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ItemNo Preview AvailableProtecting the Empire's Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870(Cambridge University Press, 2021-10-31)Rooted in the extraordinary archive of Quaker physician and humanitarian activist, Dr Thomas Hodgkin, this book explores the efforts of the Aborigines' Protection Society to expose Britain's hypocrisy and imperial crimes in the mid-nineteenth century. Hodgkin's correspondents stretched from Liberia to Lesotho, New Zealand to Texas, Jamaica to Ontario, and Bombay to South Australia; they included scientists, philanthropists, missionaries, systematic colonizers, politicians and indigenous peoples themselves. Debating the best way to protect and advance indigenous rights in an era of burgeoning settler colonialism, they looked back to the lessons and limitations of anti-slavery, lamented the imperial government's disavowal of responsibility for settler colonies, and laid out elaborate (and patronizing) plans for indigenous 'civilization'. Protecting the Empire's Humanity reminds us of the complexity, contradictions and capacious nature of British colonialism and metropolitan 'humanitarianism', illuminating the broad canvas of empire through a distinctive set of British and Indigenous campaigners.
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ItemThe Lost World of Unspoken Horrors: Aharon Appelfeld’s Holocaust Universe(Hybrid publishers, 2023-12-04)This volume offers a close reading of five novels by Aharon Appelfeld (1982-2018), Israel’s most celebrated Shoah author. Fuelled by a desire to introduce this literary giant to foreign language readers, this illuminating collection of essays is a tribute to a prolific writer who, for more than four decades, won international acclaim for his subtle and enigmatic novels, which shimmer with premonitions of the unimaginable horror to come. Overflowing with lucid insights, this deeply reflective study demonstrates how Appelfeld’s stories, usually set in the years immediately before and after the destruction of European Jewry, transform memory into fiction and encase within their midst unfathomable depths in the search for meaning and healing.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableAlbrecht Dürer's Material World(Manchester University Press, 2023)The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery's outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art. Artworks and artefacts examined here expose understudied aspects of Dürer's art and practice, including his attentive examination of objects of daily domestic use, his involvement in economies of local manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craft and, finally, his attention to cultures of natural and philosophical inquiry and learning.
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ItemPlague in Antiquity(Peeters Publishers, 2023)This volume came about based on the recognition that the rise and spread of Covid-19, in order to both take advantage of the authors’ lived experiences and to situate the world’s recent experience of plague and its effects within a long-term historical framework as provided.by the texts and archeological evidence of the ancient Near East, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Our research has lead contemporary scholarship to consider the possibility that there will be an increasing acceleration of new and highly transmissible plagues, viruses and other diseases linked to the mass travel and trade that characterizes hyper-globalisation. As historians and archaeologists studying the civilisations of the most distant past, we felt that we had something to contribute to this conversation through providing a historical perspective, with the twin goals of relieving the social anxiety caused by pandemics and taking advantage of our present experiences to see how we might view our own research in a fresh, new light. Archaeologists and scholars of ancient history know that epidemic plagues and other environmental catastrophes are nothing new: disease and illness are clearly represented in the archaeological and historical record.
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ItemShal'burg: patriot-predatel'(Nestor-Istoriia, 2022)The Russian translation of the award-winning biography of Christian Frederik von Schalburg - top Danish National Socialist, collaborator, and a Russian emigre. Originally published as Schalburg: En Patriotisk Landsforæder (Gyldendal, 2008). The book won multiple awards for literature and was nominated to the 'Best Book in History' prize (Royal Ministry of Culture).
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ItemJournal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Volume 7, No. 2(ibidem, 2022-03-07)This issue includes the fifth special section in our series 'Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN' and the second instalment of 'A Debate on "Ustashism", Generic Fascism and the OUN', both guest edited by Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableFrench Revolution: The Basics(Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2021)French Revolution is an accessible and concise introduction to the history of the revolution in France. Combining a traditional narrative of with documents of the era and references to contemporary imagery of the revolution, the book traces the long and short term causes of the French Revolution as well as its consequences up to the dissolution of the Convention and the ascendancy of Napoleon. The book is written with an explicit aim for its reader to acquire understanding of the past whilst imparting knowledge using the underlying the historical concepts such as evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, significance, empathy, perspectives, and contestability. Key topics discussed within the book include: The structure of French society before 1789. The long- and short-term factors that contributed to the French Revolution. How ordinary French people, including women and slaves participated in the revolution. What brought about the end of the ancien regime. The major reforms of the National Assembly, 1789-1791 and how they lead to the division and radicalisation of the revolution. How did the alternative visions of the new society divide the revolution and what were the internal and external pressures on the revolution that contributed to its radicalisation. The forms of terror which enabled reality triumph over the idealism. The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as military leader and Emperor. This book is an ideal introduction for anyone wishing to learn more about this influential revolution in the shaping of modern Europe and the world.