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Drawing from accounts of colonial experience in western Kenya, Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya examines the government's efforts to enforce certain land management programs in relation to its initiatives to revive and co-opt African "traditions" in soil conservation and land consolidation programs. Martin Shanguhyia analyzes how these programs were negotiated or contested by the local community; further, he argues that their legacy continues to define the everyday experiences of the rural population in Vihiga County, Western Province, notably in termsof high population densities and diminishing returns from the land. Relying on a rich collection of archival sources as well as oral interviews, the book explores the intersection between government policies, demography, and community traditions within a rapidly declining natural environment and adds significantly to our understanding of Africa's environmental history.
Martin Shanguhyiais assistant professor of history at Syracuse University.
Land use --- Soil conservation --- History. --- African traditions. --- Colonial Kenya. --- Community. --- Environmental Control. --- Historical analysis. --- Land management. --- Politics. --- Population. --- Society. --- Tradition.
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This book provides a comprehensive revision and analysis of Normandy, its rulers, and governance between the traditional date for the foundation of the duchy, 911, and the completion of the conquest led by Count Geoffrey V of the Angevins, 1144. It examines how the Norman dukes were able to establish and then to maintain themselves in their duchy, providing a new historical narrative in the process. It also explores the various tools that they used to promote and enforce their authority, from the recruitment of armies to the use of symbolism and emotions at court. In particular, it also seeks to come to terms with the practicalities of ducal power, and reveals that it was framed and promoted from the bottom up as much as from the top down. Dr Mark Hagger is Senior Lecturer in History, School of History, Welsh History and Archaeology, Bangor University.
Normandy (France) --- Normandie (France) --- Basse-Normandie (France) --- Haute-Normandie (France) --- History --- Politics and government --- To 1515 --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Normandy. --- analysis. --- conquests. --- ducal power. --- dukes. --- geographical. --- geography. --- historical analysis. --- history. --- medieval history. --- middle ages. --- political. --- politics. --- tenth centuryl. --- war.
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The politics of public health in modern democracies concerns the balance between rights and responsibilities. This equilibrium of citizenship is under perpetual negotiation, but it was particularly intense in mid-nineteenth-century Britain when public health became deeply embedded as a state practice. Using extensive archival research, Intrusive Interventions examines the contested realm ofVictorian liberal subjectivity through an interconnected group of policies: infectious disease reporting, domestic quarantine, mandatory removal to isolation hospital, contact tracing, and the disinfection of homes and belongings. These techniques of infectious disease surveillance eventually became one of the most powerful and controversial set of tools in modern public health.
One of the crucial questions for liberal democracies has been how the state relates to the private family in shaping duties, responsibilities, rights, and needs. Intrusive Interventions argues that thegaze of public health was retrained onto everyday behaviors and demonstrates that infectious disease surveillance attempted to govern through the agency of family and through the concept of domesticity. This fresh interpretation of public health practice during the Victorian and Edwardian periods complements studies that have examined domestic visiting, the infant welfare movement, child protection, and school welfare.
Graham Mooney is an assistant professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
Communicable diseases --- Epidemiology --- Medicine, Preventive --- Public health --- History --- Edwardian era. --- Public health. --- Victorian era. --- disease control. --- health policies. --- historical analysis. --- infectious disease surveillance. --- political ideologies. --- public health practice. --- spatial practices.
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Film criticism is in crisis. Dwelling on the many film journalists made redundant at newspapers, magazines, and other 'old media' in past years, commentators have voiced existential questions about the purpose and worth of the profession in the age of WordPress blogospheres and proclaimed the 'death of the critic'. Bemoaning the current anarchy of internet amateurs and the lack of authoritative critics, many journalists and academics claim that in the digital age, cultural commentary has become dumbed down and fragmented into niche markets. Mattias Freu, arguing against these claims, examines the history of film critical discourse in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He demonstrates that since its origins, film criticism has always found itself in crisis: the need to show critical authority and the anxieties over challenges to that authority have been longstanding concerns.
Film --- Film criticism --- #SBIB:309H522 --- Motion picture criticism --- Motion pictures --- Moving-picture criticism --- Criticism --- Methodology --- History. --- Audiovisuele communicatie: kritiek --- Evaluation --- Methodology&delete& --- History --- Film criticism. --- Journalism --- Film criticism, critical authority, digital, journalism, historical analysis, new media. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- History and criticism
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"Iran’s particular system of traditional Persian art music has been long treated as the product of an ever-evolving, ancient Persian culture. In Music of a Thousand Years, Ann E. Lucas argues that this music is a modern phenomenon indelibly tied to changing notions of Iran’s national history. Rather than considering a single Persian music history, Lucas demonstrates cultural dissimilarity and discontinuity over time, bringing to light two different notions of music-making in relation to premodern and modern musical norms. An important corrective to the history of Persian music, Music of a Thousand Years is the first work to align understandings of Middle Eastern music history with current understandings of the region’s political history." --Back cover.
Music --- Maqām. --- Dastgāh. --- History and criticism. --- Melody --- Music theory --- Musical intervals and scales --- Makam --- Muğam --- Mugham --- Nagham --- ancient persian culture. --- changing notions. --- cultural dissimilarity. --- discontinuity. --- entertainment. --- ethnomusicology. --- historical analysis. --- iran history. --- iran. --- middle eastern music. --- modern musical norms. --- modern phenomenon. --- music making. --- music. --- national history. --- persian art music. --- persian music history. --- political history. --- premodern.
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The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial in the development of England's character: its language, and much of its landscape and culture, were forged in the period between the fifth and the eleventh centuries. Historians and archaeologists have long been fascinated by its regional variations, by the way in which different parts of the country displayed marked differences in social structures, settlement patterns, and field systems. In this controversial and wide-ranging study, the author argues that such differences were largely a consequence of environmental factors: of the influence of climate, soils and hydrology, and of the patterns of contact and communication engendered by natural topography. He also suggests that such environmental influences have been neglected over recent decades by generations of scholars who are embedded in an urban culture and largely divorced from the natural world; and that an appreciation of the fundamental role of physical geography in shaping human affairs can throw much new light on a number of important debates about early medieval society. The book will be essential reading for all those interested in the character of the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian settlements, in early medieval social and territorial organization, and in the origins of the England's medieval landscapes. Tom Williamson is Professor of Landscape History, University of East Anglia; he has written widely on landscape archaeology, agricultural history, and the history of landscape design.
Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Historical geography. --- Histoire --- Géographie historique --- HISTORY / Medieval. --- Anglo-Saxon Period. --- Anglo-Saxon period. --- Early Medieval Society. --- Early medieval England. --- England. --- Field Systems. --- Geographical Features. --- Landscape. --- Natural Environment. --- Physical Geography. --- Regional Variations. --- Settlement Patterns. --- Social Structures. --- environment. --- field systems. --- geographical features. --- historical analysis. --- landscape. --- physical geography. --- settlement patterns. --- social structures. --- Land settlement --- Land tenure
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This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving together these women's voices with an accessible, cutting-edge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a resilient, resourceful, and courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values, and creating positive new lives for themselves and their children. What emerges from this penetrating study is a clear message about what all families-two-parent as well as single parent-must have to succeed: decent jobs at a living wage, comprehensive health care, and preschool and after-school care. In a final chapter, Sidel gives a broad political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the U.S. to the social policies and ideologies of other countries.
Single mothers --- Welfare recipients --- Mothers --- Single parents --- Single women --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- america. --- american dream. --- childrearing. --- class differences. --- divorce. --- emotional. --- family relationships. --- gender studies. --- historical analysis. --- modern motherhood. --- moms. --- motherhood. --- nonfiction. --- nontraditional families. --- parenthood. --- political analysis. --- politics of parenthood. --- raising children. --- separation. --- single motherhood. --- single mothers. --- single parenting. --- social classes. --- social policies. --- sociological perspective. --- sociologists. --- united states. --- widows. --- women.
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Early Spanish explorers in the late eighteenth century found springtime California covered with spectacular carpets of wildflowers from San Francisco to San Diego. Yet today, invading plant species have devastated this nearly forgotten botanical heritage. In this lively, vividly detailed work, Richard A. Minnich synthesizes a unique and wide-ranging array of sources-from the historic accounts of those early explorers to the writings of early American botanists in the nineteenth century, newspaper accounts in the twentieth century, and modern ecological theory-to give the most comprehensive historical analysis available of the dramatic transformation of California's wildflower prairies. At the same time, his groundbreaking book challenges much current thinking on the subject, critically evaluating the hypothesis that perennial bunchgrasses were once a dominant feature of California's landscape and instead arguing that wildflowers filled this role. As he examines the changes in the state's landscape over the past three centuries, Minnich brings new perspectives to topics including restoration ecology, conservation, and fire management in a book that will change our of view of native California.
Wild flowers --- Plant invasions --- Biological invasions --- Bio-invasions --- Bioinvasions --- Invasions, Biological --- Natural selection --- Population biology --- Wildflowers --- Flowers --- Plant succession --- Invasive plants --- biodiversity. --- botanicals. --- california history. --- california wildflowers. --- conservation. --- dramatic transformation. --- ecological theory. --- ecology. --- fire management. --- groundbreaking book. --- historical analysis. --- invasive plants. --- landscapes. --- minnich. --- native california plants. --- san diego. --- spanish explorer. --- wildfire. --- wildflower prairies.
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New insights into key texts and interpretive problems in the history of England and Europe between the eighth and thirteenth centuries.
Middle Ages. --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- Middle Ages --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- History --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Europe --- Great Britain --- Medieval civilization --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Haskins Society Journal. --- academic research. --- historical analysis. --- historical context. --- historical insights. --- historical writing. --- medieval England. --- medieval Europe. --- medieval culture. --- medieval history. --- medieval manuscripts. --- medieval scholarship. --- medieval studies. --- scholarly research.
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This book is a detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household, focussing on the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. Going beyond the exploration of the domestic economy and trends in living standards and consumption, it shows how close examination of the material context within which the household operated can provide evidence of its habitual activities, the relationships between its members, and the values that informed both. The book uses a familiar source, the probate inventory, supplemented by other contemporary written and pictorial evidence, to reveal how activities in the household were directly related to the agricultural, mercantile, and social environment. It illustrates the variable and shifting nature of social relationships and shows how the early modern household was part of the wider economic and social narrative of modernism and how it responded to altered modes of production and consumption, social allegiances, and ideologies. Offering new perspectives to reinvigorate the discussion of domestic relationships and rigorously examine the vexed question of change, Domestic Culture in Early Modern England will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of material culture as well as historians of the household and family more generally.
Antony Buxton lectures on design history, material and domestic culture for the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford and other institutions. He has published articles in various scholarly journals and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.
Households --- History --- England --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions --- Population --- Families --- Home economics --- Material culture --- History. --- Thame (England) --- Social life and customs. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Thame (Oxfordshire) --- Early modern England. --- agricultural. --- domestic life. --- historical analysis. --- material context. --- material culture. --- mercantile. --- probate inventory. --- social environment. --- social relationships.
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