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The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2024)
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Baker, C. (Ed.). (2024). The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003328162

The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region. The vibrant growth of this subject area... Read More about The Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans.

Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race (2024)
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Baker, C., Iacob, B. C., Imre, A., & Mark, J. (Eds.). (2024). Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526172211

This volume foregrounds racial difference as a key to an alternative history of the Central and Eastern European region, which revolves around the role of whiteness as the unacknowledged foundation of semi-peripheral nation-states and national identi... Read More about Off white: Central and Eastern Europe and the global history of race.

Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery (2022)
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Byrne, J. (2022). Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery. Liverpool University Press

Beyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting... Read More about Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery.

Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett (2021)
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Porter, J. (2021). Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett. Bloomsbury Press

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank "Toronto" Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI. Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and... Read More about Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War: The Making of Frank Prewett.

Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America (2020)
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Prior, C. (2020). Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108883979

The aim of this short book is to foreground Native American conceptions of sovereignty and power in order to refine the place of settler colonialism in American colonial and early republican history. It argues that Indigenous concepts of sovereignty... Read More about Settlers in Indian Country: Sovereignty and Indigenous Power in Early America.

The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age (2019)
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Halkon, P. (Ed.). (2019). The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age. Oxford: Oxbow Books

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Barro... Read More about The Arras Culture of Eastern Yorkshire – Celebrating the Iron Age.

Preußendämmerung : Die Abdankung der Hohenzollern und das Ende Preußens (2019)
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Biskup, T., Vu Minh, T., & Luh, J. (Eds.). (2019). Preußendämmerung : Die Abdankung der Hohenzollern und das Ende Preußens. Berlin: perspectivia.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.544

On the 9th of November 1918, the German Chancellor, Max Prince of Baden, announced the twofold abdication of Wilhelm II, as German Emperor and as King of Prussia. Nearly thirty years later, and two years after World War II had ended, the Allied Contr... Read More about Preußendämmerung : Die Abdankung der Hohenzollern und das Ende Preußens.

Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, 1971-1981 (2019)
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Smith, S. C. (2019). Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, 1971-1981. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315733883

Although Britain's formal imperial role in the smaller, oil-rich sheikdoms of the Arab Gulf - Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates - ended in 1971, Britain continued to have a strong interest and continuing presence in the region. This... Read More about Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, 1971-1981.

Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (2019)
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Smithers, G. (2019). Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal. University of Oklahoma Press

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithe... Read More about Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal.

Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016 (2018)
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Ray, K. (2018). Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016. Tennessee Historical Society

Volume VII of the Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly begins with the ending year of Volume VI, which covered 1971-1991. The Biographical Directory series is based on the two-year legislative session; this volume covers the 97th... Read More about Biographical Directory of the Tennessee General Assembly, Volume VII: 1992-2016.

Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial? (2018)
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Baker, C. (2018). Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?. Manchester University Press

This is the first book to situate the territories and collective identities of former Yugoslavia within the politics of race - not just ethnicity - and the history of how ideas of racialised difference have been translated globally. The book connects... Read More about Race and the Yugoslav region: postsocialist, post-conflict, postcolonial?.

The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences (2016)
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Burgess, G., Wymer, R., & Lawrence, J. (2016). The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501584

This book analyzes the consequences of the accession of James I in 1603 for English and British history, politics, literature and culture. Questioning the extent to which 1603 marked a radical break with the past, the book explores the Scottish, Wels... Read More about The accession of James I: Historical and cultural consequences.

Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes (2015)
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Woodhouse, H., Millett, M., & Halkon, P. (Eds.). (2015). Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes. Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society

This volume presents the results of fieldwork and artefact research that began in 1993 and continued until 2011. It is the third volume from a long term research programme focussed on East Yorkshire that has also produced two other major publications... Read More about Hayton, East Yorkshire: Archaeological Studies of the Iron Age and Roman Landscapes.

The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (2015)
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Smithers, G. (2015). The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. Yale University Press

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one... Read More about The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity.

The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (2015)
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Baker, C. (2015). The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan

Catherine Baker offers an up-to-date, balanced and concise introductory account of the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. The volume incorporates the latest research, showing how the state of the field has evolved and guides students thr... Read More about The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s.

Gallipoli (2015)
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Macleod, J. (2015). Gallipoli. Oxford University Press