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Ligurian peasant cooking in English travel books, c. 1840 to c. 1914 (2023)
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Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India (2023)
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This essay focuses on ideas of the body in the published and unpublished letters of four British women – Jane Smart, Jemima Kindersley, Eliza Fay and Catherine Mackintosh – who wrote from India between 1742 and 1812. Situating these elite, British wo... Read More about Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India.
The Revolution on the Volga (2022)
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While revolutionary narratives often focus on Petrograd as the seat of political power, and more broadly on urban and military arenas, this chapter explores the lived experience of revolution in the Volga region, around 1500 kilometres from Petrograd... Read More about The Revolution on the Volga.
Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation? (2022)
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The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920) (2022)
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A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries) (2022)
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The expression above was attributed to Pérégrine Gasc, an inquisitorial deponent of Moissac, a town in the diocese of Cahors and the medieval county of Quercy, in 1244. She is referring to her experience of Waldensians in the town of Toulouse and... Read More about A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries).
On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552 (2022)
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The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway (2022)
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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.
Afterword (2021)
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Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
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Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared (2021)
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The Students: Foregrounding Difference (2021)
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This chapter discusses ways of creating history classrooms and courses that are accessible to students who are minoritised by society, whether as a result of their heritage, gender, sexuality or class background, as well as those who face physical, e... Read More about The Students: Foregrounding Difference.
Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans (2020)
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