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Andrew Fitzmaurice

King Leopold's Ghostwriter

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the…

Ellen Gardner Nakamura,

Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this b…

Carl J. Strikwerda

The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order

"Carl Strikwerda's searching account of the collapse of the informal global order before the Great War and the reconstruction of a rules-based order after 1945 is of great importance in understanding…

Modernizing Europe's Imperial Monarchies

Up until recently, Europe's three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economi…

Places of Cohesion and Debate

This volume reunites contributions about 19th-century provincial theatres and their significance for local communities. Smaller theatres have long escaped the attention of researchers. Our current image o…

Robb Nelson

The Anatomy of Colorism in America

The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how tho…

A Robin Hoffman

Victorian Alphabet Books and the Education of the Eye

Explores what nineteenth-century alphabet books can tell us about literacy and constructions of childhood in Britain throughout this period. The volume shows how artists and writers including William Thac…

The Education and Training of Public Servants

Chapter 1: Introduction: Histories of Education and Training for Public Service.- Chapter 2: Australia.- Chapter 3: Austria and Czechoslovakia.- Chapter 4: Belgium.- Chapter 5: Canada.- Chapter 6: Finland…

The Art Market and the Museum

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on n…

Kelley Kreitz

Printing Nueva York

Uncovers the network of Spanish-language writers and editors in 19th-century New York, whose media innovations fueled anticolonial struggles and democratic idealsAt the end of the nineteenth century, New …

Geert Castryck

Space of Transformation

Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transforma…

Gerhart Zeller, Eric J. Engstrom, German E. Berrios

A History of 'Unitary Psychosis'

Chapter 1. A History of Unitary Psychosis: A Contribution to the Historical Epistemology of Nineteenth Century Psychiatry.- Chapter 2. The History of Unitary Psychosis Before Kraepelin.- Chapter 3. Die Ge…

Paulina Banas

Visualizing Egypt

"Bonaparte's short-lived 1798 campaign in Egypt, new possibilities of travel, and improvements in printing technology in nineteenth-century France and Britain, a new publishing business dedicated to …

Visual Memory and Oblivion

Over the past three years, monuments have been toppled or re-coded around the world, the latest against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. The contributions in this volume address the complex network of …

Never Finish(ed)

In many European countries, librarians and researchers are working to compile a detailed bibliographic overview of early modern books printed within a defined time frame and within territorial and linguis…

Laurie Anderson

Big Science (Red Vinyl)

“Laurie Anderson is the most compelling performer from New York City's bohemian art scene to land a recording contract since Patti Smith signed with Arista some six years ago. Big Science, Anderson's eeri…

Händel-Jahrbuch 2025, 71. Jahrgang

The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 4, the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

"This volume examines how writers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries transformed and propagated new ideas about rights, and offers a global perspective on rights-making. A comprehensive r…

Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

'This intriguing volume offers a significant contribution to the growing field of lived religion, i.e. religion from the perspective of laymen and women, who sought empowerment through their faith. The vo…