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John Knox Laughton created modern naval history to harmonise the adacemic standards of the new English historical profession with the strategic and doctrinal needs of the contemporary Royal Navy. His correspondents included major figures in both the historical and the naval professions: Alfred T. Mahan, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Julian Corbett, Cyprian Bridge and many others. This volume will be of particular interest to those interested in the development of naval history and naval theory.

Accumulated over many years,'Granny', the enigmatic collector behind this book, presents a selection of quirky post-war goods, advertising and kitchen items.In Granny's Kitchen Cupboard you'll find a remarkable array of British twentieth-century ephemera. From children's toys, boil dressings and chocolate wrappers to butane fuel and TCP, this selection is an incredible collection of innovative advertising designs, odd curios that have long since been replaced by modern technologies, and recognisable old brands. After the end of austerity in Britain in the early 1950s, consumerism boomed and these objects portray the societal change that followed.Beautifully arranged throughout, the contents of this book reflect aspects of a long life, most of it lived in a single house in the Home Counties. Nothing was thrown away – everything was recycled and reused in a way that says something about their time, in particular the thrifty mindset instilled by rationing in World War Two.The collection features old household brands that have evolved into various iterations into the present day, such as Harrods, Johnson's, Vaseline, Vicks, Elastoplast, the AA, Strepsils, W H Smith, Boots, Hoover, Happy Shopper and Lego. But this collection also features some odd items that may evoke nostalgia or even amusement, including fascinating catalogues, vintage pastille tins, an apothecary of unusual medicines, odd household cleaners not to mention rifle cartridges. The book also includes text that divulges the history and use of each object.

Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the man who first devised it, how many know anything more about him? Yet Peter Mark Roget was one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century and he achieved much in his long life. He did not even begin the great work of classification which bears his name until he was 70. Before that, the polymathic Roget had already made his own contributions to knowledge in a dozen different fields from optics and anatomy to mathematics and education. He would probably have been surprised that his posthumous reputation rests on his thesaurus. No doubt he would have expected that it would be his involvement in the foundation of the University of London that would be his lasting legacy. Or his books on magnetism, galvanism and physiology. Or his scientific papers on persistence of vision, with their later impact on the development of motion pictures. Or his association with major thinkers such as the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and the philosopher Jeremy Bentham. The range of his interests was astonishing and, for sixty years, he was at the centre of the intellectual revolution of his times. Nick Rennison's biography reveals the full story of Roget's involvement with the great issues and the great personalities of the nineteenth century and recounts the forgotten life behind one of the most famous of all reference books.

Les autrices et auteurs analysent le rôle des médias dans les guerres et proposent des formes de médias qui promeuvent la paix. Les contributions sont les transcriptions des interventions du colloque « Quels médias pour la paix? », organisé les 15 et 16 octobre 2022 à Soleure par l'Institut international de recherches pour la paix à Genève (GIPRI), l'Association Suisse-Cuba et ALBA Suiza, avec le soutien du Mouvement suisse pour la paix. Die Autorinnen und Autoren analysieren die Rolle der Medien im Krieg und stellen Formen von Medien vor, die dem Frieden dienen. Die Beiträge sind Verschriftlichungen der Vorträge der Konferenz «Welche Medien für den Frieden?», die am 15. und 16. Oktober 2022 in Solothurn vom Internationalen Friedensforschungsinstitut in Genf (GIPRI), der Vereinigung Schweiz-Cuba und ALBA Suiza mit der Unterstützung der Schweizerischen Friedensbewegung organisiert wurde.

Au sommaire de ce numéro : Al-Wasit : Arabic Literary History and the Invention of Bilad Shinqit ; Naming the City : Saharan Urbanization and Disaggregated Sovereignty ; Saharan Sediment : Nation Formation, Urban Development, and Alter-Imaginaries in the Desert of Mauritania ; Connecting with Unseen Waters : Water Dowsing and the Unlocking of Abundance in the Mauritanian Hodh ; « Le dialogue de la vie». Entretien avec Gabriel Hatti ; Enjeux géopolitiques multiscalaires de la déclaration de Pedro Sánchez (2022) relative au projet marocain d'autonomie du Sahara Occidental ; L'alimentation du jeune enfant en Mauritanie : divergences et négociations autour d'un intérêt commun ; Parcours d'un témoin-clef de l'histoire (maroco-)mauritanienne au XXe siècle.

Au sommaire de ce numéro : Containement, European oil asymmetry, and American Middle East Policy / Connaître ses ennemis plutôt que ses amis / Another Europe, rather than the other Europe? / S'appuyer sur les asymétries de structures pour réduire les asymétries de système, ou la Détente française en Roumanie / La CSCE, instrument de la confrontation et outil du développement des asymétries européennes / Parallelism, Asymmetry and Convergence in Cold War Europe

Au sommaire : Le Parlement européen et la politique de la mémoire / The European Parliament's youth policy, 1952-1979: An attempt to create a collective memory of an integrated Europe / Victimizing Europeans: Narrating Shared History in the European Parliament's House of European History / Competing Regimes of Memory? The European Day of Remembrance in Romania / Acting at the margins – Italian mnemonic activism in the European Parliament / (Un)shared memory: European Parliament and EU. Remembrance Day for Victims of Terrorism

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume Three, concludes this groundbreaking documentation of the history of Rutgers's connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This final of three volumes concludes the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes essays about Black and Puerto Rican students'experiences; the development of the Black Unity League; the Conklin Hall takeover; the divestment movement against South African apartheid; anti-racism struggles during the 1990s; and the Don Imus controversy and the 2007 Scarlet Knights women's basketball team. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu.

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black, Volume 2, continues to document the history of Rutgers's connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. This second of a planned three volumes continues the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. This latest volume includes: an introduction to the period studied (from the end of the Civil War through WWII) by Deborah Gray White; a study of the first black students at Rutgers and New Brunswick Theological Seminary; an analysis of African-American life in the City of New Brunswick during the period; and profiles of the earliest black women to matriculate at Douglass College. To learn more about the work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History, visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu

Balkanski eseji Huberta Butlera promatraju neke ličnosti i događaje iz povijesti Jugoistočne Europe dvadesetog stoljeća iz perspektive na koju ovdašnja javnost nije navikla. Problem uloge Katoličke crkve i kardinala Stepinca u tragičnom vrtlogu Drugoga svjetskog rata uobičajeno se promatra kroz prizmu klerikalno-nacionalističke apologije s jedne i lijeve ili liberalne kritike s druge strane. Hubert Butler tom problemu prilazi sa stajališta kršćanskog morala, koji je dosljedno i živio svojom biografijom i svojim djelom. Butlerova kršćanska moralna dosljednost ogledala se u skrupuloznosti, empatiji, humanizmu, ekumenizmu i, na koncu, u zapanjenosti nad bolnim nerazmjerom između tog istog morala i djelovanja njegovih nominalnih zemaljskih zastupnika.Balkanski eseji ne predstavljaju samo drugačiju vrijednosnu već i drugačiju vremensku perspektivu. Pružaju koristan uvid u način na koji je jedno minulo vrijeme promatralo sebe samog. Historiografska spoznaja time postaje potpunija jer današnje uvide povijesnih proturječja obogaćuje uvidom njihova nepristranog i dobronamjernog suvremenika.

An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an unlucky colour for wedding dresses? In Scotland it was thought you could ward off fairies by hanging your trousers from the foot of the bed, and in Gloucestershire you could cure warts by cutting notches in the bark of an ash tree.You've heard about King Arthur and St George, but how about the Green Man, a vegetative deity who is seen to symbolise death and rebirth? Or Black Shuck, the giant ghostly dog who was reputed to roam East Anglia?In this beautifully illustrated book, Dee Dee Chainey tells tales of mountains and rivers, pixies and fairy folk, and witches and alchemy. She explores how British culture has been shaped by the tales passed between generations, and by the land that we live on.As well as looking at the history of this subject, this book lists the places you can go to see folklore alive and well today. The Whittlesea Straw Bear Festival in Cambridgeshire or the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in Staffordshire for example, or wassailing cider orchards in Somerset.

'Entre la literatura y las ciencias sociales no ha habido nunca una buena relación. La novela fue considerada, en su origen decimonónico, una práctica ociosa no exenta de peligro, propia de mujeres (que eran las más habituales lectoras) y sometida a los controles de la censura eclesiástica. En las listas de libros prohibidos fueron habituales los nombres de Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Clarín… Muy al contrario, las ciencias sociales constituían la literatura más característica y propia del nuevo orden contemporáneo, una propuesta racional que debía articular el progreso y garantizar la prosperidad. Eran dos propuestas contradictorias, una perniciosa y la otra racional, una elaborada por ciudadanos integrados en las Academias del Estado y la otra ejercida por esa caterva de personajes que, con el tiempo, serían llamados escritores. Este libro pretende deconstruir esta contradicción, descubrir su significado oculto y ofrecer una posibilidad de literatura que aúne ambas propuestas (la de las ciencias sociales y la de la novela). Y ello poniendo de manifiesto tanto la relevancia de la teoría de la novela en el campo de las ciencias sociales, como las posibilidades de la novela cuando se contamina e involucra en la propuesta de la ciencia social.'

Este libro colectivo ofrece una visión panorámica y transversal sobre el termalismo y el veraneo en la España de los siglos XIX, XX e inicios del XXI en sus distintas facetas y partiendo de múltiples perspectivas, que abarcan desde la historia económica, social y cultural o la geografía humana hasta la antropología, la historia del arte o los estudios literarios. En los doce capítulos que lo integran -firmados por dieciséis autores procedentes de siete universidades españolas, una inglesa y cuatro instituciones de investigación- se ha priorizado la profundización analítica sobre la mera representatividad territorial. Con ello se pretende aportar, a la par que una necesaria revisión historiográfica o distintos estudios de caso, un elenco de reflexiones y de puntos de vista teóricos y metodológicos que puedan resultar útiles para futuras investigaciones en un área temática -la de los precedentes históricos del turismo y las distintas implicaciones económicas, sociales y culturales de los mismos- que hoy aparece como prometedora en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales y humanas.

Unter den Schriften der Kreuzzugspropaganda des Spätmittelalters stechen zwei Werke besonders hervor: Der'Liber de Fine'des Gelehrten und Philosophen Ramon Lull, verfasst 1305, und die'Epistre lamentable et consolatoire'des Kriegers und Staatsmannes Philippe de Mézières von 1397. Beiden Werken ist gemeinsam, dass sie durch die Schaffung je eines neuen Ritterordens eine Reform des Rittertums erreichen wollen. Das vorliegende Buch analysiert und interpretiert diese beiden Schriften, um die Ideen und Ideologien der beiden Autoren zu erschließen und in deren Geisteswelt einzutauchen.

A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.Right from the very start, when George Stephenson's famous Rocket knocked over and killed a government minister at the opening of the Liverpool to Manchester line in 1830, the world's railways have given rise to plenty of intriguing stories. In this fascinating book, revised and updated with a new selection of tales, railway buff Tom Quinn explores the more bizarre side of train travel, featuring weird weather conditions, audacious robberies, hair-raising accidents, vanishing passengers, an infestation of maggots and a mysterious missing mummy.From the dawn of rail travel, when speeds of 15mph were considered dangerous to health and people mistook engines for fire-breathing demons, through the Victorian heyday of royal trains and seaside specials to today's more prosaic leaves on the line, this whistlestop tour through railways'long and storied history is the perfect gift for armchair travellers, history fans and trainspotters.Word count: 60,000

Zadivljujuća povijest jednoga od najzanimljivijih i najturbulentnijih prostora europske povijesti Knjiga Crno more posveta je jednome moru i njegovim obalama, ali i zadivljujuće čitko razmišljanje o euroazijskoj povijesti od najstarijih vremena do danas. Ono priziva kulturu, povijest i politiku nestabilnog područja oko Crnoga mora. Ascherson pritom oživljava svijet Herodota i Eshila; mjesto Ovidijeva progona na kojem je danas najveća rumunjska luka; dolazak barbarskih Skita i Sarmata; uspon i pad Bizantskoga Carstva; misterioznu energiju kršćanskih Gota; osnutak tatarskih kanata; pojavu Kozaka i rast ruskoga utjecaja te potom stoljeća rata između Osmanskoga i Ruskoga Carstva radi prevlasti nad Crnim morem; kao i teror fašizma i staljinizma te njihovu težnju za prevlasti nad ovim beskrajno uzbudljivim i kompleksnim obalama. Ne bez razloga, Ascherson knjigu o Crnome moru započinje s Krimom, poluotokom koji je stoljećima funkcionirao kao pozornica za događaje koji su bili važni za cijelo područje oko Crnoga mora i njegove narode. Grci su Krim pretvorili u središte svoga trgovačkog carstva. To su učinili i Mlečani i Đenovljani tisuću godina kasnije. U 19. stoljeću tu se vodio Krimski rat, a u 20. stoljeću ovaj poluotok bio je poprište možda najgorih Hitlerovih i Staljinovih strahota. Godine 2014. Krim je bio uzrok spora između Ukrajine i Ruske Federacije, tzv. Krimske krize, koja je de facto završila ruskom aneksijom poluotoka te rezultirala političko-vojnim sukobom između tih dviju velikih zemalja koji još uvijek nije završen. Područje oko Crnoga mora pretvorilo se u opasnu zonu o kojoj će ovisiti budući odnos Rusije i Zapada... Crno more je maestralno napisano djelo, ključno za razumijevanje jednoga od najzanimljivijih i najturbulentnijih prostora europske povijesti, mjesta na kojem završava Europa, mjesta gdje se rodio »barbarizam«.

This book approaches the well-documented study of European mass migration to the United States of America from the viewpoint of mass migration as a business venture. The overall purpose is to demonstrate that maritime and migration histories are interlinked and dependent on a deeper understanding of the social, economic, and political factors at work in the nineteenth century Atlantic community. It centres on both the evolution of the port of Rotterdam as a migration gateway, and the crucial role of the Holland-America line as a regulator of the North American passenger trade. The first part of the book explores the simultaneous rise of transatlantic mass migration and long-distance steamshipping between 1830 to 1870. The second part, divided into five chapters, explores how mass migration became a big business between 1870 and 1914, and scrutinises how steamship companies organised and provided initiatives for transoceanic migration, plus the role of shipping agents and agent-networks, and how passenger services were constructed within transatlantic networks. Over the course of the text it becomes increasingly clear that by approaching mass migration as a trade issue, the role of steamship companies in the facilitation of transatlantic migration is rendered both intrinsic and pivotal. It consists of an introduction containing contextual information, two sections providing historical overviews, five chapters exploring different aspects of the shipping industry's response to mass migration, conclusion, bibliography, and six appendices of passenger, destination, agent, and advertising statistics.

A rollicking collection of stories featuring the craziest, daftest and most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known.Packed with royal stories from 2,000 years of history, from the immortality-obsessed first Emperor of China to the master of tact and diplomacy, Prince Philip, this book will leave the reader fascinated, entertained and occasionally appalled.We'll meet all sorts of colourful royal characters, including the Roman Emperor Caligula, who was unspeakably cruel to his subjects but worshipped his horse, Charles VI of France, convinced he was made of glass, and Frederick William I of Prussia, who recruited – and sometimes kidnapped – the tallest men in Europe to form his private army. There are tales of scandal, including secret marriages, illegitimate offspring, royal pickpockets and alleged vampirism, and madness, cross-dressing and pigeon-fancying also crop up!Fully updated with a selection of new stories, this absorbing book is the perfect gift for history fans.

Después de cuarenta años de la concesión del último Nobel a un poeta español, Vicente Aleixandre, es preciso volver la vista sobre la obra de uno de los autores más significados de la Generación del 27, desgraciadamente postergado tanto en las reediciones de sus obras como en el panorama de la crítica teórica. Con motivo de la concesión del máximo galardón literario al poeta andaluz, el jurado del Nobel expresó las razones por las que fue otorgado:'Por una creativa escritura poética que ilumina la condición del hombre en el cosmos y en la sociedad actual, al mismo tiempo que representa la gran renovación de las tradiciones de la poesía española entre guerras'. Los profesores de la universidad y críticos literarios reunidos en este libro abordan nuevas perspectivas en la obra de Aleixandre, desde la construcción del mito paradisíaco, la coherencia de su mundo, el compromiso literario, el panteísmo gongoristas, la semántica e ideología de la forma en algunos de sus textos, su magisterio, la dinámica poesía/comunicación y poesía/conocimiento... Todo un conjunto de miradas poliédricas y plurales que nos traen a la actualidad a una figura mayor de la poesía española cuya magisterio fue indiscutible durante medio siglo.

One of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, Lancelot ‘Capability'Brown was known to many as ‘The Omnipotent Magician'who could transform unpromising countryside into beautiful parks that seemed to be only the work of nature. His list of clients included half the House of Lords, six Prime Ministers and even royalty. Although his fame has dimmed, we still enjoy many of his works today at National Trust properties such as Croome Park, Petworth, Berrington, Stowe, Wimpole, Blenheim Palace, Highclere Castle (location of the ITV series Downton Abbey) and many more.In Capability Brown, author and garden historian Sarah Rutherford tells his triumphant story, uncovers his aims and reveals why he was so successful. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs of contemporary sites, historical paintings and garden plans, this is an accessible book for anyone who wants to know more about the man who changed the face of the nation and created a landscape style which for many of us defines the English countryside.

'France-Alumium-Québec'(Fralubec) est un projet porté à la fois par l'agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) française et par le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche Scientifique et Culturelle (FQRSC). Par l'histoire comparée d'Alcan et de Pechiney, il a permis une meilleure connaissance des deux firmes et d'expliquer la genèse de leur fusion en 2003 ainsi que les relations nouées entre les multinationales et les vallées de l'aluminium. Une campagne d'interviews permet par ailleurs de mieux comprendre la spécificité des modes de gestion des ressources humaines dans les deux entreprises.

The 250th anniversary of the founding of Rutgers University is a perfect moment for the Rutgers community to reconcile its past, and acknowledge its role in the enslavement and debasement of African Americans and the disfranchisement and elimination of Native American people and culture. Scarlet and Black documents the history of Rutgers's connection to slavery, which was neither casual nor accidental—nor unusual. Like most early American colleges, Rutgers depended on slaves to build its campuses and serve its students and faculty; it depended on the sale of black people to fund its very existence. Men like John Henry Livingston, (Rutgers president from 1810–1824), the Reverend Philip Milledoler, (president of Rutgers from 1824–1840), Henry Rutgers, (trustee after whom the college is named), and Theodore Frelinghuysen, (Rutgers's seventh president), were among the most ardent anti-abolitionists in the mid-Atlantic. Scarlet and black are the colors Rutgers University uses to represent itself to the nation and world. They are the colors the athletes compete in, the graduates and administrators wear on celebratory occasions, and the colors that distinguish Rutgers from every other university in the United States. This book, however, uses these colors to signify something else: the blood that was spilled on the banks of the Raritan River by those dispossessed of their land and the bodies that labored unpaid and in bondage so that Rutgers could be built and sustained. The contributors to this volume offer this history as a usable one—not to tear down or weaken this very renowned, robust, and growing institution—but to strengthen it and help direct its course for the future. The work of the Committee on Enslaved and Disenfranchised Population in Rutgers History. Visit the project's website at http://scarletandblack.rutgers.edu

A rollicking collection of barely believable stories from five centuries of legal history – you'll be gripped by these tales of murder, intrigue, crime, punishment and the pursuit of justice. Meet the only dead parrot ever to give evidence in a court of law, the doctor with the worst bedside manner of all time, the murderess who collected money from her mummified victim for 21 years, and explore one of the most indigestible dilemmas – if you'd been shipwrecked 2,000 miles from home, would you have eaten Parker the cabin boy? The tales within these pages are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious and, most importantly, true.Revised, redesigned and updated for a new generation of legal eagles, this book is the perfect gift for lawyers, armchair detectives and true crime afficionados everywhere.

La société contemporaine, tout orientée qu'elle soit vers le futur, n'en est pas moins sous-tendue par une incessante invitation à pratiquer collectivement des commémorations du passé : par les événements publics, le jeu des médias, et jusqu'à la page d'accueil du site Google. Quel est le sens de ce phénomène, comment l'esthétique y joue-t-elle un rôle et en quoi rencontre-t-il la spiritualité? Telles sont les questions que cet ouvrage propose d'éclairer.

'France-Alumium-Québec'(Fralubec) est un projet porté à la fois par l'agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) française et par le Fonds Québécois de la Recherche Scientifique et Culturelle (FQRSC). Par l'histoire comparée d'Alcan et de Pechiney, il a permis une meilleure connaissance des deux firmes et d'expliquer la genèse de leur fusion en 2003 ainsi que les relations nouées entre les multinationales et les vallées de l'aluminium. Une campagne d'interviews permet par ailleurs de mieux comprendre la spécificité des modes de gestion des ressources humaines dans les deux entreprises.

Kent's Strangest Tales is a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the Garden of England. Home to historically rich towns such as Canterbury, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a strange-shaped stick at. From Chaucer's legendary tales of debauchery and naughtiness to Mick and Keef's very first meeting on a rocking'n'rolling Dartford train, Kent has it all – coast, ghosts, castles, treasures, pirates, Britain's oldest highway and, lest we forget, the old lady who tricked the Luftwaffe. All the stories in this book are bizarre, fascinating, hilarious, and, most importantly, true.Perfect for Kent-dwellers and tourists alike, Kent's Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling – an alternative travel guide to some of the county's best-kept secrets that date back many thousands of years. Read on, if you dare!Word count: 45,000

A hilarious assortment of the weirdest and wackiest tales ever to come out of the classroom – and they're all true. Featuring the flamboyant swimming teacher who spent his spare time fighting bears, the story of how a fight with his teacher paved the way for Al Capone's infamous crime empire, and the bizarre tale of the American teacher who sued her own pupils for not paying attention in her lesson, this book is a real education.An ideal end-of-year teacher gift, this fascinating book is also a must-read for anyone who's ever been to school. So stop talking at the back, pay attention and start reading!Word count: 45,000

A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole. Discover a wealth of Shakespearean shenanigans over the years, including the terrible behaviour of the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe, how the'rude mechanicals'in A Midsummer Night's Dream got recast as a bunch of ladies from the WI, and how Dame Maggie Smith got even with Sir Laurence Olivier.Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this treasury of curious tales is a must-read for all Shakespeare lovers and theatre fans.Word count: 45,000

La mort du dictateur Franco en 1975, puis le couronnement du roi Juan Carlos, ont ouvert la voie à la'transition démocratique'marquée par un pacte politique inédit, une amnistie, et un processus constitutionnel. Mais depuis 2015, avec l'abdication de Juan Carlos et l'instabilité politique, certains aspects de la Constitution de 1978 sont contestés. Quarante ans plus tard, donc, qu'entend-on par'transition démocratique'? Et quelle est la légitimité de ce concept?

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam is a painfully engrossing and popularly written account of how the battle on the home front ended America's least popular war. This absorbing narrative, hailed by critics of every persuasion, is the fruit of over a decade's worth of research: the author sifted through mountains of government documents, press coverage, and transcripts of interviews he conducted with virtually all of the key players, both inside the U.S. government and among the dissenters who eventually brought the war to an end. In these pages the antiwar era comes to life through the words of scores of participants, both the famous and the forgotten, who speak with candor and passion about this tumultuous period. A remarkable story of a powerful grassroots movement and its influence on officials in Washington.

1927. Britain's heritage is vanishing. Beautiful landscapes are being bulldozed. Historic buildings are being blown up. Stonehenge is collapsing.Enter Ferguson's Gang, a mysterious and eccentric group of women who help the National Trust to fight back. The Gang raise huge sums, which they deliver in delightfully strange ways: Victorian coins inside a fake pineapple, a one hundred pound note stuffed inside a cigar, five hundred pounds with a bottle of homemade sloe gin.Their stunts are avidly reported in the press, and when they make a national appeal for the Trust, the response is overwhelming. Ferguson's Gang is instrumental in saving places from Cornwall to the Lake District, a legacy of incalculable value.Yet somehow these women stay anonymous, hiding behind masks and bizarre pseudonyms such as Bill Stickers, Red Biddy, the Bludy Beershop and Sister Agatha. They carefully record their exploits, their rituals, even their elaborate picnics, but they take their real names to the grave.Now Sally Beck and Polly Bagnall can reveal the identities of these unlikely national heroes and tell the stories of their fascinating and often unconventional lives. With the help of relatives, colleagues and friends, we can finally get to know the women who combined a serious mission with such a sense of mischief.

Partant d'une interrogation sur les causes du déclin industriel de la France, ce numéro rappelle le renouveau de l'esprit d'entreprise en France dans les années 1950-2000 et s'interroge sur la'création destructrice'et la théorie du changement de la firme ainsi que sur les facteurs du décrochage français par rapport à l'Allemagne depuis les années 1970. Il revient ensuite sur des approches plus sectorielles: la crise économique française de 1816 à 1817 ou l'attitude des sidérurgistes français vis-à-vis de la CECA. Le numéro s'achève par une table ronde autour du thème'entreprises, production et marchés'.

Durante los últimos 40 años (desde la década de los setenta aproximadamente) hemos asistido en las ciencias humanas y sociales a un proceso eidético fulgurante y sin parangón: el proceso del nacimiento, cumbre y caída de la Teoría literaria —o Teoría sin más— cubriendo todo ese campo y abriendo nuevas perspectivas más o menos fructíferas o más o menos huecas. Desde la lingüística formalista a la teoría del discurso, desde la retórica del texto a la semiosis social, desde la fenomenología del cuerpo a la palabra vacía. Hasta que la crisis social estalló y toda esa serie de cuestiones fueron estallando a la vez. Ese proceso —y su sustrato— es el que trata de rastrearse en este libro. Ahora bien: la pérdida de la hegemonía en el ámbito de las ciencias humanas no quiere decir —ni mucho menos— que la Teoría se haya desvanecido en ese ámbito. Resultaría imposible porque se enraíza en lo más profundo de nuestro sistema ideológico-vital: desde el kantismo a la fenomenología idealista de Husserl; desde el tragicismo hegeliano de Kojève a la deconstrucción heideggeriana de Derrida. En el lado anglosajón, el empirismo mercantil y financiero y la filosofía del lenguaje lo inundan todo. Al principio y al final del libro los lectores podrán a su vez situar la posición del autor a través de los análisis que se realizan de determinadas obras de Jakobson, Sterne, Balzac y Richard Hamilton por un lado, para concluir con las Rosas amarillas de Borges y Marino, de Carver y Chêjov. Los sentidos de la literatura, en suma, y su radical historicidad.

Military campaigns, pivotal battles and extraordinary leaders have collectively shaped the course of history and in this fascinating book, author Tom Quinn examines some of the most remarkable campaigns, incidents and characters from the earliest recorded histories to the second Gulf war. These strange but true stories include figures both famous and obscure, from Wellington, Churchill and Napoleon to maverick soldier'Popski'Peniakoff, who commanded a company of British soldiers in North Africa during the Second World War. Known as'Popski's Private Army,'this motley bunch were highly unorthodox but very effective in raiding Axis supply columns and destroying Luftwaffe aircraft. Then there's the unusual Russian warship Novgorod; which was completely circular, and the Victoria Cross winner who survived completely unscathed against all odds, not to mention the old colonel who went into battle with his trousers down and the woman who fought as a man for nearly twenty years without being discovered. Military's Strangest Campaigns & Characters makes for bizarre yet absorbing reading, highlighting the origins of strange regimental traditions, heroic and ridiculous soldiering, and the folly of commanding officers throughout the ages.

L'industrie de la construction constitue un secteur stratégique pour l'économie mondiale, notamment en matière d'emplois. Jusqu'en 2007, les firmes mondiales dominantes ont été européennes. Dans le bâtiment et le génie civil VINCI, BOUYGUES, HOCHTIEF, ACS et SKAMKA. Dans les ciments LAFARGE, HOLCIM, HEIDELBERG CEMENT et ITALCEMENTI. Dans les autres matériaux, SAINT-GOBAIN, WOLSSLEY. Il est donc intéressant de s'interroger sur les facteurs explicatifs de cette domination historique. De fait, ce leadership européen puise son origine dans une convergence de facteurs favorables, mais se révèle de plus en plus fragile face à la concurrence des pays émergents: Japon et Corée du Sud, puis Chine, Brésil et Mexique.

L'industrie de la construction constitue un secteur stratégique pour l'économie mondiale, notamment en matière d'emplois. Jusqu'en 2007, les firmes mondiales dominantes ont été européennes. Dans le bâtiment et le génie civil VINCI, BOUYGUES, HOCHTIEF, ACS et SKAMKA. Dans les ciments LAFARGE, HOLCIM, HEIDELBERG CEMENT et ITALCEMENTI. Dans les autres matériaux, SAINT-GOBAIN, WOLSSLEY. Il est donc intéressant de s'interroger sur les facteurs explicatifs de cette domination historique. De fait, ce leadership européen puise son origine dans une convergence de facteurs favorables, mais se révèle de plus en plus fragile face à la concurrence des pays émergents: Japon et Corée du Sud, puis Chine, Brésil et Mexique.

Early man would have been alert to wild, camp-following dogs warning of approaching danger. Present day people can be thankful for a much wider range of canine services. Part autobiography and part history, Of Dogs and Men is a celebration of our passion for the trusty sheepdog. Filled with lively anecdotes, poems and mythological stories, Barrington sets out to map the evolution and bond between man and dog; how dogs developed from the wild into the beloved companions as we know them today. Barrington includes heart warming stories of collies used in life saving operations as search and rescue dogs, in epilepsy and cancer alert situations and as guide dogs.

Following on from the bestselling Strangest title Londons Strangest Tales comes Kents Strangest Tales a book devoted to the weird and wonderful side of the home county many people believe is the The Garden of England. Located on the bottom of the Old Man of Englands bottom, Kent is a county with more strangeness than you can shake a strange-shaped stick at. Home to historically-rich towns such as Canterbury, Rochester, Maidstone and Ramsgate, Kent can lay claim to some very strange goings-on indeed. From Chaucers legendary tales of debauchery and naughtiness to Mick and Keefs very first meeting on a rocking n rolling Dartford train. Kent has it all coast, ghosts, castles, treasures, pirates, Britains oldest highway and, lest could we forget, the old lady who tricked the Luftwaffe. Kents Strangest Tales is a treasure trove of the hilarious, the odd and the baffling an alternative travel guide to some of the countys best-kept secrets that date back many thousands of years. Read on, if you dare! You have been warned.

In British Cultural Identities, Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who live in Britain. They analyze contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Using examples from contemporary and popular culture, each chapter covers one of seven intersecting themes: place and environment education, work and leisure gender, sex and the family youth culture and style class and politics ethnicity and language religion and heritage. This new edition is fully updated to include Britain's relationship with the wider world, changes in university education and testing in schools, the trend towards electronic entertainment and social networking, the new impact of'class', and the culture of political leaking.

Ever wonder why so many B actors wind up as A-grade politicians? Or how the casting couch worked? Acclaimed author Kathleen Sharp traces the influence of show business through the lives of its first power couple. Edie and Lew Wasserman built the world's largest talent agency, MCA, created the multibillion-dollar Universal Studios, and helped shape Washington, DC. Starting from MCA's birth in gangland Chicago, Lew represented stars such as Jimmy Stewart and Marilyn Monroe; pioneered TV with Leave It to Beaver and Miami Vice; spawned the blockbuster movie model with Psycho and Jaws; and developed a mega–theme park. His savvy wife, Edie, was the daughter of a mob attorney, the queen of A-list parties, and Lew's secret agent who boosted their status. Yet, the couple was attacked by rivals, federal prosecutors, and their own protégés. Even so, over the course of seven decades they managed to vanquish their enemies and parlay their influence far beyond Sunset Strip into governors'mansions, Senate chambers, and the White House. At the end, Edie and Lew became diplomats, kingmakers, and philanthropists, who elevated the fortunes of middle-class workers and California itself. Based on some four hundred interviews, this book features Janet Leigh, Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, John Belushi, Jean Stein, and Steven Spielberg along with the Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Reagans, and the Clintons. It's a fascinating read about how two kids from Cleveland created the largest entertainment conglomerate in the world and wound up ruling twentieth-century America.

History is dramatic -- and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers. Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation. In Pilgrims and Puritans, the authors begin in the year 1620 in England and end in New England in the year 1676. The book recounts the religious, political and social history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and its influence on our lives today. The narrative follows various groups of settlers from their departure from England through arrival in the New World and their often violent conflicts with the native peoples of the Americas. The authors examine a number of issues that arose in the new society that was founded, and the rise and fall of the'city on a hill.'The text is enhanced with images of historical artifacts, paintings and engravings by contemporary artists, and photographs of reenacted scenes.

A very readable overview of Tolkien and his work, incorporating a brief biography, an examination of the books and a look at the process of filming his work, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga. It explores how Tolkien's background as

The Victorian era was a time of dramatic change. During this period Britain ruled the largest empire on earth, witnessed the expansion of democracy, and developed universal education and mass print culture. Both its imperial might and the fact that it had industrialised and urbanised decades before any other nation, allowed it to dominate world politics and culture in many ways for the better part of the nineteenth century. Understanding the Victorians paints a vivid portrait of the era, combining broad survey with close analysis, and introduces students to the critical debates taking place among historians today. It encompasses all of Great Britain and Ireland over the whole of the Victorian period, giving prominence to social and cultural topics alongside politics and economics and emphasising class, gender, and racial and imperial positioning as constitutive of human relations. Starting with the Queen Caroline Affair in 1820 and coming right up to the start of World War I in 1914, Susie L. Steinbach uses thematic chapters to discuss and evaluate politics, imperialism, the economy, class, gender, the monarchy, arts and entertainment, religion, sexuality, religion, and science. Steinbach also provides three much-needed chapters on topics rarely covered at this introductory level on space, consumption, and the law. With a clear introduction outlining the key themes of the period, a detailed timeline, and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for all students of the nineteenth century.

Here, guided by Jim Wilson's researches into Scottish genetic history, he (Alistair Moffat) tackles on the of the biggest stories possible: linking up the story of the earliest Scots to the earliest men... He is wonderfully able to communicate the epic elements of the story - which matters because that's precisely what man's survival has been'- David Robinson, The Scotsman'I've been enjoyably immersed in it since it arrived on my doorstep last week...wonderfully readable. This is no dry, academic account, but it's the most fascinating and thought-provoking treatment of interlocking aspects of our early history I've yet to read. I recommend it whole-heartedly'- Colin Will, poet and publisher'Alistair Moffat explores the history of where we all came from, with the help of new DNA science'- BBC Radio Scotland'In The Scots: A Genetic Journey, historian and broadcaster Alistair Moffat taps into the latest advances in DNA science to find that our origins lie not only deep in the mists of time, but right off the map... with the help of historical geneticist Jim Wilson, he finds that, post-Ice Age, Scotland's earliest settlers walked here from what is now Spain'- Jim Gilchrist, Scotsman'In The Scots: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat and James F. Wilson explore the history that is printed in our genes, and in a remarkable new approach come to some fascinating conclusions about who we are and where we came from'- The Orcadian'The fusion of science and the physical history - like an abandoned croft - allows people to trace their Scots ancestry with precision'- Sunday Herald'The Scots: A Genetic Journey, a book and radio series based on Moffat and Wilson's research, concludes that all Scots are immigrants by descent. Britain as a whole is a mongrel nation'- Julian Baggini'Skillfully written, weaving together genetics, archaeology, history, and topics of interest like red hair'- James Honeychuck on Amazon History has always mattered to Scots, and rarely more so than now at the outset of a new century, with a new census appearing in 2011 and after more than ten years of a new parliament. An almost limitless archive of our history lies hidden inside our bodies and we carry the ancient story of Scotland around with us. The mushrooming of genetic studies, of DNA analysis, is rewriting our history in spectacular fashion. In The Scots: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat explores the history that is printed on our genes, and in a remarkable new approach, uncovers the detail of where we are from, who we are and in so doing colour vividly a DNA map of Scotland.

Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview of oral history theory in an accessible format. The book is structured around key themes, including the peculiarities of oral history, the study of the self, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, memory, narrative, performance and power. Each chapter provides a clear and user-friendly explanation of the various theoretical approaches, illustrates them with examples from the rich field of published oral history, and makes suggestions for the practicing oral historian. There is also a glossary of key terms and concepts. Combining the study of theoreticians with the observations of practitioners, and including extensive examples of oral history work from around the world, this book constitutes the first integrated explanation of oral history theory. It will be invaluable to experienced and novice oral historians, professionals, and students who are new to the discipline.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, amidst an extraordinary international upsurge in strike action, the ideas of revolutionary syndicalism developed into a major influence within the world wide trade union movement. Committed to destroying capitalism through direct industrial action and revolutionary trade union struggle, the movement raised fundamental questions about the need for new and democratic forms of power through which workers could collectively manage industry and society.This study provides an all-embracing comparative analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the syndicalist movement in six specific countries: France, Spain, Italy, America, Britain and Ireland. This is achieved through an examination of the philosophy of syndicalism and the varied forms that syndicalist organisations assumed; the distinctive economic, social and political context in which they emerged; the extent to which syndicalism influenced wider politics; and the reasons for its subsequent demise.The volume also provides the first ever systematic examination of the relationship between syndicalism and communism, focusing on the ideological and political conversion to communism undertaken by some of the syndicalist movement's leading figures and the degree of synthesis between the two traditions within the new communist parties that emerged in the early 1920s.

From Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island to Errol Flynn in Captain Blood on to today's Pirates of the Caribbean, the romantic image of pirates in modern Western popular culture has long been with us. But of course pirates come in many guises, and not all of them as charming as Johnny Depp. Pirates are outlaws who move quickly, a form of lawlessness based on the application of immense short term power by mobile forces which fade away, similar to guerrilla warfare. In Pirates and Privateers Tom Bowling offers a lively history of piracy, from ancient times through the ‘privateers'such as Morgan, with their Letters of Marque (an early example of State-sponsored terrorism), to the still real and flourishing threat of contemporary pirates that patrol the less well-regulated shipping lanes of the world today.

Based on the assumption that reality, reference and representation work together, Narrative and History explains and illustrates the various ways in which historians write the past as history. For the fist time, the full range of leading narrative theorists such as Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, Frank Ankersmit, Seymour Chatman and Gérard Genette have been brought together to explain the narrative-making choices all author-historians make when creating historical explanations.Narrative and History:- considers the range of author-historian decisions through key concepts such as epistemological and aesthetic choice, ethics and ideology, emplotment and argument- defines and illustrates the functions of narrating and narration, authorial voice, characterisation and the timing of the text- explores in detail the consequences for truth, objectivity, meaning, the role of experimental history, and history representation beyond the textual in film, TV, public history, performance and digitization.Combining theory with practice, Alun Munslow expands the boundaries of the discipline and charts a new role for unconventional historical forms and modes of expression.

The Crusade of Varna of 1443-45 was one of the decisive events of the late Middle Ages. Following the temporary Union of the Greek and Latin Churches in 1439, Pope Eugenius IV created an alliance which aimed to'liberate'Byzantium and the Balkan Peninsula from the domination of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Sultan, Murad II, held the Crusaders during the winter war of 1443, finally securing victory at Varna in November, 1444. The Crusade petered out in 1445 with the expedition of the Burgundian fleet on the Danube. More than any other single event, it was Murad's victory at Varna that secured Ottoman domination of the Balkan Peninsula, with consequences which are still apparent today.Three important works, hitherto largely unnoticed in western historiography, provide eyewitness accounts of the dramatic events of 1443-45 from the Christian and the Muslim side: an anonymous Ottoman text on The Holy Wars of Sultan Murad; a section of the Anciennes Chroniques d'Angleterre by the Bugundian, Jehan de Wavrin, and a German ballad on the Crusade by Michel Beheim. These are presented here for the first time in English translation, supplemented by a series of shorter contemporary texts relating to the events of the crusade, with an introduction and annotation.

The Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China started in 1966 and lasted about a decade. This revolutionary upsurge of Chinese students and workers, led by Mao Zedong, wreaked havoc in the world's most populous country, often turning things upside down and undermining the party, government, and army while simultaneously weakening the economy, society, and culture. Tens of millions of people were killed, injured, or imprisoned during this period and relatively few benefited, aside from Mao Zedong and the Gang of Four, the group that would eventually receive the blame for the events of the Cultural Revolution. Given the turbulence and confusion, it is hard to know just what happened. The Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Cultural Revolution tackles this task. First, in an extensive chronology, which traces the events from year to year and month to month, then in an introduction puts these events in context and helps to explain them. But most importantly, the bulk of the information is provided in a dictionary section with numerous cross-referenced entries on important persons, places, institutions, and movements. A bibliography points to further sources of information and a glossary will help those researching in Chinese.