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How a rising right in the United States and Europe idolizes strength, masculinity, and even war.

The life and times of the great eighteenth-century judge and statesman, whose legacy continues to influence Anglo-American law and society.

Voltaire's Workshop argues that the French translation of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, by Pierre-Antoine de La Place, was the single most important source for Voltaire's Candide.

Our Subversive Voice establishes the protest song as a mode of political communication. Covering five centuries in England's history, from street ballads and art song to grime, hymns, music hall, and punk, this book explores the causes that protest songs adopt, the conditions that give rise to them, and the institutions that have suppressed them.

Drawing on case studies in Italian history, Struggles for Self-Rule asks, do the centralizing tendencies of modern politics sap the self-organizing powers of individuals and communities, and what, if anything, can be done about it?

A Time for the Province explores the culturally and symbolically important region of the Polish borderlands through the idea of the palimpsest in modern Polish provincial literature.

Paying tribute to the work of the Soviet historian Lynne Viola, Other Voices in Soviet History listens to voices that have traditionally been overlooked in familiar narratives of Soviet history.

Challenging philological and critical understandings of authenticity, The Authentic Paul tells the story of numerous critical scholars, from antiquity to the modern period, who have laboured to make a book of Paul's letters free from textual variation and forgery.

Although state transformation is often overlooked, the process is crucial in assessing the organisational development of early modern composite monarchies and deserves further investigation. In Austria, the monarchy's emergence as a great power required it to overcome several successive crises that culminated in the decades around 1700. The Habsburgs succeeded more by adjusting relations between crown and lordships than through institution building. This unusual interaction of state and non-state actors resulted in an Austria that markedly deviated from the centralizing national state exemplified by Britain or France. The nascent Habsburg fiscal-financial-military regime transformed regional and local authority, leading to armed conflict and caused disintegration of the administrative and social fabric that had previously held local society together. From the mid-seventeenth century onward, power - whether local or central, or social or political - would undergo enormous changes. Grounded in extensive research into Czech archives and spanning an era from the Thirty Years' War to the coronation of Charles VI, Lordship and State Transformation delves into the complex transitions that characterized the first instance of a balance of power in Europe, with a focus on its under-researched great power, the Habsburg monarchy.

Petite société francophone concentrée dans le Canada atlantique, l'Acadie renvoie tout autant à une multiplicité de réalités socioculturelles, depuis l'ère de la colonisation en Mi'kmaki jusqu'aux grandes mutations contemporaines liées à la mondialisation. Du « Grand Dérangement » en 1755 est née une diaspora, parsemée aux quatre coins du monde atlantique, de la Louisiane à la France en passant par les Antilles. Depuis lors, l'Acadie ne cesse d'évoluer tout en se renouvelant. Repenser l'Acadie dans le monde met en lumière la relève en études acadiennes. En abordant l'Acadie comme terrain d'enquête parmi d'autres et en relation avec d'autres, cet ouvrage collectif repose sur un double pari: celui de la comparaison et celui des approchestransnationales qui consistent à saisir le fait acadien dans ses interactions avec d'autres pays, peuples et institutions. Qui parle pour l'Acadie? Le Grand Dérangement a-t-il vraiment institué une rupture sans appel? Y a-t-il convergence ou divergence entre les objectifs formulés aux différentes échelles de l'Acadie et de sa diaspora? Ces questions révélatrices sont explorées sous l'éclairage de plusieurs disciplines. En ébranlant les idées reçues et les paradigmes établis, cet ouvrage présente une perspective indispensable pour comprendre la francophonie, et surtout le dynamisme, la persévérance et la diversité du peuple acadien.

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod's life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differences of culture and language, time and place.

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of "official" pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.

Rampant morphine addiction in Third Republic France captured the imagination of artists in Paris. However, while the majority morphine users were male medical professionals, artists almost always pictured a female addict. Art, Medicine, and Femininity explores the societal impact of the feminization of addiction in this corpus of images.

Marlene Epp demonstrates that the meaning of Mennonite food lies within the multiple identities of the eater. Spanning the globe, from the nineteenth century to present day, Eating Like a Mennonite concludes that Mennonite food identities develop from adoptions, adaptations, and attitudes in diverse times and places.

A collection of around 350 letters bound for London from Jamaica reveals much about colonial life in 1756. Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times paints a picture of the daily life of poor and middling whites, free people of colour, and enslaved people against the backdrop of transatlantic slavery in Jamaica and the eighteenth-century British Empire.

Stephen Ward combines history and evolutionary psychology for a comprehensive view of the social irrationality plaguing democracies. Human nature has both extreme Darwinian traits promoting competition and sociable traits of cooperation and empathy. When social tensions trigger the former, they become maladaptive and dangerous.

Philippe Bieler, born in 1933 and a member of the silent generation, was nonetheless raised by his outspoken mother and well-connected father to not only be seen but also heard. Fortune Favours a Bieler looks back on the past century as a period of luck and opportunity for those who would seize it.