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Penguin Random House Australia The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and
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Te Herenga Waka University Press Transforming Workplace Relations: Essays to mark
Book SynopsisIn the late 1960s New Zealand’s industrial relations entered the most turbulent era in its history. The following three decades witnessed the decline and eventual repeal of the arbitration system which had dominated industrial relations since 1894 and culminated with the enactment of the neo-liberal Employment Contracts Act in 1991. It was not until a decade later that the Employment Relations Act 2000 provided a broad agreement on the regulation of labour relations, resulting in almost two decades of relative stability. Transforming Workplace Relations reflects on this revolution and speculates on the future of work relationships in a world challenged by newly evolving forms of work and employment. Contributors include both those who lived through the last 40 years as well as those who, in another 40 years, may again look back over a much changed employment landscape. This collection marks the 40th anniversary of the inaugural publication in May 1976 of New Zealand Journal of Industrial Relations, a journal which continues to provide a multi-disciplinary commentary and analysis of the changes impacting the lives of working New Zealanders and their employers.
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Reaktion Books Strokes of Genius: A History of Swimming
Book Synopsis'Pleasure beckons at the water's edge.' With these words, Eric Chaline celebrates the physicality and sensuality of swimming - attributes that might have contributed to the evolution of the human species. Chaline's comprehensive account surveys swimming from prehistory to the present day. He decodes the earliest human myths to reconstruct swimming's prehistory and history; he explains its role in religious rituals, trade and manufacture, warfare and medicine, and chronicles its transformation into the leisure activity and competitive sport that together have made it the most commonly practiced physical pastime in the developed world. Swimming is now a cultural marker that stands for eroticism, leisure, endurance, adventure, exploration and excellence, and latterly, like other disciplines that use repetitive movements to discipline the body and still the mind, it is held by wild swimmers to be a lane to spiritual awakening - one stroke at a time. There is no single story of human swimming, but many currents that merge, diverge and remerge towards a future in which our survival may depend on our ability to adapt to life in an aquatic world.
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Oneworld Publications The Palestine-Israeli Conflict: A Beginner's
Book SynopsisAn updated edition of this best-selling introduction to the conflict. With coverage of all the recent events, the new edition of this best-selling book gives a thorough and accessible account of the history behind the Palestine-Israeli conflict, its roots, and the possibilities for the future. New material outlines recent developments, while an updated conclusion consists of a direct debate between the two authors, which raises many issues, yet offers real solutions to which future peace talks may aspire.Trade Review“There are no dispassionate accounts of the conflict that racks the Holy Land, nor should there be. As this intelligent and important book makes clear, it is hard to be dispassionate when you believe that you are fighting for your life; and both the authors remind us that no less than this is what is felt to be at stake. But conflict is always intensified by ignorance. What this book does is to test how far we can go in mapping out a common history and exactly where and how this common history comes to be read differently. It offers no magical solution to this most persistent and harrowing conflict of our times, but it refuses to settle down with slogans, and models the possibility of a painful, honest – even angry – dialogue that does not simply freeze into mutual uncomprehending hatred.” -- Dr. Rowan Williams, Master at Magdalene College, Cambridge'Offers a rare insight into the Palestine–Israeli dilemma while outlining political, religious, historical and emotional issues in the struggle for peace.' * Library Journal *'A must for anybody interested in understanding the conflict in the Middle East.' -- George Joffe, Director of Studies, Royal Institute for International Affairs, London
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Reaktion Books Acts Against God: A Short History of Blasphemy
Book SynopsisA phenomenon that spans human experience, from the ancient world right up to today’s ferocious religious debates, blasphemy is an act of individuals, but also a widespread and constant presence in cultural, political and religious life. Acts Against God is the first accessible history of this crime – its prosecution, its impact and its punishment and suppression. The book begins in ancient Greece with the genesis of blasphemy’s link with the state. From here we move on to blasphemy in the medieval world, in the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The book concludes with the twenty-first century, with individuals and the state seeking to adopt blasphemy as the means to resist the secular and the globalization of culture.Trade Review“A superb history from the preeminent expert in the field.” -- Andrew Copson, author of "Secularism: A Very Short Introduction"“Acts Against God is the new authoritative account of blasphemy law’s long history. Its analysis of Western law over more than two millennia is brought vividly to life through the key trials and episodes of libel against God, the miracles, and the Trinity. Now, with blasphemy still a crime in so many countries, this offense sadly continues to define and limit our freedoms. [Writing] with a verve that bowls the reader along, Nash shows how democrats since Socrates have hankered for an Open Society in which freedom of religion might one day be matched by freedom from religion.” -- Callum Brown, Professor of Late Modern European History, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Blasphemy in Ancient Worlds2. Blasphemy in Medieval Christendom3. Blasphemy and the Reformation4. Blasphemy and the Enlightenment5. Blasphemy in the Nineteenth Century6. Blasphemy in the Twentieth Century7. Blasphemy in the Contemporary World
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Four Courts Press Ltd Farming and society since 1700 in the barony of
Book SynopsisThis study examines Carbury? s long-established reputation as an unusually stable and prosperous farming community in Co. Kildare. Through the significant challenges of civil strife, famine and the transition from tenancy to ownership, succeeding generations of farmers have sustained not only the land but also a way of life rooted in the soil of Carbury.
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Amber Books Ltd Afghanistan
Book Synopsis“The United States of America will use all our resources to conquer this enemy. We will rally the world. We will be patient. We’ll be focused, and we will be steadfast in our determination.” – President George W. Bush, September 12, 2001 On September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorists hijacked four airliners, crashing them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and near the White House, killing nearly 3,000 people. Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network quickly claimed responsibility for the outrage. The aftermath still reverberates around the world today, with President Bush declaring a “War on Terror” against al-Qaeda and its allies. By October, the US military was carrying out air strikes against al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, and US ground forces were deployed against bin Laden’s protectors, the incumbent Taliban regime. By June 2002 the Taliban had been ousted and a US-friendly government established in the capital, Kabul. But the campaign didn’t end there, as American and allied NATO forces became bogged down for the next two decades. Afghanistan provides a photographic exploration of the 20-year war in Afghanistan, from the first deployment of US special forces in October 2001 to the final withdrawal of US forces in August 2021. In between, the book offers a compact overview of the operations fought by the US and NATO forces against the Taliban/al- Qaeda insurgency, including the bombing of the Tora Bora cave complex, Operation Anaconda, President Obama’s deployment surge, the Navy SEAL’s assassination of Osama bin Laden in neighbouring Pakistan, the development of a local Afghan army, police force and government, the eventual withdrawal of US forces and the collapse of the Afghan administration amidst renewed Taliban pressure. Afghanistan offers a concise pictorial history of the war that came to define US policy in Central Asia and the Middle East in the 21st century.Table of ContentsContents:Prologue: Afghanistan longer history – British invasions, Soviet invasion 1980s.Introduction: 9/11 Terror Attack Al-Qaeda operatives hijack four commercial airliners, crashing them into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. A fourth plane crashes in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Close to three thousand people die in the attacks.1: The Response: Operation Enduring Freedom President Bush signs into law a joint resolution authorizing the use of force against those responsible for attacking the United States on September 11. The U.S. military, with British support, begins a bombing campaign against Taliban forces, officially launching Operation Enduring Freedom. Taliban regime unravels rapidly after its loss at Mazar-e- Sharif on November 9, 2001, to forces loyal to Abdul Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek military leader. After tracking al-Qaeda leader bin Laden to the well-equipped Tora Bora cave complex southeast of Kabul, Afghan militias engage in a fierce two-week battle (December 3 to 17) with al-Qaeda militants. It results in a few hundred deaths and the eventual escape of bin Laden, who is thought to have left for Pakistan on horseback. March 2002: Operation Anaconda, the first major ground assault and the largest operation since Tora Bora, is launched against an estimated eight hundred al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Shah-i-Kot Valley south of the city of Gardez (Paktia Province). Battle of Takur Ghar – The battle saw three helicopter landings by the U.S. on the mountain top, each greeted by direct assault from al-Qaeda forces.2: Reconstructing Afghanistan March 2002: Chairman of the Interim Administration of Afghanistan Karzai is picked is picked to head the country’s transitional government. May 2003: During a briefing with reporters in Kabul, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declares an end to “major combat.” August 2003: NATO assumes control of international security forces (ISAF) in Afghanistan, expanding NATO/ISAF’s role across the country. It is NATO’s first operational commitment outside of Europe. 2004: In historic national balloting, President Karzai becomes the first democratically elected head of Afghanistan. 2005.3: Lingering Insurgency 2006: Violence increases across the country during the summer months, with intense fighting erupting in the south in July. The number of suicide attacks quintuples from 27 in 2005 to 139 in 2006, while remotely detonated bombings more than double, to 1,677. With violence against nongovernmental aid workers increasing, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticizes NATO countries in late 2007 for not sending more soldiers. 2009: U.S. Marines launch a major offensive in southern Afghanistan, representing a major test for the U.S. military’s new counterinsurgency strategy. President Obama announces a major escalation of the U.S. mission. In a nationally televised speech, the president commits an additional thirty thousand forces to the fight, on top of the sixty- eight thousand in place. 2010.4: Bin Laden Found Al-Qaeda leader bin Laden, responsible for the 9/11 attacks, is killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. The death of the United States’ primary target for a war that started ten years ago fuels the long-simmering debate about continuing the Afghanistan war. President Obama outlines a plan to withdraw 33,000 troops by the summer of 2012.5: A Bloody Resurgence 2011: Amid a resilient insurgency, U.S. goals in Afghanistan remain uncertain and terrorist safe havens in Pakistan continue to undermine U.S. efforts. 2013: Afghan forces take the lead in security responsibility nationwide as NATO hands over control of the remaining ninety-five districts. The U.S.-led coalition’s focus shifts to military training and special operations-driven counterterrorism. 2017: The United States drops its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on suspected self-proclaimed Islamic State militants at a cave complex in eastern Nangarhar Province. 2018: The Taliban carry out a series of bold terror attacks in Kabul that kill more than 115 people amid a broader upsurge in violence. The attacks come as the Trump administration implements its Afghanistan plan, deploying troops across rural Afghanistan to advise Afghan brigades and launching air strikes against opium labs to try to decimate the Taliban’s finances. 2018.6: Peace Talks and Withdrawal U.S. envoy Khalilzad and the Taliban’s Baradar sign an agreement that paves the way for a significant drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and includes guarantees from the Taliban that the country will not be used for terrorist activities. President Biden announces that the United States will not meet the deadline set under the U.S.-Taliban agreement to withdraw all troops by May 1 and instead releases a plan for a full withdrawal by September 11, 2021. Facing little resistance, Taliban fighters overrun the capital, Kabul, in August 2021, and take over the presidential palace hours after President Ghani leaves the country.
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Four Courts Press Ltd Ireland and the Crusades
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Reaktion Books The Ocean at Home An Illustrated History of the Aquarium
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating history of the aquarium, Bernd Brunner tells a compelling story of obsession, beauty, discovery and delight, from the aquarium's humble origins as a tool for scientific observation to the Victorian era's elaborately decorated containers of oceanic curiosity, to the great public aquaria of the twentieth century.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Cat Book: Cats of Historical Distinction
Book SynopsisRegal, elegant, affectionate, calculating, and of course utterly adorable, the cat has been part of our lives for millennia. The Cat Book pairs stunning historical illustrations with informative and amusing text in a tour of feline history from the earliest days of civilisation to the twenty-first century. Taking in the cat goddess of Ancient Egypt, where people shaved their eyebrows to mourn the death of a cat, the medieval Irish law that calculated a cat's value at three cows, Samuel Johnson's doting care for his oyster-loving cat Hodge, Oscar, the ship's cat that survived three shipwrecks in the Second World War, and the cats of famous people from Cardinal Richelieu to Edward Lear, this is the perfect gift for the cat lover – a guide to the role of cats in history and the people who have loved them.Table of ContentsIntroduction /The Ancient World /Medieval /Early Modern /Modern/Further Reading
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Rutgers University Press The Jews’ Indian: Colonialism, Pluralism, and
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Social Science, Anthropology, and FolkloreHonorable Mention, 2021 Saul Viener Book PrizeThe Jews’ Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imagination and in face-to-face encounters. These two groups’ exchanges were numerous and diverse, proving at times harmonious when Jews’ and Natives people’s economic and social interests aligned, but discordant and fraught at other times. American Jews could be as exploitative of Native cultural, social, and political issues as other American settlers, and historian David Koffman argues that these interactions both unsettle and historicize the often triumphant consensus history of American Jewish life. Focusing on the ways Jewish class mobility and civic belonging were wrapped up in the dynamics of power and myth making that so severely impacted Native Americans, this books is provocative and timely, the first history to critically analyze Jewish participation in, and Jews’ grappling with the legacies of Native American history and the colonial project upon which America rests.Trade Review"The Jews' Indian bristles with original insights and suggests new ways of thinking about whiteness, and encounters between settlers and natives, in American history." -- Derek Penslar * Harvard University *"A fascinating account…Koffman masterfully reveals the complexities and contradictions in American Jewish inter-ethnic relations. The Jews’ Indian raises important questions about Jews’ relationships to the project of American colonialism and the politics of race." -- Eliyahu Stern * Yale University *"A major scholarly contribution, The Jews' Indian is endlessly fascinating and truly original. Koffman’s book is complex, distinctive, and—refreshingly—free of abstract polemics and sterile judgmentalism." -- Robert D. Johnston * professor of history, University of Illinois at Chicago *“The Jews’ Indian represents the best scholarship to date on the complex historical relationship between these two tribal peoples about which little has been written.” -- Walter C. Fleming * Professor and Department Head for Native American Studies, Montana State University *"A groundbreaking study revealing the tensions of identifying with marginalized peoples while participating in the colonial work of empires, The Jews’ Indian has implications for nearly all arenas of Jewish history." -- Michael Alexander * Maimonides Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California, Riverside *"America’s Jewish Colonizers," a conversation with David S. Koffman by Hadas Binyamini * Jewish Currents *"The Jews’ Indian examines these scenarios of cultural exchange, borrowing, and appropriation with sensitivity and a researcher’s skill and patience." * Canadian Jewish News *"Throughout, Koffman’s deep and original work in the archive is in abundant evidence, and the moral thrust of his argument is crystalline." * The Great Plains Quarterly *"The Jews’ Indian represents a significant achievement in American Jewish history that addresses a serious gap in prior scholarship and should hold broad appeal for readers in ethnic studies and modern Jewish history. As a bridge between “the literatures on white-Indian relations and Black-Jewish relations,” it deserves consideration for inclusion on graduate and advanced undergraduate syllabi in Jewish identity studies, American Jewish history, and modern Jewish historiography." * American Jewish Archives Journal *"Koffman’s excellent book serves as invitation for Jews and Native peoples to dialogue in both Canada and the United States, to find common ground but also appreciate differences, not only in terms of culture but also in communal objectives, contrasting pluralism with sovereignty." * Canadian Jewish Studies *"Koffman’s book offers readers, scholars, and students a powerful chance to remember the insidious workings of white supremacy on American Jewish communities, and how those Jewish communities then affect other people." * Journal of Jewish Identities *"An important contribution to both the study of encounter, perception and transformation by Jewish Americans as they participated in the westward expansion of the United States." * Australian Journal of Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Exile and Aboriginality, Kinship and Distance 1 Inventing Pioneer Jews in the New Nation’s New West 2 Land and the Violent Expansion of the Immigrants’ Empire 3 Jewish Middlemen Merchants, Indian Curios, and the Extensions of American Capitalism 4 Jewish Rhetorical Uses of Indians in an Era of Nativist Anxieties 5 Jewish Advocacy for Native Americans On and Off Capitol Hill 6 Anthropological Ventriloquism and Dovetailing Intellectual and Political Advancements Conclusion: Paths of Persecution, Stakes of Colonial Modernity Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Random House USA Inc A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of
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Brepols N.V. Josquin
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Brepols N.V. Music Criticism 1900-1950
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Brepols N.V. Renaissance Music in the Slavic World
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£101.65
Brepols N.V. Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation,
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£166.25
Brepols N.V. Opera and Parody in Paris, 1860-1900
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£95.00
Brepols N.V. Ludwig Senfl (C.1490-1543): A Catalogue Raisonne
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Music Criticism 1950-2000
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Brepols N.V. Gaspar Van Weerbeke: New Perspectives on His Life
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Music and the Second Industrial Revolution
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Brepols N.V. For Town and Country: The Civic Music System in
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Brepols N.V. Tragedy and Lieto Fine in Romantic Opera Seria
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£131.10
Brepols N.V. Symphonism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
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Brepols N.V. Poetry, Art, and Music in Guillaume de Machaut's
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Brepols N.V. Music Publishing and Composers (1750-1850)
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Brepols N.V. Sounding the Past: Music as History and Memory
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£66.50
Brepols N.V. Music and the Identity Process: The National
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Brepols N.V. Music and the Figurative Arts in the Nineteenth
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Brepols N.V. Ars Antiqua: Music and Culture in Europe C.
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Brepols N.V. Haydn's Last Creative Period
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Editions Heimdal Dagues Et Couteaux Du Iiie Reich
Book SynopsisThis book will soon be a reference work on the subject, of interest to collectors but also to all the history buffs who here have a particularly rich subject to study. Since ancient times, the sword accompanying the knight had a very symbolic value. In the 16th Century, the sword was often accompanied by a dagger. Until the modern-day period the sword has been a weapon, then the attribute of officers in most armies in the world. Then, in the Third Reich, where emblems and symbols took on a very important role, the dagger became omnipresent, from the paramilitary, then military units, like the SA and the SS, but also civilian institutions like the Red Cross and the Forest Wardens. This profusion was unique in uniformology and has already been written about several times, but not very often in French, in which there was no exhaustive work on the subject by a competent author. With 400 documents, forty-five models are shown, the daggers belonging to the SA (copied off the 16th Century Swiss dagger), NSKK, SS, HJ (knife and dagger), Teno, RLB, Wasserschutzpolizei, the Firemen, the Postschutz, Reichsbahn-Wasserschutz-Polizei, DRK (Red Cross), RAD (work service), the inland customs, the maritime customs, diplomats, senior civil servants, Eastern Civil Servants, Foresters’ knives, DLV, NFSK of the Luftwaffe, the Heer and Marine officers, together with some other exceptional daggers. The photos are of exceptional quality (some of them from the Hermann Historica Archives), others (from the author’s collection) show rare or precise details, explaining also these objects’ technical aspects; others are period photos showing how and with what uniforms these daggers were worn. There are also appendices. The book will be an essential reference work for a long time and a very beautifully presented book for your library.
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Editions du Septentrion,Canada The Stones That Speak: Two Centuries of Jewish
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Two Nations: British and German Jews in
Book SynopsisInternational scholars and specialists in Jewish, German, British and European history offer this first comparative approach to the study of German and British Jewish history from the late 18th century to the 1930s. The volume's comparative dimension goes beyond a parallel exploration of the Jewish experience in the two societies by examining British and German Jewries in equal measure and discussing a broad spectrum of social, political, cultural and economic issues.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Towards Normality? : Acculturation of Modern
Book SynopsisThe present volume is the latest in a distinguished series, published under the auspices of the London Leo Baeck Institute, that addresses the issues of emancipation, assimilation and acculturation. It presents the work of an international group of scholars who approach these topics from a variety of innovative perspectives. The thread running through the diverse contributions, as indicated by the volume's title, is that of normality, clearly a close relation of emancipation and acculturation. Throughout the period from the Enlightenment to the 1930s, it can be argued that German-speaking Jews endeavoured to be like those around them, to become - in a (loaded) word - normal. While the term has not generally been employed by historians of European Jewry, the search for the normal can provide an interesting perspective from which to examine the diverse modes of German Jewish acculturation and integration, or lack thereof. Survey of contents: Peter Pulzer: Obituary for Werner E. Mosse - Rainer Liedtke / David Rechter: Introduction: German Jewry and the Search for Normality - Michael A. Meyer: German Jewry's Path to Normality and Assimilation: Complexities, Ironies, Paradoxes - Christhard Hoffmann: Constructing Jewish Modernity: Mendelssohn Jubilee Celebrations within German Jewry, 1829-1929 - Johannes Hei: "... durch Fluten und Scheiterhaufen": Persecution as a Topic in Jewish Historiography on the Way to Modernity - Christian Wiese: Struggling for Normality: The Apologetics of Wissenschaft des Judentums in Wilhelmine Germany as an Anti-colonial Intellectual Revolt against the Protestant Construction of Judaism - Deborah Hertz: The Troubling Dialectic Between Reform and Conversion in Biedermeier Berlin - Simone Lässig: The Emergence of a Middle-Class Religiosity: Social and Cultural Aspects of the German-Jewish Reform Movement During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century - Gregory A. Caplan: Germanising the Jewish Male: Military Masculinity as the Last Stage of Acculturation - Lisa Swartout: Segregation or Integration? Honour and Manliness in Jewish Duelling Fraternities - Ulrich Sieg: "Nothing more German than the German Jews"? On the Integration of a Minority in a Society at War - Elisabeth Albanis: A "West-östlicher Divan" from the Front: Moritz Goldstein Beyond the Kunstwart Debate - Keith H. Pickus: Divergent Paths of National Integration and Acculturation: Jewish and Catholic Educational Strategies in Nineteenth Century Hesse-Darmstadt - Robin Judd: Jewish Political Behaviour and the Schächtfrage, 1880-1914 - Silvia Cresti: German and Austrian Jews Concept of Culture, Nation and Volk - Helga Embacher: Jewish Identities and Acculturation in the Province of Salzburg in the Shadow of Antisemitism - Tobias Brinkmann: Exceptionalism and Normality: "German Jews" in the United States 1840-1880 - Mitchell B. Hart: Towards Abnormality: Assimilation and Degenerationin German-Jewish Social Thought
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Gershom Scholem in Deutschland: Zwischen
Book SynopsisDie Biographie des in Berlin geborenen und ab 1923 in Jerusalem lebenden Kabbala-Forschers Gershom Gerhard Scholem ist von den Katastrophen und Umbrüchen des 20. Jahrhunderts geprägt. Im Horizont des für Scholem ambivalenten deutsch-jüdischen Verhältnisses nehmen die Autoren des Bandes seinen Werdegang im Kaiserreich und in der Weimarer Republik in den Blick sowie die Bedeutung, die er als israelischer Gesprächspartner für die Zeitgeschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland hatte. Die Beziehungen zu Walter Benjamin und Hannah Arendt, zu dem Theologen Otto Michel und dem Verleger Siegfried Unseld dokumentieren auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen Scholems Verbindung zu Deutschland, die ihn auch bei persönlicher Lyrik und sogar bei seiner wissenschaftlichen Prosa zur jüdischen Mystik begleitete.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Paul Siebeck und sein Verlag
Book SynopsisPaul Siebeck (1855-1920), ursprünglich mit seinem Schwager J. Gustav Kötzle Inhaber der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung in Tübingen, erwarb 1878 den Verlag J.C.B. Mohr und ging mit ihm 1880 nach Freiburg, während Kötzle mit der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung in Tübingen blieb. Paul Siebeck nannte seine Firma Akademische Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. C. B. Mohr, Inhaber Paul Siebeck, was er - im Stil der Zeit - alsbald auf J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) verkürzte. Er baute den Verlag zu einem wissenschaftlichen Fachverlag aus, der schwerpunktmäßig Werke der liberalen Theologie, des Kulturprotestantismus, der südwestdeutschen Neukantianer, der Nationalökonomen um Max Weber sowie der Privat- und Staatsrechtswissenschaft veröffentlichte. Max Weber wurde nach 1895 zu Paul Siebecks wichtigstem Berater, und seine Gesamtausgabe (MWG) bildet noch heute einen der Eckpfeiler des Verlagsprogramms. 1899 kehrte Paul Siebeck nach Tübingen zurück und leitete die Firmen Mohr und Laupp gemeinsam in Tübingen weiter bis 1920.Der knapp 100 Jahre später in Mohr Siebeck umbenannte Verlag erhielt durch den erfolgreichen Unternehmer Paul Siebeck die Umrisse seiner bis heute vitalen Gestalt. Indem Konrad Hammann den Lebensweg dieses bedeutenden Managers in die gesamte Verlagsgeschichte einbettet, zeichnet er ein tiefenscharfes Bild vom kulturwirtschaftlichen Panorama des späten Kaiserreichs. Die Darstellung widmet sich schwerpunktmäßig der von Paul Siebeck betriebenen Spezialisierung seines Wissenschaftsverlags auf die vier Kernbereiche der Theologie, Philosophie, Rechtswissenschaft und Nationalökonomie. Das vorliegende Lebens- und Unternehmensportrait, das aus umfangreichen, zumeist erstmals ausgewerteten Archivbeständen erarbeitet ist, vermittelt einen gleichermaßen soliden und erfrischenden Einblick in die geistesgeschichtliche Komplexität des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Schleiermachers Kirchengeschichte
Book SynopsisGeschichte und Geschichtlichkeit spielen in Friedrich Schleiermachers philosophischem und theologischem Denken eine große Rolle, aber nur ein größeres geschichtliches Gebiet hat er selbst bearbeitet: die Kirchengeschichte. Hier treffen sich historische Kritik in der Nachfolge Johann Salomo Semlers, die romantische und idealistische Suche nach der höheren Idee in der Geschichte, Schleiermachers Auffassung der christlichen Kirche als einer Lebensgemeinschaft, die auf dem geschichtlichen Faktum der Erscheinung Christi beruht und immer neue Gestalten annimmt, sein Konzept der Theologie als einer Wissenschaft, deren Ergebnisse für Kirchendienst und Kirchenleitung relevant sein müssen, und schließlich seine eigenen Erfahrungen in Kirche und Politik.Simon Gerber legt den Schwerpunkt auf Schleiermachers drei kirchengeschichtliche Vorlesungen, die bisher (besonders was die materiale Darstellung der Kirchengeschichte betrifft) wenig erforscht waren; er nimmt aber auch Schleiermachers übriges Werk in den Blick (u.a. die philosophische Ethik, die theologische Enzyklopädie, die Glaubenslehre und christliche Sittenlehre, die Praktische Theologie und die Predigten), ebenso die zeitgenössischen geschichtstheoretischen und theologischen Debatten.Schleiermacher betont, das wirksame Prinzip in der Kirchengeschichte sei der christliche Glaube und nicht, wie oft behauptet, politischer Ehrgeiz, Aberglaube oder dogmatistische Streitsucht. Besonderes Interesse hat er für die Entstehung der Kirchenorganisation, das altkirchliche Dogma, die Scholastik und die Reformation.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Karl Holl: Leben - Werk - Briefe
Book SynopsisKarl Holl (1866-1926) ist eine Portalfigur der Theologie- und Kirchengeschichte sowie des Historismus des 20. Jahrhunderts. Der Tübinger und Berliner Patristiker und Reformationshistoriker wird nach 1918 die prägende Gestalt der Lutherrenaissance. Seine epochale Gesamtsicht Luthers und der frühen Reformation erschien 1921 im Ersten Band der Gesammelten Aufsätze Luther. Karl Holls Luther ist neben Karl Barths Römerbriefkommentar das wirksamste Werk evangelischer Theologie in der Weimarer Republik.Das Gesamtwerk Karl Holls ist aber eine Welt mit mehreren Kontinenten. Es umfasst den Patristiker der Gesammelten Aufsätze: Der Osten, Der Westen, den Handschriften-Forscher und Editor des Epiphanius, den Konfessionskundler orthodoxer Kirchen und den Freund und Kritiker der liberalen Christlichen Welt.Gemessen am Rang und der Breite seines Werks ist Karl Holl in seiner biographischen und wissenschaftlichen Genese und ihren Kontexten bis heute nicht hinreichend erschlossen. Es existiert bis heute keine alle Werkteile einschließende Biographie. Seine ca. 900 erhaltenen Briefe in den Nachlässen der Fachgenossen und Freunde seines wissenschaftlichen Netzwerks sind in der Mehrzahl nicht ediert.In den fünfzehn Beiträgen internationaler Autorinnen und Autoren werden erstmals die wichtigsten Werke Karl Holls im Zusammenhang interpretiert und ideenhistorisch eingebettet. Sein Leben wird aus den archivalischen Zeugnissen biographisch umrissen.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Der Protestantismus als Forum und Faktor:
Book SynopsisIn der Gründungsphase der Bundesrepublik prägten zahlreiche protestantische Initiativen die gesellschaftliche Neuorientierung in Deutschland mit. Die Gründung des Deutschen Evangelischen Kirchentags, die Verbreitung der Idee einer Evangelischen Akademie, Zeitschriften wie "Christ und Welt" und das "Sonntagsblatt" sowie Studieneinrichtungen und Lexikonprojekte bilden die spezifische Gestalt des Protestantismus in der frühen Bundesrepublik ab. Sabrina Hoppe beleuchtet den Anspruch und das Selbstverständnis dieses gesellschaftlich engagierten Protestantismus aus netzwerkanalytischer Perspektive und beschreibt seine Rolle in den Debatten um die sozialethischen Transformationsprozesse der Bundesrepublik. Ausgehend von der Analyse der protestantischen Netzwerke um Eberhard Müller und Friedrich Karrenberg widmet sie sich dem Selbstverständnis des Protestantismus in seiner Doppelgestalt zwischen vermittelndem Forum und meinungsbildendem Faktor.
£107.64
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) tabula rasa: Die Erforschung des menschlichen
Book SynopsisDie Société des observateurs de l'homme, die Gesellschaft der Menschenbeobachter, wurde im Jahr 1799 mit dem Ziel gegründet, eine "vergleichende Anthropologie" zu etablieren. Sie wollte die spekulativen Ansätze der Erforschung des Menschen aus dem 18. Jahrhundert durch eine empirische Wissensform ersetzen. Diese sollte im napoleonischen Frankreich dazu beitragen, eine sichere, dauerhafte und wissenschaftliche Basis für die Regierbarkeit der Menschen zu schaffen. Die Kenntnis des menschlichen Geistes, seines esprit und seiner Neigungen war ein integraler Bestandteil dieses Projekts. Laurens Schlicht untersucht, wie im Umfeld dieser gelehrten Gesellschaft Menschen zum Gegenstand der Forschung wurden und wie sich die Konstruktionen dieser Menschen als Forschungsgegenstände und als politische Akteure transformierten.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Auf dem Weg zu einer Biographie Gerhard Kittels
Book SynopsisDer Theologe Gerhard Kittel (1888-1948) hatte als Herausgeber des Theologischen Wörterbuchs zum Neuen Testament und der Rabbinischen Schriften zwei wissenschaftliche Großprojekte ins Leben gerufen, die bis in die Gegenwart genutzt werden.Über seine Beteiligung an der menschenverachtenden Politik der nationalsozialistschen Gewaltherrschaft ist vieles bekannt, aber der Bezug zu seiner Biographie und umgekehrt die biographische Prägung, die zur Unterstützung des Nationalsozialismus und aktiven Judenfeindschaft führten, stellen nach wie vor ein Rätsel dar.Die Briefe Kittels an dem Amsterdamer Exegeten F.W. Grosheide aus den Jahren von 1922 bis 1944, die in diesem Band ebenfalls ediert sind, geben einen vertieften Einblick in die Gedankenwelt des Theologen. International führende Forscherinnen und Forscher zu Kittel werten diese neuen und andere Quellen aus, um ein besseres Verständnis des Zusammenhangs von Biographie, neutestamentlicher Fachwissenschaft und Antisemitismus bei Gerhard Kittel zu gewinnen.
£113.96
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Davis Trietsch - Der vergessene Visionär:
Book SynopsisFragt man Menschen in Israel heute, ob sie den Zionisten Davis Trietsch kennen, erntet man fast immer ein Kopfschütteln. Trietsch blieb ein Platz im zionistischen Pantheon verwehrt, dabei war er seinerzeit ein über den deutschsprachigen Raum hinaus bekannter Frühzionist, dessen streitbares Naturell wiederholt für Aufsehen sorgte. Wer war dieser eigensinnige Wegbereiter für viele visionäre Formen im Zionismus, die Israel zum Teil bis heute prägen? Anders als in einer klassischen Biografie beleuchtet Lisa Sophie Gebhard in dieser Studie mehrere Lebensthemen in einem größeren zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext, wie etwa Trietschs ambitionierte Raumvorstellungen in Bezug auf Palästina sowie seine Pläne zur technischen Erschließung des Landes. Die Analyse US-amerikanischer Einflüsse auf den Frühzionismus in Form eines transatlantischen Wissenstransfers, für den Trietsch eine ebenso herausragende wie übersehene Rolle spielte, bildet einen besonderen Schwerpunkt. So entsteht ein lebendiges, vielverzweigtes Bild nicht nur von der Person Davis Trietsch, sondern auch des transnationalen Raums, aus dem heraus er und andere Zionisten agierten.
£102.22
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Otto Piper: Biographische, kirchliche und
Book SynopsisAus Anlass des 40. Todestags des Theologen Otto Piper (1891-1982) fand im Frühjahr 2022 eine Tagung in Hannover statt, deren Ergebnisse in diesem Sammelband dokumentiert sind. Piper galt als einer der wenigen protestantischen Intellektuellen, die den demokratischen Weimarer Rechtsstaat vehement verteidigten. Ebenso setzte er sich früh für die Idee einer internationalen Ökumene ein. Diese Einstellungen erschwerten seine akademische Karriere in Göttingen und Münster. Die Nationalsozialisten entließen ihn 1933 aus dem Staatsdienst und zwangen ihn zur Emigration in die USA, wo er zwanzig Jahre als Professor in Princeton wirkte. In dreizehn Beiträgen setzen sich Theolog:innen und Historiker:innen mit spezifischen Konstellationen und Aspekten seiner Biographie und seines (religions-)politischen Denkens auseinander.
£52.35
JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Von Georg Simmel zu Franz Rosenzweig: Studien zum
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£59.85
Bohlau Verlag Österreich-Ungarn, Deutschland und der Friede:
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£166.41
Bohlau Verlag Constanze Mozart: Eine Biographie
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Bohlau Verlag Hitlers Junger und Gottes Hirten: Der Einsatz der
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