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Depression and Narrative
Depression and Narrative examines stories of depression in the context of recent scholarship on illness and narrative, which up to this point has largely focused on physical illness and disability. Contributors from a number of disciplinary perspectives address these narrative accounts of depression, by both sufferers and those who treat them, as they appear in memoirs, diaries, novels, poems, oral interviews, fact sheets, blogs, films, and television shows. Together, they explore the stories we tell about depression: its contested causes; its gendering; the transformations in identity that it entails; and the problems it presents for communication, associated as it is with stigma and shame....
Mein Kampf
Madman, tyrant, animal—history has given Adolf Hitler many names. In Mein Kampf (My Struggle), often called the Nazi bible, Hitler describes his life, frustrations, ideals, and dreams. Born to an impoverished couple in a small town in Austria, the young Adolf grew up with the fervent desire to become a painter. The death of his parents and outright rejection from art schools in Vienna forced him into underpaid work as a laborer. During the First World War, Hitler served in the infantry and was decorated for bravery. After the war, he became actively involved with socialist political groups and quickly rose to power, establishing himself as Chairman of the National Socialist German Worker's...
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Autokrat a jeho doba
Kniha se věnuje poměrně krátkému časovému úseku, kdy Evropou prošla vlna revolucí, ale i dalších změn. Revolucí v té či oné podobě se obávaly všechny evropské země, a to dokonce včetně Velké Británie nebo Francie. Autor svou pozornost zaměřil nikoliv na soupis a detailní popis všech událostí, které přinesly roky 1830–1831, ale na analýzu podmínek, ze kterých ruští představitelé museli vycházet a také na následná opatření, která přijímali tváří v tvář evropskému revolučnímu hnutí. Faktické události zůstávají na pozadí a vpřed vystupují jednotlivci a jejich vnímání situace. Politika Mikulášova Ruska držela výrazně pragmatickou linii, byť často navzdory carovu postoji. Ukazuje se, jak dlouhodobé systémové záležitosti ovlivňují rozhodování v konkrétní krizové situaci a jak důležitá je osobnost v dějinném procesu, a to dokonce i v tak centralizovaném státě, jakým bylo carské Rusko.
Special Operations Executive
This unique book presents an accurate and reliable assessment of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It brings together leading authors to examine the organization from a range of key angles. This study shows how historians have built on the first international conference on the SOE at the Imperial War Museum in 1998. The release of many records then allowed historians to develop the first authoritative analyses of the organization’s activities and several of its agents and staff officers were able to participate. Since this groundbreaking conference, fresh research has continued and its original papers are here amended to take account of the full range of SOE documents that have been ...
Degeneration, decadence and disease in the Russian fin de siècle
Early in the twentieth century, Russia was experiencing a decadent period of cultural degeneration just as science was developing ways to identify medical conditions which supposedly reflected the health of the entire nation. Leonid Andreev, the leading literary figure of his time, stepped into the breach of this scientific discourse with literary works about degenerates. The spirited social debates on mental illness, morality and sexual deviance which resulted from these works became part of the ongoing battle over the definition and depiction of the irrational, complicated by Andreev’s own publicised bouts with neurasthenia. This book examines the concept of pathology in Russia, the influence of European medical discourse, the development of Russian psychiatry, and the role that it had in popular culture, by investigating the life and works of Andreev. It engages the emergence of psychiatry and the role that art played in the development of this objective science.
