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The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990

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The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

The U.S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

This volume describes how technological and geo-political trends are rapidly transforming maritime affairs. A mix of original and previously published material this volume describes how the 21st-century great power competition is changing the face of naval operations in general and U. S. Navy operations in the Western Pacific in particular. The rise of an assertive China and its new anti-access and area-denial capabilities threaten the aircraft carrier-based maritime dominance of the U. S. Navy. Military and political trends in the Western Pacific and beyond suggest that the world is encountering a pivotal moment when existing weapons tactics and operations might be rendered obsolete by techno-strategic change. This volume considers these developments from three perspectives by describing: (1) the techno-strategic setting; (2) the institutional constraints that impede the ability of the U. S. Navy to respond to these changes; and (3) a new approach to naval force planning and strategy to cope with these developments. The volume culminates in a discussion of sophisticated strategies and operational concepts that position the U. S. Navy and its maritime allies and partners to prevail in today’s techno-strategic churn. This book will be of much interest to students of naval policy strategic studies Asia-Pacific politics and International Relations. | The U. S. Navy and the Rise of Great Power Competition Looking Beyond the Western Pacific

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Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth-century British culture. | Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship

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The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

In this first biography in English for fifty years Derek McKay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened' Frederick the Great. Instead he roots him firmly in his own time a dynastic protestant ruler like many another in Germany but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers. | The Great Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia

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The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

This volume addresses and seeks to answer a number of questions on the current issues facing small states/powers in Europe. How can small European states survive and prosper within a multipolar world of great powers? What part should small states take in European integration? Are EU fiscal and monetary policies allowing for Keynesian economic stimulus when needed and are euro area convergence criteria viable as the world recovers from the COVID-19 crisis? Are small state alliances within the EU useful to counterbalance the influence of the larger EU member states? How far should EU and NATO expansion go? Should it include countries such as Ukraine? Can the EU rely on US leadership of NATO for its security? How should small states relate to great powers seeking to influence Europe most notably the US the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation? Do smaller states need to choose a single ally among the major powers? Using an interdisciplinary approach the author discusses issues of economic policy international relations and politics economic and political integration as well as the effects of global and regional institutions and priorities in bilateral development cooperation demonstrating how policies are shaped by the interaction between small states (small powers) and large states (great powers). | The Nordic Baltic and Visegrád Small Powers in Europe A Dance with Giants for Survival and Prosperity

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Developing Iran Company Towns Architecture and the Global Powers

Developing Iran Company Towns Architecture and the Global Powers

This book examines the emergence of modern company towns in Iran by delineating the architectural political and industrial histories of three distinct resource-based ‘company town’ projects built in association with the ‘Big Three’ powers of World War II. The book’s narrative builds upon a tripartite research design that chronologically traces the formation and development of the oil steel and copper industries respectively favoured by Great Britain the Soviet Union and the United States in this part of the world. By applying three sets of comparative studies the book provides critical vantage points to three different ideological design paradigms: postcolonial regionalism socialist universalism and rationalist modern nation building. From a global political context the book contributes to the disclosure of new information about the geopolitical confrontation of these three nations in the Global South to increase their sphere of influence after the Second World War. Furthermore it demonstrates how postwar architectural modernism was adopted by each power and adapted to their ideological mind frame to fulfil distinct social cultural political and economic targets. This book examines multiple interconnections between architecture politics and industrial development by adopting a transdisciplinary approach based on comprehensive fieldwork site surveys and the analysis of original multilingual documents. As such it will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture history international relations and Middle Eastern studies. | Developing Iran Company Towns Architecture and the Global Powers

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Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

This book explores the contexts and reception history of Robert Pollok’s religious epic The Course of Time (1827) one of the best- selling long poems of the nineteenth century which has been almost entirely forgotten today. Widely read in the United States and across the British Empire the poem’s combination of evangelical Calvinism High Romanticism and native Scottishness proved irresistible to many readers. This monograph traces the poem’s origins as a defense of Biblical authority divine providence and religious orthodoxy (against figures like Byron and Joseph Priestley) and explores the reasons for The Course of Time’s enormous decades- long popularity and later precipitous decline. A close reading of the poem and an examination of its reception history offers readers important insights into the dynamic relationship between religion and wider culture in the nineteenth century the uses of literature as a vehicle for theological argument and theodicy and the important but often overlooked role that religion played in literary— and particularly Scottish— Romanticism. This work will appeal to scholars of religious history literary history Evangelicalism Romanticism Scottish literature and nineteenth- century culture. | Robert Pollok’s The Course of Time and Literary Theodicy in the Romantic Age The Rise and Fall of a Christian Epic

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The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward The Case Of One Chinese Province

The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward The Case Of One Chinese Province

The first major study of the Great Leap Forward this seminal volume has now been translated into English for a wider audience. Like no other work it suggests compelling political and social answers to questions that have long plagued scholars: How could a party with such a successful rural base launch a movement so divorced from reality– especially in the countryside? Why was the movement pressed to the point of social chaos and economic collapse giving rise to arguably the greatest famine in human history? Utilizing a wealth of primary material Jean-Luc Domenach focuses on the central China province of Henan which emerged as a national model of the Great Leap and was one of the most devastated by its failure. The author's documentary sources enable him to illuminate the development of provincial and local political life as well as to gauge popular reactions to the dictates of the center. Domenach presents a lucid analysis of the setbacks in agriculture in 1956 and 1957 the rise of economic corruption and the launch of the CCP rectification campaign in 1957. Despite the enormous impact of the Great Leap on Chinese politics and economics in the decades that followed it has proven immensely difficult to research. Domenach's contribution thus stands out as an original and important work on the period. | The Origins Of The Great Leap Forward The Case Of One Chinese Province

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The Rise of Universities

The Rise of Universities

At the time of its publication in 1923 Charles Homer Haskins' The Rise of Universities was considered remarkable for its erudition succinctness and balance. The his-torian Theodor Mommsen described it as a work which has remained unsurpassed in the conciseness and vividness of its account. Eight decades after its appearance it remains fresh and informative. It has not been surpassed and is as invaluable as ever. Haskins traces the rise of the mediaeval university as one phase of the intellectual awakening in Europe in the late Middle Ages in an effort to broaden our understanding of the ancient and universal company of scholars. In the depth and breadth of its analysis there is no better portrait of universities during their infancy in the Middle Ages. With great detail and preci-sion Haskins describes the university's curriculum teaching teachers and students. Drawing deeply on his knowledge as one of the leading mediaeval scholars of his day he provides an exceptionally vivid picture of student life of tht time through his analysis of their manuals letters and poetry. The Rise of Universities goes far beyond its central subject to offer a broad description of the social conditions in which universities took root and flourished. At the same time one cannot read Haskins without seeing the influences of the mediaeval university on contemporary institutions of higher learning. The Rise of Universities reminds us that the univer-sity has not only been a crucible fostering intellectual inquiry and creativity but continues after eight hundred years to be a center of teaching and learning. In his new introduction Lionel S. Lewis develops Haskins' passing observation that the university of the twentieth cen-tury is the lineal descendant of mediaeval Paris and Bologna and considers the question of why universities came into being at the particular time in history when they did. The Rise of the Universities will be of interest to educators and students who wish to better understand the institutions in which they have lived taught and been taught.

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The Politics of Repeal A Study in the Relations between Great Britain and Ireland 1841-50

The Politics of Repeal A Study in the Relations between Great Britain and Ireland 1841-50

First published in 1965 The Politics of Repeal is primarily concerned with the last great campaign in Daniel O’Connell’s career and its impact on British and Irish politics. The 1840s were marked by a formidable agitation to have the Act of Union repealed and an independent Irish legislature restored. In attacking the Union between Great Britain and Ireland O’Connell encountered the sustained opposition of Sir Robert Peel and a study of the conflict between the two men is an important feature of the book. Dr. Nowlan also discusses the rise of the Young Ireland movement and the disputes between the Young Irelanders and O’Connell. The political developments during the dark years of the Great Famine are examined and a close study is made of the events leading up to the Irish rebellion of 1848 and of the relations between Irish nationalists and French republicans during that year of revolutions. This book will be of interest to students of Irish history British history and political science. | The Politics of Repeal A Study in the Relations between Great Britain and Ireland 1841-50

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China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

This volume explains China’s foreign policy from the perspective of its historical recovery after 1949 and the country’s subsequent rise as a great power including its transformation into a global power. It also illuminates how China has in tandem with its rise developed an increasing array of political economic ‘sharp power’ and military capabilities that is helping it to further its increasingly expansive foreign policy objectives. The volume examines two key questions: What have been the implications of China’s rise for its foreign policy? And how has an increasingly powerful and confident China used a range of foreign policy instruments to pursue its expanding national interests in Asia and beyond? The volume is divided into three parts covering the conceptualization and drivers of China’s foreign policy China’s relations with the world and the instruments of China’s foreign policy namely its economic power military capabilities and its ‘sharp power’ manipulation of information and relationships. It will be of interest to academics students and researchers interested in understanding China’s role in world politics. | China’s Foreign Policy The Emergence of a Great Power

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The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

This book presents an ethnographic study of contemporary ticket touts in the UK. Despite the recent interest in the topic of black-market ticket sales media coverage and parliamentary interventions over the last ten years have revealed a widespread lack of knowledge with regard to the phenomenon of touting and the players engaging in the practice. The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting sheds light on the world of touting and delivers an authentic picture of the individuals involved of their methods values and motivations for performing ticket touting as an organised entrepreneurial deviant activity. The touts’ varied methods of buying and selling tickets the hierarchical structures and strict ethos of their criminal organisations and their specific modi operandi for evading detection and arrest both on the streets and online are focal points of the study. Of equal importance are the touts’ attitudes perceptions and adaptations to (or outright dismissal of) society’s legal and moral frameworks. This book illuminates why historic and renewed attempts to challenge ticket touting have been unsuccessful focusing on inadequate legislation a lack of enforcement and the widespread corruption and exploitable loopholes that exist within the official primary ticket market. An accessible and compelling read The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology social policy policing and all those with an interest in live music and sport and the hidden practices that lurk beneath the surface. | The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting An Ethnography of Deviant Entrepreneurship

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Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition

In his new book Hanna Samir Kassab examines changes and trends in international politics and the competition between great powers for control of the international system. He argues that the increase in geopolitical economic nationalist and resource competition between three great powers the United States China and Russia points to the changing structure of the international system. This competition is a systemic one focusing more on the rules and norms that defined the system since the end of the Cold War. This American-led unipolar order is translating into a multipolar one. Kassab begins by tracing the decline of the United States after the Iraq War (2003) and the Great Recession (2008) as well as the rise of China and the resurgence of Russia. He describes major foreign policy changes from George H. W. Bush to Donald J. Trump and how the various administrations approached the international system. Russia and China will increase their international influence as the United States pulls back from the international system. Written using simple jargon Globalization Multipolarity and Great Power Competition is equally accessible to academics and casual readers and laypeople interested in international politics.

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Law and Christianity in Poland The Legacy of the Great Jurists

Law and Christianity in Poland The Legacy of the Great Jurists

This volume is the first comprehensive study of the Polish history of law and Christianity written in English for a global audience. It examines the lives of twenty-one central figures in Polish law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a factor in molding the evolution of law in their country and the region. The individuals selected for study exhibit wide-ranging areas of expertise from private law and codification through national public law and constitutional law to international developments that left their mark on Poland and the world. The chapters discuss the jurists within their historical intellectual and political context. The editors selected jurists after extensive consultation with legal historians looking at the jurists’ particular merits contributions to law in general religious perspective and period under consideration. The collection will appeal to scholars lawyers and students interested in the interplay between law and religion. Political social legal and religious historians among other readers will find for the first time in English authoritative treatments of essential Polish legal thinkers and authors. | Law and Christianity in Poland The Legacy of the Great Jurists

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WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

WeChat (the international version of Weixin) launched in 2012 has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging engage in group communication and community business activities produce and distribute news and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an ‘imagined community’ the book shows how WeChat’s assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks technical capabilities content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world at a time marked both by China’s rise and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West. Chapter 2 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. | WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora Digital Transnationalism in the Era of China's Rise

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The Mongol Empire Its Rise and Legacy

The Mongol Empire Its Rise and Legacy

In his prologue to The Mongol Empire Michael Prawdin sets the stage for the last and mightiest onslaught of the nomads upon the civilized world. He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A. D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West. A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world's largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people which through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia. Maurice Collis in Time and Tide said of The Mongol Empire: It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting. . The entire world comes on to his canvas romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part. while The Observer commented it is a fine book full of dramatic occasion well used clear in proportions. | The Mongol Empire Its Rise and Legacy

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Cyrus the Great A Biography of Kingship

Cyrus the Great A Biography of Kingship

Cyrus the Great was a celebrity of the ancient world the founder of one of the first world empires in the ancient Near East whose life and deeds were celebrated through the many stories told about him then and for millennia. This book offers an analysis of these stories locating them within the rich storytelling cultures of the ancient Mediterranean and the Near East. Although there are few fixed points in Cyrus’ career it is possible to see through these narratives the way his kingship developed so he became not just the instrument of the gods but also their companion. Mitchell explores what these stories reveal about the different societies and cultures who engaged with the mythology surrounding Cyrus in order to examine their own conceptions of great men leadership kingship and power. Such was his celebrity in antiquity that the stories about his kingship have remained influential over the course of two and a half thousand years into the modern era. Cyrus the Great: A Biography of Kingship is of interest to students and scholars studying the Achaemenids and ancient kingship particularly as it is depicted in the literary and historical traditions of the ancient Near East as well as those working on the Near Eastern world more generally. Scholars of Greek history in this period will also find much to interest them. | Cyrus the Great A Biography of Kingship

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The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Great’s image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century. Perceived as the first sovereign ruler of the world for centuries Alexander became an exemplar for the most ambitious kings and emperors. This cultural phenomenon flourished above all in the Renaissance while extending into the nineteenth century. Early modern monarchs’ identification with Alexander associated them with ideas of kingly wisdom. Yet this admiration waned on occasions. Napoleon was Alexander of Macedonia’s most ardent critic. During the nineteenth century the Macedonian hero was viewed as an individual who won control of the Achaemenid empire but also underwent a progressive moral decline that converted him into a tyrant. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history and iconography. | The Visual Legacy of Alexander the Great from the Renaissance to the Age of Revolution

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The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations

The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations

This book explores the relationship between Confucianism and citizenship and the rise of Confucian citizens in contemporary China. Combining theoretical and empirical approaches to the topic the book constructs new frameworks to examine the nuances and complexities of Confucianism and citizenship exploring the process of citizen-making through Confucian education. By re-evaluating the concept of citizenship as a Western construct and therefore challenging the popular characterization of Confucianism and citizenship as incompatible this book posits that a new type of citizen the Confucian citizen is on the rise in 21st-century China. The book’s clear accessible style makes it essential reading for students and scholars interested in citizenship Confucianism and Chinese studies and those with an interest in religion and philosophy more generally. | The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations

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Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

From premodern societies onward humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into and images for adult men to imitate. The figure of Alexander the Great has fascinated people both within and outside academia. As a historical character military commander cultural figure and representative of the male gender Alexander’s popularity is beyond dispute. Almost from the moment of his death Alexander’s deeds have had a paradigmatic aspect: for over 2300 years he has been represented as a paragon of manhood – an example to be followed by other men – and through his myth people have negotiated assumptions about masculinity. This work breaks new ground by considering the ancient and medieval reception of Alexander the Great from a gender studies perspective. It explores the masculine ideals of the Greco-Roman and medieval pasts through the figure of Alexander the Great analysing the gendered views of masculinities in those periods and relating them to the ways in which Alexander’s masculinity was presented. It does this by investigating Alexander’s appearance and its relation to definitions of masculinity the way his childhood and adulthood are presented his martial performance and skill proper and improper sexual behaviour and finally through his emotions and mental attributes. Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great will appeal to students and scholars alike as well as to those more generally interested in the portrayal of masculinity and gender particularly in relation to Alexander the Great and his image throughout history. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license | Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World

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