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Book SynopsisThe struggle in projects, ideas and symbols between the strongest Communist Party in the West and an anti-communist and pro-Western government coalition was the most peculiar founding element of Italian democratic political system after World War II. Communism and anti-Communism in early Cold War Italy enlightens new aspects of and players of the anti-Communist ‘front’. It takes into account the role of cultural associations, newspapers and the popular press in the selection and diffusion of critical judgements and images of Communism, highlighting a dimension that explains the force and the diffusion of anti-communist opinions in Italy after 1989 and the crisis of traditional parties. The author also places the case of Italian cold-war anti-communism in an international context for the first time.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Systems and methods for political communication in post-war Italy2. Religious and moral values3. Freedom and democracy4. The fatherland, the Italian nation and its role in the world5. Towards a legitimation of prosperity?Index

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Book SynopsisThis source book offers a comprehensive treatment of solitary religious lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It covers both enclosed recluses (anchorites) and free-wandering hermits, and explores the relationship between them. Although there has been a recent surge of interest in the solitary vocations, especially anchorites, this has focused almost exclusively on a small number of examples. The field is in need of reinvigoration, and this book provides it. Featuring translated extracts from a wide range of Latin, Middle English and Old French sources, as well as a scholarly introduction and commentary from one of the foremost experts in the field, Hermits and anchorites in England is an invaluable resource for students and lecturers alike.Trade Review'Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550, the latest addition to the Manchester Medieval Sources series, serves as a complement to this literary and spiritual emphasis (11), presenting an extraordinarily rich range of extracts translated from Latin, French and Middle English primary sources, which collectively illuminate the more external and material aspects of the solitary vocation. […] . This unparalleled command of the field makes him the ideal expositor of these complex, often obscure sources, allowing him to shape them into a series of coherent narratives. The international community of anchoritic scholars will be indebted to this work and the insights it enables for many decades to come.'TMR - Christiania Whitehead -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionI Becoming an anchoriteII A cell of one's ownIII A day in the anchoritic lifeIV For the whole term of this lifeV Scenes of eremitical lifeVI Rules and regulationsVII Renegades, charismatics and charlatansVIII DissolutionIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean to be happy in early modern Europe? Positive emotions in early modern literature and culture includes essays that reframe historical understandings of emotional life in the Renaissance, focusing on under-studied feelings such as mirth, solidarity, and tranquillity. Methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary, these essays draw from the history of emotions, affect theory and the contemporary social and cognitive sciences to reveal rich and sustained cultural attention in the early modern period to these positive feelings. The book also highlights culturally distinct negotiations of the problematic binary between what constitutes positive and negative emotions. A comprehensive introduction and afterword open multiple paths for research into the histories of good feeling and their significances for understanding present constructions of happiness and wellbeing.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie M. MiuraPart I: Rewriting discourses of pleasure1 Happy Hamlet – Richard Strier2 Therapeutic laughter in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy – Cassie M. Miura 3 The pleasure of the text: reading and happiness in Rabelais and Montaigne – Ian Frederick Moulton4 Pleasure and the 'rustic life' – Ullrich Langer Part II: Imagining happy communities5 The theology of cheer, Erasmus to Shakespeare – Timothy Hampton6 ‘My crown is called content’: positive, negative, and political affects in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy – Paul Joseph Zajac 7 Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex Circle – Bradley J. Irish 8 Merriness, affect, and community in Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor – Cora Fox Part III: Forms, attachment, and ambivalence9 Happy objects and earthly pleasure in Thomas Traherne’s devotional poetry – Leila Watkins 10 Trust and disgust: the precariousness of positive emotions in Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi – Lalita Pandit Hogan 11 ‘My heart is satisfied’: revenge, justice, and satisfaction in The Spanish Tragedy – Eonjoo Park 12 All’s Well That Ends Well? Happiness, ambivalence, and story genre – Patrick Colm Hogan Afterword – Michael SchoenfeldtIndex

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Book SynopsisAn entirely original textbook format to introduce students to medieval European history: this is the second volume covering the central and later medieval centuries -- .

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Book SynopsisBuildings provide tremendous insights into the character of imperialism, not least in the manner in which Western forms were spread across the globe. They reveal the projection of power and authority in colonised landscapes, as well the economic ambitions and social and cultural needs of colonial peoples in all types of colonies. They also represent a colonial order of social classes and racial divisions, together with the ways in which these were inflected through domestic living space, places of work and various aspects of cultural relations. They illuminate the desires of Europeans to indulge in cultural and religious proselytisation, encouraging indigenous peoples to adopt western norms. But the resistance of the supposedly subordinate people led to the invasion, adoption and adaptation of such buildings for a post-colonial world. The book will be vital reading for all students and scholars interested in the widest aspects of material culture.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Construction and Destruction 2. Militarisation, Mobility and Residences of Power 3. Cities, Towns, Civic Buildings and Hill Stations 4. Institutions of the Bourgeois Public Sphere and New Technologies 5. The Buildings of Ritual: Religion and Freemasonry 6. Domestic Residences and City Improvement 7. Colonial Cities: Malta, Rangoon and New Capitals Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot’s sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents the most detailed defence of witchcraft belief to be written in the early modern period in England. It highlights in detail the scriptural and theological justifications for a belief in witches, covering ground that may well have been considered too sensitive for print publications and presenting learned arguments not found in any other contemporary English work. Consequently, it offers a unique insight into elite witchcraft belief dating from the very beginning of the English witchcraft debate. This edition, which includes a comprehensive analytical introduction, presents the treatise with modernised spelling and relevant excerpts from Scot’s book.Trade Review'In sum, in his excellent introduction to this treatise and in his thoughtful and careful editing of it, Eric Pudney has made a marvellous contribution to the study of early modern English witchcraft. From this point on, further studies of Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft will undoubtedly be indebted to it.'Philip Almond, Folklore''Eric Pudney deserves nothing but praise and gratitude for his excellent editorial work, demonstrating this manuscript’s complex interaction with Scot’s Discoverie and illuminating the origins of both texts. We are very much in his debt.'Jan Machielsen, Journal of Ecclesiastical History'Eric Pudney’s edition of a hitherto virtually unnoticed anonymous response to Scot’s famous The discoverie of witchcraft (1584) [is] extraordinarily significant.'Stuart Clark, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionA defence of witchcraft beliefIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book documents the political and cosmological processes through which the idea of ‘total territorial rule’ came into being in the context of early- to mid-nineteenth-century Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Analysing ideas at the core of the modern international system, Pluriversal sovereignty and the state develops a decolonial theoretical framework informed by a ‘pluriverse’ of multiple ontologies of sovereignty to argue that the territorial state itself is an outcome of imperial globalisation. Anti-colonialism up to the middle of the nineteenth century was grounded in genealogies and practices of sovereignty that developed in many localities. By the second half of the century, however, the global state system and the states within it were forming through colonising and anti-colonising vectors. By focusing on the ontological conflicts that shaped the state and empire, we can rethink the birth of the British Raj and locate it in Ceylon some 50 years earlier than in India. In this way, the book makes a theoretical contribution to postcolonial and decolonial studies in globalisation and international relations by considering the ontological significance of ‘total territorial rule’ as it emerged historically in Ceylon. Through emphasising one important manifestation of modernity and coloniality — the territorial state — the book contributes to studies in the politics of ontological pluralism in sovereignty, postcolonial and decolonial international studies, and globalisation through colonial encounters.Trade Review'Parasram lays out a thought-provoking argument – while European colonialism and European ideas fashioned a territorially grounded account of sovereignty, in that very fashioning we encounter an ontological collision between modernist-liberal accounts of sovereignty and the sovereign traditions of the colonised. When sovereignty is revalued, the consequences are devastating.' Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne (Dundee Law School, University of Dundee) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: total territorial rule and the universal state1 Colonial contamination and the postcolonial moment 2 Universal sovereignty: externalizing violence, relational state formation, and empire3 Universal gaze and pluriversal realities: 4 Ontological collision and the Kandyan Convention 18155 The coloniality of the archivesConclusion: pluriversal sovereignty and research Index

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Book SynopsisThe Carolingian period (c. 750-900) has traditionally been described as one of ‘reform’ or ‘renaissance’, where cultural and intellectual changes were imposed from above in a programme of correctio. This view leans heavily on prescriptive texts issued by kings and their entourages, foregrounding royal initiative and the cultural products of a small intellectual elite. However, attention to understudied texts and manuscripts of the period reveals a vibrant striving for moral improvement and positive change at all levels of society. This expressed itself in a variety of ways for different individuals and communities, whose personal relationships could be just as influential as top-down prescription. The often anonymous creators and copyists in a huge range of centres emerge as active participants in shaping and re-shaping the ideals of their world.Table of ContentsIntroduction: rethinking the Carolingian reforms – Carine van Rhijn1 Gender and horizontal networks in Carolingian monasticisms (up to c. 840) – Ingrid Rembold2 Analysing Attigny: contextualising Chrodegang of Metz’s influence on the life of canons – Stephen Ling3 A Carolingian ‘reform of education’? The reception of Alcuin’s pedagogy – Cinzia Grifoni and Giorgia Vocino 4 Correcting the liturgy and sacred language – Els Rose and Arthur Westwell5 Error assessment: how to distinguish between true and false? – Irene van Renswoude6 Reformatio and correctio in Carolingian theology and orthodoxy: reformation or aggiornamento? – Kristina MitalaitéIndex

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Book SynopsisBERLIN, 1942. The Gestapo arrest eighteen-year-old Bert Lewyn and his parents, sending the latter to their deaths and Bert to work in a factory making guns for the Nazi war effort. Miraculously tipped off the morning the Gestapo round up all the Jews who work in the factories, Bert goes underground. He finds shelter sometimes with compassionate civilians, sometimes with people who find his skills useful and sometimes in the cellars of bombed-out buildings. Without proper identity papers, he survives as a hunted Jew in the flames and terror of Nazi Berlin in part by successfully mimicking non-Jews, even masquerading as an SS officer. But the Gestapo are hot on his trail… Before World War II, 160,000 Jews lived in Berlin. By 1945, only 3,000 remained alive. Bert was one of the few, and his thrilling memoir—from witnessing the famous 1933 book burning to the aftermath of the war in a displaced persons camp—offers an unparalleled depiction of the life of a runaway Jew caught in the heart of the Nazi empire. Trade Review" On the Run in Nazi Berlin should be mandatory reading: a memoir that reads like a thriller, full of suspense, horror, humor, and the unquenchable determination to survive. An important contribution to the literature that reminds us: never forget." -- Jenna Blum, Bestselling author of Those Who Save Us and The Lost Family"[Offers] extraordinary insight... Well-written, readable, and honest, the eyewitness story is enhanced throughout by photographs and documents. This story of this Jewish family touched my heart, and I highly recommend this memoir." -- Denise George, Coauthor of The Lost Eleven and Behind Nazi Lines"a grim and gripping story of survival in a most egregious time." -- Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time – the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present – opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.Table of ContentsIntroduction: a history of timesPart I: Time and the Dreyfus Affair1 Action: engaging in the Affair2 Disillusion: the Universités populaires and the aftermath of the AffairPart II: Time and the nation3 Darkness and emptiness: the radical right, the Franco-Prussian War, and the present4 The radical right and the ‘eternal France’Part III: Time and revolution5 Between reform and revolution: notions of change on the left6 The infinite temple: futurist fiction and scientific discourse on the left7 Syndicalist solutions? Proletarian time, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Cercle ProudhonConclusion: changing timesIndex

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Book SynopsisIreland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.Trade ReviewNatalie A Zacek provides a sharply contemporary perspective on public debate and identity, deconstructing, inter alia, the ‘Irish Slave’ meme in ‘How the Irish became black’. This invaluable publication disentangles the polarities of subjects and agents, insularity and global dynamics.Sylvie Kleinman, History Island, September 2023. -- .Table of ContentsForeword - Sir Hilary BecklesIntroduction – Finola O’Kane and Ciaran O’NeillPart I: Setting Out the Terrain1. Setting out the terrain: Ireland and the Caribbean in the eighteenth century - David Dickson 2. From Perfidious Papists to Prosperous Planters: Making Irish elites in the early modern English Caribbean - Jenny Shaw3. Free, and unfree – Ireland and Barbados, 1620-60- David Brown4. Trade, plunder and Irishmen in early English Jamaica – Nuala Zahedieh5. Doing business in the wartime Caribbean: John Byrn, Irish merchant of Kingston, Jamaica (September – October 1756) - Thomas M. TruxesPart II: Consolidating Territories6. Ireland and British Colonial Slave-ownership 1763-1833 - Nick Draper7. Soldiers, settlers, slavers: Irish lives on the Spanish borderlands of North America and the Caribbean in the revolutionary 1790s- José Shane Brownrigg-Gleeson8. Searching for sovereignties: the formation of the penal laws and slave codes in Ireland and the British Caribbean, c. 1680 to c. 1720 - Aaron Graham9. Comparing Imperial design strategies; The Franco-Irish plantations of Saint-Domingue - Finola O'Kane10. Eyre Coote, the House of Assembly and the Defence of Jamaica, 1806-8 - David Fleming11. In search of excess: Lambert Blair and his appetites - Ciaran O'NeillPart III: Comparative Perspectives12. Two islands, many forts: Ireland and Bermuda in 1624 - Emily Mann13. Imperial barrack-building in 18C Ireland and Jamaica– Charles Ivar McGrath14. The architectures of empire in Jamaica: the Irish legacy ­ Louis P. Nelson15. Designed in parallel or in translation?: The connected landscapes of Kelly’s Pen, Jamaica and Westport, Co. Mayo - Finola O’Kane16. Formations and Deformations of Empire: Maria Edgeworth and the West Indies - Claire Connolly17. How the Irish became black- Natalie Zacek18. ‘Where are you actually from?’: Racial issues in the Irish context – Sandrine Uwase NdahiroIndex

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Book SynopsisBritain yesterday; America today. The reality of being top dog is that everybody hates you. In this provocative book, noted historian and commentator Jeremy Black shows how criticisms of the legacy of the British Empire are, in part, criticisms of the reality of American power today. He emphasizes the prominence of imperial rule in history and in the world today, and the selective way in which certain countries are castigated. Imperial Legacies is a wide-ranging and vigorous assault on political correctness, its language, misuse of the past, and grasping of both present and future.

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Book SynopsisBelfast punk and the Troubles is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. The book explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk – how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process Northern Ireland. In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated structures of everyday life described by the interviewees.Adopting an innovative oral history approach drawing on the work of Luisa Passerini and Alessandro Portelli, the book analyses a small number of oral history interviews with participants in granular detail. Outlining the historical context and the cultural memory of punk, the central chapters each delve into one or two interviews to draw out the affective, imaginative and political ways in which punks and former punks evoke their memories of taking part in the scene. Through this method, it analyses the punk scene as a structure of feeling shaped through the experience of growing up in wartime Belfast.Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative approaches to oral history.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Alternative Ulster? Sectarianism, segregation and the punk scene2. The Belfast punk scene in cultural memory3. Epiphany, transgression and movement 4. Making affective and political spaces5. Gender, respectability and emigration6. Collecting, storytelling and memoryConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisFormer Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey and former Romanian acting spy chief Lt. General Ion Mihai Pacepa, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 1978, describe why Russia remains an extremely dangerous force in the world, and they finally and definitively put to rest the question of who killed President Kennedy on November 22, 1963.All evidence points to the fact that the assassination—carried out by Lee Harvey Oswald—was ordered by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, acting through what was essentially the Russian leader’s personal army, the KGB (now known as the FSB). This evidence, which is codified as most things in foreign intelligence are, has never before been jointly decoded by a top U.S. foreign intelligence leader and a former Soviet Bloc spy chief familiar with KGB patterns and codes.Meanwhile, dozens of conspiracy theorists have written books about the JFK assassination during the past fifty-six years. Most of these theories blame America and were largely triggered by the KGB disinformation campaign implemented in the intense effort to remove Russia’s own fingerprints that blamed in turn Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, secretive groups of American oilmen, Howard Hughes, Fidel Castro, and the Mafia.Russian propaganda sowed hatred and contempt for the U.S. quite effectively, and its operations have morphed into many forms, including the recruitment of global terror groups and the backing of enemy nation- states. Yet it was the JFK assassination, with its explosive aftermath of false conspiracy theories, that set the model for blaming America first.

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the possibilities of studying embodied subjects in the past through the sources and approaches of archaeology, history and material culture studies. It draws on collections of human remains, material culture and documentary evidence from Britain during the period 1700–1850, considering the themes of gender, rank, age, disability and maternity. Each chapter looks at the lived experiences of the material body, bringing together disciplines that share an interest in the material or embodied turn. Combining archaeological and historical data to reconstruct embodied experiences, the volume represents the first collection of genuinely collaborative scholarship by historians and archaeologists.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the material body in archaeology and history – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Karen Harvey1 Archives of embodiment: body and experience in the archaeological and historical record – Karen Harvey2 Marking maternity: integrating historical and archaeological evidence for reproduction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries – Elizabeth Craig-Atkins and Mary E. Fissell 3 Embodying the history of shoes: footwear and gender in Britain, 1700–1850 – Matthew McCormack4 ‘The Corporation of Corpse-stealers’: archaeological and historical evidence of bodysnatching in early eighteenth-century London – Robert Hartle5 Who smokes anymore? Documentary, archaeological and osteological evidence for tobacco consumption and its relationship to social identity in industrial England, 1700–1850 – Anna M. Davies-Barrett and Sarah A. Inskip 6 Uncovering the lives of late-eighteenth- and nineteenth-century inhabitants of Bristol through osteoarchaeological and documentary analysis – Heidi Dawson-Hobbis and Jocelyn Davis7 Disability, gender and old age in the Industrial Revolution: cultural historical and osteoarchaeological perspectives – Sophie L. Newman and David M. TurnerIndex

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Book SynopsisThis timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Literary culture in the form of epics and courtly tales preserve stories of eroticised power. These exciting chapters join together to form a picture of medieval culture that is kinky in its practice and deeply psychological at its core.Table of ContentsIntroduction: the jouissance of medieval kink - Christopher VaccaroPart I: Spiritual and penitential (con)texts1 Humiliation as penance in some early penitentials - Erin Abraham2 Land of saints and sadists: the S&M scene(s) in medieval Ireland - Phillip A. Bernhardt-House3 Failed sadism and masochistic martyrdom in Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames - Tina-Marie Ranalli4 The monastic pleasures of frustrated knowledge - Karmen MacKendrick5 The pains of being pure at heart: sadomasochism in Richard of St. Victor’s On the four degrees of violent love - Christopher Michael Roman6 Negotiating power and pleasure in the Book of Margery Kempe - Nicole SlippPart II: Courtly and secular (con)texts7 I am not having what she’s having: female sexual (un)pleasure medieval and modern - Juliana Dresvina8 Queer consolation: BDSM in Chaucer’s The Clerk’s tale, sadistic epistemology and the ends of suffering - Masha Raskolnikov9 Ideological sadism or cultural enhancement: thirteenth-century Mongols in Kievan Rus and Baghdad - Vicky Panossian10 Fetishizing the past: Troilus and Criseyde, sadomasochism, and the historophilia of modern BDSM - Kersti Francis11 ‘My warlike grip broke his beating heart’: masochism and the deadly embrace in Beowulf ll. 2501-2508a - Christopher Vaccaro12 Death drive and the maiden: the queerness of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim - Philip Liston-KraftIndex

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Book SynopsisDuring World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan’s civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason: to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal disease that had debilitated its troops in earlier wars. In turn, these brothels (dubbed "comfort stations") recruited prostitutes through variations on the standard indenture contracts used by licensed brothels in both Korea and Japan.The party line in Western academia, though, is that these “comfort women” were dragooned into sex slavery at bayonet point by Japanese infantry. But, as the authors of this book show, that narrative originated as a hoax perpetrated by a Japanese communist writer in the 1980s. It was then spread by a South Korean organization with close ties to the Communist North.Ramseyer and Morgan

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together academics and practitioners to consider the increasingly central role that memory and recalling the past plays in determining contemporary politics and the future direction of Northern Irish society. Using theoretical, comparative and case-study approaches, it considers not only how narratives of the past are constructed, reconstructed, understood and commemorated, but also the ways in which the key themes that emerge are harnessed and mobilised to political and social effect in the present. The book draws deeply on a wide range of expert opinion and viewpoints to add significantly to existing knowledge surrounding the debates over memory and the ways it is used in Northern Irish society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: through a single lens? Understanding the Troubles of the past, present and future – James W. McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer1 Agonistic remembering and Northern Ireland’s 1968 @ 50 – Chris Reynolds2 Pogroms, presence, myth and memory: August 1969 and the outbreak of the Northern Ireland conflict – Shaun McDaid3 ‘Touching the third rail?’ The problems of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland – Eamonn O’Kane4 On notions of dealing with the past in Northern Ireland and the place of historians – Stuart Aveyard5 Collective memory, ethno-national forgetting and the limits of history in misremembering the past – Aaron Edwards6 Irish republicanisms and radical nostalgia – Stephen Hopkins7 Irish republican commemoration and narratives of legitimacy – Kris Brown8 Ulster loyalism, memory and commemoration – James W. McAuley and Neil Ferguson9 Remember the women: memory-making within loyalism – Lisa Faulkner-Byrne, John Bell and Philip McCready10 Visual memory at sites of troubles past: participatory and collective memories in Croatia and Argentina – Máire Braniff11 The tears of the mothers: conflict and memory in comparison – Catherine McGlynn12 The problem of legacy and remembering the past in Northern Ireland – Graham SpencerIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the Axis War on the side of Germany, Mussolini's Italy was responsible for serious war crimes, especially in Yugoslavia and Greece. This 'dark side' of the fascist war, however, is not present in the national memory built after 1945. To distinguish Italy from the former German ally and avoid a punitive peace, the monarchist and anti-fascist ruling classes elaborated a master narrative that highlighted the opposition of the Italian people to Mussolini's war and the humanitarian behavior of Italian soldiers, depicted as saviors of Jews. All responsibility for the crimes committed in the Axis war was placed on the shoulders of the Germans, who thus became a convenient alibi for the national conscience.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Italy and the Axis in Allied propaganda 2 Who betrayed their country? 3 The origins of war memory4 ‘Italy won too’: atonement and redemption of a ‘nation underground’5 Forgetting the Axis6 ‘Good Italians’ and ‘bad Germans’ 7 Humans or Germans?ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisMoving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain’s Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family – the Hibberts – this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts’s trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain’s history and legacies of slavery.Trade Review'Katie Donington’s fascinating, formidably researched and very important investigation of the manifold ways in which the Hibbert family established its wealth through slave trading and slavery and its outsized role in important aspects of British history, including philanthropy and proslavery, is a book for our times. It deserves a wide readership.'Family and Community History'The Bonds of Family is an engaging, methodically-presented study that brings a unique perspective on the British Atlantic and promises to contribute significantly to studies of Caribbean and British history.'New West Indian Guide'Through its focus on a single family, The bonds of family thus offers a refreshingly human view of how Britain’s slave economy was made, operated, justified and sustained by its perpetrators. Atlantic slavery, Donington shows, was created not by abstract market forces, but through the actions of individuals such as the Hibberts: ambitious people who elevated themselves through the ruthless exploitation of enslaved people.'Continuity and Change'The Bonds of Family is a book about power. [...] Donington’s work, as suggested by the title, is also a book about those bonds that are able to cross geographical and temporal boundaries and connect the past with the present, the inside with the outside, the private and intimate story of a family with the public history of the nation and the empire.'Matilde Cazzola, American Journal of Legal History'Donington’s book is a fascinating read that builds upon a rich literature on the history of families and family enterprise in the British Atlantic world over the long eighteenth century. Yet Donington goes beyond earlier studies in her thorough assessment of the family’s cultural accumulation, physical legacies and investments in Britain and, crucially, her close attention paid to the role of free women – both white women and women of colour – in the cultural economy of West Indian family enterprise. A thoroughly researched and well written book that resonates with contemporary politics, this book contributes to literature on the legacies of slavery in Britain as well as to histories of families, race, and slavery in the Atlantic world.'Erin Trahey, Slavery & Abolition -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Family matters - slavery, commerce, and culture Part I: Family business - commerce, commodities, and credit 1. Manchester 2. Jamaica 3. London Part II: Family politics - defending the slave trade and slavery4. Defending the slave trade 5. Defending slavery Part III: Family culture - domesticating slavery6. Intimate relations: the colony and the metropole7. Consuming passions: Collecting and connoisseurship 8. The culture of refinement: Country houses and philanthropy Epilogue: Family legacies - after abolition Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length exploration of presbyterians and presbyterianism in London during the crisis period of the mid-seventeenth century. It charts the emergence of a movement of clergy and laity that aimed at ‘reforming the Reformation’ by instituting presbyterianism in London’s parishes and ultimately the Church of England. The book analyses the movement’s political narrative and its relationship with its patrons in the parliamentarian aristocracy and gentry. It also considers the political and social institutions of London life and examines the presbyterians’ opponents within the parliamentarian camp. Finally, it focuses on the intellectual influence of presbyterian ideas on the political thought and polity of the Church and the emergence of dissent at the Restoration.Trade Review"This is a significant study that should bring the English Presbyterians to the centre of a much-trodden stage. Elliot Vernon deserves thanks from the scholarly community for rescuing a group that have been noticed but ignored."Alan Argent, Congregational History Society Magazine, Vol. 10, No 1, 2022 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The radicalisation of conformist puritanism, c. 1638–402 Smectymnuus and the attack on episcopacy in 16413 The emergence of the London presbyterian movement, 1642–34 London presbyterians and the fracture of parliamentarianism, 1644–55 The campaign for presbyterian church government, 1645–66 The political presbyterian moment, 1646–77 Presbyterian church government in the Province of London, 1646–608 The London presbyterians and the projected settlements of the British civil wars, 1647–99 ‘Mr Love’s case’ and the London presbyterian struggle against the English republic, 1649–5110 Cromwellian Britain, c. 1653–911 The Restoration, 1659–6012 Epilogue: the Cavalier Parliament, the Great Ejection of 1662 and the first years of dissentConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume encompasses a range of themes and approaches relevant to the field of South African history today, as viewed from the perspective of practicing historians at the cutting edge of research in the discipline. The collection features the historians offering critical reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects of their work. This involves them both looking back at the inherited historiographical tradition in the respective areas of their research, while also pointing forwards to possible future directions for scholarly engagement.Table of Contents1.Towards a school of their own: the varieties of South African historiographyThula Simpson 2. Beasts of the southern world: multi-species history and the AnthropoceneSandra Swart3. Black academics matter: history and anti-blackness at South African universitiesJaneke Thumbran4. Black mothering, ‘maids’ and mixed-methods in women’s history: Zanele Muholi’s contemporary art and Sindiwe Magona’s short storiesMandisa Mbali5. Vernacular traditions as counter-hegemonic archives in Eastern Cape historiographyNomalanga Mkhize6. The revolution in South African historiographyThula Simpson7. From grand narratives to complicated subjects: biography in the post-apartheid eraLindie Koorts8. Whiteness must fall: whiteness, whites and insurgent history writingNeil Roos9. Bringing white workers back in: new histories of race and class in South AfricaDanelle van Zyl-Hermann10. The transnational nation: South African history beyond and across bordersRob Skinner

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Book SynopsisThe rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated.Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.Trade ReviewEndorsements“In this majestic work of critical historical scholarship, Jairus Banaji has built a de?finitive argument that commercial capitalism is the essence of capitalism, that it has dominated eras usually asserted to be pre-capitalist, and that it has persisted into the present.”—BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE, emeritus professor of development studies, Wolfson College, Oxford University“This book is Jairus Banaji at his scholarly and provocative best. With his remarkable knowledge of world literatures, Banaji has produced a major exercise in the global and historical analysis of capitalism, affecting how we grasp capitalism today and how we understand and use Marx to do so—theory as history indeed.” —HENRY BERNSTEIN, emeritus professor of development studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London“With mind-boggling erudition, command over an extraordinary range of historical materials in multiple languages, and a theoretically sophisticated irreverence for received dogma, Jairus Banaji dislodges many a eurocentric account to offer an absorbing, thought-provoking, and truly global story of the emergence and varieties of capitalism.”—LALEH KHALILI, professor of international politics, Queen Mary University of London and author, Sinews of War and Trade More praise for Jairus Banaji“From the impact of slavery, the rise of the poor taking control, and the role of other philosophies and faiths impacting the discussion, Theory as History is a unique way to discuss history, economics, and the people behind it, a core addition to any community library history collection.”—Midwest Book Review“The great merit of this volume is that it establishes an approach for [the debates about the nature and origin of capitalism] that is deeply theoretical, but at the same time refreshingly unhampered by the kind of doctrinaire attachment to a perceived (and often misread) orthodoxy that plagued so much of “historical materialism” for the past century. It is scholarly, without being purely academic ... Banaji’s book deserves to be read and debated as one of the starting points for a new wave of Marxist historiography, still in the process of liberating itself from the ghost of its formalist past." ”—Pepijn Brandon, International Socialism“Banaji’s seemingly idiosyncratic but in fact highly sophisticated and original approach to historical analysis provides not only a welcome stimulus and a challenge for scholars today, but also will give them plenty to think about for many years to come." ”—Marcel van der Linden, research director of the International Institute of Social History“Theory as History is a book written at the summit of a lifetime’s engagement with issues of Marxist theory and practice ... Banaji’s work demonstrates that no aspect of human history is irrelevant to the present. His scholarship shows immense skill, depth and range … [proving] it is not the Marxist method that has been at fault, but the dominance of non-Marxist theory and method in the minds of Marxist.”—CounterfireTable of ContentsChapter One: Reinstating Commercial CapitalismChapter Two: The Infrastructure of Commercial CapitalismChapter Three: The Competition of Capitals: Struggles for Commercial Dominance from the 12th to 18th CenturiesChapter Four: British Mercantile Capitalism and the Cosmopolitanism of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter Five: Commercial Practices : Putting-Out, or the Capitalist Domestic IndustriesChapter Six: The Circulation of Commercial Capitals: Competition, Velocity, VerticalityAppendix: Islam and CapitalismNotesSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisBritish culture after Empire is the first collection of its kind to explore the intertwined social, cultural and political aftermath of empire in Britain from 1945 up to and beyond the Brexit referendum of 2016, combining approaches from the fields of history, English and cultural studies. Against those who would deny, downplay or attempt to forget Britain’s imperial legacy, the various contributions expose and explore how the British Empire and the consequences of its end continue to shape Britain at the local, national and international level. As an important and urgent intervention in a field of increasing relevance within and beyond the academy, the book offers fresh perspectives on the colonial hangovers in post-colonial Britain from up-and-coming as well as established scholars.Table of ContentsForeword: Living in the bush of ghosts – Elleke BoehmerIntroduction: Rhodesia and the 'Rivers of Blood' – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma ParkerPart I: Institutions of empire1 'Bloomsbury bazaar': Daljit Nagra at the diasporic museum – John McLeod2 Anthropology at the end of empire – Katherine Ambler3 'He is not a "racist" but should not be appointed director of LSE': The impact of colonial universities on the University of London – Dongkyung ShinPart II: Writing identity, conflict and class4 Beyond experience: British anti-racist non-fiction after empire – Dominic Davies5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) – Ed DodsonPart III: Racial others, national memory6 White against empire: Immigration, decolonisation and Britain’s radical right, 1954–1967 – Liam J. Liburd7 Racism, redistribution, redress: The Royal Historical Society and Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change – Shahmima Akhtar8 Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain – Astrid RaschPart IV: At home in postcolonial Britain9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction – Tasnim Qutait10 Black, beautiful and essentially British: African Caribbean women, belonging and the creation of Black British beauty spaces in Britain (c. 1948–1990) – Mobeen Hussain11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s – Steve Bentel 12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd, Emma Parker, Samran Rathore and Tajpal RathoreAfterword: Disorder and displacement – Bill SchwarzIndex

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Book SynopsisLet’s spend the night together explores how sex and sexuality provided essential elements of British youth culture in the 1950s through to the 1980s. It shows how the underlying sexual charge of rock ‘n’roll – and pop music more generally – was integral to the broader challenge embodied in the youth cultures that developed after World War Two. As teenage hormones rushed to move to the music and take advantage of the spaces opening up through consumption, education and employment, so the boundaries of British morality and cultural propriety were tested and often transgressed. Be it the assertive masculinity of the teds or the lustful longings of the teeny-bopper, the gender-bending of glam or the subterranean allure of an underground club/disco, the free love of the 1960s or the punk provocations in the 1970s, sex was forever to the fore and, more often than not, underpinned the moral panics that fitfully followed any cultural shift in youthful style and behaviour. Drawing from scholarship across a range of disciplines, the Subcultures Network explore how sex and sexuality were experienced, presented, conferred, responded to and understood within the context of youth culture, popular music and social change in the period between World War Two and the advent of AIDS. The essays locate sex, music and youth culture in the context of post-war Britain: with a widening and ever-more prevalent media; amidst the loosening bonds of censorship; in a society shaped by changing patterns of consumption and the emergence of the ‘teenager’; existing, as Jeff Nuttall famously argued, under the shadow of the (nuclear) bomb.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Let’s spend the night together: sex, pop music and British youth culture, 1950s–80s - Matthew Worley, Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Pete Webb1. Where were you? UK chart pop and the commodification of the teenage libido, 1952–63 - Tom Hennessy2. The Jerry Lee Lewis scandal, the popular press and the moral standing of rock ‘n’ roll in late 1950s Britain - Gillian A.M. Mitchell3. ‘I’m different; I’m tough; I fuck’: attitudes towards young men, sex and masculinity in Nik Cohn’s Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: Pop from the Beginning (1969) - Patrick Glen4. ‘We are no longer certain, any of us, what is “right” and what is “wrong”’: Honey, Petticoat, and the construction of young women’s sexuality in 1960s Britain - Sarah Kenny5. Lovers’ lanes and haystacks: rural spaces, girls’ experiences of courtship and sexual intimacy in post-war England - Sian Edwards6. Queering modernism: social, sartorial and spatial intersections between mod and gay (sub-) culture, 1957–67 - Shaun Cole and Paul Sweetman7. ‘You just let your hair down’: lesbian parties and clubs in the 1960s and early 1970s - Alison Oram8. Singing Elton’s song: queer sexualities and youth cultures in England and Wales, 1967–85 - Daryl Leeworthy9. ‘Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out’: Blowup (1966) and the free hedonism(s) of Swinging London - Marlie Centawer10. ‘Everything gets boring after a time’: Deep End and swinging sex - David Wilkinson11. Run the track, but no bother chat slack: overstanding the relationship between slackness and culture within the reggae dancehall, 1960s–80s - William ‘Lez’ Henry12. ‘This could be a night to remember’: authenticity, historicising and the silencing of sexual experience in the northern soul scene - Sarah Raine and Caitlin Shentall13. ‘Mummy … what is a Sex Pistol?’: SEX, sex and British punk in the 1970s - Matthew Worley14. The ‘style terrorism’ of Siouxsie Sioux: femininity, early goth aesthetics and BDSM fashion - Claire Nally15. Coming of age Asian and Muslim in post-punk West Yorkshire - Nabeel Zuberi16. ‘I’m your man’: heartthrobs and banter in Smash Hits - Hannah Charnock

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Book SynopsisThis book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of the decline and fall of an empire, a region devastated by war, and a world stage fundamentally transformed by the Russian Revolution. Bauer’s magisterial work -- available in English for the first time in full -- charts the evolution of three simultaneous, overlapping revolutionary waves: a national revolution for self-determination, which brought down imperial Austro-Hungary; a bourgeois revolution for parliamentary republics and universal suffrage; and a social revolution for workers’ control, factory councils, and industrial democracy.The brief but crowning achievement of Red Vienna, alongside Bauer’s unique theorization of an "integral socialism" -- an attempted synthesis of revolutionary communism and social democracy -- is a vital part of the left’s intellectual and historical heritage. Today, as movements once again struggle with questions of reform or revolution, political strategy, and state power, this is a crucial resource. Bauer tells the story of the Austrian Revolution with all the immediacy of a central participant, and all the insight of a brilliant and original theorist.Trade Review"The appearance of Otto Bauer’s classic study, The Austrian Revolution, ably translated for the first time by Walter Baier and Eric Canepa, is ... a welcome addition to the English-language literature on Austrian history. First published in 1923, the book examines the republic’s early years from the perspective of one of European socialism’s leading theorists and one of Austria’s most important political actors. It is a work of history deeply informed by the author’s concrete political experience as well as his commitment to a Marxist approach to understanding unfolding events.” —Jacobin"It is largely thanks to Otto Bauer’s The Austrian Revolution that I discovered the richness of the Austro-Marxist tradition and the many affinities between the writings of Bauer and of our Gramsci, especially on the question of hegemony.’ – Luciana Castellina, co-founder of Il Manifesto"The revolution in Central Europe in 1918-21 was a giant event that came closer to changing world history than most of us realize. For English-speakers, this translation opens a challenging new window on the Austrian workers’ council movement and the role of the Entente powers in the counter-revolution that followed. Published in 1923, it stands unique as an analysis of the revolution’s internal dynamics and the costs of defeat.’ – Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums"Otto Bauer’s The Austrian Revolution is one of the classics of Marxist political analysis comparable to Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire or Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution, and it is one of the forgotten shining gems of the extraordinarily rich literature of Austro-Marxism." – Michael R. Krätke, author of Friedrich Engels"Red Vienna and the contributions of its protagonists like Otto Bauer are tragically overlooked on the contemporary left. Baier and Canepa have edited a thrilling work from Bauer with the aim of correcting that―and to chart a new course for those looking for alternatives to bankrupt social-democratic parties and defeated Leninist ones."– Bhaskar Sunkara, founding editor of Jacobin Table of ContentsFirst Section: War and RevolutionThe Southern Slavs and the WarThe Czechs and the EmpireThe Poles and the Central PowersGerman Austria in the WarSecond Section: The UpheavalThe Formation of the "Nation-States"The Disintegration of the EmpireThe German-Austrian RepublicNational and Social RevolutionThird Section: The Predominance of the Working ClassRevolutionary and Counter-Revolutionary ForcesBetween Imperialism and BolshevismThe Revolution in the FactoriesThe State and the Working ClassFourth Section: The Period of Equilibrium Between Class ForcesEconomic Upheaval and Social RegroupingThe Struggle for Republican InstitutionsThe Battle Against the Counter-RevolutionThe People’s RepublicFifth Section: The Restoration of the BourgeoisieThe Monetary CatastropheThe Geneva TreatyThe Outcome of the Revolution and the Tasks of Social DemocracIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehensive re-assessment of its causes, course and consequences in English for over sixty years. It draws together a new generation of leading historians from North America, Japan, Europe, Russia and Central Asia, working with Russian archival sources, oral narratives, poetry and song in Kazakh and Kyrgyz. These illuminate in unprecedented detail the origins and causes of the revolt, and the immense human suffering which it entailed. They also situate the revolt in a global perspective as part of a chain of rebellions and disturbances that shook the world’s empires, as they crumbled under the pressures of total war.Trade Review'The 1916 rebellion in Central Asia is tremendously important for historians of both the Great War and the ‘Russian’ Revolution. This collection of uncommonly rich and deep essays takes the analysis of 1916 to a much higher level by showing the dynamics of power and violence at the microlevel as well as at the level of the empire as a whole. The authors use a wide variety of sources sensitively and effectively. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the period.' Joshua Sanborn, David M. ’70 and Linda Roth Professor of History, Lafayette College'Finally a book that examines in depth the revolts that, in 1916, upset the fragile Imperial order in Russian Central Asia and triggered the bloody reaction of the army and the Russian settlers against the local populations. By reconstructing the micro-dynamics of the uprising, its relationship with the ongoing Great War and the role of the various actors involved in the events this wonderfully researched volume represents an indispensable tool to understand the nature of the long Russian domination over the region.' Marco Buttino, Emeritus Professor, University of Turin‘This impressive volume provides a state-of-the-art overview of the events of 1916 in Central Asia. The treatment here is both deep and multifaceted, combining broad analytic horizons with thorough and careful treatment of individual events. Bringing together scholars from North America, Europe, and Central Asia, and based on research in a wide range of languages and multiple archives and sources, it presents both indigenous voices as well as those of Russian settlers, soldiers and officials. The chapters in this volume will allow the 1916 Central Asian Revolt to take its rightful place in the historiography of the First World War, the Russian Empire, and of anti-colonial rebellions. As one author notes, this event sees the catalytic intersection of the world war with Russia’s colonial crisis. This excellent volume should be of great interest to historians of the Russian empire and Soviet Union, but equally to scholars interested in colonialism and anti-colonial resistance and the First World War.’Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Making War, Forging Revolution. Russia’s Continuum of Crisis 1914 –1921'[...] It brings together cutting-edge research by scholars from Central Asia, Europe, Japan, and North America to present a detailed and analytically sophisticated view of the uprising. [...] This volume is the definitive account of the 1916 revolt in any language.'The Russian Review -- .Table of ContentsNote on translation, transliteration and datesGlossary and abbreviationsEditors' introductionAminat Chokobaeva, Cloé Drieu and Alexander Morrison1 Why in Central Asia, why in 1916? The revolt as an interface of the Russian colonial crisis and the World WarTomohiko Uyama2 The exemption of peoples of Turkestan from universal military service as an antecedent to the 1916 revolt.Tatiana Kotiukova3 The ­­­­1916 uprisings in Jizzakh: economic background and political rationalesAkmal Bazarbaev and Cloé Drieu4 The “virtual reality” of colonial Turkestan: how Russian officials viewed and represented the participation of the Local population in the 1916 revoltOybek Mahmudov5 Fears, rumours, violence: the Tsarist regime and the revolt of the nomads in Central Asia, 1916Jörn Happel6 When the nomads went to war: the uprising of 1916 in Semirech’eAminat Chokobaeva7 Scales of violence: the 1916 Central Asian uprising in the context of wars and revolutions (1914-1923)Niccolò Pianciola8 Violent acculturation: Alexei Kuropatkin, the Central Asian Revolt, and the long Shadow of conquestIan W. Campbell 9 Refugees, resettlement and revolutionary violence in Semirech’e after the 1916 revolt Alexander Morrison 10 Links across time: Taranchis during the uprising of 1916 in Semirech’e and the “Atu” massacre of 1918 Ablet Kamalov 11 Making political rebellion "primitive": the 1916 rebellion in the Kazakh steppe in long-term perspective (ca.1840-1930) Xavier Hallez and Isabelle Ohayon 12 From Rebels to refugees: memorialising the revolt of 1916 in oral poetry Jipar Duishembieva 13 A Qirghiz verse narrative of rebellion and exile by Musa Chaghatay uulu Daniel Prior 14 Domesticating 1916: the evolution of Amangeldi Imanov and the creation of a foundation myth for the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (1916-1939)Danielle Ross Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a co-monarchy that put England at the heart of early modern Europe. In this book, Alexander Samson presents a bold reassessment of Mary and Philip’s reign, rescuing them from the neglect they have suffered at the hands of generations of historians. The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the reasons for its persistent marginalisation in the historiography of sixteenth-century England. Using new archival discoveries and original sources, the book argues for Mary as a great Catholic queen, while fleshing out Philip’s important contributions as king of England.Trade Review‘Informative, well illustrated and with plenty of rich detail, this thought-provoking study dismantles many of the myths about Mary and Philip and their joint reign as monarchs of England.’ Linda Porter, Literary Review'This is a truly excellent revisionist study of the reign of Mary I, and should be read by specialists and students so that rehabilitation of Mary I can continue.'Valerie Schutte, Royal Studies Journal 'This is a book full of learning, one that entertains as much as it enlightens, and it should be read and considered by anyone involved in the growing field of Marian—and now also Philippine—studies.'Journal of British Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Prenuptial2 Contracting matrimony3 Wyatt and the queen’s regal power4 A marriage made in Heaven?5 Royal entry: London, 18 August 15546 Anti-Spanish sentiment in early modern England7 Spanish Tudor / English HabsburgConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisGlobal biographies provides an advanced and comprehensive analytical framework for historians to use biography as a method to write global history. Moving beyond the state-of-the-art, the volume defines and operationalises three uniquely tailored approaches to global biographies: ‘time and periodisation’, ‘exceptional normal’ and ‘space and scales’. From Icelandic communists and Jewish medical students, via Zambian Third Worldism and Albanian nationalism, to the Black/White Atlantic and Australian internationalists, the volume tests the prospects and pitfalls of the approaches it launches.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou and Gunvor Simonsen PART I: Time and periodisation 1 Wilsonian moments: Thanassis Aghnides between empire and nation state – Haakon A. Ikonomou 2 Making sense of 1956: experiencing and negotiating the socialist project in Iceland – Rósa Magnúsdóttir3 Colonial masculinity: monarchy, military, colonialism, fascism and decolonisation – Diana M. Natermann 4 Jewish medical students in Vienna between two world wars – Natalia Aleksiun PART II: Exceptional normal5 ‘Just an African radical’? A Zambian at the edge of the third world – Ismay Milford 6 Exceptionally normal (post)Ottomans: how failure shaped the futures of Balkan heroes – Isa Blumi7 The exceptional normal: Hugh Lenox Scott (1853–1934) and the United States’ imperial expansion – Stefan Eklöf Amirell8 A fateful beginning: Mehmed Cavid Bey, politics and finance in the global Middle East, 1908–14 – Ozan OzavciPART III: Space and scales 9 Scholar, refugee worker, Jew: Koppel S. Pinson (1904–61) – Laura Almagor10 Transnational agitator and union activist: James W. Ford and the communist push into the Black Atlantic – Holger Weiss 11 A woman with a typewriter: the international career of Dorothea Weger – Benjamin Auberer12 A white Atlantic life: the money, books and family of Adrian Bentzon – Gunvor SimonsenIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing a micro-historical approach, this book explores how the 'culture of covenanting' shaped lived experiences and communities in seventeenth-century Scotland and offers a more complete understanding of protestant identity in the early modern Atlantic world. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis volume critically examines gender inequality, its origins, and its social and economic implications in Latin America, with a particular focus on Ecuador. For that purpose, Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo bring together a collection of articles that provide insights from different disciplines, including political economy, history, development studies, political science, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. In Ecuador, as in Latin America as a whole, women dedicate more time than men to unpaid activities while being discriminated against in multiple areas, including labor markets, politics, and access to high-ranking positions. These problems are even more acutely experienced by women from rural areas and ethnic minorities. This essential inquiry aims to better understand how and why. Contributors include: Rafael Alvarado, María Anchundia Places, Esteban Arévalo, Diana Cabrera Montecé, Edwin Espinoza Piguave, Gabriela Gallardo, Danny Granda, Claudia Maldonado-Erazo, Wendy Mora, Diana Morán Chiquito, Sayonara Morejón, Carlos Moreno-Hurtado, María Moreno Zea, Ana Oña Macías, Pablo Ponce, Pablo Quiñonez, Valeria Recalde, Josefina Rosales, Ximena Songor-Jaramillo, and Daniel Zea.

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Book SynopsisTransnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the ‘long’ 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book traces the ways in which solidarity was conceived, imagined and enacted in the border crossings — of nation, race and class — made by grassroots activists.This diverse collection draws links between exiled revolutionaries in Uruguay, post-colonial immigrants in Britain, and Greek communist refugees in East Germany who campaigned for their respective causes from afar while identifying and linking up with wider liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Arab immigrants in France, Pakistani volunteers and Iraqi artists found myriad ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Neglected archives also reveal Tricontinental Cuban-based genealogies of artistic militancy, as well as transnational activist networks against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa.Bringing together original research with contributions from veteran activists and artists, this interdisciplinary volume explores how transnational solidarity was expressed in and carried through the itineraries of migrants and revolutionaries, film and print cultures, art and sport, political campaigns and armed struggle. It presents a novel perspective on radical politics of the global sixties which remains crucial to understanding anti-racist solidarity today.With a foreword by Vijay Prashad.Trade Review'This valuable collection of essays casts fresh light on a very significant period of anticolonial resistance and connected struggles across national borders. Its global scope decentres the geopolitical West without obscuring the links between various movements in the ‘long sixties’. Textured histories of transnational solidarity, at all times a demanding practice, are particularly welcome at a time when anti-imperialism too often devolves into a simplistic campism.'Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire, University of Cambridge'This is an important and politically timely collection which foregrounds the agency of activists from the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and South Asia in shaping the left internationalisms that defined the ‘Global Sixties’. It also reinscribes the centrality of anticolonial solidarity to events such as '1968' in Paris and the emergence of the anti-apartheid movement. Through doing so it provides necessary resources for thinking about left futures and global transnational solidarities.'David Featherstone, author of Solidarity, University of Glasgow -- .Table of ContentsForeword – Vijay PrashadIntroduction: Transnational solidarity in the long sixties – Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin and Francesca Burke 1 ‘We took the notion’ – Bernadette Devlin McAliskey 2 The voice of the immigrant worker and the rise and fall of France’s long 1968 – Matt Myers 3 Comités Palestine (1970-72): on the origins of solidarity with the Palestinian cause in France – Abdellali Hajjat 4 Cultural guerrilla: tricontinental genealogies of 1968 – Paula Barreiro López Manifesto: For the cultural congress of Havana (1967) 5 New left encounters in Latin America: transnational revolutionaries, exiles and the formation of the Tupamaros in early 1960s Montevideo – Marina Cardozo 6 Connected struggles, anticolonial solidarity and liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies in Africa – Víctor Barros7 ‘Action needed’: the American Committee on Africa and solidarity with Angola – Aurora Almada e Santos 8 On transnational feminist solidarity: the case of Angela Davis in Egypt Sara Salem 9 ‘Don’t play with apartheid’: anti-racist solidarity in Britain with South African sports Christian Høgsbjerg 10 The Gulf Committee: Interview with Helen Lackner 11 ‘The brilliant sun of revolt’ rising in the East: solidarity in Britain with the uprising in Pakistan of 1968-69 – Talat Ahmed 12 Palestine through the prism of Pakistani cinema: imagining sameness and solidarity through Zerqa (1969) – Sabah Haider 13 The long sixties and Islamist activism: radical transregional solidarities – Claudia Derichs 14 A witness of our time (1972): Selected drawings by Dia al-Azzawi 15 Greece in the Third World: solidarity through metonymy in a refugee magazine from the GDR – Mary Ikoniadou 16 Solidarity as an absence: the productive limits of Adorno’s thought – Patricia McManus Index

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Book SynopsisAn incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay Prashad shows that the path toward hope and liberation lies in looking closely at myriad, under covered struggles being waged all across the world by workers in countries such as India, Kenya, Peru, Tunisia, and Argentina. A marvelously global but grassroots perspective.Prashad also examines pressing topics such as debt cancellation, a wealth tax, austerity, the pandemic, the arms industry, the climate crisis, socialism, working-class social movements and much more.Trade Review"Vijay Prashad's remarkable work has for years been an incomparable source of information and understanding about the Global South, while also providing incisive analysis of major developments of world affairs." —Noam Chomsky"An essential, brilliant revolutionary post pandemic conversation and primer about everything that matters and how we can move from the devastation of capitalism to a living breathing working socialism. Informative and profoundly inspirational." —V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Vagina Monologues and The Apology"Struggle Makes Us Human is an impassioned and studied case for socialism. In the face of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the unrealized promise of the New International Economic Order, and the rupture between intellectual and grounded struggle, socialism remains as necessary and possible as ever. Vijay Prashad takes readers on an intimate journey across the world and through history to introduce us to thinkers, workers, revolutionaries, and martyrs whose example offers glimpses of a horizon that remains within our reach.” —Noura Erakat“Vijay Prashad is our own Frantz Fanon. His writing of protest is always tinged with the beauty of hope.” —Amitava Kumar"Vijay Prashad recalls a past without which it is impossible to understand the present.” —Tariq Ali"Like his hero Eduardo Galeano, Vijay Prashad makes the telling of the truth lovable; not an easy trick to pull off, he does it effortlessly.” —Roger Waters

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Book SynopsisThis thorough and timely book collects essays on the political economy of Brazil, focusing on the federal administrations led by the Workers' Party (PT), under Presidents Lula and Dilma Rousseff. The essays examine the economic, political, and social aspects of these governments, and a whole spectrum of policies implemented - or not - between 2003 and 2016, with implications for the subsequent period up to, and including, the administration led by Jair Bolsonaro. What emerges from this examination is the inescapable recognition that those left leaning governments were neoliberal, but in different ways when compared with other administrations in Brazil's history. Their similarities and differences are examined in detail. Contributors are: Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Ana Paula Colombi, Andre Singer, Andreia Galvao, Armando Boito Jr, Barbara Fritz, Cecilia Hoff, Celio Hiratuka, Claudio Castelo Branco Puty, Cristhiane Falchetti, Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Denise Gentil, Eduardo Fagnani, Fabiano Santos, Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Glaison Augusto Guerrero, Guilherme Mello, Gustavo Codas Friedmann, Humberto Martins, Jose Dari Krein, Lena Lavinas, Lucas Salvador, Andrietta, Luiz Fernando de Paula, Luiz Filgueiras, Marcelo Arend, Patricia Rocha Lemos, Paula Marcelino, Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Pedro Mendes Loureiro, Pedro Paulo Zuluth Bastos, Pedro Rossi, Rafael Moura, Ruy Braga, and Soraia Aparecida Cardozo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction   Alfredo Saad-Filho 1 Shades of Neoliberalism Brazil under the Workers' Party (2003-2020)   Alfredo Saad-Filho 2 Capitalist Development and Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Brazil since 1994   Luiz Filgueiras 3 Varieties of Developmentalism A Critical Assessment of the pt Governments   Daniela Magalhaes Prates, Barbara Fritz and Luiz Fernando de Paula 4 Puzzles of Economic Growth and Crisis under the Workers' Party Governments   Pedro Cezar Dutra Fonseca, Marcelo Arend and Glaison Augusto Guerrero 5 Sailing against the Wind The Rise and Crisis of a Low-Conflict Progressivism   Gustavo Codas Friedmann and Claudio A. Castelo Branco Puty 6 The Growth Model of the pt Governments A Furtadian View of the Limits of Recent Brazilian Development   Pedro Rossi, Guilherme Mello and Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos 7 The Brazilian Crises Profits, Distribution and Growth   Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Cecilia Hoff and Alessandro Miebach 8 Why Bolsonarism Should Be Characterized as Neofascism   Armando Boito Jr. 9 The Failure of Dilma Rousseff's Developmentalist Experiment   Andre Singer 10 The Political Economy of Lulism and Its Aftermath   Ruy Braga and Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos 11 Assessing the Developmentalist Character of the Workers' Party Government Project   Luiz Fernando de Paula, Fabiano Santos and Rafael Moura 12 The Limits of Dependency The Foreign Policy of Rouseff's Administration   Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos and Celio Hiratuka 13 Brazilian Labor Market From the Workers' Party Administrations to the Bolsonaro Government   Ana Paula Fregnani Colombi and Jose Dari Krein 14 A Poverty-Reducing Variety of Neoliberalism? The Workers' Party Distributive Policies   Pedro Mendes Loureiro 15 Brazilian Unions in the Twenty-First Century   Andreia Galvao and Paula Marcelino 16 Social Policy since Rousseff Misrepresentation and Marginalization   Lena Lavinas and Denise Gentil 17 The Reform of Pensions under the Workers' Party Shades of Commodification   Lucas Salvador Andrietta, Patricia Rocha Lemos and Eduardo Fagnani 18 The Housing Policy under the pt Governments Between the Social Inclusion and the Commodification   Cristhiane Falchetti 19 Tackling Regional Inequalities under the Workers' Party Advances and Limitations   Soraia Aparecida Cardozo and Humberto Martins Index

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Book SynopsisTea on the terrace takes the reader on a journey up and down the Nile with famous archaeologists and Egyptologists. Spending time with these fascinating men and women at their hotels and on their boats, the book reveals that a great deal of archaeological work took place away from field sites and museums.Arriving in Alexandria, travellers such as Americans Theodore Davis, Emma Andrews and James Breasted. The book follows them on their journey, listening in on their conversations and observing their activities. Applying insights from social studies of science, it reveals that hotels in particular were crucial spaces for establishing careers, building and strengthening scientific networks, and generating and experimenting with new ideas.Combining archaeological tourism with the history of Egyptology, Tea on the terrace takes the reader behind the scenes of familiar stories, showing Egyptologists’ activities in a whole new light.Trade Review'Will delight all those with an interest in the early development of Egyptology.'Anna Garnett, Ancient Egypt Magazine -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: archaeologists in Egypt1 Alexandria: archaeological tourism in a city forgotten2 Cairo: the city and tourist victorious3 Up the Nile: l’esprit du Nil4 Luxor: archaeology with Thomas CookConclusion: going back homeIndex

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Book SynopsisA new analysis of the difficulties in normalising opposition in the Irish Free State, this book analyses the collision between nineteenth-century monolithic nationalist movements with the norms and expectations of multiparty parliamentary democracy. The Irish revolutionaries’ attempts to create a Gaelic, postcolonial state involved resolving tension between these two ideas. Smaller economically-driven parties such as the Labour and Farmers’ parties attempted to move on from the revolution’s unnatural focus on nationalist political issues while the larger revolutionary parties descended from Sinn Féin attempt to recreate or restore notions of revolutionary unity. This conflict made democracy and opposition hard to establish in the Irish Free State. Table of Contents1 Democracy, historians and the civil war 2 Opposition and revolution 3 Decolonising the state 4 Making politics normal 5 Vote government 6 Cults of little personality Coda: multiparty democracy in the Irish Free StateIndex

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Book SynopsisMartin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.This gripping book tells the story behind “The Speech” and sheds light on other key moments of the March on Washington, drawing on interviews with Clarence Jones, a close friend of and draft speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.; Joan Baez, who sang at the march; as well as Angela Davis and other leading civil rights luminaries.Now with a new introduction to mark the 60th anniversary of that historic day in Washington, The Speech offers an essential analysis of King’s words at a moment of urgent reckoning and renewed calls for justice and liberation.Trade Review“Slim but powerful…. Younge is adept at both distilling the facts and asking blunt questions.” —Boston Globe“Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on [the speech's] significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes—the thought and preparation, vision and revision—whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.” —Patricia J. Williams

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Book SynopsisIn the 1890s Australian and New Zealand women became the first in the world to win the vote. Buoyed by their victories, they promised to lead a global struggle for the expansion of women’s electoral rights. Charting the common trajectory of the colonial suffrage campaigns, Distant Sisters uncovers the personal and material networks that transformed feminist organising. Considering intimate and institutional connections, well-connected elites and ordinary women, this book argues developments in Auckland, Sydney, and Adelaide—long considered the peripheries of the feminist world—cannot be separated from its glamourous metropoles. Focusing on Antipodean women, simultaneously insiders and outsiders in the emerging international women’s movement, and documenting the failures of their expansive vision alongside its successes, this book reveals a more contingent history of international organising and challenges celebratory accounts of fin-de-siècle global connection.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality.Trade Review'Distant Sisters is fresh and necessary, a razor-sharp collection of ‘messy stories’ that warn against simplistic readings of the past to the suit the imperatives or trends of the present.'Dr Yves Rees, Sydney Review of Books 'Distant Sisters [is a] meticulous account of Australasian women’s international activism in support of women’s suffrage between 1880 and 1914'.Professor Marilyn Lake, Australian Book Review'Distant Sisters is a seamlessly and beautifully written, as well as rigorously researched, account of the intersecting ambitions, aspirations, endeavours, successes and failures of political women connected by virtue of their place in the Australasian region. It is a masterful recount of the ‘messy stories’ both underpinning and arising out of Australasian suffrage success.’Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Women’s History Review 'Meticulously researched … this careful study allows us to see both the excitement of women who wished to be the first to achieve the franchise and the disappointments that followed. Through his thorough engagement with a range of sources Keating has illustrated the importance of cross-border connections'.Professor Barbara Brookes, History Australia 'James Keating’s Distant Sisters is … an important book … It is meticulously researched, elegantly written and skilfully organised, building on international as well as local research and eschewing simple celebratory conclusions about Australasian women’s global engagement. Thus, while acknowledging the positive achievements, it emphasises contingency, contradictions and limitations, especially in imagining an Australian identity and forging trans-Tasman cooperation.'Emeritus Professor Judith Smart, Victorian Historical Journal'In this welcome new addition to suffrage historiography, Keating … delivers a portrait of the Australasian suffrage campaign that is far from traditional. It moves the reader away from a focus on the mere mechanics of the campaign, or indeed a spotlight on its key figures, to view instead a picture that is more detailed and complex. It helps the reader understand why the history of this movement and its activists has not taken a centre-stage in the global narratives of the women’s franchise, while also highlighting the roles of some of the almost unknown or forgotten figures weaving through its history. By using a methodology that privileged spatial concepts we understand why regional issues mattered so greatly and also why ‘Indigenous voices were absent from the Australian campaigns’.'Women’s History Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Leading the empire, leading the world?1 For God and home and every land: Suffrage internationalism in the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union2 ‘My heart...yearn[s] for a genuine voting Australian woman!’: Australasian suffragists and the international suffrage movement3 The business of correspondence: Politics, friendship, and intimacy in suffragists’ letters 4 Shaking hands across the seas: The Australasian women’s advocacy press5 Suffragists on tour: Exporting and narrating the female franchiseConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisRenowned Marxist scholar Michael Löwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Löwy’s essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the labor and socialist movements of Germany, Poland, and Russia, Luxemburg had international standing as an original and sharp-minded theorist during her life and remains one of the most admired and studied revolutionaries in the Marxist tradition.Löwy follows Luxemburg in blending diverse intellectual disciplines—philosophy, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and economics—to make sense of global realities in her time and our own. Luxemburg’s creative intellectual endeavors were shaped by her genuine devotion to the free development of all people, and her fierce opposition to all forms of tyranny and authoritarianism. These commitments guided her analyses of exploitation and mass struggle, the dynamics of trade unions and of bureaucracy, the origins and impacts of economic crisis, the nature of war and imperialism, and the interconnections of reform and revolution.In accessible and stimulating prose, Löwy explores Luxemburg’s many political and theoretical contributions, as well as her links to revolutionaries including Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Antonio Gramsci, Georg Lukács, José Carlos Mariátegui, and Leon Trotsky. Through Löwy’s expansive engagement with Luxemburg‘s political trajectory and influence, we are able to see her wrestle with political problems that remain relevant today.

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Book SynopsisThis book is about other worlds and the supernatural beings, from angels to fairies, that inhabited them. It is about divination, prophecy, visions and trances. And it is about the cultural, religious, political and social uses to which people in Scotland put these supernatural themes between 1500 and 1800. The supernatural consistently provided Scots with a way of understanding topics such as the natural environment, physical and emotional wellbeing, political events and visions of past and future. In exploring the early modern supernatural, the book has much to reveal about how men and women in this period thought about, debated and experienced the world around them. Comprising twelve chapters by an international range of scholars, The supernatural in early modern Scotland discusses both popular and elite understandings of the supernatural.Table of Contents1 Exploring the supernatural in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare and Martha McGill 2 The elrich poems: the supernatural and the textual – Janet Hadley Williams3 Emotional relationships with spirit-guides in early modern Scotland – Julian Goodare4 Experiencing the invisible polity: trance in early modern Scotland – Georgie Blears5 The ninety-nine dancers of Moaness: Orkney women between the visible and invisible – Liv Helene Willumsen6 Angels in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill7 Scottish political prophecies and the crowns of Britain, 1500–1840 – Michael B. Riordan8 Astrology and supernatural power in early modern Scotland – Jane Ridder-Patrick9 Fallen spirits and divine grace: sermons and the supernatural in post-Reformation Scotland – Michelle D. Brock10 The uses of providence in early modern Scotland – Martha McGill and Alasdair Raffe11 The invention of Highland Second Sight – Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart12 The pagan supernatural in the Scottish Enlightenment – Felicity Loughlin13 Eighteenth-century Scotland and the visionary supernatural – Hamish MathisonIndex

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