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"Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests (2013)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2013). "Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests. Environmental History, 18(3), 523-556. https://doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emt037

Little attention has been paid to writing a more inclusive forest history of the Philippines, one that combines a biocentric and anthropocentric focus. Deep forestry is an attempt to do just that. It shows how the forest was shaped by climate, soil,... Read More about "Deep forestry": Shapers of the Philippine forests.

Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660 (2013)
Journal Article
Prior, C. W. (2013). Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660. Seventeenth Century, 28(1), 37-61. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2012.758420

This essay examines the use of Hebrew sources in debates on church and state in civil war England. It fits within a developing historiography that seeks to uncover the deeper texture of early modern political discourse, and also poses questions about... Read More about Hebraism and the problem of church and state in England, 1642–1660.

The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk (2013)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2013). The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk. Environment and History, 19(1), 3-37. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734013X13528328438992

The history of much of England is written in water. Water has not only shaped England's prosperity and external relations but it has also been a significant factor in fashioning its internal fabric. In particular, large areas of the eastern coastline... Read More about The 'English lowlands' and the North Sea basin system: a history of shared risk.

Introduction (2013)
Book Chapter
Haseldine, J. (2013). Introduction. In J. Hall (Ed.), John of Salisbury: Metalogicon (1-16). Brepols. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.cct-eb.5.105892

Account of life of John of Salisbury incorporating review of recent scholarship with original contributions; account of works of John of Salisbury; introductions to twelfth-century education and to Aristotelianism; original synopsis of text; account... Read More about Introduction.

Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War (2013)
Journal Article
Prior, C. W. (2013). Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War. History compass, 11(1), 24-42. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12025

Religion has always been central to explanations of the political and ideological causes and course of the English civil war. Where historians once privileged aspects of the conflict that associated it with a broader narrative about the historic deve... Read More about Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War.

Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina. Slavic Review, 71(4), 849-872. https://doi.org/10.5612/slavicreview.71.4.0849

This article uses life history interview data collected during a project on languages and peace support operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina to consider, as an occupational group, people from former Yugoslavia who were employed as interpreters by foreign... Read More about Prosperity without security: The precarity of interpreters in postsocialist, postconflict Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The Mariner in fourteenth-century England (2012)
Book Chapter
Lambert, C., & Ayton, A. (2012). The Mariner in fourteenth-century England. In Fourteenth Century England VII (153-176). Cambridge University Press

The Shipman is among the most colourful, and yet enigmatic, of the Canterbury pilgrims who rub shoulders in Geoffrey Chaucer's exuberantly drawn group portrait of the middling ranks of late fourteenth-century English society. The vivid character sket... Read More about The Mariner in fourteenth-century England.

Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina (2012)
Book
Kelly, M., & Baker, C. (2012). Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Palgrave Macmillan

Interpreting the Peace is the first full-length study of language support in multinational peace operations. Building peace depends on being able to communicate with belligerents, civilians and forces from other countries. This depends on effective a... Read More about Interpreting the peace: peace operations, conflict and language in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Medieval moated sites in the Humber Lowlands of England – Landscape transformation, utilisation and social emulation (2012)
Journal Article
Fenwick, H. (2012). Medieval moated sites in the Humber Lowlands of England – Landscape transformation, utilisation and social emulation. Medieval Archaeology, 56(1), 283-292. https://doi.org/10.1179/0076609712Z.0000000009

This note explores the nature and use of moated sites within the Humber lowlands and places them within current debates on seigneurial residences and landscapes within the medieval period. It will highlight the different ways in which moated sites we... Read More about Medieval moated sites in the Humber Lowlands of England – Landscape transformation, utilisation and social emulation.

Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914 (2012)
Book Chapter
Barnard, M. G., & Starkey, D. J. (2012). Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914. In G. Harlaftis, S. Tenold, & J. M. Valdaliso (Eds.), The World’s Key Industry : History and Economics of International Shipping (200-219). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137003751_12

Skip Fischer has suggested that maritime historians often fail to situate their studies ‘within the broader debates that animate discussion and research in the larger [historical] profession’. While this may be true of many branches of the history di... Read More about Private companies, culture and place in the development of Hull's maritime business sector, c.1860-1914.

'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis (2012)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2012). 'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis. Journal of Transatlantic Studies, 10(3), 252-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794012.2012.698566

Much historical scholarship has depicted Suez as a watershed not merely in British imperial history, but also in Anglo-American relations, marking a decisive shift away from empire and the assumption of British burdens in the Middle East by the USA.... Read More about 'America in Britain's place?': Anglo-American relations and the Middle East in the aftermath of the Suez crisis.

When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007 (2012)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2012). When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007. History workshop journal : HWJ, 74(1), 131-155. https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbs018

This paper discusses the working experiences of foreign military forces' employees in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) with reference to oral history interviews with fourteen people who were employed as language intermediaries by British forces in t... Read More about When Bosnia was a Commonwealth country: British forces and their interpreters in Republika Srpska 1995-2007.

Native American Indian freemasonry and its relation to the performative turn within contemporary American scholarship (2012)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2013). Native American Indian freemasonry and its relation to the performative turn within contemporary American scholarship. Journal of American Studies, 47(2), 439-458. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875812000795

This article is informed by recent work by the author unearthing the histories of Native American Indian Freemasons from the revolutionary era to the present. Given that performed ritual has always been key to Masonic practice, it was initially suppo... Read More about Native American Indian freemasonry and its relation to the performative turn within contemporary American scholarship.

Introduction to Dee Brown's "Folktales of the Native American" (2012)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2012). Introduction to Dee Brown's "Folktales of the Native American". In Folktales of the Native American. Folio Society

An up to the minute introduction to one of the great classics of American ethnography reissued and beautifully illustrated by the Folio Society.

A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948 (2012)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2012). A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948. In A. Jeffreys, & P. Rose (Eds.), The Indian Army, 1939–47: Experience and Development (195 - 214). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556772

Broadly speaking this is indeed what happened, with one striking exception – the Gurkhas. No Gurkha regiments were ‘transferred’ to the Indian Army in 1947, for the simple reason that they already were part of the Indian Army. Instead, four of the In... Read More about A Dismal Story? Britain, the Gurkhas and the Partition of India, 1945-1948.