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Pardoe, J. M. R. Information society and the states of Guernsey: environmental analysis and historical context. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, 1996.
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Fogarty, Sharon. Leaving the limpid pool: An analysis of Tom Murphy's women in their social and historical context. Dublin: University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, 1992.
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1928-, Collier James Lincoln, ed. Brother Sam and all that: Historical context and literary analysis of the novels of James and Christopher Collier. Orange, Conn: Clearwater Press, 1999.
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A companion to life course studies: The social and historical context of the British birth cohort studies. New York, NY: Routledge, 2011.
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Masloboeva, Ol'ga. Philosophical-anthropological project of Russian organicism and cosmism Russian in the context of the contemporary historical situation. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1070337.
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This monograph explains the historical necessity of the emergence in the nineteenth century the Russian organicism, and the subsequent birth of his Russian cosmism. On the basis of the age of the principle of the analysis of the history, the idea of which originated in Antiquity, but the most consistent development was in the works, T. N. Granovsky, reveals the connection of the inner logic of a growing world and domestic philosophical thought. Suitable vzaimodeystvie development of the West-European and Russian philosophy is confirmed by the comparative analysis of the evolution of philosophical anthropology, presented in the second section of the monograph.
For students and teachers and all those interested in issues of Russian organicism and cosmism Russian.
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Wrobel, Mirosław Stanisław. Who are the father and his children in JN 8:44?: A literary, historical and theological analysis of JN 8:44 and its context. Paris: J. Gabalda et Cie Éditeurs, 2005.
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Schelokov, Denis. Social management of institutional changes in Russian society: sociological analysis of transformational processes. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1064916.
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The monograph is devoted to the problem of studying the transformation of social institutions in Russian society. The current state of society is characterized by dynamic processes developing in it. This applies to all levels and elements of such education. A significant condition for their course is the purposefulness and systematic influence of interested social structures. In the context of specific historical and landscape-geographical conditions, these are Federal and regional public authorities that exercise their powers within the framework of the official management system. The most effective implementation of the relevant competencies is possible through social management, taking into account the needs of the population, which are expressed through current socio-economic problems.
For students and teachers, as well as anyone interested in the sociology of social change.
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Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian crisis in its broadest historical context. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr Siebeck, 2009.
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Documentary theatre in the United States: An historical survey and analysis of its content, form, and stagecraft. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1999.
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Rivadossi, Silvia. Sciamani urbani. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-414-1.
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What does it mean to be a ‘shaman’ in present-day Tokyo today? In what way(s) is the role of the shamanic practitioner represented at a popular level? Are certain characteristics emphasised and others downplayed? This book offers an answer to these questions through the analysis of a specific discourse on shamans that emerged in the Japanese metropolitan context between the late 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, a discourse that the more ‘traditional’ approaches to the study on shamanism do not take into account. In order to better contextualise this specific discourse, the volume opens with a brief historical account of the formation of the academic discourse on shamans. Within the theoretical framework offered by critical discourse analysis and by means of multi-sited ethnographic research, it then weaves together different case studies: three novels by Taguchi Randy, a manga, a TV series and the case of an urban shaman who is mostly active in Tokyo. The main elements emerging from these case studies are explored by situating them in the precise historical and social context within which the discourse has been developed. This shows that the new discourse analysed shares several characteristics with the more ‘traditional’ and accepted discourses on shamanism, while at the same time differing in certain respects. In this work, particular attention is given to how the category and term ‘shaman’ is defined, used and re-negotiated in the Japanese metropolitan context. Through this approach, the book aims to further problematize the categories of ‘shaman’ and ‘shamanism’, by highlighting certain aspects that are not yet accepted by many scholars, even though they constitute a discourse that is relevant and effective.
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avtor, №., and №. *avtor. Dorpat professorial Institute is a scientific - pedagogical school in Russia. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1064967.
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This monograph carried out a systematic analysis of the unique experience of solving complex problems for the training of professors for Russian universities in Dorpat professorial Institute. In cultural and historical context the first half of the XIX century the system of training of the professors of the new formation is regarded as a scientific-pedagogical school in Russia. Chrono-logical framework of the monograph covers the period from the beginning of the XIX century 60-ies of the XIX century (from the prerequisites for the establishment of Professorial Institute to identify lines of continuity in his work). Analyzed the activity of three generations of Russian University professors.
Addressed to high school teachers, doctoral students, graduate students.
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Harmel, Robert. American Parties in Context: Comparative and Historical Analysis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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American Parties in Context: Comparative and Historical Analysis. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Smyth, Lynda. Elisabetta de Gambarini, Opus two: An analysis of her music in its historical context. 1995.
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Contracts between diocesan bishops and missionary institutes: Analysis of canon 790.1, n.2 in a historical and doctrinal context. 1987.
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Bynner, John, and Michael E. J. Wadsworth. Companion to Life Course Studies: The Social and Historical Context of the British Birth Cohort Studies. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
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Cabrelli, David. Employment Law in Context. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198813149.001.0001.
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Employment Law in Context combines extracts from leading cases, articles, and books with commentary to provide a full critical understanding of employment law. As well as providing a grounding in individual labour law, this title offers detailed analysis of the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, drawing attention to key and current areas of debate. An innovative running case study contextualizes employment law and demonstrates its practical applications by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to liquidation. Reflection points and further reading suggestions are included. The volume is divided into eight main Parts. The first Part provides an introduction to employment law. The next Part looks at the constitution of employment and personal work contracts. This is followed by Part III which examines the content of the personal employment contract and the obligations imposed by the common law on employers and employees. The fourth Part is about statutory employment rights. The fifth Part covers equality law. Part VI looks at the common law and statutory regulation of dismissals. The Part that follows considers business reorganizations, consultation, and insolvency. Finally, Part VIII describes collective labour law.
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Cabrelli, David. Employment Law in Context. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198840312.001.0001.
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Employment Law in Context combines extracts from leading cases, articles, and books with commentary to provide a full critical understanding of employment law. As well as providing a grounding in individual labour law, this title offers detailed analysis of the social, economic, political, and historical context in which employment law operates, drawing attention to key and current areas of debate. An innovative running case study contextualizes employment law and demonstrates its practical applications by following the life-cycle of a company from incorporation, through expansion, to liquidation. Reflection points and further reading suggestions are included. The volume is divided into eight main Parts. The first Part provides an introduction to employment law. The next Part looks at the constitution of employment and personal work contracts. This is followed by Part III, which examines the content of the personal employment contract and the obligations imposed by the common law on employers and employees. The fourth Part is about statutory employment rights. The fifth Part covers equality law. Part VI looks at the common law and statutory regulation of dismissals. The Part that follows considers business reorganizations, consultation, and insolvency. Finally, Part VIII describes collective labour law.
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Mačák, Kubo. Historical Development. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198819868.003.0005.
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This chapter examines the access to combatant status by members of non-state armed groups from a historical perspective. It demonstrates that practically since the time the distinction between combatants and non-combatants had solidified into law, the applicable rules have permitted members of at least some non-state armed groups to benefit from combatant status. At various times in the history of regulation of armed conflicts, these groups have included militias and volunteer corps, armed forces professing allegiance to a non-recognized governmental authority, and national liberation movements. Overall, the historical analysis presented in this chapter suggests that it would be erroneous to interpret the rules on eligibility for combatancy in the context of internationalized armed conflicts in an unduly restrictive manner.
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Cliff, A. D., M. R. Smallman-Raynor, P. Haggett, D. F. Stroup, and S. B. Thacker. Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199244737.001.0001.
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The last four decades of human history have seen the emergence of an unprecedented number of 'new' infectious diseases: the familiar roll call includes AIDS, Ebola, H5N1 influenza, hantavirus, hepatitis E, Lassa fever, legionnaires' and Lyme diseases, Marburg fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and West Nile. The outbreaks range in scale from global pandemics that have brought death and misery to millions, through to self-limiting outbreaks of mainly local impact. Some outbreaks have erupted explosively but have already faded away; some grumble along or continue to devastate as now persistent features in the medical lexicon; in others, a huge potential threat hangs uncertainly and worryingly in the air. Some outbreaks are merely local, others are worldwide. This book looks at the epidemiological and geographical conditions which underpin disease emergence. What are the processes which lead to emergence? Why now in human history? Where do such diseases emerge and how do they spread or fail to spread around the globe? What is the armoury of surveillance and control measures that may curb the impact of such diseases? But, uniquely, it sets these questions on the modern period of disease emergence in an historical context. First, it uses the historical record to set recent events against a much broader temporal canvas, finding emergence to be a constant theme in disease history rather than one confined to recent decades. It concludes that it is the quantitative pace of emergence, rather than its intrinsic nature, that separates the present period from earlier centuries. Second, it looks at the spatial and ecological setting of emergence, using hundreds of specially-drawn maps to chart the source areas of new diseases and the pathways of their spread. The book is divided into three main sections: Part 1 looks at early disease emergence, Part 2 at the processes of disease emergence, and Part 3 at the future for emergent diseases.
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Johnson, Henry. Context, community and social capital in the governance of a New Zealand orchestra. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199352227.003.0003.
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This chapter provides a social analysis of the governance of an orchestral board in the city of Dunedin, New Zealand. The discussion interprets the ways context, community and social capital are interconnected concepts for understanding aspects of orchestral governance in a postcolonial state. The first part of the chapter provides a background to the orchestra under study, the Southern Sinfonia, in its cultural context, and it offers an historical and contextual framework for understanding this particular group’s raison d’être and its organizational practices. The second part discusses the contribution the orchestra’s board has made to the community it represents, especially with regard to its social and cultural links to key stakeholders. The last part focuses on the idea of social capital as a way of interpreting how the orchestra is connected with its local community.
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Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives. Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Hartmann, Susan M. Hillary Clinton’s Candidacy in Historical and Global Context. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036606.003.0007.
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This chapter analyzes the ways in which Clinton's campaign both built upon and departed from the campaigns of previous female contenders for the presidency, including Victoria Woodhull, Margaret Chase Smith, and Patricia Schroeder. It shows that Clinton's comparative success can be explained by her unprecedented ability to raise funds and mobilize party networks. Yet while Clinton's tremendous success set her apart from her predecessors, her candidacy did not represent a total break with the past. Her failure to win the presidency and join the ranks of Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel, and other female heads of state can be explained in part by the peculiar demands of presidential elections in the American constitutional system.
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Sutter, Raoul, Peter W. Kaplan, and Donald L. Schomer. Historical Aspects of Electroencephalography. Edited by Donald L. Schomer and Fernando H. Lopes da Silva. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190228484.003.0001.
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Electroencephalography (EEG), a dynamic real-time recording of electrical neocortical brain activity, began in the 1600s with the discovery of electrical phenomena and the concept of an “action current.” The galvanometer was introduced in the 1800s and the first bioelectrical observations of human brain signals were made in the 1900s. Certain EEG patterns were associated with brain disorders, increasing the clinical and scientific use of EEG. In the 1980s, technical advances allowed EEGs to be digitized and linked with videotape recording. In the 1990s, digital data storage increased and computer networking enabled remote real-time EEG reading, which made possible continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring. Manual cEEG analysis became increasingly labor-intensive, calling for methods to assist this process. In the 2000s, complex algorithms enabling quantitative EEG analyses were introduced, with a new focus on shared activity between rhythms, including phase and magnitude synchrony. The automation of spectral analysis enabled studies of spectral content.
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Dearman, J. Andrew. Narrative Contexts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190246488.003.0009.
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Modern discussion of social issues provides an analogy to the historical and cultural analysis of Old Testament narratives by contemporary readers. Implied and expressed tensions regarding multiethnic marriage in the books of Ruth, Ezra, and Nehemiah are discussed as ways to understand the social contexts influencing these three books and how various generations in ancient Israel might have responded to the accounts, given these tensions. Interpreters have proposed that the book of Ruth originated as a story to counter the rejection of marriage to foreign women presented in the books of Ezra and that proposal is examined for its strengths and weaknesses and as an example of exploring the world behind a text.
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Spencer, Stephen J. Emotions in a Crusading Context, 1095-1291. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198833369.001.0001.
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Emotions in a Crusading Context is the first book-length study of the emotional rhetoric of crusading. It investigates the ways in which a number of emotions and affective displays—primarily fear, anger, and weeping—were understood, represented, and utilized in twelfth- and thirteenth-century western narratives of the crusades, making use of a broad range of comparative material to gauge the distinctiveness of those texts: crusader letters, papal encyclicals, model sermons, chansons de geste, lyrics, and an array of theological and philosophical treatises. In addition to charting continuities and changes over time in the emotional landscape of crusading, this book identifies the underlying influences which shaped how medieval authors represented and used emotions; analyses the passions crusade participants were expected to embrace and reject; and assesses whether the idea of crusading created a profoundly new set of attitudes towards emotions. Emotions in a Crusading Context calls on scholars of the crusades to reject the traditional methodological approach of taking the emotional descriptions embedded within historical narratives as straightforward reflections of protagonists’ lived feelings, and in so doing challenges the long historiographical tradition of reconstructing participants’ beliefs and experiences from these texts. Within the history of emotions, it demonstrates that, despite the ongoing drive to develop new methodologies for studying the emotional standards of the past, typified by recent experiments in ‘neurohistory’, the social constructionist (or cultural-historical) approach still has much to offer the historian of medieval emotions.
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Bartolini, Giulio, ed. A History of International Law in Italy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842934.001.0001.
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This volume critically reassesses the history of international law studies in the Italian context. It aims to address such basic questions as: How have such studies been driven by the convergence of global dynamics and context-dependent solutions based on local features, through a constant process of attrition and cross-fertilization? To what extent have historical and political turning points had an influence on such studies, scholars being part of broader academic or public debates or even active participants as legal advisers or politicians? Was international law used—or misused—by relevant actors in such contexts? Mixing scholars specialized in both international law and legal history this volume first provides a historical examination of the theoretical legal analysis present in the Italian context, in order to explore its main features, mainstream ideas, and dissident voices. The second part assesses the impact on international law studies of key international and domestic historical and political events involving Italy and, conversely, how the latter have been influenced by international law evaluations. Finally, a concluding part puts such analysis into broader and contemporary perspectives. This volume thus intervenes in a growing debate on the need to explore international law from comparative and situated viewpoints, a debate that has increased awareness of how regional, national, and local contexts have contributed to the shaping of international legal rules, institutions, and doctrines and, conversely, how the international dimension has influenced solutions at local levels, in light of the continuum pendulum between center and periphery of the international legal system.
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Dearman, J. Andrew. Reading Hebrew Bible Narratives. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190246488.001.0001.
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The narrative traditions in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible are classical and canonical accounts in Western society and can be interpreted as historical dramas, using multiple methods of literary and historical analysis. Chapters in the book include introductory discussions of literary approaches to historical narratives such as plot, theme, characterization, and semantics, as well as historical and cultural analysis of their ancient contexts. Each chapter emphasizes interaction with specific biblical texts, interpreting them in the context of ancient Israel’s national storyline, and encourages readers to approach them dialogically. Narratives for examination are drawn from the books of Genesis, Deuteronomy, Judges, Ruth, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Texts from the books of Genesis and Ruth receive repeated attention, as does the topic of marriage and family in ancient Israel. This attention allows readers to see the same topic in various literary/historical settings and to engage similar texts with multiple methods.
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Simon, Julia. Concluding Remarks. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190666552.003.0007.
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The conclusion provides a summary of the central arguments of the book concerning time in the blues and, specifically, the temporal fields explored in the analysis. A defense of the archive covered in the analyses—the inclusive and capacious understanding of the blues as a genre—asserts the interconnection between the historical context of origin and aesthetic production. The book concludes with a consideration of how sympathy enters into music reception, raising the possibility of an ethical dimension to listening to the blues.
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Feldman, Marian H. Style as a Fragment of the Ancient World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190614812.003.0005.
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Style in art history is often taken as a fragment or residue of a larger historical past and as such it plays a foundational role in the study of ancient societies. What actually causes style, however, remains vaguely theorized, if considered at all. This chapter reviews a range of theories that explore, to varying degrees, an explanation for style and then proposes an understanding of style as the product of human/social practices, drawing upon concepts such as Giddens’s structuration and Bourdieu’s habitus. It concludes by distinguishing the art historical method of stylistic analysis from that of stylistic interpretation, arguing that stylistic analysis can serve as a universal disciplinary approach, while at the same time acknowledging that what style meant to past viewers/users varied according to specific cultural context and thus must be interpreted from within this context. Because of its social contingency, style is therefore a potent fragment of past practices that survives for our analytic assessment/interpretation. This conclusion is explored through a case study of early Iron Age art from the Levant and Assyria.
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Halperin, Sandra, and Oliver Heath. 14. Textual Analysis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198702740.003.0014.
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This chapter discusses the principles of textual analysis as a means of gathering information and evidence in political research. Textual analysis has generated strong interest as a research method not only in Politics and International Relations, but also throughout the social sciences. In political research, two forms of textual analysis have become particularly prominent: discourse analysis and content analysis. The chapter examines discourse analysis and content analysis and explains the use of documents, archival sources, and historical writing as data. It considers the distinction between discourse analysis and content analysis, as well as the differences between qualitative and quantitative content analysis. It also describes the procedures that are involved in both quantitative and qualitative content analysis.
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Weiss, Shira. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190684426.003.0001.
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The introductory chapter describes Joseph Albo’s biography and historical context to provide background for an analysis of his work. The structure and content of his popular Sefer ha-‘Iqqarim is discussed, as well as his philosophical influences. Criticism of Albo as an unoriginal philosopher is described in an effort to refute the scholarly consensus and argue for the philosophical ingenuity embedded within Albo’s individual homilies. The explicit objective of Albo’s Sefer ha-‘Iqqarim was to provide an explication of dogma to defend the authenticity of Judaism and create a uniform set of Jewish doctrine for his persecuted coreligionists. Albo integrates individual biblical homilies that convey theological lessons within his discussions of principles of faith which provide a vivid and accessible understanding of complex philosophical ideas. Several of Albo’s exegetical analyses focus on free choice, which emerges as a conceptual scheme throughout his work, demonstrating its significance during a period of religious coercion.
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Cheng, Eileen Ka-May. Historiography: An Introductory Guide. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350246881.
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“What is historiography?” asked the American historian Carl Becker in 1938. Professional historians continue to argue over the meaning of the term. This book challenges the view of historiography as an esoteric subject by presenting an accessible and concise overview of the history of historical writing from the Renaissance to the present. Historiography plays an integral role in aiding undergraduate students to better understand the nature and purpose of historical analysis more generally by examining the many conflicting ways that historians have defined and approached history. By demonstrating how these historians have differed in both their interpretations of specific historical events and their definitions of history itself, this book conveys to students the interpretive character of history as a discipline and the way that the historian’s context and subjective perspective influence his or her understanding of the past.
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Anderson, Cheryl P., and Debra L. Martin, eds. Massacres. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683400691.001.0001.
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Bioarchaeology and forensic anthropology offer unique perspectives on studies of mass violence and present opportunities to interpret human skeletal remains in a broader cultural context. Massacres and other forms of large-scale violence have been documented in many different ancient and modern contexts. Moving the analysis from the victims to the broader political and cultural context necessitates using social theories about the nature of mass violence. Massacres can be seen as a process, that is, as the unfolding of nonrandom patterns or chains of events that precede the events and continue long after. Mass violence has a cultural logic of its own that is shaped by social and historical dynamics. Massacres can have varying aims, including subjugation or total eradication of a group based on status, ethnicity, or religion. The goal of this edited volume is to present case studies that integrate the evidence from human remains within the broader cultural and historical contexts through the utilization of social theory to provide a framework for interpretation. This volume highlights case studies of massacres across time and space that stress innovative theoretical models that help make sense of this unique form of violence. The primary focus will be on how massacres are used as a strategy of violence across time and cultural/geopolitical landscapes.
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Graham, Florence Lydia. Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857730.001.0001.
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Turkisms in South Slavonic Literature is a comparative analysis of Turkish loanwords in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Bosnian and Bulgarian Franciscan sources. After providing historical background on the Order of the Bosnian Franciscans (Bosna Srebrena), Bulgarian Catholic communities, Turkish presence in Bosnia and in Bulgaria, as well as short biographies of each of the writers whose works are analysed, orthography, phonology, and how the local languages were defined in the period under study are discussed. Considerable focus is then given to complications related to establishing earliest attestations for turkisms in Bosnian and Bulgarian. Subsequently, four chapters are devoted to analysing turkisms as grouped by grammatical function: nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and conjunctions. Particular attention is given to morphophonological changes, verbal aspect, Turkish voice suffixes, and number agreement. Lastly, the context in which turkisms occur, the motivation behind these borrowings, and semantics are addressed.
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Ó Dochartaigh, Niall. Deniable Contact. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192894762.001.0001.
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Despite the importance of secret negotiations during the Northern Ireland conflict there is no full-length study of the use of back-channels in repeated efforts to end the ‘Troubles’. This book provides a textured account that extends our understanding of the distinctive dynamics of negotiations conducted in secret and the conditions conducive to the negotiated settlement of conflict. It disrupts and challenges some conventional notions about the conflict in Northern Ireland, offering a fresh analysis of the political dynamics and the intra-party struggles that sustained violent conflict and prevented settlement for so long. It draws on theories of negotiation and mediation to understand why efforts to end the conflict through back-channel negotiations repeatedly failed before finally succeeding in the 1990s. It challenges the view that the conflict persisted because of irreconcilable political ideologies and argues that the parties to conflict were much more open to compromise than the often-intransigent public rhetoric suggested. The analysis is founded on a rich store of historical evidence, including the private papers of key Irish republican leaders and British politicians, recently released papers from national archives in Dublin and London, and the papers of Brendan Duddy, the intermediary who acted as the primary contact between the IRA and the British government during key phases of engagement, including papers that have not yet been made publicly available. This documentary evidence, combined with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and republicans, allows a vivid picture to emerge of the complex maneuvering at this intersection.
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Breitenwischer, Dustin, Hanna-Myriam Häger, and Julian Menninger, eds. Faktuales und fiktionales Erzählen II. Ergon Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956505126.
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This volume deals with historically specific forms of factual and fictional narration within literature and various non-literary media. The contributions address the question of how and why the respective medium, the historical context, socio-cultural norms, and aesthetic conventions can (or cannot) formulate certain claims to factuality or fictionality within a given narrative. More specifically, the collected essays clarify that the validity claims of a text are equally tied to its historical framework, its particular medium, and its respective narrative practice. The discussion, analysis, and comparison of historical peculiarities on the one hand and an extended media arsenal on the other thus enables the contributors to uncover and describe narrative-specific characteristics of factual and fictional narration in their diverse forms of expression. In line with the disciplinary diversity of its contributors, the volume is aimed both at media-scientifically oriented narratologists and literary scholars as well as social scientist and scholars in the humanities who are invested in the interdisciplinarity of narrative theory.
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Lane, Christel. From Taverns to Gastropubs. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826187.001.0001.
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This book charts the social historical development of the English public house from the period of the Restoration to the twenty-first century, culminating in the contemporary gastropub. Continuities and differences between taverns, inns, and (gastro)pubs are highlighted, with a focus on issues around food, drink, and sociality. The analysis of food and eating out encompasses their material, as well as their symbolic properties, both historically and at the present time. One recurring theme is the constant contest between English and French cuisine for diners’ allegiance. The book studies the gastropub in the context of large-scale pub closing since the 1990s and views it both as reaction to the end of the traditional drinking pub and as a promising alternative to it. The subordinate relation of the pub to both breweries/pub companies and to the regulatory and taxing state is presented as contributory to pubs’ decline. The book uses the theoretical lenses of class, gender, and national identification to explore issues of social and organizational identity. The gastropub’s organizational identity is viewed as unsettled. The author relies on historical diaries, memoirs, industry reports, and scholarly secondary sources, as well as utilizing original data, gained in forty in-depth interviews of publicans in different parts of England.
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Skaff, Sheila. Studying Ida. Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325628.001.0001.
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Paweł Pawlikowski's 2013 film Ida was exceptionally warmly received in the United States, culminating in the Academy Award for Film Not in the English Language, but it was not without controversy. This book's introduction to the film explains the historical setting, including the violence that took place in the Polish countryside during World War II and was not exposed for sixty years, and provides political and cultural analysis to aid the reader in understanding the film's setting and narrative. The book also touches on the influence of the film on current events in Poland, where censorship of it by an increasingly nationalist government has polarized the country. It also situates Ida within the contexts of Polish and world film history. Scene-by-scene analysis is accompanied in each chapter by background information that gives context to the aesthetic and narrative choices made by the director.
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Abbott, Helen. Repackaging Baudelaire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198794691.003.0003.
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Beginning with a survey of known Baudelaire settings, this chapter analyses the extent of reworkings of Baudelaire’s poetry, including those made by the poet himself, through the different editions of Les Fleurs du mal, and translations of his work beyond France. The rationale for the selected corpus of song settings is then outlined (focus on an important time period for transmission of Baudelaire’s poetry across Europe; analysis of groups of Baudelaire poems set to music by a given composer; focus on scores which converge around the mélodie genre). It explores definitions of a ‘song set’ as: (a) a looser grouping than the ‘song cycle’ of the German Lied tradition; and (b) shaped by both aesthetic and commercial concerns. These concerns influence the analysis which seeks to balance ‘quantifiable’ features of song settings against the challenges of evaluating songs which emerge from a given historical and cultural context.
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Abstracts, online searching, and the humanities: An analysis of the structure and content of abstracts of historical discourse. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1989.
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Ahmed, Omar. Studying Indian Cinema. Liverpool University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906733681.001.0001.
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This book traces the historical evolution of Indian cinema through a number of key decades. The book is made up of 14 chapters with each chapter focusing on one key film, the chosen films are analysed in their wider social, political and historical context whilst a concerted engagement with various ideological strands that underpin each film is also evident. In addition to exploring the films in their wider contexts, the book analyses selected sequences through the conceptual framework common to both film and media studies. This includes a consideration of narrative, genre, representation, audience and mise en scène. The case studies run chronologically from Awaara (The Vagabond, 1951) to The Elements Trilogy: Water (2005) and include films by such key figures as Satyajit Ray (The Lonely Wife), Ritwick Ghatak (Cloud Capped Star), Yash Chopra (The Wall) and Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!).
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Turnock, Bryan. Studying Horror Cinema. Liverpool University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325895.001.0001.
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Aimed at teachers and students new to the subject, this book is a comprehensive survey of the genre from silent cinema to its twenty-first century resurgence. Structured as a series of thirteen case studies of easily accessible films, it covers the historical, production, and cultural context of each film, together with detailed textual analysis of key sequences. Sitting alongside such acknowledged classics as Psycho and Rosemary's Baby are analyses of influential non-English language films as Kwaidan, Bay of Blood, and Let the Right One In. The book concludes with a chapter on 2017's blockbuster It, the most financially successful horror film of all time, making this book the most up-to-date overview of the genre available.
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Greve, Martin, Ulas Özdemir, and Raoul Motika, eds. Aesthetic and Performative Dimensions of Alevi Cultural Heritage. Ergon Verlag, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/9783956506413.
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This volume examines the aesthetic and performative dimensions of Alevi cultural heritage from past to present, in an interdisciplinary framework and using a wide range of approaches. The chapters analyse traditional, contemporary and transnational developments of Alevi cultural expression including modern adaptations, local and regional practices, Alevism in a wider context, textual sources and materiality. The perspectives of the various authors, including Robert Langer, Nicolas Elias, Sinibaldo De Rosa, Jérôme Cler, Judith Haug, Janina Karolewski and others, each coming from different disciplines, demonstrate the complexity of socio-historical and socio-cultural dynamics. To conclude, the present volume is intended as a first approach to a complex issue, which definitely deserves further research and analysis.
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Haines, Daniel. Negotiating International Politics. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190648664.003.0007.
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Continuing the book’s analysis of the Indus water negotiations in the context of Cold War development politics, this chapter identifies a shift from supposedly “technical” negotiations to talks that had an increasingly ‘political’ tenor. After 1954 the allocation of whole rivers to either India or Pakistan – equating a river’s passage through national territory with sovereign ownership of the watercourse – became the key principle of the Indus settlement. During this period, Western diplomats became more closely involved. It contends that the confluence of Cold War geopolitics and a moment of historical opportunity in South Asia was critical to bringing about the Indus Waters Treaty. It argues for the importance of understanding historical context, rather than relying on international relations models that predict the “inevitability” of conflict or cooperation on international rivers.
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Kelle, Brad E., and Brent A. Strawn, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190261160.001.0001.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible offers thirty-six essays on the so-called “Historical Books”: Joshua, Judges, 1–2 Samuel, 1–2 Kings, Ezra-Nehemiah, and 1–2 Chronicles. The essays are organized around four nodes: contexts, content, approaches, and reception. Each essay takes up two questions: (1) what does the topic/area/issue have to do with the Historical Books? and (2) how does this topic/area/issue help readers better interpret the Historical Books? The essays engage traditional theories and newer updates to the same, and also engage the textual traditions themselves which are what give rise to compositional analyses. Many essays model approaches that move in entirely different ways altogether, however, whether those are by attending to synchronic, literary, theoretical, or reception aspects of the texts at hand. The contributions range from text-critical issues to ancient historiography, state formation and development, ancient Near Eastern contexts, society and economy, political theory, violence studies, orality, feminism, postcolonialism, and trauma theory—among others. Taken together, these essays well represent the variety of options available when it comes to gathering, assessing, and interpreting these particular biblical books.
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Kavalski, Emilian. India’s Bifurcated Look to ‘Central Eurasia’. Edited by David M. Malone, C. Raja Mohan, and Srinath Raghavan. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743538.013.31.
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India’s relations with Afghanistan and the post-Soviet countries of Central Asia have contributed to the growing interest in the country’s ‘rise’ to global prominence. Treating them together under the label of ‘Central Eurasia’, Indian policy-makers insist that despite the obvious differences between them, the issues that frame India’s strategic interests in Afghanistan and the Central Asian states are interconnected. The chapter explores the historical contexts that frame India’s current engagement with Central Eurasia. The investigation undertakes a parallel assessment of New Delhi’s engagement with both Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics. The comparative analysis indicates that what has thwarted India’s outreach to Central Asia has become the key to its effective involvement in Afghanistan—namely, that India engages both in the context of its strategic rivalry with Pakistan.
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Roth, Daniel. Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197566770.001.0001.
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Third-Party Peacemakers in Judaism presents thirty-six case studies featuring third-party peacemakers found within Jewish rabbinic literature. Each case study is explored through three layers of analysis: text, theory, and practice. The textual analysis consists of close literary and historical readings of legends and historical accounts as found within classical, medieval, and early-modern rabbinic literature, many of which are critically analyzed here for the first time. The theoretical analysis consists of analyzing the models of third-party peacemaking embedded within the various cases studies by comparing them with other cultural and religious models of third-party peacemaking and conflict resolution, in particular the Arab-Islamic sulha and contemporary Interactive Problem-Solving Workshops. The final layer of analysis, based upon the author’s personal experiences in years of doing conflict resolution education, trainings, and actual third-party religious peacemaking in the context of the Middle East, relates to the potential practical implications of these case studies to serve as indigenous models and sources of inspiration for third-party mediation and peacemaking in both interpersonal and intergroup conflicts today.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Brutal Intimacy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0007.
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Chapter 5 begins with risk sociology’s understanding of intimacy as “a dogmatism for two” to explore an interdisciplinary mix of theory, including Tim Palmer’s analysis of the cinema of “brutal intimacy”; Tanya Modleski’s recognition of a current horror genre inflection of new desires for unleashing sexuality, violence, and control; Kelley Conway’s recognition of an authorship of considerable diversity in the context of films made by women about female sexuality in French culture; Raymond Williams’s concept of historical “structures of feeling”; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s “normal chaos of love”; and Giddens’s “transformation of intimacy.” Within these contexts, the films Twentynine Palms, Trouble Every Day, and Irréversible are analyzed textually, exploring genre, narrative, visual shot style, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, and spatial mapping (and the disruption of all these categories), with a particular focus on the road film Twentynine Palms.
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Bueno-Hansen, Pascha. Decolonial Feminism, Gender, and Transitional Justice in Latin America. Edited by Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Naomi Cahn, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Nahla Valji. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199300983.013.36.
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Using Peru as an example, this chapter explores gender-based violence in conflict and transitional justice processes through a lens of decolonial feminism. Beginning with an analysis of colonialism and gender, it provides conceptual and historical context on the complex social relations between race, class, and gender. The chapter then turns to an exploration of community perspectives on sexual violence during the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980–2000), explained through the metaphor of el patrón. By linking colonial and modern experiences of violence, the chapter illustrates the historical continuity of gender-based violence and challenges assumptions about the nature of victimhood and the benevolence of the state. The chapter examines the complex nature of victimhood in this context and the multipurpose use of sexual violence by the military, suggesting that a decolonial feminist approach is necessary to establish accountable legal systems and effective transitional justice processes.