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Language And Enlightenment - The Berlin Debates Of The Eighteenth Century

by Avi Lifschitz

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 Highlights the importance of language in the social theory, epistemology, and aesthetics of the Enlightenment. Argues that awareness of the historicity and linguistic rootedness of all forms of life was a mainstream Enlightenment notion rather than a feature of the so-called 'Counter-Enlightenment'.
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Caricature And French Political Culture 1830-1848 - Charles Philipon And The Illustrated Press

by David S. Kerr

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 Charles Philipon (1800-1862) was the founder of the satirical illustrated press in France. With the newspapers he owned and directed, La Caricature and Le Charivari, he led an unprecedentedly coherent and vitriolic campaign of disrespect against King Louis-Philippe and his regime. Using a group of young caricaturists (the most talented of whom were Daumier, Grandville, and Travies) and the collaboration of a gifted team of writers (including Balzac) he crafted a new language of opposition. This book is the first full scholarly study of the structure of the illustrated press in the 1830s, its contribution to political debate in France, the dissemination of caricature and its potential as political propaganda, and the links between caricature and other forms of political-cultural discourse under the July Monarchy.
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Fin De Siecle Beirut - The Making Of An Ottoman Provincial Capital

by Jens Hanssen

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 Postwar Beirut conjures up contradictory images of remarkable openness and inconceivable violence, of great antiquity and a bright future. The Lebanese capital stands for Arab cosmopolitanism and cultural effervescence but also for its tragedies of destruction. This book examines the historical formation of Beirut as a multiply contested Mediterranean city. Fin de Siecle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature in Ottoman studies, in Arab cultural history and on Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory, particularly Henri Lefebvre's work on cities and capitalism, with postcolonial methodology, the central thesis of this book is that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. The city of Beirut was at once the product, the object, and the project of imperial and urban politics of difference: overlapping European, Ottoman, and municipal civilising missions competed in the political fields of administration, infrastructure, urban planning, public health, education, public morality, journalism, and architecture. Jens Hanssen offers a comprehensive, original account of the emergence of modern Beirut out of an economic shift away from Acre in the wake of the Napoleonic wars. He argues that the Ottoman government's decision to heed calls for the creation of a new province around Beirut and grant it provincial capital status in 1888 paved the way for fundamental urban and regional reconfigurations long before colonial policies during the French Mandate period. This new Ottoman province came to constitute the territorial embodiment of regional self-determination for Arab nationalists in Beirut until the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire after World War I. Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen's book traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. The transformation of everyday life in late nineteenth-century Beirut and the concomitant policies of urban management is vividly set against the devastating civil war in Mount Lebanon and Damascus in 1860.
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Transnational Women'S Liberation - Feminist Activism In The Us, Uk, And France, 1967â€“79

by Tess (Fellow Of All Souls College, Fellow Of All Souls College, University Of Oxford) Little

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 Taking a case study of movements in the US, UK, and France, this history investigates the transnational reach of women's liberation.
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Communism, Cold War, And Revolution - The Indonesian Communist Party In West Java, 1949-1966

by Matthew Woolgar

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged communists killed. Whilst a growing body of scholarship has analysed the anti-communist violence of 1965-6, much less has been written about the Party's experience and significance in the preceding decade and a half. Communism, Cold War, and Revolution: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java, 1949-1966 is the first major study of the Party during that period to be written since the end of the Cold War. The book examines the Party's development at the intersection of world communism, a global Cold War and Indonesia's revolution. It shows that the Party represented both a revolutionary organisation and a vibrant movement, which was both linked to international networks and deeply intertwined with Indonesia's social fabric. In this book, Matthew Woolgar introduces the term 'archipelagic communism' to encapsulate the ability of the Party to achieve impressive growth amid a growing pluralism in global communism and a context of extreme local cultural and social diversity. Woolgar takes the case study of West Java - a populous and diverse province, which had a substantial communist presence - as an entry point for examining these developments. The study draws on a wide array of sources, ranging from interviews and government documents to newly available Party archives, to recreate Party life in unprecedented depth. The study traces the dialogue that communist leaders engaged in with foreign comrades but also argues that key to the Party's growth were activist energies at the grassroots and the Party's efforts to navigate social, cultural, and ethnic cleavages within Indonesian society. It shows how the Party became entangled with trade unionism, land conflicts, struggles for women's rights, youth activism, and cultural activities. It also delineates how conservative elites, backed by Western governments, used counter-revolutionary violence to destroy the Communist Party and institute a wide-ranging reshaping of Indonesian society: removing labour rights, reversing land reforms, enforcing a patriarchal state ideology, and reinforcing markers of ethnic and religious difference.
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Communism, Cold War, And Revolution - The Indonesian Communist Party In West Java, 1949-1966

by Matthew Woolgar

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million alleged communists killed. Whilst a growing body of scholarship has analysed the anti-communist violence of 1965-6, much less has been written about the Party's experience and significance in the preceding decade and a half. Communism, Cold War, and Revolution: The Indonesian Communist Party in West Java, 1949-1966 is the first major study of the Party during that period to be written since the end of the Cold War. The book examines the Party's development at the intersection of world communism, a global Cold War and Indonesia's revolution. It shows that the Party represented both a revolutionary organisation and a vibrant movement, which was both linked to international networks and deeply intertwined with Indonesia's social fabric. In this book, Matthew Woolgar introduces the term 'archipelagic communism' to encapsulate the ability of the Party to achieve impressive growth amid a growing pluralism in global communism and a context of extreme local cultural and social diversity. Woolgar takes the case study of West Java - a populous and diverse province, which had a substantial communist presence - as an entry point for examining these developments. The study draws on a wide array of sources, ranging from interviews and government documents to newly available Party archives, to recreate Party life in unprecedented depth. The study traces the dialogue that communist leaders engaged in with foreign comrades but also argues that key to the Party's growth were activist energies at the grassroots and the Party's efforts to navigate social, cultural, and ethnic cleavages within Indonesian society. It shows how the Party became entangled with trade unionism, land conflicts, struggles for women's rights, youth activism, and cultural activities. It also delineates how conservative elites, backed by Western governments, used counter-revolutionary violence to destroy the Communist Party and institute a wide-ranging reshaping of Indonesian society: removing labour rights, reversing land reforms, enforcing a patriarchal state ideology, and reinforcing markers of ethnic and religious difference.
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Halted March Of The European Left - The Working Class In Britain, France, And Italy, 1968a &Quote;1989

by Matt Myers

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its pending obsolescence. Parties and trade unions grew rapidly as a diverse new generation entered the ranks. Why did the left's forward march halt so abruptly? The Halted March of the European Left shows how the left's defeats after the mid-1970s were not the inevitable result of de-industrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised and post-Fordist world that abolished the working class as a great historical actor. Choices that were made during a concentrated but decisive moment contributed to the left's lost battles. The British, French, and Italian left managed the shift to a new era by marginalising those groups of workers who had invested it with hopes of social and political transformation. Communist, socialist, and social democratic parties helped disempower the new components of the working class in workplaces, in society, in the political system, and successfully disciplined their traditional working-class supporters. The left encountered a crisis of purpose and identity, a sense of both defeat and lost opportunities, and the dissolution of the idea of a community of fate amongst workers. This book provides a comparative analysis of the left's fragmenting relationship with the working class and a 'feel' for the culture of three leading industrial countries during a traumatic transition of late twentieth-century history. It concludes that decisions taken by the left during the 1970s contributed to the tragic inversion of the expected outcome of that hopeful decade.
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Halted March Of The European Left - The Working Class In Britain, France, And Italy, 1968-1989

by Matt Myers

~~91,41€~~ 82,27€ 10% OFF

 The European left seemed to be in rude health during the 1970s. Never had so many political parties committed to representing the working class been in power simultaneously across the continent. New forms of mobilisation led by female, immigrant, and young wage-earners seemed to reflect the growing strength of the workers' movement rather than its pending obsolescence. Parties and trade unions grew rapidly as a diverse new generation entered the ranks. Why did the left's forward march halt so abruptly? The Halted March of the European Left shows how the left's defeats after the mid-1970s were not the inevitable result of de-industrialisation or, more precisely, the transition to a globalised and post-Fordist world that abolished the working class as a great historical actor. Choices that were made during a concentrated but decisive moment contributed to the left's lost battles. The British, French, and Italian left managed the shift to a new era by marginalising those groups of workers who had invested it with hopes of social and political transformation. Communist, socialist, and social democratic parties helped disempower the new components of the working class in workplaces, in society, in the political system, and successfully disciplined their traditional working-class supporters. The left encountered a crisis of purpose and identity, a sense of both defeat and lost opportunities, and the dissolution of the idea of a community of fate amongst workers. This book provides a comparative analysis of the left's fragmenting relationship with the working class and a 'feel' for the culture of three leading industrial countries during a traumatic transition of late twentieth-century history. It concludes that decisions taken by the left during the 1970s contributed to the tragic inversion of the expected outcome of that hopeful decade.
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Reluctant Warriors - Republican Popular Army And Nationalist Army Conscripts In The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

by James Matthews

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 Reluctant Warriors challenges traditional political interpretations of the Spanish Civil War, and sets it in a new and immediately human light. It is a comparative study of Nationalist Army and Republican Popular Army conscripts, and analyses the conflict from the perspective of those who were involved against their will. While militants on both sides joined the conflict voluntarily, millions of Spanish men coped with the military uprising as an unwanted intrusion into their lives.James Matthews firstly examines the climate in which both sides implemented mass conscription within their zones. He analyses the process of conscription from call-up to placement in a unit, and looks at the methods employed to motivate and maintain the morale of drafted men, as well as the approaches to discipline in the two armies. Finally, he examines situations in which men avoided front line service. These accounted for constant manpower losses on both sides, and were particularly marked for the Republic.Reluctant Warriors reveals that the Nationalist Army managed its conscripted men better than the Republican Popular Army; a vital factor in determining the ultimate outcome of the war.
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A Century Of Asia Minor Refugees In Greece - Flight, Fight, And Fraternity

by Marilena (Lecturer In History, University Of Oxford, Research Associate, South East European Studies, Seesox, Oxford, And Research Associate, Hellenic Observatory, Lse) Anastasopou

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 Focusing on the case of Greece, this book examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and the refugee past, exploring the 1922â€"24 memories and identities of forced displacement in the context of subsequent migration.
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Communism, Cold War, And Revolution - The Indonesian Communist Party In West Java, 1949-1966

by Matthew (Lecturer In International History, Lecturer In International History, University Of Leeds) Woolgar

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 This book examines the history of Indonesian Communist Party in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period the Party's membership grew from a few thousand to around three million, before it was destroyed in a violent anti-communist purge that saw around 500,000 people killed.
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The Halted March Of The European Left - The Working Class In Britain, France, And Italy, 1968â€“1989

by Matt (Lecturer In History, University Of Oxford) Myers

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 The Halted March of the European Left provides a bold reinterpretation of the 1970s. It provides a comparative analysis of the crisis of purpose and identity of the British, French, and Italian left and its sense of both defeat and lost opportunities.
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Spiritual Lives And Manuscript Cultures Of Eighteenth-Century English Women - Writing Religious Communities

by Cynthia Aalders

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 The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women''s life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women''s life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women''s spiritual and writing lives.
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Spiritual Lives And Manuscript Cultures Of Eighteenth-Century English Women - Writing Religious Communities

by Cynthia Aalders

~~99,38€~~ 89,44€ 10% OFF

 The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women''s life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women''s life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women''s spiritual and writing lives.
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Thomas Hobbes And Political Thought In Ireland C.1660- C.1730 - The Leviathan Released

by Matthew Ward

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Leviathan' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.
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Thomas Hobbes And Political Thought In Ireland C.1660- C.1730 - The Leviathan Released

by Matthew Ward

~~90,09€~~ 81,08€ 10% OFF

 Thomas Hobbes is now regarded as one of England's greatest political philosophers. This book considers his reception in Ireland, where, it is suggested, the 'Leviathan' was released. In doing so, the book demonstrates the variety and sophistication of political thought in Ireland.
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British Philanthropy In The Globalizing World - Entrepreneurs And Evangelicals, 1756-1840

by Roshan Allpress

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Most accounts of philanthropy and societal change focus either on either the efforts of a small number of 'heroic' individuals, or on wider historical forces. This book traces networks of philanthropists over four generations to show how modern philanthropy, humanitarianism, and social entrepreneurship emerged between the 1750s and the 1830s.
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British Philanthropy In The Globalizing World - Entrepreneurs And Evangelicals, 1756-1840

by Roshan Allpress

~~82,14€~~ 73,93€ 10% OFF

 Most accounts of philanthropy and societal change focus either on either the efforts of a small number of 'heroic' individuals, or on wider historical forces. This book traces networks of philanthropists over four generations to show how modern philanthropy, humanitarianism, and social entrepreneurship emerged between the 1750s and the 1830s.
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The Spiritual Lives And Manuscript Cultures Of Eighteenth-Century English Women - Writing Religious Communities

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 Using extensive original archival research, this book argues that women practiced, learned about, and taught others the Christian faith through their life writings (including letters and diaries) forming and shaping religious communities in ways that supplemented the more formal spiritual and didactic writings of male ministers and theologians.
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Estate Management Around Florence And Lucca 1000-1250

by Lorenzo Tabarrini

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 This book sets out a new interpretation of the transformations that affected relations between tenants and landowners throughout the central Middle Ages; offering an innovative perspective on how the change in the forms of land management reflected general transformations of the economy--with particular regard to the rise in overall demand.
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Estate Management Around Florence And Lucca 1000-1250

by Lorenzo Tabarrini

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 This book sets out a new interpretation of the transformations that affected relations between tenants and landowners throughout the central Middle Ages; offering an innovative perspective on how the change in the forms of land management reflected general transformations of the economy--with particular regard to the rise in overall demand.
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Muslim Secular - Parity And The Politics Of India''S Partition

by Amar Sohal

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 This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.
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Muslim Secular - Parity And The Politics Of India''S Partition

by Amar Sohal

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 This book explores the political thought of three key Muslim thinker-actors associated with the Indian freedom struggle: Abul Kalam Azad, Sheikh Abdullah, and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These men sought to maintain Muslim minority rights and influence within a postcolonial, united India.
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England And The Papacy In The Early Middle Ages - Papal Privileges In European Perspective, C. 680-1073

by Benjamin Savill

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 A detailed study of the relationship between England and the papacy across its first five centuries, from the times of Bede up to the Norman Conquest. It reassesses that relationship through a detailed study of a hitherto understudied corpus of papal documentary sources. It sets developments in England within a wider comparative European context.
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