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Shallow Blue Empire - A History Of Pearl Diving In The Indian Ocean, 1850-1930

by Tamara Surani Fernando

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 Across the Indian Ocean, seafaring communities developed nuanced pearl-diving expertise in the centuries before European imperialism. Then, in the late nineteenth century, Western demand for pearls skyrocketed. Shallow Blue Empire explores the tensions that emerged when local lifeways clashed with British ambitions for profit maximization.
Reinventing Protestant Germany - Religious Nationalists And The Contest For Post-Nazi Democracy

by Brandon Bloch

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 Brandon Bloch examines the remarkable transformation of German Protestantism after WWII. As avid nationalists and militarists, Protestant leaders had largely backed the Nazi regime. Yet after 1945, they reinvented themselves as champions of constitutional democracy and human rightsâ€"while also seeking to whitewash the Churchâ€™s past.
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The Discovery Of Ottoman Greece - Knowledge, Encounter, And Belief In The Mediterranean World Of Martin Crusius

by Richard Calis

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 The Discovery of Ottoman Greece unearths forgotten research by the early modern philhellenist and Lutheran reformer Martin Crusius. His extensive study of Greek Orthodox life, including interviews with traveling alms-seekers, sheds light on European views of Greek decline under Ottoman rule as well as on the global ambitions of Lutheran reform.
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Dictatorship And Demand - The Politics Of Consumerism In East Germany

by Mark Landsman

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 An investigation into the politics of consumerism in East Germany during the years between the Berlin Blockade of 1948-49 and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, Dictatorship and Demand shows how the issue of consumption constituted a crucial battleground in the larger Cold War struggle.
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Coconut Colonialism - Workers And The Globalization Of Samoa

by Holger Droessler

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 Samoans had been engaged in economic and cultural exchange long before Germans and Americans arrived on the islands. Holger Droessler shows how Samoans adapted their traditions to challenge the new globalization imposed on them by colonialism, regaining agency through the efforts of farm workers, nurses, and traveling entertainers alike.
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Perilous Performances - Gender And Regency In Early Modern France

by Katherine Crawford

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 In a book addressing those interested in the transformation of monarchy into the modern state and in intersections of gender and political power, Crawford examines the roles of female regents in early modern France.
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Conservative Turn - Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, And The Lessons Of Anti-Communism

by Michael Kimmage

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 Kimmage tells the story of postwar Americaâ€™s political evolution through Trilling and Chambers, who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. Kimmage argues that the divergent careers of these two men exemplify the emergence of modern conservatism and the rise of moderate liberalism.
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Lost Illusions - The Politics Of Publishing In Nineteenth-Century France

by Christine Haynes

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 Linking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enactingâ€"but also in limitingâ€"press freedom and literary property.
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Under The Wire - How The Telegraph Changed Diplomacy

by David Paull Nickles

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 Through case studies in crisis diplomacyÃ¢â‚¬â€the War of 1812, the Trent affair during the U.S. Civil War, and the famous 1917 Zimmermann telegramÃ¢â‚¬â€Nickles examines the critical impact of the telegraph on the diplomacy of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Creating A Nation Of Joiners - Democracy And Civil Society In Early National Massachusetts

by Johann N. Neem

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 Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.
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Empires Of Islam In Renaissance Historical Thought

by Margaret Meserve

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 Drawing on political oratory, diplomatic correspondence, crusade propaganda, and historical treatises, Meserve shows how research into the origins of Islamic empires sprang fromâ€"and contributed toâ€"contemporary debates over the threat of Islamic expansion in the Mediterranean.
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To Exercise Our Talents - The Democratization Of Writing In Britain

by Christopher Hilliard

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 In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of â€œordinaryâ€ voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary peopleâ€"would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written historyâ€"Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.
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Lara Family - Crown And Nobility In Medieval Spain

by Simon R. Doubleday

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 For much of the Middle Ages, the Lara family was among the most powerful aristocratic lineages in Spain. This book, the first modern study of the Laras, explores the causes of change in the dynamics of power, and narrates the dramatic story of the events that overtook the family.
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Frenchmen Into Peasants - Modernity And Tradition In The Peopling Of French Canada

by Leslie P. Choquette

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 Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the 17th and 18th centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure.
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Singing The Gospel - Lutheran Hymns And The Success Of The Reformation

by Christopher Boyd Brown

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 Brown offers a new appraisal of the Reformation and its popular appeal, based on the place of German hymns in the 16th-century press and in the lives of early Lutherans. The Bohemian mining town of Joachimsthalâ€"where pastors, musicians, and laity forged an enduring, influential union of Lutheranism, music, and cultureâ€"is at the center of the story.
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Parish Communities And Religious Conflict In The Vale Of Gloucester, 1590-1690

by Daniel C. Beaver

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 Few studies have explored the cultural process whereby religious symbolism created social cohesion and political allegiance. This book examines religious conflict in the parish communities of early modern England using an interdisciplinary approach that includes the perspectives of class, gender, and demography.
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Oil Empire - Visions Of Prosperity In Austrian Galicia

by Alison Fleig Frank

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 How and why did the promise of oil fail Galicia and the Austrian Empire, which at the beginning of the 20th century ranked third among the worldâ€™s oil-producing states? Alison Frank traces the interaction of technology, nationalist rhetoric, social tensions, provincial politics, and entrepreneurial vision in shaping the Galician oil industry.
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The World That Latin America Created - The United Nations Economic Commission For Latin America In The Development Era

by Margarita Fajardo

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 Margarita Fajardo tells the story of the cepalinos, Latin American economists and policymakers, and their dependentista critics, whose ideas about economic growth and global inequality transformed our approach to development and changed the course of the twentieth century.
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Salvation At Stake - Christian Martyrdom In Early Modern Europe

by Brad S. Gregory

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 <p>Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time, providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities.<br><br>Brad S. Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views of Christian truth, and the intractable dispute over the distinction between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources, including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence, and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction, and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists keen to dispute.</p>
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Advertising Empire - Race And Visual Culture In Imperial Germany

by David Ciarlo

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 Tracing commercial imagery across different products and media, this title shows how and why the 'African native' had emerged by 1900 to become a familiar figure in the German landscape, selling everything from soap to shirts to coffee.
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The Invention Of The Restaurant - Paris And Modern Gastronomic Culture, With A New Preface

by Rebecca L. Spang

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 As Spang explains, during the 1760s and 1770s, sensitive, self-described sufferers made public show of their delicacy by going to the new establishments known as â€œrestaurateursâ€™ roomsâ€ to sip bouillons. But these locations soon became sites for extending frugal, politically correct hospitality and later became symbols of aristocratic greed.
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Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia - Debt, Property, And The Law In The Age Of Dostoevsky And Tolstoy

by Sergei Antonov

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 As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks.
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Reimagining Europe - Kievan Rus’ In The Medieval World, 988-1146

by Christian Raffensperger

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 An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rusâ€™ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, in which Rusâ€™ is understood as part of medieval Europe, and East is not so neatly divided from West.
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Making Toleration - The Repealers And The Glorious Revolution

by Scott Sowerby

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 Though James II is often depicted as a Catholic despot who imposed his faith, Scott Sowerby reveals a king ahead of his time who pressed for religious toleration at the expense of his throne. The Glorious Revolution was in fact a conservative counter-revolution against the movement for enlightened reform that James himself encouraged and sustained.
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