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Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial (2010)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2010). Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial. Scottish Historical Review, 89(1), 73-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/shr.2010.0004

This article seeks to explore the controversy surrounding the Scottish National War Memorial. It analyses the arguments over the design of the memorial and its impact on Edinburgh Castle. The criticisms by Lord Rosebery and others of the design propo... Read More about Memorials and location: Local versus national identity and the Scottish National War Memorial.

Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962) (2010)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2010). Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962). In D. L. Madsen (Ed.), Native authenticity: Transnational perspectives on Native American literary studies (103-122). State University of New York Press

Due to his Indian ancestry, the Canadian poet Frank James Prewett was nicknamed "Toronto" by the illustrious literary friends he met while recovering in England following his service in World War I. Those friends included Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sa... Read More about Modernism, authenticity, and Indian identity: Frank "Toronto" Prewett (1893-1962).

Book review : All that remains: varieties of indigenous expression. (2010)
Journal Article
Porter, J. (2010). Book review : All that remains: varieties of indigenous expression. Great Plains quarterly, 30(2), 152 - 153

"By Scottish hands, with Scottish money, on Scottish soil": The Scottish National War Memorial and national identity (2010)
Journal Article
Macleod, J. (2010). "By Scottish hands, with Scottish money, on Scottish soil": The Scottish National War Memorial and national identity. Journal of British Studies, 49(1), 73-96. https://doi.org/10.1086/644535

A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War (2010)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2010). A Curtain of Silence: Asia's Fauna in the Cold War. In Environmental Histories of the Cold War (203 - 226). Cambridge University Press

Baronial Paranoia in King John's reign (2010)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2010). Baronial Paranoia in King John's reign. In Magna Carta and the England of King John (45 - 62). Boydell

The Complaint of King John against William de Briouze (c.September 1210).  The Black Book of the Exchequer Text (2010)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2010). The Complaint of King John against William de Briouze (c.September 1210).  The Black Book of the Exchequer Text. In Magna Carta and the England of King John (168 - 179). Boydell

A Latin edition and English translation of King John's pamphlet, by which he justified his treatment of the baron, William de Briouze, whom he broke and drove into exile

A Strike for Racial Justice? Transatlantic Shipping and the Jewish Diaspora, 1882-1939 (2010)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2010). A Strike for Racial Justice? Transatlantic Shipping and the Jewish Diaspora, 1882-1939. In Jewish journeys: from Philo to hip hop (25 - 46). Vallentine Mitchell

Keeping Kosher: Policies deployed by British and German shipping companies to develop the transatlantic Jewish passenger business (2010)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2010). Keeping Kosher: Policies deployed by British and German shipping companies to develop the transatlantic Jewish passenger business.

This article considers the specific religious and cultural needs of Jewish transoceanic travellers between the period from the introduction of the May Laws in Russia in 1882 to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. It begins by surveying the... Read More about Keeping Kosher: Policies deployed by British and German shipping companies to develop the transatlantic Jewish passenger business.

Oceans past: an environmental approach to maritime history (2010)
Book Chapter
Barnard, M., & Starkey, D. (2010). Oceans past: an environmental approach to maritime history. In Merihistorian Rajapintoja: Nautica Fennica 2009-2010 (44409). Suomen Merimuseo

Employers' Liability and the Victorian Seaman (2009)
Journal Article
Gorski, R. (2009). Employers' Liability and the Victorian Seaman. Mariner's Mirror, 95(1), 62-75

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813 (2009)
Book
Ray, K., Looney, J., Perdue, S., Haggard, R., & Lautenschlager, J. (2009). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv346q4m

Volume Five of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 592 documents from 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813. America declares war on Great Britain on 18 June 1812. Jefferson counsels domes... Read More about The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813.

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

Rival bishops, rival cathedrals: the election of Cormac, archdeacon of Sodor, as bishop in 1331 (2009)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. E. (2009). Rival bishops, rival cathedrals: the election of Cormac, archdeacon of Sodor, as bishop in 1331. Innes Review, 60(2), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.3366/e0020157x0900050x

On 6 July 1331, two procurators arrived in Bergen claiming that Cormac son of Cormac had been elected bishop of Sodor by the clergy of Skye and the canons of Snizort. Their arrival is recorded in a letter sent by Eiliv, archbishop of Nidaros, to two... Read More about Rival bishops, rival cathedrals: the election of Cormac, archdeacon of Sodor, as bishop in 1331.

First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902. Journal of Pacific History, 44(3), 261-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223340903356849

They say first impressions always matter. Americans acquired an empire of tropical islands in the Pacific about which they knew little and cared even less. Yet they set to almost immediately to understand and harness these new environments for their... Read More about First Impressions : Diarists, Scientists, Imperialists and the Management of the Environment in the American Pacific, 1899-1902.

The press gang: naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. New York: Continuum, 2008 (2009)
Journal Article
Starkey, D. (2009). The press gang: naval impressment and its opponents in Georgian Britain. By Nicholas Rogers. New York: Continuum, 2008. Journal of Military History, 73(4), 1327 - 1328

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.

Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905 (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2009). Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905. Environment and History, 15(3), 369-393. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734009X12474738236078

Professional forest management in the Philippines is largely attributed to the ideas and endeavours of American foresters such as Gifford Pinchot, George Ahern and Henry Graves who were instrumental in establishing the Insular Bureau of Forestry in 1... Read More about Breaking new ground? Gifford Pinchot and the birth of 'Empire forestry' in the Philippines, 1900-1905.

The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management (2009)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G., & Hilhorst, D. (2009). The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management. Disasters, 33(4), 686-704. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01104.x

It is now generally appreciated that what constitutes vulnerability to one person is not necessarily perceived as such by the next. Different actors ‘see’ disasters as different types of events and as a result they prepare for, manage and record them... Read More about The politics of risk in the Philippines: Comparing state and NGO perceptions of disaster management.