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Reaktion Books A History of Writing
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, "A History of Writing" offers an investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of information storage knot records, tally sticks, pictographic storytelling the book then focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC, and their diffusion to Egypt, the Indus Valley and points east, with special attention given to Semitic writing systems and their eventual spread to the Indian subcontinent. Also documented is the rise of Phoenician and its effect on the Greek alphabet, generating the many alphabetic scripts of the West. Chinese, Korean and Japanese writing systems and scripts are dealt with in depth, as is writing in pre-Colombian America. Also explored are Western Europe's medieval manuscripts and the history of printing, leading to the innovations in technology and spelling rules of the 19th and 20th centuries. Illustrated with numerous examples, this book offers a global overview in a form that everyone can follow.The author also reveals his own discoveries made since the early 1980s, making it a useful reference for both students and specialists as well as the general reader.Trade ReviewAn authoritative account ... if you're intrigued with writing's past, Fischer's book is well worth a read ... a brilliant book New Scientist It is wonderful ... to see a subject that embraces so much of human civilisation handled with the wide knowledge and breadth of vision it deserves Nature
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i2i Publishing Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust is the story of a European Jewish family's struggle to survive in the face of Nazi antisemitism and the Holocaust. The terrible history of twentieth-century genocide is told through the lives and writings of the survivors and is illustrated by evocative historic photographs. In 1915, Paula Ticho's family buys a cinema in Vienna. It is to be run by Paula and her sister, Selma, two single women. The Palast Kino proves to be a success, but in the late 1930s, the Nazi party's antisemitic policies lead to its being forcibly taken over. Threatened by Hitler's rise to power, Paula sends her younger son, Peter to safety in England to join his half-brother, Erich before fleeing herself - a penniless refugee. During the Second World War, Paula becomes a matron at hostels in Tynemouth and Windermere, caring for forty Jewish girls after they have been evacuated from Europe by the Kindertransport. The girls' descriptions of the insidious rise of antisemitism during their childhood in Europe, the distress of leaving their families, adjusting to hostel life, and the trauma of surviving when most of their family perished are, at times, heartrending. Paula's son, Peter, tells of his internment in the Isle of Man and Canada and naval service whilst Erich joins the army. After the war, Paula, Erich, Peter and the hostel girls have to rebuild their lives. Reconstruction of the fates of family left behind in Vienna and Paula's fight to have ownership of the Palast Kino restored to her is based on contemporary correspondence and archival research in Vienna. Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust moves between Brno, Vienna, London, Newcastle, Windermere, the Isle of Man, and Canada as it follows the lives of the family. The book provides many wonderful details about life in Vienna, Austria and Central Europe before World War Two and in post-war London. With over eighty unique original photographs, the book is essential reading for all those interested in the Second World War and European Genocide/Holocaust Studies. Dr Vivien Sieber worked in biosciences research and teaching, learning technology and information literacy at a range of UK universities. She lives in Oxford with her husband and dogs. Since retiring, she is learning to make pots and has now written Kino and Kinder: A Family's Journey in the Shadow of the Holocaust, which is her first book.
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Fideli Publishing Inc. Reaching for the High Note: An Anthology of
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism
Book SynopsisThis edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism. Whereas Brenner and Wood focused mostly on the emergence of capitalism in the English countryside (agrarian capitalism), this book utilizes their approach to offer original, theoretically sophisticated, and empirically informed accounts of transitions to capitalism – both agrarian and industrial – in a wide range of countries in order to provide within a single volume a diverse collection of relatively brief yet detailed case studies of the historical transition to capitalism distributed across three continents. Offering a new and highly original analysis of the global spread of capitalism, this book will be a unique contribution to the longstanding debate on the transition to capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post)Chapter 1: Expropriation and the Political Origins of the Transition to Agrarian Capitalism in England (Spencer Dimmock)Chapter 2: England/industry (Michael Zmolek)Chapter 3: Traditional Farming in France until the Transition to Capitalism of the 1960s under de Gaulle (Stephen Miller)Chapter 4: From Extra-Economic Class Relations to the Rise of Industrial Capitalism in Post-Revolutionary France (Xavier Lafrance)Chapter 5: Beyond the Brenner Thesis: The Origins of Capitalism in Catalonia (Javier Moreno Zacarés)Chapter 6: The American Road to Capitalism (Charles Post)Chapter 7: The Peasantry and Tenancy-Market Dependence: Rural Capitalism in Meiji-Era Japan (Mark Cohen)Chapter 8: ‘The 100 Years of “Transition”: The (Geo)politics of Capitalism and Jacobinism in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey’ (Eren Duzgun)Chapter 9: Colonialism(s), Race, and the Transition to Capitalism in Canada (Jessica Evans)Chapter 10: Rural Property Relations and the Regional Dynamics of the Brazilian Transition to Capitalism (Chris Carlson)Chapter 11: Contingency and the Origins of the Taiwan Miracle (Christopher Isett)Chapter 12: Rethinking the ‘Social’ in the transition to capitalism: Reading Federici and Brenner together (Nicole Leach)Conclusion (Xavier Lafrance and Charles Post)
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Islam's Renewal: Reform or Revolt?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Legacy of Vattel's Droit des gens
Book SynopsisThis edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel’s Droit des gens, first published in 1758. One of the most influential books in the history of international law and a major reference point in the fields of international relations theory and political thought, this book played a role in the transformation of diplomatic practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. But how did Vattel’s legacy take shape? The volume argues that the enduring relevance of Vattel’s Droit des gens cannot be explained in terms of doctrines and academic disciplines that formed in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Instead, the chapters show how the complex reception of this book took shape historically and why it had such a wide geographical and disciplinary appeal until well into the twentieth century. The volume charts its reception through translations, intellectual, ideological and political appropriations as well as new practical usages, and explores Vattel’s discursive and conceptual innovations. Drawing on a wide range of sources, such as archive memoranda and diplomatic correspondences, this volume offers new perspectives on the book’s historical contexts and cultures of reception, moving past the usual approach of focusing primarily on the text. In doing so, this edited collection forms a major contribution to this new direction of study in intellectual history in general and Vattel’s Droit des gens in particular.Table of ContentsKoen Stapelbroek and Antonio Trampus – The legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens: contexts, concepts, reception, translation and diffusion.- PART I: Vattel’s ideas and his context.- Radoslaw Szymanski – Vattel as an intermediary between the economic society of Berne and Poland.- Frederic Iéva – “A poor imitation of Grotius and Pufendorf?” Biographical uncertainties and the laborious genesis of Vattel’s Droit des gens.- Alberto Carrera – The citizen’s right to leave his country: The concept of exile in Vattel’s Droit des Gens.- Koen Stapelbroek – The foundations of Vattel’s ‘system’ of politics and the Seven Years’ War: moral philosophy, luxury and the constitutional commercial state.- Antonella Alimento – Publication strategies and reform politics: the French circulation of Vattel’s Droit des gens.- PART II: The reception of Vattel in Italy and elsewhere.- Antonio Trampus – Good government and the sovereignty of small states: the Eighteenth and Nineteenth century reception of the Droit des gens.- Danilo Pedemonte – Vattel in the Republic of Genua: theory and practice.- Alberto Clerici – Vattel in the Papal State. Anti-Prussian propaganda and the Law of nations in Italy during the Seven Years’ War.- Gert-Fredrik Malt – Vattel's system for subjects in international law and the establishment of Norway as a Nation in 1814.- Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina – The legacy of Vattel’s Droit des gens in the long nineteenth century.-
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Inventing Berlin: Architecture, Politics and Cultural Memory in the New/Old German Capital Post-1989
Book SynopsisThis book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period. The core of the book is made up of an analysis of built space changes in the eastern half of the city before and after the Berlin Wall, flanked by an introduction to the theoretical underpinnings of the topic and a wider interpretation of the events in Berlin in relation to other geographic and historical contexts. It furthermore offers an explanatory model for the phenomenon of the "symbolic foreigner" whereby former citizens of the GDR feel disenfranchised and excluded from today's German society. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and also appeals to a wider, non-academic audience with an interest in both cultural memory and Berlin.Trade Review“The book convincingly shows that it is worth to look at societal dynamics of transformation through the lens of architecture and planning. … As a whole, the book is a recommendable reading also for those who might have asked themselves first, why we still need another book on post-1989 Berlin.” (Hendrikje Alpermann, Eurasian Geography and Economics, September 13, 2020)Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Photographing Mussolini: The Making of a
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image. It departs from the practice of using photographs purely for illustration and places them instead at the centre of the analysis. Throughout the 1930s photographs of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini were chosen with much care by the regime. They were deployed to highlight those physical traits - the piercing eyes, protruding jaw, shaved head - that were meant to evoke the Duce's strength, determination and innate sense of leadership in the mind of his contemporaries. The chapters in this volume explore the photographic image in the socio-political context of the time and shows how it was a significant contributor to the development of Italian mass culture between the two world wars.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: Setting the Scene 2. The photograph as a source and agent of history3. Images in politics before MussoliniPart II: Production 4. The image makers of the Duce5. The corporate image: Istituto Luce6. The press-image: photojournalists and agencies7. The aesthetic image: Ghitta CarellPart III: Audiencing 8. The visual presence of the Duce9. Mussolini’s early photographs10. Mussolini’s photogenic charisma11. The emotional appeal12. Marketing Mussolini13. Conclusion
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Mosul after Islamic State: The Quest for Lost
Book SynopsisThe book examines the destruction of the architectural heritage in Mosul perpetrated by Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. It identifies which structures were attacked, the ideological rationale behind the destruction, and the significance of the lost monuments in the context of Mosul’s urban development and the architectural history of the Middle East. This methodologically innovative work fills an important gap in the study of both current radical movements and the medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Iraq.Table of Contents1. A City Destroyed. 2. A City Explored. 3. A City Contextualized. 4. Epilogue: A City Resurrected?.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Critical Planning and Design: Roots, Pathways, and Frames
Book SynopsisThe book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies. ‘Critical planning and design’ is presented in this book as a field of research inspired by critical urban theory and developed along with ideas and theories that prove to be radical, alternative, dialectical to the mainstream history of planning.In this book, scholars present what they consider as the most important books in the field of planning, public policy and design. They have been asked to write about a book and its author, in their preferred manner. This freedom allowed passionate and original contributions.Three main threads - the three parts of the book - shape the choices of the authors. The first concerns the reconstruction of some genealogical roots of planning (including Cerdà, Yona Friedman, Alberto Magnaghi, and Ian McHarg). The second thread groups the authors who dialogue with contemporary protagonists of the planning debate (including John Friedmann, Leonie Sandercock, Doreen Massey, David Harvey, Tom Sievert, and Patzy Healey). The third thread includes authors who dig into relevant writings in social and philosophical sciences (including Max Weber, Charles Lindblom, Henri Lefebvre, Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari, Georges Didi-Huberman, Robert Nozick, Pand hilip K Dick).The book is addressed to researchers of planning and urban studies, who value the critical re-reading of some fundamental books. Including thoughtful and critical arguments on influential thinkers of the past two centuries, the book will enable students, scholars and researchers of planning, design, political science, geographical, environmental, and urban studies to better understand the socio-spatial and ecological transformations under the contemporary transition while relying on a “usable past”. The book is also addressed to a wider audience of readers interested in the problems of the city and space.Table of Contents
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Perspectives on Public Policy in Societal-Environmental Crises: What the Future Needs from History
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Springer International Publishing AG Agency and Locality in the London Blitz
Book SynopsisThis book takes a fresh approach to the London Blitz by viewing this time through individual local boroughs of the metropolis. The term ‘London Blitz’ means that culturally we have become accustomed to understanding that the actual blitz experience was the same wherever in the capital one happened to be, despite some areas being hit more than others. This book illustrates how there were many London blitzes, not one, influenced by a myriad of metropolitan localities, and giving rise to an agency of locality that helped to shape the lived blitz experience. By walking through the streets of London, this book conducts a local area analysis, witnessing the blitz through six London localities, representative of the assorted administrative, economic, and socio-political variables prevalent in wartime London. Covering air raids alongside topics like the provision of shelters, homelessness, and communal feeding, it shows how any history of the London Blitz must acknowledge that it was an experience reflective of a varied metropolis.Table of Contents1 Introduction and Historiography. Preamble. Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Tip and Run Raids: 1943. Little Blitz: 1944. V-Weapons: 1944–1945. Historiography Review. Critique of Historiography: An Absence of Locality. Historiographical Themes: Home Front Studies. Historiographical Themes: The Myth of the Blitz. Shaping Wartime Experience: Metropolitan Differentials. Class. Gender. Race. Shaping Wartime Experience: The Agency of Locality. Local Area Analysis. The Six London Boroughs. Metropolitan London: Finsbury. Metropolitan London: Bermondsey. Metropolitan London: Kensington. Suburban Essex: East Ham. Suburban Surrey: Croydon. Suburban Middlesex: Acton. Applying a Thematic Approach. 2 Planning for War: London and the Localities. Pre-War Fears. Planning for War: Central Government. Planning for War: Regional and County Level. Planning for War: Local Authorities. Metropolitan London: Finsbury. Metropolitan London: Bermondsey. Metropolitan London: Kensington. Suburban Essex: East Ham. Suburban Surrey: Croydon. Suburban Middlesex: Acton. 3 Main London Blitz Local Response: Metropolitan London. Air Raids. Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Shelters. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Homelessness: Rest Centres. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Communal Feeding. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. 4 Main London Blitz Local Response: The Suburbs. Air Raids. Eve of the Main London Blitz: June–September 1940. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Shelters. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Homelessness: Rest Centres. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. Communal Feeding. Eve of the Main London Blitz. Main London Blitz: September 1940–July 1941. 5 Post-Blitz London: The Local Response. Tip and Run Raids 1943. Little Blitz 1944. V-Weapons 1944–1945. 6 Local Response: Conclusions.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Jüdische Selbstverwaltung unter dem NS-Regime:
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Wissen im Untergrund: Praxis und Politik
Book SynopsisWissenschaftliche Forschung ist an spezifische Orte, Zeiten und Praktiken gebunden, die durch unzählige explizite und implizite Regeln eingegrenzt werden. Was aber geschieht, wenn diese Konfigurationen auseinanderbrechen? Friedrich Cain untersucht dies anhand der Forschungen, die polnische Wissenschaftler im Verborgenen durchführten, als das Land im Zweiten Weltkrieg unter deutscher Besatzung stand. Alle polnischen Bildungseinrichtungen und Forschungsstätten wie Schulen, Akademien und Universitäten, aber auch Bibliotheken und Labore wurden geschlossen und blieben 'nur für Deutsche' zugängig, denn ein 'Arbeitervolk', so die Rassentheorien der Besatzungsmacht, brauche keine höheren Kultureinrichtungen. Viele polnische Wissenschaftler wandten sich jedoch gegen die Verbote und versuchten weiter wissenschaftlich zu arbeiten. Neben der Organisation geheimer Seminare im Rahmen sogenannter Untergrunduniversitäten gelang es in nahezu allen Disziplinen klandestin zu forschen. Die Studie folgt soziologischen Untersuchungen einer Gesellschaft unter Besatzungsbedingungen, medizinischen Forschungen zur Hungerkrankheit und zum Fleckfieber sowie der Einrichtung physikalischer Experimentalzusammenhänge in Warschau, Krakau, Lemberg und anderswo. Versteckt in Privatwohnungen, getarnt als offizielle Unternehmen oder an der Schwelle zwischen deutscher Administration und polnischem Untergrund wurden gewohnte Infrastrukturen, also das Arsenal von Geräten, Büchern, Techniken und Tugenden neu organisiert. All dies hatte spezifische epistemologische Auswirkungen, etwa wenn Projekte abgebrochen, neu eingerichtet oder in der 'Laborsituation des Krieges' dynamisiert wurden. Häufig führte dies zur politischen Aufladung wissenschaftlicher Neutralitätsgebote und musste mit den politischen und moralischen Narrativen des polnischen Widerstands in Einklang gebracht werden.
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JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck) Rechtsgeschichte im Nationalsozialismus: Beiträge
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Springer International Publishing AG Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism: Popular
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass political culture of the mid-1930s in the USSR and thus contributes to wider research on Russian political culture. Popular comments about the constitution show how liberal, democratic and conciliatory discourse co-existed in society with illiberal, confrontational and intolerant views. The study also covers the government’s goals for the constitution’s revision and the national discussion, and its disappointment with the results. Outcomes of the discussion convinced Stalin that society was not sufficiently Sovietized. Stalin's re-evaluation of society's condition is a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted from the relaxation of 1933-36 to the Great Terror, and why repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Sources.- Part I. Government Goals for the Constitution Revision and National Discussion.- 3. The Origins of Constitutional Reform.- 4. Moderation in the Policies of the Mid-1930s.- 5. Motives for the New Constitution.- 6. Soviet Sociopolitical Mobilizations.- 7. The State’s Goals for the Nationwide Discussion.- Part II. Popular Perceptions of the Constitution.- 8. The Economic Situation at the Grassroots Level.- 9. Liberal Discourse.- 10. Voices against Liberties.- 11. Other Comments and Recommendations.- 12. Outcome of the Discussion: From Relaxation to Repression.- 13. On Russian Political Culture in the Twentieth Century.- 14. Conclusion.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Gandhi’s Travels in Tamil Nadu
Book SynopsisThe volume also underscores the vital contribution of the Tamil people to the Indian freedom struggle, and draws our attention to the many Tamilian heirs to the Gandhian legacy who continued his work well after him.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd When the Kurinji Blooms
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd Battlefield India: 25 Years of Politricks and
Book SynopsisBattlefield India is a chronicle of the near past which tells us how the cycle of chaos repeats itself. The story starts in 1997 on the eve of India's 50th year as an independent nation, and ends in 2022 as free India celebrates its 75th birthday. The political, economic, and social events of the last 25 years are recounted through the voices of people the author has interviewed over the years. These voices include many who shall go down in the history books as legends of this period in India's long history: among others, the man behind the Green Revolution and a member of independent India's Constituent Assembly C Subramaniam, the former President of India R. Venkataraman, the eminent agronomist Dr M''s Swaminathan.
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Vitasta Publishing Pvt.Ltd 1971. 1999. War Stories
Book Synopsis1971. 1999. War Stories documents the oral history' of the war veterans of the Liberation and Kargil War. Culled from personal interviews, this compilation of anecdotes gives you a glimpse into the minds of those who made decisions that saved thousands of lives and possibly changed the course of history. From getting caught by the Pakistanis as a Prisoner of War, to dangerous landings on muddy grounds, healing bullet-ridden aircraft to clandestine missions carried out by our helicopter and transport stalwarts, each story brings out aspects of leadership, motivation, management and most importantly, the resilience of our soldiers in uniform.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd History Of Chartered Surveyors In Singapore, The:
Book SynopsisThere is a rich history of achievements by Chartered Surveyors in Singapore going back as far as the 1880s. Their stories have largely gone untold. This book tells the stories of individual Chartered Surveyors in Singapore over the first hundred years since the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors was founded (1868 to 1968) and explains the role they played in the development of Singapore. The book also includes the stories of the pioneer Singaporean Chartered Surveyors from the 1940s onwards, many of whom studied overseas but returned to Singapore where they would play important roles in the real estate industry over future decades.Related Link(s)
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France
Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the unique aspects of ‘communal liberalism’ in Mme de Staël’s writings and considers her contribution to nineteenth-century French liberal political thought. Focusing notably on the ‘Considérations sur les principaux événements de la Révolution française’, it examines the originality of Stael’s liberal philosophy. Rather than contrasting liberalism with either multiculturalism or republicanism, the book argues that Staël’s communal liberalism challenges the conventions of nineteenth-century political thought, notably through her assertion of the need to institutionalize an organic intermediary connecting the two spheres, an idea later advanced by thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas. Offering a critical reappraisal of Staël’s multifaceted work, this book assesses the political impact of her work, arguing that the political influence of the ‘Considérations’ permeates the liberal historiography of the French Revolution up to the present day.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Part 1: Germaine de Staël's Political Liberalism.- Invention of the Political Center as an Ideal: Staël and the Constitutional Monarchy (1789-1795).- Sentiment in Staëlian Political Liberalism: Letters on the Works and Character of J.-J. Rousseau.- Staël’s Liberal Republicanism in Reaction to the Discourse on Social Dissolution (1795-1799).- The Role of Civility in Staëlian Political Liberalism.- A Liberal Interpretation of the French Revolution: Considerations on the Principal Events of the French Revolution.- Part 2: Influence on Nineteenth-Century French Politics.- Reception of Considerations: The Hereditary Second Chamber.- Guizot’s and Rémusat’s Reactions to Considerations in 1818.- Barante’s Moment: The Advent of Communal Liberalism in 1829.- Tocqueville and Communal Liberalism (1830-1851).- Democratizing Communal Liberalism under the Second Empire.- Part 3: Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution.- Reception of Considerations: Left-Wing Historians’ Refutation in the 1820s.- The Reception of Considerations: A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution (1818-1848).- A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution after 1848.- Britain in the Liberal Historiography of the French Revolution: Tocqueville and Quinet in Regard to Considerations.- Conclusion.
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Austin Macauley Publishers LLC Child Protection in America
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Broadview Press Ltd Literature of the Women's Suffrage Campaign in
Book SynopsisDuring the British women's suffrage campaign of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women wrote plays to convert others to their cause; they wrote essays to justify their militant actions; and they wrote fiction and poetry about their prison experiences.This volume is a diverse collection of these writings, focused on the women's suffrage campaign in England and written primarily during the brief period between the New Woman writers of the 1890s and the modernists of the twentieth century. Many of these works have not been reprinted since they were first published.This important collection includes essays reflecting a variety of opinions and political positions; excerpts from autobiographies by women involved in the movement; suffrage poetry; the song that became the official song of the British suffrage movement; several one-act plays that were written and performed specifically to advance the suffrage cause; and short stories and excerpts from novels about suffrage.Trade ReviewThis is the richest collection yet of suffrage materials, fully introduced, annotated and illustrated. The initial contextualizing of the campaign is followed by an impressive collection of difficult-to-obtain literary texts. Satirical poetry and drama, presented alongside formal political argument, and the passionate testimonies of key campaigners, prove just how literary a campaign this was. The vivid prison narratives, short stories and complete one-act plays anthologized in this volume fully personalize the campaign and give one a sense of how ordinary people were caught up in the momentum of history. This is an invaluable anthology." - Valerie Sanders, The University of HullTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTSLIST OF FIGURESINTRODUCTIONSIGNIFICANT DATES IN WOMEN’S STRUGGLE FOR EMANCIPATION AND SUFFRAGEBIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATIONSUFFRAGE ORGANIZATIONSCHAPTER 1: THE ARGUMENTSTHE CASE FOR AND AGAINST WOMEN’S SUFFRAGEHarriet Taylor and John Stuart Mill, from “Enfranchisement ofWomen”Lydia E. Becker, from “Female Suffrage”“An Appeal Against Female Suffrage”Millicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Appeal Against FemaleSuffrage: A Reply. I”Mary Margaret Dilke, “The Appeal Against Female Suffrage:A Reply. II”From “Women’s Suffrage: A Reply”T. Dundas Pillans, from Plain Truths About Woman SuffrageH.B. Samuels, from Woman Suffrage: Its Dangers and DelusionsHarold Owen, from “Superfluous Woman” and “Sex andPolitics”Heber L. Hart, from Woman Suffrage: A National Danger THE QUESTION OF MILITANCY AND THE HUNGER STRIKEMillicent Garrett Fawcett, from “The Militant Societies”Teresa Billington-Greig, from Suffragist Tactics: Past and PresentEmmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from The New CrusadeMona Caird, “Militant Tactics and Woman’s Suffrage”Elizabeth Robins, from “The Hunger Strike”Elizabeth Robins, “In Conclusion”CHAPTER 2: WOMEN IN THE CAMPAIGN TELL THEIR STORIESEmmeline Pankhurst, from My Own StoryE. Sylvia Pankhurst, from The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and IdealsEmmeline Pethick-Lawrence, from My Part in a Changing WorldAnnie Kenney, from Memories of a MilitantCicely Hamilton, from Life ErrantHannah Mitchell, from The Hard Way Up: The Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and RebelConstance Lytton, from Prisons and Prisoners: The Stirring Testimony of a SuffragetteMemorial Statue of Mrs. Pankhurst: Mr. Baldwin’s TributeCHAPTER 3: SUFFRAGE POETRY AND SONGSPOETRY“A Jingle of the Franchise”“Cautionary Tales in Verse”From Holloway Jingles SONGS“The Women’s Marseillaise”“The March of the Women”“Woman’s Song of Freedom”[“When Good Queen Bess was on the Throne”]“Christabel”“Rise Up Women”“Our Hard Case”CHAPTER 4: SUFFRAGE DRAMACicely Hamilton and Christopher St. John, How the Vote Was Won: A Play in One ActMary Cholmondeley, Votes for MenBessie Hatton, Before SunriseCicely Hamilton, A Pageant of Great WomenHenry Arncliffe-Sennett, An Englishwoman’s Home: A Play in One ActMargaret Wynne Nevinson, In the Workhouse: A Play in One ActGraham Moffat, The Maid and the Magistrate: A Duologue in One ActEvelyn Glover, A Chat with Mrs. Chicky: A DuologueEvelyn Glover, Miss Appleyard’s Awakening: A Play in One Act CHAPTER 5: SUFFRAGE FICTIONSHORT STORIESEvelyn Sharp, “The Women at the Gate”Evelyn Sharp, “Shaking Hands with the Middle Ages”Gertrude Colmore, “The Introduction”Gertrude Colmore, “The Magical Musician”W.L. Courtney, “The Soul of a Suffragette”NOVELSConstance Elizabeth Maud, from No SurrenderGertrude Colmore, from Suffragette Sally BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Broadview Press Ltd Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on
Book SynopsisNovel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel was accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The anthology collects over 135 primary sources that chart the long eighteenth century’s interpretation of the novel. These sources—many newly-discovered—include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors’ prefatory analyses of their work; essayists’ debates concerning the novel’s formal qualities; commentators’ questions concerning the novel’s cultural position, including whether or not women and children should read novels; reviewers’ definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians’ first attempts to write the history of the novel.Trade Review“[Novel Definitions] is essential reading in both the culture and theory of novel writing and reading during the eighteenth century. Our courses on the eighteenth-century novel and our writing about the novel will be much the better for its appearance.” — Jonathan Kramnick, Studies in English Literature“Cheryl Nixon’s Novel Definitions is an extremely useful, comprehensive, and very well-organized anthology of responses, both professional and popular, to the English novel in the period of its cultural ascendency. Both in its range—which covers major statements about the developing genre from Huet and Behn through Reeve and Barbauld—and in its depth—which places well-known texts by writers such as Richardson and Johnson alongside a wealth of less familiar criticism and commentary—Novel Definitions offers an indispensible resource for teaching and researching the history of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain.” — Scott Black, University of Utah“In this superb anthology, both learned and lively, Cheryl Nixon provides a thoughtful and theoretically informed introduction to the critical commentaries that shaped the debate over the meaning of the “new” novel. Authors and critics became cultural commentators, members of a cultural community all too aware of what was at stake in their new form…This collection is invaluable for a study of the novel and of eighteenth-century British culture.” — Carol Flynn, Tufts University“Cheryl Nixon’s invaluable Novel Definitions gathers vast and rich commentary that expands our understanding of eighteenth-century novels. With a superb introduction, Novel Definitions is intelligently designed and thoughtfully organized, schematizing its numerous materials into formal and thematic categories that foreground the experimental and provocative nature of the genre in its earliest incarnations. Students of the eighteenth-century novel will want to read all these prefaces, critical essays, commentaries and book reviews, for they illuminate the important controversies and vexing debates that preoccupied the eighteenth-century reading public. Novel Definitions is an outstanding edition of rarely-collected material that should be required reading.” — Tita Chico, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextPart I: Prefatory WritingA. The Novel’s Relationship to Fact, Fiction, and Truth Aphra Behn, Dedication and Opening of Oroonoko (1688) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe, Preface to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) Penelope Aubin, Preface to The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Pamela (1740) Eliza Haywood, Preface to The Fortunate Foundlings (1744) John Cleland, Opening of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49) Charles Johnstone, Preface to Chrysal (1760-65) Elizabeth Griffith, Preface to The Delicate Distress (1769) Thomas Thoughtless [pseudonym], Advertisement to The Fugitive of Folly (1793) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form William Congreve, Preface to Incognita (1692) Jane Barker, Preface to Exilius (1715) Mary Davys, Preface to The Works of Mrs. Davys (1725) Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742) Sarah Fielding, Advertisement to The Adventures of David Simple (1744) Henry Fielding, Preface to Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple, 2nd ed. (1744) Tobias Smollett, Preface to The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) Henry Fielding, from Book 9, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Thomas Holcroft, Preface to Alwyn (1780) [Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth], Preface to Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) Sarah Green, Preface to Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Delariviere Manley, Preface to The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (1705) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Moll Flanders (1722) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Richardson], Preface to Penelope Aubin, A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels (1739) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Clarissa (1747-48) Henry Fielding, from Book 8, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Tobias Smollett, Dedication to The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding, Introduction to The Cry (1754) Sarah Scott, Preface to The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) Richard Cumberland, from Book 3, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) Mary Hays, Preface to Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) D. The Novel’s Definition as a Gothic, Eastern, Sentimental, Political, or Historical Tale Horace Walpole, Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto (1764, 1765) James Yeo, Preface to Omar and Zemira (1782) Clara Reeve, Preface to The School for Widows (1791) Charlotte Smith, Preface to Desmond (1792) Walter Scott, “Introductory” to Waverley (1814) Part II: Critical EssaysA. The Novel’s Relation to Fact, Fiction, and the Real John Dunton, ed., Athenian Mercury, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1692) Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 416 (1712) Charles Gildon, “A Dialogue betwixt D— F–e, Robinson Crusoe, and his Man Friday” and “An Epistle to D— D’F–e, the Reputed Author of Robinson Crusoe,” The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D—DeF– (1719) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 4 (1750) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 4 (1752) William Whitehead, The World, No. 19 (1753) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On the Pleasure derived from Objects of Terror […]” and “An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations […],” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) George Wright, “Modern Novel-Writers Justly Censur’d,” Pleasing Reflections on Life and Manners (1787) William Hazlitt, “Standard Novels,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 24 (1815) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form John Dennis, from Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear (1712) Peter Shaw, “Of Writings designed to improve Morality,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, from A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Richard Hurd, from A Dissertation on the Idea of Universal Poetry (1766) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On Romances, An Imitation” and “On the Province of Comedy,” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, from Letters written by … the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (1774) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 28 (1785) George Canning, The Microcosm, No. 26 (1787) Robert Alves, “A Parallel between History and Novel writing,” Sketches of a History of Literature (1794) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Aaron Hill, “[Letter] To the Editor of Pamela,” Samuel Richardson, Pamela, 2nd ed. (1741) Sarah Fielding, from Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author (1749) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 139 (1751) Anonymous, from An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751) Edward Young, from Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) Arthur Murphy, Introduction to The Works of Henry Fielding (1762) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, from Vol. 3 of Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1776) William Craig, The Mirror, No. 31 (1779) Richard Cumberland, “Remarks upon novels, and particularly of Richardson’s Clarissa,” Vol. 2 of The Observer (1786) Humphry Repton, “On the Clarissa of Richardson and Fielding’s Tom Jones,” Variety (1787) Part III: Cultural CommentaryA. The Novel’s Expanding Popularity Philip Skelton, from The Candid Reader (1744) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 35 (1753) Edward Moore, The World, No. 13 (1753) George Colman (the Elder) and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur, No. 96 (1755) Oliver Goldsmith, “A Resverie,” The Bee, No. 5 (1759) George Colman (the Elder), Prologue to Polly Honeycombe, A Dramatic Novel of One Act (1760) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Multiplication of Books,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) “R.R.E.,” Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 57 (1787) Thomas Wilson, from The Use of Circulating Libraries Considered (1797) B. The Novel’s Moral Influence Samuel Croxall, Preface to A Select Collection of Novels (1720-22) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 16 (1752) Elizabeth Montagu, “Plutarch—Charon—And a Modern Bookseller,” George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton [and Elizabeth Montagu], Dialogues of the Dead (1760) Richard Griffith, “Novels,” Vol. 1 of Something New (1772) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Efficacy of Moral Instruction,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 20 (1785) C. The Novel’s Proper Use by Young People Samuel Pegge (the Elder), Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 37 (1767) William Jones, “On Novels,” Letters from a Tutor to his Pupils (1780) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Best Method of Exciting in Boys the Symptoms of Literary Genius,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Catherine Macaulay, “Literary Education,” Letters on Education (1790) Erasmus Darwin, “Polite Literature,” A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools (1797) William Godwin, “Of Choice in Reading,” The Enquirer (1797) Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, “Books,” Vol. 1 of Practical Education (1798) Elizabeth Parker, Eleanor Smith, Eliza Sinclaire, and Jane Lewis, [Students’ Prize-winning Essays on “The Love of Novels,”] Vol. 1 of The Juvenile Library (1800) D. The Novel’s Power Over Women Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) Judith Drake, from An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696) Richard Berenger, The World, No. 79 (1754) James Fordyce, “On Female Virtue,” Vol. 1 of Sermons to Young Women (1766) Hester Chapone, “On Politeness and Accomplishments,” Vol. 2 of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) Mary Wollstonecraft, “Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates […],” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Ann Wingrove, “On Reading Novels,” Letters, Moral and Entertaining (1795) Thomas Gisborne, “On the Employment of Time,” An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) Rachel Hunter, Preface to The Unexpected Legacy (1804) E. The Novel’s Threat to Religion John Nesbitt, from A Sermon Preached to Young Persons (1713) George Whitefield, from Christ the Best Husband (1740) James Relly, from The Life of Christ (1762) John Kendall, from Remarks on the Prevailing Custom of Attending Stage Entertainments: Also on the Present Taste for Reading Romances and Novels (1794) William Jones, from The Human Imagination (1796) Hester Rogers, from The Experience of Mrs. H.A. Rogers (1796) Part IV: Book ReviewsA. Competing Reviews of the Same Novel Owen Ruffhead, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Monthly Review, No. 24(1761) Anonymous, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Monthly Review, No. 58 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 48 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Critical Review, No. 46 (1778) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 11 (1794) and Addendum to Review, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 12 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 15 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, British Critic, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1813) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Critical Review, Series 4, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1813) B. Positive Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, London Magazine, No. 18 (1749) John Cleland, Review of Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, Monthly Review, No. 4 (1751) Owen Ruffhead, Review of John Hawkesworth, Almoran and Hamet, Monthly Review, No. 24 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Mary Robinson, Vancenza, Monthly Review, No. 7 (1792) Anonymous, Review of Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House, Analytical Review, No. 16 (1793) Anonymous, Review of William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Analytical Review, No. 21 (1795) Walter Scott, Review of Jane Austen, Emma, Quarterly Review, No. 14 (1815) C. Negative Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Anonymous, The Fortune-Teller, Critical Review, No. 1 (1756) Anonymous, [A Series of Short Negative Reviews,] Monthly Review, No. 42 (1770) Anonymous, “Address to the Public” and Review of Anonymous, Peggy and Patty, London Magazine, No. 1 (1783) Anonymous, Review of Mrs. Thompson [i.e., Harriet Pigott], The Labyrinths of Life, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 5 (1791) D. Writers Review the Critics Henry Fielding, from Book 11, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Peter Shaw, “Of Authors and Censors,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 176 (1751) Frances Burney, Dedication of Evelina (1778) Isaac Disraeli, “The Origin of Literary Journals,” Curiosities of Literature (1791) Richard Cumberland, from Book 2, Chapter 1 and Book 4, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) William Beckford, “An Humble Address to the Doers of […] the British Critic,” Vol. 2 of Modern Novel Writing (1796) Part V: Histories of the NovelA. The Rise of the Novel Pierre-Daniel Huet, from The History of Romances [Trans. Stephen Lewis] (1715) Hugh Blair, “Fictitious History,” Vol. 2 of Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783) James Beattie, “On Fable and Romance,” Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783) Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance (1785) John Moore, “A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance,” The Works of Tobias Smollett (1797) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing,” The British Novelists (1810) Glossary of Authors and TextsChronological List of TextsBibliographyIndex
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Harvard University Press Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
Book SynopsisJohn Rawls, in three decades of teaching at Harvard, has had a profound influence on the development of philosophical ethics. This book brings together the lectures that inspired a generation of students, providing readers with the inspired guidance of one of contemporary philosophy's most noteworthy practitioners and teachers.Trade ReviewRawls is, of course, one of the major moral and political philosophers of the 20th-century. These essays center on Kant's moral philosophy as influenced by Hume's and Leibniz's and as it influenced Hegel. Throughout, Rawls tries to understand the distinctive questions each philosopher posed to himself and the specific answers he gave...Rawls's deep, tightly argued, and lucidly presented analyses warrant close attention by students on the subject. -- Robert Hoffman * Library Journal *Rawls's 'Kant Lectures' have enjoyed a cult status so great that it has propelled dog-eared copies of his notes across campuses and generations. 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Princeton University Press Masada
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Johns Hopkins University Press The New Nature of Maps
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University of Pennsylvania Press The History of AntiSemitism Volume 3 From
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Oxford University Press The Industrial Revolution
Book SynopsisThe ''Industrial Revolution'' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries feeding the factories. Cities grew as people shifted from agriculture to industry and commerce. Hand in hand with the growth of cities came rising levels of pollution and disease. Many people lost their jobs to the new machinery, whilst working conditions in the factories were grim and pay was low. As the middle classes prospered, social unrest ran through the working classes, and the exploitation of workers led to the growth of trade unions and protest movements.In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen analyzes the key features of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, and the spread of industrialization to other countries. He considers the factors that combined to enable industrialization at this time, including Britain''s position as a global commercial empire, and discusses the changes in technology and business organization, and their impact on different social classes and groups. Introducing the ''winners'' and the ''losers'' of the Industrial Revolution, he looks at how the changes were reflected in evolving government policies, and what contribution these made to the economic transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade Reviewa landmark outline of global economic growth and the British Industrial Revolution in alignment with mainstream economic thinking today. * Avner Offer, Economic History.net *An authoritative overview of recent perspectives on the Industrial Revolution which is very clearly written and a pleasure to read. * Nick Crafts, Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick *Table of ContentsREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX
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Yale University Press Vampires Burial and Death
Book SynopsisSurveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.Trade Review"A stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world."—Library Journal"Barber, a specialist in German language and folklore who has a faintly ghoulish sense of humour, has written a splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy. . . . The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors."—Anthony Daniels, The Spectator "Since this is essentially a scholarly work on human decomposition and historical attitudes to it, it is remarkable how often Paul Barber manages to be funny. . . . His insights, medical and cultural, hold a chastening fascination."—Hugh Barnacle, Independent "A pioneering work on the role of medicine in unraveling the mysteries of the supernatural. Breaking new ground, it belongs among the significant studies of folklore."—Felix J. Oinas, Indiana University
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Sanctuary Press Ltd National Socialism - Its Principles and Philosophy
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and
Book SynopsisLiberia was in the headlines in 1990 when thousands of teenage fighters, including young men wearing women's clothing and bizarre objects of decoration, laid seige to the capital, Monrovia. In response to the crisis, a West African peacekeeping force, ECONMOG, was sent to stabilize the country and prevent the main warlord, Charles Taylor, from coming to power. Seven years later, however, Taylor was elected President. The country had a fragile peace but the war had spread to its neighbour Sierra Leone. This book traces the history of the civil war that has blighted Liberia in recent years and looks at its roots in the way governments have been established in West Africa during the 20th century.Trade Review'The first half of this outstanding study of Liberia's civil war (1989-97) reviews the conflict's political, economic, military and international features, drawing on a comprehensive array of sources. the second half is a fascinating and profound exploration of what Ellis sees as Liberian's deep spiritual anarchy, manifested during the war in extreme brutality, incidents of cannibalism, and the fighters' bizarre sartorial affections. these things tend to boggle Western minds, as did the overwhelming support among Liberian voters for the unprincipled warlord Charles Taylor in the country's 1997 presidential election. But Ellis' persuasive analysis of Liberian religious ideology and culture does more than make sense of these strange phenomena. It offers rare insight into the political, physical, and spiritual power can be linked and legitimized in the popular imagination-and how each can run amok in the absence of durable institutional checks and balances. A model of lucid writing, thorough research, and penetrating interpretation, this is one of the best books on Africa in recent years.' -Foreign Affairs, Washington, DCTable of ContentsA death in the night; the first of the warlords; lean and hungry years; the mechanics of war; business and diplomacy; a nation long forlorn; men and devils; false prophets. Appendix: war deaths, 1989-1997.
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China
Book SynopsisTo this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. But, as this new edition of Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. The transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a 'cure' that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.Trade Review'[An] informative, scholarly and dispassionately fascinating book. ... Narcotic Culture explodes various myths surrounding the use of opium in nineteenth and early twentieth century China.' * Justin Wintle, The Independent *
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc Ford Bronco
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Columbia University Press A Taste for Purity An Entangled History of
Book SynopsisJulia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and violence.Trade ReviewVegetarianism’s political and ecological imperatives have long wanted for a historian capable of excavating their roots. Julia Hauser offers an electric, wholly original account of the nationalist and international politics, racial paradigms, and unexpected encounters between German, Swiss, American, and Indian thinkers as they crafted modern vegetarianism’s moral stance. -- Benjamin Siegel, author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern IndiaCentral today to many modern lifestyles and movements, vegetarianism is in fact rooted in a deep history, now masterfully explored by Julia Hauser. Rich in detail, often surprising, and written in clear prose, this study is sure to challenge established notions of West and East, modern and traditional, left and right. Much food for thought! -- Paul Nolte, Free University BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880–19123. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World WarEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy,
Book SynopsisVitalism, the recognition that the physical body is animated by a vital life force, is the foundation of most natural healing therapies. The forefathers of alternative medicine discovered methods of healing the body by stimulating this life force. In Vitalism: The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, Matthew Wood describes the theories, lives, and work of nine great physicians who laid the groundwork for natural medicine.
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Oxford University Press The History of Political Thought
Book SynopsisThinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short Introduction explores the core concerns and questions in the field of the history of political thought. Richard Whatmore considers the history of political thought as a branch of political philosophy/political science, and examines the approaches of core theorists such as Reinhart Koselleck, Strauss, Michel Foucault, and the so-called Cambridge School of Quentin Skinner and John Pocock. Assessing the current relationship between political history, theory and action, Whatmore concludes with an analysis of its relevant for current politics.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Table of Contents1: Political thought: a brief history 2: History and political philosophy: Arendt, Oakeshott, and Rawls 3: Political thought and extremism: Koselleck 4: Political thought in North America: Strauss 5: Political thought and the history of liberty: Foucault 6: Political theorists as historians: The Cambridge School 7: The History of Political Thought and Present Politics Further Reading Index
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University of California Press The History of Human Rights
Book SynopsisRecounts the struggle for human rights across the ages and synthesizes historical and intellectual developments since the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi. This book chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, and illustrates how the history of human rights has evolved.Trade Review"This is an important book for those who focus on human rights in history." -- Susan Longfield Karr Journal Of World HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Definition, the Argument, and Six Historical Controversies Structure 1. Early Ethical Contributions to Human Rights Religious and Secular Notions of Universalism Liberty: The Origins of Tolerance Equality: Early Notions of Economic and Social Justice How to Promote Justice? Fraternity, or Human Rights for Whom? 2. Human Rights and the Enlightenment: The Development of a Liberal and Secular Perspective of Human Rights From Ancient Civilizations to the Rise of the West Freedom of Religion and Opinion The Right to Life The Right to Private Property The State and Just-War Theory Human Rights for Whom? 3. Human Rights and the Industrial Age: The Development of a Socialist Perspective of Human Rights The Industrial Age Challenging the Liberal Vision of Rights Universal Suffrage, Economic and other Social Rights Challenging Capitalism and the State Human Rights for Whom? 4. The World Wars: The Institutionalization of International Rights and the Right to Self-Determination The End of Empires The Right to Self-Determination Institutionalizing Human Rights Human Rights for Whom? 5. Globalization and Its Impact on Human Rights Globalization and Protest Movements Defining Rights in the Era of Globalization After September 11: Security versus Human Rights Human Rights for Whom? 6. Promoting Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century: The Changing Arena of Struggle Medievalism and the Absence of Civil Society The Emergence of Civil Society during the Enlightenment The Expansion of Civil Society in the Industrial Revolution The Anti-Colonial Struggle The Globalization of Civil Society? Or an Assault on the Private Realm? Appendix: A Chronology of Events and Writings Related to Human Rights Notes References Index
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