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Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

Based on extensive original research this book tells the astonishing story of early Soviet Abkhazia and of its leader the charismatic Bolshevik revolutionary Nestor Lakoba. A tiny republic on the Black Sea coast of the USSR Abkhazia became a vacation retreat for Party leaders and a major producer of tobacco. Nestor Lakoba became the unquestioned boss of Abkhazia constructing a powerful local ethnic machine that became an influential component of Soviet patronage politics provoking along the way accusations of nepotism corruption blood feuds embezzlement racketeering and extrajudicial murder on a scale that shocked even hardened Communist Party investigators. Lakoba and his group faced a series of trials investigatory commissions and tribunals over allegations of malfeasance yet they were repeatedly able to convince their powerful patrons of their irreplaceability until at last they were destroyed through a public show trial during the peak of the Stalinist Terror. Through the prism of tiny Abkhazia this book provides invaluable insights into the nature of the early Soviet system and the governance of Soviet national republics. | Clientelism and Nationality in an Early Soviet Fiefdom The Trials of Nestor Lakoba

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The Plays of James Boaden

The Plays of James Boaden

Originally compiled and published in 1980 this volume contains the plays of James Broaden. Although not many critics of eighteenth-century drama mention Broaden he loved the theatre and its world and this love comes across in everything he wrote. This volume contains plays including the songs and chorusses of his first Ozmynn and Daraxa from 1793 Fountainville Forest from 1794 and The Secret Tribunal from 1795 as well as many others. | The Plays of James Boaden

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Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare Richardson Fielding Gibbon Thackeray and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding in James’s narratives of liberal and romantic freedom—it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded dialectically as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole Philip Horne Nicola Bradbury Tamara Follini and Peter Rawlings but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way we discover how Hamlet’s ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy or how he adapts Gibbon’s Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson’s Pamela exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray in The Ivory Tower striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian figures monstruous fantastic. And finally we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

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Dickens in America Twain Howells James and Norris

Dickens in America Twain Howells James and Norris

First published in 1988 this book looks at the enormous impact Dickens’ writings had on American novelists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dickens dominated not only popular taste but the American novel for sixty years and the author argues that even the most original writers showed themselves again and again to be in ‘conscious sympathy’ with Dickens. Along with Dickens this book examines four radically different American writers — Mark Twain William Dean Howells Henry James and Frank Norris — whose debt to Dickens the author asserts is nevertheless clearly evident in their work. This book will be of interest to students of literature. | Dickens in America Twain Howells James and Norris

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Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

Analysing the narration of the translatio of the body of Saint James from Palestine to Santiago de Compostela and its impact on the historical and biblical construction of Jacobean pilgrimages this book presents an interdisciplinary approach to the two cities at the centre of the legend: Jerusalem and Compostela. Using a range of political anthropological historical and sociological approaches the contributors consider archaeological research into Palestine in the early centuries and explore the traditions iconography and literary and social impact of the translatio on the current reality of pilgrimages to Compostela. | Translating the Relics of St James From Jerusalem to Compostela

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James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

Commemorating the 250th anniversary of James Mill’s birth and the 150th of John Stuart Mill’s death this volume analyses the Mills’ discussions on topics such as environment cultivation education utilitarianism socialism international relations international trade and living standard. John Stuart Mill is an important figure of the classical political economy and his father played a critical role in the early stages of his intellectual development. The contributions of the two Mills are examined by leading scholars on the theory and history of economics from Japan UK and France. They not only deal with the Mills’ individual contributions but also shed light on their relationships and associations with a number of economists and philosophers in Britain between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries including Adam Smith Malthus Ricardo Pennington Torrens Martineau Longfield Morris Sidgwick and Marshall. This book is an essential read for scholars interested in the economics of James and John Mill and reconsideration of their theories and thoughts using the backdrop of the current state of society. | James Mill John Stuart Mill and the History of Economic Thought

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Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

James J. Gibson’s numerous theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding of how people perceive were innovative controversial often radical and always profound. Many of his ideas revolutionized the science of perception and his influence continued to grow throughout the world. This book originally published in 1982 is a collection of the most important of Gibson’s essays on the psychology of perception. Drawing from the entire corpus of Gibson’s papers the editors have selected over thirty works dealing with such diverse topics as ecological optics event perception pictorial representation and the conceptual foundations of psychology. The editors’ goals in preparing the volume were twofold: first to provide easy access to Gibson’s most outstanding papers and talks including some that were previously unpublished; and second to provide an intellectual biography of Gibson by including essays from the different periods of his career. | Reasons for Realism Selected Essays of James J. Gibson

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Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

First published in 1982 Northampton is a modern study of Henry Howard Earl of Northampton privy councillor to James I. Dr. Peck convincingly challenges the traditional eminence grise who stirred factional strife at court undermined relations between king and parliament and stopped at nothing including murder to secure his family’s advancement. Drawing extensively on Northampton’s papers Dr. Peck offers a more balanced assessment of this important Jacobean courtier who shaped policy and pursued administrative reform as avidly as he sought his own patronage and profit. Unlike traditional biographies this study is organized topically in order to examine larger issues of policy making and administration in the Jacobean period. This book will be of interest to specialists in Stuart studies to historians of England to social scientists concerned with development of early bureaucracy and all those with a more general interest in Tudor Stuart history. | Northampton Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I

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James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1957 this book explores what remained of Joyce’s background not only in Ireland but in those cities abroad where his books were written. With the co-operation of those who knew the author including his brother much new material was brought together to shed new light on Joyce’s life character and methods of writing. The author traces Joyce and his writings from his beginnings in Ireland through Zürich London and Paris to his difficult final year at Vichy in 1940. Previously unpublished letters illustrate his relationships with important figures of the period like Ezra Pound T. S. Eliot and H. G. Wells. This title will be of interest to student of literature. | James Joyce's World (Routledge Revivals)

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Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

This volume from an international and interdisciplinary cohort of scholars offers independent-minded essays about central Greek texts and about the relation of social theory and comparative method to the study of archaic and classical Greek literature. It is in honour of James M. Redfield whose innovative and theoretically-informed work has been a touchstone for the contributors; it includes an Introduction that discusses Redfield’s work as well as a complete Bibliography of Redfield’s scholarship. The volume is divided into three parts: on Homer; Plato in conversation with epic tragedy and comedy; and finally reception and transmission. An exploration of the dialectical relationship between literary genre and social form animates many of the essays. Drawing on work in anthropology linguistics sociology art history and philosophy this volume offers ground-breaking perspectives on the study of Greek literature. It will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers alike. | Thinking the Greeks A Volume in Honor of James M. Redfield

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A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widely read not only in Scotland and England but also on the Continent where they appeared in several translations. In this book Dr Stilma looks both at the domestic and international context to James's writings using as a case study a set of Dutch translations which includes his religious meditations his epic poem The Battle of Lepanto his treatise on witchcraft Daemonologie and his manual on kingship Basilikon Doron. The book provides an examination of James's writings within their original Scottish context particularly their political implications and their role in his management of his religio-political reputation both at home and abroad. The second half of each chapter is concerned with contemporary interpretations of these works by James's readers. The Dutch translations are presented as a case study of an ultra-protestant and anti-Spanish reading from which James emerges as a potential leader of protestant Europe; a reputation he initially courted then distanced himself from after his accession to the English throne in 1603. In so doing this book greatly adds to our appreciation of James as an author providing an exploration of his works as politically expedient statements which were sometimes ambiguous enough to allow diverging - and occasionally unwelcome - interpretations. It is one of the few studies of James to offer a sustained critical reading of these texts together with an exploration of the national and international context in which they were published and read. As such this book contributes to the understanding not only of James's works as political tools but also of the preoccupations of publishers and translators and the interpretative spaces in the works they were making available to an international audience. | A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

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Revelation Scripture and Church Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

Revelation Scripture and Church Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

How does God's involvement with the generation of Holy Scripture and its use in the life of the Christian church figure into the human work of Scripture interpretation? This is the central question that this book seeks to address. In critical conversation with the influential hermeneutic programs of James Barr Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei Topping demonstrates how God's agency has been marginalized in the task of Scripture interpretation. Divine involvement with the Bible is bracketed out (Barr) rendered in generic terms (Ricoeur) or left implicit (Frei) in these depictions of the hermeneutic field. The result is that each of these hermeneutic programs is less than a ’realist’ interpretative proposal. Talk of God is eclipsed by the terminal consideration of human realities. Topping argues for the centrality of doctrinal description in a lively theological understanding of Scripture interpretation for the life of the church. | Revelation Scripture and Church Theological Hermeneutic Thought of James Barr Paul Ricoeur and Hans Frei

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James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

James McNeill Whistler and France: A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music is the first full-length and in-depth study to position this painter within the overall trajectory of French modernism during the second half of the nineteenth century and to view the artist as integral to the aesthetic projects of its most original contributors. Suzanne M. Singletary maintains that Whistler was in a unique situation as an insider within the emerging French avant-garde thereby in an enviable position to both absorb and transform the innovations of others – and that until now his widespread influence as a catalyst among his colleagues has been neither investigated nor appreciated. Singletary contends that Whistler’s importance rivals that of Manet whose multi-layered (and often unexpected) interconnections with Whistler are the focus of one chapter. In addition Whistler’s pivotal role in linking the legacies of Baudelaire Delacroix Gautier Wagner and other mid-century innovators to the later French Symbolists has previously been largely ignored. Courbet Degas Monet and Seurat complete the roster of French artists whose dialogue with Whistler is highlighted. | James McNeill Whistler and France A Dialogue in Paint Poetry and Music

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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

This book argues that due to political and ideological shifts in the last decades of the nineteenth century-a time when the class system in England was in a state of flux-a new depiction of social class was possible in the English novel. Late-century writers such as Gissing James Hardy and Wells question the middle-class Victorian views of class that had dominated the novel for decades. By disrupting traditional novelistic conventions these writers reveal the ideology of the historical moment in which those conventions obtained thereby questioning the 'naturalness' of class assumed by earlier middle-class Victorian writers. The book contextualizes novels by these writers within their historical moment with reference to relevant maps journalism artwork or photography and specific historical events. It illuminates the relationship between fiction and history in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century fiction and especially the relationship between changing depictions of class and the development of realism. Examining the nineteenth-century English novel through the lens of social class allows the twenty-first century critic and student not only to understand the issues at stake in much Victorian fiction but also to recognize powerful present-day vestiges of this social class system. | Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing James Hardy and Wells

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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination A Universe of Relations

William James's Hidden Religious Imagination A Universe of Relations

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion. ’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations it uncovers a dynamic imaginative and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes. Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism on the place of the body and sex in James on the significance of George Eliot’s novels and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown ’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion. ’ | William James's Hidden Religious Imagination A Universe of Relations

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The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The New Black Sociologists follows in the footsteps of 1974’s pioneering text Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by tracing the organization of its forbearer in key thematic ways. This new collection of essays revisit the legacies of significant Black scholars including James E. Blackwell William Julius Wilson Joyce Ladner and Mary Pattillo but also extends coverage to include overlooked figures like Audre Lorde Ida B. Wells James Baldwin and August Wilson - whose lives and work have inspired new generations of Black sociologists on contemporary issues of racial segregation feminism religiosity class inequality and urban studies. | The New Black Sociologists Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

This volume reproduces the Cabinet Confidential print of January 1855 a time of crisis in British Government when the Aberdeen Ministry heavily defeated on a vote of confidence was eventually replaced by Lord Palmerston’s Ministry. The First Lord of the Admiralty Sir James Graham survived the change and the print reflected his decision to use the Vice Admirals commanding the principal theatres of war the Baltic and the Black sea as scapegoats for the failure of his overly ambitious under-funded strategy. While Sir James Dundas went quietly Sir Charles Napier fought back. While the two collections provide a sound introduction to the key issues of the campaign including the capture of Bomarsund plans to attack other Baltic fortresses the economic blockade the bombardment of Odessa the invasion of the Crimea and the disastrous loss of shipping of Balaklava in November 1854 this collection should be read in conjunction with the other official and private correspondence. | Russian War 1854 Baltic and Black Sea Official Correspondence

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The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

Originally published in 1981 this book examines why and how textual difficulty became a norm of modernist literature and questions how we can begin to account for the forms of obscurity and difficulty which developed in the late 19th Century and which became so important to modernism. The author argues that the decline of realism entailed the growth of ‘symptomatic’ or ‘subtextual’ reading which tended to treat fiction as compromised autobiography. This kind of reading left the author dangerously isolated and exposed in the midst of a newly sophisticated public. Within this general cultural perspective the book traces the private anxieties that led George Meredith Joseph Conrad and Henry James to conceal themselves within their complex and resistant fictions. It discusses opacity in the texts themselves – embarrassment and shame in Meredith; ‘engimas’ in Conrad; and the fear of vulgarity and knowledge in Henry James. | The Uses of Obscurity The Fiction of Early Modernism

GBP 80.00
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Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

Originally published in England in 1959 this book evolves a new theory of conflict in industrial society. By way of illustrating and testing this theory the book provides detailed analyses of various social phenomena. The author carries out a full critique of Marx in the light of history and modern sociology and discusses the theories of class-conflict of James Burnham Fritz Croner and Karl Renner. | Class and Conflict in an Industrial Society

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Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies

Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies

Now in its Second Edition Landmark Essays on Rhetoric of Science: Case Studies presents fifteen iconic essays in science studies rhetorical criticism and argumentation. Integral to the launch of the Landmark Essays series and renowned for its impact on the then-nascent field of rhetoric of science this volume returns with a revised introduction and updated contributions to the field including the work of Leah Ceccarelli James Wynn Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher and Carolyn R. Miller.

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