Boydell Brewer: 336 books
Nazi Policy on the Eastern Front, 1941
Total War, Genocide, and Radicalization
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2012
Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 and events on the Eastern Front that same year were pivotal to the history of World War II. It was during this year that the radicalization of Nazi policy -- through both an all-encompassing approach to warfare and the application of genocidal...
by Teshale Tibebu
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Racial Nationalist Imagination is a critical study of one of the most prolific and knowledgeable black-world intellectuals of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on his writings, it shows the contradictions, ambiguities, complexities, and paradoxes in...
Fighting for Britain
African Soldiers in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2010
During the Second World War over half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa, the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based mainly...
Sources and Methods in African History
Spoken Written Unearthed
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and...
Mark Twain under Fire
Reception and Reputation, Criticism and Controversy, 1851-2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Threatened by a rival editor brandishing a double-barreled shotgun, young Samuel Clemens had his first taste of literary criticism. Clemens began his long writing career penning satirical articles for his brother's newspaper in Hannibal, Missouri. His humor delighted everyone except his targets, and...
Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil
Memoirs of a Political Prisoner
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in 1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania and ended in 1980 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He began his life under Austro-Hungarian rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three kings (Ferdinand, Carol II, and Mihai), and survived all of Romania's dictatorships,...
Ludwik Hirszfeld
The Story of One Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884-1954), one of the most prominent serologists of the twentieth century, discovered the inheritance and established the nomenclature of blood groups and opened the field of human population genetics. He also carried out groundbreaking research in the genetics of disease and immunology....
Heinrich von Kleist
Writing after Kant
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
The question of Heinrich von Kleist's reading and reception of Kant's philosophy has never been satisfactorily answered. The present study aims to reassess this question, particularly in the light of Kant's rising importance for the humanities today. It argues not only that Kleist was influenced by...
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours
A New Translation with Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2008
Rainer Maria Rilke is arguably the most important modern German-language poet. His New Poems, Duino Elegies, and Sonnets to Orpheus are pillars of 20th-century poetry. Yet his earlier verse is less known. The Book of Hours, written in three bursts between 1899 and 1903, is Rilke's most formative work,...
Enlightened War
German Theories and Cultures of Warfare from Frederick the Great to Clausewitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Enlightened War investigates the multiple and complex interactions between warfare and Enlightenment thought. Although the Enlightenment is traditionally identified with the ideals of progress, eternal peace, reason, and self-determination, Enlightenment discourse unfolded during a period of prolonged...
"The Space of Words"
Exile and Diaspora in the Works of Nelly Sachs
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based...
The Root Causes of Sudan's Civil Wars
Old Wars and New Wars (Expanded 3rd Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Sudan's post-independence history has been dominated by political and civil strife. Most commentators have attributed the country's recurring civil war either to an age-old racial divide between Arabs and Africans, or to recent colonially constructed inequalities. This book attempts a more complex...
The Business of Black Power
Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Business of Black Power emphasizes the centrality of economic goals to the larger black freedom movement and explores the myriad forms of business development in the Black power era. This volume charts a new course for Black power studies and business history, exploring both the business ventures...
Ploughing New Ground
Food, Farming & Environmental Change in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Winner of the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2018. In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. While the Government claimed the riots stemmed from subversive...