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Shaping for Mediocrity
In 2021, as part of a programme called Shaping for Excellence, bosses at the University of Leicester made redundant numerous scholars in what was simultaneously an attack on academic freedom and trade union organisation. The authors of Shaping for Mediocrity not only had front-row seats in the campaign against these mass redundancies, they were in the ring - both as targeted employees and as trade union officers and negotiators. Shaping for Mediocrity tells the inside story of these attacks and the campaign against them. It situates this story within a longer history of struggle to make the university a place where critical thinking is possible, showing how events in Leicester are both reflective of higher education in the UK following four decades of neoliberal 'reform' and a particularly egregious instance of the increasingly authoritarian management of public institutions such as universities.
What If . . . Book of Alternative History
Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if history had happened differently? What if . . . · Watergate hadn’t been uncovered? · Communism had failed? · Japan had not struck Pearl Harbor? · The Cuban Missile Crisis had escalated? · The Vikings had colonized North America? · Rome never fell? · The Soviets had won the space race? · The Beatles had never formed? In compelling narratives, historical experts consider these and many more intriguing questions in this fascinating look at what might have been. Each monumental event includes detailed articles by historians, professors, and scholars that pose hypothetical answers to various questions, potential timelines, and full-color illustrations that detail a different outcome. Praise for Jeff Greenfield’s works of alternative history “Shrewdly written, often riveting.” —The New York Times “A fascinating [premise].” —Publishers Weekly “Thoughtful and sophisticated. . . . a book political junkies will adore.” —The Washington Post “Well researched and thought through—an interesting, plausible exercise.” —Kirkus Reviews
Temperance Lives
This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918. James Kneale examines how temperance life insurance - initially a speculative business venture - evolved into a social experiment that played a crucial role in persuading ordinary people, doctors, and insurance firms that abstaining from alcohol was safer than drinking it. Drawing from archival materials, Kneale analyses contemporary stories from teetotallers and high-street temperance businesses, and investigates the broader impact on 'temperance towns' such as Manchester, Exeter, and the settlements of the Pendle area. By charting the evolution of the first temperance life assurance firm the UK Temperance and General Provident Institution (UKT) from its difficult beginnings, to being the eighth largest British life assurance firm by the 1890s, the author demonstrates to readers how quickly social attitudes surrounding teetotalism changed, and why.
Routledge Handbook of Intoxicants and Intoxication
Bringing together scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary Handbook offers a comprehensive critical overview of intoxicants and intoxication. The Handbook is divided into 34 chapters across eight thematic sections covering a wide range of issues, including the meanings of intoxicants; the social life of intoxicants; intoxication settings; intoxication practices; alternative approaches to the study of intoxication; scapegoated intoxicants; discourses shaping intoxication; and changing notions of excess. It explores a range of different intoxicants, including alcohol, tobacco, coffee, tea, and legal and illicit drugs, including amphetami...
The Oxford Handbook of Global Drug History
This landmark collection of essays by thirty-five historians, working on a global scale, brings together the latest knowledge and perspectives about the long origins and transformations of today's illicit drugs such as cannabis, heroin, and cocaine.
Alcohol in Latin America
Aguardente, chicha, pulque, vino—no matter whether it’s distilled or fermented, alcohol either brings people together or pulls them apart. Alcohol in Latin America is a sweeping examination of the deep reasons why. This book takes an in-depth look at the social and cultural history of alcohol and its connection to larger processes in Latin America. Using a painting depicting a tavern as a metaphor, the authors explore the disparate groups and individuals imbibing as an introduction to their study. In so doing, they reveal how alcohol production, consumption, and regulation have been intertwined with the history of Latin America since the pre-Columbian era. Alcohol in Latin America is the...
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