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Through the History of the Cold War

The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs

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Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than militarily confronting...
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The Invention of Peter

Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity

by George E. Demacopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013

On the first anniversary of his election to the papacy, Leo the Great stood before the assembly of bishops convening in Rome and forcefully asserted his privileged position as the heir of Peter the Apostle. This declaration marked the beginning of a powerful tradition: the Bishop of Rome would henceforth...
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The Socratic Turn

Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science

by Dustin Sebell
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015

The Socratic Turn addresses the question of whether we can acquire genuine knowledge of good and evil, right and wrong. Reputedly, Socrates was the first philosopher to make the attempt. But Socrates was a materialistic natural scientist in his youth, and it was only much later in life—after he...
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by Shmuel Feiner
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

At the beginning of the eighteenth century most European Jews lived in restricted settlements and urban ghettos, isolated from the surrounding dominant Christian cultures not only by law but also by language, custom, and dress. By the end of the century urban, upwardly mobile Jews had shaved their...
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by Israel Bartal
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011

In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories...
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Robert Love's Warnings

Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston

by Cornelia H. Dayton, Sharon V. Salinger
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

In colonial America, the system of "warning out" was distinctive to New England, a way for a community to regulate those to whom it would extend welfare. Robert Love's Warnings animates this nearly forgotten aspect of colonial life, richly detailing the moral and legal basis of the practice...
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Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life

The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages

by John Van Engen
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

The Devotio Moderna, or Modern Devout, puzzled their contemporaries. Beginning in the 1380s in market towns along the Ijssel River of the east-central Netherlands and in the county of Holland, they formed households organized as communes and forged lives centered on private devotion. They lived on...
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Our Emily Dickinsons

American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference

by Vivian R. Pollak
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016

For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including...
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Fallible Authors

Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath

by Alastair Minnis
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

Can an outrageously immoral man or a scandalous woman teach morality or lead people to virtue? Does personal fallibility devalue one's words and deeds? Is it possible to separate the private from the public, to segregate individual failing from official function? Chaucer addressed these perennial...
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by Karen A. Winstead
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

Britain of the fifteenth century was rife with social change, religious dissent, and political upheaval. Amid this ferment lived John Capgrave—Austin friar, doctor of theology, leading figure in East Anglian society, and noted author. Nowhere are the tensions and anxieties of this critical period,...
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Archives of American Time

Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century

by Lloyd Pratt
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011

American historians have typically argued that a shared experience of time worked to bind the antebellum nation together. Trains, technology, and expanding market forces catapulted the United States into the future on a straight line of progressive time. The nation's exceedingly diverse population...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012

Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa,...
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Our Living Manhood

Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology

by Rolland Murray
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their...
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Warner Mifflin

Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist

by Gary B. Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

Warner Mifflin—energetic, uncompromising, and reviled—was the key figure connecting the abolitionist movements before and after the American Revolution. A descendant of one of the pioneering families of William Penn's "Holy Experiment," Mifflin upheld the Quaker pacifist doctrine, carrying...
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