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Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early republican period, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures and Tables Contributors Publications by Claudia Römer Notes on Names, Terms, and Transliteration Introduction  Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl Part 1: Language, Literature and Style 1 Bu neyiki? “What (on Earth) Is That?!”  The Old Anatolian Turkish Mirative Particle iki in Unresolvable Questions  Helga Anetshofer 2 Questions, Answers, and Knowledgeable Ladies in an Ageless Turkic Textual Genre  Ingeborg Baldauf 3 More of the SAME: Is There a Standard Average Middle Eastern?  Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Stephan Procházka 4 Coffee’s Elegy on the Death of Tobacco, 1636–1637 by Vardarlı Fazli  An Ottoman Social Parody and its Linguistic Particularities  Edith Gülçin Ambros 5 Alexandros Karatheodoris and His Philological Articles on the Ottoman/Turkish Language  Peri Efe Part 2: Sources and Terminologies: New Readings, New Perspectives 6 Some Remarks on Marginal Notes in Ottoman Manuscripts  Marinos Sariyannis 7 Ottoman Sofia through the Eyes of Its Denizens and Visitors  (Late 14th–First Half of 16th Century)  Rossitsa Gradeva 8 Réflexions sur le processus de rédaction des Ġazavāt-ı Ḫayr ed-Dīn Paşa  Nicolas Vatin 9 Peacemaking between the Ottoman Empire, the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy  Sándor Papp 10 Traces of the Captive Copyist Derviş İbrahim in Sebastian Tengnagel’s (d. 1636) Notebooks  Hülya Çelik 11 Learning the Language of Things: Glimpses into Ottoman Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries  Hedda Reindl-Kiel 12 Ottoman History Viewed from the “Periphery”: Al-Isḥāqī’s 1623 Chronicle of Egypt  Jane Hathaway 13 Time-Related References and Markers in the Kadı Court Registers of Kandiye (Heraklion)  Antonis Anastasopoulos Part 3: Conquering, Administering and Financing Ottoman Provinces 14 On the Administration of the Ottoman ‘One-Fifth Tax’ on Prisoners of War (15th to 17th Century)  Pál Fodor 15 Exchange Rates, Pay Years and Prebends in 17th–18th Century Ottoman Europe as Reflected in Taxation and Funding the Military  Some Key Examples  Nenad Moačanin 16 Financial Reporting from the Ottoman Syrian Provinces  A Study On Provincial “Budgets,” the Income Side  Linda T. Darling 17 The Sancakbeyis of Hatvan in the 16th Century  Géza Dávid 18 Paths of Glory: The Rise of the Köprülüs and the Execution of Şamizade Mehmed Efendi (1663)  Özgür Kolçak Part 4: Founding Mosques, (In-)alienable Waqfs, and Circulating Goods 19 Reflections on the Problem of Identifying the Founder of the Mosque of Ferhad Beg in Pécs  Nedim Zahirović 20 “A Man You Do Not Meet Every Day”  The Waqf Founder as a Benevolent Employer and the Waqf as a Sinecure for the Founder’s Retainers  Kayhan Orbay 21 Sorge und Vorsorge  Das Testament (vasiyetname) eines osmanischen Kavallerieoffiziers vor dem Feldzug 1664 und die Fromme Stiftung (vakıf) eines Oberstallmeisters vor einer Dienstreise nach Mekka im Jahre 1681  Hans Georg Majer 22 The Place of Egypt and Syria in the Circulation of Goods in the Eastern Mediterranean  The Abiding Importance of the Ottoman Domestic Market as a Key Dimension of Overall Maritime Trade in the Mid-18th Century  Rhoads Murphey Part 5: Minorities, Moral and Control 23 Die politische Balkandiaspora im Abendland des 15. Jahrhunderts  Oliver Jens Schmitt 24 Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Ahdname von Fojnica  Michael Ursinus 25 Grievance Redressal and Ecclesiastical Appointments  Sultanic Rescripts in Favour of Metropolitans and Bishops from the 17th Century  Eleni Gara 26 Living Together in the Quarters of a City  Non-Muslims in the Judicial Registers (Şerʿi Mahkeme Sicilleri) of Trabzon in the Second Half of the 17th Century  Kenan İnan 27 İbrahim Efendi (d. 1697), an Ottoman Scribe Turned Dominican Monk, and His Library between Constantinople and Venice  Tijana Krstić 28 Becoming a Master Artisan in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire  Central Provinces, Late 1500s to Early 1800s  Suraiya Faroqhi 29 Night Life in Istanbul: Sex Crimes and Social Control from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries  Fariba Zarinebaf Part 6: The Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century and beyond 30 Strolling around Vienna Unarmed. Rıza Nur and His “Letters from Vienna” (1911)  Yavuz Köse 31 Some Remarks on the Hitherto Unpublished Memoirs of a Member of the Kuva-yi Milliye in the Sanjak of Alexandretta/Hatay  Heidemarie Doğanalp-Votzi 32 Making the Best of It. The Graduates of the Kindergarten Training College of Flaviana in Zincidere, 1911–1916  Maria A. Stassinopoulou 33 Heritage Discourse in Early Republican Turkey: The Journal Ülkü (1933–1950) Re-Examined  Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth Index

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Book SynopsisWhy devote a Companion to the "mirrors for princes", whose very existence is debated? These texts offer key insights into political thoughts of the past. Their ambiguous, problematic status further enhances their interest. And although recent research has fundamentally challenged established views of these texts, until now there has been no critical introduction to the genre. This volume therefore fills this important gap, while promoting a global historical perspective of different “mirrors for princes” traditions from antiquity to humanism, via Byzantium, Persia, Islam, and the medieval West. This Companion also proposes new avenues of reflection on the anchoring of these texts in their historical realities. Contributors are Makram Abbès, Denise Aigle, Olivier Biaggini, Hugo Bizzarri, Charles F. Briggs, Sylvène Edouard, Jean-Philippe Genet, John R. Lenz, Louise Marlow, Cary J. Nederman, Corinne Peneau, Stéphane Péquignot, Noëlle-Laetitia Perret, Günter Prinzing, Volker Reinhardt, Hans-Joachim Schmidt, Tom Stevenson, Karl Ubl, and Steven J. Williams.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Stéphane Péquignot and Noëlle-Laetitia Perret PART 1: Mapping the Mirrors of Princes’ Traditions 1 Ideal Models and Anti-Models of Kingship in Ancient Greek Literature: Mirror of Princes from Homer to Marcus Aurelius  John R. Lenz 2 Greek and Roman Writers on the Virtues of Good Rulers: Praise, Instruction, and Constraint  Tom Stevenson 3 Carolingian Mirrors for Princes: Texts, Contents, Impact  Karl Ubl 4 Byzantine Mirrors for Princes: An Overview  Günter Prinzing 5 The Conception of Power in Islam: Persian Mirrors of Princes and Sunni Theories (11th–14th Centuries)  Denise Aigle 6 Western Medieval Specula, c. 1150–c. 1450  Charles F. Briggs and Cary J. Nederman 7 Refutation, Parody, Annihilation: The End of the Mirror for Princes in Machiavelli, Vettori and Guicciardini  Volker Reinhardt 8 Specula Principum and the Wise Governor in the Renaissance  Sylvène Édouard PART 2: The “Making of”, the Circulation and Uses of the Mirrors of Princes – A Thought in Motion 9 The Influence of Aristotle’s Thought on Arab Political-Philosophical Ideas  Makram Abbès 10 The Arabic Mirrors for Princes as Witnesses to the Evolution of Political Thought  Makram Abbès 11 Royal Power and Its Regulations: Narratives of Hārūn al-Rashīd in Three Mirrors for Princes  Louise Marlow 12 The Pseudo-Aristotelian Secret of Secrets as a Mirror of Princes: A Cautionary Tale  Steven J. Williams 13 The Castilian Versions of the Pseudo-Aristotle’s Secretum secretorum and French Versions of Giles of Rome’s De regimine principum (13th–16th Centuries)  A Comparative Perspective  Hugo Bizzarri and Noëlle-Laetitia Perret 14 The Relation between Wisdom Literature, Law, and the Mirrors of Princes: Castile and Sweden  Olivier Biaggini and Corinne Péneau 15 The Use of Mirrors of Princes  Hans-Joachim Schmidt Conclusion: Mirrors for Princes and the Development of Reflections on the State  Jean-Philippe Genet Index

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Book SynopsisThe influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under scrutiny can hardly be overstated. With censorship still employed in many regions of the world today, readers will discover various striking differences—as well as numerous astounding similarities—to current practices of censorship in this book.Table of ContentsAuthor’s Foreword List of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1 On the Theory of Censorship Research: “Old” or “New” Censorship?  2 The Historical-Sociological Definition of Censorship: Exercise of Political Power versus the Autonomy of Literature  3 Modalities of Censorship over Time  4 How Dangerous Is Literature? 2 In the Service of the Enlightenment: Censorship between 1751 and 1791  1 What Went Before: Censorship in the Early Modern Period  2 The Censorship Commission under Maria Theresa  3 The Josephinian-Leopoldinian Era  4 Commented Statistics of Prohibition Activity between 1754 and 1791 3 Censorship as an Instrument of Repression: The Era of Napoleon and the Vormärz Period (1792–1848)  1 Between the French Revolution and Student Unrest: Censorship from 1792 to 1820  2 Censorship in the Pre-march Period (1821–1848)  3 Commented Statistics of Prohibition Activity between 1792 and 1848 4 A Look at the Crown Lands  1 The Kingdom of Bohemia (1750–1848) (by Petr Píša and Michael Wögerbauer)  2 The Italian-Speaking Territories of the Habsburg Monarchy (1768–1848) (by Daniel Syrovy) 5 The Censorship of Theater  1 Theater Censorship in the Name of the Enlightenment under Maria Theresa and Joseph II (1770–1790)  2 Theater Censorship under Francis II/I and Ferdinand I (1792–1848) 6 Case Studies  1 Periodicals  2 Chroniques scandaleuses  3 The Theme of Suicide in Forbidden Literature  4 The Period of Weimar Classicism  5 The Romanticists  6 The Historical Novel  7 English Plays  8 French Drama of the July Monarchy 7 Outlook Appendix Bibliography Index of Named Persons Index of Publishers and Booksellers Index of Periodicals

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Book SynopsisImagining Latinidad examines how Latin American migrants use technology for public engagement, social activism, and to build digital, diasporic communities. Thanks to platforms like Facebook and YouTube, immigrants from Latin America can stay in contact with the culture they left behind. Members of these groups share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music, celebrations, and other cultural elements. Despite their physical distance, these diasporic virtual communities are not far removed from the struggles in their homelands, and migrant activists play a central role in shaping politics both in their home country and in their host country. Contributors are: Amanda Arrais, Karla Castillo Villapudua, David S. Dalton, Jason H. Dormady, Carmen Gabriela Febles, Álvaro González Alba, Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar, Anna Marta Marini, Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli, David Ramírez Plascencia, Jessica Retis, Nancy Rios-Contreras, and Patria Román-Velázquez.

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Book SynopsisHow did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables Notes on Contributors Immigrants and World Wars in South America An Introduction  María Inés Tato 1 Fighting on the Home Front Mobilizing European Citizens for the First World War in Latin America  Stefan Rinke 2 The French in Buenos Aires during the First World War  Hernán M. Díaz 3 The Mobilization of the European Communities in Chile during the First World War  Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz 4 The Austro-Hungarian Community in Chile during the First World War  Milagros Martínez-Flener 5 The Armenian Diaspora in Argentina Facing the First World War and the Postwar Genocide, Trauma, and Reconstruction  Juan Pablo Artinian 6 A Return of Military Migration: The Scots of the British Volunteers of Latin America, 1914–1918  Norman Fraser Brown 7 Europeans in Latin America and the Memory of the Great War  María Inés Tato 8 The German Speakers of Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s  Germán C. Friedmann 9 Disputes over Italianness Italian Immigration in Argentina in the Face of Fascism  Marcelo Huernos 10 Final Reflections  María Inés Tato Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation states by centuries. The 11 contributions in this volume explore the role of early modern and modern dynastic kingdoms and empires in Europe, the Middle East and Eurasia and the evolution of border controls from the 16th to the 20th century. They analyse how these states interacted with other polities, such as emerging nations states in Europe, North America and Australia, and what this means for a broader reconceptualization of mobility in Europe and beyond in the longue durée. Contributors are: Tobias Brinkmann, Vincent Denis, Sinan Dinçer, Josef Ehmer, Irial A. Glynn, Sabine Jesner, Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Leo Lucassen, Ikaros Mantouvalos, Leslie Page Moch, Jovan Pešalj, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Annemarie Steidl, and Megan Williams.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Jovan Pešalj, Annemarie Steidl, Leo Lucassen, and Josef Ehmer 1 States, Borders, and Security in Global History   Leo Lucassen 2 Diplomatic Safe Conducts across Sixteenth-Century Habsburg-Ottoman Borders   Megan K. Williams 3 “Hard Border” Facilitates Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border Control Regime in the Eighteenth Century   Jovan Pešalj and Josef Ehmer 4 Clerks, Guards and Physicians: Imperial Staff and the Implementation of Border Security Concepts within the Transylvanian Military Border   Sabine Jesner 5 The Mobility Control of “Foreigners” in the Habsburg Monarchy Entrance, Travel and Residency of the Greek-Orthodox Peoples from Southeastern Europe (Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Century)   Ikaros Mantouvalos and Olga Katsiardi-Hering 6 The Control of Mobility in France, 1680–1780   Vincent Denis 7 An Exclusionary Border Regime: The Ottoman Case, 1890–1914   Sinan Dinçer 8 Control and Agency: Regimes and Repertoires of Migration in Late Imperial Russia   Leslie Page Moch and Lewis H. Siegelbaum 9 Borderline Experiences: Russian Return Migrants and Privatized Border Controls in Central Europe, 1880–1914   Tobias Brinkmann 10 Border Control on Ellis Island: Austro-Hungarians Crossing the Atlantic in the Age of Mass Migration   Annemarie Steidl 11 Protecting Australia’s Borders Since the 1850s: At the Cutting Edge of Border Control but on the Edge of International Acceptability   Irial Glynn Index

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Book SynopsisScience and Society in the Sanskrit World contains seventeen essays that cover a kaleidoscopic array of classical Sanskrit scientific disciplines, such as the astral sciences, grammar, jurisprudence, theology, and hermeneutics. The volume foregrounds a unifying theme to Christopher Z. Minkowski’s intellectual oeuvre: that scholars’ scientific endeavors are inseparable from the social worlds that shaped those scholars’ lives. Contributors are: Anne Blackburn, Johannes Bronkhorst, Jonathan Duquette, Robert Goldman, Setsuro Ikeyama, Stephanie Jamison, Takanori Kusuba, John Lowe, Clemency Montelle, Valters Negribs, Rosalind O'Hanlon, Patrick Olivelle, Deven Patel, Kim Plofker, Frederick Smith, Barbora Sojkova, Thomas Trautmann, Elizabeth Tucker, Anand Venkatkrishnan, and Dominik Wujastyk.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and yet somehow converging scholars, and relates them to the Brazilian intellectual context, especially Bahia, which showed in those days much less density and organization than the US equivalent. It is therefore a double comparison: between four Americans and between Americans and scholars based in Brazil.

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Book SynopsisThe artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece cannot be analysed by a conventional approach. Follow the author and the historical protagonists of his tales in a journey through a fragmentary shape-shifting corpus, from the medieval translations of Aristotle to pornographic animal tales carved on church columns. The book explains how art and literature were intertwined, how they evolved from the times of Nicetas Choniates to those of Isabella of Lusignan, and under what influences. It is based on the assumption that history is a form of literature, as they both share an “arbitrary distribution of emphasis” (Isaiah Berlin).

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Book SynopsisIbn Ibrāhīm al-Dukkālī’s Historical Chronicle, edited and translated by Norman Cigar, is a valuable contemporary manuscript source from Morocco’s poorly documented and seldom-studied mid-eighteenth century, a period marked by weak rulers and conflicts, but also a golden age for local political actors and the autonomous power centers in the cities. As a well-placed observer and active participant in events in his native city of Fes, al-Dukkālī provides unique data that helps us address key questions about cities in the Muslim world raised in multiple disciplines, such as whether cities could be considered communities or were simply an agglomeration of disparate elements, and to what extent cities enjoyed autonomy in their relations with the central government, and in what sense they were “Islamic.”Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Author Biography Introduction Arabic Text and Translation Map Key/Maps Appendix on Weights, Measures, and Currency Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn an age characterized by religious conflict, Protestant and Catholic Augsburgers remained largely at peace. How did they do this? This book argues that the answer is in the “emotional practices” Augsburgers learned and enacted—in the home, in marketplaces and other sites of civic interaction, in the council house, and in church. Augsburg’s continued peace depended on how Augsburgers felt—as neighbors, as citizens, and believers—and how they negotiated the countervailing demands of these commitments. Drawing on police records, municipal correspondence, private memoranda, internal administrative documents and other records revealing everyday behavior, experience, and thought, Sean Dunwoody shows how Augsburgers negotiated the often-conflicting feelings of being a good believer and being a good citizen and neighbor.

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Book SynopsisInside Christian churches, natural light has long been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. In this volume, twenty-four international scholars with various specialties explore how the study of sunlight can reveal essential aspects of the design, decoration, and function of medieval sacred spaces. Themes covered include the interaction between patrons, advisors, architects, and artists, as well as local negotiations among competing traditions that yielded new visual and spatial constructs for which natural light served as a defining and unifying factor. The study of natural light in medieval churches reveals cultural relations, knowledge transfer patterns, processes of translation and adaptation, as well as experiential aspects of sacred spaces in the Middle Ages. Contributors are: Anna Adashinskaya, Jelena Bogdanović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Ljiljana Čavić, Aleksandar Čučaković, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Natalia Figueiras Pimentel, Leslie Forehand, Jacob Gasper, Vera Henkelmann, Gabriel-Dinu Herea, Vladimir Ivanovici, Charles Kerton, Jorge López Quiroga, Anastasija Martinenko, Andrea Mattiello, Rubén G. Mendoza, Dimitris Minasidis, Maria Paschali, Marko Pejić, Iakovos Potamianos, Maria Shevelkina, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Travis Yeager, and Olga Yunak.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan Part 1: Light, Theology, and Aesthetics 1 Illuminated by Divine Presence: Natural Light in the Katholikon at Dečani Monastery  Anna Adashinskaya 2 Natural Darkness and the Transfiguration Church on Il’ina Street in Novgorod (1378)  Olga Yunak 3 Transparency, Color, and Light at Ferapontov Monastery’s Nativity of the Mother of God Church  Maria Shevelkina 4 The Blessed Sacrament Shining in Light: Windowed Niches in Medieval Livonian Churches  Vera Henkelmann 5 Seeing beyond Seeing: Light and Theophanic Contemplation at the Enkleistra of Neophytos, Cyprus  Maria Paschali and Dimitris Minasidis 6 Space and Light: Aesthetics of Light in the Byzantine Church  Iakovos Potamianos Part 2: Lighting Sacred Spaces 7 Light of the East in the West: Natural Light in the Monastic Rupestrian Complex of San Pedro de Rocas (Galicia)  Natalia Figueiras Pimentel and Jorge López Quiroga 8 Sun, Stones, and Saints: On the Orientation of the Church of Sant’Ambrogio alla Rienna (SA)  Andrea Mattiello 9 Natural Light in the Church of the Holy Cross at Pătrăuți Monastery  Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan and Gabriel-Dinu Herea 10 Modeling the Sunlight Illumination of the Church at Studenica Monastery  Travis Yeager, Jelena Bogdanović, Leslie Forehand, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Jacob Gasper, Marko Pejić, Aleksandar Čučaković, Anastasija Martinenko and Charles Kerton 11 Architectural Emptiness and Natural Light: The Church of the Virgin at Studenica Monastery  Ljiljana Čavić 12 Canticle of the Sun: Archaeoastronomy and Solar Eucharistic Worship in the Millennial New World  Rubén G. Mendoza Indexes

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Book SynopsisPotosí (today Bolivia) was the major supplier for the Spanish Empire and for the world and still today boasts the world's single-richest silver deposit. This book explores the political economy of silver production and circulation illuminating a vital chapter in the history of global capitalism. It travels through geology, sacred spaces, and technical knowledge in the first section; environmental history and labor in the second section; silver flows, the heterogeneous world of mining producers, and their agency in the third; and some of the local, regional, and global impacts of Potosí mining in the fourth section. The main focus is on the establishment of a complex infrastructure at the site, its major changes over time, and the new human and environmental landscape that emerged for the production of one of the world´s major commodities: silver. Eleven authors from different countries present their most recent research based on years of archival research, providing the readers with cutting-edge scholarship. Contributors are: Julio Aguilar, James Almeida, Rossana Barragán Romano, Mariano A. Bonialian, Thérèse Bouysse-Cassagne, Kris Lane, Tristan Platt, Renée Raphael, Masaki Sato, Heidi V. Scott, and Paula C. Zagalsky.

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Book SynopsisThe first early modern women Latinists lived in mid-fourteenth century Italy, and were educated as diplomats. By the fifteenth century, other upper-class women were educated in order to perform as prodigies on behalf of their city. Both strands of education for women spread to other European countries in the course of the sixteenth century: the principal women humanists were either princesses or courtiers. In the seventeenth century Latin lost its importance as a language of diplomacy and was no longer needed at court, but there was still a place for the ‘woman prodigy’, and a variety of women performed in this way. However, the productions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century women Latinists are more extensive and more varied than those of their predecessors, and include scientific writing and ambitious translations. By the mid-nineteenth century the integration of studious women into the wider academy was well under way.Table of ContentsAbstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 Women and Humanism in Renaissance Italy  3 Beyond Italy: France, Spain and Northern Europe in the Sixteenth Century  4 Educated Women and Work: The Sixteenth Century  5 The Seventeenth Century and After: Change and Continuity  6 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGermany is considered a lauded land of music: outstanding composers, celebrated performers and famous orchestras exert great international appeal. Since the 19th century, the foundation of this reputation has been the broad mass of musicians who sat in orchestra pits, played in ensembles for dances or provided the musical background in silent movie theatres. Martin Rempe traces their lives and working worlds, including their struggle for economic improvement and societal recognition. His detailed portrait of the profession ‘from below’ sheds new light on German musical life in the modern era.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the English translation Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbrevations Introduction Part 1: Lifeworlds in the Nineteenth Century 1 Wilhelm Wieprecht or On the Life of the Musician in the Sattelzeit  1 Municipal Pipe Bands  2 Municipal Theatre  3 Court Orchestras  4 Military Bands  5 Musicians’ Lives in the Sattelzeit 2 The Discovery of the Social: Musicians’ Organizations between Art and Labour  1 Liszt, Wagner and the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein  2 A Rendezvous with Hirsch and Schulze-Delitzsch  3 The General German Musicians’ Union  4 Putting the Class Struggle on Hold 3 Musicians’ Plight: Education and Everyday Working Life around 1900  1 The Hell of Apprenticeship and Little Old Men Painting Pictures  2 Hungry Dogs Make Good Hunters  3 Versatile, Mobile, Flexible: Lifeworlds  4 Sombart’s Insights 4 In a Different World: Women in Musical Life  1 Role Models  2 Pianomania  3 Four Life Paths  4 Born to Play Part 2: Projects of Professionalization, 1890–1930 5 A Circuitous Route into the Bourgeoisie: Self-Civilizing and Lobbying  1 Education Is Power  2 Knowledge Production as an Aid to Self-Help  3 Musicians’ Movement and Trade Unions  4 Musicians as Workers: Social Legislation  5 Social Democratic Terrorism: The Munich Orchestra Scandal  6 Reconciliation of Interests and Municipalization  7 David and Goliath: Against Military Competition  8 Nietzsche’s Freak Show 6 War Profiteers: Musicians at the Front and at Home  1 Privileges at the Front  2 Limited and Unlimited Solidarity  3 Good Prospects  4 Essential to the War Effort: Orchestral Musicians  5 Relative War Profits 7 Squabbling Professions: Musicians, Composers and Music Teachers  1 Perspectives on a Unified Chamber of Musicians  2 Turf Wars  3 A Search for Lost Unity: The Musikergemeinschaft  4 Vanity Fair 8 An Era of Experiments: New Media, Fashions and Musicians in the Cultural and Welfare State  1 War and Peace: Continuities  2 Musical Empire: The Cultural State  3 Curse and Blessing: The Welfare State  4 The Ephemeral Job Description of ‘Silent Film Musician’  5 A Playground for Conductors and Composers: Radio  6 Jazz, or the Emergence of Popular Music as an Independent Genre  7 Emancipation in the Workplace  8 Musicians for the ‘People’s Body’ (Volkskörper): Occupational Hygiene  9 In the Middle of Society Part 3: Crisis, Collapse, Continuities, 1930–1960 9 Neglected Muse: Nazi Music Policy  1 Cutback Fever: The World Economic Crisis  2 The Reich Chamber of Music: Right-Wing Staff …  3 … and Left-Wing Reforms  4 Exclusions: Jews and Opponents of the Regime  5 Civil Decline …  6 … and Remilitarization  7 United in Discord: The Music of the Volksgemeinschaft  8 Beyond Instrumentalization 10 Forced Migrations: Lifeworlds in Times of War and Violence  1 Global Refugee Movements  2 A Provincial Terminus: Exile in the United States  3 Music as Avenue of Escape? Deportations  4 Scattered by War  5 Managing Lack in the Reich  6 Twilight of the Musicians? 11 The Day of the Orchestral Musician: Ascent and Exit in West Germany  1 Flourishing Musicians in a Time of Rubble  2 Orchestral Revolution amid the Jobs Crisis  3 Money, Money, Money: Wage Agreements and Royalties  4 Winners and Losers  5 At the Crossroads Conclusion: Musicians’ Lives as Creative Work Appendix: Statistics on the Music Profession in Germany Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn the first book-length study of Takkanot Kandiyah, Martin Borýsek analyses this fascinating corpus of Hebrew texts written between 1228 –1583 by the leaders of the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. Collected in the 16th century by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali, the communal byelaws offer a unique perspective on the history of a vibrant, culturally diverse Jewish community during three centuries of Venetian rule. As well as confronting practical problems such as deciding whether Christian wine can be made kosher by adding honey, or stopping irresponsible Jewish youths disturbing religious services by setting off fireworks in the synagogue, Takkanot Kandiyah presents valuable material for the study of communal autonomy and institutional memory in pre-modern Jewish society.

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Book SynopsisThe long-lasting Ottoman Empire was a theatre of armed conflict and human displacement. Whereas military victories in the early modern period enabled its territorial expansion and internal consolidation, the later centuries were shaped by military defeat and domestic turmoil, setting hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of people in motion. Spanning from Europe to Asia, the book reassesses these movements. Rather than adopting a teleological approach to the study of the Ottoman defeat, it connects late Ottoman history to wider dynamics, extending or challenging existing concepts and narratives.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Table IX Notes on Contributors X 1 Introduction: Population Displacements and Multiple Mobilities in the Late Ottoman Empire  Nicole Immig Part 1: Population Movements and Migrants as Assets 2 Demographic Engineering and the Unionist Legacy  George Kalpadakis 3 Seeking a Homeland, Serving the Empire: Muslim Migrants from Montenegro and Their Integration within the Ottoman Bureaucracy (1870–1914)  Denis Ljuljanović Part 2: Differentiating and Hierarchizing People on the Move 4 Muslims of Epirus, Muslims of Empire? The Cham Issue in Relation to Albanian, Greek and Turkish National Projects (1908–25)  Renaud Dorlhiac 5 ‘Unreliable Muslims’ Out and ‘Loyal Subjects of the Tsar’ In?: Two Different Forms of Migration Envisaged by the Russian Authorities in the Southwestern Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia in WWI  Ozan Arslan Part 3: Reinterpreting Population Displacements 6 The Ottoman Era in Yemen and Jewish Emigration (1881–1914)  Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman 7 Flags and Blood: European Jews, Refugee Restrictions, and Rioting in 1929 Palestine  Sarah Shields Part 4: Lives beyond Borders 8 Migrating Economic Identities in the Ottoman Empire: Regional Expressions of the Global Market in the Greek Banker’s Andreas Syngros Autobiography  Ekaterini Brégianni 9 Mapping Europe with Love: Spaces and Conjunctions between Smyrna and Munich  Simone Egger 10 Afterword: Transitions from a Transimperial to a Transnational Migration Society  Stefan Rohdewald Index of Names

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.Table of ContentsIntroduction I. The task of literary history II. Sources and earlier accounts of the literary history of the Arabs III. Division of the history of Arabic literature First Book. The national literature of the Arabs First Section. From the beginnings until the appearance of Muḥammad Chapter 1. The Arabic language Chapter 2. The beginnings of poetry Chapter 3. Forms of Arabic poetry Chapter 4. General characteristics of ancient Arabic poetry Chapter 5. The transmission of Arabic poetry Chapter 6. The sources for our knowledge of ancient Arabic poetry Chapter 7. The six poets Chapter 8. Other poets of pre-Islamic times Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian poets before Islam Chapter 10. The beginnings of Arabic prose Second Section. Muḥammad and his time Chapter 1. Muḥammad the Prophet Chapter 2. The Qurʾān Chapter 3. Labīd and al-Aʿshā Chapter 4. Ḥassān b. Thābit Chapter 5. Kaʿb b. Zuhayr Chapter 6. Mutammin b. Nuwayra Chapter 7. Al-Khansāʾ Chapter 8. Abū Miḥjan and al-Ḥuṭayʾa Chapter 9. Minor poets Chapter 10. Two forgeries Third Section. The period of the Umayyads Chapter 1. General characteristics Chapter 2. ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa Chapter 3. Other poets in Arabia Chapter 4. Al-Akhṭal Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq Chapter 6. Jarīr Chapter 7. Dhu ̓l-Rumma Chapter 8. The rajaz poets Chapter 9. Minor poets Chapter 10. Prose writing at the time of the Umayyads Second Book. Islamic literature in the Arabic language First section. The Classical period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000 Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Poetry A. The poets of Baghdad B. Poets of Iraq and the Jazīra C. Poets from Arabia and Syria D. The circle of Sayf al-Dawla E. Egyptian and North African poets Chapter 3. Rhymed prose Chapter 4. Philology I. The School of Basra II. The School of Kufa III. The School of Baghdad IV. Linguistics in Persia and the East V. Linguistics in Egypt and Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. The life of Muḥammad 2. Urban history 3. The history of the pre-Islamic Arabs 4. Imperial and world history 5. Cultural and literary history 6. The history of Egypt and North Africa 7. The history of Spain Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The lesser schools 5. The Shīʿa 1. The Zaydīs 2. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. Sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The reading of the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. The translators Chapter 12. Philosophy Chapter 13. Mathematics Chapter 14. Astronomy and astrology Chapter 15. Geography Chapter 16. Medicine Chapter 17. Natural and occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section. The post-Classical period of Islamic literature from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258 Chapter 1. Poetry A. Poets of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Jazīra B. Persian poets C. Syrian poets D. Arabian poets E. Egyptian poets F. North African and Sicilian poets G. Spanish poets Chapter 2. Rhymed prose and stylistics Chapter 3. Philology 1. Philology in Iraq 2. Philology in Persia and neighbouring countries 3. Philology in Syria 4. Philology in South Arabia 5. Philology in Egypt 6. Philology in North Africa and Sicily 7. Philology in Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. Individual biographies 2. Histories of dynasties 3. Histories of individuals and genealogies 4. Local history A. Baghdad B. Damascus C. Jerusalem D. Aleppo E. Dunaysir F. South Arabia G. Jurjān H. Egypt I. The Maghrib J. Spain 5. Histories of the caliphs and world history 6. Histories of prophets Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth 1. Iraq, the Jazīra, Syria, and Arabia 2. Persia 3. Egypt and North Africa 4. Spain Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The Ḥanbalīs 5. The Ẓāhirīs and Almohads 6. The Shīʿa A. The Zaydīs B. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. The sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The art of reading the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. Philosophy and politics Chapter 12. Mathematics Chapter 13. Astronomy Chapter 14. Geography and travelogues Chapter 15. Medicine Chapter 16. A. Natural sciences and technology B. Games, sports, and war C. Music Chapter 17. Occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.Table of ContentsBook 3. The decline of Islamic literature First section: From Mongol rule until the conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in the year 1517 Introduction Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Universal history § 4. Popular literature in prose, anthologies, and folk tales § 5. Ḥadīth A. ʿIlm al-ḥadīth wa-ʿilm al-rijāl B. Biographies of the Prophet C. Collections of ḥadīth and edifying works § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics and uṣūl al-dīn § 9. Mysticism § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and cosmography § 13. Politics and public administration § 14. Militaria, hunting, and agriculture § 15. Medicine and veterinary science § 16. Zoology § 17. Music § 18. Occult sciences § 19. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors 7. al-Suyūṭī I. Fann al-tafsīr wa-taʿalluqātuhu wal-qirāʾāt II. Fann al-ḥadīth wa-taʿalluqātuhu III. Fann al-fiqh wa-taʿalluqātuhu IV. al-Ajzāʾ al-mufrada fī masāʾil makhṣūṣa ʿalā tartīb al-abwāb V. Fann al-ʿarabiyya wa-taʿalluqātuhu VI. Fann al-uṣūl wal-bayān wal-taṣawwuf VII. Fann al-taʾrīkh wal-adab Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazīra § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Mathematics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Music § 12. Medicine Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Historiography § 3. Ḥadīth § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Mathematics § 8. Geography Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. Sayyid Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. al-Murtaḍā b. al-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Hādī b. al-Wazīr D. The Zaydīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 8. Horse breeding § 9. Occult sciences § 10. Encyclopaedias Chapter 5. Iran and Turan § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Politics § 11. Mathematics § 12. Astronomy § 13. Medicine § 14. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 6. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic exegesis § 5. Mysticism Chapter 7. The Turks of Rūm and the Ottoman empire § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Dogmatics § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 7a. Mathematics and astronomy § 8. Occult sciences § 9. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 8. North Africa § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Local history B. History of the Ibāḍīs C. History of dynasties D. Universal history § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Mālik § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Travelogues § 13. Medicine § 14. Music § 15. Alchemy and occult sciences § 16. Eroticism Chapter 9. Spain § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh, Mālik § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Politics § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 9. Travelogues and geographies § 10. Medicine § 11. Sport Second Section From the conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in 1517 to the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 Introduction Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Chronicles E. Universal history § 4. Popular works and anthologies § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 10. Homiletics and paraenesis § 11. Philosophy § 12. Politics § 13. Mathematics § 14. Astronomy § 15. Geography and travelogues § 16. Hunting and militaria § 17. Music § 18. Medicine § 19. Occult sciences § 20. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 2. Al-Jazīra, Iraq, and Bahrain § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Dogmatics § 7. Mysticism § 7a. Philosophy § 8. Travelogues Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. Ḥanbalīs and Wahhābīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and travelogues § 13. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Shāfiʿīs B. The Zaydīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Astronomy § 10. Occult sciences Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abessinia A. Oman B. East Africa C. Abyssinia Chapter 6. Iran and Tūrān § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 1b. Philology § 2. Ḥadīth § 3. Shīʿī fiqh and kalām § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Mysticism § 6. Philosophy § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 10. Medicine § 11. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 7. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Belles-lettres § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Ḥanafī fiqh § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Travelogues § 11. Encyclopaedias Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia § 1a. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Popular prose § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Medicine § 12. Music § 13. Agriculture § 14. Occult sciences § 15. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 10. The Maghreb § 1. Adab § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6b. Fiqh, Mālikī § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 9a. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics and astronomy § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Medicine § 13. Warfare Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 until the present day Chapter 1. Egypt § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Mālikīs B. The Ḥanafīs C. The Shāfiʿīs § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Paraenesis § 10. Mathematics § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Encyclopaedias Chapter 2. Syria § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Islamic theology and mysticism Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq Chapter 4. Mecca (North Arabia) Chapter 5. South Arabia Chapter 6. Oman Chapter 7. Persia Chapter 8. Afghanistan Chapter 9. India Chapter 11. Istanbul Chapter 12. Russia Chapter 13. The Maghreb Chapter 14. The Sudan Addenda & Corrigenda Postscript

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Book SynopsisFriendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Exploring philia in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature  Christos Kremmydas Part 1 The Poetics of Friendship 1 Three Friendships  Michael J. Edwards 2 Philia and the Poetics of Tragedy  Chris Carey 3 Absent Friends: Why Is Friendship Less Important in Tragedy Than in the Iliad?  G.O. Hutchinson 4 A Gift-Song to an Old Friend: Pindar, Thrasybulus, Nicomachus, and the Second Isthmian  Lucia Athanassaki 5 Charis and Charites in Callimachus: Friendship in a Hostile World  Flora P. Manakidou Part 2 Dramatic Friendships 6 Philia in Euripidean Tragedy  Georgia Xanthaki-Karamanou 7 Antigone’s “Nearest and Dearest”: Metapoetry in Euripides’ Antigone and Phoenissae  Ioanna Karamanou 8 Who Needed Pylades?  Marco Fantuzzi Part 3 Friendship and the Historian 9 Friendship in Herodotus  Christopher Pelling 10 Can You Trust Xerxes to Be Your Friend? Friendship and Autocracy in Herodotus  Kleanthis Mantzouranis 11 Friendship in the Relations between the Cities in Thucydides  Vasileios L. Konstantinopoulos 12 Friends in Arms under the Public Gaze  Hara Thliveri 13 Friendship on Stone: Inscribed Narratives of the Rescue and Ransom of Exiles and Captives  Adele Scafuro Part 4 Friends and Enemies in Court 14 Civic Friendships and Filial Duties: Representations of Political Bonds in Classical Athens  Jakub Filonik 15 Friendship Betrayed: Isocrates 16 and the Athenian Reconciliation of 403/402 BCE  Lene Rubinstein 16 Blood Is (Usually) Thicker Than Water: Kinship and Friendship in Ancient Greek Inheritance Disputes  Brenda Griffith-Williams 17 The Flexibility of the Rhetoric of Friendship in Athenian Courts  Eleni Volonaki 18 Shifting Political Friendships in Athens in the Age of Demosthenes and Philip II  Athanasios Efstathiou Part 5 Post-classical Friendships 19 The Code “Help Friends—Harm Enemies” and the Socratic Tradition  Maria Noussia-Fantuzzi 20 Friendship in Pausanias  K.W. Arafat 21 Philia in Libanius’ Letters  Manfred Kraus Part 6 The Afterlife of Ancient philia 22 A Friend in Need Is a Friend Indeed: Tom Paulin’s Rescuing of Antigone’s Afterlife  Dimitris Kentrotis Zinelis 23 A Modern Neo-Platonic Friendship  David Konstan General Index Names Index

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Book SynopsisThis book seeks to explore how the Zimbabwean society and its institutions have survived if not succumbed to continuous economic crises in the country. From the 1990s Zimbabwe experienced a sustained economic decline challenged by both internal and external strains. Coupled with internal mis-governance and corruption, the nation plunged into a political and economic crisis which culminated in the second highest world inflation rate for an economy that is not at war. In the face of the harsh and continuously deteriorating economic environments, Zimbabweans as individuals as well as part of institutions adopted various strategies to negotiate and survive the economic scourge. Contributors include Wellington Bamu, Nathaniel Chimhete, Anusa Daimon, Innocent Dande, Sylvester Dombo, Tinotenda Dube, Rudo Gaidzanwa, Tafara Evelyn Kombora, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani, Bernard Kusena, Eric Kushinga Makombe, Albert Makochekanwa, Blessed Masawi, Ivo Mhike, Joseph P. Mtisi, Joseph Mujere, Wesley Mwatwara, Pius S. Nyambara, Tinashe Nyamunda, Mark Nyandoro, Takesure Taringana and Nicola Yon (Mutimurefu).Trade ReviewThe seemingly unending ‘Zimbabwean crisis’ has been a subject of conjecture, scholarly analysis and debate since the early twenty-first century. However, to date, no study has unpacked with such clarity and depth of analysis some of the multifaceted issues covered by this magnificent book. It is a tremendous contribution to the growing historiography on a subject that continues to exercise the minds of scholars, politicians, economists and citizens alike. A must-read for scholars, students and everyone with the welfare of Zimbabwe at heart. M. Nyakudya (lecturer, History Department, University of Zimbabwe)

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Tables and Maps Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Transliteration and Transcription Introduction  1 Historicizing Communities and Intercommunal Relations  2 Language and Locality: Producers of Collectivities  3 Book Outline  4 A Note on Primary Sources 1 Regionality in the Time of Nationalization  1 Ottoman Reforms, Nationalisms, and Missionary Movements  2 The (Re-)Appearance of Cappadocia 2 Naming, Identifying, and Mapping Groups in Cappadocia  1 Genres of Taxonomic Grouping  2 Mapping Collectivities 3 Conception(s), Perception(s) and Experience(s) of Space  1 Conceived Space: Administering Locality  2 Residing in a Shared Space  3 Private, Communitarian, and Collective Spaces 4 Connected Worlds: Forging Ties between Home and Elsewhere  1 Migration Patterns  2 Socio-professional Background and Networks of Assistance  3 Everyday Life in a Village Experiencing Emigration 5 Real Estate and Natural Resources  1 Private Properties  2 Communal and Collective Lands 6 Economic and Professional Activities  1 Production and Consumption, Infrastructure, and Transportation  2 Commercial Exchange and Marketplaces  3 Professions, Pluriactivity, and Specialization 7 Religious Conversions and Inter-religious Marriages  1 Collective and Individual Conversions to Islam  2 Conversion to Christianity  3 Marriage: A Bridge between Communities?  4 Conversion and Converts in Strife 8 Shared Sacredness  1 Shared Sites of Worship (See Map 3)  2 The Time of Sharing  3 Shared Rites and Intercessions of the Other Conclusion: Doing, Undoing, and Redoing Groups in the Ottoman Countryside Epilogue Appendix 1: Former and Current Names of Towns and Villages (Changing Names and Names with Various Versions) 287 Appendix 2: Biographies of Main Informants by Settlements of Origin Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Tables and Maps Introduction  1 Geographical Definition of Lycia  2 Modern Literature on Lycian Families  3 The Funerary Epigraphy of Lycia in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods  4 Tomb Inscriptions  5 Commemorative Funerary Inscriptions 1 Kinship and Family  1.1 Kinship Terminology  1.2 Lycian Tomb Families  1.3 Household Structures  1.4 Kinship and Family Relations 2 Marriage  2.1 Legitimacy of Marriage  2.2 Endogamy  2.3 Exogamy  Appendix: The Origins of T. Flavius Titianus  2.4 Dissolution of Marriage and Re-marriage  2.5 Roman Citizens and matrimonium iustum 3 Children  3.1 Freeborn Biological Children and the Problem of Legitimacy  3.2 Adopted Children  3.3 Other Children Raised in the Household (θρεπτός and Related Terms) 4 Property and Inheritance  4.1 Terminology and Phraseology Relating to Rights of Inheritance  4.2 Hereditary Tombs  4.3 Women and Property  Appendix 1: The Identity and Familial Stemma of Ktesikles alias Ktasadas  Appendix 2: The Family of Ptolemaios II, Grandson of Kolalemis Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisConnections between the Society of Jesus and astrology used to appear as unexpected at best. Astrology was never viewed favourably by the Church, especially in early modern times, and since Jesuits were strong defenders of Catholic orthodoxy, most historians assumed that their religious fervour would be matched by an equally strong rejection of astrology. This groundbreaking and compelling study brings to light new Jesuit scientific texts revealing a much more positive, practical, and nuanced attitude. What emerges forcefully is a totally new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education, highlighting the element that has been long overlooked: astrology.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Transcription and Citation Notes Astrological Symbols Introduction Part 1: Astrology in the Early Modern Era Introduction to Part 1 1 Early Modern Astrology: An Overview  1 The Practice of Astrology  2 A Changing Knowledge  3 Astrology in Print  4 Pico’s Critique 2 The Church and Astrology  1 A Clash of Doctrines  2 An Art Divided  3 The Regulation of Astrology 3 The Mathematization of Astrology 4 The Marginalization of Astrology  1 Astrology as Science  2 A Changed Knowledge Part 2: Jesuits and Astrology Introduction to Part 2 5 Jesuits against Astrology  1 Benito Pereira (1590)  2 Martín Del Rio (1599–1600)  3 Alessandro De Angelis (1615)  4 The Bibliotheca selecta (1593)  5 Later Examples  6 The Anti-astrological Discourse 6 Jesuits Accepting Astrology  1 Francisco Suárez on Astrology  2 Further Examples  3 Standing in Ambiguity 7 Astrology in Jesuit Science  1 The Ratio Studiorum, Mathematics and Astrology  2 Clavius and Astrology  3 Astrology in Jesuit Printed Works  4 Between Print and Manuscript  5 Astrology among Jesuit Scholars 8 Astrology as Cultural Currency: Jesuits in the East  1 China: New Astrology for an Old Empire  2 Notes on Japan and India  3 European Astrology in the East 9 Brave New World: Jesuits and Astrology in the Americas  1 Different Skies, Different Influences  2 Jesuits and Astrology under Southern Skies  3 Catholic Constellations: Astrology in Religious Discourse  4 Under New Skies Part 3: Jesuits Teaching Astrology Introduction to Part 3 10 The Aula da Esfera of Santo Antão  1 The Astrological Manuscripts and Their Authors  2 Other Astrological Texts  3 The Students of the Aula da Esfera  4 Astrology at the Aula da Esfera: A Timeline  5 The Example of the Aula da Esfera 11 Teaching Astrology  1 A Jesuit Astrological Programme?  2 Defending Astrology  3 The Astrological Syllabus  4 Gonzaga’s Baroque Astrology  5 A Jesuit Astrology? Part 4: Jesuit Astrologers Introduction to Part 4 12 Practicing Astrology  1 Judgements on Comets  2 An Astrological Report to the Court  3 The Calendar of Trnava  4 Nativities  5 Other Applications  6 The Practice in Perspective Final Thoughts Appendix 1: Bull Coeli et Terrae Appendix 2: Teachers of the Aula da Esfera Appendix 3: Jesuit Astrological Manuscripts Appendix 4: Documents Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEn Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez ofrece un estudio histórico y comparativo de corte trasatlántico sobre 48 cofradías de afrodescendientes del periodo colonial y del presente, localizadas en zonas geográficas clave de España, Perú, México y República Dominicana. ***** In Cofradías Afrohispánicas, Manuel Apodaca Valdez offers a historical and comparative trans-Atlantic study about 48 confraternities of African descendants of the colonial period and the present, which emerged in key geographical regions of Spain, Perú, México, and the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"This encyclopedic study of organizations led and founded by Africans and their descendants in the broader Ibero-American world starts with the medieval origins of these groups and carries their stories through to the present day. A timely, sweeping book which synthesizes decades of vibrant scholarship on African diaspora lives, cultures, and beliefs, this engaging work brings together many strands in an expansive geographic overview ranging from Spain to Peru. Readers seeking insights on the complex mesh of African and Catholic spirituality and practices will consult this book for years to come." — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University "Este estudio enciclopédico de organizaciones dirigidas y fundadas por africanos y sus descendientes en el mundo iberoamericano comienza con los orígenes medievales de estos grupos y lleva sus historias hasta la actualidad. Un libro oportuno y exhaustivo que sintetiza décadas de vibrantes estudios sobre las vidas, culturas y creencias de la diáspora africana, esta atractiva obra reúne muchas vertientes en un amplio panorama geográfico que va desde España hasta Perú. Los lectores que busquen información sobre el complejo entramado de la espiritualidad y las prácticas africanas y católicas consultarán este libro durante años". — Nicole von Germeten, Oregon State University “Cofradías Afrohispánicas is a solid, academic work, properly documented, aware of and interacting with recent scholarship, showing detailed knowledge of primary sources and demonstrating mastery of the subject. The author’s transhistorical approach is innovative. The study brings together geographies not normally considered alongside each other. Its contribution to the field of confraternal studies is to demonstrate the feasibility of a new approach and the rewards such an approach can yield.” — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. Louis "Cofradías Afrohispánicas es una obra sólida y académica, debidamente documentada, que está al tanto de investigaciones recientes e interactúa con ellas, mostrando un conocimiento detallado de las fuentes primarias y demostrando dominio del tema. El enfoque transhistórico del autor es innovador. El estudio reúne geografías que normalmente no se consideran juntas. Su contribución al campo de los estudios cofradieros es demostrar la viabilidad de un nuevo enfoque y las recompensas que tal enfoque puede producir." — Miguel A. Valerio, Washington University in St. LuisTable of ContentsAgradecimientos Lista de ilustraciones y cuadros Abreviaturas y siglas Introducción 1 Etnicidades en transformación: Diáspora y reencuentro  1 Por el reino de Kalunga: mercado esclavista hacia el Nuevo Mundo  2 Denominaciones: la mirada colonial  3 Cofradías y afrocastas  4 Cristianización y represión de las idolatrías  5 Reconfiguración de identidades  6 Raza, etnicidad e identidad cultural  7 Conclusiones 2 El barroco afrocatólico: Cofradías españolas, siglos XVI–XVII  1 Las cofradías étnicas. ópera crítica  2 Cofradía, fiesta y ritual: danzas, música y comparsas afrosevillanas del siglo XVII  3 Cofradías afrosevillanas  4 La Hermandad de los mulatos de Sevilla  5 Cofradía del rosario de morenos de Cádiz  6 Cofradías de negros y mulatos de Granada, siglo XVI  7 Conclusiones 3 Cofradías afroperuanas: Representaciones de raza, casta, nación e identidad cultural, siglos XVI y XVII  1 Primeras cofradías afroperuanas, siglo XVI  2 Cofradía, casta y diferencia racial  3 Cofradía y nación étnica, siglo XVI  4 Cofradía de los Reyes, de castas jolofe y bran  5 Cofradía de congos de la Virgen del Rosario, Convento de Santo Domingo, 1575–1813  6 Cofradía de San Bartolomé de negros de casta Loango  7 Cofradía de San Antón de morenos libres, Parroquia de San Marcelo, 1581  8 Integración y resistencia furtiva. Cofradías afroperuanas del siglo XVII  9 El barroco afroamericano y la fiesta del Corpus Christi en Cuzco y Lima  10 Conclusiones 4 Cofradías afromexicanas: Devoción barroca y resistencia furtiva, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Insurrecciones de esclavos, palenques y disolución de las cofradías de nación africana  2 Historia, cultura y vida cotidiana de las cofradías coloniales afromexicanas, siglos XVII–XVIII  3 San Benito de Palermo y sus cofradías  4 Cofradía de nuestra señora de las angustias de morenos criollos  5 De negros y mulatos a morenos y pardos: el caso de la Cofradía de la Preciosa Sangre de Cristo  6 Morenos y mulatos de la cofradía de San Nicolás de Tolentino y Monte Calvario  7 Economía de la fiesta patronal  8 Puebla de los Ángeles: cofradías de afrodescendientes y asiáticos en el siglo XVII  9 Afropoblanos libres en las cofradías  10 Los primeros chinos poblanos y su cofradía  11 Cofradía de Nuestra Señora de la Consolación de negros y mulatos, Templo de la Concordia  12 Bailes y ceremonias: de la censura a la transformación  13 Conclusiones 5 Cofradías afrodominicanas: Historia y religiosidad popular, siglos XVII y XVIII  1 Resistencia furtiva y criollización  2 Cofradías afrodominicanas del periodo colonial  3 Los negros criollos, la identidad y la cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 Cofradía de San Cosme y San Damián, los marasa, ibeji o mapasa  5 San Lorenzo de los Mina: refugio de cimarrones haitianos  6 Cofradías de Congos del Espíritu Santo  7 Conclusiones 6 El mito y la danza: Patrimonio intangible de las cofradías afrohispánicas contemporáneas  1 Cofradía de Congos del Espíritu Santo de Villa Mella  2 La Veintiuna División: una variante del VodoÚ de Haití  3 La Sarandunga de la Cofradía de San Juan Bautista  4 La Cofradía de los Negros de Sevilla: el presente blanco de un pasado negro  5 Danzas de Negritos, Panalivio y Marinera: música y bailes afroperuanos  6 Cofradías afroperuanas de Lima y Chincha  7 El Carmen, su cofradía y sus danzas  8 La Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros de Lima  9 Cofradía y celebración a San Nicolás de Tolentino en la Costa Chica mexicana 7 La cofradía afrohispánica como agencia de transformación cultural  1 Mayorales y mayordomos  2 Corporativismo, clase social y economía en las cofradías coloniales, 1767–1804  3 Una cofradía colonial en la Costa Chica de México  4 La cofradía afrohispánica: del presente al pasado y del pasado al presente  5 Reflexiones finales: Resistencia, identidad cultural, eurocentrismo y descolonización Apéndice: Transcripciones de archivo histórico Bibliografía Índice

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Book SynopsisHow did overseas Europeans participate in the two world wars’ effort? Which were the tensions around mobilization? How did the war affect their identity and their descendants? What were their mobilization’s effects on the relationship with the adopted homelands? These closely intertwined issues connect to the central argument of the book: war exerted a crucial influence on the configuration – and reconfiguration – of those European communities’ national or ethnic identities and made evident their transnational nature. Through different case studies, this volume approached the multi-faceted, complex, and fluid nature of immigrant collective identities under the pressures and challenges of total wars. Contributors are: Juan Pablo Artinian, Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz, Hernán M. Díaz, Norman Fraser Brown, Marcelo Huernos, Milagros Martínez-Flener, Norman Fraser Brown, Germán C. Friedmann, María Inés Tato, and Stefan Rinke. Transatlantic Battles: European Immigrant Communities in South America and the World Wars is now available in paperback for individual customers.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Tables Notes on Contributors Immigrants and World Wars in South America An Introduction  María Inés Tato 1 Fighting on the Home Front Mobilizing European Citizens for the First World War in Latin America  Stefan Rinke 2 The French in Buenos Aires during the First World War  Hernán M. Díaz 3 The Mobilization of the European Communities in Chile during the First World War  Juan Luis Carrellán Ruiz 4 The Austro-Hungarian Community in Chile during the First World War  Milagros Martínez-Flener 5 The Armenian Diaspora in Argentina Facing the First World War and the Postwar Genocide, Trauma, and Reconstruction  Juan Pablo Artinian 6 A Return of Military Migration: The Scots of the British Volunteers of Latin America, 1914–1918  Norman Fraser Brown 7 Europeans in Latin America and the Memory of the Great War  María Inés Tato 8 The German Speakers of Argentina in the 1930s and 1940s  Germán C. Friedmann 9 Disputes over Italianness Italian Immigration in Argentina in the Face of Fascism  Marcelo Huernos 10 Final Reflections  María Inés Tato Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Communes and Conflict, Jan Dumolyn and Jelle Haemers explore the urban rebellions that regularly erupted in Flanders between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. They analyse not only how these rebellions were sparked and repressed, but also how they shaped the culture and identity of Flemish townspeople. Drawing from a wide range of theoretical methods and concepts, including those of discourse analysis, semiotics, speech acts, collective memory and material cultural studies, the authors return to key Marxist questions on ideology, labour and class interest to map the perspectives of the rebels, the urban patriciate and the Flemish and Burgundian nobility.

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Book SynopsisThe Iberian world played a key role in the global trade of enslaved people from the 15th century onwards. Scholars of Iberian forms of slavery face challenges accessing the subjectivity of the enslaved, given the scarcity of autobiographical sources. This book offers a compelling example of innovative methodologies that draw on alternative archives and documents, such as inquisitorial and trial records, to examine enslaved individuals' and collective subjectivities under Iberian political dominion. It explores themes such as race, gender, labour, social mobility and emancipation, religion, and politics, shedding light on the lived experiences of those enslaved in the Iberian world from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. Contributors are: Magdalena Candioti, Robson Pedroso Costa, Rômulo da Silva Ehalt, James Fujitani, Michel Kabalan, Silvia Lara, Marta Macedo, Hebe Mattos, Michelle McKinley, Sophia Blea Nuñez, Fernanda Pinheiro, João José Reis, Patricia Faria de Souza, Lisa Surwillo, Miguel Valerio and Lisa Voigt.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Prologue: Understanding the Voice of the Enslaved in the Iberian World  João José Reis Introduction: Slave Subjectivities—Studying Absences?   ngela Barreto Xavier, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, and Michel Cahen Part 1: Slave Subjectivities in Asia 1 ‘Where All Yndios Are Free’  Identity, Resistance, and Dissonant Perceptions about the Enslavement of Japanese in the Iberian World (16th–17th Centuries)  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt 2 The Concubine Slaves of the Portuguese in the China Sea Region  James Fujitani 3 From Asia to Lisbon  Fragments of Lives and Subjectivities of the Enslaved (16th–17th Centuries)  Patricia Souza de Faria Part 2: Subjectivities in the Context of Labour and Religion 4 Work and Identity in the Case of Elena/o de Céspedes  Sophia Blea Nuñez 5 “Pública Notícia”  Black Brotherhoods and Corporate Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Brazil  Lisa Voigt 6 Creolizing Death  Afro-Catholic Deathways in the Early Modern Iberian World  Miguel A. Valerio 7 Black Masters  A Study on Slave-Owning Slaves, 1790–1850, Pernambuco, Brazil  Robson Pedrosa Costa 8 The Qurʾan in My Notebook  Slavery, Revolt and the Teaching of Arabic in the 1830s Bahia, Brazil  Michel Kabalan Part 3: Social Mobility and Emancipation 9 Central African Echoes in the Wilds of Pernambuco, Brazil, in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century)  Silvia Hunold Lara 10 Henrique Dias and the Portuguese Empire: Narrative, Subjectivity and Memory  Hebe Mattos 11 Against ‘Unjust Captivity’  Lisbon’s Brotherhoods of Black and ‘Pardo’ Men’s Litigious Action and the Struggle for the End of Slavery in the Kingdom of Portugal  Fernanda Domingos Pinheiro 12 Negotiating Emancipation and Social Mobility  Crosscrossed Biographies of Africans and Afrodescendants in the Río de la Plata (1810–1840)  Magdalena Candioti 13 Petitioning from the Body: Cuba and Spain in 1873  Lisa Surwillo 14 Displacement, Work and Confinement: Plantation Workers in São Tomé  Marta Macedo Postface: Enslavement, Race, Liberty and Emotion  Michelle A. McKinley Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only organizations, state institutions, and international and intellectual networks, and were active on the shopfloor. Rectifying geopolitical and thematic imbalances in labour and gender history, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars and students of women’s activism, social movements, political and intellectual history, and transnationalism. Contributors are: Eloisa Betti, Masha Bratishcheva, Jan A. Burek, Selin Çağatay, Daria Dyakonova, Mátyás Erdélyi, Dóra Fedeles-Czeferner, Eric Fure-Slocum, Alexandra Ghiț, Olga Gnydiuk, Maren Hachmeister, Veronika Helfert, Natalia Jarska, Marie Láníková, Ivelina Masheva, Jean-Pierre Liotard-Vogt, Denisa Nešťáková, Sophia Polek, Zhanna Popova, Büşra Satı, Masha Shpolberg, Georg Spitaler, Jelena Tešija, Eszter Varsa, Johanna Wolf and Susan Zimmermann.

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Book SynopsisFrom 1368 to 1953, China's administrative divisions were mainly composed of counties, prefectures, and provinces. This book shows the population figures, density, and changes in the provincial population in China during this period and population figures of each major city and town and its proportion in terms of the provincial population during this period―the urbanization rate. Data in this book is drawn partly from historical sources and partly from statistical-model-based calculations. The book also includes provincial population maps in 1393, and their original statistical models, population databases, and metadata.Table of ContentsList of Tables, Diagrams, and Maps 1 Introduction 2 Reinvestigating the Population of the Ming and Qing 3 Population of Prefectures in the Hongwu Period 4 The Military Population and the Population of National Minorities in the Ming Dynasty 5 The Population Growth and Distribution in the Ming Dynasty 6 The Rapid Population Decline between the Ming and Qing Dynasties 7 The Population of the Four Southern Provinces in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 8 The Population of the Prefectures in Sichuan Province in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 9 Population by Prefecture in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 10 The Impact of The Taiping War on the Population 11 The Urban Population in the Hongwu Period 12 The Urban Population in the Late Ming Dynasty 13 The Urban Population in Northern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 14 Urban Population in Southern China in the Mid-Qing Dynasty 15 Urban Population of Shandong Province at the End of the Qing Dynasty 16 Urban Population at the End of the Qing Dynasty, the Examples of Zhili and Henan 17 Conclusion Appendix 1: Population and Population Density of Regions in the Ming Dynasty Appendix 2: The Number of Li, the Population of Inner Cities and Fu Captials in 1393 (Hongwu’s 26th Year) Appendix 3: The Population of the County Headquarters (excluding Fucheng and Fuguo) and the Urbanization Rate of the Individual Fu in 1393 (Hongwu 26th Year) Appendix 4: Urban Population and Urbanization Rate of Individual Fu in 1580 (Wanli 8th Year) Appendix 5: Changes in the Population of the Individual Fu in the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties Appendix 6: Population of the Individual Fu from 1393 to 1953 Appendix 7: Population of Individual Fu from 1680 to 1953 Appendix 8: Population of Fu and Towns in the Qing Dynasty Glossary of Chinese Characters Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow can dispute records shed light on the study of dispute settlement processes and their social and political underpinnings? This volume addresses this question by investigating the interplay between record-making, disputing process, and the social and political contexts of conflicts. The authors make use of exceptionally rich charter materials from the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and Scandinavia, including different types of texts directly and indirectly related to conflicts, in order to contribute to a comparative survey of early medieval dispute records and to a better understanding of the interplay between judicial and other less formal modes of conflict resolution. Contributors are Isabel Alfonso, José M. Andrade, François Bougard, Warren C. Brown, Wendy Davies, Julio Escalona, Kim Esmark, Adam J. Kosto, Juan José Larrea, André Evangelista Marques, Josep M. Salrach, Igor Santos Salazar, and Francesca Tinti.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Isabel Alfonso, José Andrade and André Evangelista Marques Part 1 Surveying the Corpus of Iberian Dispute Records, 800–1100 1 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Galicia before the Year 1100  José M. Andrade 2 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in León before the Year 1100  Isabel Alfonso 3 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Castile before the Year 1100  Isabel Alfonso 4 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Navarre and Aragon before the Year 1100  Isabel Alfonso 5 Documentary Production and Dispute Records in Catalonia before the Year 1100  Josep M. Salrach 6 From Written Sources to Digital Tools: The PRJ Database of Iberian Judicial Records in Context  Francesca Tinti Part 2 Recording Disputes: The Textual Construction of Judicial Process 7 Disputing and Dispute Records in the Formulae Visigothicae  Warren C. Brown 8 Creating Records of Judicial Disputes in Northern Iberia before the Year 1000  Wendy Davies 9 Documentary and Procedural Engineering of Judicial Records in Italy (Ninth-Eleventh Centuries)  François Bougard 10 Cum suo scripto: Lay Deperdita and Ecclesiastical Memory in Dispute Records from Castile-Álava and Tuscany (Ninth-Tenth Centuries)  Igor Santos Salazar Part 3 Framing Disputes: Judicial Authorities and Social Order 11 Versatile Participants in Medieval Judicial Processes: Catalonia, 900–1100  Adam J. Kosto 12 Lines Traced on Mountains: Delimitations and Territorial Disputes in the Western Pyrenees between the Ninth and Eleventh Centuries  Juan José Larrea 13 One Monk, One Donkey, One Dead Man: Contexts for a Homicide in a Tenth-Century Sahagún Charter  Julio Escalona 14 Double Records: Officializing Dispute Settlement in Twelfth-Century Denmark  Kim Esmark Index

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Book SynopsisAlongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. All chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose they were written, how they reconstruct the past, or which literary influences are discernible in them. Their significance as sources for the study of history, literature, linguistics, and art is widely appreciated. The series The Medieval Chronicle, published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society (medievalchronicle.org), provides a representative survey of on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from a wide variety of countries, periods, and cultural backgrounds.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations List of Contributors 1 Nation–Power–Subjectivity: The Making of National Subjects in Bohemia and Brabant at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century  Éloïse Adde 2 A Medieval Search for the Historical Jesus? The Vita Christi in Ranulf Higden’s Latin Compilation and John Trevisa’s English Translation of the Polychronicon  Jane Beal 3 Fragments d’une chronique hébraïque provençale de la seconde moitié du treizième siècle  Abraham David 4 Violence and Monasticism in Two Aquitanian Chronicles  John France 5 Entre convergences et dissonances, le maître de Paris et d’Acre et l’Estoire d’Outremer  Kasser Helou 6 The Structural Character of East Slavic Historiography in Comparative Perspective  Jitka Komendová 7 ‘The Malicious Barking of Critics’: A Literary-Historical Approach to the topos of Anticipated Criticism  Justin Lake 8 The Creation of the Legend: The Pius Prince Dimitrij of Uglich  Victoria Legkikh 9 Mousket and ‘Mesire Ernous’ The Portrayal of Arnold IV of Oudenaarde (*c.1175–† 1242) in Philip Mousket’s Chronique rimée (c.1240) as a Means for a Better Understanding of the Chronicler’s Position and Motives  Robin Moens 10 Female Indoctrination through the Image: The Case of Crónica Geral de Espanha de 1344 (Ms. A 1, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)  María Pandiello 11 La ‘Matière de Troie’ dans les plus anciennes chroniques d’Europe Centrale  Adrien Quéret-Podesta 12 Martin of Opava and Dominican Understandings of Imperial Power in the Later Middle Ages  Elisabeth Rolston 13 Review Article: The Bergh Chronicle Manuscript: History of a Codex, a Codex Full of Histories  Jelmar Hugen and Anna de Bruyn Book Reviews Alison Lewin, Ed. and Trans., Bindino da Travale, Chronicle (1315–1416)  Paula Clarke Anne Curry and Rémy Ambühl, Eds., A Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M9  Edward Donald Kennedy John Scattergood with Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams, Trinity College Library Dublin: A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English  John Thompson

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Book Synopsis“Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move – often in large numbers – to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour”. This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour, working-class, and migration history by illuminating the lives of working people over the 19th and 20th centuries. The book's twenty authors discuss a wide range of topics, from capital investments in terms of the availability of low-wage labour and forced mobilization to gender discrimination. Contributors are: Selda Altan, Beate Althammer, Nina Trige Andersen, Cecilia Bruzelius, Geoffrey Ewen, Katharine Frederick, Veronika Helfert, Dirk Hoerder, Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal, Dácil Juif, Radhika Kanchana, Leslie Page Moch, Lukas Neissl, Christof Parnreiter, Lucas Poy, Richard Saich, Mahua Sarkar, Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Yukari Takai, and Aliki Vaxevanoglou.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-Wing Strategies   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl Part 1 Perspectives, Approaches, Frames 2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International Approaches   Dirk Hoerder 3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and Migration   Christof Parnreiter and Dirk Hoerder Part 2 Class/Classes: Formations, Outsourcing, Informalizing, Global Hierarchies 4 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 5 Outsourcing the Working Class Guestwork in Turbulent Times   Mahua Sarkar 6 Is There Informal Labour? The Concept, the ilo’s Ideology, and Greece as an Example   Aliki Vaxevanoglou 7 Utilizing Population Movements How States Use Emigration to Regulate National Economies   Cecilia Bruzelius 8 The Quest for Chinese Labour Colonial Competition for Coolies and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese Worker   Selda Altan 9 African Agency versus State and Capital Control Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960s   Dácil Juif Part 3 Empires and Labour Regimes – and “the Left” 10 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 11 Organizable and Unorganizable Migrants Racism and Internationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century Social Democracy   Lucas Poy 12 Labour Migration Regimes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation   Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Leslie Page Moch 13 Producing (Im-)mobile Capital and Labour in the Arab-Gulf Region From the British Empire to Independent States   Radhika Kanchana 14 The Making of a Neoliberal Labour Regime in California Immigration, American Empire, and Union Organizing in the 1980s and 1990s   Richard Saich Part 4 Regional Migration Patterns, Work Regimes, and Worker Agency 15 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 16 Foreign Polish Labour Migrants in the German Empire A Reassessment   Beate Althammer 17 Colonial Boom Towns Migration and Insecure Urban Tenure in Industrializing Southern Rhodesia   Katharine Frederick 18 “Ceylon for Sinhalese!” “Depression Politics” and Indian Migrants in Ceylon   Ritesh Kumar Jaiswal Part 5 Workingmen’s and -women’s Agency in Globally Interconnected Spaces 19 Introduction   Dirk Hoerder and Lukas Neissl 20 Between Migrants and States Japanese Entrepreneurs and Professionals in Two Port Cities in the Pacific World, 1880s to 1920s   Yukari Takai 21 Deterring Free and Deploying Interned Migrant Ukrainian Workers The Catholic Church, the Canadian State, and the Quebec Asbestos Strikes of 1915 and 1916   Geoffrey Ewen 22 A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally Migrant Women Workers, Trade Union Activists, and the Textile Industry, 1960s to 1980s   Veronika Helfert 23 Filipina Chambermaids in Denmark Organizing within and Outside the Copenhagen Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, 1960s to 1990s   Nina Trige Andersen Selective Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImagining Latinidad examines how Latin American migrants use technology for public engagement, social activism, and to build digital, diasporic communities. Thanks to platforms like Facebook and YouTube, immigrants from Latin America can stay in contact with the culture they left behind. Members of these groups share information related to their homeland through discussions of food, music, celebrations, and other cultural elements. Despite their physical distance, these diasporic virtual communities are not far removed from the struggles in their homelands, and migrant activists play a central role in shaping politics both in their home country and in their host country. Contributors are: Amanda Arrais, Karla Castillo Villapudua, David S. Dalton, Jason H. Dormady, Carmen Gabriela Febles, Álvaro González Alba, Yunuen Ysela Mandujano-Salazar, Anna Marta Marini, Diana Denisse Merchant Ley, Covadonga Lamar Prieto, María del Pilar Ramírez Gröbli, David Ramírez Plascencia, Jessica Retis, Nancy Rios-Contreras, and Patria Román-Velázquez. Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisAt its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Years’ War, on what resources they drew, and how they attempted to make sense of it. A rich tapestry of stories brings to light contemporaries’ trauma as well as women and men’s unrelenting initiatives to stem the war’s negative consequences. Through these close-ups, Sigrun Haude shows that experiences during the Thirty Years’ War were much more diverse and often more perplexing than a straightforward story line of violence and destruction can capture. Life during the Thirty Years’ War was not a homogenous vale of gloom and doom, but a multifaceted story that was often heartbreaking, yet, at times, also uplifting.Trade Review"Sigrun Haude's exciting new book revises our view of wartime experiences. Her meticulous archival research reveals a far broader range of reactions and coping strategies than previous histories have offered. Her sparkling prose vividly catches the dilemmas of life in a war-torn world but also uncovers surprisingly positive moments and unexpected decisions. Simply put, she sets a new standard for the historical understanding of war in early modern times." Professor Mary Lindemann, University of Miami "Haude's superb study expands our understanding of the Thirty Years War to include the full range of human experiences at the ground level. Her archivally rich analysis includes not just predictable accounts of human cruelty and suffering, but also of ingenuity and resilience. Her important findings challenge our most basic ideas about religious strife and coexistence during this especially violent phase of the early modern era." Professor Joel F. Harrington, Vanderbilt University "Sigrun Haude’s book takes us into the maelstrom of the Thirty Years War, Europe’s most destructive conflict prior to the twentieth century, and reveals through a gripping narrative how ordinary – and some not so ordinary – people faced death, violence, disease, fear and want, many with fatalistic resignation, but equally many others with pragmatism and ingenuity. From this we gain a more rounded and detailed understanding of the war’s impact, as well as the interaction between politics, military operations, and daily life." Professor Peter H. Wilson, University of Oxford "Sigrun Haude’s wide-ranging yet intimate study of the Thirty Years’ War broadens the focus beyond army camps, generals’ tents, and rulers’ palaces to encompass convents and monasteries, pest-houses, village churches, and urban workshops. Much that made the war so devastating will seem strikingly familiar, with fleeing migrants blamed for spreading disease and governments unable to relieve poverty and suffering, but so will the means women and men found to cope: conversation, community, music, shared food, family rituals." Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "Haude’s study transforms our understanding of everyday life during the Thirty Years’ War. Full of rich detail and powerful personal testimonies, it reveals the coping strategies – both practical and psychological – that seventeenth-century women and men adopted in the face of death and destruction. In asking how communities and individuals endured this most destructive of pre-modern European wars, Haude’s broad-ranging study opens up crucial new avenues of research." Bridget Margaret Heal, University of St AndrewsTable of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 Introduction: The Lay of the Land  1 Focus – Historiography – Methodology  2 The Thirty Years’ War, Abridged  3 Places and Characters 2 Experiences of War  1 Fear and Vulnerability  2 Instability and Disruption  3 Poverty – Hunger – Dearth  4 Violence and Human Concern: World Views Turned Upside Down 3 Governmental Support: Hopes, Measures, and Realities  1 Protection against Violence  2 Stemming Deprivation and Disease  3 Averting Spiritual Harm and Promoting a Decent Life 4 Coping with the Experiences of War  1 To Flee or Not to Flee  2 News and Information  3 Pragmatism, Resilience, and Initiative  4 Connections, Communities, and Space  5 Religion and Other Formative Forces  6 Lifting Up the Spirit 5 Conclusion: Life Beyond Devastation Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe essays assembled in this volume grew out of a conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. The goal of the conference was to examine the claim that the city-state of Hamburg had a unique status in the cultural landscape of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Germany, a status based upon the city’s republican political constitution. Hamburg’s independence and its tolerant and cosmopolitan political traditions made it a focal point for progressive cultural developments during the period of the Enlightenment and after. The contributions collected here transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by giving equal attention to literature, music, and theater, as well as to architecture and city planning. Key essays address the role that figures as diverse as C.P.E. Bach, Lessing, Klopstock, Heine, Brahms, and Thomas Mann played in shaping Hamburg’s exceptional quality as a center of culture. This volume will be of interest not only to scholars doing research on Hamburg, but also to anyone with an interest in the cultural history of eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century Germany.Trade Review"The scholarship is of high quality." – John Chaimov, in: Monatshefte, Vol. 97, No. 1 (2005) "…important collection of essays…" - in: Modern Language Review, 100.2 (2005), pp. 575-6 "…a most welcome addition…" - in: German History, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2005)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Peter Uwe HOHENDAHL: Introduction Mary LINDEMANN: Fundamental Values: Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg David YEARSLEY: The Musical Patriots of the Hamburg Opera: Mattheson, Keiser, and Masaniello furioso Herbert ROWLAND: The Journal Der Patriot and the Constitution of a Bourgeois Literary Public Sphere John A. McCARTHY: Lessing and the Project of a National Theater in Hamburg: “Ein Supplement der Gesetze” Meredith LEE: Klopstock as Hamburg’s Representative Poet Annette RICHARDS: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the Intimate Poetics of Public Music Julia BERGER: In the Valley of the Kings: Classicist Architecture in Hamburg, Altona and the Elbvororte (1790-1840) Jost HERMAND: The Jacobins of Hamburg and Altona Katherine B. AASLESTAD: Old Visions and New Vices: Republicanism and Civic Virtue in Hamburg’s Print Culture, 1790-1810 Bernd KORTLÄNDER: During the day a big accounting office and at night a huge bordello: Heine and Hamburg Celia APPLEGATE: Of Sailors’ Bars and Women’s Choirs: The Musical Worlds of Brahms’ Hamburg Hans Rudolf VAGET: The Discreet Charm of the Hanseatic Bourgeoisie. Geography, History, and Psychology in Thomas Mann’s Representations of Hamburg Jennifer JENKINS: Of Parks and Theaters: Conceptions of Urban Space in Fritz Schumacher’s Hamburg List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisCrossing borders – both physically and imaginatively – is part of our ‘nomadic’ postmodern identity, but transcultural and transnational exchanges have also played a major role in the centuries-long processes of hybridisation that helped to fashion the vast geographic, political and imaginative container of diversity we call Europe. This volume gathers together the work of scholars from several European countries in an attempt to encourage a collective reflection upon historical – and often ‘mythical’ – locations and landscapes, as well as upon the thresholds and faultlines that unite or separate them. The issues the volume tackles are delicate and complex, for the encounter of differences engenders both curiosity and suspicion and there is no easy way to create a new synthesis while respecting and promoting diversity. However, since Europe is inevitably a cultural and political entity ‘in the making’, Europeans should embrace the ‘great narrative’ of a ‘utopian project’, uniting their efforts to work towards a civilisation that is grounded on plurality and openness.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Maurizio ASCARI and Adriana CORRADO: Introduction 1. The Grand Tour and the Mediterranean Manfred PFISTER: Travelling in the Traces of…Italian Spaces and the Traces of the Other Edward CHANEY: Egypt in England and America: The Cultural Memorials of Religion, Royalty and Revolution Marino NIOLA: The Invention of the Mediterranean Alvio PATIERNO: Vesuvius for Everyone in 19th Century France Paola PAUMGARDHEN: Goethe and Von Archenholz in Naples in 1787: Views of the City between Myth and Reality Adriana CORRADO: Glances at Naples, Centre of Campania Felix: First Step towards a Complex Cultural Theme 2. Water and Cultural Memory David SKILTON: Water and Memory David SKILTON: Ruin and the Loss of Empire: From Venice and New Zealand to the Thames Eleonora FEDERICI: Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: Driving through Cities and Landscapes Franca Zanelli QUARANTINI: Water, Mourning and the Quest for Origin in Irène Némirovsky’s Works Olga BINCZYK: The Modern Voyage: In Search of Identity in the Light of Selected Works of English Writers of the 1930s 3. Literature and Cityscapes Monica SPIRIDON: The City of Texts Susan BASSNETT: Seismic Aftershocks: Responses to the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Katia PIZZI: Sites of Exchange and Topographies of Memory at the Northeastern Borders of Italy Monica SPIRIDON: Memories of a Post-Metropolis: “Torre e Tasso” across the Atlantic Peter VASSALLO: Valletta (meta)fictionalised historiographically in Thomas Pynchon’s V 4. Borders and Conflicts Maurizio ASCARI: Borders, Frontiers and Boundaries Maurizio ASCARI: Shifting Borders: The Lure of Italy and the Orient in the Writings of 18th and 19th Century British travellers Graham DAWSON: The ‘Ulster’-Irish Border, Protestant Imaginative Geography and Cultural Memory in the Irish Troubles Jola ŠKULJ: Cultural Spaces in Border Territories Paola VILLANI: The Redemption of the Siren Dianna PICKENS: Captive Naples Adriana CORRADO: Concluding Remarks Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisThe collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes – patterns of state formation, changing social structures – and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias’s notion of the ‘civilizing process’, the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of ‘civilization’ are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions – on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence – highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.Trade Review”….unique collection of essays” in: Germanic Studies Review, Vol. 31, No. 3Table of ContentsMary FULBROOK: Introduction: The Character and Limits of the Civilizing Process Sebastian COXON: Laughter and the Process of Civilization in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Geraldine HORAN: (Un-)Civilized Language: The Regulation of Cursing and Swearing in German through the Ages Martin SWALES: Civilization, Un-Civilization, Transgression: On Goethe’s Faust Susanne KORD: The Pre-Colonial Imagination: Race and Revolution in Literature of the Napoleonic Period Mark HEWITSON: Violence and Civilization: Transgression in Modern Wars Ernest SCHONFIELD: Civilization in the Dining Room: Table Manners in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks Maiken UMBACH: The Civilizing Process and the Construction of the Bourgeois Self: Music Chambers in Wilhelmine Germany Stephanie BIRD: Norbert Elias, the Confusions of Törleß and the Ethics of Shamelessness Mererid Puw DAVIES: Bodily Issues: The West German Anti-Authoritarian Movement and the Semiotics of Dirt Mary FULBROOK: Changing States, Changing Selves: Generations in the Third Reich and the GDR

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Book SynopsisJohn Wesley’s Primitive Physic (1747) achieved twenty-three editions in his lifetime, ensuring its popular – and controversial – status in eighteenth-century medicine. This is the first full-length study to examine the theological, intellectual and cultural background to one of the period’s most successful medical texts. By exploring Wesley’s work in the context of his theology, ‘A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine’ extends the on-going reconfiguration of the relationship between religion and medicine.Trade Review"An interesting sidelight into a rarely studied aspect of Wesley’s make up." – in: SciTech Book News, June 2008 "A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine does a nice job in capturing the whole of Wesley’s thought—not only the theological but the medicinal…. I am reminded of just how closely Wesley and the early Methodists viewed the relationship between spiritual and physical well being. I am grateful to Deborah Madden’s engaging work for helping me see this connection more clearly." – in: Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 63/4 (October 2008) "Deborah Madden’s A Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine is a valuable addition to The Wellcome Series in the History of Medicine, as it is the first book-length, scholarly study devoted to providing a range of detailed biographical and cultural contexts for comprehending the significance of Wesley’s medical manual. [A] useful study that will be of interest to anyone concerned with the inter-relationship between religion and medicine in the period." – in: Social History of Medicine, June 2009 "In an impressive monograph, notable for the thoroughness with which most of the recent secondary literature has been assimilated, Deborah Madden offers a systematic study of Wesley’s motivation and its grounding in his primitive Christianity… one of the real strengths of Madden’s analysis is her identification of the several levels at which Wesley’s eclectic theology did shape his medical priorities… she is surely correct, in principle, to say that […] Wesley’s eyes were focused on the natural, not the supernatural." – in: Medical History 53/4 (2009), 618-619Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements PART I: THE MEDICAL HOLISM OF PRIMITIVE PHYSIC 1 Introduction: Primitive Physic Explain’d in an Easy and Natural Method 2 John Wesley’s Hermeneutics of Primitive Christianity and Practical Piety 3 Experience and the Common Interest of Mankind: Physic, an Art or Science in Eighteenth-Century England? 4 Preserving Health, or a Few Plain and Easy Rules PART II: PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: ‘A COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS’ 5 Primitive Physic: Cheap, Safe and Natural Medicine for Health and Long Life 6 Conclusion: The Search for Pristine Purity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is dedicated to the study of artistic and historical documents that recall German left-wing terrorism in the 1970s. It is intended to contribute to a better understanding of this violent epoch in Germany’s recent past and the many ways it is remembered. The cultural memory of the RAF past is a useful device to disentangle the complex relationship between terror and the arts. This bond has become a particularly pressing matter in an era of a new, so-called global terrorism when the culture industry is obviously fascinated with terror. Fourteen scholars of visual cultures and contemporary literature offer in-depth investigations into the artistic process of engaging with West Germany’s era of political violence in the 1970s. The assessments are framed by two essays from historians: one looks back at the previously ignored anti-Semitic context of 1970s terrorism, the other offers a thought-provoking epilogue on the extension of the so-called Stammheim syndrome to the debate on the treatment of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. The contributions on cultural memory argue that any future memory of German left-wing terrorism will need to acknowledge the inseparable bond between terror and the artistic response it produces.Trade Review"[…] a very fine collection of thoughtful essays. It raises important issues as it examines the shadow of terrorism in the visual arts, literature, and film. […] insightful volume on cultural memory and the RAF." – in: The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture (30 November 2009), pp. 261-4 "This book laudably brings to an Anglophone audience little-known and pertinent material on the international hot issues of how to understand terrorists […]." – in: Forum for Modern Language Studies 46 (2010), 1 "[…] the volume works well as an extensive, up-to-date overview of the RAF’s cultural posterity and criticism on it, and in suggesting how to read them. As such, this publication will be very welcome to students, researchers, and other readers." – in: Modern Language Review 105 (2010), 2Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Gerrit-Jan BERENDSE and Ingo CORNILS: Introduction: The Long Shadow of Terrorism Prologue Gerd KOENEN: Armed Innocence, or ‘Hitler’s Children’ Revisited Depicting Dead Terrorists Eric KLIGERMAN: Transgenerational Hauntings: Screening the Holocaust in Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977 Paintings Carrie COLLENBERG: Dead Holger Sarah COLVIN: Ulrike Marie Meinhof as Woman and Terrorist: Cultural Discourses of Violence and Virtue Literary Representations Sabine von DIRKE: The RAF as Trauma and Pop Icon in Literature since the 1980s Charity SCRIBNER: Engendering the Subject of Terror: Friedrich Christian Delius and Friedrich Dürrenmatt in the Mid-1980s Ingo CORNILS: Joined at the Hip? The Representation of the German Student Movement and Left-Wing Terrorism in Recent Literature Sven KRAMER: Christian Geissler: Critical Companion of the Left Gerrit-Jan BERENDSE: Shakespeare’s Children in Dialogue: Erich Fried and Heiner Müller Birgit HAAS: Terrorism and Theatre in Germany Cinematic Imageries Julian PREECE: Reinscribing the German Autumn: Heinrich Breloer’s Todesspiel and the Two Clusters of German ‘Terrorist’ Films Chris HOMEWOOD: Making Invisible Memory Visible: Communicative Memory and Taboo in Andres Veiel’s Black Box BRD Annette VOWINCKEL: Skyjacking: Cultural Memory and the Movies Gabriele MUELLER: Imagining the RAF from an East German Perspective: Carow’s Vater, Mutter, Mörderkind and Dresen’s Raus aus der Haut Ewout van der KNAAP: The New Executioners’ Arrival: German Left-Wing Terrorism and the Memory of the Holocaust Epilogue Jeremy VARON: Stammheim Forever and the Ghosts of Guantánamo: Cultural Memory and the Politics of Incarceration Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Photographic Credits Index

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Book SynopsisExile Cultures, Misplaced Identities takes a transnational and transcultural approach to exile and its capacities to alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world. The edited collection brings together researchers on exile in international perspective from three continents who explore questions of exilic identity along multiple geopolitical and cultural axes—Cuba, the USA and Australia; Colombia and the USA; Algeria and France; Italy, France and Mexico; non-Han minorities and Han majorities in China; China, Tibet and India; Japan and China; New Caledonia, Vietnam and France; Hungary, the USSR, and Australia; and Germany, before and after unification. The international and crosscultural span of this collection represents an important addition to the fields of exile criticism and cultural identity studies. Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities will be of interest to readers, scholars and students of exile, diasporic and transmigration studies, international studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, language studies, and comparative literary studies.Trade Review"A highly recommended collection that aims to “alter the ways we think about place and identity in the contemporary world.”" – in: U 7 (10 August 2008) "This collection of diverse accounts on how exile is experienced and expressed across the globe promotes interdisciplinary discussion, which should be of interest to scholars in history, sociology, cultural and literary studies, as well as artists, writers and activists outside the academic sphere." – in: Transnational Literature 2 (1 November 2009)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Paul ALLATSON and Jo MCCORMACK: Introduction Susette COOKE: Becoming and Unbecoming Tu: Nation, Nationality and Exilic Agency in the People’s Republic of China David S.G. GOODMAN: Exile as Nationality: The Salar of Northwest China Obododimma OHA: Language, Exile, and the Burden of Undecidable Citizenship: Tenzin Tsundue and the Tibetan Experience Rowena WARD: Returning from Exile: The Japanese Citizens from the Former Manchuria Jo MCCORMACK: Memory and Exile: Contemporary France and the Algerian War (1954-1962) Ana DE MEDEIROS: The Language of Exile: Haunting Desires in Djebar’s La Disparition de la langue française Tess DO: Exile: Rupture and Continuity in Jean Vanmai’s Chân Dang and Fils de Chân Dang Yixu LÜ: Exiled in the Homeland: Heiner Müller’s Medea Sue HAJDÚ: Acceptance: on 1956: Desire and the Unknowable Maja MIKULA: Displacement and Shifting Geographies in the Noir Fiction of Cesare Battisti Jeff BROWITT: “En híbrida mezcolanza” : Exile and Anxiety in Alirio Díaz Guerra’s Lucas Guevara Olga LORENZO: Shame, Nostalgia and Cuban American Cultural Identity in Fiction: “la cubana arrepentida” Marivic WYNDHAM: Dying in the New Country Devleena GHOSH: Coda: Eleven Stars Over the Last Moments of Andalusia About the Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the late 19th century onwards Paris had been a congenial locus for bohemian life. By 1920 Montparnasse had superseded Montmartre as the intellectual and artistic heart of the city, inaugurating a decade of unequalled creative achievement and innovative self-performance. These were the years of the ‘Roaring Twenties’ or années folles. “Paris” – as Gertrude Stein famously remarked – “was where the twentieth century was”. The Rive Gauche offered a carnivalesque atmosphere of liberality, where the manifold experiments of the avant-garde could breathe freely. This volume attempts to do justice to the polyphony of voices and points up the synergies that existed between the creative activities of writers, painters, publishers, photographers and film-makers. The contributors adopt interdisciplinary approaches, casting new light on the rich and diverse artistic world of Paris in the twenties as presented in lesser known works by French artists, English and American expatriates, but also Belgian, Dutch, German, Polish or South American avant-gardists. The collection thus gives the reader a fascinating insight into artistic productions which have hitherto received comparatively little critical attention.Table of ContentsElke Mettinger, Margarete Rubik and Jörg Türschmann: Introduction Dieter Fuchs: Judgements of Paris and Falling Troy – The French Metropolis as a Site of Cultural Archaeology in James Joyce’s Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Babylon Revisited” Elke Mettinger: Midwives to Modernism: Three Women’s Contributions to the Making of the Avant-Garde Margarete Rubik: Jean Rhys’s Vision of the Left Bank Eva Müller-Zettelmann and Rudolf Weiss: “La vie toute faite des morceaux”: Intermediality and Impressionism in Jean Rhys’s Quartet Elke Frietsch: The Surrealist Artist is Strolling around with the Little Puppy-Dog Sigmund Freud at his Heels: Perceptions of Space, the Subconscious and Gender Codifications in 1920s Paris Petra Löffler: Picturing the Metropolis: Paris in the Eye of the Camera Birgit Wagner: Topography of a City of Differences: René Crevel’s La Mort difficile (1926) Sylvia Schreiber: The Pull of the Metropolis: The Années folles from a Belgian Perspective, or the Paris of Maigret Manuel Chemineau: “Black Paris” in the 1920s and René Maran’s Novel Batouala Friedrich Frosch: Americans in Paris: Huidobro. Girondo. Tarsiwald. Vallejo Martina Stemberger: The Plague in Paris or Burning Cities: Bruno Jasieński versus Paul Morand Jörg Türschmann: Claire Goll: Eine Deutsche in Paris (Une Allemande à Paris) Herbert Van Uffelen: Studies in buitenkant – Studies in Surroundings: Edgar Du Perron and the Modernists Bettina Thurner: “It is evil; it is beautiful; it is fascinating; it is bewildering”: Thomas Wolfe’s Paris of the 1920s Astrid M. Fellner: “At Last Lost in Paris”: A Canadian View on the Avant-Garde Paris of the 1920s

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Book SynopsisNiklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems is one of the most ambitious attempts to create a coherent account of global modernity. Primarily interested in the fundamental structures of modern society, however, Luhmann himself paid relatively little attention to regional variations. The aim of this book is to seek out modernity in one particular location: The United States of America. Gathering essays from a group of cultural and literary scholars, sociologists, and philosophers, Addressing Modernity reassesses the claims of American exceptionalism by setting them in the context of Luhmann’s conception of modernity, and explores how social systems theory can generate new perspectives on what has often been described as the first thoroughly modern nation. As a study of American society and culture from a Luhmannian vantage point, the book is of interest to scholars from both American Studies and social systems theory in general.Trade Review“[…] Addressing Modernity delivers ample proof that systems theory is a potent but still underrated contender in the theoretical repertoire of American Studies. The editors have initiated a transatlantic dialogue among Americanists that promises to open up fertile ground for further reflection and discussion.” - Alexander Starre, Berlin, in: Amerikastudien / America Studies 59.1 (2014)Table of ContentsHannes Bergthaller and Carsten Schinko: Introduction: From National Cultures to the Semantics of Modern Society Literary Observations Martin Klepper: The Emergence of Literature as Art and the Refinement of Literary Perspective Christoph Reinfandt: Reading the Waste Land: Textuality, Mediality, Modernity Edgar Landgraf: Black Boxes and White Noise. Don DeLillo and the Reality of Literature Systemic (Dis-)Closures Hans-Georg Moeller: Who is Afraid of Arnold Schwarzenegger? Absurd Democracy in the United States Michael Boyden: The Semantics of Self-Denial: The New American Studies through the Lens of Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory Urs Staeheli: Nation of Speculation: The Construction of a Financial Public in 19th Century America Semantics of Individualism Gert Verschraegen: Institutionalised Individualism. Parsons and Luhmann on American Society Rodrigo Jokisch: Why Did Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory Find So Little Resonance in the United States of America? Ulrich Brinkmann: Drawing out the Reader: Tourism, Literature, Individuality American Holographics Bruce Clarke: Steps to an Ecology of Systems: Whole Earth and Systemic Holism Andrew McMurry: The System in the Garden: American Studies and Functional Differentiation Joseph Tabbi: World-Systems Colliding: Thomas Pynchon and Niklas Luhmann Carsten Schinko: Conclusion: Luhmann, Literature, and American Multiculturalism

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Book SynopsisNorthern Europe and North America have dominated the world stage for more than two centuries. Using a wide range of sources, this book provides the first coherent account from a multi-national perspective of the ideas and perceptions that, from the Renaissance onwards, fuelled the North’s rise to prominence, and enabled it to rival the traditional cultural and political hegemony of the South. This includes not only the fascinating conquest of the polar regions, but also the religious upheaval of the Reformation, the changing view of nature engendered by Romanticism, and, not least, the revival of ancient Nordic and Celtic culture. Finally, the book offers an indispensable historical background to current events in the Far North, where the past and the future meet in a complex web of dramatic environmental concerns, the exploitation of natural resources, and the strategies of politics and commerce.Trade Review“Fjågesund has created a reference book which has earned a place as a standard work for the cultural and social sciences with a northern focus. It is highly recommended especially for Scandinavian Studies institutions.” – Nikolas Sellheim (University of Lapland), in Polar Record (2014), pp. Full text available: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=6&fid=9418578&jid=POL&volumeId=-1&issueId=-1&aid=9418577&fulltextType=BR&fileId=S003224741400076X “Every few years, a book comes out which offers -- or purports to offer -- a sweeping overview of the history of Arctic exploration and its historical significance. […]Peter Fjågesund manages this feat, and several others along the way: unlike other recent cultural histories, which -- rejecting the old grand narratives -- have cobbled together in their place a rather lumpy "new North" out of Scandinavian mythology, wandering antiquarians, and stuffed polar bears, Fjågesund is not afraid of large-scale synthesis and broad intellectual history. […]It would be impossible to summarize his entire argument; I can only urge anyone in search of a bolder and more historically sweeping view of the idea of the "North" to read this book.” – Russell A. Potter, in The Arctic Book Review August (2014) Full tekst available: http://arcticbookreview.blogspot.no/2014/08/the-dream-of-north.htmlTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Finding a Footing: The North before 1700 Chapter 2: Preparing for Take-Off :The Early Eighteenth Century Chapter 3: The Great Watershed: 1750–1790 Chapter 4: Fastening the Grip: 1790–1830 Chapter 5: The Northern Heyday: 1830–1880 Chapter 6: The Closing Circle: 1880–1920 Postscript Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first interdisciplinary study of the representation of dogs in Russian discourse since the nineteenth century. Focusing on the correlation between humans and dogs in traditional belief systems, in literature, film and other cultural productions, it shows that the dog as a political construct incorporates various contradictions, with different representations investing the dog with multiple, often-paradoxical meanings – moral, social and philosophical. From the peasantry’s dislike of the gentry’s hunting dogs and children’s cruelty to dogs in Pushkin and Dostoevsky to the establishment of the Soviet dynasties of border guard and police dogs, from Pavlov’s laboratory dogs to the monuments to the cosmic dog Laika and the subversive dog impersonations by the contemporary performance artist Oleg Kulik, the book explores the intersections of species-class-gender-sexuality-race-disability and, paradoxically, of Arcadian and Utopian dreams and scientific deeds. This study contributes to the unfolding cultural history of human-animal relations across cultures.Trade Review“This study is provocative, as it should be given the transgressive nature of animal studies and the range of material addressed. It will especially reward readers who are interested in cultural studies, Russian literature and history, and animal studies.” – Ian Helfant, Colgate University, USA, in: Slavic Review 75.1 (2016) “[...] this book is an illuminating investigation of an important aspect of Russian culture, providing thought-provoking hermeneutic studies and showing up striking continuities.” – Kevin Windle, Australian National University, in: The Russian Review Spring 2016, pp.150-151 “Henrietta Mondry’s book is obviously a labour of love. She has done a tremendous amount of research, as is reflected in her analyses, footnotes and bibliography. […] The territory explored includes, among others, pagan and Christian beliefs about dogs; information about attitudes toward dogs and other animals in Russian and other cultures; approaches to the role of dogs in Russian literature and culture, primarily nineteenth and twentieth century, although there is some discussion of pre-nineteenth-century (the dog heads on the saddles of Ivan the Terrible’s oprichniki, and Krylov, for example) and twenty-first century images; Buddhism; antisemitism; children’s literature; animal training practices; conjectures about the link of some of the material discussed to Nikolai Fedorov’s ideas; Pavlov’s experiments on dogs; statues in honour of Laika, the first dog in space; and science fiction. Specific works discussed include those by obscure writers and those of well-known writers such as Gogol´, Turgenev, Dostoevskii, Chekhov, Remizov, Maiakovskii, Zamiatin, Bulgakov, Shalamov, Vladimov and Pelevin.” - Ellen Chances, Princeton University, in: SEER 94.2 (2016), pp. 330-331 "With the daring assertion that the dog outranks the bear as Russia’s primary symbolic animal, Henrietta Mondry opens this intriguing study of canine symbolism since the early nineteenth century. By unpacking the dog’s changing roles (primarily in literary fiction, but also in cinema), she reveals both historical shifts in the treatment of animals and cultural tensions sublimated in furry form. In literalizing the literary ‘underdog’, Mondry draws on an entire subculture of scholarship, from studies of animal rights and ‘speciesism’ by John Simons and Peter Singer to specifically Russian essays by Amy Nelson, Jane Costlow, and others." - Muireann Maguire, University of Exeter, in: Modern Language Review 111.4 (2016), pp. 1165-66 “L’ouvrage [...] représente une contribution non négligeable á une vaste entreprise comparative qui ne fait que débuter, sur la place des anumaux et tout particuliérement du chien dans les pratiques et les représentations des différentes sociétés et cultures humaines.” – Jean-Pierre Digard, in: L’homme, vol. 217 (2016), pp.172-174

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