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The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway (2022)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2022). The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway. In G. Cederlöf (Ed.), The Imperial Underbelly: Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia (26-55). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003317227-2

Capitalism thrives on contracts. From recruiting workers and employees to transacting everyday business and selling commodities, the contract ideology is the absolute necessity for capitalism to function. Contracts are to ensure a regime of secure, l... Read More about The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway.

Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home (2021)
Journal Article
Bates, R., & Memel, J. G. (2021). Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home. European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health, 79(2), 227-252. https://doi.org/10.1163/26667711-bja10012

The focus for this article is the approach taken by the famous British nurse and public health reformer Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) to responsibility for care, with particular reference to healthcare as practised in the home. It begins by examin... Read More about Florence Nightingale and Responsibility for Healthcare in the Home.

Afterword (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Afterword. In C. Heath, & R. Houghton (Eds.), Conflict and Violence in Medieval Italy 568-1154 (325-336). Amsterdam University Press

Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’ (2021)
Journal Article
Blackburn, D. (2022). Response to ‘What Conservatives Value’. Political Studies Review, 20(3), 452-455. https://doi.org/10.1177/14789299211062031

This article responds to O’Hara’s ‘What Conservatives Value’. It establishes what is at stake in our debate about the adjectival nature of conservatism, and it explores the role that risk plays in conservative thinking.

Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church (2021)
Journal Article
Brooke, C. J., & Ryder, P. F. (2022). Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church. Antiquaries Journal, 102, 88-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581521000330

The church of St Michael and All Angels, Averham, is largely constructed of counter-pitched rubble and has long been interpreted as being of the early Norman period. Recent archaeological investigations by the authors have revealed conclusive evidenc... Read More about Averham, St Michael, Nottinghamshire: a newly identified pre-conquest church.

The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources (2021)
Journal Article
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources. South East Asia Research, 29(4), 450-468. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2021.1989987

If there is a period in Cambodia’s history that has been overlooked and disparaged, it is certainly the republican one (1970–1975). The Khmer Republic is often viewed as a corrupt, incompetent regime–an interregnum doomed to failure. This article rev... Read More about The relational archive of the Khmer Republic (1970–1975): re-visiting the ‘coup’ and the ‘civil war’ in Cambodia through written sources.

'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death? (2021)
Journal Article
Benzaquen-Gautier, S. (2021). 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?. International Criminal Law Review, 22(1-2), 261-278. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-bja10099

To this day, the trial of Pol Pot in July 1997 in Anlong Veng remains an underexplored topic, possibly because it is seen as a parody of justice organised by a rival Khmer Rouge faction. Images of the event show an old and fragile man who has to be s... Read More about 'Crush! Crush! Crush!': Towards a Finished Story of Pol Pot's Trial and Death?.

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
Book
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2021). Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer

After the Napoleonic wars many wealthy British women and men settled along the coast in Liguria and travelled in Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta in search of warmth and health. They established English-speaking colonies of retired clerics, colonial offici... Read More about Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920.