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  • D1-2009  (13)
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    La Península Ibérica, el Caribe y América Latina : Diálogos a través del Comercio, la Ciencia y la Técnica (Siglos XIX – XX) (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Este libro resulta de una inquietud compartida por once colegas activos en ocho países, a ambos lados del Atlántico:mostrar la interconexión múltiple de diversos tópicos de la relación América Latina – el Caribe – Europa en una obra editorial de divulgación internacional.El comercio, la ciencia y la técnica posibilitan esta interconexión. De hecho, este conjunto de artículos atinge lo que Horst Pietschmann designacomo «un amplio proyecto, subdividido en distintos proyectos parciales» cuando analiza la historia atlántica. Entre las fuentes que respaldan la amplia temática presentada aparecen analizados documentos de archivo, epistolarios, hemerografía y bibliografía junto a memorias, pinturas, fotografías, genealogías, obras civiles, postales y lápidas de cementerios. El legado de artistas, científicos, comerciantes, diplomáticos, historiadores, viajeros y familias, ha posibilitado esta compilación que, remontando desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta comienzos del siglo XX, ofrece aquí, en simultáneo, tanto la conceptualización del mundo atlántico, la visión civilizadora del desarrollo social y de los efectos económicos de la emancipación americana, como la visión artística de la Ilustración sobre la exótica producción tropical, la dilatada representación del paisaje latinoamericano y los intereses de la expansión europea exhibidos en exposiciones universales. Además, este legado facilitó una relectura de los proyectos globales y agendas personales, familiares y políticas, existentes detrás de expediciones, estudios científicos y empresas mercantiles que fomentaron la transferencia de conocimientos y técnicas, el turismo, la diplomacia y los negocios entre América Latina, el Caribe y Europa. Capa: Detalhe de «Vista de Valparaíso. 1842», Johann Moritz Rugendas. Propiedade da Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. Com cessão de uso para a publicação nesta capa.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Península Ibérica ; ciencia ; América Latina ; comercio ; mundo atlántico ; Caribe ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Verdi in Victorian London (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they, and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s works? Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times. In the 1840s, certain journalists were positively hostile. The supercilious critic of The Athenaeum, Henry Fothergill Chorley, declared that Verdi’s melodies were worn, hackneyed and meaningless, his harmonies and progressions crude, his orchestration noisy. The scribes of The Times, The Musical World, The Illustrated London News, and The Musical Times all contributed to the critical hubbub. Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, however, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualised and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. Nostalgic commentators began to lament the sad state of “the Land of Song,” referring to the now departed “palmy days of Italian opera.” Zicari charts this entire cultural constellation. Verdi in Victorian London is required reading for both academics and opera aficionados. Music specialists will value a historical reconstruction that stems from a large body of first-hand source material, while Verdi lovers and Italian opera addicts will enjoy vivid analysis free from technical jargon. For students, scholars and plain readers alike, this book is an illuminating addition to the study of music reception.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; music ; opera ; London ; Victorian era ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    On History : Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869) (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Preface to the 1869 edition of the Histoire de France, originally published in its first English translation by Edward K. kaplan in his Michelet's Poetic Vision (1977), has been revised by the translator for this volume. One of the greatest Romantic historians and immensely popular during his lifetime, Jules Michelet (1798-1874) fell into disfavor among the positivist historians who came after him and who regarded his work with disdain as "literature". In the 1920s and 30s, however, he began to be rediscovered and rehabilitated by the members of the influential Annales school. The objects of Michelet's interest - living conditions, popular mentalities, laws and the arts, the historian's relation to the objects of his study, no less than political history - have since come to occupy a central place in modern historical research. A free online-only supplement contains an essay on Michelet by John Stuart Mill from the Edinburgh Review (January 1844) and several studies of Michelet by Lionel Gossman.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; history ; historiography ; France ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Mr. Emerson's Revolution (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history whose transformative ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women's rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum of inner and outer realities-personal, philosophical, theological and cultural-all of which gave his mid-career turn to political and social issues their immediate and lasting power. This multi-authored study frankly explores Emerson's private prejudices against blacks and women alongside his public championing of their causes. Such a juxtaposition freshly charts the evolution of Emerson's slow but steady application of his early neo-idealism to emancipating blacks and freeing women from social bondage. His shift from philosopher to active reformer had lasting effects not only in America but also abroad. In the U.S. Emerson influenced such diverse figures as Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and William James; in Europe he shaped Mickiewicz, Wilde, Kipling, Nietzsche, and Camus; moreover, he had many leading followers in India and Japan. The book includes over 160 illustrations, among them eight custom-made maps of Emerson's haunts and wide-ranging lecture itineraries, as well as a new four-part chronology of his life placed alongside both national and international events as well as major inventions. Mr. Emerson’s Revolution provides essenti al reading for students and teachers of American intellectual history, aboliti on and the women’s rights movement―and for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century roots of these seismic social changes.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; United States ; history ; segregation ; women's history ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    De humilde e ilustre cuna: retratos familiares de la España Moderna (siglos XV-XIX) (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: La complejidad que entraña el estudio de la Historia de la Familia hace que esta línea de investigación se postule como un espacio todavía abierto y cambiante, que se encuentra en continua revisión, lo cual demuestra que el análisis e interpretación de los núcleos familiares en la historiografía del sur de Europa no está cerrado. Por ello, el objetivo que marcamos con la presente obra colectiva es aportar datos para la reflexión, a través de los cuales pretendemos proyectar dicha problemática en el espacio geográfico comprendido entre el Atlántico y el Mediterráneo. Para alcanzar este propósito en la larga duración, el libro reúneuna decena de trabajos deinvestigadores pertenecientes a nueve universidades españolas,a través de los cuales se amplían teorías y se consolidan ideas entorno alciclo de vida, las estrategias matrimoniales y los modelos de reproducción social desarrollados en el seno de la sociedad del Antiguo Régimen en la Península Ibérica, englobando los siglos XV-XIX.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Península Ibérica ; sociedad ; nupcialidad ; historia moderna ; familia ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    El tabaco y la esclavitud en la rearticulación imperial ibérica (s. xv-xx) (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Este libro es un ejercicio de historia comparada, teniendo como sujeto y objeto de nuestro relato España y Portugal, desde dos marcos cronológicos diferentes. El período en que se articula una relaidad imperial durante el Antiguo Régimen y la del cambio hacia políticas nacionales imperiales. En este largo recogido histórico jugaron un papel relevante, tanto el tabaco, como le tráfico de esclavos. Entre 1580-1640 podemos referirnos a un solo Atlántico ibérico, en los aspectos defensivos y económicos y de modo especial en el tráfico de esclavos. Los dos monopolios ibéricos del tabaco se construyeron de manera distinta. La distinción institucional entre ambos Imperios se mantuvo durante la Unión Ibérica y la Restaracíon articuló un sistema atlántico del tabaco con muchas diferencias a partir de 1640. De la parte española se intentó crear un estanco imperial hispánico que culminó en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, muy ligado a las necesidades militares de defensa de las Indias. El monopolio portugués, cuya creación es paralela a la del estanco español, estuvo siempre restringido al territorio peninsular y a los archipiélagos del Atlántico medio, estando casi toda su historia en manos de arrendadores a diferencia de lo que pasó en España. Este sistema aproxima el estanco portugués al francés, en el que el tabaco entró en el contrato general de los arrendadores en 1730. No hubo pues un estanco Imperial, aunque si podemos referirnos a un sistema atlántico del tabaco lusitano. Desde Bahia se abrió un camino nuevo, al margen del mercado europeo, al integrarse el tabaco como mercancía de ida directa (sin pasar por Lisboa) en el comercio de esclavos (Tabaco por esclavos). Esta obra se acerca las principales claves planteadas en los debates parlamentarios de las Cortes de Cádiz y del Trienio Liberal en torno a la possible incompatibilidad entre libertad, propriedad y estanco del tabaco, e igualmente al debate político sobre la esclavitud. En los comienzos del reinado de Isabel II se llegó al consenso de la continuidad de la esclavitud en ultramar, con la prohibición de la trata, para conformar una política pública que, bajo el mandato progresista, se consolidó como una cuestión de estado, orientada a garantizar la dependencia colonial de Cuba, Puerto Rico y Filipinas
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; historia atlántica ; monopolios del tabaco ibérico ; contrabando ; imagen y revolución del consumo ; negocio de esclavos ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    The Scientific Revolution Revisited (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: The Scientific Revolution Revisited brings Mikuláš Teich back to the great movement of thought and action that transformed European science and society in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a lifetime of scholarly experience in six penetrating chapters, Teich examines the ways of investigating and understanding nature that matured during the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, charting their progress towards science as we now know it and insisting on the essential interpenetration of such inquiry with its changing social environment. The Scientific Revolution was marked by the global expansion of trade by European powers and by inter-state rivalries for a stake in the developing world market, in which advanced medieval China, remarkably, did not participate. It is in the wake of these happenings, in Teich's original retelling, that the Thirty Years War and the Scientific Revolution emerge as products of and factors in an uneven transition in European and world history: from natural philosophy to modern science, feudalism to capitalism, the late medieval to the early modern period. With a narrative that moves from pre-classical thought to the European institutionalisation of science—and a scope that embraces figures both lionised and neglected, such as Nicole Oresme, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Thaddeus Hagecius, Johann Joachim Becher—The Scientific Revolution Revisited illuminates the social and intellectual sea changes that shaped the modern world.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; scientific revolution ; social change ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894 (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: "William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade ""Fiona Macleod"" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote ""I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out"". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing ""second self"". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity. "
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Fiona Macleod ; diaries ; Britain ; biography ; William Sharp ; letters ; Victorian Era ; poetry ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    The Passion of Max von Oppenheim : Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun". Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from the regular diplomatic service, Oppenheim earned a reputation as "the Kaiser's spy" because of his intriguing against the British in Cairo, as well as his plan, at the start of the First World War, to incite Muslims under British, French and Russian rule to a jihad against the colonial powers. After 1933, despite being half-Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws, Oppenheim was not persecuted by the Nazis. In fact, he placed his knowledge of the Middle East and his connections with Muslim leaders at the service of the regime. Ranging widely over many fields - from war studies to archaeology and banking history - The Passion of Max von Oppenheim tells the gripping and at times unsettling story of one part-Jewish man's passion for his country in the face of persistent and, in his later years, genocidal anti-Semitism.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Nazi history ; Jewish history ; Germany ; anti-Semitism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Entangled peripheries. New contributions to the history of Portugal and Morocco : Essays in homage to Eva Maria von Kemnitz (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: The main aim of this volume is to explore the continuity of Portuguese-Moroccan relations before and, especially, after the classic period of the 11th-16th centuries. Its title, “Entangled peripheries”, is a conceptual attempt to account for the contradiction between the resilience of bilateral contacts and exchanges and its decreasing relevance for both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar. Although most chapters focus on topics of the 18th-20th centuries, the contributions dealing with the medieval and early modern periods provide a long durée perspective typical of “entangled history”. Other distinctive elements of this historiographical current are also present, such as the circulations and networks of people and objects and the supranational and regional actors and processes, which help situate Portugal and Morocco as “peripheries”. The volume is divided in three sections: “Marginal circulations”, “Facts, histories, fictions” and “Beyond nationalism and colonialism”. The first one presents case-studies of displacements of ethnically or socially marginal groups between Morocco and Portugal between the 15th and the 20th centuries. The last section’s examines how regional, imperial and global processes far outweighed bilateral relations across the Strait of Gibraltar both before and after the classic period of the 11th-16th centuries. Finally, the middle section of this volume engages with the “entangled peripheries” approach not literally as the other two but in a meta-sense, by focusing on historical sources, historiography and historical fiction.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; 11th-16th centuries ; entangled history ; Portuguese-Moroccan relations ; peripheries ; 18th-20th centuries ; circulations ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Measuring the Master Race : Physical Anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945 (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: The notion of a superior ‘Germanic' or ‘Nordic' race was a central theme in Nazi ideology. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the heartland of this ‘master race'. Measuring the Master Race investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how the concept stamped Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity and the eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific discrediting of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the genetic cleansing of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study of Norwegian physical anthropology. Its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Nazi ideology ; anthropology ; scientific discourse ; eugenics ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45 : Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: The emperor Nero is etched into the Western imagination as one of ancient Rome’s most infamous villains, and Tacitus’ Annals have played a central role in shaping the mainstream historiographical understanding of this flamboyant autocrat. This section of the text plunges us straight into the moral cesspool that Rome had apparently become in the later years of Nero’s reign, chronicling the emperor’s fledgling stage career including his plans for a grand tour of Greece; his participation in a city-wide orgy climaxing in his publicly consummated ‘marriage’ to his toy boy Pythagoras; the great fire of AD 64, during which large parts of central Rome went up in flames; and the rising of Nero’s ‘grotesque’ new palace, the so-called ‘Golden House’, from the ashes of the city. This building project stoked the rumours that the emperor himself was behind the conflagration, and Tacitus goes on to present us with Nero’s gruesome efforts to quell these mutterings by scapegoating and executing members of an unpopular new cult then starting to spread through the Roman empire: Christianity. All this contrasts starkly with four chapters focusing on one of Nero’s most principled opponents, the Stoic senator Thrasea Paetus, an audacious figure of moral fibre, who courageously refuses to bend to the forces of imperial corruption and hypocrisy. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, Owen’s and Gildenhard’s incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both A2 and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Tacitus’ prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Ancient Rome ; Latin text ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Cicero, On Pompey's Command (De Imperio), 27-49 : Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: In republican times, one of Rome's deadliest enemies was King Mithridates of Pontus. In 66 BCE, after decades of inconclusive struggle, the tribune Manilius proposed a bill that would give supreme command in the war against Mithridates to Pompey the Great, who had just swept the Mediterranean clean of another menace: the pirates. While powerful aristocrats objected to the proposal, which would endow Pompey with unprecedented powers, the bill proved hugely popular among the people, and one of the praetors, Marcus Tullius Cicero, also hastened to lend it his support. In his first-ever political speech, variously entitled pro lege Manilia or de imperio Gnaei Pompei, Cicero argues that the war against Mithridates requires the appointment of a perfect general and that the only one to live up to such loft y standards is Pompey. In the section under consideration here, Cicero defines the most important hallmarks of the ideal military commander and tries to demonstrate that Pompey is his living embodiment. This course book offers a portion of the original Latin text, study aids with vocabulary, and a commentary. Designed to stretch and stimulate readers, the incisive commentary will be of particular interest to students of Latin at both AS and undergraduate level. It extends beyond detailed linguistic analysis and historical background to encourage critical engagement with Cicero's prose and discussion of the most recent scholarly thought.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Rome ; war ; Latin text ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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