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The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood and Child Kidnapping 1900-1968Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children's special positions within...
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The Politics of Sorrow: Unity and Allegiance Across Tibetan ExileThe Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet in 1959 after its occupation by China and established a government in exile in India. There, Tibetan leaders aimed to bring together displaced people from varied religious traditions and local loyalties under the banner of unity. To contest...
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Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction: Complicity and ContinuitiesLooking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity. It considers how these novels challenge our understanding of perpetration and complicity, how they point...
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Securing Empire: Imperial Cooperation and Competition in the Nineteenth CenturyThis volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the structures, hierarchies and dynamics of international relations during a pivotal moment in world history. Taking a unique approach to imperial and international history, the...
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Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian GulfTracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book explores the interplay of social, economic and political interests created by this popular commodity. The study of sugar has, until now, focused mainly on...
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The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town: Personal Recollection, Private Letters, and Oral TestimonyThrough the analysis of 10 oral witness testimonies of local residents and a previously undocumented letter correspondence between a Jewish Holocaust survivor and her gentile friend, The Jewish Purging of a Small German Town provides new insights into how the Nazi persecution of the...
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The English Modernist Novel as Political Theology: Challenging the NationA 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE novels by Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, and Sylvia Townsend Warner as political theology - works that imagine a resistance to the fusion of Christianity and patriotism which fuelled and supported the First World War -...
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Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific CenterAt first glance, the Novosibirsk Scientific Center, or Akademgorodok, appears as an outlier in academic excellence. This 'science city' is renowned for a preeminent university, dozens of research institutes, and a thriving technopark. At home, it is an emblem of Russian innovation; abroad, it...
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Herman Melville and Neurodiversity, or Why Hunt Difference with Harpoons?: A Primitivist PhenomenologyFocusing on the difference between lower-level perceptual processes in the "neural unconscious" and higher-order thought in the frontal lobes, this open access book shows how Herman Melville sought to reclaim the fluid world of the sensory, with its precategorical and radically egalitarian impulses. By...
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British Writing, Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Second World War and BeyondThis book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War.It traces the involvement of a series of major cultural figures in domestic and international propaganda campaigns and throws new...
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The 1969 'Greek Case' in the Council of Europe: A Game Changer for Human RightsIn 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on 21 April 1967. This volume...
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Rachel Cusk: Contemporary Critical PerspectivesRachel Cusk is one of the most critically acclaimed and controversial contemporary British authors. Her diverse body of work offers a striking portrait of trends in 21st-century literature, and the history of Cusk's literary output is one of experimentation and a desire to push...
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Greek Tragedy in 20th-Century Italian Literature: Translations by Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna BemporadFocusing on the works of Camillo Sbarbaro and Giovanna Bemporad, this book offers the first in-depth analysis of poetic translations of Greek tragedy in 20th-century Italian poetry. The close examination of the linguistic and ideological diversity embedded in these authors' works shows how narratives...
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Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times. From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise...
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Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain: Defining a Democracy, 1960-PresentThis book explores the evolution of Spanish feminism in the context of European feminisms and institutions from the 1960s to recent times. Beginning with Secci?n Femenina, the official Francoist women's organization, Feminism, National Identity and European Integration in Modern Spain traces the interplay between...
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Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930The first significant study of cocaine in the literary and cultural imagination of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this open access book offers an important exploration of the drug's symbolic and metaphorical associations in the decades prior to its criminalization. Examining the...
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The Insider-Outsider of Early 20th-Century German Industry: G?nter Henle and the Kl?ckner Steel Conglomerate, 1899-1955Using the life and work of G?nter Henle, Volker R. Berghahn examines the postwar West German approach to labour relations and European integration. The study of Henle simultaneously allows Berghahn to reflect on the unique insights into German Jewish life before and during the...
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Eliot NowOver a dozen new volumes of T. S. Eliot's poetry, prose, and letters have been published in the past decade. This collection presents unabashedly fresh approaches to Eliot, while simultaneously guiding readers through the new materials that are available for the first time outside...
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Death and Burial in Socialist Yugoslavia: The Politicization of Cemeteries and Ethnic Conflict in the BalkansAcross the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugoslav republics of Bosnia & Hercegovina, Croatia, and...
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Cosmopolitan Elites and the Making of Globality: M. N. Roy and Fellow Anti-Colonial, Communist and Humanist Intellectuals, C. 1915 - 1960As ideologies such as communism, fascism and various nationalisms vied for global domination during the first half of the 20th century, this book shows how a specific group of individuals - a cosmopolitan elite - became representatives of those ideologies the world over. Centering...
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