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University of Illinois Press Remaking Muslim Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Through his graceful rendering of lives constrained by debt and foreshortened economic horizons, Henig reveals the potent entwining of religion and history that shapes village life and orients social worlds in this rural space of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Remaking Muslim Lives in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina is a beautifully written book about futures and pasts and the everyday work in between." --Sarah E. Wagner, coauthor of Srebrenica in the Aftermath of Genocide "Thanks to his curiosity and sensitivity to the lived experiences of religion, David Henig takes us beyond the clichéd images of Islam in Europe in this vivid ethnography of Muslim lives in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina. As he explores small-town mosques, village houses, and communal graveyards, Henig pauses to reveal perceptive new insights and pose thoughtful questions that will resonate with historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and others interested in the layered meanings of Muslim religious practice today." --Edin Hajdarpasic, author of Whose Bosnia? Nationalism and Political Imagination in the Balkans, 1840–1914 "The Muslim communities Henig describes are centuries-old, yet their villages, orchards, and fields are vulnerable possessions. Islam and the vital exchanges it creates -- among people and with God--give Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina a tenacious grip on time and space. Henig traces these exchanges in amazing detail. He takes us beyond questions of whether Islam can be European to places where divinity and identity have already been woven into moral systems of incredible staying power. His analysis is driven by the sacred power of those places."--Andrew Shryock, author of Deep History: the Architecture of Past and PresentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part One: Making and Unmaking Village Lives 1 Houses in Flames 2 Locked Doors 3 Halal Exchange Part Two: Vital Exchange 4 Cosmological Time 5 Praying and Witnessing 6 Blessing Falling from the Sky Afterword: The Sultan is back Glossary Notes References
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Berlinica Publishing LLC Berlin! Berlin!
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University of Wales Press Medieval Welsh Medical Texts: Volume One: The
Book SynopsisOPEN ACCESS To view Medieval Welsh Medical Texts for free click on the following links: https://www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/MWMT_final_low-res-1.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK558253/ This volume presents the first critical edition and translation of the corpus of medieval Welsh medical recipes traditionally ascribed to the Physicians of Myddfai. These offer practical treatments for a variety of everyday conditions such as toothache, constipation and gout. The recipes have been edited from the four earliest collections of Welsh medical texts in manuscript, which date from the late fourteenth century. A series of notes provides sources and analogues for the recipes, demonstrating their relationship with the European medical tradition. The identification of herbal ingredients in the recipes is based on pre-modern plant-name glossaries rather than modern dictionaries, and has led to new interpretations of many of the recipes. Comprehensive glossaries allow the reader to find any recipe based on the ingredients and equipment used in it or the condition treated. This new interpretation of these texts clearly shows that they are not unique, but rather form part of the medical tradition that was common throughout Europe during the Middle Ages.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations I Introduction II The Texts III Indexes IV Appendices Bibliography
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Holt McDougal The British Are Coming
Book SynopsisWinner of the George Washington PrizeWinner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American HistoryWinner of the Excellence in American History Book AwardWinner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardThe paperback edition of the New York Times bestseller that the Wall Street Journal said was chock full of momentous events and larger-than-life characters.Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America's violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Contine
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Inside Greek Terrorism
Book SynopsisThe long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country's premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe's longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N). However, rather than demoralising and emasculating the country's armed struggle movement, the dismantling of 17N and the imprisonment of its members led to the emergence of new urban guerrilla groups and an upsurge in and intensification of revolutionary violence. Given the sheer longevity of the 17N terrorist experience, George Kassimeris sets out to analyse the life histories of the group's imprisoned members. Their stories, told through their own words, offer us a clearer picture than we have ever had of the political and ideological environment that provided the foundations upon which revolutionary terrorism took root in the mid-1970s. This book also brings up to date the gritty story of Greek terrorism, by analysing the country's post-17N generation of ur- ban guerrilla groups, placing their extremism and violence in a broader political and cultural perspective.Trade Reviewindisputably the most analytic and complete work over Greek terrorism, both in English and in Greek, ever published.' - South East European and Black Sea Studies 'Impressive and timely. -- Richard English, Terrorism and Political ViolenceNo one knows more about Greek terrorism than George Kassimeris. Perfectly timed, 'Inside Greek Terrorism' reflects the author's personal knowledge of key figures, as well as years of careful research. With the recent resurgence of extremism in Greece, this vital book could not be more welcome to experts and general readers alike. -- Audrey Kurth Cronin, Professor, George Mason University and author of 'How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns'This is both an important and a timely work, especially given the recent re-emergence of extremist violence in Greece. Kassimeris is without any doubt the leading analyst today on Greek violent extremism and one of the leading younger scholars in the field of terrorism and political violence. -- Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign ServiceThe importance of the life histories of individuals and their deep ideological commitment is under-scored in this exceedingly well-informed and thoroughly researched account of terrorism in modern Greece. George Kassimeris convincingly demonstrates that explaining the perspective of the terrorist is essential to answering the question of how terrorism can develop within contemporary Western democracies. -- Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford UniversityA fascinating and highly readable account of Greece's most renowned terrorist group that answers the questions we all had: who? and why? The analysis places 17N in context and admirably draws out its key themes. A number of these remain deeply disturbing, especially as they are shown to resonate in the present with a new generation of terrorists. -- Kevin Featherstone, Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics, London School of Economics and Political ScienceAn important account of the origins and evolution of terrorism in Greece. * Perspectives on Terrorism *'Inside Greek Terrorism' . . . [by] George Kassimeris, probably the expert on left-wing political violence in Greece . . . is a very good resource on left-wing terrorism in Greece and its ideological underpinnings. It is very detailed and we learn a lot about what has been going on the country for the past decades. * War Studies Publications *No one knows more about Greek terrorism than George Kassimeris. Perfectly timed, 'Inside Greek Terrorism' reflects the author's personal knowledge of key figures, as well as years of careful research. With the recent resurgence of extremism in Greece, this vital book could not be more welcome to experts and general readers alike. -- Audrey Kurth Cronin, Professor, George Mason University and author of 'How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns'George Kassimeris is a leading academic analyst of terrorism in Greece through his earlier study of the group 17N, and now brings the story up to date. It is salutary to be reminded that the break up of 17N was not the end. Kassimeris makes good use of court testimony to construct the life stories of Greek terrorists, and their motives for joining, and in some cases leaving, their chosen groups. The book is a timely contribution to the understanding of this ugly and recurrent phenomenon. -- Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith, Former British Ambassador to GreeceThis concise volume takes a careful look at the evolution of Greek terrorist organisations from the mid-1970s to around 2012. . . . [It] is a well-researched work on an important topic [and] will be of interest to academics, experts and general readers alike. * Political Studies Review *
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Yale University Press The First Soldier Hitler as Military Leader
Book SynopsisA leading expert reexamines history to offer a stunningly original portrait of Hitler as a competent military commander and strategistTrade ReviewSelected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title of 2019“Perhaps the best account we have to date of Hitler’s military leadership. It shows a scrupulous and imaginative historian at work and will cement Fritz’s reputation as one of the leading historians of the military conflicts generated by Hitler’s Germany.”—Richard Overy, author of The Bombing War“Magnificent. Hitler emerges as a complex and nuanced military leader who cannot simply be dismissed as the dogmatic ideologue or the corporal in command. Original, insightful and authoritative Fritz’s latest work is something I will return to again and again.”—David Stahel, author of The Battle for Moscow“Cuts a swathe through the reconstituted arguments of countless other books about Hitler. Meticulously researched and adopting a thoroughly readable style, Fritz offers profound new insights about Hitler as commander. This is a volume which should serve as a warning to strategic leaders who become blinkered by ideology, self-absorbed and neglect the requirements of successful leadership.”—Lloyd Clark, author of Blitzkrieg
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Cornell University Press Remains of Socialism
Book SynopsisIn Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of remainsboth physical objects and cultural remaindersto analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism.Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era Bambi soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime''s informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the futureand to mourn futures that never materializeTrade ReviewRemains of Socialism is an examination of 'mature' postsocialism that aptly demonstrates the ongoing disciplinary relevance of the region. Nadkarni offers her astute observations in clear, confident, accessible prose. * American Anthropologist *Multi-layered, intimate, and insightful on many levels, this remarkable and beautifully written book sets a new standard in the field of memory studies. * Association for Women in Slavic Studies *[Remains of Socialism] constitute[s] highly valuable contributions to the literature on the memory of the socialist past and the elements of nostalgia and retro in this memory. [The book] also offer[s] a new, more reflective, analytical reading of nostalgia. * H-Soz-Kult *Nadkarni is a superbly well-informed anthropologist. It is almost a hopeless endeavor to scrutinize her text for factual inaccuracies, misunderstandings, or mistranslations. Her grasp of both the language and the gestures of her interviewees likely finds those anthropologists struggling to make sense of the production of meaning in their field research envious. * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Banishing Remains 2. The Hole in the Flag 3. Nostalgia and the Remains of Everyday Life 4. Recovering National Victimhood at the House of Terror 5. Secrets, Inheritance, and a Generation's Remains 6. A Past Returned, A Future Deferred Conclusion
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University of Hertfordshire Press Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A
Book SynopsisThis compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants. For too long, the principal intellectual approach has been to consider both subject and evidence from a modern, rationalist perspective and to afford greater importance to the social elite. New perspectives are needed. By re-evaluating the source material from the perspective of the peasant worldview, it is possible to build a far more detailed representation of rural peasant experience. Susan Kilby seeks to reconstruct the physical and socio-cultural environment of three contrasting English villages - Lakenheath in Suffolk, Castor in Northamptonshire and Elton in Huntingdonshire - between c. 1086 and c. 1348 and to use this as the basis for determining how peasants perceived their natural surroundings. In so doing she draws upon a vast array of sources including documents, material culture, place-names and family names, and the landscape itself. At the same time, she explores the approaches adopted by a wide variety of academic disciplines, including onomastics, anthropology, ethnography, landscape archaeology and historical geography. This highly interdisciplinary process reveals exciting insights into peasant mentalities. For example, cultural geographers’ understanding of the ways in which different groups ‘read’ their local landscape has profound implications for the ways in which we might interpret evidence left to us by medieval English peasant communities, while anthropological approaches to place-naming demonstrate the distinct possibility that there were similarities between the naming practices of First Nations people and medieval society. Both groups used key landscape referents and also used names as the means by which locally important history, folklore and legends were embedded within the landscape itself. Among many valuable insights, this study also reveals that, although uneducated in the formal sense, peasants understood aspects of contemporary scientific thought. In addition to enhancing academic understanding of the lived experience, this new approach augments our comprehension of subjects such as social status, peasant agency, peasants’ economic experiences and the construction of communal and individual memory. Susan Kilby’s groundbreaking study enables us to reclaim significant elements of the environment inhabited and traversed by English people over 700 years ago.Table of ContentsIntroduction Understanding the rural environment: the seigneurial perspective Ordering the landscape The unseen landscape Naming the landscape The remembered landscape The economic landscape Managing the landscape Conclusion Bibliography
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Duke University Press The Birth of Solidarity
Book SynopsisFrançois Ewald’s The Birth of Solidarity—first published in French in 1986 and appearing here in English for the first time—is one of the most important historical and philosophical studies of the rise of the welfare state.Trade Review“Ingenious and trenchant, François Ewald's The Birth of Solidarity offers an arresting insight into the politicization of probability. Abounding in legal and historical detail, the book deftly demonstrates how industrial power integrated French society by assuming the risk of accidents. Ewald's critical theory of the rules of judicial decision-making is a tour de force. His critique of law brilliantly unveils the birth of the twentieth-century insurantial society that is now itself at risk.” -- Bernard E. Harcourt, author of * The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order *“François Ewald's seminal book is not only a major contribution to the history of the welfare state but a significant work of social and political theory in its own right, notably in the way Ewald applies a Foucauldian perspective to understanding the significance of concepts such as responsibility, insurance, and solidarity to modern forms of government. The Birth of Solidarity is a landmark in French political thought.” -- Michael C. Behrent, coeditor of * Foucault and Neoliberalism *"This very important text covers some familiar ground but is set in a rich context of political theory that sheds light on current challenges to the welfare state. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty." -- J. D. Moon * Choice *“Ewald’s interweaving of complex social forces is captivating, as he systematically delineates the many individuals, groups, ideologies, political parties, and historical events that contributed to what became the French welfare state. Social scientists will be particularly intrigued by his exploration of the power of demographics as they clashed with the social structures that could no longer respond to them effectively." -- Gail Murphy-Geiss * Modern & Contemporary France *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface / Timothy Scott Johnson ix Risk, Insurance, Security / Melinda Cooper xiii Part I. The History of Responsibility 1. Civil Law 5 2. Security and Liberty 30 3. Noblesse Oblige 47 Part II. Universal Insurance against Risk 4. Average and Perfection 77 5. An Art of Combinations 96 6. Universal Politics 115 Part III. The Recognition of Professional Risk 7. Charitable Profit 141 8. Security and Responsibility 165 9. First and Foremost, a Political Law 181 Notes 223 Bibliography 251 Index
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd Berlin Intelligence Map
Book SynopsisPublished specially by After the Battle to coincide with the suspension of Allied occupation rights in Berlin in October 1990, this map was produced in 1944 by the War Office and lists the location and use of all important buildings in Berlin to be used in the occupation of the city. Every building associated with the Reich Government, NSDAP, police, fire service, Reichsbahn, U-Bahn, hospitals, telephone exchanges, embassies, prisons, etc., is numbered and referenced to an index printed on the reverse of the map. This sheet covers the central area at 1:12500.
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Quercus Publishing Great Irish Speeches
Book SynopsisGreat Irish Speeches contains 50 of the most stirring and memorable speeches in Irish history. From the political oratories of Charles Stewart Parnell, Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera to emotive addresses by the nation's celebrated poets, writers and musicians, all of the included speeches have had a remarkable impact on the course of Irish and world history. Each speech is preceded by an introduction, which places the address in context and underlines its historical significance, as well as an iconic photograph of the speaker. Presented chronologically, the collection provides tremendous insight into Irish history. Includes the following speeches: Eamon de Valera 'That Ireland which we dreamed of', Eamon de Valera 'The abuse of a people who have done him no wrong', John F. Kennedy 'Ireland's hour has come', Jack Lynch 'The Irish government can no longer stand by' Liam Cosgrave 'Mongrel foxes', Charles J. Haughey 'We are living away beyond our means' Joe Connolly 'People of Galway - we love you', John Hume 'Sit down and negotiate our future with us', Mary Robinson 'Come dance with me in Ireland' Maire Geoghegan-Quinn 'A necessary development of human rights' Seamus Heaney 'The achievement of Irish poets', David Trimble 'A cold house for Catholics' Joe Higgins 'Ansbacher Man', Gerry Adams 'Now there is an alternative', Ian Paisley 'A Northern Ireland in which all can live together in peace', Bertie Ahern 'This is what Ireland can give to the world'.Table of ContentsForeword by Colm Toibin. Introduction. Henry Grattan 'Spirit of Swift! Spirit of Molyneux!' 16 April 1782. Theobald Wolfe Tone 'Whatever be the sentence of the court, I am prepared for it.' 10 November 1798. John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare 'I am sickened with this rant of Irish dignity and independence.' 10 February 1800. Robert Emmet 'Then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.' 19 September 1803. Richard Lalor Sheil 'Hold, I have seen the aliens do their duty!' 23 February 1837. Daniel O'Connell 'Be obedient to me, and Ireland shall be free.' 1 October 1843. Thomas Davis 'Gentlemen, you have a country!' 17 June 1839. David Moriarty 'Eternity is not long enough, nor hell is not hot enough.' 17 February 1867. Charles Stewart Parnell 'No man has the right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation.' 21 January 1885. Michael Davitt 'The Land League repels the accusation, and counter-charges landlordism.' 29 October 1889. The Catholic hierarchy 'Parnell, by his public misconduct, has utterly disqualified himself.' 3 July 1891. John Dillon 'His heart still yearned toward the people of Ireland.' 20 May 1898. James Larkin 'If they want war, then war they will have.' 4 October 1913. Edward Carson 'Ulster is asking to be let alone.' 11 February 1914. John Redmond 'The interests of Ireland are at stake in this war.' 20 February 1914. Patrick Pearse 'The fools, the fools! They have left us our Fenian dead.' 1 August 1915. Michael Collins 'Let us in God's name abide by the decision.' 19 December 1921. Mary MacSwiney 'The grossest act of betrayal that Ireland ever endured.' 7 January 1922. William Butler Yeats 'We are no petty people.' 11 June 1925. John A. Costello 'The Blueshirts will be victorious in the Irish Free State.' 28 February 1934. Sir James Craig 'We are a Protestant Parliament and a Protestant State.' 24 April 1934. Eamon de Valera 'That Ireland which we dreamed of.' 17 March 1943. Eamon de Valera 'The abuse of a people who have done him no wrong.' 16 May 1945. Noel Browne 'The honesty of my motives will be attacked by able men.' 12 April 1951. Sean Lemass '100,000 jobs.' 11 October 1955. Frank Aiken 'No one is likely to dispute the existence or the gravity of these dangers.' 17 October 1958. John F. Kennedy 'Ireland's hour has come.' 28 June 1963. Brendan Corish 'The seventies will be socialist.' 13 October 1967. Terence O'Neill 'Ulster stands at the crossroads.' 9 December 1968. Bernadette Devlin 'There is no place in society for us.' 22 April 1969. Jack Lynch 'The Irish government can no longer stand by.' 13 August 1969. Liam Cosgrave 'Mongrel foxes.' 21 May 1972. Charles J. Haughey 'We are living away beyond our means.' 9 January 1980. Joe Connelly 'People of Galway - we love you!' 7 September 1980. John Hume 'Sit down and negotiate our future with us.' 16 November 1981. Des O'Malley 'I stand by the Republic.' 20 February 1985. Garret FitzGerald 'People are entitled to a mature discussion.' 16 May 1986. Alan Dukes 'I will not play that game.' 2 September 1987. Mary Robinson 'Come dance with me in Ireland.' 3 December 1990. Maire Geoghegan-Quinn 'A necessary development of human rights.' 23 June 1993. Seamus Heaney 'The Ireland I now inhabit.' 7 December 1995. David Trimble 'A cold house for Catholics.' 10 December 1998. Mary Harney 'Closer to Boston than Berlin.' 21 July 2000. Joe Higgins 'Ansbacher man.' 11 July 2002. Micheal Martin 'I will introduce a prohibition on smoking.' 30 January 2003. Gerry Adams 'Now there is an alternative.' 6 April 2005. Mary McAleese 'Their deaths rise far above the clamour.' 27 January 2006. Bertie Ahern 'Ireland needs to cherish its roots.' 26 February 2007. Ian Paisley 'Northern Ireland has come to a time of peace.' 8 May 2007. Bertie Ahern 'This is what Ireland can give to the world.' 15 May 2007. Biographies. Index of Notable Phrases. Index.
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Atlantic Books The Honoured Society: My Journey to the Heart of
Book SynopsisIn the early hours of an August morning a gunfight broke out in an Italian restaurant in Duisburg; in less than five minutes over seventy shots were fired into the bodies of six men. Both victims and assassins were members of the 'Ndrangheta crime organization; Calabria's Mafia had extended the savage tentacle of its influence outside Italy for the first time. For the men of the 'Ndrangheta, time is still measured in hour-glasses and honour may only be washed with blood.Petra Reski dispels the Hollywood romance surrounding the Mafia to reveal the huge and menacing force lurking everywhere - from street corner to parliament offices, construction site to corporate headquarters - and involved in everything from petty extortion to the disposal of nuclear waste. Reski's searing portrait of the criminals who have come to control not only Italy but vast swathes of Europe, is a journalistic tour de force.
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Little, Brown Book Group A Brief History of Stonehenge
Book SynopsisA concise history of the world's greatest stone circle, Stonehenge, by Britain's leading expert. Every aspect of Stonehenge is re-considered in Aubrey Burl's new analysis. He explains for the first time how the outlying Heel Stone long predates Stonehenge itself, serving as a trackway marker in the prehistoric Harroway. He uncovers new evidence that the Welsh bluestones were brought to Stonehenge by glaciation rather than by man. And he reveals just how far the design of Stonehenge was influenced by Breton styles and by Breton cults of the dead.Meticulously research sets the record straight on the matter of Stonehenge's astronomical alignments. Although the existence of a sightline to the midsummer sunrise is well known, the alignment and the viewing-position are different from popular belief. And the existence of an earlier alignment to the moon and a later one to the midwinter sunset has been largely unrealised.One puzzle remains. The site of Stonehenge lies at the heart of a vast six-mile wide graveyard, but before it was built there appears to have been a mysterious gap two miles across on that site. Burl argues that earlier totem-pole style constructions served a ceremonial purpose for the living -- to celebrate success in the hunt.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts:
Book SynopsisJoanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work. The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have done so much to shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art. Her teaching lies at the heart of this book, as its chapters are all written by those who gained their doctorates under her supervision. The reach of her interests and expertise is also reflected in its range of subjects. The book is unified by its concentration on Italian art, history, and material culture, spanning the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; but within that scope the individual essays focus on an impressive variety of subjects, across many media, including panel painting, wall painting, architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, and gilded glass. Ranging across Italy, from Bologna, to Siena, to Assisi, to Florence, they address key themes in the field, such as artistic patronage, sainthood and sanctity, the visual culture of the mendicant orders, devotional practice, and civic religion. Some essays bring fresh approaches to familiar material (Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Saint Nicholas panels, the frescoes in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico, Simone Martini's Holy Family), while others illuminate objects and images that are less well known (the central panel of the Santa Chiara triptych in Trieste, and the statue of Saint Francis in San Francesco in Siena). As a collection they combine to make an important contribution to the study of Early Italian art, seeking thereby to echo the extraordinary contribution of Joanna Cannon's own work to that field.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Circling Giotto Donal Cooper and Beth Williamson 2. Holy Wood / 'sacra tavola': Saint Dominic and the Memory of Miracles in Bologna Jessica N. Richardson 3. The Sculpted Saint: A Statue of Saint Francis in Siena John Renner 4. Guccio di Mannaia and the Concept of a 'Franciscan' Chalice Glyn Davies 5. 'Speculum sine macula': The Trittico di Santa Chiara in Trieste as an Object of Clarissan Devotion Michaela Zöschg 6. The Siena Connection: A Franciscan Provincial Minister between Tuscany and Assisi at the Dawn of the Trecento Donal Cooper 7. Simone Martini's 'Treaty with the House of Santa Fiora' in Siena's Palazzo Pubblico: Its Date and Significance Thomas De Wesselow 8. Crisis and Charity in Fourteenth-Century Florence: Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Saint Nicholas Panels for San Procolo Janet Robson 9. Father of Light: Giotto and the Beatific Vision in the Baroncelli Chapel Virginia Brilliant 10. Painter-Illuminator Workshops and the Church of San Giorgio a Ruballa: The Case of Bernardo Daddi and Pacino di Bonaguida Bryan C. Keene 11. Patterns of Holiness: A Virgin Lactans in a Franciscan context Beth Williamson 12. A New Angle on Simone Martini's Holy Family James Alexander Cameron 13. Artistic Appropriation, Institutional Identity and Civic Religion in Fourteenth-Century Siena: The Byzantine Treasury of the Hospital of Santa Maria della Scala Stefania Gerevini 14. Visual Religious Education in Late Medieval Florence: Zanobi Perini, the Leggenda di Santo Tobia, and the Misericordia Federico Botana 15. Saints and Status in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Florence Sally J. Cornelison Select Bibliography Publications by Joanna Cannon Eowyn Kerr-Di Carlo and Imogen Tedbury Index Tabula Gratulatoria
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Charles Robert Cockerell in the Mediterranean:
Book SynopsisCharles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Charles R. Cockerell (1788-1863) was one of the most significant nineteenth-century British architects and a major player in the cultural shift from the Georgian eighteenth to the Victorian nineteenth century. Cockerell's travelsin the eastern Mediterranean between 1810 and 1817 were the formative experience of his life. His forty letters from this period, held in the archives of the Royal Institute of British Architects and published here for the first time, give crucial day-to-day insights into his actions, thoughts and feelings in relation to the intricate histories of the re-discovery and sales of the Aegina and Bassae marbles and, equally importantly, illuminate his hugely significant work on temple architecture and sculpture in mainland Greece, the great cities of Asia Minor, and the significant temples of Sicily. Drawing on these letters, and on some 150 unpublished letters sent by his friends while they were all in Greece and now held in the British Museum, this book elucidates what Cockerell did and why by analyzing his methods of work and their significance. It discusses Cockerell's aesthetic and conceptual development during his time abroad, particularly his influential part in the changing vision of Greek sculpture and architecture, from Winkelmann's static ideal to one rooted in dramatic tension and contextual contingency. The book unravels the emergence of Cockerell's crucial historical perspective and shows how he arrived at a new view of the ancient Greek past as made up of real lived lives, rather than just existing as a back drop to the present. By offeringa complete edition of the RIBA letters, this book fills a significant gap in our understanding of the thought and work of one of the formative spirits of nineteenth century visual historical culture. SUSAN PEARCE is Professor Emeritus of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. THERESA ORMROD has extensive experience in archival research, manuscript transcription and editing.Trade ReviewAs a social history, a travelogue and an explanation of historical architectural discovery, it was highly informative and enjoyable. * SPAB *Will be invaluable to scholars of Cockerell, nineteenth-century archaeology and Romantic travelling. But perhaps its greatest contribution to scholarship is that it definitively exhausts primary research on this preliminary stage of Cockerell's career. * BURLINGTON MAGAZINE *Will appeal not only to scholars but also to a wider audience. * JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF COLLECTIONS *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Life Before Departure Athens, Aegina, and the Morea Asia Minor, Sicily, Albania, and Italy Visions of Hellas The Spirit of the Time Homecomings Introduction to the Letters The Letters Appendix 1. Sources Appendix 2. Biographical Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the
Book Synopsis'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history, admired by scholars and the lay reader alike.Table of ContentsIntroduction PROLOGUE The Stoat THE MARCH Sunday Morning The Road to Poltava The War The Campaign Anatomy of a Battlefield A Council of War Sunday Evening THE BATTLE 8. Let Us Go Forward 9. Give the Enemy No Time 10. Cavalry Forward!! Shot in Vain 11. Would God Roos Were Here 12. They Are Leaving Their Lines 13. Not My Men but the King’s 14. Sheep to Sacrifical Slaughter 15. No Musket-ball Will Hit 16. As Grass Before a Scythe 17. The Devil Couldn’t Make them 18. It Goes Ill 19. He Tramples Down 20. All is Lost 21. To Gather in Retreat 22. Bodies Mountain-High THE RETREAT 23. 100,000 Roubles 24. Fight at My Command 25. Would They Defend Themselves 26. Not Without Tears EPILOGUE 27. A Fist Filled with Soil Sources and Literature Biographical Appendix Index
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Indiana University Press From Euthanasia to Sobibor
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An unforgettable look at genocide as seen by its perpetrators. Johann Niemann's albums document his career from SS man at Grafeneck, burning the bodies of people deemed "unworthy of life," to Deputy Commandant of Sobibor, where he directed the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews. The photos show him as he wanted to see himself – impeccably groomed, relaxed, and powerful – but the superb interpretative chapters reveal the systemic and colossal brutality of which he was both a product and a proponent."—Doris L. Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto; author of War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust"From "Euthanasia" to Sobibor presents an amazingly extensive collection of recently-discovered photographs that had been collected by SS-officer Johann Niemann, whose rose from obscurity to become the Deputy Commandant of Sobibor and was executed in the October 1943 prisoner uprising and breakout. These photographs illustrate a lethal career that saw Niemann serve in four "euthanasia" centers created by the Nazi regime to murder the German handicapped as well as in the death camps of Belzec and Sobibor. Alongside the photographs are chapters that summarize cutting-edge scholarship on a number of relevant topics but especially on the German personnel who staffed these camps and the East European auxiliaries who guarded them."—Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill"This remarkable and meticulously researched volume presents one of the most significant private perpetrator photo collections to survive. For unraveling the horrible conundrum of human participation in genocide, the collection is an essential source, both revealing and impenetrable in one."—Mark Roseman, Distinguished Professor of History, Pat M Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana UniversityTable of ContentsForeword, by Bildungswerk Stanisław HantzPreface, by Jetje ManheimAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsMap1. The Niemann Photographs: A Unique Collection from the Holocaust, by Martin Cüppers2. Johann Gerhard Niemann: From Völlen to Sobibor, Part 1, by Karin Graf and Florian RossPhotos from the Niemann Collection, up to 19423. Johann Gerhard Niemann: From Völlen to Sobibor, Part 2, by Karin Graf and Florian RossPhotos from the Niemann collection, from the Period of Operation T44. Realizing the Unthinkable: Operation T4, Operation Reinhard, and their Actors, by Martin Cüppers5. Belzec: The First Operation Reinhard Killing Center, by Florian Ross and Steffen HänschenNiemann's Photos from Belzec6. The Sobibor Death Camp, by Steffen Hänschen, Annett Gerhardt, Andreas Kahrs, Anne Lepper, and Martin CüppersNiemann's photos from Sobibo7. The Trawnikis: Auxiliaries to the Holocaust, by Martin Cüppers8. Reward for Genocide: A Trip to Berlin for Perpetrators from Operation Reinhard, by Martin Cüppers and Steffen HänschenThe Berlin Album and Additional Travel Pictures9. The Revolt at Sobibor and the End of the Death Camp, by Anne Lepper, Andreas Kahrs, Annett Gerhardt, and Steffen Hänschen10. Henriette Niemann: Wife and Mother, Confidante and Profiteer, by Anne Lepper and Martin CüppersHenriette Niemann in the Photo Collection11. Living with the Memory: Meetings with Semion Rozenfeld, by Anne LepperPhotos with Semion Rozenfeld and a Map of Sobibor Drawn by HimAppendix 1: The Brandenburg AlbumAppendix 2: Documents from the Niemann CollectionAppendix 3: Short Biographies of Survivors of the Sobibor CampAppendix 4: Short Biographies of German PerpetratorsSources and BibliographyIndex
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