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This book reexamines slave trading in the early Middle Ages from a comparative perspective, situating it at the core of economic and political development in northern and eastern Europe. In focusing on the 'slaving zones' centred around the British Isles and the Czech lands, Fontaine traces the forced migration of enslaved people from the point of capture to their destinations across Europe, the North Atlantic, North Africa, and western Asia. The crux of the book are the changes of the ninth and tenth centuries prompted by increased demand, principally in the Islamic world as well as areas of Viking settlement. The desire to source more and more slaves led to changes in the practice of warfare to maximise captive taking, the logistics of slave trading and rulers' legal and economic relationships with slavery. By spanning the seventh through the eleventh centuries, this important study traces the growth, climax, and decline of slave trading in the early Middle Ages and establishes its role as a driver of connectivity.

Italy is synonymous with fashion. Fashion is one of the country's leading exports, and Italian brands are recognised and coveted across the world. But this was not always the case. Traditional accounts of the ascent of Italian fashion begin in 1951, when Giovanni Battista Giorgini hosted the first Italian High Fashion Show at his home in Florence. Becoming couture offers a compelling counter-narrative. Tracing continuities between the Fascist period and the First Republic, the book reveals the links between the private companies, government agencies, and non-profit organizations that worked to promote the international launch of Italian fashion. It also examines the impact of the Second World War on fashion intermediaries, showing that the experience gained from 'silent' assignments during the conflict improved their performance in peacetime. Identifying the years 1944 to 1953 as the decisive period for the strengthening of the Italian fashion offer, Becoming couture sheds light on the challenges of reconstructing Italy, both physically and in terms of image. At the same time, it tells the story of a creative industry finally achieving recognition in the international market.

With increasing international attention directed northwards, the status of the eight Arctic states have taken on added geopolitical importance. However, a formal title is one thing, political practice and feelings of attachment is another. This book sets out to answer whether there is such a thing as an Arctic state identity, and specifically what this might mean for state personnel. It focuses on three of the eight Arctic states, where identity has been frequently talked about by political leaders: Norway, Iceland, and Canada. By focusing on three diverse cases of Arctic state identity, the book charts similarities and differences across state contexts. As soon becomes clear, there is no singular Arctic state identity, but rather numerous relational articulations of what it means to represent and 'be' Arctic. These identities are narrated as both geographical and historical, yet the ways in which they come to matter are always social, political, and cultural. The book offers a new perspective and powerful insights from 'inside' the state in a time when Arctic geopolitics is high on the agenda. And more broadly, it presents a 'peopled' understanding of geopolitics, charting the rich stories, experiences, and thoughtful reflections of state personnel. Introducing the original concept and framework of 'state identity', the book brings together views of statehood and national identity, showing the human side of representing a state.

In the decades following the Second World War, youthful sociability was remade as young people across Britain flocked to newly-opened coffee bars, beat clubs, and discos, drawn to their dark corners, crowded dance floors, and loud music. These spaces, increasingly unknown and unfamiliar to the adults who passed by them, played a remarkable role in reshaping town and city centres after dark as sites of leisure and recreation. Growing up and going out is a book about sociability, leisure, and youth culture in post-war Britain, and demonstrates how young people's experience of commercial youth leisure was increasingly characterised by its spatial and temporal separation from the wider urban leisurescape. Telling the history of youth in post-war Britain from the ground up, through the towns and cities that young people moved though, this book traces how the new spaces of post-war youth leisure transformed both young people's relationship with their local environment and adults' perceptions of the possibilities and dangers of modern leisure Using an extensive range of sources, from oral histories, to licensing documents, government records, and newspapers, this book demonstrates the importance of taking popular youth cultures seriously. Exploring the making and meaning of youth leisure, Growing up and going out offers a timely reassessment of young lives in the second half of the twentieth century that will be essential reading to scholars of youth, modern Britain, and popular culture.

This Malone Society edition of Barnabe Barnes's The Devil's Charter (1607) is intended to supplement the important edition, published in 1904, of the play by R.B. McKerrow, the great editor of the works of Thomas Nashe. The new edition is based on a fresh examination of the twenty-three known copies of the quarto, which exhibit marked differences in relation to stop-press correction. The Introduction considers the play's printing history, its date and authorship, its performance, and later history. Particular attention is paid to the possibility that Robert Armin had a hand in several scenes in the play and to how Barnes's play may have come to be acted before King James I. Barnes is shown to have been familiar with Shakespeare's plays and, in particular, to have borrowed elements from Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and All's Well that Ends Well.

This volume presents a modernised edition of Christopher Marlowe's critical engagement with one of the bloodiest and traumatic episodes of the French Wars of Religion, the wholesale massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in August, 1572. Sensorily shocking and intellectually gripping, the play's dramatic action spans a tumultuous two decades in French history to unfold for its audience the tragic consequences of religious fanaticism, power politics, and dynastic rivalry. Comprehensively introduced and containing full commentary notes, this edition opens up this frequently neglected but historically significant and dramatically powerful play to student and scholar alike. The introduction examines such topics as the history of the massacre, the play's treatment of its sources, the play's dramatisation of trauma, and the play's exploration of notions of religious toleration. Its notes record the text's full collation with all extant early editions and major modern editions. Its commentary notes clarify the meaning of the text and aspects of its staging, guide the reader through the play's dramatisation of early modern French history, and place the play in its broader cultural and artistic milieu. An appendix reproduces a modernised and annotated version of the Collier Leaf, a fragment from a fuller but now lost version of the play. This Revels edition aims to encourage new contemporary critical study of Marlowe's powerful and provocative drama.

This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture. -- .

This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design, painting and jewellery. It contextualises the consort's place within the wider socio-political environment of the Stuart courts and provides a comprehensive understanding of her personal iconography, aims, interests and alliances. -- .

A comprehensive examination of the origins of Vancouver photo-conceptualism. The book employs discourse analysis, feminist critique and settler-colonial theory to analyse the landscapes of Jeff Wall, Ian Wallace, Marian Penner Bancroft, Liz Magor and others. -- .

This book is the first major study of Britain's pioneering graphic satirist, Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), the first staff political cartoonist on a daily newspaper in Britain, and the first of his kind to be knighted. Written by the distinguished media historian, Colin Seymour-Ure, it is essential reading for anyone interested in cartoons, caricature and illustration. Reprinted here in book form for the first time is Professor Seymour-Ure's essay 'How Special Are Cartoonists', first published 50 years ago to mark the inauguration of the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent. A personal 'miscellany' rather than a detailed biography, the book examines Gould's career from when he left work at the London Stock Exchange to become political cartoonist on the influential Pall Mall Gazette and later the Westminster Gazette until his retirement after the First World War. It also discusses his monthly Picture Politics, as well as his illustrations for magazines and books and his own 'Froissart's Modern Chronicles' series. In addition, there is an analysis of the symbolism and literary allusion used in his drawings to lampoon such eminent politicians as Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour. Never unkind in his work ('I etch with vinegar not vitriol'), Gould was the leading satirical artist of his day. As Lord Baker says in his Foreword, this book is 'a major contribution to our knowledge of British cartooning.'

In 1906 the German scholar Willy Bang published an edition of The Queen, or the excellency of her sex in which he claimed it as a previously unrecognised play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford. The attribution stuck, but the play has rarely been edited, performed, or analysed. This first Revels edition resituates The Queen in the Ford canon and explores how it spoke to audiences both when it was first composed in the late 1620s and when it was finally published in 1653, revealing it as a play about love, jealousy, melancholy, sovereignty, strangeness, and female rule. In the 1620s the heroine, who is queen of Aragon in her own right, might have seemed to echo both Katherine of Aragon and Elizabeth I; by 1653 its three separate scenes showing threatened (though aborted) executions and its discussion of monarchic power spoke of the recently executed Charles I and of his grandmother Mary Queen of Scots before him. Its pathologically misogynist hero is a more timeless figure whose reliance on flatterers and astrologers reveals deep-seated insecurities, while the subplot explores the uneasy relationship between love and sex. Presented here in modern spelling and with a detailed commentary and introduction, The Queen is revealed as a delicate blend of light and shade, comedy and tragedy, and verse and prose, which treats its main characters as both private and public figures.

Let the dead speak explores the historical and social dynamics of Spiritualism, the religious movement associated in the popular imagination with nineteenth-century parlour séances and ghost photography.

Twenty years since the 9/11 terror attacks and the start of the global war on terror, counterterrorism policies in multiple iterations continue to permeate everyday life across the world. Critical scholarship on counterterrorism has taken note of the pervasive presence of counterterrorism policies in public life. Yet there is little scholarship that draws out the conceptual links between the practice of counterterrorism in the global North and the global South. Inspired by decolonial approaches to the study of politics and international relations, this collection aims to unsettle the Western, Eurocentric hegemony in scholarship on counterterrorism. This collection uses a range of case studies from India, Egypt, Pakistan as well as from locations in the global North to show how counterterrorism policy and practice are closely tethered to particular negotiations with imperial legacies and colonial modes of knowledge about the law, politics, and terror. We also challenge colonial epistemologies of studying counterterrorism by delineating transnational connections as well as the various scales, spaces, and levels at which counterterrorism policies work. The book inaugurates three new areas of enquiry: 1) colonialism, coloniality, and the role that colonial epistemes play in shaping counterterrorism policies 2) the role of the global, transnational, and national in everyday discourses of (in)security in shaping counterterrorism policies 3) practices of everyday securitisation and counterterrorism and their interaction with other ideologies such as right-wing extremism and right-wing radicalisation. In exploring these myriad aspects of the life of counterterrorism policies, we unsettle a Eurocentric and 9/11 centric narrative of counterterrorism.

Nursing the English analyses the reputations and experiences of women and men who nursed the sick in the period before any calls for nursing reform. It begins in 1660, since the separation of sick nursing from childcare nursing can be dated to the final third of the seventeenth century, and to include the final epidemic of plague. It concludes in 1820, the year of Florence Nightingale's birth. This was coincidentally the same year which saw the first European publication calling for the founding of a Protestant nursing sisterhood, a movement which eventually propelled the drive for nurse training. Chapters focus on domestic nursing by women, the long history of nursing at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, the careers of women recruited to nurse in provincial infirmaries, and the lives of 'matrons' who nursed old soldiers at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. The final two chapters pull together the evidence for nursing by men, the conflicts with normative masculinity that lay in wait for male carers, and the plethora of intentional and ad hoc nursing by both women and men as a result of Britain's wars with France, 1793-1815. The purpose of this volume is to make a decisive statement in contradiction to the stereotype of the pre-reform nurse as ignorant, illiterate and drunk, to characterise her (and also him) as working well in context. Gender, status, and proximity to 'dirty work' are offered here as an essential framework for understanding the challenges of nursing before reform.

A snapshot of the Persian Gulf today shows the prominence of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. The Persian Gulf Triangle argues that the relations between these countries have been interweaved since the 1970s. Luíza Cerioli builds a framework that explores how a change in the ties between Saudi Arabia and the United States has spillover effects on the Iran-US or the Iran-Saudi Arabia ties and vice-versa. Through a historical perspective, she explains how the durability of the US-Saudi ties is linked to expectations concerning the order, how different cognitive aspects shape the long-standing enmity between the US and Iran and how the Saudi and Iran ties have swung back and forward from rapprochement to rivalry due to varying threat perceptions. This innovative approach exposes patterns of interaction that are otherwise hidden, bringing more nuance to our understanding of the region. The Persian Gulf is presented as a dynamic multipolar system marked by power asymmetries, religion, oil wealth, militarisation and foreign interference. The book employs Neoclassical Realism to show how structure and agency matter when grasping the Middle East's international politics. It delves into ideological ambitions, status-seeking behaviour, national identities and leadership preferences to explain how decisions in foreign policy and grand strategy are taken. Hence, the Persian Gulf Triangle contributes to the progress of both the International Relations (IR) discipline and Middle East Studies (MES) by combining knowledge from the two fields in a rewarding analysis in which the international system creates conditions, but outcomes are shaped by regional particularities.

This book illuminates the history of one of Manchester's most influential families. Charting the lives of Henry, Emily, Ernest and Shena Simon, it demonstrates their significance through tracing their work in engineering innovation, enriching Manchester's civic culture, and in shaping local government, housing and education. -- .

The new edition of a thought- and discussion-provoking picture book for encouraging primary school children to investigate science and learn more about STEM careers.

This volume provides a significant new commercial perspective on contraception in modern Britain. It is the first book-length study to examine contraceptives as commodities and to demonstrate the significance of the contraceptive industry in shaping sexual knowledge alongside the medical profession, the birth control movement, and the state before the emergence of the contraceptive pill. -- .

This book explores how the concept of colonialism can help to understand the past and present of Antarctica, and how Antarctica may illuminate the limits of colonialism as an analytic concept. Despite lacking an indigenous population, the continent has been shaped by many of the same political and economic forces that have defined the rest of the world - notwithstanding its unique governance arrangement, the Antarctic Treaty System. The book provides a fresh and timely set of contributions that critically explore different practices, attitudes and logics that suggest that colonialism may have been and may still be present in Antarctica, ranging from religion to material culture to the treatment of animals. The chapters also explore the connection between colonialism and cognate terms like capitalism, socialism, nationalism, and environmentalism.

The crisis that befell Ireland in the 1640s has always fascinated historians. This volume of essays presents cutting-edge research on various aspects of the Irish wars, notably regionalism, the nature of English interventions, popular politics and the problems of allegiance, authority and legitimacy in church and state. The chapters include studies of the earl of Cork in Munster, the earl of Clanricarde in Connacht and Lord Montgomery in Ulster, as well as the Confederate Catholic engagement with popular politics. The role of the marquess of Ormond, the Irish Parliament and the Church of Ireland are also examined in new ways, and the volume ends with a fresh look at the war of words between Oliver Cromwell and the Catholic Church. Ireland in crisis presents a very different view of the period that challenges existing assumptions. It will appeal to lecturers, students and the general reader.

The tremendous growth in foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa comes at a time when the field of international investment law and arbitration is witnessing a renewal. The investment has led to big business for law firms in the area of investment arbitration and the last decade has witnessed an increased number of investment treaties, proliferating investment disputes, the rise of mega- regional trade agreements and the negotiation of mega- regional infrastructure projects. Yet, while the argument in support of investment treaties as instruments to attract foreign direct investment is highly contested, many African countries are no doubt becoming more aware of the need to reshape the international investment architecture. This volume explores trends in FDI on the African continent, the benefits and challenges that FDI presents for African States, and Africa's participation in the international investment law regime. Featuring contributions from leading African international lawyers, arbitrators, jurists, academics, and litigation experts, this landmark volume is the first of its kind of explore African perspectives in international investment law. Hodu and Mbengue bring together non-mainstream approaches to the debate on the nexus between foreign investment and development, addressing key conceptual issues that will define contemporary international investment law for decades to come. With insights and critical comments on the challenges of Africa's foreign investment climate and international investment law, this timely collection is essential reading for academics, students, and practitioners alike.

This book is an oral history of the punk scene in Belfast from the mid-1970s to the mid-80s. It explores what it was like to be a punk in a city shaped by the violence of the Troubles, and how this differed from being a punk elsewhere. It also asks what it means to have been a punk - how punk unravels as a thread throughout the lives of the people interviewed, and what that unravelling means in the context of post-peace-process Northern Ireland. In doing so, it suggests a critical understanding of sectarianism, subjectivity and memory politics in the North, and argues for the importance of placing punk within the segregated structures of everyday life described by the interviewees. Belfast punk and the Troubles is an intervention in Northern Irish historiography stressing the importance of history from below, and will be compelling reading for historians of Ireland and of punk, as well as those interested in innovative approaches to oral history.

This book analyses the international phenomenon of private peace entrepreneurs. These are private citizens with no official authority who initiate channels of communication with official representatives from the other side of a conflict in order to promote a conflict resolution process. It combines theoretical discussion with historical analysis, examining four cases from different conflicts: Norman Cousins and Suzanne Massie in the Cold War, Brendan Duddy in the Northern Ireland conflict and Uri Avnery in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The book defines the phenomenon, examines the resources and activities of private peace entrepreneurs and their impact on the official diplomacy, and examines the conditions under which they can play an effective role in peace-making processes.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16, Peace, justice and strong institutions.

The 'War on Terror' ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism. Anti-Muslim racism, or Islamophobia, is influenced by local economies, power structures and histories. However, the War on Terror, a conflict undefined by time and place, with a homogenised Muslim 'Other' framed as a perpetual enemy, has contributed towards a global Islamophobic narrative. This edited international volume examines the connections between interpersonal and institutional anti-Muslim racism that have contributed to the growth and emboldening of nativist and populist protest movements globally. It maps out categories of Islamophobia, revealing how localised histories, conflicts and contemporary geopolitical realities have textured the ways that Islamophobia has manifested across the global North and South. At the same time, it seeks to highlight activism and resistance confronting Islamophobia.

A fascinating historical account of how and why the U.S. cultural penetration in Yugoslavia became a key feature for the attainment of Washington's short, middle and long-term policy goals there. -- .

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century. Contributors explore the trade-offs between humane concern and the altered context of colonial and postcolonial realpolitik. They also showcase an array of methodologies and sources with which to explore the relationship between humanitarianism and colonialism. These range from the biography of material objects to interviews as well as more conventional archival enquiry. They also include work with and for Indigenous people whose family histories have been defined in large part by 'humanitarian' interventions.

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged. Patients' voices still often remain obscured. This has resulted in part from assumptions about the limitations of archives, many of which are formed of institutional records written from the perspective of health professionals. Patient voices in Britain repositions patient experiences at the centre of healthcare history, using new types of sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Focusing on military medicine, Poor Law medicine, disability, psychiatry and sexual health, this collection encourages historians to tackle the ethical challenges of using archival material and to think more carefully about how their work might speak to persistent health inequalities and challenges in health-service delivery.

How did American geneticists go from fearing the dysgenic effects of deaf intermarriage to considering modern biotechnology a threat for Deaf culture? This book provides insight into changing ideas of what deafness is, what science and medicine should achieve, and to the transformative effect of exchange between scientists and deaf communities. -- .