http://hdl.handle.net/1893/722 Electronic copies of History and Politics book chapters and sections. Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:04:04 GMT 2026-10-03T03:04:04Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37682 Title: Sons and Daughters, Mothers and Mercenaries: Agency and Agenda in the Cross-North Channel Context, c.1500-c.1600 Author(s): Cathcart, Alison Editor(s): Nugent, Janay; Spence, Cathyrn; Cowan, Mairi Abstract: First paragraph: Within the field of late medieval and early modern Scottish history, both in Lowland and Highland society, most studies of women have focused on the elite and often on individuals. These studies have nuanced our appreciation of women’s roles in wider society, whether as wife, mother, foster-mother, widow, guardian, confidante or as heiress to an estate or title, and in different contexts, whether political, legal or economic. While recent research has argued that we need to move beyond viewing women who exerted power or authority as ‘exceptional’, there is also a need to reconsider women whose agency has been either marginalised or condemned because it transcended the bounds of what was regarded as appropriate behaviour for a woman. Such has been the fate of Agnes Campbell and her daughter Finola (or ‘Iníon Dubh’) MacDonald, two women born into the elite of Highland clan society and subsequently married into two of the most powerful Irish kindreds in Ulster in 1569. As Gaelic women they operated within a cross-North Channel world which, in the latter half of the sixteenth century, saw significant military activity. This was a result of reinvigorated English efforts to impose authority across Ireland and subdue ongoing resistance to English governance there. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37682 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37489 Title: Neutrality and the politics of protection: the United States as a protecting power, 1914-1917 Author(s): Wylie, Neville Editor(s): Piller, Elisabeth; Wylie, Neville Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37489 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37361 Title: Official development assistance (ODA) Author(s): Li, Li; Park, Hyeyoon Editor(s): Biermann, Frank; Hickmann, Thomas; Kang, Yi hyun; Sénit, Carole-Anne; Sun, Yixian Abstract: First paragraph: Official development assistance (ODA) was first invented as a statistical concept in 1969 by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is regarded as the ‘gold standard’ of governmental foreign aid that promotes the economic development and welfare of developing countries and shapes the relations between developing and developed countries Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37361 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37296 Title: POWs, Civilians and the Post-War Development of International Humanitarian Law Author(s): Wylie, Neville; Landefeld, Sarina Editor(s): Kowner, Rotem; Rachamimov, Iris Abstract: First paragraph: This chapter takes as its starting point a discussion that took place at the first postwar conference of the International Law Association (ILA), held in Portsmouth, England, in May1920. While the founding of the League of Nations the previous January provided the assembled jurists with plenty to debate, the conference organizers were eager to progress thinking on two areas of law that had been found wanting in the Great War: the law of the sea and the law governing the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). As Lord Younger, the conference chair, noted in his opening remarks, the existing regulations dealing with POWs—the 1899/1907 Hague rules—had proved utterly “powerless to prevent in innumerable notorious instances the suffering, undeserved, gratuitous, heartrending beyond expression, which thousands of prisoners had to endure through these tragic years of horror.” To help sharpen the discussions, two of Britain’s foremost international lawyers, Hugh Bellot and George G. Phillimore, were invited to table a draft convention for POWs. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1893/37296 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z