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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Historiography -- 1. Perspectives on the Early Republic -- 2. NATO and the United States: An Essay in Kaplanesque History -- Keynote -- 3. Diplomacy without Armaments, 1945-1950 -- Articles -- 4. "Answering the Call": The First Inaugural Addresses of Thomas Jefferson and William Jefferson Clinton -- 5. Internationalism and the Republican Era -- 6. Public History Serves the Nation: The Historical Service Board, 1943-1945 -- 7. The African Sojourn of the Council of Foreign Ministers: Transnational Planning and Anglo-American Diplomacy, 1945-1948 -- 8. Beyond the Water's Edge: Liberal Internationalist and Pacifist Opposition to NATO -- 9. Republican Party Politics, Foreign Policy, and the Election of 1952 -- 10. Confronting Cold War Neutralism: The Eisenhower Administration and Finland, A Case Study -- 11. The Unwanted Alliance: Portugal and the United States -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- List of Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations -- Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Praise for Unnatural Ability -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction: Déjà Vu All Over Again -- Part I. The Man Who Made Them Run -- 1. The Death of Dr. Riddle -- 2. "Doc" Ring and the Modern Era of Doping -- 3. The Injection -- 4. Rule 162 -- Part II. Anslinger's War -- 5. The Drug Czar Goes Racing -- 6. Reports from the Field -- 7. The United States v. Ivan H. Parke -- 8. The Spit Box, Trainer Responsibility, and the Modern Era of Drug Testing -- Part III. Silent Tom's Atomizers -- 9. "Those Bastards" -- 10. The Joint Board and the Courts -- 11. The Not-so-Absolute Insurer Rule? -- 12. The Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau and the Defection of Dr. Kater -- Part IV. NSAIDs, Lasix, and Steroids -- 13. The Derby and the Doctor -- 14. Permissive Medication and the "E" in PED -- 15. The Steroid Derby -- Part V. New Challenges, New Solutions -- 16. Indictments and Wiretaps -- 17. The Balkanization of Thoroughbred Racing in America -- 18. Legislating Integrity? -- 19. Genetics, the Wealth Gap, and the Myth of the Level Playing Field -- Conclusion: The Racing Imperative -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix 1. Selected Timeline: Modern Era of Doping -- Appendix 2. Federal Doping Investigations, 1932-1934 -- Appendix 3. Doping Formulary -- Appendix 4. Smith v. Cole -- Appendix 5. Kentucky State Racing Commission v. Fuller -- Appendix 6. Dutrow v. New York State Racing and Wagering Board -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Horses in History.

Whilst the 'everyday' is, of course, a temporal designator, connected to the chronology of human experience, in reality, 'everyday life' historians have often used a spatial frame to seek to understand past historical actors' everyday lives, experiences and practices. Focusing on Fascist Italy and using the example of 'bars' and the practices of consumption, political (and other) sociability, transaction and exchanges enacted within these spaces, this article explores some of the possibilities opened up by using a spatial frame to examine everyday practices and lived experiences in a dictatorial context. Thinking about 'everyday life' and the lived experience of dictatorship through a spatial lens not only requires a shift in terms of the venues that we investigate, away from classic seats and sites of formal projections of power and towards those spaces – like bars – in which the 'unofficial relations of power' were articulated and negotiated. It also prompts us to 'play with scales', as Jacques Revel put it, to examine the unit of the individual body, the street, or the city not just to identify microscopic historical practices, but to understand how macroscopic structures, processes and power relations operated at the level of the everyday and vice versa, highlighting dynamic, reciprocal relationships – between institutions and individuals, state and society, centre and periphery, and among historical actors themselves – and to examine the processes of movement between these scales of experience. In this way, through the examination of interactions and practices enacted in Italian bars, the article will explore a novel facet of the 'lived experience' of these dictatorships and demonstrate the value in understanding dictatorships as being constructed neither exclusively 'from above' or 'from below' but both between and across these units of analysis.

Introduction: Divine Violence: From the Ancient Near East to the Assault on the United States CapitolMatthew Rowley"Words that supply Valour": God, Warfare, and the Rhetoric of Persuasion in Carolingian History WritingRobert EvansBearded Ghosts and Holy Visions: Miracles, Manliness and Clerical Authority on the First CrusadeNatasha HodgsonNarrating ⁰́₈New Wonders⁰́₉: Divine Agency, Crusade, and Afonso I of Portugal⁰́₉s 1147 Conquest of Santar©♭mBeth C. SpaceyMiracles, Divine Agency, and Christian-Muslim Diplomacy During the CrusadesScott MoynihanDivining God⁰́₉s Favour and Diverting His Wrath: Supernatural Intervention in the Hussite Wars under Jan ¿ưi¿ℓka, 1419⁰́₃1424Andrew K. DeatonThe Sword of God: Tyrannicide as a Providential and Miraculous Event from Medieval Debates to Early Modern Religious ConflictsJulien Le MauffThe place of miraculous images/icons in the confrontation between Christian confessions in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the Sixteenth to Seventeenth CenturiesVolha BarysenkaProvidence and Conscience During the Cromwellian Conquest of Scotland, 1650⁰́₃53Calum S. Wright⁰́₈Universal martyrdom⁰́₉: Resistance and Religion in 1650s IrelandJoan RedmondAuthority, Toleration and Miracles in the Writings of Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes and John LockeMatthew Rowley⁰́₈Our Almighty God is the Over-ruling Generalissimo⁰́₉: Teaching and Experiencing God in the British Army, 1688⁰́₃1714Ping LiaoImmanent Power and the Conversion of KingsAlan StrathernPointillist Proofs of Divine Agency in WarMatthew Rowley

"Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle, the Cyclists's Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different places. With this in mind, the essays in the book are divided into two sections: Spaces of Cycling which treats the location of the technological development, production and trade of cycles and Places of Cycling which interprets the specific places of consumption - the streets of the city, in the cycling clubs, among men and women, and at the trade show. Written from a geographer's integrative perspective to offer a broad understanding of cycling, this book will also be of interest to other social scientists in urban studies, cultural studies, technology and society, sociology, history and environmental planning"--Provided by publisher

This dissertation pursues the literary-historical tracks of the image repertoire of "boy-love" ( amradparasti ) versified for over two centuries in the Urdu ghazal. It critically engages with key positions in sexuality studies and ghazal criticism that have reduced this theme to visible sexuality, submerging its historical narrative elements. It is a part of my argument to show why the ghazal (as genre and predominant form of poetry) matters to the study of modern South Asian identities (sexual and political) and what historical forces have operated through its aesthetic lineaments to give it the illusion of traditional cultural continuity. The dissertation is divided into two parts presenting the concentric circles of a historical problematic including poetry, sexual representation, the colonial archive and historiography. In Chapter One, I broadly describe colonial reformism in which sexuality emerged as a category of social and intimate experience. My aim is to show that modern sexual identities (e.g. homosexual) belong to a nationalist problematic whose assumptions are still with us in our postcolonial, `sexually liberated' era. Chapter Two narrows the genealogical focus on "boy-love" as a distinct historical-narrative element in the ghazal as well as in literary-historical recountings of its tradition. This chapter mirrors the larger argument as it places reformist (Hali), postcolonial (Firaq) and premodern (Yaqin) meditations on the image of the beautiful boy in the same argument.In Part Two, I cross the threshold of the premodern into the South-Asian eighteenth century but not before delineating, in Chapter Three, the historiographic roadblocks in transitioning from categories of modern analysis (the state, family, subjectivity, identity) into the pre-existing social unities of premodern life. I make a critique of revisionist historiography to argue against a naively mimetic and sentimental understanding of literary objects from the past and posit the condensation of an erotic terrain in the rhetorical and vignette-like patterns of `classical' ghazal poetry. To highlight the operation of this terrain I study the formation of the boy-love image repertoire as part of the vernacularizing process from which elements of later "Urdu" first emerged. The exemplary figures here include the satiric-obscene verse of Jafar Zatalli and the iham set of poets (Abru and Naji in particular) Finally, Chapter Four presents the case of Muhammad Taqi Mir and through the canonized stability of his oeuvre I draw the outer form of its erotic content as a social value form in whose negative relation with social conditions, a historical expanse becomes possible to imagine. In the final turn to Mir, I demonstrate that it is possible to read historical forms of subjectivity in the heavily routinized idiom of the ghazal, and not settle for a depoliticized history of surfaces (images, representations, typologies) which has been the fate of the ghazal and several other expressive practices in the postcolonial world.

Article deals with the struggle for the County of Flanders between England and France in the second half of the XIV century. It concerns with the changes in their tactic: England and France stopped the warfare for a short period of time and used the means of diplomacy to gain Flanders instead. Members of the Plantagenet (Edmund Langley) and the Valois (Philip the Bold duke of Burgundy) dynasties in their matrimonial policy tried to seek the hand of the heiress of Flanders – Marguerite of Males.