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The Cultural Lives of Capital Punishment
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal...
The Margins of Empire
Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman state identified multiple threats in its eastern regions. In an attempt to control remote Kurdish populations, Ottoman authorities organized them into a tribal militia and gave them the task of subduing a perceived Armenian threat. Following the story...
Partners of the Empire
The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Partners of the Empire offers a radical rethinking of the Ottoman Empire in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over this unstable period, the Ottoman Empire faced political crises, institutional shakeups, and popular insurrections. It responded through various reform options and settlements....
The Charity of War
Famine, Humanitarian Aid, and World War I in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
With the exception of a few targeted aerial bombardments of the city's port, Beirut and Mount Lebanon did not see direct combat in World War I. Yet civilian casualties in this part of the Ottoman Empire reached shocking heights, possibly numbering half a million people. No war, in its usual understanding,...
East West Mimesis
Auerbach in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
East West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Kader Konuk asks why philologists like Erich Auerbach found humanism at home in Istanbul at the very moment it was banished from Europe. She challenges the notion...
Blown by the Spirit
Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2004
This study explores the intersection of politics, religious thought, and religious culture in pre-revolutionary England, using hitherto unknown or overlooked manuscripts and printed material to reconstruct and contextualize a forgotten but highly significant antinomian religious subculture that evolved...
Contested Embrace
Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "internal others," such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities. Contested Embrace shifts the analytic focus to explore how a state relates to people it views as "external members" such as emigrants and...
Yugoslavia and Its Historians
Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2003
Most of what has been written about the recent history of Yugoslavia and the fierce wars that have plagued that country has been produced by journalists, political analysts, diplomats, human rights organization, the United Nations, and other government and intergovernmental organizations. Professional...
Forging a Multinational State
State Making in Imperial Austria from the Enlightenment to the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
The Habsburg Monarchy ruled over approximately one-third of Europe for almost 150 years. Previous books on the Habsburg Empire emphasize its slow decline in the face of the growth of neighboring nation-states. John Deak, instead, argues that the state was not in eternal decline, but actively sought...
Broke and Patriotic
Why Poor Americans Love Their Country
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Why are poor Americans so patriotic? They have significantly worse social benefits compared to other Western nations, and studies show that the American Dream of upward mobility is, for them, largely a myth. So why do these people love their country? Why have they not risen up to demand more from...
Nationalists Who Feared the Nation
Adriatic Multi-Nationalism in Habsburg Dalmatia, Trieste, and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
We can often learn as much from political movements that failed as from those that achieved their goals. Nationalists Who Feared the Nation looks at one such frustrated movement: a group of community leaders and writers in Venice, Trieste, and Dalmatia during the 1830s, 40s, and 50s who proposed the...
The Singing Turk
Ottoman Power and Operatic Emotions on the European Stage from the Siege of Vienna to the Age of Napoleon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
While European powers were at war with the Ottoman Empire for much of the eighteenth century, European opera houses were staging operas featuring singing sultans and pashas surrounded by their musical courts and harems. Mozart wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio. Rossini created a series of works,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
The modern enterprise of anthropology, with all of its important implications for cross-cultural perceptions, perspectives, and self-consciousness emerged from the eighteenth-century intellectual context of the Enlightenment. If the Renaissance discovered perspective in art, it was the Enlightenment...
Luxurious Networks
Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between...