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The Learned and Lived Law: Essays in Honor of Charles DonahueThis wide-ranging collection of essays reflects the manifold scholarly interests of legal historian Charles Donahue, whose former students engage here with questions related to foundational Roman law concepts, the impact of the law on women and families in medieval and early modern Europe, the...
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Literacy in Medieval and Early Modern Vilnius: Forms of Writing and Rhetorical Spaces in the CityLate medieval and early modern cities in Europe could not exist without the use of the written word. Based on a case study of Vilnius - the capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the fourteenth-eighteenth centuries - this book shows how rhetoric...
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 48: 20 November 1805 to 1 March 1806A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Jefferson sends his annual message to Congress. He submits the peace treaty with Tripoli, but ratification takes months as the Senate asks for supporting documentation and Congress considers the request of Ahmad...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to D. H. LawrenceShowcasing the most exciting contemporary scholarship on D. H. Lawrence, this comprehensive collection serves as both an overview of the field at present as well as an examination of new approaches and directions in D. H. Lawrence studies. Explicitly interdisciplinary in its focus and...
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 47: 6 July to 19 November 1805A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Jefferson continues his pattern of returning home to Monticello for the summer months. He makes a brief visit to Poplar Forest in Bedford County to plan the development of that property. James...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith WhartonBringing together leading voices from across the globe, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edith Wharton represents state-of-the-art scholarship on the American writer Edith Wharton, once primarily known as a New York novelist. Focusing on Wharton's extensive body of work and renaissance across 21st-century popular culture,...
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'James Joyce and Paul L. Léon: The Story of a Friendship' RevisitedJames Joyce spent the last decade of his life in Paris, struggling to finish his great final work Finnegans Wake amidst personal and financial hardship and just as Europe was being engulfed by the rising tide of fascism. Bringing together new archival discoveries and...
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The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents, Volume 1 Volume 1Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution--together known as the Reconstruction Amendments--abolished slavery, safeguarded a set of basic national liberties, and expanded the right to vote, respectively. This two-volume work presents...
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Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970sOut of a background of war, occupation and the legacies of Japan's post-defeat politics there emerged a dissentient group of avant-garde filmmakers who created a counter-cinema that addressed a newly constituted, politically conscious audience. While there was no formal manifesto for this movement and...
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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 46: 9 March to 5 July 1805A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of Thomas Jefferson Congress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning appointments to legislative councils. He peruses information...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha ChristieThe first specifically academic companion to contemporary scholarship on the work of Agatha Christie, this book includes chapters by an international group of scholars writing on topics and fields of study as various as ecocriticism and the anthropocene, popular modernism, middlebrow fiction, queer theory,...
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Petroleum from Coal: A Century of SynthesisPetroleum from Coal shows why and how Friedrich Bergius and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch in 1913-26 invented and developed synthetic fuel processes; explains why and how Matthias Pier at BASF- IG Farben and Otto Roelen at Ruhrchemie successfully industrialized the syntheses during the...
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Dutch Military Thought, 1919-1939: A Small Neutral State's Visions of Modern WarIn the interwar period potential future military conflict seemed particularly devastating for military and civilian society alike, thanks to developments in chemical, air and armoured warfare. This study analyses how a small state, the Netherlands, approached this conundrum and aimed to survive a future...
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Inside Party Headquarters: Organizational Culture and Practice of Rule in the Socialist Unity Party of GermanyEveryday life in the East German Socialist Unity Party revolved heavily around maintaining the "party line" in all areas of society, whether through direct authority or corruption. Spanning a long period of the GDR's history, from 1946 through 1989, Rüdiger Bergien presents the first...
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Writing the Great War: The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the PresentFrom the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great...
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End Game: The 1989 Revolution in East GermanyThe fall of the Berlin Wall, and the chain of events leading up to it, arguably constitute one of the most thoroughly documented episodes in recent history. Nonetheless, most accounts have focused predominantly on high-level politics and diplomacy along with the most dramatic and...
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Akten Zur Auswärtigen Politik Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1992Das Ende der Ära Genscher Im Zentrum der deutschen Au enpolitik 1992 standen neben der Frage nach der Rolle der Bundesrepublik im veränderten internationalen Umfeld die Kriege im zerfallenden Jugoslawien, die Folgen der Auflösung der UdSSR, die Zusammenarbeit mit den Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas...
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The Collected Poems of Henry Kirke WhiteThis book is the first-ever scholarly edition of one of the bestselling and most revered poets in the nineteenth century--a poet excluded from the canon by twentieth-century critics. A poor youth who died early from tuberculosis, Kirke White shaped the popular image of the...
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Stalin's Early Cold War Foreign Policy: Southern Neighbours in the Shadow of Moscow, 1945-1947Immediately after the Allied WW2 victory in Europe, claims were made by the Soviet Union over the eastern regions of Turkey, to secure direct control over the Bosporus, Dardanelles, and Turkish Straits. The detailed study of the international components of these events, featuring the...
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Erich Auerbach and the Secular World: Literary Criticism, Historiography, Post-Colonial Theory and BeyondAuerbach was one of the foremost literary critics of the 20th century whose work has relevance within the fields of literary criticism, historiography and postcolonial theory. The opening chapter of this book explains how he understood the task of interpretation and his role as...
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