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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe: The Theatrum Mundi of CelebrationRasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre's historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the...
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Christian IV: Rex Splendens and Rex HumilisChristian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, was a fascinating political figure of the early seventeenth century, also remembered for his cultural and entrepreneurial activity. He was a great builder, founded several new cities, and had an international reputation as a patron of the...
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Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth CenturyAs Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated...
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Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced LabourIn der Buchreihe des "Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies" werden Monographien und Tagungsbände, die das Phänomen der Sklaverei und andere Formen asymmetrischer Abhängigkeiten in Gesellschaften untersuchen, veröffentlicht. Die Reihe folgt dabei der Forschungsagenda des BCDSS, die die vorherrschende dichotomische Vorstellung von "Sklaverei...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy: Volume IXAn Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and...
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The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal: New Perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949The consequences of the federal Housing Act of 1949-which supported the clearance and redevelopment of "blighted" areas across the nation-were felt by communities of all sizes, not just large cities. The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal presents a more comprehensive view of the federal...
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The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du BoisFocusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and...
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Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to NobodyJewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley all responded to a...
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Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation SpainSpain's infamous "false chronicles" were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jer nimo Rom n de la Higuera. Though rife with anachronisms...
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Elaine Black Yoneda: Jewish Immigration, Labor Activism, and Japanese American Exclusion and IncarcerationDuring World War II, Elaine Black Yoneda, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, spent eight months in a concentration camp--not in Europe, but in California. She did this voluntarily and in solidarity, insisting on accompanying her husband, Karl, and their son, Tommy, when they...
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Once We Were Strangers: A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century MidwestLittle attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allen's Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is both the saga of an immigrant family told within the larger social, political, and economic context of...
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Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of TexasThe annexation of Texas was one of the most momentous actions the United States government took in the antebellum period. Apart from adding what was the largest state in the Union at that time, it expedited further avenues for westward expansion, exacerbated tensions with...
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Grand Old Unraveling: The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of AuthoritarianismIt didn't begin with Donald Trump. The unraveling of the Grand Old Party has been decades in the making. Since the time of FDR, the Republican Party has been home to conspiracy thinking, including a belief that lost elections were rigged. And when Republicans...
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God Made Word: An Archaeology of Mystic Discourse in Early Modern SpainThe Golden Age of Spanish mysticism has traditionally been read in terms of individual authors or theological traditions. God Made Word, however, considers early modern Spanish mysticism as a question of language and as a discourse that circulated in concrete social, institutional, and geographic...
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Imperial Engineers: The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers HillEstablished in 1871 on the outskirts of London, the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill was arguably the first engineering school in Britain. For thirty-five years the college helped staff the government institutions of British India responsible for the railways, irrigation systems, telegraph...
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Being Poland: A New History of Polish Literature and Culture Since 1918Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence. Conceived to address the lack of critical scholarship on Poland's cultural restoration, Being Poland illuminates the continuities,...
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Napoleon and the Operational Art of War: Essays in Honor of Donald D. Horward. (Revised and Extended Edition)In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure in a work that features the very best of campaign military history.Author: Michael V. LeggierePublisher: BrillPublished: 11/26/2020Pages:...
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Serbia: A Modern HistoryThis is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state's revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karadorde Petrovic and Milos Obrenovic; its turbulent history of wars,...
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Peace in the Us Republic of Letters, 1840-1900Peace in the US Republic of Letters, 1840-1900 explores the early peace movement as it captured the imagination of leading writers. The book charts the rise of the peace cause from its sources in the works of William Penn and John Woolman, through the...
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Shadow of a Taxman: Who Funded the Irish Revolution?Shadow of a Taxman investigates how the unrecognised Irish Republic's money was solicited, collected, transmitted, and safeguarded, as well as who the financial backers were and what might have influenced their decision to contribute. The Republic's quest for funds took its emissaries as farafield...
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