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John Wiley & Sons The Conquest of Texas Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land 18201875
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University of Minnesota Press A Short History of Indians in Canada
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ME - Fordham University Press An Ethics of Betrayal
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InterVarsity Press Unsettling Truths
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Rizzoli International Publications Brand New
Book SynopsisAn eye-opening book about the 1980s New York art scene, its far-reaching effects on contemporary art, and the rise of some of the biggest names in the art world today. This groundbreaking book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Hirshhorn, tells the story of the evolution of New York’s downtown art scene in the 1980s—from a DIY counterculture in the East Village to a legitimate gallery business in SoHo. Coinciding with the rise of modern branding and the onset of the information age, artists’ focus on commodities and consumerism began as satire but came to be much more complex: commodities and associated phenomena, such as advertising, now served as vessels for ideas, politics, and personal relationships in “brand-new” types of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance. In a book full of visual surprises, newly commissioned essays shed new light on this pivotal period: curator Gianni Jetzer provides a compre
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The Merlin Press Ltd History of the Chartist Movement 18371854
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The Merlin Press Ltd From Sharpville to Rivonia
Book Synopsis1959 was the year James Currey arrived in South Africa and found a nation in crisis. Hopes of change rose and foundered over the next five years. Letters and vivid conversations capture the excitement of daily life and political drama.
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The Merlin Press Ltd The Politics of Solidarity
Book SynopsisThe First International was founded with high ideals: every individual or society joining it, will recognise morality, justice and truth as the basis of their conduct toward to all men, without distinction of nationality, creed, or colour.'
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The Merlin Press Ltd Openings and Closures
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Austerity Motoring 19391950 Shire Library No 183
Book SynopsisAs Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, so too it entered the bleakest period in the history of its motor car. The 1940s was a time of war, deprivation and austerity, and, for almost a decade, car development stood still. Wartime motorists faced petrol and tyre rationing, the hazards of the blackout and restricted areas.Table of ContentsWartime motoring; Peacetime austerity, 1945-47; The 1948 Motor Show; The beginning of the end; Further reading; Places to visit
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. We the People Monthly Review Press Classic Titles
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Batsford Ltd Princess Elizabeths Wedding Day
Book SynopsisWe are honoured to announce the re-release of the first ever Pitkin title, published by Mr Pitkin in 1947 to celebrate the magical wedding day of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947.
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Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Mithras to Mormon
Book SynopsisWhen the Romans settled in Britain in 43CE they could hardly have imagined that the small agricultural settlement of Londinium would become one of the biggest cities in the world. This book charts the progress of 2000yrs of worship in London, from small buildings like the Mithraeum to cathedrals, synagogues, churches, mosques + temples seen today.Table of ContentsRoman London, The Coming of Christianity, The Norman Invasion, The Jewish Community, The Reformation, Plague and Fire, Victorian London, London in Two World Wars, A Multi-cultural Capital, London's Future
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Oldcastle Books Ltd House in the Country
Book SynopsisFor nearly 150 years living in a house in the country has been what many of us aspire to. This book explores how this idea was imported from the US by Ebenezer Howard, founder of the garden city movement, the impact it has had in the UK and why, on cost and environmental grounds, it's time to move on from this approach....Trade ReviewThe convincing case for why our future is urban -- Danny DorlingHow do you persuade buyers your new development isn't really in a city? Call it a 'garden suburb' or a 'garden city'. Anyone curious about the origin of those two strange oxymorons can learn much from Simon Matthews's House in the Country, a history of British town planning over the past two centuries * Telegraph *In the light of the government's recent proposal of a 'benefits to bricks' scheme to 'reinvigorate the council housing Right to Buy programme', House in the Country is timely, offering a decent primer on how we've ended up where we are when it comes to housing * Spectator *Anyone interested in the challenges of housing policy will want to read this methodical analysis of what went well and what did not over much of the last century -- Lord Heseltine
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social and Economic Life in Byzantium Variorum
Book SynopsisSocial and Economic Life in Byzantium is the third selection of papers by the late Nicolas Oikonomides to be published in the Variorum Collected Studies Series; a fourth, Society, Culture and Politics in Byzantium, will follow in 2005. The present volume is centred upon the period from the 9th to the 11th century, and a series of examinations into the society and economic activity of the Byzantine world. Other groups of studies investigate relations between state and church, monasteries in particular, aspects of the history of the Slavs in the Balkans, and topics in Byzantine epigraphy.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction, Michael McCormick; Church and State: Tax exemptions for the secular clergy under Basil II; La brebis égarée et retrouvée: l'apostat et son retour; The first century of the Monastery of Hosios Loukas; Le bateau de Chilandar; O Athos kai to Stouditikou protypo koinobiou; To dikastiko pronomio tes Neas Mones Chiou; The monastery of Patmos in the 11th and 12th Centuries and its economic functions. Society and Economy: Silk trade and production in Byzantium from the 6th to the 9th century: the seals of kommerkiarioi; De l'impôt de distribution à l'impôt de quotité: à propos du premier cadastre byzantin (7e-9e siècle); Middle-Byzantine provincial recruits: salary and armament; Terres du fisc et revenu de la terre aux Xe-XIe siècles; Le marchand byzantin des provinces (IXe-XIe s.); The economic region of Constantinople: from directed economy to free economy, and the role of the Italians; Se poio bathmo etan ekchrematismene e mesobyzantine oikonomia?; The Jews of Chios (1049): a group of excusati; The social structure of the Byzantine countryside in the first half of the 10th century; Title and income at the Byzantine court; To oplo tou chrematos; Il livello economico di Creta negli anni intorno al 1204; Liens de vassalité dans un apanage byzantin du XIIe siècle; Life and society in 11th-century Constantinople; The contents of the Byzantine house from the 11th to the 15th century. The Balkans and the Slavs: The medieval Via Egnatia; St Andrew, Joseph the Hymnographer and the Slavs of Patras; A propos de la première occupation byzantine de la Bulgarie (971-ca 986); A note on the campaign of Staurakios in the Peloponnese (783/84). Epigraphy: Pour une nouvelle lecture des inscriptions de Skripou en Béotie; L'épigraphie des bulles de plomb byzantines; Le tour du grand chartulaire Lapardas à Thessalonique; Index.
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Floris Books A Portrait of Camphill From Founding Seed to
Book SynopsisA joyful celebration in pictures and words of the story of Camphill.Trade Review'It brings the reader right up to date, exploring today's Camphill communities all around the world. With over 200 photographs, this is a book filled with pitcures, ideas, memories and stories that honour the past and look to the future, celebrating the story of Camphill.'-- Camphill Pages
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Saqi Books I Put a Spell on You
Book SynopsisThis history of dancing is rich with fascinating anecdotes (like the New Jersey girl arrested for dancing the Turkey Trot on her lunch hour) and astonishing facts (the first geisha were men), as well as tender portrayals of dancers whose stage antics have earned them lasting fame.Trade Review'MUST READ - read this and strut your stuff.' Tatler 'Buonaventura's theatrical flourish never deserts her. The breadth of her knowledge is apparent in every gem of an anecdote.' Daily Telegraph 'Fascinating.' The Big Issue 'Brilliantly researched and utterly absorbing.' Venue 'Truly fascinating ... this is a riveting read even for newcomers to dance.' Decode 'Dancing is sexy and subversive. If you can't get onto a dance floor, read Buonaventura's book, which is the next best thing.' Joan Smith 'Engaging and informative and deliciously opinionated. The most enjoyable dance lesson Wendy Buonaventura's readers will ever have had.' Irma Kurtz
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Rivers Oram Press Feminist Forerunners New Womanism and Feminism in
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Rivers Oram Press From the Closet to the Screen Women at the
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New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd Lost Communities Living Memories Remembering Forced Removals in Cape Town
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New Africa Books (Pty) Ltd The invention of a Nation Zionist Thought and the
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MP-NEV University of Nevada Women Of The Apache NationVoices Of Truth New Ed
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University of New Hampshire Press The Eastern Frontier Settlement of Northern New England 16101763
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Anthroposophic Press Inc Towards Imagination
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University of Regina Press Challenge to Civilization
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Holo Books The Arbitration Press A Miscellany of Disputes
Book SynopsisWhile there have been innumerable collections of humour in the courts, this is an anthology of over 80 stories about disputes resolved without the aid of litigation. It reveals rich sources from old and new China, ancient Greece, Rome and medieval England, as well as Shakespeare and Chaucer.Table of ContentsWithout the law; a family affair; gods, goddesses and heroes; women and arbitration; the sorrows and rewards of the arbitrator; unhappy parties; language traps; umpires; arbitration on the stage.
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Myriad Editions The World Atlas of Sport
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Qwerty Publishers Six Million Crucifixions How Christian Teachings About Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust
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Overlapse The Longest Way Round
Book SynopsisA visual investigation of the author's family history, The Longest Way Round is a construct of historical images woven together with new photographs. Uncovering a treasure trove of archive material not intended for the family album, Dorley-Brown's book presents a multi-layered alternative narrative for the course of events that shaped the late 20th century. Two Londoners born in 1920 embark on a series of journeys shaped by war, romance, and subsequent settlement in a seaside paradise. Unable and unwilling to recall their most traumatic experiences for their five children, a box of photographs, film negatives and letters was bequeathed to the youngest child ? a photographer. He attempts to form a new narrative with the archive, integrating his own pictures made in the UK and on travels through Europe that follow in the footsteps of his mother and father. During World War II Dorley-Brown's parents Peter and Brenda were not yet married, but had known each other as childhood friends. A
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Redstone Press The Book of Emotions
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Hassell Street Press Pier Luigi Nervi
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LEGARE STREET PR Our Wild Indians
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Legare Street Press Geschichte der Juden in Wien 11561876.
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Headline Publishing Group A Brief History of the End of the Fcking World
Book Synopsis''Superb ... entertaining ... Phillips traverses this sprawling terrain with energy and charm'' Telegraph''Exceptionally funny from cover to cover, it is not only an entertaining read but also deeply researched and thoughtful'' Irish Independent''Fans of Phillips''s earlier books Humans and Truth will be pleased that the ex-BuzzFeed editor is on form, not letting the grimness of his subject spoil his gagsmithery'' Guardian''A great read ... [Phillips] fills his timeline of unfilled apocalypses with wry humour'' New ScientistDo you feel like we''re living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here''s a small comfort: you''re not the first to feel that way. If there''s one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it''s that history wasn''t going to be around for much longer.This book is about the apocalypse, and how humans have always believed it to be very f*cking nigh. Across thousands of years, we''ll meet weird cults, failed prophets and mass panics, holy warriors leading revolts in anticipation of the last days, and suburbanites waiting for aliens to rescue them from a doomed Earth. We''ll journey back to the ''worst period to be alive'', as the world reeled from a simultaneous pandemic and climate crisis. And we''ll look to the future to ask the unnerving question: how might it all end?But it''s also a book about how we live in a world where catastrophe is always looming - whether it''s a madman with a nuclear button or the slow burn of environmental collapse. Because when we talk about the end of the world, what we really mean is the end of our world. Our obsession with doomsday is really about change: our fear of it, and our desire for it, and how - ultimately - we can find hope in it.Praise for the Brief History series:''Uproarious . . . Abundant good humour'' The Times''Witty, entertaining and slightly distressing... You should probably read it'' Sarah Knight, author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck''Brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant'' Jeremy Clarkson''Very funny'' Mark Watson''Both readable and entertaining'' Telegraph
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Headline Publishing Group Melting Point Family Memory and the Search for a
Book SynopsisLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF THE CONVERSATION''S 5 BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024''A truly radical book; radical in subject, radical in form. For the most tragic reasons, it could not feel more immediate; and yet it''s a fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable and engaging read.'' - Andrew Marr''Unforgettable... Non fiction will be different as a result.'' - Jonathan Freedland''This is an extraordinarily original way of writing memoir, history and truth. An enthralling book and a wonderful new writer.'' - Laura Cumming''So fascinating, so enjoyable, and beautifully told through diaries, memoirs, speeches and newspapers.'' - Simon Sebag Montefiore''a remarkable book.'' - Robert MacfarlaneOn June 7th 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamt, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell''s great-grandfather. It marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when 10,000 Jews fled to Texas in the lead-up to WWI.The charismatic leader of the movement is Jochelmann''s closest friend, Israel Zangwill, whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America. As Eastern Europe becomes infected by anti-Semitic violence, Zangwill embarks on a desperate search across the continents for a temporary homeland: from Australia to Canada, Angola to Antarctica. He reluctantly settles on Galveston, Texas. He fears the Jewish people will be absorbed into the great American melting pot, but there is no other hope. In a highly inventive style, Cockerell uses exclusively source material to capture history as it unfolds, weaving together letters, diaries, memoirs, newspaper articles and interviews into a vivid account of those who were there. Melting Point follows Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars, to London, New York and Jerusalem - as their lives intertwine with some of the most memorable figures of the twentieth century, and each chooses whether to cling to their history or melt into their new surroundings. It is a story that asks what it means to belong, and what can be salvaged from the past.
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Random House USA Inc The Sea and Civilization
Book SynopsisA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea—revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. The Sea and Civilization is a mesmerizing, rhapsodic narrative of maritime enterprise, from the origins of long-distance migration to the great seafaring cultures of antiquity; from Song Dynasty human-powered paddle-boats to aircraft carriers and container ships. Lincoln Paine takes the reader on an intellectual adventure casting the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
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Cambridge University Press Class and Power in Roman Palestine
Book SynopsisAnthony Keddie investigates the changing dynamics of class and power at a critical place and time in the history of Judaism and Christianity - Palestine during its earliest phases of incorporation into the Roman Empire (63 BCE70 CE). He identifies institutions pertaining to civic administration, taxation, agricultural tenancy, and the Jerusalem Temple as sources of an unequal distribution of economic, political, and ideological power. Through careful analysis of a wide range of literary, documentary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, including the most recent discoveries, Keddie complicates conventional understandings of class relations as either antagonistic or harmonious. He demonstrates how elites facilitated institutional changes that repositioned non-elites within new, and sometimes more precarious, relations with privileged classes, but did not typically worsen their economic conditions. These socioeconomic shifts did, however, instigate changing class dispositions. JudaeaTrade Review'Anthony Keddie's study of class and power in first century Judea brings refreshing realism to the study of a period that is often viewed through the lens of the history of ideas. At the same time, he appreciates that texts do not simply reflect economic realities, but are constructive attempts to shape the changing ideologies of class. An excellent contribution to the study of the matrix of the Christian movement.' John J. Collins, Yale University, Connecticut'Were Jesus' movement and the First Jewish Revolt consequences of increased income inequality and the exploitation of the lower classes in Roman Palestine? Through a detailed analysis of literary sources and archaeological evidence, Keddie convincingly argues against this view, concluding that changes to class distinctions under Roman rule occurred only gradually, and with a mixed impact on non-elites. Keddie's book is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the socio-economic circumstances under which Jesus' movement emerged.' Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'This book is invaluable for situating the New Testament stories in the context of a real world. The 70 page bibliography is also a fingerlickin' resource.' Henry Wansbrough, Church Times'… a valuable reference for scholars and graduate students.' Michael Kochenash, Religious Studies ReviewTable of Contents1. Urban development and the new elites; 2. Land tenancy and agricultural labor: 'the land is mine'; 3. Taxation: render unto Caesar and the local elites; 4. Economy of the sacred; 5. Material culture from table to grave; Conclusion; Appendix A. Herodian rulers; Appendix B. High priests during the Early Roman period; Appendix C. Palmyra duties (137 CE).
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reconfiguring Class Gender Ethnicity and Ethics
Book SynopsisNew information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable the formidable soft power of this new medium whilst at the same time handling the ideological uncertainties it inevitably entails.This book investigates the ways in which class, gender, ethnicity and ethics are reconfigured, complicated and enriched by the closely intertwined online and offline realities in China. It combs through a wide range of theories on Internet culture, intellectual history, and literary, film, and cultural studies, and explores a variety of online cultural materials, including digitized spoofing, microblog fictions, micro-films, online fictions, web dramas, photographs, flash mobs, popular literature and films. These materials have played an important role Trade Review"Gong and Yang’s skillful exploration of these topics demystifies the ubiquitous transgressiveness, heterogeneity, and contentiousness of the Chinese Internet that are often intertwined with issues of class, gender, ethnicity, and ethics within the context of Internet-ization, neoliberalism, and postsocialism... Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture is a rigorous work that casts light on the promises and struggles the Internet has brought about in contemporary China... It provides readers with both an in-depth theorization of cyberspace and persuasive analyses of relevant Internet-related cultural and media events. Meanwhile, it impressively connects the fields of Chinese literature and history with new media research on online communication and the entertainment industry. Through well-researched case studies, the authors afford a comprehensive and sophisticated consideration of emerging pop cultural terms (e.g., “green tea whore” 绿茶婊 and “silly sweet girl” 傻白甜) and digital practices over the past decade. Both Chinese and Western scholars will find the rich, detailed information in the book fundamentally useful and stimulating.... Overall, the book is a powerful, illuminating contribution to both Chinese Internet culture and media studies. Its dedicated engagement with China studies, literary studies, communication studies, and entertainment industry and celebrity studies in the context of an online mediated environment will be of great interest and use to both academics and the general public."Jamie J. Zhao, University of Warwick, MCLC Resource Center PublicationTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cyberspace, Heterotopia and Postsocialism in China 1. Digitized Parody: The Politics of Egao in Contemporary China 2. Circulating Smallness: The Dialectics of Micro Narrative 3. Constructing Gendered Desire in Online Fictions and Web Dramas 4. Figuring Ethnicity: Media, Identity, and the Internet 5. Caught in the Web: Ethics of Chinese Cyberspace
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Palgrave Macmillan Soviet Space Culture Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies
Book SynopsisPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: What does 'space culture' Mean in Soviet society?; E.Maurer , J.Richers , M.Rüthers & C.Scheide Writing about Soviet Space Exploration: A Short Overview over the State of Research; J.Richers PART I: SPIRITUALITY, TRANSCENDENCE AND SOVIET UTOPIANISM IN REFLECTIONS ON SPACE TRAVEL Introduction: Spirituality, Transcendence and Soviet Utopianism in Reflections on Space Travel; E.Maurer & J.Richers The Conquest of Space and the Bliss of the Atoms - Konstantin Tsiolkovskii; M.Hagemeister Empty/Void Space and the Cybernetic God: Kosmos in the Works of StanisLaw Lem and the Strugatsky Brothers; T.Grob The Contested Skies: The Battle of Science and Religion in the Soviet Planetarium; V.Smolkin PART II: REMEMBERING SPACE, CONSTRUCTING HEROES Introduction: Remembering Space, Constructing Heroes; C.Scheide & M.Rüthers Memories of Space and the Spaces of Memory: Remembering Sergei Korolev; S.Gerovitch The Heroic and the Ordinary: Photographic RepresentatiTable of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Introduction: What does 'space culture' Mean in Soviet society?; E.Maurer , J.Richers , M.Rüthers & C.Scheide Writing about Soviet Space Exploration: A Short Overview over the State of Research; J.Richers PART I: SPIRITUALITY, TRANSCENDENCE AND SOVIET UTOPIANISM IN REFLECTIONS ON SPACE TRAVEL Introduction: Spirituality, Transcendence and Soviet Utopianism in Reflections on Space Travel; E.Maurer & J.Richers The Conquest of Space and the Bliss of the Atoms - Konstantin Tsiolkovskii; M.Hagemeister Empty/Void Space and the Cybernetic God: Kosmos in the Works of StanisLaw Lem and the Strugatsky Brothers; T.Grob The Contested Skies: The Battle of Science and Religion in the Soviet Planetarium; V.Smolkin PART II: REMEMBERING SPACE, CONSTRUCTING HEROES Introduction: Remembering Space, Constructing Heroes; C.Scheide & M.Rüthers Memories of Space and the Spaces of Memory: Remembering Sergei Korolev; S.Gerovitch The Heroic and the Ordinary: Photographic Representations of Soviet Cosmonauts in the Early 1960's; I.Kohonen 'Let's Find Out Where the Cosmonaut School Is': Soviet Girls and Cosmic Visions in the Aftermath of Tereshkova; R.Sylvester Constructing Cosmic Enthusiasm: A Case Study of the Krasnodar Territory; A.Eremeeva Propaganda and Cultural History of Cosmonautics: The Example of Regional Public Organizations; V.Sadym PART III: PERFORMING SPACE IN WORLD POLITICS: COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIALITY Introduction: Performing Space in World Politics: Communications and Mediality; M.Rüthers Sputnik Goes to Brussels: The Exhibition of a Soviet Technological Wonder; L.Siegelbaum Soviet Cosmonauts and American Astronauts in Yugoslavia - Who Did the Yugoslavs Love More?; R.Vu?etic Children and the Cosmos as Projects of the Future and Ambassadors of Soviet Leadership; M.Rüthers PART IV: SPACE IN POPULAR CULTURE Introduction: Space in Popular Culture; J.Richers & M.Rüthers A Dream Come True: Close Encounters with Outer Space in Soviet Popular Scientific Journals of the 1950's and 60's; M.Schwartz Space Exploration in Russian and Western Popular Culture: Wishful Thinking, Conspiracy Theories and other Related Issues; A.Rogatchevski Two Images of a Spaceman in Estonian Art: The Missing Myth of a Hero and the Fable of Failure; A.Porri Epilogue: End of Utopia, Start of Nostalgia From 'Cosmic Enthusiasm' to 'Nostalgia for the Future': A Tale of Soviet Space Culture; A.Siddiqi Appendix
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Palgrave Macmillan PostPunk Politics and Pleasure in Britain
Book SynopsisPreface.- 1 Introduction: Shake Your Cosy Attitudes.- 2 Post-Punk and the Politics of Post-War Popular Music.- 3 Post-Punk, Thatcherism and the Libertarian Left.- 4 Is Natural In It? Radical Theory and Educational Capital.- 5 The Politics of the Post-Punk Working Class Autodidact.- 6 Desires Bound With Briars: Freedom, Pleasure and Feminism.- 7 Agents of Change: Post-Punk and the Present.Table of ContentsPreface.- 1 Introduction: Shake Your Cosy Attitudes.- 2 Post-Punk and the Politics of Post-War Popular Music.- 3 Post-Punk, Thatcherism and the Libertarian Left.- 4 Is Natural In It? Radical Theory and Educational Capital.- 5 The Politics of the Post-Punk Working Class Autodidact.- 6 Desires Bound With Briars: Freedom, Pleasure and Feminism.- 7 Agents of Change: Post-Punk and the Present.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Marriage in Antiquity
Book SynopsisKaren Klaiber Hersch is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Classics at Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of The Roman Wedding: Ritual and Meaning in Antiquity (2010).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Karen Klaiber Hersch (Temple University, USA) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Katherine Wasdin (George Washington University, USA) 2. Religion, Matthew P. J. Dillon (University of New England, Australia) 3. State and Law, Matthew J. Perry (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA) 4. The Ties That Bind, Katariina Mustakallio (University of Tampere, Finland) 5. The Family Economy, Judith P. Hallett (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Vered Lev Kenaan (University of Haifa, Israel) 7. Breaking Vows, Eva Cantarella (University of Milan, Italy) 8. Representation, Noelle Zeiner-Carmichael (College of Charleston, USA) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval
Book SynopsisJoanne M. Ferraro is Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at San Diego State University, USA. She is the author of Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice (2001), which won both the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize. She is also the author of Venice: History of the Floating City (2012), Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789 (2008) and Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650 (1993).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Edith J. Benkov (San Diego State University, USA) 2. Religion, Line Cecilie Engh (University of Oslo, Norway) 3. State and Law, Thomas Kuehn (Clemson University, USA) 4. The Ties That Bind, Sally Dixon-Smith (Tower of London for Historic Royal Palaces, UK) and April Harper (SUNY Oneonta, USA) 5. The Family Economy, Frederik Pederson (University of Aberdeen, UK) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Ruth Mazzo Karras (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland) 7. Breaking Vows, Sara M. Butler (Ohio State University, USA) 8. Representation, Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens (University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A A Cultural History of Marriage in the Age of
Book SynopsisPaul Puschmann is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research at Radboud University, the Netherlands. He is the author of Casablanca: A Demographic Miracle on Moroccan Soil? (2011).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Paul Puschmann (Radboud University, the Netherlands) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Jan Kok (Radboud University, the Netherlands) 2. Religion, Karl Kaser (University of Graz, Austria) 3. State and Law, Rebecca Probert (University of Exeter, UK) 4. The Ties That Bind, Satomi Kurosu and Kurupitage Dilhani Wijesinghe (both Reitaku University, Japan) 5. The Family Economy, Angélique Janssens (Maastricht University, the Netherlands) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Paul Puschmann (Radboud University, the Netherlands) 7. Breaking Vows, Karl Leydecker (University of Aberdeen, UK) 8. Representation, Marja Van Tilburg (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Marriage in the Modern Age
Book SynopsisChristina Simmons is Emeritus Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Windsor, Canada. She is the author of Making Marriage Modern: Women's Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II (2009) and the editor, along with Kathy Peiss, of Passion And Power: Sexuality in History (1989).Table of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor’s Preface, Joanne M. Ferraro (San Diego State University, USA) Introduction, Christina Simmons (University of Windsor, Canada) 1. Courtship and Ritual, Christina Simmons (University of Windsor, Canada) 2. Religion, Timothy Willem Jones (La Trobe University, Australia) 3. State and Law, Mary Lyndon Shanley (Vassar College, USA) 4. The Ties That Bind, Hilde Bras (Wageningen University, the Netherlands) and Maria Sanchez-Dominquez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) 5. The Family Economy, Shoshana Grossbard (San Diego State University, USA) 6. Love, Sex, and Sexuality, Mari Norbakk (University of Bergen, Norway) 7. Breaking Vows, Gregory Swedberg (Manhattanville College, USA) 8. Representation, Noa Berger (EHESS, France) and Eva Illouz (Hebrew University, Israel) Notes Bibliography Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Women in the Age of
Book SynopsisEllen Pollak is Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and is author of The Poetics of Sexual Myth: Gender and Ideology in the Verse of Swift and Pope and Incest and the English Novel, 1684-1814.Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Edited by Ellen Pollak Introduction The Life Cycle: Motherhood during the Enlightenment, Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania, USA Bodies & Sexuality: Sex, Gender, and the Limits of Enlightenment, Susan S. Lanser, Brandeis University, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Visionary Women in the Age of Enlightenment, Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University, USA Medicine & Disease: Women, Practice, and Print in the Enlightenment Medical Marketplace, Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College, USA Public and Private: Public and Private Lives in Eighteenth-Century France, Joan B. Landes, Penn State University, USA Education & Work: The Case of Laboring Women Poets in England, Scotland, and Germany, Susanne Kord, University College London, UK Power: Varieties of Female Political Power in Enlightenment England, Charlotte Sussman, Duke University, USA Artistic Representation: The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown, Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire
Book SynopsisTeresa Mangum directs the University of Iowa's Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, USA, and is author of Married, Middlebrow, and Militant: Sarah Grand and the New Woman Novel.Table of ContentsA Cultural History of Women in the Age of Empire, Edited by Teresa Mangum Introduction The Life Cycle: Women and the Life-Cycle, c.1800-1920, Pat Thane, University of London, UK Bodies & Sexuality: Sexuality and Bodies in the Age of Empire, Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky, USA Religion & Popular Beliefs: Women and Wandering Jews after Daniel Deronda, Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA Medicine & Disease: Women and Medicine in the Age of Empire, Pamela Gilbert, University of Florida, USA Public & Private: The Fault Lines Between Public and Private Selves in Women's Autobiographical Writings, Linda Peterson, Yale University, USA Education & Work: Women and the Education Acts, Florence Boos, University of Iowa, USA Power: Memsahibs, Manners, and Empires, Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa, USA Artistic Representation: Travel Narrative and the Construction of Female Artistic Identity in the Nineteenth Century, Alexandra Wettlaufer, University of Texas at Austin, USA
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Marriage Household and Home in Modern Russia
Book SynopsisBarbara Alpern Engel's Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is the first book to explore the intricacies of domestic life in Russia across the modern period.Surveying the period from 1700 right up to the present day, the book explores the marital and domestic arrangements of Russians at multiple levels of society and the impact of broader historical developments, including war and revolution, upon them. It also traces the evolution of marriage, household and home as institutions over three centuries, whilst also highlighting the inter-relationship between public policy and private life, in what is a wholly original historical assessment of domesticity in modern Russia. In the process, the author expertly synthesizes the key works, arguments and discussions in the field, mapping out the historiographical landscape of this compelling aspect of Russian social history.Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia is crucial reading for any student or scholar of modern RussiTrade ReviewCombining the personal with the political, Barbara Engel richly illustrates this history of marriage, intimacy, and family life with poignant voices from individual lives. Every page brings new reading pleasure, and Engel imbues this story with a keen sense of change over time. * Diane Koenker, Professor of Russian and Soviet History, UCL, UK *A brilliant demonstration of the central importance of family and gender relations to the course of Russian history over more than 300 years. In lucid prose, replete with sharp insights and vivid personal stories, based on archival sources, as well as the latest research, the book offers both an introduction to the field and a thoughtful interpretation of its subject. A must read for both students and teachers. * Laura Engelstein, Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russia History, Yale University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Considering Marriage, Household and Home 1. For Better, For Worse, 1700-1761 2. Village Practices 3. Continuity and Change, 1761-1861 4. Imperfect Freedom, 1861-1881 5. Recreating the Home, 1881-1914 6. Wars and Revolutions, 1914-1921 7. The ‘Withering Away’ and Resurrection of the Family, 1921-1940 8. War and Recovery, 1940-1953 9. Ideals Meet Realities, 1953-1991 10. Marriage Crisis Comes Home, 1991-2015 Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Not So Secret Lives of Food Packaging
Book SynopsisTracing developments from the classical period to the early industrial revolution and beyond, Anne Murcott provides us with an accessible and entertaining social history of food packaging.From tin cans, glass jars and bottles, plastic trays and stretch-wrap, Murcott shows the importance of food packaging for global food systems. As a pioneering excursion into the many aspects of the history of food packaging, the book examines shifts from domestic to commercial production, the emergence of associated technologies, changes in retailing, implications for policy and practice, along with current concerns about overpackaging.Taking a wide historical and geographical angle, Murcott draws on sources such as trade magazines, manufacturers' archives, company histories, packaging textbooks, histories of international trade and interviews with key industry insiders'.Written by a leading figure in the field, this book will benefit students of social studies of fooTrade ReviewSurely the most comprehensive study of food packaging ever written, this book takes us on a breathtaking journey through the history of the most powerful yet neglected marketing device. By paying close attention to the development of an incredible range of technologies - glass, carton, metal and plastic containers; jars, bottles, cans, canisters, and even modified atmosphere packaging - she reveals the incredible depth - material, cultural, sociological - of the most tangible, yet often unseen, market surface, and thus helps us better address the underlying challenges. * Franck Cochoy, Professor of Sociology, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, France *Food packaging is so easily overlooked, yet ubiquitous and essential. Anne Murcott shows that the global industrial food system could not exist and could not have emerged without a parallel technology made of glass, paper, wood, metal and plastic. Anne Murcott moves fluently through disciplines and around the globe, taking us on a fascinating trip through an unfamiliar circuit of inventors, designers, chemists, drivers, bureaucrats and even freezers. * Richard R. Wilk, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Indiana University, USA *Scholars and activists, concerned about urgent issues from environment to health, are discovering packaging matters. The (Not So) Secret Lives of Food Packaging provides a rich and timely exploration into how packages assemble markets and shape our relationship to food. Murcott skillfully blends history, sociology, and STS to unpack both the material and symbolic worlds of our modern packaging landscapes. * Xaq Frohlich, Associate Professor of History, Auburn University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements Part One: Putting Food Packaging Centre Stage 1. Ubiquity and (in)visibility 2.Food Packaging: a Technology Part Two: How Did it Get Like This? Early Precursors 3. Bags, Sacks and a lot of Paper 4.Barrels, Casks and Tea Chests 5. Bottles, Jars and Gallons of Milk 6. Canisters, Cans and Canning Part Three: How Did it Get Like This? Industrialised Packaging 7. Tomato Ketchup and Transparent Bottles 8.Ready Meals, Microwaves and Plastic Trays 9. Salad Leaves and Protective Atmospheres Part Four: Where Now? 10. Food Packaging - A Trio of Futures and a Provisional Ending References Index
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