Humanities - Page 243

Before the Holocaust: Antisemitic Violence and the Reaction of German Elites and Institutions During the Nazi Takeover

As the Nazis staged their takeover in 1933, instances of antisemitic violence began to soar.While pr...

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The Gestapo: Power and Terror in the Third Reich

The Gestapo was the most feared instrument of political terror in the Third Reich, brutally hunting...

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Hitler's True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis

Parsing Adolf Hitler's ideology provides insights into the world of an extremist politics that, over...

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The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution

The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan beat scores of hippies bloody in Ma...

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Beloved Vision: Music in the Romantic Age

Everyone loves romantic music: the sweet melody of a Schubert song, the heroine dying for love in an...

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Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

Profiling a dozen pioneering twentieth-century composers – including American modernist Ruth Crawfor...

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Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart is one of the most familiar and beloved icons of our culture, but how much do we really under...

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The New Cambridge Companion to Plotinus

Plotinus stands at a crossroads in ancient philosophy, between the more than 600 years of philosophy...

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Machiavelli's Broken World

Machiavelli was painfully aware of living in a disastrous moment of Italy's history: foreign invasio...

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What's Wrong with Rights?

Are natural rights 'nonsense on stilts', as Jeremy Bentham memorably put it? Must the very notion of...

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The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much –...

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Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

How would the history of international relations in 'the East' be written if we did not always read...

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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations: New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity

The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and adm...

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Roman Law in Context

This book explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the...

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Evil Roman Emperors: The Shocking History of Ancient Rome's Most Wicked Rulers from Caligula to Nero

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a n...

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