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Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70 (2012)
Journal Article
Wilcox, M. (2012). Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70. Business history, 54(5), 741-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.631128

It is well known that the railways facilitated the development of the British fishing industry in the nineteenth century. Using sources only recently made available for research, this article explores the relationship between the fish trade and railw... Read More about Railways, roads and the British white fish industry, 1920-70.

Pedagogical responses to the teaching of the transatlantic slave trade and its diasporic legacies in British schools (2012)
Book Chapter
Schwarz, S., & Evans, N. (2012). Pedagogical responses to the teaching of the transatlantic slave trade and its diasporic legacies in British schools. In The transatlantic slave trade and slavery: new directions in teaching and learning (128 - 167). Africa World Press

Papers from a workshop held Nov. 2010 in Toronto, sponsored by UNESCO.

Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK (2012)
Book Chapter
Craig, G., & Wilkinson, M. (2012). Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK. In Migration and welfare in the new Europe : social protection and the challenges of integration (177-194). Policy Press

In this chapter we explore important issues concerned with the social exclusion and social segregation of migrant workers in the UK.  Our main argument is that social and employment protection for this group of workers is often inadequate and the the... Read More about Wilful negligence: migration policy, migrants' work and the absence of social protection in the UK.

A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642 (2012)
Book
Prior, C. W. (2012). A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642. The University of Hull. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199698257.001.0001

A Confusion of Tongues examines the complex interaction of religion, history, and law in the period before the outbreak of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It questions interpretations of that conflict that emphasise either the purely doctrinal roots... Read More about A Confusion of Tongues: Britain's Wars of Reformation, 1625-1642.

Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Oral History Forum d’histoire Orale, 32(Special Issue),

This paper uses 51 oral history interviews with former military personnel, language trainers and locally-recruited interpreters to explore how soldiers and civilians were educated into becoming translators and interpreters who worked in support of th... Read More about Opening the black box: oral histories of how soldiers and civilians learned to translate and interpret during peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973 (2012)
Book
Smith, S. C. (2012). Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203143728

This book is a major and wide-ranging re-assessment of Anglo-American relations in the Middle Eastern context. It analyses the process of ending of empire in the Middle East from 1945 to the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Based on original research into bot... Read More about Ending Empire in the Middle East: Britain, the United States and Post-war decolonization, 1945-1973.

Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, D. J. (2012). Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire. In T. Devine, & J. Wormald (Eds.), Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563692.013.0023

The revitalization of Scottish history in the 1960s reawakened scholarly interest in overseas connections that had lain more or less dormant since the 1930s. As a result, eighteenth-century Scots have appeared as Virginian tobacco merchants, Jamaican... Read More about Scotland and the eighteenth-century empire.

‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Nineteenth Century Manila’ (2012)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2012). ‘A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-seismic Morphology of Nineteenth Century Manila’. In G. Bankoff, U. Lübken, & J. Sand (Eds.), Flammable Cities: Urban Fire and the Making of the Modern World (170 - 189). University of Wisconsin Press

Roles of the Sea: Views from the Shore (2012)
Book Chapter
Gorski, R. (2012). Roles of the Sea: Views from the Shore. In Roles of the Sea in Medieval England (44927). Boydell Press

Der kinderlose „roi philosophe": Herrschertugend und Sexualmoral (2012)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2012). Der kinderlose „roi philosophe": Herrschertugend und Sexualmoral. In Friedrich der Große in Europa: Geschichte einer wechselvollen Beziehung (21 - 35). Steiner

Preface to Johann Briesmann, Response to the Convolutions of Caspar Schatzgeyer, in Defense of Luther's Book "On Monastic Vows" (1523) (2012)
Book Chapter
Bagchi, D. (2012). Preface to Johann Briesmann, Response to the Convolutions of Caspar Schatzgeyer, in Defense of Luther's Book "On Monastic Vows" (1523). In Luther's Works: Prefaces 1 (23 - 36). Concordia Publishing House

‘“For the Good of the Barrio”: Community Associations and the State in the Rural Philippines 1935-1965’ (2012)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2012). ‘“For the Good of the Barrio”: Community Associations and the State in the Rural Philippines 1935-1965’. In E. Bogaerts, & R. Raben (Eds.), Beyond Empire and Nation: Decolonizing Societies in Africa and Asia, 1930s-1970s (167 - 188). KITLV Press. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004260443_009

The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008 (2012)
Book Chapter
Baker, C. (2012). The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008. In S. Fast, & K. Pegley (Eds.), Music, Politics, and Violence (60-82). Wesleyan University Press

© 2012 Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved. An essay by Dubravka Ugrešic tells the story of the singer "Neda U.," who "came from Sarajevo, and her songwriter, N., [who] came from Zagreb." Neda "became⋯ a Serb" during the war in Croatia whe... Read More about The afterlife of Neda Ukraden: Negotiating space and memory through popular music after the fall of Yugoslavia, 1990-2008.

Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina (2011)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2011). Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina. Südosteuropa, 59(4), 478-502

The foreign military forces and international organisations that have operated in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) since 1992 recruited thousands of local people, often young students, to work as interpreters. Drawing on 31 life history interviews conduc... Read More about Tito's children? : educational resources, language learning and cultural capital in the life histories of interpreters working in Boznia-Herzegovina.

Nach der Pfeife des Handels tanzen – die britische Seetransportindustrie von 1850 bis 1990 (2011)
Journal Article
Starkey, D. (2011). Nach der Pfeife des Handels tanzen – die britische Seetransportindustrie von 1850 bis 1990. Zeitschrift Für Weltgeschichte, 12(2), 45-75. https://doi.org/10.3726/84535_45

La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir (2011)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2011). La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir. In Chevalerie et christianisme aux xiie et xiiie siècles (123 - 135). Presses Universitaires de Rennes

A study of the degree of spirituality and religious practice exhibited by the mid-thirteenth century poet and novelist, Philippe de Remy (d.c. 1263), particularly looking at his poetry and his romance, La Manekine (c. 1239).  It examines the orthodox... Read More about La spiritualité de Philippe de Remy, bailli capétien, poète et seigneur de Beaumanoir.

British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf (2011)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2011). British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf. Orient: German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, 52(1), 17-22

In the aftermath of the 1956 Suez crisis, British policy-makers engaged in a long-running debate about the advantages and disadvantages of maintaining Britain's special role in the Gulf. Although British officials in the Gulf extolled the virtues of... Read More about British policy and the end of empire in the Gulf.

Historical concepts of disaster and risk (2011)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2011). Historical concepts of disaster and risk. In B. Wisner, J. Gaillard, & I. Kelman (Eds.), Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction (37-47). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203844236

Local connections, global ambitions : creating a transoceanic network in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic empire (2011)
Journal Article
Hamilton, D. J. (2011). Local connections, global ambitions : creating a transoceanic network in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic empire. International Journal of Maritime History, 23(2), 283-300. https://doi.org/10.1177/084387141102300214

Military service and the dynamics of recruitment in fourteenth-century England (2011)
Book Chapter
Ayton, A. (2011). Military service and the dynamics of recruitment in fourteenth-century England. In A. R. Bell, A. Curry, A. Chapman, A. King, & D. Simpkin (Eds.), . Boydell & Brewer