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Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy (2023)
Book Chapter
Piana, P., Balzaretti, R., & Watkins, C. (2023). Topographical art, travel accounts and the landscape history of viticulture in 18th and 19th -century Italy. In R. Cevasco, V. Pescini, & R. Hearn (Eds.), Situating foodways and foodscapes: Dalla tavola al terreno (237-260). Genoa, Italy: Genova University Press

Ligurian peasant cooking in English travel books, c. 1840 to c. 1914 (2023)
Book Chapter
BALZARETTI, R. (2023). Ligurian peasant cooking in English travel books, c. 1840 to c. 1914. In R. Cevasco, V. Pescini, & R. Hearn (Eds.), Situating Foodways and Foodscapes. Dalla tavola al terreno (371-405). Genoa, Italy: Genova University Press

Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India (2023)
Book Chapter
Gust, O. (2023). Blackness, whiteness and bodily degeneration in British women’s letters from India. In S. Goldsmith, S. Haggerty, & K. Harvey (Eds.), Letters and the Body, 1700–1830: Writing and Embodiment (122-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003027256

This essay focuses on ideas of the body in the published and unpublished letters of four British women – Jane Smart, Jemima Kindersley, Eliza Fay and Catherine Mackintosh – who wrote from India between 1742 and 1812.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.

Magnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late–Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme? (2023)
Book Chapter
Raven, M. (2023). Magnate Counsel and Parliament in the Late–Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: English Exceptionalism or a Common Theme?. In Thirteenth Century England XVIII: Proceedings of the Cambridge Conference, 2019. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press

The Revolution on the Volga (2022)
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BADCOCK, S. (2023). The Revolution on the Volga. In G. Swain, C. Alston, M. C. Hickey, B. Kolonitsky, & F. Schedewie (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Russian Revolution. Bloomsbury Publishing

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)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2022). Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?. In C. Dyer (Ed.), Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and its Historians (51-72). Boydell Press

The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920) (2022)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2022). The Nights of Bombay Workers (1870–1920). In G. Duijzings, & L. Dušková (Eds.), Working at Night: The Temporal Organisation of Labour Across Political and Economic Regimes (45-68). Oldenburg: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110753592-003

The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege (2022)
Book Chapter
Raven, M. (2022). The English Parliament and the Trial of the ‘Peers of the Land’ in Henry of Lancaster’s Revolt (1328–29): The Origins of a Privilege. In J. Bothwell, & J. Hamilton (Eds.), Fourteenth Century England XII. Woodbridge: Boydell Press

A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries) (2022)
Book Chapter
Taylor, C. (2022). A Presence in Languedoc (12th–13th Centuries). In M. Benedetti, & E. Cameron (Eds.), A Companion to the Waldenses in the Middle Ages (35-77). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004420410_004

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)
Book Chapter
Parker, L. (2022). On the Margins of Empire: Confessionalization and the East Syrian Schism of 1552. In T. Krstić, & D. Terzioğlu (Eds.), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries (429-450). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463243586-017

The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial Railway (2022)
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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.

Rethinking Inequality and Education: Crime, Labour and the School Curriculum in Indian Reformatory Schools (1880s-1920s) (2021)
Book Chapter
Kumar, A. (2021). Rethinking Inequality and Education: Crime, Labour and the School Curriculum in Indian Reformatory Schools (1880s-1920s). In V. Gupta, R. Kant Agnihotri, & M. Panda (Eds.), Education and Inequality: Historical and Contemporary Trajectories (143-170). Delhi: Orient BlackSwan

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

Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911 (2021)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2021). Frederic Lees in Varese Ligure, 1911. In G. Fisher, & D. Robinson (Eds.), Travel Writing in an Age of Global Quarantine. London: Anthem Press

Voice of America Chinese-dialect broadcasting and the Chinese Cultural Cold War, 1949-1953 (2021)
Book Chapter
Taylor, J. (2021). Voice of America Chinese-dialect broadcasting and the Chinese Cultural Cold War, 1949-1953. In J. Taylor, & X. Lanjun (Eds.), Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Visiting the "Overseas Chinese": Vatican engagement with the Chinese Diaspora in Cold War Southeast Asia Asia (2021)
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(2021). Visiting the "Overseas Chinese": Vatican engagement with the Chinese Diaspora in Cold War Southeast Asia Asia. In J. Taylor, & X. Lanjun (Eds.), Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared (2021)
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Balzaretti, R. (2021). Urban Life in Lombard Italy: Genoa and Milan Compared. In T. J. MacMaster, & N. S. Matheou (Eds.), Italy and the East Roman World in the Medieval Mediterranean: Empire, Cities and Elites, 476-1204 (304-323). London and New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The Students: Foregrounding Difference (2021)
Book Chapter
Gust, O. (2021). The Students: Foregrounding Difference. In Teaching History for the Contemporary World: Tensions, Challenges and Classroom Experiences in Higher Education (43-55). Singapore: Springer

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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Parker, L. (2020). Yawsep I of Amida (d.1707) and the invention of the Chaldeans. In B. Heyberger (Ed.), Les chrétiens de tradition syriaque à l’époque ottomane (121-152). Geuthner

Robert Beale - Ein Englischer Diplomat mit europäischer Ausbildung (2020)
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Gehring, D. (2020). Robert Beale - Ein Englischer Diplomat mit europäischer Ausbildung. In S. Westphal, & S. Freyer (Eds.), Wissen und Strategien frühneuzeitlicher Diplomatie (63-81). De Gruyter