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Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde
Between Essentialism and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
Madrid's Forgotten Avant-Garde explores the role played by artists and intellectuals who constructed and disseminated various competing images of national identity that polarized Spanish society prior to the Civil War. The convergence of modern and essentialist discourses and practices, especially...
The Rosary, the Republic, and the Right
Spain and the Vatican Hierarchy, 19311939
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The birth of the Second Spanish Republic in April 1931 ushered in a period of possible secularization to Spain. Liberals welcomed legal changes, while conservatives feared the special “privileges” they enjoyed would end. The Catholic Church remained a central focus of left-wing antagonism and...
by Marius Hentea
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Providing a theoretically sophisticated and historically nuanced reading of Henry Green’s novels, this work makes the case for his importance in reconsiderations of modernism, late modernism, and postwar realism. An ambitious reassessment of Green’s oeuvre to date, this book argues against the...
Jewish Drama & Theatre
From Rabbinical Intolerance to Secular Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Jewish theater has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to eventual secular liberalism, with its openness to the heritages of both Judaism as a culture and prominent foreign cultures, to the extent of multicultural integration. Arguing that since biblical times until the 17th...
Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico, 19281934
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Lázaro Cárdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacán and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary constitution. Cárdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party...
Otto Abetz and His Paris Acolytes
French Writers Who Flirted with Fascism, 1930–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Before Hitler comes to power Otto Abetz is a left-wing Francophile teacher in provincial Germany, mobilizing young French and German idealists to work together for peace through Franco-German reconciliation and a united Europe. Abetz marries a French girl but after 1933 succumbs to the Nazi sirens....
Reinventing the Sublime
Post-Romantic Literature and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Reinventing the Sublime looks at the return of the sublime in postmodernity, and at intimations of a post-Romantic’ sublime in Romanticism itself. The sublime is explored as a discourse of invention’ taking the Latin meaning of to come upon’, find’, discover’ that involves...
Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the West
The Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The book is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centers on the simultaneous search for the possibility of both a reformation of Islamic fundamentalism and a transformation of the exclusionary...
by Saskia E. Wieringa, Abha Bhaiya, Nursyahbani Katjasungkana
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
This book examines life trajectories among three categories of women living beyond the bounds of heteronormativity in Jakarta and Delhi: women who have lost their husbands, either through divorce or death; sex workers; and young, urban lesbians. These two major cities have substantively different...
by Gerald Litwack
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
First published in 1943, Vitamins and Hormones is the longest-running serial published by Academic Press. The Editorial Board now reflects expertise in the field of hormone action, vitamin action, X-ray crystal structure, physiology and enzyme mechanisms.
Under the capable and qualified editorial...
Harry Clarke’s War
Illustrations for Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Ireland’s Memorial Records, 1914-1918 contain the names of 49,435 enlisted men who were killed in the First World War. Commissioned in 1919 by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and published in 100 eight-volume sets, the Records are notable for stunning and elaborate page decorations by celebrated...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Written by 19 scholars of history, archaeology, and ethnology, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach to European spaces of the past and the human agents within them. Prior to the Industrial Era, the geography of Europe posed problems but also offered possibilities for its people. Distances...
Environmental Forensics
Contaminant Specific Guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Environmental forensics is the application of scientific techniques for the purpose of identifying the source and age of a contaminant. Over the past several years, this study has been expanding as a course of study in academia, government and commercial markets. The US Environmental Protection Agency...
The Bounds of Liberalism
The Fragility of Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
The central question at the heart of this consideration is how far the West may need to modify or extend the liberal philosophy that informs its responses to the multiple world crises it is currently addressing. The book provides a review of the strengths and weaknesses of a social liberalism that,...