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PA03-75 Spirit of the Union, The.: Popular Politics in Scotland.
  Pentland, Gordon/ 9781851961535
 
  The ¡¥Radical War¡¦ of 1820 holds a prominent place in Scottish culture but an uneasy one in Scottish historiography. In recent times it has provided slogans for SNP activists and inspiration for trade unionists, whilst outside the political sphere, it has inspired plays, poetry, novels and paintings. Given this pervasive presence in politics and culture, a re-examination of the event itself and its legacy is overdue. Pentland¡¦s study has three key aims: to place the uprising in a wider context by exploring the modes of extra-parliamentary politics between 1815¡V20 as well as the situation outside Scotland; to provide the first full and referenced account of the rising itself; and to examine the legacies of both the politics of 1815¡V20 and the Radical War. Pentland argues that a thorough evaluation of this crucial yet little understood ¡V and much mythologized ¡V period in Scottish history will make a significant contribution to our understanding of popular politics in early-nineteenth-century Britain.
PA03-74 Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India.
  Jhala, Angma Dey/ 9781851960644
 
  Investigating the aesthetics of the Zenana ¡V the women¡¦s courts or female quarters of the palace ¡V this study discusses the history of architecture, fashion, jewellery and cuisine in princely Indian states during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The women of these groups inhabited multiple worlds, equally at home in their often remote semi-autonomous princely states as in the metropolitan cities of British India and Europe or at ¡¥coming out¡¦ parties in London. During British colonial rule, zenana women were avid patrons of European jewellers, architects and chefs, juxtaposing traditional Indian styles of each with incoming Western trends. Drawing on a wide variety of sources such as government records, cookbooks, design manuals and memoirs, Jhala illustrates how material culture became representative of authority, sexuality, tradition, and the idea of the ¡¥indigenous¡¦ during the high noon of the Raj. In doing so, Jhala provides a portrait of a hitherto understudied hybrid, cosmopolitan perspective, constructed from a uniquely female world, which has relevance to this day.
PA03-73 Ebenezer Hazard, Jeremy Belknap and the American Revolution.
  Lawson, Russell M/ 9781848930452
 
  The late eighteenth century was a mercurial age in the United States: warring against England, establishing new governments, building a national identity, exploring the hinterland and refining an American identity in prose and verse. Ebenezer Hazard ¡V a classicist and natural scientist ¡V became Postmaster General in 1782. A prolific letter-writer, his favourite correspondent was Jeremy Belknap, a clergyman and historian. Their letters to each other provide an informative and insightful history of the time through everyday events. Communications during wartime were hazardous and unreliable: both men followed the common practice of the day in referring to important people by their initials, but they also took this further, developing a code in order to deceive anyone who might read their correspondence either by chance or design. Lawson¡¦s work illuminates this exchange, allowing modern scholars to see the historical landscape through the thoughts and experiences of two Enlightenment thinkers during the American War of Independence.
PA03-69 Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine.
  Schafer, Daniel/ 9781848930209
 
  Old age is often seen as a disease to be conquered. Early modern perceptions of old age are dominated by medicine¡¦s inability to treat the diseases associated with growing old. This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease. Though very much a medically-oriented study, this history also covers material of literary, religious and legal derivation. Schafer examines over 160 Latin texts from all over Europe, as well as many in the vernacular ¡V including some from America ¡V to challenge medical conceptions of old age during the early modern period. This is a translated and revised version of Alter und Krankheit in der Fruhen Neuzeit: Der arztliche Blick auf die letzte Lebensphase (Campus, 2004)
PA03-47 Daniel O'Connell and the Anti-Slavery Movement: 'The Saddest People the Sun Sees'.
  Kinealy, Christine/ 9781851966332
 
  This study offers invaluable insight into a much neglected area of historical research on this nineteenth-century political figure. While histories on O¡¦Connell have focused predominantly on his attempt to secure a repeal of the 1800 Act of Union and on his success in achieving Catholic Emancipation in 1829, Kinealy turns to the neglected issue of O¡¦Connell¡¦s contribution to the anti-slavery movement in the US. She argues that by using his influences over the the Irish immigrants in the US, O'Connell negotiated a position of importance in the international debate over the right to freedom. The anti-slavery movement occupied an important place in O¡¦Connell¡¦s wider commitment to humanitarian politics. He was both a member of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society and Secretary of the Glasgow Anti-Slavery Society and he developed an international reputation as an influential spokesman on the issue.
PA03-46 Commotion Time: The English Risings of 1549.
  Jones, Amanda/ 9781851969432
 
  In July and August 1549, rebels gathered in camps across twenty-five English counties, stretching from Yorkshire to Cornwall. They produced sixteen petitions expressing a variety of discontents. The geographical scale of the disorder across England eventually led to Protector Somerset¡¦s fall. Kett¡¦s Rebellion in East Anglia and the South-Western Rebellion have traditionally been treated as isolated episodes. The former was concerned primarily with the enclosure of common grazings, and the latter with the introduction of the Book of Common Prayer to the Church of England¡¦s liturgy. However, Jones shows how these rebellions were part of a broader movement, also comprising lesser revolts in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Contemporaries called this the ¡¥commotion time¡¦. Jones contextualises local uprisings within an overarching pattern of protest. This continuum model of disorder allows a comparative approach to different geographical areas, and demonstrates the longer-term consequences of the events of 1549 for the development of the Tudor state.
PA03-42-2 American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, The., Part II, 4-Vols/Set.
  Sarson, Steven/ 9781851969494
 
  This eight-volume reset edition traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonisation of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. At the start of the seventeenth century, colonies were largely autonomous private enterprises. Over time, however, British governments grew more interventionist as they became increasingly alarmed by the colonists¡¦ economic and political liberties. The works covers a wide range of ideas on empire and colonies from both sides of the Atlantic. Varied and often incompatible imperial and colonial ideas were espoused by British political economists, politicians, administrators, colonial governors and other officials, as well as by colonists. Sources include pamphlets, reports, sermons and letters. Almost all the texts are reproduced in full. The edition benefits from a general introduction, introductions to Parts I & II, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. The editorial material takes into account recent intellectual, theoretical and methodological approaches pioneered in empire studies. This edition will be important for scholars of Atlantic History, American and British History and Empire Studies.
PA03-13 Narrative of the Beagle Voyage, 1831-1836, 4-Vols/Set.
  Anderson, Katharine/ 9781851968442
 
  HMS Beagle has entered the collective imagination as the ship which carried Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands. There, he began to develop the theory of natural selection. However, the Beagle also played a vital role in the development of modern meteorology, hydrography and cartography. Her skipper, Captain Robert FitzRoy, was charged with the important tasks of ascertaining the longitude of Rio de Janeiro, from where all meridian distances in South America were measured, and charting the continent's coastline, much of which had not previously been mapped. To accomplish this, the Beagle carried cutting-edge navigation and surveying equipment. She was also the first ship to use Francis Beaufort's new system for measuring wind speed at sea, which is still in use today. Darwin and FitzRoy's accounts of the voyage were published in the four-volume Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the Years 1826 and 1836 (1839). Darwin's volume was republished almost immediately and has never been out of print. By contrast, this new three-volume reset edition is the first critical version of Fitzroy's Narrative. It will generate new scholarly approaches to the Beagle voyage, and be crucial for those interested in Darwin Studies, Maritime History, History of Science and Colonial Studies.
PA03-12-4 Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, The. Volume 4.
  Chambers, Neil/ 9781851968381
 
 
VC01-49 Women's Economic Writing 1760-1900, 6-Vols/Set.
  Seiz, Janet/ 9780415340397
 
  This collection presents six volumes of significant economic writing by women between the mid 18th century and the early twentieth century. The writings are organized thematically and among the topics included are: * Political Economy for the Masses * Women's Economic Lives * Poverty and the Condition of the Working Class * Slavery, Race and Empire * Socialism
VA17-27 Religion and Violence: Critical Concepts in Sociology, 4-Vols/Set.
  Wolfart, Johannes/ 9780415331258
 
  This four volume set represents the most extensive guide available to past and current research on religion and violence from ancient times to the present. The contents are highly interdisciplinary, drawing together landmark work from the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, political acience and religious studies. Primary sources, including excerpts from sacred texts, classical theological statements, and graphic illustrations, supplement the scholarly areticles, providing readers with a range of sources to draw upon in their own teaching and research. Conflict between Muslims and Jews in the Middle East, Catholics and Protestants in Ireland, religious nationalism in Africa or fundamentalism in South Asia, the language of Jihad from one corner, the language of crusade from another, the din of explosions in nightclubs, marketplaces, and abortion clinics: everyday, the news media offers a new report illustrating the vital link between religion and violence. Although religiously-motivated violence is widely acknowledged, it is poorly understood. As globalization continues both to inspire crises of faith, and to broadcast the bloody consequences of these crises, the need for a comprehensive reference work such as this seems more urgent now than ever before.
VA03-205 Concise Encyclopedia of World War II, The., 2-Vols/Set.
  Nolan, Cathal J./ 9780313330506
 
  Filled with up-to-date scholarship yet supremely manageable and accessible, The Concise Encyclopedia of World War II offers the opportunity to explore a conflict that remains a source of fascination for scholars, students, and general readers alike. From the battlefields to the corridors of power, from the barracks to the home front, The Concise Encyclopedia of World War II provides a complete portrait of the war. Entries not only address major battles and campaigns, but political, economic, and cultural issues as well, plus brief portraits of the conflict¡¦s commanding personalities. Its global perspective notably corrects the usual Western focus of World War II studies, incorporating a wealth of information on often underreported topics such as the Eastern Front and the Sino-Japanese War.
VA03-204 Companion to Ancient Egypt, A., 2-Vols/Set.
  Lloyd, Alan B./ 9781405155984
 
  This Companion provides the very latest accounts of the major and current aspects of Egyptology by leading scholars. It is delivered in a highly readable style and extensively illustrated; published in two volumes, it offers unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage, giving full scope to the discussion of this incredible civilization. *Provides the very latest and, where relevant, well-illustrated accounts of the major aspects of Egypt¡¦s ancient history and culture *Covers a broad scope of topics including physical context, history, economic and social mechanisms, language, literature, and the visual arts *Delivered in a highly readable style with students and scholars of both Egyptology and Graeco-Roman studies in mind *Provides a chronological table at the start of each volume to help readers orient chapters within the wider historical context
VA03-203 Imperial Japan and the World, 1931-1945, 4-Vols/Set.
  Best, Antony/ 9780415406765
 
 
VA03-202 Responding to Fascism, 12-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415576994
 
  This collection of contemporary and near contemporary works represents some of the diversity of response as the English speaking world struggled to come to terms with the political upheaval. The authors are similarly diverse and range from activists through academics to apologists.In Enter Mussolini and The Rise of Italian Fascism leading anti-fascist writers Emilio Lussu and Angelo Tasca (writing under the pseudonym 'Amilcare Rossi') chart the establishment of a fascist state in Italy and offer telling insights into the nature and future of fascism. Both Lussu and Tasca were active in their opposition, and for many others the response to fascism involved taking up arms, typified by the thousands of volunteered to fight against Franco in Spain. In The Spanish Tragedy, Dutch writer Jef Last's recounts his experience, which ends in disillusionment with Stalin and the Soviet Union.Other works demonstrate a more basic need for information. Hitler's Official Programme is a translation of official Nazi documents, which a contemporary review describes as 'a declaration of war by barbarism on civilization'. However it should never be forgotten that the views of many others were more equivocal. In Norman Hillson's I Speak of England the author offers a sympathetic description of a journey through Germany, highlighting the success of economic reconstruction under Hitler. Issues of race are not ignored but are not seen as central, a view which is challenged by the works of the two exiled German Jews, Heinrich Fraenkel and G. Warburg, included in this collection.A characteristic of the fascist regimes was the extent to which ideology penetrated aspects of everyday life. German Literature through Nazi Eyes and Higher Education in Nazi Germany examine the impact of the Nazis on culture and education. Straight On includes an account of Red Cross work in Belsen and Auschwitz, perhaps the most moving and tragic of the many responses to fascism.
VA03-201 Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment , 2-Vols/Set.
  Spencer, Mark G./ 9780826479693
 
 
VA03-199 Genocide, 6-Vols/Set.
  Moses, A. Dirk/ 9780415493758
 
  Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called 'ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated, and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover, events such as the Sudanese government's genocidal counter-insurgency in Darfur suggest that, like war, genocide is a pervasive feature of human society that is here to stay. Addressing the need for an authoritative and comprehensive reference work to enable users to make sense of-and to navigate around-the ever more complex research corpus, Genocide is a new title in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Historical Studies series. Edited by A. Dirk Moses of the University of Sydney, it is a six-volume collection of foundational and the very best cutting-edge scholarship. *Volume I: THE DISCIPLINE OF GENOCIDE STUDIES *Volume II: GENOCIDE BEFORE MODERNITY *Volume III: COLONIAL AND IMPERIAL GENOCIDES *Volume IV: TWENTIETH-CENTURY IMPERIAL GENOCIDES: THE SOVIET UNION AND NAZI GERMANY *Volume V: POST-COLONIAL AND -IMPERIAL GENOCIDE *Volume VI: HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION, THE PROSECUTION OF GENOCIDE, TRAUMA, AND RECOVERY
PA03-72 Reading in History: New Methodologies from the Anglo-American Tradition.
  Gunzenhauser, Bonnie/ 9781851966288
 
  This collection of essays draws together new research from leading scholars to offer a new methodological framework for the history of reading. A growing field, history of reading brings together practitioners from literature, history, sociology, education, philosophy, cultural studies and law. On the one hand, scholars have approached the subject empirically, focusing on a specific historical moment and gathering detailed statistics about such issues as literacy rates, library subscriptions, publication and sales figures and print runs to answer questions about what was being read and by whom in a particular place and time. On the other, scholars have approached the subject theoretically, focusing on how meaning is created and conditioned by a theoretical ¡V and often largely ahistorical ¡V reader. This edition synthesizes divergent approaches to reconsider the history of reading, the ways we make claims about readers and what they do with texts.
PA03-71 Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe.
  Cislo, Amy Eisen/ 9781851969951
 
  Paracelsus (c.1493-1541) is the most famous physician of the sixteenth century. He has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. He left behind a significant body of work that includes ruminations about alchemy, health, healing, mineralogy, theology and nature. The republication of his writings during the twentieth century divided his work into medical and chemical tracts, and religious tracts. Cislo argues that to understand Paracelsus, modern scholars need to avoid dividing his oeuvre into modern categories of science and theology. By focusing on themes of conception and gestation, she explores how Paracelsus¡¦s theological and medical interests overlapped, intertwined and converged. Cislo argues that Paracelsus developed an understanding of the body as composed of two distinct sexes, revolutionizing early modern conceptions of the female body as an inversion of or flawed approximation of the male body. He compared human bodies to what he considered divinely created bodies, namely those of Christ, Mary, Adam and Eve. Paracelsus related human birth to these biblical figures and his thoughts about holy bodies led him to delineate his understanding of the nature of human bodies and the spiritual quality of human life, namely the process of embodiment.
PA03-70 Orde Wingate and the British Army, 1922-1944.
  Anglim, Simon/ 9781848930049
 
  Major General Orde Wingate (1903¡V1944) was the most controversial British military commander of the Second World War, and perhaps of the last hundred years. More than sixty years after his death he still splits opinion amongst soldiers, academics and writers. Anglim¡¦s biography fills a significant void in the literature, making extensive use of Wingate¡¦s papers ¡V official and private ¡V to place him firmly in the context of the British army of the time. The man who is revealed is shed of his mythology, but a more interesting figure emerges ¡V one of significant historical interest.
PA03-68 Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial Southeast America, 1650-1725.
  Grady, Timothy P/ 9781848930407
 
  Often played down in favour of the larger competition for empire between England and France, the influence of the Spanish in English Carolina and the English in Spanish Florida created a rivalry that shaped the early history of colonial southeast America. This study is the first to tell the full story of this rivalry, working it in to the historiography of both colonies. Looking at the region in detail, Grady examines the relations between the English and Spanish colonists and the Native American population. Numerous indigenous tribes represented the real power in these regions, with colonial rivalries often being played out through the manipulation of these fragile friendships. Such a detailed, regional approach allows a rich, vibrant narrative to tell a story of political, economic, cultural and social interaction through varying perspectives, placing the disparate groups into the context of a much larger historical tapestry.
PA03-55-2 History of Suicide in England, 1650-1850, The.: Part II: Volumes 5-8.
  Andrew, Donna T./ 9781851969814
 
  In addition to general commentary on suicide, materials relate to selected high-profile cases, including Charles Blount, Robert Clive, George Hesse, Samuel Romilly and Lord Castlereagh. Sources are varied and include newspaper and magazine reports, sermons, pamphlets, legal and medical material, ballads, poetry, plays and novels. Much of this material has not been republished before. New editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. This edition will be essential for scholars of Social History, Legal History, Religious Studies, History of Crime and Historical Sociology.
PA03-55-1 History of Suicide in England, 1650-1850, The.: Part I: Volumes 1-4.
  Andrew, Donna T./ 9781851969807
 
  In addition to general commentary on suicide, materials relate to selected high-profile cases, including Charles Blount, Robert Clive, George Hesse, Samuel Romilly and Lord Castlereagh. Sources are varied and include newspaper and magazine reports, sermons, pamphlets, legal and medical material, ballads, poetry, plays and novels. Much of this material has not been republished before. New editorial material includes a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. This edition will be essential for scholars of Social History, Legal History, Religious Studies, History of Crime and Historical Sociology.
PA03-44-2 Public Execution in England, 1573-1868, Part II, 4-Vols/Set.
  Yetter, Leigh/ 9781851969449
 
  The execution narrative was a popular genre in early modern England. New printing processes fed a public fascination with sensational eyewitness accounts of executions and transcriptions of felon¡¦s scaffold speeches. This eight-volume facsimile edition, the first of its kind, draws together a representative selection of texts to show the evolution of the genre from the late sixteenth century to the end of public execution in England nearly 300 years later. Primary source materials include pamphlets, broadsides, scaffold speeches and newspaper reports. The stories are, at turns, tragic, brutal, pathetic, touching, pious and irreverent. They provide invaluable insights into contemporary ideas of justice and the efficacy of capital punishment. They are tangible remnants of the fragile and complex relationship between a range of oppositional influences: the powerful and the governed, church and state, the market and morality, the moral collective and the individual offender. Usually cheap, sometimes crude, and always produced for sale (and, ideally, for profit), these works also represent a vital component of England¡¦s developing print culture and the range of uses to which print media were put in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. The edition includes extensive editorial material with a general introduction, section introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. It will appeal to those studying Social and Cultural History, History of Print, History of Government and History of Crime.
PA03-42-1 American Colonies and the British Empire, 1607-1783, The., Part I, 4-Vols/Set.
  Sarson, Steven/ 9781851969487
 
  This eight-volume reset edition traces the evolution of imperial and colonial ideologies during the British colonisation of America. It covers the period from the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607 to the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. At the start of the seventeenth century, colonies were largely autonomous private enterprises. Over time, however, British governments grew more interventionist as they became increasingly alarmed by the colonists¡¦ economic and political liberties. The works covers a wide range of ideas on empire and colonies from both sides of the Atlantic. Varied and often incompatible imperial and colonial ideas were espoused by British political economists, politicians, administrators, colonial governors and other officials, as well as by colonists. Sources include pamphlets, reports, sermons and letters. Almost all the texts are reproduced in full. The edition benefits from a general introduction, introductions to Parts I & II, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index in the final volume. The editorial material takes into account recent intellectual, theoretical and methodological approaches pioneered in empire studies. This edition will be important for scholars of Atlantic History, American and British History and Empire Studies.
PA03-12-3 Indian and Pacific Correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks, 1768-1820, The. Volume 3.
  Chambers, Neil/ 9781851968374
 
 
GA03-134-5 Qing Dynasty Architecture.
  / 9789814272407
 
  This book is a compilation of 540 photographs and paintings of Qing Dynasty architecture that appeared in Western publications currently housed in the Peking University Library. The collection is categorized into 18 chapters, such as city walls and gates, pagodas, archways, guild houses, churches, streets, and bridges. These photographs and paintings present a visual introduction to the modes and styles of Chinese architecture built before and during the Qing Dynasty. Besides mirroring the various social upheavals in China during the late Qing Dynasty, the photographs also reflect the Sino¡VWestern cultural interactions and military encounters then. This is shown in photographs of armed foreign troops standing guard on the city walls of Nanjing and the triumphant parade of the German military motorcade along a street in Qingdao. In conclusion, this book is useful as a visual reference for researching the architectural evolution during the Qing Dynasty and also provides a fresh and multi-faceted perspective on China¡¦s political, social, cultural, and economic landscapes then.
REMEMBERING UTOPIA: The Culture of Everyday Life in Socialist Yugoslavia.
  Luthar, Breda/ 9780984406234
 
 
48 Hours of Kristallnacht: Night of Destruction/Dawn of the Holocaust.
  Bard, Mitchell G./ 9781599219660
 
 
Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program.
  Gallagher, Thomas/ 9781599219127
 
 
 

 

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