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Book SynopsisThe History of Britain and Ireland: Prehistory to Today is a balanced and integrated political, social, cultural, and religious history of the British Isles. Kenneth Campbell explores the constantly evolving dialogue and relationship between the past and the present.Written in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter and Rhodes Must Fall demonstrations, The History of Britain and Ireland examines the history of Britain and Ireland at a time when it asks difficult questions of its past and looks to the future. Campbell places Black history at the forefront of his analysis and offers a voice to marginalised communities, to craft a complete and comprehensive history of Britain and Ireland from Prehistory to Today. This book is unique in that it integrates the histories of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to provide a balanced view of British history.Building on the successful foundations laid by the first edition, the book has been updated to include: COVID-19 and earlieTrade ReviewKenneth Campbell has written a thoughtful, up-to-date and eminently readable history of Britain and Ireland. Covering essential events and packed with fresh storied in its second edition, readers, especially students, will come away having learned a great deal indeed. * John Cramsie, Professor of British and Irish Studies and World History, Union College, USA *

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Book SynopsisThis open access book brings together an eclectic cast of scholars in related disciplines to examine ageing in the Soviet Union, covering the practice of geriatrics, the science of gerontology, and the experience of growing old. Chapters in the book focus on concepts and themes that analyse Soviet ageing in its medical, political and social contexts, both in the Soviet Union and internationally. Ageing was hardly a uniquely Soviet phenomenon: over the past fifty years, moreover, governments and societies have been dealing with steady increases in their ageing populations. Almost paradoxically, however, societal focus on this ageing population, its lives, and its social impact remains extremely limited. Compared to most sciences, gerontology is pitifully underfunded; geriatrics is amongst the least prestigious branches of medicine; and while the world's population is growing undeniably older, great disagreement remains over what can and should be done in response. These were the same cTrade ReviewA fascinating exploration of a neglected topic that is so important for our understanding of the last days of the USSR, as well as issues for our aging society. * Tricia Starks, Professor of History, University of Arkansas, USA *Table of ContentsEditors’ Introduction Part I: Soviet Gerontology and Geriatrics 1. The Legend of Gilgamesh: Attempts towards its Fulfilment in Soviet Gerontology Vladislav Bezrukov (Institute of Gerontology, Ukraine) and Konstantin Duplenko (Kiev-Mohyla National University, Ukraine) 2. From the Collections of the Medical Museum: Duality in 1920s Soviet Ageing Research Maria Tutorskaya (Russian Medical Museum, Russia) 3. Ageing Minds and Bodies: Psychiatric Care for the Elderly People in the Post-War Soviet Union Aleksandra Brokman (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 4. ‘Dolphin Babies’: The Late Soviet Project of Infant Swimming and the Creation of ‘a New Superhuman Being Anna Ozhiganova (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) Part II: Designing Medical and Social Spaces for Elderly People in the Soviet Union 5. Age and City: Old Age and Urban Planning in Moscow and Kiev Botakoz Kassymbekova (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) 6. ‘A Quiet Old Age’: Designing Homes for Elderly People Susan Grant (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Part III: Representation and Perception 7 The Right to a Personal File: Archiving the Lives of Soviet Pensioners Alissa Klots (University of Pittsburgh, USA) and Maria Romashova (Perm University History Museum, Russia) 8. The New Soviet Babushka: Popular Perceptions of Elderly Women after Stalin Danielle Leavitt-Quist (Harvard University, USA) Part IV: International Contexts 9. Ageing and Gerontology in the UK after 1945 Pat Thane (King’s College London, UK) 10. The Burden of Old Age: The Fate of Elderly People in the Polish People’s Republic Ewelina Szpak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) 11. The Development of Museums of Medicine in Post-Soviet Countries and their Contribution to the History of Medicine Katarzyna Jarosz (International University of Logistics and Transport, Poland) Epilogue James Chappel (Duke University, USA) and Isaac McKean Scarborough (Liverpool John Moores University, UK) Index

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Book SynopsisIn contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the erudite blockbuster', which for the fTrade ReviewScholars will have much to learn from this book; more importantly, it now represents the best introduction to the Enlightenment, and (quietly) provides an effective refutation of the widespread postmodern belief that the Enlightenment stands for imperialism, patriarchy and cold-blooded, scientific rationalism. And it is already available as a reasonably priced paperback, the modern equivalent of a cheap duodecimo. * The Critic *Revealing the social, cultural and political impact of 12 bestselling titles of the 18th century, this imaginative and engaging study offers a fresh take on the Enlightenment which will be much admired. -- Colin Jones, Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, Queen Mary University of London, UKBased on impressive new research, Kates places books, the printing industry, and the public at the center of a vibrant interpretation of this important cultural movement. We see a dynamic Enlightenment emerge over the course of the century in which even books we thought we knew look different through the eyes of those who read and helped shape them into texts which resonate today. -- Dena Goodman, Professor Emerita of History and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan, USATable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. The Enlightenment Reading Public 2. Fénelon’s Adventures of Telemachus (1699) 3. Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (1721) 4. Voltaire’s History of Charles XII (1731) & Montesquieu’s Considerations on the Greatness and Decline of the Romans (1734) 5. Voltaire’s Philosophical Letters (1733-1734) 6. Richardson’s Pamela (1740) 7. Hume’s Essays Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-1742) 8. Graffigny’s Letters from a Peruvian Woman (1747) 9. Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws (1748) 10. Rousseau’s Emile (1762) 11. Smith’s Wealth of Nations (1776) 12. Raynal’s Philosophical and Political History of the Two Indies (1770-1780) Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical transformations. Analysing the cultural strategies, both verbal and visual, used by foreign businesses in their advertisements to capture urban consumers, Haynes argues that the promoters of various commodities crystalized their campaigns around principles of modern conjugality. He also highlights the limitations of brand-name capitalism during this period, examining both its inability to cultivate markets in the countryside or among the urban poor, and its failure to secure middle-class customers. With numerous examples of illustrated advertisements taken from Indian newspapers, the book discusses campaiTrade ReviewA landmark contribution in the history of global capitalism, Haynes crafts an aesthetic visual archive of the modern professional advertising world in colonial western India. The book’s phenomenal textual analysis of advertisements in various languages and cities is indispensable for scholarship on urban middle classes, modern conjugality, gender relations, consumption practices, masculinities, medicine and sexual sciences. * Charu Gupta, Professor of History, University of Delhi, India *By showing how advertisements for consumer products drew upon and reinforced ideas about family and conjugality, Haynes connects the history of business with the making of a middle class in India. This is a path-breaking book, not least for the novel material analysed with insight and elegance. * Tirthankar Roy, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics, UK *In this rich cultural history, Haynes traces how advertisers in India interwove global commodity trends and localized concerns, responding to and shaping new ideas of gender and family. Where other scholars have analyzed individual ads to explore ideas of health, modernity or class, Haynes draws out in compelling detail where and why ads took the form they did, connecting culture and commerce, capital and politics. * Abigail McGowan, Professor of History, University of Vermont, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Brand-name Capitalism and Professional Advertising in India 2. Consumers: European Expatriates and the Indian Middle Class 3. Tonics and the Marketing of Conjugal Masculinity 4. Advertising and the Female Consumer: Feluna, Ovaltine and Beauty Soaps 5. Lever Brothers, Soap Advertising, and the Family 6. The Invention of a Cooking Medium: Cocogem and Dalda 7. Electrical Household Technologies: Fracturing the Ideal Home Chapter VIII: Conclusion: Interwar Advertising and India’s Contemporary ....................... Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a vital exploration of the harrowing stories of mass displacement that took place in the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of forced migrants themselves. The volume brings together 15 interrelated case studies which show how the deportation, evacuation and flight of millions of people as a result of the First World War intensified rather than alleviated ethnic conflicts which culminated in population transfers on an even larger scale during and immediately after the Second World War. While each chapter focuses on a different group of refugees and displaced persons, the text as a whole looks at the experience of forced migration as a complex set of evolving relationships with the receiving society, the homeland, the broader diaspora and other migrant communities living within the same host country. This innovative, four-dimensional model provides an overarching conceptual framework that binds the chapters together within the longer arc of European history.Trade ReviewA valuable contribution to our understanding of the mass refugee movements which blighted Europe in the era of the two world wars. Using the concept of diaspora and drawing from case studies covering the entire continent, this volume offers innovative insights into a wide range of expulsions during this period. * Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, De Montfort University, UK *Table of ContentsForeword, Andreas Kossert Introduction: Unwilling Nomads: A Four-Dimensional Model of Diaspora, Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University, UK) and Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brooks University, UK) Part I - Forced Migrants during the First World War 1. Population movement, evacuation and internment in Habsburg Galicia during the First World War: Considering the four-dimensional model of diaspora, Serhiy Choliy (Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine) 2. Humiliated and insulted: The multiple categories of Austro-Hungarian civilian internees, 1914–17, Egor Lykov (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 3. Between Suffering and Displacement: The Case of the Istrian ‘Evakuirci’, Diego Han (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Part II - Political Emigrants in the Interwar Era 4. Salvaging the ‘unredeemed’ in Italy: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the Julian March émigrés, Miha Zobec (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenia) 5. Ukrainian emigration in the Weimar Republic and its role in German foreign policy, Veronika Weisheimer (European University Viadrina Frankfurt, Germany) 6. Protecting the national identity of Russian emigrants and their children in interwar Eastern Europe, Aleksandra Mikulenok (Russian State University of Justice, Russia) Part III - People on the move in fascist Europe 7. Stefi Kiesler: A Librarian as ‘Intellectual Refugee Service’, Jill Meißner-Wolfbeisser (University of Vienna, Austria) 8. The catalysts of 1938: European child evacuations as humanitarian innovation, Chelsea Sambells (University of Huddersfield, UK) 9. ‘And Without a Hat!’: Refugee women in the transit country Portugal after 1933, Katrin Sippel (Austrian Society for Exile Studies, Austria) 10. Many Journeys of Exile: Spanish Republican Refugees in France, 1939-1946, David Messenger (University of South Alabama, USA) 11. Reclaimed for the Volk: Forced Migration and Assimilation in the Wartime Third Reich, Bradley J. Nichols (University of Missouri, USA) Part IV - Refugees and displaced persons and the Second World War 12. The surviving remnant: Subjectification and self-organization in the Jewish DP camp Bergen-Belsen, 1945–8, Lennart Onken (Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial, Hamburg, Germany) 13. Resettling, repatriating and ‘rehabilitating’ Polish displaced persons in British-occupied Germany, 1945–51, Samantha K. Knapton (University of Nottingham, UK) 14. Ethnopolitical humanitarianism: The post-war resettlement of 2,446 Danube Swabians to Brazil, Cristian Cercel (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany) 15. Anti-communists, communists and migrants in France, 1917–53, Aaron Clift (University of Oxford, UK) Conclusion: Polish Refugees and East Prussian Expellees: Applying the Four-Dimensional Model, Bastiaan Willems (Lancaster University, UK) and Michal Adam Palacz (Oxford Brooks University, UK) Concluding Remarks, Pertti Ahonen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) Index

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Book SynopsisErin Eckhold Sassin is Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture at Middlebury College, USA. Her research focuses on modern architecture and urban culture in Germany and the United States, with a particular interest in how class, gender, and ethnicity inform the built environment. Her most recent work deals with the everyday tragedy of the First World War and the production of architecture within the state of emergency, as well as the intersection of Acoustic Ecology and Architectural History.Trade ReviewThis insightful study is a must-read for everyone interested in creative approaches to one of the major social crises of the modern age—providing decent, affordable housing for single people living on their own in industrialized cities. * Abigail A. Van Slyck, Dayton Professor Emerita of Art History and Architectural Studies, Connecticut College, USA *German architecture rewritten from the perspective of the single men and women living in mass housing. Meticulously researched, Erin Eckhold Sassin’s book is a major contribution to the histories of modernization and urbanization and their highly gendered designs for living. * Sabine Hake, Texas Chair of German Literature and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Unmarried Individual and the “Lodger Problem” 1. Adolph Kolping’s Revolution: Popular Catholicism and Housing “Wild” Youth 2. Beyond the Company Town: Industrialists House the “Roving Male” 3. Making the Municipality a Home: Appropriate Luxury for All 4. Homes for Women: Between the Domestic Realm and the Public Sphere Extended Conclusion: Weimar Twilight and Continued Relevance of the Ledigenheim Building Type

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Book SynopsisSarah Heaton is Head of English at the University of Chester, UK.Trade ReviewA thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair ... There is plenty to inform and intrigue. * Times Literary Supplement *An excellent contribution to this very significant period in the story of hair, this book offers specific insights from a range of disciplines and authors. The chapters manage to weave into each other to demonstrate the ways in which hair and our contemporary modes of understanding it are embedded in the fascinating period of change that is the Age of Empire. -- Donna Bevan, Southampton Solent University, UKTable of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Introduction: Empires of Hair and their Afterlives, Sarah Heaton 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief, Richard Leahy 2. Self and Society, Jonathon Shears 3. Fashion and Adornment, Patricia Hunt-Hurst 4. Production and Practice, Sallie McNamara 5. Health and Hygiene, Janice M. Allan 6. Gender and Sexuality, Sarah Heaton 7. Race and Ethnicity, Elizabeth Way 8. Class and Social Status, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller 9. Cultural Representations, Sally West Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisSwati Chattopadhyay is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, with an affiliated appointment in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Trade ReviewThis brilliantly provocative study provides an alternative, micro-scalar history of colonial and middle-class domiciles, along with an extraordinary archaeology of objects and bodies that mediated the intimacy of the rulers and the ruled—taking us on an exhilarating journey from the cellars, kitchens, dining rooms and verandahs of the imperial mansions of Calcutta to the streets, bazars and bungalows of the Bengal and north-Indian countryside. * Sudipta Sen, University of California, Davis, USA *In this erudite yet eminently accessible volume, Chattopadhyay imaginatively stitches together the overlooked worlds of fragmented and seemingly minor spaces underpinning the workings of everyday life and better regarded practices, inspiring readers, by example, to recognize their indispensability and resilience. * Zeynep Kezer, Newcastle University, UK *An original examination of empire from marginal spaces in the built environment. This book unites subalterns with the spatial medium of their agency during colonial rule. It brilliantly reveals the hidden infrastructure of empire through an architectural and social history of service, separation, and subordination. * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Part I. Small Spaces 1. Of Small Spaces 2. Empire of Small Spaces Part II: Trade and Labor 3. Dependency 4. Locating the Bottlekhana 5. Potable Empire 6. Europe Goods 7. Strange Tongues 8. Making Invisible Part III: Land Imagination 9. Vantage 10. Connective Spaces 11. Anomalous Spaces 12. An Aesthetic Episode 13. Roofscape Part IV: A Geography of Small Spaces 14. Collections and Containment 15. Portable Geographies 16. A Good Shelf 17. A Box of Medicine 18. Epilogue Appendix A Index

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Book SynopsisShorlisted for the BAFTSS 2020 Award for Best MonographStarting out as an independent filmmaker, and despite his films being subjected to censorship in his native China, Jia Zhangke has become the country's leading film director internationally. Seen as one of world cinema's foremost auteurs, he has played a crucial role in documenting and reflecting upon China's era of intense transformations since the 1990s..Cecília Mello provides in-depth analysis of Jia's unique body of work, from his early films Xiao Wu and Platform, to experimental quasi-documentary 24 City and the audacious Mountains May Depart. Mello suggests that Jia's particular expression of the realist mode is shaped by the aesthetics of other Chinese artistic traditions, allowing Jia to unearth memories both personal and collective, still lingering within the ever-changing landscapes of contemporary China. Mello's groundbreaking study opens a door into Chinese cinema anTrade ReviewThe tone is serious and scholarly, and the author approaches her subject as if nothing could be as important in a world in which the liberal arts have been almost abandoned … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Cecilia Mello's study of Jia Zhangke, China's leading independent director, brilliantly counterbalances the impulses towards realism and intermediality she finds in Zhangke's work. Its foreword by Walter Salles backs up Salles's and Mello's claim that Zhangke is the most important world film director of the twenty-first century so far, and Mello's thorough knowledge and understanding of Chinese cultures of this period underpins the book's location of memory between the realist impulse and the impure multilayeredness of Zhangke's films. -- BAFTSS Awards judgesOver the course of the past 25 years, there has been no better cinematic chronicle of China’s dramatic transformation than the films of Jia Zhangke... Cecília Mello digs deep into Jia’s body of work, unveiling a rich tapestry of intermingling songs, landscapes, textures, and intertexts. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding how Jia Zhangke’s films work. -- Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies, UCLA, USACecília Mello’s refined analysis not only unravels Jia Zhangke’s poetics of cinema as a complex aesthetic of in- betweenness contemplating a world in inevitable transience and change, but also proposes an amazingly nuanced intermedial approach that illuminates from different vantage points the deep imbrication of art and life, memory and palpable reality. -- Ágnes Petho, Professor of Film Studies, Sapientia University, RomaniaCecília Mello’s book is a breakthrough. It clears the mists around Jia Zhangke’s famously “impure” realism, showing how it is shot through with Chinese aesthetics drawn from wuxia martial arts, Chinese opera performance, gardening, painting, and more. -- Chris Berry, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London, UKTable of Contents1. 'Introduction: Jia Zhangke, Realism, Memory and Impurity' 2. 'The Walls of China: Between Ephemerality and Permanence' 3. 'Ping Yao’s City Walls: On-Location Filming and the Weight of History' 4. 'Pop Music’s Sonic Memories' 5. 'Landscape Painting, Chinese Philosophy and the Aesthetic Innovation of Still Life' 6. 'Opera, Wuxia and China’s Imagined Civilization' 7. 'Painterly Still Lives and Photographic Poses: Stillness and the Moving Image' 8. 'Garden Heterotopias and the Memory of Space' 9. 'I Wish I Knew’s Cinephilic Journeys (an afterword on intertextuality)' 10. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisDabney Townsend is retired as Executive Director of the American Society for Aesthetics and Professor of Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, USA. He is Editor of Eighteenth-Century British Aesthetics and Classical Readings in Aesthetics.Trade ReviewThe term 'aesthetics' was coined in eighteenth-century German, but without benefit of the name the discipline itself blossomed in eighteenth-century Britain. This is important, because as Dabney Townsend persuasively argues, it is a mistake to read Kant's conception of a distinct, 'disinterested' aesthetic experience back into eighteenth-century British aesthetics. The British, especially Scottish authors wrote under the influence of John Locke, and took a deeply empiricist approach to the variety of aesthetic experiences. Townsend's brilliant work builds upon a lifetime of exploration of this rich subject. He offers original readings of well-known philosophers such as Hutcheson, Hume, and Burke as well as lesser-known figures such as Kames and Priestley, and original approaches to such topics as taste, tragedy, genius, the sublime, the picturesque, and more. His attention to the different projects and conclusions of these philosophers is itself an illustration of the value of an empiricist approach to the history of philosophy. * Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy, Brown University, USA *Dabney Townsend is one of the world’s leading figures in eighteenth-century aesthetics, and in this new book – lucid, acute, richly informed – he casts new light on texts we thought we knew. Situating eighteenth-century British authors – some major figures, some marginalized yet of major significance – into their own cultural and intellectual contexts, Townsend rethinks what we commonly take as the origins of the modern discipline of philosophical aesthetics and leads us to a new and more historically enriched way of seeing the contemporary field and its possibilities. This is a book that reveals the importance of asking the right questions of philosophical authors and that shows the importance of framing those questions with sufficient historical insight. Rich with illuminating interconnections, this absorbing volume leaves us with a better understanding and deeper comprehension of the concepts – empirical perception, judgments of taste, artistic genius, beauty, the sublime, and the picturesque – that constitute our aesthetic inheritance from eighteenth-century Britain. A major contribution. * Garry L. Hagberg, James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Bard College, USA *Dabney Townsend is an acknowledged expert on eighteenth-century British aesthetics and his latest book is the culmination of a lifetime’s study of the subject. This book is an authoritative, accessible and comprehensive examination of Townsend’s subject. * James O. Young, Professor of Philosophy, University of Victoria, Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Empiricist Move in Aesthetics: Locke and Shaftesbury 2. Francis Hutcheson: The Sense of Taste 3. Hume: The Priority of Sentiment4. Associationism: David Hartley and Joseph Priestley 5. Theories of Taste 6. Problems of Taste: The Tragic Paradox and a Standard of Taste 7. Genius 8. The Sublime: Baillie and Burke 9. The Picturesque 10. Thomas Reid and the Theory of Taste 11. Archibald Alison: Experience and Expression 12. Dugald Stewart: Beauty and Taste Again Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was the role of elected legislators? Was it to represent the opinions of constituents or to vote according to their informed opinions reflecting the needs of the kingdom? Most authorities have accepted Edmund Burke's depiction of 18th-century MPs, insisting it was their right to form their opinions without reference to the instructions of constituents. This study provides answers to these important questions and, in doing so, reveals that Burke's vision does not represent how the House of Commons functioned during the last two decades of the 18th century. Rather than focusing on specific issues or demographic groups, English MPs brings to the fore the legislative activity of a broad segment of late 18th-century English MPs. This book shows they were diligent legislators who attended to the needs of constituents, in the process developing strong connections with them. It demonstrates that these connections did not rest on shared beliefs in reformist ideologies except in, andTrade ReviewAn important study of how MPs helped shape the changing face of industrialising Britain in the second half of the 18th century against the backdrop of war and slavery. Professor McCahill’s extensive research into the work of MPs, constituencies, lobbies and petitioners transforms our understanding of the so-called ‘unreformed’ Parliament. * Miles Taylor, Professor of British History & Society, Humboldt University, Germany *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction: English MPs and Legislation, 1754-1790 2. Knights of the Shire 3. Borough members: Plymouth, Kingston-upon Hull and Bristol 4. More Borough members: Blackstone, Newdigate and Windham 5. Thomas Gilbert, Legislator, par excellence 6. Essex Imbroglios 7. Interest Groups: The West India Interest 8. Lobbies: Birmingham, Leeds and the Fisheries 9. Parliamentary reform: instructions and representation 10. The Commons and the Lords: A Legislative Partnership? 11. Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the 2021 TaPRA Edited Collection PrizeThe Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography offers an authoritative guide to contemporary debates and practices in this field. The book covers current key themes and methods in theatre history research, and expands the object of study to include engagement with theatre and performance practices and the development of theatre histories around the world. Central to the book are 16 specially commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars from a wide range of international contexts, whose discussion of individual case studies is predicated on their understanding and experience of their local' landscape of theatre history. These essays reveal where important work continues to be done in the field and, most valuably, draw on academic contexts beyond the Western academy to expand our knowledge of the exciting directions that such an approach opens up. Prefaced by an introduction tracing the deveTrade ReviewThe collection’s impressive range of case studies, thought-provoking organization and attentiveness to innovative methodologies offer readers a wealth of possibilities and ideas. This is a book that should change forever how we think about – and practice – theatre history and historiography. * Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgements How to Use this Book Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 1. Introduction Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 2. Research Methods and Methodologies Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3. Current Research: Case Studies from the Field 3.1 Seeing Differently Through Time and Space Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.1.1 A-foot in Time: Temporality in the Space of a Moment in Theatre History Rosemarie Bank (Kent State University, USA) 3.1.2 Nuwhju and the Archive: Recuperating the History of Aboriginal Australian Performance Practice Maryrose Casey (Monash University, Australia) 3.2 Challenging Dominant Histories Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.2.1 Theatre History vs Theatre Canon: the Chilean Case Milena Grass Kleiner (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, USA), Mariana Hausdorf Andrade (Independent Scholar), Nancy Nicholls (Universidad Católica de Chile, USA) 3.2.2 When Napoleon went to the Theatre: A Closer Examination of Stories and the History of the Milanese Patriotic Scene Laura Peja (Università Cattolica, Italy) 3.3 Politics, Precursors and Erasure Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.3.1 How to Make Political Theatre? Polish Socialist Realism as a Historiographical Problem Dorota Sosnowska (Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, Poland) 3.3.2 The First Actress Party:Adunni Oluwole and the First Guerrilla Theatre in Nigeria Ngozi Udengwu (University of Nigeria, Nigeria) 3.4 Mapping Landscapes of Theatre Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.4.1 Mapping London’s Amateur Theatre Histories David Coates (University of Warwick, UK) 3.4.2 Between Back Province and Metropolis. Actor Autobiographies as Sources to Trace Cultural Mobility Katharina Wessely (University of Vienna, Austria) 3.5 Place and the Performance Event Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.5.1. History vs Historiography. A Renaissance Case Study Revisited Clelia Falletti (University of Rome, Italy), trans. by Victor Emmanuel Jacono 3.5.2 Of Shrine and Stage: A Study of Huizhou Temple Theatre in Late Imperial China Xiaohuan Zhao (Shanxi Normal University & Donghua University, Shanghai, China) 3.6 Material Evidence and the Archive Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.6.1 Historiography of Yellowface: Stage Makeup, Materiality and Technology Esther Kim Lee (Duke University, USA) 3.6.2 Archived Voices: Attempting to Listen to the Theatrical Past Ruthie Abeliovich (University of Haifa, Israel) 3.7 The Imperatives of Local Difference Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.7.1 What’s in a Name? The Performance of Language in the Invention of Colonial and Postcolonial South Asian Theatre History Rashna Darius Nicholson (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 3.7.2 Korean Masked Dance Drama and a Historiography of Emotions Hyunshik Ju (Kyonggi University, South Korea) 3.8 Rhizomes and Palimpsests: Theatre Histories Across Cultures Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 3.8.1 Erased Trails: Investigating Icelandic-Canadian Theatre History Magnus Thor Thorbergsson (University of Iceland, Iceland) 3.8.2 Decolonizing Theatre History in the Arab World (The Case of the Maghreb) Khalid Amine (Abdelmalek Essaadi University, Tétouan, Morocco) 4. Changing Perspectives and Current Challenges Introduction: Claire Cochrane (University of Worcester, UK) and Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 4.1 A Manifesto for Performance Research Elisabeth Dutton (University of Fribourg, Switzerland) 4.2 Digital Histories, Digital Landscapes: New Possibilities of Arranging the Record Jo Robinson (University of Nottingham, UK) 4.3 Historians in Dialogue: a Roundtable Discussion 5.1. Works Cited 5.2 Annotated Bibliography 5.3 Selected Resources Index

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Book SynopsisJoanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Edith J. Benkov (San Diego State University, USA) 2. Religion, Line Cecilie Engh (University of Oslo, Norway) 3. State and Law, Thomas Kuehn (Clemson University, USA) 4. The Ties That Bind, Sally Dixon-Smith (Tower of London for Historic Royal Palaces, UK) and April Harper (SUNY Oneonta, USA) 5. The Family Economy, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Ruth Mazzo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 7. Breaking Vows, Sara M. Butler (Ohio State University, USA) 8. Representation, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisMoney is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store. But money is always a medium of communication too, whether about price or about political conviction and authority, fealty, desire, or disdain. In a work that spans 4,500 years, 54 experts chart across six volumes how money has made the world go round and capture money's complexities in both substance and form. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (500-1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400-1680); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820); 5 - Age of Empire (1820-1920); 6 - Modern Age (1920-present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Money and its Technologi

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Book SynopsisDress and Identity in America is an examination of the conservatism and materialism that swept across the country in the late 1940s through the 1950sa backlash to the wartime tumult, privations, and social upheavals of the Second World War.The study looks at how American men sought to recapture a masculine identity from a generation earlier, that of the stoic patriarch, breadwinner, and dutiful father, and in the process, became the men in the gray flannel suits who were complacently conventional and conformist. Parallel to that is a look at how American women, who had donned pants and went to work in wartime munitions factories or joined services like the WACS and WAVES, were now expected to stay at home as housewives and mothers, dressed in cinched, ultrafeminine New Look fashions. As the Space Age dawned, their baby boom children rejected the conventions of their elders and experimented with their own ideas of identity and dress in an emerging era ofTrade ReviewComprehensive and thoughtful, Daniel Delis Hill extends existing studies of post-war American dress, paying welcome attention to marginalised and mundane identities. Distinctive due to its robust contextualisation and detailed socio-political framing, the book presents a timely history. * Alison L Goodrum, Norwich University of the Arts, UK *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Growing Up Sociocultural legacies from his childhood American manhood during World War II Civilian dress and identity during the Second World War Conclusion 2. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: The Postwar Years Masculine identity in transition The GI Bill of Rights Postwar marriage Masculine identity in suburbia Fatherhood in the baby boom era TV dads of the 1950s Conclusion 3. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: Crisis in Masculinity The feminization of American manhood Conformity and Cold War masculine identity The stress of success Noncomformist Beats, beatniks and bikers Playboys “Lavender Lads” Conclusion 4. Men’s Dress from Ivy League to Continental to Mod Ivy League style Continental suits Accessories Sportswear The dichotomy of desexualized dress and erotic masculine styles The British Invasion: from the London Line to mod Conclusion 5. Ethnic Men’s Identity and Dress The zoot suit The social significance and cultural meaning of the zoot suit The zoot suit riots Soul style in the 1960s Conclusion 6. Women of the Baby Boom Era: Lessons of Youth Feminine role models and expectations American women during World War II Sociocultural changes for women during World War II Conclusion 7. Women’s Identities in the Baby Boom Years Marriage reunions at the end of the war Postwar newlyweds Postwar marriage: not happily ever after Postwar suburban wives Motherhood in the baby boom era TV wives and mothers of the baby boom era Working women of the baby boom era Feminism in the baby boom era Conclusion 8. Women’s Fashions of the Baby Boom Era The New Look Mod and the miniskirt Women’s accessories of the baby boom years Decade of “miracle fabrics” Conclusion 9. Baby Boom Children An era of children Gender role socialization A new consumer demographic Children’s dress Standardization of children’s sizes and textile regulations Children’s body modifications Conclusion End Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history.This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity, explores peace in the period from 500 BC to 800 AD. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace.A Cultural History of Peace in Antiquity is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the classical era.Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction 1. Definitions of Peace 2. Human Nature, Peace, and War 3. Peace, War, and Gender 4. Peace, Pacifism, and Religion 5. Representations of Peace 6. Peace as Integration 7. Peace Movements 8. Peace, Security and Deterrence Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBeate Dignas is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, UK, and Fellow and Tutor of Ancient History at Somerville College. Her research focuses on Greek Religion and the History of Asia Minor. She is the author of Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2002) and Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity (2007). She has also edited the collective volumes Historical and Religious Memory in the Ancient World (2012) and Wandering Myths: Transcultural Uses of Myth in the Ancient World (2018).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGerald Schwedler is Professor of Medieval History at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. His research areas include medieval historiography, memory culture and economic history. He has published various books and articles on medieval strategies of memory and forgetting (Damnatio in memoria, 2014; Damnatio memoriae, 2020). He currently works on cultural inflation and imitation in the Middle Ages (Nachahmen im Mittelalter, 2018) as well as medieval patterns to deal with cultural degeneration (Exzerpieren Kompilieren Tradieren, 2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisMarek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His primary research fields are cultural history of medieval Europe, theory and history of historiography, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, Bloomsbury 2019), Juri Lotman Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (2019), Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke, Bloomsbury 2018), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015), and a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (ed. with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, Ashgate 2011). He is also the co-editor of A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, Bloomsbury 2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis[A] page-turning story Times Literary SupplementEye-opening Michael BillingtonA detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. The Stratford HeraldIn the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 known colloquially as the ''Birthplace'' remains the chief shrine. It''s not as romantic as Anne Hathaway''s thatched cottage, it''s not where he wrote any of his plays, and there''s nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in StratforTrade ReviewThis book is a terrific addition to the Shakespeare library … Combining social, architectural and theatrical history, the first third of the book offers a vivid evocation of life in Elizabethan Stratford … His most piercing observation, in this eye-opening book, is that the most important person in the birthplace is not the absent Shakespeare, but the curious visitor who finds in it whatever he or she is looking for. -- Michael Billington * Country Life *The book is jam-packed with facts and dates, but it flows well and it's easy to follow - Shakespeare's House is a delectable piece of microhistory and the perfect stocking filler for those who dabble in bardolatry. -- Cindy Marcolina * Broadway World UK *[Schoch] proves himself an impressive detective with a nose for a good story … Entertaining in its own right and also helpful as a reminder of the life and work of the great man. -- Philip Fisher * British Theatre Guide *A lively account of Shake­speare’s Birthplace. -- Glyn Paflin * The Church Times *Fascinating … A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar. * The Stratford-Herald *A sparklingly irreverent and yet sympathetic account of how and why Shakespeare’s birthplace became The Birthplace. Schoch brings the Stratford-upon-Avon that Shakespeare would have known vividly to life before telling the story of how a house in Henley Street turned into cultural heritage. It is a tale of fluctuating family fortunes, changing ideas of authorship, unashamed entrepreneurialism, mingled national reverence and hypocrisy, and how much the Birthplace has been worth and to whom. Brilliantly detailed and impeccably researched new materials dug out of the archive shed light on the second-best bed, the mulberry tree, the earliest tourists, the fabrication of Shakespeare relics, the auction of the house in 1847 and restoration anxieties. The Birthplace comes into new focus as a strange and wonderful amalgam of the genuine and sham, history and mythology. Essential reading for all Shakespeare enthusiasts – thrilling, entertaining, definitive. * Nicola J. Watson, The Open University, UK *Richard Schoch's account of how the site of Shakespeare's birth became an international icon is Shakespearean in its range and ambition. His impressive cast includes poets, novelists, historians, biographers, actors, scholars, visual artists, local personalities, a circus-entrepreneur, even royalty, all of whom process across Schoch's Birthplace-stage and earn a place in the story. This is not only a gripping account of how Shakespeare's Birthplace evolved (family residence, inn, butcher's shop, pub, site of pilgrimage, museum, library, archive), but a delightful tour through the highlights of the first three hundred years of Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon. * Paul Edmondson, Head of Research, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK *Marking 400 years since the publication of the First Folio, in Shakespeare’s House Richard Schoch looks at the hidden history of the Bard’s birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon, examining how it has become the chief shrine to our greatest playwright and asks what that changed status tells us about changing attitudes to Shakespeare himself. * Choice *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Prologue Part I: Shakespeare and the World 1. On the Right Hand of Avon 2. To Be Wise in Building a House 3. Epitome of the Whole World 4. Household Stuff Part II: The World and Shakespeare 5. Thy Stratford Monument 6. Our Shakespeare’s House 7. A Marvellous Convenient Place 8. Birth of the Birthplace 9. Cottage of Humility 10. This House for Sale 11. Snatched from Quick Decay 12. Restoring Shakespeare 13. W.S. Epilogue: ‘Memorials of the Marvellous Man’ Bibliographic Essay Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisJody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.Theresa Coletti is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar Teacher Emerita at the University of Maryland, USA.John T. Sebastian is Professor of English at Loyola Marymount University, USA.Carol Symes is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface General Editor’s Acknowledgements Introduction: Miscarriages of Justice, Jody Enders (University of California, USA) 1. Forms and Media, Carol Symes (University of Illinois, USA) 2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Christopher Swift (City University of New York, USA) 3. Communities of Production and Consumption, John T. Sebastian (Loyola Marymount University, USA) 4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Antonio Donato (City University of New York, USA) and Erith Jaffe-Berg (University of California, USA) 5. Religion, Ritual, and Myth, John Parker (University of Virginia, USA) 6. Politics of City and Nation, Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford, UK) 7. Society and Family, Theresa Coletti (University of Maryland College Park, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Karen Sullivan (Bard College, USA) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNaomi Conn Liebler is Professor of English and a University Distinguished Scholar at Montclair State University, USA.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Defining the Elephant, Naomi Conn Liebler (Montclair State University, USA) 1. Forms and Media, Rebecca Bushnell (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 2. Sites of Performance and Circulation, Bruce R. Smith (University of Southern California, USA) 3. Communities of Production and Consumption, András Kiséry (The City College of New York, USA) 4. Philosophy and Social Theory, Richard Wilson (Kingston University, UK and the University of Oxford, UK) 5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Paul Innes (University of Gloucestershire, UK) 6. Politics of City and Nation, Ivan Lupic (Stanford University, USA) 7. Society and Family, Coppélia Kahn (Brown University, USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality, Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary’s University, Canada) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisJennifer Wallace is the author of Tragedy Since 9/11: Reading a World Out of Joint (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019) and the Director of Studies in English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Editor's Acknowledgements Introduction: Tragedy Since 1920, Jennifer Wallace (University of Cambridge, UK) 1. Forms and Media, Ramona Mosse (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) 2. Sites of Performance, Drew Milne (University of Cambridge, UK) 3. Communities of Production and Consumption, Olga Taxidou (University of Edinburgh, UK) 4. Philosophy and Social Theory, David Kornhaber (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) 5. Religion, Ritual and Myth, Ben Quash (King's College London, UK) 6. Politics of City and Nation, Tony Fisher (The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK) 7. Society and Family, Kélina Gotman (King's College London, UK) 8. Gender and Sexuality, P.A. Skantze (Roehampton University, UK) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years of human history, this is the definitive reference work on the subject.Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one volume, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six. The six volumes cover: 1. - Antiquity (500BCE - 800 CE); 2. - Middle Ages (800 - 1450); 3. - Renaissance (1450 - 1650); 4. - Age of Enlightenment (1650 - 1800); 5. - Age of Empire (1800 - 1920); 6. - Modern Age (1920 - 2000+).Themes (and chapter titles) are

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1650 to 1800, a period often seen as a time of decline in sporting practice and literature. In fact, a rich sporting culture existed and sports were practised by both men and women at all levels of society. The Enlightenment called into question many of the earlier notions of religion, gender, and rank which had previously shaped sporting activities and also initiated the commercialization, professionalization and associativity which were to define modern sport. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion,

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Book SynopsisROBIN OSBORNE is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College Cambridge and of the British Academy. His work spreads over the archaeology, art history and history of Greece, particularly between 800 and 300 BCE. His most recent books are The Transformation of Athens: Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton, 2018) and, with P.J. Rhodes, Greek Historical Inscriptions 478404B.C. (Oxford, 2017).

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Book SynopsisA Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport, new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped by global encounters. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in

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Book SynopsisDenise Eileen McCoskey is a Professor of Classics and Affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University (Ohio), USA. She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy (2012), and has published widely on the meanings of race in classical antiquity, as well as the way ancient racial identities have been misrepresented in more modern eras. She is currently at work on a project examining the role of eugenics in early twentieth-century American classical scholarship.

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Book SynopsisThomas Hahn teaches in the English Department at the University of Rochester, USA. In addition to more than 50 scholarly publications, he has edited Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales (1995), as well as a number of academic collections: these include Reconceiving Chaucer: Literary Theory and Historical Interpretation (1990); Retelling Stories: Structure, Context, and Innovation in Traditional Narratives (1997); Robin Hood in Popular Culture: Violence, Transgression, and Justice (2000); and Race and Ethnicity in the Middle Ages (2001).

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Book SynopsisNicholas Hudson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Samuel Johnson and Eighteenth-Century Thought (1988), Writing and European Thought (1994), Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England (2001) and A Political Life of Samuel Johnson (2013). In the area of Race Studies, he has published From Nation to Race: The Origin of Racial Classification in Eighteenth-Century Thought' (1996), Hottentots and the Evolution of European Racism' (2004) and The Hottentots Venus' and the Changing Aesthetics of Race, 1600 1850' (2008).

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Book SynopsisKimberly Anne Coles is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, USA. She is the author of Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England (2008), and Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England (2022). She has co-edited several collections on the topics of race and gender. She also serves on the Editorial Board of Renaissance Quarterly.Dorothy Kim teaches Medieval Literature at Brandeis University, USA. Her research focuses on critical race, gender and sexuality, digital humanities, medieval women's literary cultures, medievalism, Jewish/Christian difference, book history, digital media, and the alt-right. She is the associate editor for the Journal of Early Middle English and the co-editor for the medieval to early modern section of Literature Compass.

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Book SynopsisMarina B. Mogilner holds the Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is a founding editor of Ab Imperio Quarterly and the author of Homo Imperii: A History of Physical Anthropology in Russia (2013). Her recently finished new book, A Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness (1860s1930s), considers strategies and meanings of Jewish self-racialization in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisTanya Maria Golash-Boza is the founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab and a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced, USA. She is a prolific scholar, with several published books and dozens of articles. She has received several awards, including the Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award from the Latino/a Studies Section of the American Sociological Association for her book, Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism (2015). Her textbook, Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach, is now in its third edition and is the leading textbook in this field.

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Book SynopsisContemporary African American writing negotiates the twinned crises of anthropogenic climate change and anti-Black violence by thinking in new ways about scaleTrade Review"Henry Ivry's Transscalar Critique offers a penetrating response to the Anthropocene's problem of scale. Necessary and urgent,Transscalar Critique centres Black Studies as a vital precursor to contemporary examinations of scale. In doing so it provides an essential corrective to the study of the Anthropocene in literature.?" -David Farrier, University of Edinburgh

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Book SynopsisExplores modern attempts to resolve the enduring question of the philosopher king whether it is possible to combine wisdom and power to secure justiceTrade Review"Haig Patapan's book proposes a learned and original approach to the notion of power analysed in conjunction with wisdom, and adds ground-breaking scholarship to the fields of both political theory and comparative philosophy." -Franseco Borghesi, Universit di Modena e Reggio Emilia

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Book SynopsisCan wisdom and power, philosophy and politics be combined to secure justice? Or are there formidable tensions, even antagonism between them? Socrates presented the philosopher king as an aspiration, a remedy for the ills of the world. He also called it a paradox, a challenging and perplexing innovation. Ever since, the philosopher king has been an enduring and fascinating question as well as a political aspiration. Modern Philosopher Kings examines the philosopher king as a paradox and an ambitious modern project. Through a series of diverse studies ranging from the prophet, intellectual, artist, advisor, scientist and ?the people? it examines modern attempts to unite wisdom and power. In doing so it reveals the different ways and the extent to which wisdom can be empowered and power ennobled.

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Book SynopsisPresents the first comprehensive examination of the great expansion- of daily and weekly newspapers in Scotland in the century after 1850.Trade Review"This is a landmark book compensating for the strange neglect of Scottish newspaper history. It fills a large void, providing an incisive account of the development of the Scottish press in the century when newspapers were at the height of their power." -Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Book SynopsisA fresh assessment of how mission, race and colonialism intersected in the life of Scottish missionary Alexander Hetherwick, leader of Blantyre Mission in Malawi from 1898 to 1928.Trade Review"This study of Alexander Hetherwick fills a gap in our understanding of Malawi's history. Anyone seeking to understand the interplay of mission, race and colonialism must read this book." -Billy Gama, CCAP Blantyre Synod

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