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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Memory in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisGerald Schwedler is Professor of Medieval History at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. His research areas include medieval historiography, memory culture and economic history. He has published various books and articles on medieval strategies of memory and forgetting (Damnatio in memoria, 2014; Damnatio memoriae, 2020). He currently works on cultural inflation and imitation in the Middle Ages (Nachahmen im Mittelalter, 2018) as well as medieval patterns to deal with cultural degeneration (Exzerpieren Kompilieren Tradieren, 2017).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisMarek Tamm is Professor of Cultural History and Head of the Centre of Excellence in Intercultural Studies at Tallinn University, Estonia. His primary research fields are cultural history of medieval Europe, theory and history of historiography, and cultural memory studies. He has recently published Rethinking Historical Time: New Approaches to Presentism (ed. with Laurent Olivier, Bloomsbury 2019), Juri Lotman Culture, Memory and History: Essays in Cultural Semiotics (2019), Debating New Approaches to History (ed. with Peter Burke, Bloomsbury 2018), Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory (2015), and a companion to the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Crusading and Chronicle Writing on the Medieval Baltic Frontier (ed. with Linda Kaljundi and Carsten Selch Jensen, Ashgate 2011). He is also the co-editor of A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age (ed. with Alessandro Arcangeli, Bloomsbury 2020).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Memory in the Eighteenth
Book SynopsisPatrick Hutton is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Vermont, USA. He is the author and editor of several books, including History as an Art of Memory (1993).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Memory in the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisSusan A. Crane is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Arizona, USA. Her research focuses on thematic issues of collective memory, historical consciousness and historical photography. She is the author of Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early 19th-Century Germany (2000) and Nothing Happened: A History (2020), and editor of Museums and Memory (2000).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Memory in the Long
Book SynopsisStefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute of Social Movements and the House for the History of the Ruhr at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He is the author of numerous books, including Nationalizing the Past (2015) and Germany: Inventing the Nation (2004) and the editor of A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Europe: 1789-1914 (2009). He is, along with Kevin Passmore and Heiko Feldner, one of the Series Editors for Bloomsbury's successful student book series, Writing History.Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at The Nottingham Trent University, UK.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editors’ Preface Introduction 1. Power and Politics 2. Time and Space 3. Media and Technology 4. Knowledge: Science and Education 5. Ideas: Philosophy, Religion and History 6. High Culture and Popular Culture 7. The Social: Rituals, Faith, Practices and the Everyday 8. Remembering and Forgetting Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Histories of the Irish Future
Book SynopsisBryan Fanning is Professor and Head of the School of Applied Social Studies at University College Dublin. His books include Racism and Social Change in the Republic of Ireland (2012), New Guests of the Irish Nation (2009), The Quest for Modern Ireland (2008) and, as co-author, The Books that Define Ireland (2014).Trade Review[Histories of the Irish Future] is lively and provocative, its assured and admirably concise explication of key texts and propositions punctuated by the author’s own judgments and asides, which are witty, insightful and frequently challenging. The approach in each essay deftly combines the contextual with the interpretative -- Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, former Professor of History, NUI Galway, Ireland * The Irish Times *Fanning's work is a most enlightened and enlightening overview of the key political developments in Ireland in recent centuries, seen through the personalities and achievements of twelve people who to a large extent shaped the country's development. The book is superbly presented ... [and] concludes with exemplary notes, bibliography and index, very traditional but very necessary -- Hugh Oram * Books Ireland *A work honest in its situatedness, vigorous in its argument and confident in its provision of intellectual armour for future discussions about the state of Ireland ... accessible and eminently readable ... Bryan Fanning has produced a shrewd and original text which covers so much ground economically, politically and socially. It needs to be read by Irish historians because it exposes the intellectual poverty of much Irish history-writing ... It also needs to be read by the wider public because it effortlessly bats off some of the reductionism inherent in the current media obsession with the “decade of commemorations”. * Dublin Review of Books *Fanning offers an entertaining and engaging account of 12 different writers and their visions for Ireland’s future. Although his book covers a wide chronological spectrum, from the birth of modern Ireland in the mid-17th century up to the contemporary thoughts of the early 21st century, Fanning doesn’t necessarily include the more predictable figures involved, choosing John Mitchel over Daniel O’Connell, for instance, and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington rather than Eamon de Valera. In general, intellectual engagement weighs more than political ideology, as befits the utopian title of the book. Another strength of this collection is the relationship among these thinkers, as Fanning takes pains to point out the influences and reactions that earlier figures have on later commentators through three major groupings: Irish conservatism, liberal thinkers and republicanism. Fanning’s conclusion is particularly thought provoking as he extrapolates on how each of the three groups relates to issues in today’s Ireland. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- M. J. O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville * CHOICE *Fanning’s elegantly readable, informative, erudite and wonderfully engaging book presents the evolution of Ireland through the eyes of a number of its theorists... Fanning’s approach is entirely original, analysing different visions for Ireland’s future; his prose is clear and fluent ... it carefully explicates how Ireland came to be interpreted not just within Ireland (by nationalists, unionists, republicans and feminists) but also how it was discussed by the wider world of political theorists, economists and other intellectuals. The book presents a lucid and compelling narrative and its choice of figures presents new perspectives on Ireland as it was theorised; a tour de force. * Dermot Moran, University College Dublin, Ireland *‘We are where we are’ was a mantra frequently and unhelpfully invoked by some Irish politicians seeking to cut off discussion of the causes of the recent Irish economic crash. Bryan Fanning’s illuminating excursus through some three centuries of Irish political and social discourse instead offers a very timely and perceptive ‘we are where we were’ take on the current Irish predicament. Thoughtful, reflective, rich in anecdote and with lively pen portraits of a dozen thinkers, ranging from William Petty to Conor Cruise O’Brien and taking in along the way the likes of Edmund Burke, John Mitchel, James Connolly, Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington and Friedrich Engels, Fanning’s work is a distinguished contribution to a small corpus of work on the Irish intellectual tradition. At a time when Ireland appears to be directionless even purposeless, such a work is badly needed to inform contemporary debate about Ireland’s future. * Tom Bartlett, Professor of Irish History, University of Aberdeen, UK *A great idea for a book from a leading Irish academic and public intellectual! Here clearly explained and cleverly dissected are twelve provocative perspectives on Ireland’s future, dating from Sir William Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland (1672) to Fintan O’Toole’s How to Build a New Republic (2010). * Professor Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (2006) and Famine: A Short History (2009) *Table of Contents1. Modest Proposals and Irish Futures 2. William Petty's Final Solution 3. William Molyneux and the Case for Ireland 4. Edmund Burke and the Case for Union 5. Thomas Malthus and Catholic Emancipation 6. Richard Whately and End of Ascendancy 7. Friedrich Engels and the Crisis of Irish Character 8. John Mitchel and the Last Conquest of Ireland 9. James Connolly and the Triumph of Catholic Nationalism 10. Hannah Sheehy Skeffington versus the Free State 11. Jeremiah Newman and Catholic Decline 12. The Lonely Passion of Conor Cruise O'Brien 13. Fintan O'Toole's Second Republic 14. Ghosts of Futures Past
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Edinburgh University Press Science Technology Culture in Modern
Book SynopsisBringstogether articles focusing on science, technology and culture in France, all of which intersect with the research interests of Professor Chris Johnson. The articles engage with the rich French-language tradition of philosophical speculation on science, scientific practice, and the relationship between the human and technology.
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Edinburgh University Press Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict
Book SynopsisIn them, Kolst examines how the drivers behind ethnic conflicts in the non-Russian republics were not only struggles for collective identities but also more mundane interests, such as competition for jobs and positions.Trade Review"The monograph by P l Kolst is solid and high-quality scientific research that will be useful to social and political scientists." -Georgi Asatryan
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Hodder & Stoughton Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci
Book Synopsis'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves' PETER POMERANTSEVToday's defining celebrities have crafted public personae that walk the tightrope between authenticity and artificiality. Ordinary people now follow suit: lovingly tending our 'personal brands' for economic gain and self-expression alike.Instagram culture is part of a story that goes back centuries. The vision that we not only can but should 'make' our own selves to shape our own destiny is an inextricable part of the formation of the modern world.As traditional powers of pre-modernity - church and throne - waned, a new myth took their place: that of the 'self-made man', whose unique powers of personality - or canny self-presentation - give him not just the opportunity, but the obligation, to remake reality in the image of what he wants it to be.From the Renaissance genius to the Regency dandy, the American prophets of capitalism to the aspirational übermensch of European fascism, Hollywood's Golden Age to today's Silicon Valley, Self-Made takes us on a dazzling tour of modern history's most prominent self-makers, uncovering both self-making's liberatory power, and the dangers this idea can unleash.'Both revelatory and a warning about the ways that focus on the self distorts our individual lives and the broader society' FRANCIS FUKUYAMATrade ReviewA fun, insightful romp . . . we're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here -- Rachel Aspden * Guardian *A fast-moving train of a book . . . Burton is a confident conductor * New York Times *Throughout her gripping account Burton homes in on the tensions at the heart of all self-making acts: between authenticity and artificiality, and between the self that is given and the self that is desired * Times Literary Supplement *This funny, startling, insightful story of the selfie, from Dürer to the Kardashians, is a must read if you want to understand how we reinvent ourselves every time we reveal ourselves -- Peter Pomerantsev, author of This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against RealitySelf-Made takes the reader on an incredible journey that begins in the Renaissance and ends with the Kardashians, Donald Trump, and Silicon Valley's extropians, tracing the peculiarly modern phenomenon of people who make themselves the objects of their life's work. It is both revelatory and a warning about the ways that focus on the self distorts our individual lives and the broader society -- Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political OrderTara Isabella Burton's thoughtful, beautifully written book charts the engrossing history of the self-made man (and woman) from the geniuses of the Renaissance to present-day reality TV stars. Philosophical, ethical and pragmatic by turns, Burton urgently interrogates the culturally dominant myths of individualism and self-realisation, asking what we lose when we gain what we think we really want: when we make ourselves into gods -- Carolyne Larrington, author of The Norse Myths: A Guide to Viking and Scandinavian Gods and HeroesBurton is that rare cultural critic who delivers insight with sass and wears her deep knowledge of history and philosophy with a lightness and grace. A dazzling cast of characters struts across these pages, but Burton is always fully in control; every case study and example accretes to build her argument, for we are not merely self-stylists but shapeshifters, not just makers, but gods -- Marina Benjamin, author of InsomniaRanging from Aristotle to OnlyFans by way of the Marquis de Sade and Frederick Douglass, Tara Isabella Burton delights, infuriates and instructs while offering some of the sharpest and most insightful social commentary being written today. This is a book you will not forget -- Walter Russell Mead, author of The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish PeopleLooking around at the strange terrain of American politics, religion, culture, and media, almost everyone is asking, "What happened?" and "What's next?" This book tells us the story behind those questions. Those who wonder why almost every aspect of life seems to be, at best, a reality television series and, at worst, a dark science fiction drama, will need this important work. This book will shift the conversation, at perhaps just the right time -- Russell Moore, author of Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical AmericaWhat does the Marquis de Sade have to do with David Bowie? Oscar Wilde with Oprah Winfrey? Montaigne with Donald Trump? Learn the fascinating historical and philosophical connections over the past five centuries in this erudite and wildly entertaining study on the fine art of self-creation, one of the modern era's defining cultural traits long before Instagram made it a daily universal habit -- Tony Perrottet, author of The Sinner’s Grand Tour: A Journey Through the Historical Underbelly of EuropeIn the spirit of Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland and Barbara Ehrenreich's Bright Sided, Tara Isabella Burton delivers a fascinating intellectual and cultural history of our never-ending quest to reinvent ourselves. She masterfully balances high and low culture, ranging from Renaissance sculptors and Parisian Dandies, to American hucksters and Instagram selfies. Self-Made clears through the fog of our current moment and lets us see the methods behind our collective madness. An essential read for our era of Late-Stage Everything -- Jamie Wheal, author of Recapture the RaptureSince the rise of Instagram and Facebook, how we present ourselves to the world has become a contemporary obsession. But as Tara Isabella Burton shows in her new book, Self-Made, it has a long history, from Beau Brummel to the Kardashians. The result is a fascinating, deeply researched and entertaining tour de force -- Simon Worrall, author of Starcrossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler’s ParisWide-ranging . . . With clarity and authority, Burton sheds light on how the self-made indulge in the profitable "fantasy of selling yourself" and provide an escape from reality for their followers. It's an eye-opener * Publishers Weekly *Burton concludes that our search for self-definition is ultimately a search for what it means to be human: vulnerable and inextricably interconnected. A thoughtful, well-grounded cultural history * Kirkus *It's a remarkable journey we humans have been on . . . The heights of self-aggrandisement Burton encounters are dizzying . . . she does not condemn outright the modern urge for self-expression. Bounding from one historical anecdote to the next, she reveals the human ingenuity that is unleashed when God's plan for us is taken out of the equation -- Rachel Cunliffe * New Statesman *Burton is right and brave to surmise that hollow self-making offers the wrong kind of answers to the modern bourgeois or digital peasant who wants to live a happy or meaningful life * Wall Street Journal *
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s
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Hermits United Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth
Book SynopsisFou Lei (1908-1966) is modern China's most renowned critic-translator. This biography is a revelation of his formative years in Europe between the Wars, and an investigation of his existential struggles between Revolutions. Other than minor corrections, this edition is identical to the Brill version (2017; 2020), discontinued since 2022.Trade Review‘A powerfully argued and deeply moving study, linking Shanghai and Paris, of one of twentieth-century China’s greatest and most courageous public intellectuals. Uncovering previously unknown primary sources that detail personal relationships in Paris, Hu Mingyuan charts the evolution of Fou Lei’s resistance to authoritarianism and the seeds of his tragic demise.’ – Claire Roberts, Professor of Art History at the University of Melbourne, author of Friendship in Art: Fou Lei and Huang Binhong; ‘Now Hu Mingyuan, a Chinese-British scholar, has published this impeccably researched and deeply sympathetic account of the evolution of Fou Lei’s mental world. Throughout the book, Hu is never afraid to think laterally and creatively, infusing a lyrical quality into her writing, a quality which lifts her work far above the run-of-the-mill academic studies of modern Chinese culture.’ – John Minford, Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the Australian National University, and Sin Wai Kin Distinguished Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong'; ‘This is a ground-breaking biography of twentieth-century China’s greatest translator. The discoveries rigorously unearthed in Parisian archives by Dr Hu Mingyuan shed an entirely new light on Fou Lei’s links to French friends such as Jean Daniélou and René Étiemble. The reconstruction of Fou Lei’s intellectual itinerary through his brotherhood with his authors and heroes, be it Romain Rolland and his Jean-Christophe or Hippolyte Taine and his Philosophy of Art, restitutes for the reader this Insistence on Truth which gives Fou Lei’s tragic destiny its true meaning.’ – Pierre Barroux, former Consul General of France in ShanghaiTable of ContentsNote on the New Edition Note on Transliteration Note on Translation Prologue Part I. Shanghai in Revolution: An Unlived Youth 1 Everywhere a Stranger Part II. The Spleen of Paris: A Bildungsroman 2 Crisis: What Bruges Did Not Appease 3 Malady: Child of the Century by Lac Léman 4 Remedy: The Promise of Tainean Scientism 5 Fever: From Werther to Beethoven 6 Light: A Willed Metamorphosis Part III. Shanghai in Turmoil: A Land of Chimera 7 Moralising in Times of War: A Critic was Born 8 Translating, or the Search for a Brother 9 Creatures of Prometheus, or Unresolved Grief Epilogue Bibliography Index Acknowledgements
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Hermits United Fou Lai
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Verso Books The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory
Book SynopsisAs the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, is that of theory. Over the last twenty-five years, radical intellectuals across the world have produced important and innovative ideas. The endeavour to transform the world without falling into the catastrophic traps of the past has been a common element uniting these new approaches. This book-aimed at both the general reader and the specialist-offers the first global cartography of the expanding intellectual field of critical contemporary thought. More than thirty authors and intellectual currents of every continent are presented in a clear and succinct manner. A history of critical thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is also provided, helping situate current thinkers in a broader historical and sociological perspective.Trade ReviewA dizzying menagerie of anti-capitalist thought. * Pop Matters *
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Verso Books The H-Word: The Peripeteia of Hegemony
Book SynopsisFew terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact meaning, as hegemony.In the first full historical study of its fortunes as a concept, Perry Anderson traces its emergence in Ancient Greece and its rediscovery during the upheavals of 1848-1849 in Germany. He then follows its checkered career in revolutionary Russia, fascist Italy, Cold War America, Gaullist France, Thatcher's Britain, post-colonial India, feudal Japan, Maoist China, eventually arriving at twenty-first-century US geopolitics and Germany's place within an expanded European Union. The result is a surprising and fascinating expedition into global intellectual history.Trade ReviewAnderson's work displays stunning erudition. Part of a larger attempt to explain the forms and transformations of liberal power, The H-Word helps us understand how one hegemony dies and another begins. -- Gavin Jacobson * New Statesman *Fascinating history -- Adam Tooze * FT *If you want to see how hegemony has been transformed from a critical term in the lexicon of leftist scholars and activists to a less critical but increasingly pervasive term in the lexicon of those interrogating late US imperialism, then The H-Word is a book well worth reading. -- Jim Glassman * Antipode *Anderson deploys his formidable erudition to craft short chapters on the conflicting understandings of hegemony among Ancient Greek and Roman historians, Russian revolutionaries, Prussian military theorists, Italian communists (where Gramsci shows up), Anglo-American international relations scholars, Chinese statesmen from Confucius to Mao, post-structuralist Marxists (where Gramsci reappears), and the architects of the European Union. This is accomplished with admirably clear and jargon-free prose, and the book is a pleasure to read. -- Eduardo Frajman, Marx & Philosophy SocietyEngaging -- John Ikenberry * Foreign Affairs *Perry Anderson offers a global intellectual history of the many meanings, applications, and turning points in the use of hegemony as a theoretical tool. The most impressive aspect is the breadth he must operate with in terms of history, disciplines, and geographic contexts beyond Marxist theory and beyond the continent of Europe. -- Chris Hardnack * Socialism and Democracy *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The: Coming of the Mongols
Book SynopsisThe Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork for the later Mongol success. In the mid-twelfth century the Seljuq empire rapidly unravelled, its vast provinces fragmenting into a patchwork of mostly short-lived principalities and kingdoms. In time, new powers emerged, such as the pagan Qara-Khitai in Central Asia; the Khwarazmshahs in Khwarazm, Khorosan and much of central Iran; and the Ghurids to the southeast. Yet all were blown away by the Mongols, who faced no resistance from a sufficiently muscular imperial competitor and whose influx was viewed by contemporaries as cataclysmic. Distinguished scholars including David O Morgan and the late C E Bosworth here discuss the dynasties that preceded the invasion – and aspects of their literature, poetry and science – as well as the conquerors themselves and their rule in Iran from 1219 to 1256.
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Rivers Oram Press Future of History
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Rivers Oram Press Visions of the Future
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Rivers Oram Press America
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Adventures with Britannia: Personalities,
Book SynopsisAssembling the reflections of prominent writers on the political and intellectual history of modern Britain, this book deals with a rich variety of themes, taking the reader on an excursion through British life and manners. The scope includes the personalities, politics and culture of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.Table of ContentsThe myth of T.E. Lawrence, Albert Hourani; Paul Scott - novelist and historian, Hilary Spurling; Winston Churchill as historian, Robert Blake; the "special relationship" 1947-1952, Oliver Franks; open and secret war 1938-1945, M.R.D. Foot; personalities and appeasement, Donald Cameron Watt; Bertrand Russell's politics - 1688 or 1968?, Alan Ryan; how liberal was John Stuart Mill?, Joseph Hamburger; British post-war sterling crises, Diane Kunz; the lure of the "TLS", Adolf Wood; "drinking tea with treason" - Halifax in India, Sarvepalli Gopal; the interpretation of fairy tales - implications for literature, history and anthropology, Derek Brewer; Toynbee revisited, William H. McNeill; Keynes and the United States, Robert Skidelsky; F.R. Leavis and the "anthropologico-literary" group - we were that Cambridge, Ian MacKillop; Wavell and the war in the Middle East 1940-1941, Michael Carver; reflections on strategic deception, Michael Howard; who cares about Cyril Connolly?, Jeremy Lewis; Chamberlain and appeasement, R.A.C. Parker; British attitudes toward the Mexican Revolution 1910-1940, Alan Knight; Welsh nationalism, Kenneth O. Morgan; British studies at the University of Texas 1975-1995.
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AK Press A Cavalier History Of Surrealism
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Wellred Books The Revolutionary Philosophy of Marxism: Selected
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CB Editions Blush
Book SynopsisIn text and colour photographs, Blush investigates the history of blushing in society and literature from the late 18th century to the present.
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ACA Publishing Limited China’s New Strategies for Governing the Country
Book SynopsisTo say that China is a nation in transition is both a statement of the obvious and also a massive understatement. In the last 30 years, this country of 1.4 billion people has experienced annual economic growth of 10% or more, which has brought it to the forefront of the world’s trading nations. It has seen great shifts of population – over half its citizens now live in cities compared with just one-fifth before the reform process began – and huge changes to its social and legal structures. It has industrialized and modernized faster than any society has ever attempted before.China now looks forward to an era of consolidating that position and of evolving all of its political, legal, social and environmental structures to carry progress forward to 2020 and beyond.In eight chapters, the authors of this book describe how the Communist Party of China (CPC) led by General Secretary Xi Jinping intends to guide the country on its continuing path to greater prosperity. The chapters explore: China’s economy and the steps needed to make it fit for the years ahead; the ongoing processes of reform and opening up; the rule of law in the specific context of Chinese society; and evolution of China’s political systems. There are chapters on the subject of the people’s livelihood, and on ecological matters; and on the shape of its industry, the adoption of new technologies, and recognition of a coming shift in the balance of manufacturing and service sectorsThe book highlights the fact that China’s progress to date has not been in any way accidental, but has been the outcome of planned process, dating back to the late 1970s and the beginning of reform and opening up. Recognising that continued double-digit growth will not be sustainable going forward, the CPC has formulated plans to shape and adjust the systems needed to govern China in the new conditions; goals such as doubling the size of the economy from 2000 to 2020 remain in place as do other themes that run throughout the text; for example, furthering socialism with Chinese characteristics, and achieving prosperity for all of the Chinese population. The book concludes that the overall forces of reform apply equally to the CPC itself, and considers how the party must always exercise strict self-governance to fit it for the task of governing China as it approaches the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party in 2021.
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LID Publishing Humanity's Lucky Clover: A history of
Book SynopsisWhy do some states and societies thrive while others do not? What awaits us in the future? Is there a universal model that can guide our success? The author, Vadim Makhov believes that there is and that it can be found by means of careful analysis of the past. In this truly big-idea book, he presents his `lucky clover' theory in which, when four critical elements - science, society, innovation and wealth - are present, interacting and developing simultaneously, culminate in success. Having studied hundreds of sources, scrutinized numerous tangled intricacies in world history, and found interesting correlations between various events and phenomena, the author sets out to demonstrate that, through careful analysis of the past, we can find the right path to success.Trade Review"To demonstrate his theory, innovator Vadim Makhov reviews various concepts of human development that have been formulated prior to his own, and the book Humanity's Lucky Clover presents an impressive collection of knowledge, ideas, and common sense. Carefully written, elegantly laid out, and artistically illustrated, this book will undoubtedly be of interest to those looking at the world in a systematic way." --Noubar Afeyan, PhD, Founder and CEO, Flagship Pioneering "With penetrating simplicity and clarity, Vadim Makhov takes us through the world's history of great innovations. Highly recommended." --Dr. Michael Obermayer, Former Senior Partner and Founding Chairman, McKinsey Eastern Group "Fascinating reading for all curious minds willing to explore and understand the complex world around us. Vadim takes us to a cross-disciplinary intellectual adventure where concepts from economics, natural sciences, and history are merged together to develop an authentic model of social, technological, and economic innovation. Deep analysis with amazingly wide factual basis, yet very clear and captivating reading with abundant original vignettes and anecdotes." --Marat Atnashev, PhD, Dean of the Moscow School of Management, SKOLKOVO
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Wellred Books In Defence of Marxism
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David Zwirner ArtCenter Talks: Graduate Seminar, The First
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Télélivre Sprl Akakia
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Walter de Gruyter Geschichte
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Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Die Wuste: Literaturgeschichte Einer Urlandschaft
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Ausgewahlte Schriften Zur Philosophie Kants
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Karl-Alber-Verlag Sich Selbst Verstehen: Ein Lesebuch
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Karl-Alber-Verlag Die Geburt Der Philosophie Bei Den Griechen: Eine
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Kants Kritik Der Vernunft ALS Theorie Der
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Dietrich Reimer Wissensdinge: Geschichten Aus Dem
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Brill Deutschland Eusebius Von Caesarea
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Entdeckt, erdacht, erfunden: 20 Göttinger
Book SynopsisGöttingen, "die Stadt, die Wissen schafft", die Stadt der Nobelpreisträger. Wegweisende Erfindungen gehen auf Göttinger zurück, manche in Göttingen entwickelte Idee ist wiederum längst vergessen. Einige brachten Fortschritt und Innovation, andere Skandale und Unglück, wieder andere sollten dem Erfinder zu großem Ruhm verhelfen, scheiterten aber schon in ihrer Entstehung. Jenseits der bekannten Namen wie Gauß und Weber wirft dieses Buch die Frage auf, wie Wissen in Göttingen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Jahrhunderten entwickelt wurde, zu welchem Preis mancher seine Forschung vorantrieb und welche Geschichte hinter den Ideen steht. Vom ersten Göttinger Nobelpreisträger Otto Wallach, der 1910 mit seinen Forschungen den Grundstein für die Herstellung von Duft- und Aromastoffen legte, über den Nukleus der Rassenideologie bis hin zum Kokain spannt der Sammelband einen Bogen über die kuriosesten, bahnbrechendsten und verwerflichsten Ideen auf, die ihren Ursprung in Göttingen nahmen.
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Lit Verlag Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein Builders of
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Grin Publishing Die dialogphilosophische Auffassung von Sprache
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Hatje Cantz Esch2022: PURE EUROPE
Book SynopsisEurope is often defined in either strictly political terms or rather vague cultural notions. But where do these definitions come from? Were they ever true? And do they make sense in today’s globalized world? Exploring Europe through various perspectives, this exhibition catalog offers a view of what constitutes Europe and Europeans. It is structured around six clichés about Europe, which – like all clichés—contain a grain of truth, but also express a bias.
£18.00
Hatje Cantz Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter
Book SynopsisFemxphotographers.org’s second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Women’s bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are vilified and their voices silenced. This is true throughout history and in different cultures worldwide. A book about female vision, the power of the mind, as well as dreams and fantasies, logic and intuition, Mind Over Matter is an exploration of inner strength, courage, determination, willpower, and support in complex and individual series. Edited by Roula Seikalyi and with contributions by photographers from the team as well as many guest artists and writers, the publication has the character of an illustrated reader.
£27.20
Hatje Cantz steirischer herbst '21: The Way Out of...
Book SynopsisContemporary art, as well as our society in general, is - according to the diagnosis of the interdisciplinary art festival steirischer herbst ’21 - in a dead end. The Way Out of... features texts by international contributors to the festival’s discussion program that outlines ways out of the white cube, failed political art, and an unrestrained digital capitalism, and shows new paths for climate justice, a more critical race theory, and new activists. Accessible and pointedly written, this reader offers rich food for thought on the multiple crises of our times.
£20.40
Hirmer Verlag Tell Me About Yesterday Tomorrow: About the
Book SynopsisHistorical events and our knowledge of them mould our understanding of today’s world. The interdisciplinary authorship of this volume focuses on the connection between past and future. A bold and unusual publication whose approaches and themes extend from biographical experiences via intergenerational exchange to the discussion of current social phenomena.To what extent does (lack of) knowledge of the past influence our view of the present and our tales of the future? Authors from the realms of history, art, philosophy, journalism, poetry, cartoons and film investigate complex everyday reality in history and the present and direct their attention towards the shifts in political hegemonies which lead to ostracism, denigration and destruction. They have explicitly chosen an international perspective which shows that social polarisation and radicalisation are not phenomena limited by national boundaries, but are universal social manifestations in a globally interlinked world.
£21.21
Hirmer Verlag Power to Imagination: Artists, Posters and
Book SynopsisPosters from the late 19th century to Robert Indiana's poster designs for Barack Obama tell the story of protest. Contemporary events seen through the eyes of 20th century artists show a passion for freedom and human rights and demand equality and tolerance. L'imagination au pouvoir was a slogan devised by artist Pierre Aléchinsky during the May 1968 student riots in Paris. The particular appeal of political posters for avant-garde artists comes from their dual inspiration of utopian ideals and Jive history. The postwar period, when Picasso's unassuming dove image was commandeered by the Communist peace movement, was succeeded by the general wilful resistance of the younger generation in the 1960s. In 1968, many supported the students' demands and produced political posters. In the 1970s, the focus turned to freedom for minorities, and this was followed not much later by environmental pollution a great concern of artists such as Joseph Beuys. In the mid-80s, the AIDS scare turned eyes on to discrimination and social marginalisation; and the concept of equality resurfaced, especially in the work of American artists such as Keith Haring and Jenny Holtzer. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, followed by globalization, was reflected in posters by Robert Rauschenberg and others. This story of international protest movements, narrated through vivid designs by the great artists of our day, is also a story of the art of the period a selective view, perhaps, but nonetheless an expression of astonishing continuity and authenticity. In addition the publication includes among others works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Jons, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró and Roy Lichtenstein.
£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Jin-me Yoon: About Time
Book SynopsisJin-me Yoon is an important Canadian lens-based artist who has been working steadily since emerging on Vancouver’s contemporary art scene in the 1990s. Produced in tandem with a major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2022, About Time focuses on Yoon’s monumental and multifaceted production of the last decade, which typically combines photography, video, performance and installation. About Time focuses primarily on Jin-me Yoon’s most recent artistic practice. In these layered works, Yoon continues to address the subject matter of diasporic experience, colonialism, imperialism and militarism, but with a politicized awareness of what it means to live and work as a diasporic artist on land stolen from Indigenous peoples. Characterized by a restrained poetic style, use of slowness and repetition, and sensory use of sound, Yoon’s recent corpus is undergirded by a strong environmentalist thrust. Recurring tropes of this mature phase of her work include cinematic tableaux of individuals integrated within the Pacific West Coast’s stunning natural landscapes.
£31.96
Universitatsverlag Winter Am Anfang Schuf Gott Himmel Und Erde: Grundfragen
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£43.20
Tectum Verlag Denis Diderot - Ein Funkenspruhender Kopf: Eine
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£26.10
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Ethische Entscheidungsfindung: Ein Handbuch Fur
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£31.50
Skira Others: Polimoda
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