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Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century AmericasDuring the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto unknown territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book...
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The Macedonian Question and the Macedonians: A HistoryThis book is a comprehensive and dispassionate analysis of the intriguing Macedonian Question from 1878 until 1949 and of the Macedonians (and of their neighbours) from the 1890s until today, with the two themes intertwining. The Macedonian Question was an offshoot of the wider...
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Affluence and Authority: A Social History of Twentieth-Century BritainThe turn of the millennium generated a spate of reflections on the state of the nation and the ways in which life in Britain had changed during the course of the twentieth century. Affluence and Authority contributes to this debate by providing a wide-ranging,...
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Evangelicals and the Philosophy of Science: The Victoria Institute, 1865-1939This book investigates the debates around religion and science at the influential Victoria Institute. Founded in London in 1865, and largely drawn from the evangelical wing of the Church of England, it had as its prime objective the defence of 'the great truths revealed...
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Execution Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain: From Public Spectacle to Hidden RitualThis edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK, many specifically related to the fundamental change in capital punishment culture as the execution moved from the public arena to behind the prison...
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Antarctica in British Children's LiteratureFor over a century British authors have been writing about the Antarctic for child readers, yet this body of literature has never been explored in detail. Antarctica in British Children's Literature examines this field for the first time, identifying the dominant genres and recurrent...
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Beyond Autonomy in Eighteenth-Century British and German AestheticsThis volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic experience with morality, science, and political society. In doing so, it challenges long-standing teleological narratives that emphasize disinterestedness and the...
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Charles Kingsley: Faith, Flesh, and FantasyNovelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819-75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues...
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The Italian Wars 1494-1559: War, State and Society in Early Modern EuropeThe Italian Wars 1494-1559 outlines the major impact that these wars had, not just on the history of Italy, but on the history of Europe as a whole. It provides the first detailed account of the entire course of the wars, covering all the...
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Genetic Inroads into the Art of James JoyceThis book is a treasure trove comprising core writings from Hans Walter Gabler's seminal work on James Joyce, spanning fifty years from the analysis of composition he undertook towards a critical text of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, through the...
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SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: Volume 1 - A to JAny scholar of history will have recognized the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Aside from the obvious expansionist policies of empire governed by a single autocratic leader, the Nazis adopted the Roman style extended arm salute,...
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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in PolandThe Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been well studied in the West and increasingly researched for the Global South, young people in theSecond World...
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Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural InterpretationIn Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless...
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Political Conflict in PakistanThis book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflictbetween Hindus and Muslims as separate nations...
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Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft Between the Ottoman and British EmpiresDebunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence from the British Empire, form a fully sovereign government, and promulgate an original constitution after the fall...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sIn America Divided, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin provide the definitive history of the 1960s, in a book that tells a compelling tale filled with fresh and persuasive insights. Ranging from the 1950s right up to the debacle of Watergate, Isserman (a noted historian...
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Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentThis volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian Revolution. The very idea of the Darwinian Revolution is a historical construct devised to help explain the changing scientific and cultural landscape that was...
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The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and WarIn The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. Drawing upon...
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Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film CultureFor over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and...
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Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the AlbaniansThanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a...
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