All Outputs (12)

Conservation and colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the birth of tropical forestry in the Philippines (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Conservation and colonialism: Gifford Pinchot and the birth of tropical forestry in the Philippines. In A. W. McCoy, & F. A. Scarano (Eds.), Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State (479-488). University of Wisconsin Press

Armies and military communities in fourteenth-century England (2009)
Book Chapter
Ayton, A. C. (2009). Armies and military communities in fourteenth-century England. In P. R. Coss, & C. Tyerman (Eds.), Soldiers, nobles and gentlemen: essays in honour of Maurice Keen (215-239). Boydell & Brewer

The Rediscovery of the Native American (2009)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2009). The Rediscovery of the Native American. In D. Seed (Ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction (183-194). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444310108.ch15

Native American Indian literature is an active, potentially activist literature. This is not to suggest that it is unentertaining, unfunny, or that it has no aesthetic impact. Yet it is hard to read the great diverse mix that is Native American liter... Read More about The Rediscovery of the Native American.

The Enlightenment (2009)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2009). The Enlightenment. In M. Griffin (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Julius Caesar (399-409). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444308440.ch26

Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005(The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the New Century?) (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Vorzeichen für das neue Jahrhundert? Der Tsunami im Indischen Ozean 2004 und der Hurrikan Katrina im Golf von Mexiko 2005(The Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico 2005: Portends of the New Century?). In G. J. Schenk (Ed.), Katastrophen: Vom Untergang Pompejis bis zum Klimawandel (191 - 204). Thorbecke

Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines, 1600-1946 (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Wood for War: The Legacy of Human Conflict on the Forests of the Philippines, 1600-1946. In War and the Environment: Military Destruction in the Modern Age (32 - 48). A&M University Press

Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000 (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Cultures of Disaster, Cultures of Coping: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience in the Philippines, 1600-2000. In C. Mauch, & C. Pfister (Eds.), Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses: Case Studies Toward a Global Environmental History (265 - 284). Lexington Books

Natural Hazards (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Natural Hazards. In The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (753 - 756). Palgrave-Macmillan

Between Three Realms: the Acts of Waleran II, count of Meulan and Worcester (2009)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2009). Between Three Realms: the Acts of Waleran II, count of Meulan and Worcester. In Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm (75 - 90). Boydell

An examination of the means by which a multinational aristocrat would administer his lands across NW Europe and the written instruments by which he would do so.  A look at the transmission of characteristic diplomatic forms across national boundaries... Read More about Between Three Realms: the Acts of Waleran II, count of Meulan and Worcester.

La cour seigneuriale en Angleterre, xiie-xiiie siècles' (2009)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2009). La cour seigneuriale en Angleterre, xiie-xiiie siècles'. In Les Seigneuries dans l'espace Plantagenêt (c.1150-c.1250) (31 - 40). Ausonius

A study of the interaction between private and royal justice in post-Conquest England, with a critical stance as to the supposed adversarial relationship between king and barons.  Proposes instead the integration of royal and seigneurial justice.

Napoleon's second Sacre? Iéna and the ceremonial translation of Frederick the Great's Insignia in 1807 (2009)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2009). Napoleon's second Sacre? Iéna and the ceremonial translation of Frederick the Great's Insignia in 1807. In A. Forrest, & P. H. Wilson (Eds.), The Bee and the Eagle: Napoleonic France and the End of the Holy Roman Empire, 1806 (172-190). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230236738_10

By the end of 1806, and within only a few months, Napoleon had completely overthrown the political order of central Europe. In summer, the Confederation of the Rhine had been set up under French domination, and the Holy Roman Empire had been dissolve... Read More about Napoleon's second Sacre? Iéna and the ceremonial translation of Frederick the Great's Insignia in 1807.

Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period (2009)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2009). Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period. In E. Bar-Yosef, & N. Valman (Eds.), 'The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa (80-97). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594371_5

At the end of the nineteenth century, Britain governed one-quarter of the globe; her merchant and naval fleets ruled the waves. Yet despite being the most powerful industrial nation on earth, Britain panicked in the last decades of the Victorian era,... Read More about Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period.