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Bohlau Verlag Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen: Archiv für
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V&r Academic Kaiserlicher Hofrat Und Kaiserliche Herrschaft
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln NSEuthanasie in Franken
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln Von der Protektion zur Diplomatie
Book SynopsisGroßbritannien und Persien: Zum Wandel der Diplomatie am Übergang zum 19. Jahrhundert
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V&r Academic HistorischPolitische Mitteilungen
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BÃhlau Verlag KÃln HistorischPolitische Mitteilungen
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Verlag Herder History Fur Eilige: Alles, Was Man Uber
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Furtwanglers Sendung: Essays Zum Ethos Des
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG 1989: Das Jahr beginnt
Book SynopsisDas Buch erzählt bestürzend aktuell vom Freiheitskampf der 1989er Zeitenwende in Ungarn und den beiden deutschen Staaten – aber nicht vom (bekannten) Ende her: Es führt durch wechselnde Ereignisse und Perspektiven in die damalige Zeit hinein. Vom frenetischen Beifall beim Wiener Neujahrskonzert für die „edle ungarische Nation“ über die propaganda-trockenen Neujahrsgrüße eines Erich Honecker, bis hin zu dem merkwürdigen Wunsch von Bundeskanzler Kohl, die Bundesrepublikaner mögen „mehr Freude“ haben; von den Inaugurationsworten des neu gewählten US-Präsidenten, die sich bald schon als prophetisch erweisen werden („freedom works“), bis hin zu den tödlichen Fluchtversuchen an der Berliner Mauer, so vielfältig ist das Archivmaterial, das Zsuzsa Breier kunstvoll zu einer neuen Geschichte der Wendezeit verwebt. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Alltag zweier unterdrückter und einer freien Gesellschaft. So gibt die Autorin den Blick frei für die Mechanismen von Demokratie und Diktatur, der gerade auch für unsere Gegenwart wieder so wichtig geworden ist. „Ein wunderbarer Mix aus Vertrautem und Unbekanntem, Nahem und Fernem, Erinnern und Hinzulernen.“ (Dirk van Laak) „Ein famoses Buchprojekt: enorm anschaulich, ein Kaleidoskop und Panorama zugleich, an- und berührend, stilistisch ansprechend, und sollte gerade für ein deutsches Publikum enorm lehrreich sein, gerade in der Gegenüberstellung unterschiedlicher Perspektiven, wo doch jeder für gewöhnlich nur die eigene sieht.“ (Andreas Rödder) „Das Buch ist ein Solitär, glänzend geschrieben, an vielen Stellen tief ergreifend, ein würdiger Verwandter von Kempowskis Echolot“ (Adolf Muschg)
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht ResidenzstÃdte in der Transformation
Book SynopsisWas geschah mit ResidenzstÃdten, die ihre ursprÃngliche Funktion verloren? Eine Bilanz der Verluste und Gewinne
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Stadt und Militär: Konfrontation und/oder
Book SynopsisDer Tagungsband umfasst einen zeitlichen Rahmen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart und beleuchtet eine Auswahl der wichtigen Festungsstädte in Deutschland unter den Aspekten der Chronologie, Typologie und Alltagskultur der Festungsstädte. Die Ansätze sind interdisziplinär: Archäologische Befunde einer Festungsstadt, historische, militärhistorische und realienkundliche Forschungen zu Bürgern und Militär bis hin zur kulturpolitischen und städtebaulichen Auseinandersetzung von ehemaligen Militärbauten gewähren einen Einblick in vergangene und noch bestehende Infrastruktur. Sie zeigen in eindrucksvoller Form die Kontinuität bürgerlicher Gesellschaftsformen bis in die Gegenwart.
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Der Rechtsstaat in Deutschland
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Arnoldsche Goldscheider: History of the Company and Works
Book SynopsisGoldscheider, a Viennese factory (est 1885), soon sped to the top of European ceramics makers. Figures and vessels of faience and terracotta as well as bronze and alabaster, all of top quality in respect of form and workmanship, were created in the Historicist, Jugendstil and Art Deco period styles. A crucial factor was collaboration with distinguished sculptors and ceramicists of the day - including Demetre Chiparus, Walter Bosse and Josef Lorenzl - who were responsible for a great many of the Goldscheider designs.This success story was quashed by National Socialist aryanisation in 1938: the Goldscheider family was forced to emigrate, the firm was sold and the new proprietor was unable to sustain the high aesthetic quality standard. The Goldscheider brothers did manage to open new ceramics businesses while in exile in the US and England and Walter Goldscheider even returned to Vienna after the Second World War to resume his post as managing director of his old firm; however, in the 1950s the great ceramics tradition of this venerable Viennese business ended when it was sold to the German Carstens company.
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Spector Books Bauhaus No. 11: Anniversary
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Oxford University Press A Century of British Geography
Book SynopsisThese essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning. The volume also addresses specific issues such as disease, urbanization, regional viability, and ethics and social problems. This lively and accessible work offers many insights into the minds and practices of today''s geographers.Trade Reviewan impressive collection of essays penned by a star-studded cast. * Hugh Clout, Australian Geographical Studies *Each essay is scholarly, highly informative, and richly referenced ... this large tome is not a difficult read and is highly appropriate for dipping into ... most welcome. * Environment and Planning *A Century of British Geography is a finely produced and finely written volume. * Trevor Barnes, Journal of Historical Geography *Table of ContentsBritish geography 1500-1900: an imprecise review ; The institutionalisation of geography as an academic discipline ; Physical geography and geography as an environmental science ; The domestication of the earth: humans and environments in prehistoric times ; The creation of humanised landscapes ; People and the contemporary environment ; Place description, regional geography and area studies: the chorographic inheritance ; The passion of place ; Order in space: geography as a discipline in distance ; Global, national and local ; Geography displayed: maps and mapping ; ; The geographical underpinning of society and its radical transformation ; Geography applied ; Geographers and environmental change ; The geography of disease distributions ; Geographers and the urban century ; Geographers and the fragmented city ; Geographers and the regional problem ; Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions ; Geographers, ethics and social concern
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Oxford University Press A Century of Theological and Religious Studies in Britain 19022002
Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the twentieth century - by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a bounty of archaeological discoveries, and by unprecedented archival research. Further new trends of study and fresh approaches (existentialist, Marxian, postmodern) have in more recent years generated new quests and horizons for reflection and research. Theological enquiry in Great Britain was transformed in the late nineteenth century through the gradual acceptance of the methods and results of historical criticism. New agendas emerged in the various sub-disciplines of theology and religious studies. Some of the issues raised by biblical criticism, for example Christology and the ''quest of the historical Jesus'', were to remain topics of controversy throughout the twentieth century. In other importantTable of ContentsTheological and Religious Studies at the Founding of the British Academy ; The Old Testament ; The New Testament ; Early Judaism ; British Patristic Scholarship in the Twentieth Century ; The Medieval Church ; The Reformation ; The Long Eighteenth Century ; Theology in the Twentieth Century ; Philosophy of Religion in the Twentieth Century ; The Study of Religions
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Oxford University Press A Question of Retribution
Book SynopsisThrough a unique set of documents never before published, this volume revisits the public furore when, at its Annual General Meeting forty years ago, the British Academy chose not to expel from its Fellowship the eminent art historian, Professor Anthony Blunt, who had recently been exposed as a former Soviet spy. The facsimile documents illustrate the intensely held views of leading academics as they wrestled with the question of whether considerations of pure scholarship could remain aloof from a revelation of political treachery. Also revealed is one faction''s plot to stir up a public row through the national press - a tactic that was ultimately successful in achieving Blunt''s resignation from the Academy.Historian and current President of the British Academy, David Cannadine, provides the background to the Blunt story, and portrays some of the main characters: Kenneth Dover, the President at the time who struggled to steer the Academy through the crisis; the historian J.H. Plumb, Table of ContentsPreface Notes of the documents and sources Prologue Documentary narrative Epilogue Index of Fellows and Staff at the British Academy General Index
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The University of Chicago Press Maps Finding Our Place in the World
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of the use of maps for wayfinding. This book considers maps whose makers employed the smallest of scales to envision the broadest of human stages. It looks at maps that are at the opposite end of the scale from cosmological and world maps. It shows ways in which certain maps can be linked to particular events in history.Trade Review"Maps shows us that the content of a given map is as much determined by culture, historical circumstances, and the interests of mapmakers and map users as it is by the geography that it attempts to depict. From the earliest maps on clay tablets to today's in-car navigation systems, maps tell us not just where we are but who we are. They are artifacts of - and witnesses to - history. And they continue to inspire us to wonder about our place in the world, and mark it for others to see." - John W. McCarter Jr., from the Foreword"
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The University of Chicago Press Music and German National Identity
Book SynopsisOver the past three centuries, supporters of German music ranging from music scholars to politicians have nurtured the notion that the German speaking world possesses a peculiar strength in the cultivation of music. This volume explores this notion and the role of music in identity
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The University of Chicago Press The Wild Girl Natural Man and the Monster
Book SynopsisThis study looks at the lives of the most famous 'wild children' of eighteenth century Europe, showing how they open a window onto European ideas about the potential and perfectability of mankind. The work contains in-depth reports on feral children and their 'civilisation'.
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The University of Chicago Press A Prelude to the Welfare State The Origins of
Book SynopsisPresents a reappraisal of the causes and consequences of a movement that ultimately transformed the nature of social insurance and the American workplace. This book argues that workers' compensation, rather than being an early progressive victory, succeeded because all relevant parties - labor, lawyers, and legislators - benefited from the ruling.Trade Review"This is surely the very best book ever written about the passage of workers' compensation, an instant 'classic' in historical political economy." - Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic Journal "Substantial, well-written, and compelling.... The end result is an in-depth analysis of how workers' compensation was created and initially implemented in the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century." - Christopher R. Larrison, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"
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The University of Chicago Press The Philosophy of Law in Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisMr. Friedrich develops his own position within the framework of the history of Western legal philosophy from the Old Testament down to contemporary writers. In addition, he highlights some important problems of the present day, including certain aspects of legal realism. First published in 1958, this book has been revised and enlarged.
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The University of Chicago Press Console and Classify The French Psychiatric
Book SynopsisThis edition of the classic work on the history of science and French intellectual history gives the reader the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in 19th-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.
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The University of Chicago Press Professing Literature An Institutional History
Book SynopsisAttempts to unearth the ideas and debates that created the literature department as we know it. This book shows that various conflicts of our culture wars echo and recycle controversies over how literature should be taught. It also presents a history of literary pedagogy and a critical classic.Trade Review"Both E. D. Hirsch and Allan Bloom share...a nostalgia for a not very closely examined past in which things were better. Gerald Graff's Professing Literature is extremely important, partly because it tells us a good deal about the realities of this supposedly better time....Graff's book is more consequential than Bloom's because it addresses the pedagogical questions and situates them in a fascinating narrative of how literature has actually been taught in this country for the past century and a half." - Robert Scholes, College English "Graff's history...is a pathbreaking investigation showing how our institutions shape literary thought and proposing how they might be changed." - The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism"
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Promise of Patriotism
Book SynopsisJonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to the crisis of American identity leading up to World War I lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
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The University of Chicago Press The Greatest Killer
Book SynopsisIn The greatest killer Donald R. Hopkins provides a historical account of smallpox beginning with its origins 10,000 years ago in Africa or Asia and tracing its spread through the ancient and modern worlds. Hopkins shows smallpox to be one of the most devastating attacks on society.Trade Review"This book tells the terrible history of smallpox, a saga that has new relevance given the awful possibility that someone might unleash the disease once again. It is a superb book." - former President Jimmy Carter
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The University of Chicago Press The Nature of the Book
Book SynopsisThis text takes a detailed look at early modern England and the creative and commercial forces in which print culture was formed (commercial, intellectual, political and individual), including replications of the disputes between authors and printers to political/religious manipulation.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Conventions 1: Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book 2: Literatory Life: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London 3: "The Advancement of Wholesome Knowledge": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety 4: John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing 5: Faust and the Pirates: The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution 6: The Physiology of Reading: Print and the Passions 7: Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in the Restoration 8: Histories of the Heavens: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia Coelestis Britannica 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Culinarians Lives and Careers from the First Age
Book SynopsisHe presided over Virginia's great political barbeques for the last half of the nineteenth century, taught the young Prince of Wales to crave mint juleps in 1859, catered to Virginia's mountain spas, and fed two generations of Richmond epicures with terrapin and turkey. This fascinating culinarian is John Dabney (1821-1900), who was born a slave, but later built an enterprising catering business. Dabney is just one of 175 influential cooks and restaurateurs profiled by David S. Shields in The Culinarians, a beautifully produced encyclopedic history of the rise of professional cooking in America from the early republic to Prohibition. Shields's concise biographies include the legendary Julien, founder in 1793 of America's first restaurant, Boston's Restorator; and Louis Diat and Oscar of the Waldorf, the men most responsible for keeping the ideal of fine dining alive between the World Wars. Though many of the gastronomic pioneers gathered here are less well known, their diverse influence
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The University of Chicago Press Autophobia
Book SynopsisFrom the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century, ever since the automobile was invented.Trade Review"The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Autophobia
Book SynopsisFrom the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century, ever since the automobile was invented.Trade Review"The work of Autophobia is precisely about looking again at what has been said, by whom and for what reason, and why none of the voluminous critiques of the car - by any number of estimable figures - seem to have much mattered. [Ladd] does this with equanimity and scholarly aplomb... and for a slender volume, this book has a lot under the hood." (Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times Book Review)"
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The University of Chicago Press Art of War
Book SynopsisChristopher Lynch offers a substantial interpretive essay alongside Machiavelli's text that covers its historical and political contexts. He also discusses the military, political, and philosophical aspects of the work, as well as maps, an index of names, and a glossary.Trade Review"Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli." - Harvey. Mansfield, Harvard University; "Lynch argues convincingly that Art of War's detractors have failed to approach the text in the right way.... If Machiavelli's works bear the mark of a preliberal age, his thought also transcends his age, not least his timeless warning about ideologies that, in the name of abstract principles, ask us to refrain from defending... the nation in which we actually live." - Jacqueline Newmyer, Weekly Standard"
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The University of Chicago Press The Subject of Elizabeth Authority Gender and
Book SynopsisAs a woman wielding public authority, Elizabeth I embodied a paradox at the very center of sixteenth-century patriarchal English society. This title illuminates the ways in which the Queen and her subjects variously exploited or obfuscated this contradiction. It is suitable for historians, literary scholars, and art historians of the period.
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The University of Chicago Press Speaking into the Air
Book SynopsisThis work traces the yearning for contact not only through philosophy and literature but also by exploring the cultural reception of communication technologies from the telegraph to the radio. It is an account of a complex concept that has both shaped us and been shaped by us.
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The University of Chicago Press Creating Country Music Fabricating Authenticity
Book SynopsisThis work traces the development of country music and its institutionalization from Fiddlin' John Carson's pioneering recordings in Atlanta in 1923 to the posthumous success of Hank Williams. The book also explores what it means to be authentic within popular culture.
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The University of Chicago Press Written on Bamboo and Silk
Book SynopsisThis study traces the development of Chinese writing from the earliest inscriptions to the advent of printing, organizing its history with significant attention to the tools used for these acts. In this revised edition Edward L.Shaughnessy contributes a new introduction.Trade Review"This admirable monograph covers the whole field of epigraphy and the technique of human communication, including the origins and development of paper and the use of it for writing, down to the time of the invention of printing." - Journal of Asian Studies "The best study on the subject, this book should be recommended not only to students of book history and of Chinese culture, but to those in other disciplines who are seeking evidence of the early stages of communication in Chinese Civilization." - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Written on Bamboo and Silk
Book SynopsisPaleography, which often overlaps with archaeology, deciphers ancient inscriptions and modes of writing to reveal the knowledge and workings of earlier societies. In this classic paleographic study of China, T. H.
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The University of Chicago Press The Making of Terrorism
Book SynopsisThis work on terrorism is based on complex observations of actual movement participants and addresses a broad spectrum of terrorist activity- from Italian left-wing terrorists to Basque nationalist groups to the international terrorism of the Middle East.
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The University of Chicago Press ReadyMade Democracy A History of Mens Dress in
Book SynopsisExplores the history of men's dress in America to consider how capitalism and democracy emerged at the center of social life during the century between the Revolution and the Civil War. This book illuminates the critical links among culture, ideology, political economy, and fashion in antebellum America.Trade Review"A marvelous work of history, imaginatively conceived, scrupulously researched, and gracefully composed." - Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University"
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Palgrave Macmillan Europeans Globalizing
Book SynopsisOver the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans.Trade Review“Europeans Globalizing is part of an ambitious research agenda that questions Europe’s history through a transnational history of technology. … the range and scope of the book as well as the thoughtfulness with which the authors discuss their disparate topics are impressive. … the transnational approach provides a refreshing perspective on Europe’s identity and connections to the world. It is a welcome and important contribution to the literature on Europe’s place in the technological Great Divergence.” (Marten Boon, EuropeNow Journal, europenowjournal.org, April, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Europeans Mapping and being Mapped 2. Europe's Significant Others 3. Wars and Peace at Home and Abroad 4. Scrambling for Eurafrica: Resources and Axes of Infrastructure 5. From the Raj to the Yellow Peril 6. A New World Order and the Collapse of Colonialism 7. The Reconstruction Period
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Columbia University Press The Sixteen Trillion Dollar Mistake How the U.S.
Book SynopsisJansson documents how presidents from FDR to Clinton have made ill-advised choices that squandered trillions of dollars. Using Office of Management and Budget projections through 2004, Jansson shows how the madness continues-and how an informed electorate can put an end to it.Trade ReviewThis isn't a polemical book, it's a somber one that makes you realize how routinely we've come to mistake absurd polemics for common sense. -- Paul Rosenberg Denver Post Jansson's analysis is persuasive on several points... will surely fuel additional interest. -- A. Scott Henderson, Furman University The Historian Provides a systematic, informative, and suprisingly absorbing survey...yields important insights. -- Mark H. Leff, University of Illinois--Urbana Journal of American History Jansson is able to critically juxtapose the Bush and Clinton presidencies of the late 1980s and 1990s, sharing compelling comparisons of various budgetary considerations...The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake is an excellent source concerning the ongoing evolution of social policy in the United States, and the multiple political forces that can drive policy resource provision and implementation. -- David Woody, University of Texas at Arlington The Social Policy Journal There is no other book quite like this... It could hardly appear at a better time... Jansson writes lucidly and at times with some panache... Breaks new ground. Virginia Quarterly Review [A] lucid, remarkably flowing, critical history of American government spending and national priorities from 1932 to the present. Publishers Weekly (starred review)Table of ContentsPreface 1. Failed National Priorities from FDR to Clinton 2. Roosevelt as Magician 3. Roosevelt's Dilemma 4. The Conservatives' Revenge 5. Truman's Nightmare 6. Truman's Bombshells 7. Eisenhower's Ambivalence and Kennedy's Obsession 8. Johnson's Policy Gluttony 9. Nixon's Megalomania 10. Reagan's Fantasies 11. Reagan's Gordian Knot 12. Bush's Myopia 13. Clinton as Backpedaler and Counterpuncher 14. Clinton Boxes with Reagan's Shadow 15. On the Magnitude of Failed National Priorities Notes Collections, Oral Histories, Interviews Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Culture of the Fork
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance and the age of discovery introduced Europeans to exotic cultures, mores, manners, and ideas. That kitchen revolution led to the development of new utensils and table manners. Rebora discusses the availability of resources, how people kept from starving in the winter, how they farmed, how tastes developed, what the lower classes ate, and what the aristocracy enjoyed.Trade Review[Rebora's] short history of European food... is filled with plenty of oddities to chew on. Playboy Thought-provoking theories make this... more than just another collection of past culinary oddities. The Economist Offers countless delicious factual tidbits. Publishers Weekly [An] intriguing new culinary history of early modern Europe...challenges a lot of previously accepted wisdom...Rebora's highly readable, lively book is bursting with provocative arguments and fascinating new information. Gastronomica This highly personalized history of European food and cooking makes delightful reading. BooklistTable of Contents1. Grain and Bread 2. Soup with Bread, Polenta, Vegetable Stew, and Pasta 3. Stuffed Pasta 4. Water and Salt 5. Cheese 6. Meat 7. The Farmyard 8. Fish 9. Salt-cured Products and Sausages 10. Vegetables and Fruits 11. Fat was Good 12. Spices 13. The Atlantic, the East, and a Few West Indies 14. From the Iberian Peninsula to the Distant Americas: The Sugar Route 15. From Europe to America 16. To Eat at the Same AeMDRVOMensaAeMDNMO 17. Eating and Drinking 18. Dining with Discernment Appendix: Dining with Christopher Columbus
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Columbia University Press Error and the Academic Self
Book SynopsisExamining figures from Thomas More to Stephen Greenblatt, from George Hickes to Seamus Heaney, from George Eliot to Paul de Man, this book illuminates the wanderings of exiles, emigres, dissenters, and the socially estranged as they helped form the modern university disciplines of philology and rhetoric, literary criticism and literary theory.Trade ReviewWriting in a lively, engaging, and sometimes humorous manner, Lerer (Stanford Univ.) fills this book with intricate reasoning about the profession of scholarship and thus provides a unique approach to the study of textual criticism over the ages... a dizzying but enjoyable romp over a road not taken before. Choice A lively historical survey of how people discovered and developed new forms of expression bundled into the English language. -- James A. Cox The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Pursuit of Error: Philology, Rhetoric, and the History of Scholarship 1. Errata: Mistakes and Masters in the Early Modern Book 2. Sublime Philology: An Elegy for Anglo-Saxon Studies 3. My Casaubon: The Novel of Scholarship and Victorian Philology 4. Ardent Etymologies: American Rhetorical Philology, from Adams to de Man 5. Making Mimesis: Exile, Errancy, and Erich Auerbach Epilogue: Forbidden Planet and the Terrors of Philology
£87.40
Columbia University Press Eating History Thirty Turning Points in the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEasy-to-digest prose and modest portions make these stories compulsively readable, and reveal new angles on old stories.Publishers Weekly (starred review) Publishers Weekly (starred review) Clear and engaging... erudite and entertaining... Recommended. Choice Eating History covers an enormous amount of ground and is something of a mini-encyclopedia with many entries, each densely packed with information. Smith is a talented storyteller, so the copious facts and figures are presented well, nicely sprinkled with interesting anecdotes. -- Sylvia Lovegren Gastronomica ...a great read... Yum.fiTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Oliver Evans's Automated Mill 2. The Erie Canal 3. Delmonico's 4. Sylvester Graham's Reforms 5. Cyrus McCormick's Reaper 6. A Multiethnic Smorgasbord 7. Giving Thanks 8. Gail Borden's Canned Milk 9. The Homogenizing War 10. The Transcontinental Railroad 11. Fair Food 12. Henry Crowell's Quaker Special 13. Wilbur O. Atwater's Calorimeter 14. The Cracker Jack Snack 15. Fannie Farmer's Cookbook 16. The Kelloggs' Corn Flakes 17. Upton Sinclair's Jungle 18. Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners 19. Michael Cullen's Super Market 20. Earle MacAusland's Gourmet 21. Jerome I. Rodale's Organic Gardening 22. Percy Spencer's Radar 23. Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA 24. McDonald's Drive-In 25. Julia Child, the French Chef 26. Jean Nidetch's Diet 27. Alice Waters's Chez Panisse 28. TVFN 29. The Flavr Savr 30. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs Epilogue Bibliography
£25.00
Columbia University Press Eating History
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEasy-to-digest prose and modest portions make these stories compulsively readable, and reveal new angles on old stories.Publishers Weekly (starred review) Publishers Weekly (starred review) Clear and engaging... erudite and entertaining... Recommended. Choice Eating History covers an enormous amount of ground and is something of a mini-encyclopedia with many entries, each densely packed with information. Smith is a talented storyteller, so the copious facts and figures are presented well, nicely sprinkled with interesting anecdotes. -- Sylvia Lovegren Gastronomica ...a great read... Yum.fiTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Oliver Evans's Automated Mill 2. The Erie Canal 3. Delmonico's 4. Sylvester Graham's Reforms 5. Cyrus McCormick's Reaper 6. A Multiethnic Smorgasbord 7. Giving Thanks 8. Gail Borden's Canned Milk 9. The Homogenizing War 10. The Transcontinental Railroad 11. Fair Food 12. Henry Crowell's Quaker Special 13. Wilbur O. Atwater's Calorimeter 14. The Cracker Jack Snack 15. Fannie Farmer's Cookbook 16. The Kelloggs' Corn Flakes 17. Upton Sinclair's Jungle 18. Frozen Seafood and TV Dinners 19. Michael Cullen's Super Market 20. Earle MacAusland's Gourmet 21. Jerome I. Rodale's Organic Gardening 22. Percy Spencer's Radar 23. Frances Roth and Katharine Angell's CIA 24. McDonald's Drive-In 25. Julia Child, the French Chef 26. Jean Nidetch's Diet 27. Alice Waters's Chez Panisse 28. TVFN 29. The Flavr Savr 30. Mergers, Acquisitions, and Spin-Offs Epilogue Bibliography
£999.99
Columbia University Press Live All You Can
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEngagingly written HistoryWireTable of ContentsThe Birth of the Father The Dream Cartwright, Dreaming Again Across the Plains Visions and Revisions Paradise Bound Paradise Found The Last Gasp of the Great Sailing Ships Missionary Baseball Starting All Over Again: It's Gonna Be Rough-but We're Gonna Make It The New Fire Chief Freemasonry Comes to Hawaii A Gift from the Sea-and a Loss Back to Baseball DeWitt and His Brothers Cartwright & Co., Ltd. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr., American The Social Whirl Advisor to the Queen Deaths and New Life King Sugar Baseball on the Plantations Spalding's World Tour-First Stop, Hawaii The Final Dissolving Cartwright's Second Life: Myth Into History Appendix 1: Chronology of the Life of Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. Appendix 2: Did Cartwright "Really Invent" Baseball? Or, How Did the Game Evolve Before He Arrived? A Short Survey of Two Vexed Questions Notes and References Acknowledgments Index
£17.09
Columbia University Press On Bicycles
Book SynopsisEvan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.Trade ReviewIn On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them. -- Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates and former commissioner of the New York City Department of TransportationThis social history of the transformation of New York’s relationship to cycling is elegantly researched, gracefully written, and nearly as delightful as the bicycle itself. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsTwo hundred years ago, the first riding machines that resembled what would become bicycles began pouring into Manhattan, and New York City would never be the same again. On Bicycles is brilliantly researched, noting the battles against local government, sexism, the automobile, and the railways, as the bicycle fought its way to become more popular today than ever before. Vive le vélo! -- Phil Liggett MBE, "The Voice of Cycling"Witty and wise, engaged and engaging, surprising, fun and fabulous—I’m running out of adjectives to describe Evan Friss’s wondrous new book. Move over Amsterdam: New York City is a bicycling city too, though with fits and starts, grunts and guffaws, and more than a handful of bike haters (some in high places). A great way to learn about the history of the city that never sleeps—and has never stopped arguing about its bicycles and bicyclists. -- David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, CUNY Graduate CenterA fresh and personalized perspective on what the bicycle has meant to New Yorkers over the years. -- David Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The HistoryA superb history of New York’s cycling cultures over the last two centuries, On Bicycles surveys the evolution of the bicycle in the city from urban menace and medium of feminist liberation to weekend joyride and mainstay of the transportation network. Written with verve and precision, it reads like a long glide down Broadway with the wind at your back, catching green light after green light. -- Samuel Zipp, author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New YorkAn essential contribution to multiple fields—New York history, transportation history, urban history, and planning history—this compelling and fascinating story takes you along with ease, artfully offering a barrage of digestible information, including previously unknown morsels. Even the most well-read New Yorkers, cyclists, and urban historians will find something new here. -- Owen Gutfreund, Hunter CollegeA thoughtful, entertaining look at an essential form of transportation in New York City. * Publishers Weekly *[An] absorbing new book... -- Ginia Bellafante * New York Times *On Bicycles is a joyful read and a welcome retreat from stodgy, jargon-filled historical treatments . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. * New York Almanac *What we should take away from this illuminating history is that the bicycle has endured. Indeed, a new golden age may be on the horizon. * Journal of Cultural Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Rough Start2. Up and Down3. Moses4. The Ban5. BloombergEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£58.77
Columbia University Press On Bicycles
Book SynopsisEvan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.Trade ReviewIn On Bicycles, Evan Friss fills in the missing chapters that bicycles hold in New York City’s near-miraculous transportation history and shows how the city’s streets are finally catching up with them. -- Janette Sadik-Khan, Bloomberg Associates and former commissioner of the New York City Department of TransportationThis social history of the transformation of New York’s relationship to cycling is elegantly researched, gracefully written, and nearly as delightful as the bicycle itself. -- Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity PoliticsTwo hundred years ago, the first riding machines that resembled what would become bicycles began pouring into Manhattan, and New York City would never be the same again. On Bicycles is brilliantly researched, noting the battles against local government, sexism, the automobile, and the railways, as the bicycle fought its way to become more popular today than ever before. Vive le vélo! -- Phil Liggett MBE, "The Voice of Cycling"Witty and wise, engaged and engaging, surprising, fun and fabulous—I’m running out of adjectives to describe Evan Friss’s wondrous new book. Move over Amsterdam: New York City is a bicycling city too, though with fits and starts, grunts and guffaws, and more than a handful of bike haters (some in high places). A great way to learn about the history of the city that never sleeps—and has never stopped arguing about its bicycles and bicyclists. -- David Nasaw, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Professor of History, CUNY Graduate CenterA fresh and personalized perspective on what the bicycle has meant to New Yorkers over the years. -- David Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The HistoryA superb history of New York’s cycling cultures over the last two centuries, On Bicycles surveys the evolution of the bicycle in the city from urban menace and medium of feminist liberation to weekend joyride and mainstay of the transportation network. Written with verve and precision, it reads like a long glide down Broadway with the wind at your back, catching green light after green light. -- Samuel Zipp, author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New YorkAn essential contribution to multiple fields—New York history, transportation history, urban history, and planning history—this compelling and fascinating story takes you along with ease, artfully offering a barrage of digestible information, including previously unknown morsels. Even the most well-read New Yorkers, cyclists, and urban historians will find something new here. -- Owen Gutfreund, Hunter CollegeA thoughtful, entertaining look at an essential form of transportation in New York City. * Publishers Weekly *[An] absorbing new book... -- Ginia Bellafante * New York Times *On Bicycles is a joyful read and a welcome retreat from stodgy, jargon-filled historical treatments . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Traces the colorful and fraught history of cycling in New York City. * New York Almanac *What we should take away from this illuminating history is that the bicycle has endured. Indeed, a new golden age may be on the horizon. * Journal of Cultural Geography *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Rough Start2. Up and Down3. Moses4. The Ban5. BloombergEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£19.00
Columbia University Press The Chile Pepper in China
Book SynopsisBrian R. Dott explores how the non-native chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine, language, and cultural identity. The Chile Pepper in China sheds new light on the piquant cultural impact of a potent plant and raises broader questions regarding notions of authenticity in cuisine.Trade ReviewExtensive source materials in both Chinese and English form the bedrock for this impressive study into how a relatively unassuming American import so radically changed one country’s cuisines and traditional pharmacopoeia. The history of the humble chile in China is a fascinating one, especially as viewed through Brian R. Dott’s affectionate yet scholarly lens. -- Carolyn Phillips, author of All Under Heaven: Recipes from the 35 Cuisines of ChinaA learned as well as lively book with many surprises. How chile peppers came to China from the New World just starts a story involving taste, regionalism, adaptation, and folklore. Chiles were key to Chinese cuisine’s subtlety and variety, and not just in Sichuan and Hunan either. -- Paul Freedman, author of Food: The History of Taste and Ten Restaurants That Changed AmericaThis is an absolutely wonderful book. It combines scholarship and good food writing—the enormous amount of effort in compiling the databases is duly and modestly cloaked in good prose. -- Eugene Anderson, author of The Food of ChinaA valuable resource for anyone interested in Chinese culinary culture or the global history of the chilli as symbol — ‘vitamin, vegetable, preservative and spice’. Dott’s research is extensive, while his writing is entertaining, digestible and peppered with much fascinating information. -- Fuchsia Dunlop * Spectator *It reminds us to look for culinary innovation not only where we often do, in the flashy kitchens of professional chefs, but also in the long-term historical processes of everyday life, the contributions to which, like the chile in China, may be ‘found everywhere.’ * Gastronomica *A book that can be easily understood and enjoyed by casual readers, something not all academic non-fiction books can say. -- Jason Flatt * But Why Tho? *There is much to praise about the book: its painstaking research, its sensitivity to the diversities of regional and historical contexts within China, and the top-notch storytelling. On the last point, Dott deserves special mention. The Chile Pepper in China will be one of the few books that will be read and savored by academics and civilians alike. * Twentieth-Century China *With its lucid, lively style, copious illustrations, and recipes this book could be a model for studies of the assimilation of other New World ingredients, especially in India and China. It will be of great value to students and academics and anyone with an interest [in] Chinese cuisine and culture. * Food, Culture, and Society *A satisfying history to [chiles] origins as well as their cultural significance in China. * Asian Review of Books *The definitive English-language study of how the pepper arrived in China, how it became part of local cuisine and medical practice, and how it even established itself as a core part of identity formation in southwest China. But one of its most provocative contributions has little to do with China and everything do with the chili pepper's unique relationship to globalization. * The Cleaver and the Butterfly *It all adds up to a compelling case for how a foreign plant became a national spice. * Economic Times *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChinese Dynasties and RegimesIntroduction1. Names and Places: How the Chile Found Its Way “Home” to China2. Spicing Up the Palate3. Spicing Up the Pharmacopeia4. Too Hot for Words: Elite Reticence Toward Chile Peppers 5. Chiles as Beautiful Objects and Literary Emblems6. Mao’s Little Red Spice: Chiles and Regional Identity ConclusionAppendix A. Late Imperial Recipe CollectionsAppendix B. Medical Texts ConsultedNotesBibliographyIndexColor Plates
£75.15
