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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.
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University of Hawai'i Press Lee Boo of Belau A Prince in London South Seas Book
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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
University of Missouri Press A Tale of Two Colonies
Book SynopsisBernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigues, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. Written for general as well as academic audiences.Trade ReviewIf her title invokes Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859), the allusion is apt. She links the two colonies in a tale of death and resurrection and compares them, often highlighting Virginia's greater struggles."" - The Journal of Southern History""Drawing on new research and her own extensive knowledge of early Virginia and Bermuda, Virginia Bernhard elucidates the colonies' interwoven histories. Along the way, she solves many of the conundrums that have long perplexed scholars and general readers. This is a rich, lively, and reliable narrative and an important contribution to Atlantic studies."" - Alden T. Vaughan, author of Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776""Virginia Bernhard, who has previously published an outstanding book about slavery on Bermuda, offers the reader a gripping story. She relates the fascinating tale of these two critical locales in England's early efforts to build a successful colonial empire. I found myself eagerly turning the pages, particularly because she skillfully guides the reader back and forth between the two colonies, revealing how so many of the people involved were instrumental to both settlements. Her portrayal of the intrigue, the rapid development of factional disputes on both Bermuda and at Jamestown, is well done. The focus is properly on the personalities and how individual decisions made a significant difference."" - Larry Gragg, author of The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class""Many in Bermuda and Virginia, the sites of England's first and second colonies in what became the vast British Empire, and beyond will welcome the appearance of A Tale of Two Colonies. The interaction of the settlers on the edge of a vast continent and in a remote, uninhabited island is a fascinating story that Professor Bernhard, with her long experience of both places and their records, has rendered in delightful and highly readable volume."" - Edward Harris, MBE, National Museum of Bermuda
£31.30
University of Missouri Press Arkansass Gilded Age
Book SynopsisOffers an examination of working-class activism, broadly defined as that of farmers' organisations, labour unions, and political movements, in Arkansas during the Gilded Age. On one level, Hild argues for the significance of this activism in its own time. He also argues that the significance of these movements lasted beyond their own time.Trade ReviewNot only a unique contribution to Arkansas history but also, I think, a significant addition to what we know of protest movements nationally during the late nineteenth century.""- Carl H. Moneyhon, Professor of History, University of Arkansas–Little Rock; author of Arkansas and the New South, 1874–1929
£43.22
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Conflict in Colonial Sonora Indians Priests and
Book SynopsisIn the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groups - Indians, religious orders of priests, and settlers. In this study, Yetman examines seven separate instances of conflict, each of which reveals a different perspective on this complicated world.Trade ReviewYetman has unearthed valuable archival materials that provide us with a new understanding of indigenous-Spanish relations during Sonora's overlooked early colonial period. His work offers valuable insights into the intersections of environmental degradation, resistance, and brutal competition to govern and control scarce resources on Mexico's northern periphery."—Laura Shelton, author of For Tranquility and Order: Family and Community on Mexico's Northern Frontier, 1800-1850"David Yetman has written yet another book to enlighten his readers concerning the indigenous populations of Sonora, Mexico, and the impact on the lives of these people resulting from European intrusion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has delved deeply into rich archival sources to allow this often tragic and maddening story to unfold through the words of Jesuit, Franciscan, military, and political participants as well as those of the few literate farmers and ranchers who ultimately appropriated Indian lands and other resources for their own. No one should be able to read this book without an outpouring of sympathy for the losers in the struggles, nor admiration for those very few who strove for a modicum of justice against overwhelming odds."—Bernard L. Fontana, author of Tarahumara: Where Night Is the Day of the Moon"David Yetman's deep familiarity with the ethnobotany, culture and history of Sonora--especially the area that came to be known as the Opatería--serves him well as a storyteller. He offers imaginatively detailed and colloquial renderings of conflicts among colonizers of different stripes and indigenous groups."—Susan M. Deeds, author of Defiance and Deference in Mexico's Colonial North: Indians Under Spanish Rule in Nueva Vizcaya
£23.36
Jewish Publication Society Westward with Fremont The Story of Solomon
Book SynopsisIn 1853 Solomon Nunes Carvalho, proud descendant of a Sephardic Jewish family, accepted the invitation of Col. John Charles Fremont to accompany him on his fifth expedition of discovery through the Rockies to the Pacific Ocean. Westward with Fremont tells the exciting story of one of the great legendary figures in American Jewish history.Table of ContentsSolomon Carvalho Joins Fremont 1. Invitation to Adventure 2. A Way for the Lord 3. Farewell to Friends 4. Packing for the Journey Eastward from St. Louis 5. St. Louis, September 14, 1853 6. Preparing for the Trail 7. Solomon Carvalho, Great Medicine Man 8. Solomon Carvalho, M.D. 9. The Great Divide 10. New Year’s Day, 1854 Hardships of the Trail 11. On Guard 12. The Oath 13. Lost in the Snows 14. Licked! 15. Put Not Your Trust in Princes 16. Parowan 17. Salt Lake City 18. War or Peace? 19. The Hatred Hornadoes After the Adventure 20. All Israel is Responsible for One Another 21. The Charter 22. Mr. Solomon Nunes Carvalho, Author 23. Free Soil, Free Speech, and Fremont 24. Looking Backward
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Watkins Media Limited Duchamp Versus Einstein
Book Synopsis“Deeply engaging, and cleverly weaves history and chess into a thought provoking tale!” – New York Times bestseller Wesley Chu“A luminous game of chess between art and science that is played across the page with lethal precision.” – John W. Campbell Award-winning Lavie Tidhar Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s archived letters, Duchamp versus Einstein is a science fiction novelette spanning some of the most monumental events of the 20th century, and bringing together two of the most transformative figures of the era in art and science for a surreal chess match that could reshape history. File Under: Science Fiction [ First Encounters Dada Manhattan Project Endgame ]Trade Review"Duchamp Versus Einstein is a marvellously crafted amalgam of art, science and chess, surely no easy task. The tale weaves 20th-century history together with the thread of present-day human predicament. It's your move.""A luminous game of chess between art and science that is played across the page with lethal precision." "Deeply engaging, and cleverly weaves history and chess into a thought provoking tale!"“A thought-provoking read, and at the same time an expansion of chess endgame theory! Only Einstein could save an endgame with just a king against king and queen!”
£7.76
Liverpool University Press Ancrene Wisse Guide for Anchoresses A
Book SynopsisThis early thirteenth-century West Midlands guide for women recluses is not only one of the major works of early Middle English prose, but is also a key document for the development of medieval spirituality.Trade ReviewIt is a text that all students of English Literature should read but which few could in its original language, making a good modern translation an essential to the work’s modern dissemination. Bella Millett’s new translation is extremely valuable for this reason alone, but it is an additional boon in being the fruit of many years’ research on the original Middle English manuscripts by the current leading scholar in the field of Ancrene Wisse studies. Such helpful tools, coupled with the very readable lucid prose in which the entire translation and commentary have been rendered will no doubt be greeted with thanks from the students and non-specialists whom this translation is meant to serve, as well as from the specialists who now have an exceptionally well done translation to use in their classrooms. * English Studies Vol. 92, No. 4 *Table of ContentsPreface to this edition Introduction 1. Ancrene Wisse and its Contexts 2. Sources and Analogues 3. The Form of the Work 4. The Textual History of Ancrene Wisse 5. This Translation Guide for Anchoresses Preface Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Explanatory Notes Bibliography 1. A Note on Further Reading 2. Abbreviations and Short Titles 3. Editions and Secondary Works General Index Scriptural Quotations Index
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Liverpool University Press The Doctrine of the Hert A Critical Edition with
Book SynopsisA critical edition of The Doctrine of the Hert, the fifteenth-century English translation of De doctrina cordis, a thirteenth-century Latin devotional treatise addressed to nuns.Trade ReviewThese two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of The Doctrine of the Hert. Robert Sturges, Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1 * Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1, *Table of ContentsForeword Introduction 1. De doctrina cordis 2. The structure and content of De doctrina cordis 3. Authorship 4. Vernacular versions 5. The Doctrine of the Hert and fifteenth-century English religiosity 6. Themes and images 7. The Doctrine of the Hert as a translation 8. Middle English manuscript descriptions 9. Choice of base manuscript 10. Language and dialect Bibliography Editorial Procedures The Doctrine of the Hert Prologue Capitulum primum Capitulum secundum Capitulum tercium Capitulum quartum Capitulum quintum Capitulum sextum Capitulum septimum Textual Commentary Abbreviated references Additional prefatory notes Prologue Capitulum primum Capitulum secundum Capitulum tercium Capitulum quartum Capitulum quintum Capitulum sextum Capitulum septimum Textual Variants Index to Latin and English Scriptural Quotations Appendices A. Transcription of the 'HV' Prologue from De doctrina cordis B. Table of chapter contents from the 1607 edition of De doctrina cordis Glossary of Middle English Terms
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Liverpool University Press A Companion to The Doctrine of the Hert
Book SynopsisThis book consists of ten essays from an international group of scholars of medieval religion discussing the Middle English text alongside its Latin forebear, and other European vernacular translations (French, German, Spanish and Middle Dutch).Trade ReviewThese volumes ['The Doctrine of the Hert: A Critical Edition with Introduction and Commentary' and 'A Companion to the Doctrine of the Hert'] represent a very significant and welcome contribution to medieval scholarship and will undoubtedly influence much future work on vernacular religious writings. * Medium Ævum, Vol. LXXIX *An unusually coherent collection of essays. * Journal of the Early Book Society *This is an outstanding collection. * Analecta Cartusiana, No 293 *These insightful and rigorous essays, accompanying the new critical edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert', will restore attention to an important family of devotional works. The Companion combines a valuable introduction to this largely neglected group of texts with a particular focus on the Middle English Doctrine. The authors are in productive conversation with each other, and the volume is clearly introduced and nicely cross-referenced. * Ecclesiastical History 63.2, *These two complementary volumes together fill a major gap in the ever-burgeoning fields of late medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality. Students of medieval devotional literature and of medieval women’s spirituality will want to own the Companion as well as the edition of 'The Doctrine of the Hert.’ * Medieval Feminist Forum, 48.1 *This book is a careful and ambitious attempt to cover the whole gamut of Latin and vernacular traditions of the Doctrine of the Hert, and deserves considerable credit as a pioneering work in its field which also manages to be a compendium of everything one needs to know about this text.Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Notes on Editors and Contributors Introduction Denis Renevey, University of Lausanne Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick Part One: De doctrina cordis The Authorship of the De doctrina cordis Nigel Palmer, University of Oxford De doctrina cordis: Catechesis or Contemplation? Christiania Whitehead, University of Warwick Part Two: The Doctrine of the Hert The Doctrine of the Hert: A Middle English Translation of De doctrina cordis Anne Elizabeth Mouron, University of Oxford; 'Comfortable Wordis' - The Role of the Bible in The Doctrine of the Hert Annie Sutherland, University of Oxford Meat, Metaphor and Mysticism: Cooking the Books in The Doctrine of the Hert Vincent Gillespie, University of Oxford The Middle English Doctrine of the Hert and its Manuscript Context Catherine Innes-Parker, University of Prince Edward Island, United States Part Three: European Vernacular Translations The French Translations of De doctrina cordis Anne Elizabeth Mouron, University of Oxford A Middle Dutch Translation of De doctrina cordis: de bouc van der leeringhe van der herten in Vienna, Osterreichischen National Bibliothek, MS 15231 Marleen Cre, University of Antwerp, Belguim De doctrina cordis and fifteenth-century ecclesial reform: Reflections on the context of the German vernacular versions; Karl-Heinz Steinmetz, University of Vienna, Austria The Spanish Translation: Del ensenamiento del coracon (Salamanca, 1498) Anthony John Lappin, University of Manchester Bibliography Index
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Liverpool University Press The Material Culture of Daily Living in the
Book SynopsisA collection which introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to the realities of everyday Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources.Trade Review"The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World is a detailed guide to living the “good life” in Anglo-Saxon England. It is an edited volume of refreshing works that provides a detailed schematic of Anglo-Saxon daily living and the intricacies of everyday tasks. This book highlights activities which may be simple and habitual but which define the traditions and practices of a society.The book provides a balanced examination of both textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of fundamental topics including dress, illness, trade and production. This cleverly structured text provides an extra dimension of material culture, one that discusses the practices and technologies behind creations. The potential literary gap between the disciplines of archaeology and history is bridged with eloquent and thoughtful prose.The layout is sophisticated, defined and easy-to-navigate. The structure and content choice are well selected with nicely linked topics. The well-chosen chapter topics playfully and succinctly examine key areas of Anglo-Saxon material culture and daily life, and the editors have used these to create an interesting taster text for the dedicated Anglo-Saxon student."Rosetta, issue 13'[The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World] comprises fifteen chapters on animals, plants and ‘things'... and they maintain a high standard. There is much of interest here for specialist as well as general readers.'John Blair, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations 1. Introduction: Material Culture and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England Maren Glegg Hyer 2. Prelude: Agriculture Through the Year David Hill 3. The True Staff of Life: The Multiple Roles of Plants C.P.Bigga, 4. Steep Vessel, High Horn-ship: Water Transport Katin Thier 5. 'To eat, to wear, to work': The Place of Sheep and Cattle in the Economy Christopher Grocock 6. Devil's Crafts and Dragon's Skins? Sheaths, Shoes and Other Leatherwork Esther Cameron and Quita Mould 7. Chanting upon a Dunghill: Working Skeletal Materials Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski 8. Eath's Treasures: Food and Drink Christina Lee 9. Woven Works: Making and Using Textiles Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Cocker 10. Weland's Work: Metals and Metalsmiths David A. Hinton 11. 'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long': Weapons and Armour Gale R.Owen-Cocker 12. Things of This World: Portable Antiquities and Their Potential Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams 13. Sight, Insight and Hand: Some Reflections on the Design and Manufacture of the Fuller Brooch Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder 14. The Bright Cup: Early Medieval Vessel Glass Win Stephens 15. Body and Soul: Disease and Impairment Christina Lee Notes Suggested Reading Index List of contributors
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Liverpool University Press Regional Australia and the Great War The Boys
Book SynopsisIn this book, Philip Payton provides a vivid insight into the experiences of regional Australia during the Great War of 1914-18.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface 1. 'A different war': The regional experience 2. 'To make Australia's name glorious': Kio goes to war 3. 'Our motto is "dig on, dig ever"': Gallipoli 4. 'Mothers, Manliness and Moonta': The Somme 5. 'I'm fed up with England now': Blighty 6. 'Not only Germany's war; it's Rome's war too': Conscription 7. 'Doing their best for the Empire': Australia Triumphant 8. 'Returning with the scars of deadly conflict': Aftermath Epilogue: 'The Hub of the Universe?' Notes Index
£31.87
Liverpool University Press The Material Culture of Daily Living in the
Book SynopsisA collection which introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to the realities of everyday Anglo-Saxon life through reference to artefacts and textual sources.Trade Review"The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World is a detailed guide to living the “good life” in Anglo-Saxon England. It is an edited volume of refreshing works that provides a detailed schematic of Anglo-Saxon daily living and the intricacies of everyday tasks. This book highlights activities which may be simple and habitual but which define the traditions and practices of a society.The book provides a balanced examination of both textual and archaeological evidence on a variety of fundamental topics including dress, illness, trade and production. This cleverly structured text provides an extra dimension of material culture, one that discusses the practices and technologies behind creations. The potential literary gap between the disciplines of archaeology and history is bridged with eloquent and thoughtful prose.The layout is sophisticated, defined and easy-to-navigate. The structure and content choice are well selected with nicely linked topics. The well-chosen chapter topics playfully and succinctly examine key areas of Anglo-Saxon material culture and daily life, and the editors have used these to create an interesting taster text for the dedicated Anglo-Saxon student."Rosetta, issue 13'[The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World] comprises fifteen chapters on animals, plants and ‘things'... and they maintain a high standard. There is much of interest here for specialist as well as general readers.'John Blair, English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations 1. Introduction: Material Culture and the Study of Anglo-Saxon England Maren Glegg Hyer 2. Prelude: Agriculture Through the Year David Hill 3. The True Staff of Life: The Multiple Roles of Plants C.P.Bigga, 4. Steep Vessel, High Horn-ship: Water Transport Katin Thier 5. 'To eat, to wear, to work': The Place of Sheep and Cattle in the Economy Christopher Grocock 6. Devil's Crafts and Dragon's Skins? Sheaths, Shoes and Other Leatherwork Esther Cameron and Quita Mould 7. Chanting upon a Dunghill: Working Skeletal Materials Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski 8. Eath's Treasures: Food and Drink Christina Lee 9. Woven Works: Making and Using Textiles Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Cocker 10. Weland's Work: Metals and Metalsmiths David A. Hinton 11. 'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long': Weapons and Armour Gale R.Owen-Cocker 12. Things of This World: Portable Antiquities and Their Potential Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams 13. Sight, Insight and Hand: Some Reflections on the Design and Manufacture of the Fuller Brooch Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder 14. The Bright Cup: Early Medieval Vessel Glass Win Stephens 15. Body and Soul: Disease and Impairment Christina Lee Notes Suggested Reading Index List of contributors
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain
Book SynopsisA study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their power.Catherine of Aragon (r.1509-33) and her sister-in-law Margaret Tudor (r.1503-13) presided as queens over the glittering sixteenth-century courts of England and Scotland, alongside their husbands Henry VIII of England and James IV of Scotland. Although we know a great deal about these two formidable sixteenth-century kings, we understand very little about how their two queens contributed to their reigns. How did these young, foreign women become effective and trusted consorts, and powerful political figures in their own right? This book argues that Catherine and Margaret's performance of queenship combined medieval queenly virtues with the new opportunities for influence and power offered by Renaissance court culture. Royal rituals such as childbirth and the Royal Maundy, courtly spectacles such as tournaments, banquets and diplomatic summits, or practices such as arranged marriages and gift-giving, were all moments when Catherine and Margaret could assert their honour, status and identity as queens. Their husbands' support for their activities at court helped bring them the influence and patronage necessary to pursue their own political goals and obtain favour and rewards for their servants and followers. Situating Catherine and Margaret's careers within the history of the royal courts of England and Scotland and amongst their queenly peers, this book reveals these two queens as intimately connected agents of political influence and dynastic power. MICHELLE BEER is an independent researcher working in Oakland, California.Trade ReviewThis monograph is a very strong piece of scholarship; it is well constructed and clearly written and is highly recommended for both scholars and students. Beer . . . offers innovative discussions about public piety, the queen's role as hostess, and the use not only of material culture but also of material itself, for the projection of queenly authority. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *[A]n invaluable resource for advanced students and researchers assessing the early modern court or the gendered exercise of power in Renaissance culture. * RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION/RENAISSANCE ET RÉFORME *Building on considerable research, Michelle Beer offers convincing conclusions about the queenly image and authority of two sixteenth-century consorts. -- Emily Chambers * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction Elizabeth of York Material magnificence, royal identity and the queen's body The social queen Patronage in partnership Queenship and pre-Reformation piety Conclusion Bibliography Index
£76.00
MP-NEV University of Nevada Crows Range An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada
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MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Laws of Early Iceland Volume 2 Gragas II
Book SynopsisThe laws of mediaeval Iceland provide detailed and fascinating insight into the society that produced the Icelandic sagas. Known collectively as Gragas (Greygoose), this great legal code offers a wealth of information about early European legal systems and the society of the Middles Ages. This first translation of Gragas is in two volumes.Table of Contents Preface Introduction The Codex Regius of Gragas in Translation II Table 1 An outline of the Inheritance Sequence Inheritance Section Dependents Section Betrothals Section Table 2 Kindred and Affinity Land claims Section On Hire of Property Searches Section On Commune Obligations Miscellaneous Articles On Tithe Payment Additions Guide to Technical Vocabulary Annotated Glossary A Selection of Terms Normally Used as Equivalents Sources, Editions, Translations, Concordances Abbreviated Titles Key to Material Included or Cited from Sources Other Than Konungsbok Terms and Topics Commented on in Notes to the Translations Index of Names Corrigenda et Addenda to Laws I
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MP-WLU Wilfrid Laurier Uni Havent Any News Rubys Letters from the Fifties
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London Record Society Joshua Johnsons Letterbook 17711774
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London Record Society A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property
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London Record Society London Consistory Court Wills 1492 1547
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Oxford Historical Society Oxford Studies Presented to Daniel Callus. 195960
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Proctors for Parliament Clergy Community and
Book SynopsisEdition of a major, previously unpublished, source for the history of England's medieval parliament.In the Middle Ages clergy of all ranks, from archbishops to parochial clergy, sent proctors to parliament, whether as representatives of constituency groups - diocesan clergy and cathedral chapters - or substitutes for those expected to attend in person. The National Archives series SC 10 contains 2,520 surviving letters of appointments by these parliamentarians, both groups and, more especially, individuals, cathedral deans, archdeacons, and many bishops;especially valuable are the letters sent by bishops whose registers have not survived, as in the case of Chichester and of the Welsh dioceses. Most numerous of all are the letters of parliamentary abbots. This second of twovolumes presents the first printed edition of the documents, opening up a level of political activity and interaction which has hitherto been unexplored. It covers the years from the accession of Richard II until the end of the series under Henry VIII; it also includes an analysis of the proctors, and the indices to both volumes. PHIL BRADFORD gained his PhD in medieval history from the University of York and is currently Vicar of St Michael's,Worcester; ALISON K. MCHARDY was formerly Reader in Medieval English History at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on the relations between crown and church in late-medieval England, and on the politics of Richard II's reign.Trade ReviewAn important resource. [It] will undoubtedly become an essential tool for students of both ecclesiastical and parliamentary history. * THE RICARDIAN *An impressive undertaking. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY *The Canterbury and York Society, are to be commended for bringing an impressive scholarly contribution to the history of the medieval English parliament to publication. This edition should deservedly serve as a key resource for anyone working on medieval parliament and parliamentary representation, bringing these `forgotten men' back into the picture. * PARLIAMENTS, ESTATES & REPRESENTATION *Table of ContentsIntroduction Editorial Practice Calendar Appendix 1: SC 10 appointments by secular peers Appendix 2: Appointments in the Journals of the House of Lords, 1510-39 Appendix 3: Proxy appointments for February 1536 in the British Library Appendix 4: Appointments of proctors in episcopal registers Appendix 5: York Minster Library Ms 22 Appendix 6: Proctors of Peterborough Abbey Appendix 7: Biographical details for proctors
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Cornell University Library, Division of Rare & Manuscripts Collections Language of Power Feasting and GiftGiving in
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John Wiley & Sons The Sitting Bull Surrender Census The Lakotas at
Book SynopsisFollowing Sitting Bull's surrender in 1881, the Indian Division of the US Census Office conducted a full and detailed census of the Sioux Indians in central Dakota Territory. This census is the most complete and accurate account of Sitting Bull's followers. This book provides researchers and historians with an unrivalled resource with which to assess and analyse this group of American Indians.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Portrait of a Patriot The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior Volume 6
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina El Proceso Populista Momento Fen243meno y R233gime El caso que no fue Chile 19321973
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia The Insurgent Delegate
Book SynopsisGeorge Thatcher served as a US representative throughout the Federalist Era - the most critical period of American constitutional history. Written over his forty-year career, the over two hundred letters and writings selected for this edition will appeal anyine looking for an encyclopaedic resource on the Founding generation.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
Book SynopsisA Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive EraFeatures contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialtiesCoverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approachesIn today's era, often referred to as a second Gilded Age, this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary societyFills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collectionsTrade Review"Scholars of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, along with graduate and undergraduate students, will fine A Companion to the Golded Age and Progressive Era, edited by Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger, an essential resource. The thirty-four essays contained within it, arranged in eight thematic sections are authored by a combination of the field's leading scholars and its rising stars. These pieces range from good to excellent. Overall, this volume combines a profound appreiation for the historians who have long defined this period...with a commitment to moving beyond the belief in American exceptionalism that, consciously or not, guided their writings. Specifically, key essays in this Companion contextualize the GAPE within a global framework."REVIEWED BY JOHN P. ENYEART, Bucknell University in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (October 2018)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Gilded Excesses, Multiple Progressivisms 1Christopher McKnight Nichols and Nancy C. Unger Part I Overview‐Definitions, Precursors, and Geographies 5 1 Reconstructing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 7Heather Cox Richardson 2 Precursors to Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reforms 21James M. Beeby and Brian M. Ingrassia 3 Urban America 31Michael B. Kahan 4 The South 44Amy Louise Wood 5 The Midwest and Far West during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 58Thomas J. Jablonsky 6 Environment: Nature, Conservation, and the Progressive State 71Benjamin Johnson Part II Sex, Race, and Gender 85 7 Gender 87imberly A. Hamlin 8 Inventing Sexuality: Ideologies, Identities, and Practices in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 102Leigh Ann Wheeler 9 African Americans 116Omar H. Ali 10 From Dispossessed Wards to Citizen Activists: American Indians Survive the Assimilation Policy Era 124Alexandra Harmon 11 Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity 137Julie Greene Part III Art, Thought, and Culture 149 12 Art and Architecture 151Alan Lessoff 13 Religion in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 165Matthew Bowman 14 Journalism 178Bruce J. Evensen 15 Popular Culture 190Julia Guarneri Part IV Economics, Science, and Technology 203 16 American Capitalism: From the Atlantic Economy to Domestic Industrialization 205Noam Maggor Copyrighted Material 17 Nonprofit Organizations, Philanthropy, and Civil Society 215David C. Hammack 18 Labor and Class in the GAPE: Fruitful Opposition and the Specter of the Middle Class 229David Huyssen 19 Science and Technology 243Alan I Marcus 20 The Rise of a Modern Concept of “Health” 255David G. Schuster Part V Political Leadership 269 21 Gilded Age Presidents 271Justus D. Doenecke 22 Political Movers and Shakers 284Karen Pastorello 23 Changing Interpretations of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era 296Kathleen Dalton 24 Woodrow Wilson 308loyd E. Ambrosius Part VI Government, Politics, and Law 321 25 Pivotal Elections 323Anthony Sparacino 26 Congress in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 339Mark Wahlgren Summers 27 Revising Constitutional History 350Logan E. Sawyer III 28 Radicalism and Conservatism 362Cristina V. Groeger Part VII The United States and the World 379 29 Connections, Networks, and the Beginnings of a Global America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 381Ian Tyrrell 30 Empire, Expansion, and Its Consequences 399Allan E. S. Lumba 31 The United States in the World during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 410Katherine Unterman Part VIII Major Works and Contemporary Relevance 421 32 Decades of Upheaval and Reform 423Maureen A. Flanagan 33 Influential Works about the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 437Robert D. Johnston 34 Why the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Still Matter 450Michael Kazin Bibliography 454 Index 507
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University of Toronto Press The Beginnings of English Law
Book SynopsisThe laws of Æthelbert of Kent (ca. 600), Hlohere and Eadric (685x686), and Wihtred (695), are the earliest laws from Anglo-Saxon England, and the first Germanic laws written in the vernacular. They are of unique importance as the only extant early medieval English laws that delineate the progress of law and legal language in the early days of the conversion to Christianity. Æthelbert''s laws, the closest existing equivalent to Germanic law as it was transmitted in a pre-literate period, contrast with Hlohere and Eadric''s expanded laws, which concentrate on legal procedure and process, and again contrast with the further changed laws of Wihtred which demonstrate how the new religion of Christianity adapted and changed the law to conform to changing social mores.This volume updates previous works with current scholarship in the fields of linguistics and social and legal history to present new editions and translations of these three Kentish pre-Alfredian laws. Each body of lawTrade Review'This is an academically compelling book, offering not only new editions and translations of three Kentish laws of the seventh century, but also interdisciplinary analyses of those laws based on the author's interest in linguistic, anthropological, and sociological interpretations of legal history. Scholars of different disciplines, including women's studies, can find interesting materials and inspiring views. More general readers who wish to understand the beginnings of English law can benefit from reading it too.' -- Wenxi Liu Sixteenth Century Journal 'This will be the platform on which scholarly use of the Kentish laws will be constructed for many 'This will be the platform on which scholarly use of the Kentish laws will be constructed for many years to come and should be welcomed as a major work in its own right.' -- N.J. Higham Speculum 'Oliver's beautifully written and appealing book promises to become essential reading and reference material for Anglo-Saxonists and British historians alike.' -- Sara M. Butler Mediaevistik 'The Beginnings of English Law is an excellent book. Written with verve as well as with care, it puts a fresh face on three ancient law codes and surrounds them with clear and useful commentary that scholars in many different fields will find useful.' -- Allen J. Frantzen Anglia 'Oliver offers a welcome contribution to our understanding of early Anglo-Saxon law, as well as a very useable work of reference.' -- Martin Grimmer Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
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University of Toronto Press Schooling in Modernity
Book SynopsisBetween 1948 and the end of the 1950s, Italian and American government agencies and corporations commissioned hundreds of short films for domestic and foreign consumption on topics such as the fight against unemployment, the transformation of rural and urban spaces, and the re-establishment of democratic regimes in Italy and throughout Europe. In Schooling in Modernity, Paola Bonifazio investigates the ways in which these sponsored films promoted a particular vision of modernization and industry and functioned as tools to govern the Italian people.The author uses extensive archival research and various theoretical approaches to examine the politics of sponsored filmmaking in postwar Italy. Among the many topics explored are target audiences and audience response, sources of funding, censorship, debates on cinematic realism, and the connections and differences between American and Italian strategies and styles of documentary filmmaking. Insightful and richly detailed,Trade Review'This important empirically rich and theoretically nuanced book is certainly of great interest to researchers in modern Italian history as well as to scholars studying propaganda.' -- Gianluca Fantoni H-Italy October 2016 'Schooling in Modernity is a fascinating account of short films sponsored by Italian and American governments... It makes a convincing argument about the significance of sponsored cinema in negotiating the transition between Fascism and post-war democracy.' -- Norma Bouchard Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies - vol 5:1:2017Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Work, Welfare, Neorealism Chapter 2: Sneaky Sponsors Chapter 3: Filming the Housing Revolution Chapter 4: South Like North Chapter 5: United Europe Starts in School Chapter 6: Histories Through Tabloids Filmography Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Cultures of Communication Theologies of Media in
Book SynopsisLooking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of ground-breaking essays highlights the pivotal role of theology in the formation of the early modern cultures of communication.Trade Review"What sets this collection apart from others like it is the sheer variety of the essays …" -- David Jonathan Davis * Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2 *Table of Contents* Introduction: Cultures of Communication, Theologies of Media in Early Modern Europe and Beyond Christopher Wild and Ulrike Strasser * The Absolute Medium: Nicholas of Cusa on the Mediality of Christ Christian Kiening * Fragmentation and Presence: Reformation Debates and Cultural Theory Lee Palmer Wandel *'Here I Stand': Face-to-Face Communication and Print Media in the Early Reformation Marcus Sandl * Mediated Immediacies in Thomas Muntzer's Theology Helmut Puff *'Sing unto the Lord': An Anthropology of Singing and Not-Singing in the Late Reformation Era Susan C. Karant-Nunn * Reading Images, Printing Voices: Simulation of Media and Epistemic Reflection in German Baroque Literature Daniel Weidner * Divine Messengers and Divine Messages: Angelic Media in Early Modern Hispanic America Andrew Redden * On Reading Missionary Correspondence: Jesuit Theologians on the Spiritual Benefits of a New Genre Markus Friedrich * Early Modern Translation Theories as Mission Theories: A Case Study of Jose de Acosta: De procuranda indorum salute (1588) Renate Durr * Apocalyptic Times in a 'World without End': The Straits of Magellan around 1600 Susanna Burghartz
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University of Toronto Press From Lawmen to Plowmen
Book SynopsisBy comparing Anglo-Saxon charters, sermons, and law codes with Langland'sPiers Plowmanand similar poems, Yeager demonstrates that this legal and homiletical literature had an influential afterlife in the fourteenth-century poetry of William Langland and his imitators.Trade Review'Yeager's literary-historical argument is powerful and marches on firmly to the fifteenth-century poems of the Piers Plowmen... It convincingly demonstrates the durability of certain Anglo-Saxon attitudes as they were annealed in the distinction of style.' -- Christopher Cannon Modern Philology, vol 113:03:2016 'This is an innovative, textually grounded inquiry into the connections between Old and Middle English literature.' -- M.B. Busbee Choice Magazine vol 52:11:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 From Written Record to Memory: A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon Legal-Homiletic Discourse Chapter 2 Leges Cnuti, Sermones Lupi: Homily, Law, and the Legacy of Wulfstan Chapter 3 Ecclesiastical Anglo-Saxonism in Thirteenth-Century Worcester:The First Worcester Fragment and The Proverbs of Alfred Chapter 4 La amon's Brut: Law, Literature, and the Chronicle-Poem Chapter 5 Defining the Piers Plowman Tradition Chapter 6 Documents, Dreams and the Langlandian Legacy in Mum and the Sothsegger Conclusion Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press On the Heroic Frenzies
Book SynopsisItalian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (15481600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy. His central 1586 work On the Heroic Frenzies has shown a particular need for a fresh examination. This vibrant bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D. Rowland, features the text in its original Italian alongside an elegant, accurate English translation. On the Heroic Frenzies is at once a philosophical dialogue, an anthology of love poetry, and a collection of sonnets, songs, and emblems sometimes borrowed from other writers, but primarily Bruno’s own. Rowland’s detailed introduction and extensive footnotes highlight the philosophical sources, Biblical allusions, and biographical elements that make Bruno’s work both richly conceived and often challenging to understand. Providing cohesive insights into Bruno’s tTrade Review"Scholars, teachers, and students of Renaissance literature and intellectual history will certainly benefit from this elegant translation, which successfully contributes to the growing availability of Italian philosophical texts in reliable and accessible English translations. Bruno specialists, moreover, will certainly appreciate Rowland’s deep understanding of the text and insightful comments on the life and thought of the Nolan." -- Matteo Soranzo * Recensioni *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The Emblems of the eroici furori Dedicatory Letter to Sir Philip Sidney Content of the Five Dialogues of the First Part First Part of the Herioc Frenzies Notes to the First Part of the Heroic Frenzies Second Part of the Heroic Frenzies Notes to the Second Part of the Heroic Frenzies Index
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University of Toronto Press Collected Works of Erasmus
Book SynopsisAfter spending several months in England, Erasmus returned to Paris in the winter of 1500 and set about compiling a small anthology of classical proverbs known as the Adagiorum collectanea. This modest work became the basis for one of Erasmus’ best known and longest works, when it was expanded in 1508 into the far more substantial Adagiorum chiliades. The essay that begins this introductory volume to the Adages explores the development of the Collectanea and its transformation into the Adagiorum chiliades. It is followed by the first annotated translation into English of the Collectanea. The second part of this volume contains a series of indexes to all of the adages found in CWE volumes 3136: Greek; Latin; Early Modern English proverbs with possible sources or parallels in Erasmus; Erasmus’ original topical index; and full indexes of all the proverbs and names mentioned by Erasmus. The Prolegomena to the Adages Trade Review‘Waiting for CWE 30 was a matter of a few years. Tantalizing by partial translation, English readers have waited centuries for a complete Adages. At last we have it, dense, delightful, and whole. The Toronto Adages is a major accomplishment, five hundred years overdue.’ -- Willis Goth Regier * World Literature Today October 2017 *Table of ContentsErasmus' Adages by John N. Grant The Adagiorum collectanea Translation and annotation Indexes to the Erasmus' Adages Works Frequently Cited Short-title Forms for Erasmus' Works
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University of Toronto Press Heroic Forms
Book SynopsisBefore he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seized at sea and held captive by Algerian corsairs, and returned to Spain with a deep knowledge of military life. He understood the costs of heroism, the fragility of fame, and the power of the military culture of brotherhood.In Heroic Forms, Stephen Rupp connects Cervantes’s complex and inventive approach to literary genre and his many representations of early modern warfare. Examining Cervantes’s plays and poetry as well as his prose, Rupp demonstrates how Cervantes’s works express his perceptions of military life and how Cervantes interpreted the experience of war through the genres of the era: epic, tragedy, pastoral, romance, and picaresque fiction.Trade Review'Rupp's book is original, thought provoking, and will make a significant contribution to the criticism of Cervantes's literature on the topic of war and heroism.' -- Eduardo Olid Guerrero Hispania vol 99:02:2016 'Rupp's book is a very solid, innovative, and intriguing study of Cervantes's contributions to advances in genre development through the lens of a specific and very relevant topic that proves quite elucidating.' -- Susan Byrne Renaissance Quarterly vol 69:01:2016 'A superb contribution to early modern Spanish studies... Rupp's approach offers rich, thought-provoking, unique perspectives... Highly recommended.' -- E.H. Friedman Choice vol 52:08:2015Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction 1 Warriors: Epic and Tragedy 2 Defenders: Pastoral and Satire 3 Captains and Saints: Lyric and Romance 4 Soldiers and Sinners: Picaresque Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index
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The University of North Carolina Press Haya de la Torre and the Pursuit of Power in TwentiethCentury Peru and Latin America
Book SynopsisPeruvian Victor Raul Haya de la Torre (1895-1979) was one of Latin America's key revolutionary leaders, well known across national boundaries. Inigo Garcia-Bryce's biography of Haya chronicles his political odyssey as founder of the influential American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, as a political theorist whose philosophy shifted from Marxism to democracy, and as a seasoned opposition figure.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina La abolici243n del tormento El in233dito
Book SynopsisThe abolition of judicial torture was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial, written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. This volume analyses, transcribes, and reproduces the complete Discurso.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina All Things Harmless Useful and Ornamental
Book SynopsisColonization depended on moving people, plants, and animals from place to place, and in centuries past, scientists, landowners, and philanthropists formed acclimatization societies to study local species and conditions, form networks of supporters, and exchange organisms across the globe. Pete Minard tells the story of this movement.
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Duke University Press After the PostCold War
Book SynopsisIn After the PostCold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.Trade Review"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it." -- Jessica Yeung * China Perspectives *"This is a challenging book by an author at the top of her game. Insightful and cosmpolitan in its range, the book shows that public intellectuals in China are managing to find a voice. The editors have done the author and readers a fine service." -- Paul Clark * China Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel xiii Introduction / Translated by Jie Li 1 Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories 1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen 25 2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo 47 Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity 3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle 67 4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li 91 Part III. The Spy Genre 5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery 109 6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 127 Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl 141 Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel 160 Notes 167 Selected Works of Dai Jinhua 181 Bibliography 183 Translators' Biographies 189 Index 191
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Duke University Press Thought Crime
Book SynopsisIn Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state''s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace Preservation Law, from its initial application to suppress communism and anticolonial nationalism—what authorities deemed thought crime—to its expansion into an elaborate system to reform and ideologically convert thousands of thought criminals throughout the Japanese Empire. To enforce the law, the government enlisted a number of nonstate actors, who included monks, family members, and community leaders. Throughout, Ward illuminates the complex processes through which the law articulated imperial ideology and how this ideology was transformed and disseminated through the law''s application over its twenty-year history. In so doing, he shows how the Peace Preservation Law provides a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to subject their rTrade Review"[Ward] has provided his readers with a well-written account of how between 1920 and the 1930s the Japanese nation endeavored to suppress political radicalism." -- Augustine Adu Frimpong * African and Asian Studies * "Thought Crime offers a lucid reflection on theories of power and the modern state while refusing to fetishize the particularities of the Japanese case." -- David Ambaras * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Thought Crime sets itself apart from past studies of the Peace Preservation Law by developing a theory of imperial ideology that focuses on its effects on those in proximity to it: bureaucrats, thought criminals, and those who were mobilized to rehabilitate them." -- John Person * Journal of Asian Studies *"Thought Crime is a thought-provoking, intelligent, and necessary book.… It is a must-read for serious students of modern Japanese political and intellectual history." -- Jeremy A. Yellen * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Rigorous and creative explorations of the multiple modalities of state power are much needed in the study of the cultural and social history of modern Japan, and in that respect Thought Crime makes an invaluable contribution to the field." -- Tomoko Seto * Monumenta Nipponica *"This book is nicely written and well-organized, and the author makes excellent use of Japanese-language primary sources. Overall, this is an outstanding piece of research. It makes a substantial contribution to existing works on this topic and is recommended for use in graduate seminars on modern Japanese history." -- Walter Skya * History: Reviews of New Books *"This analysis is a valuable service in increasing our knowledge of the rise of Japanese militarism and the coming of WWII in Asa.… Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- Q. E. Wang * Choice *"Thought Crime is a theoretically and archivally rich intervention into discourse surrounding tenkō and the kokutai. . . . Max Ward's incorporation of theory into the body of literature on thought crime in Japan yields an important rethinking of politics and ideology during this most fraught of historical periods." -- Jason Morgan * Japan Review *Table of ContentsPreface: Policing Ideological Threats, Then and Now ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Ghost in the Machine: Emperor System Ideology and the Peace Preservation Law Apparatus 1 1. Kokutai and the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: The Passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 21 2. Transcriptions of Power: Repression and Rehabilitation in the Early Peace Preservation Law Apparatus, 1925-1933 49 3. Apparatuses of Subjection: The Rehabilitation of Thought Criminals in the Early 1930s 77 4. Nurturing the Ideological Avowal: Toward the Codification of Tenkō in 1936 123 5. The Ideology of Conversion: Tenkō on the Eve of Total War 145 Epilogue. The Legacies of the Thought Rehabilitation System in Postwar Japan 179 Notes 185 Bibliography 261 Index 281
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Duke University Press Thought Crime
Book SynopsisMax Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s through the enforcement of what it called thought crime, providing a window into understanding how modern states develop ideological apparatuses to subject their respective populations.Trade Review"[Ward] has provided his readers with a well-written account of how between 1920 and the 1930s the Japanese nation endeavored to suppress political radicalism." -- Augustine Adu Frimpong * African and Asian Studies * "Thought Crime offers a lucid reflection on theories of power and the modern state while refusing to fetishize the particularities of the Japanese case." -- David Ambaras * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Thought Crime sets itself apart from past studies of the Peace Preservation Law by developing a theory of imperial ideology that focuses on its effects on those in proximity to it: bureaucrats, thought criminals, and those who were mobilized to rehabilitate them." -- John Person * Journal of Asian Studies *"Thought Crime is a thought-provoking, intelligent, and necessary book.… It is a must-read for serious students of modern Japanese political and intellectual history." -- Jeremy A. Yellen * Journal of Japanese Studies *"Rigorous and creative explorations of the multiple modalities of state power are much needed in the study of the cultural and social history of modern Japan, and in that respect Thought Crime makes an invaluable contribution to the field." -- Tomoko Seto * Monumenta Nipponica *"This book is nicely written and well-organized, and the author makes excellent use of Japanese-language primary sources. Overall, this is an outstanding piece of research. It makes a substantial contribution to existing works on this topic and is recommended for use in graduate seminars on modern Japanese history." -- Walter Skya * History: Reviews of New Books *"This analysis is a valuable service in increasing our knowledge of the rise of Japanese militarism and the coming of WWII in Asa.… Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- Q. E. Wang * Choice *"Thought Crime is a theoretically and archivally rich intervention into discourse surrounding tenkō and the kokutai. . . . Max Ward's incorporation of theory into the body of literature on thought crime in Japan yields an important rethinking of politics and ideology during this most fraught of historical periods." -- Jason Morgan * Japan Review *Table of ContentsPreface: Policing Ideological Threats, Then and Now ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Ghost in the Machine: Emperor System Ideology and the Peace Preservation Law Apparatus 1 1. Kokutai and the Aporias of Imperial Sovereignty: The Passage of the Peace Preservation Law in 1925 21 2. Transcriptions of Power: Repression and Rehabilitation in the Early Peace Preservation Law Apparatus, 1925-1933 49 3. Apparatuses of Subjection: The Rehabilitation of Thought Criminals in the Early 1930s 77 4. Nurturing the Ideological Avowal: Toward the Codification of Tenkō in 1936 123 5. The Ideology of Conversion: Tenkō on the Eve of Total War 145 Epilogue. The Legacies of the Thought Rehabilitation System in Postwar Japan 179 Notes 185 Bibliography 261 Index 281
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New York University Press Inn Civility
Book SynopsisExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive city taverns to seedy disorderly houses, urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of socioeconomic backgrounds, eliminated the notion of civilized and wild individuals, and dismayed the elite colonists who hoped to impose a British-style social order upon their local community. More importantly, urban taverns served as critical arenas through which diverse colonists engaged in an ongoing act of societal negotiation. Inn Civility exhibits how colonists' struggles to emulate their British homeland ultimately impelled the creation of an American republic. This unique insight demonstrates the messy, often cTrade ReviewInn Civility contains amazing descriptions of what it was like for a person—gentle or otherwise—to enter into a mid-eighteenth-century coffeehouse or tavern… Scribner paints a beautiful picture of how urban taverns brought together a cross section of urban society, thus serving as sites for reinforcing, as well as undermining, the ideal colonial social order. * Early American Literature *Interdisciplinary historians will find much to learn and much more to ponder in this splendidly playful, deeply serious, and unfailingly delightful work. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Scribner is keen to demonstrate how America’s revolutionary ideals—in his view, republicanism, liberty, and civil society—emerged from a colonial world made interdependent through commerce, manners, and an acceptance of hierarchy ... Taking a fresh look [at taverns] requires the presentation of a new interpretive frame. Inn Civility makes a bold bid to do just that by deemphasizing contestation in favor of outcome. Folding the types of taverns (and their patrons) that interest Scribner into the cresting literature on civil society in colonial America is an audacious and promising move presented here with conviction. * The William and Mary Quarterly *Scribner makes an important contribution to our understanding of how political and social ideologies of the colonial and early national period actually played out for both elite and common tavern-goers. Notions of civility, politeness, and proper behavior were not simply beliefs that the wealthy claimed to profess, but standards they attempted to live by—and to compel their inferiors to live by as well. As Scribner illustrates, elites’ efforts to “transplant their visions from the page to the pavement” were complex and, often, contradictory, and they had unanticipated outcomes when met with the realities of the Revolutionary War ... Inn Civility would be a welcome addition to college courses on the social history of the American Revolution. Readers interested in the built environment of revolutionary cities will also find much to admire in this engaging book. * History: Reviews of New Books *This vivid and engaging study delves into intellectual currents, institutional cultures, consumer goods, as well as architecture, masculinities, and politics, making it an intriguing choice for introducing the revolutionary era to undergraduates. * American Literary History *
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University of Toronto Press The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic
Book SynopsisBernadette Andrea's groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuriesTrade Review‘This engaging, sophisticated book will find an audience among all Shakespeare lovers who wonder where the Bard’s Moors, Turks, and Tatars came from.’ -- M.Cooke * Choice Magazine vol 55:02:2017 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: The "Presences of Women" from the Islamic World in British Literature and Culture, c. 1500-1630 CHAPTER TWO: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Queen Elizabeth I, the Tartar Girl, and the Tartar-Indian Woman CHAPTER THREE: The Islamic World and the Construction of Early Modern Englishwomen's Authorship: Lady Mary Wroth, the Tartar-Persian Princess, and the Tartar King CHAPTER FOUR: Signifying Gender and Islam in Early Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors (1594) and the Gray's Inn Revels (1594-95) CHAPTER FIVE: Signifying Gender and Islam in Late Shakespeare: Henry VIII or All is True (1613) and British "Masques of Blackness" (c. 1507-1605) CHAPTER SIX: The Intersecting Paths of Two Women from the Islamic World: Teresa Sampsonia, Mariam Khanim, and the East India Company BIBLIOGRAPHY
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University of Toronto Press Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God
Book SynopsisWhat did Paul mean when he wrote that the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom? Through close analysis of the sixteenth-century reception of Paul''s discourses of folly, this book examines the role of the New Testament in the development of what Erasmus and John Calvin refer to as the Christian philosophy. Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God reveals the importance of Pauline rhetoric in the development of humanist critiques of scholasticism while charting the formation of a specifically affective approach to religious epistemology and theological method. As the first book-length examination of Calvin''s indebtedness to Erasmus, which also considers the participation of Bullinger, Pellikan, and Melanchthon in an Erasmian exegetical milieu, it is a case study in the complicated cross-confessional exchange of ideas in the sixteenth century. Kirk Essary examines assumptions about the very nature of theology in the sixteenth century, how it was understoodTrade Review"Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God is a profound, elegant, and persuasive work. Kirk Essary has produced a work of formidable intellectual rigour that makes a significant contribution to the study of Renaissance and Reformation thought. The prose flows beautifully, the language is mercifully free of jargon, and the author makes extensive use of the primary sources to enable the reader to gain a clear sense of how Erasmus and Calvin (with others) interpreted Paul." -- Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Yale University "Kirk Essary's Erasmus and Calvin on the Foolishness of God is a significant contribution in Erasmus and Calvin studies. The scholarship is sound and scholars who work through it will find substantial reward for their efforts." -- R.Ward Holder, Professor, Saint Anselm CollegeTable of ContentsPreface Chapter One Calvin's Erasmus, Theologia Rhetorica, and Pauline Folly Chapter Two Foolishness as Religious Knowledge Chapter Three Hidden Wisdom and the Revelation of the Spirit Chapter Four Milk for Babes: A Pauline Eloquence Chapter Five Blaming Philosophy, Praising Folly Chapter Six The Affective Christian Philosophy Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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