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Violence and Politics
In this volume, a new generation of researchers explore and demonstrate the interaction between politics and violence in the context of Greek and European history. In terms of focus, the articles here extend over a time span stretching from the Greek classical period to the twentieth century. The ancient Greek polis, medieval and early modern Europe, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire, nineteenth-century Britain and the Greek society of the 1940s are some of the historical periods in which the relationship between violence and politics is examined. At the same time, the authors tackle important themes concerning this relationship, such as legitimate and illegitimate violence, violence from above and from below, resistance and revolt, authority and subordination, and gendered and political violence.
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making
Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these policies. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of different political aims and pressures on 'scientific' health policies through the analysis of public health programmes in two case studies, one in Birmingham and the other in Gothenburg. By examining early twentieth-century campaigns concerned with infant welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, the book provides illuminating insights into the relationship between public health and the regulation of urban life. Not only does the book analys...
Heavenly Sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine Iconography
This book examines ideas of spiritual nourishment as maintained chiefly by Patristic theologians –those who lived in Byzantium. It shows how a particular type of Byzantine frescoes and icons illustrated the views of Patristic thinkers on the connections between the heavenly and the earthly worlds. The author explores the occurrence, and geographical distribution, of this new type of iconography that manifested itself in representations concerned with the human body, and argues that these were a reaction to docetist ideas. The volume also investigates the diffusion of saints’ cults and demonstrates that this took place on a North-South axis as their veneration began in Byzantium and gradually reached the northern part of Europe, and eventually the entirety of Christendom.
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The Mirror of the Medieval
Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare, the medieval past has always served as a mirror for modernity. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects—from nationalism to the discipline of anthropology—have appropriated the Middle Ages for their own ends. Deploying an interdisciplinary toolkit, author K. Patrick Fazioli grounds his analysis in contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps, while also considering the broader implications for scholarly research and public memory.
追求文明：從近代早期英格蘭的禮儀，重探人類文明化進程的意義
文明即是「脫野蠻」？ 英國社科學院院士、重量級歷史學家 基思．湯瑪斯爵士 作品首度登「台」 我們以為自己對「文明」的概念／反思已經知道夠多，但歷史學家總能打撈、組合並展示出令人拍案叫絕的歷史材料，引人更進一步省思！ § Courant書系 § 楊照選書 § 透過了解「文明」概念在16至18世紀的各個時期，如何形塑每一個英格蘭人不同的言行舉止，歷史學家基思．湯瑪斯的作品，讓你重新了解「英格蘭人的驕傲」從何而來，不同階級／地區的人切劃我群與他群的分歧微妙之處，以及反思「文明」的意義以及這個概念當...
Cinema and the Swastika
This is the first publication to bring together comparative research on the international expansion of Third Reich cinema. This volume investigates various attempts to infiltrate - economically, politically and culturally - the film industries of 20 countries and regions either occupied by, friendly with or neutral towards Nazi Germany.
Beauty: Exploring Critical Perspectives
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Rather than accept society’s ‘preferred metaphors’ about beauty at face value, the authors in this volume question the fact that beauty can also surprise us in the least foreseeable setting, at the most unexpected moment and in the most surprising or unsettling ways. Their work underscores beauty’s ephemeral, transitory, fleeting and at times confounding nature. The way beauty reveals itself to us, they point out, may challenge or even contradict established conventions, norms and values about aesthetics. The emergence of unconventional metaphors and analogies about beauty in these chapters calls on us to pay attent...
Globalisierung imperial und sozialistisch
Das späte Zarenreich und die Sowjetunion waren auf vielfältige Weise in globale Prozesse eingebunden. An verschiedenen Beispielen gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes dem Austausch von Menschen, Gütern und Informationen nach, über den das Land im Laufe der Geschichte mit anderen Weltregionen verbunden war. Dabei zeigen sie, wo Europa, Asien, Amerika und Afrika jeweils auf den russischen und sowjetischen mentalen Weltkarten verortet wurden. Sie leisten damit eine längst fällige Einordnung des früheren russischen Reiches bzw. der ehemaligen Weltmacht Sowjetunion in die Globalgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.
