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Friendship and Allegiance in Eighteenth-Century Literature
The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Friendship and Allegiance explores the concept of friendship as it was defined, contested and distorted by writers of the early eighteenth century. Setting well-known canonical texts (The Beggar's Opera, Gulliver's Travels) alongside lesser-known works, it portrays a literary world renegotiating the meaning of public and private virtue.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
by April London
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2010
This investigation of literary history writing between 1770 and 1820 identifies the mode's distinction from canon formation as central to its cultural vitality. Using secret history, memoir and the novel, amongst other sources, it invites a re-thinking of literary history's place in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century print culture.
by Kai Horsthemke
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics.
Defeating Japan
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in the Pacific War, 1943–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish...
The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory
Essays in the History of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
From interpretations of the Holocaust to fascist thought and anti-fascists' responses, this book tackles topics which are rarely studied in conjunction. This is a unique collection of essays on a wide variety of subjects, which contributes to understanding the roots and consequences of mid-twentieth-century Europe's great catastrophe.
Abandoning American Neutrality
Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance. The tension between Wilson's idealism and pragmatism ultimately drove him to abandon neutrality, paving the way for America's entrance into the war in 1917.
by Anna Winterbottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Hybrid Knowledge in the Early East India Company World presents a new interpretation of the development of the English East India Company between 1660 and 1720. The book explores the connections between scholarship, patronage, diplomacy, trade, and colonial settlement in the early modern world. Links...
The Victorian Empire and Britain's Maritime World, 1837-1901
The Sea and Global History
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.
The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2
Experiencing Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.
Hunting Africa
British Sport, African Knowledge and the Nature of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This book recovers the multiplicity of meanings embedded in colonial hunting and the power it symbolized by examining both the incorporation and representation of British women hunters in the sport and how African people leveraged British hunters' dependence on their labor and knowledge to direct the impact and experience of hunting.
George L. Mosse's Italy
Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.
by Jay Corwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This Readers Guide offers a lively and accessible introduction to the essential criticism surrounding the fiction of Gabriel García Márquez. Jay Corwin explores major critical responses to Márquez's key works, from early and short fiction, to One Hundred Years of Solitude, through to Of Love and Other Demons.
Screening the Unwatchable
Spaces of Negation in Post-Millennial Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.