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One of the livlier debates amongst historians concerns the dates of the beginning and, particularly, the end of Prussian history. This work explores the slow death of Prussia by examining several key individuals and their actions at four distinct periods of Prussian history.

Blamed, at first, by the Spanish government for the recent Madrid train bombings, ETA (Euzkadi ta Askatasuna), the Basque nationalist organization, has been perhaps the most violent insurgent group on the European continent. Yet little is known about it outside of Spain. This book, now back in print, offers a full analytical study of ETA.

In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. In this pioneering study, Jean Gelman Taylor offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia s extraordinary social world its marriage patterns, religious and social organizations, economic interests, and sexual roles. With an emphasis on the urban ruling elite, she argues that Europeans and Asians alike were profoundly altered by their merging, resulting in a distinctive hybrid, Indo-Dutch culture. Original in its focus on gender and use of varied sources travelers accounts, newspapers, legal codes, genealogical data, photograph albums, paintings, and ceramics "The Social World of Batavia," first published in 1983, forged new paths in the study of colonial society."

Among established American institutions, few have been more successful or paradoxical than the Boy Scouts of America. David Macleod traces the social history of America in this scholarly account of the origins of the Boy Scouts and other character-building agencies, through which adults tried to restructure middle-class boyhood.

Contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. These six volumes of ""A History of the Crusades"" stands as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.

As the nonprofessional theatre grows in popularity, its technology expands at a dizzying rate, presenting exciting new opportunities and challenges. This new edition of a stage manager's old friend takes into account many aspects of the new theatre technology, insuring the book's lasting place in college, high school, and community theatres.

In this volume the author addresses issues concerned with East European Jews in German, and German Jewish, consciousness.

Provides a brief history and description of more than a hundred Roman cities, an extensive master bibliography, and a comprehensive glossary. Roman Cities will interest both scholars and students of Roman history and archeology, city planning, urban geography, and the social sciences.

Traces the roots of classical education, from the warrior cultures of Homer, to the increasing importance of rhetoric and philosophy, to the adaptation of Hellenistic ideals within the Roman education system, and ending with the rise of Christian schools and churches in the early medieval period.

Our National Parks is a guidebook supreme, an exciting introduction to Yosemite and several other magnificent parks by the man who, more than any other person, helped to create them. After this fast-paced trip with Muir, past visitors to the parks will want to revisit them with new insights, and those who have never wandered these trails will not rest until they have done so. The book, long out of print, was originally published in 1901, its ten essays having previously appeared as articles in the Atlantic Monthly. Muir wrote them with a single purpose--to entice people, by his descriptions, to come to the parks, to see and enjoy them. If enough people did so, reasoned Muir, they would surely love the wilderness as he did, and the parks would be preserved. Muir carried out his public relations mission with remarkable success. Every page of this book carries his unbridled and irresistible enthusiasm. Our National Parks is part reminiscence, part philosophy, and mostly enticing description. It is all vintage Muir. Although the book treats Yellowstone, Sequoia, General Grant, and other national parks of the Western U.S., Muir devotes the bulk of the work to his first love--Yosemite, settled into the heart of the Sierra Nevada. Indeed, six of the book's chapters are devoted to Yosemite, treating the forests, wild gardens, fountains and streams, animals, and birds of the park. The concluding essay is an impassioned plea to save American forests. All visitors to the great western national parks--and all who will one day visit them--will be captivated by Muir's descriptions. The grandeur of this wilderness is reflected in the very spirit of John Muir. Both shine through every page of this remarkable book.

After the great pandemic of 1348, the plague became endemic in Europe, affecting life at every level for more than three hundred years. In attempting to fight the dread enemy, the North Italian states had developed a sophisticated system of public health. Carlo Cipolla throws new light on this subject, utilizing newly uncovered archival material.

Winner, Speech Communication Association Award for Distinguished ScholarshipThis is a book that, almost singlehandedly, freed scholars from the narrow constraints of a single critical paradigm and created a new era in the study of public discourse. Its original publication in 1965 created a spirited controversy. Here Edwin Black examines the assumptions and principles underlying neo-Aristotelian theory and suggests an alternative approach to criticism, centering around the concept of the "rhetorical transaction." This new edition, containing Black's new introduction, will enable students and scholars to secure a copy of one of the most influential books ever written in the field.

This is the prequel book to The End of Slavery in Africa, both very well-respected examinations of this subject.

Contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. These six volumes of ""A History of the Crusades"" stands as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives.

Used for self-study or in the classroom, this text shows the reader how to read and translate technical Japanese texts by providing graded readings, explanatory notes, and translation aids.

Banned by the inquisition, this classic began a new genre - the picaresque novel. This book has had enduring popularity as a literary expression of Spanish identity and emotion. This edition includes the annotated Spanish-language text and prologue, a full vocabulary, and concise footnotes explaining allusions and translating difficult phrases.

For many, "going back to the land” brings to mind the 1960s and 1970s—hippie communes and the Summer of Love. More recently, the movement has re-emerged in a new enthusiasm for locally produced food and more sustainable energy paths. But these latest back-to-the-landers are part of a much larger story. Americans have been dreaming of returning to the land ever since they started to leave it. Dona Brown explores the history of this recurring impulse.

Surveys the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman onwards. This title guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage.

The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are about a great fall, the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. What interests Bloch is the inner life; how we are formed by our losses and our parents' losses, how we learn what we need to know through our intuitions and confusions, how we finally discover ourselves.

These poems often spring from unlikely sources. In Almost Nothing to Be Scared Of, David Clewell's most expansive work yet, readers will discover a multiplicity of new ways to take heart - surely no small thing in a world where we're too often asked to take what we'd rather not.

Explores the intertwined histories of print and protest in the United States from Reconstruction to the 2000s. Ten essays look at how protestors of all political and religious persuasions, as well as aesthetic and ethical temperaments, have used the printed page to wage battles over free speech; test racial, class, sexual, and even culinary boundaries; and to alter the moral landscape in American life.