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Book SynopsisGet an authentic perspective on Native peoples past, present and future Understand key historical events as they actually happened Want to know more about America's indigenous peoples? This straightforward guide breaks down their thousand-year-plus history and explains their influence on European settlement of the continent.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: America Before It Was “America” 7 Chapter 1: The Rich, Troubled Past of the American Indian 9 Chapter 2: The Great Migrations 27 Chapter 3: The Development of the Ancient Cultures 41 Chapter 4: Hardly a Vast Wasteland: America before 1492 57 Chapter 5: Settling Down: Tribal Settlements after the Great Migrations 67 Chapter 6: The Five Civilized Tribes 91 Chapter 7: A Tally of Important Tribes 107 Part II: Interacting with Others 125 Chapter 8: “Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue” 127 Chapter 9: The Spanish and French Stake Their Claims 137 Chapter 10: Native American Chiefs and Notable Women 159 Chapter 11: Battle Cries and Peace Pipes 179 Chapter 12: Delving into the Details of U.S.-Indian Relations 203 Part III: Working for a Living 215 Chapter 13: Mother Love 217 Chapter 14: Dressing for Purpose and Pride 229 Chapter 15: Home, Native Home 243 Chapter 16: Tools and Transportation 253 Part IV: All in the (Native American) Family 267 Chapter 17: Tribes, Clans, and Bands 269 Chapter 18: Native Languages 279 Chapter 19: The Faith of Their Fathers And How Native Americans Worship Today 287 Part V: In a Modern World Not of Their Making 297 Chapter 20: The Slow Dwindling of Native Americans 299 Chapter 21: What’s a Tribe, Who’s an Indian, and What’s the BIA Got to Do With It 309 Chapter 22: Native Americans: Today and Tomorrow 317 Part VI: The Part of Tens 333 Chapter 23: Ten Native American Museums and Cultural Centers 335 Chapter 24: Ten (Plus) Worthy Movies and Documentaries about Native Americans and Their History 339 Index 347

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Book SynopsisThe Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called ''benign autocracy'' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most Indians in recognition of a desire for the advancement of their country.Charles Allen''s classic oral history of the period that marked the end of British rule was first published a generation ago. Now reissued as the imperial century closes, this brilliantly insightful and bestselling collection of reminiscences illustrates the unique experience of British India: the sadness and luxury for some; the joy and deprivation for others.Trade ReviewIf you read one book about the empire, let this be it -- Michael WoodOne of the most enjoyable books I have read ... It is an authentic record of the survivors of British India ... a book which takes on where Kipling left off * ANTONIA FRASER *Both a guide and an entertaining companion ... Humour, drama and regret fill its pages * MAIL ON SUNDAY *A lovely and compelling account of what India meant to the British between 1900 and 1947 ... One of the best * THE TIMES *

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Book SynopsisThe Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism, but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere, and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent (but thus far successfully marginalized) fascist activism since 1945.Trade Review'This is an excellent book. Ambitious in scope, though the author is commendably modest in his pretensions, it sets out to provide a new definition of fascism as a generic term... A short review cannot do justice to the subtlety of arguments employed...[those] arguments are invariably stimulating, the insights perceptive. Griffin has an enviable grasp of the literature and discusses all the major issues of fascist historiography in the light of his own theory. Last but not least, he writes with admirable lucidity and lightness of touch. His book succeeds in its aim of being of use to the specialist and student/general reader alike.' - Jeremy Noakes, Political StudiesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowldgements 1. The 'Nature' of Generic Facsism 2. A New Ideal Type of Generic Facsism 3. Italisan Fascism 4. German Fascism 5. Abortive Fascist Movements in Inter-war Europe 6. Non-European and Post-war Fascisms 7. The Psycho-historical Bases of Generic Fascism 8. Socio-political Determinants of Fascism's Success Postscript Index Glossary

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Book SynopsisThis revised and updated edition of the standard introduction to the origins of the greatest of all revolutions incorporates and critically appraises the results of a new generation of research and interpretation. It thus remains the essential starting point for study of the subject.Table of ContentsIntroduction ; PART I: WRITINGS ON REVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS SINCE 1939 ; 1. The Classic Interpretation ; PART II: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE OLD REGIME ; 4. The Financial Crisis ; 5. The System of Government ; 6. Opposition ; 7. Public Opinion ; 8. Reform and its Failure 1787-88 ; PART III: THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER ; 9. The Nobility ; 10. The Bourgeoisie ; 11. The Election Campaign September 1788- to May 1789 ; 12. The Economic Crisis ; 13. The Estates-General, May and June 1789 ; 14. The People of Paris ; 15. The Peasantry ; 16. Conclusion: The New Regime and its Principles ; Abbreviations, Notes, Further Reading, Index of Authors Cited, General Index

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Book SynopsisWhen it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et DÃraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'Ãge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in 1967 as Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault had shaken the intellectual world. This translation is the first English edition of the complete French texts of the first and second edition, including all prefaces and appendices, some of them unavailable in the existing French edition. History of Madness begins in the Middle Ages with vivid descriptions of the exclusion and confinement of lepers. Why, Foucault asks, when the leper houses were emptied at the end of the Middle Ages, were they turned into places of confinement for the mad? Why, within the space of several months in 1656, was one out of every hundred people in Paris confined?Shifting brilliantly from Descartes and early EnlighTrade Review'One of the major works of the twentieth century is finally available in English. This comprehensive translation finally overcomes one of the great divisions within the world of reason; an occasion to revisit Madness and Civilization as it was written.’ – Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley, USA‘Now, at last, English speaking readers can have access to the depth of scholarship that underpins Foucault’s analysis: I have no doubt that this long awaited translation will have a transformative effect on a new generation of readers.’ - Nikolas Rose, London School of Economics, UK'…we are in the presence of a principal thesis that is truly original, by a man whose personality, whose intellectual "dynamism", whose talent for exposition all qualify him for high education' - Henri Gouhier, Principal Examiner of Foucault's Thesis' ... it returns a fragment of 'nature' to history and transforms madness, something we take to be a medieval phenomenon, into a phenomenon of civilization.' - Roland Barthes'Without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential and controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now as on first publication. Its insights have still not been fully appreciated and absorbed.' - Roy Porter'This is quite an exceptional book of very high calibre - brilliantly written, intellectually rigorous, and with a thesis that thoroughly shakes the assumptions of traditional psychiatry.' - R.D. Laing'Extraordinary…rich and insistent, and almost unreasonable in its necessary repetitions.' - Maurice Blanchot'This magnificent book…requires a mind that is capable of being in turn a historian, a philosopher, a psychologist, and a sociologist-never simply one of these…This is not a method that could be offered as an example; it is not within the reach of just anybody. Something more than talent is necessary.' - Fernand Braudel, Annales'I have just finished reading your great book…You are a real explorer.' - Gaston Bachelard, in a letter to Michel Foucault'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy, or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books.' - Michael Ignatieff, Times Literary Supplement'Scarcely any philosopher working on the history of philosophy, or historian working on the history of institutions, social science or sexuality can avoid confronting the challenge of Foucault's books.' - Michael Ignatieff, Times Literary Supplement'Without a shadow of a doubt, the most original, influential and controversial text in this field during the last forty years. It remains as challenging now as on first publication. Its insights have still not been fully appreciated and absorbed.' – Roy Porter'Extraordinary…rich and insistent, and almost unreasonable in its necessary repetitions.' – Maurice BlanchotTable of ContentsForeword: History and Significance of Foucault’s History of Madness Prefaces 1. 1961 Edition 2. 1972 Edition Part 1 1. Stultifera Navis 2. The Great Confinement 3. The Correctional World 4. Experiences of Madness 5. The Insane Part 2 1. The Madman in the Garden of Species 2. The Transcendence of Delirium 3. Figures of Madness 4. Doctors and Patients Part 3 1. The Great Fear 2. The New Division 3. The Proper Use of Liberty 4. Birth of the Asylum 5. The Anthropological Circle Appendices 1. Réponse à Derrida (Michel Foucault Derrida e no kaino Paideia (Tokyo) February 1972) 2. La Folie, l'absence d'oeuvre Appendix 1 of 1972 Edition 3. Mon corps, ce papier, ce feu Appendix 2 of 1972 Edition Notes Bibliography Critical Bibliography on Foucault’s History of Madness

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Book SynopsisThis biography provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Henry II, the man and king. W.L. Warren explores a whole range of contemporary sources to illuminate the king's policy and personality, as well as the events of his reign.Trade ReviewWinner of the Wolfson History Award

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Book SynopsisCovers the Kosovo War, and the overthrow of Milosevic, with close-up accounts of his trial at the Hague, and subsequent death. This book looks at the assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindic in 2003, and its consequences.Trade Review"Two fine and well-written works. . . . The authors, British journalists who covered the Yugoslav wars, are well worth reading. Their respective accounts give insights into the historical baggage the Yugoslav ethnic groups brought to their latest convulsions."—Dusko Doder, Boston Globe"Tim Judah has written a lively and balanced history of the Serbs that begins with their successful medieval efforts to establish a state and ends with their failed attempt in the 1990s to create Greater Serbia."—Aleksa Djilas, New York Times Book Review"A very good book...Judah cleverly interprets Serbia's sad present in the light of its past."—Sunday Times"[Tanner and Judah] bring to bear wide knowledge of Yugoslavia and shared experience of Europe's worst war since 1945. Each gives a good historical survey and an account of the war's causes."—The Economist"Readable and stimulating. . . . Judah's book is a polemical attempt to counter the 'demonisation' of the Serbs. But it is far from being a whitewash: with very few exceptions, he successfully walks the tightrope between 'balance' and relativisation."—Brendan Simms, Times Higher Education Supplement"An eloquent plea for the centrality of the past in any explanation of the catastrophic present. . . . A remarkable book about Croatia."—David Rieff, Globe & Mail "The book's scope and quality recommend it."—Zachary T. Irwin, Library Journal"Judah's book is probably the best attempt to date to explain the calamitous situation of the Serbs today through a meticulous consideration of the Serb past."—David Rieff, Toronto Globe and Mail"[Judah] set out to make a complex phenomenon comprehensible to the non-academic reader and has done so with great clarity and skill. For anyone who has served in the Balkans or who is due to do so, this book should be seen as indispensable reading."—Peter Williams, British Army Review"Tim Judah's book is an ambitious and valiant attempt to bring together the real history of the Serbs and the myths and theories in which that history was handed down."—Melanie McDonagh, Evening Standard"Judah has written a readable and intelligent volume, carefully researched and judiciously constructed . . . about the unsuccessful attempts of the Serbs to re-create a greater Serbia."—William Peter Kaldis, History: Reviews of New Books"In addition to being a work of real quality. . . . [it] fills an important gap. . . . A mix of on-the-spot reportage, history and analysis, well-researched and proof-read and conveying a sense both of immediacy and of a wider perspective."—Christopoher Cviic, International Affairs"[This book] is well paced, reasonably succinct and very readable; [it] very properly and interestingly uses broad sweeps of history to help explain recent developments and present circumstances."—George Bull, International Minds"A stunning new history."—Robert Fisk, Irish Times"I found Judah's work to be highly original, providing new insight into our reading of the collapse of Yugoslavia and the rise of Serbian nationalism. In addition, his treatment of Serbian history was also thorough and clever. . . . [It] is extremely well written and interesting. Judah weaves together a rich tapestry of historical Serbian myths, and demonstrates their current applicability in Serbian national thought, and as motivating factors in the Yugoslav crisis."—David B. MacDonald, Millennium, Journal of International Studies"This book is much better than any comparable volume. . . . The entire book is very readable and tells a compelling story."—South Slav Journal"Judah . . . offers a highly readable history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present, with judicious comments on the rise of the Kosovo Liberation Army and Nato’s bombing campaign. It is one of the best attempts to explain a situation which has baffled the West throughout history."—The Herald (Glasgow)“It remains a definitive, and relevant, text for students, lay readers and even scholars. As an introductory work to the background and causes of the disintegration of the Yugoslav state and the subsequent events it has few rivals.”—Kenneth Morrison, Slavonic & East European Review, Vol. 89, No. 3"The aim of this book is to trace the history of the Serbs and to explain how they came to be where they are, and in the case of Croatia were until 1995. It is to trace the way that the centre of Serbian life migrated with its people from south to north and to explain how the idea of 'Serbdom,' as the Serbs call it, was kept alive during the centuries of Ottoman rule. It is also to explore why, with the fall of communism, they enthusiastically acclaimed Slobodan Milosevic, an opportunistic and cynical leader who was interested only in power."—From the preface

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Book SynopsisMacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide readership in moral and political philosophy.Trade Review'For readers of Alasdair MacIntyre who have wondered how the views of his After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality? and Dependent Rational Animals hang together, this book is as good a response as we could have hoped for. In Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity, we see the fundamental continuity of the ideas that MacIntyre has developed and defended over the past forty years. It is a canonical statement of MacIntyre's mature views in moral, political, and social philosophy.' Mark Murphy, Georgetown University, Washington DC'Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the greatest living philosophers and any new book by him is bound to raise the highest expectations. Readers will not be disappointed by a book that represents the culmination of MacIntyre's life long project to situate ethical thought in its historical and political context. Beginning with academic discussions in meta-ethics, the work develops into a general theory of modernity from MacIntyre's Thomistic perspective. The range of reference is remarkable: from the work of Oscar Wilde and D. H. Lawrence to that of Aquinas and Marx. MacIntyre's scholarship and insight are evident on every page. Everyone – from moral and political philosophers to the reflective general reader – will greatly benefit from reading it.' Alan Thomas, Universiteit van Tilburg, The Netherlands'It's as important a work of philosophy as there has been in some time and a must-read for MacIntyre's followers, detractors, and everyone in between.' Christian Century'… astonishingly wide-ranging work …' Marx and Philosophy Review of Books'… especially where the misdeeds of the powerful are at issue, MacIntyre writes with great trenchancy; and one detects, underneath a cool and measured argumentative surface, the heart of an Amos or Isaiah, burning with righteous anger.' Commonweal'Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity is an essential addition to MacIntyre's distinguished body of work.' Richard Kraut, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'[Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity] is a rich and nuanced text that provides a foundational restatement of Thomistic practical philosophy for the 21st Century. It links moral philosophy, business ethics, and political philosophy in a way that contrasts with standard academic practice.' Caleb Bernacchio, Acta Philosophica'For over three decades, Alasdair MacIntyre has been arguing that Thomistic Aristotelianism offers the best path forward for contemporary politics and ethics. While his philosophical career began in the 1950s, it has been this project … that has established his reputation as one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century.' Jennifer A. Herdt, Studies in Christian EthicsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Desires, goods, and 'good', the philosophical issues; 2. Theory, practice, and their social contexts; 3. Morality and modernity; 4. Neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics developed in contemporary Thomistic terms: issues of relevance and rational justification; 5. Four narratives; Index.

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Book Synopsis"Unflinchingly illustrates the reality of life during this extraordinary moment in American history."—Dinitia Smith, The New York TimesTrade Review"In these days of fear of the terrorist 'other', reading this measured, intelligent introduction to a time that is all-too possible to imagine recurring, and looking at Lange's photos... may be one of the most useful things one can do this Christmas." "[The] images show Americans of Japanese extraction being relocated to 'assembly centers', labeled and processed like cattle and closeted away in dismal shacks for the duration of the war... No wonder her pictures were never used and disappeared for half a century." "Through her discerning and sensitive eye, Lange's observations of the situation were too real and too critical for the government, and were consequently confiscated." "[T]he bulk of the book is given over to Lange's photographs. Several of these are as powerful as her most stirring work, and the final image-of a grandfather in the desolate Manzanar Center looking down in anguish at the grandson between his knees-is worth the price of the book alone."

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Book SynopsisWinner of a National Jewish Book Award "Fascinating.…A humane and tragic survey of a great and tragic subject." —Jan Morris, Literary ReviewTrade Review"King skillfully separates myth from fact.…His writing is aesthetic without superficiality, and erudite without pretension. Reading [his] book is like traveling as your best self, the self that you never quite are, ready with every reference, worldly and wise." -- Timothy Snyder - Wilson Quarterly"[A] finely written and evocative portrait.…A worthy tribute to one of Europe’s greatest and least-known cities." -- The Economist"Eloquent and engaging." -- Michael Schwirtz - Moment"Engaging and highly enjoyable…King brings a travel writer’s gift for clear prose and keen observation to history." -- Matthew Kaminsky - The Daily Beast"Rich and riveting, complex and compelling, powerful and poetic." -- Peter M. Gionatti - Newsday

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Book SynopsisA pathbreaking history of modern Eritrea under postwar international administration, shedding light on issues that rock the Horn of Africa to this day.

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Book SynopsisAn unparalleled biography of the author's grandfather, U Thant, the United Nations' longest-serving Secretary-General, and his crucial role in the Cold War.

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1985, this is a scholarly analysis of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany.Table of Contents1. Numbers, Routes and Destinations 2. Transport 3. Accomodation, Food and Drink 4. War, Disputes, Accidents and Crime 5. Love, Sex, Gambling and Drinking 6. Health and Death 7. Cost and Finance 8. Social and Political Reflections 9. Religion 10. The Arts 11. The Debate over the Grand Tour: Conclusions

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Book SynopsisEntertaining display of elegant dresses and everyday wear for women, charming hats trimmed with ribbon and feathers, attractive sailor suits for little boys, and more. Captions.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIt's a robust story, almost incredible—a saga of hardship, cruelty and terrible dangers through which John Johnson, tough and shrewd as he undoubtedly was, did not emerge unscathed. This is the stuff of folklore at its authentic best. * New York Times Book Review *. . . [Johnson] emerges as flesh and blood, with the emphasis on blood. His story is the material from which grand opera might be made. * Saturday Review *. . . warrants a place on any shelf of Western Americana. * San Francisco Chronicle *Spectacular to repellent, this is a part of Western life as it must have been. . . * Kirkus Reviews *It's a robust story, almost incredible—a saga of hardship, cruelty and terrible dangers through which John Johnson, tough and shrewd as he undoubtedly was, did not emerge unscathed. This is the stuff of folklore at its authentic best. * New York Times Book Review *. . . [Johnson] emerges as flesh and blood, with the emphasis on blood. His story is the material from which grand opera might be made. * Saturday Review *. . . warrants a place on any shelf of Western Americana. * San Francisco Chronicle *Spectacular to repellent, this is a part of Western life as it must have been. . . * Kirkus Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction by Nathan E. BenderForeword by Richard M. DorsonPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One: The Young Trapper1. The Making of a Legend2. The Hair Merchants3. An Apprenticeship4. A Madness5. Oath of VengeancePart Two: Liver-Eating Johnson6. A Man's Reputation7. Twined Scalps8. Crow Against Flathead9. Winter Holiday, Spring Council10. . . . A Missing ChapterPart Three: A Man Among Men11. The Eighteenth Warrior12. Captive of the Blackfeet13. Mountain-Man Rendezvous14. Boots and Biscuits15. Portuguese Phillips16. A Sioux Liver17. Monument for a Foe's Friend18. Target for Gray BearPart Four: Brother of the Crows19. White Chief of the Shoshoni20. Biscuits for Blackfeet21. A Last Departure22. Mariano and the Ute Chief23. The Piegan Princess24. Eight Scalps for the CrowsPart Five: The Old Trapper25. Burial for Bear Claw26. Sheriff Johnson27. Last Trail28. Lodge by the SeaGlossary of Native Peoples in Crow Killer

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Book SynopsisThroughout Britain''s history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger''s definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness - of its sea power, from the desperate early campaigns against the Vikings to the defeat of the great Spanish Armada. Covering policy, strategy, ships, recruitment and weapons, this is a superb tapestry of nearly 1,000 years of maritime history.''No other historian has examined the subject in anything like the detail found here. The result is an outstanding example of narrative history'' Barry Unsworth, Sunday Telegraph

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Book SynopsisChina will replace the United States as the world''s dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful set of ideas including China as a civilization-state, the tributary system, the Chinese idea of race, a very different concept of the state, and the principle of contested modernity. First published in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim - and controversy - ''When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of a New Global Order'' has sold a quarter of a million copies, been translated into eleven languages, nominated for two major literary awards, and has been the subject of an immensely popular TED talk. In the three years since the first edition was published, the book has transformed the debate about China worldwide and proved remarkably prescient.In this greatly expanded and fully updated paperback edition, with nearly three-hundred pages of new material backed up by the latest statistical data, Martin Jacques renews his assault on conventional thinking about China''s ascendancy, showing how its impact will be as much political and cultural as economic, thereby transforming the world as we know it.Trade ReviewBy far the best book on China to have been published in many years, and one of the most important inquiries into the nature of modernisation. Jacques's comprehensive and richly detailed analysis will be an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand contemporary China -- John Gray * New Statesman *Provocative ... stimulating ... full of bold but credible predictions ... I suspect it will long be remembered for its foresight and insight -- Michael Rank * Guardian *This important book, deeply considered, full of historical understanding and realism, is about more than China. It is about a twenty-first-century world no longer modelled on and shaped by North Atlantic power, ideas and assumptions. I suspect it will be highly influential -- Eric HobsbawmJacques's book will provoke argument and is a tour de force across a host of disciplines -- Mary Dejevsky * The Independent *[An] exhaustive, incisive exploration of possibilities that many people have barely begun to contemplate about a future dominated by China. ... [Jacques] has written a work of considerable erudition, with provocative and often counterintuitive speculations about one of the most important questions facing the world today. And he could hardly have known, when he set out to write it, that events would so accelerate the trends he was analyzing. -- Joseph Kahn * The New York Times Book Review *A very forcefully written, lively book that is full of provocations and predictions -- Fareed Zakaria * GPS, CNN *[A] compelling and thought-provoking analysis of global trends.... Jacques is a superb explainer of history and economics, tracing broad trends with insight and skill -- Seth Faison * The Washington Post *The West hopes that wealth, globalization and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant... But Jacques says that this is a delusion. Time will not make China more Western; it will make the West, and the world, more Chinese * The Economist *

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Book SynopsisA remarkable feat of scholarship, fairness and readability, full of lively detail with a freshness of style which brings new life to the narrative' Anthony SampsonThroughout its turbulent history, South Africa has frequently been the focus of worldwide attention usually hostile. Yet prejudice and ignorance about the country are widespread. The evolution of the present-day Rainbow Nation' has taken place under conditions of sometimes extreme pressure. Since long before the arrival of the first European settlers in the seventeenth century, the country has been home to a complex and uneasily co-existing blend of races and cultures, and successive waves of immigrants have added to the already volatile mixture.Despite the euphoria which greeted the dismantling of the apartheid system and the election as President of Nelson Mandela in April 1994, South Africa's history, racial mix and recent political upheavals suggest it will not easily free itself from the legacy of its tumultuous past. NTrade Review‘A masterly synthesis of past and present scholarship historical storytelling in the grand narrative tradition’Mail & Guardian ‘Sweeping, exhaustive and masterly’Scotland on Sunday ‘Excellent… a balanced account of a very complex story’Stephen Fleming, Irish Independent ‘Vital to an understanding of modern South Africa’Publishers Weekly ‘His assessments are judicious, his opinions fair. Welsh maintains a clear narrative thread through this hugely complex story’Stephen Taylor, New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisThe Last Train to Zona Verde is Paul Theroux''s compelling account of his final African journey.Heading north from Cape Town, through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana and Angola, Paul Theroux makes a final journey along Africa''s western edge. The end of the line is the Congo but Theroux discovers that his trip''s pleasures are tempered by a growing sense that the Africa which so long ago helped form him has vanished, along with the hopes of many of its people. Yet after 2,500 miles Theroux finds that though this will be his ultimate African adventure there are still surprises to be found by the traveller prepared to step off the beaten track.''A melancholic, farewell journey . . . Theroux does all this inimitably, and more, getting better the more detours he takes'' Evening Standard''Hard to put down, brutal honesty. Theroux proves himself a sharp observer of human foibles and a master of pithy description. The book he has crafted out of

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Book SynopsisBestselling royal historian David Starkey's captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British monarchy's most enduring icon.Larger than life in every sense, Henry VIII was Britain's most absolute monarch but he was not born to rule. In this brilliantly readable history, David Starkey follows the promising young prince a Renaissance man of exceptional musical and athletic talent as he is thrust into the limelight after the death of his elder brother. His subsequent quest for fame was as obsessive as that of any modern celebrity, and his yearning for a male heir drove him into dangerous territory.The culmination of a lifetime's research, David Starkey's biography is an unforgettable portrait of the man behind the controversies, the prince turned tyrant who continues to tower over history.Trade Review‘This book is Starkey’s masterpiece.’ Sunday Times ‘Brilliant. Every page has an intimate fascination. An accessible and entertaining book.’ Hilary Mantel, Guardian ‘Demonstrates Starkey’s scholarship and authorial panache.’ Daily Mail 'Writing with a mixture of tabloid verve and original scholarship, peppering every page with pungent wit and yet never skimping on the detail…the best political history of the reign of Henry VIII so far…an outstanding overture.' John Guy, Sunday Times ‘If you like Henry VIII, this is what you'll like.’ Tim Martin, Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year) ‘Starkey gives us an unexpectedly fresh-faced Henry VIII in his breezy biography.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph (Books of the Year) ‘It is brilliant, beady-eyed history, and every page of it has an intimate fascination…Starkey has eschewed the easy wisdom of hindsight…his strength is that he questions everything…he seeks fresh evidence…his writing is uncluttered and conversational, and he cuts through the back-story…with grace, clarity and wit…accessible and entertaining.’ Guardian

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Book SynopsisA tale of murder, loss and romance in the mist of Niagara Falls: it is the crowning achievement of Joyce Carol Oates's career to date.A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. He''s a newly-wed, and his bride has been left behind in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. For two weeks, Ariah, the deserted bride, waits by the side of the roaring waterfall for news of her husband''s recovered body. During her vigil, an unlikely new love story begins to unfold when she meets a wealthy lawyer who is transfixed by her strange, otherworldly gaze. So it all begins, in the 1950s, with the dark foreboding of the Falls as the sinister background to the tragedy.From this cataclysmic event unfurls a drama of parents and their children; of secrets and sins; of lawsuits, murder and, eventually redemption. As Ariah's children learn that their past is enmeshed with a hushed-up scandal involving radioactive waste materials, they must confront not only their personal history but America's murky past: the despoiling of the American landscape and the corruption and greed of the massive industrial expansion of the 1950s and 1960s.This novel of tremendous sweep and pace is about the American family in crisis but also about America itself in the mid-20th century. This book alone places Joyce Carol Oates definitively in the company of the Great American Novelists.Trade Review'Eminently readable and though full of heart is utterly heartbreaking.' Vogue 'Oates offers a shrewd, often chilling analysis of an unhappy marriage…[she] deftly widens her focus to…Niagara, corrupt and dangerously polluted.' Sunday Times 'If you only read one new novel this autumn, make it this… you'll be hooked within pages' Mail on Sunday '…engaging…compelling…a flair for the minutiae of character…' Guardian 'The Falls is a swirling cataract of invention, and a mesmerising read.' Daily Telegraph

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Book SynopsisGermany in the High Middle Ages opens with a wide-ranging and yet detailed description of the conditions and changes under which men lived and their attitudes of mind during the period 10501200. It explains how new classes emerged, universities were founded and how Germany rose and fell as a major empire.Trade Review'Horst Fuhrmann gives us 150 stormy years in 180 pages. his narrative is economical and lucid, though he opens with a relatively leisurely chapter on space, time and man in the Middle Ages. This masterly survey of 'medical anthropology', with its evocation of the harsh environment and alien thought-world of the period, is followed by a deft sketch of the transformation of Western Europe into something recognizably 'modern' by the year 1200.' The Times Literary Supplement'This concise, vigorous, well-translated delineation of a short span, only a century and a half, of germany's medieval experience has the great merit of setting the events within the European context. The author succeeds in showing that Germany was not behind hand in the economic, cultural and religious advances usually attributed to french and italian society as pioneers in that age … The book is published in hardcover and paperback, and will establish itself, by its great verve and readability, as the standard short sccount in English for some years.' HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. German history in the High Middle Ages - Concepts, Explanations, Facts: 1. The three 'essentials' of history - space, time, and man; 2. Germany in the Europe of the high Middle Ages; Part II. 'Progress and Promise': The German Empire in the Mid Eleventh Century: 3. Social stratification and the structure of government in the Ottonian and Salian period; 4. Rex et sacerdos - the priestly kingship of Henry III (1039–56); 5. Strengths and weaknesses of Salian kingship; 6. Henry III as Roman patricius and the German popes; 7. The beginnings and aims of church reform; 8. The distance from the rest of Europe: France, England and the North; Part III. From Christus Domini to Antichrist: The King of Germany and the Investiture Contest: 9. The reign of Henry IV and its consequences; 10. The rise of the secular state and the priestly church; Part IV. Political Reorientation and Emergent Diversity: From Salian Imperial Church System to Staufer Kingship: 11. The results of the investiture contest; 12. 'The love of learning and the desire for God': church and spirituality in the age of Bernard of Clairvaux; 13. Lothar III: kingship without a future; 14. Conrad III: kingship without imperial glory; Part V. The Centre-Point of the German Middle Ages: Frederick Barbarossa and His Age: 15. The election of Frederick I and the policy of balance: Frederick and the Empire before the Alexandrine schism; 16. Empire and papacy in the struggle for supremacy; 17. New forms of government; 18. Henry VI and the shift in the Empire's centre of gravity; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe reign of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (1174â85) has traditionally been seen as a period of decline when, because of the king's illness, power came to be held by unsuitable men who made the wrong policy decisions. Notably, they ignored the advice of Raymond of Tripoli and attacked Saladin, who was prepared to keep peace with the Franks while uniting the Islamic near east under his rule. This book challenges that view, arguing that peace with Saladin was not a viable option for the Franks; that the young king, despite suffering from lepromatous leprosy (the most deadly form of the disease) was an excellent battle leader who strove with some success to frustrate Saladin's imperial ambitions; that Baldwin had to remain king in order to hold factions in check; but that the society over which he presided was, contrary to what is often said, vigorous and self-confident.Trade Review' … compelling … the book stands as a gifted work and one of the best introductions to the world of the Latin East produced to date.' BBC History Magazine' … judicious and learned book.' The Times Literary Supplement' … Hamilton's evaluation of Baldwin is convincing and compelling.' Journal of Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsPrologue; 1. The sources for Baldwin IV's reign; 2. Baldwin's childhood; 3. The kingdom; 4. The international status of the kingdom; 5. The king's minority; 6. Western aid: William of Montferrat and Philip of Flanders; 7. The victor of mont Gisard; 8. Prince Reynald's initiative; 9. The dying king; 10. The heirs of the leper king; Epilogue; Appendix by Piers Mitchell: an evaluation of the leprosy of king Baldwin IV of Jerusalem in the context of the medieval world; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis richly illustrated, four-colour textbook introduces the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest. Emphasizing context and function, Barringer explores the purpose and use of buildings and objects within their particular time and place, leading students to a rich sociohistorical understanding of Greek art.Trade Review'This book is a superb resource for students and teachers of ancient Greek art specifically and the ancient Greek world as a whole. Barringer strikes an ideal balance between brevity and depth, leaving just enough room between the sentences for dialogue, discussion, and discourse. No mere survey, this important new text goes out of its way to problematize traditional narratives and point to the hidden riches and complexities of the field.' Peter Schultz, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota'There is no lack of good introductions to the art and archaeology of ancient Greece, but Barringer's new book - clearly written and presented, incorporating the latest scholarship, and superbly illustrated (many images are new, unusual and uncommonly instructive in themselves) - will occupy the first rank. The narrative is made to order for undergraduate surveys, but even advanced students and scholars will benefit from the book's succinct and perceptive analyses of the themes, functions and cultural contexts of the major monuments of Greek art and architecture. It is that rare thing: a readable survey that intimates the richness, depth and complexity of its subject.' Jeffrey M. Hurwit, University of OregonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Bronze Age and early Iron Age in Greece; 2. The Geometric period (c.900–700 BC) and the seventh century BC; 3. The Archaic Mediterranean; 4. The Classical period: the fifth century BC; 5. The late Classical period and Alexander, c.400–323 BC; 6. The legacy of Alexander: the Hellenistic world; 7. Roman conquest and the conquest of Rome; Glossary.

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Book SynopsisAn essential primer for the reader looking to understand the consequences of the war with Ukraine for Russia's regional relationships with bordering countries and Russia's place in the world beyond the binary EastWest tensions.

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Book SynopsisDissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. This book presents a case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.Trade Review"An intelligent disquiet runs through these pages." New York Times Book Review "A creative and compelling synthesis of ideas, Smail's book provides an engaging and invigorating analysis of our history." Science (AAAS) "A provocative thesis... Radically rethinks the relationship between biology and culture." -- Steven Mithen London Review Of Books "Relax and enjoy. It's a good read, and it makes you think." New Scientist "[An] intriguing little book." American Scientist "Dazzling." Boston Globe Book Section "A pioneering work." -- Brendan Wallace Fortean Times: The Journal Of Strange PhenomenaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward Reunion in History 1. The Grip of Sacred History 2. Resistance 3. Between Darwin and Lamarck 4. The New Neurohistory 5. Civilization and Psychotropy Epilogue: Looking Ahead Notes Bibliography of Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extended northwards from the Inca capital Cusco along the Andes to embrace parts of modern Peru and Ecuador, and southwards into Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. Uniquely, the authors look in detail at Cusco and at the four parts of the empire, following the vast road system to explore not just famous sites such as Machu Picchu, but all the major regional settlements. This vivid portrait shows how the Incas ruled some peoples directly but allowed others to maintain their traditional leaders with little interference. The concluding chapter is devoted to the end of the empire: the arrival of the Spaniards, the assassination of the Inca ruler Atawallpa, and the final years of the rebellious, neo-Inca state in the tropical forest of Vilcabamba.Trade Review'A lively, deeply informed and highly readable account of the last great empire of pre-Columbian South America' - Gary Urton, Harvard University'I know of no other book in English that provides such a good region by region description of the Inca empire ... Both a useful review of the main Inca sites and a new perspective on the structure of the empire' - Bill Sillar, Institute of Archaeology, University College LondonTable of Contents1. The Birth and Growth of Tawantinsuyu • 2. The Principles of Inca Statecraft: Feared Warriors, Generous Rulers • 3. The Wealth of the Empire: Land, Labour and the Worth of Goods • 4. Religion and Ideology: the Sun, the Moon, the Oracles, the Ancestors • 5. Technology and the Arts: Architects, Weavers, Smiths and Potters • 6. Cusco: Capital of the Realm • 7. Chinchaysuyu: Land of the Setting Sun and the Sacred Shell • 8. Antisuyu: The Road to Machu Picchu and Beyond • 9. Qollasuyu and Kuntisuyu: Herds, Metals and Mountains of Sacrifice • 10. The Fall: Bearded Men from across the Sea • Epilogue

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Book SynopsisTrade Review'Robinson's enthusiasm for the subject is so infectious that you might find youreself trying to crack Etruscan in your spare time' - Archaeology'If you hate unsolved mysteries this parade of incomprehensible texts will drive you nuts with frustration. But if you're a wannabe linguist, and perhaps the world's next Michael Ventris, you'll definitely want to read this book' - Focus

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Book SynopsisRobert Massie is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, Dreadnought and The Romanovs: The Final Chapter. He lives in Irvington, New York.Trade ReviewGripping stuff * Charles Osbourne, Sunday Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisBorn in the Belarusian shtetl Lyuban in 1885, Rokhl Faygnberg witnessed and wrote about many of the defining events of modern Jewish historywars, pogroms, and the birth of the State of Israel. She became the first professional Jewish female author who earned a living from writing novels and penning essays for the Yiddish and Hebrew press. After the pogroms of the civil war in Ukraine 1918-1921, which she powerfully chronicled in her work, she moved to Poland and eventually settled in Mandate Palestine in 1933, where she published largely in Hebrew under the name Rakhel Imri. She died in Tel Aviv in 1972.Elissa Bemporad is Professor of History and Chair in East European Jewish History and the Holocaust at Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA. She is the author of Becoming Soviet Jews: The Bolshevik Experiment in Minsk (2013), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, and a finalist for the Jordan Schnitzer Award. Her most recent book, entitled Legacy of Blood: Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets (2019), also won a National Jewish Book Award. Elissa is also the co-editor of two volumes: Women and Genocide: Survivors, Victims, Perpetrators (2018, with Joyce Warren); and Pogroms: A Documentary History of Anti-Jewish Violence (2021, with Gene Avrutin). She is editor of Jewish Social Studies and is currently working on a biography of Ester Frumkin.

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Book SynopsisAllan Quatermain leads an expedition in search of a missing man and the fabled King Solomon's mines in deepest Africa. His exciting adventures captivated readers, and this new edition looks at Haggard's own African experiences and colonial attitudes to native tribes and the ravages of the British Empire.Trade ReviewMy grandfather used to tell me about King Solomon's Mines; how he repeatedly gave up on the book before he waseventually won over by this tale of Allan Quatermain, a hunter who leads an expedition in search of a vanished English explorer in the African jungle ... And my grandfather was right: the narrative has all the unstoppable momentum of a charging rhinoceros. * David Evans, Independent on Sunday *

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Book Synopsis''The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.''Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordinary slave narratives. First published pseudonymously in 1861, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl describes Jacobs''s treatment at the hands of her owners, her eventual escape to the North, and her perilous existence evading recapture as a fugitive slave. To save herself from sexual assault and protect her children she is forced to hide for seven years in a tiny attic space, suffering terrible psychological and physical pain.Written to expose the appalling treatment of slaves in the South and the racism of the free North, and to advance the abolitionist cause, Incidents is notable for its careful construction and literary effects. Jacobs''s story of self-emancipation and a growing feminist consciousness is the tale of an individual and a searing indictment of slavery''s inhumanity. This edition includes the short memoir by Jacobs''s brother, John S. Jacobs, ''A True Tale of Slavery''.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewFew accounts of American slavery are as memorable as Jacobs' harrowing memoir. Born a slave in North Carolina in 1813, Harriet was in her teens when her owner, Dr James Norcom, first started to proposition her. Harriet was forced to take refuge in her grandmother's tiny attic for nearly seven years, before finally escaping to the North. R J Ellis's introduction to this latest edition is an insightful overview of the slave narrative for a new generation of readers. * Lesley McDowell, Independent (Radar) *Jacob's story is so dramatic, so illustrative of the horrors of slavery - the sickening violence, the waste of potential, the unpredictability of lives lived according to slave owner's caprices - that is almost reads as a novel * Victoria Segal, The Guardian *It's easy to be appalled at the notion of slavery, but this astonishing account, published in 1861, by Harriet Jacobs, born a slave in the American South, emphasises the personal experience. She makes us feel the minutiae of daily life as a slave. * Lesly McDowell, The Sunday Herald *

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Book SynopsisFrom the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tried to create certainty in the unknown, by seeking to influence outcomes with sacrifices to gods, preparing for the unexpected with advice from oracles, and by reading the stars through astrology. As scientific methods improve and computer technology develops we become ever more confident of our capacity to predict and quantify the future by accumulating and interpreting patterns form the past, yet the truth is there is still no certainty to be had. In this Very Short Introduction Jennifer Gidley considers some of our most burning questions: What is the future ?; Is the future a time yet to come?; Or is it a utopian place?; Does the future have a history?; Is there only one future or are there many possible futures? She asks if the future can ever be truly predicted or if we create our own futures - both hoped for and feared - by our thoughts, feelings, and actions, and concludes by analysing how we can learn to study the future.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 ReviewThis pocket-size book ... gives the interested reader an amazing overview on the topic of future and the research field of futures studies ... The rich knowledge and the packed information of ideas, dates, and names is especially helpful for anyone working in the terrain of futures studies as well as students in the field to connect the dots of the many international strains, which often seem so disconnected. * Stefanie Ollenburg, beFORE01/03/2018 *[Gidley] deserves congratulations for helping a lay audience better understand [the future]. * Charles Brass, Compass *We all should give Jennifer Gidley a standing ovation. This is an absolutely wonderful source, as a basic textbook about the field, and as a very good short introduction about the futureS for everyone. * Jim Dator, World Futures Review *This is a remarkable book, a useful guide to the future, a revision guide to the future and a reminder of what future studies are all about ... a must read for everyone whether you are a trainee aspiring futurist or a fully qualified one with a PhD. * Ian Seymour Yeoman, Journal of Tourism Futures *The book is a must read for erudites desiring to broaden their knowledge on the subject. For those considering applying futures thinking in their academic or corporate research, the book serves as a guide for further reading based on Jennifer Gidleys deep and thorough understanding of futures studies as a discipline. * Scenario Magazine *Brilliant and concise This book not only raises the issues in a highly readable manner, but also raises awareness, and as such I can recommend it unreservedly. * David Lorimer, Network Review *A wonderfully concise and brilliantly written book * Jade Taylor-Salazar, E&T Magazine *A thoroughly researched and beautifully expressed invitation to look deeper at this fascinating field of enquiry * Richard Slaughter, Foresight International *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; FURTHER READING & WEBSITES; APPENDIX: GLOBAL FUTURES TIMELINE; INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of the World History of Design, the definitive historical account of global design by pre-eminent design scholar Victor Margolin. The first volume explores the earliest cave art and human tools, including the key examples of the visual and material culture that were produced in all parts of the world from the first stages of human civilization, the Industrial Revolution and its aftermath, and finally World War I.This richly illustrated volume contains over 380 images, with 72 in full colour.Trade Review… it is an extraordinarily useful compendium. I will turn to it again and again to find new points of connection and departure, and I am sure I won’t be alone. Within our discipline, I hope we can all lay aside the perspectives of our narrow expertise long enough to simply thank Professor Margolin – thank him for his effort, and thank him for his generosity. The most exciting thing about these books is the further scholarship that they will engender. In that sense, they are truly the works of a lifelong teacher. -- Glenn Adamson * West 86th *Table of ContentsVolume 1 Prehistoric Times to World War I 1. The Prehistoric Age 2. The Earliest Civilizations, 7000 BCE - 900 BCE 3. The Classical Age and Early Byzantium, 900 BCE - 800 CE 4. Medieval Europe and the Islamic World, 800-1200 5. Asia, Africa and the Americas, 800 BCE - 1200 CE 6. Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1200-1750 7. Cross-Cultural Encounters, 1200-1750 8. The Industrial Revolution: Europe and America, 1750-1830 9. The Age of Exhibitions: Great Britain 1830-1900 10. The Craft Ideal and the Art Movement: Britain and Elsewhere, 1861-1915 11. The Age of Exhibitions: Europe Outside Great Britain, 1830-1900 12. Art Nouveau and the Decorative Impulse, 1890-1914 13. The United States, 1840-1900 14. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, 1300-1900 15. Protoindustrialization in Diverse Regions, 1750-1900 16. Colonies and Pre-industrial Nations in Asia and Africa, 1750-1900 17. Modern Design in Europe and America, 1900-1917 18. Art and Literature of the Avant-Gardes, 1897-1918 19. World War I, 1914-1918

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Book SynopsisEntropic Creation is the first English-language book to consider the cultural and religious responses to the second law of thermodynamics, from around 1860 to 1920. According to the second law of thermodynamics, as formulated by the German physicist Rudolf Clausius, the entropy of any closed system will inevitably increase in time, meaning that the system will decay and eventually end in a dead state of equilibrium. Application of the law to the entire universe, first proposed in the 1850s, led to the prediction of a future ''heat death'', where all life has ceased and all organization dissolved. In the late 1860s it was pointed out that, as a consequence of the heat death scenario, the universe can have existed only for a finite period of time. According to the ''entropic creation argument'', thermodynamics warrants the conclusion that the world once begun or was created. It is these two scenarios, allegedly consequences of the science of thermodynamics, which form the core of this boTrade Review’... an exemplary history of ideas, which taxonomizes and critiques a spectrum of arguments about thermodynamics and cosmology, clearly demarcating newer from older ways of thinking. Particularly fascinating is his account of the staying power of the conservative and theological connotations of thermodynamic cosmology into the Cold War, when it became part of Soviet orthodoxy that laboratory physics could not be applied to the infinite universe. The book will interest scholars of science and religion as well as historians of physics.’ British Journal for the History of Science ’Pour découvrir en détail les tenants et les aboutissants de ces débats, rien de tel que le livre érudit, novateur et passionnant d’Helge Kragh. [...] Kragh montre en effet que les liens historiques entre philosophie, religion et science sont complexes. C’est un autre mérite de ce très bon livre.’ Pour la Science ’Je ne peux que recommander ce livre riche, original et passionnant, à toute personne qui s'intéresse à l'histoire de la physique, et en particulier celle de la cosmologie, mais aussi aux philosophes et théologiens qui abordent aujourd'hui le débat 'science-foi'.’ Archives Internationales d'Histoire des SciencesTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Some Early Ideas on Decay and Creation; Chapter 3 Thermodynamics and the Heat Death; Chapter 4 The Entropic Creation Argument; Chapter 5 Concepts of the Universe; Chapter 6 Post-1920 Developments; Chapter 7 Shadows from the Past;

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to children, media, and technology that centers questions of access, diversity, equity, and inclusion to provide a timely and much needed text for communication and media studies students.This book covers several long-standing as well as contemporary issues and controversies pertaining to media and youth, such as potential links between media and technology use and anxiety and depression; violence, aggression, and cyberbullying; body image disturbances and beauty norms; and responses to increasingly sophisticated marketing strategies. It also fully explores the ways in which media and technology use enriches the lives of children and teens and empowers them, with positive implications for their education; sociality, friendships, and respect for others; and knowledge of and action in the world around them. In each of these lines of inquiry, up-to-date theory and research findings relevant to diverse young media users and questions of access, equity,

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Book SynopsisFeaturing over 130 colour maps of ancient physical and human landscapes spanning Britain to India and deep into the Sahara, this atlas is a compact kaleidoscope of peoples, migrations, empires, strife, cultures, cities and travels from Greece's Bronze Age to Rome's fall in the West.This revised edition of the Atlas of Classical History equips readers with a clear visual grasp of the spatial dimension, a vital aspect for understanding history. Users gain insight into the formative roles of physical landscape seas, rivers, mountains, deserts in Mediterranean peoples' development. The maps in all their variety of scope, scale and colour offer an absorbing means to track the growth of states on the ground, especially their relationships, conflicts, urbanization, communications and cultures. Each map is enriched by readily identifiable symbols and concise accompanying texts, as well as recommendations for further reading. With its vast geographical sweep in a compact formTable of ContentsMaps; Battles, Cities, Regions, Shrines to around 300 BCE: Locator; Egypt and the Near East, 1200-500 BCE; Troy: Citadel; Troy: Lower Town; Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece and Aegean; Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete; Neolithic and Bronze Age Cyprus; Knossos; Mycenae: Citadel; Mycenae Outside the Citadel; Homer’s World; Mainland Greece in Homer’s Epics; Iron Age Greece; Greek Colonization, 800-500 BCE; Archaic Greece; Persian Empire, 550-330 BCE; Persepolis; Marathon, 490 BCE; Persian Wars; Thermopylae, 480 BCE: Ephialtes’ Route; Artemision, 480 BCE; Salamis, 480 BCE; Plataea, 479 BCE; Greece and the Aegean (Hellespont inset); Classical Greece; Cimmerian Bosphorus; Olympia; Attica; Athens; Classical Athens (5th and 4th Centuries BCE); Roman Athens; Delphi; Sparta; Miletus; Priene; Halicarnassus; Akragas; Greek and Punic Sicily; Athenian Empire; Greek Dialects around 450 BCE; Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BCE (Sicily inset); Pylos/Sphacteria, 425 BCE; Syracuse (and Athenian Siege, 415-413 BCE); Explorers; Anabasis (Spring 400 to Winter 400/399 BCE); Leuctra, 371 BCE; Second Athenian League; Chaeronea, 338 BCE; Growth of Macedonian Power, 359-336 BCE; Alexander’s Campaigns, 334-323 BCE; Granicus River, 334 BCE; Issus, 333 BCE; Tyre, 332 BCE; Gaugamela, 331 BCE; Hydaspes River, 326 BCE; Alexandria Oxiana (Ai Khanoum); Alexandria; Hellenistic World: Kingdoms; Hellenistic World: Aegean; Hellenistic World: Asia Minor; Hellenistic World: Syria-Egypt; Pergamum; Delos City; Delos Centre; Delos Island; Etruria and Etruscan Expansion; Early Italy and its Neighbours; Peoples of Italy, and their Languages to the First Century CE; Latium, 600-300 BCE; Campania; Roman Expansion in Italy to 241 BCE; Cosa; Rome by 300 BCE; Roman Colonization in Italy to the Time of Augustus (Campania inset); Second Punic War (First Punic War inset); Cannae, 216 BCE; Zama, 202 BCE; Roman Campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula, 218-133 BCE; Numantia: Roman Siege, 133 BCE; Numantia: Region; Rome in the Late Republic; Rome’s Empire around 60 BCE; Roman Campaigns, 58-30 BCE; Actium, 31 BCE; Augusta Praetoria (Aosta); Italy from Alps to Campania (including Corsica); Italy from Apulia to Bruttium; Sicily and Sardinia; Rome’s Empire and Beyond: Locator; Rome at the Death of Augustus, 14 CE; Environs of Imperial Rome; Ostia; Portus; Second Battle of Cremona, 69 CE; Pompeii; Herculaneum; Italian Towns with Alimentary Schemes; Rome at the Death of Trajan, 117 CE; Rome’s Empire around 60 CE; Britain; Hadrian’s Wall; Antonine Wall; Iberian Peninsula; Vipasca; Thamugadi (Timgad); Africa; Lepcis Magna; Africa Proconsularis and Numidia; Cyrene; Lutetia Parisiorum (Paris); Gaul; Germany; Rhine-Danube Limes, 40-260 CE; Danube-Black Sea; Crete; Greece; Cyprus; Aphrodisias; Asia Minor; Paul’s Journeys; Syria-Persian Gulf; Antioch (Syria); Dura; Jerusalem/Aelia Capitolina, 2nd-3rd Centuries CE; Jerusalem on Madaba Map; Judaea; Masada (and Roman Siege, 73 CE); Egypt; Arabia; India; Rome’s Empire around 211 CE; Circuit of the Roman Empire by Aurelius Gaius, 285-299 CE; Etesian Winds and Sea Currents; Sea Routes in Diocletian’s Edict on Prices; Rome at the Death of Constantine, 337 CE; Split; Constantinople; Rome’s Empire around 314 CE; Christianity by the Early Fourth Century; Roman World on Two Portable Sundials; Barbarian Invasions of the Roman Empire, 370-500 CE; Roman Empire and Successor Kingdoms around 530 CE; Further Reading; Gazetteer.

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Book SynopsisFor thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence of women on the throne. From European, African, Mughal, Ming-Qing and Safavid dynasties to the Ottoman Empire, Tokugawa Japan and ChosÅn Korea, he reveals the tension between the ideals of kingship and the lives of actual rulers, the rich variety of arrangements for succession, the households or courts which catered to rulers' daily needs, and the relationship between the court and the territories under its control. The book integrates numerous African examples, sets dynasties within longer-term developments such as the rise of the state, and examines whether the tensions inherent in dynastic power led inexorably to cycles of ascent and decline.Trade Review'An extraordinarily learned comparative study of early modern dynasties all over the world … a trove of information … Summing up: highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty.' F. E. Baumann, Choice'Dynasties is a work of tremendous ambition and interest, full of fascinating detail and insight, and the clarity of purpose with which it is framed means that focus is never lost … a rich and deeply rewarding book, both in the detail and the overall analysis.' Michael J. Braddick, The Times Literary Supplement'The networks that established dynasties and kept them going have long been obscured behind simplistic notions of 'absolute' monarchy, notions first popularized by royal propaganda and later reinforced by Enlightenment opposition. Duindam, however, looks past these assumptions to show us the up close complexities of dynasties; and in the end, one cannot help but conclude that premodern dynasties, like modern democracies, were more a series of variations on a common theme than they were a uniform system of government. They were about complex and far reaching relationships, not just individual rulers.' Ethan Hawkley, World History Connected'This book is an instantly enjoyable read, a sprightly tour which takes the reader from Constantinople to Kyoto, from Benin to Versailles. It is written with clarity and elegance, packed with highly quotable sentences. Its scope is so big that anyone picking up the volume will glean from it new information and memorable nuggets … The book is an evocative, bright patchwork.' Natalia Nowakowska, The English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Rulers: position versus person; 2. Dynasty: reproduction and succession; 3. At court: spaces, groups, balances; 4. Realm: connections and interactions; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Roger D. Woodard argues that when the Greeks first began to use the alphabet, they viewed themselves as participants in a performance phenomenon conceptually modeled on the performances of the oral poets. Since a time older than Greek antiquity, the oral poets of Indo-European tradition had been called 'weavers of words' - their extemporaneous performance of poetry was 'word weaving'. With the arrival of the new technology of the alphabet and the onset of Greek literacy, the very act of producing written symbols was interpreted as a comparable performance activity, albeit one in which almost everyone could participate, not only the select few. It was this new conceptualization of and participation in performance activity by the masses that eventually, or perhaps quickly, resulted in the demise of oral composition in performance in Greece. In conjunction with this investigation, Woodard analyzes a set of copper plaques inscribed with repeated alphabetic series and a line oTrade Review'I strongly recommend this book … one of the most interesting and illuminating works about the copper plaques in particular, and about the emergence and adaptation of the Greek alphabet in general.' Alfredo Rizza, Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Background; 2. The associative structure of the copper plaques; 3. Physical and chemical examination of the copper plaques David A. Scott; 4. The syntagmatic structure of the copper plaques; 5. Langue et écriture; 6. Of styluses and withes; 7. The warp and weft of writing.

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