History of scholarship Books
Berghahn Books Gender in Germany and Beyond: Exploring the
Book Synopsis Jean Quataert redefined the boundaries of at least five historical fields including European socialism, women’s history and gender history, and international law and human rights. In this volume dedicated to her pioneering work, established and emerging scholars showcase the signature ways in which Quataert, as one of the discipline’s first women’s historians, has influenced how subsequent generations think about history writing as a form of intellectual activism. Gender in Germany and Beyond presents cutting edge historiographical commentary alongside new work which address subjects such as the history of German colonialism and women’s colonial leagues, human rights advocacy during the Cold War, and the complexities of turn of the century gay and lesbian rights organizing.Trade Review “This is a collection of excellent scholarly historical essay honoring the late professor Jean H. Quataert. The articles by her colleagues and her former students further explore research themes (labor, law, and human rights) that were especially important features of Quataert’s own scholarly development” • Karen Offen, Stanford UniversityTable of Contents List of Illustrations Chronology Introduction: Beginnings not Ends Kathleen Canning and Jennifer V. Evans Part I: Negotiating Gender Chapter 1. Strategic Communities: Self-Fashioning, Political Dissent, and the Search for Homosexual Rights in Wilhelmine Germany Glenn Ramsey Chapter 2. “Why Do We Need the German Colonial Women’s League?” Reinventing Colonial Women’s Activism in Wartime and Weimar Germany, 1914-1926 K. Molly O’Donnell Chapter 3. Marie Juchacz and Toni Sender: Socialism, Women’s Emancipation, and Weimar Politics William Smaldone Chapter 4. Gender Anxieties and Censorship in Weimar: Aufklärungsfilme and Article 118 Kara Ritzheimer Part II: Mobilizing Human Rights Chapter 5. Victimhood and Memory: Danube Swabians and the Ethnic Cleansing Campaigns in Yugoslavia, 1944-1948 Ute Ritz-Deutch Chapter 6. Coming to Grips with American Racism: Anne Moody’s Human Rights Advocacy in Germany During the Late Cold War Leigh Ann Wheeler Chapter 7. Contested Progress: Women and Women’s Studies at East and West German Universities – The Example of the History Profession Karen Hagemann Chapter 8. Reluctant Activists: Human Rights, Cleveland’s Catholic Left, and El Salvador Shelley E. Rose Chapter 9. How Do People Use Human Rights, and What Happens When They Do? A Conversation with Jean H. Quataert Lora Wildenthal Afterword: The Politics of the Personal Belinda Davis
£89.10
Berghahn Books The Burden of German History: A Transatlantic
Book Synopsis As one of the leading historians of Modern Europe and an internationally acclaimed scholar for the past five decades, Konrad H. Jarausch presents a sustained academic reflection on the post-war German effort to cope with the guilt of the Holocaust amongst a generation of scholars too young to have been perpetrators. Ranging from his war-time childhood to Americanization as a foreign student, from his development as a professional historian to his directorship of the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung and concluding with his mentorship of dozens of PhDs, The Burden of Germany History reflects on the emergence of a self-critical historiography of a twentieth-century Germany that was wrestling with the responsibility for war and genocide. This partly professional and partly personal autobiography explores a wide range of topics including the development of German historiography and its methodological debates, the interdisciplinary teaching efforts in German studies, and the role of scholarly organizations and institutions.Trade Review “Konrad Jarausch’s academic memoir reveals a “hybrid identity” of many dimensions: an historian of Germany and Europe’s periods of both “catastrophe” and “recovery”; an historian of both of Germany’s post-war regimes—the “re-civilized” democracy in the west and the “welfare dictatorship” in the east; an historian of multiple methodologies; and finally a “transatlantic mediator” and “double insider” with a distinguished career on each side of the ocean.” • Christopher R. Browning, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillTable of Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: A Poisoned Past Chapter 1. Child of War Chapter 2. Adventure America Chapter 3. Becoming a Historian Chapter 4. Exploring German Pasts Chapter 5. The Wild East Chapter 6. Southern Part of Heaven Conclusion: German Lessons A Note on Sources Books by Konrad H. Jarausch Selected Bibliography
£84.55
Berghahn Books Chicanery: Senior Academic Appointments in
Book Synopsis Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. It is also a time when harsh assessments can be made about colleagues’ intellectual abilities and their capacity as a scholar and fieldworker. The assessors’ reports were often disturbingly personal, laying bare their likes and dislikes that could determine the futures of peers and colleagues. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process, and includes accounts of the appointments of influential anthropologists such as Raymond Firth and Alexander Ratcliffe-Brown.Trade Review “This is an erudite eye-opening account of key appointments which shaped Antipodean anthropology. Three prominent Pacific historians scour the academic undergrowth to illuminate the politics of electing Chairs. It makes extensive (indeed, mind-boggling) use of primary sources in public and private archives, as well as interviews to bring clarity to the politics of senior appointments within a nuanced appreciation of context.” • Robert Gordon, University of VermontTable of Contents Prologue Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Establishing Social Anthropology in the Antipodes Chapter 2. Anthropology at Sydney: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and A.P. Elkin Chapter 3. Australasian Anthropology and the Second World War Chapter 4. ‘A Matter of Reproach to New Zealand’: Auckland University College, 1949 Chapter 5. ‘The Brightest of His Generation’: Siegfried Frederick Nadel, Foundation Professor of Anthropology, the Australian National University Chapter 6. Finding a Successor to A.P. Elkin, 1955 Chapter 7. Expansion: Anthropology at the University of Western Australia Chapter 8. A Successor to S.F. Nadel Chapter 9. Sydney Again Conclusion Epilogue References Index
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Berghahn Books Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life
Book Synopsis How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century. The book explores their early influences, their insecurities, their flaws, struggles and achievements. It is a story of passion and commitment, but also of deceit and betrayal, including the inexplicable disappearance, death and alleged murder of a very close friend. It also narrates Rosemary's struggles for emotional and intellectual independence in the face of societal expectations of women and her own guilt, loss and self-doubt. From the Prologue: Rosemary loved many people in many different ways, but she loved two men in particular throughout most of her life. One was her husband, Raymond Firth, regarded by some as among the founding fathers of social anthropology. Yet she also retained a passionate devotion to her first love, Edmund Leach, who would subsequently become the public intellectual face of social anthropology in the later 1960s. Both separately and together they were part of the process of defining the nature of this still growing discipline in the first part of the mid-twentieth century.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Important People Chronology Introduction Chapter 1. Edmund, 1928-1931 Chapter 2. I Know He Will Come Back, 1931-1932 Chapter 3. A Proposal, 1932-1934 Chapter 4. Raymond, 1934-1935 Chapter 5. By the Trickery of Cunning Fate, 1936-1938 Chapter 6. Have You Been Bombed? 1938-1940 Chapter 7. Under Attack, 1940 Chapter 8. Opened by Censor, 1941-1942 Chapter 9. One Suit and Two Blouses, 1942-1943 Chapter 10. Clogs, Cotton, Commerce and Cream, 1943 Chapter 11. Twenty Hens, Three Cats and a Fish, 1944-1949 Chapter 12. The Cost of Change, 1951-1952 Chapter 13. Goblins, 1952-1953 Chapter 14. Dancing Days and Orchid Nights, 1953-1961 Chapter 15. Bursting with Ideas, 1959-1964 Chapter 16. Scorched Earth, 1965-1966 Chapter 17. The Wheel Keeps Turning, 1967-1969 Chapter 18. Together Again, 1969 Chapter 19. Only by Change Can Things Not Die, 1970-1978 Chapter 20. The Dark Side of the Moon, 1978-1979 Chapter 21. Knowing Too Much and Too Little, 1979 Chapter 22. Pity Bolts Other Doors, 1979-1981 Chapter 23. Almost Like Brothers, 1984-1986 Chapter 24. Who was that Woman? 1986-1997 Selected Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life
Book Synopsis How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle of some of the most acclaimed anthropologists of the 20th century. Told by Rosemary and Raymond Firth's son, and the daughter of Celia and Edmund Leach, the man Rosemary loved all her life, this part love-story, part biography, part social history is the tale of a highly influential circle of social anthropologists in Britain from the 1930s, through the Second World War, to the end of the century. The book explores their early influences, their insecurities, their flaws, struggles and achievements. It is a story of passion and commitment, but also of deceit and betrayal, including the inexplicable disappearance, death and alleged murder of a very close friend. It also narrates Rosemary's struggles for emotional and intellectual independence in the face of societal expectations of women and her own guilt, loss and self-doubt. From the Prologue: Rosemary loved many people in many different ways, but she loved two men in particular throughout most of her life. One was her husband, Raymond Firth, regarded by some as among the founding fathers of social anthropology. Yet she also retained a passionate devotion to her first love, Edmund Leach, who would subsequently become the public intellectual face of social anthropology in the later 1960s. Both separately and together they were part of the process of defining the nature of this still growing discipline in the first part of the mid-twentieth century.Table of Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Important People Chronology Introduction Chapter 1. Edmund, 1928-1931 Chapter 2. I Know He Will Come Back, 1931-1932 Chapter 3. A Proposal, 1932-1934 Chapter 4. Raymond, 1934-1935 Chapter 5. By the Trickery of Cunning Fate, 1936-1938 Chapter 6. Have You Been Bombed? 1938-1940 Chapter 7. Under Attack, 1940 Chapter 8. Opened by Censor, 1941-1942 Chapter 9. One Suit and Two Blouses, 1942-1943 Chapter 10. Clogs, Cotton, Commerce and Cream, 1943 Chapter 11. Twenty Hens, Three Cats and a Fish, 1944-1949 Chapter 12. The Cost of Change, 1951-1952 Chapter 13. Goblins, 1952-1953 Chapter 14. Dancing Days and Orchid Nights, 1953-1961 Chapter 15. Bursting with Ideas, 1959-1964 Chapter 16. Scorched Earth, 1965-1966 Chapter 17. The Wheel Keeps Turning, 1967-1969 Chapter 18. Together Again, 1969 Chapter 19. Only by Change Can Things Not Die, 1970-1978 Chapter 20. The Dark Side of the Moon, 1978-1979 Chapter 21. Knowing Too Much and Too Little, 1979 Chapter 22. Pity Bolts Other Doors, 1979-1981 Chapter 23. Almost Like Brothers, 1984-1986 Chapter 24. Who was that Woman? 1986-1997 Selected Bibliography Index
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Berghahn Books Mary Douglas
Book Synopsis This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify one another, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes. This biography offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival. From the Preface: The influence of Professor Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) upon each of the social sciences and many of the disciplines in the humanities is vast. The list of her works is also vast, and this presents a problem of choice for the many readers who want to get a general idea of what she wrote and its significance, but who are somewhat baffled about where to begin. Our book offers a short overview and suggests why her key writings remain significant today.Trade Review “A very thought-provoking book that provides a new way to look at modern conflict, disinformation and the loss of trust in institutions. Douglas's ideas are particularly timely now - but not well understood. This offers a lively, clear guide to her key thoughts - and a great frame to understand a world spinning out of control.” • Gillian Tett, Provost of King’s College Cambridge “The book is well written, adopting something of Mary’s own freedom of association. I think the authors are correct to plead for her relevance for contemporary anthropology. Especially when they are talking about apparently unsurmountable vicious polarizations.” • Peter Fry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) “This is a big book that happens to be short in length, a master class in lucid compression that faces both past and future: outlining Douglas’s biography and times, explaining her theories and their myriad applications, while building an original synthesis on her legacy.” • Richard Fardon, SOAS University of LondonTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. A Biographical Sketch Chapter 2. Purity and Danger Chapter 3. Four Sides to Every Question Chapter 4. Risks and Solidarities Chapter 5. Institutions and Thought Styles Chapter 6. Ritual and Categories Chapter 7. Gifts, Goods, and Economic Development Chapter 8. Strife Conclusion Appendix References Index
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Berghahn Books Mary Douglas
Book Synopsis This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her work focused on how human groups classify one another, and how they resolve the anomalies that then arise. Classification, she argued, emerges from practices of social life, and is a factor in all deep and intractable human disputes. This biography offers an introduction to how her distinctive approach developed across a long and productive career and how it applies to current pressing issues of social conflict and planetary survival. From the Preface: The influence of Professor Dame Mary Douglas (1921-2007) upon each of the social sciences and many of the disciplines in the humanities is vast. The list of her works is also vast, and this presents a problem of choice for the many readers who want to get a general idea of what she wrote and its significance, but who are somewhat baffled about where to begin. Our book offers a short overview and suggests why her key writings remain significant today.Trade Review “A very thought-provoking book that provides a new way to look at modern conflict, disinformation and the loss of trust in institutions. Douglas's ideas are particularly timely now - but not well understood. This offers a lively, clear guide to her key thoughts - and a great frame to understand a world spinning out of control.” • Gillian Tett, Provost of King’s College Cambridge “The book is well written, adopting something of Mary’s own freedom of association. I think the authors are correct to plead for her relevance for contemporary anthropology. Especially when they are talking about apparently unsurmountable vicious polarizations.” • Peter Fry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) “This is a big book that happens to be short in length, a master class in lucid compression that faces both past and future: outlining Douglas’s biography and times, explaining her theories and their myriad applications, while building an original synthesis on her legacy.” • Richard Fardon, SOAS University of LondonTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. A Biographical Sketch Chapter 2. Purity and Danger Chapter 3. Four Sides to Every Question Chapter 4. Risks and Solidarities Chapter 5. Institutions and Thought Styles Chapter 6. Ritual and Categories Chapter 7. Gifts, Goods, and Economic Development Chapter 8. Strife Conclusion Appendix References Index
£18.95
Berghahn Books Alfred Cort Haddon: A Very English Savage
Book Synopsis An innovative account of one of the least-understood characters in the history of anthropology. Using previously overlooked, primary sources Ciarán Walsh argues that Haddon, the grandson of anti-slavery activists, set out to revolutionize anthropology in the 1890s in association with a network of anarcho-utopian activists and philosophers. He regards most of what has been written about Haddon in the past as a form of disciplinary folklore shaped by a theory of scientific revolutions. The main action takes place in Ireland, where Haddon adopted the persona of a very English savage in a new form of performed photo-ethnography that constituted a singularly modernist achievement in anthropology. From the Introduction: Alfred Cort Haddon was written out of the story of anthropology for the same reasons that make him interesting today. He was passionately committed to the protection of simpler societies and their civilisations from colonists and their supporters in parliament and the armed forces.Trade Review “The book is lively, well-written, and has the conviction of an author who has thought deeply about the subject. It is also the case that there is room for much more work on Haddon, and the author has provided a more fully-rounded account than we yet have.” • David Shankland, Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Ancestral Knowledges Part I: Becoming an Ethnologist Chapter 1. Becoming an Anthropologist Chapter 2. Lessons from Utopia Chapter 3. Becoming an Ethnologist Part II: The Skull Measuring Business Chapter 4. Ethnical Islands Chapter 5. The Laboratory Chapter 6. Fieldwork Part III: The Fifth Field Chapter 7. Tedious Texts Chapter 8. The Magic Lantern Chapter 9. The Last Dance Conclusion: A Legacy? References Index
£96.30
Berghahn Books The History of Thyssen: Family, Industry and
Book Synopsis As a result of a multi-volume research project, funded by the Thyssen Foundations (Stiftung zur Industriegeschichte Thyssen and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung), ten books were published that served to greatly advance the available knowledge on the Thyssen family and their companies. The results of this project are summarized in this volume which provides both an explanation of how the project was conceptualized and executed and a detailed case study of a family and their business during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It explains the development of both whilst addressing issues such as patriarchal succession; gender roles in the family; wealthy lifestyles in international communities of aristocrats and diplomats; operating across national legislation, institutions, and policies; and discussions of labor and capital. In doing so it connects corporate and family history to provide an all-inclusive view of the development of a business.Table of Contents List of Figures Foreword to the English-Language Edition Volker Berghahn Foreword Introduction Point of Departure: The Thyssen Legacy Elements of an Entangled Family and Corporate History Part I: Family-History Projects: Selected Findings Chapter 1. The Thyssens – family and fortune (Simone Derix, 2016, 2nd ed. 2021) Family and conflict Lifestyle: Family spaces, local roots, mobility “Calculated risk”: The Thyssens, their foundations and advisors Chapter 2. Two civic lives in the public eye.The brothers Fritz Thyssen and Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (Felix de Taillez, 2017) Stepping out from the father’s shadow:Fritz Thyssen as national hero The exclusive circles of Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Out in the open:Fritz Thyssen, the media, and National Socialism Chapter 3. The Thyssens as art collectors. Investment and symbolic capital (1900 -1970) (Johannes Gramlich, 2015, 2nd ed. 2021)] “Normal capitalist bourgeoisie”:August Thyssen sr. and Fritz Thyssen Collecting as vocation: Heinrich and Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza Part II: Corporate-History Projects: Selected Findings Why Thyssen? On the state of research and the research problem On the company’s development Company and family Trust—capital—assets Consultant Selected findings Chapter 4. Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG under National Socialism (Alexander Donges, 2014) Chapter 5. Forced labor at Thyssen.“Stahlverein” and “Baron-Konzern” in the Second World War (Thomas Urban, 2014, 2nd ed. 2021) Chapter 6. The expropriation of Fritz Thyssen. Dispossession and restitution (Jan Schleusener, 2018) Chapter 7. Thyssen in the Adenauer era. Corporate formation and family capitalism (Johannes Bähr, 2015) Chapter 8. From steel group to corporate group. The Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza companies from 1926 to 1932 (Harald Wixforth, 2019) Chapter 9. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Group(Boris Gehlen, 2021) Appendix: Thyssen family tree Sources and Bibliography Overview of Book Series
£19.95
Berghahn Books Ethnographers Before Malinowski: Pioneers of
Book Synopsis Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology.Trade Review “This volume, its contributing authors, and the fieldworkers and ethnographies they restore constitute a creative, necessary resistance to iconoclastic, postcolonial assaults on anthropology. Highly recommended.” • Choice “This collection is an important event in the subfield of history of anthropology. Its editors, two well-known European scholars, have assembled an impressive collection of essays … It should be in the library of every major university.” • Andrew Lyons, Wilfrid Laurier University, WaterlooTable of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword: Unearthing the Hidden Treasures of Early Ethnography Thomas Hylland Eriksen Introduction: . Other Argonauts: Chapters in the History of Pre-Malinowskian Ethnography Frederico Delgado Rosa and Han F. Vermeulen Part I: In Search of the Native’s Point of View Chapter 1. “Adapt Fully to Their Customs”: Franz Boas as an Ethnographer among the Inuit of Baffinland (1883–84) and his Monograph The Central Eskimo (1888) Herbert S. Lewis Chapter 2. “A Sympathetic Chronicler of a Sympathetic People”: Katie Langloh Parker and The Euahlayi Tribe (1905) Barbara Chambers Dawson Chapter 3. Edward Westermarck, a Master Ethnographer, and his Monograph Ritual and Belief in Morocco (1926) David Shankland Part II: The Indigenous Ethnographer’s Magic Chapter 4. Frontier Ethnography and Colonial Theology: Mpengula Mbande and Marginal Informants in Henry Callaway’s The Religious System of the Amazulu (1868–70) David Chidester Chapter 5. At the Feet of the Lord of the Dragons: Tutakangahau, Elsdon Best, and Waikaremoana: The Sea of the Rippling Waters (1897) Jeffrey Paparoa Holman Chapter 6. Partnership with a Native American Family: Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and The Omaha Tribe (1911) Joanna Cohan Scherer Part III: Colonial Ethnography From Invasion to Empathy Chapter 7. Stepping into a Pit of Snakes: John Gregory Bourke and The Snake-Dance of the Moquis of Arizona (1884) Ronald L. Grimes Chapter 8. Totemic Relics and Ancestral Fetishes: Henri Trilles’s Chez les Fang, or Fifteen Years in the French Congo (1912) André Mary Chapter 9. “The Stream Crosses the Path”: Robert Sutherland Rattray and Ashanti (1923) Montgomery McFate Part IV: Expeditionary Ethnography as Intensive Fieldwork Chapter 10. From Savages to Friends: Henrique de Carvalho and his Etnografia e História Tradicional dos Povos da Lunda (1890) Frederico Delgado Rosa Chapter 11. “Do in the Tundra as the Tundra-Dwellers Do”: Maria Czaplicka, her Yenisei Expedition (1914–15), and My Siberian Year (1916) Grażyna Kubica Chapter 12. Developing Fieldwork in the South American Lowlands: Debates and Practices in the Work of German Ethnographers (1884–1928) Michael Kraus Conclusion: Founders of Anthropology and Their Predecessors Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Appendix: Selected Bibliography of Ethnographic Accounts, c.1870–1922 Han F. Vermeulen and Frederico Delgado Rosa Index
£34.20
Canelo The Beverage Report
Book Synopsis**A short history of post-war Britain through twelve alcoholic drinks from the G&T to the Aperol Spritz. **
£13.49
Edward Elgar Publishing Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Book SynopsisEmphasising the Q in qualitative comparative analysis (QCA), Roel Rutten presents QCA as a thoroughly qualitative method to help researchers learn from cases. He highlights that while Boolean expressions describing cross-case patterns are QCAâs most conspicuous element, they do not amount to causal explanations.
£90.25
The Lilliput Press Ltd Nothing Is Written In Stone: The Notebooks of
Book SynopsisJustin Keating, son of the artist Sean Keating, attended UCD and TCD. He was a Labour Party politician (Minister for Industry 1973-77), academic, journalist, veterinary surgeon, television pioneer (as Head of Agricultural Broadcasting at RTE) and award-winning documentary filmmaker. In later life he served as Member of the European Parliament and became president of the Humanist Association. President Michael D. Higgins called him ‘a man who saw socialism as both essential and adaptable to change’. Keating introduced the first substantial legislation for the development of Ireland's oil and gas, set up the National Film Studios of Ireland at Ardmore and gave impetus to Kilkenny Design. He wrote extensively – and with opinions well ahead of his time – on the natural world, including women’s health, animal welfare, sustainable energy and ecology. ‘A well made, fit thoroughbred really striding out seems to me one of the most beautiful things on earth, on a par with an orchid or porpoise.’ Edited posthumously by his wife, Barbara Hussey, Justin Keating’s notebooks offer an in-depth, often-impassioned account of the interests, musings and opinions of one of Ireland’s most wide-ranging intellectuals. His dealings with J.D Bernal, Noël Browne, Sean McBride, Charles Haughey, Gerry Fitt and Conor Cruise-O’Brien, form part of this absorbing chronicle, aside from myriad friendships with writers and artists. Nothing Is Written in Stone is a brilliant selfportrait of this multi-dimensional man, who did so much to shape twenty-first century Ireland.Trade ReviewThe work is a personal testimony. -- Barry Sheppard * The Irish Story *That [Justin Keating] remained willing to change is clear from this illuminating chronicle of a singular and fulfilling life. Barbara Hussey edited these extracts from her husband’s notebooks with the astute collaboration of Anna Kealy. Together they have succeeded, as John Boorman writes in his affectionate preface, in giving Justin a voice beyond the grave. -- Alex White * The Irish Times *Absorbing tale reliving a political odyssey. -- Deirdre Conroy * The Independent *Table of ContentsAcorns to Oaks- On Education; The Godless Institution- On Marxism; Snake and Ladders- Women Religion and Sexuality; Genesis Vs Gaia- Care of the Earth; Ireland's Future- Entering Irish Politics; Doubt is the Mother of Wisdom- Zionism; The Future of the Left- Globalization and Democracy; Loves, Loss and Leavetaking.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Middle East and North Africa 2019
Book SynopsisNow in its sixty-fifth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geopolitical and economic information for this important world area.Key Features:- covers the Middle East and North Africa from Algeria to Yemen - includes topical contributions from acknowledged experts on regional affairs- accurately and impartially records the latest political and economic developments - provides comprehensive data on all major organizations active in the countries of the region. General Survey- introductory essays cover a wide range of topics relating to the region as a whole.Country SurveysIndividual chapters on each country incorporating:- essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economy - an extensive statistical survey of economic and social indicators, which include area and population, health and welfare, agriculture, forestry, fishing, mining, industry, finance, trade, transport, tourism, communications media and education - a full directory with names, addresses and contact details covering the constitution, government, legislature, political organizations, election commissions, diplomatic representation, judiciary, religious groups, the media, finance, trade and industry (including petroleum and natural gas), tourism, defence and education - a country-specific bibliography, providing suggestions for further research. Regional Information- includes all major international organizations active in the Middle East and North Africa; research institutes specializing in the region; and select bibliographies of books and periodicals.Table of ContentsPart 1: General Survey Part 2: Country Surveys Includes sections on geography, history and economy, as well as statistical surveys, directories and bibliographies for each country Part 3: Regional Information Regional Organizations. Calendars. Research Institutes. Select Bibliography (Books). Select Bibliography (Periodicals). Index of Regional Organizations.
£1,092.50
Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Townscape of Darlington
Book SynopsisDarlington from Anglo-Saxon settlement to thriving town, via the middle ages and the coming of the railway.It is exactly a thousand years since Darlington first appeared in written records. During the following millennium, the small Anglo-Saxon settlement grew into today's thriving town, its history now generally linked in the public mind with entrepreneurial Quakers and the birth of railways. But as this book shows, Darlington's history encompasses many more diverse aspects in the change from medieval village to modern town. Through a survey of its physical development, the book describes how the town flourished in the middle ages; was largely destroyed by fire in 1585; and grew again in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, before the coming of the railway in the mid-1800s reinforced its prosperity. Its story is taken up to the present day, showing how Darlington is characterised by residential suburbs, with a town centre where Victorian and eighteenth-century buildings populate the original medieval streets. Dr GILL COOKSON is the County Editor for the Victoria County History of Durham.
£19.99
University of London Three Lectures on Leonardo
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University of London Individuals and Institutions in Medieval
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University of London Individuals and Institutions in Medieval
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University of London The Creighton Century, 1907-2007
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£71.25
Wordwell Books Imirce
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University Press of Kentucky To Belong Here
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University Press of Kentucky To Belong Here
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University Press of Kentucky Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia
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University Press of Kentucky Black Freedom Struggle in Urban Appalachia
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University Press of Kentucky Reading Writing and Queer Survival
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University Press of Kentucky Reading Writing and Queer Survival
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De Gruyter Thabit ibn Qurra: Science and Philosophy in
Book SynopsisThabit ibn Qurra (826–901) was one of history’s most original thinkers and displayed expertise in the most difficult disciplines of this time: geometry, number theory, and astronomy as well as ontology, physics, and metaphysics. Approximately a dozen of this shorter mathematical and philosophical writings are collected in this volume. Critically edited with accompanying commentary, these writings show how Thabit Ibn Qurra developed and reconceived the intellectual inheritance of ancient Greece in all areas of knowledge.
£185.25
de Gruyter Chinese Euphonics
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de Gruyter The Imperial Qín Dynasty
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de Gruyter Beyond Language
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de Gruyter Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context
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De Gruyter Between Manuscript and Print: Transcultural
Book SynopsisA cross-cultural, comparative view on the transition from a predominant ‘culture of handwriting’ to a predominant ‘culture of print’ in the late medieval and early modern periods is provided here, combining research on Christian and Jewish European book culture with findings on East Asian manuscript and print culture. This approach highlights interactions and interdependencies instead of retracing a linear process from the manuscript book to its printed successor.While each chapter is written as a disciplinary study focused on one specific case from the respective field, the volume as a whole allows for transcultural perspectives. It thereby not only focusses on change, but also on simultaneities of manuscript and printing practices as well as on shifts in the perception of media, writing surfaces, and materials: Which values did writers, printers, and readers attribute to the handwritten and printed materials? For which types of texts was handwriting preferred or perceived as suitable? How and under which circumstances could handwritten and printed texts coexist, even within the same document, and which epistemic dynamics emerged from such textual assemblages?
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de Gruyter Studies in the Atharvaveda
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Gruyter, Walter de GmbH Scriptura Geist Wirkung
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De Gruyter Challenging Conventions
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De Gruyter Manuscripts and Performances in Religions, Arts,
Book SynopsisThroughout history, manuscripts have been made and used for religious, artistic, and scientific performances, and this practice continues in most cultures today. By focusing on the role manuscripts have in different kinds of performances, this volume contributes to the evolving field of investigating written artefacts and their functions.The collected essays regard manuscripts as points of intersection where textual, material, and performative aspects converge. The contributors analyse manuscripts in their forms and functions as well as their positioning in the performances for which they were made. These aspects unfold across the volume’s three sections, examining how manuscripts are (1) used backstage, for preparing and giving instructions for performances; (2) taken onstage, contributing to the enactment of performances; and (3) performers in their own right, producing an effect on the audience.The diversified, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodologies of the included papers carry great potential to expand the traditional approaches of manuscript studies and find application outside the contributors’ respective fields.
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de Gruyter Time in Diaries of Court and Bakufu Officials in
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de Gruyter Exploring Multilingualism and Multiscriptism in
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de Gruyter A Grammar of Pangkhua
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£104.02
de Gruyter A Dictionary of Morrobolam
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De Gruyter Aqedah
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De Gruyter In the Presence of the King
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De Gruyter The Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary
Book SynopsisThe Challenge to Academic Freedom in Hungary: A Case Study in Culture War, Authoritarianism and Resistance presents a case study as to how an authoritarian regime like the one in Hungary seeks to tame academic freedom. Andrew Ryder probes the reasons for ideological conflict within the academy through concepts like culture war' and authoritarian populism. He explores how the Orbán administration has introduced a series of reforms leading to limitations being placed on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gender Studies no longer being recognized by the State, the relocation of the Central European University because of government pressure and new reforms that ostensibly appear to give universities autonomy but critics assert are in fact changes that will lead to cronyism and pro-government interference in academic freedom.
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De Gruyter Remembering Umar Khayyam
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De Gruyter Latin American Sinographies
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De Gruyter Naii mata Cobra Mum
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De Gruyter Manuscript Treasures from AfroEurasia
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