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Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey Across South Americaby Stephen MintaISBN 0224024701 (0-224-02470-1)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Alfred the Great the King and His Englandby E. S. DuckettISBN 0226167798 (0-226-16779-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherlandby Carmen CallilISBN 0224078100 (0-224-07810-0)
Hardcover, Jonathan Cape
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Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to Age of Romanticismby Jacques BarzunISBN 0226038610 (0-226-03861-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Bridge on the Drinaby Ivo AndricISBN 0226020452 (0-226-02045-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridge on the Drina'Book summary:The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history.[via]
"No better introduction to the study of Balkan and Ottoman history exists, nor do I know of any work of fiction that more persuasively introduces the reader to a civilization other than our own. It is an intellectual and emotional adventure to encounter the Ottoman world through Andric's pages in its grandiose beginning and at its tottering finale. It is, in short, a marvelous work, a masterpiece, and very much sui generis. . . . Andric's sensitive portrait of social change in distant Bosnia has revelatory force."William H. McNeill, from the introduction
"The dreadful events occurring in Sarajevo over the past several months turn my mind to a remarkable historical novel from the land we used to call Yugoslavia, Ivo Andric's The Bridge on the Drina."John M. Mohan, Des Moines Sunday Register
Born in Bosnia, Ivo Andric (1892-1975) was a distinguished diplomat and novelist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. His books include The Damned Yard: And Other Stories, and The Days of the Consuls.More editions of The Bridge on the Drina:
Britain in Revolution 1625-1660by Austin WoolrychISBN 0199272689 (0-19-927268-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Capitalism and the Historiansby Friedrich August Von HayekISBN 0226320723 (0-226-32072-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans : Seventeenth-Century Essaysby Hugh R. Trevor-RoperISBN 0226812286 (0-226-81228-6)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Chivalry and Violence in Medieval Europeby Richard W. KaeuperISBN 0199244588 (0-19-924458-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830-1867by Catherine HallISBN 0226313344 (0-226-31334-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Civilising Subjects : Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830-1867by Catherine HallISBN 0226313352 (0-226-31335-2)
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Classical Islam: A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D.by Gustave E. Von Grunebaum, Katherine WatsonISBN 0202307670 (0-202-30767-0)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Classical Islam: A History, 600 A.D. to 1258 A.D.'Book summary:In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter, the author opens by reminding us that "the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history." Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam, despite its triumphs on the fields of battle, telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world, a way of life, and a style of thinking, that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute.
The period from 610 A.D. when Muhammad received his "call" until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa, the Near East, Persia, and India, as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject.
Classical Islam examines the relationships, both cultural and political, between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic, social, and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with "infidels." The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form, emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today.
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerismby Thomas FrankISBN 0226260127 (0-226-26012-7)
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This is no simplistic analysis of how the counterculture "sold out" to big business. Instead, Frank shows how the counterculture and business culture influenced one another. In fact, he writes, the counterculture's critique of mass society mimicked earlier developments in business itself, when a new generation of executives attacked the stultified, hierarchical nature of corporate life. Counterculture and business culture evolved together over time--until the present day, when they have become essentially the same thing. According to Frank, the '60s live on in the near-archetypal dichotomy of "hip" and "square," now part of advertising vernacular, signifying a choice between consumer styles. [via]
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The Constitution In Congress: Democrats And Whigs, 1829-1861by David P. CurrieISBN 0226129004 (0-226-12900-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Constitution In Congress: Descent Into The Maelstrom, 1829-1861by David P. CurrieISBN 0226129160 (0-226-12916-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period 1789-1801by David P. CurrieISBN 0226131157 (0-226-13115-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"A joy to read."Appellate Practive Journal and Update
"[A] patient and exemplary analysis of the work of the first six Congresses."Geoffrey Marshall, Times Literary SupplementMore editions of The Constitution in Congress: The Federalist Period 1789-1801:
The Constitution in Congress: The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829by David P. CurrieISBN 0226131173 (0-226-13117-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destinyby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0201622319 (0-201-62231-9)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Culture of Power and the Power of Culture: Old Regime Europe 1660-1789by T. C. W. BlanningISBN 0199265615 (0-19-926561-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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A Day in a Medieval Cityby Chiara Frugoni, William McCuaig, Arsenio FrugoniISBN 0226266354 (0-226-26635-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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A Day In A Medieval Cityby William McCuaig, Arsenio Frugoni, William McCuiagISBN 0226266346 (0-226-26634-6)
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The Design and Evolution of C++by Bjarne StroustrupISBN 0201543303 (0-201-54330-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, And the Emancipation of Man 1670-1752by Jonathan Irvine IsraelISBN 0199279225 (0-19-927922-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Eros and Magic in the Renaissanceby Ioan P. CulianuISBN 0226123162 (0-226-12316-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Renaissance magic, according to Ioan Couliano, was a scientifically plausible attempt to manipulate individuals and groups based on a knowledge of motivations, particularly erotic motivations. Its key principle was that everyone (and in a sense everything) could be influenced by appeal to sexual desire. In addition, the magician relied on a profound knowledge of the art of memory to manipulate the imaginations of his subjects. In these respects, Couliano suggests, magic is the precursor of the modern psychological and sociological sciences, and the magician is the distant ancestor of the psychoanalyst and the advertising and publicity agent.
In the course of his study, Couliano examines in detail the ideas of such writers as Giordano Bruno, Marsilio Ficino, and Pico della Mirandola and illuminates many aspects of Renaissance culture, including heresy, medicine, astrology, alchemy, courtly love, the influence of classical mythology, and even the role of fashion in clothing.
Just as science gives the present age its ruling myth, so magic gave a ruling myth to the Renaissance. Because magic relied upon the use of images, and images were repressed and banned in the Reformation and subsequent history, magic was replaced by exact science and modern technology and eventually forgotten. Couliano's remarkable scholarship helps us to recover much of its original significance and will interest a wide audience in the humanities and social sciences.More editions of Eros and Magic in the Renaissance:
The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.by Richard A. Posner, Oliver Wendell HolmesISBN 0226675548 (0-226-67554-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fadsby Sylvia LovegrenISBN 0226494071 (0-226-49407-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Feudal Society: The Growth of Ties of Dependenceby Marc Bloch, L.A. ManyonISBN 0226059782 (0-226-05978-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Flashman's Ladyby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0214203883 (0-214-20388-3)
Hardcover, Barrie & Jenkins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flashman's Lady'Book summary:Volume VI of THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1842-45, reissued in B format paperback, in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of Flashman. [via]
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0224009605 (0-224-00960-5)
Hardcover, Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
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The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography and Commented Anthology of Edmund Burkeby Conor Cruise O'BrienISBN 0226616517 (0-226-61651-7)
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Greece in the Bronze Ageby Emily VermeuleISBN 0226853543 (0-226-85354-3)
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The Greek Polisby Arthur W.H. Adkins, Peter WhiteISBN 0226069354 (0-226-06935-4)
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The Greek Polisby John Boyer, Julius KirshnerISBN 0226069346 (0-226-06934-6)
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Heroesby John PilgerISBN 0224023012 (0-224-02301-2)
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Historical Writingsby Henry St. John BolingbrokeISBN 0226063453 (0-226-06345-3)
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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, & Modernby Ernst BreisachISBN 0226072789 (0-226-07278-9)
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The History and Power of Writingby Henri-Jean MartinISBN 0226508366 (0-226-50836-6)
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History Will Absolve Me: The Moncada Trial Defence Speech, Santiago De Cuba, October 16th, 1953by Fidel CastroISBN 0224615122 (0-224-61512-2)
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Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933by Henry Ashby TurnerISBN 0201328003 (0-201-32800-3)
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Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priestby Adrian DesmondISBN 0201959879 (0-201-95987-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest'Book summary:T. H. Huxley (18251895) was Darwins bloody-fanged bulldog. His giant scything intellect shook a prim Victorian society; his Devils gospel of evolution outraged. He put agnostic into the vocabulary and cave men into the public consciousness. Adrian Desmonds fiery biography with its panoramic view of Dickensian life explains how this agent provocateur rose to become the centurys greatest prophet.Synoptic in its sweep and evocative in its details, Desmonds biography reveals the poverty and opium-hazed tragedies of young Tom Huxleys life as well as the accolades and triumphs of his later years. The drug-grinders apprentice knew sots and scandals and breakdowns that signaled a genius close to madness. As surgeons mate on the cockroach-infested frigate Rattlesnake, he descended into hell on the Barrier Reef, but was saved by a golden-haired girl in the penal colony.Huxley pulled himself up to fight Darwins battles in the 1860s, but left Darwin behind on the most inflammatory issues. He devasted angst-ridden Victorian society with his talk of ape ancestors, and tantalized and tormented thousands-from laborers to ladies of society, cardinals to Karl Marxwith his scintillating lectures. Out of his provocations came our image of science warring with theology. And out of them, too, came the Wests new faith-agnosticism (he coined the new word).Champion of modern education, creator of an intellectually dominant profession, and president of the Royal Society, in Desmonds hands Huxley epitomizes the rise of the middle classes as the clawed power from the Anglican elite. His modern godless universe, intriguing and terrifying, millions of years in the making, was explored in his laboratory at South Kensington; his last pupil, H. G. Wells, made it the foundation of twentieth-century science fiction.Touching the crowning achievements and the crushing depths of both the man and his times, this is the epic story of a courageous genius whose life summed up the social changes from the Victorian to the modern age. Written with enormous zest and passion, Huxley is about the making of our modern Darwinian world.[via]More editions of Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest:
In Visible Touch: Modernism and Masculinityby Terry SmithISBN 0226764125 (0-226-76412-5)
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Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migrationby James R. GrossmanISBN 0226309959 (0-226-30995-9)
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A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727by Julian HoppitISBN 0199251002 (0-19-925100-2)
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Love & Death in Renaissance Italyby Thomas V. CohenISBN 0226112586 (0-226-11258-6)
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Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar Americaby Lynn SpigelISBN 0226769674 (0-226-76967-4)
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In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented "window on the world," or as a "one-eyed monster" that would disrupt households and corrupt children?
Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and changes in women's role within the household to new uses of domestic space. The arrival of television did more than turn the living room into a private theater: it offered a national stage on which to play out and resolve conflicts about the way Americans should live.
Spigel chronicles this lively and contentious debate as it took place in the popular media. Of particular interest is her treatment of the way in which the phenomenon of television itself was constantly deliberatedfrom how programs should be watched to where the set was placed to whether Mom, Dad, or kids should control the dial.
Make Room for TV combines a powerful analysis of the growth of electronic culture with a nuanced social history of family life in postwar America, offering a provocative glimpse of the way television became the mirror of so many of America's hopes and fears and dreams.More editions of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America:
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960by Arnold R. HirschISBN 0226342441 (0-226-34244-1)
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"In this excellent, intricate, and meticulously researched study, Hirsch exposes the social engineering of the post-war ghetto."Roma Barnes, Journal of American Studies
"According to Arnold Hirsch, Chicago's postwar housing projects were a colossal exercise in moral deception. . . . [An] excellent study of public policy gone astray."Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune
"An informative and provocative account of critical aspects of the process in [Chicago]. . . . A good and useful book."Zane Miller, Reviews in American History
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Meaning in History: The Theological Implications of the Philosophy of Historyby Karl LowithISBN 0226495558 (0-226-49555-8)
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Medieval Callingsby Jacques Le Goff, Lydia G. CochraneISBN 0226470873 (0-226-47087-3)
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The contributors focus on attitudes of medieval men and women toward their own society. Through a variety of techniques, from a reading of the Song of Roland to a reading of administrative records, they identify characteristic viewpoints of members of the fighting class, the clergy, and the peasantry. Along with vivid descriptions of what life was like for warrior knights, monks, high churchmen, criminals, lepers, shepherds, and prostitutes, this innovative approach offers a valuable new perspective on the complex social dynamics of feudal Europe.
"Very useful discussions of texts, both learned and literary."Christopher Dyer, Times Literary Supplement
Contributors: Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio Brocchieri, Franco Cardini, Enrico Castelnuovo, Giovanni Cherubini, Bronislaw Geremek, Aron Ja. Gurevich, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Jacques Le Goff, Giovanni Miccoli, Jacques Rossiaud, and André Vauchez.
The Medieval Health Handbook Tacuinum Sanitatisby Luisa Cogliati AranoISBN 0214202070 (0-214-20207-0)
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Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Loveby R. Howard BlochISBN 0226059731 (0-226-05973-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Love'Book summary:Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation fromor antidote toten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are.[via]
Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era.
This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.More editions of Medieval Misogyny And the Invention of Western Romantic Love:
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Men in Blackby J. R. HarveyISBN 0226318834 (0-226-31883-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"Why can't we pick out our own color?"
Joe:
"I tried that once, it don't work. You get four guys fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black."
Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs
Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in an age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. The answer is in this history of the color black. Over the last 1000 years there have been successive expansions in the wearing of blackfrom the Church to the Court, from the Court to the merchant class. Though black as fashion was often smart and elegant, its growth as a cultural marker was fed by several currents in Europe's historyin politics, asceticism, religious warfare. Only in the nineteenth century, however, did black fully come into its own as fashion, the most telling witnesses constantly saw connections between the taste for black and the forms of constraint with which European society regimented itself.
Concentrating on the general shift away from color that began around 1800, Harvey traces the transition to black from the court of Burgundy in the 15th century, through 16th-century Venice, 17th-century Spain and the Netherlands. He uses paintings from Van Eyck and Degas to Francis Bacon, religious art, period lithographs, wood engravings, costume books, newsphotos, movie stills and related sources in his compelling study of the meaning of color and clothes.
Although in the twentieth century tastes have moved toward new colors, black has retained its authority as well as its associations with strength and cruelty. At the same time black is still smart, and fashion keeps returning to black. It is, perhaps, the color that has come to acquire the greatest, most significant range of meaning in history. 
Men Like That: A Southern Queer Historyby John HowardISBN 0226354709 (0-226-35470-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britainby Alison WinterISBN 0226902196 (0-226-90219-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"Dazzling. . . . This splendid book . . . gives us a new form of historical understanding and a model for open and imaginative reading."James R. Kinkaid, Boston Globe
"A landmark in the history of science scholarship."John Sutherland, The Independent
"It is difficult to imagine the documentary side of the story being better done than by Winter's well-researched and generously illustrated study. . . . She is a lively and keen observer; and her book is a pleasure to read purely for its range of material and wealth of detail. . . . Fruitful and suggestive."Daniel Karlin, Times Literary Supplement
"An ambitious, sweeping and fascinating historical study. . . . Beautifully written, thoroughly researched, and well-illustrated."Bernard Lightman, Washington TimesMore editions of Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain:
The Myth of the Blitzby Angus CalderISBN 022402258X (0-224-02258-X)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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A Natural History of Latinby Nigel Vincent, Tore Janson, Merethe Damsgaard SorensenISBN 0199263094 (0-19-926309-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Natural History of Latin'Book summary:No known language, including English, has achieved the success and longevity of Latin. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants, and countless Latin words and phrases comprise the cornerstone of English itself. A Natural History or Latin tells its history from its origins over 2500 years ago to the present. Brilliantly conceived, popularizing but authoritative, and written with the fluency and light touch that have made Tore Janson's Speak so attractive to tens of thousands of readers, it is a masterpiece of adroit synthesis.
The book commences with a description of the origins, emergence, and dominance of Latin over the Classical period. Then follows an account of its survival through the Middle Ages into modern times, with emphasis on its evolution throughout the history, culture, and religious practices of Medieval Europe. By judicious quotation of Latin words, phrases, and texts the author illustrates how the written and spoken language changed, region by region over time; how it met resistance from native languages; and how therefore some entire languages disappeared. Janson offers a vivid demonstration of the value of Latin as a means of access to a vibrant past and a persuasive argument for its continued worth. A concise and easy-to-understand introduction to Latin grammar and a list of the most frequent Latin words, including 500 idioms and phrases still in common use, complement the work. [via]More editions of A Natural History of Latin:
Nineteenth Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Criticsby John W. Boyer, Julius KirshnerISBN 0226069524 (0-226-06952-4)
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Nineteenth-Century Europe: Liberalism and Its Criticsby Jan Goldstein, John W. BoyerISBN 0226069516 (0-226-06951-6)
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On Collective Memoryby Maurice Halbwachs, Lewis A. CoserISBN 0226115968 (0-226-11596-8)
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Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failedby Stephen O'ConnorISBN 0226616673 (0-226-61667-3)
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A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphans Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in American history.More editions of Orphan Trains: The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed:
Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectualsby David LaskinISBN 0226468933 (0-226-46893-3)
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The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism And the Culture of the Modernby Alex OwenISBN 0226642046 (0-226-64204-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism And the Culture of the Modern'Book summary:By the end of the nineteenth century, Victorians were seeking rational explanations for the world in which they lived. The radical ideas of Charles Darwin had shaken traditional religious beliefs. Sigmund Freud was developing his innovative models of the conscious and unconscious mind. And anthropologist James George Frazer was subjecting magic, myth, and ritual to systematic inquiry. Why, then, in this quintessentially modern moment, did late-Victorian and Edwardian men and women become absorbed by metaphysical quests, heterodox spiritual encounters, and occult experimentation?[via]
In answering this question for the first time, The Place of Enchantment breaks new ground in its consideration of the role of occultism in British culture prior to World War I. Rescuing occultism from its status as an "irrational indulgence" and situating it at the center of British intellectual life, Owen argues that an involvement with the occult was a leitmotif of the intellectual avant-garde. Carefully placing a serious engagement with esotericism squarely alongside revolutionary understandings of rationality and consciousness, Owen demonstrates how a newly psychologized magic operated in conjunction with the developing patterns of modern life. She details such fascinating examples of occult practice as the sex magic of Aleister Crowley, the pharmacological experimentation of W. B. Yeats, and complex forms of astral clairvoyance as taught in secret and hierarchical magical societies like the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
Through a remarkable blend of theoretical discussion and intellectual history, Owen has produced a work that moves far beyond a consideration of occultists and their world. Bearing directly on our understanding of modernity, her conclusions will force us to rethink the place of the irrational in modern culture.An intelligent, well-argued and richly detailed work of cultural history that offers a substantial contribution to our understanding of Britain. Nick Freeman, Washington TimesMore editions of The Place of Enchantment: British Occultism And the Culture of the Modern:
Policing and Punishment in London, 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terrorby J. M. BeattieISBN 019925723X (0-19-925723-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and Historyby J.G.A. PocockISBN 0226671399 (0-226-67139-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Pushkin's Buttonby Serena VitaleISBN 0226857719 (0-226-85771-9)
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Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europeby Jack H. HexterISBN 0226332330 (0-226-33233-0)
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Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern Chinaby Prasenjit DuaraISBN 0226167224 (0-226-16722-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Scientific Revolutionby Steven ShapinISBN 0226750213 (0-226-75021-3)
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The Scientific Revolution: A Historiographical Inquiryby H. Floris CohenISBN 0226112802 (0-226-11280-2)
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A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century Englandby Steven ShapinISBN 0226750191 (0-226-75019-1)
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They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rushby JoAnn LevyISBN 0208022732 (0-208-02273-2)
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They Wrote on Clay: The Babylonian Tablets Speak Todayby Edward ChieraISBN 0226104257 (0-226-10425-7)
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"The book presents, briefly and clearly, a vivid picture of a long-dead people who in numerous ways were very like ourselves."L. M. Field, New York Times
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Thy Hand, Great Anarch!: India, 1921-1952by Nirad C. ChaudhuriISBN 020115577X (0-201-15577-X)
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Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmannby David P. JordanISBN 0226410382 (0-226-41038-2)
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At once an elegantly written biography of Haussmann and an accessible history of Paris's transition into a modern city, this book will appeal to historians and delight anyone intrigued by Paris.More editions of Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann:
Victorian Science in Contextby Bernard LightmanISBN 0226481123 (0-226-48112-3)
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Victorian Sensation: The Extraordinary Publication, Reception, and Secret Authorship of Vestiges of the Natural History of Creationby James A. SecordISBN 0226744116 (0-226-74411-6)
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Wayward Puritans: A Study In The Sociology Of Deviance, Classic Editionby Kai T. EriksonISBN 0205424031 (0-205-42403-1)
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Women of the Renaissanceby Margaret L. KingISBN 0226436187 (0-226-43618-7)
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Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King looks at women of all classes, in both usual and unusual settings. She first describes the familial roles filled by most women of the dayas mothers, daughters, wives, widows, and workers. She turns then to that significant fraction of women in, and acted upon, by the church: nuns, uncloistered holy women, saints, heretics, reformers,and witches, devoting special attention to the social and economic independence monastic life afforded them. The lives of exceptional women, those warriors, queens, patronesses, scholars, and visionaries who found some other place in society for their energies and strivings, are explored, with consideration given to the works and writings of those first protesting female subordination: the French Christine de Pizan, the Italian Modesta da Pozzo, the English Mary Astell.
Of interest to students of European history and women's studies, King's volume will also appeal to general readers seeking an informative, engaging entrance into the Renaissance period.More editions of Women of the Renaissance:
Women, History, and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kellyby Joan KellyISBN 0226430286 (0-226-43028-6)
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