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Last Features
Drawing on archival research and interviews with directors, writers, and editors, Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. Last Features is the story of forgotten films made during the time of German unification. With leftover GDR funds and under chaotic conditions, a group of young East German filmmakers produced around thirty stylistically diverse films. Most of these films were lost in the political upheaval of the Wende, disappearing until the 2009 Wendeflicks festival in Los Angeles brought them back for an international audience. Now available on DVD, these films provide unique insights into the generational struggle in the DEFA studio, ...
Current Catalog
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Jews, Germans, Memory
Assesses the past, present, and future of German-Jewish relations in light of recent political charges and the opening up of historical resources
Religion and Society in the Age of St. Augustine
Peter Brown, author of the celebrated 'Augustine of Hippo', has here gathered together his seminal articles and papers on the rapidly changing world of Saint Augustine. The collection is wide-ranging, dealing with political theory, social history, church history, historiography, theology, history of religions, and social anthropology. Saint Augustine is, of course, the central figure; and in an important introduction Peter Brown explains how the preoccupations of these essays led him to write the prize-winning biography. Brown then goes on to explore the heart of Augustine's political theory, not only showing how it factors in Augustine's thought, but also pointing to what is different from and similar to twentieth-century political thought.
Handbook to the Stein Collections in the UK
Sir Aurel Stein is renowned as an adventurous archaeologist. This handbook serves as a finding list for the collections of objects, manuscripts and archives of correspondence that are associated with Stein's expeditions to India, China, Iran, Iraq and Jordan between the 1890s and 1938.
Roman Army Papers
The forty-four papers, with addenda and indices, written between 1940 and 1985 embody a lifetime's work by this eminent Princeton scholar, noted for his deft handling of the inscriptions and papyri on which our knowledge of the Roman army rests.
Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th Century AD
In this book Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the political and cultural contact between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing in their reconstruction after 626 and the definition of the possible channels of communication.
