Social and cultural history Books

Book SynopsisDrawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of the most popular recreations in England, not just among the working classes but even (to some extent) among the middle and upper classes. -- .Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsGeneral editor's forewordAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The origin of Darts2 The game of darts in England 1900-19183 Darts, brewery leagues and the improved public house 1900-19394 The organisation and standardisation of darts in the interwar years5 The darts industry from the late nineteenth century to 19396 The darts craze of the 1930sConclusionAppendicesA. Declared aims of the National Darts AssociationB. Official National Darts Association rulesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the history of sanatoria and of winter sports between 1860 and 1914 in Switzerland. This book offers an overall view of the growth of health and sports tourism in Switzerland.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors introductionIntroduction 1. The quest for health in the Alps2. Davos3. St Moritz4. Arosa5. Leysin6. Grindelwald7. Transfer of Technology8. Who were the first winter sports men and womenConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book contends that Ireland's Magdalen laundries chiefly exist in the public mind at the level of story (cultural representation and survivor testimony) rather than history (archival history and documentation). -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The politics of sexual knowledge: The origins of Ireland’s containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931)Part 1: The Magdalen Asylum and history: Mining the archiveChapter 1 - The Magdalen in nineteenth-century IrelandChapter 2 - The Magdalen Asylum and the State in twentieth-century IrelandPart 2 :The Magdalen Laundry in cultural representation: Memory and storytelling in contemporary IrelandChapter 3 - Remembering Ireland’s architecture of containment: “Telling” stories on stage, Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed and Stained Glass at SamhainChapter 4 - (Ef)facing Ireland’s Magdalen survivors: Visual representations and documentary testimonyChapter 5 - The Magdalene Sisters: Film, fact, and fiction Chapter 6 - Monuments, Magdalens, memorials: Art installations and cultural memoryConclusion: History, cultural representation, . . . action? Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMarching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that popular music and mass protest can go hand in hand. -- .Table of ContentsContentsList of illustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Origins and contexts2. Critical responses to Rock Against Racism3. Rock Against Racism and the Socialist Workers Party4. Rock Against Racism, youth culture and multiculturalism5. Rock Against Racism, culture and social struggle6. Aftermath7. ConclusionsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a unique and compelling study of the worldviews and factors that promoted, or indeed opposed, antisemitism amongst Catholics in Germany and England after the First World War. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The ‘Jewish question’ in Catholic publications3. New challenges and lasting legacies4. The Catholic Right, political Catholicism and radicalism5. Persecution and war6. Waking up to the persecution of the Jews7. ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis investigation of women's part in civic life provides a fresh approach to the 'public sphere', illuminates women as agents of a middle-class identity and develops the notion of a 'feminine public sphere', or the web of associations, institutions and discourses used by disenfranchised middle-class women to express their citizenship. -- .Trade ReviewSmitley's concept of a feminine public sphere is an original contribution to the growing body of work that challenges the ideology of separate spheres sharply divided by gender. Although the involvement of women in public action together with their self-representation has been highlighted before, Smitley makes space for women within the public culture of the civic elite, which urban historians, drawing on the early ideas of Jurgen Habermas, have depicted as male territory.Eileen Janes Yeo, Victorian Studies volume 54, No. 2 -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The organisations2. The 'feminine public sphere’3. Temperance reform and the 'feminine public sphere'4. The women's movement and female temperance reform5. New views of the women's suffrage campaign: Liberal women and regional perspectivesConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book gives an original and accessible discussion of an era of educational expansion, exploring the transformation of Irish education in the 1960s and early 1970s. The work sheds new light on the crucial role of international organisations in stimulating change in Irish educational policy. -- .Table of ContentsList of tables and figuresList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. A conservative consensus: 1957–592. A cautious beginning: 1959–613. Educational reform: 1961–654. The impact of Investment in Education: 1965–665. The politics of transformation: 1966–686. A quiet revolution - higher education: 1966–687. The limits of reform: 1968–72ConclusionAppendix 1: Educational expenditure by the state: 1957–72Appendix 2: Regional inequalities at post-primary levelBibliography

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Book SynopsisEmigration from Scotland has always been very high. However, emigration from Scotland between the wars surpassed all records; more people emigrated than were born, leading to an overall population decline. Why was it so many people left?Marjory Harper, whose knowledge is grounded in a deep understanding of the local records, maps out the many factors which worked together to cause this massive diaspora. After an opening section where the author sets the Scottish experience within the context of the rest of the British Isles, the book then divides the country geographically, starting with the Highlands, then coastal Scotland, and the urban Lowland highlighting in turn the factors that particularly influenced each of these areas. Harper then discusses the organised religious and political movements that encouraged emigration. By interweaving personal stories with statistical evidence Harper brings to life the reality behind the dramatic historical migration.Table of Contents1. A tradition of emigration2. Agents and activists3. Highland problems and solutions4. The lowland clearances5. Creating Christian colonistsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis study of British shipbuilding in its heyday brings together original discussions of the organization of production, the relationship between leaders and members of the industry's key trade union, and the involvement of that union in wider labour politics. -- .Trade ReviewAn original and successful blending of labour and political history. -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgmentsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Markets and firms2. Management and labour3. Skills and trade unions4. The impact of machinery: hullbuilders5. The impact of machinery: outfitters6. Conclusions to Part I7. Leadership in the boilermakers' society8. Robert Knight and industrial democracy9. John Hill and the the Clyde unrest10. Conclusions to Part II11. Liberalism and socialism12. Robert Knight and the origins of the Labour Party13. Socialism and liberalism14. John Hill and an independent Labour Party15. Conclusions to Part IIIBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review‘Kate Hill’s Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge, part of Manchester University Press’s Gender in History series, is not only a masterful work of historical scholarship and careful theoretical, historiographical, and methodological intervention, but also a bracingly relevant and important book. In her sophisticated and nuanced treatment of gender and museums (including all kinds of collections, in all kinds of institutional settings), Hill makes a remarkable contribution that deserves to be read by all those interested in Victorian history and gender, as well as those specifically studying museums and collections. Crucially, her work also helps us think about the interactions between gender, power, and knowledge production in our own day. What comes out of this remarkable study, then, is a new way to appreciate the extraordinarily malleable and fascinating space that is the modern museum, in all of its many guises.’Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Victorian Studies, Vol 60, No. 3 -- .Table of ContentsList of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object4. Women visiting museums5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency? 6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvageConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisShaping a global women’s agenda documents the crucial and central role of women’s international organisations played at the League of Nations and at the United Nations as the NGOs interjected concerns for women’s and human rights into the global governance system.Trade ReviewIn Shaping a Global Women’s Agenda, Karen Garner provides an impressively thorough account of the growth of Western-led women’s organisations and the concomitant elevation of ‘women’s issues’ in global governance...Shaping a Global Women’s Agenda is an illuminating account of the achievements and pitfalls of a certain brand of Western internationalism, and will be of interest to historians and international relations scholars.Garner has produced a clearly written and well-organized study of great value to scholars of women's and human rights, international relations, diplomacy, history and political science. -- .Table of ContentsList of photosAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I. Women’s international organisations and the politics of disarmament, 1925–401. World War I and its aftermath2. Working for disarmament and peace3. The peace is threatened4. Hopes dimPart II. Women’s international organisations and the politics of war and cold war5. World War II activism and service6. Forging a role at the United Nations7. Allied post-war reconstruction projects8. The cold warPart III. Women’s international organisations and the politics of the UN Decade for Women9. Transforming the United Nations development agenda10. International Women’s Year11. Taking ‘women’ seriously at the United Nations12. Concluding the UN Decade for WomenConclusionAppendix: International Women’s Year tribune schedule of eventsSelect bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEvaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welfare and justice1. The police2. The juvenile court: property, place and play3. Violence4. Sexuality5. Home, neighbourhood and community6. Commercial leisure7. ReformAfterwordSelect bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisLooks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24Trade ReviewOriginal, insightful and intriguing, Modern women on trial shows how public preoccupations and prejudices bear down on individual lives. Lucy Bland draws on a wide range of historical sources in interpreting the extraordinary evidence thrown up by a series of trials. Theoretically informed and beautifully narrated, this book breaks new ground in gender and in social history.Sheila Rowbotham, author of 'Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century' (2010) Lucy Bland is a brilliant historian of sexuality and culture. Here she applies her forensic skill, lucid intelligence and wit to modern pathologies of female desire unleashed from husband and home, as they seemed to unsettle both English manhood and national integrity itself.Sally Alexander, Emeritus Professor of History, Goldsmiths, University of LondonLucy Bland’s eagerly anticipated account of women’s experiences in the criminal courts of inter-war Britain has been well worth the wait. Unearthing a series of fascinating legal cases, she has produced a veritable page-turner. Bland brilliantly demonstrates how journalists and the judiciary attempted to shore up the boundaries – boundaries that World War One had weakened – separating the sexes, the classes and the races.Angus McLaren, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Victoria and author of Reproduction by Design: Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain (2012)'Lucy Bland has crafted a stunningly illuminating page-turner. Befitting 1920s protagonists so entranced by modernity and dance, she shrewdly choreographs five notorious British Jazz Age episodes of sexual transgression deeply into erotic and cultural contexts, which she reveals as at once angrily alienated and adaptively experimental. Riveting and indispensable.'Judith A. Allen, Professor of History, Indiana University'We think we know all about the flapper of the 1920s with her shingled hair and sexual freedom. Lucy Bland’s new book wonderfully complicates that story by analyzing sensational trials of murder and misconduct, revealing racial, sexual and class tensions surrounding the New Woman. A sparkling read.'Anna Clark, author of Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe|...is an incisive and highly accomplished study of constructions of femininity and sexuality in war and post-war contexts.In the conclusion, Bland links issues arising out of early-twentieth-century trials and newspapers to gendered, sexual, national and racial discourses and identities, noting that the flapper ‘represented not only newness, hedonism and “anything goes”, but also disruption, change and a frightening, uncertain future’ (p218). This is an apt end to a meticulously constructed and highly stimulating work that will undoubtedly open new potential and areas for study across the arts and humanities., Jade Munslow Ong, New Formations, 7 January 2015|Bland’s masterfully written book surely will generate more debate about the messy, and sometimes violent, realities that too often accompany women’s pursuit of pleasure in any age. , Julie Anne Taddeo, University of Maryland, College Park, 26 January 2015|Lucy Bland’s book is a superb addition to Manchester’s admirable ‘Gender in History’ series. Her insightful work, in progressive articles and chapters on inter-war gender tensions, means that an international readership has eagerly awaited this book.So many bookshelves need this book. It is a treat. And it is a shining gem., Judith A. Allen, Indiana University, Cultural and Social History, Vol 12 No 2, 1 June 2015‘It is an important addition to historiography on sexuality, and especially on gender and crime in the interwar period.’History Workshop Journal, Laura Schwartz, University of Warwick -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The case of the ‘Cult of the clitoris’: Treachery, patriotism and English womanhood 2. Butterfly women, ‘Chinamen’, dope fiends and metropolitan allure 3. The tribulations of Edith Thompson: Sexual incitement as a capital crime4. Mme Fahmy’s vindication: Orientalism, miscegenation fears and female fantasy 5. ‘Hunnish scenes’ and a ‘Virgin birth’: The contested marriage and motherhood of a curious modern womanAfterlivesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisBy investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France.Trade Review'This rich and closely argued study is a most valuable addition to our historical understanding of social and cultural memories of the war and the reworkings of the themes of crime, guilt and responsibility over the decades.'Margaret Atack, French History, March 2013, 27, 1 -- .Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: mapping French memories of the Second World War1. Resisters and the resistance: challenging the epic in French crime fiction of the 1940s and 1950s2. Forgotten crimes: representing Jewish wartime experience in French crime fiction of the 1950s and 1960s3. Resurgent collaboration: revisiting collaboration in French crime fiction of the 1980s4. Survivor stories: representing persecution and extermination in French crime fiction of the 1980s and 1990s5. Mobilising memory: reading the Second World War in children’s crime fiction of the 1990s and 2000sConclusion: Memories past, present and futureBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisDetailed study of same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945Trade ReviewThis empirically rich study adds a new chapter to the history of homosexuality in the context of the Second World War. Fascinating in its detail, Queen and country shows how the very attempt to regulate same-sex intimacies and desires gave rise to new sexual identities and queer communities.'Laura Doan, author of Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern WarVickers neatly embeds the empirical detail – the bulk of the book under review – within the wider corpus on the subject of gender and history and she is to be commended for an excellent, scholarly study that will surely propel further scholarship.‘Emma Vickers has produced a rich and humane study of World War Two service personnel which significantly expands our understanding of “gay” people and the reaction of “ordinary people” to them before gay lib in the 1970s.’Brian Dempsey, James Morgan Brown Review -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Inclusion2. Keeping up appearances3. Playing away4. Make do and mendConclusionEpilogueBiographies of interviewees BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe introduction of rationing ensured that food became a central concern for the British people during the Second World War. The food companions investigates the cinema of this period and demonstrates the cultural impact that rationing and food control had on both government propaganda and commercial feature films.Trade ReviewThe Food Companions is an outstanding book. It provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of food and consumption habits in British society during a time of national crisis. Thoroughly researched, elegantly written, attractively illustrated, and frequently humorous, the book should appeal to scholars interested in cultural, film and social history. -- .Table of ContentsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on sourcesList of abbreviationsIntroduction: This is a film about food!1. Not so quiet on the kitchen front: Ministry of Food publicity in the Second World War2. Food flash! Ministry of Food short film publicity3. Laying a table for a family of forty-five million: Celebrating and contesting communal consumption4. The rat in England’s storehouse: The black market in wartime cinema5. The honourable company of tea drinkers: Using food to position Britain, her allies and her enemiesConclusionAppendix: List of food flash filmsFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation, analysing the defiance of compulsory military service and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign.Trade ReviewConway offers a fascinating account of how the SADF adapted - presenting itself as having a place for a wider range of masculinities - as popular concern with the consequences of conscription grew through-out the 1980's.'Conway’s book is a highly readable, engaging history of a lost chapter of anti-apartheid activism, and memorializes not only the broad and costly impacts of military conscription on white society but also the deeply personal turmoil faced by individuals who refused to fight for a cause that they perceived was unjust' -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers 2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war resistance 3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing militarised masculinities and citizenship in South Africa 4. ‘Going the right way’: contesting conscription 5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign 6. ‘Every cowards choice’?: responses to war resistance Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisLooks at the relationships between men and women within Jewish communities living in Germany, northern France and England in the late Middle Ages.Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction 2. Heroines by choice or by chance: martyrs, converts, and anusot (forced converts) 3. Four differing paradigms of male attitudes to women 4. Women and the family unit 5. Marital relations, power and social standing 6. Women and the Mitzvot 7. Cases of some prominent Jewish women Conclusion Translated samples of the original source material SourcesGlossary of Hebrew termsGlossary of Talmudic scholarsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between the state and the voluntary sector has changed significantly since 1948 when Beveridge’s major report, Voluntary Action, was first published. Sixty years later, a group of historians analyse and reassess the impact of Beveridge’s ideas about voluntary action for social advance in this timely volume. Using examples from the UK, Australasia and Canada, this book clearly articulates the importance and significance of Beveridge's ideas on voluntary action within an international context.With the emphasis of governments on the importance of the voluntary or 'third sector' and the development of policies and practices to enhance social capital, build civil society and engage communities, this book will be invaluable for those interested in how the third sector has evolved over time. It will be of interest to historians, social policy researchers, political theorists, economists and educationalists.Table of Contents1. Beveridge and voluntary action- Melanie Oppenheimer and Nicholas Deakin2. Voluntarism, the state, and public-private partnerships in Beveridge’s social thought- Josie Harris3. ‘The night’s insane dream of power’. William Beveridge on the uses and abuses of state power- Nicholas Deakin4. The war and charity- Frank Prochaska5. ‘Organisations for brotherly aid in misfortune’: Beveridge and the friendly societies- Dan Weinbren6. Beveridge in the Antipodes: the 1948 tour- Melanie Oppenheimer7. Voluntary politics: the sector’s political function from Beveridge to Deakin- James McKay8. Youth in action? British young people and voluntary service: 1958 - 1970- Georgina Brewis9. Voluntary action and the rural poor in the age of globalisation- Jill Roe10. Voluntary Action in Britain since Beveridge- Pat Thane11. Beveridge, the voluntary principle and New Zealand’s ‘Social Laboratory’- Margaret Tennant12. After Beveridge: the state and voluntary action in Australia- Paul Smyth13. The Great White North and Voluntary Action: Canada’s relationship with Beveridge, social welfare, and social justice- Peter R. Elson

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of how the unorthodox liberalism of the public sector svengali Stephen Tallents helped reshape public life for a new social, political and technological age.Trade Review'An engaging and thoroughly researched contribution to the debate about an often misunderstood industry'Alastair Campbell, Journalist and Broadcaster'You may not expect the story of a civil servant who went on to become the first President of the Institute for Public Relations to be either fascinating or revealing of a whole sweep of national history. Scott Anthony’s prismatic and lucidly written study of Sir Stephen Tallents and his career as a maverick and highly creative “public sector entrepreneur” is surely the book that will change your mind. Truly an excellent piece of work, which adds a new dimension to our understanding of the British twentieth century...'Professor Patrick Wright'This book restores Stephen Tallents to his rightful place as one of the most important of the strangely radical benevolent bureaucrats of the interwar years… A fascinating book, especially relevant as a reminder of possibility to an era whose public sphere has been devalued and eviscerated.'Owen Hatherley, Writer and Journalist‘Scott Anthony has illuminated a character and a movement in British media unknown to almost everyone – and rescued public relations from the easy scorn of journalists, by showing that it had its roots, at least in the UK, in a progressive agenda of informing people of what was being done in their name’John Lloyd, Director of Journalism Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism"Stephen Tallents was a pioneer in the field of public relations. Scott Anthony's account of his life and work is a significant contribution to our understanding of how the modern disciplines of PR and communications developed and the history of public relations in the UK. Students and practitioners alike will enjoy and benefit from reading about one of the leading figures in the evolution of our profession"Sally Sykes FCIPR - President Chartered Institute of Public Relations 2012‘Well-researched, readable and consistently absorbing’Professor Jeffrey Richards'Anthony’s study is an original and important contribution'Michael Saler, Twentieth Century British History, December 3, 2012 -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of illustrations1. After the Great War: The origin of public relations2. Beginnings: The Empire Marketing Board, 1926-333. The Projection of England and Documentary Cinema4. A triumph of public relations: The GPO, 1933-355. The limits of public relations The BBC and The Ministry of Information6. Rebuilding the nation: The Festival of Britain and the formation of the Institute of Public Relations7. ConclusionNotesAppendix: The projection of England by Sir Stephen TallentsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisAcademics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geographyTrade Review...illuminating and thoughtfulHere, in consequence, is a work of genuine scholarship, its author's credentials rooted in a readiness to ask the right questions of his cross-generation sample, and an assiduous approach to uncovering civic, community, and counter-culture archives.Adrian Smith, University of Southampton, Southern History 35 (2013).Bold and provocative … an impressive argument …In developing his view of the working-class experience, Jones also judicially evaluates his findings against seminal and current historiography on working-class culture, a dimension of the book that makes it a relevant and attractive read.Brad Beavan, American Historical Review, 2013Jones presents an impressive example of how, shorn of determinist assumptions, class analysis continues to provide a valuable tool for historians. The author combines an understanding of the material circumstances of men and women’s lives and how they experienced them with an immersion in the narratives and discourses through which these subjects constructed their identities. The result is a convincing argument that class remained central to the lives of English men and women in the middle decades of the twentieth century.Andrew August, Journal of British Studies, 2013.Delineates a delicate balance between continuity and change in working-class life in older neighbourhoods and new suburban council estates, and across the whole mid-twentieth century period … The book’s most significant accomplishment is integrating discussion of material change with discursive shifts. In the aftermath of sometimes agonized debates associated with the ‘linguistic turn’, this is an important achievement.Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Twentieth Century British History, 2013.A rich account of the experiences of a working class community … the depth with which the author engages with the topic is impressive and it reveals many different layers of understanding.David Manley, Planning Perspectives, 2013.Dilligently researched and well written … a convincing thesis.Jim Phillips, Economic History Review, 2013. -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Class: jobs, families, mobilities and social identities 3. Place: The social geography of working class housing 4. Community: Neighbours, networks and social memory 5. Home: family, memory and modernity 6. Conclusion Biographical appendix BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in works by playwrights including Shakespeare, Robert Greene and John LylyTable of ContentsIntroduction: speaking pictures?1. Early modern English drama and visual culture2. ‘In the keeping of Paulina’: the unknowable image in The Winter’s Tale3. ‘But begun for others to end’: the ends of incompletion4. ‘The brazen head lies broken’: divine destruction in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay5. Going unseen: invisibility and erasure in The Two Merry MilkmaidsConclusion: behind the screenBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first anthology of primary material interdisciplinary study of the history of the South Asian presence in Britain over the period 1870-1950, it selects a wide range of official and non-official archival sources. and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact – minority rights, war, culture and reception, and representation.Trade ReviewSo this is an important book; the many excerpts at the end of each chapter are very helpful and should set an example for future historical essays. -- .Table of ContentsPreface (Elleke Boehmer and Susheila Nasta)Chronology of events Introduction (Ruvani Ranasinha) 1. Equality of citizenship (Rehana Ahmed) 2. Britain’s forgotten volunteers: South Asian contributions to the Two World Wars (Florian Stadtler) 3. Textual culture and reception (Ruvani Ranasinha) 4. Representations and display (Sumita Mukherjee) Afterword (Rozina Visram) Select bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in the seventeenth century.Trade Review'Jews on trial is a welcome contribution to the study of early modern Papal Inquisition and Italian Jewish history. Its finding raise many important questions that will no doubt propel further research.'Magda Teter, The Journal of Early Modern Studies, Vol XLIII, No. 4 -- .Table of ContentsList of platesPrefaceList of abbreviationsMapsIntroductionPart one: the Inquisition and disciplining Jews1. Jews, Papal Inquisitors, and the Estense Dukes2. Procedure and reactionPart two: a study of Jewish offences in different settings3. The Jewish household: Jewish masters and Christian servants 4. The Piazza: verbal offences on the streets of ModenaPart three: micro-history 5. The Jew’s balcony: a tale of a young Jewess’s flirtation with Christianity6. The Pingolo: a locus for Jewish fantasy7. Proselytizing at PurimConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. -- .Trade ReviewThe distinctiveness of this work is indisputable and it sets the standard for a new kind of micro-historical approach to the subject.Jennifer Craig-Norton, Reviews in History, 01/03/2012The book is distinguished by the exemplary thoroughness of its research. Williams displays a remarkable knowledge of Manchester Jewry, its communal institutions and organisations, its personalities, places of worship and, not least, internal divisions. -- .Table of ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Jewish refugees in Manchester2. ‘Speak no evil’: Manchester Jewry and refugees, 1933–373. ‘Displaced scholars’: Refugees at the University of Manchester4. Refugees and Eccles cakes: Refugee industrialists in the Manchester region5. ‘Something ought to be done’: Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1933-376. ‘The forgotten refugees’: Manchester and the Basque children of 19377. ‘The work of succouring refugees is going forward’: The Manchester Jewish Refugees Committee 1939–408. ‘Serious concern’: The Manchester Quakers and refugees, 1938-409. ‘Our remaining comrades in Czechoslovakia: The Manchester branch of the KPD10. ‘Not because they are Jews’: The Catholic Church in Salford and refugees11. ‘Inspired idealism’: Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schonfeld and Manchester12. ‘The Harris House girls’: Girls from the kindertransporte in Southport13. ‘A haven of safety’: Refugees and the Manchester women’s lodge of B’nai Brith14. ‘Outposts of Jewish Palestine’: Young Zionist refugees in Manchester15. ‘The most difficult boys to handle’: Refugees at the Stockport hostel, 1939-4016. ‘By the grace of the almighty’: Refugees and the Manchester yeshiva17. ‘From slavery and persecution to freedom and kindness’: Refugees at the Manchester Home for the Jewish Aged18. ‘Bright young refugees’: Refugees and schools in the Manchester region19. ‘Humanitarianism of the greatest value’: Manchester Rotarians and refugees20. The saved and the trapped: Refugees and those they left behind21. ‘The Dutch orphans’: War refugees in Manchester22. Pacifism and rescue: The case of Lionel Cowan23. Conclusion: The victims of fascism and the liberal city BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the political mobilisation of the two largest French veteransâ associations during the interwar years, the Union fÃdÃrale (UF) and the Union nationale des combattants (UNC). -- .Trade Review'This research has produced an important and original contribution to a crucial period in the history of the Third Republic and twentieth century France.'Caroline Campbell, Contemporary French Civilisation, 38 (2) -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: The anciens combattants and their associations 1. The Union fédérale and the Union nationale des combattants: 1918-33 2. 6 February 1934: The veterans’ riot 3. Building a combatants’ republic: The campaign for state reform, 1934 4. ‘We are not fascists’: The veterans and the extreme right 5. Rejuvenating France: The Jeunes de l’UF and the Jeunes de l’UNC 6. The veterans and the Popular Front Conclusion: Toward Vichy Select bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisA book of photographs, interviews and commentary, recording the origins, recent past and current regeneration of the Ancoats area of ManchesterTable of ContentsPreliminary notes: Dan DubowitzForeword: Sir Richard LeeseIntroduction: Lyn Fenton1. Royal Passage2. Canal Privy3. Mary’s Room4. Pickleometer5. Dixon’s Resonator6. Plasmometer7. Jactin Floats8. Drive9. Clocking Off10. Murray’s Klaxon11. Timepiece12. Machine Room

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Book SynopsisDeals with the inherent violence of “race relations” in 2 important countries that remain iconic expressions of white supremacy in the 20th century. Cultures of violence does not just reconstruct the era of violence. Instead it convincingly contrasts the “lynch culture” of the American South to the “bureaucratic culture of violence” in S. Africa.Trade ReviewStudies of lynching have proliferated in recent years, but we have long needed a work explicitly comparing racial violence in the American South with South Africa. Ivan Evans impressively fills this gap. Cultures of Violence will appeal to sociologists and to historians of both regions, and will considerably enhance the comparative literature of the American South and South Africa.' -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction2. “Rape” and violence in the making of segregation 3. Racial violence and black labor in the South4. Racial violence and state intervention in the South African economy 5. Racial violence and religion in the New South6. “The weakness of some …”: Afrikaner civil religion and racial paternalism 7. The nightmare of multiple jurisdictions: states rights and lynching in the South 8. Racial violence and the legal system in South Africa 9. ConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisLiving in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in Victorian England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. The work also analyses marriage, the Victorian legal system, relations with kin and the reactions of the wider comunities to extra-legal partnerships. -- .Trade ReviewMost historians of sexuality, courtship, marriage and the family in Victorian and early 20th century Britain will already be familiar with the excellent social and cultural histories of Ginger Frost. It will come as no surprise to them to learn that Living in Sin is a wonderful book' -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Cohabitation, illegitimacy, and the law in England, 1750-19142. Violence and cohabitation in the courts3. Affinity and consanguinity4. Bigamy and cohabitation5. Adulterous cohabitation6. The ‘other Victorians’: the demimonde and the very poor7. Cross-class cohabitation8. Radical couples, 1790-18509. Radical couples, 1850-1914ConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe book examines the transformation of European football in recent years by focusing on the impact of Europe in general and the EU in particular on the way that the game has evolved in a broad cross section of European states. The book brings together two significant research agendas: first, that on the governance of sport in Europe/the European Union; secondly, that within European integration studies on 'Europeanisation' (most commonly understood at the process of change in the domestic arena resulting from European integration). The concept of Europeanisation and in particular' top down' Europeanisation is used to shape the individual country case studies. Other transformational factors such as globalization are also assessed. The three chapters in the introductory section set the context within which the transformation of European football has occurred with particular emphasis on the role of UEFA and EU institutions. The ten country studies in the central part oTrade Review..providing valuable data to Europeanisation in practice, and how the Europeanization processes may be moderated or adapted to the field character.The key appeal of the book is the diverse and rich case studies that allow for comparative analysis of the differential rates of change in domestic football across European nation states and, to some extent, their engagement with the europeanization process within one collection. -- .Table of ContentsSection 1: Context1. Introduction Arne Niemann, Borja Garcia and Wyn Grant2. The transformation of football: Europe, Richard Parrish3. Uefa and the European Union: the green shoots of a new European public space, Jonathan HillSection 2: Country studies 4. Germany: between modest adjustment and system transformation, Alexander Brand and Arne Niemann5. England: a liberal model under challenge? Wyn Grant6. France: a case of UEFA-isation? David Ranc and Albrecht Sonntag7. Italy: the last of the great leagues? Osvaldo Crocci, Nicola Porro and Pippo Russo8. Spain: parochialism or innovation? Borja Garcia, Alberton Palomar Olmeda and Carmen Pérez González9. The Netherlands: The problematic future of Dutch football, Otto Holman, Rik de Ruiter and Rens Vliegenthart 10. The Europeanisation of Austrian Football: historically determined and modern processes of Europeanisation, Alexander Brand, Arne Niemann and Georg Spitaler11. Sweden: the development of club football on the the periphery of Europe, Torbjörn Andersson, Jyri Backmann and Bo Carlsson12. Poland: new shape, same old problems, Magdelena Kedzior and Rzeszów Melchior Szcepanik 13. Switzerland: professionalisation and internationalisation, courtesy of the EU and UEFA, Dirk Lehmkuhl and Olivier SiegristSection 3: Conclusions 14. Conclusions Borja Garcia, Arne Niemann and Wyn Grant

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose renunciation of religion shaped their struggle for emancipation. Anti-religious or secular ideas were fundamental to the development of feminist thought.Trade ReviewAn illuminating read'.June Purvis, THE, 21st March 2013"In sum, this book is a fascinating read, and a rigorously written history of a radical women's movement. As such, it merits reading, and inclusion into our studies of feminism and women's movement in Victorian times."(Sneha Krishnan, Wolfson College, Oxford, LSE Reviews, 20/11/2013)"Infidel Feminists makes an important, thorough and very compelling contribution to our understanding of the richness and diversity of both religious culture and feminism in the nineteenth and early twentieth century."(Alison Twells, Sheffield Hallam, Women's History Review, 03/10/2013)"This important work is long overdue"(Dr Edward Royle, University of York, Reviews in History, 14/11/2013)Infidel Feminism establishes with great clarity the significance of this ‘substratum of feminist identity’ to the wider Victorian women’s movement...As such it deserves to gain an appreciative audience amongst both scholars of Victorian feminism and historians of Victorian religion....it deserves to gain an appreciative audience amongst both scholars of Victorian feminism and historians of Victorian religion. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Freethinking Feminists: women in the Freethought movement2. Counter-Conversions: Freethinking feminists and the renunciation of religion 3. Preachers of Truth: Women’s activism in the Secularist movement4. Infidel Feminism: Feminism in the Freethought movement5. Freethinking feminists and the women’s movement 6. Freethought and Free Love? Marriage, birth control and sexual morality Conclusion Select bibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the 1984-5 miners’ strike by focusing on its vital Scottish dimensions, especially the role of workplace politics and community mobilisation.Trade ReviewIt deserves to be read by all those interested in Scotland's recent social history and contemporary political culture. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: Rethinking the 1984-5 Miners’ StrikePart One: Origins and Outbreak1. Collieries, Communities and Coalfield Politics2. Closures and Workplace Conflict: the origins of the strikePart Two: The Strike3. The Scottish Industrial Politics of the Strike4. Communities and Colliery-level commitment5. Ending and Aftermath6. Legacy and ConclusionBibliography

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and critically illuminating guide to the social, political and cultural history of alcohol in England. Covering areas including law, public policy, medical thought, media representations and political philosophy, The politics of Alcohol will provide essential reading for anyone interested in either the history of alcohol consumptionTrade ReviewThis is an exciting account of how public, professional and political discourses on alcohol reveal underlying tensions around fundamental questions of individual freedom, the control of free markets, the relationship between the state and industry, and the cultural and political attitudes which have helped to shape alcohol policy across the centuries. The book successfully traces common themes through different historical periods to the present time as well as identifying key changes in the politics of alcohol'.Dr Betsy Thom, Head of Social Policy Research Centre; Reader in Drug and Alcohol Studies at Middlesex University and Co-ordinating editor of the journal *Drugs: education, prevention and policy*This introductory conceptualisation of his subject is constantly referred back to as the reader progresses through the chronological chapters and serves to give shape and meaning to a considerable amount of information.... Nicholls has succeeded in producing an accessible introduction to the drink question in all its complexity.All in all, it can be said that the book delivers what the title promises - a comprehensive compilation of information about the politicization of the issue of alcohol treated subjects in England. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1. A monstrous plant: acohol and the Reformation2. Healths, toasts and pledges: political drinking in the seventeenth century3. A new kind of drunkenness: the gin craze4. The politics of sobriety: coffee and politics in Georgian England5. A fascinating poison: early medical writing on drink 6. Ungovernable passions: intoxication and Romanticism7. Odious monopolies: power, control and the 1830 Beer Act8. The last tyrant: the rise of temperance9. A monstrous theory: the politics of prohibition 10. The state and the trade: the drink question at the turn of the century10. Central control: war and nationalisation 11. The study of inebriety: medicine and the law12. The pub and the people: drinking places and popular culture13. Prevention and health: alcohol and public health14. Beer orders: the changing landscape in the 1990s15. Drinking responsibly: media, government and binge drinkingConclusion: the drink question todayIndex

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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of the highly controversial means test in south Wales and north-east EnglandTrade Review...the author has made full use of primary sources in both regions, and she reaches significant conclusions. -- .Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I 1. Unemployment and the depression in interwar Britain Part II: 1931–34 2. Defiance and disobedience: local government, the unemployed and Whitehall 3. Accusations, image and experience: the effects of the means test, 1931–34 4. Taking a stand: the response of the unemployed 1931–34 Part III: 1935–41 5. The government attempts to take a stand: the establishment of the UAB and mass action 6. Towards the welfare state: class, community and the collective action, 1936–41 Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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