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Bridging East and West explores the literary evolution of Ol'ha
Kobylians'ka, one of Ukraine's foremost modernist writers.
Investigating themes of feminism, populism, Nietzscheanism,
nationalism, and fascism in her works, this study presents an
alternative intellectual genealogy in turn-of-the-century European
arts and letters whose implications reach far beyond the field of
Ukrainian studies. For feminist scholars, Bridging East and West
makes accessible a thorough account of a central, yet overlooked,
woman writer who served as a model and a contributor within a major
cultural tradition. For those working in Victorian studies or
comparative fascism and for those interested in Nietzsche and his
influence on European intellectuals, Kobylians'ka emerges in this
study as an unlikely, but no less active, trailblazer in the social
and aesthetic theories that would define European debates about
culture, science, and politics in the first half of the twentieth
century. For those interested in questions of transnationalism and
intersectionality, this study's discussion of Kobylians'ka's hybrid
cultural identity and philosophical program exemplifies cultural
interchange and irreducible complexities of cultural identity.
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Raymond Lodge's death from shell shrapnel in 1915 was unremarkable
in a war where many young men would die, but his father's response
to his untimely death was. Sir Oliver Lodge, physicist, scientist,
part inventor of the wireless telegraph and the spark plug, could
not let go of Raymond and went on a controversial and bizarre
journey into the realm of life after death. Following Sir Oliver's
journey, Dear Raymond, explores the untapped topic of spirituality
pre- and post-war, the influence that a national tragedy can have
on a nation's belief system and the long lasting effects from this
time that we still feel today. Alongside Lodge were some of the
great names of the day, as a member of the Ghost Club and the
Fabian Society he was in contact with famous men such as Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, who went on his own mission into the afterlife after
losing a son. Lodge's exploration and the controversy it exploded
opens our eyes to how modern religion has been shaped and changed
by the conflicts of the Twentieth Century.
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering
an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated
throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the
University of Virginia's expansive community, many of whose members
are involved in teaching issues of racism, public art, free speech,
and social ethics. In the wake of this momentous incident,
scholars, educators, and researchers have come together in this
important new volume to thoughtfully reflect on the historic events
of August 11 and 12, 2017. How should we respond to the moral and
ethical challenges of our times? What are our individual and
collective responsibilities in advancing the principles of
democracy and justice? Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and
Inequity brings together the work of these UVA faculty members
catalyzed by last summer's events to examine their community's
history more deeply and more broadly. Their essays-ranging from
John Mason on the local legacy of the Lost Cause to Leslie Kendrick
on free speech to Rachel Wahl on the paradoxes of activism-examine
truth telling, engaged listening, and ethical responses, and aim to
inspire individual reflection, as well as to provoke considered and
responsible dialogue. This prescient new collection is a
conversation that understands and owns America's past
and-crucially-shows that our past is very much part of our present.
Contributors: Asher D. Biemann; Gregory B. Fairchild; Risa
Goluboff; Bonnie Gordon; Claudrena N. Harold; Willis Jenkins;
Leslie Kendrick; John Edwin Mason; Guian McKee; Louis P. Nelson; P.
Preston Reynolds; Frederick Schauer; Elizabeth R. Varon; Rachel
Wahl; Lisa Woolfork.
In this revised edition of A Short History of the Spanish Civil
War, Julian Casanova tells the gripping story of the Spanish Civil
War. Written in elegant and accessible prose, the book charts the
most significant events and battles alongside the main players in
the tragedy. Casanova provides answers to some of the pressing
questions (such as the roots and extent of anticlerical violence)
that have been asked in the 70 years that have passed since the
painful defeat of the Second Republic. Now with a revised
introduction, Casanova offers an overview of recent
historiographical shifts; not least the wielding of the conflict to
political ends in certain strands of contemporary historiography
towards an alarming neo- Francoist revisionism. It is the ideal
introduction to the Spanish Civil War.
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual
burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011
proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown
decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous
regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of
'ordinary' citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of
the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of
belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency
within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance
to Western imperialism and the positioning of activists as agents
of sustainable change. Instead, it pays close attention to the
continuities from the past and the contradictions at work in
relation to identification, repetition and conflict. Combining
postcolonial theory with a psychosocial studies framework it
explores the complexities of inhabiting a society in a state of
conflict and offers a careful analysis of current theories of
gender, religion and secularism, agency, resistance and compliance,
in a society riven with divisions and conflicts.
Again available in paperback is Eric Sevareid's widely
acclaimed Not So Wild a Dream. In this brilliant first-person
account of a young journalist's experience during World War II,
Sevareid records both the events of the war and the development of
journalistic strategies for covering international affairs. He also
recalls vividly his own youth in North Dakota, his decision to
study journalism, and his early involvement in radio reporting
during the beginnings of World War II.
This multi-disciplinary volume is one of the few collections about
social change covering various cases of mass violence and genocide.
In life under persecution, social relations and social structures
were not absent and not simply replaced by an ethno-racial order.
The studies in this book show the influence of social structures
like gender, age and class on life under persecution. Exploring
practices in family and labor relations and of collective action,
they counter claims of an atomization of society or total
uprootedness of victims. Despite being exposed to poverty and want
and under the permanent threat of political violence, persecuted
people tried to develop their own agency. Case studies are about
the Jewish and Armenian persecutions, Rwanda, the war of
decolonization in Mozambique and civilian refuges in Belarus during
World War II. The authors are a mix of experienced scholars and
young researchers.
How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without
consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks?
For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with
writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians 'how to make the best of
things' during the air raids, rationing, allotment tending and
blackouts of the Second World War. The result is a warm celebration
of the British population's ability to 'make do and mend'.
The accepted narrative of the interwar U.S. Navy is one of
transformation from a battle-centric force into a force that could
fight on the ""three planes"" of war: in the skies, on the water,
and under the waves. The political and cultural tumult that
accompanied this transformation is another story. Ryan D. Wadle's
Selling Sea Power explores this little-known but critically
important aspect of naval history. After World War I, the U.S. Navy
faced numerous challenges: a call for naval arms limitation, the
ascendancy of air power, and budgetary constraints exacerbated by
the Great Depression. Selling Sea Power tells the story of how the
navy met these challenges by engaging in protracted public
relations campaigns at a time when the means and methods of
reaching the American public were undergoing dramatic shifts. While
printed media continued to thrive, the rapidly growing film and
radio industries presented new means by which the navy could
connect with politicians and the public. Deftly capturing the
institutional nuances and the personalities in play, Wadle tracks
the U.S. Navy's at first awkward but ultimately successful
manipulation of mass media. At the same time, he analyzes what the
public could actually see of the service in the variety of media
available to them, including visual examples from progressively
more sophisticated - and effective - public relations campaigns.
Integrating military policy and strategy with the history of
American culture and politics, Selling Sea Power offers a unique
look at the complex links between the evolution of the art and
industry of persuasion and the growth of the modern U.S. Navy, as
well as the connections between the workings of communications and
public relations and the command of military and political power.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER.
A reissue of this classic title brought up to date with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and a new introduction by Andrew Morton.
This edition reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication, and on the long-term legacy of Diana, the woman who helped reinvigorate the royal family, giving it a more emotional, human face, and thus helping it move forward into the 21st century.
In this book, James B. Greenberg and Thomas K. Park take an
anthropological approach to the economic history of the past one
thousand years and define credit as a potentially transformative
force involving inequalties, rather than an exchange of equal
valued commodites. Guiding readers through the medieval period all
the way to the modern day, and tracking through the Mediterranean
and Europe, Greenberg and Park reorient financial history and
position social capital and ethical thought at its center. They
examine the multicultural origins of credit and finance, from
banking to credit cards and predatory lending, and bringing us up
to date, they explore the forces that led to the collapse of global
credit markets in 2007-2008. This book is recommended for scholars
of anthropology, history, economics, religion, and sociology.
The successful evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from
Belgium and northern France through the port of Dunkirk and across
adjacent beaches is rightly regarded as one of the most significant
episodes in the nation's long history, although Winston Churchill
sagely cautioned in Parliament on 4th June that the country "must
be careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a
victory. Wars are not won by evacuations". Nevertheless, the
Dunkirk evacuation, Operation "Dynamo", was a victory and, like
many others before it, it was a victory of sea power. The Royal
Navy achieved what it set out to do, despite grievous losses, in
the teeth of determined opposition. It denied an aggressive and
ruthless continental power a potentially war-winning total victory
that could have changed the direction of civilization for
generations to come. The loss of the main British field army would
have enfeebled the nation militarily and psychologically, prompting
political upheaval, potentially resulting in a negotiated peace
with Nazi Germany on unfavourable terms dictated by Adolf Hitler.
The undeniable success of the evacuation was certainly a crucial
naval and military achievement but its positive effect on the
nation's morale was just as important, instilling confidence in the
eventual outcome of the war, whatever the immediate future might
hold, and creating optimism in the face of adversity that added
"the Dunkirk spirit" to the English language. This edition of
Dunkirk, Operation "Dynamo" 26th May - 4th June 1940, An Epic of
Gallantry, publishes the now declassified Battle Summary No 41, a
document once classified as 'Restricted' and produced in small
numbers only for official government purposes. This Summary, The
Evacuation from Dunkirk, lodged in the archive at Britannia Royal
Naval College, Dartmouth, is one of the very few surviving copies
in existence and records events in minute detail, being written
soon after the evacuation using the words of the naval officers
involved. This makes it a unique record and a primary source for
the history of Operation "Dynamo" from mid-May 1940 until its
conclusion on 4th June. The original document has been supplemented
in this title by a Foreword written by Admiral Sir James
Burnell-Nugent, formerly the Royal Navy's Commander-in-Chief,
Fleet, whose father commanded one of the destroyers sunk off
Dunkirk when rescuing troops. In addition, there is a modern
historical introduction and commentary, putting the evacuation into
context and this edition is enhanced by the inclusion of a large
number of previously unpublished photographs of the beaches, town,
and harbour of Dunkirk taken immediately after the conclusion of
the operation, together with others illustrating many of the ships
that took part. Britannia Naval Histories of World War II - an
important source in understanding the critical naval actions of the
period.
This study examines the role of modern sports in constructing
national identities and the way leaders have exploited sports to
achieve domestic and foreign policy goals. The book focuses on the
development of national sporting cultures in Great Britain and the
United States, the particular processes by which the rest of Europe
and the world adopted or rejected their games, and the impact of
sports on domestic politics and foreign affairs. Teams competing in
international sporting events provide people a shared national
experience and a means to differentiate "us" from "them."
Particular attention is paid to the transnational influences on the
construction of sporting communities, and why some areas resisted
dominant sporting cultures while others adopted them and changed
them to fit their particular political or societal needs. A
recurrent theme of the book is that as much as they try,
politicians have been frustrated in their attempts to achieve
political ends through sport. The book provides a basis for
understanding the political, economic, social, and diplomatic
contexts in which these games were played, and to present issues
that spur further discussion and research.
The acclaimed autobiography of Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt is
brought to the reader anew in this well-produced edition, inclusive
of all notes and appendices. Written over years and published in
1913, this lengthy yet engrossing biography sees one of the United
States finest Presidents recount his life in his own words.
Theodore Roosevelt sets out events in a way which clarify how he
came to possess his beliefs. We hear of his love of the great
outdoors which would in turn result in the establishment of
America's national parks, and his belief in commerce as an engine
for progress which would lead to the state-sponsored construction
of the Panama Canal during his presidency. Seldom straying to
dryness or heady description of the many and varied events of his
life, Theodore Roosevelt instead imbues every chapter with keynote
personality and liveliness. Personal letters with influential
figures are shared, placing the reader deep in the political world
which this popular, charismatic leader was immersed.
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