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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2023

        Civil war London

        Mobilizing for parliament, 1641–5

        by Jordan S. Downs

        This book looks at London's provision of financial and military support for parliament's war against King Charles I. It explores for the first time a series of episodic, circumstantial and unique mobilisations that spanned from late 1641 to early 1645 and which ultimately led to the establishment of the New Model Army. Based on research from two-dozen archives, Civil war London charts the successes and failures of efforts to move London's vast resources and in the process poses a number of challenges to longstanding notions about the capital's 'parliamentarian' makeup. It reveals interactions between London's Corporation, parochial communities and livery companies, between preachers and parishioners and between agitators, propagandists and common people. Within these tangled webs of political engagement reside the untold stories of the movement of money and men, but also of parliament's eventual success in the English Civil War.

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        Medicine
        February 2025

        Implementing a global health programme

        Smallpox and Nepal

        by Susan Heydon

        Worldwide eradication of the devastating viral disease of smallpox was devised as a distant global policy, but success depended on implementing a global vaccination programme within nation states. How this was achieved remains relevant and topical for responding to today's global communicable disease challenges. The small and poor Himalayan kingdom of Nepal faced enormous geographical and infrastructure challenges if it was going to succeed in a nationwide vaccination programme. This book acknowledges the key role of the WHO but disrupts the top-down, centre-led standard narrative. Against a background of widespread internal political and social change, Nepal's programme was expanded, effectively decentralised and a vaccination strategy introduced that aligned with people's beliefs. Few foreign personnel were involved.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2010

        Martial races

        The military, race and masculinity in British imperial culture, 1857–1914

        by Heather Streets, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

        This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies - a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire. Martial races bridges regional studies of South Asia and Britain while straddling the fields of racial theory, masculinity, imperialism, identity politics, and military studies. It challenges the marginalisation of the British Army in histories of Victorian popular culture, and demonstrates the army's enduring impact on the regional cultures of the Highlands, the Punjab and Nepal. This unique study will make fascinating reading for higher level students and experts in imperial history, military history and gender history. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Martial races

        The military, race and masculinity in British imperial culture, 1857–1914

        by Heather Streets

        This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became identified as the British Empire's fiercest, most manly soldiers in nineteenth century discourse. As 'martial races' these men were believed to possess a biological or cultural disposition to the racial and masculine qualities necessary for the arts of war. Because of this, they were used as icons to promote recruitment in British and Indian armies - a phenomenon with important social and political effects in India, in Britain, and in the armies of the Empire. Martial Races bridges regional studies of South Asia and Britain while straddling the fields of racial theory, masculinity, imperialism, identity politics, and military studies. Of particular importance is the way it exposes the historical instability of racial categories based on colour and its insistence that historically specific ideologies of masculinity helped form the logic of imperial defence, thus wedding gender theory with military studies in unique ways. Moreover, Martial Races challenges the marginalisation of the British Army in histories of Victorian popular culture, and demonstrates the army's enduring impact on the regional cultures of the Highlands, the Punjab and Nepal. This unique study will make fascinating reading for higher level students and experts in imperial history, military history and gender history.

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        October 2021

        Hoch oben

        Eine Reise durch den Himalaya

        by Erika Fatland, Erika Fatland, Ulrich Sonnenberg

        Die preisgekrönte Bestsellerautorin Erika Fatland zieht es nach ihren Reisen durch das wilde Sowjetistan und entlang der russischen Grenze nun in das höchste Gebirge der Welt. Für Hoch oben reiste sie durch den gesamten Himalaya - durch Pakistan, Nepal, Indien, Tibet und Bhutan. Hier begegnet sie Menschen, die ihr Leben in schwindelnder Höhe unter den widrigsten klimatischen Bedingungen bestreiten. Wie diese Menschen damit umgehen und was sie dort hält, erzählt Erika Fatland in diesem aufregenden und kenntnisreichen Reisebericht. Erika Fatland nimmt uns mit auf eine im wahrsten Sinne atemberaubende Reise in eine der ethnisch vielfältigsten und politisch konfliktreichsten Regionen der Welt. Islam, Buddhismus und Hinduismus treffen auf uralte schamanische Traditionen. Supermächte konkurrieren um Einfluss. Moderne kollidiert mit Tradition und einer überzeitlichen gewaltigen Landschaft. Ein Jahr lang reiste Erika Fatland durch den Himalaya. Nicht auf der Suche nach spiritueller Erleuchtung wie so viele meist männliche Autoren, die von ihren beschwerlichen Bergtouren und Meditationserlebnissen berichten. Vielmehr interessieren Fatland die Menschen, mit denen sie auf Tuchfühlung geht. Sie will wissen, wie sie unter diesen Bedingungen Tag für Tag überstehen. Insbesondere in das Leben der Frauen erhält sie Einblicke, wie es, zumal in den sehr traditionellen Gesellschaften, für einen Mann niemals möglich wäre. Nicht umsonst endet ihre Reise mit einem Besuch beim Volk der Mosuo, dem »Königreich der Frauen«.

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        January 2023

        Hoch oben

        Eine Reise durch den Himalaya

        by Erika Fatland, Ulrich Sonnenberg

        Die preisgekrönte Bestsellerautorin Erika Fatland zieht es nach ihren Reisen durch das wilde Sowjetistan und entlang der russischen Grenze nun in das höchste Gebirge der Welt. Für Hoch oben reiste sie durch den gesamten Himalaya – durch Pakistan, Nepal, Indien, Tibet und Bhutan. Hier begegnet sie Menschen, die ihr Leben in schwindelnder Höhe unter den widrigsten klimatischen Bedingungen bestreiten. Wie diese Menschen damit umgehen und was sie dort hält, erzählt Erika Fatland in diesem aufregenden und kenntnisreichen Reisebericht. Erika Fatland nimmt uns mit auf eine im wahrsten Sinne atemberaubende Reise in eine der ethnisch vielfältigsten und politisch konfliktreichsten Regionen der Welt. Islam, Buddhismus und Hinduismus treffen auf uralte schamanische Traditionen. Supermächte konkurrieren um Einfluss. Moderne kollidiert mit Tradition und einer überzeitlichen gewaltigen Landschaft. Ein Jahr lang reiste Erika Fatland durch den Himalaya. Nicht auf der Suche nach spiritueller Erleuchtung wie so viele meist männliche Autoren, die von ihren beschwerlichen Bergtouren und Meditationserlebnissen berichten. Vielmehr interessieren Fatland die Menschen, mit denen sie auf Tuchfühlung geht. Sie will wissen, wie sie unter diesen Bedingungen Tag für Tag überstehen. Insbesondere in das Leben der Frauen erhält sie Einblicke, wie es, zumal in den sehr traditionellen Gesellschaften, für einen Mann niemals möglich wäre. Nicht umsonst endet ihre Reise mit einem Besuch beim Volk der Mosuo, dem »Königreich der Frauen«.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2021

        Civil war London

        by Jordan S. Downs, Jason Peacey

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Britain in China

        by Robert Bickers

        This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.

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        January 2015

        Die verlorenen Kinder von Kathmandu

        Wie ich Nepals Familien wieder zusammenbrachte

        by Grennan, Conor / Übersetzt von Neubauer, Dr. Jürgen

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2024

        Land and labour

        The Potters’ Emigration Society, 1844-51

        by Martin Crawford

        Land and labour provides the first full-length history of the Potters' Emigration Society, the controversial trade union scheme designed to solve the problems of surplus labour by changing workers into farmers on land acquired in frontier Wisconsin. The book is based on intensive research into British and American newspapers, passenger lists, census, manuscript, and genealogical sources. After tracing the scheme's industrial origins and founding in the Potteries, it examines the migration and settlement process, expansion to other trades and areas, and finally the circumstances that led to its demise in 1851. Despite the Society's failure, the history offers unique insight into working-class dreams of landed independence in the American West and into the complex and contingent character of nineteenth-century emigration.

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        March 2020

        Im Alten Land

        by Birgit Haustedt

        Apfelbäume, so weit das Auge reicht, idyllische Fachwerkdörfer hinter dem Deich und am Horizont die Elbe: Das Alte Land ist eine uralte Kulturlandschaft am Wasser, die ihren eigenen Charakter bewahrt hat. Prächtige Bauernhöfe und Backsteinkirchen mit kostbaren Barockorgeln zeugen noch heute vom frühen Wohlstand der Altländer. Birgit Haustedt erzählt von den Anfängen im Mittelalter, von Deichbau und Sturmfluten, vom Alltag der kleinen Leute und von großer Handwerkskunst, von stolzen Bauern und mutigen Schiffern. Dazu ein Exkurs, welche Rolle das Alte Land in Lessings Leben und Goethes Faust spielte.

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        March 2006

        London

        Bilder einer großen Stadt

        by Virginia Woolf, Kyra Stromberg, Kyra Stromberg

        Als zusammenhängende Folge für eine große Londoner Frauenzeitschrift 1931 entstanden, beschreiben diese Prosabilder aus London genau jene Orte, die ein großes Publikum in einer klassischen Schilderung der englischen Hauptstadt erwarten durfte. Es ist das Portrait einer Metropole, die ihrer großen Vergangenheit nachsinnt und die Gegenwart noch nicht recht fassen kann, die längst von ihr Besitz ergriffen hat.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        Spain in the nineteenth century

        New essays on experiences of culture and society

        by Andrew Ginger, Geraldine Lawless

        The nineteenth-century Hispanic world was shattered to its core by war, civil war, and revolution. At the same time, it confronted a new period of European and North-American expansion and development. In these essays, authors explore major, dynamic ways that people in Spain envisaged how they would adapt and change, or simply continue as they were. Each chapter title begins with the words "How to...", and examines the ways in which Spaniards conceived or undertook major activities that shaped their lives. These range from telling the time to being a man. Adaptability, paradox, and inconsistency come to the fore in many of the essays. We find before us a human quest for opportunity and survival in a complex and changing world. This wide-ranging book contains chapters by leading scholars from the United States, United Kingdom, and Spain.

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        May 1995

        Ein Sommer in London

        by Theodor Fontane, Harald Raykowski

        Theodor Fontane wurde am 30.Dezember 1819 in Neuruppin geboren. Nach der Apothekerlehre publizierte er ab 1839 erste Novellen und Gedichte. Nach einem längeren Auslandsaufenthalt in London lebte Fontane ab 1849 als freier Schriftsteller in Berlin und arbeitete u.a. als Theaterrezensent für die Vossische Zeitung. Er starb am 20. September 1898 in Berlin.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2024

        Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United States

        Power, identity and strategy in the Persian Gulf triangle

        by Luíza Cerioli

        This book offers a nuanced snapshot of the complex geopolitical dynamics in the Persian Gulf, underlining the interaction between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the US. Examining their interwoven relations since the 1970s, Luíza Cerioli's framework reveals how changes in US-Saudi ties have ripple effects on Iran-US and Iran-Saudi relations and vice versa. Using a historical lens, she explores how enduring US-Saudi connections hinge on order expectations, delves into the cognitive factors shaping US-Iran enmity and traces the source of oscillation in the Saudi-Iran ties. Employing Neoclassical Realism, the book investigates status-seeking, national identities and leadership preferences, offering a deeper understanding of the region's multipolar system. By combining International Relations and Middle East Studies, Cerioli's work contributes to both fields, unravelling the intricate interplay between international structures, regional nuances and agency in shaping Persian Gulf geopolitics.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2023

        The break-up of Greater Britain

        by Stuart Ward, Christian Pedersen

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