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Book SynopsisThe history of Russia - from Kievan Rus to Vladimir PutinRussia: A History cuts through the myths and mystery that have surrounded Russia from its earliest days, with startling revelations from classified archives that until comparatively recently were not even known to exist.A distinguished team of historians has stripped away the propaganda and preconceptions of the past to tell the definitive story of Russia, from tenth-century Kiev and Muscovy through empire and revolution to the fall of Communism and the ''new order'' of the 1990s and early 21st century. A compelling story in its own right, it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Russia and its place in the world. This updated edition now covers the developments in the Putin era in the first decade of the 21st century.Trade ReviewReview from previous edition A brisk, exciting tour of Russia's long journey from its Kievan origins to the early Yeltsin years ... stunningly beautiful illustrations and transparent prose * Los Angeles Times *brings together the latest research into all aspects of Russian history and ... lends itself to reading by the general public as well as the undergraduate. * Contemporary Review *a lavishly illustrated volume, with a heavy-weight text * Edward Acton, The European *Table of ContentsEditor's Preface ; Glossary of Terms ; 1. From Kiev to Muscovy: The Beginnings to 1450 ; 2. Muscovite Russia, 1450-1598 ; 3. From Muscovy towards St Petersburg, 1598-1689 ; 4. The Petrine Era and After, 1689-1740 ; 5. The Age of Enlightenment, 1740-1801 ; 6. Pre-Reform Russia, 1801-1855 ; 7. Reform and Counter-Reform, 1855-1900 ; 8. Revolutionary Russia, 1890-1914 ; 9. Russia in War and Revolution, 1914-1921 ; 10. The New Economic Policy (NEP) and the Revolutionary Experiment, 1921-1929 ; 11. Building Stalinism, 1929-1941 ; 12. The Great Fatherland War and Late Stalinism, 1941-1953 ; 13. From Stalinism to Stagnation, 1953-1985 ; 14. A Modern 'Time of Troubles': From Reform to Disintegration, 1985-1999 ; 15. Meltdown, Rebuilding, Reform, 1996-2008 ; Maps ; Chronology ; Further Reading ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe multi-national story of the Gallipoli campaign - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to meanTrade ReviewIt is within [a] bleak landscape of defeat that Jenny Macleod finds Gallipoli's lasting importance. The battle, she argues, and the acrimony of its aftermath, would help to birth four new nations an independent Australia, New Zealand, Irish Free State and Kamalist Turkey. * Victor Davis Hanson, Times Literary Supplement *I strongly recommend Jenny Macleod's brilliant Great Battles: Gallipoli to readers interested in how the memorialisation of battles and campaigns informs our contemporary world. * British Journal for Military History *an essential addition to our understanding of the consequences of the Gallipoli campaign. * Battlefield Trust *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Origins ; 2. Invasion ; 3. Stalemate ; 4. Australia and the Civil Religion of Anzac ; 5. New Zealand and Anzac ; 6. Britain and Ireland: Gallipoli Day or Anzac Day? ; 7. Turkey and 18th March ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Notes ; Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the First World War, the British Army''s most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne.Haig''s Enemy by Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht''s war--the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using RTrade ReviewBoff has provided a very informative, readable book for a wide audience combining military operational history with a vivid description of moving and even tragic elements of Rupprecht's life. * Christian Stachelbeck, Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany, First World War Studies *Beautifully written ... a firstclass guide to the way the war was fought from the German perspective. * Jack Sheldon, Western Front Association *Haig's Enemy helps us to understand how the German army developed and changed during the war, as well as how it came to lose. Boff charts an unedifying picture of lessons being learnt and forgotten, top-down interference from the higher command, as well as the growing intensity and lethality of the fighting ... [Haig's Enemy] illustrates the pressures and strains on one man at war, and how he did his best to mitigate them. * Nick Lloyd, The Times Literary Supplement *Using extensive German sources, Boffs scholarly military biography provides a fascinating insight not only into Rupprechts thinking, but also in the First World War from the German side. It is a fresh and unusual take on the war. * Taylor Downing, Military History Monthly *Compelling... both scholarly and very readable... I absolutely recommend it... * David Ian Hall, English Historical Review *Boff has produced a welcome study, which will interest many students of military history. He has introduced a leading German ?gure of the First World War to an anglo-phone audience, and he has offered a persuasive historical analysis of critical issues of staff and command. * Roger Chickering, Journal of Modern History *Boff has produced a welcome study, which will interest many students of military history. He has introduced a leading German figure of the First World War to an anglophone audience, and he has offered a persuasive historical analysis of critical issues of staff and command. * Journal of Modern History *The literature on the First World War has grown enormously over the past three decades, given a further recent boost by the centenary of the war. It thus comes as a surprise to realize that, apart from Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, no senior German commander has yet been the subject of a full English-language biography, though several memoirs appeared in English soon after the war. Historian Jonathan Boff (Univ. of Birmingham) has thus begun to fill a serious gap in the scholarship on World War I. Haig's Enemy centers specifically on Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, who, for much of the war, commanded the main German forces opposing the British on the Western Front. * Michigan War Studies Review *Of all diaries and memoirs written by the senior German officers of the First World War, that of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria has long been regarded as the most revealing. Yet Rupprecht himself has remained elusive, his contribution eclipsed by his more voluble and histrionic contemporaries. Jonathan Boff has not only brought him to life (and to an English audience), but done so in a book that ranges far more widely than a conventional biography. Readers will gain fresh perspectives on the British and French as much as they learn about Rupprecht's Bavarians. * Sir Hew Strachan, University of St Andrews and Editor of the Great Battles series. *Crown Prince Rupprecht was one of the most significant German commanders to face the British Army across No Man's Land, but until now we have lacked a biography in English ... A triumph. * Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton. *This scholarly but lucid and beautifully written account of the German High Command is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how the fighting on the Western Front developed during the First World War. * Professor Sir Michael Howard *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. TO WAR 1914 1: Rupprecht's Road to War 2: The Battle of the Frontiers 3: The End of the Campaign in Lorraine 4: The First Battle of the Somme 5: To Ypres PART II. THE ANVIL 1915-16 6: A Difficult Winter 7: A Successful Spring 8: Further Victories 9: Verdun and the Road to the Somme 10: Early Days on the Somme 11: Rupprecht the General PART III. HOLDING THE LINE 1916-17 12: Rupprecht Takes Command 13: Autumn on the Somme 14: Scorched Earth 15: The Battle of Arras 16: The Battle for Flanders: Summer 1917 17: The Battle for Flanders: To Passchendaele 18: Cambrai PART IV. YEAR OF DEFEATS 1918 19: Planning the Spring Offensives 20: Operation MICHAEL 21: Operation GEORGETTE and Summer 1918 22: The Hundred Days 23: Rupprecht on the Run PART V. CONCLUSIONS 24: Rupprecht the Field Marshal 25: Rupprecht and Politics 26: Last Words Appendix: Note on Military Terminology

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Book SynopsisCombining ethnography, history, and social theory, this book exposes how the shifting fortunes and social perceptions of German intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries influenced German's conceptions of modernity and national culture.Trade Review"Spirit and System is a brilliant book. It is nothing short of an ethnographic examination both of German post-reunification society and anthropological theory. This is not only a methodological tour de force, it is also ethnographically sensitive and an original and experientially grounded introduction to one of the central problems of German and, indeed, European ethnology." - Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"

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Book SynopsisThis text traces the emergence of a post-absolutist culture in France across a range of works and genres including: Saint-Simon's memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency; Voltaire's first tragedy, Oedipe; Watteau's last great painting, L'Enseigne de Gersaint; and the plays of Marivaux.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. A Post-Absolutist Subject: Saint-Simon 2. "Le Poète Roy": Voltaire's Oedipe 3. The King's Insignia: Watteau, L'Enseigne de Gersaint 4. Love and Speculation: Marivaux 5. Drawing Kings: Casanova and Voltaire Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFew ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the historical emergence of the modern idea of culture that is at the same time an extended critical analysis of the perplexities and suppressed associations underlying our own exploitation of this term. Making wide reference to twentieth-century anthropologists from Malinowski and Benedict to Evans-Pritchard, Geertz, and Lévi-Strauss as well as to nineteenth-century social theorists like Tylor, Spencer, Mill, and Arnold, Herbert stresses the philosophically dubious, unstable character that has clung to the culture idea and embarrassed its exponents even as it was developing into a central principle of interpretation. In a series of detailed studies ranging from political economy to missionary ethnograp

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Book SynopsisIn the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. This book takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities.Trade Review"Jan L. Logemann provides an outstanding contribution to the history of consumption that will be an important read for scholars of European and American history. Trams or Tailfins? is an excellent model for how consumer history can be embedded within the history of public policy." (Katherine Pence, Baruch College, City University of New York)"

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Book SynopsisThrough the transcriptions of texts in her own hand, readers can track the Queen's language and compositional style. The texts in foreign languages, meanwhile, will allow readers to prepare their own English translations from these original sources.Trade Review"A major scholarly achievement that makes Elizabeth's mind much more accessible than before....A veritable feast of material in different genres." - David Norbrook, The New Republic "A substantial, scholarly, but accessible, collection of much of Elizabeth's written utterance....An invaluable work of reference." - Patrick Collinson, London Review of Books

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1600 in answer to Giusepe Passi's diatribe about women's alleged defects, this polemic displays Lucrezia Marinella's knowledge of the Italian poetic tradition and demonstrates her ability to argue against authors of the misogynist tradition from Boccaccio to Torquato Tasso.

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Book SynopsisA biography of the novel that tells us how this poor, sickly young writer from Algeria happened to write perhaps the century's most ubiquitous novel.Trade Review"Thoroughly enjoyable, and filled with fascinating thoughts and insights. A wonderfully elegant investigative journey, leading us from the first spark to the afterlife of Camus's novel."--Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Cafe "Alice Kaplan has written a gripping biography--not of a modern French writer, as she did in The Collaborator and The Interpreter, but of a modern French novel. With her trademark combination of archival research, personal investigation, and interpretive skill, she tells the story of Camus's The Stranger from its first stirrings in the mind of its young, unknown author through its publication in wartime France and its role in transforming Camus into an international literary star, to its postwar fame and enduring life and afterlife. Looking for "The Stranger," which itself often reads like a novel, will thrill anyone who has read Camus's masterpiece and entice others to do so." --Susan Rubin Suleiman, author of The Nemirovsky Question "Alice Kaplan has written the life story of one of the essential and enduring books of the twentieth century, and with it she gives us a page-turner of scholarship, a work of narrative power and historical resonance, right up to the present moment. The Stranger has found its greatest friend."--Patricia Hampl, author of I Could Tell You Stories "With the same seriousness and wit that we find in all her books, Alice Kaplan has written the most unexpected biography possible: the one of a novel in the making. Looking for "The Stranger" is an engaging investigation as well as an enthralling essay about a cornerstone of modern literature, one of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, and the best selling mass market paperback in French publishing history. The role of journalism, the influence of American literature, the philosophical debate about the absurd, the colonial context: Alice Kaplan is giving all the elements that make up Albert Camus's masterpiece and that are essential to the reader's deep understanding of an era. It is an immense pleasure to follow her as she unravels masterfully all the threads of the tapestry, until the final revelation.: --Laure Murat, author of The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon "It might seem that there's nothing left to say about Albert Camus's The Stranger its bones have been scavenged by foes and fans alike, Camus's story of Meursault recently the subject of a successful novel and movie. But scholar Alice Kaplan's Looking for The Stranger reveals a seductively manipulated story, every scintilla of its plot derived from real life or from prior literature: James Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, Camus claimed, was the strongest influence on his novel, which is based on the absurd, not on existentialism after all. Like most fiction, The Stranger was built upon narrative truths, and, for the first time, the identity of the manshot by Meursault is revealed, no longer condemned to be the nameless Arab. Graceful yet demanding, Looking for "The Stranger" shows how thoroughly Camus made art out of his life."--Laura Claridge, author of The Lady with the Borzoi "An absorbing account of the making of The Stranger. For American readers, few French novels are better known, and few scholars are better qualified than Kaplan to reintroduce us to it. The author of several fine biographies of French and American writers, as well as the ravishing memoir French Lessons, Kaplan here sets herself the task of writing a biography of a book. . . . Kaplan tells this story with great verve and insight, all the while preserving the mystery of its creation and elusiveness of its meaning. . . . While some might question Kaplan's claim that the novel 'changed the course of modern literature' few will ever question either the work's perennial appeal or the brilliance with which Kaplan has told its story."--Robert Zaretsky "Los Angeles Review of Books " "To this new project, Kaplan brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic, and biographer. . . . In an epilogue, Ms. Kaplan goes a step further and looks for the identity of the Arab involved in the real-life altercation that inspired the novel's pivotal scene. What she learns about him is fascinating, and how she writes about parallels between him and Camus is a lovely example of her own imaginative powers and stylish prose. . . . Reading The Stranger is a bracing but somewhat bloodless experience. Ms. Kaplan has hung warm flesh on its steely bones."--John Williams "New York Times "

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“In sum, this is a beautiful, concise study that will be of interest to historians of science, aesthetics, and communication. The central argument . . . is striking in its weaving of different sources and fields into a coherent vision.” * Ambix *“Alexander Wragge-Morley's enjoyable volume provides a compelling interpretation of how members of the Royal Society of London represented nature in their works through aesthetic thinking in the seventeenth century.” * Renaissance Quarterly *"Wragge-Morley successfully melds a readable narrative of the Scientific Revolution in England with an original historical interpretation of the foundations and methods of empirical science underlying the work of its key figures. . . . Despite explicating the subtle interactions of 17th-century empirical discoveries and emerging empirical methods, philosophy, and theology, the work is remarkably free of unnecessary jargon or pedantic argument. It should be in every library with strengths in intellectual history, European history, or the history and philosophy of science. . . . Essential." * CHOICE, 2020 Outstanding Academic Title *"[A] critical intervention. Although historians of science have long recognized the importance of rhetoric to the early Royal Society, they have tended to view its theological, aesthetic and affective element at odds with the development of empiricism. Aesthetic Science demonstrates instead the centrality of aesthetic experience to the construction of natural historical texts and images. . . . In each chapter, the book’s unfurling argument is led by a number of questions and problems, followed by explanations of how the physico-theologians approached them, and observations on the implications of these strategies. The pleasing logic of this structure (and the careful taking stock at each stage of the argument) creates a sense of thoroughness, lending extra credibility to the book’s insightful claims. The book feels little need to assert its argument, instead proceeding from fastidious and original analysis of often familiar source material to offer conclusions that, when they arrive, seem almost self-evident. Aesthetic Science asks us to re-entangle notions of belief, beauty and knowledge in ways that should have a profound impact on how we approach the study of early modern science." * Archives of Natural History *"With this engaging book, Alexander Wragge-Morley joins a body of new scholarship that draws attention to the nuanced history of the early Royal Society, addressing practices and discursive activities that have fallen outside of the scope of a more traditional history of institutions. Arguing against the classical reading of the early Royal Society as exemplifying a new dispassionate and objective study of nature in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Wragge-Morley instead demonstrates the importance of subjective and affective states in shaping the epistemological framework of the Society's activities. . . . [The] ambitious book covers a wide range of topics that have been broadly overlooked in the history of the early Royal Society, from the formative influence of physico-theology to the role of rhetoric and experiences of pleasure in the creation and transmission of knowledge. . . . Wragge-Morley successfully offers the reader a history that captures the clear interplay between theology, rhetoric, natural history and even briefly archaeology and architecture. As a contribution to the history of science, this work powerfully demonstrates the continuity of knowledge practices across disciplines whose boundaries have often remained too fixed, adding further nuance and interest to this active field of contemporary scholarship." * Nuncius *"Thought-provoking, useful, and ambitious... An engaging piece of scholarship, thanks to Wragge-Morley's fluid prose, many concrete examples, and careful selection of evidence... Aesthetic Science is going to become a staple for history of science postgraduates and specialists alike." * Journal of British Studies *"An ambitious and provocative argument for the interrelation of empirical science and aesthetic taste. . . . Aesthetic Science advances a necessary intervention, compelling us to grapple with the inextricably theological, affective, and yet universalizing grounds of natural philosophy. Wragge-Morley's argument for the conjoined origins of empirical science and aesthetic taste advances a revelatory corrective to anybody who continues to take Kant at his word." * Eighteenth-Century Studies *“Splendid. . . . In this thoughtful study, Wragge-Morley investigates the role of subjective experiences in the search for rational knowledge; building on recent secondary literature, he recommends recruiting the aesthetic as a powerful analytical tool for exploring the understandings of early modern thinkers across a wide range of disciplines.” * Isis *“A thought-provoking book that is highly recommended and that will generate much scholarship on the role of emotions, aesthetics, and sensibility in early modern natural philosophy.” * Journal of Modern History *"Wragge-Morley boldly challenges a long-standing orthodoxy about the Royal Society's attachment to plain language in scientific description. The work is original, moves across the disciplines, and is an important contribution to the poetics of early modern science and to the debate about objectivity." -- John Brewer, Eli and Edythe Broad Emeritus Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology"This is an important and exciting book. Aesthetic Science shows how members of the early Royal Society engaged with the problem of representation while supporting an ideology of empirical science. Historians have spilled much ink on documenting the emergence of empiricism in the early modern period, yet they have failed to note that empiricist natural philosophers were acutely aware of the limits of representation. Wragge-Morley surveys an impressive cast of characters, and what emerges is a new interpretation of what the early Royal Society was up to. The story told is rich, complex, and thoroughly convincing." -- Dániel Margócsy, author of Commercial Visions: Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age"Riveting and consequential. This is a book that transforms our understanding of Royal Society science while providing an alternative genealogy of modern aesthetics. Wragge-Morley reveals how physico-theology, long treated as a merely apologetic discourse, shaped contexts of discovery. As he brilliantly demonstrates, physico-theological assumptions effectively required natural phenomena like snowflakes to be analyzed as ruins, vestiges of an originally perfect design. Making new sense of the diversity of Royal Society projects, Wragge-Morley recovers a still-vital tradition of aesthetic thinking governed by physico-theological rather than Kantian assumptions. His aesthetic approach to his materials makes the most compelling argument of all: a demonstration that the imbrication of metaphysics, theology, and early modern scientific practice can only be revealed through a history of experience." -- Joanna Picciotto, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Physico-Theology, Natural Philosophy, and Sensory Experience 2 An Empiricism of Imperceptible Entities 3 In Search of Lost Designs 4 Verbal Picturing 5 Natural Philosophy and the Cultivation of Taste Conclusion: Embodied Aesthetics Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This clever book is a biography of a person—Wilhelm Homberg (1653–1715); an institution—the Académie Royale des Sciences; and a discipline—the biography of chymistry from 1670 to 1730. Lawrence M. Principe has thus accomplished the trifecta of intellectual history, using a significant but largely understudied individual to analyze an equally understudied period—the history of chymistry between Robert Boyle and Antoine Lavoisier. . . . I highly recommend this work and congratulate Principe for his latest achievement." * Isis *"The Transmutations of Chymistry is the work of a master in his field, full of insights and very well written. Its production values are high, with both footnotes and a full bibliography, and the fifteen-page 'Note on Sources' at the end is a gold mine of information for researchers not only in chymistry but in Parisian science under Louis XIV. It is a considerable achievement." * Annals of Science *"With this brilliant investigation, well-documented and written with enthusiasm, Lawrence Principe transforms our understanding of chemistry in the eighteenth century." * Revue d'histoire des sciences (Translated from French) *"Telling three stories in one volume is the great achievement of this fascinating and erudite book. The biography of a dedicated savant who managed to engage the Duc d’Orléans in his laboratory work, interwoven with the story of the prestigious French Academy of Sciences, provides a vivid snapshot of the long history of chemistry: a unique moment when the alchemical quest for gold merged with the ambition to establish chemistry on the sound theoretical foundations of natural philosophy. With its punning title, this book undoubtedly transmutes the old clichés about the death of alchemy and the birth of modern chemistry." -- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne"This is a fascinating study of the improbable life of a great but comparatively unheralded chemist: Guillaume Homberg. The book traces the continuing influence of Homberg in eighteenth-century French chemistry through two focal interests: his concern to raise chemistry above the artisanal level to that of a true natural science, and his interest and even passion for chrysopoeia, alchemical metallic transmutation. Through Principe’s biographical details of Homberg’s peregrinations, his interactions with chemists and natural philosophers throughout Europe, and his own research and writings, the reader is fully immersed in European chemical thought and practice of the year 1700." -- Seymour Mauskopf, Duke University"Wilhelm Homberg has long been known as an important figure in the history of chemistry. By examining Homberg’s alchemical preoccupations and those of his contemporaries, Principe not only manages to throw a brilliant new light on this Enlightenment thinker, but to reveal a rich alchemical subtext underlying eighteenth-century chemistry in general." -- William R. Newman, author of Newton the Alchemist"With his peerless knowledge of the archives and obvious taste and talent for unraveling the arcana of the complex social relations and challenges of science at the turn of the eighteenth century, Principe keeps readers on tenterhooks in his study of the three lives—human, disciplinary, and institutional—of German chemist Wilhelm Homberg. He renders the full measure of this atypical figure, revealing him as a key player in the world of chemistry at the Académie Royale des Sciences. This masterful study offers a chance to reassess Homberg’s place within and influence on French chemistry in the Enlightenment." -- Patrice Bret, Centre Alexandre-KoyréTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. A Merchant of the Marvelous Chapter 2. A Batavian in Paris Chapter 3. Essaying Chymistry Chapter 4. A New Chymical Light Chapter 5. Chrysopoeia at the Académie and the Palais Royal Chapter 6. Chymistry in Homberg’s Later Years: Practices, Promises, Poisons, and Prisons Chapter 7. Homberg’s Legacy Epilogue: Homberg and the Transmutations of Chymistry at the Académie Note on Sources Sources Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAll art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one. Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involvedfrom Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline SchellingRichards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral

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Book SynopsisThe Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license. What then to make of the honest courtesan, who recast virtue as intellectual integrity. Veronico Franco was such a woman and this text reveals in her writing a passionate support for defedeless women.Table of ContentsForeword by Catharine R. Stimpson Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Satirizing the Courtesan: Franco's Enemies 2: Fashioning the Honest Courtesan: Franco's Patrons Appendix: Two Testaments and a Tax Report 3: Addressing Venice: Franco's Familiar Letters 4: Denouncing the Courtesan: Franco's Inquisition Trial and Poetic Debate Appendix: Documents of the Inquisition 5: The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisIn the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anachronisms, previously condemned as errors in the order of time, are being hailed as alternatives to that order. Conversely chronology and periods, its mainstays, are now charged with having distorted the past they have been entrusted to represent, and secularization, once considered the driving force of the modern era, no longer holds sway over the past or the present. In light of this reappraisal, can Shakespeare studies continue unshaken? This is the question Four Shakespearean Period Pieces takes up, devoting a chapter to each term: on the rise of anachronism, the chronologizing of the canon, the staging of plays in period, and the use of Shakespeare in modernity's secularizing project. To read these chapters is to come away newlyTrade Review"There is a great deal to appreciate and to enjoy in this theory-rich book, which moves as freely as a willful anachronism through material across its four central essays. . . . de Grazia’s work in particular offers so much of promise to scholars as well as lay readers of Shakespeare that it practically ensures that the next generation of Shakespeareans will have plenty in the way of bardological thinking to do.” * Times Literary Supplement *"One takes one’s leave of Four Shakespearean Period Pieces, as I have now done twice, with the feeling of being smarter—more critically sophisticated—than was previously the case." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"This thought-provoking book investigates four interrelated critical axioms that Margreta de Grazia regards as having set the direction of Shakespeare scholarship and criticism since the late eighteenth century." * Modern Philology *"Bold, exciting and illuminating: as energizing as any of {de Grazia's] work. . . . de Grazia picks apart our foundational assumptions about the constituted parameters of Shakespeare studies." * Shakespeare Studies *"The eloquent and lucid analysis in this volume will be of interest to Shakespeare scholars of all stripes. Each essay stands on its own but also connects thematically with the work as a whole, and its arguments are intelligent and learned. Readers familiar with de Grazia's oeuvre will recognize overlaps with themes covered in her earlier work . . . but the questions and concerns here are developed in a new and characteristically sophisticated fashion. Four Shakespearean Period Pieces invites us to sit with the moments in which time in and around Shakespeare feel out of joint, and to think through what these moments might mean for our own practices as literary scholars. In this sense, this work could not be more timely." * Renaissance Quarterly *“Perhaps de Grazia’s most accessible book to date… A brilliant bit of writing with important implications for the practices at the core of Shakespeare studies.” * Come to the Pedlar *“The originality and importance of Four Shakespearean Period Pieces excites my enormous interest and admiration. Teasing out the origin and intention of terms that have been central to discussions of Shakespeare, de Grazia discloses a tangle of problems, misleading assumptions, blind confidence, and distortion. An exercise of scholarly demolition, at once relentless, resourceful, and cunning, this book will shake the grand house of literary criticism.” -- Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University“Four Shakespearean Period Pieces is wonderful. Lucid, original, learned, and readable, it forms a pendant to de Grazia’s foundational work. She returns to the penetratingly smart intellectual and disciplinary history that she has made her own, surveying centuries of scholarship with powerful clarity. The scholarship is deep, authoritative, and approachable, moving from Augustine to Heidegger with brilliant accessibility. Her critical readings are revelatory, zinging with insight and larger intellectual context, and reverberating with ongoing challenges for humanistic scholarship in our own times.” -- Emma Smith, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisSelf-styled adventurer, literary wit, and statesman of science, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis stood at the center of Enlightenment science and culture. This work offers a portrait of this man, revealing how his private life and public works made him a man of science in eighteenth-century Europe.Trade Review"Terrall's work is scholarship in the best sense. Her explanations of arcane eighteenth-century French physics, mathematics, astronomy, and biology are among the most lucid available in any language." - Virginia P. Dawson, American Historical Review "As a guide to the public world of post-Newtonian European science, this well-written, scholarly work has much to offer." - Jeremy Black, Times Higher Education Supplement"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"West’s learned, innovative study offers a cultural anthropology of the Elizabethan stage—of the language in play texts and contemporaneous discussions of theater. West does not provide extended readings of individual plays, though he comments briefly on many. Rather, he focuses on the intertwining of confusions and conclusions—a favorite rhyme of the playwrights—in a theater where 'performances' embodied 'provocations toward meaning rather than representations of a meaning.' . . . Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice *"West shows that playing, players, and playgoers were likened to a great many things, and it is in detailing these surprising affinities that he constructs a richly revealing account of the commercial theater as a social and embodied practice through the last quarter of the sixteenth century . . . Ingenious in its methodology and invaluable in its contribution, Common Understandings is a provocation to scholars of the early modern English theater and beyond: the book invites us not only to reconsider what counts as evidence of playing, but to recast our familiar stories about it in new light." * Modern Philology *“This exhilarating book reveals, in vivid detail, what early modern theater was like as an experience. By investigating not playing itself, but metaphors about it, West shows how theater was viewed at the time—as a place of fear or wonder, described in terms of chaos, fighting, being in a siege, eating, dancing. Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion enables us to understand, as never before, the edginess, thrill, and danger of plays and performance in the time of Shakespeare.” -- Tiffany Stern, author of Documents of Performance in Early Modern England“A dazzling account of how early modern playgoers experienced theater in the decades between 1575 and 1610, Common Understandings, Poetic Confusion links theatrical knowing and feeling to shared corporeal events and bodily sensations. Theoretically rich and brimming with telling examples, West’s book shows how the habitus of early modern playgoing was created by collective acts as simple as eating, drinking, and remembering within the bounded space of the theater.” -- Jean E. Howard, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsA Note on Textual and Other Performances Introduction There Is Not Agreement of Opinion All the World’s a Stage Every Like Is Not the Same 1: Playing Merely Players What Learn You By That? But Mark This Show 2: Occupatio An Excellent Good Word Before It Was Ill Sorted Looking Well to Borders So Curious in New Fangles 3: Understanders Deep in Understanding Plain and Easy to Be Understanden All Readers to Be Understanders Feelingly Perceive 4: Confusion Nothing but Confusion and Errors Babylonical Confusion What More Fitter Occasion? Diverse Men of Diverse Minds Commons Knowledge Interlude. Playing, Thinking 5: Supposes Valedictions to Sense Brokers of Another’s Wit A Stalking-Stamping Player Authors of All the Content 6: Eating Between Meals Some Hungry Scenes Playing with Food 7: Non Plus I’ll Have a Challenge, Too Fencers, Bearwards, Common Players Non Plus Trying Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The complex relationship between tradition and modernization is the pulsing heart of this engaging book. Beside a valuable historical analysis, Reactionary Mathematics offers an interesting and useful synthesis vision to help us understand, in these times of rapid and convulsive transformation, the mathematics of the present and, most importantly, the reasons for the mathematics that will come.” * Nature *“Reactionary Mathematics is an ambitious book that is more than just a history of mathematics but an episode in the history of reason, furnished with a delightful display of different kinds of evidence, from archival documents to political satires to theological treatises to paintings to mathematics textbooks. . . . [It] is a deftly written and timely book brimming with empirical, conceptual and historiographical insights.” * British Journal for the History of Science *"For anyone interested in the "politics of mathematical modernity," this book shows how allegiances to particular types or styles of mathematics may indeed be related to Neapolitan academicians' personal responses to the urgent political pressures of their day." * Choice *“One notable strength of Mazzotti’s book is its ability to transition seamlessly between different levels of analysis. It connects an in-depth historical exploration of a specific local context, such as Naples, with the social and political constraints unique to that site. Simultaneously, it addresses major upheavals and broad conceptual changes such as the evolution of purity, rigor, and abstraction and the very definition of 'modernity' in mathematics. In doing so, the book tackles a critical methodological challenge in the social history of mathematics, bridging the gap between the claim of universality associated with mathematical knowledge and the intricate study of the local contexts and social practices that underpin the production of such knowledge. Mazzotti’s thought-provoking narrative not only demonstrates . . . that mathematics is intimately connected to its cultural, social and political context, but it also prompts readers to consider new avenues of research.” * Historia Mathematica *“Mazzotti offers us a superbly crafted historical study of the interweaving of mathematics, politics, religion, social order, and even olive oil presses in the Kingdom of Naples around 1800. This gives him a distinctive, striking platform from which to address big questions: the relationship between science and politics, the connections between mathematics and modernity, and how we should understand mathematics’ past.” -- Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh“Mazzotti has written a fascinating case study of ‘mathematical resistance’ in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Naples. On the most fundamental level, the book’s exploration of ‘mathematics as politics’ observes the reciprocal interactions between the mathematical imagination of historical actors and their sociopolitical circumstances. Mazzotti’s keen attention to the political actors themselves tells a very human story of mathematics, and of the events and changes that led to the development of this seemingly quixotic Neapolitan resistance to mathematical modernity.” -- Sean Cocco, Trinity College“A landmark account of Neapolitan reactionary mathematics in context that contributes insightfully to the histories of Naples, reaction, and mathematics in their separate and interacting respects.” -- Michael Barany, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mathematics as Social Order 1 Adventures of the Analytic Reason 2 Mathematics at the Barricades 3 Empire of Analysis 4 The Shape of the Kingdom Intermezzo: Algorithm or Intuition? 5 The Geometry of Reaction 6 A Scientific Counterrevolution 7 A Reactionary Reason 8 Mathematical Purity as Return to Order Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“The complex relationship between tradition and modernization is the pulsing heart of this engaging book. Beside a valuable historical analysis, Reactionary Mathematics offers an interesting and useful synthesis vision to help us understand, in these times of rapid and convulsive transformation, the mathematics of the present and, most importantly, the reasons for the mathematics that will come.” * Nature *“Reactionary Mathematics is an ambitious book that is more than just a history of mathematics but an episode in the history of reason, furnished with a delightful display of different kinds of evidence, from archival documents to political satires to theological treatises to paintings to mathematics textbooks. . . . [It] is a deftly written and timely book brimming with empirical, conceptual and historiographical insights.” * British Journal for the History of Science *"For anyone interested in the "politics of mathematical modernity," this book shows how allegiances to particular types or styles of mathematics may indeed be related to Neapolitan academicians' personal responses to the urgent political pressures of their day." * Choice *“One notable strength of Mazzotti’s book is its ability to transition seamlessly between different levels of analysis. It connects an in-depth historical exploration of a specific local context, such as Naples, with the social and political constraints unique to that site. Simultaneously, it addresses major upheavals and broad conceptual changes such as the evolution of purity, rigor, and abstraction and the very definition of 'modernity' in mathematics. In doing so, the book tackles a critical methodological challenge in the social history of mathematics, bridging the gap between the claim of universality associated with mathematical knowledge and the intricate study of the local contexts and social practices that underpin the production of such knowledge. Mazzotti’s thought-provoking narrative not only demonstrates . . . that mathematics is intimately connected to its cultural, social and political context, but it also prompts readers to consider new avenues of research.” * Historia Mathematica *“Mazzotti offers us a superbly crafted historical study of the interweaving of mathematics, politics, religion, social order, and even olive oil presses in the Kingdom of Naples around 1800. This gives him a distinctive, striking platform from which to address big questions: the relationship between science and politics, the connections between mathematics and modernity, and how we should understand mathematics’ past.” -- Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh“Mazzotti has written a fascinating case study of ‘mathematical resistance’ in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Naples. On the most fundamental level, the book’s exploration of ‘mathematics as politics’ observes the reciprocal interactions between the mathematical imagination of historical actors and their sociopolitical circumstances. Mazzotti’s keen attention to the political actors themselves tells a very human story of mathematics, and of the events and changes that led to the development of this seemingly quixotic Neapolitan resistance to mathematical modernity.” -- Sean Cocco, Trinity College“A landmark account of Neapolitan reactionary mathematics in context that contributes insightfully to the histories of Naples, reaction, and mathematics in their separate and interacting respects.” -- Michael Barany, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mathematics as Social Order 1 Adventures of the Analytic Reason 2 Mathematics at the Barricades 3 Empire of Analysis 4 The Shape of the Kingdom Intermezzo: Algorithm or Intuition? 5 The Geometry of Reaction 6 A Scientific Counterrevolution 7 A Reactionary Reason 8 Mathematical Purity as Return to Order Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Baroque period stretched from the end of the 16th to the second half of the 17th century. In this book, 13 scholars develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes and social structures as they are reflected in Baroque personae, or characteristic social roles.

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Book SynopsisList of Maps Note on Transliteration Glossary of Foreign Terms Acknowledgements Introduction The Power of Colonial Knowledge The Myths of the 'Great Game' Anglo-Sikh Relations and South Asian Warfare Ontology of the Afghan Political Community Camels, Caravan and Corridor Cities: The Afghan Economy The Afghan Trade Corridor The 'Failure' of the Afghan Political Project Epilogue Bibliography Trade Review'A complex book both in its argument and its presentation. [...] This is a book written with serious intent and deserves close scrutiny.' - Asian Affairs Table of Contents

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Book Synopsis2016 is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme''There was hardly a household in the land'', writes Lyn Macdonald, ''there was no trade, occupation, profession or community, which was not represented in the thousands of innocent enthusiasts who made up the ranks of Kitchener''s Army before the Battle of the Somme...''The year 1916 was one of the great turning-points in British history: as the youthful hopes of a generation were crushed in a desperate struggle to survive, and traditional attitudes to authority were destroyed for ever. On paper, few battles have ever been so meticulously planned. Yet while there were good political reasons to launch a joint offensive with a French Army demoralized by huge casualties at Verdun, the raw troops on the ground knew nothing of that. A hundred and fifty thousand were killed in the punishing shellfire, the endless ordeal of attack and counter-attack; twice that number were left maimed or wounded. Here, aTrade ReviewSomme expresses the full range of meaning of the word 'grim'...I doubt if there are any better than this -- John Terraine * Daily Telegraph *A worthy addition to the literature of the Great War * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisSmall and isolated in the Colony of Natal, Fort Napier was long treated like a temporary outpost of the expanding British Empire. Yet British troops manned this South African garrison for over seventy years. Tasked with protecting colonists, the fort became even more significant as an influence on, and reference point for, settler society. Graham Dominy's Last Outpost on the Zulu Frontier reveals the unexamined but pivotal role of Fort Napier in the peacetime public dramas of the colony. Its triumphalist colonial-themed pageantry belied colonists's worries about their own vulnerability. As Dominy shows, the cultural, political, and economic methods used by the garrison compensated for this perceived weakness. Settler elites married their daughters to soldiers to create and preserve an English-speaking oligarchy. At the same time, garrison troops formed the backbone of a consumer market that allowed colonists to form banking and property interests that consolidated their control.Trade Review"Interesting and well-written . . . Dr. Dominy's impressive book paints a convincing picture of the social scene in Pietermaritzburg as it was influenced by the presence of the Victorian Army."--Journal of the Military History Society of Ireland"Dominy's readable and eclectic study represents an important step forward in both military and imperial historiography; he provides an enhanced and nuanced look at the means of imperial conquest that goes far beyond more traditional emphases on worn-out themes such as technological superiority and strategic planning. . . . Ultimately, the great value of Dominy's study is its ability to highlight the importance of local actors in shaping the imperial experience."--Journal of Military History"A noteworthy addition to South African historiography and well worth reading."--Victorian Military Society"Dominy's book provides an intimate and indispensable portrait of a colonial society; and one that laid the template for today's South Africa."--The Witness"[An] outstanding contribution to our historiography."--Pretoria News"Dominy has done a wonderful job of examining the history of a garrison, a people, a colony, and an imperial idea."--American Historical Review"Dominy excels in analyzing the broader social context of the garrison."--IJAHS"Truly places Fort Napier's history within several broader contexts--the settlement of Natal, the response of the indigenous inhabitants, the relationships between 'British' and other settlers, the wider history of the British army in the period, and the novel involvement of women protesting against the British advance. This is far from a narrow 'red coat' history."--Peter Stanley, author of White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India "Quite original. Rather than looking at campaigns and battles, the book shows how issues such as military parades, band performances, social events, marriages between soldiers and local settler women, and soldiers's bad behavior shaped settler society in Natal."--Timothy Stapleton, author of The Military History of Africa "An engrossing account, vividly illuminating the complexity of life within an imperial garrison and offering valuable insights into the impact of the military on southeast Africa's diverse societies and on Natal's development"--John Lambert, Professor Emeritus of the University of South Africa and author of Betrayed Trust: Africans and the State in Colonial Natal "This remarkable account of military-civil relations on an African frontier tells how the permanent British garrison of Natal interacted with and indelibly influenced settler society in the colonial capital."--Paul Thompson, University of Kwazulu-Natal "This is a fascinating story of wars and balls on the very fringes of empire, of exotic adventures and routine drudgery, of lightning strikes on parade, of nuances of social affectation, and of mutiny. Most of all it is a reminder of just how essential the military presence was to the growth and security of British settlement around the world in the nineteenth-century."--Ian Knight, author of Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift

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Book SynopsisWandering Women: Urban Ecologies of Italian Feminist Filmmakingexploresthe work of contemporary Italian women directors from feminist and ecological perspectives. Mostly relegated to the margins of the cultural scene, and concerned with women's marginality, the compelling films Wandering Women sheds light on tell stories of displacement and liminality that unfold through the act of walking in the city.The unusual emptiness of the cities that the nomadic female protagonists traverse highlights the absence of, and their wish for, life-sustaining communities.Laura Di Bianco contends thatwomen's urban filmmakingwhile articulating a claim for belonging and asserting cinematic and social agencybrings into view landscapes of the Anthropocene, where urban decay and the erasure of nature intersect with human alienation.Though a minor cinema, it is also a powerful movement of resistance against the dominant male narratives about the world we inhabit. Based on interviews with directors,WanderinTrade ReviewLaura Di Bianco combines ecocritical and feminist perspectives with acute awareness of social inequalities as she travels through the landscape of contemporary women's cinema in Italy. For its interdisciplinary outlook, Wandering Women will be of great interest to readers in Italian studies, gender studies, and environmental humanities. They will discover eight remarkable women film directors spanning three generations, who treat the urban environment as a living ecology. -- Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University, author of Streetwalking on a Ruined MapWandering Women invites readers on a lively voyage through Italian urban environments, from Milan to Rome, from Naples to Taranto and Reggio Calabria, following a dynamic canon of films made by Italian women directors. Addressing questions of ideology, geography, ecology, and aesthetics, Di Bianco's engrossing book examines figures both on screen and behind the scenes, showing how innovative filmmakers and their films reciprocally shape cinematic, urban, and affective places. This groundbreaking study is built on Di Bianco's deep knowledge of cinematic history and its many protagonists—directors, production crews, cities, ecologies, landscapes. Wandering Women is a convivial, generative conversation across generations of filmmakers. It is an innovative and timely treatise on ecology, cinema, and the Anthropocene in Italy, one that is destined to become a landmark in Italian film studies. -- Elena Past, author of Italian Ecocinema Beyond the HumanTable of ContentsPreface: Women Make Movies in ItalyAcknowledgmentsNote on TranslationIntroduction: Mapping Italian Women's Filmmaking1. Walking in Resilient Cities: Traveling with CeciliaFegatello: The Nightless City2. Urban Wandering, Scrapbooking, and Filmmaking: As the Shadow, My Tomorrow, Poetry You See MeFegatello: Ophelia Does Not Drown3. Mothers and Daughters: Stories of Survival and Care: The White Space, I Like to WorkFegatello: All About You4. Coming of Age in the City: Garbage, Corpses, and Miracles: Corpo Celeste, Domenica, Lost KissesFegatello: The Macaluso Sisters5. A Psychogeology of the City: N-AbleFegatello: In This WorldEpilogue: The Cities of WomenFilmographyBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisMichael Longley and Seamus Heaney's lives and careers have been intertwined since the 1960s, when they participated in the Belfast Group of creative writers and later edited the literary journal Northern Review. In Poetry and Peace: Michael Longley, Seamus Heaney, and Northern Ireland, Richard Rankin Russell explores Longley's and Heaney's poetic fidelity to the imagination in the midst of the war in Northern Ireland and their creation, through poetry, of a powerful cultural and sacred space. This space, Russell argues, has contributed to cultural and religious dialogue and thus helped enable reconciliation after the years of the Troubles. The first chapter examines the influence of the Belfast Group on Longley and Heaney's shared aesthetic of poetry. Successive chapters analyze major works by both poets. Russell offers close readings of poems in the context of the poets' cultural and political concerns for the province. He concludes by showing how thoroughly thTrade Review“Richard Rankin Russell shows clearly there are strands of reconciliatory feeling, desire, and attitude that bind the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley together. He demonstrates on the strength of this reconciliatory aesthetic how these poets ought to be considered together in critical intimacy. Along the way, Russell draws profitably on some interesting and occasionally little-known thinkers on religion and the sacred.” —John Wilson Foster, University of British Columbia“Although Richard Rankin Russell is wise enough to realize that poets are not ‘legislators of the world,’ whether acknowledged or unacknowledged, he argues convincingly that Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley have nurtured the process of reconciliation in war-torn Northern Ireland. By concentrating on the way they have addressed the violence that has ruined so many lives in their home country, Russell makes a significant contribution to the scholarship that surrounds them and their peers. He also teaches us how the imagination that makes art can also make peace.” —Henry Hart, College of William and Mary“Russell’s book takes a worthwhile and relatively unusual approach to criticism of modern poetry from Northern Ireland, by combining in-depth study of two poets, and putting these figures in the context of what he calls ‘reconciliation’—that is to say, the evolving peace-process in contemporary Northern Ireland, along with the history of its long gestation through the years of the Troubles. Russell believes that art—and in this case the art is poetry—made a difference to political and cultural developments in Northern Ireland over the past thirty and more years, and that this difference was one for the better, contributing to the political developments that delivered (or at least have so far seemed to deliver) an end to violence in the Province.” —Peter McDonald, Oxford University“Russell’s book is valuable in giving full attention to the work of Michael Longley, a poet of great range and variety who has been unjustly overlooked in some quarters. The book is additionally valuable in the way it takes poetry out of the ontologically abstract place it is assigned to by most literary criticism.” —The New Criterion“Richard Rankin Russell’s Poetry and Peace represents the best of the second wave of Heaney criticism and the rising tide of Longley criticism. . . . As a result of his far-reaching and adept research, insightful and informed analysis, and progressive thesis, Russell’s work is more than an excellent introduction to Longley’s poetry; it marks a new day in Longley studies.” —James Joyce Literary Supplement". . . Russell does show that Longley and Heaney have contributed appreciably to the peace process in Northern Ireland through their poetry, which remaining utterly faithful to its own autonomy, creates a discourse that escaped the violence and vengeance that have marked Northern Ireland since the Troubles. It does so by creating an imaginative space for the other and by emphasizing the shared cultural patrimony of the province. Russell luminously illustrates how Longley's and Heaney's emphasis on the legacy shared by Protestants and Catholics opens a way past the cycle of carnage and settling of scores; this emphasis affirms a community that includes all those once excluded by sectarian fury and mania." —Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice

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Book SynopsisThe three books presented in this volume, Integral Humanism, Freedom in the Modern World, and A Letter on Independence, were all written in the early 1930s, a time of dire trouble for France. France was then surrounded by enemies preparing for war and was itself so violently split between parties of Left and Right that it seemed on the verge of civil war. In this collection, Jacques Maritain accepts the responsibility of a Christian philosopher to actively address the agonizing practical problems of the time.Maritain discusses major political issues such as the relation of freedom and religion, the opposition of democracy to any form of totalitarianism, the relation of the spiritual and the temporal, the need for an integral and Christian humanism, and the prospects for a new Christian civilization, all in opposition to the materialism of both communism and capitalism.Against the fierce antagonism of the parties of the political Left and Right, Mar

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[M]asterful and uplifting study... Highly recommended for indigenous scholarsand activists, as well as students of modern social media." * Choice *"Cocq and DuBois offer an artist-centered account of Sámi agency within Sámi media products—countering implicitly the many stereotypes of the newness of Indigenous media use and activist traditions. The work is of value for both crafting a Sámi activist counter-history that “talks back” to the empire through its own media platforms, and in its close readings of numerous multimedia art works of prominent Sámi artists." * Journal of American Folklore *"[M]arks the arrival of Sámi -specific studies in new media and communication." * Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] fascinating and exhaustive study...An excellent storyteller, Fleischman has produced a very well-written book that will be useful togeneral readers and specialists alike." * Choice *"[D]escribe[s] the shifting, meaningful relationship between hogs and humans, a relationship worthy of our attention." * Ohio Valley Review *"Communist Pigs gives historians in many fields much to think about: the German Democratic Republic, the Eastern Bloc, Cold War diplomacy, late-twentieth-century capitalism, German reunification, industrial agriculture, environmentalism, and the pig. Fleischman convincingly argues that pigs' centrality to the GDR's trade with foreign nations, organization of internal priorities, and creation of challenges for the regime to grapple with makes them an effective lens for studying these histories, and succeeds in challenging ideological interpretations of the Cold War's outcome and of global capitalism's legacies." * H-Net *"[A] remarkable first book... Communist Pigs makes a major contribution to the ongoing efforts to reframe East Germany’s environmental history." * American Historical Review *"[P]acked with original insights. It represents a significant contribution to the intersecting histories of the environment, technology and science, and animals, and fills animportant gap in our knowledge about the relationship between communism, technology, and animals." * Technology and Culture *

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Book SynopsisInvestigates the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. This book documents the extent to which economics influenced literature and philosophy and the surprising degree to which literature and philosophy participated in the creation of modern economic paradigms.Trade Review"Gray's book Money Matters is the work of a voracious and yet rigorously disciplined intellect, and points to the way to a sustained engagement of the humanities with three centuries of political economy. Unfortunately, books like Gray's . . . are all too rare. In an age where finance capital continues to make good use of liberal arts graduates . . . the liberal arts must continue to speak directly to the historic of economics, and attest to a cultural memory that can counterbalance the rush of amnesia between the screens of global monetary systems. In short, more people should read and think and write this way—and therefore, more people should read what Richard Gray offers in this volume." * Monatshefte *"Among many other things, this is a timely book. As the global financial crisis has shattered the myth of a self-regulating market economy . . . Gray's study makes a point that threatens to get lost in the prevailing atmosphere of moral indignation: money does matter—even, and perhaps especially . . . in the lofty realms of what Germans like to call the 'breadless' arts, that is, in cultural imagination. . . . [There are] rich and manifold interactions between the literary and the monetary economies that Gray has explored in a fascinating book." * Modern Language Quarterly *"In short, Money Matters is a book that matters. In concert with the likes of Beiser, Lenoir, and Richards, Gray does help to pen a different, but more accurate and far more comprehensive, picture of one of the most crucial phases of the history of German culture and European science and society. Gray does us the indispensable favour of providing not only an insightful and convincing book, but also one that is well-crafted and even fun to read…. I can say that Money Matters is one of those books that will remain on my desk among that small selection of well-worn books that I always keep in reach and use very frequently. I have never given higher praise to a book, and it is not likely that I ever will again." * Canadian Journal of History *"Gray's approach, combining meticulous and penetrating case studies with broader theoretical and historical considerations… is again utilized to great advantage, elegantly melded with Gray's expansive learnedness in philosophy and cultural and literary theories." * German Quarterly *"…in Money Matters Richard T. Gray uncovers significant episodes of a productive interplay between economics and culture that, at least in the case of Germany, constituted a foundational moment in the history of both…. Gray's discovery of such enthusiasm for modern economics on the part of characters who have been consistently vilified as antimodernists is supremely illuminating, worthy of further study-representing intellectual history at its best" * Business History Review *"What makes Gray's writing so interesting is the fact that he reads the two social arenas, economics and literature, together, through each other, and posits as his central thesis that the move from a substantialist economy (i.e., an economy based on substances such as gold) to a functionalist economic system (i.e., one based on the exchange of promissory notes such as paper money) was mirrored in the period's literature. This approach yields interesting insights . . . . [and] informed by the writings of Marx, Freud, Bataille and Althusserl, elicits remarkable results and will no doubt add valuable insights to existing scholarship." * Journal of Contemporary European Studies *"It is relevant and most instructive for us today that Gray demonstrates the close connection between economics and the imagination in the theory of paper money. Gray describes this connection on the examples of thinkers such as Hamann and Herder, Fichte and the Romantics Novalis or Adam Müller, and ultimately in the case of Goethe." * Frankfurter Allgemeine *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Economics and Intellectual Culture Chapter 1 / Buying into Signs: Money and Semiosis in Eighteenth-Century German Language Theory Chapter 2 / Hypersign, Hypermoney, Hypermarket: Adam Muller's Theory of Money and Romantic Semiotics Chapter 3 / Economic Romanticism: Monetary Nationalism in Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Adam Muller Chapter 4 / Economics and the Imagination: Cultural Values and the Debate over Physiocracy in Germany, 1770-1789 Part Two: Literary Economies Chapter 5 / Counting on God: Economic Providentialism in Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling's Lebensgeschichte Chapter 6 / Deep Pockets: The Economics and Poetics of Excess in Adelbert von Chamisso's Peter Shlemihl Chapter 7 / Red Herrings and Blue Smocks: Commercialism, Ecological Destruction, and Anti-Semitism in Annette von Droste-Hulshoff's Die Judenbuche Chapter 8 / The (Mis)Fortune of Commerce: Economic Transformation in Adalbert Stifter's Bergkristall Conclusion / Limitless Faith in the Limitless: Money, Modernity, and the Economics/Aesthetics of Mediation of Goethe's Faust II Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores the complicated and fascinating relationship between Vladimir Nabokov and his Cornell colleague Marc SzeftelTrade Review"Pniniad is an utterly absorbing, sad, and touching book." -Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisA compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globeTrade Review“Mr. Davies’s superb analysis, though centering on the British experience, implicitly raises broader concerns. How, during peacetime, can armies and the civilian authorities overseeing them avoid the errors of groupthink and sustain military capabilities? It is a perennial question to which . . . there is no easy answer.”—William Anthony Hay, Wall Street Journal “The British Way of War . . . is a rich and thought-provoking book that will be of great interest in relation to the momentous first decades of the twentieth century, to British strategy, and about strategy more generally.”—Evan Mawdsley, International Journal of Military History and Historiography “Vigorously argued, this intriguing thesis rests on wide-ranging research among the extensive secondary literature and archival sources.”—Stephanie Brumwell, Times Literary Supplement "Andrew Lambert has now written the definitive biography that Corbett has long deserved . . . indispensable."—Hew Strachan, War in HistoryWinner of the 2022 SAHR Templer Medal “In this wide ranging and important study, Huw Davies assesses an improvement in military proficiency that was highly significant for global as well as British history. It deserves considerable attention.”—Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy “An eminently readable book, offering an important new perspective on Britain’s military leadership and warfare strategies in a period of significant change. Davies gives us a rare front-row seat at mess tables, desks, and command tents of eighteenth-century army personnel around the globe.”—Jennine Hurl-Eamon, author of Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century “This well-researched, well-written and profoundly thought-provoking and stimulating book will force us to reappraise the whole area of the British Army’s evolution from the eve of the Seven Years’ War to that of the Crimean War.”—Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life “An important exploration of how formal and informal networks shaped knowledge exchange and institutional learning during the British military enlightenment of the mid-18th century. Davies has brought together an impressive expanse of archival research in order to show how the British army learned and adapted in its first series of global imperial wars.”— Anna Brinkman-Schwartz, King’s College London “In this wide ranging and important study, Huw Davies assesses an improvement in military proficiency that was highly significant for global as well as British history. It deserves considerable attention.”—Jeremy Black, author of Military Strategy -- Jeremy Black“An eminently readable book, offering an important new perspective on Britain’s military leadership and warfare strategies in a period of significant change. Davies gives us a rare front-row seat at mess tables, desks, and command tents of eighteenth-century army personnel around the globe.”—Jennine Hurl-Eamon, author of Marriage and the British Army in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Jennine Hurl-Eamon“This well-researched, well-written and profoundly thought-provoking and stimulating book will force us to reappraise the whole area of the British Army’s evolution from the eve of the Seven Years’ War to that of the Crimean War.”—Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life -- Andrew Roberts“An important exploration of how formal and informal networks shaped knowledge exchange and institutional learning during the British military enlightenment of the mid-18th century. Davies has brought together an impressive expanse of archival research in order to show how the British army learned and adapted in its first series of global imperial wars.”— Anna Brinkman-Schwartz, King’s College London -- Anna Brinkman-Schwartz

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Book SynopsisA major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolutionTrade Review“Davy’s account is vital. . . . His thorough and well researched analysis breathes of fresh air through some very old yarns.”—Tom Petch, Aspects of History“Clear structure and logic-flow, enlivened by vividly depicted characters and incidents. . . . The attentive reader will benefit from fresh understanding of a period of huge importance in our history.”—M. K. Barritt, Naval Review“Opens fresh perspectives on a critical period in British history, highlighting the challenge of radical politics in the 1790’s.”—Adam Lambert, BBC History Magazine“Davey subverts the genre with a very different story about the Royal Navy, one that looks not across the Channel at the foreign foe, but rather gazes inward to emphasize the deep social and political conflicts that destabilized both nation and navy throughout the revolutionary 1790s.”—Niklas Frykman, Mariner’s Mirror“This magnificent book really lifts the lid on the sailing navy at war, for the 1790s were indeed tempestuous years. James Davey presents intricate, powerful evidence from a very wide range of sources. This book puts into context the recent contentious arguments between historians about impressment and mutiny. It will recalibrate the historical debate.”—Roger Knight, author of Convoys“This book breaks new ground. Well researched and readable, it firmly links the naval mutinies of the revolutionary 1790s to shore-based insurgency, while its international reach also allows it to take in the revolts of enslaved Africans in the West Indies.”—Margarette Lincoln, author of London and the Seventeenth Century “Erudite, balanced, innovative, and based on deep engagement with the sources, Tempest recovers sailors’ voices and listens to them carefully. In the process, it offers an impressively lucid case for the relevance of the late eighteenth-century Navy to British history—and to the present.”—Sara Caputo, author of Foreign Jack Tars

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Book SynopsisThe story of a remarkable era of reform, controversy, optimism, and Cold War confrontation in the Soviet UnionTrade Review“The Soviet Sixties is a highly illuminating reflection of what we understand about the era now.”—Catriona Kelly, Times Literary Supplement“Hornsby takes us through the ups-and-downs of the Khrushchev era, with its promising reforms and unexpected reversals, until a new Kremlin leadership, directed by Leonid Brezhnev, crushed all hope for change within the Soviet bloc. The Soviet Sixties is an engaging, deeply informed, and balanced account of a pivotal period in Soviet history.”—Joshua Rubenstein, author of The Last Days of Stalin“Exceptional, expertly written and stunningly comprehensive. In the same page, the reader can learn about the manoeuvrings of Stalin’s cabinet after his death, which film was most popular in a given week, how women behind the scenes shepherded a future Nobel laureate’s work through the censors, and where riots and dissent threatened the status quo.”—Erica L. Fraser, author of Military Masculinity and Postwar Recovery in the Soviet Union“A fine compendium of diverse social and cultural currents in Soviet-Russian history. It gives a unique understanding of complexity. One sees that in Soviet Russia and other parts of the USSR repression, ideocracy, and misery co-existed with humanity, hope, defiance, and vibrant creativity.”—Vladislav Zubok, author of Collapse

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Book SynopsisPrize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavernTrade Review“A magnificently entertaining book.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post“Impeccable scholarship at the service of absolute lucidity. . . . Learned, penetrating, a pleasure to read. . . . [A] splendid book.”—Joseph Epstein, Wall Street Journal“Damrosch brilliantly brings together the members’ voices. . . . As this stellar book moves from one Club member to another, it comes together as an ambitious venture homing in on the nature of creative stimulus. . . . The best historians . . . invite readers to accompany them ‘behind the scenes.’ Damrosch does precisely that here, . . . [in] a book that sustains a shared conversation, a terrific feat in keeping with that of the Club itself.”—Lyndall Gordon, New York Times Book Review“Beginning in 1764, some of Britain’s future leading lights (including Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke and Edward Gibbon) met every Friday night to talk and drink. Damrosch’s magnificent history revives the Club’s creative ferment.”—New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice“Engaging and illuminating . . . Damrosch is a crisp guide . . . He wears his learning lightly, and his sympathetic enjoyment is infectious. . . . In The Club, as the actors appear one by one, surrounding Johnson and Boswell on Damrosch’s stage, we are transported back to a world of conversations, arguments, ideas, and writings. And in this vibrantly realized milieu, words rarely fail.”—Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books “A very readable introduction” – Emily Jones, Financial TimesA New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2019A Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of 2019A Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of 2019“Damrosch has a keen eye for the quirks of character and provides an engaging, informative introduction”—Henry Hitchings, The Times“Damrosch's strength lies in the retelling of colourful anecdotes”—Jane Darcy, Times Literary Supplement“[A] detailed, gripping study of genius and geniality in 18th century London”—Alex Colville, Spectator“Lively and perceptive”—Jeffrey Meyers, Times Higher Education“This is a genial book”—Clive Aslet, Country Life“[A] generously illustrated group biography”—Oldie“This book [. . .] does combine several strands of scholarship and literary investigation to create an entertaining overview of the world in which they, and others, interacted. Damrosch brings the different characters to life, revealing them as fallible but likeable human beings, rather than just revered cultural figures. More importantly, we get a glimpse of the enjoyment that they felt in one another’s company”—Paul Flux, AlbionShortlisted for the 2020 Christian Gauss Book Award, sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa SocietyFinalist for the 2019 Julia Ward Howe award for non-fiction category, sponsored by The Boston Authors ClubWinner in the PROSE Awards Biography and Autobiography category, sponsored by the Association of American Publishers Finalist in the L.A. Times Book Prize, biography category, sponsored by the L.A.Times.“The Club is a stimulating and delightful work. The portraits of Boswell, Gibbon, and Burke are extraordinary condensations granting us accurate visions of complex personalities. Leo Damrosch has addressed himself to common readers with authentic gusto.”—Harold Bloom“Brilliant, lucid, and enjoyable . . . With perfectly chosen anecdotes, The Club vividly evokes the period.”—Norma Clarke, author of Dr Johnson's Women“Leo Damrosch’s book is an extraordinary achievement. A lively and engaging account of the coming together of a group of famously gifted individuals—the Club, a virtual microcosm of the vibrant world of mid-to-late eighteenth-century London.”—William C. Dowling, Rutgers University

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Book SynopsisWhy some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe, from independent cities to new monarchies, welcomed refugees during the Age of Revolutions and prosperedTrade Review“Janet Polasky unearths an unappreciated history of the experience of asylum in Europe and the United States since the Age of the Democratic Revolutions. Facing squarely the destruction of asylum in our own time, she ends with a stunningly optimistic vision of a path toward its reconstruction.”—Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies“Janet Polasky not only expertly depicts the life of French émigrés in the cosmopolitan cities of Hamburg and Altona during the Revolution, but she explores the asylum dilemmas that confront the world today.”—Kirsty Carpenter, Massey University“Janet Polasky weaves a compelling history from the human experiences of political refugees who found temporary welcomes in the ‘small spaces’ of European states, in port cities, in Brussels, and the Swiss cantons. Her stylish prose deftly captures a historical moment suspended between Enlightenment cosmopolitanism and emergent nationalism.”—Mary Lindemann, University of Miami

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A meticulously researched account of how British slave merchants in their interactions with African agents made very calculated economic decisions in order to maximize the profits made from the slave trade, and how these decisions impacted Atlantic African societies and contributed to dehumanizing African men, women, and children.”—Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University“An illuminating study of the raw ambition, brutal efficiency, and networked strategies of violence that underpinned the explosion of 18th-century British Atlantic-world slave trading. Radburn makes a compelling case for why these vaguely remembered ‘merchants’ should be reclaimed from respectability.”—Maeve Ryan, author of Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System“This is a landmark study given its clear status as easily the best researched and most comprehensive book on the British slave trade to date.”—David Eltis, coauthor of Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade“This definitive analysis of the British slave trade, encompassing Europe, Africa, and the Americas, blends quantitative and qualitative research in a clear-eyed, chilling, and convincing account of a business even more ruthless than abolitionists imagined.”—Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University“A masterful account of one of the most brutal moments in the history of capitalist modernity. Radburn brilliantly details all aspects of the process of commodification of human beings in the Liverpool slave trade, vividly depicting the long journeys endured by Africans in Africa, across the Atlantic, and in the Americas.”—Leonardo Marques, Universidade Federal Fluminense

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Book SynopsisThe U.S. Army supply organization for the Normandy Invasion, although very impressive, should have done a better job in the summer of 1944. The purpose of this work is to examine an aspect of military history which, as many military historians have pointed out, has received little attention.Table of ContentsIllustrations Introduction The "Complicated Set-Up": Establishing the Supply System Landing Craft and Wool Drawers: The Logistical Plans Over the Beach: Distribution Difficulties, June-July 1944 BARs and Mortar Shells: Supply Shortages in the Hedgerows Confusion Continues: The Communications Zone on the Continent Across France: Distribution Difficulties, August-September 1944 Gasoline and More: Supply Shortages During the Pursuit Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPreface Acknowledgements LIDDELL HART'S THEORY OF ARMOURED WARFARE Deep Strategic Penetration Combating 'Blitzkrieg' The All-arms Armoured Formation BRITISH INFLUENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE PANZER ARM Origins: The 1920s and Early '30s The Creation of the Panzer Arm Conclusion Bibliography IndexTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements LIDDELL HART'S THEORY OF ARMOURED WARFARE Deep Strategic Penetration Combating 'Blitzkrieg' The All-arms Armoured Formation BRITISH INFLUENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE PANZER ARM Origins: The 1920s and Early '30s The Creation of the Panzer Arm Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Renaissance, now in its third edition, engages with earlier and current debates about the Renaissance, especially concerning its âmodernityâ, its elitism and gender bias and its globalism. This new edition has been revised to include a discussion of Venice, Rome, Naples and Florence and their relationship with surrounding courts and smaller provincial towns. Brown provides a fresh insight into some of the main themes of the Renaissance, with humanism now being explored in relation to gender, the position of women and the response of religious reformers to the new ideas. The broad geographical scope, concluding with an examination of diffusion through trade with Constantinople, Portugal and Spain, allows students to fully explore how the Renaissance transformed into a global movement. Key themes, such as humanism, art and architecture, Renaissance theatre and the invention of printing, are illustrated with quotations and exempla, making this book an invaluable source for students of the Renaissance, early modern history and social and cultural history.Table of ContentsPART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1. The Problem of Interpretation 2. The Concept of Revival 3. Earlier Renaissances, 800-1300 PART TWO: CONTEXT: POLITICS AND RELIGION 4. Italian Communes and City-States, c. 1300 5. The Rise of Lordships and the Black Death 6. Florence, Venice and Naples 7. Rome and the Papacy PART THREE: RENAISSANCE PASSIONS 8. Petrarch: self-love and the love of books 9. New Schools 10. Liberty and Republicanism 11. Art and Architecture 12. Man the Measure of all things: humanism and gender 13. Religion ancient and modern PART FOUR: SOCIETY AND THE CIRCULATION OF NEW IDEAS 14. Commerce and the Classics in Europe and the East 15. Portugal, Spain and the New World 16. The Invention of Printing 17. Representation and the Renaissance Theatre PART FIVE: ASSESSMENT 18. Globalism and the Renaissance PART SIX: DOCUMENTS

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Book SynopsisCricket is an enduring paradox. On the one hand, it symbolises much that is outmoded: imperialism; a leisured elite; a rural, aristocratic Englishness. On the other, it endures as a global game and does so by skilful adaptation, trading partly on its mythic past and partly on its capacity to repackage itself. This ambitious new history recounts the politics of cricket around the world since the Second World War, examining key cultural and political themes, including decolonisation, racism, gender, globalisation, corruption and commercialisation. Part One looks at the transformation of cricket cultures in the ten territories of the former British Empire in the years immediately after 1945, a time when decolonisation and the search for national identity touched every cricket playing region in the world. Part Two focuses on globalisation and the game's evolution as an international sport, analysing: social change and the Ashes; the campaigns for new cricket formats; the developmTrade ReviewShortlisted for The Cricket Writers’ Club book award 2018"An astonishing piece of deep scholarship and stylish concision. The book possesses a richness and an intellectual grasp far greater than a short review can properly reflect." - Paul Edwards, The Cricketer"The injunction to keep politics out of sport is age-old. Muddle-headed too, as Stephen Wagg's comprehensive comparative history of the politics in cricket demonstrates. This thorough and necessary book should become a standard reference." - Gideon Haigh, Australia's leading cricket writer"Building thoughtfully on the work of the late Mike Marqusee, this is an insightful and richly rewarding labour of love. Astutely structured and deftly researched, the book draws on the author’s deep knowledge of geopolitical reality and how it manifests itself in post-Imperial cricket, enabling an ambitious brief to be admirably met. At times, indeed, you wonder how the game has survived the context in which it is played. If you want to know why cricket is the world’s most racialized, politicised and fascinating ballgame, look no further." - Rob Steen, Senior Lecturer and award-winning sports journalist, University of Brighton, UK"Cricket is one of a few sports where nation vs nation remained a primary contest well into the new millennium. Inexorably tied to a colonial past, cricket also reflected the aspiration of its new nations and nationhoods over the last five decades. In a masterful work of scholarship, Wagg gives us an engaging, comprehensive new history of modern cricket. From the relentless churn of events, achievements and controversies around the cricketing globe, he teases out the sport’s engagements with the zeitgeist: the tussle between the old world and the new, the tumult of race and gender, the advent of "professionalism", globalisation and the corporatisation of cricket. As much as the book is about modern cricket around the world, Wagg has also skilfully identified the world's footprints on modern cricket." - Sharda Ugra, Senior Editor, ESPNcricinfo and ESPN India"Now seems the ideal time for the publication of a book pertaining to the history of how cricket has developed in and out of step with the political and social sphere … Among others, the book is dedicated to the late American writer and political activist Mike Marqusee, and leans heavily on his totemic treatise Anyone but England. Though this book is less polemic than that work, it slots in comfortably next to it on a cricket love’s bookshelf, and loses little in comparison to its relative. There can be little higher praise than that." - WisdenTable of ContentsPart 1: Cricket and the End of Empire 1. Fossilised Reactionaries? English Cricket Since 1945 2. A Nation of Blow-Ins? Cricket in Australia Since 1945 3. ‘The Partnership of the Horse and its Rider’: Cricket in Southern Africa Since 1945 4. A Relative Lack of Interest: Cricket in New Zealand Since 1945 5. Father, King, Statesman, General, Prince, Don: West Indian Cricket Culture Since 1945 6. The Soul of a Nation, Long Suppressed? Cricket in India Since 1945 7. Cricket in a Hard Country: Pakistani Cricket Since 1947 8. ‘We Rule Here, You Rule There’: Cricket in East Pakistan and Bangladesh Since 1947 9. After Brewing Tea for the Empire: Cricket in Sri Lanka Since 1945 10. Straight Shooting Blokes: Social Distinction, Masculinity and Myth in The Ashes 1945 to 2015 Part 2: Cricket in the Age of Globalisation 11. ‘Everyone Seemed to Be ‘With It’: Cricket Politics and the Coming of the One Day Game, 1940-1970 12. ‘Paint a Picture, and Keep it the Right Way Up’: Cricket and the Mass Media 1945-2015 13. Women’s Cricket: The Feminism That Dared Not Speak Its Name 14. Remove the Gunk in the Middle: The Coming of Twenty20 and the Indian Premier League 15. Have You Made This Team Great, or Have They Made You? Cricket, Coaching, and Globalisation 16. Beyond the Boundaries: The Drive to Globalise Cricket, and its Limits 17. Afterword

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