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Gender is a good place from which to start reflections on European history: gender history deliberately transcends borders and, at the same time, demonstrates the difficulties of writing European, or transnational, history. Focusing on recent syntheses of modern European history, both general works and those specifically devoted to gender, the article asks what kind of Europe emerges from the encounter between gender and history. It suggests that the writing of European history includes either Eastern Europe (and, sometimes, the Ottoman Empire) or a gender perspective, but seldom both. Thus, the projects of integrating a European dimension into gender history and gender into European history remain unfinished. The result is a history of a rather 'small Europe'.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- List Of Tables -- Introduction:Toward A History Of Suicide In Early Modern Europe / Watt, Jeffrey R. -- 1. The Judicial Treatment of Suicide in Amsterdam / Bosman, Machiel -- 2. Suicide and the Vicar General in London:A Mystery Solved? / Seaver, Paul S. -- 3. Controlling the Body of the Suicide in Saxony / Koslofsky, Craig M. -- 4. The Suicidal Mind and Body: Examples from Northern Germany / Lind, Vera -- 5. Suicidal Murders in Stockholm / Jansson, Arne -- 6. Ambivalence toward Suicide in Golden Age Spain / Dickenson, Elizabeth G. / Boyden, James M. -- 7. Honfibú: Nationhood, Manhood, and the Culture of Self-Sacrifice in Hungary / Lederer, David -- 8. Suicide, Gender, and Religion:The Case of Geneva / Watt, Jeffrey R. -- 9. Suicide in Paris, 1775 / Merrick, Jeffrey -- 10. The Suicide of Sir Samuel Romilly:Apotheosis or Outrage? / Andrew, Donna T. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

"Officially founded in 1821, The Montreal General Hospital is recognized as a pioneering institution in North America for the many developments in medical research discovered there and is also known for its early association with the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University--the first medical school in Canada. Covering nearly 200 years of history, The General relates the story of the hospital from its early development and founding to the transition and aftermath of its incorporation into the McGill University Health Centre in 1997. With contributions that show the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, surgeons, professors, and administrators, chapters chronicle particular departments and specializations of the hospital, including cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, obstetrics, emergency medicine, pathology, and radiology, with several more chapters focused on nursing, administration, and governance. Among the major turning points in the history of the hospital were the introduction of autopsy pathology by Sir William Osler, the debut of the electrocardiograph by Thomas Cotton in 1914, the discovery of a malignant tumour marker by Phil Gold and Samuel Freedman in 1965, its transformation from a community hospital serving anglophone Montreal to an internationally recognized academic centre during the 1950s and '60s, and changes in governance due to the 1970 Quebec Medicare Act. Both a collective reminiscence and an extensive institutional history, The General is an engaging account of one prominent hospital's origins and transformations throughout the years."--

Post-war Marshall Plan aid to Europe and indeed Ireland is well documented, but practically nothing is known about simultaneous Irish aid to Europe. This book provides a full record of the aid – mainly food but also clothes, blankets, medicines, etc. – that Ireland donated to continental Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Hungary, the Balkans, Italy, and zones of occupied Germany. Starting with Ireland's neutral wartime record, often wrongly presented as pro-German when Ireland in fact unofficially favoured the western Allies, Jerome aan de Wiel explains why Éamon de Valera's government sent humanitarian aid to the devastated continent. His book analyses the logistics of collection and distribution of supplies sent abroad as far as the Greek islands. Despite some alleged Cold-War hijacking of Irish relief – and this humanitarianism was not above the politics of that East-West confrontation – it became mostly a story of hope, generosity and European Christian solidarity. Rich archival records from Ireland and the European beneficiary countries, as well as contemporary local and national newspapers across Europe, allow the author to measure and describe not only the official but also the popular response to Irish relief schemes. This work is illustrated with contemporary photographs and some key graphs and tables that show the extent of the aid programme

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. Mainsprings of Growth -- THREE. The Postwar Situation -- FOUR. Dawn of the Golden Age -- FIVE. Eastern Europe and the Planned Economy -- SIX. The Integration of Western Europe -- SEVEN. The Apex of the Golden Age -- EIGHT. Mounting Payments Problems -- NINE. Declining Growth, Rising Rigidities -- TEN. The Collapse of Central Planning -- ELEVEN. Integration and Adjustment -- TWELVE. Europe at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century -- THIRTEEN. The Future of the European Model -- APPENDIX. Sources of Growth -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

How did medieval Europeans use and change their environments, think about the natural world, and try to handle the natural forces affecting their lives? This groundbreaking environmental history examines medieval relationships with the natural world from the perspective of social ecology, viewing human society as a hybrid of the cultural and the natural. Richard Hoffmann's interdisciplinary approach sheds important light on such central topics in medieval history as the decline of Rome, religious doctrine, urbanization and technology, as well as key environmental themes, among them energy use, sustainability, disease and climate change. Revealing the role of natural forces in events previously seen as purely human, the book explores issues including the treatment of animals, the 'tragedy of the commons', agricultural clearances and agrarian economies. By introducing medieval history in the context of social ecology, it brings the natural world into historiography as an agent and object of history itself