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A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present: Modernisation, Ideology and NationalityWhy is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe...
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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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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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Voices of American Women's History from Reconstruction to the Present: Contemporary Accounts of Daily LifeThis collection of historical and contemporary writing by women argues that, in addition to gender, identity markers such as race, class, religion, citizenship, sexuality, and marital status have influenced women's lives in the United States for more than 200 years. Voices of American Women's...
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Courteous Exchanges: Spenser's and Shakespeare's Gentle Dialogues with Readers and AudiencesThis book offers new connections between Spenser and Shakespeare by showing how their works hone readers' and audiences' judgement about the social construction of aristocratic identity.Author: Patricia WarehPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69dISBN: 9781526149855About the AuthorPatricia...
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Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary PoliticsA cutting-edge exploration of how Marx's ideas have been adopted and adapted by revolutionary thinkers in the Global South.For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the legacy of Marxism...
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Shakespeare's Liminal Spaces: Contesting Authority on the Early Modern StageShakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeare's forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.Author: Ben HaworthPublisher: Manchester University PressPublished: 07/09/2024Pages: 238Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...
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The Greek Revolution of 1821: European Contexts, Scottish ConnectionsPolitical history and history of ideas, art history, theories of nations and nationalism, Classical Reception studies, modern Greek history and modern Scottish history come together in this collection of essays by experts in all these fields. The starting point for the volume is the...
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Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, Race, and Nation, C. 1850-1970Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a formative platform for imagining a host of Irish pasts,...
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Sir Philip Sidney: The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia: The New Arcadia, Second Revised EditionModern readers mostly know Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia in its complete 'old' version, but it is the New Arcadia (published in 1590), a revised version of his pastoral romance The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, that was the most influential and most widely imitated literary...
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Precision: A History of American WarfareWe think of precision warfare as a modern invention, closely associated with the Gulf War, the Kosovo Campaign and drone technologies. But its origins go back much further in history. As historian James Patton Rogers reveals, this quest to achieve precision in war began...
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Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century EuropeHow do pictures tell stories? This ground-breaking book analyses visual narrative in nineteenth-century history and genre paintings across Europe. It reveals how artists constructed plots via objects, managing the tension between narrative and style and prompting viewers to weave their own tales.Author: Nina LübbrenPublisher:...
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Negotiating Relief and Freedom: Responses to Disaster in the British Caribbean, 1812-1907Negotiating relief and freedom is an investigation of short- and long-term responses to disaster in the British Caribbean colonies during the 'long' nineteenth century. It explores how colonial environmental degradation made their inhabitants both more vulnerable to and expanded the impact of natural phenomena...
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Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, C. 1966-97This book is the first comprehensive archive-based study to explore governance, surveillance, political culture and public policymaking in colonial Hong Kong from 1966 to 1997, using newly released archival documents in London and Hong Kong. Using historical discipline, it provides a thorough understanding of...
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