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In November 1993, ANC activist and development worker Clare Stewart’s body was found in a shallow ditch in rural KwaZulu-Natal as the province sat on the brink of civil war. Amid the ensuing chaos and euphoria of South Africa’s ‘new dawn’, the details of Clare's killing would stay hidden beneath the surface.
This gripping, moving account of Clare’s life and the mystery surrounding her death touches on the fragility of memory, family loss, apartheid’s evils, and the fault lines in our democracy.
Key Features: The only textbook of rural healthcare practice for
the UK Reflects the increasing profile of rural healthcare as a
dedicated sub-specialty with its own growing body of literature and
dedicated university courses Addresses the key challenges of
ensuring effective and sustainable healthcare for those in rural,
remote and coastal communities, often exacerbated by the COVID-19
pandemic Includes key themes - geographical equity, the trade-offs
between access to services and quality of care, hidden rural social
exclusion, the role of generalists and the importance of focusing
on patient experience Focuses on the UK experience, but with
applicability for those facing similar healthcare challenges
internationally
'People embraced each other, shook hands, joy radiated from every
eye, there was no limit to the celebrations . . .' There can be few
more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the
spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city after city, from
Palermo to Paris to Venice, huge crowds gathered, sometimes
peaceful and sometimes violent, and the political order that had
held sway since the defeat of Napoleon simply collapsed.
Christopher Clark's spectacular new book recreates with verve, wit
and insight this extraordinary period. Some rulers gave up at once,
others fought bitterly, but everywhere new politicians, beliefs and
expectations surged forward. The role of women in society, the end
of slavery, the right to work, national independence and the final
emancipation of the Jews all became live issues. In a brilliant
series of set-pieces, Clark conjures up both this ferment of new
ideas and then the increasingly ruthless and effective series of
counter-attacks launched by regimes who still turned out to have
many cards to play. But even in defeat, exiles spread the ideas of
1848 around the world and - for better and sometimes much worse - a
new and very different Europe emerged from the wreckage.
Key Features: The only textbook of rural healthcare practice for
the UK Reflects the increasing profile of rural healthcare as a
dedicated sub-specialty with its own growing body of literature and
dedicated university courses Addresses the key challenges of
ensuring effective and sustainable healthcare for those in rural,
remote and coastal communities, often exacerbated by the COVID-19
pandemic Includes key themes - geographical equity, the trade-offs
between access to services and quality of care, hidden rural social
exclusion, the role of generalists and the importance of focusing
on patient experience Focuses on the UK experience, but with
applicability for those facing similar healthcare challenges
internationally
From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how
the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time This
groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the exercise
of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed
historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German
history-Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the
Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler-to look at history
through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their
regimes embody unique conceptions of time. Elegantly written and
boldly innovative, Time and Power reveals the connection between
political power and the distinct temporalities of the leaders who
wield it.
An intellectual tour de force: the major essays of the esteemed
author of international bestseller The Sleepwalkers Christopher
Clark's The Sleepwalkers has become one of the most influential
history books of our century: a remarkable rethinking of the
origins of the First World War, which has had a huge impact on how
we see both the past and the present. For the many readers who
found the narrative voice, craftsmanship and originality of Clark's
writing so compelling, Prisoners of Time will be a book filled with
surprises and enjoyment. Bringing together many of Clark's major
essays, Prisoners of Time raises a host of questions about how we
think about the past, and both the value and pitfalls of history as
a discipline. The book includes brilliant writing on German
subjects: from assessments of Kaiser Wilhelm and Bismarck to the
painful story of General von Blaskowitz, a traditional Prussian
military man who accommodated himself to the horrors of the Third
Reich. There is a fascinating essay on attempts to convert Prussian
Jews to Christianity, and insights into everything from Brexit to
the significance of battles. Perhaps the most important piece in
the book is 'The Dream of Nebuchadnezzar', a virtuoso meditation on
the nature of political power down the ages, which will become
essential reading for anyone drawn to the meaning of history.
North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s,
marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the
restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty
regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This
crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North
America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North
American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the
histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United
States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light
of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They
uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have
been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts
within its national framework.
From the author of the national bestseller The Sleepwalkers, a book
about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of
time This groundbreaking book presents new perspectives on how the
exercise of power is shaped by different notions of time. Acclaimed
historian Christopher Clark draws on four key figures from German
history-Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg-Prussia, Frederick the
Great, Otto von Bismarck, and Adolf Hitler-to look at history
through a temporal lens and ask how historical actors and their
regimes embody unique conceptions of time. Inspired by the insights
of Reinhart Koselleck and Francois Hartog, two pioneers of the
"temporal turn" in historiography, Clark shows how Friedrich
Wilhelm rejected the notion of continuity with the past, believing
instead that a sovereign must liberate the state from the
entanglements of tradition to choose freely among different
possible futures. He demonstrates how Frederick the Great abandoned
this paradigm for a neoclassical vision of history in which
sovereign and state transcend time altogether, and how Bismarck
believed that the statesman's duty was to preserve the timeless
permanence of the state amid the torrent of historical change.
Clark describes how Hitler did not seek to revolutionize history
like Stalin and Mussolini, but instead sought to evade history
altogether, emphasizing timeless racial archetypes and a
prophetically foretold future. Elegantly written and boldly
innovative, Time and Power takes readers from the Thirty Years' War
to the fall of the Third Reich, revealing the connection between
political power and the distinct temporalities of the leaders who
wield it.
Kaiser Wilhelm II is one of the key figures in the history of
twentieth-century Europe: King of Prussia and German Emperor from
1888 to the collapse of Germany in 1918 and a crucial player in the
events that led to the outbreak of World War I. Following Kaiser
Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court
through the turbulent peacetime decades of the Wilhelmine era into
global war and exile, the book presents a new interpretation of
this controversial monarch and assesses the impact on Germany of
his forty-year reign.
On the morning of June 28, 1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand
and his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sarajevo railway station,
Europe was at peace. Thirty-seven days later, it was at war. The
conflict that resulted would kill more than fifteen million people,
destroy three empires, and permanently alter world history.
The Sleepwalkers reveals in gripping detail how the crisis
leading to World War I unfolded. Drawing on fresh sources, it
traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed
narrative that cuts among the key decision centers in Vienna,
Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade. Distinguished
historian Christopher Clark examines the decades of history that
informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual
misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis
forward in a few short weeks.
How did the Balkans--a peripheral region far from Europe's
centers of power and wealth--come to be the center of a drama of
such magnitude? How had European nations organized themselves into
opposing alliances, and how did these nations manage to carry out
foreign policy as a result? Clark reveals a Europe racked by
chronic problems--a fractured world of instability and militancy
that was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set
of political leaders. These rulers, who prided themselves on their
modernity and rationalism, stumbled through crisis after crisis and
finally convinced themselves that war was the only answer.
Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The
Sleepwalkers is a magisterial account of one of the most compelling
dramas of modern times.
The pacy, sensitive and formidably argued history of the causes of
the First World War, from acclaimed historian and author
Christopher Clark FINANCIAL TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 SUNDAY
TIMES and INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2012 Winner of the Los
Angeles Times History Book Prize 2014 The moments that it took
Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead
Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the
modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it
fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg
rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down
four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a
civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent
Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In The
Sleepwalkers Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of
the First World War and its causes. Above all, it shows how the
failure to understand the seriousness of the chaotic, near
genocidal fighting in the Balkans would drag Europe into
catastrophe. Reviews: 'Formidable ... one of the most impressive
and stimulating studies of the period ever published' Max Hastings,
Sunday Times 'Easily the best book ever written on the subject ...
A work of rare beauty that combines meticulous research with
sensitive analysis and elegant prose. The enormous weight of its
quality inspires amazement and awe ... Academics should take note:
Good history can still be a good story' Washington Post 'A lovingly
researched work of the highest scholarship. It is hard to believe
we will ever see a better narrative of what was perhaps the biggest
collective blunder in the history of international relations' Niall
Ferguson '[Reading The Sleepwalkers], it is as if a light had been
turned on a half-darkened stage of shadowy characters cursing among
themselves without reason ... [Clark] demolishes the standard view
... The brilliance of Clark's far-reaching history is that we are
able to discern how the past was genuinely prologue ... In
conception, steely scholarship and piercing insights, his book is a
masterpiece' Harold Evans, New York Times Book Review 'Impeccably
researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written ... a model
of scholarship' Sunday Times Books of the Year 'Superb ...
effectively consigns the old historical consensus to the bin ...
It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that
reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world
history' Mail Online 'A monumental new volume ... Revelatory, even
revolutionary ... Clark has done a masterful job explaining the
inexplicable' Boston Globe 'Superb ... One of the great mysteries
of history is how Europe's great powers could have stumbled into
World War I ... This is the single best book I have read on this
important topic' Fareed Zakaria 'A meticulously researched,
superbly organized, and handsomely written account Military History
Clark is a masterly historian ... His account vividly reconstructs
key decision points while deftly sketching the context driving them
... A magisterial work' Wall Street Journal 'This compelling
examination of the causes of World War I deserves to become the new
standard one-volume account of that contentious subject' Foreign
Affairs 'A brilliant contribution' Times Higher Education 'Clark is
fully alive to the challenges of the subject ... He provides vivid
portraits of leading figures ... [He] also gives a rich sense of
what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up
to the war' Irish Times 'In recent decades, many analysts had
tended to put most blame for the disaster [of the First World War]
on Germany. Clark strongly renews an older interpretation which
sees the statesmen of many countries as blundering blindly together
into war' Stephen Howe, Independent Books of the Year About the
author: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the
University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He
is the author of The Politics of Conversion, Kaiser Wilhelm II and
Iron Kingdom. Widely praised around the world, Iron Kingdom became
a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Winner of the Wolfson History Prize, Christopher Clark's Iron
Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 is a compelling
account of a country that played a pivotal role in Europe's
fortunes and fundamentally shaped our world. Prussia began as a
medieval backwater, but transformed itself into a major European
power and the force behind the creation of the German empire, until
it was finally abolished by the Allies after the Second World War.
With great flair and authority, Christopher Clark describes
Prussia's great battles, dynastic marriages and astonishing
reversals of fortune, its brilliant and charismatic leaders from
the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg to Bismarck and Frederick the
Great, the military machine and the progressive, enlightened values
on which it was built. 'Fascinating ... masterly ... littered with
intriguing detail and wry observation' Richard Overy, Daily
Telegraph 'A terrific book ... the definitive history of this
much-maligned state' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 'You
couldn't have the triumph and the tragedy of Prussia better told'
Observer 'A magisterial history of Europe's only extinct power'
Financial Times 'Exemplary ... an illuminating, profoundly
satisfying work of history' The New York Times Christopher Clark is
a lecturer in Modern European History at St Catharine's College,
University of Cambridge. He is also the author of Kaiser Wilhelm
II: A Life in Power.
North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s,
marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the
restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty
regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This
crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North
America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking North
American Sovereignty brings together distinguished experts on the
histories of Canada, indigenous peoples, Mexico, and the United
States to re-evaluate this era of political transformation in light
of the global turn in nineteenth-century historiography. They
uncover the continental dimensions of the 1860s crisis that have
been obscured by historical traditions that confine these conflicts
within its national framework.
"Whoever reads these essays—and whether they follow the book from
cover to cover, or dip into chapters at random—will find the rich
abundance and variety of early American scholarship set out before
them. Readers new to the field will grasp a sense of its
expansiveness and possibilities, but seasoned scholars, too, will
find here a feast of insights and possibilities that will engage,
provoke, and inspire them."—from the Foreword, by Christopher
Clark How is American history written? In a penetrating series of
review essays, prize-winning author Alan Taylor provides his own
answer to this question. In the pages of The New Republic, he has
regularly scrutinized the writing of the most interesting
historians of early American history. Together these reviews
provide the general reader a rich and rewarding introduction to
their subjects. The books reviewed span an enormous range of
scholarship, from popular biographies of Founding Fathers, to
investigations of murders of prostitutes to discussions of frontier
technology. Grouped thematically, the essays reveal a historian
with an unrivaled breadth of knowledge and an admirable passion for
his subject, and one who has contributed a continent-wide
perspective to colonial history. As readers steep themselves in
world-class scholarship, they also discover a writer who takes very
seriously his role as reader.
In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia--a centuries-old state
pivotal to Europe's development--ceased to exist. In their
eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth,
the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German
militarism, had to be abolished.
But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history,
Prussia's legacy is far more complex. Though now a fading memory in
Europe's heartland, the true story of Prussia offers a remarkable
glimpse into the dynamic rise of modern Europe.
What we find is a kingdom that existed nearly half a millennium
ago as a patchwork of territorial fragments, with neither
significant resources nor a coherent culture. With its capital in
Berlin, Prussia grew from being a small, poor, disregarded medieval
state into one of the most vigorous and powerful nations in Europe.
"Iron Kingdom" traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's
foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the
devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political
machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the
enlightenment of Frederick the Great to the destructive conquests
of Napoleon, and from the "iron and blood" policies of Bismarck to
the creation of the German Empire in 1871, and all that implied for
the tumultuous twentieth century.
By 1947, Prussia was deemed an intolerable threat to the safety
of Europe; what is often forgotten, Clark argues, is that it had
also been an exemplar of the European humanistic tradition,
boasting a formidable government administration, an incorruptible
civil service, and religious tolerance. Clark demonstrates how a
state deemed the bane of twentieth-century Europe has played an
incalculable role in Western civilization's fortunes. "Iron
Kingdom" is a definitive, gripping account of Prussia's
fascinating, influential, and critical role in modern times.
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