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Received Medievalisms

A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women’s Convents

by C. Cyrus
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013

This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency.
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The Uses of the Middle Ages in Modern European States

History, Nationhood and the Search for Origins

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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2010

An assessment of the role of the Middle Ages in national historiography and in modern conceptions of national identity, looking at relatively young nations, and regions which claim national traditions but were slow to achieve, or regain, separate statehood. Examples range from Ireland and Iceland through Austria and Italy to Finland and Greece.
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Death in a Cold Climate

A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction

by B. Forshaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012

Barry Forshaw, the UK's principal crime fiction expert, presents a celebration and analysis of the Scandinavian crime genre, from Sjöwall and Wahlöö's Martin Beck series through Henning Mankell's Wallander to Stieg Larsson's demolition of the Swedish Social Democratic ideal in the publishing phenomenon The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo .
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to...
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by N. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012

The end of Stalinist Russia, China's change under Deng Xiaoping and the publication of previously unexplored documents of Marx in the MEGA2 opened a new epoch in the analysis of Marx. Marx's Discourse With Hegel is both a product and contribution to this rebirth of Marxism by its reformulation of the relationship between Hegel and Marx
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Marx and Engels's "German ideology" Manuscripts

Presentation and Analysis of the "Feuerbach chapter"

by T. Carver, Daniel Blank
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014

Since the 1920s, scholars have promoted a set of manuscripts, long abandoned by Marx and Engels, to canonical status in book form as The German Ideology, and in particular its 'first chapter,' known as 'I. Feuerbach.' Part one of this revolutionary study relates in detail the political history through...
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Modernist Impersonalities

Affect, Authority, and the Subject

by R. Rives
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012

Rives uncovers a context of aesthetic and social debate that modernist studies has yet to fully articulate, examining what it meant, for various intellectuals working in early twentieth-century Britain and America, to escape from personality.
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A Vision of Modern Science

John Tyndall and the Role of the Scientist in Victorian Culture

by U. DeYoung
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

An examination of a pivotal moment in the history of science through the career and cultural impact of the historically neglected Victorian physicist John Tyndall, establishing him as an important figure of the period, whose scientific discoveries and philosophy of science in society are still relevant today.
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Hazlitt the Dissenter

Religion, Philosophy, and Politics, 1766-1816

by Stephen Burley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016

Hazlitt the Dissenter is unique in providing the first book-length account of Hazlitt's early life as a dissenter. As the first multi-disciplinary account of Hazlitt's early literary career, it provides a new insight into the literary, intellectual, political and religious culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.
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The Pimping of Prostitution

Abolishing the Sex Work Myth

by Julie Bindel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2019

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe – the international sex trade. For decades, the liberal left has been conflicted as to whether pro-prostitution activists or abolitionists hold the correct view, and debates...
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Second Wind

Oral Histories of Lung Transplant Survivors

by M. Festle
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

This book uses both oral and conventional historical methods to describe and analyze the history of lung transplantation in the US. While drawing on accounts from doctors and other specialists, it primarily focuses on the experiences of patients and explores themes of uncertainty, timing, identity, coping, and quality of life.
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by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010

The mutually energizing and often volatile friendship between Eleanor Roosevelt and Adlai Stevenson - unexplored in depth by scholars until this study - was one of the last century s remarkable political alliances. Both Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt shared a view of politics as a moral enterprise,...
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by D. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

This original study examines Jean-François Lyotard's philosophical concept of the differend and details its unexplored implications for literature. it provides a new framework with which to understand the discourse itself, from its Homeric beginnings to postmodern works by authors such as Michael Ondaatje and Jonathan Safran Foer.
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by Andrew A. Gentes
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010

Despite reports of exile proving disastrous to the region, 300,000 Russian subjects, from political dissidents to the elderly and mentally disabled, were deported to Siberia from 1823-61. Their stories of physical and psychological suffering, heroism and personal resurrection, are recounted in this compelling history of tsarist Siberian exile.
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