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Animal Characters
Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature
E-bok, 2011
900 kr
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During the Renaissance, horses-long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant-gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes …
Family and Empire
The Fernández De Córdoba and the Spanish Realm
E-bok, 2011
1242 kr
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In the medieval and early modern periods, Spain shaped a global empire from scattered territories spanning Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Historians either have studied this empire piecemeal-one territory at a time-or have focused on monarchs endeavoring to mandate the allegiance of far-flung …
Radclyffe Hall
A Life in the Writing
E-bok, 2011
762 kr
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The Well of Loneliness is probably the most famous lesbian novel ever written, and certainly the most widely read. It contains no explicit sex scenes, yet in 1928, the year in which the novel was published, it was deemed obscene in a British court of law for its defense of sexual inversion and was …
Kafka's Jewish Languages
The Hidden Openness of Tradition
E-bok, 2011
1331 kr
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After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create …
English Letters and Indian Literacies
Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools-including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine …
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency
E-bok, 2012
978 kr
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A governor's mansion is often the last stop for politicians who plan to move into the White House. Before Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, four of his last five predecessors had been governors. Executive experience at the state level informs individual presidencies, and, as …
China Hand
An Autobiography
E-bok, 2012
710 kr
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At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China were poised to take over the …
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
E-bok, 2012
637 kr
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From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more …
Enchantment
On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
E-bok, 2012
603 kr
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What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal …
Shakespeare's Shrine
The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
Av Julia Thomas
E-bok, 2012
488 kr
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Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon-and there are some 700,000 a year who do so-might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by …
Exquisite Mixture
The Virtues of Impurity in Early Modern England
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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The culture of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain is rarely credited with tolerance of diversity; this period saw a rising pride in national identity, the expansion of colonialism, and glorification of the Anglo-Saxon roots of the country. Yet at the same time, Wolfram Schmidgen …
Public Capitalism
The Political Authority of Corporate Executives
E-bok, 2012
1058 kr
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In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose …
Decadent Republic of Letters
Taste, Politics, and Cosmopolitan Community from Baudelaire to Beardsley
E-bok, 2012
1302 kr
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While scholars have long associated the group of nineteenth-century French and English writers and artists known as the decadents with alienation, escapism, and withdrawal from the social and political world, Matthew Potolsky offers an alternative reading of the movement. In The Decadent Republic …
Roman Inquisition
A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo
E-bok, 2013
1132 kr
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While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate …
Poetics of Piracy
Emulating Spain in English Literature
E-bok, 2013
769 kr
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With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistible literary source for English writers of the early modern period. But the deep and escalating political rivalry between the two nations led English writers to negotiate, disavow, …
Theatrical Nation
Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain
E-bok, 2012
1125 kr
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Perhaps the most significant development of the Georgian theater was its multiplication of ethnic, colonial, and provincial character types parading across the stage. In Theatrical Nation, Michael Ragussis opens up an archive of neglected plays and performances to examine how this flood of domestic …
International Bohemia
Scenes of Nineteenth-Century Life
E-bok, 2013
1181 kr
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How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, …
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2013
493 kr
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Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built by people …
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
Av Karen Raber
E-bok, 2013
1058 kr
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Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that …
Ethnography in Today's World
Color Full Before Color Blind
Av Roger Sanjek
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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In Ethnography in Today's World, Roger Sanjek examines the genre and practice of ethnography from a historical perspective, from its nineteenth-century beginnings and early twentieth-century consolidation, through political reorientations during the 1960s and the impact of feminism and …
Corporation Nation
E-bok, 2013
1242 kr
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From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S. …
No Use
Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security
E-bok, 2013
603 kr
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For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States …
Roman Inquisition on the Stage of Italy, C. 1590-1640
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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From the moment of its founding in 1542, the Roman Inquisition acted as a political machine. Although inquisitors in earlier centuries had operated somewhat independently of papal authority, the gradual bureaucratization of the Roman Inquisition permitted the popes increasing license to establish …
Goethe's Allegories of Identity
E-bok, 2014
1125 kr
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A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians, …
In the Shadow of the Gallows
Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
Häftad, 2014
510 kr
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From Puritan Execution Day rituals to gangsta rap, the black criminal has been an enduring presence in American culture. To understand why, Jeannine Marie DeLombard insists, we must set aside the lenses of pathology and persecution and instead view the African American felon from the far more …
Enchantment
On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West
Häftad, 2014
500 kr
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What is the force in art, C. Stephen Jaeger asks, that can enter our consciousness, inspire admiration or imitation, and carry a reader or viewer from the world as it is to a world more sublime? We have long recognized the power of individuals to lead or enchant by the force of personal …
Shakespeare's Shrine
The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
Av Julia Thomas
Häftad, 2015
384 kr
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Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon-and there are some 700,000 a year who do so-might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by …
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2015
402 kr
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Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built by people …
Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
Häftad, 2016
517 kr
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What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists …
Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror
Christianity, Violence, and the West
Av Philippe Buc
Häftad, 2017
443 kr
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Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war-the …
