Biography: general Books

Book SynopsisThe book offers a narrative of the life and career of Georg Busolt (1850-1920), the eminent German historian of classical Greece. The core of the work is a collection, with commentary, of more than 100 unpublished letters from Busolt to such figures as Eduard Meyer and Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff. The work is thus a contribution to the history of classical and historical scholarship.Table of ContentsEditor’s Introduction Author Biographies The French Nonprofit Sector: A Literature Review  Abstract  Keywords  Introduction  1 The Importance of the Legal Approach to Defining French NPOs  2 The French NPS: A Belated Freedom  3 Empirical Approaches to the French NPS  4 What Prospects for the French NPS?  Conclusion  Bibliography

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Book SynopsisRecent publications about King Alfonso X have tended to focus on his role as monarch in the context of the institutions of the realm. This book, however, emphasizes the human dimension of this extraordinary figure. Drawing on King Alfonso’s own works and on extensive archival sources, both well-known and neglected, Salvador Martínez brings to life a king who valued the possession of knowledge above all earthly riches. The "Learned King" left a vast legacy of work, which would influence developments in both Spain and Europe, most significantly in the transfer of knowledge from the Arabs to the Christian West. With his intellectual curiosity and his pursuit of wisdom, Alfonso X is a towering figure at the origins of modernity.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Illustrations Colour Plates Introduction: The "Alfonsine Era" 1. The Apprenticeship of a Great King 2. A Prince's Education 3. Alfonso King 4. The Quest for the Imperial Crown 5. Alfonso, King of the Romans 6. Gregory X and the End of Imperial Ambitions 7. Illness and Intellectual Pursuits 8. The Black Decade (1269-1279) 9. The Nobles' Rebellion 10. Desnaturación 11. The Problems of Succession 12. Don Sancho is Declared Successor 13. Deposition and Civil War 14. Don Sancho Seeks the Consolidation of Power: The Curse 15. The Last Wills of Alfonso X Conclusion: In Praise of Knowledge Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisTheoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.Trade Review"Ils entendent explicitement contribuer à l’émergence des études biographiques comme nouvelle discipline à part entière [...] En conclusion, il convient de saluer les grands mérites de cet ouvrage fort bien fait" ("They explicitly intend to contribute to the emergence of Biography Studies as a new discipline in its own right [...] In conclusion, we should acknowledge the great merits of this well-made, strong book." Joanny Moulin, Aix-Marseille Université “Theoretical Discussions of Biography is a welcome addition for university courses on the history and theory of history and surveys of historiography. [...] According to Renders and De Haan, a biography preferably studies a specific figure to test generally recognized truths on a society and culture. Renders elaborates this thesis in his article ‘The limits of representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory’ and by doing this also brings together some themes from other contributions. This article provides a practical research agenda for the future.” Christoph De Spiegeleer, Free University of Brussels, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale Geschiedenis 10(2013)3, p. 115-116. “In its range and compass Theoretical Discussions of Biography illustrates the new compass and depth which Biographical Studies can offer to teachers, students and practitioners.” Nigel Hamilton, Senior Fellow John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston and first President of Biographers International Organization (BIO) “To take issue with Renders, however, is not to discount his perceptive and wide-ranging contributions to an understanding of biography and biographical method. Only a scholar with formidable learning could have assembled an anthology that is so challenging on so many aspects of biography.” Carl Rollyson, Baruch College New York, in: Biography 36(2013)2, p. 392-395.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Nigel Hamilton Note on the Revised and Augmented Edition Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: The Challenges of Biography Studies Hans Renders & Binne de Haan Section I: Historiography of Biography Studies 2 Towards Traditions and Nations Binne de Haan & Hans Renders 3 Roots of Biography: From Journalism to Pulp to Scholarly Based Non-Fiction Hans Renders 4 The Solace of Doubt? Biographical Methodology after the Short Twentieth Century James Walter Section II: Biography and History 5 The Uses of Biography Giovanni Levi 6 The Role of the Individual in History. Biographical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Sabina Loriga 7 Contemporary Values of Life. Biographical Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century Hans Renders Section III: Biography and Microhistory 8 What Is Micro in Microhistory? Matti Peltonen 9 Microhistory and the Post-Modern Challenge Richard D. Brown 10 The Limits of Representativeness. Biography, Life Writing and Microhistory Hans Renders 11 Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It Carlo Ginzburg Section IV: Biography and Life Writing 12 Biography in Academia and the Critical Frontier in Life Writing: Where Biography Shifts into Life Writing Hans Renders 13 The Eclipse of Biography in Life Writing Binne de Haan 14 Coming to Terms: Life Writing – from Genre to Critical Practice Marlene Kadar Appendices 15 Biography Anonymous 16 Sex in Biography Ernest Boyd 17 The Personal in the Political Biography Hans Renders 18 The Biographical Method Hans Renders 19 Why Genealogy and Biography Are Not Kin Hans Renders 20 A Nobel Prize for Biography Nigel Hamilton Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJohn A. González, Director of the Rozhkov Historical Research Centre, examines the evolution of the thought of the most important and prolific historian after V.O. Kliuchevskii. Rozhkov’s transformation from liberal thinker to social democrat is explored against the background of Russia's paradigmatic shift from tsarist regime to revolutionary government.Trade Review"Gonzalez's biography, which includes twenty-four illustrations, a biographical chronology, and a list of Rozhkov's works, gives long-overdue attention to Rozhkov's place in the Russian revolutionary movement and Russian Marxist historiography." - Barbara C. Allen, in: The Russian Review, 2017, pp. 565-6Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Note on Transliteration, Calendars & Translation xii Abbreviations xiii Map xvi Prologue 1 1 The Formative Years (1868–1898): Rozhkov the Academic 11 Verkhotur’e and the Early Years 11 Rozhkov’s Family—His Parents and Siblings 12 The First Wave of Positivist Influence 14 Henry Thomas Buckle 15 Herbert Spencer 18 Avgust Liudvigovich Tochiskii 22 Faculty of History and Philology at Moscow University 24 Zinaida Petrovna Vovoiskaia 25 The Young Married Couple 26 V.O. Kliuchevskii 28 Rozhkov as Teacher and First Publications 29 Research under Kliuchevskii 31 Economic Materialism, Legal Marxism, Ziber and Marx 32 Kliuchevskii, Thesis and the Uvarov Prize 35 The Young Academic 37 The Success of Contemporary Sociology and History—A Second Wave of Positivist Influence 40 2 The Influence of Marxism (1898–1905): Rozhkov the Revolutionary 47 Rozhkov’s Interpretation of Marxism 47 His Doctoral Thesis, Marxism and Politics 48 The Importance of Psychology and Marxism 50 Marxism and the Psychology of the Individual 51 Textbooks and Educating the Public 55 The Success of Town and Village in Russian History and the Zemstva Lectures 55 The Moscow Pedagogical Society and Public Education 61 Teachers, Students and Academics Demand Change 64 A.A. Malinovskii-Bogdanov and Pravda 66 Geneva and 1905 67 3 Revolution and Prison (1905–1907): Rozhkov the Bolshevik 76 Rozhkov the Bolshevik and the Literary-Propagandist Group 76 Moscow University and 1905 77 Rozhkov and 1905 80 The Aftermath of 1905 86 First Meeting with Lenin 88 Svetoch—A Legal Bolshevik Newspaper 91 Rozhkov Arrested after Svetoch Inquiry 92 Rozhkov Goes Underground—Kuokkala, Grand Duchy of Finland 93 Secret Political Meetings and Important Personalities 97 Fifth Congress of the RSDLP in London 99 Rethinking the Revolution in 1907 102 The Fundamental Laws of Social Phenomena 106 4 Reflections from Butyrskaia Prison: Rozhkov the Intellectual Incarcerated (1908–1910) 109 Rozhkov’s Arrest—1908 109 Prison Life, Letters and Labour 112 Psychology and History 115 Sibirevedenie and the Contemporary World in 1910 120 Hilferding and How Rozhkov came to Believe in Civilized Capitalism 123 5 Applying Theory to Practice: Rozhkov in Siberian Exile (1911) 128 The Fundamentals of Scientific Philosophy 128 Rozhkov’s Theory of Epistemology 132 Evolutionary Materialism not Dialectical Materialism 136 Rozhkov’s Theory of Energetics and Evolutionary Economism 139 Lenin and Rozhkov: Failed Attempts at Dialogue 144 Breaking with Lenin and the Bolsheviks: The Political Society for the Protection of the Interests of the Working Class 150 Rozhkov and the Final Split between Bolshevism and Menshevism 155 Rozhkov’s “Liquidationism” in Nasha Zaria and Lenin’s Response—A Liberal-Labour Party Manifesto in Zvezda 157 6 The Siberian Road to the Duma: Rozhkov More Menshevik than Bolshevik (1912–1917) 164 Realities of Political Exile—When Mensheviks Attack: A.S. Martynov 164 Rozhkov’s Reply: On Two Fronts 167 Rozhkov on Liquidationism 169 Martov’s Contribution: How it is Possible to be Wrong on both Fronts 173 Rozhkov Responds Again in Nasha Zaria 176 Lenin Continues the Polemic against Rozhkov: “He has not Understood Marxist Propositions” 181 Rozhkov’s Reply: Do not Allow Differences between Social-Democrats Destroy the Possibility of Teamwork 184 Exiles Respond to World War I: Siberian Zimmerwaldists 188 Rozhkov’s Pacifist and Anti-War Views 191 Rozhkov Reaffirms His “Social-Chauvinist” Views in Sovremennyi Mir 194 Siberian Regionalism and the Authorities Threatened 197 The Voice of Siberia—The Need for a New Daily Newspaper 201 Last Months in Siberian Exile under Tsarist Rule 204 7 In Search of a Political Compromise (1917–1921): Rozhkov the Social-Democrat 206 Rozhkov’s Open Letter to the Moscow Conference of Bolsheviks 206 Rozhkov as Deputy Minister of Posts and Telegraphs in the Provisional Government 210 The Politics of Agreement Challenged 214 The October Revolution: A Politician’s Critical View 218 The Russian Revolutions: A Historian’s View 220 A Year after the October Revolution: Rozhkov Writes to Lenin with Maxim Gor’kii’s Support 224 Rozhkov, Lenin and Martov Letters 230 Death of Zinaida Petrovna Vovoiskaia and Rozhkov’s First Arrest under Bolshevism 233 Letters from Gaol, Ia.S. Agranov, Lenin and Outside Efforts to Free Rozhkov 237 Rozhkov Sends another Letter to Lenin 240 8 There is No Compromise (1922–1927): Rozhkov under Bolshevik Surveillance 248 The Herzen Institute, Political Isolation and Lenin 248 The Machinations of Power: Rozhkov Arrested Once Again 253 Despite Appeals Rozhkov is Exiled to Pskov 259 Rozhkov on Russian Menshevism 262 More Letters to Zinov’ev 268 Life in Exile 273 The Last Years after Bolshevik Exile 275 Epilogue Rozhkov Rediscovered: A Review of the Major Literature since His Death 286 The Lunacharskii Letter 287 Pokrovskii and Rozhkovshchina 289 The Soviet Line on Rozhkov Established 292 A Fresh Look at Rozhkov: Volobuev 295 Stepanova, Chebotareva, Sheinfel’d, Hellie and Tarasova 297 The Rodina Letters, Iakovlev, Artizov, Shapiro and Andreeva 299 Makarchuk, Isachkin, Popov and Tikhomirov 301 Borisova, Leont’eva, Mikhailova and Filimonov 305 Ivanov, Korzun, Nechkhurin, Kocheshkov and Maidachevskii 309 Volobuev’s Latest Works 316 Appendix Works by N.A. Rozhkov 319 N.A. Rozhkov: A Chronology 342 Bibliography 344 Russian Sources 344 Non-Russian Sources 354 Index 368 List of Illustrations 1 View of Ekaterinburg in the late nineteenth century 42 2 Rozhkov’s young parents 43 3 Young Kolia standing with mum and younger brother 44 4 Rozhkov as a young student 45 5 Rozhkov the senior gymnasium student with his parents 46 6 Rozhkov as a young man 72 7 Rozhkov the teacher with his class of Cadets in Moscow 73 8 Rozhkov the academic circa 1900 74 9 Rozhkov’s first wife—Zinaida Petrovna Vovoiskaia 75 10 Police mug shot 18 May 1908 126 11 Police photo 18 May 1908 126 12 Visit portrait of Rozhkov taken in London in 1907 127 13 Rozhkov’s older parents 127 14 Nikolai and Zinaida in Siberian exile. He is at the right window, his wife is at the left window 244 15 Nikolai and Zinaida with other exiles at the entrance of a cave somewhere in Siberia 245 16 Nikolai (front—second from right) and Zinaida (front—second from left) with other exiles on a picnic 245 17 Exiles in Siberia—Rozhkov second man sitting front left, wife stands in the middle, Tsereteli sits second row right 246 18 With comrades in Chita. Rozhkov sits in the middle 246 19 A meeting In Siberia just before returning to Moscow, Rozhkov is in middle with Tsereteli to his left 247 20 Meeting of the first lecturers and staff of the Ural State University in Ekaterinburg in 1920. Rozhkov second from left. To his right sits A.A. Gapeev and in the middle sits A.P. Pinkevich 247 21 Early photograph of Rozhkov’s Grave—Novodevich’e Cemetry 282 22 Rozhkov’s second wife—Maria Konstantinovna Pshenitsyna in 1925 283 23 M.K. Pshenitsyna in 1950 284 24 Rozhkov’s Grave today 285 Map

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Book SynopsisThis book is situated at the cutting edge of the political-ethical dimension of history writing. Henkes investigates various responsibilities and loyalties towards family and nation, as well as other major ethical obligations towards society and humanity when historical subjects have to deal with a repressive political regime. In the first section we follow pre-war German immigrants in the Netherlands and their German affiliation during the era of National Socialism. The second section explores the positions of Dutch emigrants who settled after the Second World War in Apartheid South Africa. The narratives of these transnational agents and their relatives provide a lens through which changing constructions of national identities, and the acceptance or rejection of a nationalist policy on racial grounds, can be observed in everyday practice.Trade ReviewRacial relations stunningly revealed in family and society "This very accessible and well-written historical work uses everyday personal experiences of German migrants in the Netherlands during World War II and of Dutch migrants in South Africa during apartheid to explore racial politics. The ethical dilemmas experienced by the migrants are contained in family documents that mediated their transnational relationships. Writing the history of racial relations comparatively (The Netherlands and South Africa), personalised and contextualised is strikingly revealing of the complexities of the mid-20th century. The book is unusual in its achievement of bringing history (mainly 'her' story) alive in a field too often dominated by dramatic national events. By focusing on the experiences and reflections of 'ordinary people' (especially housemaids and immigrant women in a fraught diasporic context), the author tells a convincing narrative of situatedness, the challenges of conflicting ethical and ideological claims and the agency of individuals in extremely racialised social settings. This is a very much needed new historical approach that prioritizes entanglements and complexities above the determination of political structures.” Kees van der Waal, Emeritus Professor in Social Anthropology of Stellenbosch University. "Barbara Henkes’s in-depth analysis of letters, stories and images of migrants who came to the Netherlands from Nazi Germany before World War II and migrants who left the Netherlands for Apartheid South Africa after the war puts flesh on the bones of a transnational historiography. By addressing the entanglements between the histories of Nazism and Apartheid her book builds on Hannah Arendt's classic thesis that the rise of totalitarianism in Europe modern overseas imperialism were two sides of the same coin. In that sense, Henkes' conceptual framework provides an impetus for further fruitful historical research into other (post-)colonial situations. In addition this book, and Henkes work in recent years, has important societal relevance : she sets out to expose racism in Dutch society, which is often downplayed or concealed. With this intervention this book engages with the public debate about the Dutch colonial past, which has been flaring up again since the spring of 2020." Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, Senior Lecturer History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam and author of War of words: Dutch pro-Boer propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2012. "All in all, a rich and well-written book, bringing both these personal histories and their larger historical contexts near to the reader". Elsbeth Locher-Scholten, in Fascism 11, 2022. "In dit fraai uitgevoerde boek over transnationale verwantschapsnetwerken slaagt Henkes erin om inzichtelijk te maken hoe elkaar onderling beïnvloedende categorieën als nationaliteit, ras, klasse, geloof en gender tot soms heel verschillende politieke vertogen kunnen leiden. De combinatie van verhalen over migratie in de tijd van het nationaalsocialisme en in de apartheidstijd is niet bedoeld om een direct verband te suggereren, maar kan helpen om op beide periodes een nieuw licht te werpen en onbekende nuances bloot te leggen. Henkes schrijft met respect voor haar 'personages'. Het unieke en veelzijdige bronnenmateriaal leidt tot zes vlot leesbare, intieme en some smeuïge minibiografietjes, waarin Henkes een indringend en niet zelden ontroerend beeld van een tijd geeft." Ingrid Glorie, in: Voertaal (2020-08-31).Table of ContentsIntroduction • Family and nation as imagined communities • Race and narratives of Whiteness • A first acquaintance • Shifts in time and tongue Section 1: National Socialism across the German-Dutch border 1. ‘Will my own brother have to fight against us now?’ Safe and risky stories in a German-Dutch family • Political controversies • A German-Dutch royal family • Family and nation under pressure • Gnadengesuch (Request for exemption) • Race as the elephant in the room 2. ‘If war comes, I will be tossed to and fro’ Literature as a home for an immigrant from Germany • Longing for the ‘good’ Germany • Into the blue • A Heimat in Holland? • ‘You are no longer German’ • A sprinkling of sand in the gears • Guild and shame 3. ‘Even after the war we will stand alone ' Letters as drops in an antisemitic Ocean • Marriage certificate • Stateless • 'A man I had to protect' • Growing isolation • Terrified • Together and yet alone • ‘One cannot say: it belongs to the past’ Section 2: Apartheid across the Dutch-South African border 4. ‘Can we build a future on this?' An epistolary love affair between the stamverwante Netherlands and South Africa • The Second World War in Breukelen and Bloemfontein • Foreign and yet so familiar • A shared European origin • Emigration fever • On the way to the Promised Land • The Dutch Reformed Dopper church in South Africa • ‘A life full of grace’ 5. ‘They are so different from us’ Messages from a White women’s world • Whitening at sea • A new world in Black and White • Boers, Brits and Outlanders • Among the Dutch in Pretoria • Blank baasskap (White rule) • A servant hutch in the garden • Stay or return? • A White civilisation narrative 6. ‘I never set out to wage war against my family.’ Cinematic explorations of Whiteness • Family as a gateway to a ‘strange’ world • The ‘Other’ in the household • Apartheid at work • Contact zones • A tense family reunion • You must have been – or gone away from – there • The presence of the past Epilogue • Migration and national identifications • Implicated in racial exclusion • Touching tales Acknowledgement Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the development of biographical study in African history and historiography. Consisting of 10 case studies, it is preceded by an introductory prologue, which deals with the relationship between historiography and different forms of biographical study in the context of Western history-writing but especially African (historical and anthropological) studies. The first three case studies deal with the methodological insights of biographical studies for African history. This is followed by three case studies dealing with personas living through fundamental societal transitions, and four case studies focusing on the discursive dimensions of biographical subjects (including religion, cosmology and ideology). Countries or regions discussed include South Africa, Zambia, Gold Coast, Cameroon, Tanganyika, Congo-Kinshasa and the Central African Republic in colonial times. Contributors are Lindie Koorts, Elena Moore, Iva Peša, Paul Glen Grant, Jacqueline de Vries, Duncan Money, Morgan Robinson, Eve Wong, Klaas van Walraven, Erik Kennes.Table of Contents  Acknowledgements   List of Illustrations    Notes on Contributors   Prologue: Reflections on Historiography and Biography and the Study of Africa’s Past    Klaas van Walraven Part 1: Methodological Insights  1 Human Symbols   The Biographical Pursuit and the Language of Symbolism in Contemporary South Africa    Lindie Koorts  2 ‘Your Surroundings Don’t Make You; You Must Rise above all that’   The Home in Life Histories as Site of Resistance to Racial Violence, Cape Town, South Africa    Elena Moore  3 From Life Histories to Social History   Narrating Social Change through Multiple Biographies    Iva Peša Part 2: Persons in Transitions  4 The Effervescence of Individual Life: Cornelius Badu, Born 1847 in Elmina, Gold Coast    Paul Glen Grant  5 The Leopard that Came to Laikom: Michael Timneng in Colonial Cameroon    Jacqueline de Vries  6 Underground Struggles: The Early Life of Jack Hodgson    Duncan Money Part 3: Discursive Worlds  7 Binding Words: Student Biographical Narratives and Religious Conversion    Morgan Robinson  8 A Muslim Boy in Sunday School   Abdullah Abdurahman’s Early Childhood and Education in Cape Town at the End of the Nineteenth Century    Eve Wong  9 Barthélémy Boganda between Charisma and Cosmology   Interpretive Perspectives on Biography in Equatorial African History    Klaas van Walraven  10 A Road not Taken? The Biography of Laurent Kabila (1939-2001)    Erik Kennes   Index

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Book SynopsisIn Fragile Images: Jews and Art in Yugoslavia, 1918-1945, Mirjam Rajner traces the lives and creativity of seven artists of Jewish origin. The artists - Moša Pijade, Daniel Kabiljo, Adolf Weiller, Bora Baruh, Daniel Ozmo, Ivan Rein and Johanna Lutzer - were characterized by multiple and changeable identities: nationalist and universalist, Zionist and Sephardic, communist and cosmopolitan. These fluctuating identities found expression in their art, as did their wartime fate as refugees, camp inmates, partisans and survivors. A wealth of newly-discovered images, diaries and letters highlight this little-known aspect of Jewish life and art in Yugoslavia, illuminating a turbulent era that included integration into a newly-founded country, the catastrophe of the Holocaust, and renewal in its aftermath.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments  xi List of Illustrations Note on Personal Names Introduction Part 1: In Search of an Identity: Sephardic, Zionist, Yugoslav Introduction to Part 1 1 From Dorćol to Paris and Back: Moša Pijade’s Self-Portraits  1 Coming of Age in Belgrade  2 Fin-de-siècle Munich  3 The Bohemian Paris  4 Pijade’s Self-Portraits: In Search of an Identity 2 Sarajevo’s Multiculturalism: Daniel Kabiljo’s Sephardic Types  1 Between East and West  2 Bosnian Artist or Yugoslav Zionist?  3 Choosing Sides  4 Kabiljo’s Sephardic Types 3 A Croatian Zionist: Adolf Weiller between the East European Shtetl and the Lure of Nature  1 Becoming a “Jewish Artist”  2 The Lure of Nature Part 2: From Avant-Garde to Political Activism Introduction to Part 2 4 Bora Baruh’s Refugees  1 “Four Mahaneh Portraits”  2 The Early Works  3 Paris: A Painter and a Revolutionary  4 Painting Refugees  5 Two Directions: The “Art for Art’s Sake” and the Socially Engaged Art 5 Ivan Rein’s Paris: From the Quartier Latin to Camp Vernet  1 Growing Up in an Affluent and Acculturated Jewish-Catholic Family  2 The Croatian School of Painting  3 Rein’s Paris  4 Social Awareness and Political Protest  5 Letters to Cuca: On Being Jewish, Yugoslav, and Universal on the Eve of WWII 6 The Ethnic and Universal Avante-Garde: Daniel Ozmo’s Linocuts  1 A Bosnian Sephardic Artist in Belgrade  2 Discussing “Jewish Art” in the 1930’s: Between Racial Traits and Human Values  3 Social Content and Expressionist Form  4 Sarajevo’s Avant-Garde: Collegium Artisticum Part 3: “We Artists Have to Paint”: Art Created during the War and the Holocaust Introduction to Part 3 7 Bora Baruh in Occupied Belgrade: Images of Jewish and Christian Mourning  1 Bombing of Belgrade and Persecution of the Jews  2 Painting Portraits  3 Refugees on Ruins 8 Art in Jasenovac: Daniel Ozmo and the Artists of the Ceramic Workshop  1 The Destruction of Sarajevo’s Jewish Community and Daniel Ozmo’s Arrest  2 The Jasenovac Camp and the Ceramic Workshop  3 Ozmo’s Depictions of Forced Labor  4 Slavko Bril  5 Portraits and Landscapes  6 Ozmo’s End 9 Refugee and Artist: Ivan Rein, Johanna Lutzer, and Jewish Cultural Life in Kraljevica  1 Escaping to the Adriatic Coast  2 Being a Refugee in Kraljevica  3 Ivan Rein’s Refugee Art  4 The Kraljevica—Porto Re Camp  5 Ivan Rein’s Drawings Created in the Kraljevica Camp  6 Johanna Lutzer: A Jewish Artist from Vienna 10 The Rab Island Camp: From Internment to Freedom Part 4: Producing Art for Partisans: Creativity between Ideology and Survival Introduction to Part 4 11 Bora Baruh as a Partisan, 1941–1942 12 Johanna Lutzer: Jewish Refugees with the Partisans in Croatia 13 Postscript: Jewish Artists as National Heroes, Victims of Fascism, and Holocaust Survivors Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDistinctions of Reason and Reasonable Distinctions is an intellectual biography of John Wallis (1616-1703), professor of mathematics at Oxford for over half a century. His career spans the political tumult of the English Civil Wars, the religious upheaval of the Church of England, and the fascinating developments in mathematics and natural philosophy. His ability to navigate this terrain and advance human learning in the academic world was facilitated by his use of the Jesuit Francisco Suarez’s theory of distinctions. This Roman Catholic’s philosophy in the hands of a Protestant divine fostered an instrumentalism necessary to bridge the old and new. With this tool, Wallis brought modern science into the university and helped form the Royal Society.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 John Wallis’s “Mottled Soul”: The Interpretative Challenge  2 The Salve of the “Town Doctor”: the Interpretive Approach PART 1: John Wallis’s Academic Formation Introduction to Part 1 2 John Wallis’s Autobiography: Text and Context  1 John Wallis and Thomas Smith  2 John Wallis’s Manuscript Copies of His Autobiography  3 John Wallis, Anthony Wood, and the Memory of the Town Doctor 3 Early Life and Education  1 At Home and at School, 1616–32  2 Cambridge University, 1632–40 4 The Foundation of a Career  1 Ecclesiastical Service, 1640–49  2 Natural Philosophy in London, 1645–49  3 Conclusion Conclusion to Part 1 PART 2: John Wallis’s Academic Career Introduction to Part 2 5 Mathematical Lecturer  1 The Savilian Statutes  2 Lectures on Arithmetic and Algebra  3 Lectures on Geometry  4 Conclusion 6 Doctor of Divinity  1 Dogmatics and the Distinctions of Reason  2 Reason and Revelation  3 Conclusion: the Hermeneutic of Suspension 7 Pedagogue, Pastor, and Protector  1 Geometry as Solidior Philosophia  2 The Care of Scholars  3 A University in Its Own Right  4 Conclusion Conclusion to Part 2 PART 3: John Wallis’s Philosophical Method Introduction to Part 3 8 Mathematical Method  1 Geometry, Algebra, and Arithmetic  2 Arithmetica Infinitorum, 1656  3 Hobbes and Wallis  4 Imaginary Numbers  5 The Angle of Contact  6 Conclusion 9 The Languages of Philosophy  1 Logic  2 Language  3 Conclusion Conclusion to Part 3 10 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisInternationally acclaimed biographies are almost always written by British or American biographers. But what is the state of the art of biography in other parts of the world? Introduced by Richard Holmes, the volume Different Lives offers a global perspective: seventeen scholars vividly describe the biographical tradition in their countries of interest. They show how biography functions as a public genre, featuring specific societal issues and opinion-making. Indeed, the volume aims to answer the question: how can biography contribute to a better understanding of differences between societies and cultures? Special attention is given to the US, China and the Netherlands. Other contributions are on Australia, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Iceland, Iran, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, and South Africa. "This book represents a much needed breakdown of the history and current status of Biography Studies throughout the world. Any educator teaching a course in higher education that includes Biography Studies should definitely consider this as a major text for inclusion." Billy Tooma, film maker and Assistant Professor, Wessex County College "The rise of biography is the literary event of our time; Hamilton and Renders are its pioneer scholars, and their compelling primer is a must read." Joanny Moulin, Institut Universitaire de France, on Nigel Hamilton and Hans Renders, in: The ABC of Modern Biography (2018) See inside the bookTrade Review"This collection should be on the shelf of everyone interested in Biographies Studies. [....]. These essays are not, to be sure, dry and stuffy. There is real passion within each and every one of them, which is indicative of the drive their authors have in wanting to create something that is both an educational tool and a compelling read. Different Lives is a welcomed, and much needed, addition to Biography Studies". Billy Tooma. "The essays in Different Lives are salient and compelling exactly because of constraints and the variety of forms in which they are expressed socially, culturally, and eventually in the story of a life." - Marlene Kadar in Netherlandic Studies, 41.1 (2021): 91-96.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction Richard Holmes Different Lives in a Global World Hans Renders Truth, Lies and Fake Truth: the Future of Biography Nigel Hamilton Historical Biography in Canada: Historians, Publishers, and the Public Daniel R. Meister Biography as Discourse: South African Biography in the Post-Apartheid Era Lindie Koorts ‘La pauvre Belgique’: How a Debate over the Repression after the Second World War Informed a Biographical Tradition in Belgium David Veltman Biography in Spain: a Historical and Historiographic Perspective María Jesús González The Chinese Sense of Self and Biographical Narrative: an Overview Kerry Brown Double Dutch: the Art of Presidential Biography Carl Rollyson Biography in Australia: Different Yet the Same? All Connected Flatland? Melanie Nolan Writing Lives in Contemporary Italy Yannick Gouchan Hidden and Forbidden Issues in Works of Iranian Biography Sahar Vahdati Hosseinian From Reticence to Revelation: Biography in New Zealand Doug Munro The Icelandic Biography and Egodocuments in Historical Writing Sigurður Gylfi Magnússon Between ‘Creators and Bearers of the Czech National Myth’ and an ‘Academic Suicide’: Czech Biography in the Twenty-First Century Jana Wohlmuth Markupová Biographies and Their Agendas: the Danish Biographical Tradition in a Historical Perspective Joanna Cymbrykiewicz The Biography’s Pretension to Truth Is Relative. Biography in the Netherlands Elsbeth Etty Inception, Inheritance and Innovation: Sima Qian, Liang Qichao and the Modernization of Chinese Biography Liu Jialin Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRobert Lachmann’s letters to Henry George Farmer, from the years 1923-38, provide insightful glimpses into his life and his progressive research projects. From an historical perspective, they offer critical data concerning the development of comparative musicology as it evolved in Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century. The fact that Lachmann sought contact with Farmer can be explained from their mutual, yet diverse interests in Arab music, particularly as they were then considered to be the foremost European scholars in the field. During the 1932 Cairo International Congress on Arab Music, they were selected as presidents of their respective committees.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Israel J. Katz Preface Sheila M. Craik Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 The Berlin Years (1892-1935)  1.1 Introduction  1.2 From his Birth through his Formative Years (1892-1911)  1.3 Graduation from the Gymnasium, Courses at Berlin Univ., Military Service, and Degree in Librarianship (1911-8)  1.4 Return to Civilian Life, Berlin Univ., the Phonogrammarchiv, Attainment of his Doctorate, Librarianship, and Fieldwork in Algeria and Tunisia (1918-27)  1.5 Appointment as Music Librarian at the Preussische Staatsbibliothek, and Additional Fieldwork in Tunisia and Algeria (1927-30)  1.6 From the First Mention of the Cairo Congress of Arab Music (Feb. 1930) to his Participation (Mar.-Apr. 1932) and Egyptian Fieldwork (Apr.-May 1932)  1.7 Post-Congress Visit of Johannes Wolf and Kurt Schindler to Jerusalem, where they met with Judah L. Magnes (April 1932)  1.8 Dismissal from the Staatsbibliothek (Berlin 1933)  1.9 Initial Contacts with Judah L. Magnes at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1934-5) 2 The Jerusalem Years (1935-1939)  2.1 Background  2.2 Lachmann’s Initial Academic Year at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1935-6) [Oct. 22–June 28]  2.3 Second Academic Year (1936-7) [Oct. 11–June 24]  2.4 Lachmann’s Students at the Archive for Oriental Music (Jerusalem)  2.5 The Oriental Music Broadcasts (Nov. 1936–Apr. 1937)  2.6 The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine (WCJMP) (1936-9)  2.7 Boundary-Crossing, Brith Shalom, Stefan Wolpe, and Music Education  2.8 Third Academic Year (1937-8) [Sept. 30–July 10]  2.9 Fourth Academic Year (1938-9) [Oct. 8–July 17]  2.10 Last Weeks in Jerusalem (1939) 3 Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer [FC 467/1-90]  3.1 From his Years in Berlin (1923-35)  3.2 From his Years in Jerusalem, Palestine (1935-8)  3.3 Letters from Edith Gerson-Kiwi to Henry George Farmer (1945-7) Appendix 1:  Lachmann’s Published Works, Reviews, Lectures, and Unpublished Manuscripts  1 1923-35 (from his Berlin Years)  2 1935-8 (from his Jerusalem Years)  3 Lectures  4 Posthumous Works Appendix 2: Lachmann’s Sole Transcription of a Tunisian Wedding Song that was Included in E. Ubach and E. Rackow, Sitte und Recht in Nordafrika, Stuttgart 1923, 244-5 Appendix 3: Lachmann’s Transcriptions for Albert von Le Coq’s Von Land und Leuten in Ostturkistan. Bericht und Abenteuer der 4. Deutschen Turfanexpedition. Leipzig 1928 Appendix 4: Lachmann’s Transcription of a) Mesʿud Djemil’s Call to Prayer (adhān) and b) Instrumental Piece (Beśrew Salim Bey) from his Musik des Orients, Breslau 1929 Appendix 5: Lachmann’s Doctoral Diploma (Mar. 11, 1922) (LA F 07) Appendix 6: What Do We Know about Kurt Schindler? Appendix 7: Johannes Wolf’s Letter to Friedrich Smend (Nov. 1, 1933) Appendix 8: Lachmann and Zionism Appendix 9: Magnes’ October 29th Communication Published by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (Nov. 11, 1934, p. 3) Appendix 10: News Item from the University’s June 1934 Information Bulletin Concerning Lachmann’s Archive Appendix 11: Three Judeo-Spanish Lyric Songs, from the Lachmann Archive, National Library of Israel Appendix 12: Stefan Wolpe: A Biographical Sketch of his European Years Appendix 13: Letter from Yiska Idelsohn to Prof. Harry Torczyner Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisLetters from Khartoum is a partial biography of Scottish educator, D.R. Ewen, who taught English Literature at the University of Khartoum from the time of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium through to Independence and the October 1964 Revolution. The administrative history of the then unified nation – North (Middle Eastern) and South (African) – makes the Sudan a unique setting to explore the workings of colonial education. The purpose of teaching English literature there was to remake the Muslim Sudanese of the North as the proxy agents of British culture who would administrate the first independent nation in Africa. But Ewen also was remade in the process – by his relationships with his students and colleagues, and by his own teaching innovations.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on the Text Historical Nomenclature List of Figures  Introduction  1951 – Native Quarter  1952 – Crossing the Bar  1953 – Serpent’s Tooth  1954 – Assassins at the Tea Party  1955 – Mutiny  1956 – Crisis  1957 – Birds over the Bottomless Lake  1958 – An End to Democracy  1959 – Bogged on the Runway  1960 – The Year of Africa  1961 – Cold War  1962 – Backwater Paradise  1963 – The Widening Gyre  1964 – Revolution  1965 – Leaving  Afterword  A Who’s Who of Ewen’s Sudan  Works Cited  Index

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Book SynopsisIn dieser Arbeit werden die zukünftigen und gewesen Konsuln in der Zeit von Commodus bis zum Tode des Severus Alexander (180-235) untersucht. Wegen des unvermindert hohen Prestiges des Konsulates können die mit diesem Amt ausgezeichneten Senatoren der Elite des Senatorenstandes zugerechnet werden, während wiederum ein Teil von ihnen, wegen der Bekleidung der höchsten Aufgaben in der Zivil- und Militärverwaltung des römischen Kaiserreiches, als die tatsächliche senato-rische Führungsschicht angesehen werden kann. Die Grundlage dieser Studie bildet eine Prosopographie, in der die in der Reichsverwaltung dieses Zeitraums tätigen Senatoren erfaßt sind.

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