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The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about:
five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the
glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi
occupation. Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of
the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries. Written with a
Pepysian sense of the texture of daily life in the city through the
ages, and with breathtakingly detailed historical research,
Salonica evokes the sights, smells, habits, songs and responses of
a unique city and its inhabitants. The history of Salonica is one
of forgotten alternatives and wrong choices, of identities assumed
and discarded. For centuries Jews, Christians and Muslims have
succeeded each other in ascendancy, each people intent on erasing
the presence of their predecessors, and the result is a city of
extraordinarily rich cultural traditions and memories of extreme
violence and genocide, one that sits on the overlapping hinterlands
of both Europe and the East. Mark Mazower has written a work of
astonishing depth and originality about this remarkable city.
Magnificently researched and beautifully written, it is more than a
book about a place; it studies in detail the way in which three
great faiths and peoples have inhabited the same territory, and how
smooth transitions and adaptations have been interwoven with
violent endings and new beginnings.
The origin and early development of social stratification is
essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of
archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the
pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today's world is the
result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the
archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more
specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory.
Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years
the subject of early social stratification and state formation has
been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book
illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay
between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from
social complexity, and the 'failures' of states to form in
Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions, such as: when
did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory?
What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What
are the relationships between the notions of social complexity,
social inequality, social stratification and statehood? And what
are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of
these issues? Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection
to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the
first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to
the issue of state formation in prehistoric Europe.
After more than a century of research, an enormous body of
scientific literature in the field of El Argar studies has been
generated, comprising some 700 bibliographic items. No
fully-updated synthesis of the literature is available at the
moment; recent works deal only with specific characteristics of
Argaric societies or some of the regions where their influence
spread. The Archaeology of Bronze Age Iberia offers a much-needed,
comprehensive overview of Argaric Bronze Age societies, based on
state-of-the-art research. In addition to expounding on recent
insights in such areas as Argaric origin and expansion, social
practices, and socio-politics, the book offers reflections on
current issues in the field, from questions concerning the
genealogy of discourses on the subject, to matters related to
professional practices. The book discusses the values and interests
guiding the evolution of El Argar studies, while critically
reexamining its history. Scholars and researchers in the fields of
Prehistory and Archaeology will find this volume highly useful.
When Odilo Globocnik, SS and police leader in Lublin, Poland,
transferred to the Italian OZAK region in late 1943, he took with
him a group of around 100 men who had run the notorious Aktion
Reinhard extermination camps-Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor-where 1.5
million people (mostly Jews) had been killed. This book describes
the little-known activities of this group, known as Abteilung R
(Reinhard), in the OZAK region from 1943 to 1945. Here they not
only continued persecuting Jews, but also became involved in the
fight against the armed resistance movement, participated in
security tasks, anti-partisan operations, retaliation operations
including arresting and killing of civilians, and ran the infamous
Risiera di San Sabba police camp in Trieste. The book also covers
the SS-Wachmannschaften (SS guards units) of the OZAK, military
units that were formed locally and had links with Abteilung R.
There are also chapters on uniforms and insignia, as well as
photographs related to anti-partisan operations in the region.
'Vividly told, engrossing history' CLARE MULLEY, author of The
Women Who Flew for Hitler 'Precise, empathic . . . a profoundly
satisfying, albeit wistful, read and . . . a worryingly relevant
one' GUARDIAN A thrilling biography of Benito Mussolini's favourite
daughter, and a heart-stopping account of the unravelling of the
Fascist dream in Italy Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite
daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but
flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately
strong and loyal. She was her father's confidante during the 20
years of Fascist rule, acting as envoy to both Germany and Britain,
and playing a part in steering Italy to join forces with Hitler.
From her early twenties she was effectively first lady of Italy.
She married Galeazzo Ciano, who would become the youngest Foreign
Secretary in Italian history, and they were the most celebrated and
glamorous couple in elegant, vulgar Roman fascist society. Their
fortunes turned in 1943, when Ciano voted against Mussolini in a
plot to bring him down, and his father-in-law did not forgive him.
In a dramatic story that takes in hidden diaries, her father's fall
and her husband's execution, an escape into Switzerland and a
period in exile, we come to know a complicated, bold and determined
woman who emerges not just as a witness but as a key player in some
of the twentieth century's defining moments. And we see Fascist
Italy with all its glamour, decadence and political intrigue, and
the turbulence before its violent end.
This beautifully written history recentres the West and rekindles
the past in a vivid narrative crafted for beginning students.
Grafton and Bell tell the epic story of a West engaged in a
continuing search for order across politics, society and culture,
driven by internal tensions and global influences. They deliver the
past not as a path to the present but as it was lived at the time,
grounded in a balanced, comprehensive, chronological narrative.
Combined with rich digital resources to instill practical history
skills, The West establishes a dynamic NEW foundation for teaching
the Western Civilizations course.
Feeling Exclusion: Religious Conflict, Exile and Emotions in Early
Modern Europe investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at
the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled
individuals and communities in early modern Europe. Between the
late fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries an unprecedented
number of people in Europe were forced to flee their native lands
and live in a state of physical or internal exile as a result of
religious conflict and upheaval. Drawing on new insights from
history of emotions methodologies, Feeling Exclusion explores the
complex relationships between communities in exile, the homelands
from which they fled or were exiled, and those from whom they
sought physical or psychological assistance. It examines the
various coping strategies religious refugees developed to deal with
their marginalization and exclusion, and investigates the
strategies deployed in various media to generate feelings of
exclusion through models of social difference, that questioned the
loyalty, values, and trust of "others". Accessibly written, divided
into three thematic parts, and enhanced by a variety of
illustrations, Feeling Exclusion is perfect for students and
researchers of early modern emotions and religion.
This book explores perceptions of toleration and self-identity
through an analysis of otherness' real experience of Italian
travellers, Catholic missionaries and Maltese proto-journalists
within Mediterranean border-spaces. Employing a multidisciplinary
approach, which integrates the analysis of original and unpublished
archival documentation with early modern European travel
literature, the book shows how fluid subjects and border groups
adapted to new environments, often generating information that made
the Ottomans and their system of values real and dignified to an
Italian audience. The interdisciplinary combining of historical
methodology with the tools of comparative literature, anthropology
and folklore studies provides a fresh perspective on concepts of
tolerance as experienced in the early modern Mediterranean.
The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of
conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this
book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that
characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the
significance of the Italian Wars as an especially intense period of
warfare that drove forward several important social, political, and
especially military developments. Employing a myriad of primary and
secondary sources, this book illustrates how the European nobility,
still very much steeped in knightly and chivalric ideals, was
fashioning the Italian Wars into an essentially traditional
aristocratic war, while the rise of military professionalization
and privatization, accompanied by the processes of centralization
and consolidation of political power, were rapidly changing their
world. Moreover, the book attempts to demonstrate that although the
debate on a supposed military revolution in late medieval and early
modern Europe still rages, sixteenth-century soldiers and
intellectuals were quite certain, and anxious, about the potential
effects of gunpowder weapons and novel tactics and strategy on
their world. Scholars and general readers who are interested in the
political and military history of late medieval and early modern
Europe should find this study especially instructive.
In recent decades historians have emphasized just how dynamic and
varied early modern Europe was. Previously held notions of
monolithic and static societies have now been replaced with a model
in which new ideas, different cultures and communities jostle for
attention and influence. Building upon the concept of interaction,
the essays in this volume develop and explore the idea with
specific reference to the ways in which diasporas could act as
translocal societies, connecting worlds and peoples that may not
otherwise have been linked. The volume looks at the ways in which
diasporas or diasporic groups, such as the Herrnhuters, the
Huguenots, the Quakers, Jews, the Mennonites, the Moriscos and
others, could function as intermediaries to connect otherwise
separated communities and societies. All contributors analyse the
respective groups' internal and external networks, social relations
and the settings of social interactions, looking at the entangled
networks of diaspora communities and their effects upon the
societies and regions they linked through those networks. The
collection takes a fresh look at early modern diasporas, combining
religious, cultural, social and economic history to better
understand how early modern communication patterns and markets
evolved, how consumption patterns changed and what this meant for
social, economic and cultural change, how this impacted on what we
understand as early developments towards globalization, and how
early developments towards globalization, in turn, were
constitutive of these.
This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer
of political ideas, as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia.
Like many non-European nation-states, Ethiopia adopted a western
model of statehood, that is, the nation-state. Unlike the
postcolonial polities that have retained the mode of statehood
imposed on them by their colonial powers, Ethiopia was never
successfully colonized leaving its ruling elite free to select a
model of 'modern' (western) statehood. In 1931, via Japan, they
adopted the model of unitary, ethnolinguistically homogenous
nation-state, in turn copied by Tokyo in 1889 from the German
Empire (founded in 1871). Following the Ethiopian Revolution (1974)
that overthrew the imperial system, the new revolutionary elite
promised to address the 'nationality question' through the
marxist-leninist model. The Soviet model of ethnolinguistic
federalism (originally derived from Austria-Hungary) was introduced
in Ethiopia, first in 1992 and officially with the 1995
Constitution. To this day the politics of modern Ethiopia is marked
by the tension between these two opposed models of the essentially
central European type of statehood. The late 19th-century
'German-German' quarrel on the 'proper' model of national statehood
for Germany - or more broadly, modern central Europe - remains the
quarrel of Ethiopian politics nowadays. The book will be useful for
scholars of Ethiopian and African history and politics, and also
offers a case in comparative studies on the subject of different
models of national statehood elsewhere.
This book examines the relationship between Britain and Ireland,
specifically the central role played by print and broadcast media
in communicating political, cultural, and social differences and
similarities between the two islands. The relationship between
Ireland and Great Britain has a long and complex history. Given
their geographical proximity and shared language one key dimension
of this relationship has been the communication media - print and
electronic - that have mediated this relationship. This book
addresses this important, but relatively neglected, topic at a
critical time in Anglo-Irish relations. Taking the long view, as
well as looking in detail at specific episodes, the contributors
map British-Irish interactions in print and broadcast media. This
volume assesses the proprietorial and journalistic connections
between various media institutions, the conditions under which
media organisations operated and distribution channels employed. It
considers media influences in terms of the role of media organs in
constructing national identity and promoting social change.
Furthermore, this book also considers news flows between the two
islands, censorship in times of conflict, cross-border influences
of television, and the relationship between cinema and television.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the journal Media History.
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Niccolo Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court will appeal to all those
interested in the organisation of these elite establishments and
their place in sixteenth-century Roman society, the life and
patronage of Niccolo Ridolfi in the context of the Florentine
exiles who desired a return to republicanism, and the history of
the Roman Catholic Church.
The volume re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in
early modern Europe without presuming that "progressive" change was
the outcome of "reforms" The current historical literature speaks
generally of military, fiscal, administrative, judicial, agrarian
and other state reforms in early modern Europe with less emphasis
on economics The book enjoys major crossover to our world class
list in the History of Economic Thought
This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the
close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western
tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of
a spectrum, for the same natural material can be medicine or
poison, depending on the dose, and poisons can be transformed into
medicines, while medicines can turn out to be poisons. The book
looks at important moments in the history of the relationship
between poisons and medicines in European history, from Roman
times, with the Greek physician Galen, through the Renaissance and
the maverick physician Paracelsus, to the present, when poisons are
actively being turned into beneficial medicines.
This book presents a social and cultural history of collective
memory in modern Greece during the first century of state
independence, contributing to the debate over the relationship
between memory and identity. It discusses how modern Greek society
commemorated its distant and recent pasts, both real and imagined,
namely antiquity, Byzantium, the Greek Revolution and the Asia
Minor Catastrophe; how cultural memory was shaped by the various
war experiences (victory, defeat, mass death and mourning,
refugeedom); and how memory politics became arenas of social and
political strife. Historical painting, monuments, historical
pageantry, tableaux vivants, national anniversaries, performances
of ancient drama and revivals of ancient games are analyzed as
instances where the past was visualized, represented, performed and
"consumed". An explosion in public history has taken place over the
last decades around the world, with a veritable flood of
commemorations, anniversaries and "memory wars". As more and more
social groups claim the "right to remember", public discourse and
polemics have arisen at the same time that traumatic memory has
become a field of international academic research. In the arena of
public history, historical memory is being constructed through the
sentimental, irrational reception of mythological narratives told
through images.
The book fills a gap in the historiography as it is the first in
depth English language study of Romanian history between the wars.
The book is a classic study of a nation torn between the competing
spheres of influence of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. Deletant
is a leading historian of Romania and was made an officer of the
Order of the British Empire in 1995 and 'Ordinul pentru merit'
(Order of Merit) with the rank of commander for services to
Romanian democracy in 2000 by President Emil Constantinescu of
Romania
Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic
conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book
engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates
nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is thus
able to provide the reader with an analytical account, situating
each historical period within its temporal context. Catalonia
emerges as a territory where complex social forces interact, where
revolts and rebellions are frequent. This is a contested terrain
where political ideologies have sought to impose their
interpretation of Catalan reality. This book situates Catalonia
within the wider currents of European and Spanish history, from
pre-history to the contemporary independence movement, and makes an
important contribution to our understanding of nation-making.
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Heiresses is a glorious book, endlessly entertaining and about much
more than its stated subject. Thompson is a fabulous writer'
Caroline O'Donoghue 'Witty, insightful, deliciously gossip-laden
and slightly scandalous... Heiresses makes for an entertaining,
occasionally sad and never less than gripping read' Anne Sebba
'Excellent... [A] wonderfully entertaining book' Sunday Times
'Exquisite and gossipy... Thompson, a gifted storyteller, obviously
delighted in the writing of this book' TLS '[A] deeply empathetic
study of heiresses through the ages' The Times 'Life is less sad
with money', said Emerald Cunard; Barbara Hutton was the 'Poor
Little Rich Girl', but which is true? Laura Thompson explores the
phenomenon of the heiress from the seventeenth to the twenty-first
centuries. Take Mary Davies, a child bride at the age of twelve,
and her thousand-acre dowry of today's Mayfair and Belgravia, which
gave the Grosvenors their stupendous wealth. Or Consuelo
Vanderbilt, Duchess of Marlborough, whose American railroad fortune
helped sustain Blenheim Palace. Winnaretta Singer showcased the
work of Debussy in her Parisian salon; Daisy Fellowes enjoyed
parties, fashion - and other people's husbands - without shame or
conscience. Alice de Janze shot one of her lovers and was suspected
of murdering a second; Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, married
seven times. Money should mean power and opportunity, but in the
hands of these women it was so often absent. Why did so many
struggle to live with so much? Did the removal of need render their
life meaningless? Were they riven with guilt at all they had,
knowing they really should be happy? With her signature
intelligence and wit, Laura Thompson tells these women's stories -
glittering and fascinating but often sad and scandalous - on a
gripping search for the answer.
Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the
attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and
to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It
analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes.
Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on
the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the
weeklies and their editors, the study conveys and examines their
attitudes to the European crises of 1935-9 and one chapter focusses
on the popular fear of air attack as reflected in the journals. The
major conclusion of the book is that a consensus supporting
appeasement emerged in the weeklies in the course of 1935 and that
it remained virtually intact until September 1938.
In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition
in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only
American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and
neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account
based on the notion that the civic notions of antiquity continued
to dominate political thought in modern times. Against this
revisionist view the argument of From Classical to Modern
Liberalism is that we need to study America in comparative
perspective, and if we do so we shall discover that republicanism
in the modern world was distinctively modern, drawing upon ideas of
natural rights, consent, and social contract. Rather than a
struggle between liberalism and republicanism, we should speak
about liberal republicanism. Rather than republicanism versus
liberalism, we should address liberalism versus illiberalism, the
true issue of our age.
This volume compares and contrasts British and German colonialist
discourses from a variety of angles: philosophical, political,
social, economic, legal, and discourse-linguistic. British and
German cooperation and competition are presented as complementary
forces in the European colonial project from as early as the
sixteenth century but especially after the foundation of the German
Second Empire in 1871 - the era of the so-called 'Scramble for
Africa'. The authors present the points of view not only of the
colonizing nations, but also of former colonies, including
Cameroon, Ghana, Morocco, Namibia, Tanzania, India, China, and the
Pacific Islands. The title will prove invaluable for students and
researchers working on British colonial history, German colonial
history and post-colonial studies.
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