Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
Author: James T. Kloppenberg
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In "Reading Obama", James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to ab ... |
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Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition
Author: James T. Kloppenberg
Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In "Reading Obama", James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to ab ... |
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Author: Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Reading Old English Texts, first published in 1997, focuses on the critical methods being used and developed for reading and analysing writings in Old English. The collection is timely, given the explosion of interest in ... |
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Fiction and Identity in Aotearoa New Zealand
Author: Christina Stachurski
Aotearoa New Zealand, "a tiny Pacific country," is of great interest to those engaged in postcolonial and literary studies throughout the world. In all former colonies, myths of national identity are vested with various ... |
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Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948
Author: Ami Ayalon
Prior to the twentieth century, Arab society in Palestine was predominantly illiterate, with most social and political activities conducted through oral communication. There were no printing presses, no book or periodica ... |
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Author: Roger S. Bagnall
The ancient Mediterranean world brought to us by Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus is one of politics, war and the power elite of Greece and Rome. There was another ancient world, in which ordinary people made a living, ... |
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Author: Roger S. Bagnall
The ancient Mediterranean world brought to us by Herodotus, Thucydides and Tacitus is one of politics, war and the power elite of Greece and Rome. There was another ancient world, in which ordinary people made a living, ... |
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Literacy, Democracy, and the Public Library in Cold War America
Author: Christine Pawley
This book recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s, a story that has implications far beyond the two Wisconsin counties where it took place. Using interviews and library records ... |
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Author: Brian Maidment
The book offers undergraduates, research students and interested readers access to the critical issues and methodolgical complexities raised by the interpretation of popular graphic images from the 18th and 19th centurie ... |
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The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History
Author: Miriam Dobson & Benjamin Ziemann
How does the historian approach primary sources? How do interpretations differ? How can they be used to write history? "Reading Primary Sources" goes a long way to providing answers for these questions. In the first part ... |
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The Interpretation of Texts from Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History
Author: Miriam Dobson & Benjamin Ziemann
How does the historian approach primary sources? How do interpretations differ? How can they be used to write history? "Reading Primary Sources" goes a long way to providing answers for these questions. In the first part ... |
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Author: Marshall Grossman
Bringing together some of the best current practitioners of historical and formal criticism, "Reading Renaissance Ethics" assesses the ethical performance of renaissance texts as historical agents in their time and in ou ... |
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Shakespeare on Robben Island
Author: Ashwin Desai
"Desai is asking South Africa (including himself) to scrutinize new and old histories. The history of the victors laid down in the new history books and political discourses that dominate South Africa today. The histo ... |
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Companion Essays to George Robinson's Friendly Mission
Author: Anna Johnston & Mitchell Rolls
Brings together essays from Australian & international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals & Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-34, edited by NJB Plomley, 2008. Exte ... |
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Poetics and Playfulness in Plautus and Terence
Author: Alison Sharrock
For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres, and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy is now established in the mainstream of Classical literary criticism. Where most books stress t ... |
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Author: Craig A. Williams
This book invites us to approach friendship not as something that simply is, but as something performed in and through language. Roman friendship is read across a wide spectrum of Latin texts, from Catullus' poetry to Pe ... |
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Print Culture, Gender and Divination in Russia from 1765
Author: Faith Wigzell
Reading Russian Fortunes examines the huge popularity and cultural impact of fortune-telling among urban and literate Russians from the eighteenth century to the present. Based partly on a study of the numerous editions ... |
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Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Author: Karen Harvey
Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in historical context, Harvey pr ... |
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Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture
Author: Karen Harvey
Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in historical context, Harvey pr ... |
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Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China 1919-37
Author: Weipin Tsai
Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality through the study of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Based on a study ... |
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