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By Brendan Kane, Valerie Mcgowan-Doyle. 2014
The last generation has seen a veritable revolution in scholarly work on Elizabeth I, on Ireland, and on the colonial…
aspects of the literary productions that typically served to link the two. It is now commonly accepted that Elizabeth was a much more active and activist figure than an older scholarship allowed. Gaelic elites are acknowledged to have had close interactions with the crown and continental powers; Ireland itself has been shown to have occupied a greater place in Tudor political calculations than previously thought. Literary masterpieces of the age are recognised for their imperial and colonial entanglements. Elizabeth I and Ireland is the first collection fully to connect these recent scholarly advances. Bringing together Irish and English historians, and literary scholars of both vernacular languages, this is the first sustained consideration of the roles played by Elizabeth and by the Irish in shaping relations between the realms.By John Gooch. 2014
This is a major new account of the role and performance of the Italian army during the First World War.…
Drawing from original, archival research, it tells the story of the army's bitter three-year struggle in the mountains of Northern Italy, including the eleven bloody battles of the Isonzo, the near-catastrophic defeat at Caporetto in 1917 and the successful, but still controversial defeat of the Austro-Hungarian army at Vittorio Veneto on the eve of the Armistice. Setting military events within a broader context, the book explores pre-war Italian military culture and the interactions between domestic politics, economics and society. In a unique study of an unjustly neglected facet of the war, John Gooch illustrates how General Luigi Cadorna, a brutal disciplinarian, drove the army to the edge of collapse, and how his successor, general Armando Diaz, rebuilt it and led the Italians to their greatest victory in modern times.By John Freed. 2016
Frederick Barbarossa, born of two of Germany’s most powerful families, swept to the imperial throne in a coup d’état in…
1152. A leading monarch of the Middle Ages, he legalized the dualism between the crown and the princes that endured until the end of the Holy Roman Empire. This new biography, the first in English in four decades, paints a rich picture of a consummate diplomat and effective warrior. John Freed mines Barbarossa’s recently published charters and other sources to illuminate the monarch’s remarkable ability to rule an empire that stretched from the Baltic to Rome, and from France to Poland. Offering a fresh assessment of the role of Barbarossa’s extensive familial network in his success, the author also considers the impact of Frederick’s death in the Third Crusade as the key to his lasting heroic reputation. In an intriguing epilogue, Freed explains how Hitler’s audacious attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 came to be called “Operation Barbarossa.”By Meredith Cohen. 2015
This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic architecture, the Sainte-Chapelle, constructed…
in Paris by King Louis IX of France between 1239 and 1248 especially to hold and to celebrate Christ's Crown of Thorns. Meredith Cohen argues that the chapel's architecture, decoration, and use conveyed the notion of sacral kingship to its audience in Paris and in greater Europe, thereby implicitly elevating the French king to the level of suzerain, and establishing an early visual precedent for the political theories of royal sovereignty and French absolutism. By setting the chapel within its broader urban and royal contexts, this book offers new insight into royal representation and the rise of Paris as a political and cultural capital in the thirteenth century.By Benjamin J. Kaplan. 2014
In a remote village on the Dutch-German border, a young Catholic woman named Cunegonde tries to kidnap a baby to…
prevent it from being baptized in a Protestant church. When she is arrested, fellow Catholics stage an armed raid to free her from detention. These dramatic events of 1762 triggered a cycle of violence, starting a kind of religious war in the village and its surrounding region. Contradicting our current understanding, this war erupted at the height of the Age of Enlightenment, famous for its religious toleration. Cunegonde’s Kidnapping tells in vivid detail the story of this hitherto unknown conflict. Drawing characters, scenes, and dialogue straight from a body of exceptional primary sources, it is the first microhistorical study of religious conflict and toleration in early modern Europe. In it, Benjamin J. Kaplan explores the dilemmas of interfaith marriage and the special character of religious life in a borderland, where religious dissenters enjoy unique freedoms. He also challenges assumptions about the impact of Enlightenment thought and suggests that, on a popular level, some parts of eighteenth-century Europe may not have witnessed a #147;rise of toleration. ”By Charles Margerison. 2011
Have you ever wondered how the Eiffel Tower was built? Or, what it would have been like to wander the…
streets of Montmartre a hundred years ago and meet people like Edith Piaf and the famous painters? As you walk around the City of Light, you are travelling in the footsteps of amazing people including Napoleon Bonaparte, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gustave Eiffel. In different ways, all of these amazing characters made major contributions, making the city of Paris what it is today. A city tour unlike any other, Amazing People of Paris takes you on a fascinating journey with these icons of one of the world's most visited cities. You will meet those who contributed to the music, the art, the architecture, the politics and other vital aspects of the city's life. Come face to face with those who developed the Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, the Tuilleries Gardens and other great places. Walk around the city with the stories of the people who created the sites we love to visit. What is a BioView®? Your tour of the people and places of Paris comes alive through BioViews®. A BioView® is a short biographical story, similar to an interview. These unique stories provide an easy way of learning about amazing people who made major contributions and changed our world.By Rebecca Adler-Nissen. 2014
European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back sovereignty. A growing number of member states…
are reacting to a more constraining EU by negotiating opt-outs. This book provides the first in-depth account of how opt-outs work in practice. It examines the most controversial cases of differentiated integration: the British and Danish opt-outs from Economic and Monetary Union and European policies on borders, asylum, migration, internal security and justice. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with national representatives and EU officials, the author demonstrates how representatives manage the stigma of opting out, allowing them to influence even politically sensitive areas covered by their opt-outs. Developing a political sociology of European integration, the book shows how everyday negotiations transform national interests into European ideals. It is usually assumed that states opt out to preserve sovereignty, but Adler-Nissen argues that national opt-outs may actually reinforce the integration process.By Alasdair Blair. 2011
The world's greatest importer and exporter, the European Union is an economic superpower with a GDP even larger than th…
US. It is America's most important trading partner and a key ally on the world stage, but how much do we really know about the nature and aim of European integration? And, in an increasingly multipolar world, will it ever challenge America's global dominance? Featuring the most up-to-date assessment of the EU, its inner workings, external relations, and likely future development, this is the perfect introduction for anyone seeking to better understand European integration and what it means for the rest of the world, including the US. Alasdair Blair is Jean Monnet Chair, Professor of International Relations at De Montfort University, UK. He is the author of The European Union since 1945.By Efrat Ben-Ze'Ev, Ruth Ginio, Jay Winter. 2010
Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women…
to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war.By Heather Bamford. 2018
The majority of medieval and sixteenth-century Iberian manuscripts, whether in Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish or Aljamiado (Spanish written in Arabic…
script), contain fragments or are fragments. The term fragment is used to describe not only isolated bits of manuscript material with a damaged appearance, but also any piece of a larger text that was intended to be a fragment. Investigating the vital role these fragments played in medieval and early modern Iberian manuscript culture, Heather Bamford’s Cultures of the Fragment is focused on fragments from five major Iberian literary traditions, including Hispano-Arabic and Hispano-Hebrew poetry, Latin and Castilian epics, chivalric romances, and the literature of early modern crypto-Muslims. The author argues that while some manuscript fragments came about by accident, many were actually created on purpose and used in a number of ways, from binding materials, to anthology excerpts, and some fragments were even incorporated into sacred objects as messages of good luck. Examining four main motifs of fragmentation, including intention, physical appearance, metonymy, and performance, this work reveals the centrality of the fragment to manuscript studies, highlighting the significance of the fragment to Iberia’s multicultural and multilingual manuscript culture.By Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions thematic and geographical diversity…
clear and informative introductions and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages and adds significant new materials especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region This volume spans the period c 900 to c 1500 The stunning Reading through Looking color insert which showcases medieval artifacts has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani New maps timelines and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources On the History Matters website www utphistorymatters com students have access to hundreds of Questions for ReflectionBy Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions thematic and geographical diversity…
clear and informative introductions and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages and adds significant new materials especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region The stunning Reading through Looking color insert which showcases medieval artifacts and introduces how historians study medieval material culture has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani New maps timelines and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources On the History Matters website www utphistorymatters com students have access to hundreds of Questions for ReflectionBy Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
The third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions thematic and geographical diversity…
clear and informative introductions and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages and adds significant new materials especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and the Mediterranean region This volume spans the period c 300 to c 1150 The stunning Reading through Looking color insert which showcases medieval artifacts has been expanded to include essays on weapons and warfare by medievalist Riccardo Cristiani New maps timelines and genealogies aid readers in following knotty but revealing sources On the History Matters website www utphistorymatters com students have access to hundreds of Questions for ReflectionBy Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book Barbara H Rosenwein integrates the history of European Byzantine…
and Islamic medieval cultures as well as their Eurasian connections in a dynamic narrative This volume spans the period c 900 to c 1500 The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region Stunning plates featuring art and architecture weave together events mentalities and aesthetics Medievalist Riccardo Cristiani authors a new feature on material culture that examines the intricacies of manuscript production and the lustrous glazes of Islamic ceramics A fully revised map program offers user-friendly spot maps that clarify events right where they are discussed as well as dazzling topographical maps that reveal the very contours of the medieval world Helpful genealogies figures architectural plans and lists of key dates complement the text All maps genealogies and figures are available on the History Matters website www utphistorymatters com for easy download Students will find this site equally useful for its hundreds of study questions and their click-to-reveal answersBy Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of European, Byzantine, and Islamic medieval…
cultures—as well as their Eurasian connections—in a dynamic narrative. The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region. Stunning plates featuring art and architecture weave together events, mentalities, and aesthetics. Medievalist Riccardo Cristiani authors a new feature on material culture that examines the intricacies of manuscript production and the lustrous glazes of Islamic ceramics. A fully revised map program offers user-friendly spot maps that clarify events right where they are discussed as well as dazzling topographical maps that reveal the very contours of the medieval world. Helpful genealogies, figures, architectural plans, and lists of key dates complement the text. All maps, genealogies, and figures are available on the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com) for easy download. Students will find this site equally useful for its hundreds of study questions and their click-to-reveal answers.By Barbara H. Rosenwein. 2018
In this newest edition of her bestselling book Barbara H Rosenwein integrates the history of European Byzantine…
and Islamic medieval cultures as well as their Eurasian connections in a dynamic narrative This volume spans the period c 300 to c 1150 The text has been significantly updated to reflect growing interest in the Islamic world and Mediterranean region Stunning plates featuring art and architecture weave together events mentalities and aesthetics Medievalist Riccardo Cristiani authors a new feature on material culture that examines the intricacies of manuscript production and the lustrous glazes of Islamic ceramics A fully revised map program offers user-friendly spot maps that clarify events right where they are discussed as well as dazzling topographical maps that reveal the very contours of the medieval world Helpful genealogies figures architectural plans and lists of key dates complement the text All maps genealogies and figures are available on the History Matters website www utphistorymatters com for easy download Students will find this site equally useful for its hundreds of study questions and their click-to-reveal answersBy Gaston Leval, Pedro García-Guirao, Vernon Richards. 1975
Gaston Leval s study brings together two aspects that are generally difficult to unite analysis and testimony …
He visited the towns and villages of revolutionary Spain where people had opted to live a libertarian communist lifestyle almost without precedent in history collectivizing the land factories and social services Collectives in the Spanish Revolution demonstrates clearly that the working class are perfectly capable of running farms factories workshops and health and public services without bosses or managers It proves that anarchist methods of organizing with decisions made from the bottom up can work effectively in large-scale industry involving the coordination of many thousands of workers in many hundreds of places of work across numerous cities and towns as well as broad rural areas Leval s history of anarchy in action also gives insight into the creative and constructive power of ordinary people The Spanish working class not only kept production going throughout the war but in many cases managed to achieve increases in output They improved working conditions and created new techniques They created out of nothing an arms industry without which the war against fascism could not have been fought The revolution also showed that without the competition bred by capitalism industry can be run in a much more rational manner Finally it demonstrated how an organized working class has the power to transform societyBy Terry Golway. 2000
Ireland's struggle for freedom reaches back much further into the annals of history than most of us can imagine. Since…
the eleventh century, when legendary king Brian Boru united the chieftains of Ireland to resist Viking invasion, countless individual leaders have fought to preserve and protect Ireland's political and cul-tural autonomy. In a chronicle of unprecedented breadth and authority, For the Cause of Liberty tells the stories of these heroes -- including both men and women, Catholics and Protestants -- who enabled the Irish to free themselves from the yoke of colonial oppression. Journalist Terry Golway reconstructs the entire thousand-year history of Irish nationalism, covering each benchmark event in Ireland's political evolution and presenting a vivid, epic tale of both the famous and unsung patriots who changed the course of Ireland's history. Among these are Wolfe Tone, a leader of the 1798 rebellion who cut his own throat rather than submit to a hangman; Kevin Barry, executed at age eighteen rather than turn informer on the eve of independence in 1921; and Bobby Sands, an IRA militant who died on a hunger strike in 1981, calling international attention to the conflict in Northern Ireland. The engaging and admirable story of how the Irish have saved themselves, For the Cause of Liberty is a peerless work of scholarship, and it offers a fresh context for the ongoing discussion of Ireland's political future.By Marta Turek, Anna Spysz, Lech Walesa. 2013
Being Polish is no joke. For ten million people of Polish ancestry in the United States, as well as many…
who have settled in the UK since the fall of communism, it is a heartfelt matter--and amid all the travel guides and guides to Polish language, folklore,and customs, there is no single, comprehensive, reader-friendly and yet ever-informative reference on what it means to be Polish. Enter The Essential Guide to Being Polish -- the go-to concise resource for anyone looking to reconnect with their culture or, indeed, hoping that their friends, children, or colleagues learn something about their heritage. Divided into three sections to make for an easy-to-follow format --Poland in Context, Poles in Poland, and Poles Abroad -- this guide covers just about everything and does so in a style that is at once entertaining and informative: the country's history and geography, wars, Jews in Poland, the communist past, the postcommunist past and present, language, kings and queens, religion/Catholicism (with special focus on Pope John Paul II), holidays, food, and drink. What is a real Polish wedding all about? That, too, is addressed succinctly and with flair in this guide. Other chapters cover literature, music, art, famous scientists, Polish men and Polish women, Poles in America, Poles in the UK, Poles and the EU, and last but not least, Polish pride.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Nicholas Shrady. 2008
A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with…
the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days. In The Last Day, Nicholas Shrady provides not only a vivid account of this horrific disaster but also a stimulating survey of the many shock waves it sent throughout Western civilization. When news of the quake spread, it inspired both a lurid fascination in the popular imagination of Europe and an intellectual debate about the natural world and Gods place in human affairs. Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other eminent figures, took up the disaster as a sort of cause clbre and a vehicle to express Enlightenment ideas. More practically, the Lisbon quake led to the first concerted effort at disaster control, modern urban planning, and the birth of seismology. The Last Day is popular history writing at its best and will appeal to readers of Simon Winchesters Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World.