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The Catholic University of America Press Irish Nationalists in Boston Catholicism and
Book SynopsisDuring the first quarter of the twentieth century, the intersection of support for Irish freedom and the principles of Catholic social justice transformed Irish ethnicity in Boston. This volume offers a study of that transformation.
£56.25
The Catholic University of America Press The Bishops Burden Reforming the Catholic Church
Book SynopsisOffers a detailed case study of the episcopacy of Cardinal-Bishop Gregorio Barbarigo of Padua (bp. 1664-1697), asking how a dedicated bishop formulated a reform program that sought to achieve the Church's goals.
£56.25
Rutgers University Press The Movies as a World Force American Silent
Book SynopsisThe Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era’s most prestigious film genre, the historical crowd epic. Trade Review"The Movies as a World Force is a significant contribution to the historical study of the American cinema of the silent era, charting an expansive but largely unacknowledged utopian discourse about history, social progress, and the massification of culture that was central to the screen practices of early Hollywood and to various middlebrow projects of linking commercialized culture to the progress of democracy. Friedman does an outstanding job of making visible the contours of this expansive and decidedly anti-modern historical tendency, describing how the cinema was its inspiration and a principal site for its articulation. This book challenges us to rethink our understanding of the emergent studio system and the function of public relations in relation to what were undoubtedly widespread beliefs in the cinema as a spiritual force of global transformation." -- Mark Lynn Anderson * author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America *"Recommended." * Choice *"The Movies as a World Force is a significant contribution to the historical study of the American cinema of the silent era, charting an expansive but largely unacknowledged utopian discourse about history, social progress, and the massification of culture that was central to the screen practices of early Hollywood and to various middlebrow projects of linking commercialized culture to the progress of democracy. Friedman does an outstanding job of making visible the contours of this expansive and decidedly anti-modern historical tendency, describing how the cinema was its inspiration and a principal site for its articulation. This book challenges us to rethink our understanding of the emergent studio system and the function of public relations in relation to what were undoubtedly widespread beliefs in the cinema as a spiritual force of global transformation." -- Mark Lynn Anderson * author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion 1 Enlightened Public Opinion: Post-Reform Progressivism, Mental Science, and Gerald Stanley Lee’s “Moving-Pictures” 2 “The Occult Elements of Motion and Light”: Vachel Lindsay’s Utopia of the Mirror Screen 3 “The Motion Picture Is War’s Greatest Antidote”: Rescue as Release of Force in D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance 4 “Everything Wooed Everything”: The Triumph of Morale Over Moralism in Rupert Hughes’s Souls for Sale 5 “Little Grains of Sand”: Positive Thinking and Corporate Form in Douglas Fairbanks’s The Thief of Bagdad Conclusion: Universal History and the Historicity of Film Entertainment Notes Index
£26.99
Rutgers University Press The Movies as a World Force American Silent
Book SynopsisThe Movies as a World Force is the first analysis of utopian cinema writing; situating it in its proper intellectual contexts, theology, and political philosophy; and illustrating the ways in which its utopian imagination shapes and is shaped by the era’s most prestigious film genre, the historical crowd epic. Trade Review"The Movies as a World Force is a significant contribution to the historical study of the American cinema of the silent era, charting an expansive but largely unacknowledged utopian discourse about history, social progress, and the massification of culture that was central to the screen practices of early Hollywood and to various middlebrow projects of linking commercialized culture to the progress of democracy. Friedman does an outstanding job of making visible the contours of this expansive and decidedly anti-modern historical tendency, describing how the cinema was its inspiration and a principal site for its articulation. This book challenges us to rethink our understanding of the emergent studio system and the function of public relations in relation to what were undoubtedly widespread beliefs in the cinema as a spiritual force of global transformation." -- Mark Lynn Anderson * author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America *"Recommended." * Choice *"The Movies as a World Force is a significant contribution to the historical study of the American cinema of the silent era, charting an expansive but largely unacknowledged utopian discourse about history, social progress, and the massification of culture that was central to the screen practices of early Hollywood and to various middlebrow projects of linking commercialized culture to the progress of democracy. Friedman does an outstanding job of making visible the contours of this expansive and decidedly anti-modern historical tendency, describing how the cinema was its inspiration and a principal site for its articulation. This book challenges us to rethink our understanding of the emergent studio system and the function of public relations in relation to what were undoubtedly widespread beliefs in the cinema as a spiritual force of global transformation." -- Mark Lynn Anderson * author of Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America *"Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Motion Pictures and Modern Communion 1 Enlightened Public Opinion: Post-Reform Progressivism, Mental Science, and Gerald Stanley Lee’s “Moving-Pictures” 2 “The Occult Elements of Motion and Light”: Vachel Lindsay’s Utopia of the Mirror Screen 3 “The Motion Picture Is War’s Greatest Antidote”: Rescue as Release of Force in D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance 4 “Everything Wooed Everything”: The Triumph of Morale Over Moralism in Rupert Hughes’s Souls for Sale 5 “Little Grains of Sand”: Positive Thinking and Corporate Form in Douglas Fairbanks’s The Thief of Bagdad Conclusion: Universal History and the Historicity of Film Entertainment Notes Index
£105.40
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Language of Flowers A History
Book SynopsisTraces the phenomenon of ascribing sentimental meaning to floral imagery from its beginnings in Napoleonic France through its later transformations in England and America. At the heart of the book is a depiction of what the three most important flower books from each of the countries divulge about the period and the respective cultures.
£44.96
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Vulgarization of Art The Victorians and Aesthetic Democracy
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Tree of Liberty Cultural Legacies of the Haitian
Book SynopsisArgues that the Haitian Revolution nonetheless had an enduring cultural and political impact, particularly on peoples and communities that have been marginalized in the historical record and absent from the discourses of Western historiography. This book interrogates the literary, historical, and political discourses that the Revolution produced.Trade ReviewAn interesting and engaging collection. Tree of Liberty unites in a single volume the most recent, cutting-edge scholarship.... The book will no doubt become an important resource for anybody who teaches and studies issues relating to the Haitian Revolution, anticolonial struggles and post-colonialism, racial politics in the Americas, and francophone literatures. - Sibylle Fischer, New York University, author of Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution
£21.80
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Vulgarization of Art The Victorians and
Book SynopsisIn this major reinterpretation of the Victorian Aesthetic Movement, Linda Dowling argues that such classic works of Victorian art writing such as Ruskin's Stones of Venice of Morris's Lectures on Art or Wilde's Critic as Artist become wholly intelligible only within the larger ideological context of the Whig aesthetic tradition.
£28.76
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskells Work
£27.50
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Victorian Serial
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Eighteenth Centuries Global Networks of Enlightenment
Book SynopsisDuring the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In this volume scholars address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period's breadth and depth.
£32.25
University of Virginia Press Black Cosmopolitans
Book SynopsisExamining the lives and thought of three extraordinary black men - Jacobus Capitein, Jean-Baptiste Belley, and John Marrant - Christine Levecq argues that the eighteenth-century Atlantic world fostered an elite of black thinkers who took advantage of surrounding ideologies to spread a message of universal inclusion and egalitarianism.
£36.05
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Sapphic Crossings
Book SynopsisReveals how various British texts from the eighteenth century associate female cross-dressing with the possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire.
£25.60
MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Mind over Matter Memory Fiction from Daniel
Book SynopsisHow do we understand memory in the early novel? Departing from traditional empiricist conceptualizations of remembering, Mind over Matter uncovers a social model of memory in Enlightenment fiction that is fluid and evolving - one that has the capacity to alter personal histories.
£31.30
Wayne State University Press Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
Book SynopsisChallenges the notion that there is an unproblematic connection between Holocaust memory and the discourse of anti-racism. Through diverse case studies, this volume historicizes how the Holocaust has shaped engagement with racism from the 1940s until the present, demonstrating that contemporary assumptions are neither obvious nor inevitable.
£29.96
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Einsteins Pacifism and World War I
Book SynopsisTo understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein's thoughts in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation, to a kind of bleak endurance.
£23.36
Facts On File Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment Facts on File
Book SynopsisContaining several hundred authoritative entries covering all aspects of the Chicago Renaissance, this A-to-Z reference provides a detailed look at a group of writers and poets with ties to Chicago whose influence spread throughout the United States and whose visionary works revolutionized American literature in the early part of the 20th century.Trade Review...a starting point for general readers and students seeking an encounter with ideas and questions of a historical period. This encyclopedia succeeds in serving casual browsing and light immersion in the topics treated and is recommended for collections primarity serving undergraduate and general readers. - Choice; ""This philosophical, political, and scientific movement finally has its own one-volume encyclopedia."" - Booklist; ""The articles are written with the general public in mind but provide enough general information for the student as well...Recommended."" - Reference Book Review
£67.60
University of Arizona Press A Quiet Victory for Latino Rights
£24.71
University of Minnesota Press American Interests and Policies in the Middle
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£42.50
University of Minnesota Press Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty
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£42.50
The University of Alabama Press Taxing Blackness
Book SynopsisDuring the eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of free descendants of Africans in Mexico faced a highly specific obligation to the Spanish crown, a tax based on their genealogy and status. This book examines this tribute to explore the meanings of race, political loyalty, and legal privileges within the Spanish colonial regime.Trade ReviewAn important study of the internal workings of the late eighteenth-century Spanish viceroyalties, exposing how racial specificity faded away in light of more pressing concerns regarding collecting as much tribute as possible. This book provides new perspectives on the history of race and class, demonstrating that physiognomy and phenotype did not overtake lineage."" - Nicole von Germeten, author of Black Blood Brothers: Confraternities and Social Mobility for Afro-Mexicans and Violent Delights, Violent Ends: Sex, Race, and Honor in Colonial Cartagena de IndiasTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Tribute and Calidad in the Spanish Empire Chapter 2. Revitalization and Reaction: Afromexican Tribute before 1763 Chapter 3. Sons of Hidalgos or Ringleaders of the Indians? Defining Tributary Genealogies Chapter 4. Imperial Knowledge and the Expansion of Tribute Chapter 5. Mapping Community on the Afromexican Tribute Register Chapter 6. Genealogy and Disputed Tributary Status Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
£46.46
The University of Alabama Press Outpost Kelly A Tankers Story Alabama Fire Ant
Book SynopsisIn the second year of the Korean War, Jack Siewert commanded a platoon of five M-46 tanks. Temporarily assigned to provide fire support for an infantry battalion on the front, he eventually found himself in the midst of intense fighting for a relatively unknown and unimportant hill, code named Outpost Kelly. This work is his memoir.Trade ReviewIn Outpost Kelly: A Tanker's Story, Jack Siewert provides a gripping tale of three weeks in July 1952 when his tank platoon finds itself performing an uncharacteristic task. While frequently undergoing enemy mortar attack, they are plagued by monsoon conditions and play a crucial role in the struggle against the Chinese for control of an important outpost. - M. K. Barbier, author of Kursk: The Greatest Tank Battle 1943
£19.76
University of Alabama Press This War So Horrible
Trade ReviewWilliams's writings are quite compelling and interesting. The author not only tells us what happened but includes his own personal feelings at the time. It also fills a void in our knowledge of the duties of the Pioneer units in the Southern Armies. - Confederate Veteran
£19.76
The University of Alabama Press Reagan and Public Discourse in America
Trade ReviewReagan and Public Discourse in America offers a clear explanation of how President Reagan achieved popularity and policy success through rhetoric. Those who may never have understood Reagan's popularity will comprehend it after reading this collection. - Loyola Magazine
£30.56
LUP - University of Georgia Press Gender Race and Rank in a Revolutionary Age The
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the often complicated ways in which ethnicity and social rank interacted to determine the relationships that were forged among four categories of women in the Revolutionary and early National Georgia Lowcountry.
£138.17
LUP - University of Georgia Press Stand By Me The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
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£28.79
LUP - University of Georgia Press Conflict Dynamics Civil Wars Armed Actors and
Book SynopsisPresents case studies of Sierra Leone, the Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. The authors examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups involved, by focusing on the context of the relationships involved, the capacities of the conflict's participants, and the actors' goals.
£33.98
University of Pittsburgh Press Andean Wonder Drug The
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£52.14
University of Pittsburgh Press The American People and the National Forests
Book SynopsisA history of the role of American society in shaping the policies of the United States Forest Service.
£38.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Emergence Of Modern Jewish Politics The Bundism And Zionism In Eastern Europe Russian and East European Studies
Book SynopsisNew in Paper Collection of essays by prominent historians, political scientists, and professors of literature that examine the political, social, and cultural impact of Zionism and Bundism on Jewish society.
£37.95
University of Pittsburgh Press The Rise and Fall of Khoqand 17091876
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709-1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley.Trade ReviewSeldom have I read a history of modern Central Asia so beautifully written, clearly constructed, and deeply researched. Levi’s fine prose, wit and, erudition make this manuscript a readable, original, and endlessly interesting work. Levi’s book is a welcome addition to the increasingly rich historiography of Central Asia and it deserves the very highest praise."" - Paolo Sartori, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna
£42.63
University of Pittsburgh Press Unintended Affinities
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£48.92
University of Hawai'i Press Twilight Over Burma My Life as a Shan Princess
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn a stirring tribute to a remarkable man and a gripping tale from beginning to end, Sargent reflects back on her loving, cross-cultural marriage to the prince of Hsipaw.... A touching memoir that would read like a fairy tale were it not for the unfortunate ending." —Booklist
£16.96
University of Hawai'i Press Japans Imperial Diplomacy Consuls Treaty Ports and War in China 18951938 Study of the East Asian Institute
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a profile of Japan's pre-war foreign ministry, especially the Chinese specialists within the ministry, who advocated that Japan must adopt policies in harmony with China's rising nationalism and national interests. It examines a range of primary sources.
£27.96
University of Hawai'i Press A Paradise Lost The Imperial Garden Yuanming Yuan
Book SynopsisYuanming Yuan, China's famous imperial garden, is noted for its magnificent architecture and extraordinary history. This is a comprehensive study of the palatial garden complex and a tour of its architecture and history. It refers throughout to maps and models of individual buildings.
£29.56
University of Hawai'i Press The New Shape of Old Island Cultures
Book SynopsisThe years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on over four decades of experience living and working in the region, the author assess the most striking changes to have swept over the islands since the 1950s.
£19.16
University of Hawai'i Press Hawaiis Russian Adventure A New Look at Old History
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£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press The Victim as Hero Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan
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£18.66
University of Hawai'i Press Lords of Things The Fashioning of the Siamese
Book SynopsisLords of Things offers an interpretation of modernity in late 19th and early 20th century Siam by focusing on the novel material possessions and social practices adopted by the royal elite to refashion itself and its public image in the early stages of globalization.
£18.66
University of Hawai'i Press Superfluous Things Material Culture and Social
Book SynopsisCraig Clunas analyses ‘superfluous things’ - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics, carved jade, and other objects owned by the elites of Ming China - and describes contemporary attitudes to them. He informs his discussions with reference to both socio-cultural theory and current debates on eighteenth-century England concerning luxury, conspicuous consumption, and the growth of the consumer society.
£19.16
University of Hawai'i Press Burma at the Turn of the Twentyfirst Century
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£23.16
University of Hawai'i Press Japan and the League of Nations Empire and World Order 19141938
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£45.00
University of Hawai'i Press The Dog Shogun The Personality and Policies of
Book SynopsisTsunayoshi (1646-1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is viewed by many as a tyrant. His Laws of Compassion, which made the maltreatment of dogs an offense punishable by death, earned him the nickname Dog Shogun. This work presents an analysis of Tsunayoshi's background, which sheds new light on his personality and his policies.
£27.16
University of Hawai'i Press Lee Boo of Belau A Prince in London South Seas Book
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£18.66
University of Hawai'i Press The Arts of Kingship Hawaiian Art and National
Book SynopsisOffers an account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalakaua, the cosmopolitan ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. This title provides visual and historical analysis of four key monuments - Kalakaua's coronation and regalia, the King Kamehameha Statue, 'Iolani Palace, and the Hawaiian National Museum.
£45.00
University of Hawai'i Press Divided by a Common Language Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China
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University of Hawai'i Press Natives and Exotics World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific
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University of Hawai'i Press Spreading Protestant Modernity
Book SynopsisExplores the influence of the YMCAâs and YWCAâs work on highly diverse societies in South, Southeast, and East Asia; North America; Africa; and Eastern Europe. The book provides new insights into the evolution of global civil society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and its multifarious, seemingly secular, legacies for todayâs world.
£22.36
