Taking English culture as its representative sample, The Secret History of Domesticity asks how the modern notion of the public-private relation emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Treating that relation as a crucial instance of the modern division of knowledge,Michael McKeon narrates its prehistory along with that of its ......
John Madl-Mike (1905 - 1981), the Kolping Movement, and the Years in E
This book is the story of the Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after World War I with revival of the institution founded by Adolph Kolping. The story is told through the life of its national leader, John Madl-Mike. Book includes a 16-page photospread of historical illustrations.
John Madl-Mike (1905 - 1981), the Kolping Movement, and the Years in E
This book is the story of the Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after World War I with revival of the institution founded by Adolph Kolping. The story is told through the life of its national leader, John Madl-Mike. Book includes a 16-page photospread of historical illustrations.
Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750-1830
Morag Martin's history of the cosmetic industry in France examines the evolution of popular tastes and standards of beauty during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged ......
The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility, turning the country into a battlefield and an area of bitter civil war. ......
''These superb new translations offer new perspectives on women's history to English-language readers and, as Guido Ruggiero notes in the Introduction, effectively promote the use of gender as a category of analysis.''--Jeffrey R. Watt, The Sixteenth Century Journal.Selections from Quaderni Storici.
This ambitious and wide-ranging study of late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture and thought transverses texts of evolutionary biology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, political propaganda, fiction, historiography of Nazism, and scholarship on comparative genocide to analyze the notion that mass violence is sexually motivated.
Unique and compelling, this husband-and-wife memoir of the Holocaust will move and inform generations. As we lose eyewitnesses to this ultimate horror, the Kuperhands present us with an elegantly restrained, yet hard-hitting, Kaddish to Polish Jewry. Miriam was the daughter of a prosperous furrier; Saul was the son of a poor shoemaker. Miriam was ......
Paldiel highlights the role of non-Jews in extending aid and assistance to Jews inside Nazi-dominated Europe. From the testimonies and files housed at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust martyrs and heroes memorial in Jerusalem, Paldiel presents dozens of stories of the circumstances and odds facing Jews and those who would help them. Includes an eight-page ......
