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  • - A Life in the Writing
    av Richard Dellamora
    675,-

    Richard Dellamora offers the first full look at the entire range of Hall's published and unpublished works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography and reads through them to demonstrate how she continually played with the details of her own life to help fashion her own identity as well as to bring into existence a public lesbian culture.

  • - The Fernandez de Cordoba and the Spanish Realm
    av Yuen-Gen Liang
    1 005,-

    This book explores how the Fernandez de Cordoba family established networks of kin and clients that horizontally connected disparate imperial territories, binding together religious communities-Christians, Muslims, and Jews-and political factions-Comunero rebels and Catalan, French, and Ottoman sympathizers-into an incorporated imperial polity.

  • - How Democracies Manage Rising Powers, from the Eve of World War I to China's Ascendance
    av Daniel M. Kliman
    895,-

    Fateful Transitions offers a new perspective on the debate about China's ascendance and the global power shift. The book examines how democratic nations have navigated the rise of other states from 1895 to the present and explains what today's leaders can learn from history.

  • - Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science
    av Dustin Sebell
    619,-

    Can we come to know what is good and evil, right and wrong in our age of science? In The Socratic Turn, Dustin Sebell looks to Socrates, the founder of political philosophy, for guidance.

  • - The Struggle for an International Language
    av Roberto Garvia
    735,-

    Roberto Garvia explores the history of artificial spoken or written languages and the people who fought for them. Taking the three most prominent-Volapuk, Esperanto, and Ido-Garvia investigates what drove so many to invest incredible energy and time to learn and promote them.

  • - Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
    av Robert L. Fleegler
    389,-

    Examining the shift between American immigrant policy between 1924 and 1964, Ellis Island Nation traces the emergence of "contributionism," the belief that the newcomers from eastern and southern Europe contributed important cultural and economic benefits to American society.

  • - Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
    av Katherine Ibbett
    1 039,-

    Compassion's Edge traces the relation between compassion and toleration after France's Wars of Religion. This is not, however, a story about compassion overcoming difference but one of compassion reinforcing division. It provides a robust corrective to today's hope that fellow-feeling draws us inexorably and usefully together.

  • - International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France
    av Ellen R. Welch
    949,-

    In A Theater of Diplomacy, Ellen R. Welch argues that theater served not merely as a decorative accompaniment to negotiations, but rather underpinned the practices of embodied representation, performance, and spectatorship that constituted the culture of diplomacy in the early modern period.

  • - The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
    av Julia Thomas
    399,-

    As the first major study of Shakespeare's Birthplace during the nineteenth century, Shakespeare's Shrine draws on extensive archival research to describe the invention of the Birthplace in the Victorian period, when the site was purchased for the nation, extensively restored, and transformed into a major tourist attraction.

  • - Race, Crime, and American Civic Identity
    av Jeannine Marie DeLombard
    489,-

    In the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.

  • - The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
    av Aurelian Craiutu
    449 - 1 179,-

    Examining the writings of twentieth-century thinkers such as Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Norberto Bobbio, Michael Oakeshott, and Adam Michnik, Faces of Moderation argues that moderation remains crucial for today's encounters with new forms of extremism.

  • av Lisa A. Freeman
    389 - 1 235,-

    In an exploration of antitheatrical incidents from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Lisa A. Freeman demonstrates that at the heart of antitheatrical disputes lies a struggle over the character of the body politic that governs a nation and the bodies public that could be said to represent that nation.

  • - Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought
    av Brian Stock
    789,-

    The Integrated Self is a book in which Stock continues his project of reading Augustine, and one in which he moves forward in new and perhaps unexpected directions.

  • - America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
    av Brian Glyn Williams
    409 - 799,-

    Counter Jihad provides a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world and fills a gaping void in our understanding of the War on Terror.

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