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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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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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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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Pathogens Crossing Borders: Global Animal Diseases and International Responses, 1860-1947The increasing globalization of trade, travel and transport since the mid-19th century had unwelcome consequences - one of them was the spread of contagious animal diseases over greater distances in a shorter time than ever before. Borders and national control strategies proved to be...
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A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation, by William Bourne of Gravesend, a Gunner, C.1535-1582William Bourne, of Gravesend, by trade a gunner, was a successful writer of a new type of textbook. Neither a scholar nor of gentle birth, both of which were regarded as the prerequisites of authorship in the 16th century, when the scientific books were...
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The Prester John of the Indies: A True Relation of the Lands of the Prester John, Being the Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Ethiopia in 1520, WThis is an account of the Portuguese mission which landed at Massawa on the west coast of the Red Sea in April 1520 and re-embarked 6 years later. It was the first European embassy known to have reached the Ethiopian court and returned safely...
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New Realism in Alice Munro's FictionThe book studies Alice Munro's inheritance of and contribution to realism in fiction. Nobel Prize winner Munro follows the empirical tradition of the Enlightenment and draws on her life as a daughter, wife, mother, and professional writer while composing her fiction to reflect Canadian...
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Our Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular CultureOur Henry James in Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture addresses the interesting revival of Henry James's works in Anglo-American film adaptations and contemporary fiction from the 1960s to the present. James's fiction is generally considered difficult and part of high culture, more appropriate for...
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Cultures of Memory in Asia: Dynamics and Forms of MemorializationA collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of...
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Science, Technology and the Cultural Cold War in Asia: From Atoms for Peace to Space FlightTsuchiya presents a new insight into the political roles of science and technology during the Cold War era in Asia. The Cold War was not only a battle of conflicting ideologies and economic systems, but also a competition of cultures and lifestyles, and a...
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Locating Classed Subjectivities: Intersections of Space and Working-Class Life in Nineteenth-, Twentieth-, and Twenty-First-Century British WritingLocating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized...
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Misers: British Responses to Extreme Saving, 1700-1860This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society, including new perspectives on charity, morality, and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving, spending, and investment.Misers surveys this...
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