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Jacobites : a new history of the '45 rebellion
The 1745 Jacobite Rebellion was a turning point in British history. It continues to be obscured by fiction and myth, as personified by the heroic, gallant but doomed 'Bonnie Prince Charlie' pitted against the heartless victor, 'Butcher' Cumberland. In the years 1745-46, nothing was certain. While utilizing past and recent scholarship, this account draws extensively on a wealth of contemporary sources, revealing the thoughts and feelings of the most important participants and local eyewitnesses as these extraordinary events played out.
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'Un-American' Antisemitism?: The American Jewish Committee's Response to Global Antisemitism in the Interwar Period
[...]this article examines the ways in which some of those involved in Jewish defense work saw the interplay between Americanness and antisemitism at that time. The paradigm of exceptionalism sees the American Jewish experience as unique and superior to the fate of other Jewish communities, especially when compared to persecutions of Jews in Europe. Because of its assumptions and distortions, this narrative—which is part of a broader ideology of American exceptionalism—calls for more nuanced scrutiny, as historian Tony Michels argues. [...]they internalized some of these antisemitic tropes—especially about their own power—in a way that significantly shaped their defense strategies. [...]they increasingly interpreted interwar global antisemitism as a Nazi imitation, thus glossing over its American roots.
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The love of a prince : Bonnie Prince Charlie in France, 1744-1748
The product of a decade of research in the Stuart Papers at Windsor Castle, this revealing history of Bonnie Prince Charlie brings to light a fascinating new details of the prince's life, including evidence of a short-lived son, born in Paris scarcely two years after the royal fugitive escaped to France following the unlucky Battle of Culloden.
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Charles I's killers in America : the lives & afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe
When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. 'Charles I's Killers in America' traces the gripping story of two of these men - Edward Whalley and William Goffe - and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there. With fascinating insights into the governance of the American colonies in the seventeenth century, and how a network of colonists protected the regicides, Matthew Jenkinson overturns the enduring theory that Charles II unrelentingly sought revenge for the murder of his father. 'Charles I's Killers in America' also illuminates the regicides' afterlives, with conclusions that have far-reaching implications for our understanding of Anglo-American political and cultural relations. Novels, histories, poems, plays, paintings, and illustrations featuring the fugitives were created against the backdrop of America's revolutionary strides towards independence and its forging of a distinctive national identity. The history of the 'king-killers' was distorted and embellished as they were presented as folk heroes and early champions of liberty, protected by proto-revolutionaries fighting against English tyranny. Jenkinson rewrites this once-ubiquitous and misleading historical orthodoxy, to reveal a far more subtle and compelling picture of the regicides on the run.
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The Impact of Public Environmental Concern on Corporate ESG Performance
Utilizing an advanced machine learning algorithm, particularly the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) framework, this study reveals a significant nonlinear and even cyclical relationship between public concern about environmental issues and the ESG performance of Chinese A-share listed companies, covering the period from 2004 to 2020. The findings highlight the effectiveness of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM)-ANN framework in elucidating the empirical relationship between these variables. We contend that robust public monitoring can enhance companies’ ESG initiatives, and we recommend that policymakers implement a series of measures to safeguard and promote public involvement in decision-making processes. Furthermore, our analysis of the combined effects of public concern and various performance metrics on firms’ ESG outcomes indicates that the diversity among firms is crucial for determining the most appropriate level of public participation in their sustainable development efforts. Therefore, managers and policymakers should focus on firm-specific attributes instead of adopting a “one-size-fits-all” approach to maximize the benefits of public engagement.
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