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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.

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.

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.

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

"When General William W. Hartzog, the ninth commanding general of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, authored the first edition of American Military Heritage in 1998, his vision was to create a concise introductory guide to the history of the United States Army. He wanted junior officers and noncommissioned officers to use it both as a tool for personal professional development and for the education and inspiration of the soldiers they led. The seventeenth commander, General Paul E. Funk II, believes just as passionately in the long heritage of the American profession of arms. He saw great value in revising this book to bring it up to date with the Army's history since the late 1990s, and he turned to the Army's Center of Military History (CMH), which has been a part of Training and Doctrine Command since 2019. The result of that collaborative process is Army History and Heritage"--

This book intends to provide the political, social, economic and cultural aspects of Indian history. It covers both ancient and medieval India up to the coming of the Europeans.

Poverty and charity in the pre-modern world : causes, perceptions, and strategies -- Poverty in the emerging global economy -- Innovations in early modern poor relief -- Industrialization, imperialism, and world poverty, 1750-1945 -- Poverty, morality, and the state, 1750-1945 -- Poverty and poor relief after 1945.

What appears on screen as `TV history' is limited by a number of possible factors; technological, financial and cultural. This article considers some of these limitations, as little is known about the processes whereby representations of the past are mediated, shaped and transformed through television. This raises pertinent questions about the construction, distribution and marketing of narratives about national and other pasts. Using oral history techniques in the research, this article seeks insights from historians involved in history programming; from this rich seam of information it focuses on two themes: the respondents' own representation on camera as historians, and their views on the style and modes of address of TV presenter-historians. This is analysed with reference to notions of charismatic television personalities and dominant narrative structures, drawing on, among others, Hayden White. It is suggested that these modes of address and televisual forms offer the viewer particular relationships to knowledge and ways of knowing.

The best and most instructive way to learn about philosophy is by examining the history of the field. For it is here that we come to see how its particulars are identified and addressed by some of humankind's sharpest intellects. Philosophy began hundreds of years BCE, and by now has grown to a scope and scale beyond acceptability by any single mind. But a sampling of episodes and issues can convey some idea of the nature of the field. And it is with this goal in view-clarifying the detail of some key philosophical issues-that these studies are being put into print. It is the aim of these forays into philosophical history to illustrate how contemporary perspectives, methods, and instruments of analysis can clarify some of the key philosophical teachings both by highlighting the difficulties they encounter and by providing instructive means for addressing them.

Profit ― getting more out of something than you put into it ― is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade networks that, with the European discovery of the Americas, made possible vast profits and sweeping cultural changes, to the detriment of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans; the industrial age united the world in trade and led to an energy revolution that changed lives everywhere. But when efficient production left society awash in goods, a new sort of capitalism, predicated on endless individual consumption, took its place. This story of incredible ingenuity and villainy begins in the Doge's palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos aboard his own spacecraft. Mark Stoll's revolutionary account places environmental factors at the heart of capitalism's progress and reveals the long shadow of its terrible consequences.

Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. Contributions by distinguished practitioners and critics of conceptual history from Europe and America illustrate both the distinctiveness and diversity of the genre. The first part of the book is devoted to the origins and identity of the field, as well as methodological issues. Part two presents exemplary studies focusing either on a particular concept (such as Maurizio Viroli's 'Reason of the State') or a particular approach to conceptual history (e.g. Bernard Scholz for literary criticism and Terence Ball for political science). The final, most innovative section of the book looks at concepts and art - high, bourgeois and demotic. Here Bram Kempers discusses the conceptual history of Raphael's frescos in the Stanza della Segnatura of the Vatican; Eddy de Jongh examines the linguistic character of much Dutch genre painting; and Rolf Reichardt considers the conceptual structure implicit in card games of the French Revolution, used to induct those on the margins of literacy into the new revolutionary world-view.