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One Hundred Years of Surrealist Poetry: Theory and PracticeGiven that the Surrealists were initially met with widespread incomprehension, mercilessly ridiculed, and treated as madmen, it is remarkable that more than one hundred years on we still feel the vitality and continued popularity of the movement today. As Willard Bohn demonstrates, Surrealism was...
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Music Composition in the 21st Century: A Practical Guide for the New Common PracticeThe state of contemporary music is dizzyingly diverse in terms of style, media, traditions, and techniques. How have trends in music developed over the past decades? Music Composition in the 21st Century is a guide for composers and students that helps them navigate the...
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While Waiting for Rain: Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of ChangeWhat might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After...
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China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural EncountersIn the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts...
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John Galsworthy's Compassion: All Beings Great and SmallThis book discusses John Galsworthy's compassion for people and animals, in his fiction, non-fiction and drama. Initial chapters explore compassion in The Forsyte Saga and The Modern Comedy, and his parents' influence. Other chapters examine his works helping prison reform, men and children disabled...
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Force and StatecraftForce and Statecraft: Diplomatic Challenges of Our Time, Sixth Edition, is a stimulating, highly readable, and insightful analysis of humanity's quest for peace and security. Its unique interdisciplinary approach combines history, political science, international law, and philosophy in order to explore the rich experience...
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Joseph Conrad and Postcritique: Politics of Hope, Politics of FearThis book takes a postcritical perspective on Joseph Conrad's central texts, including Heart of Darkness, The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes, and Lord Jim. Whereas critique is a form of reading that prioritizes suspicion, unmasking, and demystifying, postcritique ascribes positive value to the knowledge,...
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Witchcraft and Magic in IrelandThis is the first academic overview of witchcraft and popular magic in Ireland and spans the medieval to the modern period. Based on a wide range of un-used and under-used primary source material, and taking account of denominational difference between Catholic and Protestant, it...
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Modern Latin AmericaNow thoroughly updated in its ninth edition, Modern Latin America is a vivid interpretive history and a leading interdisciplinary text in the field. Featuring stimulating, anecdotal boxes, it uses case studies to discuss the primary countries and patterns of development in the region over...
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The Black Middle Ages: Race and the Construction of the Middle AgesContributes timely research to join the fields of medieval studies and African American studies Assembles an archive of texts to expand understandings of black studies Promotes a transhistorical and comparative theoretical framework Author: Matthew X. VernonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 06/26/2018Pages: 266Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 8.27h...
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Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment FrancePortraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and...
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What Nudism Exposes: An Unconventional History of Postwar CanadaA new history of Canada through the story of its nudist movement.What Nudism Exposes offers an original perspective on postwar Canada by charting the nudist movement's navigation through changing times and broader social and cultural contexts. As nudism took root after World War II,...
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Religion Around Walter BenjaminThis book shows how institutional religion and the religiosity of political and cultural life provide a necessary dimension to Walter Benjamin, one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers. Lived religion surrounded Benjamin, whose upper-middle-class Jewish family celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah in Berlin as the...
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Great War Prostheses in American Literature and CultureDrawing on rehabilitation publications, novels by both famous and obscure American writers, and even the prosthetic masks of a classically trained sculptor, Great War Prostheses in American Literature and Culture addresses the ways in which prosthetic devices were designed, promoted, and depicted in America...
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In Plain Sight: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry and the Problem of Literary HistoryIn Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the exception of that by Emily Dickinson, so thoroughly disappeared from literary history. By investigating erasure not merely as something that was...
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Fascism in AmericaHas fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War...
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Secession on Trial: The Treason Prosecution of Jefferson DavisThis book focuses on the post-Civil War treason prosecution of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, which was seen as a test case on the major question that animated the Civil War: the constitutionality of secession. The case never went to trial because it threatened to...
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Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War IIDuring World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal of...
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The Recursive Frontier: Race, Space, and the Literary Imagination of Los AngelesMichael Docherty is Postdoctoral Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.Author: Michael DochertyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2024Pages: 357Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438497112
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Emerging from the Shadows: Vice Presidential Influence in the Modern EraRichard M. Yon is Associate Professor of Political Science at the United States Military Academy at West Point.Author: Richard M. YonPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 02/01/2024Pages: 410Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00dISBN: 9781438496092
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