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The book examines Charlie Chaplin's evolving perspective on dark comedy in his three war films, Shoulder Arms (1918), The Great Dictator (1940), and Monsieur Verdoux (1947). In the first he uses the genre in a groundbreaking manner but yet for a...

Despite, or perhaps because of, the vast number of witness statements and numerous texts, we will never know the true details of important events that happened in Ireland during the 1916 Uprising, its War of Independence, the 1921 Treaty talks, and the...

In Mussolini and Fascist Italy Martin Blinkhorn explains the significance of the man, the movement and the regime which dominated Italian life between 1922 and the closing stages of the Second World War.  He examines:   those aspects of...

The name of the book is on purpose. "Fire" is the universal spiritual symbol for light and truth. Lincoln was on fire for that. "Quiet" is the counter-cultural grace to be open, knowable, and a source of charity and peace. Even as a War President...

Swiss architect and urban planner, the second director of the Bauhaus Dessau, Hannes Meyer, spent about six years in the USSR-from 1930 to 1936. This book presents the first in-depth study of Hannes Meyer's activities during the years of early Stalinism...

The story of a 19th century Staten Island town that nurtured the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists, and transcendentalists.This book traces five decades of community life in a nineteenth-century Staten Island neighborhood...

Explores twentieth-century Mexican counterculture through the lens of pleasure, body autonomy, and music and film undergrounds.Consuming Citizens offers a fresh conception of twentieth-century Mexican cultural production by critically tracing the...

The first study to document how the Civil War brought about a bitter cultural and political conflict between Great Britain and the United States, a conflict that ignited a global struggle for racial equality and human rights.This study tells for the...

Explores the line between free speech protected by the First Amendment and unprotected incitement to imminent lawless action.Free Speech and Incitement in the Twenty-First Century explores the line between free speech and incitement, which is a form of...

America's geographic and ideological frontier as lived by Buffalo's first physician, renegade militia officer, and founding citizen.Cyrenius Chapin tells the story of life in the young American republic through the experiences of a local physician, land...

Examines contemporary animation in Mexico-one of the most commercially successful and most understudied genres of the national cinema.Answering a call to view Mexican film through the lens of commercial cinema, Animation in Mexico, 2006 to 2022 is the...

Essays on the security challenges faced by African states.The central concern that shapes this edited volume is the nature of the African state. Contributors point to an interesting intersection of domestic and external issues that is framed as a...

Utilizes Greek tragedy to investigate the fundamentally arbitrary and violent nature of justice.A purely political understanding of justice does not convey the cosmological origins of the ancient conception of justice, Dikē, in Aeschylus's Oresteia...

Elucidates the political dynamics that link the Umbrella Movement to the anti-extradition protests and helps explain the key character of the latter movement.Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 2014 Umbrella Movement...

In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).According to a common conception, modern politics is based on...

The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities.Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for...

Details the Belt and Road global infrastructure development initiative as the most important instrument for China's leadership under Xi Jinping to create an alternative global economic and geopolitical order to challenge the United States.In the opening...

A survey of the Muslim, Jewish, and Christian debates and mystical discussions about Muhammad's heavenly journey that took place in early medieval Spain.This book demonstrates how Muhammad's heavenly journey, as discussed throughout the eleventh and...

Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries...

Considers how sign-reading fit into broader understandings of the human and cosmic worlds in Han times.Celestial Signs and Classical Rhetoric in Early Imperial China considers how the reading of celestial signs-including comets, strange clouds, halos,...

A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most...

Focuses on key aspects of Robert Esposito's thought and explores the ways in which some major contemporary thinkers have been crucial interlocutors in their elaboration.Political Ontology, Community, and Institutions offers a broad view of the current...

The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies.For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, generating encounters between Indigenous and Western...

Nurses form the single largest health group across the globe and have done so for the past 150 years. Yet, they are frequently left out of the historical record. Histories of nursing have often focused on an institution or organisation. Few look at...

Die vorliegende Studie bietet erstmals einen umfassenden Überblick über politisch rechtsstehende Gruppen in den Hansestädten Hamburg und Bremen im Deutschen Kaiserreich und den ersten Jahren der Weimarer Republik. Das Buch untersucht Netzwerke,...

Within these pages lies an unparalleled exploration of the ancient book of Daniel. From the iconic image and the four beasts to the 2300 days and the 70 years, from the antichrist and the Christ to the enigmatic alien gospel - "Desealing Daniel" takes...

The first unofficial biography of Sir Basil Liddell Hart (1895-1970). Nobody had more influence on Anglophone military thought over the last 100 years. He was born in the reign of Victoria, came of age in the year before the Great War, and wrote doctrine...

This collection of readings attests to the unique relationship the indigenous Snake River-Palouse and Umatilla peoples have long had with their traditional homelands in the Inland Pacific Northwest. These accounts by tribal elders and consultants reflect...

Public exasperation with Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court has intensified, attributable in large part to the application of an 18th Century Constitution to a 21st Century society. The time has come to trade the United States...

The old British district of Tanjore (which has since been split into 4 smaller districts) has contributed extensively to the social, cultural and political heritage of Tamil Nadu. Read about the privileged lawyer who criticized the burden of high salt...

This book illuminates the often overlooked contributions of Black figures throughout history, from ancient African civilizations to contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter. By weaving together narratives of resilience, resistance, and excellence,...

Today, more than 50 million people living in the USA were born in another country. That is more people than the entire population of Canada, and all of them have faced or will face challenges as they adapt to their new home.Many will be nervous and...

I'm a real eyewitness to Planet Nibiru's crossing and have had several Bigfoot encounters and star craft encounters as close as forty feet away. I've also been through a parallel time slip to our other universe and uncovered many ancient sites, some as...

First place winner in the category Military Nonfiction in the 2023 Firebird Book Awards.Chop that Sh*t Up! is a collection of stories by a military veteran with deployments ranging from Bosnia-Herzegovina to tours in Iraq. Follow along his...

Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and you enlist in the Army, where you become trained to operate and fight from a new Sherman battle tank. But...

Two manuscripts in one book:Celtic History: An Enthralling Overview of the CeltsCeltic Mythology: An Enthralling Overview of Celtic Myths, Gods and GoddessesWhether you're already familiar with the Celts or whether you've never even heard of them, The...

Defining the Others, "them", in relation to one's own reference group, "us", has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the...

The No-Fail Mission. We hear these words, but do we truly understand their meaning?This book, a joint venture between University of Toledo Press and Palmetto Publishing, profiles ten American servicemembers who earned the Presidential Service Badge. Come...

Constance McMurray's family was one of the few that didn't join in the infamous "white flight" from Detroit - leading to a shift of the neighborhood before her eyes. Discover Constance's memoir of mourning losses and moving friendships.Detroit, 1967: The...

Lawmen and Lawlessness is a dramatic, narrative, account of the sheriff s of Berkeley County, South Carolina from 1882 to 1970. The first-person accounts of manhunts, shoot-outs, ruckus trials and ghastly public executions put the reader in the middle of...

1.研究严谨，逻辑缜密。《汉末之变》延续了作者一贯的写作特点，细致爬梳史料，数百条文献对勘，数十个时间点校准，结合时间、地理、人口、财政、官制、兵制等线索，抛开胜利者叙事，揭示真实的汉末三国历史。 2.乱世群杰，何处去从。《汉末之变》的主角是初平三年（192年）之前的曹操和董卓，但也描绘了大转折时代背景下，何进、王允、袁绍、袁术等豪杰之士的复杂面相。他们的忠奸贤愚，都被作者从史书的字缝里还原出来。 3...

Praise for Busting Timothy Leary"I couldn't put this down! Bernard Ross's rollicking novel, inspired by an outlandish true story, deftly captures the spirit of the 1960s with humor, wisdom, and compassion. Highly recommended!"Steven L. Davis, co-author...

The Bassa tribe in Liberia has been mislabeled for selling their land forsmoked fish, but the actual story is that Captain Robert F. Stocktoncoerced or forced the tribe at gunpoint to sell the land. Threatening tokill the king in front of his people...

This collection of letters document the correspondence and donations made by various Polish monarchs, including King Boleslaus Chrobry, Queen Judith, and King Boleslaus Krzywousty, to the Tinec monastery and the Hospital of St. John the Baptist. These...

What If Everything You Knew About History Was a Lie?Beneath the surface of the history you were taught lies a world of secrets-shocking, chilling, and deliberately erased from the pages of time. The Forbidden Archives unlocks the hidden corridors of...

Step into the captivating world of Ancient Egypt-a land where the mighty Nile transformed desert into a lush oasis, and where pharaohs ruled as gods. This book invites you on a thrilling journey through a civilization that gave birth to culture,...

En esta obra explico las visiones del profeta judío Daniel, quien viviera durante el tiempo de la deportación judía por parte del imperio babilonio. Su libro no es abordado por los rabinos en sus estudios, en cambio, en la escatología cristiana, sus...

Facts That Will Change How You See the WorldUnlock the Power of Perspective. Rethink Everything You Thought You Knew.What if the truths you take for granted are only part of the story? From the microscopic marvels inside a single cell to the staggering...