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Edges of Noir: Extreme Filmmaking in the 1960sEdges of Noir challenges the notion that noir film nearly vanished after 1958 until its subsequent "neo-noir" revival between 1973 and 1981. The 1960s, regardless of critical neglect, include some of the most provocative films of the post-World War II decades. Often formally disruptive...
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Poland Under German Occupation, 1939-1945: New PerspectivesAs a unique and innovative addition to the scholarship on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and modern Polish history, this volume provides fresh analysis on the Nazi occupation of Poland. Through new questions and engaging untapped sources the leading historians who have contributed to this...
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Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th CenturiesFrom the Napoleonic Wars to the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda, via the great world conflicts of the 20th century, Music and Postwar Transitions in the 19th and 20th Centuries is the first book to highlight the significance of 'postwar transitions' in the...
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Red America: Greek Communists in the United States, 1920-1950Historians of immigration and ethnicity in the United States have typically devoted little attention to Greek Americans compared to the extensive historical literature produced about their Irish, Italian, and German counterparts. From acclaimed historian Kostis Karpozilos, Red America provides a deeply researched correction to...
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Coproducing Europe: An Ethnography of Film Markets, Creativity and IdentityUp until the 1990s, when the EU launched film policies intended to encourage political and cultural collaboration among its member states, film production was based on the cultural and national values of individual nations. Coproducing Europe explores the impact of these EU policies on...
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Heritage Under Socialism: Preservation in Eastern and Central Europe, 1945-1991How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War II? By exploring national and regional specificities within the broader context of internationalization, this volume enriches the conceptual, methodological and empirical scope of heritage studies through a series of fascinating case...
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Defeating Impunity: Attempts at International Justice in Europe Since 1914Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing...
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Bestsellers of the Third Reich: Readers, Writers and the Politics of LiteratureDespite the displacement of countless authors, frequent bans of specific titles, and high-profile book burnings, the German book industry boomed during the Nazi period. Notwithstanding the millions of copies of Mein Kampf that were sold, the era's most popular books were diverse and often...
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In the Shadow of the Great War: Physical Violence in East-Central Europe, 1917-1923Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing violence and forge peaceful societies. This collection explores the various forms of violence these nations confronted during this period, which effectively transformed the...
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Women of Two Countries: German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890German-American women played many roles in the US women's rights movement from 1848 to 1890. This book focuses on three figures--Mathilde Wendt, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, and Clara Neymann--who were simultaneously included and excluded from the nativist women's rights movement. Accordingly, their roles and arguments...
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Oswald Spengler and the Politics of DeclineOswald Spengler was one of the most important thinkers of the Weimar Republic. In Oswald Spengler and the Politics of Decline, Ben Lewis completely transforms our understanding of Spengler by showing how well-connected this philosopher was and how, at every stage of his career,...
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What Remains: Responses to the Legacy of Christa WolfArguably the most important--and influential--German woman writer of the last century, Christa Wolf was long heralded as "die gesamtdeutsche Autorin," an author for all of Germany; but, after 1989 in unified Germany, Wolf found herself suddenly embroiled in controversies that challenged her integrity and...
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Brewing Socialism: Coffee, East Germans, and Twentieth-Century GlobalizationPlacing coffee at the center of its analysis, Brewing Socialism links East Germany's consumption and food culture to its relationship to the wider world. Andrew Kloiber reveals the ways that everyday cultural practices surrounding coffee drinking not only connected East Germans to a global...
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The Chernobyl Effect: Antinuclear Protests and the Molding of Polish Democracy, 1986-1990The 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe was not only a human and ecological disaster, but also a political-ideological one, severely discrediting Soviet governance and galvanizing dissidents in the Eastern Bloc. In the case of Poland, what began as isolated protests against the Soviet nuclear site grew...
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Dynamics of Emigration: Émigré Scholars and the Production of Historical Knowledge in the 20th CenturyAs a pioneering volume to consider the impact of exile on historical scholarship in the twentieth century in a systematic and global way, looking at Europe, North America, South America and Asia, Dynamics of Emigration asks about epistemic repercussions on the experience of exile...
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Sailing Shipping and Maritime Labor in Camogli (1815--1914): Floating Communities in the Global WorldThis book explores the historical evolution of a Mediterranean village that radically changed its core self-sustaining activities in less than a century, from fishing for anchovies in the Ligurian Sea to rounding Cape Horn.Author: Leonardo ScavinoPublisher: BrillPublished: 08/26/2022Pages: 400Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789004516533This title is...
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Frauensatiren der Frühen NeuzeitHerrschsüchtige Ehefrauen, wollüstige Jungfern, hässliche Vetteln, männerquälende Hexen und pseudogelehrte Frauen begegnen häufig in satirischen Schriften der Frühen Neuzeit. Indem sie misogyne Topoi und Traditionen aufgreifen und aktualisieren, erweisen sich Frauensatiren als bedeutendes transgenerisches Phänomen der deutschen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte im Kontext der europäischen...
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Navigating Women's Friendships in American Literature and CultureThis volume presents a collection of critical essays that center women's friendship in women's literary and artistic production. Analyzing cultural portrayals of women's friendships in fiction, letters, and film, these essays collectively suggest new models of literary interpretation that do not prioritize heterosexual romance....
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The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThis volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and Mathilda...
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Neo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and FilmNeo-Victorian Things: Re-Imagining Nineteenth-Century Material Cultures in Literature and Film is the first volume to focus solely on the replication, reconstruction, and re-presentation of Victorian things. It investigates the role of materiality in contemporary returns to the past as a means of assessing the...
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