh insights for scholars. * Christopher Capozzola, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Part I–Laws and Systems 1. A synthesis of U.S. juridical immigration law, 1780s-2010s 2. A synthesis of U.S. congressional immigration restriction, 1880s to 2000s 3. A synthesis of the parallel developments of the international and the U.S. refugee resettlement regimes, 1921-1980 Part II–Case Studies 4. Japanese, 1900s-1920s 5. Mexicans, 1920s 6. Jews, 1930s-1940s 7. Chinese, 1930s-1950s 8. Vietnamese, 1970s 9. Cubans, 1960s-1980 10. Central Americans, 1980s-1990s 11. Mexicans, 1980s-2000s Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, acclaimed historian David Brewer investigates explores 1940s Greece -- one of the most tumultuous decades in Greece''s modern history. Beginning in 1941, the occupation of Greece by Germany was intensely brutal: children starved on the streets of Athens; the Jewish population was decimated in the Holocaust; heroic acts of resistance were met with vicious reprisals. When Greece was finally freed from Nazi rule in 1944, the fractured and embittered nation became engulfed in civil war, as conflict flared between the British and American-sponsored government and communist-led rebels. In Greece, The Decade of War, Brewer expertly analyses these events and in doing so provides a compelling military and political history.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue 1. The Albanian Gateway to Greece 2. Mussolini's War on Greece 3. The German Invasion 4. The Battle for Crete 5. The Occupation Begins 6. Hyperinflation and Starvation 7. The Emergence of the Communists 8. Early Resistance 9. SOE, the Andartes and Gorgopotamos 10. Village and City 11. The Destruction of the Jews 12. The Fractured Resistance 13. The Question of the King 14. The Cairo Conference, August 1943 15. The Italian Armistice and the First Communist Offensive 16. The Resistance in Crete 17. Upheaval in the Greek Government 18. Liberation 19. Towards Sunday December 3rd 1944 20. The Battle for Athens 21. Dhamaskinos, Churchill and the Varkiza Agreement 22. The Government, the Communists and the Elections 23. The Truman Doctrine 24. 1947 – Civil War and American Involvement 25. Terror from Left and Right 26. The Plight of the Greek Children 27. The Marshall Plan 28. The Ending of the Civil War Epilogue Chronology Notes Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisEdward L Shaughnessy is Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, USA.Trade ReviewThe author’s review of archaeological finds and foundational texts, combined with the zestiness of Chinese accounts of heroes and villains and valuable topical essays on things like Music, Law and Bronzes makes for a fresh and fun-to-read survey of Early China that succeeds in capturing the flavor of Chinese historical sensibilities. * Gregory Rohlf, Professor, University of the Pacific, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Preface Basic Annals 1. Basic Annals of Yao and Shun 2. Basic Annals of Xia 3. Basic Annals of Shang 4. Basic Annals of Zhou 5. Basic Annals of Qin Maps and Tables 6. Topographical Map of China 7. Map of Yu the Great’s Nine Regions 8. Maps of the Shang,Western Zhou, Springs and Autumns and Warring States Periods 9. Map of Major Archaeological Sites of Ancient China 10. Genealogies and Chronologies of Rulers of Xia, Shang and Western Zhou 11. Chronologies of Rulers of Major States of the Springs and Autumns Period 12. Chronologies of Rulers of Major States of the Warring States Period 13. Table of Historically Important Non-Rulers in Ancient China Essays 14. Essay on the Heavens 15. Essay on the Earth 16. Essay on Ritual 17. Essay on Warfare 18. Essay on Government 19. Essay on Law 20. Essay on Music 21. Essay on Bronze 22. Essay on Writing 23. Essay on Literature Hereditary Houses 24. Hereditary House of Lu 25. Hereditary House of Yan 26. Hereditary House of Qi 27. Hereditary House of Jin 28. Hereditary House of Wei 29. Hereditary House of Zhao 30. Hereditary House of Han 31. Hereditary House of Chu 32. Hereditary House of Zeng 33. Hereditary Houses of Wu and Yue 34. Hereditary Houses of the Eastern Peoples 35. Hereditary Houses of the Western Peoples Biographies 36. Biographies of Yi Yin and Fu Yue 37. Biography of Fu Hao 38. Biographies of Luzi Sheng and the Three Humane Men of Shang 39. Biography of Moufu, Duke of Zhai 40. Biography of Supervisor of the Horse Lu, the Elder of Jing 41. Biographies of Yin Jifu 42. Biography of Bao Si 43. Biographies of Li Ji and Mu Jiang 44. Biography of Ding Jiang 45. Biography of Maestro Kuang 46. Biography of Zi Chan 47. Biography of Wu Zixu 48. Biography of Confucius 49. Biographies of Confucius’s Disciples 50. Biographies of Mencius and Xunzi 51. Biographies of Laozi and Zhuangzi 52. Biographies of Sun Wu and Sun Bin 53. Biography of Shang Yang 54. Biography of Shao Tuo 55. Biography of Bian Que 56. Biographies of Qu Yuan and Song Xing 57. Biography of Xi 58. Biographies of Han Fei and Li Si 59. Biographies of Chen She and Wu Guang 60. Author’s Postface

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Book SynopsisCombining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history. Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the beginnings of modern England through the momentous break with Rome in a comprehensive yet balanced way. Close attention is also paid to the dismantling of the baronial system and centralisation of secular power, as well as an exploration of the break with Rome, the two pillars on which the author's argument will rest. The book is organised chronologically and divided up into time periods, making it the ultimate companion for anyone keen to delve into the history of Britain's most notorious dynasty. The famous and infamous key players in the Tudor age have long endured in text books and are, brought to life here by Rex. Lively portraits of John Fisher, Thomas Moore and Thomas Wolse

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Book SynopsisThe first study of how migrants view their own history and how migrant history is viewed by British society, this book addresses themes of vital importance to contemporary history, and covers every aspect of the migrant experience. Who are the migrants that have flocked to Britain since the nineteenth century? How do they understand their experiences? Histories and Memories is the first work of its kind to examine this question from the perspective of the migrants themselves, and the way in which historians and popular culture have recognised them. In so doing, it explores a wide range of ethnic groups and experiences from racism to Britishness, self-perception and the role of memory in migrant history. This original, incisive book breaks down disciplinary and intellectual boundaries to address themes of vital importance to contemporary history.Table of ContentsList of tables – vii List of illustrations – vii Acknowledgements – ix Preface – xi Part I: Introduction: Immigration and British History -Immigration, History and Memory in Britain. Kathy Burrell and Panikos Panayi – 3 -Great Britons: Immigration, History and Memory. Tony Kushner – 18 -Historical Practice in the Age of Pluralism: Educating and Celebrating identities. Kevin Myers – 35 Part II: Histories and Narratives -Italian Immigrants in Britain: Perceptions and Self-Perceptions. Lucio Sponza – 57 -Narratives of Settlement: East Europeans in Post-War Britain. Inge Weber-Newth – 75 -The Migrant at Home in Spitalfields: Memory, Myth and Reality. Anne J. Kershen – 96 -Reinventing the Myth of Return: Older Italians in Nottingham. Deianira Ganga – 114 Part III: Memory, Metaphor and Material Culture - Migration, Memory and Metaphor: Life Stories of South Asians in Leicester. Joanna Herbert – 133 - A Journey Through the Material Geographies of Diaspora Cultures: Four Modes of Environmental Memory. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly – 149 - Hidden Objects in the World of Cultural Migrants: Significant Objects Used by European Migrants to Layer Thoughts and Memories. Caroline Attan – 171 Part IV: Irish Remembrances and Representations - Passing Time: Irish Women Remembering and Re-telling Stories of Migration to Britain. Louise Ryan – 191 - Family History and Memory in Irish Immigrant Families. John Herson – 210 - Marginal Voices: Football and Identity in a Contested Space. Joseph M. Bradley – 234 Notes and References – 253 Notes on Contributors – 299 Index - 303

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Book SynopsisPeter Fraenkel here gives a vivid account of a childhood in a middle-class, non-observant Jewish family in Nazi Germany, forced to emigrate to Zambia (then Northern Rhodesia) in 1939. Here the contrast could hardly be greater, from persecuted Jew, to ''enemy alien'' in colonial Northern Rhodesia, to re-assimilation into the privileged colonial elite. Following education in Northern and Southern Rhodesia he worked for the Northern Rhodesian and later, Central Broadcasting Service. Here his pioneering work and support for racial equality in a deeply racist society connected with his earlier life - ''no fixed abode'' but in tune with humane liberalism.Table of ContentsList of illustrations – vi Part I: Silesia – 1 1. Roots in the air – 3 2. But we were Germans – 15 3. We became Jews – 39 4. Exodus – 76 Part II: Rhodesia – 101 5. Where you die of hunger doesn’t make much of a difference, does it? – 103 6. Encountering Dimitrov and Macbeth – 130 7. Quit you like men – 142 8. Red thug? – 157 9. Becoming a bwana – 163 10. Out of the saucepan – 176 11. Vultures high and low – 200 12. Vampire men – 217 13. Searchlights in the dark – 235 14. The watch on the Rhine – 238 Index - 241

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Book SynopsisOn 7th September 1822, Dom Pedro, Prince Regent of Brazil, declared his country independent and began the war of liberation against Portugal. Based on research from original documents and journals, the book details how independence was secured against all odds by seizing command of the sea, under the leadership of Lord Cochrane, to ensure the integrity of the new Brazilian empire. Set against the background of Brazilian politics and British foreign policy interests, this is a detailed account of the operations of the Brazilian navy during the transition to independence.Table of ContentsThe politics of independence; the birth of a navy; General Brant in London; preparations in Rio; the blockade of Bahia; the pursuit; Cochrane in Maranhao; Grenfell in Para; victory; politics and prize money; the gathering storm; Taylor blockades Pernambuco; the confederation of the equator; Cochrane sails north; the parting of the ways; recognition and after; epilogue.

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Book SynopsisFor decades scholars have pored over Hitler's autobiographical journey/political treatise, debating if Mein Kampf has genocidal overtones and arguably led to the Holocaust. For the first time, Hitler's Mein Kampf and the Holocaust sees celebrated international scholars analyse the book from various angles to demonstrate how it laid the groundwork for the Shoah through Hitler's venomous attack on the Jews in his text. Split into three main sections which focus on contexts', eugenics' and religion', the book reflects carefully on the point at which the Fuhrer's actions and policies turn genocidal during the Third Reich and whether Mein Kampf presaged Nazi Germany's descent into genocide. There are contributions from leading academics from across the United States and Germany, including Magnus Brechtken, Susannah Heschel and Nathan Stoltzfus, along with totally new insights into the source material in light of the 2016 German critical edition of Mein Kampf. HiTrade ReviewWith in-depth studies of Mein Kampf as a genre (an anti-Semitic Bildungsroman), analyses of its context, esthetics, and its religious overtones, this collection of essays illuminates the most lethal and darkest of books. The close readings of Hitler's language of crusade against the enemy and of his prophetic and apocalyptic discourse show how his breviary of hate led to the Holocaust, and how rhetorical violence can become a pathway to mass murder. * Clemence Boulouque, Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor in Jewish and Israel studies, Columbia University, USA *Hitler’s Mein Kampf and the Holocaust is a very important anthology about one of the most influential books in modern world history, written by Adolf Hitler in 1923/24 during his imprisonment in the small Bavarian town of Landsberg am Lech. After its first appearance in 1925 it was destined to unfold its fatal effect as an ideological manifest of National Socialism. The anthology sheds light on key aspects of the complex history of the impact of Mein Kampf and represents a standard work on this subject. * Stefan Paulus, Research Associate in Faculty of Philology and History, Augsburg University, Germany *Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword, Timothy Ryback Introduction Part I. The Mise en scène of Mein Kampf, 1924-2016 1. Focus Landsberg: A Bavarian Town and its History Tied to Hitler, Karla Schoenebeck (Independent Scholar, Germany) 2. Mein Kampf: Part of the Right-Winged German Post-War Literature, Othmar Ploeckinger (Brandeis University, USA) 3. Mein Kampf: The Critical Edition in Historical Perspective, Magnus Brechtken (Institute of Contemporary History, Germany) Part II. Maintaining Power 4. Hitler, Leadership and The Holocaust, Paul Bookbinder (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) 5. Violence in Mein Kampf: Tactic and Political Communication, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) and Ryan Stackhouse (Independent Scholar, USA) Part III. Eugenics and Aesthetics in Mein Kampf 6. Blood, Race and the Holocaust, John J. Michalczyk (Boston College, USA) 7. Degeneracy: Attack on Modern Art and Music, Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (Boston College, USA) and Barbara S. Gawlick (Boston College, USA) Part IV. Mein Kampf and the Crusade against Germany’s ‘Enemies’ 8. The Auroras of the Final Solution: Intimations of Genocide in Mein Kampf, Michael Bryant (Bryant University, USA) 9. Pathway to the Shoah: The Protocols, ‘Jewish Bolshevism’, Rosenberg, Goebbels, Ford, and Hitler, David Crowe (Chapman University, USA) 10. Marxism: Enemy of the People in the Political Party and Military System, Melanie Murphy (Emmanuel College, USA) 11. Being Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf as Anti-Semitic Bildungsroman, Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College, USA) Part V. Religious Overtones in Mein Kampf 12. Mein Kampf: Catholic Authority and the Holocaust, Martin Menke (Rivier University, USA) 13. The Apocalypse of Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf and the Eschatological Origins of the Holocaust, David Redles (Cuyahoga Community College, USA) Part VI. Epilogue 14. Holocaust Education and (Early) Signs of the Erosion of Democracy, Tetyana Kloubert (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany) Appendices Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSingapore gained independence in 1965, a city-state in a world of nation-states. Yet its long and complex history reaches much farther back. Blending modernity and tradition, ideologies and ethnicities, a peculiar set of factors make Singapore what it is today. In this thematic study of the island nation, Michael D. Barr proposes a new approach to understand this development. From the pre-colonial period through to the modern day, he traces the idea, the politics and the geography of Singapore over five centuries of rich history. In doing so he rejects the official narrative of the so-called ''Singapore Story''. Drawing on in-depth archival work and oral histories, Singapore: A Modern History is a work both for students of the country''s history and politics, but also for any reader seeking to engage with this enigmatic and vastly successful nation.Trade ReviewThe meritocratic ideology of Singapore has begun to show signs of wear, and its elite seems incapable of regenerating itself as that of the PRC does. Lee [Kuan Yew]’s pioneer generation – the ‘Men in White’ – has given way to an ever more circumscribed stratum, a process which Michael Barr, the leading historian of modern Singapore, examines in rich detail. * London Review of Books *In this well-researched and clearly argued book, the highly respected Australian scholar Barr (Flinders Univ., Australia) challenges the entire “Singapore Story” through a thematically organized revisionist history of Singapore from its earliest times into the 21st century … Barr builds his argument on extensive archival research and mastery of secondary scholarly and popular publications, including government-issued textbooks that promulgate the official “Singapore Story.” Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Dr. Barr is a very talented writer. His intellect and more nuanced perspectives come through in this book, in which the content dives deep into Singapore’s history from a political, geographic, and economic view … If you want a very real and well-researched academic historical book, don’t miss out on this one! * Singapore Politics: Blog *‘Michael Barr does the study of Singapore a great service with this path-breaking book. He debunks the ascendant account of Singapore’s modern history to explain so much more about how and why this city-state developed as it did. Barr breaks decisively from the prevailing orthodoxy serving elite political interests to highlight struggles, forces and dynamics fundamental in shaping modern Singapore.’ * Garry Rodan, Professor of Politics and International Studies, Murdoch University *‘Michael Barr’s “Modern History” of Singapore offers a refreshingly candid counter-narrative to “The Singapore Story”. Broad, bold and brazen, Barr’s self-consciously revisionist history of Singapore breaks away from the dominant meta-narrative of the Singapore state and its elites. It offers readers a succinct, thematic (and dramatic) history of Singapore that emphasises the continuities that transcend the “Founding moment” of 1819 and situate Singapore’s growth and development within a larger regional and global framework. This is not a history for data-miners or squirrels of historical minutiae but for those who seek to better understand the land, idea and country that is Singapore.’ * Kevin YL Tan, Executive Editor, Asian Journal of Comparative Law and Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore *Barr offers insights into Singapore history that no other historian can give scholars and students. Singapore: A Modern History deserves a prominent place alongside the works of other historians who have also embarked on this most challenging task of writing a general history of Singapore. * Australian Journal of Politics and History *Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Figures Foreword by Carl A. Trocki Prologue Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary of Asian-Language Terms Timeline 1. Let's Talk About 1819: Reorienting the National Narrative 2. The Idea of Singapore 3. Singapore Central: The Role of Location in Singapore's History 4. Governance in Premodern Singapore 5. Governance in Modern Singapore, 1867–1965 6. Governance in Independent Singapore 7. The Economy: Singapore, Still at the Centre 8. Making Modern Singaporeans: People, Society and Place Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOften described as the greatest city in the world, New York is one of the iconic cities of the world. Yet much of its architecture and culture which so defines the city we know today only came into being in the 1930s, in what was perhaps the most significant decade in the city's 400 year history.Jules Stewart shows how, after the roaring twenties, the catastrophic Wall Street Crash and ensuing Depression, New York rose from the ashes and underwent an architectural, economic, social and creative renaissance under the leadership of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. After seizing power, he declared war on the mafia mobs running vast swathes of the city, attacked political corruption and kick-started the economy through a variety of construction and infrastructure projects. At the same time, a cultural revolution was underway as the jazz age and the Harlem Renaissance took hold. From the Empire State Building to the Pastrami Sandwich and the Cotton Club, Gotham Rising tells the Trade Review[This] book may not be revelatory for many New York aficionados, but its historical digressions, nuggets of forgotten footnotes and the stark contradictions in a city ascendant — but also disproportionately poor, homeless and unemployed — make for riveting reading. * The New York Times *'Gotham Rising is an insightful look at what New York was like in the 1930s. Jules Stewart takes you from the Great Depression right up to the beginning of World War II' * Manhattan Book Review *Filled with enticing details and vivid portraits of the titans who drove New York in the 1930s, Gotham Rising is a delightful romp through one of the city's most dynamic eras. Jules Stewart deftly weaves history with heroes and villains, with fascinating tales of LaGuardia, F.D.R., and Robert Moses, as well as the men who built the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center. * Eric Schmitt, Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times correspondent *"From its opening irreverent quotations from John Steinbeck and E. B. White, Jules Stewart's Gotham Rising: New York in the Thirties offers a roguish romp through a remarkable decade that in many ways still defines much about the great American metropolis...The Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemia, Tammany Hall politics, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and all the larger-than-life figures directing so much of the action it's an amazing story, well worth telling.' * Anthony W. Robins, author of New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gothams Jazz Age Architecture *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Amor Towles Acknowledgements Preface Introduction 1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 2. The Little Flower and Goliath 3. Trouble in the streets 4. ‘I Can’t Figger What Dis City is Comin’ To’ 5. All That Jazz 6. Gotham Gets a Facelift 7. The Thing about Skyscrapers 8. Seventy-Seventh Floor, Please 9. Anything You Can Do 10. You’re the Top 11. They All Laughed at Rockefeller Center 12. Village Life 13. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSubhas Chandra Bose is notorious in Britain - and famous in India - because he led the Indian National Army, which was armed by the Japanese to fight against the British in World War II. As a result, Indian studies of his part in the independence movement have tended to be hagiographic. This book takes a critical look at Bose's political role before the INA episode, when in the 1920s and 1930s he represented radical and militant nationalism with the young Jawaharlal Nehru. Subhas Chandra Bose was a prominent Bengali political leader. Twice president of the Indian National Congress, on the second occasion he was elected in preference to Gandhi's own nominee. He successfully challenged Gandhi's leadership at both the central and regional level. He provided a broad platform for all those who opposed Gandhi and Gandhism. In Bengal he succeeded for a time in securing an alliance between the communists and the Islamic Krishak Praja Party (KPP). In this book the author examines the importanTable of ContentsList of tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction. 1. Constraint and Tension in Middle-Class Leadership. 2. The Hindu-Muslim Question. 3. Ambivalence to the Working-Class Struggle 4. Bengal Provincial Congress: Operational Dilemma and Organisational Constraint Conclusion Appendix I: Biographical Sketches of Leading Political Activists Appendix II: The Composition of the BPCC, 1939179 Appendix III-14: Point Election Manifesto of the KPP, Declared in the 1936 Dacca Session Notes Glossary Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs we approach the end of the era of the witness', given the passing on of the generation of Holocaust survivors, Claude Lanzmann's archive of 220 hours of footage excluded from his ground-breaking documentary Shoah (1985) offers a remarkable opportunity to encounter previously unseen interviews with survivors and other witnesses, recorded in the late 1970s. Although the archive is all available freely to view online and includes extra footage of those who appear in Shoah, this book focuses on the interviews from which no extracts appear in the finished film or in any subsequent release. The material analysed features interviews with such significant figures as the former partisan Abba Kovner, wartime activist Hansi Brand, Kovno Ghetto leader Leib Garfunkel, rescuer Tadeusz Pankiewicz and members of Roosevelt's War Refugee Board, and focuses throughout on the efforts at rescue and resistance by those within and outside occupied Europe. Sue Vice contends that watching and Trade ReviewClaude Lanzmann’s Shoah is notorious not only for its length but for the huge quantity of its outtakes. Vice’s book not only demonstrates that the daunting outtake material demands to be viewed, but also provides a model of how to read it. -- Dominic Williams, Northumbria University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reacting to Genocide 1. Abba Kovner: ‘Like Sheep to the Slaughter’ 2. Hansi Brand: ‘Selling One’s Soul’ 3. Indirect Testimony: Rabbi Michael Weissmandl 4. Ghetto Rescue and Resistance: Tadeusz Pankiewicz, Hersh Smolar and Leib Garfunkel 5. Communal Testimony and the War Refugee Board: Peter Bergson, Roswell McClelland, John Pehle and Robert Reams 6. Leadership, Responsibility and Resistance: Yehuda Bauer, Richard Rubenstein, Ya’akov Arnon 7. Allied Responses: Henry Feingold in New York, Shmuel Zygielboim in London Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAvinoam Patt examines the relationship between two of the most significant events in modern Jewish history, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. While there may be no direct causal connection between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948, the memory of the Holocaust has been a constant presence in Israeli politics, culture, and society since even before 1948.The State of Israel has always existed in an uneasy relationship with the Shoah. On the one hand, Israel was faced with the challenge of taking in hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors as new citizens of the state, many of whom were discouraged from sharing their traumatic wartime experiences with their fellow citizens. On the other hand, the destruction of European Jewry and the failure of Western democracy to protect the Jewish minority in Europe seemed to vindicate the Zionist worldview, even as classical Zionism argued that the Jewish people deserved a state on the basis

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Book SynopsisAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. TelegraphFeaturing new insights and an additional chapter on masculinities, this updated edition of Tartan revitalizes discussions about the fabric's traditional, sentimental Highland origins and its deliberate subversion by contemporary designers. Tartan's history has made it uniquely capable of expressing both conformity and subversion, tradition and innovation. Through positioning tartan within broader philosophical, political and cultural contexts, from the tartan-clad Highland regiments and Queen Victoria's royal endorsement, to the fabric's influence on Westwood and McQueen and a generation of Japanese designers such as Watanabe and Takahashi, Jonathan Faiers traces tartan''s development from clanship to contemporary fashion and its enormous domestic and global impact.Beautifully illustrated and weaving together a story out of history, art, music, film and fashion, <Trade ReviewAn outstanding and comprehensive contribution to the history of Tartan. * Telegraph *Intriguing study ... mixes the serious with the saucy. * International Herald Tribune *A rare treat; a readable, enjoyable academic text. * Selvedge *Stunning! * Janice Forsyth, BBC Scotland *A great alternative to the numerous clan reference guides that abound in tourist traps up and down the country. * Scotsman Magazine *Comprehensive ... wonderfully eclectic. * New Humanist *This is a fascinating and thought-provoking book that is guaranteed to make the reader consider tartan from new perspectives. * Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture *Highly attractive ... fascinating ... A treasure trove of Tartan. * Military Illustrated *Faiers explores the cultural significance and surrounding connotations of tartan while conducting a comprehensive deconstruction of the fabric and its place and development throughout history from clanship to contemporary fashion. * Ali McCulloch, Precious McBane *Having read the book one becomes aware of tartan's extraordinary versatility, its possibilities as both a radical and traditional material, and the local and global contexts within which it operates. * Juliette MacDonald, Textile *This is a huge text book that would be great for anyone wanting to learn everything there is to know on the subject. * Cut Out and Keep blog *A great variety of illustrations of tartan fabrics as they appear in period portraits, fashion designers' collections, products, cartoons, stage, and film complement this thoroughly researched, annotated volume that should interest experts and general readers alike. Recommended. * CHOICE *A beautifully illustrated story ... history, art, music, film and fashion, Tartan contains everything you ever wanted to know about the most radical and traditional of fabrics. * Crafts *The book of choice for intelligent fashionistas this winter. * Selvedge *Tartan is not only for dedicated aficionados, but for everyone curious about its chequered past. Faiers unravels a wonderfully engaging and kaleidoscopic view of this high-impact Scottish cloth, and surprises us by unravelling how tartan continues to inspire and permeate contemporary visual cultures. * Alexandra Palmer, Royal Ontario Museum, Canada *This beautifully illustrated book is a fantastic resource for anyone wishing to understand Tartan's traditional and rebellious history, from its Scottish roots to its radical reinterpretation by designers including McQueen, Westwood, and Comme des Garçons. Tartan is a must-have book for any fashion or textile student. * Andrew Groves, University of Westminster, UK *Faiers offers the most in-depth exploration of tartan’s entanglements with fashion and popular culture to date, teasing out the contradictions in its multifarious iterations of clan, cause, and contention. Tartan unravels the myths but the romance remains intact. * Cynthia Cooper, McCord Museum, Canada *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Part I: Tartan and History 1. Technical Construction: Sett, Weave, Colour 2. Early Appearances 3. Fragments and Fabrication Part II: Tartan and Dress 4. Transforming Tartan 5. Regulation Tartan 6. Erogenous Zones 7. Tartan Toffs Part III: Tartan’s Embrace 8. Balmoralization 9. Tartan, the Grid and Modernity 10. Supernatural Tartan 11. Colonization 12. Tartan’s Translation 13. Tartan Undecided Tartan Timeline Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements Illustration Credits Index

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