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The relationship between Australian political and social history has received little historiographical attention. Political history has been lauded or, more often, dismissed as traditional historical practice, while from the 1960s social history took its

The relationship between Australian political and social history has received little historiographical attention. Political history has been lauded or, more often, dismissed as traditional historical practice, while from the 1960s social history took its

Abstract
Islands have played a much larger role in global history than their small size may suggest. The study of islands, once a part of maritime history, has since 2006 grown into its own interdisciplinary field of "island studies." The three books analysed in this review all stand to contribute to the new field. The books under review are The Boundless Sea (2019), A World at Sea (2020), and África y sus islas (2021). Island-specific topics advanced by these books include islands as nodes in trade networks, the detrimental influence of colonisation on island environments, the use of islands as locations to escape from slavery, ethnographic descriptions of islands, and indigenous knowledge produced by islanders.

McHardy presents a new approach to history, changing our mindset to look at Scotland as the centre of our story. Rather than starting from the Mediterranean, from the classical/Christian bias we have been taught for centuries. Rather than being a remote dark land populated by barbaric tribes. Perhaps we were the centre of a well-organised civilisation around the Orkneys and islands and coasts and rivers, with our own priorities, community-centred, locally self-sufficient, well-versed in lore of all kinds. Who were/are we? The great centres of ritual in Orkney, Lewis and Kilmartin suggest an indigenous population much more sophisticated in terms of social ritual and communal rule than we have been led to believe. In whose interest is it that we accept the classical/Christian version of history relayed to us by monks? These are some of the questions McHardy addresses in a passionate and accessible style. Read and become more Alba-centric in terms of what we see as important to research, study and understand.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION 1: HISTORY AND METHODOLOGY -- Gender in Caribbean History -- Sex and Gender in the Historiography of Caribbean Slavery -- Dress as Jamaican History -- Women's History in Puerto RicanHistoriography: The Last Thirty Years -- Gender and Memory: Oral History and Women's History -- SECTION 2: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Mères Pacifiques, Femmes Rebelles?: Women in Pre-Colonial Africa- An Overview -- The Sociology of Gender: Theoretical Perspectives and Feminist Frameworks -- Women and Difference in Caribbean Gender Theory: Notes towards a Strategic Universalist Feminism -- Gender Politics and Imperial Politics: Rethinking the Histories of Empire -- Writing Gender into History: The Negotiation of Gender Relations among Indian Men and Women in Post-Indenture Trinidad Society, 1917-47 -- SECTION 3: WOMEN, COLONISATION AND REPRESENTATION -- Women in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean -- 'The Eye of the Beholder': Contemporary European Images of Black Women -- Gender and Representation in European Accounts of Pre-Emancipation Jamaica -- 'But Most of all Mi Love Mi Browning': The Emergence in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Jamaica of th eMulatto Woman as Desired -- White Women and Colonialism: Towardsa Non-Recuperative History -- SECTION 4: WOMEN AND ENSLAVEMENT -- The Black Woman: Demographic Profile,Occupation and Abuse -- Women in New World Slavery -- Enslaved Women on Jamaican Pens -- Women, the Womb and Weaning: Natural Increase on Eighteenth-century Sugar Plantations -- Street Vendors, Pedlars, Shop-Owners and Domestics: Some Aspects of Women's Economic Roles in Nineteenth-century San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1820-70 -- Enslaved African Women in Cuban Economy during the Nineteenth Century.

This book challenges the common view that Michael Oakeshott was mainly important as a political philosopher by offering the first comprehensive study of his ideas on history. It argues that Oakeshott's writings on the philosophy of history mark him out as the most successful of the philosophers who attempted to establish historical study as an autonomous form of thought during the twentieth century. It also contends that his work on the history of political thought is best seen in the contex