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Book SynopsisSmall Spaces recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized peoplethe servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minoritieswho held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism. With the focus of history so often on the large scale - global trade networks, vast regions, and archiTrade ReviewThis brilliantly provocative study provides an alternative, micro-scalar history of colonial and middle-class domiciles, along with an extraordinary archaeology of objects and bodies that mediated the intimacy of the rulers and the ruled—taking us on an exhilarating journey from the cellars, kitchens, dining rooms and verandahs of the imperial mansions of Calcutta to the streets, bazars and bungalows of the Bengal and north-Indian countryside. * Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis, USA *In this erudite yet eminently accessible volume, Chattopadhyay imaginatively stitches together the overlooked worlds of fragmented and seemingly minor spaces underpinning the workings of everyday life and better regarded practices, inspiring readers, by example, to recognize their indispensability and resilience. * Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle University, UK *An original examination of empire from marginal spaces in the built environment. This book unites subalterns with the spatial medium of their agency during colonial rule. It brilliantly reveals the hidden infrastructure of empire through an architectural and social history of service, separation, and subordination. * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part I. Small Spaces 1. Of Small Spaces 2. Empire of Small Spaces Part II: Trade and Labor 3. Dependency 4. Locating the Bottlekhana 5. Potable Empire 6. Europe Goods 7. Strange Tongues 8. Making Invisible Part III: Land Imagination 9. Vantage 10. Connective Spaces 11. Anomalous Spaces 12. An Aesthetic Episode 13. Roofscape Part IV: A Geography of Small Spaces 14. Collections and Containment 15. Portable Geographies 16. A Good Shelf 17. A Box of Medicine 18. Epilogue Appendix A Index

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the book''s core ideas. The Spear: city-state Greeks developed a citizen-militia military system that gave relatively equal importance to each citizen-warrior, thereby emboldening the citizen-warriors to demand political rights. The Pebble: the resultant growth of collective political systems of oligarchy and democracy led to thousands of citizens forming the sovereign element of the state; they made political decisions through communal debate and voting. The Scroll: in order for such systems to function, a shared information base had to be Trade ReviewThis book makes a convincing case for the primacy of education and literacy in the ancient Greek world across the whole of society. It revolutionizes our understanding of the impact this literacy had on the development of government structures and daily life. -- Gil Davis, Associate Professor in Archaeology, Australian Catholic University, AustraliaTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Origin and Early Development of the City-State Chapter 2: Economic Growth: A Necessary Condition for the City-State Chapter 3: The Spear: Warfare and the City-State Chapter 4: The Pebble: Collective Decision Making and the City-State Chapter 5. The Scroll: Literacy and the City-State Conclusion: The Literate Citizen Appendix 1: Aristotle’s Politeiai Appendix 2: Colonies and Metropoleis Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGuiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas from the 16th to the 20th centuries. From the environment to The Great Divergence, finance, consumption, trade, industrialisation, commodities and labour regimes, it demonstrates the global nature of economic history, and highlights how indispensable it is and has been.Updated throughout, this new edition boasts an expanded introduction and four new chapters on capitalism and political economy, European empires and colonialism, North Africa and the Middle East, and the North American Economy. A comprehensive introduction to global economic history, this textbook provides students with a confident grasp of the field, its key debates and essential issues.

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Book SynopsisWhen The Beatles arrived in postwar America, Beatlemania swept the nation as hysterical girls flocked to the band and young men grew out their hair. In this book Andrew Hunt explores this wildly enthusiastic fandom from the bottom-up. Showcasing oral histories, fan magazines, club newsletters, newspapers and personal memoirs, he uncovers The Beatles'' fan culture from the perspective of Beatlemaniacs, Beatlephobes and ordinary Americans to understand the impact it had on society at large. Offering a cultural history from below, Beatlemania in America highlights previously neglected voices of fans, critics, parents, teachers and politicians. It contextualises the Beatles fandom against a wider, global perspective of changing cultures and shows how this band was part of a wider shift of social change. It delves into who Beatles fans were and shows how their collective voice gave them power. Exploring themes of gender and race in this turbulent and tumultuous era of American histoTrade ReviewA fascinating account of the youth craze known as Beatlemania. While explaining the screaming crowds that the Beatles garnered as they toured the U.S., Hunt documents important themes, like how the civil rights movement related to the craze and how merchandising and commodification of the band mattered as much as the music itself. Fans did what they wanted to squeeze meaning out of it all. And before reading this book, I had never heard of anti-Beatles clubs! And just how polarized American audiences were. Just something more to add to an already fascinating treatment of Beatlemania. * Kevin Mattson Connor, Study Professor of Contemporary History, Ohio University, USA *Beatlemania in America offers a nuanced look at one of the most consequential cultural phenomena of the twentieth century. The challenge in writing about Beatlemania today is to not only offer new insights, but to communicate the band's ubiquity and disruptiveness. Andrew Hunt has met this challenge. * Candy Leonard, author of Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World *Andrew Hunt’s Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from Below affords readers with a fascinating study of the fan communities that made the Beatles’ pop-cultural explosion a reality for the ages. Drawing on fanzines and oral histories, Hunt brings the contours of Beatlemania to life in new and innovative ways. * Kenneth Womack, author of Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Early Stirrings: The Origins of American Beatlemania 2. Hysterical Girls and Long-Haired Boys: Beatlemania through a Gendered Lens 3. Blurring the Colour Line: Beatlemania, Race and the African American Experience 4. Beatlemania’s Discontents: Beatlephobia and Culture Wars in the Mid-sixties 5. The Beatles for Sale: Marketing, Merchandizing and Beatlemania 6. Coming Apart: Later Beatlemania in a Time of Torment 7. The Legacies of Beatlemania Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSusan Kent is Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. A specialist in British Imperialism from a global and comparative perspective, she teaches courses such as Introduction to British History since 1660' and Settler Colonialism, 17th century to the present'. She is the author of several books including Gender: A World History (OUP, 2020), The Global 1930s (Routledge 2017), A New History of Britain since 1688 (OUP, 2016) and Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980 (Routledge, 2015).

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Book SynopsisIn Victorian England, Amelia B. Edwards was an iconic cultural figure, admired by Trollope and Browning for her best-selling fiction and by the wider public for her witty, thought-provoking travel writing. In later life, she became a celebrated historian, bringing fresh understanding of the world of Ancient Egypt to a fascinated public and founding the Egyptian Exploration Fund (Society). This new biography uses previously overlooked sources to tell the story of her fascinating and unconventional life - her travels, travails and feminist activism - as well as touching on her occasionally problematic views on race. In appreciation of a figure ahead of her time, it examines her involvement in suffrage and animal rights societies as well as revealing new insights into Edwards' loving same-sex relationships with Ellen Rice Byrne and Lucy Renshaw. In doing so, it reveals a versatile, creative, witty, independent woman, and a true pioneer of her time.Trade ReviewMargaret C. Jones is a writer of feminist biographies, and her enthusiastic engagement with her remarkable subject shines through every page ... Jones is entirely successful in revivifying the “complex, enigmatic, multitalented woman” that was Amelia Edwards. * Victorian Popular Fictions Journal *Margaret Jones has admirably brought together the remarkable and varied threads of Amelia B Edwards’ life in this greatly updated and carefully researched biography, a must-read for anyone interested in in this novelist, travel writer, and pioneer of British Egyptology! * Carl Graves, Director of the Egypt Exploration Society *‘A beautifully written, well-researched, and an important recuperation of the fascinating life and work of the well-known Victorian explorer, novelist, and trailblazing queer writer, Amelia B. Edwards. You must get this book if you want to learn more about women’s writing and travel.’ * Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, USA. *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Young Amelia Chapter 2. Love – and The Dolomites Chapter 3. The Nile Chapter 4. Inventing Egypt Chapter 5. Founding the Fund Chapter 6. A Very Private Life Chapter 7. Novelist Chapter 8. America Chapter 9. A Quiet Activist Chapter 10. Reputation Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGennady Estraikh's book explores the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the Jewish question', arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and entitlements in the Soviet world. Estraikh brings together a broad range of Russian and Yiddish sources, including archival materials, newspaper articles, travelogues, memoirs, belles-letters, and scholarly publications, as he describes and analyses the project and its realization not in isolation, but rather in the context of developments in both domestic and international life. As well as offering an assessment of the Birobidzhan project in the contexts of Soviet and Jewish history, the book also focuses on the contemporary Jewish' role of the region whiTrade ReviewThe Russian Shorts series by Bloomsbury Academic has been enriched with another title. To the list of such comprehensive works as a brief but extremely fact rich history of Birobidzhan, or the Jewish Autonomous Region within the Russian Federation has been added… Gennady Estraikh’s History of Birobidzhan presents a rich collection of diverse facts from various sources (some of which are rather hard to access), often capable of surprising even seasoned experts in the history of Soviet Jewry in general and Birobidzhan in particular, and pointing to new directions for potential research. * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Infrastructure of Jewish Life 1. The Spectre of a Jewish Republic 2. Growing Pains 3. The Repression 4. The 1940s: New Hope 5. An Almost-Lost World of Jewish Life 6. A Propaganda Facade 7. Afterlife Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWell-researched... a welcome guide. The SpectatorReliable and lucid. History TodayWith a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for natural disasters, migrant labour and dictatorial presidents, in this book Philip Bowing shows how it is much, much more. Deftly navigating the history of this populous island republic, The Making of the Modern Philippines traces its history to define and explain its position in the modern world. Looking past the headlines of volcanoes, earthquakes and violence, it asks why has the Filipino economy lagged behind its neighbours, explores the importance of its location in geopolitics, and investigates how its deep-rooted Catholicism clashes with the Islamic consciousness of the region in which it sits. Taking the history of the Philippines from its pre-colonial era, through its Spanish and American occupationsTrade ReviewA serious, well-researched survey of the Philippines, noted its manifold weaknesses and set them against what has been achieved in neighbouring countries. His is a welcome guide for the general reader to a country whose excesses are often difficult to fathom. -- Simon Scott Plummer * The Spectator *Bowring’s reliable and lucid new book draws on his experience as a journalist in the region. -- Michael Dillon * History Today *Provides insight into what Filipinos think about their country. -- Alan Robles * South China Morning Post *[Bowring] is the perfect chronicler of what Filipinos have done right and wrong … It is a much-needed wake-up call from someone with no agenda. -- Ruel S. De Vera * The Philippine Daily Inquirer *The Philippines merits both more attention and more understanding and The Making of the Modern Philippines is both a good place to start and a useful crib-sheet for those who had been following along but whose memory needs brushing up. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *A book that the world should be reading to better understand the political tidal waves [in the Philippines]. -- John Berthelsen * Asia Sentinel *In The Making of the Modern Philippines, Phillip Bowring is acutely aware of the many contradictions that define the Philippines. Only someone who has lived and loved the region – a genuine “Asia hand,” as it were - can give us this fraught portrait of my country. * Patricio N. Abinales, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA *Bowring’s book on the Philippine narrative is a pot of history and current events, compressing the past and dissecting the present. It is the book Filipino youths, bombarded with revisionism, must read to understand the schizophrenic nature of their country’s ghosts with the Spanish, the Americans, and the Japanese. They will be able to see the landscape of the Left and the Right, the Church and the Oligarchs that stirred politics into the everyday lives of the people that were once proud of leading the pack of Southeast Asian nations. Just by the woven accounts of the past thirty-five years since the fall of a dictatorship, Bowring was able to us what went so wrong and what is left of the hopes a country had stood for. * Criselda Yabes, Writer and Journalist, The Philippines *This extraordinarily wide-ranging, yet accessible, account illuminates the intersections between the Philippines’ Malayic roots and connections, its obdurate colonial inheritances, and its contemporary geopolitical predicaments. Bowring works concertedly through the country’s complex, diverse past(s), painting a vivid picture of how today’s Philippines came to be – and what it could become. * Liana Chua, Tunku Abdul Rahman Assistant Professor in Malay World Studies, University of Cambridge, UK *The Philippines has long seemed something of an enigma to outsiders -- 2,000 disparate islands, ruled as a single political entity for more than 500 years. An indigenous Malay archipelago, but seeming more Spanish than Asian. And a former American colony with a U.S.-style constitution and political system, but a country marred by feudalism, violence and dictatorship. In The Making of the Modern Philippines, journalist and historian Philip Bowring makes sense of the riddle of the Philippines. In a lively narrative that begins in pre-colonial times and continues through colonization and occupation to the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship and the rule of its authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte, Bowring shows us how the country's modern dark impulses are rooted in its past. This timely book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand this strategically vital country and its 100 million people, whose destiny could have outsized impact on Asia and the future stability of the region.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction 1. Fractured Geography, Complex Identity 2. More Church than State 3. Uncle Sam’s Brown Boys 4. Choices of Evils 5. Old Wine in New Bottles 6. Marcos: Power Corrupts Absolutely 7. Ladders and Snakes 8. Straight Paths and Road Blocks 9. Man with a Gun 10. 'Imperial' Manila's Weak Grip 11. Lost Advantage 12. The Root of Poverty 13. An Unempowered Economy 14. Beyond the Bayan 15. Of “Free Trade” and the Short Arm of the Law 16. Happy Families of Conglomerate Capitalism 17. Mindanao: Beckoning Frontier 18. Moros, Datus, Military and More 19. Religion on its Sleeve 20. Left Field Lies Fallow 21. Foreign Policy: All at Sea Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSlavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants. Ana Lucia Araujo shows that these calls for reparations have persevered over a long and difficult history. She traces the ways in which enslaved and freed individuals have conceptualized the idea of reparations since the 18th century in petitions, correspondence, pamphlets, public speeches, slave narratives, and judicial claims. Taking the reader through the era of slavery, emancipation, post-abolition, and the present day and drawing on the voices of various of enslaved peoples and their descendants, the book illuminates the multiple dimensions of the demands of reparations. This new edition boasts a new chapter on the global impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the seismic effect of the killing of George Floyd, calls for university reparations anTrade ReviewThis is a book I've been waiting for - a timely and overdue account of the centuries-long cry for reparations, written by a gifted historian of transatlantic slavery. * Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh, USA *‘Araujo is the first scholar to examine reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade comparatively and transnationally, drawing on a broad range of texts in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish … An important book for all collections. Summing Up: Essential. All libraries.’ * CHOICE *‘The trans-Atlantic debate about reparations for slavery has long needed a serious historical explanation. Now, in Ana Lucia Araujo’s book, we have the answer. This original, sweeping study, grounded in meticulous research, explains how and why reparations have become so pressing a modern-day issue. It is essential reading for everyone concerned – whatever their viewpoint.’ * James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York, UK *‘Ana Lucia Araujo’s book on slavery reparations movements reaches across time and space. She considers enslavement, emancipation, and the continued refusal of every single slave-owning society in the Atlantic world—the USA, Britain, France, Brazil, Portugal, and Spain, especially—to address the centuries of theft that made them wealthy and built the modern global political economy. Professor Araujo’s erudition is unbounded, and her clear, readable prose will make this book an important and useful addition to the toolkits of academics, students, and activists.’ * Edward E. Baptist, Professor of History, Cornell University, USA *‘Araujo’s history offers a compelling review of the rationales made for reparations payments, the historical actors who made such claims, and historical events that motivated their political demands … Reparations for Slavery and The Slave Trade is an insightful and expansive history of enslavement that reveals the interconnected nature of the Atlantic world from the origins of enslavement to the present day.’ * Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective *‘This book is absolutely indispensable and makes an important contribution to what Araujo concludes is an ‘unfinished struggle.’ * The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History *‘What is so clear in this important and timely book is that many people keep making moral claims even as they are repeatedly, rudely, and firmly rejected by those in power … While the focus of the book is on reparation claims, Araujo puts those claims in the context of the broader movement for economic and social empowerment of people of African descent. It is this comprehensive and broad story that makes Reparations the best book yet on reparations for slavery … As others take up the difficult moral questions it raises, such as who should pay and why, this book will be at the center of discussions of ways in which the past burdens the present.’ * New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids *‘In this insightful and compelling study, Ana Lucia Araujo shows the importance of a transnational and comparative approach to examining the ways in which slave societies throughout the Americas presented the case for reparations.’ * The North Carolina Historical Review *‘Araujo has cemented herself as a senior historian thoroughly in command of her craft … In addition to the U.S., nearly every country in Latin America and the Caribbean makes an appearance. While focused on reparations, the book also serves as a global primer on slavery and emancipation … Overall, Araujo’s book offers a valuable contribution to scholars of the African Diaspora.’ * Black Perspectives *‘A wide-ranging overview of the historical and contemporary struggle for reparations ... A book that will enrich current debates surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, controversial monuments and memorials to slave holders and Con-federate heroes, and the ongoing social inequalities along racial lines ... Readers of many varieties will bene?t from Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade as a classroom text, research tool, and narrative guide to the evolution of one of the most contentious issues of our times. It will broaden the scope of intellectual discussions because of its international orientation, and it will deepen readers’ appreciation for the long history of the struggle.’ * The American Historical Review *Reparations for Slavery is a thorough and comprehensive history of this topic. A must read for anyone interested in the global reach of the movements for reparations. * Joan W. Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, USA *This excellent study not only reaffirms the importance of the current debate about reparations but advances a subtle argument via a wide range of new materials - historical, political, archival, and visual. The author’s command of the intellectual arguments steers her through contentious political issues which would distract a lesser historian. The result is a very important and well-written book which is relevant, topical and persuasive. * James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus, University of York, UK *Araujo offers a precious transnational study, grounded on research in four languages, of how the global histories of African slavery generated demands for reparatory justice which, beginning in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries, reached a new urgency in the 1960s and in our post-2020 moment. * Richard Drayton, Professor of Imperial and Global History, London, UK *In this book, Araujo revisits the human tragedy that was the trans-Atlantic trafficking in enslaved Africans and its afterlife - a global movement for reparatory justice. She tracks brilliantly the genealogy and current status of the movement. This is a must read for all who believe in a resolution for the injustices inflicted on people by barbaric colonial systems * Verene A. Shepherd, Professor Emerita, History & Gender Studies. The University of the West Indies, Jamaica *In this timely and updated edition of her comprehensive history of reparations, Ana Lucia Araujo provides us with an authoritative transnational narrative. This wonderful book will appeal both to specialists and a broader lay public interested in the legacies of the enslavement of people of African descent in the Americas. * Manisha Sinha, Draper Chair in American History, University of Connecticut, USA, and author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reparations in the Past and the Present 1. Greatest Riches from Our Blood and Tears 2. “And What Should We Wait of these Brutish Spirits?” 3. “We Helped to Pay this Cost” 4. “What Else Will the Negro Expect?” 5. “It’s Time For Us to Get Paid” 6. Reparations in the 21st Century Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLasting over 120 years, the Arab-Israeli conflict involves divergent narratives about history, national identities, land ownership, injustices and victimhood. Domestic forces and actors as well as international and regional dynamics have ensured the conflict's durability. A distinguished team of authors comprising an Israeli, a Palestinian and an Egyptian present a broader Arab perspective in this innovative textbook that offers a balanced and nuanced introduction to a highly contentious subject. Providing an overview of key developments in the history of the conflict, it explores attempts at resolution, before going on to portray the perspectives of the important parties. It places the events of the conflict within a regional and international context, providing an invaluable insight into the opposing narratives behind the conflict. The much-anticipated second edition of Arabs and Israelis includes:- Up-to-date coverage of key developments since the Arab Awakening, includinTrade ReviewThe tripartite approach of the authors – who write with one voice, rather than making independent contributions – is a powerful testament to the possibility of collaboration and compromise… for anyone craving a readable, no-nonsense analysis of the decades of this continuing crisis, it offers the key – a whole bunch of keys – to a new understanding. * Perspective Magazine *Written by a collection of Israeli, Egyptian and Palestinian scholars, this is a broad and brilliantly executed discussion on the topic. It provides a wider context to the situation in Gaza, situating it within the complex and ever-shifting world of Middle Eastern politics. Views are well-balanced and considered, making this an essential read for anyone new to the subject. * Harper's Bazaar *Table of ContentsPreface About the Authors List of Illustrations Select Chronology: Key Moments in the Arab–Israeli Conflict,1516–2012 Introduction 1 The Formative Years 2 The Partitioning of Palestine: “Nakba” and Independence 3 Under the Cold War: The 1956 Sinai–Suez War 4 The 1967 War: The Victory and the “Naksa” 5 From Limited War to Limited Accommodation 6 Camp David and the Lebanon War 7 From the First Intifada to Madrid and Oslo 8 Failures of Implementation of the Madrid Conference 9 Oslo’s State-building and Peacemaking 10 The Failure of Permanent Status Negotiations 11 The Second Intifada 12 From the Second Lebanon War to the Arab Awakening 13 Conclusion – A Conflict that Never Ends? Appendix: Separation Barrier Map Index

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Book SynopsisThe Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive?This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. From the origins of Christian antisemitism and the creation of monstrous Others' to the immediate aftermath of these crimes against humanity and the rise of right-wing ideologies in the 21st century, this book is structured both chronologically and thematically in order to clearly explain the ideas that made the Holocaust possible, how people mounted resistance at the time, and the Holocaust's legacy today. On top of this unparalleled access to the voices of the Holocaust, Steve Hochstadt's authoritative and scholarly commentaries on each source ensures readers gain a comprehensive understaTrade ReviewSources of the Holocaust assembles a powerful record of the Holocaust’s long incubation and Nazi-led implementation in the 1930s and 1940s. Supporting commentaries on the language which normalized discrimination and manifested murder, the defiant responses of its victim groups, and postwar societal resonances, further embed the Holocaust’s centrality in European and global history. Highly recommended. * Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer, Holocaust Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Steve Hochstadt has produced a highly useful collection of Holocaust-related documents. The sources assembled here provide broad chronological, geographical, and thematic coverage of the subject. Each document is accompanied by a brief and insightful commentary. I recommend this volume for any college-level course on the Holocaust. * Alan E. Steinweis, Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Vermont, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. The Context of Christian Antisemitism 1. Excerpts from the New Testament 2. Jewish chronicle of murders in Rhine cities in 1096 during the First Crusade 3. Excerpts from Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, 1543 4. Papal bull about Jews, ‘Cum nimis absurdum by Pope Paul IV, 14 July 1555 5. Excerpts from article ‘Jewish Morality’ in Vatican newspaper, 10 January 1893 Part II. The Creation of Monsters in Germany: Jews and Others 6. Bavarian petition opposing equality for Jews, 10 January 1850 7. Excerpt from Heinrich von Treitschke, ‘Our Views’, 1879 8. Excerpt from Permission for the Extermination of Life Unworthy of Life, 1920 9. Excerpts from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler 10. Court judgment in the murder of a Polish laborer by SA men on 10 August 1932 Part III. The Nazi Attack on Jews and Other Undesirables in the Third Reich, 1933–1938 11. Bavarian state report about the murder of a Jewish businessman, 20 March 1933 12. Memoir by Dr Paula Tobias about boycott of 1 April 1933 13. Minutes of a meeting about Jewish “attacks against the race”, 5 June 1934 14. Report of underground Social Democratic Party on persecution of German Jews, August 1935 15. Nuremberg Law against intermarriage between Jews and German citizens, 15 September 1935 16. Form for Jehovah’s Witnesses to renounce their religious beliefs, 1936 17. Speech by Heinrich Himmler to SS leaders on homosexuality, 18 February 1937 18. Excerpts from the Nazi Party training manual for Hitler Youth, About the German People and its Living Space: Handbook for Training the Hitler Youth, 1938 19. Children’s story from Ernst Hiemer, The Poisonous Mushroom, 1938 20. Decree by Heinrich Himmler on “Combatting the Gypsy Plague”, 8 December 1938 Part IV. The Physical Assault on Jews in Germany, 1938-1939 21. Memoir by Walter Grab about persecution of Jews in Vienna after the Anschluss of March 1938 22. Letter urging that Jews be fired from Austrian industry, 29 June 1938 23. Letter resisting the confiscation of a Jewish business, 14 July 1938 24. Letter confirming possession of Chinese visa, 23 September 1938 25. British memorandum on Evian conference, 17 October 1938 26. Report of Darmstadt SA on Kristallnacht, 11 November 1938 27. Transcript of Nazi Party meeting led by Field Marshall Hermann Göring after Kristallnacht, 12 November 1938 28. Letter about finding work in British households for Czech Jewish refugees, 17 November 1938 29. Gestapo report from Bielefeld about Kristallnacht destruction, 26 November 1938 30. Instruction from Foreign Office on eliminating Jews from German life, 25 January 1939 31. Instruction from US Secretary of State on preventing Jewish refugees from entering Shanghai, 18 February 1939 Part V. The Perfection of Genocide as National Policy, 1939-1943 32. Letter from Reinhard Heydrich planning the‘concentration’ of Polish Jews, 21 September 1939 33. War diary of Lt. Col. Helmuth Groscurth about massacres of Polish civilians on 7–8 October 1939 34. Announcement that Jews in the Lódz region must wear yellow armband, 14 November 1939 35. Postwar testimony about the first successful gassing of intellectually disabled people on 4 January 1940 36. Minutes of conference about deportation of Poles, Jews and Roma, 30 January 1940 37. Report of meeting of German mayors concerning murder of disabled people, 3 April 1940 38. Memorandum from US State Department on delaying immigration, 26 June 1940 39. Report of the murder of Jews by Lithuanians in Vilna by Grigorij Schur, June 1941 40. Table of money saved by murdering disabled people, 1941 41. Report of Einsatzgruppen murders in Soviet Union, 2 October 1941 42. German Army orders on the ‘Conduct of the Troops in the Eastern Territories’, 10 October 1941 43. Plan for ‘solution of the Jewish question’ by mass gassing, 25 October 1941 44. Foreign Office memorandum on murder of Jews in Yugoslavia, 25 October 1941 45. German Army report on shootings of Jews and Roma in Yugoslavia, 27–30 October 1941 46. Report on police battalion murder of Jews in Belorussia, 30 October 1941 47. Article by Josef Goebbels on Jews in Das Reich, 16 November 1941 48. Minutes of the Wannsee Conference about the ‘final solution’, 20 January 1942 49. Report on use of trucks to kill Jews with exhaust gas in Soviet Union, 16 May 1942 50. Proposal that several million Jews be sterilized for slave labor, 23 June 1942 51. Letter from Gestapo ordering deportation of Jews in Schwerin, 6 July 1942 52. Report by Gestapo on French-German cooperation on deportation of Jews, 8 July 1942 53. Protest of the Bishop of Montauban against deportations in France, 26 August 1942 54. Report by Himmler to Hitler on mass murder of ‘partisans’ in Soviet Union, 29 December 1942 55. Gestapo report on deportation of Jews from France, 6 March 1943 56. Protest by Bulgarian legislators against deportation of Jews, 17 March 1943 57. Order by Himmler to destroy Ukraine, 7 September 1943 58. Speech by Himmler to SS-Gruppenführer in Posen, 4 October 1943 59. Postwar testimony about exhumation and cremation of corpses in 1943–44 60. Report by Odilo Globocnik on how death camps were financed, December 1943 Part VI. 'Arbeit Macht Frei': Work and Death in Concentration Camps and Ghettos 61. Normal murders at Buchenwald in 1941 62. Speech by Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of Lódz Jewish Council, 17 January 1942 63. Call for resistance in the Vilna Ghetto by Abba Kovner, 31 December 1941 64. Letter about feeding Soviet POWs working for German industry, 21 February 1942 65. Order to Warsaw Jewish Council to organize deportation ‘to the East’, 22 July 1942 66. Diary of Oskar Singer in Lódz Ghetto, 27 July 1942 67. Diary of Emanuel Ringelblum in Warsaw Ghetto, 14 December 1942 68. Report of SS Concentration Camp Office on mortality of prisoners, 28 December 1942 69. SS report on revolt in Warsaw Ghetto, 13 May 1943 70. Diary of Hanna Lévy-Hass in Bergen-Belsen, March 1945 71. Mauthausen death list, 19 March 1945 72. Report of SS doctor on health conditions in Neuengamme, 29 March 1945 Part VII. Assembly Lines of Death: Extermination Camps 73. Postwar deposition about the use of gas chambers in Belzec in August 1942 74. Memoir by Filip Müller on use of gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1942 75. Memoir by Irene Schwarz of Gestapo office work at Birkenau 76. Memoir by Shalom Kohn of the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943 77. Postwar statement by Arnest Tauber about slave labor at Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 78. Report on Auschwitz between 1942 and 1944 by escaped prisoners Alfréd Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, April 1944 79. Letter by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden about bombing Auschwitz, 7 July 1944 80. Memoir by Judith Isaacson on selection of women in Auschwitz, July 1944 81. List of transports to Birkenau gas chambers during October 1944 Part VIII. The Aftermath 82. London Agreement among Allies about nature of war crimes trial, 8 August 1945 83. Summary of evidence from defense witnesses at Nuremberg Trial, August 1946 84. West German law to compensate victims of persecution, 29 June 1956 85. Statement of Lutherans about Christians and Jews, July 1983 86. Speech by Elie Wiesel about President Ronald Reagan’s planned visit to Bitburg cemetery, 19 April 1985 87. Resolution of the East German Parliament on the Holocaust, 12 April 1990 Part IX. The Holocaust in Contemporary Life 88. Website about memorial Stolpersteine 89. Recommendation of Norwegian government to compensate Jews, 26 June 1998 90. Article ‘In Defense of Hitler’ in Egyptian government newspaper, 27 May 2001 91. International Tribunal judgement against Radislav Krsti_ for Srebrenica massacre, 2 August 2001 92. Joint resolution of Maine legislature on Holocaust remembrance, 13 March 2002 93. Speech by Björn Höcke in Dresden, organized by the Youth Organization of the Alternative für Deutschland, 17 January 2017 Conclusion Sources Select Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisOne of the biggest challenges in the study of history is the unreliable nature of traditional archival sources which omit histories of marginalised groups. This book makes the case that quantitative history offers a way to fill these gaps in the archive. Showcasing 13 case studies from the South African past, it applies quantitative sources, tools and methods to social histories from below to uncover the experiences of unchartered peoples. Examining the occupations of slaves, victims of the Spanish flu, health of schoolchildren and more, it shows how quantitative tools can be particularly powerful in regions where historical records are preserved, but questions of bias and prejudice pervade. Applying methods such as GIS mapping, network analysis and algorithmic matching techniques it explores histories of indigenous peoples, women, enslaved peoples and other groups marginalised in South African history. Connecting quantitative sources and new forms of data interpretation with a narTable of ContentsList of Figures Foreword, Robert Ross Preface 1. Quantitative History and Uncharted People, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 2. Bridal Pregnancy in the Mother City, 1900–1960, Laura Richardson (University of Cambridge, UK) and Jan Kok (Nijmegen University, The Netherlands) 3. Sex Ratios and Girl Preference in the Cape, 1894–2011, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Francisco Marco-Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) 4. Khoe Households in Swellendam, 1825, Calumet Links (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 5. Race Reclassification in Cape Town, 1950–1984, Brittany Chalmers (Stellenbosch University, South Africa), Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Kris Inwood (Guelph University, Canada) 6. Advertising the Enslaved for Sale: A Quantitative Approach to the Zuid-Afrikaan, 1830–1834, Wouter Raaijmakers (Radboud University, The Netherlands) and Kate Ekama (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 7. Domestic Service in Cape Town Before the Second World War, Amy Rommelspacher (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 8. Female Investors at the Cape, 1892–1902, Lloyd Maphosa (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Edward Kerby (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 9. Black Africans in Cape Town, 1890-1939, Nobungcwele Mbem (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) 10. Political Innovation in African Nationalist Organisations, 1880–1890, Jonathan Schoots (University of Chicago, USA) 11. Petitions to the Cape Parliament, 1854-1909, Kara Dimitruk (Swarthmore College, USA) and Kelsey Lemon (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 12. Death During the Influenza of 1918, Jonathan Jayes (Lund University, Sweden) and Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) 13. Quantitative History in Practice, Johan Fourie (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

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Book SynopsisAlmost half the people displaced worldwide are under 18, yet their voices are rarely heard. This book records the experiences of children arriving in Britain from Hitler's Europe in the 1930s to those escaping war in Ukraine in 2022. It follows the journeys of war-traumatised children from Mogadishu to Mile End and from Syria to a Scottish isle. Some followed their parents to the motherland' from the former British Empire. Others came independently to escape forced marriage or military conscription.These powerful testimonies shed light on children's motivations, trials and achievements, including in adult life, providing critical insight into how the British both individually and collectively have welcomed or shunned child migrants. Importantly, Eithne Nightingale links these stories with contemporary issues such as the Windrush Scandal and Britain's Illegal Migration Act 2023.Situated in its historical and political context, Child Migrant Voices in Modern BritTrade ReviewThis is a superb piece of committed scholarship weaving together, through oral history, a powerful range of child migrant voices from the 1930s through to the present day. When the British government is treating young asylum seekers and others with disdain, it is crucial to restore their humanity; Eithne Nightingale’s book does with care, subtlety and compassion * Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of History, Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Researching Child Migration 1. “If Then, Why Not Now?”: Blanca Stern (nee Schreiber) and Necha (Natalie) Gluck (nee Dux) who arrived from Austria, aged 8 and 10 respectively, in 1938 2. No Man’s Land: Duncan Ross who arrived from India, aged eight, in 1956 3. Precious Cargo: Argun Imamzade who arrived from Cyprus, aged fourteen, in 1964 4. Following Mum to the ‘Motherland’: Richard Lue and Roberta who arrived, aged 7 and 8 respectively, from Jamaica in 1964 5. “I Much Prefer Roasted Rat”: Maurice Nwokeji who arrived, aged nine, from Nigeria, in 1970 6. The Battle of Brick Lane: Six young people who arrived from East Pakistan subsequently Bangladesh, aged eleven to sixteen, between 1969 and 1973 7. A Pakistani Scot with a Mid-Atlantic Drawl: Zohra who arrived from Pakistan in 1975 8. Out of her depth: Linh Vu who arrived, aged seven, from Vietnam in 1979 9. A Child Soldier Who Knew Too Much: Henry Bran who arrived, aged seventeen, from El Salvador in 1981 10. “Caught in a Flow of Water”: Eylem Binboga who arrived, aged twelve, from Turkey in 1987 11. Love of the Motherland: Ahmed Ali, originally from Somaliland, who arrived, aged eleven, via Djibouti in 2004; Said who arrived, aged sixteen, from Somalia in 2012 12: Girl Power – finding a talent and following a dream: Bilqis who arrived from Yemen in 2005 and Nimo, aged fifteen, who arrived from Somaliland, in 2009 13: Chapter 13: On Her Own: Mariam who arrived, aged sixteen, from Guinea in 2006 14: “Home is Where the Love Is”: Yosef, originally from Eritrea, who arrived aged sixteen, in 2011 15. Seeking Sanctuary on a Scottish Island Syrian children who arrived from Lebanon, aged six – sixteen, on the Isle of Bute, Scotland in 2015 16“We will win”: Mariia who arrived, aged thirteen, from Ukraine in 2022 Conclusion: “If I had a magic wand”: Final thoughts and insights

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Book SynopsisHalf a million European Roma were exterminated by the Nazi regime; many more were subjected to a policy of racial discrimination similar to that suffered by the Jewish people. However, the persecution and torment of Roma in Hitler''s Europe has little presence in the history books. The Roma and the Holocaust places the Roma genocide in the context of the widespread violence of the Second World War, while offering an explanation that places it within a broader trajectory of anti-Roma persecution in modern societies.The book explores the separation and destruction of families, the sterilisation of adults and children, the plunder of property and deprivation of livelihoods, slave labour, medical experiments, the horror of extermination camps and the mass murder that the Romani people were subjected to. María Sierra uses the first section of the book to provide a much-needed critical overview and synthesis of the fragmented research and scholarship in the area that has be

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Book SynopsisThe fallout from Brexit and Covid-19, ongoing political turmoil, economic decline and calls for a second Scottish independence referendum make for deeply uncertain times in contemporary Britain. What will the country look like in five years from now? Will it even exist in its present form?Introducing you to all aspects of British history, geography, society, politics, economy and culture, this book guides you through the countryâs enduring features and recent trends: -Growing racial, religious, national and cultural diversity-Demographic shifts, including the move from a welfare state to a stakeholder society-The altered balance of power among government institutions, as the UK adapts to life outside the EU-Shifts in economic policy, following the impact of Brexit, Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine-Changing voter attitudes, with questions raised about the balance between the major political parties-The impact of social media and alternative communications channels on media, culture and pTrade ReviewA lively and well-focused survey of a key aspect of modern Britain, especially its changing role in the international economy. * Professor Jim Tomlinson, University of Glasgow, UK *The new edition comes at a fitting time, with many things changing so quickly in the UK… a neat overview of how things work in the UK, and why, as well as indications of how Britons feel about them. * Clare Maas, University of Trier, Germany *Covers a wide variety of important themes and developments in recent British history, and does so in an admirably concise compass…. very recent developments such as Brexit and Covid-19 make this updated edition all the more valuable. * Professor Matthew Mason, Brigham Young University, USA *A useful, efficient and balanced account of the UK’s political, economic and societal state of affairs. * Professor Gareth John, St. Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA *Table of Contents1. Historical Context 2. Land and People 3. Social System 4. Government 5. Politics and Civil Society 6. The Economy 7. Culture and Lifestyle 8. Britain and the World 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisElizabeth Williams is Head of Library Academic Support at the University of Edinburgh, and is a historian of Black British History and the History of the African Diaspora.

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Book SynopsisHow did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice? Using numerous examples and sources from across the continent, Sexuality in Premodern Europe shows that even in earlier centuries, sexual life had an elementary significance for the coexistence of couples and communities. It was just as decisive for how individuals saw themselves and others as it was for maintaining the social, economic and political order.Franz X. Eder interestingly emphasises the socio-historical view of sexuality, offering an apt foil for the cultural perspective which is so prevalent in the field. In this book, sexual behaviour is understood and thought about as social practice. From this vantage point, Eder deals with the function of the sexual in upbringing andTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Reign of the Phallus: Greek Antiquity 3. Infamia and Pudicitia: Roman Antiquity 4. How the ‘Evil’ Thorn Pierced the Flesh: Judaism and Early Christianity 5. Contradictory Sexual Worlds in the Middle Ages 6. Reformation and Discipline: 15th to 17th Century 7. Coda Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Eaton is Associate Professor of World and African history at Grand Valley State University, USA. He received his PhD from Dalhousie University in 2008, and co-hosts On Top of the World: A World History Podcast. His doctoral research focused on the history of cattle raiding along the Kenya-Uganda border, and he has published articles in several journals including Nomadic Peoples, World History Connected, and African Affairs.

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Book SynopsisEmotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home.Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury's successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history.Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to i

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Book SynopsisAnalysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens. From the plane that carried Francisco Franco to an anarchist newsreel to laxatives excavated in a trench, and from a woman's death row letter to a recent graphic novel, this highly illustrated text introduces readers to totally new perspectives from which to interpret the events of 1930s Spain and their impact, both in the country itself and the world beyond it. In engaging self-contained chapters each inspired by a specific item a team of historians offer a panoramic overview of the Spanish Civil War, the Franco dictatorship to which it gave birth, and the ways the conflict has been remembered since the return to democracy. The result is an innovative and accessible study which not only tells the fascinating story of modern Spain, but also teaches students how to engage fully with primary sources and gr

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Book SynopsisPart of The Making of the Modern World series, this innovative textbook offers an introduction to the 19th-century world with a focus on human perspectives through social and cultural histories. Taking a period of great transition and change, it shows how the actions and experiences of different communities and individuals across the world constructed, contested and were affected by major trends and events. With a thematic approach, and focusing on social and cultural histories, it connects these major trends and events to experiences of the people who lived through them.Tackling politics, religion, economics, environment, empire and more, with this book students will critically encounter important global trends and key events from the Industrial Revolution, to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the dawn of the First World War. This fully revised second edition includes updated historiography throughout plus:- A new chapter on mobility and migration- Expanded discu

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Book SynopsisFor many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism.The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting history, Eric Lee explores the little-known saga of the country's experiment in democratic socialism, detailing the epic, turbulent events of this forgotten chapter in revolutionary history. Along the way, we are introduced to a remarkable cast of characters among them the men and women who strove for a more inclusive vision of socialism that featured multi-party elections, freedom of speech and assembly, a free press and a civil society grounded in trade unions and cooperatives. Though the Georgian Democratic Republic lasted for just three years before it was brutally crushed on the orTrade ReviewA well-researched, well-written and engaging account … a welcome and necessary addition to the literature.' * European History Quarterly *This is an important book. It is the first study in English of the Menshevik government in Georgia between 1918 and 1921. * Chartist *Lee provides a fascinating account of what the country briefly looked like under Menshvik rule and how this compared to the regime established by Georgia’s most famous son, Stalin. * Europe Now *As Lee reminds us, this Menshevik-dominated government backed free elections, freedom of the press, an independent judiciary, parliamentary rule and free trade unions. Perhaps its most impressive achievement was to carry out agrarian reform, allowing peasants to buy land at reasonable prices and not resorting to the catastrophic forced collectivization the Bolsheviks later employed. Visiting Georgia, a Western socialist like Karl Kautsky could declare it the "antithesis to Bolshevism." * New York Times *Lee's gripping, well-researched Operation Basalt shines a bright light on a tiny, yet important, corner of World War II ...exciting and illuminating * Praise for Eric Lee’s previous book Operation Basalt, Tampa Bay Times *Riveting * Praise for Eric Lee’s previous book Operation Basalt, Wall Street Journal *An authentic and compelling read * Praise for Eric Lee’s previous book Operation Basalt, Damien Lewis, best-selling author of The Nazi Hunters and Churchill's Secret Warriors *A sympathetic, lucidly written and politically literate account of the first Georgian Republic, which makes exhaustive use of the accounts of foreign observers as well as some of the major leading figures. * Donald Rayfield, author of Stalin and His Hangmen *Covering a crucial but strangely overlooked period in the fevered evolution of socialism, we’ve been waiting for this book for a long time. Fortunately, it arrives excellently written and researched. * Peter Nasmyth, author of Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry *In a clear and succinct style, Eric Lee paints a sympathetic portrait of this remarkable experiment in democratic socialism. Lee has brought this almost unknown story out of the shadows, giving it its proper place in the historiography of socialism and the Russian Revolution. * Stephen Jones, author of Socialism in Georgian Colors *Table of ContentsTimeline Preface Prologue 1. Founding Father 2. Dress Rehearsal 3. The Experiment Begins 4. The Turn towards Germany 5. At War With Armenia 6. The British Take Charge 7. Georgia's Agrarian Revolution 8. The Independence of the Trade Unions 9. The Rise and Rise of the Cooperatives 10. Achilles' Heel: Georgia's National Minorities 11. Fifth Column 12. Europe's Socialist Leaders Come for a Visit 13. The State That Never Was 14. The Experiment Ends 15. The Final Battle 16. Another Revolution Was Possible

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Book SynopsisIn the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais's Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, Art in the Cinema draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others.Trade ReviewThis remarkable book charts the development, as well as the public and critical acceptance, of the art film documentary at the mid-point of the 20th century. In a series of elegantly written and deeply perceptive essays by some of the most respected authorities in the field, such classic films as The Mystery of Picasso (1956), Henry Moore (1951), and the experimental feature film Pictura (1951) are brought back to public attention in a volume that is an essential text for both cinema historians and art lovers as well. A dazzling volume in every respect – bravo! -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USAIt is not well-known today that in the aftermath of World War II, emerging trends in media and international alliances, ideas about mass communication and the democratization of culture, and representation of national identity converged to produce a "golden age" of films about art and artists in Europe and the U.S. Art in Cinema is an invaluable resource on the mid-century heyday of the art documentary. -- Susan Felleman, Professor, Art History & Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina, USATable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 1. The Institutional Breeding Grounds of the Postwar Film on Art, Birgit Cleppe (Ghent University, Belgium) 2. American Art Comes of Age: Documentaries and the Nation at the Dawn of the Cold War, Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 3. Art History with a Camera: Rubens (1948) and Paul Haesaerts’s Concept of Cinéma Critique, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Joséphine-Charlotte Vandekerckhove (Ghent University, Belgium & Verona University, Italy) 4. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti’s Critolfims and Beyond: From Cinema to Information Technology, Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy) 5. André Bazin’s Art Documentary in Saintonge, Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 6. Projecting Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Politics, Films on Art, and Willard Van Dyke’s The Photographer, Natasha Ritsma (Loyola University Museum of Art, USA) 7. Henry Moore and A Sculptor’s Landscape: Modernity, the Land and the Bomb in Two Television Films by John Read, John Wyver (University of Westminster, UK) 8. Creative Process, Material Inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashton’s Figures in a Landscape (1953), Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK) 9. Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky’s Experimental Films on Art, Henning Engelke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography About the Authors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book for teachers provides both practical, up-to-date guidance and a theoretical overview on a number of key topics in Latin teaching. Updated throughout, this new edition includes information about and analysis of recent Latin textbook publications and curriculum developments across the globe. Using a wealth of interviews, observations and pupil transcripts, Steven Hunt utilizes case-study evidence of excellent practice in teaching and learning from a wide variety of institutions: from outreach programmes, community schools and academies in the UK and USA. Offering practical advice on topics such as essay writing, teaching controversial topics including women, slavery, ethnicity and social hierarchy, making use of primary sources and using ICT to advance language skills, this book also engages with broader questions of approach and theory. These include a survey of the three main approaches to Latin teaching: grammar-translation, communicative and reading approaches; explanTrade ReviewThis book is a rich resource for all teachers or aspiring teachers of Latin. It draws on the latest educational theory and is packed full of practical advice on how to teach Latin effectively to pupils of all backgrounds and abilities. -- Classics for AllTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Starting to Teach Latin Chapter 2: Teaching Language, Civilisation and Literature Chapter 3: Resources Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJoseph Harley is a Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.Vicky Holmes is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Notre Dame London, The University of Notre Dame (USA) in England, UK.

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Book SynopsisUkrainian Cinema: Belonging and Identity during the Soviet Thaw is the first concentrated study of Ukrainian cinema in English. In particular, historian Joshua First explores the politics and aesthetics of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema during the Soviet 1960s-70s. He argues that film-makers working at the Alexander Dovzhenko Feature Film Studio in Kiev were obsessed with questions of identity and demanded that the Soviet film industry and audiences alike recognize Ukrainian cultural difference. The first two chapters provide the background on how Soviet cinema since Stalin cultivated an exoticised and domesticated image of Ukrainians, along with how the film studio in Kiev attempted to rebuild its reputation during the early Sixties as a centre of the cultural thaw in the USSR. The next two chapters examine Sergei Paradjanov's highly influential Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) and its role in reorienting the Dovzhenko studio toward the auteurist (some would say elitist) agenda of PoetiTrade ReviewUkrainian Cinema is making a great addition to a still small – but hopefully growing – body of work that will break the pattern which uncritically equates Soviet and Russian cinemas and either "Russifies" or keeps the cinemas of the former republics in the shadow. * CEU Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCentral Asia has long been situated at the geographical crossroads of East and West, once strategically located on the ancient Silk Road. The envy of the expanding Russian empire, it was colonized in the 19th century by Cossacks and traders from the north. This book examines how Central Asia, by then part of the Soviet Union, experienced population displacements on an even greater scale during the Second World War. Vicky Davis analyses how troops were sent westwards into action, only for waves of civilians to travel eastwards into the region: evacuees, refugees and even internal deportees sent into exile from their homelands in other parts of the vast Soviet Union. Central Asia in World War Two is the first book to tackle the subject of minorities fighting for the Soviet Union under Stalin in the Second World War. Based on meticulous archival research, it considers the interactions of the individual citizen and the Soviet state, weaving together the experiences of oveTrade ReviewCentral Asia in World War Two makes a persuasive case for viewing the region as central to our understanding of the war. Using impressive archival research, Vicky Davis allows the voices of dozens of Central Asians to tell their own stories. An impressive achievement. * Stephen Norris, Professor of History, Miami University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Notes on the Text List of Abbreviations Glossary Place Names Map of the Soviet Union Map of Central Asia Introduction Part 1 – Fighting for the Soviet Union 1. War in the Wind 2. Preparations for War 3. At the Fighting Front Part 2 – The Impact of War on the Home Front 4. Wartime Economy: Everything for the Front! Everything for Victory! 5. Society in Wartime: The Family, Health and Education 6. Propaganda and the Culture War Part 3 – Comings and Goings: The Movements of a Displaced Population 7. Seeking Sanctuary in Central Asia: Evacuees, Refugees and VIPs 8. Forced Deportations to Central Asia Part 4 – The Legacy of the Second World War in Central Asia 9. The Cultural and Social Legacy of the War Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering insight into nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical school dissecting rooms and anatomy museums, this book explores how collected human remains have shaped Western biomedical knowledge and attitudes towards the body. To explore the role Australia played in the narrative of Western medical development, Pacitti focuses on how and why Australian anatomists and medical students obtained human body parts. As medical knowledge circulated between Australia and Britain, the colony's physicians conformed to established specimen collecting practices and diverged from them to form a distinct medical identity. Interrogating how these literal and figurative bones of contention have left an indelible mark on the nation's medical profession, collecting institutions, and communities, Pacitti sheds new light on our understanding of Western medical networks and reveals the opportunities and challenges historic specimen collections pose in the present day.The Body

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Book SynopsisIn a radical reflection, John Young contends that the US model of democracy has failed the Global South because its emphasis on the supremacy of market capitalism entails a loss of national sovereignty and a truncated notion of human rights that leaves little room for citizens' engagement or socioeconomic justice.The Global South needs democracy, but the US model does not address issues of national oppression or economic injustices by raising living standards and ensuring national sovereignty. However, the US international liberal order is increasing being challenged, and a multipolar world is emerging that provides opportunities for people in the Global South to construct systems of democracy that meet their needs rather than those of the US.Trade ReviewA brilliant exposure of the flawed theory and practice of democracy promotion as a tool of US foreign policy. Poorly practiced at home, US ‘democracy’, embedded in global capitalism produces failed states in the global south, where stronger national sovereignty is necessary to achieve authentic democracy rooted in local cultures. * Stephen McBride Professor, McMaster University, Canada *This is a captivating analysis of how the system of governance has evolved in Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan and the common features among them. A must read for those interested in the politics and economics of the Global South, especially the Horn of Africa. * Lam Akol *It is the most fascinating, detailed and timely book that demonstrates the global decline of Western democracy and how it lost its soul when it abandoned its core values: citizen’s engagement, accountability, and socio-economic justice and became ‘the best democracy money can buy.’ The book further demonstrates how while declining at home, western powers still export its ideals to countries in the Horn of Africa: Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan. Three of these countries face national self-determination claims albeit to varying degrees with Ethiopia hosting countless national liberation front’s demanding a more robust consociational arrangements. The book shows how western model of democracy is misplaced and even if the ideals were to be pursed with vigor, it is trumped by concerns with security and other regional interests as it deed in Sudan in 2019, South Sudan and Ethiopia following the protests in 2018 where popular demands for democracy got aborted. The author’s most outstanding critic however is that western democracy that grew in a different context cannot prosper in a different soil in the Horn of Africa where demands for national self-determination and socio-economic justice take center stage, more so when it is ailing at home. The book is a must read for those interested in the political developments in the Horn, be it academics, students or regional and international actors * Assefa Fiseha, Professor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Rise and Decline of US Democracy 2. Horn of Africa Relations in the Wake of US Decline 3. Ethiopia and the Challenge of Democracy 4. Sudan, the United States, and the Propagation of Democracy 5. South Sudan: Another Failed US Democracy Project Conclusion Final Words

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Book SynopsisDecolonizing Bodies offers novel theorizations of how racial capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchal violence erode the bodily schema and experiences of racialized and colonized populations, profoundly constraining their being in the world. The book invigorates embodiment studies by centering the experiences and struggles of Black, Indigenous, colonized, disabled, queer, and racialized subjects, showing how they live these displacements and disintegrations. The volume powerfully demonstrates how racism and colonialism sediment in bodily and habitual registers that are active, ongoing, made and remade. Bodies, the contributors argue, powerfully register the impacts of colonial and racialized violence, but through practices of embodiment, they also digest, expel, and transform them. In centering non-normative subjective experiences and making space for different kinds of embodied knowledge, Decolonizing Bodies also takes a step toward decolonizing academic kn

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Book SynopsisThis established introductory textbook provides students with a full overview of British social policy and social ideas since the late 18th century. It is the essential starting point for anyone learning about how and why Britain created the first welfare state, and its development into the 21st century.Offering a comprehensive historical survey, this book analyses the emergence of the first welfare state, its later adaptations in the light of changing socio-political climates, and takes the story up to the present day, with discussion of the Coalition and Theresa May's early Prime Ministership, and an overview conclusion that identifies key issues in modern British social history.Building on the strong foundations of the prior editions, The Evolution of the Welfare State Sixth Edition has been updated to include:- New intersectional viewpoints on welfare, such as the role of gender- Expanded coverage of the post-1948 period- Updated met

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Book SynopsisFriso Wielenga's detailed history of the Netherlands traces its political development from independence to today, incorporating significant explorations of culture, economics, international relations, colonisation and decolonisation in the process. It provides a thorough and well-balanced overview of the key moments in and vital aspects of Dutch history since 1500. Challenging incorrect assumptions concerning political consensus and religious toleration in the country, A History of the Netherlands offers a masterful analysis of domestic politics and the nation's international involvements. This new edition includes: * Enhanced and expanded examinations of 21st century developments to the present * Greater coverage of the Dutch role in the slave trade, the Atlantic trade and the Glorious Revolution* More material on multiculturalism and integration politics and the World War Two deportation and extermination of the Dutch Jewry * Historiographical upTrade ReviewFriso Wielenga is a born bridge builder between the Netherlands and the rest of the world. If you want to get to know us and our history quickly and thoroughly: read this book. Clear, clever, concise and thorough, a must for everyone who has to deal with my small, strange, eternally searching country * Geert Mak, journalist and award-winning author of many books including In Europe: Travels through the Twentieth Century (2004) *Table of ContentsList of Maps and Illustrations List of Figures List of Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction 2. Opposition and Revolt: The Creation and Consolidation of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, or the Dutch Republic (1555–1609) 3. The Republic in the Golden Age 4. A Second-Rate Power: The Decline of the Republic 5. From Restoration to the Liberal Era (1813–1917) 6. Pillarization, Stability, Crisis and War (1918-1945) 7. Political and Economic Reconstruction, New Social Movements, Polarization and the Way to the ‘Polder Model’ (1945-2002) 8. Epilogue 9. Afterword Notes Timeline Bibliography Index of Names General Index

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age explores peace from 800 to 1450. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace.A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the medieval era.

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment, explores peace in the period from 1648 to 1815. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace.A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the long eighteenth century.Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Definitions of Peace 2. Human Nature, Peace, and War 3. Peace, War, and Gender 4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion 5. Representations of Peace 6. Peace as Integration 7. Peace Movements 8. Peace, Security and Deterrence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDavid Monger is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

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Book SynopsisWaitman Wade Beorn is Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, UK. He is the author of Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus (2014, winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize).

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Book SynopsisThis timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia''s media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and yet, by the time he launched his illegal invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia''s independent media was crushed, while the few viable opposition figures were either imprisoned, exiled, or dead under mysterious circumstances.Eliot Borenstein looks at the manufactured cult of Putin, the competing models of Russianness put forth in the media, the obsession with nostalgia and the limits on imagining the future, the rise of aggressive patriotism and the myth of ancient Russian ''traditional'' values, the significance of the fight against gay propaganda', and the absurdist strategies used by the opposition in the face of increasing restrictions on free speech. Though the book''s title invokes Putin, Russian Culture under Putin

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the key content and propaganda value of posters in the dictatorships of Stalin's USSR (1927-53) and Hitler's Germany (1933-43), using posters as a point of entry for discussing key Soviet and Nazi policies. In so doing, Soviet and Nazi Posters provides a compelling account of the posters utilised by both regimes for the first time. Kees Boterbloem and Lisa Pine employ a comparative approach throughout, analysing commonalities and differences, and inspecting the regimes' use of posters as propaganda. Richly illustrated with 50 images, 25 of which are in colour, Soviet and Nazi Posters encourages the development of vital source skills in the pursuit of understanding the complexities of 20th-century European dictatorships. What do these posters yield to the historian? What do they tell us about the regimes and their intentions? Ultimately they offer a compelling visual point of entry into Nazism and Stalinism here explored in rewarding detail.Boterbloem a

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Book SynopsisHome' is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus' epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of Christianity in the domestic sphere in late antiquity. We can recognise the idea even if there is no word for it that quite corresponds to our own: the Greek oikos and the Latin domus mean both house and family, the essential components of home. To attempt a history of the home' in antiquity means bringing together two separate, if closely related, fields of study. On the one hand, study of the family, both in the legal frameworks that define it as institution and the literary representations of it in daily life; on the other, archaeological study of the domestic setting, within which such relationships are played out. Ranging across a period of over a millennium, this collection looks at the home as a force of integration: of the worlds of family and of the outsider in hospitality; of the worlds of leisur

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Book SynopsisDuring the period of the Enlightenment, the word home' could refer to a specific and defined physical living space, the location of domestic life, and a concept related to ideas of roots, origins, and retreat. The transformations that the Enlightenment encouraged created the circumstances for the concept of home to change and develop in the following three ways. First to influence homemaking were the literary and cultural manifestations that included issues around attitudes to education, social order and disorder, sensibility, and sexuality. Secondly, were the roles of visual and material culture of the home that demonstrated themselves through print, portraiture, literature, objects and products, and dress and fashion. Thirdly, were the industrial and sociological aspects that included concepts of luxury, progress, trade and technology, consumption, domesticity, and the notions of public and private spaces within a home.The chapters in this volume therefore discuss and refl

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Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of interrelated forces that led to significant changes in the material, social, cultural, economic and political landscape. The essays in the volume vary in their geographical focus of study and disciplinary approach but taken together they try to uncover the impact of these changes on how people used, thought and felt about their homes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They try to understand what home meant or if home even existed as a concept for the people and the places they discuss. They also consider ways in which gender, status, age and geography contributed to different meanings of home, both as an idea and as a place to live.

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