Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 1

Herausgeber: Kumarasingham, Harshan; Smith, Kate

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Produktbeschreibung

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of articles based on papers given to the Society by distinguished invited speakers and winners of RHS prizes. Volume 1 of the Seventh Series includes articles on religion during the Crusades; the Spanish monarchy; historical methodology and practice; celebrity culture; English socio-economic history; geographical thought in Britain; political representation during the period of the English, French and American Revolutions; the British Empire; Augustine's letters; heritage and public monuments; the medieval papacy; sport in colonial India; and academic freedom in Aotearoa New Zealand. The volume also includes reviews of Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain, with a reply from the author.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781009480536
• ISBN-10: 1009480537
• Artikelnr.: 70070433

Inhaltsangabe

1. Welcome from the Editors Harshan Kumarasingham and Kate Smith; 2. Monks
and the Muslim Enemy: Conversion, Polemic and Resistance in Monastic
Hagiography in the Age of the Crusades, c. 1000-1250 Andrew Jotischky; 3.
The 'Dying' Bourbon Dynasty: The Diplomatic Role of the Spanish Monarchy in
the Long Nineteenth Century David San Narciso; 4. The Historical Lecture:
Past, Present and Future Toby Green; 5. The Gaiety Girl and the Matinee
Idol: Constructing Celebrity, Glamour and Sexuality in the West End of
London, 1890-1914 Rohan McWilliam; 6. Enclosure as Internal Colonisation:
The Subaltern Commoner, Terra Nullius and the Settling of England's
'Wastes' Carl J. Griffin; 7. The Idea of Asia in British Geographical
Thought, 1652-1832 Paul Stock; 8. Work and Identity in Early Modern England
Mark Hailwood and Brodie Waddell; 9. Equality, Proportionality and
Statistics: Political Representation from the English to the French and
American Revolutions Lars Behrisch; 10. The Incoherence of Empire. Or, the
Pitfalls of Ignoring Sovereignty in the History of the British Empire Jon
Wilson and Andrew Dilley; 11. Gendered Violence, Victim Credibility and
Adjudicating Justice in Augustine's Letters Victoria Leonard; 12. Archival
Intimacies: Empathy and Historical Practice in 2023 Sarah Fox; 13. Statues,
Spatial Syntax and Surrealism: 'History' and Heritagescapes in Public Space
Pippa Catterall; 14. Creeping up on the Roman Provincial Ben Wiedemann; 15.
The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India Subhadipa
Dutta; 16. The Limits of the History of Western Sport in Colonial India -
ERRATUM Subhadipa Dutta; 17. Decolonising Universities? Myth-Histories of
the Nation and Challenges to Academic Freedom in Aotearoa New Zealand
Miranda Johnson; 18. Stuart Ward's Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the
End of Britain Saima Nasar; 19. Toward the Final Curtain: Glimpses of an
End Foretold Brendan O'Leary; 20. Celtic Nationalisms and the Global
Break-up of Britain Ben Jackson; 21. Unravelling Britishness Wendy Webster;
22. Paradox Postponed Erin F. Delaney; 23. Untidy Kingdom: A Reply by the
Author Stuart Ward.