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Pride Versus Prejudice

Jewish Doctors and Lawyers in England, 1890-1990

By: John Cooper

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Pride Versus Prejudice

Jewish Doctors and Lawyers in England, 1890-1990

By: John Cooper

John Cooper's pioneering full-length study is a treasure trove of new information, fresh in terms of the ground it covers and the material it assembles. Building on newspapers, archives, and interviews to illustrate the lives and professional experiences of the individuals involved, Cooper also brings out such broad underlying themes as emancipation, antisemitism, radical assimilation, and professionalization. This engaging work on Anglo-Jewry will be of value to the historian and general reader alike.

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Liverpool University Press

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1909821268

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A Political Family

The Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War

By: John Green

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A Political Family

The Kuczynskis, Fascism, Espionage and The Cold War

By: John Green

The Kuczynskis were a German-Jewish family of active anti-fascists who worked assiduously to combat the rise of Nazism before and during the course of the Second World War. This book focuses on the family of Robert and his wife Berta – both born two decades before the end of the nineteenth century – and their six children, five of whom became communists and one who worked as a Soviet agent. The parents, and later their children, rejected and rebelled against their comfortable bourgeois heritage and devoted their lives to the overthrow of privilege and class society. They chose to do this in a Germany that was rapidly moving in the opposite direction. With the rise of German nationalism and then Hitler fascism, the family was confronted with stark choices and, as a result of making these choices, suffered persecution and exile. Revealing how these experiences shaped their outlook and perception of events, this book documents the story of the Kuczynskis for the first time in the English language and is a fascinating biographical portrait of a unique and radical family.

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Taylor & Francis

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1315304422

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Spy of the Century

Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary

By: John Sadler,Silvie Fisch

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Spy of the Century

Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary

By: John Sadler,Silvie Fisch

The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to his death like a figure of high tragedy. The New York Times A story like that is truer than history. István Szabó The army was shocked to the core. All knew that in case of war this one man might have been the cause of the death of hundreds of thousands, and of the monarchy being brought to the brink of the abyss; it was only then that we Austrians realised how breathtakingly near to the World War we already had been for that past year. Stefan Zweig, The World of Yesterday During the night of 24 to 25 May 1913 three high-ranking military officials wait for hours outside a hotel in the centre of Vienna. At around 2am they hear the shot of a Browning. They know that one of their own has just ended his life: Colonel Alfred Redl, the former deputy head of the Evidenzbüro, the Austro-Hungarian General Staffs directorate of military intelligence, and confidant of the heir to the throne. His suicide note reads: Levity and passion have destroyed me. What no one had known: for almost a decade he had betrayed significant and damaging secrets to the Italians, the French and the Russians. But what had been his motives? Redl owed everything to the army he deceived. Was he trapped into treason by blackmail? There were no definite answers for almost 100 years. The true story has only recently been reconstructed, after Austrian historians rediscovered long-lost records. A tragic story emerges of a man who was forced to hide his homosexuality and used his wealth to please his young lover. The scandal was huge, and it has never completely died down. Myths and legends have spread, and Redls story still fascinates today.

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Pen and Sword

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1473848709

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9781473848702

Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia

Travel Diaries and Other Papers of John Wallace Metcalfe

By: John Metcalfe,John Wallace Metcalfe

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Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia

Travel Diaries and Other Papers of John Wallace Metcalfe

By: John Metcalfe,John Wallace Metcalfe

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Scarecrow Press

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086804508X

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9780868045085

Literature and Law in the Middle Ages

A Bibliography of Scholarship

By: John A. Alford,Dennis P. Seniff

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Literature and Law in the Middle Ages

A Bibliography of Scholarship

By: John A. Alford,Dennis P. Seniff

Originally published in 1984, Literature and Law in the Middle Ages is a comprehensive bibliography on the subject of literature and law in the Middle Ages. The collection was composed with the notion that early society regarded literature, law and religion from the same single point of view. It discusses how for many medieval poets, their art existed primarily to enforce obedience to God and king and suggests that society viewed law as a chief instrument of the divine will in human affairs. The book’s comprehensive introduction argues that eventually, these areas of diverged and became separate; this bibliography covers the broad period of the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th century and examines this period of transition during which, the process was not yet complete. This bibliography will be vital resource for those studying medieval studies, both in literature and history.

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Routledge

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0429575521

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9780429575525

Ernest Gellner

An Intellectual Biography

By: John A. Hall

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Ernest Gellner

An Intellectual Biography

By: John A. Hall

Ernest Gellner (1925–95) was a multilingual polymath and a public intellectual who set the agenda in the study of nationalism and the sociology of Islam. Having grown up in Paris, Prague, and England, he was also one of the last great Jewish thinkers from Central Europe to experience directly the impact of the Holocaust. His intellectual trajectory differed from that of similar thinkers, both in producing a highly integrated philosophy of modernity and in combining a respect for nationalism with an appreciation of the power of modern science. Gellner was a fierce opponent, in private as well as in public, of such contemporaries as Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Charles Taylor, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said. As this definitive biography shows, he was passionate in the defense of reason against every form of relativism—a battle that his intellectual inheritors continue to this day.

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Verso Books

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1844678458

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9781844678457

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

By: John P. Henderson,John B. Davis

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The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

By: John P. Henderson,John B. Davis

John P. Henderson's The Life and Economics of David Ricardo represents the first comprehensive personal and intellectual biography of the brilliant and influential British economist. Employing the talents of both a biographer and an economist, the author examines Ricardo's early years, his Sephardic origins and his employment in the London financial markets, as well as his later work on money and banking, international trade, economic instability and the theory of rent and value. Henderson also provides a thorough investigation of Ricardo's relationships with Thomas Robert Malthus and other classical economists. The Life and Economics of David Ricardo will be of interest not only to historians of economic thought and students of economics, but also to any economist working in the Ricardian or Classical Political Economy tradition.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461561299

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9781461561293

Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995

By: John Rodden

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Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995

By: John Rodden

This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR's attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at the changing institution of education but at something the Germans call Bildung--the formation of character and the cultivation of body and spirit. The sociology of nation-building is also addressed.

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Oxford University Press

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0190283238

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9780190283230

The Media and Public Life

A History

By: John Nerone

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The Media and Public Life

A History

By: John Nerone

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life. His unconventional account decenters professional journalism from its central role in providing information to the people and reconceives it as part of a broader set of media practices that work together to represent the public. The result is a sensitive study of the relationship between media and society that sheds light on the past, present and future of news and public life. The book demonstrates clearly that the media have always been deeply embedded in social, economic, and political institutions and structures. Large transformations and historical shifts are brought to life in the book through closer study of key moments of change such as the rise of liberal political institutions, the market revolution, the industrial revolution, bureaucratization and professionalization, globalization, and the ongoing digital revolution. By integrating theoretical concepts with detailed and vivid historical examples, Nerone shows how print and news media became entangled with public institutions. The Media and Public Life brings new light on the ways in which people have understood the meaning of a free and democratic media system. It is essential reading for all students and scholars of media, history and society.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745695930

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Hailey

A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969

By: John W. Cell

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Hailey

A Study in British Imperialism, 1872-1969

By: John W. Cell

A study of William Hailey's career in the Indian civil Service and as an African expert.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521521173

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9780521521178

Law and Protestantism

The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation

By: John Witte

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Law and Protestantism

The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation

By: John Witte

The Lutheran Reformation of the early sixteenth century brought about immense and far-reaching change in the structures of both church and state, and in both religious and secular ideas. This book investigates the relationship between the law and religious ideology in Luther's Germany, showing how they developed in response to the momentum of Lutheran teachings and influence. Profound changes in the areas of education, politics and marriage were to have long-lasting effects on the Protestant world, inscribed in the legal systems inherited from that period. John Witte, Jr. argues that it is not enough to understand the Reformation either in theological or in legal terms alone but that a perspective is required which takes proper account of both. His book should be essential reading for scholars and students of church history, legal history, Reformation history, and in adjacent areas such as theology, ethics, the law, and history of ideas.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521012996

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Brecht and Company

Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama

By: John Fuegi

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Brecht and Company

Sex, Politics, and the Making of the Modern Drama

By: John Fuegi

The result of twenty-five years of research on three continents, Brecht and Company is a revolutionary portrait of one of the world's greatest theater artists -- and the people upon whom he built his reputation. A noted Brecht scholar, John Fuegi traces the evolution of Brecht's parasitic relationships and aggressive ambition through close analysis of diaries, letters, and drafts of the literary works, revealing a man who was personally dazzling, a genius at assembling and directing the plays created in his workshop, but ultimately lacking in literary stamina, for which he depended on his lovers. A landmark study about the life and times of one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century theater, Brecht and Co. will forever change our understanding of Brecht and his oeuvre. "[An] enormous, fascinating biography." -- The New Yorker "One of the most important critical studies of the century." -- New York Magazine

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804

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Grove Press

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0802139108

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9780802139108

Evatt

A life

By: John Murphy

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Evatt

A life

By: John Murphy

John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the 1950s, the time of the split that resulted in the party being out of power for a generation. Evatt traces the course of Evatt’s life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. It treats Evatt’s inner, personal life as being just as important as his spectacular, controversial and eventual tragic public career. Murphy looks closely at Evatt’s previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have lead Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad. ‘Bert’ Evatt remains a polarising figure – still considered by many in Labor as the man who ‘split the party’ and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous.

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NewSouth

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1742242405

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Pride Versus Prejudice

Pride Versus Prejudice

A Political Family

A Political Family

Spy of the Century

Spy of the Century

Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia

Developing a Profession of Librarianship in Australia

Literature and Law in the Middle Ages

Literature and Law in the Middle Ages

Ernest Gellner

Ernest Gellner

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

The Life and Economics of David Ricardo

Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse

The Media and Public Life

The Media and Public Life

Hailey

Hailey

Law and Protestantism

Law and Protestantism

Brecht and Company

Brecht and Company

Evatt

Evatt

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