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Labours of Attention: Work, Class and Society in French and Francophone Literature and CultureThis substantial volume of essays is published in honour of Edward J. Hughes.Focussing on the experience of work, community and the functioning of class society; on relations between France and Algeria and France's wider colonial project; and on creative labour as both artisanal and...
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Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899-1929An exploration of sleep at the intersection of literature, science, and pharmacology in the early twentieth century.At the turn of the twentieth century, sleep began to be seen not merely as a passive state but as an active, dynamic process crucial to our understanding...
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Cold War CameraCold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography's role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and...
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Crucible of Power: A History of American Foreign Relations from 1897This book is a narrative history of America's foreign affairs from 1897 to the present that focuses on the major personalities and events from the William McKinley administration through President George W. Bush.Author: Howard JonesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublished: 03/20/2008Pages: 638Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 2.94lbsSize:...
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Der Judenweg: Judische Geschichte Und Kulturgeschichte Aus Sicht Der FlurnamenforschungEnglish summary: The expression Judenweg describes certain paths which are part of a forgotten German-Jewish history. Barbara Rosch discovers in her scientifically-driven work details of Jewish everyday life concerning the Bavaria-Frankonian landscape in the 17th-20th Century. German text. German description: Barbara Rosch bringt erstmals...
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Modern American Extremism and Domestic Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Extremists and Extremist GroupsSince the election of Barack Obama in 2008, extremist and hate groups have seen a resurgence on the American political landscape. Members of these subgroups within the American population have become concerned that the America that they have always known is fading into oblivion,...
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Radical Play: Revolutionizing Children's Toys in 1960s and 1970s AmericaIn Radical Play Rob Goldberg recovers a little-known history of American children's culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. From a nationwide movement to...
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State Building in Cold War AsiaAuthor: Qingfei YinPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 314Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781009426640This title is not returnable
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Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States Since 1945This book covers the broad sweep of post-1945 US history, addressing politics, economics, foreign relations, political activism, demographic transformation, and dizzying technological change. Extending to the spring of 2022, it shows how the turmoil, striving, triumphs, and setbacks of the last seventy-seven years shaped...
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The Art of Publication from the Ninth to the Sixteenth CenturyWritten transmission relies on the fact of 'publication', the step between the authorial process and reception. But what does 'publishing' mean in the context of a manuscript culture, in which books were copied slowly and singly by hand? This is a fundamental question. If...
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Activism and the Literary Self in 20th and 21st-Century Literature: Poetics of JusticeExploring how Shusaku Endo, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Merton, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac McCarthy, and Octavia E. Butler engage with social justice and activism, this book explores the significant role that literature plays in the formation of justice. Jeff Keuss foregrounds literature and the role of...
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Constructing Iberian Identities, 1000-1700Over the past several decades, scholars of medieval and early modern Iberia have transformed the study of the region into one of the most vibrant areas of research today. This volume brings together twelve essays from a diverse group of international historians who explore...
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The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Conflict and Its LegacyAnalysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens. From the plane that carried Francisco Franco to an anarchist newsreel to laxatives excavated in...
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Rediscovering Rub?n Dar?o Through TranslationA long overdue examination of Rub?n Dar?o's multilingual work and influences alongside the contexts and politics of canonization in world literature. Rediscovering Rub?n Dar?o through Translation addresses the peculiar obscurity of Dar?o by asking these questions: How can one of the most important writers...
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Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of CrisisThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other,...
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Prosaic Times: Time as Subject in Wordsworth, Richardson, Flaubert, and MelvilleAnalyzing the stylistic innovations most characteristic in pivotal works of literary realism, Prosaic Times shows how their styles are not merely ornamental but fundamental to building their own temporalities. By capturing the temporal dimensions in Wordsworth's The Prelude, Richardson's Clarissa, Flaubert's "Un Coeur Simple,"...
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Borges's Creative Infidelities: Translating Joyce, Woolf and FaulknerUsing comparative analyses of source and target texts, Leone Anderson examines Jorge Luis Borges's residual presence in his Spanish-language translations of works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and William Faulkner.Argentine writer and critic Jorge Luis Borges did not see translation as an inferior form...
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The Raging Erie: Life and Labor Along the Erie CanalThe completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 was a monumental achievement. Linking the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, it transformed New York City into a hub of international trade, drove the rise of industrial cities in once sparsely populated areas, and accelerated...
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Social Justice from Outside the Walls: Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950-1970This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The intertwined experiences of six Catholic women activists demonstrate that the commonalities of gender and faith provided a foundation from which...
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Post-communism, Democracy, and Illiberalism in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet UnionAs a result of the ideological void left by the fall of communism, countries that were part of the former Soviet bloc began a lengthy transition to democracy. This book explores the growing concerns about the formation of authoritarian regimes and the push towards...
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