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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Everyday Life in Vichy France
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Empty Cradles Oranges and Sunshine
Book SynopsisMargaret Humphreys is the Director and founder of the Child Migrants Trust, supported by Nottinghamshire County Council. For her services on behalf of the child migrants, she was awarded the Order of Australia - one of only a few Britons ever to have been so honoured, and she was appointed CBE in the 2011 New Year Honours list . She lives in Nottingham with her husband and two children.Trade ReviewIt is a story that defies belief. * Independent *The secrets of the lost children of Britain may never have been revealed if it had not been for [the actions of] Margaret Humphreys. * Sunday Times *A modern Florence Nightingale. * Sydney Morning Herald *A truly astonishing, haunting, real-life detective story. * She (Australia) *Brought tears to my eyes. It is impossible to read...without thinking "These could be my parents. These could be my children."...Despite the sadness and anger at its centre, hope remains the principle message of this remarkable book. * The Times *
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Transworld Publishers Ltd When The Hills Ask For Your Blood A Personal
Book SynopsisDavid Belton worked as a producer at BBC Newsnight in the 1990s where, amongst many foreign assignments, he covered the civil war in Bosnia and the genocide in Rwanda. In 2002, he co-wrote the story and produced the award-winning feature film Shooting Dogs based on real events that had taken place during the Rwandan genocide. He has since produced and directed many critically acclaimed and award-winning documentaries for British and American television. He lives in Oxford with his family.Trade ReviewTremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit -- WILLIAM BOYDDavid Belton has written something very special, a work of non-fiction that has a novel’s power to move, enchant and challenge. This elegantly-written book is much more than a history, a work of lyrical beauty that will stand as a memorial not just for those who died in the genocide but to those of us who struggle to make a difference. -- Tim Butcher, author of BLOOD RIVERComplex, compassionate and scathing… Much of the writing … has a literary power that lifts it above normal journalistic or non-fiction practice: Jean-Pierre’s confinement in his mud-walled hole has shades of Beckett, and both Odette and Curic seem like Brechtian heroes. * Giles Foden *Belton excavates the truth and layers the political, social and military dimensions of the conflict onto three peoples’ stories, to produce a book that is both illuminating and profoundly moving. -- Aminatta Forna * Independent *Brings the story right up to date, confronting the dilemmas and tensions that lie not far below the surface ... * Observer *
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Penguin Books Ltd American Scare
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Random House USA Inc BlackOwned
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MN - University of British Columbia Press Aboriginal Plant Use in Canadas Northwest Boreal Forest
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Harvard University Press Man and Wife in America
Book SynopsisExploring 150 years of American marriage, Hartog shatters the myth of a golden age of stable marriage in the 19th century. He shows how our own conflicts and confusions about marital roles and identities are rooted in the history of marriage and the legal struggles that defined and transformed it.Trade ReviewHendrik Hartog offers a revealing history of marital and legal struggles. The fascinating case histories scattered throughout personalize [his] larger legal and social points. -- Carolyn Alessio * Chicago Tribune *Hendrik Hartog’s book is particularly relevant in an era when debate over gay marriage is front-page news. The issues raised by this debate—the rights, responsibilities, and expectations of what marriage is and can do for individuals as well as constraints imposed by the marriage contract—are at the heart of the book, even though it is focused on traditional male/female marriages from the late eighteenth century to the 1950s… The volume is a very readable, well-written addition to the literature on legal history, family history, and women’s history. Hartog’s emphasis on the social and cultural context of changing marriage law is refreshing whether one agrees that women frequently benefited from coverture and traditional notions about marriage or not… [T]his book will bring the legal history of marriage to a larger audience of non-specialist academics and students. -- Altina Waller * American Historical Review *In addressing the history of marriage and divorce in America, Hendrik Hartog…[has] raised the bar for legal historians to dizzying heights… Man and Wife in America asks how nineteenth-century law shaped men and women’s understanding of the meaning of marriage and their self-identities as husbands and wives… Hartog’s focus, however, is on separation—a limbo between marriage and divorce—as a starting place to explore the law of marriage… [He] offers a more complicated, less-easily categorized, narrative. -- Felice Batlan * H-Net Reviews *This is a bold and provocative book, and although its principal themes are not novel, the idiosyncratic way in which Hartog develops them is… The boundlessness of Hartog’s research design together with the vastness of his chronological sweep would pose a serious problem in less able hands. For Hartog, however, both the boundlessness and vastness are part of his method. His frank denial of system in his scholarship with its echoes of postmodernism coincides nicely with one of his principle points: the untidy and indeterminate nature of American marriage laws… Hartog’s effort to recast the story of marriage law by underscoring its exceptions and complications is both interesting and important and is rendered with verve and imagination. The book is provocative and engaging; it should attract students as well as scholars; and it should become an integral part of scholarly discourse on Anglo-American marriage law and its long and controversial history. -- Norma Basch * Reviews in American History *Hartog, a history and law professor, examines the most basic social institution from a legal standpoint. He reviews important, precedent-setting cases that have formed American law on marriage and also examines the social context that produced the laws… Hartog charts the changes in law from the time when a woman’s legal identity derived from her husband to no-fault divorces and economic and social (e.g., feminism) trends in this interesting look at the legal institution of marriage. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *By locating and exploring the legal boundaries of marital behavior…Hartog is also able to say much about the social and economic context of marriages… Further, Hartog writes with great clarity and directness. The net result is that he has made a major contribution to the history of the American family with a book that, besides its scholarly excellence, is highly accessible to general readers. -- R. B. Lyman Jr. * Choice *Mining more than a century of case records, Hartog has written a book that will be an essential purchase for upper-level academic collections in legal or gender history. -- Robert F. Nardini * Library Journal *No one has done more than Hendrik Hartog to illuminate what it meant to be a husband or a wife in the nineteenth century. Wearing his immense and unique knowledge lightly, he ventures imaginatively into case after poignant case of marital escapade and contest, and makes this vivid landscape of struggling couples all the more meaningful for the present by revealing how the presence of law creeps into the most intimate corners of lives. -- Nancy Cott, author of Public Vows: A Political History of Marriage in the United StatesMan and Wife in America is a truly wonderful work. No one knows this subject as well as Hartog, and probably no one ever will. The result is a uniquely large and valuable contribution. One learns a great deal about cultural values, class relations, and gender, while meeting a host of striking characters. All in all, a magnificent achievement! -- John Demos, author of The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story From Early AmericaHendrik Hartog is one of our most subtle and insightful legal historians, and a master storyteller. Man and Wife in America argues a stunningly original view of the meanings of marriage in the 19th century. A work of history that reads like a novel. -- Linda Gordon, author of The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionHartog gives the tangled subject of broken marriages a rich and instructive history. Through fascinating tales about men and women whose failed marriages led them to the law, he makes a major contribution to our understanding of American culture, past and present. Man and Wife in America is a compelling and important achievement that deserves a wide readership. -- Michael Grossberg, Editor, American Historical ReviewHartog illuminates the deep puzzles of the law of marriage, which effects more people, more profoundly, than any other field of law. Wise, imaginative, and learned, Man and Wife in America brings to life the marital conflicts and struggles that prompted judges to improvise solutions for unhappy spouses. Resolving mysteries about law’s practices, this book reveals the deeper mysteries of humans’ intimate connections. -- Martha Minow, Harvard Law SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Scene of a Marriage 2. Abigail Bailey's Divorce 3. Early Exits 4. Being a Wife 5. Acting Like a Husband 6. Coercion and Harriet Douglas Cruger 7. John Barry and American Fatherhood 8. The Right to Kill 9. The Geography of Remarriage 10. Coverture in a New Age Epilogue A Note on Method Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Hot and Bothered Women Medicine and Menopause in
Book SynopsisBy examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, Houck shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developments and by changing roles for women and the changing definition of womanhood.Trade ReviewHouck…has researched menopausal sentiments expressed by doctors, the popular press and women themselves, from the late-19th century to the present… Much of the information she’s unearthed is both horrifying and fascinating. -- Michele Kort * Ms. *All in all, Hot and Bothered is more than an historical narration of culturally driven gender representation. If it receives the readership it deserves it will help women become—more genuinely—themselves. -- Jill MacKay Scot * PsycCRITIQUES *Houck takes white, middle-class women’s experiences and the complexity of medicine seriously. Activists will find her historical analysis provocative and scholars will be particularly interested in the sources she has identified and examined. Houck’s view of menopause certainly complicates both medical and feminist history, proof that this story from the past can still generate heat. -- Susan E. Bell * Women’s Review of Books *[Hot and Bothered] examines how, within each epoch, new meanings of menopause emerged when biotechnological developments intersected with changes in the social and cultural landscapes of women’s lives. Houck mines the medical, academic, popular, and self-help literature of each era to support an argument that aging women and menopause have figured prominently in society’s angst about the nature of womanhood, the roles of women, and the practice of medicine. This examination of how feminism, women’s agency, social constructionism, and medicalization intersect in menopause is a helpful addition to the women’s health scholarship. -- P. Lefler * Choice *Judith Houck has produced a highly nuanced account of the social construction of menopause and the politics of the doctor–patient relationship. Carefully tracing the transformation of menopause from an emblem of womanhood’s frailty to a symbol of women’s increasing power in the medical marketplace, she shows that no single explanatory model—neither medicalization, fears of the aging process, nor pharmaceutical victimization—alone explains American women’s current dilemma over the appropriateness of hormone replacement therapy. -- Ellen S. More, author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850–1995A fascinating book. Judith Houck tracks the representations of menopause—from liberation to castration—and shows how the bodies of aging women have been used for a variety of projects across the political spectrum. At the same time, she shows that women’s self-perceptions differed from what advisers and advertisers taught. Students of the pharmaceutical industry, bodies, sexualities, family, and medicine will all want to read Houck’s excellent book. -- Leslie J. Reagan, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDrawing on medical literature, the popular press, and women’s accounts from the 1890s to the 1980s, this beautifully written book examines menopause as both cultural construct and physiological transition. Judith Houck provides a nuanced discussion of menopause in relation to medical theory, clinical practice, women’s demands, and husbands’ responses. She shows that women were not victims of the medical profession but acted in ways they thought to be in their interests. In turn, women’s own sense of their menopausal experience mattered in doctors’ responses, shaping medical diagnosis and treatment. Hot and Bothered makes an important contribution to women’s history, medical history, the history of the body, and the history of aging. -- Susan L. Smith, Associate Professor of History, University of Alberta, and author of Japanese American Midwives: Culture, Community, and Health Politics, 1880–1950Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Hold Oneself Well in Hand": Medicine, Menopause, and the New Woman 2. "Endocrine Perverts" and "Derailed Menopausics": Gender Transgressions and Mental Disorders, 1897-1937 3. "Consider the Patent as a Woman and Not a Groups of Gland": Women, Menopause, and the Medical Encounter, 1938-1962 4. Domesticity and Liberation: Menopause in the Popular Literature, 1938-1962 5. "Casting an Evil Spell over Her Once Happy Home": Menopause as a Family Disease, 1938-1962 6. "Why All the Fuss?" Middle-Class Women and the Denial of the Menopausal Body, 1938-1962 7. Feminine Forever: Robert A. Wilson and the Hormonal Revolution, 1963-1980 8. "At the Will and Whim of My Hormones": Women, Menopause, and the Hormonal Imperative 9. "What Do These Women Want?" Feminist Responses to Feminine Forever Epilogue. Aging Supermodels and Inner Crones: Menopause at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Roots Too White Ethnic Revival in PostCivil
Book SynopsisIn the 1970s, whites mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants in the New World. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Jacobson establishes a broader white social and political consensus responding to the political language of the Civil Rights movement.Trade ReviewHow did American culture move away from an older assimilationist ideal toward a new celebration of the hyphen? In Roots Too, Matthew Jacobson has written a magisterial cultural history of the ethnic revival covering a vast array of topics, from Ellis Island to the Statue of Liberty, from Roots and Fiddler on the Roof to Rocky and The Godfather, and from neoconservatism to ethnic feminism. -- Werner Sollors, author of Neither Black Nor White Yet BothAs critically important as it is engaging, Roots Too impressively shows how thoroughly "Ellis Island" whiteness has remade nationalism in the U.S. in the last half century. Our views are both complicated and deepened by this brilliant work of retrieval and analysis. -- David Roediger, author of Working Towards Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Become White. The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the SuburbsRoots Too offers an unflinching analysis of how and why whites became ethnic during the Civil Rights, Third World, feminist, and queer movements. It is a work of enormous significance. -- Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Common Ground: Reimagining American HistoryAll readers will come away from this book with a deeper appreciation of how and why the immigrant saga has mattered so much in recent American politics. -- Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History, University of MinnesotaIn this intriguing and closely argued book, Jacobson tells the story of how it came to be fashionable for white Americans to rediscover their ethnic heritage--be it Italian or Irish, Jewish or Catholic--and how many of them made this into a 'usable past' to forge a sense of identity, a quasi backlash to the civil rights movements of the '60s that occurred less on the front page than on the big screen (think Godfather, Rocky, or My Big Fat Greek Wedding). One of the book's strongest assets is the large number of examples and case studies Jacobson provides, including accounts of Michael Dukakis's relentless invocation of his Greek background during his failed presidential campaign and how artist Judy Chicago's 'evolving sense of Jewishness' became central to her work...Jacobson's considerable achievement is how he avoids reducing ethnic revival to simple multiculturalism or the inevitable result of the fabled hard-working Ellis Island immigrant. * Publishers Weekly *Given the current intensity of the immigration debate in the United States, perhaps no book could be more timely than Roots Too. In this exciting new study, leading immigration historian, Matthew Frye Jacobson, argues that the white ethnic revival of the late twentieth century was about more than the individual rediscovery of one's "roots"...Roots Too speaks to many audiences but will be of most interest to scholars of immigration and ethnicity or of late-twentieth-century American culture. For the former audience, it is among the most thought-provoking works in recent years and could potentially reshape the field. -- David J. La Vigne * History: Review of New Books *[A] tour de force. -- John D. Buenker * Journal of American History *The myth of Plymouth Rock has been replaced by the myth of Ellis Island; we understand ourselves as a nation of immigrants. This much has been broadly understood, and even exploited by moviemakers and politicians...But the origins of this development and its consequences for American racial and civic relations have not been as well explored. Roots Too fills this gap; it is an excellent introduction to discussions of contemporary American discourse on identity. Using a close and persuasive reading of historical, literary, cinematic, and political materials, Jacobson identifies the roots of this ethnic identification in civil rights-era black politics and considers its impact on liberal, conservative, and feminist politics. -- Cheryl Greenberg * The Historian *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond Hansen's Law 1. Hyphen Nation 2. Golden Door, Silver Screen 3. Old World Bound 4. The Immigrant's Bootstraps, and Other Fables 5. I Take Back My Name 6. Our Heritage Is Our Power 7. Whose America (Who's America)? Coda: Ireland at JFK Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University, Asia Center Ethnic Chrysalis
Book SynopsisEthnic Chrysalis is the first book in English to cover the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas now belonging to the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China. Kim examines how the impact of political organization in one era can endure in a group's social and cultural values.Trade ReviewA fresh perspective on the region’s transformation over the last four hundred years…A multifaceted account of the changing fortunes of the Orochen through state attempts to rule this sometimes unruly people…An important work of borderland history. -- James Meador * Saksaha *
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Harvard University Press The Siege of Strasbourg
Book SynopsisFor six terror-filled weeks in 1870 German armies bombarded Strasbourg, killing hundreds of citizens, wounding thousands, and destroying landmarks. Rachel Chrastil tells how the city became the epicenter of a new kind of warfare whose indiscriminate violence shocked contemporaries and led to debates over the wartime protection of civilians.Trade ReviewA fascinating and important history. The dramatic narrative of the siege, bombardment, and the ultimate capitulation of Strasbourg to its enemies makes for gripping reading. Chrastil’s story illuminates the conflicting views about what is ‘legal’ in war, what are the roles and rights of civilians in a conflict, and the wisdom and consequences of international humanitarian intervention into war zones. -- Margaret H. Darrow, author of French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home FrontChrastil shows that the siege of Strasbourg, an almost forgotten episode of the Franco–Prussian War, was in fact a highly significant event in the history of modern warfare. Civilians, including women and children, became targets and victims of war, bombardment destroyed lives and urban infrastructure, and humanitarian impulses moved outsiders to intervene on behalf of those most grievously assailed by the instruments of war. The Siege of Strasbourg thus reveals that many of the characteristics of ‘total war,’ usually identified as a phenomenon of the 20th century, were evident in Strasbourg in 1870. -- Martha Hanna, author of Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
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Princeton University Press Red Meat Republic A HooftoTable History of How
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society""Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era""Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards""One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019"
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Princeton University Press Scouting and Scoring
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of a SABR Baseball Research Award, Society for American Baseball Research""Finalist for the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year, Spitball Magazine"
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Princeton University Press Basic Equality
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Quarto Publishing PLC Vic Lees London
Book SynopsisA lively illustrated tour of London in the company of Vic Lee - artist, storyteller and self-confessed ‘ragamuffin from south-east London’. Based on Vic Lee’s series of prints of London, this book covers a variety of different streets and areas across the city, from Walthamstow Village in the north to Lordship Lane in East Dulwich in the south, from Broadway market in the east to Portobello Road in the west. Through over twenty different areas, he brings to life the local life and architecture. Interwoven around the places are stories and anecdotes that he has picked up during his researches and conversations along the way, as well as some that may or may not be true... Areas included in the book are: Saint Pauls Cathedral Soho Battersea Mayfair Portobello Road Southbank Centre The Tate Lambs Conduit Street Exmouth market Clerkenwell and Shoreditch Broadway market Kingsland Road Columbia Road Walthamstow Village Stoke Newington Islington Crouch end Clapham Dulwich Village East Dulwich Brixton Peckham Maida Vale Created in Vic Lee's inimitable, intricate illustration style this book is a work of art for lovers of London life and its special places Table of ContentsStreets of London South London SE22 Lordship Lane East Dulwich SE15 Bellenden Road Peckham SE21 Dulwich Village Dulwich SW2 Brixton Brixton SW11 Northcote Road BatterseaNorth London N1 Upper Street Islington N8 Crouch End Haringey N16 Church Street Stoke NewingtonEast London EC1 St Johns Clerkenwell EC1 Exmouth Market Clerkenwell E2 Columbia Road Tower Hamlets E2 Shoreditch Hackney E8 Kingsland Road Dalston E8 Broadway Market Hackney E17 Walthamstow Village WalthamstowWest London W9 Clifton Road Maida Vale W11 Portobello Road Notting Hill WC1 Lambs Conduit Street Bloomsbury W1 Soho Central W1 Mount Street Mayfair
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British Library Publishing Bloomsbury
Book SynopsisBloomsbury lies at the heart of cultural and intellectual London, famed for its museums, universities and literary heritage. Matthew Ingleby's new history ranges across the neighbourhood to explore hidden corners and reveal unexpected connections between Bloomsbury's past and present.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Educational Reconstruction
Book SynopsisThis book presents a clear overview of the debates that surrounded the making of the 1944 Act, which affected every aspect of education in this country. It gives a detailed account of the tripartite divisions into ''three types of child'' that were sanctioned in the reforms of the 1940s. At the same time, it also emphasises the idea of education as a civic project which underlay the reforms and which was such an important part of their lasting authority. The education policies of the past decade and the current attempts to shape a new education settlement need to be interpreted in a long-term historical framework and in particular, in relation to the aims and problems of the last great cycle of reform in the 1940s. This book makes an important contribution to the development of such a framework and the social history of education policy in this country.Table of ContentsJournal of Educational Administration- "In this richly detailed and fascinating book, McCulloch attempts to weave a tapestry around the notion of educational reconstruction and largely of competing ideas and ideologies from the 1940s to the present day." History of Education- " This is a provocative and stimulating work by a fine historian...it is...a coherent, well-written and sensibly priced volume
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British Museum Press Luxury and power
Book SynopsisJames Fraser is Curator: Ancient Levant and Anatolia, Department of the Middle East, British Museum and Curator of the exhibition Power and prestige: Cyrus to Alexander at the British Museum in 2023.Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones is Professor in Ancient History at Cardiff University and Director of the Ancient Iran Program for the British Institute of Persian Studies. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Persians: The Age of the Great Kings (2022).Henry Bishop-Wright is Project Curator of the exhibition Power and prestige: Cyrus to Alexander at the British Museum in 2023.Table of ContentsForewordsIntroduction1. Feasting like kings: luxury in Achaemenid Persia — Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones2. Guilty pleasures: luxury in classical Athens - James Fraser3. Power and prestige in Alexander’s empire and its successor kingdoms - Henry Bishop-WrightNotes and bibliographyAcknowledgements, picture credits and index
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Gill Threads
Book SynopsisA fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear.Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time.In Push' he tells the story of the legendary Walker Brothers cyclists and soldiers who pedalled through a storm for Ireland at the 1912 Stockholm Games. In Born Mad', discover another side to Samuel Beckett sartor and prolific sportsman who had knockout power as a champion boxer in school. In Boland' we learn about Harry Boland's background as a trained tailor, and in Jack' we encounter Jack B. Yeats at the Olympic Games in Paris.These are just some of men who have inspired Paul's own fashion collections and whom he writes about here in a fascinating collection that shines a light on how history is woven into the clothes Irishmen wear.
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International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. Mythologies
Book SynopsisFour myths dominated U.S. ideology in the 19th century. Myths of white victimization, capitalist progress, the frontier, and the ?self-made man? shaped how many Americans thought about themselves. These ideas lay at the heart of ruling class justification for settler colonialism, the expansion of racial slavery, and the development of the capitalist market system. They became the basis for the transition to U.S. global imperialism.This interdisciplinary study explores how literature in that long century created or challenged those mythologies.Marxist analysis of class struggle, social relations of production, racial capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, and heteronormative patriarchy are the main tools to understand the complex relationship between ideas and society. Mythologies uses those tools for new readings of the writings or speeches of James Fenimore Cooper, Royall Tyler, William Apess, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Wilson, Andrew J. Blackbird, Booker T
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Northern Danelaw
Book SynopsisExamines the development of lordship, peasant status and estate structures in the Northern Danelaw (now Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire), placing the region in its European context and addressing issues concerning the nature of early medieval society.Trade Review"A very useful contribution."--Choice, July 2001"D. M. Hadley has written a judicious and provocative study of the evolving social, tenurial, administrative, and ecclesiastical organization of the northern Danelaw...a flawed but important book...The approach is truly interdisciplinary...the positions she advances are persuasive....Hadley...is to be congratulated. The Northern Danelaw is a book that Anglo-Saxon historians and early medievalists in general cannot afford to ignore." --Speculum, 10/02Table of ContentsEArly medieval societies; territorial organizaiton; lords and peasants; ecclesiastical organization; the Scandinavian impact.
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Manchester University Press The Business of Everyday Life Gender Practice and
Book SynopsisThe book explores the previously under-researched patterns and practices that fashioned a modern consumer society, charting the evolving habits among English men and women across three centuries.Trade Review'Professor Beverly Lemire has provided a well-argued, solidly researched, and clearly written interpretation of the English material world from pre-industrial to industrial times. This highly accessible study merits close scrutiny by economic and social historians as well as as general readers.'Michael J. Galgano, James Madison University (Canadian Journal of History)'Lemire's contribution to… so-called marginal and economic activities, already significant, is further enhanced by this welcome monograph. [an] imaginatively researched study… Lemire has produced an exemplary gender business history'Katrina Honeyman, University of Leeds (Business History)'Lemire's discussion of fashion, saving, and accounting is excellent, and the book captures practices that are central to historians' understanding of western culture, but seldom explored in such an engaging way.'Robin Ganev, University of Regina (Labour/Le Travail)Labour/Le Travail -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction: everyday practice and plebeian affairs2. Gender, the informal economy and the development of capitalism in England, 1650–1850; or, credit among the common people3. Credit for the poor and the failed experiment of the charitable corporation, c. 1700–504. Shifting currency: the practice and economy of the secondhand trade, c. 1600–18505. Refashioning society: expressions of popular consumerism and dress, c. 1660–18206. Savings culture, provident consumerism and the advent of modern consumer society, c. 1780–19007. Accounting for the household: gender and the culture of household management, c. 1600–19008. ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press The Womens Suffrage Movement New Feminist
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that present the best of feminist scholarship on the suffrage movement, illustrating its complexity. It includes major studies of the fascinating, but neglected groups that participated in the campaign: the Women's Franchise League; the Women's Freedom League; the Women's Tax Resistance League and the United Suffragists.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Writing of the Women’s Suffrage Movement: A ‘Coming of Age’1. ‘Now you see it, now you don’t’: The Women’s Franchise League and its place in contending narratives of the women’s suffrage movement2. A truly national movement: the view from outside London3. Meanings of militancy: the ideas and practice of political resistance in the Women’s Freedom League, 1907-19144. Pay the piper, call the tune: the Women’s Tax Resistance League5. ‘A party between revolution and peaceful persuasion’: the United Suffragists6. Six Photographs7. Suffragette fiction and the fictions of suffrage8. Suffrage and poetry: radical women’s voices9. Women’s suffrage drama10. ‘A better world for both’ - men, cultural transformation, the stage, and the Suffragettes11. Christabel Pankhurst and the Women’s Social and Political Union12. ‘No surrender!’: the militancy of Mary Leigh, a working-class suffragette13. Suffrage, sex and science14. The old faith living and the old power there: the movement to extend women’s suffrage15. British suffrage repositories
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Manchester University Press Law History Colonialism The Reach of Empire
Book SynopsisExplores issues including the judicial construction of racial categories, the gendered definitions of nation-states, the historical construction of citizenship, sovereignty and land rights, the limits to legality and the charting of empire, constructions of madness among colonised people, reforming property rights of married women.Table of ContentsContributorsIntroductionPart One: Colonialism’s legality1. Terminal legality: Imperialism and the (de) composition of law - Peter Fitzpatrick2. Colonization and the legal cartography of authority: English intrusions on the American mainland in the seventeenth century - Christopher Tomlins3. Reflections on the rule of law: the Georgian colonies of New south Wales and Upper Canada 1788-1837 - John McLarenPart TwoI: Imperialism and citizenship4. Race definition run amuck: ‘Slaying the dragon of Eskimo status’ before the supreme court of Canada, 1939 - Constance Backhouse5. The paradox of ‘Ultra Democratic’ governments: Indigenous peoples’ civil rights in nineteenth-century New Zealand, Canada and Australia - Patricia Grimshaw, Robert Reynolds and Shurlee Swain6. ‘When There’s No Safety in Numbers’: Fear and the franchise in the Union of South Africa, the case of Natal - Julie Evans and David Philips7. Making ‘Mad’ populations in settler colonies: the work of law and medicine in the creation of the colonial asylum - Catharine ColebornePart ThreeI: Justice, custom and the common law8. Towards a “taxonomy” for the common law: Legal history and the recognition of Aboriginal customary law - Mark Walters9. The problem of Aboriginal evidence in early colonial NSW - Nancy Wright10. Assuming judicial control: George Brown’s narrative defence of the ‘New Britain Raid’ - Helen GardnerPartFour: Land, sovereignty and imperial frontiers11. The early fate of Maori land rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand - Ann Parsonson12. ‘Because it does not make any sense’: Sovereignty’s power in the case of Delgamuukw v. The Queen, 1997 - John Borrows13. Land, conveyancing reform and the problem of the married woman in colonial Australia - Hilary Golder & Diane Kirkby14. The construction of property rights on imperial frontiers: The case of the New Zealand ‘Native Land Purchase Ordinance’ of 1846 - John WeaverPart Five: Colonialism's legacy15. International law – Recolonising the Third World?: Law and conflicts over water in the Krishna Basin - Radha D’Souza16. Historians and native title: The question of evidence - Christine Choo17. Race, gender, and history in three societies: Canada, New Zealand and Australia - Constance Backhouse, Ann Curthoys, and Ann ParsonsonIndex
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Manchester University Press Time work and leisure
Book SynopsisExplores the major changes in our use of and attitude to time over three centuries. Asks why the 1960s and 1970s expectation that leisure time would increase has failed to come aboutTrade ReviewTime, Work and Leisure is a pleasure to read, and should find a wide audience, including undergraduate students and even policymakers. Cunningham strikes a good balance between descriptive narrative and a Thompsonian use of a wider range of primary sources, from poetry to first-hand narratives to employer screeds, workers' time-diaries, and government statistics. Moreover, he does an excellent job historically contextualizing present concerns about how we spend our time. -- Jamie Bronstein. Labour/Le Travail, Volume 76Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Time and society in the eighteenth century 3. Leisure preference and its critics, 1700-1850 4. Leisure and class, 1750-1850 5. Work time in decline, 1830-1970 6. Men, work and leisure, 1850-1970 7. The leisured class, 1840-1970 8. Towards 'work-life balance' Conclusion Select bibliography Index
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Manchester University Press Housewives and Citizens Domesticity and the
Book SynopsisThis book explores the contribution that five conservative, voluntary and popular women’s organisations made to women’s lives and to the campaign for women’s rights throughout the period 1928–64.Trade ReviewHousewives and Citizens offers a refreshing perspective on women's activism in 20th century England, enlarging - and challenging - our study of the past. It is a timely reminder that women who did not identify with feminism were nonetheless active in campaigning for improvements in women's lot.Beaumont has provided a scrupulous, scholarly and convincing history of the extensive role of women and the women’s movement in mid twentieth century public life.Catriona Beaumont makes an important contribution to a growing historiography which seeks to suggest that the period from universal female suffrage in 1928 to the emergence of ‘Second Wave’ feminism in the 1960s was a time of greater achievements for the women’s movement than is often assumed. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Origins and aspirations: voluntary women’s organisations and the representation of housewives, mothers and citizens2. Housewives and citizens: the rights and duties of women citizens3. Moral dilemmas: divorce, birth control and abortion4. Welfare rights for women: maternity care, social welfare benefits and family allowances 5. Active citizenship for women: war and protest 6. Housewives and citizens: post-war planning and the post-war years7. Domesticity, modernity and women’s rights: voluntary women’s organisations and the women’s movement 1950–64ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Manchester University Press Pauper Policies
Book Synopsis Pauper policies examines how policies under both Old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. The book engages with recent literature on the experience and agency of poor relief recipients, and offers a fresh perspective on poor law administration. Through a ‘policy process’ approach, the author exposes several significant areas of poor law history that are currently unknown or poorly understood, each of which is explored in a series of thematic chapters. This volume contains important new research on: the adoption and implementation of enabling acts at the end of the Old Poor Laws, Gilbert’s Act of 1782 and Sturges Bourne’s Acts of 1818 and 1819; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the Old Poor Law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. It points towTrade Review'Pauper policies presents exciting new research on the English Poor Laws before and after the Amendment Act of 1834. This original study of an institution that lay at the heart of life for many centuries is empirically rich and analytically engaging. Shave’s book provides a superb example of how painstaking archival work opens the possibility of deeper understanding of a wide range of cognate areas of social and political life. Beautifully written and clearly argued, this is an excellent addition to the scholarship.'Professor Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia‘The book is an excellent addition to the historiography. It is well written and researched and contains important new findings on several key topics that have largely been ignored by historians.’Dr Joseph Harley , Reviews in History‘Samantha Shave has written one of the most original books on the English Poor Law in years: she has taken topics we thought we knew well, such as Gilbert’s Act, and given them new and insightful treatment.’Professor Alannah Tomkins, Keele University, Rural History, (2018)‘What emerges from this exceptionally rich and detailed research is a thorough and grounded understanding of how poor law administration developed across large swathes of southern England stretching from Sussex in the east through to Somerset in the west. It is a very significant and highly original contribution to an already considerable body of work on the English poor law.’Professor David Green, King’s College London‘Shave’s book is a welcome addition to the study of poor law administration, as her research gives an unexplored region of Britain worthy representation. In doing so, we gain an understanding of the people that held the decision-making power over the lives of the poor, and how their position could frame pauper policies. This book will be valuable reading for scholars of poverty and welfare throughout the period, and also to those researching the South West, to gain an understanding of the figures that prevailed over those belonging to the lowest classes.’Cara Dobbing, University of Leicester, Local Population Studies 100 (2018)‘This well-written book will appeal to any with an interest in the poor laws, whether they have a top-down or bottom-up approach. By rehabilitating poor law policy development, dissemination and implementation as worthwhile objects of study, Shave shows the continued importance of the local in shaping the relief environments which paupers experienced.’Douglas Brown, Kingston University, Family & Community History, Vol. 21/2, July 2018 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: pauper policies1. A policy process approach to the poor laws2. Gilbert's Act: workhouses for the vulnerable3. Restricting relief: the impact of Sturges Bourne's reforms4. Policies from knowledge networks5. Policies from scandal6. Conclusion: reform and innovation AppendixSelect bibliographyIndex
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John Murray Press Dallas G Metrostop Paris
Book SynopsisA wonderful story of discovery around the delightful, intricate Paris metroTrade Review'Delightful...extremely interesting and informative history' * Irish Sunday Independent, Eddie Naughton *'A fascinating history' * Mail on Sunday *'Dallas has the voice of a true storyteller . . . He paints pictures . . . with adeptness, slipping in facts and quotes alongsie dramatic descriptions' * Sunday Times *'Dallas breathes new life into familiar subjects . . . Metrostop Paris is as satisfying as a first-rate novel' * Sunday Telegraph *'Part of the beauty of this original little book is that it's very easy to follow ... Dallas has unearthed some cracking stories, and writes about them well ... highly recommended' * Sunday Telegraph *'Dallas's tour is a . . . tour de force, full of fascinating titbits, bubbling over with enthusiasm. It's a book for those who love Paris - and for those who don't yet realise that they do' * Scotsman *'Easy-to-read paperback ... whether you're a history fan or simply want ot learn about the hidden side of one of the world's most iconic cities, this is the book for you' * France Magazine *
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Rlpg/Galleys Holy Land Mosaic
Book SynopsisThe unrelenting conflict between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East is reported daily, but the ongoing dialogue and cooperation between the two is less known. Holy Land Mosaic chronicles the less reported side of the Middle East scene: the ongoing projects of conciliation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, and between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Daniel Gavron presents a personal journey through the different movements, projects, organizations, and NGOs that promote tolerance and understanding between the two warring peoples, depicting some remarkable Jews and Arabs. Among the projects described are the village of Neve Shalom, where Jews and Arabs have lived together for three decades; the Hand-in-Hand bilingual schools, where Arab and Jewish children study in Hebrew and Arabic; and an Israeli group that rebuilds demolished Arab houses. In no way does the author play down the grim reality of the Middle East conflict, but his narrative shows that the enmity is not endemic. The current atmosphere is far from one of harmony and tranquility, but it can be different.Trade ReviewDaniel Gavron is an indefatigable believer in Israeli-Palestinian coexistence. In this delightful, moving, and thought-provoking book, he tells the stories of many others who in their daily lives translate that belief into reality. -- David Landau, editor in chief, HaaretzWithout overlooking the vicious cycle of hatred and violence in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this remarkable book records many stories of cooperation and friendship between Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews in various fields of life. Daniel Gavron presents these little-known glimpses of sanity and hope in a well-written and vivid account. -- Moshe Ma'oz, former director, The Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University; Harvard UniversityDaniel Gavron's book is a bombshell read. Gavron looks behind the tired cliches for thrilling, living-and-breathing indeed spine-prickling personal stories, full of drama and comedy. A saga of love, hate and almost superhuman endurance, on both sides. The book is also wonderfully useful for its concise summary of the Middle East troubles and as a practical guide in how to jostle if not entirely break the log jam. A terrific and inspiring read. -- Clancy Sigal, National Book Award nominee, journalist, PEN Lifetime Achievement Award WinnerIn its accumulation of small, promising revelations, this book makes a larger impact. * Publishers Weekly, December 2007 *Holy Land Mosaic is an excellent and important book....It should be required reading at schools and universities around the world. -- Sir Arnold Wesker, playwright, playwright and authorUnlike many books about Israel/Palestine relations, this one conveys some optimism. The author...sets out to show that cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians has been viable and productive. While he brilliantly outlines the political history of Israel, Gavron focuses mostly on the individual rather than on the political and social system that developed in Israel....It is an eminently readable and honest book that leaves a bittersweet taste. * Outlook *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue Chapter 2 Chapter One: Human Rights in the Shadow of Conflict Chapter 3 Chapter Two: Courage to Listen Chapter 4 Chapter Three: Refusing to be Enemies Chapter 5 Chapter Four: The Ultimate Symbol of Peace Chapter 6 Chapter Five: Learning together Chapter 7 Chapter Six: Living together Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: Island of Sanity Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: An encounter that spans the centuries Chapter 10 Chapter Nine: Building Blocks of Equality Chapter 11 Chapter Ten: Creativity and Recreation Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven: Donkey Garden of Eden Chapter 13 Chapter Twelve: Academy for the Environment Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen: Thinking together Chapter 15 Chapter Fourteen: Joint Media Initiatives Chapter 16 Chapter Fifteen: The Veterans in the Field Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen: Religious Faith: Problem or Solution Chapter 18 Chapter Seventeen: First Among Equals Chapter 19 Epilogue
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The British Sailor of the First World War Shire
Book SynopsisIn 1914 Great Britain had the largest and most powerful navy the world had ever seen a well-known fact, but what of the everyday experience of those who served in her? This fully illustrated book looks at the British sailor''s life during the First World War, from the Falkland Islands to the East African coast to the North Sea. Meals in the stokers'' mess and the admiral''s cabin; the claustrophobic terrors of the engine room or submarine; the long separations from loved ones that were the shared experience of all ranks; the perils faced by Royal Naval Air Service pilots in the air; the possessions treasured by sailors while at sea drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished materials from the National Maritime Museum archives, this is an authoritative and vivid account of lives lived in quite extraordinary circumstances.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1914: The Royal Navy and its Sailors Fighting a Global War The Navy in Northern Waters: 1914–15 The Navy’s War on Land and in the Air The Navy’s War Beneath the Waves The Battle of Jutland and Beyond: 1916–18 Conclusion Suggested Reading Places to Visit Index
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The History Press Ltd Manchesters Radical Mayor
Book SynopsisGoing beyond the experiences of one man, this book explores the wider political, cultural and class context of the Victorian city. It is an honest tale of rags to riches that will appeal to all who wish to discover more about the dramatic history of industrial Manchester and its people.
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The History Press Ltd Workhouses of London and the South East
Book SynopsisAn illustrated guide to the workhouses in London and the South East (Middlesex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Berkshire)
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The History Press Ltd 101 Things You Need to Know About Suffragettes
Book SynopsisRebels. Warriors. Princesses. Prisoners. Pioneers. 101 of the most extraordinary facts about Suffragettes that you need to know …
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The History Press Ltd Women of the Durham Coalfield in the 19th Century
Book SynopsisThe first book to explore the role of women at the Durham Coalfield
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Playing Gay in the Golden Age of British TV
Book SynopsisA long overdue exploration of gay representation on British TV from its 'golden age' to the launch of the liberal Channel 4Trade ReviewBrilliantly researched and focused, PLAYING GAY is a shattering revelation of the depiction of the on-screen lives of gay men -- Lord Michael CashmanA terrific read -- Peter TatchellA masterpiece -- Russell T Davies
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The History Press Ltd Kitted Out
Book SynopsisThe first book to fully explore the uniform and style of young people in the Second World War
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The History Press Ltd From Gas Street to the Ganges
Book SynopsisExploring the historical links between Birmingham and the nations it is poised to host in the 2022 Commonwealth GamesTrade ReviewArticle in Family Tree magazine online
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The History Press Ltd A Tyneside Heritage
Book SynopsisA comprehensive socio-economic history of Tyneside, told through the lives of three generations of the same familyTrade Review"Local history and family history combine in this 400-plus page work telling the story of four generations of the Chapman family within the backdrop of the history of the town over a 150 period, 1811-1963..."
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The History Press Ltd Druids
Book SynopsisDruidism was the religion of the Celts and the Druids themselves were all-powerful taking precedence over the Celtic kings. Over and above the evidence of classical texts and of archaeology the richest source of information about the Druids is the vernacular material from Ireland and Wales. It is the authors unparalleled familiarity with the Gaelic texts and her ability to see Druidism through Celtic eyes that marks out this study from earlier books and strips away modern myths about the Druids.
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The History Press Ltd The Birmingham Gun Trade
Book SynopsisBirmingham has been a key innovator in the gun trade since the seventeenth century and the Birmingham Gun Barrel Proof house operates to this day. Between 1855 and 1861 six million arms were testing and proofed here - many of them destined for the USA. Those who worked in the Birmingham Gun Quarter were at the forefront of this incredible industry. This book tells the story of the technology and history of gun making. Covering the period 1720 to 1950, it sees the mechanical engineering technology of the ''lock, stock and barrel'' firearm change significantly. David Williams, an engineer and academic, has studied the battle between the manual processes of manufacturing using the dexterity of many pople and the clumsy but tireless machine, and here examines this complex relationship in gunmaking, paying particular attention to interchangeable military firearms manufacture and the growth and decline of the Birmingham military and sporting gun trade. Accompanied by over 130 illustrations,
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The History Press Ltd Roman Furniture
Book SynopsisAccording to Roman law, ''furniture'' was described as ''any apparatus belonging to the head of the household consisting of articles intended for everyday use''. Under this ambiguous description numerous household artefacts could be considered as items of furniture. However, in this first general book on Roman furniture to be published in English, a more modern view of what constitutes furniture is taken. Familiar household pieces are investigated using evidence from art, literature and archaeology. Examples will be taken from all over the empire, but there will be special emphasis on furniture used in the north-west provinces.
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The History Press The Great Scottish WitchHunt Europes Most
Book SynopsisScotland, in common with the rest of Europe, was troubled from time to time by outbreaks of witchcraft which the authorities sought to contain and then to suppress, and the outbreak of 1658-1662 is generally agreed to represent the high water mark of Scottish persecution. These were peculiar years for Scotland. This work deals with this subject.
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The History Press Ltd The Suffragettes In Pictures
Book SynopsisThis book draws extensively on the little-known but important Suffragette Fellowship Collection of archive photographs, newspapers, personal correspondence, artefacts and memoirs, to present a vivid picture of Suffragette life. The strength of the book is its rare images of the Suffragette campaign leading to the outbreak of the First World War. The book also documents leading personalities in the Suffragette movement, such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Annie Kenney and Emily Wilding Davison, the behind-the-scenes activities at the Women's Social and Political Union, their public propaganda work, the brilliant set-piece demonstrations and the escalation of militancy from pestering the politicians' to burning down buildings and attacking works of art. The book also explores what happened to these incredible women after their war was won and the vote was granted to them.
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Taylor & Francis The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland c 15501651
Book SynopsisExisting studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.Trade Review’A valuable study, timeously published.’ Northern History ’English, Irish and Continental urban historians will find a comprehensive and lucid study that makes it much less easy for comparative works to ignore the political and economic significance of the Scottish burghs.’ Urban History ’...his careful exposition of the extant, but scanty, evidence steadily builds up to elucidate points left unclarified in broader studies of the institution or else taken for granted by other historians ....this study will become an essential handbook for anyone interested in the subject.’ Parliamentary History ’Our understanding of the burghs and parliament in Scotland has been greatly enhanced by this important research monograph. It should be of interest to a wider audience of urban historians of early modern Europe, as well as historians of early modern Scotland.’ Parliaments, Estates and RepresentationsTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Erection and enrolment: gaining entry to parliament; Representation; The convention of burghs, the burgess estate and parliament; Individual burghs and parliament; Edinburgh: the capital and parliament; Hosting the estates; A sense of priority: status, precedence and display; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Palestine Across Millennia
Book SynopsisProfessor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian writer, historian and academic. He is a member of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK, and editor of Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. His books include Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History (2018), An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba (with Nahla Abdo, 2018), The Palestine Nakba (2012) and The Bible and Zionism (2007).Trade Review‘Taking us through a tour du force of 4000 years of Palestine he reveals to the reader a rich and multi-layered history of literacy, learning and education embedded in a fabric of culturally and religiously diverse society. Nur’s exploration of this rich history reveals to us the wealth and complexity of the culture of Palestine and reclaims its history as an al-Andalusian model of cultural and religious Convivencia.’ * Yosefa Loshitzky, SOAS, University of London, UK *"This is a truly magnificent and revealing work. It will hopefully destroy once and for all the inane myths about literacies and education intended to belittle Palestinian millennial achievements in these fields. In reminding us of these achievements, debunking suspect 'regimes of truth' and unearthing subjugated (deliberately?) knowledge, the book is an exercise in cognitive justice on behalf of an oppressed people...genealogically sound and convincing." * Peter Mayo, University of Malta, Malta *'In this ground-breaking study, Nur Masalha brilliantly traces the pedagogical and intellectual beginnings, evolution and multifaceted histories of Palestinian learning, literacy and education. Masalha’s exciting book deepens and broadens our understanding of oral representation, textuality and written literacy in modern and ancient Palestine. Drawing on a rigorous intellectual and historical framework, Masalha dismantles mainstream Zionist propaganda and its patronizing myths of cultural and educational superiority.' * Tayseer Abu Odeh, Al-Ahliyya Amman University, Jordan *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Literacy and Functionality: The Scribal Schools of Ancient Palestine Chapter Two: Cities of Learning: The Intellectual Revolutions of Byzantine Palestine (3rd-early 7th Centuries) Chapter Three: Greek and Syriac into Arabic and the Palestine’s Translation Movement under Islam: Monasteries of Learning, Mar Saba and Arabic belles lettres (8th -11th Centuries) Chapter Four: Latin Learning and the Crusader Kingdoms of Palestine: The Library of Nazareth Chapter Five: The Golden Age of the Islamic Law Colleges of Jerusalem:The Palestinian Madrasas under the Ayyubids and Mamluks (1187-1517) Chapter Six: Legal Pluralism and the Social World of Palestine in the 17th Century: The Azhar College of Cairo and Palestinian Muslim Scholars Chapter Seven: The ‘Azhar’ of Palestine. The Ahmadiyya Seminary of Acre (1782-1948) Chapter Eight: Modernity, the Printing Press and Mass Literacy: The Educational Revolution of Late Ottoman Palestine and the Mandatory Period (1860s-1948) Chapter Nine: Humanism and Arab Nahda Education: Khalil Sakakini and Reforming Palestinian Education Chapter Ten: Learning From Below:The Kuttab Schools in Palestine (Muslim, Jewish and Christian) Chapter Eleven: Between Professionalism and Cultural Nationalism: Palestinian Education in Mandatory Palestine (1918-1948) Epilogue: The Libraries, Archival Collections and Sharia Courts’ Records of Modern Palestine Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Armenian Diaspora and Stateless Power
Book SynopsisTalar Chahinianholds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from UCLA and lectures in the Program for Armenian Studies at UC Irvine, USA, where she is also Visiting Faculty in the Department of Comparative Literature. She has served as assistant editor of the Armenian Review (2010-2017) and is currently co-editor of Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Sossie Kasbarian is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling, UK. She is co-editor of Diaspora- A Journal of Transnational StudiesTsolin Nalbantian is a University Lecturer in Modern Middle East History at Leiden University working on the social and cultural history of the Middle East. Nalbantian is co-series editor of Critical, Connected Histories (Leiden University Press) and has published articles in Mashriq & Mahjar, MESA Review of Middle East Studies, and History Compass. Her book, Armenians Beyond Diaspora: Making Lebanon TheTrade ReviewThis book fills a gap in the social science literature on the Armenian diaspora. It is masterfully edited by three representatives of the younger generation of Armenian American academics: Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian and Tsolin Nalbantian. All three embody the renewal of diasporic Armenian research, as well as sharing common concerns, passions and aspirations. * CIVILNET *Table of ContentsIn Lieu of an Introduction Talar Chahinian, Sossie Kasbarian, Tsolin Nalbantian I. “The Logic of the Sedentary”: Complicating Notions of Home and Homelands Chapter 1 In search of the Sedentary: Armenian Diaspora Homelands between Addis Ababa, Jerusalem, Valence and Paris, Boris Adjemian Chapter 2 Armenian Displaced Persons: From Displacement to a Diaspora Community, Gegham Mughnetsyan Chapter 3 Diaspora-Homeland relations Re-examined: The case of Syrian Armenian in the Netherlands, Nare Galstyan II. “Diasporic Social Formation”: Leadership Elites, Institutions, and Transnational Governmentality Chapter 4 Forging Diasporic Identity in the Fin de Siècle Armenian Periodical Press in Europe, Hasmik Khalapyan Chapter 5 Transnational Politics and Governmental Strategies in the Formative Years of the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora (1920s-1930s), Vahe Sahakyan Chapter 6 Defiant Adherence: Cultural Critiques in Late Twentieth Century Armenian Diaspora Literature, Lilit Keshishyan Chapter 7 Liturgical Subject of the Armenian Apostolic Church: Recent Waves of Migration, Christopher Sheklian III. “The Social Text of Diaspora”: Diasporic Becoming and Legibility in Diaspora’s Semantic Domain Chapter 8 Sounding Armenian: The Contours of the Diasporic Musical Imaginary, Sylvia Alajaji Chapter 9 "Toward the Diaspora": The Performative Powers of Vahé Oshagan's Poetry, Karen Jallatyan Chapter 10 The Armenians in Turkey: From autochthonous people to diaspora, Talin Suciyan Chapter 11 Are Istanbul Armenians Diasporic? Unpacking the Famous Debate, Hrag Papazian Afterword, Khachig Tölölyan Epilogue, Sebouh Aslanian
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Medieval Cooking in Todays Kitchen
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