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By Roland Schimmelpfennig. 2016
"A highly original and often hypnotic work . . . exactly the type of book that readers in search of…
striking European voices should embrace" John Boyne, author of THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMASA contemporary Berlin fairy tale that bristles with urban truths - the first novel of Germany's best-known contemporary playwright One clear, ice-cold January morning shortly after dawn, a wolf crosses the border between Poland and Germany. His trail leads all the way to Berlin, connecting the lives of disparate individuals whose paths intersect and diverge. On an icy motorway eighty kilometres outside the city, a fuel tanker jack-knifes and explodes. The lone wolf is glimpsed on the hard shoulder and photographed by Tomasz, a Polish construction worker who cannot survive in Germany without his girlfriend. Elisabeth and Micha run away through the snow from their home village, crossing the wolf's tracks on their way to the city. A woman burns her mother's diaries on a Berlin balcony. And Elisabeth's father, a famous sculptor, observes the vast skeleton of a whale in his studio and asks: What am I doing here? And why? Experiences and encounters flicker past with a raw, visual power, like frames in a black and white film. Those who catch sight of the wolf see their own lives reflected, and find themselves searching for a different path in a cold time. This first novel of Germany's most celebrated contemporary playwright is written in prose of tremendous power and precision. Translated from the German by Jamie BullochBy Anders Winroth, John C. Wei. 2022
Canon law touched nearly every aspect of medieval society, including many issues we now think of as purely secular. It…
regulated marriages, oaths, usury, sorcery, heresy, university life, penance, just war, court procedure, and Christian relations with religious minorities. Canon law also regulated the clergy and the Church, one of the most important institutions in the Middle Ages. This Cambridge History offers a comprehensive survey of canon law, both chronologically and thematically. Written by an international team of scholars, it explores, in non-technical language, how it operated in the daily life of people and in the great political events of the time. The volume demonstrates that medieval canon law holds a unique position in the legal history of Europe. Indeed, the influence of medieval canon law, which was at the forefront of introducing and defining concepts such as 'equity,' 'rationality,' 'office,' and 'positive law,' has been enormous, long-lasting, and remarkably diverse.By Benjamin Fraser. 2021
Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in…
human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of planners engaged in what urban theorist Henri Lefebvre has called the bourgeois science of modern urbanism. One thinks first of the large scale and the wide boulevards of Baron Georges von Haussmann&’s Paris or the geometrical planning vision of Ildefons Cerdà&’s Barcelona. The modern science of urban design famously inaugurates a new way of thinking the city; urban modernity is now defined by the triumph of exchange value over use value, and the lived city is eclipsed by the planned city as it is envisioned by capitalists, builders, and speculators. Thus urban plans, architecture, literary prose and poetry, documentary cinema and fiction film, and comics art serve as windows into our modern obsession with urban aesthetics. This book investigates the social relationships implied in our urban modernity by concentrating on four cities that are in broad strokes representative of the cultural and linguistic heterogeneity of the Iberian peninsula. Each chapter introduces but moves well beyond an identifiable urban area in a given city, noting the cultural obsession implicit in its reconstruction as well as the role of obsession in its artistic representation of the urban environment. These areas are Barcelona&’s Eixample district, Madrid&’s Linear City, Lisbon&’s central Baixa area, and Bilbao&’s Seven Streets, or Zazpikaleak. The theme of obsession—which as explored is synonymous with the concept of partial madness—provides a point of departure for understanding the interconnection of both urbanistic and artistic discourses.By Patrick Boucheron. 2022
From one of the foremost medievalists of our time, a groundbreaking work on history and memory that goes well beyond…
the life of this influential saint. Elected bishop of Milan by popular acclaim in 374, Ambrose went on to become one of the four original Doctors of the Church. There is much more to this book, however, than the captivating story of the bishop who baptized Saint Augustine in the fourth century. Trace and Aura investigates how a crucial figure from the past can return in different guises over and over again, in a city that he inspired and shaped through his beliefs and political convictions. His recurring lives actually span more than ten centuries, from the fourth to the sixteenth. In the process of following Ambrose&’s various reincarnations, Patrick Boucheron draws compelling connections between religion, government, tyranny, the Italian commune, Milan&’s yearning for autonomy, and many other aspects of this fascinating relationship between a city and its spiritual mentor who strangely seems to resist being manipulated by the needs and ambitions of those in power.By Mark Lause. 2022
How war gave birth to revolution in the 19th centuryThe Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the…
organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely. However, the mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilization and the arming of working people, who exercised a new power through both a German social democracy and popular insurgent French movements. As in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from the discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they learned to mistrust. If this militarized class conflict, the brutality of the Commune's subsequent repression not only butchered the tens of thousands of Parisians but slaughtered an old utopian faith that appeals to reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution and revolution to armed struggle.By Cindy Yik-yi Chu. 2022
This edited volume starts from the perspectives of Beijing in how it sees that religion should serve the interests of…
the state. From China’s viewpoint, religion should act as a stabilizing force of society, or else the Christian Churches will lose their reason for existence. This might be incomprehensible to Western Christians, who believe in the freedom of religion and their right to embrace their faith. This collection of articles represents the concerted efforts of Chinese, Italians, and an American—who live in China, Europe, and the United States and belong to different disciplines, such as History, Religious Studies, and Language Studies—to promote a better understanding of the Catholic Church in the world and in China.By Piero Camporesi. 2017
EL RELATO DELICIOSO Y ELEGANTE DE CÓMO EL CHOCOLATE DESATÓ EL FRENESÍ UNIVERSAL Y OTROS CAMBIOS EN EL COMER Y…
EL BEBER EN EL SIGLO XVIII Este delicioso libro nos traslada al paisaje sensual del Siglo de las Luces. Como un viajero gastronómico, Piero Camporesi, uno de los ensayistas italianos más originales y prestigiosos, nos describe con gran riqueza y maravillosos detalles una sociedad en plena ebullición en el siglo XVIII. Bajo la luz cálida de los candelabros, asistimos al tintineo de las copas y al baile de platos en los comedores donde las élites europeas, obsesionadas con la búsqueda de lo exótico y aparentemente frívolas, ansiaban dejar atrás el legado de los siglos salvajes que precedieron a favor de un modo de vida más etéreo y refinado. Camporesi examina el paso a una dieta mucho más ligera y funcional, que enfatizaba alimentos exóticos como el té, el café y el chocolate, libre de las carnes pesadas, los sabores fuertes y los condimentos excesivamente vigorosos (queso, cebolla, ajo) que caracterizaban la antigua cocina, y da cuenta con brillantez de cómo este cambio refleja las profundas transformaciones en la moda y los hábitos que tuvieron lugar en Europa durante la Ilustración. Este gusto renovado se adaptaba a los paladares sensibles, era agradable a la vista y estaba en perfecta sintonía con la nueva preferencia por la delgadez y la ropa ajustada. Casaba también con el escaso apetito de las damas delicadas, noctámbulas y golosas (pero no glotonas) que conversaban hasta la extenuación en los salones literarios mientras saboreaban un buen tazón de chocolate. La crítica ha dicho...«Es, esencialmente, una reconstrucción del gusto y la cocina del siglo XVII que marcó el éxito de cocineros, platos, técnicas y de la práctica culinaria francesa en Europa.»Corriere della Sera «Este extraordinario intelectual resurge hoy con toda su carga subversiva y anticipatoria, especialmente a la luz de las transformaciones de los últimos veinte años. Con su manera inimitable de combinar registros disonantes y hacerlos resonar de un modo visionario, indisciplinado y sin precedentes, hace de la comida el eje alrededor del cual fluye la historia».MARINO NIOLA, La ReppublicaBy Ludger Kühnhardt. 2021
Die Aufzeichnungen, die Ludger Kühnhardt in 235 Ländern und Territorien der Erde verfasst hat, lassen ein faszinierendes Panorama entstehen, gespiegelt…
in persönlichen Eindrücken, Begegnungen und Erfahrungen eines in aller Welt tätigen Politikwissenschaftlers und Publizisten. Das Buch rekonstruiert die Verknüpfungen zwischen den Transformationen Europas und dem entstehenden globalen Zeitalter während sechs Jahrzehnten ab 1960 bis zur Schwelle der post-Corona-Welt 2020.By Paul Preston. 2015
La publicación de esta edición revisada y actualizada de la biografía de Franco de Paul Preston, a los cuarenta años…
de la muerte del dictador, es un acontecimiento, no en vano sigue siendo considerada unánimemente como la obra de referencia. Contra la visión de Franco como figura providencial, una biografía completísima, rigurosa y apasionante del hombre que rigió España durante tantos años, donde se muestra al militar ambicioso e implacable, al admirador de Hitler y Mussolini; al dirigente político cada vez más pagado de su propio papel, pero incapaz de comprender la complejidad de Estado y la economía modernas. Queda el hombre visceralmente conservador, tan cauto como ambicioso, hábil en el manejo de las personas y de los contrapesos del poder. Un libro imprescindible para quien quiera comprender la historia reciente de España, así como a uno de los personajes centrales de la misma. La crítica ha dicho...«Paul Preston ha escrito, y con gran diferencia, la mejor biografía del dictador Franco.»L.M. Anson «La biografía definitiva y apasionante del dictador español Francisco Franco.»Publishers Weekly «Preston nos presenta un retrato de Franco muy diferente al que generalmente conocemos.»Kirkus ReviewBy Mary B. Cunningham. 2021
The Virgin Mary assumed a position of central importance in Byzantium. This book examines her portrayal in liturgical texts during…
the first six centuries of Byzantine history. Focusing on three main literary genres that celebrated this holy figure, it highlights the ways in which writers adapted their messages for different audiences. Mary is portrayed variously as defender of the imperial city, Constantinople, virginal Mother of God, and ascetic disciple of Christ. Preachers, hymnographers, and hagiographers used rhetoric to enhance Mary's powerful status in Eastern Christian society, depicting her as virgin and mother, warrior and ascetic, human and semi-divine being. Their paradoxical statements were based on the fundamental mystery that Mary embodied: she was the mother of Christ, the Word of God, who provided him with the human nature that he assumed in his incarnation. Dr Cunningham's authoritative study makes a major contribution to the history of Christianity.By Paul M. Dover. 2021
This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly…
on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an 'information revolution'. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were compelled to place a new premium on information management. These developments had a profound and transformative impact on European life. The huge expansion in paper records and the accompanying efforts to store, share, organize and taxonomize them are intertwined with many of the essential developments in the early modern period, including the rise of the state, the Print Revolution, the Scientific Revolution, and the Republic of Letters. Engaging with historical questions across many fields of human activity, Paul M. Dover interprets the historical significance of this 'information revolution' for the present day, and suggests thought-provoking parallels with the informational challenges of the digital age.By Manuel P. Villatoro, Israel Viana. 2022
La historia de la Guerra Civil como jamás nos la han contado, con una mirada experta y al mismo tiempo…
muy cercana. En Historia de la Guerra Civil sin mitos ni tópicos, Manuel P. Villatoro e Israel Viana repasan los años treinta del siglo XX para entender el enfrentamiento capital de nuestra historia reciente, la cruenta guerra civil que antecedió a uno de los períodos más convulsos del siglo XX en España y Europa. Con un enfoque fresco y renovador, los autores nos descubren los entresijos del conflicto explicándonos cómo se gestó, cómo se desarrolló y cómo finalizó, sentando las bases de la dictadura. Al igual que el anterior Historia de España sin mitos ni tópicos, este nuevo libro se acerca al lector con un espíritu dinámico, desenfadado y a la vez riguroso, a fin de contar la historia como jamás se ha contado.By Fiona Ritchie, Doug Orr. 2021
From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the…
Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.Enriched by the insights of key contributors to the living tradition on both sides of the Atlantic, accompanying this abundantly illustrated volume is an online Spotify playlist featuring over 20 songs by musicians profiled in the book, including Dolly Parton, Dougie MacLean, Cara Dillon, John Doyle, Pete Seeger, Sheila Kay Adams, Jean Ritchie, Doc Watson, David Holt, Anais Mitchell, Al Petteway, and more.By Allan Mitchell. 2010
With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of…
1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating under a liberal republican regime, France tended to reject the interventionist policies of its imposing neighbor and to seek a distinctly French solution to the many social problems that became more pressing as the nineteenth century reached its climax in the First World War.Mitchell's carefully researched study investigates a number of specific issues that remain of direct relevance today, such as gender relationships, health care (including the treatments and prevention of infectious disease), labor conflicts, taxation policy, social security measures, and international tensions on the eve of a major war. He shows that certain key problems of public health and welfare found different solutions in France and Germany, and he explains why the differences emerged and how they defined the two major competitors of continental Europe. The nineteenth-century epidemic of tuberculosis provides a case in point: the German state intervened to combat the dreaded disease with vigorous measures of public hygiene and popular sanatoria, but the French republic moved more cautiously to limit interference in the private sphere, even though laissez faire often meant laissez mourir.Mitchell's book is the first full-scale study of French social reform after 1870 that is based on documentation in both France and Germany. The first hesitant steps of the French welfare state are thrown into sharp relief by comparison with developments in Germany. No other work on modern France presents such a broad panorama of social reform, and none draws together such a rich tableau of telling detail about the development of the French health and welfare system after 1870.In a lucid conclusion, Mitchell places this story in the general context of his three volumes, thereby offering a summary of the Franco-German encounter that has come to dominate the history of Europe in the twentieth century.Originally published in 1991.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By Christine A. White. 1992
White reassesses Anglo-American trade with Soviet Russia immediately following the Bolshevik Revolution to show that, unlike diplomatic relations, commercial ties…
were not severed by ideological differences. She argues that British and American trade with Russia resumed soon after the Bolsheviks' rise to power and that this period of trade had a significant effect on future commerce.Originally published in 1992.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By Jürg Steiner. 1970
When the German edition of Steiner's masterful analysis of Switzerland's political system was first published in 1970 as Gewaltlose Politik…
und kulturelle Vielfalt, it was greeted by the American Political Science Review as a laudable departure from conventional comparative series." This new edition, extensively revised and expanded, makes Steiner's innovative study available to political theorists in the English-speaking world."Originally published 1974.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By Jan Karl Tanenbaum. 1974
Commander of the French Third Army at the Battle of the Marne, commander of the Allied Eastern Army in 1916-17,…
and high commissioner to Syria and Lebanon in 1924-25, Sarrail was one of the most controversial figures of the Third French Republic because of his deep involvement with domestic politics. Unlike the majority of twentieth-century military officers, however, he was an ardent supporter of Republican ideals and closely associated with the political Left.Originally published 1974.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By Gary D. Stark. 1981
Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements.…
He shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German nation. The book industry created new currents of thought, fused them into a coherent ideological system, and spread this system to a wide audience.Originally published in 1981.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By Melvyn P. Leffler. 1979
Leffler argues that American officials did not disregard European developments after World War I but, rather, they sought to settle…
the war debt and reparations controversies, to stabilize European currencies, and to revive European markets. Leffler bridges the gap between revisionist and traditionalist studies by integrating the diverse aspects of foreign policy and elucidates many new aspects of the foreign policymaking process in the postwar period.Originally published in 1979.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.By John M. McManamon. 1989
By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture.…
By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material to the history of rhetoric. When Italian humanists spoke at funerals, they took this unique opportunity to press for their reformist goals. Originally published in 1989.A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.