Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria

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This book explores the fin de siècle, an era of powerful global movements and turbulent transition, in Australia and beyond through a series of biographical microhistories. From the first wave feminist Rose Summerfield and the working class radical John Dwyer, to the indigenous rights advocate David Unaipon and the poet Christopher Brennan, Hearn traces the transnational identities, philosophies, ideas and cultures that characterised this era and permeated from Australia into the wider world. Recent a re-examination of Britain’s imperialist past, with changes to how its citizens understand, study and scrutinize its history. Examining issues such as Brexit, recent reassessments of Winston Churchill’s historical record, the so-called 'culture wars' and Britain’s uncomfortable reckoning with its imperial past, the book reconsiders what it means to be a “patriot” in Britain. the and from Edinburgh to Plymouth, this powerful collection examines the significance of locality in queer spaces and experiences in modern British history. Foregrounding the voices of LGBTQ-identified people through an innovative synthesis of source material – from letters and diaries to TV interviews and oral testimonies – this collection sheds light on these experiences in Britain and, chiefly, how they were shaped, and differentiated, through a complex relation with locality. Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Lucidly-written and incredibly detailed, this book draws extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, making it essential reading for anyone with an interest in British diplomatic history. From a ‘no surrender’ attitude to Republican hunger strikes to the Northern Ireland peace process, Kelly traces the evolutionary and sometimes contradictory nature of Thatcher’s approach to Northern Ireland. In doing so, this nuanced study reflects afresh on the political relationship between Britain and Ireland in the late-20th century. Making use of previously neglected archival sources, this is a vital resource for those interested in Thatcherism, Anglo-Irish relations, and 20th-century British political history. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period. The book also considers the (largely negative) popular attitudes toward Jewish immigrants in Australia, looking at how these views were manifested in the press and in letters to the Department of the Interior. Incorporating the voices of the Holocaust refugees and placing the country’s response in wider contexts, Bartrop provides an Australian perspective on one of the most catastrophic episodes in world history. This book brings together new studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany. It introduces German colonialism as a relevant context for German-Jewish history, and it expands the perspective on German colonial history significantly by considering Jews both as distinct objects and also as agents within the field of German colonialism. The volume includes studies on the pre-colonial era, the phase of active German colonialism, and the time after Germany lost its colonies in the First World War. This book is a vital exploration of the harrowing stories of mass displacement that took place in the first half of the 20th century from the perspective of forced migrants themselves. The volume brings together 15 interrelated case studies which show how the deportation, evacuation and flight of millions of people as a result of the First World War intensified rather than alleviated ethnic conflicts which culminated in population transfers on an even larger scale during and immediately after the Second World War. book is the first to show how the politics of oil intersected with the establishment of Soviet power in the Caucasus; it reveals how the Soviets cooperated and negotiated with the local elite, rather than merely subsuming them. More broadly, Power and the Politics of Oil in the Soviet South Caucasus demonstrates not only how the Bolsheviks understood and exploited oil, but how the needs of the industry shaped Bolshevik policy. This book offers a history of Europe from 1699 to 1780 through a literary lens, with each chapter telling the story of an influential book from its inception through to the revolutionary era. Kates analyses works by Voltaire, Adam Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and more, championing the importance of a crucial innovation: the rise of the ‘erudite blockbuster’, which helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, and incorporates the responses of ordinary men and women. Gift-giving an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early Europe. This volume explores an under-examined and often-overlooked aspect of this phenomenon: the material nature of the gift. Drawing on examples from both medieval and early Europe, the authors from the UK and across Europe explore the craftsmanship involved in the production of gifts and the use of exotic objects and animals, from elephant bones to polar bears and ‘living’ holy objects, to communicate power, class and allegiance. What does Saint Louis’ cult actually reveal about the Bourbon monarchy’s ability to foster a political culture of loyalty through all religious, political, and intellectual challenges of this era? From manuscripts to paintings to music, Sean Heath skillfully engages with a vast array of primary source material and modern debates on sacral kingship to provide an enlightening and comprehensive analysis of the role of Saint Louis in early modern France. This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas that are crucial to understanding global medievalism but are, due to language barriers, often inaccessible to the majority of Western scholars. It reveals that while medievalisms in Finland and Russia share many features with the contemporary Anglo-American medievalist imaginations, they also display many original characteristics due to particular political situations and indigenous medievalist traditions. They have their own meta-medievalisms, cumulative core ideas and interpretations about the medieval past that are thoroughly examined here in English for the very first time. In this ground breaking study, a team of esteemed academics and early career scholars led by Rachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams contribute case-studies of their own archival encounters that grapple with critical intersectional questions about archival practice and the politics of access. Lower-Middle-Class Nation provides an unparalleled interdisciplinary cultural history of the lower-middle-class worker in British life since 1850. Considering highbrow, lowbrow, and middle-brow forms across literature, film, television and more, Nicola Bishop traces the development of the lower-middle-class from the mid-19th century to the present day, tackling a number of pressing, consistent concerns such as automation, commuting, and the search for a life/work balance. Above all, this book brings together ideas about class, nationhood, and gender, demonstrating that a particularly British lower-middle-class identity is constructed through the spaces and practices of the everyday. what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. With specific cases of foreign occupation from around the world and across the 20th century, the discuss the similarities, links and points of contact which bring disparate examples of occupation into dialogue with one another. The how on visual’ can and the ways in which charities, local associations, religious organisations and philanthropic foundations have engaged and interacted with American politics, society and relations with the In highlighting the significant role that charitable works have played in American politics and society, and the ways in which the concept of philanthropy has evolved since the mid-19th century, this collection demonstrates their value as a lens through which to view American history. Luis Sierra treads new ground in his authoritative research on the influence of indigenous migration and the subsequent political activism of La Paz's urban inhabitants upon the transformation of Bolivia in the first half the 20th century. Sierra examines the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, a shift from the current focus on individuals. This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a ‘brand-name capitalism’ among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical transformations. reclassification of a new illicit trade for women and girls to the Strait settlements of Southeast Asia. This book provides an important new perspective for scholars of slavery interested in Southeast Asia, British imperialism in the Indian Ocean world and Asia, the East India Company in the Straits, and gender and sexuality in the context of empire. ReOrienting Histories of Medicine takes a cross-cultural approach that provides a re-appraisal of the ‘globalized' character of early medicine. It re-orients medical hist