Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime reveals the primitive sublime as an overlooked aspect of modern Irish literature as central to Ireland's artistic production and the wider global cultural production of postcolonial literature.
In "e;Switzerland's Untold War: The Truth Behind Nidwalden's Terror Days,"e; Lukas Stofer delves into the tumultuous period of the Nidwalden crisis, challenging the conventional image of Switzerland as a tranquil, neutral country.
Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history, especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context.
This volume documents how the nineteenth-century British publishing industry responded to and helped shape changes in readership and reading markets in the period.
This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects.
Esperanza de España reúne dos conferencias de Manuel García Morente sobre filosofía de la historia de España, representativas, por los acontecimientos que las separan, del itinerario personal e intelectual de su autor.
Most of the prominent figures from Ireland's revolutionary generation have been endlessly profiled and commemorated but the controversial General Eoin O'Duffy remains a pariah.
Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since.
Building on the historical study of cultural translation, this volume brings together a range of case studies and fresh approaches to early modern intellectual history by scholars from across Europe reflecting on ideological and political change from c.
This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the nineteenth century, and the impact of copyright reform on publishing practices.
The first biography of the Marine general who was decorated for bravery in both WWII and Korea, and went on to serve as a commanding general in Vietnam.
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment.
En este número de Texturas se pueden encontrar textos de Roger Chartier, Mario Muchnik, Gabriela Torregrosa, Camilo Ayala Ochoa, Gonzalo Pasamar, Marta Simó Comas, Manuel Gil, Bernardo Jaramillo, Verónica Mendoza, Maica Rivera, Iñaki Vázquez-Álvarez y Constantino Bértolo.
Esperanza de España reúne dos conferencias de Manuel García Morente sobre filosofía de la historia de España, representativas, por los acontecimientos que las separan, del itinerario personal e intelectual de su autor.
This volume is a collection of a variety of important records that will give readers insight into key themes into the history of what its criminal code called "e;the unnatural and detestable sin of buggery"e;- sex between males - in the Royal Navy.
Die Wiederentdeckung nach 70 Jahren, erstmals auf Deutsch: »Ein literarischer Diamant, scharfkantig und kristallklar«, schreibt die »Times« über József Debreczenis Erinnerungen an Auschwitz.
Eine meisterhafte Betrachtung Albrecht Dürers und der deutschen RenaissancekunstDie preisgekrönte Kulturhistorikerin Ulinka Rublack erzählt vom entscheidenden Wendepunkt in der Karriere Albrecht Dürers.
Wien wäre heute nicht das Wien, wenn diese Menschen nicht gewesen wären: die Befreier vom Kahlenberg, die Habsburger-Herrscher, die Bändiger der Donau, die Visionäre der Hochquellwasserleitung, die Mäzeninnen und Philanthropen des 19.
Most of the prominent figures from Ireland's revolutionary generation have been endlessly profiled and commemorated but the controversial General Eoin O'Duffy remains a pariah.
Throughout history, rivers have been a hub for human settlement and have long been a key part of local livelihoods, history, and culture, as well as still playing a present-day role in providing services and leisure to people who live around them.
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century.
'An outstanding revisionist portrait of an age' Telegraph'Targoff tells their stories with vim and vigour' i Paper'[A] fascinating excavation of four intellectual powerhouse women' Tina Brown, New York TimesA New Yorker Book of the YearDiscover the lives and work of four ambitious Renaissance women who, against all odds, made themselves heard-and read-in the time of ShakespeareIn an innovative and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespeare's England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid-16th century into the private lives of four women writers working at a time when women were legally the property of men.
