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Brendan Dooley

Brendan Dooley is Professor of Renaissance Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. His numerous publications include A Mattress Maker’s Daughter: The Renaissance Romance of Don Giovanni de’ Medici and Livia Vernazza (2014), Morandi’s Last Prophecy and the End of Renaissance Politics (2002) and, as author/ editor, The Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern Europe (2010). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Angelica’s Book and the World of Reading in Late Renaissance Italy

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...I realize that I have left many stones in this inquiry still unturned. But it is time to bring together at least some of the disparate themes. I began with Robert K. Merton’s insight about accidental discovery, and I made a case...

Conclusion

Judy Attfield

Judith Attfield is Senior Lecturer in History and Design at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wild Things : The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Berg, 2000

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...Lou Reed's song A Walk on the Wild Side recorded in 1972,‘A Walk On the Wild Side’ by Lou Reed (© Copyright; 1971 by Dunbar Music Inc. & Oakfield Avenue Music Ltd for the World and © Copyright 1973 by Sunbury Music Ltd. London for British...

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Cultural Memory and Identity in Ancient Societies

Continuum, 2011

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...History and Memory As an introduction to a volume on cultural memory in antiquity it is instructive to consider a more recent historical event. The year 2010 marked the 70th anniversary of the German Luftwaffe’s first strike against Britain...

Things and the Dynamics of Social Change

Judy Attfield

Judith Attfield is Senior Lecturer in History and Design at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Wild Things : The Material Culture of Everyday Life

Berg, 2000

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...If, as suggested in the last chapter, we are to capture some sense of the wild things, the material world of the everyday which escapes the order of visual aesthetic categorisation, it is necessary to diagnose features that give them value...

Hearing

Mark M. Smith

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of several books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, which was co-winner of the Organization of American Historians’ 1997 Avery O. Craven Award and the South Carolina Historical Society’s Book of the Year. His work on sensory history has been featured in the New York Times. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sensory History

Berg, 2007

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...Look, Hear: Listening In their attentiveness to the heard worlds of the past, many historians, myself included, have sometimes echoed the traditional hierarchy of the senses: quantitatively, historical work on hearing is second only to work...

Unaccompanied Children and the Allied Child Search: ‘The right . . . a child has to his own heritage’

Susanne Urban

Susanne Urban

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The Young Victims of the Nazi Regime : Migration, the Holocaust and Postwar Displacement

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...‘Report on Removal from German Families of Allied Children, January 21, 1948’, 6.1.2/82486419/ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen.The chapter explores the origins of the Child Search Branch (CSB) which was founded in 1945 and active up to 1951...

Conclusion

Mary Sparks

Mary Sparks is an independent scholar with a PhD in history from the Open University, UK. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Development of Austro-Hungarian Sarajevo, 1878–1918 : An Urban History

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

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...The assassination of Franz Ferdinand in 1914 and the war that followed put an end to the Austro-Hungarian ‘experiment’ which William Miller had observed on his visit to Bosnia in the late 1890s.W. Miller (1898), Travels and Politics...

Inclusivity, Jews and the Eroticisation of Difference

Mica Nava

Mica Nava is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies in the School of Arts and Digital Industries at the University of East London, UK. She is a cultural historian of British modernity and everyday race difference. Her publications include Gender and Generation (1984); Changing Cultures: Feminism, Youth and Consumerism (1992); Modern Times: A Century of English Modernity (1996); Buy This Book: Studies in Advertising and Consumption (1997) and Visceral Cosmopolitanism: Gender Culture and the Normalisation of Difference (2007). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Visceral Cosmopolitanism : Gender, Culture and the Normalisation of Difference

Berg, 2007

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...Visceral Inclusivity Stanley Cohen’s impressive book States of Denial includes one small but significant section on altruism in which his concern is to explain why some people did help Jews escape from Nazis in occupied Europe during World...

The Rise of “Modern” Anti-Semitism and War

Beth A. Griech-Polelle

Beth A. Griech-Polelle is the Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies and Associate Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University, USA. She is the author of Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism (2002). She is also the editor of The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences (2009) and the co-editor, along with Christina Guenther, of Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts (2008). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust : Language, Rhetoric and the Traditions of Hatred

Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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...The Jews Are Our Misfortune! Introduction Over the course of the nineteenth century, many European Jews believed that they could integrate into gentile European society while simultaneously retaining their Jewish faith and heritage...

‘Mass Leisure’ in Britain

Douglas A. Reid

Douglas A. Reid

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Twentieth-century Mass Society in Britain and the Netherlands

Berg, 2006

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...The discourse of ‘mass society’ was invariably a critical one that emerged in Britain at the birth of the twentieth century, as the scale and pace of social life increased and the challenges to a bourgeois social order multiplied –...