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Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail (2017)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2017). Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail. Environment and History, 23(2), 163-196. https://doi.org/10.3197/096734017X14900292921734

Historiography has paid insufficient attention to the influence of winds and currents. The rise of Western European states to global dominance and world empires from the sixteenth century is usually characterised as maritime but should more fittingly... Read More about Aeolian empires: the influence of winds and currents on European maritime expansion in the days of sail.

The Story of Native North America (2017)
Other
Porter, J. (2017). The Story of Native North America

https://www.historytoday.com/reviews/story-native-north-america

Working-class community in the age of affluence (2017)
Book
Ramsden, S. (2017). Working-class community in the age of affluence. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315462936

It has appeared to many commentators that the most fundamental change in what it is meant to be working-class in twentieth-century Britain came not as a result of war or of want, but of prosperity. Social investigators documented how the relative aff... Read More about Working-class community in the age of affluence.

Epilogue (2017)
Book Chapter
Bagchi, D. (2017). Epilogue. In D. Marmion, S. Ryan, & G. E. Thiessen (Eds.), Remembering the Reformation: Martin Luther and Catholic Theology (248). Minneapolis: Fortress Press. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X01020001012

Authors' accepted manuscript of a chapter from: Declan Marmion & Salvador Ryan (eds), Remembering the Reformation : Martin Luther and Catholic theology

Eine Helmstedter Schule der Botanik? Eine Hamburger Schenkung für Lorenz Heisters Botanischen Garten und die Debatte um Linnés Klassifikationssystem (2017)
Book Chapter
Biskup, T. (2017). Eine Helmstedter Schule der Botanik? Eine Hamburger Schenkung für Lorenz Heisters Botanischen Garten und die Debatte um Linnés Klassifikationssystem. In M. Busch, S. Kroll, & M. Anna Maksymiak (Eds.), Hippokratische Grenzgänge – Ausflüge in kultur- und medizingeschichtliche Wissensfelder. Hamburg: Kovac

The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres (2016)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2016). The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres. In Innocence slaughtered: gas and the transformation of warfare and society (118-133). London: Uniform Press

Seafarers, seafaring, and occupational identity : 'Jack Tar' and its contemporary uses in Britain c.1815-1914 (2016)
Journal Article
Gorski, R. (2016). Seafarers, seafaring, and occupational identity : 'Jack Tar' and its contemporary uses in Britain c.1815-1914. Nautica fennica, Työ merellä(2015-2016),

This is a paper about how maritime workers were perceived in the past. In 1968, in a very influential paper, the American historian Jesse Lemisch lamented that ‘Maritime history, as it has been written, has had little to do with the common seaman.’ (... Read More about Seafarers, seafaring, and occupational identity : 'Jack Tar' and its contemporary uses in Britain c.1815-1914.

Political Obedience (2016)
Book Chapter
Burgess, G. (2016). Political Obedience. In U. Rublack (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations (83-102). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Failure and success in state formation : British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (2016)
Journal Article
Smith, S. C. (2017). Failure and success in state formation : British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Middle Eastern Studies, 53(1), 84-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2016.1196667

Despite the apparent similarities in Britain's relationship with the Sheikhdoms of the Lower Gulf and the traditional states of southern Arabia, British policy-makers pursued contrasting policies towards the two sets of territories in the era of deco... Read More about Failure and success in state formation : British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR (2016)
Book
Baker, C. (2016). C. Baker (Ed.). Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR. United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

A concise and accessible introduction to the gender histories of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century. These essays juxtapose established topics in gender history such as motherhood, masculinities, work and activism with newer... Read More about Gender in 20th century eastern Europe and the USSR.

Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe (2016)
Journal Article
Baker, C. (2016). Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe. Nationalities Papers, 44(6), 857-859. https://doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2016.1223026

Extract In October 2014, Serbia's European Championships qualifying match against Albania was abandoned after a drone flew onto the pitch in Belgrade with a banner showing Kosovo as part of a Greater Albania, provoking a fight between both teams and... Read More about Football, history, and the nation in Southeastern Europe.

Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past (2016)
Journal Article
Bankoff, G. (2016). Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past. Philippine studies, historical & ethnographic viewpoints, 64(3-4), 335-357. https://doi.org/10.1353/phs.2016.0032

© Ateneo de Manila University. The historiography of the Philippines has been largely bounded by the nation-state, which has defined how its past has been conceived and to whom its peoples are mainly compared. A more transnational environmental histo... Read More about Hazardousness of place : a new comparative approach to the Filipino past.

The military careerist in fourteenth-century England (2016)
Journal Article
Ayton, A. (2017). The military careerist in fourteenth-century England. Journal of Medieval History, 43(1), 4-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2016.1236499

This article seeks to explain how it was that the careerist soldier became so prominent and ubiquitous a feature of the English military scene during the second half of the fourteenth century. Beginning with a characterisation of the military careeri... Read More about The military careerist in fourteenth-century England.

The Geraldines and the Conquest of Ireland (2016)
Book Chapter
Veach, C. (2016). The Geraldines and the Conquest of Ireland. In P. Crooks, & S. Duffy (Eds.), The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth (69-92). Dublin: Four Courts Press