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Book SynopsisLucas Haasis found a time capsule: A complete mercantile letter archive of the merchant Nicolaus Gottlieb Luetkens who lived in 18th century Hamburg. Luetkens travelled France between 1743-1745 in order to become a successful wholesale merchant. He succeeded in this undertaking via both shrewd business practice and proficient skills in the practice of letter writing. Based on this unique discovery, in this microhistorical study Lucas Haasis examines the crucial steps and activities of a mercantile establishment phase, the typical letter practices of Early Modern merchants, and the practical principles of persuasion leading to success in the 18th century.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Making of a Merchant; Shipping Business; Commission Trade; High-Risk Trade; Finding a Business Partner and a Merchant Clerk to Open up a Merchant House; Marriage Preparations; Conclusion; References.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic transformations: From Atatürk’s modernization dictatorship in the 1920s and 1930s, over the massive migration into the cities and the military coups in the second half of the twentieth century, up to Recep Tayyip Erdoğans electoral autocracy since the 2010s. This book makes us understand Turkey’s historical trajectory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the fate of its various communities and ethnic groups—in particular Alevis and Kurds—and argues that a particular trait of Turkish political culture is its constant fluctuation between confidence and contention, grandeur and grievance.Trade Review“Maurus Reinkowski’s The History of Turkey: Grandeur and Grievance offers a critical retelling of Turkey’s triumphs and tragedies, providing an empathic exploration of the country’s past over a century. This expertly crafted work illuminates the country’s moments of grandeur and delves into its deep-seated grievances. Through an engagement with state-of-the-art research, Reinkowski’s keen eye for detail allows him to paint a vivid picture of Turkey’s complex history, surpassing standard textbooks. In a time of political crisis, Reinkowski’s engaging yet sober book offers a much-needed update to the perhaps overly optimistic scholarship of the last two decades. Impeccably researched and eloquently written, The History of Turkey: Grandeur and Grievance is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone seeking a critical understanding of Turkey’s past, present, and future.” — Alp Yenen, Assistant Professor of Modern Turkish History and Culture, Leiden University“In his thought-provoking introductory chapter, Maurus Reinkowski aptly observes that Turkey is a country that evokes anything but indifference. This rings acutely true in 2023, as Turkey not only faces presidential elections but also gears up to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. The History of Turkey provides an invaluable companion to unlock the historical context of these events. Covering a period from 1912 to the present, the book offers a nuanced, meticulously researched and vividly narrated historical overview. It serves as a comprehensive and widely accessible guide to Turkish history and historiography that also features insightful discussions of Turkey’s most recent decades. By skillfully embedding key developments within their broader historical and cultural contexts, the rich narrative invites readers to explore the complexity and diversity of Turkish history and allows them to recognize enduring legacies and reverberations of the processes depicted in the book.”— Barbara Henning, professor at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Ottoman and Turkish History“This work is the culmination of some forty years of diligent language practice, intensive research, meticulous observation, and genuine engagement with the societies of Turkey. The result is a profound piece of scholarship with pages full of intellectually sophisticated analyses and magisterial detail that provide a new interpretation of the land, state, and people. Well-grounded in a wide range of old and new scholarship, it is a highly accessible account of Turkey from both a comparative and global perspective. This book will eloquently but at the same time disturbingly and constantly remind readers how firmly the genesis of state ideology is built on the foundations of the late Ottoman and early Republican period. It is essential reading for introductory and advanced courses on Turkey and the Middle East, and for those who look for a concise, yet authoritative account of the region in order to understand the state, politics, and society in depth. There is no equivalent study of this quality for Turkey; Reinkowski deserves considerable praise for a work that should receive much attention.”— Metin Atmaca, Professor of Ottoman and Middle East History, Social Sciences University of Ankara"This work of Maurus Reinkowski is an indispensable tool for those aiming to have a profound knowledge on present-day Turkish politics, or to understand this complex society. Having been trained in late Ottoman history and Middle East politics, Reinkowski is a keen observer of political and social developments in contemporary Turkey, also known officially as Türkiye. This study is chronologically organized, beginning with the historical roots of modern Turkey, followed by the Kemalist Republic (1923-1950), the period of 1950-1980, and recent Turkish history. What makes this book so appealing is its concentration on contemporary Turkish developments following the military coup of 1980. It discusses structural conditions leading to a crucial break from Kemalism, commenced with the so-called ‘Turkish-Islamic Synthesis’ ideology of the 1980s, continued by the economic liberalism of Turgut Özal, finally leading to the AKP-era presidential system accompanied by populism and authoritarianism. Reinkowski handles numerous topics, which still bear the quality of actuality, in a precise, informative and balanced manner."— Selçuk Akşin Somel, Sabancı University, Istanbul“This mature work combines affection for the subject with detached insight; serious questioning with a positive approach. Drawing on the current state of research, Reinkowski appreciates Turkey's potential and grievances, but also highlights the dead ends of its ultranationalism. Reading his insightful narrative reveals a central challenge: how to build up trust and democratic confidence in the dynamic, but troubled post-Ottoman country that is Republican Turkey? This work differs from many traditional books on modern Turkey that overemphasize Atatürk, while ignoring the late-Ottoman context and new developments of the twenty-first century.”— Hans-Lukas Kieser, Historian, University of Newcastle, Australia, and University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction Farewell to the Ottoman Empire The Kemalist Republic, 1923–1950 Precarious Pluralism, 1950–1980 The Promise of Islamic Conservatism, 1980–2013 The Road to Another Republic, 2013–the Present Update on Turkey in the Years 2021–2023 AcknowledgementsTimelineAbbreviationsIndex

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Book SynopsisHistorians describe the long 19th century' as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization. The period witnessed the evolution of Western medicine into something uniquely modern', rooted in the shift to industrial capitalism and encroachment of government monitoring to state health, as well as the colonial mindset that drove overseas travel and encounters with unfamiliar populations, climates and disease. More than ever before, food, drugs, people and sickness circumvented the globe, crossing borders and prompting enormous changes in the way people made sense of health and illness. Novel technologies, from vaccination to x-rays, and ways of organizing medicine and its delivery, increased the reach of medicine and augmented the power of the state and colonizers. Equally, the new medicine answered governments' growing recognition that health had acquired cultural value and meaning for their domestic populations. Spanning the period from 1800 to

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Book SynopsisA photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall TrilogyAt the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, 'In my view you cannot claim to have really seen something till you have photographed it.'' The act of photographing, at least for a moment, distinguishes its object and estranges it from its context . . . Every stroke of the pen releases a thousand pictures inside the writer's head. This book has made some of them visible.' Hilary MantelHilary Mantel, Ben Miles, the stage's celebrated Thomas Cromwell, and his brother, photographer George Miles, spent many years exploring the locations we know Thomas Cromwell visited and inhabited Putney, Austin Friars, Wolf Hall, the Tower of London to capture the faint traces of Tudor England and his extraordinary life. Accompanied with extracts from The Wolf Hall Trilogy, some of them published here for the first time, and including a stunning new essay by its author, these phoTrade Review Praise for the Wolf Hall trilogy ‘The most masterful story telling imaginable’ Graham Norton ‘Very few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that’ Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall novels make 99 per cent of contemporary literary fiction feel utterly pale and bloodless by comparison’ The Times ‘So original and disconcerting that it will surely come to be seen as a paradigm-shifter’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hers are books that refuse to shy away from the underside of life … Hilary Mantel is one of our bravest as well as our most brilliant writers’ Olivia Laing, Observer ‘It is the making of our English world, and who can fail to be stirred by it?’ Helen Dunmore, author of Birdcage Walk ‘Succeeds brilliantly in every particle … it’s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives’ Spectator ‘Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history’ Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express ‘Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer, Stephanie Merritt

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Book SynopsisA fascinating and beautifully illustrated account of trying to conceive in both the past and the present.Inspired by the author?s own experiences, Conceiving Histories brings together history, personal memoir, and illustration to investigate the culturally hidden experience of trying to conceive. In elegant, engaging prose, Isabel Davis explores the combination of myth, fantasy, science, and pseudo-science that the (un)reproductive body encounters in pursuit of a viable pregnancy. The book chronicles the trying-to-conceive lifecycle arc from sex education at school, through the desire to be a parent, into the specifics of trying and struggling to conceive. It also looks back at conception throughout history to open a new vista on what we live with today.A central argument of Davis?s is that historical people lived with the unknown just like we do but were more explicitly able to acknowledge it. In an age of assistive reproductive technologies, the act of embracing uncertainty seems difficult. Although the topic of not conceiving is potentially painful, this is not a grim book; more than grief, it is motivated by curiosity, wonder, compassion, and even humor. With 108 full-color illustrations, Conceiving Histories is also a beautiful material object, an intentionally playful antidote and supplement to online search engines?the resort of so many embroiled in fertility challenges.

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Book SynopsisA new title in the British Museumâs Object in Focus series, concentrating on a fascinating mammoth ivory model depicting a Siberian summer festival.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the meaning and history of this fascinating object, and tells the tale of its remarkable survival and eventual passage to the British Museum.

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Book SynopsisThe story of the scroll is of fascinating historical interest and this accessible and beautifully illustrated book really gets to the heart of it.

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Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated with photographs of the statue and contextual images, and including archival material relating to the British Museum's acquisition, this book tells the story of this magnificent artefact, discussing alongside the draw of colossal Egyptian sculpture, the history of the reign of Ramesses II and the nature of the statue's acquisition.

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Book SynopsisA ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century''s most iconic writer. Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness.Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway''s work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer''s private signature, their authorial fingerprint.In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing new biography, including previously unpublished letters from the HemingwTrade ReviewA blistering, rollicking, horribly convincing account of a compelling literary monster ... [a] fascinating book. * The Sunday Times *In a new revisionist biography by Richard Bradford, we learn, from his astute analysis of previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archive that there is indeed a good deal more to know about this ‘scrapper intellectual’, and ‘role player’. * The Irish Independent *Vivid and pugnacious... it will ruffle a few feathers among those wedded to the image of him as all-American literary hero -- Martin Stannard, author of Muriel Spark: The BiographyTable of ContentsList of Plates List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Young Deceiver 2 An American in Paris 3 Key West 4 Conflicts 5 War: With Martha 6 Secrets and Lies 7 Everywhere and Nowhere Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRichard Rodger is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a Cockburn Council Member and Trustee since 2010.Cliff Hague, OBE, is Emeritus Professor of Planning and Spatial Development at Heriot-Watt University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Chair of the Cockburn Association 201623.DJ Johnston-Smith, PhD, is Director of Scotland's Churches Trust and was Assistant Director of the Cockburn Association 202022.Terry Levinthal has been the Director of the Cockburn Association since 2017 and was its Secretary 199299.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated, inspirational celebration of women of colour from around the world.Trade Review'Women and girls worldwide will find inspiration and strength in the pages of this beautiful book.' Malala YousafzaiTable of ContentsPreface 1. Aishopan Nurgaiv 2. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 3. Ama Ata Aidoo 4. Amal Clooney 5. Amanda Gorman 6. Amna Al Qubaisi 7. Angela Davis 8. Aretha Franklin 9. Asima Chatterjee 10. Autumn Peltier 11. Ava Duvernay 12. Benazir Bhutto 13. Berta Caceres 14. Beyonce Knowles-Carter 15. Calypso Rose 16. Claudia Jones 17. Clemantine Wamariya 18. Deepika Padukone 19. Elif Safak 20. Esra'a Al Shafei 21. Esther Afua Ocloo 22. Esther Mahlangu 23. Fairuz 24. Fatema Mernissi 25. Fatima al-Fihri 26. Faye Simanjuntak 27. Felicitas Mendez 28. Frida Kahlo 29. Funmilayo Ransome Kuti 30. Germaine Acogny 31. Guo Jianmei 32. Hanan Ashrawi 33. Hayat Sindi 34. Heidy Quah 35. Ibtihaj Muhammad 36. Isabel Allende 37. Jaha Dukureh 38. Jameela Jamil 39. Josephine Baker 40. Junko Tabei 41. Katherine Johnson 42. Leandra Medeiros Cerezo, a.k.a. Lea T 43. Lee Tai Young 44. Leymah Gbowee 45. Linda Sarsour 46. Loujain Al Hathloul 47. Mae C Jemison 48. Malala 49. Margaret Busby 50. Maria Da Penha 51. Maria Walanda Maramis 52. Marjane Satrapi 53. Mary Golda Ross 54. Mary Jane Seacole 55. Mary Kom 56. Maya Angelou 57. Maya Lin 58. Mazlan Othman 59. Mercedes Sosa 60. Michaela Coel 61. Michelle Obama 62. Mindy Kaling 63. Miriam Makeba 64. Misty Copeland 65. Na Hye-sok 66. Nadia Murad 67. Naomi Osaka 68. Nawal El Saadawi 69. Negin Khpalwak 70. Noor Jehan 71. Oprah Winfrey 72. Oumou Sangare 73. Parveena Ahanger 74. Princess Sophia Duleep Singh 75. Prudence Mabele 76. Razia Sultan 77. Rigoberta Menchu 78. Rosa Parks 79. Sanmao 80. Serena Williams 81. Shirin Ebadi 82. Shirin Neshat 83. Shirley Coleen "Mum Shirley" - aboriginal activist 84. Simone Biles 85. Sonia Sotomayor 86. Sylvia Tamale 87. Tawakkol Karman 88. Taytu Betul 89. Tebello Nyokong 90. Tererai Trent 91. The Mirabal Sisters 92. Theresa Kachindamoto 93. Tu Youyou 94. Umm Kulthum 95. Wangari Maathai 96. wangechi mutu 97. Wilma Mankiller 98. Yayoi Kusama 99. Yusra Mardini 100. Zaha Hadid About the Author Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisA concise history of one of the world's greatest and most comprehensive museum collections, from its founding in 1753. A product and symbol of the 18th-century Enlightenment, the British Museum is as iconic an expression of that cultural tendency as Johnson's Dictionary, the French Encyclopedie and Linnaean plant classification. Its collections embody the raw material of empiricism – the bringing together of things to enable the widest intellectual experiment to take place. James Hamilton explores the establishment of the Museum in the 1750s (from the bequest to the nation of the collections of Sir Hans Sloane); the chosen site of its location; the cultural context in which it came into being; the subsequent development, expansion and diversification of the Museum, both as a collection and as a building, from the early 19th to the 21st century; the controversy occasioned by some of its acquisitions; and the legacy and influence of the Museum nationally and globally.Trade ReviewA sparkling new history of the museum's first two-and-a-half centuries * TLS *A thoughtful anecdotal story, enlivened with detail, light humour and well chosen illustrations * British Archaeology *

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Book Synopsis'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchi’s YBAs setting the international art world aflame. Geri Halliwell in a Union Jack dress. A time of vibrancy and optimism: when the country was united by the hope of a better and brighter future. So why, twenty years on, did that future never happen? Richard Power Sayeed takes a provocative look at this epochal year, arguing that the dark undercurrents of that time had a much more enduring legacy than the marketing gimmick of ‘Cool Britannia’. He reveals how the handling of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry ushered in a new type of racism. How the feminism-lite of 'Girl Power' made sexism stronger. And how the promises of New Labour left the country more fractured than ever. This lively, rich and evocative book explores why 1997 was a turning point for British culture and society - away from a fairer, brighter future and on the path to our current malaise.Trade ReviewA well-researched history of Britain in 1997 … Sayeed captures neatly how Blair’s drive to modernise the UK left behind large sections of the country, most notably working class people. * Prospect *Activists will find in this critique of New Labour the serious warning that a radical message, however creatively promoted, is useless without real action. * Peace News *Richard Power Sayeed establishes himself as the definitive critical chronicler of the Blair years with his superb book 1997: The Future That Never Happened * Open Democracy Books of the Year *It is difficult to do justice to Sayeed’s qualities as a writer. He brings a sympathetic eye, attention to detail, a knack for evoking scenes, and acute thumbnail sketches of characters ... Deceptively sophisticated, and sometimes lethal in its critique. * Jacobin *Phenomenal ... One of my books of 2017. * Aaron Bastani, Novara Media *A vital book that combines great storytelling with fresh insights, and says as much about the present as the recent past. * Alwyn W. Turner, author of A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s *Richard Power Sayeed has vividly reprised the year 1997, when radical currents flowed into the mainstream, and the authorities "welcomed moderate reforms with satisfied contentment." Such promise - but what did it deliver? * Andy McSmith, author of No Such Thing as Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s *A dazzling, funny, and impressively detailed analysis of one of the most important years in modern British history. Both nostalgic and deeply critical, this book casts 1997 in an entirely new light. * Ellie Mae O'Hagan *A beautifully written, brilliantly insightful account of New Labour's Britain – and fundamental to our understanding of how this country ended up in this mess. * Owen Jones *Table of ContentsIntroduction: You Say You Want a Revolution 1. New Labour, New Britain 2. Murderers 3. The People’s Princess 4. Girl Power 5. Sensationalism 6. Cocaine Supernova Conclusion: Crisis

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Book SynopsisWinner of Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year They would be better dead, they said, than set adrift upon the world. But set adrift they were - thousands of them, their communities destroyed, their homes demolished and burned. Such were the Sutherland Clearances, an extraordinary episode, involving the deliberate depopulation of much of a Scottish county. What was done in the course of that episode was planned and carried out by a small group of men and one woman. Most of those involved wrote a great deal about their actions, intentions and feelings, and much of it has been preserved. There are no equivalent collections of material from those whose communities ceased to exist. Their feelings and fears are harder to access, but they are by no means irrecoverable. In this book James Hunter tells the story of the Sutherland Clearances. His researches took him to archives in Scotland, England and Canada, to the now deserted straths of Sutherland, to the frozen shores of Hudson Bay. The result is a gripping, moving, definitive account of a people's struggle for survival in the face of tragedy and disaster which includes experiences which have not featured in any previous such account.Trade Review'a moving, gripping, definitive account of a struggle for survival' * Scots Magazine *'Rarely have the clearances been written about so evocatively. Hunter’s method and his empathy with those involved speaks to us with elegant restraint in an account that sweeps from the Sutherland straths to the struggles of those forced to seek new lives in North America' * Saltire Society *'Hunter unravels and leads us through [the clearances] with the sharpest of eyes for telling details. His account is detailed and unsparing. His fellow-feeling for the cleared people is unmistakable…[he] is careful to present the evidence for all he records. No assertion is left unqualified' * London Review of Books *'[Hunter’s] scholarship is breathtaking' * The Herald *'The best Scottish book I've read, not just in 2016, but probably in recent years. Hunter weaves a narrative which crosses continents and centuries as, in his own recent journey, he follows in the footsteps of cleared Sutherland emigrants to Winnipeg and onwards to the frozen expanses of Hudson Bay in what is a very compelling narrative underpinned by the authority of meticulous research' * Bottle Imp, Best Book of 2016 *

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Book SynopsisInLost Aberdeen: The Outskirts, Diane Morgan embarks on a fascinating and highly readable journey into the environmental and architectural heritage of those familiar parts of Aberdeen that began life on the fringes of the city.Covering Gilcomston (originally a ''wretched and rather remote suburb'') Berryden (famous for its pleasure garden and the Northern Co-op), Kittybrewster (the marts and the railway), Torry (trawling) and Ferryhill (leafy and elegant), and illustrated with period photographs and maps,Lost Aberdeen: The Outskirtsis a goldmine of information about one of Scotland''s most historic cities.

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Book SynopsisA world without cars would be unrecognizable. They have altered the shape of our cities, transformed our nations and landscapes, revolutionised the way we make and buy things, and profoundly influenced our relationship with speed itself. From the Ford Model T and the legacy of mass production, to the GM LaSalle and the birth of style and obsolescence, and from the original Volkswagen expression of national identity to the GM Firebird and the desire for frictionless movement, this book presents the car as the driving force that accelerated the twentieth century. It takes an in-depth look at the history of the automobile and its impact, to better understand where we might want to go in the future.Trade Review'those of you who have visited the V&A's Cars...will know how utterly captivating the exhibition is. Here's the next best thing...' -- Autocar, Wednesday 1st April 2020 'an accompanying 200-page book you'd be crazy not to buy...' -- Steve Cropley, Autocar, Wednesday 8th January 2020; 'The show at the V&A might have shut early, a victim of the lockdown, but the most fascinating elements are all in here.' Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times Summer Books of 2020, June 27th 2020Table of ContentsForeword, Tristram Hunt | Introduction, Brendan Cormier and Lizzie Bisley | Going Fast | Fast Futures, Brendan Cormier| The Design of Speed, Brendan Cormier | In My Ford Fiesta, Oli Stratford | Making More | The Manufacture of Plenty, Lizzie Bisley | Almost Like a Car, Georgina Voss | Making the Modern Consumer, Esme Hawes | Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz, Johanna Agerman Ross | Shaping Space | The Race to Extraction, Lizzie Bisley | Water Wars and the Miracle Metal, Laurence Blair | Driving the Nation, Brendan Cormier | Political Symbolism and the Nyayo Pioneer Car, Nanjala Nyabola | The Express City, Brendan Cormier | There Are No Cars in Wakanda, Allison Arieff | Notes | Bibliography | Acknowledgements | Contributors | Picture Credits | Index

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year Award James VI and I was arguably the most successful ruler of the Stewart Dynasty in Scotland, and the first king of a united Great Britain. His ableness as a monarch, it has been argued, stemmed largely from his Scottish upbringing. This book is the first in-depth scholarly study of those formative years. It tries to understand exactly when in James' 'long apprenticeship' he seized political power and retraces the incremental steps he took along the way. It also poses new answers to key questions about this process. What relationship did he have with his mother Mary Queen of Scots? Why did he favour his kinsman Esmé Stuart, ultimately Duke of Lennox, to such an extent that it endangered his own throne? And was there a discernible pattern of intent to the alliances he made with the various factions at court between 1578 and 1585? This book also analyses James’ early reign as an important case study of the impact of the Reformation on the monarchy of early modern Europe, and examines the cultural activity at James' early court.Trade Review'A very fine, original study of the first part (1567–1585) of the reign of King James VI that fills what has been a gaping hole in the scholarship on early modern Scotland. It is the first part of a radical new study that will transform the understanding of James’ reign before the union of the crowns in 1603' -- Professor Jane Dawson, University of Edinburgh'This book is the only extensive and scholarly account of the first decades of James VI’s life and of the politics of his emergence from minority to adult monarch. Drawing upon wideranging sources – including under-exploited documents – it presents an original, detailed, readable and compelling interpretation of its subject . . . This will be the key reference work on this period for scholars of Jacobean kingship and politics for many years to come' -- Dr Alexander Courtney, Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society'An intimate and detailed history of young James, the political contexts in which he was brought up, and his character, objectives and practices. No one has written yet about James in such intimate and sustained terms' -- Dr Anna Groundwater, National Museums Scotland'I am greatly looking forward to Professor Steven Reid's The Early Life of James VI' -- Allan Massie * The Scotsman *'Much has been written about James in maturity, but this new book deals with his formative years in Scotland… What a story!' -- Jackie Bird * National Trust for Scotland *'Steven Reid’s rich and scholarly study of King James VI’s early years gives us a remarkable account of this most turbulent era in Scotland’s history' * The Saltire Society *

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Book SynopsisSituated in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is like a stepping-stone between the lands that surround it. In medieval times, it played an important role in the histories of Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales. This book explores the first part of that turbulent era, tracing the story of the Isle of Man from the fifth to the thirteenth centuries. It looks at the ways in which various peoples – Britons, Scots, Irish, English and Scandinavians – influenced events in Man over a period of more than 800 years. A large portion of the book is concerned with the Vikings, a group whose legacy – in place names, old burial mounds and finely carved stones – is such a vivid element in the Manx landscape today.Trade Review'an accessible and well written account of over eight centuries of the island's history that also appears to be superbly researched' -- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *'an easy-to-read account, clearly set out, enabling the reader to dip in and out of the narrative' -- Allison Fox * Current Archaeology *'A good introduction to Manx history and Clarkson has been particularly impressive in his ability to create a coherent account of the pre-Viking period' -- Alex Woolf * Mariner's Mirror *

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Book SynopsisSalt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland’s oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country’s coastline and are reflected in many of Scotland’s placenames. The industry was a high-status activity, with the monarch initially owning salt pans. Salt manufacture was later organised by Scotland’s abbeys and then by landowners who had access to the sea and a nearby supply of coal. As salt was an important source of tax revenue for the government, it was often a cause of conflict (and military action) between Scotland and England. The future of the industry – and the price of salt for consumers – was a major issue during negotiations around the Union of 1707. This book celebrates both the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although salt manufacturing declined in the nineteenth century and was wound up in the 1950s, in the second decade of the twenty-first century the trade was revived. Scotland’s salt is now a high-prestige, green product that is winning awards and attracting interest across the UK.Trade Review'one of those all-too-rare books that cover their subject so definitively that it's hard to imagine anyone ever wanting or needing to write another book on the subject' -- Ken Lussey * Undiscovered Scotland *

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Book SynopsisThis book has been seminal in bringing to the fore the injustices that have been inflicted on the Highlands in the name of government and landlord – injustices often lost in the name of dry statistics and academic balance. Written by a man who has gone on to become both an award-winning historian of the Highlands and a leading figure in the public life of the region, The Making of the Crofting Community has attracted praise, inspired debate, and provoked outrage and controversy over the years. This book remains necessary to challenge standard academic interpretations of the Highland past. Having long been one of the classics of Birlinn’s John Donald list, this revised and updated new edition includes a substantial new preface and an extensive reworking of the existing text.

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Book SynopsisThe South West Peak is a lesser-known part of the Peak District stretching from Lyme Park in Cheshire in the north to Onecote in Staffordshire in the south, and from Macclesfield in the west to Buxton in the east. This landscape area includes tracts of high moorland, fertile valleys, wooded cloughs, picturesque villages and tiny hamlets. The farmers of the South West Peak are the people who have made the landscape what it is today, and it is their personal accounts of working in this often challenging land that form the basis of The Land That Made Us. Edited by local author Christine Gregory and dairy farmer Sheila Hine, and published in partnership with the Farming Life Centre and the Peak District National Park Authority with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, this book includes the testimony of over twenty farmers, and it is illustrated with photographs of them and their farming landscapes. We hear stories from across the generations of heroic endeavour in difficult terrain, as well as accounts of day-to-day work and family life spanning eighty years of farming history. The land had been farmed in traditional ways for centuries, but the Second World War changed that, and in succeeding years politics and increasing mechanisation have constantly rewritten the rule book for farmers. There is pride in achievement as well as frustration at the often conflicting demands of food production and wildlife conservation.The Land That Made Us asks what makes for sustainability in the short and the long term. The future of this landscape and of the farming communities that sustain it hangs in the balance, and it is the farmers’ turn to reflect on their past and speculate about the future.Trade Review'[An] excellent history of modern farming – the best I have come across precisely because the words are those of the farmers themselves and their families, who have lived through and are still living through its transformation.'from the Foreword by Colin Tudge, co-founder of the Oxford Real Farming Conference and the College for Real Farming and Food CultureTable of ContentsForewordIntroductionPart 1: From Horses to Tractors – 1940s to 1950s- Working with horses; the war years; government involvement in farming; children on the farm; the first tractors and milking machines; power and water come to the hills; the snows of ’47Part 2: Last of the Old Days and Ways – 1960s to 1970s- A shepherd’s life; the value of wool; farming subsidies; sheep dipping; local sheep sales; family life on a remote hill farmPart 3: From Buckets to Bulk Tanks – 1970s to 1980s- Making hay; silage rye-grass monoculture; ‘improving’ the land; the decline of mixed farming; self-sufficient farms; old milking systems give way to the new; new breeds; joining the Common Market; subsidies and surpluses; milk quotas; changing the landscape; the Harpur Crewe EstatePart 4: Winners and Losers – 1990s to 2018- BSE, foot-and-mouth disease and TB; the price of milk; wildlife losses; farming for conservation; waders in the South West PeakPart 5: The Future for Farming in the South West Peak- New directions in agricultural policy; farming organically; diversifying; finding a niche, ‘hobby farmers’; keeping it in the family; the futureAcknowledgements

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Book SynopsisThis book highlights the pivotal role of the Caribbean in the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisEmperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) treated the spectacle of his tournaments, hastiludes, and mummeries as an art form unto itself. One of modern Europe’s most important sovereigns, he shaped the continent’s political map well into the 20th century, not least due to his keen awareness of the power of a good public display towards diplomacy and networking. From 1512 to 1515, Maximilian commissioned a massive, exquisitely detailed and illustrated manuscript of the 64 tournaments. The 255 elaborately gilt and silvered miniatures were more than just a collection of jousting scenes from the Habsburg court—from the grand melee and tilting at the lists to foot combat and closing ceremonies—they were an allegorical epic telling the story of an intrepid hero, a knight errant who is no other than Maximilian himself. In the guise of his literary alter ego “Freydal”, the Emperor jousted to prove his love for a noble lady. The story ends with the lady agreeing to marry him—she is no other than Mary of Burgundy, whom Maximilian wed in 1477 at Ghent.Produced under the direct supervision of Maximilian himself, Freydal is an invaluable record of late-medieval chivalry, one which introduces us to the jousts that the Emperor revived and even invented—such as the spectacular Rennen mit geschifften Tartschen, where shields would be catapulted into the sky and disintegrated into metal wedges. To this day, it remains the largest extant tournament book from the Late Middle Ages and the essential source on European courtly festivities of the early modern era. Much too fragile to be on permanent display, the miniatures are safely locked away in the vaults of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. To commemorate the fifth centenary of Emperor Maximilian I’s death, TASCHEN reproduces the complete 255 miniatures in full-color photographs, making the unique manuscript accessible to all for the very first time. The astounding collection is introduced by Stefan Krause, director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum’s Imperial Armoury, who tells its fascinating story.Trade Review”Freydal conveys the thrill of two metalcovered men colliding at 80 miles per hour.” * The Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisIn August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, and the vibrant new life he had forged for himself in the big city. He wrote, I have only been queer since I came to London about two years ago, before then I knew nothing about it. London, for Cyril, meant boundless opportunities to explore his newfound sexuality. But his freedom was limite: he was soon arrested, simply for being in a club frequented by queer men. Cyril's story is Matt Houlbrook's point of entry into the queer worlds of early twentieth-century London. Drawing on previously unknown sources, from police reports and newspaper exposés to personal letters, diaries, and the first queer guidebook ever written, Houlbrook here explores the relationship between queer sexualities and modern urban culture that we take for granted today. He revisits the diverse queer lives that took hold in London's parks and streets; its restaurants, pubs, and

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Book SynopsisAn extensive historical exploration of touch which lies at the heart of our experience of the worldTrade Review "Classen is a veteran at telling sensory histories, with a deft touch. . . . A major appeal of Classen's new book is her account of the Industrial Revolution."--The Chronicle Review"This is a wise book, filled with fascinating observations, from which every reader will learn a great deal. The Deepest Sense breaks new ground not only by focusing on the long history of the sense of touch from the Middle Ages to the modern period, but also by drawing the tactile into a number of important historical conversations."--Richard Newhauser, coeditor of Pleasure and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (special issue of The Senses and Society) “Provides a nuanced and informative narrative on how humanity's relationship with touch has changed throughout history.”--Publishers Weekly"Recommended."--Choice "Classen's lush descriptions provide an excellent underscoring of her exploration of this intimate sense."--Library Journal "Classen eloquently argues that touch is the deepest sense not only because its cultural meanings stretch into the distant past but also because its social meanings remain embedded within core concepts of modernity… Classen shows that the history of touch is itself reflexive: although they can be only be inferred from sources, these once palpable embraces tell the history of the very deepest connections between us."--American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What is most beautiful about these chapters is the way that Bynum maintains a delightful voice, a first-person perspective that centers her own pleasure in the researching and writing of this book. Her curiosity permeates each page. . . . She models for the reader what it is to read with curiosity and how to allow the interiority of others to inform our own, resulting in a communal experience." --Little Village Magazine “Sit down, read this book, and become a changed reader, scholar, and human. Sit down, and learn from Tara Bynum about worlds of Black experience--joy, longing, pleasure--beyond the white gaze. Through her brilliant literary research and reading of early African American literature, Bynum achieves the full humanity that a viciously segregated, racialized world denies all of us: some in body, some in understanding and spirit. In so doing, this book exemplifies what the humanities should be all about.”--Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Songs and Stories of America's First ImmigrantsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Matter of Black Living Phillis Wheatley’s Pleasures James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw’s Joyful Conversion Desiring John Marrant David Walker’s Good News Coda; Or, Reading Pleasures: Looking for Arbour/Obour/Orbour Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“This volume vividly recaptures the lost world of Jewish anarchism, tracing its political imaginaries as well as the social structures and practices that it built. Spanning multiple continents and centuries, it offers a new way of approaching the Jewish radical experience in the past--and potentially rethinking its possibilities in the present.”--Faith C. Hillis, author of Utopia's Discontents: Russian Émigrés and the Quest for Freedom, 1830s–1930s“This is the first book of its kind in English and each contribution is original and important. Not only does the collection add to the quantity of studies, it steers research on the subject in new directions. Traditionally, anarchism’s connections to religious thought have been ignored, the presumption being they have nothing to do with one another. These authors show otherwise.”--Tony Michels, author of Jewish Radicals: A Documentary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction. Freedom’s Fullness: An Introduction to Jewish Anarchisms Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer Chapter 1. Johann Most and Yiddish Anarchism, 1876-1906 Tom Goyens Chapter 2. Political Satire in the Yiddish Anarchist Press, 1890-1918 Binyamin Hunyadi Chapter 3. Jewish Anarchist Temporalities Samuel Hayim Brody Chapter 4. The Debate on Expropriations in Early Twentieth-Century Russian Anarchism Inna Shtakser Chapter 5. Translation, Politics, Pragmatism, and the American Yiddish Press Ayelet Brinn Chapter 6. Jews and North American Anarcho-Syndicalism: The Jewish Leadership of the Union of Russian Workers Mark Grueter Chapter 7. The Storm of Revolution: The Fraye Arbeter Shtime Reports on the Russian Revolution of 1905 Renny Hahamovitch Chapter 8. Divine Fire: Alfred Stieglitz’s Anarchism Allan Antliff Chapter 9. In the Jewish Tower: Prison Stories by a Forgotten Anarchist Ania Aizman Chapter 10. Jewish-American Anarchist Women, 1920-1950: The Politics of Sexuality Elaine Leeder Conclusion. The Past and Futures of Jewish Anarchist History Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review[A] book for our time that is right on time. * Journal of Folklore Research *[T]his book should inspire activists, scholars, and those who fall on both sides to conduct research globally on the topics explored, since anti-blackness is a worldwide issue. All people should know the depth of power music can spark in activists, scholarly and non-scholarly alike, and how music can mobilize significant change in the world. * Western Folklore *Table of ContentsForeword / Portia K. MaultsbyAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to Black Lives Matter and Music: Protest, Intervention, Reflection / Fernando Orejuela 1. BlackMizzou: Music and Stories One Year Later / Stephanie Shonekan2. Black Matters: Black Folk Studies and Black Campus Life Matters / Fernando Orejuela 3. Blackfolklifematters: SLABs and The Social Importance of Contemporary African American Folklife / Langston Collin Wilkins 4. BlackMusicMatters: Affirmation and Resilience in African American Musical Spaces in Washington, D.C. / Alison Martin5. Black Detroit: Sonic Distortion Fuels Social Distortion / Denise DalphondConclusion: Race, Place, and Pedagogy in the Black Lives Matter Era / Stephanie ShonekanIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a genuinely remarkable book. The thinking behind it is sophisticated and well-founded, offering a telling portrait of popular responses to Nazi Germany."—Mark Roseman, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University"Janosch Steuwer's magnificent and original analysis of keeping a diary probes the way individuals composed themselves during the Nazi period as they negotiated the push and pull of collective exuberance while ostensibly remaining true to themselves. This is a story not of the Nazi seizure of power but of the Nazi seizure of the self, a story not of coercion but of desire."—Peter Fritzsche, University of Illinois, author of An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler"Janosch Steuwer powerfully analyzes that Nazism was shaped by Germans who strove to define their own place within it. His path-breaking book, based on a numerous contemporary diaries, should be of interest to all historians of European dictatorships"—Moritz Föllmer, University of Amsterdam, author of Culture in the Third Reich"A milestone for the history of experience and emotions of the Third Reich."—Michael Wildt, Humboldt University of Berlin, author of Hitler's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion"How did ordinary Germans buy in to the Nazi regime? This question has fascinated and baffled historians for more years, usually producing answers which couple opportunism, peer pressure and fear. Sifting carefully through a large number of diaries, Janosch Steuwer offers the first answer to this question based consistently on the subjective sources produced by individuals themselves. Self-fashioning, wilful ignorance and projecting their own wishes onto the regime all come to the fore here, giving a far more nuanced and also much more morally and emotionally active sense of how Germans persuaded themselves that this was their government. A tremendous achievement and a must read book in the field."—Nicholas Stargardt, author of The German War: A Nation under Arms, 1939-45Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and TermsIntroductionPart One1. The Social Dynamics of the "Seizure of Power"2. The Search for a Personal Stance toward the Nazi Regime3. Establishing a Personal Stance toward the Regime While under Social ObservationPart Two4. The National Socialist Education Project5. Political Self-Formation in the Nazi Education ProjectPart Three6. A New Political Culture in a New Political System7. The Government and Its Volk8. The Private and the Limits of the National Socialist Political SystemConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex of PersonsIndex of Subjects

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative re-definition of the social, cultural and visual history of the emergence of the avant-garde in Paris and LondonTrade Review“If you haven’t any space on your shelves, we suggest making some - and sharpish…Radical Art and the Formation of the Avant-Garde…focuses on a group of people looking forward rather than back. Taking the artistic vanguard as his starting point, author David Cottington looks to two cities - Paris and London - in his exploration of the meaning of modernity and 20th-century European culture.”—Inigo.com ‘There is no more sophisticated and compelling historian of the avant-garde now at work than David Cottington. This is a sustained, elegant, and erudite account of its subjects, wide-ranging, unfailingly insightful, and certain to be the standard work.’ – David Peters Corbett, The Courtauld Institute of Art‘A subtle and multifaceted exploration of how early twentieth-century avant-gardes coalesced in the distinctive cultural and political circumstances of pre-World War I London and Paris, Cottington’s wide-ranging book makes a groundbreaking contribution to our understanding of critically important episodes in the history of art.' – Nancy J. Troy, Stanford University‘Cottington’s new and unparalleled study lays bare the social conditions that led to the rise of the radical artistic avant-garde. A formidable book indispensable to all readers interested in the social history of modern art.’ – Sascha Bru, University of Leuven

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Book SynopsisThis alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. The sites and stories of A People's Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multTable of ContentsList of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 BRONX 1.1 Montefiore Hospital/Local 1199 Health and Hospital Workers Union | 1.2 The "Allerton Coops," Amalgamated Housing Cooperative, and Co-op City | 1.3 Arthur Avenue Retail Market | 1.4 Birthplace of Hip-Hop | 1.5 East Tremont | 1.6 Former Home of Richard Colón ("Crazy Legs") | 1.7 Charlotte Gardens/Mid-Bronx Desperadoes | 1.8 Former Home of Leon Trotsky | 1.9 Fania All-Stars at Yankee Stadium | 1.10 Hostos Community College | 1.11 Lincoln Hospital | 1.12 Dominicanos USA | 1.13 Casita Rincón Criollo | 1.14 Bronx Music Hall | 1.15 United Bronx Parents | 1.16 Hunts Point Terminal Food Distribution Center | 1.17 New York Expo Center/Former Site of the New York Organic Fertilizer Company Water 2 MANHATTAN 2.1 Sugar Hill | 2.2 City College–City University of New York | 2.3 Renaissance Ballroom and Casino | 2.4 Abyssinian Baptist Church | 2.5 Manhattanville Campus, Columbia University | 2.6 28th Precinct | 2.7 Hotel Theresa | 2.8 Mabel Hampton's Former Apartment | 2.9 Thomas Jefferson Pool | 2.10 Young Lords' Garbage Offensive | 2.11 Central Park | 2.12 San Juan Hill/Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts | 2.13 7th Regiment Armory | 2.14 Women's Strike for Equality | 2.15 ACT UP Protest at St. Patrick's Cathedral | 2.16 Broadway Unions at Times Square | 2.17 Play Pen | 2.18 Social Service Employees Union Local 371 | 2.19 Colored Orphan's Asylum/Draft Riots | 2.20 High Line Park | 2.21 Gay Men's Health Crisis | 2.22 Union Square Park | 2.23 Tammany Hall | 2.24 The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center of NYC | 2.25 St. Vincent's Hospital | 2.26 Christopher Street Pier | 2.27 The Stonewall Inn | 2.28 Women's House of Detention/Jefferson Market Library and Garden | 2.29 The Cage | 2.30 Judson Memorial Church | 2.31 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory | 2.32 Emma Goldman's House | 2.33 Village East Cinema/Yiddish Rialto | 2.34 Astor Place Riot | 2.35 Cooper Union Great Hall | 2.36 Public Theater | 2.37 The Village Voice | 2.38 Third Street Men's Shelter | 2.39 Former Site of CBGB & OMFUG | 2.40 Liz Christy Bowery Houston Community Garden | 2.41 Tompkins Square Park | 2.42 CHARAS/El Bohio | 2.43 C-Squat (See Skwat) and Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space | 2.44 Nuyorican Poets Café  | 2.45 The Forward Building | 2.46 Henry Street Settlement | 2.47 Former Home of David Ruggles | 2.48 Collect Pond Park | 2.49 African Burial Ground | 2.50 Five Points/Columbus Park | 2.51 Former Site of Silver Palace Restaurant | 2.52 One Chase Manhattan Plaza | 2.53 Former Site of New York Slave Market | 2.54 Standard Oil Building | 2.55 National Museum of the American Indian (Fort Amsterdam) | 2.56 Battery Park/Castle Clinton | 2.57 Statue of Liberty New York City Islands 3 QUEENS 3.1 Steinway Piano Factory | 3.2 Queensbridge Houses | 3.3 Taxi Workers Alliance | 3.4 Former Site of 5Pointz: The Institute of Higher Burning | 3.5 Sunnyside Gardens | 3.6 Voice of Taiwan | 3.7 Julio Rivera Corner | 3.8 Louis Armstrong House | 3.9 Flushing Meadows Corona Park | 3.10 Flushing Friends Meeting House and John Bowne House | 3.11 Hindu Temple Society of North America (Ganesh Temple) | 3.12 Lesbian Avengers | 3.13 Store Front Museum | 3.14 Rochdale Village | 3.15 Howard Beach Riots | 3.16 Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge | 3.17 The People's Beach at Jacob Riis Park Public Transportation 4 BROOKLYN 4.1 Greenpoint Oil Spill | 4.2 Domino Sugar Factory | 4.3 Mayday Space and Brooklyn Commons; Starr Bar and Café  | 4.4 Brooklyn Bridge | 4.5 Plymouth Church | 4.6 Knights of Labor, District Assembly 75 | 4.7 Fulton Mall | 4.8 The 1964 School Boycott–Board of Education | 4.9 Atlantic Yards | 4.10 Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Launch at Concord Baptist Church of Christ | 4.11 Restoration Plaza | 4.12 Colored School No. 2/P.S. 68/83/243 | 4.13 Weeksville Heritage Center | 4.14 Junior High School 271 | 4.15 Brownsville Labor Lyceum | 4.16 Margaret Sanger's First Birth Control Clinic | 4.17 East New York Farms! | 4.18 Sunny's Bar | 4.19 Gowanus Canal | 4.20 Washington Park | 4.21 Park Slope Food Coop | 4.22 Lesbian Herstory Archives | 4.23 Crown Heights Tenant Union | 4.24 1991 Crown Heights Riots | 4.25 Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center | 4.26 Sunset Park | 4.27 Erasmus Hall High School | 4.28 Ebinger Baking Company Boycotts | 4.29 Kings Theatre | 4.30 Arab American Association of New York | 4.31 Mortgage Lending in Bay Ridge | 4.32 Master Theater | 4.33 Coney Island Bridges, Tunnels, and Expressways 5 STATEN ISLAND 5.1 Staten Island Ferry | 5.2 Tompkinsville Park | 5.3 Stapleton Carnegie Library | 5.4 Stapleton Union American Methodist Episcopal Church | 5.5 Verrazzano- Narrows Bridge | 5.6 Willowbrook State School | 5.7 Amazon Warehouse Walkout | 5.8 Freshkills Park | 5.9 Sandy Ground | 5.10 Spanish Camp/Former Site of Dorothy Day's Home | 5.11 Lenape Burial Ridge/Conference House Park 6 THEMATIC TOURS 323 Chinatowns Tour | Environmental Justice Tour | 7 Train Tour: Immigration in Queens | Wall Street: Capitalism and Protest Tour Recommended Reading Acknowledgments Credits Index

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Book SynopsisAs Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as “restaurateurs’ rooms” to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed.Trade ReviewSpang has written an ambitious, thought-changing book. Until now, most restaurant history was pop history, filled with canned ‘Eureka!’ moments and arch legend-making… Spang’s book is an example of the new ‘niche’ history, and, like the best of such books, it is rich in weird data, unsung heroes, and bizarre true stories about the making of familiar things. -- Adam Gopnik * New Yorker *[A] pleasingly spiced history of the restaurant… How has [the] restaurant ritual come to be? And why does it have this form? Such questions are now familiar in works of cultural and social history…[but] Spang adds to the genre without falling prey to its jargon. -- Edward Rothstein * New York Times *This prize-winning academic historical study is a lively, engrossing, authoritative account of how the restaurant as we know it developed… Rebecca Spang is consistently perceptive about the semiotics of her theme, and as generous in her helpings of historical detail as any glutton could wish. * The Times *No more fables about ancien régime chefs, whose aristo patrons had been guillotined or exiled in the French Revolution…an end to those anecdotes about their invention of dishes broiled on a breastplate on some Napoleonic battlefield. Because Spang reveals the restaurant’s first true author: Mathurin Roze de Chantoiseau, ‘friend of all the world,’ an entrepreneur who edited an annual business directory in which he recommended himself as the ‘king’s restauranteur’ and founder of the first ‘house of health.’ -- Vera Rule * The Guardian *Rebecca Spang explodes a culinary myth that has lasted nearly two hundred years. -- Margaret Visser * London Review of Books *Almost every page of this decidedly scholarly though highly readable book gave me something to think about: the origins of restaurant reviewing in the early years of the 19th century, the way in which other Europeans came to identify the restaurant with the essence of French-ness itself, or the fact that in French one word—carte—does double duty for both menu and map. -- Michael Gora * Boston Sunday Globe *The perfect book for a time of year that celebrates, among other things, food. Historian Rebecca Spang begins with an inspired question: Why are there restaurants? To answer this, she takes the reader back a couple of centuries to France, when a restaurant was actually a thing to eat and not a place to go. Her well-researched, compelling book deservedly won several awards. * Globe and Mail *Readers hungry for mouth-watering accounts of sumptuous meals or paeans to the glories of French cuisine will not find them here. Spang’s focus is on the restaurant as an institution, and her history pretty much ends in the mid-19th century. Spang is far more interested in viewing restaurants in a wider social, political, and historical context. Her book is well…argued, dryly witty, and full of fascinating details. -- Merle Rubin * Los Angeles Times *Spang writes entertainingly, with a keen sense of humor and with no great reverence for her subject. It is a refreshing contrast to much of the overwritten adulation of restaurants that passes for criticism today. -- Roger Harris * Newark Star-Ledger *The title of Rebecca L. Spang’s scholarly yet highly accessible social history, The Invention of the Restaurant, causes a small jolt of surprise. For people who eat out so often that boiling a pot of spaghetti at home is a special occasion, a world without restaurants is hard to imagine. We realize, at some level, that they have not always been here, but few of us could say who invented them, or when… Much of this information is ignored in the standard food histories, and Spang’s excavation of it makes for interesting reading, particularly because the French Revolution and its aftermath would change restaurants almost beyond recognition, into something very like the places where we go out to eat today. -- Pete Wells * Salon *Spang presents her story as an excursive and discursive feast, seasons it with wit and gentle irony, lards it with cameos, quotations, and illustrations. Her appetizing message is served with a deft touch. -- Eugen Weber * American Historical Review *Why do restaurants exist? Why do we go to restaurants? Reading Rebecca Spang’s Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture does not directly answer these questions on a personal level, but it does, with many insights, help illuminate the history and sociology of eating out… Spang’s book, while thoroughly researched, is highly readable and enjoyable. This French Revolution of the table will obviously interest amateurs and professionals of culinary topics. I would argue, though, that the book should intrigue even more many readers with no knowledge or particular love of the kitchen. Because every chapter is well introduced and focuses on a particular aspect of the restaurant, such varied fields of study as sociology, history, economy, science, literature, and law find their place. As a result, the book will appeal to many types of readers including undergraduates and graduates. Of special interest is the way Spang considers the public-and-private-sphere debate as well as her unique approach of the French Revolution. Her analysis is accomplished in great detail—starting with the various definitions of the evolution of the word ‘restaurant’—and includes many frontspieces, caricatures, and copious notes. Finally, Spang’s book is an engaging portrait and a serious but accessible tool for understanding the metamorphosis of the emerging modern French society. The Invention of the Restaurant deserves to be read by all. -- Veronique Olivier-Wallis * Eighteenth-Century Book Reviews Online *By focusing on the development of gastronomy as a discourse, and by analyzing that discourse’s constitutive claims to autonomy, Spang offers a more nuanced understanding of what makes her study important and new, if not revolutionary… With its engaging prose style and its judicious use of both scholarly apparatus and illustrations, the book is reminiscent of the work of John Brewer and Simon Schama (not coincidentally, since the latter was Spang’s thesis director). Offering both a detailed history of the emergence of the restaurant and an introduction to the major cultural and political movements of the revolutionary era, The Invention of the Restaurant spans the period from 1770 to about 1840. -- Jody Greene * Eighteenth-Century Studies *It is by now hardly necessary to point out that this is an excellent book. Rebecca Spang’s Invention of the Restaurant well deserves the prizes and enthusiastic reviews it has garnered from both academic and non-academic sources since its appearance in 2000. The reasons for these successes are easy to discern. Spang’s book is delightful to read, beautifully constructed and concerned with a topic of immediate appeal: how and why was the restaurant invented? …A splendid work showing considerable erudition and great narrative talent. I look forward to reading Spang’s next publication. -- Rebecca Earle * French History *This is a book that works on a number of different levels. There is meat and drink here for those interested in the metaphysical and metaphorical aspects of eating; a wealth of erudition on some relatively little studied aspects of Enlightenment culture and the French Revolution; and those scholars of the period who follow convention in regarding the rise of the French restaurant as epiphenomenon of the French Revolution, a well presented challenge to their account. -- Kate Soper * Radical Philosophy *Spang chronicles these developments [in the history of restaurants] in a tasty work, which is about far more than food. * Harvard Magazine *Spang traces [the] history [of restaurants] and challenges the traditional gastronomic narrative of dining out in the French capital… Spang’s work should appeal to readers seriously interested in the social and intellectual history of dining out. -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *A deeply gratifying social history of the Parisian public food world, as multilayered and earthy as pot-au-feu, for all its scholarship, as agreeably informal as a bistro. * Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisFrom the ashes of empire, the nation rose on a wave of idealism. That, at least, is the standard tale. Dominique Reill argues that empire retained many supporters after 1919. Investigating the post-WWI crisis in multicultural, urbane Fiume, she finds that the stories of empire’s cosmopolitans have been overwritten by the triumph of nationalism.Trade Review[An] excellent example of how modern historians are adding texture to our understanding of 20th-century Europe…The colorful story of Fiume has indeed been told before, but never with so many fresh and fascinating insights as Reill provides. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *Reill’s depiction of the local, enriched by massive research in Rijeka’s archives (and some at the Vittoriale [degli Italiani]), is a delight…One of the pleasures of Reill’s work is its inclusion of period photographs…Throughout the book, Reill paints deft portraits of people and events. -- R. J. B. Bosworth * Literary Review *So important…By looking at the ways in which the grandiose D’Annunizian rhetorical flourishes were translated into pragmatic everyday life solutions, Reill opens up an important conversation on What Is History and Who Gets to Write It…With the rigor of a scholar and the artistry of a bard, she finds not just a story to represent the complexities of speaking local problems into a larger global conversation. She finds the story, the case study, the Martin Guerre who articulates a worldview. -- Aliza Wong * Los Angeles Review of Books *An important addition to a hitherto neglected area of Habsburg studies, by helping to disrupt the common wisdom…Brilliantly written…A path-breaking contribution in reconsidering the imperial transitions in twentieth-century Europe. -- Marco Bresciani * H-Net Reviews *As this impeccably researched and engagingly written book demonstrates, the Habsburg monarchy’s afterlife is often as interesting as its proper history. -- Ian D. Armour * History Today *A superb book, smartly conceived and beautifully written. With a genius for unearthing fascinating stories of local people, then using them to illuminate larger issues, Reill forces us to reconsider in profound ways how we conceive the history of the immediate postwar period in Europe. This history from below questions stale nationalist certainties and depicts vividly how communities worked to create their own options in a challenging postwar world. -- Pieter Judson, author of The Habsburg Empire: A New HistoryThe Fiume Crisis offers a fundamentally new way of thinking about war and postwar rebuilding. By zooming in to a specific city at the crossroads of many different pasts and multiple possible futures, Reill provides a fresh perspective on who makes history happen—bilingual cabbage sellers and young schoolteachers, emigré lawyers and seductive dockworkers—all those who tried to create a city that could escape the ravages of war and economic devastation. Their creativity and vision, triumphs and failures come alive in this breathtaking story. -- Alison Frank Johnson, author of Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian GaliciaIn this fascinating and important book Reill transforms our understanding of both the Fiume crisis and the whole geopolitical metamorphosis of Europe that followed World War I. She shows that the struggle over the city between Italy and Yugoslavia reflected a much deeper and more complex history of Adriatic identities in a Habsburg and post-Habsburg context. -- Larry Wolff, author of Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern EuropeA magisterial account of everyday life in the multi-ethnic city of Fiume after the end of the Great War. Moving well beyond the familiar story of the soldier-poet Gabriele D’Annunzio and his occupation of Fiume, Reill succeeds in telling the fascinating story of how a city of considerable cultural complexity dealt with the challenges of being a small successor state in a post-imperial world. -- Robert Gerwarth, author of November 1918: The German RevolutionA brilliant reevaluation of the nationalist myths and legends that have grown up around the history of Fiume under Gabriele D’Annunzio. Shifting our gaze away from his charismatic personality to the experiences of the citizens of Fiume, Reill demonstrates the persistence of imperial loyalties underpinning their quest for greater autonomy. This book forces us to question what we think we know about the relationship between nationalism and empire in the aftermath of the First World War. -- Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free WorldIn this gem of a book, Reill peels away the sensational stories that made Fiume notorious as both a diplomatic thorn in Woodrow Wilson’s peacemaking and the prancing ground of proto-fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio, revealing a more thrilling, politically meaningful history. In the plucky polyglot city’s colliding authorities, crazy quilt laws, and contradictory wants, Reill vividly captures the human comedy as well as the shoals on which hopes for the Great Peace to follow the Great War foundered. -- Victoria de Grazia, author of The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s ItalyReill offers a new interpretation of Fiume…Will surely be one of the most, if not the most influential monograph on Fiume in years to come…Impressive in its thoroughness. -- Ágnes Ordasi * Hungarian Historical Review *Reill seeks to show how ordinary Fiumians navigated this period of crisis in the history of their city…Her research reveals their pragmatism as they tried to make the best of their new position as an isolated city-state in the age of nations. -- Liam Hoare * Metropole *[A] crucial new study…A thorough and convincing portrait of a city striving to come to terms with the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian empire and find its way in an evolving political landscape…Reill has produced a compelling analysis of how fundamental day-to-day issues such as currency, legal codes, citizenship, and school curriculums were dealt with in the city. This is a scrupulous, sober, history from below that is essential in a context such as d’Annunzio’s Fiume, which was all about imposing an image from above. -- Aidan O’Malley * Dublin Review of Books *Engaging…Readers will finish this book enthusiastic about Fiume. But they will also come away with new insights into the creative ways that Europeans tackled the aftermath of World War I on the ground…Reill highlights the importance of considering both the imperial and the local if we want to understand the end of World War I or the mapping of interwar Europe. -- Caitlin E. Murdock * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *Particularly relevant to historians of Habsburg Europe, while challenging standard accounts of modern Italian history. The history of interwar Fiume is much more than an Italian story, more than the prehistory of Italian Fascism. Extremely erudite, well-written, and illustrated with many astonishing photographs. -- Axel Körner * Austrian History Yearbook *An important contribution to the burgeoning literature on post-1918 Europe and the debate on continuities between empires and nation-states…This accomplished study invites further discussion and research on a key moment in European history. -- Laurence Cole * Journal of Modern History *

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Book SynopsisThe Mongols are universally known as conquerors, but they were more than that: influential thinkers, politicians, engineers, and merchants. Challenging the view that nomads are peripheral to history, The Horde reveals the complex empire the Mongols built and traces its enduring imprint on politics and society in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.Trade ReviewOutstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjects the Mongols to a much-needed re-evaluation, showing how they were able not only to conquer but to control a vast empire. A remarkable book. -- Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk RoadsThe Mongols have been ill-served by history, the victims of an unfortunate mixture of prejudice and perplexity…The Horde flourished, in Favereau’s fresh, persuasive telling, precisely because it was not the one-trick homicidal rabble of legend. * Wall Street Journal *In medieval European times, the Mongols ruled a vast area of the Eurasian landmass stretching as far to the west as modern Ukraine. Favereau, a French specialist on nomadic empires, achieves the exceptional feat of writing about this era in a way that is accessible to general readers as well as scholarly. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *Fascinating…The Mongols were a sophisticated people with an impressive talent for government and a sensitive relationship with the natural world…An impressively researched and intelligently reasoned book that will be welcomed by historians of the Mongol Empire. -- Gerard DeGroot * The Times *A major achievement: it is thorough, accurate and complex, yet also accessible to a broad readership. Her blow-by-blow account of Mongol life and politics as one ruler falls and another rises is the most complete we have. Even better, the book is not solely focused on the Mongols. Favereau is an integrative historian committed to showing how the Horde influenced other peoples and shaped world history…Readers will enjoy the richness and clarity of The Horde. -- Timothy Brook * Literary Review *The first book to be devoted exclusively to the Golden Horde. It is at once a microhistory, dense with regional politics and war, and a survey of the Horde’s wider influence. -- Colin Thubron * New York Review of Books *A wonderful book…Suffice to say that in their politics, administration, family lives and, yes, their warfare, the Mongols were far more complicated than we think. -- Stephen L. Carter * Bloomberg Opinion *Favereau’s narrative is extremely rich in ethnographic detail and descriptions of succession battles, military campaigns, and internecine warfare. Favereau seeks to exonerate the Horde, which in her view is too often portrayed as merely a plundering force. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *Eye-opening…A meaningful corrective to popular misconceptions about Mongols’ role in world history. * Publishers Weekly *Rather than being the murderous mob depicted in film and popular history, the Mongol horde, this book reveals, was a complex Euro-Asian culture…[Favereau] dispels the myth that it was just a rampaging mass of warriors; it possessed great governing skills, was adept at social relationships, and remained a major force on the Eurasian landmass until it began to withdraw eastward after the Black Death. * Kirkus Reviews *Although it had no permanent settlements and farmlands, the Horde was an advanced civilization as well as a formidable military power. Its leaders, all literate, ran a well-organized communications network that kept its far-flung population in constant touch…Reading The Horde is like immersing oneself in a sprawling epic. -- Christopher Moore * Literary Review of Canada *In The Horde, an ambitiously revisionist account of the Mongol Empire, Favereau presents the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century conquerors of the steppe as sophisticated stewards of globalism, rulers who practiced remarkable tolerance, and stimulated far-reaching economic growth. -- Dinyar Patel * Scroll *It is far too often forgotten that Asia’s nomadic empires, from the Sogdians and Huns through the Parthians and Seljuks, were key drivers of greater Asia’s rich cultural diversity. This extraordinary book vividly details how the nomadic Mongols operated the largest empire of the premodern world, through practices that continue to shape today’s world. -- Parag Khanna, author of The Future Is AsianTerrific—a really important reassessment of the origins of one of the great empires in history. -- Peter Frankopan * The Spectator *[An] ambitious book with a huge range. It presents this world in its full complexity. It’s an incredibly compelling read and it changes the way you see the world. -- Paul Lay * Five Books *A deeply compelling, sympathetic, and highly engaging account of how the Horde was created and of its lasting impact on the evolution of what we now call ‘globalization.’ Favereau’s book will transform our understanding of world history. -- Anthony Pagden, author of Worlds at WarFavereau’s detailed and objective account of the Mongol conquest and rule of Russia rescues the era from dark neglect and prejudice to reveal its powerful positive and negative influences in shaping modern Eurasia. This highly readable and deeply informed work fills in one of history’s important missing chapters. -- Jack Weatherford, author of Genghis Khan and the Quest for GodCombining material and textual sources, Favereau has written the best book on the Jochid Khanate: the first to see events resolutely from a Jochid perspective, without foreclosing on the vast contexts that bind the history of the Horde to that of Eurasia and the world. -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of PathfindersIn this riveting book, Favereau shows how the most enduring descendants of Chinggis Khan’s Mongol imperium—the Western or ‘Golden’ Horde—fashioned an exceptionally resilient imperial system with far-reaching influence in western Eurasia. She has challenged us to think afresh about how mobility and empire can be fused into dynamic political and cultural forms. -- John Darwin, author of After TamerlaneThe Horde is not the first history to challenge the depiction of the Mongol Empire as governed solely by ruthless conquerors and plunderers, but it is the most nuanced and comprehensive history. -- Francis P. Sempa * New York Journal of Books *An exciting new addition to a rich pool of contemporary scholarship in the field. -- Madhumita Mazumdar * The Telegraph (India) *A book that has profound ramifications for our understanding of European and Eurasian history…Irrefutably enthrones the Mongol Empire as one of the great drivers of global history. -- Emily Couch * Moscow Times *

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Book SynopsisDo democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there also be economic and social equality? Aldo Schiavone traces these questions and their diverse answers from the ancient world to the present and urges a new course to rescue democracies now suffering from excesses of inequality.Trade ReviewSchiavone has written a considered and considerable monograph, which is worthy of the magnitude of its subject-matter: equality. His knowledge of political thought is both deep and broad…and his combining of historical inquiry with conceptual work successful. -- Andreas Avgousti * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *A bold, original book—learned without ever being pedantic, engaging without being frivolous, highly personal without ever being self-referential. It takes the reader through a vast body of European literature without ever losing its way. In the end, the reader will come away with far deeper, more nuanced understanding of what ‘equality’ has come to mean over the centuries, what it should mean for us today, and what its possible future might be. -- Anthony Pagden, author of The Pursuit of EuropeSchiavone displays here extraordinary historic, legal, and philosophical knowledge, enabling him to cover the full span of Western history with great erudition. -- Roberto Esposito, author of Politics and NegationThe Pursuit of Equality in the West is one of the most richly detailed, original, and thought-provoking books I have ever read. Only Aldo Schiavone could have given us such a lucid and cogent study. -- Massimo Ciavolella, University of California, Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative biography of Jozef Pilsudski, a key figure in interwar Europe regarded as the founding hero of a pluralistic and democratic modern Poland. After the first elected president was assassinated, Pilsudski lost faith in Poles’ commitment to democracy, led a military coup, and ruled as a strongman, leaving a complicated legacy.Trade ReviewThe ultimate Pilsudski biography for our era. Deeply researched, authoritative, and very well written, it fearlessly faces the great mystery of the man. For how can the Father of Modern Poland, a soldier and statesman of genius and the savior of his country in 1920, be the same man who ruthlessly discarded democracy in a military coup only six years later? Zimmerman’s portrayal of Pilsudski in the courageous Polish Legions days will come alive for readers, but the complexity of the authoritarian period under the ‘Napoleon of Poland’ will give them pause for thought. -- Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with DestinyCompelling…Zimmerman narrates Pilsudski’s life with authority, clarity and verve…The book is an important achievement in its introduction of the English-language reader to a key figure in the historical contest between Russian imperial ambition and the smaller nations that resist it. -- Stanley Bill * Times Literary Supplement *Excellent…a detailed, absorbing book that peels back the complexities of histories to reclaim the figure of Jozef Pilsudski for a new generation. -- Colin Shindler * Jewish Chronicle *A well-timed book…This well-researched and clearly written biography sheds light on the emergence of an independent Poland, which without Pilsudski might never have existed. It is also a meditation on the confluence of ethnic, religious, national, and imperial history that is Eastern Europe. -- Michael Kimmage * The National Interest *Zimmerman has made Pilsudski’s mostly supportive dealings with the Jewish community, and its experience of antisemitism, a central theme of his book. This tends to crowd out his treatment of other topics or minorities, but it’s good that Pilsudski’s long alliance with Jewish and other non-Polish parties should be more widely known. Necessary, too, though shocking, is Zimmerman’s detailed account of the pogroms that broke out as Poland regained independence, crimes Pilsudski condemned but was curiously slow to halt. -- Neal Ascherson * London Review of Books *Piłsudski’s story, complete with flaws, accomplishments and echoes of today’s war in Ukraine, is brought to life in [this] recent biography. -- John Daniszewski * Associated Press *Zimmerman’s biography is long overdue. Balanced, meticulously researched and very well written, it provides a panoramic portrait of the man who towers over modern Poland, warts and all. * History Today *Joshua Zimmerman’s masterful new biography, based on Polish and English sources, explores the controversy that surrounded this contradictory man in his own lifetime and thereafter…This deeply researched study brings to life a restless Polish soul. -- Mark Cornwall * Literary Review *Clearly written, detailed, and absorbing…Zimmerman presents Pilsudski as a classical hero, masterfully balancing the description of events that showcase his hubris and tragedy. -- Magdalena Bogacz * H-Net Reviews *This well-researched and balanced biography of Józef Piłsudski seems destined to become the standard English-language work on the ‘father of modern Poland.’ It is a significant achievement and deserves a wide readership. -- Michael Fleming * Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs *Likely to be the definitive biography of the Polish political conspirator, military commander, and statesman Józef Piłsudski…Zimmerman’s book is sure to find a wide and admiring readership. -- Jesse Kauffman * Austrian History Yearbook *I much enjoyed Joshua Zimmerman’s biography Jozef Pilsudski: Founding Father of Modern Poland…Will be heartily welcomed by the history buff in your life. -- Roger Moorhouse * Aspects of History *Perfectly timed…[Zimmerman’s] even-handedness gives Pilsudski’s history a nuance that was not allowed by Poland’s post-WWII communist authorities, who portrayed him as a proto-fascist and cracked down on his legacy…Impressively documented…Ultimately, Pilsudski’s life was that of a classical hero, replete with both hubris and tragedy. -- James Jackson * Notes from Poland *Magisterial…Zimmerman, in his splendid book, paints a balanced and thoughtful portrait of an eminent Polish leader who devoted body and soul to reestablishing a state that had been swept away by the tides of fate. -- Sheldon Kirschner * Times of Israel *A masterful biography…This book should be ready widely by historians of modern Europe, and not just historians of Poland. Zimmerman’s account of Piłsudski’s life and legacy helps make sense of modern Poland, to be sure, but it also makes a case for his relevance far beyond Poland’s borders. -- Eva Plach * Slavic Review *A work on the life and motivations of Jozef Pilsudski in the English language has been long overdue. … Zimmerman has not taken the easy route of either producing a hagiography or a diatribe. Instead, he produced a well-written and thoughtful account of Pilsudski and how he shaped the Second Polish Republic. …[He] should be commended for his diligence in executing this excellent biography of a great, if neglected, European leader. -- Evan McGilvray * Journal of Slavic Military Studies *Zimmerman’s book can be read not only as a historical monograph, but also as a fascinating account of how Western ideas found their way to Europe’s peripheries and what their implementation in political activism and state-building looked like in that part of the world…A must-read for scholars interested in Eastern Europe. -- Tadeusz Koczanowicz * Studies in East European Thought *Pilsudski had a profound influence on the politics of twentieth-century Europe, and his legacy is discernible to this day. Yet this extraordinary man—an idealistic political activist turned terrorist, military commander, statesman and finally virtual dictator—has been sorely neglected by historians outside Poland. This well-researched, balanced, and highly readable account of the truly Napoleonic trajectory of his life and complex political evolution is timely and very welcome. -- Adam Zamoyski, author of Napoleon: A LifeHere is the ‘founder of modern Poland’ for twenty-first-century eyes. This fascinating portrait of Pilsudski, one of the most important political figures of twentieth-century Europe, is full of vivid details and incisive observations. Zimmerman has drawn from a huge body of material, much from newly available sources, and turned it into a critical yet brilliantly balanced analysis of a man and statesman. -- Andrzej Nowak, Jagiellonian UniversityA thorough, nuanced biography of Pilsudski, whose extraordinary life sheds so much light on his era and the Poland of his dreams and of his making. Zimmerman highlights Pilsudski’s pluralist and federalist inclinations without downplaying his later authoritarianism. Pilsudski’s attitude toward Polish Jews in particular serves as a bellwether of his cultural pluralism and respect for minority rights. A much-needed, comprehensive account essential for readers seeking to understand this complex, important figure. -- Patrice M. Dabrowski, author of Poland: The First Thousand YearsThe personality and policies of Jozef Pilsudski have long been obscured by both ideological attacks and mindless adulation. This welcome new portrait places the marshal in his rightful position, not just as a military leader whose plans worked out and a would-be democrat whose plans went awry, but as a statesman with a broad, tolerant vision. Zimmerman’s emphasis on Pilsudski’s hopes for a multinational Poland, where all could live in harmony—including the country’s huge Jewish community—is spot on. -- Norman Davies, author of God’s Playground: A History of PolandPilsudski was a central figure not only in the emergence and development of an independent Polish state but also in the larger history of interwar Europe. Zimmerman clearly portrays the complex, multifaceted nature of the man and his political legacy. While Pilsudski sought to create a multiethnic Poland in which all citizens would feel at home, his understanding of how a constitutional system should function was flawed, and he used brutal, extra-legal methods to suppress the opposition after he seized power in a coup. This welcome book will become the definitive treatment in English of Pilsudski, and I enthusiastically recommend it. -- Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia

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Book Synopsis"First published in German as Dekolonisation by Jan C. Jansen and Jeurgen Osterhammel, A Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Meunchen 2013"--Title page verso.Trade Review"This clear, concise, and new interpretation will be welcomed by students, scholars, and general readers interested in one of the most defining and consequential developments of the 20th century."--Publishers Weekly "This is a work not only valuable for its discussion of the topic, but for placing it in a context sorely needed in today's hydra-headed discussions of the term and the word from which it is derived... Perhaps this book's greatest virtue is reminding us of what a global phenomenon it was by concentrating on the vast French colonial empire, as well as the Portuguese, German, Japanese and, yes, American realms."--Martin Rubin, Washington TimesTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Decolonization as Moment and Process 1 2 Nationalism, Late Colonialism, World Wars 35 3 Paths to Sovereignty 71 4 Economy 119 5 World Politics 139 6 Ideas and Programs 156 7 Legacies and Memories 171 Notes 193 Select Readings 225 Index 237

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