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Radical voices, radical ways
This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era, using innovative interdisciplinary research that draws on a wide range of primary material.
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Democracy and dissent in the irish free state
Analysis of the conflict between multiparty democratic norms and sweeping monolithic nationalist movements in the aftermath of the Irish revolution.
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Ghost-haunted land
This wide-ranging study addresses developments in video, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and more, offering detailed analyses of key works by artists based in Ireland and beyond — including 2014 Turner Prize winner Duncan Campbell and internationally acclaimed filmmaker and photogra...
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Pre–school childcare in england, 1939–2010
Investigates how competing ideas about child development influenced the provision, practice and experience of childcare for the under fives since 1939.
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Making peace with the past?
A study of memory and trauma in the conflict in Northern Ireland, and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation
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The red and the black
This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and var...
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Princely power in the dutch republic
Princely Power in the Dutch Republic offers a vivid analysis of the role of patronage in the Dutch Golden Age. It is based on the highly illuminating private diaries of William Frederick of Nassau (1613-1664).
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Catholicism and children's literature in france
The first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children’s literature...
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The british people and the league of nations
A rich and original study of the culture of association, showing the ‘Big Society’ in action in interwar Britain. First full-length study of a major British pressure-group, the League of Nations Union, since 1981, making extensive use of local archives. Essential reading for anyone interested in ...
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Jews on trial
This book explores the Papal Inquisition in Modena and the status of Jews in an early modern Italian duchy. Its purpose is to deepen existing insights into the role of the former and thus lead to a better understanding of how the tribunal assumed jurisdiction over a practicing Jewish community in...
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Chaplains in early modern england
A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England.
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A global history of early modern violence
This is the first broad study of large-scale violence and the methods of its restraint in the early modern world. Its case studies range from the early 1500s to the 1830s, taking in African slave raiders, Dutch merchants, Burmese bandits, Kurdish highwaymen, Mughal warriors, Spanish colonial sold...
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Gender and the race for space
This book argues that the American astronaut image was informed by early Cold War ideals of masculinity that helped mold a distinctly American (anti-communist) masculinity, which appeared—on the surface anyway—to resolve not only an American “crisis of masculinity” but helped win the Cold War on ...
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Irish catholic identities
Explores the historical developments that shaped Irish identity and linked it so closely to Catholicism
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The germans in their century
Why did Bismarck's new German State Degenerate into Hitler's Third Reich? What happened to Europes leading industrial nation - cultural heirs to Kant, Goethe, Durer and Bach? How did East and West Germany diverge after 1945?In this unique and controversial study the author - Prussian aristocrat, ...
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The vanishing indian upper class
The Vanishing Indian Upper Class is based on a life-narrative [true-life story] and contains various elements of history, politics, religion, literature and poetry. In anonymized form it dramatizes a personal family history focused around a continuing and unresolved family inheritance and propert...
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The making of christian communities in late antiquity and the middle ages
This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely – and sometimes acrimoniously – aware.
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Spies in the empire
Stephen Wade’s enthralling book reveals the unsteady foundations of one of the country’s most prominent and renowned organizations, tracing the various elements that gradually composed the intelligence and political branches of Britain’s Secret Service.
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Comic empires
Comic empires is an innovative collection of new scholarly research, exploring the relationship between imperialism and cartoons, caricature, and comic art.
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Taiwan straits standoff
Following the Nationalist defeat on the mainland in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and his followers retreated to Taiwan, forming the Republic of China (ROC). Tensions with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) focused on control over a number of offshore islands, especially Quemoy (Jinmen) and Matsu (Mazu...
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Empire and enterprise
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of...
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Colonialism and transnational psychiatry
This book provides an in-depth case study of a psychiatric institution within the context of colonial rule during the early twentieth century. It focuses on patient statistics, medical treatments and diagnoses, and considers the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services...
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The impact of coincidence in modern american, british, and asian history
In 21 short case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century. It covers a wide range of historical events, from American expansion into the Pacific to the creation of the Soviet gulags in Sibe...
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Secret agents and the memory of everyday collaboration in communist eastern europe
'Secret Agents and the Memory of Everyday Collaboration in Communist Eastern Europe' examines the ways in which post-Communist societies have sought to make sense of Communist-era collaboration. It explores the motivations for becoming an agent and the moralities of this role, as well as the pers...
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The economic turn
‘The Economic Turn’ brings together many of the world’s leading historians of early political economy to recast the very origins of the discipline in light of the Europe-wide critical reaction to the school of Enlightenment economic thought known as Physiocracy.
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The uses of literacy in colonial australia
Relying on autobiographical documents, this book analyses what Australians read in the 19th century, as well as what they wrote, in terms of personal and everyday, non-literary writings. It emphasises the Britishness of colonial society, without forgetting specifically Australian inflections of r...
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Poverty, philanthropy and the state
This book charts the growth of the university settlement movement, a fundamental influence in the shaping of the welfare state, from 1918 to Margaret Thatcher's election in 1979. It looks at the complex relationships between charities, the welfare state and individuals and the ways in which chang...
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Transnational coupling in the age of nation making during the 19th and 20th centuries
Transnational Coupling in the Age of Nation Making during the 19th and 20th Centuries examines and compares courtship and marriage patterns that occurred between France and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Departing from state-centered studies of marriage law, it draws on the...
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Calcutta mosaic
‘Calcutta Mosiac’ explores the history of the diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
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London: a pilgrimage
'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style.
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Congress politics in bengal 1919-1939
In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.
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Brazil and the transnational human rights movement, 1964-1985
Brazil and the Transnational Human Rights Movement, 1964–1985 is about how Brazilians and European solidarity networks collaborated to resist dictatorship in Brazil and contribute to a more expansive definition of human rights.
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From the ‘troubles’ to trumpism
From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960–2023 is a history inspired by contemporary Irish literature and also an op-ed that identifies parallels between the socio-economic causes of conflict in Northern Ireland and one possible outcome of Trumpism in contemporary America.
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On commerce and usury (1524)
This volume presents Martin Luther’s contribution to the modern economic sciences, providing a detailed introduction and revised translation of his 1524 pamphlet, ‘On Commerce and Usury’ (‘Von Kauffshandlung vnd Wucher’).
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The puritan ideology of mobility
The Puritan Ideology of Mobility: Corporatism, the Politics of Place, and the Founding of New England Towns before 1650 presents the ideology of mobility which Puritan leaders developed to justify migration and town founding. New England towns were born as living “bodies politic” with a metaphysi...
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The making of the modern chinese navy
‘The Making of the Modern Chinese Navy’ includes 14 historical case studies that help to illuminate a number of special characteristics of the modern-day Chinese navy.
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The anthem companion to maurice halbwachs
This book seeks to place Louis Maurice Halbwachs in his historical and intellectual context, showing that his work was sensitive to the events of his time, and that the development of his analysis could be influenced by happenstance.
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Portuguese and amsterdam sephardic merchants in the tobacco trade
The book surveys the role of Portuguese and Sephardic merchants in the contraband tobacco trade in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Atlantic world. It offers a historical-geographic perspective linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the “Portu...
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Enlightenment travel and british identities
‘Enlightenment Travel and British Identities’ is the first-ever collection of essays devoted to the influential eighteenth-century travel-writer, antiquarian and naturalist, Thomas Pennant (1726–1798). Offering a truly multidisciplinary range of perspectives, it explores the complex networks of i...
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The global spread of football from the 1860s to the 1880s
This book offers a study of how football became in the 1870s a global sport that was played by high school students on several continents. It provides a horizontal perspective that focusses on the spread of football from its English cradle to Germany, the United States, and Argentina.
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In the world of the outcasts
This is the first English-language translation of P. F. Iakubovich’s popular roman à clef about his exile and experiences as a Siberian penal laborer during the late nineteenth century.
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Ireland’s great famine, britain’s great failure
This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how c...
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Russia's penal colony in the far east
‘Russia’s Penal Colony in the Far East: A Translation of Vlas Doroshevich’s “Sakhalin”’ is the first English language translation of the Russian journalist Vlas Doroshevich’s 1903 account of his visit to tsarist Russia’s largest penal colony, Sakhalin, in the north Pacific.
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Holodomor and gorta mór
A comparative study of the famines of Ireland (1845–51) and Ukraine (1932–33), and how historical experiences of famine were translated into narratives that supported political claims for independent national statehood.
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Architects of the resurrection
Seeking the creation of a one-party totalitarian state, Ailtirí na hAiséirghe was Ireland's leading fascist movement during the Second World War. Architects of the Resurrection reconstructs the hidden history of this pro-Axis organisation, and its ambitious plans to make Ireland the leading light...
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My voice: suzanne harris
Suzanne's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Suzanne Harris lived in Paris in the war until her family fled to Argenty. She moved to England after the war and settled in Manchester.
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The society for irish church missions to the roman catholics, 1849–1950
An exploration of the establishment, operations and impact of a large-scale Protestant mission in Ireland from its foundation during the famine into the early decades of the Irish Free State.
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Living with lodgers
For the Victorian working class, lodging in someone else’s home was commonplace. Drawing on hundreds of coroners’ inquests reported in the Victorian press, Living with lodgers traverses England’s domestic dwelling lodgings, providing an intimate portrayal of the lives of the inhabitants.
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Crowds and popular politics in early modern england
This collection of essays offers a radical re-evaluation of the nature of crowds and popular protest in the early modern period
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George fox and early quaker culture
Close readings of Fox’s Journal are put in dialogue with the voices of other early Friends and their critics to examine the fundamental erosion of the division between the human and the divine in early Quaker culture, and its consequences for understanding the history of the spiritual subject.
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La parisienne in cinema
The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our understanding of this intriguing cinematic figure, simultaneously offering new perspectives on film.
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Civil war london
London’s mobilisation proved crucial to parliament’s success in the English Civil War. Through a rigorous investigation of archival and print sources, this book shows how and why the City aligned its interests with parliament and how, ultimately, this alignment led to the establishment of an army...
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The pastor in print
The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With careful attention to audience, content, genre, and timing of publications, pastor-authors sought to complement parish work and achieve diverse religious...
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Mourning becomes...
Mourning Becomes… challenges many supposed ‘facts’ about the concentration camps established by the British military during the South African War 1899-1902.
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Telling tales about men
Explores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in England during the First World War. In doing so it considers these men’s experiences, their beliefs, perceptions and actions.
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The neurologists
Describes how Victorian physicians located in a medical culture that privileged general knowledge over narrow specialism came to be transformed into the specialised physicians we now call neurologists
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Christmas in nineteenth-century england
The first study to examine both the experience and representation of Christmas during the formative period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Catholics and the ‘protestant nation’
This collection of original essays combines the interests of leading ‘Catholic historians’ and leading historians of early modern English culture to pull Catholicism back into the mainstream of English historiography
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The imperial commonwealth
The Imperial Commonwealth examines what empire meant to late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australian settler colonists, how it seemed to entail special obligations for white settlers of British heritage, and how, in developing settler colonial categories of empire, Australian itself be...
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Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century iran
Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts.
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Reading ireland
An innovative book revealing the impact of print on social change in early modern Ireland
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Republican passions
Republican passions provides an innovative perspective on the founding of the French Third Republic. Based on the archives of Léon Laurent-Pichat, journalist, Deputy and Life Senator, it demonstrates the crucial role of family and friendship networks in the republican movement during the Second E...
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Disability and the victorians
Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interventions they introduced to support such people and considers the legacies they left behind by their actions and perspectives. A range of impairments a...
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Humanitarian aid, genocide and mass killings
Throughout the 1990s, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) faced challenges posed by the genocide of Rwandan Tutsis and a succession of outbreaks of political violence in Rwanda and in its neighbours. This book recounts the experiences of the MSF teams working in the field.
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The scottish witch-hunt in context
A collection of essays on Scottish witchcraft and witch-hunting, which covers the whole period of the Scottish witch-hunt, from the mid-sixteenth century to the early eighteenth. Includes studies of particular witchcraft panics such as a reassessment of the role of King James VI. Covers a wide ra...
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Healthy living in the alps
Healthy living in the Alps examines the relationship between the search for relief from respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis, in high alpine resorts and the development in the same places of winter sports tourism.The first winter visitors to the Swiss Alps began to arrive in the 1860s and w...
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Politics, performance and popular culture
Working with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political, this book brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base.
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The common writer in modern history
This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ‘ordinary writings’ across a range of geographical area...
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The peterborough chronicle, volume 2
This work is a critical edition and translation with commentary on one of the most important surviving Anglo-Saxon historical documents, The Peterborough Chronicle.
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Engines for empire
This wide-ranging and extensively researched work reviews the way in which the British army exploited the potential of railways from the ‘dawn of the railway age’ to the outbreak of the First World War.
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The politics of regicide in england, 1760–1850
Reappraises the often complex relationship between British monarchs and some of their more troublesome subjects in the 'age of revolutions'. Casts new light upon the contested languages of constitutionalism, contract theory and the rights of petition and provokes fresh controversy over the viabi...
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War and politics in the elizabethan counties
Reassesses the national war effort during the Elizabethan wars against Spain (1585–1603). Drawing on a mass of hitherto neglected sources, it finds a political system in much better health than has been thought, revising many existing assumptions about the weaknesses of the state in the face of m...
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Imperialism and popular culture
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalis...
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Max nettlau’s utopian vision
Max Nettlau’s Utopian Vision provides a historically grounded presentation of the entire literature of utopianism. Nettlau shows an encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject.
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Sixteenth-century identities
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Conceptions of dreaming from homer to 1800
‘Conceptions of Dreaming from Homer to 1800’ is an intellectual history of European theories of dreaming from Homer until the end of the eighteenth century, the period during which the dream as divine revelation was at the centre of dream theory.
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Joseph karo and shaping of modern jewish law
The book provides a global perspective on the history of Jewish law during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on the codification works of R. Joseph Karo.
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The historiography of gladstone and disraeli
This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the lively historical controversies surrounding the political careers of Gladstone and Disraeli. Organised thematically around the most contested areas of interpretation, it offers a unique insight into the politics of Victorian England.
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A treatise on abundance (1638) and early modern views on poverty and famine
‘A “Treatise on Abundance” (1638) and Early Modern Views of Poverty and Famine’ is an edited English translation of Carlo Tapia’s ‘Trattato dell’abondanza’.
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Approaches to the study of intercultural transfer
“Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer” explores the intricacies and mechanisms of intercultural transfers.
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Genocide: a thematic approach
The purpose of this volume is not simply to compile yet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings. It is intended to give the needed context to understand why such violence has been perpetrated in the past and why it continues to occur so freque...
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Robert franklin williams speaks: a documentary history
Williams was a compassionate man. He was an intelligent American citizen and Korean war veteran, who claimed his right of American citizenship. Acutely aware of the broken promises of the US government, he remained fully invested in the rights, privileges, and responsibilities the Constitution gu...
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Adult responses to popular music and intergenerational relations in britain, c. 1955–1975
‘Adult Reactions to Popular Music and Inter-generational Relations in Britain, 1955–1975’ constitutes a thematic examination of the pervasive assumption that ‘the older generation’ reacted in a largely negative fashion to music styles popular with British young people from the 1950s to the mid-19...
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Changes in attitudes to immigrants in britain, 1841-1921
This book reviews changes in attitudes to immigrants in Britain and the language used to put these feelings into words between 1841 and 1921.
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An ethos of transdisciplinarity
Toyin Falola is one of modern Africa’s most prolific public intellectuals. This project seeks to illuminate the mind of this modern master in an age of transnationalisation.
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War, genocide and cultural memory
This book presents the most comprehensive study of the Waffen-SS until this date. Based on archival studies done in more than 20 archives in 13 different countries over a period of 5 years the book covers the entire history of the Waffen-SS and follows the post-war fate of the SS-veterans as well.
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Revising history in communist europe
Both Hungary’s 1956 uprising and the Prague Spring took place when regimes tentatively revised recent history. This process of remembering and forgetting shook the legitimacy, and shaped the actions, of communist party-states because their control of the past was central to their grasp of the pre...
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People, nations and traditions in a comparative frame
This book illustrates and celebrates Professor Jonathan Steinberg’s – a celebrated historian of modern Europe, especially Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland – contributions to historical practice. Professor Steinberg embraced methodological pluralism and pioneered comparative history, explor...
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Bridging boundaries in british migration history
This memorial book honours the legacy of Eric Richards’s work in an interplay of academic essays and personal accounts of Eric Richards. Following the Eric Richards methodology, it combines micro- and macro-perspectives of British migration history and covers topics such as diasporas, religious, ...
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Jane austen’s aunt behind bars
This new book brings together Stephen Wade’s two areas of interest, focusing on the writers in the reigns of Anne to Victoria. The essays here recount and explore the prison experience of writers, both famous and obscure, who came to know the insides of Britain’s prisons.
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Minutes to midnight
The book examines the evolution of the predicament symbolised by the setting of the Doomsday Clock at a few minutes to midnight in the context of the Anthropocene Era from 1763, making special reference to the study of history.
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Pashtun identity and geopolitics in southwest asia
This book juxtaposes vital issues of Pashtun identity, state formation, Taliban on both sides of the Durand Line, Frontier Crimes Regulation, security prerogative and the civil societies of Pakistan and Afghanistan, which since 9/11, have been posited in a rather precarious geopolitics.
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Kenya and the politics of a postcolony
This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.
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Civilizing missions in colonial and postcolonial south asia
This collection provides a historical exploration of the tensions and complexities of civilizing missions undertaken by British or Indian states or organizations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia.
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