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The first comprehensive intellectual history of alphabet studies.
Inventing the Alphabet provides the first account of two-and-a-half millennia of scholarship on the alphabet. Drawing on decades of research, Johanna Drucker dives into sometimes obscure and esoteric references, dispelling myths and identifying a pantheon of little-known scholars who contributed to our modern understandings of the alphabet, one of the most important inventions in human...
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Prasenjit Duara offers the first systematic account of the relationship between the nation-state, nationalism, and the concept of linear history. Focusing primarily on China and including discussion of India, Duara argues that many historians of postcolonial nation-states have adopted a linear, evolutionary history of the Enlightenment/colonial model. As a result, they have written repressive, exclusionary, and incomplete accounts.
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By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did "rights" come to justify such measures?
In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively...
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In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional marriages, and some took up the professions of medicine and law, journalism and teaching. All of them challenged traditional notions of womanhood by living...
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A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.
The Renaissance is celebrated for the belief that individuals could fashion themselves to greatness, but there is a dark undercurrent to this fêted era of history. The same men and women who offered profound advancements in European understanding of the human condition-and laid the foundations of the Scientific Revolution-were also...
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We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values.
Presenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president,...
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This study brings together widely divergent discourses to fashion a comprehensive picture of sexual language and attitudes at a particular time and place in the medieval world.
John Baldwin introduces five representative voices from the turn of the twelfth century in northern France: Pierre the Chanter speaks for the theological doctrine of Augustine; the Prose Salernitan Questions, for the medical theories of Galen; Andre the Chaplain, for the...
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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.
Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is...
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On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a small religious community in central Texas. One hundred agents armed with automatic and semi automatic weapons invaded the compound, purportedly to execute a single search and arrest warrant. The raid went badly; four agents were killed, and by the end of the day the settlement was surrounded by armored tanks...
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With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should think and act.
In "A Third Reich, as I See It" Janosch Steuwer examines the private diaries of ordinary Germans written between 1933 and 1939 and shows how average citizens reacted to the challenges of...
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The true story of the sinking of the Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000. Hailed as "unsinkable," the "Kursk" was on maneuvers when mysterious explosions rocked the sub, causing it to sink to the bottom of the sea with its 118-man crew. This in-depth look at the disaster reveals previously unreleased information from family members of the deceased as well as from government officials.
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Teaching and learning about the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems is a challenge. The defining texts are all but unreadable even in translation. Here is a systematic exposition (pun intended) of the two great systems with 36 diagrams to aid you. Most of these diagrams, original work of the author, are unavailable outside of this source. Many of them are to-scale, greatly enhancing the perception of the tremendously impressive intellectual achievements...
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Der Autor, erfolgreicher Architekt in Frankfurt am Main, kauft ein leer stehendes jahrhundertealtes Haus in einem Bergdorf in Ligurien und berichtet über seine aufregenden Erlebnisse mit Mario, seinem Bauunternehmer, und seinen geschickten Handwerkern, den oft skurilen italienischen Nachbarn und seinen Streitereien mit ihnen, von den Dorffesten, den deutschen Nachbarn und den Ereignissen in dem kleinen Ort hoch über dem Mittelmeer. Er berichtet...
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Privilegiados y populares surgió con el propósito de contribuir a la configuración de la historia social de Cali durante la primera mitad del siglo xx. Particularmente se concentra en rastrear situaciones que explican cómo se expresaron las relaciones sociales y de poder entre los individuos de distinta extracción social, en un momento en el que el poblado abandonaba su aspecto de aldea ascética y pastoril para proyectarse como una ciudad prometedoramente...
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Prologue. Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) released \"The Autumn of the Middle Ages\" in 1919, offering profound insights into the medieval era and shedding light on its dark times. With a deep understanding of language, Huizinga becomes captivated by play and devotes himself to the study of games within the course of history. The medieval period is a beautiful sunset that occurs as darkness descends, symbolized by sunsets and moonlight....
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Did you know that Kentucky had the only American politician who was assassinated and then became governor? William Goebel, master of machine politics and even greater master of making enemies, was in the throes of a disputed gubernatorial election that'd be decided by Kentucky's Senate when a shot rang out, mortally wounding him. He'd die within days, but not before a Democrat-controlled legislature had named him governor instead of his Republican...
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La Universidad tiene la necesidad de homenajear a sus maestros y este libro intenta aproximarse a uno indiscutible, Mario Hernández Sánchez-Barba; a su condición de profesor, a los temas que han sido objeto de sus investigaciones, al teórico de la historia, al americanista, al estudioso de la milicia, al divulgador, al conferenciante, al hombre… universitario, padre de familia, cristiano profundo, patriota racional y sincero monárquico.
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New version combining Maccabees I & Maccabess II in 26 chapters with insightful footnotes identifying placenames and explaing historical context.Prefaced with an Overview describing geopolitical historical and cultural background.Followed by extensive PostScript narrating resultant aftermath, strife and civil war leading to the Temple destruction and Exile.
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Sobre la base de una valiosa documentación que comprenden escrituras públicas, registros públicos de comercio, fotografías e información de prensa, así como el apoyo de algunos conceptos básicos de la teoría sociológica de Pierre Bourdieu, el profesor Jairo Henry Arroyo logra describir las características de las prácticas empresariales en la ciudad de Cali a comienzos de siglo XX. Modelos de financiamiento, relaciones y redes sociales,...
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En el presente libro, Luisa Ballesteros evidencia el carácter trasgresor del trabajo de las escritoras latinoamericanas en la reescritura de la historia. Si bien en la condición postmoderna o en los tiempos barrocos, las escritoras mujeres, han compartido los temas y preocupaciones de los autores masculinos, la autora pone en evidencia a través de los textos estudiados la forma en que traen al primer plano elementos que la historia oficial ha dejado...