HistoryPub Date : 2024-08-15DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13419
ANDREW NUNES
{"title":"A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History. By Edward Wilson-Lee. William Collins. London, 2022. 344 pp. £25.","authors":"ANDREW NUNES","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13419","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"146-147"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142198725","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 : 2024-08-01DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13414
RICHARD MILLS
{"title":"Pride of the East: Motorcycle Speedway, Transnational Encounters and Provincial Heartlands","authors":"RICHARD MILLS","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13414","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229X.13414","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For a century, speedway has operated on a transnational basis. Its riders, competitions and machinery regularly traverse national and continental borders. The imposition of the Cold War's Iron Curtain did little to impede its growth. This article focuses on one of speedway's far-flung and diverse provincial heartlands to show how the sport generated frequent transnational and transsystemic interactions and forged deep relationships that often stood in contrast to the prevailing trends of international politics. As one of speedway's ‘entangled peripheries’, rural East Anglia owes a debt of gratitude to Australasian pioneers. From the 1950s—decades before imported talent became commonplace in football—the region welcomed Scandinavian and Eastern Bloc riders and hosted visiting clubs and national representations from across the continent. Later, East Anglia became a bridgehead for the successful assault of communist-built machinery on the Western market. These bold endeavours were not without controversy, as British riders voiced objections to foreign men and machines deemed a threat to their livelihoods. The Cold War's end accelerated existing trends and also created exciting new opportunities for itinerant East Anglians abroad. Archival material, conversations with the sport's foreign trailblazers and fans, Swedish and Czechoslovak sources, photographs and official publications serve to demonstrate speedway's enduring ability to forge unexpected ties and give voice to regions at the so-called margins of twentieth-century history.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"335-366"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13414","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142123259","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13406
HUGH PATTENDEN
{"title":"State of the Field: The History of African Political Thought","authors":"HUGH PATTENDEN","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13406","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article surveys the scholarship surrounding the history of African political thought, which is a growing interdisciplinary area of study. The study of the history of political thought has a long tradition but has tended to be Eurocentric, with limited reference to the Global South. Recent decades have seen moves to correct this, with more research being given over to African political thought, both ancient and modern. This article explores the plethora of discussions, which are happening in the field, including how the subject is defined, the impact of theories of decolonisation and the relationship between African thought and ideas from elsewhere in the world. In doing this it, also notes where there is scope for further research to be done.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"202-225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141774444","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 : 2024-07-15DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13415
DANIEL ADAMSON
{"title":"The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt. By Anna Hájková. Oxford University Press, 2020. 364 pp. £14.95 (Hbk).","authors":"DANIEL ADAMSON","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13415","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13415","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"110 389","pages":"144-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141645605","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 : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13404
Paul Dixon
{"title":"“Striving to Facilitate the Achievement of the PIRA's Aims”? The Labour Government, the Army and the Crisis of the British State over Northern Ireland 1972–76","authors":"Paul Dixon","doi":"10.1111/1468-229X.13404","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-229X.13404","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article argues that there was a crisis within the British state over policy towards Northern Ireland (1972–76). The Conservative then Labour government pursued a broadly bipartisan and conciliatory policy, culminating in the failed powersharing experiment (1974). By contrast, the New Right within the Conservative Party but also powerful elements in the Army and Intelligence Services, the Royal Ulster Constabulary and Unionism opposed conciliation as ‘appeasement’ and even treachery. They claimed conciliation and rumours of British political support for withdrawal encouraged the IRA and undermined the repressive approach that was necessary to win. From this perspective, the Conservative then Labour government were, in effect, ‘… striving to facilitate the achievement of the PIRA's aims’ and so they resisted government policy. The crisis intensified as more troops were killed, and the Army suffered severe problems of morale, recruitment and retention. The Army's emergency created a need to withdraw troops and Ulsterise the conflict. Although this constrained the Labour government's ability to defend powersharing, the Army also appeared reluctant to support the government's conciliatory policy. The crisis of the British state over Northern Ireland (1972–76) provides part of the context in which allegations about the undermining of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and the Labour government in the 1970s should be considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":13162,"journal":{"name":"History","volume":"109 386-387","pages":"367-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-229X.13404","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141611976","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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13412
VALERIE WAINWRIGHT
{"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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-11DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13413
MATTHEW WOODCOCK
{"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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13407
YANN LeGALL
{"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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13409
CHRIS BOLSMANN, DILWYN PORTER
{"title":"‘The Most Famous Amateur Football Club in the World’: Creating and Curating the Corinthian Brand","authors":"CHRIS BOLSMANN, 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}
HistoryPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.13405
Nicholas Morton
{"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}