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{"title":"The Twilight of World Trotskyism. By John Kelly. Routledge, 2022. 144 pp. £45","authors":"AIDAN BEATTY","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13395","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13395","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"183-185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139787084","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":"The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War, Experiences of Exile in Early Modern Europe, 1632–1648. By Thomas Pert. Oxford University Press, 2023. 320 pp. £83.00.","authors":"Alex Beeton","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13385","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"175-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139846437","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":"The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger. Edited by Nathalie Morris and Claire Smith. Bloomsbury, 2023. x + 206 pp. £30.00.","authors":"Matthew Woodcock","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13386","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13386","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"187-190"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139793838","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":"Journal of Medieval Military History XXI. Edited by John France, Kelly DeVries and Clifford J. Rogers. Boydell. 2023. x + 265 pp. £80.00.","authors":"SEAN MCGLYNN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13381","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13381","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"173-175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139396077","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":"From ‘United Stabilisation Fund’ to ‘International Monetary Organisation’: the Forgotten Chinese Plan and Its Contributions to the Creation of the International Monetary Fund","authors":"SHIWEI ZHANG,&nbsp;ZHAODONG WANG","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13380","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13380","url":null,"abstract":"<p>China's function in the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) has been underrated for a long time. It is argued either that China contributed little to the establishment or that its main effort could be accredited to Arthur N. Young, an American financial advisor to the Chinese government. A close examination of bilingual archival documents challenges these arguments. In fact, the Chinese government formulated proposals of several versions and managed to have most of its claims accepted at the Bretton Woods conference. More importantly, Chinese claims surpassed their own concerns and had a broader meaning taking into account the general quests of war-torn and undeveloped countries. Revisiting this part of history can deliver a balance to the traditional Anglo-American-focused narrative regarding the IMF and WB and enrich the historical context to assist our understanding of China's current pursuits and conduct in the realm of multilateral economic cooperation.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"92-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136351601","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":"The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union","authors":"Andrew Jacobs","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13379","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13379","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses Angela Davis' 1972 visit to the Soviet Union to explore the continued connections between the Soviet Union and African Americans. Davis was made famous in the Soviet Union because of her victimhood and her pro-Soviet outlook. Soviet support for her cause combined with her eyewitness testimony that the Soviet Union had abolished racism provided Soviet propaganda with ample opportunities to undercut American criticism of the Soviet Union, while inspiring domestic Soviet youth to be more faithful and proud of their home country. Yet, while Davis was used by the Soviet Union and its propaganda machine, she also made use of her Soviet connections and experience. The USSR, as it had for the Scottsboro Boys in the past, advocated for Davis and rallied leftists around the world to her cause. The Soviet Union, by turning her into a state-sponsored heroine, provided her with a major platform that eventually extended far beyond the Soviet Union. Moreover, in the Soviet Union, she found inspiration. There, as she witnessed personally during her 1972 visit, she believed she encountered a society free of racism, prejudice and strife that she knew so well at home.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 384-385","pages":"119-149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405445","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":"Elizabethan Catholic Intelligencers, Spain and the Armada of 1597","authors":"JONATHAN ROCHE","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13363","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent research on late Reformation English/British Catholics’ engagement in contemporary politics, has, for the most part, focused on regicidal schemes or on Catholic polemical writings. Espionage activities by Catholics in England, however, have been often overlooked. The hundreds of documents endorsed ‘avisos de Inglaterra’ (reports from England), located in el archivo general de Simancas, are intelligence dossiers about England. These reports were sent to Spain (between 1590–1608) by Hugh Owen, a Welsh Catholic exile, using information gathered by his informants in England. This article seeks to introduce the ‘avisos’ as a genre of sources by exploring the intelligence they contained and placing them within their broader context of Elizabethan/ Jacobean Catholicism and Anglo-Spanish relations. In using this largely untapped source of Anglo-Spanish history, this article reaches broader conclusions about how Catholics in England interacted with the Spanish authorities, and tried to influence the Anglo-Spanish war to their advantage.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"108 381","pages":"244-261"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50140629","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":"Robert Barret and the Making of an Early Modern Occasional Spy","authors":"MATTHEW WOODCOCK","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13358","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines letters written by the soldier-author Robert Barret in 1581 describing his travels in France and Italy, while a runaway apprentice during the 1570s, that led him to the English College in Rome. Barret's letters constitute a valuable, hitherto overlooked source of first-hand information about British and Irish Catholics in continental Europe, complementing better-known sources by Anthony Munday and Charles Sledd. Barret latterly recast his travels as an intelligence-gathering opportunity in which he collected detailed information both on Catholic exiles (including Thomas Stukeley, Bishop Thomas Goldwell, and Cardinal William Allen) and on putative plans to invade England. The letters provide an exemplary record of the – not uncommon – experiences of someone compelled by circumstances to adopt the role of an occasional spy. This article not only analyses the value of the letters’ contents but discusses broader questions concerning the pliable, shifting nature of early modern intelligence and intelligence-gatherers.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"108 381","pages":"224-243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50119556","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":"Confessional Intelligence: Early Modern Papal Diplomats and Information-Gathering Regarding England and Poland","authors":"CHARLES R. KEENAN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay examines the information-gathering practices of papal nuncios and legates to argue that they performed much of the same intelligence work, and in a similar manner, as other diplomatic agents in the early modern Europe. It focuses in particular on papal diplomats’ efforts to gather information regarding two areas that proved especially challenging for the papacy – England and Poland-Lithuania – both of which were far from Rome and which contained large numbers of non-Catholics, who would understandably be wary of these diplomats’ intelligence work. The essay explores the mechanisms by which nuncios gathered information, including via ambassadors, members of religious orders, and informal networks of informants; their efforts to verify the information they received; and their methods to securely convey that information to their superiors in the Roman curia.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"108 381","pages":"282-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50141984","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":"(Hi)story-Telling: An Introduction to Italian Alternate and Counterfactual History","authors":"Adriano Vinale","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13355","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13355","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The dilemma of the history of the defeated is certainly not a novel topic for political and historical enquiry. The experience of the unspeakable forced the Auschwitz generation to question the meaning of historical memory. Walter Benjamin posed this question very early on, when he wrote in 1940 that ‘The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that <i>even the dead</i> will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious’.1 The nagging for the memory of the unspeakable obviously ran through the writings of Primo Levi, who immediately recognised the fallacy and falsifiability of memory, both personal and historical. ‘The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even grow, by incorporating extraneous features.’2 Years before the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt also put the question of memory and its manipulability. In <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i> (1951), she reflects on the relationship between narrative and politics in these terms: ‘The ideal subject of totalitarian rule – she argues – is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction […] and the distinction between true and false […] no longer exist’.3 Collective memory is hence a recurring question in the aftermath of the Second World War and in particular after the unaccountable experience of the concentration camp. The memory of the drowned is never safe, firstly because the <i>real</i> witnesses of Auschwitz are the ones who did not survive it, and secondly because the memory of the past is always exposed to its posthumous falsification.4</p><p>When <i>Metahistory</i> was published in 1973, the European historiographical debate had already been profoundly influenced by post-structuralism. As a matter of fact, in the preceding years, books such as Michel Foucault's <i>Le mots et les choses</i> (1966), Jacques Derrida's <i>De la grammatologie</i> (1967), or Gilles Deleuze's <i>Différence et répétition</i> (1968) had powerfully occupied the public discussion in France and Europe. In those same years, Roland Barthes had published <i>Le discours de l'histoire</i> (1967) and <i>L'effet du réel</i> (1968), two essays destined to have a great echo in the reflection on historiographical methodology. It is perhaps superfluous to recall how the debate on the writing of history continued in the years following <i>Metahistory</i>. Nonetheless, it seems important to point out that works such as Lynn Hunt's <i>The New Cultural History</i> (1989) and Linda Hutcheon's <i>The Politics of Postmodernism</i> (1989) show that the discussion on the writing of history has gone far beyond the seventies. The interplay hypothesised by White between history and fiction, between historiography and literature, has in some ways forced the historiography of the second half of the twentieth century i","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"108 382","pages":"355-364"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13355","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153744","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}