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The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature: Immanence, Occultism, and the Making of the Modern WorldProbing the relationship between modernist literary experimentation and several key strands of occult practice which emerged in Europe from roughly 1894 to 1944, this book sets the work of leading modernist writers alongside lesser known female writers and writers in languages other than English...
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Djuna Barnes and Theology: Melancholy, Body, TheodicyModernism, religion, and queer bodies come together in this study of Djuna Barnes's writings and art. Examining the role of Barnes's theological imagination in relation to a phenomenology of suffering, joy, and sexed embodiment, this book unfolds an intricate synthesis of theology, psychoanalysis, and...
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Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar OrnithologyAs a transnational history of science, Japan's Empire of Birds: Aristocrats, Anglo-Americans, and Transwar Ornithology focuses on the political aspects of highly mobile Japanese explorer-scientists, or cosmopolitan gentlemen of science, circulating between Japanese and British/American spaces in the transwar period from the 1920s to...
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Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of HistoryJapanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea exposes the interactions between two ostensibly opposing worlds: war and travel. While soldiers deployed to Eastern New Guinea during the Second World War recalled first-hand their experience of war, post-war tourists visited battle-sites, met locals, and drew their...
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The Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914: Crucible of ModernityThe Long Nineteenth Century, 1750-1914 is a global history textbook with a difference. It is a guide for students to the actions and experiences by which communities and individuals in different parts of the world constructed, contested, and were affected by major trends and...
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Step by Step: Political Writings: 1936-1939In the years following the great depression, with Germany rearming and the rise of fascism across Europe being met with a policy of appeasement from the Democratic countries, Winston Churchill stood as a rare voice in the wilderness, warning of the dangers to come....
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The Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution: Illiberal Liberation, 1917-41How did a regime that promised utopian-style freedom end up delivering terror and tyranny? For some, the Bolsheviks were totalitarian and the descent was inevitable; for others, Stalin was responsible; for others still, this period in Russian history was a microcosm of the Cold...
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Socialist Women and the Great War, 1914-21: Protest, Revolution and CommemorationSocialist Women and the Great War: Protest, Revolution and Commemoration, an open access book, is the first transnational study of left-wing women and socialist revolution during the First World War and its aftermath. Through a discussion of the key themes related to women and...
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social ThoughtHow British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in India During the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectuals--philologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social critics--deployed ideas about sexuality...
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Empire, Celebrity and Excess: King Farouk of Egypt and British Culture 1936-1965While now long-forgotten, King Farouk of Egypt loomed large in British culture in the 1940s and 1950s. Farouk was of interest and importance, not just to British imperial policy makers, but to a wider public that was exposed to his extravagant lifestyle and colourful...
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Empirismus Und Ästhetik: Zur Deutschsprachigen Rezeption Von Hume, Hutcheson, Home Und Burke Im 18. JahrhundertEmpirismus und Ästhetik werden in den Schriften von Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Edmund Burke und Henry Home zu einer empiristischen Ästhetik verbunden. Sie argumentiert induktiv, psycho- oder physiologisch, evolutionär und demokratisch und lässt sich als frühe Form der empirischen Ästhetik verstehen. Ihr Transfer nach...
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Fontanes MedienTheodor Fontane war, im durchaus modernen Sinne, ein Medienarbeiter: Als Presse-Agent in London lernte er die innovativste Presselandschaft seiner Zeit kennen; als Redakteur in Berlin leistete er journalistische Kärrnerarbeit; er schrieb Kritiken über das Theater, die bildende Kunst und die Literatur - und auch...
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Osteuropäisch - jüdisch - sozialistischDie Studie beleuchtet die Lebenswelten einer Exilgruppe mehrerer Dutzend osteuropäisch-jüdischer Sozialist/-innen im Berlin der Weimarer Republik. Sie analysiert deren multiple Zugehörigkeitsverständnisse und erfasst ihre Interaktionen innerhalb der internationalen Arbeiterbewegung. Die Exilant/-innen waren geprägt von jüdischen und sozialistischen Lebenswelten des Russländischen Reichs und entwickelten eigene...
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Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian CountryDespite its apparent isolation as an older region of the country, the Southeast provided a vital connecting link between the Black self-emancipation that occurred during the American Revolution and the growth of the Underground Railroad in the final years of the antebellum period. From...
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Here Are My People: LGBT College Student Organizing in CaliforniaBeginning in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, a new generation of LGBT students in California began to organize publicly on college and university campuses, inspired by contemporaneous social movements and informed by California's rich history of LGBT community formation and political engagement....
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Classics in Black and White: Black Colleges, Classics Education, Resistance, and AssimilationFollowing emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and Latin classics, then the...
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Wanted! a Nation!: Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was...
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Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare StateWith The Sentimental State, Elizabeth Garner Masarik shows how middle-class women, both white and Black, harnessed the nineteenth-century "culture of sentiment" to generate political action in the Progressive Era. While eighteenth-century rationalism had relied upon the development of the analytic mind as the basis...
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Why Any Woman: Feminism and Popular Culture in the Late Twentieth-Century SouthScholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of late twentieth-century southern feminisms:...
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Beyond Piggly Wiggly: Inventing the American Self-Service StorePatented in 1917, Piggly Wiggly was by far the most influential self-service store of the early twentieth century. Before 1940 it was the only self-service chain with a national distribution network, but it was neither the first nor the only version. Beyond Piggly Wiggly...
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