Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2020.1745370
L. Withey
ABSTRACT The article explores the history of the Brass Band movement in part of Yorkshire, England and attempts to explain why the small village communities of Saddleworth became such a stronghold of Brass Band activities; and how what started there as a small scale local event in 1884 one Whit Friday, became a festival that attracts both national and international interest.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2020.1745371
Christian O’Connell
ABSTRACT The article discusses a collaborative local history project in Cheltenham Spa’s Lower High Street, an area that has suffered from “symbolic annihilation” through a long history of stigmatisation at the expense the town’s Regency-era heritage. Residents’ testimonies give voice to marginalised experiences that help to establish the area’s distinctive “sense of place,” which is rooted in shared experiences of exclusion, hardship and community cohesion. Through nostalgic recollections, they also reveal a significant grassroots willingness to challenge the exclusionary practices of Cheltenham’s dominant and exclusionary Regency narrative. However, present concerns about ethnic diversity and urban decay also exposed contemporary anxieties that are indicative of the broader context of Britain in the EU referendum era. While offering a “history from below,” the paper also considers how universities operating as “anchor” institutions can help to address contemporary issues of social alienation and spatial inequality by fostering a greater appreciation of the past.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-02DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2020.1745372
Matthew Bayly
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1680113
A. Lessoff
ABSTRACT By the late 1800s, elaborate concepts – the vocabulary of “bosses” and “machines” – had emerged in the United States for arguing over the systematised corruption that industrial urbanisation and mass political mobilisation seemed to generate. This essay focuses on two British writers whose Anglo-American sympathies and prominence within trans-Atlantic intellectual and journalism networks enabled them to shape U.S. debates over urban governance, while introducing Europeans to the tumultuous atmosphere of U.S. cities. In The American Commonwealth (1888), the Liberal scholar-politician James Bryce drew upon experiences in numerous U.S. cities to build a case for professionalised municipal governance and the acculturation of immigrants as ways of ensuring civic standards in democratising cities. In his sensational expose, If Christ Came to Chicago (1894), the social Christian journalist William T. Stead introduced Europeans to the sense among a segment of U.S. reformers that bossism resulted from capitalist injustice and that reform required social solidarity.
19世纪晚期，美国出现了一些复杂的概念，如“老板”和“机器”，用来争论工业城市化和大规模政治动员似乎产生的系统性腐败。这篇文章主要关注两位英国作家，他们对英美的同情和在跨大西洋知识和新闻网络中的突出地位使他们能够塑造美国关于城市治理的辩论，同时向欧洲人介绍美国城市的喧嚣氛围。在《美国联邦》(1888)一书中，自由派学者兼政治家詹姆斯·布莱斯(James Bryce)借鉴了许多美国城市的经验，为专业化的市政治理和移民的文化适应建立了一个案例，以此作为确保民主城市公民标准的方式。社会基督教记者威廉·t·斯特德(William T. Stead)在其轰动的揭露作品《如果基督来到芝加哥》(1894)中，向欧洲人介绍了部分美国改革派的观点，即资本主义不公正导致了专横主义，改革需要社会团结。
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1673536
Gökçen Beyinli
ABSTRACT This article provides a gendered history of Istanbul’s postwar years by focusing on the role “Istanbul women” had in discussions of corruption and moral decay that dominated representations of the city. It sheds light on how Istanbul was degraded to a “cosmopolitan and decadent” status. The Beyoğlu-Pera district came to symbolise this decadence. Furthermore, upper-class women of the city were associated with the radical Westernisation emanating from the district. The article also scrutinises how politically active women of the city negotiated these accusations, through an analysis of their endeavours to achieve women’s suffrage. It argues that devaluing late Ottoman feminists as “morally corrupt” Istanbul women, allowed the early Republican reformers to suppress the Ottoman feminist movement and present themselves as the emancipators of Turkish women.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1669105
Italo Pardo
ABSTRACT While Italy is not immune to corruption that breaks the law, it provides a test case for corruption that does not break the law and for corruption that is made legal. This article centres on the dynamics and ramifications of “the graveyard affair”. This case of corrupt power networks in late 1970s Naples was an important precursor to the corruption scandal of the 1990s. It produced convictions, leading to apparently significant changes in the local political set up in favour of politicians who, while presenting themselves as morally superior, progressed to embed legal corruption in the political equation. They pursued discriminatory policies that were later perfected by their like-minded successors. Though legal, these policies are received across society as morally and ethically corrupt, leading ordinary Southerners to feel that they are treated as second-class citizens.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1673538
A. Gilbert
ABSTRACT Corruption is a long-standing feature of governance in Latin America. Recently, numerous governments have been caught up in a major bribery scandal operated by a major Brazilian building company. Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, is interesting because, in the 1990s and early 2000s, it introduced new processes aimed at preventing corruption in the allocation of public contracts. These processes clearly failed because, between 2008 and 2010, the city’s mayor offered major contracts to some extremely dubious companies. Unusually for Latin America, the guilty mayor has been jailed, along with numerous local Councillors and the contractors. This paper explains how attempts to prevent corruption failed and what steps have been taken since to prevent it happening again. Bogotá’s experience is important because it is one of the best-run cities in Latin America and, if it cannot control corruption, few cities in the region will manage to either.
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1669108
D. Wright
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1669106
A. Jackson
Andrew Hobbs’ new book on the provincial press is a fine and significant work. The publication persuasively and substantively argues the case for research on the provincial newspaper. The author is...
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/20514530.2019.1669107
A. Walker
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