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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025A grand strategy of peace
Britain and the creation of the United Nations Organization, 1939-1945
by Andrew Ehrhardt
A grand strategy of peace is the first detailed account of Britain's role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. As a work of traditional diplomatic history that brings in elements of intellectual history, the book describes how British officials, diplomats, politicians, and writers - previously seen to be secondary actors to the United States in this period - thought about, planned for, and helped to establish a future international order. While in the present day, many scholars and analysts have returned to the origins of the post- 1945 international system, this book offers an exhaustive account of how the statesmen and more importantly, the officials working below the statesmen, actually conceived of and worked to establish a post-war world order.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2025The Jacobites and the Grand Tour
Educational travel and small-states' diplomacy
by Jérémy Filet
In the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent, Filet considers how small states used official diplomacy and deployed soft power - embodied by educational academies - to achieve foreign policy goals. This work uses little-known archival materials to explain how and why certain small states secretly supported the Jacobite cause during the crucial years surrounding the 1715 rising, while others stayed out of Jacobite affairs.At the same time, the book demonstrates how early modern small states sought to cultivate good relations with Britain by attracting travellers as part of a wider trend of ensuring connections with future diplomats or politicians in case a Stuart restoration never came.This publication therefore brings together a study of Britain, small states, Jacobitism, and educational travel, in its nexus at continental academies.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Scottishness and Irishness in New Zealand since 1840
by Angela McCarthy, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This book examines the distinctive aspects that insiders and outsiders perceived as characteristic of Irish and Scottish ethnic identities in New Zealand. When, how, and why did Irish and Scots identify themselves and others in ethnic terms? What characteristics did the Irish and the Scots attribute to themselves and what traits did others assign to them? Did these traits change over time and if so how? Contemporary interest surrounding issues of ethnic identities is vibrant. In countries such as New Zealand, descendants of European settlers are seeking their ethnic origins, spurred on in part by factors such as an ongoing interest in indigenous genealogies, the burgeoning appeal of family history societies, and the booming financial benefits of marketing ethnicities abroad. This fascinating book will appeal to scholars and students of the history of empire and the construction of identity in settler communities, as well as those interested in the history of New Zealand.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2022Russian grand strategy in the era of global power competition
by Andrew Monaghan, Richard Connolly
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June 2023Nelumbiya (1). Im Land der magischen Pflanzen
Fantasy-Abenteuer ab 10 Jahren vor der Kulisse einer epischen Pflanzenwelt
by Margit Ruile, Helge Vogt
Launische Baumriesen, ein heldenhafter Löwenzahn und ein Mädchen mit ungeahnten Kräften. Nelumbiya entführt Fantasy-Fans ab 10 Jahren in eine Pflanzenwelt voller Wunder und Magie. Als Waisenkind und Diebin lebt Tara in der Felsenstadt Ornata. Hier gibt es nur Staub, Sonne und endlose Felder mit Nutzpflanzen. Das verbotene Land Nelumbiya jenseits der Berge, so erzählt man sich, wird von gefährlichen, wilden Pflanzen bevölkert, die den Menschen feindlich gesonnen sind. Doch als Tara den sprechenden Löwenzahn Dandelion trifft, spürt sie sofort, dass er ihr nichts Böses will. Im Gegenteil: Er warnt sie vor einer großen Gefahr. Denn Askiel, der finstere Magier, ist nach Ornata zurückgekehrt und jagt alle Menschen, die wie Tara mit einem Pflanzenzeichen auf der Haut geboren wurden. Tara muss fliehen und bekommt dabei Hilfe vom Bäckerjungen Semur und der Fürstentochter Helena. Die Freunde begeben sich auf eine abenteuerliche Reise ins Land der magischen Pflanzen, um herauszufinden, was wirklich vor so langer Zeit zwischen Pflanzen und Menschen geschah. Als Tara dort erkennt, welches geheime Erbe sie in sich trägt, setzt sie alles daran, Askiel zu besiegen und damit die Menschen wieder mit der Natur zu vereinen. Dieses bildgewaltige und actionreiche Abenteuer lädt von der ersten Seite an zum Staunen und Träumen ein. Eine zeitlos schöne Geschichte über Naturverbundenheit, Mut und Freundschaft. Für Leser*innen von „Flüsterwald“ und „Ein Mädchen namens Willow“ und für alle, die es lieben, in fantastische Welten abzutauchen. Mit farbig gestaltetem Vor- und Nachsatzpapier sowie ganzseitigen Illustrationen von Helge Vogt. Gedruckt auf Recycling-Umweltschutzpapier, zertifiziert mit dem Blauen Engel.
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January 1990Das hoffnungslose Leben der Anna M.
Bericht über eine Schizophrenie. (Persönliche Erfahrungen mit Krisen)
by Schulz, Bernd J
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The ArtsDecember 2007J. M. W. Turner
The making of a modern artist
by Sam Smiles, Alan Rutter
Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our celebration of his achievement is very different to what Victorian critics made of his art. This book shows how Turner was reinvented to become the artist we recognise today. On Turner's death in 1851 he was already known as an adventurous, even baffling, painter. But when the Court of Chancery decreed that the contents of his studio should be given to the nation, another side of his art was revealed that effected a wholescale change in his reputation. This book acts as a guide to the reactions of art writers and curators from the 1850s to the 1960s as they attempted to come to terms with his work. It documents how Turner was interpreted and how his work was displayed in Britain, in Europe and in North America, concentrating on the ways in which his artistic identity was manipulated by art writers, by curators at the Tate and by designers of exhibitions for the British Council and other bodies. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories
by Aymenn Al-Tamimi
This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.
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April 1997Treibender Kopf
Gedichte
by Dieter M. Gräf
Dieter M. Gräf, geboren 1960 in Ludwigshafen/Rhein, lebt seit 1991 als Schriftsteller in Köln, und an Orten seiner Projekte. Intermediale Kooperationen, zuletzt Tussirecherche (2000), Rauminstallation + Katalog (zusammen mit Margret Eicher). Seit 1996 Mitglied im P.E.N.-Zentrum Deutschland.
