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Legare Street Press Geschichte der hebräischen Sprache und Schrift
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LEGARE STREET PR The Ukraine Terror and the Jewish Peril
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Legare Street Press Taxe der StreichInstrumente.
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Legare Street Press Hebräisches und aramäisches Wörterbuch zum Alten Testament mit Einschaltung und Analyse aller schwer erkennbaren Formen Deutung der Eigennamen sowie der masseretischen Randbemerkungen und einem deutschhebräischen Wortregister
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Legare Street Press Die Peinliche Gerichtsordnung Kaiser Karls V.
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Legare Street Press M. Tullius Ciceros sämmtliche Briefe übersetzt und erläutert von C.M. Wieland.
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LEGARE STREET PR Geschichte Des Herzoglich Nassauischen 2. Regiments
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Legare Street Press Geschichte der Stadt und Herrschaft Schmalkalden nebst einer kurzen Uebersicht der Geschichte der ehemaligen gefürsteten Grafschaft Henneberg.
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The History Press Ltd Waterloo 1815: Battle Story
Book SynopsisOne of the most decisive battles in military history, Waterloo saw the culmination of a generation of war to bring a definitive end to French hegemony and imperial ambitions in Europe. Both sides fought bitterly and Wellington later remarked that ‘it was the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.In this bloody engagement, more than 20,000 men were lost on the battlefield that day by each side, but it was the Anglo-Allies who emerged victorious. Their forces entered France and restored Louis XVIII to the throne, while Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena, where he later died.Waterloo was a resounding victory for the British Army and Allied forces, and it changed the course of European history. In this concise yet detailed account, historian Gregory Fremont-Barnes tells you everything you need to know about this critical battle.
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Rowman & Littlefield Paris: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories
Book SynopsisParis: Secret Gardens, Hidden Places, and Stories in the City of Light, Mary McAuliffe’s multi-layered exploration of Paris, weaves a narrative that takes the reader into secret and hidden places, even in the midst of the most well-known of Paris destinations. McAuliffe’s hidden places can be small but are always revealing, like a bas-relief on an ignored corner of Notre-Dame or an overlooked courtyard inside an ancient and busy hospital. She takes the reader below the streets and sidewalks of Paris to discover ancient aqueducts and a lost river, and she prompts the reader to notice overlooked treasures in the most trafficked of museums. Always, McAuliffe’s focus is on people and their stories. Evil queens, designing noblemen, bold chevaliers, and desperate lovers mingle with resistance fighters and obsessed artists rising out of abject poverty into unexpected fame and fortune, adding to the tidal wave of creativity that is the life blood of the City of Light. One person, place, and story lead to another, each linked by a common thread within the layered richness of Paris’s past. The story of Paris is not a chronology but an exploration of the many layers of this remarkable city throughout the ages.
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Legare Street Press Beiträge zur Geschichte des Bauernkrieges in den SchwäbischFränkischen Grenzlanden
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Legare Street Press Der vollkommene teutsche Jäger.
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Legare Street Press Fünf Jahre Türkei
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Edinburgh University Press George Strachan of the Mearns
Book SynopsisProvides an up-to-date study of the life of George Strachan (1572 1635), early 17th century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller.
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Cornell University Press Taking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room
Book SynopsisTaking the Soviet Union Apart Room by Room investigates what happens to domestic spaces, architecture, and the lives of urbanites during a socioeconomic upheaval. Kateryna Malaia analyzes how Soviet and post-Soviet city dwellers, navigating a crisis of inadequate housing and extreme social disruption between the late 1980s and 2000s, transformed their dwellings as their countries transformed around them. Soviet infrastructure remained but, in their domestic spaces, urbanites transitioned to post-Soviet citizens. The two decades after the collapse of the USSR witnessed a major urban apartment remodeling boom. Malaia shows how, in the context of limited residential mobility, those remodeling and modifying their homes formed new lifestyles defined by increased spatial privacy. Remodeled interiors served as a material expression of a social identity above the poverty line, in place of the outdated Soviet signifiers of well-being. Connecting home improvement, Trade ReviewMost valuable is...the detailed description of the structures, uses, and problems with late-Soviet apartments, and the attendant social adaptations and cooperation required to live in such limited space where one's 'bedroom' was simultaneously the family living room, entertainment center, and dining room, and one's kitchen was often but a galley. Malaia adds significantly to the depiction of everyday life...for this transitional period * Russian Review *
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Basic Books Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings
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Old Street Publishing Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us
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Columbia University Press At the Mercy of Their Clothes
Book SynopsisAt the Mercy of Their Clothes explores the agency of fashion in modern literature. Celia Marshik’s study combines close readings of modernist and middlebrow works, a history of Britain in the early twentieth century, and the insights of thing theory.Trade ReviewIn At the Mercy of Their Clothes, Celia Marshik deftly weaves together high, low, and middlebrow culture, archival and literary sources, fashion studies, social history, and philosophy. The result is a volume that illuminates the overwhelming, charged power of clothes in the modernist era. Marshik tackles the biggest issues: how fashion conveys meaning; how clothes create or dismantle social identity; the role of material culture in art, literature, and history; and finally, how we live both with and through objects. A work of superb, wide-ranging research offering an intriguing new perspective. -- Rhonda Garelick, Author of Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of HistoryThis is a marvelous book. At The Mercy of Their Clothes is timely, original, and ranges widely. Marshik dexterously puts current conversations in fashion studies into serious dialogue with the literary—alongside the archival, the visual, the journalistic and the psychological. Moreover, in sewing together under-read middlebrow and popular writers with what we thought we knew about modernism, Marshik lets us hear these "garment-things" speak. -- Jessica Burstein, author of Cold Modernism: Literature, Fashion, Art Marshik convincingly demonstrates that few things are more worrisomely lively than the clothes we wear. More than simply magical talismans or fetish objects, they are potentially hazardous wights that can leech away human subjectivity. The inward turn of modernism, when seen this way, becomes less about a Freudian discovery of inner riches than about an ongoing retrenchment in which the self becomes ever more subject to things—and particularly to those things we wear every day. This book is far more than just a study of clothing... it is a significant rethinking of modernism, combining cultural history and theoretical innovation on almost every page. -- Sean Latham, University of TulsaClothes are dangerous. Instead of presenting dress as a form of self-expression, Marshik reveals its power to diminish, imperil and undo the modern self. In this highly original and exciting book, she ranges from Ulysses to the Sunday Pictorial, from Mrs. Dalloway to The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, demonstrating the potentiality of garments across modernist, middlebrow and popular cultures in Britain. A superb achievement. -- Faye Hammill, University of Strathclyde, GlasgowAt the Mercy of their Clothes makes an important contribution to a developing critical tradition that focuses on garments and fashion to assess how writers of the early twentieth century debated and constructed individuality in a time marked by socio-economic and techno- logical change. It will be of immense interest to scholars and students of early twentieth-century literature, modernism, and material culture. I, for one, have already assigned the mackintosh chapter as essential reading for my Ulysses class next year. -- Vike Martina Plock * Modernism/modernity *Marshik’s cultural studies approach is both convincing and provocative. Her study ties together threads of contemporary cultural studies theory with fashion studies, modernist literary criticism and sociology. As an interdisciplinary project, the book offers a fresh perspective on the dialogic exchange among the period’s modernist literary texts, popular media, fashionable garments and consumers. -- Lauren S. Cardon * Literature & History *At the Mercy of Their Clothes offers a brilliant compendium of archival material woven into a tightly articulated and important argument about material culture’s intersections with the literary and art worlds that will enrich readers’ scholarship and teaching. -- Sarah Cornish * The Space Between: Literature and Culture 1914-1945 *At the Mercy of Their Clothes sheds light on the vexed relationships between garments and their wearers in the early twentieth century, and each chapter is engaging as well as versatile in its attention to modernist and middlebrow voices. Throughout, Marshik’s research is thorough and absorbing, and her argument persuasive. -- Emily James * Woolf Studies Annual *Fluently written and deftly argued, Marshik’s book is a landmark work. . . . The insights in At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, The Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture will be of interest to all scholars working on texts and textiles, and for those at the intersection of modernist and middlebrow studies, Marshik’s work constitutes essential reading. -- Helen Saunders * The Modernist Review *Celia Marshik’s At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, the Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture is a seminal text at the forefront of current conversations bringing fashion studies into the realm of the literary. -- Jarica Linn Watts * James Joyce Quarterly *At the Mercy of Their Clothes is a significant, sophisticated, and genuinely illuminating account of Modernism’s relationship to the middlebrow and to popular culture. -- Katherine Mullin * James Joyce Literary Supplement *We have all experienced the punishing power of clothes. The pair of jeans that no longer fit: they, rather than our expanding waist, become the symbol of our disappointing self-image. The bold pattern that felt emboldening at home in front of the mirror, but at the party seems too loud and makes us feel conspicuous and awkward. Celia Marshik’s At the Mercy of Their Clothes: Modernism, Middlebrow, and British Garment Culture is a brilliantly researched and immensely readable catalogue of such anxious moments and their implications for selfhood. -- Sophie Oliver * The Review of English Studies *Marshik’s work brings a critical and indispensable lens to the impact and effects of clothing in the twentieth century and will be of interest to Woolf scholars and a wide range of scholars interested in popular culture, middlebrow and modernist texts, and history. -- Lois Gilmore * Virginia Woolf Miscellany *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: At the Mercy of Their Clothes1. What Do Women Want? At the Mercy of the Evening Gown2. Wearable Memorials: Into and Out of the Trenches with the Modern Mac3. Aspiration to the Extraordinary: Materializing the Subject Through Fancy Dress4. Serialized Selves: Style, Identity, and the Problem of the Used GarmentCoda: Precious ClothingNotesBibliographyIndex
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University Press of Kansas Operation Dons Left Wing The TransCaucasus
Book SynopsisOn 1 January 1943, with German Sixth Army about to be destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket, the Stavka (Soviet High Command) launched Operation Don, a strategic offensive aimed at demolishing German defenses in the southern Soviet Union. This book is the first detailed study of this crucial but virtually overlooked Soviet military operation.
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Harvard University Press Soldiers of God in a Secular World
Book SynopsisSecularism can be stifling for religious actors seeking a voice in public life. But it can also be empowering. Sarah Shortall tells the story of France’s nouveaux théologiens, who recast arguments over fascism, communism, democracy, and human rights in theological terms, thereby securing a voice for their faith in twentieth-century politics.Trade ReviewSuperbly expands our knowledge of the nouvelle théologie…The book describes a movement begun in exile and youthful rebellion, tested in clandestine anti-Nazi resistance, and shaken by political turmoil and ecclesiastical opprobrium before eventually remaking the face of the Catholic Church…[A] groundbreaking book. -- Peter Steinfels * Commonweal *Soldiers of God is rich in political and intellectual historical insights, and it paves the way for a new agenda in the literature on secularism, religion, and politics, not least for understanding the role of Christianity in European politics today. -- Anders Berg-Sørensen * Contemporary Political Theory *Shortall’s long-awaited book exceeds expectations. On both the micro- and macro-levels—archival research and overarching narrative—the work marks an inflection point in the study of these twentieth-century Jesuit intellectuals (and their Dominican counterparts)…Will remain a touchstone for years to come. -- Stephen Schloesser * Journal of Jesuit Studies *Demonstrates that the separation of church and state ushered in a period of creativity in French religious thought…deserves to find a wide readership among intellectual historians. -- Carol E. Harrison * Journal of Modern History *A profound and important book. Tracing the history of the nouvelle théologie, Shortall shows how religious thinking can scramble our political categories and open up new ways to imagine the future. -- Edward Baring, author of Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental PhilosophyAcross a tumultuous century, as Sarah Shortall reveals, French Catholic thinkers were able to make momentous contributions to politics precisely because they insisted on the irreducibility of religion. Restoring theology to intellectual history, this book is a remarkable debut. -- Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal WorldA pathbreaking account of how the nouveaux théologiens reshaped both Catholic theology and secular philosophy in the twentieth century. Shortall thoughtfully retells modern European intellectual history, upending conventional definitions of politics and ultimately transcending the secular–religious divide. -- Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, author of Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of ReligionWhat happens when theology and politics mix? Sarah Shortall’s compelling study proposes an answer that is incisive and illuminating from the first page to the last. -- Philip G. Nord, author of After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France
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Cambridge University Press Montesquieu
Book SynopsisA number of Montesquieu''s lesser-known discourses, dissertations and dialogues are made available to a wider audience, for the first time fully translated and annotated in English. The views they incorporate on politics, economics, science, and religion shed light on the overall development of his political and moral thought. They enable us better to understand not just Montesquieu''s importance as a political philosopher studying forms of government, but also his stature as a moral philosopher, seeking to remind us of our duties while injecting deeper moral concerns into politics and international relations. They reveal that Montesquieu''s vision for the future was remarkably clear: more science and less superstition; greater understanding of our moral duties; enhanced concern for justice, increased emphasis on moral principles in the conduct of domestic and international politics; toleration of conflicting religious viewpoints; commerce over war, and liberty over despotism as the prTrade Review'This splendid edition of Montesquieu's essays – most of which are translated here for the first time, and all of which are scrupulously annotated – will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of Montesquieu, the Enlightenment, and the liberal tradition.' Dennis Rasmussen, Syracuse University'Montesquieu's intellectual obsessions remain our own – including republicanism, the separation of powers, despotism, liberty, the role of women in society and politics, the benefits and costs of global trade, the effects of religious beliefs, and science and society to name just a few. This translation of a range of his shorter works with its insightful introduction is a treasure for students and scholars alike who wish both to broaden and deepen their knowledge of a foremost thinker of the Enlightenment whose thought helped to shape the world in which we live.' Vickie Sullivan, Tufts University'This collection of previously untranslated works by Montesquieu is beautifully executed and long overdue. It demonstrates the great sweep of Montesquieu's esprit across topics ranging from modern science to ancient Rome to the politics, morality, and economics of his time. Scholars of Montesquieu and students of the Enlightenment will long be indebted to Carrithers and Stewart for this very fine volume.' Sharon Krause, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; A general note on the texts; I. The uses of science; II. The Romans; III. Reflections on national character; IV. Politics and morality; V. Statecraft; VI. Economics and fiscal policy; VII. Defense of the spirit of law; Bibliographical note; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars Volume 3 Experience Culture and Memory
Book SynopsisVolume III of the Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars moves away from the battlefield to explore broader questions of society and culture. Leading scholars from around the globe show how the conflict left its mark on virtually every aspect of society. They reflect on the experience of the soldiers who fought in them, examining such matters as military morale, ideas of honour and masculinity, the treatment of wounds and the fate of prisoners-of-war; and they explore social issues such as the role of civilians, women''s experience, trans-border encounters and the roots of armed resistance. They also demonstrates how the experience of war was inextricably linked to empire and the wider world. Individual chapters discuss the depiction of the Wars in literature and the arts and their lasting impact on European culture. The volume concludes by examining the memory of the Wars and their legacy for the nineteenth-century world.Table of ContentsList of Figures; List of Maps; List of Contributors to Volume III; Introduction to Volume III Alan Forrest and Peter Hicks; Part I. The Experience of War: 1. The Soldiers' Experience of War Leighton S. James; 2. Military Values: Heroism and Masculinity Michael J. Hughes; 3. Military Medicine Martin R. Howard; 4. Women and the Home Front Catriona Kennedy; 5. Prisoners of War Elodie Duché; Part II. The Experience of Imperial Rule: 6. Blockade and Economic Warfare Katherine Aaslestad; 7. Crossing Borders: Encounters with the Other Mike Rapport; 8. Popular Resistance: The Case of Napoleonic Italy Michael Broers; 9. Collaboration: The Case of the Duchy of Warsaw Jaroslaw Czubaty; 10. Military Resistance: Desertion Alan Forrest; 11. Liberation: Myth and Reality in Germany Ute Planert; Part III. War, Culture and Memory; 12. Memoirs and the Communication of Memory Philip Dwyer and Matilda Greig; 13. Festivals, Ceremonies and Public Commemorations Philip Dwyer; 14. The Portrayal of Heroism Richard Taws; 15. The Fine Arts and the Napoleonic Wars David O'Brien; 16. Poets and Novelists: Writing the Memory of War Philip Shaw; 17. Political Keyboard Music in Revolutionary and Napoleonic France: 'The Battle' Peter Hicks; 18. The Napoleonic Wars in Caricature Pascal Dupuy; 19. The Napoleonic Wars in European Cinema Wolfgang Koller; 20. Nostalgia, or a Ruin with a View Peter A. Fritzsche; Part IV. The Aftermath and Legacy of the Wars: 21. Demobilization, Veterans and Civil Society after the Empire in France Natalie Petiteau; 22. The Impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Europe's Nineteenth-Century Gender Order Karen Hagemann; 23. Jomini, Clausewitz and the Theory of War Hew Strachan; 24. The Legacy of Counter-Revolution: Conservative Ideology and Legitimism in France Ambrogio A. Caiani; 25. Bonapartism Robert Alexander; 26. The Legacy of the Wars for the International System Beatrice de Graff; 27. The Dislocation of the Global Hispanic World Graciela Iglesias Rogers; 28. Global Empire: Britain's Century, 1815–1914 Gregory Fremont-Barnes; 29. The Napoleonic Wars and Realms of Memory in Europe Nicoletta Marini D'Armenia and Luigu Mascilli Migliorini; Bibliographical Essays; Index.
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Cornell University Press Ingredients of Change
Book SynopsisIngredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria''s foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the nation''s culinary topography has been continually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the Ottomans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people. Changes in Bulgarian cooking and cuisine, Mary C. Neuburger shows, were driven less by nationalism than by the circulation of powerful food narrativesscientific, religious, and ethicalalong with peoples, goods, technologies, and politics. Ingredients of Change tells this complex story through thematic chapters focused on bread, meat, milk and yogurt, wine, and the foundational vegetables of Bulgarian cuisinetomatoes and peppers. Neuburger traces the ways in which these ingredients were introduced and transformed in the Bulgarian diet over time, often in theTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. By Bread Alone? Hunger, Abundance, and the Politics of Grain 2. Vegetarian Visions and Meatopias: Morality, Pleasure, and the Power of Protein 3. Sour Milk: Long Life, the Future, and the Gut 4. "Ripe" Communism: An Ode to the Bulgarian Tomato and Pepper 5. Wine and Dine: Reds, Whites, and the Pursuit of Bacchus Conclusion
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Museum Tusculanum Press Roads of Ancient Cyprus
Book SynopsisThe earliest roads in Cyprus go back to the Bronze Age, and by the end of the Hellenistic period the road network encircled the entire island. More roads were added and older roads rebuilt during the Roman period to serve the needs of the provincial administration as well as of the individual cities. This book, the first on its subject, traces the development of the Cypriot road network over a period of a thousand years, drawing on a combination of archaeological, epigraphic and literary sources. Separate chapters deal with travellers and life on the road, transport technology and the legal and administrative context of road building. It is often assumed that the primary purpose of Roman road building was military domination, but, as this study demonstrates, road development in Cyprus is best understood in terms of communication between cities and their territories and the day-to-day exchanges between town and countryside.
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Westholme Publishing Men of Terror: A Comprehensive Analysis of Viking
Book SynopsisA Comprehensive Analysis of Viking Combat.
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Harvard University Press Catholic Modern
Book SynopsisIn 1900 the Catholic Church stood staunchly against human rights, religious freedom, and the secular state disastrous concepts unleashed by the French Revolution. Yet by the 1960s its position was reversed. How did the world's largest religious organization become modern? James Chappel finds answers in the shattering experiences of the 1930s.Trade ReviewFascinating…Chappel’s is a complex intellectual history, focusing not on popes and bishops, but on the lay individuals and movements of ideas that drove this sea change…[He] deftly survey[s] the intellectual evolution of Catholic thought throughout the 20th century. -- Cormac Shine * Los Angeles Review of Books *Deeply researched and beautifully written…[An] excellent book…Chappel’s history shows how profoundly Catholicism can be transformed over time. -- Jan-Werner Müller * The Nation *Catholic Modern is an endlessly fascinating analysis of Catholic social thought in turbulent times, which I imagine we will be turning to for years to come. Essential reading. -- Michael Duggan * Catholic Herald *Highly creative, massively researched, and eye-opening…[A] fresh recasting of history. -- Peter Steinfels * Commonweal *Chappel has taken one facet of the Catholic modern and explored it with exemplary scholarship and originality. -- John Cornwell * Times Higher Education *Authoritative…It sets out to explain how, when, and why the Catholic Church became modern. -- Sarah Shortall * Boston Review *A heady look at how the church remade itself at a time of social and political upheaval. * America *Chappel has historicized the dueling forms of Catholic modern at the heart of present polarization in the church…If you are a Catholic theologian working with twentieth-century European or Latin American figures, you need to read this book. -- William L. Portier * Horizons *James Chappel has written a masterful accounting of one of the most perplexing questions in modern European history. It will be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the transition from dictatorship to democracy among hundreds of millions of European Catholics in the span of mere decades. -- Richard Steigmann-Gall, author of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945An incisive account of how Catholics became (and not were) modern…A magnificent book by a promising author and scholar. A must-read for all who have an interest in the manifold ways in which faith and ideology have forged the minds and lives of so many during the twentieth century. -- Jan Nelis * Social History *This carefully researched and lucidly written history demonstrates how Catholic social thought shaped central features of ‘secular’ Western European states in the twentieth century, including the development of pro-familial welfare states and a ‘European’ variety of capitalism. Its transnational approach to developments that are all too often treated within a single national frame lends new insight into Europe’s Catholic modernity. -- Judith Surkis, author of Sexing the Citizen: Masculinity and Morality in France, 1870–1920Over the past century, the Catholic Church has undergone a dramatic transformation. Shedding its former hostility to social pluralism and political democracy, it has adapted itself to new patterns of societal organization that we now characterize as modern. In his capacious and richly populated history of the European Catholic laity, James Chappel provides an excellent survey of the intellectual and ideological debates that contributed to this epic transformation. -- Peter E. Gordon, author of Adorno and ExistenceThe past century posed unexpected dangers to Catholics’ immortal souls: fascism and socialism, and then liberalism, with its enticements to question things never questioned and enjoy things never enjoyed. In his wholly original and pathbreaking book Chappel takes us to the heart of their predicament, reminding us that it was neither simply historical nor European, but remains with the Church everywhere it faces the challenges of modernity. -- John Connelly, author of From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933–1965Chappel skillfully explores how, why, and when the Catholic church became modern. * Publishers Weekly *Groundbreaking…This bare summary does not do justice to the sophistication and breadth of Chappel’s book. It is vital reading for anyone interested in the [Roman Catholic] Church’s engagement with politics in the 20th century. -- Jeremy Morris * Church Times *A key contribution to understanding the relationship between Catholicism and political modernity as experienced particularly in the decades before and immediately after the Second World War…An immensely useful assessment of a critical period for the formation of Catholic attitudes and ideas that still resonate in today’s church and secular politics. -- Daniel Rober * Theological Studies *A persuasive account, from the perspective of intellectual history, of how ultramontane Catholicism swiftly but gradually discarded its ingrained antimodern stance…Highly readable and many readers of different stripes will find it of great interest. Chappel’s contribution to the history of late modern Catholicism will certainly garner much richly deserved attention. -- Paul Misner * Journal of Modern History *
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The University of Chicago Press Edge of Irony
Book SynopsisMarjorie Perloff identifies and explores the aesthetic world that emerged from the rubble of Vienna and other former Habsburg territories--an "Austro-Modernism" that produced a major body of drama, fiction, poetry, and autobiography.Trade Review"Always on the cutting edge of whatever she investigates, Perloff throws light on the subtleties and contradictions--inner and outer--of the literary universe of Celan and Canetti, Kraus and Freud, Musil and Roth. She interweaves, as no one else could, the examination of Celan's poetry with his personal life. The majestic coda to her study, dealing with Wittgenstein's fascination with the Christian Gospels and his complicated involvement with his own traces of anti-Semitism, forms a particularly convincing refusal of closure, the enemy of the historical modernism she so brilliantly studies and espouses."--Mary Ann Caws, author of Surprised in Translation "This book takes us into the undiscovered country of Austro-Modernism in all of its historical complexity, and in the process requires us to address in new ways the questions of literary innovation, the sources of authorial identity, and how to read texts whose distinctive language and formal ingenuity confront us with the inadequacies of our received critical concepts and practices. Edge of Irony is without doubt the most impressive achievement of Perloff's distinguished career."--Gerald Bruns, University of Notre Dame "Edge of Irony is a beautifully written account of Austrian modernism. In this important contribution to European literary history, Perloff reveals the rich contexts and surprising contemporaneity of mid-twentieth-century Austrian literature."--Patrick Greaney, University of Colorado Boulder "Most critics have dealt with Austrian modernism--and modernism in general--from a prewar perspective. Perloff rightly sees the aftermath of the war, the breakup of empire, as informing the Austro-Modernists' boldest works. Edge of Irony presents a model for attuning literary study to the political complexities with which writings like these are eternally embroiled."--Thomas Harrison, University of California, Los Angeles
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University of Toronto Press For Humanitys Sake
Book SynopsisThis study links the careers of Russia's three most famous nineteenth-century authors Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Pushkin into a single narrative.Trade Review"Steiner’s extended grasp of ‘dialogism’ on the cultural and psychological level is quite welcome… The overview of the emergence of modern Russian literature and intellectual debate is excellent in its clarity and coherence." -- Virgil Nemoianu * The Review of Metaphysics *"In this original and wide-ranging intellectual history, Lina Steiner situates Herder’s view of culture at the core of a tradition of personal and national character formation in Russia." -- Yuri Corrigan, The College of Wooster * Canadian Slavonic Papers *"Steiner demonstrates a genuine understanding of art, as well as thorough professional knowledge of cultural theory and the history of nineteenth-century Russian literature. Especially significant is Steiner’s decision, not only to consider the analyzed novels in terms of their individual literary context, but to immerse each one into the ‘turbulent sea’ of the Golden Age of Russian culture as well." -- Elena A. Krasnostchekova, University of Georgia * Slavic Review *"[For Humanity’s Sake]’s ideas struck me as important as well as new, and I came away with a sense of a tradition of Russian thought I had not identified as such. As a result, the three novels analyzed, and implicitly many others, acquired a new freshness. It also does not hurt that Steiner writes crisp, lucid prose, free of jargon or clotted syntax. […] We never doubt why a set of facts or interpretations is offered." -- Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University * Slavic and East European Journal *"Studies that place Russian intellectual history in both a Russian and non-Russian philosophical context are few and far between. This volume does that and so is an especially welcome and necessary addition to the body of criticism on the Russian nineteenth-century novel." -- A.J. DeBlasio, Dickinson College * CHOICE Magazine *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Part I: Culture (Obrazovanie, Bildung) and the Bildungsroman on Russian Soil 1. Russian Literature from the National Awakening of the 1800s to the Rise of Pochvennichestvo in the 1850s 2. Apollon Grigor'ev's Theory of Russian Culture 3. Yurii Lotman's Idea of the “Semiosphere” 4. The Semiospheric Novel and the Broadening of Cultural Self-Consciousness Part II: Nineteenth-Century Russian Novels of Emergence 5. Pushkin's Quest for National Culture: The Captain's Daughter as a Russian Bildungsroman 6. Educating Russia, Building Humanity: Tolstoy's War and Peace 7. Dostoevsky on Individual Reform and National Reconciliation: The Adolescent Conclusion Appendix: The Russian Texts Notes Bibliography Index
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Princeton University Press In Humboldts Shadow
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important contribution to the interfaces of the fields of applied anthropology and museum anthropology."---Sandipan Mitra, Anthropology in Action"An excellent example of bringing academic expertise. . . . In Humboldt’s Shadow shows us how knowledge of the history of ethnology and museum collecting can recast public debate. Awide range of readers will benefit fromlearning Penny’s take on the Humboldt Forum controversy."---Lora Wildenthal, Journal of Modern History
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John Wiley & Sons Women and Monarchy in Macedonia
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century BC to 168 BC. Carney shows that the wives, mothers, and daughters of kings played important roles in Macedonian public life and occasionally determined the course of national events.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Odyssey
Book SynopsisAn abridgement of Stanley Lombardo's translation of the "Odyssey", this book offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Essential Iliad
Book SynopsisWhile preserving the basic narrative of the Iliad, this bare-bones abridgement highlights the epic's high poetic moments and essential mythological content, and will prove especially useful in surveys of world literature, and in Western civilization surveys.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Antigone
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA lucid, well-paced translation, natural enough sounding in the dialogue to make a good acting version, and remarkably successful in making the choruses clear, lyrical, and yet part of the dramatic movement. Woodruff's rendering of the choruses especially impresses me by the way he manages to render complex syntax and imagery of the original--often tangled and occasionally obscure in its allusiveness--into clear and genuinely poetic English. --Joseph Russo, Haverford CollegeWhen a play has been translated as many times as the Antigone, a new version has to have some remarkable qualities in order to merit attention. Happily, Woodruff's Antigone has just that. Most notably, his text is performable: when read aloud it displays real pace and force. . . . Of course, performability is often gained at the expense of what we might call 'faithfulness' to the original text--and in practical terms, this means that a performance translation rarely serves well as a teaching text. Woodruff, then, has pulled off a remarkable feat in that this edition will serve the teacher and student of Sophocles as well as it would the actor. The original line numbers are preserved and the text is seldom distorted: Woodruff is aware that the words used by Sophocles matter, and employs footnotes to good effect to explain points of linguistic and cultural interest in a concise and accessible way. The flavour of Sophocles' play is also preserved by the stage directions, which are envisaged in terms of the ancient rather than the modern stage. The choral odes--which are translated with particular clarity--are also marked and divided into strophes and antistrophes. What also sets the translation apart is the quality of the introduction and appendices, which are both well informed and address the reader in a direct way. Woodruff succeeds in being straightforward but not patronizing and whilst his target audience is presumably a student of A-level or university level, this edition would be a good starting point for any intelligent adult who wished to read the play. Woodruff frames scholarly debates in such a way as to invite reaction from the reader and to encourage informed debate. Notable, too, is that he strives to keep the text 'open': as well as presenting different scholarly views on the play, he even provides 'Endnotes' where he provides information on readings of the manuscripts, thus providing access to debates from which the student is normally excluded. As part of this project--and refreshingly in my view--he makes his own presence felt: he informs us as to his own views on the play and spells out his objectives as a translator, thus opening up yet another aspect of investigation and debate. This is a provocative edition of the Antigone, which fulfills many of its high ambitions. For me, the vibrancy of Woodruff's approach to the play shines through, giving us a text just waiting to be read aloud, discussed and debated. --James Robson, The Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review
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Cornell University Press Unruly Women of Paris
Book SynopsisIn this vividly written and amply illustrated book, Gay L. Gullickson analyzes the representations of women who were part of the insurrection known as the Paris Commune. The uprising and its bloody suppression by the French army is still one of the...Trade ReviewGullickson offers a persuasive account based on an almost exhaustive marshaling of the relevant evidence.... a contribution to our fuller understanding of the Commune and its role in reinforcing gender stereotypes. * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Book SynopsisA new evaluation of the origins and causes of the Peloponnesian War, based on evidence produced by modern scholarship and on a careful reconsideration of the ancient texts.Trade ReviewA profound analysis of the relation of strategy to politics, a sympathetic but searching critique of Thucydides' masterpiece, and a trenchant assessment of the voluminous modern literature on the war. -- Bernard Knox * The Atlantic Monthly *Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before—but never presented with such thoroughness. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Kagan's book is based on complete control of both the ancient evidence and modern scholarship. * Choice *The temptation to acclaim Kagan's four volumes as the foremost work of history produced in North America in the twentieth century is vivid.... Here is an achievement that not only honors the criteria of dispassion and of unstinting scruple which mark the best of modern historicism but honors its readers. To read Kagan's 'History of the Peloponnesian War' at the present hour is to be almost unbearably tested. -- George Steiner * The New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart One: The Alliance System and the Division of the Greek World 1. The Spartan Alliance 2. The Origins of the Athenian Empire 3. Sparta after the Persian War 4. Athens after the Persian WarPart Two: The First Peloponnesian War 5. The War in Greece 6. The Crisis in the Aegean 7. The End of the WarPart Three: The Years of Peace 8. Athenian Politics: The Victory of Pericles 9. Athens and the West: The Foundation of Thurii 10. The Samian Rebellion 11. The Consolidation of the Empire 12. Athenian Politics on the Eve of the WarPart Four: The Final Crisis 13. Epidamnus 14. Corcyra 15. Megara 16. Potidaea 17. Sparta 18. AthensPart Five: Conclusions 19. The Causes of the War 20. Thucydides and the Inevitability of the WarAppendixes A. The Willingness of the Members of the Delian League to Accept Athenian Leadership B. The Historicity of Diodoms' Account of the Spartan Assembly in 475 C. Chronology of Events between ca. 470–453 D. Reconstruction of the Athenian Tribute Lists E. The Papyrus Decree F. The Foundation of Thurii G. Athenian Actions in the West between the Wars H. Athenian Treatment of Byzantium I. The Date of Pericles' Pontic Expedition J. The Site and Date of Brea K. The Date of the Battle of PotidaeaBibliography General Index Index of Ancient Authors and Inscriptions Index of Modern Authors
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Making of a Nazi Hero: The Murder and Myth of
Book SynopsisOn 14 January 1930, Horst Wessel, a young and ambitious member of the SA was shot at close range at his home in Berlin. Although the crime was never completely solved, the murder was most likely committed by a group of communists with close ties to the city's gangland. Wessel later died from his injuries. Joseph Goebbels, whose attention had already been drawn to Wessel as a possible future Nazi leader, was the first to recognize the propaganda potential of the case. 'A young martyr for the Third Reich' he wrote in his diary on 23 February 1930 immediately after receiving the news of Wessel's death. This was the beginning of the myth-making that transformed an ordinary individual into a masculine role model for an entire generation. Two months later, thousands of people lined the streets for Wessel's funeral parade and Goebbels delivered a graveside eulogy. In the years that followed - and as Nazi power increased - Horst Wessel became the hero of the Nazi movement - with his elaborate memorial quickly becoming a site of pilgrimage. The song Die Fahne Hoch for which Wessel had written the lyrics (and which subsequently became popularly known as the Horst Wessel Song) became the official Nazi party anthem and the Berlin district of Friedrichshain, where Wessel was murdered was renamed Horst-Wessel-Stadt in his honour. Numerous biographies and films followed. Using previously unseen material, Daniel Siemens provides a fascinating and gripping account of the background to Horst Wessel's murder and uncovers how and why the Nazis made him a political hero. He examines the Horst Wessel 'cult' which emerged in the aftermath of Wessel's death and the murders of revenge, particularly against Communists, committed by the SA and Gestapo after 1933. At the same time, the story of Horst Wessel provides a portrait of the Nazi propaganda machine at its most effective and most chilling.Trade ReviewDaniel Siemens - delivers trustworthy historical revelations concerning the Wessel material while reading - as excitingly as a crime story with an ominously long track of blood. Die Zeit This book could be used as a standard reference on the essential details of the Nazi technique of domination - and its consequences. Der Tagesspiegel Siemens has unrolled a spectacular criminal case. A gripping and fact-rich historical study. WDR (Western German Broadcasting) It has been years since I have read a book dealing with the early Nazi years with as much interest, excitement and admiration. Robert M. Citino, Central European History A brilliantly researched and highly readable account of the life and death of Horst Wessel, the today largely forgotten creator of the official anthem of National Socialism. Thomas Weber, author of Hitler's First War In this masterful book, Daniel Siemens tells the gripping story of how a small-time SA firebrand became a celebrated Nazi martyr. Beautifully written and assiduously researched, Siemens provides a penetrating account of political radicalism and violence in the Weimar Republic, and of terror, propaganda and popular mobilization in the Third Reich. An outstanding work of history. Nik Wachsmann, Birkbeck, University of London Excellent...thoroughly readable text, which tells its complex story with considerable elan...Siemens has delivered an outstanding work of history, which illuminates and educates, yet wears its considerable erudition lightly...Siemens has raised the flag for serious, well-written, accessible history... Roger Moorhouse, BBC History Magazine, June 2013Table of ContentsPreface Part I: A Young Man in Germany (1907-1930) Murder in Friedrichshain Father and Son The Young Nazi The SA Street Battle The Escape of the Perpetrators Tracks to Nowhere The First Horst Wessel Trial (1930) Part II: The National Socialist Hero (1930-1945) 8. The Horst Wessel Cult 9. With God's Blessing 10. A Hero for the Youth 11. Commemorated in Stone 12. Appropriations 13. Literary Works 14. The Nazis’ Revenge 15. The Second Horst Wessel Trial (1934) 16. A Time of Suffering Part III: The Long Shadow of History (1945-2009) 17. Post-war Justice 18. Compensation for Wartime Losses 19. Belated Justice
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Saints' Cults in the Celtic World
Book SynopsisSaints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies. The way in which saints' cults operated across and beyond political, ethnic and linguistic boundaries in the medieval British Isles and Ireland, from the sixth to the sixteenth centuries, is the subject of this book. In a series of case studies, the contributions highlight the factors that allowed particular cults to prosper in, or that made them relevant to, a variety of cultural contexts. The collection has a particular emphasis on northern Britain, andthe role of devotional interests in connecting or shaping a number of polities and cultural identities (Pictish, Scottish, Northumbrian, Irish, Welsh and English) in a world of fluid political and territorial boundaries. Althoughthe bulk of the studies are concerned with the significance of cults in the insular context, many of the articles also touch on the development of pan-European devotions (such as the cults of St Brendan, The Three Kings or St George). Contributors: James E. Fraser, Thomas Owen Clancy, Fiona Edmonds, John Reuben Davies, Karen Jankulak, Sally Crumplin, Joanna Huntington, Steve Boardman, Eila Williamson, Jonathan WoodingTrade ReviewIn attempting to bridge large gaps of knowledge across the Celtic world and among those who study it, this edited volume succeeds admirably. . . . This volume would greatly benefit scholars in both religious studies and medieval studies. * JOURNAL OF FOLKLORE RESEARCH *A diverse and challenging set of essays. Collectively, they illuminate little-known cults across the geographical area known as the Celtic world, contribute to existing debates about more renowned saints, show how hagiography can be combined with other types of evidence to reveal successive stages of devotion, and place the Celtic world firmly in the context of wider European movements. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Offers something for everyone, from the specialist in Irish naming practices to the student interested in connections between the continent and the Celtic world. [It] offers many interesting insights into the Celtic world in the central middle ages. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsEditors' Preface Rochester, Hexham and Cennrígmonaid: the movements of St Andrew in Britain, 604-707 - James E. Fraser The cults of Saints Patrick and Palladius in early medieval Scotland - Thomas O Clancy Names and the cult of Patrick in eleventh-century Strathclyde and Northumbria - Fiona Edmonds Bishop Kentigern among the Britons - John Reuben Davies Adjacent saints' dedications and early Celtic History - Karen Jankulak Cuthbert the cross-border saint in the twelfth century - Sally Crumplin David of Scotland: Virum tam necessarium mundo - Joanna Huntington The cult of St George in Scotland - Steven Boardman The cult of the Three Kings of Cologne in Scotland - Eila Williamson The medieval and early modern cult of St Brendan - Jonathan M Wooding
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Middlesex University Press Little Palaces
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Cornell University Press Dragonslayer
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating biography of the infamous ideologue Erich Ludendorff, Jay Lockenour complicates the classic depiction of this German World War I hero. Erich Ludendorff created for himself a persona that secured his place as one of the most prominent (and despicable) Germans of the twentieth century. With boundless energy and an obsession with detail, Ludendorff ascended to power and solidified a stable, public position among Germany''s most influential. Between 1914 and his death in 1937, he was a war hero, a dictator, a right-wing activist, a failed putschist, a presidential candidate, a publisher, and a would-be prophet. He guided Germany''s effort in the Great War between 1916 and 1918 and, importantly, set the tone for a politics of victimhood and revenge in the postwar era. Dragonslayer explores Ludendorff''s life after 1918, arguing that the strange or unhinged personal traits most historians attribute to mental collapse were, in fact, integral Trade ReviewMeticulously researched and lucidly argued, Dragonslayer reveals the true extent of Erich Ludendorff's impact on the political cultures of the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. It is a must read for scholars of the First World War and for curious readers interested in understanding the evolution of Germany from nascent republic to Fascist dictatorship in the lead up to the Second World War. * New Books Network *Table of Contents1. Mythic Life 2. Victor of Liège and Tannenberg 3. The Feldherr 4. Putschist 5. Prophet: Tannenberg League and Deutsche Gotterkenntnis 6. Duelist: Ludendorff, Hindenburg, Hitler 7. Ludendorff in the Third Reich 8. Siegfried's Death 9. Epilogue: Kriemhild's Revenge
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Harvard University Press Blood and Diamonds
Book SynopsisThe history of mass-market diamonds goes back to German imperialism in Southwest Africa. Corporate power and state violence combined in the genocide of the Herero and Nama peoples, whose mineral-rich land supplied budding consumer demand in the United States. Steven Press makes clear that mass luxury has always come at a huge price.Trade Review[A] deeply researched, often horrifying…study of the country’s entanglement in the diamond trade. -- Joshua Hammer * New York Review of Books *An excellent history…Looks at the story through the prism of diamonds…His careful economic history makes clear the importance of diamonds to the survival of the colony and to Germany’s economic reach at the time. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs *Through the rigor, subtlety, and elegance of his work, Press has produced one of the most thought-provoking recent books in this field. -- Jean-Michel Johnston * H-Diplo *Steven Press has written a disturbing, brilliant book. Courageous and deeply researched, Blood and Diamonds brings out the full measure of transnational intrigue, cutthroat capitalist competition, and sheer callousness at the center of this long-hidden, disheartening human catastrophe. A stunning new history. -- Helmut Walser Smith, author of Germany: A Nation in Its Time: Before, During, and After Nationalism, 1500–2000Empirically rich and elegantly written, Blood and Diamonds will be received as an important landmark in the history of German colonialism and more broadly as an examination of the entanglements between colony and metropole. Press aptly combines meticulous scholarship with remarkable narrative talent. -- Andreas Eckert, Humboldt University, BerlinSteven Press’s history of conflict diamonds from Namibia under German rule shows German colonialism in a new light and in a broader context, extending into the Nazi era and beyond. Diamonds were a colonial fantasy with all-too-real consequences of premature death for African workers and of Germans’ renewed anti-Semitism and willingness for war. Fluently written, provocative, and hugely informative. -- Lora Wildenthal, author of German Women for Empire, 1884–1945Absorbing…Press masterfully interweaves the history of diamonds and empire with international economics and consumption, racism and genocidal violence, and the complexities of metropole-colony relations…An insightful, fascinating, and important book. * Choice *Press shows that the diamond wealth flowing from German Southwest Africa was crucial to both the development of German colonialism in Africa and Germany’s broader global engagement. -- Stephen Morgan * African Studies Review *An engaging examination into an important aspect of German colonialism in the pre-WWI period. -- Brian de Ruiter * International Social Science Review *
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