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Book SynopsisSynopsis coming soon.......Trade Review“A great skyscraper of a book. Supreme City is the improbable story not just of America's greatest metropolis during the Jazz Age, but the biography of an epoch.” -- Rick Atkinson, author of The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945“Supreme City sings with all the excitement and the brilliance of the Jazz Age it recounts. Donald Miller is one of America’s most fervent and insightful writers about the urban experience; here he gives us New York City at its grandest and most optimistic.” -- Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd“Donald L. Miller’s latest triumph. . . . [he] elegantly introduces one vivid character after another to recreate a vital and archetypical era when, as Duke Ellington declared, the whole world revolved around New York.” -- Sam Roberts * The New York Times *“Sweeping. . . . Enjoyable. . . . [In the 1920s] New York was the United States intensified, an electric vessel into which the hopes and desires of a nation were distilled. As Mr. Miller's vivid and exhaustive chronicle demonstrates, Jazz Age Manhattan was the progenitor of cultural movements—individualized fusions of art and commerce—that came to symbolize the American way of life.” -- David Freeland * The Wall Street Journal *“Lower Manhattan dominated New York for three hundred years. In the 1920’s, however, as Donald L. Miller makes clear in a page-turning book with an astonishing cast of characters, Midtown became the beating heart of the metropolis. Supreme City is about how these few square miles at the center of a small island gave birth to modern America. If you love Gotham, you will love this book.” -- Kenneth T. Jackson, Barzun Professor of History, Columbia University; Editor-in-Chief, The Encyclopedia of New York City“Supreme City captures a vanished Gotham in all its bustle, gristle, and glory.” -- David Friend * Vanity Fair *“A splendid account of the construction boom in Midtown Manhattan between World War I and the Great Depression, and the transformation of transportation, communications, publishing, sports, and fashion that accompanied it. . . . [Miller is] a virtuosic storyteller.” -- Glenn C. Altschuler * The Philadelphia Inquirer *“Donald L. Miller has long been one of my favorite historians. Anyone who reads Supreme City will understand why. Miller brilliantly examines the birth of Midtown Manhattan during the glorious Jazz Age. It’s the story of how a gaggle of success-hungry out-of-towners—including Duke Ellington, Walter Chrysler, E. B. White, and William Paley—turned the Valley of Giant Skyscrapers near Grand Central Terminal into the symbolic epicenter of wealth, power, and American can-doism. Highly recommended!” -- Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History, Rice University and author of Cronkite“Miller captures the heady excitement and enduring creativity of 1920s Manhattan. . . . Conveying the panoramic sweep of the era with wit, illuminating details, humor, and style, Miller illustrates how Midtown Manhattan became the nation’s communications, entertainment, and commercial epicenter.” * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *“Lively . . . synthesizes a vast amount of material on everything from skyscrapers to showgirls to create a scintillating portrait of Manhattan in the ’20s. . . . Much of Supreme City’s charm comes from the amiable way Donald Miller ambles through Jazz Age Manhattan, exploring any corner of it that strikes his fancy.” -- Wendy Smith * The Daily Beast *“An award-winning historian surveys the astonishing cast of characters who helped turn Manhattan into the world capital of commerce, communication and entertainment. . . . The narrative bursts with a dizzying succession of tales about the politicos, impresarios, merchants, sportsmen, performers, gangsters and hustlers who accounted for an unprecedented burst of creativity and achievement. . . . A scholarly . . . social history but one with plenty of sex appeal.” -- —Kirkus Reviews (starred review, one of the Best History Books of the Year)

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Book SynopsisJim Storr is a former British Army officer.He is now an independent defence consultant.He studied Civil Engineering before joining the Army and serving in the British Army of the Rhine for much of the 1980s.Amongst a series of staff and regimental appointments in the Falkland Islands, Northern Ireland and Cyprus he studied at the Royal Military College of Science and the Army Staff College at Camberley.He was a military adviser to operational research teams before spending more than four years writing and teaching high-level military doctrine.In 2002 he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on the nature of military thought.In his second career his main activates are consultancy, research, writing and teaching.He has spoken at, or chaired, a number of national and international conferences.His clients include defence industrial corporations, research agencies and universities.He is a visiting fellow of the Defence College of Management and Technology, Cranfield University and anhonoraryTable of ContentsFigures; Abbreviations; Foreword; Series Editors' Preface; Introduction; 1. Art or Science?; 2. Developing an Approach; 3. The Nature of Combat; 4. Tools and Models; 5. Shock and Surprise; 6. Tactics and Organizations; 7. Commanding the Battle; 8. The Soul of an Army; 9. Regulators and Ratcatchers; 10. The Human Face of War; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisPassions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century.Far from being invisible, the figure of the woman who felt passion for women in this period was a subject of confusion and contradiction: she could be put in a freak show as a 'hermaphrodite', denounced as a 'tribade' or 'lesbian', revered as a 'romantic friend', jailed as a 'female husband' or gossiped about as a 'woman-lover', 'tommy' or 'Sapphist'. Through an examination of a wealth of new medical, legal and erotic source material, together with re-readings of classics of English literature, Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling Room, uncovers the astonishing range of lesbian and bisexual identities described in British texts between 1668 and 1801. Female pirates and spiritual mentors, chambermaids and queens, poets and prostitutes, couTrade ReviewControversial, erotic and radical, Emma Donoghue's lesbian voyage of exploration outlines an astonishing spectrum of gender rebellion which creates a new map of eighteenth-century sexual territories and identities. -- Patricia Duncker, author of Sophie and the Sibyl

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Book SynopsisBorn in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is an Irish emigrant twice over: she spent eight years in Cambridge, England, before moving to Canada's London, Ontario. She is best known for her novels, which range from the historical (The Wonder, Slammerkin, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter) to the contemporary (Akin, Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing). Her international bestseller Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and was a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes; her screen adaptation, directed by Lenny Abrahamson, was nominated for four Academy Awards.

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Book Synopsis''Fun and fascinating - the secrets and tricks of how we measure the world around us'' Conn Iggulden

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Book SynopsisWhat was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighbourhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives.

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Book SynopsisIn 1950 the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China signed a Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance to foster cultural and technological cooperation. While this treaty was intended as a break with the colonial past, Austin Jersild argues that the alliance ultimately failed because the enduring problem of Russian imperialism led to Chinese frustration with the Soviets.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays critically engages with factors relating to black urban life and cultural representation in the post-civil rights era, using Ice-T and his myriad roles as musician, actor, writer, celebrity, and industrialist as a vehicle through which to interpret and understand the African American experience. Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant pop-cultural trends that have proved to be both innovative and admired on the one hand, and contentious and divisive on the other. Ice-T's iconic and multifarious career maps these shifts. This is the first book that, taken as a whole, looks at a black cultural icon''s manipulation of (or manipulation by?) so many different forms simultaneously. The result is a fascinating series of tensions arising from Ice-T's abiliTrade Review’Metcalf and Turner have assembled an impressive collection of essays regarding one of hip-hop's most controversial and important figures. Covering a vast range of cultural fields, from reality television to film, crime drama acting to politics, video games to entrepreneurship, ageing and masculinity, the book embraces the Renaissance Man spirit that makes Ice-T, and hip-hop culture, so complex and valuable.’ Justin Williams, University of Bristol, UK ’These wide-ranging and analytically sharp essays speak to the maturity of hip-hop studies as a field and bring home the reach of contemporary hip-hop culture through the career of one iconic individual. Ice-T’s success captures the immense creative and commercial versatility of hip-hop culture, and crystallizes trends in the conglomerated cultural industries - the power of rap celebrities to build and sustain their careers in a corporate-dominated media environment.’ Eithne Quinn, University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction “It’s got to feel real but not be real” (Ice-T), Josephine Metcalf, Will Turner; Part 1 Hip-Hop Contexts; Chapter 1 Ice/Age: Experience, Achievement, and Transformations of an OG, Murray Forman; Chapter 2 Ice-T at the Movies: The Hip-Hop Film Cycle and the On-Screen Gangsta in Flux, Keith Corson; Chapter 3 Voices of the Gods: Definition, Diegesis, and Discourse in Ice-T’s The Art of Rap, James Braxton Peterson; Part 2 Genre Hustling; Chapter 4 Crossing Police Lines: Body Count and the Politics of Intercultural Miscommunication, Will Turner; Chapter 5 Member of an Elite Squad: Ice-T and the Imagining of “Fin” Tutuola, Mark D. Cunningham; Chapter 6 Ice Loves Coco: Reality TV, Hip-Hop, and the Articulation of Neo-Liberal Family Values, Barry Shanahan; Chapter 7 Writing “on the Rilla” with Ice-T: from Autobiography to Avatar in Kings of Vice, Jonathan Munby; Part 3 Activist, Philanthropist, Entrepreneur; Chapter 8 Gaming the System: Ice-T as Neoliberal Hustler and Entrepreneurial Philanthropist, Greg Dimitriadis, Justin De Senso; Chapter 9 The Peacemaking Producer of LA: Negotiating and Representing Gangs on Reality TV, Josephine Metcalf; Chapter 10 Ice-T’s Sense of Redemption and the Gangbanger Autobiography, H. David Brumble; Chapter 11 Getting “A Message Through to the Red, White, and Blue”: Ice-T in the Age of Obama, Halifu Osumare; Part 4 Interview; Chapter 12 Living by Your Word: An Interview with Ice-T; afterword Afterword Ice-T’s “-ish” and The Power of Street Knowledge, Travis L. Gosa;

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Book SynopsisCiarán Ó Murchadha is a specialist in modern Irish history. His earlier Famine study, Sable Wings over the Land (1998), has been acclaimed as opening new ground in the study of the Great Famine.Trade Review[H]ighly readable...the author makes good use of the works of many travel writers who left us vivid descriptions of the poverty of ordinary Irish people. * The Times Higher Education Supplement *Building on new research from the last 15 years, Ó Murchadha has created a fine overview of the famine...Dr Ó Murchadha's book is a welcome addition to famine historiography and it demonstrates that there is still much that remains to be told about this catastrophe. * BBC History Magazine *Very readable and based on scholarly research, the book makes extensive use of the many local studies of recent years and provides harrowing eyewitness accounts of the catastrophe. * Irish Times *The prologue to The Great Famine encapsulates the book: microscopic detail is painstakingly assembled to propel a compelling narrative sweep ... [Ó Murchadha] integrates the prodigious Famine scholarship of the last twenty years, drawing extensively on accomplished local studies, to provide a comprehensive record of the Famine across the entire country ... Replete with startling contemporary images and almost unbearably vivid first-hand accounts, The Great Famine is a succinct, accessible and compassionate history - for scholars and the general reader - informed by an imaginative approach. * History Ireland *Ciaran O Murchadha has for many years been publishing original and valuable accounts of the Great Famine in Clare... He has now produced a wider study, which in addition to presenting the fruits of his own extensive research also incorporates and sunthesises the work of other scholars on this subject in recent years. The result is a most impressive and extremely valuable contribution to the historiography of this tragic era in Irish history. -- Liam Irwin * North Munster Antiquarian Journal *Ó Murchadha paints a vivid portrait in words of the grim few years, supplemented by some equally harrowing pictures integrated with the text...Anybody wanting to understand some of the historical underlying resentment of the smaller nation towards the larger over the last two centuries could hardly do better than to start with this book. * thebookbag.co.uk *The time is ripe for a fresh, synthetic history of the Great Irish Famine that builds on the many excellent local histories of the famine written in the 1980s and 1990s. Ciarán Ó Murchadha's lucid and moving account is exactly this: a work of great narrative and analytic power that is accessible, courageous, and ably written. It will be widely read, and deserves to be. -- Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, University College Dublin, IrelandOne of the tragedies of the famine is that so many of the dead remain invisible: their deaths were unrecorded and many of the dead were buried without coffin, headstone or traditional burial rites. In actually naming some of the victims of the famine - Dennis McKennedy who was owed over two weeks wages when he died; Jeremiah Hegarty, employed on the public works, who gave his meager supply of food to his grandchildren because they were 'crying with hunger' - Ó Murchadha gives to the famine dead a dignity and a recognition that has been denied to them for so long. This is a compelling read for both scholars of the Famine and those who are new to the topic. It is beautifully written, rich in detail and interspersed with contemporary images that enhance the text. -- Christine Kinealy, author of This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52Ciarán Ó Murchadha has written an extraordinary book about the Great Famine that is full of fresh and penetrating insights into the causes of the catastrophe, the complex unfolding of the crisis, its profound consequences, and the much-debated question of responsibility. In this sweeping, powerfully evocative, and always probing account, Ó Murchadha combines his own original research and thinking with an impressive command of the extensive work done by other scholars over the last two decades. His book deserves the widest possible audience. -- James S. Donnelly, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USATable of ContentsPreface Prologue 1. An Emerging People: The Pre-Famine Irish 2. A Long Farewell to the White Potatoes: The Coming of the Blight 3. One Wide Waste of Putrefying Vegetation: The Second Failure of the Potato 4. The Blessed Effects of Political Economy: Public Works and Soup Kitchens 5. Emaciated Frames and Livid Countenances: From Fever Pandemic to Amended Poor Law 6. Asylum by the Neighbouring Ditches: The Famine Clearances 7. Leaving this Land of Plagues: The Famine Emigrations 8. Exiled from Humanity: The Last Years of the Famine 9. The Murdered Sleeping Silently: Aftermath Source Notes Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review[O'Gorman's] comprehensive survey of the field should become required reading. * English Historical Review, of the first edition *A welcome overview that should be useful to upper-division undergraduates. * Choice, of the first edition *Frank O’Gorman is the judicious maestro of eighteenth-century British history, who is equally at home with the big picture and with the telling detail. Read this updated edition of his invaluable social and political history to understand the great trends of change and the countervailing forces of inertia. Read it too for fine-grain assessments, like his careful analysis of rival English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish nationalisms within an emergent ‘bullish’ Britishness. And read it, above all, for O’Gorman’s panoramic linkage of the global and the local: very much in the spirit of the eighteenth century. * Penelope J. Corfield, Royal Holloway, University of London *Frank O’Gorman should be congratulated for updating The Long Eighteenth Century. This general survey of British history between the Revolution of 1688 and the Great Reform Act of 1832 is a model of its kind: it is sensitive to detail, while comprehensive in its scope; and it effectively combines insightful and judicious analysis of social and cultural change with well-paced political narratives. All serious students of Britain in the long eighteenth century must read it; but it deserves the attention of general readers too. There is value on every page. * David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, Australia *No single volume has done more to expand the limits of British history than The Long Eighteenth Century. Stretching from the Glorious Revolution to the Great Reform Bill and from Britain’s own shores to Europe, India and America, Frank O’Gorman’s capacious history has been a classic since it first appeared nearly two decades ago. Updated to reflect the latest scholarship, the revised edition is a must-read for general and academic readers alike. * Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Britain in the Later Seventeenth Century 2. The Glorious Revolution in Britain, 1688-1714 3. Whiggism Supreme, 1714-1757 4. The Social Foundations of the Early Hanoverian Regime, 1714-1757 5. The Political Foundations of the Early Hanoverian Regime, 1714-1757 6. What Kind of Regime? 1714-1757 7. Patriotism and Empire, 1756-1789 8. The Age of George III, 1760-1789 9. The Crisis of the Hanoverian Regime, 1789-1820 10. State and Church in Later Hanoverian Britain, 1757-1832 11. The Social Foundations of the Later Hanoverian Regime, 1757-1832 12. The Renewal of the Regime, 1820-1832 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Trade Review... This is a very accessible book and one which I think should be on the reading list of everyone interested in the period ... A highly enjoyable book, warmly recommended. * Ripperologist *“…[A] good primer for student and undergraduate researchers studying Victorian culture and history. Huggins relies on primary research and his own analysis rather than only secondary sources in his well-written, well-organized book. An introductory piece on vice and the culture surrounding it leads into the many primary sources the author consults. Vice must be examined in the context of the times, and Huggins does an admirable job of painting a cultural picture. He also examines how different classes viewed vice and how each reacted to another. The book's sources are a gold mine for scholars of any tier interested in more information about Victorian-era vices.” * CHOICE *Huggins’s central contribution is bringing together a range of historiographical interpretations and sources, revealing the world of vice and virtue to be more muddled and contested than the book’s intended audience might realize … Vice and the Victorians encourages a heightened attention not only to the methods and limitations of moral reform campaigns, but also to spatial components of respectability and morality. * Journal of British Studies *Huggins has written a lively and well-researched study of vice during the reign of one of our noblest queens. Exploring the darkest corners of the nineteenth-century city, and taking in drunkenness, gambling, pornography and prostitution, Huggins shows that Victorian Values were not always as Margaret Thatcher imagined them to be. Although pressure against being led into temptation came from churches, charities, educators, employers, and the forces of law and order, many Victorians struggled with the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. Huggins tells his stories of Victorian vice with great skill. * Mark Clapson, University of Westminster, UK *A lively and valuable work of both colour and substance, providing a richly detailed cultural cartography of Victorian deviance and twilight pleasures. Mike Huggins' synthesis tops up and illuminates the extensive literature on vice and its challenges with impressive aplomb. * Peter Bailey, Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba *Table of Contents1. The Language of Vice 2. The Spatial Dimension of Vice 3. The Vice of Drunkenness 4. Vice and Profligacy: Betting and Gaming 5. Sexuality, Pornography and Prostitution 6. From Vice to Virtue 7. Vice and Respectability Epilogue Suggestions for Further Reading

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Book SynopsisDaniel H. Garrison is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University, USA and is author of Sexual Culture in Ancient Greece, The Student's Catullus and The Language of Virgil. He is currently working on an annotated translation of Vesalius' On the Fabric of the Human Body.Table of ContentsIllustrations Series Preface Introduction Daniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, USA 1 "The End is to the Beginning as the Beginning is to the End": Birth, Death, and the Classical Body Valerie M. Hope, Open University, UK 2 Health and Disease Patrick MacFarlane, Providence College, Rhode Island, USA 3 Sex Marilyn B. Skinner, University of Arizona in Tucson, USA 4 Medical Knowledge and Technology Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA 5 Popular Beliefs about the Human Body in Antiquity Page duBois, University of California, San Diego, USA 6 Reflections on Erotic Desire in Archaic and Classical Greece Froma I. Zeitlin, Princeton University, USA 7 Marked Bodies: Gender, Race, Class, Age, Disability, and Disease Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, USA 8 Marked Bodies: Divine, Human, and Bestial Marguerite Johnson, The University of Newcastle, Australia 9 The Body of a Hero: Images of Herakles and Their Political Use in Antiquity Amalia Avramidou, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 10 The Self from Homer to Charlemagne Marc Mastrangelo, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisLinda Kalof is Professor of Sociology at Michigan State University, USA and author of Looking at Animals in Human History and series editor of A Cultural History of Animals. William Bynum is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London, UK and author of many books, including Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction.Table of ContentsIllustrations Series Preface Introduction William Bynum, University College London, UK 1 Birth and Death in Early Modern Europe Lianne McTavish, University of Alberta, Canada 2 Why Me? Why Now? How? The Body in Health and Disease Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK 3 Sexuality: Of Man, Woman, and Beastly Business Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA 4 The Body in /as Text: Medical Knowledge and Technologies in the Renaissance Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia, Australia 5 The Common Body: Renaissance Popular Beliefs Karen Raber, University of Mississippi, USA 6 Beauty and Concepts of the Ideal Mary Rogers, independent scholar 7 The Marked Body as Otherness in Renaissance Italian Culture Patrizia Bettella, University of Alberta, Canada 8 The Marked Body: The Witches, Lady Macbeth, and the Relics Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, UK 9 Fashioning Civil Bodies and "Others": Cultural Representations Margaret Healy, University of Sussex, UK 10 Renaissance Selves, Renaissance Bodies Margaret L. King, City University of New York, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe long nineteenth century was an age of empire and empire builders, of state formation and expansion, and of colonial and imperial wars and conquest throughout most of the world. It was also an age that saw enormous changes in how people gave meaning to and made sense of the human body. Spanning the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume takes up a host of topics in the cultural history of the human body, including the rise of modern medicine and debates about vaccination, the representation of sexual perversity, developments in medical technology and new conceptions of bodily perfection. A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on the centrality of the human body in birth and death, health and disease, sexuality, beauty and concepts of the ideal, bodies marked by gender, race, class and disease, cultural representations and popular beliefs, and self and society.Table of ContentsIllustrations Series Preface Introduction: Empires in Bodies; Bodies in Empires Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, USA 1 Birth and Death under the Sign of Thomas Malthus Thomas Laqueur, University of California, USA and Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA 2 Medical Perspectives on Health and Disease Michael Worboys, University of Manchester, UK 3 Othering Sexual Perversity: England, Empire, Race, and Sexual Science Richard C. Sha, American University, USA 4 Medical Science, Technology, and the Body Chandak Sengoopta, University of London, UK 5 Popular Beliefs and the Body: "A Nation of Good Animals" Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida, USA 6 The Normal, the Ideal, and the Beautiful: Perfect Bodies during the Age of Empire Michael Hau, Monash University, Australia 7 Empire, Boundaries, and Bodies: Colonial Tattooing Practices Clare Anderson, University of Warwick, UK 8 Smallpox, Vaccination, and the Marked Body Nadja Durbach, University of Utah, USA 9 Picturing Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College, USA 10 From Mimetic Machines to Digital Organisms: The Transformation of the Human Motor Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisJulie Peakman teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her recent books include Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century and Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England. She has also edited Sexual Perversions, 16701890, eight volumes of Whore's Bibliographies 1680 1815, and is currently writing a sexual history of the world.Table of ContentsPreface Series Acknowledgements Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Introduction Julie Peakman, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK 2 Heterosexuality: Europe and North America Anna Clark, University of Minnesota, USA 3 Homosexuality Rictor Norton, Independent Scholar, UK 4 Sexual Variations Marianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki, Finland 5 Sex, Religion and the Law Merril D. Smith, Independent Scholar, USA 6 Sex, Medicine and Disease George Rousseau, University of Oxford, UK 7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and Culture Heike Bauer, Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality, UK 8 Prostitution Randolph Trumbach, City University of New York, USA 9 Erotica: Representing Sex in the Eighteenth Century Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USA Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Trade ReviewReveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: 'Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge'. -- Steve Jones, The LancetThe Archaeology of Race: the Eugenic Ideas of Francis Galton and Flinders Petrie tells the tale and pays particular attention to the role of attractiveness in defining ancestry. The book has a detailed, indeed exhaustive, analysis of some of the material in UCL's collections, and itself has rather a whiff of the museum (with “multiple visualities at play”). Even so, The Archaeology of Race reveals an unexpected link between two major figures in early anthropology, and one that adds weight to my favourite Darwin quote, that: “Ignorance more frequently breeds confidence than does knowledge”. -- Steve Jones, The LancetTable of ContentsForeword by Natasha McEnroe, former Curator of the Galton Collection and Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum. Introduction Races and Men Before the 1860s Galton and Genius Fitting Aesthetics Photographing Races from Antiquity Greek Art, Greek Faces? Peopling the Old Testament Akhenaten's Heredity The New Ancient Race Flinders Petrie and Edwardian Politics Memphis Heads Afterword by Kathleen Sheppard, Missouri University of Science and Technology Appendices

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Book SynopsisSusan Francia is a member of St Cross College, Oxford, UK, and an independent researcher. She is a former teacher of herbal medicine and, most recently, of the history of herbal medicine at Middlesex University, UK.Anne Stobart is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK and former Director of Programmes in Complementary Health Sciences and Programme Leader of the BSc in Herbal Medicine at Middlesex University, UK. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for the newly established Journal of Herbal Medicine (Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone).Trade ReviewThis is a broad investigation of sources for the history of herbal medicine … it certainly will inform and delight researchers in this very broad field of study. -- Barbara Griggs * Herbalgram *Historical research underpinning Western herbal medicine lacks systematic and scholarly documentation, largely due to the advent of biomedicine in the early 1900s. With the acceptance of the germ theory of disease and the availability of a burgeoning array of pharmaceutical "remedies," research in the field gradually fell into decline. This book provides a solid foundation for fleshing out this important historical record. Editors Francia (St. Cross College, Univ. of Oxford, UK) and Stobart (Univ. of Exeter, UK) are both herbal medicine historians and accomplished practitioners. … Each chapter contains an introduction, a conclusion, a recommended reading list, and notes. Authors rely on primary sources, including manuscripts and printed herbals (especially early-modern midwifery manuals); archival sources, including an innovative exploration of trade and probate accounts to determine popularity and exchange rates for cumin in medieval England; and research from art history, archaeology, ethnobotany, and other disciplines. This is an invaluable resource for readers interested in the historical aspects of herbal medicine. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsForeword - Elizabeth Williamson 1. The Fragmentation of Herbal History: The Way Forward - Anne Stobart (Middlesex University, UK) and Susan Francia (independent scholar) Section I Introduction to Section 1: Revisiting the Traditional Texts: Comparative Textual Analysis and New Perspectives on Original Sources - Anne Stobart and Susan Francia 2. Early Greek Medicine: Evidence of Models, Methods and Materia medica - Vicki Pitman (independent scholar) 3. Evaluating the Content of Medieval Herbals - Anne Van Arsdall (University of New Mexico, USA) 4. Early-modern Midwifery Manuals and Herbal Practice - Elaine Hobby (Loughborough University, UK) 5. An Anatomy of The English Physitian - Graeme Tobyn (University of Central Lancashire, UK) Section II Introduction to Section 2: Using New Archival Sources: Extending the Evidence Available - Susan Francia and Anne Stobart 6. The Use of Trade Accounts to Uncover the Importance of Cumin as a Medicinal Plant in Medieval England - Susan Francia 7. Early Modern Childbirth and Herbs – The Challenge of Finding the Sources - Nicky Wesson (independent scholar) 8. Testamentary Records of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries as a Source for the History of Herbal Medicine in England - Richard Aspin (Wellcome Library, UK) Section III Introduction to Section 3: Focusing on One Individual: Biographical and Other Textual Sources - Susan Francia and Anne Stobart 9. Galen’s Simple Medicines: Problems in Ancient Herbal Medicine - John Wilkins (University of Exeter, UK) 10. Deciphering Dioscorides: Mountains and Molehills? - Alison Denham (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Midge Whitelegg (formerly University of Central Lancashire, UK) 11. William Turner – A Milestone in Botanical Medicine - Marie Addyman (independent scholar) 12. John Parkinson: Gardener and Apothecary of London - Jill Francis (University of Birmingham, UK) Section IV Introduction to Section 4: Contributions from Other Disciplines - Susan Francia and Anne Stobart 13. Archaeological Sources for the History of Herbal Medicine Practice: The Case Study of St John's Wort with Valerian at Soutra Medieval Hospital - Brian Moffat (Soutra Hospital Archaeoethnopharmacological Research Project, Scotland) 14. How Can Ethnobotany Contribute to the History of Western Herbal Medicine? A Mesoamerican Answer - Anna Waldstein (University of Kent, UK) 15. The History of Herbal Medicine as a Developing Field - Anne Stobart and Susan Francia Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world through the food it produced and consumed. Food security vastly improved though malnutrition and famines persisted. Scientific research radically altered the ways in which food and its relation to the body were conceived: efficiency became the watchword, norms the measure, and standardized goods the rule. At the same time, the art of food became a luxury pursuit as interest in gastronomy soared.A Cultural History of Food in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on food production, food systems, food security, safety and crises, food and politics, eating out, professional cooking, kitchens and service work, family and domesticity, body and soul, representations of food, and developments in food production and consumption globally.Trade Review[T]he six volumes of A Cultural History of Food provide an enlightening and fascinating insight into the history of food and its development throughout history in an authoritative and accessible style. -- Louise Ellis-Barrett * Social Sciences *Table of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction: Locating Foodways in the Nineteenth Century Martin Bruegel, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France 1 Food Production: Industrial Processing Begins to Gain Ground Pierre Saunier, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France 2 Food Systems in the Nineteenth Century Yves Segers, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 3 Food Security and Safety Vera Hierholzer, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4 Food and Politics: Policing the Street, Regulating the Market Martin Bruegel, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France 5 Eating Out Peter Scholliers, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 6 Professional Cooking, Kitchens, and Service Work Amy B. Trubek, University of Vermont, USA 7 Family and Domesticity: Food in Poor Households Anna Davin, Independent Scholar, UK 8 Body and Soul: From Tension to Bifurcation Ulrike Thoms, Institut fur Geschichte der Medizin, Berlin, Germany 9 Food Representations Kolleen M. Guy, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA 10 World Food: The Age of Empire c. 1800–1920 Fabio Parasecoli, , New School, New York, USA Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisKees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.Trade ReviewLife in Stalin’s Soviet Union is a welcome addition to the volumes currently available for teaching the history of Stalinism. While earlier collections tend to focus on the 1930s, many of the chapters in this work chart the full period of Stalinist rule, from the late 1920s to 1953. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *A popular interpretation of the Soviet Union in the West, particularly from the 1950s to the 1960s, emphasized the totalitarian nature of a communist regime that strictly controlled the daily lives of its citizens. Written for a general readership, Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union, edited by Kees Boterbloem, successfully challenges such a historiographical approach by highlighting the many strategies Soviet citizens used to circumvent, even defy, such a regimented and brutal government and, by the same token, recover some of their freedom. * Histoire sociale/Social History *Kees Boterbloem brings together a formidable cast of first-rate scholars for this study of daily life in Stalinist Russia. The result is an extremely impressive book that offers cutting-edge research with a remarkably wide scope. Its focus lies at the intersection of everyday life and the horrors of Stalinism, to which Soviet citizens were subjected for decades. This remarkable book helps us to see what it was to live in Stalinist Russia; I can think of no other text that does this as effectively. * Erik van Ree, Assistant Professor of Eastern European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *With contributions from some of the most original and insightful historians of the Soviet Union, this volume demonstrates how the cataclysmic changes unleashed by Stalin impacted the daily lives of ordinary Soviet citizens. It is a story of brutal transformations and heroic resilience. * Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, USA. *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA) 1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin, Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida, USA) 2. Food Consumption, Diet and Famines, Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina, USA) 3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life, Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University, USA) 4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s, David Shearer (University of Delaware, USA) 5. The Gulag under Stalin, Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida, USA) 6. Private Ivan’s Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin’s Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War", Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University, USA) 7. The History of Disability during Stalinism, Frances Bernstein (Drew University, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Amy Randall (Santa Clara University, USA) 9. The Educational Experience in Stalin’s Russia, 1931-1945, Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama, USA) 10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student, Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky, USA) 11. Soviet People’s Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State, James Heinzen (Rowan University, USA) 12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers, Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University, USA) Index

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