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The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet UnionSamizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union. But as Josephine von Zitzewitz explains, while much is known about the texts themselves, little is available on the complex...
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To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign RelationsWhen American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks...
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Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon's New Golden Age, 1668-1750Long dependent on the Asian spice trade, Portugal suffered serious setbacks during the period of political union with Spain (1580-1640), as the Dutch and others seized key regions and destroyed commercial monopolies. By 1668, the greatest hope for a renewed Portuguese empire lay to...
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Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold WarThe longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses-and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing,...
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Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to...
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Quaker Women, 1800-1920: Studies of a Changing LandscapeThis collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century.New research illuminates the...
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Oil Fictions: World Literature and Our Contemporary PetrosphereOil, like other fossil fuels, permeates every aspect of human existence. Yet it has been largely ignored by cultural critics, especially in the context of the Global South. Seeking to make visible not only the pervasiveness of oil in society and culture but also...
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Our Beloved Friend: The Life and Writings of Anne Emlen MifflinBorn into one of the wealthiest families in Philadelphia and raised and educated in that vital center of eighteenth-century American Quakerism, Anne Emlen Mifflin was a progressive force in early America. This detailed and engaging biography, which features Anne's collected writings and selected correspondence,...
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Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and the Spanish MonarchyWith its selection as the court of the Spanish Habsburgs, Madrid became the de facto capital of a global empire, a place from which momentous decisions were made whose implications were felt in all corners of a vast domain. By the seventeenth century, however,...
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The Universities of Scotland, Ireland, and New England During the British Civil Wars: Contested SeminariesHighlights the contested nature of higher education in the British Atlantic world between the Reformation and the Enlightenment Universities in the early modern period were powerful institutions in the formation of societies, utilised as both tools to legitimise and perpetuate the power of states...
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Alfonso Salmer?n on the Scriptures: Theological Perspectives from a Founding Jesuit (1515-1585)A ground-breaking study that unveils, for the first time, the entirety of a founding Jesuit's theology. Revered as a founder of the Jesuit order, an accomplished preacher, a papal theologian at all three sessions of the Council of Trent, and the provincial of Naples,...
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Poetry from the Waverley Novels and Other WorksThis scholarly edition offers the first reliably identified collection of Walter Scott's original poetry in the Waverley Novels, the letters and the Journal. Past editors of Scott found it hard to recognise what is and is not quotation; but thanks to modern databases the...
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The Queen, or the Excellency of Her Sex: By John FordA scholarly, modern-spelling edition of a play by the Caroline dramatist John Ford which was accidentally omitted from the 1652 edition of his works and so has not received much attention. A full introduction explores what made the play interesting to audiences both when...
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Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York: Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period TunesIncludes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in...
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The Celluloid Atlantic: Hollywood, Cinecitt?, and the Making of the Cinema of the West, 1943-1973The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries came to be an integrated, transnational unit rather than two separate, nation-based entities. Written...
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Shakespeare's Adolescents: Age, Gender and the Body in Shakespearean Performance and Early Modern CultureShakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the 'signs' of the maturation used to construct Shakespeare's many adolescent characters.Author: Victoria SpareyPublisher: Manchester...
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Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century English Literature and CultureThis book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation on medical practices and personages were spread during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and some of the reasons for this, from authorial self-interest to scientific ignorance.Author: Allan IngramPublisher:...
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States of Enmity: The Politics of Hatred in the Early Modern Kingdom of NaplesThis book establishes the crucial significance of the politics of enmity and pacification in the early modern Kingdom of Naples.Author: Stephen CumminsPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 12/17/2024Pages: 232Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56dISBN: 9781526171078
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Reading Alice Munro's Breakthrough Books: A Suite in Four VoicesWhat in terms of Alice Munro's creative artistry and creative power allowed her to become the first and only short story writer, the first and only Canadian, and just the thirteenth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature? And exactly when...
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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined LivesWomen and madness in the early Romantic novel returns madness to a central role in feminist literary criticism through an updated exploration of hysteria, melancholia, and love-madness in novels by Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Fenwick, Mary Hays, Maria Edgeworth, and Amelia Opie. This book argues...
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