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Making the Medieval Relevant
When scholars discuss the medieval past, the temptation is to become immersed there, to deepen our appreciation of the nuances of the medieval sources through debate about their meaning. But the past informs the present in a myriad of ways and medievalists can, and should, use their research to address the concerns and interests of contemporary society. This volume presents a number of carefully commissioned essays that demonstrate the fertility and originality of recent work in Medieval Studies. Above all, they have been selected for relevance. Most contributors are in the earlier stages of their careers and their approaches clearly reflect how interdisciplinary methodologies applied to Med...
The End of Middle Class Politics?
The response of the middle classes to the financial crisis of 2008 is a central theme in the political systems of most developed, Western countries. This book approaches middle class politics from a historical perspective, looking at its progression since the early 1900s. The middle classes contributed significantly and in various ways to the evolution of mass politics in the West, with middle class intellectuals oriented to social and political reform, such as Leonard Hobhouse, Herbert Croly and Leon Bourgeois, influencing the setup of politics and the building of institutions in the early 20th century, and with lower-middle class disaffection fuelling protest politics in the 1890s and 1900...
The Left's Dirty Job
The Left's Dirty Job compares the experiences of recent socialist governments in France and Spain, examining how the governments of Francois Mitterrand (1981-1995) and Felipe Gonzalez (1982-1996) provide a key test of whether a leftist approach to industrial restructuring is possible. This study argues that, in fact, both governments's policies generally resembled those of other European governments in their emphasis on market-adapting measures that eliminated thousands of jobs while providing income support for displaced workers. Featuring extensive field work and interviews with over one hundred political, labor, and business leaders, this study is the first systematic comparison of these important socialist governments.
Kinmen, un archipel entre Taiwan et la Chine
C’est le reliquat de la guerre civile chinoise (1946-1950) et de la Guerre froide. À quelques kilomètres seulement des côtes de la République populaire de Chine, aux portes de la province continentale du Fujian, le drapeau de la République de Chine (Taiwan) flotte encore sur le petit archipel de Kinmen (Quemoy). Lors de sa débâcle vers Taipei, en 1949, Chiang Kai-shek était en effet parvenu à maintenir les troupes de l’armée nationaliste sur ce bouquet d’îles côtières, de l’autre côté du détroit de Formose par rapport à l’île de Taiwan, au risque de faire basculer le monde par deux fois dans une guerre nucléaire pendant les années 1950. Réceptacle fugace de lâ€...
