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Introduction: An age of genius -- Freedom and the fool -- Desire and rebellion -- Artists and subjects -- Anton Chekhov in his time -- The writer as civic actor -- After realism : art and authority -- The performing arts : Diaghilev's Ballets Russes -- Celebrity, humor, and the avant-garde -- A new normal -- Irony and power -- An era of the fox -- Goodness endures.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. North American Genocide Denial; 2. The Legal Case for Historical Genocides: A Retrospective Methodology; 3. Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Nations; 4. A Legal Primer for Settler Colonial Genocides; 5. The Beothuk (1500-1830); 6. The Powhatan Tsenacommacah (1607-1677); 7. The Conventional Account of Genocide: From a Restrictive to an Expansive Interpretation; 8. Toward an Account of Systemic Genocide; Appendix A. Secretariat's Draft Convention; Appendix B. Ad Hoc Committee Draft Convention; Appendix C. United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide; Index.

"Modern" childhoods: adjustment, variety and stress / Peter N. Stearns -- The new disorders of childhood: historical perspectives / Steven Mintz -- Outside the lines: black girls and boys learn about the interconnected worlds of slavery and freedom in nineteenth-century North America / Wilma King -- The private world of women and children: lullabies and nursery rhymes in 19th-century greater Syria / Fruma Zachs -- "The elephant in the room is the role model": managing the paradox of pregnancy in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish classroom / Orna Blumen with Elka Freedland -- "Nothing material occurred": toward rethinking the history of early American girlhood, 1760-1830 / Sharon Halevi -- "To find a better way to live a life in the world": an auto-ethnographic exploration of an Ibasho project with Chinese immigrant youth in the United States / Tomoko Tokunaga -- Growing gaps in enacted and ideational independence / Yulia Chentsova Dutton and Derya Gürcan-Yildirim.

Empire of justice -- From judicial to administrative corruption -- "This custom or better said corruption" : legal strategies and the native trade with the Alcaldes Mayores -- "Vile and abominable pacts" : the sale of judicial appointments and the great decline of viceregal patronage -- Criminal process and the "judge who is corrupted by money" -- Guilt and punishment for fraud, theft, and the "grave offense of bribery or corruption." -- The politics of justice : Francisco Garzaron's Visita (1716-1727) -- Conclusion : approaching historical corruption.

British world policy and the White Queen's memory / T.G. Otte -- The War Trade Intelligence Department and British economic warfare during the First World War / John Robert Ferris -- The British Empire and the meaning of 'minimum force necessary' in colonial counter-insurgencies operations, c. 1857 - 1967 / David French -- Yokohama for the British in the late nineteenth century : a hub for imperial defence and a node of influence for change / Hamish Ion -- "The diplomatic digestive organ" : the foreign office as the nerve-centre of foreign policy, c. 1800-1940 / T.G. Otte -- Financial and commercial networks between Great Britain and South America during the long nineteenth century / Kathleen Burk -- Britain through Russian eyes : 1900-1914 / Dominic Lieven -- Imperial Germany's naval challenge and the renewal of British power / John H. Maurer -- Views of war, 1914 and 1939 : second thoughts / Zara Steiner -- The ambassadors, 1919-1939 / Erik Goldstein -- The tattered ties that bind : the imperial general staff and the dominions, 1919-1939 / Douglas E. Delaney -- Seeking a family consensus? : Anglo-dominion relations and the failed imperial conference of 1941 / Kent Fedorowich -- Imperial hubs and their limitations : British assessments of imposing sanctions on Japan, 1937 / G. Bruce Strang.

First thoughts -- If on a summer's eve, a traveller, or two -- White angel -- The Spanish ambassador's brawl -- Hermit on trial -- The case of the purloined dwarf -- Black velvet's odd adventure -- Nicolina runs away -- A boy steals gold.

Verlagsinfo: A major new history of capitalism from the perspective of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, who sustained and resisted it for centuries... The Mexican Heartland provides a new history of capitalism from the perspective of the landed communities surrounding Mexico City. In a sweeping analytical narrative spanning the sixteenth century to today, John Tutino challenges our basic assumptions about the forces that shaped global capitalism - setting families and communities at the center of histories that transformed the world.Despite invasion, disease, and depopulation, Mexico's heartland communities held strong on the land, adapting to sustain and shape the dynamic silver capitalism so pivotal to Spain's empire and world trade for centuries after 1550. They joined in insurgencies that brought the collapse of silver and other key global trades after 1810 as Mexico became a nation, then struggled to keep land and self-rule in the face of liberal national projects. They drove Zapata's 1910 revolution - a rising that rattled Mexico and the world of industrial capitalism. Although the revolt faced defeat, adamant communities forced a land reform that put them at the center of Mexico's experiment in national capitalism after 1920. Then, from the 1950s, population growth and technical innovations drove people from rural communities to a metropolis spreading across the land. The heartland urbanized, leaving people searching for new lives - dependent, often desperate, yet still pressing their needs in a globalizing world.A masterful work of scholarship, The Mexican Heartland is the story of how landed communities and families around Mexico City sustained silver capitalism, challenged industrial capitalism—and now struggle under globalizing urban capitalism.

Introduction: from rights to revanche -- The promise of progress : women's rights and women's movements in Hungary, 1904-1918 -- Between the private and the public : the Hungarian women's debating club -- Did Hungarian women have a revolution? -- To regenerate the Hungarian family and the nation -- The political is personal : the friendships and fallings-out of Emma Ritoók -- A perfect storm of citizenship -- Conclusion: the long shadow of Cecile Tormay -- Bibliography -- Index

The Treaty of Riga of March 1921 did not signify real peace. It was soon followed by the outbreak of a Polish-Soviet cold war, which many a time in the early 1920s threatened to heat up to boiling point. One of the salient fronts on which it was fought was Ukraine and the Ukrainian question. The means by which it was waged - first by Poland, and subsequently, more successfully, by the Soviets - was by attempts to stir up centrifugal tendencies on enemy territory, leading eventually to the splitting up of the neighbouring state along its national seams. Polish-Soviet rivalry over Ukraine had flared up still at the Riga peace conference. In the following years both antagonists struggled to win over the sympathies of Ukrainians living on either side of the frontier River Zbrucz (Zbruch) and dispersed in various émigré centres, and the weapons employed were propaganda, diplomacy, policy on nationalities, economic projects, political subterfuge, and armed irredentism. Jan Jacek Bruski's book addresses the first, very important phase of this Polish-Soviet tussle