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Shanghai Century Publishing Group

Founded in 1999, Shanghai Century Publishing (Group) Co., Ltd. was the first publishing group in China as well as one of the first pilot units for the reform of the national cultural system. The Group is a comprehensive large-scale publishing media group integrating publication of books and journals, digital publishing, copyright trade, import and export of books, printing, art business, and so on. The Group has been taking a statewide leading position in national key publishing projects, becoming one of the enterprises generating most influential publishing culture and providing most influential content in China.
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华东师范大学出版社 East China Normal University Press

East China Normal University Press Ltd. (ECNUP), established in 1957, is one of the two oldest publishers in China specializing in education publicationsas well as the top-ranking publisher in education. ECNUP is the top publishing house in Shanghai, and ranks among China's top 100 presses.
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The Arts

March 2017

Images of the army

The military in British art, 1815-1914

by J. W. M. Hichberger

In an age when engraving and photography were making artistic images available to a much wider public, artists were able to influence public attitudes more powerfully than ever before. This book examines works of art on military themes in relation to ruling-class ideologies about the army, war and the empire. The first part of the book is devoted to a chronological survey of battle painting, integrated with a study of contemporary military and political history. The chapters link the debate over the status and importance of battle painting to contemporary debates over the role of the army and its function at home and abroad. The second part discusses the intersection of ideologies about the army and military art, but is concerned with an examination of genre representations of soldiers. Another important theme which runs through the book is the relation of English to French military art. During the first eighty years of the period under review France was the cynosure of military artists, the school against which British critics measured their own, and the place from which innovations were imported and modified. In every generation after Waterloo battle painters visited France and often trained there. The book shows that military art, or the 'absence' of it, was one of the ways in which nationalist commentators articulated Britain's moral superiority. The final theme which underlies much of the book is the shifts which took place in the perception of heroes and hero-worship.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2025

England’s military heartland

Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain

by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree

A considered investigation of a long-standing army base's impact on the British countryside. What is it like to live next door to a British Army base? Beyond the barracks provides an eye-opening account of the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, drawing on a wide range of voices from both sides of the divide. Targeted for expansion under government plans to reorganise the UK's global defence estate, the Salisbury 'super garrison' offers a unique opportunity to explore the impact of the military footprint in a particular place. But this is no ordinary environment: as well as being the world-famous site of Stonehenge, the grasslands of Salisbury Plain are home to rare plants and wildlife. How does the army take responsibility for conserving this unique landscape as it trains young men and women to use lethal weapons? Are its claims that its presence is a positive for the environment anything more than propaganda? Beyond the barracks investigates these questions against the backdrop of a historic landscape inscribed with the legacy of perpetual war.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2022

The pastor in print

Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England

by Amy G. Tan

The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2010

On the far Western front

Britain's First World War in South America

by Phillip A. Dehne

This book uncovers a forgotten campaign of the First World War, the fight to dominate South America. Propelled by the fear of British businessmen, Britain created a complex economic war against local Germans, with the aim of permanently overturning German dominance in lucrative avenues of international trade. By utilizing archives in Britain and South America, Dehne produces a lively account of the way the campaign was conducted on both sides of the Atlantic. This book will persuade anyone interested in the First World War that the conflict must be examined beyond the battlefields of Europe. It comprises a significant contribution to the new field of the history of globalization, and it will appeal to anyone interested in the economic, diplomatic, and imperial history of the twentieth century. Suggesting new reasons for the emergence of anti-foreign populism in South American states, it will also be of interest to Latin American history students. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2020

Defense policies of East-Central European countries after 1989

by James W. Peterson, Jacek Lubecki

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2024

Russian strategy in the Middle East and North Africa

by Derek Averre

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2020

Defense of the West

by Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2014

East German intelligence and Ireland, 1949–90

Espionage, terrorism and diplomacy

by Jerome de Wiel

This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long and tortuous process of establishing diplomatic relations is unique in the annals of diplomatic history. Central in this study are the activities of the Stasi. They show how and where East German intelligence obtained information on Ireland and Northern Ireland and also what kind of information was gathered. A particularly interesting aspect of the book is the monitoring of the activities of the Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army and their campaigns against the British army in West Germany. The Stasi had infiltrated West German security services and knew about Irish suspects and their contacts with West German terrorist groups. East German Intelligence and Ireland, 1949-90 makes an original contribution to diplomatic, intelligence, terrorist and Cold War studies. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

February 2017

East German intelligence and Ireland, 1949–90

Espionage, terrorism and diplomacy

by Jérôme de Wiel

This book is an in-depth examination of the relations between Ireland and the former East Germany between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall. It explores political, diplomatic, economic, media and cultural issues. The long and tortuous process of establishing diplomatic relations is unique in the annals of diplomatic history. Central in this study are the activities of the Stasi. They show how and where East German intelligence obtained information on Ireland and Northern Ireland and also what kind of information was gathered. A particularly interesting aspect of the book is the monitoring of the activities of the Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army and their campaigns against the British army in West Germany. The Stasi had infiltrated West German security services and knew about Irish suspects and their contacts with West German terrorist groups. East German Intelligence and Ireland, 1949-90 makes an original contribution to diplomatic, intelligence, terrorist and Cold War studies.

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Medicine

February 2022

Shell-shocked British Army veterans in Ireland, 1918-39

by Michael Robinson, Walton Schalick

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2024

Migration diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa

by Gerasimos Tsourapas

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The Arts

February 2022

"I am Jugoslovenka!"

Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

"I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

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The Arts

May 2016

Richard Attenborough

by Sally Dux, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2021

The future of U.S.–India security cooperation

by Šumit Ganguly, M. Chris Mason

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2016

The regeneration of east Manchester

by Georgina Blakeley, Brendan Evans

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2020

A global history of early modern violence

by Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson

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Fiction

September 2017

A Vision of Battlements

by Anthony Burgess

by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2024

Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas

by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos

Exile, its pain and possibility, is the starting point of this book. Women's experience of exile was often different from that of men, yet it has not received the important attention it deserves. Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas addresses that lacuna through a wide-ranging geographical, chronological, social and cultural approach. Whether powerful, well-to-do or impoverished, exiled by force or choice, every woman faced the question of how to reconstruct her life in a new place. These essays focus on women's agency despite the pressures created by political, economic and social dislocation. Collectively, they demonstrate how these women from different countries, continents and status groups not only survived but also in many cases thrived. This analysis of early modern women's experiences not only provides a new vantage point from which to enrich the study of exile but also contributes important new scholarship to the history of women.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2024

Coup in Damascus

Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule

by Carl Rihan

Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

April 2023

Encountering early America

by Rachel Winchcombe

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The military in British art, 1815-1914

by J. W. M. Hichberger

Preparing for war on Salisbury Plain

by Vron Ware, Antonia Dawes, Mitra Pariyar, Alice Cree

Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England

by Amy G. Tan

Britain's First World War in South America

by Phillip A. Dehne

by James W. Peterson, Jacek Lubecki

by Derek Averre

by Stanley R. Sloan, Lawrence Freedman

Espionage, terrorism and diplomacy

by Jerome de Wiel

Espionage, terrorism and diplomacy

by Jérôme de Wiel

by Michael Robinson, Walton Schalick

by Gerasimos Tsourapas

Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

by Sally Dux, Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard

by Šumit Ganguly, M. Chris Mason

by Georgina Blakeley, Brendan Evans

by Erica Charters, Marie Houllemare, Peter H. Wilson

by Anthony Burgess

by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake

by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos

Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule

by Carl Rihan

by Rachel Winchcombe

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