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Derek Mahon: A RetrospectiveDerek Mahon (1941-2020) is widely recognized as one of the most important Irish poets of his generation. This collection of new critical essays offers an important retrospective assessment of the nature of his poetic achievement. Bringing together many leading scholars of modern and contemporary...
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Poet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne KygerPoet in Place and Time: Critical Essays on Joanne Kyger provides a much-needed re-evaluation of the work of Joanne Kyger, a remarkably productive poet associated with transformative literary movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Kyger uses time and place to anchor her writing...
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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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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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The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920-1950A meticulously researched history on the development of American mathematics in the three decades following World War I As the Roaring Twenties lurched into the Great Depression, to be followed by the scourge of Nazi Germany and World War II, American mathematicians pursued their...
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Hollywood Screwball Comedy 1934-1945: Sex, Love, and Democratic IdealsLove at first sight, whirlwind marriages, break-ups, divorces, remarriage... What accounts for the enduring success of the Hollywood madcap comedies of the 1930s? Directed by masters of comedy (Hawks, LaCava, Leisen, Ruggles...) and featuring the decade's most iconic stars (Colbert, Dunne, Grant, Hepburn...), these...
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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar EraBlack France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the horizons of belonging in postwar France as leaders contemplated the inclusion of France's old African empire in the new Europe-in-the-making. European integration intensified longstanding structural...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and the RevolutionRalph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a perceptive critic of the counteracting pressures of society. Emerson formulated and expressed the philosophy of transcendentalism. He wrote on a number of...
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Engineering European Unity: The Quest for the Right Solution Across CenturiesWhich European and non-European ideas and practices facilitated the shaping of European unity? Or rather, which pursuits led to deadlocks in the cooperation between states? The book seeks answers to these questions by surveying the historical attempts at realizing supranational patterns of governance in...
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The Oxford Handbook of Samuel JohnsonNo major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries....
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Rethinking the Cinematic Cold War: The Struggle for Hearts and Minds Goes GlobalHistorical consensus increasingly views the Cold War period as a multifaceted conflict which extended beyond the borders of the USSR and USA, encompassing both cultural and diplomatic history. Debate remains, however, about how best to balance the Cold War as a cultural event with...
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Populism in Central and Eastern EuropeThe rise of illiberal democracies across Central and Eastern Europe represents an ongoing challenge to the democratic and liberal principles of post-Enlightenment societies. However, considerable debate remains about how to disentangle the complex factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and gain a clearer...
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The Disputed Austro-Hungarian Border: Agendas, Actors, and Practices in Western Hungary/Burgenland After World War IThe collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in the aftermath of World War I marked a foundational shift in the histories of Austria and Hungary. Previously part of the Habsburg's Austro-Hungarian Empire, this event stripped the two new states of a long-established territorial order, triggering...
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A More Democratic Community: The Place of Democracy in the History of European IntegrationThe histories of European unification and of West European democracy during the second half of the twentieth century have often been considered as separate or even antagonistic processes with the institutions of European integration being regarded as bastions of bureaucratic rule. A More Democratic...
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The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel: Ottoman Jews at the Dawn of the Tanzimat EraBased on newly discovered Ottoman and Jewish sources and using a legal lens on Levantine practices, The 1840 Rhodes Blood Libel argues that the acquittal of Rhodian Jews following a ritual murder charge is only adequately understood in the context of the Tanzimat and...
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