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One of the livlier debates amongst historians concerns the dates of the beginning and, particularly, the end of Prussian history. This work explores the slow death of Prussia by examining several key individuals and their actions at four distinct periods of Prussian history.

In this powerful study, Michael Cohen captures as never before the complex consciousness, vision, and legacy of the pioneering environmentalist John Muir. More than just another biography.

Blamed, at first, by the Spanish government for the recent Madrid train bombings, ETA (Euzkadi ta Askatasuna), the Basque nationalist organization, has been perhaps the most violent insurgent group on the European continent. Yet little is known about it outside of Spain. This book, now back in print, offers a full analytical study of ETA.

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering study, Jean Gelman Taylor offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia s extraordinary social world its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. With an emphasis on the urban ruling elite, she argues that Europeans and Asians alike were profoundly altered by their merging, resulting in a distinctive hybrid, Indo-Dutch culture. Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources travelers accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics "The Social World of Batavia," first published in 1983, forged new paths in the study of colonial society."

Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood.

This work provides a commentary on the landmarks of Irish agrarian history in the modern period.

Contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. These six volumes of ""A History of the Crusades"" stands as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.

As the nonprofessional theatre grows in popularity, its technology expands at a dizzying rate, presenting exciting new opportunities and challenges. This new edition of a stage manager's old friend takes into account many aspects of the new theatre technology, insuring the book's lasting place in college, high school, and community theatres.

An anthology grounded in the historic and aesthetic context of a crucial figure in 16th century English literature

In this book, the first edition of which was published in 1971 by Oxford University Press, Ihab Hassan takes Orphic dismemberment and regeneration as his metaphor for a radical crisis in art and language, culture and consciousness, which prefigures postmodern literature.

In this volume the author addresses issues concerned with East European Jews in German, and German Jewish, consciousness.

Provides a brief history and description of more than a hundred Roman cities, an extensive master bibliography, and a comprehensive glossary. Roman Cities will interest both scholars and students of Roman history and archeology, city planning, urban geography, and the social sciences.

An academic profile of redwood conservation in the mid-20th century. The author traces the changes in scientific wisdom from 19th-century romanticism and teleological evolutionism to more current ecological dynamism - and the influence of those intellectual developments on political history.

Traces the roots of classical education, from the warrior cultures of Homer, to the increasing importance of rhetoric and philosophy, to the adaptation of Hellenistic ideals within the Roman education system, and ending with the rise of Christian schools and churches in the early medieval period.

Our National Parks is a guidebook supreme, an exciting introduction to Yosemite and several other magnificent parks by the man who, more than any other person, helped to create them. After this fast-paced trip with Muir, past visitors to the parks will want to revisit them with new insights, and those who have never wandered these trails will not rest until they have done so. The book, long out of print, was originally published in 1901, its ten essays having previously appeared as articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Muir wrote them with a single purpose--to entice people, by his descriptions, to come to the parks, to see and enjoy them. If enough people did so, reasoned Muir, they would surely love the wilderness as he did, and the parks would be preserved. Muir carried out his public relations mission with remarkable success. Every page of this book carries his unbridled and irresistible enthusiasm. Our National Parks is part reminiscence, part philosophy, and mostly enticing description. It is all vintage Muir. Although the book treats Yellowstone, Sequoia, General Grant, and other national parks of the Western U.S., Muir devotes the bulk of the work to his first love--Yosemite, settled into the heart of the Sierra Nevada. Indeed, six of the book's chapters are devoted to Yosemite, treating the forests, wild gardens, fountains and streams, animals, and birds of the park. The concluding essay is an impassioned plea to save American forests. All visitors to the great western national parks--and all who will one day visit them--will be captivated by Muir's descriptions. The grandeur of this wilderness is reflected in the very spirit of John Muir. Both shine through every page of this remarkable book.

After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed a sophisticated system of public health. Carlo Cipolla throws new light on this subject, utilizing newly uncovered archival material.

The text of The Brothers Karamazov is removed from English-speaking readers not only by time but also by linguistic and cultural boundaries. Victor Terras's companion work offers readers an understanding of the Dostoevsky novel as the expression of a philosophy and a work of art.

The story of the making of ""To Have and Have Not"" is an exciting one, ranging from the reported romance between its stars, to some of the more subtle aspects of the wartime alliance between the United States and the Batista regime in Cuba. This introduction leads us to an appreciation of one of Hollywood's most memorable films.

"An impressive review of reputed fascist movements, at once setting them apart from other authoritarian nationalist organizations and bringing them together within a qualified generic category. Running throughout the volume, and valuable to readers at every level, is a careful critique of the major debates that divide scholars on this most unintelligible 'ism' of them all. Payne precisely defines issues, cites the best literature in the major European languages, and offers with moderation and intelligence his own conclusions on the question."--Gilbert Allardyce, American Historical Review

Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished ScholarshipThis is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single critical paradigm and created a new era in the study of public discourse. Its original publication in 1965 created a spirited controversy. Here Edwin Black examines the assumptions and principles underlying neo-Aristotelian theory and suggests an alternative approach to criticism, centering around the concept of the "rhetorical transaction." This new edition, containing Black's new introduction, will enable students and scholars to secure a copy of one of the most influential books ever written in the field.

This is the prequel book to The End of Slavery in Africa, both very well-respected examinations of this subject.

Contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. These six volumes of ""A History of the Crusades"" stands as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.

These Chippewa myths and tales were recorded between 1941 and 1944 by four young field workers who later became prominent anthropologists: Joseph B. Casagrande, Ernestine Friedl, Robert E. Ritzenthaler and Victor Barnouw. This book provides a comparative and sociological context for the tales.