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Women in Rock, Women in RomanticismWomen in Rock, Women in Romanticism is the first book-length work to explore the interrelationships between contemporary female musicians and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, music, and literature by women and men. The music and videos of contemporary musicians including Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, The Carters,...
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Disease and the Environment in the Medieval and Early Modern WorldsThis volume brings together environmental and human perspectives, engages with both historians and scientists, and, being mindful that environments and disease recognize no boundaries, includes studies that touch on Europe, the wider Mediterranean world, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Disease and the Environment in...
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Pathways in the Nineteenth-Century British Textile Industry: The Commercial Textile WarehouseThis collection brings together primary sources on the British textile industry across the long nineteenth-century, a subject that is both global and multidisciplinary. This set provides an extensive range of resources on the calico printing industry, textile warehousing and shipping, and textile waste and...
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Flirtation and Courtship in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Marriage and Conduct UnbecomingThis is volume three of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included Throughout the long nineteenth-century,...
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The Fraternal Atlantic, 1770-1930: Race, Revolution, and Transnationalism in the Worlds of FreemasonryThis book examines Freemasonry in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world. Drawing on fresh empirical evidence, the chapters position fraternalism as a critical component of Atlantic history.Fraternalism was a key strategy for people swept up in the dislocations of imperialism, large-scale migrations, and the...
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The People's War: Histories of Violence in the German Lands, 1820-1888How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century? The Napoleonic Wars had been the bloodiest in Europe's history, directly affecting millions of Germans, yet their long-term consequences on individuals and on 'politics' are still...
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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar RepublicThe Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic is a multi-author survey of German history from 1918 to 1933. Covering a broad range of topics in social, political, economic, and cultural history, it presents an overview of current scholarship, and will help students and teachers...
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The Cambridge History of CommunismThe third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China...
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The Cambridge History of CommunismThe second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow's control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956;...
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The Cambridge History of CommunismThe first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts...
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Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesJames Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and allusions in...
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Finding Allies and Making Revolution: The Early Years of the Chinese Communist PartyIn Finding Allies and Making Revolution, Tony Saich shows how a Dutchman helped launch the Chinese Communist Party and devised the key strategy of the united front to work with the nationalists to promote revolution.Author: SaichPublisher: BrillPublished: 02/20/2020Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.40h x...
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The Frisian Popular Militias Between 1480 and 1560In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because these men are regarded as...
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Calvinists and Indians in the Northeastern WoodlandsAuthor: Stephen StaggsPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPublished: 01/27/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789463723770This title is only available via back order
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like ItFrom the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan...
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Underground Streams: National-Conservatives After World War II in Communist Hungary and Eastern EuropeThe authors of this edited volume address the hidden attraction that existed between the extremes of left and right, and of internationalism and nationalism under the decades of communist dictatorship in Eastern Europe. One might suppose that under the suppressive regimes based on leftist...
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American Journalists in Hitler's GermanyExamines American journalists' and media companies' roles in Hitler's Germany, reigniting the debate on the relationship between political power and the media. Despite Hitler's international use of propaganda, and despite the power of the US press, historians have neglected American journalists' activity in Nazi...
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A History of the English-Speaking PeoplesThis history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues -- its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of...
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Searching for Compromise?: Interreligious Dialogue, Agreements, and Toleration in 16th-18th Century Eastern EuropeThe Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the...
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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of the PeopleThis volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound even than the changes of the previous decades. Its duration, scale, and intensity drove...
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