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Africa and the deep seabed regime: Politics and international law of the common heritage of mankind. Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.
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Egede, Edwin. Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17662-3.
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Mitchell, Hilary. Foreshore and seabed issues: A Te Tau Ihu perspective on assertions and denials of Rangatiratanga. Wellington, N.Z: Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 2006.
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Barr, Hugh. The gathering storm over the foreshore and seabed: Why it must remain in Crown ownership. Wellington [N.Z.]: Tross Pub., 2010.
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Abdullah, Slamet. Seabad Muhammadiyah dalam pergumulan budaya Nusantara. Yogyakarta: Global Pustaka Utama, 2010.
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Abdullah, Slamet. Seabad Muhammadiyah dalam pergumulan budaya Nusantara. Yogyakarta: Global Pustaka Utama, 2010.
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Abdullah, Slamet. Seabad Muhammadiyah dalam pergumulan budaya Nusantara. Yogyakarta: Global Pustaka Utama, 2010.
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Kusuma, Eddie. Seabad kebangkitan nasional: Ayo bangkit, bangun negeri tercinta, Indonesia. [Jakarta]: Lembaga Pengkajian Strategis Poleksosbudkum, Suara Kebangsaan Tionghoa Indonesia, 2008.
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Nealon, Ted. Nealon's guide, 25th Dail & Seanad election '87. Dublin: Platform Press, 1987.
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Nealon, Ted. Nealon's guide, 25th Dail & Seanad election '87. Dublin: Platform Press, 1987.
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Nizar, Samsul. Memperbincangkan dinamika intelektual dan pemikiran Hamka tentang pendidikan Islam: Seabad Buya Hamka. Rawamangun, Jakarta: Kencana, 2008.
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Moeljono, Djoko Sri. Banten seabad setelah Multatuli: Catatan seorang tapol 12 tahun dalam tahanan, kerja rodi, dan pembuangan. Bandung: Ultimus, 2013.
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Sealed with blood: War, sacrifice, and memory in Revolutionary America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
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Samarani, Guido, Carla Meneguzzi Rostagni, and Sofia Graziani. Roads to Reconciliation. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-220-8.
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This volume include essays originally delivered at the international workshop Italy, Europe, China: Economic, Political and Cultural Relations During the Cold War Years (1949-1971) held at the Department of Asian and African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on 13th-14th February 2014 as well as invited research papers by two international outstanding scholars who have made valuable contributions to the study of China’s foreign policy and engagement in the ’50s and ’60s. The book illustrates recent trends in international research on China-Western Europe relations in the years of intense Cold War, complicating the long-held image of Mao-era China as sealed off from the outside world.
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Bräuninger, Thomas. Internationale Institutionenpolitik: Die Wahl von Entscheidungsregeln für die Meeresbodenbehörde. Frankfurt: Campus, 2000.
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Egede, Edwin. Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind. Springer, 2011.
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Yuliantri, Rhoma Dwi Aria, 1982-, ed. Seabad pers perempuan: Bahasa ibu, bahasa bangsa. Jakarta: I:boekoe, 2008.
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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: Highlights of the Miller Record. Mercer University Press, 1999.
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Sarah, Eby-Ebersole, and Georgia. Office of Planning and Budget., eds. Signed, sealed, and delivered: Highlights of the Miller record. Macon, Ga: Mercer University Press, 1999.
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Nadkarni, Vidya, and J. Michael Williams. International Relations and Comparative Politics. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.408.
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Both the political science fields of International Relations (IR) and Comparative Politics (CP) developed around a scholarly concern with the nature of the state. IR focused on the nature, sources, and dynamics of inter-state interaction, while CP delved into the structure, functioning, and development of the state itself. The natural synergies between these two lines of scholarly inquiry found expression in the works of classical and neo-classical realists, liberals, and Marxists, all of whom, to varying degrees and in varied ways, recognized that the line dividing domestic and international politics was not hermetically sealed. As processes of economic globalization, on the one hand, and the globalization of the state system, on the other, have expanded the realm of political and economic interaction, the need for greater cross-fertilization between IR and CP has become even more evident. The global expansion of the interstate system has incorporated non-European societies into world politics and increased the salience of cultural and religious variables. These dynamics suggest that a study of cultures, religions, and histories, which shape the world views of states and peoples, is therefore necessary before assessments can be made about how individual states may respond to varied global pressures in their domestic and foreign policy choices.
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Armstrong, Chris. The Ocean’s Riches. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702726.003.0010.
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This chapter discusses the resources contained in or under the world’s oceans, which have been somewhat neglected by political theorists but which are hugely significant. It first discusses the case of fishing rights, in which we have seen a mixture of extended state control and unconstrained exploitation in the area beyond state jurisdiction, and shows that this approach has failed to deliver on either intra-generational justice or sustainability. It then discusses the mineral resources contained in the portions of the seabed which still fall beyond state control. Agreement has been reached, under the auspices of the International Seabed Authority, to harness the exploitation of these potentially valuable minerals to promote global equality. The chapter welcomes this development and identifies some wider lessons we might draw from it for the struggle to put resources to work to promote global equality.
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Lawrence, Jon. The People’s History and the Politics of Everyday Life since 1945. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768784.003.0015.
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This chapter revisits interview transcripts from postwar social science projects to explore vernacular understandings of the social world, especially the informal politics of everyday life. Understanding shifting conceptions of historical time provides the key to understanding the crisis of social democracy in the 1970s and 1980s which was rooted less in the machinations of high politics than in popular responses to economic uncertainty and social change. What sealed the fate of the mobilizing myths of postwar social democracy was the collapse of popular belief in the idea of ‘the people’s’ forward march. By the 1980s expectations of intergenerational ‘progress’ had begun to loosen and conceptions of a shared future had broken down. But if popular conceptions of time and politics represent vernacular attempts to make sense of everyday experience, resetting the terms of economic life and public policy may re-establish shared conceptions of progress.
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Purcell, Sarah J. Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
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Lemisch, Jesse. Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America (Irvington Reprint Series in Amer Hist). Irvington Pub, 1991.
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Khalid, Mohamad Sukeri, Rohana Mohd Yusuf, Mohamed Mustafa Ishak, Abdul Rahman Abdul Aziz, Mohd Fo'ad Sakdan, and Shafee Saad, eds. Kedah 100 tahun 1900-2000 isu-isu politik dan sosio-ekonomi. UUM Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.32890/9832479258.
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Kedah merupakan negeri yang kaya dengan khazanah sejarah, isu-isu sosiopolitik dan ekonomi. Buku ini merupakan himpunan artikel yang merakamkan sebahagian isu penting berkaitan dengan aspek sosiopolitik dan ekononi negeri Kedah sejak seabad lalu.Bermula dengan Institusi Kesultanan Kedah, Perkembangan Politik dalam Perspektif sejarah Kedah 1900-1999, Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra: Negarawan Ulung Kedah sehinggalah kepada Seni Cantan di Kedah.Kesemua artikel yang diutarakan memberi panduan bukan sahaja kepada pengkaji sejarah, malahan kepada generasi muda untuk mengetahui aspek sejarah, politik dan ekonomi negeri Kedah.Ia secara tidak langsung menambahkan lagi sumber rujukan dalam bidang sejarah di negara ini.Generasi muda perlu mengkaji sejarah dan bersama-sama meneruskan usaha membangunkan sosiopolitik dan ekonomi masyarakat secara berterusan.
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Ranganathan, Surabhi. The Law of the Sea and Natural Resources. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825210.003.0008.
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Ranganathan’s chapter observes that the construction of the oceans as a global commons has changed over time. Once asserted as an arena of freedoms, the oceans are now enclosed in large part within national and international jurisdictions. However, sovereign rights are accompanied by community obligations. The deep seabed and its mineral resources, in particular, are designated the common heritage of mankind. The chapter traces the evolution of this concept. Following a roughly chronological approach, it situates legal developments in political and economic context. Noting that the concept does not conform to a broad narrative of progress—a high-water mark reached in the 1980s was followed by a period of recession—the chapter evaluates whether the current framework offers an appropriate expression. It supplies the tools for a fine-grained analysis of the degree to which international law realizes this particular community obligation in principle and in practice.
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Hardy, Duncan. Documentary Culture and Ritual. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827252.003.0002.
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Political actors in Upper Germany interacted with one another through a shared repertoire of formats. Princes, prelates, nobles, and urban and communal governments all employed a similar array of documentary forms and ritualized transactions. The use of writing was characterized by ‘pragmatic literacy’: although by no means all elites could read, their interactions relied heavily on documents and records as means of communicating and supporting their governmental, financial, and judicial claims. In particular, the sealed charter, treaty, or contract (Siegelurkunde) had both symbolic and practical currency as proof of any kind of political or legal status, transaction, or relationship. Transactions and relationships were also legitimized by shared rituals performed during face-to-face encounters. The most important of these was the swearing of oaths, which formalized commitments through a quasi-sacred and universally recognized ceremony.
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Wiater, Nicolas. Getting Over Athens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748472.003.0010.
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This chapter examines the ambivalent image of Classical Athens in Dionysius of Halicarnassus’ Roman Antiquities. This image reflects a deep-seated ambiguity of Dionysius’ Classicist ideology: on the one hand, there is no question for Dionysius that Athenocentric Hellenicity failed, and that the Roman empire has superseded Athens’ role once and for all as the political and cultural centre of the oikoumene. On the other, Dionysius accepted Rome’s supremacy as legitimate partly because he believed (and wanted his readers to believe) her to be the legitimate heir of Classical Athens and Classical Athenian civic ideology. As a result, Dionysius develops a new model of Hellenicity for Roman Greeks loyal to the new political and cultural centre of Rome. This new model of Greek identity incorporates and builds on Classical Athenian ideals, institutions, and culture, but also supersedes them.
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Mullins, Paul R. Revolting Things. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066714.001.0001.
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Revolting Things: An Archaeology of Shameful Histories and Repulsive Realities examines a host of material things that induce anxiety, provoke unpleasantness, or simply revolt us. The book is a study of the contemporary world and its recent dark history that wrestles with how and why certain material things provoke strong and predominately negative feelings that are firmly rooted in contemporary political concerns. This book interrogates the physical and emotional experience of abhorrent things ranging from Confederate heritage to landscapes of racial violence and confirms the emotional, physical, and social power of material things. The book argues that our experience of difficult material heritage is emotionally rich, shaped by social circumstances, and reflective of deep-seated social and historical anxieties.
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du Toit, Fanie. Settling on a Shared Future. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881856.003.0003.
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This chapter challenges the assumption that a society should first deal with its past before moving on to a new future, arguing instead that settling on a shared future provides the basis for dealing with the past. A key question is what kinds of processes can take reconciliation forward and turn it into a political reality characterized by durability and deep-seated institutional change toward inclusivity and fairness. I highlight four mechanisms created during the South African transition that I consider the most important and relevant to reconciliation. These platforms—the National Peace Accord (NPA), the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the Multi-Party Negotiating Forum (MPNF), and the TRC—carried out vitally important work, expanding the political transition across lines of political conflict. Analyzing the first three mechanisms in terms of their inclusivity and fairness occupies most of the chapter, as well as to understand how they built on, and complemented, one another.
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Locke, Joseph. Of Tremor and Transition. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190216283.003.0004.
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At the turn of the twentieth century, a “New South” of industry, cities, and commerce promised to modernize the American South. Amid much regional change, southern evangelicals commonly comprehended and universally lamented a spiritual crisis. Despite growing churches, rising salaries, enhanced public prestige, and expanding congregations, southern white Protestant ministers perceived only a landscape of empty churches, disrespected preachers, indolent congregants, and a hostile public. Within their insular denominational worlds, southern religious leaders such as Baylor president William Carey Crane outlined the contours of their anxieties. But if a deep-seated sense of widespread crisis confronted religious Texans, a new generation of emerging leaders such as J. B. Cranfill promised a way out: they could fight in the public sphere. Senator Morris Sheppard and others increasingly imagined that the politics of prohibition could free religious southerners from their perceived crisis and reclaim an imagined golden age for American religion.
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Baur-Ahrens, Andreas. The power of cyberspace centralisation: analysing the example of data territorialisation. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526107459.003.0003.
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This chapter engages the (re)organisation of cyberspace by examining the ongoing debates on data territorialisation. Building on cybersecurity discourses after the Snowden revelations, the chapter analyses how the movement of data is supposed to be constrained such that it literally would not leave the territory of a nation state on its way from sender to receiver. The chapter thereby highlights–against the placeless notion of cyberspace–the importance of the physical infrastructure of servers and data exchange points that exist in concrete buildings on national territories. The argument behind the rerouting initiatives is that data, once it would not physically leave the country on its travels, would be easier to protect. However, as the chapter argues, such a political intervention into the open architecture of the Internet entails deep-seated transformations of power in cyberspace.
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Woodfield, Ian. Cabals and Satires. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190692636.001.0001.
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This is a study of the political context in which Mozart wrote his three Italian comedies, Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte. Joseph II’s decision to place his opera buffa troupe in competition with the re-formed Singspiel provoked a struggle between supporters of the rival national genres. Cabals soon became active, organizing claques to cheer or hiss as required, and encouraging press correspondents to circulate slanted notices. In the spring of 1786, Mozart was caught up in the infighting. Figaro, the flagship work for the Italian troupe, received a mixed reception, whereas Dittersdorf’s Der Apotheker for the German party scored a triumph. In this fraught atmosphere, satire flourished. A rival setting of Die Hochzeit des Figaro by Dittersdorf, the music for which is lost, lampooned Mozart in the guise of Cherubino, focusing on his obsession with dancing. The intertroupe contest came to an abrupt end at the start of 1788, when the deteriorating international situation for the Austrian Monarchy necessitated cutbacks in expenditure, including the closure of the Singspiel. During the ensuing years of the Austro-Turkish War, Mozart successfully negotiated the unpredictable twists and turns of theater politics. The revival of Figaro in 1789, now as a Habsburg festive work following its gala performance in Prague, sealed his reputation. He was ideally placed to accept a commission from the commercial stage, the revitalization of which was the most lasting musical consequence of the war years.
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Kachun, Mitch. Michelle Obama, the Media Circus, and America’s Racial Obsession. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036606.003.0004.
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This chapter shifts the focus to Michelle Obama, a figure whose family's experiences of enslavement, emancipation, and northward migration make her nearly as important a cultural figure as her husband. It explains how media coverage of Michelle Obama during the campaign was shaped not only by Americans' expectations of prospective first ladies, but by a long history of powerful stereotypes of black women and their bodies. While praised and admired by many, Michelle Obama had become a target whose attackers utilized an ever-expanding twenty-four/seven cable news cycle and the unprecedented forum of the blogosphere to promulgate every sort of personal and political attack. In the process, they dredged up deep-seated stereotypes of African American women—the domineering “mammy,” the hypersexualized “jezebel,” the more recently minted “angry black woman”—and used them to construct an unappealing and even threatening image of the candidate's wife.
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Uberoi, J. P. S. Mind and Society. Edited by Khalid Tyabji. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199495986.001.0001.
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Seamless in approach and rigour of method and seated very much in the post-modern present, this book spans a wide spectrum of historical periods, cultures, religions, regions and politics. This is a reflection of the author’s search for a theory of vernacular pluralism suitable for Indian society and modernity. The book has three sections. The first engages with the question of swaraj or independent nationalism versus internationalism in the context of knowledge, programmes of research and the university as a social institution. The essays are written to represent the author’s viewpoint on the political conflict between imperialism and nationalism as it relates to the academic pursuit of knowledge in the university and the profession. The second group of essays comprises selected critical reflections on aspects of the modern Western world, academic, theoretical and practical, all here considered as inherently social, but remaining unexamined in our everyday life and practice. They begin with questions of social science and philosophy and conclude with a discussion on the working lives of the industrial worker (West) and the ecological household farmer (East). The third group of essays explores the original project of a vernacular Indian modernity in relation to the Hindu and Muslim cultures of medieval India and in the context of Sikhism as an example of Indian modernity. The thrust of this final section is to establish the ground for a concept of society in the vernacular usage, labour and language, rather than in the concept of ‘tradition’ as general social science and the Orientalist classicists have hitherto done.
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Houk, Brett A., Barbara Arroyo, and Terry G. Powis, eds. Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066226.001.0001.
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Approaches to Monumental Landscapes of the Ancient Maya showcases interpretations and perspectives of landscape importance in the central Maya lowlands, Belize, and the northern and central Maya highlands with studies spanning over 10,000 years of human occupation in the region. Taking their cues from a robust scholarship on landscape archaeology, urban planning, political history, and settlement pattern studies in Maya research, the authors in this volume explore conceptions of monumentality and landscapes that are the products of long-term research and varied research agendas, falling into three broad conceptual categories: natural and built landscapes, political and economic landscapes, and ritual and sacred landscapes. The chapters explore the concept of monumentality in novel ways and approach the idea of landscape as not just the sum total of how a settlement’s local environs were plied and manipulated to conform to the Maya’s deep-seated and normative notions of sacred geography but also take note of how the lowland Maya actively constructed landscapes of power, meaning, and exchange, which rendered their social worlds imbricated, interdependent, and complex. Though varied in their approaches, the authors are all supported by the Alphawood Foundation, and this volume is a testament to the impact philanthropy can have on scientific research.
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Staël, Madame de, and John Isbell. Corinne. Edited by Sylvia Raphael. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199554607.001.0001.
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‘Look at her, she is the image of our beautiful Italy.’ Corinne, or Italy (1807) is both the story of a love affair between Oswald, Lord Nelvil and a beautiful poetess, and an homage to the landscape, literature and art of Italy. On arriving in Italy, Oswald immediately falls under Corinne’s magical spell as she is crowned a national genius at the Captitol. Yet, on returning to England, he succumbs to convention and honours his late father’s wish by marrying the dutiful English girl, Lucile, despite having learned that Corinne is Lucile’s Italian half-sister. Corinne dies of a broken heart and Lord Nelvil is left with a seared conscience. Staël weaves discreet French Revolutionary political allusion and allegory into her romance, and its publication saw her order of exile renewed by Napoleon. Indeed, the novel stands as the birth of modern nationalism, and introduces to French usage the word ‘nationalitié’. It is also one of the first works to put a woman’s creativity centre stage. Sylvia Raphael’s new translation preserves the natural character of the French original and the edition is complemented by notes and and introduction which serve to set an extraordinary work of European Romanticism in its historical and political contexts.
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Whyman, Susan E. Hutton and the Priestley Riots. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797838.003.0008.
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Chapter 6 revisits the Priestley riots (1791) from the viewpoint of a victim, and finds causes concerning the wealth and power of rough diamonds. Birmingham’s print culture and attitudes to law also caused problems, as shown in hostility to Hutton’s role as a magistrate without legal training. Priestley’s influence on religious and political disputes is well known, but Hutton’s actions also triggered violence. His unpublished ‘Narrative of the Riots’ places him at the riots’ centre, and suggests an individual life can address larger questions. His story reveals unexpected self-education amidst industrialization, social mobility alongside poverty, and personal freedom amongst stark limits. The rags-to-riches tale of Hutton and Birmingham is widely admired. But the town’s fabled harmony was accompanied by conflict, and Hutton was never fully accepted. Despite his magnificent achievements, fear of the social mobility of rough diamonds persisted. Since he flaunted his ascent, no one could forget or forgive him. As he crossed the line between workers and masters, he sealed his own fate.
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Abbas, Tahir. Islamophobia and Radicalisation. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083410.001.0001.
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Since the 1970s, there have been three challenges to traditional, homogeneous ‘national’ identities across the Western world: political and socioeconomic inequality; neoliberal globalization; and more diverse, multicultural societies. As in the US and elsewhere in Western Europe, the decline of an old, masculinized national identity has now begun to open a new, dark era for Britain. Ever since the ‘war on terror’ was added to the mix, ‘others’ in Britain have been brutally demonized. Muslims, routinely presented as the source of society’s ills, are subjected to both symbolic and actual violence. Deep-seated and structurally racialized norms amplify the isolation and alienation impeding Muslim integration. Both these ‘left-behind’ Muslims and white-British groups who perceive themselves as the true nation are under pressure from ongoing geopolitical concerns in the Muslim world, as well as widening divisions at home. Tahir Abbas argues that, in this context, the symbiotic intersections between Islamophobia and radicalization intensify and expand. His book is a warning of the world that results: a rise in hate crime, the institutionalization of Islamophobia, and the normalization of war and conflict.
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Roll, Jarod. Poor Man's Fortune. University of North Carolina Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469656298.001.0001.
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White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man’s Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal.With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
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Epstein, Charlotte. Birth of the State. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190917623.001.0001.
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This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted-ness upon the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each other all the way down, by going all the way back, to their original crafting in the seventeenth century. It considers multiple sites of theory and practice and two revolutions. The first, scientific, threw humanity out of the centre of the universe, and transformed the very meanings of matter, space, and the body; while the second, legal and political, re-established humans as the centre-point of a framework of rights. The book analyses the fundamental rights to security, liberty, and property, respectively, as the initial knots where the state-subject relation was first sealed. It develops three arguments, that the body served to naturalise security, to individualise liberty, and to privatise property. Covering a wide range of materials—from early modern anatomy lesson paintings, to the Anglo-Scottish legal struggles of naturalisation, to the emergence of discrete practices of religious toleration in Central Europe—it shows both how the body has operated as history’s great naturaliser, and how it can be mobilised instead as a critical tool that lays bare the deeply racialised and gendered constructions that made both the state and the subject of rights. The book returns to the origins of constructivist and constitutive theorising to reclaim their radical and critical potential.
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Trivellato, Francesca. The Promise and Peril of Credit. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691178592.001.0001.
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This book takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West's centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. This book recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. It locates the legend's earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, the book describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
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Phillips, Victoria. Martha Graham's Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190610364.001.0001.
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“I am not a propagandist,” declared the matriarch of American modern dance, Martha Graham, while on her State Department–funded tour in 1955. Graham’s claim inspires questions: the United States government exported Graham and her company internationally to more than thirty nations in Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East, representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower through Ronald Reagan, and planned under George H. W. Bush. Although in the diplomatic field she was titled the “Picasso of modern dance,” and in later years “Forever Modern,” Graham was known to proclaim, “I am not a modernist.” In addition, she declared, “I am not a liberationist,” yet she intersected with politically powerful women such as Eleanor Roosevelt; Eleanor Dulles, sister of Eisenhower’s Dulles brothers in the State Department and CIA; Jackie Kennedy Onassis; Betty Ford; and political matriarch Barbara Bush. While bringing religious characters inspired by the Bible and the American frontier to the stage in a battle against the atheist communists, Graham insisted, “I am not a missionary.” To her abstract, mythic and biblical works, she added the trope of the American frontier. While her work promoted the United States as modern and culturally sophisticated, her casting promoted a vision of America as racially and culturally integrated. During the Cold War, the reconfigured history of modernism as apolitical in its expression of “the heart and soul of mankind” met political needs abroad with Graham’s tours. With her modernism, Graham demonstrated the power of the individual, republicanism, immigrants, and ultimately freedom from walls and metaphorical fences with the unfettered language of movement and dance as cultural diplomacy.
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Hedrick, Todd. Reconciliation and Reification. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190634025.001.0001.
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The critical theory tradition has, since its inception, sought to distinguish its perspective on society from more purely descriptive or normative approaches by maintaining that persons have a deep-seated interest in the free development of their personality—an interest that can only be realized in and through the rational organization of society, but which is systematically stymied by existing society. Yet it has struggled to specify this emancipatory interest in a way that avoids being either excessively utopian or overly accommodating to existing society. Despite the fact that Hegel’s concept of reconciliation is normally thought to run aground on the latter horn of this dilemma, this book argues that reconciliation is the best available conceptualization of this emancipatory interest. It presents Hegel’s idea of freedom as something actualized in individuals’ lives through their becoming reconciled to how society shapes their roles, prospects, and sense of self; it presents reconciliation as being less a matter of philosophical cognition, and more of inclusion in a responsive, transparent political process. It then introduces the concept of reification, which—through its development in Marx and Lukács, through Horkheimer and Adorno—substantiates an increasingly cogent critique of reconciliation as something unachievable within the framework of modern society. Giving equal attention to psychoanalysis and legal theory, the second half critically appraises the writings of Rawls, Honneth, and Habermas as efforts to spell out what a concept of reconciliation more democratic and inclusive than Hegel, yet sensitive to the reifying effects of legal systems, might mean.
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Wells, Christi Jay. Between Beats. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197559277.001.0001.
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Between Beats: The Jazz Tradition and Black Vernacular Dance explores the complex intersections between jazz music and popular dance over the last hundred-plus years. It aims to show how popular entertainment and cultures of social dancing were crucial to jazz music’s formation and development, but it also investigates the processes through which jazz music came to earn a reputation as a “legitimate” art form better suited for still, seated listening. Through the concept of “choreographies of listening,” the book explores amateur and professional jazz dancers’ relationships with jazz music and musicians as jazz’s soundscapes and choreoscapes were forged through close contact and mutual creative exchange. The book’s later chapters also critically unpack the aesthetic and political negotiations through which jazz music supposedly distanced itself from dancing bodies. As musicians and critics sought to secure institutional space for jazz within America’s body-averse academic and high-art cultures, an intentional severance from the dancing body proved crucial to jazz’s re-positioning as a form of autonomous, elite art. Fusing little-discussed material from diverse historical and contemporary sources with the author’s own years of experience as a social jazz dancer, this book seeks to advance participatory dance and embodied practice as central topics of analysis in jazz studies. As it explores the fascinating history of jazz as popular dance music, this book also exposes how American anxieties about bodies and a broad cultural privileging of the cerebral over the corporeal have shaped efforts to “elevate” expressive forms such as jazz to elite status.
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Kadish, Doris. The Secular Rabbi. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859661.001.0001.
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The Secular Rabbi is an intellectual biography of Philip Rahv, co-founder of Partisan Review. It focuses on the ambivalent ties that Rahv, a Russian immigrant, retained to his Jewish cultural background. Drawing on letters Rahv wrote to her mother from 1928 to 1931, Doris Kadish delves into Rahv’s complex and enigmatic character, his experience teaching Hebrew in Savannah, GA and Portland, OR; his attitudes toward class, race, and gender. Kadish positions herself in relation to Rahv in attempting to understand her own Jewish identity and perspective as a 21st century woman. The book draws on historical accounts, genealogical records, memoirs by Rahv’s friends and associates, interviews, and secondary scholarship devoted to the New York intellectuals, the history of Partisan Review, and Jewish studies. Key components of Rahv’s Jewishness—appearance, voice, name, attitudes toward Yiddish and Zionism—are explored, as is his deep-seated faith in Marxism. Textual analyses of Rahv’s works are interwoven with analyses of writers whose works appeared in Partisan Review: Delmore Schwartz, Franz Kafka, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow. Rahv’s relations with writers who figured prominently in his life—most notably T.S. Eliot, Mary McCarthy, and Irving Howe—are explored. Events relating to anti-Stalinism, responses to the Holocaust, and alleged ties with the CIA, are discussed. Kadish sheds light on modernism, proletarian literature, and Jewish writing as well as movements that defined American political history in the 20th century: immigration, socialism, Communism, fascism, the cold war, feminism, and the New Left.