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Presenting a challenge to established views of modern Japanese history, the narratives presented here are based on a wide variety of materials and look at local initiatives, local experiences and new approaches to Japan's encounter with the West.

1. Introduction to the study of ageing -- 2. Approaches to the study of ageing -- 3. Methodological aspects of the study of ageing -- 4. Historical and cultural perspectives on ageing -- 5. Images of ageing -- 6. The demography of ageing -- 7. Housing and the elderly -- 8. Work and retirement -- 9. Standards of living -- 10. Family and social networks -- 11. Health and illness -- 12. Services for elderly people -- 13. Issues in the politics of ageing -- References.

A comprehensive history of the Labour party from one of the brightest young historians of 20th century Britain.2024 marks the centenary of the first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald. What legacy of the past have they left behind? How far has each Labour administration influenced succeeding administrations? Above all, was the Attlee government of 1945 really the golden period of Labour power?Professor Richard Toye explores Labour s exercise of power as a continuum, setting Attlee s administration in long-term historical context between the first Labour Government of 1924 and the current party under Keir Starmer. Within this context he shows why the Attlee administration matters so much and how successive Labour governments have fashioned it in their own image.Into this story are woven the foundation of the Labour Party in 1900, the First World War, the General Strike of 1926, the Spanish Civil War and the coalition war-time government under Churchill. Also discussed are the great names of Labour history: Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee himself, Ernest Bevin, Aneurin Bevan, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson and Ellen Wilkinson.Covering Labour's history all the way up to the present - including Wilson and Blair's attempts to wrap themselves in Attlee s mantle and Corbyn s version of Attlee focussed on the NHS and the welfare state - Age of Hope is an incisive, informative look at a political party that has been fundamental in shaping modern Britain and will be equally instrumental in its future

As COVID-19 began to spread across the globe in early 2020, few could have envisaged that it would so profoundly affect our personal and professional lives. In-class teaching soon had to be either replaced with online teaching or could only be carried out with great risk to staff and students. Working from home and a constant stream of video conferences became the norm instead of informal chats on departmental corridors. As if all of this were not bad enough, positions for junior academics, already scarce in the wake of the general financial crisis and the rise of the neoliberal university, were cut. Travel funding was slashed by many universities, and most countries closed their borders. Libraries were closed or could only be accessed with considerable difficulty. Archives were shut or, if they reopened, operated long waiting lists. In situ research, essential for historians of central Europe, became difficult, if not impossible.

This edited collection focusses on the writing of ordinary, semi-literate people in history, emphasising the agency and voices of the subordinate classes and contesting conventional histories that treat them as passive or silent. It analyses ordinary writings across a range of geographical areas, historical periods and scholarly disciplines

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Tom Brooking and Todd M. Thompson -- 1 Sovereignty John E. Martin -- 2 Liberty and the Rule of Law Andrew Geddis -- 3 The Common Good Frank Bongiorno -- 4 Economic and Social Democracy Andrew Sartori -- 5 Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Colin Barr and Eugenio F. Biagini -- 6 Citizenship and Gender Laura E. Nym Mayhall -- 7 Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism Joshua D. Smith, Tom Brooking, and Todd M. Thompson -- 8 Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance Aishwary Kumar -- 9 International Relations Michelle Tusan -- 10 Beyond the Polis Jim McAloon -- Notes -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.