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Double 9 Books Laughter: An Essay On The Meaning Of The Comic
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Double 9 Books Books & Characters French & English
Book SynopsisBooks & Characters is a collection of literary essays by using Lytton Strachey, a prominent British writer and critic of the early 20th century. The book offers insightful and unconventional biographical sketches of numerous literary figures, presenting readers with a unique attitude on the lives and personalities of those exquisite individuals. Strachey's writing fashion is characterized via its wit, humor, and a keen feel of observation. In every essay, he skillfully unveils the complexities of the featured authors and their works, imparting a refreshing departure from conventional biographical strategies. The book covers a numerous range of figures, along with Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Thomas De Quincey, amongst others. Strachey's Books & Characters is celebrated for its progressive technique to literary criticism, imparting a mix of biography and literary analysis that demanding situations conventional norms. By delving into the quirks and idiosyncrasies of every writer, Strachey offers readers with a deeper knowledge of the creative minds in the back of the literary masterpieces of the time. The series stands as a testomony to Strachey's intellectual prowess and his contribution to shaping the panorama of modern literary complaint.
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Alpha Edition A history of the New York stage from the first
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A SHADOW OF THE PAST: : A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF
Book SynopsisOver the centuries, Indo-Islamic and European ideas merged with Hindu traditions to makeucknow a powerhouse of creativity and the centre of what was known as Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb, the evocative Awadhi phrase for HinduMuslim syncretism. A city known for its art and artisans, the courts of the nineteenthcentury rulers ofucknow swarmed with people from all over the subcontinent as well as European painters and photographers. In the third quarter of the eighteenth century, poets from Delhi''s Mughal court migrated toucknow in the hope of better emoluments.ucknow''segendary status as a city of culture waxed with every new influx of creative geniuses. A Shadow of the Past celebrates the people responsible for the city''s fameits nawabs, painters, writers, revolutionaries, and freedom fighters. At a time when Uttar Pradesh has been reduced to one of the most backward states of the country, Mehru Jaffer shows us howucknow''s glorious cultural heritage ensures that it remains a city of substance.
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Niyogi Books Like Barbarians in India
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Central European University Press Everyday Life Under Communism and After:
Book SynopsisBy providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.Trade Review"Tibor Valuch is anything but a newcomer to the field of consumption history of modern Hungary. His impressive oeuvre spans almost four decades of publishing activities, engaging profoundly with the material situation of different social classes, especially during state socialism, but also after the political change of 1989–90. While the bulk of his work has so far only been accessible to Hungarian- and, occasionally, German-speaking academia, Valuch’s newest book finally makes the essence of his research on everyday consumption practices in Hungary available to most scholars interested in consumption patterns in Eastern Europe. Based on an analysis filling more than 500 pages, this is a major and highly awaited undertaking." Link to review: https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.49.2.0277 -- Annina Gagyiova * Hungarian Studies Review *"Tibor Valuch’s publications have been key sources for many of us studying everyday life in Hungary, especially under state socialism. This rich collection of a variety of data and accompanying social analysis is now available for a wider, international audience that it clearly deserves. The rich research foundations of Everyday Life Under Communism will make it a key source for scholars of consumption in Eastern Europe." https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2022-0041/html -- Zsuzsa Gille * Comparative Southeast European Studies *"Valuch convincingly demonstrates that high levels of inequality were present throughout the period, and that consumption, especially from the 1960s onward, became one of the most important means and realms of social representation and distinction. Accordingly, the book provides a more nuanced understanding of socialist-era consumption, housing, clothing, and dietary habits. It is essential reading not only for scholars of the socialist era but also for those who want to understand the experience of social transformation and regime change in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/austrian-history-yearbook/article/abs/tibor-valuch-everyday-life-under-communism-and-after-lifestyle-and-consumption-in-hungary-19452000-budapest-central-european-university-press-2021-pp-508/BD1F62D2A536D7771D61977993DF4C70?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles -- Sándor Horváth * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts About the sources used for this volume The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two Thousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living Wages, prices, inequalities Unchanging and changing forms of poverty Accumulating property and wealth Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption Consumption and consumer attitudes The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer consumption Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods Clothing and the consumption of apparel The consumption and supply of foodstuffs Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space, and Interior Decoration The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing Village houses, village dwellings For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories Living in dire straits—slums, shantytowns, and ghettos The general characteristics of changes in home interiors Working-class and middle-class homes Rural and peasant interiors The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates Summer and weekend homes Chapter Five: “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century Chapter Six: “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits The general characteristics of eating habits From starvation to “goulash communism” The years of “feeling full” Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index
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Miller Publishing Company Limited A Will To Deliver
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Transnationalism, Nationalism and Australian History
Book SynopsisUsing Australian history as a case study, this collection explores the ways national identities still resonate in historical scholarship and reexamines key moments in Australian history through a transnational lens, raising important questions about the unique context of Australia’s national narrative. The book examines the tension between national and transnational perspectives, attempting to internationalize the often parochial nation-based narratives that characterize national history. Moving from the local and personal to the global, encompassing comparative and international research and drawing on the experiences of researchers working across nations and communities, this collection brings together diverging national and transnational approaches and asks several critical research questions: What is transnational history? How do new transnational readings of the past challenge conventional national narratives and approaches? What are implications of transnational and international approaches on Australian history? What possibilities do they bring to the discipline? What are their limitations? And finally, how do we understand the nation in this transnational moment?Trade Review“This volume brings together some of our most respected historians to consider the impact of the transnational on Australian history making, on how historians approach their craft, the questions they ask, the sources they seek and how they utilise them. … This volume is a welcome and timely addition to the Australian historiographical canon.” (Malcolm Allbrook, Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 49 (3), 2018)Table of ContentsTesting the Boundaries: Reflections on Transnationalism in Australian History.- Section I Crossing Borders: New Transnational Histories.- A Tale of Two Rivers: The Cooks River and the Los Angeles River in Transnational and Comparative Perspective.- Australia’s Black History: The Politics of Comparison and Transnational Indigenous Activism in Commonwealth Settler States.- Rebel Handmaidens: Transpacific Histories and the Limits of Transnationalism.- Transnationalism and the Writing of Australian Women’s History.- Section II National Histories in an Age of Transnationalism.- Is Australian History Over-determined by the Transnational Turn?.- Australia’s 1980s in Transnational Perspective.- Subjects and Readers: National and Transnational Contexts.- Reading Postwar Reconstruction Through National and Transnational Lenses.- Section III Intimacy and Transnationalism: Reading Vernacular Histories.- Thinking Transnationally about Sexuality: Homosexuality in Australia or Australian Homosexualities?.- Family History and Transnational Historical Consciousness.- Intimate Jurisdictions: Reflections upon the Relationship Between Sentiment, Law and Empire.
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University of Iceland Press From Earth: Earth Architecture in Iceland
Book SynopsisThe first inhabitants of Iceland built their homes from the material that was closest at hand: the earth itself. In the early 20th century, more than half the Icelandic population were still living in turf houses, and a few dozen such buildings remain standing today. Icelanders were not the only northern nation, however, who built their homes of turf and rock: in the North Atlantic region, people were living in earth structures as recently as the early 20th century, although no trace of them remains today except in Iceland.The Icelandic turf house is a remarkable phenomenon in world architectural history. It is part of international cultural heritage, and one of Iceland’s most important contributions to global culture.
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Independently Published The Iron Odyssey: An Amazing Journey through
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State University of New York Press Chinas Belt and Road Power Transition
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State University of New York Press Consuming Citizens
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Independently Published The Dissident Review Vol. III: Great Men
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HarperCollins Publishers Panic Ye Not: A survival guide to the middle ages
Book SynopsisFresh from the award-winning Woodmansterne studio, Hysterical Heritage juxtaposes imagery inspired by the Bayeaux Tapestry with modern day expressions and dilemmas, resulting in a hilarious and unique, new humour range. In this, their first book, Hysterical Heritage regales some of the common pitfalls, quandaries and incidents of the midlife crisis all viewed through the lens of medieval history. Full of colourful imagery and relatable humour, this is the perfect gift for the mothers, fathers, aunts and uncles in your life.
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Pan Macmillan Escaping Hitler: Heroic True Stories of Great
Book Synopsis‘I was on a train, and a German soldier began shouting at me and poking me in the ribs with his machine gun. I just thought that was it, the game was up . . .’Downed airman Bob Frost faced danger at every turn as he was smuggled out of France and over the Pyrenees. Prisoner of war Len Harley went on the run in Italy, surviving months in hiding and then a hazardous climb over the Abruzzo mountains with German troops hot on his heels. These are just some of the stories told in heart-stopping detail as Monty Halls takes us along the freedom trails out of occupied Europe, from the immense French escape lines to lesser-known routes in Italy and Slovenia. Escaping Hitler features spies and traitors, extraordinary heroism from those who ran the escape routes and offered shelter to escapees, and great feats of endurance. The SAS in Operation Galia fought for forty days behind enemy lines in Italy and then, exhausted and pursued by the enemy, exfiltrated across the Apennine mountains. And in Slovenia Australian POW Ralph Churches and British Les Laws orchestrated the largest successful Allied escape of the entire war.Mixing new research, interviews with survivors and his own experience of walking the trails, Monty brings the past to life in this dramatic and gripping slice of military history.
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Broadview Press Ltd Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisFor the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an Anglo-Jewish woman. Aguilar’s writing responds to English representations of Jews and women by writers such as Felicia Hemans, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Macaulay. She both assimilates and alters the genres of historical romance, dramatic monologue, domestic fiction, history, and midrash, among others.This edition includes Aguilar’s novella The Perez Family in its entirety; the Sephardic historical romance “The Escape,” her Sephardic historical romance, “History of the Jews in England,” the first such history ever written by a Jew; major poems; excerpts from The Women of Israel; and Aguilar’s Frankfurt journal, never before published. Also included are primary source materials such as writings on “the Jewish question” from Aguilar’s non-Jewish contemporaries, tributes and memoirs, and contemporary responses to her work.Trade Review“This well-conceived edition makes an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture in the early Victorian era. Michael Galchinsky’s introductions and notes (as well as excellently chosen appended materials that in several cases reprint long unavailable works by other writers) place Aguilar’s writing in its often overlapping Romantic, Victorian, and Jewish contexts to restore an important voice to literary history.” — Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University“Michael Galchinsky’s splendid edition of Grace Aguilar’s work, long out of print, revives the founder of Anglo-Jewish literature; the significance of her novels, poems, histories, and theological work cannot be overestimated. His rich and incisive introduction, incorporating valuable original scholarship, examines Aguilar’s energetic warfare as an Anglo-Jewish woman writer in both Anglo-Christian and Anglo-Jewish patriarchal worlds and sheds much new light on the trans-Atlantic Jewish connection. Ancillary materials, as well as expert notes, deftly shape out Aguilar’s literary and religious environment.” — Daniel A. Harris, Rutgers University, New Brunswick“Making available the work of the first Anglo-Jewish woman writer, this is a welcome and timely anthology. Michael Galchinsky’s detailed introduction provides an excellent account of the contexts in which Grace Aguilar wrote, as a Sephardic Jew during the period of debates about religious equality and religious reform and as a published woman writer during the heyday of ‘separate spheres’ ideology. Aguilar’s writing on domestic womanhood and Jewish female education, her Jewish historical fiction, and her religious poetry offer a fascinating example of the appropriation and adaptation by a Jewish writer of mainstream Victorian literary genres.” — Nadia Valman, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSignificanceBiographyLiterary and Historical ContextsCritical ReceptionGrace Aguilar: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextI. Fiction“The Escape”“The Perez Family”“The Spirit of Night”II. Poetry“Sabbath Thoughts III”“An Hour of Peace”“A Poet’s Dying Hymn”“Song of the Spanish Jews, During their ‘Golden Age’”“A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in one of the Gentile Shrines”“The Address to the Ocean”“The Hebrew’s Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia”“Dialogue Stanzas”“The Wanderers”“The Rocks of Elim”III. Non-Fiction Prosefrom The Spirit of Judaism[Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips][The Bible as Foundation and Defense][The Hebrew’s Neglect of the Bible][A Minority’s Faith and Observance][Hints on the Religious Instruction of the HebrewYouth][The Significance of the Hebrew Language][The Value of Profane History and Fiction][The Spirit and the Forms of JudaismConsidered Separately and Together]from The Women of Israel“Introduction”“Sarah”“Miriam”“Deborah”from The Jewish Faithfrom Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings“Preface”“Morning Meditation”“Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts”From “The Prophecies of Isaiah”“History of the Jews in England”Appendix A: Victorian Tributes Testimonial from the Misses Levison and Isaacs Abraham Benisch, Obituary Isaac Leeser, Obituary Athenaeum, Obituary Tribute by the Ladies Of the Society for theReligious Instruction Of Jewish Youth, Charleston Marion Hartog,“Lines Written on the Death ofGrace Aguilar” Anna Maria Hall, From “A Pilgrimage to the Grave ofGrace Aguilar” Rebecca Gratz, Letters to Miriam Gratz Cohen Appendix B: Victorian Criticism Isaac Leeser,“Editor’s Preface” to Spirit of Judaism Jacob Franklin, Review of Spirit of Judaism, from Voice of Jacob Review of The Women of Israel, from Athenaeum Review of Home Influence, from Howitt’s Journal Abraham Benisch, Review of Imrei Lev, from Jewish Chronicle Sarah Aguilar, Correspondence with Miriam and Solomon Cohen on Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings Appendix C: Romantic and Victorian Reflections on “The Jewish Question” George Gordon, Lord Byron,“Jephthah’s Daughter” (1815) Walter Scott, From Ivanhoe (1819) William Wordsworth,“The Jewish Family” (1828) Thomas Babington Macaulay, from “Speech on Jewish Disabilities” (1831) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from Women of England (1838) Felicia Hemans,“The Song of Miriam” (1839) Appendix D: Victorian Jewish Writers Morris Raphall,“ldquo;The Sun and the Moon” (1834) Marion and Celia Moss, from Early Efforts (1839) Abraham Benisch,“Our Women” (1861) Appendix E: Aguilar’s Frankfurt JournalSelect Bibliography
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Indian Rebellion, 1857 - 1859: A Short
Book Synopsis"Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only be dislodged by twentieth-century nationalist movements. Frey provides a crystal-clear account of the causes, principal events, and consequences of the rebellion. Equally importantly, he deftly discusses why the rebellion remains controversial. Well-chosen documents add texture to the analysis. This is the best short history of the rebellion in print." —Ian Barrow, Middlebury CollegeTrade Review"Frey skillfully condenses and explains the complexities of the Indian sepoy mutiny of 1857 and the campaign to suppress it. This is a heroic achievement. The context provided is extremely helpful and the concluding analysis provides a bold attempt at synthesis. The documents are well selected, being quite different from previous collections. This book is highly detailed and informative, well written, and engaging to read. For undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers it will be a boon having so much information within a single volume. It will be especially useful in courses addressing South Asian, British, World, or Imperial history." —Crispin Bates, University of Edinburgh
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Academic Studies Press This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through
Book SynopsisFrom fleeing the Warsaw Ghetto and living underground to fighting for social justice in 1960s’ Seattle and helping smash the communist system in 1980s’ Poland, this is a narrative that erupts into critical moments in Jewish, Polish, and American history. It is also a story of the hidden anguish that accompanies and courses through that history, of the living haunted by the dead. The story is told through a conversation, often contentious, between Michael Steinlauf, historian of Polish-Jewish culture and child of Holocaust survivors, and the anthropologist and artist Elżbieta Janicka. It is illustrated with scores of photographs and documents.Table of Contents1. Poland, 1980s 2. Columbia, 1960s 3. Seattle, first half of the 1970s 4. Brighton Beach, 1950s 5. Brandeis, 1979-88 6. Bondage to the Dead, first time around 7. Bondage to the Dead, second time around 8. Moses, Moyshe, Michał, Maryś, Michel, Michael first time around 9. Moses, Moyshe, Michał, Maryś, Michel, Michael second time around 10. PostscriptsAcknowledgements
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Academic Studies Press Patriots without a Homeland: Hungarian Jewish
Book SynopsisPatriots without a Homeland dissects an important underexplored theme in Hungarian Jewry: Modern Orthodoxy. This study clearly demonstrates that beginning from the late nineteenth century, a strong modernizing trend developed within Orthodoxy based on the adoption of Hungarian national identity alongside the preservation of tradition. Modern Orthodoxy was receptive to the Hungarian language, culture, and religion. However, the attempt to integrate failed.The book traces the journey of Hungarian Jews from Emancipation to the Holocaust and seeks to understand the reasons for the Jews’ complete trust in Hungarian integrity. For instance, why did they believe until the very last moment that the Holocaust would not affect them? How could they fail to notice the impending disaster?This is the story of a community that felt rooted in the land and contributed greatly to its well-being, but was eventually rejected: the story of patriots without a homeland.Trade Review“While the study of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe tends to focus on halakhic questions and on the ideological struggles with other Jewish streams, with an emphasis on the internal Jewish arena, this book seeks to examine the conduct of Hungarian Orthodoxy in the external arena. Through rabbinic literature, memoirs, and press, it exposes the changes that occurred in the perception and attitudes of different Orthodox groups. … The book makes a positive contribution to modern Jewish history, particularly, Hungarian Jewry, the emergence of Orthodox Judaism, and the relationship between Jews and other citizens from emancipation to Holocaust. Patriots without a Homeland is recommended for all Judaic scholarly collections.”— David B Levy, AJL News & Reviews“This book offers an original interpretation of the history of Orthodox Jews in modern Hungary. Based on a rich selection of sources from Hungarian Jewish press and Hebrew Rabbinical literature, Hartman’s research illuminates the complicated path Orthodox Hungarian Jews underwent towards their self-perception as an integral part of the Hungarian nation. Hartman deftly lays out the story of Hungarian Jewry from the outset of their civil integration up until the eve of the Holocaust while discerning a variety of strategies aimed to balance national Hungarian identity with Orthodox life. The result is a newly considered picture of Orthodox Jewry in Hungary, eye-opening and enriching to anyone interested in modern Jewish history, European nationalism, and Holocaust Studies.”— Guy Miron, Open University of Israel"Jehuda Hartman’s monograph is a significant contribution to three major subtopics within the study of modern Jewish history: Hungarian Jewry, the emergence of Orthodox Judaism as one among a range of Jewish religious trends in emancipatory times, and the relationship between Jews and other citizens during this turbulent period. Contrary to popular assumptions, Hartman’s work presents the contours of a deep-seated Jewish patriotism in nineteenth-century Hungary even among the most zealously religious Jews. These connections were subsequently challenged by the rising official antisemitism from the turn of the twentieth century onwards. As such, not only does this book enrich historical scholarship, it offers a fresh comparative perspective from which to examine the vicissitudes of contemporary Jewish engagements with host societies as well."— Adam S. Ferziger, Professor and holder of the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch Chair for the Study of the Torah and Derekh Erez Movement, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar-Ilan UniversityTable of ContentsPrefacePrologue: An Appeal to the Christian Public in HungaryIntroductionPart One: From the Well-Being of the Kingdom to the Well-being of the Nation: Orthodoxy and Hungarian NationhoodIntroduction: Jews and NationhoodThe Turning Point of EmancipationThe Good Years of the MonarchyShaping and Expressing National ConsciousnessZionism in Red, White, and GreenOrthodox Judaism and Christianity: Attraction and RepulsionThe Trianon EraPart Two: Orthodoxy and AntisemitismIntroductionThe Monarchic EraThe Interwar Period“What Should We Do about These Attacks against Us?”—Reactions and Strategies Internal and External Communication StrategiesAfterwordBibliography
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Academic Studies Press Dnipro: An Entangled History of a European City
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award for the Best Study in New Imperial History and History of Diversity in Northern EurasiaThis first English-language synthesis of the history of Dnipro (until 2016 Dnipropetrovsk, until 1926 Katerynoslav) locates the city in a broader regional, national, and transnational context and explores the interaction between global processes and everyday routines of urban life. The history of a place (throughout its history called ‘new Athens’, ‘Ukrainian Manchester’, ‘the Brezhnev`s capital’ and ‘the heart of Ukraine’) is seen through the prism of key threads in the modern history of Europe: the imperial colonization and industrialization, the war and the revolution in the borderlands, the everyday life and mythology of a Soviet closed city, and the transformations of post-Soviet Ukraine. Designed as a critical entangled history of the multicultural space, the book looks for a new analytical language to overcome the traps of both national and imperial history-writing.Trade Review“Overall, the book offers a vivid assemblage of interwoven storylines and episodes from the city’s multi-dimensional past, which combined result in an entangled history of Dnipro as a European city. This book is an essential read for everyone wishing to understand the multi-layered history of Ukraine and diversity of its regions.”— Olena Palko, European History Quarterly“Andrii Portnov has written a fascinating, well-illustrated book about an ‘entangled’ history of the Ukrainian city of Dnipro/Dnipropetrovsk… After reading Portnov’s amazing study about a history of the city of my youth, I reevaluated Dnipro’s complicated past… Portnov’s book is a most interesting and important contribution to the field of the Ukrainian studies, demonstrating the role of such multinational cities as Dnipro in the Ukrainian struggle against the Russian and Soviet empires.”— Sergei I. Zhuk, Russian Review“It is rare to find a book title more apt than the one selected by Andrii Portnov for his monograph Dnipro. An Entangled History of a European City. … I claim so because Portnov, in publishing the first English-language monograph on the history of Katerynoslav (1776–1926), then Dnipropetrovsk (1926–2016), and now Dnipro (since 2016), today the fourth largest city in Ukraine by population, has expertly demonstrated how to apply this approach to the past in practice. … Portnov’s historical tale of Katerynoslav / Dnipropetrovsk / Dnipro faithfully and consequently reflects the entangled character of the city’s history.”— Tomasz Stryjek, Kultura i Społeczeństwo“One outstanding feature of the book is its ability to bring different strands of Ukrainian historiography into dialogue. … [T]he footnotes are a priceless treasure trove of source material, secondary literature in Western languages, Russian, and, most importantly, Ukrainian and Polish. The book is written in straightforward, relatable English and is easily accessible to readers possessing no prior knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian history. … Although Portnov’s book ends before Russia’s attempted total invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it offers very timely reading, integrating different strands of Ukraine’s history into the story of a city. … In combining a multitude of different sources, research literature, and narrative styles (from interviews to close reading of sources to birds-eye geopolitical analyses), this book highlights the complexity and often contradictory nature of Dnipro’s history. This does not always make for easy reading, but following the different paths of this European city is worthy of the reader’s time.”— Boris Belge, H-Soz-Kult“This book is a great example of a history of a place that resists any linear genealogy. Andrii Portnov introduces this place—Dnipro (Ekaterynoslav/Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk/Dnepropetrovsk)—as a city without ‘a single national majority, well-established self-identification, or a broadly recognizable mythology,’ and manages to avoid ascribing it one. His ‘entangled history’ approach combines a thorough, sometimes truly fascinating exploration of local circumstances with a broader perspective on the dynamics that Dnipro embodied in the pre-1917 and Soviet imperial formations. The book discusses the overlapping (national and social) revolutions, cultural movements in the city, considerable economic transformations, local religious and linguistic patterns, and aspects of basic everyday coexistence, cooperation, and competition of the city’s various ethnic and confessional communities. Dnipro is simultaneously a microhistory and a decentered history of ‘European,’ imperial, and national modernity. Finally, Portnov’s ‘entangled history’ explains the evolution of typically ‘Eastern Ukrainian’ Dnipropetrovsk into a center of Ukrainian resistance against pro-Russian separatism after the Euromaidan (2013–14) and later, its defiance of Russian aggression. The book thus offers a unique view, still lacking in English, on modern Ukrainianness. It deserves to be broadly read by all those interested in historical complexity and human agency’s potential to overcome the determinism of the past.”— Marina Mogilner, Edward and Marianna Thaden Chair in Russian and East European Intellectual History, University of Illinois at Chicago"This is a brilliant study of Katerynoslav-Dnipropetrovsk-Dnipro – the changes of the name are a first indicator of the dramatic fate of this extraordinary urban project. Andrii Portnov draws a fascinating portrait of the city that evolved from a new Athens in Southern Russia to a Soviet Manchester and finally to a stronghold of Ukrainian independence. He explains the rather surprising resistance against the covert Russian aggression in 2014 against the background of the multifaceted history of the city. Portnov takes an innovative, methodologically reflected approach and includes cultural, religious, social and political aspects in his nuanced analysis. As Portnov convincingly shows, the entangled history of Dnipro can be read as a history of Ukraine in nuce.”— Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schmid, Eastern European Studies, University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)“The fascinating city of Dnipro on the river bearing the same name is indispensable for understanding modern Ukraine and modern Eastern Europe. Surprisingly for the city of its size and importance, very little has been written about Dnipro. Andriy Portnov’s pathbreaking study finally gives the city its due. Portnov promises and delivers an ‘entangled history’ at its very best. Not only are the fates of the city’s many ethnic groups intertwined and interdependent, the city itself is written into a broader story of global processes and events that have shaped the modern world. As the book shows those global forces themselves are interlocked and materialize in all their complexity only in concrete tangible places, and Andriy Portnov’s Dnipro is one of those places.”— Andriy Zayarnyuk, Professor of History, University of Winnipeg“Professor Portnov has written an outstanding history of Dnipro, one of the most interesting cities in Ukraine. He reveals how, by the turn of the twentieth century, this Russian imperial outpost in the, South named Katerynoslav after Catherine II, became a ‘new Manchester,’ an industrial hub straddling a major river, the Dnipro. In 1926 the Soviets renamed it Dnipropetrovsk after the local Bolshevik leader Hryhorii Petrovsky. A major center of Jewish settlement that produced important Zionist leaders, Dnipropetrovsk saw the brutal murder of its Jews during the Holocaust. The Soviets then turned it into a well-supplied ‘closed city’ producing intercontinental ballistic missiles. By examining the situational responses of the local elites and civil society, Portnov solves the puzzle of present-day Dnipro, now stripped of Petrovsky’s ghost: how this eastern Ukrainian city became a Ukrainian stronghold against Russian aggression. This book makes a major contribution to the field.”— Serhy Yekelchyk, author of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to KnowTable of ContentsIntroduction: “The Unfinished City” and Its Histories1. The Potemkin City2. Manchester on the Dnipro3. The Symphony of Revolutions4. The Soviet Dnipropetrovsk5. A City at War 6. Brezhnev’s CapitalEpilogue: Neither the City Number One nor the City Number Two BibliographyIndex
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Book SynopsisA lively history of beer and brewing traditions as globally connected commodities created through borrowing and exchange from precapitalist times to the present.Virtually every country has a bestselling or iconic national beer brand: from Budweiser in the United States and Corona in Mexico, to Tsingtao in China and Heineken in Holland. Yet, with the sole exception of Ireland''s Guinness, every label represents the same style: light, crisp, clear, Pilsner lager. The global spread of lager can be told as a story of Western cultural imperialism: a European product travels through merchants, migrants, and imperialists to upend local patterns and transform faraway consumers'' tastes. But this modern beer is just as much a product of globalization, invented and reinvented around the world. While distinctive craft beers such as London Porter, India Pale Ale, and Belgian sour ales have been revived by aficionados over the past half-century, they too have globalized through the same circuits of trade, migration, and knowledge that carried lager.Here eminent food historian Jeffrey M. Pilcher narrates the brewing traditions and contemporary production of beer across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, and Latin America-from the fermented beverages of precapitalist societies to the present. Over the centuries, he shows, the exchange of technological advances in brewing contributed to regional divergences and convergences in beer varieties, but always in tandem with other social and cultural developments. Unique local products, often homebrewed by women, were transformed into homogenous global commodities as giant brewing factories exported their beers using new refrigeration technology, railroads, and steamships. Industrial food processing helped to recast strong flavors as a source of potential contamination, turning lager, with its clean, fresh taste, into a symbol of hygiene and civilization. Local elites demonstrated their modernity and sophistication by opting for chilled lagers over traditional beverages. These beers became so standardized that most consumers could not tell the difference between them, leading to cutthroat competition that bankrupted countless firms. Over the past half-century, the global concentration of the brewing industry has spawned a reaction among those seeking to return brewing to the local, artisanal, and communitarian roots of the premodern alehouse, but microbrewers have often been driven by the same capitalist quest for profit and expansion. Based on a wealth of multinational archives and industry publications, Hopped Up explores not only how humans have made beer but also how consumers--from nobility and clergy in the past to those raising a pint today--have used beer to make meaning in their lives.
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