Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (415)

Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960 (2024)
Book Chapter
Merton, J. (2024). Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960. In J. Campbell, & V. Miller (Eds.), The Routledge History of Crime in America (459-473). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003300151-37

This chapter provides a comprehensive survey of the history and historiography of “law and order” politics since the 1960s. Dismissing the significance of rising crime rates alone in explaining crime's politicization during the 1960s, it explores alt... Read More about Conflict or Consensus? The Politicization of Law and Order in the United States since 1960.

The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s (2024)
Journal Article
Rawcliffe, D. (2024). The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s. Intelligence and National Security, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2024.2433823

From the 1950s to the 1970s, Britain’s strategic role in the Cold War in East and Southeast Asia shaped the post-WWII contours and ramifications of what Winston Churchill famously dubbed the Anglo-American ‘special relationship’. Through its clandest... Read More about The “special relationship,” and the overseas Chinese: the Information Research Department (IRD) and the United States Information Agency (USIA) cold war partnership in East Asia, 1950s-1970s.

Lord Haldane and the July Crisis (2024)
Journal Article
Young, J. W. (2024). Lord Haldane and the July Crisis. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 35(3), 456-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2024.2383002

There are widely differing interpretations of Lord Haldane’s behaviour during the July crisis. To some historians, the Lord Chancellor was part of a group – alongside Prime Minister H.H. Asquith, Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey and First Lord of th... Read More about Lord Haldane and the July Crisis.

River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD (2024)
Book
Panato, M. (2024). River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048558810

This book considers for the first time the relationship between the river environment and the economic and political structures of northern Italy in the post-Roman period. Through the study of the relationship between river and society over time, it... Read More about River and Society in Northern Italy: The Po Valley, 500-1000 AD.

Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover) (2024)
Journal Article
Kumar, A. (2024). Pre-independence Consumption Expenditure Survey: Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 edited by Shireen Moosvi, Delhi: Primus Books, 2023; pp lxxix + 290, ₹1,750 (hard cover). Economic and Political Weekly, 59(35),

Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine (2024)
Journal Article
Parker, L. (in press). Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine. Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies,

This article seeks to reassess monasticism within Abbasid Palestine, arguing that monasteries experienced decline and insecurity in the eighth and ninth centuries. It focuses on the Life of Stephen of Mar Sabas by Leontios of Damascus, arguing that L... Read More about Monks, Martyrs, and Masculinity: rethinking Christian authority in early Islamic Palestine.