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• Volume 1. Napoleon absent, coalition ascendant
• volume 2. The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns.

"The writings of Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) are among the most important works on war ever written. Much of the focus has understandably been on his great theoretical work On War, published in 1832. That work, however, formed only the first three of the ten volumes of his published writings. For Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant, Murray and Pringle have chosen the original version of the text published in 1833 which is the first of the two volumes originally published as Der Feldzug von 1799 in Italien und der Schweiz. In these two volumes, Clausewitz describes and analyses the campaigns of 1799 in Italy and Switzerland, providing a superb history of this episode of the French Revolutionary wars. He covers the campaigns in detail and provides excellent analysis of their events, along with what he identifies as the changes in warfare that rocked Europe from 1792-1815. These campaigns were an important part of the wars of the French Revolution and Napoleonic period, but they have never been covered adequately from a historical standpoint."-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• 1: He Fell, Slandered by Rumor
• 2: A Life for the Tsar, an Opera for the Nation
• 3: Philosophical Madness
• 4: In the Flesh
• 5: Provinces Animated
• 6: Guardians of the Benighted
• 7: Think More About Camels
• 8: Orthodoxy Marches West
• 9: A Unicorn, Violent but Submissive
• 10: Northern Phoenix Conclusion.
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Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the "gendarme of Europe" secured order beyond the country's borders and entrenched the autocratic system at home. This book offers a profoundly different vision of Russia under Nicholas I. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, it reveals that many of modern Russia's most distinctive and outstanding features can be traced back to an inconspicuous but exceptional year. Russia became what it did, in no small measure, because of 1837. The catalogue of the year's noteworthy occurrences extends from the realms of culture, religion, and ideas to those of empire, politics, and industry. Exploring these diverse issues and connecting seemingly divergent historical actors, Paul W. Werth reveals that the 1830s in Russia were a period of striking dynamism and consequence, and that 1837 was pivotal for the country's entry into the modern age. From the romantic death of Russia's greatest poet Alexander Pushkin in January to a colossal fire at the Winter Palace in December, Russia experienced much that was astonishing in 1837: the railway and provincial press appeared, Russian opera made its debut, Orthodoxy pushed westward, the first Romanov visited Siberia-and much else besides. The cumulative effect was profound. The country's integration accelerated, and a Russian nation began to emerge, embodied in new institutions and practices, within the larger empire. The result was a quiet revolution, after which Russia would never be the same.
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• Welcomed by crows
• I become a gardener
• Camp life
• My first whipping
• Sickness and disease
• A hand through the barbed wire
• Building the monument
• Thumann and the beatings
• Categories of prisoner
• Hunger and the jackals
• Organization of the camp
• The mausoleum and the turtle
• Homo homini lupus
• Peter Birzer
• The arrival of the Jews
• Herr Knips
• Food packages
• Finishing off the Jews
• The gallows and selections for the gas
• The golden calf
• Releases and contact with the free world
• Fluchtpunkte
• Killing the Effektenkammer Kommando
• The camp administration
• The move to Field 4
• Fourteen thousand peasants
• Marmorstein
• Auf der Flucht erschossen
• Seeing my brother
• I get my Fluchtpunkt
• The plan to free the camp
• Lagersperre
• The massacre of seventeen thousand Jews
• The Gehenna in the Lagerschreibstube
• Typhus fever
• Hessel the fiddler
• Christmas Eve, 1943
• The dead arrive
• Sexualnot
• Exekutiert
• Laurich, the "angel of death"
• They count us like gold, but treat us like shit
• Every SS man carries a baton in his bag
• The Revier
• Daily pensum
• Trips to the laundry
• Transports
• Thumann leads me to the crematorium
• The best depart
• Shipping corpses
• The last of the Mohicans
• My typhus
• The air raid of the camp
• Convalescence
• Judgment day
• Hunting for Home Army soldiers
• Shortening the front
• Camp evacuation under Soviet fire
• A brickyard in Kraśnik
• A shed in Skarżysko
• Zugang 190 513 in Auschwitz.

"In its first English translation, Jerzy Kwiatkowski's memoir of surviving a sixteen-month internment at Majdanek concentration camp forms a rich documentary record of one of the Third Reich's most horrific camps"-- Provided by publisher.

The Caliphate has persevered as an important institution in Middle Eastern society through to the present day. During the span of Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria (1261-1517), the sultans invested 17 men as Abbasid caliphs. This book uncovers their public and private lives and examines how they were viewed by various sectors of society.

• Chronology of the key historical events on the Adriatic Sea.- The hydrographic and geographic objects.- The hydrological features and biological resources.
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This book focuses on the Adriatic Sea, which is part of the Mediterranean. It includes 700 articles on the hydrographic and geographic objects, hydrological features and biological resources, as well as the administrative-territorial units of the Adriatic countries, briefly describing significant natural objects like islands, peninsulas, bays, rivers, mountains, and their geographical peculiarities. It also covers the economy, culture and history, cities, ports, international agreements, research institutions and the activities of outstanding scientists, researchers, and travelers. Lastly, it provides a chronology of the main historical events that have become significant landmarks in the history of discovery and exploration of the Adriatic Sea, from the 625 B.C. to the present day.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The tone of encounters: Strangers, anxiety and everyday exclusivism
• 2. Interactional affection: Suspicion and sustainability of voluntary cooperation
• 3. Emotional labour: Leadership, dependency and everyday work relations 4 Ethical qualia: Role ethics and the moral transformation of young Chinese migrants
• 5. Speaking with affect: Speech capital, situationa-- affect and daily (mis)communication Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting sites in Lusaka, Zambia-a Chinese state-sponsored educational farm and a private Chinese family farm-Di Wu focuses on daily interactions among Chinese migrants and their Zambian hosts. Daily communicative events, e.g. banquets, market negotiations, work-place disputes, and various social encounters across a range of settings are used to trace the essential role that emotion/affect plays in forming and reproducing social relations and group identities among Chinese migrants. Wu suggests that affective encounters in everyday situations-as well as failed attempts to generate affect-should not be overlooked in order to fully appreciate Sino-African interactions. Deeply researched and with rich ethnographic detail, this book will be relevant to scholars of anthropology, international development, and others interested in Sino-African relations.
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The intense bonds among the king and his family, friends, lovers, and entourage are the most enticing and intriguing aspects of Alexander the Great's life. The affective ties of the protagonists of Alexander's Empire nurtured the interest of the ancient authors, as well as the audience, in the personal life of the most famous men and women of the time. These relations echoed through time in art and literature, to become paradigm of positive or negative, human behavior. 0By rejecting the perception of the Macedonian monarchy as a positivist king-army based system, and by looking for other political and social structures Elizabeth Carney has played a crucial role in prompting the current re-appraisal of the Macedonian monarchy. Her volumes on Women and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), Olympias: Mother of Alexander the Great (Routledge, 2006), Arsinoe of Egypt and Macedon: A Royal Life. (Oxford University Press, 2013) have been game-changers in the field and has offered the academic world a completely new perspective on the network of relationships surrounding the exercise of power. By examining Macedonian and Hellenistic dynastic behavior and relations, she has shown the political yet tragic, heroic thus human side, thus connecting Hellenistic political and social history

• Introduction-- Part I: Into Africa--
• 1. History at the Universities: Change without Decay--
• 2. Economic Imperialism in West Africa: Lagos, 1880-92--
• 3. Asante and the Historians: Transition and Partition on the Gold Coast--
• 4. The Lagos Strike of
• 1897: An Exploration in Nigerian Labour History--
• 5. Economic Aspects of Political Movements in Nigeria and the Gold Coast, 1918-39--
• 6. The New Economic History of Africa--
• 7. Fifty Years of African Economic History-- Part II: On to Imperialism and Empire--
• 8. The "New International Order" in the Nineteenth Century: Britain's First Development Plan for Africa--
• 9. The Victorians and Africa: A Reconsideration of the Occupation of Egypt, 1882--
• 10. Macmillan's Audit of Empire, 1957--
• 11. Rethinking Decolonisation-- Part III: Towards Disorder in the Wider World--
• 12. Globalisation and Decolonisation--
• 13. Globalization with and without Empires: From Bali to Labrador--
• 14. Capitalism, Nationalism and the New American Empire--
• 15. The "Victory Strategy": Grand Bargain or Grand Illusion?
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This volume brings together important articles from the Cambridge historian A. G. Hopkins and reflect the enlargement and evolution of historical studies during the last half century. The essays cover four of the principal historiographical developments of the period: the extraordinary revolution that has led to the writing of non-Western indigenous history; the revitalization of new types of imperial history; the now ubiquitous engagement with global history, including a reinterpretation of American Empire, and the current revival of economic history after several decades of neglect.
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• 1. From the Golden Age to Conquest and Colonization--
• 2. Liberation and Decolonization--
• 3. Decolonization's Legacies--
• 4. External Influences--
• 5. Africa's Economy, 1960-2000--
• 6. Economy, Socio-Economic Development, and Development Cooperation--
• 7. States, Political Systems, and Actors--
• 8. Intra-African Cooperation and Integration--
• 9. Political Crises--
• 10. Large-Scale Conflicts--
• 11. International Conflict Management--
• 12. African Actors Role in International Politics-- Epilogue.
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Home to more than 1.2 billion people, living in 54 recognized states, speaking around 3,000 languages, Africa is a diverse and complex continent made up of states which differ in regard to their colonial history, political system, socio-economic development, economic polices and their experience with crises and conflicts. This introduction and overview of African history and politics since decolonization emphasises throughout, the diversity of the continent. Organised thematically to include chapters on decolonization and its legacies, external influences, economics, political systems, inter-African relations, crises, conflicts and conflict management, and Africa's external relations, Martin Welz strikes a fine balance between the use of contextual information, analysis, case studies and examples with theoretical debates in development, politics and global policy. Accessible to students at all levels, it counters histories which offer reductive explanations of complex issues, and offers new insights into the role African actors have played in influencing international affairs beyond the continent.
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• 1: Introduction Ch
• 2: A Call for An African Policy Framework Towards China Ch
• 3: Regionalizing Sino-African Diplomatic Engagement: Kagame and Overcoming The 'One and The Many' Paradigm Ch
• 4: Cultural Approaches To Africa's Engagement with China Ch
• 5: Pan-African Perspectives on International Relations - Africa and China Ch
• 6: China's Evolving Approach to the African Peace and Security Agenda: Rationale, Trends and Implications Ch
• 7: Self-Reliance or Dependency? The Role of China's Development Finance in Enhancing African Agency Ch
• 8: The EU and Africa: A Multilateral Model For The Future Of Africa-China Relations? Ch
• 9: One or Many Voices? Public Diplomacy and Its Impact on an African Policy Towards China Ch
• 10: The Need for Africa's Common Policy Towards China: A Decolonial Afrocentric Perspective Ch
• 11: Conclusion.
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This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa-China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Incorporating historical, political, social and cultural dimensions, it offers innovative views on the Africa-China relationship that combine theory and practice, and critically examines the prospects of a Pan-African policy towards China, complementary to China's comprehensive African policy. The chapters address a number of key questions, including: What steps are being taken to achieve a more coordinated approach and policy towards China on the African continent? Does Africa even need a collective strategy in the first place? How would a coherent policy framework affect Africa's relations with Europe and other external partners? How do the pillars of the partnership align with the African Union's Agenda 2063 and the United Nation's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
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• Preface. a fleeting encounter
• Introduction. Foreigners in China
• 1. The emergence of the 'Chocolate City': multiethnic spaces, catering networks, and articulated subeconomies
• 2. The materialities of transnational movement: food, hair, fashion, movies and other 'things'
• 3. Placemaking in Guangzhou: emplacement, transiency and the 'politics' of solidarity
• 4. Making it on the move: landscapes of aspiration in Guangzhou's African music scene
• 5. Transnational flows: gendered and racialised imaginaries of Africans in Guangzhou
• 6. Embedded transnationality: problematic transnational mobilities, the burden of methodological nationalism
• Postscript. African transnational mobility in post-COVID19 pandemic Guangzhou
• Index.
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Considering the African presence in China from an ethnographic and cultural studies perspective, this book offers a new way to theorise contemporary and future forms of transnational mobilities while expanding our understandings around the transformations happening in both China and Africa. The author develops an original argument and new theoretical insights about the significance of the African presence in Guangzhou, and presents an invaluable case study for understanding particular modes of transnational mobility. More broadly, it challenges forms of (re)presenting and producing knowledge about subjects on the move; and it transforms existing theorisations and critical understandings of mobility and its shaping power. Through an ethnographic approach, the book brings us closer to a number of practices, features and objects that, while characterising the lives of Africans in Guangzhou, are also evidence of the interplay between individual aspirations, and the structural constraints embedded in contemporary regimes of transnational mobility. Raising critical questions about ways of (un)belonging in the precarious settings of neoliberal modernity and the future of African mobilities, this book will be of interest to scholars of transnational, African and Chinese Studies.
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• Histoire et Société
• L'Afrique Centrale : des tout débuts aux grands Royaumes / Pierre de Maret
• La vie quotidienne en foret / Isidore Ndaywel è Nziem
• La vache dans la vie sociale du Bushi ancient / Jean-Marie Bashizi Musharhamina
• De l'ethnonyme et toponyme ngili à l'hydronyme ngiri (girl) et aux subdivisions administratives ngiri (giri) : réalités congolaises précoloniales et leur évolution sous la colonisation / Jerome-Emilien. Mumbanza mwa Bawele
• L'esclavage dans le royaume kuba / Belepe Bope Mabintch
• La scupture holo un art aux carrefours du haut kwango / Bibiane Niangi Batulukisi
• De Lagos à Bruxelles via Boma : Les Nigérians Shanu Herzekiah et Samuel Gerald, migrants au Congo et voyageurs en Europe, fin XIXe - début XXe siècle / Mathieu Zana Etambala
• L'âme réécrite dans un Congo flamand / Nancy Hunt
• Quelques réflexions autour des associations culturelles et politiques dans le Cupperbelt congolais et zambien 1910-1960 / Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
• L'historiographie de l'oralité revisitée
• Oralité : se libérer du connu pour élargir le champ de la réflexion / Clémentine Faïk-Nzuji
• Vansina et la valorisation des traditions orales / Pamphile Mabiala Mantuba-Ngoma
• La mort du lieutenant Gaston Adolphe Fisch à Iyenga (10 janvier 1895) et ses conséquences dans la région de Kole / Emile Mandjumba Mwanyimi-Mbomba
• Le comportement des classes nominales dans les langues du Bas-Kasaï / Léon Mundeke Otom'si Ebok
• Les motifs décoratifs kuba comme écriture / Mathieu Bope Nyim-a-Nkwem
• Traditions orales et historiographie de l'ancien royaume du Burundi / Emile Mworoha
• Vansina et l'historiographie rwandaise : Un apport inestimable / Joseph Gahama
• Une expérience de collecte et d'exploitation des traditions orales pour l'histoire des anciens villages de Kinshasa / Léon de Saint Moulin
• Pistes vers le passé / J. Jeffrey Hoover
• Envoi posthume à un ami : Vaar wel Vansina Jan / Danielle De Lame.

"Jan Vansina est l'un des pionniers d'écriture de l'histoire de l'Afrique ancienne. Historien, anthropologue et linguiste, il a été façonné par son intense fréquentation du terrain congolais et rwando-burundais, ayant eu la force de travail nécessaire pour arriver à se situer aux avant-postes du combat pour l'accréditation de la tradition orale et des savoirs populaires comme sources pertinentes d'histoire. Sa méthode reposait sur un double pilier : la recherche sans concession de la vérité et la nécessaire intervention de l'imagination historique. En plaçant le passé de l'Afrique sous la dure lumière de l'histoire, il reconnaissait la place originale que ce passé occupait dans le concert des grandes cultures du monde. L'oeuvre de ce grand historien demeure une invitation aux historiens d'aller à la conquête de l'histoire antique du continent, trop facilement négligée par l'absence des sources écrites. Ce recueil d'études sur l'Afrique centrale ancienne se veut un témoignage en hommage à ce grand africaniste belgo-américain."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1. Italy after Charlemagne: scope and aims of the volume Clemens Gantner and Walter Pohl--
• 2. A brief introduction to Italian political history until 875 Clemens Gantner-- Part I. Was There a Carolingian Italy?:
• 3. Talking about the Carolingians in eighth- and ninth-century Italy Thomas F. X. Noble--
• 4. The name of the kingdom Paolo Delogu--
• 5. Was there a Carolingian Italy? Politics, institutions and book culture Francois Bougard-- Part II. Organizing Italy:
• 6. The government of a peripheral area: the Carolingians and north-eastern Italy Stefano Gasparri--
• 7. Vassals without feudalism in Carolingian Italy Giuseppe Albertoni--
• 8. Shaping a kingdom: the sees of Parma and Arezzo between the reigns of Louis II and Berengar Igor Santos Salazar-- Part III. Carolingian Rulers:
• 9. Staying Lombard while becoming Carolingian? Italy under King Pippin Marco Stoffella--
• 10. Carolingian fathers and sons in Italy: Lothar I and Louis II's successful partnership Elina Screen--
• 11. A king in training? Louis II of Italy and his expedition to Rome in 844 Clemens Gantner-- Part IV. Cities, Courts and Carolingians:
• 12. A Byzantine cuckoo in the Frankish nest? The Exarchate of Ravenna and the Kingdom of Italy in the long ninth century Tom Brown--
• 13. Urbanism as politics in ninth-century Italy Caroline Goodson--
• 14. Rome and the others: saints, relics and hagiography in Carolingian north-eastern Italy Francesco Veronese--
• 15. Between the palace, the school and the forum: rhetoric and court culture in late Lombard and Carolingian Italy Giorgia Vocino-- Bibliography.
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After Charlemagne's death in 814, Italy was ruled by a succession of kings and emperors, all of whom could claim some relation to the Carolingians, some via the female line of succession. This study offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected period of Italy in the ninth century and the impact of Carolingian culture. Bringing together some of the foremost scholars on early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers the first comprehensive overview of the period, and also presents new research on Italian politics, culture, society and economy, from the death of Charlemagne to the assassination of Berengar I in 924. Revealing Italy as a multifaceted peninsula, the authors address the governance and expansion of Carolingian Italy, examining relations with the other Carolingian kingdoms, as well as those with the Italian South, the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire. Exploring topics on a regional and local level as well as presenting a 'big picture' of the Italian or Lombard kingdom, this volume provides new and exciting answers to the central question: How Carolingian was 'Carolingian Italy'?
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• Introduction: Nine Theses on Apocalypse
• Climate Crisis: Back to the future Mediterranean
• Nuclear Age: "Enjoy Chernobyl, die later"
• The Collision: Marshall Islands are everywhere
• Postscriptum: "Revelation" of COVID-19.

"A rollercoaster ride through the world after the Apocalypse with a simple message: either we change course or we face mass extinction"-- Provided by publisher.

• Preface
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Old Problems, New Approaches
• 3: Reaction and Regulation, 1349 to 1380
• 4: A Mystery Within an Enigma: The Economy, 1355 to 1375
• 5: Injustice and Revolt
• 6: A New Equilibrium? Economy and Society, 1375 to 1400
• 7: The Decline of Serfdom and the Origins of the 'Little Divergence'
• 8: Conclusion.
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The Black Death of 1348-9 is the most catastrophic event and worst pandemic in recorded history. After the Black Death offers a major reinterpretation of its immediate impact and longer-term consequences in England. After the Black Death reassesses the established scholarship on the impact of plague on fourteenth-century England and draws upon original research into primary sources to offer a major re-interpretation of the subject. It studies how the government reacted to the crisis, and how communities adapted in its wake. It places the pandemic within the wider context of extreme weather and epidemiological events, the institutional framework of markets and serfdom, and the role of law in reducing risks and conditioning behaviour. The government's response to the Black Death is reconsidered in order to cast new light on the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. By 1400, the effects of plague had resulted in major changes to the structure of society and the economy, creating the pre-conditions for England's role in the Little Divergence (whereby economic performance in parts of north western Europe began to move decisively ahead of the rest of the continent). After the Black Death explores in detail how a major pandemic transformed society, and, in doing so, elevates the third quarter of the fourteenth century from a little-understood paradox to a critical period of profound and irreversible change in English and global history.
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• Introduction
• 1: Agathokles' Life and Times PART I: REPRESENTATIONS OF AGATHOKLES
• 2: Historiography
• 3: Telling Tales About the King
• 4: Coinage PART II: THE RULERSHIP OF AGATHOKLES
• 5: Tyrannosiculus Rex PART III: THE WORLD OF AGATHOKLES
• 6: Sicily
• 7: Carthage
• 8: Italy
• 9: Mainland Greece and the Diadochoi Conclusion: Sicilian Tyrant and Hellenistic King
• Appendix I: The Lokrian Tablets
• Appendix II: Coin Catalogue Bibliography Index.
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Agathokles of Syracuse ruled large areas of Sicily and southern Italy between 317 and 289 BC. In this book, Christopher de Lisle argues that Agathokles was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. Agathokles' career has important implications for our definition of the Hellenistic world and its relationship to both the western Mediterranean and earlier Greek history. However, he has tended not to feature in studies of the Hellenistic world or of ancient Sicily. In ancient discourse about him, in the coins he issued, in his interactions with the world around him, and in the way he ruled, Agathokles is simultaneously heir to a long tradition and actively engaged in his contemporary world. The failure to place Agathokles in both of these contexts up till now has contributed to the development of an excessively deep separation between the western and eastern Mediterranean and between the Classical and Hellenistic periods. This work - the first book-length study of Agathokles in English in over a century - places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in the eastern Mediterranean that mark the start of the Hellenistic era. The volume includes a narrative of his career, studies of his coinage and his representation in literary sources, and a series of explorations of important themes and regions.
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