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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I:
Book SynopsisThis textbook provides an overview of the long reign of Elizabeth I (1558–1603), a highly significant female ruler in a time of great change. It offers an accessible yet detailed survey of the events of her life and reign, followed by thematic chapters exploring key aspects of her time in power and the wider context of politics, culture and society in early modern England. Topics covered range from the composition of the queen's Privy Council; the 'Other' in Elizabethan England; assassination attempts; friendship; entertainment; and dreams. Gathering a great deal of cutting-edge and original research from one of the foremost scholars of Elizabeth's reign, this book is an essential companion for students and a crucial reference work for researchers. Table of ContentsPart I. Politics and Religion1. Coronation 2. Privy Council 3. Parliament 4. Archbishops of Canterbury5. Courtships and Favorites6. Potential Heirs to the Throne7. Ambassadors at Elizabeth’s Court8. Assassination Attempts, Plots, and Rebellions9. The Spanish ArmadaPart II. Society and Culture10. Elizabeth's England and Others 11. Mirrors 12. Dreams 13. Women Friends of Queen Elizabeth14. Slander, Gossip, and Rumors15. Elizabeth's Pleasures.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary
Book SynopsisThis book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet’s 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe’s most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848–9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 ‘March days’. The Manifesto’s programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet’s most memorialised phrase, ‘the spectre of Communism’, whether it was written for the ‘working men of all countries’ addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life.Table of Contents1. Manifesto Style and Communism Substance2. Solo Marx, the NRZ as Emerging 1848–49 Focus3. Actual Measures and Missing Levers4. Revolutionary Roles: Classes and ‘Countries’.5. Lingering in Paris, Brussels Preludes6. Engaging with Workers: Mainz, the Communist League, Stephan Born, and the CWA7. Conclusions: Targeting and Priorities
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Springer International Publishing AG Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934:
Book Synopsis This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.Chapter 8 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Link.springer.com Table of Contents1. Introduction: Three Decades of Global Revolution at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- Part I. Revolutions around the World.- 2. Leading the Workers, Leading the Peasants: The Russian Revolution, 1897-1921; Geoffrey Swain.- 3. Imagining, Scripting and Enacting Revolution in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Xinhai Revolution of 1911; Laura De Giorgi.- 4. Frontiers of Revolution and Empire in the Middle East; Alp Yenen.- 5. Land and Freedom: Anarchists and Indians in the Crossfire of Colonial Expansion and Social Revolution in Latin America, 1848-1917; Olaf Kaltmeier and Léon Enrique Ávila Romero.- Part II. Revolutions, Revolutionaries and Counter Mobilisation in Europe.- 6. Global versus National Revolutionaries: Italian Trajectories from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution'; Marica Tolomelli.- 7. The German Revolution of 1918-1920; Stefan Berger and Klaus Weinhauer.- 8. The First Revolution of the Twentieth Century: Fears of Socialism and Anti-labour Mobilisation in Europe after the Russian Revolution of 1905; Romain Bonnet, Amerigo Caruso and Alessandro Saluppo.- 9. For People’s Power: Revolutions in Finland, 1899-1932; Pertti Haapala.- 10. The Last Echo of 1917: The Asturian October between Revolution and Antifascism; Matthew Kerry.- Part III. Revolutionaries between Repression and Reform.- 11. Vanguard to Laggard in a Revolutionary Age: Australian Labour, Democracy, Revolution and Reform; Liam Byrne and Sean Scalmer.- 12. The United States in an Era of Global Revolution; Shelton Stromquist.- 13. South African Revolutionaries: 1915-1922; Tom Lodge.
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Springer International Publishing AG Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian
Book SynopsisThis book examines the British Admiralty’s engagement with science and technological innovation in the nineteenth century. It is a book about people, and gross misunderstanding, about the dreams and disappointments of scientific workers and inventors in relation to the administrators who adjudicated their requests for support, and about the power of paper to escalate arguments, reduce opinions, and frustrate hopes. From instructions for naval surveying to debates about rewards to civilians for inventions, Paper Navigators puts a wide range of primary sources in the context of public debates and explores the British Admiralty’s engagement with, decision-making around, and management of questions of value, support, and funding with citizen inventors, the broader public, and their own employees. Concentrating on the Admiralty’s private, internal correspondence to explore these themes, it offers a fresh perspective on the Victorian Navy's history of innovation and exploration and is a novel addition to literature on the history of science in the nineteenth century.Trade Review“Discovery, Innovation, and the Victorian Admiralty reminds us that the encouragement and reception of technology—and of science—is rarely just about enthusiasm or reluctance. This book will be of use to anyone interested in the reception of invention and discovery, especially in governmental or bureaucratic settings.” (Penelope K. Hardy, Technology and Culture, Vol. 64 (3), July, 2023)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Triangulating the New: Discovery, Innovation, Bureaucracy.- Chapter 2: “A monotonous and arduous service”: Science, Surveying, and Servitude Aboard.- Chapter 3: "Considerable Magnetic Disturbance”: The Niger Expedition, Science, and Networks of Influence.- Chapter 4: En Route with the British Admiralty’s Manual of Scientific Enquiry (1849).- Chapter 5: Private Inventions, Public Purse: Innovation and the Admiralty.- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Notes in the Margin.
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Springer International Publishing AG The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina: Ruler and
Book SynopsisOf the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia Severina, who, even though never mentioned by name in literary sources, has been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of the numerous coins issued in her name and is the subject of many interesting honorific inscriptions that had not been thoroughly examined or adequately valued until this study. This exceptional situation, represented by the sole presence of Ulpia Severina on the throne of Rome, deserves more attention than it has received. The pages of the university history textbooks dedicated to the reconstruction of a fifty-year phase of Roman-imperial history must be, if not rewritten, at least integrated in order to give the deserved space to this empress and, therefore, to the so-called “interregnum,” which lasted at least two months, between the death of Aurelian and the advent of emperor Tacitus.Table of Contents1 Literary Sources.1 Aurelian’s Anonymous Uxor.2 Ulpius Crinitus.Bibliography.2 Numismatic Sources.1 The Venèra Hoard.2 The interregnum between Aurelian and Tacitus.Bibliography.3 The Epigraphic Sources.1 The Inscriptions of Ulpia Severina, Coniux Aureliani.2 The Titles of Σεπτιμία Ζηνοβία Σεβαστή.Bibliography.Concluding Remarks.
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Springer International Publishing AG Music, Words, and Nationalism: National Anthems
Book SynopsisMusic, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities. The volume shows that both the words and music of these works reveal a great deal about the defining features of a nation, its political and cultural history, and its self-perception. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach that provides a better understanding of the role of national anthems and songs in the expression of national identities and nationalistic goals. From this perspective, the relationship between hymns and political contexts, their own symbolic content (both literary and musical) and the role of specific hymns in the construction of national sentiments are surveyed. Table of Contents1. Introduction.- Section I: General Perspectives.- “National Anthems in the Nineteenth-Century: Honor Anthems vs. Revolutionary Anthems”.- 2. “What to Sing? Anthems and the Problems of National Building”.- 3. “A Connected History of Republican Anthems: Independence, Decolonization and Nationalism”.- 4. “The Voices of the Nation. The Form and Content of National Anthems”.- 5. “Resounding Nations: Anthems in Europe at War (1936-1945)”.- 6. “Songs of Redemption: A Comparison of the Anthems of European Substate Nationalisms in the Long Twentieth Century”.- Section II Case Studies.- “The National Anthem’s Moment”.- 7. “Globalization of the National Anthem: The Case of Japan and the Japanese Empire in Asia.- 8. “Displaced national anthems: An Example from Iran”.- 9. “Anthems in Schools: Negotiating National and Youth Identities in a Bilingual Florida Elementary School”.
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Palgrave Macmillan British Women Travellers in the Long Nineteenth Century
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De Gruyter Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1
Book SynopsisA follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.
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De Gruyter Folds of Past, Present and Future: Reconfiguring
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together important theoretical and methodological issues currently being debated in the field of history of education. The contributions shed insightful and critical light on the historiography of education, on issues of de-/colonization, on the historical development of the educational sciences and on the potentiality attached to the use of new and challenging source material.
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Springer International Publishing AG Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects
Book SynopsisThis book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns. Trade Review“This fascinating collection will be of interest to many VPR readers for its emphasis on the methodologies of studying text and image in the broad context of print (and manuscript) culture. It provokes those of us working in the orbit of nineteenth-century periodicals to think more comparatively about our approaches to the media we research.” (Mark W. Turner, Victorian Periodicals Review, Vol. 53 (1), 2020)“Evanghelia Stead’s Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects will be welcomed by Book Studies scholars for its modeling of a material approach to reading that crosses chronologies, geographies, and media. A truly interdisciplinary collection, there is much here to provoke, challenge, and inspire future studies.” (Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Quaerendo, Vol. 49, 2019)“It offers a stimulating interdisciplinary perspective on the function of books and prints, spanning a broad period from medieval manuscript to digital work. … Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects is a very rich and insightful interdisciplinary approach.” (Fabienne Gaspari, Interfaces, Vol. 42, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Evanghelia Stead.- Part I : Manuscripts as Cultural Objects.- Chapter 2. From Devotional Aids to Antiquarian Objects: The Prayer Books of Medingen - Henrike Lähnemann.- Chapter 3. How to Read the “Andachtsbüchlein aus der Sammlung Bouhier” (Montpellier, BU Médecine, H 396)? On Cultural Techniques Related to a 14th-century Devotional Manuscript- Henrike Manuwald.- Chapter 4. “Otium et negotium”. Reading Processes in Early Italian and German Humanism - Michael Stolz.- Part II: Prints in Europe .- Chapter 5. The Fluidity of Images or the Compression of Media Diversity in Books: “Galeriewerke” and “Histoire Métallique” - Christina Posselt-Kuhli.- Chapter 6. Change of Use, Change of Public, Change of Meaning. Printed Images Travelling through Europe - Alberto Milano (†).- Part III: Printed Books: Media, Objects, Uses.- Chapter 7. The Promotion of the Heroic Woman in Victorian and Edwardian Gift Book - Barbara Korte.- Chapter 8. “Pinocchio”: an Adventure Illustrated over More than a Century (1883-2004) - Giorgio Bacci.- Chapter 9. Illustration and the Book as Cultural Object: Arthur Schnitzler's Works in German and English Editions - Norbert Bachleitner.- Chapter 10. Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century - Corinna Norrick-Rühl.- Epilogue.- Chapter 11. E-Readers and Polytextual Critique: On some Emerging Material Conditions in the Early Age of Digital Reading -Stephan Packard.
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Springer International Publishing AG William Morris’s Utopianism: Propaganda, Politics
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new interpretation of William Morris’s utopianism as a strategic extension of his political writing. Morris’s utopian writing, alongside his journalism and public lectures, constituted part of a sustained counter-hegemonic project that intervened both into the life-world of the fin de siècle socialist movement, as well as the dominant literary cultures of his day. Owen Holland demonstrates this by placing Morris in conversation with writers of first-wave feminism, nineteenth-century pastoralists, as well as the romance revivalists and imperialists of the 1880s. In doing so, he revises E.P. Thompson’s and Miguel Abensour’s argument that Morris’s utopian writing should be conceived as anti-political and heuristic, concerned with the pedagogic education of desire, rather than with the more mundane work of propaganda. He shows how Morris’s utopianism emerged against the grain of the now-here, embroiled in instrumental, propagandistic polemic, complicating Thompson’s and Abensour’s view of its anti-political character.Table of ContentsPART I.- ONE: Introduction: No-where and now-here.- TWO: Twentieth-century critical readings of Morris’s utopianism.- PART II.- THREE: At the cross-roads of socialism and first-wave feminism.- FOUR: The pastoral structure of feeling in Morris’s utopianism.- FIVE: Imperialism, colonialism and internationalism.- SIX: Organic and mechanical.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.- Index
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Springer International Publishing AG A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity
Book SynopsisThis book traces the development of exorcism in Catholic Christianity from the fourth century to the present day, and seeks to explain why exorcism is still so much in demand. This is the first work in English to trace the development of the liturgy, practice and authorisation of exorcisms in Latin Christianity. The rite of exorcism, and the claim by Roman Catholic priests to be able to drive demons from the possessed, remains an enduring source of popular fascination, but the origins and history of this controversial rite have been little explored. Arguing that belief in the need for exorcism typically re-emerges at periods of crisis for the church, Francis Young explores the shifting boundaries between authorised exorcisms and unauthorised magic throughout Christian history, from Augustine of Hippo to Pope Francis. This book offers the historical background to – and suggests reasons for – the current resurgence of exorcism in the global Catholic Church.Trade Review“A history of exorcism in Catholic Christianity is a valuable contribution to Catholic theological and liturgical history. Because it includes relatively few exorcism narratives, it has less to contribute to the social history of religion. Also, the narratives that do appear do little to capture the drama of these exorcisms, which were theatrical productions in every sense of the word.” (Brian P. Levack, Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Vol. 70 (1), January, 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction. - 2. Exorcism in the Early Christian West, 300–900. - 3. Exorcism in Crisis: The Middle Ages, 900–1500. - 4. Exorcism in Counter-Reformation Europe. - 5. Catholic Exorcism beyond Catholic Europe. - 6. Exorcism in the Age of Reason. - 7. Exorcism in an Age of Doubt: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. - 8. The Return of Exorcism
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Springer International Publishing AG Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831–2014
Book SynopsisA pioneering work in oral history, this book tells the story of the rise and fall of the industrial revolution and the apogee and crisis of the labor movement through an oral history of Terni, a steel town in Central Italy and the seat of the first large industrial enterprise in Italy. This story is told through a combination of stories, songs, myths and memories from over 200 voices of five generations, woven with a wealth of archival material. Trade Review“Biography of an Industrial Town is an ironclad book that is essential reading for everyone interested in oral history, the politics of resistance, and the privileging of the testimonies of narrators.” (William Burns, The Oral History Review, Vol. 46 (2), 2019)Table of ContentsPart I1. Introduction: Speaking, Writing and Remembering2. The Red and the Black: Rebels, Patriots and Outlaws3. How Green Was My Valley: Feudal Landlords and Struggling Peasants4. How Steel Was Forged: The Making of a Working Class5. Rebels: Socialists, Anarchists and the Subversive Tradition6. The Iron Heel, or, We Didn't Have Any Trouble: The Coming of Fascism7. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Surviving and Resisting Fascism8. Apocalypse Now: War, Hunger and Mass Destruction9. Red Is the Color: The Gramsci Brigade10. The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis11. Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative CulturesPart II: Specialty Steel12. David and Goliath: The Town, the Factory and the Strike13. The Workers and the World: Terni Steel in the Age of Globalization14. The Empire Strikes Back: The Town, the Factory and the Strike: Reprise15. A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age16. Epilogue: Working-Class Sublime.
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Springer International Publishing AG Can We Talk Mediterranean?: Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
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Springer International Publishing AG Popular Rumour in Revolutionary Paris, 1792-1794
Book SynopsisThis book examines the impact of rumour during the French Revolution, offering a new approach to understanding the experiences of those who lived through it. Focusing on Paris during the most radical years of the Jacobin republic, it argues that popular rumour helped to shape perceptions of the Revolution and provided communities with a framework with which to interpret an unstable world.Lindsay Porter explores the role of rumour as a phenomenon in itself, investigating the way in which the informal authority of the ‘word on the street’ was subject to a range of historical and contemporary prejudices. Drawing its conclusions from police reports and other archival sources, this study examines the potential of rumour both to unite and to divide communities, as rumour and hearsay began to play an important role in defining and judging personal commitment to the Revolution and what it meant to be a citizen.Trade Review“ Its changing content, identify the groups through which it passed, and study the ways that they made sense of it as it ebbed and flowed, crossing paths with other means of communication such as images, graffiti, songs, letters, and all varieties of the printed word.” (Robert Darnton, H-France Forum, Vol. 14 (2), 2019)“The study of rumor during the French Revolution is a wonderful subject, … . Lindsay Porter is well aware of this work, and one of the virtues of her book is to recognize the ways that revolutionary rumor renewed and built on older themes.” (David Garrioch, H-France Forum, Vol. 14 (2), 2019)Table of ContentsChapter I. Introduction.- Chapter II. ‘Prenez garde Citoyens!’: Policing Popular Rumour.-Chapter III. ‘Un bruit de frayeur se répand’: Informal Communication Networks and the Creation of Rumour.- Chapter IV. Rumour, Riots, Feasts and Famines.- Chapter V. Rumour and Community: Solidarity and Conflict in the Sans-Culotte Neighbourhoods of Year II.- Chapter VI. Rumour, Reputation and Identity.- Chapter VII. Rumour, Denunciation and Terror.-Chapter VIII. Conclusion.- Archival Sources.- Index
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Springer International Publishing AG The Belgian Army and Society from Independence to
Book SynopsisThis book explores Belgian state-building through the prism of its army from independence to the First World War. It argues that party-politics, which often ran along geographical, linguistic, and religious lines, prevented both Flemings and Walloons from reconciling their regional identities into a unified concept of Belgian nationalism. Equally, it obstructed the army from satisfactorily preparing to uphold Belgium’s imposed neutrality before 1914. Situated uneasily between the two powerhouses of nineteenth-century Europe, Belgium offers a unique insight into the concepts of citizenship and militarisation in a divided society in the era of fervent nationalism. By examining the composition, experience, and image of the army’s officer corps and rank and file, as well as those of the auxiliary forces, this book shows that although military and civilian society often stood aloof from one another, the army, as a national institution, offered a fleeting glimpse into the dichotomy that was pre-war Belgium.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction.Chapter 2 – Securing the Nation.Chapter 3 – The Officer Corps.Chapter 4 – The Rank and File.Chapter 5 – The Auxiliary Forces.Chapter 6 – Fortress Policy and Strategy.Chapter 7 – The Great War.Chapter 8 – Conclusion.Index
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Springer International Publishing AG Clever Girls and the Literature of Women's Upward Mobility
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De Gruyter Ada und Emil Nolde – Luise und Gustav Schiefler.
Book SynopsisDer Hamburger Jurist Gustav Schiefler und seine Frau Luise zählten jahrzehntelang zu den vertrauten Freunden und Förderern Emil Noldes. Es ist ein seltener Glücksfall, dass sich die Korrespondenz zwischen Künstlerpaar und Sammlerfreunden mit über 700 Briefen nahezu vollständig erhalten hat. Die Korrespondenz zeigt von 1906 bis in die 1950er- Jahre hinein ein lebhaftes und detailreiches Bild von Noldes Leben und Werk. Damit lassen sich Datierungen von Arbeiten, Reisen und Begegnungen schlüssig und teilweise neu belegen sowie seine Selbstdarstellung weiter kritisch beleuchten. Tagebuchnotizen Schieflers sowie weitere Briefe und Dokumente aus den Nachlässen ergänzen den Briefwechsel. Ein ausführlicher Kommentar lässt die zweibändige Ausgabe nicht nur für Kunstwissenschaftler zu einem Lesevergnügen werden.
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de Gruyter Judentum, Antisemitismus Und Deutschsprachige
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De Gruyter The Nazi Holocaust. Part 8: Bystanders to the
Book SynopsisThis edition is the first of its kind to offer a basic collection of facsimile, English language, historical articles on all aspects of the extermination of the European Jews. A total of 300 articles from 84 journals and collections allows the reader to gain an overview of this field. The edition both provides access to the immense, rich array of scholarly articles published after 1960 on the history of the Holocaust and encourages critical assessment of conflicting interpretations of these horrifying events. The series traces Nazi persecution of Jews before the implementation of the "Final Solution", demonstrates how the Germans coordinated anti-Jewish activities in conquered territories, and sheds light on the victims in concentration camps, ending with the liberation of the concentration camp victims and articles on the trials of war criminals. The publications covered originate from the years 1950 to 1987. Included are authors such as Jakob Katz, Saul Friedländer, Eberhard Jäckel, Bruno Bettelheim and Herbert A. Strauss.
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Grin Publishing Luhrmann's When God Talks Back. Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God . A Critical Reflection of her Findings and Approach
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Taschen GmbH Alchimie & Mystique
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Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh Völkerstämme am Brahmaputra
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V&R Unipress When Juvenile Delinquency Became an International
Book SynopsisAn International Anxiety
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Transcript Verlag Moment to Monument – The Making and Unmaking of
Book SynopsisWhy do certain works of art make it into the canon while others just enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all? How do moments produce monuments, and why are monuments erased from our cultural memory in only a moment? - Taking into account these cultural processes of creating, storing, remembering and forgetting that are omnipresent and have an immense influence on how we perceive artefacts and cultural events, the articles in this collection analyze the phenomenon of cultural production, transmission and reception from various angles, drawing on approaches from both literary and cultural studies. With its transdisciplinary approach, this book uniquely responds to an everyday cultural phenomenon that so far has not received such wide-ranging attention.
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Galda Verlag Dying Death and the Politics of AfterDeath in
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Central European University Press And They Lived Happily Ever After: Norms and
Book SynopsisFocuses on the problematic domains of the institutions and laws devised to cope with family difficulties, and discusses the social strains created by the transition from communist to post-communist national systems. In addition to the substantial historic analysis, actual challenges are also discussed. The essays examine the changing gender roles, alterations in legal systems, the burdens faced by married and unmarried women who are mothers, the contrasts between government rhteoric and the implementation of policies toward marriage, children and parenthood. By addressing the specifics of welfare politics under the Communist rule and the directions of their transformation in 1990 - 2000s, this book contributes to the understanding of social institutions and family policies inthese countries and the problems of dealing with the socialist past that this region face.Trade Review"The essays by Leinarte and Runcis offer valuable insights about the intersection of gender and nationality; Carlbäck’s, Munico-Larsson’s, and Sätre’s chapters contribute to the growing scholarship on Soviet and post-Soviet masculinity; and the essays by Carlbäck, Zhidkova, and Leinarte speak to the current historiographical interest in the ambiguous nature of the thaw. Many of the essays explore notions of agency by offering compelling examples of how people without much power manage to formulate coping strategies (see the chapters by Asztalos Morell, Farhan, Gradskova, and Kravchenko). Finally, essays by Gradskova, Khazova, Kravchenko, Rotkirch and Kesseli, and Iarskaia-Smirnova and Romanov demonstrate the ways in which gender complicates our understanding of post-Soviet politics and society". * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsPreface Family and parenting in Eastern Europe and Russia before and after the fall of socialism PART I "We think the law is totally unjust". Popular attitudes to family legislation in Soviet Russia Family, divorce, and comradeship tribunals: Soviet family and public organisations during the Thaw A life of labor, a life of love: Telling the life of a young peasant mother facing collectivization East German women going West. Family, children and partners in life experience literature The family and the state in Soviet Latvia: 1945-1989 Lithuanian Office of State Benefits for Mothers of Large Families and Single Mothers, 1944-1956. First attempts to implement the Decree of July 8, 1944 PART II "Two children is in the zone of social misery." Childbearing and risk perception among Russian women "Supporting the genuine development of the child". Public childcare centers versus family in post-Soviet Russia Everyday continuity and change: family and family policy in Russia Single mothers - clients or citizens? Social work with poor families in Russia Welfare crisis and crisis centers in Russia today: Preliminary theses and questions Marriage and divorce law in Russia and the Baltic States: Overview of recent changes Doing parenting in post-socialist Estonia and Latvia Experiences of and views on gender roles in Russian families Note on Contributors
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Tulika Books A Strategic Myth – ′Underdevelopment′ in Jammu
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY: VOLUME II
Book SynopsisDr Surendranath Dasgupta''s in-depth work is mainly intended to provide a holistic exposition of Indian thought, based on original texts and commentaries. Occasionally, however, the author has discussed the views of other writers in the assessment of the chronology of facts.Years of dedicated study and painstaking collation of data yielded this phenomenal collection of all the strains of philosophic thought propagated by various schools and philosophers in India down the ages. Originally published in five volumes, theast being posthumous, A History of Indian Philosophy remains a seminal work for scholars and students alike.This edition presents the original work in three volumes for the first time, making it more accessible and easier to handle. Nothing of the original has been abridged or sacrificed to the book.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. If History Has Taught Us Anything
Book SynopsisIf History Has Taught Us Anything sifts through the rubble of time to tell some classic stories from Historyâthe master storyteller. The idea of Aâmaal or Karmaâthat deeds have repercussions for the doerâis used as a silenteitmotif throughout, bringing home aargeresson to the reader.
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Double 9 Books The Religion of the Ancient Celts
Book SynopsisThe Religion of the Ancient Celts is a enormous paintings authored via J. A. MacCulloch, a outstanding student and folklorist of the early twentieth century. This seminal book offers a complete exploration of the spiritual beliefs, rituals, and practices of the ancient Celtic human beings. MacCulloch's studies delves into the religious global of the Celts, examining their polytheistic pantheon of gods and goddesses, in addition to their reverence for herbal elements, sacred groves, and the magical components of the landscape. The book explores the wealthy tapestry of Celtic mythology, including stories of heroes, deities, and other supernatural beings, losing light on the cultural and non-secular narratives that shaped Celtic society. One of the book's key contributions is its evaluation of the Druids, the priestly magnificence of the Celts, and their position in spiritual ceremonies, divination, and expertise transmission. MacCulloch gives insights into the Druids' affect on Celtic spirituality and their location within the broader Celtic non-secular framework. The Religion of the Ancient Celts is not handiest a scholarly study however additionally a valuable useful resource for anyone inquisitive about Celtic records, culture, and spirituality.
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Pentagon Press India's China Dilemma: The Lost Equilibrium and
Book SynopsisThe equilibrium and understanding between India and China that was built on the premise that both were at the same level of development, and hence need to give full play to their complementarities and potentialities, has seemingly shifted, owing to the balance of power favouring China. Finding new equilibrium and understanding will not be easy given India`s asymmetrical relationship with China. The nature of India-China coexistence, cooperation and competition will be determined by factors such as how quickly the narrative of India's rise regains traction, India and China`' relations with major and middle powers, strategic and economic partnerships with major regional blocks, India's role in global supply chains, and the Quad and Indo-Pacific Strategy. This book arranges author B. R. Deepak's articles from the Sunday Guardian into eight sections, exploring the multi-faceted relationship.
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Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. A SHADOW OF THE PAST: : A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF
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Central European University Press Everyday Life Under Communism and After:
Book SynopsisBy providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.Trade Review"Tibor Valuch is anything but a newcomer to the field of consumption history of modern Hungary. His impressive oeuvre spans almost four decades of publishing activities, engaging profoundly with the material situation of different social classes, especially during state socialism, but also after the political change of 1989–90. While the bulk of his work has so far only been accessible to Hungarian- and, occasionally, German-speaking academia, Valuch’s newest book finally makes the essence of his research on everyday consumption practices in Hungary available to most scholars interested in consumption patterns in Eastern Europe. Based on an analysis filling more than 500 pages, this is a major and highly awaited undertaking." Link to review: https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.49.2.0277 -- Annina Gagyiova * Hungarian Studies Review *"Tibor Valuch’s publications have been key sources for many of us studying everyday life in Hungary, especially under state socialism. This rich collection of a variety of data and accompanying social analysis is now available for a wider, international audience that it clearly deserves. The rich research foundations of Everyday Life Under Communism will make it a key source for scholars of consumption in Eastern Europe." https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2022-0041/html -- Zsuzsa Gille * Comparative Southeast European Studies *"Valuch convincingly demonstrates that high levels of inequality were present throughout the period, and that consumption, especially from the 1960s onward, became one of the most important means and realms of social representation and distinction. Accordingly, the book provides a more nuanced understanding of socialist-era consumption, housing, clothing, and dietary habits. It is essential reading not only for scholars of the socialist era but also for those who want to understand the experience of social transformation and regime change in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/austrian-history-yearbook/article/abs/tibor-valuch-everyday-life-under-communism-and-after-lifestyle-and-consumption-in-hungary-19452000-budapest-central-european-university-press-2021-pp-508/BD1F62D2A536D7771D61977993DF4C70?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles -- Sándor Horváth * Austrian History Yearbook *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms Introduction Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts About the sources used for this volume The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two Thousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living Wages, prices, inequalities Unchanging and changing forms of poverty Accumulating property and wealth Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption Consumption and consumer attitudes The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer consumption Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods Clothing and the consumption of apparel The consumption and supply of foodstuffs Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space, and Interior Decoration The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing Village houses, village dwellings For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories Living in dire straits—slums, shantytowns, and ghettos The general characteristics of changes in home interiors Working-class and middle-class homes Rural and peasant interiors The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates Summer and weekend homes Chapter Five: “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century Chapter Six: “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits The general characteristics of eating habits From starvation to “goulash communism” The years of “feeling full” Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain Conclusions Appendix Bibliography Index
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Central European University Press Constructing Identities Over Time: “Bad Gypsies”
Book SynopsisJekatyerina Dunajeva explores how two dominant stereotypes—“bad Gypsies” and “good Roma”—took hold in formal and informal educational institutions in Russia and Hungary. She shows that over centuries “Gypsies” came to be associated with criminality, lack of education, and backwardness. The second notion, of proud, empowered, and educated “Roma,” is a more recent development. By identifying five historical phases—pre-modern, early-modern, early and “ripe” communism, and neomodern nation-building—the book captures crucial legacies that deepen social divisions and normalize the constructed group images. The analysis of the state-managed Roma identity project in the brief korenizatsija program for the integration of non-Russian nationalities into the Soviet civil service in the 1920s is particularly revealing, while the critique of contemporary endeavors is a valuable resource for policy makers and civic activists alike. The top-down view is complemented with the bottom-up attention to everyday Roma voices. Personal stories reveal how identities operate in daily life, as Dunajeva brings out hidden narratives and subaltern discourse. Her handling of fieldwork and self-reflexivity is a model of sensitive research with vulnerable groups.Trade Review"Where the book by Jekatyerina Dunajeva differs from others is in its combination of historical and ethnographic study, in the richness of the material explored and analysed and in the ways in which it problematizes the very labels it analyses. The key strength of the book lies in its attempt to offer new and critical perspectives in the study of Roma identity and Roma ethnicity, over time. It thus provides a wonderful addition and contribution to the field of Romani Studies, while also being of interest to scholars of ethnicity, nationalism, European history and minorities more broadly." https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2022.2078390 -- Raluca Bianca Roman * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"This is a profoundly interesting book, if also not, in its argumentation and conclusions, an especially original one. Written in an accessible style and intended for a general audience, Dunajeva’s monograph is based on a solid documentary base. Her ethnographic research in Roma communities makes the work a substantial contribution to Romani scholarship." -- Steven Usitalo * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Part I. Introduction Chapter 1: Author's Purpose Personal Note Roma and Romani Studies Notes on Methodology Structure and Subject of the Book Chapter 2: Theories and Concepts—State, Nation, and Identity Homogenization Efforts during State and Nation Building Managing the Population and Classifying Identities Comparative and Historical Study Roma in Hungary and Russia throughout Time Part II. Bad Gypsies and Good Roma in Historical Perspective Chapter 3: Early Nation and State Building in Empires Early State and Nation Building: Control over the “Other” Enduring “Backwardness” Chapter 4: The End of Empires The End of Empires: World War One and the 1917 Revolution Soviet Nativization Policies in the 1920s and ’30s Hungary after the Treaty of Trianon A Note on the Holocaust Chapter 5: State Socialism (1945–1989) Assimilationist Campaigns Political Education in State-Socialist Schools Categorization of Roma: Legacies of Socialist Identity Politics and Critical Voices Part III. Contemporary Identity Formation Chapter 6: Fieldwork Fieldwork and Positionality Ethnography: Ethics, Reflexivity, and Positionality Chapter 7: "Bad Gypsies"—Negotiation of Identities in Primary Schools Neo-Modern State Building: National Revival and Patriotic Youth 'Bad Gypsies' in Segregated Schools Disciplining 'Bad Gypsies' in Classrooms Reproducing and Contesting Stereotypes Chapter 8: Making Good Roma from Bad Gypsies Contemporary Antigypsyism Pro-Roma Civil Society’s Roots, Goals, and Projects Negotiation of Identity and Non-state Actors Chapter 9: Negotiating Identity Identity Struggles Identity and Belonging Kinship and Community Part IV. Concluding Remarks Chapter 10: Summary and Best Practices References Index
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Central European University Press The Making of Mămăligă: Transimperial Recipes for
Book SynopsisMămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade. The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.Trade Review"This is not only a masterfully written account of Romanian modernity seen from a 'mămăligocentric perspective,' but also a thorough analysis of the interrelations between gastronomy, politics, economics, national identities, and social perceptions." https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/jrns.2023.6 -- Constantin Ardeleanu * Journal of Romanian Studies *"The extent of the research is fantastic. Drace-Francis covered so many different aspects, from old recipes, to the 1848 Irish famine and their refusal to eat corn (so they don’t turn out black), to the Crimean War, and to different revolts. The links between corn and the Ottoman and russian occupation are covered too. It’s a short book, but filled with interesting facts and presented in an easy to follow and nice narrative." https://www.coffeeandbooks.co.uk/the-making-of-mamaliga-by-alex-drace-francis/ -- Coffee and Books * Coffee and Books *Table of ContentsList of Maps, Graphs, Tables Introduction: The Land is Waiting 1. From the Caribbean to the Carpathians: The Coming of Cucuruz, c.1492-1700 2. Conquerors, Cultivators, and Collaborators: Maize at Empire’s Edge, 1700-1774 3., Conflict, Contagion and Commerce: The Triumph of Maize, 1774-1812 4. Maize, Raki or Death: The Revolt of 1821 Reconsidered 5. Mămăligă 2.0: Maize on the World Market, 1821-1856 6. Independence, Capitalism, Disease and Revolt; Or, Why the Mămăligă Exploded, 1856-1907 7. Manna valachorum: Recipes at the Interface 8. ‘The sparrow dreams of cornmeal, and the idle man of a day of rest’: Mămăligă as Metaphor Conclusion: The Land is Waiting Appendix: Words and Things Glossary Mămăligography Illustration Credits Acknowledgements Index
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University of the West Indies Press Guinea's Other Suns: The African Dynamic in
Book SynopsisButtressed by historical documentary sources, and by painstaking linguistic researches, Maureen Warner-Lewis offers a re-issue and thematic expansion of her classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. The essays then examine some of the African cultural practices and artefacts as recalled by the biological descendants of these migrants during interviews with the author in the 1960s and 70s. The wars caused by ethnic and religious contestations, economic advantage, and imperial expansionism are a significant theme in the literary repertoire, which however embraces love, the yearning for home, pride in ethnic and family identity, the pain of exile, the separation of death.The writer further explores the poetic techniques, musical genres and instrumentation, language patterns, athletic and masquerade traditions, economic arrangements, religious beliefs and rituals of the Yoruba, Kongo, Angolan, Hausa, and Rada (Dahomeyan) communities which this peasantry and urban labour force introduced or reinforced on the island. While some of these artefacts have withered away, or are now moribund, others continue to inform the still-evolving twenty-first century cultural life of the island.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Cultural Dance in Australia: Essays on
Book SynopsisThis book draws on theories of aesthetics, post-colonialism, multiculturalism and transnationalism to explore salient aspects of perpetuating traditional dance customs in diaspora. It is the first book to present a broad-ranging analysis of cultural dance in Australia. Topics include adaptation of dance customs within a post-migration context, multicultural festivals, prominent performers, historiographies and archives, and the relative positionings of cultural and Western theatrical dance genres. The book offers a decolonized appraisal of dance in Australia, critiquing past and present praxes and offering suggestions for the future. Overall, it underscores the highly variegated nature of the Australian dance landscape and advocates for greater recognition of amateur community dance practices. Cultural Dance in Australia makes a substantial contribution to the catalogue of work about immigrants and cultural dance styles that continue to be preserved in Australia. This book will be of interest to scholars of dance, performance studies, migration studies and transnationalism.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Preface.- Chapter 2. Dance in Diaspora.- Chapter 3. The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon.- Chapter 4. Motifs of Migration: Reproducing Dance in a New Environment.- Chapter 5. In the Spotlight: Public Performances of Cultural Dance in Australia.- Chapter 6. The Shell Folkloric Festival: The Most Prominent Multicultural Event.- Chapter 7. Riverdance and the dissolution of cultural boundaries in Australian Irish Dancing .- Chapter 8. The Ivory Tower and its Fixed Pointe of Reference.- Chapter 9. Borders, Boundaries and Difference.- Chapter 10. The White Pages: Australian Dance Writings.- Chapter 11. The Need for an Archive of Cultural Dance.- Chapter 12. Steps Towards the Future.
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Broadview Press Ltd Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings
Book SynopsisFor the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an Anglo-Jewish woman. Aguilar’s writing responds to English representations of Jews and women by writers such as Felicia Hemans, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Macaulay. She both assimilates and alters the genres of historical romance, dramatic monologue, domestic fiction, history, and midrash, among others.This edition includes Aguilar’s novella The Perez Family in its entirety; the Sephardic historical romance “The Escape,” her Sephardic historical romance, “History of the Jews in England,” the first such history ever written by a Jew; major poems; excerpts from The Women of Israel; and Aguilar’s Frankfurt journal, never before published. Also included are primary source materials such as writings on “the Jewish question” from Aguilar’s non-Jewish contemporaries, tributes and memoirs, and contemporary responses to her work.Trade Review“This well-conceived edition makes an extraordinary contribution to our understanding of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture in the early Victorian era. Michael Galchinsky’s introductions and notes (as well as excellently chosen appended materials that in several cases reprint long unavailable works by other writers) place Aguilar’s writing in its often overlapping Romantic, Victorian, and Jewish contexts to restore an important voice to literary history.” — Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University“Michael Galchinsky’s splendid edition of Grace Aguilar’s work, long out of print, revives the founder of Anglo-Jewish literature; the significance of her novels, poems, histories, and theological work cannot be overestimated. His rich and incisive introduction, incorporating valuable original scholarship, examines Aguilar’s energetic warfare as an Anglo-Jewish woman writer in both Anglo-Christian and Anglo-Jewish patriarchal worlds and sheds much new light on the trans-Atlantic Jewish connection. Ancillary materials, as well as expert notes, deftly shape out Aguilar’s literary and religious environment.” — Daniel A. Harris, Rutgers University, New Brunswick“Making available the work of the first Anglo-Jewish woman writer, this is a welcome and timely anthology. Michael Galchinsky’s detailed introduction provides an excellent account of the contexts in which Grace Aguilar wrote, as a Sephardic Jew during the period of debates about religious equality and religious reform and as a published woman writer during the heyday of ‘separate spheres’ ideology. Aguilar’s writing on domestic womanhood and Jewish female education, her Jewish historical fiction, and her religious poetry offer a fascinating example of the appropriation and adaptation by a Jewish writer of mainstream Victorian literary genres.” — Nadia Valman, University of Southampton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSignificanceBiographyLiterary and Historical ContextsCritical ReceptionGrace Aguilar: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextI. Fiction“The Escape”“The Perez Family”“The Spirit of Night”II. Poetry“Sabbath Thoughts III”“An Hour of Peace”“A Poet’s Dying Hymn”“Song of the Spanish Jews, During their ‘Golden Age’”“A Vision of Jerusalem, While Listening to a Beautiful Organ in one of the Gentile Shrines”“The Address to the Ocean”“The Hebrew’s Appeal, On Occasion of the Late Fearful Ukase Promulgated by the Emperor of Russia”“Dialogue Stanzas”“The Wanderers”“The Rocks of Elim”III. Non-Fiction Prosefrom The Spirit of Judaism[Our Hearts Must Breathe from Our Lips][The Bible as Foundation and Defense][The Hebrew’s Neglect of the Bible][A Minority’s Faith and Observance][Hints on the Religious Instruction of the HebrewYouth][The Significance of the Hebrew Language][The Value of Profane History and Fiction][The Spirit and the Forms of JudaismConsidered Separately and Together]from The Women of Israel“Introduction”“Sarah”“Miriam”“Deborah”from The Jewish Faithfrom Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings“Preface”“Morning Meditation”“Prayer for the Government of the Thoughts”From “The Prophecies of Isaiah”“History of the Jews in England”Appendix A: Victorian Tributes Testimonial from the Misses Levison and Isaacs Abraham Benisch, Obituary Isaac Leeser, Obituary Athenaeum, Obituary Tribute by the Ladies Of the Society for theReligious Instruction Of Jewish Youth, Charleston Marion Hartog,“Lines Written on the Death ofGrace Aguilar” Anna Maria Hall, From “A Pilgrimage to the Grave ofGrace Aguilar” Rebecca Gratz, Letters to Miriam Gratz Cohen Appendix B: Victorian Criticism Isaac Leeser,“Editor’s Preface” to Spirit of Judaism Jacob Franklin, Review of Spirit of Judaism, from Voice of Jacob Review of The Women of Israel, from Athenaeum Review of Home Influence, from Howitt’s Journal Abraham Benisch, Review of Imrei Lev, from Jewish Chronicle Sarah Aguilar, Correspondence with Miriam and Solomon Cohen on Sabbath Thoughts and Sacred Communings Appendix C: Romantic and Victorian Reflections on “The Jewish Question” George Gordon, Lord Byron,“Jephthah’s Daughter” (1815) Walter Scott, From Ivanhoe (1819) William Wordsworth,“The Jewish Family” (1828) Thomas Babington Macaulay, from “Speech on Jewish Disabilities” (1831) Sarah Stickney Ellis, from Women of England (1838) Felicia Hemans,“The Song of Miriam” (1839) Appendix D: Victorian Jewish Writers Morris Raphall,“ldquo;The Sun and the Moon” (1834) Marion and Celia Moss, from Early Efforts (1839) Abraham Benisch,“Our Women” (1861) Appendix E: Aguilar’s Frankfurt JournalSelect Bibliography
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Broadview Press Ltd Novel Definitions: An Anthology of Commentary on
Book SynopsisNovel Definitions captures the lively critical debate surrounding the invention of the English novel, showing how the rise of the novel was accompanied by a rise in popular literary criticism. The anthology collects over 135 primary sources that chart the long eighteenth century’s interpretation of the novel. These sources—many newly-discovered—include essays, prefaces, reviews, and sermons written by authors ranging from Aphra Behn to Walter Scott. Novel Definitions brings together authors’ prefatory analyses of their work; essayists’ debates concerning the novel’s formal qualities; commentators’ questions concerning the novel’s cultural position, including whether or not women and children should read novels; reviewers’ definitions of the qualities that make a novel successful; and literary historians’ first attempts to write the history of the novel.Trade Review“[Novel Definitions] is essential reading in both the culture and theory of novel writing and reading during the eighteenth century. Our courses on the eighteenth-century novel and our writing about the novel will be much the better for its appearance.” — Jonathan Kramnick, Studies in English Literature“Cheryl Nixon’s Novel Definitions is an extremely useful, comprehensive, and very well-organized anthology of responses, both professional and popular, to the English novel in the period of its cultural ascendency. Both in its range—which covers major statements about the developing genre from Huet and Behn through Reeve and Barbauld—and in its depth—which places well-known texts by writers such as Richardson and Johnson alongside a wealth of less familiar criticism and commentary—Novel Definitions offers an indispensible resource for teaching and researching the history of the novel in eighteenth-century Britain.” — Scott Black, University of Utah“In this superb anthology, both learned and lively, Cheryl Nixon provides a thoughtful and theoretically informed introduction to the critical commentaries that shaped the debate over the meaning of the “new” novel. Authors and critics became cultural commentators, members of a cultural community all too aware of what was at stake in their new form…This collection is invaluable for a study of the novel and of eighteenth-century British culture.” — Carol Flynn, Tufts University“Cheryl Nixon’s invaluable Novel Definitions gathers vast and rich commentary that expands our understanding of eighteenth-century novels. With a superb introduction, Novel Definitions is intelligently designed and thoughtfully organized, schematizing its numerous materials into formal and thematic categories that foreground the experimental and provocative nature of the genre in its earliest incarnations. Students of the eighteenth-century novel will want to read all these prefaces, critical essays, commentaries and book reviews, for they illuminate the important controversies and vexing debates that preoccupied the eighteenth-century reading public. Novel Definitions is an outstanding edition of rarely-collected material that should be required reading.” — Tita Chico, University of MarylandTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionA Note on the TextPart I: Prefatory WritingA. The Novel’s Relationship to Fact, Fiction, and Truth Aphra Behn, Dedication and Opening of Oroonoko (1688) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Robinson Crusoe (1719) Daniel Defoe, Preface to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719) Penelope Aubin, Preface to The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil and his Family (1721) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Pamela (1740) Eliza Haywood, Preface to The Fortunate Foundlings (1744) John Cleland, Opening of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748-49) Charles Johnstone, Preface to Chrysal (1760-65) Elizabeth Griffith, Preface to The Delicate Distress (1769) Thomas Thoughtless [pseudonym], Advertisement to The Fugitive of Folly (1793) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form William Congreve, Preface to Incognita (1692) Jane Barker, Preface to Exilius (1715) Mary Davys, Preface to The Works of Mrs. Davys (1725) Henry Fielding, Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742) Sarah Fielding, Advertisement to The Adventures of David Simple (1744) Henry Fielding, Preface to Sarah Fielding, The Adventures of David Simple, 2nd ed. (1744) Tobias Smollett, Preface to The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) Henry Fielding, from Book 9, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Thomas Holcroft, Preface to Alwyn (1780) [Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth], Preface to Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent (1800) Sarah Green, Preface to Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Delariviere Manley, Preface to The Secret History, of Queen Zarah, and the Zarazians (1705) Daniel Defoe, Preface to Moll Flanders (1722) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Richardson], Preface to Penelope Aubin, A Collection of Entertaining Histories and Novels (1739) Samuel Richardson, Preface to Clarissa (1747-48) Henry Fielding, from Book 8, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Tobias Smollett, Dedication to The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) Jane Collier and Sarah Fielding, Introduction to The Cry (1754) Sarah Scott, Preface to The History of Sir George Ellison (1766) Richard Cumberland, from Book 3, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) Mary Hays, Preface to Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) D. The Novel’s Definition as a Gothic, Eastern, Sentimental, Political, or Historical Tale Horace Walpole, Prefaces to The Castle of Otranto (1764, 1765) James Yeo, Preface to Omar and Zemira (1782) Clara Reeve, Preface to The School for Widows (1791) Charlotte Smith, Preface to Desmond (1792) Walter Scott, “Introductory” to Waverley (1814) Part II: Critical EssaysA. The Novel’s Relation to Fact, Fiction, and the Real John Dunton, ed., Athenian Mercury, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1692) Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 416 (1712) Charles Gildon, “A Dialogue betwixt D— F–e, Robinson Crusoe, and his Man Friday” and “An Epistle to D— D’F–e, the Reputed Author of Robinson Crusoe,” The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Mr. D—DeF– (1719) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 4 (1750) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 4 (1752) William Whitehead, The World, No. 19 (1753) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On the Pleasure derived from Objects of Terror […]” and “An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations […],” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) George Wright, “Modern Novel-Writers Justly Censur’d,” Pleasing Reflections on Life and Manners (1787) William Hazlitt, “Standard Novels,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 24 (1815) B. The Novel’s Definition as a Romance, History, Biography, or Other Form John Dennis, from Essay on the Genius and Writings of Shakespear (1712) Peter Shaw, “Of Writings designed to improve Morality,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, from A Dictionary of the English Language (1755) Richard Hurd, from A Dissertation on the Idea of Universal Poetry (1766) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld and John Aikin, “On Romances, An Imitation” and “On the Province of Comedy,” Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose (1773) Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, from Letters written by … the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son (1774) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 28 (1785) George Canning, The Microcosm, No. 26 (1787) Robert Alves, “A Parallel between History and Novel writing,” Sketches of a History of Literature (1794) C. The Novel’s Structuring of Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Aaron Hill, “[Letter] To the Editor of Pamela,” Samuel Richardson, Pamela, 2nd ed. (1741) Sarah Fielding, from Remarks on Clarissa, Addressed to the Author (1749) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 139 (1751) Anonymous, from An Essay on the New Species of Writing founded by Mr. Fielding (1751) Edward Young, from Conjectures on Original Composition (1759) Arthur Murphy, Introduction to The Works of Henry Fielding (1762) James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, from Vol. 3 of Of the Origin and Progress of Language (1776) William Craig, The Mirror, No. 31 (1779) Richard Cumberland, “Remarks upon novels, and particularly of Richardson’s Clarissa,” Vol. 2 of The Observer (1786) Humphry Repton, “On the Clarissa of Richardson and Fielding’s Tom Jones,” Variety (1787) Part III: Cultural CommentaryA. The Novel’s Expanding Popularity Philip Skelton, from The Candid Reader (1744) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 35 (1753) Edward Moore, The World, No. 13 (1753) George Colman (the Elder) and Bonnell Thornton, The Connoisseur, No. 96 (1755) Oliver Goldsmith, “A Resverie,” The Bee, No. 5 (1759) George Colman (the Elder), Prologue to Polly Honeycombe, A Dramatic Novel of One Act (1760) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Multiplication of Books,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) “R.R.E.,” Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 57 (1787) Thomas Wilson, from The Use of Circulating Libraries Considered (1797) B. The Novel’s Moral Influence Samuel Croxall, Preface to A Select Collection of Novels (1720-22) John Hawkesworth, The Adventurer, No. 16 (1752) Elizabeth Montagu, “Plutarch—Charon—And a Modern Bookseller,” George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton [and Elizabeth Montagu], Dialogues of the Dead (1760) Richard Griffith, “Novels,” Vol. 1 of Something New (1772) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Efficacy of Moral Instruction,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Henry Mackenzie, The Lounger, No. 20 (1785) C. The Novel’s Proper Use by Young People Samuel Pegge (the Elder), Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 37 (1767) William Jones, “On Novels,” Letters from a Tutor to his Pupils (1780) Vicesimus Knox, “On the Best Method of Exciting in Boys the Symptoms of Literary Genius,” Vol. 1 of Essays Moral and Literary, new ed. (1782) Catherine Macaulay, “Literary Education,” Letters on Education (1790) Erasmus Darwin, “Polite Literature,” A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, in Boarding Schools (1797) William Godwin, “Of Choice in Reading,” The Enquirer (1797) Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, “Books,” Vol. 1 of Practical Education (1798) Elizabeth Parker, Eleanor Smith, Eliza Sinclaire, and Jane Lewis, [Students’ Prize-winning Essays on “The Love of Novels,”] Vol. 1 of The Juvenile Library (1800) D. The Novel’s Power Over Women Mary Astell, from A Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694) Judith Drake, from An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex (1696) Richard Berenger, The World, No. 79 (1754) James Fordyce, “On Female Virtue,” Vol. 1 of Sermons to Young Women (1766) Hester Chapone, “On Politeness and Accomplishments,” Vol. 2 of Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (1773) Mary Wollstonecraft, “Some Instances of the Folly which the Ignorance of Women Generates […],” A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Ann Wingrove, “On Reading Novels,” Letters, Moral and Entertaining (1795) Thomas Gisborne, “On the Employment of Time,” An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (1797) Rachel Hunter, Preface to The Unexpected Legacy (1804) E. The Novel’s Threat to Religion John Nesbitt, from A Sermon Preached to Young Persons (1713) George Whitefield, from Christ the Best Husband (1740) James Relly, from The Life of Christ (1762) John Kendall, from Remarks on the Prevailing Custom of Attending Stage Entertainments: Also on the Present Taste for Reading Romances and Novels (1794) William Jones, from The Human Imagination (1796) Hester Rogers, from The Experience of Mrs. H.A. Rogers (1796) Part IV: Book ReviewsA. Competing Reviews of the Same Novel Owen Ruffhead, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Monthly Review, No. 24(1761) Anonymous, Review of Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Vols. 3 and 4, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Monthly Review, No. 58 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Gentleman’s Magazine, No. 48 (1778) Anonymous, Review of Frances Burney, Evelina, Critical Review, No. 46 (1778) Anonymous [attributed to Samuel Taylor Coleridge], Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 11 (1794) and Addendum to Review, Critical Review, Series 2, No. 12 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 15 (1794) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, British Critic, Vol. 41, No. 2 (1813) Anonymous, Review of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Critical Review, Series 4, Vol. 3, No. 3 (1813) B. Positive Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, London Magazine, No. 18 (1749) John Cleland, Review of Tobias Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, Monthly Review, No. 4 (1751) Owen Ruffhead, Review of John Hawkesworth, Almoran and Hamet, Monthly Review, No. 24 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph, Critical Review, No. 11 (1761) Anonymous, Review of Mary Robinson, Vancenza, Monthly Review, No. 7 (1792) Anonymous, Review of Charlotte Smith, The Old Manor House, Analytical Review, No. 16 (1793) Anonymous, Review of William Godwin, Caleb Williams, Analytical Review, No. 21 (1795) Walter Scott, Review of Jane Austen, Emma, Quarterly Review, No. 14 (1815) C. Negative Reviews of the Novel’s Plot, Character, Style, and Morality Anonymous, Review of Anonymous, The Fortune-Teller, Critical Review, No. 1 (1756) Anonymous, [A Series of Short Negative Reviews,] Monthly Review, No. 42 (1770) Anonymous, “Address to the Public” and Review of Anonymous, Peggy and Patty, London Magazine, No. 1 (1783) Anonymous, Review of Mrs. Thompson [i.e., Harriet Pigott], The Labyrinths of Life, Monthly Review, Series 2, No. 5 (1791) D. Writers Review the Critics Henry Fielding, from Book 11, Chapter 1 of Tom Jones (1749) Peter Shaw, “Of Authors and Censors,” The Reflector (1750) Samuel Johnson, The Rambler, No. 176 (1751) Frances Burney, Dedication of Evelina (1778) Isaac Disraeli, “The Origin of Literary Journals,” Curiosities of Literature (1791) Richard Cumberland, from Book 2, Chapter 1 and Book 4, Chapter 1 of Henry (1795) William Beckford, “An Humble Address to the Doers of […] the British Critic,” Vol. 2 of Modern Novel Writing (1796) Part V: Histories of the NovelA. The Rise of the Novel Pierre-Daniel Huet, from The History of Romances [Trans. Stephen Lewis] (1715) Hugh Blair, “Fictitious History,” Vol. 2 of Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (1783) James Beattie, “On Fable and Romance,” Dissertations Moral and Critical (1783) Clara Reeve, from The Progress of Romance (1785) John Moore, “A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance,” The Works of Tobias Smollett (1797) Anna Letitia [Aikin] Barbauld, “On the Origin and Progress of Novel-Writing,” The British Novelists (1810) Glossary of Authors and TextsChronological List of TextsBibliographyIndex
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Seven Myths of Native American History
Book Synopsis"Misconceptions continue to shape public perceptions of American Indians. Deeply ingrained cultural fictions, what Jentz (history, North Hennepin Community College) refers to as myths, have had a lasting hold on popular understanding of Native Americans. In this readable and engaging overview, Jentz provides an important corrective, one that not only catalogs key stories and stereotypes but also lays a foundation for challenging them. As the title indicates, Jentz seeks to demystify seven fundamental ideas about American Indians through critical histories. Following a helpful introductory discussion, he devotes a chapter to each myth. Specifically, he unpacks (1) the noble savage, (2) the ignoble savage, (3) wilderness and wildness, (4) the vanishing native, (5) the authentic Indian, (6) the ecological Indian, and (7) the mystical native. Throughout, Jentz employs clear language and tangible examples to clarify each myth and its significance. [T]his work will greatly benefit nonspecialists, including high school teachers and students. The volume will be useful as either a textbook in introductory courses in Native American studies or as secondary reading. Summing Up: Highly recommended." —C. R. King, Washington State University, in ChoiceTrade Review"Seven Myths of Native American History will provide undergraduates and general readers with a very useful introduction to Native America past and present. Jentz identifies the origins and remarkable staying power of these myths at the same time he exposes and dismantles them." —Colin G. Calloway, Dartmouth College"Jentz's Seven Myths of Native American History is a wonderfully nuanced examination of the most common misconceptions that North Americans have held, and often continue to hold, about the original inhabitants of this continent. Jentz's book does an especially good job of weaving in the cultural productions—fiction, poetry, movies, and television shows—that created and sustained these myths. This approach allows students and members of the general public alike to become more critical consumers of cultural productions about Native Americans." —Andrae Marak, Governors State University"I never imagined that my Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest, first published in 2003, would prove to be so enduring a format for helping students of all kinds to rethink key moments in human history. It is therefore a great honor to see that the book has now inspired Hackett Publishing Company's "Myths of History" series, expertly and effectively edited by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt." —Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University"[W]hat gives this book its strength is Jentz's demonstration of how each myth continues to shape the dominant culture's understanding of American Indians. Equally important, Jentz shows how some of the myths emerged from the earliest periods of colonization, while others emerged as a result of trends and developments outside of Indian-Euro-American relations. With each myth, Jentz argues for a particular 'origin' of the myth and then traces its evolution into contemporary times. As a result, each chapter leaves the reader with a greater appreciation for how certain attitudes and/or beliefs continue to shape our perceptions of Native American society." —Michael J. Mullin, Augustana University, in Ethnohistory"Jentz’s work and its analysis of a variety of different fields, including history, art, culture, and media, make this book useful for scholars in many different academic fields. Although Jentz provides a detailed history of the development of each myth, he does so in an easy-to-understand manner, taking care to not lose the reader in a sea of technical jargon. This makes the book not only accessible as a resource for scholars doing work related to Native Americans but also assignable to students, providing them with an effective entry point into challenging the preconceived notions of Native Americans that are, unfortunately, still prevalent in American society." —Deondre Smiles, The Ohio State University, in American Indian Quarterly"Jentz is not the first to attempt to correct erroneous generalizations regarding American Indians; however, he is more effective than most in exposing the historical genesis of these constructed depictions. . . .The book is successful in being accessible to the undergraduate and general audiences Hackett Publishing intended for its Seven Myths book series . . . a useful companion text for undergraduate survey courses in American history. . . . Jentz closes on a positive note by providing examples of more complex portrayals of and by American Indians to which readers can turn" —David Dry, in Native American and Indigenous Studies
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Academic Studies Press Don’t Be a Stranger: Russian Literature and the
Book SynopsisIt is human nature to want to fit in. The lengths people have gone to do so have provided creative minds with material for centuries. This book explores the consequences of being marked an outsider in the Russian-speaking world through a close study of several seminal works of Russian literature. The author combines the fields of literary studies, linguistics, and sociology to illuminate what prompted Christof Ruhl, an economist at the World Bank, to comment, about Russia, “On a very broad scale, it’s a country where people care about their family and friends. Their clan. But not their society.”Trade Review“Don’t be a Stranger is an important and extremely relevant contribution to Russian literary studies. While the book focuses on two literary works, Galie also reflects on the relevance of ‘свой-чужой’ to contemporary Russian society more broadly, and on the ways in which leading figures of the Putin regime and media have utilized their pejorative associations. Indeed, scholars of ethnicity, gender and sexuality studies in Russia will find this book particularly useful and stimulating in the broad discussion surrounding identity and belonging in Putin’s Russia.” — Thomas Reid, University of St. Andrews, Forum For Modern Language StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsNote on TransliterationIntroduction: Fitting in Russian Style1. The Crux of the Svoj/Chuzhoj Opposition2. Making Svoj/Chuzhoj Divisive in Alexander Griboedov’s “Woe from Wit”3. “Woe from Wit” as Social Gospel4. The Demons are SocialDemonsThe SettingThe PlotThe Audience and the StageThe OppositionVerkhovenskyA Stranger’s SinsThe First ArgumentThe Second ArgumentThe DuelAt Our People’sThe Murder of ShatovIn Place of a ConclusionBibliographyPrimary SourcesSecondary Sources
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Academic Studies Press Jews and American Public Life: Essays on American
Book SynopsisOver a career spanning forty years, David G. Dalin has written extensively about the role of American Jews in public life, from the nation’s founding, to presidential appointments of Jews, to lobbying for the welfare of Jews abroad, to Jewish prominence in government, philanthropy, intellectual life, and sports, and their one-time prominence in the Republican Party. His work on the separation of Church and State and a prescient 1980 essay about the limits of free speech and the goal of Neo-Nazis to stage a march in Skokie, Illinois, are especially noteworthy. Here for the first time are a collection of sixteen of his essays which portray American Jews who have left their mark on American public life and politics.Table of ContentsForeword by Jonathan D. Sarna Acknowledgments Permissions Introduction Part OnePresidents, Presidential Appointments and America’s Jews1. The Founding Fathers and American Jews2. Presidents, Presidential Appointments, and Jews3. The Appointment of Louis D. Brandeis, First Jewish Justice on the Supreme CourtPart TwoGerman-Jewish Notables and American Jewish Public Life4. Mayer Sulzberger and American Jewish Public Life5. Patron par Excellence—Mayer Sulzberger and the Early Seminary6. Louis Marshall, the Jewish Vote, and the Republican Party7. The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald8. Cyrus Adler, Non-Zionism, and the Zionist Movement: A Study in Contradictions9. Cyrus Adler and the Rescue of Jewish Refugee ScholarsPart ThreeChurch-State Relations and America’s Jews10. American Jews and the Church-State Debate Part FourJews and Civil Liberties11. Jews, Nazis, and Civil Liberties Part FiveJews and City Politics12. Jewish Republicanism and City Politics: The San Francisco Experience, 1911–1963Part SixJewish Intellectuals and Jewish Public Life13. From Marxism to Judaism: Will Herberg in Retrospect14. The Jewish Historiography of Hannah ArendtPart SevenJews, Baseball, and American Public Life15. Hank Greenberg at 100: Remembering Baseball’s Greatest Jewish Superstar16. A Brief, Brilliant Career: Why We Can’t Forget Sandy KoufaxIndex
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