Search Results - "émigré"

Claiming Exodus a cultural history of Afro-Atlantic identity, 1774-1903 / by Thomas, Rhondda Robinson

Table of Contents: “…Exodus and the politics of liberty in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, 1760-1800 -- Exodus as the blueprint for building free black communities in America and abroad, 1800-1840 -- Afro-Atlantic exodus: integration vs. emigration in the era of manifest destiny, 1840-1861 -- Exodus, The civil war, and reconstruction: from Egypt to the border of Canaan, an American journey, 1861-1877 -- African Americans in the nadir: American Egypt, American Canaan, 1877-1900 -- Afterword: The first Joshua generation-stranded on the border of Canaan, 1895-1903.…”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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Radical Humanism : Selected Essays / by Amery, Jean

Table of Contents: “…After five thousand newspaper articles : how I became a writer -- Being a Jew : a personal account -- In the waiting room of death : reflections on the Warsaw ghetto -- Antisemitism on the left -- Eternal outcasts : prejudices against emigrants -- The time of rehabilitation : the Third Reich and historical objectivity -- Wasted words : thoughts on Germany since 1945 -- Nietzsche the contemporary : on his essay "Schopenhauer as educator" -- The limits of perspicacity : on Ludwig Wittgenstein's culture and values -- Simone Weil : beyond the legend -- Sartre : greatness and failure -- Enlightenment as philosophia perennis.…”
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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Paris Bride : A Modernist Life by Schad, John, Schad, John

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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.…”
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Hot books in the Cold War : the CIA-funded secret book distribution program behind the Iron Curtain / by Reisch, Alfred A. (Alfred Alexander), 1931-

Table of Contents: “…Minden and his concept of cultural and ideological competition -- The New York Book Center : books, books, and more books -- The book project reaches new heights : the golden age of the 1960s -- Western and émigré books and periodicals published with covert support -- New opportunities through East-West contacts -- The early 1970s : the international advisory council -- A lasting enemy -- The communist regimes on the defensive : criticisms, warnings, and attacks -- The person-to-person distribution program : a direct way to reach East Europeans, the early Polish program 1958-1959 -- Another vehicle for reaching the people of eastern Europe : the person-to-person distribution program and personalized mailings -- The most important book distribution point : Vienna -- Letters from Poland, the crucial country -- Letters from Czechoslovakia before and after 1968 -- Letters from Hungary under goulash communism -- Letters from Romania under the Ceausescu regime -- Letters from Bulgaria despite very strict censorship -- The last seventeen years : International Literary Centre, Ltd., East Europe, and the USSR.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…Dubnov -- "Some lesser known aspects": the anti-fascist campaign of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1936-40 / Daniel Tilles -- "The dark alien executive": Jewish producers, émigres and the British film industry in the 1930s / Edward Marshall.…”
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"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.…”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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New directions in Anglo-Jewish history

Table of Contents: “…Dubnov -- "Some lesser known aspects": the anti-fascist campaign of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1936-40 / Daniel Tilles -- "The dark alien executive": Jewish producers, émigres and the British film industry in the 1930s / Edward Marshall.…”
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"Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse" negotiating texts and contexts in contemporary Irish studies / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction negotiating texts and contexts -- Ireland in theory: the influence of French theory on Irish cultural and societal development -- The ethics of translation: Seamus Heaney's Cure at Troy and Beowulf -- The body politic: the ethics of responsibility and the responsibility of ethics in Seamus Heaney's The burial at Thebes -- "You can never know women": framing female identity in Dubliners -- The return and redefinition of the repressed: postcolonial studies and "Eveline" in Dubliners -- "Inner émigr'(s)": Derrida, Heaney, Yeats and the hauntological redefinition of Irishness -- "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse": Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture -- "Guests (geists) of the nation": a Heimlich (unheimlich) manoeuvre -- Global warnings: towards a deconstruction of the global and the local -- "T siad ag teacht": Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation.…”
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Back to the future of Irish studies festschrift for Tadhg Foley /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Maureen O'Connor -- Walking westward / Robert Young -- The leaving of Wessex: Thomas Hardy's emigrants / Penny Boumelha -- Nomadic figures: the "rhetorical excess" of Irishness in political economy / David Lloyd -- Roots of modernity: primitivism and primitive accumulation in nineteenth-century Ireland / Luke Gibbons -- Economy and ascendancy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Gordon Bigelow -- The art and science of political economy: Nassau Senior and Ireland in the 1830s / Ciara Boylan and Tom Boylan -- Some notes on Hutcheson Macauley Posnett (1855-1927) / Joep Leerssen -- From Bruff to the Balkans: James David Bouchier / Michael Foley -- Reading between the lines / Niamh O'Sullivan -- The world, the music, and the critic: some thoughts on Said's musical transgressions / Helen O'Shea -- Noses and monotheism / Maud Ellmann.…”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…The impossible Polish new wave and its accursed Émigré auteurs: Borowczyk, Polanski, Skolimowski and Zulawski / Michael Goddard -- Documentary and industrial decline in Hungary: the "zd Series" of Tamás Almási / John Cunningham -- Investigating the past, envisioning the future: an exploration of post-1991 Latvian documentary / Maruta Z. …”
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A companion to Eastern European cinemas

Table of Contents: “…The impossible Polish new wave and its accursed Émigré auteurs: Borowczyk, Polanski, Skolimowski and Zulawski / Michael Goddard -- Documentary and industrial decline in Hungary: the "zd Series" of Tamás Almási / John Cunningham -- Investigating the past, envisioning the future: an exploration of post-1991 Latvian documentary / Maruta Z. …”
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Hyphenated histories articulations of Central European Bildung and Slavic studies in the contemporary academy /

Table of Contents: “…: constructing the 'Ukrainian labour emigrant' in Ukraine / Natalia Khanenko Friesen -- The politics of language and popular culture in Dziga Vertov's "Man with a movie camera" / Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Inverted perspective and Serbian peasants : antiquities and the Byzantine revival in Serbia / Marko Zivkovic -- Spectacles of pain : Susan Sontag and Russian World War II photography / Elena Siemens -- Imagining a Soviet nation : cultural representations of the Ukrainian past at the twilight of the Stalin era / Serhy Yekelchyk.…”
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Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

Table of Contents: “…From the oceans to the mountains : spatial science in an age of empire / Michael S. Reidy -- Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn K. …”
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Romanticism and parenting image, instruction and ideology /

Table of Contents: “…Weber -- Family systems theory and "The man of fifty years" in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's journeyman years / Ingrin Broszeit-Rieger -- Wordsworth's mother tongue : mourning, language and identity in "The emigrant mother" / Robert C. Hale -- Reforming the space of the child : infancy and the reception of Wordsworth's "Ode" / David B. …”
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Knowing global environments new historical perspectives on the field sciences /

Table of Contents: “…From the oceans to the mountains : spatial science in an age of empire / Michael S. Reidy -- Emigrants and pioneers : Moritz Wagner's "law of migration" in context / Lynn K. …”
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Romanticism and parenting image, instruction and ideology /

Table of Contents: “…Weber -- Family systems theory and "The man of fifty years" in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's journeyman years / Ingrin Broszeit-Rieger -- Wordsworth's mother tongue : mourning, language and identity in "The emigrant mother" / Robert C. Hale -- Reforming the space of the child : infancy and the reception of Wordsworth's "Ode" / David B. …”
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