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Kohlhammer Die Merowinger Und Das Frankenreich: Mit
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Kohlhammer Die Ottonen: Konigsherrschaft Ohne Staat
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Kohlhammer Die Karolinger
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Kohlhammer Europa Und Das Reich Im Dreissigjahrigen Krieg:
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Kohlhammer Die Welfen: Herrschaft Und Erinnerung (819-1252)
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Kohlhammer Maximilian I.: Herrscher Und Mensch Einer
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Kohlhammer Die Fugger: Geschichte Einer Augsburger Familie
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Bohlau Verlag Viktor E. Frankl - Gesammelte Werke: Ãber das
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Weltgeschichte Des 20. Jahrhunderts
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Harrassowitz Kurze Geschichte Des Modernen Zypern: 1878-2009
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Brill Schoningh Polens Wilder Westen: Erzwungene Migration Und
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Bucherverzeichnis Zur Deutschen Geschichte:
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Nach Dem Boom: Perspektiven Auf Die
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Grin Verlag Gmbh Die Deutsche Farbstoffindustrie Zur Zeit Des Ersten Weltkriegs. Carl Duisberg Und Die Entstehung Eines Deutschen Chemiekartells
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Scholars' Press Liberia and the U.S., 1917-1947: The Liberia Education Project
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Grin Publishing Katholiken in der DDR: Eine durch
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Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Kaiser Friedrich II., der Hohenstaufe und seine Zeit
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Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Deutsch-Ostafrika
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Peter Hagendorf Tagebuch eines Söldners aus dem
Book SynopsisIn 1988, Jan Peters discovered a diary-like handwriting of a mercenary from the Thirty Years'' War. In 24 years, it covered 22,400 kilometers across Europe. But he did not reveal anything about names, ages or origins. Research into his life is difficult: some of the things that interest us today have not even been recorded. A lot was lost. Only a document in Mühlhausen, Thuringia, clarifies the mercenary''s name: Peter Hagendorf. This volume contains the entire text of the diary. Observations about the writer''s life paths, way of life and values classify his life in the events of the time and provide access to the everyday life of the mercenary. Sober and yet touching, this Peter Hagendorf describes his changing military and family life. An exciting authentic life story and a unique one. Antje Zeiger - Museum of the Thirty Years'' War, Wittstock -
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Edition Riedenburg E.U. Ich war ein Wolfskind aus Königsberg
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Ehv-History Geschichte Des Krieges
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Vero Verlag Der Zusammenbruch des Kaiserreiches
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Editon Synapse Conceptual Origins of Malthus's 'Essays on
Book SynopsisThis six-volume facsimile collection reprints seven publications from the 17th to early 19th century, which conceptually influenced Robert Malthus and his Population - one of the most significant works in the history of thought. All are rare and difficult-to-find texts which have never been reprinted before.Table of ContentsVolume I: The Primitive Origination of Mankind. Volume II: A Six Month’s Tour through the North of England. The Farmer’s Tour through the East of England. The Question of scarcity plainly stated and remedies considered (1800), c.100 pp. Volumes III–V: A Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787. Volume VI: A Philosophical Survey of the Animal Creation. A Letter to the Rev. T.R. Malthus.
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Editon Synapse British Servants - A Collection of Early Guides
Book SynopsisThis five-volume set offers a collection of thirteen guides and companions written for British servants in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The chronologically balanced selection provides a historical perspective on the changes of the roles of servants and their position in British society.Table of ContentsVolume I: The Compleat Court-keeper: or, Land Steward's Assistant. Containing, First, the Nature of Courts-leets and Courts-baron. Volume II: A Present for Servants, from their Ministers, Masters, or other Friends. The Footman’s Friendly Advice to his Brethren of the Livery; and to all Servants in General. The Complete Man and Maid Servant: Containing, Plain and Easy Instructions for Servants of Both Sexes. Johnson’s Present: or, Every Young Woman’s Companion, in Useful and Universal Knowledge. A Present for Servants: Containing Several Useful Articles of Information, for Persons in Dependant Stations of Life; as I. Laws Relating to Servants and Labourers. The Complete Servant Maid. The Servant’s Friend; or, the Master and Mistresses Best Gift to their Servants, Apprentices, and Workmen. Volume III: The Experienced English Housekeeper, for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks. Written Purely from Practice; Domestic Management, or the Art of Conducting a Family; with Instructions to Servants in General. Addressed to Young Housekeepers. Volume IV: The Complete Servant; being a Practical Guide to the Peculiar Duties and Business of all Descriptions of Servants. Volume V: The Servants' Guide and Family Manual: With New and Improved Receipts, Arranged and Adapted to the Duties of all Classes of Servants. The Servants Practical Guide: A Handbook of Duties and Rules.
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Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert S.L.U Las amazonas de España: La hazaña mayor de
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Brill Educating the Catholic People: Religious Orders
Book SynopsisIn Educating the Catholic People, David Salomoni reconstructs the complex educational landscape that arose in sixteenth-century Italy and lasted until the French Revolution. Over three centuries, various religious orders, both male and female, took on the educational needs of cities and states on the Italian peninsula, renewing the traditional humanist pedagogy. Historians, however, have not attempted to produce a synthesis on this topic, focusing mainly on the pedagogical activities of the Jesuits and neglecting the contributions and innovations of other groups. This book addresses this historiographical gap, providing a new chapter in the comparative study of pre-modern education.Table of ContentsList of Maps Introduction 1 State of Research and Historiographical Problems 1 Educating the Modern Catholics?: Roots of Catholic Schools in Renaissance Italy (15th–16th cc.) 1 The Last Phase of Communal Education in Italy 1.1 Complexity of the Renaissance Communal School System 1.2 Weaknesses of the Renaissance Communal School System 2 The Catholicization of Italian Education 2 Historical Paths: The Definition of Pedagogical Identities (16th–17th cc.) 1 Male Religious Orders 1.1 An Educational Benchmark: The Jesuits 1.2 The Barnabites 1.3 The Somascans 1.4 The Piarists 1.5 The Theatines and the Servites 2 Female Religious Orders 2.1 The Ursulines 2.2 The Angelic Sisters and the Guastalla College 2.3 Rosa Venerini and Lucia Filippini: The Pious Teachers 3 Schools and Colleges: Processes of Settlement in Italy and Contiguous Areas 1 From Lombardy to the Kingdom of France 2 Schools for Northern Italy and Small Towns 3 A Congregation for the Large Cities 4 Between Central, Southern and Eastern Europe 5 The Franciscans between Continuity and Rupture 4 Different Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders 1 Public Education Entrusted to Religious Orders and Secular Priests 1.1 Udine and the Barnabites: On the Outskirts of the Peninsula 1.2 Jesuits and Piarists in the Duchy of Modena: A Competition between Local Networks 1.3 Guastalla: A Multi-layered Religious Education for the Community 2 Episcopal Requests 2.1 The Somascans Between Schools and Diocesan Seminaries 3 Other Types of Schools Operated by Religious Orders 3.1 Barnabite Schools Established by Notables and Aristocrats 3.2 The Religious as Private Teachers 3.3 Women, Nuns, Teachers: The ‘Educandato’ of Saint Charles 5 The End of an Educational Season: The Schools of Religious Orders between Scientific and Political Revolutions (17th–18th cc.) 1 The Scientific Culture: Religious Orders on the Eve of Modernity 1.1 Famiano Michelini and the Galilean Piarists 1.2 Baranzano Redento 2 School Reforms in the Age of Enlightenment 2.1 The European Situation 2.2 The Situation in Italy: The Italian States and the Religious Orders 3 Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire
Book SynopsisThis is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 57 sites in Lancashire. Many of these are churches, but there are also domestic halls, museums, and schools. Highlights include important glazing dating from the 14th and 15th centuries at Cartmel Priory; a major window of c.1500 depicting the legend of St Helen at Ashton-under-Lyne; a sixteenth-century Seven Sacraments window at Cartmel Fell; fine imported 15th- and 16th-century continental panels at Chorley; and above all the magnificent but hitherto virtually unknown collection belonging to the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.The introduction discusses many aspects of the stained glass of both Lancashire and the neighbouring county of Cheshire: documentary sources, donors and heraldry, condition, iconography, as well as examining the style and techniques used by the glass-painters. The county''s indigenous surviving glass mostly dates from the 16th century and while it is predominantly heraldic, several sites demonTrade Review[A] substantial and comprehensively illustrated volume...A mine of information and a pleasure to use. * Lawrence Butler, Northern History. *
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Oxford University Press The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire
Book SynopsisThis is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 50 sites in Cheshire. Many of these are churches, but there are also domestic residences and other buildings.Highlights include an important 14th-century regional workshop, probably based in Chester, whose output survives at 9 sites in the county; 16th-century armorials and donors; a fascinating window of 1581 at High Legh which demonstrates the Elizabethan religious settlement; a unique window commemorating the English Civil War; and a plethora of 17th-century quarries depicting a wide range of subjects such as English monarchs, classical sibyls, military drill and menial occupations. The county''s outstanding collections of foreign panels are also catalogued.The stained glass of the neighbouring county of Lancashire appears in CVMA, Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 8, The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire. The introduction discusses many aspects of the stained glass of both counties: documentary sources, donors a
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Oxford University Press Handbook of Jewish Literature from Late Antiquity
Book SynopsisFrom major seminal works like the Mishnah or the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds, to Biblical commentaries, translations of Biblical books into Aramaic or relatively little-known mystical, liturgical or apocalyptic writings, here is a complete guide to the rich tradition of Jewish literature in the second to seventh centuries of the Common Era.Each work is described in a succinct and clearly structured entry which covers its contents, dating, language and accessibility (or otherwise) in print or online.The aim throughout is to cover all of this literature and to answer the following questions. What Jewish literature, written either in Hebrew or Aramaic, has survived? What different genres of such literature are there? What printed texts, or translations into any modern language, or commentaries (either in Hebrew or a European language) are there? And, for those who want to enquire further, what are the manuscripts on which modern editions are based? This handbook will be of value toTrade Reviewthe book can be recommended to first-year students and ancient historians as a first step towards learning Hebrew, studying the texts themselves, and engaging in a more serious study of ancient Jewish history and literature. * Catherine Hezser, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *A small masterpiece of breadth, concision and clarity; it is one of those select books which every library should have, and which a great many individual readers will want to buy for themselves. * William Horbury, Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of Contents1. Historical Introduction ; 2. Talmudic Texts ; 3. Midrashic Texts ; 4. Mystical (Hekhalot) and Magical Literature ; 5. Targumim ; 6. Liturgical Texts ; 7. Historiography ; 8. Apocalyptic ; 9. Contemporary Documents in Hebrew or Aramaic
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Oxford University Press Natural Law and Toleration in the Early
Book SynopsisThe early enlightenment has been seen as an epoch-making period in the development of modern Europe, marking the beginnings of the transition from a ''religious'' to an essentially ''secular'' understanding of human relations and generating in the process new accounts of the relationship between religion and politics, in which the idea of toleration figured centrally. In this volume of essays, leading scholars in the field challenge that view and explore the ways in which some of the most important discussions of toleration in the western tradition were shaped by understandings of natural theology and natural law. Far from representing a shift to non-religious ways of thinking about the world, the essays reveal the extent to which early enlightenment discussions of toleration presupposed a world-view in which God-given natural law established the boundaries between church and state and provided the primary point of reference for understanding claims to religious freedom. The book offerTable of Contents1. Religious Commitment and Secular Reason: Pufendorf on the Separation between Religion and Politics ; 2. Samuel Pufendorf and Religious Intolerance in the Early Enlightenment ; 3. Natural law, Nonconformity and Toleration: Two Stages on Locke's Way ; 4. John Locke and Natural Law: Free Worship and Toleration ; 5. The Tolerationist Programmes of Thomasius and Locke ; 6. Leibniz's Doctrine of Toleration: Philosophical, Theological, and Pragmatic Reasons ; 7. Toleration as Impartiality? Civil and Ecclesiastical Toleration in Jean Barbeyrac ; 8. Natural Rights or Political Prudence? Francis Hutcheson on Toleration ; Postface. The Grounds for Toleration and the Capacity to Tolerate
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Oxford University Press, USA Parliamentary Elections in Russia A
Book SynopsisIn the first long-term analysis of Russian parliamentary elections, Hutcheson explores the country's seven rounds of election since 1993. Through the twists and turns of political reform, he combines official data, primary material and in-depth analysis to investigate the changes in Russia's political system.Trade ReviewHutcheson is clearly well-versed in theoretical work about electoral authoritarianism and about legislatures in more democratic systems. But the strengths of this volume lie not in any kind of theoretical contributions but more in the historical detail of how one particular legislative system became increasingly less competitive. For scholars interested in that story, Parliamentary Elections in Russia is a gold mine. * Ellen Carnaghan, Saint Louis University, Democratization *Overall, the book "Parliamentary Elections in Russia" represents an important contribution to the debate on the evolution of the electoral system and the role of elections in the Russian political system. In fact, the author inserts the parliamentary elections in a wide-ranging context of political change in Russia from the late 1980s until the present day. Hutcheson's study is a masterful work for the originality of the approach adopted and for the depth and completeness of the analysis. * Ilmira Galimova, Nomos: Le attualità nel diritto *For such an empirically rich study with its detailed statistical analysis of election results, voter profiles, party strategies and so on, this is a very readable book, one which is clearly based on many years' experience in the field. * David White, Party Politics *The text is peppered with fascinating details...This book will be of interest to scholars of Russian politics, electoral politics, legislative politics and authoritarianism. By virtue of its breadth and depth, it will be a key resource in understanding an important dimension of the construction of the modern-day Russian political system by a scholar with unmatched knowledge of the intricacies of the Russian electoral system. * B H. Noble, UCL SSEES, Slavonic and East European Review *
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Oxford University Press The Colonial Occupation of Katanga
Book SynopsisClément Brasseur was the officer responsible for initiating the colonial occupation of Katanga in the 1890s. Available in English for the first time, these letters reveal the racist and gendered world inhabited by Brasseur and show that the early colonial experience was as violent in Katanga as in other areas.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Brasseur's Papers and the African Roots of the Congo Free State The Collection Editorial Matters Historical Background The Importance of Brasseur's Correspondence Part I: Settling In (September 1893 - April 1895) Letter 1 Letter 2 Letter 3 Part II: Journeys To the South-West and To Lake Mweru (May - October 1895) Letter 4 Part III: Life at Lofoi I (October 1895 - May 1896) Letter 5 Letter 6 Letter 7 Part IV: Journey to the Upemba Depression (June - November 1896) Letter 8 Letter 9 Part V: Life at Lofoi II (November 1896 - April 1897) Letter 10 Letter 11 Letter 12 Letter 13 Part IV: Journeys to the Lubule & the Upper Lualaba and Luapula Rivers (April - September 1897) Letter 14 Letter 15 Part VII: Last Act (September - November 1897) Letter 16 Letter 17 Maps: Katanga in the 1890s Glossary Onomasticon References Appendix 1: 'Station du Lofoï (Katanga)', September 1894 Appendix 2: The new Lofoi station, 1895 Index
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Oxford University Press A Material History of the Bible England 12001553
Book SynopsisThis book is the first in-depth study of the production and use of Bibles in late medieval and early modern England. Over three and a half centuries, from the nascent universities and Latin Bibles of the thirteenth century to the death of Edward VI in 1553, it puts a new perspective on the advent of moveable type print and religious reform. Based on the analysis of hundreds of biblical manuscripts and prints it reveals how scribes, printers, readers, and patrons have reacted to religious and political turmoil. The material evidence undermines traditional narratives, revealing, for example, evidence of Church worship in English prior to the Reformation, or seeing Henry VIII''s Great Bible as a useless book.Trade ReviewThrough the details and particularities of material history, Poleg reveals, instead, "a more turbid realm of uncertainties and protracted transformation". * Jessica Brantley, Yale University, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *As a cohesive whole, Poleg's work sheds light upon a long period of the Bible in England. Elevated by interesting case studies and contributions to our understanding of lesser-studied Bibles, this work achieves its ambition to address the transformation and gradual dissemination of the English Bible. This enlightening work will appeal to many by making a complex field of research accessible and engaging. It covers a broad chronological period with surety and will find a keen readership amongst historians of English print culture, medievalists and early modernists. * Celyn Richards, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Eyal Poleg's erudite work is an important and innovative contribution to the history of the English Bible. It successfully brings together the study of manuscripts and printed Bibles in a framework that closely attends to layers of material evidence. This evidence reveals complex ways in which producers and readers engaged with their books for a variety of sometimes conflicting theological or commercial motives. Extending the focus to previously little-studied later copies and subsequent reprints/editions is a major strength of the book. * Matti Peikola, Manuscript Studies *...there is much to be learned from the attention to biblical paratexts, and to various scribe', editors', translators', and printers' attempts to parse and package the Bible as a singlevolume text. And Poleg's book may fruitfully be consulted by anyone pursuing research along these lines. * Andrew Kraebel, Church History *This is a quite unique piece of scholarship, embracing not only different periods, but also different disciplines, both of which have hitherto normally been treated in isolation from each other. The mastery of different bibliographies (many of which have grown increasingly long in recent years) and the readiness to ask different questions of different periods and sources are particularly impressive... I am especially struck by the emphasis... put on the liturgical dimensions of the transition, and on the role of the commercial instincts of publishers and printers. [This] volume should be compulsory reading for all traditional historians locked into teleological or binary, confrontational approaches to Wycliffite texts and the Henrician reformation. * Ian Green, Professor of Early Modern History, Queen's University, Belfast. Author of Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England, Oxford University Press. *A Material History of the Bible: England 1200-1553 will edify special collections librarians and archivists...This volume deserves a place on the bookshelf of librarians and archivists. * Jonathan Lawler, RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Figures List of Appendices Preface Acknowledgements Conventions Glossary Introduction 1: The Late Medieval Bible: Beyond Innovation 2: Wycliffite Bibles and the Limits of Orthodoxy 3: The First Printed English Bible(s 4: The Great Bible as a Useless Book 5: Into Fast Forward: The Bibles of Edward VI Conclusion Appendix 1: Innovative LMBs Appendix 2: Editions of the Great Bible in the Reign of Henry VIII Appendix 3: Single-Volume Bibles Printed in the Reign of Edward VI Bibliography Index
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Oxford University Press The Stained Glass of Herkenrode Abbey
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British Academy The Diaries of Anthony AshleyCooper the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury Vol. 1 18251845 Part One Records of Social and Economic History
Book SynopsisThe Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part One demonstrates the emergence of Lord Ashley, the 'Poor Man's Earl', as a passionate evangelical reformer and determined advocate for a range of domestic and international issues and causes.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements Maps Abbreviations Introduction Note on the text A note on references and editorial method A note on language used in the Diary Ashley/Shaftesbury's immediate family A Chronology, 1801-45 The Diary
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British Academy The Diaries of Anthony AshleyCooper the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
Book SynopsisThe Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1801-85): Vol. 1, Part Two covers the period 1843-45 and presents his discussions of topics such as religious questions (including here the intense debates over Tractarianism); industrial working conditions, especially for children; and the work of the lunacy commission.Table of ContentsThe diary, cont. Appendix (Nov. 1834 - Feb. 1842) Index of Persons
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The University of Chicago Press Lies Passions Illusions
Book SynopsisWith strokes at once broad and incisive, this book examines the many different trajectories that nations of the West have followed over the past hundred years. It features a testament to the crucial role of the historian, a reflection on how history is made and lived, and how the imagination is a catalyst for political change.Trade Review"An intellectual and political testament." (Le Spectacle du Monde) "A ghost talks to us of other ghosts, and all of it seems only too present, and even prophetic." (Les Influences)"Table of ContentsTranslator's Note Introduction: Francois Furet and Paul Ricoeur: A Dialogue Interrupted Christophe Prochasson Ideas and Emotions The End of a World? On the Nation: The Universal and the Particular The Socialist Movement, the Nation, and the War The Past and the Future of the Revolution The Historian's Pursuit The Seductions of Bolshevism Critique of Totalitarianism Learning from the Past Notes
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University of Chicago Press Reading the World
Book SynopsisThe thirteenth century saw such a proliferation of new encyclopedic texts that more than one scholar has called in the century of the encyclopedias. In this study, the author examines writings in Latin, Catalan, and French that are connected to the encyclopedic movement.Trade Review"Mary Franklin-Brown has taken on the very difficult task of making the medieval encyclopedia accessible as literature and developed an original and very effective method for doing so. It has required the powers of a sophisticated literary critic together with an art historian's ability to interpret manuscript illustrations and a codicologist's understanding of the layout of the manuscript page. The result is a tour de force." (Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Capital Culture J. Carter Brown the National
Book SynopsisAmerican art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural life of Washington and its visitors as well as for American museums in general. In Capital Culture, distinguished historian Neil Harris provides a wide-ranging look at Brown's achievement and the growth of museum culture during this crucial period. Harris combines his in-depth knowledge of American history and culture with extensive archival research, and he has interviewed dozens of key players to reveal how Brown's showmanship transformed the National Gallery. At the time of the Cold War, Washington itself was growing into a global destination, with Brown as its devoted booster. Harris describes
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The University of Chicago Press Germanys Ancient Pasts Archaeology and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a very fine book, based on rich and deep research. Germany's Ancient Pasts provides a useful synthesis and overview of the development of what Maner calls 'domestic' archaeology, a field that embraces prehistory (Vorgeschichte), proto-history (Fr hgeschichte), and also geology, ethnography, folklore studies, and physical anthropology. Detailing the wide variety of purposes domestic archaeology served in the period of its flourishing (roughly 1820-1914), Maner's book tells an important and nuanced story about why it is that Germans, like other Europeans, became so involved in the excavation, collection, and exhibition of artifacts in the years after Napoleon's demise."--Suzanne L. Marchand, Louisiana State University "author of "German Orientalism in the Age of Empire" and "Down from Olympus" "
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The University of Chicago Press Germanys Ancient Pasts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is a very fine book, based on rich and deep research. Germany's Ancient Pasts provides a useful synthesis and overview of the development of what Maner calls 'domestic' archaeology, a field that embraces prehistory (Vorgeschichte), proto-history (Fr hgeschichte), and also geology, ethnography, folklore studies, and physical anthropology. Detailing the wide variety of purposes domestic archaeology served in the period of its flourishing (roughly 1820-1914), Maner's book tells an important and nuanced story about why it is that Germans, like other Europeans, became so involved in the excavation, collection, and exhibition of artifacts in the years after Napoleon's demise."--Suzanne L. Marchand, Louisiana State University "author of "German Orientalism in the Age of Empire" and "Down from Olympus" "
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The University of Chicago Press Music and the New Global Culture From the Great
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The University of Chicago Press Diagramming Devotion
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Hamburger's deeply learned study highlights the significance of Berthold's endeavor, offering a pathbreaking argument about the diagrammatic disposition of medieval culture. In daring and fruitful juxtapositions, Hamburger shows how medieval and modern times share a strong reliance on diagrams, examining the expressive powers of their relational and processual modes and their claims to making truth in multiple areas of human inquiry. Within a comprehensive interpretative framework, Hamburger's exploration of numerous manuscripts and lavish illustrations extracts new layers of meaning. His analysis sustains a consistently brilliant commentary on the implications of the medieval diagram as a meditational medium, animated by a poignant desire to demonstrate, and not simply to represent, the truth of salvation history."--Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, New York University "Hamburger impressively combines the historical analysis of medieval diagrams with a discussion of modern and contemporary notions of diagrams and the diagrammatic. Diagramming Devotion presents a whole range of fascinating new visual material and broadens the art historical canon in showing how closely diagrammatic and figural modes were linked in medieval visual culture. Hamburger not only demonstrates a profound knowledge of the diagrammatic in medieval imagery but also explores its many multidisciplinary aspects. In considering the personal, emotional, and sometimes even irrational dimensions of diagrams, Hamburger opens new ways to think about the role of diagrams in medieval art and thought. Diagraming Devotion is elegantly written, a pleasure to read, and an important contribution to the field of medieval art history."--Kathrin M ller, Humboldt-Universit t "Hamburger has accomplished a rare feat among twenty-first-century scholars by bringing unknown illuminated manuscripts to light. Acutely sensitive to subtle changes made in Berthold's revision, he locates the novelties in their theological context; and, moving from image to word and from diagrams to theological arguments, Hamburger provides a rich compendium of medieval thought and offers a subtle and complicated analysis of the late thirteenth-century version that engages the most important intellectual issues of the day. Like its subject, Diagramming Devotion is at once profoundly learned and inspiringly original."--Herbert Kessler, author of Experiencing Medieval Art
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The University of Chicago Press Music and the New Global Culture From the Great
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The University of Chicago Press Lives of the Great Languages
Book SynopsisThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Trade Review"Lives of the Great Languages is a keenly original and challenging intervention in the discussion of the life and death of languages. Anyone interested in the history of Arabic language and culture will find it informative and insightful. It is what we need in order to rethink the national and monolingual frame through which we discuss languages, literary traditions, and cultural expressions."--Wen-chin Ouyang, University of LondonTable of ContentsPart I: Group Portrait with Language Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 2: My Tongue Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes Chapter 5: Tracks Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs Part III: Translation and Time Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language Chapter 8: On First Looking into Mattā’s Aristotle Chapter 9: “I Became a Fable” Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 11: Silence Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity Chapter 13: Life Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Lives of the Great Languages Arabic and Latin in
Book SynopsisThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Trade Review"Lives of the Great Languages is a keenly original and challenging intervention in the discussion of the life and death of languages. Anyone interested in the history of Arabic language and culture will find it informative and insightful. It is what we need in order to rethink the national and monolingual frame through which we discuss languages, literary traditions, and cultural expressions."--Wen-chin Ouyang, University of LondonTable of ContentsPart I: Group Portrait with Language Chapter 1: A Poetics of the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 2: My Tongue Chapter 3: A Cat May Look at a King Part II: Space, Place, and the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 4: Territory / Frontiers / Routes Chapter 5: Tracks Chapter 6: Tribal Rugs Part III: Translation and Time Chapter 7: The Soul of a New Language Chapter 8: On First Looking into Mattā’s Aristotle Chapter 9: “I Became a Fable” Chapter 10: A Spy in the House of Language Part IV: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Language Chapter 11: Silence Chapter 12: The Shadow of Latinity Chapter 13: Life Writing Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Power Shifts Congress and Presidential
Book SynopsisThat the president uniquely represents the national interest is a political truism, yet this idea has been transformational, shaping the efforts of Congress to remake the presidency and testing the adaptability of American constitutional government.Trade Review“Read narrowly, Power Shifts shows how notions of ‘presidential representation’ periodically convinced members of Congress to confer new authority and responsibility upon the presidency. More deeply, though, this book interrogates the role of ideas—as distinct from interests—in shaping political debates about institutional reform. Just behind all the partisan wrangling over executive power are long-standing disagreements about the possibilities of presidential leadership. Dearborn reveals their elements and significance for all to see. This book is simply magnificent.” -- William G. Howell, University of Chicago“A book for our age and for ages to come, Power Shifts shows how America’s presidential edifice has been built and sustained by Congress’s twentieth-century wrestling with presidential representation: the metaphor of a single nation anointing a single person. Along the way, Dearborn offers a fresh narrative of the modern executive and a forceful reminder that the life of ideas in politics rests in the institutional changes that embody them.” -- Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University"This is a propulsive book. . . and Dearborn keeps the reader engaged through fascinating details about legislation that Congress passes in the midst of the 20th century that not only sets up policy outcomes but also provides the president with the power to create those outcomes." * New Books Network *"In Power Shifts, John Dearborn provides a very insightful, persuasive, and engaging account of some of the most important congressional activity of the 20th century–namely, legislative efforts to expand or rein in presidential authority and capacity in key policy areas. . . . Through a well-developed argument and an excellent qualitative research design, Dearborn shows that these institutional changes were shaped by prevailing ideas about presidential and congressional decision-making. . . . Dearborn marshals a remarkable array of evidence, including hundreds of contemporaneous statements by members of Congress and opinion leaders, to show convincingly that ideas have shaped the development of the institutional presidency and the power of the two branches." * Congress & the Presidency *"Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation is an ambitious and impressive exploration of 'presidential representation,' the idea that the president will lead in a manner that is best for the entire country because the president represents the whole nation... Throughout the book, Dearborn revisits major congressional policy choices and explains what role presidential representation may have played. He consults a wide range of evidence to support his arguments, including archival documents from several collections." * Political Science Quarterly *"In his remarkable book, Dearborn provides copious primary source evidence to support his thesis, and each of the case studies presents new and important information for understanding one major facet of the expansion of presidential power." * Perspectives on Politics *"John A. Dearborn’s Power Shifts is one of the best books on American political development that I have read in a very long time. His research is well-written, meticulous, and keenly sensitive to the kind of historical and documentary evidence necessary to support his causal claims that the major reforms of the presidency in the 20th century were a function of the power of an idea, presidential representation. Power Shifts goes beyond telling a good story; it is social science at its best. I recommend this book to all interested in American political development, the presidency, the power of ideas, and representation theory; quite a broad audience." * Party Politics *"Dearborn provides a very insightful, persuasive, and engaging account of some of the most important congressional activity of the 20th century. Through a well-developed argument and an excellent qualitative research design, Dearborn shows that these institutional changes were shaped by prevailing ideas about presidential and congressional decision-making." * Congress & The Presidency *Table of ContentsPreface Rethinking a Political Truism 1 Introduction: Legislating Presidential Power 2 Ideas and Political Development Part I Institutional Choice: Creating the Institutional Presidency, 1910–49[TN1] 3 Presidential Budgeting 4 Presidential Economic Policymaking 5 Presidential Reorganization Authority 6 Presidential National Security Authority Part II Institutional Durability: Reconsidering the Institutional Presidency, 1970–84 7 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Budgeting 8 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Economic Policymaking 9 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Reorganization Authority 10 Congressional Pushback against Presidential National Security Authority 11 Conclusion: Ideas and the Politics of Adaptability Acknowledgments Notes Index
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Power Shifts
Book SynopsisThat the president uniquely represents the national interest is a political truism, yet this idea has been transformational, shaping the efforts of Congress to remake the presidency and testing the adaptability of American constitutional government.Trade Review“Read narrowly, Power Shifts shows how notions of ‘presidential representation’ periodically convinced members of Congress to confer new authority and responsibility upon the presidency. More deeply, though, this book interrogates the role of ideas—as distinct from interests—in shaping political debates about institutional reform. Just behind all the partisan wrangling over executive power are long-standing disagreements about the possibilities of presidential leadership. Dearborn reveals their elements and significance for all to see. This book is simply magnificent.” -- William G. Howell, University of Chicago“A book for our age and for ages to come, Power Shifts shows how America’s presidential edifice has been built and sustained by Congress’s twentieth-century wrestling with presidential representation: the metaphor of a single nation anointing a single person. Along the way, Dearborn offers a fresh narrative of the modern executive and a forceful reminder that the life of ideas in politics rests in the institutional changes that embody them.” -- Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University"This is a propulsive book. . . and Dearborn keeps the reader engaged through fascinating details about legislation that Congress passes in the midst of the 20th century that not only sets up policy outcomes but also provides the president with the power to create those outcomes." * New Books Network *"In Power Shifts, John Dearborn provides a very insightful, persuasive, and engaging account of some of the most important congressional activity of the 20th century–namely, legislative efforts to expand or rein in presidential authority and capacity in key policy areas. . . . Through a well-developed argument and an excellent qualitative research design, Dearborn shows that these institutional changes were shaped by prevailing ideas about presidential and congressional decision-making. . . . Dearborn marshals a remarkable array of evidence, including hundreds of contemporaneous statements by members of Congress and opinion leaders, to show convincingly that ideas have shaped the development of the institutional presidency and the power of the two branches." * Congress & the Presidency *"Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation is an ambitious and impressive exploration of 'presidential representation,' the idea that the president will lead in a manner that is best for the entire country because the president represents the whole nation... Throughout the book, Dearborn revisits major congressional policy choices and explains what role presidential representation may have played. He consults a wide range of evidence to support his arguments, including archival documents from several collections." * Political Science Quarterly *"In his remarkable book, Dearborn provides copious primary source evidence to support his thesis, and each of the case studies presents new and important information for understanding one major facet of the expansion of presidential power." * Perspectives on Politics *"John A. Dearborn’s Power Shifts is one of the best books on American political development that I have read in a very long time. His research is well-written, meticulous, and keenly sensitive to the kind of historical and documentary evidence necessary to support his causal claims that the major reforms of the presidency in the 20th century were a function of the power of an idea, presidential representation. Power Shifts goes beyond telling a good story; it is social science at its best. I recommend this book to all interested in American political development, the presidency, the power of ideas, and representation theory; quite a broad audience." * Party Politics *"Dearborn provides a very insightful, persuasive, and engaging account of some of the most important congressional activity of the 20th century. Through a well-developed argument and an excellent qualitative research design, Dearborn shows that these institutional changes were shaped by prevailing ideas about presidential and congressional decision-making." * Congress & The Presidency *Table of ContentsPreface Rethinking a Political Truism 1 Introduction: Legislating Presidential Power 2 Ideas and Political Development Part I Institutional Choice: Creating the Institutional Presidency, 1910–49[TN1] 3 Presidential Budgeting 4 Presidential Economic Policymaking 5 Presidential Reorganization Authority 6 Presidential National Security Authority Part II Institutional Durability: Reconsidering the Institutional Presidency, 1970–84 7 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Budgeting 8 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Economic Policymaking 9 Congressional Pushback against Presidential Reorganization Authority 10 Congressional Pushback against Presidential National Security Authority 11 Conclusion: Ideas and the Politics of Adaptability Acknowledgments Notes Index
£31.00
