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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 The Pirate World; 2 From Classical Piracy to the Medieval Mediterranean; 3 Piracy in the Northern World; 4 The Elizabethan Sea Rovers and the Jacobean Pirates; 5 Buccaneers of the Caribbean; 6 The Madagascar Men; 7 Death to the Pirates; 8 The Barbary Corsairs of North Africa; 9 Pirates of the Eastern Seas; 10 The Road to Modern Piracy; Epilogue; Abbreviations; Definitions; List of Illustrations; Maps; Notes; Bibliography; Copyright

1. Debating empire -- 2. The British Empire to 1700 -- 3. The eighteenth-century Empire -- 4. The nineteenth-century Empire -- 5. The British Empire, 1900-1945 -- 6. From World War Two to the present -- 7. Britain and America : parallels and contrasts -- 8. Competing histories and the British Empire -- 9. Conclusions.

This note offers some comments on Theophilus Nkansah's article entitled, 'The Role of Adult Literacy in Community Development in Ghana: Perceptions and Experiences of Two Rural Communities', which was published in the previous issue of this journal (Vol. 4, Iss. 3, pp. 272–293). It aims to share some of the more interesting and insightful aspects of Nkansah's article and draw attention to the commonalities between Ghana and India in their rural development practice and history.

Verlagsinfo: Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south. As the slave trade between Iran and these regions shifted over time, it transformed the nation and helped forge its unique culture and identity. Thus, a history of Iranian slavery is crucial to understanding the character of the modern nation. Drawing on extensive archival research in Iran, Tanzania, England, and France, as well as fieldwork and interviews in Iran, Behnaz A. Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century. She investigates how foreign military incursion, frontier insecurity, political instability, and economic crisis altered the patterns of enslavement, as well as the ethnicity of the slaves themselves. Mirzai's interdisciplinary analysis illuminates the complex issues surrounding the history of the slave trade and the process of emancipation in Iran, while also giving voice to social groups that have never been studied - enslaved Africans and Iranians. Her research builds a clear case that the trade in slaves was inexorably linked to the authority of the state. During periods of greater decentralization, slave trading increased, while periods of greater governmental autonomy saw more freedom and peace.

Introduction : beloved communties, benighted times -- Against "shapeless giantism." -- Mega dreams and small city realities : trafficking in transportation planning -- Agriculture on the urban fringe and beyond -- Framing urban farming -- Making good : renewables and the revival of smaller industrial cities -- Roots of knowledge : local economics, urban scale, and schooling for civic renewal

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2. Before the 1930s—Interpreting the Nation State: Sociological Imagination in a Pre-Institutionalized Context -- Chapter 3. 1930s–1940s—Institutionalizing Sociology: The Settlement of an Academic and Scientific Environment -- Chapter 4. 1950s–1960s: Sociology in a Golden Era of Consolidation -- Chapter 5. 1964–1985:: The Dictatorship and the Jeopardizing Social Sciences -- Chapter 6. 1985-2000S: Rebuilding Sociology in the New Democracy -- Chapter 7. 2010s—Sociology's State-of-Art: Graduate Programs, Academic Career, and Journals -- Chapter 8. Conclusion

Get Started -- Chapter 1 The Individual and Society -- Introduction -- 1. The Bear That Wasn't -- 2. The Danger of a Single Story -- 3. Names and Identity -- 4. Finding One's Voice -- 5. The Eye of the Beholder -- 6. Gender and Identity -- 7. Defining Race -- 8. The Social Reality of Race -- 9. The Consequences of Stereotyping -- 10. The Blink of an Eye -- 11. Little Things Are Big -- 12. Words Matter -- 13. Religion and Identity -- 14. Fear -- 15. The "In" Group -- 16. Finding Confidence -- 17. One Identity, Multiple Belongings -- Analysis and Reflection -- Chapter 2 We and They -- Introduction -- 1. What Do We Do with a Difference? -- 2. Universe of Obligation -- 3. Understanding Strangers -- 4. First Encounters in the Americas -- 5. We and They in Colonial America -- 6. Inventing Black and White -- 7. Who Is Human? -- 8. The Science of Race -- 9. We the People in the United States -- 10. Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging -- 11. Breeding Society's "Fittest" -- 12. Creating the German Nation -- 13. Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment -- 14. From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism -- 15. "Expansion Was Everything" -- 16. Imperialism, Conquest, and Mass Murder -- Analysis and Reflection -- Chapter 3 World War: Choices and Consequences -- Introduction -- 1. 1914: War or Peace? -- 2. Turning Us against Them -- 3. A Last-Ditch Effort to Prevent a War -- 4. War Fever in Vienna -- 5. Between Peace and War -- 6. The Brutal Realities of World War I -- 7. Building Support on the Home Front -- 8. The Western Front at the Cinema -- 9. Hatred on the Home Front -- 10. Genocide under the Cover of War -- 11. Russia Quits the War -- 12. Disillusion on the Battlefield -- 13. Commemorating the War -- 14. Negotiating Peace -- 15. Self-Determination -- 16. The League of Nations -- 17. People without Papers -- Analysis and Reflection

Legvold reviews 'A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change,' by Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries. A book review is presented of A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change by Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries.

This book charts and traces state-mandated or state-encouraged "patriotic" histories that have recently emerged in many places around the globe. Such "patriotic" histories can revolve around both affirmative interpretations of the past and celebration of national achievements. They can also entail explicitly denialist stances against acknowledging responsibility for past atrocities, even to the extent of celebrating perpetrators. Whereas in some cases "patriotic" history takes the shape of a coherent doctrine, in others they remain limited to loosely connected narratives. By combining nationalist and narcissist narratives, and by disregarding or distorting historical evidence, "patriotic" history promotes mythified, monumental, and moralistic interpretations of the past that posit partisan and authoritarian essentialisms and exceptionalisms. Whereas the global debates in interdisciplinary memory studies revolve around concepts like cosmopolitan, global, multidirectional, relational, transcultural, and transnational memory, to mention but a few, the actual socio-political uses of history remain strikingly nation-centred and one-dimensional. This volume collects fifteen caste studies of such "nationalizations of history" ranging from China to the Baltic states. They highlight three features of this phenomenon: the ruthlessness of methods applied by many state authorities to impose certain interpretations of the past, the increasing discrepancy between professional and political approaches to collective memory, and the new "post-truth" context.This book will be of interest to students and researchers of international politics, the radical right and global history. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

R.W. Southern (1912 - 2001) is widely regarded as one of the greatest medieval historians. His first book, The Making of the Middle Ages (1953), translated into many languages and never out of print, is recognized as a classic. This volume contains the series of reflections on medieval historical writing that Southern produced during his tenure as President of the Royal Historical Society, supplemented by his occasional pieces on two related subjects: the nature of academic history and appreciations of other medievalists, both his teachers and his contemporaries. Their publication here in book format makes these writings by a master medievalist accessible to the wider audience they deserve. The material is introduced by R.J. Bartlett, himself a prominent medievalist, who sheds light on Southern's outlook and the importance of his work