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A classic historical account of one of the most important conflicts
in modern history, which determined much of the subsequent
direction of European history Michael Howard was the leading
British military historian of his generation Includes a new
foreword by the historian Bertrand Taithe
A classic historical account of one of the most important conflicts
in modern history, which determined much of the subsequent
direction of European history Michael Howard was the leading
British military historian of his generation Includes a new
foreword by the historian Bertrand Taithe
Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact'
and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of
History? brings together established and new voices to raise
relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The
chapters are articulated around the themes of public history, the
politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning
and the situation of history in the changing world of education.
While this subject is driven differently by the research bodies and
councils of different countries, similar debates about the value
and place of the academy in society are taking place in the UK, the
USA and Europe as well as in other parts of the world. Chapters
cover diverse areas of history from this perspective including:
public history national histories new technologies and the natural
sciences campaigning histories the impact agenda. This collection
is a political and intellectual intervention at a time when
scholars and readers of history are being asked to explain why
history matters and it seeks to intervene in the debates on
'impact', on education and on the role of the past in the shaping
of our future. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range
of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet
polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in
contemporary society.
The early years of democracy in France were marked by a society
divided by civil war, class war and violent conflict. Citizenship
and Wars explores the concept of citizenship in a time of social
and political upheaval, and considers what the conflict meant for
citizen-soldiers, women, children and the elderly. This highly
original argument based on primary research brings new life to
debates about the making of French identity in the 19th
century.
Putting the latest theoretical thinking into empirical use, the
author assesses how the function of the state and its citizens
changed during the Paris Commune and Franco-Prussian War. The study
considers fresh issues such as:
*how the people coped with the collapse of their government
*what the upheaval meant for the provinces of France
*how the issue of citizenship affected religious identities
*the differences between colonial Algeria and metropolitan France.
The early years of democracy in France were marked by a society divided by civil war, class war and violent conflict. Citizenship and Wars explores the concept of citizenship in a time of social and political upheaval, and considers what the conflict meant for citizen-soldiers, women, children and the elderly. This highly original argument based on primary research brings new life to debates about the making of French identity in the 19th century. Putting the latest theoretical thinking into empirical use, the author assesses how the function of the state and its citizens changed during the Paris Commune and Franco-Prussian War. The study considers fresh issues such as: *how the people coped with the collapse of their government *what the upheaval meant for the provinces of France *how the issue of citizenship affected religious identities *the differences between colonial Algeria and metropolitan France.
For many liberal commentators at the turn of the 1990s, the
collapse of the Soviet Union represented a final victory for
Western reason and capitalist democracy. But, in recent years,
liberal norms and institutions associated with the post-Cold War
moment have been challenged by a visceral and affective politics.
Electorates have increasingly opted for a closing inwards of the
nation-state, not just in the democratic heartlands of Europe and
North America, but also on the periphery of the world economy. As
the popular appeal of the 'open society' is thrown into question,
it is necessary to revisit assumptions about the permanence of its
enabling political and ethical projects. Previously promoted by the
US and its allies as a necessary complement to liberal capitalist
culture and the globalisation of markets, humanitarian
multilateralism seems to have lost strategic currency. In this
collection of essays, public intellectuals, scholars, journalists
and aid workers reflect on the relationship between humanitarianism
and 'liberal order'. What role has humanitarianism played in
processes of liberal ordering? Amidst challenges to liberal order,
what are the implications for the political economy of
humanitarianism, and for the practices of humanitarian agencies?
French Masculinities makes a valuable contribution to gender
studies by presenting, for the first time, a comprehensive and
critical overview of ideas of how virilite has been imagined in
France from the Eighteenth century to the present. Incorporating
insights of cultural and social historians as well as specialists
in film and literature, this collection approaches masculinities in
a complex and interdisciplinary manner that will appeal to a wide
range of readers.
The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard
of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in
the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well
known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as
Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at
the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after
1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On
the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of
metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former
colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex
legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through
the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the
'decolonisation' of imperial heroes was a much more complex and
protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that
it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the
world has ceased to be 'painted in red'. Whilst Decolonising
Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians
and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to
violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the
persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the
former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was
increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state
actors, in a process we call 'the privatisation of heroes', the
book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in
former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage
sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
The heroes of the British and French empires stood at the vanguard
of the vibrant cultures of imperialism that emerged in Europe in
the second-half of the nineteenth century. Their stories are well
known. Scholars have tended to assume that figures such as
Livingstone and Gordon, or Marchand and Brazza, vanished rapidly at
the end of empire. Yet imperial heroes did not disappear after
1945, as British and French flags were lowered around the world. On
the contrary, their reputations underwent a variety of
metamorphoses in both the former metropoles and the former
colonies. This book develops a framework to understand the complex
legacies of decolonisation, both political and cultural, through
the case study of imperial heroes. We demonstrate that the
'decolonisation' of imperial heroes was a much more complex and
protracted process than the political retreat from empire, and that
it is still an ongoing phenomenon, even half a century after the
world has ceased to be 'painted in red'. Whilst Decolonising
Imperial Heroes explores the appeal of the explorers, humanitarians
and missionaries whose stories could be told without reference to
violence against colonized peoples, it also analyses the
persistence of imperial heroes as sites of political dispute in the
former metropoles. Demonstrating that the work of remembrance was
increasingly carried out by diverse, fragmented groups of non-state
actors, in a process we call 'the privatisation of heroes', the
book reveals the surprising rejuvenation of imperial heroes in
former colonies, both in nation-building narratives and as heritage
sites. This book was originally published as a special issue of the
Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.
Driven by the increasing importance of discussions around 'impact'
and its meaning and implications for history, The Impact of
History? brings together established and new voices to raise
relevant questions, issues and controversies for debate. The
chapters are articulated around the themes of public history, the
politics of history, the role of history in the shaping of learning
and the situation of history in the changing world of education.
While this subject is driven differently by the research bodies and
councils of different countries, similar debates about the value
and place of the academy in society are taking place in the UK, the
USA and Europe as well as in other parts of the world. Chapters
cover diverse areas of history from this perspective including:
public history national histories new technologies and the natural
sciences campaigning histories the impact agenda. This collection
is a political and intellectual intervention at a time when
scholars and readers of history are being asked to explain why
history matters and it seeks to intervene in the debates on
'impact', on education and on the role of the past in the shaping
of our future. Bringing together leading authors from a wide range
of fields, The Impact of History? is an accessible and engaging yet
polemical and thought-provoking overview of the role of history in
contemporary society.
Defeated flesh is a compelling study of the French defeat of 1870
and the socialist uprising of the Commune of Paris. By looking at
the history of the body and medicine, Taithe considers how the
French people mobilised for the war effort and how their ultimate
defeat had cultural and social consequences which led to the
fin-de-siecle spirit. Looking at the siege of Paris, the war
suffering and rationing in an exceptionally harsh period of French
history it revises the current debates on citizenship,
centralisation and modern warfare. The range of material and the
approach will cast a new light on the social aspirations behind the
first socialist uprising in the world and on the fears of national
decline so common in Western Europe before 1914. Drawing upon many
untouched sources, Taithe seeks to understand why 1870-71 became
such an important phase in the making of modern France. This
intriguing and highly original study will be of interest to all
readers of French history, European and French culture and
specialists of the history of war or medicine.
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a
brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour
looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing
the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking
its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written
by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a
reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most
important humanistic texts of the twentieth century. Benjamin's
Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed
'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a
different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx,
Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and
images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History,
magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of
Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as
modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades
opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary
perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to
better understand this extraordinary work. -- .
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
It is funded by Manchester University. This book examines the
business of charity - including fundraising, marketing, branding,
financial accountability and the nexus of benevolence, politics and
capitalism - in Britain from the development of the British Red
Cross in 1870 to 1912. Whilst most studies focus on the
distribution of charity, Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange and
Bertrand Taithe look at the roots of the modern third sector,
exploring how charities appropriated features more readily
associated with commercial enterprises in order to compete and
obtain money, manage and account for that money and monetize
compassion. Drawing on a wide range of archival research from
Charity Organization Societies, Wood Street Mission, Salvation
Army, League of Help and Jewish Soup Kitchen, among many others,
The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 sheds
new light on the history of philanthropy in the Victorian and
Edwardian periods.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
It is funded by Manchester University. This book examines the
business of charity - including fundraising, marketing, branding,
financial accountability and the nexus of benevolence, politics and
capitalism - in Britain from the development of the British Red
Cross in 1870 to 1912. Whilst most studies focus on the
distribution of charity, Sarah Roddy, Julie-Marie Strange and
Bertrand Taithe look at the roots of the modern third sector,
exploring how charities appropriated features more readily
associated with commercial enterprises in order to compete and
obtain money, manage and account for that money and monetize
compassion. Drawing on a wide range of archival research from
Charity Organization Societies, Wood Street Mission, Salvation
Army, League of Help and Jewish Soup Kitchen, among many others,
The Charity Market and Humanitarianism in Britain, 1870-1912 sheds
new light on the history of philanthropy in the Victorian and
Edwardian periods.
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