History Books

Book SynopsisJulia Sneeringer's book provides a concise overview of developments in the Federal Republic of Germany from the end of the Second World War and Germany's division, to the unification of East and West Germany in 1990. Within the framework of key political and economic moments, it illuminates how West Germans experienced social, economic, and cultural change across four decades.Chronologically structured and supplemented with timelines, each chapter in the book presents the major themes, events and developments occurring during the period. A focused bibliography is also included to offer guidance on further reading. Among the notable topics covered are: The redefining of German identity after Nazism Democratization The explosion of consumer culture The protest movements of 1968 Changing gender and sexual roles Immigration and multiculturalism Pop culture Environmentalism

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Book SynopsisThe phenomenon of ''Cool Japan'' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using it to explore broader themes of conflict, power and meaning in Japanese history.E. Taylor Atkins shows how Japan was one of the earliest sites for the development of mass-produced, market-oriented cultural products consumed by urban middle and working classes. From traditional monochrome ink painting, court literature and poetry to anime, manga and J-Pop, popular culture was pivotal in the rise of Japanese nationalism, imperialism, militarism and economic development, and to the present day plays a central role in Japanese identity. With updated historiography throughout, this fully revised second edition features: - A new chapter on popular culture in the Edo period- An expanded sectTrade Review1st edition reviews: “[It] brings to the fore themes such as cultural power, political conflict, and social identity (importantly, including gender, class, and race) against the backdrop of Japan's cultural history.” * H-Japan *“The result is certainly suitable for undergraduate teaching but in many ways goes so far beyond as to repay close reading by scholars, graduate students, and the public. What Atkins achieves is a dense, multilayered history, not simply of Japanese pop but of Japan itself as seen through the lens of its highly consumable cultural products … Immensely readable, Atkins's prose is as full of humor and idiosyncratic character as his subject matter. The book's strength lies in the author's ability to capture the very vibrancy of popular culture in Japan while untangling its knotty threads (pun intended). Summing Up: Essential. All public and academic levels/libraries.” * CHOICE *“[The] book provides, as well as an excellent narrative of historical popular culture, an articular and well-elaborated theoretical structure to understand it. It would be a valuable tool to teach theory as well as history and to sharpen the knowledge and wits of students and professors alike.” * Journal of Japanese Studies *“At last, a concise volume that places Japanese popular culture-from the 17th-century origins of kabuki to Babe Ruth barnstorming Tokyo ballparks to Godzilla movies and Hello Kitty slippers-in a broader historical context. Students and instructors alike will welcome this book for its richness of detail, nuanced analysis, crisp writing, and flashes of humor.” * William M. Tsutsui, President and Professor of History, Hendrix College *“This book surveys popular culture with a close eye on the socio-political workings that have shaped Japanese art, music, film, animation and sport through the years. Though expressly written as an undergraduate textbook, the detail of the research and the inclusion of sophisticated theory means that Atkins' book can also be used as a resource for writers working on contemporary Japanese culture.” * Carolyn Stevens, Professor of Japanese Studies, Monash University, Australia *Atkins ... has crafted a gem of a revised, updated, and expanded second edition of his original volume ... an excellent volume for all readers interested in Japan and Japanese culture and for college courses on modern Japan. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 The worst which has been thought and said? Defining popular culture 2 Floating worlds—the birth of popular culture in Japan 3 A whole new world—cultural exchanges with East Asia and Europe 4 Naughty and nice—early modern Japan’s culture wars 5 Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization 6 Cultural living—cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan 7 Entertaining empire—popular culture as a “technology of imperialism” 8 “Our spirit against their steel”—mobilizing culture for war 9 Democracy, monstrosity, and pensive prosperity—postwar pop 10 Millennial Japan as dream factory Afterword—Contemplating cool Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe twin deities known by the ancient Greeks as the Dioskouroi, and by the Romans as the Gemini, were popular figures in the classical world. They were especially connected with youth, low status and service, and were embraced by the common people in a way that eluded those gods associated with regal magnificence or the ruling classes. Despite their popularity, no dedicated study has been published on the horse gods for over a hundred years. Henry John Walker here addresses this neglect. His comparative study traces the origins, meanings and applications of the twin divinities to social and ritual settings in Greece, Vedic India (where the brothers named Castor and Pollux were revered as Indo-European gods called the Asvins), Etruria and classical Rome. In the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of Vedic India, the young horse gods are seen to have markedly similar characteristics to their Greco-Roman counterparts. Quick to come to the rescue of those in trouble, the Asvins are ready

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume brings together an international team of leading scholars to explore the ways that women responded to situations of immense deprivation, need, and victimization under Hitler's dictatorship. Paying acute attention to the differences that gender made, Women Defying Hitler examines the forms of women's defiance, the impact these women had, and the moral and ethical dilemmas they faced. Several essays also address the special problems of the memory and historiography of women's history during World War II, and the book features standpoints of historians as well as the voices of survivors and their descendants. Notably, this book also serves as a guide for human behaviour under extremely difficult conditions. The book is relevant today for challenging discrimination against women and for its nuanced exploration of the conditions minorities face as outspoken protagonists of human rights issues and as resisters of discrimination. From this perspective the voices beinTrade ReviewWomen Defying Hitler is a thorough volume that tackles the historiographical imbalance against women’s rescue activities and provides guidance for how we can remember these sacrifices and apply them to the modern day. * Canadian Journal of History / Annales canadiennes d'histoire *A major contribution to Holocaust studies, Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis brings together leading international scholars to illuminate the myriad of different roles played by women in resisting Nazism. It will be invaluable for scholars and essential reading for anyone interested in war, women’s history, and the increasingly important field of feminist studies of the Holocaust. * Zoe Waxman, Lecturer in Modern Jewish History, University of Oxford, UK *Women Defying Hitler: Rescue and Resistance under the Nazis is essential reading for anyone interested in women and women's studies, Jewish history, the Holocaust, and Nazi Germany. While many contributions provide new perspectives on prominent incidents of resistance such as the "Red Orchestra" or the Rosenstrasse protests in Berlin, many hitherto little-known women's groups and individual heroes in a variety of countries are also covered. Moreover, this volume is important not just for the rich empirical detail, but also for advancing theories regarding what constitutes resistance, what is unique about women's agency in such a context, and the complicated ways that women (and men) tried to push back and delegitimize a genocidal regime. Finally, the integration of several survivors' and descendants' testimonies adds to the import of this cutting-edge collection. * Eric Langenbacher, Teaching Professor of Government, Georgetown University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Contributors Foreword, David Gill (New York German Consul-General, USA) Women Defying Hitler: An Introduction, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) and Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 1. Cumulative Radicalization: Intermarriage under Hitler and Remembrance, Nathan Stoltzfus (Florida State University, USA) 2. Whoever Saves One Life, Saves an Entire World: The Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 3. Resisting Obliteration: Learning about the Lives and Deaths of Jewish Women during the Holocaust Judy Baumel-Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University and the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Israel) 4. Defiance and Resistance to Nazism from the Perspective of Gender, Class and Generation, Volker Berghahn (Columbia University, USA) 5. The Women's Protest on Rosenstrasse between Commemoration, Idealization and Debate, Susanne Heim (Freiburg University, Germany) 6. Rescue through Intervention in the Nazi Decision Making Process: Protest in Goebbel's Berlin, Nathan Stoltzfus and Chris Osmar (both Florida State University, USA) 7. Gariwo's Philosophy: Educate to Optimism and Responsibility through the Memory of the Righteous, Gabriele Nissim (Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Organization (GARIWO), Italy) 8. Women and Resistance: New Perspectives on Germany and France, Anne Nelson (Columbia University, USA) 9. Jewish Women Rescuers of Jews, Mordecia Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) 10. Is Food Protest Political? Women's Demonstrations in Occupied France, Paula Schwartz (Middlebury College, USA) 11. Reflections on Rosenstrasse: With an Excerpt from Broken Glass, Broken Lives -- A Jewish Girl's Survival Story in Berlin, 1933-1945, Ruth Wiseman (Rita Kuhn's daughter) 12. The Mischlinge Expose: Stories of Assimilation and Conversation, Carolyn Enger (descendant of an intermarried couple Epilogue, Mordecai Paldiel (Yeshiva University, USA) Appendix Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe countries surrounding the Baltic Sea - Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, and Sweden - have experienced immense social and political change, from the territorial maneuverings of Sweden, Russia, and Denmark, the reunification of Germany, to more recent moves towards independence of Eastern Bloc countries as the Soviet Union crumbled. Tensions surrounding the Baltic Sea have not dissipated but rather new challenges and contentions have emerged, resulting in a multicultural and multilingual region. Dance in the region has been tightly interwoven with political trends and events, yet the dance history of the region to date has focused almost entirely on state sponsored folk and classical dance. Dance, Diversity and Difference presents contemporary stories of dance, revealing the diverse voices of dance practitioners and demonstrating the ways in which dance has connections with families, societies, governments, the economy and can oTrade ReviewThis book brings to light, through a prism of dance, a world that has undergone enormous political and cultural change … Perhaps of equal importance, the scholarship embedded within this book is a reminder that dance is at once personal and global, intimate and shared, a way of being in and knowing of a world that has no boundaries. * Journal of Dance Education *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Beginnings 2 Learning 3 Making 4 Performing 5 Teaching and teachers 6 Relationships, family, and meetings 7 Heritage and history 8 Change and turning points 9 Travelling 10 Futures, challenges and questions References Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisBringing strategy, foreign policy, domestic and imperial politics together, this book challenges the conventional understanding as to why the British Empire, at perhaps the height of its power, lost control of its American colonies. Critiquing the traditional emphasis on the value of alliance during the Seven Years' War, and the consequences of British isolation during the War of American Independence, Jeremy Black shows that this rests on a misleading understanding of the relationship between policy and strategy. Encompassing both the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence and grounded in archival research, this book considers a violent and contentious period which was crucial to the making of modern Britain and its role in the wider world. Offering a reinterpretation of British strategy and foreign policy throughout this time, To Lose an Empire interweaves British domestic policy with diplomatic and colonial developments to show the impact this period and its evTrade ReviewIt is refreshing, therefore, when a scholar seeks to break out of standardised chronological frameworks. Jeremy Black does so in To Lose an Empire ... It is ... a highly welcome addition to the corpus of literature on eighteenth-century international history. * Diplomacy & Statecraft *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. The Means of Policy 2. The Context of Debate 3. To Win America, 1758-60 4. Winning a Peace, 1761-3 5. A Post-war Order? 1763-70 6. Muddling Through? 1771-4 7. Strategies under Pressure, 1775-8 8. Strategies Collapse, 1778-82 9. Picking up the Pieces, 1783-1790 10. Conclusions Bibliography

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Book SynopsisG.R. Evans is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, UK.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction: Coming to Oxford 1 Towards Oxford today Not an Inkling of the future? Riding out the First World War Oxford takes the state’s penny Letting the women in: 1920 and after Between the Wars The Second World War and its aftermath A Symposium at Worcester: the 1950s to the 1980s From student protest to the battle for academic freedom The 1990s and the beginning of another Oxford century 2 Oxford’s Middle Ages Oxford from the inside: inventing a University Designing a syllabus Housing the scholars Quarrels and confrontations 3 Oxford and the interfering Tudors Renaissance in Oxford Reformation in Oxford Consequences for the colleges Another inspection: Edward VI goes ‘visiting’ Mary Tudor’s Visitors: the volte-face Elizabeth puts Oxford under the statutes of the realm Teaching the arts from the late sixteenth century 4 Oxford keeps up with the times Oxford and the state A society of scholars: student life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Independent intellectuals and new styles of academic life Teaching: the changing intellectual life of Oxford Experiments in collegiate life and new ideas about universities The Bodleian Library and the University Press 5 The nineteenth-century transformation Varieties of student life at Oxford The Oxford Movement State interference and the threat of external ‘reform’ brings about major change What became of the liberal arts? Bringing the syllabus up to date: the Oxford reform of classical education Oxford studies the sciences Examinations reformed Oxford does its bit for social mobility Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book reproduces the original 1937 founding pamphlet of Mass-Observation the compelling social research project that ran for decades in the mid-20th century with expert commentary throughout. It also features brand new supporting essays by and informative interviews with prominent scholars of Mass-Observation which reflect on the organisation, its origins and its influence on multiple academic disciplines, including history, sociology and anthropology. An introductory essay by the editor synthesizes the arguments of this material, as well as contributing vital historical context and suggestions for ways in which other disciplines might benefit from the use of Mass-Observation approaches and archival material. There is also a chronology of Mass-Observation, its publications and major figures associated with it. Mass-Observation offers an unparalleled wealth of insights into the lived experiences of Britons in the 20th century and this volume provides the best introduction to itTrade ReviewFor both newcomers and long-time enthusiasts of MO, this book provides insight into the original, ambitious intentions of the founders, useful commentaries on their achievement and its value across disciplines, as well as fascinating interviews with three people whose careers and lives have been closely entwined with the project. * Jill Kirby, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex, UK *The original Mass-Observation pamphlet from 1937 sets out the philosophy and methods for a pioneering approach to ‘the anthropology of ourselves’ that has had a profound influence on historians, social scientists and cultural studies scholars. Its reissue here, skilfully edited and authoritatively contextualized by Jennifer Purcell and her collaborators, is both welcome and timely. * Brian Lewis, Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Chronology Introduction, Jennifer J. Purcell 1. ‘The Observation by Everyone of Everyone’: The Project of Mass-Observation in 1937, Ben Highmore 2. Mass-Observation, Charles Madge and Tom Harrisson 3. Uncivilising Sociology: How Mass Observation can free the discipline, Rachel Hurdley 4. Voices from the Archive, Jennifer J. Purcell Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTelling the story of three overlooked revolutionary thinkers, Liberty in Their Names explores the lives and works of Olympe de Gouges, Sophie de Grouchy and Manon Roland. All three were thinking and writing about political philosophy, especially equality and social justice, before the French Revolution. As they became engaged in its efforts, their political writing became more urgent. At a time when women could neither vote nor speak at the Assembly, they became influential through their writings. Yet instead of Gouges, Grouchy and Roland, we speak of Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot. Sandrine Bergès examines the lives and writings of these trailblazing women philosophers, and their impact on philosophical thought during the French Revolution. Featuring pictures, a timeline and a bibliography of their works, this book offers exciting new insights into the history of political philosophy and of the French Revolution.Trade ReviewImaginative, instructive, and engaging, Liberty in their names lifts Olympe de Gouges, Marie-Jeanne Roland and Sophie de Grouchy from under the historical carpet where they were swept despite their significant contributions to the social and political thought of the French Revolution. * Sylvana Tomaselli, Sir Harry Hinsley Lecturer in History, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK *This brilliant book fills an important need, shedding light on the female philosophers of the Revolutionary period in France. Bergès sets the women in historical context while also exploring the brilliance of their ideas. An essential read that addresses a true gap in the history of ideas and women’s history. * Charlotte Gordon, Distinguished Professor of English, Endicott College, USA *Shedding light on less-familiar philosophers and their influence, this book is well worth the read and accessible to anyone interested in issues during this time in history. A valuable resource for those interested in philosophy, history, women’s studies, and literature. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Timeline of the French Revolution Glossary of People and Places 1. Women in the Revolution 2. The Women and the Prisons: A Walk-Through 18th-Century Paris 3. Awakening to Injustice: The Formative Years of Gouges, Roland and Grouchy 4. Making her own Way: Olympe de Gouges 5. Speaking for Herself: Marie-Jeanne Roland 6. Working Together: Sophie de Grouchy 7. The Women on the Other Side of the Channel 8. The American Dream: From Republican model to Asylum of Freedom 9. The Abolitionist Movement and the Revolution 10. Women in the City Epilogue: Writing out the Women: Sophie de Grouchy After the Terror A Revolutionary Bookshelf Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the image of the trousered woman.Worn by Jean Harlow and Marlene Dietrich, painted by Raoul Dufy and immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, between the two world wars pajamas came to symbolize much more than sleepwear. This book explores how the pajama phenomenon was not only critical to the careers of designers such as Chanel, Patou, Poiret, and Schiaparelli, but how the versatile garment was also bound to the independence of women and influenced culture more broadly.Through meticulous research and never-before-seen images, the authors position pajama fashion in the context of the Golden Age of Travel, the rise of Hollywood, and the changing political climate of the early 20th century, to reveal how the rising trend in sleepweTrade ReviewD’Agati and Schiff’s insightful and detailed analysis elevates pajamas, at last, to their rightful position in the history of modern fashion. Enriched by a superb collection of illustrations, this book represents bedtime reading at its most sophisticated. * Alison L Goodrum, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *Drawing from a wealth of original material, D’Agati and Schiff provide a long overdue investigation into a transformative garment that embodied modernity in the early twentieth century. The connections between beach pajamas and orientalism, casual dress, and women’s rights are skillfully explored and contextualized in this beautifully illustrated book – an enriching contribution to fashion history. * Sonya Abrego, Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beach Pajama Origins Eastern Pajamas and the Western Imagination Sleeping Pajamas and Lounging Pajamas The Ballets Russes Paul Poiret and the jupe-culotte Early Gym Wear and Swimwear 2. Beach Pajamas: 1919-1927 The Advent of Beach Pajamas: “No More Sunburned Knees” The Rise of Resort Culture The Lido: “Pajamaland” Pajamas on American Beaches Early Beach Pajama Styles Controversy: “She Shocked Palm Beach!” Mary Nowitzky 3. Beach Pajamas: 1927-1939 The French Riviera: “The Chic World Turns Proletarian” Sporting and the Rise of Athleticism Nautical Style Sun Worship The Great Depression: Ready-to-wear, Tubfast, and Homesewn Workwear Influences 4. Beach Pajamas’ Influence Pajamas and Modernity Collegiate Fashions Evening and Formal Pajamas Hollywood: “Over the Footlights to the Public” The Beginnings of American Sportswear Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFascinating. Perspective A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir I loved it. - Chris Breward, author of The SuitWide-ranging, thought-provoking and important. - Claire Wilcox, author of Patch Work Elizabeth Wilson is a pioneer of fashion studies, yet she never intended to become an academic. Starting her literary career as a feminist activist writing for the underground press, she went on to explore tennis, bohemians' and of course fashion her obsession along with forays into fiction. Throughout, she has never seen her work as abstract or disengaged from real life'. In her memoir, she traces this relationship between personal experience and her writing, revisiting pivotal moments from childhood, adolescence and adult life to explore her belief that research, by its nature, is always a form of autobiography. She unfolds the garment of her life in a wide-ranging exploration of scenes from her paTrade ReviewIt’s impossible not to warm instantly to Elizabeth Wilson … Unfolding the Past is so packed with Wilson’s literary allusions, as well as her observations about life, sex, film and fashion over the centuries, it’s like dipping into the anecdotes of a clever salonnière, peopled with Djuna Barnes, Proust and Marlene Dietrich. Wilson weaves a memoir in which the uniting thread is how clothing trends reflect changing mores as well as creating new cultural norms … Freed from the “invisible cloak” of her childhood, Wilson’s fascinating text shows how fashion can be the opposite of frivolity. Ultimately, she says, it’s the “search for personal identity through aesthetic experience". -- Belinda Bamber * Perspective *Unfolding the Past is a deeply personal memoir that traces significant moments in the author’s life where she recognises that all research is autobiographical … [It] will appeal to many: the young may curiously plunder what occurred before their existence, while those who lived through the mentioned decades might poignantly recall their clothing choices. -- Sarah E. Braddock Clarke * Selvedge *A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir [and] a moving insider’s account of radical lives in challenging times … I loved it. * Chris Breward, Author of The Suit, and Director, National Museums Scotland, UK *Wide-ranging, thought-provoking and important. * Claire Wilcox, Author of Patch Work and Senior Curator of Fashion, V&A *Brilliant and important ... [Wilson] is an exceptionally gifted writer, lucid, direct, engaging, often witty, always stimulating ... [A] book at once sinewy and elegant, rigorous and accessible, tough minded and enjoyable. * Richard Dyer, Professor Emeritus, King's College, London, UK *Elizabeth Wilson has always been an elegant thinker and an elegant dresser. Her memoir recalls a life lived believing both matter in a world that regarded them as mutually exclusive. A pleasure to read. * Alistair O'Neill, Author of London: After Fashion and Professor of Fashion History and Theory, Central Saint Martins, UK *An outstanding chronicler of our times ... [and] a sophisticated and informed cultural commentator. * Helen Taylor, Author of Why Women Read Fiction, and Professor of English, University of Exeter, UK *That such an important figure might now re-view, retrospectively, her own intellectual history, during a long and distinguished career, through the filter of her life and experiences, is incredibly exciting. * Caroline Evans, Professor Emerita, Central Saint Martins, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Outside Looking In 2. First Came Reading 3. Researching My Life 4. Bodies in the Library 5. Dressing the Postwar Young Woman 6. Living the Bohemian Sixties 7. What Does a Lesbian Look Like? 8. Writing Feminism 9. Bad Decade 10. The Vulgar 11. Fashion as Fetish 12. Haunted Houses 13. Nostalgia Mode 14. Cracks in the Pavement 15. In Search of Lost Streets 16. A Visit to Rimini 17. Returning to Queens Club 18. Hedonism 19. Down There on a Visit References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia. It uses the eventful career of Hernando de Baeza an interpreter, intermediary, and author positioned at the intersection of the so-called three cultures' of medieval Iberia (Judaism, Islam and Christianity) as a thread to connect the conflicts, controversies and preoccupations of an age in which Christianising the whole world seemed an attainable dream. Teresa Tinsley draws on a wealth of extensive archival evidence, together with Baeza's own memoir on the downfall of Muslim Granada (translated here for the first time), to demonstrate the widespread resistance to the authoritarian and exclusionary Christianity which would come to be associated with Spain, the Inquisition, and the Catholic Monarchs of the period. In the process, Tinsley provides a nuanced alternative account of the tensions, compromises and competing interests which underlay Spain's emergence as a world power.Trade ReviewThis volume is a sensitive and well-researched study of a foundational period in the history of early modern Spain. Through an analysis of the career and writings of Hernando de Baeza, it offers a fresh and nuanced perspective that brings to the fore questions of religious difference, inter-cultural contact, and good government. * Rosa Vidal Doval, Queen Mary, University of London, UK *A sensitive and revealing portrait of a deliberately elusive figure, who delicately negotiated a path through the thicket of religious antagonism and intolerance that marked the reigns of the Catholic Monarchs. Tinsley uncovers a cultured, well-connected, and cross-cultural character with converso origins who, while trusted by 'both sides'--Christian and Muslim--and personally known to Ferdinand and Isabella, subtly rejected ethnic binaries and the forced erasure of cultural identities, thus de-Othering both Muslims and Jews. * Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History, Hofstra University, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction: An Alternative Eye on the Reign of the Catholic Monarchs 2. Cordoba, the Frontier, and the Inquisition, 1450-1487 3. Granada, 1488-1492 4. Learning and Culture among the Andalusian Élite - 1492-1510 5. The Spanish in Italy 6. Reconciliation and Resistance: A Society in Transition 7. A Dissident Representation of the Conquest of Granada Conclusion Appendix: Hernando de Baeza’s Memoir Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe real and potential power of China, the world's most populous nation, has long been seen as a threat by its smaller neighbors and global powers alike. The Fear of Chinese Power provides a history of this perceived threat from the 1880s to the present day, and offers rich historical context to an enduring and current concern. Focusing on the United States, but also exploring perceptions from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union and Japan, this book asks why these fears exist and shows how they have played out on both a strategic, diplomatic level, and in the public sphere. Taking a chronological approach, the chapters explore themes such as western opposition to Chinese immigration, international views of China's new republic, hopes of friendship during the rule of Chiang Kai-Shek, the Korean and Cold Wars, Communist China's economic growth, the Chinese in popular culture and China as a modern global power. Taking economic, military and cultural vantage pointTrade ReviewA stimulating, wide-ranging, and frequently provocative overview of foreign images and perceptions of China and the Chinese at both elite and popular levels. Crean deftly highlights how often, in multiple cultural, ideological, economic, and strategic contexts, pervasive suspicions, fears, and apprehensions have driven outside thinking on China and its people * Priscilla Roberts, Associate Professor of History, University of St. Joseph, Macau *This thoughtful and engaging volume says as much about China as it does about those who fear it. Crean’s masterful book offers an important message about the global future, and should be required reading in policymaking circles and beyond * Mitchell Lerner, Professor of History, Ohio State University, US *This readable book traces the remarkable continuities and consonances in how the United States has felt toward and seen China, from the nineteenth century to today. Crean is sensitive to the complexity of what has always been one of the United States' most crucial relationships. An enlivening and informative read. * Pete Millwood, Lecturer in East Asian History, University of Melbourne, Australia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Let Him Sleep 1. The Birth of the Yellow Peril during the late Qing Empire 2. Opposition in the Americas to Chinese Immigration 3. Warlords and Fu Manchu: Views of China’s New Republic 4. Hopes and Fears during the Rule of Chiang Kai-shek 5. The Korean War: China Stands Up 6. Fears of Chinese Military Power 7. Predictions of Chinese Economic Power 8. Representations of Chinese in Popular Culture 9. China Ends its Isolation 10. A “Peaceful Rise” under Deng Xiaoping 11. When He Wakes: From the Beijing Olympics to “Wolf Warrior” Diplomacy Conclusion: Feeling the Dragon’s Breath

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the transitional period of the late Republic to the early Principate, Trees in Ancient Rome offers a sustained examination of the deployment of trees in the ancient city, exploring not only the practicalities of their cultivation, but also their symbolic value. The Ruminal fig tree sheltered the she-wolf as she nursed Romulus and Remus and year's later Rome was founded between two groves. As the city grew, neighbourhoods bore the names of groves and hills were known by the trees which grew atop them. From the 1st century BCE, triumphs included trees among their spoils and Rome's green cityscape grew, as did the challenges of finding room for trees within the congested city.This volume begins with an examination of the role of trees as repositories of human memory, lasting for several generations. It goes on to untangle the import of trees, and their role in the triumphal procession, before closing with a discussion of how trees could be grown in Rome's urban spaces. Trade ReviewThe Roman encyclopedist Pliny the Elder noted that trees were the source of more benefits to humankind than any other part or aspect of nature. This volume offers an in depth discussion of the fundamental importance of trees to the cultural fabric of ancient Rome. -- Annette Giesecke, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandTable of Contents1. Trees in Urban Spaces: An Introduction 2. Memory and Trees 3. Bringing Trees to Rome 4. Trees in the Triumph 5. Keeping Trees in the City 6. A New Leaf Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume reconsiders India's 20th century though a specific focus on the concepts, conjunctures and currency of its distinct political imaginaries. Spanning the divide between independence and partition, it highlights recent historical debates that have sought to move away from a nation-centred mode of political history to a broader history of politics that considers the complex contexts within which different political imaginaries emerged in 20th century India. Representing the first attempt to grasp the shifting modes and meanings of the political' in India, this book explores forms of mass protest, radical women's politics, civil rights, democracy, national wealth and mobilization against the indentured-labor system, amongst other themes. In linking the political' to shifts in historical temporality, Political Imaginaries in 20th century India extends beyond the interdisciplinary arena of South Asian studies to cognate late colonial and post-colonial formations in the twenTrade ReviewThis is an exciting and wide-ranging collection of scholarship on Indian politics that explores fresh territory in the twentieth century and opens up new possibilities for understanding this transformational era in India and the world. * Taylor C. Sherman, Associate Professor, Department of History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *An outstanding collection of essays that powerfully illuminates the multiple and shifting meanings of the political through an imaginative, rigorous and inter-disciplinary exploration of the idea of the political imaginary in 20th century India. * Niraja Gopal Jayal, Professor in Gender Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK *An urgent and necessary project, this volume defines and rethinks 'the political.' Comprised of essays by some of the smartest theorists, historians, and scholars of India, it elaborates how we might imagine new political futures and imaginaries that offer radical and revolutionary possibilities. * Durba Ghosh, Professor of History, Cornell University, U.S.A. *Empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated, this timely volume retells the history of the 20th century by placing decolonization at its centre. Speaking of/from India, it offers a globally salient rethinking of democracy, economy, citizenship, statistics, political symbols and radical dissent. A must read for historians, political philosophers, anthropologists and theorists of the contemporary. * Prathama Banerjee, Professor, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi, India *This represents the cutting edge of scholarship on political life modern India. Guided by the strong editorial vision of Manu Goswami and Mrinalini Sinha, this stellar, diverse collection of authors bridges regions, languages, and archives to illuminate the breadth of political imaginaries that have shaped modern India, with reverberations across the Global South. This a vital book, which will appeal widely across fields and disciplines * Sunil Amrith, Professor of History, Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Political Imaginaries: A programme for Twentieth Century Political History, Manu Goswami and Mrinalini Sinha (New York University, USA and University of Michigan, USA) Genealogies of the Political 2. The Political in Question: Anatomy of a People’s Politics, Mrinalini Sinha (University of Michigan, USA) 3. Mass Satyagraha and the Problem of Collective Power, Karuna Mantena (Columbia University, USA) 4. Conspicuous Communism: Rethinking Early Communism in Late Imperial India, Manu Goswami (New York University, USA) 5. National Wealth or National Poverty? The Politics of Measurement in Late Colonial India, Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS University of London, UK) 6. Law and the Political Imaginary in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern India, Kalyani Ramnath (Princeton University, USA) 7. Remembering the Emergency and the Question of Politics, Mary John (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi, India) Recalling Democracy 8. Radicalizing Democracies in India: Three Political Imaginaries, Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University, USA) 9. Institutionalizing Democratic Uncertainties: ‘Election Time’ in the Life of Indian Democracy, Anupama Roy & Ujjwal Kumar Singh (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) 10. Voting and the Visual: Electoral Symbols, Legal Discourse, & the Sovereign People, David Gilmartin (North Carolina State University, USA) 11. Representations of Electoral Politics: Notes on the Conceptual Power of the ‘Vote Bank’, Satish Deshpande (Delhi University, India) 12. Dispossession and Democracy: The Land Acquisition Act and the Future of India’s Land Wars, Michael Levien (John Hopkins University, USA) 13. Democracy and the Moment of the Political, Aditya Nigam (Centre for Women’s Development Studies, Delhi, India) Afterword

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Book SynopsisPhilip C. Almond is Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of Queensland, and is internationally respected for his work on religion and the history of ideas, especially during the English Enlightenment. His nine previous books include The Witches of Warboys and England's First Demonologist (both I.B.Tauris), The British Discovery of Buddhism, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England, and Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought

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Book SynopsisOffering a global account of the long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war. Arguing instead that while some aspects of the war did end abruptly in 1945, in many corners of the world war' bled directly and raggedly into the postwar' such as Allied Occupation in Italy, the civil war in Greece, the rise of US hegemony and struggles for national liberation in India. From World War to Postwar shows how critical developments in the latter half of the 20th century were a direct result of the Second World War, and reconceptualizes the conflict as an intersecting series of regional wars as well as an overarching world war. Offering new ways to think about how the war' shaped the second half of the 20th century, this book reaches into those regions often overlooked in the study of WWII. Showing how wartime relations between the US and Latin Table of Contents1. The Dawn of the American Century 2. Hegemony Qualified: The Soviet Union, China, and the Passage from War to Cold War 3. Latin America: Bedrock of US Hegemony 4. The Axis Powers: From Defeated Enemies to Key Allies 5. War and Revolution in China, India, and Southeast Asia 6. Britain, France, and the End of Empire 7. Winds of Change in Africa and the Middle East 8. Conclusions: the Thickening Anthropocene, Liberal Internationalism, and its Discontents Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRemembering Histories of Trauma compares and links Native American, First Nation and Jewish histories of traumatic memory. Using source material from both sides of the Atlantic, it examines the differences between ancestral experiences of genocide and the representation of those histories in public sites in the United States, Canada and Europe. Challenging the ways public bodies have used those histories to frame the cultural and political identity of regions, states, and nations, it considers the effects of those representations on internal group memory, external public memory and cultural assimilation. Offering new ways to understand the Native-Jewish encounter by highlighting shared critiques of public historical representation, Mailer seeks to transcend historical tensions between Native American studies and Holocaust studies. In linking and comparing European and American contexts of historical trauma and their representation in public memory, this book brings Native AmeriTrade ReviewWith great reflection and compassion, Gideon Mailer identifies how genocide and massacre have impacted Jews and Indigenous peoples, not only in the political, cultural and social spheres, but also in the imaginaries of these groups, their collective archives so that they retain a kinship previously unexamined. * Kitty Millet, Associate Professor, San Francisco University, USA *This is an ambitious, generous, and much needed book. It addresses anxieties that have made it hard to see links between the experience and representation of anti-Jewish and anti-indigenous genocides. More impressive still, it does so without overly generalizing the experiences and sensibilities of indigenous people or Jews themselves or reducing them solely to victimhood. It should foster many productive and critical discussions. I hope it will be widely read. * Jonathan Boyarin, Diann G. and Thomas A. Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Cornell University, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Traumatic Memory and the Indigenous-Jewish Connection 1. Biological Determinism and the Problem of Perpetrator Intent 2. Indigenous People, Jews, and the Americanization of the Holocaust 3. Indigenous Genocide, the Holocaust, and European Public Memory 4. Public Memory and the Problem of Imperial Power 5. Traumatic Memory, Assimilation, and Cultural Renewal Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFascism in Europe and Beyond examines fascism from its origins to the present. It begins in the fin-de-siècle era when the various ideas that eventually coalesced into fascism first emerged and concludes with the re-emergence of fascist ideas in recent times. Historiographical discussions, illustrations, biographical textboxes and maps are interwoven into the text, while a valuable collection of primary documents can be found at the end of the book to facilitate further study.Paul Baxa focuses primarily on European experiences in countries such as Germany, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, the UK, France, Belgium, Spain and Portugal, but there is also significant coverage of imperial Japan and Cold War fascism in the shape of North American movements and leaders like Rockwell's American Nazi Party. Baxa even discusses The World Union of National Socialists and its attempt to build a universal fascist movement after the Second World War.The aims of the fascist movements, their social composition, and their actions are explored extensively in the book, while an emphasis is placed on the cult of personality' in driving fascism in its many manifestations. Baxa's underlying assertion that fascism is primarily a cultural movement a political cult in fact that relies on charismatic leaders who have been able to articulate and project the fantasies and desires of their followers provides a consistent position throughout, one that both enriches and enlivens the text itself and that offers a useful jumping-off point for classroom discussions.

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Book SynopsisThis highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful.In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant popular fame in regions of Europe far from her own domains fit the still new discourse of modern celebrity and soon helped shape it. Catherine the Great and Celebrity Culture in Eighteenth-Century Europe shows that over the next 35 years Catherine was part of a standard troika of celebrity-making agentsintriguing central figure, large-scale media, and an engaged public. Ruth P. Dawson reveals how writers, print makers, newspaper editors, playwrights, and morethe 18th-century's media workerslaboured to produce marketable representations of the empress, and audiences of non-elite readers, viewers, and listeners savoured the resulting commodities.This book presents long neglected material evidence of tTrade ReviewRuth P. Dawson’s meticulously researched and copiously illustrated study of Catherine the Great as a pathbreaking modern female celebrity traces the emergence of stardom and fandom during the eighteenth century. It has implications for transnational history and politics, ideas of gender and sexuality, nascent feminism, imperial self-fashioning and branding, not to mention evolving international communications and the mediated, mutual interplay of lay and aristocratic culture in the period. It’s a fascinating examination of a famous but understudied figure at the center of Enlightenment European life and the popular imagination. * Alessa Johns, Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis, USA *Elegantly written, this is a brilliant book whose author has mastered her subject matter. Particularly fascinating is the expertise and critical care with which Ruth P. Dawson analyses the many different sources on which her narrative is based. It is not only this immense wealth of sources that is impressive. Time and again, one is also fascinated by what she can elicit from them. A genuine model of historical research! * Falko Schnicke, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Modern History and Contemporary History, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria *Table of ContentsList of Images 1. From Fame to Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century Part 1 - Celebrity Ingredients 2. Celebrity-Making Coup of 1762: The Crucial Role of Story 3. More Celebrity Ingredients: Scandal and Engrossing Coup Backstories 4. Media Workers and Their Commodities in Words and Images 5. Fans and Anti-fans for a Commodity Empress 6. The Star as Contributing Subject and Living Object Part 2 - Engaging Themes, Sustaining Celebrity 7. Woman Philosopher on the Throne 8. Consuming Catherine II: Gender and Wealth 9. Disconcerting Mother of Her Country: Gender and Power Again 10. Empress of the Other Part 3 - Transgressions Accruing and Secrets Revealed 11. Final Eight Years: Reassessment and Satirical Critique 12. Still Relishing the Failed Marriage, the Coup, and the Deadly Aftermath 13. The Lovers: Dabs of Fiction, Grains of Truth, Gobs of Scandal 14. Celebrity after Death Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhy am I trying to become what I don't want to be when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.Willy Loman is an ageing travelling salesman haunted, driven and yet held back by empty dreams of prosperity and success. Justly celebrated as one of the most famous dramatisations of the failure of the American Dream, the play''s moral and political purpose is perfectly counterbalanced by a powerful and moving human drama of a man trying to make his way in the world and of the human flaws that lead to the shattering of his family and of their figurehead.Death of a Salesman is Miller''s tragic masterpiece and considered one of the greatest plays of the twentieth century. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, the play remains a classic work of literature and drama that is studied and performed around the world.This new edition includes an introduction by Claire Conceison that explores the play''s production history as well as the dramatic, thematicTrade Review[The book has] extensive but not daunting information under headings such as Historical and Social Context, Genres and Themes and Performance History, among other aspects. It’s clearly and accessibly written. * Ink Pellet: The Arts Magazine for Teachers *Table of ContentsChronology Introduction Historical, Social and Cultural Contexts Genre and Themes Play as Performance Production History Academic Debate Behind the scenes – Excerpts from interview with Chinese actor/translator Ying Ruocheng about working with Miller in Beijing in 1983 Further Study Death of a Salesman Notes

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Book SynopsisThis important new study investigates the competing demand for water in the Bhavani and Noyyal River basins of south India from the early 19th century to the early 21st century from a historical perspective. In doing so, the book addresses several important questions:* Did policy-makers visualise the future demand while diverting water from distant places or other basins?* Was efficient use ensured when the water was diverted or was it diverted in a manner that resulted in pollution and serious damage to the entire river basin?* Were natural flows taken care of in order to preserve the ecology and environment?* What were the factors that aggravated the competing demand for water and what were the consequences for the future?In the context of the current discourse on the competing demands for water, this book takes the debate forward, expanding the horizon of environmental history in the process. Until now, agriculture, industry and domestic water supply aTrade ReviewThrough a fascinating series of microstudies, Velayutham Saravanan's scholarship insightfully highlights the vital role of the physical environmental in modern South India. Importantly, this fine book particularly concentrates on the multiple issues of water (supply, distribution, and pollution) during the period from the late British Raj to today’s independent Republic of India. * Michael Fisher, Robert S. Danforth Professor of History, Oberlin College, USA *Melding agrarian history with urban history and situating industrialization within a broader socio-economic context, this sophisticated and sobering study makes water central to the writing of environmental history. Scholars and policy professionals will benefit immensely from reading this work. * Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Dinakar Singh Professor of India and South Asia Studies, Yale University, USA *[T]his book is a useful addition to the growing literature on the specificity of the historical trajectory of rivers in South Asia. In addition to previously unexplored archives, there is a wealth of statistical information here that would be useful to a wide readership, including policy makers, economists, and development studies experts. * Technology and Culture *Table of ContentsList of Maps List of Tables List of Appendices Author Note Preface Acknowledgements Acronyms Measurements 1. Introduction 2. Hydrology, Commercialization and Ecology 3. Population, Urbanization, Industrialization and Demand for Water 4. Water Supply Schemes and Conflict 5. Canal Irrigation, Technology and Conflict 6. Disasters of Linking Rivers 7. Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRanging from the mid-19th century to the present, and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection explores the significance of locality in queer space and experiences in modern British history. The chapters cover a broad range of themes from migration, movement and multiculturalism; the distinctive queer social and political scenes of different cities; and the ways in which places have been reimagined through locally led community history projects. The book challenges traditional LGBTQ histories which have tended to conceive of queer experience in the UK as a comprising a homogeneous, national narrative.Edited by leading historians, the book foregrounds the voices of LGBTQ-identified people by looking at a range of letters, diaries, TV interviews and oral testimonies. It provides a unique and fascinating account of queer experiences in Britain and how they have been shaped through different localities.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigenous peoples played an important role. He identifies the drivers behind settler expansion, explores the effect of inequality on long-term economic development and examines the relationship between settlers and the colonial authorities, asserting that they should not be treated as one homogenous group with shared economic interests. Assessing specific characteristics of the Cape Colony, such as the proposition it was a slavery economy, and comparing key insights of this study with the historiography of other settler colonies, Creating the Cape Colony demonstrates the need to revise our underTrade ReviewIn this stimulating and sophisticated study, Erik Green lets loose the theories and questions of much recent economic history on the particularly detailed data of the Cape Colony. The results are often surprising, notably regarding the considerable importance played by Khoesan labour. It is a model of comparative, quantitative research. * Robert Ross, Emeritus Professor of African history, Leiden University, The Netherlands *Green has written a timely new economic history of the Cape Colony: one that uncovers the fragility of the Dutch East India Company operation, as well as the critical role played by indigenous Khoesan communities, as both laborers and resisters, in shaping economic and social institutions with a legacy that continues to impact South Africa in the present. * Anne EC McCants, Ann F. Friedlaender, Professor of History, MIT, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps List of Tables 1. Understanding the Establishment of Settler Colonies 2. Indigenous Agency, the Cost of Trade and Initial Steps Towards a Settler Colony 3. Factor Endowments, Institutions and the Expansion of the Frontier 4. Was the Cape a Slave Economy? 5. Unequal We Stand 6. Elites, Coalitions and Settler Resistance Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers.A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the ''burger'': the texture, and taste of being trans.Their experiences include verbal abuse, ostracisation and being thrown out of a Top Shop changing room. The piece also explores the black trans experience.

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Book SynopsisNiru is a young Bengali woman married to an English colonial bureaucrat Tom.Tom loves Niru, exoticising her as a frivolous plaything to be admired and kept; but Niru has a long-kept secret, and just as she thinks she is almost free of it, it threatens to bring her life crashing down around her.Tanika Gupta reimagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism, offering a bold, female perspective exploring themes of ownership and race.

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Book SynopsisChekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on the brink of the Biafran Civil War.Lolo, Nne Chukwu and Udo are grieving the loss of their father. Months before, two ruthless military coups plunged the country into chaos. Fuelled by foreign intervention, the conflict encroaches on their provincial village, and the sisters long to return to their former home in Lagos.Following his smash-hit Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams returns to the National Theatre with this heartbreaking retelling of Chekhov''s classic play.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with activism. Although very different from one another, each of these movements has created alliances across borders, with activists stressing that their concerns are not confined to individual nation states.In this book, Daniel Laqua shows that global efforts of this kind are not a recent phenomenon, and that as long as there have been borders, activists have sought to cross them. Activism Across Borders since 1870 explores how individuals, groups and organisations have fostered bonds in their quest for political and social change, and considers the impact of national and ideological boundaries on their efforts. Focusing on Europe but with a global outlook, the book acknowledges the importance of imperial and postcolonial settings for groups and individuals that expressed far-reaching ambitions.From feminism and socialism to anti-war campaigTrade Review'Laqua's richly illustrated study considers an extraordinary array of political, social and ecological causes, exploring how transnational activists have both shaped - and been shaped by - the contemporary world. Drawing on impressive primary research and diverse analytical literatures, this volume provides a fascinating and sophisticated account of a topic of wide interest.' * Thomas Davis, City, University of London, UK *'This book offers an enormously rich insight into the way activists shaped the social fabric of modern societies. The impressive array of topics is both enriching and revealing as it systematically includes the dark sides of activism and invites us to rethink the history of modern societies as a result of competing, intersecting or colliding forms of collective action.' * Isabella Löhr, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany *'This is an impressive book. It offers a wide-ranging and nuanced analysis of various forms of internationalism in engaging prose. Laqua focuses not only on better-studied countries but also relatively under-researched ones in Europe. Crucially, this monograph systematically considers both the benevolent elements and the blind spots manifest in internationalist visions and practices.' * Nikolaos Papadogiannis, Stirling University, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Sense of Transnational Activism 1. Empire and Activism 2. Humanitarianism in War and Peace 3. Building a Peaceful World 4. Class, Revolution and Social Justice 5. The Politics of Gender and Sexuality 6. Encountering Racism and Discrimination 7. The Rights of Others 8. Going Green Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis open access book examines the untold human history of the Amazon rainforest, from the arrival of the earliest humans to the present. A spate of recent discoveries in unexplored regions and technological breakthroughs have allowed us to peer through the forest canopy to the earth below, revealing an entirely new picture of Amazonian past, which overturns the long-held assumption of a virgin rainforest. This book demonstrates how Amazonia's current diversity of landscapes and people are deeply rooted in prehistory with lasting repercussions on today's rainforests. Among the major achievements of ancient Amazonian peoples were the domestication of globally important crops, including manioc, cacao, rice, yams and sweet potato, manufactured America's first ceramics, engineered the landscape for sustainable food production, built massive geometric ceremonial structures, and had distinctively complex, early urban polities that can rival any civilization of antiquity.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses how ancient Japanese mythology was utilized during the colonial period to justify the annexation of Korea to Japan, with special focus on the god Susanoo. Described as an ambivalent figure and wanderer between the worlds, Susanoo served as a foil to set off the sun goddess, who played an important role in the modern construction of a Japanese national identity. Susanoo inhabited a sinister otherworld, which came to be associated with colonial Korea. Imperialist ideologues were able to build on these interpretations of the Susanoo myth to depict Korea as a dreary realm at the margin of the Japanese empire that made the imperial metropole shine all the more brightly. At the same time, Susanoo was identified as the ancestor of the Korean people. Thus, the colonial subjects were ideologically incorporated into the homogeneous Japanese family state. The book situates Susanoo in Japan's cultural memory and shows how the deity, while being repeatedly transformed in orTrade ReviewThe first in-depth study in the English language of Susanoo. Susanoo and Korea in Japan’s Cultural Memory is a welcome addition to the growing literature on Japanese deities and Japan’s colonial history, as well as the question of Korea in Japanese intellectual history more generally. * Sujung Kim, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, DePauw University, USA *David Weiss has tackled the long overdue task of heaping Amaterasu’s ‘shady’ brother out of the shadows, arguing for his importance not only in Japanese mythology and Shinto, but also for political purposes under Japanese Imperialism. Uncovering the ‘Korean link’ of Susanoo together with his representations and interpretations not only benefits scholars, but it also supplies under- and postgraduate students with an authoritative introduction to Susanoo and the diverse roles he plays in Japan’s cultural memory. * Juljan E. Biontino, Assistant Professor of Japanese and Korean Modern History at Chiba University, Japan *Table of ContentsList of Tables Conventions Introduction Part I. BLURRED BOUNDARIES AND LIMINAL IDENTITIES 1. A Foil to Set Off the Sun Goddess: Susanoo in the Ancient Sources 2. Passion for Transgression: Susanoo’s Liminal Character 3. At the Margin of the Divine Country: Korea in Japanese Cultural Imagination Part II. POLITICAL MYTHOLOGY: A GENEALOGY OF SUSANOO’S CONNECTION TO KOREA 4. “I do not want to Stay in this Land”: Susanoo’s Sojourn to Korea in the Ancient Court Chronicles 5. The God with a Thousand Faces: Susanoo and His Alter Egos in Medieval Mythology 6. Korea as a Realm of Death: Susanoo and Korea in Modern Discourses EPILOGUE: After the War: Susanoo in Scholarship, Tourism, and Popular Culture Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHe is a Chekhov of our time: holding his characters with as much humanity, compassion, humor and love - but without holding back his scathing indictment of deeply entrenched, systemic injustices and inequities.' - David SchwimmerThe Inequalities combines three plays from British author and director Alexander Zeldin into a trilogy that tells new stories of love, compassion and resilience for our time of austerity.Contextualised with an essay before each play and an in-depth interview with the author, Zeldin's three pieces present intimate stories of work, home and community in a radical form of realism. Written after extensive research across the United Kingdom, and involving people affected by the central themes of the plays, The Inequalities goes beyond social chronicle, achieving a timeless portrait of humanity under duress. This is theatre that goes behind the mirror of our time to reveTrade ReviewThis is the National's play of the year - and then some * Evening Standard on LOVE *This desolate, quietly intense devised drama gets under your skin and into your bones... unforgettable * The Times on Beyond Caring *Gripping, amusing, uncomfortable, desperately moving. Zeldin shows us friction…but also kindness and dignity and lots of love without turning sugary * The Times (on Love) *Table of Contents1. Foreword by Rufus Norris 2. Introductory essay to Beyond Caring 3. BEYOND CARING 4. The Beyond Caring Bookshelf 5. Introductory essay to LOVE 6. LOVE 7. The LOVE Bookshelf [1pp] 8. Introductory essay to FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY 9. FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY [96pp] 10. The FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY Bookshelf [1pp] 11. Interview with Alexander Zeldin on Process, edited by Faye Merralls

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Book SynopsisCentering on cases of sexual violence, this open access book illuminates the contested introduction of British and French colonial criminal justice in the Pacific Islands during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu/New Hebrides. It foregrounds the experiences of Indigenous Islanders and indentured laborers in the colonial court system, a space in which marginalized voices entered the historical record.Rape and sexual assault trials reveal how hierarchies of race, gender and status all shaped the practice of colonial law in the courtroom and the gendered experiences of colonialism. Trials provided a space where men and women narrated their own story and at times challenged the operation of colonial law. Through these cases, Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific highlights the extent to which colonial bureaucracies engaged with and affected private lives, as well as the varied ways in which individu

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Book SynopsisLook it's two-two tweets that helped me vent my frustrations. It's really not that deepHoled up in her bedroom, Cleo's aired twenty-two Whatsapps from Kara and has cut off contact with the rest of the world. It doesn't mean she's been silent though she's got a lot to say. On the internet, actions don't always speak louder than wordsseven methods of killing kylie jenner explores cultural appropriation, queerness, friendship and the ownership of black bodies online and IRL.Jasmine Lee-Jones's award-winning play premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre in 2019 and transferred to the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs in June 2021.Trade ReviewJasmine Lee-Jones’s debut play is dazzlingly original, searingly articulate and savagely funny * Times *Lee-Jones’s writing is genuinely hilarious * Time Out *A blistering debut * The Stage *

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Book SynopsisTheatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and pantomime operate in Antiquity alongside the conception of theatre as both an entertainment for the masses and a vehicle for intellectual, political and artistic expression. Drawing together contributions from scholars in classics and theatre studies, this volume uniquely examines the Greek and Roman cultural spheres in conjunction with one another rather than in isolation.Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.Trade ReviewThis book surely makes a significant contribution to the study of the theatrical experience of ancient Greeks and Romans … Scholars from classics, theatre history, or performance studies can find fresh and compelling interventions in this collection. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Cultural History and the Theatres of Antiquity Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada 1 Institutional Frameworks: Enabling the Theatrical Event Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada 2 Social functions? Making the Case for a Functionless Theatre Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA 3 Sexuality and Gender: Off-Stage and Centre-Stage Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK 4 The Environment of Theatre: Experiencing Place in the Ancient World David Wiles, University of Exeter, UK 5 Circulation: Theatre as Mobile Political, Economic and Cultural Capital Patrick Hadley, University of Utah, USA 6 Interpretations: the Stage and its Interpretive Communities Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada 7 Communities of Production: Pied Pipers and How to Pay Them; or, the Variegated Finance of Ancient Theatre Jane Lightfoot, University of Oxford, UK 8 Genres: Drama and Its Many Unhappy Returns Donald Sells, University of Michigan, USA 9 Technologies of Performance: Machines, Props, Dramaturgy Peter von Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany (translated from German by Martin Revermann) 10 Knowledge Transmission: Ancient Archives and Repertoires Johanna Hanink, Brown University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French and Theatre at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Trade ReviewNot since the Cambridge History of American Theatre (1998–2000) has a multiauthored theatre history been as anticipated as Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Theatre… Having read all six volumes (1,636 pages), I can testify to the magnitude of their accomplishment. A Cultural History of Theatre is a profound reconsideration of how we understand theatre, its myriad social contexts, and the cultural work it accomplishes… the product of intellectual labor and creativity, and its accomplishments are many. A landmark work in theatre and social history, it illuminates theatre through the lens of culture, and culture through the lens of theatre. * Theatre Survey *All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction: Medieval Theatre Makes History Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 1. Institutional Frameworks Seeta Chaganti, University of California, Davis, USA, Noah Guynn, University of California, Davis, USA and Erith Jaffe-Berg, University of California at Riverside, USA 2. Social Functions Kathleen Ashley, University of Southern Maine, Portland, USA 3. Sexuality and Gender Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel 4. The Environment of Theatre Laura Weigert, Rutgers University, USA 5. Circulation: A Peripatetic Theatre Claire Sponsler, University of Iowa, USA 6. Interpretations Glending Olson, Cleveland State University, USA 7. Communities of Production Bruce R. Burningham, Illinois State University, USA 8. Repertoire and Genres Donnalee Dox, Texas A&M University, USA 9. Technologies of Performance Katie Normington, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 10. Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory Carol Symes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRobert Henke is Professor of Drama and Comparative Literature, and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Washington University, St. Louis, USA.Trade ReviewNot since the Cambridge History of American Theatre (1998–2000) has a multiauthored theatre history been as anticipated as Bloomsbury’s A Cultural History of Theatre… Having read all six volumes (1,636 pages), I can testify to the magnitude of their accomplishment. A Cultural History of Theatre is a profound reconsideration of how we understand theatre, its myriad social contexts, and the cultural work it accomplishes… the product of intellectual labor and creativity, and its accomplishments are many. A landmark work in theatre and social history, it illuminates theatre through the lens of culture, and culture through the lens of theatre. * Theatre Survey *All six volumes are aesthetically attractive, with well-chosen cover illustrations in color and numerous halftones throughout. Page layouts with wide margins, good paper, subtitles, generous bibliographies, notes, and index all add to the appeal. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction: Culture, Cultural History and Early Modern Theatre Robert Henke, Washington University, USA 1 Institutional Frameworks: Mapping Theatrical Resources Tom Bishop,University of Auckland, New Zealand and Robert Henke, Washington University, USA 2. Social Functions: Audience Participation, Efficacious Entertainment Erika T. Lin, The City University of New York, USA 3. Sexuality and Gender: The Early Modern Theatrical Body Eric Nicholson, Syracuse University in Florence, Italy 4. The Environment of Theatre: Urbanization and Theatre Building in Early Modern Europe Karen Newman, Brown University, USA 5. Circulation: Aristocratic, Commercial, Religious and Artistic Networks Pavel Drábek, University of Hull, UK 6. Interpretations: Antitheatrical Thinking and the Rise of 'Theatre' Stefan Hulfeld, University of Vienna, Austria 7. Communities of Production: Lives in and out of the Theatre William N. West, Northwestern University, USA 8. Repertoire and Genre: Culture and Society Friedemann Kreuder, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 9. Technologies of Performance: From Mystery Plays to the Italian Order Blair Hoxby, Stanford, USA 10 Knowledge Transmission: Theatre at the Crossroads of Concept, Medium and Practice Ellen MacKay, Indidana University, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMechele Leon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at the University of Kansas, USA.Trade ReviewThis volume is full of information about the extratextual and performative aspects of theater and will be of interest to theater and drama scholars. * Lessing Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor's Acknowledgments Introduction: Theatre and the Enlightenment Matrix Mechele Leon, University of Kansas, USA 1 Institutional Frameworks: The State, the Market, and the People in the Age of Enlightenment John O'Brien, University of Virginia, USA 2 Social Functions: Audiences and Authority David Worrall, Nottingham Trent University, UK 3 Sexuality and Gender: Changing Identities Helen E. M. Brooks, University of Kent, UK 4 The Environment of Theatre: Power, Resistance and Commerce Mechele Leon, University of Kansas, USA 5 Circulation: Emergent Modalities of Intercultural Performance Mita Choudhury, Purdue Northwest, USA 6 Interpretations: From Theatrephobia to a Theatrical 'Science of Man' Logan J. Connors, University of Miami, USA 7 Communities of Production: Eighteenth-Century Acting Companies Deborah C. Payne, American University, USA 8 Repertoire and Genres: Cultural Logics and the Trick of Theatrical Longevity Lisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 9 Technologies of Performance: Architecture, Scenery, Light Pannill Camp, Washington University, USA 10 Knowledge Transmission: Theatrical Intelligence and the Intelligence of Theatre Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph, Canada Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisKim Solga is is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, Canada. Her books include Performance and the City (2009), Performance and the Global City (2013), Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance (2009), and A Cultural History of Theatre: The Modern Age (Methuen Drama, 2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction: The Impossible Modern Age Kim Solga, Western University, Canada 1 Institutional Frameworks: Theatre, State, and Market in Modern Urban Performance Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of London, UK 2 Social Functions: Consumers and Producers Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary University of London, UK 3 Sexuality and Gender: New Stories and New Spaces on the Modern Stage Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&M University, USA 4 The Environment of Theatre: ‘Home’ in the Modern Age Kim Solga, Western University, Canada and Joanne Tompkins, The University of Queensland, Australia 5 Circulations: Visual Sovereignty, Transmotion, and Tribalography Jill Carter, University of Tornoto, Canada, Heather Davis-Fisch,University of the Fraser Valley, USA and Ric Knowles, University of Guelph, Canada 6 Interpretations: The Stakes of Audience Interpretation in Twentieth-Century Political Theatre Dassia N. Posner, Northwestern University, USA 7 Communities of Production: A Materialist Reading with an Offstage View Christin Essin,Vanderbilt University, USA and Marlis Schweitzer, York University, Canada 8 Genres and Repertoires: Redressing the Nation in Ireland and Japan Michelle Liu Carriger,University of California, Los Angeles , USA and Aoife Monks, Queen Mary University of London, UK 9 Technologies of Performance: Machinic Staging and Corporeal Choreographies Ashley Ferro-Murray, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Timothy Murray, Cornell University, USA 10 Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College, USA Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFor more than a decade now, the issue of Scottish independence has been one of the key features in British politics and has raised questions as to the likely survival of the United Kingdom in the post Brexit era. In Scotland, the SNP has been in government since 2007 and has established a political hegemony that makes it the most successful political party in terms of electoral politics in Europe. Yet, the political philosophy of this movement has not been studied in any great depth and a number of basic questions remain unanswered, such as why is the movement non-violent and constitutional? Why does it believe that Scotland as a nation should exercise its right to self-determination and how does it square a largely outward-looking and cosmopolitan vision of society with nationalism? This book answers these important questions. By examining the evolution of nationalist ideas on Scottish history, its relationship to the philosophy of nationalism, as well as how the Treaty of Union Trade ReviewMost studies of the national movement in Scotland focus onits organisation,policies and political impact.Written by a leading historian of Scotland,this important contribution to the subject takes a different approach by analysing the evolution of the fundamental ideas over the long term on which the aspirations to Scottish independence were built and developed. * Tom Devine, Professor Sir, University of Edinburgh, UK *This is an incisive and invigorating forensic examination of the constitutional questions that have come to dominate Scottish politics; a wide-ranging and nuanced examination whose hallmark is enlightened scepticism, not polemical pandering to nationalists and unionists. * Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. *Scottish Nationalism comprehensively covers the history and motivation of the independence movement, paying particular attention to the historic background of the movement and the question of the nature of sovereignty. * Professor Murray Pittock, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsList of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction 1. The historic nation 2. Nationalism 3. Constitutionalism 4. Home rule and unionism 5. Ideology: left, right and the state Conclusion Notes Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe first full-length biography in English of Aspar, the eastern Roman general and statesman, this book explores his central role in the history and politics of the fragmenting Roman Empire in the fifth century. It also considers what his life and career may suggest as to the differing fates of the eastern and western parts of the empire. Taking a chronological approach, Bleeker guides us through what is known of Aspar's life and his changing influence in the eastern Roman army and court. Born and raised in Constantinople, Aspar primarily viewed and presented himself as a Roman general, consul, and senator. Yet he also stood outside the Roman mainstream in two important waysas a member of the empire's barbarian military leadership and as a devout Arian Christian. Early chapters treat his formative military experiences with the Persians, a Roman usurper in Italy, the Vandals in Africa, and the Huns of Attila, while later chapters focus on Aspar's political role in resolving the two imTrade ReviewIn this engaging and insightful study, the figure of Aspar finally receives the detailed, extended treatment he warrants. His career serves as an invaluable lens through which to view the fascinating and tumultuous political and military history of the fifth-century Roman Empire. -- Doug Lee, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, University of Nottingham, UKTable of ContentsPreface Map List of Illustrations Genealogies (Theodosius I, Aspar, Leo I) I. Why Does Aspar Matter? II. “Barbarians” and “Heretics” III. Aspar’s Antecedents IV. Ardaburius the Elder & Aspar: Wars in Persia and Italy (421-25) V. Aspar in Africa: The War With the Vandals (431-435) VI. Aspar and Attila: The Wars With the Huns (440-450) VII. Aspar and the Choice of Marcian (450-457) VIII. Aspar and the Choice of Leo (457) IX. Aspar’s Struggle with Leo Begins (457-465) X. The Rise of Zeno (465 – 467) XI. Leo’s African Gamble (467-468) XII. Aspar’s Apogee (469-471) XIII. Aftermath (471-491) XIV. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis accessible edition for students presents Herodotus as one of the most fascinating and colourful authors from the ancient world. Book III of Herodotus' nine-book work is one of the richest in its exploration of themes, such as the practices and customs of different peoples and the nature of political power, issues still much debated today. This commentary illuminates the geographical and even anthropological scope of Herodotus'' history, and enables students to confidently tackle the text in the original Greek. Bringing together a full introduction, text, commentary and translation, Longley makes Herodotus accessible to students of ancient Greek. This guide shows us why Herodotus is still considered the Father of History'.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Maps of Greece, Persia and North Africa 1. Introduction i) The Histories of Herodotus - What we Know about Herodotus Himself - Histories ii) Herodotus as Historian - Herodotus on Historical Enquiry - To Include or not to Include - Speeches in History iii) Where Book III Fits in - Content and Structure - Themes and Thought iv) Book III and Fifth-Century Thought - Political Philosophy: v) Herodotus: Language and Style - Prose Style and Literary Technique - Features of Ionic Dialect Compared to Attic 2. Text 3. Commentary - Historical Background and Context before Sections as Relevant - Points of Historical Accuracy - Points of Literary and Stylistic Interest - Points of Language and Dialect - Grammar and Translation Comment and Assistance where Needed Appendix – Quotations from other Fifth-Century Authors on Key Themes of Greek Thought of the Time Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for no-one but themselves. It explores Rand's conception of American identity, which exalted individualism and capitalism, and her solution for saving the modern American nation, which she believed was losing the spirit of its 18th- and 19th-century founders and frontiersmen, having been degraded morally and economically by the rampant socialism of the mid-20th-century world.Derek Offord crucially goes on to analyse how Rand's writings functioned as a vehicle in which she, a Russian-Jewish writer born in St Petersburg in 1905, engaged with ideas that had long animated the Russian intelligentsia. Her conception of human nature and of a utopian community capable of satisfying its needs; her Trade ReviewDerek Offord’s lively, authoritative and controversial book underscores Ayn Rand’s Russian intellectual roots and — more importantly — the habits of mind that she applied later in writing her famous American novels. Offord highlights aspects of American (and not only American!) radical libertarian politics that have been little recognized up to now but deserve remembering. * Gary Hamburg, Otho M. Behr Professor of the History of Ideas, Claremont McKenna College, USA *The high priestess of American capitalism was actually a Russian Nihilist gone rogue. That is the unlikely message of Derek Offord’s challenging and engrossing study, which shows how Ayn Rand turned upside down the utopian dreams and literary traditions of Russian radicals and wrote a series of ‘capitalist realist’ novels. Although living more than fifty years in American emigration, she remained, Offord argues, ‘a typical representative of the Russian intelligentsia’. * Geoffrey Swain, Emeritus Professor (School of Social & Political Sciences), University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ayn Rand and her Russian Background 2. Rand and the Russian Intellectual Tradition 3. Rand and Russian Literary Models 4. Ethical, Metaphysical, and Epistemological Questions 5. Politics and Economics 6. Geopolitics Conclusion Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary SupplementThe Middle Ages were a time of great innovation, artistic vigor, and cultural richness. Appearances mattered a great deal during this vibrant era and hair was a key marker of the dynamism and sophistication of the period. Hair became ever more central to religious iconography, from Mary Magdalen to the Virgin Mary, while vernacular poets embellished their verses with descriptions of hairstyles both humble and elaborate, and merchants imported the finest hair products from great distances.Drawing on a wealth of visual, textual and object sources, the volume examines how hairstyles and their representations developedoften to a degree of dazzling complexitybetween the years AD 800 and AD 1450. From wimpled matrons and tonsured monks to adorned noblewomen, hair is revealed as a potent cultural symbol of gender, age, sexuality, health, class, and race.Illustrated with aTrade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue. * Times Literary Supplement *[A] thoroughly researched, theoretically grounded volume that sheds needed light on the cultural significances of hair in medieval visual and literary culture. -- Holly Flora, Tulane University, USATable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Alexa Sand 2. Self and Society, Hanna Hopwood 3. Fashion and Adornment, Laura Diener 4. Production and Practice, Laura Diener 5. Health and Hygiene, Fernando Salmón and Montserrat Cabré 6. Gender and Sexuality, Martha Easton 7. Race and Ethnicity, Kim M. Phillips 8. Class and Social Status, John Friedman 9. Cultural Representations, Penny Howell Jolly Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisEdith Snook is Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.Trade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue. * Times Literary Supplement *Individually, Edith Snook’s international team of historians and literary scholars brings fresh new perspectives to nine key themes in renaissance hair. Collectively, the volume powerfully explores the extent to which, from 1450 to 1650, when sumptuary laws policing European fashion were at their most influential, social distinctions overruled personal preference to dictate – and reflect – how people styled and cared for their hair. -- M A Katritzky, Open University, UKA fascinating collection of essays written from a wealth of disciplinary perspectives … This wonderful volume looks at hair as a cultural artifact whose colour, cut or arrangement, modest covering or disheveled disarray communicated a wealth of information about an individual. This is a valuable contribution to Renaissance and early modern history of the body and material history. -- Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, Syracuse University, ItalyTable of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Gary K. White 2. Self and Society, Anu Korhonen 3. Fashion and Adornment, Carole Collier Frick 4. Production and Practice, Annemarie Kinzelbach 5. Health and Hygiene, Edith Snook 6. Gender and Sexuality, Mark Albert Johnston 7. Race and Ethnicity, Nicholas Jones 8. Class and Social Status, Jana Mathews 9. Cultural Representations, Lyn Bennett Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGeraldine Biddle-Perry is Associate Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins, London, UK, and co-author of Hair: Styling, Culture and Fashion.Trade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue, partly because the study of hair demands an exhilarating disciplinary range: from the art of cuts and colours, the history of scissors, razors and combs and the sociology of barbershops, to the semiotics of hair pulling and lock tugging, the ethnography of “Afros”, and the sexual politics of boyish bobs. * Times Literary Supplement *[I]n carefully argued, insightful case studies that deploy sophisticated analytical tools, this volume’s contributors document the complex shifts in hair dressing and grooming which have located hair as central to contemporary individualistic self-fashioning and as a key signifier of sexuality and lifestyle politics. Innovative and persuasive, this collection provides an invaluable history of hair for those who want to truly understand its modern significance and powerful cultural status. -- Andrew Stephenson, University of East London, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface Introduction: Modern Hair in a Modern Age, Geraldine Biddle-Perry 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and Hanna Cody 2. Self and Society, Elisha P. Renne (Part 1) and Royce Mahawatte (Part 2) 3. Fashion and Adornment, Alice Beard 4. Production and Practice, Kim Smith 5. Health and Hygiene, Paul R. Deslandes 6. Gender and Sexuality, Chelsea Johnson and Kristen Barber 7. Race and Ethnicity, Shirley Anne Tate 8. Class and Social Status, Geraldine Biddle-Perry 9. Cultural Representations, Nathalie Khan Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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