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Taylor & Francis Ltd India and the Early Modern World
Book SynopsisIndia and the Early Modern World provides an authoritative and wide-ranging survey of the Indian subcontinent over the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, set within a global context.This book explores questions critical to our understanding of early modern India. How, for instance, were Indians' religious beliefs, their ways of life, and the horizons of their learning changing over this period? What was happening in the countryside and towns, to culture and the arts, and to the state and its power? Were such experiences comparable or linked to those in other parts of the world? Can we speak of a global early modernity, therefore, within which India played an important role? Organised thematically, each chapter engages with such key issues, debates, and concepts, covering wide ground as it connects, compares, and contrasts developments witnessed across early modern South Asia to those around the globe.Drawing on the fruits of research in numerous fields over the Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Belief 3. Ideology 4. Urbanism 5. Capitalism 6. Violence 7. The State 8. Kingship 9. Vernacularisation 10. Knowledge 11. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early Modern Toleration
Book SynopsisThis book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of religious diversity in the early modern world.Recent scholarship has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were accommodated in the early modern era (15001800). This book propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation of religious diversity in early modern communities to the experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different religious groups, including Christian denominations, Muslims, and Jews, in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and South-East Asia. This book is structured around five key concepts: the senses, identities, boundaries, interaction, and space. For each concept, the book provides chapters based on new, original research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their historiographic context. Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches Table of Contents1. "To Preserve and Instill the Beloved Peace" – Religious Invective and Confessional Coexistence under the Peace of Augsburg / 2. The Acoustics of Peace: Singing and Religious Coexistence in Seventeenth-Century Mechelen / 3. Tuning Catholicism in the Dutch Republic. Catholic Soundscapes in a Calvinist Society, c. 1600–1750 / 4. At the Crossroads of Identity: Conversos and Moriscos in Inquisitorial Spain (Sixteenth – Seventeenth centuries) / 5. Memory, Toleration, and Conflict after the French Wars of Religion / 6. Constitutional Dynamism and Demographic Diversity in Early Modern Confessional Coexistence: Dutch Reformed Refugees in the Holy Roman Empire, 1554–1596 / 7. Ambivalent Neighbours: Sensory and Spatial Dynamics of Religious Exchange in Early Modern Tuscany / 8. Crossing Borders? Conversions and Mixed Marriages in Ottoman Bilād al-Shām (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries) / 9. Catholic Merchants in British Commerce in the Age of Mercantilism / 10. Conquest, Colonialism and Religious Conflict in the Moluccas in the Early Seventeenth Century / 11. A Middle Path to Toleration? Sharing Sacred Spaces in Bautzen and Wetzlar, 1523–1625 / 12. From Contested Space to Sacred Topography: Jews, Protestants and Catholics in Reformation Cracow / 13. Confessional Boundaries and Transconfessional Spaces in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century British North America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Pathogens Crossing Borders
Book SynopsisThe increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be insufficient to stop the pathogens. Not surprisingly, the issue of epizootics (epidemics of animals) was among the first topics to be addressed by international meetings from the 1860s onwards. Pathogens Crossing Borders explores the history of international efforts to contain and prevent the spread of animal diseases from the early 1860s to the years after the Second World War. As an innovative contribution to global history and the history of internationalism, the book investigates how disease experts, politicians and state authorities developed concepts, practices and institutional structures at the international level to tackle the spread of animal diseases across borders. By following their aTable of Contents1. Introduction, 2. Animal Diseases and the Global 19th Century, 3. International Approaches to Contain Cross-Border Epizootics, 1863–1914, 4. Restarting Veterinary Internationalism After the First World War, 5. The League of Nations and International Projects Addressing Animal Diseases, 6. Veterinary Internationalism in Times of Crisis: The OIE, 1927–1947, 7. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Catharine Macaulays Republican Enlightenment
Book SynopsisThe celebrated' Catharine Macaulay was both lauded and execrated during the eighteenth century for her republican politics and her unconventional, second marriage. This comprehensive biography in the ''life and letters'' tradition situates her works in their political and social contexts and offers an unprecedented, detailed account of the content and influence of her writing, the arguments she developed in her eight-volume history of England and her other political, ethical, and educational works. Her disagreements with conservative opponents, David Hume, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Johnson are developed in detail, as is her influence on more progressive admirers such as Thomas Jefferson, Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Mercy Otis Warren, and Mary Wollstonecraft. Macaulay emerges as a coherent and influential political voice, whose attitudes and aspirations were characteristic of those enlightenment republicans who grounded their progressive politics in rational religion. She loTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Formation of a Female Republican: Kent, 1731–60 2. Influences from the Scottish Enlightenment: St James’s Place, 1760–66 3. A Republican Coterie; Berners St, 1766–71 4. Wilkes, Fever, and Wilson: London and Bath, 1771–77 5. France, Marriage, and Scandal: 1777–79 6. Completion of the History and Emergence as a Moral Philosopher: Knightsbridge, 1780–84 7. America and France: 1784–86 8. On Education and the French Revolution: Binfield, Berkshire, 1787–91 9. Macaulay’s Lasting Significance
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of the History of Settler Colonialism examines the global history of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination from ancient times to the present day. It explores the ways in which new polities were established in freshly discovered âNew Worldsâ, and covers the history of many countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Liberia, Algeria, Canada, and the USA.Chronologically as well as geographically wide-reaching, this volume focuses on an extensive array of topics and regions ranging from settler colonialism in the Neo-Assyrian and Roman empires, to relationships between indigenes and newcomers in New Spain and the early Mexican republic, to the settler-dominated polities of Africa during the twentieth century. Its twenty-nine inter-disciplinary chapters focus on single colonies or on regional developments that straddle the borders of present-day states, on successful settlements that would go on to become powerful settler nations, on failed settler colonies, and on the historiographies of these experiences.Taking a fundamentally international approach to the topic, this book analyses the varied experiences of settler colonialism in countries around the world. With a synthesizing yet original introduction, this is a landmark contribution to the emerging field of settler colonial studies and will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the global history of imperialism and colonialism.Trade Review"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"This volume shows how the deep history of settler colonialism has shaped our world today. As settlers move to new lands, the result is almost always unsettling. We need studies like this to better appreciate the ongoing consequences of our shared colonial legacies."Coel Kirkby, University of Melbourne, Australia"The essays in this work as a collection and as individual studies are a useful and thought-provoking addition to the topic of settler colonialism that can shed light on it as a global phenomenon that is at once universal and peculiar to particular places. What is more, they offer a challenge to the field of global history to utilize settler colonialism as a lens or dispose of it as too broad, ineffective, or too ill-defined to be useful."Jack Seitz is a PhD Candidate in the Rural, Agricultural, Technological, and Environmental History program at Iowa State University, World History ConnectedTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsList of contributorsIntroduction: settler colonialism as a distinct mode of dominationPART ISettler colonialism in the ‘Old WorldIntroduction to Part I1 – Settler colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans2 – Settler colonialism in ancient Israel3 – Mediterranean and Atlantic settler colonialism from the late fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries4 - Settler colonialism in Ireland from the English conquest to the nineteenth century5 - Northern Ireland and settler colonialism to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998PART IIThe AmericasIntroduction to Part II6 - Colonies of settlement and settler colonialism in Northeastern North America, 1450-18507 – Atlantic North America from contact to the late nineteenth century8 - Settler colonialism in New Spain and the early Mexican republic9 - Northwestern North America (Canadian West) to 190010 - Settler colonialism in postcolonial Latin America11 - Settler colonialism and the consolidation of Canada in the twentieth century12 - Adaptation, resistance, and representation in the modern US settler statePART IIIAfricaIntroduction to Part III13 - Settler colonialism in South Africa, 1652–189914 - French Algeria, 1830-196215 - Americo Liberia as a settler society16 - Settler colonialism in Kenya, 1880-195017 - Settler rule in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-197918 - The Italian fascist settler empire in Ethiopia, 1936-194119 - White settler politics and Euro-African nationalism in Angola, 1945-197520 - Settler colonialism in South Africa: land, labour, and transformation, 1880-2015PART IV AsiaIntroduction to Part IV21 – Russian settler colonialism22 – Settler colonialism in the making of Japan’s Hokkaidō23 - Theorizing Zionist settler colonialism in Palestine24 - A dying settler colonialism: Israel and the Palestinians after 1948PART VAustralasiaIntroduction to Part V25 - Australian settler colonialism over the long nineteenth century: new insights into history, gender and biopolitics26 - Settler colonialism in New Zealand, 1840-190727 - Settler colonialism in New Caledonia, 1853 to the present28 - Settler Australia in the twentieth century29 - Settler colonialism in twentieth-century New ZealandIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the most comprehensive survey available of the philosophical background to the works of early Christian writers and the development of early Christian doctrine.Trade Review"For a modern intellectual culture that distrusts trust and prefers analysis to exegesis, the very notion of early Christian philosophy is apt to be an uncomfortable stretch. But Mark Edwards and company do not retreat to the safe, if vacuous, conjunction: early Christianity and philosophy, as if one were a prosthesis for the other. This volume’s concise forays into a still surprisingly unfamiliar intellectual landscape bring ancient philosophy into the heart of early Christian exegesis. The introduction by Edwards brilliantly articulates the stakes of following along." - James Wetzel, Villanova University, USA"This well-conceived collection of studies makes a powerful case that ancient Christians took philosophy seriously and historians of ancient philosophy need to take Christians seriously." – George Boys-Stones, University of Toronto, Canada"The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Philosophy is a much welcome tool for students and researchers alike. Thanks to the excellent work of an international scholarly team of the highest calibre, the volume rightly moves away from the simplistic dualism of 'reason versus faith' that still hinders a sophisticated understanding of Early Christianity’s complex ties to pagan philosophy, and it showcases, in a truly comprehensive fashion, their substantial areas of intersection in the first centuries of our era. The contributors demonstrate that the Christians’ engagement with the tools, tropes, and themes of pagan philosophy was not just considerably more constructive and dynamic than is often recognized, but that this very engagement was also a necessary enterprise for Christians." - Alberto Rigolio, University of Durham, UK"This handbook is an important contribution to scholarship on early Christian thought. But that is only half its contribution. It is in equal measure a formidable argument for situating what is usually called ‘early Christian theology’ within the larger domain of ‘ancient philosophy’, most broadly conceived... Edwards is to be commended for bringing together such a substantial collection (in both size and importance) and for producing an edited handbook that sustains a particular (and much needed) thesis about Christianity and ancient philosophy across the whole of the volume." - The Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction Section 1: Themes 2. Sources of Divine Knowledge 3. Nature 4. Time and Eternity 5. Creation in Early Christianity 6. Providence and Evil 7. Logic and Religious Language 8. Ethics 9. The Mystical Element Section 2: Doctrines 10. The Trinity 11. The Philosophy of the Incarnation 12. The Philosophy of the Resurrection in Early Christianity 13. Biblical Hermeneutics Section 3. Schools 14. The Presocratics 15. Socrates and Plato 16. Aristotle and his School 17. Stoics and Christians 18. Epicureans 19. Cynics and Christians 20. Sceptics 21. Philo of Alexandria 22. Orpheus, Mithras, Hermes 23. Middle Platonists and Pythagoreans 24. Pagan and Christian Philosophy: Plotinus, Iamblichus and Christian Philosophical Practice 25. The Philosophy of the Later Neoplatonists: An Interaction with Christian Thought Section 4. Individuals 26. Justin and Athenagoras 27. Tatian, Theophilus and Irenaeus of Lyon 28. Clement of Alexandria 29. Tertullian and Cyprian 30. "Hippolytus" and Epiphanius of Salamis 31. Origen and Philosophy 32. The Sethians and the Gnostics of Plotinus 33. Arnobius and Lactantius 34. Philosophy in Eusebius and Marcellus 35. Arius and Athanasius 36. Marius Victorinus 37. Philosophy in Hilary of Poitiers and Ambrose of Milan 38. Eunomius of Cyzicus and Gregory of Nyssa 39. Didymus the Blind and Evagrius of Pontus 40. Synesius of Cyrene: Philosophy and Poetry "Sharing the same Temple" 41. Augustine of Hippo 42. Cyril of Alexandria 42. Theodoret of Cyrrhus 43. Boethius: The First Christian Philosopher in the Latin West? 44. John Philoponus 45. Dionysius the Areopagite 46. Christian Philosophynin Severus of Antioch and Leontius of Byzantium
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cave and Worship in Ancient Greece
Book SynopsisCave and Worship in Ancient Greece brings together a series of stimulating chapters contributing to the archaeology and our modern understanding of the character and importance of cave sanctuaries in the fi rst millennium BCE Mediterranean.Written by emerging and established archaeologists and researchers, the book employs a fascinating and wide range of approaches and methodologies to investigate, and interpret material assemblages from cave shrines, many of which are introduced here for the fi rst time. An introductory section explores the emergence and growth of caves as centres of cult and religion. The chapters then probe some of the meanings attached to cave spaces and votive materials such as terracotta fi gurines, and ceramics, and those who created and used them. The authors use sensory and gender approaches, discuss the identity of the worshippers, and the contribution of statistical analysis to the role of votive materials. At the heart of the volume is the Trade ReviewThe volume serves as a sturdy base for future cave explorations across the Mediterranean that will encourage fresh avenues of interpretation, but readers should be prepared for varying terms across chapters (“sacred caves,” “ritual caves,” etc.) that may or may not indicate the same ancient reality. While the study of Greek caves is not new, this book proposes the ongoing need for systematic cave studies, proves the continuing influence of survey and landscape archaeology, and reminds us that caves, their finds, and their diachronic human use, are a fundamental part of both the archaeological and religious heritage.Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia, Religious Studies ReviewThe volume offers substantive contribution to the study of cultic cave sites and provides interesting avenues for future scholarship on the topic of Greek cave sites as places of cult practice.Alexandra Creola, ARYS: Antiquity, Religions and Societies Table of Contents1. Introduction: On Reading Caves and Ancient Greek Cult; 2.The Dawn of Ancient Greek Cave Cult: Prehistoric Cave Sanctuaries; 3. Caves as Sites of Sensory and Cognitive Enhancement: The Idaean Cave on Crete; 4. Caves and Consumption: The Case of Polis Bay, Ithaca; 5. Communities, Consumption, and a Cave: The Profile of Cult at Drakaina Cave on Kephallonia; 6. A River Ran Through It: Circulating Images of Ritual and Engaging Communities in a Cave in Aitoloakarnania; 7.The Cave of Pan at Marathon, Attica: New Evidence for the Performance of Cult in the Historic Era; 8. The Face of Cave Rituals: Terracotta Figurines in Greek Sacred Caves; 9. Cult and Ritual in Cycladic Caves; 10. Grottoes and the Construction of Cult in Southern Italy
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Jews of Denmark in the Holocaust
Book SynopsisBased on never previously explored personal accounts and archival documentation, this book examines life and death in the Theresienstadt ghetto, seen through the eyes of the Jewish victims from Denmark.How was it in Theresienstadt? Thus asked Johan Grün rhetorically when he, in July 1945, published a short text about his experiences. The successful flight of the majority of Danish Jewry in October 1943 is a well-known episode of the Holocaust, but the experience of the 470 men, women, and children that were deported to the ghetto has seldom been the object of scholarly interest. Providing an overview of the Judenaktion in Denmark and the subsequent deportations, the book sheds light on the fate of those who were arrested. Through a micro-historical analysis of everyday life, it describes various aspects of social and daily life in proximity to death. In doing so, the volume illuminates the diversity of individual situations and conveys the deportees' perceptions and stTable of Contents1. The Jews in Denmark on the Eve of the ‘Judenaktion’ 2. The ‘Judenaktion’ 3. Ghetto Theresienstadt and the Arrival of the Danish Transports 4. Housing and Work for Adults and Children 5. Relationships Inside and Outside the National Group 6. Everyday Life 7. Despair, Disease and Death 8. Shipments of Parcels 9. Danish Parcels Seen from the Ghetto 10. The Visit of the International Delegation, June 23, 1944 11. After the Visit 12. Witnessing the Transports 13. The Last Months in Theresienstadt 14. Life After the Ghetto
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Race Sex and Segregation in Colonial Latin
Book SynopsisThis book traces the emergence and early development of segregationist practices and policies in Spanish and Portuguese America - showing that the practice of resettling diverse indigenous groups in segregated Indian towns (or aldeamentos in the case of Brazil) influenced the material reorganization of colonial space, shaped processes of racialization, and contributed to the politicization of reproductive sex. The book advances this argument through close readings of published and archival sources from the 16th and early-17th centuries, and is informed by two main conceptual concerns. First, it considers how segregation was envisioned, codified, and enforced in a historical context of consolidating racial differences and changing demographics associated with the racial mixture. Second, it theorizes the interrelations between notions of race and reproductive sexuality. It shows that segregationist efforts were justified by paternalistic discourses that aimed to conserveTable of Contents1. Vasco de Quiroga’s Utopian Communities. 2. The Codification of Segregation in a Context of Mestizaje. 3. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Endorsement of Segregation. 4. Aldeamento and the Politicization of Racially-Qualified Life.
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WW Norton & Co The Cartoon History of the Universe III
Book SynopsisAn irreverent survey in comics spanning world history from the birth of Islam to the Byzantine Empire to the Italian Renaissance.Trade Review"Brilliantly rendered and unexpectedly timely.... Will reading an erudite, if flat-out hilarious, account of Middle East history helps us make sense of our current clash of cultures? Let's put it this way; ignorance hasn't worked." -- Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury"A masterpiece! A must for every animated reader!" -- Steve Martin, actor and writer"Each new volume of Larry Gonick's epic and irreverent rendition of history is informative, funny, and a triumph of the cartoonist's craft—in other words, cause for celebration." -- Charles Johnson, National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage"A brilliant application of the cartoon medium—wedding learning with fun. Bravo!" -- Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, A Contract with God, and The Dreamer
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WW Norton & Co Champions Day
Book SynopsisA triptych of a single day revealing the history and foreshadowing the future of a complex and cosmopolitan city in a world at war.Trade Review"With the eye of an unusually perceptive flâneur, in “Champions Day” [Carter] tells the story of Shanghai through its former racecourse (now part of the People’s Park). Mr. Carter is a wonderful guide for visitors in search of a long-gone city... Both books are cautionary tales about what happens, in Mr. Carter’s words, when the powerful exploit their environment, inviting war and revolution." -- The Economist"Champions Day is based on an impressive trawl of the archives of old Shanghai. The details are plentiful and the overall narrative is clear. Carter's prose is punchy and his sense of Shanghai and pre-revolutionary China is keen." -- Mike Cormack - Literary Review
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Taylor & Francis The Fascism Reader
Book SynopsisThe Fascism Reader is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of fascism as both ideology and practice. The book draws together classic and recent interpretations to trace the development of generic fascism.Exploring fascism in all its diverse manifestations, this book discusses the classic examples of National Socialism in Germany and Fascism in Italy, as well as a series of less familiar movements and regimes, including the Iron Guard in Romania, the British Union of Fascists, Salazar's dictatorship in Portugal and Franco's regime in Spain. The Fascism Reader explores all the key aspects of fascism including: the essence and limitations of generic fascism the intellectual and ideological dimensions of fascism regimes of fascism as particular models of the exercise of power fascism and society - from anti-Semitism to fascist attitudes to women. A mustTable of ContentsIntroduction: Fascism in Historiography Part 1: Generic Fascism: The Search for Definitions and Explanations 1. Fascism – A 'Generic' Concept? 2. What Produces Fascism? Part 2: Fascist Movements: Ideology and Variations 3. Fascist Ideology – The Quest for the 'Fascist Minimum' 4. Varieties of Fascist Movements Part 3: The 'Regime-Model' of Fascism 5. Techniques of Fascist Rule – The Exercise of Power by the 'Regime-Model' of Fascism 6. Fascism and Anti-Semitism Part 4: Societal Attitudes to Fascism: Support, Conformity, Opposition and Resistance 7. Society and Attitudes to Fascism – Support, Conformity and Resistance 8. Fascism and Social Elites – Complicity and Antagonism
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Taylor & Francis Matters of Conflict Material Culture Memory and
Book SynopsisIn its multidisciplinary approach and wide-ranging contributions, the book looks at trench art and postcards through museum collections to prosthetic limbs, and examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind.Table of Contents1. Materialities of Conflict: The Great War, 1914-20032. Art, Material Life and Disaster: Civilian and Military Prisoners of War3. 'Sacred Relics': Objects in the Imperial War Museum 1917-1939 4. Prostheses and Propaganda: Materiality and the Human Body in the Great War5. 'Nagelfiguren': Nailing Patriotism in Germany 1914-18 6. Shattered Experiences - Recycled Relics: Strategies of Representation and the Legacy of the Great War 7. The Great War Re-remembered: The Fragmentation of the World's Largest Painting8. Death and Material Culture: The Case of Pictures during the First World War9. A Material Link Between War and Peace: World War One Silk Postcards 10. Thanks for the Memory: War Memorials, Spectatorship and the Trajectories of Commemoration 1919-2001 11. The Lion, the Angel and the War Memorial: Some French sites re-visited 12. The Internet and the Great War: The impact on the making and meaning of Great War history 13. The Ocean Villas Project: Archaeology in the Service of European Remembrance 14. Aftermath: Materiality on the Home Front, 1914-2001
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Taylor & Francis The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II Relics
Book SynopsisHow did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? This book recounts the horrific details of his death and the thrilling discovery of the bones, and also investigates the alternative narratives that have grown up around these events. Trade Review'This book is both a careful retelling of the story of the deaths and rediscovery of Russia's royal family and a series of interesting essays on the myths surrounding them. As such, it is to be thoroughly recommended' - Beryl Williams, University of Sussex, Revolutionary Russia, 2008Table of Contents1. Cruel Necessity 2. True Crime 3. The Many Deaths of Nicholas II 4. Gothic Horror 5. False Alexeis 6. Tsar Martyr 7. Family Portraits. Conclusion: Miscalculating History
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Taylor & Francis Collected Works of John Stuart Mill
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Taylor & Francis Genocide The Basics
Book SynopsisGenocide: The Basics is an engaging introduction to the study of a controversial and widely debated topic. This concise and comprehensive book explores key questions such as; how successful have efforts been in the prevention of genocide? How prevalent has genocide been throughout history? and how has the concept been defined? Real world case studies address significant issues including: The killing of indigenous peoples by colonial powers The Holocaust and the question of uniqueness Peacekeeping efforts in the 1990s Legal attempts to create a genocide-free world With suggestions for further reading, discussion questions at the end of each chapter and a glossary of key terms, Genocide: The Basics is the ideal starting point for students approaching the topic for the first time. Trade ReviewPaul Bartrop is to be congratulated on producing an excellent introduction to the study of genocide for the ever growing number of readers who are studying the topic. This volume is an excellent guide to genocide within history as well as to its contemporary legal and political controversies, and those teaching and taking courses on genocide will find it to be an invaluable resource.Patrick Hayden, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Defining Genocide 2. Colonial Genocides 3. The Christians of the Ottoman Empire 4. The Holocaust 5. Genocide, Asia, and the Cold War 6. Genocide in the 1990s 7. South Sudan and Darfur: Genocide Again 8. Other Cases: Problems of Classification 9. The Dilemmas of Prevention and Intervention 10. International Justice 11. The Future Glossary References Index
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The University of Michigan Press Postcolonial Archipelagos
Book SynopsisLocated at the intersection of Postcolonial Studies, Latin American Studies, Caribbean Studies, and History, this interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from the US, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines to examine the colonial legacies of the three island nations of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines.Trade Review“(Post-)colonial Archipelagos is no ordinary edited volume. It retells centuries of imperial and post-imperial history by drawing together research by a wide variety of specialists into a synthetic account with empirical rigor. The novel method pays off handsomely. This will be a much-cited work.”- Sam Erman, USC Gould School of LawTable of Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Part 1: An archipelagic view on (post-)colonial legacies Chapter 1: Hans-JÜrgen Burchardt and Johanna Leinius: Of archipelagic connections and postcolonial divides Chapter 2: Johanna Leinius: The paradoxes of (post-)colonial archipelagos – a proposal for postcolonizing comparative research Chapter 3: Josep M. Fradera: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and the crisis of the great Empire: global dynamics and indigenous development Part 2: The past and present of the political economy and authority in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines Chapter 4: Antonio SantamarÍa GarcÍa: Spain in Cuba. Policies, structures, economic practices and colonial relations Chapter 5: Jacqueline Laguardia MartÍnez: The political economy of contemporary Cuba Chapter 6: Emilio Pantojas-GarcÍa: Puerto Rico’s colonial legacies and post-colonial constellations: Economy, society and polity Chapter 7: Ian Seda Irizarry and Argeo QuiÑones: The political economy of contemporary Puerto Rico Chapter 8: Alvin A. Camba and Maria Isabel Aguilar: Sui generis: The political economy of the Philippines during the Spanish colonial regime Chapter 9: Teresa R. Melgar: The political economy of power in contemporary Philippines: Patterns of continuity and change Part 3: The past and present of the hierarchization of difference and power in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines Chapter 10: Javiher GutiÉrrez Forte and Janet Iglesias Cruz: Spanish colonization’s mark on Cuba Chapter 11: Jenny MorÍn Nenoff: Race, gender and social structure in contemporary Cuba: between colonial legacy and current structural transformations Chapter 12: Milagros Denis-Rosario: The perpetual colony: historical memory and inequalities in Puerto Rican society Chapter 13: Miguel A. Rivera-QuiÑones: Post-colonial colonialism in Puerto Rico: Inequality, capital and social transfers Chapter 14: MarÍa Dolores Elizalde: Colonial government and social organization in the Spanish Philippines: Interactions and ruptures Chapter 15: Cristina Cielo: Social inequalities and political organization in the Philippines Part 4: The (post-)colonial legacies of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines: A comparative view Chapter 16: Michael Zeuske: Legacies of slavery and people of African descent in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean Chapter 17: Jochen Kemner: Patterns of work, stratification and social prestige in the late Spanish colonial Empire Chapter 18: Hans-JÜrgen Burchardt: Lessons learned: The legacies of Spanish colonialism Notes Contributor Bios Index
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University of California Press Maps of Time
Book SynopsisAn introduction to a fresh way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time onwards. Beginning with the Big Bang, it views the interaction of the natural world with the arrivals in flora and fauna, including human beings.Trade Review"Christian's clarity of style and modesty add grace and subtlety to an ambitious effort." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“A remarkable work of synthesis and scholarship. . . . Christian's Olympian perspective on the story of time is exhilarating.” * The Guardian *"A fascinating read." * San Francisco Chronicle *“An ambitious and clearly-written account.” * Future Survey *"Christian has hit a home run. . . . This book should be required reading for any extraterrestrials visiting the earth for the first time." * College & Research Libraries News *"[Christian's] book is remarkably successful. It has the essential effect of first stimulating and then retaining the reader's interest." * New Scientist *“A good read, a fascinating prospectus for a new kind of history.” * American Scientist *“Forges bold and ingenious connections between the physical and social sciences.” * The Age *"David Christian has given us a state-of-the-art instance of Big History, a work of breathtaking synthesis." * Books & Culture: A Christian Review *"No brief can possible do even minimal justice to an author and his summa cum laude opus." * Journal of World History *"No work in this genre [macro-history] is better than David Christian’s Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History. . . . [I]t is a brilliantly executed act of provocation." * The Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Modern Creation Myth? 1. The First 300,000 Years: Origins of the Universe, Time, and Space 2. Origins of the Galaxies and Stars: The Beginnings of Complexity 3. Origins and History of the Earth 4. The Origins of Life and the Theory of Evolution 5. The Evolution of Life and the Biosphere 6. The Evolution of Humans 7. The Beginnings of Human History 8. Intensification and the Origins of Agriculture 9. From Power over Nature to Power over People: Cities, States, and Civilizations 10. Long Trends in the Era of Agrarian Civilizations 11. Approaching Modernity 12. Globalization, Commercialization, and Innovation 13. Birth of the Modern World 14. The Great Acceleration of the Twentieth Century 15. Futures
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University of California Press Security and Terror
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With a lucid and accessible tour of political theory . . . [Jelly-Schapiro] prepares his readers for astute interpretations of several recent fictional texts and films . . . The book is cultural studies at its best." * Times Higher Education *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: History, Narrative, and the War on Terror 1 1 • “All the World Was America”: The Long History of Homeland Security 20 2 • “A General Principle of Democracy”: Terror and Colonial Modernity 44 3 • “Choc en Retour”: Security, Terror, Theory 74 4 • “Vanishing Points”: Postcolonial America 105 5 • “This Is Our Threnody”: Writing History as Catastrophe 140 Epilogue: Rupture and Colonial Modernity 163 Notes 179 Bibliography 203
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University of California Press Illegality in the Heartland Latinidad Indigeneity and Immigration Policies during Times of Hate
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University of California Press Nuclear Power Plants as Weapons for the Enemy An Unrecognized Military Peril
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University of California Press Barbarians and Politics at the Court of Arcadius
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Cambridge University Press Pretorias Praetorians
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Ancient History
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Cambridge University Press English Mystics of the Middle Ages Cambridge English Prose Texts
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Cambridge University Press The Crusades c1071c1291 Cambridge Medieval
Book SynopsisA concise, general history of the crusades from the first calls to arms in the later eleventh century to the fall of the last crusader strongholds in Syria and Palestine in 1291. Incorporating over forty years' research, this is the ideal introductory textbook for all students of the crusades.Trade Review'… excellent … essential reading for those who wish to understand not only the past but also the present Middle East.' History TodayTable of ContentsList of maps; List of genealogical tables; 1. The beginning of the crusades; 2. The crusade of Urban II and Paschal II; 3. The first crusade confronts the east; 4. The Holy Land: a new country overseas; 5. From the first to the second crusade; 6. Between Byzantium and Saladin: the perils of the Latin east; 7. Crusades of reconquest (1188–1205); 8. The crusade as an institution; 9. War and diplomacy: the rebuilding of the kingdom of Jerusalem; 10. The turning point of 1250; 11. In the Holy Land: a new Frankish society; 12. The crusade and the Mongols; 13. The end of the Frankish Holy Land; Conclusion; Appendices; Chronology.
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Cambridge University Press Jewish Martyrs in the Pagan and Christian Worlds
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Cambridge University Press Fabrication of Empire
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Cambridge University Press Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire
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Cambridge University Press The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gandhi Profiles In Power
Book SynopsisGandhi''s is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His ''power'' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation. David Arnold explains how and why the shy student and affluent lawyer became one of the most powerful anti-colonial figures Western empires in Asia ever faced and why he aroused such intense affection, loyalty (and at times much bitter hatred) among Indians and Westerners alike. Attaching as much influence to the idea and image of Gandhi as to the man himself, Arnold sees Gandhi not just as a Hindu saint but as a colonial subject, whose attitudes and experiences expressed much that was common to countless others in India and elsewhere who sought to grapple with the overwhelming power and cultural authority of the West.A vivid and highly readable introducation to Gandhi'
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Taylor & Francis The Origins of the Second World War in Asia and
Book SynopsisProfessor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?Trade Review 'xxx; a very nice, concise, balanced account of the events leading up to the Pacific War.' Academic Library Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of mapsEditor's ForewordPreface1. Introduction2. Japan isolated3. The forging of an anti-democratic coalition 4. The failure of an alliance5. The road to war6. Conclusion Bibliographical essay Maps Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Augustus Image and Substance
Book SynopsisThroughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved.There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and the admired Emperor of later years. However seemingly benevolent his autocracy and substantial his achievements, Augustus' overriding purpose was always to keep himself and his dynasty in power. Similar techniques were practised against surviving and fresh opponents, but with increasing skill and duplicity, and in the end the exhausted members of the political classes were content to accept their new ruler. This book charts the stages of Augustus' rise, the evolution of his power and his methods of sustaining it, and finally the ways in which he used artists and
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Corrupting Sea
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the relationship between man and his physical and biological environment in the Mediterranean region over 2000 years. It covers issues such as historiography, patterns of settlement and demographic change, religious cult sites, climate, disease, deforestation, technological innovation and anthropology of Mediterranean communities.Trade Review"The Corrupting Sea is a book that all classicists should read." Classical Review "In their book The Corrupting Sea, Horden and Purcell have engaged in one of the most relentless intellectual reassessments to have been undertaken in recent times of the history of the pre-industrial Mediterranean. One seldom emerges from a book as rich as this, having had so many firmly-held notions shaken out of one's mind and having glimpsed so many enthralling new vistas on a once-familiar past." Professor Peter Brown, Princeton University "To bring together the economic and social history of so many periods and places within the great story of the Mediterranean is a remarkable achievement and Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell should be congratulated upon it." Professor Colin Renfrew, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge "In recreating the Mediterranean for the new millennium, the authors offer a substantial achievement that challenges many long-held assumptions not only about the Mediterranean, but also about human relations with the environment and even the very nature of historical writing. It certainly deserves to provoke discussion among scholars from fields as broad as its own grand scope." Times Higher Education Supplement "The Corrupting Sea is a book of magisterial synthesis and scholarship - a huge multi-disciplinary literature turned into a narrative that is at once comprehensive, enjoyable, quirky and thought-provoking." Antiquity "This book will be indispensable for the serious student of the Mediterranean past and present." CHOICE "This is an important book that presents a powerful and original model of Mediterranean history that will be used, debated, and criticized by historians of all periods for years to come." English Historical Review "Horden and Purcell's new Mediterranean panorama, which will take a generation of historians to digest and implement, forms one of those manifest watersheds in the study of antiquity." Journal of Roman Archaeology "This book amounts to an often fascinating, and unerringly useful, compendium." International History Review "Here a generation of ecological historians ... has led the way. Horden and Purcell have synthesized that literature, extended its reach into the Middle Ages, and made it accessible to the general medievalist." Speculum "This impressive work synthesizes a vast amount of historical, geographical, archaelogical, and ethnographic knowledge about the Mediterranean region." Historical GeographyTable of ContentsList of Maps vii Acknowledgements ix Note on References x Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 Part One: ‘Frogs round a Pond’: Ideas of the Mediterranean 7 I A Geographical Expression 9 1. What is the Mediterranean?;2. The Challenge of the Continents;3. The Mediterranean Disintegrated; 4. Intimations of Unity II a Historian’s Mediterranean 26 1. The Imaginary Sea; 2. Four Men in a Boat; 3. The End of the Mediterranean; 4. Mediterranean History; 5. Historical Ecology Part Two: ‘Short Distances and Definite Places’: Mediterranean Microecologies 51 III Four Definite Places 53 1. The Biqa; 2. South Etruria; 3. The Green Mountain, Cyrenaica; 4. Melos; 5. ‘La trame du monde’; 6. Mountains and Pastures; 7. Theodoric and Dante IV Ecology and the Larger Settlement 89 1. An Urban Tradition; 2. Definitions; 3. The Urban Variable; 4. Types and Theories; 5. Consumption; 6. Settlement Ecology; 7. Autarky; 8. Dispersed Hinterlands V Connectivity 123 1. Lines of Sound and Lines of Sight; 2. Extended Archipelagos; 3. Shipping Lanes; 4. Economies Compared; 5. The Early Medieval Depression; 6. Connectivity Maintained?; 7. Conclusion Copyrighted Material Part Three: Revolution and Catastrophe 173 VI Imperatives of Survival: Diversify, Store, Redistribute 175 1. The History of Mediterranean Food Systems; 2. The New Ecological Economic History; 3. Understanding the Marginal; 4. The Integrated Mediterranean Forest; 5. The Underestimated Mediterranean Wetland; 6. ‘These Places Feed Many Pickling-Fish .’; 7. Mediterranean Animal Husbandry; 8. Cereals and the Dry Margin; 9. The Case of the Tree-Crop; 10. The Mediterranean Garden; 11. The Smaller Mediterranean Island VII Technology and Agrarian Change 231 1. Working the Soil; 2. The Irrigated Landscape; 3. On the Diversity of Cultivated Plants; 4. Abatement and Intensification; 5. Anatomy of the Mediterranean Countryman; 6. Colonizations and Allotments; 7. The Reception of Innovation VIII Mediterranean Catastrophes 298 1. On the History of Catastrophe; 2. An Unstable World; 3. Alluvial Catastrophe and its Causes; 4. Sediments and History; 5. The History of Vegetation; 6. Environmental History without Catastrophe IX Mobility of Goods and People 342 1. Inescapable Redistribution; 2. Animal, Vegetable and ; 3. The Problem of Mediterranean Textiles; 4. Problems with High Commerce; 5. The Ultimate Resource; 6. Organized Mobility; 7. Places of Redistribution Part Four: The Geography of Religion 401 X ‘territories of Grace’ 403 1. Religion and the Physical Environment; 2. A Perilous Environment; 3. The Sacralized Economy; 4. The Religion of Mobility; 5. The Religion of Boundary and Belonging Part Five: ‘Museums of Man’? The Uses of Social Anthropology 461 XI ‘mists of Time’: Anthropology and Continuity 463 1. Survivals Revisited; 2. Balanced Arcadias; 3. The Presence of the Past; 4. Upstreaming XII ‘i also Have a Moustache’: Anthropology and Mediterranean Unity 485 1. Grands faits méditerranéens?; 2. Mediterranean Values?; 3. Honour and Shame I; 4. Honour and Shame II; 5. Honour in the City; 6. Pattern and Depth; 7. Distinctiveness; 8. Origins; 9. History; 10. The Case for Mediterraneanism Bibliographical Essays 530 Consolidated Bibliography 642 Index 737
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Post1945 America
Book SynopsisA Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic Includes book review section on essential readings Trade Review“These 34 valuable essays review the current state of historical research on a wide range of issues and contribute to the scholarly study of US history following World War II. The issues reflect the diverse directions that historical inquiry has recently taken … This book will help define the new historiography: highly recommended.” Choice “This is a gem of a book that will fascinate anyone whose interest in recent US history goes beyond nostalgia and personalities. Broad enough to cover both tourism and the Cold War, it will quickly become required reading for scholars of the period.” Michael Kazin, Georgetown University and co-author, America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii About the Contributors ix Introduction xiii PART I SOCIETY AND CULTURE 1 1 Family and Demography in Postwar America: A Hazard of New Fortunes? 3 Stephen Lassonde 2 The Power of Place: Race, Political Economy, and Identity in the Postwar Metropolis 20 Robert O. Self and Thomas J. Sugrue 3 American Religion Since 1945 44 James T. Fisher 4 Time Out: Leisure and Tourism 64 Susan G. Davis 5 Mass Media: From 1945 to the Present 78 Susan J. Douglas 6 What the Traffic Bares: Popular Music “Back in the USA” 96 Allen Tullos 7 The Visual Arts in Post-1945 America 113 Erika Doss 8 American Intellectual History and Social Thought Since 1945 134 Patrick N. Allitt PART II PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS 153 9 American Political Culture Since 1945 155 Richard H. King 10 Hyphen Nation: Ethnicity in American Intellectual and Political Life 175 Matthew Frye Jacobson 11 Labor During the American Century: Work, Workers, and Unions Since 1945 192 Joshua B. Freeman 12 The Historiography of the Struggle for Black Equality Since 1945 211 Kevin Gaines 13 Postwar Women’s History: The “Second Wave” or the End of the Family Wage? 235 Nancy MacLean 14 Sexuality and the Movements for Sexual Liberation 260 Beth Bailey 15 A Movement of Movements: The Definition and Periodization of the New Left 277 Van Gosse 16 The Triumph of Conservatives in a Liberal Age 303 David L. Chappell 17 Modern Environmentalism 328 Ian Tyrrell PART III POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY 343 18 Beyond the Presidential Synthesis: Reordering Political Time 345 Julian E. Zelizer 19 McCarthyism and the Red Scare 371 Ellen Schrecker 20 The Politics of “The Least Dangerous Branch”: The Court, the Constitution, and Constitutional Politics Since 1945 385 Mary L. Dudziak 21 The Cold War in Europe 406 Carolyn Eisenberg 22 Off the Beach: The United States, Latin America, and the Cold War 426 Greg Grandin 23 The United States and East Asia in the Postwar Era 446 James I. Matray 24 Washington Quagmire: US Presidents and the Vietnam Wars –A Pattern of Intervention 464 David Hunt 25 The End of the Cold War 479 David S. Painter and Thomas S. Blanton 26 From the “Atomic Age” to the “Anti-Nuclear Age”: Nuclear Energy in Politics, Diplomacy, and Culture 501 J. Samuel Walker PART IV ESSENTIAL READING 519 27 J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (1985) 521 Alan Brinkley 28 Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (1995) 525 Linda Gordon 29 Samuel Lubell, The Future of American Politics (1952, 1956, 1965) 529 Nelson Lichtenstein 30 Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were (1992) 534 Elaine Tyler May 31 Alphonso Pinkney, The Myth of Black Progress (1984) 537 Robert E. Weems, Jr. 32 Garry Wills, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man (1970) 540 Robert Westbrook 33 Victor Navasky, Naming Names (1980) 545 Jon Wiener 34 Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) 550 Melani McAlister Index 557
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Harvard University Press The Age of Confucian Rule The Song
Book SynopsisJust over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. This book is an essential introduction to this transformative era.Trade Review[An] admirable account of the Song dynasty… This series on China, brilliantly overseen by Timothy Brook, is a credit to Harvard University Press. Above all, it encourages us to think of China in different ways. -- Jonathan Mirsky * Literary Review *One hopes [Kuhn’s] work will find a larger audience, for he has much to teach to general readers, world historians, and China specialists alike. -- Mark Halperin * American Historical Review *The Age of Confucian Rule is a book that everyone who teaches Chinese history should have on his or her shelf and consult frequently… The attention [Kuhn] gives material culture is refreshing and helps him to make his case for the importance of China in Song times. -- Patricia Ebrey * International Journal of Asian Studies *The first four chapters of this well-researched, clearly written book present a balanced synopsis of the political, institutional, and military history of Song and its neighbors during some three centuries, when this was ‘the most advanced civilization on earth.’ The remaining eight chapters deal with thought, life cycle rituals, poetry and painting, education and the examination system, dynastic capitals, the world of production, money and taxation, private lives, and the public sphere. The author’s enthusiasm is matched by his erudition and outstanding expertise in Song material culture as he ranges widely from the plethora of goods for sale in bustling shops and markets to the origins of foot binding, and finds space for dental hygiene as well as tomb construction… Scholars already versed in the period can learn much from this book, while those just beginning to delve into Chinese history are very well served. -- C. Schirokauer * Choice *One of the leading historians of the Song period offers an empirically rich and well-informed book that is especially good on material culture and the history of technology. Kuhn offers strong overviews of the transformation of the capital cities, education and examination, commerce, and the Song fiscal system, as well as lively discussions of religious beliefs, the study of natural phenomena, and private life in the public sphere. For readers who want an in-depth look at mid-imperial Chinese history and culture, Dieter Kuhn’s Age of Confucian Rule promises to become the book of choice. -- Paul Jakov Smith, Haverford CollegeTable of Contents* Introduction *1. A Time of Turmoil *2. Model Rulers *3. Reforming into Collapse *4. The Song in the South *5. Three Doctrines *6. Education and Examination *7. Life Cycle Rituals *8. Exploring the World Within and Without *9. Transforming the Capitals *10. A Changing World of Production *11. Money and Taxes *12. Private Lives in the Public Sphere * Conclusion * Dynastic Rulers * Measures * Pronunciation Guide * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Harvard Guide to American History
Book SynopsisNo detailed description available for Harvard Guide to American History.
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Princeton University Press George F Kennan and the Making of American
Book SynopsisWhen George C Marshall became Secretary of State in January of 1947, he asked George F Kennan to head a new component in the department's structure - the Policy Planning Staff. This title scrutinizes Kennan's subsequent influence over foreign policymaking during the crucial years from 1947 to 1950.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 1993 Hoover Presidential Library Association Book Award "A good analytical examination of American foreign policy as seen through the lens of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff... As such it embraces much more than the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The author insists that there was no grand design to American policy in these years, but one is impressed by the pervasive and lucid intellect of Ambassador Kennan."--William G. Hyland, Foreign AffairsTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations Used in Text and NotesCh. 1Director of the Policy Planning Staff3Ch. 2Launching the Marshall Plan43Ch. 3Meditertanean Crises: Greece, Italy, and Palestine75Ch. 4The North Atlantic Treaty113Ch. 5The Division of Germany141Ch. 6Titoism, Eastern Europe, and Political Warfare178Ch. 7The Limits of America's China Policy212Ch. 8Japan and Southeast Asia247Ch. 9The Hydrogen Bomb and the Soviet Threat281Ch. 10Korean Dilemmas and Beyond314Conclusion: America's Global Planner?346Appendix A: Policy Planning Staff Papers, 1947-1949359
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Princeton University Press The Posthuman Dada Guide
Book SynopsisA handbook for practical living in posthuman world - all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V I Lenin, the daddy of communism.Trade Review"One of our most prodigiously talented and magical writers."--New York Times Book Review "Can't decide whether to cry or laugh? Laugh at absurdity, laugh at hardship, laugh at poverty, says Andrei Codrescu in his maddening, enlightening, self-contradictory, highly amusing new book... [Codrescu] has rolled into one slim guide a postmodern self-help manual, a history lesson, a love letter to dissident poets, a hard jab at communism and a veiled autobiography... The guide is, beneath it all, a mournful celebration of the achievements of pre-communist Romanian Jews, such as Tzara and modernist painter and architect (and Dadaist) Marcel Janco."--Carly Berwick, Los Angeles Times "Any reader looking for a quirky, polemical, provocative introduction to Dada might like to try Andrei Codrescu's Posthuman Dada Guide, in which the author's key terms are alphabetically listed and 'hermeneutically filleted'. His linguistic glee also means that this dictionary can easily be read cover to cover."--Peter Read, Times Literary Supplement "This Zagat-sized handbook, a Dadaist chop suey showcasing the astonishing intellectual range of English professor and NPR commentator Codrescu, is arranged alphabetically and topically, which permits one to dip in or to read it all. The occasionally outrageous encyclopedic juxtapositions of entries give a firsthand experience similar to the effect of Dada cutups and collages."--Publishers Weekly "A hard-edged, rapier-like volume, perfect for sliding into a back pocket of skinny hipster pants or stabbing into the complacent underbelly of bourgeois (or bourgeois-bohemian) society. It offers a headier-than-usual tour of the early-1900s avant-garde, sprinkled with sex appeal for the would-be MySpace-age revolutionary... As art theory, the Guide could even be preferable to a college seminar on modernism... [Codrescu] also places Dada on a broader historical stage than it usually receives, mingling it with world politics."--Eli Epstein-Deutsch, Village Voice "Even for professional provocateur Andrei Codrescu, he of the playful intelligence and sardonic wit, this new book is quite something. It's out there--a chronicle of an imagined chess game between V.I. Lenin and Tristan Tzara, the founder of Dada, set in the cafe culture of Zurich, Switzerland, in 1916, amid the ferment of bohemianism and revolution. It's a scholarly work, with extensive footnotes; it's a work of imagination; it's a guidebook to a strange new era. It's a call to remember humanity in a post-human time, and an incitement. To read it is to light a mental fuse."--Susan Larson, New Orleans Times-Picayune "A profoundly provocative look at dada... If you're vaguely familiar with Codrescu's NPR essays or other writings, than you already know that this is a book laced with wit and humor. He makes an erudite topic easy--and pleasurable--to follow."--Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union Tribune "A dictionary, a history of art movements, a manifesto, and a joke book; [The Posthuman Dada Guide] traverses high and low, seeking answers to our most persistent confusions about art, culture, and identity... By the end, the reader has come to grips with Codrescu's stoic, but darkly hopeful, vision for a future that is no future at all."--D. Scot Miller, San Francisco Bay Guardian "Codrescu's analysis of the chess game is written with attitude--itself a Dada-like performance--balancing critique with reinvention, aiming to reveal Dada's place in 'posthuman' life. This guide is true to its title, fitting comfortably in a pocket, ready to be deployed at the slightest provocation."--Alan Lucey, Bookforum "Erudite, witty, often demented, Codrescu's book is an excellent introduction to the matter and spirit of dada."--Justin Clemens, The Australian "A delicious book... A fascinating mix of history, common and obscure ... rigorously intellectual without being stuffy or dogmatic, serious without being solemn and ... obviously and sneakily playful at the same time."--Michel Basilieres, Toronto Star "Peppered with warnings not to make Dada a guide for living, the Guide makes it all the more alluring. Readers of this book acquire a delicious complicity with Dada. I can't stop intoning it. Dada dada dada dada. This is a subversive book."--Helen Scully, ArtVoices Magazine "Ever want to run naked across a convention floor, pie-hit a bishop, or show up at a job interview in a firecracker hat, screaming poetry until security guards haul you away? Andrei Codrescu's The Posthuman Dada Guide may not be the literal how-to that the title implies, but it will definitely give you the historical and philosophical basis you need to justify a stunt to your cell mates while the authorities figure out what to do with you... Fascinating and indispensible."--John-Ivan Palmer, Rain Taxi Review of Books "He's all over the place, and no place in particular--almost the perfect definition of Dada. Best read as a poem pretending to be prose (both Tzara and Lenin were pseudonyms, after all), The Posthuman Dada Guide gives a barbaric yawp in the best tradition of Walt Whitman--and, in its own peculiar way, it's just as American."--Ben Steelman, Star News "A roller-coaster ride of essay(s) and grab-bag of ideas, history, and recollections, The Posthuman Dada Guide is an appropriately loose and shifting piece. It is informative and entertaining."--M. A. Orthofer, Complete Review "The chess game (both fictitious and ongoing) puts politic and parody at one and at war. The scene is a fast flashing, nonlinear montage taking us in, through and out of the 20th century and delivering us into the 21st, spinning... It is recommended that you carry this guide with you at all times. Consider reading it aloud in the most public of places... The perfect prescription against the posthuman condition--that place where our senses are all too well rehearsed and clearly limiting."--Katherine Anders, Baton Rouge Advocate "[A] literary event, a spectacular splash of intelligence and erudition, of clean style and magical impressionability."--Nicholas Catanoy, World Literature Today "While it takes its cue from an imaginary game of chess, the book is in fact a witty pointer into the real fabric of contemporary art and politics ... refreshingly 'un-theoretical' in its approach, and Codrescu's writing is utterly pleasurable."--Cosana Eram, Vetiver blog "By combining ... vivid personal accounts with brilliant literary theory, The Posthuman Dada Guide becomes more than a review of the Dadaism's history. It represents a spiritual and intellectual journey in itself, a guide, as Codrescu states at the book's beginning for instructing posthumans in living a Dada life."--John Nizalolwski, Magill's Literary AnnualTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Part I, pg. 1*Notes, pg. 221
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Princeton University Press The Confidence Trap
Book SynopsisTrade Review"His rich and refreshing book will be of intense interest to anyone puzzled by the near paralysis that seems to afflict democratic government in a number of countries, not least the United States. Runciman's account of the workings of the confidence trap--the belief that democracy will always survive--will serve as an antidote to the moods of alarm and triumph by which writers on democracy are regularly seized."--John Gray, New York Review of Books "Runciman's book abounds with fresh insights, arresting paradoxes, and new ways of posing old problems. It is part intellectual history, an absorbing study of the modern debate on democracy through the contrasting perspectives of key public intellectuals, such as Walter Lippmann, George F. Kennan, Francis Fukuyama and Friedrich Hayek, and part analysis of the problem of political leadership in democracies, explored through the decisions taken by leaders, particularly US presidents, and the constraints under which they operate."--Andrew Gamble, Times Literary Supplement "[An] ingenious account of how free nations faced seven international crises from 1918 to 2008... Runciman concludes that democracy will probably survive, having made a delightfully stimulating, if counterintuitive case, that the unnerving tendency of democracies to stumble into crises is matched by their knack for getting out of them."--Publishers Weekly "[A] historically sensitive and subtle response to the democratic crisis."--Thomas Meaney and Yascha Mounk, The Nation "If you think American democracy doesn't work these days, you have to read this well-written book."--Fareed Zakaria, Fareed Zakaria GPS "Book of the Week" "[B]rilliantly and convincingly delivered. The big story of mature democracies in crisis is told with remarkable confidence and brio. Runciman writes lucidly and compellingly: this is a book that you cannot put down."--Georgios Varouxakis, Standpoint "As a corrective to the doom-and-gloomsters, this book makes some telling points, and he is a clear and forceful writer... What Runciman's focus on American democracy helps to do is to remind us that there is an international dimension to this subject that is closely connected to American self-perceptions."--Mark Mazower, Financial Times "Runciman's writing, often brilliantly aphoristic, is full of insights, opinions, and phrasings that will challenge and delight scholars and general readers both."--Robert Nardini, Library Journal (Starred Review) "Refreshingly free of received and rehearsed wisdoms, Runciman doesn't tiptoe around sacred cows and invites us to take part in that most adult way of thinking: to examine contradictory ideas in tandem and ponder what the dissonance amounts to... [H]e argues lucidly, persuasively, even exhilaratingly at times. The nightly news will never appear exactly the same again."--Miriam Cosic, Australian "[Runciman] is a trenchant commentator on current affairs and a historian of political thought who, in his books and his articles in the London Review of Books, has revealed himself to be a gifted explainer... [H]e has a canny sense of how political power operates at its highest levels and in his exposition of political theory he is unfailingly clear and direct. Runciman's prose is conversational, if elegantly so--it is no surprise that he is a fluent lecturer--and characterised by a wry restraint."--Daniel Cohen, Los Angeles Review of Books "[E]xcellent and interesting... [A]dmirable and very well written."--Chris Patten, Tablet "Runciman is a good writer and brave pioneer... The picture he sketches is agreeably bold."--John Keane, Sydney Morning Herald "What we get here is good history. The events at the seven junctures are presented in a way that is learned, concise and informative."--Stein Ringen, International Affairs "Runciman is skilled at bringing important political questions 'out of the clouds' and presenting them in a manner that is clear, engaging, and approachable... This is an extraordinarily well-written and engaging book that asks important questions about structural strengths and weaknesses of democratic governance."--Choice
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Princeton University Press Red Meat Republic A HooftoTable History of How
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award, Agricultural History Society""Honorable Mention for the Vincent P. DeSantis Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era""Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Commentary, Axiom Business Book Awards""One Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2019"
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Princeton University Press That Tyrant Persuasion
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Princeton University Press Outside the Box
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Gold Medal in International Business / Globalization, Axiom Business Book Awards""[The] exploration of trade’s future is particularly thought-provoking. . . . One lesson of Mr. Levinson’s absorbing, centuries-long survey is that evolving global systems are always vulnerable to unexpected events."---Matthew Rees, Wall Street Journal"Smart and exceptionally well-timed."---Justin Fox, Bloomberg"Ostensibly a history of international trade through three distinct ‘globalizations,’ Outside the Box is most useful as a chronicle of how the pre-2008 model of complex, globe-spanning, just-in-time manufacturing has been exposed as fragile, inefficient, and opaque."---Mike Jakeman, strategy+business"Outside the Box is an intriguing synergy of social-sciences analysis, a useful aide memoire, a captivating read. Marc Levinson synthesizes well and writes smoothly, with a light touch of irony—very smart non-fiction."---Linda Quest, International Social Science Review"Marc Levinson’s Outside the Box is a timely and fascinating discussion of globalization."---Andreas Grein, Journal of Economic Literature"A valuable and stimulating contribution to the literature which can be profitably (and enjoyably) read by economist and non-economist alike."---Ian Harwood, Society of Professional Economists"Levinson provides a captivating account of globalisation by interlinking historical events that we know a great deal about with more obscure ones. Globalisation is not over – just different. I, for one, am glad it is ongoing as it will allow Levinson to produce a follow-up book."---Alex Gray, Financial World"This book is an interesting addition to the reading list of professionals and policymakers, which will help them think outside the box to integrate globalization and resilience for a sustainable global supply chain that is essential during this uncertain and challenging times. Nevertheless, this book can also serve as an idea-generating platform for academic readers in the field of globalization and international trade."---Satya Sahoo, Journal of Maritime Affairs
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Princeton University Press Decisive Years in France 18401847
Book SynopsisDavid Pinkney challenges accepted views of the timing of France's Industrial Revolution and the accompanying transformation of French society. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton UnivTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*I. The 1830s: The Old Regime Lives On, pg. 1*II. Industrial Takeoff, pg. 23*III. Centralization Made Real, pg. 50*IV. Search for New Identities, pg. 70*V. Visions of a New Society, pg. 92*VI. New Departures in the Arts, pg. 105*VII. Toward a New Place in the World, pg. 128*CONCLUSION, pg. 149*NOTES, pg. 155*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 201*INDEX, pg. 231
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Princeton University Press Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial State
Book SynopsisAllan Christelow examines the Muslim courts of Algeria from 1854, when the French first intervened in Islamic legal matters, through the gradual subordination of the courts and judges that went on until World War I. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previoTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*PREFACE, pg. vii*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF TABLES, pg. xiii*TRANSCRIPTION OF ARABIC, pg. xv*NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS, pg. xvi*GLOSSARY, pg. xix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*1. The Geographical and Historical Context and the Lines of Institutional Change, pg. 28*2. Saintly Justice: the Majlis of Mascara, 1853-1856, pg. 43*3. The Urban Milieu: Social "Decadence" and its Judicial Underpinnings, pg. 82*4. Muslim Legists and the "Moral Conquest", pg. 107*5. Intervention and Crisis, 1854-1859, pg. 134*6. From Crisis to Rebellion to Compromise, 1860-1866, pg. 165*7. Those Who Succeeded, pg. 188*8. Toward a Definitive Compromise: Politics and the Muslim Court Question in the 1880s, pg. 223*9. The Aftermath: Algerians as Colonialists and Frenchmen as 'Ulama, pg. 244*CONCLUSION, pg. 262*BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, pg. 275*ARCHIVAL SOURCES, pg. 283*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 290*INDEX, pg. 303
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Princeton University Press Cabanis
Book SynopsisA physician and spokesman for the French Ideologues, Pierre-JeanGeorges Cabanis (1757-1808) stands at the crossroads of several influential developments in modern culture--Enlightenment optimism about human perfectibility, the clinical method in medicine, and the formation and adaptation of liberal social ideals in the French Revolution. This firstTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. The Late Enlightenment: Chain of Being, Chain of Truths, pg. 20*CHAPTER II. The Body as Mechanism, pg. 49*CHAPTER III. The Soul and the Vital Principle in Physiology, pg. 72*CHAPTER IV. Methodical Medicine in the Service of Humanity, pg. 94*CHAPTER V. The Natural and Artificial in Society, pg. 122*CHAPTER VI. The Perils of Revolution and the Rational Organization of Medical Experience, pg. 147*CHAPTER VII. Sensitivity: Source of 'Physique' and 'Moral, pg. 166*CHAPTER VIII. The Perfectibility of Temperament, pg. 207*CHAPTER IX. Approaches to Psychophysiology, pg. 244*CHAPTER X. In the Public Arena: Healing, Schooling, Governing, pg. 266*CHAPTER XI. The Metaphysical Twilight, pg. 298*Notes, pg. 315*Appendix A, pg. 371*Appendix B, pg. 373*Appendix C, pg. 375*Appendix D. "Cabanis" Manuscripts of the Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, pg. 377*Appendix E. Condensed Outline of Hygiene of J.-N. Halle, pg. 381*Bibliography, pg. 383*Index, pg. 419
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Princeton University Press Mirage in the West A History of the French Image
Book Synopsis"...a gracefully written, brief, but remarkably complete account of the varieties and vicissitudes of French opinion regarding the English colonies and, to 1815, the U.S...a major contribution."-William and Mary Quarterly Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make availableTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. vii*Preface, pg. xv*Contents, pg. xvii*I. The Philosophes Discover America, pg. 1*II. Liberty, Virtue, Prosperity, and Enlightenment, 1776-1783, pg. 39*III. Frenchmen in America, 1776-1783, pg. 79*IV. The American Dream, 1784-1794, pg. 116*V. The Disintegration of the Dream, pg. 175*VI. The Consulate and the Empire, 1799-1815, pg. 225*Bibliographical Note, pg. 283*Index, pg. 287
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Princeton University Press Greenback Era
Book SynopsisThe Greenback Era is not a financial history; rather, it is an attempt to locate the source of political power in the crucial Reconstruction years through a socio-economic study of American financial conflict during the years 1865 to 1879. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to agaTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*ABBREVIATIONS, pg. ix*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*I. THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT, pg. 13*II. THE SOFT MONEY INTEREST, PART I, pg. 41*III. THE SOFT MONEY INTEREST, PART II, pg. 68*IV. THE HARD MONEY INTEREST, pg. 120*V. EQUIPOISE, pg. 163*VI. THE FARMER, pg. 195*VII. PANIC AND INFLATION, pg. 213*VIII. THE RESUMPTION ACT: PASSAGE AND TRIAL, pg. 249*IX. THE ELECTION OF 1876, pg. 286*X. SHERMAN AND SILVER, pg. 322*XI. RESUMPTION ACCOMPLISHED, pg. 374*APPENDICES, pg. 409*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 417*INDEX, pg. 443
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