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The image of the soldier in German Culture

1871-1933

This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture, exploring thematic continuities in the post-conflict representation of battlefield identities from the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71 to the demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Using over 40 representative images sampled from both ...

Alternative histories of the self

a cultural history of sexuality and secrets, 1762-1917

Alternative Histories of the Self investigates how people re-imagined the idea of the unique self in the period from 1762 to 1917. Some used the notion of the unique self to justify their gender and sexual transgression, but others rejected the notion of the unique ...

1989

a global history of Eastern Europe

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice ...

Bushmen

Kalahari hunter-gatherers and their descendants

The hunter-gatherers of southern Africa known as 'Bushmen' or 'San' are not one single ethnic group, but several. They speak a diverse variety of languages, and have many different settlement patterns, kinship systems and economic practices. The fact that we think of them as a ...

Iran

a social and political history since the Qajars

From encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, and from the overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mosaddeq in the 1950s to the current Islamic Republic, Iran's history has rarely ...

Visions of Empire

how five imperial regimes shaped the world

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected world The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism and multiculturalism, and they have much to teach us about navigating our own increasingly globalized world. Visions of Empire sheds ...

1789: the French Revolution begin

The French Revolution marks the beginning of modern politics. Using a diverse range of sources, Robert H. Blackman reconstructs key constitutional debates, from the initial convocation of the Estates General in Versailles in May 1789, to the National Assembly placing the wealth of the Catholic ...

Defending freedom

how we can win the fight for an open society

"Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream politics today is fast eroding. How can we address this? Leading Green politician and thinker Ralf F ucks argues that our current predicament stems from a failure to defend democracy as the guarantor of freedom. In a powerful counter ...

Russia and America

the asymmetric rivalry

The Asymmetric Rivalry. In one of the first analyses of the evolving Trump-Putin relationship, leading scholar of Russian foreign policy Andrei P Tsygankov challenges the dominant view that US-Russian relations have entered a new cold war phase. Russia's US strategy, he argues, can only ...

Inside Lenin's government

ideology, power and practice in the Early Soviet State

Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin. This study elucidates the process by which Sovnarkom's governmental decision-making authority was transferred to Communist Party bodies in the ...

Iran's quiet revolution

the downfall of the Pahlavi State

Offering a new perspective on Iran's politics and culture in the 1960s and 1970s, Ali Mirsepassi challenges the prevailing view of pre-Revolution Iran, documenting how the cultural elites of the Pahlavi State promoted a series of striking 'Gharbzadegi' or 'Westoxification' discourses. Intended as ideological ...

Sparta's First Attic War

the grans strategy of Classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C.

A companion volume to The Spartan Regime and The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta that explores the collapse of the Spartan-Athenian alliance During the Persian Wars, Sparta and Athens worked in tandem to defeat what was, in terms of relative resources and power, the greatest ...

Ahora contamos nosotras

¿Por qué tres millones de mujeres participan en solo dos semanas en el relato de la violencia que sufren y han sufrido?. Hasta hace nada no existía un relato de la violencia contra las mujeres. No por reticencia de ellas, sino por imposición institucional y ...

Seis formas de morir en Texas

Esta es una novela sobre varias personas cuya suerte queda ligada por un corazón. No se trata de un corazón simbólico, sino de un órgano que palpita y da la vida… y también la muerte. Esta es una novela sobre dos familias y dos continentes ...

Aborto en la escuela

Cuando apareció en los setenta, se dijo de Kathy Acker que era la sucesora de Henry Miller, la primera pornógrafa feminista y la Patti Smith de la literatura pospunk. Sus libros fueron considerados «obscenos», «perturbadores» e «iconoclastas». Robert Mapplethorpe la fotografiaba; en Nueva York se ...

Autor en construcción

sujeto e institución literaria en la modernidad hispánica (siglos XVI-XIX)

Tras las proclamas sobre la inmanencia de la textualidad, volvemos a una literatura con autor o, más específicamente, caracterizada por una dialéctica de construcción y afirmación del autor, que no ha existido siempre. De la noción clásica de autoridad a la autoría moderna se percibe ...

Estoy contigo

Durante el gélido enero de 2013 una mujer negra deambula por la Estación Termini de Roma. No habla ni una palabra de italiano. Busca comida en las papeleras. Llora. La gente la toma por loca. ¿Quién es? ¿Una extranjera indocumentada? ¿Una inmigrante ilegal más? ¿Una ...

Grafitis para neandertales

Grafitis para neandertales es un libro híbrido en cuya aleación se mezclan micro-ensayos en prosa y poemas. El cicerone que nos guía por sus páginas es Ñor, una suerte de monje taoísta preocupado por la revelación al mundo de su destino: el colapso ecológico-social y ...

La capellanía y la ermita de San José de Requejo y Corús

En esta obra presentamos la historia de La Capellanía y de la Ermita de San José de Requejo. Desde el año de 1888, Requejo y Corús pertenece al Ayuntamiento de Villagatón, en el que también están ubicados otros diez pueblos de La Cepeda. Hemos intentado ...

Carta a D.

una historia de amor

«Acabas de cumplir ochenta y dos años. Has encogido seis centímetros, no pesas más de cuarenta y cinco kilos y sigues siendo bella, elegante y deseable». Así comienza la bella carta que el filósofo y periodista André Gorz escribió a su esposa, Dorine, pocos meses ...