Search Results - Politics and literature

Dutch culture in the Golden Age by Price, J. L.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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The Oxford illustrated history of medieval England /

Table of Contents: “…Medieval England : identity, politics and society / Nigel Saul -- Anglo-Saxon England, c.500-1066 / Janet L. …”

The Hittites and their world by Collins, Billie Jean

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Knowledge, power, and discipline German studies and national identity / by Bontempelli, Pier Carlo

Table of Contents: “…The metamorphoses of domination and the subject of German studies -- The origins of modern German studies -- Under the aegis of Goethe : liberal historiography from Gervinus to Dilthey -- The science of literature and the steam engine : Wilhelm Scherer and the positivist school -- Wilhelm Dilthey and Geistesgeschichte -- German studies in the years of National Socialism -- The break in political continuity and the continuity of the disciplinary apparatus, 1945-1968 -- The dialectics of rebellion : 1968 and its consequences -- After 1968 : transforming the canon, shifting the paradigms -- Beyond the year 2000 : German studies between new approaches and the resurgence of philology.…”
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An introduction to Danish culture by Berdichevsky, Norman, 1943-

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Contemporary Ukraine on the cultural map of Europe

Table of Contents: “…Mapping the nation : history, politics, and religion -- The Western dimension of the making of modern Ukraine / Roman Szporluk -- Cultural faultlines and political cleavages / Mykola Riabchuk -- Ukraine's road to Europe : a still controversial issue / Giulia Lami -- Finis Europae : contemporary Ukraine's conflicting inheritances from the humanistic "West" and the Byzantine "East" (A Triptych) / Oxana Pachlovska -- The status of religion in Ukraine and European standards / Andrew Sorokowski -- Missionaries and pluralism : how the law changed the religious landscape in Ukraine / Catherine Wanner -- The future of Ukraine, if values determine the course : what opinion polls disclose about public attitudes on political and economic issues / Elehie Skoczylas -- Prosecuting Soviet crimes : the case of Ukraine and the European practice / Myroslava Antonovych -- Collective memory as a device for constructing a new gender myth / Marian Rubchak -- Reflecting identities : the literary paradigm -- Mirrors, windows, and maps : the typology of cultural identification in contemporary Ukrainian literature / Maria Zubrytska -- Cultural perceptions, mirror images, and western identification in new Ukrainian drama / Larissa M.L. …”
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Key papers on Korea : essays celebrating 25 years of the Centre of Korean Studies, SOAS, University of London /

Table of Contents: “…Literature, philosophy and society -- Introduction: literature, philosophy and society / Andrew David Jackson -- The task and risk of translating classical Korean sijo: Yun Sondo and Hwang Chini / Hye-joon Yoon -- Wandering bodies, wondering minds: the body, territory and national identity in Pak T'aewon, Ch'oe Inhun and Chu Insok's stories about Kubo / Justyna Najbar-miller -- Reviving the Confucian spirit of ethical practicality: Tasan's notions of song (nature) and sim (heart/mind) and their political implication / Daeyeol Kim -- Shamans, ghosts and hobgoblins amidst Korean folk customs / Michael J. …”
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Sixteenth-century Scotland essays in honour of Michael Lynch /

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Memories of 1968 international perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Hilwig -- Memory and revisionism: the Chinese cultural revolution on the Internet / Lan Yang -- Utopian moments: memory culture and cultural memory of the German student movement / Ingo Cornils -- Reading Mexico 1968: literature, memory and politics / Irene Fenoglio-Limon -- Have the best ideas stood the test of time?…”
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Japan's foreign policy since 1945 by Cooney, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…-- Triangulating politics: America, China, and Japan -- The China question -- The question of North Korea -- Japanese policy: action and reaction -- Where is Japan going? …”
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Hidden histories Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean / by Raʻad, Basem L.

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Jihad and Islam in World War I Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary of Snouck Hurgronje’s “Holy War Made in Germany” /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal -- (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke -- Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi -- Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. …”
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Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal -- (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke -- Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi -- Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. …”
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Jihad and Islam in World War I : Studies on the Ottoman Jihad on the Centenary of Snouck Hurgronje's "Holy War Made in Germany" /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction : the Ottoman jihad, the German jihad and the sacralization of war / Erik-Jan Zürcher -- Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, "holy war" and colonial concerns / Leon Buskens -- The Ottoman proclamation of jihad / Mustafa Aksakal -- (Not) using political Islam : the German Empire and its failed propaganda campaign in the Near and Middle East, 1914-1918 and beyond / Tilman Lüdke -- Domestic aspects of Ottoman jihad : the role of religious motifs and religious agents in the mobilization of the Ottoman Army / Mehmet Beşikçi -- Ottoman jihad or jihads : the Ottoman Shīʻī jihad, the successful one / M. …”
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Race for empire Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans during World War II / by Fujitani, Takashi

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Heian Japan, centers and peripheries

Table of Contents: “…Between and beyond centers and peripheries / Mikael Adolphson and Edward Kamens -- Part I: Locating political centers and peripheries -- From female sovereign to mother of the nation: women and government in the Heian period / Fukutō Sanae with Takeshi Watanabe -- Court and provinces under Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira / Joan R. …”
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Leaders and legacies in Assyriology and Bible the collected essays of David B. Weisberg / by Weisberg, David B.

Table of Contents: “…Lehman, HUC mss 951-981 from Kai Feng, and a purported link between China and Yemen -- Some observations on late Babylonian texts and rabbinic literature -- Visibility of the new moon in cuneiform and rabbinic sources -- "Feet of iron" in the Babylonian Talmud? …”
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Latina/os and World War II : mobility, agency, and ideology / by Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie, Olguín, B. V., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Haney -- "Con dolor de corazon" : militarization and transracial recognition among Mexican Americans and Filipinos in the Bataan Death March / Jordan Beltran Gonzales -- Tejanas on the home front : women, bombs, and the (re)gendering of war in Mexican American World War II literature / Patricia Portales -- Interrogating the soldado razo : masculinity, soldiering, and ideology in Mexican American World War II memoir and theater / B.V. …”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Images and stereotypes: Scandinavia -- Christian hatred of the other : theological rhetoric vs. political reality / Yvonne Friedman -- The life of the Prophet Muhammad in East Norse / Jonathan Adams -- Kyn / Fólk / Þjóð / Ætt : proto-Racial thinking and its application to Jews in Old Norse literature / Richard Cole -- IV. …”
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Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages

Table of Contents: “…Rosenwein -- Monastic prisoners or opting out? Political coercion and -- honour in the Frankish kingdoms291 -- Mayke de Jong -- Monasteries in a peripheral area: seventh-century Gallaecia329 -- Pablo C. …”
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