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Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History (2022)
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Parker, L. (2022). Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865175.001.0001

Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch explores the authority of a holy man and its limitations in times of crisis, with a particular focus on the little-studied Antiochene stylite Symeon the Younger. Symeon the Younger (c.521–92) lived... Read More about Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History.

Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia (2022)
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Baillargeon, D., & Taylor, J. (2022). J. E. Taylor, D. Baillargeon, & J. Taylor (Eds.). Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350257023

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new int... Read More about Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia.

Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context (2022)
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Skelchy, R. P., & Taylor, J. E. (Eds.). (2022). Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350232310

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the... Read More about Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context.

Rediscovering Lost Landscapes: Topographical Art in north-west Italy, 1800-1920 (2021)
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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.

The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England (2021)
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Hefferan, M. (2021). The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England. Boydell & Brewer

First extended survey of the subject, looking at the knights' activities, roles, background and service. It was common for the kings of medieval England to retain a small number of knights in their personal service, as part of the royal household.... Read More about The Household Knights of Edward III: Warfare, Politics and Kingship in Fourteenth-Century England.

Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue (2020)
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Taylor, J. E. (Ed.). (2021). Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350167513

Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this edited collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. Contributors stud... Read More about Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue.

Penguin Books and Political Change: Britain's Meritocratic Moment, 1937-1988 (2020)
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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.

Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin (2020)
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Toropova, A. (2020). Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198831099.001.0001

Stalin-era cinema was a technology of emotional and affective education. The filmmakers of the period were called on to help forge the emotions and affects that befitted the New Soviet Person—ranging from happiness and victorious laughter to hatred f... Read More about Feeling Revolution: Cinema, Genre, and the Politics of Affect under Stalin.

Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688 (2020)
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Ward, M., & Hefferan, M. (Eds.). (2020). Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688. Palgrave Macmillan

Explores how loyalty to the British monarchs was cultivated, maintaine and expressed in the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. Approaches the concept of loyalty from different perspectives: from the legislature, from the government and from relig... Read More about Loyalty to the Monarchy in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain, c. 1400-1688.

The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict (2020)
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MAWBY, S. (2020). The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

The negative legacy of the British empire is often thought of in terms of war and economic exploitation, while the positive contribution is associated with the establishment of good governance and effective, modern institutions. In this new analysis... Read More about The End of Empire in Uganda: Decolonization and Institutional Conflict.

Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective (2020)
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Hucker, D. (2020). Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective. London: Bloomsbury Academic

Public Opinion and 20th-Century Diplomacy explores both the influence of public opinion on diplomatic decision making in international history, and its emergence as a legitimate field of study for international historians. The book uses five case... Read More about Public opinion and twentieth-century diplomacy: a global perspective.

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2019)
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Gunn, S., & Townsend, S. (2019). Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan. London: Bloomsbury Publishing

Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan is the first book to consider how mass motorization reshaped cities in Japan and Britain during the 20th century. Taking two leading 'motor cities', Nagoya and Birmingham, as their prin... Read More about Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan.

Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany (2019)
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Harvey, E., Hürter, J., Umbach, M., & Wirsching, A. (Eds.). (2019). Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108754859

Was it possible to have a private life under the Nazi dictatorship? It has often been assumed that private life and the notion of privacy had no place under Nazi rule. This volume sheds fresh light on this issue by showing the different ways in whic... Read More about Private Life and Privacy in Nazi Germany.

The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan (2019)
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Balzaretti, R. (2019). The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SEM-EB.5.106307

This book is a history of Milan in the early medieval period. It investigates the political, social, and economic aspects of the transformation of the Roman world in one of its major centres. Its main theme is the role of monastic communities in this... Read More about The Lands of Saint Ambrose: Monks and Society in Early Medieval Milan.