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Page 109 of 21976

  • Marrying the occupiers: Italian war brides and GIs during the Allied occupation of Italy

  • Silvia Cassamagnaghi
  • Journal:
    Modern Italy , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 November 2025, pp. 1-14
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  • During the Second World War, Allied-occupied Italy became the setting for a wide range of intimate encounters between local women and the occupiers, especially American soldiers. These relationships – ranging from romantic and consensual to transactional and coercive – reflected complex interactions with perceived ‘otherness’ and exposed tensions around race, gender, and power. US authorities, concerned about its social, cultural, and political implications, monitored ‘fraternisation’ closely. This article explores these dynamics by examining US Army marriage regulations and oral history interviews with Italian women who married American soldiers. Women’s experiences – shaped by region, class, and individual circumstance – represent a spectrum ranging from disillusionment to long-term partnership. These narratives offer a complex portrait of gender relations under occupation, revealing how military policy also intersected with and shaped the everyday lives of women during occupation.

Russia's War on Ukraine
  • The Four Roots of Putin's Invasion
  • Taras Kuzio, Michał Wawrzonek
  • Published online:
    20 November 2025
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    04 December 2025
  • Understanding why Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 is vital for preparing for what may come next. This groundbreaking book is the first to provide an interdisciplinary study of the first full-scale war in Europe since 1945, which is having global ramifications on interstate relations, international law, international organisations, energy questions and economies. Written by two leading scholars of Ukrainian and Russian politics and history, and based on extensive field work and primary sources, the book moves beyond established Western ideas about Russia to show that Russian military aggression against Ukraine is domestically, not externally, driven. The authors analyse the statements and policies of the Russian leadership under Putin, Russia's post-communist political culture and Russia's understanding of itself as a civilisation without borders. Imperial nationalism, nostalgia, Russia's divergent identity and political system to Ukraine's, and Kremlin anti-Western xenophobia are the key elements underlying Russian aggression.

Governance of a Party-state
  • Corruption, Law, and the Modus Operandi of the Chinese Communist Party
  • Ling Li
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    20 November 2025
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    04 December 2025
  • Ling Li unveils the often-hidden inner workings of China's Party-state. The Chinese Communist Party has crafted and relied on an integrated regulatory system, where politics and law are fused, to govern both its internal operations and its relations with the state. Drawing on two decades of in-depth research, Li delves into the 'black box' of decision-making in the Party-state, analyzing the motivations and strategies that drive individual and institutional choices in corruption, anti-corruption investigations, and power struggles at the Politburo. This insightful book reveals the critical role of rules and institution-building within the Party, illuminates the complex relationship between corruption and regime stability, and captures the evolving dynamics of Party-state relations. A must-read for students, academics, business leaders, and policymakers alike, this book is an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of law, politics, and governance in China and its global implications.

Emerson, the Philosopher of Oppositions
  • Russell B. Goodman
  • Published online:
    20 November 2025
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    22 January 2026
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson developed a metaphysics of process, an epistemology of moods, and an 'existentialist' ethics of self-improvement, drawing on sources including Neoplatonism, Kantianism, Hinduism, and the skepticism of Montaigne. In this book, Russell B. Goodman demonstrates how Emerson's essays embody oppositions – one and many, fixed and flowing, nominalism and realism – and argues, in tracing Emerson's main positions, that we miss the living nature of his philosophy unless we take account of the motions and patterns of his essays and the ways in which instability, spontaneity, and inconsistency are dramatized within them. Goodman presents Emerson as a philosopher in conversation with Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, William James, Wittgenstein, and Cavell. He finds a variety of skepticisms in Emerson's work – about friendship, language, freedom, and the world's existence – but also an acknowledgement of skepticism as a 'wise' form of life.

Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Slavery, Freedom, and the Writing of History
  • Edited by Theodore W. Cohen, Nicole von Germeten
  • Published online:
    20 November 2025
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    04 December 2025
  • As the first book-length examination of abolition and its legacies in Mexico, this collection reveals innovative social, cultural, political, and intellectual approaches to Afro-Mexican history. It complicates the long-standing belief that Afro-Mexicans were erased from the nation. The volume instead shows how they created their own archival legibility by continuing and modifying colonial-era forms of resistance, among other survival strategies. The chapters document the lives and choices of Afro-descended peoples, both enslaved and free, over the course of two centuries, culminating during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Contributors examine how Afro-Mexicans who lived under Spanish rule took advantage of colonial structures to self-advocate and form communities. Beginning with the war for independence and continuing after the abolition of slavery and caste in the 1820s, Afro-descended citizens responded to and, at times, resisted the claims of racial disappearance to shape both local and national politics.

Labor Unions and Democratic Unrest in North Africa
  • Protest and Resistance in Tunisia and Morocco
  • Ashley Anderson
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    20 November 2025
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    20 November 2025
  • The political upheavals witnessed in North Africa during the 2011 Arab uprisings brought renewed attention to the region. This book focuses on the inconspicuous yet critical role of labor unions in shaping protest success (and failure) during this period. Drawing on a comparison between Tunisia and Morocco, Ashley Anderson connects the divergent protest strategies of each country to the varying levels of institutional incorporation and organizational cohesion developed by labor unions under authoritarian rule. Using material drawn from English, Arabic, and French news sources, archives and extensive interviews, Anderson demonstrates how Tunisia's exclusionary corporatist system enabled the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) to emerge as a powerful political actor, while Moroccan unions struggled to extract minimal concessions from the incumbent regime. By highlighting the interplay between authoritarian institutions, labor activism, and political reforms, this book sheds light on the challenges that labor organizations face in transforming their countries' political and economic future.

Homesick Nation
  • Development, Migration and Yearning in Rural China
  • Linda Qian
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    20 November 2025
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    18 December 2025
  • This innovative study introduces the concept of xiangchou – homesickness and rural nostalgia – to English-language scholarship, using it as a lens through which to explore rural development in contemporary China. Using hometown ethnography, Linda Qian takes a village in Zhejiang province as her primary case study to demonstrate the emotional, social and political forces shaping rural return migration and development policies. Through personal narratives and state-led initiatives, she reveals how xiangchou functions as both a 'structure of feeling' and a tool of affective governance. By intertwining lived experiences with broader social and political contexts, this study highlights the overlapping desires projected onto the countryside and underscores the significance of the 'rural' in the traditional concept of the 'hometown'.

  • Index

  • Birgit Tremml-Werner, Stockholms Universitet
  • Book:
    Negotiating Imperialism
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    08 November 2025
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    20 November 2025, pp 268-272
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  • 12 - The Hanseatic World and Scandinavia

  • from Atlantic and North Sea Europe
  • Edited by Patrick Lantschner, University College London, Maarten Prak, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Published online:
    09 January 2026
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    20 November 2025, pp 272-292

  • Summary

    Northern Europe is often undervalued in surveys of the historical development of cities. The reasons have been the relatively small size of most urban settlements; the peripheral location of Scandinavian and most Hanseatic cities, when viewed from Western Europe; and the complexity underlying the concept of the Hanse, which connected many of the settlements. The importance of the towns and cities in the area lay in their multiple functions – be they economic, commercial, political, religious, cultural or military – and in the fact that they were nodes in larger networks. These connections meant that the Scandinavian towns and towns in the Hanse were fully integrated into urban Europe. The Hanse, a unique premodern urban organisation, illustrates how rich this urban history was.

  • 21 - War and the Ancient City

  • from Part V - Governing the City
  • General editor Maarten Prak, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Edited by Penelope J. E. Davies, University of Texas, Austin, Christina G. Williamson, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Published online:
    10 January 2026
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    20 November 2025, pp 421-441

  • Summary

    Volume I offers a broad perspective on urban culture in the ancient European world. It begins with chronological overviews which paint in broad brushstrokes a picture that serves as a frame for the thematic chapters in the rest of the volume. Positioning ancient Europe within its wider context, it touches on Asia and Africa as regions that informed and were later influenced by urban development in Europe, with particular emphasis on the Mediterranean basin. Topics range from formal characteristics (including public space), water provision, waste disposal, urban maintenance, spaces for the dead, and border spaces; to ways of thinking about, visualising, and remembering cities in antiquity; to conflict within and between cities, economics, mobility and globalisation, intersectional urban experiences, slavery, political participation, and religion.

  • Remembering Rochdale: The Cooperative Movement and the Post-Enclosure Atlantic

  • Eve O’Connor
  • Journal:
    International Labor and Working-Class History , First View
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    20 November 2025, pp. 1-18
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  • The English weavers who organized what would become a flourishing cooperative business in 1844 remain famous worldwide. In the second half of the nineteenth century, their story traveled through a newly international labor press, inspiring workers to build cooperatives in the template set forth by the so-called “Rochdale Pioneers.” While scholars have detailed the Rochdale model’s impact on the cooperative movement itself, historians have missed its significance as a vector for wider changes in working-class politics. Drawing on cooperative movement literature and organizational records, this essay traces the transnational circulation of the Rochdale story from Britain to the United States from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. I explore how the Rochdale method’s influence simultaneously standardized cooperative practices, and reflected a protracted shift in anti-capitalist struggles. Against the backdrop of land dispossession and anti-labor violence, the Rochdale experiment captured hopes for a cooperative economic strategy fit to survive in the modern era. Focusing on the rise of consumers’ cooperation in the United States, I show how organizers mobilized a cooperative vision for a post-enclosure world—one consistent with the structure, if not the spirit, of private property and commodity markets. This article explores how the cooperative movement became a vital site for reimagining economic autonomy as industrial capitalism conscripted ever more people into wage labor.

  • 22 - (Un)Covering the Ground: Urban Ecologies of Soils and Plants

  • from The Urban Fabric and Environment
  • General editor Maarten Prak, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Edited by Dorothee Brantz, Technische Universität Berlin, Gábor Sonkoly, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Urban History of Europe
    Published online:
    09 January 2026
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    20 November 2025, pp 453-471

  • Summary

    This chapter highlights changes in the relationship between humans and the urban environment by revealing the negotiations and tensions regarding the sealing and unsealing of urban soils and surfaces; organic waste removal and recycling; the use of ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ soils; spontaneous plant growth and plant cultivation; as well as urbanisation, biodiversity and nature conservation. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, industrialisation both reinforced and blurred the separation and distinction between urban and rural, city and landscape, centre and periphery. It also produced novel hybrid ecologies which might be called nature-cultures; ecologies in which cities were naturalised and nature was urbanised.

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