Outputs (414)

Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation (2020)
Journal Article
Chiu, Y. (2020). Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 19(2), 237-262. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-01902008

This paper investigates the poetry of Qu Xuanying, a literatus who remained in the city of Beiping (now Beijing) following its occupation by the Japanese in 1937. Through historical allusions in his poetry, Qu communicated with friends about the ethi... Read More about Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation.

Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988 (2020)
Book
Blackburn, D. (2020). Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988. Manchester University Press

Founded in 1935 by a young publisher disillusioned with the class prejudices of the interwar publishing trade, Penguin Books set out to make good books available to all. The 'Penguin Specials', a series of current affairs books authored by leading in... Read More about Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988.

Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans (2020)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2020). Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans. In B. Heyberger (Ed.), Les chrétiens de tradition syriaque à l’époque ottomane (121-152). Geuthner

Florence Nightingale At Home (2020)
Book
Greenwood, A., Crawford, P., Bates, R., & Memel, J. (2020). Florence Nightingale At Home. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46534-6

Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830 (2020)
Book
Gust, O. (2020). Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Unhomely Empire examines the role of Scottish Enlightenment ideas of belonging in the construction and dissemination of ideologies of imperial rule and racial supremacy. During the eighteenth century, European imperial expansion radically increased p... Read More about Unhomely empire: whiteness and belonging, c.1760-1830.

“Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930 (2020)
Journal Article
Baillargeon, D. (2022). “Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930. Enterprise and Society, 23(2), 325-356. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.49

This article examines the history of mining in British Southeast Asia during the early twentieth century. In particular, it focuses on the histories of the Burma Corporation and the Duff Development Company, which were located in British-occupied Bur... Read More about “Imperium in Imperio”: The Corporation, Mining, and Governance in British Southeast Asia, 1900–1930.

LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report (2020)
Report
Andrews, F., Catterall, P., Evans, I., Finn, M., Foxhall, K., Green, A., …Spicer, A. (2020). LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report. Royal Historical Society

A report by the Royal Historical Society's LGBT+ working group looking at LGBT+ histories and their place in university curriculums, libraries and galleries, as well as the conditions for LGBT+ historians. The report includes recommendations and reso... Read More about LGBT+ Histories and Historians: a report.

Robert Beale - Ein Englischer Diplomat mit europäischer Ausbildung (2020)
Book Chapter
Gehring, D. (2020). Robert Beale - Ein Englischer Diplomat mit europäischer Ausbildung. In S. Westphal, & S. Freyer (Eds.), Wissen und Strategien frühneuzeitlicher Diplomatie (63-81). De Gruyter

A Japanese Protégé in Pera: Fukuchi Gen'ichiro's Reports on the Mixed Courts of Turkey and Egypt, 1872-1886 (2020)
Book Chapter
Cobbing, A. (2020). A Japanese Protégé in Pera: Fukuchi Gen'ichiro's Reports on the Mixed Courts of Turkey and Egypt, 1872-1886. In M. Suonpää, & O. Wright (Eds.), Diplomacy and Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean World. Bloomsbury Publishing

1917 in the provinces (2020)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2020). 1917 in the provinces. In D. Orlovsky (Ed.), A Companion to the Russian Revolution. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118620878.ch21

This chapter explores the ways in which power operated across Russia's provinces. It examines the forms of and relationships between formal power structures in the provinces, the extent to which these structures were representative of the local popul... Read More about 1917 in the provinces.