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      • Ernst Reinhardt GmbH & Co KG

        With over 120 years of experience Ernst Reinhardt GmbH & Co KG is a family owned, independent publishing company and has, as of now, 750 titles available. We specialize amongst others in the fields of psychology, education, gerontology and social work and publish an average of 45 new titles every year. Internationally known as quality research literature, our publications have been translated into over 30 languages.Reinhardt Publishing cooperates with professional institutions and associations such as the German Association for Psychology or the Association for Bodypsychotherapy and is a member of utb GmbH – a university-focused joint venture of 15 German  academic publishers.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2014

        Soliman and Perseda, by Thomas Kyd

        by Lukas Erne

        Soliman and Perseda, written c. 1588 and first published in 1592 or 1593, is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus, and the fortunes of the comic servant Piston and the braggart knight Basilisco, against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. The introduction to this facsimile edition contains the fullest analysis of the text to date. It also provides an account of the play's editorial history, a detailed analysis of its original printing, and lists of all erroneous readings in the first quarto, together with significant differences between the first and second quartos. This edition provides the best access we have to an important play by one of Shakespeare's leading early contemporaries. ;

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        The Arts
        November 2023

        Colouring the Caribbean

        Race and the art of Agostino Brunias

        by Mia L. Bagneris

        Colouring the Caribbean offers the first comprehensive study of Agostino Brunias's intriguing pictures of colonial West Indians of colour - so called 'Red' and 'Black' Caribs, dark-skinned Africans and Afro-Creoles, and people of mixed race - made for colonial officials and plantocratic elites during the late-eighteenth century. Although Brunias's paintings have often been understood as straightforward documents of visual ethnography that functioned as field guides for reading race, this book investigates how the images both reflected and refracted ideas about race commonly held by eighteenth-century Britons, helping to construct racial categories while simultaneously exposing their constructedness and underscoring their contradictions. The book offers provocative new insights about Brunias's work gleaned from a broad survey of his paintings, many of which are reproduced here for the first time.

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        November 2015

        Roland Barthes

        Die Biographie

        by Tiphaine Samoyault, Lis Künzli, Maria Hoffmann-Dartevelle

        Roland Barthes hat die Welt in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts das Lesen gelehrt. Er hat vorgeführt, wie die alltäglichen Dinge, die Mythen des Alltags, zu verstehen sind; er hat das Alphabet der Sprache der Liebe vorbuchstabiert; er hat die Lust am Text propagiert; er hat die Stellung des Autors untergraben − und in seinem letzten Seminar, der »Vorbereitung des Romans«, gestanden, er hätte sich gewünscht, Romancier zu werden. 1915 in Cherbourg geboren, geht er in den Dreißiger Jahren zum Studium nach Paris. Hier sammelt er erst politische Erfahrung, entdeckt die Freundschaft und seine Homosexualität − und am Ende des Jahrzehnts befällt ihn eine Tuberkulose, die in ihn zu langjährigen Sanatoriumsaufenthalten zwingt. Dieser Abbruch einer normalen akademischen Karriere erklärt das späte Erscheinen seines Buches, Am »Nullpunkt der Literatur« (1957) und ist zugleich verantwortlich für seine Schreib- und Forscherhaltung: die überkommenen unverrückbaren universitären Wahrheiten enthüllt er als eine Form des Nicht-Wissens, an deren Stelle er eine neue Wissensform entfaltet. Die Schriftstellerin und Literaturhistorikerin Tiphaine Samoyault entwirft unter Rückgriff auf bisher unzugängliche persönliche Dokumente von Roland Barthes die erste umfassende, alle Aspekte von Werk und Leben ausleuchtende, Biographie. Als Wissenschaftlerin und Literatin liest sie die Person Roland Barthes und dessen Schreiben - und damit die Bedeutung dieses Autors für unsere Zeit.

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        November 2015

        Roland Barthes

        Die Biographie

        by Tiphaine Samoyault, Maria Hoffmann-Dartevelle, Lis Künzli

        Roland Barthes hat die Welt in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts das Lesen gelehrt. Er hat vorgeführt, wie die alltäglichen Dinge, die Mythen des Alltags, zu verstehen sind; er hat das Alphabet der Sprache der Liebe vorbuchstabiert; er hat die Lust am Text propagiert; er hat die Stellung des Autors untergraben − und in seinem letzten Seminar, der »Vorbereitung des Romans«, gestanden, er hätte sich gewünscht, Romancier zu werden. 1915 in Cherbourg geboren, geht er in den Dreißiger Jahren zum Studium nach Paris. Hier sammelt er erst politische Erfahrung, entdeckt die Freundschaft und seine Homosexualität − und am Ende des Jahrzehnts befällt ihn eine Tuberkulose, die in ihn zu langjährigen Sanatoriumsaufenthalten zwingt. Dieser Abbruch einer normalen akademischen Karriere erklärt das späte Erscheinen seines Buches, Am »Nullpunkt der Literatur« (1957) und ist zugleich verantwortlich für seine Schreib- und Forscherhaltung: die überkommenen unverrückbaren universitären Wahrheiten enthüllt er als eine Form des Nicht-Wissens, an deren Stelle er eine neue Wissensform entfaltet. Die Schriftstellerin und Literaturhistorikerin Tiphaine Samoyault entwirft unter Rückgriff auf bisher unzugängliche persönliche Dokumente von Roland Barthes die erste umfassende, alle Aspekte von Werk und Leben ausleuchtende, Biographie. Als Wissenschaftlerin und Literatin liest sie die Person Roland Barthes und dessen Schreiben - und damit die Bedeutung dieses Autors für unsere Zeit.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2020

        Imagining Caribbean womanhood

        Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70

        by Pamela Sharpe, Rochelle Rowe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

        Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean

        Interdisciplinary perspectives

        by Finola O'Kane, Ciarán O'Neill

        Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        From Jack Tar to Union Jack

        Representing naval manhood in the British Empire, 1870–1918

        by Mary A. Conley

        Jack Tar to Union Jack examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Through analysis of sources that include courts-martial cases, sailors' own writings, and the HMS Pinafore, Conley charts new depictions of naval manhood during the Age of Empire, a period which witnessed the radical transformation of the navy, the intensification of imperial competition, the democratisation of British society, and the advent of mass culture. Jack Tar to Union Jack argues that popular representations of naval men increasingly reflected and informed imperial masculine ideals in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Conley shows how the British Bluejacket as both patriotic defender and dutiful husband and father stood in sharp contrast to the stereotypic image of the brave but bawdy tar of the Georgian navy. This book will be essential reading for students of British imperial history, naval and military history, and gender studies.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Jack Clayton

        by Neil Sinyard

        In François Truffaut's opinion The Innocents was 'the best English film after Hitchcock goes to America'. Tennessee Williams said of The Great Gatsby: 'a film whose artistry even surpassed the original novel'. The maker of both films was Jack Clayton, one of the finest English directors of the post-war era and perhaps best remembered for the trail-blazing Room at the Top which brought a new sexual frankness and social realism to the British screen. This is the first full-length critical study of Clayton's work. The author has been able to consult and quote from the director's own private papers which illuminate Clayton's creative practices and artistic intentions. In addition to fresh analyses of the individual films, the book contains new material on Clayton's many unrealised projects and valuably includes his previously unpublished short story 'The Enchantment' - as poignant and revealing as the films themselves. This is a personal and fascinating account of the career and achievement of an important, much-loved director that should appeal to students and film enthusiasts.

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        November 2021

        Joe Biden's America

        Introduction to a divided country

        by Roland Benedikter

        — "A precise, analytical insight into the phenomenon Trump." (Anton Pelinka, Central European University Budapest) — "An introduction to the contemporary US." (Heinrich Neisser, Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration, University of Innsbruck) — "Refreshingly different." (Herbert Dorfmann, Member of the European Parliament) Joe Biden's America is deeply divided. Donald Trump's term in office made many problems of modern US society visible, which Biden now has to solve. What do American politics look like under Joe Biden? What legacy did Donald Trump leave behind, and what kind of impact does it have? How can the deeper causes, factors and drivers of current US developments be put in a historical context? Roland Benedikter provides a thorough insight into a complex country. In a compact and comprehensible way, he explains the background, challenges and perspectives of the Biden era, while also providing an overview of the current state of US society and culture in general. His analysis is suitable for teaching, decision-makers and civil society as an introduction to today's USA.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2013

        The Normans in Europe

        by Elisabeth Van Houts

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2023

        Defending Eastern Europe

        by Jacek Lubecki, James W. Peterson

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2020

        The British political elite and Europe, 1959-1984

        A higher loyalty

        by Bob Nicholls

        This book offers an original interpretation of Britain's relationship with Europe over a 25 year period: 1959-84 and advances the argument that the current problems over EU membership resulted from much earlier political machinations. This evidence based account of the seminal period analyses the applications for EEC membership, the 1975 referendum, and the role of the press. Was the British public misled over the true aims of the European project? How significant was the role of the press in changing public opinion from anti, to pro Common Market membership? Why, after over 40 years since Britain became a member of the European community, does the issue continue to deeply divide not only the political elite, but also the British public? These, and other pertinent questions are answered in this timely book on a subject that remains topical and highly controversial.

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