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In this 60th anniversary edition is Ted Barris’ telling of the unique story of Canada’s largest World War II expenditure – $1.75 billion in a Commonwealth-wide training scheme, based in Canada that supplied the Allied air war with nearly a quarter of a million qualified airmen. Within its five-year life-span, the BCATP supplied a continuous flow of battle-ready pilots, navigators, wireless radio operators, air gunners, flight engineers, riggers and fitters or more commonly known as ground crew,...
| Автор | Ted Barris |
The first German women’s movement embraced the belief in a demographic surplus of unwed women, known as the Frauenüberschuß , as a central leitmotif in the campaign for reform. Proponents of the female surplus held that the advances of industry and urbanization had upset traditional marriage patterns and left too many bourgeois women without a husband. This book explores the ways in which the realms of literature, sexology, demography, socialism, and female activism addressed the perceived...
| Автор | Catherine L. Dollard |
Each year thirty-two seniors at American universities are awarded Rhodes Scholarships, which entitle them to spend two or three years studying at the University of Oxford. The program, founded by the British colonialist and entrepreneur Cecil Rhodes and established in 1903, has become the world's most famous academic scholarship and has brought thousands of young Americans to study in England. Many of these later became national leaders in government, law, education, literature, and other...
| Автор | Thomas J. Schaeper |
Based on over a decade of fieldwork conducted with urban Roma, Staging Citizenship offers a powerful new perspective on one of the European Union’s most marginal and disenfranchised communities. Focusing on “performance” broadly conceived, it follows members of a squatter’s settlement in Transylvania as they navigate precarious circumstances in a postsocialist state. Through accounts of music and dance performances, media representations, activism, and interactions with both non-governmental...
| Автор | Ioana Szeman |
Eugène Boban began life in humble circumstances in Paris, traveled to the California Gold Rush, and later became a recognized authority on pre-Columbian cultures. He also invented an entire category of archaeological artifact: the Aztec crystal skull. By his own admission, he successfully “palmed off” a number of these crystal skulls on the curators of Europe’s leading museums. How could that happen, and who was this man? Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations...
| Автор | Jane MacLaren Walsh |
„Wybuch wojny w 1914 roku to nie kryminał Agathy Christie, w którym na końcu odkryjemy winnego stojącego nad zwłokami w oranżerii z dymiącym pistoletem. W tej opowieści nie ma żadnego dymiącego pistoletu; czy też raczej każda z głównych postaci trzyma w rękach po jednym z nich. Widziany w tym świetle wybuch tamtej wojny był tragedią, a nie zbrodnią. Uznanie tego faktu nie oznacza, że powinniśmy pomniejszać wojowniczość i imperialistyczną paranoję austriackich oraz niemieckich decydentów, które...
| Автор | Christopher Clark |
"Cristy C. Road is a bad ass. She has a list of published work that leaves me awed and inspired."—Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day «Road's writing has long brought to vivid life the experiences of a queer-identified Latina punk rocker.»—Bitch magazine At its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is struggling to balance...
| Автор | Cristy C. Road |
Eine kurzweilige, aber nützliche Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters In ihrem ersten Sachbuch erzählt uns die Bestsellerautorin Rebecca Gablé die Geschichte des englischen Mittelalters neu: kompetent und informativ, mitreißend wie ein Roman. Lesen Sie, wie die Wikinger in Ermangelung anderer Freizeitaktivitäten England eroberten. Erleben Sie wie Eleanor von Aquitanien die Bühne betritt, eine der «unterhaltsamsten und wunderbarsten Skandalnudeln, die je auf Englands Thron gesessen haben».
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the <i>polis,</i> or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called <i>koina.</i> In the first book in fifty years to tackle the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, Emily Mackil charts a complex, fascinating map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic...
| Автор | Emily Mackil |
This book focuses on the attempts of three ascetics—John Moschus, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus Confessor—to determine the Church’s power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. By asserting visions which reconciled long-standing intellectual tensions between asceticism and Church, these authors established the framework for their subsequent emergence as Constantinople's...
| Автор | Phil Booth |
The «Second Sophistic» traditionally refers to a period at the height of the Roman Empire’s power that witnessed a flourishing of Greek rhetoric and oratory, and since the 19th century it has often been viewed as a defense of Hellenic civilization against the domination of Rome. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture, which cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity. Shining...
| Автор | Tim Whitmarsh |
Shenoute of Atripe: stern abbot, loquacious preacher, patron of the poor and scourge of pagans in fifth-century Egypt. This book studies his numerous Coptic writings and finds them to be the most important literary source for the study of society, economy and religion in late antique Egypt. The issues and concerns Shenoute grappled with on a daily basis, Ariel Lopez argues, were not local problems, unique to one small corner of the ancient world. Rather, they are crucial to interpreting late...
| Автор | Ariel G. Lopez |
In <i>Living Letters of the Law</i>, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how—and why—medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.<br /><br />Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews...
| Автор | Jeremy Cohen |
Beyond the gilded gates of Google, little has been written about the suburban communities of Silicon Valley. Over the past several decades, the region’s booming tech economy spurred rapid population growth, increased racial diversity, and prompted an influx of immigration, especially among highly skilled and educated migrants from China, Taiwan, and India. At the same time, the response to these newcomers among long-time neighbors and city officials revealed complex attitudes in even...
| Автор | Willow Lung-Amam |
This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis’ new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one’s self and one’s body and, more...
| Автор | DR. S Mira Balberg |
In the American West, water adjudication lawsuits are adversarial, expensive, and lengthy. <I>Unsettled Waters</I> is the first detailed study of water adjudications in New Mexico. The state envisioned adjudication as a straightforward accounting of water rights as private property. However, adjudication resurfaced tensions and created conflicts among water sovereigns at multiple scales. Based on more than ten years of fieldwork, this book tells a fascinating story...
| Автор | Eric P. Perramond |
Mothering While Black examines the complex lives of the African American middle class—in particular, black mothers and the strategies they use to raise their children to maintain class status while simultaneously defining and protecting their children’s “authentically black” identities. Sociologist Dawn Marie Dow shows how the frameworks typically used to research middle-class families focus on white mothers’ experiences, inadequately capturing...
| Автор | Dawn Marie Dow |
In this viscerally intense, ethnographically based work, Claudia Seymour relates the heart-wrenching stories of young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo—young people who live on the front lines of conflict, in neighborhoods and villages destroyed by war, and on the streets in conditions of poverty and destitution. Seymour, a former child protection adviser and human rights investigator for the United Nations, chronicles her personal journey, which begins with the will to do...
| Автор | Claudia Seymour |
Der Heilige Gral und seine Erben Das Buch beginnt wie die Geschichte einer spannenden Schatzsuche, wird zum aufregenden Bericht über den Templerorden, bis es schließlich in einer kühnen Schlussfolgerung gipfelt, die an den Grundfesten unseres Geschichtsbildes und des christlichen Glaubens rührt: Es deutet den Heiligen Gral der mittelalterlichen Sagen als eine geschichtliche Realität, die uns Jesus und seine Nachkommen in einem völlig neuen Licht erscheinen lässt. Das führt zu der bestürzenden...
| Автор | Michael Baigent |
"Der Tod wird den mit seinen Schwingen erschlagen, der die Ruhe des Pharaos stört." Diese Inschrift trug ein geheimnisvolles Tontäfelchen, das Forscher in der Vorkammer des Grabes von Tut-ench-Amun fanden. Niemand ahnte, dass dreizehn der zwanzig Wissenschaftler des Forschungsteams bald nicht mehr am Leben sein würden. Die Inschrift gilt seitdem als verschollen, doch die Vorstellung eines uralten, tödlichen Fluchs hält die Menschheit nach wie vor in Atem.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided «Color Line.» But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the mind, in the body, between bodies, between human beings? Ed Pavlic's Visiting Hours at the Color Line, a 2012 National Poetry Series winner,...
| Автор | Ed Pavlic |
How Latinx kids and their undocumented parents struggle in the informal street food economy Street food markets have become wildly popular in Los Angeles—and behind the scenes, Latinx children have been instrumental in making these small informal businesses grow. In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. Drawing on dozens of interviews with...
| Автор | Emir Estrada |
This Noble House explores the preoccupation with biblical genealogy that emerged among Jews in the Islamic Near East between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. Arnold Franklin looks to Jewish society's fascination with Davidic ancestry, examining the profusion of claims to the lineage that had already begun to appear by the year 1000, the attempts to chart the validity of such claims through elaborate genealogical lists, and the range of meanings that came to be ascribed to the House...
| Автор | Arnold E. Franklin |
From its creation in the early fourteenth century to its dissolution in the sixteenth, the nunnery at Dartford was among the richest in England. Although obliged to support not only its own community but also a priory of Dominican friars at King's Langley, Dartford prospered. Records attest to the business skill of the Dartford nuns, as they managed the house's numerous holdings of land and property, together with the rents and services owed them. That the Dartford nuns were capable...
| Автор | Nancy Bradley Warren |