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The Firebird and the Fox: Russian Culture under Tsars and Bolsheviks
- 2019, Cambridge University Press
- Jeffrey Brooks, author
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Showcasing the genius of Russian literature, art, music, and dance over a century of turmoil, within the dynamic cultural ecosystem that shaped it, The Firebird and the Fox explores the shared traditions, mutual influences and enduring themes that recur in these art forms. The book uses two emblematic characters from Russian culture – the firebird, symbol of the transcendent power of art in defiance of circumstance and the efforts of censors to contain creativity; and the fox, usually female and representing wit, cleverness and the agency of artists and everyone who triumphs over adversity – to explore how Russian cultural life changed between 1850 and 1950. Jeffrey Brooks reveals how high culture drew on folk and popular genres, then in turn influenced an expanding commercial culture. Richly illustrated, The Firebird and the Fox assuredly and imaginatively navigates the complex terrain of this eventful century.
Colonizing Consent: Rape and Governance in South Africa's Eastern Cape
- 2018, Cambridge University Press
- Elizabeth Thornberry, author
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Elizabeth Thornberry uses historical evidence to shed light on South Africa's contemporary epidemic of sexual violence. Drawing on over a thousand cases from a diverse set of courts, Thornberry reconstructs the history of rape in South Africa's Eastern Cape, from the precolonial era to the triumph of legal and sexual segregation, and digs deep into questions of conceptions of sexual consent. Through this process, Thornberry also demonstrates the political stakes of disputes over sexual consent, and the ways in which debates over the regulation of sexuality shaped both white and black politics in this period. From customary authority to missionary Christianity and humanitarian liberalism to segregationism, political claims implied theories of sexual consent, and enabled distinctive claims to control female sexuality. The political history of rape illuminates not only South Africa's contemporary crisis of sexual violence, but the entangled histories of law, sexuality, and politics across the globe.
Sex, France, and Arab Men, 1962-1979
- 2018, University of Chicago Press
- Todd Shepard, author
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The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.
Sex, France, and Arab Men is a history of how and why—from the upheavals of French Algeria in 1962 through the 1970s—highly sexualized claims about Arabs were omnipresent in important public French discussions, both those that dealt with sex and those that spoke of Arabs. Shepard explores how the so-called sexual revolution took shape in a France profoundly influenced by the ongoing effects of the Algerian revolution. Shepard's analysis of both events alongside one another provides a frame that renders visible the ways that the fight for sexual liberation, usually explained as an American and European invention, developed out of the worldwide anticolonial movement of the mid-twentieth century.
The Early Modern Hispanic World: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches
- 2017, Cambridge University Press
- Erin Rowe, co-editor
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Iberia stands at the center of key trends in Atlantic and world histories, largely because Portugal and Spain were the first European kingdoms to 'go global'. The Early Modern Hispanic World engages with new ways of thinking about the early modern Hispanic past, as a field of study that has grown exponentially in recent years. It focuses predominantly on questions of how people understood the rapidly changing world in which they lived – how they defined, visualized, and constructed communities from family and city to kingdom and empire. To do so, it incorporates voices from across the Hispanic World and across disciplines. The volume considers the dynamic relationships between circulation and fixedness, space and place, and how new methodologies are reshaping global history, and Spain's place in it.
Mâle Décolonisation l'homme arabe et la France,de l'indépendance algérienne à la révolution iranienne
- Todd Shepard, author
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Ce livre explique pourquoi les « Arabes » sont une obsession française. À la fois histoire coloniale et histoire de la sexualité, il montre que la révolution sexuelle des années 1960 et 1970 fut intimement liée à la guerre d Algérie, à la décolonisation et à l immigration. Après l'indépendance, loin d être un tabou, la figure de l'« Arabe » irrigue tous les débats publics : discours de l extrême droite, du mouvement homosexuel, du catholicisme social, débats sur la prostitution, « vogue » de la sodomie dans les années 1970, fantasme de la traite des Blanches, ou question du viol, centrale pour l extrême gauche et chez les féministes. Revisitant ces vingt années si cruciales pour l histoire de la France d aujourd hui, Mâle décolonisation est appelé à faire date.
Guerre d'Algérie : le sexe outragé
- Todd Shepard, co-author
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Les représentations sexuelles obsèdent les discours et les figurations de la guerre dite " d'Algérie " côté français, " de libération nationale " côté algérien. Au-delà de la sexualisation attachée à tout épisode belliqueux, l'équipe réunie par Catherine Brun interroge cette omniprésence du sexe dans les représentations de la guerre d'Algérie. Si des travaux existent, qui ont tenté de dire la réalité des exactions, et plus particulièrement de la torture et des viols, peu prennent pour objet la sexualisation du conflit, qu'il s'agisse de féminiser l'ennemi ou de surviriliser le pouvoir. Viols (des femmes comme des hommes), émasculations, bâtardises, exacerbations viriles, tortures ciblées, outrages sexuels des cadavres, commerces des corps ont fait partie du quotidien de cette guerre. Ils méritent d'être recontextualisés, entre la stigmatisation de " l'impulsivité criminelle chez l'indigène algérien ", caractéristique de la psychiatrie coloniale de l'École d'Alger, qui construit la figure de sauvages amoraux, primitifs et violents, et le fantasme de " l'invasion arabe ".
Les travaux présentés ici par des historiens, anthropologues, sociologues ou psychanalystes, et entrecoupés d'ouvres littéraires évoquant ces violences, s'attachent à comprendre la récurrence obsessionnelle du sexe dans ce conflit.
French Mediterraneans: Transnational and Imperial Histories
- 2016, University of Nebraska Press
- Todd Shepard, co-editor
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While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region's seas and controlled its ports. By contrast, for the peoples of its southern shores, the Mediterranean was polymorphous, shifting with the economic and seafaring exigencies of the moment. Nonetheless, by the nineteenth century the idea of a monolithic Mediterranean had either been absorbed by or imposed on the populations of the region.
In French Mediterraneans editors Patricia M. E. Lorcin and Todd Shepard offer a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Mediterranean. These essays provide a critical study of space and movement through new approaches to think about the maps, migrations, and margins of the sea in the French imperial and transnational context. By reconceptualizing the Mediterranean, this volume illuminates the diversity of connections between places and polities that rarely fit models of nation-state allegiances or preordained geographies.
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
- 2014, University of Chicago Press
- N. D. B. Connolly, author
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A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida (University of Chicago Press), argues that, between the early 1900s and the 1960s, property ownership helped set the terms of Jim Crow segregation. It shows how a shared stake in growing South Florida's economy allowed competing property interests from opposite sides of the color line to forge consensus about the best way to manage urban development and police the black poor. As a work of both political economy and cultural studies, A World More Concrete focuses on American political culture and the nuts and bolts of how real estate interests claimed spaces, in legal terms, for the United States while selling them, in Miami's case, as something more-than-American for tourists and potential investors. In particular, the book explores previously unknown dynamics between property management firms, landlords, tenants, government officials, and suburban homeowners in order to show how property owners of various stripes tied meanings of blackness and whiteness to the built environment.
When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
- 2014, Penguin Press
- François Furstenberg, author
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In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic's formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished circle of five Frenchmen taking refuge in America. When the French Revolution broke out, these men had been among its leaders. They were liberal aristocrats and ardent Anglophiles, convinced of the superiority of the British system of monarchy and constitution. They also idealized the new American republic, which seemed to them an embodiment of the Enlightenment ideals they celebrated. But soon the Revolutionary movement got ahead of them, and they found themselves chased across the Atlantic.
François Furstenberg follows these five men—Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, Napoleon's future foreign minister; theoristreformer Rochefoucauld, the duc de Liancourt; Louis-Marie Vicomte de Noailles; Moreau de Saint-Méry; and Constantin-François Chasseboeuf, Comte Volney—as they left their homes and families in France, crossed the Atlantic, and landed in Philadelphia—then America's capital, its principal port, and by far its most cosmopolitan city and the home of the wealthiest merchants and financiers. The book vividly reconstructs their American adventures, following along as they integrated themselves into the city and its elite social networks, began speculating on backcountry lands, and eventually became enmeshed in Franco-American diplomacy. Through their stories, we see some of the most famous events of early American history in a new light, from the diplomatic struggles of the 1790s to the Haitian Revolution to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
By the end of this period, the United States was on its way to becoming a major global power. Through this small circle of men, we find new ways to understand the connections between U.S. and world history, and gain fresh insight into American history's most critical era. Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, When the United States Spoke French offers a fresh perspective on the tumultuous years of the young nation, when the first great republican experiments were put to the test.
Early North America in Global Perspective
- 2014, Routledge
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Early North American history is a field in flux. In the last thirty years, the field of Atlantic History has transformed scholarly studies of colonial America, bringing to light the many connections linking the Americas to Africa and Europe. Recently, though, historians have begun to question the utility of the Atlantic framework. Some suggest that it overlooks global phenomena, while others argue for a hemispheric or continental perspective on North America's early history.
Early North America in Global Perspective collects the most interesting and innovative scholarly approaches to these questions. Anchored by a robust introduction that guides the reader through the various conceptual arguments, the fourteen essays gathered here introduce students to some of the finest historians of early America working in expansive and stimulating ways. These essays capture the complexity of North America's past and are in tune with the global influences that shape its present.
Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
- 2014, Harvard University Press
- Michael Kwass, author
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Louis Mandrin led a gang of bandits who brazenly smuggled contraband into 18th-century France. Michael Kwass brings new life to the legend of this Gallic Robin Hood and the thriving underworld he helped to create. Decades before the storming of the Bastille, surging world trade excited a revolution in consumption that transformed the French kingdom. Contraband exposes the dark side of this early phase of globalization, revealing hidden connections between illicit commerce, criminality, and popular revolt.
France's economic system was tailor-made for an enterprising outlaw like Mandrin. As French subjects began to crave colonial products, Louis XIV lined the royal coffers by imposing a state monopoly on tobacco from America and an embargo on brilliantly colored calico cloth from India. Vigorous black markets arose through which traffickers fed these exotic goods to eager French consumers. Flouting the law with unparalleled panache, Mandrin captured widespread public attention to become a symbol of a defiant underground.
This furtive economy generated violent clashes between gangs of smugglers and customs agents in the borderlands. Eventually, Mandrin was captured by French troops and put to death in a brutal public execution intended to demonstrate the king's absolute authority. But the spectacle only cemented Mandrin's status as a rebel folk hero in an age of mounting discontent. Amid cycles of underground rebellion and agonizing penal repression, the memory of Mandrin inspired ordinary subjects and Enlightenment philosophers alike to challenge royal power and forge a movement for radical political change.
Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with Documents
- 2014, Bedford/St. Martin's
- Todd Shepard, author
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This unprecedented volume shows how and why mid-20th-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape today's world. The introduction explores decolonization as both a historical era and an aspirational movement. A rich collection of primary sources combines the voices of the colonized and the colonizers in Africa, Asia, and throughout the world to recapture the intensity and variety of the independence struggles. Organized chronologically and topically, the documents reveal how and why formal decolonization, once an unimaginable prospect to imperialists, came quickly to seem inevitable. Maps, document headnotes, a chronology, questions to consider, and a bibliography enrich students' understanding of decolonization and its enduring consequences.
What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China
- 2013, Stanford University Press
- Tobie Meyer-Fong, author
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The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped with these cataclysmic events.
Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, What Remains explores the issues that preoccupied Chinese and Western survivors. Individuals, families, and communities grappled with fundamental questions of loyalty and loss as they struggled to rebuild shattered cities, bury the dead, and make sense of the horrors that they had witnessed.
Driven by compelling accounts of raw emotion and deep injury, What Remains opens a window to a world described by survivors themselves. This book transforms our understanding of China's 19th century and recontextualizes suffering and loss in China during the 20th century.
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
- 2012, Harvard University Press
- Angus Burgin, author
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Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their world views following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world.
Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influential defender of the free market. By examining the work of such organizations as the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international association founded by Hayek in 1947 and later led by Milton Friedman, Burgin reveals that Hayek and his colleagues were deeply conflicted about many of the enduring problems of capitalism. Far from adopting an uncompromising stance against the interventionist state, they developed a social philosophy that admitted significant constraints on the market. Postwar conservative thought was more dynamic and cosmopolitan than has previously been understood.
It was only in the 1960s and '70s that Friedman and his contemporaries developed a more strident defense of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and inspired much of the political and economic agenda of the United States in the ensuing decades. Burgin's brilliant inquiry uncovers both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for the free market and the moral quandaries it has left behind.
China's Last Empire: The Great Qing
- 2012, Belknap Press
- William Rowe, author
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In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West.
The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts—especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues—were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a "universal" empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan.
Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of "small government" worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow.
This original, thought-provoking history of China's last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London
- 2012, Yale University Press
- Judith Walkowitz, author
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London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its old buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became a center of culinary and cultural tourism servicing patrons of nearby shops and theaters. Indulgences for the privileged and the upwardly mobile edged a dangerous, transgressive space imagined to be "outside" the nation.
Treating Soho as exceptional, but also representative of London's urban transformation, Judith Walkowitz shows how the area's foreignness and porousness were key to the explosion of culture and development of modernity in the first half of the 20th century. She draws on a vast and unusual range of sources to stitch together a rich patchwork quilt of vivid stories and unforgettable characters, revealing how Soho became a showcase for a new cosmopolitan identity.
Maritime Slavery
- 2012, Routledge
- Philip Morgan, editor
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Think of maritime slavery, and the notorious Middle Passage – the unprecedented, forced migration of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic – readily comes to mind. This so-called 'middle leg' – from Africa to the Americas – of a supposed trading triangle linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas naturally captures attention for its scale and horror. After all, the Middle Passage was the largest forced, transoceanic migration in world history, now thought to have involved about 12.5 million African captives shipped in about 44,000 voyages that sailed between 1514 and 1866. No other coerced migration matches it for sheer size or gruesomeness.
Maritime slavery is not, however, just about the movement of people as commodities, but rather, the involvement of all sorts of people, including slaves, in the transportation of those human commodities. Maritime slavery is thus not only about objects being moved but also about subjects doing the moving. Some slaves were actors, not simply the acted-upon. They were pilots, sailors, canoemen, divers, linguists, porters, stewards, cooks, and cabin boys, not forgetting all the ancillary workers in ports such as stevedores, warehousemen, labourers, washerwomen, tavern workers, and prostitutes.
Maritime Slavery reflects this current interest in maritime spaces, and covers all the major Oceans and Seas. This book was originally published as a special issue of Slavery and Abolition.
Saint and Nation: Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain
- 2011, Penn State University Press
- Erin Rowe, author
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In early 17th-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Saint and Nation examines Spanish devotion to the cult of saints and the controversy over national patron sainthood to provide an original account of the diverse ways in which the early modern nation was expressed and experienced by monarch and town, center and periphery. By analyzing the dynamic interplay of local and extra-local, royal authority and nation, tradition and modernity, church and state, and masculine and feminine within the co-patronage debate, Erin Rowe reconstructs the sophisticated balance of plural identities that emerged in Castile during a central period of crisis and change in the Spanish world.
The Oxford Handbook of the Atlantic World, 1450-1850
- 2011, Oxford University Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive overview of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices–to mention some of the key agents–around and within the Atlantic basin. As a result of these movements, new peoples, economies, societies, polities, and cultures arose in the lands and islands touched by the Atlantic Ocean, while others were destroyed.
Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
- 2010, Ohio University Press
- Elizabeth Thornberry, editor
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Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa reveals the ways in which domestic space and domestic relationships take on different meanings in African contexts that extend the boundaries of family obligation, kinship, and dependency.
John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture
- 2010, Cambridge University Press
- John Marshall, author
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John Marshall offers an extensive study of late 17th-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont, and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defense of "universal religious toleration." He analyzes early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, "libertines" and "sodomites"; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises.
African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee
- 2010, University of Georgia Press
- Philip Morgan, editor
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The lush landscape and subtropical climate of the Georgia coast only enhance the air of mystery enveloping some of its inhabitants―people who owe, in some ways, as much to Africa as to America. As the ten previously unpublished essays in this volume examine various aspects of Georgia lowcountry life, they often engage a central dilemma: the region's physical and cultural remoteness helps to preserve the venerable ways of its black inhabitants, but it can also marginalize the vital place of lowcountry blacks in the Atlantic World.
The essays, which range in coverage from the founding of the Georgia colony in the early 1700s through the present era, explore a range of topics, all within the larger context of the Atlantic world. Included are essays on the double-edged freedom that the American Revolution made possible to black women, the lowcountry as site of the largest gathering of African Muslims in early North America, and the coexisting worlds of Christianity and conjuring in coastal Georgia and the links (with variations) to African practices.
A number of fascinating, memorable characters emerge, among them the defiant Mustapha Shaw, who felt entitled to land on Ossabaw Island and resisted its seizure by whites only to become embroiled in struggles with other blacks; Betty, the slave woman who, in the spirit of the American Revolution, presented a "list of grievances" to her master; and S'Quash, the Arabic-speaking Muslim who arrived on one of the last legal transatlantic slavers and became a head man on a North Carolina plantation.
Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council.
Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution
- 2009, Harvard University Press
- Kenneth Moss, author
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Between 1917 and 1921, as revolution convulsed Russia, Jewish intellectuals and writers across the crumbling empire threw themselves into the pursuit of a "Jewish renaissance." At the heart of their program lay a radically new vision of Jewish culture predicated not on religion but on art and secular individuality, national in scope yet cosmopolitan in content, framed by a fierce devotion to Hebrew or Yiddish yet obsessed with importing and participating in the shared culture of Europe and the world. These cultural warriors sought to recast themselves and other Jews not only as a modern nation but as a nation of moderns.
Kenneth Moss offers the first comprehensive look at this fascinating moment in Jewish and Russian history. He examines what these numerous would-be cultural revolutionaries, such as El Lissitzky and Haim Nahman Bialik, meant by a new Jewish culture, and details their fierce disagreements but also their shared assumptions about what culture was and why it was so important. In close readings of Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian texts, he traces how they sought to realize their ideals in practice as writers, artists, and thinkers in the burgeoning cultural centers of Moscow, Kiev, and Odessa. And he reveals what happened to them and their ideals as the Bolsheviks consolidated their hold over cultural life.
Here is a brilliant, revisionist argument about the nature of cultural nationalism, the relationship between nationalism and socialism as ideological systems, and culture itself, the axis around which the encounter between Jews and European modernity has pivoted over the past century.
Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
- 2009, Cambridge University Press
- Pier M. Larson, author
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Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, emancipation, oceanic travel, Christian missions, and colonial linguistics in the making of Malagasy-language literacy in the islands of the western Indian Ocean. He shows how enslaved and free Malagasy together with certain European colonists and missionaries promoted the Malagasy language, literacy projects and letter writing in the multilingual colonial societies of the region between the seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Addressing current debates in the history of Africa and the African diaspora, slavery, abolition, creolization and the making of modern African literatures, the book crosses thematic as well as geo-imperial boundaries and brings fresh perspectives to Indian Ocean history.
Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
- 2009, Oxford University Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Atlantic history, with its emphasis on inter-regional developments that transcend national borders, has risen to prominence as a fruitful perspective through which to study the interconnections among Europe, North America, Latin America, and Africa. These original essays present a comprehensive and incisive look at how Atlantic history has been interpreted across time and through a variety of lenses from the fifteenth through the early nineteenth century. Editors Jack P. Greene and Philip D. Morgan have assembled a stellar cast of thirteen international scholars to discuss key areas of Atlantic history, including the British, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, African, and indigenous worlds, as well as the movement of ideas, peoples, and goods. Other contributors assess contemporary understandings of the ocean and present alternatives to the concept itself, juxtaposing Atlantic history with global, hemispheric, and Continental history.
Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800
- 2009, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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This wide-ranging narrative explores the role that Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews played in settling and building the Atlantic world between 1500 and 1800. Through the interwoven themes of markets, politics, religion, culture, and identity, the essays here demonstrate that the world of Atlantic Jewry, most often typified by Port Jews involved in mercantile pursuits, was more complex than commonly depicted.
The first section discusses the diaspora in relation to maritime systems, commerce, and culture on the Atlantic and includes an overview of Jewish history on both sides of the ocean. The second section provides an in-depth look at Jewish mercantilism, from settlements in Dutch America to involvement in building British, Portuguese, and other trading cultures to the dispersal of Sephardic merchants. In the third section, the chapter authors assess the roles of identity and religion in settling the Atlantic, looking closely at religious conversion; slavery; relationships among Jews, Christians, and Muslims; and the legacy of the lost tribes of Israel. A concluding commentary elucidates the fluidity of identity and boundaries in the formation of the Atlantic world.
Featuring chapters by Jonathan Israel, Natalie Zemon Davis, Aviva Ben-Ur, Holly Snyder, and other prominent Jewish historians, this collection opens new avenues of inquiry into the Jewish diaspora and integrates Jewish trade and settlements into the broader narrative of Atlantic exploration.
1962 : Comment l'indépendance algérienne a transformé la France
- Todd Shepard, author
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Tout sur les manouvres politiques, juridiques et médiatiques qui ont préparé l'opinion publique à accepter l'idée que l'Algérie, ce n'était plus la France – et sur leurs répercussions jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Todd Shepard explique, entre autres, comment la Ve République, à ses débuts, s'est appuyée sur la guerre d'Algérie pour restreindre durablement les libertés individuelles ; et comment l'histoire de l'impérialisme et de l'anti-impérialisme français a été réécrite par l'administration, les politiciens et les journalistes pour présenter la décolonisation comme une « fatalité », un mouvement inévitable, au lieu de dire qu'elle marquait l'échec du projet originel d'intégration nationale dans les colonies. Un livre ambitieux, déjà récompensé par deux prix importants, celui du Council of European Studies, et le prix J. Russell Major du meilleur livre anglophone sur l'histoire de la France, qui aborde les questions toujours cruciales de l'identité et de la citoyenneté, des rapatriés, de l'immigration, de la mémoire et de la réconciliation.
The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
- 2008, Cornell University Press
- Todd Shepard, author
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In this account of the Algerian War's effect on French political structures and notions of national identity, Todd Shepard asserts that the separation of Algeria from France was truly a revolutionary event with lasting consequences for French social and political life. For more than a century, Algeria had been legally and administratively part of France; after the bloody war that concluded in 1962, it was other—its 8 million Algerian residents deprived of French citizenship while hundreds of thousands of French pieds noirs were forced to return to a country that was never home. This rupture violated the universalism that had been the essence of French republican theory since the late eighteenth century. Shepard contends that because the amputation of Algeria from the French body politic was accomplished illegally and without explanation, its repercussions are responsible for many of the racial and religious tensions that confront France today. In portraying decolonization as an essential step in the inexorable "tide of history," the French state absolved itself of responsibility for the revolutionary change it was effecting. It thereby turned its back not only on the French of Algeria—Muslims in particular—but also on its own republican principles and the 1958 Constitution. From that point onward, debates over assimilation, identity, and citizenship—once focused on the Algerian "province/colony"—have troubled France itself. In addition to grappling with questions of race, citizenship, national identity, state institutions, and political debate, Shepard also addresses debates in Jewish history, gender history, and queer theory.
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation
- 2007, Penguin Books
- François Furstenberg, author
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In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early 19th century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture—one whose reconciliation with slavery unleashed consequences that haunt us still. A dazzling work of scholarship from a brilliant young historian, In the Name of the Father is a major contribution to American social history.
Vernacular Bodies: The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England
- 2007, Oxford University Press
- Mary Fissell, author
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Making babies was a mysterious process in 17th-century England. Fissell uses popular sources—songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals—to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England.
Heresy, Literature and Politics in Early Modern English Culture
- 2006, Cambridge University Press
- John Marshall, editor
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This interdisciplinary volume of essays brings together a team of leading early modern historians and literary scholars in order to examine the changing conceptions, character, and condemnation of 'heresy' in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Definitions of 'heresy' and 'heretics' were the subject of heated controversies in England from the English Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. These essays illuminate the significant literary issues involved in both defending and demonising heretical beliefs, including the contested hermeneutic strategies applied to the interpretation of the Bible, and they examine how debates over heresy stimulated the increasing articulation of arguments for religious toleration in England. Offering fresh perspectives on John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others, this volume should be of interest to all literary, religious and political historians working on early modern English culture.
Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France: Liberté, Égalité, Fiscalité
- 2006, Cambridge University Press
- Michael Kwass, author
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This book offers a lucid new interpretation of the Ancien Régime and the origins of the French Revolution. It examines what was arguably the most ambitious project of the 18th-century French monarchy: the attempt to impose direct taxes on formerly tax-exempt privileged elites. Drawing on impressive archival research, Michael Kwass demonstrates that the levy of these taxes, which struck elites with some force, not only altered the relationship between monarchy and social hierarchy, but also transformed political language and attitudes; attitudes that ultimately led to revolution.
Mysteries of Sex: Tracing Women and Men Through American History
- 2006, The University of North Carolina Press
- Mary Ryan, author
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In a sweeping synthesis of American history, Mary Ryan demonstrates how the meaning of male and female has evolved, changed, and varied over a span of 500 years and across major social and ethnic boundaries. She traces how, at select moments in history, perceptions of sex difference were translated into complex and mutable patterns for differentiating women and men. How those distinctions were drawn and redrawn affected the course of American history more generally.
Ryan recounts the construction of a modern gender regime that sharply divided male from female and created modes of exclusion and inequity. The divide between male and female blurred in the twentieth century, as women entered the public domain, massed in the labor force, and revolutionized private life. This transformation in gender history serves as a backdrop for seven chronological chapters, each of which presents a different problem in American history as a quandary of sex. Ryan's bold analysis raises the possibility that perhaps, if understood in their variety and mutability, the differences of sex might lose the sting of inequality.
Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History with Documents
- 2006, Bedford/St. Martin's
- Jeffrey Brooks, co-author
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Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870–1924) led the first successful revolt against market-based liberal democracy and founded the Soviet state in 1917, serving as the new nation's chief architect and sole ruler for the next five years. He created an innovative political, economic, social, and cultural system that in its heyday would challenge the military, technological, and cultural might of the United States. This collection of primary sources allows readers to learn about Lenin through his own words and explores the complicated relationship between Lenin's actions and his ideology. Jeffrey Brooks and Georgiy Chernyavskiy have translated newly available documents that make it possible to provide a more accurate portrait of this ruthless strategist. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support and encourage students to analyze the actions and beliefs of a man who transformed world history and whose legacy continues to affect social and political movements throughout the world.
Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County
- 2006, Stanford University Press
- William Rowe, author
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This brilliantly crafted narrative explores the roots of violence in Chinese rural society over the past 700 years, based on the study of a single highland county, Macheng, Hubei province, in the Great Divide Mountains separating the Yangzi valley from the North China Plain. Between the expulsion of the Mongols in the mid-14th century and the invasion of the Japanese in 1938, Macheng experienced repeated, often self-inflicted waves of mass "extermination" of segments of its population. This book argues that, beyond its strategic military centrality and ingrained social tensions, cultural factors such as popular religion, folklore, collective memory, and local historical production played key roles in the continued proclivity of the county's population for massive carnage. In the process, the history of Macheng also provides a case study in the way events and trends of national significance in the history of China have been experienced at the local level.
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
- 2006, University of California Press
- Peter Jelavich, author
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This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic's left-leaning culture of innovation and experimentation. Peter Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that questioned the autonomy and coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, and traces the radical discrepancies that came with its adaptation into a radio play (1930) and a film (1931). Jelavich explains these discrepancies by examining not only the varying demands of genre and technology but also the political and economic contexts of the media—in particular, the censorship practices in German radio and film. His analysis culminates in a richly textured discussion of the complex factors that led to the demise of Weimar culture, as Nazi intimidation and the economic strains of the Depression induced producers to depoliticize their works. Jelavich's book becomes a cautionary tale about how fear of outspoken right-wing politicians can curtail and eliminate the arts as a critical counterforce to politics—all in the name of entertainment.
Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Era
- 2006, Yale University Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America.
To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.
Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn
- 2005, Routledge
- Gabrielle Spiegel, editor
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This essential collection of key articles offers a re-evaluation of the practice of history in light of current debates. Critical thinkers and practicing historians present their writings, along with clear and thorough editorial material, to examine the complex ideas at the forefront of historical practice.
This volume gives a synoptic overview of the last 25 years' theoretical analysis of historical writing, with a critical examination of the central concepts and positions that have been in debate. The collection delineates the emergence of "practice theory" as a possible paradigm for future historical interpretation concerned with questions of agency, experience and the subject.
These complex ideas are introduced to students in this accessible reader, and for teachers and historians too, this survey is an indispensable and timely read.
Black Experience and the Empire
- 2004, Oxford University Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or traveled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves – hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion.
When Russia Learned to Read: Literacy and Popular Literature, 1861-1917
- 2003, Northwestern University Press
- Jeffrey Brooks, author
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Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity to the sensibilities and projects of the country's greatest writers. Within a few decades, a ragtag assembly of semi-educated authors, publishers, and distributors supplanted an oral tradition of songs and folktales with a language of popular imagination suitable for millions of new readers of common origins eager for entertainment and information. When Russia Learned to Read tells the story of this profound transformation of culture, custom, and belief.
With a new introduction that underscores its relevance to a post-Soviet Russia, When Russia Learned to Read addresses the question of Russia's common heritage with the liberal democratic market societies of Western Europe and the United States. This prize-winning book also exposes the unsuspected complexities of a mass culture little known and less understood in the West. Jeffrey Brooks brings out the characteristically Russian aspect of the nation's popular writing as he ranges through chapbooks, detective stories, newspaper serials, and women's fiction, tracing the emergence of secular, rational, and cosmopolitan values along with newly minted notions of individual initiative and talent. He shows how crude popular tales and serials of the era find their echoes in the literary themes of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and other great Russian writers, as well as in the current renaissance of Russian detective stories and thrillers.
Building Culture in Early Qing Yangzhou
- 2003, Stanford University Press
- Tobie Meyer-Fong, author
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This book explores cultural change in a Chinese city following the Manchu conquest of 1644. The city of Yangzhou, at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangzi river, is best known as the site of human and physical devastation during the conquest and as a vibrant commercial center during the eighteenth century. It focuses on the period between the conquest and the city's commercial florescence—a moment in which Yangzhou was a center of literary culture that was consciously conceived as transregional and transdynastic. Building Culture shows how Yangzhou's elite used physical sites as markers in the reconstruction of the city, and as vehicles consolidating power and prestige. Gradually, however, the gestures and sites of the postconquest elite were appropriated by the city's increasingly powerful salt merchants and incorporated into a court-oriented culture centered at Beijing.
Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China
- 2002, Stanford University Press
- William Rowe, author
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Chen Hongmou (1696–1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the 18th century and unquestionably its most celebrated field administrator. He served as governor-general, governor, or in lesser provincial-level posts in more than a dozen provinces, achieving after his death cult status as a "model official."
In this magisterial study, the author draws on Chen's life and career to answer a range of questions: What did mid-Qing bureaucrats think they were doing? How did they conceive the universe and their society, what did they see as their potential to "save the world," and what would the world, properly saved, be like? The answers to these questions are important not only because vast numbers of people were subject to these officials' governance, but because the verdict of their successors was that they did their jobs remarkably well and should be emulated.
Three persistent tensions in elite consciousness focus the author's investigation. First, the elite adhered to the fundamentalist moral dictates of Song neo-Confucian orthodoxy at the same time that a new valuation of pragmatic, technocratic prowess abhorrent to the moral tradition emerged. Second, two contradictory views on the use of "statecraft" to achieve an ordered world were in play—one that favored the expansive use of the state apparatus, and one that emphasized indigenous local elites and communities. Finally, the subordination of human beings to the service of hierarchical social groupings contended with a growing appreciation of the dignity, moral worth, and productive potential of the individual.
The author uses a holistic approach, attempting, for example, to explore how notions regarding gender roles and funerary ritual related to Qing economic thought, how the encounter with other cultures on the expanding frontiers helped form ideas of "civilized" conduct at home, and how an official's negotiation of the complex Qing bureaucracy affected his approach to social policy. The author also considers how attitudes formed during the prosperous and highly dynamic eighteenth century conditioned China's responses to the crises it confronted in the centuries to follow.
Thank You, Comrade Stalin! Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War
- 2001, Princeton University Press
- Jeffrey Brooks, author
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"Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers—including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star—to explain the origins, the nature, and the effects of this unrelenting idealization of the state, the Communist Party, and the leader.
Brooks shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture—a form of political performance that became its own reality and excluded other forms of public reflection. He presents and explains scores of self-congratulatory newspaper articles, including tales of Stalin's supposed achievements and virtue, accounts of the country's allegedly dynamic economy, and warnings about the decadence and cruelty of the capitalist West. Brooks pays particular attention to the role of the press in the reconstruction of the Soviet cultural system to meet the Nazi threat during World War II and in the transformation of national identity from its early revolutionary internationalism to the ideology of the Cold War. He concludes that the country's one-sided public discourse and the pervasive idea that citizens owed the leader gratitude for the "gifts" of goods and services led ultimately to the inability of late Soviet Communism to diagnose its own ills, prepare alternative policies, and adjust to new realities.
The first historical work to explore the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! is a compelling account of Soviet public culture as reflected through the country's press.
History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822
- 2000, Heinemann
- Pier M. Larson, author
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In this story of the impact of slave trade on an insular African society, Larson explores how the people of highland Madagascar reshaped their social identity and their cultural practices. As Larson argues, the modern Merina ethnic identity and some of its key cultural traditions were fashioned and refashioned through localized experiences of enslavement and mercantile capitalism and by a tension-filled political dialogue among common highland Malagasy and their rulers. Larson's analysis expands traditional definitions of the African diaspora to include forcible exile of African slaves within the African continent as well as areas external to it. By locating Merina history within wider narratives of merchant capitalism, African history, African diaspora, and Indian Ocean history, Larson has produced a book that both recognizes the diversity of historical experience and highlights the structural connections of intercontinentally joined systems of forced labor.
Primers for Prudery: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
- 2000, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Ronald Walters, editor
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In Primers for Prudery Ronald G. Walters examines the historical and social context as well as the substance of sexual advice manuals in 19th-century America. Allowing the authors of these manuals to speak for themselves—with generous excerpts by contemporary authorities on subjects ranging from the virtues of celibacy to the vices of masturbation—Walters offers his readers a complex reading of the Victorian "prudery" referred to in the book's title. Supplementing each of the excerpts with extensive commentary, he places the advice manuals in the larger setting of gender and class issues.
First published in 1974, Primers for Prudery now returns to print in a paperback edition with new selections from women's advice to women and a new preface in which Walters discusses changes that have occurred in the scholarship on sexuality since the book's first publication. He also provides an updated bibliographical note.
The French Revolution: A Document Collection
- 1998, Cengage Learning
- Laura Mason, co-author
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Ideal either as a textbook or anthology, this volume encompasses the entire chronology of the French Revolution, while highlighting the political, cultural, and social diversity of the period.
Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
- 1998, The University of North Carolina Press
- Philip Morgan, author
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On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similarities. The result is a detailed and comprehensive view of slave life in the colonial American South.
Morgan explores the role of land and labor in shaping culture, the everyday contacts of masters and slaves that defined the possibilities and limitations of cultural exchange, and finally the interior lives of blacks—their social relations, their family and kin ties, and the major symbolic dimensions of life: language, play, and religion. He provides a balanced appreciation for the oppressiveness of bondage and for the ability of slaves to shape their lives, showing that, whatever the constraints, slaves contributed to the making of their history. Victims of a brutal, dehumanizing system, slaves nevertheless strove to create order in their lives, to preserve their humanity, to achieve dignity, and to sustain dreams of a better future.
American Reformers, 1815-1860
- 1997, Hill and Wang
- Ronald Walters, author
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For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant men and women who crusaded for such causes as abolition, temperance, women's suffrage, and improved health care, Walters presents a brilliant analysis of how the reformers' radical belief that individuals could fix what ailed America both reflected major transformations in antebellum society and significantly affected American culture as a whole.
The Past as Text: The Theory and Practice of Historiography
- 1997, Johns Hopkins University Press
- Gabrielle Spiegel, author
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Singing the French Revolution: Popular Culture and Revolutionary Politics in Paris, 1789-1799
- 1996, Cornell University Press
- Laura Mason, author
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Laura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses songwriting and singing practices to reveal its diverse nature. Song performances in the streets, theaters, and clubs of Paris showed how popular culture was invested with new political meaning after 1789, becoming one of the most important means for engaging in revolutionary debate. Throughout the 1790s, French citizens came to recognize the importance of anthems for promoting their interpretations of revolutionary events, and for championing their aspirations for the Revolution. By opening new arenas of cultural activity and demolishing Old Regime aesthetic hierarchies, revolutionaries permitted a larger and infinitely more diverse population to participate in cultural production and exchange, Mason contends. The resulting activism helps explain the urgency with which successive governments sought to impose an official political culture on a heterogeneous and mobilized population. After 1793, song culture was gradually depoliticized as popular classes retreated from public arenas, middle brow culture turned to the strictly entertaining, and official culture became increasingly rigid. At the same time, however, singing practices were invented which formed the foundation for new, activist singing practices in the next century. The legacy of the Revolution, according to Mason, was to bestow new respectability on popular singing, reshaping it from an essentially conservative means of complaint to an instrument of social and political resistance.
Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France
- 1995, University of California Press
- Gabrielle Spiegel, author
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In a poststructuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, Gabrielle Spiegel investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. She argues that the vernacular prose histories that have until now been regarded as royalist were actually products of the aristocracy, reflecting its anxiety as it faced social and economic change and political threats from the monarchy.
John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility
- 1994, Cambridge University Press
- John Marshall, author
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This book provides a major new historical account of the development of the political, religious, social and moral thought of the political theorist and philosopher John Locke. It offers reinterpretations of several of his most important works, particularly the Two Treatises, and includes extensive analyses of his unpublished manuscripts. Professor Marshall's arguments challenge many other scholars' interpretations of the character and influences of Locke's moral, social and religious thought and provide an alternative account.
Berlin Cabaret
- 1993, Harvard University Press
- Peter Jelavich, author
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Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich spotlights Berlin's cabarets from the day the curtain first went up, in 1901, until the Nazi regime brought it down.
Fads and fashions, sexual mores and political ideologies—all were subject to satire and parody on the cabaret stage. This book follows the changing treatment of these themes, and the fate of cabaret itself, through the most turbulent decades of modern German history: the prosperous and optimistic Imperial age, the unstable yet culturally inventive Weimar era, and the repressive years of National Socialism. By situating cabaret within Berlin's rich landscape of popular culture and distinguishing it from vaudeville and variety theaters, spectacular revues, prurient "nude dancing," and Communist agitprop, Jelavich revises the prevailing image of this form of entertainment.
Neither highly politicized, like postwar German Kabarett, nor sleazy in the way that some American and European films suggest, Berlin cabaret occupied a middle ground that let it cast an ironic eye on the goings-on of Berliners and other Germans. However, it was just this satirical attitude toward serious themes, such as politics and racism, that blinded cabaret to the strength of the radical right-wing forces that ultimately destroyed it. Jelavich concludes with the Berlin cabaret artists' final performances—as prisoners in the concentration camps at Westerbork and Theresienstadt.
This book gives us a sense of what the world looked like within the cabarets of Berlin and at the same time lets us see, from a historical distance, these lost performers enacting the political, sexual, and artistic issues that made their city one of the most dynamic in Europe.
Diversity and Unity in Early North America
- 1993, Routledge
- Philip Morgan, editor
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Opens up previously unexplored areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of new methods such as anthropology, and historical demography to the study of early America.
Cultivation and Culture: Labor and the Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas
- 1993, University of Virginia Press
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for granted, with little attention given to the type of work that slaves did and the circumstances surrounding it. Cultivation and Culture brings together leading scholars of slavery- historians, anthropologists, and sociologists- to explore when, where, and how slaves labored in growing the New World's great staples and how this work shaped the institution of slavery and the lives of African-American slaves.
The authors focus on the interrelationships between the demands of particular crops, the organization of labor, the nature of the labor force, and the character of agricultural technology. They show the full complexity of the institution of chattel bondage in the New World and suggest why and how slavery varied from place to place and time to time.
City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
- 1992, University of Chicago Press
- Judith Walkowitz, author
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From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late-19th-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction.
Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and asserted their presence in the public domain.
An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press.
A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.
The Slaves' Economy: Independent Production by Slaves in the Americas
- 1991, Routledge
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Slaves achieved a degree of economic independence, producing food, tending cash crops, raising livestock, manufacturing furnished goods, marketing their own products, consuming and saving the proceeds and bequeathing property to their descendants. The editors of this volume contend that the legacy of slavery cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the slaves' economy.
Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
- 1991, University of North Carolina Press and Institute of Early American History and Culture,
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Shedding new light on British expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this collection of essays examines how the first British Empire was received and shaped by its subject peoples in Scotland, Ireland, North America, and the Caribbean.
An introduction surveys British imperial historiography and provides a context for the volume as a whole. The essays focus on specific ethnic groups — Native Americans, African-Americans, Scotch-Irish, and Dutch and Germans — and their relations with the British, as well as on the effects of British expansion in particular regions — Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the West Indies. A conclusion assesses the impact of the North American colonies on British society and politics.
Taken together, these essays represent a new kind of imperial history — one that portrays imperial expansion as a dynamic process in which the outlying areas, not only the English center, played an important role in the development and character of the Empire. The collection interprets imperial history broadly, examining it from the perspective of common folk as well as elites and discussing the clash of cultures in addition to political disputes. Finally, by examining shifting and multiple frontiers and by drawing parallels between outlying provinces, these essays move us closer to a truly integrated story that links the diverse ethnic experiences of the first British Empire.
The contributors are Bernard Bailyn, Philip D. Morgan, Nicholas Canny, Eric Richards, James H. Merrell, A. G. Roeber, Maldwyn A. Jones, Michael Craton, J. M. Bumsted, and Jacob M. Price.
Colonial Chesapeake Society
- 1988, University of North Carolina Press and the Institute of Early American History and Culture
- Philip Morgan, co-editor
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Proof that the renaissance in colonial Chesapeake studies is flourishing, this collection is the first to integrate the immigrant experience of the seventeenth century with the native-born society that characterized the Chesapeake by the eighteenth century.
Younger historians and senior scholars here focus on the everyday lives of ordinary people: why they came to the Chesapeake; how they adapted to their new world; who prospered and why; how property was accumulated and by whom. At the same time, the essays encompass broader issues of early American history, including the transatlantic dimension of colonization, the establishment of communities, both religious and secular, the significance of regionalism, the causes and effects of social and economic diversification, and the participation of Indians and blacks in the formation of societies. Colonial Chesapeake Society consolidates current advances in social history and provokes new questions.
Munich and Theatrical Modernism: Politics, Playwriting, and Performance, 1890-1914
- 1985, Harvard University Press
- Peter Jelavich, author
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This is the first cultural exploration of playwriting, directing, acting, and theater architecture in fin-de-siècle Munich. Peter Jelavich examines the commercial, political, and cultural tensions that fostered modernism's artistic revolt against the classical and realistic modes of 19th-century drama.
The Antislavery Appeal: American Abolitionism After 1830
- 1984, W. W. Norton & Company
- Ronald Walters, author
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Thursday, June 3, 2010
10 comments:
- carrie said...
Yum...I love ice cream, but your shot...THAT I could really get into. I love the perspective of your pic - I think we have the same outdoor table! It is working on 100 degrees by the weekend, I think that calls for a margarita or two...
- June 3, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Kimberly said...
I don't drink, and I don't have any idea what kind of drink that is, but it looks yummy! LOL! :) Love this theme and love the adult/kid aspects on both ends.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Corey~living and loving said...
tee hee..fun theme. I am more of an ice cream kind of gal, but the set up of your shot is perfect. well done.
- June 3, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Killlashandra said...
I think your shot turned out perfectly! Love the cold drink and the cold ice cream good tie in. However, I like how both ideas about indulge come from an adult and a child perspective. Definitely a neat combo. :)
- June 3, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- Megan said...
this is making me want something "indulgent" just looking at it:). great theme. you can send some of your warm weather our way -- oregon hasn't received the message that it's june:(.
- June 3, 2010 at 4:16 PM
- Christina said...
Yes PLEASE! I just tucked the girl into bed, the house is quiet - time for some indulgence. ;o) An awesome shot all the way around, Jen!
- June 3, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- HipMomma said...
I love that one is a kid indulging and one is an adult indulging. Nice pair. And I could certainly use a margarita right now. Boy did I have a whiney kid today.
- June 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM
- Jessie said...
I did a margarita shot a few weeks back but I like yours more :) Great week!
- June 4, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- Stacy said...
LOL...I love the contrast on the different variations! :) Both great shots of indulgences. Dark chocolate is definitely my indulgence...and perhaps a bit 'o alcohol, too. ;)
- June 4, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- Maggie said...
I think both of those look like simply fantastic ways to indulge...YUM!
- June 7, 2010 at 8:46 PM


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Sleeping Beauties: Help your Baby Sleep Soundly and Happily
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It's Twins! Now What?: Tips, Advice and Real-life Experience to Help You from Pregnancy through to Your Babies' First Year
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John McEachin
Board Member
John McEachin, a licensed clinical psychologist and BCBA-D, has been providing behavioral treatment to individuals with autism for more than 40 years. He received his graduate training under Professor Ivar Lovaas at UCLA on the Young Autism Project. During his 11 years at UCLA, Dr. McEachin served in various roles including Clinic Supervisor, Research and Teaching Assistant, and Acting Director. His research has included the long-term follow-up study of young autistic children who received intensive behavioral treatment, which was published in 1993.
In 1994 he joined with Ron Leaf in forming Autism Partnership, which they co-direct. In 1999 they published A Work in Progress, a widely used behavioral treatment manual and curriculum for children with ASD. Dr. McEachin has lectured throughout the world and co-authored numerous books and research articles. He consults regularly to families, agencies, and school districts nationally and internationally, assisting in the development of treatment programs and providing training to parents staff, and classroom personnel. Dr. McEachin's dedication to the advancement of behavioral treatment through research and quality training led to the co-founding of the Autism Partnership Foundation with Dr. Ron Leaf.


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CRAS will feature Wilson and McKee
The Cañon Rose Acoustic Society will feature Wilson and McKee with a warm up act by Frost Mountain Clan at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Four Mile Community Center located at East Main and Steinmeier. Seating is at 6 p.m. General admission is $10; member admission is $7; and children and students are admitted free of charge.
Wilson and McKee began making music and touring together in 1990. In the decades since that beginning, they have appeared on multiple state Arts Rosters, juried showcases, educational programming and performed in many states on stages ranging from Quonset huts to 1,500-seat auditoriums. They have produced 12 professional recordings and have won awards in the U.S. and Ireland for song writing and instrumental work.
Tickets available now for CCHS Dinner and Jazz event
The Cañon City High School Dinner and Jazz fundraising event will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday at Harrison School, located at 920 Field Ave. Tickets are $15 each and are available now at the CCHS Activity Office and at Kreations Salon.
There will be a silent auction, raffle drawings, a pasta dinner and live music by the Cañon City Middle School Band, CCHS Jazz Band I and II, and the CCHS Jazz Band Combo.
Daily Record Staff


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Tunic - Guess - Similar
Shorts - Guess - Similar
Shoes - Ralph Lauren
Belt - Mossimo - Similar
I wore this outfit the second time that I went to my therapist. This first time I went I didn't fully dress as a woman, I wore a mixed gender style. My thoughts on it were that is how I dress most of the time, and how I have lived my life for many years now. But the second time I thought I would just go for it.
On this particular day, it was super hot, about 112 degrees! Um wowzy! My friend asked me why I was wearing such a large top over my tank in such crazy hot weather. Generally it would be that I don't like my arms, but today that was not the issue. Today's issue was disguising the genitals that I have.
Tucking just doesn't work for me. Yes, I have tried different methods. Yes I have tried, this and that, and the other thing. Alas, it does not work for me. What does? Disguise! Thus this top is fantastic for super hot weather. I can wear whatever I want on the bottom, and this top covers it all nicely! It is also cool in that in being white it actually reflects quite a bit of the sun off of me as well!
Love you!
Love yourself!


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Want more angle? This is how it's done! We offer Standard arms that still maintain some Ackerman for slightly better street manners as well as Zero Ackerman arms for maximim angle.
General Fitment
The arms are designed to give as much angle as possible without over centering the factory steering rack. Depending on tire fitment, this may cause rubbing with the increased angle. Stock fitment wheels and tires tend not to have a problem. The arms are designed to work with factory style outer tie rods and maintain the taper fitment of the tie rod end. The relocation of the tie rod requires the lower ball joint to have the stock tie rod mounting point removed, we do offer new lower ball joints that are pre cut for the proper fitment.
How much angle?
The stock steering arms are good for a net effective angle (inside tire and outside tire) of 37 degrees. XM's Standard arms are +16 degrees for an average net of 53 degrees total. The XM Zero arms push it up to +23 degrees net effective angle for an average total effective angle of 60 degrees!
Extra requirements
Due to the relocation of the outer tie rod mounting point, you will need longer outer or inner tie rods. Often it's easiest to replace the outer tie rod ends, but if your inners are worn, then you can replace those instead. If you're planning on running longer LCA's, you may need both the longer innners and outers.
The new arms are all new steel construction with CNC geometry and steel alignment sleeves. They also come with new grade 10.9 bolts for an easy installation.
The Parts
Arm kits come with new 2 arms and new bolting hardware
Lower Ball Joint kits come with 1 RH and 1 LH ball joint cut off for proper fitment
Longer outer tie rod kits come with 1 RH and 1 LH tie rod
Longer inner tie rod kits come with 2 matching length tie rods


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Driver who texted 44 times before almost killing a cyclist: "I just don't care"
It boggles my mind that people even have to be told not to text and drive (do they have to be told not to play chess?), but this story goes a lot farther than that. It's about a young woman who hit a cyclist near Koroit, a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia. The cyclist was on the edge of the road when the car hit him from behind, despite there being lights on the back and front of his bike. He suffered a spinal fracture which required surgery and placement in a spinal cage, as well as a broken big toe and lacerations to his head and body. He was originally told he could be left a paraplegic and spent three months recovering.
Tragic so far, but nothing that doesn't happen frequently. With billions of people on the road every day, accidents are bound to happen (it's the law of large numbers), though that doesn't mean that we shouldn't do a lot more to make roads safe for everybody. But what's infuriating in this case is why the accident happened, and the attitude of the driver, which sadly must not be unique.
Texting 44 times with 7 different people... while driving
Kimberley Davis, 21, of Grant Street, Port Fairy (shown on the map above), was found to have used her phone to text while behind the wheel 44 times before hitting her victim, sending and receiving 22 text messages to seven different people (She was in a conversation with 7 people while driving? Talk about distracting!). She refused to help him her victim and parked 100 meters up the road and couldn't believe that he had to call triple-O (the equivalent of 9-1-1 emergency services in Australia). Oh, and she had a "provisional driver" license too.
When questioned by police officers two days after the accident, she said (and I quote):
"I just don't care because I've already been through a lot of bull***t and my car is like pretty expensive and now I have to fix it. I'm kind of p****d off that the cyclist has hit the side of my car. I don't agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist. I wasn't on my phone when I hit the cyclist."
You don't care? You don't agree that people texting and driving could hit a cyclist (what does that even mean?)?!? Your precious car is worth more than a human life?!?
So how does the story end? With a fine of $4500 and a lost licence for nine months. This is way too light a sentence for someone who has shown reckless disregard for human life and no understanding that driving is serious business and very dangerous.
Via The Standard, BoingBoing


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Savage has been a member of TSI since 2003. Owning and operating sulphur handling facilities and transportation assets throughout North American is a large part of our business. We are Savage pride ourselves as a premium services provider in the sulphur industry. One of the primary reasons for joining and maintaining membership in TSI is the additional knowledge and experience we gain from our membership.
Jack Cohn
Savage Services Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT
Nutrien is the second-largest North American phosphate producer and also offers a range of sulfate-containing fertilizers to our 500,000 retail grower customers. We look to TSI's work streams to support our endeavors in helping growers around the world increase food production in a sustainable manner; our affiliation with The Sulphur Institute helps us achieve our goals.
Tom Simpson
TSI Chair 2019-2020
Director, Sulfur
Northbrook, Illinois, USA
TSI's strong advocacy for safe transportation and handling of sulphuric acid has been invaluable to us at NorFalco. Their independent assessment of loading and unloading procedures has helped us in working with our customers who unload rail tank cars. Additionally, TSI's interface with federal regulators and other industry associations has allowed us to review key metrics to make improvements within our safety management system.
Tom Hobbs
Director, Sales and Technical Services
NorFalco, a Glencore Company
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Since 1964, Tiger-Sul has been a world leader in production of sulphur-containing fertilizers, correcting sulphur deficiencies in crop production and quality throughout various parts of the world. The Sulphur Institute has been instrumental in providing us with agronomic information for established as well as emerging markets. The reputation of TSI as an independent source leading sulphur research has been extremely valuable.
Don T. Cherry
President & CEO
Tiger-Sul Products LLC
Members of the Sulphur Institute include:


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Master Film Studies
Developing a personal cinematographic vision, understanding the film-making process and apprehending the stakes of production so as to pave the way for graduates to smoothly join professional circles – such are the main objectives of this programme. This Master course, which is unique in Europe, is aimed at the holders of a Bachelor's degree, or with equivalent experience, wishing to further their knowledge in one of the following fields: directing, writing, editing, sound or producing.
Through courses and workshops provided by renowned lecturers in each field, the students develop a personal project throughout the curriculum. For their master project, they are involved in the production (directing, writing, editing, sound or producing) of a short, medium or full-length film of a previously set genre (fiction, documentary, TV series, art-house, transmedia…). Some films gain international visibility through renowned festivals or by being shown on TV.
This Master programme relies on a partnership between ECAL and HEAD/Geneva University of Art and Design and on collaborations with Lausanne University (UNIL), Zurich University (UZH), Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), the Swiss National Film Archive in Lausanne, Swiss National Broadcasting RTS, and la Manufacture (school of performing arts) in Lausanne, University of Music Lausanne and Swiss Literature Institute in Bienne.
Registration deadline, interview www.ecal.ch/en/admission
4 semesters
Yearly fees (materials included)
French and English
Qualification issued
Master of Arts HES-SO in Cinema, major in Direction, Scenario, Editing, Sound or Production
Lionel Baier (ECAL)
Nicolas Wadimoff (HEAD – Genève)
Jasmin Basic
Professors and Visiting Lecturers
Elsa Amiel, Paris
Claire Atherton, Paris
Nathalie Baye, Paris
Jean-Pierre Beauviala, Grenoble
Pierre Bismuth, Bruxelles
Stéphane Bouquet, Paris
Louise Bourgouin, Paris
Serge Bozon, Paris
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Paris
Robert Cantarella, Paris
Djinn Carrenard, Berlin
Lolita Chammah, Paris
Michael Cimino, New York
Donigan Cumming, Toronto
Abdel Raouf Dafri, Paris
Thierry de Peretti, Ajaccio
Dieter Fahrer
Philippe Faucon, Toulon
Laetitia Fèvre, Paris
Emmanuel Finkiel, Paris
Jennifer Fox, New York
Pauline Gaillard, Paris
Amos Gitaï, Haïfa
Delphine Gleize, Bordeaux
Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Paris
Nicolas Humbert, Hambourg
Mike Hoolboom, Toronto
Jean-Christophe Hym, Paris
Antoine Jaccoud
Simon Jaquemet, Zurich
Tom Kalin, New York
Anurag Kashyap, Mumbai
Alanté Kavaïté, Vilnius,
Marthe Keller, Paris
Stéphane Kuthy, Zurich,
Joachim Lafosse, Bruxelles
Sébastien Lifshitz, Paris
Eric Loret, Paris
Noémie Lvovsky, Paris
Vincent Macaigne, Paris
Ursula Meier, Bruxelles
Peter Mettler, Toronto
Luc Moullet, Paris
Bettina Oberli, Zurich
Ruben Östlund, Göteborg
François Ozon, Paris
Vasco Pimentel, Lisbonne
Aude Py, Paris
Katell Quillévéré, Paris
Philippe Ramos, Paris
Charlotte Rampling, Paris
Gianfranco Rosi, Rome
Emmanuel Salinger, Paris
Ulrich Seidl, Vienne
Florence Seyvos, Paris
Eyal Sivan, Tel-Aviv
Bela Tarr, Sarajevo
Marianne Tardieu, Paris
Anne-Dominique Toussaint
Cécile Vargaftig, Paris
Teresa Villaverde, Lisbonne
Production and broadcasting
Jean-Guillaume Sonnier (ECAL)
Alice Riva (HEAD)


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Lew Claims Too Big To Fail Problem Solved At Confirmation Hearing
Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew made a stunning and fantastic claim at his confirmation hearing, namely that the Too Big To Fail or systemic risk threat from the mega banks no longer existed. That the problem had been solved by the Dodd-Frank legislation.
You may not have heard this utterly amazing news. Neither has anyone else. But according to the man now poised to be in charge of monitoring our country's finances and the stability of the financial markets "nothing to see here." All is well.
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Senator Sherrod Brown: It really is federal policy that subsidizes these megabanks by the implicit Too Big To Fail policy. But we can debate that later.
Jack Lew: That's why Senator I mentioned the responsibility fee, we think that Dodd-Frank dealt with Too Big To Fail and on top of that we think there should be a fee on large money-center banks to approximate the risk they presented in the past.
For those that have been paying attention and are not in the beltway bubble this statement almost qualifies as performance art. Is Lew lying or just – no he's lying. Too Big To Fail has not only not been solved it is actually worse now than before the crisis as the megbanks have gotten bigger.
As recently as last month establishment figures have called for breaking up the Too Big To Fail Banks.
It is a prevailing myth in Washington: big bailouts are over for good. Never again, the line goes, could giant financial institutions imperil the nation's economy.
This is nonsense, of course. Whatever regulators and lawmakers say, the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul lacks any guarantee that taxpayers won't have to come to the rescue again.
So it was refreshing to hear a Federal Reserve System official debunk the bailouts-are-gone theory last week.
The official was Richard W. Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a longstanding truth-teller about too-big-to-fail banks. On Wednesday, in a speech in Washington, Mr. Fisher laid out a compelling proposal for shrinking financial giants in order to protect taxpayers. He suggested that megabanks be chopped into pieces, so that no one of them could endanger the financial system if it ran into trouble.
To be fair to many of the politicians in Washington they are not saying the megabanks do not pose systemic risk, they are affirming their commitment to not authorize another bailout. Lew is saying something quite different – that the problem is solved, go back to sleep.
It was hard to imagine anyone more dangerous for the middle class in Treasury than Tim Geithner, not anymore.


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During this sketchcrawl I was attending the wedding of one of best Montreal friends, Catherine, which choose to celebrate it in Esterel, a town about 1 and 1/2 hour north west of Montreal. She has a chalet on the same lake of the hotel where we had reception and spent the night. It was amazing and I spent very good time with my old friends.
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Beautiful lake! Pleasant atmosphere of wedding reception can be imagined through your drawings. Congratulations on your old friend's wedding!
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Ruth Fainlight is best known for her friendship with Sylvia Plath, but has written much elegant and vital poetry herself such as this striking poem below. One of the joys in being published in a fine journal is reading the work of others, in this case Emily Grosholz' excellent essay in Think magazine on Fainlight. (No links because this is a print venue, but…) I will quote briefly from the essay below the poem.
Susannah and the Elders
Sometimes she's painted clothed, but most
prefer her naked; she's shown at various
ages: a sturdy, angry girl
able to fight back—then more
submissive; flesh to eye and handle
by merchants choosing cattle,or ancients
hoping to regain their youth.
Often the elders are timid, crouch
under balustrades, hide in the bushes,
peer around statuary. But when the maidservants
leave her alone in the garden, bolder,
the turbaned, scrawny-necked fools
creep to the foreground, pluck at her towels
and drapery, grimace encouragement.
Yet no matter how passive she seems—
or complacent, frightened, even peacefully
unaware of their presence, always
she inhabits a separate universe,
realm of the indifferent good:
purified with living waters,
a talisman of flesh and blood.
Grosholz writes, "…as Leibniz wrote, a consciousness is inviolable; a mind (unlike a body) is a unity, which cannot be entered from outside, or broken into parts, or (as he believed) destroyed. Thus the…beauty central to all the great paintings of this scene may be understood as a figure for Susannah's awareness, here sheer presence as a self."
This reminds me of Kwame Dawes' poem "If You Know Her" which presents the same idea of presence under entirely different circumstances. A supremely important idea, so well expressed.


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Artist's description:
Your images are printed on canvas of high quality
To guarantee the quality of our printed photo on canvas, we use ink HP latexes which possess a resistance in the light during 75 years and allow a very high intensity of colors. We use exclusively the techniques of print on canvas the most modern! Your picture on canvas keeps sensational colors and attractive contrast. The high content of white of our canvas assures) a quality of clear print. The wood of our frames arises from European cultures. The stability is optimal.
Materials used:
Canvas, wood
The guardian of the time door (2017)
Digital Art (Giclée) by Alain Gaymard
- Digital Art (Giclée) on Canvas
- From a limited edition of 30
- Size: 35.43 x 23.62 x 1.57 in (unframed) / 35.43 x 23.62 in (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky
This artwork is sold by Alain Gaymard from France


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Plan with Me in My Carpe Diem Planner: Blue and Lavender7:36 PM
Hey, guys! I've been really busy lately and haven't had the time to post here on the blog. I've been working on creating my new YouTube channel and I have a couple of videos to share with you. Who's excited?
I've really gotten into planner decorating this year. I have been following it for the past year or two and have tried it myself more than once, but gave up pretty quick. This time around, I think I'm smitten!
My first video is my January Planner Haul. I'm sharing everything I purchased and received in the month of January.
My second video is my Plan with Me for this week with a pretty blue and lavender kit.


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Coachella weekend one was amazing. I had such a fun time, aside that I was there to work for Guest of a Guest, my main other goal was to have a blast! The first event I was able to cover was at the lovely The Saguaro Hotel. I know I work for Andaz, but still this hotel was exciting and very modern, and hip for those who really wanted to enjoy the coachella experience. I was given a VIP wristband upon entrance which gave me free drinks and free food, an awesome pool as well as cool tunes curated by nifty people. Check out the pics belowwww!
|The homie who came thru for the ride!!!
|and she DJ's? maybe. she got black in her thats all im saying.
|Forever 21