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Artisans of the body in Early Modern Italy

identities, families and masculinities

This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Italy, bringing to light the strong cultural affinities and social ties between barber-surgeons and the apparently distant trades of ...

Nicolò Machiavelli

the laughing lion and the strutting fox

Beasts and beauties

animals, gender, and domestication in the Italian Renaissance

History and future

using historical thinking to imagine the future

Enlightening the World

the creation of the Statue of Liberty

Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. In Enlightening the ...

Sacred gifts, profane pleasures

a history of tobacco and chocolate in the Atlantic World

Falling from Grace

reversal of fortune and the english nobility, 1075-1455

Painted on cathedral walls and used as leitmotif by fifteenth century writers, the 'Wheel of Fortune' and the 'Fall of Princes' were fundamental themes through which medieval people understood the mutability of existence. This original new study examines the increasing brutality of politics in later ...

The global New Deal

economic and social Human Rights in world politics

CONTENTS: Introduction to second edition The elimination of world poverty 1 Global policy choices : there are alternatives 2 International political economy and economic and social human rights 3 The United Nations and economic and social human rights 4 The environment and economic and social human ...

Maimonides and his heritage

Eds. Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, James Allen Grady.

Confronting Hitler

german social democrats in defense of the Weimar Republic, 1929-1933

Power and the past

collective memory and international relations

Eds. Eric Langenbacher, Yossi Shain. Only recently have international relations scholars started to seriously examine the influence of collective memory on foreign policy formation and relations between states and peoples. The ways in which the memories of past events are interpreted, misinterpreted, or even manipulated ...

Occupational hazards

success and failure in military occupation

War images

fabricating reality

In this book, the authors explore images of war and their effect on society. The authors keep in mind that the experience of being at war is much different from the experience of viewing a war image. Thus it is our responsibility to engage war ...

The sungod's journey throught the Netherworld

reading the Ancient Egyptian Amduat

Foreword by Erik Hornung.

NATO in search of a vision

Eds. Gülnur Aybet, Rebecca R. Moore; Foreword by Lawrence Freedman. As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan. It also stands at the center of a host of ...

International negotiation in a complex world

CONTENTS: List of Illustrations 1 Introduction Negotiation in Broad Context Negotiation in International Relations Negotiation as a High-Stakes Game Structuring Negotiation Summary 2 The Board The International Systems Negotiation Characteristics: A Checklist Summary 3 The Players Sovereign States as Negotiators Transnational Actors Actor Dynamics Summary ...

Why intelligence fails

lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War

The U.S. government spends enormous resources each year on the gathering and analysis of intelligence, yet the history of American foreign policy is littered with missteps and misunderstandings that have resulted from intelligence failures. In Why Intelligence Fails, Robert Jervis examines the politics and ...

Faith and reason in Kierkegaard

The lives of Hans Luther, 1879-1962

german Chancellor, Reichsbank President, and Hitler's Ambassador

C. Edmund Clingan chronicles the life of this controversial German politician, diplomat, and banker. Luther served as mayor of Essen during the Revolution of 1918, the Kapp Putsch, and the occupation of the Ruhr Valley by the French. Rising rapidly in the political ranks, he ...

The pious sex

essays on women and religion in the history of political thought

Ed. Andrea Radasanu. The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over ...