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Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens seen through the lenses of casting design and adaptation with attention paid to why these patterns persist and what wishes they fulfil. Witch Fulfillment examines the Witch in performance considering how actors embody iconic roles designated as witches (casting) and how dramaturgical choices (adaptation) heighten their witchy power. Through analysis of Witch characters ranging from Elphaba to Medea classic plays such as The Crucible and Macbeth feminist adaptations - including Sycorax Obeah Opera and Jen Silverman’s Witch - and popular culture offerings like the Scarlet Witch and Jinkx Monsoon this book examines the dramaturgical meanings of adapting and embodying witchy roles in the twenty-first century. This book contends that the Witch represents a crucial category of analysis for inclusive theatre and performance and will be of interest to theatre practitioners and designers along with theatre witchcraft and occult studies scholars.

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Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe

Demonology – the intellectual study of demons and their powers – contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists’ concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level while some of the judges’ concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book’s chapters each written by a leading scholar cover most regions of Europe from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany France and Switzerland and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

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The Routledge History of Witchcraft

The Routledge History of Witchcraft

The Routledge History of Witchcraft is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of the belief in witches from antiquity to the present day providing both an introduction to the subject of witchcraft and an overview of the on-going debates. This extensive collection covers the entire breadth of the history of witchcraft from the witches of Ancient Greece and medieval demonology through to the victims of the witch hunts and onwards to children’s books horror films and modern pagans. Drawing on the knowledge and expertise of an international team of authors the book examines differing concepts of witchcraft that still exist in society and explains their historical literary religious and anthropological origin and development including the reflections and adaptions of this belief in art and popular culture. The volume is divided into four chronological parts beginning with Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Part One Early Modern witch hunts in Part Two modern concepts of witchcraft in Part Three and ending with an examination of witchcraft and the arts in Part Four. Each chapter offers a glimpse of a different version of the witch introducing the reader to the diversity of witches that have existed in different contexts throughout history. Exploring a wealth of texts and case studies and offering a broad geographical scope for examining this fascinating subject The Routledge History of Witchcraft is essential reading for students and academics interested in the history of witchcraft.

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Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

This book introduces students to the anthropology of magic and witchcraft terms widely used but with no widely accepted definitions. It takes a new approach to this area within the anthropology of religion demonstrating that the bases for these beliefs and alleged practices are inherent in human cognition and psychology even instinctual and likely rooted in our evolutionary biology. It shows how magic and magical thinking are regular elements in people’s daily lives and that understanding the components of the witchcraft complex offers surprisingly important insights into patterns of thinking and social behavior. The book reviews the many meanings of “magic” and “witchcraft ” and introduces the best anthropological meanings of the terms. The components of these beliefs are timeless and universal; this fact and recent advances in the brain sciences suggest that the principles of magic are derived from basic processes of human thinking and the attributes of the witch derive from neurobiologically based fears and fantasies. The propensity for such beliefs probably had adaptive significance in the evolutionary development of the human species; they are inherently human. This book is intended to focus anew on the core concepts of magic witchcraft and the supernatural while also serving as an introduction to the anthropology of religion for undergraduate and graduate-level courses. | Rethinking the Anthropology of Magic and Witchcraft Inherently Human

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Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

Cosimo Schinaia and Psychoanalysis and Ecology are winners of the IPA Climate Award! This book presents the psychoanalyst with the question of how our enormously modified environmental conditions determine our subjective mental changes and vice versa. The gravity of the environmental crisis is amply clear and yet in the face of such incontrovertible evidence there is an emotional more than cognitive difficulty in comprehending the present reality and its future consequences. In understanding the collective imagination as permeating the individual one and vice versa this book investigates this relationship of mutual co-determination between the individual traumatic stories told and experienced in the consulting room and the positive or negative environmental attitudes exhibited by patients. The pairing of clinical vignettes with dispatches from the collective imagination sheds light on the confused affective investments and anxieties that propel pathological defenses such as negation suppression intellectualization displacement and disavowal. The final chapter concludes with notes on the role of hope in a damaged world and the importance of integrity within the psychoanalytic field and beyond. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists and psychiatrists as well as anthropologists environmentalists and ecologists. | Psychoanalysis and Ecology The Unconscious and the Environment

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Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

Trauma and Memory will assist mental health experts and professionals as well as the interested public in understanding the scientific issues around trauma memory and how this differs from other areas of memory. This book provides accounts of the damage caused to psychology and survivors internationally by false memory groups and ideas. It is unequivocally passionate about the truth of trauma memory and exposing the damaging disinformation that can seep into the field. Contributors to this book include leading professionals from the field of criminology law psychology and psychotherapy in the UK and USA along with survivor-professionals who understand only too well the damage such disinformation can cause. This book is a valuable resource for mental health professionals of all disciplines including those involved with relevant law and public health policy. It will also help survivors and survivor-professionals in gaining insight into the forces resisting disclosure. | Trauma and Memory The Science and the Silenced

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Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

The advancement of the life sciences and the technosciences has enhanced the longevity of citizens in the Western world and half of the generation born in the first decade of the new millennium is now expected to live to the age of one hundred years. In a society with such longevity and affluence consumption of health-related goods and services such as pharmaceuticals and scanning procedures may be seen as a sustainable source of income for the industries that promote it. Though the healthcare sector has traditionally been organized in the public sector in Europe and in the private sector in the US the recent advancement of new therapies and direct-to-consumer marketing have opened up new streams of consumption and revenue for health care goods and services around the globe. This book examines the so-called ‘bioeconomy’ as a new economic and commercial field that emphasizes the management of individual life including the regulation and control of weight and food consumption and other issues pertaining to individual well-being. In addition the bioeconomy includes a variety of practices based on commercial interests such as organ donations reproductive medicine and technologies and what has been referred to as the tissue economy – the various forms of trade with human tissues. Author Alexander Styhre provides a thorough introduction to the bioeconomy exploring this new and unique intersection of the life sciences and the technosciences with more traditional consumer markets. | Organizations and the Bioeconomy The Management and Commodification of the Life Sciences

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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

Violence and Gender in the Globalized World expands the present discourse on gender and violence discovering new ways to address the complexities encountered in academic research on the topic. Through the introduction of a variety of uncommonly discussed geopolitical sites and dynamics the book redefines the critical picture of gender violence in the age of globalization adopting diverse methodological approaches and various disciplinary praxes in its investigation of the question of violence against women across the globe. With an international team of contributors comprising both scholars and activists this volume bridges the gap between academic and activist perspectives on gender violence. As such it will be of interest to anyone conducting research in the areas of gender and sexuality human rights cultural studies political science history postcolonialism and colonialism sociology anthropology philosophy and religion. | Violence and Gender in the Globalized World The Intimate and the Extimate

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Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

Although the phrase the American Dream dates from the 1930s the concept or idea of the American Dream is as old as the country. The values proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence and reaffirmed (and extended) in the Gettysburg Address have been continuously promoted by every American president. Moreover they form the basis of our national collective narrative as expressed through both elite and popular culture. The American Dream is intrinsically tied to the American Creed and American Exceptionalism. It is the foundation of our national identity the glue that holds together our individual aspirations. Yet until the mid-twentieth century the American Dream excluded African Americans. We as a nation—as an imagined community—could not imagine an integrated multiracial society with Blacks and Whites living together as equals. By examining the lives of the only three African American Nobel Peace Prize winners we can see how their lives were shaped by the American Dream and how their success was used to deny the structural racism that prevented others from achieving the American Dream. Ralph Bunche as a role model of academic and technical expertise Martin Luther King Jr. as a model race leader and Barack Obama as a political leader provide a window on the changing meaning of the American Dream. In conclusion Haiti is presented as a failed example of an attempt to export the American Dream in the form of American Exceptionalism and racial reparations are reimagined as a radical democratic project aimed at true global integration and justice. | Racial Imagination and the American Dream The Peace-Maker The Prophet and The Politician

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Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

Psychoanalysis and Dreams explores some of the cornerstones of Antonino Ferro’s theoretical model but also attempts to extend the dreamlike boundaries of the model. Based on Bion’s theory of alpha function and the analytic field Ferro has developed his own original theorization of transformations in dreams and of work in the analytic session as a waking dream. Clearly highlighted in the book is Ferro’s theory that transformation in dreams is the activity which is constantly carried out in the mind of the analyst who nullifies the reality-status of the patient’s communication and considers the patient’s narrative as a dream which must be constructed in real time in the encounter between the two minds at work. At the centre of Ferro's theoretical proposal stands the transition from a psychoanalysis of contents to a psychoanalysis which develops the apparatus for thinking based on the conception of an unconscious in a perennial state of construction and transformation which must be dreamed and which continuously expands as it is dreamed. Psychoanalysis and Dreams is written for practicing and training psychoanalysts psychotherapists and psychiatrists and will be helpful in everyday psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work. | Psychoanalysis and Dreams Bion the Field and the Viscera of the Mind

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The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

Originally published in 1956 this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism Islam and Christianity the most important of the passages in which the view of the Founder is reflected. It aims to let each of the sacred traditions tell its own story and only such comments have been added as seem necessary to bring out the full significance of the passage quoted. The final chapter summarizes some of the difficult questions which arise from a comparison of the extracts from the 3 traditions. | The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

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The Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

The Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

Novelist columnist cultural critic political theorist- Isabel Paterson was one of the most extraordinary personalities of the 1930s renowned for her incisive wit and her unique interpretation of the American experience. The Woman and the Dynamo is the first biography of a woman who has long been a source of rumor and legend. From interviews private papers and her millions of published words Stephen Cox weaves a narrative that brings Paterson vividly to life. A radical individualist in both theory and practice Paterson spent her early life on the Western frontier lavished two years on formal education set a record for high-altitude flight became a journalist by accident and made herself a fearless chronicler and conscience of New York literary life. At the same time she made a permanent contribution to American political thought. Paterson identified the fundamental issues at stake in the crises of the twentieth century and responded with an original theory of history and political economy. In her view the individual mind is the dynamo of history working through the long circuit of institutions that maintain and enhance individual liberty; and America is the place where the advanced forms of those institutions were invented and are currently undergoing their severest trial. While other intellectuals derided the American ideal of progress and called for the restraint or abolition of the capitalist system Paterson demanded a scrupulous application of the engineering principles on which American civilization had been built. The Woman and the Dynamo provides one of the few broad and detailed accounts of the origins of the American political Right emphasizing the special role that women and imaginative writers played in its creation and posing new questions about what it means to be left or right liberal or conservative in America. This will be compelling reading for those interested in twentieth century intellectual history literature and politics. | The Woman and the Dynamo Isabel Paterson and the Idea of America

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The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes provides a unique and integrative introduction to dream science. It addresses a notable gap in cognitive psychology on the subject of dreams and explores significant overlaps between the phenomena of dreams and jokes. Bringing together extensive research from cognitive psychology neuroscience and psychoanalysis the book provides a balanced approach to dream science that is underpinned by experimental and theoretical research. It considers the significance of dreams and their relationships to jokes examining how both require an understanding of latent content in which context and individual differences play a large part. The book outlines a history of dream research and dream science and includes several original dream extracts for discussion. The book’s chapters explore how we can interpret meaning in dreams how dreams might be indicators of inner psychological and somatic states whether dreams can be used in problem-solving and the relationship between dreams and aphasia memory and waking consciousness. This groundbreaking book will be essential reading for researchers and students from psychological and psychoanalytic backgrounds who are interested in the analysis and science of dreams. | The Interpretation of Dreams and of Jokes The Art and the Science

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Labour The Unions and the Party

Labour The Unions and the Party

First published in 1973. In this study the author adopts a historical approach tracing the evolution of socialist thinking during the past century and relating this to the growth of the union movement. The Taff Vale judgement the Osborne judgement the roles of the SDF the Fabians and the ILP - these episodes are re-examined from a novel perspective and the historical material is frequently illuminated by the use of contemporary analogies. The second half of the book presents an analytical study of differing union political theories and attitudes against the modern industrial background. Here the Marxist case is studied in depth and contrasted with the views of the Social Democrats. The author then considers the ownership and control of the economy industrial relations prices and incomes and inflation making it clear where he feels the movement should stand on the key political issues of today. Finally the book suggests the way in which the Labour Party and the trade unions should organise for power in the country. | Labour The Unions and the Party

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Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

This book explores ways in which screen-based storyworlds transfix transform and transport us imaginatively physically and virtually to the places they depict or film. Topics include fantasy quests in computer games celebrity walking tours dark tourism sites Hobbiton as theme park surf movies and social gangs of Disneyland. How physical virtual and imagined locations create a sense of place through their immediate experience or visitation is undergoing a revolution in technology travel modes and tourism behaviour. This edited collection explores the rapidly evolving field of screen tourism and the affective impact of landscape with provocative questions and investigations of social groups fan culture new technology and the wider changing trends in screen tourism. We provide critical examples of affective landscapes across a wide range of mediums (from the big screen to the small screen) and locations. This book will appeal to students and scholars in film and tourism as well as geography design media and communication studies game studies and digital humanities. | Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes The Real the Virtual and the Cinematic

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Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

The Morning Chronicle presented the state of the working classes of Britain before the public with clarity insight and honesty. Consisting mainly of verbatim statements from the people themselves it was a medium through which the previously inarticulate masses were able to speak with one firm voice. First published in 1983 this book collates the letters from correspondents based in Northumberland and Durham Staffordshire and the Midlands. The letters improve our knowledge of working-class life in nineteenth century England and Wales and provide a unique insight into the impact of industrialization. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of the working class labour and poverty. | Labour and the Poor in England and Wales - The letters to The Morning Chronicle from the Correspondants in the Manufacturing and Mining Dist

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The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people. It provides a critical insight into strategies for improving relationships in the classroom and helping both adults and teenagers cope better with this stage of life. Dr John Coleman shows how teachers and students can contribute to healthy brain development. The book includes information about memory and learning as well as guidance on motivation and the management of stress. Underpinned by his extensive work with schools Dr Coleman offers advice on key topics including the importance of sleep the social brain moodiness risk and risk-taking and the role of hormones. This book is extensively illustrated with examples from classrooms and interviews with teachers. It explicitly links research and practice to create a comprehensive accessible guide to new knowledge about teenage brain development and its importance for education. Accompanied by a website providing resources for running workshops with teachers and parents as well as an outline of a lesson plan for students The Teacher and the Teenage Brain offers an innovative approach to the understanding of the teenage brain. This book represents an important contribution to teacher training and to the enhancement of learning in the classroom.

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The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

This book offers a survey of the encounter between the Third Reich and European Jewry. Pointing out the difficulties historians face in interpreting the ever-expanding documentary record it includes treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity and discussion on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic. Fully updated this new third edition incorporates the latest scholarly findings with expanded treatment of gendered aspects of the Holocaust the Holocaust’s world historical contexts the long-term history of Jewish-Christian relations and thinking about the Holocaust’s contemporary relevance as well as additional documents reflecting recent archival discoveries. Offering a concise narration that appeals to both the intellect and the emotions the book enables students to gain a real understanding of the events of this catastrophic time. Including a useful selection of original documents (many never before anthologised in English) a chronology glossary and 'who’s who' David Engel’s book will be welcomed by anyone trying to get to grips with this complex and far-reaching subject. | The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

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The Anthropocene Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities

The Anthropocene Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities

Perhaps no concept has become dominant in so many fields as rapidly as the Anthropocene. Meaning The Age of Humans the Anthropocene is the proposed name for our current geological epoch beginning when human activities started to have a noticeable impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems. Long embraced by the natural sciences the Anthropocene has now become commonplace in the humanities and social sciences where it has taken firm enough hold to engender a thoroughgoing assessment and critique. Why and how has the geological concept of the Anthropocene become important to the humanities? What new approaches and insights do the humanities offer? What narratives and critiques of the Anthropocene do the humanities produce? What does it mean to study literature of the Anthropocene? These are the central questions that this collection explores. Each chapter takes a decidedly different humanist approach to the Anthropocene from environmental humanities to queer theory to race illuminating the important contributions of the humanities to the myriad discourses on the Anthropocene. This volume is designed to provide concise overviews of particular approaches and texts as well as compelling and original interventions in the study of the Anthropocene. Written in an accessible style free from disciplinary-specific jargon many chapters focus on well-known authors and texts making this collection especially useful to teachers developing a course on the Anthropocene and students undertaking introductory research. This collection provides truly innovative arguments regarding how and why the Anthropocene concept is important to literature and the humanities. | The Anthropocene Approaches and Contexts for Literature and the Humanities

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The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

First published in 1999 this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the reasons for the controversy and examines the growing legal significance attached to the principle. In an illuminating and accessible manner this informative volume: provides a record of the milestones which have shaped the principles development by tracing its evolution over the centuries discloses the essence of what has been termed 'the golden thread running through the common law' provides a measure of the impact of the principle on the coherence of modern family law by assessing the significance of its present operational role and functions. The welfare principle began as a common law principle forged in medieval England yet it has informed the law relating to children in some of the most developed western societies. It is now being refracted through international legislative and judicial developments to challenge the future shape of family law in the UK. By considering the ways in which the legal system has shaped and been shaped by the principle this invaluable book leads its readers to an appreciation of the content and structural influence of the welfare principle. | The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

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The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds

The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought to shape ethnicity and identity discussing developments in early natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining ‘environment’ broadly to include not only physical but also cultural environments natural and constructed the volume considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples as well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not only of the Greco-Roman world but also ancient China and the European Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical thought. In recent years work in this subject has been confined mostly to the discussion of texts that reflect an approach to the barbarian as ‘other’. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds takes the discussion of ethnicity on a fresh course contextualising the concept of the barbarian within rational discourses such as cartography medicine and mathematical sciences an approach that allows us to more clearly discern the varied and nuanced approaches to ethnic identity which abounded in antiquity. The innovative and thought-provoking material in this volume realises new directions in the study of identity in the Classical and Medieval worlds.

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The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

In this collection of studies by James M. Powell two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean chiefly in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries - the Crusades - the reasons for them and manner in which they were organized and promoted. The other is the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II himself a Crusader and its society and economy including its Muslim population. A characteristic feature is the author's interest in ordinary participants and the attempt to get behind the generalizations of macro-historians to the extent that may be possible. | The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

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The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

The Mongols and the West provides a comprehensive survey of relations between the Catholic West and the Mongol Empire from the first appearance of Chinggis (Genghis) Khan’s armies on Europe’s horizons in 1221 to the battle of Tannenberg in 1410. This book has been designed to provide a synthesis of previous scholarship on relations between the Mongols and the Catholic world as well as to offer new approaches and conclusions on the subject. It considers the tension between Western hopes of the Mongols as allies against growing Muslim powers and the Mongols’ position as conquerors with their own agenda and evaluates the impact of Mongol-Western contacts on the West’s expanding knowledge of the world. This second edition takes into account the wealth of scholarly literature that has emerged in the years since the previous edition and contains significantly extended chapters on trade and mission. It charts the course of military confrontation and diplomatic relations between the Mongols and the West and re-examines the commercial opportunities offered to Western merchants by Mongol rule and the failure of Catholic missionaries to convert the Mongols to Christianity. Fully revised and containing a range of maps genealogical tables and both European and non-European sources throughout The Mongols and the West is ideal for students of medieval European history and the crusades. | The Mongols and the West 1221-1410

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The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases as the author shows the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture. | The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

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The Civil War Soldier and the Press

The Civil War Soldier and the Press

The Civil War Soldier and the Press examines how the press powerfully shaped the nation’s understanding and memory of the common soldier setting the stage for today’s continuing debates about the Civil War and its legacy. The history of the Civil War is typically one of military strategies famous generals and bloody battles but to Americans of the era the most important story of the war was the fate of the soldier. In this edited collection new research in journalism history and archival images provide an interdisciplinary study of citizenship representation race and ethnicity gender disability death and national identity. Together these chapters follow the story of Civil War soldiers from enlistment through battle and beyond as they were represented in hometown and national newspapers of the time. In discussing the same pages that were read by soldiers’ families friends and loved ones during America’s greatest conflict the book provides a window into the experience of historical readers as they grappled with the meaning and cost of patriotism and shared sacrifice. Both scholarly and approachable this book is an enriching resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Civil War history American history journalism and mass communication history.

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