Byron’s Romantic Politics
The Problem of Metahistory
Byron exists as romantic myth: a passionate lover, staunch friend, and fighter for democracy. This book proves the truth is the opposite. Using letters never before transcribed, it argues Byron was an unscrupulous sponger who despised democracy and the Greeks.
Byron exists as romantic myth: a passionate lover, staunch friend, and fighter for democracy. This book proves the truth is the opposite. Using letters never before transcribed, it argues Byron was an unscrupulous sponger who despised democracy and the Greeks.
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Born a slave, C.H.J. Taylor became an influential, controversial figure in African American conservatism. He argued poverty, not racism, was the principal barrier to Black advancement, recruiting Blacks to vote Democratic and clashing with figures like Douglass and Ida B. Wells.
Born a slave, C.H.J. Taylor became an influential, controversial figure in African American conservatism. He argued poverty, not racism, was the principal barrier to Black advancement, recruiting Blacks to vote Democratic and clashing with figures like Douglass and Ida B. Wells.
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The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
The importance of overcoming the urgent issues concerning the sustainability of our planet cannot be overstated. The contributions gathered here highlight these pivotal global issues and their potential long-term resolutions from a number of interrelated perspectives.
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This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
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This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.
This collection provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first centenary. It focuses on both regional aspects and major events and phenomena, including the importance of World War I and the birth of the Communist International.
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Challenging Change
Literary and Linguistic Responses
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.
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Challenging Ideas
Theory and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
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Changes in Contemporary Ireland
Texts and Contexts
This interdisciplinary study explores the profound changes in Irish society since 1980. It juxtaposes the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement with church scandals, new violence, and recession, asking what real progress can be traced in modern Ireland.
This interdisciplinary study explores the profound changes in Irish society since 1980. It juxtaposes the Celtic Tiger and the Good Friday Agreement with church scandals, new violence, and recession, asking what real progress can be traced in modern Ireland.
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Charisma and Religious War in America
Ministries and Rivalries of Sister Aimee and “Fighting Bob”
In 1920s Los Angeles, two figures shaped the city’s spiritual innovation: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and Reverend Robert Shuler. Both Protestant newcomers reached unparalleled fame, yet despised each other, sparking a “holy” war for the soul of the city.
In 1920s Los Angeles, two figures shaped the city’s spiritual innovation: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and Reverend Robert Shuler. Both Protestant newcomers reached unparalleled fame, yet despised each other, sparking a “holy” war for the soul of the city.
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Charles Edward of Saxe-Coburg
The German Red Cross and the Plan to Kill “Unfit” Citizens 1933-1945
Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated Hitler’s secret program to eliminate the handicapped, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme.
Readers in medicine, law, sociology and history will be interested in this tragic story of a weak-willed, but powerful Nazi leader who facilitated Hitler’s secret program to eliminate the handicapped, even though one of his own relatives died in the “euthanasia” scheme.
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“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
“Three women ruined the Kingdom: Eve, The Queen and the Countess of Derby.” This biography pieces together the life of Charlotte de La Trémoïlle, a Huguenot who defended Lathom House during a brutal siege and was the only woman sequestered by Oliver Cromwell’s Parliament.
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Checking the Imbalance(s) of the Italian Judiciary
Italian Garantismo (1975-2025)
Can the Italian Judiciary face the challenges of a liberal world? This book reviews the changes needed to allow a liberal society to flourish and for citizens to trust the system.
Can the Italian Judiciary face the challenges of a liberal world? This book reviews the changes needed to allow a liberal society to flourish and for citizens to trust the system.
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Fourteen authors present their work on children in past societies, from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. These studies explore the lives and deaths of children, challenging our notions of the past. The past will never be the same after its children have entered the scene…
Fourteen authors present their work on children in past societies, from the Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. These studies explore the lives and deaths of children, challenging our notions of the past. The past will never be the same after its children have entered the scene…
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ChiMoKoJa
Histories of China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan—Volume 1
This initial volume of the biannual and peer-reviewed journal of the same name covers a variety of aspects of East Asian history, including the Russian East Asiatic Company in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and the role of Japan during the early Cold War.
This initial volume of the biannual and peer-reviewed journal of the same name covers a variety of aspects of East Asian history, including the Russian East Asiatic Company in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904-5 and the role of Japan during the early Cold War.
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This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.
This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.
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Chinese, Kurds, Iranians and the Silk Road
A Historical Perspective
This book explores the little-known history between China and the Kurdish people since the tenth century. It reveals Kurdish lands as key trade and cultural hubs on the Silk Road and uncovers a shared memory: China as an idealized world, a utopia embedded in Kurdish folklore.
This book explores the little-known history between China and the Kurdish people since the tenth century. It reveals Kurdish lands as key trade and cultural hubs on the Silk Road and uncovers a shared memory: China as an idealized world, a utopia embedded in Kurdish folklore.
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Choir Stalls and their Workshops
Proceedings of the Misericordia International Colloquium 2016
This conference proceedings discusses the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense, given the relative lack of studies on the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects.
This conference proceedings discusses the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense, given the relative lack of studies on the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects.
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Christ Among Them
Incarnation and Renaissance in Medieval Italian Culture
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
This essay newly interprets the rise of the individual in Italy, 1180-1300. As the idea of a tangible Christ as neighbor became consistent, worship became a form of individualism, a Christian praxis that shaped the later Renaissance and Reformation.
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Chymia
Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
This book consists of selected papers on the history of alchemy, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important doctrines, and prominent figures like Paracelsus. It also offers new insights on the history of Spanish alchemy.
This book consists of selected papers on the history of alchemy, shedding light on little-studied medieval and early modern texts, important doctrines, and prominent figures like Paracelsus. It also offers new insights on the history of Spanish alchemy.
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Civic Duty
Public Services in the Early Modern Low Countries
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
This study offers a new view on public services in the early modern Low Countries. It explores who provided services between 1500 and 1800, how they were rewarded, and how these responsibilities were shaped by conceptions of citizenship and collective interest.
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