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Playing American: Open-World Videogames and the Reproduction of American CultureVideogames have always depicted representations of American culture, but how exactly they feed back into this culture is less obvious. Advocating an action-based understanding of both videogames and culture, this book delineates how aspects of American culture are reproduced transnationally through popular open-world videogames....
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Self-Financing Genocide: The Gold Train, the Becher Case and the Wealth of Hungarian JewsDiscusses the process of the economic annihilation of the Jews in Hungary, who- from the economic point of view - were more influential than any other Jewish community in Europe. Following the German occupation in March 1944 the collaborating Hungarian government attempted to assert...
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The Gilded AgeThe Gilded Age--the time between Reconstruction and the Spanish-American War--marked the beginnings of modern America. The advertising industry became an important part of selling the American Dream. Americans dined out more than ever before, and began to take leisure activities more seriously. Women's fashion...
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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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Guilt and Finnegans Wake: From Original Sin to the Irredeemable BodyExploring the important themes of guilt and morality in James Joyce's final work James Joyce's last novel, Finnegans Wake, is notorious for its complex structure and is considered by many to be unreadable. Approaching this complicated book with attention to the theme of guilt,...
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Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century: The Articulate BodyRevealing the interplay and influence of dance and scienceduring an age of colonial expansion Bringing together danceand science, two paradigms that explore the nature and possibilities of thebody, this volume illuminates the meanings and articulations of dance innineteenth-century societies. This global collection of studies...
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The Emergence of Capitalism in Early AmericaDue to the enormous influence of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations on Western liberal economics, a tradition closely linked to the United States, many scholars assume that early American economists were committed to Smith's ideas of free trade and small government. Debunking this...
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After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the MoonExploring the impacts of NASA'sspace program on American society and culture After Apollo explores howNASA's space program impacted American society during and after the race to theMoon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moonlanding from the perspective of the present day. Centering on...
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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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Joyce, Aristotle, and AquinasIn this book, Fran O'Rourke examines the influence of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas on James Joyce, arguing that both thinkers fundamentally shaped the philosophical outlook which pervades the author's oeuvre. O'Rourke demonstrates that Joyce was a philosophical writer who engaged creativelywith questions of diversity...
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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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A History of England, Volume 2: 1688 to the PresentThe seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s. Author: Douglas Bisson,...
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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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Reinventing Human RightsA radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global...
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Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century PhilosophyKant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology. Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th...
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