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The Mark Francis
Richard Dyer, James Peto and
Francis McKee
Mark Francis (b. 1962, Northern Ireland) has played a key role in the exploration of the essential nature of painting. Primarily an abstract painter, Francis often draws upon that which is unseen by the naked eye, while pushing the boundaries of the painted surface. This monumental monograph spans the artist's entire career to date, from his early landscapes to his current abstractions as well as considering the varied influences and sources of inspiration throughout his practice. This chronological survey, also illustrates Francis' habit of revisiting the ideas of his earlier works and taking them in new directions.
In his essay, Making the (In)Visible, Richard Dyer discusses the evolution of Francis' style. While examining various stages in the artist's work, Dyer also places the painter within the history of art. Dyer describes Francis' unique brushing techniques and his ability to create works that are simultaneously intimate and monumental.
In Beneath the Earth and Beyond the Stars, Mark Francis and James Peto discuss the artist's painting techniques, his peculiar collections and personal interests. Covering topics from the origin of the paintings' names to the influence of fungal growth and astronomy maps, their conversation offers a special insight into the artist's mind.
Francis McKee explores a critical collaborative project by Francis and artist Nicky Hirst at Kings College Hospital. Placed appropriately within the chronology of the paintings, this essay provides a new context for the work while focusing upon this particular moment in the artist's practice.
This beautifully illustrated book includes over 150 colour plates celebrating the career of Mark Francis.
Contents:
The Invisible Landscape, Richard Dyer; Untitled, James Peto; Standing in the Shadows, Waiting in the Wings, Francis McKee; Biography and Bibliography of Mark Francis; List of Works; Biography of Writers; Photo Credits.
About the Authors:
Richard Dyer is News Editor and London Correspondent of Contemporary magazine; Assistant Editor at Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture; and Art Editor of Wasafiri, the magazine of international contemporary writing. James Peto is the Head Curator of Temporary Exhibitions at the Wellcome Collection, London. He has held previous curatorial positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and at the Design Museum, Science Museum, and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Francis McKee is the Interim Director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Director of Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art.
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Twentieth Century Art; Painting
Dewey Code: BIC Code: ACXJ
Includes 225 colour illustrations
May 2008 245 x 310 mm 224 pages
Paperback 978-0-85331-996-2 c. £30.00
NBI07/12 A
LUND HUMPHRIES
The St Ives Artists
A Biography of Place and Time
Michael Bird
St Ives is unique in British art history. Between the Second World War and the 1970s, many progressive artists chose to work and often settle around this small port in the far west of Cornwall. As Patrick Heron observed, St Ives is the only small town in Britain ever to have gained international fame in art.
Michael Bird opens up new ground in exploring connections - often unexpected - between the St Ives artists and contemporary developments in society, literature and other fields. As the idealism of pre-war constructivism was transformed by St Ives artists in the post-war decades, he shows how local themes of landscape and community reflected much wider social and cultural changes during the Austerity era and beyond.
For the first time, this book fully integrates the St Ives artists into the cultural narrative of twentieth-century Britain, especially from the 1930s onwards. It ranges from the intense hopes that accompanied the Labour victory in 1945 to the explosion of consumerism and American influence in the 1950s, and beatnik youth culture of the 1960s - all of which connected interestingly with St Ives. The artists emerge as vivid and very different personalities, as often embroiled in conflict as in any shared artistic agenda.
Drawing on fresh research, Michael Bird has created a fascinating and highly readable account of St Ives and its artists. The question 'What was St Ives art really about?' is often asked. This book provides some authoritative, provocative and entertaining answers.
Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Outside the Glass; Arrival, 1946; Artists and Gentlemen: A Short Colonial History; Connecting Circles: A Detour via Hampstead; Leaders must Migrate: St Ives 1938–45; Landscape with Wild Men: The Postwar Influx; Partisans: Community Politics in the Early 1950s; Getting Social-Personal: Class and Contacts; Keep it Real: Trouble with Abstraction; Western Horizons: Views Across the Atlantic, 1956–60; Home Ground: Women Artists in St Ives; Spaced Out: Into the 1960s; Terrible Times Together: The Poetry of Departures, 1965–75; Notes; Further Reading; Index of Persons and Places.
About the Author:
Michael Bird is a freelance writer, editor and broadcaster based in St Ives and is author of Sandra Blow (Lund Humphries 2005).
Subjects:
Fine Art:
Twentieth Century Art; Modernism
Dewey Code: 759.2'375 BIC Code: ACX
Includes 22 b&w illustrations
April 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 248 pages
Paperback 978-0-85331-956-6 c. £19.99
NBI07/12 A
LUND HUMPHRIES
The Bid Manager’s Handbook
Revised Edition
David Nickson
Winning significant business on the right terms is an increasingly complex, challenging and time-consuming task, and a successful bid is a vital part of any business offering its services or products to another. This book will help you to enhance the probability of success in winning bids at the desired margins and to set up and run effectively a bid management team. Aimed at sales staff managing multi-disciplinary bid teams, and project and technical managers who find themselves managing a bid to support a sales campaign, The Bid Manager's Handbook provides an invaluable resource in the battle to win new business.
Taking a practical approach and using real-life examples, David Nickson leads the reader through every stage of planning for, producing and delivering a bid. Crucially it also shows how to same time - the most important commodity in any bid - without affecting quality.
The additional material supplied with the revised edition expands on the writing and editorial side of the bid, the use of bid management software and the bid review process.
Contents:
Introduction: What is a bid?; Why do we do them?; Structure. Bid Management: Summary; Roles and Responsibilities: Why have roles and responsibilities?; Role of the bid manager; Context; Responsibilities of a bid manager; Example job description; Summary; Internal vs. external bid managers; Case study; Checklist. Methods and Approaches: Bid brief; Reviews; Information technology; Formal methods and standards; Case study; Checklist. Risk Management: Risk management - a potted guide; Sample risk for bids; Example bid risk plan; Risk as a deliverable; Case study; Checklist. Administration and Logistics: Bid file; Documentation; Distribution; Confidential information; Risk register(s); Back-up policies; Meetings; Resources; Case study; Checklist. Planning: Timetable; Deliverables; Activities; Dependencies; Resources; Costing; Sample plan; Change; Case study; Checklist. Writing and Editorial: Summary. Writing Skills: The basics; Fact, feature and benefit; Writing styles; Writing a (management) summary; Annexes and appendices; Plain English; Covering letter; Proofreading; Case study; Checklist. Editorial Skills: The basics; Templates; Tracking changes; Style(s); The details; Proofreading; Presentations; Case study; Checklist. Layout and Presentation: Suggested guidelines; Bid documents; Presentation material; Style guide; Case study; Checklist. Personal Skills: Summary. Communication: Theory into practice; Basic skills; Meetings; Presentations; Written communication; Case study; Checklist. Teams: The generic bid team; The life cycle of a team; Team roles and composition; Subcontractors and partners; Communication within a team; Conflict; Group think; Case study; Checklist. Negotiation: Negotiation cycle; Negotiable items; Negotiation strategies; Exploring within a discussion; Closing a negotiation; Case study; Checklist. Sales: Sales awareness; Risk register as a sales tool; SWOT analysis; SWOT example; Sales themes and the bid brief; Client interaction; Qualifying the client/bid; Culture and environment; Case study; Costing; Pricing; Case study; Checklist; Appendix: Bid brief template; Glossary; Additional reading; Index.
Contents for revised edition supplement: Introduction; Part one - Bid Management. Part two - Writing and editorial. Part three - Personal Skills; appendix - bid brief template; appendix of new materials - Answer the question (ATQ) and Answer the question only (ATQO); Sales themes and executive summaries; Supporting tecnology; Model answers; Using professional authors/editors; Review processes; Bid writers refernce card. Glossary; Index.
About the Author:
David Nickson has managed and contributed to major bids to both the private and the public sector, including government departments, local authorities, multi-nationals, the media, charities and service suppliers. Within this arena he has worked as a manager, consultant, methodology developer and trainer.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Procurement and Contract Management; Sales Management; Selling Skills; Contracting
Dewey Code: 658.4'04 BIC Code: KJ
April 2008 244 x 172 mm c. 100 pages
Hardback 978-0-566-08847-6 £65.00
NBI07/12 A
GOWER
Business Development for the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry
Martin Austin
Business Development in the Biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries accounts for over $5 billion in licensing deal value per year and much more than that in the value of mergers and acquisitions. Transactions range from licences to patented academic research, to product developments as licences, joint ventures and acquisition of intellectual property rights, and on to collaborations in development and marketing, locally or across the globe. Asset sales, mergers and corporate take-overs are also a part of the business development remit. The scope of the job can be immense, spanning the life-cycle of products from the earliest levels of research to the disposal of residual marketing rights, involving legal regulatory manufacturing, clinical development, sales and marketing and financial aspects. The knowledge and skills required of practitioners must be similarly broad, yet the availability of information for developing a career in business development is sparse. Martin Austin's highly practical guide spans the complete process and is based on his 30 years of experience in the industry and the well-established training programme that he has developed and delivers to pharmaceutical executives from across the world.
Contents:
Foreword; Business development; Planning the portfolio; Identifying needs; Profiling and searching for opportunities; Modelling and valuation; Structuring for value; Due diligence and valuation; Sealing the deal; Making the transaction work; Glossary; Index.
About the Author:
Martin Austin is Managing Director of TransformRx GmbH which he formed in 2005 to provide business advice to clients regarding investment and business development. He is also a Partner in MarraM Advisors sarl and Chairman of RSA AG. He was previously a Principal in the Paul Capital Partners Royalty Funds a USA based specialist in Secondary Private Equity and Alternative Asset Investments and before that as Head of Business Development for the Pharmaceuticals Division at F.Hoffmann-La Roche. He has had a broad ranging career in the Pharmaceutical industry starting as a Medical Representative in 1977 he progressed through Sales and Marketing roles with GD Searle in the early 80's to become Business Development Manager with Lorex Pharamceuticals and then became a consultant with Marketing Improvements before leaving to become a founding Director of Machine Intelligence Technologies. Later he took over Business Development for the Dendrite organisation before being appointed Managing Director of MHIG Ltd an international joint venture in Market Research and Consulting prior to joining Roche. After 30 years of experience at all levels in the industry he has a unique background and perspective from which to address this book.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Pharmaceutical Industry; Business Planning
Dewey Code: BIC Code: KJ
May 2008 244 x 172 mm c. 200 pages
A4 Hardback 978-0-566-08781-3 c. £65.00
NBI07/12 A
GOWER
Customer Relationship Management
A Global Perspective
Gerhard Raab, University of Applied Sciences, Germany, Professor Riad A. Ajami,
Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA,
Vidaranya B. Gargeya, Bryan, University of North Carolina, USA and
G. Jason Goddard, Wachovia Corporation, USA
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) introduces the management philosophy of CRM. This is the first book to explore the benefits to the firm of a globally integrated approach to customer relationship management. The authors contend that the best hope for achieving a sustainable competitive advantage in a global marketplace is by means of better understanding which customers are in the best position to experience long-term, profitable relationships for the globally-oriented firm. The book offers both an academic and practical viewpoint of the importance of CRM in a global framework. It integrates the topics of knowledge management, total quality management, and relationship marketing with the goal of explaining the benefits of CRM for internationally active firms. The authors have included six case studies which allow the reader to undertake the role of CRM consultant in a 'learning by doing' approach.
The book should be required reading for all business executives who desire a customer oriented approach to success, and for all students of business who desire to gain insight into a relationship management approach which will become ever-more important in the years ahead.
Contents:
Customer relationship management - Global and local dimensions; Customer orientation; Product quality; Customer satisfaction; Customer retention; Customer value; Customer relationship management and Balanced Scorecard (BSC); Challenges for global customer relationship management; Case Studies on customer relationship management; Literature index; Subject index.
About the Authors:
Professor Gerhard H. Raab is based at the Transatlantic Institute, University of Applied Sciences, Ludwigshafen, Germany. Professor Riad A. Ajami is based at the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, USA and Professor Vidyaranya B. Gargeya is based at the Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. G. Jason Goddard is Vice President at Wachovia Corporation, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Marketing Studies; Customer Loyalty; Customer Service
Dewey Code: 658.8'12 BIC Code: KJ
Includes 55 figures
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 180 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7156-5 c. £45.00
NBI07/12 A
GOWER
Hoshin Kanri
The Strategic Approach to Continuous Improvement
David Hutchins
The results of the quality revolution have been mixed. Global competition has elevated the most successful companies, in terms of providing goods and services, but even then initiatives such as total quality, business process reengineering and Six Sigma have been heralded as the solution, only to have been replaced with the next 'big thing' when it came along. Hoshin Kanri is not the next big thing in quality, it is a strategic approach to continuous improvement that provides a context for all of the individual elements such as Six Sigma or lean manufacturing. David Hutchins' Hoshin Kanri shows you how to develop a dynamic vision for continuous improvement; to implement effective policies to support it; to link key performance indicators to Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and Kaizen and to sustain a strategy-led programme for improving business performance.
Contents:
Preface; Hoshin Kanri an overview; Creating the Vision; Strategy and Tactics; Driver Policies; Driver Measures to KPIs; Benchmarking; Prioritizing KPIs & COPQ; Risk Management; The Loose Brick; Hoshin Policy Deployment and Control; The Voice of the Customer; Supply Chain Management; Six Sigma; Lean Manufacturing; Process Reengineering; The Principles of Continual Improvement; Quality Circles; Business Management Systems; Quality Function Deployment; Education; Suggestions for Performance Indicators; Implementation Plan; Index.
About the Author:
David Hutchins has a Masters Degree in Quality and Reliability from Birmingham University UK. A Chartered Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Member of the Chartered Institute of Management, Fellow of the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) and Senior Member of the American Society for Quality and author of several books and many articles. In David's early career he was Chief Production/Industrial Engineer in the Automotive Components Industry before becoming Works Manager followed by 10 years teaching and consulting in Business Management prior to founding David Hutchins International. David Hutchins has over forty years of continuous experience in all aspects of the Quality-related sciences on a world-wide basis. He co-presented with the unchallenged World leading expert, Dr Juran, on all his annual courses in the UK from 1983 until Dr Juran's retirement from international travel in 1992. He was a personal friend of the late Professor Ishikawa and was the only European to be invited to contribute material for the book which commemorated his life. He has been a key note speaker at many seminars organised by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) in Japan and to this day works with the well known specialists in Concept Engineering, Drs Kano and Shiba.
He has been an invited keynote speaker at conferences all over the world including the USA, Japan, South Africa, various Middle Eastern Countries, India, and all over Europe.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Quality Management; Business Performance
Dewey Code: 658.4'013 BIC Code: KJ
June 2008 244 x 172 mm c. 300 pages
Hardback 978-0-566-08740-0 c. £75.00
NBI07/12 A
GOWER
Price Management in Financial Services
Smart Strategies for Growth
Georg Wuebker, Martin Koderisch, Dirk Schmidt-Gallas and
Jens Baumgarten
The retail financial services industry is changing. Deregulation has created a competitive market place in which successful providers are becoming increasingly customer centric. Pricing is becoming a major strategic issue, but the majority of providers still use out-dated risk and cost based pricing methods, and have yet to develop a centre of excellence around their pricing processes.
Price Management in Financial Services shows how to incorporate the modern techniques of value based pricing in both product design and pricing. The authors provide an overview of basic pricing techniques and an introduction to strategic pricing issues such as market segmentation, product bundling, multi-channel pricing and non linear pricing.
Central to the book is the concept of the 'price response function' otherwise referred to as price sensitivity or elasticity of demand. The book includes a step-by-step guide to incorporating this concept into the pricing process.
The final chapters are devoted to discussing a variety of implementation issues, highlighted with international cases studies from Simon and Kucher's financial services practice.
Contents:
Introduction; Fundamentals of modern pricing; Strategic aspects of pricing; Price optimisation methods; Intelligent price differentiation; Psychological aspects of pricing; Price implementation issues; Case studies: Power Pricing in action; Insights for banking executives; Index.
About the Authors:
Martin Koderisch is Senior Consultant and Georg Wuebker, Dirk Schmidt-Gallas and Jens Baumgarten are Partners at Simon Kucher and Partners, a global consulting company that specializes in strategy, marketing and pricing.
Subjects:
Management & Business Studies:
Pricing; Financial Services Industry
Dewey Code: 332 BIC Code: KJ
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-566-08821-6 c. £55.00
NBI07/12 A
GOWER
Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Jack Lynch, Rutgers University, USA
In the first extended treatment of the debates surrounding public deception in eighteenth-century Britain, Jack Lynch contends that forgery, fakery, and fraud make explicit the usually unspoken grounds on which Britons made sense of their world. Confrontations with inauthenticity, in other words, bring tacitly understood conceptions of reality to the surface.
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary print and manuscript sources-not only books and pamphlets, but ballads, comic prints, legal proceedings, letters, and diaries-Lynch focuses on the debates they provoked, rather than the forgers themselves. He offers a comprehensive treatment of the criticism surrounding fraud in most of the noteworthy controversies of the long eighteenth century. To this end, his study is structured around topics related to the arguments over deception in Britain, whether they concerned George Psalmanazar's Formosan hoax at the beginning of the eighteenth century or William Henry Ireland's Shakespearean imposture at the end. Beginning with the question of what constitutes deception and ending with an illuminating chapter on what was at stake in these debates for eighteenth-century British thinkers, Lynch's accessibly written study takes the reader through the means-whether simple, sophisticated, or tortuously argued-by which partisans on both sides struggled to define which of the apparent contradictions were sufficient to disqualify a claim to authenticity. Fakery, Lynch persuasively argues, transports us to the heart of eighteenth-century notions of the value of evidence, of the mechanisms of perception and memory, of the relationship between art and life, of historicism, and of human motivation.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; Recognizing a fake when you see one; Conviction on the first view; The utmost evidence; Truth is uniform; All manner of experience and observation; The mention of posterior facts; False recollections; Motivated malignity; Different kinds of value; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Jack Lynch is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers-Newark, The State University New Jersey, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
18th Century Literature; History of Authorship; History of Ideas/History of Philosophy; History of Law
Dewey Code: 364.1'63'0941'09033 BIC Code: DS
April 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 260 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6528-1 c. £55.00
NBI07/12 A
ASHGATE
Their Hands Before Our Eyes: A Closer Look at Scribes
The Lyell Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford 1999
M.B. Parkes, University of Oxford, UK
Following on from his acclaimed study of punctuation, Pause and Effect, this new book by Malcolm Parkes makes an equally fundamental contribution to the history of handwriting. Its purpose is to focus on the handwriting of scribes from late antiquity to the beginning of the sixteenth century, and to identify those features which are a scribe's personal contribution to the techniques and art of handwriting. Handwriting is a versatile medium that has always allowed individual scribes the opportunity for self-expression, despite the limitations of the pen and the finite number of possible movements.
The book opens with three chapters surveying the various environments in which scribes worked in the medieval West. The next five, then examine different aspects of the subject, starting with the basic processes of handwriting and copying. Next come discussions of developments in rapid handwriting, with its consequent influence on new alphabets; on more formal 'set hands'; and on the adaptation of movements of the pen to produce elements of style corresponding to changes in the prevailing sense of decorum. The final chapter looks at the significance of customized images of handwriting on the page. The text is illustrated with 69 plates, and accompanied by a glossary of the technical terms applied to handwriting, which in itself makes a significant contribution to the subject.
Contents:
Preface; Part I Scribes and Their Environments: Before 1100; 1100–1540 Religious orders in England; 1100–1500 Secular scribes in England: clergy, scholars, professional and commercial scribes. Part II Scribes at Work: Which came first reading or writing? The function and processes of writing and the problems of copying; The hasty scribe; cursive handwriting in antiquity and the Middle Ages; Set in their own ways: scribes and book hands c.800–1200; Features of fashion: scribes and style c1200–1500; Through the eyes of scribes and readers: handwriting as image; Notes; Glossary, indexes and list.
About the Author:
M.B. Parkes is Professor emeritus of Palaeography in the University of Oxford, and fellow of Keble College. He is a Senior Fellow of the British Academy and a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.
Subjects:
History of Books, Printing & Publishing:
Medieval Manuscripts; Book & Publishing History; Medieval Literature
Dewey Code: 411.7 BIC Code: DS
Includes 69 b&w illustrations
August 2008 275 x 220 mm c. 336 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6337-9 c. £65.00
NBI07/12 A
ASHGATE
Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles
It Was Forty Years Ago Today
Edited by Olivier Julien, Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV and Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France
The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to 'hopes of progress in pop music' (The Times, 29 May 1967). Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles commemorates the fortieth anniversary of this masterpiece of British psychedelia by addressing issues that will help put the record in perspective. These issues include: reception by rock critics and musicians, the cover, lyrics, songwriting, formal unity, the influence of non-European music and art music, connections with psychedelia and, more generally, the sociocultural context of the 1960s, production, sound engineering and musicological significance. The contributors are world renowned for their work on the Beatles: they examine Sgt. Pepper from the angle of disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, history, sociology, literature, social psychology and cultural theory.
Contents:
Preface; 'Their production will be second to none': an introduction to Sgt. Pepper, Olivier Julien; 'Tangerine trees and marmalade skies': cultural agendas or optimistic escapism?, Sheila Whiteley; Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of Lennon and McCartney, Terence O'Grady; Sgt. Pepper's quest for extended form, Thomas McFarlane; The sound design of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Michael Hannan; The Beatles and Indian music, David Reck; The Beatles' psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper, Naphtali Wagner; Cover story: magic, myth and music, Ian Inglis; Within and without: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and psychedelic insight, Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc; The whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference, John Kimsey; The act you've known for all these years: a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper, Allan Moore; 'A lucky man who made the grade': Sgt. Pepper and the rise of the phonographic tradition in 20th century popular music, Olivier Julien; References; Index of names; Index of songs, albums, films and musical works; Index.
About the Editor:
Olivier Julien is from the Universities of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris IV and Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France.
Series:
Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series
Subjects:
Music Studies:
Popular & Folk Music; Cultural & Media Studies
Dewey Code: 782.4'2166'0922 BIC Code: AV
Includes 2 table, 1 musical example and 5 musical figures
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 250 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6249-5 c. £55.00
NBI07/12 A
ASHGATE
Food Fears
From Industrial to Sustainable Food Systems
Alison Blay-Palmer, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
With escalating rates of diabetes, cancer and obesity, excessive food miles and the consequences for global climate change, farm crises, food insecurity and the 'fast food' culture, the industrial food system of the West is increasingly perceived as problematic. The physical, social and intellectual distance between consumers and their food stems from a food system that privileges quantity and efficiency over quality, with an underlying assumption that food is a commodity, rather than a source of nourishment and pleasure.
However, in the wake of various food scares, there is growing momentum from consumers to change the food they eat; which in turn acts as a catalyst for the industry to adapt and for alternative systems to evolve. Drawing on a wealth of empirical research into mainstream and alternative food systems in North America, this book argues that sustainable, grass roots, local food systems offer a template for meaningful individual activism as a way to bring about change from the bottom up, while at the same time creating pressure for policy changes at all levels of government. This movement signals a shift away from market economy principles and reflects a desire to embody social and ecological values as the foundation for future growth..
Contents:
Food fear: making connections; The industrial revolution of food; 'It's all about the sizzle'; Growing distances: the separation of farmers, ecologies and eaters; Translating fear: mad cows, killer carrots and industrial food; Eating organic in an age of insecurity; Manufacturing food fear; Creating mutual food systems; References; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Alison Blay-Palmer is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Subjects:
Human Geography:
Social & Cultural Geography; Economic & Industrial Geography; Environmental Geography; Public Policy and Governance
Dewey Code: 338.1'9 BIC Code: RG
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 166 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7248-7 c. £55.00
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ASHGATE
Contraception, Colonialism and Commerce
Birth Control in South India, 1920–1940
Sarah E. Hodges, University of Warwick, UK
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine. As birth control histories are not filled with doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently has its history included tales of laboratory-based therapeutic innovation. Instead birth control histories elucidate the peculiar slippages between individual body and body politic occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as well as additional complications to the field.
Contrary to popular belief, India has one of the most long-lasting, institutionalized, far-reaching, state sponsored family planning programs in the world. During the inter-war period the country witnessed the formation of groups dedicated to promoting the cause of birth control.
This book outlines the early history of birth control in India, particularly the Tamil south, and illuminates India's role in a global birth control network. Across Europe, birth control movements gained prominence largely by attempting to assuage their nations' relational population anxieties with pro-natalist policies and eugenic language. From these movements' very inception, an internationalist impulse spread from countries like Britain and the United States through the work of birth control advocates like Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes. For Sanger, Stopes and others, the object of birth control was never solely the poor at home, but also embraced the poor across the globe.
Contents:
Introduction: late colonial biopolitics; Anxiety without action: contraception and the late colonial state; The Madras Neo-Malthusian League and global networks of contraceptive evangelism; An apocalyptic body politics of modernity: contraception and the self respect movement; Contraceptive commercialism; Epilogue: the state of the population: history and fertility in 20th-century Tamilnadu; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Sarah E. Hodges is based in the Department of History at the University of Warwick, UK.
Series:
The History of Medicine in Context
Subjects:
History:
History of Medicine; Women's & Gender History; Social History; South and East Asian History
Dewey Code: 363.9'6'095482 BIC Code: HB
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-3809-4 c. £55.00
NBI07/12 B
ASHGATE
The Impact of the European Reformation
Princes, Clergy and People
Edited by Bridget Heal, University of St Andrews, UK and
Dr Ole Grell, The Open University, UK
Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies, with high-level research confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume counteracts this centrifugal trend and provides a broad perspective on the impact of the European reformation. The essays present new research from historians of politics, of the church and of belief. Their geographical scope ranges from Scotland and England via France and Germany to Transylvania and their chronological span from the 1520s to the 1690s
Considering the impact of the Reformation on political culture and examining the relationship between rulers and ruled; the book also examines the church and its personnel, another sphere of life that was entirely transformed by the Reformation. Important aspects of knowledge and belief are discussed in terms of scientific knowledge and technological progress, juxtaposed with analyses of elite and popular belief, which demonstrates the limitations of Weber's notion of the disenchantment of the world. Together they indicate the diverse directions in which Reformation scholarship is now moving, while reminding us of the need to understand particular developments within a broader European context; demonstrating that movements for religious reform left no sphere of European life untouched.
Contents:
Introduction, Bridget Head; Part 1 Princes: Hubmaier, Schappeler, and Hergot on social revolution, Tom Scott; The politics of law and gospel: the Protestant prince and the Holy Roman Empire, C. Scott Dixon; Rich and poor in Reformation Augsburg: the city council, the Fugger bank and the formation of a biconfessional society, Bernd Roeck; The contest for control of urban centres in Southwest France during the early years of the Wars of Religion, Kevin Gould. Part 2 Clergy: The 'new' clergies in Europe: Protestant pastors and Catholic Reform clergy after the Reformation, Luise Schorn-Schütte; The clergy and parish discipline in England, 1570–1640, Christopher Haigh; The Virgin Mary and the publican: Lutheranism and social order in Transylvania, Christine Peters; Kirk in danger: Presbyterian political divinity in 2 eras, Michael F. Graham. Part 3 People: Fairies, Egyptians and elders: multiple cosmologies in Post-Reformation Scotland, Margo Todd; Sacred spas? Healing springs and religion in Post-Reformation Britain, Alexandra Walsham; The reformation of astronomy, Adam Mosley; French books at the Frankfurt fair, Andrew Pettegree; Index.
About the Author:
Bridget Heal is a Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, UK and Dr Ole Grell is from The Open University, UK.
Series:
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Subjects:
History:
Early Modern History 1500–1700; Reformation; Religious and Ecclesiastical History; Western European History
Dewey Code: 940.2'3 BIC Code: HB
Includes 4 b&w illustrations and 1 map
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 314 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6212-9 c. £60.00
NBI07/12 B
ASHGATE
Life Writing in Reformation Europe
Lives of Reformers by Friends, Disciples and Foes
Irena Backus, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The Reformation period witnessed an explosion in the number of biographies of contemporary religious figures being published. Whether lives of reformers worthy of emulation, or heretics deserving condemnation, the genre of biography became a key element in the confessional rivalries that raged across Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Offering more than a general survey of Life writing, this volume examines key issues and questions about how this trend developed among different confessions and how it helped shape lasting images of reformers, particularly Luther and Calvin up to the modern period.
This is the first-ever full length study of the subject showing that Lives of the reformers constitute an integral part of the intellectual and cultural history of the period, serving as an important source of information about the different Reformations. Depending on their origin, they provide a lesson in theology but also in civic values and ideals of education of the period. Genevan Lives in particular also point up the delicate issue of 'Reformed hagiography' which their authors try to avoid with a varying degree of success. Having consistently been at the forefront of the study of the intellectual history of the Reformation Irena Backus is perfectly placed to highlight the importance of Life writing. This is a path-breaking study that will open up a new way of viewing the confessional conflicts of the period and their historiography.
Contents:
Introduction; Luther: instrument of God or Satan's brood. Main developments in Luther biography, 1546–1581; Lives of chief Swiss reformers: hagiographies, historical accounts and Exempla; Zurich Lives in the latter part of the 16th century; Early Lives of Calvin and Beza by friends and foes; post-Masson views of Calvin: Catholic and Protestant image of Calvin in the 17th century or the birth of 'Calvinography'; Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Professor Irena Backus is based at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Series:
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Subjects:
History:
Early Modern History 1500–1700; Reformation; 17th Century Literature; Religious and Ecclesiastical History
Dewey Code: 284.2'0922 BIC Code: HB
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 332 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6055-2 c. £55.00
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Patents, Pictures and Patronage
John Day and the Tudor Book Trade
Elizabeth Evenden, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UK
John Day (1522–1584) is generally acknowledged to be the foremost English printer of the later sixteenth-century. As well as printing some of the most important books of his day, most notably John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, he also pioneered enormous advances in English typography and book illustration. Yet despite his legacy, this book is the first full-length study to look into Day's life and legacy.
The book places Day in the context of the sixteenth-century printing industry, and examines his disputed origins and establishment as a London printer. His Elizabethan career is discussed, together with the most significant works he printed, and his connections with the Stranger communities in London. Throughout the book Elizabeth Evenden argues that Day's printing empire and wealth were founded on a combination of two crucial factors: outstanding technical skills, and the ability to attract patrons and patents. His success rested on both cheap and expensive print; the former providing his wealth, the later the patronage necessary to secure the valuable patents.
The picture of Day that emerges is not one that conforms to the modern image or even seventeenth-century image of a successful printer. Instead he appears as something of a dinosaur: impressive but doomed to extinction. No single printer could print works on the scale that John Day did, and after his death, Day's place in the English printing industry was filled by teams of printers funded by syndicates of booksellers. But during his lifetime, as this book demonstrates, the combination of his technical skill, patronage and wealth enabled him to change the face of English printing and to help influence the course of the English religious policy.
Contents:
Early activities in the book trade; The reign of Mary Tudor; 1558–1563: the return to Protestant printing; 1563–1568: innovation and reputation; Day's technical achievments: improvements in book illustration; 1569–1576: premier printer to the Protestant regime; 1576 –1584: the final years; Day's achievments and legacy; Select bibliography.
About the Author:
Dr Elizabeth Evenden is a Fellow and College Lecturer, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK.
Series:
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Subjects:
History:
Early Modern History 1500–1700; Religious and Ecclesiastical History; Book & Publishing History; British History
Dewey Code: 686.2'092 BIC Code: HB
Includes 9 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 270 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5480-3 c. £55.00
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Global Law
The Pillars
Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Department of International Studies, University of Salerno, Italy
This book deals with the transformation of the international legal system into a new world order. Looking at concepts and principles, processes and emerging problems, it examines the impact of global forces on international law. In so doing, it identifies a unified set of legal rules and processes from the great variety of state practice and jurisprudence. The work develops a new framework to examine the key elements of the global legal system, termed the `four pillars of global law': verticalization, legality, integration and collective guarantees. The study provides a complete analysis of the differences between traditional international law and the new principles and processes along which the universal society and world power are organized and how this is related to domestic power.
The book addresses important changes in key legal issues; it reconstructs a complex legal framework, and the emergence of a new international order that has still not been studied in depth, providing a compass that will prove a useful resource for students, researchers and policy makers with an interest in international relations.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction: the 4 pillars of global law: verticality, legality, integration, and collective guarantees; Part 1 Verticality of the International Authority: Global Constitutive Processes and Functions: Section1 Global Law-Making: The dynamic process behind the formation of global principles; Section 2 : Global Enforcement System: The integrated system of law enforcement; Section 3: Global Justice: The international court of justice – from judicial organ to global court. Part 2 Legality and Global Principles: Legality v. effectivity in the global legal system. Part 3 Integration of Legal Systems in the Direction of Global Law: The relationship between state law and international law in the globalization process. Part 4 Collective Guarantees: An Embryonic New System: Section 1 Actions to Combat Global Terrorism: Heteronomous actions against terror: the military interventions; An integrated self-defence system against large-scale attacks by irregular forces: the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict; Section 2 Processes and Mechanisms Against Terrorism: Joint mechanisms agains terrorists, insurgents and other non-state actors; The UN Ccounter-terrorism system; Conclusions; Indexes.
About the Author:
Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo is Full Professor of International Law and of Global Law (Advanced International Law) at the University of Salerno, Italy. Founder and Director of the Department of International Studies in the same University, she is the Director of the Ph.D. Program in International Law. She is a member of several legal associations, including the Italian and the American Society for International Law. Professor Ziccardi Capaldo has published extensively on aspects of International Law and International Procedural Law.
Subjects:
Law:
International Law; Global Governance; Philosophy and Theory of Law
Dewey Code: BIC Code: LB
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 320 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7345-3 c. £65.00
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International Drug Control
Treaties, Policies and Regulation
Edited by Hamid Ghodse, University of London, UK
This volume examines the establishment, organization and role of the various international organizations which have a mandate in and make a contribution to international laws related to drug control.
The first section of the book covers historical perspectives of the extent and nature of the drug problem in the 19th Century and the emergence of the national and international drug control treaties. It provides a historical analysis, illustrating various aspects of licit production, diversion to the illicit market, resistance to international agreement and, eventually, the emergence of international conventions and the responses to them, to date. The 2nd section of the book consists of chapters on the role of various international organisations which have a mandate in and make a contribution to international laws related to drug control. It includes a description of the establishment of international drug control and WHO's mandate.
Few people, even among those in the specialist field of drug control, are cognisant of the structure and mandate of these organisations' and their role in the various aspects of the drug problem, including prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, social integration etc. This book will therefore be a valuable resource for professionals and academics in law enforcement, health, social services, behavioural sciences, pharmacy, and drug regulatory agencies.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; International drug control system; Legalisation of internationally controlled drugs; Drugs and the importance of demand reduction; Evaluation of the effectiveness of the international drug control treaties; Money laundering; Drug abuse and criminal justice; Preventing drug abuse in an environment of illicit drug promotion; International control of drugs: past, present and future; Freedom from pain and suffering; Overconsumption of internationally controlled drugs; Globalization and new technologies: challenges to drug law enforcement in the 21st century; Illicit drugs and economic development; Drugs, crime and violence: the microlevel impact; Integration of supply and demand reduction strategies: moving beyond a balanced approach; Alternative development and legitimate livelihoods; Index.
About the Editor:
Hamid Ghodse, CBE, MD, PhD, DSc, DPM, FFPH, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPsych, Professor of Psychiatry and International Drug Policy, University of London, has worked for more than 30 years in the field of addictions, advancing clinical and academic understanding and policy, and working towards national and international drug control. His contribution to various aspects of University, Royal Colleges, National Health Service and voluntary agencies has been exemplary, and for this he was awarded the CBE. He is editor of Substance Misuse Bulletin, International Psychiatry and editorial board member of Addiction, International Journal of Social Psychiatry and other journals. He is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of WHO on Drug Abuse. He has been President of the International Narcotics Control Board, 1993-94, 1997-98, 2000-01 and 2004-present.
Subjects:
Law:
International Law; Medico Legal Studies; Crime, Law and Justice
Dewey Code: BIC Code: LA
Includes 25 line drawings
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 240 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7215-9 c. £55.00
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Guilhermina Suggia: Cellist
Anita Mercier, The Juilliard School, USA
Born in 1885 in Porto, Portugal, to a middle-class musical family, Guilhermina Suggia began playing cello at the age of five. A child prodigy, she was already a seasoned performer when she won a scholarship to study with Julius Klengel in Leipzig at the age of sixteen. Suggia lived in Paris with fellow cellist Pablo Casals for several years before World War I, in a professional and personal partnership that was as stormy as it was unconventional. When they separated Suggia moved to London, where she built a spectacularly successful solo career. Suggia's virtuosity and musicianship, along with the magnificent style and stage presence famously captured in Augustus John's portrait, made her one of the most sought-after concert artists of her day. In 1927 she married Dr José Casimiro Carteado Mena and settled down to a comfortable life divided between Portugal and England.
Throughout the 1930s, Suggia remained one of the most respected musicians in Europe. She partnered on stage with many famous instrumentalists and conductors and completed numerous BBC broadcasts. The war years kept her at home in Portugal, where she focused on teaching, but she returned to England directly after the war and resumed performing. When Suggia died in 1950, her will provided for the establishment of several scholarship funds for young cellists, including England's prestigious Suggia Gift.
Mercier's study of Suggia's letters and other writings reveal an intelligent, warm and generous character; an artist who was enormously dedicated, knowledgeable and self-disciplined. Suggia was one of the first women to make a career of playing the cello at a time when prejudice against women playing this traditionally 'masculine' instrument was still strong. A role model for many other musicians, she was herself a fearless pioneer.
Contents:
Preface; Teachers and mentors; Casals-Suggia; A new beginning; The lady of the castle; Portrait of the artist; Turning point; Queen of the cello; The final decade; Appendices; List of sources; Discography.
About the Author:
Anita Mercier is based at The Julliard School, USA.
Subjects:
Music Studies:
Women & Gender in Music; 20th Century and Contemporary Music
Dewey Code: 787.4'092 BIC Code: AV
Includes 20 b&w illustrations and 1 music example
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6169-6 c. £50.00
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Approaching civil-military cooperation
A shared Platform for Experience and Research
Edited by Sebastiaan J.H. Rietjens, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands and Myriame T.I.B. Bollen, Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands
The varying types of cooperation between the military and a wide range of civilian actors are addressed in this indispensable volume. It analyses civil-military cooperation in different settings such as during emergency relief operations (tsunami, earthquakes and refugee crises) and during stability and reconstruction operations such as peace support in Afghanistan and the Congo. This book contains contributions from both senior academics and practitioners such as military officers and humanitarian personnel and looks at issues such as what is to be gained by civil-military cooperation. Contains conclusions and recommendations for academics and practitioners making it a valuable read for people deployed in these operations.
Contents:
Part I: Introduction and External Orientation: Introduction to approaching civil-military cooperation, Myriame Bollen and Bas Rietjens; The historical origins of civil-military cooperation, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg; Civil-military cooperation from a 3D perspective, Jet van der Gaag-Halbertsma, Hugo de Vries and Bart Hogeveen. Part II Civil-Military Cooperation During Humanitarian Missions: Refugees in Albania: a case of civil-military cooperation, Myriame Bollen; Tsunami response in Sri Lanka: civil-military cooperation in a conflictuous context, Goerg Frerks; Shaky grounds: civil-military response to the Pakistani earthquake, Johan de Graaf; Providing relief: the case of the Dutch engineers in Kosovo, Bas Rietjens. Part III Civil-Military Cooperation During Stabilization and Reconstruction Missions: Understanding and guiding reconstruction processes, Dorothea Hilhorst; Between expectations and reality in the DRC: opportunities for Cimic, Anthonie Th. Polet; Pride and prejudice: an Afghan and Liberian case study. Bart Klem and Stefan van Laar; Enhancing the Afghan footprint: civil-military cooperation and local participation, Masood Khalil, Sayed Fazlullah Wahidi, Bas Rietjens, and Myriame Bollen. Part IV Performance Measurement of Civil-Military Performance: towards a research agenda, Robert Beeres and Paul C. van Fenema; International policing missions: a framework for effective civil-military cooperation, Michiel de Weger; Performing in Kabul: explaining civil-military cooperation in stabilization and reconstruction missions, Bas Rietjens; Viability of civil-military cooperation during Operation Allied Harbour, Myriame Bollen and Robert Beeres; Trends, dilemmas and future research on civil-military cooperation, Bas Rietjens and Myriame Bollen.
About the Editors:
Sebastiaan J.H. Rietjens and Myriame T.I.B. Bollen are both based at the Netherlands Defence Academy, The Netherlands.
Series:
Military Strategy and Operational Art
Subjects:
Politics & International Relations:
Security, Peace & Conflict Studies; Military History; Political Sociology; Human Factors in Defence
Dewey Code: BIC Code: JP
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 188 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7281-4 c. £55.00
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Security versus Justice?
Police and Judicial Cooperation in the European Union
Edited by Elspeth Guild, Radbound University, Belgium and
Florian Geyer, Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium
The EU's area of freedom, security and justice is no longer new, but the measures which are now being adopted in the fields of judicial cooperation in criminal matters, police cooperation and counter terrorism are truly radical and will have a deep impact on the citizens of the Union. Some developments, like the European Arrest Warrant have already elicited substantial suspicion from some supreme courts in the Member States. Other measures, such as those in counter terrorism, defy EU constitutional gravity remaining suspended between the Second and Third Pillars.
This book is designed to examine three key fields: police cooperation, judicial cooperation in criminal matters and counterterrorism. Targeted at the graduate level student who is studying law, political science, international relations, criminology, geography, history or sociology with an EU dimension. Provides a key resource for reading lists on courses on the EU in all these fields as it comfortably straddles the different disciplines while providing an important analysis of the EU's criminal law and policing.
Contents:
“Introduction: the search for EU criminal law – where is it headed?, Elspeth Guild and Florian Geyer. Actors: Security, freedom and accountability: Europol and Frontex, Sonja Puntscher Riekmann; Eurojust – a cornerstone of the federal criminal justice system in the EU?, Jirí Vlastník; The 3rd pillar and the Court of Justice – a 'praetorian communitarisation' of police and judicial cooperation criminal matters?, Eulalia Sanfrutos Cano; EU member states' complicity in extraordinary renditions, Judit Tóth. Concepts and Instruments: EU police cooperation: national sovereignty framed by European security?, Didier Bigo; Too different to trust? First experiences with the application of the European arrest warrant, Julia Sievers; Reflexive governance and the EU 3rd pillar: analysis of data protection and criminal law aspects, Gloria González Fuster and Pieter Paepe. Law and Policy: The competence question: the European Community and criminal law, Valsamis Mitsilegas; The proposal for a council framework decision on certain procedural rights in criminal proceedings throughout the European Union, Mar Jimeno-Bulnes; The 'Prüm Process': the way forward for EU police cooperation and data exchange?, Rocco Bellanova. Practice – Achievements and Obstacles: Policing a European border region: the case of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, Toine Spapens; Uniforms without uniformity: a critical look at European standards in policing, Peter Hobbing; Third pillar developments from a practitioner's perspective, Richard Lang; The EU counter-terrorism strategy and human rights in Central Asia: do as I say not as I do?, Susie Alegre. A Possible Future: The Reform Treaty and justice and home affairs: implications for the common area of freedom, security and justice, Sergio Carrera and Florian Geyer; Bibliography; Index.
About the Editors:
Elspeth Guild is based at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium and is a Professor of European Migration Law at Radbound University, Nijmegan, Belgium. Florian Geyer is based at the Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Subjects:
Politics & International Relations:
Europe and European Union; International Law; Crime, Law and Justice; Security, Peace & Conflict Studies
Dewey Code: BIC Code: JP
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 222 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7359-0 c. £55.00
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Deconstructing Sexuality in the Middle East
Challenges and Discourses
Edited by Pinar Ilkkaracan, Bosphorus University, Turkey
Exploring the contemporary dynamics of sexuality in the Middle East, this volume offers an in-depth and unique insight into this much contested and debated issue.
It focuses on the role of sexuality in political and social struggles and the politicization of sexuality and gender in the region. Contributors illustrate the complexity of discourses, debates and issues, focusing in particular on the situation in Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Turkey, and explain how they cannot be reduced to a single underlying factor such as religion, or a simple binary opposition between the religious right and feminists.
Contributors include renowned academicians, researchers, psychologists, historians, human rights and women's rights advocates and political scientists, from different countries and backgrounds, offering a balanced and contemporary perspective on this important issue, as well as the implication of these debates in larger socio-political contexts.
Contents:
Introduction: sexuality as a contested political domain in the Middle East, Pinar Ilkkaracan; Criminal Law, women and sexuality in the Middle East, Sherifa Zuhur; How adultery almost derailed Turkey's aspirations to join the European Union, Pinar Ilkkaracan; Fighting honor crimes: evidence of civil society in Jordan, Stephanie Eileen Nanes; Sex education in Lebanon: between secular and religious discourses, Azzah Shararah Baydoun; Contesting discourses of sexuality in post-revolutionary iran, Hammed Shahidian; Who said that love is forbidden?: gender and sexuality in Iraqi public discourse of the 1970s and the 1980s, Achim Rohde; Militarization, nation and gender: women's bodies as arenas of violent conflict, Rubina Saigol; Towards a cultural definition of rape: dilemmas in dealing with rape victims in Palestinian society, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian; The 'Natasha' experience: migrant sex workers from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in Turkey, Leyla Gülçür and Pinar Ilkkaracan; Index.
About the Editor:
Pinar Ilkkaracan is an Adjunct Professor at Bosphorus University, Turkey.
Subjects:
Sociology:
Gender and Sexuality; Middle East Politics; Political Sociology;
Dewey Code: 306.7'0956 BIC Code: JF
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 256 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7235-7 c. £55.00
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Queering the Non/Human
Edited by Norren Giffney, University College Dublin, Ireland and
Myra J. Hird, Queen's University, Canada
What might it mean to queer the Human? By extension, how is the Human employed within queer theory? These questions invite a reconsideration of the way we think about queer theory, the category of the Human and the act of queering itself. This interdisciplinary collection of essays gathers together essays by international pioneering scholars in queer theory, critical theory, cultural studies and science studies who have written on topics as diverse as Christ, antichrist, dogs, starfish, werewolves, vampires, murderous dolls, cartoons, corpses, bacteria, nanoengineering, biomesis, the incest taboo, the death drive and the ‘queer’ in queer theory. Contributors include Robert Azzarello, Karen Barad, Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Claire Colebrook, Noreen Giffney, Judith Halberstam, Donna J. Haraway, Eva Hayward, Myra J. Hird, Karalyn Kendall, Vicki Kirby, Alice Kuzniar, Patricia MacCormack, Robert Mills, Luciana Parisi and Erin Runions.
Contents:
Foreword, Donna J. Harraway; Series editors' preface; Introduction: queering the non/human, Noreen Giffney and Myra J. Hird; How queer can you go? Theory, normality, and normativity, Claire Colebrook; (Con)founding 'the human': incestuous beginnings, Vicki Kirby; Queer apocal(o)ptic/ism: the death drive and the human, Noreen Giffney; Queering the beast: the Antichrist's gay wedding, Eric Runions; Queering the un/godly: Christ's humanities and medieval sexualities, Robert Mills; Unnatural predators: queer theory meets environmental studies in Bram Stoker's Dracula, Robert Azzarello; The werewolf as queer, the queer as werewolf, and queer werewolves, Phillip A. Bernhardt-House; The face of a dog: Levinasian ethics and human/dog coevolution, Karalyn Kendall; 'I married my dog': on queer canine literature, Alice A. Kuzniar; Animal trans, Myra J. Hird; Lessons from a starfish, Eva Hayward; Animating revolt/revolting animation: penguin love, doll sex and the spectacle of the queer non-human, Judith Halberstam; The nanoengineering of desire, Luciana Parisi; Queer causation and the ethics of mattering, Karen Barad; Necrosexuality, Patricia McCormack; Afterword, Jeffrey J. Cohen; Index.
About the Editor:
Noreen Giffney is a postdoctoral fellow in women’s studies at University College Dublin, Ireland. Myra J. Hird is Professor and Queen’s National Scholar in the Sociology Department, Queen’s University, Canada.
Series:
Queer Interventions
Subjects:
Sociology:
Gender and Sexuality; Social Theory; Cultural & Media Studies; Sociology of Health and the Body
Dewey Code: 306.7'01 BIC Code: JF
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 240 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7128-2 c. £60.00
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The Painter Angelos and Icon-Painting in Venetian Crete
Maria Vassilaki, University of Thessaly and Benaki Museum, Greece
The sixteen studies in this book include six specially translated from Greek and another two published here for the first time. They deal with the art of painting in Crete at a time when the island was under Venetian rule. The main emphasis is on the 15th century and especially on the painter Angelos. More than thirty icons with his signature survive, and at least twenty more can be reliably attributed to him. Angelos was the most significant artist of a particularly significant era. It was at this time that the centre of artistic production migrated from Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire to Candia, the capital of Venetian-occupied Crete.
These studies try to reconstruct the personality of this late Byzantine painter, Angelos, not only through his icons but also through his will (1436), now in the State Archives in Venice. In this context they also explore the status of Cretan painter in society. The large number of extant Cretan icons clearly indicates the striking increase in production from the 15th century onwards. Similarly, archival documents are used to examine the trade of icons in Crete and the way Cretan artists had to organize their workshops in order to meet the requirements of the market.
Contents:
Part 1 The Painter Angelos: The painter Angelos Akotantos: his work and testament (1436); New evidence on the painter Angelos Akotantos; From the 'anonymous' Byzantine artist to the 'eponymous' Cretan painter of the 15th century; Painting and painters in Venetian Crete; Saint Phanourios: cult and iconography; A Cretan icon in the Ashmolean: the embrace of Peter and Paul; A Cretan icon of Saint George; An icon of Saint George on horseback by the painter Angelos: a recent acquisition of the Benaki Museum; The hand of Angelos?. Part 2 On Cretan Painting: Observations on painting in Crete in the early 15th century; Some Cretan icons in the Walters Art Gallery; Reconstructing a triptych; An icon of the entry into Jerusalem and a question of archetypes, prototypes and copies in late- and post-Byzantine icon-painting. Part 3 The Cretan Painter at Work: The trade of icons in Venetian Crete; Workshop practices and working drawings of icon-painters; On the technology of post-Byzantine icons; Index.
About the Author:
Maria Vassilaki is Associate Professor of the History of Byzantine Art at the University of Thessaly, Greece, and Scientific Advisor at the Benaki Museum in Athens.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS892
Subjects:
Art History:
Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Art; Byzantine History; Crusades and the Latin East
Dewey Code: 704.9'482'094959 BIC Code: AC
Includes 219 b&w illustrations
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 420 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5945-7 c. £80.00
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Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities
Representation of Powers and Needs
Mariusz Czepczynski, University of Gdansk, Poland
The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and the Marxists' vision of a utopian landscape. Architecture, urban planning and the visual arts were considered to be powerful means of expressing the 'people's power'. However, since the velvet revolution of 1989, this urban scenery has been radically transformed by new forces and trends, infused by the free market, democracy and liberalisation. This has led to 'landscape cleansing' and 'recycling', as these former Soviet nations used new architectural, functional and social forms to transform their urbanscapes, their meanings and uses.
Comparing case studies from different post-socialist cities, this book examines the culturally conditional variations between local powers and structures despite the similarities in the general processes and systems. It considers the contemporary cultural landscapes of these post-socialist cities as a dynamic fusion of the old communist forms and new free-market meanings, features and democratic practices, of global influences and local icons. The book argues that these urbanscapes clearly reflect the social, cultural and political conditions and aspirations of these transitional countries and so a critical analysis of them provides important insights.
Contents:
Introduction; Geographical Studies of Cultural Landscape: Diversitry of landscape interpretations; Traditions of landscape discourse in geography; Cultural landscape research in new cultural geography; Methodological pluralism; Interpretations of cultural landscapes. Representations of memories and powers: Discursive Historical Landscapes: Landscape as representation system; Landscapes of powers/ powers over landscapes; History, memory and oblivion; Heritages and cultural landscape. Landscaping Socialist Cities: Socialism, landscape and power over masses; Industrialization and the dictatorship of production; Non-socialist features of socialist cities; Process of socialist landscape development. Transformation of Communist Iconic Landscapes: Liminal times – liminal landscapes; Separation and elimination of mimetic icons; Transition of iconography: changing intentions; Reincorporation and new constructions of old icons; Memorising anticommunism; Ostalgic landscapes and representations. New Landscape Symbols of 'New Europe': Functional transformation of post-socialist landscapes; Civic landscapes discourse; Urbanization processes; Landscapes of the excluded. Interpreting Landscapes in Transition; Index.
About the Author:
Mariusz Czepczynski is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Gdansk, Poland.
Series:
Re-materialising Cultural Geography
Subjects:
Human Geography:
Social & Cultural Geography; Urban Design; Political Geography and Geopolitics; Russian, Central and East European Politics
Dewey Code: 307.1'216'0947 BIC Code: RG
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7022-3 c. £55.00
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The Killing of Cambodia: Geography, Genocide and the Unmaking of Space
James Tyner, Kent State University, USA
Between 1975 and 1978, the Khmer Rouge carried out genocide in Cambodia unparalleled in modern history. Approximately 2 million died – almost one quarter of the population. Taking an explicitly geographical approach, and a starting point that 'geo-graphy' concerns the writing of space, this book suggests that the Khmer Rouge's activities not only led to genocide, but terracide – the erasure of space.
In the Cambodia of 1975, the landscape would reveal vestiges of an indigenous precolonial Khmer society, a French colonialism and American intervention. The Khmer Rouge, however, were not content with retaining the past inscriptions of previous modes of production and spatial practices. Instead, they attempted to erase time and space to create their own utopian vision of a communal society. The Khmer Rouge's erasing and reshaping of space was only a part of a consistent ignorance, neglect and sacrifice of Cambodia and its people – each previous foreign influence also is seen to have attempted not only to rewrite history, but reproduce geography.
While focussing on Cambodia, the book provides a clearer geographic understanding to genocide in general and insights into the importance of spatial factors in geopolitical conflict.
Contents:
Imagining genocide; Irruptions and disruptions; The improbable revolution; The un-making of space; The placelessness of democratic Kampuchea; The political and the subject; A political understanding of genocide and justice; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
James Tyner is Professor of Geography at Kent State University, USA.
Subjects:
Human Geography:
Political Geography and Geopolitics; Security, Peace & Conflict Studies; Asian Politics; Regional Studies
Dewey Code: 959.6'042 BIC Code: RG
Includes 34 photos and 1 map
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7096-4 c. £55.00
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Across the Borders
Financing the World's Railways in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Günter Dinhobl, IFF, Austria and
Ralf Roth, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
Until now we have only had relatively narrow economic studies comparing investments in railways with investments in other fields of individual economies. 'Across the Borders' not only opens the door for fundamental new insights into a trans-national view of railway history, but also contributes to a break through in the wider study of the subject, providing the first extensive historical investigation of the world wide system of railway financing. This book provides a wide introduction to how financiers, governments and entrepreneurs in Europe managed to face the challenges of constructing and maintaining an integrated railway network, both in their own countries and their colonies.
This volume offers analysis from a selection of experts exploring the trans-national investment policies of railway construction based on numerous historical case-studies. The chapters provide insight into the international opportunities that exited for railway financing, from the perspective of economic, social, transport and railway history.
With contributions from authors from 19 countries the volume is a truly international work that will be of interest to academic researchers, museum staff, archivists, and anyone who has an interest in the history and development of railways.
Contents:
General editors' preface; Preface; Introduction: across the borders, Ralf Roth and Günter Dinhobl; Part I Individual Across-Border Investors: Making tracks: promoting the Rothschild Archive as a source of railway history, Melanie Aspey; The Pereires' international strategy for railway construction in the 1850s and 1860s, Christophe Bouneau; Raffaele de Ferrari, Duke of Galliera, an investor of European stature, Michèle Merger; Difficulties of international railway investments in Germany: the example of the 'railway king' Bethel Henry Strousberg, 1855–1875, Ralf Roth; Leon Sapieha – a prince and a railway entrepreneur, Ihor Zhaloba; Economic investors and railway advertising: the influence of photography in the railway in modern French and Spanish painting in the second half of the 19th century, Rocio Robles Tardio. Part II Across-Border Investments in Europe: Spanish society of secondary railways: the failure of major international project to create an additional railway network in Spain, Francisco de los Cobos Arteaga and Tomás Martínez Vara; British and French investments in the Belgian railway sector during the 19th century, Frans Buelens, Julien van den Broeck and Hans Willems; Railway investments in Italy during the 19th century, Daniela Felisini; The French investors in Portuguese railways from 1855 to 1884: 3 cases, Magda Pinheiro; The Dutch as investors in railways at home and abroad, Augustus J. Veenendaal. Part III From Europe into the World: Oversea Investments: European investment in American railways, Augustus J. Veenendaal; European Investments in the Ottoman railways, 1850-1914, Bülent Bilmez; Sustained British investment in overseas railways, 1830-1914: the imperial dream, engineers' assurances or an 'investment hungry public'?, Diane K. Drummond; John Chapman and the promotion of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 1842–1850, Ian J. Kerr; French finance and railway construction in Northern China, 1895–1905, Robert Lee; The establishment of railways in the 19th-century Brazil and the role of the Rothschilds, Maria Teresa Ribeiro de Oliviera; The transandine railway: a 100 year long financial disaster that still attracts investors, Ian Thompson; Annex; Bibliography; Index.
About the Editor:
Günter Dinhobl and Ralf Roth are both based at the IFF (Faculty for Interdisciplinary Research Education), Austria. Johann Wolfgang is based in Goethe-Universität, Germany.
Series:
Modern Economic and Social History
Subjects:
History:
Economic History; Twentieth Century History; Social History; Nineteenth Century History
Dewey Code: 385'.09 BIC Code: HB
Includes 32 b&w illustrations and 31 tables
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 260 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6029-3 c. £55.00
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Buying for the Home
Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Edited by David Hussey, University of Wolverhampton, UK and
Margaret Ponsonby, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Buying the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home. It analyses the ways in which the agencies and discourses of the retail environment mesh with the processes of physical and imaginative re-creation that constitute the domestic space, teasing out the negotiations and interactions that mediate this key arena.
The study examines how the strategies of retailers were both arbitrated by and negotiated through the actions and desires of the homemaker as consumer. Drawing on the recent CHORD (Centre for the History of Retail and Distribution) colloquium on shopping and the domestic environment and including two specially commissioned pieces, the book draws on a wide selection of interdisciplinary work from established scholars and new researchers. Organised around four key themes - retail arenas and the everyday; identity and lifestyle; fashioning domestic space; and cultural practice - the ten case studies cover a range of cultural encounters and locations from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century. Through these interdisciplinary but linked case studies, Buying the Home forces us to consider the fractured space that existed between the world of goods and the middle- and working class home and in so doing interrogate how middle-class and plebeian homemakers view, imagine and ultimately occupy their domestic spaces in early-modern, modern and post-modern society.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction: between the shop and the home, David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby; Part 1 Retail Areas and the 'Everyday': Shopping at 1st hand? Mistresses, servants and shopping for the household in early modern England, Claire Walsh; 'To families furnishing kitchens': domestic utensils and their use in the 18th-century home, Karin Dannehl; Guns, horses and stylish waistcoats? Male consumer activity and domestic shopping in 18th and early 19th-century England, David Hussey. Part 2 Shopping for Identities?: Liberty and lifestyle: shopping for art and luxury in 19th-century London, Sonia Ashmore; 'Artistic and commercial' Japan: modernity, authenticity and Japanese leather, Yasuko Suga. Part 3 Fashioning the Domestic: Making and Re-Making the Home through Consumption: A desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of 2nd-hand furniture, 1750–1900, Clive Edwards; 'A pretty custom' updated: from 'going to housekeeping' to bridal showers in the United States, 1850s–1930s, Shirley Teresa Wajda. Part 4 Consumption for the Home as Cultural Practice: The milkman always rang twice: the effects of changed provisioning on Dutch domestic architecture, Irene Cieraad; From Ground Force to garden-making: how ordinary gardeners consume lifestyle aesthetics, Lisa Taylor; Taking a look at the wild side of diy home décor, Judy Attfield; Index.
About the Editor:
David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby are both based in the Department of History at the University of Wolverhampton.
Series:
The History of Retailing and Consumption
Subjects:
History:
Twentieth Century History; Nineteenth Century History; Cultural History; Social History
Dewey Code: 640.9 BIC Code: HB
Includes 20 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 250 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5807-8 c. £55.00
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Entropic Creation
Religious Contexts of Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Helge Kragh, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Entropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future 'heat death', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the 'entropic creation argument', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this book.
The heat death and the claim of cosmic creation were widely discussed in the period 1870 to 1920, with participants in the debate including European scientists, intellectuals and social critics, among them the physicist William Thomson and the communist thinker Friedrich Engels. One reason for the passion of the debate was that some authors used the law of entropy increase to argue for a divine creation of the world. Consequently, the second law of thermodynamics became highly controversial. In Germany in particular, materialists and positivists engaged in battle with Christian - mostly Catholic - scholars over the cosmological consequences of thermodynamics.
This heated debate, which is today largely forgotten, is reconstructed and examined in detail in this book, bringing into focus key themes on the interactions between cosmology, physics, religion and ideology, and the public way in which these topics were discussed in the latter half of the nineteenth and the first years of the twentieth century.
Contents:
Introduction; Some early ideas on decay and creation; Thermodynamics and the heat death; The entropic creation argument; Concepts of the universe; post-1920 developments; Shadows from the past; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Helge Kragh is a Professor in the History of Science Department at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
Series:
Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945
Subjects:
History:
History of Science and Technology; Science and Religion; Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History
Dewey Code: 261.5'5 BIC Code: HB
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 346 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6414-7 c. £60.00
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The Extreme Right in Interwar France
The Faisceau and the Croix de Feu
Samuel Kalman, St Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Historians of the French extreme right frequently denote the existence of a strong xenophobic and nationalist tradition dating from the 1880s, a perpetual anti-republicanism which pervaded twentieth-century political discourse. Much attention is habitually paid to the interwar era, deemed the zenith of this success, when the leagues attracted hundreds of thousands of members and enjoyed significant political acclaim. Most works on the subject speak of 'the French right' or 'French fascism', presenting compendia of figures and organizations, from the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s through the notorious Vichy regime, the authoritarian construct which emerged following the defeat to Nazi Germany in June 1940. However, historians rarely discuss the programmatic elements of extreme right-wing doctrine, which demanded the eradication of parliamentary democracy and the transformation of the nation and state according to group principles. Instead, most detail the organization and membership of various organizations, and often recount their quotidian activities as political actors within (and in opposition to) the Third Republic.
This book offers a new interpretation of the extreme right in interwar French politics, focusing upon the largest and most influential such groups in 1920s and 1930s, the Faisceau and the Croix de Feu. It explores their designs for extensive political, economic, and social renewal, a project that commanded significant attention from the leadership and rank-and-file of both organizations, providing the overarching goal behind their aspiration to power. The book examines five components of these efforts: A renewal of politics and government, the establishment of a new economic order, a revaluation of gender and familial relations, the role of youth in the new socio-political construct, and the politics of exclusion inherent in every facet of Faisceau and CDF doctrine. In so doing it contributes to a historical understanding of the programmatic elements of the interwar extreme-right, while simultaneously situating its most prominent exponents within their broader historical context.
Contents:
Introduction; Vers un ordre politique nouveau: renovating state and government; Vers un ordre économique nouveau: the traditional and the modern in the new economy; La politique du foyer: the role of women and the family in the national community; Health, virility and patriotism: the physical and moral transformation of youth; The politics of exclusion: Jews and foreigners in the new nation and state; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Samuel Kalman is based in the Department of History at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.
Subjects:
History:
Twentieth Century History; Political History; Western European History
Dewey Code: 320.5'33'0944'0941 BIC Code: HB
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 244 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6240-2 c. £55.00
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Mining Tycoons in the Age of Empire, 1870–1945
Entrepreneurship, High Finance, Politics and Territorial Expansion
Edited by Raymond E. Dumett, Purdue University, USA
The years between 1870 and 1900, aptly described by Mark Twain as the 'Gilded Age’, witnessed an unprecedented level of material excess, untrammelled pursuit of profit and imperial expansion. Within this dynamic and often ruthless environment many colourful characters strode across the world stage, among them the mining tycoons who were often among the 'shock troops' of European expansion and colonial exploitation.
This volume provides a truly international perspective on the role of mining tycoons both in shaping the economic and political map of the globe, and in setting a new standard for extravagant displays of wealth amongst the world's rich. Each chapter is focussed on a biographical account of a particular mining tycoon that allows for broad and comparative accounts to be made about the individuals, their business interests, the technologies they employed and the national and internal political considerations under which they operated. Furthermore, this structure also allows for consideration of the effect that these tycoons had on the countries and territories in which they worked, particularly the often long-lasting impact on indigenous populations, the environment, transport links and economic development. By approaching the subject matter through this stimulating mix of cultural, social, economic, business and colonial history, many intriguing and thought provoking conclusions are reached that will reward any scholars with an interest late nineteenth and early twentieth century history.
Contents:
Series editor's preface; Introduction, Raymond Dumett; The rise and fall of Horace Tabor, Colorado's silver king, Duane Smith; Edwin A. Cade and Frederick Gordon: British imperialism and the foundation of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Raymond Dumett; Cecil Rhodes, De Beers and mining finance in South Africa: the business of entrepreneurship and imperialism, Colin Newbury; John T. North, the nitrate king and Chile's lost future, Michael Monteon; Whittaker Wright, speculative finance and the London mining boom of the 1890s, Jeremy Mouatt; Frank Murphy, mining promoter and developer of the American Southwest, Robert Spude; Claude de Bernales, wizard of Australia's golden West, Mel Davies; Copper kings of the Americas æ the Guggenheim brothers, Thomas O'Brien; Chester Beatty, global mining financier and entrepreneur, John Phillips; Index.
About the Editor:
Raymond E. Dumett is a Professor in the Department of History at Purdue University, USA.
Series:
Modern Economic and Social History
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth Century History; Economic History; Business History
Dewey Code: 338.7'622'0922 BIC Code: HB
Includes 9 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 256 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6303-4 c. £55.00
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The Quest for the Invisible
Microscopy in the Enlightenment
Marc J. Ratcliff, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such, developments in the field during the Enlightenment have been largely overlooked. This study therefore fills a considerable gap in the study of this life science, providing a thorough analysis of what the main concerns of the field were and how microscopists learned to communicate with each other in relevant ways in order to compare results and build a new discipline.
Employing a substantial body of contemporary literature from across Europe, the author is able to present us with a definitive account of the state of research into microscopy of the period. He brings to light the little known work of Louis Joblot, re-evaluates the achievements of Abraham Trembley and gives new weight to Otto-Friedrich Muller's important contributions. The book also connects changes in instrument design to an innovative account of microscopical research during the eighteenth century and the rich social networks of communication that grew during this period. Investigating the history of microscopical research from 1680 up to 1800 also shows how scholars progressively established a modern rule on which to shape their new discipline: balancing microscopical magnification with shared vision. This rule developed in response to the diminishing size of the microscopical object during the course of the eighteenth century, from dry minute organisms such as insects, to aquatic minute bodies such as polyps, and finally to aquatic invisible organisms, thus completing the scholar's quest to study the invisible.
This book will be essential reading for historians of microscopy, epistemologists, and for historians of the life sciences in the modern period.
Contents:
Introduction; Part 1 The Definition of Microscopical Objects 1680–1740: Production and visibility of microscopes in the first half of the 18th century; The study of animalcules at the turn of the 18th century; Insects, hermaphrodite and ambiguity. Part 2 The Break with the Past 1740–1760s: Towards marketing strategies for the microscope in the second half of the 18th century; Abraham Trembly, the polyp and new directions for microscopical research; The disputes over authority and microscopical observations. Part 3 Infusoria and Microscopical Experiments: The True Invisible Objects 1760s–1800s: The quantifying spirit in microscopical research and keeping up with invisible objects; The emergence of the systematics of infusoria; From spontaneous generation to the limits of life: microscopical experimentalist research from the 1760s to 1800; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Marc J. Ratcliff is based at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Subjects:
History:
History of Science and Technology; Eighteenth Century History
Dewey Code: 502.8'2'094 BIC Code: HB
Includes 34 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 260 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6150-4 c. £60.00
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Reassessing Suez 1956
New Perspectives on the Crisis and its Aftermath
Edited by Simon C. Smith, The University of Hull, UK
The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War. The fiftieth anniversary of the Suez crisis in 2006 presented an ideal opportunity to re-visit and reassess this seminal episode in post-war history. Although much has been written on Suez, this study provides fresh perspectives by reflecting the latest research from leading international authorities on the crisis and its aftermath. By drawing on recently released documents, by including previously neglected aspects of Suez, and by reassessing its more familiar ones, the volume makes a key contribution to furthering research on - and understanding of - the crisis.
The volume explores the origins of the crisis, the crisis itself and the aftermath all from a broad perspective. An introduction by the editor presents the current state of the historiography and provides an overview of the debates surrounding the crisis, while the conclusion by Scott Lucas not merely draws the themes of the book together, but also explores the crisis in its regional and international context.
Within the overall context of focussing on the international and military facets of the crisis, is an explicit decision to embody in the contributions the multifaceted nature of Suez. Although Britain, as in many ways the principal actor, is strongly represented, there are also highly original chapters on both the regional and international dimensions to the crisis, and crucially the interaction between the two. As well as exploring the role of the main protagonists, essays also deal with American, Jordanian and Turkish reactions to the invasion. The overall result is an innovative, thought-provoking, and wide-ranging reassessment of Suez and its aftermath, which at a time when the Middle East once again holds the world's attention, is particularly appropriate.
Contents:
Introduction, Simon C. Smith; Prelude to the Suez crisis: the rise and fall of British dominance over the Suez Canal, 1869–1956, Steve Morewood; Eden, Churchill and the battle of the Canal Zone, 1951–54, Michael T. Thornhill; Britain and the Suez crisis: the Abadan dimension, Peter Beck; Julian Amery and the Suez operation, Sue Onslow; Who to fight in 1956, Egypt or Israel? Operation Musketeer versus Operation Cordage, Eric Grove; French-Israeli relations, 1950–1956: the strategic dimension, Zach Levey; Supporting the brave young king: the Suez crisis and Eisenhower's new approach to Jordan, 1953–1958, Clea Bunch; A reluctant partner of the US over Suez? Turkey and the Suez crisis, Aysegül Sever; The 1956 Sinai war: a watershed in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, David Tal; When did Nasser expect war? The Suez nationalization and its aftermath in Egypt, Laura M. James; The Suez crisis at the United Nations: the effects for the Foreign Office and British foreign policy, Edward Johnson; In search of 'some big, imaginative plan': the Eisenhower administration and American strategy in the Middle East after Suez, Richard V. Damms; Telling tales out of school: Nutting, Eden and the attempted suppression of No End of a Lesson, Philip Murphy; Post-Suez consequences: Anglo-American relations in the Middle East from Eisenhower to Nixon, Tore T. Petersen; Suez 1956 and the moral disarmament of the British empire, A.J. Stockwell; Conclusion, Scott Lucas; Index.
About the Editor:
Simon C. Smith is based at The University of Hull, UK.
Subjects:
History:
Twentieth Century History; Middle Eastern History; Military History; Political History
Dewey Code: 956'.044 BIC Code: HB
Includes 12 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 320 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6170-2 c. £60.00
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Writing the History of the Mind
Philosophy and Science in France, 1900 to 1960s
Cristina Chimisso, The Open University, UK
For much of the twentieth century, French intellectual life was dominated by theoreticians and historians of mentalité. Traditionally, the study of the mind and of its limits and capabilities was the domain of philosophy, however in the first decades of the twentieth century practitioners of the emergent human and social sciences were increasingly competing with philosophers in this field: ethnologists, sociologists, psychologists and historians of science were all claiming to study 'how people think'. Scholars, including Gaston Bachelard, Georges Canguilhem, Léon Brunschvicg, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien Febvre, Abel Rey, Alexandre Koyré and Hélène Metzger were all investigating the mind historically and participating in shared research projects. Yet, as they have since been appropriated by the different disciplines, literature on their findings has so far failed to recognise the connections between their research and their importance in intellectual history.
In this exemplary book, Cristina Chimisso reconstructs the world of these intellectuals and the key debates in the philosophy of mind, particularly between those who studied specific mentalities by employing prevalently historical and philological methods, and those who thought it possible to write a history of the mind, outlining the evolution of ways of thinking that had produced the modern mentality. Dr Chimisso situates the key French scholars in their historical context and shows how their ideas and agendas were indissolubly linked with their social and institutional positions, such as their political and religious allegiances, their status in academia, and their familial situation.
The author employs a vast range of original research, using philosophical and scientific texts as well as archive documents, correspondence and seminar minutes from the period covered, to recreate the milieu in which these relatively neglected scholars made advances in the history of philosophy and science, and produced ideas that would greatly influence later intellectuals such as Foucault, Derrida and Bourdieu. This book will appeal to historians of science and philosophy, particularly Continental philosophy, and those with interest in the history of ideas and the historiography of the disciplines of the social sciences.
Contents:
Introduction; History of philosophy in the first decades of the 20th century: the spaces and the students; History of philosophy in the first decades of the 20th century: theory and objectives; The meaning and uses of history: challenges to the history of philosophy; Approaches to the history of the mind: history of science between philosophy and history; Approaches to the history of the mind: history of science and history of thought; From the laboratory to the tribunal: historical epistemology; Conclusion; List of references; Index.
About the Author:
Dr Cristina Chimisso is a senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at The Open University, UK.
Series:
Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945
Subjects:
History:
Twentieth Century History; History of Science and Technology; Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Language; Philosophy of Science
Dewey Code: 194 BIC Code: HB
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 240 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5705-7 c. £55.00
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Islam Beyond Conflict
Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
Edited by Azyumardi Azra, State University of Islamic Studies, Indonesia and Wayne Hudson
The case of Indonesia suggests that the prospects for governance reform based on Islamic principles are better than most existing literature suggests. This volume explores the extent to which moderate Indonesian Islam is able to assimilate leading concepts from Western political theory. The essays in this collection, suggest that concepts from Western political theory are compatible with a liberal interpretation of Islamic universals and that such universals can form the basis for a contemporary approach to the protection of human rights and the articulation of a modern Islamic civil society.
Contents:
Introduction, Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson; Political modernity and Indonesian Islam, Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson; Islamic perspectives and the rules of law and constitutionalism, N.A. Fadhil Lubis; Constitutional values and an Islamic state, Adnan Buyung Nasution; The ambiguities of the rule of law, Brian Galligan; Western and Islamic conceptions of the rule of law, Spencer Zifcak; Democracy and Islam, Bahtiar Effendy; Islam and democratisation in Indonesia, Ahmad Syafi Maarif; Islam and the claims of democracy, Graham Maddox; Democratic leadership, Haig Patapan; Islamic perspectives on citizenship and statehood, N.A. Fadhil Lubis; Towards a conceptual framework for citizenship, Geoffrey Stokes; Liberal and communitarian approaches to citizenship, Janna Thompson; Problems with citizenship, Barry Hindess; Religious pluralism in Indonesia, Azyumardi Azra; Pluralism and liberalism, John Kane; Pluralism and universalism, George Crowder; Human rights and duties in Islam, N.A. Fadhil Lubis; Human rights and pluralism, Joseph Camilleri; Civil society and tolerance in Indonesia, Saiful Mujani; Civil society and the media in Indonesia, Philip Kitley; Indonesian Islam and democracy: ways ahead, Wayne Hudson and Azyumardi Azra; Index.
About the Editor:
Azyumardi Azra is Professor of History and Rector at the State University of Islamic Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia. Wayne Hudson is a Professor of Philosophy and World History at Griffith University, Australia.
Series:
Law, Ethics and Governance
Subjects:
Law:
Philosophy and Theory of Law; Asian Politics; Human Rights; Islamic Studies
Dewey Code: 340.5'9'09598 BIC Code: LA
Includes 9 figures and 3 tables
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 240 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7092-6 c. £55.00
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The Law of Intervening Causation
Douglas Hodgson, The University of Western Australia, Australia
This volume provides a comprehensive and systematic study of the law of intervening causation (novus actus interveniens) to present an analysis of this particular judicial limitation of liability device. The work provides a structure from which to formulate core general legal principles and identify the various legal tests utilized by the courts. The book comprises a comparative examination and analysis of the intervening causation case-law from England, Canada, the USA, Australia/New Zealand, and Ireland.
Contents:
Part I Introduction: Introduction; Early judicial development of intervening causation law. Part II The Legal Tests: Reasonable foreseeability; Unreasonableness/abnormality; Voluntary and deliberate human action; Probability; Scope of risk. Part III Operative Contexts: Intervening negligent acts and omissions; Extraordinary natural phenomena, coincidences and animals; maritime incidents; The suicide cases; Professional malpractice; Rescue of persons and property; Children; Escaping from danger and inconvenience; Negligence causing susceptibility to later harm; Miscellaneous operative contexts. Part IV Conclusion: The influence of contributory negligence and apportionment legislation on intervening causation issues; The inter-relationship between remoteness of damage and novus actus interveniens; Conclusion; Index.
About the Author:
Douglas Hodgson is Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Western Australia. He has published widely on Human Rights law.
Subjects:
Law:
Philosophy and Theory of Law; Medico Legal Studies
Dewey Code: 346'.03 BIC Code: LA
June 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 272 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-7366-8 c. £60.00
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The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England
Textual Construction of a National Identity
Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University, USA
Through its exploration of the intersections between the culture of the wool broadcloth industry and the literature of the early modern period, this study contributes to the expanding field of material studies in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The author argues that it is impossible to comprehend the development of emerging English nationalism during that time period, without considering the culture of the cloth industry. She shows that, reaching far beyond its status as a commodity of production and exchange, that industry was also a locus for organizing sentiments of national solidarity across social and economic divisions. Hentschell looks to textual productions-both imaginative and non-fiction works that often treat the cloth industry with mythic importance-to help explain how cloth came to be a catalyst for nationalism. Each chapter ties a particular mode, such as pastoral, prose romance, travel propaganda, satire, and drama, with a specific issue of the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different literary genres contributed to what the author terms the "culture of cloth."
Contents:
Introduction: ancient, famous and decayed: the culture of cloth in early modern England; Part I Resistance in the Flock: Labor Rebellion in Pastoral Poetry and Prose Romance: Pasture and pastoral: sheep, anti-enclosure literature, and Sidney's seditious peasants; Clothworkers and social protest: the case of Thomas Deloney. Part II The Circulation of Subjectivity in the Cloth Trade: 'Vente for our English clothes': promoting early New World expansion; Treasonous textiles: foreign cloth and the construction of Englishness. Part III Staging the Cloth Crisis: The fleecing of England, or the drama of corrupt drapers: Thomas Middleton's Michaelmas Term; Politics on parade: the Cockayne project and Anthony Munday's civic pageants for the Drapers; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Roze Hentschell is Associate Professor of English at Colorado State University, USA.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Renaissance Literature; Early Modern History 1500–1700; 17th Century Literature
Dewey Code: 338.4'767731'0942'0903 BIC Code: DS
Includes 3 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 250 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6301-0 c. £50.00
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Masculinity, Corporality and the English Stage 1580–1635
Christian M. Billing, University of Hull, UK
The significance of human anatomy to the most physical of art forms, the theatre, has hitherto been an under-explored topic. Filling this gap, Christian Billing questions conventional wisdom regarding the one-sex anatomical model and uses a range of medical treatises to delineate an emergent two-sex paradigm of human biology. The impact such a model had on the staging of the human form in English professional theatre is also explored in appraisals of: (i) the homo-erotic significance of a two-sex paradigm; (ii) social and theatrical cross-dressing; (iii) the uses of theatrical androgyny; (iv) masculine corporality and the representation of assertive women; and (v) the theatrical poetics of human dissection. Billing supports cultural and scientific study with close-readings of Lyly, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Dekker, Beaumont, Fletcher, and Ford. The book provides a sophisticated and original analysis of the early modern stage body as a discursive site in wider debates concerning sexuality and gender.
Contents:
Introduction; Man made woman: early modern anatomy and the emergence of sexual difference; Homo-erotic metamorphoses: Ide, Gallathea and Falstaff; Apparel anatomy and agency: performative challenges to masculine authority; Roaring Girls and Tragic Maids: strategies of dramatic recuperation; Misogynist anatomy: the visceral imperatives of Fordian tragedy; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Christian M. Billing is Lecturer in Drama at the University of Hull, UK.
Subjects:
Literary Studies:
Renaissance Literature; 17th Century Literature; Theatre Studies; History of Science and Technology
Dewey Code: 822.3'093561 BIC Code: DS
Includes 17 b&w illustrations
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 256 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5651-7 c. £50.00
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The Bach Choir: The First Hundred Years
Basil Keen
This study of the Bach Choir provides a much-needed overview of one of the major choral societies in London. Dr Basil Keen examines the background that led to the formation of an ad hoc body to give the first performance in England of J.S. Bach's B minor Mass. The musical and organizational effects of a permanent choral society drawn from one social group are traced during the first twenty years, after such time the pressures of social change led to a complete review followed by a restructuring of the methods of recruitment and internal organization. The rebuilding of the choir at the opening of the twentieth century, the expansion of the repertoire, the upheaval resulting from the First World War and the impact of these events on preparation and performance, are all considered.
The book is essentially structured around the tenure of successive Musical Directors: Otto Goldschmidt, Charles Villiers Stanford, Walford Davies, Hugh Allen, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Adrian Boult, Reginald Jacques and David Willcocks, since their varied tastes and interests inevitably had a decisive influence on policy. Keen draws upon previously unpublished material, including minutes and correspondence of the Bach Choir, interviews with relatives and descendants, and examination of family records and correspondence.
To date, there has been no survey of a major London choir that encompasses the full history of the organization in context. In this study, Dr Basil Keen provides a thorough examination of the Bach Choir, including the response of the choir to social changes; the influence of conductors and officials; changes in musical taste; relationships with composers and composition; major national and international events; and the effect of these matters on organisation and repertoire.
Contents:
Preface; Prologue; The Mass in B Minor; A permanent choir; The Stanford years; A choir in crisis; Recovery and renewal; New directions; A composer member at the helm; Boult fills the gap; Jacques gets the vote; New horizons; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Basil Keen is an Independent Scholar.
Subjects:
Music Studies:
19th Century Music; British Music & Musicians; Opera/Vocal/Choral
Dewey Code: 782.5'09421 BIC Code: AV
Includes 25 b&w illustrations
May 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 280 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5477-3 c. £55.00
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From Terrorism to Politics
Anisseh van Engeland and Rachael M. Rudolph
How do terrorists become politicians? Through a series of comparative case studies important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes are examined. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' organization to a political party and situates this within broader debates about substantive ethical concerns motivating the distinction between legitimate politics and illegitimate violence.
This book provides:
• an innovative approach to how terrorist groups convert into political groups
• an understanding of how established democracies such as the US react to this phenomenon
• a presentation of how some terrorist groups see the world in which they live
• a rich variety of comparative case studies to understand similarities and differences that exist in the process of politicization
This is a useful resource for students and scholars of international relations, political ethics and comparative politics.
Contents:
Introduction: the transition process; A successful 'turnover': ANC: from sabotage to a legitimated political, Anisseh Van Engeland; Hezbollah: from a terrorist group to a political party-social, Anisseh Van Engeland; Political movements in the making: the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, Anisseh Van Engeland; A political movement to make peace or war? Euskadi Ta Askatasuna and Batasuna – the impossible truce, Anisseh Van Engeland; The Islamic Resistance movement in Palestine (Hamas): a successful transition, but will it survive, Rachel M. Rudolph; Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine: a wild card in Palestinian politics?, Rachel M. Rudolph; Failed attempts: the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia and Union Patriotica, Anisseh Van Engeland; Transition in the Philippines: the Moro National Liberation Front, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the Abu Sayyaf's Group, Rachel M. Rudolph; Terrorism all the way! Terrorist nihilist groups: the example of al Qaeda, Anisseh Van Engeland; Conclusion: toward a transition theory and implications, Rachel M. Rudolph; Bibliography.
About the Authors:
Anisseh Van Engeland, Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute, Assistant Professor, James Madison University, and free lance consultant, USA. Rachael M. Rudolph is an Assistant Professor at Emory & Henry College and Instructor at West Virginia University, USA.
Series:
Ethics and Global Politics
Subjects:
Politics & International Relations:
Security, Peace & Conflict Studies; Political Sociology; Human Rights
Dewey Code: BIC Code: JP
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-4990-8 c. £55.00
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The Power of Looks
Social Stratification of Physical Appearance
Bonnie Berry, Social Problems Research Group, USA
There is a saying that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, implying that beauty is subjective. Does that mean that 'better looking' people have more social power? This book provides a fascinating insight into the social stratification of people based on looks – the artificial placement of people into greater and lesser power strata based on physical appearance.
The author analyses different aspects of physical appearance such as faces, breasts, eye shapes, height and weight as they are related to social power and inequality. For example tall people are often associated with power and publicly react as though tall people possess and deserve more power than shorter people. The author then assesses how people's physical appearance affects their chances of marriage and employment.
The book contributes to and differentiates itself from current literature by emphasizing sociological theory - including constructionism and critical theory – and research to understand the phenomenon of social aesthetics – a term coined by the author to refer to the social reaction to physical appearance. The author argues that attractive people, like the ordinary and the unattractive, are all viewed and treated differently based on their appearance. She concludes by attempting to reveal whether society on a global and local level will come to recognize the worth of humans regardless of their appearance in the same way as we have come to accept people's worth regardless of race, gender and age.
Contents:
Preface; Introduction; A brief history of social aesthetics; Two types of appearance power: economic and social network; Minority statuses, inequality, and social aesthetics; Alterations: making our appearance more suitable; The media, the economy, globalization, and other forces associated with social aesthetics; Theories: explanations of social aesthetics; Animal aesthetics: an illustration of symbolic interactionism; Transforming social aesthetics: accommodation and rebellion; Conclusions Appendix; Bibliography; Indexes.
About the Author:
Bonnie Berry is director of the Social Problems Research Group in Seattle, Washington. She is also engaged in research on a number of sociological topics, including social inequality, social movements, animal rights, and terrorism.
Subjects:
Sociology:
Sociology of Health and the Body; Social Stratification; Political Sociology; Cultural & Media Studies
Dewey Code: BIC Code: JF
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 200 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-4758-4 c. £55.00
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Anamnesis and the Eucharist
Contemporary Anglican Approaches
Julie Gittoes, Vicar of All Saints-Hampton, UK
Engaging with contemporary Anglican theology of the Eucharist through the concept of anamnesis, this book seeks to enrich the Church's understanding of transformation and mission. Eucharistic theology finds its place in the midst of much contemporary Anglican theology but little attention has been given to the interrelationship between mission and the Eucharist. Julie Gittoes engages with the work of David Ford, Rowan Williams and Catherine Pickstock who share a common concern to engage with the way in which the Eucharist shapes the life of the worshipping community as the body of Christ.
Focusing on the concept of anamnesis (remembrance or memorial), Gittoes highlights a language of connection in the way in which anamnesis describes the integration of historical, sacramental and ecclesial embodiments of Christ. The Eucharist looks back to the saving events of Christ's life, death and resurrection; through it the Church is nourished with the body of Christ; participating in it anticipates the eschatological fulfilment of the Kingdom. This book explores the connection between the source event of the Church's life and the transformative encounter with Christ in the Eucharist, the effects of which are seen in social/ethical/political action and the Church's mission.
Contents:
Introduction: why anamnesis?; The anamnesis debate; Memory in the Anglican tradition; What happens in the Eucharist? Story and transformation; Meeting God in our remembering of him; On the Eucharist: memory, time and transformation; Anamnesis and the Eucharist: consequences for mission; Bibliography; Index.
About the Author:
Revd Gittoes obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is currently the Vicar of All Saints', Hampton in the Diocese of London. She is a member of the Society for the Study of Theology.
Series:
Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Subjects:
Religion & Theology:
Practical and Pastoral Theology; Theology
Dewey Code: 264'.03036 BIC Code: HR
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 194 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6176-4 c. £50.00
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Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs
The Deep Waters of Counsel
Peter Hatton, Minister, Methodist Church, UK
Despite the welcome revival of scholarly interest in Biblical Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs remains neglected. It continues to be seen as a disorganised repository of traditional banalities, while Job and Qohelet are viewed as more exciting texts, in revolt against Proverbs' conventional wisdom. This book argues that this misleading consensus owes more to scholarly presuppositions than to the content of Proverbs; it sees Proverbs as a challenging work, one that aims to provoke a critical appropriation of wisdom and in which diverse sources have been skilfully brought together by a creative final editor to form a complex unity. Many divergences from the Hebrew in the Greek witness to the translator's discomfort with his spikey, provocative original. Peter Hatton challenges many existing scholarly assumptions and calls for a re-evaluation of the role and significance of Proverbs in relation to the other biblical wisdom books and the whole canon.
Contents:
An undervalued text; How Proverbs was marginalized; Unity and diversity in Proverbs; Provocative contradiction: the acts-consequence 'construct'; Provocative contradiction: the powerful in Qoholet and Proverbs; Provocative contradiction: gifts and bribes in Proverbs; The deep waters of counsel; Appendix; Bibliography. Index.
About the Author:
Peter Hatton is a Minister in the UK Methodist Church.
Series:
Society for Old Testament Study
Subjects:
Religion & Theology:
Biblical Studies
Dewey Code: 223.7'06 BIC Code: HR
July 2008 234 x 156 mm c. 224 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-6304-1 c. £50.00
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Before and After Darwin
Origins, Species, Cosmogonies, and Ontologies
M.J.S. Hodge, University of Leeds, UK
This is the first of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus in this volume is on the diversity of theories among such pre-Darwinian authors as Lamarck and Whewell, and on developments in the theory of natural selection since Darwin.
Plato's Timaeus, the Biblical Genesis and any current textbook of evolutionary biology are all, it may well seem, on this same enduring topic: origins and species. However, even among classical authors, there were fundamental disagreements: the ontology and cosmogony of the Greek atomists were deeply opposed to Plato's; and, in the millennia since, the ontological and cosmogonical contexts for theories about origins and species have never settled into any unifying consensus. While the structure of Darwinian theory may be today broadly what it was in Darwin's own argumentation, controversy continues over the old issues about order, chance, necessity and purpose in the living world and the wider universe as a whole.
The historical and philosophical papers collected in this volume, and in the companion volume devoted to Darwin's theorising, seek to clarify the major continuities and discontinuities in the long run of thinking about origins and species.
Contents:
Introduction; The Very Long Run: Origins and species before Darwin; Canguilhem and the history of biology. Cosmogonies and Ontologies After Buffon: 2 Cosmologies (theory of the Earth and theory of Creation) and the unity of Buffon's thought; Lamarck's science of living bodies; Lamarck's great change of mind; The history of the Earth, life and Man: Whewell and palaetiological science; The universal gestation of nature: Chamber's Vestiges and Explanations. The Structure and Content of Darwinian Theory Since Darwin: The structure and strategy of Darwin's 'long argument'; Darwin's theory and Darwin's argument; Discussion: Darwin's argument in the Origin; Knowing about evolution: Darwin and his theory of natural selection; Generation and the Origin of Species (1837-1937): a historiographical suggestion; Biology and philosophy (including ideology): a study of Fisher and Wright; Natural selection as a causal, empirical and probabilistic theory; Index.
About the Author:
M.J.S. Hodge is Senior Fellow in the Division of History and Philosophy of Science in the School of Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS897
Subjects:
History:
History of Science and Technology; Philosophy of Science; Nineteenth Century History;
Dewey Code: BIC Code: HB
May 2008 224 x 150 mm c. 350 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5938-9 c. £65.00
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The canzone villanesca alla napolitana
Social, Cultural and Historical Contexts
Donna G. Cardamone, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
The printed debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana occurred on 24 October 1537, in Naples. Fifteen anonymous 'rustic songs' were published by Johannes de Colonia in a pocket-sized anthology with a cover featuring three women with hoes tilling the soil. The adjective villanesca (from villano or peasant) in the strict sense of the word means rustic or crude, but in this new context it also intimates that Neapolitan poet-musicians had been affected by the instinctive lyrical traditions of everyday people.
The articles in this volume trace the Neapolitan origins of this song form, and its subsequent development as it spread quickly throughout Italy in a succession of editions published in Venice and Rome, providing a diverse repertory of lively songs to amuse the privileged that held and attended academies. Several studies focus on key figures in this process, notably Ferrante Sanseverino, Prince of Salerno, and Orlando di Lasso. At the same time the author relates these developments to the contemporary political context, notably the rivalry of Spain and France for control of the Kingdom of Naples.
Contents:
Introduction; The debut of the canzone villanesca alla napolitana; Musical and metrical forms of the canzone villanesca and villanella alla napolitana; Madrigali a tre et arie napolitane: a typographical and repertorial study; The Prince of Salerno and the dynamics of oral transmission in songs of political exile; Orlando di Lasso and pro-French factions in Rome; A colorful bouquet of arie napolitane; The salon as marketplace in the 1550s: patrons and collectors of Lasso's secular music; Guilio Bonagiunta: a composer with a progressive attitude; Orlando di Lasso et al.: a new reading of the villanella book (1555); Erotic jest and gesture in Roman anthologies of Neapolitan dialect songs; Index.
About the Author:
Donna G. Cardamone is the pen-name of Donna C. Jackson, Professor in the School of Music, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS901
Subjects:
Music Studies:
Medieval and Renaissance Music; Book & Publishing History
Dewey Code: 782.4'2'094573 BIC Code: AV
Includes 9 b&w illuatrations and 45 music examples
April 2008 224 x 150 mm c. 350 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5953-2 c. £65.00
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Field Systems and Farming Systems in Late Medieval England
Bruce M.S. Campbell, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK
The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked. The thirteen essays collected in this volume draw upon the abundant documentary evidence of the period to explore that diversity. In the process they engage with the issue of classification - without which effective generalisation is impossible - and offer a series of solutions to that particularly thorny methodological challenge.
Only through systematic and objective classification is it possible to differentiate between and map different field systems, husbandry types, and land-use categories. That, in turn, makes it possible to consider and evaluate the relative roles of soils and topography, institutional structures, and commercialised market demand in shaping farm enterprise both during the period of mounting population before the Black Death and the long era of demographic decline that followed it. What emerges is an agrarian world more commercialised, differentiated, and complex than is usually appreciated, whose institutional and agronomic contours shaped the course of agricultural development for centuries to come.
Contents:
Introduction; Population change and the genesis of commonfields on a Norfolk manor; The extent and layout of commonfields in eastern Norfolk; The regional uniqueness of English field systems? Some evidence from eastern Norfolk; Commonfield origins – the regional dimension; Commonfield agriculture: the Andes and medieval England compared; Towards an agricultural geography of medieval England: review article of J. Langdon; Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation, the Use of Draught Animals in English Farming, 1066–1500; The diffusion of vetches in medieval England; Mapping the agricultural geography of medieval England; The livestock of Chaucer's reeve: fact or fiction?; Cluster analysis and the classification of medieval demesne-farming systems; Economic rent and the intensification of English agriculture, 1086–1350; The demesne-farming systems of post Black Death England: a classification; Inquisitiones post mortem, GIS, and the creation of a land-use map of pre Black Death England; Index.
About the Author:
Bruce M.S. Campbell is Professor of Medieval Economic History at the School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK.
Series:
Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS903
Subjects:
History:
Medieval History 600–1500; British History; Economic History
Dewey Code: BIC Code: HB
Includes 2 colour and 35 b&w illustrations
June 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 334 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5946-4 c. £65.00
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Volume 5, Issues 1 and 2
Edited by Bennett Zon, Durham University, UK
Individual subscriptions: £65 per volume (each volume comprises two issues)
Institutional subscriptions: £95 per volume (each volume comprises two issues)
To subscribe, please send an email to: journals@
ISSN: 1479-4098
The successor to the journal Music Review, Nineteenth-Century Music Review aims to locate music within the widest possible framework of intellectual activity pertaining to the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914). It particularly welcomes interdisciplinary scholarship that explores music within the context of other artistic and scientific discourses. Articles with fine visual or iconographic content are encouraged, as are those rich in musically illustrative material. Articles accepted for publication will reflect a diversity of critical viewpoints.
Nineteenth-Century Music Review is published by Ashgate in association with the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Music at Durham University, UK.
Contents:
Issue 1: Articles: The entrepreneur-conductors and their orchestras, John Spitzer; A British child's music education, 1801-1810: G.B. Viotti, Caroline Chinnery, and the French influence; Process and product in theology and musical aesthetics: improvisation as interdisciplinary topos, Adrian Cyprian Love; Wackenroder and the doctrine of the soul, Kevin O'Regan. Book Reviews: Two Companions to Italian Opera: The Cambridge Companion to Rossini, edited by Emanuele Senici; The Cambridge Companion to Verdi, edited by Scott L. Balthazar, Francesco Isso; Brierley, Paul Edmund, The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa, Patrick Warfield; Carter, Alexandra, Dance and Dancers in the Victorian and Edwardian Music Hall, Robynn Stilwell; Smart, Mary Ann, Mimomania: Music and Gesture in 19th-century Opera, Denise P. Gallo. Books Received. CD Review Article: Elgar's recordings, Simon Trezise. CD Reviews: American Tone Poems: Louis Coerne, Excalibur Op. 180; Edward Burlingame Hill, Stevensonia Suite No. 1 Op. 24; Horatio Parker, A Northern Ballad Op. 46; John Alden Carpenter, Sea Drift, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Krueger cond, John Graziano; Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14; Harold en Italie Op.16, Tabea Zimmerman va, Christoph Eschenbach cond, Orchestre de Paris, Julian Rushton; Brahms: Trio in A minor for viola, cello and piano Op. 114; Viola Sonata in F minor Op. 120, No. 1; Viola Sonata in E flat mafor Op.120 No. 2; Lawrence Power va, Tim Hugh vc, Simon Crawford-Phillips pf, Elaine Kelly; Chaminade: Piano music Vol.1, Peter Jacobs pf, Steven Baur; Liszt: Dante Sonata; Petrarch Sonnets 47, 104 and 123; Mephisto waltz No. 1; Impromptu (Nocturne); Song translations: Frülingsnacht (Schumann), Widmung (Schumann); Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, Jon Nakamatsu pf, Shay Loy; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 49; Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66; The Florestan Trio, Anthony Marwood sn, Richard Lester vc, Susan Tomes pf, R. Larry Todd; Rossini: Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra: Jennifer Larmore (Elizabeth), Bruce Ford (Leicester), Majella Cullagh (Matilde), Antonino Siragusa (Norfolk), Manuela Custer (Enrico), Colin Lee (Guglielmo), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Guiliano Carello cond, Cormac Newark; Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino: Alessando Codeluppi (Florville), Maurizio Leoni (Gaudenzio), Elena Rossi (Sofia), Dario Giorgelè (Signor Bruschino), Antonio Marani (Filberto), Clara Giangaspero (Marianna), Massimiliano Barbolini (Bruschino Figlio), Vito Martino (Commissario), Il Virtuosi Italiani, Claudio Desderi cond, Andreas Giger; Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen (version for string septet); Piano Quartet in C minor Op. 13*; Prelude to Capriccio Op. 85, The Nash Ensemble, Marianne Thorsen vn*, Malin Broman vn, Lawrence Power va*, Philip Dukes va, Paul Watkins vc*, Pierre Doumenge vc, Duncan McTier db, Ian Brown pf*, David Larkin; Verdi: A Masked Ball: libretto, Antonio Somma, English translation , Amanda Holden; Dennis O'Neill (Gustavus III) Anthony Michaels-Moore (Count Anckarstoem), Susan Patterson (Amelia), Jill Grove (Ulrike Arvidson), Linda Richardson (Oscar), Christopher Purves (Count Ribbing), Brindley Sherratt (Count Horn), Roland Wood (Cristian), Ashley Catling (Amelia's servant/Lord Chief Justice), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, David Parry cond, Roberta Montemorra Marvin; York Bowen: Piano Sonata No. 6 in B flat minor Op. 160; 24 Preludes Op. 102; Rêverie Op. 86, Joop Celis pf, Michael Allis. CDs Received. Score reviews: Beethoven, Piano Concerto in D Major, Op. 61A, ed. Hans Werner Küthen; Beethoven, Piano Concerto in D Major, Op. 61A, ed Hans Werner Küthen; piano reduction, Jürgen Sommer; fingering Klaus Schilde, Robin Stowell; Elgar, Concerto in E minor for violoncello and orchestra Op. 85, Urtext edition, ed. Jonathan Del Mar, Eric Saylor. Robert Schumann, Waldszenen Op. 82, faksimile nach dem Autograph im Besitz der Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris. Nachwort von Margit L. McCorkle, Eric Frederick Jensen. Scores received.
About the Editor:
Bennett Zon is from The Music School at Durham University, UK.
Series:
Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Subjects:
Music Studies:
19th Century Music
Dewey Code: BIC Code: AV
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 230 pages
Paperback 978-0-7546-6485-7 £65.00
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Revealed Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation Volumes I and II
Edited by Joseph Herriges and Cathy Kling, Iowa State University, USA
In this two volume collection the editors have chosen a sample of some of the most essential and inspirational articles and papers for understanding revealed preference methods to value environmental amenities. The papers cover the gamut of methods that are typically classified as revealed preference approaches - including: recreation demand models, hedonic methods, and averting behavior methods, as well as efforts to combine stated and revealed preferences. While this collection is far from exhaustive, the editors have included papers they believe will represent the state of the art in the theory and application of revealed preference methods, contribute to development of the state of the art, or raise fundamental challenges and insights that will drive the research agenda in the coming years.
Contents:
For contents please go to our website:
About the Editors:
Joseph Herriges and Cathy Kling are both Professors in the Department of Economics at Iowa State University, USA.
Series:
The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy
Subjects:
Economics:
Environmental Economics; Industrial, Urban and Regional Economics
Dewey Code: 333.7'015118 BIC Code: KC
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 1154 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2714-2 c. £280.00
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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays, Volume I
Union to the Land War
Edited by Alan O'Day, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming, Cardiff University, UK
This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions readily accessible to scholars and students. The three volumes cover key time periods, ‘The Union to the Land War’ (volume 1), ‘Parnell and his legacy to the Treaty’ (volume 2), and ‘From the Treaty to the present’ (volume 3). Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major political themes of the period, but also offering new interpretations on social, economic, cultural and religious history, as well as women’s history and historical geography. Introductions in each volume explain the specific and wider significance of the articles.
Contents:
Series preface; Introduction, Vol 1. Part 1 The Beginning of the Union: Popular politics in Ireland and the Act of Union, James Kelly; National festivals, the state and 'Protestant ascendancy' in Ireland, 1790–1829, Jacqueline R. Hill; 'How did they pass the Union?' Secret Service expenditure in Ireland, 1799–1804, David Wilkinson. Part II Catholic Question and Emancipation: Visualizing the liberator: self-fashioning, dramaturgy, and the construction of Daniel O'Connell, Gary Owens; Daniel O'Connell and European Catholic thought, Geraldine Grogan; The Catholic question and the monarchy, 1827–1829, G.I.T. Machin. Part III Age of O'Connell in the 1830s and 1840s, and Repeal: Daniel O'Connell, democrat, liberal Catholic and husband, Maurice R. O'Connell; 'A nation once again': Thomas Osborne Davis and the construction of the Irish 'popular' tradition, Guilio Giorello. Part IV Great Famine: 'Shovelling out your paupers': the British state and Irish famine migration, 1846–50, Peter Gray; On landlord-assisted emigration from some Irish estates in the 1840s, Desmond Norton. Part V Politics in the 1850s and 60s: 'God save Ireland': Manchester-martyr demonstrations in Dublin, 1867–1916, Owen McGee; The Fenian infiltration of the British army, A.J. Semple. Part VI Isaac Butt and the Rise of Home Rule: Isaac Butt and Irish nationality, Alan O'Day; Cardinal Cullen and Irish nationality, E.D. Steele; The Irish dimension of the British kulturkampf: Vaticanism and civil allegiance, 1870–1875, Hilary Jenkins. Part VII Demography and Social Conditions: The impact of the blight upon pre-Famine rural economy in Ireland, Patrick McGregor; Harvest fluctuations in pre-Famine Ireland: evidence from Belfast and Waterford newspapers, Peter M. Solar; The decline and fall of Donnybrook Fair: moral reform and social control in 19th-century Dublin, Fergus A. D'Arcy; Perceptions of agricultural labourers after the Great Famine, 1850–1870, Pádraig G. Lane. Part VIII Religion and Society in 19th-Century Ireland: The role of Vincentian parish missions in the 'Irish counter-Reformation' of the mid-19th century, James H. Murphy; Ulster awakened: the '59 revival reconsidered, Myrtle Hill; The role of open-air preaching in the Belfast riots of 1857, Janice Holmes. Part IX Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants: The distribution of Irish emigration in the decade before the Great Famine, James H. Johnson; Irish immigrants and radical movements in the West of Scotland in the early 19th century, John F. McCaffrey; The Birkenhead Garibaldi riots of 1862, F. Neal. Part X Women: War, gender and industrial innovation: recruiting women weavers in early 19th-century Ireland, Anne McKernan; Women in 19th-century Irish emigration, Pauline Jackson; Index.
About the Editor:
Alan O'Day is a Doctor at Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming is a Doctor in the School of History & Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK.
Series:
Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History; British History
Dewey Code: BIC Code: HB
June 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 512 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2774-6 c. £115.00
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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays, Volume II
Parnell and His Legacy to the Treaty
Edited by Alan O'Day, University of Oxford, UK and
N.C. Fleming, Cardiff University, UK
This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions readily accessible to scholars and students. The three volumes cover key time periods, ‘The Union to the Land War’ (volume 1), ‘Parnell and his legacy to the Treaty’ (volume 2), and ‘From the Treaty to the present’ (volume 3). Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major political themes of the period, but also offering new interpretations on social, economic, cultural and religious history, as well as women’s history and historical geography. Introductions in each volume explain the specific and wider significance of the articles.
Contents:
Series preface; Introduction, Vol II. Part I Land Question: The limits of land reform: the Land Acts in Ireland, 1870–1909, Timothy W. Guinnane and Ronald I. Miller; The priest and the agent: social drama and class consciousness in the West of Ireland, Lawrence J. Taylor. Part II Parnell, the Liberals and Home Rule: The 1898 efforts to celebrate the United Irishmen: the '98 centennial, Timothy J. O'Keefe; Historical imagery in Irish political illustrations, 1880–1910, L.W. McBride. Part III Irish and British Unionism: Southern Irish Unionism: a study of Cork Unionists, 1884–1914, Ian d'Alton; Irish popular politics and the making of the Wyndham Land Act, 1901–1903, Fergus Campbell; Ulster Unionist territorial and national identities, 1886–1893, Thomas Henessy; Constructive Unionism and the shaping of rural Ireland, c.1880–1921, Frederick H.A. Aalen. Part IV The 3rd Home Rule Bill and the Ulster Crisis: 'Making Ireland's opportunity England's ': Winston Churchill and the 3rd Home Rule Bill, Andrew R. Muldoon; Dicey, Kilbrandon and devolution, D.G. Boyce. Part V Gaelic Revival: Muscular Catholicism: nationalism, masculinity and Gaelic team sports, 1884–1916, Patrick F. McDevitt; Ancient mythology and revolutionary ideology in Ireland, 1878–1916, Martin Williams. Part VI Easter Rising and Anglo-Irish War: Moderate nationalism and the Irish revolution, 1916–1923, Paul Bew; Patrick Pearse and the European revolt against reason, Seán Farrell Moran; 'I bring not sweet peace but a sword': the religious motif in the Irish War of Independence, John Newsinger. Part VII Demography and Social Conditions: Age, religion and marriage in post-Famine Ireland: an empirical examination, Edward E. McKenna; Irish agricultural output before and after the famine, Cormac Ó Gráda; The quality of life in Victorian Ireland, 1831–1901, Thomas E. Jordan; Traders in the Irish rural economy, 1880–1914, Liam Kennedy. Part VIII Religion and Society: The Roman Catholic Church and the 19th-century Irish diaspora, Sheridan Gilley; The politics of Cardinal McCabe, Archbishop of Dublin, 1879–1885, C.J. Woods. Part IX Diaspora, Emigration, Immigrants: Imagined Irish communities: networks of social communication of the Irish diaspora in the United States and Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alan O'Day; The process of migration and the reinvention of self: the experiences of returning Irish emigrants, Mary P. Corcoran. Part X Urbanisation and Trades Unions: 'Every creed and party': town tenant protest in late19th- and early20th- century Ireland, Brian Graham and Susan Hood; The Land and Labour Association, 1894–1914, P. Lane. Part XI Women's Movement and Female Suffrage: Irish households in the early 20th century: culture, class, and historical contingency, Donna Birdwell-Pheasant; Traditions and double moral standards: the Irish suffragists' critique of nationalism, Louise Ryan; Index.
About the Editors:
Alan O'Day is a Doctor at Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming is a Doctor in the School of History & Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK.
Series:
Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History; British History
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June 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 542 pages
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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays, Volume III
From the Treaty to 2006
Edited by Alan O'Day, University of Oxford, UK and
N. C. Fleming, Cardiff University, UK
This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions readily accessible to scholars and students. The three volumes cover key time periods, ‘The Union to the Land War’ (volume 1), ‘Parnell and his legacy to the Treaty’ (volume 2), and ‘From the Treaty to the present’ (volume 3). Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major political themes of the period, but also offering new interpretations on social, economic, cultural and religious history, as well as women’s history and historical geography. Introductions in each volume explain the specific and wider significance of the articles.
Contents:
Series preface; Introduction, Vol III; Part I Partition, the Treaty and Civil war: The Irish Free State passport and the question of citizenship, 1921–4, Joseph P. O'Grady; The Irish civil war, 1922–1923, Brian P. Murphy; The Catholic Church and partition, 1918–22, O.P. Rafferty. Part II Establishing Irish Free State, 1922–1932: The politics of reaction: the dynamics of Treatyite government and policy,1922–33, John M. Regan; The Irish Free State and the League of Nations, 1922–32, Michael Kennedy; The construction and destruction of a colonial landscape: monuments to British monarchs in Dublin before and after independence, Y. Whelan. Part III The Age of Eamon De Valera, 1932–1948: Final exit? Britain, Éire, the Commonwealth and the repeal of the External Relations Act, 1945–1949, D.W. Dean; 'Putting new wine into old bottles': the Irish Right and the embrace of European social thinking in the early 1930s, Mike Cronin; 'Burn everything British but their coal': the Anglo-Irish economic war of the 1930s, Kevin H. O'Rourke; Dublin slums in the 1930s, Frank Murphy; The Blueshirts and the 'economic war': a study of Ireland in the context of dependency theory, Andrew W. Orridge; Pariah dogs: deserters from the Irish defence forces who joined the British armed forces during 'the emergency', Liam Canny; Catholic action and the development of the Irish welfare state in the 1930s and1940s, Adrian Kelly. Part IV Northern Ireland, 1920–1968: 'Protestantism before Party!': the Ulster Protestant League in the 1930s, Graham Walker; Creating jobs, manufacturing unity: Ulster Unionism and mass unemployment, 1922–34, Christopher Norton; Lord Londonderry and education reform in 1920s Northern Ireland, Neil C. Fleming; Northern Ireland and British Fascism in the inter-war years, James Loughlin; Cultivating their own garden: broadcasting and culture in Northern ireland in the 1930s and 1940s, Gillian McIntosh; Belfast republicanism in the 30s: the oral evidence, Bill Rolston and Ronnie Munck. Part V Ireland Since 1949: Ireland and the Marshall plan, Bernadette Whelan; Gender and voter appeal in Irish elections, 1948–1997, Michael O'Kelly; Changes in population and the extent of the built up area of the Dublin City region, 1936–1988, Arnold Horner. Part VI Northern Ireland Since 1968: Acts of union: youth, sub-culture and ethnic identity amongst Protestants in Northern Ireland, Desmond Bell; Northern Irish nationalist political culture, Jennifer Todd; 'This is not a rebel song': the Irish conflict and popular music, Bill Rolston; From Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement: creating devolved government in Northern Ireland, Jonathan Tonge. Part VII Women: Surveying politics of peace, gender, conflict, and identity in Northern Ireland: the case of the Derry Peace Women in 1972, Marie Hammond Callaghan; The hidden history of the PFIs: the repatriation of unmarried mothers and their children from England to Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s, Paul Michael Garrett; Women and the Irish Free State, 1922–1939: the interaction between economics and ideology, Mary E. Daly; Index.
About the Editors:
Alan O'Day is a Doctor at Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming is a Doctor in the School of History & Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK.
Series:
Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History; British History
Dewey Code: BIC Code: HB
June 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 583 pages
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Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800, Three Volume Set
Critical Essays
Edited by Alan O'Day, University of Oxford, UK and
N.C. Fleming, Cardiff University, UK
This landmark series of three volumes brings together selected essays from leading and specialist journals that have made a significant or original contribution to Irish historiography. The purpose of the volumes is to make these thoughtful contributions readily accessible to scholars and students. The three volumes cover key time periods, ‘The Union to the Land War’ (volume 1), ‘Parnell and his legacy to the Treaty’ (volume 2), and ‘From the Treaty to the present’ (volume 3). Each volume contains a range of articles reappraising the major political themes of the period, but also offering new interpretations on social, economic, cultural and religious history, as well as women’s history and historical geography. Introductions in each volume explain the specific and wider significance of the articles.
Contents:
(See individual series volumes for details)
About the Editors:
Alan O'Day is a Doctor at Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK and N.C. Fleming is a Doctor in the School of History & Archaeology at Cardiff University, UK.
Series:
Ireland and Anglo-Irish Relations Since 1800: Critical Essays
Subjects:
History:
Nineteenth Century History; Twentieth Century History; British History
Dewey Code: BIC Code: HB
June 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 1500 pages in 3 volumes
Hardback 978-0-7546-2784-5 c. £340.00
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Warfare in Europe 1919–1938
Edited by Geoffrey Jensen, Virginia Military Institute, USA
Although ostensibly a time of peace, one of the richest and most fascinating periods in military history falls between the two world wars. With good reason, even today military theorists look to these years for relevant lessons. The articles and papers collected together in this volume highlight the major themes and developments of interwar military affairs in Europe, including the new doctrines of tank warfare, air power, German "Blitzkrieg", and Soviet operational art. They also demonstrate the important place of the major armed conflicts of the period, such as the Russian and Spanish Civil Wars, in European history.
Contents:
Series preface; Introduction; Part I Military Thought and Doctrine: British influence and the evolution of the Panzer arm: myth or reality, Azar Gat; German armour doctrine: correcting the myths, R.L. DiNardo; Beyond fire and movement: command, control and information in the German blitzkreig, Robert Citino; Mass, mobility, and the Red Army's road to operational art 1918–1936, Jacob W. Kipp; J.F.C. Fuller, Tukhachevsky and the Red Army, 1923–1941: the question of the reception of Fuller's military writings in the Soviet Union, Alaric Searle; 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it': French military doctrine between the world wars, Eugenia C. Kiesling. Part II Air Power: The Luftwaffe's army support doctrine, 1918–1941, James S. Corum; Trenchard and 'morale bombing': the evolution of Royal Air Force doctrine before World War II, Philip S. Meilinger; Fighter defence before fighter command: the rise of strategic air defence in Great Britain, 1917–1934, John Ferris. Part III The Soviet-Polish War: Two Views: The 'miracle of the Vistula': Soviet policy versus Red Army strategy, Thomas Fiddick; Lenin, Stalin and the failure of the Red Army in the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, Stephen Brown. Civil Wars and Insurgency: The Red Army and mass mobilization during the Russian civil war, 1918–1920, Orlando Figes; The clash of Spanish armies: contrasting ways of war in Spain, 1936–1939, Michael Alpert; Soviet tank operations in the Spanish civil war, Steven J. Zaloga; The Irish republican Army and the development of guerilla warfare, 1916–21, Charles Townshend. On the Eve of the Great Patriotic War: The Soviet Union: Mikhail Tukhachevsky and war-economic planning: reconsiderations on the pre-war Soviet military build-up, L. Samuelson; Tukhachevsky in Leningrad: military politics and exile, 1928–31, David R. Stone; Company choir of terror: the military council of the 1930s – the Red Army between the XVIIth and XVIIIth party congresses, Frank Schauff; Index.
About the Editor:
Geoffrey Jensen is John Biggs '30 Cincinnati Chair in Military History in the Department of History, Virginia Military Institute, USA.
Series:
The International Library of Essays on Military History
Subjects:
History:
Military History; Twentieth Century History; Western European History
Dewey Code: 355'.0094'09041 BIC Code: HB
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 538 pages
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International Law and Islamic Law
Edited by Mashood A. Baderin, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK
The relationship between modern international law and Islamic law has raised many theoretical and practical questions that cannot be ignored in the contemporary study and understanding of both international law and Islamic law. The significance and relevance of this relationship in both academic and practical terms, especially after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, is now well understood. Recent international events in particular corroborate the need for a better understanding of the relationship between contemporary international law and Islamic law and how their interaction can be explored and improved to enhance modern international relations and international law. The articles reproduced in this volume examine the issues of General Principles of International Law, International Use of Force, International Humanitarian Law, International Terrorism, International Protection of Diplomats, International Environmental and Water Law, Universality of Human Rights, Women's Rights, Rights of the Child, Rights of Religious Minorities, and State Practice. The essays have been carefully selected to reflect, as much as possible, the different Islamic perspectives on each of these aspects of international law.
Contents:
Part I General principles of International Law: Islam and the modern law of nations, Majid Khadduri; Siyar-ization and its discontents: international law and Islam's constitutional crisis, Christopher A. Ford; The role of Islamic law in the contemporary world order, Ali Ahmed; Islam and international law: toward a positive mutual engagement to realize shared ideals, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im; Islam and international law, S. Wahbeh Al-Zuhili. Part II International Use of Force: Views of jihad throughout history, Asma Afsaruddin; The Islamic perception of the use of force in the contemporary world, Said Mahmoudi; Is there an Islamic ethic of humanitarian intervention?, Sohail H. Hashmi. Part III International Humanitarian Law: Assalamu alaykum?: humanitarian law in Islamic jurisprudence, Karima Bennoune; Islam and international humanitarian law: from a clash to a conversation between civilizations, James Cockayne. Part IV International Terrorism: Is Osama bin Laden's 'fatwa urging jihad against Americans' dated 23 February 1998 justified by Islamic law?, Major T.R. Copinger-Symes; Violence, September 11 and the interpretations of Islam, Katerina Dalacoura. Part V International Protection of Diplomats: Protection of diplomats under Islamic law, M. Cherif Bassiouni. Part VI International Environmental and Water law: Islam and environmental ethics: tradition responds to contemporary challenges, Lisa Wersal; Can there be a confluence? A comparative consideration of Western and Islamic fresh water law, Thomas Naff and Joseph Dellapenna. Part VII Universality of Human Rights: Islamic law/Shari'a, human rights, universal morality and international relations, Bassam Tibi; Muslim voices in the human rights debate, Heiner Bielefeldt; A new perspective on the universality debate: reverse moderate relativism in the Islamic context, Jason Morgan-Foster; Islam and human rights: beyond the universality debate, Abdullahi An-Na'im. Part VIII Women's Rights: Women's rights in the Muslim world: reform or reconstruction?, Rebecca Barlow and Shahram Akbarzadeh; Women's rights in Islam: towards a theoretical framework, Shaheen Sardar Ali; Women's human rights in the Koran: an interpretive approach, Niaz A. Shah. Part IX The Rights of the Child: The impact of the Convention on the Rights of the Child: the plight of non-marital children under Shari'a, Safir Syed; Religious legal traditions, Muslim states and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: an essay on the relevant UN documentation, Hashem Kamran. Part X Rights of Religious Minorities: Accommodating religious identities in an Islamic state: international law, freedom of religion and the rights of religious minorities, J. Rehman; Non-Muslims in the Islamic state: majority rule and minority rights, Mohamed Berween. Part XI State Practice: The search for human rights within an Islamic framework in Iran, Shadi Mokhtari: A macroscopic analysis of the practice of Muslim states parties to international human rights treaties: conflict or congruence, Mashood Baderin; Index.
About the Editor:
Mashood A. Baderin is Professor in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
Series:
The Library of Essays in International Law
Subjects:
Law:
International Law; Law & Society; Islamic Studies
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Dewey Code: 340.5'9 BIC Code: LA
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 688 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2715-9 c. £170.00
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Law and Science, Volumes I and II
Volume I: Epistemological, Evidentiary, and Relational Engagements
Volume II: Regulation of Property, Practices, and Products
Edited by Susan Silbey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
The conditions of contemporary life have been shaped in large part by science and technology extending human life, shrinking the globe, traveling into space. To effect human life and nature, for good or ill, enhancing safety or risk, science must be transformed by legal procedures from hypotheses and laboratory experiments into property and products. Both the legal processes and scientific practices derive legitimacy from being publicly observable and rational. Through their defining methods, both law and science attempt to constrain the use of unregulated force. Yet, despite their purportedly open and available processes, both science and legality are experienced as arcane, impenetrable, and often uninterpretable. Neither law nor science achieves the transparency to which it aspires. These two volumes collect exemplary law and society scholarship to look beneath the surface connections and antagonisms between these two powerful modern institutions. The first volume collects together articles on science as it enters legal domains, primarily as evidence and legitimation for political authority and the second explores how law acts within the domains of science, primarily as resources and regulations channeling both the practices of scientists and the consequences of scientific production.
Contents:
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About the Editor:
Susan Silbey is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.
Series:
The International Library of Essays in Law and Society
Subjects:
Law:
Law & Society; Science
Dewey Code: 344'.095 BIC Code: LA
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 1070 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2500-1 c. £270.00
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Living Law
Studies in Legal and Social Theory
Edited by Roger Cotterrell, University of London, UK
Living Law presents a comprehensive overview of relationships between legal and social theory, and of current approaches to the sociological study of legal ideas. It explores the nature of legal theory and sociolegal studies today as teaching and research fields, and the work of many of the major sociolegal theorists. In addition, it sets out the author's distinctive approach to sociological analysis of law, applying this in a range of studies in specific legal fields, such as the law of contract, property and trusts, constitutional analysis, and comparative law.
Contents:
Introduction; Part I The Scope of Legal Inquiry: Subverting orthodoxy, making law central: a view of sociolegal studies; Community as a legal concept? Some uses of a law-and-community approach in legal theory; From 'living law' to the 'death of the social': sociology in legal theory; Pandora's Box: jurisprudence in legal education. Part II Sociolegal Theory and Theorists: Ehrlich at the edge of empire: centres and peripheries in legal studies; Living law revisited: communitarianism and sociology of law; Durkheim's loyal jurist? The sociolegal theory of Paul Huvelin; The rule of law in transition: revisiting Franz Neumann's sociology of legality; The representation of law's autonomy in autopoiesis theory; Images of Europe in sociolegal traditions; The development of capitalism and the formalisation of contract law; The law of property and legal theory; Some sociolegal aspects of the controversy around the legal validity of private purpose trusts; Trusting in law: legal and moral concepts of trust; Some aspects of the communication of constitutional authority; Comparative law and legal culture. Part IV Law Morality, Community: Common law approaches to the relationship between law and morality; Legal effects and moral meanings: a comment on recent debates on approaches to legislation; Ideals and values in law: a comment on The Importance of Ideals; Culture, comparison, community; Lawyers and the building of communities; Index.
About the Editor:
Roger Cotterrell is a Professor based in the School of Law at the University of London, UK.
Series:
Collected Essays in Law
Subjects:
Law:
Philosophy and Theory of Law; Law & Society; Social Theory
Dewey Code: BIC Code: LA
May 2008 224 x 150 mm c. 408 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2710-4 c. £85.00
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Counseling Psychology
Edited by Frederick Leong, Michigan State University, USA and
Mark M. Leach, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, USA
Since its beginnings after WWII, Counseling Psychology has grown to become an applied specialty within psychology with unique areas of emphasis. This book introduces readers to the field by presenting its history, emphases, trends and relationships to other areas within psychology, followed by seminal articles that have significantly influenced counselors and researchers. The volume is organized around the six general themes of history and professional development, personal counseling, career counseling, cross-cultural counseling, counseling process and outcome, and internationalizing Counseling Psychology. In presenting articles representing these six themes that have defined counseling psychology, readers are given an essential overview to the past, the present and future directions of this applied specialty in psychology.
Contents:
Series preface; Introduction; Part I History and Professional Development: An occupational analysis of counseling psychology: how special is the speciality?, L.F. Fitzgerald and S.H. Osipow; Counseling psychology – the most broadly based applied psychology speciality, A.E. Ivey; Looking to the future: themes from the 3rd National Conference for Counseling Psychology, S.S. Rude, M. Weissberg and G.M. Gazda; Transition from vocational guidance to counseling psychology, D.E. Super; Trend analyses of major contributions in The Counseling Psychologist cited from 1986–1996, L.Y. Flores, S.C. Rooney, P.P. Heppner; L.D. Browne and M. Wei; 30 years of the counseling psychologist: 1969–1999, P.P. Heppner; Behold our creation! What counseling psychology has become and might yet become, G.S. Howard. Part II Personal Counseling: Rational-emotive therapy: research data that supports the clinical and personality hypotheses of RET and other models of cognitive-behaviour therapy, A. Ellis; A psychodynamic view of psychotherapy relationship: their interaction and unfolding during treatment, C.J. Gelso and J.A. Carter; The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change, C.R. Rogers; Change processes in counseling and psychotherapy, S.R. Strong and R.P. Matross. Part III Career Counseling: The meaning of work in women's lives: a sociopsychological model of career choice and work behaviour, H.S. Astin; Megatrends and milestones in vocational behavior: a 20-year counseling psychology retrospective, F.H. Borgen; A taxonomy of difficulties in career decision making, I. Gati, M. Krause and S.H. Osipow; A theory of vocational choice, J.L. Holland; Career-intervention outcome: what contributes to client gain?, L.Oliver and A.R. Spokane; Career counseling in the post-modern era, M.L. Savickas; A theory of vocational development, D.E. Super. Part IV Cross-Cultural Counseling: A 3-dimensional model for counseling racial/ethnic minorities, D.R. Atkinson, C.E. Thompson and S.K. Grant; Toward a theoretical explanation of the effects of race on counseling: a black and white model, J.E. Helms; Towards an integrative model for cross-cultural counseling and psychotherapy, F.T. L. Leong; Assessing multicultural counseling competence: a review of instrumentation, J.G. Ponterotto, B.P. Rieger, A. Barrett and R. Sparkes; Position paper: cross-cultural counseling competences, D.W. Sue, J.E. Bernier, A Furren; L. Feinberg, P. Pedersen, E.J. Smith and E. Vasquez-Nuttall; In search of cultural competence in psychotherapy and counseling, W. Sue. Part V Counseling Process and Outcome: Empathy and counseling outcome: an empirical and conceptual review, G.A. Gladstein; A perspective on the history of process and outcome research in counseling psychology, C.E. Hill, and M.M. Corbett; Relation between working alliance and outcome in psychotherapy: a meta analysis, A.O. Horvath and B.D. Symonds; Client distress disclosure, characteristics at intake, and outcome in brief counseling, J.H. Kahn, J.A. Achter and E.J. Shambaugh; Relationship formation and relational control as correlates of psychotherapy quality and outcome, J.W. Lichtenberg, K.B. Wettersten, H. Mull, R.L. Moberley, K.B. Merkerly and A.T. Corey. Part VI Internationalizing Counseling Psychology: The benefits and challenges of becoming cross-culturally competent counseling psychologists, P.P. Heppner; Toward a global vision of counseling psychology, F.T.L. Leong and D.L. Blustein, Internationalizing counseling psychology: a proposal, F.T.L. Leong and J. Ponterotto; Internationalizing counseling psychology in the United States: a SWOT analysis, F.T.L. Leong and M.M. Leach; Internationalizing the counseling psychology's curriculum: towards new values, competencies and directions, A.J. Marsella and P.B. Pedersen; Counseling in an international context, P.B. Pedersen and F.T.L. Leong; Index.
About the Editors:
Frederick Leong is Professor of Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. Mark M. Leach is Director of Training for the Counseling Psychology Program at the University of Southern Mississippi, USA.
Series:
The International Library of Psychology
Subjects:
Psychology:
Applied Psychology; Social Work
Dewey Code: 158.3 BIC Code: JM
July 2008 244 x 169 mm c. 532 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-2544-5 c. £135.00
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The Expansion of Orthodox Europe
Byzantium, the Balkans and Russia
Edited by Jonathan Shepard
This volume aims to clarify some of the context for the expansion of Western Europe by focusing on what had been the greatest power in early medieval Europe, the Byzantine empire, and on the continuing strengths and expansion of the Orthodox world. Byzantine 'orthodoxy' offered a format for faith, hope and fear in various combinations, involving religious beliefs and an idealised world-order. Its multifaceted nature helps explain Byzantium's success - the resilience of the earthly empire and the appeal of its religious organisation and rites to other societies. The volume reprints a set of key studies, combining classic treatments of Byzantine and Slavic history with far-reaching explorations of the extent of those worlds.
Part I focuses on the empire in its heyday: some studies illustrate the sense of manifest destiny bolstering the imperial order until - and even beyond - Constantinople's fall to the fourth crusaders in 1204. The spread of the Byzantines' cult enlarged their trading zone northwards across Rus, while Byzantine-based merchants were more active than is generally realised in the Eastern Mediterranean. Part II includes an overview of the 'fragmentation' following 1204. Studies show how Byzantine rites and ideals of rulership were adopted by Serb and Bulgarian dynasts. Particular attention is paid to Rus: although subjugated by the Mongols, Rus churchmen, monks and leading princes all drew on Byzantine religious texts and imagery. From the later fifteenth century Moscow's rulers began to be portrayed as new guardians of religious correctness, even as the World's End supposedly drew nigh. The Introduction contextualises the studies included here, highlighting the significance (and not just in terms of rivalry) of the Byzantine Orthodox world for developments in Western Europe.
Contents:
Introduction; Part 1 The Buoyancy of Byzantium Before 1204: Its Manifest Destiny and Many Frontiers: God and the 'family of princes' presided over by the Byzantine emperor, André Grabar; The strength of empire and capital as seen through Byzantine eyes, Paul J. Alexander; The history of the future and its uses: prophecy, policy and propaganda (with postscript), Paul Magdalino; Emperors and expansionism: from Rome to Middle Byzantium, Jonathan Shepard; Isaac II, Saladin and Venice, Paul Magdalino; Byzantine trade with Egypt from the mid-10th century to the 4th Crusade, David Jacoby; Prayer, illumination and good times: the export of Byzantine wine and oil to the north of Russia in pre-Mongol times, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev; 'Wine and oil for all the Rus!' the importation of Byzantine wine and olive oil to Kievan Rus, Thomas S. Noonan and Roman K. Kovalev; The many frontiers of the pre-Mongol Rus, David B. Miller; Mission impossible: ups and downs in Byzantine missionary activity from the 11th to the 15th century, Sergey A. Ivanov; The '2nd Bulgarian Empire': its origin and history to 1204, Robert L. Wolff. Part II After the Fall: Shifting Centres of the Orthodox World: Fragmentation (1204–1453) (with bibliography), Stephen W. Reinert; Some observations on the administrative terminology of the 2nd Bulgarian Empire (13th–14th centuries), Ivan Biliarsky; Tsar Stephen Dušan and Mount Athos, George C. Soulis; Between kingdom and empire: Dušan's state 1346–1355 reconsidered, Sima M. Cirkovic; Divine wisdom as part of Byzantine imperial ideology: research into the artistic interpretations of the theme in medieval Serbia. Narthex programme of Lesnovo and Sopocani, Zaga Gavrilovic; Khan or basileus: an aspect of Russian medieval political theory, Michael Cherniavsky; 'Know thy enemy': medieval Russian familiarity with the Mongols of the Golden Horde, Charles J. Halperin; Under pressure from the pagans? – the Mongols and the Russian Church, Sergei Hackel; 'Cultural ties: Byzantium, the Southern Slavs and Russia, John Meyendorff; Late Byzantine culture and the Slavs: a study in acculturation, Dimitri Obolensky; The holy man and Christianization from the apocryphal apostles to St Stephen of Perm, Richard M. Price. Index.
About the Editor:
Jonathan Shepard is a British historian specializing in early medieval Russia, the Caucasus, and the Byzantine Empire. He is regarded as a leading authority in Byzantine studies and on the Kievan Rus.
Series:
The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000–1500
Subjects:
History:
Byzantine History; Medieval History 600–1500; Central and Eastern European History
Dewey Code: 949'.04 BIC Code: HB
December 2007 244 x 169 mm 588 pages
Hardback 978-0-7546-5920-4 £90.00
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1235 400400; Fax: +44(0)1235 400454
E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1235 400400; Fax: +44(0)1235 400454
E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1235 400400; Fax: +44(0)1235 400454
E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
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E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1235 400400; Fax: +44(0)1235 400454
E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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Bookpoint Limited, 130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1235 400400; Fax: +44(0)1235 400454
E-Mail: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
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