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Louisiana State University Press Herbert Coreys Great War
Book SynopsisWith publication of Herbert Corey’s Great War, coeditors Peter Finn and John Maxwell Hamilton reestablish Corey’s name in the annals of American war reporting. In this memoir, Corey is especially illuminating on the obstacles reporters faced in conveying the story of the Great War to Americans.
£20.85
The University of North Carolina Press The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont 17151747 A
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDodging death and success from La Rochelle to Biloxi and back, with some gardening in between, Dumont de Montigny survived to put quill to paper. His restless memoir, now briskly translated, offers a stereotype-shattering window onto eighteenth-century transatlantic life and writing.--Catherine Desbarats, McGill University
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press The Conversion of Herman the Jew
Book SynopsisJean-Claude Schmitt examines a unique and controversial conversion narrative to explore its meaning within the society and culture of its period as well as what it has to tell us about the way historians think and write.Trade Review"Schmitt takes us on a delightful journey through some of the topics that have interested medievalists most in recent years, through discussions of medieval autobiography, of dreams and images, and of the meaning of conversion, illuminating the ways in which the Opusculum is a text of its time." * Journal of Religion *"An important book that will stimulate historians to reflect anew on how to approach the multilayered realities of the past." * American Historical Review *"A captivating reflection on the writing of history, more indispensable now than ever." * Philippe-Jean Catinchi, Le Monde des Livres *"A fascinating reflection on the role of truth in medieval history." * Isabelle Rüf, Le Temps *"Jean-Claude Schmitt demonstrates the fluidity of the line between history and fiction during the Middle Ages." * Sciences humaines et sociales *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Fiction and Truth Chapter 2. Medieval Autobiography Chapter 3. The Dream and Its Interpretation Chapter 4. Conversion to Images Chapter 5. Baptism and Name Chapter 6. "A New Era of Conversion" Conclusion Extract from the Vita of Godfried, Count of Cappenburg Herman the Former Jew: Short Work on the Subject of His Conversion Notes Index
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Images Iconoclasm and the Carolingians
Book SynopsisIn eighth- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages of art-texts, laws, letters, and poems, this book examines the wider context of the debate by providing the first comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm.Trade Review"[An] immensely scholarly and interesting book on the Carolingian response to the drama of iconoclasm in Byzantium." * TLS *"A magisterial reexamination of a period in which long-lived ideas about the power and limitations of Christian images were first articulated in the medieval West. . . . The book skillfully explores Carolingian discourses about images in relation to Byzantine and papal positions in the eighth and ninth centuries." * Journal of Church History *"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians presents a rich detailed history of the written debate over religious imagery in the early Middle Ages, with a particular focus on the West, while deemphasizing the violence, destruction, and change so often included by historians in discussions of iconoclasm." * Journal of Religion *"This learned, incisive and readable book has made an important contribution to the study of early medieval art, and more particularly of a whole religious culture." * Early Medieval Europe *"A deeply impressive, powerfully argued, and extraordinarily interesting book. Noble establishes the centrality of the Carolingian period and its writers to the development of ideas about sacred art. He offers a new interpretation of the understanding of images in both the western and eastern empires in the early Middle Ages." * Rosamond McKitterick, University of Cambridge *"Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is remarkably scholarly, surveying secondary literature in both Byzantine East and Latin West, and in many different disciplines, including theology and art history as well as history. It is a splendid book. It will be a standard reference for many years to come." * Lawrence Nees, University of Delaware *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: Art, Icons, and Their Critics and Defenders Before the Age of Iconoclasm Chapter Two: Byzantine Iconoclasm in the Eighth Century Chapter Three: Art and Art Talk in the West in the First Age of Iconoclasm Chapter Four: The Franks and Nicaea: Opus Caroli Regis Chapter Five: Tradition, Order, and Worship in the Age of Charlemagne Chapter Six: The Age of Second Iconoclasm Chapter Seven: Art and Argument in the Age of Louis the Pious Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press The Alchemy of Slavery Human Bondage and
Book SynopsisTrade Review""For a book so ambitious in scope, The Alchemy of Slaverydelivers its punch in a slim volume." * Journal of American History *"The Alchemy of Slavery announces a new moment in grounding studies of the interpenetrations of slavery with settler colonialism." * Journal of the Civil War Era *"This is the most thorough account we have on slavery in Illinois and should be the standard for some time to come." * Journal of the Early Republic *"The Alchemy of Slavery stands as a great addition to both Midwestern and Illinois historiography." * Cleveland Review of Books *"M. Scott Heerman provocatively muddies the waters, demonstrating how slavery survived in 'free' Illinois all the way through the Civil War. His reinterpretation does much to link the history of Middle America to the global history of slavery." * Christina Snyder, Penn State University *"M. Scott Heerman offers much-needed and close scrutiny of the Illinois Country, a region that, because it straddled empires, labor systems, freedom, and slavery, opens up new understandings along a number of fronts, not least of which is the relationship between slavery's many iterations and the kind of freedoms those slaveries engendered. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that considers slavery and its legacies to be a national (versus a southern) problem, and which illuminates slavery as a historical process as opposed to a static and singular institution." * Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Memphis *"Ambitious and meticulously researched, The Alchemy of Slavery illuminates the complex development of slavery and freedom in Illinois over more than a century. Heerman demonstrates the significance of local practices without neglecting broader developments in the French and British empires and in Washington, D.C. This book is wonderfully attentive to questions of geography and scale and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of colonial and early national North America." * Kate Masur, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Slavery and Freedom on the American Continent Chapter 1. Making the French Negroes Chapter 2. Another Law and Empire Chapter 3. Remaking the French Negroes Chapter 4. Contesting Bondage in the Slave North Chapter 5. Paths to Independence Chapter 6. Freedom Practices, Freedom Politics Conclusion. North of Slavery, South of Freedom Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Nuns Priests Tales
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[An] erudite volume . . . Griffiths contributes importantly to a more inclusive depiction of female monastic life and male spirituality (a story of greater mutuality) and to a better-nuanced understanding of relations between men and women in medieval society." * Speculum *"The reform era was obsessed with clerical celibacy, yet it also witnessed a great expansion of women's religious life-and all those newly founded nunneries required priests to provide pastoral care. In an age known for its shrill misogyny, how did such priests justify their service to women, and what positive roles did nuns play in male spirituality? In her urgently needed book, Nuns' Priests' Tales, Fiona Griffiths teases out some fascinating answers." * Barbara Newman, Northwestern University *"This delightful and learned book examines the ways in which the ordained men who provided sacramental services and spiritual counsel for nuns understood their relationships with women. The setting is primarily the eleventh and twelfth centuries-a period when close bonds between priests and any female were viewed with deepening suspicion. Fiona J. Griffiths, however, explores the positive models that monks and priests evoked at that time to justify and even celebrate their charitable bonds with the nuns they served." * Megan McLaughlin, author of Sex, Gender, and Episcopal Authority in an Age of Reform, 1000-1122 *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Prologue Chapter 1. The Puzzle of the Nuns' Priest Chapter 2. Biblical Models: Women and Men in the Apostolic Life Chapter 3. Jerome and the Noble Women of Rome Chapter 4. Brothers, Sons, and Uncles: Nuns' Priests and Family Ties Chapter 5. Speaking to the Bridegroom: Women and the Power of Prayer Conclusion Appendix. Beati pauperes Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press The Alchemy of Slavery
Book SynopsisIn this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed institutional form, Heerman traces practices of slavery through indigenous, French, and finally U.S. systems of captivity, inheritable slavery, lifelong indentureship, and the kidnapping of free people. By connecting the history of indigenous bondage to that of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world, Heerman shows how French, Spanish, and Native North American practices shaped the history of slavery in the United States.The Alchemy of Slavery foregrounds the diverse and adaptable slaving practices that masters deployed to build a slave economy in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, attempting to outmaneuver their antislavery opponents. In time, a formidable cast of lawyers and antislavery activists set their sights on Trade Review""For a book so ambitious in scope, The Alchemy of Slaverydelivers its punch in a slim volume." * Journal of American History *"The Alchemy of Slavery announces a new moment in grounding studies of the interpenetrations of slavery with settler colonialism." * Journal of the Civil War Era *"This is the most thorough account we have on slavery in Illinois and should be the standard for some time to come." * Journal of the Early Republic *"The Alchemy of Slavery stands as a great addition to both Midwestern and Illinois historiography." * Cleveland Review of Books *"M. Scott Heerman provocatively muddies the waters, demonstrating how slavery survived in 'free' Illinois all the way through the Civil War. His reinterpretation does much to link the history of Middle America to the global history of slavery." * Christina Snyder, Penn State University *"M. Scott Heerman offers much-needed and close scrutiny of the Illinois Country, a region that, because it straddled empires, labor systems, freedom, and slavery, opens up new understandings along a number of fronts, not least of which is the relationship between slavery's many iterations and the kind of freedoms those slaveries engendered. This book joins a growing body of scholarship that considers slavery and its legacies to be a national (versus a southern) problem, and which illuminates slavery as a historical process as opposed to a static and singular institution." * Susan Eva O'Donovan, University of Memphis *"Ambitious and meticulously researched, The Alchemy of Slavery illuminates the complex development of slavery and freedom in Illinois over more than a century. Heerman demonstrates the significance of local practices without neglecting broader developments in the French and British empires and in Washington, D.C. This book is wonderfully attentive to questions of geography and scale and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of colonial and early national North America." * Kate Masur, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Slavery and Freedom on the American Continent Chapter 1. Making the French Negroes Chapter 2. Another Law and Empire Chapter 3. Remaking the French Negroes Chapter 4. Contesting Bondage in the Slave North Chapter 5. Paths to Independence Chapter 6. Freedom Practices, Freedom Politics Conclusion. North of Slavery, South of Freedom Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£35.10
University of Pennsylvania Press The Captive Sea
Book SynopsisIn The Captive Sea, Daniel Hershenzon explores the entangled histories of Muslim and Christian captivesand, by extension, of the Spanish Empire, Ottoman Algiers, and Moroccoin the seventeenth century to argue that piracy, captivity, and redemption helped shape the Mediterranean as an integrated region at the social, political, and economic levels. Despite their confessional differences, the lives of captives and captors alike were connected in a political economy of ransom and communication networks shaped by Spanish, Ottoman, and Moroccan rulers; ecclesiastic institutions; Jewish, Muslim, and Christian intermediaries; and the captives themselves, as well as their kin. Hershenzon offers both a comprehensive analysis of competing projects for maritime dominance and a granular investigation of how individual lives were tragically upended by these agendas. He takes a close look at the tightly connected and ultimately failed attempts to ransom an Algerian Muslim girl sold into slavery inTrade Review"[A] thoroughly researched, clearly structured, convincingly argued and richly documented monograph on slavery in the early modern western Mediterranean . . . It is time to follow the stories of how enslaved people shaped the communities at home and abroad, and Hershenzon's book will be an indispensable part of this enterprise." * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *"The breadth and depth of research, the insight with which Hershenzon draws out the significance of the sources, and the clarity of his writing all make this an impressive and convincing book." * Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies *"Daniel Hershenzon persuasively shows how captivity both tore slaves from their communities and connected those communities across the Western Mediterranean. Extensively researched and bracingly argued, The Captive Sea demonstrates the agency and impact of captives in an enduringly entangled Mediterranean world." * Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles *"A serious, probing look at early modern Mediterranean slavery. Daniel Hershenzon locates new and highly personalized sources within the vast bureaucratic archives of Spain and then wields them to identify and theorize the expectations and logics of behavior that underlay the captives' struggles to obtain freedom." * James Amelang, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid *
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press A NotSoNew World
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Parsons’s work can serve as a model for other historians interested in the environmental aspects of colonialism, particularly those seeking to work at the intersection of environmental history and the history of science." * Environmental History *"This is field-leading scholarship for those thinking through the environmental early modern and through histories of imperial knowledge." * French Studies *"[A] call to action that makes important interventions, not only into the history of science, environmental history, and the history of global knowledge exchange, but also into contemporary debates surrounding the entanglements of environment and politics. The book is richly researched and will no doubt become standard reading for anyone interested in the exigency of indigenous ecological knowledge or the importance of environment for the justification, implementation, and practice of European colonization in the early modern period." * Agricultural History Review *"Christopher M. Parsons tells a new and highly original story about how various people involved in the French colonization of North America understood the landscape of the New World and how these changing understandings affected and shaped the larger project of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French colonialism." * Robert Morrissey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign *"Christopher M. Parsons's detailed account of the exchange of botanical information between New France and its metropolis sheds new light on the development of environmental knowledge about the colony, understood in an appropriately broad geographical framework." * Colin Coates, York University *"Re-examining the texts of French settlers and missionaries in what's now Canada, Parsons challenges our assumptions about the environmental history of North America, and charts new routes toward a global history of early modern science." * Nicholas Dew, McGill University *
£35.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Marie of France Countess of Champagne 11451198
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A fully rounded biography of a great medieval lady is hardly possible, given the limited sources. Nonetheless, Theodore Evergates, with his knowledge of the sources gained from years of studying the counts of Champagne, has given the fullest portrait of Marie of France to date. It is likely that his book will be stand for many years as the standard study of Marie of France." * Sehepunkte *"[Marie of France] . . . contributes to our increasing realization that ruling women were nothing unusual in medieval France with its detailed account of Marie's political activity . . . [F]or literary historians, it fills in a picture that had until now been extremely limited of this important patron." * French History *"Medievalists will surely rely on Marie of France as the standard reference on the countess' life for years to come, while scholars of the history of religion more broadly will find it useful for its discussion of the varying forms of interaction between the church and members of the lay aristocracy in the High Middle Ages. Readers of all backgrounds, however, will appreciate the skill with which Evergates constructs an eminently readable narrative from such fragmented sources." * Reading Religion *"A masterful biography and a welcome, and much needed, contribution to our understanding of medieval aristocratic women." * Amy Livingstone, Ball State University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Marie of France, 1145−1164 Chapter 2. Countess of Troyes, 1165−1181 Chapter 3. Regent Countess, 1181−1187 Chapter 4. Retirement, 1187−1190 Chapter 5. A Condominium Lordship, 1190−1198 Chapter 6. Images of Countess Marie Appendices 1. Genealogy: Countess Marie and Her Relatives 2. Tables 3. Chronology List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Nadir Shahs Quest for Legitimacy in Postsafavid
Book SynopsisAscending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir Shah tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power.Trade ReviewAn extremely important work... Tucker masterfully investigates the question of Nadir Shah's political legitimacy in light of certain key events in his career. In doing so, he critically evaluates primary sources, thereby highlighting the crucial issues of historiography in understanding this history. - Sholeh A. Quinn, Ohio University
£48.60
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Slavery and the Peculiar Solution
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£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Winning While Losing
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£56.95
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Boccaccios Fabliaux
Book SynopsisIdentifying specific examples of fabliaux transformed by Boccaccio for his classic Decameron, Brown shows how Boccaccio refashioned borrowed literary themes and devices, playing with endless possibilities of literary creation through manipulations of his model texts.
£52.70
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida An Introduction to the Gawain Poet
Book SynopsisIn An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, John Bowers surveys an expanded selection of the works of Chaucer's anonymous contemporary, considering Sir Gawain and the Green Knight alongside the poet's lesser known but no less brilliant works.
£18.86
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Slave Breeding
Book SynopsisInvestigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices. Smithers argues that while social and economic historians have downplayed the significance of slave breeding, African Americans have refused to forget the violence and sexual coercion associated with the plantation South.
£17.06
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Confronting Decline The Political Economy of
Book SynopsisThe decline of traditional manufacturing – deindustrialization - has been one of the most significant aspects of the restructuring of the American economy. In this volume, David Koistinen examines the demise of the textile industry in New England from the 1920s through the 1980s to better understand the impact of industrial decline.Trade Review“Koistinen puts the ‘political’ back in political economy in this fascinating account of New England’s twentieth-century industrial erosion. First-rate research and sound judgments make this study essential reading.”—Philip Scranton, Rutgers University–Camden“Well-organized and clearly written, Confronting Decline looks at one community to understand a process that has become truly national.”—David Stebenne, Ohio State University“Koistinen’s important book makes clear that many industrial cities and regions began to decline as early as the 1920s.”—Alan Brinkley, Columbia University“Sheds new light on a complex system of enterprise that sometimes blurs, and occasionally overrides, the distinctions of private and public, as well as those of locality, state, region, and nation. In so doing, it extends and deepens the insights of previous scholars of the American political economy.”—Robert M. Collins, University of Missouri
£22.46
The Catholic University of America Press Richer of SaintR233mi The Methods and Mentality
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£56.25
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
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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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University of Minnesota Press Sumerian Economic Texts from the Third Ur Dynasty
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The University of Alabama Press A Great Fear
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the Spanish colonial reaction to the threat of Napoleonic subversion. This book explores why Spanish Americans did not take the opportunity to seize independence in this critical period when Spain was overrun by French armies and, arguably, in its weakest state.Trade ReviewAn exemplary and well-rounded transnational history that offers a provocative new look into the repercussions of Napoleonic intrigue and espionage in the New World."" - Scott Eastman, author of Preaching Spanish Nationalism across the Hispanic Atlantic, 1759–1823 and coeditor of The Rise of Constitutional Government in the Iberian Atlantic World: The Impact of the Cádiz Constitution of 1812""Hawkins contributes a deft analysis, both of the history of US tensions with Spain over border issues and of its mounting Francophilia."" - Teresa Van Hoy, author of A Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and PriestsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction. Chasing Shadows: French Subversion in Spanish America Chapter 1. Francophobia and Spanish America Chapter 2. On the Edge of the Abyss: The Spanish Legation to the United States, 1807–1809 Chapter 3. Luís de Onís: From Cantalapiedra to Philadelphia Chapter 4. The Spanish Diplomat versus the French Emissary, 1809–1810 Chapter 5. Onís on the Offensive, 1811 Chapter 6. Fighting Napoleon in Totonicapán Conclusion. Spies and Shadows Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Stand By Me The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
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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.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Andean Wonder Drug The
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University of Pittsburgh Press Mechanism
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