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Islam and Dhimmitude
Where Civilizations Collide
Av Bat Yeor
Häftad, 2001
631 kr
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In this study of the legal and social condition of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule (the dhimmis), Bat Ye’or examines various religious and historical sources, using the new term ‘dhimmitude’ to describe their common history andlegal status. Some of the laws derive from the special …
United Nations in the Balance
Challenges to Effective Crisis Response
Inbunden, 2026
1104 kr
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Going beyond unimaginative calls for UN Security Council reform and demands for defunding and “detoothing” the UN entirely, veteran diplomat, Jassim Buallay, offers a practical road map for the modernization of the UN System and improvement of its crisis response.Since its inception, in the …
'What May Words Say . . . ?'
A Reading of the The Merchant of Venice
Inbunden, 2011
1545 kr
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"What May Words Say…?" A Reading of The Merchant of Venice contains, in a form resembling a running commentary, a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's …
Looters, Photographers, and Thieves
Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2011
1197 kr
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Working toward an analysis of the influence of photography on the construction of an Italian "type" to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages the work of writers and photographers who have addressed or participated in this venture. From Giovanni Verga and Italo …
Original Iron Brigade
Inbunden, 2011
1470 kr
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Alan Nolan's 1961 Iron Brigade, the classic study of Brigadier General John Gibbon's Black Hat Brigade composed of the 19th Indiana, the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and the 24th Michigan, drew public attention to the superior unit during the Civil War Centennial. Since then, much has been written …
Cultures of Italian Migration
Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives
Av Anthony Julian Tamburri, Graziella Parati m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1356 kr
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The Cultures of Italian Migration allows the adjective "Italian" to qualify people's movements along diverse trajectories and temporal dimensions. Discussions on migrations to and from Italy meet in that discursive space where critical concepts like "home," "identity," "subjectivity," and …
Messages of Murder
A Study of the Reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the Security Service, 1941-1943
Inbunden, 1992
810 kr
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This book is a study of the reports of the Einsatzgruppen, the four SS extermination squads that followed in the wake of the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. It was the Einsatzgruppen that began the systematic massacre of Jews and other Oundesirables.O These killings are the …
Crisis in Representation
Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Helen Maria Williams, and the Rewriting of the French Revolution
Inbunden, 1997
1464 kr
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The revisions of the French Revolution by three prominent eighteenth- century writers are focused on in this book. The implication in the OtraditionO these writers rebelled against raises fundamental questions about the representations of rebels and Romantics as well as our canonical readings of …
Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures
Representing the Harem, 1800-1875
Inbunden, 2002
1321 kr
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This is a critical study of French and British art and written texts (poetry, literature, travel accounts, art criticism)—orientalist works about the harem produced in the period from 1800-1875. Original readings are provided for over 150 harem pictures, from well-known salon paintings to rarely …
Imperial Executive in America
Sir Edmund Andros, 1637-1714
Inbunden, 2002
1381 kr
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Edmund Andros, a soldier, administrator, courtier, and diplomat, served a succession of Stuart monarchs in the Old and New Worlds. This study differs from most past assessments that portray him in a negative light; instead it concentrates on his role in protecting and defending EnglandOs New World …
Eurabia
The Euro-Arab Axis
Av Bat Ye'or
Häftad, 2005
716 kr
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This book is about the transformation of Europe into "Eurabia", a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world. Eurabia is fundamentally anti-Christian, anti-Western, anti-American, and antisemitic. The institution responsible for this transformation, and that continues to propagate …
Huguenot on the Hackensack
David Demarest and His Legacy
Av DAVID C. MAJOR, JOHN S. MAJOR
Inbunden, 2007
1031 kr
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A Huguenot on the Hackensack is the first full-length study of David Demarest, an early European settler of northeastern New Jersey and progenitor of a large and locally influential family. The book examines Demarest's life, the legacy of his family, and the wider "Jersey Dutch" community in which …
Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama
Av Andrew Majeske, Emily Detmer-Goebel
Inbunden, 2009
1396 kr
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Justice, Women, and Power in English Renaissance Drama is a collection of essays that explores the relationship of gender and justice as represented in English Renaissance drama. Many of the essays are concerned with interrogating the ways that women relied upon and/or reacted to the legal (and …
Deviant Women of the French Revolution and the Rise of Feminism
Inbunden, 2009
1396 kr
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Despite critical interest in the role of women in the French Revolution, there is no single, comprehensive study of the works of the two most prolific women writers of the period—Olympe de Gouges and Manon Roland. At a time when politicians were molding public policy concerning life, liberty, the …
Brothers and Sisters
Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities
Av Craig L. Torbenson, Gregory S. Parks
Inbunden, 2009
1387 kr
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This volume draws from a variety of disciplines in an attempt to provide a holistic analysis of diversity within collegiate fraternal life. It also brings a wide range of scholarly approaches to the inquiry of diversity within college fraternities and sororities. It explores not only from whence …
Indology, Indomania, and Orientalism
Ancient India's Rebirth in Modern Germany
Inbunden, 2009
1626 kr
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Investigating the growth of Indology (the study of East Indian texts, literature, and culture) and the diffusion of this knowledge about ancient India within nineteenth-century Germany, this work contextualizes approaches to contact by historically grounding them in a contemporary history of German …
Homo Americanus
ERNEST HEMINGWAY, TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, AND QUEER MASCULINITIES
Av John S. Bak
Inbunden, 2009
1641 kr
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Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations apart. Yet both authors bridged their modernist/postmodernist divide through mutual examinations of the polemics behind heteromasculinity, Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises and Williams in Cat on a Hot Tin …
People's Warrior
John Moss and the Fight for Freedom of Information and Consumer Rights
Häftad, 2011
551 kr
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It is hard to believe that there was a time, not long ago, when there was no right to obtain government information, no protection against hazards in children's toys and other consumer products, no federal safety standards for motor vehicles, and no insurance to protect an investors' money and …
Charles H. Thompson
Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement
Av Louis Ray
Inbunden, 2012
1289 kr
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During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson’s Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially …
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Inbunden, 2012
1321 kr
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For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new …
Race and Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification
Inbunden, 2013
1312 kr
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Race as Narrative in Italian Women's Writing Since Unification explores racist ideas and critiques of racism in four long narratives by female authors Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Natalia Ginzburg, and Gabriella Ghermandi, who wrote in Italy after national unification. Starting from the premise …
Reading Visual Poetry
Av Willard Bohn
Häftad, 2013
823 kr
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Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their …
Ernst Toller and German Society
Intellectuals as Leaders and Critics, 1914–1939
Av Robert Ellis
Inbunden, 2013
1557 kr
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During the years of Weimar and the Third Reich, Toller was one of the more active of the "other Germany's" left-wing intellectuals. A leader of the Bavarian Soviet of 1919, he had in addition won the Kleist prize and was recognized as one of Germany's best playwrights. Indeed, during the years of …
Wayward Woman
Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917
Inbunden, 2014
1478 kr
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The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female …
Wayward Woman
Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917
Häftad, 2017
823 kr
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The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female …
City Since 9/11
Literature, Film, Television
Häftad, 2017
823 kr
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Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity. In the …
Suburban Erasure
How the Suburbs Ended the Civil Rights Movement in New Jersey
Häftad, 2014
738 kr
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For generations, historians believed that the study of the African-American experience centered on the questions about the processes and consequences of enslavement. Even after this phase passed, the modern Civil Rights Movement took center stage and filled hundreds of pages, creating a new …
Charles H. Thompson
Policy Entrepreneur of the Civil Rights Movement
Av Louis Ray
Häftad, 2014
761 kr
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During a period when African-American education was at the epicenter of the civil rights movement, Thompson’s Journal documented the rapid growth of educational discrimination in the South despite significant increases in public school funding, providing irrefutable evidence that racially …
Hitler in the Movies
Finding Der Führer on Film
Inbunden, 2016
1248 kr
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In Hitler in the Movies: Finding Der Führer on Film, a Shakespearean and a sociologist explore the fascination our popular culture has with Adolf Hitler. What made him … Hitler? Do our explanations tell us more about the perceiver than the actual historical figure? We ask such question by viewing …
