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by Colin Heywood
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This invaluable introduction to the history of childhood in both Western and Eastern Europe between c.1700 and 2000 seeks to give a voice to children as well as adults, wherever possible. The work is divided into three parts, covering in turn, childhood in rural village societies during the eighteenth...
The cult of the Duce
Mussolini and the Italians
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The cult of the Duce is the first book to explore systematically the personality cult of the Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini. It examines the factors which informed the cult and looks in detail at its many manifestations in the visual arts, architecture, political spectacle and the media. The conviction...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Friedrich Nietzsche believed his own work represented the dawning of a new historical era, and, despite the fact that he lived most of his sane life suffering in obscurity, it is not an exaggeration to say that his vision helped lay the foundations for modernism in style, substance and attitude. Nietzsche...
by Raymond Gard
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962 draws on a wide range of archive material to describe the arrival of a modern probation service. Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, it describes the debates, conflicts and compromises that resulted in the creation of a...
by Susan Nance
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
The concept of 'modernity' is central to many disciplines, but what is modernity to animals? Susan Nance answers this question through a radical reinterpretation of the life of Jumbo the elephant. In the 1880s, consumers, the media, zoos, circuses and taxidermists, and (unknowingly) Jumbo himself,...
Pierre Legendre Lessons III God in the Mirror
A Study of the Institution of Images
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
In the context of our increasingly global legal order, Pierre Legendre’s God in the Mirror reconsiders the place of law within the division of existing bodies of knowledge. Navigating the texts of Ovid, Augustine, Roman jurists, medieval canon lawyers, Freud, Lacan, the notebooks of Leonardo de...
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean
The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere:: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the salient feature of this conflict was a violent form of piracy practiced by the 'corsairs'...
Eminent Victorians
Cardinal Manning; Dr. Arnold; Florence Nightingale; General Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
"Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were...
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914
The Outbreak of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Winner of the 2015 Norman B. Tomlinson, Jr. Book Prize
Serbia and the Balkan Front, 1914 is the first history of the Great War to address in-depth the crucial events of 1914 as they played out on the Balkan Front. James Lyon demonstrates how blame for the war's outbreak can be placed squarely...
Iran's Quiet Revolution
The Downfall of the Pahlavi State
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2019
Offering a new perspective on Iran's politics and culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the prevailing view of pre-Revolution Iran, documenting how the cultural elites of the Pahlavi State promoted a series of striking 'Gharbzadegi' or 'Westoxification' discourses. Intended as...
The First of the Modern Ottomans
The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vasif
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
The eighteenth century brought a period of tumultuous change to the Ottoman Empire. While the Empire sought modernization through military and administrative reform, it also lost much of its influence on the European stage through war and revolt. In this book, Ethan L. Menchinger sheds light on intellectual...
A Taste of Love – The Memoirs of Bohemian Irish Food Writer Theodora FitzGibbon
Adventures in Food, Culture and Love
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Discover the many lives of free-spirited and much-loved Irish Times cookery writer Theodora FitzGibbon
‘I have starved in some of the most beautiful places in the world …’
The Irish Times food writer Theodora FitzGibbon lived a life filled to the brim. Born in London in 1916, her...
The Hacienda
How Not to Run a Club
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The acclaimed and wildly outlandish inside account of England’s most notorious music club, The Hacienda, from Peter Hook, the New York Times bestselling author of Unknown Pleasures and co-founder of Joy Division and New Order—a story of music, gangsters, drugs, and violence, available for the...
The Black Count
Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
WINNER OF THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar**—**because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The...