Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisThis book shows why the study of schooling matters to the history of twentieth-century Britain, integrating the history of education within the wider concerns of modern social history. Drawing on a rich array of archival and autobiographical sources, it captures in vivid detail the individual moments that made up the minutiae of classroom life. It focuses on elementary education in interwar London, arguing that schools were grounded in their local communities as lynchpins of social life and drivers of change. Exploring crucial questions around identity and belonging, poverty and aspiration, class and culture, behaviour and citizenship, it provides vital context for twenty-first century debates about education and society, showing how the same concerns were framed a century ago.Trade Review'Hester Barron puts the school back where it belongs, as the heart of communities, in the period when the primary school became the most significant and most appreciated state institution in most people's lives, a harbinger of later prized welfare-state institutions. The result is a vivid and eloquent social history of interwar London viewed through its children, their parents and their teachers.'Peter Mandler, Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of CambridgeThis fascinating study demonstrates just how many answers there can be to the question ‘what are schools for?’ and will be valuable to anyone with an interest in the history of childhood and education as well as those working on interwar Britain more broadly.The Journal of the Social History Society -- .Table of ContentsMap of Inner LondonIntroductionPart I School and community1 The school as a community2 The school in the communityPart II What were schools for?3 Preparing for the future4 Fighting poverty5 Brightening lives6 Making citizens7 Teaching morals8 A sense of placeConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the practice of scientific enquiry as it took place in the eighteenth-century home. While histories of science have identified the genteel household as an important site for scientific experiment, they have tended to do so via biographies of important men of science. Using a wide range of historical source material, from household accounts and inventories to letters and print culture, this book investigates the tools within reach of early modern householders in their search for knowledge. It considers the under-explored question of the home as a site of knowledge production and does so by viewing scientific enquiry as one of many interrelated domestic practices. It shows that knowledge production and consumption were necessary facets of domestic life and that the eighteenth-century home generated practices that were integral to ‘Enlightenment’ enquiry.Table of ContentsIntroduction: cultures of enquiry in the eighteenth-century British worldPart I1 Household materials and networked space 2 Tacit knowledge and keeping a recordPart II3 Collecting4 Observing5 ExperimentingPart III6 Personal experience and authority7 Re-examining the culture of enquiryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statements, Trials of the self shows that an increasing stress on psychological depth in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was not only important for elites, but also for common and illiterate people – sometimes even more so.Table of ContentsHow to do the history of the self: an introduction1 The self in court: procedures of conscience and confession2 Making reasonable selves: self-defence, honour and philosophical suicide3 Losing your self: magic, madness and other ways of losing control4 The tears of a killer: practicing sentimentalism and romanticism in criminal court5 The ambiguities of nature: self-talk as a challenge and as an opportunityConclusion: fragments of a history of the selfIndex

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Book SynopsisAfterlives of war documents the lives and historical pursuits of the generations who grew up in Australia, Britain and Germany after the First World War. Although they were not direct witnesses to the conflict, they experienced its effects from their earliest years. Based on ninety oral history interviews and observation during the First World War Centenary, this pioneering study reveals the contribution of descendants to the contemporary memory of the First World War, and the intimate personal legacies of the conflict that animate their history-making.Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Researcher1 The evidence of afterlives 2 Family transmissionPart II: Observer3 National narratives in the Centenary 4 Meeting in No Man’s Land: motives for remembrance – Michael Roper and Rachel Duffett Part II: Historian5 Fathers and the habits of home 6 Playing at war and being at war 7 Daughters, care and citizenship Part IV: Descendant8 Father and son on Bob’s war 9 Dysentery and the Anzac Legend10 Legacies of dysentery 11 Stomaching peace EpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisOut of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men’s insanity.Trade Review'An original contribution to our understanding of how gender, and especially masculinity, impacted the experience and representation of madness in Victorian Britain.'Katie Barclay, The American Historical Review'Out of His Mind builds upon and strengthens work already done in the history of science to destabilise gendered notions of scientific and medical authority.'Heather Ellis, Women's History Review'Amy Milne-Smith makes an important contribution to historical understandings of the multi-dimensional interactions between gender and mental health, encompassing the medical, social, attitudinal and cultural.'Leonard Smith, Cultural and Social History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Madmen in the attic?1 Men in care: the asylum2 Men in the community: homecare, doctor’s care, and travellers3 Personal shame: failures of morality and the will4 Madmen out of the attic: reputation, rage, and liberty5 Media panics: stories of violence, danger, and men out of control6 Degeneration and madness: inheritance, neurasthenia, criminals, and GPIEpilogue

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Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a renewed interest in the relationship between public health authorities and the public. Particular attention has been paid to ‘problem publics’ who do not follow health advice. This is not a new issue. As the chapters in this collection demonstrate, the designation of certain groups or populations as problem publics has long been a part of health policy and practice. By exploring the creation and management of these problem publics in a range of time periods and geographical locations, the collection sheds light on what is both specific and particular. For health authorities, publics themselves were often thought to pose problems, because of their behaviour, identity or location. But publics could and did resist this framing. There were, and continue to be, many problems with seeing publics as problems.Table of ContentsIntroduction: publics and their health – historical problems and perspectives – Alex Mold, Peder Clark and Hannah J. Elizabeth1 ‘Democracy trains its microscope’ on public health: intergovernmental relations, competing publics and negotiations at the grassroots – Jennifer Gunn2 ‘Dumping grounds for… human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74 – Michael Lambert 3 Socialism, health and the politics of identity: conversations from East Germany’s AIDS crisis – Johanna Folland4 Forgoing fat: food choice, disease prevention and the role of the food industry in health promotion in England, 1980–92 – Jane Hand 5 At the borders of the public: immigrant and migrant publics and the right to health – Beatrix Hoffman 6 The emergence of violence as a public health problem in Argentina – Martín Hernán Di MarcoAfterword: from Asiatic cholera to COVID-19 – the many publics of modern public health – Tom CrookIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book fills the long-standing void in the existing scholarship by constructing an empirical study of colonial governance and political culture in Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997.Using under-exploited archival and unofficial data in London and Hong Kong, it overcomes the limitations in the existing literature which has been written mainly by political scientists and sociologists, and has been primarily theoretically driven. It addresses a highly contested and timely agenda, one in which colonial historians have made major interventions: the nature of colonial governance and autonomy of the colonial polity. This book focusing on colonialism and the Chinese society in Hong Kong in a pivotal period will generate meaningful discussions and heated debates on comparisons between ‘colonialism’ in different space and time: between Hong Kong and other former British colonies; and between colonial and post-colonial Hong Kong.Trade Review'Timely and provocative, Mok’s deeply researched and compellingly argued book is a wake-up callto those politicians and academics who still embrace the erroneous “myth of political apathy andstability in Hong Kong” (p. 257) and fail to understand Hong Kong’s political culture throughits ongoing history of political activism. Covert Colonialism is essential reading for those interestedin Hong Kong history and politics, as well as in the evolving nature of colonial governance anddecolonization during the 20th century, the effects of which can still be felt today.'The China Quarterly -- .Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgementsIntroduction1. Constructing ‘public opinion’ through Town Talk and MOOD2. The Chinese as the official language movement3. The anti-corruption movement4. The campaign against telephone rate increases5. The campaign to reopen the Precious Blood Golden Jubilee School6. The changing immigration discourse and policy 7. The British Nationality Act controversy8. Overt public opinion surveys and shifting popular attitudes towards proposed and implemented constitutional reforms ConclusionSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. The books were written by young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists, many anonymously. Most of these pornographers wrote to survive, but some also relished the freedom to experiment that anonymity provided - men writing as women, and women writing as men - and some (Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller) went on to become influential figures in modernist literature. Dirty books tells the stories of these authors and their remarkable publishers: Jack Kahane of Obelisk Press and his son Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, whose catalogue and repertoire anticipated that of the more famous US publisher Grove Press. It offers a humorous and vivid snapshot of a fascinating moment in pornographic and literary history, uncovering a hidden, earlier history of the sexual revolution, when the profits made from erotica helped launch the careers of literary cult figures.Trade Review'Reay and Attwood tell the story of Obelisk and Olympia with admirable scholarly precision.'The Literary Review'Reay and Attwood’s chapter on Kahane’s Obelisk Press... is one of the best.'The Spectator'Avant-garde art has long been associated with the shock of the new but in Dirty Books, Barry Reay and Nina Attwood show the extent to which erotic fiction fuelled modernist writing in London, New York and Paris. Drawing on a motley cast of characters from Anaïs Nin to Alexander Trocchi, Dirty Books is a gripping account of sex, censorship and the avant-garde. ' Douglas Field, co-editor of James Baldwin Review and author of All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (OUP, 2015).‘By pushing the boundaries of legally and artistically valid expression, avant-garde literature often blurred the lines between art and pornography. But Reay and Attwood go further, arguing that even the sleaziest paperbacks from Obelisk and Olympia Press also contain unheralded moments of aesthetic brilliance. Filled with absolutely wild quotes from a plethora of titles and authors well beyond the modernist canon, Dirty Books just might be your guide to a whole new reading list!’David Church, Indiana University‘A short guide to the world of twentieth-century, English-language pornography where pseudonyms abounded, men wrote as women, women wrote as men, classics were eroticized, and new works were passed off as classics of the genre. Reay and Attwood describe a dizzying world where sex and money chased each other into books.’Lisa Z. Sigel, author of Governing Pleasures, Making Modern Love, and The People’s Porn'‘Dirty Books lays bare the secret history of the mid-century literary underground, where modernist classics and porn-for-hire traveled along the same clandestine transnational circuits. A unique combination of scholarly analysis and anecdotal wit, it promises to be the authoritative resource on this crucial strand of modern literary history.’Loren Glass, DEO of English at University of Iowa'Barry Reay and Nina Attwood's Dirty Books is proof-positive that the infamous have more fun. Maybe. Gathered in this clutch of microhistories of literary publishers and their coteries are tales elucidating the glittering and sometimes brutal oscillations between pornography and art in the period right before the sexual revolutions of the late 1960s.'Andy Campbell, USC Roski School of Art and Design -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Beginnings: Jack Kahane and Obelisk Press2 The syndicate: pornography for the private collector3 Olympia, Paris4 Repurposed pornography: the role of erotic classics5 Dirty books6 Sexual revolution: Olympia, New York7 Literature or pornography?ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisTaking a cue from revisionist scholarship on early modern vernacular architectures and their relationship to the classical canon, this book rehabilitates the reputations of a representative if misunderstood building typology – the eighteenth-century brick terraced house – and the artisan communities of bricklayers, carpenters and plasterers responsible for its design and construction. Opening with a cultural history of the building tradesman in terms of his reception within contemporary architectural discourse, chapters consider the design, decoration and marketing of the town house in the principal cities of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British Atlantic world. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of the history of architectural design and interior decoration specifically, and of eighteenth-century society and culture generally.Trade Review‘This is a fine book about the significant role of artisan house builders as architectural designers in the later Georgian period. When they did not exit their trades to become what earlier historians have ranked as ‘architects’, these artisan builders have remained shadowy figures. Ranging widely and with an even-handed command of material from both sides of the British Atlantic, especially giving Dublin due weight, Conor Lucey illuminates these people and their contributions to architectural design with insight, detail, clarity and humour.’ Peter Guillery, Bartlett School of Architecture, London‘Lucey’s fascinating book explores the role of the artisan in the still somewhat mysterious design processes behind the creation of the urban terraced house. Based on extensive new research it will enable us to place artisan-builders alongside other well-known designer-makers - such as print, furniture or ceramic specialists - in the period. Histories to date have focussed on the tradesman’s role in the construction of town houses but Lucey makes a compelling argument for their contribution to the design and decoration of both exteriors and interiors. In doing so he extends existing scholarship in exciting new directions enabling us more fully to understand the workings of the building trade across the second half of the long eighteenth century. The book’s scope is transatlantic and crucially Ireland for the first time, alongside England and America, is brought into discussions on the inter-connections across the eighteenth-century Atlantic building world.’Elizabeth McKellar, The Open University‘This is the first study of eighteenth-century century building activity which addresses the city house in Britain, Ireland and the American colonies with focus on London, Dublin and Philadelphia. This grand vista of urban domestic builders in the Atlantic world is mirrored in the range of scholarship that is brought to bear on the topic, a rich field of study brilliantly marshalled to provide the reader with a lucid, insightful and hugely stimulating panorama of new directions in architectural history. Lucey argues that the late eighteenth-century townhouse interior owed more to the plasterer and builder as agents of taste than it did to the sensibilities of its occupants and in so doing points up the builder’s facility for design and decoration. This book is an argument, a new apology for the builder, a broadside which asks us not to dumb down creative skill in the operative parts of architectural production. It is a book which will undoubtedly build reputation.’Professor Christine Casey, Trinity College Dublin‘In this book Conor Lucey sets out to rehabilitate the reputations of both the product (the town house) and the producer (the builder) and is concerned with rehabilitating the builder as an agent of taste as well as a figure of building production […] This book is an important addition to the study of the Dublin town house.’David Griffin, Irish Arts Review, Winter 2018/19‘From the middle of the eighteenth century through the 1830s, the brick row house became one of the most common urban building forms in the British Atlantic world. Artisan builders erected thousands of these rows of classically proportioned and ornamented town houses in the new streets, squares, and crescents of expanding cities as well as in smaller market and port towns in Great Britain, Ireland, and America […] In Building Reputations, Conor Lucey argues that this story has been misunderstood or mischaracterized in much of the historical literature on urban architecture, which has emphasized building production at the expense of building design […] In this informative book, he has rehabilitated the reputation of the artisan builder as a significant figure in shaping its decorative articulation.’Carl Lounsbury, caa.reviews, March 29 (2019)‘Building Reputations is a lively exploration of the world of the ‘Georgian’ builder, in particular the makers for the neo-classical townhouse. The book is also a welcome addition to the growing number of architectural investigations of the ‘Atlantic world’ of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the study of how ‘books and ideas’ crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic Ocean together with cargos of timber, bricks, cotton, sugar, furs or spices.’ Victoria Perry, Construction History Vol. 34, no. 1, 2019‘...a powerhouse of a book that finally rehabilitates the builder as a key player in the design and decoration of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-century terrace and row houses.’Colin Thom, The Burlington Magazine 'Building Reputations makes an important contribution not only to revisionist architectural history, but also to recent art and design histories that have sought to recuperate the complexity of workshop production and artisanal epistemology, and to acknowledge the critical capacity of craft.3 It adds builders to the orbit of better-known histories of artisanal trades such as cabinetmakers, ceramicists, and silver- and goldsmiths. For these reasons, it deserves to be read widely by anyone interested in the history of the articulation and practice of design in this period.'Stacey Sloboda, Journal of Design History'[This book] is one of the most insightful books on Irish architectural history to have been published in the past decade. Lucey's sophisticated, impressive, well-illustrated and well-written study is not just about Ireland. His study is impressively interdisciplinary, insightfully comparative as it engages in studies of London, Dublin, and Philadelphia and is deeply evidence based. It also pays due regard to previous scholarship and he deploys the appropriate quantum of theory and historiography in respect of aesthetics, architecture and design as well as urban development.' Brendan Twomey, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland'Going beyond the traditional presentation of the builder as solely involved in the production of the building, Lucey reveals how because the speculative builder does not neatly fit into this simplified role, he has been overlooked in the scholarship. […] In his rehabilitation of the speculative builder, Lucey brings together sources from architectural history, social history, and material culture, as well as economic and trade history. He paints a picture of a British Atlantic building world at the end of the 18th century that is nuanced and complex. […] While each chapter could be expanded into its own book, they can be easily read alone, as Lucey incorporates historiographic context throughout. [O]verall the book is very readable and will be useful for scholars of architecture, interior decoration, advertising, labour, material culture, and the British Atlantic world in the long 18th century.'Katherine Wheeler, Architectural Histories -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: a new apology for the builder1 Building reputations: a genteel life in trade2 Designing houses: the façade and the architecture of street and square3 Decorating houses: style, taste and the business of decoration4 Building sales: advertising and the property marketConclusion: the builder rehabilitated?Select BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of spectacles in the Victorian period. It examines how the Victorians shaped our understanding of functional visual capacity and the concept of 20:20 vision. Demonstrating how this unique assistive device can connect the histories of medicine, technology and disability, it charts how technology has influenced our understanding of sensory perception, both through the diagnostic methods used to measure visual impairment and the utility of spectacles to ameliorate its effects. Taking a material culture approach, the book assesses how the design of spectacles thwarted ophthalmologists’ attempts to medicalise their distribution and use, as well as creating a mainstream marketable device on the high street.Table of ContentsIntroducing Victorian spectacle wear 1 Early Victorian understandings of vision and spectacles, 1830–50 2 The ‘normal eye’ as seen through technology: a quest for medical control, 1850–1904 3 Challenging (ab)normalcy: expansion in manufacture, design, and access, 1851–1904 4 The limits of professionalism: medical practitioners, opticians and popular responses to sight loss, 1880–1904 5 Fashioning the eye and seeing, 1830–1904 Conclusion Index

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Book SynopsisFor nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible’s reminder that the poor are ‘always among us’. This volume explores the diverse range of ideas, institutions, and experiences early modern Europeans brought to bear in response to this biblical adage. Do good unto all traces the concept and practice of charity across the four major early modern Christian confessions – Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist – and over a wide range of geographical areas from Scotland to Switzerland and the Spanish Atlantic World. By bringing such a diverse set of localised studies into concert for the first time, this volume exposes the many intersections and tensions that arose between and within communities as they attempted to translate the ideal of charity into practice. This comparative approach shifts the focus from binary definitions of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor or ‘Catholic’ and ‘Protestant’. Instead, Do good unto all charts a new course for the study of charity beyond institutional poor relief, where the matrix of individual ideas and experiences can be fully appreciated.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Beyond poor relief: defining, implementing, and experiencing charity – Timothy G. Fehler and Jared B. ThomleyPart I Defining charity 1 Domingo de Soto and itinerant poverty: a mobile concept – Beatriz E. Salamanca2 No greater act of mercy: ‘Cellites’ and the ars moriendi in the fifteenth century – Abigail J. Hartman 3 Charity’s assurance: exhortation and election in seventeenth-century Scotland – Jared B. Thomley Part II Implementing charity 4 Legislation and poor relief: Bugenhagen and the Reformation in Braunschweig – Esther Chung-Kim 5 ‘Under the guise of Christian generosity’: Anabaptist responses to poverty in Reformed Zurich, 1600-1650 – David Y. Neufeld 6 Theatrical charity in the early modern Spanish world – Rachael Ball 7 ‘Especially unto those of the household of faith’: Menso Alting, discipline, and community in Emden’s social welfare – Timothy G. Fehler Part III Experiencing charity8 Household and hospital: negotiating social welfare and social discipline in Reformation Geneva – Kristen C. Howard 9 The Marillac family as charitable benefactors: family strategy and the rhetoric of poor relief in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France – Edward J. Gray 10 The pilgrim as temporary pauper: the changing landscape of hospitality on the Camino de Santiago, 1550–1750 – Elizabeth Tingle 11 Prostitution, repentance, and civic welfare in Renaissance Florence – Gillian JackIndex

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Book SynopsisThis timely collection examines representations of medicine and medical practices in international period drama television. A preoccupation with medical plots and settings can be found across a range of important historical series, including Outlander, Poldark, The Knick, Call the Midwife, La Peste and A Place to Call Home. Such shows offer a critique of medical history while demonstrating how contemporary viewers access and understand the past. Topics covered in this collection include the innovations and horrors of surgery; the intersection of gender, class, race and medicine on the American frontier; psychiatry and the trauma of war; and the connections between past and present pandemics. Featuring original chapters on period television from the UK, the US, Spain and Australia, Diagnosing history offers an accessible, global and multidisciplinary contribution to both televisual and medical history.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Katherine Byrne, Julie Anne Taddeo, and James Leggott Part I: Early modern professions and disease 1 Golden rats and sick empires: portraying medicine, poverty, and the bubonic plague in La Peste – José Ragas, Patricia Palma, and Guillermo González-Donoso2 Wellness, womanhood, and witchcraft in Outlander: televised historical portrayals of women’s shifting roles in medicine – Jennifer M. Fogel and Serenity Sutherland3 Avoiding ‘the faddlings of Dr Choake’: the professionalisation of medicine in Poldark – Barbara Sadler 4 ‘Infection was Mary’s reward’: Harlots and televising the realities of eighteenth-century English prostitution – Kristin Brig and Emily J. Clark Part II: Pioneers, heroes, and villains 5 Feminist doctors and medicine women: the lady physician in the American western – Jacqueline D. Antonovich 6 The Black doctor on the historical small screen: African American physicians in television period dramas – Kevin McQueeney7 When women were nurses: gender, nostalgia, and the making of historical heroines – Aeleah Soine8 Heroic childbirth and Call the Midwife – Katherine Byrne9 ‘Physician, heal thyself’: the good doctor of When the Boat Comes In – James Leggott Part III: Dissecting the body 10 ‘And when you touched my naked body … your fingertips running along my flesh … this was abuse, not science’: Victorian medicine in Showtime's Penny Dreadful – Julie Anne Taddeo11 The surgical gaze in the operating theatre: early twentieth-century surgery on screen – Marie Allitt12 Of gods, monsters, and men: science, faith, the law, and the contested body and mind in The Frankenstein Chronicles and The Alienist – Andrea Wright Part IV: 'Treating' the mind 13 Bad or mad?: Branwell Brontë, mental health, and alcoholism in Sally Wainwright’s To Walk Invisible – Sarah E. Fanning and Claire O’Callaghan14 ‘After I left England, they thought I was mad. But they taught me to use it – now it’s a gift’: representations of mental illness in the period dramas of Stephen Knight – Dan Ward15 Bitter living through science: melodramatic and moral readings of gay conversion therapy in A Place to Call Home – Gordon R. Alley-YoungAfterword – Jessica MeyerIndex

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Book SynopsisInsolent proceedings brings together leading scholars working on the politics, religion and literature of the English Revolution. It embraces new approaches to the upheavals that occurred in the mid-seventeenth century, in daily life as well as in debates between parliamentarians, royalists and radicals. Driven by a determination to explore the dynamic course and consequences of the civil wars and Interregnum, contributors investigate the polemics, print culture and everyday practices of the revolutionary decades, in order to rethink the period’s ‘public politics’. This involves integrating national and local affairs, as well as ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ culture, and looking at the connections between everyday activism and ideological endeavours. The book also examines participation by – and the treatment of – women from all walks of life.Trade Review'This colourful and lively collection of essays comprises a welcome festschrift to Ann Hughes, professor emerita of early modern history at Keele University,and a highly influential historian of religion, politics and gender during the English Revolution.'Andrew Hopper, University of Oxford, Parliamentary History (June 2023) -- .Table of ContentsPreface: Ann Hughes as historian, friend and mentor – Peter LakeIntroduction: rethinking public politics in the English Revolution – Peter Lake and Jason Peacey1 ‘Great conformitants’ and ‘right ambidexters’: puritans, conformity and the challenge of Laudianism – Anthony Milton2 Killing (Catholic) officers no crime? The politics of religious violence in England in 1640 – John Walter3 Anatomy of the General Rising: militancy and mobilisation in London, 1643 – David Como4 ‘In the hollow of his wooden leg’: the transmission of civil war materials, 1642–9 – Karen Britland5 Puritanism, parish and polemic in civil war London: the case of Thomas Bakewell – Elliot Vernon6 William Walwyn’s Montaigne and the struggle for toleration in the English Revolution – David Loewenstein7 An accursed family: the Scottish crisis and the Black Legend of the House of Stuart, 1650–2 – Thomas Cogswell8 Indemnity, sovereignty and justice in the army debates of 1647 – Sean Kelsey9 Milton and Winstanley: a conversation – Thomas N. Corns10 Women, print and locality: Richard Culmer and the practices of polemic during the English Revolution – Jason Peacey11 ‘Threshing among the people’: Ranters, Quakers and the revolutionary public sphere – Kate PetersIndex

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Book SynopsisThe 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in western accounts of the medium. Decolonizing images focuses on the country’s local visual heritage, continuing the urgent process of decolonizing the canon of photography. It presents a new account of the visual cultures produced and exhibited in Egypt by interpreting the camera’s ability to conceal as much as it reveals. The book moves from the initial encounters between local knowledge and western-led modernity to explore how the image intersects with the politics of representation, censorship, activism and aesthetics. It overturns Eurocentric understandings of the photograph through a compelling narrative of contemporary Egypt’s indigenous visual culture.Trade Review'That imperialism and photography are closely entwined is by now no secret; but how do we navigate and unpick that complex legacy today? In this engaging, accessible and important book, Ronnie Close introduces a series of compelling responses, using rich examples from Egyptian cultural production to destabilise and radically expand established histories of photography.'Benedict Burbridge, Professor of Visual Culture, University of Sussex‘Identifying the decolonial image as neither de-linked from the western historiography of photography nor constrained by the limitations of its frameworks of interpretation, Ronnie Close provides a compelling alternative reading of Egypt’s visual heritage. Tracing the decolonial across Egyptian photographic culture, this wide-ranging account demonstrates Dipesh Chakrabarty’s claim that our historical differences actually make a difference.’Justin Carville, Lecturer in Photography, IADT Dún Laoghaire -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: unruly photography1 Rethinking the histories of photography2 Decolonizing the lens3 National images4 Histories of the street5 Censorship gazes on female portraiture6 Contemporary lenses within EgyptConclusion: decolonial aesthetic futuresIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen we imagine life behind the high walls of the fortress-like prisons that were built and modified as the modern prison system was created in the mid-nineteenth century, we conjure up scenes where strict regulation prevailed to control people in body and in mind. An image that poses something of a paradox is that of mothers and their babies living in this carceral environment. This book looks behind the cell doors of these institutions to illuminate the experiences of this group of prisoners. The management of their health alongside the management of penal discipline posed complex conundrums to the prison system. Although rarely fully considered at policy level, this balancing act was negotiated by those who lived and worked in prisons on a daily basis.Table of ContentsList of figuresPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1 Contesting women’s health in the prison system2 Maternity care in prison3 Mothering in a carceral space4 Born in prison: a heritage of woe? Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the shared history of the French empire from the perspective of material culture in order to re-evaluate the participation of colonial, Creole, and indigenous agency in the construction of imperial spaces. The decentred approach to a global history of the French colonial realm allows a new understanding of power relations in different locales. Providing case studies from four parts of the French empire, the book draws on illustrative evidence from the French archives in Aix-en-Provence and Paris as well as local archives in each colonial location. The case studies, in the Caribbean, Canada, Africa, and India, each examine building projects to show the mixed group of planners, experts, and workers, the composite nature of building materials, and elements of different ‘glocal’ styles that give the empire its concrete manifestation.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Building the French empire1 Colonial enclosure: Fortification and castles on the Lesser Antilles 2 Ambitions to empire in India: Pondichéry as an imperial city in the Mughal state system 3 Decay and repair: Fort Royal as a perennial construction site on Martinique 4 Mixed society and African “Rococo”: ‘French’ style in Saint-Louis and on Gorée Island 5 Variegated engineering: The builders of the Caribbean empire 6 Community and segregation in Louisbourg: An ‘ideal’ colonial city in Atlantic Canada 7 Motley style: Affective buildings and emotional communities on Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Haiti Conclusion: The empire as a material construct Archival Sources Published Sources Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians – including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman – and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.Trade Review'This collection will be a landmark work across the disciplines of theatre studies, social and cultural history, and cultural studies broadly conceived.' Peter Bailey, Indiana University‘This welcome, and often entertaining, volume brings together a synergy often remarked on but seldom explored in a systematic way: politics and the theatre. Bringing together historians and theatre scholars, the editors are to be congratulated for producing a coherent and focused collection of essays, largely structured around the concept and practice of performance, which probe that relationship from both sides of the divide: the politics of theatre, and the theatrical nature of politics.’Matthew Roberts, Sheffield Hallam University, Parliamentary History, June 2019'This book constitutes an argument for theatre history as a rigorous interdisciplinary form of study that can remake social history through attentiveness to the meanings of performance. For that reason, it deserves to have an impact beyond that of Victorian Studies. It also constitutes one of the most original works of political history for a long time.'Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University, Social History'The authors and editors have collectively enriched the study of politics and performance and helped to carry it forward.'Joseph S. Meisel, Brown University, Journal of Victorian Culture -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: politics, performance and popular culture - Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey and Jeffrey RichardsPart I: Conceptualising performance, theorising politics1. 'To the last drop of my blood': melodrama and politics in late Georgian England' - Robert Poole2. The platform and the stage: the primary aesthetics of Chartism - Michael Sanders3. 'Bubbles of the day': the melodramatic and the pantomimic - Katherine Newey4. Theatrical hierarchy, cultural capital and legitimate/illegitimate divide - Caroline Radcliffe5. Performances for imagined communities: Gladstone, the national theatre and the contested didactics of the stage - Anselm Heinrich6. Women's suffrage and theatricality - Sos EltisPart II: Politics in performance7. English pantomime and the Irish question - Jill Sullivan8. 'Executed with remarkable care and artistic feeling': popular imperialism and the music hall ballet - Jane Pritchard and Peter Yeandle9. Drury Lane imperialism - Jeffrey RichardsPart III: The performance of politics10. 'Love, bitter wrong, freedom, sad pity, and lust of power': politics and performance in 1820 - Malcolm Chase11. Robert Peel - actor dramatist - Richard Gaunt12. The performance of protest: the 1889 dock strike on and off the stage - Janice Norwood13. Class, performance and socialist politics: the political campaigns of early labour leaders - Marcus MorrisIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement’s ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of art into a form of unmanageable anti-work. In four case studies devoted to surrealism’s transatlantic war on work, Susik analyses how artworks and texts by Man Ray, André Breton, Simone Breton, André Thirion, Óscar Domínguez, Konrad Klapheck, and the Chicago surrealists, among others, were pivotally impacted by the intransigent surrealist concepts of principled work refusal, permanent strike, and autonomous pleasure. Underscoring surrealism’s profound relevance for readers engaged in ongoing debates about gendered labour and the wage gap, endemic over-work and exploitation, and the vicissitudes of knowledge work and the gig economy, Surrealist sabotage and the war on work reveals that surrealism’s creative work refusal retains immense relevance in our wired world.Trade Review‘Most scholarly works on surrealism tend to ignore or minimize its strong political dimension, its radical anticapitalist attitude, its commitment to revolutionary human emancipation. This is not the case with this brilliant essay, which does not ignore the highly explosive, radical and subversive nature of the movement founded by André Breton in 1924.’Michael Löwy, Modernism/Modernity'Susik succeeds in eliciting tantalizing frictions around the relation of avant-garde movements to leftist politics.'Kaegan Sparks, Artforum'To read Susik here is to enjoy the generosity of her stimulating and seditious theoretical thoughts. Her Surrealist fever-dream history of subversion as sex machine invites you into a contemplation of your intimate erotic life, put in relationship to its oppression — and to find within that oppression not despair, but insinuations of a secret saboteur.'Joseph Nechvatal, The Brooklyn Rail'The text is richly illustrated with examples from a broad range of media, supporting the author’s central focus on the efficacy and enduring relevance of surrealist art practice in critiquing the role of work in art and society.'Sara Schumacher, Choice‘This original and enthralling work is not only indispensable for understanding the political and revolutionary core of surrealism but for rethinking strategies of resistance and creation in the present. With this lucid critical study, Abigail Susik recovers an insurgent surrealism at a moment when global capitalism is escalating the immiseration of human labour and when its productivist imperatives are devastating the planet.’Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University‘Abigail Susik’s brilliant account of surrealism’s sustained aesthetic subversion and outright attack on compulsive wage labour and its genealogy in the late-nineteenth century radically reorients our understanding of this influential international movement. With great erudition and conceptual savvy, she places surrealism in the social history of work-place rationalisation, labour struggles and the feminisation of white-collar labour. Surrealist automatism is shown to function like work-to-rule sabotage. Automatic writing emerges as a gendered subversion of the automation of the work place present in surrealist photography and in the eroticised imagery of the typewriter and the sewing machine. Surrealism can still inspire challenges to the nature and organisation of work in the information age.’Andreas A. Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University‘Charting the rejection of the so-called “work ethic” by the surrealists in their theory and art, this groundbreaking study sheds new light on the activities of the surrealist movement in the 1920s, 1930s and 1960s, across two continents. Abigail Susik’s deeply impressive investigative scope, combined with precise attention to historical, social and economic context, yields new interpretations of a wide range of work-resistant, pleasure-principled, anarcho-Freudian forays into poetry, painting, photography and sculpture by surrealists, drawing upon a truly extraordinary range of scholarly sources. Mentored by theorists from Marx to Marcuse, surrealist techniques and imagery are revealed as instruments of the saboteur. Meanwhile, urgent questions that are so rarely broached today with the kind of clarity given them by workshy surrealists and their ultra-left allies – who works, for what, at what cost and why bother? – are raised on every page of this illuminating book, demonstrating that surrealism lives, loves and plays, but does not labour: yesterday, today and tomorrow. Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Genealogy of the surrealist work refusal2 Surrealist automatism as symbolic sabotageSimone Breton and the gendered labour of the surrealist automatistTracing stenographic surrealism and the dame dactylographePsychic automatism and feminisation3 Óscar Domínguez: autonomy and autoeroticism‘These phosphorescent youths’: Domínguez and surrealism, 1934–35Domínguez’s Machine à coudre électro-sexuelle (1934-35)Operating Maldoror’s vamp machine Dysfunctional tools in Domínguez’s anti-work oeuvre4 Direct action surrealism in ChicagoPrologue: activist avant-garde‘Incendiary time bomb’: The Rebel Worker (1964–66)Robert Green, Gallery Bugs Bunny, and Chicago automatismChicago surrealism and Herbert Marcuse contra the performance principleEpilogue: override dysfunctions and the ‘Klapheck computer’Index

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Book SynopsisThis book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.Table of ContentsNotes on contributors1 The common writer in history – Martyn Lyons2 Writings on the walls: approaches to graffiti in the early modern Hispanic world – Antonio Castillo Gómez3 ‘No more for Now or Praps Never’: the meaning and function of pauper writing in Britain, 1750s to early 1900s – Steven King4 Common writers in German-speaking countries from the eighteenth to the twentieth century as agents of a language history from below – Stephan Elspaß5 Narrating injuries and injustices: life stories in the struggle for working-class rights in Britain, 1820-1945 – T. G. Ashplant6 Music and affective signalling in an immigrant letter from 1844 – David A. Gerber7 Pen, paper and peasants: the rise of vernacular literacy practices in nineteenth-century Iceland – Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon and Davíð Ólafsson8 Questioning ‘the common writer’: ordinary writings from the Emagusheni trading station, Pondoland, 1880-84 – Liz Stanley9 Madlands: Vincenzo Rabito as a writer – David Moss10 Copying, citing and creative rewriting: the transmission of texts and ideas in Finnish handwritten newspapers – Kirsti Salmi-Niklander and Risto Turunen11 Choreographing correspondences: how the state shaped soldiers’ mail in the US and Red Armies during the Second World War – Brandon Schechter12 ‘Dear Prime Minister’: the rhetoric of apology and affiliation in letters to Robert Menzies, Australian Prime Minister, 1949-66 – Martyn LyonsSelect bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume provides a new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It examines contraceptives as commodities and demonstrates the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill. -- .

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Book SynopsisThis book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War. -- .

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Book SynopsisWhat would you wear to war? How would you dress for a winter mission in the open cockpit of a Russian bomber plane? At a fashion show in Occupied Paris? Singing in Harlem, or on fire watch in Tokyo..? Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is a unique, illustrated insight into the experiences of women worldwide during World War Two and its aftermath. The history of ten tumultuous years is reflected in clothes, fashion, accessories and uniforms. As housewives, fighters, fashion designers or spies, women dressed the part when they took up their wartime roles. Attractive to a general reader as well as interesting to a specialist, Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 focuses on the experiences of British women, then expands to encompass every continent affected by war. Woven through all cultures and countries are common threads of service, survival, resistance and emotion. Historian Lucy Adlington draws on interviews with wartime women, as well as her own archives and costume collection. Well-known names and famous exploits are featured and many never-before-told stories of quiet heroism. You'll indulge in luxury fashion, bridal ensembles and enticing lingerie, as well as thrifty make-do-and-mend. You'll learn which essential garments to wear when enduring a bomb raid and how a few scraps of clothing will keep you feeling human in a concentration camp. Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2 is richly illustrated throughout, with many previously unpublished photographs, 1940s costumes and fabulous fashion images. History has never been better dressed.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the recipes for Mrs Rooke's Very Good Plum Cake and Lady Harbord's Marigold Cheese. Learn how to preserve gooseberries as green as they grow' and make Sir Theodore Colladon's Peace Flower Syrup. Feast on Lady St Quintin's Dutch Pudding and Mrs Eall's Candied Cowslips. Then wash it all down with Lady Strickland's Strong Mead or some Right Red Dutch Currant Wine. These are just some of the delightful Georgian recipes found in the receipt books of Sabine Winn, the eighteenth-century Swiss-born wife of Sir Rowland Winn, 5th Baronet Nostell of the impressive Palladian mansion, Nostell Priory in Yorkshire. Using centuries-old cookbooks, newspaper clippings, old family recipes and contributions from noble friends, Lady Winn created a wonderfully eclectic collection of mouth-watering dishes that are presented in this new volume for modern readers to enjoy. Mistrustful of English doctors, Sabine's receipt books also contain scores of remedies for a whole series of complaints, such as: The Best Thing in the World for Languishing Spirits or Fatigue after a Journey; Mrs Aylott's Excellent Remedy for Colic; Aunt Barrington's Cure for Pleurisy; An Approved Medicine to Drive the Scurvy or any other Ill Humour out of a Man's Body; and A Diet Drink to Cure all Manner of Hurts and Wounds.

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Book SynopsisMost people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was caught lurking in the shadows beneath the Houses of Parliament. But what if it wasn't like that at all? How was it that a group of prominent, disaffected Catholics were able to plot for months with apparent impunity? How could they openly rent a house next door to the House of Lords and use it as their base - right under the nose of the leading spymaster of the age, Robert Cecil? How could they have hacked a tunnel towards their target and dispose of tonnes of spoil without alerting anyone - and why is there no record of anyone ever having seen such a tunnel? This book explores the idea that the government was not only aware of what the plotters were up to long before Fawkes' arrest, but that agent-provocateurs may have given them a helping hand - or have even instigated the plot themselves.

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Book SynopsisAre you a fan of the undead? Watch lots of Mummy, zombie and vampire movies and TV shows? Have you ever wondered if they could be 'real'? This book, _A History of the Undead_, unravels the truth behind these popular reanimated corpses. Starting with the common representations in Western Media through the decades, we go back in time to find the origins of the myths. Using a combination of folklore, religion and archaeological studies we find out the reality behind the walking dead. You may be surprised at what you find.

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Book SynopsisThis remarkable book traces the quest for the truth about the Holocaust in Lithuania by two ostensible enemies: Rūta a descendant of the perpetrators, Efraim a descendant of the victims. Rūta Vanagaitė, a best-selling Lithuanian writer, was motivated by her recent discoveries that some of her relatives had played a role in the mass murder of Jews and that Lithuanian officials had tried to hide the complicity of local collaborators. Efraim Zuroff, a noted Israeli Nazi-hunter, had both professional and personal motivations. He had worked for years to bring Lithuanian war criminals to justice and to compel local authorities to tell the truth about the Holocaust in their country. The fact that his maternal grandparents were born in Lithuania and that he was named for a great-uncle who was murdered with his family in Vilnius with the active help of Lithuanians made his search personal as well. Journey with an Enemy exposes the significant role played by local political leaders and the prewar Lithuanian administration that remained in place during the Nazi occupation in implementing the Nazis’ Final Solution. It also tackles the sensitive issue of the motivation of thousands of ordinary Lithuanians in the murder of their Jewish neighbors. At the heart of the book, these are the issues that Rūta and Efraim discuss, debate, and analyze as they crisscross the country to visit dozens of Holocaust mass murder sites in Lithuania and neighboring Belarus. During the journey, they searched for neglected graves, interviewed eyewitnesses, and looked for traces of the rich Jewish life that had existed in hundreds of Jewish communities throughout Lithuania. This compelling book recounts their harrowing journey.Trade ReviewThis is a painful and important book—painful because so much of it consists of excruciating eyewitness accounts to the torment inflicted on Lithuanian Jews by their fellow citizens, and important because so little has appeared in English on not only this terrible dimension of the Holocaust, but also the reluctance, even refusal, of the descendants of the killers to acknowledge their role in the murders all these years later. The account of the Lithuanian government’s vacillations in dealing with the nation’s past is particularly eye-opening. -- Peter Hayes, author of Why? Explaining the HolocaustOur People is an immensely valuable addition to our knowledge about the genocidal murder of Lithuanian Jews. The authors’ remarkable investigation has brought to light the active role played by Lithuanian citizens, often with minimal oversight by Nazi occupiers, at hundreds of killing sites. It will serve as a powerful wake-up call for grappling with the complicit legacy of World War II. -- Yehuda Bauer, Holocaust Historian, Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem

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Book SynopsisTo limit executive power, the Founding Fathers created fixed presidential terms of four years, giving voters regular opportunities to remove their leaders. Americans also discovered more dramatic paths for disempowering--or coming razor-close to removing--chief executives: undermining the president's authority, a preemptive strike to derail a presidential candidacy, assassination, impeachment, resignation, and declaration of inability. Although the United States has gone decades without assassination or resignation, the most dramatic forms of presidential removal, getting rid of a president or a potential president is a political reality-just ask not president Hillary Clinton.How To Get Rid of a President presents the dark side of the nation's history, from the Constitutional Convention through the aftermath of the shocking 2016 election, a stew of election dramas, national tragedies and presidential exits mixed with party intrigue, political betrayal and backroom scheming. It is a briskly paced, darkly humorous voyage through historical events relevant to today's headlines, highlighting the many ways that presidents have been undermined and nearly kicked out, how each method of removal offers opportunities and dangers for the republic and the thorny ethical issues that surround the choice to resist, disobey, or eject a president.

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Book SynopsisA history of mystic resistance and liberation and of five women who transcended the expected to transform America. For centuries, women who emerge as mystic leaders have played vital roles in American culture. For just as long, they’ve been subjugated and ridiculed. Today, women and others across the nation are once again turning to their mystic powers to #HexThePatriarchy and help fight the forces that seem bent on relegating them to second-class citizenry. Amid this tumult, Lucile Scott looks to the past and the stories of five women over three centuries to form an ancestral spiritual coven: Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans; Cora L. V. Scott, nineteenth-century Spiritualist superstar; Helena Blavatsky, mother of Theosophy; Zsuzsanna Budapest, feminist witch and founder of Dianic Wicca; and Marianne Williamson, presidential candidate and preacher of the New Age Gospel of Love. Each, in their own ways, defied masculine preconceptions about power. A scathing queer feminist history and a personal quest for transcendence, An American Covenant opens our eyes to the paths forged by women who inspired the nation in their own times—and who will no longer be forgotten or silenced in ours.Trade ReviewAn Autostraddle fall book to look out for A Lambda Literary most anticipated LGBTQ book of October “Journalist Scott delivers an in-depth look at five ‘feminist mystics’ from American history in her provocative debut…[and] reveals how the female leaders of these movements have risen to prominence and been repressed by the powers that be…In addition to biographical sketches of each woman, Scott provides the historical context for their movements, and details her own search for identity and spiritual solace amid personal turmoil…Scott writes with blunt honesty, a sharp eye for detail, and a strong sense of purpose. The result is an impassioned tribute to the perseverance and radicalism of female spiritual leaders in America.” —Publishers Weekly “In a moment when witches are going mainstream and stepping up to hex corrupt and powerful men, Lucile Scott’s An American Covenant, which centers on five witchy women who influenced American spirituality and culture, couldn’t be more timely to read.” —Bustle “[An American Covenant]’s narrative is focused, its prose is sharp, and the timing of its release—on the eve of an election that has millions worrying over the nation’s soul—is impeccable.” —Washington Independent Review of Books “This book is about another kind of sisterhood: the witchy kind. A reporter on human rights and international health, writer Scott brings her journalist skills to rendering the lives of five ‘mystic’ women who each shaped American culture in some way. Marie Laveau, Cora L. V. Scott, Helena Blavatsky, Zsuzsanna Budapest, and Marianne Williamson all spoke—and hexed—truth to power. Even though they lived over the span of 300 years and weren’t actually in a coven together, Scott argues that these five women all powerfully defied the patriarchy, and makes a compelling case for knowing their fascinating stories.” —Shondaland “Poetic and vulnerable…With An American Covenant, Lucile Scott has unearthed and cohered tales of a particular feminine and queer counterculture across centuries, deftly navigating historical storytelling in which many details have moldered with the years.” —Guernica Magazine “An American Covenant is potent, important, invigorating and even a little spooky. In this delicious blend of memoir and ethnography, Scott has taken us down a rabbit hole that old, crusty, colonial history books should’ve given us should they only have been so honest. I devoured this book, learned a great deal about little known people who shaped the world fiercely, and even discovered a good bit about myself. This is one hell of a book!” —Mira Ptacin, award-winning author of Poor Your Soul and The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna “As someone who’s long tried to resist the ‘woo,’ An American Covenant was an eye opening and delightful read. It beautifully strikes a balance between modern day feminism and ancient mysticism that gives all of us permission to embrace the unknown to better shape today’s world.” —Franchesca Ramsey, host of MTV Decoded and author of Well, That Escalated Quickly “Journalist Lucile Scott writes the way Van Gough painted; with swirling use of vivid, colorful prose lavished onto a canvas of dreamy sequences, An American Covenant culminates into a gorgeous work of art worthy of its own exhibition. Scott escorts us along her time-traveling journey, breathing new life into pathways long since forgotten, while showcasing five spectacular women—all mystics, whose influence on our history and inroads into dismantling the patriarchal power structure have never been fully honored. Until now. An absolutely enchanting and enlightening read.” —Victoria Laurie, New York Times bestselling author of Ghoul Interrupted and Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls “[Lucile] is the Anthony Bourdain of mysticism.” —Brian Vines, BRIC Media “Lucile Scott has her finger on an important pulse point, a hidden history that flows like a through line in American history. Women mystics have been a transformative underground from our earliest beginnings…and it continues.” —Marianne Williason, author of A Return to Love and A Politics of Love

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Book SynopsisChronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation. Chronicles is a book literally risen from the ashes-beginning in 2008 after her home burned to the ground-and collectively is an accounting of Winona's personal path of recovery, finding strength and resilience in the writing itself as well as in her work. Long awaited, Chronicles is a labour of love, a tribute to those who have passed on and those yet to arrive.

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Book SynopsisIn 1884, the Canadian government enacted a ban on the potlatch, the foundational ceremony of the Haida people. The tradition, which determined social structure, transmitted cultural knowledge, and redistributed wealth, was seen as a cultural impediment to the government’s aim of assimilation.The tradition did not die, however; the knowledge of the ceremony was kept alive by the Elders through other events until the ban was lifted. In 1969, a potlatch was held. The occasion: the raising of a totem pole carved by Robert Davidson, the first the community had seen in close to 80 years. From then on, the community publicly reclaimed, from the Elders who remained to share it, the knowledge that has almost been lost.Sara Florence Davidson, Robert’s daughter, would become an educator. Over the course of her own education, she came to see how the traditions of the Haida practiced by her father—holistic, built on relationships, practical, and continuous—could be integrated into contemporary educational practices. From this realization came the roots for this book.Trade ReviewIn 1969, Sara’s father Robert raised a totem pole in the community, demonstrating a commitment to tradition and stitching together stories and practices from community Elders that helped to honour traditional wisdom and revive Indigenous knowledge. In recounting how her father learned traditions and took up totem carving and potlatching, Sara has raised a new pole with this book, and shares knowledge like gifts at a potlatch. Anyone reading this work will feel like they’ve been paid to witness what Indigenous knowledge and pedagogy looks like. We are blessed to have Potlatch as Pedagogy; reading it is truly nourishing. Sara shows us through lucid storytelling and collaborative remembering that Indigenous people are resilient and with commitment can heal from past trauma, revive traditions, reinterpret them for application in the contemporary moment, and in the process make ourselves whole again. -- Dr. Jean-Paul Restoule, Professor and Chair, Indigenous Education, University of VictoriaAn uplifting, inspiring, and insightful book. Indigenous pedagogy is a developing field of study and practice to which this work is a valuable contribution. Given that Indigenous cultural revitalization and celebration is frequently localized in regard to community and national relevance, this book’s focus on Haida is essential. Davidson and Davidson offer readers an important exploration of how one nation’s culture, knowledge, and protocols can inform pedagogy for the better. -- Dr. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor, University of ManitobaThis is not a book to be read quickly; it requires reflection to fully appreciate its content, purpose, and value. But time spent with Potlatch as Pedagogy will connect you with the Davidsons’ stories and enrich your understanding of Haida knowledge, culture, and historical struggles; and stimulate thought for considering how Indigenous knowledge, storytelling, and pedagogies could be included in educational practices.Highly Recommended -- Anita Miettunen * CM Association *These nine sk’ad’a principles can serve as the threads to strengthen our teaching practice. As educators we have a great responsibility to learn and teach Indigenous history and knowledge. But we can also weave Indigenous pedagogy into our everyday teaching practice. Potlatch as Pedagogy is an accessible, engaging and heartfelt work. * ETFO Voice *

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social aspects of Bahamian society between the early 19th and mid-20th centuries, advancing our knowledge of Bahamian history and helping to locate the Bahamas within the regional and historical context of the West Indies. It shows how, despite the absence of sugar and a commercial rather than agricultural economy, the Bahamas' social development bears great similarities to other countries of the Caribbean in terms of the extreme poverty experienced, the oppressive socioeconomic conditions and acute racial and social divisions that developed in the post-emancipation era. The first part of the book details life and culture within the black community and includes chapters on the colored middle class in the late 19th to mid-20th century, the role of women and aspects of African-Bahamian cultures during the same time. The middle section underscores the effects of Prohibition, including blockade running and alcohol tourism, and the impact of traditional tourism on Bahamian society. The final part of the book covers the historical events that arose out of the growing dissatisfaction among blacks with respect to racism and political and economic marginalization, including the riot of 1937 and the strikes of 1942 and 1958.

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Book SynopsisA historically based, first-hand report of contemporary homosexuality in Cuban society and cultureTrade Review"[This book] is sure to upset both sides of the Cuban Question, which speaks well for the author's thoroughness and his open-mindedness...adding to [its] value as a resource on gay Cuban life is a comprehensive bibliography, an essay on santeria by Tomas Fernandez Robaina, and the 'Manifesto of Gay and Lesbian Association of Cuba.'" --Lambda Book ReportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. An Introduction to Contemporary Cuba 2. Machismo and Homosexuality before the Revolution 3. Institutionalized Homophobia 4. Homosexuality and the Law 5. Homosexuality and Sexual Education in the 1980s 6. The Erosion of Traditional Machismo 7. Gay Life in Havana Today 8. The Impact of AIDS 9. An Imperfect Revolution in an Imperfect World Appendix A: Cuban Sexual Values and African Religious Beliefs Tomas Fernandez Robaina Appendix B: El Pecado Original Pablo Milanes Appendix C: Manifesto of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Cuba Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how the East German Writers Union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community. In the German Democratic Republic words and ideas mattered, both for legitimizing and criticizing the regime. No wonder, then, that the ruling SED party created a Writers Union to mold what writers publicly wrote and said. Its chief task was ideological: creating a socialist and antifascist culture. But it was also supposed to advance its members' professional interests and enable them to act as public intellectuals with a say in the direction of socialism. Many writers demanded that it pursue this second function as well, which brought it into conflict with the SED. This book explores how the union became a site for the contestation of writers' roles in GDR society with consequences well beyond the literary community. Union leaders, pressured by the SED or the secret police, usually acquiesced in enforcing regime demands, but by the 1980s many authors had adapted to the rules of the game, exploiting theirunion membership to insulate themselves from reprisal for their carefully worded critiques and in so doing beginning to break down limitations on public speech. The book explores how and why in the 1970s the Writers Union helped normalize relations between writers and state, yet over the course of the 1980s inadvertently aided the expansion of permissible speech, ultimately helping destabilize the East German system. Thomas W. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Central Missouri.Trade ReviewAn account of the complex and evolving relationship between the ruling party, the Stasi and the Writers Union. * EUROPEAN HISTORY QUARTERLY *Goldstein expertly picks apart the East German Writers Union during the GDR . . . . * H-NET SOCIALISMS *[A] strong contribution to our understanding of cultural politics in the GDR. . . . Goldstein's book is a nuanced addition to the scholarship on the role of intellectuals and everyday life in East Germany. A great resource for graduate students and, because of Goldstein's admirably declarative prose, undergraduate students trying to get a basic sense of current research. . . . [W]ell researched, thorough, and judicious . . . . -- Curtis Swope * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *An intriguing read. The diversity of perspectives is a commendable achievement, and the range of meaningful and fruitful discussions of mostly uncanonical materials proves that there is a lot still to discover even for an academic target audience that already has a substantial knowledge of the GDR and its cultural sphere. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Goldstein comes to the important and reasonable conclusion that it was not socialism that caused the collapse of East Germany, but governmental intolerance of voices suggesting how better to achieve a socialist state. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction German Writers Associations through 1970 Socioeconomic Functions The Era of No Taboos? 1971-75 A Disciplining Instrument, 1976-79 Defending Peace, Defining Participation, 1979-83 Years of Resignation, 1983-85 Glasnost in the GDR? 1985-89 Coming Full Circle, 1989-90 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades: even today, an open-ended, unfinished journey. On October 3, 1990, just a year after the Berlin Wall fell, the German Democratic Republic was absorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany, officially ceasing to exist. What was the GDR and how do we remember it? According to the dominant Western narrative, it was a country that brought neither unity nor justice nor freedom to its citizens. But if so, why does a virtual wall still seem to exist in Germany today between the erstwhile citizens of the GDR and FRG? The GDR very much remains in the public debate, and while political integration is well on its way, the cultural integration of the two former states has proven much more challenging. This volume analyzes the culturaltransformation - or lack thereof - that has followed political unification. The contributions are interdisciplinary: essays on history and politics provide a framework and others on art, film, literature, museums, music, and education provide specific examples. These case studies allow us to examine the state of unification beyond statistics, opinion polls, and glib generalizations. The volume, then, is a reassessment of the journey Germans in East and West have taken during the past two and a half decades. Even today, it is an open-ended, unfinished journey. But such journeys tend to be the most interesting. Contributors: Kerstin Barndt, Stephen Brockmann, Michael Dreyer, Andreas Eis, April A. Eisman, Peter Hayes, Franziska Lys, Charles S. Maier, Andreas Niederberger, Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Daniel Ortuno-Stühring. Franziska Lys is Professor of German at Northwestern University. Michael Dreyer is Professor in the Institute for Political Science at the University of Jena.Trade ReviewThe essays succeed both in presenting a mass of material and in raising questions that will interest anyone concerned with contemporary Germany...A very good basis for a student seminar at either undergraduate or graduate level. * JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction: United Politics-Divided Culture? - Franziska Lys and Michael Dreyer Lost in Transition: Reflections on the Spectral History of the GDR - Charles S. Maier Reconstituting the Federal Republic? Constitutional Law and Politics before and since 1989 - Andreas Niederberger East German Literature and Reunification: Continuities and Discontinuities - Stephen Brockmann The Afterlife of the GDR in Post-Wall German Cinema - Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien Exhibiting 1989/2009: Memory, Affect, and the Politics of History - Kerstin Barndt Reexamining the Staatskünstler Myth: Bernhard Heisig and the Post-Wall Reception of East German Painting - April A. Eisman East German Orchestras and Theaters: The Transformation since the Wende - Daniel Ortuno-Stühring What Do German High School Students Think about the GDR? Memory Culture between Glorification and Evaluation - Andreas Eis The Ongoing Significance of East Germany and the Wende Narrative in Public Discourse - Michael Dreyer Epilogue: The Wende and the End of "the German Problem" - Peter Hayes Notes on the Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult.Trade Review “... expertly edited ... [this book] offers the reader an impressive, scholarly, seminal, thoughtful, and thought-provoking series of observations, assessments, and interpretations.”“ · The Midwest Book Review “Advocates of a linkage between cultural studies and international history will find much to interest them in this book...The role of culture in international history has increasingly been accepted in the academic community as a crucial topic of study. A new generation of scholars, in a challenge to more traditional historians, has posted its theses at Wittenberg. Let the debate continue, and the reformation begin." · Journal of Cold War Studies "Overall, this is a skilfully constructed collection which fulfils the ambitions of the editors in offering an insightful introduction to this emergent field. (It is also particularly useful in mediating the work of continental, and notably German, scholars to the Anglophone world.) ‘Culturalist’ work in international history has rejuvenated the sub- discipline and has created new opportunities for productive interdisciplinary interchange" · European History QuarterlyTable of Contents List of Illustrations Editors’ Preface List of Contributors PART I: METHODOLOGY Introduction: On the Diversity of Knowledge and the Community of Thought: Culture and International History Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht Chapter 1. The Power of Culture in International Relations Beate Jahn PART II: CULTURE AND THE STATE Chapter 2. The Great Derby Race: Strategies of Cultural Representation at Nineteenth-Century World Exhibitions Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 3. Manliness and “Realism”: The Use of Gendered Tropes in the Debates on the Philippine-American and Vietnam Wars Fabian Hilfrich Chapter 4. A Family Affair? Gender, the U.S. Information Agency, and Cold War Ideology, 1945-1960 Laura A. Belmonte PART III: CULTURAL TRANSMISSION, NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS Chapter 5. France and Germany after the Great War: Businessmen, Intellectuals and Artists in Non-Governmental European Networks Guido Müller Chapter 6. Small Atlantic World: U.S. Philanthropy and the Expanding International Exchange of Scholars after 1945 Oliver Schmidt Chapter 7. Atlantic Alliances: Cross-Cultural Communication and the 1960s Student Revolution Philipp Gassert Chapter 8. Forecasting the Future: Future Studies as International Networks of Social Analysis in the 1960s and 1970s in Western Europe and the United States Alexander Schmidt-Gernig PART IV: COMMENTS AND CRITICISM OR WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? Chapter 9. Cultural Approaches to International Relations – A Challenge? Volker Depkat Chapter 10. States, International Systems, and Intercultural Transfer: A Commentary Eckart Conze Chapter 11. “Total Culture” and the State-Private Network: A Commentary Scott Lucas Chapter 12. Gender, Tropes, and Images: A Commentary Marc Frey Chapter 13. Internationalizing Ideologies: A Commentary Seth Fein PART V: ANNOTATED SOURCES Chapter 14. The Invention of State and Diplomacy: The First Political Testament of Frederick III, Elector of Brandenburg (1698) Volker Depkat Chapter 15. The Rat Race for Progress: A Punch Cartoon of the Opening of the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition Wolfram Kaiser Chapter 16. Race and Imperialism: An Essay from the Chicago Broad Ax Fabian Hilfrich Chapter 17. A Document from the Harvard International Summer School Scott Lucas Chapter 18. Max Lerner’s “Germany HAS a Foreign Policy” Thomas Reuther Chapter 19. Excerpt from Johan Galtung’s “On the Future of the International System” Alexander Schmidt-Gernig Chapter 20. The “Children and War” Virtual Forum: Voices of Youth and International Relations Marie Thorsten Index

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