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... Daniel O'Connell, Charles Stewart Parnell, John Dillon, or John Redmond at times opposed British imperial policy, but they were not committed anti-imperialists. Only a minority of MPs including Frank Hugh O'Donnell, Alfred Webb, and Michael Davitt were more active in denouncing the excesses of British...

... among the leading powers. Finally, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and his col- leagues concluded that American economic prosperity depended upon the successful reconstruction of capitalism in Europe. Hughes recognized that the problems of Europe and the United States were...

... End Press, 3987). 323 pp. $30.CU (cloth). $12.00 (paper). H. Stuart Hughes, Sophisticated Rebel The Political Culture of European Dis- sent, 2968-2987 (Harvard University Press, 1988). 192 pp. $20.06) (cloth). David Caute, The Yew of the Barricades. A lounzey Through 1968 (Harper and Row, 1988...

... the past, calling into question, among other topics, general schemes developed by nineteenth-century European social theorists, explanations for the emergence of the modern world, capitalism, and industry, and the development and exercise of state power. William Beinart and Lotte Hughes, Environment...

..., nearly into his decrepitude.” 50 William of Newminster became abbot of Fountains as “a very old man” in 1180 and held this position until his death in 1190. Chronicler Hugh of Kirkstall noted that with the support of advisers and his “obedient sons,” William “governed his subjects, striving for good...

... MARRIAGE IN TIMES PAST 131 Hughes opens with “From Brideprice to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe.” Her essay covers a lengthy period, from the ancients to the thirteenth century. In the course of these centuries, Hughes argues, dowry practices emerged from three kinds of marriages...

... States, as a young black man growing up in mid-century, a friend of Langston Hughes, and the inheritor of a tradition stretching back to Frederick Douglass. His politics, as well, now seem embedded in a reading of the specificity of the United States, and even...

... as we know none of the public history graduate pro- grams offers preparation for what promises to be one of the real growth areas of the next few decades-the personal historian.. Some might have thought this position died in the eighteenth cen- tury. But Hugh Hefner has made himself...

... the journalist Edward Hughes provided English readers with one of the most detailed accounts of the disaster. Describing the chilling aftermath of the poisoning, Hughes wrote that most of the victims “are left to limp along the back lanes of rural Iraq, or to huddle, twitching, in the doorways...

... in Recent Scholarship of Mexico.” Mobility in History: The Yearbook of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic, and Mobility , 5 : 121 – 26 . Bijker Wiebe E. Hughes Thomas Parke Pinch Trevor . 2012 . The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New...

... students answering the question I started with chose to com- pare Western Europe and East Asia. Beyond the introductory textbook level, however, discussion of women or gender is significantly thinner. There is a fairly recent two-volume collection of arti- cles, Sarah S. Hughes and Brady Hughes’s...

... . ———. 2012 . Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Herbert Eugenia W. 1983 . Iron, Gender, and Power: Rituals of Transformation in African Societies . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . Hughes Thomas P. 2000 . Rescuing Prometheus...

... in the documenting and recording of African music: by Hugh Tra- cey and Percival Kirby. Tracey’s research has perhaps become more widely known through the pages of African Music, the journal he founded, and through his later involvement in broadcasting. His research trips, funded first out of his own pocket...

... more than a hundred issues, it published a dazzling constellation of authors—including Latin American, US, and European radical writers such as Langston Hughes, César Vallejo, André Malraux, and Isaak Babel, as well as Cuban luminaries such as the anthropologist Fernando Ortiz, the feminist activist...

... permission of the families. The Texas Attorney General‘s office has also launched a probe into the practice. The investigation started after an earlier class action suit by eleven people directed against the now-closed Dudley M. Hughes Funeral Home in Dallas, which was similarly charged with un...

... much as asethetic artifacts. Consistently, it is less the form of the canvases that holds his attention than what the spectator makes of their social content. Take David's Hmtii: Robert Herbert, Robert Rosenblum, and Hugh Honour have written of David's handling of space, line and color...

... cobelligerent allied victors. See my Heir to Empire, 260-61. Among other things, Charles Evans Hughes argued, correctlyI believe, that Article 10 “attempts to make permanent existing conditions .. . in a world of dynamic forces to which no one can set bounds. It gives no fair opportunity for adjustment...

..., on the one hand, and reduce their drudgery, on the other. Rural electrification would, in the words of Senator Hugh Butler, “result in better living and more efficient farming” and “be more essential in the future than 134  Radical History Review ever before to the happiness and prosperity of farm...

... of these were positive. Typical were the words of Hugh Trevor-Roper, who alleged that what people call history in Africa 100 Radical History Review was nothing but the “unrewarding gyrations of barbarous tribes in picturesque but irrelevant corners of the globe.”6 The emergence of nationalist...

... it claimed to be a “white nation . . . attached against its will to another nation.” 33 The bellicose articulation by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes at the Paris Peace Conference of settler selfhood as racial exclusion, and around an opposition to Japan’s Racial Equality Clause, was met...