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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists.

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Book SynopsisThis book deals with a provincial town attending to its day-to-day business against the backdrop of an exacting war fought far afield against the Habsburgs (1683-99). The dynamics of long-term economic growth were temporarily disturbed by the wartime economy while realignment in center-periphery relations affected the local power structure and practices of status management. Meanwhile, the local elite continued to dominate public life, hence the lives of commoners. This study opens a window onto this world through a close examination of the court records of the town.

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Book SynopsisLong caught between powerful neighbours, Ladakh is now a border region in the vast Indian nation state. In this detailed, anthropological study Fernanda Pirie traces the ways order has been created by, but also despite and in defiance of, the powerful external forces of religion, war, politics and wealth. Gradually a clear analysis unfolds of the subtle dynamics that have long characterised relations between local communities and centres of power and which can successfully be applied to the wider region. This exemplary study of conflict resolution brings to light the means by which small communities, both rural and urban, negotiate peace amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity, while at the same time critically re-examining theories that over-emphasize the explanatory power of Buddhism. This rich ethnographic account of local practices fills a conspicuous gap in secondary literature on Tibetan law.

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Book SynopsisThis inventory provides a survey of the extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives and collections outside of Amsterdam. Until now, an overview and quantitative summary of the available Yiddish sources in The Netherlands was lacking. The compilation represents only a modest beginning, for the amount of material that has survived is enormous. An inventory relating to the Jewish community of Amsterdam requires a separate volume. The present inventory aims to stimulate new research-projects on the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in the Netherlands and to facilitate the research of the west-Yiddish speech variant that was spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews in The Netherlands.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE PUBLIC RECORDS Jewish Communities Independent Institutions Supra-Communal Institutions PART TWO PRIVATE RECORDS Rabbis Commercial Records Private Archives Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThe Language of Abuse provides the first comprehensive examination of marital violence in later medieval England. Drawing from a wide variety of legal and literary sources, this book develops a nuanced perspective of the acceptability of marital violence at a time when social expectations of gender and marriage were in transition. As such, Butler’s work contributes to current debates concerning the role of the jury, levels of violence in late medieval England, the power relationship within marriage, and the position of women in medieval society.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Setting the Scene: Discourses of Passivity and Violence Chapter Two: Types and Frequency of Abuse in the Medieval Law Courts Chapter Three: Causes of Marital Tension Chapter Four: The Acceptability of Marital Violence: Six Case Studies Chapter Five: Regulating Marital Violence: The Family and the Community Chapter Six: Scolds, Personal Liability, and Marital Violence Conclusion Works Cited

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection of essays about early modern Germany addresses the tensions, both fruitful and destructive, between normative systems of order on the one hand, and a growing diversity of practices on the other. Individual essays address crucial struggles over religious orthodoxy after the Reformation, the transformation of political loyalties through propaganda and literature, and efforts to redefine both canonical forms and new challenges to them in literature, music, and the arts. Bringing together the most exciting papers from the 2005 conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, an international research and conference group, the collection offers fresh comparative insights into the terrifying as well as exhilarating predicaments that the people of the Holy Roman Empire faced between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Contributors include: Claudia Benthien, Robert von Friedeburg, Markus Friedrich, Claire Gantet, Susan Lewis Hammond, Thomas Kaufmann, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Benjamin Marschke, Nathan Baruch Rein, and Ashley West.Trade Review"Covering topics such as religious tolerance, historical paintings, the myths of Swiss identity, understanding of fatherland, and even silence, the (...) essays in this work takes the range of what comprises knowledge and orthodoxy seriously and with fascinating results. The book itself is beautifully presented (... and) brings together the work of European and North American scholars and includes essays from senior German-speaking scholars whose work have rarely appeared in English." Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Renaissance Quarterly (2008) 589-590. "It is difficult to single out particular essays for special praise since they are all very good." Amy Nelson Burnett, Sixteenth Century Journal 40:4 (2009) 1208-1209.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors INTRODUCTION 1. Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in the early modern German experience, Randolph C. Head & Daniel Christensen PART I. EPISTEMOLOGIES 2. From the history of religions to the history of 'religion': the late Reformation and the challenge to sui generis religion, Nathan Baruch Rein 3. Orthodoxy and variation: The role of adiaphorism in early modern Protestantism, Markus Friedrich 4. Dreams, standards of knowledge and orthodoxy in Germany in the sixteenth century, Claire Gantet PART II. PRACTICES 5. Religious, confessional and cultural conflicts among neighbors: Observations on the sixteenth- and seventeenth Centuries, Thomas Kaufmann 6. Editing Italian music for Lutheran Germany, Susan Lewis Hammond 7. God's plan for the Swiss Confederation: Heinrich Bullinger, Jakob Ruf and their uses of historical myth in Reformation Zurich, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller 8. Why did seventeenth-century estates address the jurisdictions of their princes as fatherlands? War, territorial absolutism and duties to the fatherland in seventeenth-century German political discourse, Robert von Friedeburg PART III. LIMITATIONS 9. The exemplary painting of Hans Burgkmair the Elder: History at the Munich court of Wilhelm IV, Ashley West 10. 'Von dem am Königl. Preußischen Hofe abgeschafften Ceremoniel': Monarchical representation and court ceremony in Frederick William I's Prussia, Benjamin Marschke 11. Ambiguities of silence: The provocation of the void for Baroque culture, Claudia Benthien Index

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a contribution to knowledge of the history of the Augustinian canons in England through a case study of one particular house in the south-west of the country. Plympton Priory in Devon was founded in 1121 by a bishop of Exeter, and through episcopal and lay donations of temporal and spiritual sources of income became one of the wealthiest houses of Augustinian canons in England. Analysis of surviving records reveals the multiplicity of connections existing between the canons and the laity, the secular clergy, the episcopacy, and the Crown until the priory’s dissolution. The result is a multi-faceted study of the roles played by an Augustinian house in society and within the Church in the late Middle Ages.Table of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Founding of Plympton Priory: Background and Context 2. Episcopal Support for the New Foundation: Donations to Plympton Priory from the Bishops of Exeter and Their Circle 3. Building the Endowment: Lay Benefactors, their Motives, and their Gifts 4. Managing the Inheritance: Gains, Losses, and Challenges in the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Centuries 5. Maximizing the Inheritance: Plympton Priory and its Churches and Chapels 6. Plympton Priory and the Laity: Challenges to the Authority of the Priory 7. The Regular and the Secular: Plympton Priory and its Connections to the Secular Clergy 8. The Canons of Plympton Priory 9. The Patronage Case: The Crown, the Bishops of Exeter, and Plympton Priory 10. Dissolution Appendices Appendix I. The Spiritualia of Plympton Priory Appendix II. Charters from the Courtenay Cartulary Appendix III. The Taxatio of Pope Nicholas IV Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire to the Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water. While talking about fetching and managing household water, women also talked about being women. Women, Water and Memory speaks of many different lives. We hear stories about women's own strength and beauty, and about the woman who married a man whose ugly face made her sick. While one woman married the man “she cared for”, another was relieved that her husband died when she was too old to be forced to remarry. We learn about the joy they feel each time they dance at a wedding, the sheer satisfaction of lighting a cigarette, the loyalty and shared despair towards families with members in prison, and about the tears of sorrow at each death and the delight at each birth.Trade Review"[.] the book's accessibility, creative style, and theoretical potential make it a resource for teachers and scholars as well as a general audience. Overall, Women, Water and Memory is a nuanced ethnography that explores social practices that are easily taken for granted." Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Vol. 5, No. 3 (Fall 2009).

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Book SynopsisThe early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale, and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations A Note on Translation Note on Contributors 1. Introduction: Genre, Witness, and Time in the ‘Book’ of Travels, Palmira Brummett 2. Late Medieval Ambassadors and the Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1250-1450, Joan-Pau Rubiés 3. Ruy González de Clavijo’s Narrative of Courtly Life and Ceremony in Timur’s Samarqand, 1404, David J. Roxburgh 4. Copying Maps by Matthew Paris: Itineraries Fit for a King, Daniel K. Connolly 5. ‘A mirrour of mis-haps,/ A Mappe of Miserie’: Dangers, Strangers, and Friends in Renaissance Pilgrimage, Wes Williams 6. Postcards from the Harem: The Cultural Translation of Niccolao Manucci’s Book of Travels, Pompa Banerjee Afterword: One Reader Reading, Mary Baine Campbell Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMigration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural, economic, political and social developments and innovations. So far, however, most studies are limited to the last four centuries, largely ignoring the spectacular advances made in other disciplines which study the ‘deep past’, like anthropology, archaeology, population genetics and linguistics, and that reach back as far as 80.000 years ago. This is the first book that offers an overview of the state of the art in these disciplines and shows how historians and social scientists working in the recent past can profit from their insights.Trade ReviewReading this book is rewarding in many ways. It raises the awareness that migration is an intrinsic feature of human existence, indicative of as well as instrumental to development. The confrontation with 200,000 years’ development of the ‘homo sapiens’ puts the present perception of ‘globalisation’ into a perspective, which opens up a considerably wider scope for the future. The confrontation of the diverse approaches not only widens our horizon but serves, at the same time, as an antidote against prejudices based on incidental single aspects." Jörn Janssen, CLR-News, No 2 (2010) 75-76. Gelungen ist [es] den Herausgebern mit der Fokussierung auf die historischen Migrationsprozesse in Ozeanien, Afrika und den Amerikas der letzten 100.000 Jahre. Nachhaltig zeigen die Beiträge des Sammelbandes, dass Migration eher das "außergewöhnliche Normale" als die aktuelle Ausnahme darstellt; oder, wie es die Herausgeber formulieren würden: World History ist Migration History Andreas Huebner, KULT_online, No 27 (2011)Table of ContentsForeword PART I. HISTORICAL APPROACHES 1. Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen & Patrick Manning PART II. BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. Population Genetics and the Migration of Modern Humans (Homo sapiens), Peter de Knijff 3. A Brief Introduction to Geochemical Methods used in Assessing Migration in Biological Anthropology, Shomarka Keita PART III. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES 4. Prehistoric Migration and Colonization Processes in Oceania: A View from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology, Andrew Pawley 5. Linguistic Testimony and Migration Histories, Christopher Ehret 6. The Archaeo-Linguistics of Migration, Patrick McConvell PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES 7. Ancient Immigrants: Archaeology and Maritime Migrations, Jon M. Erlandson 8. The Family Factor in Migration Decisions, Jan Kok References Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of development cooperation has attracted very little research to date. This volume offers an innovative interpretation by considering the history of SNV Netherlands Development Organisation, which has been in existence for over forty years now. Through SNV’s history, an analysis emerges of the role of the Netherlands in development cooperation and the attitudes of Dutch society towards it over the last fifty years as well as the changing ideas, practices and policies in development work more generally. The views and expectations of (former) SNV staff and those of local participants who were ultimately to benefit from the development activities were the focus of this historical research. This has resulted in a socio-cultural history ‘from below’ rather than a dry description of the organisation’s administrative changes and formal bureaucratic structures.Table of ContentsContents List of photos and figures vii Foreword ix 1. Introduction 2. Merchants and ministers: Understanding SNV’s background 3. SNV’s start: Bricks, mortar and the transfer of knowledge (1963-1972) 4. The years of radical commitment: Democratisation and secularisation (1973-1984) 5. Expertise expected: The professionalisation of SNV (1985-1994) 6. Building capacity: SNV at the millennium (1995-2005) 7. Final remarks Interviews Written sources Abbreviations and glossary Appendix 1: Ministers and State Secretaries for Development Cooperation Appendix 2: SNV chairpersons / directors Appendix 3: SNV countries Appendix 4: SNV activities Appendix 5: SNVers Appendix 6: SNV finances Appendix 7: Chronology Index

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Book SynopsisItineraries in French Renaissance Literature brings together a full score of essays by established and rising American-based scholars of the early modern. Arranged according to five themes or genres: Tales and their Tellers, Poets and Poetry, Religious Controversy, Montaigne, and Knowledge Networks, they offer both fresh perspectives on canonical authors such as Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, Montaigne, Marot, Labé, and Hélisenne de Crenne, as well as original interpretations of less familiar works of sixteenth-century moment: confessional polemics, emblems, cartography, geomancy, epigraphy, bibliophilism and even ichthyology. Inspired by and gathered together here to honor the eclectic career of Mary B. McKinley, this anthology integrates many of the most pertinent topics and contemporary approaches of early modern French scholarly inquiry. Contributors are: Pascale Barthe, Leah L. Chang, Edwin M. Duval, Gary Ferguson, George Hoffmann, Robert J. Hudson, Karen Simroth James, Scott D. Juall, Virginia Krause, Kathleen Long, Stephen Murphy, Corinne Noirot, Jeff Persels, Bernd Renner, Nicolas Russell, Nicholas Shangler, Cynthia Skenazi, Kendall Tarte, Cara Welch, and Cathy Yandell.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction. Itineraries in French Renaissance Literature  Kendall Tarte, George Hoffmann, and Jeff Persels On Mary B. McKinley Part 1: On Telling Tales 1 Puns, Exemplarity, and Women’s Sexual Agency: Nomerfide and Oisille, Heptaméron 5 and 6  Gary Ferguson 2 A Palimpsest of the Heptaméron: Eugène Scribe’s Les Contes de la Reine de Navarre ou la Revanche de Pavie  Cynthia Skenazi 3 Readers Writing in the Gordon Collection Heptaméron  Kendall Tarte 4 Itineraries of Satire: Polysemy and Morality in Marguerite de Navarre’s Heptaméron  Bernd Renner 5 Language Lessons: Homophones and Gender Confusion in Des Périers’s Nouvelles Récréations et joyeux devis  Nicholas Shangler 6 The Dido Effect and the Rise of the French Novel  Virginia Krause Part 2: On Poets and Poetry 7 Maurice Scève and the Feminized Voice of Courtly Lyric  Edwin M. Duval 8 In Search of “La Belle Cordière”: The Rise and Fall of Louise Labé  Leah L. Chang 9 Clément Marot and the Frames of Cultural Memory  Nicolas Russell 10 Naïve douceur: Earthy Grist and Gallic Verve in the Marotic Rondeau  Robert J. Hudson Part 3: On Religious Controversy 11 Rhetorics of Peace: Pierre de Ronsard and Michel de L’Hospital on the Eve of the French Wars of Religion  Cathy Yandell 12 Bearding the Pope, circa 1562  Jeff Persels 13 Reconversion Tales: How to Make Sense of Lapses in Faith  George Hoffmann 14 Aubigné, Josephus, and Useful Betrayal  Stephen Murphy 15 “The Difficulty is to Judge Well”: Jean de la taille, Deceptive Astrologer (Le Blason des pierres precieuses and La geomance abregee, 1574)  Corinne Noirot Part 4: On Montaigne 16 Montaigne, Monsters, and Modernity  Kathleen Long 17 Montaigne’s Response to the Alcibiades Question  Cara Welch Part 5: On the Sciences and Knowledge Networks 18 France’s Mid-Sixteenth-Century Imperial Gaze on Canada: The Dieppe School of Hydrography, the Kingdom of Saguenay, and the Mise en scène of Possession  Scott D. Juall 19 Guillaume Rondelet’s Monkfish, or Natural History as Social Network  Pascale Barthe 20 Making the Stones Speak: The Curious Observations of Gabriele Simeoni  Karen Simroth James Index

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Book SynopsisIn thirteen essays by leading art historians, and a critical introduction by the editor, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the changing aspect of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods. By situating their subjects within a broad continuum of historical and critical issues, the authors inquire into such questions as the shifting politics of toleration and intoleration; the role played by anti-Judaic legends in the formation of Christian cults; the role of positive evaluations of Hebrew, Jewish learning and Christian hopes for Jewish conversion; and the transformation of religious anti-Judaism into its modern racial and nationalistic counterparts. The book will be of special interest to art historians, cultural historians, students of Christian theology and Jewish history, and to educated general readers.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction PART I: STAGES OF CONVERSION Chapter One ‘Fair and Friendly, Sweet and Beautiful’: Hopes for Jewish Conversion in Synagoga’s Song of Songs Imagery Elizabeth Monroe Chapter Two Disputation in Stone: Jews Imagined on the Saint Stephen Portal of Paris Cathedral Kara Ann Morrow Chapter Three Taking Little Jesus to School in Two Thirteenth-Century Latin Psalters from South Germany Eva Frojmovic Chapter Four The Performative Terms of Jewish Iconoclasm and Conversion in Two Saint Nicholas Windows at Chartres Cathedral Anne F. Harris PART II: THE IMAGE OF THE JEW AND ITS PUBLIC Chapter Five The Passion, the Jews, and the Crisis of the Individual on the Naumburg West Choir Screen Jacqueline E. Jung37:23 PM Chapter Six Idealization and Subjection at the South Façade of Strasbourg Cathedral Nina Rowe Chapter Seven The Jews, Leviticus, and the Unclean in Medieval English Bestiaries Debra Higgs Strickland Chapter Eight Constructing the Inimical Jew in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Theophilus’s Magician in Text and Image Pamela A. Patton Chapter Nine Images of ‘Jud Süss’ Oppenheimer, an Early Modern Jew Vivian B. Mann PART III: “THE HEBREW TRUTH” Chapter Ten Old Testament Heroes in Venetian High Renaissance Art Paul D. Kaplan Chapter Eleven Cleansing the Temple: The Munich Gruftkirche as Converted Synagogue Mitchell B. Merback Chapter Twelve New Attitudes towards the Jews in the Era of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: The Patronage of Bishop Echter von Mespelbrunn Annette Weber Chapter Thirteen Between Calvinists and Jews: Hebrew Script in Rembrandt’s Art Shalom Sabar

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Book SynopsisMigration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural, economic, political and social developments and innovations. So far, however, most studies are limited to the last four centuries, largely ignoring the spectacular advances made in other disciplines which study the ‘deep past’, like anthropology, archaeology, population genetics and linguistics, and that reach back as far as 80.000 years ago. This is the first book that offers an overview of the state of the art in these disciplines and shows how historians and social scientists working in the recent past can profit from their insights.Trade ReviewReading this book is rewarding in many ways. It raises the awareness that migration is an intrinsic feature of human existence, indicative of as well as instrumental to development. The confrontation with 200,000 years’ development of the ‘homo sapiens’ puts the present perception of ‘globalisation’ into a perspective, which opens up a considerably wider scope for the future. The confrontation of the diverse approaches not only widens our horizon but serves, at the same time, as an antidote against prejudices based on incidental single aspects." Jörn Janssen, CLR-News, No 2 (2010) 75-76. Gelungen ist [es] den Herausgebern mit der Fokussierung auf die historischen Migrationsprozesse in Ozeanien, Afrika und den Amerikas der letzten 100.000 Jahre. Nachhaltig zeigen die Beiträge des Sammelbandes, dass Migration eher das "außergewöhnliche Normale" als die aktuelle Ausnahme darstellt; oder, wie es die Herausgeber formulieren würden: World History ist Migration History Andreas Huebner, KULT_online, No 27 (2011)Table of ContentsForeword PART I. HISTORICAL APPROACHES 1. Migration History: Multidisciplinary Approaches, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen & Patrick Manning PART II. BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES 2. Population Genetics and the Migration of Modern Humans (Homo sapiens), Peter de Knijff 3. A Brief Introduction to Geochemical Methods used in Assessing Migration in Biological Anthropology, Shomarka Keita PART III. LINGUISTIC APPROACHES 4. Prehistoric Migration and Colonization Processes in Oceania: A View from Historical Linguistics and Archaeology, Andrew Pawley 5. Linguistic Testimony and Migration Histories, Christopher Ehret 6. The Archaeo-Linguistics of Migration, Patrick McConvell PART IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACHES 7. Ancient Immigrants: Archaeology and Maritime Migrations, Jon M. Erlandson 8. The Family Factor in Migration Decisions, Jan Kok References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Capture to Sale illuminates the experience of African slaves transported to Spanish America by the Portuguese in the early seventeenth century. It draws on exceptionally rich accounts of one of the most prominent slave traders, Manuel Bautista Pérez. These papers cover the whole journey of the slaves from Africa, through Colombia and Panama to their final sale in Peru. The prime focus of the study is on the diet, health and medical care of the slaves. It will not only be of interest to scholars of the slave trade, but also to those interested in the impact of the Columbian Exchange on diets, medicine and medical practice in the early modern period. The book is well illustrated and contains over thirty tables and seven appendices. From Capture to Sale has been selected by Choice as Outstanding Academic Title (2007). Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"The importance of Newson and Minchin's work is two fold. In the first place, they have uncovered precious new documentation in the Archivo General de la Nación in Lima which gives perhaps the most detailed record we have for the entire proceedings of a slave-trading enterprise from the 1610s. In the second place, they have pieced together perhaps the most detailed account we have of the lives of slaves in this Iberian trade during every aspect of their transatlantic migration, from capture to sale, as their title suggests. [...] This is a book which scholars need to consider with care and detailed attention." – Tobias O. Green, University of Birmingham, in: H-Luso-Africa (May, 2010) "This outstanding book adds significantly to the understanding of a relatively understudied part of the Atlantic slave trade in a period that similarly suffers from neglect, when compared with the attention paid to the trade's later incarnations." – J.M. Rosenthal, in: Choice, 2007 "From Capture to Sale shows that Portuguese slave-trading in the early seventeenth century was indeed a risky business. Before the era of trading companies merchants like Manuel Bautista Pérez relied on far-flung networks of kin and compatriots for local knowledge and capital to carry out the many transactions necessary to move slaves safely and profitably from Africa to Peru. Though the authors' conclusion refers to the risks incurred by the Portuguese slave-traders at the heart of the book, the meticulously analyzed evidence on slaves' diets, health, and mortality richly documents the many hazards they too faced on the very long journey from capture to sale. [...] The text has more than a dozen photographs, maps, and illustrations and is supplemented with thirty-one tables, seven appendices, a glossary of Spanish and Portuguese terms, a bibliography, and an extensive index. This wealth of supporting material is increasingly rare in academic publishing, as is the use of footnotes rather than endnotes. Brill may be one of the few publishers to allow such relative extravagances, but they will be much appreciated by the book's scholarly readers." – Evelyn Powell Jennings, Saint Lawrence University, in: H-Atlantic "This study can be recommended to all readers interested in the history of the slave trade to Spanish America. A general audience as well as students of slave history will gain from the clear structure of the study following the different stages of slave trade. Thanks to the the rich material presented in 7 appendices, 7 figures, 7 maps, and 31 tables, the study is equally valuable to the specialist." – Dagmar Bechtloff, University of Bremen, in: Hispanica American Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 730-731Table of ContentsList of Illustrations, Maps and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: A Bureaucratic Business Chapter Two: The Acquisition of Slaves Chapter Three: Time on the Coast Chapter Four: The Middle Passage Chapter Five: In the Barracoons of Cartagena Chapter Six: The Final Passage Chapter Seven: Slave Doctors, Surgeons and Healers Chapter Eight: Medicines and Mortality Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Textiles Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to 1618. Appendix B: Beads Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613 to1618. Appendix C: Other Commodities Sold on the Upper Guinea Coast 1613-1618. Appendix D: Nutritional Composition of Selected West African Staples. Appendix E: Lists of Daños Calculated on Slaves Purchased in Cartagena 1633. Appendix F: Business Associates of Manuel Bautista Pérez. Appendix G: Select Genealogy of the Pérez-Duarte Families. Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of departure the observation that most writers of the Republican period adhered to a distinctly traditional practice of gathering in literary societies, while at the same time displaying a marked preference for publishing their works through the modern medium of the literary journal. The first part of the book analyses different types of societies and their journals. The case studies in part two convey the wider impact of literary collectives and journal publications on literary practice. Convincingly breaking with the 'May Fourth' paradigm, the author proposes a radically new way of understanding the relationship between New Literature and other styles of modern Chinese writing.Trade Review'Graduate students for decades have been sent into the stacks of libraries to acquaint themselves with journals and their appearance and content, but perhaps never with the rigor and scope that Hockx has brought to this task of making journals the text of study, rather than the context. Edward M. Gunn, MCLC, 2004. 'In the end, the number of questions raised by Hockx's study is the surest testimony to its richness: it takes on most of the major issues that should be involved in the study of modern Chinese literature, including many that have been heretofore swept under the rug. The controversies the book will inevitably raise will in many ways provide our field with a new agenda that should finally help us to transcend the old politically engendered paradigms that have hobbled us for so long.' Theodore D. Huters, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 2005.

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated book provides a glimpse into the belief system and the material wealth of the social elite in pre-Imperial China through a close analysis of tomb contents and excavated bamboo texts. The point of departure is the textual and material evidence found in one tomb of an elite man buried in 316 BCE near a once wealthy middle Yangzi River valley metropolis. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of cosmological symbolism and the nature of the spirit world. The author shows how illness and death were perceived as steps in a spiritual journey from one realm into another. Transmitted textual records are compared with excavated texts. The layout and contents of this multi-chambered tomb are analyzed as are the contents of two texts, a record of divination and sacrifices performed during the last three years of the occupant’s life and a tomb inventory record of mortuary gifts. The texts are fully translated and annotated in the appendices. A first-time close-up view of a set of local beliefs which not only reflect the larger ancient Chinese religious system but also underlay the rich intellectual and artistic life of pre-Imperial China. With first full translations of texts previously unknown to all except a small handful of sinologists. Originally published in hardcover

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Book SynopsisIn 1496-7, King Manuel I of Portugal forced the Jews of his kingdom to convert to Christianity and expelled all his Muslim subjects. Portugal was the first kingdom of the Iberian Peninsula to end definitively Christian-Jewish-Muslim coexistence, creating an exclusively Christian realm. Drawing upon narrative and documentary sources in Portuguese, Spanish and Hebrew, this book pieces together the developments that led to the events of 1496-7 and presents a detailed reconstruction of the persecution. It challenges widely held views concerning the impact of the arrival in Portugal of the Jews expelled from Castile in 1492, the diplomatic wrangling that led to the forced conversion of the Portuguese Jews in 1497 and the causes behind the expulsion of the Muslim minority. Originally published in hardcoverTrade Review"a thoroughly researched work that makes use of a variety of sources in several languages, including Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese. I found it generally persuasive and certainly an important contribution to the fields of Portuguese, Jewish and Islamic history", Ariel Hessayon review in Reviews in History (review no. 797), URL: http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/hessayona.htmlTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes for Readers: Names, Dates and Currency Abbreviations List of Plates Introduction 1: The Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Medieval Portugal 2: Castilian Conversos and Jews in Portugal c.1480-c.1495 3: The Death of João II and the Accession of Manuel I 4: The “General Conversion” of the Jews and Renewal of the “Converso Problem” 5: The Expulsion of the Muslims from Portugal: the Forgotten Persecution Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAcademic condemnation has long been recognized as an important issue in the history of universities and the history of medieval thought. Yet few studies have examined the phenomenon in serious detail. This work is the first book-length study of academic condemnations at Oxford. It explores every known case in detail, including several never examined before, and then considers the practice of condemnation as a whole. As such, it provides a context to see John Wyclif and the Oxford Lollards not as unique figures, but as targets of a practice a century old by 1377. It argues that condemnation did not happen purely for reasons of theological purity, but reflected social and institutional pressures within the university.Trade Review"...Andrew E. Larsen’s study is an excellent historical and doctrinal analysis of accusations of heresy leveled against various academicians related to the University of Oxford during the period in question.The author has carefully designated the parameters of his study so as to limit its scope and purview..." Girard J. Etzkorn, The Catholic Historical Review, July 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ...ix Abbreviations ...xi 1. Introduction ...1 The Purpose of This Book ... 1 Concepts of Heresy ... 5 Pertinacity and Condemnation ...10 The Problem of Terminology ...12 The Process of Academic Condemnation at Paris ...14 The Treatment of Heresy outside the University...18 2. The Condemnation of 1277 ...25 Robert Kilwardby and the Background to the Condemnation of 1277 ...26 Kilwardby’s Involvement ...31 The Condemnation Itself ...38 Conclusions ...40 3. The Condemnation of 1284 and the Condemnation of Richard Knapwell ...42 The Main Players ...42 The War of the Corrections ...45 The Condemnation of 1284 ...46 The Condemnation Itself ...48 The Case of Richard Knapwell ...57 4. The Condemnation of 1315 ...64 Oxford in the Early Fourteenth Century ...64 The Record of the Condemnation ...67 The Scholar Involved ...68 The Condemnation Process ...71 The Later History of the Propositions ...73 5. The Investigation into William of Ockham ...76 William of Ockham and John Lutterell ...76 Lutterell’s Removal from Offi ce ...78 Ockham at the Provincial Chapter ...83 Lutterell’s Denunciation of Ockham ...86 The Process at Avignon, in brief ...90 6. The Case of Friar John ...92 John Kedington ...92 Mendicant Privileges, Archbishop FitzRalph, and the Debate over Dominium ...94 The Events Leading to the Condemnation ...98 Kedington’s Appeal...100 The Punishment ...103 7. The Case of Uthred of Boldon and William Jordan ...109 Uthred of Boldon and William Jordan ...109 Uthred’s Th eology ...111 The Quarrel between Uthred and Jordan ...114 Archbishop Langham Intervenes ...118 The Condemnation ...120 Deeper Considerations ...124 8. John Wyclif ...127 Wyclif ’s History ...127 The Condemnation of a Franciscan ...129 The St Paul’s Trial ...131 The Attempted Condemnation of 1377 ...133 Barton’s Condemnation ...148 The Blackfriars Council ...164 Wyclif Goes Unpunished ...175 9. The Oxford Lollards ...177 The Main Figures ...177 The Emergence of Wyclif ’s Followers as a Group ...181 The Radical Sermons and the Controversy at Oxford ...182 The Second Session of the Blackfriars Council ...189 The Meeting at Totenhale ...193 The Third through Sixth Sessions of the Blackfriars Council ...195 The Seventh Session of the Blackfriars Council ...203 The Failed Condemnation of Crumpe and Stokes ...204 Causes of the Strife at Oxford ...207 10. The Condemnation of Henry Crumpe ...210 The First Condemnation of Henry Crumpe...210 Crumpe at Oxford ...212 The First Session at Stamford ...213 The Second Session at Stamford...217 11. The Condemnation of Richard Flemmyng ...222 Richard Flemmyng ...222 Arundel’s Constitutions ...223 The Condemnation of Flemmyng ...225 Flemmyng’s Appeals ...227 Conclusions ...230 12. The Authority of the University to Condemn Heresy ...232 The Chancellor’s Office and Powers ...234 Appeals from the Chancellor’s Court ...237 Punishments ...238 The Right of Condemnation for Heresy ...240 Formal Authority in the Individual Cases ...241 Archbishop Arundel and the University of Oxford ...250 13. Libertas inquirendi at Oxford ...254 The Debate over ‘Pelagiansim’ at Oxford ...256 Academic Freedom in Medieval Universities ...258 Responses to the Condemnations of 1277, 1284, and 1286 ...260 The Absence of Condemnation as Evidence for Libertas Inquirendi ...267 The Dynamics of Libertas Inquirendi ...268 Arundel’s Constitutions ...270 14. Non-Theological Factors in Academic Condemnation ...273 Inter-Order Tension as a Cause of Condemnation ...273 Other Political Issues ...280 The Dynamic of Condemnation ...282 Punishment ...284 The Role of Unanimity in Academic Condemnations ...287 15. A Closing Thought ...292 Appendix: Known Cases of Academic Condemnation at Oxford ...295 Bibliography ...301 Index ...313

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Book SynopsisBy examining theoretical debates about the nature of nineteenth-century German opera and analyzing the genre’s development and its international dissemination, this book shows German opera’s entanglement with national identity formation. The thorough study of German opera debates in the first half of the nineteenth century highlights the esthetic and ideological significance of this relatively neglected repertoire, and helps to contextualize Richard Wagner’s attempts to define German opera and to gain a reputation as the German opera composer par excellence. By interpreting Wagner’s esthetic endeavors as a continuation of previous campaigns for the emancipation of German opera, this book adds an original and significant perspective to discussions about Wagner’s relation to German nationalism.

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Book SynopsisRamen, Japan’s noodle soup, is a microcosm of Japan and its historical relations with China. The long evolution of ramen helps us enter the history of cuisine in Japan, charting how food and politics combined as a force within Sino-Japan relations. Cuisine in East Asia plays a significant political role, at times also philosophical, economic, and social. Ramen is a symbol of the relationship between the two major forces in East Asia – what started as a Chinese food product ended up almost 1,000 years later as the emblem of modern Japanese cuisine. This book explains that history – from myths about food in ancient East Asia to the transfer of medieval food technology to Japan, to today’s ramen “popular culture.”Trade Review"... In delving into the history of ramen, Kushner throws light on many interesting aspects of Japanese social and political history as well as on Japan's lengthy and complex relationship with China..." - Hugh Cortazzi, in: The Japan Times ONLINE (21 October, 2012) [Review link] "... A new book, Slurp! A Social and Culinary History of Ramen by Dr Barak Kushner, who teaches modern Japanese history at Cambridge, both contextualises the soup and hints at some of the reasons behind its global spread. Kushner explains how noodles entered Japan from China and how they evolved in Japanese cuisine in a way that reflected the prevailing feelings of Japan towards its neighbour..." - Tim Hayward, in: ft.com (19 October, 2012) [Review link] "Those long nights when sleep evades you and the mind runs along less tranquil corridors of the mind, one room repeatedly visited is full of books I should have published. This is one of them. It is most excellent (with a tiny proviso as to price). The history of ramen is a beacon to guide us through an appreciation of change in Japanese taste and cooking; to understand what Japanese food was like a long time ago; to how regional tastes have affected the development of Japanese cooking; to see how war has left its mark on all aspects of the Japanese table; to wonder at the depth of foreign influence on Japanese cooking (where silly old me had thought they were an isolated people). I could go on and on. Mr Kushner writes clearly, thankfully with no jargon, and entertainingly. His illustrations are intriguing, his reading is wide. The book has footnotes. Emphatic recommendation." - Tom Jaine, in: Petits Propos Culinaires (PPC), 97 (January 2013) "Ramen has become a ubiquitous presence globally, from chic Japanese Asian noodle restaurants to cheap student sustenance. Historian Kushner (Cambridge) targets the general audience wanting to know more about the noodle dish with Chinese origins that has become a Japanese national food of sorts. Written in an unapologetically pop style, Kushner's work spans premodern origins in China to contemporary Japanese ramen comics, museums, and pop songs. Within that time frame, the author talks about a lot more than ramen. He covers food in general in Japan as a backdrop for politics and the place of ramen within it. Some might criticize his at times wandering too far from the topic, but providing the broad context is part of Kushner's strategy. One part of the context that he ignores is that of gender. Indeed, Japan is a man's world: ramen chefs are almost exclusively men; even ramen consumption is more of a man's activity than that of women, although both slurp their fair share. Rich with tidbits culled from personal experience, Kushner's book is a welcome addition to the bookshelves of those interested in Japan, food, and pop culture. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General, public, and undergraduate libraries." - C.R. Yano, University of Hawai'i, in: Choice, 50 no. 10 (June 2013) [Review link] INTERVIEW with the author: Where would Japan be without China's culinary contribution? - Asia & Japan Watch [Interview link] INTERVIEW with the author in the Japanese TV program "Channel JAPAN": "The Project Japan": Promoting the Attractions of Japan ahead of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Channel JAPAN #37, on 16 December 2014 [Interview link]. Dr. Barak Kushner appears from 5’49’’; Slurp presented at 8’29’’ INTERVIEW with the author: "An Illustrated History of Ramen" [Review link]

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Book SynopsisIn A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives, Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women’s agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and others’ lives even in the most unexpected areas of their existence. The women’s activities described here do not simply reflect modernizing trends or westernizing attitudes—or their defensive denial. They provide an array of local responses where ‘the local’ can never be found (and should never be conceptualized) in its initial, unchanged, or authentic state.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgement List of Illustrations Introduction Duygu Köksal, Anastasia Falierou PART I: Women as Economic Actors: Class, Work and Social Issues Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910 Hasmik Khalapyan Searching for Women’s Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of Selanik E. Tutku Vardağlı Working From Home: Division of Labor Among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth Century Istanbul M. Erdem Kabadayı PART II: Education for Life: Schools, Associations and Curricula The Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice Period Elif İkbal Mahir Metinsoy Between Two Worlds: Education and Accultration of Ottoman Jewish Women Rachel Simon Girls’ Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in Turkey Elif Ekin Akşit PART III: Creating New Lives, Pushing the Boundaries: Ottoman Female Artists Painting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik Hanım Burcu Pelvanoğlu The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s Istanbul Fatma Türe PART IV: Womanhood in Print Culture Enlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewifes: Discussing Women’s Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870-1873) Anastasia Falierou An Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik’s Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1899) Özgür Türesay Women’s Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919-1924) François Georgon Part V: Dilemmas of Nationalism: Debating Modernity, Identity and Women’s Agency From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877-1946) Duygu Köksal The ‘Tomboy’ and the Aristocrat: Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian Feminism Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Hayriye Melek (Hunc), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and Nationalism Alexandre Toumarkine Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe settlement of the Hebrides is usually considered in terms of the state formation agenda. Yet the area was subject to successive attempts at plantation, largely overlooked in historical narrative. Aonghas MacCoinnich’s study, Plantation and Civility, explores these plantations against the background of a Lowland-Highland cultural divide and competition over resources. The Macleod of Lewis clan, ‘uncivil’, Gaelic Highlanders, were dispossessed by the Lowland, ‘civil,’ Fife Adventurers, 1598-1609. Despite the collapse of this Lowland Plantation, however, the recourse to the Mackenzie clan, often thought a failure of policy, was instead a pragmatic response to an intractable problem. The Mackenzies also pursued the civility agenda treating with Dutch partners and fending off their English rivals in order to develop their plantation.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Illustrations xiv List of Maps xv Abbreviations xvi Conventions xx 1 The Conditions for Plantation. The Scottish Context Pre 1598 1 Introduction 1 Highlands and Lowlands – Cultural and Linguistic Divergence 3 From Barbarity to Civility 11 Hume et al & Civility 16 Winning Hearts and Minds 17 Tribalism vs Civility? The Example of the Adventurers 19 Personal Qualities 20 Civilitie and the Mackenzie Clan 23 Fisheries 25 Conclusion 27 2 The Lordship of the Macleods of Lewis 30 Introduction 30 Macleod’s Family 32 The Ewill Trowbles of the Lewis 34 The Macleods of Lewis and the Old Order 37 Rebellion, 1502–1538 45 The Extension of Royal Control and its Consequences 47 A Dysfunctional Family? Three Torcaills, 1566 and all that 57 The Wars of the ‘Bastards’? The ‘Ewill Trowbles’ of Lewis 65 The Macleods of Lewis and the Wider World 71 Trained for War? The Irish Dimension 74 Forfeiture and Plantation 80 Niall Odhar, the Brieves, Forts and Duin 83 Duin – Contexts 87 Conclusion 90 3 The Fife Adventurers and the Plantation of Lewis, 1598–1609 91 Introduction 91 The Lead-up to Plantation: From 1587 to 1598 95 ‘Natives’ and their Relations with the Planters 106 ‘Articlis to be Contracted amongst the Societie of the Lewis’ 108 Ministers, Religion and the Sabbath 112 Building a Civil Town 118 Buildings and Fortifications in the Plantation 124 1607–1609, Highland Policy & the Third Attempt 132 The Planters and the Mackenzies 137 The Working Plantation: The Potential for Success 141 Victuals, Grain and the Vulnerable Supply Line 145 Agricultural Potential 149 Relations with the Natives: Divide and Rule? 151 The Aftermath for the Planters 164 Plantation: Transferrable Skills 170 Participation, Identity and Casualty Rates? 171 Conclusion 174 4 The Mackenzies and Their Plantation of Lewis 176 Introduction 176 Civility, Plantation, Royal Policy and Clan Mackenzie 176 The Acquisition of Lewis 185 The Wider Gaelic World and the Broader Hebridean Context 188 The Mackenzies and the Settlement of the Northern Hebrides 194 The Financial Implications of Plantation 202 The Costs of Accommodation with the New Regime 209 The Last of the Free 213 Fir Innse Gall 214 Backs to the Wall – The End of the Macleods of Lewis 218 The New Order 224 Handling the Land 229 Building a Plantation 236 The Church 238 Winning Hearts and Minds? 244 Eirthir nan Iasg – the Mackenzies in Lewis after 1610 248 Conclusion 254 5 The Mackenzie and the Dutch, 1628–1631 258 Introduction 258 Highland Contacts and Networks 260 Mackenzie Commercial Initiatives & Dutch Contacts 262 Scottish Opposition to Seaforth’s Dutch Enclave 279 Lord Lorne and Scottish Opposition to Seaforth’s Schemes 283 Conclusion 287 6 The English in the Isles and the British Fishery Company 290 Introduction 290 English Antecedence in the Hebrides 291 King James and English in the Isles, 1603–1610 294 Monson, Mason and their Early Experiences in the Hebrides 298 Captain Mason and the Assize Fishing of the North Isles 299 Mason’s Career: Piracy, Plantation and Naval Procurement 302 Building a Fleet: Timber and Iron 308 The Emergence of the English interest and the British Fishery 310 Mare Liberum? 310 Ideology or Prejudice? Sir William Monson and Civility 312 English Mercantile Connections with the Netherlands? 316 English Plantation in Stornoway: Maps and Descriptions 321 The Earls of Seaforth and the English 327 Anglo-Scottish Tension in the Hebrides from 1634 329 Conclusion 334 7 Conclusion 336 Appendices 365 A1 A Description of the Lewis Fisheries, c. 1631 (Part 1) 365 A2 A Description of the Lewis Fisheries, 1631 (Part 2) 367 B1 Some Siol Torcaill Family Relationships, 1572 369 C1 The Principal Adventurers in Lewis, 1598–1609 370 C2 The Minister’s Account of the Plantation of Lewis, c. 1607 370 C3 Contract Signed by the Portioners of Lewis, 1600 381 C4 Non-‘Native’ Persons, Stornoway, 1598–1609 386 C5 The Known un-Knowns in Lewis, 1598–1609 399 C6 Some Financial Transactions of the Forrets of Fingask, 1598–1609 401 C7 Associates of and Witnesses for the Forrets of Fingask, 1598–1609 403 C8 Some Financial Transactions of James Spens of Wormiston, 1598–1609 405 C9 Witnesses and Sureties for James Spens of Wormiston, 1598–1609 407 C10 Some Debts Owed by the Learmonths of Balcomie, 1599–1606 409 C11 Some Debts of Robert Lumsden of Airdrie, 1599–1606 410 C12 Some Debts Owed by the Anstruther Family, 1598–1609 412 C13 Fish and the Economy of ‘Cost Syde’ Towns of Fife, 1569–1599 413 D1 Gaelic Poem by Alasdair mac Mhurchaidh, c. 1636 × 1643 415 D2 The Merchants and Fishers of Lewis 1632–34 420 D3 Table – Fishermen & Merchants in Lewis, 1634 421 D4 Some References to Lewis Trade in the Aberdeen Shore Work Accounts, 1623–37 422 D5 Land and People in Lewis, 1610–1718 424 D6 Fishermen, Merchants and Visitors to Lewis, 1609–1669 447D7 Merchants, Burgesses & Lewis Contacts, 1620–1642 452 D8 The Penny Lands of Lewis, c. 1754 455 E1 Commission of Factory, Seaforth to Hamilton, 1628 461 E2 Memorandum, for Dutch Negotiations, c.1628–29 462 E3 Contract, Seaforth and the Zeeland Merchants, 1629 464 E4 Dutch Fishermen in Lewis, 1629 469 E5 Conditions for the Hollanders. No Date, 1629 × 1630 470 E6 Memorandum anent the Hollanders. No Date, 1629 × 1630 473 E7 Mr Bernard Mackenzie & the Lewis Company, 1631 475 F1 Englishmen Present in Lewis, 1630–42 480 F2 Raising Stock for the Company of Lewis, n.d., c.1629–31 485 F3 The Appointment of Captain Mason, n.d., c.1629–31 487 F4 The Projected Costs of a Fishing Bus Fleet, n.d., c.1629–31 487 F5 Calculations of Profit and Loss, the Fishing Fleet, n.d., c.1629–31 489 F6 ‘Plantation of Fishing on the Islands of Scotland’ n.d., c.1629–31 489 F7 Memorandum Regarding English Strategic Interest in the Fisheries, n.d., c.1629–31 494 F8 Description of the Island of Lewis, November 1629 497 F9 Anglo-Scottish Tension at Stornoway, 1634–35 500 F10 Shareholders in the British Fishery Company, 1635 502 G1 Note on Language Choice & Nomenclature 505 G2 Glossary of Scots Gaelic and Scots Terms 507 G3 Gaelic Personal Names and their English Alias 509 Bibliography 511 Unpublished Primary Sources 511 Published Primary Sources 515 Published Secondary Sources 525 Unpublished Dissertations 549 Works of Reference 549 Index 551

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Book SynopsisThis book describes a circle of Eastern European Kabbalists that established Hasidism, an important movement that has influenced Jewish Mysticism, Yiddish culture and Hebrew literature. It uncovers the messianic motivation, concealed in Hasidic writings after the failure of their 1740-1781 attempts to hurry redemption. The book opens with the Besht, the legendary founder of Hasidism, and continues with the first Hasidic court, founded by one of his prominent disciples, the preacher of Zlotshov. The group’s redemptive activities are revealed through their mystical rituals, their self-image as representatives of the ten Sefirot, and the status of their leader, “the Righteous One,” as a vivid symbol of the divine influx. The book is especially important for scholars and students of Judaism as well as scholars of mysticism and messianism, seeking to comprehend the transformation of a messianic circle of devotees into a mass movement that changes the culture of an entire nation. Originally published in hardcover

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a systematic overview of the debates over Japanese national identity and nationalism from the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. It presumes that nationalism is a particular form of identity-politics and as such it foregrounds national identity as it has been articulated by influential Japanese intellectuals. Building on theories that situate nationalism as a mode of politicizing the people, this study presents Japanese nationalism as a contestory practice that positions “the people” as what the nation is and what nationalism seeks to achieve. The body of the text is composed of chapters that explore key sites where this practice has been particularly intense and influential (kokumin, minzoku, shakai, tenno). Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review"...the most comprehensive analysis of Japanese nationalism that exists in the English language." Irwin Schenker, University of California, Berkeley, Journal of Asian Studies (Vol. 68/1).

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Book SynopsisMarxism in a Lost Century retells the history of the radical left during the twentieth century through the words and deeds of Paul Mattick. An adolescent during the German revolutions that followed World War I, he was also a recent émigré to the United States during the 1930s Great Depression, when the unemployed groups in which he participated were among the most dynamic manifestations of social unrest. Three biographical themes receive special attention -- the self-taught nature of left-wing activity, Mattick’s experiences with publishing, and the nexus of men, politics, and friendship. Mattick found a wide audience during the 1960s because of his emphasis on the economy’s dysfunctional aspects and his advocacy of workplace councils—a popularity mirrored in the cyclical nature of the global economy.Trade Review"Just as all good biographies transcend their immediate subject matter and illuminate more enduring truths, so too does Roth's recounting of Mattick's life disclose much about the biases and prejudices within intellectual and political circles on the left, both then and now. [...] Marxism in a Lost Century illuminates as much about ourselves and the world within which left intellectuals circulate today as it does about the world of this remarkable Marxist thinker." - Thom Workman (University of New Brunswick), in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, 23 July 2016 "Gary Roths biographische Studie über Paul Mattick basiert wesentlich auf dem umfangreichen, im Amsterdamer Institut für Sozialgeschichte (IISG) aufbewahrten Nachlass, insbesondere auf der überlieferten Korrespondenz, die nahezu 2000 Briefe umfasst; außerdem nutzte Roth die Gelegenheit zur Befragung von Zeitzeugen, insbesondere Matticks zweiter Frau Ilse Mattick und den Sohn Paul Mattick Jr. , der auch die letzte Schrift seines Vaters „Marxism. Last Refuge of the Bourgoisie?“ 1983, zwei Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors 1981 posthum herausbrachte (während eine deutsche Ausgabe leider nach wie vor aussteht). Roth erzählt das Leben Matticks faktisch aus Sicht und politischer Perspektive von Mattick selbst; damit gelingt ihm eine mit vielen Einzelheiten und zuweilen auch überflüssigen Informationen gefüllte lebendige Darstellung, die es zu lesen durchaus lohnt." - Michael Buckmiller (Leibniz Universität Hannover), The International Newsletter of Communist Studies, Vol. 22-23 (2016/17), Nos. 29-30, pp. 108 - 110 "In his new biography of Paul Mattick, a German-born worker who immigrated to the United States in 1926 and later emerged as one of the most important radical critics of his time, Gary Roth tells the story of a largely forgotten current in the 20th century that early on made a rupture with the statist caricatures of communism to which today’s media-savvy leftist intellectuals are still holding fast.1 Noting that this story is about “bygone eras in which a radicalized working class still constituted a hope for the future,” Roth steers clear of melancholy and nostalgia, instead seeking a justification for his work in the more recent reconfiguration "of the world’s population into a vast working class that extends into the middle classes in the industrialized countries and the pools of underemployed agricultural workers everywhere else"." - Felix Baum, The Brooklyn Rail, December 9th, 2015 "Besides its political and theoretical content, Roth’s biography of Mattick is of great human interest. It tells us a lot about what life was like at various times for working people in both Germany and the United States. The book is worth reading for that alone." - In: Socialist Standard, February 2016 "Gary Roth’s Marxism in a Lost Century provides a vivid and fascinating account of the life of Paul Mattick, and in so doing presents a history of the twentieth-century left from the perspective of one of its underappreciated protagonists. [...] By shining light on an extraordinary and neglected Marxist, Roth’s book is an important contribution to Marxist scholarship and deserves to be widely read." - Robin Hurlstone, International Socialist Review, Issue 101Table of ContentsList of Photos Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations About the Notes 1. Introduction 2. Children at Work and War 2.1 At Home 2.2 Protest and Revolution 2.3 Revolution in Retreat 3. Young Radicals 3.1 March 1920 3.2 KAPD 4. Between Berlin and Cologne 4.1 Bouts of Unemployment 4.2 Movement in Decline 4.3 Older Friends 5. New Worlds 5.1 Voyages 5.2 Work and Writing 5.3 Amalgamation 6. Chicago in the Depression 6.1 Opening Years 6.2 Opposition and Accusations 6.3 Across the Country 6.4 Crisis Theory 7. The Unemployed Movement 7.1 The Workers League 7.2 Federation and Party 7.3 Fascism’s Initial Impact 7.4 The German Émigré Community 8. The Independent Left 8.1 German to English 8.2 Editors’ Reluctance 9. International Council Correspondence 9.1 Pamphlets and Authors 9.2 The Inevitability of Communism 9.3 Mid-Decade 10. Towards War 10.1 International Developments 10.2 Opportunities 10.3 Living Marxism 11. End of an Era 11.1 Self-Reflections 11.2 Anti-Fascism 12. The War Years 12.1 Relationships 12.2 New Essays 12.3 Leaving Chicago 13. New York City 13.1 Isolation 13.2 Travelling to Berlin 14. Quiet Times 14.1 Writers’ Bloc 14.2 Back to Nature 14.3 Boston 15. Rekindling 15.1 Recent Admirers 15.2 A New Left 16. Reception 16.1 Discovery in Germany 16.2 From Marx and Keynes to Roskilde 17. Winding Down 17.1 Last Years 17.2 Illness Archives Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Breaking with orthodox readings on Eastern bloc regimes, which remain wedded to the 'totalitarianism' paradigm of the Cold War era, the essays in this volume shed light on the contradictory historical and social trajectory of 'real socialism' in the region. Mainstream historiography has presented Stalinist parties as 'omnipotent', effectively stripping workers and society in general of its 'relative autonomy'. Building on an impressive amount of archive material, Pittaway convincingly shows how dynamics of class, gender, skill level, and rural versus urban location, shaped politics in the period. The volume also offers novel insights on historical and sociological roots of fascism in Hungary and the politics of legitimacy in the Austro-Hungarian borderlands.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Abbreviations Introduction By Adam B. Fabry 1 Crisis, War and Occupation 2 Building Socialism 3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary 4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948–53 5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary 6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953–58 7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár’s Hungary 8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History 9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–56 10 Workers and the Change of System 11 Fascism in Hungary 12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary Epilogue By Nigel Swain References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the dynamic relationships between sites, peoples, objects, and images during the first age of globalization in early modern Europe. It investigates interactions, interconnections, and entanglements on both micro and macro levels, and aims to understand the specific dynamics of processes of translocal and transcultural intersection. Linking global perspectives with the history of material culture, Sites of Mediation highlights the potential of objects, artefacts, and things to connect (urban) cultures and imaginaries. Individual chapters focus on a number of European cities, which all operated on different levels of global and interregional connections and are presented here as sites of connectivity, encounters, and exchange. Contributors are: Tina Asmussen, Nadia Baadj, Benedikt Bego-Ghina, Davina Benkert, Daniela Bleichmar, Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, Franziska Hilfiker, Nicolai Kölmel, Ivo Raband, Jennifer Rabe, Antonella Romano, Michael Schaffner, Sarah-Maria Schober, Claudia Swan, and Stefanie Wyssenbach.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction: ‘Sites of Mediation’ in Early Modern Europe and Beyond. A Working Perspective Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, and Christine Göttler I. Staging Encounters Rome and its Indies: A Global System of Knowledge at the End of the Sixteenth Century Antonella Romano Staging Genoa in Antwerp: The Triumphal Arch of the Genoese Nation for the Blijde Inkomst of Archduke Ernest of Austria into Antwerp, 1594 Ivo Raband Setting the Stage for Oneself and Others: Venice and the Levant in the Fifteenth Century Benedikt Bego-Ghina The Queen in the Pawnshop: Shaping Civic Virtues in a Painting for the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi in Venice Nicolai Kölmel Through the Stained-Glass: The Basel Schützenhaus as a Site of Encounter Michael Schaffner II. Translation, Transmission, Transformation The Kux as a Site of Mediation: Economic Practices and Material Desires in the Early Modern German Mining Industry Tina Asmussen Mediating between Art and Nature: The Countess of Arundel at Tart Hall Jennifer Rabe The ‘Hortus Siccus’ as a Focal Point: Knowledge, Environment, and Image in Felix Platter’s and Caspar Bauhin’s Herbaria Davina Benkert Translation, Mobility, and Mediation: The Case of the Codex Mendoza Daniela Bleichmar Collaborative Craftsmanship and Chimeric Creation in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Art Cabinets Nadia S. Baadj III. Fluid Worlds Hermaphrodites in Basel? Figures of Ambiguity and the Early Modern Physician Sarah-Maria Schober Riches of the Sea: Collecting and Consuming Frans Snijders’s Marine Market Paintings in the Southern Netherlands Stefanie Wyssenbach Negotiating Arctic Waters: John Davis’s The Worldes Hydrographical Discription Franziska Hilfiker Fortunes at Sea: Mediated Goods and Dutch Trade, Circa 1600 Claudia Swan Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisProfessor S.N. Eisenstadt has written numerous essays on Jewish Identity over the years. This volume brings together some of these. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization – without, however, accepting many of Weber’s concrete analyses.Table of ContentsSection I The Jewish Historical Experience in the Civilizational Framework CHAPTER ONE, The Format of Jewish History - Some Reflections on Weber’s Ancient Judaism CHAPTER TWO, The Jewish Historical Experience in the Framework of Comparative Universal History CHAPTER THREE, The Jewish Experience in the Modern Era Section II The Zionist Movement and Israeli Story CHAPTER FOUR, Did Zionism Bring the Jews back to History? CHAPTER FIVE, Change and Continuity in Israeli Society CHAPTER SIX, The Mahapach of 1977 and the Transformation of Israeli Society CHAPTER SEVEN, Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological Society CHAPTER EIGHT, Israeli Politics and the Jewish Political Tradition: Principled Political Anarchism and the Rule of the Court CHAPTER NINE, Two New Democracies, the U.S. and Israel: Some Comparative Remarks Section III The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era CHAPTER TEN, The American Jewish Experience and American Pluralism: A Comparative Perspective CHAPTER ELEVEN, Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Identity CHAPTER TWELVE, The Jewish Experience in the Contemporary Era: Some Concluding Observations

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Book SynopsisSince its inception, the study of Ḥadīth conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from “late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information” to “early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins”. Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.Trade ReviewWorld Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012.Table of ContentsPreface 1. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ. A SOURCE-CRITICAL STUDY, Harald Motzki 2. WHITHER ḤADĪTH STUDIES?, Harald Motzki 3. THE PROPHET AND THE DEBTORS. A ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS UNDER SCRUTINY, Harald Motzki 4. AL-RADD ʿALĀ L-RADD: CONCERNING THE METHOD OF ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS, Harald Motzki 5. THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIM EXEGESIS. A DEBATE, Harald Motzki 6. THE RAID OF THE HUDHAYL: IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ’S VERSION OF THE EVENT, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort 7. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MEDINA: THE ORIGINS OF A MAGHĀZĪ-TRADITION, Sean W. Anthony Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOther Fronts, Other Wars? goes beyond the Western Front geographically and delves behind the trenches focusing on the social and cultural history of the First World War: it covers front experiences in the Ottoman and Russian Armies, captivity in Japan and Turkey, occupation at the Eastern war theatre, medical history (epidemics in Serbia, medical treatment in Germany) and war relief (disabled soldiers in Austria). It studies the home front from the aspect of gender (loosing manliness), transnational comparisons (provincial border towns) and culture (home front entertainments in European metropoles) and gives insight on how attitudes were shaped through intellectual wars of scientists and through commemoration in Serbia. Thus the volume offers a wide range of new approaches to the history of the First World War. Contributors are Kate Arrioti, Altai Atlı, Gunda Barth-Scalmani, Joachim Bürgschwentner, Wolfram Dornik, Indira Durakovic, Matthias Egger, Maciej Górny, Andrea Griffante, Ke-chin Hsia, Rudolf Kučera, Eva Krivanec, Stephan Lehnstaedt, Bernhard Liemann, Tilman Lüdke, Andrea McKenzie, Mahon Murphy, Nicolas Patin, Livia Prüll, Philipp Rauh, Paul Simmons, Christian Steppan and Katarina Todić.Trade Review"The overall purpose of this volume is to take the readers through a multitude of war theatres, not just in the geographical sense, away from the Western Front. The organizers first and the editors later certainly should be commended for their work, as this book represents a new approach and an exciting read... This is indeed a very interesting volume that includes cutting-edge research on the war... an excellent choice in order to get a better understanding of the First World War." Roberto Mazza, War in History 24.3 (2017)Table of ContentsPreface…ix List of Figures…xi Notes on Contributors…xiii Introduction: Approaching the Centenary 1914–2014…1 Matthias Egger, Joachim Bürgschwentner and Gunda Barth-Scalmani Part 1: Diverging Front Experiences 1 Lethal Journey between Four Fronts: First World War Experiences of the Reichstag’s Deputies…19 Nicolas Patin 2 Combating Desertion and Voluntary Surrender in the Russian Army During the First World War …41 Paul Simmons 3 Baptism by Snow: The Ottoman Experience of Winter Warfare During the First World War… 62 Altay Atlı 4 “Our common colonial voices”: Canadian Nurses, Patient Relations, and Nation on Lemnos …92 Andrea McKenzie Part 2: Towards a Cultural History of Captivity 5 Brucken, Beethoven und Baumkuchen: German and Austro-Hungarian Prisoners of War and the Japanese Home Front …125 Mahon Murphy 6 Australian Prisoners of the Turks: Negotiating Culture Clash in Captivity …146 Kate Ariotti 7 The Camp Newspaper Nedelja as a Reflection of the Experience of Russian Prisoners of War in Austria-Hungary… 167 Christian Steppan Part 3: Occupation on the Eastern War Theatre 8 Two Kinds of Occupation? German and Austro-Hungarian Economic Policy in Congress Poland, 1915–1918 …197 Stephan Lehnstaedt 9 A School of Violence and Spatial Desires? Austro-Hungarian Experiences of War in Eastern Europe, 1914–1918 …218 Wolfram Dornik 10 We and Homeland: German Occupation, Lithuanian Discourse, and War Experience in Ober Ost …237 Andrea Grifffante Part 4: Medical History and War Relief 11 Serbia as a Health Threat to Europe: The Wartime Typhus Epidemic, 1914–1915 …259 Indira Duraković 12 Other Fronts, Other Diseases? Comparisons of Front-specific Practices in Medical Treatment …280 Philipp Rauh and Livia Prüll 13 Who Provided Care for Wounded and Disabled Soldiers? Conceptualizing State-Civil Society Relationship in First World War Austria …303 Ke-chin Hsia Part 5: War at Home: Gender, Space and Entertainment 14 Losing Manliness: Bohemian Workers and the Experience of the Home Front …331 Rudolf Kučera 15 The Transformation of Local Public Spheres: German, Belgian and Dutch Border Towns during the First World War Compared …349 Bernhard Liemann 16 War on Stage. Home Front Entertainment in European Metropolises 1914–1918 …370 Eva Krivanec Part 6: The Shaping of Attitudes and Opinions 17 Strange Fronts, Strange Wars: Germany’s Battle for “Islam” in the Middle East during the First World War, and British Reactions …389 Tilman Lüdke 18 War between Allies: Polish and Ukrainian Intellectuals 1914–1923… 415 Maciej Górny Part 7: Remembering the First World War 19 In the Name of Father and Son: Remembering the First World War in Serbia… 437 Katarina Todić 20 The Memory Landscape of the South-Western Front: Cultural Legacy, Promotion of Tourism, or European Heritage? …463 Gunda Barth-Scalmani Bibliography… 501 Index of Places …505 Index of Names …514

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Book SynopsisOriginating from a series of papers written by Prof. Noh Tae-don over two decades of research, Korea’s Ancient Koguryŏ Kingdom: A Socio-Political History concentrates on the political and social aspects of what was the largest of the Proto-Korean nation-states (37 BCE to 668 CE) that finally succumbed to subversion and invasion thirteen centuries ago. Its legendary origins are dealt with from the standpoint of their long-term political implications, as are its social institutions such as levirate marriage. Explored in detail are the convoluted diplomatic, military, and commercial relations with various Chinese dynasties as well as Japan, and the shifting powers in Manchuria, Mongolia, and Central Asia. In addition, perhaps for the first time anywhere, the Koguryŏ national and provincial administrative structures are described as they evolved over the seven centuries of the nation’s existence. Exhaustive documentation is provided throughout. As a landmark study of the Koguryŏ kingdom, this work will be of considerable value to students of Northeast Asian history in general and of Korean history in particular.

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Book SynopsisBased on pioneering research, this volume on South and Southeast Asia offers a cultural studies' perspective on the vast and largely uncharted domain of how local cultures are coping with climate changes and environmental crises.The primary focus is on three countries that have high emission rates: India, Indonesia, and Thailand. Whereas the dominant discourse on climate largely reflects the view of Western cultures, this volume adds indigenous views and practices that provide insight into Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic responses. Making use of textual materials, fieldwork, and analyses, it highlights the close links between climate solutions, forms of knowledge, and the various socio-cultural and political practices and agencies within societies. The volume demonstrates that climate is global and plural. Contributors are: Monika Arnez, Somnath Batabyal, Joachim Betz, Susan M. Darlington, Dennis Eucker, Rüdiger Haum, Albertina Nugteren, Marcus Nüsser & Ravi Baghel, Martin Seeger, and Janice Stargardt.Table of ContentsPREFACE CONVENTIONS INTRODUCTION—The Dynamics of Climate and the Dynamics of Culture - BARBARA SCHULER IDEAS: CHAPTER ONE—Cosmos, Commodity, and Care: Three Layers in Hindu Environmental Awareness - ALBERTINA NUGTEREN CHAPTER TWO—Ideas and Images of Nature in Thai Buddhism: Continuity and Change - MARTIN SEEGER CHAPTER THREE—Shifting Notions of Nature and Environmentalism in Indonesian Islam - MONIKA ARNEZ PAST: CHAPTER FOUR—Irrigation in South Thailand as a Coping Strategy Against Climate Change: Past and Present - JANICE STARGARDT CHAPTER FIVE—The Emergence of the Cryoscape: Contested Narratives of Himalayan Glacier Dynamics and Climate Change - MARCUS NÜSSER & RAVI BAGHEL PRESENT: CHAPTER SIX—A Shift in India’s Domestic and International Climate Policy? - JOACHIM BETZ CHAPTER SEVEN—New Politics, Old Paradigms: Urban Environmentalism and the Reshaping of New Delhi - SOMNATH BATABYAL PROSPECTS: CHAPTER EIGHT—Environmental Justice in Thailand in the Age of Climate Change - SUSAN M. DARLINGTON CHAPTER NINE—Mitigating Climate Change: An Additional Role for Technology and Policy in India as well as International Arenas - RÜDIGER HAUM CHAPTER TEN—Institutional Dynamics of Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia: The Role of ASEAN - DENNIS EUCKER BIBLIOGRAPHY GLOSSARY INDEX CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS

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Book SynopsisIn Material Culture and Queenship in 14th-century France: The Testament of Blanche of Navarre (1331-1398) Marguerite Keane considers the object collection of the long-lived fourteenth-century French queen Blanche of Navarre, the wife of Philip VI (d. 1350). This queen’s ownership of works of art (books, jewelry, reliquaries, and textiles, among others) and her perceptions of these objects is well -documented because she wrote detailed testaments in 1396 and 1398 in which she described her possessions and who she wished to receive them. Keane connects the patronage of Blanche of Navarre to her interest in her status and reputation as a dowager queen, as well as bringing to life the material, adornment, and devotional interests of a medieval queen and her household.Trade Review"For queenship scholars, Keane’s book is essential reading for both its methodology and its conclusions about the meanings of patronage, politics, and cultural power at court. And it opens fruitful avenues for research into the history of emotions. It will speak to a much wider audience of historians, art historians, and their students, both graduate and advanced undergraduate, who will appreciate her close textual analysis of the testament and her insightful reading of the objects." Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 70.4 (2017), pp. 1561-2.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements vii List of Figures and Tables ix Notes on Translation, Citation, and Names xi Introduction 1 1 The Life and Patronage of Blanche of Navarre 19 Conflict with the Monks of Saint-Denis 33 Childhood and Marriage 41 Widowhood and Early Commissions 44 The Dowager Queen as Mediator: Charles of Navarre and the Hundred Years War 52 The Dowager Queen at Home and at Court 56 2 The Testament: Legal Document and Sentimental Autobiography 61 3 Books as Evidence to Perpetuate Memory 77 4 Reliquaries, Altarpieces, and Paintings 116 Devotional Spaces within the Household 119 Reliquaries 126 5 Wearable Reliquaries, Metalwork, and Gems 151 The Reliquary Belt of Philip VI 153 Reliquary Brooches 156 Heirloom Diamonds 159 Heirloom Paternoster Beads 166 The Queen’s Crowns and Sealing Ring 169 6 Textiles: Vestments, Wall Hangings, and Clothing 178 Conclusions 202 Appendices: Gifts and Their Recipients 206 1 Gifts of Books 206 2 Gifts of Reliquaries, Altarpieces, and Paintings 212 3 Gifts of Wearable Reliquaries, Metalwork, and Gems 220 4 Gifts of Textiles 226 Bibliography 231 Index 255

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Book SynopsisConventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into the eighteenth century. In Governing Gaeldom, Allan Kennedy challenges this perception through detailed analysis of the relationship between the Highlands and the Scottish state during the reigns of Charles II and James VII & II. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, Kennedy traces the political, social, ecclesiastical and economic linkages between centre and periphery, demonstrating that the Highlands were much more tightly integrated than hitherto assumed. At the same time, he reconstructs the development of Highland policy, placing it within its proper context of the absolutist pretensions of the late-Stuart monarchy. The result is a thorough reinterpretation which offers fresh insights into the process of state-formation in early-modern Britain. The volume has been awarded the Frank Watson Book Prize for 2015. For more details see: https://www.uoguelph.ca/scottish/frank_watson This title is shortlisted for the Saltire Society 2014 History Book of the Year Award. For more details see: http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/awards/literature/literary-awards/scottish-history-book-of-the-year/2014-history-book-shortlist/Table of ContentsAcknowledgements…viii List of Tables, Figure and Illustrations …ix Abbreviations and Notes… xi Maps… xii Introduction …1 PART One: Centre and Periphery …15 1 The Highlands in Britain …17 2 The Nature of the Highland Problem …66 3 The Highlands and the ‘Fiscal-Military’ State …112 PART Two: The Development of Policy …147 4 The Restoration Settlement in the Highlands …149 5 Engagement and Containment, 1660–78 …180 6 Reaction and Realignment, 1678–88 …213 Conclusion …251 Appendices …256 Bibliography …361 Index …386

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Book SynopsisPost-Cold War historiography of modern Central Asia has been characterized by a focus on cultural history. Most of this scholarship rests on a set of assumptions about traditional institutions and social practices which merely reflect the bias of Soviet or even Tsarist-era historiography. 'Explorations in the Social History of Modern Central Asia addresses the need for a remedy to this state of affairs and thus offers new insights on a number of subjects relating to the social history of the region. It includes essays dealing with property relations, resource management, forms of local administration, the constitution of new social groups, the construction of identity categories, and an enquiry into the landscape of Islamic practices among the nomads.Trade Review'If social history is ‘one of the less fashionable intellectual enterprises of these days’, this edited volume more than makes the case for a revival of the discipline.(...) the overall accomplishments of this volume, which identifies exciting new directions of research in between, and beyond, these fragmented ‘singular stories.’ Jennifer Griffiths, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London, Central Asian Survey 2014.Table of ContentsA Note on Conventions List of Figures List of Contributors INTRODUCTION: ON THE SOCIAL IN CENTRAL ASIAN HISTORY: NOTES IN THE MARGINS OF LEGAL RECORDS - PAOLO SARTORI CHAPTER ONE: AMLĀKDĀRS, KHWĀJAS AND MULK LAND IN THE ZARAFSHAN VALLEY AFTER THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST - ALEXANDER S. MORRISON CHAPTER TWO: MANAGING RURAL LANDSCAPES IN COLONIAL TURKESTAN: A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS - BEATRICE PENATI CHAPTER THREE: WHO SHOULD MANAGE THE WATER OF THE AMU-DARYA? CONTROVERSY OVER IRRIGATION CONCESSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND KHIVA, 1913–1914 - AKIFUMI SHIOYA CHAPTER FOUR: HIGH RANK AND POWER AMONG THE NORTHERN KIRGHIZ: TERMS AND THEIR PROBLEMS, 1845–1864 - DANIEL G. PRIOR CHAPTER FIVE: PERFORMANCE AND POETICS IN KYRGYZ MEMORIAL FEASTS: THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY CATEGORIES -SVETLANA JACQUESSON CHAPTER SIX: USING TURKI-LANGUAGE QAZAQ LETTERS TO RECONSTRUCT LOCAL HISTORY OF THE 1820S-30S -VIRGINIA MARTIN CHAPTER SEVEN: A MONTH AMONG QAZAQS IN THE EMIRATE OF BUKHARA: OBSERVATIONS ON ISLAMIC KNOWLEDGE IN A NOMADIC ENVIRONMENT - ALLEN J. FRANK CHAPTER EIGHT: CREATING THE FAÇADE OF A DESPOTIC STATE: ON ĀQSAQĀLS IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY BUKHARA - ANDREAS WILDE CHAPTER NINE: FATHERS AND SONS: RE-READINGS IN A SAMARQANDI PRIVATE ARCHIVE - THOMAS WELSFORD INDEX

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Book SynopsisIn Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, editor Laura Delbrugge and contributors Jaume Aurell, David Gugel, Michael Harney, Daniel Hartnett, Mark Johnston, Albert Lloret, Montserrat Piera, Zita Rohr, Núria Silleras-Fernández, Caroline Smith, Wendell P. Smith, and Lesley Twomey explore the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, framed in Elizabethan England, to medieval and early modern Portugal, Aragon, and Castile. Chapters examine self-fashioning efforts by monarchs, religious converts, nobles, commoners, and clergy in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries to establish the presence of self-identity creation in many new contexts beyond that explored in Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning, greatly expanding the understanding of self-fashioning on diverse aspects of identity creation in late medieval and early modern Iberia.Trade Review"...One of the strengths of this volume is its cohesiveness. Several themes tie various chapters together and the reader has the delight of referring back and forth to chapters as he or she is drawn into the various chapters. [...] As a whole the volume is not only an important contribution to the field, but an impressively cohesive examination of a diverse range of topics." Samuel Claussen, California Lutheran University, in AARHMS, Books Reviewed, http://aarhms.wildapricot.org/New_Book_Reviews/5349592 "...These elegantly written essays, solidly grounded in empirical research and skillfully edited by Laura Delbrugge, test the boundaries of the concept of "self-fashioning" and show it to be a remarkably malleable and useful methodology for the study of identity... It opens the field of research to wider questions of race, gender, and class and in so doing, further integrates the Spanish renaissance into a wider European context.... All twelve essays argue a coherent thesis: Self-fashioning is the result of individual agency, conscious or unconscious, and not just the result of social or structural forces..." Therese Earenfight, The Medieval Review, 16.10.11, https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/22717/28610Table of ContentsContents List of Figures vii List of Contributors viii Introduction Laura Delbrugge 1 1 Strategies of Royal Self-fashioning: Iberian Kings’ Self-coronations 18 Jaume Aurell 2 Lessons for My Daughter: Self-fashioning Stateswomanship in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon 46 Zita Rohr 3 Moor or Mallorquín? Anselm Turmeda’s Ambiguous Identity in the Cobles de la Divisió del Regne de Mallorca 79 David Gugel 4 The Marques de Santillana’s Library and Literary Reputation 116 Daniel Hartnett 5 Ludology, Self-fashioning, and Entrepreneurial Masculinity in Iberian Novels of Chivalry 144 Michael Harney 6 In Search of the Author: Self-fashioning and the Gender Debate in Fifteenth-Century Castile 167 Wendell P. Smith 7 A Theology of Self-fashioning: Hernando de Talavera’s Letter of Advice to the Countess of Benavente 202 Mark D. Johnston 8 Inside Perspectives: Catalina and João III of Portugal and a Speculum for a Queen-to-be 226 Núria Silleras-Fernández 9 Forging Renaissance Authorship: Petrarch and Ausiàs March 253 Albert Lloret 10 Conflict or Compromise? Identity and the Cathedral Chapter of Girona in the Fourteenth Century 277 Caroline Smith 11 Mary Magdalene and Martha: Sor Isabel de Villena’s Self-fashioning through Constructing Her Community 298 Lesley Twomey 12 Debunking the “Self” in Self-fashioning: Communal Fashioning in the Cartagena Clan 327 Montserrat Piera Index 367

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Book SynopsisNarratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world, this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology, structure, and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today. Contributors are Luigi Biondi, Arif Dirlik, Anthony Gorman, Steven Hirsch, Dongyoun Hwang, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Emmet O'Connor, Kirk Shaffer, Aleksandr Shubin, Edilene Toledo, and Lucien van der Walt. With a foreword by Benedict Anderson.Trade Review"This volume is a must-read for anyone interested in a nuanced history of left-wing politics, radical labor and social movements [...] scholarly [...] but [...] accessible [...]." - Alex Bradshaw, in: FORsooth (published by the Louisville chapter of the Fellowship of Reconciliation), Volume 25, number 4 (May 2014), pp. 3, 7 “[…] a ground-breaking work [...] the collection is remarkable […] the chapters [...] are compelling [...] one might mention the sheer sense of discovery with which they overwhelm the reader [...]. All in all, the collection is remarkable [...]. The essays they have gathered and carefully knitted together fill a major gap in the historiography and form an impressive and challenging scholarly achievement.” - Yann Béliard, Université Paris 3- Sorbonne Nouvelle, in: Labour / Le Travail “The chapters develop a powerful sense of anarchism and syndicalism as global political forces, and on the whole this results in a very tightly edited and argued collection defined by excellent, committed scholarship.” - David Featherstone, University of Glasgow, UK, in: Journal of Global History "[...] [I]t is a valuable contribution. [...] [T]his is a readable, important addition to your local library." - Milan Rai, in: Peace News, Vol. 2550 (October 2012), p. 14 “[…] Hirsch and Van Der Walt’s collection is a salutary reminder of a time when a plurality of international anarchist, socialist and syndicalist initiatives broke out of narrow confines of national politics to challenge, colonialism and racism alike. It is a vital repository of revolutionary thought and practice…” - Bryan Palmer, Trent University, in: New Left Review, Vol. 77 (sept oct 2012), pp. 151-160 "[…] difficult for serious scholars to ignore this volume. […] This important book discusses anarchist and syndicalist movements in Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Egypt, Ireland, Korea, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, South Africa and the Ukraine in the period leading up to World War II." - Jon Bekken, in: Anarcho-Syndacalist Review, No. 60 (Summer 2013), 35-37 "[...] [T]he book investigates how anarchists and syndicalists engaged with imperialism, anti-colonial movements ‘and the national question’. Although this is an academic text, grassroots activists will find it useful too. The book offers deep insights into society and history, and it highlights relevant historical experiences that could benefit social movements worldwide." - Mandisi Majavu, in: Journal of Asian and African Studies Vol. 47, No. 122 (2012), pp. 122-124 "Let’s be clear about one thing – this book is an academic masterpiece." - Constance Bantman, in: Anarchist Studies Vol. 20 No. 1 (2012), pp. 106-108 "This groundbreaking volume on anarchism and syndicalism in the colonial and postcolonial world sheds new light on hitherto neglected historical – yet ever more useful – anti-colonial movements that reverberate with today’s growing resistance towards transnational corporate powers. [...] [T]his volume is an incredibly valuable addition to existing postcolonial theory." - Ole Birk Laursen, in: Journal of Postcolonial Writing 2012, First Review, 1–2 "The edited volume [...] contains a wealth of experience drawn from the colonial and postcolonial worlds for activists to reflect upon and scholars to debate." - Andrew Lawrence, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, 26 April 2012 "The book is an excellent collection of narratives from the anarchist and syndicalist resistance to globalisation first attempt by the block of authoritarian and imperialist development (1870-1930) and goes beyond the usual Western European tradition [...]" - Dimitri Troaditis, in: Anarkismo.net (article 20751) "This is a superb book. " - Wayne Price, in: www.anarkismo.net & www.utopianmag.com (2011)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Contributors Foreword, Benedict Anderson Rethinking Anarchism and Syndicalism: the colonial and post-colonial experience, 1870-1940, Lucien van der Walt and Steven J. Hirsch Preface to the Paperback Edition, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt PART ONE: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE COLONIAL WORLD “Diverse in race, religion and nationality… but united in aspirations of civil progress”: the anarchist movement in Egypt 1860-1940, Anthony Gorman Revolutionary syndicalism, communism and the national question in South African socialism, 1886-1928, Lucien van der Walt Korean Anarchism before 1945: a regional and transnational approach, Dongyoun Hwang Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience, Arif Dirlik The Makhnovist Movement and the National Question in the Ukraine, 1917-1921, Аleksandr Shubin Syndicalism, Industrial Unionism, and Nationalism in Ireland, Emmet O’Connor PART TWO: ANARCHISM AND SYNDICALISM IN THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD Peruvian Anarcho-Syndicalism: adapting transnational influences and forging counterhegemonic Practices, 1905-1930, Steven J. Hirsch Tropical Libertarians: anarchist movements and networks in the Caribbean, Southern United States, and Mexico, 1890s-1920s, Kirk Shaffer Straddling the Nation and the Working World: anarchism and syndicalism on the docks and rivers of Argentina, 1900-1930, Geoffroy de Laforcade Constructing Syndicalism and Anarchism Globally: the transnational making of the syndicalist movement in São Paulo, Brazil, 1895-1935, Edilene Toledo and Luigi Biondi Final Reflections: the vicissitudes of anarchist and syndicalist trajectories, 1940 to the present, Steven J. Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt Index

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Book SynopsisIn Family and Social Change in Socialist and Post-Socialist Societies, the authors address the social transformations of eight transitional societies in recent decades (Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, China and Vietnam). Each chapter discusses a different society and reveals their struggles in the reconstruction of the intimate and public spheres amid the post-Cold War period. Making use of a semi-structured analytical framework, the respective chapters address the ambiguous relationship between familism and individualisation seen through change and continuity in demographic behaviour, family values, family solidarity, gender relations, state policy and marketisation. The volume also outlines the possibility of a modified second demographic transition theory as a correction of Western-based interpretations of current social trends. Contributors include: Zsombor Rajkai, Yulia Gradskova, Lyudmyla Males, Tymur Sandrovych, Maƚgorzata Sikorska, Peter Guráň, Jarmila Filadelfiová, Miloš Debnár, Csaba Dupcsik, Olga Tóth, Borbála Kovács, Zhou Weihong, Liu Wenrong, Xue Yali, Nguyen Huu Minh, Chang Kyung-Sup.Table of ContentsPreface ... vii Acknowledgements ... x List of Figures ... xi List of Tables ... xiv List of Contributors ... xviii Introduction ... 1 Zsombor Rajkai 1 A Theoretical Account of the Individual–Family–Population Nexus in Post-Socialist Transitions ... 19 Chang Kyung-Sup 2 Family and Social Change in Russia ... 36 Yulia Gradskova 3 Exploitation of the Intimate Sphere in Socialist and Post-Socialist Ukraine ... 83 Lyudmyla Males and Tymur Sandrovych 4 Changes in the Area of Family Life in Poland ... 122 Małgorzata Sikorska 5 Contemporary Family in Slovakia Demography, Values, Gender and Policy ... 164 Peter Guráň, Jarmila Filadelfiová and Miloš Debnár 6 Family Systems and Family Values in Twenty-First-Century Hungary ... 210 Csaba Dupcsik and Olga Tóth 7 Romanian Families Changes and Continuities over Recent Decades ... 250 Borbála Kovács 8 The Transition of Chinese Families over the Past Thirty Years (1978–2010) ... 300 Zhou Weihong, Xue Yali and Liu Wenrong  9 Changes in Socio-Demographic Characteristics of the Vietnamese Family ... 359 Nguyen Huu Minh Conclusion ... 413 Zsombor Rajkai Index ... 419

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Book SynopsisThe practice of everyday life in Tana Toraja (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) is structured by a series of public events, of which funerals are the most important. Even after Indonesia was hit by an economic crisis in the late 1990s, thousands of extravagant funeral ceremonies, requiring huge expenditures, were still organized each year. To understand the paradoxes and complexities of Torajan livelihoods, Edwin de Jong develops an approach that goes beyond existing economically biased perspectives on livelihoods by including both the cultural and the economic realm, positioned in the socio-political world with a transnational perspective, placed against a historical background, while not losing sight of diversity and individual creativity. It also advances the ethnography of Tana Toraja and the comparative study between numerous similar societies.Trade Review"In my opinion, Making a Living between Crises and Ceremonies in Tana Toraja is the best reference on the culture and economic development of Tana Toraja. It would be useful material for anyone interested in gaining an understanding of the historical and current economic situation for ritual ceremonies of ethnicity in Southeast Asia." – Quynh Huong Nguyen, Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, in Southeast Asian Studies 7/3 (2018).

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Book SynopsisPrint culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.Trade Review“…scientifically elaborate and richly illustrated volume.” Nikos Nikoloudis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 471-474.Table of ContentsContents Preface Mediæval Arabic Block Printing: State of the Field Karl Schaefer Früher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.-18. Jahrhundert Boris Liebrenz Enlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Müteferrika and His Intellectual Landscape Vefa Erginbaş Waiting for Godot: The Formation of Ottoman Print Culture Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) Printing and the Abuse of Texts in al-Ǧabartī’s History of Egypt Sarah Mirza Judæo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850-1950 Yosef Tobi Marginal Miniatures: The Tehran Edition of al-Damīrī’s Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (1285/1868) Ulrich Marzolph The Establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate Press Ahmet Taşğın and Robert Langer L’Imprimerie Ebüzziya et l’art d’imprimer dans l’Empire ottoman à la fin du XIXe siècle Özgür Türesay A Champion of Printing Quality in the Ottoman Turkish Press of the Second Constitutional Period: Şehbal Journal Bora Ataman and Cem Pekman Arabic and Bilingual Newspapers and Magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean Philipp Bruckmayr A Short History of Kurdish Publishing and Prospects for its Future Blair Kuntz The Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ahmed Mansour

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Book SynopsisAu Maroc, les mythes fondateurs des cultes et rituels de guérison illustrent de manière probante les processus d’élaboration des significations et des dynamiques du pouvoir dans le passé proche et leurs articulations actuelles, tant à l’échelle locale que nationale. In Morocco, the founding myths of healing cults and rituals illustrate the symbolism and dynamics of power in both local and national contexts.Trade Review'Cette publication contribue significativement à la compréhension des enjeux sociopolitiques et religieux de la société marocaine actuelle, au travers de la confrontation entre les rites des saints et le sultan. Rhani y dépeint avec rigueur la réalité de la plasticité des rites et des mythes, qui sont en constante évolution, et qui pourrait mener à un désir populaire d’un retour du califat. Cet ouvrage captivera les spécialistes de la culture marocaine par sa justesse et le sens du détail qui traverse l’étude du saint Ben Yeffu'. Véronique Leclerc, Département d’anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec (Québec), Canada, dans Anthropologie et Sociétés, vol. 39, 2015Table of ContentsTABLE DES MATIÈRES Liste des illustrations Avant-propos Introduction 1. Herméneutique et archéologie du culte des saints 2. Espaces et lignages saints Une dynamique conflictuelle 3. Histoire, mythe et oralité 4. Quand le saint rencontre le sultan Justice sociale ou noblesse personnelle? 5. Les Maîtres de la possession Justice, belligérance et médiation 6. Le shrīf et la possédée Anti-mythe, contre-rituel et pouvoir 7. Le shaykh et le roi Mystique et politique Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisUnwelcome Exiles. Mexico and the Jewish Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945 reconstructs a largely unknown history: during the Second World War, the Mexican government closed its doors to Jewish refugees expelled by the Nazis. In this comprehensive investigation, based on archives in Mexico and the United States, Daniela Gleizer emphasizes the selectiveness and discretionary implementation of post-revolutionary Mexican immigration policy, which sought to preserve mestizaje—the country’s blend of Spanish and Indigenous people and the ideological basis of national identity—by turning away foreigners considered “inassimilable” and therefore “undesirable.” Through her analysis of Mexico’s role in the rescue of refugees in the 1930s and 40s, Gleizer challenges the country’s traditional image of itself as a nation that welcomes the persecuted. This book is a revised and expanded translation of the Spanish El exilio incómodo. México y los refugiados judíos, 1933-1945, which received an Honorable Mention in the LAJSA Book Prize Award 2013.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaper 1: BACKGROUND Chaper 2: JEWISH REFUGE: A EUROPEAN PROBLEM, 1933–1937 Chapter 3: THE KEY YEAR: 1938 Chapter 4: FROM PROJECTS FOR JEWISH COLONIZATION TO GREATER INFLEXIBILITY, 1939–1940 Chapter 5: SIGNS OF A THAW? THE EARLY YEARS OF MANUEL ÁVILA CAMACHO’S GOVERNMENT, 1941–1942 Chapter 6: THE URGENCY OF REFUGE: 1943–1945 Final Thoughts Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea shows how the momentous changes of the time transformed the lives of the common people. In twenty-three concise chapters, the book covers topics ranging from agriculture, commerce, and mining to education, marriage, and food culture. It examines how both the spread of Neo-Confucianism in the early Joseon period and its decline from the seventeenth century impacted economic and social life. The book also demonstrates that much of what is thought of as ancient Korean tradition actually developed in the Joseon period. Chapters in this book discuss how customs such as ancestor worship, the use of genealogies, and foods such as kimchi all originated or became widespread in this era. Contributors: Kim Kuentae, Yeom Jeong Sup, Kim Sung Woo, Lee Hun-Chang, Lee Uk, Yoo Pil Jo, Kim Kyung-ran, Kim Eui-Hwan, Oh Soo-chang, Ko Dong-Hwan, Kwon Nae-Hyun, Lee Hae Jun, Jung Jin Young, Kwon Ki-jung, Han Sang Kwon, Kwon Soon-Hyung, Jang Dong-Pyo, Seo-Tae-Won, Sim Jae-woo, Chung Yeon-sik, O Jong-rok, Hong Soon Min. This volume was co-translated by Edward Park and Michael D. Shin.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award "Shin and Park have produced an eminently readable translation of a well-known and popular Korean-language history of Joseon-era Korea from 1996. How Did People Live in the Joseon Period? Shin's lively introduction provides an excellent overview of the Joseon era, which spanned from 1392 to 1910, offering readers sufficient historiographic background without getting bogged down by minutia. The subsequent chapters, rendered into fluid and engaging English, depart from the standard approach of more formal histories of Korea. Chapters cover topics as diverse as farming, currency, education, the penal system, the life and hard times of itinerant merchants, military life, food culture (including an interesting section on the origins of kimchi), and outhouses at the palaces. This focus on everyday life among the commoners interrupts earlier histories of Korea that focused largely on the ruling classes. The volume is beautifully illustrated and handsomely presented. A very helpful glossary and an excellent index complete the package. This book will be of considerable interest to students at the undergraduate levels (lower and upper division alike), and should find a spot on the bookshelves of general readers interested in the history of Korea." – T. R. Tangherlini, University of California, Los Angeles, in: CHOICE (July 2014) [Copyright American Library Assocation]

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Book SynopsisKorea 2013: Politics, Economy and Society contains concise overview articles covering domestic developments and the economy in both South and North Korea as well as inter-Korean relations and foreign relations of the two Koreas in 2012. Additional papers deal with topics such as the promotion of the South Korea-EU trade agreement, the globalisation debate in South Korean higher education, the ideational foundations of the South Korean Unification Church, environmental policy in North Korea, the role of multilateralism in North Korea's foreign policy, and US television portrayal of North Korea. A detailed chronology complements the articles.Table of ContentsPreface - Rudiger Frank OUDE CONTENTS CHECK List of Refereed Articles Published since 2007 Chronology - Susan Pares South Korea in 2011: Domestic Politics, the Economy and Social Issues - Patrick Kollner North Korea in 2011: Domestic Developments and the Economy - Rudiger Frank Relations Between the Two Koreas in 2011 - Sabine Burghart Foreign Relations of the Two Koreas in 2011 - James E. Hoare How to Promote a Free Trade Agreement: UK Trade & Investment and the EU-Korea FTA - Judith Cherry Framing the Globalisation Debate in Korean Higher Education - Stephanie K. Kim The Millenarian Dimension of Unification Thought - Lukas Pokorny Politics and Environmental Development: From Imposition and Transformation to Conservation and Mitigation in the DPRK - Robert Winstanley-Chesters Between Autonomy and Influence? Multilaterialism and North Korean Foreign Policy in the Six Party Talks - Eric J. Ballbach A Propaganda Model Case Study of ABC Primetime 'North Korea: Inside the Shadows' - Sherri L. Ter Molen

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Book SynopsisMany students of memory assume that the practice of memory changed dramatically around 1800; this volume shows that there was much continuity as well as change. Premodern ways of negotiating memories of pain and loss, for instance, were indeed quite different to those in the modern West. Yet by examining memory practices and drawing on evidence from early modern England, France, Germany, Ireland, Hungary, the Low Countries and Ukraine, the case studies in this volume highlight the extent to which early modern memory was already a multimedia affair, with many political uses, and affecting stakeholders at all levels of society. Contributors include: Andreas Bähr, Philip Benedict, Susan Broomhall, Sarah Covington, Brecht Deseure, Sean Dunwoody, Marianne Eekhout, Gabriela Erdélyi, Dagmar Freist, Katharine Hodgkin, Jasmin Kilburn-Toppin, Erika Kuijpers, Johannes Müller, Ulrich Niggemann, Alexandr Osipian, Judith Pollmann, Benjamin Schmidt, Jasper van der SteenTrade Review‘’This is […] a valuable contribution to the genre of memory studies’’. Brian G. H. Ditcham, University of Gillingham. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2014, p. 752.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors List of Illustrations Introduction. On the Early Modernity of Modern Memory . Judith Pollmann and Erika Kuijpers PART I — MEMORY POLITICS AND MEMORY WARS 1. The Usable Past in the Lemberg Armenian Community’s Struggle for Equal Rights, 1578–1654 Alexandr Osipian 2. A Contested Past. Memory Wars during the Twelve Years Truce (1609–21) Jasper van der Steen 3. ‘You Will See Who They Are that Revile, and Lessen Your Glorious Deliverance’. The ‘Memory War’ about the ‘Glorious Revolution’ Ulrich Niggemann 4. Civic and Confessional Memory in Conflict. Augsburg in the Sixteenth Century Sean F. Dunwoody 5. Tales of a Peasant Revolt. Taboos and Memories of 1514 in Hungary Gabriella Erdélyi 6. Shaping the Memory of the French Wars of Religion. The First Centuries Philip Benedict PART II — MEDIALITY 7. Celebrating a Trojan Horse. Memories of the Dutch Revolt in Breda, 1590–1650 Marianne Eekhout 8. ‘The Odious Demon from Across the Sea’. Oliver Cromwell, Memory and the Dislocations of Ireland Sarah Covington 9. Material Memories of the Guildsmen. Crafting Identities in Early Modern London . Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin 10. Between Storytelling and Patriotic Scripture. The Memory Brokers of the Dutch Revolt Erika Kuijpers 11. Lost in Time and Space? Glocal Memoryscapes in the Early Modern World Dagmar Freist 12. The Spaces of Memory and their Transmediations. On the Lives of Exotic Images and their Material Evocations Benjamin Schmidt PART III — PERSONAL MEMORY 13. Disturbing Memories. Narrating Experiences and Emotions of Distressing Events in the French Wars of Religion Susan Broomhall 14. Remembering Fear. The Fear of Violence and the Violence of Fear in Seventeenth-Century War Memories Andreas Bähr 15. Permeable Memories. Family History and the Diaspora of Southern Netherlandish Exiles in the Seventeenth Century Johannes Müller 16. Women, Memory and Family History in Seventeenth-Century England Katharine Hodgkin 17. The Experience of Rupture and the History of Memory Brecht Deseure and Judith Pollmann Index

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Book SynopsisThe boundaries between mental, social and physical order and various states of disorder – unexpected mood swings, fury, melancholy, stress, insomnia, and demonic influence – form the core of this compilation. For medieval men and women, religious rituals, magic, herbs, dietary requirements as well as to scholastic medicine were a way to cope with the vagaries of mental wellbeing; the focus of the articles is on the interaction and osmosis between lay and elite cultures as well as medical, theological and political theories and practical experiences of daily life. Time span of the volume is the later Middle Ages, c. 1300-1500. Geographically it covers Western Europe and the comparison between Mediterranean world and Northern Europe is an important constituent. Contributors are Jussi Hanska, Gerhard Jaritz, Timo Joutsivuo, Kirsi Kanerva, Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Marko Lamberg, Iona McCleery, Susanna Niiranen, Sophie Oosterwijk, and Catherine Rider.Trade Review"This is an important addition to recent literature on the history of mental health, health and diet regimen, public health and disabilities in the Middle Ages. It is readable and interesting, and it would make a good addition to a course on medieval health or medieval disabilities. An advanced undergraduate would find this interesting, as would the scholar." Wendy Turner, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 28, No. 2, DOI:10.1093/shm/hkv013, Accessed on: 2 May, 2015 "This wide-ranging collection of articles, edited by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Susanna Niiranen, will constitute a welcome addition to the bookshelves of medievalists dealing with themes of mental health and illness, or with the history of the emotions in the later medieval period... the volume succeeds both in bringing diverse scholarly approaches into a rewarding dialogue with one another and in presenting a pleasurable book to read...I enjoyed all parts of the volume and found it to be a valuable resource which I can whole-heartedly recommend. The essays enrich one another admirably when read together." Nancy Mandeville Caciola, English Historical Review cxxxii. 556 (June 2017)Table of ContentsAbbreviations … vii List of Figures … viii Acknowledgements … x Perspectives to Mental (Dis)Order in Later Medieval Europe … 1 Sari Katajala-Peltomaa & Susanna Niiranen How to Get a Melancholy Marquess to Sleep? Melancholy in Scholastic Medicine … 21 Timo Joutsivuo Demons and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Medicine … 47 Catherine Rider Anger as a Spiritual, Social and Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Swedish Exempla … 70 Marko Lamberg Signs of Mental Disorder in Late Medieval Visual Evidence … 91 Gerhard Jaritz Demonic Possession as Physical and Mental Disturbance in the Later Medieval Canonization Processes … 108 Sari Katajala-Peltomaa “Volebam tamen ut nomen michi esset Dyonisius” – Fra Salimbene, Wine and Well-Being … 128 Jussi Hanska Mental Disorders in Remedy Collections: A Comparison of Occitan and Swedish Material … 151 Susanna Niiranen Wine, Women and Song? Diet and Regimen for Royal Well-Being (King Duarte of Portugal, 1433–1438) … 177 Iona McCleery “This Worlde Is but a Pilgrimage”: Mental Attitudes in/to the Medieval Danse Macabre … 197 Sophie Oosterwijk Disturbances of the Mind and Body: Effects of the Living Dead in Medieval Iceland … 219 Kirsi Kanerva Bibliography … 243 Index … 281

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Book SynopsisIn Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, Marcelo Vieta homes in on the history, consolidation, and socio-political dimensions of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (worker-recuperated enterprises), a worker-led company occupation movement that has surged since the turn-of-the-millennium and the country’s neo-liberal crisis.Trade Review“This tome is certainly a valuable contribution to any scholar of workplace democracy and organizational democracy; yet also for practitioners or students of the international cooperative movement, working class history buffs and those searching for theoretical and practical examples of a post-capitalist imaginary that seeks to move beyond a system of wage labor and to a notion of social solidarity. Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina is a welcome addition to the – surprisingly sparse – empirical discourse on self-management and economic democracy. This is the most detailed analysis of the recent experiences in Argentina that this reviewer has encountered (there is a larger literature in Spanish).” – Jerome Warren, in: Marx and Philosophy Review of Books [Full review] "Workers’ self-management in Argentina provides a powerful contribution to literature surrounding labour movements, democracy in the context of industrial relations, and resistance to neoliberalism in the organisational environment. I would recommend the book to scholars in any of these relative disciplines. Furthermore, Vieta provides a key example of the way that ethnography and qualitative study particular in the field of industrial relations can bring the experiences of workers to the forefront of knowledge production in a way beneficial to wider elements of the discipline." – Catherine Spellman, in: British Journal of Industrial Relations [Full review] "Marcelo Vieta’s recent Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina is the first comprehensive English-language review of “the largest movement in the world of worker-led conversions of capitalist businesses into cooperatives” (p. xv). [...] The book is a welcome contribution to the study of the phenomenon of workplace democracy that should interest a wide range of readers. In fact, it is actually quite unfair to call this book Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina, as its scope is far broader than reviewing this concept in the context of Argentina. In fact, Marcelo Vieta has written two books with this entry: firstly, an analysis of Marxist and other socialist theories on worker-self management, and secondly, an application of this theoretical lens to the Argentine case, with a social history of Argentina thrown in for good measure. There is ultimately something for everyone in this book." – Jerome Warren, in: British Journal of Industrial Relations [Full review]Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Glossary of Spanish and Other Foreign Terms and Phrases Preface Introduction PART 1 The Emergence of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores: From Workers’ Lived Experiences of Crisis to Autogestión 1. ‘Destiny in Our Own Hands’: Three Stories of Workplace Recuperations Cooperativa de Trabajo Chilavert Artes Gráficas Cooperativa de Trabajo ‘Unión Solidaria de Trabajadores’ Cooperativa de Trabajo de la Salud Junín Mobilising Direct Action Strategies and Workplace Solidarity 2. Empresas Recuparadas pos sus Trabajadores: Why, Where, What, and How Section 1: The Emergence of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas (with Andrés Ruggeri) Section 2: ERT Types and Experiences of Workplace Conversions Around the World The Emergence and Characteristics of Empresas Recuperadas: A Summation 3. The Political Economy of Argentina’s Working Class: Historical Underpinnings of the Empresas Recuperadas Section 1: The Rise and Consolidation of Argentina’s Working Class (1900–89) Section 2: Argentina’s Neo-liberal Turn and the After-effects of Socio-Economic Crisis (1990–2016) Section 3: Working-Class Recomposition and New Forms of Self-Managed Workers’ Organisations (2001–17) ERTs and the Political Economy of the Working Class in Argentina: A Summation PART 2 Theorising and Historicising Autogestión Chapter 4 The Stream of Self-Determination: Freedom, Cooperation, and the Recuperations of Living Labour Section 1: The Stream of Self-Determination and Modern Socialist Thought Section 2: Critical Theories of Labour and Capitalist Technology Section 3: ERTs’ Six Recuperative Moments Cooperative Self-Determination, Recuperation, and Argentina’s ERTs: Looking Forward 5. A Genealogy of Autogestión Section 1: Autogestión and the Self-Determination of Productive Life Section 2: Cooperatives, the Social and Solidarity Economy, and Autogestión Autogestión and the Continuing Stream of Self-Determination PART 3 The Consolidation of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas: Common Experiences, Challenges, and Social Transformations Chapter 6. ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’: Commonalities in the Lived Experiences of Recuperating Workplaces in Argentina (with Andrés Ruggeri) Section 1: From Workplace Conflicts to Autogestión Section 2: The Strategies and Tactics of ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce’ Re-appropriating Relevant Laws, Deploying Cooperative Values 7. The Challenges of Autogestión and ERT Workers’ Responses Section 1: Production Challenges Section 2: An Ambivalent Relationship with the State Section 3: Local and Transnational Solidarity Networks of Autogestión Organising Between ERTs and the Community to Collectively Overcome Challenges 8. Recuperating the Labour Process, Transforming Subjectivities: From Empleados to Compañeros and Trabajadores Autogestionados Section 1: Cooperatively Working and Democratising the Shop Section 2: Recuperating Cooperative Skills and Values, Informal Shop Floor Learning, and Transformed Subjectivities Section 3: Recuperating Social Production for Social Wealth Challenging ERTs’ ‘Dual Reality’ PART 4 Recuperating Autogestión 9. Recuperating Autogestión, Prefiguring Alternatives: Some Possible Conclusions On Workers’ Recuperations of Autogestión The Conjunctural Realities of Argentina’s ERTs Autogestión and Argentina’s ERTs Revisiting ERTs’ ‘Dual Reality’ Revisiting ERTs’ Radical Social Innovations and Recuperative Moments Revisiting the Definition of Argentina’s Empresas Recuperadas por sus Trabajadores Closing Thoughts, Continued Openings Appendix: Formal Interviews Conducted, Meetings Attended, and Cooperatives Visited Bibliography

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