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This collection brings together and contextualizes a wide variety of lectures given in institutions and clubs in 19th century England. The popular lecture became one of the most common artefacts of Victorian culture and yet, due to its ephemerality, we know little about who spoke, who listened, why these lectures were delivered, and how they were received. The volumes in this set show how the lecture emerged as a central part of popular culture, how it changed over time, and how the educational and entertaining components of the popular lecture were in constant tension, preserving a crucial piece of political, social, and cultural history.

Volume II: 1850-1870 Sciences and Social Sciences, provides a selection of lectures in sciences and social sciences that cover a variety of topics that were considered necessary to the up-to-date Victorian man and woman.

This handbook tracks the emergence, transformations, contradictions, and global circulation of the American Dream from the colonial period to the present.

Bringing together scholars from history, literary studies, American studies, media studies, and related fields, the volume demonstrates how the Dream has functioned simultaneously as a promise of opportunity and a mechanism of exclusion. The chapters examine how narratives of chosenness, settler colonialism, westward expansion, and imperial ambition laid the foundations for American exceptionalism long before the term itself was coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931. They explore how migrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean helped construct and reinterpret the Dream through mobility, labor, and struggles for belonging. Other chapters analyze labor movements, homeownership, automobility, masculinity, LGBTQ+ activism, neoliberalism, environmental crises, and popular culture as central sites where the Dream was produced, contested, and reinvented. Throughout, the handbook emphasizes that the American Dream has never been universally accessible nor confined to the borders of the United States. Instead, it emerges as a transnational and deeply intersectional formation whose enduring power lies precisely in its flexibility, contradictions, and emotional force.

The Routledge History of the American Dream will be of interest to scholars of American history, American studies, cultural studies, political history, and migration history. It is also suitable for general readers seeking a historically grounded understanding of the American Dream.

To Build a Republic of Spirit embarks on a revealing journey into the heart of U.S.-Poland relations, unveiling the profound role of the Fulbright Program in shaping bilateral dealings through educational and scientific diplomacy. This meticulously researched narrative begins in 1959, exploring how this initiative transcended mere academic exchanges to become an important element in the Cold War’s political battleground. The narrative intertwines the development of American Studies in Poland, the rise of transnational academic networks, and the nuanced challenges of cross-cultural exchanges during and beyond the Cold War era. It sheds light on how the Fulbright Program was shaped by the complex interplay of U.S. and Communist cultural policies, contributing eventually to contemporary Poland’s unique pro-American stance. The book is not just a historical account; it’s an exploration of the enduring power and potential of educational initiatives in forging global understanding and cooperation.

A leading Polish scholar of intellectual history, Oleksandr Avramchuk, has produced a superb overview of U.S.-Polish intellectual exchanges and programs during the first 80 years after the Second World War. Avramchuk shows that the Fulbright Program was of particular importance in bilateral scholarly relations during the Cold War. That has largely continued to be the case in the post-Cold War era, which Avramchuk also covers, albeit more briefly. Having been a Fulbright Scholar myself in Poland in 1994, I am delighted to see that all aspects of the program there have been so vividly brought to life in this first-rate book.
Mark Kramer, Harvard University

In his welcome history of the Fulbright program in Poland, Oleksandr Avramchuk clearly shows the enduring value of people to people exchange in foreign relations. His meticulously researched case not only bears out Fulbright’s founding insight ? eighty years ago ? but also highlights the contribution of the individual cultural diplomats who carried that banner forward. This is a valuable testament to all that was achieved and an implicit blueprint for future rebuilding.
Nicholas J. Cull, University of Southern California

Poland’s position as one of the most pro-American societies in the world has a long history. This timely book tells the story of the Fulbright Program in Poland. American ‘soft power’ and Cold War cultural diplomacy helped create a cadre of Polish Fulbright scholars, many of whom came to play important roles in Poland’s transition to democracy. Copiously researched and richly contextualized, this account of (what one hopes will be only) the initial six decades of the Fulbright Program in Poland demonstrates the value such educational exchanges had in easing the East-West tensions of the Cold War.
Patrice M. Dabrowski, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Oleksandr Avramchuk’s history of the Fulbright Program in Poland, 1945-2025, provides us with detailed, multi-archival, and multi-national perspectives on the cultural diplomacy of the Fulbright program. But it does much more than that. By exploring the complex workings of cultural exchange in the period of Cold War it demonstrates how the goals of “soft power” through the exchanges met the needs of both Washington and Warsaw, and of the many scholars involved, but also how these goals were confounded by political and academic realities in both Poland and the U.S. This is a fine book on Cold War cultural relations that deserves a wide readership.
Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University

This pioneering study offers the first academic examination of the Fulbright Program in Poland, situated within the broader context of US?Polish relations and bilateral exchange programs. The author skillfully contextualizes educational diplomacy within the evolving relationship between the two countries since 1945. Grounded in meticulous research, this is a sound historical study of American public diplomacy and soft power at work. A must-read for Americanists, scholars of US?Polish relations, and anyone interested in cultural diplomacy during and after the Cold War.
Anna Mazurkiewicz, University of Gdansk

This significant study explores the striking resonance of U.S. “liberal internationalism” in post-WWII Poland, including its little-known economic dimensions. Avramchuk’s contribution to our understanding of Polish-American relations and the Cold War itself raises far-reaching comparisons with the inefficient and constraining practices of Soviet and Eastern Bloc cultural diplomacy.

Michael David-Fox, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna

This volume offers fresh perspectives on the Byzantine world in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade and the conquest of Constantinople in 1204: a world of small-state complexities that upended centuries of empire focused on the imperial city.

Across six parts, it pursues new directions in the study of this fragmented late Byzantine world, from Southern Italy via Epiros to Trebizond. Part I reconsiders the so-called key dates of 1204, 1261 and 1453, making a compelling case against investing any of them with teleological meaning or treating them as definitive cut-off points. Part II critically revisits key concepts, such as the oft-employed ‘successor state’ or Byzantine ‘Greekness’. Part III explores the shifting fortunes of Constantinople from the years after 1261 into the early Ottoman era, highlighting points of convergence across Byzantine and Ottoman ? and indeed Italian and South-Slavonic ? narratives and practices. Part IV reassesses the continuing significance of rhetorical production in the late Byzantine period and its close connection to the workings of empire. Part V examines these workings anew, with attention to networks of petition, imperial effigies and often unexpected connections across the wider Mediterranean world. The final part offers an annotated transcript of the last two Spring Symposium papers delivered by the late Ruth Macrides: an exciting glimpse of her final project, ‘Sharing the Throne’.

Rich in scope and insight, this book will be of interest to students of the late Byzantine and late medieval Mediterranean worlds, as well as to scholars of the early Ottoman empire.

Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History reassesses one of the most important, yet still contested, dimensions of the Greek Revolution: the international mobilisation in support of the Greek cause. Although philhellenism has long attracted scholarly attention, its nature, meanings, and contribution to the course and outcome of the Revolution remain open to debate. This volume approaches philhellenism not simply as an expression of romantic enthusiasm or liberal sympathy, but as a complex transnational phenomenon that shaped, and was shaped by, the revolutionary crisis in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Bringing together new research and fresh conceptual perspectives, the volume examines how philhellenism operated across different political, social, religious, and cultural settings. By situating the Greek Revolution within the wider Age of Revolutions, the volume argues that the Greek Revolution was not merely a peripheral testing ground for European ideas, but a generative site where competing visions of politics, society, gender, religion, modernity, and Europe itself were produced and contested. Its distinctive contribution lies in applying a global history approach to philhellenism and in opening new research agendas on aspects of the phenomenon that have rarely been explored.

The volume will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Greek history, the Age of Revolutions, Mediterranean and global history, intellectual history, nationalism, liberalism, humanitarianism, and transnational political mobilisation. It will also appeal to readers interested in the international dimensions of the Greek Revolution and the making of modern Europe.

This book offers the first sustained examination of the extensive use of photographs in the coverage of the Scottsboro case during the decade when visual news came of age.

This case study offers the opportunity to explore broader questions of ongoing relevance about the ways photographs serve media narratives of race, gender, and class. The Scottsboro case witnessed the unprecedented proliferation of pictures of African Americans across American and indeed global media at a time when images of Black citizens rarely appeared in mainstream media. These photographs show how media forms constructed and sometimes challenged racial identities through photography for millions of citizens. The encoding of an individual photograph might vary whether printed in a Southern newspaper, on a Communist pamphlet, or in the African American press. The author develops a complex analysis of the multiple uses of photography by examining themes and case studies such as: the arrest photograph of the Nine in relation to the representation of lynching and mob violence; the media spectacle of the trials and 'hippodroming' (sensationalist courtroom photography); how Communist media and weaponized photomontage; the Black press and the Jim Crow legal system; the gendering of the coverage with respect to women accusers and defendants' mothers; the globalism of the case in relation to anti-imperialist movements; and mugshots and prison photographs of the Nine as carceral images. These discrete themes enable fresh insights into the production of racial values during this transformative decade in the histories of photography and mass media, and their interrelation in modern propaganda.

This is a fascinating and important text for scholars and students in the history of photography, history of media, and political and social history.

This collection brings together and contextualizes a wide variety of lectures given in institutions and clubs in 19th century England. The popular lecture became one of the most common artefacts of Victorian culture and yet, due to its ephemerality, we know little about who spoke, who listened, why these lectures were delivered, and how they were received. The volumes in this set show how the lecture emerged as a central part of popular culture, how it changed over time, and how the educational and entertaining components of the popular lecture were in constant tension, preserving a crucial piece of political, social, and cultural history.

This volume, 'Volume I: 1820-1850', provides a general introduction to the collection before focusing on lecture topics including the natural sciences, literature and the arts, and what can be labelled “domestic morality,” that is, lectures that reflect the general unsectarian religious atmosphere of the period. Selected lectures demonstrate how popular lecturing evolved, not just due to the platform appearances of well-known names, but also in much larger numbers due to the participation of local clergy, neighbourhood patrons, and largely anonymous institute members and governors.

This volume presents the history of relations between the Catholic Church and the twentieth-century totalitarian governments (the Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain and Salazar’s Portugal), focusing on Central Europe and Poland in particular.

The text describes both opposition and cooperation of Catholics with Fascism, Nazism and Communism, trying to answer an essential question whether being a Catholic determined people’s attitude toward totalitarian evil, while the background for the narrative is the history of Poland. However, the book also describes the Church’s relations with totalitarianisms not only in Poland but also in other countries behind the Iron Curtain (East-Central Europe and the Balkans). It also includes the history of those states that are not part of the regions mentioned, but that fell under control of totalitarian regimes.

The Church and the Totalitarian Systems, 1939?1989 will be beneficial for postgraduates, researchers and academics of history, sociology, philosophy and ethics.

Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.

Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's ambassador in 1604. Yet the most remarkable phase of his career was yet to come.

In Lying abroad, Carol Chillington Rutter tells Wotton’s extraordinary story. She reveals how this one-time exile, who fled England after his employer was convicted of treason, gained the favour of King James, securing a knighthood and a diplomatic posting. Charged with restoring relations with Venice after a fifty-year hiatus, he drew criticism for his breaches of protocol. But when a dispute brought Europe to the brink of war, Wotton took a risk ? one that changed European history.

This engrossing biography recounts a life that was tumultuous, tarnished and endlessly theatrical. The man King James called his ‘honest dissembler’ was a maverick who fashioned diplomacy in ways that still inform international relations today.

Does monarchy need a king? Historical investigations generally treat monarchy as a source of power only. When kings are stripped of their powers, historical interest in monarchy is lost and focus shifts elsewhere. This book takes a different approach. When studying Sweden during the Age of Liberty (1718?1772), a time and place where rulers were historically weak, the philosophical rationale of monarchy comes to the fore. Monarchy is the most common form of government in European history, with an ideological foundation on a par with republicanism; but ‘monarchism’ is rarely given serious sociopolitical consideration by historians or political scientists.

This thorough investigation of monarchy will be of interest to historians, political scientists, and art and media historians, not only for its far-reaching implications but also for its innovative combination of a wide variety of sources.

Public Rituals charts the study of public rituals in the Portuguese Empire between 1498 and 1822 approximately, with a view to introducing both new and seasoned readers to the contexts, sources, problems and future opportunities of such a study.

Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of how public rituals functioned within the polycentric Portuguese Empire through carefully curated case studies spanning multiple continents. Public Rituals in the Portuguese Empires responds to and considerably expands the scope and ambitions of the existing literature in the field. The book introduces both foundational contexts and cutting-edge scholarship, providing access to primary sources, methodological approaches, and critical problems in the field while identifying future research opportunities. By problematizing the expansive geographical reach of Portuguese imperial ceremonies, this edited collection expands significantly beyond existing literature to offer fresh perspectives on how rituals operated as instruments of governance, religious expression, and social cohesion across distant territories.

The book will appeal not only to scholars of the Portuguese empire or the Iberian world, but also to any reader interested in early modern public rituals or festival culture across several regions of the early modern world.

This book looks at the inclusion of foreigners in social policies by comparing the cases of Argentina and France, two of the most important immigration countries in the first half of the 20th century.

As Argentina and France began introducing social policies at the turn of the 1900s, they were faced with the question of whether to include or exclude immigrants from social policy. The two countries took different approaches, driven by distinct political objectives regarding migration. Focusing mainly on Italian immigrants (the largest foreign community in both countries), the study seeks to understand the effects of social policies on migration and how migration in turn challenged social policies.

Examining the question at various levels, this book analyses the national legislation, the development of bilateral and multilateral diplomacy on migrants’ social rights, and the claims of the immigrants themselves, who turned to local courts to fight for their inclusion in social policies. This interplay of scales reveals the gap between the objectives underlying national laws and their practical application.

Migrants in the Rise of Social Protection will appeal not only to students and scholars of the countries in question, but also to a readership interested in the relatively unexplored relationship between international migration and domestic social protection systems.