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The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A., & Topiwala, H. (2015). The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the state: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (64-84). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074

Histories of the Colonial Medical Service have considered the European Medical Officers forming their elites and also the subsidiary auxiliary staff who provided supporting healthcare provision. No research has, however, taken account of the Indian ‘... Read More about The maintenance of hegemony: The short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa.

The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47 (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A. (2015). The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47. In A. Greenwood, & H. Topiwala (Eds.), Beyond the state: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (85-103). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074.00009

The Zanzibar Maternity Association (ZMA) was a charitable organisation established in 1918 to help Zanzibari women during parturition. Majority funding came from the Arab and Indian communities who, correspondingly, had considerable say in the organi... Read More about The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47.

Introduction: looking beyond the state (2015)
Book Chapter
Greenwood, A. (2015). Introduction: looking beyond the state. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526137074

This chapter auto-critiques the editors early work (Crozier, Practising Colonial Medicine, 2007) for studying the Colonial Medical Service as a distinct entity, founded and run on shared principles, staffed by Europeans and micro-managed from Whiteha... Read More about Introduction: looking beyond the state.

Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration (2015)
Journal Article
Merritt, J. (2016). Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 67(1), 122-138. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046914002000

While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey--an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority--h... Read More about Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration.

Structures and practices of power: 1917 in Nizhegorod and Kazan’ provinces (2015)
Book Chapter
Badcock, S. (2015). Structures and practices of power: 1917 in Nizhegorod and Kazan’ provinces. In A. B. Retish, S. Badcock, & . L. G. Novikova (Eds.), Russia's home front in war and revolution, 1914-22: Book 1. Russia's revolution In regional perspective, 355-382. Slavica Publishers

The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner (2015)
Book Chapter
Laven, D. (2015). The British idea of Italy in the age of Turner. In D. B. Brown (Ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours. Tate Research Publication

Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (2015)
Book Chapter
Sharipova, L. (2015). Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In H. Louthan, & G. Murdock (Eds.), A companion to the Reformation in Central Europe (223-253). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004301627_011

The chapter considers the modalities of religious reform in the Eastern Orthodox Church in Poland-Lithuania from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centuries, which were directly inspired by the parallel process of religious change in Western a... Read More about Orthodox Reform in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History (2015)
Journal Article
Umbach, M., & Harvey, E. (2015). Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History. Central European History, 48(3), 287-299. https://doi.org/10.1017/s000893891500076x

In the introduction to this special issue on photography and German history, we outline current research on using both professional and amateur or snapshot photography to elucidate problems in 20th-century German history. We argue that an approach is... Read More about Introduction: Photography and Twentieth-Century German History.

Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945 (2015)
Journal Article
Umbach, M. (2015). Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945. Central European History, 48(3), 335-365. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008938915000783

Copyright © Central European History Society of the American Historical Association 2015. This article explores the significance of photography and photo-album making as practices that many Germans used to record their lives during the Third Reich. M... Read More about Selfhood, Place, and Ideology in German Photo Albums, 1933-1945.

An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness (2015)
Journal Article
Toropova, A. (2015). An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness. Russian Review, 74(4), 665-683. https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12053

© 2015 The Russian Review. This article excavates the coentanglement of happiness and duty in Stalinist discourse by examining Soviet films of the 1930s and 1940s, including Dziga Vertov's Three Songs of Lenin (1934) and Mikhail Kalatozov's Valerii C... Read More about An Inexpiable Debt: Stalinist Cinema, Biopolitics, and the Discourse of Happiness.

Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850 (2015)
Journal Article
Gaunt, R. A. (2015). Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850. Rural History, 26(2), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793315000023

This article considers the Dukeries estates of north Nottinghamshire in the hey-day of aristocratic power and prestige, from the mid-Georgian to the mid-Victorian period. It poses a contrast between visitors’ impressions of the area as one of constan... Read More about Patrician landscapes and the picturesque in Nottinghamshire c.1750-c.1850.