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Modernist Literature and European IdentityModernist Literature and European Identity examines how European and non-European authors debated the idea of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. It shifts the focus from European modernism to modernist Europe, and shows how the notion of Europe was constructed in...
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The Exorcist of Sombor: The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan FriarThe Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, based on his own letters and documentation, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism...
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The Guiana Travels of Robert Schomburgk Volume II The Boundary Survey, 1840-1844This is the second of a pair of volumes publishing the unedited full reports of Schomburgk's travels in Guiana between 1835 and 1844, previously available only in greatly abridged and heavily edited versions. After his explorations in Guiana between 1835 and 1839 on behalf...
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Female Terrorism in America: Past and Current PerspectivesThis book provides a comprehensive analysis of female terrorism in America, both past and present. The volume takes a fresh look at women's actions of left-wing political violence, right-wing political violence, and religious extremist violence (among others). It also examines the multitude of roles...
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Credit and Power: The Paradox at the Heart of the British National DebtThis book reveals the surprising role that credit, money created ex nihilo by financiers, played in raising the British government's war loans between 1793 and 1815. Using often overlooked contemporary objections to the National Debt a startling paradox is revealed as it is shown...
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Irish Writers and the Thirties: Art, Exile and WarThis original study focusing on four Irish writers - Leslie Daiken, Charles Donnelly, Ewart Milne and Michael Sayers - retrieves a hitherto neglected episode of Thirties literary history which highlights the local and global aspects of Popular Front cultural movements. From interwar London to...
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Remembering Genocides in Central AfricaScene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences. Through a blend of personal memories and historical analysis, and informed by a lifelong experience of research...
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Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing SituationsEmbassies are integral to international diplomacy, their staff instrumental to inter-governmental dialogue, strategic partnerships, trading relationships and cultural exchange. But Embassies are also discreet political spaces. Notionally sovereign territory 'immune' from local jurisdiction, in moments of crisis Embassies have often been targets of protest...
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Clemence Dane: Forgotten Feminist Writer of the Inter-War YearsThis feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period. An amalgam of single-author study and thematic period analysis, through sustained...
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Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women ArtistsFemale Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual subjectivity. Positioned at the nexus of studies on the body and...
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Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History IThe study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches. Resulting from a special issue of Modern Chinese History Studies, this volume is devoted to showcasing the healthy development of Chinese...
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Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India: Aesthetic Form after the Twentieth-century NovelIn the postcolonial world, the claim to an emancipated national culture was bound to its aesthetic correlate, the unfolding time and experiments of the twentieth-century novel. Today, the constructs of both novel and a progressivist national project function, in all their closures, within global...
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Sinti and Roma in Germany (1871-1933): Gypsy Policy in the Second Empire and Weimar RepublicThis book concerns the persecution of the Sinti and Roma in Germany during the Second Empire (1871-1918) and Weimar Republic (1919-1933). It traces the ways in which discriminatory treatment towards 'Gypsies' developed in a state ostensibly committed to individual liberty and equal treatment under...
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Russia's French Connection: A History of the Lasting French Imprint on Russian CultureWhile it is generally acknowledged that Russia's culture has been influenced by France, the present study goes beyond the Francophile preferences of the noble elite and examines Russian society more broadly, exploring those elements of French cultural influence that are still relevant today. This...
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Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of FreedomThis book provides a comparative and transnational examination of the complex and multifaceted experiences of anti-labour mobilisation, from the bitter social conflicts of the pre-war period, through the epochal tremors of war and revolution, and the violent spasms of the 1920s and 1930s. It...
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Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent AmericansBehind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive simulants that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or...
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The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-56In contrast to every other book about the conflict Andrew Lambert's ground-breaking study The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy against Russia, 1853-1856 is neither an operational history of the armies in the Crimea, nor a study of the diplomacy of the conflict. The core...
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The Role of Circuit Courts in the Formation of United States Law in the Early Republic: Following Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, StoryWhile scholars have rightly focused on the importance of the landmark opinions of the United States Supreme Court and its Chief Justice, John Marshall, in the rise in influence of the Court in the Early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in...
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Tradition, Literature and Politics in East-Central EuropeMilan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile. But few could have imagined how the collapse of communism and membership of the EU would confront...
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The Third Reich: Politics and PropagandaPublished in the year 1994, The Third Reich is a valuable contribution to the field of History.Author: David WelchPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 04/25/2002Pages: 264Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60dISBN: 9780415275088This title is not returnable
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