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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.

Natural Hazards (2009)
Book Chapter
Bankoff, G. (2009). Natural Hazards. The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History (753 - 756). Palgrave-Macmillan

The Enlightenment (2009)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2009). The Enlightenment. The Blackwell Companion to Julius Caesar (399 - 409). Blackwell-Wiley

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

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.

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.

William Marshal and the Mercenariat (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). William Marshal and the Mercenariat. Mercenaries and Paid Men: The Mercenary Identity in the Middle Ages (15 - 32). Brill

A look at attitudes to the mercenary amongst the established aristocracy as viewed through the source of the biography of William Marshal

The Transformation of Medieval Gwent (2008)
Book Chapter
Crouch, D. (2008). The Transformation of Medieval Gwent. The Gwent County History 2, The Age of the Marcher Lords, c.1070-1536, (16803). University of Wales Press

A history and analysis of the establishment of Marcher lordships in Gwent between 1067 and 1245.