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  • - Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity
     
    422

    These essays offer new vistas on the idea of the vernacular in contexts as diverse as Ramon Llull's prefiguration of universal grammar, the orthography of Early Middle English, the struggle for linguistic purity in Early Modern Dutch, and the construction of standard Serbian and Romanian in the waning decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

  • - Sources and Narration in Late Medieval England
    av Joel T. Rosenthal
    422

    Joel Rosenthal explores some familiar sources from 14th and 15th century England, to show how memories and recollections can be used to build a compelling portrait of daily life in the late Middle Ages. questions of testimony, memory and narrative are explored.

  • - Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia
    av Paul du Quenoy
    422 - 909

    Explores the relationship between culture and power in Imperial Russia. Argues that Russia's performing arts were part of a vibrant public culture that was usually ambivalent or hostile to the tumultuous political events of the revolutionary era.

  • - Feminist Wittgensteinian Metaethics
    av Peg O'Connor
    385 - 775

    "A reassessment of metaethics that attempts to undermine the nature/normativity or world/language divide, and offer an alternative account of the world-language relationship. Advocates the need to replace the metaphor of foundations with a metaphor about stability. Incorporates Wittgenstein and contemporary feminist ethicists"--Provided by publisher.

  • - Nervousness and German Modernity
    av Michael Cowan
    1 129

    Examines the emergence of "will therapy" and its impact on arts and culture in Germany after 1900. This book leads readers through cross sections of modern German cultural history, including not only literature and aesthetics but also self-help medicine, economics, body culture, and pedagogy.

  • - The Russian Idea of Kraevedenie
    av Emily D. Johnson
    545 - 965

    Traces the Russian fascination with local guides to the idea of kraevedenie. This book investigates the history of kraevedenie, showing how St Petersburg-based scholars and institutions have played a central role in the evolution of the discipline.

  • - Medieval and Postmedieval Vernacularity
    av Nicholas Watson & Fiona Somerset
    1 035

    These essays offer new vistas on the idea of the vernacular in contexts as diverse as Ramon Llull's prefiguration of universal grammar, the orthography of Early Middle English, the struggle for linguistic purity in Early Modern Dutch, and the construction of standard Serbian and Romanian in the waning decades of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

  • - Decembrism and Freemasonry
    av Lauren G. (LAST KNOWN ADDRESS Leighton
    489

  • - Anarchism in Interwar France
    av Richard D. Sonn
    422 - 895

    A study of anarchism in twentieth-century France during the interwar years. Focuses on anarchist demands for personal autonomy and sexual liberation. Argues that these ideals, as well as anarchist hatred of the government, found favor with members of the artistic avant-garde, especially the surrealists.

  • - Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
    av Arabella Lyon
    845

    Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory.

  • - Music, Aesthetics, Politics
    av Julia Simon
    845

    Reevaluates Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the lens of music theory to question his contribution to thinking about music as an aesthetic force in social life. Links Rousseau's understanding of concepts in music to the problem of the individual's relationship to the social order.

  • av Patrick J. O'Banion
    475 - 909

    Explores the role of the sacrament of penance in the religion and society of early modern Spain. Examines how secular and ecclesiastical authorities used confession to defend against heresy and to bring reforms to the Catholic Church.

  • - A Checklist of Her Imprints
    av Karen Nipps
    539 - 1 035

    Explores the life and work of Lydia Bailey, a leading printer in the book trade in Philadelphia from 1808 to 1861. Includes a list of almost nine hundred of her known imprints.

  • - Strategies of Representation in Balzac, Flaubert, and James
    av H. Meili Steele
    385,-

    Steele brings the problem of reference into contemporary critical debates about representation. By defining realism in terms of linguistic practices instead of representational accuracy, this study liberates reference from traditional realist concerns with the empirical universe. Realism thus becomes only one kind of referential practice.

  • - The Cult of St. AEthelthryth in Medieval England, 695-1615
    av Virginia Blanton
    465,-

    A longitudinal study of an Anglo-Saxon cult from its inception in the late 17th century through the Reformation. This work examines the production and reception of texts that supported the cult of AEthelthryth, an East Anglian princess who had resisted the conjugal demands of two political marriages to maintain her virginity.

  • - Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity
    av John (Adjunct Assistant Professor Rodden
    475,-

    Textbook Reds is a work in the sociology of education, and literary sociology and history. Rodden shows that the deepest roots of German Democratic Republic society were indeed located in the institution that molded the youth of its citizens.

  • av Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
    775

    An examination of globalization's effects on human rights, world poverty, and inequality. Describes international human rights law and the international social movement for reform of globalization.

  • - Two-Party Competition in a Battleground State
    av Renee M. Lamis
    455 - 965

    Explores electoral changes in Pennsylvania since 1960, finding that the recent "culture-wars realignment" has significantly altered the old New Deal party system, especially since the early 1990s. Contains illustrations plotting political alignment of Pennsylvania counties.

  • - A Poetics of Titles
    av Giancarlo Maiorino
    519 - 1 035

    Titology is the field of literary studies that focuses on the significance of a title in establishing the thematic developments of the pages that follow. This book presents a theoretical discussion of the significance of the title as a foundation for scholarly criticism.

  • av Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
    775

    For almost forty years, from 1378 to 1417, the Western Church was divided into rival camps headed by two competing popes. The so-called Great Schism provoked a profound anxiety throughout Europe. Looking beyond the ecclesiastical storm, this book aims to find an outpouring of artistic responses to one of the great calamities of the Middle Ages.

  • - A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State
    av Jack M. Treadway
    422 - 965

  • - Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
    av Michael Mayerfeld Bell
    325 - 1 349

    Based on interviews and years of close interaction with more than 60 Iowa farm families, Bell answers two critical questions concerning sustainable agriculture: why some farmers are becoming sustainable farmers and why, as yet, most are not.

  • - Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur
    av Michael D. Swartz & Joseph Yahalom
    422 - 965

    This work is a major translation of one of the most important genres of the lost literature of the ancient synagogue. Known as the Avodah piyyutim, this liturgical poetry was composed by the synagogue poets of 5th to 9th-century Palestine and sung in the synagogues on Yom Kippur.

  • - Local Courts and Rural Society in Southwest France, 1750-1800
    av Anthony Crubaugh
    489

    This text examines the effects of changes in local justice brought on by the French Revolution. It looks at the pre-revolution seigneurial courts and compares them with the revolutionary justice of the peace, finding that the revolution made access to justice easier for rural inhabitants.

  • av Diane Enns
    422 - 845

    Analyzes current understandings of victimhood in discussions of child soldiers, identity politics, violent conflict, and global responses to atrocity.

  • - Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency
    av Dean Mathiowetz
    909

    Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives.

  • - Participation, Decentralization, and the Left
    av Benjamin Goldfrank
    1 035

    Addresses the question of why institutions meant to attract citizen participation succeed in strengthening civil society and improving state responsiveness and transparency in some places, but fail in others. Focuses on urban politics in Porto Alegre (Brazil), Montevideo (Uruguay), and Caracas (Venezuela).

  • - Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America
    av J. Tyler Dickovick
    475 - 845

    "Examines decentralization and recentralization in the developing world, focusing on a comparison of Brazil and South Africa in the 1990s. Argues that decentralization follows declines in executive power, while subsequent recentralization is contingent upon presidents gaining exceptional governing opportunities, especially by resolving economic crises"--Provided by publisher.

  • av Dolores Trevizo
    845

    Examines the role of protest movements in the evolution of democracy in Mexico from the Tlatelolco massacre of 1968 to the defeat of the PRI in the elections of 2000.

  • - Civic Identity and the Classical Past in Northern Italy, 1250-1350
    av Carrie E. Benes
    539 - 1 089

    Explores the role of the classical past in the construction of urban identity in late medieval Italy. Focuses on the appropriation of classical symbols, ancient materials, and Roman myths to legitimate the regimes of various Italian city-states.

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