Bulwark of the Old Regime

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In 1740, the French King Louis XV granted his Swedish-led forces the title of Royal Swedish Regiment, for which it received the same privileges as all royal regiments, including the protection of the king, new flags, and ordinance. Louis XV acted to fulfill a request of King Fredrik I of Sweden and to demonstrate his satisfaction with the great value shown by the regiment in battle. This intriguing book traces the history of this storied regiment throughout its service, including during the American War of Independence, and up to the time of the French Revolution of 1789.

From Insanity to Diminished Capacity

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Professor Fradella’s new monograph traces the development of defenses of excuse from their English Common Law roots to their various modern formulations under U.S.Law. It includes an interdisciplinary, detailed analysis of the historical evolution of the insanity defense, the diminished capacity/responsibility doctrines and related criminal defenses of excuse based on mental illness, including genetic-based defenses, the Black rage defense, the PMS defense, Battered Women’s syndrome defense, and the media intoxication defense. The study concludes with a discussion of the likely future of defenses of excuse in light of the U.S. Supreme Courts 2006 decision Clark vs. Arizona. There is no other monograph presently available that covers these topics and the work can be used as a stand alone study of the field in Law or as a possible supplement for criminal justice/justice studies. Elaborate footnotes, citations, bibliography and index included.

Sports and Foreign Policy in Taiwan

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In this exciting new book, Taiwanese scholar Catherine Kai-Ping Lin examines Taiwan’s diplomatic history since the 1970s through the lens of sports in the development of nationalism in foreign relations. Since 1971, when Taiwan lost its United Nations seat to the communist People’s Republic of China, the country has gradually shifted its foreign policy. Originally following its “One-China Policy” -- conquering the mainland and reunifying China, -- Taiwan has more recently promoted its status as an independent country amid an international atmosphere in which it does not enjoy diplomatic recognition. Presenting a highly original chronological case study of the role of sports in the making of Taiwan’s foreign policy, Lin aims to enrich our understanding of Taiwan’s unique position in the world by arguing that nationalist forces within the Taiwanese government – all the way up to its top leadership — used athletic competition to promote Taiwanese nationalism and nationhood.

Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve of World War One. This study considers how Braddon changes her descriptions across this timeframe and argues that these changes are reflective of the changing social and economic status of the Anglo-Jewish population. Braddon's work engages with such broad themes as conversion to Christianity, the beginnings of the Zionist movement,as well as the different migrations of Jews to England from continental Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East among other considerations. Mrs Braddon was called a “sensation writer” and her work was widely read and widely influential despite being considered outre by the more genteel elements of the literary establishment. The is the first research monograph to look at Braddon's work dealing with religion and focusing on English Judaism. The large number of titles and the time period,which was arguably the most dynamic for the Jewish community in Britain, provides a unique picture of a popular novelist and a key social question that attracted the interest of Victorian and Edwardian readers and literary commentators. This study also provides a new standpoint from which to view “sensation” fiction, of which Braddon was a chief exponent ,by suggesting how the novels definitely reflect the changing status and fortune of the Anglo-Jewish community. During the nineteenth century and even up the present day some critics have viewed sensation fiction as being ephemeral and somewhat salacious so the approach Ruth Morris has taken is markedly different and suggests that Braddon's novels are superb markers in social history and the development of themes embraced later by Bennett, Wells and Walpole.

Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma

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In 1759, the court of the Italian Duchy of Parma adopted the inspiration of cultural creators who recommended a reform of Italian opera along French lines. These writers favored combining Italian-style music with the wider range of musical genres and scenic variety of French opera. As the music critic and commentator George W. Loomis shows in this groundbreaking volume, the young composer Tommaso Traetta was engaged to create new operas responding to these demands. As Loomis deftly demonstrates, Traetta’s operas were largely oriented toward the formal aria, a byproduct of making Italian music an essential component of this cross-cultural fusion. Nevertheless, they were strikingly innovative in their use of chorus, integrated dance, and accompanied recitative. Structurally, the operas reflect the French distinction between scenes of action and divertissements. After a brief flowering, the project was abandoned, primarily for lack of interest, but Traetta’s Parma operas deserve a previously unrecognized place in the history of Western music for their stimulation of opera seria in Italy and beyond. This included the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose genre-defining Idomeneo (1781) proved a turning point in the development of opera.

Tommaso Traetta and the Fusion of Italian and French Opera in Parma

Transfigured Light

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An original research monograph that investigates and re examines the ideas generated by the Hermetic tradition (the hermetic imaginary) to discuss the effects of this tradition on philosophy and science. Author posits several elements of the hermetic imaginary that have been influential in modern philosophy and science. Table of contents: Chapter1: Spirit of the Beehive: Hermetic Resonances in Cybernetics, AI and Cyberspace Chapter2: Body Doubles Chapter3: Metaphysical Geometry, Cyber-Attractors and the Shape of the World Soul Chapter4: The Gnostic Chemistry of Robert Fludd Chapter5: The Gnostic Leibniz Chapter6: History Examines a Tradition “ ….Highly recommended…an original and valuable contribution to the intellectual history of the West.” Professor Paul du Quenoy, AUC History and Ideas Series, No.1

The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization

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Dr.Bongyu’s research work on African States and the African union is well known. In this monograph he discusses the Balkanization of Africa in the colonial and immediate post colonial period with an emphasis on the weak, fragile and marginalized condition of even the strongest of Sub-Saharan African states. He also describes the rise of African aid funding and the fall of most economic indicators and the atrophy of key societal elements such as farming and traditional village life. The work starts with the present situation in Black Africa and various attempts at regional and continent wide unity by 53 national entities. Next Bongyu approaches the problems of macro-level economics ,governance and attempts at unity in the face of globalization. The study ends with new players coming into the African arena—China, the Gulf States and Brazil. The efforts to salvage the continent undertaken by Africans themselves and aided by friends abroad may indeed be the next new thing to emerge from Africa. ..Ex Africa Semper Nova.

The African State and Asymmetrical Globalization

Player, Playwright And Preacher's Kid

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John Field, an ordained minister in the Established Church during the sixteenth century described playhouses as 'schools of wickedness' and 'sinks of sin'. Little did he know that, after his death, his son Nathan (Nat) Field would become one of Britain's most celebrated players and playwrights. Impressed under royal warrant to become a member of the Children of the Chapel Royal, Nat progressed to star in plays such as Epicene, Bartholomew Fair and Bussy d'Ambois. He later became an adult member of the King's Men, wrote two highly successful plays of his own and collaborated with writers such as Fletcher and Massinger on many more. Nat, who died at the age of thirty-one, had a considerable reputation in his own day. His career has been neglected recently but in this carefully researched biography the picture of his life is pieced together to reveal one of the most famous names in the theatre of seventeenth-century London. This work has been recently revised and is in a new paperback format with additional citations.

Timberlake Wertenbaker and Contemporary British Feminist Drama

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This work, which aims at exploring Timberlake Wertenbaker’s feminist drama, provides an in-depth analysis of the playwright’s major feminist plays “New Anatomies” (1981), “The Grace of Mary Traverse” (1985), “The Love of the Nightingale” (1988), and “The Break of Day” (1995), with an extensive research on the development of feminism, contemporary British feminist theatre(s), feminist theatre companies, and British feminist drama. Analysing the plays thoroughly within the frame of feminist critical theory and thus demonstrating to what extent they reveal different types of feminism such as liberal, radical and socialist feminist positions and hence represent different types of feminist drama and theatre, the work not only provides a detailed research on British feminist drama and feminist theatres but also makes a valuable contribution to the existing account on Timberlake Wertenbaker and her feminist drama. The study, which presents a comprehensive Introduction, consists of four chapters, each of which is devoted to the discussion and analysis of one play. Accordingly, Chapter I analyses New Anatomies as representative of socialist feminist drama. Chapter II deals with The Grace of Mary Traverse, establishing it is a blend of socialist feminist and radical feminist drama. The third chapter focuses on The Love of the Nightingale as a striking example of radical feminist drama and theatre, and Chapter IV provides a close analysis of The Break of Day, displaying it as a play representative of socialist feminist drama. Revealing thus also the feminist aspect of the playwright, who is widely known for her refusal to associate herself and her work with feminism, Dr. Nursen Gömceli in this work demonstrates that Timberlake Wertenbaker has indeed written plays that can be usefully and critically analysed within the frame of feminist theatre and drama.

Timberlake Wertenbaker and Contemporary British Feminist Drama

Housing in Zimbabwe

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This book examines the nexus between housing and stewardship in peri-urban areas outside of Harare, Zimbabwe. Housing in Zimbabwe explores the factors that shape peri-urban environments into better managed and sustainable areas where housing development is the major activity. Using the Stewardship Theory, or Partnership, Model as the main framework and point of departure, the analysis follows five basic approaches: Biblical-religious, business, environmental, vernacular, and place-based community/grassroots. Chirisa ponders conflicts among the relevant actors, given their contrasting priorities and interests and maintains that such conflicts are perpetuated by such factors as local history, resident income levels, a lack of defined and clear-cut state policies, and commitment by institutions towards the creation of sustainable settlements. The study recommends further application and use of technologies for remote sensing (Geographic Information Systems included) to help monitor and guide development in peri-urban areas with the goal of achieving evidence-based policies. The hope is to create effective tools for stewardship by co-creating an institution focused on urban regional development using scenario and collaborative planning methodologies to avoid chaotic peri-urbanisation.

Kadya Molodowsky

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Based on detailed archival research in three countries, Zelda Kahan Newman tells the story of Kadya Molodowsky, the most prolific woman writer of Yiddish. A feminist before feminism was a movement, Molodowsky wrote poems that still circulate today. Molodowsky was caught up in nearly all the cataclysms of twentieth century Jewry: the chaos of World War I, an inter-war pogrom, a narrow escape from Nazi Europe, migration to the US, and a failed attempt at life in the young state of Israel. In her biography, Kahan Newman reveals hitherto unknown facts about Molodosky’s relationship with her husband and father, as well as the importance of a woman-friend and Molodowsky’s feminine persona. The book discusses Molodowsky’s known and not-so-well-known poems, plays, novella and novel, as well as their historical and social context. Finally, the reader gets to see the irony of this writer’s end of life: hailed in the country that would abandon her language, and ignored in the country she valued dearly.

Arms Makers of CT

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This reference work discusses the origins and development of arms makers of Connecticut from earliest times until the industrialization of the industry in the late 19th and early 20th century. The arms makers and their arms are linked to changes that occurred with rapidity as Connecticut became a major centre for weaponry from the Civil War to contemporary times. The focus of the research are the earlier and smaller makers rather than the large industrial companies (like Colt) that flourished during the middle of the 19th century. Guns made in pre-Revolutionary war Connecticut generally fall into one of three categories: fowling pieces, the old name for single barrel shotguns; rifles, which are distinguished by heavier octagonal barrels with spiral rifling hand-cut inside; and single-shot handguns or pistols. Rifles were attractive when there was larger game, such as deer, moose, elk or bear, to be hunted. Fowling pieces served as arms for taking water fowl and small game. Handguns, used mostly to back up long arms, were minimally useful for sporting or hunting and are seen far less often than are shoulder arms. There are probably more New England fowlers known than any other type of American made single barrel shotgun. New England guns vary in design because they were produced by a great number of gun makers over a longer time period within a larger geographical area. There were fowling pieces made late in the eighteenth century with post-Revolutionary War era British Brown Bess flintlocks as well as an occasional very late club butt fowler originally manufactured with a percussion lock. Connecticut arms had a surprisingly global distribution as early as the late 17th and early 18th century. They were found on pirate ships in the Caribbean, in compounds of African chiefs, on slavers boats, and among Mohawk and Algonquin raiding parties deep in the frontier; they also were used by pioneer farmers and their families for hunting, defence and sport. Connecticut s abundant iron deposits, waterways and forests as well as the colony s practical mindedness all contributed to launching an early and successful small town and village industry. Connecticut artisans, Professor Whisker and Spiker point out, were canny and agile in incorporating features from French, French Canadian and Dutch gunsmiths and in time developed their own special design features both in shotgun, rifle, handgun and musket manufacturing.

Consulting

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This work is configured to encourage members of the academic community to consider initiating a part-time consulting practice in their areas of knowledge. Professor Wright provides a step-by-step program for developing a consulting niche that will be valuable to clients and competitive with other consultants. The information offered ranges from how to interpret body language during meetings and how to set fees, to how to conduct the project and how to provide feedback to the client at the conclusion of the project. Professor Wright also examines the issues of ethics in the consulting profession, and addresses the specific problem applicable to academics: how to manage a successful scholarly career with a profitable, interesting consultancy.

Critical Receptions

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Irish criticism of Jonathan Swift's work during his lifetime contributed to the formation of a uniquely Irish public sphere of letters- a public for whom the literary artist stood as the symbol and representative in the absence of empowered political institutions. This spirit was marked in Kathleen Williams' collection of eighteenth century criticism of Swift's work, entitled JONATHAN SWIFT: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1970). However, a number of recent critical, historical and biographical studies have expanded enormously our understanding of the growth of Swift's reputation during his lifetime while developments in critical theory, such as the New Historicism, Postcolonialism, and studies in print culture, have renewed interest in colonial cultures such as eighteenth-century Ireland. Professor Moore has compiled an advance upon the work of Kathleen Williams by expanding the range of materials considered to be critiques and focusing the volume's attention on contemporary Irish critical responses.

Feminism and the Mastery of Women

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Dr Nall's monograph uses a title that may seem familiar since it is a tribute to Val Plumwood’s classic ecofeminist work ,Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(Routledge). Nall, like Plumwood, explores the dominant Western discourse around gender and childbirth. The research examines the connections between the understanding of women and nature and the construction of pervasive conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. It also examines the relationship between conceptualizations of men and masculinity, culture and nature, and childbirth. Feminism and the Mastery of Women and Childbirth identifies prominent characteristics and themes related to childbirth in both popular culture, such as Hollywood films (Knocked Up, The Backup Plan), documentaries (The Business of Being Born), birth guides, magazines, news articles, websites, and scholarly, medical and alternative healthcare discourse. It considers how various conceptualizations of childbirth are used to legitimate, or, alternately, to undermine, patriarchal gender norms such as emphasized femininity and patriarchal (hegemonic) masculinity. More generally, the work contemplates the influence of “master consciousness” (Val Plumwood 1993), a way of understanding the world that is reliant on an unjustifiably dualistic thinking and that is responsible for fostering social practices of domination, in structuring American beliefs about childbirth and gender. Perhaps most importantly, this work sets out to consider the implications of alternative conceptualizations of childbirth emerging in the context of the natural birth movement, and to determine whether or not understandings of childbirth counteract patriarchal gender categories and the culture/nature dualism. The significance of this work is that it addresses a lacuna in philosophical and feminist theory literature on the subject of nature, gender and childbirth. There are simply no research works that implement ecofeminist philosophy to examine cultural representations of gender and childbirth. It provides a unique ecofeminist examination of conceptualizations and practices of childbirth. This work is also timely as it critically analyzes the relationship between ideas about culture and nature pertaining to birth practices at a time when technological birth interventions have become increasingly common and, in some cases, dangerous.

Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern

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When did Russia become “modern?” Historians of Russia – including even many Russian historians – have long tried to identify Russia’s “modern” moment. While most scholars have looked to economic or ideological transitions, noted historian and critic Paul du Quenoy approaches the problem through culture, and specifically the performing arts, as told through the prism of one of its leading nineteenth-century practitioners, the composer and critic Alexander Serov. Born in 1820, Serov grew to adulthood under the reign of Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855). Long disparaged as a dark and reactionary period of Russia’s past, it instead offered many educational, cultural, and professional opportunities that conventional histories have failed to appreciate. Educated in law and tutored in music, Serov rose to become Russia’s first significant music critic and a noted composer whose three operas won him fame and gestured toward the creation of a national style. Although his renown was fleeting after his untimely death in 1871, his life and observations provide a vital eyewitness account to a Russia poised to embrace a fresh and fully modern identity. In a volume prepared to mark the 150th anniversary of Serov’s death, du Quenoy’s pastiche of Russian life offers one of the best approaches to Russia’s imperial past and its legacies today.

Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style

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Recently there has been a growing scholarly interest in Sydney, Lady Morgan (nee Sydney Owenson). The reasons are many. In this work Dr.Donovan contextualizes an important yet relatively neglected author by analyzing an emblematic Irishness that was too often dismissed in the early 19th century as excessive showmanship; the criticism was not without some basis since Owenson was an actor’s daughter and grew up in the company of traveling performers. The study includes an extensive discussion of Morgan’s personal papers and artifacts housed in the national Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. No previous study has fully considered this crucial archival material and its implications. In addition unpublished and hitherto unconsulted papers from the Yale University collection are also part of this original research monograph. Owenson’s writing is far ranging (she is known both as a polemicist and the author of works on post restoration Italy as well as Ireland) and she commanded the friendship and respect of many early 19th c authors and poets including Byron, Shelley, Moore among many others. The table of contents includes: Introduction Body, Text and Textile in “The Wild Irish Girl” Sydney Owenson’s Self-Fashioning How Sydney Owenson Played the Harp Ireland in Europe and the World: Sydney Owenson’s Travel Writing Owenson in the 19th Century Irish Research Series, No.55

Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan and the Politics of Style

Welcome to the Woke Trials

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In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between then and now, as the regiments of Woke took over; an irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon. Raised in a Communist household and a lifelong Labour voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and visions - rather than a childish world of villains and victims.

The Keys To Freedom

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The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day. Interspersed with hundreds of passages by Tolstoy himself, many of which appear nowhere else in his published works, are the thoughts of authors as diverse as Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal, the American social critic John Ruskin, the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, and the Sufi poet Saadi, as well as quotes from the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Vamana Purana, and many other religious books, arranged in calendar form. Tolstoy’s goal is to reveal the path to spiritual freedom, based on his revolutionary vision of religion. The Keys to Freedom is the most methodical elaboration of Tolstoy’s entire religious philosophical system, particularly his ideas on metaphysics, pacifism, and anarchy. In this second volume the reader will find not only a wealth of wisdom, but also the keys to a better understanding of the author's great works of fiction.

Social justice at the grass roots

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In this book Marguerite Bouvard explores the power of working for social justice and community building at the grass roots level. An experienced scholar of American politics, Bouvard reveals that while views may clash at the federal and state level, the local level is a very important venue, where individuals and groups can create understanding between different faiths and help marginalized people feel empowered. The leaders and founders of these groups have not worked from the top down, but reached out to people at their own level to work together for positive change. Their much needed emotional and social intelligence reveals how one person can indeed make a difference when problems seem overwhelming. American may live in a divided country, yet this book reveals how our different faiths and backgrounds are able to work together on such important issues such as climate change, promoting understanding among diverse religions, and legal and social help for undocumented immigrants. It also discusses grass roots approaches to providing health care for the poor and underserved as well as how to integrate people with disabilities as productive members of society. Two of the chapters feature young people who are working with these issues. Social Justice at the Grass Roots is meant to empower young people as well as adults and help them to understand that they can make changes that bring us together. It reveals that compassion can overcome fear and misunderstanding to celebrate our diversity and argues that a different kind of power, one based on moral values, can make it possible for heterogeneous groups to progress in solving important problems in our society.

Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary

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Why a book on Eavan Boland? No critical study of one of Ireland’s most significant and ambitious living poets has been undertaken until now. Her collected writings seek nothing less than a redefinition of the myths structuring the current understanding of Ireland. Much as Shakespeare helped shape the Tudor myth and our historical consciousness of his time, much as Yeats drew from Ireland’s Celtic tradition to reinvest his age with an historical continuum, Boland seeks to reframe Ireland. The survival of ordinary people in the face of Penal Laws, the Famine and the Irish Civil War and especially women’s survival have fashioned Boland’s poetic vision. Since so many survived without written record her poems tend to center on the nameless women whose presence must be intuited. In her best work, work that has influenced poets on both sides of the Atlantic, Boland proclaims these women to be Ireland as she pieces together a nation from a jigsaw like set of museum artifacts, handed down personal possessions, and silent images. “This study should prove to be a powerful tool in assessing Boland’s work midway among the waves and her critical position within the world of Irish letters.” James Fitzgerald, Ars Poetica,Vol 11.No.1,2005

Eavan Boland and the History of the Ordinary

The Making of a Beggar

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Nick Buckley explores the relationship between “givers” and “takers,” and the damaging symbiotic relationship between them. He examines the motivation of disheveled individuals sitting on street corners holding out paper cups, as well as the intergenerational problem of poverty and welfare dependency. Different types of beggars are highlighted, such as politicians begging for votes, charities begging for donations, and even the woke begging for validation and attention. Buckley shows that begging is a complicated topic, part nature and part nurture, and that many engage in such behavior unknowingly. Unlike most authors on this topic, Buckley explores his own history of begging from being raised in a workless household on benefits, to claiming unemployment benefits as an adult, and the journey that eventually led him to found an award-winning charity. With this important book, Buckley offers us an antidote to such unbecoming behavior: personal responsibility.

Decolonization and White Africans

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Decolonization and White Africans examines how African decolonization affected white Africans in eight countries – Algeria, Kenya, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Angola, Mozambique, South West Africa (Namibia), and South Africa – and discusses their varied responses to decolonization, including resistance, acquiescence, negotiations, and migration. It also examines the range of mechanisms used by the global community to compel white Africans into submitting to decolonization through such means as official pressure, diplomatic negotiations, global activism, sanctions, and warfare. Until now, books about African decolonization usually approached the topic either from the perspective of the colonial powers or from an anti-colonial black African perspective. As a result, white African perspectives have been marginalized, downplayed, or presented reductively. Decolonization and White Africans adds white African perspectives to the story, thereby broadening our understanding of the decolonization phenomenon.

The Don Carlos Enigma

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The death of Spain’s Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, on July 24, 1568, remains an enigma. Several accounts insinuated that the Spanish Crown Prince was murdered while incarcerated by order of his father, King Philip II. The mystery of Don Carlos’s death, supported by ambassadorial accounts that implied foul play, became a fertile subject for defamation campaigns against Philip, fostering an extraordinary fluidity between history and fiction. This book investigates three treatments of the Don Carlos legend on which this fluidity had a potent, transformational impact: César Vichard de Saint-Réal’s novel, Dom Carlos, nouvelle historique (1672), Friedrich Schiller’s play, Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (1787), and Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Don Carlos (1867). Through these cultural variations on a historical theme, the authors and composer contributed innovative elements to their genres. In The Don Carlos Enigma, the exciting young scholar Maria-Cristina Necula explores how the particular blend of history and fiction around the personage of Don Carlos inspired such artistic liberties with evolutionary outcomes. Saint-Réal advanced the nouvelle historique genre by developing the element of conspiracy. Schiller’s play began the transition from the Sturm und Drang literary movement towards Weimar Classicism. Verdi introduced new dramatic and musical elements to bring opera closer to the realism of dramatic theatre. Within each of these treatments, pivotal points of narrative, semantic, dramatic, and musical transformation shaped not only the story of Don Carlos, but the expressive forms themselves. In support of the investigation, selected scenes from the three works are explored and framed by an engagement with studies in the fields of French literature, German theatre, French and Italian opera, and Spanish history. The enigma of the Spanish prince may never be solved, but Saint-Réal, Schiller, and Verdi have offered alternatives that, in a sense, unburden history of truth that it could never bear alone. In the case of Don Carlos, history is in itself an encyclopedia of variations

Tradition And Innovation In Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography

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Liturgical languages are notoriously rigid: they are fixed, sacred, and resistant to change, despite surrounding linguistic developments. This work focuses on the highly specialized and stylized liturgical language of Russian Church Slavonic (RCS). Historically, authorities strictly controlled RCS so that it would conform to established norms. Nevertheless, innovations arose in response to various conditions. One wave of innovations, spanning the 16th-18th centuries, was a long and deliberate process, leading to the codification of RCS grammar and the renovation of liturgical texts. Another wave of innovations in RCS was incidental and took place following sudden upheaval, namely the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent emigration abroad of Orthodox Christians that resulted in an international diaspora. Detached from traditional institutional structures, the ultimate result was freedom for the hymnographer to innovate. This work analyses both waves of RCS innovations: the reforms of the 16th-18th centuries as seen in hymnography from those centuries, and the 20th century compositions of Valeria Hoecke, a self-taught hymnographer of the Russian diaspora. Hoecke’s hymnography demonstrates what can happen to a liturgical language when traditional language controls are absent. In both older and newer hymnography, this work analyzes person and viewpoint, as well as participles, verbs, and overall formal structure of the compositions. Until now, the tendency has been to describe RCS through the lens of another language. In the 16th-18th centuries, for example, grammarians wrote books modeling RCS grammar on that of Greek or Latin; more recently, 20th-21st century grammarians model RCS grammar on that of Old Church Slavonic or modern Russian. The present work is unique in its demonstration that previous analyses of RCS have obscured certain grammatical and rhetorical structures. This work shows that RCS––both old and new––has its own distinct formal structure and systems of person and viewpoint, participles, and verbs.

Tradition And Innovation In Russian Church Slavonic Hymnography

Mapping Human Security Challenges in the Kashmir Valley (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

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In this penetrating study, Mohd Aarif Rather tackles the problem of the Kashmir Valley, one of the most complex situations in international politics, from the perspective of human security. The Kashmir conflict involves disputed borders between two nuclear power, India and Pakistan, and a local population that has become increasingly alienated from Indian federal rule. Kashmir has also witnessed intense militarization, resulting in various security issues,problematized identities, and disputed demarcation of frontiers. Unlike previous studies of the Kashmir conflict, Mapping Human Security Challenges departs from conventional analyses of security issues. This study moves our understanding of Kashmir to a grassroots level, and assesses the challenges posed by intensive militarisation to the ability (or inability) to lead a life as one wishes. The paradigmatic militarisation prevailing in the valley of Kashmir allows for an examination of the numerous challenges demanded by human security. Unexplored security issues frequently identified in the world today are thus central to this book.

Mapping Human Security Challenges in the Kashmir Valley (St. James's Studies in World Affairs)

Ruin, Ritual and Remeberance in 20th Century Irish Drama

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This monograph explores the development of Irish drama in the 20th century and discusses recent cultural critiques of the entire enterprise of the Irish theatre. Rollins interprets Yeats, Synge, Beckett, Friel and McGuiness among others as practitioners in a kind of national reformulation of ritual and memory. This is one of the most thorough one volume discussions of the greatest century of Irish dramatic creativity and influence. “…I am impressed with the critical writing in Ronald Rollins’s RUIN, RITUAL AND REMBRANCE. His scholarship focuses on Ireland’s intricate history and Yeat’s definition of maimed Irish space “ great hatred, little room.” Rollins deals with three playwrights, Sean O’Casey, Denis Johnston and the contemporary Frank McGuiness and their response to the nationalist uprising of 1916. Rollins points up after artful consideration of the older dramatists, the special relevance of McGuiness’ idea that the Ulster rebels of pre World War 1 are the same as the Dublin rebels of 1916, the flip side of the coin. These writer see each denomination in Ireland as ordinary, half inspired, half bigoted human beings curiously united in their defiant rhetoric. The central thrust of the study is a consideration of the nationalist poet/playwright and leader Patrick Pearse as a man lost in the labyrinth of revolutionary rhetoric; in Rollins approach to McGuiness’ THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME, Rollins argues the proposition that the character Piper is a counter figure to Pearse, similarly involved in the ritual chants of war, youth and death. The difference is that the real life Pearse shot by the British survives as an icon of Irish republicanism while the fictional Piper lives to see the Protestant house of Ulster crumble. Rollin’s work is full of insights like this. Buy the book.” ---James Liddy “ …highly recommended.” Professor Robert Mahony-Catholic University of America

Ruin, Ritual and Remeberance in 20th Century Irish Drama

Between Palette And Pen

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This book explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multitalented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). A successful artist and intrepid traveler, F. Hopkinson Smith spent every summer in Venice for almost twenty years: his stays in the Italian city resulted in a large output of watercolors and writings, including his popular travelogue Venice of To-Day(1895), which featured over 200 illustrations by Smith himself. Despite Smith’s popularity during his lifetime, his reputation as a writer and painter faded after his death and has occupied only a modest place in the American canon. This is the first scholarly work to examine the life and work of this unique American artist, whose legacy spans two centuries and was grounded in the enduringly popular fin-de-siècle. This book examines Smith’s literary and visual perception of Venice while illuminating the life and works of this multifaceted artist, whose works are highly illustrative of the era's mainstream American culture and its perception of foreign spaces.

Backstories in the Law

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One of the secrets within the legal profession is that the stories behind the cases matter more than the legal doctrines involved. A full understanding of legal disputes requires knowing about the cultural and historical context in which the cases arise. In Backstories in the Law: Tales of Victors, Villains and Victims, distinguished law professor Alan Weinberger examine some of the most extraordinary cases of the past century with a focus not so much on the winning and losing, but rather on the backstories behind the disputes. The chapters provide insights and background into the cases, and explain why the decisions continue to resonate today. Most of all, these chapters remind us of the transcendent importance of good stories: in disputes involving fundamental human emotions and desires, there is usually a victor, villain and victim. Ultimately it is the reader who gets to decide whether justice was done or denied.

Jonathan Swift’s Allies

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This scholarly study contains critical new research as well as over 100 reprints of documents, broadsides, ballads that comprise the heart of the pamphlet controversy aroused by Wood’s halfpenny scheme; the scheme which prompted Swift’s Drapier's Letters. Many of these documents are of extreme rarity and are unrecorded by even the finest bibliographical researchers such as Wagner, Davis etc. This is a major contribution to the study of Swift and Irish politics and life in the early 18th century. Dr Sabine Baltes has studied in Coleraine and Muenster (with Hermann J. Real). This is her first publication.

The Celts and Historical and Cultural Origins of Atlantic Europe

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This research study offers new theories of interpretation and analysis of the Gaelic sources dealing with the peopling of the Europe's Atlantic frontiers by the Celts [Kelts]. Important scholarly work is achieved in discussions of Celtic origins, linguistic development, cultural ethos, religion and history. The theoretical intersection of linguistics, anthropology and history is supplemented by a close reading of the ancient Gaelic sources contained in The Leabhar Gabhala.

The Celts and Historical and Cultural Origins of Atlantic Europe

Japanese Catholic Intellectuals And Newman Studies

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This fascinating study discusses the history of Japanese Catholic intellectuals and their reception of the spirit and ideas of John Henry Newman in historical, geopolitical and cultural contexts. Newman, living in the nineteenth century, discussed issues critical to his age such as liberalism, secularism, education, conscience, and faith. Many scholars living in different ages and nations have been attracted to his works. This proves that the relevance of his idea and spirituality are universal and not limited to his time alone. On the other hand, it would be reasonable to assume that reception and representation of Newman works by scholars were affected to different extents by the various ages, cultures and traditions involved. From this viewpoint, Japanese Catholic Intellectuals and Newman Studies argues for the unique history of the formation of Catholic intellectuals and their representation of Newman in Japanese modernization.

Japanese Catholic Intellectuals And Newman Studies

Alexander Serov and the Birth of the Russian Modern

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This is an original scholarly monograph about the life and work of the Russian composer and critic Alexander Serov (1820-1871), studied through the lens of his understanding of modernity as it developed in Russia in the mid nineteenth century. This research monograph is first full-length biography of Alexander Serov in English utilizing original records and archive sand the first in any language since 1985. It will use the life of the composer/critic as a tool for understanding Russian conceptions and misconceptions of modernity. An introduction and conclusion will bracket five chapters defined by major periods in Alex. Serov’s life. Chapter I focuses on his youth and education from 1820 to 1840. Chapter II studies his young adulthood as a judicial bureaucrat with artistic aspirations, from 1840 to 1850. Chapter III focuses on Serov's criticism, which he did from his departure from state service in 1850 until he turned to composition a decade later. A fourth chapter will examine the remaining 11 years of his life, from 1860 to 1871, during which he briefly reigned as Russia's leading composer while still contributing to the national cultural debate as a critic. The last chapter will present his legacy and contributions, which are much overlooked by Russian cultural historians and critics as well as by many Western researchers, with a view of stating a case for Serov's cultural importance in the silver age and in the revolutions to come.

The English Girl Schools' Story

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This research monograph is an analysis of the English girls’ school-story, not mainly as an aspect of children’s literature, but as a genre which, despite the conservatism of the surface text, deeply challenges and subverts traditional societal constructs and provides images of liberation and self creation for girls and women. The work examines the alternative life-views, role–models and “possibilities of becoming” offered by the texts. It also explains why they have assumed such an importance (as Orwell pointed out in regards the English boys’ school literature in the lives of boys and men) in the lives of so many adult women. Dr. Humphrey also discusses the effect of war, shortages, sport/games, imperial decline and evolving notions of love and passion in these texts. This is the one of the few studies that provides a wide ranging discussion on so many aspects of this subject and it speaks to the power and possibility of this often dismissed, predictable and risible literature as no other research work has done.

Creoles, Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms

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The purpose of this work is simply to provide a broad and thorough (as opposed narrow and specific)overview to one of the key issues in comparative language and literatures as well as in social and political science,history, development studies, anthropology and cultural studies. Professor Gallagher is one of the most active researchers and editors on this topic and has assembled an international group of scholars and investigators for a much needed discussion of cultural identities and changing societies due to the mas migration of people, the exportation of global cultures and the engulfing of monocultural, monolingual cities and nations. The phenomena of creoles, diasporas and cosmopolitianisms permeates all literary debate at the moment. And,while occurring in the past, the contemporary phenomena we are witnessing (and taking part in) is of world changing significance. And that significance is addressed by this work and its contributors which describes, celebrates, analyzes and records this overwhelming contemporary event.Creole languages appropriate pieces of other languages to make up new composite grammars and vocabularies; creole societies enroll, originally by force now mainly by economics, people from diverse places and tribes. The incorporation that might be singled out as the defining feature of the creole interacts with the diffusion and memory characteristic of the diaspora and with the attempt to construct or hold upon a cosmopolitan cultural space.

The Metaphysics of Culture

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In this new and persuasively argued study, philosopher Rod Cameron argues that definitive absolute Idealism changes the definition of logic, annuls ethics, and diminishes objective truth. Entitlement to “logic” is due to knowledge of the logos. The logos is religion and reasoning’s common origin. They are thus made compatible. Logic accesses ontology: a metaphysical realm of causation. Logic performs philosophy’s missing function: synthesis. The individual and the nation, Cameron argues, share the same essences. This correlation allows the nation to cater to the individual. It answers major political questions and discloses purposefulness in history. Ontology and this teleology define culture, which allows “race” to be categorized as an attribute of culture. Joined to absolute truths, race matters. Defending culture rebuffs both multiculturalism and antiracism. The ability to defeat pseudo-absolutes is vital for our existence and effectively preempts authoritarianism. Those searching for meaning in these troubled times will absorb Cameron’s clear exposition of these concepts with great interest.

Carl vs. Karl

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By drawing on Jung’s and Marx’s opposing ideas, James Driscoll’s Carl versus Karl: Jung and Marx, Two Icons for our Age develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems. Jung and Marx as thinkers, Driscoll contends, carry the projections of archetypal complexes that go back to the Biblical hostile brothers, Abel and Cain, and whose enduring tensions shape our postmodern era.

Marxism, because it elevates the group over the individual, is made to order for bureaucrats and bureaucracy’s patron archetype Leviathan. Jungian individuation offers a corrective rooted in the Judeo-Christian ethic’s affirmation of the ultimate value of free individuals. Although Marxism’s promise of justice gives it demagogic appeal, the party betrays that promise through opportunism and a primitive ethic of retribution. Marxism’s supplanting the Judeo-Christian ethic with bureaucracy’s “only following orders” Eichmann Code, Driscoll maintains, has created the moral paralysis of our time. As Jung and writers like Hannah Arendt, George Orwell, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Elias Canetti have warned us, the influence of our ever expanding bureaucracies is a grave threat to the survival of civilized humanity.

Among the primary issues Driscoll addresses are: the nature of justice and of the soul, individuation and freedom, and mankind’s responsibilities within the planetary ecology. Religion, ethics, economics, science, class divisions, immigration, financial fraud, abortion, and affirmative action are all illumined by his analysis of the powerful archetypes moving behind Jung and Marx.

The O’Donnells of Tyrconnell

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Foreword: Dom Henry O’Shea, OSB, Glenstal Abbey Dom Henry has provided a very good 2-page foreword. He is also the Heraldic and Genealogical Advisor to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Ireland, and its principal chaplain. Ambassador Francis Martin O’Donnell, retired UN representative and Knight and former Ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, explores the fascinating history of his forbearers in this comprehensive study. The Elizabethan conquest of Ireland in the early 1600s extinguished the rule of the O’Donnells of Tyrconnell (Tír Chonaill), leading to the plantation of Ulster. This is the first account of lost branches of their dynasty, descending from a largely forgotten scion, Donal Oge O’Donnell, only child of Sir Donal O’Donnell who was the eldest son and usurped heir of Sir Hugh Dubh Mac Manus, 23rdO’Donnell, King and Lord of Tyrconnell. Hugh Dubh ruled from 1567 to 1592 and married twice. His children by his first wife, Nuala, a daughter of O’Neill, were eclipsed by the second, Maria or Iníon Dubh, née MacDonnell, who killed Sir Donal at Derrylaghan in 1590, thwarting his succession in favor of her own eldest son, Red Hugh, then in English captivity. Hugh Dubh died in 1600, and by 1601 both Red Hugh, who had escaped Dublin Castle, and his brothers Rory and Cathbharr and their nephew Donal Oge were engaged in the endgame of the Nine Years War. En route to Kinsale, Donal Oge undertook a side-expedition to Ardfert, spending several years in alliance with FitzMaurice, Lord of Kerry. Rory succeeded Red Hugh and became the first Earl of Tyrconnell in 1604, but they and many others were exiled to the Continent in 1607 in the Flight of the Earls. Donal Oge then joined Spanish forces in Flanders, where he died in 1620. Hugh Dubh and his family were the last undisputed dynasts to rule effectively. Stripped of power, the nominal local headship of the clan reverted later to the genealogically senior line of his brother Calbhach, some whose descendants won fame and fortune on the Continent as dukes in Spain and counts in Austria. History thus far obscured the survival of an older line of O’Donnell counts in France, who were known there as Chief of the Name and of the Arms. They became extinct in 1879, but their ostensible next-of-kin in Ardfert, trace origins in common back to a grandson of Donal Oge O’Donnell. His descendants, rebels in Ireland and Jacobites in France, later transitioned from military to civil service, at the highest echelons in the French Council of State. They epitomized the principle noblesse oblige, in their pursuit of enlightenment, compassion, and public service.

Predicting Gender Violence In India

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In this provocative new book, Shritha Vasudevan argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures. Vasudevan deftly utilizes the theoretical constructs of IR to explore the ramifications for India. This hypothesis argues that the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has predictive validity and is not a top-down norm but derived from the material and contingent experiences of nation states. This book enters the debate between feminist qualitative and quantitative IR through the lens of gender-based violence (GBV) under the CEDAW.

Cuba

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Cuba: The Doctrine of the Lie is a thoroughly researched and profoundly revealing work on two themes of vital importance to the world today: the true nature of totalitarianism and how religion, philosophy, culture, tradition, and individual freedom are the most effective antibodies for countering this deadly ontological virus. Approaching Cuba’s history as both a rallying icon for the radical left and an engine of freedom activism for the powerful Cuban-American community in the United States, this study helps dispel the black legend about life in Cuba before the communist triumph in 1959, reveals the destructive ideology behind the façade of Che Guevara’s socialism, explains how so-called agrarian reform camouflaged the structuring of a police state, and provides unique insights into the dynamics of the struggle of the Cuban Resistance. Cuba: The Doctrine of the Lie explains how totalitarianism was established and consolidated in Cuba and assesses the repercussions that event has had for America’s domestic ideological spectrum. Resulting from personal conversations with key actors, research into original sources, and a thorough knowledge of Cuban history, this book represents a vital contribution not just to the field of studies of totalitarianism but also to the study of Cuban history as a whole.

Evolution by Affirming the Consequent

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Foreword: Professor Steven Gimbel, Chair,D/Philosophy,Gettysburg College Was Darwin theoretically wrong in his world shattering conclusions and can his errors be proven on a straightforward scientific basis? Conventional criteria for a scientific theory include empiricism, logic and testability. The theory of evolution is said traditionally to meet these criteria by the mainstream scientific community. A reviewer for a medical journal evaluated the evidence for evolution within its several sub disciplines. There is found to be universally a logical disconnect between the purported evolutionary experiments or observations and their evolutionary conclusion. The most common logical error was the fallacy of affirming the consequent. Evolutionary studies are found to actually demonstrate either (1) micro evolution, or (2) descriptions of comparative biology. The empiric limits of micro evolution are defined. The concept of complementary co-evolution is introduced which is the theory’s requirement that at least two genes, called partner genes, evolve nearly simultaneously such that their gene products can interact to perform a function. Because a random change in one gene puts restrictions one how its partner gene can evolve, complementary co-evolution would be statistically impossible in the author's view. Radioisotope dating techniques are found to be flawed because the formula to determine the half life has no scientific support and conflicts with empirically determined formulae of radioisotopes with short half lives. Two evolutionary biologists challenge Dr. Rask’s conclusions making for an informative debate on Darwin, Darwinism and evolution without creationism, theology or biohistorical precedents.

The World's a Stage

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After discussing the structuralism, post structuralism, Marxist, queer and feminist theories of dramatic action and dramaturgical development, the author posits an ontological (and refreshing) vision of Shakesprean stagecraft and dramatic movement. Shakespeare as an actor and Roman Catholic is an outsider in an early modern Protestant state in the process of dynamic cultural, economic reform and political repression. These themes are reflected in the unsettled, morally ambiguous characterizations that Professor Crosman studies: Hamlet, Polonius, Macbeth, Henry V and Falstaff among others. Also discussed are the emergent Latin, Greek and Italian literary modes and their effect on English theatrical prosody. “Shakespeare seen as an avatar of the existential and source of the profoundest tragic drama: one based on authentic loss. Solid scholarship and unusual insights into the Tudor diktatura. Recommended.” Simon Benfield, Society of Antiquaries

Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood's Prose

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Margaret Atwood is arguably the most renowned and internationally acclaimed Canadian writer, poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and environmental activist. In this incisive interpretation of Atwood’s prose, Candy D’Cunha argues that the novelist’s ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that could help in creating a greater and more responsible awareness in the modern psyche about the environment. By exploring the works of Atwood, one can understand the need for a deeper rethinking and a clearer re-orientation in this area. Select novels, namely Surfacing (1972), The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Oryx and Crake (2003), The Year of the Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013), bring out the principles of ecological philosophy by describing various aspects of the current ecological crisis. Duplicity in the norms and recognition, the degradation of the environment, consequent tragic dilemmas, and the general ghastliness of life are all found in Atwood’s oeuvre. A number of studies have been made on the thematic works of Atwood, such as feminism, quest for identity, power and politics, dystopian and utopian elements, but this book is the first ecosophical exploration of Atwood’s themes and concerns. This volume enables readers to propagate the requisite ecological wisdom for self-realization for the harmonious and just development of society. Interpreting Atwood’s works from an Indian perspective also helps to promote Indian ecological justice.

Ecosophical Vision and Self-Realization in Margaret Atwood's Prose

Action Research for College Community Health Work

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This work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level. Faculty, students and community participants are the focus of this collection whose purpose is community health-based service learning--- where and when coming out to the community as caring catalysts is central to a higher education mission. All these catalysts must see themselves as partners in a service learning community of practice; They must embrace the analysis of self reflection toward cultural competence, and thy must engage in data and diagnostic decision-making through action research or service learning in community health intervention. Service learning literacy” is defined as skill, behavior,attitude,knowledge or awareness that is manifested,within the community health worker or researcher, as a result of or outcome from a faculty led, community service learning activity or experience as part of a student's academic program of study in higher learning. Higher education,through civic engagement and community service learning,must combine efforts with local and regional communities to help eradicate health disparity, eliminate health vulnerability,optimize healthy life style,promote intergenerational and cyclical health and wellness and maximize health care access to the undeserved and uninsured. All these aspects of community health work are dealt with by contributions from scholars and practioners involved in the community health movement. Contributors include Professors Richard Schmuck, Joseph Martin Stevenson, Ricky Boggan,Chris Ann Arthur, John J. Green and Dr D.Melissa Phillips.

Action Research for College Community Health Work

Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut

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This research monograph is an important contribution to the study of the author, Kurt Vonnegut and the great evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin. The book examines Darwin’s influence on the American culture that were Vonnegut's major focus and interest and the source of his importance as a major American writer of the later half of the 20th century. This book is relevant in its attempt to understand, in Vonnegut’s novels, how Darwin’s theory of evolution functions as a cosmogonic myth that is widely accepted in order to explain why the world is as it is and why things happen as they do, to provide a rationale for social customs and observances, and to establish the sanctions for the rules by which Vonnegut’s characters conduct their lives. Moreover, this book deals with how and why Kurt Vonnegut’s fiction represents the changing human image resulting from Darwinism. The author discovered and developed his literary theory of “Evolution as a Mythology” from the novel Galápagos (Kurt Vonnegut,1985). McInnis persuasively developed theory suggests changes to the American (and English) literary landscape with a new and dynamic way to interpret literature, something the literary field has not seen since since Jean-Francois Lyotard described his ideas on narrative in his essay, the “Postmodern Condition,” published in Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction in the early 1980’s.

Evolutionary Mythology in the Writings of Kurt Vonnegut

Prime Butterfly Areas in Serbia

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This is a long awaited study of Balkan entomology for the professional as well as the enthusiast. Wartime conditions have prevailed in Serbia until the last few years. Now remote areas and border areas long off limits are fully explored for their butterfly potential. Survival rates and ecological conditions discussed as well as the first complete survey in over 20 years. CD included. Entire work is in English. Distributed with cooperation of Pensoft.

Giacomo Joyce

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James Joyce's Giacomo Joyce has generated considerable interest since its posthumous publication in 1968 and this new, ground-breaking work addresses that interest. Giacomo Joyce has provoked widely differing opinions amongst Joyce scholars. But while critical attention has increased, little if anything has been done to draw together the various commentaries, document and exegeses related to this work in anything like a coherent manner. It is clear that in this absence of any full-length critical study that the emerging critical interest stands in need of a volume which would draw together existing scholarship and provide a basis for an ongoing critical project. This project has so far met with very positive responses from the community of Joyce scholars, and is widely considered to be a necessary and long over-due effort at presenting the last of Joyce's published texts within a broad scholarly apparatus. Both the authors have published extensively on Irish Literature and James Joyce and have presented papers at numerous Joyce conferences, symposia and summer schools.

National Security in the Digital Age

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In this pioneering study, Sushma Devi explores the place of cybersecurity within the larger international debate on security issues. She argues that it is important to begin placing cybersecurity in the context of national security matters since the issues are most often relegated to technology debates. *National Security in the Digital Age *argues that cyber threats can be viewed as national security matters and therefore should be relevant to the security studies field and should be analyzed using security studies theories. It also highlights the policy and institutional responses to cybersecurity challenges undertaken by the government of India. Unexplored security issues frequently identified in the world today, including those in a critical region of international conflict, are thus central to this book. The use of internet is rapidly expanding and has become the core component of everyday society. Yet easy access to data brings along severe security issues. The large number of attacks in recent years have had serious economic and social consequences, resulting in state officials all over the world acknowledging the importance of effective cybersecurity. Nevertheless, implementing effective measures to secure cyberspace remains difficult. A cyber threat has the potential to breach all levels of security very quickly due to the speed with which actions can occur and the extent of our interconnectedness. For a geopolitical realist, states play a central role in addressing cyber threats to national security because they remain the actors with the power and authority to improve defenses against most existential cyber threats. While private sector actors in most countries are critical to security in cyberspace, the threat agents can be criminals, hackers, terrorists, and nation-states. The potential victims at risk from these threats are equally diverse. Threat actors often target personal information to commit fraud, an act that can, in the inter-connected world of cyberspace, make all individuals in a nation potential victims. Herein lies the complexity of analyzing the inflow/outflow of information across borders and the ramification of this analysis for national security.

Action Research for College Community Health Work

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This work is designed as a working resource for academicians and practitioners involved with community health work at the higher educational level. Faculty, students and community participants are the focus of this collection whose purpose is community health-based service learning--- where and when coming out to the community as caring catalysts is central to a higher education mission. All these catalysts must see themselves as partners in a service learning community of practice; They must embrace the analysis of self reflection toward cultural competence, and thy must engage in data and diagnostic decision-making through action research or service learning in community health intervention. Service learning literacy” is defined as skill, behavior, attitude, knowledge or awareness that is manifested, within the community health worker or researcher, as a result of or outcome from a faculty led, community service learning activity or experience as part of a student's academic program of study in higher learning. Higher education,through civic engagement and community service learning,must combine efforts with local and regional communities to help eradicate health disparity, eliminate health vulnerability,optimize healthy life style, promote inter generational and cyclical health and wellness and maximize health care access to the under served and uninsured. All these aspects of community health work are dealt with by contributions from scholars and practitioners involved in the community health movement. Contributors include Professors Richard Schmuck, Joseph Martin Stevenson, Ricky Boggan,Chris Ann Arthur, John J. Green and Dr D. Melissa Phillips. The first volume of the book conceptualized specific frameworks in the context of action research, faculty reflections about action research, general rubrics for action research, overlapping action-research methods, scope of both proactive and responsive action research, and collaborative processes involving action research. The second volume deals with broader frameworks relative to service learning as social work, global perspectives, cultural competence, community health, environmental justice, hypothetical case scenarios and presented examples by two of the authors who trained and active social workers.

The Dead and the Quick

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This work is a major contribution to the study of cliches and neologisms since it moves beyond considering them separately into their interlinked role in written,spoken and visual cultures in contemporary Britain, France and the United States. The general line of attack is a view of language as both reactionary and revolutionary. Language, Dr. Redfern points out, connives in our clinging to obsolete “realities”, and yet is constantly evolving by processes of displacement and substitution. Despite the allegedly static nature of cliché, this study focuses on the dynamic potentialities of language, whether via the reanimation of moribund ideas or by coinages from scratch. Among the many closely related analyzed in depth are: imitation,rumor, political correctness, jargon, euphemism, plagiarism, stereotyping (racial or otherwise), repetition, and caricature. This leads to a broader assessment of unthinking prose in English and French (“constipated thinking”) as well as various tactics for resisting and countervailing such practices. Linguistic creativity is discussed and the widespread hostility to new words is demonstrated by discussions of language purification and other protection systems. As well as written and spoken forms of cliché and neologism, Redfern studies the visual domain (e.g. kitsch and the neomorphisms of psychotics)in a brief, witty summary of the issues at hand.

Espionage in Early Mexico

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The religion of the Aztecs boasted a god of espionage –an unusual deity in any other new world religion. The Aztecs were brilliant soldiers and administrators and viewed espionage and intelligence gathering as a key to domination. The successor regimes to the Aztecs also created elaborate and successful entities for political and spiritual control: this monograph discusses the efforts of the Hapsburg and Bourbon administrations to exact information (as well as gold and silver) on a wide scale. Mahoney has done new research on the war of independence (not surprisingly large numbers of informants worked both sides of the conflict), Spanish clergy as spies, and the revolution of 1910 (which began with a celebration of the 1810 revolt and ended by being the bloodiest revolution in the history of the Americas). Involvements of American, British, German and Japanese agents are outlined and the social and political well springs of modern Mexican society’s obsession with power and secrecy are detailed.

Latvia's Ordeal

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Based on research in Russian, French, and Belgian archives, Latvia’s Ordeal traces the complex story of Latvian state-building. Pinning hopes on the outcome of World War I, Latvia’s nationalist intelligentsia advocated self-determination and the establishment of a new state within ethnographic borders. Independence emerged in a complex domestic and international landscape. While part of Latvia’s ethnic territories were occupied by German troops, half of the population and much industry had been evacuated to the Russian interior. Proclaiming independence in German-ruled Riga on November 18, 1918, Latvian politicians hoped for Allied support as the German Empire fell apart. Nevertheless, Latvia’s solemn declaration of independence was not enough. As the anxious Allies were awaiting the results of political and military confrontations between the still-deployed German troops, the Bolsheviks ruling in Riga, and military units of the anti-communist White Russian movement, the new Latvian state had to navigate a difficult path between these competing parties and their own people. Ultimately, a peace treaty with Soviet Russia was the only way to guarantee, at least temporarily, Latvia’s independence as a new nation-state.

Dickensian Digressions

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Two major Dickens studies, each of them breaking fresh ground, vie for attention in this absorbing volume. The first explores the extent to which Charles Dickens inherited the mantle of Charles Lamb. It demonstrates how heavily, as a ‘hunter’, he drew upon his predecessor’s work for inspiration, adopting Elia’s themes and mannerisms and virtually taking his place on the English literary scene — even to the extent of inheriting John Forster as his closest friend and confidant. Charles the Second followed very closely in the footsteps of Charles the First in every respect, for Lamb’s swansong, The Last Essays of Elia, appeared at the beginning of 1833 and the very first sketch emanating from Boz appeared at the end of that year. Lamb’s pervasive influence is detected not only in the Sketches and Pickwick Papers but also in later novels such as David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend, as well as the peregrinations of The Uncommercial Traveller. (And it is shown how the opening scene of Great Expectations was inspired by a chapter in Mrs Leicester’s School, written by Lamb’s sister). The second major study explores the strained relationship between Dickens, the leading novelist of the day, and T.B. Macaulay, the leading historian of the day. It pinpoints the latent simmering animosity and tensions between the two men over a period of twenty-five years and the extent to which their views differed on current issues, as well as celebrating the few occasions on which they were able to join in common cause. (Carlyle, the favorite historian of Dickens, and Thackeray, a close friend of Macaulay, have peripheral parts to play in this study.) Other research topics include a search for Bob Fagin, the prototype (in nomenclature terms) of the villainous Jew in Oliver Twist; the revelation of a public letter addressed to Maria Beadnell, Dickens’s first love, advising her to keep her distance, and reflections on how H.G. Wells blatantly managed to produce an up-dated version of David Copperfield which went undetected. Research is dvoted to the extent to which Dickens truly believed in ghosts and the manner in which his spirit apparently contacted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle... in order to explain how The Mystery of Edwin Drood was intended to end. (In which connection, the extent to which Sherlock Holmes became involved in the case is examined — and there is also a ‘Droodian fragment’ from an unexpected source to take into account, fully the equal of the celebrated ‘Sapsea fragment’!) Peter Rowland is wellknown in the field of Dickens studies. He is in the unique position of having, in effect, completed both the books which Dickens left unfinished — his autobiography (published as My Early Times, 1988 and 1997) and his final novel (published as The Disappearance of Edwin Drood, 1991). His most recent work has been a biography of ‘Lanoe Falconer’ (Mary Elizabeth Hawker), Academica Press,LLC 2009.

Beyond the Page

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This scholarly monograph offers a fresh look at modern experimental poetry in Spanish, Portuguese and French produced in Latin America. The work uses a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to examine how these experimental poetic forms can be best interpreted and understood through a performative lens. Examined structures and textures inherent in these performed works vary: they include paintings, typographical art, optophonetic (visual representations of sounds) techniques, and music, to name only a few examples. The investigative scope of the study is large---it includes texts from Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Brazil and includes texts in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Through detailed analysis Professor Huizar demonstrates what we can read in the visual and sound components of these poems as performance on a page, and while these may be limited on the bound text, they do produce a “performativity” that is predictive of current technological innovations of the canon whose performative and interactive aspects include the latest multi-media technologies resulting in forms as cyper poetry and hypertextuality, electronic music and pictorial language. The textual analysis is informed by a variety of semiotic performance theories (Elam, de Marinis and Pavis). The final chapter deals with currents in today’s Latin America poetry world with an emphasis on the technological and cultural energies that are revolutionizing the poetic and linguistic content of the region. “This is one of the first studies in this area of research and opens new ground for specialists. It offers a comprehensive as well as an analytical view of the interdisciplinary practices …something lacking in previous studies in Latin American poetry. Recommended.” Professor Laura Lopez-Fernandez, University of Canterbury

William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis

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This work is an historical discussion and new translation of one of the key works of medicine of the English renaissance. The only two available translations are between one and three and a half centuries old. Because so many errors have crept into translations of Harvey’s seminal work a new edition has been called for and a new translation as well. McMullen’s work on this topic has been called “Groundbreaking and excellent” by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. Discussion of Italian philosophical, ethical and medical objections to the circulation theory (Padua). Contents include a discussion of English translations, the Latin texts, the controversies, analysis of Harvey’s research, a short biography of Harvey, the new translation, a critical Latin text based on the second edition(1643) in the format of the 1628 original, an appendix and critique of the Leake and Franklin translations, Endnotes for the English translation, Bibliography, and indexes of the English translation and of the critical armature.

Italian Culture In America

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At the onset of the American Revolution, Britain’s North American colonies sought political independence but remained culturally dependent upon Europe. Among the many vast contributions of Thomas Jefferson, one of the most celebrated Founding Fathers, was a continuing admiration and lifelong affinity for all things Italian. Jefferson believed that the genesis of liberty followed a path from Ancient Rome, through the Italian Renaissance and Enlightenment, and toward a progressive future for the new American nation. While Jefferson’s affinity for Italy is well known, studying his role in assimilating Italian culture into the American project is a new venture. Surveying Jefferson as an Italophile reveals a wide spectrum of cultural appreciation. Ralph Giordano’s innovative new book will certainly appeal to those interested in American History and America’s emergence as a developing nation.

Size Matters

$74.95

Size Matters: A History of Height in America is the first history of height in America. It begins with Native Americans in approximately 3300 BCE and continues to the present and tries to answer two important historical and biological questions: why have the heights of Americans fluctuated over time, and what do changing heights tell us about the American experience? Size matters because height matters – as a measure of health, well-being, and economic inequality – in American history. Heights are sensitive barometers both to material and social circumstances and they are affected by subtle changes in families, communities, and society that have been very difficult to measure and understand until recently. By bringing the body back into American history, Size Matters helps us better understand important changes in the lives of Americans over time.

Oilfields and Airpower in African Conflict

$268.79

In this intrepid study, noted Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates the air war component of the Nigerian-Biafran War, a crucial postcolonial conflict in Africa. It focuses on the Biafra's air operations against oil installations and facilities owned by multinational oil companies in Nigeria. In addition to exploring global airpower historiography, this study explores the tactical aspects of how the renewed air war changed the military equation of the conflict when both sides were at loggerheads in peace settlement and relief arrangements. This episode was important in postcolonial military history of Africa, when modern air weapons were developed at the local level for offensive military capability. While the air operations of the Biafrans were sporadic yet destructive, they caused considerable damage to public utilities in Nigeria. Internally, the air attacks paved the way for internal disturbances in the oil producing areas by damaging oil companies' activities and the reducing foreign investment. Externally, it caused a loss of confidence in Nigeria. The Biafran air offensive proved to be the key strategy in Nigeria's response to the crisis, which focused on neutralizing Biafran airpower.

Oilfields and Airpower in African Conflict

Reflections on Liberty, Democracy and the Union

$64.95

Robert McCartney is the leader of the UK/Unionist Party, a member of Parliament and the Northern Ireland assembly and a Queen’s Counsel. A life-long resident of Ulster he has been a passionate advocate for reason and restraint in the Province. McCartney contributes to the Times, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Belfast Telegraph and The Irish Times Robert McCartney’s trenchant and lucid expositions have been one of the few means by which the people of Northern Ireland, Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland have been able to appreciate the true nature of contemporary politics. His principled stand against terrorism by both extremes in Northern Ireland has been lauded by including Conor Cruise O’Brien, Lady Thatcher, John Major and Bertie Ahearn, the Irish Prime Minister. These essays on political liberty and the future of Ireland have never before been published in a single volume. Several dealing with the IRA have never been published before.

Reflections on Liberty, Democracy and the Union

Once Upon a Time in Biafra

$139.95

In Once Upon a Time in Biafra, the prolific Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus has produced an unprecedented study of prominent individuals from across the globe who visited the Republic of Biafra and Federal side of the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970. This innovative new study contributes much to restoring the memory of the civil war, which has faded in recent decades. There is no better way to take a glimpse of how life was in Biafra as well as the Federal side of the war other than a careful study of reports of those who visited these troubled areas. Apart from those who were on ground and participated actively in the civil war, the reports of those who visited war territories offer another major source for historians to understand wartime life experiences on both sides. Individual reports analyzed in this book include reports presented to both the British and United States governments, some official visitors sent by their nations and others invited guests of either the Biafran government or the Federal military government of Nigeria. They included parliamentarians, journalists, medical personnel, government officials, and religious leaders, among others. Reportage about life on both sides of the Nigerian Civil War, particularly in Biafra, is striking commentary on wartime experiences that have become part of the historiography and memory of the Nigerian Civil War. As Ignatus explains, these experiences of foreigners have helped to define the legacies of that conflict with regard to individual contributions and the roles of both civilians and military personnel. Observation of everyday life serves as a way of understanding how people lived and adapted to conflict situations, and offers an equally worthy guide for efforts towards healing the war’s enduring wounds.

The Great War and Memory in Irish Culture, 1918 -2010

$82.95

This book adds a major culture-based study to the field of Irish history. It addresses a topic and touches on themes that continue to be relevant and debated in contemporary Ireland. Dr.Myers makes a major contribution to the “New Military History” of Ireland and adds the memory of the First World War of one of the “small nations” that emerged in the wake of that conflict to the numerous memory studies that exist for the primary combatant nations (Britain, France, and Germany). One of the most useful aspects of this monograph is that it gives life to the culture of a minority sub-community in Ireland and addresses the challenges this community faced in order to remain active, and the way that community interacted with the majority of Irish people throughout the twentieth, and into the twenty-first century. Therefore, this project is not simply a snapshot of a specific event in Irish history, but examines the way that the memory of the war and those who retained that memory changed and evolved over the course of a century.

The Great War and Memory in Irish Culture, 1918 -2010

No Prejudice Here

$160.11

No Prejudice Here chronicles a heretofore untold story of civil rights in modern America. In embracing the Western urban experience, it relates the struggle for civil rights and school desegregation in Denver, Colorado. It chronicles early legislative and political trends to promote Denver as a racially tolerant city, which encouraged African-Americans to move to the urban center for opportunities unique to communities in the postwar American West while nonetheless trying to maintain segregation by limiting educational and employment opportunities for minorities. Dynamic historian Summer Cherland recounts this tension over six decades, with specific attention to the role of community control efforts, legislative and political strategies, and the importance of youth activism. Her insightful study provides an overview of the seminar 1974 Supreme Court case Keyes v. Denver Public Schools No. 1 and traces the community's reaction to court decisions until the city was released from federal oversight twenty years later. Cherland's book proves that civil rights activism, and the need for it, lasted well beyond the years that typically define the civil rights movement, and illustrates for our contemporary consideration the longstanding struggle in urban communities for justice and equality.

Forbidden Knowledge

$139.95

In this book eminent philosopher Burton Porter examines the concept of “forbidden knowledge” in religion, science, government, and psychology. From the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden (forbidden fruit), to world altering scientific research (nuclear power, stem-cells, cloning) to damning government secrets (Abu Ghraib, domestic spying), to traumatic experiences that individuals want to repress (sexual abuse), humanity has encountered knowledge that has been hidden and suppressed. We experience this denial as a loss of control and respect, and we want to know exactly what knowledge has been prohibited and why we cannot have access to it. Forbidden knowledge, therefore, is of enormous interest to the general public. The basic question, then, is: when, if ever, should knowledge be forbidden? Are there sacred realms that human beings are not meant to explore? Can scientific research be a Frankenstein monster, which will harm us one day? When are government secrets necessary for national security, and when does the public have a right to know? Is too much information classified? When do databanks, eavesdropping, and surveillance invade our privacy? Is self-deception justified if the truth would be psychologically disturbing? In short, can we know more than is good for us? The author takes the general position that too much material is prohibited, especially today, even while business and government invade individual privacy more and more. A primary assumption in a democracy is that we can have confidence in the people, so information should not be forbidden unless there is a vital and compelling reason to withhold it.

Russia, Chechnya, and the West, 2000–2006

$59.95

When Vladimir Putin became President of Russia in 2000, his first priority was to reestablish the intelligence agencies’ grip on the country by portraying himself as a strongman protecting Russian citizens from security threats. Despite condemnation by the United Nations, the European Parliament, and European Union, the policy of brutal “ethnic cleansing” in Chechnya continued. For Putin, Islamist attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001, were a welcome opportunity to rebrand the war against Chechen independence, not as the crushing of a democracy, but as a contribution to President George W. Bush’s “War on Terror.” In the years that followed, Putin’s regime covertly supported and manipulated extremist factions in Chechnya and stage-managed terrorist attacks on its own citizens to justify continuing aggression. US and European condemnation of Russian atrocities in Chechnya dwindled as Russia continued to portray Chechen independence as an international terrorist threat. Chechnya’s Prime Minister-in-Exile Akhmed Zakaev, who had to escape Chechnya, faced Russian calls for his extradition from the United Kingdom, which instead granted him political asylum as Russia’s increased its oppressive operations.

Russia, Chechnya, and the West, 2000–2006

Voices of Freedom

$99.95

Voices of Freedom: Asia showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Asian religions and literatures. Co-edited by Texas Christian University colleagues Rima Abunasser and Mark Dennis, the volume is meant to serve as a vehicle for giving dignity and depth to the peoples of this region by celebrating courageous voices of freedom trying to respond to fundamental, often devastating, changes on the ground, including the increasingly brutal application of Chinese power against ethnic minorities in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, the persecution of the Rohingya Muslims by the government of Myanmar and radical Buddhist monks, and the rise of Hindu nationalism in India. Voices of Freedom is aimed at college classes that address the many ways in which freedom intersects with politics, religion, and other elements in the societies in this dynamic and highly diverse region. It will serve as a valuable primary source for college teachers interested in exploring with their students the struggle for freedom in non-Western and transnational cultural contexts. The volume is also meant to attract other audiences, including readers from the general public interested in learning about inspirational people from parts of the world about which Americans and other English-speaking peoples are generally unfamiliar.

British Novelists and Indian Nationalism Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith

$79.95

This is an intriguing and groundbreaking study by a scholar who not only is not British nor Indian but belongs to a society that has had its own imperial history as well as having a strong ,revitalizing nationalist movement in the 20th c. It is through this prism that Dr Kapakli discusses,compares and contrasts Indian nationalism in three seminal novels. The novels in question are Shadow of the Moon (1957)by Mary Margaret Kaye, the Siege of Knishnapur(1973) by James Gordon Smith and White Teeth (2000)by Zadie Smith. The literary analysis undertaken focusses on the changes in attitude and expectation the British writers demonstrate in navigating the issues of race,class,gender,religion,education and age in both Indian and European characters and settings. Especially interesting is the discussion of male/female relationships and the transgressive energies of nationalism in re determining power and position in pre and post independent India and,indeed, in England itself. Religion is also discussed especially the collision of Christian,Hindu and Muslim practice in the face of historical imperatives and societal tension. “Highly recommended...fascinating insights of a scholar who is both a woman and a Muslim with a suave and subtle approach to the authors she discusses and their narrative thrust” Leon Ashley

British Novelists and Indian Nationalism Contrasting Approaches in the Works of Mary Margaret Kaye, James Gordon Farrell and Zadie Smith

Digital Journalism

$54.95

With a commendatory preface by Professor Manuel Desantes Real, Law Faculty, University of Alicante, Spain "While studying this splendid research monograph our common academic roots let me unhesitatingly identify a sound methodology, a coherent problem-solution approach, and, above all, an open spirit able to visualize a coherent proposal for a differentiated legal regime for digital news anchored in a new value: the user, reader or consumer is the holder of the right of information and expression on the Internet. Rosa Garcia Sanz enjoys a profound understanding of the new opportunities provided by digital technologies, and truly believes that the time has come to confront her proposals with the readers. And I do agree with her. Finally, I can assure those scholars, practitioners and students who approach this book will not leave it disappointed." Manuel Desantes Real. This legal research monograph takes as its subject media/journalism law and specifically investigates new business models for journalism on the Internet and how legal perspective can lead to new business models. Journalism is in a state of crisis. On the Internet all information is free but the producers of news cannot do it for free. And news piracy is rampant. In this context, this book presents all the pertinent case law to address “the digital journalism crisis” in order to help shape profitable business models for journalism. In this examination, a “legal framework” is provided from which it becomes possible to build a “new journalism model” and then a “news business model” in the digital era. However, it is not enough just to ensure revenues for newspapers. A profitable news business is necessary to protect Democracy and its principles, rights and liberties. Here Professor Garcia is proposing a framework from which it is possible to strike a balance between these two goals. Through the use of pertinent case law as a departure point, the different models of producing information and news on the Internet are identified and then its different legal elements. By focusing on the different involved rights, the study describes how the harmony of these rights are often broken and then offers an integrated solution balancing these fundamental rights in a new legal conception of news websites. While other books are focused only on one of these rights and provide a limited perspective (or the opposite, very broad and general), here the rights involved are considered altogether in order to provide a specific legal framework for the solution of the digital news crisis. The necessity to think about a new model for the production of news—from a legal point of view—comes from the importance in a democratic system of information that serves the public interest. Although the study of the economics of this subject plays a very important role, the legal perspective is absolutely necessary from the moment the legal parameters are established, since they force the rethinking of the business models and the redefining of the business strategies. Copyrights, personal data protection and privacy along with the right of freedom of expression and information have a huge impact not only individually but also collectively because all of them are applied on the same object at the same time: news or information. To rethink the business models means also to rethink the journalistic model (“the news product”), since it doesn’t seem possible to produce an insight into one without the other. In other words, the main goal is providing basic legal “tools” to develop potential new business models. The final goal of this work provides from a legal point of view a way to design a model of rights, which support new business models in the digital environment. This is not about proposing a specific business model, but to rethink about rights implicated in the production of news on the Internet, which can be helpful for business models capable of producing the necessary information with enough quality to maintain a democratic society. This study provides an innovative way of looking at the question: WHAT IS THE VALUE OF DIGITAL NEWS FOR POSSIBLE BUSINESS MODELS? This idea of value comes from links and clicks joined to the necessity of rethinking the principle of public interest in information and its different levels of scrutiny depending on every context of the Internet. The right of information and expression has to be “reshaped at the expense” of copyright and data protection in order to get that value because the exercise of this right needs links (copyrights) and clicks (data). The digital copyright and data protection right converge in this “reshaped new right”, providing new possibilities, especially to news websites and news business models.

Britain, the Royal Air Force and relief flights to Biafra, 1968-1969

$139.95

In this intriguing new book, Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates Britain's decision to engage the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the relief operations during the Nigerian Civil War. The main area badly ravaged by the conflict being the Republic of Biafra was declared "a frontier of need." Humanitarian concerns and mounting public pressures, both in Britain and other Western countries, prompted the relief condition in Biafra to be declared an emergency. International voluntary relief workers found themselves for the first time at the center stage of a relief crisis that involved numerous governments and public opinion across the globe. Despite the existing research on humanitarianism of the Nigerian Civil War, until now no scholar has explored the British move to deploy the RAF for relief flights to Biafra. The need to overcome the difficulties of the Nigerian Civil War, and the heavy pressure of British parliamentarians, the press, and the public served as major factors leading to engaging the RAF to supply relief materials. The RAF episode indicated that external actors in any conflict can produce good initiatives geared toward resolving conflicts.

Britain, the Royal Air Force and relief flights to Biafra, 1968-1969

Semiconductor Design and Implementation Issues in Integrated Vehicle Electronics

$34.95

This major research study provides a fresh, critical look at the way automobile electronics are and should be built. Written by Silicon Valley pioneer John Hall, this book is based on his nearly 40 years of experience in developing and producing semiconductors for the automobile industry and other customers. Highly readable and comprehensible for even beginning students of electronics and semiconductor design, this volume provides an in-depth explanation of the factors to be considered when building vehicle systems. Starting with a concise history of vehicle electronics, Hall walks the reader through the environmental conditions faced by these systems and the variety of failure mechanisms that can occur. Basic and advanced semiconductor issues raised by vehicle implementation are then discussed in detail. A wide range of issues confronting designers—from over-marketing of risky features to time and cost constraints—are explained. Complex electronic modules from many different manufacturers are examined and discussed as real-world case studies of good and bad design techniques. Hall concludes by providing design recommendations that will allow vehicle electronics system developers to build much tougher devices at little or no incremental production cost. This book is the first major work to focus on key issues emerging as major causes of safety and performance problems. Vehicle makers increasingly seek market advantages by providing ever-more-capable electronics in their products. While these features add much value to vehicles, they fail in ways that are beyond the experience and comprehension of most technicians and accident investigators. By combining decades of design experience and innovation with extensive research, Hall has produced unique insights and explanations so engineers can prevent most, or perhaps all, of these problems. John Hall is one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific independent pioneers and inventors. He founded Union Carbide’s semi conductor operation in 1962. He is a founder of Interstil and Micro Power Systems. He is the inventor of the first electronic watch, first LCD digital watch; first CMOS liquid crystal display hand held calculator, color autofocus cameras among many successful commercial products. He has worked for many American and foreign automakers on specific projects such as integrated two way radios and seat belt interlocks. He is working with DoD on hardening electronics systems against non nuclear events.

Semiconductor Design and Implementation Issues in Integrated Vehicle Electronics

The Keys To Freedom

$99.95

The Keys to Freedom: Tolstoyan Lessons of Life for Every Day represents decades of work by Leo Tolstoy in writing, collecting, and organizing aphorisms and observations into the most complete exposition of his pacifist interpretation of Christianity, designed to be read each day. Interspersed with hundreds of passages by Tolstoy himself, many of which appear nowhere else in his published works, are the thoughts of authors as diverse as Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal, the American social critic John Ruskin, the Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin, and the Sufi poet Saadi, as well as quotes from the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Vamana Purana, and many other religious books, arranged in calendar form. Tolstoy’s goal is to reveal the path to spiritual freedom, based on his revolutionary vision of religion. The Keys to Freedom is the most methodical elaboration of Tolstoy’s entire religious philosophical system, particularly his ideas on metaphysics, pacifism, and anarchy. The reader will find not only a wealth of wisdom, but also the keys to a better understanding of the author's great works of fiction.

Legal Issues in Professional Baseball

$94.59

The volume will be the second in an ongoing project on the legal regulation of athletics. It will consist of a set of essays on a variety of legal issues facing professional basketball. The contributors are a distinguished group of academics and practitioners who have long focused their intellectual efforts on the legal governance of professional and amateur athletics. And this is a much needed addition to the law literature both in the United States as well as internationally. Basketball now rivals soccer in worldwide popularity. Accordingly, one chapter will attend to the international dimension of the sport. A principal focus will be the present restrictions on the free flow of labor and capital. Thus, leagues abroad commonly place a limit on the number of foreign players (i.e., Americans) who can be on a team roster. Comparable limitations are placed on foreign ownership of teams. In addition, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has an agreement with FIBA, the international governing body for basketball, that regulates movement of players across continents. The legality of these arrangements will be evaluated. While attention will be paid to the law of the European Union, the principal assessment will be under United States antitrust law. That assessment also raises the important issue of the reach of American law with respect to international transactions. The globalization of the sport has been aided by the development of the internet, which has affected the manner in which games and information about games are disseminated. Not surprisingly, issues about the control of cybermarket opportunities as between leagues and teams have come to the fore. The law both facilitates and limits these developments, in light of the public interest in access to information. A full chapter will explore these internet-related issues. Employer-employee relations, and in particular disciplinary arrangements, have a distinctive cast in the NBA as compared with more conventional industries. That uniqueness flows from the lack of the typical market constraint on management discipline. Imagine an insurance industry executive. For him, market forces tend to limit the potential for abusive treatment by his employer and provide him with other employment options if he is maltreated. This market constraint does not operate in professional basketball because a Commissioner suspension amounts to a ban on hiring by all employers in the industry. A chapter will present a critique of the disciplinary arrangements that have evolved in the NBA. The location and relocation of franchises are matters of central importance for teams, league, and municipalities. The league's ability to artificially limit the number of franchises below the market-clearing number provides teams with major leverage over communities anxious to keep or acquire a professional franchise. The manner in which a municipality might constrain exercise of this market power is a matter of enduring social importance. One chapter will analyze leasing arrangements as one response. Another chapter will explore the dynamics of team-municipality negotiations. Both will use the move of the Seattle Supersonics to Oklahoma City as a starting point. Among the four major sports in the United States basketball alone supports a professional women's league. A chapter will examine the history, organizational structure, and distinctive problems of the WNBA. This chapter may provide a vehicle for exploration of societally related gender and discrimination issues as well. Contributors: Ira Finkelstein, a graduate of Harvard Law School, has had very extensive experience in sports litigation. Some of that litigation experience has involved disputes with the NBA. He is a member of the Committee on Sports Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Russ VerSteeg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and magna cum laude from the University of Connecticut School of Law. He has taught at New England Law School since 1991 and specializes in Sports Law, Copyright, Trademarks, and Legal History. He has published four books and over twenty-five law review articles. His most recent book is Sports Law: Cases and Materials Jacquelyn Bridgeman is on the faculty of the University of Wyoming's College of Law. She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her law degree from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship has been concentrated in the areas of discrimination and race issues.

The Rise of Militancy in Waziristan

$82.95

Foreword by Professor Akbar S Ahmed, Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University, Washington,DC Waziristan has been declared the most dangerous place on earth and the next major attack on Europe and America will be planned here. To fight terrorism we need to know the people, the area and why they plan to attack Europeans and Americans. The book takes us inside the hearts and minds of the tribal people, their code of Pushtunwali, their culture and livelihood. The tribal areas have been in war for the last thirty years, this is the only book written by a tribesman, who grew up in Waziristan and who holds an important administrative post in the self governing Tribal areas. Why did such noble people convert into terrorism on a major scale? How much has the area suffered at the hands of terrorism or has it been a boon to local leaders and their followers? How has their way of life, which evolved over thousands of years, come under threat and from whom? Khan argues that British and Pakistani policies that denied or discouraged modernization have come to haunt policymakers and peacemakers alike. There is little firsthand account of tribal society after Sir Olaf Caroe, James Spain and Akbar S Ahmed. Dr Khan discusses and analyses the tribesmen, giving an insight into how they conduct their affairs and survive in such a brutally harsh and hostile environment. By introducing their way of life, he have made the tribesmen more accessible to those interested in the security and development of the region. Khan discusses his native village, once beautiful and peaceful, and how it has changed radically for the worse in the last decade. Why and how did such noble people go bad? What is the solution to terrorism? What is the way forward for the world? Khan belongs to Waziristan, he has no sympathy for foreign terrorists nor for those of his clan who have joined the jihad. Waziris have suffered the most yet are blamed the most. A hill culture which evolved over thousands of years is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of a pitiless variety of imported Islam and a furtive consumer culture aligned towards India and China. G.Q. Khan's study speaks from the heart but also from his experience in the higher echelons of government and in the wider world of scholarship and social science.

Desolation's March

$29.95

Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY,Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined: in the national pysche: They are the impact of personalism(via J.J.Rosseau) and the leveraged individual, the growth of the theraputic state and the overwhelming preoccupation with entertainment. The author suggests the moral and cultural quandry these "states" have wrought and the attendant loss of artistic, moral and social integrity that the United States has suffered. "...(A)brillant philosophical and cultural treatise on the ground lost and the hollow, airless quality of our popular culture and media. Deeply disturbing. The book is highly recommended.” Professor Randolph Langenbach, Stanford University

Truth and Consequence

$64.95

This work expands and enhances Professor Foster's well known work, Colonial Consequences (Dublin, 1991). Covering both cultural and literary topics, the book discusses science and Oscar Wilde, Yeats and Northern nationalism, the plays of Martin McDonagh and the Field Work phenomena. Professor Foster is one of the best known contemporary Irish critics.

John Wesley's Calendar

$189.95

A three volume reference work describing the disciplines of 18th century Church history, geography and travel. Details from Wesley's diaries, journals, correspondence, and prose works are used to compile a calendar covering 3 November 1721 to 2 March 1791. Wesley's visits to England Scotland, Ireland and Wales, Georgia, South Carolina, Holland and Germany are tracked including where possible the specific activities in which the founder and leader of Methodism was engaged. Also included is an exhaustive list of primary and secondary sources as well as an index of persons and titles. This calendar becomes especially important as we approach June 17, 2003, which marks the tercentenary of John Wesley's birth.

Africa and Climate Change

$139.95

The degradation of our life-enhancing planet Earth has resulted in climate change, desertification, wild fires, livestock mortality, microbial ecosystem alteration, floods, extreme weather conditions, economic meltdown, poverty, resource conflicts, disease, death, and desperate migration from the most vulnerable regions. Africa, the world`s hottest continent, has deserts and drylands that cover about 60 percent of its land surface area and remains the most vulnerable continent to climate change. At the same time, Africa is the world’s second most populous continent and is projected soon to be the most populous. Dr. Popoola’s work highlights the uniqueness of Africa and the extent of its vulnerability to global climate change as well as its advantages and limitations in context of current mitigation and adaptation strategies. Africa and Climate Change is an indispensable guide to ensuring global food security, sustainable livelihoods, and ecosystem survival, not only in Africa, but in other less vulnerable continents.

I Know That I Have Broken Every Heart

$76.95

The central theme of this monograph is James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake', the virtuosity with which he makes use of the tongue, the understanding of its grammatical and syntactical subtleties which he reveals in the book and "the explanatory treasure of heart and mind" , as the the author put it himself, which the Gaelic component of the writer's final word on the world provides. Since 'Finnegans Wake' cannot be viewed in total isolation from the greater Joycean canon, the interconnections between it and Joyce's other writings, both fictional and journalistic, will be examined as will his deployment of other languages, notably his use of that second 'Irish' language Hisperic or Hiberno-Latin. James Joyce's employment of the Irish language in 'Finnegans Wake' is an area of study upon which little serious scholarly work has been done prior to study, an extraordinary situation when one considers that, firstly, the author declares in the book Irish to be the second language of the 'Wake' and secondly, that there is hardly a page of the novel which does not contain at least one Irish language element, features which range from the simple and obvious to the extremely complex and obtuse. More importantly, in a sense, however, is the fact that it is in Irish in 'Finnegans Wake' that the writer reveals his deepest personal concerns, worries in regard to the illness of his daughter Lucia, the manner in which his lifestyle has impacted upon his wider family, the state in which Ireland finds herself and the way in which he is viewed at home. A complete understanding of James Joyce, author, father, Irishman, cannot be achieved in the absence of a full appreciation of his relationship with the Irish tongue. Table of Contents: 1. Finnegans Wake and the politics of space, time and the sub-conscious mind 2. The dream of the black panther-James Joyce and the struggle for national self- realisation 3. "I know that I have broken every heart"-The secret messages in Irish of Finnegans Wake 4. The little black rose- the Fenian and Red Branch mythic cycles in Finnegans Wake 5. The mythic and metaphysical Irish in the works of James Joyce 6. The sayings of the west - Finnegans Wake and the Hisperica Famina 7. "Faithful to herself" - James Joyce and questions of Irish linguistic identity 8. Less than lovers, more than friends - images of Ireland in Finnegans Wake

From the Way to Wealth to the Gospel of Wealth

$64.95

This research monograph based on an extensive and original investigation of American literary sources and literary history and it discusses the extraordinary change that occurred in American literature and life based due to the shifting definition and framework of the concept of success from Franklin's ethically framed view of the citizen as a progressive member of an evolving exciting late colonial-early republican society through the redefinition of success and wealth into merciless individualism , money drenched respectability and amorality following the Civil War an culminating in Dreiser's great creative works such as The Titian , Jennie Gerhardt, Sister Carrie and The Financier.

From the Way to Wealth to the Gospel of Wealth

Trickle and Flow

$79.95

For what is water, children, which seeks to make all things level, which has no taste or color of its own, but a liquid form of Nothing? Graham Swift, Waterland I am writing to you from a far-off country. Here I should explain this business of waves. It is insanely complicated, and the sea . . . I beg you, trust me. Would I want to mislead you? She, the sea, is not only a word. She is not only a fear. She exists, I swear it to you Henri Michaux In Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the narrator, a Professor Aronnax, asks the enigmatic Captain Nemo if he likes the sea. And he replies: "Yes; I love it! The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,' as one of your poets has said . . . . The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?" The easiest part of this project has been gathering statements about how wonderful water is--and the next easiest part, about how quickly and totally the world's water has turned toxic. This ethnography of water participates in both of those moments but also pays attention to what lies between them. This is a book about water in as many of its declensions as I have been able to bring together, its life and its death (chapters 1 and 11), it's role in human life and human civilization (chapters 2 and 3), the place of the oceans in the scroll of history and water in warfare (chapters 5, 6 and 7), and the hold of water on the human imagination (chapter 10). Steven Mentz has this to say about water's tantalizing centrality to human thought and experience: "In the modern West, the ocean is everywhere and nowhere, at once the most meaningful and most overlooked feature of our cultural imagination. The sea is a physical object of almost inconceivable weight–the largest thing on the planet–and a vessel of inchoate symbolic meanings. The white noise of the surf represents the ultimate blank, a song beyond history and perhaps beyond meaning itself (2009a:2)." Philip Ball reminds us that water is a profoundly strange and anomalous liquid, unlike any other: "Queer as it may seem, the Earth would have no oceans if water molecules, those invisible little trios of oxygen and hydrogen atoms, did not have the shape and properties that they do." Scientists who study liquids, Ball goes on to say, tend to shun water because it breaks all the rules; it certainly doesn't act according to the theory of liquids developed since the nineteenth century: when other liquids freeze they shrink and grow denser, but water does just the opposite–it expands (2002). Conceptually unique as well, water dissolves many of the binaries we impose upon life and thought, as Terje Tvedt points out: both "nature and a social factor at the same time and in the same form . . . . its character and substance do not change by becoming socialized" (I:4). And, as Leonardo noted long ago it is inherently self-contradictory: "Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin . . . sometimes health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the color of its subject, so it alters with the nature of the place, becoming noisome, laxative, astringent, sulfurous, salty, incarnadined, mournful, raging, angry, red, yellow, green, black, blue, greasy, fat or slim. Sometimes it starts a conflagration, sometimes it extinguishes one; is warm and is cold, carries away or sets down, hollows out or builds up, tears or establishes, fills or empties, raises itself or burrows down, speeds or is still (Witcombe)." The title for the chapters on the body, civilization and warfare is the perfunctory "and water"–not the sarcastic diminutive that, for example, sees Washington Irving as Samuel Rogers and water, but, to invert the trope, the chemistry of dyeing that has one drop of Lady Macbeth's blood color the global ocean. There are chapters on water itself (its problematic nature, forms and distribution, the hydrologic system, the great division between fresh and salt, the global ocean, the poles, etc.); the management of water (delivery and sewage systems, pumping and damming, privatization, etc.); and two on the oceans–the first on the great binary between land and water, the various paradigm shifts that transformed the oceans from a terrible to a pleasant or awesome place and from a mysterious to a commodifiable one; the second on the oceanic turn in cultural and historical studies thresholded by Paul Gilroy's Black Atlantic. A later chapter on the imaginary of water surveys how that substance agitates the archives of language and images--although imaginary activity haunts almost every move in the book. The chapters on water, the oceans and war cover the three perspectives that Philip Steinberg claims form the basis for most studies of human-marine interactions: the ocean as resource provider, the ocean as transport surface, and the ocean as battleground or "force-field"

Neurodiversity Within A Divided Nation

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This collaborative book by five distinguished scholars in overlapping fields suggests that fruitful living is extremely hard work and that social harmony requires the unlocking and the emancipation of the human brain– the core cerebral source for advancing human coherence, connectivity, cohesion and civility. The stakes are simply too high for stakeholders across our country not to respond to the ongoing and escalating crisis of human division and the desperate need for engagement, enlightenment, and acceptance of human diversity. The authors strongly encourage academic and practitioner psychologists, as well as other students and social scientists, to join a timely framed narrative for greater progress in diversity. Neurodiversity aims to encourage dialogue, discourse, and discovery about what may be obvious to many but avoided by most – because its forces us to look inward instead of outward. We can make such inward observations, through the lenses of psychology, cognition, mindfulness, and underleveraged brain capacity amid modern cultural neuroscience. This is critically important – particularly in a time marked by the widespread amplification of ambiguity, angst, ambivalence, and anger. This book focuses on “crucial thinking” versus “critical thinking.” The authors pose fundamental questions -- about what we are calling a form of cognitive “levitation” and taxonomical “climbing” (CBDT) -- to think about purposes of intellectual discourse, not necessarily to seek empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is the inclusion of sample student learning outcomes as “provisos” throughout the narrative. We have attempted to integrate the student learning outcomes in the text’s narrative and connect them to the sections where they are inserted for the reader. The book’s embedded taxonomies can also facilitate the instruction, composition, and conceptualization of targeted student learning outcomes.

Within Tweeting Distance

$99.95

One of the most peculiar byproducts of media globalization is the creation of audiences close by but out of reach, and far away but within reach. Within Tweeting Distance is a study of one of the most compelling emerging subfields at the crossroads of the fields of international relations and communications: Twitter Diplomacy. Noor Suwwan’s groundbreaking new book proposes a new theoretical classification framework for Twitter Diplomacy and then applies it to four Arab state-actors. Within Tweeting Distance is the first book to engage with the creative transformation that the emergence of Twitter Diplomacy has imposed on approaches to international relations.

Death in Herman Melville’s Fiction

$139.95

Literary critics have aptly noted that death is arguably the most frequent topic, theme, or occurrence in all of American literature. Naturally, the works of such authors as Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Kate Chopin, Shirley Jackson, and Stephen King, among countless others, go to great lengths to support this observation; however, the renowned nineteenth-century American literary giant Herman Melville, most famous as the author of Moby Dick, has been frequently overlooked. In this book, seasoned literary scholar Corey Evan Thompson seeks to remedy this oversight. Death in Herman Melville’s Fiction: Melville’s “Memento Mori” is the first full-length study to examine the ubiquity and implications of death in Melville’s prose fiction. As Thompson shows, death occurs in all of Melville’s novels and much of his shorter fiction by various means. Not only is death a frequent occurrence in Melville’s fiction, but his characters die regardless of age, health, social status, or moral character. Drawing from his father’s death, Melville’s fiction provides his readers with the difficult realization that it is the inevitable destination for everyone who is on this journey called life.

Football As Literature

$139.95

Football as Literature adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football (soccer) to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, respectively, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball. In employing this commentary, a standard football match is seen as a representation of the active text. Particularly, without commentary football unfolds as an unspoken semiotic narrative. Football is seen, therefore, as existing in a continuum of signification encapsulated especially in the acknowledged genres of literature.

“To Go and Serve the Desolate Sheep in America”

$79.95

This hitherto unpublished diary, edited and with notes by Dr. Rogal, provides a valuable research tool for understanding the place of religion in immediate post Revolutionary America specifically amongst the American Methodist Episcopal Church members Bishop Whatcoat had as his flock. Sent to America and appointed by John Wesley with the stern injunction “ … to go and serve the desolate sheep of America," Richard Whatcoat spent 11 years as a roving missioner bishop in the remote parts of the American frontier as well as in more established centers such as southeast New England and the Carolinas. The editor has created a coherent and readable work that stresses Whatcoat’s actions and reactions to the newly independent Americans; indeed as an Englishman, the bishop was in receipt of some hard words but also of great encouragement and praise (and some latent pro-Loyalist feeling). Another strength of the diary is the light it sheds on Whatcoat’s circuit-riding ministry to black slaves and other persons of color. The great evangelical appeal of Methodism was its liberating theology and great choral music tradition. This aspect of Afro-American development as well as the bishop’s relations with black clergymen and would-be clergymen is discussed at length. Whatcoat lived amongst his people rarely staying at an inn or ordinary in his travels: the diary gives a unique picture of rural and small town America, its food, festivals, habits and morality through the eyes of a friendly but firm eighteenth century divine.

“To Go and Serve the Desolate Sheep in America”

Character and Consciousness

$74.95

This scholarly monograph investigates and discusses the concepts of character and consciousness through an interdisciplinary reading relying primarily on philosophical concepts and discourse providing a genealogy of the notion of character from Victorian novelists to the notion of consciousness in modern writers. The author applies philosophical approaches(such as the metaphysics of Schopenhauer, the phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty, and the hermeneutics of Gadamer) to major British authors to examine not one but various levels of consciousness, from bodily, through metaphysical, to ethical. This work is a direct contribution to the nascent field of consciousness studies as it offers a new definition of consciousness for literary criticism in a philosophical and not psychological way. The research will also contribute to the intellectual history of 19th and 20th century English literature. “ Fine research and worthy of being studied along with Robert Langbaum and Daniel Schneider in the quest for the notion of character not as a given but as a theoretical construct that evolves into the idea of consciousness.” Professor James Blake, N Y U

The Phaedrus Of Plato

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This pioneering translation of Plato’s Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life. In Kenneth Quandt’s treatment, Plato’s seminal work is allowed to create its own horizon and a new and profoundly unified interpretation emerges: Socrates’s conversation with Phaedrus reaches a vision of eros that explains the paradoxes of human nature, explodes the zero-sum game of master and slave, exposes the crabbed fetishism of the written word, and releases the mind to a life of contemplation fixed in a cloudless noon.

The Devil and Dr. Fauci

$29.95

The Devil and Dr. Fauci is an unsparing critique of what author James Driscoll calls the “Drug Testing, Licensing, and Marketing Complex,” or DTLM. Quietly dominating America’s healthcare industry, the DTLM poses threats comparable in magnitude, if not in character, to those of the Military-Industrial Complex. With a satiric scalpel reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s, Driscoll eviscerates the DTLM’s avatar Dr. Anthony Fauci, our age’s version of the archetypal Dr. Faustus. He exposes Fauci’s pivotal position in the DTLM, at whose core is the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA, Driscoll asserts, has long played Mephistopheles to Fauci’s Faustus, with grave consequences for American healthcare. Dr. Driscoll’s book is the first to upbraid the DTLM, FDA, and Fauci for exacerbating the Covid-19 crisis. Seeking to maximize profits from patentable vaccines, they rigorously suppressed off patent prophylaxis and treatment alternatives. This was but one of many DTLM follies that raised Covid’s death toll and increased its socio-economic devastation. Other prominent follies were the mask posturing, arbitrary lockdowns, and closing of churches and schools that the DTLM and its political allies used to distract from their sacrifice of public health to their own agendas. We may never know if the Chinese deliberately released the Covid-19 virus, or if they created it. Yet the world now knows the destructive potential of gain of function technology. Similar epidemics or worse will strike us. To survive next time, we will need radical reforms in the FDA and transparency for the DTLM. But the opaque FDA bureaucracy, Driscoll concludes, is only one instance in our greater problem of deficient oversight within all of our increasingly powerful and ever less accountable federal bureaucracies.

Wittgenstein the Tartar

$43.42

Philosophy, like all learned disciplines, is deeply influenced by a human subjectivity in the context of evolutionary time. The attribute of consciousness is inseparable from the being of all else from which humanity has evolved in time. If, as the opening premise of Wittgenstein's Tractatus puts it: The world is everything that is the case , then the unconscious presence of that everything in the material ground we stand in with our bodies provides the context for all acts of cognition, irrespective of the method of verification called scientific . What is true is discovered consensually through time; a continuing evolutionary process, for only the human species is equipped to perceive and articulate both the specificity of particular circumstance and the context of the whole which it limits spatio-temporally to make the things we call real . Were it not for conceptual activity under those human conditions, the unitary reality would subsume all specific identities together in the unconsciousness to which all other species are subject. As far as subjectivity is concerned, were thoughts - as the drift of contemporary positivist philosophies maintains - the causal product of brain-chemistry and not the intuitive grasping, in an individualized consciousness, of unitary being in its differentiated forms, then neither consciousness nor knowledge at all would be possible. Here, the given and logical order of that dispensation is perceived in terms of both the Greek logos and a physics of the material ground it orders. So it is that the drift of Wittgenstein the Tartar is brought into sharp focus by the texts which most conspicuously oppose the notion of metaphysical being; in particular, The Immortalization Commission: the Strange Quest to Cheat Death by John Gray, whose natural attachment to his human condition nevertheless finds him telling us that our modern myths are further from reality than any that can be found among traditional peoples, while the absurdities of faith are less offensive to reason than the claims made on behalf of science. The resurrection of the dead at the end of time is not as incredible as the idea that humanity, equipped with growing knowledge, is marching towards a better world . The Tartar invades whenever a complacent sedentarism threatens the perspective of an enduring reality whose future is the evolutionary responsibility of humanity. To make that point clear, the epistemological works of Rudolf Steiner underwrite our interpretation of Wittgenstein s Tractatus. topics: Wittgenstein, modern philosophy, logical positivism, mind studies, ratiocination, the consciousness and its disfranchisement, knowledge theory,Rudolph Steiner, Bertrand Russell.

The Transcendent Mystery in Man

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Our new release by Professor Andrew N. Woznicki, The Transcendent Mystery in Man: A Global Approach to Ecumenism (Academica Press,2007,ISBN 193314615X) explores man as a being who is endowed not only with immanent but also with transcendent virtual power as well, and through both of them man is capax Dei. The author states that the twofold virtual power enables man to participate in divinity either in a form of an act of believing in the factually existing God, and/or in a form of self discovering of one’s own being as divine. In the former, we are dealing with the phenomenon of religion sensu stricte, and in the latter with the phenomenon of spirituality. Rainer Maria Rilke recognizes the presence of the divine in human nature, but according to him the divinity is experienced in its intensity—in its immediacy—as it is found in the “inward reality” of man alone. Although the presence of the divine reveals itself in nature, divinity is most of the time disguised by human preoccupation(s) with the finitude of his existence. On the other hand, Czeslaw Milosz calls man—“a transcendent everyman,” and says: “Where I am, and whatever place on earth, I hide from people the conviction that I’m not from here. It’s as if I’d been sent, to extract as many colors, tastes, sounds, smells, to experience everything that is a man’s share, to transpose what was felt into a magical register and carry it there, from whence I came.” However, this divine transcendent Entity as it is experienced by human beings, Thomas Mann describes as being: "Conditioned by feeling for the transcendental mystery of man, by the proud consciousness that he is no mere biological being, but with a decisive part of him belongs to an intellectual and spiritual world, that to him the Absolute is given, the ideas of truth, of freedom, of justice; that upon him the duty is laid to approach the consummate. In this pathos, this obligation, this reverence of man for himself, is God; in a hundred milliards of Milky Ways I cannot find him." However, in this theantropic pathos of “purification, refinement, metamorphosis, transubstantiation, into a higher state” of God’s involvement with the created world, there is a need to postulate both an immanent presence of God in the world and man, but without restraining God’s transcending self-sufficiency, for He is thought of as an Absolute Being. In other words, theantropic res bina of immanent/transcendent reality of the human and the divine in man of Thomas Mann, changes into the res ultima of St. Thomas Aquinas in the order of goal and purpose. In this work the author states that the Catholic church has to deal with constant cultural changes, and that there are two conflicting tendencies, and radically opposing views on the nature of the Church of Christ on Earth, that is, the absolutist view and the relativistic one. Theological absolutism contemplates the reality of God’s Kingdom on earth from the perspective of supernatural life exclusively, and considers the Church primarily as a community, unchangeable and everlasting, that is, as a sui generis reality, which is independent from the actual situation of the world. Theological relativism, on the other hand, attempts to consider the reality of God’s kingdom on Earth from the perspective of temporary life. Such absolutistic view has been presented by Cardinal Ratzinger in the document Dominus Jesus (2000), and by Cardinal William J. Levada in the recent document issued on July 10, 2007, published by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith: Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church. However, according to the author the conflict between the absolutist view and the relativistic one, could be resolved by the teaching on the doctrines of virtual reality as it was presented in the works of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. Contemporary scientists are also wondering about “the transcendental mystery of man,” but the focal point of their investigation into “the proud consciousness” of man, is limited “to pinpoint which regions [of the brain] turn on, and which turn off, during experiences that seem to exist outside time and space.” In other words, in the ordinary life of each and every human being, the investigation into “the proud consciousness” of man in his/her brain, can be detected and recognized as the basic ground and foundation for emotions and feelings, perceptions and cognition, in contrast to the way of noticing of inner experiences of an individual human being. The neuroscientists, while studying the phenomena of religion and spirituality, are unable to locate and to determine the Transcendent Reality itself, and as such they have to limit their scope of investigations to the human existential happenings. In this work the author elaborates on the human spiritual and religious feelings as they are really found in the theantropic experiencing of the Divine, and as they unfold the most common and universal religious experiences of man. He evaluates the theantropic experiences of the human and the divine in man—not so much on “how we get to God,” but “how God comes to us.” “Woznicki’s book …comes with my highest recommendation.” Archbishop S.Wesoly, Member of the Curia, Vatican City, Rome

Explaining Wars Of Choice

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In Explaining Wars of Choice, John Callahan answers a series of questions related to National Security Decision Making. The decision making process itself is examined, looking at the methods and mindsets of American presidencies from the Cold War through the Obama administration. In addition, Explaining Wars of Choice studies the manner in which each administration considered and executed plans to raise public support for its decisions. Using the examples of America’s armed humanitarian interventions, including Somalia, Kosovo, and Libya, the work focuses on the processes by which the intervention decisions were undertaken. The personalities of each administration, the operation of organizations such as the National Security Council, and the role of outside national and international actors are addressed. On the way to answering questions about foreign policy, other issues are uncovered. Humanitarian policies such as Responsibility to Protect and the role of sovereignty and human security come to light. Communication issues such as the role of strategic communications and the rise of social media are shown to effect decision making. Theories of intervention, such as the concept of “Wars of Choice,” and their effect on national security processes are revealed.

The Coming Woke Catastrophe

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Woke culture sells itself as the great progressive awakening of our time. Its proponents and followers believe that wokism is spreading love, defeating hate, and creating a better world without oppression of any kind. Those who refuse to subscribe to woke culture are dismissed as hateful people who must stand for the opposite of what woke culture stands for. Increasingly, anyone who questions the woke message is shouted down, de-platformed, and even cancelled. No wonder people are increasingly queuing up to be seen as woke, and to adopt its language. Who would stand against more love and less hate? And who would want to be cancelled? But beyond the superficial message, is there something less attractive about woke thinking? The Coming Woke Catastrophe is a timely exposé of what woke culture really is. It examines whether wokeism aligns with its own superficially attractive labels, or whether it is something rather darker that we all ought to be challenging rather than mindlessly adopting.

The Regeneration of Ireland

$32.85

This monograph investigates the inherent conflict between the literary awakening and the growth of republican nationalism in early 20th century Ireland. Professor Krause is one of the most distinguished students of Irish Literature in America.

Rewriting Indian History

$139.95

Basavaraj Naikar’s The Queen of Kittur delineates the history of Pre-Independent India during the East India Company. The colonial encounter that it significantly deals with was fought between the Queen of Kittur – (Rani Chennamma) and the authorities of the East India Company around 1824 for land and political power. Although the Queen put up a heroic fight with the East India Company and succeeded in killing Thackeray, the political agent of South India and Collector of Dharwad, she was eventually betrayed by her courtiers later, and as a result, her kingdom was annexed to the British Raj, and she was imprisoned in her own fort at Balihongala, where she breathed her last in 1829 after suffering from nostalgia for the past glory of her kingdom. The Queen represents a typical example of Female heroism, sheer bravery and valiant fighting tactics – all depicting the icon of Women Empowerment in current times. History is absorbing and refreshing in the novel. Naikar investigates the history of the particular period in India and justifies substantially the patriotism of the Queen of Kittur in a gripping narration. The theme of honour and glory; patriotism and freedom; betrayal and defeat of the royal family of Kittur kingdom are succinctly highlighted. The spirit of freedom serves as a model to the entire womankind. The novelist has immortalized the Queen of Kittur through the historical novel. It is in other words re-writing history to the millions of readers across the globe. A spirited recollection of history to the core of her patriotism and national duty and honour---- P.V.Laxmiprasad—Indian Scholar

A Marine POW Remembers Hell

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In the bleak and bitter cold of a copper mine in northern Japan, U.S. Marine Sergeant Major Charles Jackson was allowed to send a postcard his wife. He was allowed ten words—he used three: “I AM ALIVE!” This message, classic in its poignancy of suffering and despair captures only too well what it meant to be a Japanese prisoner-of-war in World War II. In this riveting book, acclaimed military historian Major Bruce H. Norton USMC (ret.) brings to life a long-forgotten memoir by a Marine captured at Corregidor in May 1942 and held in Japanese captivity for three devastating years. In unflinching prose, Sergeant Major Jackson described the fierce yet impossible battle for Corregidor, the surrender of thousands of his comrades, the long forced marches to prison camps, and the lethal reality of captivity. One of the most important eyewitness accounts of World War II, this book is a testament to the men who sacrificed for their country. Jackson’s unvarnished account of what his fellow soldiers endured in the face of enemy inhumanity pays tribute to the men who served America during the war—and why it ultimately prevailed.

Charlotte Elizabeth's Ireland

$74.95

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna(1790-1846) is remembered for her religious tracts and her commentaries on Industrial Britain, but her writings on Ireland of the 1820s to the 1840s have largely been neglected. Her Irish reflections cover a range of topics from agrarian violence, landlordism, Daniel O' Connell, Catholic Emancipation, tithes, restrictions on the Church of Ireland in the 1830s, to national schools, the Irish Poor Law, Father Matthew, Repeal, the Orange Order, the Irish language, and, of course, the necessity of converting Irish Catholics. Her writing had several purposes, to support herself, to convey her religious ideas, to enlighten English readers about a country she had become fond of, and to gain their financial support for the evangelical cause. A book about Charlotte Elizabeth would serve a number of purposes. It could be construed as a biography, a history of pre-Famine Ireland, and an examination of the Second Reformation. It would allow for analysis of many of the pertinent issues such as the passing of Catholic Emancipation and its consequences, the introduction of the national schools, the eroding of the power of the Church of Ireland, agrarian violence, the Tithe War and the various reactions to Repeal. Finally, such a book is an addition to Irish History, religious history and women's history by placing the writings of Charlotte Elizabeth in the context of the history and historiography of the period.

From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling

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From “I Like Ike” to razor-wire and National Guard troops ringing the U.S. Capitol, from Carl Perkins’s “Blue Suede Shoes” to Brotha Lynch Hung’s “Meat Cleaver,” the United States has changed. Seven decades of material abundance and unprecedented technological advances have entwined with pronounced social and cultural fragmentation. What — and who — can explain this peculiar transformation of the land of the free and home of the brave? In From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling: Co-Starring Richard Nixon, Andy Warhol, Bill Clinton, the Supremes, and Barack Obama, Eric Rozenman takes readers on an often wry, but always substantive, journey through the past 65 years of American culture. The author provides first-hand accounts of key players and events. Presidents, prime ministers, dictators, rock stars, movie stars, survivors, protesters, and a Miss America all have their say. An FBI investigation of the author makes clear that those in charge didn’t know the half of it. Bob Hope and Shirley Temple Black, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel are among those who paint the era’s impressionistic portrait, by turns entertaining and tragic. Through a fast-moving series of vignettes, From Elvis to Trump highlights a nation and a time that concludes – brakes screeching before a STOP sign that was there all along – in unparalleled change and challenge.

From Elvis to Trump, Eyewitness to the Unraveling

The Queen's Godson

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A full scale biography of Sir John Harington of Kelston, courtier,place-seeker,writer, inventor satirist and would-be Bishop of Dublin has long been needed and wished for by historians as various as Namier, Butterfield, Carr ,MacFarlane and AJP Taylor. Antonia Southern's new monograph is an literary/historical biography of this multi-faceted and controversial character ,living in times euphemistically described by contemporaries as 'tricky', and deserving to be better known and understood for his great gifts and achievements. To Queen Elizabeth he was 'Boy Jack', 'that merry poet,my godson' and to King James he was ' a merry blade'. The official Calendar of State Papers in 1599 referred to him as 'Sir Ajax Harington' because his authorship of the popular New Discourse of a Stale Subject called the Metamorphosis of Ajax,published anonymously, was an open secret. In the early 20th Century his reputation suffered---he was dismissed by C S Lewis as 'a wag' and described by T.S.Eliot as a 'modest if self-satisfied amateur'. He should not so be written off according to Dr Southern. His literary reputation has been redeemed in recent years by scholars including Robert McNulty,D.H.Craig, Simon Cauchi and Gerald Kilroy. Jason Scott-Warren has written an excellent article on him in the new Oxford DNB and the explanation for the motives behind his writings and his use of books is now seen not only as a carefully calculated search for patronage but an advancement of deeply held beliefs in an age of shifting political and religious realities. Thus this study fills the need for a one volume life that would supply historical detail to Harington's life and work as well as arbitrate between conflicting views of his character whilst supplying new research details as to his life and,especially, his beliefs. To some, such as Gerard Kilroy, he has been seen as a scholar, disillusioned by court corruption,preferring always the seclusion of Kelston to the very real perils of the world outside. Others,like Jason Scott -Warren see him as a consummate courtier,a privileged hanger-on,ruthlessly seeking advancement and office first under Elizabeth and then under James 1. This study attempts a synthesis of these views as well as discussing at length the question of religion which tore not only at Harington's soul but at the very fabric of his family ,his class and his friendships. Among the topics that the author discusses are the Martin Marprelate tracts (anti-English Church),his secret press, his Catholicism, the succession question of the 1590s, the contemporary problem of Ireland which so interested Harington (he visited Ireland twice) and the very nature of the English monarchy in an age of shifting allegiances and brutal compromise.

Twilight of the Chiefs

$74.95

This new research monograph discusses the basis of one of Ireland’s most extensive (and profitable) hoaxes: the MacCarthy Mor Affair, and the attendant scandal surrounding the selling of Irish traditional titles to otherwise sane businessmen and professionals. Murphy’s research covers the origins of the old Gaelic titles in pre-Norman Ireland. Principally the title of Chief, the collapse of the Gaelic order, the survival of some chiefly titles, the Gaelic Revival and the emergence of the Office of Arms. An account is given of the Office of Chief Herald as part of the new Irish state and the courtesy recognition under Dr. MacLysaght in 1944 and years that followed. Finally the emergence of one Terrence MacCarthy of Belfast as “MacCarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond” and his initial success and final unmasking is amusingly and cogently described.

Türkiye as a Stabilizing Power in an Age of Turmoil

$29.95

More than three decades after the Cold War, international institutions have yet to cope with pressing problems, emerging challenges, and regional and international conflicts. Against the backdrop of an unraveling international order, deepening humanitarian crises, and an uptick in violence, Turkey, under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership, has advocated international cooperation to find solutions. At the same time, the country has adopted a more proactive foreign policy with an eye toward ending long-standing international disputes while avoiding the trap of unilateralism. Written by Turkey’s communications director, Fahrettin Altun, this book offers a concise yet detailed analysis of Turkish foreign policy within the context of civil wars, humanitarian tragedies, and the structural changes taking place in Turkey’s neighborhood. Highlighting the historical origins of contemporary problems and the destabilizing effect of unresolved conflicts, the author provides valuable insights into Turkish perspectives on the situation in Cyprus, the Syrian Civil War, the future of Iraq, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the Arab Spring, and the Libyan conflict. Finally, Türkiye as a Stabilizing Power in an Age of Turmoil explains why the country has called for the reform of international organizations, such as the United Nations and NATO, and sheds light on the ways in which Turkey has responded to fresh challenges, including the rise of populism and far-right extremism.

Türkiye as a Stabilizing Power in an Age of Turmoil

America, Russia, and the Birth of Modern Greece

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In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned upon that of the young United States, to be established in Greece, then long the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The “Americanization” of Greece presupposed independence. The book’s author, Count John Capo d'Istria, was carried away by his own version of the “American Dream,” but was also in touch with another inspirational power, Russia, which made him its foreign minister despite his attraction to the ideas of revolutionaries, Russia’s Decembrists, who wanted democratic government in their country. Capo d’Istria was only identified as the early author of calls for a Greek Republic in the 2010s. In this revelatory new book, Dimitris Michalopoulos follows his career and that of Alexander Hypsilantis, a Greek who became a general of the Russian army and tried to attract Russia’s interest in a democratic revolution for Greece.