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Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (2010)
Book
Baker, C. (2010). Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991. Farnham: Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315609973

Sounds of the Borderland is the first book-length study of how popular music became a medium for political communication and contested identification during and after Croatia's war of independence from Yugoslavia. It extends existing cultural studies... Read More about Sounds of the borderland: Popular music, war and nationalism in Croatia since 1991.

It's not their job to soldier: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina (2010)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2010). It's not their job to soldier: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina. Journal of War and Culture Studies, 3(1), 137-150. https://doi.org/10.1386/jwcs.3.1.137_1

Peacekeeping operations throw the use of specialized military forces and the aim of accomplishing change in a civilian environment into contradiction. Organizations with cultures that facilitate warfighting have to reorient themselves towards achievi... Read More about It's not their job to soldier: distinguishing civilian and military in soldiers' and interpreters' accounts of peacekeeping in 1990s Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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). Albany, NY: 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).

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. 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

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.

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 5: 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813 (2009)
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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, USA: 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.

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.

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). Woodbridge: Boydell Press

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). Oxford, UK: 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.