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"Do women have a history? Did women have a renaissance? These were provocative questions when they were raised in the heyday of women's studies in the 1970s. But how relevant does gender remain to premodern history in the twenty-first century? This book considers this question in eight new case studies that span the European continent from 1400 to 1800. An introductory essay examines the category of gender in historiography and specifically within premodern historiography, as well as the issue of source material for historians of the period. The eight individual essays seek to examine gender in relation to emerging fields and theoretical considerations, as well as how premodern history contributes to traditional concepts and theories within women's and gender studies, such as patriarchy"--

Were there nations in antiquity? / Anthony D. Smith -- The idea of the nation as a political community / Susan Reynolds -- Changes in the political uses of the nation: continuity or discontinuity? / John Breuilly -- Germanic power structures: the early English experience / Patrick Wormald -- The historiography of the Anglo-Saxon 'nation-state' / Sarah Foot -- Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland / Robin Frame -- Late medieval Germany: an under-stated nation? / Len Scales -- The state and Russian national identity / Geoffrey Hosking -- Ordering the kaleidoscope: the construction of identities in the lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth since 1569 / Robert Frost -- Nationhood at the margin: identity, regionality and the English crown in the seventeenth century / Tim Thorton -- The nation in the age of revolution / Ian McBride -- Enemies of the nation? Nobles, foreigners, and the constitution of national citizenship in the French Revolution / Jennifer Heuer -- Nation, nations and power in Italy, c. 1700-1915 / Stuart Woolf -- Political institutions and nationhood in Germany, 1750-1914 / Abigail Green -- Nation, nationalism and power in Switzerland, c. 1760-1900 / Oliver Zimmer -- Nation and power in the liberal state: Britain c. 1800-c. 1914 / Peter Mandler

"The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past. As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which are represented in the 35 chapters of this book. As well as diplomatic, political, institutional, economic, and social history, the The Oxford Handbook of Postwar European History contains chapters which approach the past through the lenses of gender, espionage, art and architecture, technology, agriculture, heritage, postcolonialism, memory, and generational change, and shows how the history of postwar Europe can be enriched by looking to disciplines such as anthropology and philosophy. The Handbook covers all of Europe, with a notable focus on Eastern Europe. Including subjects as diverse as the meaning of 'Europe' and European identity, southern Europe after dictatorship, the cultural meanings of the bomb, the 1968 student uprisings, immigration, Americanization, welfare, leisure, decolonization, the Wars of Yugoslav Succession, and coming to terms with the Nazi past, the thirty five essays in this Handbook offer an unparalleled coverage of postwar European history that offers far more than the standard Cold War framework. Readers will find self-contained, state-of-the-art analyses of major subjects, each written by acknowledged experts, as well as stimulating and novel approaches to newer topics. Combining empirical rigour and adventurous conceptual analysis, this Handbook offers in one substantial volume a guide to the numerous ways in which historians are now rewriting the history of postwar Europe"--