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Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism?
On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Nietzsche, the Godfather of Fascism? What can Nietzsche have in common with this murderous ideology? Frequently described as the "radical aristocrat" of the spirit, Nietzsche abhorred mass culture and strove to cultivate an Übermensch endowed with exceptional mental qualities. What can...
Dreamland
Europeans and Jews in the Aftermath of the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe’s old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states found their place on the map, many hoped that a more liberal Europe would emerge. But this post-war idealism all...
"This Is Berlin"
Radio Broadcasts from Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The legendary CBS news journalist’s selection of iconic World War II radio broadcasts from countries throughout Europe.
William L. Shirer was the first journalist hired by CBS to cover World War II in Europe, where he continued to work for over a decade as a news broadcaster. This book compiles...
The Politics of Reproduction
Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition. Abolitionist reformers hoped that a homegrown labor force would end the need for the Atlantic...
Justice on the Grass
Three Rwandan Journalists, Their Trial for War Crimes and a Nation's Quest for Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2005
The 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which more than 800,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred in just 100 days, was an unparalleled modern-day slaughter. How does a nation pick up the pieces after the killing has stopped?
In a gripping narrative that examines the power of the press and sheds light...
by Valtteri Viljanen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
This work examines the unique way in which Benedict de Spinoza (1632–77) combines two significant philosophical principles: that real existence requires causal power and that geometrical objects display exceptionally clearly how things have properties in virtue of their essences. Valtteri Viljanen...
Art and Life in Modernist Prague
Karel Čapek and his Generation, 1911-1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI.
by Lew Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Silver mining was a hot topic in the mid nineteenth century, with one discovery following another in the western United States. Across the border in Mexico the mines were much older, and not being worked with the modern methods of US mining. This is a mid nineteenth century tour of some of those mines.
Worrying
A Literary and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History suggests a unique approach to the inner lifeand its ordinary pains. Francis O'Gormancharts the emergence of our contemporaryidea of worry in the Victorian era and itsestablishment, after the First World War,as a feature of modernity. For some writersbetween...
1956
The Year That Changed Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
1956: a defining year that heralded the modern era.Britain and France occupied Suez, and the Soviet Union tanks rolled into Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev's 'secret speech' exposed the crimes of Stalin, and the Royal Court Theatre unveiled John Osborne's Look Back in Anger. Rock 'n' roll music was replacing...
Yitzhak Rabin
Soldier, Leader, Statesman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
An insider’s perspective on the life and influence of Israel’s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired...
Emigrants
Why the English Sailed to the New World
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
'Marvellously engaging' The Times
'Brisk, informative and eye-opening' Daily Telegraph
In the 1600s, vast numbers of people left England for the Americas. Crossing the Atlantic was a major undertaking, the voyage long and treacherous. Why did they go?
Emigrants casts vivid new light...
Matrimony in the True Church
The Seventeenth-Century Quaker Marriage Approbation Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Like many other denominations, seventeenth-century Quakers were keen to ensure that members married within their own religious community. In order to properly understand the ramification of such a policy, this book explores the early Quaker marriage approbation process and discipline as demonstrated...
What Nostalgia Was
War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Nostalgia today is seen as essentially benign, a wistful longing for the past. This wasn't always the case, however: from the late seventeenth century through the end of the nineteenth, nostalgia denoted a form of homesickness so extreme that it could sometimes be deadly.
What Nostalgia Was unearths...