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Winner of the 2022 Ab Imperio Award Hoping to unite all of
humankind and revolutionize the world, Ludwik Zamenhof launched a
new international language called Esperanto from late imperial
Russia in 1887. Ordinary men and women in Russia and all over the
world soon transformed Esperanto into a global movement. Esperanto
and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia traces
the history and legacy of this effort: from Esperanto's roots in
the social turmoil of the pre-revolutionary Pale of Settlement; to
its links to socialist internationalism and Comintern bids for
world revolution; and, finally, to the demise of the Soviet
Esperanto movement in the increasingly xenophobic Stalinist 1930s.
In doing so, this book reveals how Esperanto - and global language
politics more broadly - shaped revolutionary and early Soviet
Russia. Based on extensive archival materials, Brigid O'Keeffe's
book provides the first in-depth exploration of Esperanto at
grassroots level and sheds new light on a hitherto overlooked area
of Russian history. As such, Esperanto and Languages of
Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia will be of immense value
to both historians of modern Russia and scholars of
internationalism, transnational networks, and sociolinguistics.
In this volume, we approach the phenomenon of slavery and other
types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically
and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical
fields. Detailed analyses of key terms that are associated with the
conceptualization of strong asymmetrical dependencies promise to
provide new insights into the self-concept and knowledge of
pre-modern societies. The majority of these key terms have not been
studied from a semantic or terminological perspective so far. Our
understanding of lexical fields is based on an onomasiological
approach - which linguistic items are used to refer to a concept?
Which words are used to express a concept? This means that the
concept is a semantic unit which is not directly accessible but may
be manifested in different ways on the linguistic level. We are
interested in single concepts such as 'wisdom' or 'fear', but also
in more complex semantic units like 'strong asymmetrical
dependencies'. In our volume, we bring together and compare case
studies from very different social orders and normative
perspectives. Our examples range from Ancient China and Egypt over
Greek and Maya societies to Early Modern Russia, the Ottoman Empire
and Islamic and Roman law.
This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications
in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources,
timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence,
interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
provides assessment support for A level with sample answers,
sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the
new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to
ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you
personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect
for revision.
Rocking the Wall explores the epic Bruce Springsteen concert in
East Berlin on July 19, 1988, and how it changed the world. Erik
Kirschbaum spoke to scores of fans and concert organizers on both
sides of the Berlin Wall, including Jon Landau, Springsteen's
long-time friend and manager, to unearth this fascinating story.
With lively behind-the-scenes details from eyewitness accounts,
magazine and newspaper clippings, TV recordings, and even Stasi
files, as well as photos and memorabilia, this gripping book
transports you back in the middle of those heady times shortly
before the Berlin Wall fell and gives you a front-row spot at one
of the biggest and most exciting rock concerts ever, anywhere. It
takes you to an unforgettable journey with Springsteen through the
divided city, to his hotel, and his dressing room at the open air
concert grounds in Weissensee, where The Boss, live on stage,
delivered a courageous speech against the Wall to a record-breaking
crowd of more than 300,000 delirious young East Germans full of joy
and hope. Their thunderous reaction to his speech was so intense
that it even briefly brought tears to Springsteen's eyes. And their
tremendous, powerful cry for freedom became the "final nail in the
coffin" of the Communist regime and subsequently helped fuel the
uprising that brought down the Wall.
Erik Kirschbaum, a native of New York City and long-time
Springsteen fan, has lived in Germany for more than twenty-five
years and in Berlin since 1993. He is a correspondent for the
Reuters international news agency and has written about
entertainment, politics, sports, economics, as well as disasters
and climate change in nearly thirty countries. He is a devoted
father of four, an enthusiastic cyclist, a solar power entrepreneur
and an unabashed crusader for renewable energy. Rocking the Wall is
his third book.
Praise for Rocking The Wall
Inside this book is as clear a statement of the power of this
music as anyone, ever, has come up with." -Dave Marsh
"An illuminating and impressively detailed examination of a
frequently overlooked moment in the nexus of rock music and
political liberation. I learned a great deal and enjoyed doing so."
-Eric Alterman
In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving, whose
libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt was
tried in April 2000, the High Court in London labeled Irving a
falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge,
would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did.
Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief adviser for
the defense, uses this famous trial as a lens for exploring a range
of difficult questions about the nature of the historian's
enterprise.
What did Europe owe Spain in the eighteenth century? This infamous
question, posed by Nicolas Masson de Morvilliers in the
Encyclopedie methodique, caused an international uproar at the
height of the Enlightenment. His polemical article 'Espagne', with
its tabloid-like prose, resonated with a French-reading public that
blamed the Spanish Empire for France's eroding economy. Spain was
outraged, and responded by publishing its own translation-rebuttal,
the article 'Espana' penned by Julian de Velasco for the Spanish
Encyclopedia metodica. In this volume, the original French and
Spanish articles are presented in facing-page English translations,
allowing readers to examine the content and rhetorical maneuvers of
Masson's challenge and Velasco's riposte. This comparative format,
along with the editors' critical introduction, extensive
annotations, and an accompanying bibliographical essay, reveals how
knowledge was translated and transferred across Europe and the
transatlantic world. The two encyclopedia articles bring to life a
crucial period of Spanish history, culture and commerce, while
offering an alternative framework for understanding the
intellectual underpinnings of a Spanish Enlightenment that differed
radically from French philosophie. Ultimately, this book uncovers a
Spain determined to claim its place in the European Enlightenment
and on the geopolitical stage.
The World Today Series: Nordic, Central, and Southeastern Europe is
an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in
Nordic, Central and Southeastern Europe, past and present. It is
organized by individual chapters for each country and presents a
complete and authoritative overview of each region's geography,
people, history, political system, constitution, parliament,
parties, political leaders, and elections. The combination of
factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed
projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers,
practitioners in international development, media professionals,
government officials, potential investors and students. Now in its
20th edition, the content is thorough yet perfect for a
one-semester introductory course or general library reference.
Available in both print and e-book formats and priced low to fit
student and library budgets.
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