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Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in
representing the "Other" against which European identity has been
constructed. What makes the case of Persia unique in this process
of identity formation is the ambivalent attitude that Europe has
shown in its imaginary about Persia. Persia is arguably the nation
of "the Orient" most referred to in Early Modern European writings,
frequently mentioned in various discourses of the Enlightenment
including theology, literature, and political theory. What was the
appeal of Persia to such a diverse intellectual population in
Enlightenment Europe? How did intellectuals engage with the 'facts'
about Persia? In what ways did utilizing Persia contribute to the
development of modern European identities? In this volume, an
international group of scholars with diverse academic backgrounds
has tackled these and other questions related to the
Enlightenment's engagement with Persia. In doing so, Persia and the
Enlightenment questions reductionist assessments of Modern Europe's
encounter with the Middle East, where a complex engagement is
simplified to a confrontation between liberalism and Islam, or an
exaggerated Orientalism. By carefully studying Persia in the
Enlightenment narratives, this volume throws new light on the
complexity of intercultural encounters and their impact on the
shaping of collective identities.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most
feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the
Stasi.
The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret
services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the
KGB, and even more efficient. In its attempt at total coverage of
civil society, the Ministry for State Security came close to
realizing the totalitarian ideal of a political police force. Based
on research in archival files unlocked just after the fall of the
Berlin Wall and available to few German and Western readers, this
volume details the Communist Party s attempt to control all aspects
of East German civil society, and sets out what is known of the
regime s support for international terrorism in the 1970s and
1980s.
STASI will be of much interest to students of intelligence
studies, German politics and international relations."
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Unlike many existing books on toxicology that cover either toxicity
of a particular substance or toxicity of chemicals on particular
organ systems, Toxicological Risk Assessment of Chemicals: A
Practical Guide lays out the principle activities of conducting a
toxicological risk assessment, including international approaches
and methods for the risk assessment of chemical substances. It
illustrates each step in the process: hazard identification, a dose
response assessment, and exposure assessment. The book also
summarizes the basic concepts of interaction of chemicals in
mixtures and discusses various approaches to testing such mixtures.
Features: Addresses standards from all international regulatory
agencies Presents the steps in risk assessment, including hazard
identification, exposure assessment, and risk characterization
Covers the assessment of multiple chemical exposures or chemical
mixtures Contains data from both human and animal studies Explains
the linearized multi-stage mathematical model widely used by the US
EPA for characterizing
This book is a fascinating new examination of one of the most
feared and efficient secret services the world has ever known, the
Stasi.
The East German Stasi was a jewel among the communist secret
services, the most trusted by its Russian mother organization the
KGB, and even more efficient. In its attempt at a ~total coveragea
(TM) of civil society, the Ministry for State Security came close
to realizing the totalitarian ideal of a political police force.
Based on research in archival files unlocked just after the fall of
the Berlin Wall and available to few German and Western readers,
this volume details the Communist Partya (TM)s attempt to control
all aspects of East German civil society, and sets out what is
known of the regimea (TM)s support for international terrorism in
the 1970s and 1980s.
STASI will be of much interest to students of intelligence
studies, German politics and international relations.
The concept of heresy is deeply rooted in Christian European
culture. The palpable increase in incidences of heresy in the
Middle Ages may be said to directly relate to the Christianity's
attempts to define orthodoxy and establish conformity at its
centre, resulting in the sometimes forceful elimination of
Christian sects. In the transition from medieval to early modern
times, however, the perception of heresy underwent a profound
transformation, ultimately leading to its decriminalization and the
emergence of a pluralistic religious outlook. The essays in this
volume offer readers a unique insight into this little-understood
cultural shift. Half of the chapters investigate the manner in
which the church and its attendant civil authorities defined and
proscribed heresy, whilst the other half focus on the means by
which early modern writers sought to supersede such definition and
proscription. The result of these investigations is a multifaceted
historical account of the construction and serial reconstruction of
one of the key categories of European theological, juristic and
political thought. The contributors explore the role of nationalism
and linguistic identity in constructions of heresy, its analogies
with treason and madness, the role of class and status in the
responses to heresy. In doing so they provide fascinating insights
into the roots of the historicization of heresy and the role of
this historicization in the emergence of religious pluralism.
This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide
variety of millenarians who were active in the 17th and 18th
centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern
Europe. It provides much food for thought for students and teachers
of early modern ideas, the history of philosophy and religion, and
the making of the modern world. It opens up many avenues for
further work.
The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of
speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in
Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories.
Representing the views of both moderate and radical
eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars
discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the
extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth
century. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over
the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, the
West, has given rise to a triumphant Enlightenment narrative of
universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and the
disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other
liberal rights.
"Beyond the Persecuting Society" constructs a history of toleration
from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. There is a
myth--easily shattered--that Western societies since the
Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the
differences between individuals and groups, and another--too
readily accepted--that before the rise of secularism in the modern
period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In
"Beyond the Persecuting Society" John Christian Laursen, Cary J.
Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second
generalization. If intolerance and religious persecution have been
at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it
is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and
theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have
realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch,
Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and
experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous
Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn,
from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century
Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection
of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,
Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive
correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its
embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present. In addition
to the editors, contributors are Detlef Dering, Arlen Feldwick,
Randolph C. Head, Marion Leathers Kuntz, Thomas F. Mayer, Constant
J. Mews, Richard Popkin, Gary Remer, and H. Frank Way. ""Beyond the
Persecuting Society" confronts the myth that there was no general
conception or practice of religious toleration before the
Enlightenment. . . . It is the great strength of this collection
that the diversity and richness of the often tentative allowance
for confessional pluralism can be documented at times when unity of
faith was seen as no less necessary than unity of
obedience."--"Albion" John Christian Laursen is Associate Professor
of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside,
and author of "The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients,
Montaigne, Hume and Kant." Cary J. Nederman is Associate Professor
of Political Science at the University of Arizona and author of
"Community and Consent: The Secular Political Theory of Marsiglio
of Padua's "Defensor Pacis.""
John-Christian Luhrs gewinnt Erklarungsansatze fur das Agieren in
hoher Marktturbulenz und konstruiert ein transdisziplinares
konzeptionelles Raster, das er mit empirischen Erkenntnissen
fullt."
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