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Book SynopsisAnalyzing ninety professional women's autobiographies from 1900-1920, the first part of this book concentrates on the endeavours of groups such as headmistresses, doctors, nurses, artists and writers to record their own lives, while the second part examines frontispiece photos, prefatory marginalia and the role of silences in autobiography.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements PART I Introduction Headmistresses Doctors Nurses and VADs Artists and Practitioners Writers PART II Frontispiece Photographs Prefaces, Forewards and Introductions Silences Self and Identity Memory and Accuracy Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of primary sources, this volume argues that although the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars are often understood as laying the foundations for total war, many eyewitnesses continued to draw upon older interpretative frameworks to make sense of the armed struggle and attendant political and social upheaval.Trade Review“Leighton S. James’s well-researched study makes a welcome contribution to the growing literature on the experience of warfare in Central Europe during the revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Readers of the Austrian History Yearbook should note that James incorporates all the German lands, including those of German-speakers from the Habsburg realm. … James ultimately offers nuanced coverage of a crucial and traumatic phase of Central European history.” (Brian Vick, Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 48, 2017)"The impression left by this book is that patriotism was something of a luxury, only to be indulged in when the worst of the storm had passed. In the round, this is a stimulating book, not least for bringing to the fore the voices of ordinary people, rather than those of statesmen and intellectuals." - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Facing the Revolution: The German States from 1789 to 1815 2. Writing War 3. Military Life and Combat 4. Captivity and Travel 5. Invasion and Occupation 6. Resistance and Liberation Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisContents List of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue: At the Ballet Ruse 1. A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific 2. Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive 3. What Was Mise en scène? 4. The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched 5. The Crises (2): The Style It Takes 6. Sonic Spaces 7. A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scène 8. Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century 9. The Rise of the Dispositif Epilogue: Five Minutes and 15 Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak Notes BibliographyTrade Review“The book serves as a most valuable reference work on what has long remained a loosely defined aspect of cinema and a masterclass in audiovisual analysis that teachers and writers on cinema will benefit from re-reading. It ought to find a place in any library of film writing … .” (yusef sayed, yswriting.wordpress.com, February, 2016)'A wonderfully ambitious and erudite work that will require multiple re-readings to absorb and retain its generous profusion of ideas.' - Girish Shambu, www.girishshambu.blogspot.co.uk 'The fact is, this highly optimistic and constructive book seeks to use 'mise en scène,' whatever its past limitations (and variable meanings within separate film cultures, which the book is quite attentive to), as a sort of construction site on which to build other tools of analysis, which are outlined in the four final chapters: 'Sonic Spaces,' 'A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scène,' 'Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century,' and 'The Rise of the Dispositif'. At once dense and highly accessible, this book is an impassioned battle cry for the future of film art grounded in an expanded and sharpened view of its critical history.' - Jonathan Rosenbaum 'Representing more than two decades of remarkably deep, passionate labor within the world of cinema, Mise en Scène and Film Style is at once a boldly panoramic survey and a work of fine-grained formal analysis. The twin aims of his study to offer a new global 'history of forms in cinema' and a fresh approach to mise en scène as the lens through which to understand film history send him and his readers on a whirlwind journey that ultimately does justice to the audacious scope promised in the book's subtitle.' - Noah Isenberg, Film Comment 'Gathering together a seemingly inconsonant collection of texts in its broad-armed embrace, the Australian-born scholar Adrian Martin's new volume Mise en Scène and Film Style is a virtuosic act of synthesis, and a destroyer of false dichotomies.' - Nick Pinkerton, Sight and Sound 'Profoundly well-informed, erudite, and incisive, but also loping, witty, and passionate, the book sheds light not just on a notoriously slippy concept but also on the endless possibilities of cinema experience.' - David Greven, CineasteTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgements Prologue: At the Ballet Ruse 1. A Term That Means Everything, and Nothing Very Specific 2. Aesthetic Economies: The Expressive and the Excessive 3. What Was Mise en scène? 4. The Crises (1): Squeezed and Stretched 5. The Crises (2): The Style It Takes 6. Sonic Spaces 7. A Detour via Reality: Social Mise en scène 8. Cinema, Audiovisual Art of the 21st Century 9. The Rise of the Dispositif Epilogue: Five Minutes and 15 Seconds with Ritwik Ghatak Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the performative life reconciliation and its discontents in settler societies.Trade Review“Penelope Edmonds, in Settler Colonialism and (Re)conciliation, employs a historical methodology to examine how reconciliation discourse is deployed and refuted in affective performances. … a useful addition to the literature on transitional justice and on reconciliation in settler societies, particularly because they acknowledge the tensions around whether and how transitional justice might actually be of use for relationships between Indigenous peoples, non-Indigenous peoples and the state.” (Sophie Rigney, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Vol. 11 (2), July, 2017)“The strength of Edmonds’ analysis lies in her transnational comparisons that show how Indigenous performances hold settler colonial societies to account for the way they sanitise the past through reconciliation events to realise a specious post-racial future. … this book is a vital contribution to Indigenous studies because of the tendency of settler colonial societies to use the consensus politics of reconciliation to rationalise the theft of Indigenous lands and colonial violence.” (Joshua L. Reid, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 48 (2), May, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Performing (re)conciliation in settler societies1. United States 'Polishing the chain of friendship': Two Row Wampum Renewal celebrations and matters of history 2. United States 'This is our hearts!' Unruly reenactments and unreconciled pasts in Lakota country 3. Australia 'Walking Together' for Reconciliation: From the Sydney Harbour Bridge Walk to the Myall Creek Massacre Commemorations 4. Australia 'Our history is not the last word': Sorry Day at Risdon Cove and 'Black Line' survival ceremony, Tasmania.5. Aotearoa New Zealand 'We we did not sign a treaty ... we did not surrender!': Contesting the Consensus Politics of the Treaty of Waitangi in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Trade Review“There is much of interest in this book–it blends army life in India with changing attitudes at ‘Home’, in Victorian Britain, and shows how the soldier’s life undoubtedly got better during the 19th century. That the civilising influence of libraries had much to do with this may be questionable, but Murphy’s book provides a well-researched and readable argument in its favour.” (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society JRAS, May, 2018)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. The East India Company’s Libraries.- 2. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in India.- 3. The Regular Army’s Libraries.- 4. The Reading Environment, and Readers, in the Regular Army.- Conclusion.-

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Table of Contents.Preface The Ball is Round Stanislao G. Pugliese.-.Introduction Marking the Field Brenda Elsey.-.Art Criticism.-.Chapter 1 Drawing the Foul: Diving and Visuality in Contemporary English Football Luke Healey.-.Chapter 2 From Galáctico to Head Butt: Globalization, Immigration and the Politics of Identity in Artistic Representations of Zidane Daniel Haxall .-.Collective Psychology and Group Identity.-.Chapter 3 Soccer in the Shadow of Death: Propaganda and Survival in the Nazi Ghetto-Camp of Terezín Kevin E. Simpson.-.Chapter 4 In the Shadow of the State: The National Team and the Politics of National Identity in Spain Jim O’Brien.-.Political Science and International Relations.-.Chapter 5 Beyond the Unfulfilled Promise of Soviet International Football, 1945-1991 Mauricio Borrero.-.Chapter 6 Post-Colonial Outcomes: FIFA, Overseas Territory, and National Identity Steve Menary.-.Chapter 7 The Hermit Kingdom vs. the World: North Korea in the 2010 World Cup Aaron D. Horton.-.Race and Ethnic Studies.-.Chapter 8 Fausto dos Santos: The Wonders and Challenges of Blackness in Brazil’s “Mulatto Football” Roger Kittleson.-.Chapter 9 Who Counts As a Real American? Dual Citizenship, Hybridity, and the U.S. Men’s National Team Jon D. Bohland.-.Sexuality and Gender.-.Chapter 10 Social Climbing, Cultural Experimentation and Trailblazing the Metrosexual: Franz Beckenbauer in the 1960s and 1970s Kay Schiller.-.Chapter 11 Standing on Honeyball’s Shoulders: A History of Independent Women’s Football Clubs in England Jean Williams.-.The State and Civil Society.-.Chapter 12 Politics, Power and Soccer in Postwar Italy: The Case of Naples Rosario Forlenza.-.Chapter 13 The Politics of Football in Post-Colonial Sierra Leone Tamba E. M’bayo.-.Chapter 14 The Competitive Party: The Formation and Crisis of Organized Fan Groups in Brazil, 1950-1980 Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda.-.Philosophy and Critical Theory.-.Chapter 15 “Another World (Cup) is Possible!” Twenty Theses about Modern Football Tim Walters.-.Chapter 16 On Virtue, Irony and Glory: The Pitch and the People Jason Burke Murphy.

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Book SynopsisAlison Jeffers is a Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include the monograph Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities (2010). She worked as a community artist for ten years before moving into education.Gerri Moriarty is an independent arts consultant. She was one of the artists who marched on the Arts Council demanding more funding and support for community arts in the 1960s. She has continued to work in community arts as well as being an arts consultant, trainer and writer in the UK, Ireland and beyond.Trade ReviewCulture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art is an essential read for artists, arts professionals, academics and anyone else interested in better understanding the legacy of the community arts movements and its subsequent appropriation and instrumentalisation at the hands of the establishment. The book is a satisfying read that not only sheds new light on community arts and its offspring, participatory arts and socially engaged art, but that also offers new insights that are at times deeply personal and at other times more academic and theoretical. It may even encourage some artists and organisations to self-organise in new forms of community arts practices that offer real dissent. * ArtWorks Alliance *[An] incredibly rich collection of diverse narratives and perspectives on Community Arts over the past 50 plus years … A thoroughly researched academic and practitioners’ perspective on this often under-documented field of work. * Drama Magazine *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction, by Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester, UK) Part 1 Chapter 2: The British Arts Movement 196801986, by Alison Jeffers Chapter 3: Community Arts - a forty-year apprenticeship: A view from England, by Gerri Moriarty (artist) Chapter 4: Craigmillar Festival, the Scottish Community Arts Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and its impact: A view from Scotland, by Andrew Crummy (artist) Chapter 5:.The Pioneers and the Welsh Community Arts Movement: A view from Wales, by Nick Clements (artist) Chapter 6: Grown from shattered glass: A view from Northern Ireland, by Gerri Moriarty Part 2 Chapter 7: Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Community Arts as Cultural Policy: the 1970s, by Oliver Bennett (University of Warwick, UK) Chapter 8: Training and Education for Artists: The impact of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s on the training of artists today, by Mark Webster and Janet Hetherington (Staffordshire University, UK) Chapter 9: From Community Arts to the Socially Engaged Arts Commission, by Sophie Hope (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Chapter 10: Cultural Democracy, Developing Technologies and Dividuality, by Owen Kelly (Arcada University, Finland) Chapter 11: Conclusion, by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty Endnotes Bibliography Index

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

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Book SynopsisCamilo Erlichman is Assistant Professor in History at Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Christopher Knowles is Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London, UK, Archives By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.Trade ReviewIn the end, this book makes powerful interventions in a seemingly well-trodden field. Erlichman and Knowles show that when we revise the conceptual framework, occupied Germany continues to have contemporary salience. Consequently, this book is a necessary addition to the bookshelf of every historian of post-war Germany, Europe, and the Cold War, and would sit nicely in any interested reader’s collection. * Australian Journal of Politics and History *[…] adopting a new approach, this stimulating volume of essays offers fascinating insights into the period of occupation in the British, French and US zones. * Journal of European Studies *[This] volume is timely and will be crucial reading for scholars of political transition and those who wish to encourage further study in order to contribute positively to the aftermath of conflict and military occupation wherever it occurs. * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *Each of the fifteen chapters adds something valuable to the existing scholarship and ensures that studies of the post-Second World War occupation of Germany will continue to develop and diversify for the foreseeable future ... An excellent summary of many of the key elements of the Allied occupation of Germany. * German History *By showcasing military occupation as a subject in its own right, the volume explores interactions alongside outcomes and legacies of these occupations for both the occupiers and the occupied in a comparative and transnational framework, and by doing so it makes itself indispensable to post-war syllabi. * European History Quarterly *Succeeds in showing that the occupation should be studied as a complex period in its own right, which had a long-term impact not only on Germany, but also on the occupiers. * English Historical Review *This is an exceptionally valuable volume that brings together a first-rate group of historians. It belongs on the bookshelf of anyone interested in postwar Germany or the long legacies of the Allied occupation. * Adam Seipp, Professor of History, Texas A&M University, USA *This outstanding collection sheds fascinating new light on many diverse aspects of the occupation of western Germany after 1945. More than this, however, it asks that we rethink our understanding of occupation in modern history in more general terms. As such, it will be crucial reading for scholars of political transition in a wide variety of different fields. * Neil Gregor, Professor of Modern European History, University of Southampton, UK *This collection offers new insights on familiar questions and opens new lines of inquiry regarding the occupation of western Germany in the wake of the Second World War. A diverse group of younger and more established scholars examine multiple aspects of developments in all three zones from perspectives of legal, political, economic, social, cultural, and gender history. Framed in terms of occupation, the volume underscores the inherently coercive aspects of the situation, while illuminating the agency of both the occupiers and the occupied. Often casting a critical eye on the planning and practices of the western powers, the authors recount fascinating stories of conflict and cooperation between victors and vanquished that reveal the contingency and complexity of the history of occupied Germany. * Timothy L. Schroer, Professor of History, University of West Georgia, USA *These detailed studies are an important corrective to a simplistic understanding of occupation policy. * Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter (Bloomsbury Translation) *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Part I: Contextualising Occupation 1. Introduction: Reframing Occupation as a System of Rule (Camilo Erlichman, Leiden University, The Netherlands and Christopher Knowles, King's College London, UK) 2. Preoccupied: Wartime Training for Post-War Occupation in the United States, 1940-45 (Susan L. Carruthers, University of Warwick, UK) 3. Benign Occupations: The Allied Occupation of Germany and the International Law of Occupation (Peter M. R. Stirk, Durham University, UK) Part II: The Past in the Present: Transitional Justice and Managing the Nazi Legacy 4. Transitional Justice? Denazification in the US Zone of Occupied Germany (Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) 5. The Allied Internment of German Civilians in Occupied Germany: Cooperation and Conflict in the Western Zones, 1945-1949 (Andrew H. Beattie, University of New South Wales, Australia) 6. What Do You Do with a Dead Nazi? Allied Policy on the Execution and Disposal of War Criminals, 1945-55 (Caroline Sharples, University of Roehampton, UK) Part III: Doing Occupation: Image and Reality 7. ‘My Home, your Castle’: British Requisitioning of German Homes in Westphalia (Bettina Blum, Cultural Office at the City of Paderborn, Germany) 8. Game Plan for Democracy: Sport and Youth in Occupied West Germany (Heather L. Dichter, De Montfort University, UK) 9. Occupying the Environment: German Hunters and the American Occupation (Douglas Bell, Texas A&M University, USA) Part IV: Experiencing Occupation: Daily Life and Personal Relationships 10. The Sexualized Landscape of Post-War Germany and the Politics of Cross-Racial Intimacy in the American Zone (Nadja Klopprogge, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 11. Shared Spaces: Social Encounters between French and Germans in Occupied Freiburg, 1945-55 (Ann-Kristin Glöckner, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) 12. ‘Gosh… I Think I’m in a Dream!!’: Subjective Experiences and Daily Life in the British Zone (Daniel Cowling, University of Cambridge, UK) Part V: Mediating Occupation: Interactions, Intermediaries, and Legacies 13. ‘We are Glad They are Here, but We are Not Rejoicing!’ The Catholic Clergy under French and American Occupation (Johannes Kuber, RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 14. From Denazification to Renazification? West German Government Officials after 1945 (Dominik Rigoll, Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam, Germany) 15. The Value of Knowledge: Western Intelligence Agencies and Former Members of the SS, Gestapo and Wehrmacht during the Early Cold War (Michael Wala, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMuriel Blaive is Advisor to the Director for Research and Methodology at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic. She is the editor, together with Christian Gerbel and Thomas Lindenberger, of Clashes in European Memory: The Case of Communist Repression and the Holocaust (2010).Table of ContentsList of Figure List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) Part I: From Postwar to Stalinism 1. Secret Agents: Reassessing the Agency of Radio Listeners in Cold War Czechoslovakia (1945-1953), Rosamund Johnston (New York University, USA) 2. Practices of Distance, Perceptions of Proximity: Trade Union Delegates and Everyday Politics in Post-World War II Romania, Adrian Grama (Central European University, Hungary) 3. A Case Study of Legitimization Practices: The Czechoslovak Stalinist Elites at the Regional Level (1948-1951), Marián Lóži (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) 4. Policing the Police: The ‘Instructor Group’ and the Stalinisation of the Czechoslovak Secret Police (1948-1951), Molly Pucci (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Part II: From Stalinism to Real Existing Socialism 5. Constructive Complaints and Socialist Subversion in Stalinist Czechoslovakia: E.F. Burian’s Scandal in the Picture Gallery, Shawn Clybor (Dwight-Englewood School, USA) 6. Perceptions of Society in Czechoslovak Secret Police Archives: How a ‘Czechoslovak 1956’ Was Thwarted, Muriel Blaive (Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Czech Republic) 7. Crises and the Creation of Institutions for Assessing Popular Consumption Preferences in Communist Bulgaria, 1953-1970, Martin K. Dimitrov (Tulane University, USA) 8. Who is Afraid of Whom? The Case of the ‘Loyal Dissidents’ in the German Democratic Republic, Sonia Combe (Centre Marc Bloch, Germany) Part III: From Real Existing Socialism to the End - and Beyond 9. Did Communist Children’s Television Communicate Universal Values? Representing Borders in the Polish Series Four Tank-Men and a Dog, Machteld Venken (Vienna University, Austria) 10. Between Censorship and Scholarship: The Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 1969-89, Libora Oates-Indruchová (Graz University, Austria) 11. ‘How Many Days Have the Comrades’ Wives Spent in a Queue?' Appealing to the Ceausescus in Late-Socialist Romania, Jill Massino (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA) 12. Authenticating the Past: Archives, Secret Police, and Heroism in Contemporary Czech Representations of Socialism, Veronika Pehe (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Republic) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCatherine Flinn is Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her main research interest is the impact of politics and economics on the architecture and landscape of modern Britain.Trade ReviewIn a very well written and exceptionally well organized book, Flinn achieves her goal: She clearly highlights the political and institutional reasons why the reconstruction plans for the blitzed cities didn’t come to fruition … [For] anyone interested in a better understanding of the incredible challenges involved with rebuilding Britain after the war, I’d recommend it enthusiastically. * EH.net *A meticulous, detailed account of what became of cities such as Coventry, Liverpool, Hull, Exeter and Portsmouth whose urban fabric was torn to shreds by German planes, and the ideas of the planners who sought to rebuild them ... This book [contains] extraordinary attention to detail. * Contemporary British History *A superbly researched and useful addition to the existing body of work on reconstruction. * Journal of British Studies *Catherine Flinn’s excellent book raises important questions that extend far beyond the reconstruction of blitzed cities, the role of planners, and the triumph of modernism over historical reimagining. It also raises questions of how limited resources were allocated after the war, how decisions were made by the local and national state, how private economic interests operated within a planned economy. Her findings will be of great interest not only to urban and architectural but also to economic, political and cultural historians of postwar Britain. * Martin Daunton, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, UK *The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, and the Grenfell Tower Disaster in London demonstrated that while causes of urban disaster may be simple, the consequences present major challenges. In her meticulous study, Flinn shows that the reconstruction of Britain following the air raids of World War Two saw many grand plans. Some were realized, while others were undermined by political, practical and economic constraints. Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities is essential both for our understanding of post-war British history, but also as a corrective to naive arguments that urban renewal can always be straightforward. * Mark Clapson, Professor of Social and Urban History, University of Westminster, UK *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Persons & Affiliations List of Illustrations Preface: In Spite of Planning 1. Introduction: Did the Planners “Cut the Heart Out of our Cities”? 2. Considering Reconstruction, 1940-1945 3. Treasury Mandarins: The Apparatus of Postwar Economic Planning 4. Central Control?: The Challenges of Postwar Physical Planning 5. Local Constraints: The Cities of Hull, Exeter and Liverpool 6. Postwar Rebuilding: Hopeful Plans Become Different Realities 7. Rebuilding Blitzed City Centres Despite Planning Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCarlo Ginzburg is Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Emeritus Professor of History of European Cultures at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy.Lucio Biasiori is Research Fellow at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Italy. His interests encompass early modern religious and cultural history.Trade ReviewGinzburg has assembled some of the world’s leading thinkers to explore casuistry as a fundamental and surprisingly neglected approach to intractable dilemmas and paradoxes throughout history. Traversing disciplines and centuries, this volume will change the way we think and the way we think about thinking. * Matthew C. Mirow, Professor of Law, Florida International University, USA *As these wide-ranging essays demonstrate, casuistry is hardly so simple as normally believed, but a style of thought in which norms and exceptions are mutually constitutive, dialogically and dialectically interrelated. Time after time, we observe how established authorities in one domain or another (law, medicine, theology; Europe, Asia, the Americas) responded to deviations from what they prescribed and expected, struggling to defuse the challenge these anomalies present by construing them -- often with extraordinary ingenuity -- as exceptions that prove, rather than threaten the rule. Each chapter makes for fascinating reading, as does the volume as a whole. * Bruce Lincoln, Caroline E. Haskell Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History of Religions, University of Chicago, USA *Besides the adventure, provocation, and irony, through each essay we find a wonderful appreciation of the epistemic richness of ethics when it dares to consider the particular as well as the exceptional. The book is a significant contribution to the field. * Journal of Jesuit Studies *Table of ContentsPreface, Carlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) Acknowledgments Part I Casuistry and Medicine across Time and Space 1. The Royal College of Paediatrics 2004 / 2015 Guidance for Decision Making at The End of Life : A Framework for Casuistry, Avishai Sarfatti (Oxford University, UK) 2. The Medical Case Narrative in Pre-Modern Europe and China: Comparative History of an Epistemic Genre, Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University, USA) Part II Religious Anomalies in the Ancient and Medieval World 3. (Un)written Laws and Transgressions in Ancient Greece and Rome, Jan Bremmer (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands) 4. The Case About Jesus: (Counter-)History and Casuistry in Toledot Yeshu, Daniel Barbu (CNRS, UMR 8584, Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes, Paris, France) Part III Legal Casuistry between Judaism and Islam 5. “I signed but I did not say”: The Status of Chess in Early Modern Judaism, Andrew Berns (University of South Carolina, USA) 6. The Many Roads to Justice: A Case of Adultery in Sixteenth-Century Cairo, Caterina Bori (Università di Bologna, Italy) 7. Islamic Casuistry and Galenic Medicine: Hashish, Coffee and the Emergence of the Jurist-Physician, Islam Dayeh (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) Part IV Casuistry between Reformation and Counter Reformation 8. The Exception as Norm: Casuistry of Suicide in John Donne’s Biathanatos, Lucio Biasiori (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) 9. “Whether ’tis lawful for a man to beat his wife”: Casuistical Exercises in Late-Stuart and Early-Hanoverian England, Giovanni Tarantino (University of Western Australia) Part V Norms and Exceptions in the Early Modern Global World (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) 10. Indians’ Forced Labour as Case for Exception in Seventeenth-Century Colonial America, Angela Ballone (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 11. Morality and Empire: Cases, Norms and Exceptions in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Asia, Sanjay Subrahmanyam (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) 12. An ‘Our Father’ for the Hottentots: Religion, Language and the Consensus Gentium, Martin Mulsow (Universität Erfurt, Germany) Part VI Inside and Outside Port-Royal 13. Port-Royal at grips with its own casuistry and Pascal’s stand, Silvia Berti (Sapienza - Università di Roma, Italy) 14. Casuistry and Irony: Some Reflections on Pascal’s Provinciales, Carlo Ginzburg (University of California, Los Angeles, USA; Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy) Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisKatie Beswick is a lecturer in Drama at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research focuses on the intersections between theatre and structural inequality, with an emphasis on race and class. She has worked as a performer, writer, facilitator of applied theatre and as a social housing officer.Trade ReviewKatie Beswick’s book addresses the crisis in UK council housing boldly, but also with great care and sensitivity. Social Housing in Performance critiques the ways in which council estates are presented to us in the establishment media, and puts forward instead a compelling new typology for understanding housing issues through performance practice. -- Jane Rendell, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College LondonAfter decades in which social housing in England has been neglected, Beswick’s deeply considered analysis of estate performance is very welcome. She examines not only how individual performances have figured working class life but also how these performances are caught up with broader perceptions of social housing and with British theatre’s own highly fraught class politics. This is a timely and important book. -- Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Three places: a preface Introduction: The council estate, definitions and parameters Chapter one: Quotidian performance of the council estate Chapter two: Class and the council estate in mainstream theatre Chapter three: Located on the estate Chapter four: Resident artists Conclusion: Three thoughts Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAlexa Neale is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Historical Criminology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is currently researching crime narratives and the meaning of evidence in a project titled Black Books: The Institutional Memory of Hanging and Mercy at the Home Office'.Trade ReviewIn her forensic analysis of hitherto unseen photographs of domestic interiors that were crime scenes, Alexa Neale reveals the part they played in imagined narratives of murder presented in courtrooms. Her microhistories of individual cases, each framed by a compelling imaginative vignette, go beyond the crimes in question and give new insights into social class, gendered and racial identities revealed in the spaces and material culture of 20th century Londoners’ homes. * Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory, University of Portsmouth, UK *An immersive, clear-eyed account of Neale’s encounter with the criminal archive. Trial transcripts, criminal case files, media reportage, ephemera and, most importantly, photographs found in police prosecution records are read along – and against – the grain. Neale teaches us how deftly these materials were used to create powerful prosecution narratives, and also how to read them now: as evidence of home life, relationships, lives and secrets. Bringing imaginative methodological approaches to her fascinating sources, Neale’s work is a microhistory made from the surviving remnants of criminal records. Her reading of forensic photographs is lucid, original and a major contribution to the field. * Katherine Biber, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney, Australia *In this compelling and challenging study of crime scene photography, Alexa Neale shows how the camera shaped how crime and the law were perceived and represented in modern Britain. Photographing Crime Scenes in 20th-Century London is an astute analysis, bringing together cultural history, legal history and the social history of crime. Neale’s book also uses the camera’s lens to tell a series of fascinating stories about private and public life in twentieth-century London, from a louche mews in Knightsbridge to the dark alleys of Limehouse. * Stephen J Brooke, Professor of History, York University, Canada *A trailblazing title which opens up this visual world to the crime, cultural and media historian. Through a critical analysis of crime scene photography and narrative this book persuades criminal historians to look at the visualisation of crime in new and exciting ways. * David Nash, Professor of History, Oxford Brookes University, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction: Encountering crime scenes 2. ”Isn't Dinner Ready?”: Spatialising working-class home and marriage in Camden3. 'She Wore No Ring': Picturing sexual jealousy and provocation in Bloomsbury4. "The Love Hut": Perverting public/private boundaries in Knightsbridge 5. "Murder Story": Telling 'Ripper' tales in Limehouse and beyond 6. ‘Joseph Aaku's Cat’: Imagining home and race in St. Pancras 7. "We've really hit the jackpot now, doll": Changing lives in North Kensington 8. Conclusion: A place through crimeBibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFamily history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migrant nations like Australia and Canada. It empowers millions of researchers, linking the past to the present in powerful ways, transforming individuals' understandings of themselves and the world. This book examines the practice, meanings and impact of undertaking family history research for individuals and society more broadly. In this ground-breaking new book, Tanya Evans shows how family history fosters inter-generational and cross-cultural, religious and ethnic knowledge, how it shapes historical empathy and consciousness and combats social exclusion, producing active citizens. Evans draws on her extensive research on family history, including survey data, oral history interviews and focus groups undertaken with family historians in Australia, England and Canada collected since 2016. Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship reveals that family hiTrade ReviewEngaging with how family historians think, feel, collaborate and use the past in the present, Evans demonstrates the value of historical consciousness as a way of engaging with the world, and what such a perspective offers academic historians and the public alike. A remarkable achievement. * Katie Barclay, Associate Professor of History, The University of Adelaide, Australia *Tanya Evans is one of the world’s leading experts in family history and her new compelling new work situates research in this field at the meeting point of multiple exciting areas. Thoughtful, suggestive, generous and provocative though it is for scholars, most importantly Family History, Historical Consciousness and Citizenship allows the family historians themselves to speak. * Jerome de Groot, Professor of Literature and Culture, Department of English, American Studies and Creative Writing, University of Manchester, UK *A fascinating book showing the often under-rated value of family history and family historians. Evans shows how family history epitomises the history from below approach, is key to understanding everyday, emotional, intimate historical worlds, and can be a radicalising force today, challenging inequalities, marginalisation and heteronormative visions of family life. * Laura King, Associate Professor in Modern British History, University of Leeds, UK *A bold, brilliant manifesto for family history, a truly democratised history whose millions of practitioners uncover for themselves the mythic nature of dominant national stories about the past. Evans powerfully argues that academics collaborate with family historians to innovate, to communicate the value of History, and to create active, global citizens. * Joanne Begiato, Professor in History, Oxford Brookes University, UK *

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Book SynopsisDespite Britain entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, public discourses were imbued with a cultural pessimism and rising social anxiety. Through this study, Samuel Foster explores how this changing domestic climate shaped perceptions of other cultures, and Britain''s relationship to them, focusing on those Balkan territories that formed the first Yugoslavia from 1918 to 1941.Yugoslavia in the British Imagination examines these connections and demonstrates how the popular image of the region''s peasantry evolved from that of foreign ''Other'' to historical victim - suffering at the hand of modernity''s worst excesses and symbolizing Britain''s perceived decline. This coincided with an emerging moralistic sense of British identity that manifested during the First World War. Consequently, Yugoslavia was legitimized as the solution to peasant victimization and, as Foster''s nuanced analysis reveals, enabling Britain''s imagined (and self-promoted) revival as civilizTrade ReviewSamuel Foster’s monograph should be commended for offering a fresh approach to advance the existing knowledge of British imaginative geography. * Eurasian Geography and Economics *The images we have of others speak volumes about ourselves. In this book the history of the British images of the South Slav peasant become a handy tool for the telling of a wider and more intimate story: how modern Britain's ever shifting perceptions of the outside world were always, more than anything else, close reflections of Britain's own shifting self. The result is a rich, meshed history of the social and cultural lives of Britain and the Yugoslav lands from the late 19th century until the eve of the Second World War. This work is also a serious contribution to the field of imagology. Making good and critical use of the scholarship produced over the last thirty years on the modern Western images of the Balkans Samuel Foster renews and expands a field of knowledge that has still so much to give. * Eugene Michail, Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, UK *Detailed and compelling. I’m impressed by Foster’s deft analysis of British imaginative geography and the emergence of Anglo-British identity against ethnographic and cultural rhetoric about the moral virtue of South Slavic peasants prior to and during the First World War. This is an effective way of tracking British anxieties about its place in “civilization’s moral hierarchy” as Britain became an urban and industrialized nation. This transnational study expands our understanding of how depictions of foreign places and peoples in popular culture contribute to wider discursive formulations of twentieth century national identities, in this case Anglo-British identity. * Melissa Bokovoy, Professor and Chair of History, University of New Mexico, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Orthography Introduction Part I. The Era of the Fin de Siecle 1. Themes and Contexts before the 20th Century 2. Allegorising Edwardian Anxiety before 1914 3. Victimhood and the Changing Meaning of Archetypes Part II. The Great War 4. The British and the Balkan Front 5. Peasant Martyrdom and Yugoslavia in Wartime Propaganda Part III. The Post- and Interwar Decades 6. Yugoslavia in the 'Unofficial' Mind 7. Towards the Next Crisis? Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMariana Liz is a Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, in Portugal. She is the author of Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016) and co-editor of Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2020) and The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, Globalization (2015).Trade ReviewThis collection of essays on Portuguese cinema is both proof of how studies of Portuguese cinema by now can be seen as constituting an established field, as well as an indispensable tool for further inquiries into a growing body of works ... it is certain to be considered required reading for some time to come. * Portuguese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Framing the Global Appeal of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema – Mariana Liz 1. Filming Narratives Becoming Events: Documentary and the ‘Emplotments’ of the Carnation Revolution – Luís Trindade 2. Our Beloved Month of August: Between the Filming of the Real and the Reality of Filming – Rui Gonçalves Miranda 3. Political Oliveira – Randal Johnson 4. Portugal, Europe and the World: Geopolitics and the Human Condition in Manoel de Oliveira’s Films – Carolin Overhoff Ferreira 5. Amália: Stories of a Singer and Tales of a National Cinema – Anthony de Melo 6. La Cage dorée: a Franco-Portuguese Comedy of Integration – Ginette Vincendeau 7. Portugal and Europe: Cinema and the City in a Postcolonial Context – Mariana Liz 8. Contextualizing Pedro Costa’s Digital Filmmaking – Nuno Barradas Jorge 9. Broken Links: The Cinema of Teresa Villaverde – Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin 10. Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal: Territory, Littoral and Memory Bridge – Michael Goddard 11. White Faces / Black Masks: The White Woman’s Burden in Pedro Costa’s Down to Earth – Hilary Owen 12. Light Drops: Portugal Critically Reviewing the Colonial Past? – Paul Melo e Castro 13. Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu – Lúcia Nagib 14. Luso-Brazilian Co-Productions: Rescue and Expansion – Natália Pinazza

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Book SynopsisWhat do people believe about death and the afterlife? How do they negotiate the relationship between science and religion? How do they understand apparently paranormal events? What do they make of sensations of awe, wonder or exceptional moments of sudden enlightenment?The volunteer mass observers responded to such questions with a freshness, openness and honesty which compels attention. Using this rich material, Mass Observers Making Meaning captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and disbelief to be found in Britain in the late 20th-century, at a time when Christianity was in steep decline, alternative spiritualities were flourishing and atheism was growing. Divided as they were about the ultimate nature of reality, the mass observers were united in their readiness to puzzle about life's larger questions. Listening empathetically to their accounts, James Hinton himself a convinced atheist seeks to bring divergent ways of finding meaning in human life into diTrade ReviewOur understanding of religion, spirituality and non-religion is impoverished by a lack of first-hand accounts about something so universal, and ineffable, that it lacks even a shared vocabulary: the ‘supernatural’, or sense of ‘something else’. Fortunately, the eminent historian and Mass Observation expert Prof. James Hinton has filled that gap by creating an engaging, informed book based on late 20th century accounts of such phenomena from MO volunteers. His reflections and interpretations are well-grounded in social history and the social scientific study of religion, making this an indispensable resource for scholars and students trying to understand how modern people make meaning, regardless of their religious affiliations. * Abby Day, Professor of Race, Faith and Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK *In a recent overview of the use of documents in research about religion, my co-author and I remarked on the unrealised potential of the Mass Observation archive. How satisfying therefore to find a book that not only addresses this lacuna but does so superbly well. I recommend unreservedly this generous, sensitive and compelling account. * Dr. Grace Davie, Professor of Sociology, University of Exeter, UK *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Puzzled People? 2. Belief and Disbelief 3. Death and Afterwards 4. Religion and Science 5. Uses of the Paranormal 6. Moments of our Time 7. A Pagan Priestess 8. Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAnthony Smart is an independent researcher based in the UK. A graduate of the University of York, he was previously Lecturer in Ancient and Medieval History at York St. John University, UK. A specialist in the history of Rome, with a particular interest in the political manifestation of emotion in the late Republic and early Principate, he has published on Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon history. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, and the Higher Education representative for the Classical Association's Ancient History Teaching Board. He is the author of Grief and Sorrow in the Roman World: Republic to Empire (Bloomsbury).

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Book SynopsisA NEW SCIENTIST NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA cultural and social history of the rat, examining how one creature achieved total world domination and has inspired such love and loathing.Rats are creatures which inspire fear and fascination in equal measure. Their lives are more closely entwined with humans than any other animal, but they remain the most misunderstood of all species.Yet, arguably no animal has sacrificed more in the pursuit of human health but also been so resolutely blamed for spreading plague and pestilence. No animal has been so determinedly targeted by humans, and still managed to survive and thrive in our midst. No animal is so often derided as being vicious and cunning, but possesses such a rich and complex inner life.In Stowaway, Joe Shute, explores our complex and often contradictory relationship with the rat. He travels the world from sub-Saharan Africa to the Rocky Mountains and visits some of the most rod

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Book SynopsisAn original history of Russia''s thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin''s politics and rekindled the Cold War.Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that shaped how the West would treat Russia for the next two decades. But history wasn't over. Putin is a paradox. In the early years of his presidency, he appeared to commit himself to friendship with the West, suggesting that Russia could join the European Union or even NATO. He said he supported free-market democracy and civil rights. But the Putin of those years is unrecognisable today. The Putin of the 2020s is an autocratic nationalist, dedicated to repression at home and anti-Western militarism abroad. So, what happened? Was he lying when he proclaimed his support Trade ReviewClear, lively, and not afraid to be controversial: a stimulating anatomisation of Russia’s poisonous relationship with the West, Ukraine, and its own dark past. -- Anna Reid, author of Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine and A Dirty Little WarThis is a very important account of the build-up to Russia’s invasions of Ukrainian territory. Most books and articles on the Russia-Ukraine war are very one-sided; the great merit of this book is that the Sixsmiths take a long historical perspective and enable the reader to appreciate the aspirations of both sides. The authors focus on the defects of Western societies as well as on those of Russia. This is a study that needs to be taken into account when we try to understand the lessons of the war. -- Geoffrey Hosking, Emeritus Professor of Russian History, University College LondonA fascinating and highly readable account of the background to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, informed by Martin Sixsmith’s long involvement with the region since his days as a BBC correspondent covering the last days of the Soviet Union. -- Peter Conradi, author of Who Lost Russia? From the Collapse of the USSR to Putin's War on UkraineA tremendous study of how Putin has tragically manipulated national myths for personal gain and revanchist patriotism. -- Starred Review, Kirkus Review

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Book SynopsisThe conquest of Lebensraum - living space - in Eastern Europe was the whole point of the Third Reich. This study investigates a key participant in the criminal project - Hans Frank - and how he tried to establish his corner of Hitler's racial empire.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Hans Frank and the Biographer's Trade Fighter of Mind and Fist Spirit of the Age The Wrong Sort of Nazi Contours of Empire Hitler's Manager Murder as Social Policy Re-structuring Europe's Population Loyal Opponent Transitions Utilitarianism and the Appearance of Morality Re-living the Past Conclusion: Personality, Management and Criminal Motivation Footnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisFollowing his earlier surveys of 19th and 20th Century British Prime Ministers, Dick Leonard turns his attention to their 18th Century predecessors, including such major figures as Robert Walpole, the Elder Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord North and the Younger Pitt.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Road to the Prime Ministership Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford – 'all these men have their price' Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington – 'George II's favourite nonentity' Henry Pelham – Pragmatic Heir to Walpole Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle – Mighty Panjamdrum, Feeble Premier William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire – 'I have no motive but the King's service' John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute – the King's 'dearest friend' George Grenville – Able Premier, Undermined by his own Prolixity Charles Wentworth-Watson, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham – the Conscience of the Whigs William Pitt, the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham – 'I am sure that I can save this country, and that nobody else can' Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Gracfton – Well-intentioned Dilettante Frederick North, styled Lord North – Outstanding Parliamentarian, Pity about the Colonies… William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne – Too Clever by Half William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland – Twice a Figurehead William Pitt, the Younger – Peacetime Prodigy, Less Successful in War Epilogue Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings to life the social and textual worlds in which the representation of contemporary Greek historical experience has been passionately debated, building on contemporary research in history and anthropology concerning the social production of the past.Trade Review'In Genres of Recollection, Penelope Papailias has given us a genre that productively defines recollection. Her book is an original exploration in the elusive but vital common ground of anthropology and history. Avoiding the abstruse abstractions that so often bedevil considerations of epistemology, Papailias brings to life the everyday social practices involved in the production of history by local writers and collectors and thereby challenges us to examine and compare the social conditions of our own intellectual production. An original and beautifully written contribution to the ethnography of Greece, this work is also an unusual experiment in the broadening of the anthropological vision.' - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University 'In these stunning chapters on modern Greek history Penelope Papailias bypasses old disciplinary constraints to set forth a new theory and practice of anthropological reading. She finds her alternative archives in the works of amateur historians, the transcripts of Anatolian refugees, the memoir of a migrant to America, and a novel on the Civil War. The result is sustained interrogations and incisive insights concerning both the notion of an 'archive' and the historical phenomenon that is 'Greece.'' - Brinkley Messick, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University 'The author responds to the famous question, 'What is History?' with the phrase 'Let's see what historians do.' Then, to explore this perspective, she gives the reader an ethnographic tour of historians' social worlds, thoughts and craft. I find this response quite ingenious. It is an original approach to writing about the writing of history.' - Antonis Liakos, Professor of History, University of AthensTable of ContentsPreface In the Margins of History: Peripheral States, Personal Archives and Historical Rhetorics Beyond Historiography Citing the City: Local Historians and the Possession of the Past Transcriptions of Home: An Archive of Refugee Testimony Reading War: Responsibility in Fiction Editing Migration: The Repatriation of the Story of 'Amerika' Epilogue: Textual Ethnogaphy and Historical Anthropology

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Book SynopsisThis volume fills an important gap in the analysis of early modern history and culture by reintroducing scholars to the significance of the horse. Each essay in the collection provides a snapshot of how horse culture and the broader culture - that tapestry of images, objects, structures, sounds, gestures, texts, and ideas - articulate.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: POWER AND STATUS Cultural Convergence: The Equine Connection between Muscovy and Europe; A.Kleimola The Palio Horse in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy; E.Tobey Shakespeare and the Social Devaluation of the Horse; B.Boehrer "Faith, Say a Man Should Steal Ye-And Feed Ye Fatter": Equine Hunger and Theft in Woodstock; K.de Ornellas PART II: DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL Just a Bit of Control: The Historical Significance of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century German Bit Books; P.Cuneo Man and Horse in Harmony; E.Le Guin From Gens d'armes to Gentilshommes: Dressage, Civilité, and Ballet à Cheval; K.van Orden PART III: IDENTITY AND SELF-DEFINITION A Horse of a Different Color: Nation and Race in Early Modern Horsemanship Treatises; K.Raber Honest English Breed:" The Thoroughbred as Cultural Metaphor; R.Nash Early Modern French Noble Identity and the Equestrian "Airs Above the Ground"; T.J.Tucker "Horses! Give me More Horses!": White Settler Identity, Horses and the Making of Early Modern South Africa, 1655-1700; S.Swart Learning to Ride in Early Modern Britain, or, The Making of the English Hunting Seat; D.Landry

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Book SynopsisAsserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop across the globe.Trade Review"Now in the time where corporations have extracted the economic DNA of American hip-hop to fuel their bottom line with the lowest common denominator, Halifu Osumare's reach into the global importance of the genre is a much needed cultural reclamation. With the power of rap music as a new world language, hip-hop's style and substance is an explosive supplement to the new millennium that is currently lacking knowledge on world cultural and social history, as well as geography. The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop gives us a way to plough through these new global dynamics." - Chuck D, Public Enemy "It may seem as though hip-hop has suddenly gone global, but Halifu Osumare s The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop is a timely and important reminder that hip-hop has always lived in a world larger than the boundaries we impose upon it." - Mark Anthony Neal, Associate Professor of Black Popular Culture, and co-editor, That s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader "Halifu Osumare's work - a power move in and of itself - compels us to acknowledge the power of technology and capitalism to co-opt and transform a culture-specific phenomenon into a global assault - for better or worse. It is required reading for those of us interested in the social, political, and cultural shifts that shake and quake our worlds. Highly recommended." - Brenda Dixon Gottschild, author of The Black Dancing Body, Waltzing in the Dark, and Digging The Africanist Presence in American Culture"Osumare provides compelling evidence of a global diaspora of hip-hop. Layered yet conversational text assumes more than passing familiarity with cultural theorists whom Osumare discusses alongside rap artists... Highly recommended." - CHOICE"[A] reminder that the global is at the heart of hip-hop culture, which from the start has borrowed, appropriated, and sampled from cultures around the world." - Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College, City University of New YorkTable of ContentsPhat Beats, Dope Rhymes, and Def Moves: The Africanist Aesthetic Meets the Hip Hop Globe Beat Streets in the Global Hood: Hip Hop's Connective Marginalities Props to the Local Boyz: Hip Hop Culture in Hawaii 'It's All About the Benjamins' Postmodernism and Hip Hop's Appropriation

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Book SynopsisUsing interdisciplinary techniques and original research findings, this volume explores the shift from humoral to nervous interpretations of emotion; the emotional nature of the medical professional-patient relationship; and the extent to which gender might influence the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of pathological emotional conditions.Trade Review'The history of emotion, and its earlier cognate 'the passions', offer rich challenges to cultural analysts, as this volume abundantly shows. The essays take us through intricate articulations with successive medical systems, from humouralism and temperaments to experimental psychology and its laboratory protocols. For the Nineteenth-century, we are introduced to the distress of postpuerperal insanity, the evocation of pity in humanitarian campaigns, and the polemics of creativity and callousness around animal experimentation. We also gain access to the intimacies of medical consultation in the Twentieth-century - for the ways in which patients responded to their doctors, and the uses which psychiatrists made of their own reactions to patients. It is a volume which speaks to medicine, psychology and cultural studies as well as to the histories of science and the clinic, and one that can feed much-needed interactions.' - Professor John V. Pickstone, University of Manchester, UK '[A] tightly edited, well-integrated collection, exploring important and original subject matter from many different, yet complementary angles. Its cumulative impact is much more than the sum of its parts...this is a very valuable collection.' - Malcolm Nicolson, Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, UK '...the editor should be complimented for bringing together a series of fascinating enquiries into these most vexing of human states.' - Jonathan Sawday, Medical HistoryTable of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction Emotions in the Early Modern Medical Tradition; F.Bound Alberti Patients and Passions: Languages of Medicine and Emotion, 1790-1850; T.Dixon Languages and Landscapes of Emotion: Motherhood and Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century; H.Marland 'Cold Calculation in the Faces of Horrors?': Pity, Compassion and the Making of Humanitarian Protocols; B.Taithe Sympathy Under the Knife: Experimentation and Emotion in Late Victorian Britain; P.White Fear and Loathing in the Laboratory and Clinic; O.E.Dror From Clever Hans to Michael Balint: Emotion, Influence and the Unconscious in British Medical Practice; R.Hayward Diagnosing with Feeling: The Clinical Assessment of Schizophrenia in Early Twentieth-Century European Psychiatry; S.Lanzoni Index

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Book SynopsisHalfway between history and philosophy, this book deals with the historical forms that have permitted the understanding of human suffering from the Renaissance to the present. Representation, sympathy, imitation, coherence and narrativity are but a few of the rhetorical recourses that men and women have employed in order to feel our pain.Trade Review'Javier Moscoso's book is a dazzling example of cultural history. For anyone who ever wondered about the meaning of pain and how those meanings have changed over time this is the book for you.' - Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Representations Imitation Sympathy Correspondence Trust Narrativity Coherence Reiteration Postscriptum

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