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Book SynopsisA passionate and provocative argument that the idea of universal human rights has become not only ill adapted to current realities but also overambitious and unresponsive.Trade Review[R]eadable and brilliantly written, as well as... [rich] in information... and... controversial but challenging ideas. -- Pierre Hassner * Survival *Christian Imperialism is a very welcome addition to the field of both missionary history and the history of the early American republic... For historians of missionsit shows that Americans were deeply involved in global missionary work well before they had officially crafted an overseas empire. For scholars of the early American republicit challenges that customary periodization of empire and demands that we look both within and beyond borders to recognize that the American past was never exclusively American. -- Edward E. Andrews * Journal of Church and State *According to Hopgood, we are witnessing the last gasp of human rights as the prospect of one world under secular human law is receding and thefoundations of universal liberal norms and global governance are crumbling (p. 1). It is from this vantage point that Stephen Hopgood launches into a nuanced and powerful demolition of the normalising metanarrative of the Human Rights agenda.... [T]his is a compelling text as Hopgood grapples with issues of 'who gets to decide global rules' and who gets to define "legitimate exceptions to them" (p. 2). Further, we see Human Rights are not, and never have been, above the fray of national sovereignty as organisations and states have always sought to set the parameters of the political sphere and define who would be excluded from the outset. -- Brian R. Gilbert * Critical Race and Whiteness Studies *Hopgood's point of view, sure to be controversial, is argued with clarity, passion, and verve. Hopgood challenges those concerned with humanitarianism to look beyond Western-led human rights organizations, especially to activists working within their own communities, for hope. It seems certain that this book will cause both celebration and discomfort, even outrage, within the human rights community. Readers with an interest in human rights policy, humanitarianism, and even cultural history more broadly will find much to like in Hopgood's brisk, witty prose, even if they are discomfited by his arguments. * Library Journal *In this scathing indictment of the human rights movement, Stephen Hopgood contends that it has sold out its moral clarity for an alliance with interventionist liberal states.... Hopgood's provocation is powerful, and his privileging of locally and nationally inspired activism rings true. He does an excellent job of drawing together specific incidents to support his controversial views.... The Endtimes of Human Rights is a bracing alert for human rights professionals and all who care about global ethics. Scholars, practitioners, and NGO contributors will need to reckon with this important book. -- Clifford Bob * Ethics & International Affairs *This is a provocative, angry book–and an important one.... The book is particularly good on the link between human rights and liberalism, and how the larger the human rights non-governmental organization is, the greater the likelihood that it has been tamed by capital, existing to raise money rather than raising money to exist.... This is a disturbing read, the anger driving the narrative, the passion evident in every paragraph. -- Conor Gearty * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface1. Moral Authority in a Godless World2. The Church of Human Rights3. The Holocaust Metanarrative4. The Moral Architecture of Suffering5. Human Rights and American Power6. Human Rights Empire7. Of Gods and Nations8. The Neo-Westphalian World

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Book SynopsisIn this well-written and imaginatively structured book, Carol E. Harrison brings to life a cohort of nineteenth-century French men and women who argued that a reformed Catholicism could reconcile the divisions in French culture and society that were the legacy of revolution and empire. They include, most prominently, Charles de Montalembert, Pauline Craven, Amélie and Frédéric Ozanam, Léopoldine Hugo, Maurice de Guérin, and Victorine Monniot. The men and women whose stories appear in Romantic Catholics were bound together by filial love, friendship, and in some cases marriage. Harrison draws on their diaries, letters, and published works to construct a portrait of a generation linked by a determination to live their faith in a modern world.Rejecting both the atomizing force of revolutionary liberalism and the increasing intransigence of the church hierarchy, the romantic Catholics advocated a middle way, in which a revitalized Catholic faith and liberty formed the basis for mTrade ReviewAcross the book we find elegant writing, exciting narrative, and a colorful (for all their earnest religiosity) cast of characters. -- Joseph F. Byrnes * H-France Review *By uniting her expertise on the social and, especially, the gender history of the French middle class with a close and sympathetic understanding of post-Revolutionary Catholicism, Harrison has produced a book that allows readers not just to appreciate the interconnection between social and religious questions among early nineteenth-century Catholics but also to imagine the central figures of the period as human beings. -- Robert D. Priest * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Romantic Catholics and the Two Frances 1. First Communion: The Most Beautiful Day in the Lives and Deaths of Little Girls 2. The Education of Maurice de Guérin 3. The Dilemma of Obedience: Charles de Montalembert, Catholic Citizen 4. Pauline Craven's Holy Family: Writing the Modern Saint 5. Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam: Charity, Marriage, and the Catholic Social 6. A Free Church in a Free State: The Roman Question Epilogue: The Devout Woman of the Third Republic and the Eclipse of Catholic Fraternity

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Book SynopsisOn the basis of extensive historical research and access to new archival sources, Helleiner provides a major reinterpretation of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in...Trade ReviewForgotten Foundations is classic interdisciplinary history, drawing on literatures from political science and economics as well as primary sources.... Helleiner has made an important contribution that will permanently re-frame how scholars conceptualize Bretton Woods. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *By tracing back the origins of the World Bank and the IMF to the Latin American push for creating an Inter-American Bank and US initiatives around the Good Neighbor financial partnership, especially the financial advisory mission to Cuba in 1941–2, the author succeeds in demonstrating that the development of poor countries was indeed a key issue for the founders of the post-war financial institutions. Helleiner drew heavily on detailed primary material for his research and presents with his beautifully written book a completely new reading of the Bretton Woods negotiations. * Political Studies Review *Helleiner's book is an erudite study of US financial diplomacy during the Roosevelt administration. To trace back the origins of state-led economic development to White and the 1930s, Helleiner covered a vast amount of secondary and archival sources. He thereby ends up doing much more than he set out to do. His book is in fact a tour de force of US financial diplomacy before and during the Second World War, set in the larger context of global relations, and it is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of international monetary affairs. * The Economic History Review *In a masterly historical analysis based on extensive archival research, Helleiner shows that poorer nations were anything but voiceless. Their delegates played an active role in shaping the discussions, and their development aspirations were by no means ignored. In previous works on topics as varied as the postwar revival of global finance and the evolution of money, Helleiner has already established himself as an outstanding historian of the international political economy. In this book, once again, he has done an important service in correcting the historical record. The book is organized in eight chapters—four on steps leading up to the 1944 conference and four on the conference itself, all written in the author's usual lucid manner. * Political Science Quarterly *Somewhat surprising given his background in Political Science, Helleiner has eschewed grand theorising in favour of arduous archival research. But this certainly works to his advantage: He is neither forced to plaster historical material with concepts nor is he running the risk of selecting facts according to the demands of a specific theoretical paradigm.... That it will attract a huge readership is beyond doubt. It is certain to become a landmark study for all those interested in Economic History, Development Studies and Global Political Economy, and aside from academia, all those who want to understand the shoals of international economic cooperation. * Journal of International Development *The author has done a lot of arduous work in archives, and has come up with highly interesting, even provocative results.... [T]his book is highly recommended reading, of interest not only to people working on Bretton Woods and its two institutions, but also to people doing research on the dogmengeschichte of development. * Zagreb International Review of Economics & Business *The central argument of Eric Helleiner's important and original new book is that economic development was a core goal of the Bretton Woods architects.... He marshals impressive new evidence to show that... U.S. policy makers focused as much—or more—on the development needs and aspirations of poorer countries as on the future reconstruction requirements of war-torn Europe and Asia.... The tragedy, says Helleiner, is that despite initial good intentions, the Bretton Woods system ultimately failed to live up to its developmental promise. Post-war idealism was soon eclipsed by Cold War realities, leaving the IMF and the World Bank as tools, not of global development, but of western anti-communist crusaders and free market ideologues. * Literary Review of Canada *In this remarkable book, Helleiner challenges the long held view that the Bretton Woods agreements were a product of Anglo-American negotiations, in which development issues received little attention and southern voices were largely absent. The book offers a very different interpretation... and shows how international support for the economic development of southern countries, particularly Latin American, was widely discussed during the negotiations.... Helleiner further suggests that this forgotten history and goals of the Bretton Woods may continue to generate some inspiration for policy makers in their efforts to recover from the current global economic downturn. Highly recommended. * Choice *The story Helleiner tells is based upon exhaustive archival research and an intimate knowledge of the secondary literature. The argument is persuasive; and it is expressed in a clear and unpretentious manner, a genuine bonus for the reader. Both the author and Cornell University Press have produced a book of which they can be justly proud. It deserves the attention of economists and historians with an interest in the origins of development economics and the evolution of the international monetary system. * Economic Record *Investigates the origins and content of the Bretton Woods agreements, illustrating how international development goals were incorporated into the liberal multilateral financial architecture and explaining how leaders of Southern countries, particularly those from Latin America, played a significant role in shaping the Bretton Woods outcomes. * Journal of Economic Literature *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: International Development and the North-South Dialogue of Bretton Woods1. Good Neighbors Prepare the Ground2. The First Draft: The Inter-American Bank3. A New Approach to Money Doctoring: Cuba4. Building Foundations: US Postwar Planning5. Strengthening the Foundations: Paraguay6. Latin American Backing for Bretton Woods7. Development Aspirations in East Asia8. Lukewarm and Inconsistent Britain9. Enthusiasm from Eastern Europe and IndiaConclusion: The Aftermath and the ForgettingReferences Index

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Book SynopsisLawrence Lipking offers a new perspective on how to understand the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century, emphasizing the role that imagination played in the birth of modern science and modern ways of viewing the world.Trade ReviewThe ten amusing and witty essays in What Galileo Saw, which are loosely connected and can be read independently, stem from the premise that if Christian time 'began with the Nativity of Christ, then another age, the dawn of modern times, began when Galileo looked through his spyglass' (p. 3). Lawrence Lipking deals with the cultural impact of the Scientific Revolution and does not claim to explain its genesis beyond recognizing three basic versions of the story. -- William R. Shea * Isis *While tensions between religion and science and arguments about the loss of meaning in the world were obvious as early as the 1600s and continue today (witness modern scientists such as Carl Sagan in Pale Blue Dot and Richard Dawkins in Unweaving the Rainbow attempting to dispel this perception), Lipking supports his thesis admirably by blending literary analysis of period texts with the philosophers' own writings. He demonstrates that there was no clean line of progress and that the world was never turned fully mechanistic by any of these great scientists. VERDICT Substantial and erudite, this title will appeal to scholarly readers studying the philosophy and history of science. -- Evan M. Anderson * Library Journal *Eighteenth-century literary studies have always been interdisciplinary; understanding Pope and Swift entails understanding garden history and developments in astronomy. Distinguished historian of literary and art theory and of the novel, Lipking (emer.Northwestern) has done enough homework to write a book about the scientific revolution that passes muster with such discerning of historians of science as Peter Dear. The book is not, as it first seems, a connected account of the role of visual imaging in science; rather, Lipking offers a series of meditations on individual figures from Galileo and Kepler to Hooke and Newton.... Lipking's audience is not historians of science but students of literature and even, given his admirable clarity, general readers, for whom he has provided a thoroughly accessible intellectual feast. -- D.L. Patey * Choice *Table of Contents1. Introducing a Revolution2. What Galileo Saw: Two Fables of Sound and Seeing3. Kepler's Progress: Imagining the Future4. The Poetry of the World: A Natural History of Poetics5. "Look There, Look There!" Imagining Life in King Lear6. The Dream of Descartes: The Book of Nature and the Infinite I AM7. A History of Error: Robert Fludd, Thomas Browne, and the Harrow of Truth8. The Century of Genius (1): Measuring Up9. The Century of Genius (2): Hooke, Newton, and the System of the World10. Revolution and Its Discontents: The Skeptical ChallengeAppendix 1. Galileo: The Fable of SoundAppendix 2. Descartes's Three DreamsNotes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhether voluntary or coerced, hopeful or desperate, people moved in unprecedented numbers across Russia''s vast territory during the twentieth century. Broad Is My Native Land is the first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration. Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch tell the stories of Russians on the move, capturing the rich variety of their experiences by distinguishing among categories of migrantssettlers, seasonal workers, migrants to the city, career and military migrants, evacuees and refugees, deportees, and itinerants. So vast and diverse was Russian political space that in their journeys, migrants often crossed multiple cultural, linguistic, and administrative borders. By comparing the institutions and experiences of migration across the century and placing Russia in an international context, Siegelbaum and Moch have made a magisterial contribution to both the history of Russia and the study of global migration.The aTrade ReviewThe main merit of this work lies in its systematic approach, which allows authors to reveal the central place of migration in the history of Russia in the twentieth century. At the same time it greatly complements existing work on migration in Russia, dedicated primarily deportations, exile and other forms of forced migration. -- Gijs Kessler * Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research *Siegelbaum and Moch argue that, in reality, throughout three distinct periods in Russian history—the late imperial era, the Soviet years, and today—the phenomenon has been far more complex. The authors address what all this movement meant to these different groups and to society at large, offering insights into a little-understood aspect of Russian history. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *The work is chronologically ambitious—spanning the entire twentiethcentury and covering three different political systems—and thematically comprehensive.... Most importantly, by bringing a plethora of life stories into what could easily have been a dry, state-centric narrative, [the authors] provide a deeply human history of migration—the lives that it made, the lives that it changed, and the lives that it destroyed. -- Ian W. Campbell * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *This major work shows both the diversity and significance of migrations in twentieth-century Russia. A thought-provoking read, the book is recommended to all students and scholars of modern Russian history. -- Denis Kozlov * Slavic Review *A learned and highly readable work of spatial history, Broad Is My Native Land rescues the voices of accidental stories and life trajectories in this general vein, sharing the everyday tales of internal Russian/Soviet mobility beneath these sedentarist regimes and their useful, if mundane, aggregations of data that make settlement in Russia appear more legible, progressive, and common than it really was. -- Steven Seegel * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Resettlers2. Seasonal Migrants3. Migrants to the City4. Career Migrants5. Military Migrants6. Refugees and Evacuees7. Deportees8. ItinerantsConclusionSelected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe interwar peace movements were, according to conventional interpretations, naive and ineffective. More seriously, the standard histories have also held that they severely weakened national efforts to resist Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia...Trade ReviewBeyond Appeasement is an ambitious and original research product. In this book, Lynch reexamines the British and U.S. peace movements between the two world wars. Though primarily addressed to international relations scholars, this book should also interest social movement specialists. -- Jeffrey W. Knopf, Naval Postgraduate School * Mobilization *Cecelia Lynch, focusing on the activities of British and US peace movements between 1918 and 1945, makes a brave and necessary attempt to overcome a disciplinary divide between twentieth-century social movements and international relations.... It is hoped that Lynch's book will stimulate further, more detailed research on the origins of the United Nations. -- James Hinton, University of Warwick * The International History Review *

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Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe''s dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland''s great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchswho were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalistsshaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europethe familial state. ThisTrade ReviewSeldom have two hundred pages displayed such ambitious goals and achieved them with such a remarkable fluency. Julia Adams examines state formation and familial institutions in three early modern European countries: the Netherlands, France, and England. In so doing, she restores the Dutch experience to the centrality that it commanded in the seventeenth century. The book also suggests to national historians and historical sociologists that a narrow focus just cannot answer the big questions posed by the very histories so ubiquitously practiced by the current generation of one-nation historians. Comfortable being both genuinely comparative and firmly grounded in her own field, historical sociology, Adams further argues that the old categories deployed by historical analysis—state structures, class, religion, and patronage—cannot address the complexity of power without also addressing gender—more precisely, patrimony—as a force of immense historical significance.... This is a book that should now become required reading in every graduate seminar in early modern European history. It challenges us all to think outside the box that is the history of the nation, and it rewards such thinking with fresh insight into issues of gender, class, and state formation. It is a triumph. -- Margaret C. Jacob * Journal of Modern History *

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Book SynopsisThe French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights...Trade ReviewHeuer's interesting and insightful book stands at the intersection of several fields: the history of revolutionary law, the history of gender and the family, and the political history of the modern nation state. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Heuer's imaginative and skillful research succeeds in overturning many unexamined clichés about gender and public life during France's transition into political modernity. * H-France *The metaphorical connection between family and nation, embedded in the very notion of la patrie, was subjected to remarkable stresses and strains in the years which led from the French Revolution and Terror through the Restoration. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer's argument highlights the contradictions between independent citizenship status and dependence within the home, given that the Revolution's lawmakers did not address these domains together.... What does it mean, her book asks, to belong to a nation? It is both a cliché and an imperative to point out at the present moment that such quandaries remain not only live issues, but matters of life and death, in and beyond France. * Times Literary Supplement *There is a fundamental contradiction between the republican conception of the citizen as an autonomous individual and the social and political realities of gender and family obligations. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer traces the implications of this contradiction during the first four decades of French citizenship.... Heuer exploits the rich discourse of petitions and court cases to move beyond legislation to ordinary experience and attitudes. Her research is convincing, and Heuer uses it deftly.... This is a thoroughly admirable book, broad in argument and chronological and geographic sweep. * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisOn April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg''s Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed, but his unheard-of act changed the course of Russian historyand gave birth to the revolutionary political violence known as terrorism.Based on clues pulled out of the pockets of Karakozov''s peasant disguise, investigators concluded that there had been a conspiracy so extensive as to have sprawled across the entirety of the Russian empire and the European continent. Karakozov was said to have been a member of The Organization, a socialist network at the center of which sat a secret cell of suicide-assassins: Hell. It is still unclear how much of this conspiracy theory was actually true, but of the thirty-six defendants who stood accused during what was Russia''s first modern political trial, all but a few were exiled to Siberia, and Karakozov himself was publicly hanged on SeptemTrade ReviewThe Odd Man Karakozov is a subtle, challenging, and imaginative work. It deserves to be widely read not just by students of modern Russian history but by all those interested in modern political violence and its interpenetration with forms of subjectivity, art, and mass culture. -- Daniel Beer * Slavic Review *Verhoeven argues that modern terrorism began in nineteenth-century Russia... on April 4, 1866, [when] Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II.... Verhoeven's thesis is comprehensive and thought provoking. She places the attempted assassination within the political context of social changes in Russia and other parts of Europe. She achieves this goal, incorporating the roles of Russian law, technological change, the emerging and competing media, and the advent of modernity. It is an outstanding analysis. -- Jonathan R. White * The Historian *Verhoeven's careful inspection of Karakozov's failed assassination of Alexander II reads like an extremely well-researched detective story. -- Lonny Harrison * Slavic and East European Journal *Verhoeven's powers of observation are formidable, her insights startlingly original, and her narrative masterfully staged on the level of the scene, the sentence, and the word. -- Lynn Patyk * Russian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration, Translation, Dates, and Dramatis PersonaeIntroduction 1. From the Files of the Karakozov Case: The Virtual Birth of Terrorism 2. The Real Rakhmetov: The Image of the Revolutionary after Karakozov 3. "A Life for the Tsar": Tsaricide in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 4. Raskolnikov, Karakozov, and the Etiology of a "New Word" 5. Armiak; or "So Many Things in an Overcoat!" 6. "Factual Propaganda," an Autopsy; or, the Morbid Origins of April 4, 1866 7. The Head of the Tsaricide Conclusion: The Point of April 4, 1866Appendixes A. Dramatis Personae B. Individuals Involved in the Investigation and Trials C. The Karakozov Case, 1866–Present: Sources and HistoriographyList of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the 19th-century abolitionist movement to today's NGOs, a critical account of humanitarianism in world politics.Trade ReviewMichael Barnett... through careful historical investigation and analysis... deftly addresses key dilemmas whose roots run deep throughout humanitarianism's history but which are often attributed to contemporary emergency relief and development, including the tensions between humanitarian principles and politics, the effects of market influences on humanitarianism, and the nature of humanitarianism’s power over others.... Ultimately Empire of Humanity reminds us that while faith in the humanitarian imperative is crucial to realizing moral progress, the power of compassion can result in colossal failings. These failings, however, do not mean that humanitarianism is a hapless enterprise. Rather, they are the turning points that mark incremental advances, reform, and innovation that will enable humanitarian actors to not just be good but also to genuinely do good. -- Melissa Labonte * Political Science Quarterly *Michael Barnett'sEmpire of Humanity: a History of Humanitarianismprovides an insightful analysis of humanitarianism and humanitarian action focusing on its evolution and globalization especially after World War II.. This is thus a fundamental book for all those who work with humanitarian issues, both academics and practitioners, since it not only explores with rigor and detail the main trends of humanitarian action, but also because it sheds light on the most urgent and important challenges and dilemmas to be addressed when it comes to reinforcing and improving the international humanitarian system. -- Daniela Nascimento * Human Rights Review *One of the most striking features of world politics in the last 200 years was the rise of humanitarianism.... Barnett paints an expansive portrait of that ascent... [contending] that humanitarianism is a 'creature of the world it aspires to civilize,' rather than some sort of abstract ideal.... In making that argument, he includes rich details about the visionaries, missionaries, transnational activists, UN agencies, and democracies that intervened in such places as Nigeria, Cambodia, and Kosovo. -- G. John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *This is a history of humanitarianism—its ideas, practices, problems, and institutions. Whereas most other accounts of humanitarianism focus on recent initiatives, Barnett begins his historical account with the antislavery and missionary movements of the 19th century. He argues that humanitarianism has gone through three distinct stages: the imperial form (1800–1945), the neohumanitarian form (1945–89), and the liberal form (1989–present), with most institutional development occurring in the post-WW II era.... A strength of this study is that it critiques humanitarian initiatives in light of the historical conditions in which such activities take place. This nuanced, compelling book is strongly recommended. Summing Up: Highly recommended for all readership levels. * Choice *Table of Contents Introduction: The Crooked Timber of Humanitarianism1. Co-Dependence: Humanitarianism and the WorldPART I: The Age of Imperial Humanitarianism2. The Humanitarian Big Bang3. Saving Slaves, Sinners, Savages, and Societies4. Saving Soldiers and Civilians during WarPART II: The Age of Neo-Humanitarianism5. The New International6. Neo-Humanitarianism7. Humanitarianism during WartimePART III: The Age of Liberal Humanitarianism8. It's a Humanitarian's World9. Armed for Humanity10. Politics and Anti-Politics, or the New PaternalismConclusion: The Empire of HumanityNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first history of late imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia through the lens of migration.Trade ReviewThe main merit of this work lies in its systematic approach, which allows authors to reveal the central place of migration in the history of Russia in the twentieth century. At the same time it greatly complements existing work on migration in Russia, dedicated primarily deportations, exile and other forms of forced migration. -- Gijs Kessler * Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research *Siegelbaum and Moch argue that, in reality, throughout three distinct periods in Russian history—the late imperial era, the Soviet years, and today—the phenomenon has been far more complex. The authors address what all this movement meant to these different groups and to society at large, offering insights into a little-understood aspect of Russian history. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *The work is chronologically ambitious—spanning the entire twentiethcentury and covering three different political systems—and thematically comprehensive.... Most importantly, by bringing a plethora of life stories into what could easily have been a dry, state-centric narrative, [the authors] provide a deeply human history of migration—the lives that it made, the lives that it changed, and the lives that it destroyed. -- Ian W. Campbell * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *This major work shows both the diversity and significance of migrations in twentieth-century Russia. A thought-provoking read, the book is recommended to all students and scholars of modern Russian history. -- Denis Kozlov * Slavic Review *A learned and highly readable work of spatial history, Broad Is My Native Land rescues the voices of accidental stories and life trajectories in this general vein, sharing the everyday tales of internal Russian/Soviet mobility beneath these sedentarist regimes and their useful, if mundane, aggregations of data that make settlement in Russia appear more legible, progressive, and common than it really was. -- Steven Seegel * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Resettlers2. Seasonal Migrants3. Migrants to the City4. Career Migrants5. Military Migrants6. Refugees and Evacuees7. Deportees8. ItinerantsConclusionSelected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.Trade ReviewFascinating.... A history of the Devil taken seriously, in theology, folklore, art, literature. * Village Voice *Russell recreates the arcane images of good and evil we all once understood perfectly well as children. From the moment the cover is lifted on this beautifully produced book, the world darkens. Russell presents story after story, using them like a descending staircase, drawing us down into archetypal memories of unending battles with the Evil One. * Bloomsbury Review *There is probably no one alive who knows more about the lore of the Devil than Jeffrey Burton Russell.... He supplies colourful accounts of the pictures medieval folklore formed of the Evil One, and discerning sketches of the insights of poets like Dante and Milton, and novelists from Dostoevsky to Flannery O'Conner.... A first-rate survey.... Close-packed as it inevitably is, it reads easily, and each of its chapters is full of accurate and skillfully arranged information. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of Contents1. Evil 2. The Devil around the World 3. The Good Lord and the Devil 4. Christ and the Power of Evil 5. Satan and Heresy 6. Dualism and the Desert 7. The Classical Christian View 8. Lucifer Popular and Elite 9. Scholastics, Poets, and Dramatists 10. Nominalists, Mystics, and Witches 11. The Devil and the Reformers 12. High on a Throne of Royal State 13. The Disintegration of Hell 14. From Romance to Nihilism 15. The Integration of Evil 16. Auschwitz and Hiroshima 17. The Meaning of EvilAppendixes Index

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Book SynopsisDowling offers the first detailed account of Oxford Hellenism, the Victorian philosophical and literary movement that anticipated the modern possibility of homosexuality as a positive social identity.Trade ReviewAn exceptionally clear-headed and far-reaching analysis.... Beautifully written and argued with subtlety, the book is indispensable for students of Victorian literature, culture, gender studies, and the nature of social change. * Choice *Dowling's compact and intelligently argued study is concerned with the late-Victorian emergence of homosexuality as an identity rather than as an activity.... This identity was formed out of notions of Hellenism current in mid-century Oxford that were held to be lofty and ennobling and even a kind of substitute for a waning Christianity. * Nineteenth-Century Literature *This book presents a detailed and knowledgeable account of such factors as the Oxford Movement and the influence of such Victorian dons as Benjamin Jowett and Walter Pater and the evolving evaluations of Classical Greece, its mores and morals. It is also enhanced by an analysis of Greek terminology with homosexual connotations, as to be found, for instance, in Plato. * Lambda Book Report *Table of ContentsPreface1. Aesthete and Effeminatus 2. Victorian Manhood and the Warrior Ideal 3. The Socratic Eros 4. The Higher Sodomy Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisJoseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books."Trade ReviewThe existence of this book is testimony that victory went to the moderns, for Levine's work exemplifies extensive, thoughtful and scrupulously documented use of source materials in the best philological tradition... Ideas about literature in this period-and the history of its history-have never been in sharper focus. * The Eighteenth Century *

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Book SynopsisA lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.Trade Review"Among the books designed to teach aspiring historians proper procedures for their work, this volume ranks high. . . .Readers will especially appreciate the care taken to show the link between methodological innovations and the historical contexts in which they occurred."—Choice, January 2002, Vol. 39, No. 5"If the best historians, beginning with Thucydides, have been skeptical of metaphysical absolutes, they have also been reluctant to immerse themselves in antiquarianism. The present book draws strength from this tension."—Charles Sullivan, Common Knowledge, 2003"Historians generally have had to work out for themselves the different ways to read and use sources, the issue of how much we actually can learn from the past, the different ways that historical questions have been asked, and the uses to which history can be put. From Reliable Sources makes this process easier by laying out the principal elements of historiography and source criticism. No one, after reading this book, will be able to think again of sources as unproblematic conveyors of simple facts."—Constance Brittain Bouchard, University of Akron"Both learned and informative, From Reliable Sources is clearly the outcome of extensive archival and critical experience. With its accessible balance of exposition and example, it is also a pleasure to read. There is nothing else like this in English."—Isabel V. Hull, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsI. The Source: The Basis of Our Knowledge about the Past A. What Is a Source? B. Source Typologies, Their Evolution and Complementarity C. The Impact of Communication and Information Technology on the Production of Sources D. Storing and Delivering InformationII. Technical Analysis of Sources A. Clio's Laboratory Paleography Diplomatics Archaeology Statistics Additional Technical ToolsB. Source Criticism: The Great Tradition The "Genealogy" of the Document Genesis of a Document The "Originality" of the Document Interpretation of the Document Authorial Authority Competence of the Observer The Trustworthiness of the ObserverIII. Historical Interpretation: The Traditional Basics A. Comparison of Sources B. Establishing Evidentiary Satisfaction C. The "Facts" That MatterIV. New Interpretive Approaches A. Interdisciplinarity The Social Sciences The HumanitiesB. The Politics of History Writing The Annales The "New Left" and New Histories The New Cultural HistoryV. The Nature of Historical Knowledge A. Change and ContinuityB. Causality Causal Factors (Religious Ideology, Clericalism, and Anticlericalism; Social and Economic Factors; Biology and "Race"; Environment; Science, Technology, and Inventions; Power; Public Opinion and the Mass Media) The Role of the IndividualC. History Today The Problem of Objectivity The Status of the "Fact"Research BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Eye's Mind significantly alters our understanding of modernist literature by showing how changing visual discourses, techniques, and technologies affected the novels of that period. In readings that bring philosophies of vision into dialogue with...Trade ReviewA highly nuanced picture of the racial and sexual frames of the modernists eye's mind. * American Literature *The Eye's Mind offers a richly synthetic account of modernism's visual subjects. Indeed, Jacobs is among the first to situate literary modernism within a systematic analysis of visual culture, one that draws on the work of Martin Jay, Luce Irigaray, Susan Bordo, and Robyn Wiegman (among others).... Jacob's strength as a critic lies in her ability to offer fresh, complex readings of theoretical and literary texts and to juxtapose them in surprising and productive ways. * MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, *Jacobs presents a truly fresh analysis of the impact of visual culture on modernist literature.... A consistent, synthetic study that does not disintegrate into theoretical chaos; rather, the integration of all these perspectives into a clear, focused argument is impressive and refreshing. * Choice *This is a lucid, well-researched and documented book that successfully contributes to the critical reimagining of the field of Modernism that has been taking place for the past 20+ years. * Woolf Studies Annual *The Eye's Mind is a study of literary modernism that we have needed for a long while. Our post-structuralist obsession with visuality is everywhere apparent; but it has taken a scholar with Karen Jacobs's deep learning and range of knowledge to help us understand.... She is able to do this, and to do this so well, because her study is genuinely interdisciplinary; its primary strength lies precisely in its synthetic and comparativist aims. * Modernism/modernity *

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials...Trade ReviewHoffmann develops a clear argument from beginning to end, he presents strong supporting evidence, and he writes well. His subject is the massive migration of Soviet peasants from village to city during the 1930s.... His book is a major contribution to our understanding of the creation of Soviet society and of Soviet industry. -- John Bushnell * The Journal of Economic History *Just as the subjects of his study span the village and the city, Hoffmann has bridged the chasms between the literature on workers and on peasants. He also places his study in the context of literature on migration, class, and identity formation. * Journal of Social History *In his engrossing study of the social, political, and economic effects of the peasant influx into Moscow, David Hoffmann demonstrates from a vast array of evidence how on the one hand the long-standing tradition of migration assisted industrialization by directing peasant labor to factories and construction work but on the other the shape of that workforce was in the hands of village networks rather than official recruitment programs.... With scholarship as penetrating as it is original, Hoffmann shows quite dramatically that... the Soviet industrial system... never achieved 'rationalized and routinized production.' -- John Erickson * The Times Higher Education Supplement *It is the first study to place the Soviet experience of peasant in-migration during the 1930s into a European and even global context. * International Labor and Working-Class History *

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Book SynopsisSynthesizing different understandings of trust and mistrust from the theoretical traditions of economics, psychology, and game theory, Larson analyzes five cases that might have been turning points in U.S.-Soviet relations.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to revisionist explorations of Cold War history.... Beyond their clear academic value, the findings of this book should serve as a lesson to policy makers: those who wish to build trust in a hostile climate must first build a reputation for conciliatory consistency in the eyes of their opponents. * Political Science Quarterly *An excellent book arguing that excessive mistrust, rather than irreconcilable conflicts of interest or differences in domestic systems, best explains the superpowers' failure to reach mutually beneficial agreements and their difficulty in negotiating even minor accords, as well as the severity and duration of the Cold War.... Larson has done an outstanding job of showing that the Cold War need not have developed, endured, or ended precisely as it did. * Choice *By carefully combining traditional primary sources, conventional histories of the period, and newly available Soviet-era documents, Larson has produced a scholarly and eminently readable work. Readers prepared to delve into the underlying psychology of the Cold War will benefit from reading this book. * Military Review *Deborah Larson gives the problem of trust a fresh treatment, combining psychology with original historical research to demonstrate that, contrary to many popular assumptions, there were missed opportunities for mitigating, if not ending, the Cold War. * Lingua Franca *Larson's introduction provides a sophisticated basis for understanding how the psychology, ideology, and political domestic situation of decision makers affects their perception of opponents' motives and offers.... Larson concisely but comprehensively presents the context of negotiation and establishes confidence in the counterfactual exercises to which her general topic necessarily leads.... Anatomy of Mistrust is an excellent, original, and substantially useful book for readers and instructors seeking an intelligent conceptual overview of crucial Cold War episodes. * Journal of American History *

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Book SynopsisSpiritualism is often dismissed by literary critics and historians as merely a Victorian fad. Helen Sword demonstrates that it continued to flourish well into the twentieth century and seeks to explain why. Literary modernism, she maintains, is...Trade ReviewGhostwriting Modernism is a well-researched and intelligent book that works in the best tradition of cultural studies—deftly exploring the interpenetration of highbrow modernism and popular spiritualism. -- Sean Latham * James Joyce Literary Supplement *Ghostwriting Modernism focuses upon the history and implications of spiritualism—whether embraced or disdained—in the writings of Yeats, Joyce, Eliot, H.D., progressing chronologically to the Ouija board soundings deciphered into poems by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and James Merrill.... Sword points out that modernist narratives of other worlds reveal the cultural and ideological concerns of the living. Contemporary perceptions are haunted by everything that has come before. Reading this knowledgeable book, I begin to wonder what liminal world might be swirling through. -- Charlotte Mandel * English Literature in Transition *Helen Sword's short book is a dense and engrossing account of rarely pursued writings.... Ghostwriting Modernism is a book that grows on you, not just because of its original documentation and its systematic appraisal of an often neglected topic, but also because of its skillful progression and elegant construction. -- Jean-Michel Rabate, University of Pennsylvania * Modernism/modernity *Sword begins her survey in the nineteenth century, tracing the fluctuating status of popular spiritualism as it was alternately satirized by male writers and celebrated by popular female authors.... The book is... successful in the detailed sections that outline the parallel developments and intersections of spiritualism and modernist writing. Although in 'Tradition and the Individual Talent' Eliot writes that his famous formulation of modernist poetics will 'halt at the frontier of... mysticism' in exploring the way that writers often did not halt at this frontier, Sword offers a valuable account of the literary results of their efforts to open the coffin lids of the famous dead. -- Stephen J. Burn, Northern Michigan University * James Joyce Quarterly *Sword offers a convincing demonstration of the ubiquitous influence of spiritualist practice. Of particular interest is the chapter on 'spirit writing'—that is, books written by mediums who claim to be channeling the words of the deceased.... Its extensive bibliography, copious notes, and fine insights make it a recommended volume for academic readers at all levels. * Choice *Sword's excellent book is a model of sensible lucidity. -- William J. Maxwell, University of Illinois * American Literature *

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Book SynopsisPopular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Although women's political participation was curtailed, female allegories of liberty, justice, and the republic played a crucial role in the passage from old regime to modern society. In...Trade ReviewLandes focuses on how revolutionary leaders used images to fashion gender and national identities for the revolutionary nation's new citizens. -- Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College * Journal of Modern History *Landes argues that visual images contain their own powerful discourse that is simply absent in regularly printed words.... This fascinating examination of political prints raises central questions for the study of gender and politics during the French Revolution. -- Gary Kates, Pomona College * American Historical Review *Women were prevented from being politically active, but Landes finds that the depiction of France as a desirable female body worked to eroticize patriotism, bind male subjects to the emerging society, and invite women to identify with the project of nationalism. * Book News *Landes explores the ever-present paradoxes within the sad events that revolutionary French society experienced in the 18th century, capturing in the poignant images the tragic-comic reality. She traces the interconnections between pictorial and textual political arguments and concentrates on images of both women and men, in a deeply scholarly and erudite manner.... Her research is outstanding.... Highly recommended. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisDuring the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science.Trade ReviewWonder and Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world. * Reviewer's Bookwatch *Wonder and Science is a tremendously learned account of the pleasurable yet uneasy coupling of fictional and scientific discourse in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The book traces the evolution, and the interrogations, of the epistemological category of wonder in a dazzling array of scientific and quasi-scientific texts, both English and Continental.... Wonder and Science masterfully illustrates this disciplinary flux—and reflux—of the early modern era, and the book's greatest strengths lie in its sustained focus on the formal and rhetorical synthesis of scientific and nonscientific texts during the period. -- Jessica Wolfe * Journal of Modern History *Table of Contents1. Introduction Part I Imagination and Discipline 2. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I 3. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art Part II Alternative Worlds 4. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds 5. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac 6. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds Part III 7. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters 8. "My Travels to the Other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam 9: E Pluribus Unum: Lafita's Moeurs des sauvages amériquaians and Enlightenment Ethnology Coda: The Wild Child

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1958, Detachment and the Writing of History collects essays and letters by Carl L. Becker in which the noted historian outlines his views on the study of history...Trade ReviewFew American historians of our century have written such beautiful prose as did Carl Becker.... Many of his finest essays appeared in learned journals or in other places to which there is no easy access today. Phil Snyder has rendered a real service by gathering together these little gems on historical writing, education, and democracy. He has also brought to light some revealing letters from Becker. The volume is introduced by a superb essay, in which the Cornell philosopher, George Sabine, appraises Becker's ideas. * Library Journal *In this collection of Becker's articles, essays, reviews, and literary fragments, Professor Snyder has placed us in his debt by assembling a number of the most valuable scholarly and literary remains of one of the more fertile, illuminating, and witty minds among American historians.... In only a few pages of cogent and witty example and analysis, Becker amply demonstrated that no historian, however learned, well equipped, and painstaking, can ever reconstruct the past as it actually happened. He thus torpedoed for all time what had been the veritable cornerstone of traditional historical science. * Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science *

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Book SynopsisThe West German "economic miracle," Simon Reich suggests, may be best understood as a result of the discriminatory economic policies of the Nazi regime. Reich contends that ideological and institutional characteristics originating under...

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ancient or modern, the city is among man's most complex creations and probably the most illustrative of both his best and worst qualities. The Ancient City, originally published in the 1870s, provides a 19th-century French view of Greek and Roman metropolises. Washington Post

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Book SynopsisIt is a confrontation, he suggests, that was enacted thousands of times across the slaveholding Americas as white men strained to suppress black culture and blacks resisted- determined to preserve their heritage and beliefs.Trade ReviewA splendid effort to recover the past of the kind of people, inarticulate and usually undocumented as individuals, which is usually beyond recovery. It is also the presentation of an extremely moving experience: that of a people whose identity... rests on memories of an armed struggle against outsiders two or three centuries ago, which they are still prepared to resume. -- E. J. Hobsbawm New York Review of BooksTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsProloguePart I: ForeparentsChapter 1. First-Time's ChildPart II: In the WingsChapter 2. The New PoliticsChapter 3. Soldiers of the Bloody CrossPart III: Center-StageChapter 4. The Whole Land ShookChapter 5. To be a Christian and a ManChapter 6. On to BambeyChapter 7. Ringer of BellsChapter 8. Chief-over-AllEpiloge: Alabi's LegacyNotes and CommentaryReferences Cited

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Book SynopsisThe unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life-and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.Trade ReviewThis abridged edition includes about half of Stedman's original text and over a third of the original plates... The text itself is made more readable by moderate editorial changes in spelling, punctuation, and word order... A well-accomplished abridgment of the editors' own 1988 edition. Colonial Latin American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments IntroductionChapter 1. Map for Stedman's "Narrative"Chapter 2. Stedman's 1790 "Narrative"Editors' Notes to Stedman's "Narrative"References Cited

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire. The book describes the ships themselves as well as the crews, weaponry, cargo storage, methods of navigation and harbour facilities.Trade ReviewA wonderful book made even better. Greece and Rome A bible for all interested in ancient ships, shipbuilding, and sailing techniques... it is a standard reference for every student of ancient history, not only for those interested in maritime matters. International Journal of Maritime History Lionel Casson's scholarship is impeccable and he adds data from underwater archaeological research. In this paperback edition much new material is included..The remarkable performance of the Kyrenia ship replica, for example, will facinate any sailing reader. Clearly they were nautical experts, these Kyrenia seafarers of 300 BC! Lloyd's List Casson is one of those rare individuals able to make a highly technical subject not only understandable to the general reader, but interesting as well... This is unquestionably the finest general reference on the subject of ancient seafaring; copiously illustrated, erudite, and always readable, [it] belongs in the library of anyone with even a passing interest in the roots of maritime enterprise. American Neptune This fine book... should remain the standard authority on ancient ships for many years to come. Classical Philology A comprehensive and up-to-date work of reference... [Casson's] extremely thorough study of representations of boats and vessels is complemented by his vast knowledge of text references. Archaeological JournalTable of ContentsPrefaceList of Illustrations Chapter 1. Floats, Rafts, and the Earliest BoatsChapter 2. Egypt and MesopotamiaChapter 3. The Eastern Mediterranean: 3000–1000 B.C.Chapter 4. The Eastern Mediterranean: 1000-500 B.C.Chapter 5. The Age of the Trireme: 500–323 B.C.Chapter 6. The Warships of the Hellenistic Age: 323–31 B.C.Chapter 7. The Roman Imperial and Byzantine NaviesChapter 8. Merchant GalleysChapter 9. Sailing ShipsChapter 10. ShipbuildingChapter 11. Rudder, Rigging, Miscellaneous EquipmentChapter 12. Seasons and Winds, Sailing, Rowing, SpeedChapter 13. Officers and MenChapter 14. Small CraftChapter 15. Markings and NamesChapter 16. HarborsList of AbbreviationsGlossary of Nautical TermsGlossary of Greek and Latin TernsIndexesAddenda and Corrigenda

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Book SynopsisFrom Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.Trade ReviewWhether it involves gleaming mega-cities, scudding unflawed skies or the inane advertising smile of a man who just loves his personal flying machine, watching Americans look forward is to look back. It is to look at ourselves in our most brilliant and boneheaded moments. Which is great fun. Here, moreover, the fun is enhanced by a cheerful... text and-the real glory-a wonderful abundance of visual material drawn from a Smithsonian traveling exhibit. Boston Globe Many books might be commended as entertaining, instructive, or even fascinating. Yesterday's Tomorrows deserves each of these adjectives... The reader is taken through a gallery populated with forgotten industrial prototypes, architectural models, toy ray guns, flying cavalrymen on 'helihorses,' science fiction props from Hollywood and, or course, all sorts of projects and renderings concerning transportation. Road and TrackTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Finding the FutureChapter 2. The Community of TomorrowChapter 3. The Home of TomorrowChapter 4. The Transportation of TomorrowChapter 5. The Weapons and Warfare of TomorrowEpilogue Catalogue ListSuggested ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisHe describes the general nature of early piracy, ancient navigation, and the pirate's routines and tactics.Trade ReviewA classic work of scholarship and, typical of a scholastic academic standard long lost, [it] is still the best on its subject. -- Alan Cameron Lloyd's List

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Book SynopsisAs this cogent analysis of geography and war makes clear, those who know more about the shape, nature, and variability of battleground conditions will always have a better understanding of the nature of combat and at least one significant advantage over a less knowledgeable enemy.Trade ReviewA remarkable guide to nature's effects on the conduct of military operations... Accessible to the layman but still of considerable utility for the expert, this book belongs on the shelf of any serious student of military affairs. Foreign Affairs This work... underscores the importance of weather, terrain, and soil type on military operations... An intriguing perspective that goes beyond instructing plebes to engaging recreational readers of military affairs. Booklist Military geographer Winters and his contributors use specific case studies to illustrate the importance in military operations of five elements of physical geography: weather, climate, terrain, soil, and vegetation. The range is impressive and the examples are well chosen... These case studies will usefully expand the limited sense of military geography possessed by most readers of military history. Publishers Weekly An excellent book and an important addition to the library of serious students of the military art... Well written, educational, multidisciplinary, and interesting. ParametersTable of ContentsContents: 1 Storms, Fair Weather, and Chance Kamikazes, Dunkirk, and Normandy 2 Too Much and Too Wet The Civil War Mud March and Flander's Fields 3 Clouds and Fog The Bulge and Khe Sanh 4 Invading Another Climate as Seasons Change Napoleon and Hitler Russia 5 Forests and Jungles The Wilderness and the Ia Drang Valley 6 Terrains and Corridors The American Civil War's Eastern Theater and World War I Verdun 7 Troubled Waters River Crossings at Arnhem and Remagen 8 Glaciers Shape the Land Alpine Fighting and the Road to Moscow 9 Peninsulas and Sea Coasts Anzio and Inchon 10 Island Battles Tarawa and Iwo Jima 11 Hot, Wet, and Sick New Guinea and Dien Bien Phu 12 Heat, Rock, and Sand The Western Desert and the Sinai

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Book SynopsisHe offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.Trade ReviewThe standard history of the American aerospace enterprise-with good reason. -- Tom D. Crouch Museums New York 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface to the Third Edition Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918 Chapter 2: The Aviation Business, 1918-1930 Chapter 3: Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940 Chapter 4: Air Power at War, 1930-1945 Chapter 5: Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955 Chapter 6: Higher Horizons, 1955-1965 Chapter 7: From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975 Chapter 8: Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983 Chapter 9: Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000 Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThe only full-length study of existentialism in America, this highly engaging and original work provides an invaluable guide to the history of American culture since the end of the Second World War.Trade ReviewOne of the great pleasures of reading George Cotkin's brilliant study Existential America is that it explains why existentialism has proved so deeply appealing and enduring in an American context. -- Nick Gillespie Reason Lively and readable... A fine survey of existential 'notions' in America, from the 1600s to the 1970s, when various new forms of French thought became more fashionable. It is quite discerning in the way it separates the various strands of the actual movement known as existentialism and locates its antecedents in various early American authors. -- Jay Parini Guardian 2003 Entertaining, insightful cultural history... Cotkin's welcome addition to this picture [of the history of existentialism] is to recognize, as too few ever have, America's participation in existentialism and special contribution to it. -- Carlin Romano Philadelphia Inquirer 2003 Cotkin excels... in tracing the reception, in these optimistic, practical, can-do United States, of those European ideas and art forms that have mounted a challenge to our received world view. -- Joshua Glenn Washington Post Book World An involving and cogent discussion... Cotkin's intellectual history will engage any American who remembers identifying with Camus's The Stranger as an adolescent, as well as offering students a compelling theory of American culture. Library Journal In Existential America, intellectual historian George Cotkin proves existentialism's relevance by showing that it was never just a fad; existential sensibilities run deep in our history. Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Camus, who all toured the United States after the war, saw only the country's exterior, its consumerist boosterism. But would it be so surprising if the land of the free were also the land of the searching, the anxious, the alienated? This is, after all, the country of Herman Melville and Edward Hopper... Along the way [Cotkin] drops fascinating anecdotes about how existentialism touched everyone from FDR to MLK, from Whittaker Chambers to Betty Friedan... An engrossing, readable account of a major current in our cultural history. -- Richard Polt Village Voice 2003 A useful reference volume for students of philosophy and American culture. -- Christopher Luna Rain Taxi A timely and compelling account of America's engagement with, and involvement in, what might otherwise be seen as a quintessentially European conversation. -- John Fagg Cercles No other book engages existentialism in America so broadly or seeks to make it so central to American intellectual life. -- Terry A. Cooney American Historical Review 2004 Cotkin... makes the unusual argument that existentialism, despite its reputation as quintessentially French, was an equally American phenomenon... Cotkin does a good job showing how much the French thinkers' ideas resonated among prominent Americans. -- Andy Lamey National Post 2003 Cotkin is at his best in tracing the recognition of the dark side of the human soul that characterizes the best of American literature in Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Dickinson, and others. -- Werner J. Dannhauser Weekly Standard 2003 This sweeping survey traces the genealogy of existential philosophy in the United States. American Literature 2004Table of ContentsContents: AcknowledgementsChapter One Introduction1741-1949 American Existentialists before the Fact Chapter Two The "Drizzly November"of the American Soul1928-1955 Kierkegaardian Moments Chapter Three Kierkegaard Comes to America Chapter Four A Kierkegaardian Age of Anxiety1944-1960 The Era of French Existentialism Chapter Five The Vogue of French Existentialism Chapter Six New York Intellectuals and French Existentialists Chapter Seven The Canon of Existentialism1948-1968 Realizing an Existential Vision Chapter Eight "Cold Rage": Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison Chapter Nine Norman Mailer's Existential Errand Chapter Ten Robert Frank's Existential Vision1960-1993 Postwar Student and Women's Movements Chapter Eleven Camus's Rebels Chapter Twelve Existential Feminists: Simone de Beauvoir and Betty FriedanChapter Thirteen Conclusion: Existentialism Today and TomorrowNotes Essay on Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.Trade ReviewVery few histories of photography read like novels... Disappearing Witness is... a pleasurable experience in form and content... Garner not only knows her subject but understands it: she moves with extreme ease in it and takes us for an interesting guided tour, one that does not pretend to be blandly objective but clearly defines her learned vision. -- Bruno Chalifour Afterimage This handsome and well-illustrated book surveys the history of American photography since the 1920s, arguing that the 1960s marked the beginning of a profound shift in photographic practice... Garner writes in a clear, straightforward manner, laying out her two-part argument in a series of topical chapters. For the pre-1960s period, the age of 'spontaneous witness,' she focuses on fine art photography, documentary photography, and the use of photography in the great picture magazines. For the later period, she organizes her chapters around the issues of artistic style in order to emphasize her argument about photographers' increasing disengagement with the world and their growing interest in self-expression... It is the bold historian who even attempts such an argument, and Disappearing Witness provides believers and doubters alike with a clear structure against which to test their own ideas about the shape of photography over the past ninety years. -- Martha A. Sandweiss History: Reviews of New Books This well-written, readable book would be best used as a course resource in 20th-century photography. Choice 2004Table of ContentsContents: List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction PART I Photography of Witness ONE Being There: Spontaneous Witness TWO Speed and the Machine THREE Fine-Art Photography, Redefined FOUR Documentary FIVE The Magazines SIX Spirit in PhotographyPART II Disappearing Witness SEVEN New Paradigms: Uelsmann, Michals, and Samaras EIGHT Documentary-Style and Street Photography NINE Photography about Photography: The Academy and the Art World TEN New Landscapes, New Portraits: The Seventies and Eighties ELEVEN The Subject Self TWELVE Arrangement, Invention, and Appropriation THIRTEEN Digitized PhotographyConclusionNotes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWritten in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this pathbreaking work brings together such disparate topics of analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and anxiety-especially about the night.Trade ReviewRiveting... A solid contribution to the literature on the cultural impact of gentility, refinement, and the 'baubles of Britain' in England and its colonial possessions. Journal of American History Crowley provides a masterly search and survey that no historian of material culture should miss, and every curious reader should consider. -- Eugen Weber Phi Beta Kappa Key Reporter A comprehensive and tight study... a valuable contribution to the field, [and] one that is enjoyable to read. -- Emma Hart English Historical Review The sheer range of evidence, the interweaving of themes, and the overall strength of the argument mean [this] is an ideal book for specialists and students alike. -- Helen Clifford Journal of Design History The Invention of Comfort is an important and thought-provoking book that challenges our understanding of why people live that way they do. -- Marie Morgan New England Quarterly This is a powerful book, full of startling information and valuable insights. -- Rhys Isaac American Historical Review This is a grand panorama that stretches from medieval times through the antebellum years and covers a geographic area from England to the West Indies and then some. Crowley makes a successful case for the 'invention' of comfort and especially for the cultural influences on that process. -- Molly W. Berger Technology and Culture Crowley invites his readers to follow him upon an engaging and meticulously detailed tour of the living spaces of English people. -- Natalie Zacek H-Albion, H-Net Reviews 2003 Good books cross lines drawn in the sand by others. Terrific books scatter the sand and redraw the lines. John E. Crowley's The Invention of Comfort is one of the latter... A masterful and sweeping interpretation of material culture evidence that asks important historical questions. -- Ann Smart Martin Journal of Social History 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface and Acknowledgments PART I: TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURAL AMENITY Chapter 1. Commodious Comfort: Hall and Hearth, Chamber and Chimney Chapter 2. Civil Comfort: Mansion Houses Chapter 3. Colonial Comfort: Vernacular and Elegant Options PART II: FROM LUXURY TO COMFORT Chapter 4. Decent Comfort: Candles and Mirrors Chapter 5. Convenient Comfort: Political Economy Chapter 6. Enlightened Comfort: Stoves and Lamps PART III: THE LANDSCAPE OF COMFORT Chapter 7. Picturesque Comfort: The Cottage Chapter 8. Healthy Comfort: The Piazza Chapter 9. Gendered Comfort: House Design BooksConclusionNotesI

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