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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.  (26)
  • 2000-2004  (26)
  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan US  (26)
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  • 1
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    ISBN: 9781137091932
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 240 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Literature ; Literature Philosophy ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Philosophy ; Science ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: The twentieth-century discovered the concept of sacred place largely through the work of Martin Heidegger and Mircea Eliade. Their writings on sacred place respond to the modern manipulation of nature and secularization of space, and so may seem distinctively post-modern, but their work has an important and unacknowledged precedent in the Neoplatonism of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Sacred Place in Early Medieval Neoplatonism traces the appearance and development of sacred place in the writings of Neoplatonists from the third to ninth centuries, and sets them in the context of present-day debates over place and the sacred
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    ISBN: 9781137062284
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 279 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history
    Abstract: Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising
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    ISBN: 9781137075529
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 267 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Ancient ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Europe
    Abstract: This timely volume examines the commitments of historicism in the wake of New Historicism. It contributes to the construction of a materialist historicism while, at the same time, proposing that discussions of work need not be limited to the clash between labour and capital. To this end, the essays offer more than a strictly historical view of the complex terms, social and literary, within which labour was treated in the medieval period. Several of the essays strive to reformulate the very critical language we use to think about the categories of labour and work through a continually doubled engagement with modern theories of labour and medieval theories and practices of labour
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    ISBN: 9781137097941
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 238 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; Political science ; World politics ; Europe Politics and government
    Abstract: Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic. Watkins views the struggle through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, charters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively, that were responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Federalists that, among other things, made criticism of the federal government a crime. Viewing those acts as a threat to states' rights, as well as indicative of a national government that sought supreme power, the Resolutions restated the principles of the American Revolution and sought to return the nation to the tenets of the Constitution, in which rights for all were protected by checking the power of the national government
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    ISBN: 9781137044976
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 312 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Political economy ; United States History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; Economic sociology ; Industrial sociology ; International economic relations.
    Abstract: This single-volume comprehensive compilation of documents integrates institutional labour history (movements and trade unions) with aspects of social and cultural history, as well as charting changes in trade union and managerial practices, and integrating the economics and politics of labour history. It includes documents that treat household relations as well as industrial relations; women as domestic workers and unpaid household labour as well as factory workers; and African American, Hispanic American (especially Mexican and Mexican American), and Asian workers as well as white workers. American Labor offers readers an insight into the full spectrum historically of workers, their daily lives, and the movements that they created
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    ISBN: 9781137052629
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIX, 506 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Literature ; Sociology ; Europe-History-476-1492. ; Europe-History.
    Abstract: Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the eleventh century, gave her the lordship of Aquitaine. But marriage re-emphasized her sex which, in the medieval scheme of gender-power relations relegated her to the position of Lady in relation to her Lordly husbands. In this collection, essays provide a context for Eleanor's life and further an evolving understanding of Eleanor's multifaceted career. A valuable collection on the greatest heiress of the medieval period
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    ISBN: 9781403981691
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 330 p)
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    Series Statement: Palgrave Studies in Oral History
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    Keywords: History ; Oral history ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Italy History ; World War, 1939-1945 ; World politics
    Abstract: On March 24, 1944, Nazi occupation forces in Rome killed 335 unarmed civilians in retaliation for a partisan attack the day before. Portelli has crafted an eloquent, multi-voiced oral history of the massacre, of its background and its aftermath. The moving stories of the victims, the women and children who survived and carried on, the partisans who fought the Nazis, and the common people who lived through the tragedies of the war together paint a many-hued portrait of one of the world's most richly historical cities. The Order Has Been Carried Out powerfully relates the struggles for freedom under Fascism and Nazism, the battles for memory in post-war democracy, and the meanings of death and grief in modern society
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    ISBN: 9781137094568
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 216 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; World history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Ancient. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Zeikowitz explores both affirming and denigrating discourses of male same-sex desire in diverse fourteenth-century chivalric texts and describes the sociopolitical forces motivating those discourses. He attempts to dethrone traditional heteronormative views by drawing attention to culturally normative 'queer' desire. Zeikowitz articulates possible homoeroticized spectatorial interactions between male readers and imagined or actual model knights, dramatized accounts of same-sex unions, and mutually stimulating - or competing - forces of homosocial and heterosexual desire in chivalric texts, such as Charny's Book of Chivalry , Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , and Troilus and Criseyde . He also examines how intimate male bonds are rendered sodomitically-inflected, dangerous attachments in chronicle narratives of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II
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    ISBN: 9781137055897
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 238 p)
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    Series Statement: Early Modern Cultural Series
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    Keywords: History ; Literature, Modern ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Civilization History ; European literature ; European literature
    Abstract: As cultural practice, the early modern duel both indicated and shaped the gender assumptions of wealthy young men; it served, in fact, as a nexus for different, often competing, notions of masculinity. As Jennifer Low illustrates by examining the aggression inherent in single combat, masculinity could be understood in spatial terms, social terms, or developmental terms. Low considers each category, developing a corrective to recent analyses of gender in early modern culture by scrutinizing the relationship between social rank and the understanding of masculinity. Reading a variety of documents, including fencing manuals and anti-dueling tracts as well as plays by Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and other dramatists, Low demonstrates the interaction between the duel as practice, as stage-device, and as locus of early modern cultural debate
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    ISBN: 9781137098351
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 302 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History, Ancient ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History ; Historiography ; Europe History ; Great Britain History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Sex. ; Europe
    Abstract: Never before have the women of the Capetian royal dynasty in France been the subject of a study in their own right. The new research in Capetian Women challenges old paradigms about the restricted roles of royal women, uncovering their influence in social, religious, cultural and even political spheres. The scholars in the volume consider medieval chroniclers' responses to the independent actions of royal women as well as modern historians' use of them as vehicles for constructing the past. The essays also delineate the creation of reginal identity through cultural practices such as religious patronage and the commissioning of manuscripts, tomb sculpture, and personal seals
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    ISBN: 9781137112880
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 262 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Cultural studies ; Youth Social life and customs ; Theater History ; Civilization History ; European literature ; Culture
    Abstract: This is the most comprehensive analytical study ever done of The Phantom of the Opera in its many different versions from the original Gaston Leroux novel to the present day. It proposes answers to the question, 'why do we keep needing this story told and retold in the Western world?' by revealing the history of deep cultural tensions that underlie the novel and each major adaptation. Using extensive historical and textual evidence and drawing on perspectives from several theories of cultural study, this book argues that we need this tale told and reconfigured because it provides us ways to both confront and disguise how we have fashioned our senses of identity in the Western middle class. The Phantom of the Opera - in varying ways over time - turns out like the 'Gothic' tradition it extends, to be deeply connected to Western self-fashioning in the face of conflicted attitudes about class, gender, race, religious beliefs, Freudian psychology, economic and international tensions, and especially the shifting and permeable boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture. This book should interest all students of the history of Western culture, as well as those especially fascinated by Gothic fiction, opera, musical theatre, and film
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    ISBN: 9781137044693
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 282 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Ancient ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Clinical psychology ; Europe ; Sex.
    Abstract: This book reconsiders a wide array of images of Byzantine empresses on media as diverse as bronze coins and gold mosaic from the fifth through to the seventh centuries A.D. The representations have often been viewed in terms of individual personas, but strong typological currents frame their medieval context. Empress Theodora, the target of political pornography, has consumed the bulk of past interest, but even her representations fit these patterns. Methodological tools from fields as disparate as numismatics as well as cultural and gender studies help clarify the broader cultural significance of female imperial representation and patronage at this time
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    ISBN: 9781137120298
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 328 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Europe History-1492- ; Russia History ; Europe, Eastern History ; Military history ; Politics and war ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: The Military History of the Soviet Union and The Military History of Tsarist Russia treat Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite state to the present, even peeking briefly into the future. The two volumes will cover Russia's land forces extensively, but will also cover the development of the Russian Navy, and the creation and development of the Russian Air Force, parts of the Russian military machine which are frequently neglected in general writings. The historical analysis will address the development and function of the Russian military whether in peace or in war, as well as the impact of war and changes in the military upon Russian society and politics
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    ISBN: 9780230107496
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 290 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Political theory ; Political philosophy ; Philosophy ; Religion History ; History, Modern ; Political science. ; Political science ; Science
    Abstract: Toleration of differing religious ideas exists in parts of the contemporary world, but it is still not clear how this came about. Recent work has uncovered the enormous importance one branch of historiography has had in bringing about such tolerance as we have: histories of heresy. This book brings together experts in this field in order to attempt to map out the contours and features of the influence of these histories on early modern and modern conceptions of toleration. Perhaps by showing heretics and heresies to be more benign than once thought, these histories could tease tolerance from the intolerant. The essays in this book attempt to piece together the intentions and effects of key works from this literature in the promotion or rejection of toleration in theory and practice
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    ISBN: 9781137084507
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 367 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Literature ; Religion Philosophy ; Linguistics ; Sociology ; Science
    Abstract: Max Müller is often referred to as the 'father of Religious Studies', having himself coined the term 'science of religion' (or religionswissenschaft) in 1873. It was he who encouraged the comparative study of myth and ritual, and it was he who introduced the oft-quoted dictum: 'He who knows one [religion], knows none'. Though a German-born and German-educated philologist, he spent the greater part of his career at Oxford, becoming one of the most famous of the Victorian arm-chair scholars. Müller wrote extensively on Indian philosophy and Vedic religion, translated major sections of the Vedas, the Upanisads, and all of the Dhammapada, yet never visited India. To be sure, his work bears the stamp of late Nineteenth-Century sensibilities, but as artifacts of Victorian era scholarship, Müller's essays are helpful in reconstructing and comprehending the intellectual concerns of this highly enlightened though highly imperialistic age
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    ISBN: 9780230108226
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 266 p)
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; Europe History ; Russia History ; Europe, Eastern History ; World history ; Military history ; Politics and war ; Soviet Union
    Abstract: The Military History of Tsarist Russia examines Russian military history from the rise of the Muscovite state to the present, even peeking briefly into the future. The volume covers Russia's land forces extensively, but also covers the development of the Russian Navy, and the creation and development of the Russian Air Force - parts of the Russian military machine that are frequently neglected in general writings. The historical analysis addresses the development and function of the Russian military whether in peace or in war, as well as the impact of war and changes in the military upon Russian society and politics. Questions of military organization, doctrine, and technique are paramount, as well as the critical question of the interface between the armed forces and society
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    ISBN: 9781137083944
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 270 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Europe History ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Religion and culture ; History, Ancient ; History, Modern ; Nature conservation ; Europe-History. ; Europe-History-476-1492.
    Abstract: In this wide-ranging study of costume history contributors explore fashion, textiles, and the representation of clothing in the middle ages. Essays combine the perspectives of archaeology, art history, economics, religion, costume history, material culture, and literary criticism and explore materials from England, France, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Ireland. The collection focuses on multiple aspects of textiles and dress - their making, meaning, and representation - and explores the impact of international trade and other forms of cultural exchange
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    ISBN: 9781137048172
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 130 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Historiography ; History, Modern ; World politics ; Popular works ; Europe History ; Political science ; Engineering. ; Life sciences. ; Social sciences. ; Humanities. ; Science.
    Abstract: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe is a lucid and authoritative guide to a full understanding of the complicated history of Eastern Europe. Addressing the need for a comprehensive map collection for reference and classroom use, this volume includes fifty two two-colour full page maps which are each accompanied by a facing page of explanatory text to provide a useful aid in physical geography and in an area's political development over time. The maps illustrate key moments in East European history from the Middle Ages to the present, in a way that is immediate and comprehensible. Lecturers and students will find it to be an indispensable and affordable classroom and reference tool, and general readers will enjoy it for its clarity and wealth of information
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    ISBN: 9781137055019
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (IX, 117 p)
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    Series Statement: The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History
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    Keywords: History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; World history ; Military history
    Abstract: In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. The future president and his intellectual soul mate, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, firmly believed that America's emerging global expansion would only reach its full potential through sea. power. The swift and overwhelming US victor in the Spanish-American War of 1898 vindicated the views of Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Mahan, and marked the debut on the world stage of the modern US Navy. Theodore Roosevelt, the U.S. Navy and the Spanish American War considers the impact Roosevelt had on the US navy in general and how his reforms affected the course and outcome of the Spanish-American war in particular. The nine contributors to this volume include leading historians, and prominent naval officers from the US and Spain. With essays ranging from the Roosevelt family's naval heritage to the impact of the Spanish-American War on enlisted forces in the navy, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of Theodore Roosevelt and 'his' navy
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    ISBN: 9781137103192
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXVI, 218 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Culture Study and teaching ; Motion pictures History ; History, Modern ; America History ; United States History ; Social history ; Ethnology.
    Abstract: While the impact that legendary actors and actresses have had on the development of the Hollywood film industry is well known, few have recognised the power of movie fans on shaping the industry. This books redresses that balance, and is the first study of Hollywood's golden era to examine the period from the viewpoint of the fans. Using fan club journals, fan letters, studio production records, and other previously unpublished archival sources, Samantha Barbas reveals how the passion, enthusiasm, and ongoing activism of film fans in Hollywood's golden era transformed early cinema, the modern mass media and American popular culture
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    ISBN: 9781137087225
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 269 Seiten)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Business and Economics
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    Keywords: Ethnology—Latin America. ; America—History. ; Ethnology Latin America ; America History ; Industries ; History ; History, Modern ; Development economics ; Culture.
    Abstract: Tropical Capitalism traces the rise of Brazil's second largest industrial center, a planned city created in the 1890s as the capital of Minas Gerais, the nation's second most populous state. Marshall Eakin offers the industrialization of Belo Horizonte as an example of an extreme form of the pattern of Brazilian industrialization - a variation of capitalism characterized by state intervention, clientelism, family networks, and the lack of tehcnological innovation. At the core of the analysis are the webs of power formed by politicians, technocrats, and entrepreneurs who drove forward the process of industrialization. The first comprehensive analysis of Belo Horizonte, this book explores industrialization in Latin America, and looks beneath the larger, national economy to dissect a city and region
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    ISBN: 9781137053930
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 222 p)
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    Keywords: History ; Social justice ; History, Modern ; United States History ; Human rights
    Abstract: On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory
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    ISBN: 9781349629985
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 243 p)
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    Series Statement: The New Middle Ages
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    Keywords: History ; Cultural studies ; Europe History-476-1492 ; Social history ; Classical literature ; Literature, Medieval ; Culture ; Literature, Ancient.
    Abstract: Acts of reading appear everywhere in the late Middle Ages, from the margins of Books of Hours to self-portraits of authors in their studies. What relevance did this image have for the late medieval imagination? Engaging Words is an interdisciplinary study on the conception of reading in late medieval society. Beginning with an examination of the social conditions that produced a viable reading public, the book proceeds to examine popular tastes, the interrelationship between manuscript form and content, and finally the theory and poetry of late medieval authors. By drawing on images from late medieval culture as well as from historical documents and literary texts, Engaging Words shows how reading became a cultural metaphor in the late Middle Ages that transformed the way the Western world thought about identity and social roles
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    ISBN: 9781349626168
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVIII, 277 p)
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    Keywords: Islands of the Pacific History ; Sociology ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; History ; Australasia. ; Sex.
    Abstract: Contemporary female novelists tend to portray the relationship between women and the state as profoundly negative, in contrast to various constructions in current feminist theory. Martine Watson Brownley analyzes novels by Margaret Atwood, Paule Marshall, Nadine Gordimer, and Margaret Drabble to explore the significance of this disparity. The book uses literary analysis to highlight elements of state power that many feminist theorists currently occlude, ranging from women's still minimal access to state politics to the terrifying violence exercised by modern states. At the same time, however, feminist theory clarifies major elements in many contemporary women's lives about which the novels are ambivalent or misleading, such as romantic love and the role of sexuality in state politics. Deferrals of Domain fills a double gap, both authorial and topical, in current critical treatments of women writers and will be of interest to both literary and women's studies scholars
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    ISBN: 9781137053619
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXIV, 230 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: History ; African Americans ; Theater History ; United States History ; Culture.
    Abstract: No Surrender! No Retreat! examines the careers of fifteen pioneer performers and their triumphs over herculean obstacles. It is a look back over the 20th century and documents personal histories of staggering achievement in spite of institutional racism, gender oppression, and classism. Twenty-four years in the making, No Surrender! No Retreat! is an indispensable work on African Americans in the performing arts, examining well-known performers, such as James Earl Jones, Morgan Freeman, and Pearl Bailey. Rare archival material and a number of personal interviews enrich this tome. Glenda E. Gill s work is a moving and sometimes tragic account of the lives and careers of some of America s most outstanding African American pioneers in theater
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    ISBN: 9781349618378
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 355 p)
    Edition: Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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    Keywords: History ; Asia History ; Europe History ; Civilization History ; Social history ; World politics ; Anthropology
    Abstract: Throughout their entire history, the sedentary civilizations of China and Europe had to deal with nomads and barbarians. This unique volume explores their drastically different responses: China 'chose' containment while Europe 'chose' expansion. Migration played a crucial role in this interaction. Issuing from two population centers, the sedentary one in the West and the nomadic one in the East, two powerful population streams confronted each other in the Eurasian Steppe. This confrontation was a crucial factor in determining patterns of Eurasian history - it destroyed existing states, created new ones, and drastically changed the balance of power. Even today, while Russian populations in Asia contract, the population pressures in China and Central Asia continue to build and are likely to spill over across the border. This book shows how we are witnessing the beginning of a new cycle of the age-old contest
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