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Pluto Press The Geopolitics of Green Colonialism
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Harvard University Press Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage
Book SynopsisThe warp and weft of political and social relationships among the medieval elite were formed by marriages made between royal families. Ties of Kinship establishes a new standard for tracking the dynastic marriages of the ruling family of Rus´—the descendants of Volodimer (Volodimeroviči). Utilizing a modern scholarly approach and a broad range of primary sources from inside and outside Rus´, Christian Raffensperger has created a fully realized picture of the Volodimeroviči from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and the first comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the subject in English.Alongside more than twenty-two genealogical charts with accompanying bibliographic information, this work presents an analysis of the Volodimeroviči dynastic marriages with modern interpretations and historical contextualization that highlights the importance of Rus´ in a medieval European framework. This study will be used by Slavists, Byzantinists, and West European medievalists as the new baseline for research on the Volodimeroviči and their complex web of relationships with the world beyond.Trade ReviewChristian Raffensperger gives us a book that has been needed for generations. Anyone who has ventured into the Kyivan chronicles and other Russian and western medieval sources immediately becomes disheartened by the maze of names and marriages of the Volodimeroviči. Not anymore, thanks to this book. But Ties of Kinship is more than a reference work; it is an erudite and ambitious work of interpretive historical scholarship that offers a source-based glimpse of how the Kyivan polity fit into a much broader social and political medieval European world. Anyone interested in Russian history or medieval Europe will find this work indispensable. -- Russell E. Martin, Westminster College
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Cornell University Press A History of Medieval Spain
Book SynopsisMedieval Spain is brilliantly recreated, in all its variety and richness, in this comprehensive survey.Trade ReviewJoseph F. O'Callaghan has met a major, long-felt need with a clearly written, balanced, thorough survey that belongs in every history collection. His Spain is the entire peninsula—Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Portuguese, and Catalonian as well as Castilian. A substantial political narrative is followed by chapters on government, social and economic developments, and religion and culture. The author even-handedly represents the major sides in disputed issues, for his aim is to present the current state of scholarship in a simple narrative form. He has succeeded admirably. * Library Journal *Joseph O'Callaghan has now given us, for the first time, a solid and in-depth survey in English on the peninsular kingdoms, drawing together the myriad recent contributions, with the expertise of a recognized scholar in the field and the practicality of a long-time teacher of the topic.... Competence, thorough inclusiveness, clear organization, and solidity are the qualifiers which best sum O’Callaghan’s accomplishment. * The History Teacher *O'Callaghan's A History of Medieval Spain is indispensable to the medievalist and to the Latin-Americanist alike. It is encyclopedic in nature, making it a valuable reference tool.... On the whole, it represents considerable familiarity with the sources of information and learned condensation of that material. The chapters on society, economy, and culture give the reader a wider view than a skeletal political history of medieval Spain. * Southeastern Latin Americanist *There is no existing substitute for this volume in English for the undergraduate or graduate student seeking a reliable orientation to medieval peninsular history. * Choice *This book is a comprehensive narrative history based on an impressively wide reading in the sources and secondary literature. It should prove useful to teachers, students, and general readers in European history.... Soundly traditional in its organization, it gives primacy to political events without neglecting institutional, social, and cultural matters. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations for Citations HispaniaPART I: THE VISIGOTH ERA, 415-711 1. The Visigothic Kingdom 2. Visigothic Government 3. Visigothic Society and CulturePART II. THE ASCENDANCY OF ISLAM, 711-1031 4. The Emirate of Córdoba 5. The Caliphate of Córdoba 6. Government, Society, and Culture in al-Andalus, 711-1031 7. Government, Society, and Culture in Christian Spain, 711-1035PART III. A BALANCE OF POWER, FROM THE FALL OF THE CALIPHATE TO LAS NAVAS DE TOLOSA, 1031-1212 8. Alfonso VI, the Taifas, and the Almoravids 9. Alfonso VII and the Leonese Empire 10. The Duel with the Almohads 11. Government, 1031-1212 12. Society and the Economy, 1031-1212 13. Religion and Culture, 1031-1212PART IV. THE GREAT RECONQUEST AND THE BEGINNINGS OF OVERSEAS EXPANSION, 1212-1369 14. The Great Reconquest 15. Alfonso X and the Lure of Empire 16. The Overseas Expansion of the Crown of Aragon 17. The Straits, the Mediterranean, and Civil War 18. Government, 1212-1369 19. Society and the Economy, 1212-1369 20. Religion and Culture, 1212-1369PART V. THE STRUGGLE FOR PENINSULAR UNION, 1369-1479 21. The Early Trastámaras 22. The Hegemony of the Trastámaras 23. Government, 1369-1479 24. Society and the Economy, 1369-1479 25. Religion and Culture, 1369-1479EPILOGUE The Catholic Kings and the Perfect PrinceGENEALOGICAL CHARTS 1. Umayyad Emirs and Caliphs of Córdoba, 756-1031 2. Kings of Asturias-León to 1037 3. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, and Barcelona to 1035 4. Rulers of Portugal, León, and Castile, 1035-1214 5. Rulers of Navarre, Aragon, Catalonia, and Provence, 1035-1214 6. Kings of Navarre, 1194-1512 7. Kings of León-Castile, 1214-1504 8. Kings of Portugal, 1211-1521 9. Kings of Aragon, 1213-1516 10. The Nasrid Kings of Granada, 1232-1492BIBLIOGRAPHY Abbreviations General Works Part I: The Visigothic Era Part II: The Ascendancy of Islam Part III: A Balance of Power, from the Fall of the Caliphate to Las Navas de Tolosa Part IV: The Great Reconquest and the Beginnings of Overseas Expansion Part V: The Struggle for Peninsular Union Epilogue: The Catholic Kings and the Perfect PrinceINDEX
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University of Minnesota Press Landscapes of Fear
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An elegant encyclopedic treatise on anxiety and its various manifestations, down through the ages. Tuan is an interdisciplinary virtuoso, ranging effortlessly over history, psychology, and anthropology. An arresting and beautifully documented study." —Kirkus
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Zone Books Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in
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University of Minnesota Press Stone
Book SynopsisJeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in Stone, that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological time and in other than human terms. Trade Review"A poignant and poetic book, Stone is a provocative contribution to anthropocene studies. Rather than naming humans as agents endowed with geologic force, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen contemplates our anxious collaboration with lithic matter that outlasts and eludes us. Stone is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the anthropocene within the geologic turn in literary and cultural studies." —Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon"If our historic engagement with stone is the story of cave painting, toolmaking, and home building, Cohen wants to recover a secret history that moves beyond such utilitarian domination. His version is about collaboration and gregarious commingling between humans and stones."—Los Angeles Review of Books"A gorgeous lovesong to lithic form, narrative endurance, and the urgent need to connect."—The Bookfish:Thalassology, Shakespeare, and Swimming"Rendered eloquently, Cohen’s text is a useful attempt at crafting a unique theoretical framework for challenging assumptions about the differences between humans and nature."—CHOICE"Ranging between the poetic and the pedantic, heroically imagining beyond its academic constraints, Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman presents a unique history that is central to some of our most urgent ecological concerns."—The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada"An elegantly structured, stylistically-rich study in theory and criticism."—SubStance"Stone is a beautifully written book that moves from scholarly engagement with medieval texts to more contemporary issues and ideas, as well as a deal of personal material, and etymological musings."—The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory"Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a poetically charged account of stone as uncannily lively substance, the necessary ground for any articulation of ecological (and ethical) figures."—Symploke 24"a profound exploration of a fascinating topic, one that helps me in my own thinking on ecology and materiality, and one that may well stand the test of lithic time."—KronoScope"Renders a usually inanimate and unchanging world both vivid and vibrant."—Environmental History Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Stories of Stone Geophilia: The Love of StoneExcursus: The Weight of the PastTime: The Insistence of StoneExcursus: A Heart UnknownForce: The Adventure of StoneExcursus: GeologicSoul: The Life of StoneAfterword: IcelandAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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The University of Alabama Press In the Blood of Our Brothers Abolitionism and the
Book SynopsisProvides a comprehensive theory of the history, the politics, and the economics of the persistence and growth of the slave trade in the Spanish empire even as other countries moved toward abolition.Trade Review“A crucial addition to the history of abolitionism in the Age of Revolution. By bringing Spanish abolitionist debates back, and by placing them within their international context, Sanjurjo offers an insightful study that expands our knowledge of the nineteenth-century imperial conflicts surrounding the end of the slave trade and slavery in the Atlantic world.”- Manuel Barcia, author of The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade and West African Warfare in Bahia and Cuba: Soldier Slaves in the Atlantic World, 1807–1844;“In the Blood of Our Brothers is an eloquently argued analysis of abolitionism in nineteenth-century Spain. Grounded in a skillful close reading of rich archival materials, Sanjurjo sheds new light on Spanish liberalism. His careful unraveling of the, sometimes, contradictory ideologies of liberalism and abolition enriches our understanding of both.”- Lisa Surwillo, author of Monsters by Trade: Slave Traffickers in Modern Spanish Literature and Culture;“Sanjurjo has written a fascinating account of the production, circulation, and reception of abolitionist ideas in Spain and its Atlantic dominions. Using a rich set of untapped primary sources, he elegantly outlines the way in which anti-slavery discourses emerged among seemingly disparate groups of actors: liberal parliamentarians, apologists for absolutism, progressive activists, spokesmen for commercial interests, religious figures, and advocates of racial separation. The book provides a vital new addition to the study of abolitionism in the Atlantic World by documenting the Spanish experience as a complement the better-known British, French and United States movements and reveals it to be fundamentally transnational, self-aware, and interest-driven.”- Karen Racine, author of Francisco de Miranda: A Transatlantic Life in the Age of Revolution;“This original, well-researched and certain to be field-shaping book traces abolitionist discourse (and anti-slavery ideology, more generally) in the Spanish empire of the first half and middle decades of the nineteenth century. Sanjurjo’s is the first study, building on the work of Josep M. Fradera and the late Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, to study the intersection of liberal ideas and ideas about slavery in a systematic manner, encompassing a wide range of political-economic-religious writers and political actors. This book is distinguished by its clarity of thought and exposition, unusual (and productive) use of archival and published sources, and success in making Spanish intellectual currents accessible and comprehensible to an Anglophone audience. In short, Sanjurjo’s book is a tremendous addition to the historiography.”- Gabriel Paquette, author of The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions.
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Cornell University Press Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings
Book SynopsisXuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100–1125). Dated to 1120, the Catalogue is divided into ten categories of subject matter. Under Daoist and Buddhist Subjects, Figural Subjects, Architecture, Barbarian Tribes, Dragons and Fish, Landscape, Domestic and Wild Animals, Flowers and Birds, Ink Bamboo, and Vegetables and Fruit are biographies of 231 painters, ranging from famous early masters, such as Wu Daozi (ca. 685-758) and Li Cheng (919-967), to otherwise unknown artists of the Song-dynasty court, including fourteen eunuch officials and sixteen male and female members of the royal family. Titles of their pictures held in the palace collection are listed for each artist. These 6,396 paintings testify to the visual culture experienced by viewers of the twelfth century. The author's Introduction analyzes the Catalogue as a source of evidence about the formation of the Song-dynasty palace collection and argues that the majority of its pictures were already in the collection before Huizong's reign, as a result of conquest, confiscation, tribute, gift culture, collecting by earlier emperors, and the production of academy artists and regular officials at the Song court. Under Huizong's reign, around a thousand other pictures were added to the Catalogue through acquisition and reattribution. Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Duke University Press Aurality
Book SynopsisIn this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her 'acoustically tuned' analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural. These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in the service of the production of different notions of personhood and belonging. In Ochoa Gautier''s groundbreaking work, Latin America and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial. Trade Review"Speaking from the intersection of sound studies, Latin American studies, and the history of natural history and musicology, this book shifts the terrain upon which all of those fields have comfortably settled. Scholars of sound studies will need to take note of Ochoa’s challenges to European or North American framings." -- Alejandra Bronfman * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Gautier’s work is tremendously useful. A challenging and rewarding read, I recommend her work to persons who are seriously interested in new approaches to retelling the history of any nation.” -- Julian Ledford * AmeriQuests *"Aurality is a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of sound studies. Ana Marıa Ochoa Gautier adeptly guides the reader across complex scales of analysis using well-selected historical case studies.... Aurality achieves its goal of establishing a critical vantage point for making sense of the contemporary transformations that are shaping the 21st." -- William Hope * American Ethnologist *"Ochoa Gautier provides a vitally important account of the intricate and heterogeneous modes of knowing, being, becoming, and belonging that continue to resonate in the postcolonial lettered city." -- Leonardo Cardoso * American Anthropologist *"The volume is a must for enthusiasts of sound studies and/or Colombian history. Ochoa Gautier has done a fine job chronicling the way in which the aural played a key role in the definition of a relation between humankind and the body politics of the nation-state. It deserves wide recognition and ample endorsement." -- Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste * EIAL *"This book raises important questions about the role of sound and efforts to categorise it in defining the relationship between the human and the non-human, and between different social groups within Colombian society.... Aurality will undoubtedly serve the specialist researcher well and it is to be hoped that the rich lines of inquiry it opens up will receive further attention in future." -- Anna Cant * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Aurality is a rich and complex book that raises important questions about colonialism and modernity, personhood and nation. Ochoa Gautier has made an important contribution to Colombian historiography, certainly meeting her aim to explore 'the relationship between listening and the voice as a part of the history of the relation between the colonial and the modern'. . . . It will be difficult to read history in the same way again." -- Meri L. Clark * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Ear and the Voice in the Lettered City's Geophysical History 1 1. On Howls and Pitches 31 2. On Popular Song 77 3. On the Ethnographic Ear 123 4. On Vocal Immunity 165 Epilogue. The Oral in the Aural 207 Notes 215 References 231 Index 252
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 Paleontology as a science 1 Introduction 2 Paleontology in the modern world 2 Paleontology as a science 3 Steps to understanding 12 Fossils and evolution 16 Paleontology today 17 Review questions 23 Further reading 23 References 24 2 Stratigraphy 25 Introduction 26 How stratigraphy works 26 New techniques, new tools 40 Geological time scale: a common language 46 Extraterrestrial stratigraphy 47 Review questions 48 Further reading 48 References 49 3 Paleogeography and paleoclimates 50 Paleobiogeography 50 Fossils in mountain belts 64 Paleoclimates 69 The Anthropocene 76 Review questions 77 Further reading 77 References 77 4 Paleoecology 80 Introduction 81 Taphonomic constraints: sifting through the debris 83 Populations: can groups of individuals make a difference? 85 Habitats and niches 86 Paleocommunities 95 Evolutionary paleoecology 100 Ecological ranking of mass extinctions 110 Full contents vii Review questions 112 Further reading 112 References 112 5 Taphonomy and the quality of the fossil record 115 Introduction 116 Fossil preservation 116 Quality of the fossil record 130 Review questions 137 Further reading 138 References 138 6 Fossil form and function 140 Introduction 141 Growth and form 141 Evolution and development 147 Interpreting the function of fossils 152 Review questions 163 Further reading 164 References 164 7 Macroevolution and the tree of life 165 Introduction 166 Evolution by natural selection 167 Evolution and the fossil record 170 Trends and radiations 179 The tree of life 184 Review questions 191 Further reading 191 References 191 8 Biodiversity, extinction, and mass extinction 193 Introduction 194 The diversification of life 195 Mass extinctions 202 The “big five” mass extinction events 207 Extinction then and now 215 Review questions 220 Further reading 220 References 221 9 The origin of life 223 Introduction 224 The origin of life 224 Evidence for the origin of life 228 Life diversifies: eukaryotes 236 Review questions 245 Further reading 246 References 246 10 Protists 248 Introduction 249 Protozoa 252 Mystery protists of the proterozoic and paleozoic 260 Phytoplankton 266 Review questions 277 Further reading 277 References 277 11 Origin and expansion of the metazoans 279 Origins and classification 280 Invertebrate body and skeletal plans 284 Five key faunas 289 Review questions 304 Further reading 304 References 304 12 The basal metazoans: sponges and corals 306 Introduction 307 Porifera 307 Cnidaria 322 Review questions 341 Further reading 342 References 342 13 Lophophorates 1: brachiopods and bryozoans 344 Introduction 345 Brachiopoda 345 Bryozoa 360 Review questions 369 Further reading 370 References 370 14 Lophotrochozoans 2: mollusks and annelids 372 Mollusks 372 Introduction 373 Early mollusks 375 Class Bivalvia 380 Class Gastropoda 384 Class Cephalopoda 390 Class Scaphopoda 403 Class Rostroconcha 403 Evolutionary trends within the Mollusca 404 Annelids 406 Review questions 410 Further reading 410 References 410 15 Ecdysozoa: arthropods 412 Introduction 413 Early arthropod faunas 413 Subphylum Trilobitomorpha (artiopoda) 416 Subphylum Chelicerata 428 Subphylum Myriapoda 430 Subphylum Hexapoda 430 Subphylum Crustacea 433 Exceptional arthropod faunas through time 438 Review questions 442 Further reading 442 References 443 16 Deuterostomes: echinoderms and hemichordates 445 Introduction 446 Echinoderms 446 Hemichordates 468 Review questions 484 Further reading 484 References 484 17 Fishes and basal tetrapods 486 Introduction 487 Origin of the vertebrates 487 Jaws and fish evolution 492 Tetrapods 498 Reign of the reptiles 503 Review questions 510 Further reading 510 References 511 18 Dinosaurs and mammals 512 Introduction 513 Dinosaurs and their kin 513 Bird evolution 521 Rise of the mammals 522 The line to humans 530 Review questions 536 Further reading 536 References 537 19 Fossil plants and fungi 538 Introduction 539 Terrestrialization of plants 539 The great coal forests 547 Seed-bearing plants 552 Flowering plants 562 Review questions 568 Further reading 568 References 568 20 Trace fossils 570 Introduction 571 Understanding trace fossils 571 Trace fossils in sediments 578 Review questions 592 Further reading 592 References 592 Finale 594 Glossary 598 Appendix 1: Stratigraphic chart 617 Appendix 2: Paleogeographic maps 619 Index 620
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Zone Books Dissimilar Similitudes – Devotional Objects in
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Johns Hopkins University Press I Dread the Thought of the Place
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe appearance of the second in D. Scott Hartwig's massive and grandly executed two-volume study of the campaign is a decidedly welcome event. . . . All readers will be impressed with the skill with which he tells the story of Antietam.—HistoryNetI Dread the Thought of the Place is not only the best Civil War book published in 2023, but is destined to stand as the definitive, magisterial study on the Maryland Campaign and one of the best battle studies ever produced.—Civil War Monitor
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University of Texas Press The Florentine Codex An Encyclopedia of the
Book SynopsisScholars explore the most significant trove of Nahua culture and language: an illustrated manuscript compiled after the Spanish conquest by a Franciscan friar with many indigenous authors and painters.Trade Review[The Florentine Codex] offers fresh insights into the production and conceptualization of the manuscript, as well as the nuanced interchanges that occurred among its many collaborators...This book will directly appeal to those interested in sixteenth-century manuscripts of central Mexico and Nahua culture more generally. It will be an essential source for those working on the Florentine Codex. * H-Net Reviews *[A] lavishly illustrated volume...This is a very engaging and useful compilation of essays that help to illuminate the Florentine Codex. It is essential for all scholars of the contact period in Mexico and will serve as a point of departure for much additional research. * The Americas *The overall innovative quality of this volume is impressive. Above all, this important new book enhances our understanding of the Florentine Codex’s third text, its illustrations, which were clearly 'eloquent images' that gave Nahuatl and Spanish alphabetic texts their enduring power. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *The Florentine Codex provides a rich scholarly dialogue among the contributors. They commonly accept the alphabetic texts and images of the Florentine Codex as a bicultural product, but they differ in their approaches to the codex by emphasizing either indigenous or European tradition depending on their scholarly interest. Yet, their studies perfectly and harmoniously fit in the book by complementing one another. There is no doubt that this collection will serve as an important source for the scholars and students of pre-Hispanic and colonial Mexico for many years to come. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *This book is an important contribution to Sahaguntine studies in its collection of insightful essays by established scholars, including revised versions of some now-classic scholarship. The relatively succinct chapters are well suited for university instruction, for both core curricula and specialized courses. It is a beautifully illustrated volume that will appeal to anyone interested in the early modern humanities. * Renaissance Quarterly *[A] rigorous, interdisciplinary, and engaging treatment of the most consequential manuscript on the Aztec or Nahua worlds…[The Florentine Codex] features contributions from exemplary specialists and is richly illustrated…superb. * Hispanic American Historical Review *[The Florentine Codex] will be an important source for those interested in better understanding the Nahua world before and after Spanish arrival. The volume’s goal of emphasizing the Florentine Codex’s paintings is well-served by the abundant images that fill the essays, all of them in color...by looking closely at the codex and asking new questions of it, each of the authors brings a distinct perspective and special insights to their task, providing a strong foundation and model for future studies of the Florentine Codex and the Nahua world. * American Historical Review *[A] lavishly illustrated edited volume…One thing that authors in the volume consistently do is pay close attention to both the Spanish and Nahuatl texts, always attentive to gaps and acts of translation—as well as censorship and resistance—between them... Even after all of the advances in this volume, there is still much more to learn about this fascinating document. * Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture *Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction. An Encyclopedia of Nahua Culture: Context and Content (Kevin Terraciano) Part I. The Art of Translation Chapter 1. Images in Translation: A Codex “Muy Historiado” (Jeanette Favrot Peterson) Chapter 2. On the Reception of the Florentine Codex: The First Italian Translation (Ida Giovanna Rao) Chapter 3. Reading between the Lines of Book 12 (Kevin Terraciano) Chapter 4. The Art of War, the Working Class, and Snowfall: Reflections on the Assimilation of Western Aesthetics (Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo) Part II. Lords: Royal and Sacred Chapter 5. Surviving Conquest: Depicting Aztec Deities in Sahagún’s Historia (Eloise Quiñones Keber) Chapter 6. Fashioning Conceptual Categories in the Florentine Codex: Old-World and Indigenous Foundations for the Rulers and the Gods (Elizabeth Hill Boone) Chapter 7. Teotl and Diablo: Indigenous and Christian Conceptions of Gods and Devils in the Florentine Codex (Guilhem Olivier) Part III. Ordering the Cosmos Chapter 8. Ecology and Leadership: Pantitlan and Other Erratic Phenomena (Barbara E. Mundy) Chapter 9. Bundling Natural History: Tlaquimilolli, Folk Biology, and Book 11 (Molly H. Bassett) Chapter 10. Powerful Words and Eloquent Images (Diana Magaloni Kerpel) Part IV. Social Discourse and Deviance Chapter 11: Rhetoric as Acculturation: The Anomalous Book 6 (Jeanette Favrot Peterson) Chapter 12. Flowers and Speech in Discourses on Deviance in Book 10 (Lisa Sousa) Chapter 13. Parts of the Body: Order and Disorder (Ellen T. Baird) Bibliography Contributors Index
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Zone Books Cheerfulness – A Literary and Cultural History
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Duke University Press Otherwise Worlds
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Otherwise Worlds investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries. Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between the groups, the volume''s scholars, artists, and activists look to articulate new modes of living and organizing in the service of creating new futures. Among other topics, they examine the ontological status of Blackness and Indigeneity, possible forms of relationality between Black and Native communities, perspectives on Black and Indigenous sociality, and freeing the flesh from the constraints of violence and settler colonialism. Throughout the volume''s essays, art, and interviews, the contributors carefully attend to alternative kinds of relationships between Black and Native communities that can lead toward libeTrade Review“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.” -- Alexander G. Weheliye, author of * Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human *“Presenting new analyses and theorizations of the intersections and tensions between Black studies and Native studies, Otherwise Worlds shows how these fields can speak and think with each other. It has the potential to serve as a model of decolonial love in the academy and in our communities.” -- Michelle Jacob, author of * Indian Pilgrims: Indigenous Journeys of Activism and Healing with Saint Kateri Tekakwitha *"There is so much to admire about this book. I am making my way through each section slowly. Artists, activists and scholars frame the questions, complexities and possibilities an 'otherwise' orientation might open up, if we find better and better ways of ‘thinking of, caring for and talking to one another’ about the ongoing effects of genocide, colonialism, enslavement and anti-Blackness." -- Julia Guez * Houston Chronicle *“Otherwise Worlds offers a thought-provoking guide towards re-imagining the presence, resurgence and future of Black and Indigenous life…. Otherwise Worlds is an outstanding piece of academic work and a remarkable guide to approaching alternative worlds beyond racism, ecological destruction and racial capitalism.” -- Laura Mariana Reyes * Cultural Studies *“This collection is truly a conversation between disciplines and paves the way for new ways of relating to one another. Otherwise Worlds is a compelling collection that does what it sets out to do.” -- Alina Scott * E3W Review of Books *“Otherwise Worlds is a call to think beyond ourselves and curate an authentic relation to the scholarship, the land, and mainly the people. A major takeaway from each interview, essay, and artwork in this volume is the range of interdisciplinarity needed to capture the complexity of this discourse of sovereignty and liberation across the diaspora.” -- Daisy E. Guzman Nunez * NACLA Report on the Americas *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith 1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley 27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva 38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King 52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King 77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton 94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith 118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante 133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter 158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin 213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey 218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray 236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo 291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson 320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson 330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon 332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott 343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley 362 About the Authors 371 Index
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Duke University Press Legacies of War
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and impact of violence on human and more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies.Trade Review“This stunning and timely book is rightly disturbing, with its focus on sexual violence and the harm inflicted on women and their offspring, directly and indirectly, in Peru and Colombia. Kimberly Theidon has pulled together threads of apparently disparate events over time to reveal how reproductive violence impacts multiple environments, moving far beyond a woman’s womb. She brings formidable insights to this highly perturbing subject.” -- Margaret Lock, Marjorie Bronfman Professor Emerita, Departments of Social Studies of Medicine and of Anthropology, McGill University“Combining sharp insight, cutting-edge theoretical work, and a profound assessment of the legacies of war and the possibilities of repair, Kimberly Theidon foregrounds the agency of women, insisting on a reproductive justice that includes women’s right to have or not have a child, and the means for choice to be available. Compelling and supremely well written, Legacies of War makes important interventions into studies of gender, war, violence, and human rights and will find an audience among scholars and policy makers working on transitional justice, peacekeeping, and peace building.” -- Elisabeth Jean Wood, author of * Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador *"Urgent, timely, and heartbreaking. . . . As Theidon asks us to move beyond facile assumptions about these women and children, she similarly asks us to expand our analytical focus to consider the connections between reproductive and environmental harm and justice." -- María Elena García * NACLA *"Legacies of War provides deep reflection and raises difficult questions. As such, this is an important book for students of the Andes, global gender justice, and (post-)conflict violence and reconciliation. In addition, it is a very well-written journey through the possibilities and value of ethnographic work and scholarship." -- Jelke Boesten * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Writing in a narratively engaging ethnographic style, the author describes the international agendas, policies, and practices that maintain the invisibility of women’s rights in the context of wartime violence. Throughout the text, Theidon focuses on solutions and calls for an “explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict reconstruction agenda” (p. 5). Readers will come away with a nuanced account of how war, violence, and reproduction permeate the globe. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." -- J. Wies * Choice *"Permeated by compassion and deep insight, Legacies of War is a groundbreaking book that offers unique and innovative perspectives on a topic that has received scant attention in academic and policy debates. . . . It holds the potential to improve assistance and support for victims of war—both human and other than human—and should therefore be read by any scholar and practitioner working with reconciliation and post-war reconstruction processes." -- Sofie Rose * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"This book makes visible a widely hidden outcome of sexual violence and poses vital questions of increasing importance as we continue to face assaults on women’s reproductive rights and the natural environment. It would be of particular interest to those engaged with social and environmental justice, gender, Latin American studies, and human rights." -- Nicole Coffey Kellett * Journal of Anthropological Research *"In this book, as excellent as it is timely and urgent to disseminate, Theidon manages to put into perspective the horrors of sexual violence in Colombia and Peru, while bringing up the same problems in various parts of the planet. The author looks inward and outward, from small indigenous populations to large first world countries, to conclude that in all areas patriarchy, machismo and sexual violence against women have not yet listened to the victims of these forms of violence." (translated from Spanish) -- Mara Favoretto * Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research *“Meticulously researched and well-grounded in theory, Legacies of War is an insightful examination of the intergenerational impact of war on women, children, communities, and the environment. By interweaving personal encounters, first-hand examples, and survivor stories with traditional scholarly approaches, Theidon brings the subject matter to life and makes cogent arguments that are easily understood, even by those with little background in the subject matter." -- Lynn C. Purkey * Feministas Unidas *"Theidon demonstrates in Legacies of War a unique ability to recognize, analyze and interconnect, with delicate sensibility and an innovative conceptual apparatus, the intricacies of invisibilized harm in complex post-conflict scenarios. The book should be recommended reading for policy makers and scholars interested in violence, its after effects and a posthumanist approach to justice and reparations." -- Alejandro Quintero Mächler * Revista *Table of ContentsGratitude vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond Stigma 9 2. Situated Biologies 37 3. Ecologies and Aftermaths 57 4. The Long Way Around 85 Final Reflections 93 Notes 97 Bibliography 107 Index 115
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Zone Books Dissimilar Similitudes – Devotional Objects in
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Duke University Press Black Disability Politics
Book SynopsisIn Black Disability Politics Sami Schalk explores how issues of disability have been and continue to be central to Black activism from the 1970s to the present. Schalk shows how Black people have long engaged with disability as a political issue deeply tied to race and racism. She points out that this work has not been recognized as part of the legacy of disability justice and liberation because Black disability politics differ in language and approach from the mainstream white-dominant disability rights movement. Drawing on the archives of the Black Panther Party and the National Black Women’s Health Project alongside interviews with contemporary Black disabled cultural workers, Schalk identifies common qualities of Black disability politics, including the need to ground public health initiatives in the experience and expertise of marginalized disabled people so that they can work in antiracist, feminist, and anti-ableist ways. Prioritizing an understanding of disability Trade Review"With Sami Schalk’s incredible book, Black Disability Politics, we begin to move into a different kind of book doing intrinsically connected work—a rigorously researched look at all the ways that disabled people’s concerns have been foundational to Black resistance organizing. . . . If knowing your history is a key ingredient to success, Black Disability Politics presents a deeply researched and still incredibly readable map of the past, with implications for the shimmering future. This, along with what I can only describe as a muscular clarity in her writing, was incredible as a beginner to the topic to feel my understanding grow as I read, and that is only possible in the capable hands of a great writer like Schalk." -- S. Bear Bergman * Xtra! *"Sami Schalk explores the histories and essential lessons of Black disabled labor, politics and movements. This is a long-overdue and essential volume." -- Karla Strand * Ms. *"Black Disability Politics is a profound exploration and documentation of a cultural topic that has gone overlooked throughout the entire history of the Black American experience. . . . A deeply important view of the fight for the rights of disabled Black people in America since the 1970s." -- Jordannah Elizabeth * New York Amsterdam News *"This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and graduate students because it invites continued exploration of Black disability studies and politics. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty." -- S. Burch * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Black Health Matters 1 1. “We Have a Right to Rebel”: Black Disability Politics in the Black Panther Party 23 2. Fighting Psychiatric Abuse: The BPP and the Black Disability Politics of Mental and Carceral Institutions 48 Praxis Interlude One. Anti-ableist Approaches to Fighting Disabling Violence 69 3. Empowerment through Wellness: Black Disability Politics in the National Black Women’s Health Project 81 4. More Than Just Prevention: The NBWHP and the Black Disability of HIV/AIDS 110 Praxis Interlude Two. Approaches to Disability Identity in Black Disability Politics 129 5. Black Disability Politics Now 140 (Not a) Conclusion. The Present and Futures of Black Disability Politics 154 Notes 161 Bibliography 187 Index 199
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University of Toronto Press The Viking Age
Book SynopsisWho were the Vikings, and do they deserve their unsavoury reputation? Through over 100 primary source documents, this fascinating collection weighs the cultural importance and lasting influence of the Vikings.Trade Review"The third edition of [The Viking Age] is a substantial enlargement and update." -- D.J. Shepherd * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Scandinavian Homelands 1. The Voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan 2. A Description of the Islands of the North Chapter Two: Scandinavian Society 3. The Lay of Rig (Rígsþula) 4. Politics in Harald Finehair’s Norway 5. Hoskuld Buys a Slave 6. Slave Revolts (a) Hjorleif's Slaves Revolt (b) A Slave Revolt in Egil's Saga 7. How the Hersir Erling Treated His Slaves Chapter Three: Early Religion and Belief 8. The Norse Creation-Myth 9. Ragnarok: The Doom of the Gods 10. Odin Welcomes Eirik Bloodax to Valhalla 11. Odin Hangs on Yggdrasil 12. Odin and Human Sacrifice (a) The Death of King Vikar (b) The Deaths of Domaldi and Olaf Tretelgja 13. Sigurd, the Earl of Lade, Sacrifices to the Gods 14. The Temple at Uppsala 15. A Temple in Iceland 16. Norse Funeral Practices (a) Snorri’s History of Burial Practices (b) Odin Orders Cremation and Becomes a God (c) The Death of Baldur the Good (d) Gunnar’s Burial Mound 17. The Living Dead (a) Gunnar’s Posthumous Poem (b) Grettir’s Fight with Glam Chapter Four: Gender in the Viking Age 18. Manly Men (a) Gunnar Weeps (b) The Death of Gunnar (c) Egil and Armod 19. Unmanly Men (a) Deadly Insults from Grágás (b) A Flyting between Sinfjotli and Gudmund (c) Egil in Old Age 20. Strong Women (a) Unn the Deep-Minded Takes Control of Her Life (b) The Goading of Hildigunn (c) The Prowess of Freydis, Daughter of Eirik the Red 21. Mothers and Sons (a) Gudrun Drives Her Sons to Take Revenge (b) Gudrun Osvifrsdottir's Incitement of Her Sons 22. Making and Breaking Marriages (a) Betrothals from the Sagas (i) The Betrothal of Olaf Hoskuldsson (ii) How Unn Mordsdottir Found Herself Betrothed (b) Divorces from the Sagas (i) How Gudrun Divorced Thorvald (ii) Vigdis Divorces Thord Goddi 23. Women's Work (a) Housework in Laxdale Saga (b) Magical Women (i) The Greenland Prophetess (ii) A Phallic Ritual: Passing the Penis 24. Men and Women Behaving Badly (a) Queen Gunnhild Has Her Way with Hrut (b) Gisli Sursson Defends the Family Honor (c) On the Penalties for Poetry (d) Hallfred the Troublesome Poet and Kolfinna (e) Grettir the Strong Puts a Woman in Her Place 25. Same-Sex Encounters (a) Penitential of Saint Thorlak (b) Civil Penalties in Early Norwegian Law (c) Njal Gives a Garment to Flosi (d) King Harold Formsson and the Land-Spirits (e) Gisli Sursson Fights Skeggi the Berserk 26. Gender Instability: Trans-Gender and Gender-Shifting (a) From Gulathing Law: On Seriously Insulting Speech (b) Odin's Wisdom and Arts (c) From Loki's Flyting (Lokasenna) (d) Loki and Svadilfari: loki's Adventure as a Mare 27. Cross-Dressing (a) Thor as a Bride (b) How Aud Dealt wih Her Humiliating Divorce Chapter Five: Viking Warriors and Their Weapons 28. The Accomplishments of a Viking Warrior (a) Earl Rognvald Kali on Being a Gentleman (b) Gunnar Hamundarson, the Ideal Warrior (c) Olaf Tryggvason, King of Norway 29. Warrior Women (a) A Warrior Woman (b) The Waking of Angantýr (The Lay of Hervor, Hervarakviða) 30. Valkyries (a) Helgi and Sigrun I (b) Helgi and Sigrun II (c) Brynhild's Helride 31. Berserkers and the Berserk Rage (a) Odin’s Berserks (b) Egil Skallagrimsson Fights a Berserk 32. Weapons (a) King Magnus Barelegs Dresses to Kill (b) The Sword Skofnung (i) Hrolf Kraki and Skofnung (ii) Skeggi and Skofnung (iii) Kormak and Skofnung (iv) Thorkel Eyolfsson and Skofnung (v) Gellir Thorkelsson and Skofnung (c) Saint Olaf’s Sword, Hneitir Chapter Six: Fjord-Serpents: Viking Ships 33. King Olaf Tryggvason Builds the Long Serpent 34. Harald Sigurdarson’s Splendid Ship 35. Animal Heads on the Prows of Ships 36. A Sea-Battles from the Sagas: Olaf Tryggvason at the Battle of Svold Chapter Seven: “Sudden and Unforeseen Attacks of Northmen” 37. On the Causes of the Viking Expansion 38. Viking Raids on England, 789–850/1 39. Alcuin’s Letter to King Athelred, 793 40. An English Gospel Book Ransomed from the Vikings 41. Viking Raids on Ireland, 795–842 42. The Martyrdom of Blathmac, 825 43. The Life of Saint Findan 44. Irish Resistance to the Norsemen 45. Franks and Vikings, 800–829 46. The Northmen in France, 843–865 47. An Account of the Siege of Paris, 885–886 48. Vikings in the Iberian Peninsula (a) Ibn al-Kutia. Year 230 (17 September 844 - 1 October 845) (b) Ibn Adhari. Year 229 (30 September 843 - 17 September 844) Chapter Eight: “The Heathens Stayed”: From Raiding To Settlement 49. Viking Activities in England, 851–900 50. The Martyrdom of Saint Edmund 51. The Vikings in Ireland, 845–917 52. Ketil Flatnose and His Descendants in the Hebrides 53. Earl Sigurd and the Establishment of the Earldom of Orkney 54. Runic Inscriptions from Maes Howe, Mainland, Orkney 55. Runic Inscriptions from the Isle of Man 56. Rollo Obtains Normandy from the King of the Franks Chapter Nine: Austrveg: The Viking Road To The East 57. The Ru¯s 58. The Ru¯s Attack Constantinople 59. On the Arrival of the Varangians 60. A Muslim Diplomat Meets Ru¯ s Merchants on the Volga River 61. River Routes to Constantinople 62. A Norwegian Soldier of Fortune in the East 63. Ru¯ s Expeditions to the Middle East 64. The Yngvar Runestones Chapter Ten: Into the Western Ocean: The Faeroes, Iceland, Greenland, and Vinland 65. The Islands in the Northern Ocean, c. 825 66. Sailing Directions and Distances in the North Atlantic 67. The Western Ocean 68. Adam of Bremen on Iceland 69. Icelandic Accounts of the Discovery and Settlement of Iceland (a) The Book of the Icelanders (b) The Book of Settlements 70. Skallagrim’s Land-Take in Iceland 71. The Settlement of Greenland (a) The Book of the Icelanders (b) The Book of Settlements 72. The King’s Mirror on Greenland 73. Adam of Bremen on Vinland 74. The Norse Discovery of Vinland 75. Thorfin Karlsefni in Vinland Chapter Eleven: Viking Life and Death 76. Advice for Sailors and Merchants 77. Svein Asleifarson’s Viking Life 78. Children (a) Young Grettir Helps around the Farm (b) Children Mimic Adults (c) The Child is Mother of the Woman (d) Young Egil Plays for Keeps 79. Games and Entertainment (a) A Horse-fight from Njal’s Saga (b) Skallagrim's Rough Play (c) Ball Games and Scraper-Games at Sand from Hord's Saga (d) Entertainment at a Wedding Feast at Reykjaholar from The Saga of Thorgils and Haflidi (e ) Mock Lawsuits from The Saga of the People of Ljosavatn 80. The Jomsvikings Meet Their End 81. The Burning of Njal Chapter Twelve: From Odin to Christ 82. Early Missions to the North: The Life of Saint Anskar 83. The Conversion of the Danes under Harald Bluetooth 84. Olaf Tryggvason and the Conversion of Norway 85. A Poet Abandons the Old Gods 86. The Christianization of Norway under Saint Olaf 87. The Conversion of the Icelanders 88. The Conversion of Greenland 89. The Conversion of Orkney 90. Christianity in Sweden 91. Christianity and the Church in Norway 92. The Travels of King Sigurd, Jerusalem-Farer 93. The Journey of Abbot Nikolas Bergsson from Iceland to Jerusalem Chapter Thirteen: State-Building at Home and Abroad 94. Harald Finehair and the Unification of Norway 95. Denmark: The Jelling Stone 96. State-Making in Denmark: Unification and Expansion 97. The Martyrdom of Alfeah (Saint Alphege) 98. Knut the Great and the North Sea Empire 99. The England Runestones 100. The Earldom of Orkney at Its Zenith Chapter Fourteen: The End of the Viking Age 101. The Battle of Clontarf, 1014 102. The Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1066 103. The Battle of Largs, 1263 Chapter Fifteen: Reawakening Angantýr, or Viking Revivals 104. The First Revival (a) Snorri Sturlson (1179-1241) and Norse Poetics (b) Saxo Grammaticus and Icelandic Sources 105. Romantic Vikings (a) The Fatal Sisters: An Ode, from the Norse Tongue (b) The Vegtam's (Odin's) Kvitha (poem); or The Descent of Odin: An Ode, from the Norse Tongue 106. Operatic Vikings: Richard Wagner (1818-1883), from Das Rheingold, Scene Two 107. Aryan Anthropology: Vikings in Politics (a) Halfdan Bryn: Methodology (b) Hans F.K. Günther on Nordic Man (c) Alfred Rosenberg: Creative Men and Beautiful, Motherly Women 108. The Gods Reborn (a) Carl Jung: "Wotanism" (b) Odin Lives (c) Odinism in America (d) Versions of Ásatrú (i) The Icelandic Forn Sed Norge / The Society of the Ancient Faith in Norway 109. Plundering the Vikings, from The Irish Times 110. The Vikings in the Courtroom of History: Terrorists, Tourists, Others (a) Savage Warriors (b) Piracy and Commerce (c) Intruders of a Recognizable Type? (d) Revisiting the Revisionists (e) The Viking Diaspora Epilogue 111. Advice from Odin Sources Index of Topics Index of Authors and Sources
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Springer International Publishing AG Children and Youth in African History
Book SynopsisThis textbook introduces readers to the academic scholarship on the history of childhood and youth in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on the colonial and postcolonial eras. In a series of seven chapters, it addresses key themes in the historical scholarship, arguing that age serves as a useful category for historical analysis in African history. Just as race, class, and gender can be used to understand how African societies have been structured over time, so too age is a powerful tool for thinking about how power, youth, and seniority intersect and change over time. This is, then, a work of synthesis rather than of new research based on primary sources. This book will therefore introduce mainstream scholars of the history of childhood and youth to the literature on Africa, and scholars of youth in Africa to debates within the wider field of the history of children and youth.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Age and Generation.- 3. Enslavement and Unfreedom.- 4. Race and Childhood.- 5. Schooling and Education.- 6. Work and Play.- 7. Politics and Violence.- 8. Conclusion.
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Cornell University Press Rising Titans Falling Giants
Book SynopsisAs a rising great power flexes its muscles on the political-military scene it must examine how to manage its relationships with states suffering from decline; and it has to do so in a careful and strategic manner. In Rising Titans, Falling Giants Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson focuses on the policies that rising states adopt toward their declining competitors in response to declining states' policies, and what that means for the relationship between the two.Rising Titans, Falling Giants integrates disparate approaches to realism into a single theoretical framework, provides new insight into the sources of cooperation and competition in international relations, and offers a new empirical treatment of great power politics at the start and end of the Cold War. Shifrinson challenges the existing historical interpretations of diplomatic history, particularly in terms of the United States-China relationship. Whereas many analysts argue that these two nations are on a Trade ReviewThe United States attempted to prop up the United Kingdom's great-power status after World War II but sought to weaken the Soviet Union as it crumbled in the 1980s. In this book, Shifrinson provides an elegant theory to explain these variations. * Foreign Affairs *Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson's important book on Great Powers is a valuable contribution to research on the behaviour of the world's most important actors. Shifrinson has written an eminently readable book. His theory is elegant, his case-studies are well argued and his analysis is both clear and nimble. Most important, however, he is setting new standards for qualitative research * International Affairs *Shifrinson asks a great question, collects the best explanations, tests them fairly against the best evidence, and follows the evidence to its logical conclusion. He says things that are new, true, and nontrivial and has produced a book that is both timely and timeless. Long may titans and giants read it. * Aether, Air University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Rising States and the Fate of Declining Great Powers 1. Predation Theory 2. A Formerly Great Britain: Predicting U.S. and Soviet Strategy 3. The U.S. and Soviet Response to Britain's Decline 4. Watching the Soviet Union Decline: Assessing Change and Predicting U.S. Strategy 5. U.S. Strategy and the Decline of the Soviet Union Conclusion: Rising Powers, the Fate of Declining States, and the Future of Great Power Politics Appendix 1: Declining Great Powers, 1860–1913 Appendix 2: Interviews Conducted with Former U.S. Government Officials Notes Index
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Stanford University Press Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on
Book SynopsisGuangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the site of the most severe and extensive violence observed anywhere in China during that period of upheaval. Several cities saw urban combat resembling civil war, while waves of mass killings in rural communities generated enormous death tolls. More than one hundred thousand died in a few short months. These events have been chronicled in sensational accounts that include horrific descriptions of gruesome murders, sexual violence, and even cannibalism. Only recently have scholars tried to explain why Guangxi was so much more violent than other regions. With evidence from a vast collection of classified materials compiled during an investigation by the Chinese government in the 1980s, this book reconsiders explanations that draw parallels with ethnic cleansing in Rwanda, Bosnia, and other settings. It reveals mass killings as the byproduct of an intense top-down mobilization of rural militia against a stubborn factional insurgency, resembling brutal counterinsurgency campaigns in a variety of settings. Moving methodically through the evidence, Andrew Walder provides a groundbreaking new analysis of one the most shocking chapters of the Cultural Revolution.Trade Review"The world's leading expert on China's Cultural Revolution has written another breathtaking book. By examining one of the darkest episodes of human history, Andrew Walder not only provides a new explanation for conflict in China but also advances general theories on violence during civil war."—Yuhua Wang, author of The Rise and Fall of Imperial China"This important and unsettling study of the Cultural Revolution in Guangxi lays bare the dark side of China's authoritarian political system. Through careful analysis of newly available primary sources, Walder convincingly connects the horrific violence of that time and place not to ideological or ethnic differences, but to military-civilian factionalism that permeated all levels of government. A party-state known for exerting control, when pressed, could spawn untold conflict and cruelty."—Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University"Andrew Walder is one of the world's most distinguished analysts of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and his new book breaks apart numerous myths. Drawing on extraordinarily rich sources from Guangxi province, Walder shows that violence tore apart the countryside as well as the city, and that factionalism could give way to deeper splits within the party. Above all, he adds analysis of ethnic division to our knowledge of this period. This is disturbing, field-making reading."—Rana Mitter, Oxford University"This work is yet another vital contribution to the study of the Cultural Revolution by the sociologist Andrew Walder.... It will be essential reading for scholars of the People's Republic and an accessible source, for informed lay readers and students, on the horrors of the Cultural Revolution."—Donald S. Sutton, China Quarterly"What is unique about Civil War in Guangxi... is its refreshing emphasis on the geopolitical dimension of the Cultural Revolution's complex twists and turns, concretely tying the tragic unfolding of political processes in China to the war operation in Vietnam. As such, this book is not only of pivotal interest to scholars of collective mobilization, political violence, and Chinese communism, but also firmly places itself in conversation with global and transnational sociology and scholarship on the US empire in the post-war era."—Yueran Zhang, Social ForcesTable of ContentsPrologue 1. Puzzles 2. Origins 3. Spread 4. Stalemate 5. Escalation 6. Suppression 7. Narratives 8. Analysis Epilogue: Epilogue Appendix: The Sources and Dataset
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Springer International Publishing AG The Unseen Leader: How History Can Help Us
Book SynopsisThe Unseen Leader delivers one simple but immensely powerful point: we need to radically rethink how we discuss leadership. In this book, American historian Martin Gutmann passionately challenges the received wisdom that history's great leaders were individuals with a proclivity for action and brash words. Drawing on extensive historical scholarship and contemporary leadership theory, Gutmann delves into the journeys of four unknown or misunderstood leaders who achieved remarkable successes in vastly different environments—the Polar North, the deserts of Arabia, the sugar plantations of the Caribbean, and Second World War London. What emerges is an entirely new narrative on leadership. Contrary to the perception of heroic protagonists forging ahead boldly, history's truly great leaders were often precisely those who didn't need to generate excessive noise or activity. Instead, they skillfully minimized dramatic circumstances. Their stories challenge our present-day conception of leadership and can inspire the leaders of tomorrow. Table of ContentsIntroduction: History and Leadership.- Towards a New Leadership Story: The Polar Explorer, the Desert Fox, and the Action Fallacy.- History's Unseen Leaders: Holiday Trips in the Polar Wastelands. Roald Amundsen.- Napoleon's Thorn. Toussaint Louverture.- "If the Women of the English Are Like Her, the Men Must Be Like Lions." Gertude Bell.- The Myth of the Phoenix and the British Bulldog. Winston Churchill.- Rethinking Leadership: The Story We Tell.
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Zone Books The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of
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Princeton University Press The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Steinmetz’s compelling work is a timely intervention and shows by example why attempts at 'decolonization' must first contextualize the diverse trajectories of what it means to be colonial, breaking from pre-notions about who is colonially complicit or anticolonial to begin with, and recognizing that decolonization must 'proceed by putting colonialism into the picture.'"---Austin H. Vo, Social Forces"The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought is a milestone in the history of sociology, far-reaching in its scope and objectives, and impressive in its material and archival basis. The book should impact strongly both the history of colonialism as a cultural, scientific, and epistemic project before and after WWII, as well as the history of sociology as an academic, disciplinary and intellectual field."---Anne Kwaschik, Social Science History"An eye-opener and a game-changer. [The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought] represents a learned, deeply researched, and admirably constructed study: broad in scope, spanning a considerable period of time and tackling a pressing problem – colonial social science – in a sophisticated and challenging manner."---Johan Heilbron, Social Science History"A major contribution to a variety of literatures and scholarly concerns, including the history of the social sciences, the sociology of knowledge, and the inner mechanisms of empire."---Christian Dayé, Social Science History
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Aarhus University Press Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens
Book SynopsisPoDIA 10 features articles presenting the results from archaeological sites in Cyprus and at Sikyon, Greece, the activities of Danish philhellenes, and a re-evaluation of the significance of an archaic Attic Sphinx in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen. Kristina Winther-Jacobsen analyses and discusses the ceramics and associated burial customs from two tombs in Cyprus from the Hellenistic-Roman period. Silke Müth and her team of researchers offer a preliminary report on the excavations and accompanying research in Old Sikyon 2018-2019. It is in the same connection that M. Arenfeldt Christensen presents a case study of human skeletal material from an Archaic grave in Sikyon, uncovered in 2019. Annette Højen Sørensen and Helge Wiingaard discuss the role of the Danish diplomat and minority expert as a Philhellene and present his collection of antiquities at Haderslev Cathedral School in Denmark in the light of the extraordinary circumstances in the first half of the 20th century which formed the borderland not only between Denmark and Germany but also between Greece and Turkey. John Lund discusses the activities of Frederik Scholten in Greece and the Greek world during the period around the Greek Revolution and presents his drawings from this period. Finally, Ingrid Strøm makes a case for adding the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek marble sphinx to the oeuvres of the Moscophoros Master and for rendering it a more central position in the studies of Early Attic marble sculpture.
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University of Missouri Press Mound City
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of sources - including maps, daguerreotypes, real estate deeds, court records, travelers' accounts, scientific treatises, government records, and personal correspondence - Patricia Cleary explores the layers of the Indigenous history of St. Louis.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Frontline Bodies
Book SynopsisA captivating exploration of Black American civil rights activism through the lens of sport. In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are notand have never beenpurely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression. Since the body was the primary target of anti-Black racial oppression, African Americans turned sports into a key medium in their struggles for dignity, equality, and justice. Although Black photography and art also aimed at displaying the dignity of the Black body, sports arguably had the greatest impact on American and international public opinion. Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports. Training Black children as athletes, Henderson felt, would work both to fortify racial pride and to dismantle racial prejudicestw
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Aarhus University Press Thomas Bartholin. Physician and anatomist
Book SynopsisDanish physician and anatomist Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) was one of the most important anatomists of the 17th century. As a scientist, his greatest achievement was the discovery and naming of the lymphatic vessels, but he was also a pioneer in a number of other areas of medicine. In Denmark, his tireless efforts as head of the Anatomy House in Copenhagen and professor of anatomy and medicine were crucial to the rise of anatomical science in the 17th century. He was a skilled and sought-after teacher and mentor, and his efforts in this area were crucial to his famous student Niels Stensen's (1638-1686) outstanding career as an anatomist and geologist. With his authorship of over 80 comprehensive books, Thomas Bartholin was one of the most diligent and skilful communicators of his time. The book unfolds the entire life and work of Thomas Bartholin and analyses and puts into perspective his significance for contemporaries and posterity in a scientific context. The book is an expanded English version of the author's Danish biography of Thomas Bartholin from 2017, where the new material relates in particular to his importance to Niels Stensen.
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MD - Duke University Press Third Worlds Within
Book SynopsisIn Third Worlds Within, Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing antiracist movements in the United States in a broader internationalist context. For Widener, antiracist struggles at home are connected to and profoundly shaped by similar struggles abroad. Drawing from an expansive historical archive and his own activist and family history, Widener explores the links between local and global struggles throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He uncovers what connects seemingly disparate groups like Japanese American and Black communities in Southern California or American folk musicians and revolutionary movements in Asia. He also centers the expansive vision of global Indigenous movements, the challenges of Black/Brown solidarity, and the influence of East Asian organizing on the US Third World Left. In the process, Widener reveals how the fight against racism unfolds both locally and globally and creates new forms of solidarity. Highlighting the key strategic role played by US communities of color in efforts to defeat the conjoined forces of capitalism, racism, and imperialism, Widener produces a new understanding of history that informs contemporary social struggle.
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Atmospheric Violence
Book SynopsisAtmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite and alongside continuing violence. Departing from conventional approaches to the study of disaster and conflict that have dominated academic studies of Kashmir, Omer Aijazi's ethnography of life in the borderlands instead explores possibilities for imagining life otherwise, in an environment where violence is everywhere, or atmospheric.Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan's control and its surrounding mountainscapes, the book takes us to two remote mountainous valleys that have been shaped by recurring environmental disasters, as well as by the landscape of no-go zones, army barracks, and security checkpoints of the contested India/Pakistan border. Through a series of interconnected scenes from the lives of five protagonists, all of whom are precariously situated within their families
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Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab Northern Emporium: Vol. 2 the Networks of
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Boydell and Brewer The Book of the Deeds of the Good Knight Jacques
Book SynopsisContains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood.
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Boydell and Brewer British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth
Book SynopsisExplores how a distinctively British model of sociability developed through appropriation, emulation and resistance to what was happening in Europe.
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Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project From the Nile to the Tigris: African Individuals
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Boydell and Brewer Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England
Book SynopsisReveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion.
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Princeton University Press Capitalism in the Colonies
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University Press of Kansas Revolution by Law The Federal Government and the
Book SynopsisTraces the growth of Lee v. Macon County from a case to desegregate a single school district in rural Alabama to a decision that paved the way for ending state-imposed racial segregation of the schools in the Deep South.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Tuskegee, Alabama, September 9, 1963 1. The Ratchet Principle:Truman Sets Federal Civil Rights Policy for His Successors in Office 2. Macon County and Alabama's Racial Caste System 3. The School Desegregation Case Begins 4. New Year, New Schools, New Law 5. The Case Goes Statewide 6. Aftermath: Response to the Statewide Decree 7. "Watch What We Do" Conclusion Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
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University of Tennessee Press Training for Atomic Warfare
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Pluto Press Burning Country
Book SynopsisA vivid look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare.Trade Review'The most succinct and convincing insider's narrative of the uprising' -- Richard Spencer, Daily Telegraph'Full of fascinating details' -- Robyn Cresswell - The New York Review of Books'Extraordinary ... the book on Syria I was waiting for' -- Molly Crabapple, artist, author, journalist'Gripping ... Cutting through the fog of geopolitics, Burning Country refocuses the conflict with the people at its centre' -- Brian Whitaker, Newsweek'A detailed history of Syria's moderate opposition and a meticulous analysis of the origins of today's violent dynamics' -- New Statesman'Explores how Syria's peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad... This is an important, honest and insightful book, well worth anyone's time' -- Marc Lynch, Washington Post'Avoids the easy indulgence of indignation; instead, it elicits the voices of many different Syrians involved in the uprising, acknowledging their suffering as well as their courage, intelligence, and humanity, while explaining the terrible choices that have been forced on them' -- Ursula Lindsey, The Nation'Vital' -- Peter Geoghegan - the Herald Scotland'For decades Syrians have been forbidden from telling their own stories and the story of their country, but here Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami tell the Syrian story' -- Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian writer, intellectual, and former political prisoner'By far the best account of the Syrian uprising yet' -- Dr. Yasser Munif, Professor of sociology at Emerson College, co-founder of the Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian RevolutionTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Maps 1. Revolution From Above 2. Bashaar’s First Decade 3. Revolution From Below 4. The Grassroots 5. Militarisation and Liberation 6. Scorched Earth: The Rise of the Islamisms 7. Dispossession and Exile 8. Culture Revolutionised 9. The Failure of the Elites 10. The Start of Solidarity 11. Syria Dismantled Further Reading Notes Index
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University of Oklahoma Press The Chol Maya of Chiapas
Book SynopsisThe Ch’ol Maya who live in the western Mexican state of Chiapas are direct descendants of the Maya of the Classic period. Exploring their history and culture, contributors to this volume uncover clear continuity between contemporary Maya rituals and beliefs and their ancient counterparts.Trade ReviewThis pioneering, in-depth study of the Ch’ol Maya reveals the dynamism of a great indigenous people who have refused to abandon their cultural identity through centuries of repression and exploitation and have persisted until our own time. A must-read for every student of the Maya!" - Michael D. Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code"This pioneering, in-depth study of the Ch’ol Maya reveals the dynamism of a great indigenous people who have refused to abandon their cultural identity through centuries of repression and exploitation and have persisted until our own time. A must-read for every student of the Maya!" - Michael D. Coe, author of Breaking the Maya Code
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Journalistic Professionalism in Higher Education
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Southern Illinois University Press The Dark Days of Abraham Lincolns Widow as
Book SynopsisWritten in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln’s Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former’s 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum.Trade Review “This is a complicated narrative about a complex woman. Rife with drama, the backstory, as told by writer Jason Emerson, is as compelling as the book itself. . . . In Pritchard and Emerson’s hands, Mary Todd Lincoln is no less enigmatic but just as fascinating as ever.”—Stacy A. Cordery, Journal of Illinois History “Reading these notes in conjunction with the reprinted letters, a more accurate account of Mary Lincoln’s insanity emerges. Rather than an unjustly imprisoned former First Lady, one finds a woman overwhelmed by grief and neuroses, grappling with the shadows enveloping her mind.”—Sarah Bischoff, The Journal of Southern History “The tale of Mary Lincoln’s mental derangement, her incarceration in a mental hospital, her release four months later, and her subsequent estrangement from her only surviving son forms one of the saddest chapters in the Lincoln family saga. When Jason Emerson wrote his revelatory study The Madness of Mary Lincoln (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007), he utilized valuable new letters he had discovered. In the present volume, he makes available the text of those documents and the dramatic story of their recovery from historical oblivion. Emerson deserves the thanks of all Lincolnians.”—Michael Burlingame, author of Abraham Lincoln: A Life “This companion to [Emerson’s The Madness of Mary Lincoln] contains both the voice of Mary herself as well as an account of the (largely successful) contemporary efforts to silence her. Those wishing to retrace Emerson’s detective work will find this illuminating.”—Patrick A. Lewis, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society “Jason Emerson is a rising star in Lincoln studies, and this volume is further evidence that those of us who never tire of learning about the life and times of Abraham Lincoln are in his debt. This carefully crafted volume illuminates dark corners of Mary Lincoln’s life and enhances our understanding of the First Lady after that night at Ford’s Theatre.”—Michael S. Green, author of Lincoln and the Election of 1860 “Emerson portrays Mary realistically but sympathetically [and] dispels the old extreme stereotypes.”—Karen S. Campbell, editor for the Lincoln Society of Dayton, Let the Journeys Begin “Not only has Jason Emerson uncovered letters by Mary Lincoln, he has uncovered an entire manuscript by James and Myra Bradwell’s granddaughter, who tried to use her privileged position to sell the story to the less-discriminating press of her day. It is good to have the Pritchard manuscript in print at last, after eighty hidden years, to have both its insights and its embarrassing sororal prejudices. Emerson, by unearthing a new landmark in the historical treatment of the tragic Mary Lincoln, helps to reconfigure how we view the tragic ex-First Lady”—James M. Cornelius, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum “With this edited volume, Jason Emerson makes an original and valuable contribution to our scholarly understanding of Mary Todd Lincoln’s later years. It succeeds and builds on the intriguing and fruitful detective work that the editor achieved in The Madness of Mary Lincoln, which provided the most important and original insights into her later years that have been produced in at least the preceding generation. The result is a long-missing yet vital puzzle piece that has long been missing that helps to complete our understanding of Mary Lincoln’s commitment proceedings and her eventual release and final difficult years.”—Kenneth Winkle, Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of American History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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University of Pennsylvania Press Witchcraft in Europe 4001700
Book SynopsisA thoroughly revised, greatly expanded edition of the most important documentary history of European witchcraft ever published.Trade Review"Revisions have made this anthology stronger and even more essential." * Choice *"Comprehensive, original, scholarly, philosophically searching, and meticulously prepared. . . . The volume, copiously illustrated, reveals the shocking impact of the belief in witches on Europe's Middle Ages, and examines the struggles of thinkers . . . to confront the phenomenon on rational terms. This is a major work in the genre." * Publishers Weekly, in a review of the first edition *"An indispensable source book." * Choice, in a review of the first edition *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Stuart Age
Book SynopsisThe Stuart Age provides an accessible introduction to England''s century of civil war and revolution, including the causes of the English Civil War; the nature of the English Revolution; the aims and achievements of Oliver Cromwell; the continuation of religious passion in the politics of Restoration England; and the impact of the Glorious Revolution on Britain. The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by Peter Gaunt to reflect new work and changing trends in research on the Stuart age. It expands on key areas including the early Stuart economic, religious and social context; key military events and debates surrounding the English Civil War; colonial expansion, foreign policy and overseas wars; and significant developments in Scotland and Ireland. A new opening chapter provides an important overview of current historiographical trends in Stuart history, introducing readers to key recent work on the topic. The Stuart Age is a long-standing favourite of Trade ReviewThe Stuart Age enjoys a hard won reputation as one of the best introductions to the 'British Isles' during an era of civil war and revolution. This updated edition, containing much that is new, makes the volume still more indispensable to students and teachers alike.Dr David Ceri Jones, Aberystwyth University, UKThe late Barry Coward’s The Stuart Age, 1603-1714 has long been regarded as the best single-volume introduction to the history of seventeenth-century England. This revised fifth edition elegantly updates Coward’s work for the post-Cameron generation. The book is prefaced with an excellent new introduction by Peter Gaunt, which surveys the dizzying quantity of new writing on the subject which has appeared since the fourth edition was published, in 2012, and incisively summarises the current state of the field. Gaunt’s deep knowledge of all aspects of seventeenth-century English life makes him the ideal scholar to refresh and rejuvenate Coward’s original text - and his work has ensured that, in its latest incarnation, The Stuart Age will continue to be required reading for all who teach and study this most fascinating of historical periods. Mark Stoyle, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsPART 1 Early Stuart England, 1603 –1640 1Introduction 31 The economy of early Stuart England 5The population and the economy 5The optimistic case 7The pessimistic case 10Conclusion 162 Society in early Stuart England 18The achievements of social historians writing in the 1970s and 1980s 19From the 1990s onwards: social history with the politics put back 35Intellectual developments and popular beliefs 38Conclusion 583 The Elizabethan constitution 62The framework of government 63Stresses within the Elizabethan constitution: political and religious divisions and ‘the public sphere’ 77PART 2 The reigns of the early Stuarts, 1603 –1640 87Introduction 894 The survival of the Elizabethan constitution, 1603 –1621 93James I and the succession 94Peace with Spain and the settlement in Ireland 99Puritans and Catholics 103James’s first parliament, 1604 –1610 110Rule without parliament, 1610 –1621 1215 The breakdown of the Elizabethan constitution, 1621–1640 1291621–1624: the emergence of conflicting conspiracy theories 131The prerogative ‘extended . . . beyond its just symmetry’, 1625 –1629 137The Personal Rule, 1629 –1640 146PART 3 The English Revolution, 1640 –1660 165Introduction 1676 The making of the English Revolution, 1640 –1649 169The constitutional crisis, November 1640 –September 1641 170The crisis becomes a civil war, September 1641–July 1642 182The first civil war, 1642–1646 191The search for a settlement: king, parliament, the army and the Scots, 1645 –1649 2157 The search for a new settlement, 1649 –1660 233The search for a ‘godly reformation’ 234The Rump Parliament, 1649 –1653 242Barebones Parliament, July–December 1653 254Oliver Cromwell 257Cromwellian government, 1653 –1658 265The end of the Good Old Cause, 1658 –1660 281PART 4 The reigns of Charles II and James II, 1660 –1688 285Introduction 2878 The failure of ‘the Restoration Settlement’, 1660 –1667 291The Convention Parliament, 1660: old wounds reopened and old problems unsolved 291The Cavalier Parliament and the restored monarchy, 1661–1664 296The Cavalier Parliament and the restored Church, 1661–1664 299The second Dutch war and the downfall of Clarendon, 1664 –1667 3059 ‘Catholic’ or ‘Cavalier’ policies, 1668 –1674 31110 Anti-Catholicism and exclusion, 1674 –1681 321Anti-Catholicism 321Danby, 1674 –1678 325The Popish Plot 333The Exclusion Crisis, May 1679 –March 1681 33711 The trend towards absolutism, 1681–1688 343The strengthening of royal authority, 1681–1685 344James II and Protestant unity, February 1685 –June 1688 347The intervention of William of Orange, 1688 354PART 5 The reigns of William III and Queen Anne, 1689 –1714 357Introduction 35912 The reign of William III, 1689 –1702 363Politics in the reign of William III 363The Glorious Revolution, 1689 –1690 367A country at war, 1690 –1697 378Peace and politics: the collapse of the Junto, 1697–1701 397Party issues redefi ned, 1701–1702 40313 The reign of Queen Anne, 1702–1714 409Politics in the reign of Queen Anne 409The failure of the ‘managers’, 1702–1708 416The failure of the Whigs and Tories, 1708 –1714 440PART 6 Later Stuart England: change and continuity 46314 Change 465The long-term effects of the Glorious Revolution: war and constitutional changes 465Religious and intellectual changes 474Economic and social changes 48615 Continuity: 1714 – the end of the Middle Ages? 507Bibliographical note 512Appendix: Timeline 532Index 565
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University Press of Florida The Paradox of Paternalism
Book SynopsisExplains how women activists from across the political spectrum engaged with the state by working within both authoritarian regimes and inter-American networks, founding modern Dominican feminism, and contributing to the rise of twentieth-century women's liberation movements in the Global South.Trade Review“This worthy addition to gender relations literature allows Manley to elaborate on her premise of the utility of female participatory experiences in authoritarian regimes as a vehicle for feminist progress. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice“Fills in the yawning lacunae concerning women’s roles during the reigns of the two infamous Dominican caudillos of the twentieth century. . . . This assiduously researched monograph deserves an audience beyond specialists in the Dominican Republic, to reach anyone interested in women and dictatorship.”—American Historical Review“Amply demonstrates the extent, limits, and iterations of maternalism, including Trujillista women’s promotion of state welfare for poor women and children, opposition women’s defense of their homes, families ripped apart by regime violence, and female governors’ community welfare activism under Balaguer.”—Hispanic American Historical Review”The book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of women’s political participation in the Dominican Republic during a long stretch of the twentieth century, focusing on women of both the right and the left, bot progovernment and antigovernment. The analysis is solid and methodical; the reading is engaging.”—New West Indian Guide""An exciting study that reveals the complexity of women's multiple political projects, as well as the importance of feminism--widely defined--as a powerful political force.""--Jadwiga E. Pieper Mooney, author of The Politics of Motherhood""An engaging overview of the role played by women in supporting and contesting authoritarian regimes in the twentieth-century Dominican Republic.""--Nicola Foote, coeditor of Immigration and National Identities in Latin America""Tells the very important story of women's participation in Dominican politics from 1928 to 1978. It will quickly become a classic in the field of Latin American women's history.""--Victoria González-Rivera, author of Before the Revolution
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University Press of Florida Cuban Cultural Heritage A Rebel Past for a
Book SynopsisExplores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Pablo Alonso Gonzalez illustrates how political and ideological shifts have influenced ideas about heritage and how, in turn, heritage has been used by different social actors to consolidate political regimes.
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Cambridge University Press Hunting and Eating Symbols
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