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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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Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

In this study Marinova examines the diverse practices of crossing boundaries tactics of translation and experiences of double and multiple political and national attachments evident in texts about Russo-American encounters from the end of the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution of 1905. Marinova brings together published writings archival materials and personal correspondence of well or less known travelers of diverse ethnic backgrounds and artistic predilections: from the quintessential American Mark Twain to the Russian-Jewish ethnographer and revolutionary Vladimir Bogoraz; from masters of realist prose such as the Ukrainian-born Vladimir Korolenko and the Jewish-Russian-American Abraham Cahan to romantic wanderers like Edna Proctor Isabel Hapgood or Grigorii Machtet. By highlighting the reification of problematic stereotypes of ethnic and racial difference in these texts Marinova illuminates the astonishing success of the Cold War period’s rhetoric of mutual hatred and exclusion and its continuing legacy today. | Transnational Russian-American Travel Writing

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The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

This book brings together twelve chapters from feminist historians from around the world to offer new perspectives on aspects of the campaign for women’s suffrage in Britain. Although the focus is on Britain this volume signals how the women’s suffrage campaign in Britain embraced both national and global aspects. The historical developments and structures that affected women’s lives and suffrage struggles were not limited to national contexts. Early chapters focus on particular individuals both well and lesser known including Millicent Garrett Fawcett and Emmeline Pankhurst as well as Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Lady Isabel Margesson and Isabella Ford. Later chapters highlight the interrelationship between the British movement and suffrage campaigns across the globe with reference to Austria Japan New Zealand Australia and the USA. The chapters deal with issues around strategies social class employment religion nationalism empire and race and explore complex issues about women’s roles in campaigning for their democratic right to the parliamentary vote. Offering the reader a broad view of the British women’s suffrage movement this is the ideal volume for students of women’s and political history in both its national and international contexts. | The British Women's Suffrage Campaign National and International Perspectives

GBP 36.99
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Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

The new edition of Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology introduces the life thought work and impact of some of the most influential figures who have shaped and developed modern psychology considering a more diverse history of the discipline. The revised text includes new biographies histories and overviews of the work from scientists and scholars such as Alfred Alder Isabel Briggs Myers Katherine Cook Briggs and Karen Horney as well as major re-writes of the works of Freud Binet and Jung and some of the more controversial characters such as Charles Galton and Hans Eysenck. Exploring the often overlooked but significant contributions of black Jewish and Eastern scholars to the discipline this new edition looks to address the historically imbalanced focus of particular key thinkers and begin unpicking the impact that race and gender had on the direction and advancement of the field. The book covers the black psychology movement from George Herman Candy to Mamie Phipps Clark and Kenneth Bancroft Clark the enormous contribution of Chinese psychologist Jing Qicheng and some of the many great psychologists whose families were part of the waves of Jewish emigration to the United States escaping oppression persecution and economic hardship including Walter Mischel Cary Cooper and Daniel Kahneman. This fascinating and informative guide is an invaluable resource for those studying working in or who simply want to find out more about psychology suitable for both students and the lay reader alike.

GBP 31.99
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Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

This book in two volumes contains an annotated English translation of the História da Ethiópia by the Spanish Jesuit missionary priest Pedro Páez (Pêro Pais in Portuguese) 1564-1622 who worked in the Portuguese padroado missions first in India and then in Ethiopia long thought to be the kingdom of the legendary Prester John. His history of Ethiopia was written in Portuguese in the last ten years of his life and survives in only two manuscripts. The translation by Christopher J. Tribe is based on the new critical edition of the Portuguese text by Isabel Boavida Hervé Pennec and Manuel João Ramos which was published in Lisbon in 2008. They are also the editors of this English version. The History of Ethiopia is an essential source for several areas of study - from the history of the Catholic missions in that country and the relations between the European religious orders to the history of art and religions; from the history of geographical exploration to the ideological contextualization of the Ethiopian kingdom; from material culture to Abyssinian political and territorial administration; and from an analysis of local circumstances to changes in human ecology in the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean. It is a repository of empirical knowledge on the political geography religion customs flora and fauna of Ethiopia. It combines travel narrative with a historico-ethnographic monograph and is a chronicle of the activities of Jesuit missionaries in their Ethiopian mission. It also reworks a wide variety of documents including the first translations into a European language of a number of Ethiopian literary texts from royal chronicles to hagiographies. It complements other early accounts of Ethiopia by Ludovico de Varthema Francisco Alvares Castanhoso Bermudez Arnold von Harff Manoel de Almeida Bahrey Alessandro Zorzi Jerónimo Lobo and Václav Prutky all published by The Hakluyt Society. | Pedro Páez's History of Ethiopia 1622 / Volume II

GBP 38.99
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Emotion in Animated Films

Emotion in Animated Films

Ranging from blockbuster movies to experimental shorts or documentaries to scientific research computer animation shapes a great part of media communication processes today. Be it the portrayal of emotional characters in moving films or the creation of controllable emotional stimuli in scientific contexts computer animation’s characteristic artificiality makes it ideal for various areas connected to the emotional: with the ability to move beyond the constraints of the empirical real world animation allows for an immense freedom. This book looks at international film productions using animation techniques to display and/or to elicit emotions with a special attention to the aesthetics characters and stories of these films and to the challenges and benefits of using computer techniques for these purposes. | Emotion in Animated Films

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