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{"title":"“Enlightened Man Incarnate”: Mediating Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Literary Reviews","authors":"VALERIE WAINWRIGHT","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13412","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13412","url":null,"abstract":"<p>‘Crucial to the Enlightenment’, Roy Porter argued, was the work of ‘critics, knowledge-mongers, and opinion-makers’; the critic was ‘enlightened man incarnate’. In order to enhance our understanding of the ways in which exponents of print culture sought to orient public opinion and promote recognizably liberal principles and values, this article will examine both the polemical discourses of prolific literary journalists and the intellectual context of key issues, highlighting the work of the lawyer Owen Ruffhead. In often substantive commentaries, Ruffhead and his fellow critics referenced a distinctive set of natural law principles: they celebrated the norms of right reason, of equity and liberty. Amongst the values expounded in the Reviews were Lockean political precepts congruent with core features of liberal theory. From the mid-eighteenth century, an early and unfamiliar ‘liberal’ vocabulary and agenda can be traced as civil liberties and rights were advocated, including the rights of the colonists, the underprivileged and the exploited. Decades before the term liberalism was devised, critics contributed to the shaping and diffusion of recognizably liberal patterns of thinking. Such an inquiry into a vibrant domain of ideas engages in ongoing historiographical debates, providing a new perspective on the formation and diffusion of influential ethical and socio-political modes of thought.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"253-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611974","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}

{"title":"In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams. By Frederik Cryns. Reaktion Books, 2024. 232 pp. ISBN: 978-1-78914-864-0. £16.00.","authors":"MATTHEW WOODCOCK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13413","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"582-584"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611975","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}

{"title":"‘Punitive’ Expeditions in German Colonial Contexts in Africa","authors":"YANN LeGALL","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13407","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13407","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The debate on the restitution of African cultural heritage has brought greater attention to the history of colonial violence, especially to the dispatch of so-called ‘punitive’ expeditions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Expanding knowledge on the genealogy of this particularly brutal form of military campaign, this article explores the historical semantics of the German term ‘Strafexpedition’ and its contextual use in the organ of militarist colonial propaganda at the time in Imperial Germany, the Deutsches Kolonialblatt. Through a content analysis of the occurrence of the term and its correlate, this study aims to bridge the fields of semantics and colonial historiography and lays the groundwork for a macro-history of events of spoliation and plunder in German colonial contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"308-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141549909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’: Creating and Curating the Corinthian Brand","authors":"CHRIS BOLSMANN,&nbsp;DILWYN PORTER","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13409","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13409","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Corinthian FC (1882–1938) was one of the world's most famous football clubs, despite never winning a league championship or a cup competition. At a time when association football, especially in Britain, was establishing itself as a form of commercialised entertainment with clubs organised as businesses and employing working-class professionals, the Corinthians became the principal standard-bearers for gentlemanly amateurism, effectively creating and curating a niche brand which had middle-class appeal and proved remarkably resilient. Pursuing this analogy focuses attention on the core values with which the club was associated and the strategies pursued to protect the brand it had created. This article seeks to explain the appeal of this elite touring club in England and also overseas, where it focuses especially on its visits to South Africa in 1897, 1903 and 1907.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"551-572"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141549910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Conquest of Santarém and Goswin's Song of the Conquest of Alcácer do Sal: Editions and Translations of De Expugnatione Scalabis and Gosuini de Expugnatione Salaciae Carmen. Edited and Translated by Jonathan Wilson. Routledge, 2021. xv + 183 pp. £37.99 (Paperback)","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13405","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13405","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"139-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508867","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}

{"title":"Frankish Jerusalem: The Transformation of a Medieval City in the Latin East. By Anna Gutgarts. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series Cambridge University Press, 2024. xvii + 277 pp. £85.00 (Hardback).","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13411","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13411","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 388","pages":"580-582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141508868","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}

{"title":"Emperor John II Komnenos: Rebuilding New Rome, 1118–1143. By C. G. Lau Maximilian. Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford University Press), 2023. xviii + 382 pp. £100.00 (Hardback)","authors":"Nicholas Morton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13408","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13408","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"137-138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141518367","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}

{"title":"Anxiety and Post-Authoritarian Societies: Insights from 1980s Greece","authors":"PANAGIOTIS ZESTANAKIS","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13392","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13392","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses anxiety as an analytical and methodological concept in the investigation of post-authoritarian societies, drawing on three well-being-focused anxieties that marked Greece in the 1980s: first, the degradation of the urban environment, especially in Athens; second, the technologisation of everyday life, most notably the popularisation of information technology; and third, the impact of novel, consumption-focused media, particularly lifestyle magazines. The analysis distinguishes anxiety from fear and argues that fear is commoner in authoritarian regimes than in new democracies, which often experience optimism and cultural pluralism. These conditions foster anxieties related to well-being. By exploring a juncture at which moderate economic progress coincided with democratisation and closer contact with Western Europe, the article argues that anxiety is a productive tool for examining the emotional impact of mild perceived threats to well-being in societies characterised by relatively calm life conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"395-418"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139955578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain. By Max Skjönsberg. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 373pp. Pb £22.99.","authors":"NIALL O'FLAHERTY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13396","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13396","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Max Skjönsberg's &lt;i&gt;The Persistence of Party&lt;/i&gt; is a hugely valuable contribution to both the history of political thought and British political history. The core thesis of the book is simply ‘that the idea of party dominated political discourse in eighteenth-century Britain’ (p. 2). The parties in question were defined not by tightly knit bureaucratic organisations but by a joint commitment to certain political principles. In this sense, the origin of modern political parties can be traced into the Enlightenment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The study fills a conspicuous gap in the history of political thought of Britain in this period, which – when it has not been focused on the economic aspects of ‘the science of the legislator’ – has mainly been concerned with debates about the balance of the Constitution: whether it was leaning more toward monarchy or democracy, and what needed to be done to redress the perceived imbalances. We have plenty of studies of party ideology, of course, particularly the varieties of Whig and Country thought, but none exploring the question of the value of party itself at any length.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There has been some acknowledgment among political historians that modern party organisations were foreshadowed in the eighteenth century, by the well-oiled political machine constructed by the Whig Junto in the reigns of William and Anne, for example. Equally, O'Gorman's admirable study of the emergence of the two-party system focuses on the half century after the accession of George III. Like the historians of political thought, however, they have paid scant attention to the path-breaking endeavours throughout the eighteenth century both to make sense, historically and sociologically, of the Whig-Tory divide that framed political life and to create a new kind of political organisation based on ideological principles other than those of dynastic and religious loyalty. Skjönsberg's book provides an incisive contextual analysis of these two intertwined conversations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was the Huguenot historian Rapin who inaugurated the debate about the role of party in British politics, with his pioneering attempts (in his &lt;i&gt;Histoire d&lt;/i&gt;’&lt;i&gt;Angleterre&lt;/i&gt;,1724–7) to trace the development of the Whig-Tory divide from the reign of James I to his own times. There is an ambivalence to Rapin's account, as Skjönsberg presents it, since he insisted on the importance of the Tory-Whig dichotomy in British politics while viewing party ideology as largely a cloak for self-seeking designs, a psychology laid bare, he believed, by the readiness of political actors to ditch their principles when they impeded their political ambitions. By presenting his position from several angles, however, Skjönsberg shows that it was less inconsistent than it appears at first sight. There was, for example, a very real disagreement between the parties over foreign policy, with the Whigs favouring interventionism and land war, the Tories isolationism and naval conflict. Moreover, even i","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"179-183"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139961789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"State of the Field: Histories of the Future","authors":"Jeroen Puttevils,&nbsp;Max-Quentin Bischoff,&nbsp;Sara Budts,&nbsp;Elisabeth Heijmans,&nbsp;Sanne Hermans,&nbsp;Nicolò Zennaro","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13389","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13389","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the last decade, future thinking has rapidly gained importance as a topic of historical study. This article provides an overview of the existing historiographies of future thinking as well as the actions and practices that follow such thoughts. We trace the pedigree of histories of the future back to the German historian of ideas Reinhart Koselleck and show how his conceptual framework has been adopted and adapted by later scholars. We highlight the sources and methods that are typically used. A particularly fruitful approach that emerges from our meta study revolves around the concept of pluritemporality – the coexistence of different layers of time. The article also seeks to uncover some weaknesses and biases that are still present in the field. The most urgent issue being probably the lack of consensus on a conceptual apparatus; other blind spots concern the relationship between future thinking and its linguistic expression in historical sources, the question of whose future thinking we are talking about, how future thinking relates to human action in the past, and how short-term futures interact with their long-term futures equivalents. Overall, however, the aim of this survey is to emphasise the potential of this burgeoning field for future historical research. Much is to be gained from new theories of historical time which are themselves the consequence of ideas about climate change and the dangers of the Anthropocene, human extinction and trans- and post-humanism and about artificial intelligence and the digital world.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"150-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13389","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139769663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}