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The focus is on British imperial motivation, action, responsibility and failure. The unexpected British adoption of Zionism in 1917 (and, more significant, its consolidated commitment in the 1922 Mandate) was neither inevitable nor (at that time, especially) necessary. It was ill-judged and defied argument, evidence, reason, and British interests (and contemporary experience in Ireland). 0As the correspondent John Jeffries noted in 1939, from 1923 there were only consequences. British sponsorship of Jewish colonisation directed towards a Jewish National Home/state in Palestine led inexorably to bitter conflict. Arab revolt and the Peel Commission brought a fatally divided "Israel" into embryonic existence before World War Two

Pulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed. Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive items-and often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on a bed in the parlor. In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a place for sex, death, childbirth, storytelling, and sociability as well as sleeping. But who did what with whom, why, and how could vary incredibly depending on the time and place. It is only in the modern era that the bed has transformed into a private, hidden zone, and its rich social history has largely been forgotten

Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: food, health and housing, sex and gender, education, religi (Christianity, Islam and Judaism), sport and leisure, festivals. There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the gulag, life as a peasant, life in the military and what it was like to be disabled in Stalin's Russia. The book also engages with the wider Soviet Union wherever possible to ensure the most in-depth discussion of life, in all its minutiae, under Stalin.

"Du 17 août 1792 au 31 mai 1795, la salle des Libertés, au coeur du Palais de Justice de Paris, résonna du plus tragique des épisodes de la Révolution française. Sous l'autorité de l'Accusateur public, le tristement célèbre Fouquier-Tinville, le Tribunal révolutionnaire envoya à l'échafaud plus de 2500 personnes. En s'appuyant sur les actes des procès, les journaux d'époque et les dossiers inédits de certains accusés, Emmanuel Pierrat livre le récit terrifiant de ces années de guerre civile. 0Sous sa plume, audience après audience, prennent vie les partisans d'un retour à la paix, les tenants d'une justice implacable, mais aussi les 'traîtres'. Marie-Antionette, Danton, Olympe de Gouges, Philippe Egalité, Madame Roland, Camille Desmoulins, Jean-Pierre Brissot, Saint-Just, Robespierre. Nombreux sont ceux qui sont passés du rang de juge au box des accusés. En plongeant au coeur de la machine judiciaire révolutionnaire, Emmanuel Pierrat dresse le portrait de ce Tribunal de la Terreur, miroir d'un pays 'qui ne se réforme pas' mais se juge lui-même avec ardeur."--Back cover

The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons, attacks by political leaders on historians, iconoclastic breaks with the past, and fake news. Part II, "Fragile freedom," reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship.

Introduction: a field of movements -- Antecedents: a wide arc (prior to 1945) -- The great acceleration and the rise of environmentalism (1945-1964) -- Expanding the field of movements: from the wilderness act to superfund (1964-1980) -- Conservative countermovement and the rise of environmental justice (1980-1990) -- Globalizing environmentalism (1990-2001) -- Intersectional activism and climate justice (2001-2018) -- Hope in a strange season.