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Book SynopsisThe first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism. There is an “unacknowledged kinship” between studies of Zionism and post-colonial studies, a kinship that deserves to be both discovered and acknowledged. Unacknowledged Kinships strives to facilitate a conversation between the historiography of Zionism and postcolonial studies by identifying and exploring possible linkages and affiliations between their subjects as well as the limits of such connections. The contributors to this volume discuss central theoretical concepts developed within the field of postcolonial studies, and they use these concepts to analyze crucial aspects of the history of Zionism while contextualizing Zionist thought, politics, and culture within colonial and postcolonial histories. This book also argues that postcolonial studies could gain from looking at the history of Zionism as an example of not only colonial domination but also the seemingly contradictory processes of national liberation and self-empowerment. Unacknowledged Kinships is the first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and Zionist historiography. It is also unique in suggesting that postcolonial concepts can be applied to the history of European Zionism just as comprehensively as to the history of Zionism in Palestine and Israel or Arab countries. Most importantly, the book is an overture for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the historiography of Zionism. Trade Review“This is a major volume attempting to create a rapprochement between postcolonial studies and the study of Zionism. The volume does what it sets out to do. It is the first serious attempt to rethink this relationship in both theoretical and concrete ways and is an enormously valuable first step in a mutual reassessment of contemporary theoretical approaches to Zionism. Given our present discussions about Zionism and anti-Semitism, a book that is of growing importance each and every day!” -- Sander Gilman, coauthor of Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews“The history of the Jews and of Zionism have entertained a supremely ambivalent relationship with postcolonial studies. As Europeans’ most distinct and enduring ‘inner’ other, Jews were paradigmatic victims of colonialist practices and ideologies. Yet Zionism itself has often been accused of mirroring European colonialism. This immensely useful book brings much needed order to understand the tangled and ambivalent relationships between postcolonialism and the nationalist history of the Jews. More crucially, it shows that postcolonialism is a needed conceptual framework to further our understanding of the history and sociology of the Jews. This illuminating collection of texts will have a lasting impact on Israel and Jewish Studies.” -- Eva Illouz, Directrice d'Etudes, EHESS, Paris, and author of The Emotional Life of Populism“Challenging the received wisdom that defines Zionism as a colonial enterprise, this volume breaks new ground in looking at its many if ultimately unsuccessful links with anticolonial movements worldwide. It represents, in addition, a welcome effort to lend depth and complexity to the history of nationalism more generally.” -- Faisal Devji, professor of Indian history, University of Oxford“This volume brings together an unusually rich collection of theoretical interventions, historical case studies, and long-deferred conversations that interrogate the fraught relationship between Zionism and postcolonialism. The editors make a strong case for bringing into dialogue the two phenomena and the abundant scholarship they have generated. The result is a deeply engrossing, provocative, and often surprising reading experience that requires one to think anew about core assumptions.” -- David N. Myers, Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, UCLA

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Book SynopsisThe first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the history of Zionism. There is an “unacknowledged kinship” between studies of Zionism and post-colonial studies, a kinship that deserves to be both discovered and acknowledged. Unacknowledged Kinships strives to facilitate a conversation between the historiography of Zionism and postcolonial studies by identifying and exploring possible linkages and affiliations between their subjects as well as the limits of such connections. The contributors to this volume discuss central theoretical concepts developed within the field of postcolonial studies, and they use these concepts to analyze crucial aspects of the history of Zionism while contextualizing Zionist thought, politics, and culture within colonial and postcolonial histories. This book also argues that postcolonial studies could gain from looking at the history of Zionism as an example of not only colonial domination but also the seemingly contradictory processes of national liberation and self-empowerment. Unacknowledged Kinships is the first work to systematically investigate the potential for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and Zionist historiography. It is also unique in suggesting that postcolonial concepts can be applied to the history of European Zionism just as comprehensively as to the history of Zionism in Palestine and Israel or Arab countries. Most importantly, the book is an overture for a dialogue between postcolonial studies and the historiography of Zionism. Trade Review“This is a major volume attempting to create a rapprochement between postcolonial studies and the study of Zionism. The volume does what it sets out to do. It is the first serious attempt to rethink this relationship in both theoretical and concrete ways and is an enormously valuable first step in a mutual reassessment of contemporary theoretical approaches to Zionism. Given our present discussions about Zionism and anti-Semitism, a book that is of growing importance each and every day!” -- Sander Gilman, coauthor of Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews“The history of the Jews and of Zionism have entertained a supremely ambivalent relationship with postcolonial studies. As Europeans’ most distinct and enduring ‘inner’ other, Jews were paradigmatic victims of colonialist practices and ideologies. Yet Zionism itself has often been accused of mirroring European colonialism. This immensely useful book brings much needed order to understand the tangled and ambivalent relationships between postcolonialism and the nationalist history of the Jews. More crucially, it shows that postcolonialism is a needed conceptual framework to further our understanding of the history and sociology of the Jews. This illuminating collection of texts will have a lasting impact on Israel and Jewish Studies.” -- Eva Illouz, Directrice d'Etudes, EHESS, Paris, and author of The Emotional Life of Populism“Challenging the received wisdom that defines Zionism as a colonial enterprise, this volume breaks new ground in looking at its many if ultimately unsuccessful links with anticolonial movements worldwide. It represents, in addition, a welcome effort to lend depth and complexity to the history of nationalism more generally.” -- Faisal Devji, professor of Indian history, University of Oxford“This volume brings together an unusually rich collection of theoretical interventions, historical case studies, and long-deferred conversations that interrogate the fraught relationship between Zionism and postcolonialism. The editors make a strong case for bringing into dialogue the two phenomena and the abundant scholarship they have generated. The result is a deeply engrossing, provocative, and often surprising reading experience that requires one to think anew about core assumptions.” -- David N. Myers, Distinguished Professor and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History, UCLA

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Book SynopsisA new intellectual biography of Thomas Babington Macaulay, showing how nineteenth-century British liberal culture retained and transformed the ideas of the Enlightenment in a rapidly changing world. Macaulay and the Enlightenment sheds new light on both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of the life and ideas of this most famous of nineteenth-century British historians. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a prominent representative of mainstream British liberalism in the first half of the nineteenth century. He was also a Member of Parliament and government minister, and famously spent several years as a member of the governing council in India, where he promoted legal and educational reforms. One of the book's key contributions is the investigation of Enlightenment influences on the more well-known aspects of Macaulay's thought: history, politics, social and economic issues, religion, revolution and colonialism. The book also offers new revelations about Macaulay's attitude towards women, and provides insight into his views on art, nature and animals. In this study, Macaulay emerges as a more subversive, at times even radical, figure than previously assumed. The book thus emphasizes the transformation of Enlightenment ideas into early nineteenth-century liberalism.Trade ReviewNo one else has brought all the different strands of Macaulay's intellectual and general biography together as fully, objectively and skifully as Wolloch does here. * Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Advanced Study. *Table of Contents1 . The Enlightenment and Historical Progress 2. Politics, Democracy, and Religious Toleration 3. History and Biography 4. Revolutions 5. Colonialism and Cultural Progress 6. Political Economy and Society 7. Macaulay's Women 8. Nature and Animals 9. Art and Artistic Style Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya‘qubi (d. ca. 910), ‘Ali al-Mas‘udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period 750-850 bearing the title ‘The History of the Kings of the Persians’. These works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of the new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East, namely Islamic civilization. This book explores the question of how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad, a city that was built only a short distance away from the old Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.Trade ReviewReviews'This is an important contribution to a reconstruction of sāsānid historiography.' (Translated from German.) Tino Shahin, PlekosTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viiAbbreviations ixNote on Conventions xiIntroduction 1Translations1. Hamza al-Isfahani 252. ʿAli al-Masʿudi 793. Ahmad al-Yaʿqubi 106Appendices1. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and the ‘History of the Kingsof the Persians’ 1352. The Chronicle of Siirt and the ‘Book of Lords’ 1443. Abu Maʿshar and the Lost Books of Jay 151Gazetteer 157Maps 163Tables1. Reign lengths of Pishdadid, Kayanid and Arsacid kings 1662. Reign lengths of Sasanid kings 1683. Genealogy of the Sasanid Emperors 1704. Transmission of key sources cited in this book 172Bibliography 173Index 181

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Book SynopsisThis book translates the sections on pre-Islamic Persia in three Muslim Arabic chronicles, those of Ahmad al-Ya‘qubi (d. ca. 910), ‘Ali al-Mas‘udi (d. ca. 960) and Hamza al-Isfahani (d. ca. 960s). Their accounts, like those of many other Muslim historians on this topic, draw on texts that were composed in the period 750-850 bearing the title ‘The History of the Kings of the Persians’. These works served a growing audience of well-to-do Muslim bureaucrats and scholars of Persian ancestry, who were interested in their heritage and wished to make it part of the historical outlook of the new civilization that was emerging in the Middle East, namely Islamic civilization. This book explores the question of how knowledge about ancient Iran was transmitted to Muslim historians, in what forms it circulated and how it was shaped and refashioned for the new Perso-Muslim elite that served the early Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad, a city that was built only a short distance away from the old Persian capital of Seleucia-Ctesiphon.Trade ReviewReviews'This is an important contribution to a reconstruction of sāsānid historiography.' (Translated from German.) Tino Shahin, PlekosTable of ContentsAcknowledgements viiAbbreviations ixNote on Conventions xiIntroduction 1Translations1. Hamza al-Isfahani 252. ʿAli al-Masʿudi 793. Ahmad al-Yaʿqubi 106Appendices1. Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ and the ‘History of the Kingsof the Persians’ 1352. The Chronicle of Siirt and the ‘Book of Lords’ 1443. Abu Maʿshar and the Lost Books of Jay 151Gazetteer 157Maps 163Tables1. Reign lengths of Pishdadid, Kayanid and Arsacid kings 1662. Reign lengths of Sasanid kings 1683. Genealogy of the Sasanid Emperors 1704. Transmission of key sources cited in this book 172Bibliography 173Index 181

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Book SynopsisLa France est une nation légère – ce lieu commun antique est abondamment repris tout au long du XVIIIe siècle, témoignant de profonds bouleversements axiologiques, scientifiques et éthiques, dont ce volume collectif cherche à mesurer l’importance et les enjeux, en racontant l’histoire d’un autre siècle des Lumières : celle d’un siècle de la Légèreté. Propre aux représentations que le XVIIIe siècle français construit de lui-même, tant par rapport aux siècles qui l’ont précédé que dans une logique de parallèle entre les nations européennes, la légèreté du XVIIIe siècle est un important paradigme de l’historiographie qui s’est constituée sitôt après la Révolution. Les héritiers du XVIIIe siècle ne reconnaissent pas seulement en lui l’âge de la raison et du progrès, des Lumières et des droits du citoyen, mais éprouvent aussi tantôt du mépris, tantôt de la nostalgie pour la prétendue légèreté de ses mœurs, la futilité de ses goûts ou la frivolité de ses enfantillages. Entre la bourgeoisie industrieuse du XIXe siècle tirant profit des représentations voluptueuses des fêtes galantes et l’intérêt de notre époque célébrant l’aimable frivolité du siècle de Marie-Antoinette, le XVIIIe siècle en sa légèreté n’a jamais cessé de séduire certes, mais aussi de questionner le récit progressiste de la raison et de l’utilité dans la définition des valeurs qui fondent notre communauté.Aussi importe-t-il d’interroger les conceptions et les valeurs qui sont associées à la notion de légèreté au XVIIIe siècle, de manière à mieux comprendre dans quelle mesure elle a pu être associée à la fois au caractère de la nation française en général et au XVIIIe siècle en particulier. --- The age-old cliché that France is a light-hearted nation is echoed repeatedly throughout the eighteenth century and bears witness to the deep axiological, scientific and ethical upheavals which this volume explores. By analysing the importance of, and issues at stake in, these transformations, the articles gathered here tell the story of another age of Enlightenment: the story of an age of lightness.Lightness is at the crux of how the French eighteenth century represents itself both in contrast with previous centuries and through parallels between European nations. The concept of lightness therefore constitutes an essential paradigm of the historiography that developed immediately after the French Revolution. The intellectual heirs of the eighteenth century do not only find in this period an age of reason, progress, Enlightenment and citizens’ rights; they also feel, at times, contempt, at other times, nostalgia for the alleged lightness of its mores, the futility of its taste or the frivolity of its childish ways. Between the industrious bourgeoisie of the 19th century exploiting the voluptuous representations of fêtes galantes and the fascination of our own 21st century for the delightful frivolity of Marie-Antoinette’s era, the 18th century in its lightness has never lost its charm. Yet, crucially, it also challenges the progressive narrative of the history of reason and usefulness in the definition of the very values on which our community is built. It is therefore essential to analyse the concepts and values associated to the notion of lightness in the 18th century. Such an approach yields breakthroughs in understanding why, and to what extent, this idea of lightness has been related to the French national character in general as well as, more particularly, to its 18th century.Table of ContentsListe des illustrations Remerciements Marine Ganofsky et Jean-Alexandre Perras, Introduction: un siècle de légèreté? Patrick Wald Lasowski, Palpable! Marine Ganofsky, Le paradis artificiel de la légèreté dans les arts libertins: l’exemple d’Angola de La MorlièreMaxime Triquenaux, ‘S’amuser, et quelquefois amuser les autres, en leur rappelant ce qui n’existe plus’: la mémoire de la légèreté nobiliaire dans les Fragments de l’histoire de ma vie du prince de Ligne Kevin Hilliard, Leichtigkeit: un idéal de la poésie allemande du dix-huitième siècle Kate Grandjouan, ‘Car le Français, comme la Mer, est perpétuellement en mouvement’: satires anglaises sur l’inconstance des Français Azzurra Mauro, ‘Les matières graves il faut les alléger’: paradoxes du recours à la légèreté chez l’abbé Galiani Maria Susana Seguin, De la légère profondeur des sciences: Fontenelle à l’Académie des sciences Jean-Olivier Richard, La légèreté du père Castel James Fowler, Le poids des mots: gravité, légèreté, attraction dans les Lettres philosophiques Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Plus légers que les vents: portraits littéraires des premiers aéronautes Jean-Alexandre Perras, Les cabrioles des boulevards Anthony Wall, De la légèreté d’un personnage qui franchit un pont chez Hubert Robert Élise Urbain, ‘Dans un instant, la toilette aura tout gâté’: négligences et légèreté dans la peinture et la mode en France au dix-huitième siècle Cyril Barde, ‘Le siècle de la poudre et des mouches’: Octave Uzanne au défi du siècle léger Érika Wicky, Les parfums de l’Ancien Régime: persistence et représentations au dix-neuvième siècle Résumés Liste des ouvrages cités Index

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Book SynopsisEnlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century. Since the French Revolution we have grappled with the concepts of Enlightenment, Lumière, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture. This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective. Ranging from Victor Cousin to Peter Gay, different chapters consider Tocqueville and the Hegelian school (Bruno Bauer, David Friedrich Strauss, Hermann Hettner), the intellectual currents in Europe around 1900 (Wilhelm Dilthey, Gustave Lanson), the thinkers of the Weimar Republic (Ernst Cassirer) and of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno), and the debates after the Second World War (Franco Venturi). While the principal focus is on writing in French, German and English, the book also treats the Russian- and Italian-speaking worlds. This important contribution to the history of ideas helps us to redefine the Enlightenment. These essays do not merely describe historical assessments of an eighteenth-century movement of ideas: they contribute to the ongoing debate about the very nature of the concept of Enlightenment.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) / Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Introduction: les Lumières après les Lumières? Pourquoi une histoire des notions de Lumières, d’Enlightenment et d’Aufklärung entre 1800 et 1980 Christian Helmreich (Halle) Victor Cousin et la philosophie des Lumières Elisabeth Décultot (Halle) Alexis de Tocqueville et Hermann Hettner, 1856: deux historiens face au dix-huitième siècle Daniel Weidner (Halle) Unveiling or inventing the Enlightenment? Bruno Bauer, the political theology of radical critique and the construction of Enlightenment in the Vormärz epoch Francesca Iannelli (Rome) Understanding, radicalizing and illuminating the Enlightenment: Hegel’s use of Lumières and Aufklärung for an enlightened philosophy Stéphane Zékian (Lyon) Les Lumières à l’épreuve des concours: le cas du prix d’éloquence à l’Académie française (1831-1904) Brian W. Young (Oxford) Afyer Carlyle: ‘Enlightenment’ in Victorian Britain Avi Lifschitz (Oxford) Germanizing the Enlightenment: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Aufklärung Nicholas Cronk (Oxford) Lumières in France: the contribution of Gustave Lanson and his pupils Andrew Kahn (Oxford) The theme of Enlightenment in Russian historiography, 1860-1900 Mike Rottmann (Halle) The dilemma of Enlightenment: German, Jewish and antisemitic constructions of Aufklärung in the nineteenth century James Schmidt (Boston) Nihilism, Enlightenment, and the ‘new failure of nerve’: arguments about Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1941-1947 Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) Ideas in action: Franco Venturi’s Settecento Gregory S. Brown (Las Vegas) The question of Peter Gay’s Enlightenment: between ‘heavenly city’ and the ‘brute facts of political life’ (1948-1956) Daniel Fulda (Halle) ‘Die Zeit der Aufklärung ist wieder da’: activist appropriations of the Enlightenment in the Hegelian Left and in eighteenth-century studies in the GDR

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Book SynopsisA new approach to a vital historical source of the twelfth century, examining its author's ethical purpose in its creation. An intelligent, well-informed and important piece of work... Well-articulated and clearly and fluently written... a particularly worthy addition to the growing literature on William and on twelfth-century historiography. Rod Thomson, Professor of Medieval History and Senior Research Fellow, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania. William of Malmesbury, arguably the greatest English historian of the twelfth century, repeatedly emphasises that the primary purpose of all literary and intellectual activities is to provide moral instruction for the reader, the most famous of his statements to this effect being found in his monumental work Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he categorises history as a sub-discipline of ethics. However, modern studies have chosen to focus on other aspects of William's oeuvre and tended to dismiss such claims as perfunctory nods to a pious commonplace. This book differs from recent orthodoxy by being based on the proposition that medieval professions of the moral aims of historiography are in fact genuine. It seeks to read William's celebrated historical works in the light of his devotional and didactic texts, and in the context of the religous, intellectual and literary traditions to which he expressed his allegiance. He also demonstrates how William's conception of ethics forms a constitutive element of his historical output. The resulting image of William shows a committed monk and man of his time, placing his extraordinary learning at the service of his culture, his society and his faith. Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn is post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.Trade ReviewAn important contribution to studies in medieval historiography. * HISTORY *Table of ContentsHistory and Ethics: The Framework of an Enquiry Ethics: From Classical Philosophy to Monastic Practice Ethical Thought in the Works of William of Malmesbury The Reading of Ethics and the Ethics of Reading: History as a Vehicle for Moral Education The Gesta Regum Anglorum: Books I and II The Norman Kings History, Ethics - and Truth? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisJohn Lingard & the Pursuit of Historical TruthTrade Review"In this magisterial volume Dr. Jones has revealed the full extent of Lingard's historiographical labours and achievements.'' -- Recusant History."Edwin Jones has produced a very good book, and has re-introduced one of Catholicism's greatest historians to the English-speaking world... all educated historians would do well to read this book.'' -- Catholic Historical Review."John Lingard was a member of the English Catholic community who wrote his ten-volume History of England in the years immediately preceding emancipation. But for the best part of a century after that event it was held by historians in the Whig-Protestant mainstream that a good Catholic historian was almost an oxymoron. Edwin Jones's definitive research into Lingard is a major event in English historiography.'' -- Patrick Collinson, Regius Professor of Modern History, Emeritus, University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College."Edwin Jones is well equipped to tell Lingard's story, to examine Lingard's methods with true Lingardian meticulousness and to explain the circumstances of his intellectual ostracism... This book confirms the view that the search for historical truth, despite the obstacles, is not a waste of time or effort. It restores Lingard to his rightful place in the pantheon of British historians. And it shows that the British historical tradition is even richer than most of us were led to believe.'' -- From the Foreword by Norman Davies, author.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: The Background to Lingard's Work; An Invitation to the Historian's Workshop; The Historiography of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew; The Collation of Sources and Lingard's Use of Public Records as a Tool of Source Criticism; The Role of Private Sources and Their Use as a Tool of Source Criticism; The Great Step Forward: Pursuit of the Source of the Source'; A Critical Apparatus for Prioritising the Authority of Sources; The Use of Forensic' Rules of Source Criticism; The Application of Lingard's Source Criticism; to Some Celebrated Historical Problems; Lingard's Place in English Historiography; Epilogue: Hic caestus artemque repono'; Index.

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Book SynopsisLieut.-Col. Laurence Austine Waddell (1854–1938) was a British Army officer with an established reputation mainly due to a work on the 'Buddhism' of Tibet, his explorations of the Himalayas, and a biography which included records of the 1903-4 military expedition to Lhasa (Lhasa and its Mysteries). Waddell was also in the limelight due to his acquisition of Tibetan manuscripts which he donated to the British Museum. His overriding interest was in 'Aryan origins'. After learning Sanskrit and Tibetan, and in between military expeditions and gathering intelligence from the borders of Tibet in the Great Game, Waddell researched Lamaïsm. He extended his activities to Archaeology, Philology and Ethnology, and was credited with discoveries in relation to Buddha. His personal ambition was to locate records of ancient civilisation in Tibetan lamaseries. Waddell is little known as an archaeologist and scholar, in contrast with his fame in the Oriental field, due to the controversial nature of his published works dealing with 'Aryan themes'. Waddell studied Sumerian and presented evidence that an Aryan migration fleeing Sargon II carried Sumerian records to India. He interrupted his comparative studies of Sumerian and Indian king-lists to publish a work on Phoenician origins and decipherment of Indus Valley seals, the inscriptions of which he claimed were similar to Sumerian pictogram signs cited from G. A. Barton's plates, which are reproduced in this volume. Waddell's life is reconstructed from primary sources, such as letters from Marc Aurel Stein at the British Museum and Theophilus G Pinches, held in the Special Collections at the University of Glasgow Library. Special attention is paid to the contemporary reception of his theories, with the objective of re-evaluating his contribution; they are contrasted to past and present academic views, in addition to an overview of relevant discoveries in Archaeology.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction: The Controversial Scholar; Quest and Career - A Tour of the Himalayas; Excavations in Pataliputra, 1895-1903; Quest for Manuscripts in Lhasa, 1903-1904; Sumerian, Decipherment, and 'Shinar'; Decoding the Dragon and Rise of Man (The British Edda); The Phoenician Origin of the Britons; Identification of the first Sumerian Dynasty; Ur-Nina, Ruler of the Gardens of Sumeria; Menes was Sumerian; Archaeology of the Indus Valley Civilisation; Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered; Findings about the 'Second Edin'; Decipherment of the Seals; Epilogue: The Forgotten Scholar; Appendices; Index.

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Book SynopsisContemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs of national identities. Politicians, historians and intellectuals debated vigorously the question how the Muslim past could be reconciled with the idea of the Catholic nation. The Crescent Remembered investigates the processes of exclusion and integration of the Islamic past within the national narratives. It analyses discourses of historiography, Arabic studies, mythology, popular culture and colonial policies towards Muslim populations from the 19th century to the dictatorships of Franco and Salazar in the 20th century. In particular, it explores why, despite apparent historical similarities, in Spain and Portugal entirely different strategies and discourses concerning the Islamic past emerged. In the process, it seeks to shed light on the role of the Iberian Peninsula as a crucial European historical "contact zone" with Islam.Trade Review"Review excerpt from the German edition: "This well-written study is based on an extensive collection of sources and literature. It fills an important gap in the scholarship by combining multiple fields and approaches of cultural history to offer new insights into the process of nation-building on a variety of levels." -- Hedwig Herold-Schmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in H-Soz-u-Kult (2013)"Review excerpt from the German edition: "In both Iberian nations (Spain and Portugal), Islam and nationalism are analytically correlated and then compared to each other. More differences than similarities emerge, which in turn emphasizes the varied development of the nation-building process in the two countries. The arguments are convincing." -- Walther Bernecker, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in sehepunkte (2013)

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Book SynopsisContemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building with its varied concepts and constructs of national identities. Politicians, historians and intellectuals debated vigorously the question how the Muslim past could be reconciled with the idea of the Catholic nation. The Crescent Remembered investigates the processes of exclusion and integration of the Islamic past within the national narratives. It analyses discourses of historiography, Arabic studies, mythology, popular culture and colonial policies towards Muslim populations from the 19th century to the dictatorships of Franco and Salazar in the 20th century. In particular, it explores why, despite apparent historical similarities, in Spain and Portugal entirely different strategies and discourses concerning the Islamic past emerged. In the process, it seeks to shed light on the role of the Iberian Peninsula as a crucial European historical "contact zone" with Islam.Trade Review"Review excerpt from the German edition: "This well-written study is based on an extensive collection of sources and literature. It fills an important gap in the scholarship by combining multiple fields and approaches of cultural history to offer new insights into the process of nation-building on a variety of levels." -- Hedwig Herold-Schmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in H-Soz-u-Kult (2013)"Review excerpt from the German edition: "In both Iberian nations (Spain and Portugal), Islam and nationalism are analytically correlated and then compared to each other. More differences than similarities emerge, which in turn emphasizes the varied development of the nation-building process in the two countries. The arguments are convincing." -- Walther Bernecker, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in sehepunkte (2013)Review excerpts from the German edition: This well-written study is based on an extensive collection of sources and literature. It fills an important gap in the scholarship by combining multiple fields and approaches of cultural history to offer new insights into the process of nation-building on a variety of levels. -- Hedwig Herold-Schmidt, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, in H-Soz-u-Kult (2013)Review excerpts from the German edition: In both Iberian nations (Spain and Portugal), Islam and nationalism are analytically correlated and then compared to each other. More differences than similarities emerge, which in turn emphasizes the varied development of the nation-building process in the two countries. The arguments are convincing. -- Walther Bernecker, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in sehepunkte (2013)

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a unique contribution to the renewed debate about empire and imperialism and will be of great interest to all those concerned with understanding the historical antecedents and wider implications of today's emergentliberal interventionism, and the various logics of international development. This collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing.From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politicsat the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC PressTrade ReviewThere is enough quality in this volume to recommend this book to scholars and students interested in development theory and colonization and how both processes might be theorized as mutually constitutive. I have little doubt that the editors and contributors have set down a compelling research agenda that will be carried forward in future publications. * ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW *A thought-provoking collection. [...] This is a valuable set of essays addressing contemporary issues with an eye on the past and revealing some insights into the antecedents of contemporary development rhetoric and techniques. * POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW *This volume adds to a recent debate that revisits the concepts and notions of development rooted in the 'civilising mission' during the colonial era. Hence it explores a hitherto largely ignored, or at least neglected link concerning the continuity of the 'colonial mind' in international relations of today. * NEW ROUTES *Table of ContentsMARK DUFFIELD & VERNON HEWITT Introduction MATT MEREFIELD The Exceptional Inclusion of 'Savages' & 'Barbarians': The Colonial Liberal Bio-politics of Mobility & Development VERNON HEWITT Empire, International Development & the Concept of Good Government HENRIK ASPENGREN Empire: A Question of Hearts? The Social Turn in Colonial Government. Bombay c.1905-25 SUTHAHARAN NADARAJAH 'Conflict Sensitive' Aid & Making Liberal Peace RICHARD SHELDON Development, Poverty & Famines: The Case of the British Empire LISA SMIRL Plain Tales from the Reconstruction Site: Spatial Continuities in Contemporary Humanitarian Practice TOM YOUNG & DAVID WILLIAMS The International Politics of Social Transformation: Trusteeship & Intervention in Historical Perspective MARK DUFFIELD Liberal Interventionism & the Fragile State: Linked by Design? PATRICIA NOXOLO Freedom, Fear & NGOs: Balancing Discourses of Violence & Humanity in Securitising Times APRIL R. BICCUM Theorising Continuities between Empire & Development: Toward a New Theory of History UMA KOTHARI Spatial Practices & Imaginaries: Experiences of Colonial Officers & Development Professionals DOUGLAS H. JOHNSON Decolonising the Borders in Sudan: Ethnic Territories & National Development PAUL KELEMEN 'Individualism is, Indeed, Running Riot': Components of the Social Democratic Model of Development

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Book SynopsisWhy did Alfonso X of Castile-Leon-Galicia relentlessly pursue his claims to the imperial thrones of the Holy Roman Empire and the Iberian 'empire', despite the high costs and probability of failure? WINNER: 2021-22 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication PrizeThis book examines how the concept of imperium shapes the structure and ideology of the Estoria de España, the first major history of Spain in the vernacular, written under Alfonso's patronage. Through a detailed analysis of its Roman section, it explores how Alfonso's scriptorium translated, adapted, and expanded sources to bolster his imperial claim. More than a chronicle, the Estoria served as propaganda, reinforcing Alfonso's legitimacy by challenging papal authority in imperial elections and appealing to both the Castilian-Leonese nobility-whose financial support was crucial-and other Iberian monarchs. Alfonso's imperial vision drew not only on the Imperium Hispanicum of his father, Fernando III, but also on his Staufen lineage through his mother, Beatriz of Swabia, whose ties to the Holy Roman Empire likely influenced the historiographical models of the Estoria. By blending Iberian and European traditions, Alfonso positioned Castile as heir to both the Roman and Hohenstaufen legacies, setting a new standard for Iberian historiography that endured for centuries.

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Book SynopsisEssays on the discipline of medieval history and its practitioners, from the late eighteenth century onwards. A hugely interesting set of essays, reflecting on a variety of ways in which medieval history has developed to the present time. Scholarship of the highest standard, deeply thought-provoking and deeply engaged with the inheritances and future tasks of medieval academic history. The collection will be essential reading for all medievalists. John Arnold, Professor of Medieval History, University of Cambridge. Medieval history is present in manyforms in our world. Monuments from the Middle Ages or inspired by them are a familiar feature of landscapes across Europe and beyond; the period between the end of the Roman Empire in Western Europe and the Reformation and European expansion is an essential part of our imagination, be it conveyed through literature, the arts, science fiction or even video games; it is also commonly invoked in political debates. Specialists in the field have played a majorrole in shaping modern perceptions of the era. But little is known about the factors that have influenced them and their work. The essays in this volume provide original insights into the fabric and dissemination of medieval history as a scholarly discipline from the late eighteenth century onwards. The case-studies range from the creation of specific images of the Middle Ages to the ways in which medievalists have dealt with European identity, contributed to making and deconstructing myths and, more specifically, addressed questions relating to land and frontiers as well as to religion. GRAHAM A. LOUD is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Leeds;MARTIAL STAUB is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. Contributors: Christine Caldwell Ames, Peter Biller, Michael Borgolte, Patrick Geary, Richard Hitchcock, Bernhard Jussen, Joep Leerssen, G.A. Loud, Christian Lübke, Jinty Nelson, Bastian Schlüter, Martial Staub, Ian Wood.Trade ReviewEditors Graham A. Loud and Martial Staub have excelled themselves in producing a collection of articles that is in many ways more than the sum of its parts.. [It] acts as a primer for further discussions about the role, place, and limitations of medieval history, and should be required reading for undergraduates. * PARERGON *[T]his is a particularly timely volume, both for medievalists and for historians more generally. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Exemplary scholarship from some of the leading names in the field is combined with new perspectives on old problems and a refreshing dose of self-awareness and political consciousness. * MEDIEVAL REVIEW *The Making of Medieval History strikes a valiant balance between historiographical overview for the field while still providing starting points of historical narrative and evaluation. The contribution to the field should not be understated. * MEDIEVALLY SPEAKING *Table of ContentsSome Thoughts on the Making of the Middle Ages - Graham A Loud and Martial Staub Why Re-Inventing Medieval History is a Good Idea - Janet L Nelson Literary Composition and the Early Medieval Historian in the Nineteenth Century - Ian Nicholas Wood European Ethnicities and European as an Ethnicity: Does Europe Have Too Much History? - Patrick Geary A Crisis of the Middle Ages? Deconstructing and Constructing European Identities in a Globalised World - Michael Borgolte Barbarossa's Heirs: Nation and Medieval History in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Germany - Bastian Schlütter Once upon a time in Germany: Medievalism, Academic Romanticism, Nationalism - Joep Leerssen Between Ideology and Technology: Depicting Charlemagne in Modern Times - Bernhard Jussen Reflections on the Frontier in Early Medieval Iberia - Richard Hitchcock Germany's Growth to the East: from the Polabian Marches to Germania Slavica - Christian Lübke Distance and Difference: Medieval Inquisition as American History - Christine Ames Mind the Gap: Modern and Medieval 'Religious' Vocabularies - Peter Biller

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Book SynopsisOne of the most fertile and fast-developing themes of recent historiography is treated by the 10 new papers in this volume. The history of the ancient world has traditionally been studied with a view to tracing the origins of those grand developments which eventually occurred. The writing of history is often simplified, by modern scholars as by some ancient sources, so as to read almost teleologically. 'Who', it may have been asked, 'wants to understand what did not happen?' But the most respected of our ancient sources, Herodotos, Thucydides, Tacitus and others, frequently describe the actors in their narratives as guided by fears and hopes concerning developments which did not happen, or by reflection on events which had happened but which subsequently did not play out as anticipated. As Tacitus wrote of Boudicca's revolt, the Britons were motivated by past Roman offences 'and the fear of worse'. Such - superficially - sterile, even vague, expectations tend to be neglected in scholarly discourse. But not only were unfulfilled expectations facts in themselves; they generated real actions. Further, even real and quite grand events - such as a battle won in a campaign eventually unsuccessful - are likely to be neglected if they do not seem to have led to larger developments still: in short, if they are inconvenient for a grand narrative or a syllabus. Yet, history cannot be understood without such things. Restoring them to their due prominence offers scope for a wide-ranging scholarly activity which is not only legitimate but necessary.Table of ContentsIntroduction Anton Powell 1 Historical explanation and what didn't happen: the virtues of virtual history Christopher Pelling 2 Herodotos and the avoidance of hindsight Emily Baragwanath 3 Athens' Sicilian expedition: contemporary scenarios of its outcome Roger Brock 4 The shadow of what might have been: sideshadowing in Thucydides and Xenophon Lisa Irene Hau 5 Spartan supremacy: a 'possession for ever'? Early-fourth-century expectations of enduring ascendancy Helen Roche 6 Confusing aim and result? Hindsight and the disintegration of Alexander the Great's empire Alexander Meeus 7 How to avoid being a backward-looking prophet - counterfactuals in Polybius Felix K. Maier 8 Anticipating Octavian's failure: from Tauromenium to the death of Cleopatra Anton Powell 9 Memoriae eximere: AD 41 and the survival of republicanism under the Principate Katherine Low

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Book SynopsisAppian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But Appian also told the story of the civil wars which beset Rome from the time of Tiberius Gracchus to the death of Sextus Pompeius Magnus. The standing of his work in modern times is paradoxical. Consigned to the third rank by nineteenth-century historiographers, and poorly served by translators, Appian's Roman History profoundly shapes our knowledge of Republican Rome, its empire and its internal politics. We need to know him better. This book studies both what Appian had to say and how he said it; and engages in a dialogue about the value of Appian's text as a source of history, the relationship between that history and his own times, and the impact on his narrative of the author's own opinions - most notably that Rome enjoyed divinely-ordained good fortune. Some authors demonstrate that Appian's text (and even his mistakes) can yield significant new information; others re-open the question of Appian's use of source material in the light of recent studies showing him to be far more than a transmitter of other people's work.Trade ReviewNo serious reader of Appian, and in fact no serious student of the Roman republic, will be in a position to overlook this volume. * Classics for All *

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Book SynopsisWritten in the early seventeenth century, the Hustynja Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic history of Ukraine. The chronological sweep of the text is ambitious, describing the history of Kyivan Rus´ and Ukraine from biblical times until the Union of Brest in 1596. The text covers many critical periods in Ukrainian history, including pre-Mongol Rus´, the expansion of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and the emergence of the Cossacks. Its unique style blends the older tradition of presenting information under yearly entries with a newer, more narrative style of chronicle modeled on the works of Polish chroniclers such as Stryjkowski and Bielski.This publication marks the first time that the Hustynja Chronicle has appeared in a scholarly edition. One copy originally found in the Mharsk Monastery serves as the exemplar for the main text and is accompanied by notes representing variants from six other copies of the text. An introduction by Ukrainian historian Dr. Oleksiy Tolochko, in both the original Ukrainian and English translation, provides a detailed description and history of the chronicle. The Hustynja Chronicle is an essential source for scholars interested in medieval and early-modern Ukrainian history, philology, and chronicle writing.

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Book SynopsisShould modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic.

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Book SynopsisThis volume makes available for the first time in English a collection of the work of historian Yi Tae-Jin. Over the course of his career, he has done path-breaking research that covers virtually the entire Chosōn period (1392–1910) from the Koryō-Chosōn transition to the Kojong period and Korea's takeover by Japan in 1910. One of the focal points of his scholarship has been to reinterpret Neo-Confucianism as a dynamic force in Korean history. The first half of this volume is devoted to his seminal work on the historical factors behind the founding of the Chosōn dynasty. He has shown how the rise of Neo-Confucianism during the Koryō-Chosōn transition was tied to unprecedented advances in agriculture and medicine that led to a fundamental socio-economic transformation of Korea. A new social class emerged that became a leading force behind the new dynasty and adopted Neo-Confucianism as its ideology. One of the underlying concerns of his scholarship has been to overcome the legacy of Japanese colonial scholarship on Korean historiography. His work refutes the notion of Korea as a "Hermit Kingdom" that was stagnant for centuries before its opening to the West. The second half of the volume includes some of his work on modernization efforts in the late Chosōn period, as well as some of his more direct critiques of the continuing influence of Japanese historiography in Korea.

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Book SynopsisShould modern Chinese history be approached from the center looking out or from the margins looking in? The contributors to this book have explored a variety of relationships between the center (or centers) and the margins in China under the Qing dynasty, the Republic, and the People's Republic.

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Book SynopsisThe American Revolution in New Jersey lasted eight long years, during which many were caught in the middle of a vicious civil war. Residents living in an active war zone took stands that varied from “Loyalist” to “Patriot” to neutral and/or "trimmer" (those who changed sides for a variety of reasons). Men and women, Blacks and whites, Native Americans, and those from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds, with different religious affiliations all found themselves in this difficult middle ground. When taking sides, sometimes family was important, sometimes religion, or political principles; the course of the war and location also mattered. Lurie analyzes the difficulties faced by prisoners of war, the refugees produced by the conflict, and those Loyalists who remained, left as exiles, or surprisingly later returned. Their stories are interesting, often dramatic, and include examples of those literally caught in the crossfire. They illustrate the ways in which this was an extremely difficult time and place to live. In the end more of the war was fought in New Jersey than elsewhere, resulting in the highest number of casualties, and a great deal of physical damage. The costs were high no matter what side individuals took. Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution’s complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all. It focuses on people rather than battles and provides perspective for the difficult choices we make in our own times. Supplemental Instructor Resources for Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey:Questions (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/19144155/Taking-Sides-Supplementary-Instructor-Resources-Questions.pdf)Bibliography (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/19144154/Taking-Sides-Supplementary-Instructor-Resources-Bibliography.pdf)Trade Review"Lurie’s scholarship demonstrates her unmatched grasp of the American Revolution in New Jersey. Taking Sides in Revolutionary New Jersey contributes to a deeper understanding of the revolutionary era." -- Jonathan Mercantini * author of Who Shall Rule at Home: The Evolution of South Carolina’s Political Culture, 1748-1776 *"With this volume, Lurie solidifies herself as the leading scholar of Revolutionary New Jersey by uncovering the vital role that people played in creating the 'messy complexity' of the Revolution in New Jersey. Lurie convincingly shows that Americans did not all agree on a path forward in 1776, joining the Patriots, Crown, or remaining neutral for a myriad of complex reasons. Taking Sides deftly exposes the civil war underway in the young state, including the war’s devastating economic toll on the state and its dramatic effect on individual people’s lives." -- James Gigantino * author of The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey *"Taking Sides uses numerous brief biographies to illustrate the American Revolution's complexity; it quotes from documents, pamphlets, diaries, letters, and poetry, a variety of sources to provide insight into the thoughts and reactions of those living through it all. It focuses on people rather than battles and provides perspective for the difficult choices we make in our own times." * New York Almanack *Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1. Overview of the Revolution in New Jersey: ChronologyChapter 2. Patriots Part I: The Adamant and DeterminedChapter 3. Patriots Part II: In the MaelstromChapter 4. Straddlers, Trimmers, and OpportunistsChapter 5. The Society of Friends (Called Quakers): Pacifists and ParticipantsChapter 6. Loyalists Part I: The IrreconcilablesChapter 7. Loyalists Part II: Remained or ReturnedChapter 8. EpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 1990 American Book Award What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the foundation of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century—chiefly for racist reasons. The popular view is that Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers—Aryans—from the North. But the Classical Greeks, Bernal argues, knew nothing of this “Aryan model.” They did not see their institutions as original, but as derived from the East and from Egypt in particular. In an unprecedented tour de force, Bernal links a wide range of areas and disciplines—drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of “modern scholarship.”Trade Review"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * The New Republic *"In a spectacular undertaking, Martin Bernal sets out to... restore the credibility of what he calls the Ancient Model of the beginnings of Greek civilizations... Bernal makes an exotic interloper in Classical studies. He comes to them with two outstanding gifts: a remarkable flair for the sociology - perhaps one should say politics - of knowledge, and a formidable linguistic proficiency... The story told by Bernal, with many fascinating twists and turns and quite a few entertaining digressions, is... a critical inquiry into a large part of the European imagination... a retrospect of ingenious and often sardonic erudition." -- Perry Anderson * The Guardian *"An astonishing work, breathtakingly bold in conception and passionately written... salutary, exciting, and, in its historiographical aspects, convincing." -- G. W. Bowersock * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"A work which has much to offer the lay reader, and its multi-disciplinary sweep is refreshing: it is an important contribution to historiography and the sociology of knowledge, written with elegance, wit, and self-awareness... a thrilling journey... his account is as gripping a tale of scholarly detection and discovery as one could hope to find." -- Margaret Drabble * The Observer *"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind is sharp, and his analyses convince." -- Richard Jenkyns * Times Higher Educational Supplement *"A formidable work of intellectual history, one that demonstrates that the politics of knowledge is never far from national politics." * Christian Science Monitor *"His book should be welcome to both classicists and ancient historians, most of whom will, now at least, be inclined to agree with him." -- R. A. McNeal * Franklin and Marshall College *"Bernal's work and the stir it has occasioned have caused ancient historians and archaeologists to undertake a major reexamination of methods and motives." -- Robert L. Pounder * American Historical Review *"Colossal.... Bernal aims to revise current understanding of Ancient Middle Eastern history by taking seriously the ancient Greeks' legends that portrayed much in their civilization as originating in the Middle East, especially Egypt." * New York Times Book Review *"Demands to be taken seriously... Every page that Bernal writes is educating and enthralling. To agree with all his thesis may be a sign of naivety, but not to have spent time in his company is a sign of nothing at all." * Times Literary Supplement *"A serious work that deals in a serious way with many of the principal issues of Aegean history in the second millennium B.C., and one can ask little more of any historical work." -- Stanley M. Burstein, California State University * Classic Philology *"[Bernal's] multifaceted assault on academic complacency is an important contribution to the development of a more open, historical, and culturally oriented post-processual archaeology." * Current Anthropology *"A breathtaking panoply of archaeological artifacts, texts, and myths." * Toronto Star *"Bernal's enterprise - his attack on the Aryan model and his promotion of a new paradigm - will profoundly mark the next century's perception of the origins of Greek civilization and the role of Ancient Egypt." * Transition *"Challenges the racism implicit in the recent 'cultural literacy' movement." * Socialist Review *"A monumental and path-breaking work." -- Edward Said"[Martin Bernal] has forced scholars to reexamine the roots of Western civilization." * Newsweek *"Martin Bernal has managed to make the subject of Ancient Greece both popular and controversial." * Baltimore Sun *"Martin Bernal’s Black Athena is nothing short of a monumental achievement in scholarship that re-oriented and transformed serious study of ancient civilizations. It remains a soaring accomplishment of classical erudition of the Afroasiatic foundation of Greek history." -- Molefi Kete Asante * author of The History of Africa,Professor, Department of Africology, Temple University *"Black Athena is a powerfully written and brilliantly researched book that relentlessly unveils the historical and cultural African origins of Western civilization. Still a must read for all those in search of truth." -- Ama Mazama * Professor of Africology and African American Studies, Temple University *“Bernal has ample justification for calling into question many widely accepted hypotheses…. He shows that Egypt and its culture were misrepresented or simply ignored by European writers.” -- Mary Lefkowitz * The New Republic *Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Transcription and Phonetics Maps and Charts Chronological Table Introduction Background Proposed historical outline Black Athena, Volume I: a summary of the argument Greece European or Levantine? The Egyptian and West Semitic Components of Greek Civilization / a summary of Volume 2 Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx and Other Studies in Egypto-Greek Mythology / a summary of Volume 1 The Ancient Model in Antiquity Pelasgians Ionians Colonization The colonizations in Greek tragedy Herodotos Thucydides Isokrates and Plato Aristotle Theories of colonization and later borrowing in the Hellenistic world Plutarch’s attack on Herodotos The triumph of Egyptian religion Alexander son of Ammon 2 Egyptian wisdom and Greek transmission From the Dark Ages to the Renaissance The murder of Hypatia The collapse of Egypto-Pagan religion Christianity, stars and fish The relics of Egyptian religion: Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism and Gnosticism Hermeticism – Greek, Iranian, Chaldaean or Egyptian? Hermeticism and Neo-Platonism under early Christianity, Judaism and Islam Hermeticism in Byzantium and Christian Western Europe Egypt in the Renaissance Copernicus and Hermeticism Hermeticism and Egypt in the 16th century 3 The triumph of Egypt in the 17th and 18th centuries Hermeticism in the 17th century Rosicrucianism: Ancient Egypt in Protestant countries Ancient Egypt in the 18th century The 18th century: China and the Physiocrats The 18th century: England, Egypt and the Freemasons France, Egypt and ‘progress’: the quarrel between Ancients and Moderns Mythology as allegory for Egyptian science The Expedition to Egypt 4 Hostilities to Egypt in the 18th century Christian reaction The ‘triangle’: Christianity and Greece against Egypt The alliance between Greece and Christianity ‘Progress’ against Egypt Europe as the ‘progressive’ continent ‘Progress’ Racism Romanticism Ossian and Homer Romantic Hellenism Winckelmann and Neo-Hellenism in Germany Göttingen 5 Romantic linguistics The rise of India and the fall of Egypt, 1740–1880 The birth of Indo-European The love affair with Sanskrit Schlegelian Romantic linguistics The Oriental Renaissance The fall of China Racism in the early 19th century What colour were the Ancient Egyptians? The national renaissance of modern Egypt Dupuis, Jomard and Champollion Egyptian monotheism or Egyptian polytheism Popular perceptions of Ancient Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries Elliot Smith and ‘diffusionism’ Jomard and the Mystery of the Pyramids 6 Hellenomania, 1 The fall of the Ancient Model, 1790–1830 Friedrich August Wolf and Wilhelm von Humboldt Humboldt’s educational reforms The Philhellenes Dirty Greeks and the Dorians Transitional figures, 1: Hegel and Marx Transitional figures, 2: Heeren Transitional figures, 3: Barthold Niebuhr Petit-Radel and the first attack on the Ancient Model Karl Otfried Müller and the overthrow of the Ancient Model 7 Hellenomania, 2 Transmission of the new scholarship to England and the rise of the Aryan Model, 1830–60 The German model and educational reform in England George Grote Aryans and Hellenes 8 The rise and fall of the Phoenicians, 1830–85 Phoenicians and anti-Semitism What race were the Semites? The linguistic and geographical inferiorities of the Semites The Arnolds Phoenicians and English, 1: the English view Phoenicians and English, 2: the French view Salammbô Moloch The Phoenicians in Greece: 1820–80 Gobineau’s image of Greece Schliemann and the discovery of the ‘Mycenaeans’ Babylon 9 The final solution of the Phoenician problem, 1885–1945 The Greek Renaissance Salomon Reinach Julius Beloch Victor Bérard Akhenaton and the Egyptian Renaissance Arthur Evans and the ‘Minoans’ The peak of anti-Semitism, 1920–39 20th-century Aryanism Taming the alphabet: the final assault on the Phoenicians 10 The post-war situation The return to the Broad Aryan Model, 1945–85 The post-war situation Developments in Classics, 1945–65 The model of autochthonous origin East Mediterranean contacts Mythology Language Ugarit Scholarship and the rise of Israel Cyrus Gordon Astour and Hellenosemitica Astour’s successor? – J. C. Billigmeier An attempt at compromise: Ruth Edwards The return of the Iron Age Phoenicians Naveh and the transmission of the alphabet The return of the Egyptians? The Revised Ancient Model Conclusion Appendix Were the Philistines Greek? Notes Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAfter the techno-futurism of the 1950s and the utopian 1960s vision of a “great society,” the 1970s saw Americans turning to the past as a source for both nostalgic escapism and serious reflection on the nation’s history. While some popular works like Grease presented the relatively recent past as a more innocent time, far away from the nation’s post-Vietnam, post-Watergate malaise, others like Roots used America’s bicentennial as an occasion for deep soul-searching. Happy Days investigates how 1970s popular culture was obsessed with America’s past but often offered radically different interpretations of the same historical events and icons. Even the figure of the greaser, once an icon of juvenile delinquency, was made family-friendly by Henry Winkler’s Fonzie at the same time that he was being appropriated in more threatening ways by punk and gay subcultures. The cultural historian Benjamin Alpers discovers similar levels of ambivalence toward the past in 1970s neo-noir films, representations of America’s founding, and neo-slave narratives by Alex Haley and Octavia Butler. By exploring how Americans used the 1970s to construct divergent representations of their shared history, he identifies it as a pivotal moment in the nation’s ideological fracturing. Trade Review"In a lucid and entertaining volume, intellectual historian Ben Alpers' has offered us a rich and much-needed analysis of a decade too often portrayed as an 'age of innocence' that gave way to the more troubled 1960s and 1970s. Delivering nuanced readings of music, film, television, and popular politics, Alpers delivers not just a fresh take on the 1950s, but also demonstrates that nostalgia is a form of popular historical thinking, permitting Americans to accommodate the present by way of the past." -- Claire Bond Potter * author of Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics *"Alpers exhibits a fine facility for analyzing closely a wide range of revealing artifacts, including music, film criticism, and public commemoration. The result is a history of popular culture that productively probes the meanings of history itself, for individuals contending with personal identity, for scholars seeking to avoid easy generalizations, and for American society as a whole." -- Joan Shelley Rubin * author of The Making of Middlebrow Culture *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Where Were You in '62?": The Long Fifties and Nostalgia in Seventies Culture 2. Rip van Marlowe: Seventies Noir and the Pre-Sixties Past 3. "A Committee of 215 Million People": Celebrating the Bicentennial in the Wake of the Sixties 4. Family Stories and the African American Past in Alex Haley's Roots and Octavia Butler's Kindred Afterword Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the entanglement of heritage and resistance in different situations of conflicts, and the opportunities this entanglement may provide for social justice. This entanglement is investigated in the different contributions through theoretical and empirical analyses of heritage-led resistance to neoliberal economic development, violation of the subaltern, authorised narratives and state-invented traditions, colonialism and settler colonialism, and even dominating discourses of social movement, to name just a few. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of heritage and resistance studies, these analyses bring new insights into several timely debates, especially those concerned with the interrelated critical questions of displacement, gentrification, exclusion, marginalization, urbicide, spatial cleansing, dehumanization, alienation, ethnic cleansing and social injustice. Following our purposeful and future-driven approach, we wish to bring new energy to the field of heritage studies through the focus on the potential of heritage and resistance for hopeful change rather than adding to the field yet another overwhelming engagement with conflict and war.Table of Contents1. Chapter 1: Linking Heritage to Resistance.- 2. Chapter 2: Exercising our rights to the past: Emergent heritage activism in Istanbul.- 3. Chapter 3: Acting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media.- 4. Chapter 4: Mapping more-than-nostalgia of the ‘pits’: co-production as creative resistance to the flattening of coal-mining communities.- 5. Chapter 5: Authenticity and struggle: historicising skateboarding as ‘action art’ on London’s South Bank.- 6. Chapter 6: Imagining Heritage Beyond Proprietorship, Contesting Dispossession Beyond the Power Resistance Binary: Occupy-style Protests in Turkey, 2013-14.- 7. Chapter 7: Fighting denial of the right to the past: heritage-backed bodily resistance and performance of refugeeism and return.- 8. Chapter 8: Reproductions, Excavations and Replicas: New Materialities in Response to Destruction.- 9. Chapter 9: Ethnoscaping Green Resistance: Heritage and the fight against fracking.- 10. Chapter 10: The epistemic work of decolonisation and restitution: a conversation with Ciraj Rassool.- 11. Chapter 11: Methodological approaches and challenges of conducting research on heritage and resistance.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers innovative and wide-ranging responses to the continuously flourishing literary phenomenon of autofiction. The book shows the insights that are gained in the shift from the genre descriptor to the adjective, and from a broad application of “the autofictional” as a theoretical lens and aesthetic strategy. In three sections on “Approaches,” “Affordances,” and “Forms,” the volume proposes new theoretical approaches for the study of autofiction and the autofictional, offers fresh perspectives on many of the prominent authors in the discussion, draws them into a dialogue with autofictional practice from across the globe, and brings into view texts, forms, and media that have not traditionally been considered for their autofictional dimensions. The book, in sum, expands the parameters of research on autofiction to date to allow new voices and viewpoints to emerge.Table of Contents

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Book Synopsis​This book offers a platform for the analysis of commemorative and archiving practices as they were shaped, expanded, and developed during the Covid-19 lockdown periods in 2020 and the years that followed. By offering an extensive global view of these changes as well as of the continuities that went with them, the book enters a dialogue with what has emerged as an initial response to the pandemic and the ways in which it has affected memory and commemoration.The book aims to critically and empirically engage with this abundance of memory to understand both memorialization of the pandemic and commemoration during the pandemic: what happened then to commemorative practices and rituals around the world? How has the Covid-19 pandemic been archived and remembered? What will remembering it actually entail, and what will it mean in the future? Where did the Covid memory boom come from? Who was behind it, how did it emerge, and in what social configurations did it evolve?Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Unlocking Memory Studies: Understanding Collective Remembrance During and of Covid-19.- Part I Can We Speak of a Covid Memory Boom?.- Chapter 2. “It seemed right to keep some sort of history”: Performances of Digital Memory Work by Young Women in London During Covid-19.- Chapter 3. Picturing Lockdown in the UK: Memorializing anOngoing Crisis.- Chapter 4. #Mémoriascovid19: Reimagining and Narrating Trauma in the Core of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil.- Chapter 5. The Danger of a Single Story: Epic-Pandemic Narratologies and Memorials of COVID-19 in Nigeria.- Chapter 6. Pandemic from the Margins: How United-States-Based College Students Think the Pandemic Should Be Remembered.- Part II Commemorative Events Between Memory Politics and Protests: What Has Changed During the Lockdowns?.- Chapter 7. “No quarantine to workers’ rights”: Recontextualizing Labour Day Commemoration in the Semiotic Landscape of a Pandemic Demonstration.- Chapter 8. The Struggle to Remember Tiananmen Under COVID-19 and the National Security Law in Hong Kong.- Chapter 9. “Memory Does Not Quarantine”: COVID-19, Remembering the Coup, and the Struggle for Democracy in Bolsonaro’s Brazil.- Chapter 10. Human Rights Day: Grassroots Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic Restrictions in South Africa.- Part III Memorial Museums and National Days: Did DigitalPractices Transform Commemoration in Times of the Pandemic?.- Chapter 11. “Le goût d’un jour de fête”? Commemorating the End of the Second World War on Twitter During the Lockdown: A Comparison Between France and Italy.- Chapter 12. #Hashtag Commemoration: A Comparison of Public Engagement with Commemoration Events for Neuengamme, Srebrenica, and Beau Bassin During Covid-19 Lockdowns.- Chapter 13. #DigitalMemorial(s): How COVID-19 Reinforced Holocaust Memorials and Museums’ Shift Toward Social Media Memory.- Chapter 14. Holocaust Remembrance on Facebook During the Lockdown: A Turning Point or a Token Gesture?.- Chapter 15. Epilogue: Did the Pandemic Change the Future of Memory?./

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Book SynopsisThis book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures. The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.Trade Review Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction to Discourse Analysis and Argumentation Theory (Martín Pereira-Fariña).- Part 1. Conceptual Approaches.- Chapter 2. A New Approach to Interoperable Argumentation Documentation (Stephen Stead).- Chapter 3. Making Good Arguments in Archaeology (Michael E. Smith).- Chapter 4. A Causal Model Application to a Cultural Heritage Sentence Analysis (Alejandro Sobrino).- Chapter 5. What Archaeological Texts Argue About: Denotations and Ontological Proxies (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).- Chapter 6. The Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology (Isto Huvila).- Chapter 7. Dealing with Vagueness in Archaeological Discourses (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).- Chapter 8. Extending Discourse Analysis in Archaeology: A Multimodal Approach (Jeremy Huggett).- Part 2. Computational Techniques.- Chapter 9. Computer Processing of Language: Where Archaeological Discourse and Computers Meet (Patricia Martín-Rodilla).- Chapter 10. NLP and Archaeology: A View from a Digital Archive (Holly Wright)- Chapter 11. Information Extraction and Machine Learning for Archaeological Texts (Alex Brandsen).- Chapter 12. Argument Mining and Analytics in Archaeology (John Lawrence).- Chapter 13. Computational Processing of Language Vagueness for Archaeological Site Modelling (Maria Elena Castiello).- Part 3. The Future.- Chapter 14. Future Directions (Cesar Gonzalez-Perez).

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Book Synopsis1. Introduction.- 2. Embodied Memories and the Diaspora.- 3. Setting the Scene.- 4. Beneath the Surface.- 5. Choreographing the Past.- 6. Embodied Transmission and Communication.- 7. Transnationalisation and Regionalisation of Mnemonic Belonging.- 8. Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisHubert Kleinert legt mit diesem Buch die erste umfassende Gesamtdarstellung der Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands seit 1990 vor. Dreißig Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung präsentiert er eine anschauliche Schilderung des schwierigen Weges, den das Land seither genommen hat. Erzählt wird von den gewaltigen Herausforderungen durch die völlige Veränderung der Lebensumstände in den neuen Ländern und den Problemen bei der inneren Einheit des Landes. Berichtet wird von den außenpolitischen Anforderungen an ein Land, das mit der Wiedervereinigung auch seine weltpolitische Sonderrolle verloren hatte. Behandelt wird die Geschichte der europäischen Integration und die Einführung des Euro. Beleuchtet werden auch die Probleme, die mit der internationalen Finanzkrise und der Eurokrise aufgeworfen worden sind. Auch die Flüchtlingskrise 2015/2016 nimmt in dieser Darstellung den entsprechenden Raum ein. Am Ende der jeweiligen Abschnitte stehen Porträts der drei Kanzlerschaften, die das vereinigte Deutschland in den dreißig Jahren erlebt hat.Dem Autor gelingt es nicht nur, die zentralen Entwicklungen und Schlüsselereignisse seit 1990 in klaren Linien zu zeichnen und verständlich zu machen. Die politische Geschichte des Landes wird zugleich eingebettet in die zentralen Entwicklungen von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Kultur. Dabei spielt die Geschichte der Zuwanderung ebenso eine wichtige Rolle wie die großen Veränderungen in den Medienstrukturen des Landes und seine Auswirkungen auf das Leben der Menschen. Das Werk liefert eine Gesamtbilanz der letzten drei Jahrzehnte deutscher Geschichte. Es enthält eine enorme Fülle von Informationen, die übersichtlich und anschaulich dargestellt werden. Wer sich dafür interessiert, wie Deutschland seit den Tagen von Helmut Kohl zu dem Deutschland geworden ist, das wir heute kennen, findet in dieser lebendigen Darstellung eine unverzichtbare Grundlage. Trade Review“... Besonders gelungen sind dem Autor die kompakten Portraits der wesentlichen politischen Akteure im Land … Politik, Parteiengeschichte, Außenpolitik, Ökonomie und Sozialpolitik, Kulturelles und Medien, ja sogar der Sport werden verlässlich und vielfach originell abgehandelt …” (Peter März, in: Zeitschrift des Forschungsverbundes SED-Staat, Heft 47, 2021)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch sammelt und kommentiert Siegfried Grundmann historische Dokumente aus der Schwellenzeit der Weimarer Republik zum Dritten Reich, bei denen Nobelpreisträger und Physiker Albert Einstein Mitunterstützter war: zum einen der „Dringende Appell“ vom Juni 1932, in dem 33 bekannte Persönlichkeiten – unter anderem auch Käthe Kollwitz, Heinrich Mann und Erich Kästner - zu einer Kooperation von SPD und KPD aufriefen; sowie die Dokumente zur Protestkundgebung „Das Freie Wort“ gegen die an die Macht gelangten Nationalsozialisten. Zu den eindrucksvollsten Aspekten der vorliegenden Dokumentation gehört, wie sich Menschen verschiedener politischer und weltanschaulicher Position und Biografien im Kampf gegen die faschistische Gefahr verbündet haben. Die Biographie des politischen Einstein wird mit diesem Buch durch neue Facetten bereichert.Table of ContentsVorwort.- 1 "Dringender Appell" vom Juni 1932.- 2 Oktober 1932.- 3 Der Kongress "Das Freie Wort" im Februar 1933.- 4 Nachwort.- 5 Anhänge.

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Book SynopsisTravelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century.The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.Table of Contents Introduction, Boris Stojovski CHAPTER 1. Svetozar Boškov, Herodotus as a Travel Writer CHAPTER 2. Konstantinos Karatolios, Travelling as a Hostage: The Testimony of Kaminiates's Capture of Thessalonike CHAPTER 3. Yanko Hristov, Travelling and Travellers: Persons, Reasons, and Destinations According to A Tale of the Iron Cross CHAPTER 4. Paulo Catarino Lopes, Medieval Travels and the Ensuing Texts as Mirrors of a Society, a Culture, and a World View CHAPTER 5. Boris Stojkovski, Southern Hungary and Serbia in al-Idrisi's Geography CHAPTER 6. Nebojša Kartalija, The Perception of the Balkans in Western Travel Literature from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century CHAPTER 7. Djura Hardi, From Ma?va to Tarnovo: On the Roads of the Balkan Politics of Prince Rostislav Mikhailovich CHAPTER 8. Marie-Emmanuelle Torres, Echoes of Constantinople: Rewriting the Byzantine Soundscape in Travel Accounts CHAPTER 9. Radivoj Radi?, The Temptations of the Night Journey: An Image from the Voyage of Nicephorus Gregoras through Serbia CHAPTER 10. Sandra Du?i? Collette, Dante (1265-1321): The Exile and Birth of a Pilgrim CHAPTER 11. Shiva Mihan, The Journey of The Gift of the Noble CHAPTER 12. Stanoje Bojanin, The South Slavic Parish in Light of Stephen Gerlach's Travel Diary CHAPTER 13. Aleksandar Krsti?, Vegetation in the Territories of Serbia and Southern Hungary in Travel Accounts (Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

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Book SynopsisTravelling is one of the most fascinating phenomena that has inspired writers and scholars from Antiquity to our postmodern age. The father of history, Herodotus, was also a traveller, whose Histories can easily be considered a travel account. The first volume of this book is dedicated to the period starting from Herodotus himself until the end of the Middle Ages with focus on the Balkans, the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic world, and South-Eastern Europe. Research on travellers who connected civilizations; manuscript and literary traditions; musicology; geography; flora and fauna as reflected in travel accounts, are all part of this thought-provoking collected volume dedicated to detailed aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the end of the sixteenth century.The second volume of this book is dedicated to the period between Early Modernity and today, including modern receptions of travelling in historiography and literature. South-Eastern Europe and Serbia; the Chinese, Ottoman, and British perception of travelling; pilgrimages to the Holy land and other sacred sites; Serbian, Arabic, and English literature; legal history and travelling, and other engaging topics are all part of the second volume dedicated to aspects of voyages and travel accounts up to the contemporary era.Table of Contents Introduction, Boris Stojovski CHAPTER 1. Svetozar Boškov, Herodotus as a Travel Writer CHAPTER 2. Konstantinos Karatolios, Travelling as a Hostage: The Testimony of Kaminiates's Capture of Thessalonike CHAPTER 3. Yanko Hristov, Travelling and Travellers: Persons, Reasons, and Destinations According to A Tale of the Iron Cross CHAPTER 4. Paulo Catarino Lopes, Medieval Travels and the Ensuing Texts as Mirrors of a Society, a Culture, and a World View CHAPTER 5. Boris Stojkovski, Southern Hungary and Serbia in al-Idrisi's Geography CHAPTER 6. Nebojša Kartalija, The Perception of the Balkans in Western Travel Literature from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century CHAPTER 7. Djura Hardi, From Ma?va to Tarnovo: On the Roads of the Balkan Politics of Prince Rostislav Mikhailovich CHAPTER 8. Marie-Emmanuelle Torres, Echoes of Constantinople: Rewriting the Byzantine Soundscape in Travel Accounts CHAPTER 9. Radivoj Radi?, The Temptations of the Night Journey: An Image from the Voyage of Nicephorus Gregoras through Serbia CHAPTER 10. Sandra Du?i? Collette, Dante (1265-1321): The Exile and Birth of a Pilgrim CHAPTER 11. Shiva Mihan, The Journey of The Gift of the Noble CHAPTER 12. Stanoje Bojanin, The South Slavic Parish in Light of Stephen Gerlach's Travel Diary CHAPTER 13. Aleksandar Krsti?, Vegetation in the Territories of Serbia and Southern Hungary in Travel Accounts (Fifteenth–Seventeenth Centuries)

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Book SynopsisInterviews twelve experts on oral history to discuss the medium's status within the social sciences in light of recent technological breakthroughs. This title addresses many of the challenges of oral history, from its inherent subjectivity to whether it should be treated as a discipline or simply a method for research.

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Book SynopsisFollowing the so-called -Material Turn- of historiography, this book explores the materialization of identity in urban space--specifically in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Urban spaces played an important role in the formation of national identities in post-socialist successor states across the region, while at the same time the articulation of national identities markedly affected the appearance of these post-socialist cities. Beginning with an overview of socialist and post-socialist cities in recent urban history, contributors trace the post-socialist intertwining of space and identities in case studies that include Astana and Almaty in Kazakhstan, Chi?inau and Tiraspol in Moldova, and Skopje in Macedonia, while also linking this phenomenon to socialist urbanism, as in postwar Minsk, Belarus.

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Book SynopsisSalo W. Baron (1895-1989) was the most important and influential Jewish historian of the twentieth century. This volume is based on an international conference organized by the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and the Institute of Jewish Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. The conference was held at Jagiellonian University, May 26-29, 2015, to celebrate Baron’s 120th birthday. The volume explores Baron’s biography and life experience, assesses Baron’s contributions to the various subdisciplines of Jewish studies, and evaluates Baron’s integration of scholarly commitment and communal involvement.

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Book SynopsisThis seminal work by the founder of Annales School, Marc Bloch discusses history writing from many perspectives, rather than a singular method and what comprises history. The Historian's Craft covers the issues concerning what comprises history. This book also deals with the concept of time, historical observation, criticism, analysis, and causation. Citing pieces of evidence from certain history-related documents such as the Commentaries of Julius Caesar and Protocols of the Elders of Zion, he exemplifies the examples of history writing and forgeries.

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Book SynopsisThis is a particularly vivid biography of a remarkable individual, an Indonesian historian and public intellectual who was both a public figure and a multi-minority member, being Dutch-educated, Indonesian Chinese, gay, alcoholic, irreligious and hedonist, in a conservative society. This biography delves into its subject's interior life: the fears, doubts, confusions; the issues of sexuality, the mental breakdown, the jailing, the later success, joys and celebrity, as a historian, public intellectual and famous cook. This biography breaks out of the Indonesian Chinese category. It is primarily an Indonesian story. In its early chapters this biography reveals much about the 'sugar king' Chinese aristocracy of Indonesia, from the inside. In its later chapters this book shows much about the development of Indonesians writing their own post-colonial history, and the intellectual influences on this writing. Onghokham was a senior public intellectual with over 300 writings over 50 years, containing original insights into many varied Indonesian topics, including colonial history and its effects on modern politics and society; the Indonesian Chinese; 'outsiders' -- marginal people; the jago or brigand as people's champion; sexuality in Indonesia past and present; food; the Oedipus complex; painting; traditional Javanese beliefs from the palace to the peasant.Trade Review"You will meet a delicious & complex character in these pages. Brave, cheeky, a scholar, politically fierce & a marvellous cook, Ong made life into a feast. His passionate commitment to justice led him to jail; his students loved him. Both an insider and an outsider, he is irreplaceable. Learning about his life will enrich yours." - Miriam Margolyes, actor

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Book SynopsisPreface / Andrew Gordon (Harvard University/ University of Tokyo).- Part I. Theory.- Chapter 1. Considering Public History from Japanese Perspectives / Michihiro Okamoto (Toyo University).- Chapter 2. Towards the Remagicalization of History: Minoru Hokari and Public Histories / Ted Motohashi (Tokyo Keizai University).- Chapter 3. Dark Tourism and Public History / Akira Ide (Kanazawa University).- Chapter 4. Eloquent Silence: When Fiction Makes Japanese History of Christianity Alive / Emi Tozawa (University of Manchester).- Part II.   Practice.- Chapter 5. Collaboration between creators and researchers in historical manga and animation works: Examples of the manga “Anna Komnena” and the animation “Vinland Saga” / Futaba Sato (manga artist), Minoru Ozawa (Rikkyo University) and Satoshi Ohtani (Tokai University).- Chapter 6. The Potential of Digital Public History in Japan / Makoto Goto (National Institutes for Humanities, National Museum of Japanese History).- Chapter 7. Connecting "Zaihan Korean ("Zainichi Korean in Osaka") history" to "Resident History ": Exhibition practice by Osaka Korea Town Museum / Noriko Ijichi (Osaka Metropolitan University).- Chapter 8. Taking the Pollution (Kogai) Experiences Into the Future: A Practice of Public History / Miho Hayashi (Okayama University of Science) & Masafumi Yokemoto (Osaka Metropolitan University).- Chapter 9. "Archiving" the Environmental Pollution in Minamata?: Expanding the Frame of Archival Photography and Exposing Humanity / Yumi Kamuro (Kumamoto University).

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Book SynopsisAt the heart of the ongoing armed conflict in southern Thailand is a fundamental agreement about the history of relations between the Patani Malays and the Thai kingdom. While the Thai royalist-nationalist version of history regards Patani as part of that kingdom ""since time immemorial,"" Patani Malay nationalists look back to a golden age when the Sultanate of Patani was an independent, prosperous trading state and a renowned center for Islamic education and scholarship in Southeast Asia - a time before it was defeated, broken up, and brought under the control of the Thai state.While still influential, in recent years these diametrically opposed views of the past have begun to make way for more nuanced and varied interpretations. Patani scholars, intellectuals and students now explore their history more freely and confidently than in the past, while the once-rigid Thai nationalist narrative is open to more pluralistic interpretations. There is growing interaction and dialogue between historians writing in Thai, Malay and English, and engagement with sources and scholarship in other languages, including Chinese and Arabic. In this volume, 13 scholars who have worked on this sensitive region evaluate the current state of current historical writing about the Patani Malays of southern Thailand.The essays in this book demonstrate that an understanding of the conflict must take into account the historical dimensions of relations between Patani and the Thai kingdom, and the ongoing influence of these perceptions on Thai state officials, the militants, and the local population.

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Book SynopsisSites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO's List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmotif in heritage initiatives.Contemporary heritage formation in Indonesia is intrinsically linked to a canon of Indonesian art and culture developed during Dutch colonial rule, institutionalized within Indonesia's heritage infrastructure and in the Netherlands, and echoed in museums and exhibitions throughout the world. The authors in this volume acknowledge colonial legacies but argue against a colonial determinism, considering instead how contemporary heritage initiatives can lead to new interpretations of the past.

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