HistoryPub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70007
CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
{"title":"The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic. By Henry Reece. Yale University Press, 2024. xi + 452 pp. £35.","authors":"CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"568-569"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70017
Edward Taylor
{"title":"The Poets Laureate of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1668–1813: Courting the Public. By Leo Shipp. University of London Press. x + 276 pp. £24.99.","authors":"Edward Taylor","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"570-571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70016
Gary Rivett
{"title":"The Specter of the Archive: Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain. By Nicholas Popper. The University of Chicago Press, 2024. xi + 343 pp. $32.50.","authors":"Gary Rivett","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"566-567"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70014
DALIBOR ELEZOVIĆ, IVAN RADULOVIĆ, BUDIMIR ALEKSIĆ
{"title":"Preserving Ancient Cultural Heritage in a New State: Montenegro and the Looting of Doclea, 1882","authors":"DALIBOR ELEZOVIĆ, IVAN RADULOVIĆ, BUDIMIR ALEKSIĆ","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article deals with the first example of measures taken by the state of Montenegro to preserve its ancient cultural heritage. Based on archival material from the State Archives of Montenegro, it deals with the period after the international recognition of this small Balkan state at the Congress of Berlin in 1878. In July 1882, some local residents invaded the most important ancient site in Montenegro, Doclea (Duklja), and robbed one of the site's most important tombs. Then, they took the excavated finds to Shkodër (Skadar) – which is part of present-day Albania but belonged to the Ottoman Empire at the time – with the intention of selling everything. The Montenegrin government launched an investigation, arrested two suspects and launched a manhunt for the other two who were in Shkodër to return the artefacts they had taken. Previously unused archival sources show that the Montenegrin government was prepared to make maximum efforts to retrieve its stolen cultural heritage. The case thus sheds light on the emerging government policy of the preservation of old cultural heritage in the new state.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"490-501"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70013
ROBERT LLEWELLYN TYLER
{"title":"Old Identity, New Land: The Welsh Immigrant Community in Monroe County, Iowa, 1870–1920","authors":"ROBERT LLEWELLYN TYLER","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article identifies the Welsh as a distinct ethno-linguistic community in Monroe County, Iowa (USA), at the end of the nineteenth century. It analyses the nature of that community, assesses the extent of involvement in its cultural expression, considers culture maintenance, and suggests that while ethnic integrity was initially maintained, it was ultimately undermined, not only by the general forces of acculturation, but also by specifically Welsh factors. While the Welsh experience in the county differed sharply from the experiences of other nationalities from the United Kingdom, it did not simply mirror that of other non-Anglophone groups.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"474-489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70012
David C. Porter
{"title":"Power for a Price: The Purchase of Official Appointments in Qing China. By Lawrence Zhang. Cambridge University Press, 2023, 328 pp. $59.95.","authors":"David C. Porter","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"574-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-04-22DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70011
Catherine Kerton-Johnson
{"title":"People and Piety: Protestant Devotional Identities in Early Modern England. Edited by Elizabeth Clarke and Robert W. Daniel. Manchester University Press, 2020. 320 pp. £25.","authors":"Catherine Kerton-Johnson","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"564-565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-04-06DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70010
Jenni Hyde
{"title":"Minstrels and Minstrelsy in Late Medieval England. By Richard Rastell with Andrew Taylor. The Boydell Press, 2023. Xxix + 445 pp. £110.","authors":"Jenni Hyde","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 391","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70009
ZILEI CHANG
{"title":"Organizational Transformation and Leadership Development: A Study of Li Lisan and the CCP Central Committee, 1927–29","authors":"ZILEI CHANG","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Li Lisan was a pivotal figure in the early Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His meteoric rise and subsequent political line profoundly shaped the party's development during a critical period of transformation. After studying in France and participating in early labour movements, Li emerged as an influential leader during the tumultuous aftermath of the First United Front's collapse. This article examines Li's ascent to power in the CCP from 1927 to 1929, focusing on three critical phases: his appointment as provincial party secretary in the Guangdong province following the failed Guangzhou Uprising; his elevation through the Sixth CCP Congress; and his role in reshaping central–provincial relations. Combining material from Chinese and Soviet sources, the article illustrates how personal networks, centre–periphery dynamics and Comintern influence shaped leadership formation within the early CCP. Li Lisan's case illustrates how revolutionary organizations manage leadership transitions during periods of crisis, balance central authority with local initiative and navigate international relationships. The article contributes to our understanding of institutional adaptation in revolutionary movements and illuminates a crucial yet understudied period in the CCP's organizational development.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"526-545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
HistoryPub Date : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.70008
Izidor Janžekovič
{"title":"Futuristic Fiction, Utopia, and Satire in the Age of Enlightenment: Samuel Madden's Memoirs of the Twentieth Century (1733). By Giulia Iannuzzi. Brepols, 2024. 460 pp. €125.","authors":"Izidor Janžekovič","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.70008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 392","pages":"572-573"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144923437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}