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De Gruyter Institutio Elementaris. Capita Philosophica
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De Gruyter Opera homiletica et hagiographica
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De Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1
Book SynopsisA follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
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De Gruyter Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Zwei Schwerter - Zwei Reiche: Martin Luthers
Book SynopsisNach wie vor besteht Unbehagen, eine evangelische Verhältnisbestimmung von Kirche und Staat mit Hilfe von Luthers Zwei-Reiche-Lehre vorzunehmen. Das liegt unter anderem auch daran, dass Luthers historische Voraussetzungen bislang nicht hinreichend untersucht wurden. Volker Mantey schließt diese Lücke, indem er sich der spätmittelalterlichen Traditionsgeschichte der Zwei-Reiche-Lehre Luthers widmet. Dies geschieht anhand einer Analyse der Zwei-Schwerter-Lehre ab 1300, wie sie für das Verhältnis von Staat und Kirche maßgeblich war. Sie wurde sowohl verwendet, um den päpstlichen Anspruch auf weltliche Oberhoheit zu untermauern, als auch, um sich gegen den Papst abzugrenzen und eine weltliche Eigenständigkeit zu behaupten.Der Autor stellt Luthers Zwei-Reiche-Lehre vor ihrem spätmittelalterlichen Horizont dar. Dabei zeigt sich, in welchem Verhältnis der Reformator sich theologisch zwischen Thomas von Aquin und Wilhelm von Ockham positioniert.
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de Gruyter Kardinäle, Klerus Und Kirchen ROMs 1049-1130
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V&R unipress GmbH Nicolaus Copernicus in the Culture of Memory
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Diplomica Verlag Das Bier unserer Ahnen. Norddeutsche
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Zeughausverlag GmbH Galloglass
Book SynopsisFrom their appearance in the 13thcentury to the 16th century wars of the Tudor age, the so-called galloglas determined the manner in which war was waged on Irish soil.
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Next Chapter Blood Eagle: King Alfred and the Two Viking Wars
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Next Chapter The Runes Of Victory
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Next Chapter Vengeance Of A Slave
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Central European University Press Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and its Visual
Book SynopsisThe miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or the manifestations of magic attributed to diabolic forces, were contained by a variety of discourses, described and discussed in religion, philosophy, chronicles, literature and fiction, and also in a large number of pictures and material objects. The nine essays in this collection discusses how supernatural phenomena - especially angels and devils - found visual manifestation in Latin and Eastern Christianity as well as Judaism in the late medieval, early renaissance period.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Visual Images of the Supernatural in the Late Middle Ages, or, How to Make those Entities Recognizable that are not Part of our Natural World The Beam of Grace and the Ocular Paradigm. Some Remarks on the Relation between Late Mevieval Theology and Art Supernatural Figures Incognito Images to Influence the Supernatural Apotropaic Representations on Medieval Stove Tiles The Devils Image from the Viewpoint of the Rhetoric Devils in Visual Proximity Angels or Avengers? Depictions of Angels in Transylvanian Altarpieces from the Late Medieval Period Jewish Angels The Reincarnations of Enoch from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance List of Contributors
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Mandragora History of Florence
Book SynopsisThis stimulating book tells the history of Florence, from its origins to the fateful day that the Medici collections were bound to the city of Florence, establishing it definitively as a city of art. Narrated in the first person by the Electress Palatine herself, accompanied by her inquisitive and loyal servant Maria.
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Stockholm University Press The Hostages of the Northmen: From the Viking Age
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Independently Published A Bruxa do Amor
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State University of New York Press The Great Detour
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC The Speculatores The Men Who Spied for Rome
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Academic Studies Press Collected Studies: Christian Majority - Jewish
Book SynopsisIn Collected Studies (Volume 2): Christian Majority—Jewish Minority, Joseph Shatzmiller, the preeminent scholar of the Jews in Provence, examines the complex relationship between Christians and Jews during the Middle Ages. Through a careful analysis of historical documents and primary sources, Shatzmiller sheds light on the diverse experiences of the Jewish minority in Provence, from their legal status in Christian courts to the persecution and violence they faced during times of crisis. This book provides a nuanced understanding of the relationship between Christians and Jews in medieval Western Europe, and the role of the Jewish community in shaping the social and political landscape of the region.“The collection of studies that these four volumes offer is the result of more than sixty years of commitment to scholarship. Like many colleagues, I relied in the beginning on printed material in books that dealt with law, religion, and secular literature. Then, as a disciple of George Duby, I discovered the world of archives and hand-written Latin manuscripts. The present collection relies, to a great extent, on previously unknown information discovered during years of search in the archives of Southern France, mostly on those of the county of Provence. They are situated in the cities of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence as well as the town of Digne. The legal registers of the High Middle Ages (1250-1350) as well as those produced by the counties’ administration introduce us to the ordinary people of the region, to their daily life and to their preoccupations; their names are spelled out, the dates are recorded and the localities in which they were active are designated. At times these documents encourage us to endorse information found in contemporary literary sources and to overcome our hesitation and excessive caution concerning their value as historical evidence.”— Joseph ShatzmillerTrade Review“Joseph Shatzmiller, the foremost expert on Provençal Judaism, has throughout the course of his career provided a rich and powerful mosaic of Jewish society in Provence. Known for his insightful analysis of historical documents and primary sources, Shatzmiller’s research consistently illuminates the significance of Provence Jewry within the larger framework of Jewish communities in the Mediterranean and western Europe during the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources and intellectual history, his work is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Jewish communities in medieval Europe.”— Ram Ben-Shalom, Professor of the History of the Jewish People, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; author of The Jews of Provence and LanguedocTable of ContentsVol. Two: Christian Majority - Jewish MinorityI Under One Roof1. The Papal Monarchy as Viewed by Medieval Jews 2. Terminologie politique en hebreu médiéval: Jalons pour un glossaire3. L’anthroponomie dans le monde juifII Jurisprudence and Legal Practice1. Droit féodal et législation rabbinique : la cuisson du pain chez les juifs au moyen âge2. Jews in the Christian Courts of Provence in the Middle Ages (Hebrew) 3. Jews ‘Separated from the Communion of the Faithful in Christ’ in the Middle Ages 4. Christian ‘Excommunication’ of Jews : Some Further Clarifications III Quests for Holy Shrines 1. Jews, Pilgrimage, and the Christian Cult of Saints: Benjamin of Tudela and his Contemporaries2. In Search of a ‘Jewish Compostela’: Benjamin of Tudela and Petrachia of RegensburgIV Hostility and Persecutions 1. L’Inquisition et les Juifs de Provence2. Church Articles: Pawns in the Hands of Jewish Moneylenders 3. Les Juifs de Provence pendant la peste noire4. Desecrating the Holy Cross: A Rare Medieval Accusation (Hebrew)5. Profaner la Sainte-Croix : une rare accusation anti-juive au moyen âge V. Converts: Church Vs. State 1. Jewish Converts to Christianity in Medieval Europe 1200–1500 2. Converts and Judaizers in the Early Fourteenth Century 3. Paulus Christiani : Un aspect de son activité anti-juive 4. Did Nicholas Donin Promulgate the Blood Libel? (Hebrew)
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Publishdrive Inc. While Dragging Our Hearts Behind Us
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HarperCollins Publishers Ireland Since the Famine
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Progressive Press Inside the Gestapo
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Medicine in Antiquity
Book SynopsisPatient, disease and physician were the three corners of the medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor. This volume, covering a period from roughly 800 BCE to 800 CE, examines and deconstructs these three aspects of ancient medicine in the Mediterranean world. It shows that, while physicians sought to assert themselves as experts in the medical art, they had to contend with numerous other healers whose methods, remedies and tools patients often favoured. It explores the ways in which civic entities, cities, kingdoms and empires, and their officials directly and indirectly shaped medical encounters and discoveries. It examines the interaction between medicine and the environment, non-human animals and plants. To attempt a cultural history of medicine in antiquity requires bringing together a wealth of sources: the texts attributed to Hippocrates, Galen and other medical authors are not neglected
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The History Press Ltd The Nevills of Middleham
Book SynopsisIn 1465, the Nevills must have thought they’d reached the pinnacle of power and influence in England. They had already lost a great deal for the Yorkist cause. Within six years, as the Wars of the Roses turned into one of the bloodiest periods of English history, they’d lose even more for the Lancastrians.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd The Skean
Book SynopsisThe first and only guide to the skean, a native Irish derivative of the Scottish dirk!Trade ReviewIt is a truly excellent book, well done. I will make a longer and a shorter skean from the book and then make a film about them and the book... the book is already a wealth of information and detail. -- Tod Todeschini, a replica arms manufacturer and YouTuberI just received The Skean the other day and I am GOBSMACKED! First off, I didn't expect it so soon... Secondly, it is absolutely, positively AMAZING! I wish all such sources were so well done! This is the perfect fusion of info for academics, collectors, and living history cutlers. -- Terry Bond, Historic Jamestown MuseumThis is an excellent in-depth introduction to a little known or explored historical fighting knife that remains elusive today...Whilst a very much in depth and academic approach to the Skean I found the book very easy to read. I would highly recommend this publication to edged weapons collectors, particularly those who have an interest in early knives and how they were employed from a military perspective. I hope that this publication may yet bring to light more original examples that have perhaps been incorrectly identified in the past. -- Cathey Brimage Editor of Barrels and Blades and Secretary of the Heritage Arms Society
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Catalaunian Fields AD 451
Book SynopsisThe battle of the Catalaunian Fields saw two massive, powerful Empires square up in a conflict that was to shape the course of Eurasian history forever. For despite the Roman victory, the Roman Empire would not survive more than fifteen years afterward, while the Huns, shattered and demoralized, would meet their downfall against a coalition of German tribes soon after. This book, using revealing bird''s-eye views of the plains of Champagne and detailed illustrations of the opposing warriors in the midst of desperate combat, describes the fighting at Chalons and reveals the broader campaign of Hunnic incursion that led up to it. Drawing on the latest research, Simon MacDowall reveals the shocking intensity and appalling casualties of the battle, while assessing the wider significance and consequences of the campaign.Table of ContentsOrigins of the campaign Chronology Opposing commanders Opposing armies Orders of battle Opposing plans The campaign Aftermath The battlefields today Further reading Index
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John Donald Publishers Ltd Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals
Book SynopsisWinner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death plunged Scotland into turmoil, and into a period of warfare and internal decline which almost brought about the demise of the Scottish state. This study fills a serious gap in the historiography of medieval Scotland. For many decades, even centuries, Scotland’s medieval kingship has been regarded as a close likeness of the English monarchy, having been ‘modernised’ in that image by the twelfth- and thirteenth-century kings, who had close relationships with their southern counterparts. Recent research has cast doubt on that view, and this examination of Alexander III’s reign is based on a view of Scottish kingship which depends on much firmer continuity with its earlier, celtic past. It challenges accepted truth, revealing that the nature of state and government, and the relationships between ruler and subject, were quite different from the previous ‘received view’. On the cusp of a dynastic catastrophe which led to economic and political disaster, Alexander III’s reign captures a snapshot of Scotland at the end of a period of sustained peace and development: a view of the medieval state as it really was.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Drugging France
Book SynopsisNineteenth-century drug consumption permeated French society and encouraged the chemical enhancement of modern life. Drugging France highlights the medical histories of these drugs, chronicling how doctors transformed exotic botanicals and unpredictable chemicals into substances that reconfigured how people experienced their minds and bodies.Trade Review“Highly accessible and enjoyable to read, Drugging France is pathbreaking not only for the historical literature on France, but for the entire field of drug history.” Howard Padwa, UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs“This fascinating work is an important contribution to the understanding of the practices of care, pleasure, and experimentation made possible by psychotropic drugs in the nineteenth century. Sara Black considerably enriches a historiography that has until now been too concentrated on the phenomenon of addiction, by showing how much the use of psychotropic drugs was in fact anchored in the practices of the French, and by extension of Westerners, in a complex and varied set of consumptions.” H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews"A meticulously researched and vividly detailed analysis of the impact of war on the landscape and society of the battlefields of the Western Front in France and Belgium. Connelly’s study provides valuable insights into the motivations and significance of visiting battlefields and the first mass tourism to former sites of war and violence, as well as the emergence of a whole new industry." Francia-Recensio
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McGill-Queen's University Press Who Was Responsible for the Troubles
Book SynopsisWho was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life and pursuit of happiness in a deeply divided society.Trade ReviewKennedy is a leading authority on the Northern Ireland conflict and his book combines rigor with absorbing, elegant prose and a sense of moral purpose that is rare in academic writing.” John Connelly, author of From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe
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McGill-Queen's University Press Women in the Ukrainian Underground
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Indiana University Press Surviving the Bosnian Genocide
Book SynopsisIn July 1995, the Army of the Serbian Republic killed some 8,000 Bosnian men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenicathe largest mass murder in Europe since World War II. Surviving the Bosnian Genocide is based on the testimonies of 60 female survivors of the massacre who were interviewed by Dutch historian Selma Leydesdorff. The women, many of whom still live in refugee camps, talk about their lives before the Bosnian war, the events of the massacre, and the ways they have tried to cope with their fate. Though fragmented by trauma, the women tell of life and survival under extreme conditions, while recalling a time before the war when Muslims, Croats, and Serbs lived together peaceably. By giving them a voice, this book looks beyond the rapes, murders, and atrocities of that dark time to show the agency of these women during and after the war and their fight to uncover the truth of what happened at Srebrenica and why.Trade ReviewWith sensitivity and compassion, Leydesdorff . . . interviews about 50 female survivors of the Srebrenica massacre . . . in this valuable oral history. 6/21/2011 * Publishers Weekly *Surviving the Bosnian Genocide provides a clear, concise analysis of conditions in Srebrenica and the genocidal massacre in Potocari. As an author, Leydesdorff manages to organize excerpts from dozens of interviewees in a manner that allows their words to carry the weight of the experience, while interjecting herself only to provide the necessary historical perspective to maintain its readability. Ultimately, this collection of experiences succeeds at placing the human toll of mass atrocities in the forefront of the historical discussion in a way that preserves the emotional scars such events leave in their wake. * Oral History Review *Leydesdorff's book focuses on the notorious selective massacre in July 1995 of 8,100 disarmed Bosnian Muslim men by Serb nationalist forces under the comand of General Ratko Mladic, in the area around the town of Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia . . . The women speak of the shock, in the early days of the war, of seeing trusted Serb neighbors turn into rapists and murderers; of their own fathers, husbands, and sons forced to take up arms; of weeks spent living rough with their children in the forests to avoid slaughter; of hunger, homelssness, and virtual imprisonment in the enclave; and of the bitter moment of escape that was simultaneously the moment of loss, the last glimpse of a husband or son. They also spoke (reluctantly and elliptically) of rape and described surviving brutal attacks by Serb men. The memories of these victimized women are the 'little' sorrows of war, Leydesdorff says, seldom deemed worth listening to, neglected in the political histories.Jan. 2012 * Women's Review of Books *A book of remarkable integrity that gives the victims voices, faces, families, and lives. . . . The author succeeds in creating an honest and sensitive picture from the jumble of stories, emotions, and reminiscences. . . . A work of great social relevance. * Internationale Spectator *Surviving the Bosnian Genocide . . . meaningfully adds to an endless bibliography on the war, cultural trauma, and genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina through a gendered perspective. To this end, both cultural literacy and sensitivity interpenetrate this study admirably. * Human Rights Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsOn the Publication of the English EditionList of abbreviationsPreface: What Happened BeforeSabaheta's Story1. Farewell: The Desolation, the Women2. An Orphaned World: Life before the War3. War is Coming4. Living on the Run, Living in Danger5. A Human Shooting Gallery—Srebrenica 1992-19956. Violence7. Departure without ArrivalNotesIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press Prosperity and Torment in France
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Yale University Press The Dead of the Irish Revolution
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive account to record and analyze all deaths arising from the Irish revolution between 1916 and 1921A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research. . . . Formidable, authoritative and handsomely produced, The Dead of the Irish Revolution is a fitting memorial.Andrew Lynch, Irish IndependentWill surely serve as the indispensable reference work on this topic for the foreseeable future. . . . A truly remarkable feat of close scholarship and calm exposition.Gearoid O Tuathaigh, Irish Times Weekend This account covers the turbulent period from the 1916 Rising to the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921a period which saw the achievement of independence for most of nationalist Irelandand the establishment of Northern Ireland as a self-governing province of the United Kingdom. Separatists fought for independence against government forces and, in North East Ulster, armed loyalists. Civilians suffered violence from all combatants, sometimes as collateral damage, oTrade Review“A sobering book for anyone who views the partition of Ireland as a reasonable compromise. And even more sobering for anyone who might wish to set about dismantling what was established then.”—Colm Tóibín, Financial Times“Draws on published work, including memoirs, contemporary newspaper reports and accounts of participants...Detailing those killed in the conflict and the best information on how the deaths occurred.”—Charles Lysaght, Studies“A highly significant work...Eunan O’Halpin and Daithí Ó Corráin have succeeded admirably.”—Dr. Rory Finegan, An Cosantóir“An extremely important work that makes a very significant contribution to our understanding of the revolutionary period...An absorbing read”—Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, History Ireland“As close to a comprehensive picture of the human costs of this complex violence as we are ever likely to have...The sheer detail and complexity of the stories recorded here helps to break down and undermine simplistic historical narratives of this period.”—Stephen Hopkins, Cercles“This is a truly astonishing piece of work…A work which will be of immense value to historians generally and to family historians in particular.”—Richard McMinn, Familia (Journal of the Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild)“Physically, the book is a beautiful production, elegantly laid out. It is also, to quote Diarmaid Ferriter, ‘a triumph of even-handed research’...This masterful book will be indispensable to all students of the period. The authors are owed a deep debt of gratitude.”—Cian Flaherty, Decies (Journal of the Waterford Archaeological and Historical Society)“The authors of this important new study of the fatalities of the Irish revolution, succeed magnificently in combining the statistics and the stories, in a volume that will surely serve as the indispensable reference work on this topic for the foreseeable future. It is a truly remarkable feat of close scholarship and calm exposition, based on an exhaustive mining of a wealth of primary source material.”—Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, Irish Times Weekend“A monumental new book [and] an incredible piece of research...Formidable, authoritative and handsomely produced, The Dead of the Irish Revolution is a fitting memorial.”—Andrew Lynch, Irish Independent“I have read many books about that period, but none exposes like this book does the raw callousness and bigotry and pure hapless human blundering that energised that violence.”—Malachi O’Doherty, Belfast Telegraph“Without intending to be iconoclastic, takes a more granular approach, bringing the reader face to face with those who paid the ultimate price in the conflict. Clearly written, and based on hitherto unknown material recently released by the Irish Military Archives, it makes for riveting but emotionally taxing reading.”—Rory Rapple, The Tablet“Mesmerising reading...Eunan O'Halpin and Daithi O Corrain have followed up leads in a vast range of official and unofficial sources...Their book also conveys, as few historical records succeed in doing, the sheer cumulative sadness, as well as the intermittent heroics, of those revolutionary times - an achievement hitherto left to the realms of memoir and fiction.”—Roy Foster, New Statesman "A truly remarkable piece of work, on a heroic scale. It forms a complex, illuminating narrative of the lived experience of armed conflict, the nature of insurgent forces and their relationship with the people, and the operations of the security forces. Exceptional."—Charles Townshend, author of Easter 1916"Promises to be the outstanding volume of the decade of commemorations."—Tom Bartlett, editor of The Cambridge History of Ireland"Unique and powerful. A towering monument to all those who died as a result of the Irish Revolution."—Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, University College Dublin"This astonishing work intimately documents the deaths of the Irish Revolution. It will transform scholarship on the period."—Margaret O’Callaghan, author of British High Politics and a Nationalist Ireland
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Yale University Press Conquer We Must
Book SynopsisA major new account of Britain’s military strategy between 1914–1945, including the two world wars and everything betweenTrade Review“Robin Prior’s assessment of the workings, strengths, and weaknesses of civil-military relationships and their impact on military outcomes in both wars is trenchant and challenging.”—William Philpott, Times Literary Supplement “How Britain’s Armed Forces coped in two world wars is the subject of Conquer We Must: A Military History of Britain, 1914–1945, by Robin Prior, which exposes the constant tension, whether in conflict or in peace, between politicians and service chiefs.”—Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph, “Best History Books 2022” Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year “[A] tremendous, sweeping study of power in wartime.”—Allan Allport, Literary Review “[A] magisterial analysis of the Britain between 1914 and 1945.”—Robert Lyman, Aspects of History “In sum, this is an enlightening, uplifting and altogether magnificent book.”—Allan Mallinson, Country Life “Intensively researched using both military and political archives, it is revealing and thought-provoking.”—Choice “A superb and highly readable account. . . . That Britain ultimately made an effective and successful partnership between politicians and soldiers, seen most explicitly in the personalities of Churchill and Brooke, lies at the heart of this engaging book. . . . I couldn’t put it down, and neither will you.”—Robert Lyman, Aspects of History “[Conquer We Must] is both interesting and important . . . an informed contribution based on sound scholarship and interpretation of the facts at hand.”—Christopher Harrison, Journal of Military History “Any book by Robin Prior is an event, and this is no exception. Conquer We Must is a well-researched and trenchantly argued tour de force. Historians of Britain’s military effort in the two world wars will be busy debating his ideas for years to come.”—Gary Sheffield, author of Forgotten Victory “This is a gripping account of how relations between the military and the politicians shaped the outcome of Britain’s two world wars, revealing just how much the experience of 1914–18 informed decision-making in 1939–45. Robin Prior provides incisive arguments for what went wrong for the British and what, crucially, went right and why.”—Heather Jones, author of For King and Country “This book is the result of decades of research and writing on Britain at war in the twentieth century. Authoritative and insightful, a classic piece of military history by one of the finest exponents of the genre.”—David G. Morgan-Owen, author of The Fear of Invasion “A very impressive and vivid piece of work which pulls together a lifetime of scholarship by one of our finest military historians.”—Jonathan Boff, author of Haig’s Enemy
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University of California Press Making Christian History Eusebius of Caesarea and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Michael Hollerich has produced a valuable study on Eusebius. . . . [And] Making Christian History is a welcome addition to the growing field of new Eusebian scholarship on the reception and influence of his innovative management of sources." * Catholic Historical Review *"A remarkable book. . . .Hollerich has provided nothing less than the first sustained treatment of the legacy of one of historiography’s most important voices." * Journal of Ancient Christianity *"Hollerich’s work is an exquisite product of valuable scholarship helpful for any historian, theologian of history, or student of hermeneutics." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgments 1. Eusebius and His Ecclesiastical History Eusebius as Transitional Figure Eusebius's Historical Diptych: The Chronicle and the Ecclesiastical History What Is "Ecclesiastical History," and Why Did Eusebius Write One? An Untrodden Path? Eusebius’s Predecessors 2. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in a Christian Empire The Manuscript Tradition as Reception History Translations and Continuations in Antiquity Eusebius's First Continuators: Rufinus of Aquileia and Gelasius of Caesarea Eusebius's Ancient Greek Continuators: An Ecclesiastical History Canon 3. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in the Non-Greek East Syriac Christianity: Historiography, Doctrinal Conflict, and Regime Change Armenia: Adapting Eusebius on the Borderland of Rome and Persia Eusebius in the Coptic Tradition: From Ecumenical to Ethnic Ecclesiastical History 4. The Reception of the Ecclesiastical History in the Latin West The Ancient Latin Tradition after Rufinus "National" Ecclesiastical History in the Middle Ages Bede and Ecclesiastical History in Anglo-Saxon England: Eusebius's Heir and Critic Eusebius and Frankish Identity: The Cult of the Book A Norman Ecclesiastical History: Orderic Vitalis Ecclesiastical History in a Corpus Christianum 5. Eusebius in Byzantium John Malalas and His Chronicle The Paschal Chronicle George Synkellos and Theophanes: At the Summit of Byzantine Chronography Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus and the Return of Ecclesiastical History 6. Eusebius Rediscovered in Early Modernity: Renaissance, Reformation, and the Republic of Letters The Ecclesiastical History and Renaissance Humanism: Humanist Historiography and Sacred History Eusebius in a Confessional Age: From Humanist Retrieval to the Weaponizing of Ecclesiastical History Eusebius in the Republic of Letters 7. Reading Eusebius in Modernity and Postmodernity: The Ecclesiastical History in Modern Scholarship In Search of Patrons: The Ecclesiastical History and Its Modern History of Publication Critical Reception I: Secular Critical Reception II: Religious and Theological Ecclesiastical History and Its Future Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Dialogues
Book SynopsisGiovanni Pontano (14261503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples which Pontano led for several decades.Trade ReviewThe best possible tribute to Pontano is that his dialogues still make entertaining reading… A large part of this entertainment is Gaisser’s doing—this is as shrewd and effervescent a rendering as poor forgotten Pontano is ever likely to get. It’s another triumph for I Tatti, a benchmark of Pontano studies, and a required starting-point for all future textual scholars of his work. But it mainly makes readers think about the vanities of intellectuals and the joys of good raillery. It would be a shame if it found its way only into the hands of scholars and students, even though Pontano himself would probably have preferred it that way. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Monthly *
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Harvard University Press Spies and Scholars
Book SynopsisGregory Afinogenov explores centuries of Russian spying and scholarship on the Far East. He argues that the approaches the empire took are closely related to its leaders' perception of Russia's place in the world. Espionage gave way to public-facing, academic study, as Russia sought to outdo Britain in a global contest for imperial prestige.Trade ReviewThe history of Sino-Russian relations appears in a much-altered light thanks to Gregory Afinogenov’s impressive new book. From the mid-17th century, the Tsarist empire outdid all other European powers in gathering political, industrial, and commercial intelligence about China under the Qing dynasty. It is a little-known story, and the Georgetown University scholar tells it beautifully. -- Tony Barber * Financial Times *Superb…At once a history of science, of empire, and of espionage, the book traces the rise of the Russian empire as a putative rival to Qing dynasty China in the Far East. Afinogenov has chosen a genuinely compelling cast of characters to populate this story of imperial intrigue…A vividly written, entertaining, and skillfully researched history of information in motion. -- Benjamin Breen * New Rambler *Long before Chinese attempts to pilfer U.S. technologies, the Qing dynasty (1644–1912) was the target of espionage by Western powers eager to probe its boundaries and discover the secrets of its crafts. As Gregory Afinogenov traces in this vivid account, Russia—which frequently traded and clashed with the Qing—was one of the main players in this early great game as it sought the status of a global power. -- James Palmer * Foreign Policy *A stimulating study of Russian intelligence about and against Qing China…As ambitious in its scope as it is rigorous in its analysis of primary sources, Spies and Scholars investigates the transformation of Russian knowledge about China. -- Camille Neufville * Ab Imperio *Details three centuries of Russian attempts to pry information out of China, from the secrets of porcelain-making to Qing policies and inclinations…Afinogenov is a clear writer with a penchant for the interesting story and arresting personality…His focus on information and the people that were involved in gathering it provides a surprisingly effective lense through which to view the history Sino-Russian relations. -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *[Spies and Scholars] offers a sophisticated consideration of the meanings of knowledge regimes and reimagines the relationship between knowledge and power. This is quite a feat. On top of that, Afinogenov uses the stories of a sequence of astounding swindlers, rogues, and grifters to propel the grand history of diplomatic, commercial, intellectual, religious, and ideological interactions forward…An engrossing, readable book. -- Valerie A. Kivelson * American Historical Review *Draws on never-before-seen material from Russian archives…Afinogenov’s research shows that Russian intelligence on China was highly coveted in Europe, granting Moscow greater prestige among European powers. -- Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian * Axios *A fresh story of the multiple, disjointed, and often secretive aims of an imperial impulse as it penetrated different sections of the Russian–Chinese borderlands. -- Alfred J. Rieber * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Reads like a detective novel…Afinogenov has written a tour de force that offers new information about the rise of empires and the globalization of the world in the early modern period of history. It should be widely read. -- John W. Steinberg * Journal of Jesuit Studies *The book is a major achievement, based on remarkably far-reaching and skilled scholarship…Deserves a wide readership. -- Chechesh Kudachinova * Canadian-American Slavic Studies *An important contribution to an earlier period in Russian-Chinese relations. -- Richard Desjardins * European Journal of East Asian Studies *A wonderful book—wide-ranging, creative, richly researched, engagingly written—on a topic general readers will be thrilled to discover and specialists will be stimulated to rethink in new ways. Spies and Scholars is a major contribution to the study of Russia’s relations with China and the history of Russia’s place in the world during the early imperial era. -- Willard Sunderland, author of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and RevolutionAn impressive work on multiple levels. Spies and Scholars combines diplomatic history and history of knowledge while focusing on a relationship and period—between the Qing Empire in China and the Romanov Empire in Russia during the eighteenth century—that has not yet received the attention it deserves. One is stunned by how significant the Russian conduit is for most European knowledge about the Chinese at the time. Afinogenov writes engagingly and the book is, in many places, a page-turner. -- Michael Gordin, author of Scientific Babel: How Science Was Done Before and After Global EnglishAn outstanding study of imperial Russia’s centuries-long effort to gather intelligence about Qing China. Under Afinogenov’s shrewd gaze, opaque institutions resolve into a galaxy of remarkably colorful characters—diligent scholars and posturing grifters; pious missionaries and their depraved brethren; scheming careerists and timeserving burnouts. The dramatic, crisply paced narrative rests on a foundation of pathbreaking archival research and deep erudition. Essential reading for anyone interested in the worlds of information and imperial knowledge in Russia, China, or Europe. -- Matthew Mosca, author of From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China
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Harvard University Press The Republic of Arabic Letters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeeply thoughtful…A delight. * The Economist *A closely researched and engrossing study of a subset of the Republic of Letters—those scholars who, having learned Arabic, used their mastery of that difficult language to interpret the Quran, study the career of Muhammad, write the history of medieval Islam and introduce Europeans to the masterpieces of Arabic literature…[Bevilacqua] has joined the ranks of a latter-day Republic of Arabic Letters that, in its scholarship and scholarly cooperation, is in no way inferior to its early-modern precursor. -- Robert Irwin * Wall Street Journal *What makes his study so groundbreaking, and such a joy to read, is the connection he makes between intellectual history and the material history of books. The re-evaluation of Islam that took place in the 17th century was closely connected to the acquisition of a much wider range of empirical sources than had been available before: it was the stockpiling of Oriental collections in the great libraries of Europe that enabled this work to take place. -- Gavin Jacobson * Financial Times *[A] tour de force study of the origins of modern Islamic scholarship in the West and its central role in the Enlightenment…Bevilacqua’s extraordinary book provides the first true glimpse into this story…It has taken until now for a book to tell the history of the origins of the Western study of Islam, as Bevilacqua’s does. Few have his linguistic and cultural expertise. He, like the tradition he describes, is a rarity. -- Jacob Soll * New Republic *Erudite and eloquent…What [Bevilacqua’s] meticulous scholarship reveals is that between the mid-17th and mid-18th centuries, the engagement with Islam really did transform Europeans’ understanding not only of Islam but also of their own Christian faith. -- Dmitri Levitin * London Review of Books *Anyone interested in the Enlightenment, or Islam, or both, should read Alexander Bevilacqua’s The Republic of Arabic Letters. -- Ritchie Robertson * Times Literary Supplement *Bevilacqua offers many surprising discoveries. One of them is that robust modern scholarship on Islam was shaped in an ostensibly improbable source, namely the Vatican…It is indicative of the West’s tortuous engagement with Islam that the foundation of European scholarship on Islam had to wait until now to be uncovered; it is all the more creditable that Bevilacqua has cleared the ground to build on it. -- Benedikt Koehler * Standpoint *A succinct and erudite overview of 17th- and 18th-century European scholars and writers who focused on Islamic studies. * Publishers Weekly *A closely researched and elegantly written book…The Republic of Arabic Letters brings back to life a fascinating moment in intellectual history. -- Francis Ghiles * Arab Weekly *An extraordinary achievement, displaying wide-ranging and often profound scholarship…A book of great originality, based on an astonishingly wide array of sources, some previously uninvestigated, and all carefully interpreted…Will be essential reading, not only for those concerned with ‘Islam and the European Enlightenment,’ but for anyone interested in the intellectual history of the eighteenth century, or in the achievements of Arabists in the seventeenth. -- G. J. Toomer * Erudition and the Republic of Letters *The great names of the second phase [of reinterpretation of Islam] are known, among them secular men of letters like Montesquieu and Voltaire. The scholars of the first phase, however, are forgotten. The fascinating study of the American historian Alexander Bevilacqua studies these figures. Many of them were, unlike the Enlighteners after them, pious Christians or even clerics. They engaged on the basis of their faith with Islam, out of curiosity and as scholars. Thus Bevilacqua draws the portrait of a ‘Republic of Letters’ dedicated to the Islamic-Arabic world that was not known until now. -- Rainer Hermann * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Fabulous…Bevilacqua narrates in lucid prose how the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed a transformation in European knowledge of Islam and its peoples. -- Richard Calis * Marginalia *[A] fascinating book. -- Fitzroy Morrissey * History Today *Bevilacqua explores a new humanism in early modern Europe that sought a more accurate representation of Muslims…The resulting wave of scholarship has impacted Europe’s relations with Muslims ever since. -- I. Blumi * Choice *In this passionate, lucid, and enjoyable book, Bevilacqua successfully pursues the connection between intellectual history and material history of books, showing how new texts and new information changed the traditional understanding of Islam. And in so doing he considers, rightly, the birth of the republic of Arabic letters to have been an episode in the history of the global Enlightenment or, at least, ‘a significant chapter in the long and painstaking global advance of philological learning and interreligious knowledge.’ -- Franco Giudice * Il Sole 24 Ore *Fascinating, eloquent, and learned, The Republic of Arabic Letters reveals a world later lost, in which European scholars studied Islam with a sense of affinity and respect. With deep research and insight, Alexander Bevilacqua delivers a powerful reminder of the ability of scholarship to transcend cultural divides, and the capacity of human minds to accept differences without denouncing them. -- Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global WorldAmong the many things produced by the Enlightenment we must now include a vast expansion of European scholarly engagement with Arabic and Islam. That engagement shaped much of how future Christians and Muslims would think about each other and themselves. Alexander Bevilacqua’s learned and luminous The Republic of Arabic Letters is both a recovery of a fascinating moment in intellectual history, and an exploration of the conditions of thought in our own time. -- David Nirenberg, author of Neighboring Faiths: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and TodayA lucid, erudite, and in many respects engaging study of a dimension of the European Enlightenment and its precursor traditions that has not previously been examined. -- William Graham * European Legacy *The Republic of Arabic Letters contends that Maracci, d’Herbelot, and Sale, along with a few other scholars scattered across Europe, were responsible for transforming Europe’s understanding of Islam. A worthy chronicler of these meticulous and erudite figures, Bevilacqua moves easily between multiple languages to trace a trans-European story packed with colorful anecdotes and elegantly told lives. -- Ian Coller * Journal of Modern History *
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Harvard University Press We Shall Be Masters
Book SynopsisGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political influence into Asia. Why have these efforts largely failed? Chris Miller argues that Russian citizens and leaders, concentrated in the European borderlands, have always struggled to maintain faith and interest in eastward expansion.Trade ReviewAs much of the world now turns more attention and resources to Asia, partly in response to China’s emergence as a global power, Miller’s terrific book reminds that Russia made moves toward the East five hundred years ago, and explains why ignoring the Russian factor in Asian geopolitics today would be a big mistake for strategists in Tokyo, Delhi, Brussels, or Washington. His masterful history shows why Russia has been an Asian power for centuries and will remain a central player in balance-of-power politics in Asia for decades to come. -- Michael McFaul, author of From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s RussiaIn a panoramic account of three hundred years of Russian history, Miller presents a Russia little known in the West: a Eurasian power that treats its eastern calling as seriously as it does its western one. Exceptionally well written and argued, We Shall Be Masters helps us understand Russia on its own terms and offers historical insight into the future of its relations with China, its main rival and occasional ally in the region and the world. -- Serhii Plokhy, author of Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile CrisisA sweeping overview of Russia’s long-running pattern of aspiring to yet often falling short of securing lasting influence over Asian affairs. Engaging and impressively researched, Miller’s book offers an insightful historical perspective on contemporary Russian–Asian relations. -- Willard Sunderland, author of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and RevolutionFew historians have probed as deeply into the complex history of Russia’s imperial engagements in East Asia as Miller has done here. He weaves a subtle theme through a sweep of events, as Russian tsars, officials, diplomats, and explorers are lured east in various ‘spasms of enthusiasm,’ only for these various pivots to peter out owing to military failure, excessive cost, or simple exhaustion. A supple, well-written, and important work. -- Sean McMeekin, author of Stalin’s War: A New History of World War IIMiller’s broad historical overview of Russian foreign policy in Asia challenges the conventional view that the country has enduring interests in the Far East…For Russia, Miller argues, Asia has been a land of unfulfilled promises. -- Maria Lipman * Foreign Affairs *A rich and well-informed chronicle of Russia’s engagement with Asia over the past three centuries…Captures the immensity, complexity, and importance of Russia’s eastern borderlands through the eyes of its explorers…A comprehensive and fluidly written survey that will be welcomed by students of international history. * Publishers Weekly *A sweeping and fast-paced tour through the last three hundred years of Russian foreign policy…It is, therefore, a welcome addition to the literature on Imperial Russian and Soviet foreign policy toward Asia. -- Paul Behringer * H-Net Reviews *[A] highly readable history…The over-ambitious, over-committed and over-confident policies of modern Russia through the globalization period and the rise of Asia in the 21st century mimics the hubris of Petersburg’s historical Pacific Ocean ambitions. -- Tristan Kenderdine * Global Asia *[A] comprehensive and informative account of Russia’s historical outreach to Asia…Vladimir Putin became the latest Russian leader to pursue a pivot to Asia from 2014. Yet, argues Miller, there are limits to this strategy. -- Angela Stent * Survival *
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Harvard University Press Inside the Kremlins Cold War
Book SynopsisCovering the volatile period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov explore the personalities and motivations of the key people who directed Soviet political life and shaped Soviet foreign policy.Trade ReviewReads like a page-flipping thriller… Accounts of [Cold War] events are now bolstered for the first time with firm, enlightened documentary evidence… Offers—both to historians and to the lay generations who inherited the fear without the facts—invaluable insights into the pervasive, simmering war that forged the dominant mindset of the latter part of the twentieth century. -- John O’Mahony * Financial Times *[This book is] the most significant addition to the literature on Soviet foreign policy to have appeared since the end of the Cold War. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *A Russian publishing a book in the bygone Soviet era that analyzed foreign policy in terms of its architects would have been unthinkable… Most Americans of the time would have found equally unthinkable the suggestion that the Kremlin was home to anyone other than evil tyrants cut from the same drab cloth… What pleasure it is, then, that such previously unthinkable thoughts pop from every page of Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov’s Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War. -- Jane E. Good * Washington Post Book World *Despite the plethora of books on the origins and course of the Cold War, none have provided a documented inside account of the Soviet role in that conflict. Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov are the first to help close the gap by drawing on official archives opened since the Soviet collapse… Calling for a rethinking of the Soviet role in view of new evidence, the authors say that the ‘human factor,’ or how personality skewed policy, has been underplayed in the literature. They offer a revealing account of the actions of Stalin and his lieutenants and then of Khrushchev and his circle. -- Carl A. Linden * American Historical Review *[The authors] have produced a remarkably readable book…[where] new details are brought to light and several old suspicions confirmed… Zubok and Pleshakov are to be commended for their efforts. They have written a book which is as scholarly profound as accessible to a broad audience. -- Kees Boterbloem * Canadian Slavonic Papers *This is a much-awaited book from two prominent young Russian historians. Covering the period from 1945 to 1962, Zubok and Pleshakov provide a fascinating look at the issues and, in particular, the personalities involved in the shaping of Soviet foreign policy from the end of World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Largely relying on recently opened Soviet archives, the authors weave a picture of the Kremlin’s elite, their internal struggles, differences of opinion, how they viewed the West and their Communist allies, and why they triggered some of the gravest Cold War crises (Berlin, Korea, Cuba, and so on)… The authors must be commended for one of the most important books on the Soviet side of the Cold War to have appeared in the last decade. -- J. Hanhimäki * Slavonic Review *Two of Russia’s most accomplished Cold War historians have brought us a treasure trove of arresting new information, insights, and judgments that do much to change our understanding of the Soviet Union’s motives and behavior during its long and tragic confrontation with the West. -- Michael R. Beschloss, author of The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960–1963Table of ContentsPreface Prologue: The View from the Kremlin, 1945 Stalin: Revolutionary Potentate Stalin and Shattered Peace Molotov: Expanding the Borders Zhdanov and the Origins of the Eastern Bloc Beria and Malenkov: Learning to Love the Bomb The Education of Nikita Khrushchev Khrushchev and the Sino-Soviet Schism Khrushchev and Kennedy: The Taming of the Cold War Postmortem: Empire without Heroes Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Pasteurization of France
Book SynopsisAlmost every town in France has a street named for Louis Pasteurbut did he alone stop people from spitting, persuade them to dig drains, influence them to get vaccinated? Latour makes the case that Pasteur's success depended upon a network of forces including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession, and colonial interests.Trade ReviewEverything [Latour] writes is provocative, important and worth the closest scrutiny… The radical originality and wit of Latour’s approach is hugely attractive. -- Steven Shapin * Nature *Bruno Latour [is] one of today’s most acute, if idiosyncratic, thinkers about science and society… [His] prose is often amusing… But the charm should not blind the reader to the serious intent. Mr. Latour is aiming at one of the late twentieth century’s biggest problems. He is trying to provide a way of talking about science and society that does not start from the differences between them: to break down the barrier between them that started to go up in the seventeenth century. * The Economist *Bruno Latour delights some of us and infuriates others, but either way he has, for the past decade, been one of the most brilliant and original writers about science. -- Ian Hacking * Philosophy of Science Journal *The Pasteurization of France offers everything one wants from a book. It is immensely stimulating, intelligent, and funny. Stylistically, it is dazzling, sometimes splendid. It offers a bold and light-hearted approach to problems that bedevil everybody trying to write historical accounts of scientific innovation in the wake of structural, poststructural, grammatological, sociological, anthropological, and narratological critiques of history. -- Elizabeth A. Williams * Social History of Medicine *Latour has written a complex and provocative book. His insight into the way in which Pasteur transformed social relations in France and its colonies by introducing a new agent, the microbe, is fascinating. -- Lindsay Wilson * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsPART 1: WAR AND PEACE OF MICROBES Introduction. Materials and Methods 1. Strong Microbes and Weak Hygienists 2. You Will Be Pasteurs of Microbes 3. Medicine at Last 4. Transition PART 2: IRREDUCTIONS Introduction 1. From Weakness to Potency 2. Sociologics 3. Anthropologics 4. Irreduction of "The Sciences" Bibliography Notes Figures Index
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Harvard University Press Time of Anarchy
Book SynopsisIn 1675 English America descended into anarchy, as rebellions, massacres, and riots swept the colonies from New York to Carolina. Behind the upheaval was the Susquehannock Indians. Their shrewd responses to settler violence altered the future course of life and government for colonists and Indigenous peoples from the Great Lakes to the Deep South.Trade ReviewAn eye-opening account of an obscure chapter in colonial American history. * Publishers Weekly *Time of Anarchy is a fine work of historical scholarship. Outstanding research and evocative writing bring this important history to life. -- Gregory D. Smithers * North Carolina Historical Review *Remarkable…Kruer brings a rare sense of historical empathy to all actors without minimizing the horrid levels of indiscriminate destruction and loss experienced by all. Combining nuances and engaging style, this book will remain a reference for years to come. -- Céline Carayon * Virginia Magazine of History & Biography *In his well-organized story on Indigenous power, Kruer solidly argues for the strength and persistence of the Susquehannock with captivating precision and careful detail to source-driven narratives…brings a new perspective to the colonial crises of the late seventeenth century. -- Tyler Daniels * H-Net Reviews *Kruer tells the fascinating and necessary narrative of the Susquehannock people at the end of the seventeenth century. His work and its underlying archive in this regard will be of great importance and interest. -- Caroline Wigginton * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Flowing with insights and executed with skill, Time of Anarchy rearranges conventional understandings of seventeenth-century Anglo–Indian relations. Examining the fateful ‘revolution’ in Anglo–Indian affairs during the 1670s, it upends paradigms of Indigenous victimization, uncovers surprising degrees of Susquehannock power, and challenges normative assumptions about racial formation in the Chesapeake. A remarkable work of recovery, Time of Anarchy compels a major re-periodization of early American history, one in which the currents of race, power, and colonialism follow much less familiar and determined paths. -- Ned Blackhawk, author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American WestTime of Anarchy is a brilliant book on the Susquehannock Indians and their creative and bold maneuvering among North America’s colonial powers. But the book is also an incisive account of colonial tactics and expansion, making it quite extraordinary: we have rarely seen such measured balance in writing early American history. The book is filled with insights and historiographical interventions, but Matthew Kruer introduces them to us surreptitiously with elegant and compelling prose. -- Pekka Hämäläinen, author of Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous PowerMixing exquisite historical detail with brilliant analysis, Matthew Kruer remaps colonial North America, locating a small Native nation—the Susquehannocks—at the very center of a continental world of imperial conflict. Time of Anarchy makes a bold and provocative intervention into early American history. Our understanding of Indigenous power will never be the same. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Indians in Unexpected PlacesIn a blood-soaked time of war and chaos in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake, the Susquehannocks emerged as a powerful nation. Matthew Kruer tells their compelling story with grace and insight, managing to make new a history often considered well-worn. Here was a ‘time of anarchy’ that unleashed astonishing and novel orders, both indigenous and colonial. This era will never look the same again. -- Sarah Pearsall, author of Atlantic Families: Lives and Letters in the Later Eighteenth CenturyIn these pages we see the hand of a careful ethnohistorian, a thoughtful political theorist, an archival political historian, a theoretically-sophisticated scholar of affect, and an engaging stylist. Time of Anarchy has the narrative feel of masterful old history but carries the theoretical heft of contemporary scholarship. -- Gregory E. Dowd, author of A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815Time of Anarchy will have a significant impact on our understanding of early American and Native American history. Kruer’s fusion of the histories of emotion and of gender helps to resolve some truly mysterious features of this critical period, and his compelling analysis of the power of threatened masculinity and conspiracy theories make this very much a book for our own time. -- James Rice, author of Tales from a Revolution: Bacon’s Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
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Princeton University Press Mussolinis Intellectuals Fascist Social and
Book SynopsisOffers an account of the intellectual figures of Italian Fascism, tracing how the movement's ideas evolved in response to social and political developments inside and outside of Italy. This book follows Fascist thought from its beginnings in socialist ideology through its evolution into a separate body of thought and to its destruction.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "The book succeeds admirably in convincing the reader that, far from being a doctrine based on irrationalism and violence, fascism's foundations are very sophisticated intellectual constructs."--Paul Petzschmann, Political TheoryTable of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi CHAPTER ONE: Some Issues in the Intellectual History of Fascism 1 CHAPTER TWO: The Historic Background and Enrico Corradini 18 CHAPTER THREE: Alfredo Rocco and the Elements of Fascist Doctrine 38 CHAPTER FOUR: Sergio Panunzio: From Revolutionary to National Syndicalism 61 CHAPTER FIVE: Idealism, Ugo Spirito, and the Outlines of Fascist Doctrine 85 CHAPTER SIX: Ugo Spirito and the Rationale of the Corporative State 111 CHAPTER SEVEN: Sergio Panunzio and the Maturing of Fascist Doctrine 140 CHAPTER EIGHT: Camillo Pellizzi, Carlo Costamagna, and the Final Issues 165 CHAPTER NINE: Doctrinal Interlude: The Initiatic Racism of Julius Evola 191 CHAPTER TEN: Doctrinal Continuity and the Fascist Social Republic 222 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Conclusions 246 Index 263
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Princeton University Press King Travels
Book SynopsisExamines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering a look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. This book focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the complex relationship between power and ceremony.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Accomplished historian Ruiz examines festivals in Spain from approximately 1200 to the mid-17th century. Starting from the premise that these events conveyed social, political, and ideological content, the author argues effectively that a close analysis over time of various festivals and related traditions--e.g., those associated with royal entries and visits to major municipalities; royal births, weddings, and funerals; Corpus Christi and Carnival--improves historians' understanding of changes in political processes and culture... The book provides information and insight that anthropologists, students of Spanish literature, and historians of Spain and colonial Spanish America will draw upon for many years."--Choice "[O]ne may recommend the present study as a labour of love--a detailed and interesting introduction to that colourful world of chivalry which, as he confesses, has captivated the author since his youth."--James Casey, European History Quarterly "Ruiz is ... a master storyteller. The chroniclers who originally recounted these festivities and processions in loving detail intended to recreate for their readers a complete vision of the clothing, music, food, decorative arches, dances, and jousts that constituted them, and Ruiz has done the same service for us."--Jodi Campbell, English Historical Review "This study brings to the forefront the Iberian Peninsula, a geographical area usually neglected in the studies of these celebrations, while it informs, enlightens, and entertains. A great read."--Candelas Gala, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface ix Abbreviations xiii Chapter I: Festivals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: An Introduction 1 Chapter II: The Meaning of Festivals: A Typology 34 Chapter III: Royal Entries, Princely Visits, Triumphal Celebrations in Spain, c. 1327-1640 68 Chapter IV: The Structure of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Royal Entry: Change and Continuity 113 Chapter V: A King Goes Traveling: Philip II in the Crown of Aragon, 1585-86 and 1592 146 Chapter VI: Martial Festivals and the Chivalrous Imaginary 193 Chapter VII: Kings and Knights at Play in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain 210 Chapter VIII: From Carnival to Corpus Christi 246 Chapter IX: Noncalendrical Festivals: Life Cycles and Power 293 Conclusion 331 Appendix: The Feasts of May 1428 at Valladolid 335 Bibliography 339 Index 345
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Princeton University Press Einsteins German World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stern's portrait of [Einstein] is sparklingly comic and profound... He writes with the wisdom and truth of a historian who never fails to empathize with the human uncertainty and frailty that operate in extreme as well as everyday historical conditions... No one has written better on the country's rise and fall than Fritz Stern."--Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times "Elegiac, subtle and wide-ranging in scope, Fritz Stern's book goes a long way to restoring one's hopes for a Germany that once included Einstein."--Michael Burleigh, Times Literary Supplement "Frtiz Stern's writing has an unmatched authority and a magisterial sweep that throws a brilliant light on the tragic disintegration of a noble culture, one in which science reigned supreme... Stern's is the civilized voice of reason and understanding; his book is revealing, absorbing and often poignant."--Walter Gratzer, Nature "A superb and gripping collection of essays."--Stanley Hoffmann, Foreign Affairs "This is a book pervaded by a genuine sense of pity. Fritz Stern is alive to moral and historical ambiguity, arguing that there is no simple judgment on the compromises of a Max Planck, any more than there is a simple way to characterize German-Jewish relations or the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible. Fritz Stern has been successful beyond the historical profession as a voice of liberal tolerance... [He] has earned his reputation as a non-historian's historian."--David Blackbourn, London Review of Books "A rich collection of essays--some scholarly, others more personal--written during the past decade. Without ever pointing an accusatory finger, Stern's approach helps readers to grasp how the extraordinary potential for 'what could have been Germany's century' ended so disastrously."--Publishers Weekly "[In these] elegantly written essays... we come to understand something about the fabric of this world that no abstract social or cultural theory can provide... [I]t was a bright and shining moment and we should thank Fritz Stern for bringing it back to life so vividly."--Omer Bartov, The Wall Street Journal "In his wide-ranging collection of nine essays, lectures and Festschriften, the eminent historian Fritz Stern, who grew up in Germany 'in the shadow of the First World War,' assembles a complex mosaic--mainly from historical and personal profiles of eminent Jewish scientists--illustrating the attitudes, prejudices, complexities, intricacies and subtle ambiguities of the relationship between Germans and Jews before Adolf Hitler and thereafter. Anti-Semitism, Mr. Stern finds, came in the most diverse guises--from irritation at Jewish successes to paranoid fear and fury at the thought of Jewish power threatening German life and virtue. He dismisses the view that the rabid anti-Semitism in Hitler's party was a reflection of the sentiments of German culture and questions theories that it formed an important bond between Hitler and the German population."--Viola Herms Drath, The Washington Times "[E]ssential reading for any student of Einstein."--Jeremy Bernstein, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Well-documented, extremely readable collection... What makes this compendium a must for those interested in European history is that Stern not only places all of these people within the history of science, but also discusses how they both reflected and influenced the times in which they lived."--Choice "A small series of fine ... essays on eminent personalities surrounding Albert Einstein in pre-Hitler Germany, and some considerations illuminating the changes that followed each of the two world wars."--Helmut Rechenberg, Physics Today "Fritz Stern is alive to moral and historical ambiguity, arguing that there is no simple judgement on the compromises of a Max Planck, any more that there is a simple way to characterize German-Jewish relations or the circumstances that made the Holocaust possible."--London Review of Books "An utterly terrific, invigorating book on both the history of, as well as the underlying influential trajectory of German culture... There really is something profoundly prophetic and poignant about Stern's writing, which accounts for Einstein's German World being such a terrific and vital one-off."--David Marx Book ReviewsTable of ContentsPREFACE TO THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION ix A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR xv INTRODUCTION 3 PART ONE: The Promise of German Life CHAPTER 1. Paul Ehrlich: The Founder of Chemotherapy 13 CHAPTER 2. Max Planck and the Trials of His Times 35 CHAPTER 3. Together and Apart: Fritz Haber and Albert Einstein 59 CHAPTER 4. Walther Rathenau. and the Vision of Modernity 165 PART TWO: The Great War and Consequent Terrors CHAPTER 5. Historians and the Great War: Private Experience and Public Explication 199 CHAPTER 6. Chaim Weizmann and Liberal Nationalism 223 CHAPTER 7. Freedom and Its Discontents: The Travails of the New Germany 253 CHAPTER 8. The Past Distorted: The Goldhagen Controversy 272 CHAPTER 9. Lost Homelands: German-Polish Reconciliation 289 NOTES 303 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 325 INDEX 329
£22.50
Princeton University Press Leviathan and the AirPump
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shapin and Schaffer work out the implications of these debates [between Hobbes and Boyle] for the history of science with great skill of interpretation and exposition. They use their findings and their analysis to give an explanation of the experimental enterprise in general, which, although it is not philosophical in nature, always takes philosophy most seriously. This is simply one of the most original, enjoyable and important books published in the history of science in recent years."--Owen Hannaway, Technology and Culture "If any proof of the intellectual buoyancy or intrinsic worth of the history and philosophy for science was needed, nothing better could be provided than this study by Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer... Their findings suggest the futility of wrenching science from its ideological context, and not only with respect to the seventeenth century; they also detect parallels with the crisis of confidence affecting contemporary science."--Charles Webster, The Times Literary Supplement Praise for Princeton's previous editions: "Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer have ventured beyond ordinary history of science or history of ideas to produce a novel 'exercise in the sociology of scientific knowledge.' ... a historical study rich in new interpretations and notable for the use of sources of a kind not hitherto fully exploited by scholars."--Clive Holmes, American Historical Review "[T]he most influential text in our field since Thomas Kuhn'sStructure of Scientific Revolutions."--James Secord, Isis "This is simply one of the most original, enjoyable, and important books published in the history of science in recent years."--Owen Hannaway, Technology and Culture "[A]n unparalleled vignette of the birth pangs of a new style of reasoning."--Ian Hacking, British Journal for the History of Science "Before Shapin and Schaffer, other historians of science had studied scientific practice; other historians had studied the religious, political and cultural context of science. No one, before Shapin and Schaffer, had been capable of doing both at once."--Bruno Latour, author ofWe Have Never Been Modern "There is every reason to regard this as one of the most important achievements in science studies in the late twentieth century."--John H. Zammito, author ofA Nice Derangement of Epistemes "One of the most influential books in the modern history of science."--Melinda Baldwin, Physics Today
£19.00
Princeton University Press Uncivil Mirth
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, Journal for the History of Ideas""For those curious to know the role of ridicule in eighteenth-century Britain, Ross Carroll’s Uncivil Mirth is the place to start. In it, readers will find a reliable survey of the main lines of argument about ridicule’s function in enlightened public debate."---Mark G. Spencer, LSE Review of Books"Witty and insightful. . . . this study could hardly be more timely."---Jan Machielsen, Times Literary Supplement "A most valuable study, which must be engaged with in all future studies of the Enlightenment."---Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Sun News Austin
£33.25
