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ATF Press Fragments of Colossae
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Spinifex Press Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s
Book SynopsisWhat was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully rebellious activism. And how they continue this activism today with determined grittiness. Here are women – all over 70 years of age – still railing against the patriarchal systemic oppression of women, still fighting back. “Don’t Call Me Sweetie,” “Never Waste a Good Crisis” and “Still Here, Still Clear and Still Lesbian” is some of what they want us to know. The contributors to Not Dead Yet have created new analyses with new language and new kinds of organisations always aware of the ways in which the system is stacked against us, particularly against radical feminists. But we persist. We share the revolutionary zest we have carried with us over many decades. There is history, there is subversion and there are many extraordinary acts of courage. The language is full of irony and wit – as well as deadly serious. The Women’s Liberation Movement has had a profound effect on the lives of millions of women and in turn those women have changed our world. But the struggle continues. May these riveting tales by the foremothers of the movement inspire young women readers. #NotDeadYetTable of ContentsSisterhood Is Still Powerful: Maintaining the Rage • Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein The New Old Woman • Robin Morgan The Women’s History Insurgency • Max Dashu 1945 • Coleen Clare Against a Hierarchy of Oppressions • Linda Bellos Full Body Scan • Sandra Butler Old Feminists • Janice G. Raymond Women’s Liberation Now and Then • Sheila Jeffreys Activism • Alison J. Laurie Madame Memory • Suniti Namjoshi A ‘Sweetie’ I Am Not! • Betty McLellan Dadirri • Judy Atkinson Never the Victory, Only the Struggle • Phyllis Chesler From Onlooker to Organizer • Corazon Valdez Fabros The Homeward Star • Carol Lefevre Emily’s Mermaid • Patricia Sykes Onwards • Cheryl Adam Never Underestimate the Power of a Group of Radical Feminists • Renate Klein Never Turning Back: 50 Years of Feminism • Sandra Coney A Proud Woman • Catherine Johns (Red Catherine) Gracie Greylag the Protofeminist • Suniti Namjoshi Activism Comes in Waves • Elaine Hutton Waves of Feminism • Lynda Birke and Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes Mary Stuart Queen of Scots • Jena Woodhouse Rainbow’s End • Carole Moschetti Still So Much To Do • Denise Thompson Phone Call in the Year of COVID-19 • Sandra Shotlander Our House • Biff Ward Still Here, Still Clear and Still Lesbian • Peggy A. Luhrs Autonomous and Abolitionist Feminism • Marta Fontenla Strengthening Feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand • Prue Hyman Great-grandmother’s Disturbing Encounter at Checkout, 8.00 a.m., Woolworths at Kenmore, February 2021 • Carole Ferrier Explosion in Beirut: August 4, 2020 • Evelyne Accad I Am Impatient • Judy Atkinson The Light Is in the Blood • Elaine d’Esterre The Women’s Health Movement: Relevant as Never Before • Phillida Bunkle Plunging In: Life and Times in the 1970s • Susan Varga Education as Legitimate Escape to Independence for a Middle-class Woman • Maresi Nerad Reclaiming Our 1970s Feminist History • Judy Wells Angry Women • Lynne Harne Silly Young Girls and Hairy-legged Lesbians • Lavender (Kate Lavender) Becoming Irregular, Inspired by the Crones • Cheris Kramarae Scribbling Sisters • Lynne Spender A Golden Decade • Phyllis Hall Liberating Goddesses • Spider Redgold Mileva Einstein-Marić: Scientific Collaborator of Albert Einstein • Senta Trömel-Plötz In Praise of Sappho • Suniti Namjoshi Origins • Kerryn Higgs Radical Lesbian Feminists United • Jean Taylor I Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids • Kaye Johnston Could Be Wrong • Sue Ingleton From Military Dictatorship to Patriarchal Neoliberalism: Always Feminist! • Magui Bellotti A Call for Mother Earth and Humanity • Claudia von Werlhof An Honest History • Martha Shelley Ms Trewerway • Eileen Haley Personally • Finola Moorhead Interspersions from the Guard’s Van • Patricia Sykes Surely Not! Says Who? Wait a Minute! • Helen Daintree Life after Death: Carrying on the Work of Rita Arditti (1934–2009) • Estelle Disch A Feminist Manifesto: Never Waste a Good Crisis • Diane Bell
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Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Scoundrels and Saloons: Whisky Wars of the
Book SynopsisFrom the days of the fur trade, one constant thread weaves its way through the tumultuous history of frontier British Columbia, Washington and Oregon--the war over liquor. Between 1840 and 1917, the whisky wars of the west coast were fought by historical heavyweights, including Matthew Baillie Begbie (the Hanging Judge) and Wyatt Earp, and a contentious assortment of murderous whisky traders, angry Natives, corrupt policemen, patronage-loving politicians and trigger-happy drunks. Liquor was a serious and life-threatening issue in 19th-century west coast settlements. In 1864 Victoria, there were at least 149 drinking establishments to serve a thirsty population of only 6,500. Despite various prohibition efforts, the trade in alcohol flourished. Recreating British gunboat arrests, the evangelistic fervour of Billy Sunday and the tireless crusade of the Anti-Saloon League, author Rich Mole chronicles the first tempestuous and tragic struggles for and against having a drink in the Pacific Northwest.
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Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Rum-Runners & Renegades: Whisky Wars of the
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Great Plains Publications Ltd Wish You Were Here: Hand-tinted Postcards from
Book SynopsisBefore email, before Instagram and selfies, postcards were mailed across the world. At the turn of the 20th century, travellers to Winnipeg were impressed by the city's stately architecture, its broad streets, and its tranquil parks. Hand-tinted postcards expressed the vibrancy and optimism felt by visitors to Manitoba. Dreamlike and evocative, these vintage postcards are truly works of art.
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Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. 100 Campeones: Latino Grounbreakers Who Paved the
Book SynopsisThis is much more than a group of stories that feature the talents, triumphs, and tempests of the careers of Latinos in sport. It is a book of living history, rich in culture and tradition. It is a collection of firsts, of legends, and of names that will soon become familiar to the world. The book is a treasure box of inspiring stories that were, at times, created out of dire hardship and oppression.
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Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. 150 Heroes: People in Sport Who Make This a
Book SynopsisThis book is a celebration of all that is good in the sporting world. For the 25th anniversary of the National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS), Richard Lapchick and a crew of dedicated researchers bring to you some of the most uplifting stories in sporting history, featuring student-athletes, professional athletes, athletics administrators, civic leaders, coaches, parents, and more who have had a positive and great impact on sport and society, often in the face of adversity and discouragement.
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Fitness Information Technology, Inc, U.S. Reading Baseball: Books, Biographies & the
Book SynopsisBraham Dabscheck muses upon some of baseball''s silent yet magnificently important treasures. He examines several topics, including the business of the game (industrial and labour relations, Curt Flood, law and organised baseball); social commentary biographies (the work of Stephen Jay Gould and Ken Burns, for example); and culture of the game as it spreads across the globe to places like Australia, Japan, and Latin America. This collection of essays is both insightful and remarkable, and is a valuable companion to any enthusiast.
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IRH Press USA Inc. The Laws of Justice: How We Can Solve World
Book SynopsisHow can we resolve conflicts in this world? Why is that we continue to live in a world of turmoil, when we all wish to live in a world of peace and harmony? Just in recent years, we ve faced issues that jeopardize international peace and security, including the rise of ISIS, Syrian civil war and refugee crisis, break-off of diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Russia s annexation of Crimea, China s military expansion, and North Korea s nuclear development. In hopes of offering solutions to global crises, thereby bringing peace, security, and happiness to all people, Ryuho Okawa, Global Visionary who has readers in over 100 countries wrote The Laws of Justice. This book shows what global justice is from a comprehensive perspective of the Supreme God. Becoming aware of this view will let us embrace differences in beliefs, recognize other people s divine nature, and love and forgive one another. It will also become the key to solving the issues we face, whether they re religious, political, societal, economic, or academic, and help the world become a better and safer world for all of us living today."
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Otago University Press Otago: 150 Years of New Zealand's First
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Boulder Books The William Cormack Story: Newfoundland Explorer
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Oratia Media Auckland: The Twentieth-Century Story
Book SynopsisMore biography than conventional history, this substantial work tracks the changing personality of Auckland through the twentieth century, as recorded by its inhabitants in diaries and oral histories, as well as newspapers and formal records. Auckland in 1999 would have been unrecognisable to the city''s residents in 1900. Professor Paul Moon explores this transformation in themes including housing, gardening, the harbours, tangata whenua struggles, shopping culture, the immigrant experience -- and the pervading sense that Auckland was simultaneously at the edge of the world and at its centre.
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Boulder Books And the Tony Goes To...: Newfoundland and
Book SynopsisCome from Away brought Newfoundland and Labrador to the bright lights of Broadway, but it''s not the first time this province has taken centre stage. Albert Einstein, Johnny Cash, Frank Sinatra, Mariah Carey, Muhammad Ali, Jason Momoa and dozens of other international celebrities and adventurers have passed through the province. Others, such as Kaetlyn Osmond, Natasha Henstridge, and Shannon Tweed achieved stardom after leaving Newfoundland and Labrador. And through the decades, Newfoundland and Labrador and its people have shown up again and again in Hollywood movies, sitcoms, newsreels, and pop culture lore. Filled with delightful and quirky trivia, And the Tony Goes To... collects these anecdotes and appearances. Some of these stories you may have heard before -- others will take you by surprise. All of them offer a bit of insight and fun, and the chance to bask in Newfoundland and Labrador''s 15 minutes of fame.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Winston Churchill in the British Media: National
Book SynopsisThe book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers. By using a variety of newspapers from these areas, it examines local opinions about Churchill at the time he was the wartime prime minister. It analyses how Churchill was received and depicted by newspapers in the UK and why differences in these depictions emerged in each area. It contributes to the study of public opinion in the war and of Churchill’s reputation, of the British media, as well as to the study of the notion of Britishness, focusing on local perspectives.Table of ContentsChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Northern IrelandChapter 3. ScotlandChapter 4. WalesChapter 5. BirminghamChapter 6. North EnglandChapter 7. Conclusion
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Bohlau Verlag Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of
Book SynopsisWorld War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.
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Bohlau Verlag Collapse of Memory - Memory of Collapse:
Book SynopsisThe attraction of crises - collapse, disaster, catastrophe
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Bohlau Verlag Urban Spaces and the complexity of Cities
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Bohlau Verlag The New University of Cologne: Its History from
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG What Makes the Nobility Noble?: Comparative
Book SynopsisIn this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 1800 is deliberately crossed. By centring on the nobility, the authors undertake a new exploration of the continuities and ruptures in European history. In the three thematic areas of law, politics and aesthetics, the noble knights' utilisation of the early modern courts in the Holy Roman Empire is considered, along with the social and political identity of the English nobility in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions make clear the virtuosity with which the nobility met the challenges of their time, and how they managed to be simultaneously 'contemporary' and retain a specific aristocratic character.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Variations and Transformations of Childhood in
Book SynopsisHistorical study of childhood in the Bohemian lands and Slovakia
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Judaism and Crisis: Crisis as a Catalyst in
Book SynopsisIn their long history, Jews encountered political, social, cultural, and religious crises which threatened not only their very existence but Jewish identity as well. Examples for such crises include the Babylonian Exile, the so-called Hellenistic Religious reforms, the first and second Jewish war, the inquisition, and the Shoah, but also the encounter of modernity or socio-economic developments. Political, cultural, and religious crises did not coin Jewish culture, thought, and religion but forced Jews from the very beginnings of Judaism until today to rethink and shape their Jewish identity anew. This volume asks how Jews coped with events that threatened Jewish existence, culture, and religion and how they responded to them. Each crisis was different in nature and evoked hence different developments in Jewish culture, thought, and religion.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Armed Memory: Agency and Peasant Revolts in
Book SynopsisThe edited volume aims to re-contextualize revolts in early modern Central and Southern Europe (Hungary, Croatia, Czech Lands, Austria, Germany, Italy) by adopting the interdisciplinary and comparative methods of social and cultural history. Instead of structural explanations like the model of state-building versus popular resistance, it wishes to put back the peasants themselves to the historical narratives of revolts. Peasants appear in the book as active agents fighting or bargaining for freedom, which was a practical issue for them. Nonetheless, the language of lord-peasant negotiation was that of religion, just as official punishments used Christian symbols. The approach of revolts as the events of collective violence also highlights the experiences and memories of participants. How did individuals and groups use remembering and forgetting as a means of forging an identity for themselves? Instead of the narratives of the powerful that became the normative stories of history, the perspective of the rebels uncovers the everyday faces of revolts more forcibly. Finally, contributors examine how later narrators used the rebels for their own purposes, in other words the subsequent representation of the revolts and their leaders in image, literature and historiography comes to the fore. The volume aims to overcome disciplinary boundaries by bringing together historians and scholars of related disciplines including the history of literature, the visual arts and anthropology. The central contention of the volume - the cultural imprint of peasant revolts - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Reformation of Prayerbooks: The Humanist
Book SynopsisIn her study Chaoluan Kao offers a comprehensive investigation of popular piety at the time of the European Reformations through the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Protestant prayerbooks. It pursues a historical-contextual approach to spirituality by integrating social and religious history in order to yield a deeper understanding of both the history of Christian piety and of church history in general. The study explores seven prayerbooks by German authors and seventeen English prayerbooks from the Reformation and post-Reformation as well as from Lutheran, Anglican, and Puritan traditions, examining them as spiritual texts with social and theological significance that helped disseminate popular understandings of Protestant piety. Early Protestant piety required intellectual engagement, emphasized a faithful and heartfelt attitude in approaching God, and urged regular exercise in prayer and reading. Early Protestant prayerbooks modeled for their readers a Protestant piety that was a fervent spiritual practice solidly grounded in the social context and connections of its practitioners. Through those books, Reformation could be understood as redefining the meanings of people's spiritual lives and re-discovering of a pious life. In a broader sense, they functioned as a channel of historical and spiritual transition, which not only tells us the transformation and transmission of Reformation historically but also signifies the development of Christian spirituality. The social-historical study of the prayerbooks furthers our understanding of continuity, change, and inter-confessional influence in the Christian piety of early modern Europe.
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG At the Intersection of Texts and Material Finds:
Book SynopsisStuart Miller examines the hermeneutical challenges posed by the material and literary evidence pertaining to ritual purity practices in Graeco-Roman Palestine and, especially, the Galilee. He contends that "stepped pools", which we now know were in use well beyond the Destruction of the Temple, and, as indicated by the large collection on the western acropolis of Sepphoris and elsewhere, into the Middle and Late Roman/Byzantine eras,must be understood in light of biblical and popular perspectives on ritual purity. The interpretation of the finds is too frequently forced to conform to rabbinic prescriptions, which oftentimes were the result of the sages unique and creative, nominalist approach to ritual purity. Special attention is given to the role ritual purity continued to play in the lives of ordinary Jews despite (or because of) the loss of the Temple. Miller argues against the prevailing tendency to type material finds -- and Jewish society -- according to known groups (pre-70 C.E.: Pharisaic, Sadducaic, Essenic; post 70 C.E.: rabbinic, priestly, etc.). He further counters the perception that ritual purity practices were largely the interest of priests and argues against the recent suggestion that the kohanim resurfaced as an influential group in Late Antiquity. Building upon his earlier work on "sages and commoners," Miller claims that the rabbis emerged out of a context in which a biblically derived "complex common Judaism" thrived. Stepped pools, stone vessels, and other material finds are realia belonging to this "complex common Judaism". A careful reading of the rabbis indicates that they were acutely aware of the extent to which ritual purity rites pertaining to home and family life had "spread," which undoubtedly contributed to their intense interest in regulating them.
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Georg Olms Verlag AG Driving: The Horse, the Man & the Carriage from
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Transcript Verlag From Pathology to Public Sphere: The German Deaf
Book SynopsisIn the late 19th century, the so-called "German Method", which employed spoken language in deaf education, triumphed all over the Western world. At the same time as deaf German schoolchildren were taught to articulate and read lips, an emancipation movement of signing deaf adults emerged across the German Empire. This book tells the story of how deaf people moved from being isolated objects of administration or education, depending on welfare or working in the fields, to becoming an urban middle class collective with claims of self-determination. Main questions addressed in this first comprehensive work on one of the world's oldest movements of disabled people include how deaf organisations emerged, what they fought for, and who was left behind.
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Transcript Verlag Soundscapes of the Urban Past: Staged Sound as
Book SynopsisWe cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such "staged sounds" express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing so, this book puts contemporary controversies on urban sound in historical perspective, and contextualises iconic presentations of cities. It addresses academics, students, and museum workers alike. With contributions by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Ross Brown, Andrew Crisell, Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, Mark M. Smith and Jonathan Sterne.Trade Review"An important compendium for dealing with questions concerning the study of urban soundscapes." Stefan Drees, Die Musikforschung [German quarterly musicological journal published by the German Society for Music Research], 62/1 (2015) "Recommended to connoisseurs who wish to broaden their perspective with the insights of the media studies as well as socio-cultural and/or historiographical perspectives on sound." Jan Wedekind, DIE TONKUNST [German quarterly journal for classical music and musicology], 8/2 (2014) Reviewed in: H-Net-Reviews, 6 (2014), Andrew Behrendt
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Transcript Verlag Precarious Alliances: Cultures of Participation
Book SynopsisStarting from an analysis of practices of participation in contemporary print and other media, the volume opens up a historical perspective, probing the potential of the concept of participatory cultures for the exploration of past forms of collaboration between individual and collective actors (i.e. authors, editors, publishers, fans, critics etc.). In doing so, the volume sheds new light on the historically, culturally, and medially specific forms and functions as well as on the economic, political and institutional parameters that contributed to the emergence and transformation of what turn out to be precarious alliances.Trade Review"The individual articles offer a rich variety of subjects, and many of them are rewarding in their own right or will be helpful for readers interested in specific subjects." Sebastian Domsch, Anglistik, 29/1 (2018)
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Transcript Verlag Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical
Book SynopsisIn the cultural and social formations of the past, practices exist for the generation and integration of moments having and giving sense with the objective of strengthening the cultural and social cohesion. Such practices and processes have a constructive character, even if this is not always the intention of the actors themselves. As the production of sense is one of the central fields of action of cultural and political practice, the articles examine with an interdisciplinary perspective how, in different contexts, the construction of sense was organized and implemented as a cultural practice.
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Transcript Verlag Ritual and Narrative: Theoretical Explorations
Book SynopsisRitual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the close interrelationship between them has not as yet been given the attention it deserves. How can models and categories from narrative theory benefit the study of ritual, and what can we gain from concepts of ritual studies in analysing narrative? This book brings together a wide range of disciplinary perspectives including literary studies, archaeology, biblical and religious studies, and political science. It presents theoretical explorations as well as in-depth case studies of ritual and narrative in different media and historical contexts.
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Transcript Verlag History and Humour: British and American
Book SynopsisOne tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Yet Clio also smiles and laughs out loud: Comic renderings of historical events and figures have made a significant contribution to "popular" history since around 1800. This volume offers case studies on history and humour in Britain and the US from 1800 to the present, discussing various historical topics, actors and events from the Middle Ages to the recent past.Trade Review"All in all this is an attractive volume containing a wideranging and noteworthy assortment of contributions." John Parkin, HUMOR, 27 (2014)
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Transcript Verlag From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War –
Book SynopsisThe Arab spring, protest movements in the EU, Russia, Turkey or elsewhere, are often labeled as twitter-revolutions. A crucial role is attributed to the new media, coverage of events abroad and ensuing mutual reactions. With the dissemination of print, revolts in early-modern times faced the challenge of a similar media-revolution. This influenced the very face of the events that could become full-fledged propaganda wars once the insurgents had won access to the printing press. But it also had an impact on revolt-narratives. Governments severely persecuted dissident views in such delicate issues as revolts. Observers abroad had no such divided loyalties and were freer to reflect upon the events. Therefore, the book focuses mainly on representations of revolts across borders.Trade Review"Scholars of the early modern period will find this fresh approach to the revolts of this era of considerable interest." Julius R. Ruff, Renaissance Quarterly, 68/3 (2015) Reviewed in: Sixteenth Century Journal 2 (2015), Brian G.H. Ditcham
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Transcript Verlag Memory Boxes: An Experimental Approach to
Book SynopsisThis volume discusses a practical approach to cultural transfer and exchange through the concept of "memory box". Ideas of displacement, transfer, and cultural memory are explored through case studies from Scotland to Italy and Germany and from Finland and France to the American colonies. The authors develop an understanding of memory boxes as cultural constructions that are involved in the process of making and disputing memory - but which, simultaneously, are important agents for cultural transfer over space and time. This book emphasises "memory box" as an idea that allows us to study the cultural processes of transfer in conjunction with cultural memory.
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Transcript Verlag Roman Charity: Queer Lactations in Early Modern
Book Synopsis"Roman Charity" investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic "charity", and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene "good to think with" and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which "Roman Charity" flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.Trade Review"Sperlings book is a useful addition to scholarly conversations in several fields and disciplines - art history and early modern gender studies in particular. Though not a text for an introductory course, it provides more advanced students and researchers with thoughtful and creative tools for analyzing the transmission of images through time as well as about the ways in which we engage the meaning and reception of those images." Peter Carlson, Comitatus, 48 (2017)
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Transcript Verlag (Post)Colonial Histories: Trauma, Memory and
Book SynopsisThe documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries to regain mental health and reconciliation. The film marks the stepping-stone for this volume: The contributions examine different facets like the memory-discourse, genre aspects, the use of music, and authentification processes. Several texts discuss these topics in a more general way including other films. Furthermore, some articles are devoted to the historical context, i.e. the Angolan Civil War and the aftermath of this conflict in the cultural sphere.
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Transcript Verlag Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in
Book SynopsisDuring the 17th and 18th century musicians' mobilities and migrations are essential for the European music history and the cultural exchange of music. Adopting viewpoints that reflect different methodological approaches and diversified research cultures, the book presents studies on central scopes, strategies and artistic outcomes of mobile and migratory musicians as well as on the transfer of music. By looking at elite and non-elite musicians and their everyday mobilities to major and minor centers of music production and practice, new biographical patterns and new stylistic paradigms in the European East, West and South emerge.
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Transcript Verlag Recounting Deviance: Forms and Practices of
Book SynopsisHow do historical sources narrate or recount deviance? Is there a relationship between the manner in which divergent behaviour is recounted and the type of source in which this behaviour is presented? The articles present examples of the recounting of deviance by using, amongst others, sources such as chronicles, travel accounts and court records from 15th century England, 15th/16th century Germany, 17th century Spain, 17th/18th century Venice and 17th/18th century Italy and France. It can be asserted that different types of narrative patterns to recount deviance occur intermingled in the cases discussed.
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Transcript Verlag Histories for the Many: The Victorian Family
Book SynopsisHistories for the Many examines the contribution of illustrated family magazines to Victorian historical culture. How, by whom, for whom and with which intentions was history used within this popular medium? How were class, gender, age, religion, and space debated? How were academic and popular approaches to the past linked to the materiality of the medium? The focus is set on the evangelical Leisure Hour with comparisons to the London Journal, Good Words and Cornhill. The study's approach to the serialisation of history in text and image combines periodical studies and book history with concepts from cultural studies, sociology as well as narratology.Trade Review"An innovative study into an intriguing yet underexplored aspect of nineteenth-century journalism." Samuel Saunders, Journal of European Periodical Studies, 3/2 (2018) Besprochen in: Victorian Studies, 60/3 (2019), Jennifer Phegley
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Transcript Verlag Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting – Discredited
Book SynopsisForgeries are an omnipresent part of our culture and closely related to traditional ideas of authenticity, legality, authorship, creativity, and innovation. Based on the concept of mimesis, this volume illustrates how forgeries must be understood as autonomous aesthetic practices - creative acts in themselves - rather than as mere rip-offs of an original work of art. The proceedings bring together research from different scholarly fields. They focus on various mimetic practices such as pseudo-translations, imposters, identity theft, and hoaxes in different artistic and historic contexts. By opening up the scope of the aesthetic implications of fakes, this anthology aims to consolidate forging as an autonomous method of creation.
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Transcript Verlag Wires That Bind – Nation, Region, and Technology
Book SynopsisThe arrival of telegraphy and railroads changed power relations throughout the world in the nineteenth century. In the Mesilla region of the American Southwest, it contributed to two distinct and rapid shifts in political and economic power from the 1850s to the 1920s. Torsten Kathke illustrates how the changes these technologies wrought everywhere could be seen at a much accelerated pace here. A local Hispano elite was replaced first by a Hispano-Anglo one, and finally a nationally oriented Anglo elite. As various groups tried to gain, hold, and defend power, the region became bound ever closer to the US economy and to the federal government.Trade Review"A reader looking for a cultural study of the Mesilla will be greatly rewarded by Kathkes effort." -- Bryant Macfarlane, https://networks.h-net.org, 11 (2020)"Kathkes focus on issues of cultural amalgamation, law, and government action in the Mesilla makes for a highly useful study if not for readers primarily concerned with the history of technology for those interested in the American Southwest, borderlands studies, and U.S. colonialism." Casey P. Cater, Technology and Culture, 62/4 (2021)
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Transcript Verlag Brooklyn Tides – The Fall and Rise of a Global
Book SynopsisBrooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn? Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.
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Transcript Verlag Transnationalizing Radio Research – New
Book SynopsisTransnationalizing Radio Research presents a theoretical and methodological guide for exploring radio's multiple "global ages", from its earliest years through its recent digital transformations. It offers radio scholars theoretical tools and concrete case studies for moving beyond national research frames. It gives radio practitioners inspiration for production and archiving, and offers scholars from many disciplines new ways to incorporate radio's vital voices into work on transnational institutions, communities, histories and identities.
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Transcript Verlag Jacob Moleschott – A Transnational Biography –
Book SynopsisThis is the first academic biography of the scientist and politician Jacob Moleschott (1822-1893). Based on a vast range of primary sources in German, Italian, Dutch, French, and Latin, it not only sheds new light on the history of materialism in the natural sciences, but also shows the deep entanglement of science, politics, and popularization in 19th-century Europe. Applying new methods from cultural history and the history of science, Laura Meneghello focuses on processes of knowledge circulation, transnational mobility, and the role of translation in 19th-century science.Trade Review"Meneghello provides an important contribution to the understanding of the interaction of biology and politics in the nineteenth century." -- Florence Vienne, Metascience, 28 (2019)"The author [succeeds] in drawing a rich and comprehensive picture of Moleschott as a member of the scientific landscape of his time between national coverage and international recognition." -- Carolin Kosuch, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken, 98 (2018/19), translated from German"A worthy successor to Frederick Gregorys landmark study of 1977 and a fine exemplar of the insight afforded by scientific biography." -- Gabriel Finkelstein, ISIS, 109/4 (2018)With her biography of Moleschott, Meneghello has closed a desideratum that reveals exciting transnational perspectives on the role that popular science played in the process of European nation-building." -- Claus Spenninger, Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 41/3 (2018), translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Born to Be Criminal – The Discourse on
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the continuities and disruptions in the perceptions of criminality, its causes and ways of fighting it in late imperial Russia and the early Soviet Union. It focuses on both the discourse on criminality and thus the conceptualisation of criminality in various disciplines (criminology, psychiatry, and literature), and penal practice, that is, different aspects of criminal law and anti-crime policy. Thus, the volume is markedly interdisciplinary, with authors representing a variety of approaches in history and literary studies, from social history to discourse analysis, from the history of sciences to text analysis.Trade Review"The volume advances our knowledge of Russian and Soviet criminological thinking and practice." Jonathan Daly, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 50/2 (2019) "An important addition to the literature on perceptions of crimeand penal policy in Russia and it is sure to spark more research into those subjects." Alison Rowley, The Russian Review, 78/1 (2018)"A welworth reading anthology that contains exciting articles on little-noticed aspects of crimediscourse." Lena Gautam, Jahrbücher für die Geschichte Osteuropas, 9/1 (2019)
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Transcript Verlag Sustainability and the American Naturalist Tradi
Book SynopsisHumanity is failing at solving complex socio-ecological problems like global climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth. The existing 'sustainable development' paradigm and its reliance on trade-offs between the three pillars of environment, economics, and equity is not robust enough to maintain global carrying capacity. In this timely intervention, Thomas argues that the holistic and transdisciplinary thinking of four iconic American naturalists - Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Edward O. Wilson - can instead help to solve our biggest twenty-first century challenges by synthesizing values from four eras of cultural and environmental history.
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Transcript Verlag Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? – Construction
Book SynopsisSince the dawn of humanity, people have developed concepts about themselves and the natural world in which they live. This volume aims at investigating the construction and transfer of such concepts between and within various ancient and medieval cultures. The single contributions try to answer questions concerning the sources of knowledge, the strategies of transfer and legitimation as well as the conceptual changes over time and space. After a comprehensive introduction, the volume is divided into three parts: The contributions of the first section treat various theoretical and methodological aspects. Two additional thematic sections deal with a special field of knowledge, i.e. concepts of the moon and of the end of the world in fire.Trade Review"The book will mainly appeal to intellectual historians of antiquity, who will appreciate the case studies of ancient knowledge." T. Farmer, Choice, 57/8 (2020)
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Transcript Verlag Concepts of Urban–Environmental History
Book SynopsisIn history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. "Concepts of Urban-Environmental History" aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background.Trade Review"It is very welcome that this field of historical studies, which has recently become increasingly important, is now being made accessible in compact form by this 'reader'." Andreas Weigl, Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 2 (2020), translated from German
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Transcript Verlag Fugitive Borders – Black Canadian Cross–Border
Book SynopsisFugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.Trade Review"'Fugitive Borders' shows how Black cross-border life writing at midnineteenth century speaks of the history of slavery and the experiences of the formerly enslaved and fugitive with idiosyncratic voices. Undoubtedly, readers of 'Fugitive Borders' will want to hear, understand, and learn more from them." Paula von Gleich, American Studies, 65/1 (2020)
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