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Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy) (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy). Landscape History, 39(2), 91-108. https://doi.org/10.1080/01433768.2018.1534460

This paper explores the value of landscape and topographical art for understanding contemporary landscapes of the Val d’Aosta, NW Italy. The region became very popular with British tourists in the early nineteenth-century and several amateur and prof... Read More about Art and landscape history: British artists in nineteenth-century Val d’Aosta (NW Italy).

'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference (2018)
Journal Article
HUCKER, D. (2019). 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference. Peace and Change, 44(1), 5-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/pech.12322

Historical assessments of the 1907 Hague Peace Conference, like its 1899 predecessor, are usually framed in verdicts of success or failure. Although some specialist accounts rightly portray the Hague meetings as both successful and important, most an... Read More about 'Our expectations were perhaps too high': disarmament, citizen activism, and the 1907 Hague Peace Conference.

Reviewed work: Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia. By Richard Moss. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2018). Reviewed work: Creating the new right ethnic in 1970s America: the intersection of anger and nostalgia. By Richard Moss. Lanham, MD: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017. Journal of American Ethnic History, 38(1), 112-114

'Die Inszenierung der expandierenden "Volksgemeinschaft": Offizielle Fotos der "Heimkehr" deutscher Minderheiten ins Reich, 1939-1941' (2018)
Book Chapter
Harvey, E. (2018). 'Die Inszenierung der expandierenden "Volksgemeinschaft": Offizielle Fotos der "Heimkehr" deutscher Minderheiten ins Reich, 1939-1941'. In D. Schmiechen-Ackermann, M. Buchholz, B. Roitsch, & C. Schröder (Eds.), Der Ort der "Volksgemeinschaft" in der deutschen Gesellschaftsgeschichte (353-374). Schöningh. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657786480_024

This contribution examines the propaganda effort relating to the resettlement of ethnic German minorities from the point of view of generating a vision of an expanding "national community".

Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria (2018)
Journal Article
Piana, P., Watkins, C., & Balzaretti, R. (2018). Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria. Rural History, 29(2), 167-193. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793318000079

New roads and later railways were essential for the modernisation and rapid economic development of North-western Italy in the early nineteenth century. The new routes also encouraged an increasing number of foreign travellers to visit the region. Th... Read More about Travel, modernity and rural landscapes in nineteenth-century Liguria.

‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, C. (2018). ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade. French History, 32(3), 327-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/cry065

This paper contributes new evidence and a new perspective to the study of the religious heresy known as Waldensianism in the high-medieval Languedoc, and its relationship to both orthodox authority and the ‘Cathar’ heresy. Although they were outlawed... Read More about ‘Sunt quadraginta anni vel circa’: Southern French Waldensians and the Albigensian Crusade.

'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War (2018)
Preprint / Working Paper
Allwork, L. 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War

This working paper chronicles the development of the construction of a methodological framework for the evaluation of the impact of the Centre for Hidden Histories, one of the AHRC’s First World War Engagement Centres. It will show how through evalu... Read More about 'Sedimented Histories' and 'Embodied Legacies': Creating an Evaluative Framework for Engaging the Public in the First World War.

Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921 (2018)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Topiwala, H. (2018). Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921. Social History of Medicine, 33(1), 57–78. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky060

The 1915 Simpson Report made public health recommendations for Nairobi that were heralded as ground-breaking. Of particular interest to the colonial authorities was Professor Simpson’s suggestion to racially segregate Nairobi to prevent diseases said... Read More about Visions of Colonial Nairobi: William Simpson, Health, Segregation and the Problems of Ordering a Plural Society, 1907–1921.

Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialised production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan (2018)
Book Chapter
Balzaretti, R. (2018). Chestnuts in charters: evidence for specialised production in tenth-century Genoa and Milan. In Italy and Early Medieval Europe : Papers for Chris Wickham (356-371). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham (2018)
Book
R. Balzaretti, J. Barrow, & P. Skinner (Eds.), (2018). Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham

This volume represents a comprehensive survey of recent work in medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies of other regions and major historical transitions in Europ... Read More about Italy and early medieval Europe: papers for Chris Wickham.

German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research (2018)
Book
J. Hürter, & E. Harvey (Eds.), (2018). German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research

This volume presents the latest in German research on Hitler ased on selected articles translated from the leading contemporary history journal Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. Additionally, it includes new commentaries by renowned experts from... Read More about German Yearbook of Contemporary History. Volume 3, Hitler - New Research.

Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii (2018)
Book Chapter
Darby, P. (2018). Apocalypse and reform in Bede's De die iudicii. In M. Gabriele, & J. T. Palmer (Eds.), Apocalypse and reform from late antiquity to the Middle Ages (77-100). Abingdon: Routledge

The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of Parliamentary authority 1642-1651 (2018)
Book Chapter
Appleby, D. (2018). The third army: wandering soldiers and the negotiation of Parliamentary authority 1642-1651. In D. Appleby, & A. Hopper (Eds.), Battle-Scarred: Mortality, medical care and military welfare in the British Civil Wars. Manchester University Press

The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls (2018)
Journal Article
Trombley, J. L. (2018). The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls. Medieval Worlds, 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1553/medievalworlds_no7_2018s137

This article examines the style and rhetoric of a fourteenth-century treatise written against the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. The treatise addresses thirty-five extracts from the Mirror which are refuted as errors. Rather than... Read More about The Text as Heretic: Mixed Genres and Polemical Techniques in a Refutation of the Mirror of Simple Souls.

"The perilous territory of not belonging": exile and empire in Sir James Mackintosh's letters from early nineteenth-century Bombay (2018)
Journal Article
Gust, O. (2018). "The perilous territory of not belonging": exile and empire in Sir James Mackintosh's letters from early nineteenth-century Bombay. History Workshop Journal, 86, 22–43. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dby013

Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2018). Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War. Twentieth-Century China, 43(2), 163-180. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2018.0017

This paper explores the fate of a southern Fujianese opera (liyuanxi) play that was reformed over the course of the early 1950s and eventually made into the first full-length film to be produced in southern Fujianese dialect (Minnanyu) in the People'... Read More about Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War.

Chiang Kai-Shek (2018)
Book Chapter
Taylor, J. E. (2018). Chiang Kai-Shek. In T. Wright (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199920082-0119

Public Opinion (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Public Opinion. In The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885154.dipl0227

Public opinion is a notoriously slippery concept, but it has long been understood that it wields at least some influence on diplomacy. Over several centuries, conceptions of public opinion have evolved. Longstanding perceptions of public opinion as i... Read More about Public Opinion.

Remaking the Rust Belt: the postindustrial transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016 (2018)
Journal Article
Merton, J. (2018). Remaking the Rust Belt: the postindustrial transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2016. History, 103(355), https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.12607

Édouard Daladier (2018)
Book Chapter
Hucker, D. (2018). Édouard Daladier. In The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Wiley