Two major Jewish risings against Rome took place in the years following the destruction of Jerusalem - the first during Trajan's Parthian war, and the second, led by Bar Kokhba, under Hadrian's ...principate. The impact of these risings not only on Judaea, but also on Cyrene, Egypt, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, is shown by accounts in both ancient Jewish and non-Jewish literature. More recently discovered sources include letters and documents from fighters and refugees, and inscriptions attesting war and restoration. Historical evaluation has veered between regret for a pointless bloodbath and admiration for sustained resistance. William Horbury offers a new history of these risings, presenting a fresh review of sources and interpretations. He explores the period of Jewish war under Trajan and Hadrian not just as the end of an era, but also as a time of continuity in Jewish life and development in Jewish and Christian origins.
Reid examines Riel's religious background, the mythic significance that has consciously been ascribed to him, and how these elements combined to influence Canada's search for a national identity. ...Reid's study provides a framework for rethinking the geopolitical significance of the modern Canadian state, the historic role of Confederation in establishing the country's collective self-image, and the narrative space through which Riel's voice speaks to these issues.
In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the ...throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led-the Jacobite Rising of 1745-was a crisis not only for Britain but for the entire British Empire.Rebellion and Savageryexamines the 1745 rising and its aftermath on an imperial scale.
Charles Edward gained support from the clans of the Scottish Highlands, communities that had long been derided as primitive. In 1745 the Jacobite Highlanders were denigrated both as rebels and as savages, and this double stigma helped provoke and legitimate the violence of the government's anti-Jacobite campaigns. Though the colonies stayed relatively peaceful in 1745, the rising inspired fear of a global conspiracy among Jacobites and other suspect groups, including North America's purported savages.
The defeat of the rising transformed the leader of the army, the Duke of Cumberland, into a popular hero on both sides of the Atlantic. With unprecedented support for the maintenance of peacetime forces, Cumberland deployed new garrisons in the Scottish Highlands and also in the Mediterranean and North America. In all these places his troops were engaged in similar missions: demanding loyalty from all local inhabitants and advancing the cause of British civilization. The recent crisis gave a sense of urgency to their efforts. Confident that "a free people cannot oppress," the leaders of the army became Britain's most powerful and uncompromising imperialists.
Geoffrey Plank argues that the events of 1745 marked a turning point in the fortunes of the British Empire by creating a new political interest in favor of aggressive imperialism, and also by sparking discussion of how the British should promote market-based economic relations in order to integrate indigenous peoples within their empire. The spread of these new political ideas was facilitated by a large-scale migration of people involved in the rising from Britain to the colonies, beginning with hundreds of prisoners seized on the field of battle and continuing in subsequent years to include thousands of men, women and children. Some of the migrants were former Jacobites and others had stood against the insurrection. The event affected all the British domains.
The year of 2018 is marked by a chronological coincidence that brings out the issue of uprisings to the very center of political and academic discussion. It is on this terrain that the memory of the ...50 years of May 1968, which could be already inscribed in a longue duree, finds the vivid and recent memory recalled in the five years of June 2013, whose repercussions are still uncertain and enigmatic. In this article, I argue that the various dimensions and the many "worlds" contained in the uprisings call for a relationship between aesthetics and politics that cannot be limited to one more vision of the cycle of revolts. On the contrary, the question is to understand how the points of view launched within the event could drag our perception and demand, not only new forms of thinking but, mainly, new modes of existing. Keywords: uprisings, image, aesthetics, politics. O ano de 2018 esta marcado por uma coincidencia cronologica que trouxe o tema dos levantes para o centro da discussao politica e academica. E nele que a memoria dos 50 anos do grande ciclo de Maio de 1968, ja inscrita em uma certa longa duracao, encontra a lembranca viva e recente dos 05 anos de Junho de 2013, cujas repercussoes sao ainda incertas e enigmaticas. Neste artigo, sustento que as varias dimensoes e os varios "mundos" contidos nos levantes reclamam uma relacao entre estetica e politica que nao pode ser limitada a mais uma visao sobre o ciclo de revoltas. Pelo contrario, trata-se de compreender como os proprios pontos de vistas lancados por dentro do acontecimento arrastam a nossa percepcao e reclamam, nao apenas novas formas de pensar, mas, principalmente, novos modos de existir. Palavras-chave: levantes, imagem, estetica, politica.
The year of 2018 is marked by a chronological coincidence that brings out the issue of uprisings to the very center of political and academic discussion. It is on this terrain that the memory of the ...50 years of May 1968, which could be already inscribed in a longue duree, finds the vivid and recent memory recalled in the five years of June 2013, whose repercussions are still uncertain and enigmatic. In this article, I argue that the various dimensions and the many "worlds" contained in the uprisings call for a relationship between aesthetics and politics that cannot be limited to one more vision of the cycle of revolts. On the contrary, the question is to understand how the points of view launched within the event could drag our perception and demand, not only new forms of thinking but, mainly, new modes of existing.
Louis 'David' Riel Flanagan, Thomas
Louis 'David' Riel,
c1996, 19961031, 1996, 1996-10-31
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A spiritual biography that takes Louis Riel seriously as a religious figure. Flanagan tells the story of Riel's career as a millenarian prophet and would-be religious reformer. This new edition takes ...advantage of a wealth of new primary sources.
     Remembering the Year of the French is a model of historical achievement, moving deftly between the study of historical events—the failed French invasion of the West of ...Ireland in 1798—and folkloric representationsof those events. Delving into the folk history found in Ireland’s rich oral traditions, Guy Beiner reveals alternate visions of the Irish past and brings into focus the vernacular histories, folk commemorative practices, and negotiations of memory that have gone largely unnoticed by historians.      Beiner analyzes hundreds of hitherto unstudied historical, literary, and ethnographic sources. Though his focus is on 1798, his work is also a comprehensive study of Irish folk history and grass-roots social memory in Ireland. Investigating how communities in the West of Ireland remembered, well into the mid-twentieth century, an episode in the late eighteenth century, this is a “history from below” that gives serious attention to the perspectives of those who have been previously ignored or discounted. Beiner brilliantly captures the stories, ceremonies, and other popular traditions through which local communities narrated, remembered, and commemorated the past. Demonstrating the unique value of folklore as a historical source, Remembering the Year of the French offers a fresh perspective on collective memory and modern Irish history.   Winner, Wayland Hand Competition for outstanding publication in folklore and history, American Folklore Society   Finalist, award for the best book published about or growing out of public history, National Council on Public History   Winner, Michaelis-Jena Ratcliff Prize for the best study of folklore or folk life in Great Britain and Ireland   “An important and beautifully produced work. Guy Beiner here shows himself to be a historian of unusual talent.”—Marianne Elliott, Times Literary Supplement “Thoroughly researched and scholarly. . . . Beiner’s work is full of empathy and sympathy for the human remains, memorials, and commemorations of past lives and the multiple ways in which they actually continue to live.”—Stiofán Ó Cadhla, Journal of British Studies “A major contribution to Irish historiography.”—Maureen Murphy, Irish Literary Supplement "A remarkable piece of scholarship . . . . Accessible, full of intriguing detail, and eminently teachable.”?—Ray Casman, New Hibernia Review  “The most important monograph on Irish history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to be published in recent years.”—Matthew Kelly, English Historical Review “A strikingly ambitious work . . . . Elegantly constructed, lucidly written and inspired, and displaying an inexhaustible capacity for research”—Ciarán Brady, History IRELAND “A closely argued, meticulously detailed and rich analysis  . . . . providing such innovative treatment of a wide array of sources, his work will resonate with the concerns of many cultural and historical geographers working on social memory in quite different geographical settings and historical contexts.”—Yvonne Whelan, Journal of Historical Geography
War of No Pity Herbert, Christopher
2021, 2007, 2021-07-13
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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months ...and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw "the Indian Mutiny" of 1857-59 as an epochal event. In this provocative book, Christopher Herbert seeks to discover why. He offers a view of this episode--and of Victorian imperialist culture more generally--sharply at odds with the standard formulations of postcolonial scholarship. Drawing on a wealth of largely overlooked and often mesmerizing nineteenth-century texts, including memoirs, histories, letters, works of journalism, and novels, War of No Pity shows that the startling ferocity of the conflict in India provoked a crisis of national conscience and a series of searing if often painfully ambivalent condemnations of British actions in India both prior to and during the war. Bringing to light the dissident, disillusioned, antipatriotic strain of Victorian "mutiny writing, " Herbert locates in it key forerunners of modern-day antiwar literature and the modern critique of racism.
