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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between Queen Caroline, one of the most enigmatic characters in Regency England, and Sir William Gell, the leading classical scholar of his day. Despised and rejected by her husband, Caroline created a sphere and court of her own through patronage of scholarship. The primary beneficiary was Gell, a pioneering scholar of the classical world who opened new dimensions in the study of ancient Troy, mainland Greece, and Ithaca. Despite his achievements, Gell had scarce financial resources. Support from Caroline enabled him to establish himself in Italy and conduct his seminal work about ancient Rome and, especially, Pompeii, until her sensational trial before the House of Lords and premature death. Concluding with the first scholarly transcription of the extraordinary series of letters that Caroline wrote to Gell, this volume illuminates how Caroline sought power through patronage, and how Gell shaped classical scholarship in nineteenth-century Britain.Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book argues that inequality is not just about numbers, but is also about lived, historical experience. It supplements economic research and offers a comprehensive stocktaking of existing thinking on global inequality and its historical development. The book is interdisciplinary, drawing upon regional and national perspectives from around the world while seeking to capture the multidimensionality and multi-causality of global inequalities. Grappling with what economics offers – as well as its blind spots – the study focuses on some of today’s most relevant and pressing themes: discrimination and human rights, defences and critiques of inequality in history, decolonization, international organizations, gender theory, the history of quantification of inequality and the history of economic thought. The historical case studies featured respond to the need for wider historical research and to calls to examine global inequality in a more holistic manner.The Introduction 'Chapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction' is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com. Trade Review“Thirteen papers offer a historical approach to global inequalities that supplements the existing economic research literature, focusing on themes such as decolonization, international organizations, gender theory, discrimination and human rights, the history of measurement of inequality, and the history of economic thought.” (Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 59 (2), June, 2021)Table of ContentsChapter 1 Histories of Global Inequality: Introduction, Christian Olaf Christiansen & Steven L. B. Jensen.- Inequality in the History of Economic and Political Thought.- Chapter 2 Historicizing Piketty: The Fall and Rise of Inequality Economics, Eli Cook.- Chapter 3 The Demise of the Radical Critique of Economic Inequality in Western Political Thought, Michael J. Thompson.- Chapter 4 Products before People - How Inequality was Sidelined by Gross National Product, Philipp Lepenies.- Chapter 5 Inequality by Numbers: The Making of a Global Political Issue, Pedro Ramos Pinto.- Inequality, Discrimination and Human Rights.- Chapter 6 Inequality and Post-war International Organisation: Discrimination, the World Social Situation and the United Nations, 1948-1957, Steven L. B. Jensen.- Chapter 7: “A pragmatic compromise between the ideal and the realistic”: Debates over human rights, global distributive justice and minimum core obligations in the 1980s, Julia Dehm.- Chapter 8 Inequality in Global Disability Policies since the 1970s, Paul van Trigt.- Chapter 9 Protection and Abuse: The Conundrum of Global Gender Inequality, Sally L. Kitch.- Inequality in an Age of Global Capitalism.- Chapter 10 Brewing Inequalities: Kenya’s Smallholder Tea Farmers and the Developmentalist State in the Late-Colonial and Early-Independence Era, Muey Saeteurn.- Chapter 11 Challenging Global Inequality in Streets and Supermarkets: Fair trade Activism since the 1960s, Peter van Dam.- Chapter 12 Partnerships Against Global Poverty: When ’Inclusive Capitalism’ Entered the United Nations, Christian Olaf Christiansen.- Chapter 13 Third World Inc.: Notes from the Frontiers of Global Capital, Ravinder Kaur.-

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Book SynopsisThis collection examines the afterlives of early modern English and French rulers. Spanning five centuries of cultural memory, the volume offers case studies of how kings and queens were remembered, represented, and reincarnated in a wide range of sources, from contemporary pageants, plays, and visual art to twenty-first-century television, and from premodern fiction to manga and romance novels. With essays on well-known figures such as Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette as well as lesser-known monarchs such as Francis II of France and Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Remembering Queens and Kings of Early Modern England and France brings together reflections on how rulers live on in collective memory.Trade Review“This artfully assembled collection will hopefully spur more research and critical thinking into how culture affects our relationships to the past outside of historiographies.” (Anastasia Utke, Royal Studies Journal, Vol. 7 (2), 2020)Table of Contents1. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Power of MemoryI. Reputation in Premodern Literature2. Boudicca and Elizabeth Rally Their Troops: "Two Queens Both Alike in Dignity" 3. Princess, Duchess, Queen: Mary Tudor as Represented in a Seventeenth-Century French Love Story4. Virtue Betray’d: Women Writing Anne Boleyn in the Long Eighteenth Century5. “Of Hopes Great as Himselfe:” Tudor and Stuart Legacies of Edward VI6. Chivalry, Nobility and Romance: Richard Hurd and the Ideal Elizabethan PastII. Reinterpretation in Art7. Charles IX of France or the Anti-King: His Legacy in Plays and Chronicles in Seventeenth- and Long Eighteenth-Century France8. Remembering—and Forgetting—Regicide: The Commemoration of the 30th January 1649–16609. Henrietta Maria, “Queen of Tears”? Picturing and Performing the Cavalier Queen10. Romantic Recreations: Remembering Stuart Monarchy in Nineteenth-Century Fancy Dress EntertainmentsIII. Reincarnation in Popular Culture11. She-Wolf or Feminist Heroine? Representations of Margaret of Anjou in Modern History and Literature12. Reincarnating the Forgotten Francis II: From Puerile Pubescent to Heroic Heartthrob13. Daenerys Targaryen as Elizabeth I’s Spiritual Daughter14. 50 Shades of Elizabeth or “Doing History” in Pop Fiction15. Conniving Queen, Frivolous Wife, or Romantic Heroine? The Afterlife of Queen Henrietta Maria16. ‘Let them eat cake, she says’: Assessing Marie-Antoinette’s Image

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Book SynopsisThis open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and consider mental health through the lenses of institutions, policy, nomenclature, art, lived experience, and popular culture. The book adopts an international scope covering the historical experiences of Britain, Ireland, and North America. In accordance with this broad approach, contributions to the volume span academic fields such as history, arts, literary studies, sociology, and psychology, mirroring the diversity of the subject matter. This book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.comTrade Review“I nonetheless commend the volume and would encourage readers to take time to engage with all the chapters. Each has real merit, and collectively they add up to more than the sum of their parts.” (Pamela L. Dale, H-Net Reviews Humanities and Social Sciences, networks.h-net.org, October, 2020)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to Healthy Minds: Mental Health Practice and Perception in the Twentieth Century: Steven J. Taylor and Alice Brumby.- Chapter 2: ‘The Holy War against Alcohol’: Alcoholism, Medicine and Psychiatry in Ireland, c. 1890-1921: Alice Mauger.- Chapter 3: Social Stigma, Stress, and Enforced Transition in Specialist Epilepsy Services 1905-1965: Rachel Hewitt.- Chapter 4: Planning for the Future: Special Education and the creation of ‘Healthy Minds’: Steven J. Taylor.- Chapter 5: Healthy Minds and Intellectual Disability: Jan Walmsley.- Chapter 6: Sheltered Employment and Mental Health in Britain: Remploy c.1945-81: Andrew Holroyde.- Chapter 7: Autism in the 20th Century: An Evolution of a Controversial Condition: Michelle O’Reilly, Jessica Lester and Nikki Kiyimba.- Chapter 8: Challenging Psychiatric Classification: Healthy Autistic Diversity the Neurodiversity Movement: Erika Dyck and Ginny Russell.- Chapter 9: The National Schizophrenia Fellowship: Charity, Caregiving and Strategies of Coping, 1960-1980: Alice Brumby.- Chapter 10: ‘(Un)healthy Minds’ and Visual and Tactile Arts, c.1900-1950: Imogen Wiltshire.- Chapter 11: The Myth of Dream-hacking and "Inner Space" in Science Fiction, 1948–2010: Rob Mayo.-

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was central to state and nation formation, playing a role in the emergence of territorial borders and Romantic notions of national difference, while creating a transnational political culture that spanned the new independent nations. Analyzing the mobility of a large cohort of largely elite political émigrés from Chile and the Río de la Plata across much of South America before 1862, Edward Blumenthal reinterprets the political thought of well-known figures in a transnational context of exile. As Blumenthal shows, exile was part of a reflexive process in which elites imagined the nation from abroad while gaining experience building the same state and civil society institutions they considered integral to their republican nation-building projects.Trade Review“The book’s solid archival work, theoretical sophistication, and clear and nuanced narration of complex historical processes certainly make it valuable reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century Latin American history.” (Jorge A. Nallim, Hispanic American Historical Review, Vol. 101 (1), 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Floating Province of Exile2. Political Displacement and Independence: Commerce, Indigenous Peoples and Exile (1810–1839)3. Epistolary Exchange and the Exile Experience: Transnational Networks before the Nation4. Political Exile, Labor Markets and Institution Building5. The Practice and Politics of Exile: Nation-State Formation from Abroad6. Exile Representations of Chilean Exceptionalism7. Narratives of Exile, Narratives of Nationhood8. Floating Provinces: Exile and the Formation of Independent Republics

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection examines different aspects of the experience and significance of childhood, youth and family relations in minority religious groups in north-west Europe in the late medieval, Reformation and post-Reformation era. It aims to take a comparative approach, including chapters on Protestant, Catholic and Jewish communities. The chapters are organised into themed sections, on 'Childhood, religious practice and minority status', 'Family and responses to persecution', and 'Religious division and the family: co-operation and conflict'. Contributors to the volume consider issues such as religious conversion, the impact of persecution on childhood and family life, emotion and affectivity, the role of childhood and memory, state intervention in children's religious upbringing, the impact of confessionally mixed marriages, persecution and co-existence. Some chapters focus on one confessional group, whilst others make comparisons between them.Trade Review“One of the strengths of this book is the variety of the sources used, which allows for a greater insight into how the religious upheaval of early modern Europe affected children across different religions. … the chapters are expertly written and do much to highlight the religious upheaval of the early modern period in Europe and its resulting impact on children from minority religions.” (Loretta Dolan, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 16 (1), 2023)“Childhood, Youth and Religious Minorities in Early Modern Europe should be of interest not only to those who study childhood, youth, and the family, but to anyone interested in minorities in medieval and early modern Europe. Readers interested in the history of emotions, identity formation, and migration—indeed, anyone who seeks a better understanding of interreligious conflicts and persecutions in premodern Europe—will also benefit from this collection.” (Eyal Levinson, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (4), October, 2021)Table of ContentsIntroductionChildhood, Religious Practice and Minority StatusJewish Children and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Illustrations‘All things necessary for their saluation’? The Dedham Ministers and the ‘Puritan’ Baptism Debates‘Children of the Light’: Childhood, Youth, and Dissent in Early Quakerism Childhood, Youth and Denominational Identity: Church, Chapel and Home in the Long Eighteenth CenturyFamily and Responses to PersecutionCross-Channel Conflict: The Challenges of Growing Up in Minority Calvinist Communities Across the ChannelA Web of Crosses and Mercies Interlaced: Breakdown and Consolidation of Family Patterns Amongst Loyalist Anglicans Under the Pressures of Civil War Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of PersecutionReligious Division and the Family: Co-operation and ConflictEarly Modern Child Abduction in the Name of Religion.- Raising Children Across Religious Boundaries in the Dutch RevoltWhen They Come of Age: Religious Conversion and Puberty in Fifteenth-Century AshkenazConversion, Conscience, and Family Conflict in Early Modern EnglandConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to place children and young people centrally within the study of the contemporary British home front, its cultural representations and its place in the historical memory of the First World War. This edited collection interrogates not only war and its effects on children and young people, but how understandings of this conflict have shaped or been shaped by historical memories of the Great War, which have only allowed for several tropes of childhood during the conflict to emerge. It brings together new research by emerging and established scholars who, through a series of tightly focussed case studies, introduce a range of new histories to both explore the experience of being young during the First World War, and interrogate the memories and representations of the conflict produced for children. Taken together the chapters in this volume shed light on the multiple ways in which the Great War shaped, disrupted and interrupted childhood in Britain, and illuminate simultaneously the selectivity of the portrayal of the conflict within the more typical national narratives. Trade Review“The contributors should be commended for put­ting a notable dent in the historiography. … this collection provides a wealth of insight into the experiences of young people in World War I. Melanie Tebbutt’s analysis of how children experienced the darkened space of the cinemas is especially innovative.” (Ashley Henrickson, The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Vol. 15 (3), 2022)Table of ContentsIntroduction- Maggie Andrews, N.C. Fleming, Marcus MorrisPart I: Childhood in War1. ‘Birmingham clapped her hands with the rest of the world, welcoming the signs of peace’: Working-Class Urban childhoods in Birmingham, London, and Greater Manchester during the First World War- Rebecca Ball2. The radical responses made by women in Manchester, during the First World War, to the 'special problems of child life accentuated by the war'- Alison Ronan 3. Childhood Interrupted: Work and Schooling in Rural Worcestershire- Maggie Andrews, Anna Muggeridge, Hayley Carter and Lisa Cox-DaviesPart II: Youth in War4. Fears of the dark: young people and the cinema during World War One- Melanie Tebbutt5. The Navy League, the Rising Generation and the First World War- N.C. Fleming6. ‘Girls Who Would Fight’: Young Women and the Call to Arms during the First World War- Marcus Morris7. ‘It Didn’t Worry Me a Bit’: Coming of Age in London in the First World War- Ruth Percy8. ‘Students, Service and Sacrifice: Wartime Education, Adolescent Experiences and Understandings of the First World War’- Keith Vernon and Oliver WilkinsonPart III: Memories and Representations9. Women at the Front and class enemies reconciled: Anachronism in First World War children’s novels in the last four decades- Jane Rosen10. Watching and Remembering the Great War: The First World War, Young People, and Television as Sight of Memory, 1968-2014- Sam Edwards11. Problematizing Palatable Pasts: Histories and Children in Britain’s First World War Commemoration- Maggie Andrews

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Book SynopsisThis book explores mid-nineteenth-century French legitimism and the implications of popular support for a movement that has traditionally been portrayed as an aristocratic force intent on restoring the Old Regime. This type of monarchism has often been understood as a form of elitist patronage politics or, alternatively, identified with ultramontane Catholicism. Although historians have offered a more nuanced view in the last few decades, their work, nevertheless, has predominantly focused on legitimist leaders rather than their followers and their professed feelings of loyalty to monarchy and monarch. This book’s originality therefore is twofold: firstly as an analysis of popular rather than élite monarchism; and secondly, as a study which portrays this form of royalism as a political movement characteristic of a period which saw the emergence of mass politics, while parties were still non-existent. It not only discusses the social and cultural settings of (popular) monarchism, but also contributes to the history of political parties, citizenship and democracy.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Disputing Space and Citizenship: Popular Legitimism in 18483. ‘Individuals without cohesion among themselves’? Or, the Making of a Movement4. Legitimist Electoral Politics, 1830–18515. “How Have We Let the Flag of Order (…) Slip Out of Our Hands?” Legitimism on the Defence, 1852–18836. A City of Inequalities7. The Legitimist Movement8. Imagining the Bon Roi9. Writing Legitimism: The Local Press10. From Pleasure to Supervision: Legitimist Sociability11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive (PWE), it tells the story of British efforts to undermine German morale and promote resistance against Nazi hegemony. Staffed by civil servants, journalists, academics and anti-fascist European exiles, PWE oversaw the BBC European Service alongside more than forty unique clandestine radio stations; they maintained a prolific outpouring of subversive leaflets and other printed propaganda; and they trained secret agents in psychological warfare. British policy during the occupation of Germany stemmed in part from the wartime insights and experiences of these propagandists. Rather than analyse military strategy or tactics, British Subversive Propaganda during the Second World War draws on a wealth of archival material from collections in Germany and Britain to develop a critical genealogy of British ideas about Germany and National Socialism. British propagandists invoked discourses around history, morality, psychology, sexuality and religion in order to conceive of an audience susceptible to morale subversion. Revealing much about the contours of mid-century European thought and the origins of our own heavily propagandised world, this book provides unique insights for anyone researching British history, the Second World War, or the fight against fascism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The View from Woburn Abbey2 The Course of German History3 Germany on the Couch4 No Man So Lecherous as the German5 A Rebellion against the Divinely Appointed Order6 The Logic of SubversionConclusion

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Book Synopsis This open access book offers an interdisciplinary perspective and presents various case studies on music as ICH, highlighting the importance and functionality of music to stimulating social innovation and entrepreneurship. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) covers the traditions or living expressions proposed by the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in five areas, including music. To understand the relationship between immaterial and material uses and inherent cultural landscapes, this open access book analyzes the symbolic, political, and economic dimensions of music. The authors highlight the continuity and current functionality of these artistic forms of expression as well as their lively and changing character in continuous transformation. Topics include the economic value and impact of music, strategies for social innovation in the music sector, music management, and public policies to promote cultural and creative industries.Table of ContentsPart I. Economic, cultural and social identity.- Chapter 1. Introduction. Music, from intangible cultural heritage to the music industry.- Chapter 2. The impact of the music industry in Europe and the business models involved in its value chain.- Chapter 3. The role of public policies in enhancing cultural and creative industries: an analysis of public policies related to music in Colombia.- Chapter 4. Soundcool: a business model for cultural industries born out of a research project.- Chapter 5. Breaking the gender gap in rap/hip-hop consumption.- Part II. Music and territory: the case of bands in the Valencian Region.- Chapter 6. The intangible cultural landscape of the Banda Primitiva de Llíria.- Chapter 7. Music for the Moors and Christians festivities as intangible cultural heritage: a specific genre for wind bands in certain Spanish regions.- Chapter 8. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on musical societies in the Valencian Region, Spain.- Chapter 9. Conclusions: music as an economic, social, cultural, creative and resilient activity

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Book Synopsis This book introduces the reader to the past and present of Jewish life in Turkey and to Turkish Jewish diaspora communities in Israel, Europe, Latin America and the United States. It surveys the history of Jews in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, examining the survival of Jewish communities during the dissolution of the empire and their emigration to America, Europe, and Israel. In the cases discussed, members of these communities often sought and seek close connections with Turkey, even if those ‘ties that bind’ are rarely reciprocated by Turkish governments. Contributors also explore Turkish Jewishness today, as it is lived in Israel and Turkey, and as found in ‘places of memory’ in many cities in Turkey, where Jews no longer exist today. Table of Contents1. Prologue: The Long Twilight.- 2. Introduction: Turkish-Jewish Entanglements from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.- Part I: Jewish-Turkish Lives in the Late Ottoman Empire, the Turkish Republic, and Israel.- 3 Solidarity and Survival in an Ottoman Borderland: The Jews of Edirne, 1912–1918.- 4. On the Outside Looking In: Jewish Émigrés and Turkish Citizenship in the Early Republican Period.- 5. “The Ties that Bind Us to Turkey”: The Turkish Jewish Diaspora in Europe and Its Relations with the “Home Country”.- 6. The Founding of the State of Israel and the Turkish Jews: A View from Israel, 1948–1955.- Part II: Jewish-Turkish Entanglements in Contemporary Turkey and Israel.- 7. Entangled Sovereignties: Turkish Jewish Spaces in Israel.- 8. Creating [Jewish] Sites of Memory in Turkey Where Jews No Longer Exist: From Physical Sites to Virtual Ones.- 9. Whitewashing the Armenian Genocide with Holocaust Heroism.- 10. Turkish Jews in an Unwelcoming Public Space.- 11. Epilogue: “Aprontaremos Las Validjas” Shall We Start Packing the Suitcases?

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Book SynopsisThe Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures celebrates a literary genre already over 500 years old. Specially commissioned essays from established and emerging international scholars reflect the vibrancy of utopian vision, and its resiliency as idea, genre, and critical mode. Covering politics, environment, geography, body and mind, and social organization, the volume surveys current research and maps new areas of study. The chapters include investigations of anarchism, biopolitics, and postcolonialism and study film, art, and literature. Each essay considers central questions and key primary works, evaluates the most recent research, and outlines contemporary debates. Literatures of Africa, Australia, China, Latin America, and the Middle East are discussed in this global, cross-disciplinary, and comprehensive volume.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Peter Marks, Fátima Vieira, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor.- Utopia Patricia Vieira.- Dystopia, Gregory Claeys.- Critical Dystopia, Ildney de Fátima Souza Cavalcanti.- Prefigurations, Francisco L. Lisi.- The Renaissance, Marie-Claire Phelippeau.- The Eighteenth Century, Brenda Tooley.- The Early Nineteenth Century (1800-1850), Peter Sands.- The Late Nineteenth Century (1848-1899), Matthew Beaumont.- The Twentieth Century, Dr. Adam Stock.- The Twenty-First Century, Matt Tierney.- Narrative, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor.- Science Fiction, Caroline Edwards.- Young Adult (YA) Fiction, Carire Hintz.- Apocalyptic Visions, Gib Prettyman, Utopian Realism, Sam McAuliffe.- Cinema, Peter Marks.- Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, Miguel Ramalhete Gomes.- Gaming, Brian Greenspan.- Deaftopias, Cristina Gil, Micronations and Hyperutopias, Fátima Vieira.- Humanism, Carlos Eduardo Ornelas Berriel.- Eugenics, Claire C. Curtis.- Marxism, Antonis Balasopoulos.- Anarchism, Laurence Davis.- Labor, Peter Sands.- Race, Edward K. Chan.- Biopolitics, Christian P. Haines.- War, Andrew Byers.- Postcolonialism, Bill Ashcroft.- Human Rights, Miguel A Ramiro Avilés.- Animal Rights, José Eduardo Reis.- Food, Etta Madden.- Environment, Anne L. Melano.- Space, Phillip E. Wegner.- Urbanism, David Pinder.- Home, Jennifer Wgner-Lawlor.- Oceans, Killian Quigley.- Moons and Planets, Maria Luísa Malato and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor.- Geographical Poetics, Liam Benison.- Non-Western Cultures, Jaqueline Dutton.- Africa, Ainehi Ejieme Edoro.- South Asia, Barnita Bagchi.- Latin America, Kim Beauchesne and Alessandra Santos.- The Pacific and Australasia, Peter Marks.- China, Roland Boer.- Russia and the Soviet Union, Mikhail Suslov.- Psychoanalysis, Edson Luiz André De Sousa.- Education, Darren Webb.- Religion, Jose Eduardo Franco.- Hospitality, Goncalo Marcelo.- Sexualities, Quitterie de Beauregard.- Death, Paola Spinozzi , The Posthumanism, Naomi Jacobs.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the Holocaust exhibition opened within the Imperial War Museum (IWM) in 2000; setting out the long and often contentious debates surrounding the conception, design, and finally the opening of an important exhibition within a national museum in Britain. It considers a process of memory-making through an assessment of Holocaust photographs, material culture, and survivor testimonies; exploring theories of cultural memory as they apply to the national museum context. Anchored in time and place, the Holocaust exhibition within Britain’s national museum of war is influenced by, and reflects, an international rise in Holocaust consciousness in the 1990s. This book considers the construction of Holocaust memory in 1990s Britain, providing a foundation for understanding current and future national memory projects. Through all aspects of the display, the Holocaust is presented as meaningful in terms of what it says about Nazism and what this, in turn, says about Britishness. From the original debates surrounding the inclusion of a Holocaust gallery at the IWM, to the acquisition of Holocaust artefacts that could act as 'concrete evidence' of Nazi barbarity and criminality, the Holocaust reaffirms an image of Britain that avoids critical self-reflection despite raising uncomfortably close questions. The various display elements are brought together to consider multiple strands of the Holocaust story as it is told by national museums in Britain. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Holocaust Memory, National Museums.Chapter 2. Establishing a permanent Holocaust exhibition.Chapter 3. Holocaust photographs.Chapter 4. Holocaust objects.Chapter 5. Holocaust testimony.Chapter 6. Holocaust education.Chapter 7. Reshaping Holocaust memory in the national museum,post-2021.Chapter 8. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores some of disco’s other lives which thrived between the 1970s and the 1980s, from oil-boom Nigeria to socialist Czechoslovakia, from post-colonial India to war-torn Lebanon. It charts the translation of disco as a cultural form into musical, geo-political, ideological and sociological landscapes that fall outside of its original conditions of production and reception, capturing the variety of scenes, contexts and reasons for which disco took on diverse dimensions in its global journey. With its deep repercussions in visual culture, gender politics, and successive forms of popular music, art, fashion and style, disco as a musical genre and dance culture is exemplary of how a subversive, marginal scene – that of queer and Black New York undergrounds in the early 1970s – turned into a mainstream cultural industry. As it exploded, atomised and travelled, disco served a number of different agendas; its aesthetic rootedness in ideas of pleasure, transgression and escapism and its formal malleability, constructed around a four-on-the-floor beat, allowed it to permeate a variety of local scenes for whom the meaning of disco shifted, sometimes in unexpected and radical ways.Trade Review“Promisingly, the anthology stands to serve as a jumping-off point for researchers of both historical and contemporary disco dance cultures. … Dance scholars and practitioners … will find the histories included in the anthology productive routes for future academic exploration. … With selections drawn from each of the highlighted disco scenes, the authors’ playlists offer a rich resource for DJs and dancers across the world eager to find new ways to embody disco’s polyvalent pulse.” (Elizabeth June Bergman, Dance Chronicle, Vol. 46 (2), 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction. Disco Heterotopias: Other Places, Other Spaces, Other Lives.- Chapter 2: Montreal, Funkytown: Two Decades of Disco History.- Chapter 3: Dancin’ Days: Disco Flashes in 1970s Brazil.- Chapter 4: Gimmick! Italo Disco, Copy and Consumption.- Chapter 5: Japanese Disco as Pseudo-International Music.- Chapter 6: Disco, Dancing, Globalization and Class in 1980s Hindi Cinema.- Chapter 7: Dancing Desire, Dancing Revolution: Sexuality and The Politics of Disco in China Since the 1980s.- Chapter 8: Non-stop, I Want to Live Non-stop: The Role of Disco is Late Socialist Czechoslovakia.- Chapter 9: Yugoslav Disco: The Forgotten Sound of Late Socialism.- Chapter 10: Other Voices of the Orient: Lebanese Disco and Nightlife During the Civil War.- Chapter 11: Disco and Discontent in Nigeria: A Conversation.- Chapter 12: Outer Space, Futurism, and The Quest for Disco Utopia.- Chapter 13: Epilogue. Decolonising Disco: Counterculture, Postindustrial Creativity, the 1970s Dance Floor and Disco.

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