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View book details for Sea Power and the Control of Trade:
Belligerent Rights from the Russian War to the Beira Patrol, 1854-1970
Charts the British government's changing perception of the utility of naval control of trade between 1854 and the late 1960sThis collection of departmental files and treaties reviews the changing perceptions in the British government of the utility of naval control …
Exploring the ideas of consensus, resistance and rupture, this book contributes an important and nuanced reflection to the current debate on modernism in music.Music and Ultra-Modernism in France examines the priorities of three generational groupings: the pre-war Societe Musicale Independente …
View book details for In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Jewish-Communist Writers in East Germany
This study investigates six German Jewish writers' negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust East Germany.This study investigates the negotiation of Jewish-German-Communist identity in post-Holocaust Germany, specifically East Germany. After an introduction to the political-historical context, it highlights the conflicted writings …
View book details for Studies in Medievalism XXXII
Medievalism in Play
Though manifestations of play represent a burgeoning subject area in the study of post-medieval responses to the Middle Ages, they have not always received the respect and attention they deserve. This volume seeks to correct those deficiencies.Though manifestations of play …
View book details for Hanns Eisler's Art Songs
Arguing with Beauty
Traces Eisler's art songs through the political crises of the twentieth century, presenting them as a way to intervene in the nationalist appropriation of aesthetic material.Best known for his collaborations with Bertolt Brecht, composer Hanns Eisler also set nineteenth-century German …
Malawi's political culture is examined as it emerged in the colonial and early post-colonial periods, particularly in light of anti-colonial protest.Inspired by the events leading up to the overthrow of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda's Life Presidency, this book explores the …
Shows how Adler, Wander, Hilsenrath, and Kluger intertwine transgressive political criticism with the shadow of trauma, revealing new perspectives on canon formation and exclusion in postwar German literature.How did German-speaking Holocaust survivors pursue literary careers in an often-indifferent postwar society? …
View book details for The Crisis of Democratization in the Greater Horn of Africa
An Alternative Approach to Institutional Order in Transitional Societies
Analyses the structural and institutional obstacles to democratization in transitional societies - fractured societies, fragmented economies and institutions of governance, weak or deformed state structures - and how to overcome these.In the early 1990s, a wave of democratization swept through …
View book details for The Haskins Society Journal 23
2011. Studies in Medieval History
The most up-to-date research in the period from the Anglo-Saxons to Angevins.This volume of the Haskins Society Journal furthers the Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and …
Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.The first full-length study of the Old English version of Bede's masterwork, dealing with one of the …
View book details for Germany's Asia-Pacific Empire
Colonialism and Naval Policy, 1885-1914
An overview of Germany's naval and imperial activities in East Asia and the Pacific in the years leading up to the First World War.This book examines German attempts to acquire colonial territories in East Asia and the Pacific, and discusses …
View book details for The Great War, Memory and Ritual
Commemoration in the City and East London, 1916-1939
This detailed case study of a part of London seeks to show how both the survivors and the bereaved sought to come to terms with the losses and implications of the Great War.The modern idea that the Great War was …
View book details for The Medieval Military Engineer
From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.The results of medieval engineering still surround us - cathedrals, castles, stone bridges, irrigation systems. However, the siege artillery, siege towers, temporary bridges, earthwork …
The Portuguese fiction that awakened public debate on imperialismThe colonial wars in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s and 1970s were Portugal's Vietnam. The novels discussed in this study, written by Antonio Lobo Antunes, Lidia Jorge and Manuel Alegre …
View book details for Lionel Tertis
The First Great Virtuoso of the Viola
This new biography examines the life and work of Lionel Tertis, almost solely responsible for the rise of the viola in the twentieth century.Lionel Tertis [1876-1975] stands in the company of Ysaye, Kreisler, Casals, Thibaud and Rubinstein as one of …
The first large-scale study of the music of Herbert Howells, prodigiously gifted musician and favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir Charles Villiers Stanford.Herbert Howells (1892-1983) was a prodigiously gifted musician and the favourite student of the notoriously hard-to-please Sir …
View book details for The Chronicles of Fernao Lopes
Volume 5. General Bibliography and Index
Volume V of the first complete English translation of the chronicles of Fernao Lopes, containing the general bibliography and a comprehensive index containing all people and place names mentioned in the chroniclesUntil now, the chronicles of Fernao Lopes (c.1380-c.1460) have …
View book details for A Soldier in Bedfordshire, 1941-1942
The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers
Denis Argent, a professional journalist, joined the British Army in 1940 at the age of 23. He was already writing for Mass Observation, the innovative research organisation founded in 1937.Denis Argent, a professional journalist, joined the British Army in 1940 …
A major new study piecing together the intriguing but fragmentary evidence surrounding the lives of minstrels to highlight how these seemingly peripheral figures were keenly involved with all aspects of late medieval communities.Minstrels were a common sight and sound in …
A new look at how reading was practised and represented in England from the seventh century to the beginnings of the print era, finding many kinships between reading cultures across the medieval longue duree. Even as it transforms human cultures, …
Life is an adventure in which humankind explores its ministerial mission under natural instincts with a desire for outstanding accomplishments. However, human experiences from age to age, incorporated with scientific discoveries, are in consensus that life has more questions than …
2 In what I believe to be my first memories of life, I see myself sitting on a cot in a corner of a room. I look up to see a beautiful woman with dark auburn hair looking down at …
View book details for Eleventh Hour Fire!
(The Burning Heart of Last Day Revival) Diagnosing and Extinguishing Counterfeit Fires and Burning with the True Fire of God!
A tremendous problem in contemporary society is that too many people, including Christians, are living with toxic fires burning in their hearts and minds and are deceived about it. Literally millions around the world struggle with the fires of fear, …
While spelunking with their parents, cousins Jessie and Aaron find themselves falling into another world. It's too impossible to believe at first, but they are resourceful and quickly make unusual friends. They are faced with dangers and tough decisions. They …
View book details for Systematic Theology through the Spiritual Eye Volume II
GodaEUR(tm)s Laws Versus ManaEUR(tm)s Walking Your Vision University
Systematic theology is a discipline of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the doctrines of the Christian faith. It addresses issues such as what the Bible teaches about certain topics or what is true about …
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