Power of necessity, Kattenberg, Lisa (university Of Cambridge)

Автор: Waller R. Newell
Название: Tyrants: Power, Injustice, and Terror
ISBN: 1108713912 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108713917
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book will appeal to anyone interested in the danger posed by tyranny and terror in today`s world, the psychology of tyranny, and how it is shaped by the history of fiction, art, and architecture. Written in a clear, colorful style, the book is suitable for readers of all levels.

Автор: Magdalena Skoblar
Название: Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453
ISBN: 1108814646 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108814645
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Adriatic has long occupied a liminal position between different cultures, languages and faiths. This book offers the first synthesis of its history between the seventh and the mid-fifteenth century, a period coinciding with the existence of the Byzantine Empire which, as heir to the Roman Empire, lay claim to the region. The period also saw the rise of Venice and it is important to understand the conditions which would lead to her dominance in the late Middle Ages. An international team of historians and archaeologists examines trade, administration and cultural exchange between the Adriatic and Byzantium but also within the region itself, and makes more widely known much previously scattered and localised research and the results of archaeological excavations in both Italy and Croatia. Their bold interpretations offer many stimulating ideas for rethinking the entire history of the Mediterranean during the period.

Автор: Flower Richard
Название: Imperial Invectives Against Constantius II
ISBN: 1781383286 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781383285
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: This volume illuminates the vital importance of invective in the imperial and religious politics of late antiquity by presenting English translations of three key texts, accompanied by a substantial introduction and notes.

Автор: Tritten Tyler
Название: The contingency of necessity
ISBN: 1474428193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474428194
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Focuses on the lives of sixty-five drug-using girls in the juvenile justice system who grew up in families characterized by parental drug use, violence, and child maltreatment. Vera Lopez situates girls` relationships with parents who fail to live up to parenting norms and examines how these relationships change over time and contribute to the girls` drug use and involvement in the justice system.

Автор: Osgood
Название: Claudius Caesar
ISBN: 0521708257 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521708258
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: A study of the tumultuous reign of Emperor Claudius (AD 41-54), which explores what held the sprawling Roman Empire together, and what threatened to tear it apart. Claudius` ongoing difficulties suggest problems inherent to the constitution of Rome`s empire, and the challenges faced by empires more generally.

Автор: O`Brien Phillips Payson
Название: How the War Was Won
ISBN: 110871689X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108716895
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book challenges the view that World War II was decided by land battles. It argues that victory was due to the production and allocation of American and British air and sea weaponry that was used to destroy over half of the Axis`s equipment before it reached the traditional `battlefield`.

Автор: Claire Weeda
Название: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion
ISBN: 1914049187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781914049187
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.Students in twelfth-century Paris held slanging matches, branding the English drunkards, the Germans madmen and the French as arrogant. On crusade, army recruits from different ethnic backgrounds taunted each other's military skills. Men producing ethnography in monasteries and at court drafted derogatory descriptions of peoples dwelling in territories under colonisation, questioning their work ethic, social organisation, religious devotion and humanness. Monks listed and ruminated on the alleged traits of Jews, Saracens, Greeks, Saxons and Britons and their acceptance or rejection of Christianity.In this radical new approach to representations of nationhood in medieval western Europe, the author argues that ethnic stereotypes were constructed and wielded rhetorically to justify property claims, flaunt military strength and assert moral and cultural ascendance over others. The gendered images of ethnicity in circulation reflect a negotiation over self-representations of discipline, rationality and strength, juxtaposed with the alleged chaos and weakness of racialised others. Interpreting nationhood through a religious lens, monks and schoolmen explained it as scientifically informed by environmental medicine, an ancient theory that held that location and climate influenced the physical and mental traits of peoples. Drawing on lists of ethnic character traits, school textbooks, medical treatises, proverbs, poetry and chronicles, this book shows that ethnic stereotypes served as rhetorical tools of power, crafting relationships within communities and towards others.

Автор: Jackson
Название: Hobbes, Bramhall and the Politics of Liberty and Necessity
ISBN: 0521181445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521181440
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book was the first full account of one of the most famous debates of the seventeenth century, that between the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and the Anglican archbishop of Armagh, John Bramhall. This will interest scholars of early modern British history, religious history and the history of ideas.

Автор: Izenberg, Gerald N.
Название: Identity
ISBN: 0812224531 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812224535
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Identity: The Necessity of a Modern Idea is the first comprehensive history of identity as the answer to the question, "who, or what, am I?" It covers the century from the end of World War I, when identity in this sense first became an issue for writers and philosophers, to 2010, when European political leaders declared multiculturalism a failure just as Canada, which pioneered it, was hailing its success. Along the way the book examines Erik Erikson's concepts of psychological identity and identity crisis, which made the word famous; the turn to collective identity and the rise of identity politics in Europe and America; varieties and theories of group identity; debates over accommodating collective identities within liberal democracy; the relationship between individual and group identity; the postmodern critique of identity as a concept; and the ways it nonetheless transformed the social sciences and altered our ideas of ethics.

At the same time the book is an argument for the validity and indispensability of identity, properly understood. Identity was not a concept before the twentieth century because it was taken for granted. The slaughter of World War I undermined the honored identities of prewar Europe and, as a result, the idea of identity as something objective and stable was thrown into question at the same time that people began to sense that it was psychologically and socially necessary. We can't be at home in our bodies, act effectively in the world, or interact comfortably with others without a stable sense of who we are. Gerald Izenberg argues that, while it is a mistake to believe that our identities are givens that we passively discover about ourselves, decreed by God, destiny, or nature, our most important identities have an objective foundation in our existential situation as bodies, social beings, and creatures who aspire to meaning and transcendence, as well as in the legitimacy of our historical particularity.

Автор: Canuel Hugues
Название: The Fall and Rise of French Sea Power: France`s Quest for an Independent Naval Policy 1940-1963
ISBN: 1682476162 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682476161
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Explores the renewal of French naval power from the fall of France in 1940 through the first two decades of the Cold War. The author, drawing upon extensive research through French, British, American, and NATO archives maps out for readers the unique path adopted in France to rebuild a blue-water fleet during unprecedented circumstances.

Автор: Tallis, Nicola
Название: All the queen`s jewels, 1445-1548
ISBN: 1032065028 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032065021
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: From Margaret of Anjou to Katherine Parr, All the Queen`s Jewels examines the jewellery collections of the ten queen consorts of England between 1445-1548, and investigates the collections of jewels a queen had access to, as well as the varying contexts in which queens used and wore jewels.

Автор: Nester William R.
Название: Titan: British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon
ISBN: 0806152052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780806152059
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: When the leaders of the French Revolution executed Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1793, they sent a chilling message to the hereditary ruling orders in Europe. Believing that monarchy anywhere presented a threat to democratic rule in France, the leaders of the revolution declared war on European aristocracies, including those of Great Britain. For more than twenty years thereafter, France and England waged a protracted war that ended in British victory. In Titan, William R. Nester offers a deeply informed and thoroughly fascinating narrative of how England accomplished this remarkable feat. Between 1789 and 1815, British leaders devised, funded, and led seven coalitions against the revolutionary and Napoleonic governments of France. In each enterprise, statesmen and generals searched for order amid a complex welter of bureaucratic, political, economic, psychological, technological, and international forces. Nester combines biographies of great men - the likes of William Pitt, Horatio Nelson, and Arthur Wellesley - with an explanation of the critical decisions they made in Britain's struggle for power and his own keen analysis of the forces that operated beyond their control. Their efforts would eventually crush France and Napoleon and establish a system of European power relations that prevented a world war for nearly a century. The interplay of individuals and events, the importance of conjunctures and contingency, the significance of Britain's island character and resources: all come into play in Nester's exploration of the art of British military diplomacy. The result is a comprehensive and insightful account of the endeavors of statesmen and generals to master the art of power in a complex battle for empire.