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Through the voice of the narrator of Remebrance of Things Past, Proust observes of the painter Elstir that the paintings are bolder than the artist, Elstir the painter is bolder than Elstir the theorist. This book applies the same distinction to Proust, the Proustian novel is bolder than Proust the theorist. By this the author means that the novel is philosophically bolder, that it pursues further the task Proust identifies as the writer's wor...

The secession of the southern states marked the beginning of the trial of Confederate nationalism. The slaveholding elite that had led the South out of the Union now had to solidify its support among nonslaveholding small farmers, a class that constituted the bulk of the white population. Jefferson Davis and his new government were greatly hampered in their bid for widespread public support, partially because of the same force that had resulte...

In this philosophically sophisticated and historically significant work, John H. Zammito reconstructs Kant's composition of The Critique of Judgment. The austerity and grandeur of Kant's philosophical writings sometimes make it hard to recognize them as the products of a historical figure situated in the particular constellation of his time and society.

Wrested from the rule of the Venetians, the island of Cyprus took on cultural shadings of enormous complexity as a new province of the Ottoman empire, involving the compulsory migration of hundreds of Muslim Turks to the island from the nearby Karamna province, the conversion of large numbers of native Greek Orthodox Christians to Islam, an abortive plan to settle Jews there, and the circumstances of islanders who had formerly been held by the...

Political economy" has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks for understanding the relation between politics and economics, including the classical, Marxian, Keynesian, neoclassical, state-centered, power-centered, and justice-centered...

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Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the momentous changes in the culture and economics of the region, reveal many of the tensions and contradictions inherent in the new capitalist social order.

In 1625, Martin de Arana built six Atlantic warships for the Spanish crown. The author traces the ships from their construction through a decade of service, incorporating a history of Spain's Golden Age. This book was awarded the Spain and America in Quincentennial Year of Discovery prize.

Frontmatter -- Persönliche Vorbemerkung -- Inhalt -- Siglenverzeichnis -- 0. Einleitung: Ansatzpunkt, Forschungsstand, Quellenlage -- I. Der Burschenturner: vom Turnschüler zum Agitator -- II. 'Demagogenjahre': vom Pädagogen zum Philologen -- II¿. In der Hut des Südens: germanistisch-literarischer Neuanfang -- IV. Ein Berliner wird Bayer: Münchener Turnplatz und Katheder -- V. 'Der Turnprofessor': Einordnung ins restaurative System -- VI. Ein ...

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How have society's values and attitudes toward sexuality and morality changed over the centuries? Why and how has the state sought to criminalize certain forms of sexual behavior and to control reproduction? How have churches tried to influence the state in its regulation of sexuality? This anthology encompasses a broad range of essays on sexuality spanning European history from the fifteenth century to the present. The topics in this collecti...

Augusta Jane Evans, one of the most popular domestic novelists of the latter half of the nineteenth century, was born in 1835 in Columbus, Georgia, but spent most of her life in Mobile, Alabama. She was the author of eight novels, of which Beulah, published in 1859, was the second. Like many previously overlooked nineteenth-century women writers, Evans is now the subject of renewed critical interest. For this new edition of Beulah, Elizabeth F...

Hubert Evans' fascinating memior recounts his time in India and the people and events which shaped the history of the subcontinent. A must read for anyone interested in the history of India and the inner workings of the Raj.

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This self-contained reference/text presents a thorough account of the theory of real function algebras. Employing the intrinsic approach, avoiding the complexification technique, and generalizing the theory of complex function algebras, this single-source volume includes: an introduction to real Banach algebras, various generalizations of the Stone-Weierstrass theorem, Gleason parts, Choquet and Shilov boundaries, isometries of real function a...

This book tries to describe the formal long-range planning process of Japanese corporations, to analyze the formal strategic decision making process and to find theories through this analysis. hrough this analysis.

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The aim of this book is explore how plants function, grow, reproduce, and evolve within the limits set by their physical environment. It was written in the firm belief that organisms cannot violate the laws of physics and chemistry and that knowing how these laws operate and confine the organic expression of size, form, and structure is essential to understanding biology.

Follow the Tomten through one chilly night as he guards the farm and keeps everyone safe, even while they sleep.