This book provides a comprehensive analysis of LGBTQ+ centers and organizations in urban areas, a phenomenon that began in North American and Western European cities four decades ago and now flourishes around the world.

It analyzes two different LGBTQ+ organizations in Israel: the Jerusalem Open House and the Tel Aviv LGBTQ Center. It traces their different histories, sociocultural and geographical locations, and different social relations. Both have become essential players in Israeli LGBTQ+ activism and urban hubs for the LGBTQ+ community. The book provides a case study of an understudied aspect of LGBTQ+ community life from a region outside North America and Europe, offering a comprehensive analysis that foregrounds different types of spaces, traces movements across cities, and employs varied analytical approaches to examine a significant location in global LGBTQ+ politics. The book explores the spatial activism produced in these spaces, the gendered power relations structured within them, the social groups they engage and serve, the political organizations that have emerged there, and their role as catalysts for broader social movements. It also addresses the planning processes and local political negotiations involved in their establishment. Through this lens, the book highlights current debates surrounding this phenomenon, including local and national tensions, homonationalism and pinkwashing, trauma and social movements, and the neoliberal conditions framing both centers.

This book will be of interest to students of geography, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning, tourism studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and LGBTQ+ studies.

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that students of linguistics will require during the early part of their degree, this book gives the reader a basic understanding of the field, as well as confidence in how to find out more and how to prepare for their future career.

The key features covered include:

• subject-specific skills including basic linguistic tools and terminology, such as word classes and grammatical terminology;
• essential study skills, such as how to perform well in the degree, how to search for and reference literature and how to write an essay;
• guides for a future with a linguistics degree, including how to write a CV and prepare for a range of graduate destinations.

The new edition has been updated throughout and includes a thoroughly revised section on career development, more information for graduate students and more international examples.

An accessible guide to essential skills in the field of linguistics, Study Skills for Linguistics is a must-read for students contemplating studying this topic, and provides a guide that will take them through their degree and beyond.

This volume explores the multiple perceptions of Hellenic antiquity in modern Greece, a central yet contested aspect of modern Greek national identity ever since the foundation of the Greek state in 1830. How did the various disciplines of modern Greek classical scholarship cultivate conceptions of Hellenic antiquity that suited the national narrative of the continuity of Greek history? In what ways did modern Greeks engage with and adapt Western European ideas about ancient Greece? How were the dominant views of Hellenic antiquity reinforced or challenged by alternative perspectives appearing within scholarship, but also in the arts and the public sphere? And how was Hellenic antiquity turned into a commodity that could be consumed and exploited in the tourism industry as well as in Greece's relations with other countries? By bringing together specialists from a wide spectrum of disciplines to address such questions, the volume aims to shed light on the diversity of modern Greek perceptions of ancient Greece and their usages from the 19th to the 21st century.

Ce volume est consacre aux differentes interpretations de l'Antiquite grecque depuis la fondation de l'Etat en 1830 jusqu'a nos jours. Comment les savoirs disciplinaires ont-ils faconne des conceptions de l'Antiquite conformes au recit national? De quelle maniere les Grecs dialoguent-ils avec les savoirs classiques europeens? Quelles lectures alternatives du passe antique, emanant du monde academique, du monde artistique, voire de l'espace public, ont enterine ou, au contraire, remis en question la vision dominante de l'Antiquite elaboree par les historiens grecs du XIXe siecle dans une perspective nationale voire nationaliste? Dans quelle mesure, enfin, l'Antiquite a-t-elle ete marchandisee au profit de l'industrie touristique ou des relations entre la Grece et les pays etrangers? Dans un esprit pluridisciplinaire, le volume vise a mettre en lumiere la multiplicite des perceptions et les usages grecs modernes de l'Antiquite entre le XIXe et le XXIe siecles.

Navigate the vast Lincoln historiography with 33 authoritative scholarly essays

No American has generated more historical writing than Abraham Lincoln, yet navigating that voluminous literature remains a formidable challenge. A Companion to Abraham Lincoln assembles 33 historiographical essays by contributors ranging from senior scholars to graduate students. Together they survey the scholarship that has shaped past and present understandings of the sixteenth president and chart where the field is headed.

Organized into five sections-Personal Life and Character, The Political Lincoln, Leadership and Sectionalism, Slavery, Race, and Emancipation, and Public Life and Cultural Memory-each essay examines what scholars have argued about its particular topic. The volume addresses some of the most well-known and hotly contested debates in Lincoln studies, offering readers a clear map of existing research.

The book also includes:

• Historiographical analysis covering depictions of Lincoln as emancipator, conservative, radical, military strategist, politician, and constitutional steward
• Coverage of contested topics including Lincoln's views on race, religion, marriage, and the expansion of executive power
• An authoritative overview connecting past interpretations to current scholarly directions and emerging lines of inquiry in the field
• Essays accessible to specialists, graduate students, and informed general readers seeking orientation within Lincoln scholarship
• Contributions examining Lincoln's enduring cultural memory, public legacy, and evolving legend from 1865 to the present day

Designed as a reference volume for historians, graduate students, librarians, archivists, and members of organizations such as the Lincoln Forum and Civil War Round Tables, A Companion to Abraham Lincoln provides the most current analysis of existing research on Lincoln's life, times, and lasting significance.

Now in a third edition, this seminal text has been updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England's most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign.

Henry was a Renaissance prince whose Court dazzled with artistic display; yet he was also a savage adversary who ruthlessly crushed all those who opposed him. Five centuries after his reign, he continues to fascinate, always evading easy characterisation. Wooding locates Henry VIII firmly in the context of the English Renaissance and the fierce currents of religious change that characterized the early Reformation, as well as exploring the historiographical debates that have surrounded him and his reign. This third edition includes new material on Henrician encounters with Wales and Ireland, the gendered dynamics of Court politics, and the religious experiments which made England a test case for what was happening elsewhere in Europe. The final chapter offers a comprehensive consideration of Henry VIII's legacy, his remembered presence in the reigns of his three children, and his place in popular culture to this day.

Henry VIII provides a fresh portrayal of Henry's character and reign, cutting away the misleading mythology that surrounds him and instead presenting a vivid account of this passionate, wilful, intelligent, and destructive king. With colour illustrations and up-to-date suggestions for further reading, this compelling biography remains essential reading for all early modern students.

This festschrift honours the work of Liz Stanley, whose scholarship has been highly influential in opening new paths in feminist research across the human sciences. Bringing together contributions from scholars shaped by her thinking, the volume reflects both on the intellectual reach of her work and on its continuing capacity to inspire feminist inquiry.

The chapters engage with key strands of Stanley's intellectual legacy, including feminist epistemologies, the auto/ biographical I, letters and correspondences, the epistolarium, and her concept of archigraphics as a way of opening the 'black box' of the archive. Through a wide range of studies, contributors explore her challenge to mainstream sociology, her distinctive approach to feminist research with texts, her foundational role in auto/ biography studies, her systematic analysis of letters and correspondences, and her pioneering work on archives, temporality, and the writing of history. Collectively, the contributions trace an intellectual lineage and demonstrate the enduring relevance and generative power of Stanley's scholarship across disciplines.

This volume is intended for scholars and postgraduate students in the social sciences and humanities, particularly those working in feminist theory, qualitative methods, archival studies, auto/ biography, and the sociology of knowledge.

This book brings together the views of internationally acclaimed scholars who have synthesized debates regarding the First World War's origins, and it will certainly encourage readers to 'reconsider' their ideas regarding this controversial subject.

Since 2014, there have been numerous works dedicated to the war's origins, including studies of the July Crisis, new biographies of politicians and diplomats, and reassessments of pre-war crises, imperial rivalries, nationalist aspirations, militarism and popular culture. In this book, leading experts on aspects of the road that led to war in 1914 consider the contribution to our understanding made by all this new or renewed attention. The role of each of the Great Powers is examined, as well as underlying forces such as nationalism, militarism, the armaments race and the alliance system, and what impact they had on these origins. What did 'mobilization' mean? And what role did domestic politics and popular reactions to the assassination at Sarajevo play? Over three sections, this volume analyses the differing international relationships of the various powers, the tensions between them and the underlying bigger forces at play.