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Natural Hazards (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Natural Hazards. 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. 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 bound... 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'. 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... Read More about La cour seigneuriale en Angleterre, xiie-xiiie siècles'.

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). Ostfildern: Thorbecke

Competing voices from Native America (2009)
Book
Ball, D., & Porter, J. (2009). Competing voices from Native America. Santa Barbra, Calif.; Oxford: Greenwood Press

A unique, carefully-chosen selection of short, stimulating primary- source accounts describing the controversial moments in Native American history since 1492. Each section is proceeded by a 2000-word essay by the co-authors, directing readers to fur... Read More about Competing voices from Native America.

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.

Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750 (2008)
Journal Article
Biskup, T. (2008). Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750. Friedrich300 - Colloquien : Studien zur preußischen Geschichte in der Zeit Friedrich des Großen, 2,

Der Beitrag hinterfragt das Bild Friedrichs II. als eines besonders zeremoniellfeindlichen Monarchen, indem er mit dem Berliner "Carousel" von 1750 das größte höfische Fest in Preußen zwischen der Regierung Friedrichs I. und den romantisierenden Feie... Read More about Preußischer Pomp : Zeremoniellnutzung und Ruhmbegriff Friedrichs des Großen im Berliner "Carousel" von 1750.

"Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians (2008)
Journal Article
Porter, & Porter, J. (2008). "Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians. American Studies, 49(3-4), 63-85. https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2010.0020

This article contrasts a number of contemporary incidences of Irish representation of and engagement with Native Americans and their history with two Native American novels and their depictions of Ireland and the Irish, LeAnne Howe’s 2001 book Shells... Read More about "Primitive" discourse : aspects of contemporary North American Indian representations of the Irish and of contemporary Irish representations of North American Indians.

Archaeology and environment in a changing East Yorkshire landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD 400 (2008)
Book
(2008). Archaeology and environment in a changing East Yorkshire landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD 400. Archaeopress

This study combines new aerial surveying and fieldwalking with interpretation of the Iron Age and Roman sites of a 20 x 30km area of East Yorkshire, focusing squarely on the landscape context. Peter Halkon examines the development of the landscape, a... Read More about Archaeology and environment in a changing East Yorkshire landscape: The Foulness Valley c. 800 BC to c. AD 400.

Indiens et Franc-Maconnerie: une vision performative de l'histoire Americaine (2008)
Book Chapter
Porter, J. (2008). Indiens et Franc-Maconnerie: une vision performative de l'histoire Americaine. In M. Prum (Ed.), Race & the Body in Anglophone Context/ Race et corps dans L’aire Anglophone, (113 - 135). Paris, France: L’Harmattan

Comme nombre de mes collègues indianistes, cela fait longtemps que je n’ignore plus que les grandes figures masculines du monde politique et littéraire indien du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle avaient, pour la plupart d’entre elles, des liens directs... Read More about Indiens et Franc-Maconnerie: une vision performative de l'histoire Americaine.

Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore (2008)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2008). Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore. Indonesia and the Malay World, 36(106), 345-358. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639810802450357

The establishment of workable collaborative relations with indigenous elites formed a vital part of the maintenance of the British Empire. This was especially so in the Malay States, where the Malay rulers enjoyed considerable local prestige as relig... Read More about Conflict and collaboration: Britain and Sultan Ibrahim of Johore.

Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era (2008)
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Macleod, J. (Ed.). (2008). Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582798

The legacy of defeat in war reverberates through private and collective memory and remains a sub-text in international relations and political discourse. This book examines the manner in which a series of military defeats have been understood and rem... Read More about Defeat and memory: Cultural histories of military defeat in the modern era.

Das Erbe der Monarchie: Nachwirkungen einer deutschen Institution seit 1918 (2008)
Book
Biskup, T., & Kohlrausch, M. (2008). Das Erbe der Monarchie: Nachwirkungen einer deutschen Institution seit 1918. Frankfurt: Campus

Die Monarchie wurde 1918 in Deutschland abgeschafft. Aber erlosch damit auch ihre Wirkung? Was hinterließ sie jenseits leerer Throne und wie gingen die Deutschen damit um? In diesem Band wird erstmals untersucht, welche Spuren diese Institution in de... Read More about Das Erbe der Monarchie: Nachwirkungen einer deutschen Institution seit 1918.

Reassessing Suez 1956: new perspectives on the crisis and its aftermath (2008)
Book
Smith, S. C. (Ed.). (2008). Reassessing Suez 1956: new perspectives on the crisis and its aftermath. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315603889

The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War. The fiftieth anniversary of the Suez crisis in 2006 presented an ideal opportunity to re-visit and reassess this seminal episo... Read More about Reassessing Suez 1956: new perspectives on the crisis and its aftermath.

When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity (2008)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2008). When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity. Nationalities Papers, 36(4), 741-764. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905990802230514

Popular music in Croatia has consistently been a field where the boundaries of national cultural identity are set, contested and transgressed. The most contentious boundaries involve Serbian culture and the abstract "east", to which essentialized nat... Read More about When Seve met Bregović: folklore, turbofolk and the boundaries of Croatian musical identity.

‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008) (2008)
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Biskup, T. (2008). ‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008)

Der Hof blieb auch für Friedrich den Großen unabdingbar, um im höfisch strukturierten Europa des 18. Jahrhunderts Politik machen zu können. Finanzierung, Personaldecke und Infrastruktur des friderizianischen Hofes waren auch im V... Read More about ‘Höfisches Retablissement: Der Hof Friedrichs des Großen nach dem Siebenjährigen Krieg', in: Friedrich300 - Colloquien, Friedrich der Große - eine perspektivische Bestandsaufnahme (2008).