Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Saelens, Wout / Blonde, Bruno / Ryckbosch, Wouter (eds.), Energy in the Early Modern Home: Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450-1850. (Themes in Environmental History) 272 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <699-833>
ISBN 978-0-367-68137-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-68135-7 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

Uncovering, for the first time, the role played by home users in fostering energy changes, this book explores the effects of energy transitions between the medieval and industrial era on the everyday life of Europeans and considers how cultural, social and material changes in the home facilitated the transition towards a more energy-demanding world.This book delves deeper into the interactions between early modern consumers and the ecological constraints of the world surrounding them. Experts on specific aspects of domestic energy use departing from different case studies in early modern Europe confront these central issues. This book therefore offers a wide range of approaches within a long-term and comparative perspective. Different 'material cultures of energy' across time and space and across different climates in Europe are explored. Ultimately, this book aims to consider how the early modern home not just adapted to energy changes, but perhaps even prepared the way for our modern addiction to fossil energy. Energy in the Early Modern Home is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe, premodern environmental history, the history of consumption and material culture, and the history of science and technology.

Ricci, Alessandro, The Geography of Uncertainty: A Conceptual Model of Early Modern Globalization and the Current Crisis. 200 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-861>
ISBN 978-1-032-49513-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-49516-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book outlines the characteristics and implications of a potential geography of uncertainty. In doing so, it analyses this concept in reference to both the origins of uncertainty in Early Modern Age and the current geopolitical situation.The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to uncertainty, drawing on global perspectives and literature to define its meanings and characteristics. In order to develop a thorough and precise understanding of the geography of uncertainty, a broad perspective is adopted, which includes other forms of knowledge in which the concept of uncertainty is firmly established. As such the book creates temporal links, that may occasionally be far off from one another, to present a geographical perspective of uncertainty. It provides an interpretation of the phenomenon of globalization in a new way, relating it to the first European openness to global spaces, the Early Modern Age, and identifying the transition from the medieval world to the Modern Age as the first manifestation of uncertainty in geography. Uncertainty is more prevalent than ever in today's geopolitical, economic, financial and social reality, as well as the ongoing emergencies and crises.The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach rooted in the geography of Early Modernity by referring to geopolitical scenarios, literature and philosophy, to target the historical roots and the prevailing configuration of the geography of uncertainty. It will appeal to scholars and students of human and political geography, politics, philosophy, international relations, economics and history.

Balme, Christopher B. (ed.), Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World: Theatre, Film, Literature and Things. (Routledge Studies in Cultures of the Global Cold War) 280 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-901>
ISBN 978-1-032-05158-1 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-05161-1 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. "Networks and Institutions" looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world, especially Africa. "Cultural Diplomacy" focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book publishing and the circus. "Artists and Agency" explores how West African filmmakers (Ousmane Sembene and Abderrahmane Sissako) and European authors (Brecht and Ibsen) were harnessed for different kinds of Cold War strategies. Finally, "Cultures of Things" investigates how everyday objects such as books and iconic theatre buildings became suffused with affect, nostalgia, and ideology.This book will be of interest for students of the Cold War, postcolonial studies, theatre, film, and literature.Chapters 1, 4, 8, and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Funded by the European Research Council Project "Developing Theatre".

シティズンシップ、移民、社会的権利－1870年代から1970年代までの歴史的経験
Althammer, Beate (ed.), Citizenship, Migration and Social Rights: Historical Experiences from the 1870s to the 1970s. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 360 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <699-956>
ISBN 978-1-032-19826-2 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

The tensions between European conceptions of the welfare state and transnational migration have caused heated political, public, and academic debates over the last decades. Historiography, however, has not yet explored in depth how European societies struggled with this dilemma-filled relationship in the formative phases of modern welfare states from the late nineteenth century to the post-war era. The present volume contributes to filling this gap and thus to putting a highly topical issue into historical perspective. The focus is on Europe, but with a wide geographic scope that reaches also across the Atlantic. Following an introductory chapter, eleven case studies deal with four themes. The first part explores the agency of migrants in local-level administrative and judicial procedures that controlled practical access to formal rights. The second section investigates special regulations developed for seasonal labour migrants employed mainly in agriculture. The third part looks at the role of urban social policies in attracting, integrating, but also excluding both domestic and foreign migrants. The final section addresses the gradual globalisation of migrants' social rights through international conventions. The book will be of interest not only to historians of welfare, migration, and citizenship, but also to social scientists as well as to graduate students in these fields.

欧州におけるジェンダーと離婚－1600～1900年
Griesebner, Andrea / Doxiadis, Evdoxios (eds.), Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 - 1900: A Praxeological Perspective. (Gender and Well-Being) 288 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-999>
ISBN 978-1-032-36932-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-36934-1 paper ¥10,979.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.Religions and denominations also had different regulations regarding whether a divorce only ended marital obligations or also permitted remarriage during the lifetime of the divorced spouse. This book deals with predominantly handwritten documents of divorce proceedings from the British Isles to Western, Central, and Southeastern Europe, and from 1600 to the 1930s. The praxeological analysis reveals the arguments and strategies put forward to obtain or prevent divorce, as well as the social and, above all, economic conditions and arrangements connected with divorce. The contributions break new ground by combining previously often separate fields of research and regions of investigation. It makes clear that the gender order doesn't always run along religious lines, as was too often assumed.This book will be of interest to all scholars and students of economic, social, religious, cultural, legal, and gender history as well as gender and well-being in a broader sense.

Sciences, techniques, pouvoirs et societes du XVe siecle au XVIIIe siecle: Angleterre, France, Pays-Bas/Provinces Unies et peninsule italienne. (Bulletin de l'Association des historiens modernistes des universites francaises) 133 p. 2022 (Sorbonne U. Pr., FR) <699-54>
ISBN 979-10-231-0712-8 paper ¥3,481.- (税込) EUR 15.00 *

英国、フランス、欧州のリーダーシップをかけた戦い　1957～2007年
Davis, Richard, Britain, France and the Battle for the Leadership of Europe, 1957-2007. (Routledge Studies in Modern European History 100) 288 pp. 2024 (Routledge, UK) <699-645>
ISBN 978-1-032-14898-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

The book gives an account of an essential part of Britain's troubled relationship with the rest of Europe after 1945 - particularly considering the rivalry of France and Britain between 1945 and 2007. The record of Britain's relations with the rest of Europe, and in particular with France, from 1945 onwards was seen by the politicians and diplomats in charge of foreign policy very much in terms of a diplomatic battle. This is paradoxical given that European integration was supposedly aiming to create a European community. Although Britain has usually been seen as an at-best half-hearted participant in European integration, it nonetheless maintained its ambition to assume the leadership of Europe. This inevitably led to a confrontation with France which shared the same goal. This book begins by looking at the opposing ways in which these two ancient European rivals presented very different models for the sort of Europe they wished to see emerge. It goes on to consider the record of their rivalry between 1945 and 2007. After this, Britain effectively gave up the battle for the political leadership of Europe. This, however, should not obscure the fact that it had succeeded in imposing many of its social and economic models on Europe. This volume will be of interest to both undergraduate students and general readers interested in Britain's position in Europe.

UNESCO、世界のガバナンス、ソ連の国際主義の想像
Porter, Louis Howard, Reds in Blue: UNESCO, World Governance, and the Soviet Internationalist Imagination. 312 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <699-674>
ISBN 978-0-19-765630-3 hard ¥11,797.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organizations. Although it had helped found the United Nations, it refused to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other major agencies beyond the Security Council and General Assembly, casting them as foreign meddlers. Under new leadership, the USSR joined UNESCO and a slew of international organizations for the first time, including the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization. As a result, it enabled Soviet diplomats, scholars, teachers, and even some blue-collar workers to participate in global discussions on topics ranging from their professional specialties to worldwide problems. Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent of these organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused archival material from the former USSR and elsewhere, the book examines the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance. These unexamined dimensions of everyday participation in the UN's bureaucracy, conferences, publications, and technical assistance show the body's importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the UN to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev governments sought to use their participation as a means of spreading Soviet influence within Western-dominated international organizations but discovered that this required risk-taking and a degree of openness for which the Soviet leadership and domestic institutions were often unprepared. Moving beyond debates over the successes and failures of UN diplomatic activities, Reds in Blue offers fresh perspectives on how Soviet citizens became citizens of the world and advocated for opening up Soviet society in ways that transcended Cold War categories without abandoning a sense of loyalty to their homeland. In doing so, it recaptures a space where East and West worked together towards a future without international conflict in the years before detente.

植民地後期の暴動と暴動対策ハンドブック
Thomas, Martin / Curless, Gareth (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies. (Oxford Handbooks) 784 pp. 2023:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <699-709>
ISBN 978-0-19-886678-7 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have fired interest in colonial experiences of rebellion, while current western interventions in sub-Saharan Africa have prompted accusations of 'militarist humanitarianism'. Yet, despite mounting interest in counter-insurgency and empire, comparative investigation of colonial responses to insurrection and civil disorder is sparse. Some scholars have written of a 'golden age of counter-insurgency', which began with Britain's declaration of a Malayan Emergency in 1948 and ended with the withdrawal of US ground troops from Vietnam in 1973. It is with this period, if not with any presumed 'golden age' that this volume is concerned. This Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of overseas empires. It attempts a systematic study of the global effects of organized anti-colonial violence in Asia and Africa. The objective is to reconceptualize late colonial violence in the European overseas empires by exploring its distinctive character and the globalizing processes underpinning it.

Pierri, Bruno, Britain, the US and China's Anti-Soviet Stance in the Cold War: Containment and Trade, 1977-1980. (Cold War History) 184 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-732>
ISBN 978-1-032-48660-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-48661-1 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book shows how international trade was a key part of the classic Western policy of containment towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War in the late 1970s. Trade and containment may summarise the new relation that communist China moulded with the capitalistic West in the late 1970s. Ideology had become less important and a rapprochement between the PRC (People's Republic of China) and the Western powers over trade, with the purpose of isolating and weakening the common Russian rival, was practically unavoidable. Within a relatively short span of time the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific area had been reversed. Simply put, Beijing's market was too big to be ignored and the Atlantic allies collaborated, sometimes even competing with each other, to allow China access to the centres of world finance. However, the Western powers had not realised that Beijing would never pursue alignment with them. On the contrary, the increased trading and financial linkage with capitalistic countries gave China room to manoeuvre, enabling it to play the Western states off against each other. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War Studies, Chinese history, foreign policy and international relations.

Fagnani, Martino Lorenzo / Maffi, Luciano, Tourism in Natural and Agricultural Ecosystems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. (Routledge Studies in Modern History) 248 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-234>
ISBN 978-1-032-13704-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-13706-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book analyzes the roots of one of the main human activities that can be developed in natural and agricultural ecosystems: tourism. Attention to natural and agricultural ecosystems and their conservation has intensified in recent decades, responding to increasing social sensitivity to the environment, as also witnessed by Agenda 2030. The book explores the development of tourism in natural and agricultural ecosystems in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when some of its essential features derived from the practices of exploration, scientific study, business, healing practices, and also a desire for personal growth. This research is intended to open up international scholarly debate and discussion and draw in contributions from all disciplines and geographical areas. In addition, it intends to add an important piece to the mosaic of international literature that has rarely considered the origins of nature and rural tourism in an array of practices not always embodying a stated intent of recreation. This book is based on handwritten documents and travelogues circulating during the period in question. Most of the travel experiences analyzed regard men and women of European descent, but their travels were global, with ecosystems considered on all populated continents. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars alike interested in tourism history and the history of science and travel.

近世の寛容－新しいアプローチ
Kaplan, Benjamin J. / Geraerts, Jaap (eds.), Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches. (Early Modern Themes) 328 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) <699-1163>
ISBN 978-0-367-46708-1 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-46707-4 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99 *

This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of religious diversity in the early modern world.Recent scholarship has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were accommodated in the early modern era (1500-1800). This book propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation of religious diversity in early modern communities to the experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different religious groups, including Christian denominations, Muslims, and Jews, in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and South-East Asia. This book is structured around five key concepts: the senses, identities, boundaries, interaction, and space. For each concept, the book provides chapters based on new, original research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their historiographic context. Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches is aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students, to whom it offers an accessible introduction to the study of religious toleration in the early modern era. Additionally, scholars will find cutting-edge contributions to the field in the book's chapters.

Prescott, Cynthia C. / Lahti, Janne (eds.), Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History. 142 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024:12 <699-1166>
ISBN 978-1-032-50219-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-50222-9 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book tackles the historical relationship between colonial violence and monuments in Africa, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, North America, and Australia.In this volume, the authors ask similar questions about monuments in each location and answer them following a parallel structure that encourages comparison, highlighting common themes. The chapters track the contested histories of monuments, scrutinizing their narrative power and examining the violent events behind them. It is both about the history of monuments and the histories the monuments are meant to commemorate. It is interested in this nuanced relationship between violence, monuments, memory, and colonial legacies; the ways different facets of colonial violence-conquest, resistance, massacres, genocides, internments, and injustices-have been commemorated (or haven't been), how they live in the present, and how pertinent they are in the present to different peoples. Legacies of colonial violence, and continued reinterpretations of the past and its meanings remain very much ongoing. They are still very much unsettled questions in large parts of the world.Colonial Violence and Monuments in Global History will be essential reading for students, scholars, and researchers of political science, history, sociology and colonial studies. The book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research.

Wesolowski, Adrian, Philanthropic Celebrity in the Age of Sensibility: A Historical-Comparative Study of the British, French, and Polish Examples, c. 1770-1830. (Routledge Studies in Cultural History) 320 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <699-1170>
ISBN 978-1-032-37387-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-37388-1 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume, an original combination of biography, cultural history, and media studies, investigates the first moment in history when philanthropy was used as a self-standing claim to fame and philanthropists started being considered as a distinct breed of public figures.In its search for the cause of this development, it examines the way in which public images of early philanthropists in different parts of Europe were shaped in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The work draws on a comparison between British prison reformer John Howard, Alsatian pastor and humanitarian Jean-Frederic Oberlin, and Stanislaw Staszic, a key figure of Enlightenment politics in Congress Poland. Revealing parallel mechanisms at play in different national contexts, it argues that famous philanthropists ushered in a new genre of fame, 'philanthropic celebrity', that placed Enlightenment ideals about virtue within the framework of early celebrity culture.The book is primarily aimed at advanced students and scholars of history, cultural studies, and social sciences, especially those interested in the concepts of fame and celebrity and in the origins of modern humanitarianism.

Winn, Colette H. / Yandell, Cathy (dir.), Vieillir a la Renaissance. (Rencontres. Colloques, congres et conferences sur la Renaissance europeenne) 406 p. 2023:2 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <699-1171>
ISBN 978-2-8124-5302-1 hard ¥22,745.- (税込) EUR 98.00
ISBN 978-2-406-08889-9 paper ¥11,140.- (税込) EUR 48.00