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Book SynopsisThe creation of texts preserves culture, literature, myth, and society, and provides invaluable insights into history. Yet we still have much to learn about the history of how those texts were produced and how the production of texts has influenced modern societies, particularly in smaller nations like Wales. The story of publishing in Wales is closely connected to the story of Wales itself. Wales, the Welsh people, and the Welsh language have survived invasion, migration, oppression, revolt, resistance, religious and social upheaval, and economic depression. The books of Wales chronicle this story and the Welsh people''s endurance over centuries of challenges. Ancient law-books, medieval manuscripts, legends and myths, secretly printed religious works, poetry, song, social commentary, and modern novels tell a story of a tiny nation, its hardy people, and an enduring literary legacy that has an outsized influence on culture and literature far beyond the Welsh borders.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Welsh History and Identity; 3. Poetry, Literacy, and Manuscripts; 4. Early Welsh Printing; 5. The Industrial Era; 6. Resistance and Renaissance; 7. Conclusion: Into the Electronic Age.

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Book SynopsisGender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1 LIN FOXHALL and GABRIELE NEHER 1 The Queen and the City: Royal Female Intervention and Patronage in Hellenistic Civic Communities 20 GILLIAN RAMSEY 2 'A Remarkably Patterned Life': Domestic and Public in the Aztec Household City 38 CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK 3 Women, Property and Urban Space in Tenth-Century Milan 57 ROSS BALZARETTI 4 Towards a Female Topography of the Ancient Greek City: Case Studies from Late Archaic and Early Classical Athens (c.520–400 BCE) 86 LISA C. NEVETT 5 Bodymaps: Sexing Space and Zoning Gender in Ancient Athens 107 JAMES DAVIDSON 6 Ladies who Lounge: Class, Religion and Social Interaction in Seventeenth-Century Isfahan 125 EMMA LOOSLEY 7 The Nanjing Courtesan Ma Shouzhen (1548–1604): Gender, Space and Painting in the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter 140 MONICA MERLIN 8 Squabbling Siblings: Gender and Monastic Life in Late Anglo-Saxon Winchester 163 HELEN FOXHALL FORBES 9 A Father, a Daughter and a Procurator: Authority and Resistance in the Prison Memoir of Perpetua of Carthage 195 KATE COOPER 10 Women's Social Networks and Female Friendship in the Ancient Greek City 213 CLAIRE TAYLOR 11 Seeing is Believing: Urban Gossip and the Balcony in Early Modern Venice 231 ALEXANDER COWAN Index 249

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Book SynopsisANNE-MARIE KILDAY is Principal Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She researches and publishes on the history of violent crime and the history of female criminality since the early modern period. DAVID NASH is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published extensively in the areas of the history of blasphemy, blasphemous libel and religious crime for over fifteen years. He is also author of Cultures of Shame: Exploring Crime and Morality in Britain 1650-1900 with Anne-Marie Kilday, with whom he co-edited Histories of Crime: Britain 1600-2000.Trade ReviewMurder and Mayhem provides a timely and accessible study of crime and criminality in twentieth-century Britain. Exploring and contextualising key themes in the history of crime, the text is an invaluable resource for students and researchers alike. * Samantha Pegg, Nottingham Law School, UK *Every student of twentieth-century British crime should read this book. Written by experts in the field, each chapter addresses a key theme in the history of crime and criminal justice. Not only do the chapters summarise what we know, but also what we don't about the chosen themes. Students looking for research project ideas will find plenty to inspire them. * Mark Roodhouse, University of York, UK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Britain in the Twentieth Century, David Nash and Anne-Marie Kilday Britain's Most 'Wanted': Homicide and Serial Murder since 1900, Anne-Marie Kilday Serious Property Offending in the Twentieth Century, Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey Racial Hate Crime in Britain,David Nash Offences Against Children: Incest and Child Sexual Abuse,Kim Stevenson Anarchism, Assassination and Terrorismin Modern Britain, Johannes Dillinger ‘Hope I Die Before I Get Too Old’: Social Rebellion and Social Diseases, Clifford Williamson Organised Crime, Criminality and the ‘Gangster', Heather Shore Punishment: The Death Penalty and Incarceration, Helen Johnston Law Enforcement: Policies and Perspectives,Neil Davie

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Book SynopsisThe volume focuses on the relationship between migration, health and illness in a global context from c.1820 to the present day. It takes a wide range of finely-grained case studies to examine epidemic disease and its containment, chronic illness and mental breakdown and the health management of migrant populations in the modern world.Table of ContentsTables and Graphs Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Migration, Health and Ethnicity in the Modern World; Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland 1. Insanity and Immigration Restriction; Alison Bashford 2. Itineraries and Experiences of Insanity: Irish Migration and the Management of Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Lancashire; Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland and Sarah York 3. Migration and Mental Illness in the British West Indies 1838-1900: The Cases of Trinidad and British Guiana; Letizia Gramaglia 4. The Colonial Travels and Travails of Smallpox Vaccine, c.1820-1840; Katherine Foxhall 5. Victim or Vector? Tubercular Irish Nurses in England 1930-1960; Anne MacLellan 6. Immigration, Ethnicity and 'Public' Health Policy in Postcolonial Britain; Robert Bivins 7. Immigration and Body Politic: Vaccination Policy and Practices during Mass Immigration to Israel (1948-1956); Nadav Davidovitch 8. From the Cycle of Deprivation to Troubled Families: Ethnicity and the Underclass Concept; John Welshman Index

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the city of St Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empire from the early eighteenth century until the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917. It uses the Russian court as a prism through which to view the various cultural changes that were introduced in the city during the eighteenth century.Trade Review“Keenan does a fine job of giving us a sense of the period’s byt’, Russian for ‘everyday life’. … excellent and novel feature of the book is Keenan’s frequent comparison of St Petersburg to other contemporary European cities such as London, Vienna and Paris. … Keenan’s book offers a much better sense of what was typical and exceptional in St Petersburg in the eighteenth century than has previously been available.” (Simon Werrett, History, Vol. 100 (341), July, 2015)"Like his mentor Lindsey Hughes's work, Keenan's book is clear, authoritative and lively. It is therefore a worthy monument to her memory." - G. M. Hamburg, Slavonic & East European Review"In St Petersburg and the Russian Court, 1703-1761, Paul Keenan offers a comprehensive and succinct analysis of the city ... Its value to scholars of eighteenth-century Russia goes without saying." - Colum Leckey, Canadian Slavonic PapersTable of ContentsList of Maps Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Location: Situating the City 2. Regulation: Policing the City's Inhabitants 3. Organisation: The Court and its Celebrations 4. Interaction: The City's Social Life 5. Instruction: Fashioning an Audience Conclusion Bibliography Key to Maps

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out the history of the relationship between neurology and music, putting the advances of our era into context.Trade Review“It provides an excellent introduction to some of the major ideas about music and the body. … Kennaway accomplishes much by asking his readers to engage with this material through the prism of music and the nerves, and this collection makes a valuable contribution to the growing body of historical studies focusing on music and neuroscience. The book will be of great interest to music scholars and historians of science, and will also appeal to neuroscientists and music cognition researchers.” (Carmel Raz, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 29 (3), August, 2016)"...interesting and thought-provoking" - Medical HistoryTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Long History of Neurology and Music; James Kennaway 2. (Nervously) Grappling with (Musical) 'Pictures in the Mind': A Personal Account; George Rousseau 3. Music and the Nerves in English Medical Thought, 1586-1777; Penelope Gouk 4. Music and Humanity in the French Enlightenment; Ingrid Sykes 5. Music Therapy in Eighteenth Century Spain: Perspectives and Critiques; Pilar León-Sanz 6. 'The Passionate Power of Music': 'Subsiding Passions' and the Polite Arts of Healing in the British Enlightenment; Aris Sarafianos 7. Music as a Tool in the Development of Nineteenth-Century Neurology; Julene Johnson and Amy Graziano 8. Origin Stories of Listening, Melody, and Survival at the End of the Nineteenth Century; Alexandra Hui 9. Physical Distortion, Emotion and Subjectivity: Musical Virtuosity and Body Anxiety; Wiebke Thormählen

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Book SynopsisThis book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international, diplomatic, and domestic levels.Trade Review“Raponi’s monograph improves our understanding of the British enthusiasm for the Risorgimento by exploring how religion and politics fused together when Italian affairs were on the agenda. … Raponi has consulted a very impressive range of sources. … The book is beautifully written, Raponi’s style being lively and engaging.” (Owain Wright, Journal of Religious History Literature and Culture Reviews, June, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Britain and Italy, Religion and Politics 1. Italy as the 'European India': British Orientalism, Cultural Imperialism, and Anti-Catholicism, c. 1850-1870 2. British Missionary Societies in Italy: Evangelising a Hostile Land, 1850-1862 3. Religion and Foreign Policy: From Unification to the 'Desperate Folly' of the Syllabus (1861-1864) 4. British Missionary Societies in Italy: Searching the Soul of the New Nation, 1862-1872 5. Protestant Foreign Policy and the Last Years of the Roman Question, 1865-1875 Conclusion: 'Great' because Protestant, 'Oriental' because Catholic

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Book SynopsisPreface.- 1.Memory, Modernity and the Moving Image.- 2.Mémoir(e) and Mémoir(e)s.- 3.Trauma, Latency and Amnesia.- 4.Sound, Trace and Interference.- 5.Amnesia and the Archive.- ConclusionTable of ContentsPreface.- 1.Memory, Modernity and the Moving Image.- 2.Mémoir(e) and Mémoir(e)s.- 3.Trauma, Latency and Amnesia.- 4.Sound, Trace and Interference.- 5.Amnesia and the Archive.- Conclusion

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Book SynopsisMasculinity, Class and Same-Sex Desire in Industrial England, 1895-1957 explores the experiences of men who desired other men outside of the capital. In doing so, it offers a unique intervention into the history of sexuality but it also offers new ways to understand masculinity, working-class culture, regionality and work in the period.Trade Review“The book offers significant depth and engagement on the issues of sexuality, class and masculinity in industrial England between 1895 and 1957 … . this is a rich, accessible and important contribution to our understanding of same-sex desire, class and masculinity in Britain.” (Jeffrey Meek, Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 28 (1), March, 2017)Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Policing and Prosecutions 3. Working-Class Culture 4. Work and Family 5. Sex 6. Language 7. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays by leading scholars in the field reveals the major contribution of puritan women to the intellectual culture of the early modern period. It demonstrates that women's roles within puritan and broader communities encompassed translating and disseminating key texts, producing an impressive body of original writing.Trade Review"The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women provides fifteen fascinating vignettes of prominent female thinkers. The editors do not attempt an over-arching definition of a Puritan, but each individual chapter justifies its subject's claim to that title, building up a composite picture of a formidable godly femininity." David Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "The end result is impressive: methodologically wide-ranging and interpretatively innovative, this collection offers genuinely new insight not only into the nature of Puritanism, and of women's role within the Puritan movement, but also into the position of women more generally (and thus the nature of patriarchy) in late Tudor and Stuart England" Tim Harris, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms "The influence of the widening scholarship of the last thirty years on early modern women writers is evident in all the essays in this collection, yet they succeed in finding fresh and inspiring perspectives into women's intellectual lives, often balancing biographical and literary interests. By looking closely at fourteen women, they succeed admirably in demonstrating that there is much more to know than we have so far assumed about Puritanism's support for women's intellectual culture." Anu Korhonen, Renaissance QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Foreword; N.H.Keeble Introduction; J.Harris & E.Scott-Baumann The Exemplary Anne Vaughan Lock; S.Felch The Countess of Pembroke and the Practice of Piety; D.Clarke Imagining a National Church: Election and Education in the Works of Anne Cooke Bacon; L.Magnusson Anne, Lady Southwell: Coteries and Culture; E.Clarke Godly Patronage: Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford; M.O'Connor 'An Ancient Mother in our Israel': Mary, Lady Vere; J.Eales 'Give me thy hairt and I desyre no more': The Song of Songs, Petrarchism and Elizabeth Melville's Puritan Poetics; S.C.E.Ross 'But I thinke and beleeve': Lady Brilliana Harley's Puritanism in Epistolary Community; J.Harris 'Take unto ye words': Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' and Puritan Cultural Forms; E.Longfellow Anne Bradstreet's Poetry and Providence: Earth, Wind, and Fire; S.Wiseman Viscountess Ranelagh and the Authorisation of Women's Knowledge in the Hartlib Circle; R.Connoll Anna Trapnel's Literary Geography; D.Purkiss Lucy Hutchinson, the Bible and Order and Disorder; E.Scott-Baumann Pregnant Dreams in Early Modern Europe: The Philadelphian Example; N.Smith Afterword; D.Norbrook Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe British Newspaper Industry sets out to distinguish the newspaper industry from the generality of single product organisations and to provide tailored solutions to its problems by drawing on a variety of techniques and practices successfully used in other industries.Trade Review"John Hill has written quite a brilliant book on the state of the British newspaper industry. This lucid, informed and thought-provoking study takes a much needed look at one of our major cultural institutions. A comprehensive and intelligent account that readers will love." - John Hassard, The University of Manchester, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction1. What Explains the Persistence of a Local Press? 2. Communities and their Media3. Communities – What They Are!4. The History of a Crisis Internal Factors 5. The History of a Crisis External Factors6. The Present State of Play7. Newspapers in Decline8. The Growth of Alternative Media9. Anticipating the Future10. Transitioning to a New Order11. Generic Strategies12. Strategies for a Turbulent Future13. Mechanisms of Local Media14. Newspaper Production15. Digital Printing16. Marketing Advertising Space17. Marketing the Product18. Resource Partitioning19. Value Activities20. Measuring the Field21. ...Endgame?

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The essays in this book … are all engaging and well written. … A strength of this collection is the contribution it makes to readings of colonial Australian environments, but its broad scope means there will be something for most scholars working on the topics of Victorian nature and the environment. There are plenty of offerings that might interest readers … .” (Cheryl Blake Price, The Wilkie Collins Journal, wilkiecollinssociety.org, Vol. 18, 2021)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Grace Moore & Michelle J. Smith.2. “The Environmentally Modified Self: Acclimatization and Identity in Early Victorian Literature”: Roslyn Jolly.3. “Rabbits and the Rise of Australian Nativism”: Alexis Harley.4. “’Our Antipodes:’ Settler Colonial Environments in Victorian Travel Writing”: Anna Johnston.5. “Ubiquitous Theft: The Consumption of London in Mayhew’s Underworld”: Lesa Scholl.6. “’Mountains might be marked by a drop of glue:’ Blindness, Touch and the Tangible Map”: Vanessa Warne.7. “Exhuming the City: London’s Victorian Cemeteries and the Afterlife”: Haewon Hwang.8. “Speculative Viewing: Victorians’ Encounters with Coral Reefs”: Kathleen Davidson.9. “The Nature of Female Beauty: Floriography and Sensation Fiction”: Kirby-Jane Hallum.10. “Neptune’s Daughters: Women and Australian Marine Visual Culture”: Molly Duggins.11. “Inorganic Bodies Longing to Become Organic: Revolutionary Appetite in Thomas Carlyle’s The French Revolution”: Hayley Rudkin.12. “‘Yet Was It Human?’ Bankim, Hunter and the Victorian Famine Ideology of Anandamath”: Pablo Mukherjee.13. “Adulteration in Jude the Obscure”: Tim Dolin.

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Book SynopsisUsing the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome.The Beginnings of Rome offers insight on major issues such as: Rome's relations with the Etruscans the conflict between patricians and plebeians the causes of Roman imperialism the growth of slave-based economy. Answering the need for raising acute questions and providing an analysis of the many different kinds of archaeological evidence with literary sources, this is the most comprehensive study of the subject available, and is essential reading for students of Roman history.Trade Review'T.J Cornell's synthesis of early Roman history has some great virtues: it is learned, up-to-date and readable.' – London Review of Books'Cornell's lucid review of what we know of early Rome (to 264 BC) is excellent value ... The book is warmly recommended.' – JACT Review'Cornell's is the most authoritative study of early Roman history to have been written by a single author since Beloch's Romanische Geschichte of 1926. The Beginnings of Rome is an authoritative, important, and timely book from which we are all benefiting, and from which much subsequent study of early Rome will start.' – The Classical Review'Cornell's is the most authoritative study of early Roman history to have been written by a single author since Beloch's Romanische Geschichte of 1926. The Beginnings of Rome is an authoritative, important, and timely book from which we are all benefiting, and from which much subsequent study of early Rome will start.' - The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Pre-Roman Background; Chapter 3 The Origins of Rome; Chapter 4 The Rise of the City-state; Chapter 5 Traditional History; Chapter 6 The Myth of ‘Etruscan Rome’; Chapter 7 The Reforms of Servius Tullius; Chapter 8 The Power of Rome in the Sixth Century; Chapter 9 The Beginnings of the Roman Republic; Chapter 10 Patricians and Plebeians; Chapter 11 The Twelve Tables; Chapter 12 Wars and External Relations, 509-345 bc; Chapter 13 The Emancipation of the Plebs; Chapter 14 The Roman Conquest of Italy; Chapter 15 Rome in the Age of the Italian Wars;

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of important currents of thought in social and cultural anthropology, from the 19th century to the present. It introduces readers to the origins, context and continuing relevance of a fascinating and exciting kaleidoscope of ideas that have transformed the humanities and social sciences, and the way we understand ourselves and the societies we live in today. Each chapter provides a thorough yet engaging introduction to a particular theoretical school, style or conceptual issue. Together they build up to a detailed and comprehensive critical introduction to the most salient areas of the field. The introduction reflects on the substantive themes which tie the chapters together and on what the very notions of theory' and theoretical school' bring to our understanding of anthropology as a discipline. The book tracks a core lecture series given at Cambridge University and is essential reading for all undergraduate students undertaking a courseTrade Review"In this highly original contribution, leading anthropological scholars from the University of Cambridge provide a new and compelling approach to the history of anthropological ideas.... With each chapter authored by different anthropologists at the University of Cambridge, one gets a powerful sense of the perspective of that important school and at the same time original individual contributions from well-known anthropologists on key themes or thinkers that have impacted anthropological thought over the years. Insightful, succinct but also consistently challenging, I expect that these essays will inspire students of anthropology for years to come."Adam Reed, University of St Andrews, UK"A useful antidote to the presentism of much current anthropological theorizing, this rich and variegated collection – which takes account of some of the deepest roots and freshest sprigs – especially reflects the influential view of the discipline from the venerable Cambridge tradition, which displays in these pages an impressively global and historically comprehensive reach."Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, USA"Anthropological theory does not exist per se. It has been conceptualized and formulated on the basis of our own academic work, developing and sometimes changing substantially over the years and decades, influenced by very personal experiences, social settings and political constellations. In fact, theory is as much a product of time and space as it is the achievement of intellectual forebears. Likewise its reception and critique is subject to change and ongoing discussion. The authors of this book, junior and senior, offer broad contexts and detailed knowledge without hiding their personal views and sympathies. A truly committed introduction."Magnus Treiber, LMU München, GermanTable of ContentsIntroduction: Echoes of a conversation 1. Severed roots: Evolutionism, Diffusionism and (structural-)functionalism 2. Structuralism 3. Marxism and Neo-Marxism 4. From Transactionalism to Practice Theory 5. Anthropology and History 6. From the Extended-Case Method to Multi-Sited Ethnography (and Back) 7. Cognitive anthropology as epistemological critique 8. Interpretive Cultural Anthropology: Geertz and his ‘Writing-Culture’ Critics 9. The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Anthropology 10. The Anthropological Lives of Michel Foucault 11. From ‘the body’ to ‘embodiment’, with help from phenomenology 12. Feminist Anthropology and the Question of Gender 13. No actor, no network, no theory: Bruno Latour’s Anthropology of the Moderns 14. The Ontological Turn: School or Style? 15. Persons and partible persons Marilyn Strathern

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Book SynopsisDuring an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that ''most of our people have never had it so good''. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite the recognition that Britain had moved away from an era of rationing and scarcity, to a new age of choice and plenty, there was simultaneously a parallel feeling that the nation was in decline and being economically outstripped by its international competitors. Whilst the study of Britain''s postwar history is a well-trodden path, and the paradox of absolute growth versus relative decline much debated, it is here approached in a fresh and rewarding way. Rather than highlighting economic and industrial ''decline'', this volume emphasizes the tremendous impact of rising affluence and consumerism on British society. It explores various expressions of afflueTrade Review'Challenging familiar views of Britain's postwar decline, this provocative and wide-ranging collection focuses on growing affluence as a more appropriate framework for understanding political, social and economic developments during the 1950s and 1960s. Illuminating essays on political culture, consumerism, industrial design, youth marketing and economic policy offer a persuasive reinterpretation of Britain's new "golden age". This is a valuable scholarly addition to the literature on the period.' Fred M. Leventhal, Professor of History, Boston University 'An Affluent Society is an original contribution to British contemporary history. It is generally lively but in no way superficial, and deserves to be included on the reading lists of second- and third-year undergraduate courses on postwar British history. And it will also act as a useful secondary source for postgraduate students looking for background information and starting-points for dissertations or theses on social, economicand political developments in postwar Britain.' EH.NET '... an important and extremely useful contribution to the literature on post-war Britain. It will be essential reading for political, economic, social and cultural historians of Britain after 1945, as well as academics in other fields such as politics and sociology... accessible for both undergraduate and graduate students. All in all, An Affluent Society? pushes forward our understanding not only of affluence, but of post-war Britain itself.' English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction - The uses (and abuses) of affluence, Lawrence Black and Hugh Pemberton; Affluence, conservatism and political competition in Britain and the United States, 1945-64, Brian Girvin; Modernizing Britain's Welfare State: the influence of affluence, 1957-64, Rodney Lowe; The forgotten revisionist: Douglas Jay and Britain's transition to affluence, 1951-64, Richard Toye; Total abstinence and a good filing-system? Anthony Crosland and the affluent society, Catherine Ellis; The impression of affluence: political culture in the 1950s and 1960s, Lawrence Black; Affluence, relative decline and the Treasury, Hugh Pemberton; Economists and economic growth in Britain, c.1955-65, Roger Middleton; The polyester-flannelled philanthropists: the Birmingham consumers' group and affluent Britain, Mathew Hilton; Anticipating affluence: skill, judgement and the problems of aesthetic tutelage, Lesley Whitworth; 'Selling youth in the age of affluence': marketing to youth in Britain since 1959, Christian Bugge; Losing the peace: Germany, Japan, America and the shaping of British national identity in the age of affluence, Richard Weight; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how early modern urban society was shaped and how this changed over time.Much of the lives of urban dwellers in early modern Europe were played out in city streets and squares. By exploring urban spaces in relation to themes such as politics, economies, religion, and crime, this edited collection shows that streets were not only places where people came together to work, shop, and eat, but also to fight, celebrate, show their devotion, and express their grievances. The volume brings together scholars from different backgrounds and applies new approaches and methodologies to the historical study of urban experience. In doing so, Early Modern Streets provides a comprehensive overview of one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship in early modern history.Accompanied by over 50 illustrations, Early MTable of ContentsPart 1: Contours and Foundations 1. Framing the street 2. Sources and methods for studying historical streets 3. Representing the street in words and images 4. Sensing the street Part 2: Street Use 5. Street politics 6. Street economies 7. Religion in the streets 8. Street crimes

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Book SynopsisTranscending the traditional categories of medieval' and early modern' to analyse pan-European attitudes and behaviours, Sex and Sexuality in Europe, 11001750 provides students with a grounding in the history of sexuality by supplying both a detailed analysis of the existing historiographical debates but also analysis of the primary sources such as autobiographies and contemporary literature.Offering an accessible overview that places sex and sexuality within the historical context of the time period, it creates a deeper understanding of connections and differences across Europe. An interdisciplinary work, it draws on cultural, social, religious, philosophical, literary, economic and scientific ideas while incorporating theory from within the field to broaden perspective of the history of sexuality. Challenging the separation of the medieval and early modern periods', this volume highlights a great deal of continuity between 1100 and 1750 across Europe, with change oTable of Contents1. Christendom 2. Renaissance 3. Reformation 4. Exploration 5. Enlightenment

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Book SynopsisThe British and French in the Atlantic 1650-1800 provides a comprehensive history of this complex period and explores the contrasting worlds of the British and the French Empires as they strove to develop new societies in the Americas. Charting the volatile relationship between the British and French, this book examines the approaches that both empires took as they attempted to realise their ambitions of exploration, conquest and settlement, and highlights the similarities as well as the differences between them. Both empires faced slave revolts, internal rebellion and revolution as well as frequent wars against one another, which came to dominate the Atlantic world, and which culminated in the eventual failure of both empires in North America: the French following the Seven Years War in 1763 and the British twenty years later in the war against American Independence. Delving into key themes, such as exploration and settlement, the creation of sociTable of ContentsPART 1: Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Exploration and Settlement; Chapter 3. New Societies; Chapter 4. Wars across the Atlantic; Chapter 5. Resistance, Rebellions and Revolutions; Chapter 6. Conclusion; PART 2: Chapter 7. Documents; Chapter 8. Further Reading and References

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Book SynopsisImperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book takes up the complex relationships between race and sexuality, fetishism and money, gender and violence, domesticity and the imperial market, and the gendering of nationalism within the zones of imperial and anti-imperial power.Trade Review"The author and Routledge are to be congratulated on a big, beautiful book that many students of the history of sexuality will find alluring." -- Journal of the Historyof Sexuality"Imperial Leather is what an academic book ought to be: intelligent, informed, socially committed, engaged, and engaging." -- Women's Review of Books"Imperial Leather is a wonderful book." -- Women's Reviewof Books"McClintock's magisterial study...is a daring articulation of the race-class-gender triad." -- Choice"Anne McClintock's Imperial Leather takes a prominent place among a number of recent works...that question the relegation of the imperial enterprise to the back benches of the Victorian sensibility...Ms. McClintock's astute reading of novels, diaries, and advertisements, among other sources, demonstrates how images of domestic life can be incorporated into an ideology of imperial domination." -- The New York Times Book Review"Imperial Leather is a very passionately written book, and the reader cannot help but be involved in the various texts that McClintock freely uses. Nothing escapes her hard, penetrating gaze...The work is thoughtful and well researched. I highly recomend it." -- Journal ofCarribean Studies"This is a big book, in every sense of the word: big format, big ideas, big aim." -- The Canadian HistoricalReview"Lucidly written, wide-ranging in its scope, supple and rigorous in its analysis, and impressive in its consistent theorization of gender in relation to other axes of power, Imperial Leather is a major contribution to materialist feminist scholarship." -- Signs"Engaging and frequently brilliant." -- Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsI. Empire of the Home 1. The Lay of the Land 2. "Massa and Maids 3. Imperial Leather 4. Psychoanalysis, Race and Female Fetish II. Double Crossings 5. Soft-Soaping Empire 6. The White Family of Man 7. Olive Schreiner III. Dismantling the Master's House 8. The Scandal of Hybridity 9. "Azikwelwa" (We Will Not Ride) 10. No Longer in a Future Heading

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Book SynopsisFrom Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of ''Care in the Community'', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society''s responses to it over the course of hisTrade Review'This book helps to fill an enormous gap in social history.' - University of Salford'A good resource for students. It brings together an overview of changing perceptions, terminology, attitudes and provisions over centuries.' - Dorothy Atkinson, The Open University'This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in supporting people with learning disabilities.' - Nursing Times'Some fascinating and also very moving descriptions.' - Community CareTable of ContentsChapter 1 Contexts and Perspectives, Anne Digby; Chapter 2 Mental Handicap in Medieval and Early Modern England, Richard Neugebauer; Chapter 3 Idiocy, the Family and the Community in Early Modern North-East England, Peter Rushton; Chapter 4 Identifying and Providing for the Mentally Disabled in Early Modern london, Jonathan Andrews; Chapter 5 The Psychopolitics of Learning and Disability in Seventeenth-Century Thought, C.F. Goodey; Chapter 6 ‘Childlike in his Innocence’, David Wright; Chapter 7 The Changing Dynamic of Institutional Care, David Gladstone; Chapter 8 Institutional Provision for the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England, Mark Jachon; Chapter 9 Girls, Deficiency and Delinquency, Pamela Cox; Chapter 10 Family, Community, and State, Mathew Thomson;

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Book SynopsisIn this fascinating book, Vic Satzewich traces one hundred and twenty-five years of Ukranian migration, from the economic migration at the end of the nineteenth century to the political migration during the inter-war period and throughout the 1960s and 1980s resulting from the troubled relationship between Russia and the Ukraine. The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and its response to the war crimes trials of the 1980s.Trade Review'This fascinating book is an example of an exquisitely written, multifaceted analytical work on the history of Ukrainian emigration to North America.' - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 32/3, April 2006Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Ukranians and the Concept of Diaspora 2. Emigration and the Formation of a Labour Diaspora (1890-1914) 3. What Kind of Ukranian are You?: Cleavages within the Pre-World War Two 4. The Third Wave: World War Two and the Displaced Person 5. The Social Organization of the Diaspora 6. Ukraine in the Post-War Diaspora: Exposing Human Rights Abuses 7. Ukranians and their Sense of Victimization 8. The Dilemmas of Ukranian Independence Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCapetian France 9871328 is an authoritative overview of the country's development across four centuries, with a focus on changes to the political, religious, social and cultural climate during this period. When Hugh Capet took the throne of France in 987, his powers were weak and insignificant, but from an inauspicious beginning he founded a dynasty that was to last over 300 years and that came to dominate western Europe. This carefully updated third edition draws extensively on new scholarship that has emerged since the previous edition. It contains images, maps, family trees and a discussion of key sources, allowing the reader to develop a strong contextual knowledge as well as a greater connection with the material world of the period.Maintaining a balance between a compelling narrative and an in-depth examination of central themes of the age, Capetian France 9871328 provides a comprehensive account of this significant era within FranTable of ContentsChapter 1: French Society in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries; Chapter 2: Politics and Society: A Regional View; Chapter 3: The Early Capetians, 987–1108; Chapter 4: The Revival of Royal Power, 1108–1226; Chapter 5: Louis IX: The Consolidation of Royal Power, 1226–70; Chapter 6: The Last Capetians, 1270–1328: The Apogee of Royal Power; Chapter 7: Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisMemories of my Life, first published in 1908, is an autobiography by the psychologist, anthropologist, geographer, and inventor Sir Francis Galton. This book contains a detailed account of Galton's life, and will be of interest to students of Victorian history. Table of Contents1. Parentage 2. Childhood and Boyhood 3. Medical Studies 4. Short Tour to the East 5. Cambridge 6. Egypt and the Soudan 7. Syria 8. Hunting and Shooting 9. South-West Africa 10. Lands of the Damaras, Ovampo, and Namaquas 11. After Return Home – Marriage 12. "Art of Travel" 13. Social Life 14. Geography and East Africa 15. British Association 16. Kew Observatory and Meteorology 17. Anthropometric Laboratories 18. Composite Portraits and Stereoscopic Maps 19. Human Faculty 20. Heredity 21. Race Improvement; Appendix; Principle Awards and Degrees; Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, first published in 1977, brings together eleven studies of crime and the administration of the criminal law in England during the early modern period. They represent a variety of approaches legal, historical and sociological to the study of historical crime. The initial essay in this study, which is written from a legal standpoint, is the first coordinated account of the structure of criminal law administration in this formative period. It is followed by investigations into the nature and incidence of crime, court appearance and punishment, separate studies of witchcraft, infanticide and poaching, and an account of conditions in eighteenth-century Newgate. This book will be of particular interest to students of criminology and history. Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: Crime and the Historian; 1. Criminal Courts and Procedure at Common Law 1550-1800 2. The Nature and Incidence of Crime in England 1559-1625: A Preliminary Survey 3. Witchcraft in Tudor and Stewart Essex 4. Crime and Delinquency in an Essex Parish 1600-1640 5. Communities and Courts: Law and Disorder in Early-Seventeenth-Century Wiltshire 6. Quarter Sessions Appearances and their Background: A Seventeenth-Century Regional Study 7. Crime and the Courts in Surrey 1736-1753 8. Infanticide in the Eighteenth Century 9. The Game Laws in Wiltshire 1750-1800 10. Finding Solace in Eighteenth-Century Newgate 11. The Ordinary of Newgate and His Account; Crime and Criminal Justice: A Critical Bibliography; Notes; Index

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 1974. In this collection Colin Bell and Howard Newby have reaped a rich harvest from the sociological field of community studies. The selection from the work in that field presented here should satisfy readers of many different tastes and interests. Specialists in the sociology of community studies will find the authors'' brief, informative and succinct survey of the field and the introductory summaries to each chapter as useful for their own teaching and research as the comprehensive selection of articles itself. All those concerned with the welfare of people, whether social workers and nurses or magistrates and local authorities, will find here information about the community aspects of peoples'' lives which all too often still fails to find a place in their professional training.Table of ContentsForeword-Towards a Theory of Communities, Introduction PART I THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES TO THE STUDY OF COMMUNITY 1. Introduction 2. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft 3. The Myth of Community Studies 4. Cohesion, Conflict and Community Character PART II THE SOCIOLOGY OF RURAL BRITISH COMMUNITIES 5. Introduction 6. Continuity and Equilibrium in County Clare 7. Class Relations in a Rural Parish: Westrigg 8. Dynamic Equilibrium in Ashworthy 9. Continuity and Conscious Models in County Clare and Ashworthy: A Reappraisal PART III PEASANTS AND PEASANT SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN ITALY 10. Introduction 11. Emigration and Social Change in Southern Italy 12. The Role of Amoral Familism in the Structure of Traditionalism 13. Morals and Backwardness PART IV THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE INNER CITY 14. Introduction 15. Soulside, Washington D.C., in the 1960's: Black Ghetto Culture and Community 16. The Sociology of a Zone of Transition 17. Territoriality in Belfast PART V THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF SUBURBAN COMMUNITIES 18. Introduction 19. Crestwood Heights: A Canadian Middle-Class Suburb 20. Myths of American Suburbia 21. The Use of Gossip and Event Analysis in the Study of Suburban Communities PART VI LLOYD WARNER'S YANKEE CITY STUDIES 22. Introduction 23. Social Class in Yankee City 24. The Modern Community as a Laboratory 25. Lloyd Warner and his Critics PART VII THE SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNITY-APPRAISALS OF THE FIELD 27. Introduction 28. Sociology of the Community: Current Status and Prospects 29. Community Study: Retrospect and Prospect

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Book SynopsisOffers a lively view into a wide range of activities, occupations and social and family roles of women in the cities of the Roman West on the basis of translated inscriptions. Makes this material accessible for students, scholars and anyone interested in the history of women and gender.Trade Review'Hemelrijk (Univ. of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) has produced a remarkably informative and useful work … what makes the book particularly valuable to scholars as well as students is the separate downloadable PDF (available on the publisher's website) of the original Greek and Latin texts of all the inscriptions, edited in accordance with modern epigraphical conventions. Anyone interested in the ancient world will learn much from this excellent work … Highly recommended.' M. J. Johnson, Choice Magazine'There is a great deal of pleasure and a wealth of information to be derived from Women and Society in the Roman World … Hemelrijk's carefully curated and annotated collection of inscriptions fill a longstanding lacuna. Her sourcebook places front and centre the integral role of epigraphy as a rich reservoir of socio-historical and cultural detail about women extending beyond the strictly delimited stratum of elite and imperial households into all sectors of the ancient – and, in this case, Roman – world.' Peter Keegan, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Family Life; 2. Legal Status, Citizenship and Ethnicity; 3. Occupations; 4. Social Relations, Travel and Migration; 5. Religion; 6. Public Life; 7. Imperial Women

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Book SynopsisRomanian Germans, mainly from the Banat and Transylvania, have occupied a place at the very heart of major events in Europe in the twentieth century yet their history is largely unknown. This east-central European minority negotiated their standing in a difficult new European order after 1918, changing from uneasy supporters of Romania, to zealous Nazis, tepid Communists, and conciliatory Europeans. Migrating Memories is the first comprehensive study in English of Romanian Germans and follows their stories as they move across borders and between regimes, revealing a very European experience of migration, minorities, and memories in modern Europe. After 1945, Romanian Germans struggled to make sense of their lives during the Cold War at a time when the community began to fracture and fragment. The Revolutions of 1989 seemed to mark the end of the German community in Romania, but instead Romanian Germans repositioned themselves as transnational European bridge-builders, staking out new cTrade Review'Emphasizing the multipolar and transnational character of the voices that participated in defining what it meant to be German Romanian, this is an excellent rethinking of the modes of belonging and re-imagining that made up that history from the age of the Habsburg Monarchy through the present.' H. Glenn Penny, University of Iowa'In this fascinating transnational history James Koranyi explores the complex twists and turns of Romanian German identity and memory, always asking who memory-making empowers and what significance claims about the past have for the present and future. An eye-opening insight into how minority groups are shaped by the past.' Roland Clarke, University of Liverpool'James Koranyi's book is an empathetic, sophisticated and critical history of the Romanian German experience through the turbulent twentieth century. The many layers of the past are fused with contemporary historical and lived experience to reveal a tapestry of identities and understandings. It is a fascinating and stimulating read.' Jonathan Kwan, University of NottinghamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Stories, identities, memories; 1. Making Romanian Germans; 2. Transnational Germans; 3. Fascist divisions in the Romanian German past; 4. The iron memory curtain: Romanian Germans and Communism; 5. European bridge-builders: Romanian Germans after 1989; Epilogue: The perpetual exodus.

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Book SynopsisAn immersive tale of the killing of a Native American man and its far-reaching implications for the definition of justice from early America to todayTrade Review"[Eustace] reveals forgotten treasures in America’s attic... She draws from dozens of primary sources and hundreds of secondary ones, yet seamlessly weaves them into a cohesive, compelling narrative full of intrigue and pathos.... Drawing repeated distinctions between rigid, albeit unfairly applied, British law (perpetrator-focused, reprisal-oriented, punishment driven) and the justice of the Haudenosaunee (victim-focused, restitution-oriented, harmony-driven)... Eustace manages to maintain the narrative tension.... formally documenting a more humane, healing vision of what justice could be – and once was – in this country." -- Dana Dunham - Chicago Review of Books"Listening keenly and insightfully to Native voices in colonial records, Nicole Eustace deftly recovers a revealing tale of murder and justice across a cultural frontier at a critical moment for the future of our continent. A great read and an important book." -- Alan Taylor, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Thomas Jefferson’s Education"Nicole Eustace crafts a thoroughly original and compelling account of eighteenth-century America, its volatile societies and cultural boundaries, and especially the conflicts between Native people and colonial newcomers over how justice itself might be defined in America. Her answers are surprising, enlightening, and worthy of rediscovery." -- Matthew Dennis, professor emeritus of history at the University of Oregon and author of Seneca Possessed: Indians, Witchcraft, and Power in the Early American Republic

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Book SynopsisLéon Gambetta is renowned as a founder of the French Third Republic. This unique study of his correspondence with his lover, Léonie Léon, provides a fascinating insight into their intimate and political partnership. It brings to life Gambetta as lover and politician, the unknown figure of Léon, and the political and cultural world of 1870s Paris.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Maps Preface Introduction: 'What Admirable Pages!' PART I: YEARS OF HOPE, 1872-1877 'The Unforgettable Day of 27 April' 'I want you to devote yourself to the Republic' 'Thank you for being my strength, my hope' 'I am smiling at your triumph, at our love' PART II: A BOURGEOIS COUPLE IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC 'We'll go and laugh at the Palais Royal' 'We will proudly put our heads together in books' 'This religion satisfies my soul' PART III: YEARS OF FRUSTRATION, 1877-1882 'What glory, to have created a new France' 'Triumphant, and full of regrets' 'Poor France, Poor Republic, I had other dreams' 'People are Weeping for the Patriot, the Orator' Epilogue: 'The letters remain' Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExplaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction. The Scientization of the Social in Comparative Perspective; B.Ziemann , R.F.Wetzell , D.Schumann & K.Brückweh Embedding the Human Sciences in Western Societies, 1880-1980. Reflections on Trends and Methods of Current Research; L.Raphael PART I: SOCIAL AND PENAL POLICY Contesting Risk. Specialist Knowledge and Workplace Accidents in Britain, Germany and Italy, 1870-1920; J.Moses Politics through the Back Door. Expert Knowledge in International Welfare Organizations; M.Lengwiler Rationalizing the Individual – Engineering Society. The Case of Sweden; T.Etzemüller The Neurosciences and Criminology: How Experts have moved into Public Policy and Debate; P.Becker PART II: DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY The Psychological Sciences and the 'Scientization' and 'Engineering' of Society in Twentieth-century Britain; M.Thomson Mental Health as Civic Virtue: Psychological Definitions of Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1900-1985; H.Oosterhuis Human Sciences, Child Reform and Politics in Spain, 1890-1936; T.Kössler Narcissism: Social Critique in Me-Decade America; E.Lunbeck PART III: POLLING, MARKETING, AND ORGANIZATIONS Hearing the Masses: The Modern Science of Opinion in the United States; S.Igo Observing the Sovereign. Opinion Polls and the Restructuring of the Body Politic in West Germany, 1945-1990; A.Kruke & B.Ziemann Consumers, Markets and Research: The Role of Political Rhetoric and the Social Sciences in the Engineering of British and American Consumer Society, 1920-1960; S.Schwarzkopf Business Organizations, Foundations, and the State as Promoters of Applied Social Sciences in the United States and Switzerland, 1890-1960; E.Walter-Busch Catholic Church Reform and Organizations Research in the Netherlands and Germany, 1945-1980; B.Ziemann & C.Dols Index

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Book SynopsisJonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation and monetary illiquidity, and the Bank of North America.Trade Review'In this fascinating and exhaustively researched study, Jonathan Chu explores how between 1783 and 1787 the thirteen former colonies lurched toward a new understanding of 'governing in freedom.' With marked difficulty, they struggled to add muscle to an existing frame work for 'a central government that transcended state sovereignty.' Chu has produced a very impressive piece of historical scholarship.' - Jonathan Lurie, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Rutgers University 'Stumbling Towards the Constitution is an ambitious reconsideration of the Confederation period of American history. Chu surveys a wide range of economic activity land speculation, banks, Atlantic trade, China trade, and more to explore the ramifications of the economic changes that accompanied the Revolution. He argues powerfully and persuasively that the strategies Americans devised to cope with debt, insolvency, and a dysfunctional monetary system forced them to frame questions of political economy in ways that led to more fundamental consideration of the constitutional powers they would formulate in 1787. The result is a new understanding of the where the economic powers embodied in the Constitution came from.' - Bruce H. Mann, Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPART I: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF INDEPENDENCE Independence, the United States and the Atlantic Community Reorienting Trade: The Origins of Sino-American Trade American Merchants in the Post-Revolutionary World Debt and Taxes: State Action, the Economy, and Individual Behavior Illiquidity, Depression, and Debt Litigation in Western Massachusetts PART II: FROM ILLIQUIDITY TO CONSTITUTIONALISM Paper Money: Defining Values, Negotiating Equity A Necessary Expedient: Monetary Stability and the Bank of North America The Bank of North America, A Dreadful Engine of Oppression The Unfinished Revolution: A Uniform System of Commercial Intercourse and Regulations

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Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book explores the experiences of gay men and their understanding of what it meant to be gay in the 20th Century: from when homosexuality was illegal though the less repressed but no less difficult eras of gay liberation and the HIV-AIDS epidemic.Trade ReviewWinner of The Raewyn Connell Prize 2010, awarded bienially for the best authored first monograph in Australian Sociology 'the most ambitious study of its kind...and one of the most enlightening' - Journal of Australian Studies '...a thoughtful and detailed work.' - Blaze 'Here is the tale of three waves of gay men - the oldest born in 1922 and the youngest in 1980. It shows just how central age is in social life and how queer worlds have been radically transformed in a very short period of time. It gives us hope. Rich in detail, uplifting and unfussy, this delightful book provides an uneven but undeniable story of progress.' - Ken Plummer, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Essex. Editor of Sexualities, and author of Intimate CitizenshipTable of ContentsIntroduction Collecting and Understanding Gay Life Stories The Coming-Out Stories of the Old Cohort The Coming-Out Stories of the Middle Cohort The Coming-Out Stories of the Young Cohort The 'Scene' Community Life Couple Relationships Friends and Family Life as an Old Gay Man Conclusion Appendix 1: Interview Schedule Appendix 2: The Age Cohorts and the Interviewees

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Book SynopsisChinese artists, activists, and netizens are pioneering a new order of pornographic representation that is in critical dialogue with global entertainment media. Jacobs examines the role of sex-positive feminists and queer communities to investigate pornography's afterglow (a state of crisis and decay within digital culture).Trade Review"Jacobs is the foremost scholar on Chinese pornography, especially in the field of female consumption of pornography. This book builds upon her previously published work but seeks to both both interrogate recent shifts in pornographic consumption and production and revisit some longer-standing themes from her earlier work. By placing pornography within this specific geographical and critical-theoretical landscape, this work breaks new ground and will have a significant impact on the fields of porn studies, LGBTQ studies, and visual culture studies." Sharif Mowlabocus, Senior Lecturer, University of Sussex, UK "The Afterglow of Women's Pornography in Post-Digital China envisions women's pornography as an imagined civil society that starts taking into account sexual difference, sex-positive feminisms, and various developments towards queer aesthetics. This book brilliantly documents the attitudes of disobedience, emotionality, erotic consciousness and open discussion proposed by young Chinese women, both from Mainland China and Hong Kong, whose aesthetics on pornography constitute an important aspect of women's ongoing struggle for identity, equality and legitimacy." - Petula Sik Ying Ho, Associate Professor, The University of Hong Kong "This book leads us through an intellectual and inspiring journey which wanders into the erotic lives of modern Chinese women. It challenges readers to reconsider the intricacies of different kinds of pornography, while reflecting on the emergence of a new civil society. The extraordinary ride into the hearts of women is full of surprising turns that will undoubtedly open up new debates." - Donna Chu, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong KongTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Women's Drifting Eyeballs and Porn Tastes 2. Wandering Scholars and the Teachings of Ghosts 3. Message on the Body in the Chinese Netsphere. 4. The Art of Failure as seen in Chinese Women's Boys' Love Fantasies 5. The Master Class of Left-Over Women Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAfter foreign military interventions, the French political and intellectual elites embraced regime change and launched an urgent programme of nation building. They rebuilt French national identity with whatever material was available, and created a vibrant new cultural and intellectual life.Table of ContentsIntroduction Contexts for Rebuilding Inventing a Language Finding the Symbols Workers and Intellectuals Regendering the Nation The Humanist Movement The Battle of Ideas Conclusion Bibliography Endnotes

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together contemporary popular entertainment, current political subjects, and medieval history and culture to investigate the intersecting and often tangled relations between politics, aesthetics, reality and fiction, in relation to issues of morality, identity, social values, power, and justice, both in the past and the present.Trade Review"This book asks us to consider the gaps between the real and the staged, between truth and performance. More compellingly, it asks us to think about whether we can ever know the difference, whether we are so caught in prison houses of textual manipulation that resistance is, finally, futile. The book looks to medieval narratives of conversion, parody, temptation, power, torture, and finds resonances (both continuities and discontinuities) in such contemporary spectacles as reality television shows, images of the Bush White House, and photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison. Sometimes wild, often audacious, at times funny, and with haunting moments, this collection is always provocative, and it will be much discussed." - Martin B. Shichtman, Eastern Michigan University "Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages stages a dazzlingly original, and a deeply provocative intervention at the intersections of past and present, high and low culture, scholarship and entertainment, and truth and fiction. The essays included here deftly interweave critical theory, medieval scholarship, and popular culture in ways that are both impassioned and informative. This collection shows how a period that is usually cast as distant and remote can provide lenses through which we can productively rethink our current preoccupations; likewise, the collection demonstrates how familiar cultural forms that we might be tempted to dismiss as mere ephemera can resonate richly with the medieval literary traditions that represent the foundations of our western intellectual heritage." - Anne Clark Bartlett, DePaul University "Contemporary entertainment, current politics and medieval history and culture are brought together in an attempt to investigate the intersecting relations between reality and fiction in relation to issues such as morality, identity, and justice, both in the past and the present." - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsThrough a Glass, Darkly; E.A.Joy& M.J.Seaman Medieval Presentism Before the Present; N.Partner Medieval Histories and Modern Realism: Yet Another Origin of the Novel; N.Partner Back to the Future: The Limits of Living in the Liminal Past; B.McCormick Torture, Inquisition, Medievalism, Reality, TV - Steve Guthrie The Crisis of Legitimation in George Bush's America and Lancastrian England; D.Kline Models of (Im)perfection: Parodic Refunctioning in Spike TV's The Joe Schmo Show and Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thopas; K.K.Bell Vexed Lies and Videotape: Truth, Authority, and the Media; M.K.Ramsey Sacrificing Fiction in The Quest for [the Real] King Arthur; M.J.Seaman& J.Green Outwit, Outplay, Outlast: Moral Lessons from Handlyng Synne and Survivor; C.Ho& J.Driggers Exteriority Is Not a Negation But a Marvel: Hospitality, Terrorism, Levinas, Beowulf; E.A.Joy 'She appears as brightly radiant as she once was foul': Medieval Conversion Narratives and Contemporary Makeover Shows; A.J.Weisl Wolves, Outlaws, and Enemy Combatants; M.E.Moore Coda: Opening Time: Psychoanalysis and Medieval Culture; M.Uebel Intertemporality; J.Jerome Cohen

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the trial of the entire military command of the Nazi power structure in Italy, prepared by the Allies following the Nuremberg mode, came to be replaced by a few contradictory trials of very minor significance. This resulted in an enormous historical misrepresentation of the Nazi occupation of Italy.Trade Review"Battini's excellent book tells a fascinating story of the immensely important trial against the entire Nazi military command in Italy for war crimes committed against civilians between 1943 and 1945. In short, of the Italian Nuremberg. Or rather, what would have been the Italian Nuremberg, because this trial never happened. Battini presents massive evidence on how the Allies, especially the British, between 1945 and 1947, worked on the project of setting up such a trial. Battini interestingly probes the crucial and embarrassing question of why and how the project was eventually abandoned, in the face of the changing political context in Europe. Two larger and mutually related questions loom over the work: one is the painful and contested process of constructing a shared memory, the second is the subject of seeking international justice for war crimes against humanity." - Marta Petrusewicz, Professor of History, Hunter College, City University of New York "The book deals with a recent and significant historical subject: the problem of seeking international justice for war crimes against humanity. These considerations are highly relevant today, in matters ranging from the atrocities committed during the war in ex-Yugoslavia, to trying despots from the state of Iraq. Battini is a historian of ideas, and concentrates on what he rightly calls the Italian deconstruction of memory in comparative perspective. Why have the Germans reached a reckoning day with their history, while the Italians have chosen the path of what Battini calls a voluntary collective amnesia ? What is the importance in general of the reconstruction of memory, or its absence?" - Paul Ginsborg, Professor of History, University of FlorenceTable of ContentsChronology Introduction Prologue: Trials and Lessons of History The Deconstruction of Memory Why the Maxi-Trial for War Criminals Was Never Held The Kesselring Trial Judiciary Oblivion and the Sins of Memory A Brutal Peace and the Nuremberg Consensus The 'Mirror' of Vichy Epilogue Without End

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the ways that ordinary people in town and country creatively define themselves, their families and their social networks. It explores inheritance strategies, personal possessions, attitudes to commemoration after death, the daily fashioning of identity and the interactions between imagination and daily life.Trade Review'Salter's strikingly original and intelligent new book explores how individuals in this period sought to articulate a sense of selfhood to themselves and others through a variety of textual and cultural transactions: to literally create themselves...The implications of this book are potentially wide-ranging, though it is likely to be of most value to social and cultural historians'. - Matthew Woodcock, Medium AevumTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Reconstructing Perception and Experience I: Evidence Reconstructing Perception and Experience II: Vocabularies Inheritance and Property Possessions Life Fashioning Death Fashioning The Creativity of Reading Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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