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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global ImperialismThe "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after...
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How to Do Things with Forms: The Oulipo and Its InventionsThe Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or Workshop for Potential Literature) is a literary think tank that brings together writers and mathematicians. Since 1960, its worldwide influence has refreshed ways of making and thinking about literature. How to Do Things with Forms assesses the...
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The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their...
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Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic IdealsLove at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these...
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Understanding Flusser, Understanding ModernismThe Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser (1920-1991) has been recognized as a decisive past master in the emergence of contemporary media theory and media archeology. His work engages and also rethinks several mythologies of modernity, devising new methodologies, experimental literary practices, and expanded hermeneutics that...
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Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of MurderNarrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the RevolutionRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a perceptive critic of the counteracting pressures of society. Emerson formulated and expressed the philosophy of transcendentalism. He wrote on a number of...
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The Eco-Self in Early Modern English LiteratureAuthor: Elizabeth GruberPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPublished: 03/07/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789463728881This title is only available via back order
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Political Friendship: Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Europe from the 1840s through the 1860s, German liberals practiced politics beyond the more well-defined realms of voluntary associations, state legislatures, and burgeoning political parties. Political Friendship approaches 19th century German history's...
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Fascist Europe: From Italian Supremacy to Subservience to the Reich (1932-1943)By shedding light on an often-overlooked aspect of Fascism and Nazism, this book examines the ambitious plans for a new European order conceived by Italian intellectuals, historians, geographers, politicians, and even student representative of the Fascist University Groups (GUF). Through expert reconstruction of the...
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Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960sEdges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent "neo-noir" revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II decades. Often formally disruptive...
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Poland Under German Occupation, 1939-1945: New PerspectivesAs a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this...
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Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th CenturiesFrom the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of 'postwar transitions' in the...
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Red America: Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950Historians of immigration and ethnicity in the United States have typically devoted little attention to Greek Americans compared to the extensive historical literature produced about their Irish, Italian, and German counterparts. From acclaimed historian Kostis Karpozilos, Red America provides a deeply researched correction to...
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Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and IdentityUp until the 1990s, when the EU launched film policies intended to encourage political and cultural collaboration among its member states, film production was based on the cultural and national values of individual nations. Coproducing Europe explores the impact of these EU policies on...
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Heritage Under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945-1991How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies through a series of fascinating case...
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Defeating Impunity: Attempts at International Justice in Europe Since 1914Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing...
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Bestsellers of the Third Reich: Readers, Writers and the Politics of LiteratureDespite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era's most popular books were diverse and often...
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In the Shadow of the Great War: Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917-1923Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the...
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Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures--Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann--who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Accordingly, their roles and arguments...
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