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The Urgency of Climate Change
Pivotal Perspectives
The Urgency of Climate Change addresses a pivotal challenge for our planet. This collection of essays aligns Science, Sustainability, Ethics, and Religion to consider policy possibilities and laws that can effectively engage the climate crisis and ensure a flourishing Earth.
The Urgency of Climate Change addresses a pivotal challenge for our planet. This collection of essays aligns Science, Sustainability, Ethics, and Religion to consider policy possibilities and laws that can effectively engage the climate crisis and ensure a flourishing Earth.
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Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century
Speaking Picture and Silent Text
This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.
This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.
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There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. Sangster explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman, offering historical context, biographical detail and philosophical analysis in the process.
There are some figures in modern history who stand out not just for their amoral conduct but their cruelty. Sangster explores the life of the notorious Beria, Stalin’s henchman, offering historical context, biographical detail and philosophical analysis in the process.
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Legacies of Slavery
Comparative Perspectives
Moving beyond the Atlantic world, this volume reconsiders slavery as a global institution. Scholars from diverse fields examine its indelible mark on societies everywhere, telling a tale of survival, resistance, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Moving beyond the Atlantic world, this volume reconsiders slavery as a global institution. Scholars from diverse fields examine its indelible mark on societies everywhere, telling a tale of survival, resistance, and the resilience of the human spirit.
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Fleeing American prejudice, Black actor Ira Aldridge became Europe's leading Shakespearean tragedian. A celebrated star and fierce abolitionist, he used his stage to fight for equality. This book reveals Aldridge's profound and overlooked connection to Ireland.
Fleeing American prejudice, Black actor Ira Aldridge became Europe’s leading Shakespearean tragedian. A celebrated star and fierce abolitionist, he used his stage to fight for equality. This book reveals Aldridge’s profound and overlooked connection to Ireland.
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Women Who Belong
Claiming a Female’s Right-Filled Place
To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.
To fight the fallacious assumption that patriarchy is eternal, this book inverts history. By centering the ordinary woman, we find women, rich and poor, who used patriarchal laws to protect their rights and demand the powers due them.
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By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
By studying the temperance societies of Victorian and Edwardian England, this book opens a window onto middle-class and working-class society. These organizations of men, women, and children provided the backbone for temperance as both a social movement and a political lobby.
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To ancient Greeks, female hair was alluring, seductive, and dangerous. They placed an uncovered woman’s hair on the same emotional level as a bare breast. This book explores how men tried to deal with the danger and delight of female beauty, focusing on both hair and voice.
To ancient Greeks, female hair was alluring, seductive, and dangerous. They placed an uncovered woman’s hair on the same emotional level as a bare breast. This book explores how men tried to deal with the danger and delight of female beauty, focusing on both hair and voice.
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This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
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Private Bill Legislation in the Nineteenth Century
Parliamentary Promotion from 1797 to 1914
The creation of canals, railways, and the infrastructure of Victorian Britain was impossible without private Acts of Parliament. How these Acts were promoted and passed has never been systematically analysed—until now. This book explores over 20,000 Acts from 1797 to 1914.
The creation of canals, railways, and the infrastructure of Victorian Britain was impossible without private Acts of Parliament. How these Acts were promoted and passed has never been systematically analysed—until now. This book explores over 20,000 Acts from 1797 to 1914.
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Alec Nelson and British Athletics prior to World War II
A Professional amongst Gentlemen
The life of coach Alec Nelson explores the hypocrisy of British athletics in the Chariots of Fire era. Though necessary for success, professional coaches were kept in their place by elite athletes, exposing the class-based antagonism at the heart of the sport.
The life of coach Alec Nelson explores the hypocrisy of British athletics in the Chariots of Fire era. Though necessary for success, professional coaches were kept in their place by elite athletes, exposing the class-based antagonism at the heart of the sport.
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Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Divergent Perspectives on African Independence and Unity
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world's poorest continent.
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world’s poorest continent.
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The Recovery of Palestine, 1917
Jerusalem for Christmas
Weintraub illustrates how General Edmund Allenby, having been raised on the Bible, exploited Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s request for help to capture Jerusalem in 1917. He explains how, despite a hard-fought desert war Jerusalem finally fell, with its sacred sites intact.
Weintraub illustrates how General Edmund Allenby, having been raised on the Bible, exploited Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s request for help to capture Jerusalem in 1917. He explains how, despite a hard-fought desert war Jerusalem finally fell, with its sacred sites intact.
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This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
This book explores how Irish playwrights engaged with the Easter Rising, the Troubles, and other conflicts. It analyzes their plays in historical context, revealing insights into humanity and resilience amid deep republican, unionist, and denominational divides.
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Beringia
Archaic Migrations into North America
This study explores the migration of cultures from Asia to North America, presenting linguistic evidence connecting the Athabaskan language family to Siberia. It examines the origins of the first Americans through anthropology, archaeology, and folklore.
This study explores the migration of cultures from Asia to North America, presenting linguistic evidence connecting the Athabaskan language family to Siberia. It examines the origins of the first Americans through anthropology, archaeology, and folklore.
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Voices on the Loss of National Independence in Korea and Vietnam, 1890-1920
Other States of Mind
This comparative study of anti-colonial movements in Korea and Vietnam examines two protagonists. Molded by shared pasts, they dealt with their countries' condition and envisioned an alternative world order that has pertinence today.
This comparative study of anti-colonial movements in Korea and Vietnam examines two protagonists. Molded by shared pasts, they dealt with their countries’ condition and envisioned an alternative world order that has pertinence today.
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A Scholiast’s Quill
New Critical Essays on Alfonso Reyes
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
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Because of the lack of written records, archaeologists must become shrewd detectives. This book inspects the material evidence to present an entirely fresh, overlooked image of Etruria—one deeply rooted in the land and its natural environment.
Because of the lack of written records, archaeologists must become shrewd detectives. This book inspects the material evidence to present an entirely fresh, overlooked image of Etruria—one deeply rooted in the land and its natural environment.
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The Ethical Atlantic
Advocacy Networking and the Slavery Narrative, 1830-1850
In the waning decades of British colonial slavery, the Atlantic Ocean became a corridor for ethical advocacy networks. Gadpaille’s text shows how the Atlantic network created, shared and exploited individual texts in the manufacture of valuable advocacy products.
In the waning decades of British colonial slavery, the Atlantic Ocean became a corridor for ethical advocacy networks. Gadpaille’s text shows how the Atlantic network created, shared and exploited individual texts in the manufacture of valuable advocacy products.
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Albert A. Michelson and his Interferometer
Lord of the Spinning Worlds, Master of Light
This book reveals the astonishing connection between modern science and one instrument: Michelson's Interferometer. It led to Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, technologies like GPS and MRI, and the recent detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
This book reveals the astonishing connection between modern science and one instrument: Michelson’s Interferometer. It led to Einstein’s relativity and quantum mechanics, technologies like GPS and MRI, and the recent detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes.
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