How Taiwan became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century /
In this book, Tonio Andrade tells the story of a wild and uncultivated island originally inhabited by aboriginal hunters and traders.
Imagining Armenia: Orientalism, Ambiguity and Intervention / Joanne Laycock
I first came into contact with Jo Laycock's Imagining Armenia when I received the Manchester University Press catalogue and found it listed on the page after my book.
Apollinaire: une biographie de guerre 1914-1918-2009 / Annette Becker
Annette Becker's new book, Apollinaire: Une biographie de guerre dissects how Guillaume Apollinaire negotiated a war made up of 'cultures … privées et publique, intimes et proclamées' [cultures … private and public, intimate and official] (p. 13).
Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850 / Holger Hoock
In this book Holger Hoock outlines the material and psychological investment of culture in the process of British identity-formation from the mid 18th to the mid 19th century. Studying the context of national consciousness Hoock draws on forms of aesthetics, war, literature and biography.
Masculinity, Shell Shock, and Emotional Survival in the First World War / Tracey Loughran
Introduction: trauma, modernity, and the First World War
Men of Color to Arms! Black Soldiers, Indian Wars and the Quest for Equality / Elizabeth Leonard
In the late 1980s, a promising young African-American actor named Denzel Washington was asked to take a leading role in the movie, Glory. Directed by Edward Zwick, a white liberal, Glory told the story of a relatively minor action in the American Civil War.
The Crusades and the Near East: Cultural Histories / ed. Conor Kostick
As the editor notes in his introduction to this collection, the events of 2001 and after have created intense interest in the Crusades and the conflict between Christianity and Islam and the West in the Middle Ages. A wealth of publications has appeared from popular histories to detailed articles in academic journals.
Children's Exodus: A History of the Kindertransport / Vera Fast
A landmark moment in Holocaust history and memory occurred in 1989 when about 1,000 Kindertransport survivors attended their 50-year reunion in London. The event commemorated the transport of 10,000 children from Central Europe to safety in Britain. Launched on November 9, 1938, the transport continued for a year until the Nazis ended it when war was declared in September 1939.
Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960 / Tony Mason, Eliza Riedi
In Handley Cross, an early Victorian sporting novel, Mr.
Memory of War in France, 1914-45: César Fauxbras, the Voice of the Lowly / Matthew Perry
This book is written with a clear purpose: to unsettle assumptions conditioned by the power of institutions such as states and armies to frame the first draft of history. Matt Perry has taken the decision to put before readers the subaltern voice of a French socialist activist.
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