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Oxford University Press The Invention of Improvement
Book SynopsisExplores the concept of improvement which took root in seventeenth-century England, the political and economic circumstances which led to its rise, the effect it had on the society and culture of England, and its subsequent outreach as the British Empire spread.Trade ReviewThe Invention of Improvement combines sophisticated synthesis of recent scholarship with extensive research on the printed literature of the period. It deftly weaves together macro-analysis of England's changing fortunes with illuminating vignettes of the activities of particular visionaries and the texts that enshrined their ambitions. * Alexandra Walsham, The Times Literary Supplement *This is a mature work of scholarship which describes and analyses the development of economic theory in the early modern period and its impact on economic and social policy in the time of Pepys. Thought provoking and readable, it raises fundamental issues of economic policy which are still relevant today. * Julian Amey, chair of the 2015 judging panel for the Samuel Pepys Award *The historical sweep of this book is in fact vast, from the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century through to the Enlightenment of the 1700s and beyond. Its subject encompasses the entire socio-economic development of that period. It is therefore a challenging book but also a very rewarding one. * Sue Nicholson, Pepys Diary *This book extends the chronological breadth and analytical depth of this research agenda and employs a novel analytical framework for interpreting it: the culture of improvement. * S. J. Thompson, Continuity and Change *Its conceptualization and massively detailed content deserve the highest praise ... Slack's magnum opus crowns a career in the field of early modern economic history of quite exceptional achievement. * Anthony Fletcher, History *this book offers the most detailed examination to date of the development of this concept in English print culture from c.1570 to c.1730 ... Slack's argument is informed by years of painstaking research and extraordinarily wide reading. * Brodie Waddell, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of illustrations ; Abbreviations and Conventions ; 1. Introduction: Varieties of Improvement ; 2. The Discovery of England ; 3. Elizabethan Foundations 1570-1640 ; 4. Revolutions 1640-1670 ; 5. Wealth and Happiness 1670-1690 ; 6. Challenges to Affluence 1690-1730 ; 7. England's Improvement ; 8. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press, USA Hostages in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisIn medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken. They were a means of guarantee used to secure transactions ranging from treaties to wartime commitments to financial transactions. In principle, the force of the guarantee lay in the threat to the life of the hostage if the agreement were broken but, while violation of agreements was common, execution of hostages was a rarity. Medieval hostages are thus best understood not as simple pledges, but as a political institution characteristic of the medieval millennium, embedded in its changing historical contexts. In the Early Middle Ages, hostageship was principally seen in warfare and diplomacy, operating within structures of kinship and practices of alliance characteristic of elite political society. From the eleventh century, hostageship diversified, despite the spread of a legal and financial culture that would seem to have made it superfluous. Hostages in the Middle Ages traces the development of this institution from Late Antiquity through the period of the Hundred Years War, across Europe and the Mediterranean World. It explores the logic of agreements, the identity of hostages, and the conditions of their confinement, while shedding light on a wide range of subjects, from sieges and treaties, to captivity and ransom, to the Peace of God and the Crusades, to the rise of towns and representation, to political communication and shifting gender dynamics. The book closes by examining the reasons for the decline of hostageship in the Early Modern era, and the rise the modern variety of hostageship that was addressed by the Nuremberg tribunals and the United Nations in the twentieth century.Trade ReviewKosto's clear and systematic work is testament to his brilliance, not only as a historian, but also as a storyteller. The book itself is packed with wonderfully illuminating material on the medieval hostage, but also the analogous development of medieval power structures and society. The versatility of this book means that it would not only be of interest to a well-established historian (legal or otherwise), but also to a non-historian, or someone starting out in the field. * Shavana Musa, Reviews in History *This new history of, and framework for understanding, hostageship is a major contribution that will make the hostages of the past difficult to ignore. Military, legal, political, diplomatic, social and economic historians of numerous periods and regions will read this book with great reward. * Guy Geltner, English Historical Review *Kosto has shed a great deal of light on a hitherto infrequently studied aspect of medieval history ... This is an important book. * American Historical Review *this is an excellent and closely reasoned book which casts light on a neglected and very important area of medieval life. * John France, War in History *Table of Contents1. Hostages in the Middle Ages: Problems and Perspectives ; 2. Varieties and Logics of Medieval Hostageship ; 3. Hostages in the Early Middle Ages: Communication, Conversion, and Structures of Alliance ; 4. Hostages in the Later Middle Ages: Representation, Finance, and the Laws of War ; 5. Conditional Hostages ; 6. The King's Ransom ; 7. Hostageship Interpreted, from the Middle Ages to the Age of Terrorism
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Oxford University Press, USA Soldier Sailor Beggarman Thief
Book SynopsisThe belief that crime declines at the beginning of major wars, as young men are drawn into the armed forces, and increases with the restoration of peace, as brutalised veterans are released on to a labour market reorganising for peace, has a long pedigree in Britain. But it has rarely been examined critically and scarcely at all for the period of the two world wars of the twentieth century. This is the first serious investigation of criminal offending by members of the British armed forces both during and immediately after these wars. Its particular focus is the two world wars but, recognising the concerns and the problems voiced in recent years about veterans of the Falklands, the Gulf wars, and the campaign in Afghanistan, Clive Emsley concludes his narrative in the present.Trade ReviewThis is a scholarly, well-documented account, and much of the book is given over to colorful specific accounts that make it utterly fascinating reading, suitable for a large audience. * P. T. Smith, CHOICE *This is an impressive book, the product of considerable research and informed by the mastery of the relationship between crime and society, the history of policing and the development of criminal law, which has made Emsley a leading authority in his field. * A.W, Purdue, Times Higher Education *this volume is recommended to any historian interested in the social history of the two world wars. Its engaging style and readability, as well as the final chapters that explore the question of criminal behavior and military justice in the British armed services after 1945, will appeal to all those interested in twentieth-century British history, to which it makes an original and important contribution. * Jessica Meyer, The American Historical Review *Until now no one has carried out a systematic study of crime in Britain's mass armed forces. With this exceptionally well-researched and very readable study, Clive Emsley has now filled this gap in the historiography ... it deserves a wide readership. * Gary Sheffield, History Today *This is a well-written and researched academic text on the law and the British Armed Services which is both readable and accessible to the non-specialist in law or criminology, while still providing a detailed and insightful discussion, which may very well become a standard text on the subject. * Dr Phylomena H. Badsey, Policing *inspired by this author's graceful handling of such a compelling historical phenomenon * Andrew Muldoon, Reviews in History *Clive Emsley's book offers and overview of the pattern of enforcement of military law since 1914 suggesting, in particular, that civilian criminal experience, with some important qualifications, has been replicated in the armed forces since 1914. * Gerry Rubin, Journal of Law and Society *Throughout the book, the discussion is detailed and concise with regular use of researched cases serving to support, and complement, the analysis. * Daniel Packham, The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice *This is a well-written and researched academic text on the law and the British Armed Services which is both readable and accessible to the non-specialist in law or criminology, while still providing a detailed and insightful discussion, which may very well become a standard text on the subject. * Policing *rich material ... offers a basis for exciting new ideas and methodologies for projects interweaving crime and military history * Eloise Moss, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. 'The Object of Military Law is to Maintain Discipline': Different laws for different people ; 2. 'A court of justice and not a court of law!': Courts and justice in the services ; 3. 'Law Makes Crime': What difference does war make? ; 4. 'The biggest thieves in the world': Service personnel and property crime ; 5. 'I didn't like the officer... and I don't like you': Crimes against the person ; 6. 'The unwritten law': Servicemen and domestic violence ; 7. The shell-shock defence ; 8. Post-war crime waves? ; 9. Conscripts and Professionals: Beyond the world wars ; 10. 'I could have done other stuff': The return to professional services
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Oxford University Press REFORMATION OF THE LANDSCAPE P
Book SynopsisThe Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound theological and liturgical transformations that marked the era between 1500 and 1750 both shaped, and were in turn shaped by, the places and spaces within the physical environment in which they occurred. Moving beyond churches, cathedrals, and monasteries, it investigates how the Protestant and Catholic Reformations affected perceptions and practices associated with trees, woods, springs, rocks, mountain peaks, prehistoric monuments, and other distinctive topographical features of the British Isles. Drawing on extensive research and embracing insights from a range of disciplines, Alexandra Walsham examines the origins, immediate consequences, and later repercussions of these movements of religious renewal, together with the complex but decisiTrade ReviewOne ends this impressive book wanting more and we can hope that a flotilla of new studies by other scholars will appear in its wake. * Kenneth Fincham, History Today *a fascinating account of the religious and cultural changes in Early Modern attitudes to shrines, stones, rocks, springs and much else besides ... a work of deep historical imagination. * Richard Sennett, Times Literary Supplement *... subtle and important. * Karl Miller, Times Literary Supplement *Recommended as a Book of the Year 2011 * Karl Miller, Times Literary Supplement *Walsham presents an admirably complex rendering of the British and Irish landscape * Elizabeth Yale, Social History of Medicine *This book represents the crowning glory of a new turn in Reformation historiography. Rather than the customary focus upon the origins, speed, direction and popularity of England's sixteenth-century Reformations, Walsham illuminates their impact upon the landscape with unparalleled breadth, variety and sophistication. * Andrew Hopper, Rural History *The Reformation of the Landscape is an astonishing accomplishment ... This is not just a book for historians of the landscape, or even Reformation historians. It is a book for anybody with at least a passing interest in the history of Britain or its constituent parts, in its religion, its culture, its social practices, its memory or its national identity/identities. Within its pages the landscape is lovingly revealed, not as a backdrop for human actors, or an occasional participant in events, but as an active agent in our history, and a rich, multifarious and constantly evolving record of the past as experienced by all who lived in it. * Jonathan Willis, English Historical Review *This is an important book: of encouragement and example, as well as stimulation and provocation. * Paul Everson, Landscape History *Walsham has superbly told the story of the "rich, eclectic, and contradictory legacy which the Reformation...left upon the landscape" of Britain and Ireland. * Rudolph P. Almasy, The Sixteenth Century Journal *This enormously learned, rich book is a fascinating archaeology, revealing much about how that mental world came into being. * Carl Watkins, Magdalene College, Cambridge *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Loca Sacra: Religion and the Landscape before the Reformation ; 2. Idols in the Landscape: The Impact of Protestant Reform ; 3. Britannia Sancta: Catholicism, Counter Reformation, and the Landscape ; 4. The Religious Regeneration of the Landscape: Ritual, Rehabilitation, and Renewal ; 5. God's Great Book in Folio: Providence, Science, and the Natural Environment ; 6. Therapeutic Waters: Religion, Medicine, and the Landscape ; 7. Invented Traditions: Legend, Custom, and Memory ; Conclusion ; Bibliography
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Oxford University Press Within Walls
Book SynopsisPrivate life in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is often seen as having been virtually non-existent, simply another East German commodity forever in short supply. In part this had to do with the common perception that private life and state socialism were at odds by definition, to the extent that the private person has no legal identity or political standing outside the socialist community. The East German regime''s infamous surveillance techniques, best illustrated in the notorious exploits of the state''s sprawling security force - the Stasi - and its reserve army of ''unofficial collaborators'', further dramatized the full penetration of the state into the private sphere. Within Walls takes a different perspective. Paul Betts shows how, despite the primacy of public identities, the private sphere assumed central importance in the GDR from the very outset, and was especially pronounced in the regime''s former capital city. In a world in which social interaction was heavily monitTrade ReviewReview from previous edition Within Walls is an outstanding and timely study...an eye-opening book that will be a necessary companion to any study concerned with the reality of socialist life in East Germany. * Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Times Higher Education *this is a work of the highest level, crucial to the field, and a model of scholarship to be followed by historians of the GDR, Germany, and beyond for years to come. * Eli Rubin, Central European History *... a great contribution to our knowledge of private life in the GDR. Yet for a historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany his contribution and especially his methodological approach are even more stimulating ... it will set higher standards for any work on the history of everyday life in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. * Heikki Lempa, German History *highly illuminating * Dorothee Wierling, German Historical Institute London Bulletin *Betts provides not just a thought-provoking account of the nature of GDR society through the interaction between socialism and the private sphere; he also helps us understand better the nature of the GDRs collapse, and the continued significance of the GDRs semi-private social world ... Paul Betts has written a book that is central to a new understanding of the GDR, providing a sophisticated perspective on why the unloved state lasted for as long as it did * Jan Polmowski, Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Privacy in an Enclosed State ; SECTION I: SECRET SOCIETIES, PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, PRIVATE LIVES ; 1. Tyranny of Intimacy: The Stasi and East German Society ; 2. East of Eden: Christian Subculture in State Socialism ; 3. Intimacy on Display: Getting Divorced in East Berlin ; SECTION II: DOMESTIC IDEALS, SOCIAL RIGHTS, LIVED EXPERIENCES ; 4. Building Socialism at Home: Remaking Interiors and Citizens ; 5. Property, Noise, and Honor: Neighborhood Justice in East Berlin ; 6. Socialism's Social Contract: Citizen Complaints ; 7. Picturing Privacy: Photography and Domesticity ; Epilogue: The House of Spirits: 1989, Civil Rights, and the Reclamation of Private Life ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Crime Police and Penal Policy
Book SynopsisHow did ideas about crime and criminals change in Europe from around 1750 to 1940? How did European states respond to these changes with the development of police and penal institutions? Clive Emsley addresses these questions using recent research on the history of crime and criminal justice in Europe. Exploring the subject chronologically, he addresses the forms of offending, the changing interpretations and understandings of that offending at both elite and popular levels, and how the emerging nation states of the period responded to criminal activity by the development of police forces and the refinement of forms of punishment. The book focuses on the comparative nature in which different states studied each other and their institutions, and the ways in which different reformers exchanged ideas and investigated policing and penal experiments in other countries. It also explores the theoretical issues underpinning recent research, emphasising that the changes in ideas on crime and crTrade ReviewReview from previous edition The book is conceptually sophisticated...It is also consistently interesting. In sum, the book is a welcome addition to the literature * Thomas Gallanis, Continuity and Change *Excellent and deserve[s] a wide readership...testament to Emsley's attention to detail, breadth of knowledge, and ability to make history accessible and interesting. * Drew Gray, Family and Community History *as always, Professor Emsley's work is rich with information and invites reflection ... His book will long remain an invaluable tool for both historians and sociologists. * Philippe Robert, Crime, Histoire, et Sociétés *Table of ContentsTHE OLD REGIME AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT; THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA; THE DISCOVERY OF THE CRIMINAL CLASSES; THE APPLIANCE OF SCIENCE; THE FACES OF PENAL WELFARE
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Oxford University Press An Empire of Memory
Book SynopsisBeginning shortly after Charlemagne''s death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary Christendom onto the past and so, during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, the borders of his empire grew with each retelling, almost always including the Christian East. Although the pull of Jerusalem on the West seems to have been strong during the eleventh century, it had a more limited effect on the Charlemagne legend. Instead, the legend grew during this period because of a peculiar fusion of ideas, carried forward from the ninth century but filtered through the social, cultural, and intellectual developments of the intervening years.Paradoxically, Charlemagne became less important to the Charlemagne legend. The legend became a story about the Frankish people, who believed they had held God''s favour under Charlemagne and held out hope that they could one day reclTrade ReviewMatthew Gabriele has made a powerful and convincing attempt to show that the evolution of Charlemagne myths can reveal a Frankish sense of manifest Christian destiny * Times Literary Supplement *the depth of analysis on offer here and its relevance to debates about memory makes this a hugely welcome addition to a growing body of research * Christian Harding, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *This efficiently argued and interesting book is an informed and thoughtful discussion of the ideas and associations that attached themselves to the memory of Charlemagne between the reign of his successor Louis the Pious and the First Crusade * Marcus Bull, Crusades *a bold and interesting argument * David Rollason, English Historical Review *Table of ContentsPART I: THE FRANKS REMEMBER EMPIRE; PART II: JERUSALEM; PART III: THE FRANKS RECREATE EMPIRE
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford History of Mexico
Book SynopsisThe tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. Available for the first time in paperback, this magnificent volume covers the nation''s history in a series of essays written by an international team of scholars. Essays have been revised to reflect events of the past decade, recent discoveries, and the newest advances in scholarship, while a new introduction discusses such issues as immigration from Mexico to the United States and the democratization implied by the defeat of the official party in the 2000 and 2006 presidential elections. Newly released to commemorate the bicentennial of the Mexican War of Independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, this updated and redesigned volume offers an affordable, accessible, and compelling account of Mexico through the ages.Trade Review"Distinguished historians Meyer and Beezley have brought together an outstanding collection of essays on Mexican history, culture, and society....The individual contributions are crisp and stimulating; each stands well on its own and can be assigned and read singly with profit. Editors and authors have so nicely meshed these contributions one to the next that the book can be assigned or read almost as a single, comprehensive overview of centuries of Mexico history.--Choice "Excellent selection of authors."--Roberto M. Salmon, University of Texas--Pan American "Excellent survey of Mexico's history with magnificent contributions by specialists."--Stefano Varese, University of California at Davis "A splendid work! The Oxford History of Mexico sets the standard for history textbooks, bar none."--Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America and Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Section I: The Great Encounter Section II: Crown, Cross, and Lance in New Spain, 1521-1810 Section III: Collapse, Regeneration, and Challenge, 1810-1910 Section IV: The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940 Section V: Mexico in the Post-World War II Era Glossary Bibliography Contributors Index
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Oxford University Press Garden of the World
Book SynopsisNearly a century before it became known as Silicon Valley, the Santa Clara Valley was world-renowned for something else: the succulent fruits and vegetables grown in its fertile soil. Virtually all farms were owned by whites, but the soil was largely worked by Asian immigrants. In Harvesting the American Dream, Cecilia Tsu tells the overlooked and intertwined histories of the land of the Santa Clara Valley and the Asian immigrants who cultivated it. Weaving together the story of the three overlapping waves of Asian migration from China, Japan, and the Philippines in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Tsu offers a comparative history that sheds light on white and Asian Californians'' understandings of race, gender, and national identity.From the mid-nineteenth century on, white farmers had an increased need for labor, and Chinese immigrants willingly and disproportionately filled it. Despite this common labor arrangement, the idea of the independent family farm, worked solely by faTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction ; Chapter 1. "Independent of the Unskilled Chinaman": Race, Labor, and Family Farming ; Chapter 2. Transplanted: The World of Early Issei Farmers ; Chapter 3. Pioneering Men and Women: Japanese Gender Relations in Rural California ; Chapter 4. "Defending the American Farm Home": Japanese Farm Families and the Anti-Japanese Movement ; Chapter 5. From Menace to Model: Reshaping the "Oriental Problem" ; Chapter 6. "Reds, communists, and fruit strikers": Filipinos and the Great Depression ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press When Did Indians Become Straight
Book SynopsisWhen Did Indians Become Straight? explores the complex relationship between sexual mores and shifting forms of Native American self-representation. It offers a cultural and literary history that stretches from the early-nineteenth century to the early-twenty-first century, demonstrating how Euramerican and Native writers have drawn on discourses of sexuality in portraying Native peoples and their sovereignty.Trade ReviewWhen did Indians become straight? When we started pretending to be, with and without the help of those who would straighten us. Let's stop pretending or let's get crooked and pretend something better. Let's read Mark Rifkin's book that combines the best of historical inquiry, literary/theoretical analysis, and thinking outside straight lines in ways that confront us with the power of deviant views of familiar, and some unfamiliar, texts and policies. * Craig Womack, author of Drowning in Fire *A fabulously original work! Two of America's leading authorities on Black Language and Culture draw on their expertise and extensive scholarship to profoundly reshape the national conversation on race by languaging it. In complicating compliments about President Obama's "articulateness," they brilliantly analyze his artful use of language and America's response to it as a springboard to consider larger, thought-provoking questions about language, education, power and what Toni Morrison has referred to as "the cruel fallout of racism." Few sociolinguists tackle these complex issues with as much insight, sophistication, and downright directness as Alim and Smitherman. As they firmly conclude, it's time to change the game - and this book does just that. * John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University, and co-author of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English *In asking 'When did Indians become straight?', Mark Rifkin isn't simply being provocative: he's setting the critical foundation for what is undoubtedly the most incisive, well-researched, respectful, and thoroughly engaging study of sexuality and gender in American Indian literature, and one of the best works of criticism in the field in recent years. * Daniel Heath Justice, Associate Professor of English, University of Toronto *The ideas contained in Rifkin's book are fresh, provocative, and vital to understanding the American past, present and future. * LeftEyeOnBooks.com *When Did Indians Become Straight? is a groundbreaking study of the uses of the native in the making of critical theory and national belonging. * Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies, Columbia University *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
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Oxford University Press Vodka Politics
Book SynopsisRussia is justly famous for its vodka. Today, the Russian average drinking man consumes 180 bottles of vodka a year, nearly half a bottle a day. But few people realize the enormous-and enormously destructive-role vodka has played in Russian politics.In Vodka Politics, Mark Schrad reveals that almost every Russian ruler has utilized alcohol to strengthen his governing power and that virtually every major event in Russian history has been tinged with alcohol. The Tsars used alcohol to dampen dissent and exert control over their courts, while the government''s monopoly over its sale has provided a crucial revenue stream for centuries. In one of the book''s many remarkable insights, Schrad shows how Tsar Nicholas II''s decision to ban alcohol in 1914 contributed to the 1917 revolution. After taking power, Stalin lifted the ban and once again used mandatory drinking binges to keep his subordinates divided, fearful, confused, and off balance. On such occasions, a drunken Khrushchev routinelyTrade Reviewa powerful critique of the effect of the levels of vodka consumption and of government policy ... this book has real value ... [which] principally lies in its laying bare the effects of excessive vodka drinking on the course of development of Russian society and the responsibility of the Russian state in allowing this to develop * Graeme Gill, Australian Journal of Politics and History *Schrad is an engaging writer. He ranges across Russian history with ease, zeroing in on countless striking anecdotes and developing his story within a competent and well-researched narrative. The author brings to bear vast scholarly literature as well as published and unpublished (including archival) primary sources ... Vodka Politics draws upon vast research, tells a lot of great stories, and advances a provocative thesis. * Jonathan Daly, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction ; Chapter 2: Vodka Politics ; Chapter 3: Cruel Liquor-Ivan the Terrible and Alcohol in the Muscovite Court ; Chapter 4: The Weird World of Peter the Great ; Chapter 5: Russia's Empresses: Power, Conspiracy, and Vodka ; Chapter 6: Murder, Intrigue, and the Mysterious Origins of Vodka ; Chapter 7: Why Vodka? Russian Statecraft and the Origins of Addiction ; Chapter 8: Vodka and the Origins of Corruption ; Chapter 9: Vodka Domination, Vodka Resistance ; Chapter 10: The Pen, the Sword, and the Bottle ; Chapter 11: Drunk at the Front: Alcohol and the Imperial Russian Army ; Chapter 12: Nicholas the Drunk, Nicholas the Sober ; Chapter 13: Did Prohibition Cause the Russian Revolution? ; Chapter 14: Vodka Commies ; Chapter 15: Industrialization, Collectivization, Alcoholization ; Chapter 16: Vodka and Dissent in the Soviet Union ; Chapter 17: Gorbachev and the (Vodka) Politics of Reform ; Chapter 18: How Vodka Politics Killed the USSR, and Why That's Not Funny ; Chapter 19: Ladies and Gentlemen: Boris Yeltsin ; Chapter 20: Alcohol and the Demodernization of Russia ; Chapter 21: The Russian Cross ; Chapter 22: The Rise and Fall of Putin's ChampionChapter 23: Medvedev Against History ; Chapter 24: An End to Vodka Politics?
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Oxford University Press Migration A World History New Oxford World History
Book SynopsisMigration began with our origin as the human species and continues today. Each chapter of world history features distinct types of migration. The earliest migrations spread humans across the globe. Over the centuries, as our cultures, societies, and technologies evolved in different material environments, migrants conflicted, merged, and cohabited with each other, creating, entering, and leaving various city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nations. During the early modern period, migrations reconnected the continents, including through colonization and forced migrations of subject peoples, while political concepts like citizen and alien developed. In recent history, migrations changed their character as nation-states and transnational unions sought in new ways to control the peoples who migrated across their borders.This volume will explore the process of migration chronologically and also at several levels, from the illuminating example of the migration of a individual community, to larger patterns of the collective movements of major ethnic groups, to the more abstract study of the processes of emigration, migration, and immigration. This book will concentrate on substantial migrations covering long distances and involving large numbers of people. It will intentionally balance evidence from the now diverse people''s of the world, for example, by highlighting an exemplary migration for each of the six chapters that highlights different trajectories and by keeping issues of gender and socio-economic class salient wherever appropriate. Further, as a major theme, the volume will consider how technology, the environment, and various polities have historically shaped human migration. Exciting new scholarship in the several fields inherent in this topic make it a particularly valuable and timely project. Each chapter will contain short individual examples, maps, illustrations, and brief quotations from diverse types of primary documents, all integrated with each other and analyzed engagingly in the text.Trade ReviewFisher is to be commended for producing a well-written and easy-reading piece while managing to cover much ground in a slim volume. * Joshua Hagen, Historical Geography *Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ; Preface: Migration in World History and as World History ; 1. Earliest Human Migrations: ca. 200,000 BCE to ca. 600 CE ; 2. Mixing and Clashing Migrations, 600 CE to 1450 ; 3. Migrations Start to Reconnect the World, 1450 to 1750 ; 4. National and International Migrations, 1750 to 1914 ; 5. Migrations in an Age of Globalization, 1914 to the Present ; Chronology ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies Oxford Handbooks
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Oxford University Press Cosmopolitan Africa 17001875
Book SynopsisCosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, offers an alternative interpretation of the 175 years leading up to the formal colonization of Africa by Europeans. In this brief and affordable text, author and series editor Trevor R. Getz demonstrates how Africans pursued lives, constructed social settings, forged trading links, and imagined worlds that were sophisticated, flexible, and well adapted to the increasingly global and fast-paced interactions of this period. Getz''s interpretation of a cosmopolitan Africa is based on careful reading of Africans'' oral histories and traditions, written documents, and images of or from the eighteenth century. Examining this time period from both social and cultural perspectives, Cosmopolitan Africa, 1700-1875, helps students to re-envision African societies in the time before colonization.Table of ContentsSeries Introduction ; Introduction ; Chapter 1: Ordering their worlds ; A Place to begin ; Spirit power and state power in Burganda ; Xhosa worlds: homestad, neighborhood, kingdom, ancestors ; Matriclans and entrepreneurs in the making of the Asante state ; Titles and lineages in Igbo-speaking societies ; Imperial Tunis ; Reigning in greed and anarchy in BaKongo and Jaga state and society ; Feature: Beatriz of Saint Anthony ; Chapter 2: Global Africa in an oceanic era ; An Oceanic era ; Mediterranean Africa ; Atlantic Africa ; Indian Ocean Africa ; Feature: The Chronicles of Pate and 19th century Swahili identity ; Chapter 3: Spiritual belief and practice in cosmopolitan Africa ; African <"world>" and African <"traditional>" religions ; African Islam in the eighteenth century ; African Christianity and Protestant evangelism ; Feature: The Xhosa Cattle-Killing ; Chapter 4: African economies and the industrial revolution ; Production and productivity in late eighteenth century Africa ; Africans and the industrial revolution ; Settlers, peasants, and plantations ; Feature: Muhammad Ali's Egypt ; Chapter 5: Africans write back ; Men and women in the middle? ; Egyptian intellectuals on France and Islam ; The Abbe Boilat ; James Africanus Horton ; The <"educated men>" of the Fante Confederation ; Jan Tzatzoe in Britain ; Towards colonialism?
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Oxford University Press The Works of Alain Locke
Book SynopsisThis book features a comprehensive collection of essays by Alain Locke (1885-1954), the most formidable African American public intellectual of his generation. It is by far the largest collection of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. The range of the work covers an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literary criticism, art and music criticism, value theory, race, politics, and multiculturalism. His inquisitive mind, his refined taste and his pragmatic temperament brought him renown as the godfather of the Harlem Renaissance. But his contributions to many fields extended well beyond that remarkable period, to the very beginning of the civil rights movement. Locke''s standing among today''s readers will be secured through this presentation of his skillful writing and impressive thought. By virtue of his learning and his commitment to intellectual excellence, Locke can now be seen in the sweep of American culture. Here he can take his rigTrade ReviewMolesworth has compiled fascinating essays on art, aesthetics, race, and democracy written by Locke well before and after, not just during, his so-called deanship of the New Negro Renaissance in the 1920s. Anyone interested in Locke and his place in American intellectual history should read this book. * Gene Jarrett, author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature *Table of ContentsForeword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Introduction ; Note on the Text and Acknowledgments ; I. Literature ; 1. On Paul Laurence Dunbar (1905) ; 2."The Romantic Movement As Expressed by John Keats" (1907) ; 3. "Emile Verhaeren" (1917) ; 4. "Colonial Literature of France" (1923) ; 5. "The Younger Literary Movement" (1923); co authored with Du Bois ; 6. Review of Countee Cullen's Color (1926) ; 7. Review of Langston Hughes The Weary Blues (1926) ; 8. Review of Langston Hughes' Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927) ; 9. "The Poetry of Negro Life" (Preface to Four Negro Poets, 1926) ; 10. "American Literary Tradition and the Negro"(1926) ; 11. Review of FIRE!!(1927) ; 12. "Message of the Negro Poets"(1927) ; 13. Foreword to Georgia Douglas Johnson's An Autumn Love Cycle (1928) ; 14 ."Both Sides of the Color Line" (Review of W. Thurman and J. Fauset (1929) ; 15. "Negro Minority in American Literature"(1946) ; II. Art, Drama and Music ; 1. "Steps Toward the Negro Theatre" (1922) ; 2. "A Note on African Art" (1924) ; 3. "The Negro Spirituals" (1925) ; 4. "More of the Negro in Art" (1925) ; 5. "The Negro and the American Stage" (1926) ; 6. "Drama of Negro Life" (1926) ; 7. "The Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection" (1927) ; 8. "The American Negro as Artist" (1931) ; 9. "Toward a Critique of Negro Music"(1934) ; 10. Excerpt from The Negro and His Music (1936) ; 11. Excerpt from Negro Art: Past and Present (1936) ; 12. "Negro Music Goes to Par" (1939) ; 13. "Broadway and Negro Drama" (1941) ; III. Esthetics ; 1. "Impressions of Luxor"(1923) ; 2. "Internationalism: Friend or Foe? (1925) ; 3. "Negro Youth Speaks" (1925) ; 4. "The Legacy of the Ancestral Arts" (1925) ; 5. "African Art: Classic Style" (1935) ; 6. "Negro in American Culture"(1929) ; 7. "Our Little Renaissance" (1927) ; 8. "Beauty Instead of Ashes" (1928) ; 9. "Art or Propaganda?" (1928) ; 10. "Beauty and the Provinces" (1929) ; 11. "Spiritual Truancy" (1928, on Claude McKay) ; 12. "Propaganda - or Poetry?" (1936) ; 13. "The Negro's Contribution to American Culture" (1939) ; IV. Race ; 1."Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations" (1915) ; 2. "Apropos of Africa" (1924) ; 3. "The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture" (1924) ; 4. "The Problem of Race Classification" (1923) ; 5. "Should the Negro be Encouraged to Cultural Equality" (1927) ; 6. "Contribution of Race to Culture" (1930) ; 7. "Slavery in the Modern Manner"(1931) ; 8. "Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane" (1936) ; 9. Foreword to Frederick Douglass's Life and Times(1940) ; 10. "Whither Race Relations? A Critical Commentary" (1944) ; 11. "The Negro in the Three Americas" (1944) ; A SPECIAL SECTION: ; When Peoples Meet: A Study in Race and Cultural Contacts (1942): Interchapters, written by Locke. ; V. Value and Culture ; 1. "Oxford by A Negro Student" (1909) ; 2."The American Temperament" (1911) ; 3. "The Ethics of Culture" (1923) ; 4. "The New Negro" (1925) ; 5. "Values and Imperatives" (1935) ; 6. "Value" (1935) ; 7. "A Functional View of Value Ultimates"(1945) ; 8. "Self-Criticism: The Third Dimension of Culture" (1950) ; 9. "Frontiers of Culture" (1950) ; 10. "Values That Matter" (Review of Perry, 1954) ; 11. "Freud and Scientific Morality" (n.d.) ; VI. Democracy ; 1. "The Mandate System: A New Code of Empire"(1927) ; 2. "The Negro Vote and the New Deal" (1936) ; 3. "Ballad for Democracy" (1940) ; 4. "Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy" (1942) ; 5. "Democracy Faces a World Order" (1942) ; 6. "Cultural Relativism and Ideological Peace"(1942) ; 7. "Moral Imperatives for World Order" (1944) ; 8. Review of Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945) ; 9. "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy" (1946) ; 10. "Pluralism and Ideological Peace"(1947) ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Listening on the Edge
Book SynopsisFrom the headlines of local newspapers to the coverage of major media outlets, scenes of war, natural disaster, political revolution and ethnic repression greet readers and viewers at every turn. What we often fail to grasp, however, despite numerous treatments of events is the deep meaning and broader significance of crisis and disaster. The complexity and texture of these situations are most evident in the broader personal stories of those whom the events impact most intimately. Oral history, with its focus on listening and collaborative creation with participants, has emerged as a forceful approach to exploring the human experience of crisis.Despite the recent growth of crisis oral history fieldwork, there has been little formal discussion of the process and meaning of utilizing oral history in these environments. Oral history research takes on special dimensions when working in highly charged situations often in close proximity to traumatic events. The emergent inclination for oralTable of ContentsIntroduction: What Remains: Reflections on Crisis Oral History, Mark Cave ; Part I: Clamor ; 1. When All is Lost: Metanarrative in the Oral History of Hanifa, Survivor of Srebrenica, Selma Leydesdorff ; Oral history by Selma Leydesdorff with "Hanifa," Refugee camp, East Bosnia, April 2004 ; 2. "To Dream My Family Tonight": Listening to Stories of Grief and Hope among Hazaras Refugees in Australia, ; Denise Phillips ; Oral histories by Denise Phillips with Reza and Juma, Brisbane and Melbourne, Australia, 2004-2011 ; 3. Exhuming the Self: Trauma and Student Survivors of the Shootings at Virginia Tech, Tamara Kennelly and Susan E. Fleming-Cook ; Oral histories by Susan E. Fleming Cook with Yang Kim, Derek O'Dell, and Kristina Heeger-Anderson, Blacksburg, Virginia, 2009-2010 ; 4. Talking Cure: Trauma, Narrative, and the Cuban Rafter Crisis, Elizabeth Campisi ; Oral histories by Elizabeth Campisi with Cuban Rafter Crisis survivors conducted in Miami, Florida, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Rochester, New York, 1998-2001 ; 5. In the Ghost Forest: Listening to Tutsi Rescapes, Taylor Krauss ; Oral histories by Taylor Krauss with Rwandan Rescapes, Kigali, Rwanda, 2007-2008. ; 6. The Continuing and Unfinished Present: Oral History and Psychoanalysis in the Aftermath of Terror, Ghislaine Boulanger ; Part II: Resonance ; 7. Unlocked: Perspective and the New Orleans Prison Evacuation Crisis, Mark Cave ; Oral histories by Mark Cave with members of the Louisiana Department of Corrections, Angola, Pineville, and Keithville, Louisiana, March 23 and 24, June 17 and 18, 2009 ; 8. Living Too in Murder City: Oral History as Alternative Perspective to the Drug War in Ciudad Juarez, Eric Meringer ; Oral histories by Eric Rodrigo Meringer with Juarez residents Jonathan, Rosa and Raul, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, 2009-2010 ; 9. Until Our Last Breath: Voices of Poisoned Workers in China, Karin Mak ; Oral histories by Karin Mak with "Ren," "Min," "Fu," and "Wu," Huizhou, Guangdong and rural Sichuan, China, August and September, 2007 ; 10. Woven Together: Attachment to Place in the Aftermath of Disaster, Perspectives from Four Continents, ; Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, Ingo Haltermann, Franz Mauelshagen ; Oral histories by Eleonora Rohland, Maike Bocker, Gitte Cullmann, and Ingo Haltermann with residents of New Orleans, Louisiana; Accra, Ghana; eastern Brandenburg, Germany; and Chaiten, Chile, 2009-2010 ; 11. Smile Through the Tears: Life, Art, and the Rwandan Genocide, Steven High ; Oral history by Jessica Silva with Rupert Bazambanza, Montreal, Canada, June 3 and 12 and July 6, 2008 ; 12. A Spiritual War: Crises of Faith in Combat Chaplains from Iraq and Afghanistan, David Peters ; Interviews by David W. Peters with "Christina," "Michael," "Timothy," "Craig," and "George," Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, 2011 ; 13. A Long Song: Oral History in the Time of Emergency and After, Mary Marshall Clark ; Oral histories by Gerry Albarelli and Temma Kaplan with Mohammad Bilal-Mizra, Talat Hamdani, Zaheer Jaffery, Salman Jaffery, and Zohra Saed, New York City, October 2001 to June 2005 ; Conclusion: The Fabric of Crisis: Approaching the Heart of Oral History, Stephen Sloan ; Contributors ; Index
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Oxford University Press Baseball Trust
Book SynopsisThe Baseball Trust is about the origins and persistence of baseball''s exemption from antitrust law, which is one of the most curious features of our legal system and also one of the most well known to sports fans. Every other sport, like virtually every other kind of business, is governed by the antitrust laws, but baseball has been exempt for nearly a century. No one thinks this state of affairs makes any sense. The conventional explanation of this oddity emphasizes baseball''s unique cultural status as the national pastime, and assumes that judges and legislators have expressed their love for the game by insulating it from antitrust attack. A serious baseball fan, Stuart Banner provides a thoroughly entertaining history of the game through the prism of the antitrust exemption. But he also narrates a very different kind of baseball history, one in which a sophisticated business organization successfully worked the levers of the legal system to achieve a result enjoyed by no other indTrade ReviewThe Baseball Trust is impeccably researched and a valuable history of the politics, law and business of professional sports * Peter Catapano, City University of New York *This well-researched, well-written book merits a diverse audience, whether baseball fan, historian, public official, or legal scholar ... Highly recommended. * A.R. Sanderson, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Reserve Clause ; 2. The Baseball Trust ; 3. The Supreme Court Steps In ; 4. The Birth of the Antitrust Exemption ; 5. Baseball Becomes Unique ; 6. A Political Football ; 7. Three Months of State Antitrust Law ; 8. The Curt Flood Case ; 9. The End of the Reserve Clause ; 10. A Shrunken Exemption
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Oxford University Press The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Book SynopsisThe gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city''s most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses.In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City''s renaissance started in the 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for authenticity and life outside the burgeoning suburbs. Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, brownstoners (as they called themselves) fought for a new romantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasingly technocratic society. Osman examines the emergence of a slow-growth progressive coalition as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstoners migrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the 1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activists marched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstoners debated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn deftly mixes architectural, cultural and political history in this eye-opening perspective on the post-industrial city.Trade Review[Osman] has told the story with great insight and drama through an eclectic and well-selected set of historical sources and a felicitous writerly prose. * Robert Self, American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Ch 1. Urban Wilderness ; Ch 2. Concord Village ; Ch 3. The Middle Cityscape ; Ch 4. The Two Machines in the Garden ; Ch 5. The Highway in the Garden ; Ch 6. Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn ; Ch 7. The Neighborhood Movement ; Conclusion: Brownstone Brooklyn Invented ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Slave Culture
Book SynopsisTwenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey''s ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion that has had profound implications for theories of black liberation and race relations in America.Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Trade ReviewA splendid addition to the rich literature on the lives of blacks under slavery. * The Philadelphia Inquirer *Table of ContentsForeword by John Stauffer ; 1. Introduction: Slavery and the Circle of Culture ; 2. David Walker: In Defense of African Rights and Liberty ; 3. Henry HIghland Garnet: Nationalism, Class Analysis, and Revolution ; 4. Identity and Ideology: The Names Controversy ; 5. W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Cultural Reality and the Meaning of Freedom ; 6. On Being African: Paul Robeson and the Ends of Nationalist Theory and Practice ; Notes ; Index
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Oxford University Press They Say in Harlan County
Book SynopsisMade famous in the 1976 documentary Harlan County USA, this pocket of Appalachian coal country has been home to generations of miners--and to some of the most bitter labor battles of the 20th century. It has also produced a rich tradition of protest songs and a wealth of fascinating culture and custom that has remained largely undiscovered by outsiders, until now.They Say in Harlan County is not a book about coal miners so much as a dialogue in which more than 150 Harlan County women and men tell the story of their region, from pioneer times through the dramatic strikes of the 1930s and ''70s, up to the present. Alessandro Portelli draws on 25 years of original interviews to take readers into the mines and inside the lives of those who work, suffer, and often die in them--from black lung, falling rock, suffocation, or simply from work that can be literally backbreaking. The book is structured as a vivid montage of all these voices--stoic, outraged, grief-stricken, defiant--skillfully interwoven with documents from archives, newspapers, literary works, and the author''s own participating and critical voice. Portelli uncovers the whole history and memory of the United States in this one symbolic place, through settlement, civil war, slavery, industrialization, immigration, labor conflict, technological change, migration, strip mining, environmental and social crises, and resistance. And as hot-button issues like mountain-top removal and the use of clean coal continue to hit the news, the history of Harlan County--especially as seen through the eyes of those who lived it--is becoming increasingly important. With rare emotional immediacy, gripping narratives, and unforgettable characters, They Say in Harlan County tells the real story of a culture, the resilience of its people, and the human costs of coal mining.Trade ReviewThey Say in Harlan County is a multi-vocal exploration of three centuries of Harlan County history: foundation narratives of eighteenth century conquest and pioneer settlement through tales of the Civil War and its aftermath of industrialization, vivid recollections of racial violence and labor struggles, stories of the mid-twentieth century devastation of the region by strip-mining, outmigration, the War on Poverty, the corruption of the United Mine Worker leadership, and the struggle over compensation for black lung. * Western Folklore *By any standards, this is a remarkable and compelling work. * J. D. A. Widdowson, Centre for English Traditional Heritage *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Harlan County, 1964-2007: A love story ; Chapter 1: The Bear and the Sycamore Tree ; Chapter 2: Of Hardship and Love ; Chapter 3: Wars and Peace ; Chapter 4: These Signs Shall Follow Them ; Chapter 5: Flush Times and Rough Times ; Chapter 6: A Space of Their Own ; Chapter 7: Miner's Life ; Chapter 8: Identities ; Chapter 9: No Neutrals there ; Chapter 10: God, Guns, and Guts ; Chapter 11: Harlan on Our Minds ; Chapter 12: Exodus ; Chapter 13: The Other America ; Chapter 14: Democracy and the Mines ; Chapter 15: Staying Alive ; People I Owe ; Notes ; The Narrators ; Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Bonds of Blood Gender Lifecycle and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture Early Modern History Society and Culture
Book SynopsisList of Figures and Tables Note on Translation and Terminology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Living with Death Birth and Blood Growing Up Tying the Knot Marriage and Partnership Outside the Norm Aging and Mortality ConclusionTrade ReviewWinner of the 2008 Royal Historical Society Gladstone Prize The judges said of Dr Dodds Pennock's book: 'Few fields of study can present the historian with such a challenge as the world of the pre-conquest Aztecs ... [a] challenge that Caroline Dodds Pennock meets triumphantly. Her analysis of the rich but problematic evidence is unfailingly rigorous. Both theoretical and methodological sophistication, however, are worn lightly. What emerges is a vivid and convincing reconstruction of a society whose harsh view of life and death was tempered by the experience of warmth, and even joy, achieved through human relationships and the routines of everyday life.' 'An exceptional volume because of its humanising approach and attention to individual concerns, emotions, and perspectives. This beautifully written book is recommended for a wide readership, from undergraduate students to accomplished Mesoamerican scholars.' - Lisa Overholtzer, Bulletin of Latin American Research 'Gender specialists and students of all levels will find worthwhile [Dodds Pennock's] search for the intimate as revealed by sources that downplay the personal and affective, rendered as itis in graceful, accessible prose. - Susan Kellogg, Hispanic American Historical Review 'This study, beautifully written and organized, is a fresh approach to both the problems of understanding Aztec human sacrifice, a problem as old as the first European viewers of this society in the sixteenth century, and of characterizing Aztec gender relations, which was introduced as a field of study in the latter half of the twentieth century. With exhaustive research Caroline Dodds Pennock ties together these two strains of enquiry in a tour-de-force argument that resolves many seeming contradictions and allows the modern Westerner to enter Aztec society with less apprehension. While making sense of Aztec thought, even more valuable is her humanization of the Aztecs through the publication of the few texts that reveal intimate and individual aspects of behaviour and interpretation of well-known formulaic pronouncements as moving expressions of human emotion. This last is a difficult feat to accomplish for a culture that is usually presented as overwhelmingly communal, public, and unfeeling.' - Emily Umberger, Arizona State University, USA ' This highly accessible dissertation-turned-manuscript will be of value to a wide audience...This beautifully written book is recommended for a wide readership.' - AngliaTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Note on Translation and Terminology Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Glossary Introduction Living with Death Birth and Blood Growing Up Tying the Knot Marriage and Partnership Outside the Norm Aging and Mortality Conclusion
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Media and Social Justice
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary study explores how book culture functioned in the life and milieu of one of the nineteenth century's most complex figures. Spanning the statesman's long life, it presents key case studies illuminating the constant and fundamental interplay between reading, life and politics which characterised Gladstone's world.Trade Review'Reading Gladstone is a sophisticated study, written in a remarkably mature and accessible style...Windscheffel is not only good at reading Gladstone: she also has much to tell us about the Victorian Age and its Church.' - Professor Wheeler, The Church Times 'A splendid study...' - telegraph.co.uk 'Dr Windscheffel deserves to be congratulated on producing one of the most original and thought-provoking books to have appeared on this subject...In this superbly researched book...she has produced a perceptive, sympathetic and brilliant reconstruction of an intimately and yet publicly important dimension of the personality and career of one of the greatest Liberal leaders of all times.' Eugenio Biagini, Journal of Liberal History 'Historians and other scholars of Victorian culture are privileged to be able to benefit from Ruth Clayton Windscheffel's exploration of Gladstone's reading and the world that he created through that reading.' Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction PART I: READING THE READER Sacred Dramas: the history of a collection, 1815-1896 Rhythms of Reading PART II: MAKING THE READER The Gentleman's Inheritance, 1809-1836 A Place of Deceptive Tranquillity: Gladstone's Temple of Peace PART III: ST DEINIOL'S Humanity: Libraries, Literature, and Liberalism Divinity: Gladstone, Oxford, and Lux Mundi PART IV: TRANSFORMING THE READER Political Lotus Eater to Grand Old Bookman: re-presenting Gladstone the reader Conclusion References Bibliography
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Palgrave Macmillan Sharecroppers Troubadour
Book SynopsisForeword by Pete Seeger Introduction: Music, Memory, and History 1. Freedom After 'While: Life and Labor in the Jim Crow South 2. Raggedy, Raggedy Are We: Sharecropping and Survival 3. The Planter and the Sharecropper: The Southern Tenant Farmers Union 4. There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land: Terror in Arkansas 5. Join the Union Tonight: Interracial Organizing in Missouri 6. Getting Gone to the Promised Land: California 7. I'm So Glad to be Here Again: The Return of John HandcoxTrade Review“In Sharecropper’s Troubadour, Michael Honey has deftly recovered the remarkable story of John Handcox. Honey provides a powerful and compelling account that takes Handcox’s personal and family story and intertwines it with the STFU’s fight against the racism and economic exploitation of southern sharecropping. … By using oral history, Honey allows the rich and deep nuances of the personal perspective that makes history so compelling to rise to the fore. … Sharecropper’s Troubadour is an outstanding work.” (Scott Holzer, Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 110 (4), July, 2016)Table of ContentsForeword by Pete Seeger Introduction: Music, Memory, and History 1. Freedom After 'While: Life and Labor in the Jim Crow South 2. Raggedy, Raggedy Are We: Sharecropping and Survival 3. The Planter and the Sharecropper: The Southern Tenant Farmers Union 4. There Is Mean Things Happening in This Land: Terror in Arkansas 5. Join the Union Tonight: Interracial Organizing in Missouri 6. Getting Gone to the Promised Land: California 7. I'm So Glad to be Here Again: The Return of John Handcox
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Palgrave MacMillan Us A Cultural History of the British Census Envisioning the Multitude in the Nineteenth Century Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Book SynopsisThe book explores the hotly disputed process by which the census was created and developed and examines how a wide cast of characters, including statisticians, novelists, national and local officials, political and social reformers, and journalists responded to and used the idea of a census.Trade Review'Kathrin Levitan's A Cultural History of the British Census is a useful and engaging study about the meaning of the census in British society. In addition to shining new light on an old source and convincingly asserting its importance to British conceptions of themselves, it is also a well-crafted intellectual history that traces ideas about belonging identity in Britain through the transformations of nineteenth-century politics.' Cercles 'If for Lord Macaulay, "figures are like mercenaries: they may be enlisted on both sides", in Levitan the census has found a historian who is even-handed and wide-ranging in her survey of these battlefields.' - Robert Mayhew, TLS "Provides an original approach, and the result will need to be engaged with by all historians working on modern Britain ... The book is well researched and clearly written, and scholars of literature as well as history will find important material here." - The American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsA National Undertaking': Taking the Census The Census and Surplus The Census and Political Representation Urban Growth, Urban Problems, and the Census Marriage, the Family, and the Nation 'Sprung from Ourselves:" Counting Race at Home and in the Colonies' Challenges and Alternatives to the Census
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Natures End
Book SynopsisEnvironmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.Trade Review'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.' - J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA 'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.' - Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK 'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.' - Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA 'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment '...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction; S.Sörlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History; K.Hastrup Afterword; P.Burke Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Natures End History and the Environment
Book SynopsisEnvironmental History as a distinct discipline is now over a generation old, with a large and diverse group of practitioners around the globe. This book provides a reflection on the achievements, diversity, and direction of environmental history in its varied national, international and continental contexts.Trade Review'Nature's End is both an adept explanation of the ways in which historians can make the environment a central theme, and a treasure trove packed with gems of essays by leading scholars who show how it is done. This book is a state-of-the-art guide to contemporary questions in global environmental history.' - J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver, USA 'This volume makes a contribution not only to the history of the environment, but also to its historiography and to the history of thought about the environment It contributes to bridge-building between disciplines and also to a dialogue with other kinds of historian, whether they work on politics or culture.' - Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK 'Leading scholars of environmental history clarify the discipline's epistemological context and offer compelling case studies. Nature's End is indispensable reading for all who seek to meld the various communities of knowledge of our world.' - Carole Crumley, University of North Carolina, USA 'Nature's End deserves a wide audience. Environmental historians of all sorts will find it useful, as few such collections can boast such a rich and diverse array of contributions, ranging widely in geographical and chronological scope and presenting several methodological and conceptual approaches.' - William Cavert, H-Environment '...thought-provoking...Hopefully, this volume will guide environmental and cultural historians towards fruitful interaction.' - European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface Introduction; S.Sörlin & P.Warde PART I: THE RISE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL Imperialism and Environmental Change: Unearthing the Origins and Evolution of Global Environmental History; R.Grove & V.Damodaran Habitat, Possession and Community: Reflections on the History of Conservation Ideas; B.Adams The Field of Action: Agriculture and the Defining of the Environment in Pre-Industrial Europe; P.Warde The Global Warming That Did Not Happen: Historicizing Glaciology and Climate Change; S.Sörlin Genealogies of the Ecological Moment: Planning, Complexity and the Emergence of 'the Environment' as Politics in West Germany, 1949-1982; H.Nehring PART II: HISTORY AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES The Environmental History of Mountain Regions; R.Dodgshon Interdisciplinary Conversations: the Collective Model; A.Davies New Science for Sustainability in an Ancient Land; L.Robin PART III: MAKING SPACE: ENVIRONMENTS AND THEIR CONTEXTS Fifty-four, Forty, or Fight? Writing within and across Boundaries in North American Environmental History; M.Evenden & G.Wynn Modernity and the Politics of Waste in Britain; T.Cooper Why Intensity? Reflections on Long-Term Changes to Chinese Farming and the Institutional Steering of Modifications to the Environment; M.Elvin 'The pernicious calamities that occasion...hunger': Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in Colonial Mexico; G.Endfield PART IV: 'THINGS HUMAN' Destiny and Decision: Taking the Lifeworld Seriously in Environmental History; K.Hastrup Afterword; P.Burke Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Literary Tourism and Nineteenthcentury Culture
Book SynopsisThis book offers both an introduction to the vibrant field of literary tourism studies and a selection of cutting-edge cross-disciplinary research. Indispensable for students and scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture, it provides fascinating insights into the reception of, amongst others, Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron and Wordsworth.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction; N.J.Watson From Early Modern to Romantic Literary Tourism: a Diachronical Perspective; H.Hendrix Making Their Mark: Writing the Nineteenth-century Poet's Grave; S.Matthews The Land of Burns: Between Myth and Heritage; K.Wilson-Costa Literary Biography and the Making of the Poet's House; J.North Building the Author's House: Abbotsford and Wayside; E.Hazard Bringing Down the House: Restoring Shakespeare's Birthplace; J.Thomas Women Re-read Shakespeare Country; G.Marshall Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage; P.Atkin John Murray's Handbooks to Italy: Making Tourism Literary; B.Schaff Selling Literary Tourism to the Literati: The Bookman in the Early 1890s; M.D.Stetz A woman's Place: Elizabeth Gaskell and Literary Tourism; P.Corpron Parker Rambles in Literary London; N.J.Watson Home, Country, World: Modes of Dickensian Time-travel; A.Booth Wessex, Literary Pilgrims, and Thomas Hardy; S.Haslam Americans and Anti-tourism; S.Foster Take-away Heritage: Or, How America 'Inherited' Literary Tourism; P.Westover Uncle Tom in Paradise: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Florida Tourism; D.Roberts On the Trail of Rider Haggard in South Africa; L.Stiebel Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Haunted
Book SynopsisThe Haunted is the first truly comprehensive social history of ghosts. Using fascinating and entertaining examples, Davies places the history of ghosts within their wider social and cultural context, and examines why a belief in ghosts continues to be vibrant, socially relevant and historically illuminating.Trade Review'A general, accessible history of ghosts and ghosts beliefs is much-needed, particularly one like this which manages to be empathetic to the beliefs involved while rescuing the topic from the enthusiasts of the 'ghost-hunting' fraternity. The quality of the writing is a major bonus: Davies wears his erudition lightly, and weaves it into accessible and often witty prose. This book manages the difficult feat of representing a real advance in scholarship, while appealing to a wider general readership. It's an admirable achievement.' - Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, UK 'A fascinating and authoritative cultural history, packed with illuminating stories. From medieval revenants and headless horsemen to the sensational hauntings at Cock Lane and Borley Rectory, all England's ghosts are here. With great skill and sensitivity, Owen Davies takes these strange tales at face value in order to peer into the obscure mental world of our ancestors. It is a fine achievement.' - Malcolm Gaskill, University of East Anglia, UK 'Owen Davies has produced the most comprehensive, lively and perceptive cultural history of English ghosts ever written. It is an amazingly broad survey, which covers every angle that I might have expected, and plenty that I did not: painstakingly researched, imaginative, and generous to all involved in his case-studies.' - Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol, UK 'I enjoyed Owen Davies' book enormously. He has written a remarkably detailed account of largely English ghosts and ghostly phenomena in an intelligent, fascinating, and very readable narrative which answers most of the questions one is likely to ask about them. I commend it as one of the best books I have read on the subject' - Peter Maxwell-Stuart, University of St Andrews 'A provocative and splendidly, comprehensively researched new book.' - Laurie Taylor, Thinking Allowed, BBC Radio 4 'What is a ghost? Owen Davies suggests that no single definition can cover revenants, angels, devils, fairies, will-o'-the-wisps, or demonic cadavers. The context in which ghosts appear is influenced by contemporary philosophy, religion and science. So, the Reformation in England eradicated the worship of saints and reduced the relevance of angels, leaving ghosts 'the sole manifest representatives of the afterlife for most Anglicans'. Davies is no debunker: with the best rational will in this world (and in the next) he considers the phenomena from the Dark Ages to our own New Age.' - Iain Finlayson, The Times 'Rather than simply focusing on reported manifestations of ghosts through the ages, Owen Davies's meticulously researched work puts the events in context, investigating not only the origin of such reports, but also how they're spun or rationalised, based often upon the social climate of the time...Hardcore followers...will find this a treasure trove of information and insight.' - Beyond Magazine '...this is exactly what the world needs: a fresh, original and thorough analysis of the torrent of ghost stories that have been with us since probably the beginnings of language...As the book is both informative and enlightening, I've no hesitation in recommending it.' - Bob Rickard, Fortean Times 'This is a well-written and researched book that gives an interesting overview of the common beliefs about ghosts from the Middle Ages to the 18th century...Recommended.' - The Cauldron 'In his exhaustive, intelligent and impeccably researched new book, The Haunted:A Social History of Ghosts, Owen Davies entertainingly delineates the sheer scope of the phenomenon - from medieval superstition to nineteenth-century spiritualism to the present-day abundance of psychics who haunt the murkier channels of digital television.' - Jon Barnes, Times Literary Supplement 'Davies packs his book with a wealth of detail and constantly referes to contemporary documents, but the wider scope makes for a more interesting read, with the reader able to follow various strands down through the years.' - Peter Tennant, Black Static No. 4 'Over the last few years scholars in the humanities have begun to take historical narratives featuring ghosts seriously and Davies makes a significant contribution to the emerging debates on the subject. In summing up the book I cannot better the view of P.G. Maxwell-Stuart given on the back of the dust jacket, "intelligent, fascinating and very readable.' - John Newton, Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 'Davies' book is an impressive achievement, particularly in its handling of the intellectual and cultural dimensions of ghost-beliefs.' - Thomas Kselman, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: EXPERIENCE Manifestation Geography of Haunting Seeking Ghosts PART 2: EXPLANATION Debating Ghosts All in the Mind PART 3: REPRESENTATION Imitating the Dead Projecting Ghosts Treading the Boards and Under the Covers The Future for Ghosts
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Feminist Media History Suffrage Periodicals and the Public Sphere
Book SynopsisHighlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaign and situates them in the context of current debates about the public sphere, social movements, and media history.Trade Review'In its consideration of a selection of periodicals relating to the women's suffrage campaign during the Edwardian age , such as Votes for Women , The Common Cause and The Freewoman , this book offers a wonderful reminder of the range and complexity of ideas circulating in the early feminist press . The chapter on the much-neglected journal The Englishwoman is particularly welcome." - Jane Purvis, THE 'The authors' varied disciplinary perspectives make this book engaging reading but do not interfere with the book's focus. This brief examination will serve as a catalyst for additional research on the suffrage movement.' - R. Ray, Mississippi State UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Challenges and Contributions of Feminist Media History PART I: PUBLICS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND MEDIA HISTORY Revisiting Debates about the Public Sphere Publics and Counterpublics Publics and Social Movements The Private and the Public Suffrage History and Social Movements Key Aspects of Contentious Collective Action Social Movement Organizations Temporal Continuity and Cycles of Protest Framing Culture and Social Movements Media and Social Movements Situating Women's Political Periodicals in Press/Media History The Impact of Feminist Media Research New Directions The Feminist Press and Alternative Media Significance of Early Feminist Media The Case Studies PART II: THE CASE STUDIES Unity and Dissent: Official Organs of the Suffrage Campaign; M.DiCenzo The Englishwoman: 'Twelve Years of Brilliant Life'; L.Ryan Individualism and Introspection: the framing of feminism in The Freewoman ; L.Delap Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Gender Sexuality and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice The Disease That Came to Stay Early Modern History Society and Culture
Book SynopsisA unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from restrictive marital customs, widespread migration and male privilege.Table of ContentsIllustrations and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction A Network of Lovers: Sexuality and Disease Patterns in Early Modern Venice The Suspected Culprits: Dangerously Beautiful Prostitutes and Debauched Men Stigma Reinforced: The Problem of Incurable Cases of a Curable Disease Gender and Institutions: Hospitals and Female Asylums Conclusion Afterword Bibliography Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking the Nature of Fascism Comparative Perspectives
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera ofTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder; A.Kallis Concluding Remarks; A.Lyttelton Index
£71.24
Palgrave Macmillan Rethinking the Nature of Fascism
Book SynopsisManyof the foremost experts in the study of European fascism unite to provide a contemporary analysis of the theories and historiography of fascism.Essays discussthe most recent debates on the subject and how changes in the social sciences over the past forty years have impacted on the study of fascism from various perspectives.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword; S.G.Payne Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Fascism and the other '-isms'; A.Costa Pinto PART I: FASCISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Decomposition and Recomposition of Theories: How to Arrive at Useful Ideas Explaining Fascism; S.U.Larsen Desperately Seeking a 'Generic Fascism': Some Discordant Thoughts on the Academic Recycling of Indigenous Categories; M.Dobry Fascism and Culture: A Mosse-Centric Meta-Narrative of how Fascist Studies Reinvented the Wheel; R.Griffin PART II: NEW APPROACHES Theories of Fascism: A Critique from the Perspective of Women's and Gender History; K.Passmore Fascism and Religion; J.Pollard Ideology, Propaganda, Violence and the Rise of Fascism; R.Eatwell Political Violence and Institutional Crisis in Interwar Southern Europe; G.Albanese Ruling Elites, Political Institutions and Decision-Making in Fascist-Era Dictatorships: Comparative Perspectives; A.Costa Pinto Fascism, 'Licence' and Genocide: from the Chimera of Rebirth to the Authorization of Mass Murder; A.Kallis Concluding Remarks; A.Lyttelton Index
£75.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK European Identity and the Second World War
Book SynopsisThe two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.Trade Review“This book presents several answers to the question why the project of European integration was initiated and took off after the Second World War. It is a most valuable publication for all who are interested in European identity, both its prerequisites and possibilities. It is invaluable for any serious consideration of the context and beginning of the European integration project in the 1950s.” (Mats Andrén, The European Legacy, Vol. 21 (5-6), April, 2016)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction Ideals, Identity and War: the Idea of Europe, 1939-70; M.Wintle PART I: WORLD WAR II, EUROPE AND HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights and European Identity since World War II: Vergangenheitsbewältigung through Law; H.Porsdam Before Integration: Human Rights and Post-war Europe; H.Schulz-Forberg From War Talk to Rights Talk: Exile Politics, Human Rights, and the Two World Wars ; J.Winter PART II: REFLECTIONS: NARRATIVES OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION AND WORLD WAR II Myth and History in European Post-War History Writing; J.Ifversen From Nazi Legacy to Cold War: British Perceptions of European Identity, 1945-5; W.Webster The Nordic Way Out: Europe in Danish Literature after the Second World War ; H.van der Liet 'Europe is the Country of the Spirit': Albert Camus and Europeanism in France, 1944-47; M.van Montfrans PART III: VISIONS: PLANS FOR A NEW EUROPE AFTER WORLD WAR II The Ventotene Manifesto: the Crisis of the Nation State and the Political Identity of Europe; M.D'Auria Max Kohnstamm's New Europe; A.van Heerikhuizen Atoms for Europe; M.Spiering Before Self-Reflexivity: Imperialism and Colonialism in the Early Discourses of European Integration; W.Schmale PART IV: SHOAH, WAR AND EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION Holocaust Literature and the Shaping of European Identity after the Second World War: the Case of Jorge Semprún; K-M.Simonsen Goodbye to All That? Jewish Views of Europe after 1945; I.Zwiep Language out of Darkness: George Steiner Speaking the Unspeakable; R.G.Soeiro Index
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Palgrave Macmillan Violent London
Book SynopsisList of Illustrations Map Preface to Palgrave Edition Acknowledgements to Palgrave Edition A Desolation they called Peace: The Destruction of London in AD 60 'Offence - A Londoner': The Peasants' Revolt to Evil May Day 'We'll no need the Papists noo!': Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes Free-Born John: Levellers, Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women Murderous Fantasies: The Great Fire to the Popish Plot George's War: From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots The Ape-Like Irish: The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots, the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots 'Wilkes and Liberty': The Political Riot The United States of England: The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators Monster Rallies: The War with the Chartists, the 'Sally Army' and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London Persecuting Pigeons: Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday 'Good Old Dynamite': London's War with the Bombers Women Behaving Badly: The Suffragettes Huns and Hashish: The YellTrade Review'This isn't just a history of riots and revolts: because each disturbance has to be placed in context, this is a political history which is made all the more interesting because it concentrates on the flashpoints, and the events which caused them. ' - The Guardian ' [an] ambitious and erudite chronicle of protest in the capital assiduously researched...' - The Times 'Clive Bloom's rigorous examination and analysis of radical protest in the UK throughout the ages stretches across 600-odd pages, and justifies every word. Acts of violent rebellion in the distant past are discussed, with their relevance to modern times cleverly pointed up, and Bloom colourfully evokes insurrections from AD 60 onwards. Little wonder, in fact, that JG Ballard was generous in his praise for an earlier edition of the book.' Barry Forshaw, The Good Book Guide Reviews of 1st edition (Pan): 'An exhilarating rush through countless riots, insurrections and full-blown street wars...written in a racy and accessible style...As I read this superb history, I looked out at my quiet suburban garden, disappointed not to hear the sound of trumpets.' - J. G Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'A breathless but exhilarating journey from Boudica to such recent events as the aftermath of September 11th and the march of the Countryside Alliance, Bloom's viewpoint is nicely balanced, critical of government and especially of the police, but not unreasonably so, and not too passionately keen that the rebels should win every time.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Seamless, full of information, connections and insights.' - Juliet Gardiner, BBC History Magazine ' [A] masterful study.' - Max Dunbar, 3:AM Magazine 'Clive Bloom's rigorous examination and analysis of radical protest in the UK throughout the ages stretches across 600-odd pages, and justifies every word. Acts of violent rebellion in the distant past are discussed, with their relevance to modern times cleverly pointed up, and Bloom colourfully evokes insurrections from AD 60 onwards. Little wonder, in fact, that JG Ballard was generous in his praise for an earlier edition of the book. Violent London is a thoroughgoing literary exploration of London's 'secret' history, from the world of radicals and subversives (including Wat Tyler to the Anti-Globalization Movement via the Gordon Riots, the Cato Street Conspirators, the Suffragettes, Mosleyites and the IRA)'. - Barry Forshaw, Good Book GuideTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Map Preface to Palgrave Edition Acknowledgements to Palgrave Edition A Desolation they called Peace: The Destruction of London in AD 60 'Offence - A Londoner': The Peasants' Revolt to Evil May Day 'We'll no need the Papists noo!': Criminalizing Catholics from the Babington Plot to Guy Fawkes Free-Born John: Levellers, Fifth Monarchy Men and the Peace Women Murderous Fantasies: The Great Fire to the Popish Plot George's War: From the Jacobites to the Gordon Riots The Ape-Like Irish: The Aftermath of the Gordon Riots, the Catholic Emancipation Act and the Garibaldi Riots 'Wilkes and Liberty': The Political Riot The United States of England: The English Jacobins to the Cato Street Conspirators Monster Rallies: The War with the Chartists, the 'Sally Army' and the Rebellious Schoolchildren of London Persecuting Pigeons: Trafalgar Square and Bloody Sunday 'Good Old Dynamite': London's War with the Bombers Women Behaving Badly: The Suffragettes Huns and Hashish: The Yellow Peril to the German Pogrom Comrades All: Red London to Red Ken Brave Boys of the BUF: The Origins of London Fascism Not Quite Kosher: The Jews of London, Jeffrey Hamm and the Return of Oswald Mosley Alien Nation: Indian Assassins and Black Radicals The Tiber Flowing with Much Blood: Enoch Powell, Notting Hill and Hackney Like Rorke's Drift: Hackney, Brick Lane and Lewisham Anarchy in the UK: Private Armies, Vigilantes and the New Cross Fire Living on the Front Line: Brixton to Broadwater Farm; the Stephen Lawrence Case to the Soho Bomber One, Two, Three, What Are We Fighting For?: Grosvenor Square to Moon at the Monarchy 2000 Back to the Future: Poll Tax Rebels and Tenant Strikers The Free Republic of Wanstonia: The Fight for London's Green Spaces Never Underestimate a Minority: Guerrilla Gardeners and the Countryside Alliance The Man in the Third Carriage - 7/7 and its Consequences Operation Glencoe – G20, Ian Tomlinson and the Future of Street Protest Epilogue: Watching the River Flow: Surveillance and Terror Appendix One: Shadow of a Warrior Queen: Boudicca and the Destruction of London: Unanswered Questions Appendix Two: The Huguenot and Italian Legacy Appendix Three: Assassination Attempts on the Royal Family Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Medicine and Empire 16001960
Book SynopsisPratik Chakrabarti is Reader in History at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices (2004), Material and Medicine: Trade, Conquest and Therapeutics in the Eighteenth Century (2010)and Bacteriology in British India: Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (2012). He is also one of the editors of the journal Social History of Medicine.
£36.37
Palgrave Macmillan Society Dancing
Book SynopsisBased on new archival research, this book uniquely presents a fresh interrogation of how, among London's fashionable society, dancing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was variously a means of social modelling, change, conformity and creative individual expression.Trade Review'The strength of this book lies in the variety of facets of social dance in the late Victorian/early twentieth century which it addresses. This range of content culminates in a rich picture of time, place, people, their dances and their dancing.' - Alexandra Carter, Emeritus Professor in Dance Studies, University of Middlesex, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations Contents PART I: SOCIETY DANCES Fashionable Bodies and Society Dancing Fashioning Dance Histories The Seasonal Round Public Spaces Late Victorian Repertoire Anarchy in the Ball Room PART II: FASHIONING GENTILITY A Noble Profession Temples of Terpsichore The Fashioning of Ladies Modelling the Lady Where are our Men? Dancing Dogs and Manly Men PART III: MODERN MOVES Moving into the Twentieth Century Modernizing Terpsichore Civilization Under Threat Knuts and Aliens Civilizing from the Centre Looking Back, Moving On Notes Bibliography Index
£85.49
Palgrave Macmillan Writing the Rules for Europe
Book SynopsisIntroduction. - 1. Origins of Technocratic Internationalism. - 2. The Power and Fragility of Experts. - 3. From Divided Europe to 'Core Europe'. - 4. Europe of the Standard Gauge. - 5. Tensions in Railway Europe 6. Canons and Cartels. - 7. Technology Cooperation in Steel Europe. - 8. Towards European Union Hegemony ConclusionTrade Review“Many studies have been done on Aristide Briand or Walter Rathenau, who led European integration efforts in France and Germany during the interwar year. There are fewer contributions on telecommunication or railway engineers, with a comparable focus on integration. Writing the Rules for Europe provides this rather neglected perspective. It is easy to read, but at the same time offers shrewd insights into the underlying technological structures of European integration, which should be valuable to scholars and the general public alike.” (Thomas Hoerber, Journal of Contemporary European Research JCER, Vol. 14 (03), 2018)“Writing the Rules of Europe provides a 150-year history of the hidden expert-driven integration of Europe, which eventually led the EU to become the most important and contested producer of rules, regulations and systems for transnational interaction in Europe. … the book connects the history of technology, perspectives from transnational and global history, and European integration history in a way that is refreshing and, for the field of European integration history, absolutely vital.” (Haakon A. Ikonomou, European History Quarterly, Vol. 47 (3), July, 2017) “The book is a guide to the processes which continue to be the hottest topics regarding Western Europe and the European Union itself. … If you are a historian of science and technology or a scholar of global and international history, you will be fascinated. If you are teaching or studying cultural history, sociology or political science consider this book as part of your reading list. … it is a book made of steel and worth reading.” (Lyubomir Pozharliev, KULT_online - Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 51, July, 2017)“The book offers an exciting new history of European integration, finding its answers in Europe’s long technological trajectories. … Writing the Rules of Europe is an important new book. In dismantling the political myth of Europe, the authors unearth a long-standing institutional history of competitive, international rule-writing, by expert committees and cartels, that helped link and define Europe technically.” (Elisabeth Van Meer, Technology and Culture, Vol. 57 (2), April, 2016)Table of ContentsIntroduction. - 1. Origins of Technocratic Internationalism. - 2. The Power and Fragility of Experts. - 3. From Divided Europe to 'Core Europe'. - 4. Europe of the Standard Gauge. - 5. Tensions in Railway Europe 6. Canons and Cartels. - 7. Technology Cooperation in Steel Europe. - 8. Towards European Union Hegemony Conclusion
£63.74
Palgrave MacMillan UK Victorians on Screen The Nineteenth Century on British Television 19942005
Book SynopsisVictorians on Screen investigates the representation of the Victorian age on British television from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. Structured around key areas of enquiry specific to British television, it avoids a narrow focus on genre by instead taking a thematic approach and exploring notions of authenticity, realism and identity.Trade Review"This excellent book uniquely explores the changes in visual and narrative representation of the Victorian age across different television formats. The sophisticated analyses highlight links between the cultural imagination of the past, its visual and narrative representation and social and political contexts. It will appeal to television and literary scholars, as well as those interested in the construction of myths of the past." - Ann Gray, Emerita Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Lincoln, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction – Neo-Victorian Television: British Television Imagines the Nineteenth Century 2. Period Representation in Context: The Forsyte Saga on BBC and ITV 3. Victorians Fictions and Victorian Nightmares 4. Murder Rooms and Servants: Original Drama as Metadaptation 5. Real Victorians to Victorian Realities: Factual Television Programming and the Nineteenth Century 6. Conclusion - Victorian Facts, Victorian Fictions Bibliography Television Programmes and Films Cited Index
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Witchcraft and belief in Early Modern Scotland Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic
Book SynopsisIntroduction; J.Goodare & J.Miller Scottish Witchcraft in its European Context; J.Goodare Some Findings from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft; L.Martin & J.Miller Witch Persecution and Popular Belief in Lowland Scotland: the Devil's Decade; E.J.Cowan Witch Hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd; L.Henderson Scottish Witchcraft Panics Re-examined; L.Martin Men in Black: Appearances of the Devil in Early Modern Scottish Witchcraft Discourse; J.Miller Demonic Possession in Early Modern Scotland; B.P.Levack A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-Folk and Charmers; O.Davies The Mechanical World-View and the Decline of Witch-Beliefs in Scotland; M.Wasser 'Charms against Witchcraft': Magic and Mischief in Museum Collections; H.Cheape Further ReadingTrade Review'This is an excellent collection of academic essays on various aspects of early modern Scottish witchcraft...Highly recommended as a serious research book for anyone who is interested in historical witch beliefs and practices in Scotland.' - The Cauldron Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Folklore AwardTable of ContentsIntroduction; J.Goodare & J.Miller Scottish Witchcraft in its European Context; J.Goodare Some Findings from the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft; L.Martin & J.Miller Witch Persecution and Popular Belief in Lowland Scotland: the Devil's Decade; E.J.Cowan Witch Hunting and Witch Belief in the Gàidhealtachd; L.Henderson Scottish Witchcraft Panics Re-examined; L.Martin Men in Black: Appearances of the Devil in Early Modern Scottish Witchcraft Discourse; J.Miller Demonic Possession in Early Modern Scotland; B.P.Levack A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-Folk and Charmers; O.Davies The Mechanical World-View and the Decline of Witch-Beliefs in Scotland; M.Wasser 'Charms against Witchcraft': Magic and Mischief in Museum Collections; H.Cheape Further Reading
£104.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Gender Labour War and Empire Essays on Modern Britain Genders and Sexualities in History
Book SynopsisA lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.Trade Review'This elegant volume not only celebrates one of the most influential social historians of our time, but offers a compelling and up to date historiographical treatment of the most important trends in British history over the last generation.' - Nicoletta F. Gullace, University of New Hampshire, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Gender, Labour, War and Empire?; P.Levine and S.R.Grayzel PART I: LABOUR, SEX AND RACE: THE PROBLEMS OF MODERNITY Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History; D.Dworkin In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade; J.Epstein Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the US and Greater Britain; P.Levine The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London; A.Woollacott PART II: GENDER, IDENTITY, AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR British Feminism in the Second World War; H.L.Smith "Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime': British Vogue's Responses to WWII; B.E.Conekin 'Fighting for the Idea of Home Life': Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American 181 Representations of Domestic Morale; S.R.Grayzel Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959; P.Summerfield PART III: GENDER, RACE, AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR AND EMPIRE Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire; M.Francis Disturbing the People's Peace: Patriotism and 'Respectable' Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence; A.Ritscherle 'Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?': Race and Sex in 1950s Britain; E.Buettner How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling, and the 'Heritage Film,' 1980-1995; G.Eley Afterword; L.L.Frader
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Palgrave Macmillan The Ultimate Experience
Book SynopsisPreface PART I:INTRODUCTION WAR AS REVELATION, 1865-2000 PART II: 1450-1740 THE SUPREMACY OF MIND Suffering, Death and Revelation in Early Modern Culture The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs Why War Revealed Nothing PART III: 1740-1865 THE REVOLT OF THE BODY Bodies Begin to Think The Rise of the Common Soldier The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 Works CitedTrade Review'Like a good detective story, Harari presents us with facts and clues which seem to lead towards one conclusion, only to puncture our certainties. This is a book of exraordinary wit, erudition, and range.' - Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, University of LondonTable of ContentsPreface PART I: INTRODUCTION – WAR AS REVELATION, 1865-2000 PART II: 1450-1740 – THE SUPREMACY OF MIND Suffering, Death and Revelation in Early Modern Culture The Absence of Revelation from Early Modern Military Memoirs Why War Revealed Nothing PART III: 1740-1865 – THE REVOLT OF THE BODY Bodies Begin to Think The Rise of the Common Soldier The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865-2000 Works Cited
£123.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Music and the Making of MiddleClass Culture A Comparative History of Nineteenthcentury Leipzig and Birmingham
Book SynopsisMusic and the Making of the Middle Class explores the making of middle-class culture by analyzing and comparing the ethos and organization of Leipzig's Gewandhaus and Birmingham's Triennial Festival. It employs a multidisciplinary approach to identify the social processes which formed the cultural configurations and meanings of art.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Introducing the Towns The Rise of Cultural Diversity, ca1750-1820 From Early Beginnings to Consolidation: The late 18th century to 1847 Post-Mendelssohn to Fin-de-Siècle Transformations and Approaches to War: Fin-de-Siècle to 1914 Conclusion Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Gender Catholicism and Spirituality Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe 12001900 Gender and History
Book SynopsisLAURENCE LUX-STERRITT is Lecturer in British History at the University of Aix-Marseille, France. CARMEN M. MANGION is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Meiji Restoration Monarchism Mass Communication and Conservative Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Meiji Restoration of 1868 is one of the most astonishing political events of the modern era, yet it doesn't fit easily with Western precedents of mass mobilization and social transformation. This book challenges some of the preconceptions that have hindered the Restoration being understood on its own terms.Trade Review"Provocative and stimulating." - James L. Huffman, Wittenberg UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Japan Within the World System: Urbanization, Political Stasis and Western Economic Expansion The Meiji Coup d'Etat Mass Media and the Development of Civil Culture 'The More Thorough Fulfillment of the Restoration' The Imperial Household, the Popular Press and the Contestation of Public Space Conclusion: Conservatism, Traditionalism and Restoration Bibliography
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Palgrave MacMillan Us 1968 in Europe A History of Protest and Activism 19561977 Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Book SynopsisA concise reference for researchers on the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, this book covers the history of the various national protest movements, the transnational aspects of these movements, and the common narratives and cultures of memory surrounding them.Trade ReviewAn accessible textbook that summarizes the results of the intensive research of the past couple of years and provides a gateway to information on the various analytical dimensions and national differences of the protest movements . . . With its comprehensive coverage of a broad range of European countries, its analytical focus on transnational connections and the clear and accessible structure of the individual chapters, this book will be core reading for everyone who wants to study contexts, events and the impact of the revolt of 1968. - The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture Klimke and Scharloth's contribution has good reasons to stand out from the rest. The first and maybe foremost reason is their ability to facilitate new insights into 'the long 1960s' on the European continent, thus showing us how far we are from exhausting the issue . . . a superb book, both for non-specialists who want to know about contentious politics in 1960s Europe and researchers of the subject." - International Review of Social History "The handbook is particularly interesting for those looking for a quick introduction to the topic or an overview of the most important events." - Sehepunkte " 1968 in Europe offers an insightful and provocative overview for this turning point in the history of the continent. The book is transnational history at its best - an account of the ideological, social, and political forces across European societies that shook traditional authority structures. The book is also good national history - narrating the key events and transformations in nearly every European society. Scholars and students of postwar Europe will find this book invaluable as a foundational text. It tells the pan-European story of 1968 and opens many new avenues for future research." - Jeremi Suri, author of Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Détente "This book is a courageous effort to contribute to a new trend in the history of 1968, the study of the transnational aspects of the protest movements. It offers some basis for a comparative history in European perspective, a Europe that embraces both its Western and Eastern parts, while recognising the striking differences between the two and the specificity of national issues. Many national cases are examined, but also transnational movements such as the women's movement and its problematic link to 1968. Thus the dimension of a truly European 1968 emerges against a global background." - Luisa Passerini (Turin/Florence), author of Autobiography of a Generation: Italy, 1968Table of ContentsPART I: TRANSNATIONAL ROOTS OF THE 1968 PROTEST MOVEMENTS Subcultural Movements: The Provos; N.Pas Situationism; T.Hecken & A.Grzenia The International Peace Movement; M.Frey The Origins of the British New Left; M.Davis Music and Protest in 1960s Europe; D.Siegfried Motions& Emotions; J.Tanner PART II: PROTEST HISTORIANS IN DIFFERENT EUROPEAN COUNTRIES Italy; J.Kurz & M.Tolomelli West Germany; M.Klimke France; I.Gilcher-Holtey Great Britain; H.Nehring Northern Ireland; N.O'Dochartaigh Belgium; L.Vos Czechoslovakia; J.Pauer Poland; S.Garsztecki East Germany; T.Brown Romania; S.Pavelescu & C.Petrescu Hungary; M.Szabó Yugoslavia; B.Kanzleiter Switzerland; N.Peter Sweden and Scandinavia; T.E.Jörgensen Spain and Greece; K.Kornetis PART III. TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND NARRATIVES AFTER 1968 Terrorism; D.Hauser Womens' Movement; K.Schulz The Environmental Movement; C.Rootes Narratives of Democratization: 1968 in Postwar Europe; P.Gassert
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Palgrave MacMillan Us The French Queens Letters Mary Tudor Brandon and the Politics of Marriage in SixteenthCentury Europe Queenship and Power
Book SynopsisA fresh biography of Mary Tudor which challenges conventional views of her as a weeping hysteric and love-struck romantic, providing instead the portrait of a queen who drew on two sources of authority to increase the power of her position: epistolary conventions and the rhetoric of chivalry that imbued the French and English courts.Trade Review'The French Queen's Letters is a useful corrective to discussions of Mary that continue to focus on an image of an overwrought romantic or to gloss over her influence at court entirely.' Journal of British Studies "Sadlack's book frees Mary Tudor, the French Queen, from the role of pretty pantomime princess in which she has too often been cast by historians. This engaging revisionist study of Mary's life and correspondence finds little of the dippy but demanding rich girl of myth. Sadlack shows Mary to have been an astute member of the Tudor dynasty, in every sense a political queen, and one adept at using informal networks of female power and patronage to assert her English and French royal status." - Glenn Richardson, Reader in Early-Modern History, St. Mary's University College, UK "This is an original approach to a fascinating historical figure. Sadlack's thorough knowledge of recent scholarship on women's letters and epistolary rhetoric enables her to read Mary's letters as strategic epistolary tools, crafted in terms of aptum, relating to the character of her reader, and of rhetorical ethos and pathos, carefully deployed to advance her goals. The study of women's agency through letters is currently receiving much attention, and Sadlack's study makes an important contribution to this field. This biography will be the first to take Mary seriously as an actor and an agent in her own life, and to study the impact of her political interventions." - Jane Couchman, Professor Emerita, French Studies, Multidisciplinary Studies, and Women's Studies, York University, Canada "The book combines meticulous archival work with rhetorical analysis to produce a fresh and cogent portrait of Mary Tudor's efforts to use her letters to control not only her own fate but also to influence court politics in two nations. The author's careful recovery, translation, and editing of Mary Tudor's letters will make this book valuable to students, professors, and scholars studying early modern English and French history, early modern literature, and the lives of early modern women." - Catherine Loomis, Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of New OrleansTable of ContentsA Queenly Education Becoming the Queen Marrying Where 'my mynd is' Always the French Queen: Identity Politics
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Headline Publishing Group Poison
Book SynopsisPoison documents the tales of the users and victims of these mysterious substances. Profiles of the most commonly used toxins of each era reveal how poisoners have harnessed these natural killers to achieve their ends.Table of ContentsPoison – a Recurring Story. Poisons of the Ancient World. Medieval and Renaissance Poisons. 17th and 18th Century Poisons. 19th Century Poisons. 20th Century Poisons. 21st Century Poisons.
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Penguin Books Ltd A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisFrom the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.Using previously untranslated contemporary accounts from as far and wide as Turkey, Iceland, Armenia, north Africa, and Russia, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a living atlas that blurs the distinction between real and imagined places, offering the reader a vivid and unforgettable insight into how medieval people understood their world.Trade ReviewA stunning book . . . weird and wonderful and quietly hilarious, but the enormous fun of this book would not be possible without solid graft — Bale’s dogged research and his diligent crafting of perfect prose -- Gerard deGroot * The Times *Superb . . . In his remarkable and expertly executed prose, Bale demonstrates his skill as a historian in his handling of the expansive source material available . . . The micro personal experiences told against the backdrop of macro topography is a Herculean task and one that is undertaken with immense passion and knowledge. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a stunning example of the point where true scholarship meets popular history -- Helen Carr * Engelsberg Ideas *An enthralling account of medieval travellers . . . [Bale's] enthusiasm is infectious . . . this is a work of serious scholarship -- Rosemary Goring * Scottish Herald *Ambitious, sweeping across continents with a keen eye for detail . . . moves fluidly between travelogue and scholarly text, imaginative literature and nonfiction . . . In a way that imaginative fiction arguably cannot, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages brings us close to the past it experiences and allows us to be transformed in the process -- Imogen Marchant * TLS *A joyful, erudite book, and a global Middle Ages for our times. Journeying from a monastery in Wiltshire to Ethiopia, India and China, Anthony Bale reinvents the period through its intrepid travellers, and in the process redefines the period -- Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 MapsIntrepid, entertaining, and unfailingly curious, he has now travelled far and wide in their company; balancing sympathy with scepticism, he marvellously reconfigures the contours of our forebears' knowledge -- Marina WarnerRich and wonderful. This is the world as you have never seen it before - and as it will never be seen again. And it's more surprising, extraordinary and bizarre than anything you can possibly imagine -- Ian Mortimer, author of The Time-Traveller’s Guide to Medieval EnglandA fascinating read . . . a new fact to be discovered on every page, written with enthusiasm and wisdom -- Reverend Kate BottleyMasterful, panoramic, beautifully written and vividly imagined, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is a book to be savoured -- Dr Helen Castor, author of Blood and Roses and She-WolvesAnthony Bale's fascinating book immerses us in all the experiences of medieval travel . . . An enthralling journey into the past and across the world, packed with incidents that any reader will find deliciously exotic, yet wryly familiar. Like the most memorable journeys, this book takes us to barely imaginable places - but the most remarkable thing we find may be ourselves -- Seb Falk, author of The Light AgesThis is a gorgeous and fascinating storybook and a richly satisfying journey into the medieval mind . . . All this rests on his prodigious knowledge of the least expected sources. Bale opens a whole scholarly library of smells, tastes and terrors and makes a living parade of them -- Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the WorldA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages is an exhilarating and erudite combination of historical learning and imagination, which guides the reader on a wondrous journey through the real and fantastical worlds of the late Middle Ages . . . Bale reveals the humanity, mundanity, and marvels of travel, from brothels and latrines to statues and spectacular sites -- Elizabeth Boyle, author of Fierce AppetitesA Lonely Planet book for the medieval traveller . . . In this deeply researched but witty and readable guide, Anthony Bale brings us face-to-face with medieval travel – the sights and smells, the thrill and the homesickness – in a way that feels instantly recognisable even at so many centuries’ distance -- Dennis Duncan, author of IndexA Travel Guide to the Middle Ages ingeniously offers the reader two experiences at once. We travel with Europeans of those centuries as they travelled across the Eurasian landmass, and sometimes beyond; but we also travel to them, to their workshops, homes, libraries, towns squares, where they imagined and prepared for travel, and where they told their tales upon return . . . This travel guide is arranged not by time or places, but by encounters and experiences, just as travel is and should be. Anthony Bale seems transformed by his prodigious scholarship and travel, and this edifying and entertaining book is the proof -- Professor Miri Rubin, author of Cities of StrangersThis endlessly delightful book replicates the promises and pleasures of real travel, as we bump into and then lose sight of familiar faces in unfamiliar places. Anthony Bale is an adroit, companionable, and non-judgmental host on the road; he wears his deep knowledge lightly -- James Simpson, Professor of English at Harvard UniversityVivid, exciting and astonishing, Anthony Bale's medieval world is one populated by marvels and fantasies. Bale's exploration, told through the many travellers' texts produced in the later Middle Ages, is beautiful, gripping and fascinating, and informed always by gentle and empathetic reflection upon what it means to be a fragile human being in motion through strange lands, both then and now -- John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge
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