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Book Synopsisand less as the emanation unden\'ent radioactive decay, and it became motion­ less after about 30 seconds. Since this process was occurring very rapidly, Hahn and Sackur marked the position of the pointer on a scale with pencil marks. As a timing device they used a metronome that beat out intervals of approximately 1. 3 seconds. This simple method enabled them to determine that the half-life of the emanations of actinium and emanium were the same. Although Giesel's measurements had been more precise than Debierne's, the name of actinium was retained since Debierne had made the discovery first. Hahn now returned to his sample of barium chloride. He soon conjectured that the radium-enriched preparations must harbor another radioactive sub­ stance. The liquids resulting from fractional crystallization, which were sup­ posed to contain radium only, produced two kinds of emanation. One was the long-lived emanation of radium, the other had a short life similar to the emanation produced by thorium. Hahn tried to separate this substance by adding some iron to the solutions that should have been free of radium, but to no avail. Later the reason for his failure became apparent. The element that emitted the thorium emanation was constantly replenished by the ele­ ment believed to be radium. Hahn succeeded in enriching a preparation until it was more than 100,000 times as intensive in its radiation as the same quantity of thorium.Trade Review`...articles which provide much interesting material on a period of the development of physics which has been relatively neglected by historians of science.' Centaurus, 28:1 Table of ContentsIntroduction: from Rutherford to Hahn.- The Nuclear Electron Hypothesis.- The Evolution of Matter: Nuclear Physics, Cosmic Rays, and Robert Millikan’s Research Program.- The Discovery of Fission and a Nuclear Physics Paradigm.- Internal and External Conditions for the Discovery of Fission by the Berlin Team.- Otto Hahn, Science, and Social Responsibility.- The Politics of British Science in the Munich Era.- Why Hahn’s Radiothorium Surprised Rutherford in Montreal.- The Discovery of Uranium Z by Otto Hahn: The First Example of Nuclear Isomerism.- Nuclear Physics in Candada in the 1930s.

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Book SynopsisSoviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances. We have nothing to be afraid of, if our people fully learns to distinguish who are its friends and who are its enemies. The trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries must and shall be a great step forward in the cause of the political instruction of the very broadest masses in town and country. (Grigorii Zinov'ev, Pravda and Krasnaia gazeta, 20 June 1922) For my part, I considered this trial to be unnecessary: the Socialist Revolu­ tionaries had been beaten and represented no visible danger at all. (Charles Rappoport, Ma vie, Paris 1926-1927, Vol. 2, p. 80) The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in October 1917 by staging a coup d'etat, and then established a dictatorship. The new rulers sup­ pressed all armed resistance in a bloody civil war, after which they made every effort to uproot and exterminate even peaceful political opposition of all kinds. Even now it is impossible in the Soviet Union to subject these developments to critical historical study. The political opponents of the Soviet regime of the time are still regarded by official Soviet his­ toriography as counter-revolutionaries and the measures taken against them are seen as completely justified.Table of Contents1. The Socialist Revolutionaries and the Soviet Regime.- 2. The Announcement of the Trial and the International Socialist Movement.- 3. Preparations for the Trial.- 4. The Treatment of the Accused, Defenders and Witnesses During the Trial.- 5. The Judicial Investigation.- 6. The Socialist Revolutionaries Versus the Bolsheviks.- 7. The Verdict and How It Was Brought About.- 8. The Propaganda Campaign.- 9. The Reactions.- 10. The End.- Conclusion.- List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes.- Notes.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsI: Introduction.- 1. Companies and Trade: Some Reflections on a Workshop and a Concept.- II: Companies as Instruments of Trade and Expansion.- 2. The Origins of Trading Companies.- 3. The English East India Company in the 17th and 18th Centuries: A Pre-modern Multinational Organization.- 4. The Shifting Balance of Trade of the Dutch East India Company.- 5. The West India Company, 1621–1791: Dutch or Atlantic?.- 6. French Mercantilism, Commercial Companies and Colonial Profitability.- 7. Two Lusitanian Variations on a Dutch Theme: Portuguese Companies in Times of Crisis, 1628–1662.- 8. The Organization and Structure of the Danish East India, West India and Guinea Companies in the 17th and 18th Centuries.- 9. The Brandenburg Overseas Trading Companies in the 17th Century.- III: Companies in the Trading World of Asia.- 10. Questions on the Contact between European Companies and Asian Societies.- 11. European Trade and South Asian Economies: Some Regional Contrasts, 1600–1800.- 12. Unification and Adaptation, the Early Shogunate and Dutch Trade Policies.- 13. The Organization of Western European Trade in the Levant, 1500–1800.- IV: Epilogue.- 14. The Companies as a Specific Institution in the History of European Expansion.- Notes on the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThe present work is aimed at filling a hiatus in the literature dealing with the Young Hegelians and the early thought of Karl Marx. Despite the prevalent view in the past few decades that Bruno Bauer played an important part in the radical activity of Hegel's young disciples in the eighteen forties in Germany, no comprehensive work has so far been published on the relations between Bauer and Marx. In 1927 Ernst Bar­ nikol promised to write a monograph on the subject, but he never did. For the purpose of this study I perused material in numerous library collections and I would like to express my gratitude to the staff of the following institutions: Tel Aviv University Library, the Library and Archive of the International Institute of Social History in Am­ sterdam, the Heidelberg University Library, the Library of Gottingen University, the Tiibingen University Library, Frankfurt University Library, the State Library at Marburg, the Manuscript Department of the State Archives in Berlin.Table of ContentsOne Bruno Bauer as a Young Hegelian.- I. The problem.- II. Literature on Bruno Bauer.- III. Bauer’s life until the publication of Strauss’ Leben Jesu.- IV. The split in the Hegelian school — emergence of the Young Hegelians.- V. Bruno Bauer as a theologian and critic of Strauss.- VI. Bauerian Critique of the Gospels.- VII. Bruno Bauer as commentator on Hegel.- VIII. Bauer’s conception of religion and history.- IX. Bauer’s political conception.- Two Karl Marx and Bruno Bauer.- I. The personal relations and literary collaboration between Bauer and Marx.- II. Bauerian motifs in Marx’s conception of religion.- III. Bauer’s influence on Marx’s dissertation.- IV. Bauerian motifs in Marx’s conception of alienation.- V. The impact of Bauerian ideas on Marx’s conception of ideology.- VI. Marx, Feuerbach, Bauer.- VII. The polemic between Marx and Bauer.

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Book SynopsisMany historians have concerned themselves with the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the means used to unite the disparate sections of Germany, many of which had older traditions than did Bismarck's Prussia. Understandably writers have given more attention to the victor than to the vanquished. Except for polemicists who seek to prove the wrong done or to vindicate the action taken, scholars have been interested in writing about trends which were to become significant in the new Reich, about the new governmental structure itself, and about the diplomacy and statesmanship which were used to form the new German nation-state. But the consolidation of many diverging strands of political, economic, and social traditions in the new state left many issues unsolved and in fact seemed to create new ones. Many of these problems, while not overtly affecting the basic outline of German history, have nonetheless influenced it and have become at times serious matters of concern for the Reich Chancellor. One of the problems was the threat of particularist sentiment to the national unity which Bismarck was trying to create. Although there was an awareness among some nineteenth century Ger­ mans of a specific German nationality, the majority of people did not think in terms of a German unity but regarded themselves as Bavarians, Saxons, or belonging to some other Stamm, or tribal subdivision of the Germans.Table of ContentsI. The Kingdom of Hanover and the Guelphs.- II. 1866.- III. Prussian Negotiations with King George 1866–1871.- IV. Guelph Subversive Activities.- V. Guelph Parliamentary Activities.- VI. Bismarck and the Guelph Dynasty 1871–1890.- VII. Bismarck and the New Province.- VIII. Bismarck and the Secret Uses of the Guelph Fund.- Conclusions.- Map 1 — Historical Development of the Kingdom of Hanover.- Map 2 — Electoral Districts in the Province of Hanover 1867–1918.- Map 3 — Administrative Divisions in the Province of Hanover 1867–1884.- Map 4 — Administrative Divisions in the Province of Hanover 1884–1890.

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Book SynopsisAnyone making a study of the causes that led to the fall of the Chinese mainland into Communist hands will have to examine the long struggles between the two major rival parties in China, the Nationalists or the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communists. As the author once took a personal part in those struggles, he has assumed the task of giving an account of the facts as known to him. Some of the intricate events recorded in the following pages may be little known to the outside world or have not yet been revealed by others. What he has put down here has been carefully checked by him and is all backed up by firsthand sources. For example, on the eve of the March 19, 1926 Chungshan gunboat incident at Canton, an incident in which the Communists had plotted to kidnap General Chiang Kai-shek, then Commandant of the Whampoa Military Academy, someone had asked the General himself in person whether he was going back to Whampoa that day. Three telephone calls were made asking this question. In making a report of the incident after it was over, General Chiang did not identify who the individual was who was so persistent in ascertaining the General's movements on that momentous day, nor did he ever breathe a word of it even to his closest aides. Up to now few people know for sure who the person might have been.Table of ContentsI. Dr. Sun’s Policy of Aligning with Soviet Russia and Admitting Chinese Communists to Kuomintang Membership.- II. Why Did the Third International Order Chinese Reds to Become Members of the Kuomintang?.- III. The Kuomintang after Admitting Chinese Reds to its Membership.- IV. Purging of the Party and Stoppage of Kuomintang Communist Cooperation.- V. Armed Uprisings and the Trek to Yenan.- VI. Direct Talks Between the Kuomintang and the Communists.- VII. American Mediation and the Political Consultative Conference.- VIII. Peace Talks During the Acting-Presidency of Li Tsung-Jen`.

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Book SynopsisGalileo is revered as one of the founders of modern science primarily because of such discoveries as the law of falling bodies and the moons of Jupiter. In addition to his scientific achievements, Professor Pitt argues that Galileo deserves increased attention for his contributions to the methodology of the new science and that his method retains its value even today. In a detailed analysis of Galileo's mature works, Pitt reconstructs crucial features of Galileo's epistemology. He shows how Galileo's methodological insights grow out of an appreciation of the limits of human knowledge and he brings fresh insight to our concept of Galileo's methodology and its implications for contemporary debates. Working from Galileo's insistence on the contrast between the number of things that can be known and the limited abilities of human knowers, Pitt shows how Galileo's common sense approach to rationality permits the development of a robust scientific method. At the same time, Pitt argues that we should correct our picture of Galileo, the culture hero. Instead of seeing him as a martyr to the cause of truth, Galileo is best understood as a man of his times who was responding to a variety of social pressures during a period of intellectual and political turmoil. This book will be of interest to philosophers and to historians and sociologists of science as well as to a general readership interested in the scientific revolution. Table of ContentsPreface. I. Galileo as Scientist and as Philosopher and the Emergence of Mathematical Physics in the 17th Century. II. Galileo on God, Mathematics, Certainty, and the Nature and Possibility of Human Knowledge. III. The Limits of Knowledge; Mathematics and Methodological Principles. IV. The Content of Knowledge. V. Evidence; the Basis of Knowledge. VI. Galileo's Epistemology as the Basis for a Theory of the Growth of Knowledge. Works Consulted.

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Book SynopsisMURIEL MCCARTHY This volume originated from a seminar organised by Richard H. Popkin in Marsh's Library on July 7-8, 1994. It was one of the most stimulating events held in the Library in recent years. Although we have hosted many special seminars on such subjects as rare books, the Huguenots, and Irish church history, this was the first time that a seminar was held which was specifically related to the books in our own collection. It seems surprising that this type of seminar has never been held before although the reason is obvious. Since there is no printed catalogue of the Library scholars are not aware of its contents. In fact the collection of books by late seventeenth and early eighteenth century European authors on, for example, such subjects as biblical criticism, political and religious controversy, is one of the richest parts of the Library's collections. Some years ago we were informed that of the 25,000 books in Marsh's at least 5,000 English books or books printed in England were printed between 1640 and 1700.Table of ContentsIntroduction; M. McCarthy. 1. Two Treasures of Marsh's Library; R.H. Popkin. 2. Queen Christina's Latin Sefer-ha-Raziel Manuscript; S. Åkerman. 3. Henry More, Anne Conway and the Kabbalah: A Cure for the Kabbalistic Nightmare; S. Hutton. 4. Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists: Philosemites or Antisemites? A.P. Coudert. 5. The Prehistoric English Bible; D.S. Katz. 6. Apocrypha Canon and Criticism from Samuel Fisher to John Toland, 1650-1718; J.A.I. Champion. 7. `Liberating the Bible from Patriarchy': Poullain de la Barre's Feminist Hermeneutics; R. Whelan. 8. Faith and Reason in the Thought of Moise Amyraut; D.M. Clarke. 9. Descartes and Immortality; D. Berman. 10. Spinoza and Cartesianism; T. Verbeek. 11. La religion naturelle et révélée philosophie et théologie: Louis Meyer, Spinoza, Regner de Mansvelt; J. Lagrée. 12. Stillingfleet, Locke and the Trinity; G.A.J. Rogers. 13. `The Fighting of Two Cocks on a Dung-hill': Stillingfleet versus Sergeant; B.C. Southgate. 14. Limborch's Historia Inquisitionis and the Pursuit of Toleration; L. Simonutti. Index.

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Book SynopsisSoon after the publication of my"Ontwakende W etenschap"the need for an English translation was felt. We were very glad to find a translator fully familiar with the English and Dutch languages and with mathematical terminol· ogy. The publisher, Noordhoff, had the splendid idea to ask H. G. Beyen, professor of archeology, for his help in choosing a nice set of illustrations. It was a difficult task. The illustrations had to be both instructive and attractive, and they had t~ illustrate the history of science as well as the general background of ancient civilization. The publisher encouraged us to find better and still better illustrations, and he ordered photographs from all over the world, with never failing energy and enthusiasm. Mr. Beyen's highly instructive subscripts will help the reader to see the inter· relation between way of living, art, and science of the ancient world. Thanks are due to many correspondents, who have suggested additions and pointed out errors. Sections on Astrolabes and Stereographte Projection and on Archimedes' construction of the heptagon have been added. The sections on Perspective and on the Anaphorai of Hypsicles have been enlarged. In the second English edition I have incorporated an important discovery of P. Huber, which sheds new light upon the role of geometry In Babylonian algebra (see p. 73). The section on Heron's Metrics (see p. 277) was written anew, follOWing a suggestion of E. M. Bruins. Zurich. 1961 B. L.Table of ContentsI. The Egyptians.- Chronological Summary.- The Egyptians as the “inventors” of geometry.- The Rhind papyrus.- For whom was the Rhind papyrus written?.- The class of royal scribes.- The technique of calculation.- Multiplication.- Division.- Natural fractions and unit fractions.- Calculation with natural fractions.- Further relations between fractions.- Duplication of unit fractions.- Division once more.- The (2: n) table.- The red auxiliaries.- Complementation of a fraction to 1.- “Aha-calculations”.- Applied calculations.- The development of the computing technique.- Hypothesis of an advanced science.- The geometry of the Egyptians.- Inclination of oblique planes.- Areas.- Area of the hemisphere.- Volumes.- What could the Greeks learn from the Egyptians?.- II. Number systems, digits and the art of computing.- The sexagesimal system.- How did the sexagesimal system originate?.- Oldest Sumerian period (before 3000 B.C.).- Later Sumerian period (about 2000 B.C.).- Sumerian technique of computation.- Table of 7 and of 16,40.- Normal table of inverses.- Squares, square roots and cube roots.- The Greek notation for numbers.- Counting boards and counting pebbles.- Calculation with fractions.- Sexagesimal fractions.- Hindu numerals.- Number systems; Kharosti and Brahmi.- The invention of the positional system.- The date of the invention.- Poetic numbers.- Aryabhata and his syllable-numbers.- Where does the zero come from?.- The triumphal procession of the Hindu numerals.- The abacus of Gerbert.- III. Babylonian mathematics.- Chronological summary.- Babylonian algebra.- First example (MKT I, p. 113).- Interpretation.- Second example (MKT I, p. 280).- Third example (MKT I, p. 323).- Fourth example (MKT I, p. 154).- Fifth example (MKT III, p. 8, no. 14).- Quadratic equations (MKT III, p. 6).- Sixth example (MKT III, p. 9, no. 18).- Seventh example (MKT I. p. 485).- Eighth example (MKT I, p. 204).- Geometrical proofs of algebraic formulas?.- Ninth example (MKT I, p. 342).- A lesson-text (MKT II, p. 39).- Babylonian geometry.- Volumes and areas.- Frustra of cones and of pyramids (MKT, pp. 176 and 178).- The “Theorem of Pythagoras” (MKT II, p. 53).- Babylonian theory of numbers.- Progressions (MKT I, p. 99).- Plimpton 322: Right triangles with rational sides.- Applied mathematics.- Summary.- Greek Mathematics.- IV. The age of Thales and Pythagoras.- Chronological summary.- Hellas and the Orient.- Thales of Milete.- Prediction of a solar eclipse.- The geometry of Thales.- From Thales to Euclid.- Pythagoras of Samos.- The travels of Pythagoras.- Pythagoras and the theory of harmony.- Pythagoras and the theory of numbers.- Perfect numbers.- Amicable numbers.- Figurate numbers.- Pythagoras and geometry.- The astronomy of the Pythagoreans.- Summary.- The tunnel on Samos.- Antique measuring instruments.- V. The golden age.- Hippasus.- The Mathemata of the Pythagoreans.- The theory of numbers.- The theory of the even and the odd.- Proportions of numbers.- The solution of systems of equations of the first degree.- Geometry.- “Geometric Algebra”.- Why the geometric formulation?.- Lateral and diagonal numbers.- Anaxagoras of Clazomenae.- Democritus of Abdera.- Oenopides of Chios.- Squaring the circle.- Antiphon.- Hippocrates of Chios.- Solid geometry in the fifth century, and Perspective.- Democritus.- Cone and pyramid.- Plato on solid geometry.- The duplication of the cube.- Theodorus of Cyrene.- Theodorus and Theaetetus.- Theodorus on higher curves and on mixtures.- Hippias and his Quadratrix.- The main lines of development.- VI. The century of Plato.- Archytas of Taras.- The duplication of the cube.- The style of Archytas.- Book VIII of the Elements.- The Mathemata in the Epinomis.- The duplication of the cube.- According to Menaechmus.- Theaetetus.- Analysis of Book X of the Elements.- The theory of the regular polyhedra.- The theory of proportions in Theaetetus.- Eudoxus of Cnidos.- Eudoxus as an astronomer.- The exhaustion method.- The theory of proportions.- Theaetetus and Eudoxus.- Menaechmus.- Dinostratus.- Autolycus of Pitane.- On the rotating sphere.- On the rising and setting of stars.- Euclid.- The “Elements”.- The “Data”.- On the division of figures.- Lost geometrical writings.- Euclid’s work on applied mathematics.- VII. The Alexandrian Era (330–200 B.C.).- Aristarchus of Samos.- Archimedes’ measurement of the circle.- Tables for the lengths of chords.- Archimedes.- Stories about Archimedes.- Archimedes as an astronomer.- The works of Archimedes.- The “Method”.- The quadrature of the parabola.- On sphere and cylinder I.- On sphere and cylinder II.- On spirals.- On conoids and spheroids.- The notion of integral in Archimedes.- The book of Lemmas.- The construction of the regular heptagon.- The other works of Archimedes.- Eratosthenes of Cyrene.- Life.- Chronography and measurement of a degree.- Duplication of the cube.- Theory of numbers.- Medieties.- Nicomedes.- The trisection of the angle.- The duplication of the cube in Nicomedes.- Apollonius of Perga.- The theory of the epicycle and of the excenter.- Conica.- The conic sections before Apollonius.- The ellipse as a section of a cone according to Archimedes.- How were the symptoms derived originally?.- A question and an answer.- The derivation of the symptoms according to Apollonius.- Conjugate diameters and conjugate hyperbolas.- Tangent lines.- The equation referred to the center.- The two-tangents theorem and the transformation to new axes.- Cones of revolution through a given conic.- The second book.- The third book.- Loci involving 3 or 4 straight lines.- The fifth book.- The sixth, seventh and eighth books.- Further works of Apollonius.- VIII. The decay of Greek mathematics.- External causes of decay.- The inner causes of decay.- 1. The difficulty of geometric algebra.- 2. The difficulty of the written tradition.- The commentaries of Pappus of Alexandria.- The epigones of the great mathematicians.- 1. Diocles.- The cissoid.- 2. Zenodorus.- Isoperimetric figures.- 3. Hypsicles.- The fourteenth book of the Elements.- Anaphora.- History of trigonometry.- Plane trigonometry.- Spherical trigonometry.- Menelaus.- Transversal proposition.- Heron of Alexandria.- Metrics.- Diophantus of Alexandria.- Arithmetica.- Diophantine equations.- The precursors of Diophantus.- Connection with Babylonian and Arabic algebra.- The algebraic symbolism.- From Book II.- From Book III.- From Book IV.- From Book V.- From Book VI.- Pappus of Alexandria.- A porism of Euclid.- The theorem on the complete quadrangle.- Theorem of Pappus.- Theon of Alexandria.- Hypatia.- The Athens school. Proclus Diadochus.- Isidore of Milete and Anthemius of Tralles.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive text on the history of color theories since Halbertsma's book of 1947. Color is discussed in close connection with the evolution of ideas of light and vision. The book has chapters on the ancient Greek ideas of vision and color; on the contributions of Arabic science; on the Scientific Revolution from Kepler to Newton; on the early history of the three-color hypothesis; on the trichromatic theory and defective color vision; and on Goethe's, Schopenhauer's and Hering's theories. New understanding of the structure and functions of the retina and the brain finally results in the modern science of color vision. A History of Color has been written for ophthalmologists, optometrists and others who are interested in visual science and its history. The book requires no specialized knowledge.Table of ContentsI. Color Theory in the Ancient World. II. The Middle Ages. III. The Renaissance. IV. Light, Color and Vision During the Scientific Revolution. V. Newton. VI. From Newton to Young. VII. Classical-Romantic Colour Theory in Germany. VIII. Disorders of Color Vision. IX. The Mixing of Color. X. The Trichromatic Theory. XI. Hering's Four-Color Theory and the Zone Theories. XII. Anatomy and Physiology of the Visual System Between 1600 and 1900. XIII. The Twentieth Century. Appendix and Synopsis: What is Color? Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe writing of history used to concentrate on narrative, analysis or theory. The historian stayed out of sight. This book is part of a more recent trend. Here, Susanna Hoe discusses her relationship to her material, the processes of research and writing, and her characters. She does so by exploring and sometimes comparing, the lives of Chinese and western women who have lived in China, Hong Kong and Macau, and links them not only to herself but also to contemporary women's issues, human rights and colonialism. "Chinese Footprints" is about the practice of history. The approach and style make it both accessible and teachable. The characters include 1930's civil and women rights campaigners Shi Liang, China's Minister of Justice 1949 to 1959, Agnes Smedley and Stella Benson, autobiographical writer Xiao Hong, revolutionary Soong Ching Ling, traveller Ella Maillart, philanthropist Clara Ho Tung, and Clara Elliot, who was part of the story of Hong Kong's cession to Britain in 1841.

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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 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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Book SynopsisEmet le-Ya‘akov comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter, who has served the American and international Jewish community with distinction in his roles as a synagogue rabbi, university professor, and public intellectual. These articles, like the honoree, recognize the importance of both history and memory, emphasize the necessity of accuracy in historiography, and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. They are divided into three categories that help frame the discussion around “facing the truths of history”: Textual Traditions, Memory and Making of Meaning, and (Re)Creating a Usable Past. The volume also includes a brief sketch of Schacter’s life and work and a bibliography of his publications.Table of Contents“For Truth Is More Precious than Anything Else” Zev Eleff and Shaul Seidler-FellerBibliography of the Writings of Jacob J. SchacterMenachem ButlerTextual Traditions1. Maimonides’s Mishneh Torah on the Messianic Age: Reactions and Controversies through the AgesDavid Berger2. A New Paradigm of the Jew/Gentile Relationship: Maimonides’s Analysis of the Miẓvah le-HaḥayotoAri Berman3. In the Ecumenical Footsteps of Rabbi Jacob Emden: The Curious Case of Pinchas LapideMark Gottlieb4. Rationalizing Kerei u-Ketiv: Radak’s Methodology in His Biblical CommentariesNaomi Grunhaus5. “The Law Follows the Lenient View in Mourning”: The History and Reconsideration of a Talmudic PrincipleShmuel Hain6. A Community for the Sake of Heaven: Emden’s Understandings of Christianity and IslamSusannah Heschel7. Tosafist Collections in the Writings of Ḥayyim Joseph David Azulai (Ḥida): The Case of Tosefot ShittahEphraim Kanarfogel8. Grandfather and Grandson: Teachers and Interpreters in Hebrew Ben Sira and Greek SirachAri Lamm9. Rabbi Jacob Joshua Falk’s Final Salvo in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy: Ḥarvot ẒurimShnayer Leiman10. The Taboo against “Next Year in Jerusalem” in the American Haggadah (1837–1942)Jonathan D. Sarna11. Twentieth-Century American Orthodox Responses to Living in a Malkhut shel ḤesedElana Stein Hain12. Reception of Malachi’s Temple Critique in JudaismShlomo Zuckier Memory and the Making of Meaning13. The Last Trial of Jacob Emden: Community, Memory, AuthorityElisheva Carlebach14. Papering Over an Era of American Orthodox Pragmatism: The Case of CollegeZev Eleff and Menachem Butler15. Cultural Memory, Spiritual Critique, and PiyyutMichael Fishbane16. “A Faithful Home in Israel”? Jewish Dis/Connections in Contemporary American Jewish LiteratureSylvia Barack Fishman17. Who Is Not a Jew? Notes on the Reception of the Principle “Though He Sinned, He Remains an Israelite”Matt Goldish18. New York Jewish History and Memory: Opportunities and ChallengesJeffrey S. Gurock19. Inscribing Communal Memory: Memorbücher in Early Modern and Modern EuropeDebra Kaplan20. Pilgrims’ Progress? Ḥakham Ẓevi and the History of Visitors to Israel Observing One Day of Yom TovYosie Levine21. Herschel Schacter’s Encounter with Mordecai KaplanRafael Medoff(Re)Creating a Usable Past22. Remember, Research, Commemorate: The (Re)Making of a Holocaust Research InstituteJudith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz23. Prayer in a Time of Pandemic: Loneliness, Liturgy, and Virtual CommunityLois C. Dubin24. Or Nogah and the Uses of History: Blidstein, Petuchowski, and the Diverse Readings of a Nineteenth-Century Reform Halakhic TextDavid Ellenson25. From Rabbiner Doktor to Rabbanit Doctor: Academic Education and the Evolution of Israeli Religious LeadershipAdam S. Ferziger26. Why Was Titus Killed by a Gnat? Reflections on a Rabbinic LegendSteven Fine27. Anchor to Springboard: Uses and Revaluations of Masorah in Medieval AshkenazTalya Fishman28. Ḥasdai Crescas, Royal Courtier: A ReappraisalBenjamin R. Gampel29. The Slifkin Affair: Contexts, Texts, and Subtexts of Israeli and American Orthodox ResponsesBenjamin J. Samuels30. A Guide for Today’s Perplexed? The Changing Face of Maimonidean ScholarshipDavid Shatz31. The Image of the Gra in the Writings of Rabbi Joseph B. SoloveitchikJeffrey R. WoolfContributors

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