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The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an 'economic turn' that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. From the birth of new agricultural practices and the foundation of private societies to the sustained and popular theorization of social and material phenomena, the...

The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a...

Based on the scholarship of a global team of diverse authors, this wide-ranging handbook surveys the history and current status of pro-women thought and activism over millennia. The book traces the complex history of feminism across the globe, presenting its many identities, its heated...

Herausgegeben im Auftrag des Auswärtigen Amts vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte. Hauptherausgeber: Horst Möller, Mitherausgeber: Gregor Schöllgen Wissenschaftliche Leiterin: Ilse Dorothee Pautsch Für die Bundesrepublik war 1962 ein schwieriges Jahr, das in der Kuba-Krise und der "Spiegel-Affäre" gipfelte. Die Verhandlungen über eine europäische politische Union...

Author: Mark V. TushnetPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/03/2022Pages: 1270Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 4.70lbsSize: 9.50h x 6.40w x 2.30dISBN: 9781316515938About the AuthorTushnet, Mark V.: - Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus at Harvard Law School. After graduating from Harvard College and...

Author: Robert C. PostPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/25/2024Binding Type: OtherWeight: 6.75lbsSize: 9.45h x 6.46w x 3.46dISBN: 9781009336215Not available to be shipped via Media Mail

The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West's media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume,...

This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from popes, princes, and British aristocrats on the Grand Tour....

The Finnish Civil War 1918 offers a rich account of the history and memory of the short conflict between socialist Reds and non-socialist Whites in the winter and spring of 1918. It also traces the legacy of the bloody war in Finnish society until...

Arno Schmidt ist vielleicht der grö te Au enseiter der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur. Das Handbuch will sein Werk zugänglich machen, die Lust an der Lektüre wecken und Schmidt auch in der Literaturgeschichte den Platz geben, der ihm gebührt. Es bietet sowohl Informationen für eine erste...

Correspondence is vol. ix in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. Among Victorian writers, Pater (1839-1894) challenged academic and religious orthodoxies, defended 'the love of art for own sake', developed a new genre of prose fiction (the 'imaginary portrait'), set new standards for...

In 1602 the German nation of the University of Orléans decided to separate the registration of new members from the texte des rapports in the Livres des procurateurs, 1444-1602. The registres matricules that were subsequently used show that in the seventeenth century many young...

CONTENTS 1 Introduction: Approaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century Victoria Aarons and Phyllis Lassner Part I Memoir 2 Elie Wiesel's Quarrel with God Alan L. Berger 3 Primo Levi's Last Lesson: A Reading of The Drowned and the Saved Anthony C. Wexler 4...

Covering a large portion of the period from the early seventeenth century to the contemporary era, the Kalmyk National Archive has particularly rich holdings from the pre-revolutionary period, which makes it an outstanding source for historical studies on Russia's 'internal colonialism' at the Empire's...

Approaching Wordsworth' writings from perspectives which have not been considered in critical literature, this book offers a multiangled reflection on the technicalities of the poet's religious discourse, including the methodology of The Prelude revision, or Wordsworth's patent art of pious postscripts. The book constitutes...

Why has "car society" proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable...

The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the...

Though modernism's emergence in an environment of techno-cultural acceleration has long been recognized, recent scholarship has deepened and challenged our understanding of the connections between twentieth-century cultural production and its technological interlocutors. In twenty-eight chapters by leading academics, The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism and...

A 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...

Bringing 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,...