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Taylor & Francis Ltd Knightly Memories
Book SynopsisThis is the first book-length study of the legacy and memory of the main military orders in Britain, the Templars and Knights of St. John. It provides a survey from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries using hitherto neglected sources and identifies areas for further research and analysis.The volume first examines the historiography of the Orders, delving past the standard histories to examine their authors, readership, accessibility, advertisements. and reviews. It then discusses the material memory of the Orders, from the Temple Church in London and St. John's Gate at Clerkenwell to archaeological discoveries and romanticised stained-glass depictions. Turning next to the revival and reinvention of the Order of St John after the loss of Malta in 1798 and the foundation of the British Order based at Clerkenwell, it unravels fact from fiction in the claims of continuity with the medieval knights made by the Masonic Knights Templars. For many, memory was shaped by popularTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Knightly Reading: Historiography, reading and reception 2. Material memory: Churches and memorials 3.. Reinventing knights 4. Literary knights 5. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Staging Playing Pyrotechnics and Magic
Book SynopsisIn this selection of research articles Butterworth focuses on investigation of the practical and technical means by which early English theatre, from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, was performed. Matters of staging for both ''pageant vehicle'' and ''theatre-in-the-round'' are described and analysed to consider their impact on playing by players, expositors, narrators and prompters. All these operators also functioned to promote the closely aligned disciplines of pyrotechnics and magic (legerdemain or sleight of hand) which also influence the nature of the presented theatre. The sixteen chapters form four clearly identified partsstaging, playing, pyrotechnics and magicand drawing on a wealth of primary source material, Butterworth encourages the reader to rediscover and reappreciate the actors, magicians, wainwrights and wheelwrights, pyrotechnists, and (in modern terms) the special effects people and event managers who brought these early texts to theatrical Table of Contents1. 'The York Mercers' Pageant Vehicle, 1433-1467: Wheels, Steering, and Control' / 2. 'Hugh Platte’s Collapsible Wagon' / 3. 'Pageant Carriage Maintenance at Chester' / 4. 'Jetties, Pentices, Purprestures and Ordure: Obstacles to Pageants and Processions in London' / 5. 'The work of William Parnell, supplier of staging and ingenious devices, and his role in the visit of Elizabeth Woodville to Norwich in 1469' / 6. 'The York Crucifixion: Actor/Audience Relationship' / 7. ''Jean Fouquet's 'The Martyrdom of St Apollonia' and 'The Rape of the Sabine Women' as Iconographical Evidence of Medieval Theatre Practice' / 8. 'Richard Carew's Ordinary: the First English Director' / 9. 'Prompting in Full View of the Audience: The Groningen Experiment' / 10. 'Hellfire: Flame as Special Effect' / 11. 'The Light of Heaven: Flame as Special Effect' / 12. The Providers of Pyrotechnics in Plays and Celebrations' / 13. 'Juggling and Staging Tricks in Early Theatre' / 14. 'Brandon, Feats and Hocus Pocus: Jugglers Three' / 15. 'Hocus Pocus Junior: Further Confirmation of its Author' / 16. 'Is there any Further Value to be Gained from Re-Staging Medieval Theatre?'
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Taylor & Francis Apprenticeship Work Society in Early Modern
Book SynopsisApprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe are much less studied, especially for the early modern period. The research in this volume is based on a unique documentary source: more than 54,000 apprenticeship contracts registered from 1575 to 1772 by the Old Justice, a civil court of the Republic of Venice in charge of guilds and labour disputes. An archival source of such scale provides a unique opportunity to historians, and this is the first time that primary research on apprenticeship is leveraging such a large amount of data in one of the main economic centres of early modern Europe. This book brings together multiple perspectives, including social history, economic history and art history, and is the outcome of an interdi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in
Book SynopsisTaking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus's arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object, whether for enjoyment or political campaigning, colonial invasion or teaching in the classroom. Exploring a wide range of literature, from educational manifestoes to the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare, it suggests that the early modern map was as diverse and various as the rich culture from which it emerged, and was imbued with a whole range of political, social, literary and personal impulses.Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England, 1550-1700 will appeal to all those interested in the History of CartographyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Weaving the Net / Chapter 1: ‘they say the world’s in one of them’: The World of the Map / Chapter 2: ‘Thou by thine arte dost so anatomize’: Embodying the Map in John Speed and Michael Drayton / Chapter 3: Judging the Plot of Ireland in Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland / Chapter 4: ‘There is none so good lernynge’: Cartography and Cartographic Instruments in Early Modern English Educational Treatises / Chapter 5: Francis Bacon and Geographic Science / Chapter 6: Plotting Marlovian Geographies / Chapter 7: Wenceslaus Hollar’s Cartographies / Conclusion: Mapping the Stars. And the Future
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Taylor & Francis Female Football Spectators in Britain 18631939
Book SynopsisThis book analyses women as spectators at menâs association football (soccer) in Britain from 1863 to 1939. The author shows that women have always been present at menâs football in Britain, a fact not always acknowledged in modern popular accounts of the game, albeit as a small minority in overall attendances. Some women have always been âauthenticâ fans of football, both knowledgeable and enthusiastic in their support, and this book will demonstrate that.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Memory
Book SynopsisBringing together neuroscientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars in cross-disciplinary exploration of the topic of cultural memory, this collection moves from seminal discussions of the latest findings in neuroscience to variegated, specific case studies of social practices and artistic expressions. This volume highlights what can be gained from drawing on broad interdisciplinary contexts in pursuing scholarly projects involving cultural memory and associated topics.The collection argues that contemporary evolutionary science, in conjunction with studies interconnecting cognition, affect, and emotion, as well as research on socially mediated memory, provides innovatively interdisciplinary contexts for viewing current work on how cultural and social environments influence gene expression and neural circuitry. Building on this foundation, Cultural Memory turns to the exploration of the psychological processes and social contexts through which cultural mTrade Review"With something as diffuse as 'cultural memory,' the rich resources behind the humanities, social sciences, and neuroscience must be called upon. Readers will here be amply rewarded by the range and clarity of the competing frameworks on offer. Leading experts consistently help make sense of this vast terrain even as they help build it and trouble its assumptions. Throughout, literature and the arts help us to think through enactive, evolutionary, and predictive scientific models of mind, memory, and trauma."Richard C. Sha, Professor of Literature and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, American University "This innovative collection approaches the situated dynamism, adaptive resilience, and transgenerational reach of human memory. From ancient folk tales to modernist epics and immigrant recipes, storytelling and symbolization support the plasticity and pluralism of cultural memory in search of sustainable worlds. Combining new research in neuroscience and epigenetics with cultural analysis, this volume has profound implications for how we understand and enact consciousness, agency, and collective identity in the face of war, globalization, and the ruins of time."Julia Reinhard Lupton, author of Shakespeare Dwelling: Designs for the Theater of Life"This book represents an audacious attempt to integrate cultural knowledge into a general neuro-cognitive model of human knowledge. Such integration is a necessary step toward our understanding of how primate cognition over time evolve to accommodate the rise of of human communication and human culture."T. Givon, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of OregonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cultural Memory from Interdisciplinary Perspectives Donald R. Wehrs Part 1: The Neuroscience of Cultural Memory1. Synaptic Epigenesis and the Social Brain Suzanne Nalbantian and Jean-Pierre Changeux 2. Molecular Epigenetics, the Biology of Memory, and Biology as MemoryMaurizio Meloni 3. Molecular Mechanisms of Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Implications for Cultural Memory Peter Sarkies 4. From Self-Continuity to Culture and Back: The Brain’s Scale-Free Activity and Temporal Memory of the WorldGeorg Northoff 5. The Evolution and Dissolution of Cultural MemoryDon M. Tucker and Phan Luu Part 2: Cultural Memory in Psychological and Social Contexts6. Collective Memory: Conceptual Foundations and Group FormationJames V. Wertsch, Henry L. Roediger III, and Christopher L. Zerr7. Cultural Memory: Sharing Recollections We Don’t Have About Things That Never HappenedPatrick Colm Hogan 8. The Aesthetics of Culture: Framing Shared Experiences Through Embodied MetaphorsAndrea Carraro, Angelie Ignacio, Eva L. Cupchik, and Gerald C. Cupchik9. The U.S. Civil War and Cultural MemoryDavid S. Reynolds Part 3: The Arts, Literature, and Contested Cultural Memory 10. The Memorial’s Vernacular Arc Between Berlin’s Denkmal and New York City’s 9/11 MemorialJames E. Young11. Nourishment for the Mind: Narrating Indian Food as Cultural MemoryAlexa Weik von Mossner12. Neural Pluralism and Cultural Memory in Eliot’s The Waste Land and Akhmatova’s Requiem Donald R. Wehrs 13. From Implicit Memory to Cultural Counter-Memory: Marguerite Duras Rewriting Colonial Trauma Sirkka Knuuttila
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comfort in the EighteenthCentury Country House
Book SynopsisCountry houses were grand statements of power and status, but they were also places where people lived. This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and the innovations in furniture that made them more convenient and comfortable. It argues that these material changes were just one aspect of comfort in the country house: feeling comfortable was just as important as being comfortable. Achieving this involved the comfort and solace to be found in daily routines, religious faith and, above all, relationships with family and friends. Such emotional comforts, and the attachment to things and places that embodied and memorialized them, made country houses into homes.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Physical and Social Comfort: The Materiality of the Country House 1. Convenience and Privacy: The Architecture of Comfort 2. Warmth and Light: Technologies of Comfort 3. Comfortable Rooms: Sociability and the "Modern Living Room" Part 2: Emotional Comfort: Feelings, Letters and Home 4. Cleanliness and Godliness: Comforts of the Body and Mind 5. Family and Friends: Comfort, Consolation and Correspondence 6. Home Comforts: Objects and Memories. Conclusions: House and Home
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renaissance Medicine
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and new diseases, such as syphilis and the Sweat, and by the development of printing and more efficient means of communication. Chapters examine how civic institutions such as Health Boards, hospitals, town doctors and healers became more significant in the fight against epidemic disease, and special attention is given to the role of women and domestic medicine. The final section, on beliefs, explores the revised Galenism of academic medicine, including a new emphasis on anatomy and its most vocal antagonists, Paracelsians. The volume concludes by considering the effect of religious changes on medicine, including the marginalisation, and often expulsion, of non-Christian pracTrade Review‘This is an enormously rich and well-judged narrative which is given force and interest though the vividly recounted anecdotes and biographical sketches. Given its comprehensiveness, it would be churlish to point to yet other areas (medical ethics, for example, or the interaction of medicine and law) that are not given separate treatment, No-one else could have written a history such as this, which stands as a tribute to its author’s extraordinary linguistic competence, voracious appetite for archives and books, and desire to communicate to his readers the excitement and commitment that he himself has found in a lifetime of productive study in medical history.’ Ian Maclean, University of St Andrews, UK ANNALS OF SCIENCE, https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2022.2130979‘Professor Vivian Nutton’s Renaissance Medicine is an astonishing achievement. Deeply and widely read in primary sources as well as in the wealth of secondary literature that has been generated in the field of medical history over the years, Nutton surveys the entire world of sixteenth-century European medicine. His book is also a global history, tracking the impact of new drugs and diseases on European medicine and populations, stemming from both East and West – the Indies and the Americas – in the late renaissance. Although modestly sub-titled "A Short History," Renaissance Medicine represents a compendious and invaluable introduction to a vast topic which will become the first port of call not just for students and academics working in the field of medical history, but for anybody keen to explore the wider culture of ideas in the sixteenth-century.’Jonathan Sawday, Saint Louis University, USA‘Vivian Nutton has written a magisterial survey of the lively world of Renaissance medicine. Drawing on sources from all over Europe (and with a particular focus on the large German-speaking territories), he looks at the major debates and developments - among them the crucial role of Galenism as well as the new horizons and challenges, from the recovery of ancient medical theories and the rise of neoplatonic ideas to the encounter with new diseases and exotic drugs and the laborious work at the dissection table. A must-read for anyone interested in this formative period in the history of Western medicine.’Michael Stolberg, University of Würzburg, GermanyTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Contexts 1. New Lands, New Drugs and New Diseases 2. Protecting the Health of the City 3. Medical Communications: Print and the Post 4. The Rediscovery of Ancient Medicine Part 2: People 5. The Kaleidoscope of Healing 1: Physicians 6. The Kaleidoscope of Healing 2: Surgeons, Apothecaries and Charlatans 7. On the Margins of Medical History: Women and Patients Part 3: Beliefs 8. Learned Medicine 9. Anatomy – the Touchstone of Modernity 10. Paracelsus and Paracelsianiam 11. Religion and Medicine Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gabrielle Falloppia 1522231562
Book SynopsisRenaissance anatomist Gabrielle Falloppia is best known today for his account of the eponymous fallopian tubes but he made numerous other anatomical discoveries as well, was one of the most famous surgeons of his time, and is widely believed to have invented the condom.Drawing on Falloppia''s Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student notes, this book not only looks at Falloppia's anatomical lectures and demonstrations. It also studies Falloppia's work on surgical topics including the French disease and cosmetic surgery on thermal waters, and on pharmacology. Last but not least, it uses student notes and the letters of contemporary scholars to throw a new light on Falloppia's biography, on his very special relationship with the botanist Melchior Wieland, who lived in his house for several years, and on his conflicts with his fellow professors in Padua, one of whom, Bassiano Landi, was murdered just ten days after his fTable of ContentsIntroduction / Chapter 1: Biography / Chapter 2: Anatomy / Chapter 3: Surgery / Chapter 4: Materia medica / Chapter 5: Medical practice / Chapter 6: Last years / Chapter 7: Legacy / Sources and Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Ltd America After Sixty Years
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1936 America After Sixty Years presents the travel diaries of two generations of Englishmen, W. E. Price, and his son M. Philips Price. Part I of the book contains W. E. Price's American journey and throws light on topics like undercurrents of Canadian politics; life in Chicago just before the great fire; journey to the Yosemite Valley etc. Part II of the book deals with W. E Price and his wife's American tour in 1878 and Part III is about M. Philips Price's own journey to America with his wife during the New Deal. This part of the diary is a pen-picture of the autumn and early winter of 1934 and his impressions of different parts of America like New York, New England, Chicago, California, New Mexico, and the Federal Capital under the New Deal. This book is a must read for any reader interested to know about American history through travel diaries. Table of ContentsPreface Part I: 1869: Captain W.E. Price’s American Journey Part II: 1878: Major and Mrs. Price’s American Tour Part III: Impressions of America under the New Deal Analytical Contents
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Poem and the Garden in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis book draws attention to the pervasive artistic rivalry between Elizabethan poetry and gardens in order to illustrate the benefits of a trans-media approach to the literary culture of the period. In its blending of textual studies with discussions of specific historical patches of earth, The Poem and the Garden demonstrates how the fashions that drove poetic invention were as likely to be influenced by a popular print convention or a particular garden experience as they were by the formal genres of the classical poets. By moving beyond a strictly verbal approach in its analysis of creative imitation, this volume offers new ways of appreciating the kinds of comparative and competitive methods that shaped early modern poetics. Noting shared patternsboth conceptual and materialin these two areas not only helps explain the persistence of botanical metaphors in sixteenth-century books of poetry but also offers a new perspective on the types of contrastive illusioTable of ContentsIntroduction: Commonplace Concerns 1. "Glory to Garden, Glory to Muses, Glory to Vertue": The Englishing of Mount Parnassus 2. "A pleasaunt plotte of fragrant floures": Biblio-botanical Metaphors as Paratextual Framing Devices 3. To wander "as it were in a Labyrinthe": Spenser’s Garden Critiques on Reading Poetry 4. Of Patterns "more or lesse busie and curious": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device 5. Epilogue: Trans-media Matters
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Taylor & Francis Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices
Book SynopsisApproaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle, this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary, autocratic, and colonial contexts.The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints, requests, rumors, and other mediated and unmediated interactions between political institutions and the subjects they claimed to govern or represent. It challenges the approaches of institutionally oriented political historiography and its attention to the top-down construction of political representation, citizenship, and power and powerlessness. The book discusses more subtle forms of agency and the spaces these pertained to, which could indicate contestation or resistance taking place within a framework of loyalty towards the existing political institutions. This research does not only bridge the divide between political and apolitical frames of reference, but it also provides a new perspective on the dichotomy between loyalty and resistance by acknowledging the nuances of these seemingly opposing stances. With case studies from Europe, North Africa, South America, and India, the chapters cover political communication in proto-democratic, democratic, imperial, and authoritarian contexts.This volume is crucial reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in history and social sciences who are interested in political culture and the mechanisms of negotiating local, national, or imperial identities.Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
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Taylor & Francis This WorkingDay World
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994, This Working-Day World is lively collection of essays presenting a social, political and cultural view of British women's lives in the period 191445. The volume describes women's activities in many different areas, ranging from the weekly wash to the rescue of child refugees. Each essay, from an international list of contributors, is based on new research which will complement existing studies in a range of disciplines by adding information on, among other topics, women's teacher training colleges, and women in the BBC, in medical laboratories and in Art schools. The book does not, however, idealise women: the militarism and racism of the period infected women too, and this is revealed in the account of women in the British Union of Fascists, and the analysis of the Pankhursts' merging of patriotism and gender issues.Through studies and personal accounts, This Working-Day World reveals past issues that are still pertinent to debates
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Taylor & Francis Gender and Divorce in Europe 1600 â 1900
Book SynopsisGetting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.Religions and denominations also had different regulations regarding whether a divorce only ended marital obligations or also permitted remarriage during the lifetime of the divorced spouse. This book deals with predominantly handwritten documents of divorce proceedings from the British Isles to Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe, and from 1600 to the 1930s. The praxeological analysis reveals the arguments and strategies put forward to obtain or prevent divorce, as well as the social and, above all, economic conditions and arrangements connected with divorce. The contributions break new ground by combining previously often separate fields of reseTable of Contents1.Introduction. 2.Women and Work. Part I - Divorce from Bed and Board. 3.Separated Beds – Interwoven Property: Separation and Divorce in the Habsburg Monarchy between the mid-16th and the mid-19th Centuries. 4.Separating Persons and Property in Early Modern English Marriages. 5.Divorce in Early Modern Bilbao. 6.Judicial Separation and Its Material Effects in France during the 16th and 17th Centuries. 7.Interwoven Ecclesiastical and Civil Divorce Trials: A Venetian Case Study (1785). 8.Divorce during the Concordat at the Marriage Courts of Prague and Trent (1857–1868). 9.Material Matters: Dissolution of Economic Ties in the Context of Divorces in Rural Lower Austria in the 1920s and 1930s. Part II - Divorce with Dissolution of the Marriage. 10.Enduring Animosity: Negotiating Post-separation Conflicts in the German County of Lippe (17th and 18th Centuries). 11.The Indistinct Line between Marriage and Divorce: Ambiguous Nature of the Marital Status in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire. 12.The Influence of Islamic Law on Greek Orthodox Divorce under Ottoman Rule. 13.The Economy of Islamic Divorce in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878–1918). 14.New Possibilities – New Practices? Divorces of Jewish Couples under the Purview of the Austrian Civil Code in the 19th-Century: Provisions, Agreements, and Property Issues.
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Taylor & Francis Lifestyle and Medicine in the Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe biggest challenges in public health today are often related to attitudes, diet and exercise. In many ways, this marks a return to the state of medicine in the eighteenth century, when ideals of healthy living were a much more central part of the European consciousness than they have become since the advent of modern clinical medicine. Enlightenment advice on healthy lifestyle was often still discussed in terms of the six non-naturals â airs and places, food and drink, exercise, excretion and retention, and sleep and emotions. This volume examines what it meant to live healthily in the Enlightenment in the context of those non-naturals, showing both the profound continuities from Antiquity and the impact of newer conceptions of the body.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429465642 Table of Contents1. “The Most Valuable Part of Medicine”: The Six Non-Naturals in the Long Eighteenth Century; PART 1: AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES; 2. The Body is a Barometer: Dutch Doctors on Healthy Weather and Strong Constitutions; 3. Hot Climate and Health Care: Tropical Regions in the Dutch Atlantic, c.1600-c.1800; PART 2: FOOD AND DRINK; 4. Eating after the Climacteric: Food, Gender and Ageing in the Long Eighteenth Century; 5. The Impossible Ideal of Moderation: Food, Drink, and Longevity; PART 3: EXERCISE AND REST; 6. “For it is the debilitating fibres that execise restores”: Movement, Morality and Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Medical Advice Literature; 7. The Healthy Body, Civic Virtue, Gender and the New Physical Education in Germany, 1770-1800; PART 4: SLEEP AND WAKEFULNESS; 8. “That venerable and princely custom of long-lying abed”: Sleep and Civility in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Urban Society; 9. Wasted Days and Wasted Nights: Sleeping and Waking in the Long Eighteenth-Century; PART 5: EXCRETION AND RETENTION; 10. Keeping the body open. Impurity, excretions, and healthy living in the early modern period.; 11. Increasing and Reducing: Breastmilk Flows and Female Health; PART 6: PASSIONS AND EMOTIONS; 12. Feel-good tunes: Music Aesthetics, Performance and Well-being in the Eighteenth Century; 13. The Dietetics of the Soul in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century; EPILOGUE; 14. “That is more excellent which preserveth health and preventeth sicknesse.” Continuity and Change in Vernacular Preventive Health Advice over the Early Modern Period
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese Thought in a Multicultural World
Book SynopsisReflecting on the clash of civilizations as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity. Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential other, making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing humankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view, highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue, before, ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of reconciliation between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of harmony without homogeneity, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understaTrade Review"This splendid and deftly translated book gives us a deep understanding of the development of comparative literature as it learned to embrace the many literatures of the world, and it explores the role of Chinese culture in using Taoist insights to illuminate the critical issues of the ever-modernizing twenty-first century. It is sure to become an essential text in this still evolving discipline."Leo Damrosch, Professor of Harvard University"Professor Yue Daiyun is one of the founders and pioneering figures of contemporary Chinese comparative literature. Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World is an insightful selection of her essays written at the turn of the century which is characterized by her unique cross-cultural perspective and border-writing style. It has indeed witnessed and promoted the rise of the Chinese School of comparative literature in the international academic community."Wang Ning, Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University"Committed to cross-cultural quest with global vision, Professor Yue Daiyun has made the Chinese voice heard in the globalized, polyphonic world, and contributed enormously to the development of comparative literature in China."Ji Jin, Professor of Soochow University, China Table of Contents1. The Context of the Times: The Clash of Civilizations and the Future 2. The Neo-Humanism for the Twenty-first Century 3. The Transformation of the Post-Modernist Ethos and a New Platform for Literary Studies 4. The American, European, and Chinese Dreams: An Example of Cultural Transformation 5. Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature 6. Interactive Cognition: The Case of Literature-Science Interaction 7. Interactive Cognition and Mutual Interpretation 8. Difference and Dialogue 9. Chinese Culture and the Reconstruction of World Culture 10. The Interpenetration of Sinology and Guoxue 11. The Three Phases of the Development of Comparative Literature 12. “The Death of Comparative Literature” and Its Regeneration 13. The Beginning and Early Development of Comparative Literature in China from 1900 to 1910 14. Where to, Where from, and When: The Quest of Wang Guowei 15. The Enquiries of Lu Xun in His Early Years 16. Zhu Guangqian and His Contribution to Comparative Literature in China
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Taylor & Francis The History of Journalism in Latin America
Book SynopsisFrom the deserts of northern Mexico to as far south as the Rio Plata in Argentina, this book traces the history of journalism in Latin America from its earliest roots and examines how it relates to the modern importance of media in the twenty-first century.By exploring mestizo roots, The History of Journalism in Latin America examines Indigenous foundations, pre-colonial methods, and post-colonial systems of communication to show how earlier publications became instrumental to regional nineteenth-century independence movements throughout Latin America. Although the history of communication in the region is characterized by the control and censorship of empires, be they Indigenous or European, this study argues that modern journalism at its core is the story of crusading for freedom and independence. Through a country-by-country approach, this book explores key themes such as family media empires in Mexico, newspaper competition in Brazil, the dissemination of political
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Short History of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisA Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French history, and historians' interpretations of these events.The book covers all aspects of the Revolution, including the political, social, and cultural origins of the Revolution, and its causes, events, and aftermath. It provides readers with a full, and yet concise, overview of the Revolution that helps them easily understand the key elements of the subject. Fully updated and revised, this new edition allows students to engage with the most current work on the subject with increased attention given to women's role in the Revolution, full coverage of the struggles over race and slavery, a new emphasis on the populist element in revolutionary politics, and an expanded discussion of the historiography of the era.Supported by learning objectives, critical thinking questions,Table of Contents1 The Origins of the French Revolution / 2 The Collapse of the Absolute Monarchy, 1787–1789 / 3 The Revolutionary Rupture, 1789–1790 / 4 The Defeat of the Liberal Revolution, 1790–1792 / 5 The Convention and the Radical Republic, 1792–1794 / 6 The Return to Order, 1794–1799 / 7 The Napoleonic Consulate, 1799–1804 / 8 The Napoleonic Empire, 1804–1815 / 9 The Revolutionary Heritage / 10 Chronology of Principal Events During the French Revolution / 11 Suggestions for Further Reading
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Nemesis at Potsdam
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1979, Nemesis at Potsdam discusses the expulsion and spoliation of the Germans from most of central and easter Europe during the Second World War, a process which over two million did not survive. How did this extraordinary event come about? Was it necessary for the peace of Europe? What role did Britain and the United States play in authorizing the transfer'? The book answers these questions and relates the integration of the German expellees to the phenomenal resurgence of West Germany, and traces the development of Ostpolitik and détente through to the Helsinki Declaration. It will be of interest to students of history, international relations, and political science.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Principle of Population Transfers 2. The Germans of Czechoslovakia 3. The Genesis of the Oder-Neisse Line: The Conferences of Tehran and Yalta 4. The Flight: Prelude to the Expulsions 5. Anglo-American Plan of Limited Transfers 6. ‘Orderly and Humane’ Transfers 7. From Morgenthau Plan to Marshall Plan 8. Peace Without a Peace Treaty 9. Recognition or Revision of the Oder-Neisse Line 10. Towards the Future Notes Appendix Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women and Family Property
Book SynopsisThis book examines property legislation and the actual position of women in receiving, holding and passing on family property as daughters, wives and as widows throughout history.Table of Contents1. IntroductionBeatrice Moring2. Property ownership: an indicator of French immigrant women’s empowerment process in California, 1880-1940Marie-Pierre Arizzabalaga3. Women, testamentary succession and property in Southern Spain in the 18th centuryRaquel Tovar Pulido4. Women, Family and Family Property in Preindustrial Urban Northern EuropeBeatrice Moring5. Authority over the whole estate - a study of applications to remain in undivided estate, Norway 1814-1851Hilde Sandvik6. Ante nuptial contracts, marriage and female agency in Cape Town 1924-1961Amy Rommelspacher7. Women and property in pre-unification Italy: a long-term overview of norms and practicesBeatrice Zucca Micheletto8. The Legacy Duty of 1796: windows into the wealth of widows and spinsters at death in the late 18th and the early 19th centuryLloyd Bonfield9. Property ownership by widows, a study of nineteenth century inheritance practices on the island of Sao Jorge (Azores archipelago) PortugalPaulo Teodoro de Matos and Ana Mafalda Lopes
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Taylor & Francis Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World
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Taylor & Francis Broadcast Voice Performance
Book SynopsisBroadcast Voice Performance (1989) incorporates the insights and experience of more than 100 successful practising voice performers to succinctly and realistically examine the techniques, equipment and criteria of announcing within the context of major types of radio and television productions and programming formats.
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Taylor & Francis A Directors Method for Film and Television
Book SynopsisA Directorâs Method for Film and Television (1992) presents the âcinematic languageâ approach to directing for film and television directors. It shows how the viewer perceives the nuances of the various pictures used to tell the story, and how movement within the frame creates drama and development. It outlines the techniques necessary to maximize each and every shot and create professional results.
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Taylor & Francis Witchcraft
Book SynopsisFrom fairy tales and fiction to Tiktok, the spectre of the witch has cast a long shadow over women and popular culture. Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives traces the history of and evolution of the term âœwitchâ across six centuries.Tracing the history of witchcraft from the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum to its contemporary representation and reclamation, this volume takes a gendered and intersectional approach to the cultural and historical shifts which have both demonised and democratised the witch online and in public discourse. Amongst these are:- The witch trials in Scotland, England, and America;- Literary and screen re-imaginings of the witch;- The rise of Wicca as an alternative religion.Witchcraft: Gendered Perspectives is an invaluable resource for graduate and undergraduate students across gender studies, queer history, religious studies, media studies, and European and North American history.
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Taylor & Francis Printed Images in Early Modern Britain
Book SynopsisPrinted images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at the time. Yet, by comparison with printed texts, these images have been neglected, particularly by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British Printed Images to 1700 (www.bpi1700.org.uk), it offers a series of essays which exemplify the many ways in which such visual material can throw light on the history of the period. Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, the collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries, their full meaning often only becoming clear when they are located in the context in which they were produced and deployed. The result is not only to illustrate the sheer richness of mater
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Golf Club and Chess Society
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Young Workers of the Industrial Age
Book SynopsisThe industrial revolution was forged with the lives of our ancestors' children. All over Britain, children and young people toiled for hours every day. Their workplaces were pitch-dark mines, fiery furnaces, brightly-lit mills with deadly machines, and mud-filled brickyards. Some workers were pauper apprentices, sent thousands of miles from their homes and indentured until the age of twenty-one. Almost every item in our ancestors' homes and wardrobes was made by children and youngsters: buttons, glass, carpets, cotton, cutlery, pins, candles, lace, pottery, straw hats, and even matches. In grand houses and ordinary homes, tiny chimney sweeps climbed chimneys choked with soot, and boys and girls worked as domestic servants. On the land, both sexes worked in all weathers. Children worked at home, too many helped their parents earn a living. From the early 1800s, men like Robert Owen tried to improve children's lives. But reform was held back for decades by wealthy mill-owners,
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Taylor & Francis Abduction Marriage and Consent in the Late Medieval Low Countries
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Ireland
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Consequences of the War
Book SynopsisFor many, Germany's post-war economic power was based on liberal market reforms and the Marshall Plan. This book disputes this old myth. Quantitative evidence shows instead how the re-emergence of Germany as a leading industrial power was founded in the Second World War itself and the conditions it left behind.Trade Review'Tamás Vonyó carries out a major revision of the German Miracle. A detailed quantitative approach supports a nuanced interpretation. Reconstruction was delayed as war, destruction and dislocation was widespread and persistent. The resettlement of displaced population was critical for the recovery and fuelled productivity growth since the late 1950s, preceding the social contract and R&D investment.' Leandro Prados de la Escosura, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid'Vonyó's book is a most welcome enrichment to the history of West German economic recovery.' Armin Grünbacher, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The audit of defeat: initial conditions; 2. The economic geography of post-war dislocation; 3. Growth accounts for West German industry; 4. Made in Germany: the post-war export boom; 5. Managing the miracle: economic policy; Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Ancient Theatre and Performance Culture around
Book SynopsisThis is the first study of ancient theatre and performance around the coasts of the Black Sea. It brings together key specialists around the region with well-established international scholars on theatre and the Black Sea, from a wide range of disciplines, especially archaeology, drama and history. In that way the wealth of material found around these great coasts is brought together with the best methodology in all fields of study. This landmark book broadens the whole concept and range of theatre outside Athens. It shows ways in which the colonial world of the Black Sea may be compared importantly with Southern Italy and Sicily in terms of theatre and performance. At the same time, it shows too how the Black Sea world itself can be better understood through a focus on the development of theatre and performance there, both among Greeks and among their local neighbours.Table of ContentsPart I. Approaches: 1. Introduction – embarking on a voyage around Black Sea theatre David Braund; 2. The spread of Greek theatre to the West – and to the North-East? Oliver Taplin; 3. The northward advance of Greek horizons Stephanie West; Part II. Places: 4. The tragedians of Heraclea and comedians of Sinope Edith Hall; 5. The Phanagoria Chous – comic art in miniature in a luxury tomb in the Cimmerian Bosporus Jeffrey Rusten; 6. Theatre and performance in the Bosporan Kingdom David Braund; 7. Ancient theatre in Tauric Chersonesus Sergey Saprykin; 8. Theatre at Olbia in the Black Sea Valeriya Bylkova; 9. Celebrating Dionysos in Istros and Tomis – theatrical manifestations and artistic life in two Ionian cities of the Black Sea Madalina Dana; 10. Ancient theatres and theatre-art of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and Thracian Hinterland Alexander Minchev; Part III. Plays: 11. Space, place and the metallurgical imagination of the Prometheus trilogy Emmanuela Bakola; 12. Fragmentary Greek tragedies set in the Black Sea Rosie Wyles; 13. Black Sea back story – Euripides' Medea Edith Hall; 14. Mind-games in the Crimea – Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris Felix Budelmann; 15. Visualising Euripides' Tauric Temple of the Maiden Goddess Edith Hall; Part IV. Performative Presences: 16. Music and performance among Greeks and Scythians Marina Vakhtina; 17. A new mask and musical instruments from the Eastern Bosporus Vladimir Bochkovoy, David Braund, Roman Mimokhodov and Nikolay Sudarev; 18. The Cult of Dionysus in Ancient Georgia Manana Odisheli; 19. Paratheatrical performances in the Bosporan Kingdom – the evidence of terracotta figurine Maya Muratov; 20. Historiography and theatre: the tragedy of Scythian King Skyles David Braund; 21. Life trajectories – Iphigenia, Helen and Achilles on the Black Sea Froma Zeitlin; Epilogue: dancing around the Black Sea – Xenophon, Pseudo-Scymnus and Lucian's bacchants David Braund.
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Cambridge University Press The Shaping of French National Identity
Book SynopsisCasts new light on the intellectual origins of the 'official' French nineteenth-century national narrative by examining how historians and philosophers conceived of the French past from the early eighteenth century to the Restoration, reshaping the myths, symbols, and memories of pre-modern communities.Trade Review'Matthew D'Auria has written an important contribution to our understanding of French nationalism and French identity. His lucid and engaging book shows how intellectual debates about the origins of France resulted in the production of a powerful narrative about the national past that has ever since shaped the way the French understand themselves.' David A. Bell, Princeton University'D'Auria masterfully charts a vast corpus of French intellectual history. Over more than a turbulent century, narratives and self-characterizations emerged and competed in which France remade its past and the remade past served to remake France. This elegant tour de force will be a lasting benchmark in the history of national identity-formation.' Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam'Although the shaping of French national has attracted its share of scholarly attention, it is safe to say that no one has ever surveyed this particular terrain - the grand narratives of national development, in the crucial decades before and after the French Revolution - with such insight and illumination. Matthew D'Auria's success owes much both to the architectural skill with which he has constructed his overarching narrative, moving from Boulainvilliers through Montesquieu to Thierry, across three master-themes, race, character and class; but also to his clear and crisp writing. He offers an unignorable argument that is also a very great pleasure to read.' Kent Wright, Arizona State University'Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.' D. A. Harvey, Choice'The Shaping of French National Identity thus sheds light on a chapter of intellectual history never before investigated with such thoroughness, that of the battles between competing visions of national identity that coexisted over the course of the long eighteenth century; the focus of is the respective contributions of Gauls, Romans and Franks in French history, and the reflection on the role of the king, the nobles, and the rest of the population in creating the national imaginary… The volume unveils possible alternative images to that established in the second half of the nineteenth century and illuminates the paths and reasons for the affirmation of the hegemonic narrative. It is an approach to the question of national identity that can be innovative even within a vast and prestigious bibliography. Focusing on the idea of 'national narrative', this approach corrects some of the assumptions implicit in the so-called 'modernist' approaches.' Studi FrancesiTable of ContentsIntroduction. Narrating the Nation: From the Nineteenth to the Eighteenth Century; Part I: 1. Race, Blood, and Lineage: The Nobility's National Narrative and the History of France; 2. History and Race: The Subject of Boulainvilliers's National Narrative; 3. Debating the Nation's History: From Royal(ist) to Ethnic Origins; Part II: 4. Thinking the Nation's Character: At the Crossroads of Literature, Anthropology, and History; 5. Moral and Physical Causes: Montesquieu's History of Nations; 6. Discussing the Nation's History: Franks, Gauls, and the French Character; Part III: 7. Classifying the Nation: The Past(s) of 'Social Classes' Before and After the Revolution; 8. A Bourgeois National Narrative: On Augustin Thierry's Réforme Historique; 9. Debating the Nation's Past(s): Giving the Bourgeoisie its History; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Educational Charters and Documents 598 to 1909 Cambridge Library Collection Education
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Nationhood and
Book SynopsisThis volume takes on the challenge of understanding nationhood and nationalism's relationships with global phenomena such as imperialism and universalistic religions, as well as with a variety of ideologies and socio-cultural formations such as capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, cuisine, music and literature.Table of ContentsPart I. Imperial and Post-Colonial Settings: 1. Building nation-empires in the eighteenth-century Iberian Atlantic Fidel J. Tavárez; 2. Nations and nationalisms in the late Ottoman empire Ebru Boyar; 3. The Dutch empire Michael Wintle; 4. The Habsburg monarchy Bálint Varga; 5. The British empire Krishan Kumar; 6. The French empire Eric T. Jennings; 7. Germany as a 'Global nation':1840-1930 Mark Hewitson; 8. The Russian and Soviet empire Ronald Grigor Suny and Valerie A. Kivelson; 9. The Japanese empire Sherzod Muminov; 10. American internationalism Andrew Preston; 11. The Indian subcontinent: From Raj to partition Swarupa Gupta; 12. Middle Eastern and North African nationalisms Jonathan D. Wyrtzen; 13. Sub-saharan Africa Emma Hunter; 14. Bringing empires back in: The imperial origins of nations in Indochina Tuong Vu; Conclusion to Part I; Part II. Transnational and Religious Missions and Identities: 15. Liberalism and nationalism: Trajectories of an entangled relationship Jörn Leonhard; 16. Marxism and the national question Enzo Traverso; 17. The Catholic Church Lawrence C. Reardon; 18. Islam and nationalism John O. Voll; 19. On Jewish nationhood and nationalism: A Historical survey from antiquity to the establishment of the state of Israel Allon Gal; 20. Buddhism Matthew J. Walton; Conclusion to Part II; Part III. Intersections: National(Ist) Synergies and Tensions With Other Social, Economic, Political and Cultural Categories, Identities and Practices: 21. Self-determination and national sovereignty Alain Dieckhoff; 22. Citizenship and nationhood: From antiquity to Gaia citizenship Daniele Conversi; 23. Religion and nationhood Peter van der Veer; 24. Nationalism and capitalism Jerry Z. Muller; 25. Economic nationalism in an imperial age, 1846-1946 Marc-William Palen; 26. National identity and the idea of race in the dinaric region Cathie Carmichael; 27. Nationalism, Ethnic cleansing and genocide: A view from below Omer Bartov; 28. Warfare, nation-formation and the legitimacy of states: An ethno-symbolic perspective John Hutchinson; 29. Nationalism, terrorism, and the state: Historical perspectives Bernhard Blumenau; 30. Negotiating national identity through tourism in colonial south asia and beyond Eric G. E. Zuelow; 31. Gendered nations and institutions Joane Nagel; 32. Historiographies and commemorative practices Stefan Berger; 33. Nation and literature Theo D'haen; 34. Food ways and nationhood Peter Scholliers; 35. The dynamics of national music: Opera and classical music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rutger Helmers; 36. Media and nationalism: Europe and the US, 1500-2000 Frank Bösch; Conclusion to Part III; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Channel
Book SynopsisRather than a natural frontier between natural enemies, this book approaches the English Channel as a shared space, which mediated the multiple relations between France and England in the long eighteenth century. This is an important reassessment of the history of Britain's deep historical connections with Europe.Trade Review'Morieux offers a useful corrective to the new British history or 'archipelagic studies', whose challenge to Anglocentric history has a tendency to overlook Europe. It's a cliché to say a book is timely, but in the midst of another debate on borders this book presents a bigger picture.' Willy Maley, Times Higher Education'Morieux's work here indicates in exemplary fashion how much more difficult to define was the political and juridical status of a murky, evershifting, and often downright dangerous stretch of water. Morieux repeatedly plays off the overlaps and tensions between the economic and political realms, noting further in the conclusion how merchants might balance natal allegiance with naturalization elsewhere.' David Andress, The American Historical Review'A rich and rewarding text, based on extensive research on both sides of la Manche, The Channel opens new perspectives on the sea as a connection, and the fluidity of maritime space.' Andrew Lambert, International Journal of Maritime History'… a powerful antidote and alternative perspective to those who see Anglo-French relations only through the prism of conflict. It is a profoundly optimistic view and in that, as much as in the subject it deals with, it is a timely and welcome intervention.' John McAleer, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Border Invented: 1. The impossibility of an island: before the Channel was a sea; 2. When the sea had no name; Part II. The Border Imposed: 3. Defending the military frontier; 4. Who owns the Channel? The overlap of legal rights; 5. The fight for natural resources; Part III. Transgressing the Border: 6. The fisherman: 'friend of all nations'?; 7. The game of identities: fraud and smuggling; 8. Crossing the Channel; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press German Womens Life Writing and the Holocaust
Book SynopsisThis book examines women's life writing from the Second World War and the Holocaust. Chapters on army auxiliaries, nurses, refugees, rape victims, and Holocaust survivors allow insights into the nature of complicity itself, the emergence of violence in civil society, and the possibility of social justice.Trade Review'Elisabeth Krimmer's excellent study draws on memoirs and fiction to enrich our understanding of women's widespread involvement in the Third Reich and the Second World War … this comprehensive and thought-provoking study provides new impulses for research into the still undertheorized matter of complicity.' Katherine Stone, The Modern Language Review'Elisabeth Krimmer offers poised readings of a broad range of women's voices to promote a nuanced understanding of the complex relationship of gender, genocide, and female agency. In doing so, she both untangles and complicates narratives about the German past, corrects androcentric views, and brings a welcome and important addition to the field that will be of use to scholars and students in a variety of disciplinary frameworks.' Sandra Alfers, Holocaust and Genocide StudiesTable of Contents1. Introduction: gender, war and the Holocaust; 2. Ruptured narratives: German women and Hitler's army; 3. Cropped vision: nursing in the Second World War; 4. Interrupted silences: German victims of rape; 5. Parallel stories: women refugees; 6. A view from the outside in: Jewish women and German complicity; Conclusion; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press After the Korean War
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Cambridge University Press Serving Athena
Book SynopsisThe first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates how individuals participated in this long-lived, all-Athenian celebration, and how their participation constructed and fostered both group and social identity. Essential for anyone working on ancient Greece and especially Greek religion.Trade Review'Shear's approach is programmatically holistic; she uses literary, epigraphical, and archaeological sources as well as theories of the social sciences … This book provides impressive evidence for the festival throughout its history and thought-provoking insights into the logics of constructing identities for the various subgroups attested as participants over the course of time. Hopefully, it will motivate further discussion about the importance and relevance of cult practices for social history - and for the cult.' Marion Meyer, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface; 1. The Panathenaia: An Introduction; 2. Giants and Heroes: The Mythologies of the Panathenaia; 3. The Little Panathenaia; 4. The Great Panathenaia: Ritual and Reciprocity; 5. The Panathenaic Games: Entertaining the Goddess; 6. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Athenian Men; 7. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Other Residents and Non-Residents; 8. The City, the Goddess and the Festival; Appendix 1. The Hellenistic Archons of Athens: 323/2 to 48/7 BC; Appendix 2. The Parthenon Frieze and the Panathenaia; Appendix 3. The Races for the Apobates and the Dismounting Charioteer; Appendix 4: The Pyrrhiche and the Tribal Team Events; Appendix 5: The Date of IG II2 3079 = IG II3.4 528; Appendix 6: The Officials of the Great Panathenaia in the Third Century BC; Appendix 7: Tiberius Claudius Novius and the Great Panathenaia Sebasta; Appendix 8: The Text of Agora XVIII C197; Tables; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Collections; General Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cosmopolitan Radicalism
Book SynopsisExploring the intersections of visual culture, design and politics in Beirut from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, this compelling interdisciplinary study critically examines a global conjuncture in Lebanon''s history, marked by anticolonial struggle and complicated by a Cold War order. Against a celebratory reminiscence of the ''golden years'', Beirut''s long 1960s is conceived of as a liminal juncture, an anxious time and space when the city held out promises at once politically radical and radically cosmopolitan. Zeina Maasri examines the transnational circuits that animated Arab modernist pursuits, shedding light on key cultural transformations that saw Beirut develop as a Mediterranean site of tourism and leisure, a nexus between modern art and pan-Arab publishing and, through the rise of the Palestinian Resistance, a node in revolutionary anti-imperialism. Drawing on uncharted archives of printed media this book expands the scope of historical analysis of the postcolonial Arab EaTrade Review'Maasri's account of the changing landscape of visual culture in 1960s Beirut provides immense insight into a critical moment in the shifting local, regional, and global dynamics animating post-colonial Lebanon. She challenges exceptionalist and teleological narratives while offering a historically grounded and analytically rigorous account of that period and its legacies.' Ziad M. Abu-Rish, Ohio University'This fascinating and absorbing book tells the story of how visual political materials was produced in 1960s Beirut, then an international node in Third Worldist and anti-imperialist movements. What makes Maasri's narrative stand out is its focus not only on the visual scaffolding of transnational solidarity but also on material published by the state, tourism organisations and CIA-funded cultural bodies. This compelling account illuminates the role of both publishing and visual materials in the working of political ideologies and movements.' Laleh Khalili, Queen Mary University of London'In snappy prose, Zeina Maasri decenters both nationalist and Eurocentrist readings of book cultures beyond the West to reveal the vibrant panoply of mobile, political, aesthetic engagements in page lay-outs, cover designs, and color choices. Vividly describing a previously undocumented translocal visuality, Maasri extends the work of art historians who ask what pictures want, of anthropologists who probe materiality in the formation of affective horizons, and of social scientists who study globalization from below. Even people who do not yet know they are interested in the arts should read Maasri's lucid, nuanced study.' Kirsten Scheid, American University of Beirut'Maasri's book unearths reams of archival and printed material, suggesting that these changes occurred at a moment of generative aesthetic and political tension in Beirut, when a Western modernism brushed up against a pan-Arab nationalism … Running through Maasri's chapters is an attempt to decenter both 'the West' and 'the nation' in an evaluation of the period's visual culture - and in doing so, complicate the conventional understanding of this Arabic Modernism that saw Beirut as its capital.' Kaleem Hawa, Artforum'… Cosmopolitan Radicalism is a captivating and beautiful read, richly illustrated through both black and white figures throughout the text and colour plates at the centre of the book … It offers a good starting point to dive deeper into these trajectories and look at each of the actors involved - be it people, objects or institutions - in further detail.' Nadia von Maltzahn, H-Soz-Kult vonTable of ContentsIntroduction. Beirut in the global Sixties: design, politics and translocal visuality; 1. Dislocating the nation: Mediterraneanscapes in Lebanon's tourist promotion; 2. The hot Third World in the cultural Cold War: modernism, Arabic literary journals and US counterinsurgency; 3. The visual economy of 'precious books': publishing, modern art and the design of Arabic books; 4. Ornament is no crime: decolonising the Arabic page from Cairo to Beirut; 5. Art is in the 'Arab street': the Palestinian revolution and printscapes of solidarity; 6. Draw me a gun: radical children's books in the trenches of 'Arab Hanoi'; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Faith Hope and Charity
Book SynopsisFaith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease. He thus brings a new clarity to understandings of the texture of communal relations in the historical past and highlights the particular characteristics of structural processes of inclusion and exclusion in the construction and experience of communities in early modern England. This engaging social history vividly captures what life would have been like in these communities, arguing that, even while early modern people were sure that the values of neighbourhood were dying, they continued to evoke and reassert those values.Trade Review'A profound and impassioned account of what it meant to be a neighbour in an age of societal transformation. By reappraising the relationship between the idea and experience of neighbourliness, often viewed in terms of conflict or decline, Wood demonstrates vividly how perennial bonds between working people were emotionally rewarding as well as economically functional.' Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia'An extraordinary archival exploration into what early modern people thought and said about belonging and exclusion. Andy Wood gives voice to those who experienced the values of faith, hope and charity most sharply, through the ongoing tensions between collectivity and exclusion, in the streets and villages of early modern England; this book shows how neighbourhood was both an abstract ideal and a mode of emotional and social engagement, gendered power and social interaction.' Laura Gowing, Kings College London'A deeply empathetic exploration of how the ideal of neighbourhood continued to be used to hold early modern communities together in the face of new challenges like Puritanism, and old such as hunger and disease. It is, as Wood states, a celebration of 'voices in the archive' as they expressed the need for togetherness.' Craig Muldrew, University of Cambridge'… engrossing … Wood's book … feels freshly relevant in showing how the values of neighbourhood were co-opted by the state … [it also testifies] movingly to the ability of ordinary people to sustain themselves, and their neighbours, even in the worst of times.' Arnold Hunt, Times Literary Supplement'His archival terrain is bountiful. Drawing on a remarkable range of materials (from ballads, plays, court records, parish records, and a wide array of social commentary in print and manuscript) Wood provides a richly textured account of the ways in which principles of common humanity could produce and consolidate bonds across various divides shaped by belief, gender, and locality as well as social politics.' Alexandra Shepard, Family & Community HistoryTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1. Charity Never Faileth: Defining Neighbourhood; 1.1 The Crisis of Neighbourhood; 1.2 Who Is My Neighbour?; 1.3 Charity and Neighbourhood; 1.4 Christian Neighbours; 2. Charity Suffereth Long: Neighbourhood and Community; 2.1 'A Nere Neyghbour is Better than a Farre Frende': The Social Logic of Neighbourhood; 2.2 Paternalism and the Reinforcement of Hierarchy; 2.3 Alcohol, Alehouses and Good Neighbourhood; 2.4 Festivity, Play and the Celebration of Neighbourhood; 3. Now Abideth Faith, Hope and Charity: Place Neighbourhood and People; 3.1 Public Worlds; 3.2 Nation, Country and Neighbourhood; 3.3 'A Packe of People'? Urban Neighbourhoods; 3.4 'A Kynde of Murdering my Neighbor': Disputes and their Settlement; 3.5 The Gender of Neighbourhood; 4. The Tongues of Men and Angels: Inclusion and Exclusion; 4.1 Newfangled Precisians: Neighbourhood and Religious Division; 4.2 Community Turned Inside Out: Witches, Gossips and Informers; 4.3 The Plight of Thomas Barebones: Settlement, Place and Neighbourhood; 4.4 The Better Sort and the Domination of Parish Politics; 4.5 Robin Starveling and the Destroying Angel: Famine, Disease and the Limits of Neighbourhood; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Thoreaus Religion
Book SynopsisThoreau''s Religion presents a ground-breaking interpretation of Henry David Thoreau''s most famous book, Walden. Rather than treating Walden Woods as a lonely wilderness, Balthrop-Lewis demonstrates that Thoreau''s ascetic life was a form of religious practice dedicated to cultivating a just, multispecies community. The book makes an important contribution to scholarship in religious studies, political theory, English, environmental studies, and critical theory by offering the first sustained reading of Thoreau''s religiously motivated politics. In Balthrop-Lewis''s vision, practices of renunciation like Thoreau''s can contribute to the reformation of social and political life. In this, the book transforms Thoreau''s image, making him a vital source for a world beset by inequality and climate change. Balthrop-Lewis argues for an environmental politics in which ecological flourishing is impossible without economic and social justice.Trade Review'This book is undoubtedly the best treatment of Thoreau in this generation. Alda Balthrop-Lewis is a profound philosopher-poet who captures the subtle and sublime genius of the great philosopher-poet like no other. And in these bleak times of ecological catastrophe we need them both!' Cornel West, Harvard University'This beautifully written volume offers a wonderful depiction of Thoreau as a person and a thinker for this time and place; really, everyone who's interested in his story, and in the American story, should read it and reflect on it.' Bill McKibben, Middlebury College'With extraordinary patience and clarity, Balthrop-Lewis guides well-meaning readers in appreciating Thoreau's aesthetics and ethics, his ways of writing and his ways of living, as he himself understood them.' Caleb Smith, Public Books'… the book is remarkably positive … I especially encourage young scholars to read this book as a goldmine of cutting-edge scholarly literatures and potential research topics. Space limits what I can share; go read this book!' David M. Craig, Political Theology'Balthrop-Lewis has done exceptional work as a scholar with this successful articulation of Walden's religious meanings, offering up insights that provide useful and genuine challenges to all of us 'readers' who seek to operate within what is called environmental or ecological ethics.' Kent 'Kip' Curtis, The Review of Politics'… this book makes complex philosophical ideas accessible to readers interested in Thoreau and social justice.' Scottish Journal of Theology'… this book makes complex philosophical ideas accessible to readers interested in Thoreau and social justice.' Susan L. Roberson, Scottish Journal of Theology'… much more than just another historically situated study of Thoreau that embeds him in various streams of influence, Christian or otherwise. This is a book that cogently demonstrates why and how Thoreau (still) matters for the Anthropocene - that he remains a useful interlocutor in our present, someone who can speak to the twinned crises of climate calamity and our ongoing dysfunctional politics.' Devin Zuber, Journal of the American Academy of Religion'… a well-written, erudite study of Thoreau - the man and his philosophy.' Jim Jose, Journal of Religious History'There is much in Balthrop-Lewis' arguments, and her book is a pleasure to read - not least because it reengaged me with Walden and made me think again about its political background and entanglement with wider changes in a nascent modern America.' Brett Gray, Modern Theology'… reading this book is a sheer delight. While pursuing her scholarly agenda, Balthrop-Lewis strengthens her portrait of Thoreau by weaving into it her own history, experience and ethical struggles. Effectively striking this balance is a difficult task, and Balthrop-Lewis manages it deftly. Her writing is at once intellectually complex and thoroughly accessible. In essence, she invites us to join her as she walks through both Thoreau's world and our own, attending to the socio-political wounds of both and cogently articulating a compassionate, ethical response. Without question, this is a walk worth taking.' Rebecca Kneale Gould, Marginalia (https://themarginaliareview.com)Table of ContentsIntroduction. Why Thoreau Would Love Environmental Justice; 1. Thoreau's Social World; 2. The Politics of Getting a Living; 3. Thoreau's Theological Critique of Philanthropy; 4. Political Asceticism; 5. Delight in True Goods; Conclusion. The Promise of a Delighted Environmental Ethics; Epilogue. On Mourning.
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