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Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern FranceAnxieties about the fate of reading in the digital age reveal how deeply our views of the moral and intellectual benefits of reading are tied to print. These views take root in a conception of reading as an immersive activity, exemplified by the experience...
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The Business of Transition: Jewish and Greek Merchants of Salonica from Ottoman to Greek RuleThe Business of Transition examines how the cosmopolitan bourgeoisie of the Eastern Mediterranean navigated the transition from empire to nation-state in the early twentieth century. In this social and cultural history, Paris Papamichos Chronakis shows how the Jewish and Greek merchants of Salonica (present-day...
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Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of CommunityWhat happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate...
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The Rise and Fall of the Italian Communist Party: A Transnational HistoryThis book reassesses the history of Italian communism in international perspective. Analyzing the rise and fall of the Italian Communist Party as a case study in the global history of communism, Silvio Pons considers a wide range of relational and temporal contexts, from the...
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Our Comrades in Havana: Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991In the immediate aftermath of its successful revolution, Cuba was heralded by socialist nations as the vanguard of communism in Latin America in the early 1960s. But by the late 1980s, Cuba's inability to adopt the modes of socialist planning and Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms...
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The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness AccountsThe Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. The experiences of the East Berlin housewife are placed alongside those of the South African student; the participation of political leaders...
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A Texas State of Mind: The Texas State University System Story Still Going Strong After a Hundred YearsThis book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the State from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the Hill Country, to the Rio Grande. It is a story of colleges established with a limited mission that,...
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The the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991The Cold War in East Asia studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powers--the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Korea--interacted one another and forged the conditions that were distinct from the...
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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship Between Colonialism and National SocialismForty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish LiteratureThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to...
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Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial BritainTwisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain examines torture across the fiction, periodicals, and government documents of the British Empire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Placing acts of torture and words about torture in relation to changing definitions of citizenship...
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Widening the Sphere: Mid-To-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and CanonicityThis work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period....
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Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body StudiesUntil recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging...
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Illustrious Heritage, An: The History of Tan Tock Seng and FamilyTan Tock Seng, one of Singapore's most illustrious pioneers, was an influential Chinese community leader. In the early 1820s, he responded to Sir Stamford Raffles' call to open up Singapore for trade, and later became a prominent entrepreneur, a social leader of the Chinese...
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Conquering The BongosWe are a country of proud, hard-working immigrants. Like my pioneer family from the 1890s, I, too, came from those who journeyed westward. They told stories of dreams, struggles, heartache, and destinies as they tamed the wilds of the Northern Plains and the Mountain...
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Celan-Perspektiven 2022Der vierte Band der 'Celan-Perspektiven' demonstriert eindrucksvoll, wie Paul Celan mehr als funfzig Jahre nach seinem Tod zu einer weite Echoraume erzeugenden Stimme der Weltliteratur geworden ist. Dies reflektieren die 'Beitrage' des Bandes, deren Fokus auf den vielfaltigen Formen der Auseinandersetzung in der globalen...
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Nazi-Era Provenance of Museum Collections: A research guideA research guide on how to investigate the Nazi-era provenance of museum collections grounded in deep awareness of the historical background and contemporary policy context. This book equips those confronting the legacies of the Nazi past in museum collections with the necessary knowledge for...
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Two Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner ReportTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies this rioting and examines how this 600-page report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by a committee of both Republicans and Democrats. Designed so that each chapter...
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The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires: Football, Civic Associations, Barrios, and Politics, 1912-1943The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century. The period saw the emergence of the modern political system...
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Fighting from Above: A Combat History of the US Air Force Volume 1The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War--well before the USAF became a separate service--and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account...
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