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Russian Orientalism in a Global Context: Hybridity, Encounter, and Representation, 1740-1940This volume features new research by an international group of scholars on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways in which it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative, and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two...
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Romanticism and Consciousness, RevisitedWith explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period's porousness to the world, along with new developments in cognitive theory and research, Romantic studies scholars have been called to revisit and re-map the terrain laid out...
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Twentieth-Century Gothic: An Edinburgh CompanionDuring the latter half of the twentieth century the Gothic emerged as one of the liveliest and most significant areas of academic inquiry within literary, film, and popular culture studies. This volume covers the key concepts and developments associated with Twentieth-Century Gothic, tracing the...
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The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy and PrivilegeThis book narrates the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through to the nineteenth century. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, a fortressed town in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman...
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From Dead Thoughts and Withered Leaves to Unextinguished Hearth and Awakened Earth: Percy Bysshe Shelley in Politics and SocietyIn this thought-provoking new book, George Ewane Ngide explores Percy Byshe Shelley's poetry and visionary insight of a millennial future, an everlasting spring or a New Jerusalem where man will be "sceptreless-just man." Shelley's altruistic goal, Ngide asserts, is to reclaim the universe's original...
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The Literary Career of W. B. TritesThis book discusses the eight novels of the American expatriate author W. B. Trites. Although Trites was highly praised by such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, W. B. Maxwell, Max Beerbohm, L. P. Hartley, and Frank Harris, among others, he remains curiously...
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1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and DemocracyRecognizing the fiftieth anniversary of the protests, strikes, and violent struggles that formed the political and cultural backdrop of 1968 across Europe, the United States, and Latin America, Susana Draper offers a nuanced perspective of the 1968 movement in Mexico. She challenges the dominant...
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The History of the Republic of Turkey: Grandeur and GrievanceA comprehensive, readable history of the Republic of Turkey that gives equal weight to all periods in the first century of the Republic of Turkey.The republican order of Turkey seems not to have changed much since its foundation in 1923, but there were dramatic...
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The Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st CenturyThe Jewish Metropolis: New York City from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all time. It provides an introduction to many facets of that history, including the ways in which waves...
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Sources of Global History Since 1900SOURCES OF GLOBAL HISTORY SINCE 1900 is a primary source reader designed to supplement modern world history courses. It contains both textual and visual sources from around the world and features strong pedagogical learning aids to ensure students are equipped with the information needed...
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Spenser's Afterlife from Shakespeare to Milton: The Faerie Queene as Intertextual EnvironmentThis study explores how Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, and Milton among many others appropriated Spenser's long and shorter poems for creating comedy, parody, and satire. Their appropriations, which were widely influential on communities of readers, writers, and intertextual networks from 1590-1660, left an...
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Late Shakespeare and the English BaroqueLate Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare's late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying...
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Theory as World LiteratureThe first collection to consider what it means for theory to be considered as a species of world literature - and vice versa. What does it mean for theory to be considered as a species of not just literature but world literature? This volume...
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Community Relations and the Troubles in Northern Ireland: A Policy HistoryCommunity relations policy has been an almost permanent feature in Northern Ireland since 1969, yet it has rarely been considered as an object of study. This book provides historical depth to its analysis, by documenting the various manifestations of the notion of community relations...
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The Romantic Sublime and Representations of TechnologyEbook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.In this book Michele Speitz assembles the first full-length scholarly study of the British Romantic technological sublime, addressing a significant gap in scholarship on Romantic literature, technological aesthetics, and the history...
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The Currency of Cultural Patrimony: The Spanish Golden AgeThe Spanish Golden Age, a cultural narrative that has developed and over four centuries, remains a key element of how Spaniards articulate cultural identities, both within Spain and to the outside world. The Currency of Cultural Patrimony examines the development of this narrative by...
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Undermining Racial Justice: How One University Embraced Inclusion and InequalityOver the last sixty years, administrators on college campuses nationwide have responded to black campus activists by making racial inclusion and inequality compatible. This bold argument is at the center of Matthew Johnson's powerful and controversial book. Focusing on the University of Michigan, often...
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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every PlaceSeeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift,...
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People's Diplomacy: How Americans and Chinese Transformed Us-China Relations During the Cold WarIn People's Diplomacy, Kazushi Minami shows how the American and Chinese people rebuilt US-China relations in the 1970s, a pivotal decade bookended by Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China and 1979 normalization of diplomatic relations. Top policymakers in Washington and Beijing drew the blueprint...
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Inventing the Middle East: Britain and the Persian Gulf in the Age of Global ImperialismThe "Middle East" has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after...
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