What has between the `radical' and the `conservative' right in twentieth- century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major ...theme within Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Austria, Romania, Greece adn the Nordic countries.
What has between the `radical' and the `conservative' right in twentieth-century Europe? In Fascists and Conservatives thirteen distinguished authorities on the European right explore this major ...theme within Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Britain, Austria, Romania, Greece adn the Nordic countries.
Between 1865 and 1881 there occurred in southern Europe and the Balkans several cases of kidnapping in which British subjects were seized and held to ransom by brigands. Most ended peacefully (though ...expensively) with the negotiation and handing over of a substantial ransom, usually in gold, and the subsequent freeing of the hostage(s); one case, that of the so‐called ‘Marathon murders’ of 1870 in Greece, ended in tragedy. Quite apart from the problems these incidents created for the victims and their families, some kidnappings also raised important questions for the governments involved, notably who was to blame for such incidents, who was formally responsible for them, and — crucially — who was ultimately liable for the cost involved? These questions and the responses of British governments to them, culminating in 1881 with the enunciation by Gladstone's administration of a clear policy on such matters, form the core of this article.
Community and identity Constantine, Stephen
2013, 2013., 20130719, 2009, 2009-05-18, 20090101
eBook
This fluent, accessible and richly informed study, based on much previously unexplored archival material, concerns the history of Gibraltar following its military conquest in 1704, after which ...sovereignty of the territory was transferred from Spain to Britain and it became a British fortress and colony. Unlike virtually all other studies of Gibraltar, this book focuses on the civilian population. It shows how a substantial multi-ethnic Roman Catholic and Jewish population derived mainly from the littorals and islands of the Mediterranean became settled in British Gibraltar, much of it in defiance of British efforts to control entry and restrict residence. With Gibraltar's political future still today contested this is a matter of considerable political importance. Community and identity: The making of modern Gibraltar since 1704 will appeal to both a scholarly and a lay readership interested particularly in the 'Rock' or more generally in nationality and identity formation, colonial administration, decolonisation and the Iberian peninsula.
Foreword Martin Blinkhorn
Community and identity,
07/2013
Book Chapter
I am grateful to Stephen Constantine and to Manchester University Press for giving me the opportunity to provide a brief Foreword toCommunity and Identity: the Making of Modern Gibraltar since 1704. ...To do so is an enormous pleasure, both personally and professionally.
Attentive readers of Stephen Constantine’s Introduction will learn what our shared colleagues and friends, both in Britain and in Gibraltar, already know: that the research project of which this book is a major outcome was jointly directed by the two of us. If, as Stephen observes, I can claim credit for the original idea and its early
Afterthoughts BLINKHORN, MARTIN
Totalitarian movements and political religions,
20/1/1/, Letnik:
5, Številka:
3
Journal Article
The concluding contribution to this special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions comprises the invited 'afterthoughts' of the author. Following an introductory section in which he ...explains his own past as a scholar interested in and working on fascism, the main body of the article focuses on the three elements of the conceptual 'cluster' which represents this collection's central theme: totalitarianism, political religion and fascism. As far as totalitarianism is concerned, the author concludes that the concept's recent reconfiguration has produced a 'dynamic' notion of totalitarianism which sits well with the alleged 'new consensus' on fascism and, by virtue of its grasp of historical process, offers useful heuristic opportunities to all historians of fascism. Political religion, however, the author sees as emerging less satisfactorily from the contributions in this special issue; while exploration, specifically in relation to fascism, of relationships between 'the political' and 'the religious' can certainly be fruitful, a more rigorously consistent understanding and application of the concept 'political religion' not only remains elusive but may prove permanently so. With this important caveat, an analytical cluster comprising totalitarianism, political religion (loosely and flexibly defined) and fascism has much to offer within the field of 'fascist studies'. In the article's final section the author reconsiders the 'new consensus' in 'fascist studies' and the predominantly 'intentionalist' notion of fascism it appears to embrace. While recognising its strengths as a starting point for the study of fascism, he concludes by calling for a more outward-looking, 'joined-up' approach that would readmit recently unfashionable socio-economic and structuralist conceptions of fascism.
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Afterthoughts Blinkhorn, Martin
Totalitarian movements and political religions,
01/2004, Letnik:
5, Številka:
3
Journal Article
The concluding contribution to this special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions comprises the invited 'afterthoughts' of the author. Following an introductory section in which he ...explains his own past as a scholar interested in and working on fascism, the main body of the article focuses on the three elements of the conceptual 'cluster' which represents this collection's central theme: totalitarianism, political religion and fascism. As far as totalitarianism is concerned, the author concludes that the concept's recent reconfiguration has produced a 'dynamic' notion of totalitarianism which sits well with the alleged 'new consensus' on fascism and, by virtue of its grasp of historical process, offers useful heuristic opportunities to all historians of fascism. Political religion, however, the author sees as emerging less satisfactorily from the contributions in this special issue; while exploration, specifically in relation to fascism, of relationships between 'the political' and 'the religious' can certainly be fruitful, a more rigorously consistent understanding and application of the concept 'political religion' not only remains elusive but may prove permanently so. With this important caveat, an analytical cluster comprising totalitarianism, political religion (loosely and flexibly defined) and fascism has much to offer within the field of 'fascist studies'. In the article's final section the author reconsiders the 'new consensus' in 'fascist studies' and the predominantly 'intentionalist' notion of fascism it appears to embrace. While recognising its strengths as a starting point for the study of fascism, he concludes by calling for a more outward-looking, 'joined-up' approach that would readmit recently unfashionable socio-economic and structuralist conceptions of fascism. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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