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  • 6 - “Wearing a Little Thin”: May 1968–March 1970

  • Steven J. Brady, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Less Than Victory
    Published online:
    16 October 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025, pp 176-213

  • Summary

    After Johnson’s exit from the race, Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated. This and other events, such as the assassination of Martin Luther King and urban unrest, bring reflection on violence in US society, which in turn raises questions about American actions in Vietnam. The Catonsville Nine protest brings national attention to the Catholic antiwar movement while also summoning criticism and even condemnation from other sectors of the Catholic community.

  • 5 - “We Can and Must Debate”: January 1967–April 1968

  • Steven J. Brady, George Washington University, Washington DC
  • Book:
    Less Than Victory
    Published online:
    16 October 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025, pp 141-175

  • Summary

    The twelve months leading up to the Tet Offensive witness more defections among Catholics from the pro-intervention camp. The result is greater division within the American Catholic community. In addition, Lyndon Johnson – a great admirer of popes – finds himself in conflict with Paul VI on the issue of peace. Tet helps to drive Johnson from the race, and the Catholic Robert F. Kennedy emerges as a strong contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

  • 6 - Far from Home

  • David Robinson, Colgate University, New York
  • Book:
    Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025, pp 138-162

  • Summary

    This chapter begins with Wu Jijue’s early years and upbringing, including his family and his education, with an eye toward the strategies that capital elites like the Wu family used to protect their status. It then turns to his long – nearly half a century – career in the capital and the provinces. As the sovereign’s man, Wu Jijue – like all merit nobles – performed a wide variety of tasks, and this chapter offers a series of snapshots to give a sense of the range of his duties, including (1) ritual officiant, (2) envoy to princely courts, (3) regional commander, and (4) participant in imperial reviews. The following chapter traces Wu Jijue’s service as a senior administrator in key military institutions with special attention to the light it sheds on the dynasty’s regularized assessment and reward of administrative performance.

  • 5 - Representing the Emperor

  • David Robinson, Colgate University, New York
  • Book:
    Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
    Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025, pp 115-137

  • Summary

    This chapter is organized into four sections. First, using Wu Shixing as a focal point, it examines the role of merit nobles as envoys of the throne in missions to provincial courts and in offerings to the souls of the imperial house’s deceased members. Second, it briefly reviews the heightened prominence of military affairs during the reign of Zhengde (1505–21), including important changes to the organization of the Capital Garrisons, which was where Wu Shixing and other merit nobles held posts. Third, it considers the military laborscape of the early sixteenth century, with particular attention to how the Ming court addressed issues of ability and difference in the suppression of a series of large-scale rebellions. Fourth, this chapter returns to debates at the Ming court surrounding the education and training of merit nobles like Wu Shixing.

Ability and Difference in Early Modern China
  • A Mongol Family at the Ming Court
  • David Robinson
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    11 September 2025
  • In 1405, a family left their home in the Mongolian steppe and moved to China. This daring decision, taken at a time of dramatic change in eastern Eurasia, paved the way for 250 years of unlikely success at the Ming court. Winning recognition for military skill and loyalty, the family later known as the Wu gained a coveted title of nobility and became members of the capital elite until the dynasty's collapse in 1644. By tracing the individual fortunes of a single family, David Robinson offers a fresh and accessible perspective on the inner workings of Ming bureaucracy. He explores how the early-modern world's most developed state sought to balance the often contradictory demands of securing ability and addressing difference, a challenge common to nearly all polities.

Extradition and Empire
  • Sovereignty and Subjecthood in Hong Kong
  • Ivan Lee
  • Published online:
    10 September 2025
    Print publication:
    03 July 2025
  • In the first book-length study of the imperial history of extradition in Hong Kong, Ivan Lee shows how British judges, lawyers, and officials navigated the nature of extradition, debated its legalities, and distinguished it over time from other modalities of criminal jurisdiction – including deportation, rendition, and trial and punishment under territorial and extraterritorial laws. These complex debates were rooted in the contested legal status of Chinese subjects under the Opium War treaties of 1842–43. They also intersected wider shifts and tensions in British ideas of territorial sovereignty, criminal justice and procedure, and the legal rights and liabilities of British subjects and alien persons in British territory. By the 1870s, a new area of imperial law emerged as Britain incorporated a frontier colony into an increasingly territorial and legally homogenous empire. This important perspective revises our understanding of the legal origins of colonial Hong Kong and British imperialism in China.

  • The Scottish urban hierarchy and its interaction with the print trade and venues for reading, as revealed by an 1820s trade directory

  • Vivienne Seonaid Dunstan
  • Journal:
    Urban History , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 September 2025, pp. 1-18
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  • This article combines book history and urban history to examine the spread of the print trade and facilities for reading in Scotland by the 1820s, using a Scotland-wide trade directory as its main source. The article demonstrates how support for reading, including printers, bookshops and venues for reading, extended far and wide within the Scottish urban hierarchy – from the largest cities to the smallest towns and villages. Variations between different types of towns are discussed, and local case studies provide further insights. The article provides fresh perspectives on Scottish urbanization, through its snapshot view of Scotland’s towns in the mid-1820s.

  • Family ties under strain: negotiating failure, 1836–1846

  • James E. Shaw
  • Journal:
    Continuity and Change , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    10 September 2025, pp. 1-21

  • Business failure was a key moment of crisis for family relations, when obligations to kin were tested and liabilities negotiated. Family ties have generally been regarded as a positive resource, and a key form of insurance against failure, but in practice the terms and conditions of assistance could be a matter of delicate negotiation. Focusing on a case study from nineteenth-century Sheffield, the article uses personal and business correspondence to reveal the different positions of family members in managing failure, and the emotional tensions that accompanied this process. Through cooperation, assets could be protected and the family name preserved from the shame and expense associated with the formal process of bankruptcy. However, the family’s response to failure also highlighted differences between grades of kin and across generations. Direct financial support was one option, but separation of assets was an alternative way of proceeding that could offer strategic benefits. The case demonstrates the role of microhistorical study for exploring the tensions and emotions that could be generated within families. Responses to financial crisis highlight the role of family relations and emotion as important factors in understanding economic behaviour.

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