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Gender and petty crime in late medieval England: the local courts in Kent, 1460 - 1560
In: Gender in the Middle Ages 2
Julie Collins, The Architecture and Landscape of Health: A Historical Perspective on Therapeutic Places, 1790-1940
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 35, Issue 4, p. 1390-1391
ISSN: 1477-4666
Greening the past: putting history in its place at the ecological university
In: International journal of sustainability in higher education, Volume 23, Issue 1, p. 58-66
ISSN: 1758-6739
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to think through the value of History as a way of interrogating ideas around environmental change as well as bridging the gap between definitions of natural and cultural heritage. In terms of the sustainability in higher education imperative, it argues that youth climate change movements and endeavours to diversify curriculum content make this a moment of critical mass to push forward with new historical programmes that embed environmental themes in a wider intellectual pedagogy.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper looks to combine an urgent need to engage with environmental sustainability with progressive endeavours at decolonising the curriculum to explore how humanities (and History, in particular) can be brought into the service of the ecological university.
Findings
Thereafter, it looks specifically at "green heritage" in the city as a useful example in which the greening agenda can be used to re-contextualise historical approaches, encourage useful conversations around the role of History as a conservation and heritage management tool and build active partnerships with local stakeholder groups.
Originality/value
The originality of this approach lies in thinking both of content and intellectual practice, pedagogy as content and behaviour and in reconstructing the terrain of a theme such as heritage to think through opportunities for sustainability in education.
Neoliberalism at the borders of transnational policy: political exclusion in Australia's Reconceptualization of trans-Tasman traditions
In: Policy studies, Volume 43, Issue 4, p. 696-714
ISSN: 1470-1006
The story of Comanche: horsepower, heroism and the conquest of the American West
In: War & society, Volume 36, Issue 3, p. 156-181
ISSN: 2042-4345
The Story of Comanche: Horsepower, Heroism and the Conquest of the American West
Marked by the Census Bureau's closure of the frontier; the symbolic end of American Indian resistance at Wounded Knee and powerful articulations on the 'winning of the West' from Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill Cody, the early 1890s was a critical moment in the history of the American West. It also saw the death of one of the region's most famous cavalry horses, Comanche, who succumbed to colic in 1891 aged twenty-nine. Famously billed as 'the only living thing to survive the Battle of the Little Bighorn', this article uses Comanche as a locus around which to examine the history of warhorses in the military culture of the American West, and, more broadly, to point towards a growing scholarship on war and the environment that emphasises the usefulness of such themes as spatiality and inter-species exchange in embellishing our understanding of the experience, impact and cultural memory of war. Not only does Comanche's lifespan (c.1862–1891) usefully coincide with the federal government's final conquest of the West but his equine biography serves as valuable testament to the use of horses in the US military as both practical and symbolic agents of American expansionism.
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The Politics of Intellectual Self-trust
In: Social epistemology: a journal of knowledge, culture and policy, Volume 26, Issue 2, p. 237-251
ISSN: 1464-5297
Review: Denise Tanner and John Harris Working with Older People: Abingdon: Routledge in association with Community Care, 2008, 270 pp. including index, £21.99 (pbk), ISBN 0415354218
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Volume 9, Issue 3, p. 362-363
ISSN: 1741-296X
Book Review: Gerontological Social Work in Small Towns and Rural Communities
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 369-370
ISSN: 1741-296X
Book Review: Senior Centers
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 373-375
ISSN: 1741-296X
Reviews
In: Journal of social work: JSW, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 126-127
ISSN: 1741-296X
Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Volume 42, Issue 2, p. 383-385
ISSN: 0021-969X
'Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism' edited by Paul E. Sigmund is reviewed.
We Will Not Be Stopped: Evangelical Persecution, Catholicism and Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico
In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 607-608
ISSN: 0021-969X
Jones reviews 'We Will Not Be Stopped: Evangelical Persecution, Catholicism and Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico' by Arthur Bonner.