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Jewish Studies

Europe

Third Walpurgis Night The Complete Text

Kraus Karl, Bridgham Fred, Timms Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300236002, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Now available in English for the first time, Austrian satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's "Third Walpurgis Night" was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of reprisals against Jews...

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History

Europe

Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History

Buckland Adelene, Qureshi Sadiah

ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones

The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...

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Jewish Studies

Europe

T. G. Masaryk and the Jewish Question

Pojar Milos

ISBN: PB: 9788024638799, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, January 2020
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 25 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! In this book, Miloڑ Pojar traces the development and transformation of the opinions about Jews and Judaism of the first Czechoslovak president, T. G. Masaryk. Pojar describes the key event...

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Literary Criticism

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Total Mobilization World War II and American Literature

Scranton Roy

ISBN: PB: 9780226637310, ISBN: HB: 9780226637280, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero – the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence – has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political h...

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Trading in War London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson

Lincoln Margarette

ISBN: HB: 9780300227482, Yale University Press, April 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 colour illus.

In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of Britain's military campaigns in North America and Napoleonic Europe. The unruly riverside parishes east of the Towe...

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Europe

Townshend Moment The Making of Empire and Revolution in the Eighteenth Century

Griffin Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780300218978, Yale University Press, February 2018
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Patrick Griffin chronicles the attempts of brothers Charles and George Townshend to control the forces of history in the heady days after Britain's mythic victory over France in the mid-eighteenth century, and the historic and unintended consequences...

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Anthropology

Europe

Two Lenins A Brief Anthropology of Time

Ssorin-Chaikov Nikolai

ISBN: PB: 9780997367539, University of Chicago Press, HAU, February 2018
112 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Highly innovative and theoretically incisive, "Two Lenins" is the first book-length anthropological examination of how social reality can be organized around different yet concurrent ideas of time. Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov grounds his theoretical explo...

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Europe

They Thought They Were Free The Germans, 1933-45

Mayer Milton

ISBN: PB: 9780226525839, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
384 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg". That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...

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Europe

Tiger in the Smoke Art and Culture in Post-War Britain

Nead Lynda

ISBN: HB: 9780300214604, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 190 colour and black&white illus.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such as painting, "The Tiger in the Smoke" provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Brit...

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Europe

Tales from the Long Twelfth Century The Rise and Fall of the Angevin Empire

Huscroft Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300228700, ISBN: HB: 9780300187250, Yale University Press, September 2017
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This intriguing book tells the story of England's great medieval Angevin dynasty in an entirely new way. Departing from the usual king-centric narrative, Richard Huscroft instead centers each of his chapters on the experiences of a particular man or...

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