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Vladimir, Shlapentokh, ed. Soviet cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological conflict and social reality. A. de Gruyter, 1993.
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Segovia, Carlos A., ed. Remapping Emergent Islam. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988064.
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This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam’s beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.
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Konrad, Klejsa, and Nurczyńska-Fidelska Ewelina, eds. Kino polskie, reinterpretacje: Historia - ideologia - polityka. Wydawn. "Rabid", 2008.
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Konieczna, Ewelina. Filmowe obrazy szkoły: Pomiędzy ideologia, edukacją a wychowaniem. Impuls, 2011.
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Gorohov, Pavel. Social and philosophical theories in German Idealism. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2049713.
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The textbook not only introduces the reader to the socio-philosophical theories in German idealism, but also gives an overall picture of the ideological, spiritual and ideological connections of the classics of German philosophy with the German culture of that great epoch and its representatives. It is shown how the ideas and concepts of the great Germans were transformed in our complex and contradictory era not only in the philosophical and political-legal concepts of modernity, but also found expression in everyday political practice. The main task of the manual is to show the inextricable genetic connection between the ideas of German idealism and the spiritual life of modern humanity. The problems covered include topical issues of the socio-philosophical heritage of not only I. Kant, I.G. Fichte, F.W.J. Schelling, G.V.F. Hegel, but also other, less well-known, but by no means minor philosophers who worked in the same time period as the classics of German philosophical thought. The textbook is provided with educational and methodological materials. Meets the requirements of the latest generation of federal state standards of higher education. For students studying in the field of Philosophy.
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Mohs, Carlos. Cinematofgrafia [sic] y lucha ideologica: Reflexiones sobre cine en Nicaragua, 1977-87. Escuela de Periodismo, Universidad Centroamericana], 1987.
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Athanasatou, Gianna. Hellēnikos kinēmatographos: (1950-1967) : laikē mnēmē kai ideologia. Finatec, 2001.
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Marrosu, Ambretta. Cine e ideología: La conciencia latinoamericana de la década del sesenta. Ediciones de la Asociación Venezolana de Críticos Cinematográficos, 1985.
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Yurasov, Igor', and Ol'ga Pavlova. Discursive study of Orthodox religious identity. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1021279.
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Considers the problem of the Orthodox religious identity from the point of view of the influence of five types of discourse, widely represented in the Orthodox semiotic picture of the world: philosophical, mythological, artistic, political and ideological. Selected types of religious identity: normative, marginalized, and folkloristically, and determined what type of discourse most pragmatically strongly influences the formation of a type of Orthodox identity. The authors come to the conclusion about the existence in the Russian Federation "rural" and "urban" Orthodox discourses. The first leads to the development of social strain in the area of religious identity and is the base of the formation polarisierung religious identity. The second sets the normative Orthodox identity, avoiding archaism and development of the centaur-ideas. This study was conducted in part supported by RFBR, research project No. 18-011-00164 on "Discursive study of religious identity." 
 Designed for a wide range of sociologists, philologists, cultural studies and religious studies, as well as for a wide circle of readers interested in questions of religion.
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Petroni, Sandra. Lingua, cultura e ideologia nella traduzione di prodotti multimediali (cinema, televisione, web): Atti del convegno internazionale, 4-5 maggio 2006. Aracne, 2007.
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Shlapentokh, Dmitry, and Michael R. Greenberg. Soviet Cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Shlapentokh, Dmitry, and Michael R. Greenberg. Soviet Cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Shlapentokh, Dmitry, and Michael R. Greenberg. Soviet Cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Soviet Cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
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Shlapentokh, Dmitry, and Michael R. Greenberg. Soviet Cinematography, 1918-1991: Ideological Conflict and Social Reality. Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
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Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas. Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
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Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas. Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
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Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas. Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
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Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas. Taylor & Francis Group, 1993.
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Segovia, Carlos A., ed. Remapping Emergent Islam. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9789048561230.
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This multidisciplinary collective volume advances the scholarly discussion on the origins of Islam. It simultaneously focuses on three domains: texts, social contexts, and ideological developments relevant for the study of Islam’s beginnings -- taking the latter expression in its broadest possible sense. The intersections of these domains need to be examined afresh in order to obtain a clear picture of the concurrent phenomena that collectively enabled both the gradual emergence of a new religious identity and the progressive delimitation of its initially fuzzy boundaries.
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Lee, Vivian P. Y. The Other Side of Glamour. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424622.001.0001.
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Since its inception more than a century ago, Hong Kong cinema has been a pre-eminent form of local entertainment and a site of ideological contentions propelled by colonial, national and international politics at different historical junctures. The Other Side of Glamour is a study of the historical development of the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong. In particular, it seeks to reconstruct a more dynamic picture of left-wing film production through closer attention to the entwinement of ideological, artistic, institutional and corporate agendas that informed the practices of filmmakers on both sides of the political divide. The inquiry is informed by the following questions: What does it mean to be on the “left” of the Hong Kong film industry during the Cold War era? How did the left-wing studios balance their artistic, ideological, and commercial agendas in their production and exhibition strategies? What makes a film “left-wing” or “right-wing”? How did national, colonial, and international politics intervene in the ‘making of’ the popular left-wing cinema in Hong Kong? How did the left-wing film establishment in Hong Kong reinvent itself in the post-Cold War, post-Cultural Revolution era? What are the nuanced legacies of the classical left-wing in Hong Kong cinema today? It argues that the left-wing’s institutional character and corporate strategies in the making of a ‘popular left-wing cinema’ are indispensable to an understanding of their nuanced (and often overlooked) legacy in Hong Kong cinema today.
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Spektakl i ideologia: Szkice o filmowych wyobrażeniach śmierci heroicznej. Rabid, 2006.
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Czajkowski, Kimberley, Benedikt Eckhardt, and Meret Strothmann, eds. Law in the Roman Provinces. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844082.001.0001.
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The study of the Roman empire has changed dramatically in the last century. Emphasis is now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than focusing solely on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between periphery and centre are an intrinsic component in our picture of the empire’s function over and against the earlier, top-down model. But where does law fit in to this new, decentralized picture of empire? This volume brings together internationally renowned scholars from legal and historical backgrounds to study the operation of law in each region of the empire from the first century BCE to the end of the third century CE. Regional variation and specificity is explored alongside the emergence of common themes and activities by historical agents. When brought together, a new understanding of law in the Roman empire emerges that balances the practicalities of regional variation with the ideological construct of law and empire.
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Baisotti, Pablo, and Felipe Lagos Rojas, eds. Ideology, Post-Ideology and Anti-Ideology in Latin America. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350300910.
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The Latin American political landscape has already changed substantially in the 21st century.This book offers an approach to the Latin American political panorama that makes room for a post-ideological perspective - exploring its dimensions, main underpinnings, and possibilities - while also subjecting it to criticism and exposing its shortcomings and blind spots. In doing so, it presents a pluralistic view of social and political processes currently taking place in Latin America. Each chapter casts light on the subcontinent's transition from the 20th to the 21st century from different vantage points, countries or regions, and advances comparative lines that enrich our picture of the region as whole. Case studies include Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela and Colombia.
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Ideologija filmske slike: Sociološka analiza partizanskog ratnog spektakla. Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu, 2011.
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Raspad Jugoslavije na filmu: Estetika i ideologija u jugoslovenskom i postjugoslovenskom filmu. XX vek, 2009.
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Wodziński, Marcin. Economy. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190631260.003.0006.
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The self-image of Hasidism as a poor movement, typical of many religious groups in which the founding ethos of the group was in describing itself as untouched by earthly material desires, has been widely accepted in both common wisdom and the scholarship on Hasidism. Based on extensive narrative sources and some quantitative materials, this chapter provides a rich picture of Hasidic groups’ occupational and financial profile, which contradicts this prevailing view that the Hasidim were usually poor and detached from economic activity. It points to the Hasidim’s relative affluence, as well as to their tendency to cluster in the commercial professions and to avoid the crafts. More broadly, it points to the dynamic character of “class/church” interdependence and the ideological and cultural factors creating them. It also confirms the correlation between a religious group’s strictness and its socioeconomic strength and attractiveness.
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Holton, John. Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350399150.
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Examining the period of political consolidation after Alexander the Great’s death, John Holton reconstructs how the successors used new frameworks of royal ideology to create long-term kingships. There is a particular focus on the deeper manoeuvres within the inter-generational impact raging from the influence of religion and family relations, to succession-planning and royal funerals. In this innovative book, Holton expertly reveals how powerful elites either succeeded or failed in creating lasting dynastic power. From the chaos of a collapsing empire to the solidification of a new model for autocratic power, the consolidation of the institution of Hellenistic kingship across the generation of Alexander’s successors (323-276 BC) is comprehensively investigated. With a comparative perspective and detailed studies of diverse evidence, this is the first dedicated study of the consolidation of Hellenistic kingship and the first to put these beginnings in an international context. Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors examines the consolidation of power and the development of mutual framework of royal traditions by the Successors of Alexander the Great across the period 323–276 bc. Focusing particularly on royal ideology and its impact, it explores the dynastic founders Antigonus and Demetrius, Ptolemy, Seleucus, Lysimachus, and Cassander, while also treating their heirs in turn. The book examines topics such as: how consolidation could be achieved in terms of coercive and discursive power, particularly via ideological means; the construction of divine sponsorship under the Successors and how royal and divine power were ambiguated across diverse modes and media; the early Hellenistic development of father-son joint kingship, an innovation in developing a successional mechanism, and the ways in which family structures ideologically supported diarchic rule; and what happens at the end of the generation of Alexander’s Successors as power passes to a new generation, particularly the use of specialised funeral arrangements and spectacular shows of dynastic continuity to negotiate this transition. Together, these studies demonstrate how crucial was the early Hellenistic work on the consolidation of power via a wide range of ideological strategies, which developed into lasting royal traditions in a cross-dynastic setting. Furthermore, the period of Alexander’s Successors had a formative longer-term impact on the development of Hellenistic kingship as a whole, and indeed royal histories beyond this. A companion volume, Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship, explores a range of additional topics to develop this picture further.
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Fischer-Bovet, Christelle, and Sitta von Reden, eds. Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. Cambridge University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108782890.
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The Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires are usually studied separately, or else included in broader examinations of the Hellenistic world. This book provides a systematic comparison of the roles of local elites and local populations in the construction, negotiation, and adaptation of political, economic, military and ideological power within these states in formation. The two states, conceived as multi-ethnic empires, are sufficiently similar to make comparisons valid, while the process of comparison highlights and better explains differences. Regions that were successively incorporated into the Ptolemaic and then Seleucid state receive particular attention, and are understood within the broader picture of the ruling strategies of both empires. The book focusses on forms of communication through coins, inscriptions and visual culture; settlement policies and the relationship between local and immigrant populations; and the forms of collaboration with and resistance of local elites against immigrant populations and government institutions.
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Ansari, Emily Abrams. The Frustrated Activist. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649692.003.0006.
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This chapter presents an account of the composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, who, although constrained significantly by the ideological climate of the 1950s, refused to silence himself politically. Beginning in the last years of the decade, he became increasingly vocal in his support for New Left causes, including the antiwar, antinuclear, and civil rights movements. On State Department–funded conducting tours with the New York Philharmonic, he tried to use music, particularly the Americanist tradition, to challenge US foreign policy. In his compositions, he remained true to musical Americanism, striving earnestly in his art music to continue Copland’s prewar approach. He found a fruitful outlet for his political commitments in his works for musical theater, but his art music compositions present a much more complex and fraught picture. Bernstein was attempting to resist and undermine political nationalism, while simultaneously advancing cultural nationalism. But in the binarized climate of Cold War America, this would not prove easy.
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Adair-Toteff, Christopher, and Stephen Turner, eds. The calling of social thought. Manchester University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526120052.001.0001.
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Edward Shils was an important figure in twentieth century social theory, and a true transatlantic thinker who divided his time between the University of Chicago and the U.K. He was friends with many important thinkers in other fields, such as Michael Polanyi and Saul Bellow. He became known to sociologists through his brief collaboration with Talcott Parsons, but his own thinking diverged both from Parsons and conventional sociology. He developed but never finalized a comprehensive image of human society made up of personal, civic, and sacred bonds. But much of his thought was focused on conflicts: between intellectuals and their societies, between tradition and modernity, ideological conflict, and conflicts within the traditions of the modern liberal democratic state. This book explores the thought of Shils, his relations to key figures, his key themes and ideas, and his abiding interests in such topics as the academic tradition and universities. Together, the chapters provide the most comprehensive picture of Shils as a thinker, and explain his continuing relevance.
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Young, Christopher. Sport in West and North Europe. Edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858910.013.26.
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This chapter examines the development of sport in one of the most significant regions in its history. It explains the institutional reasons why a truly comparative history of the continent is still lacking and presents and critiques fruitful new avenues that might lead to a more integrated picture. Its principle plaidoyer is for greater recognition of sports of non-British origin, as well as the polygenetic spread of British sports, especially in English-language scholarship. It also urges a cautious reconsideration of political and ideological narratives (of the Fascist era in particular), which have tended to reduce complex historical reality to moral truths. While the chapter places a special emphasis on the first half of the twentieth century, it outlines the three key areas of sport’s development after 1945: affluence in the West, the Cold War, and European integration. Here, too, the chapter calls on future accounts to strive for greater complexity.
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Kaswan, Mark J. US Worker Co-operatives. Edited by Jonathan Michie, Joseph R. Blasi, and Carlo Borzaga. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684977.013.37.
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The United States has a long and proud tradition of co-operative labour arrangements. Today, worker co-operatives in the US encompass great diversity, not only in the type and size of enterprise, but also in their objectives and ideological commitments. This, in addition to the fact that the US lacks a consistent national policy as regards co-operatives, makes it challenging for researchers to provide more than a general picture of the sector in the United States. It is, however, clear that, although co-operatives are present in many different sectors, worker co-operatives today make up a very small portion of the US economy. This chapter discusses the historical development and current extent of US worker co-operatives, and the challenges and opportunities for growth and change they face. It also considers the character of the sector in terms of different development models, its role in community/economic development, and its orientation towards democratic social change.
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Chapman, James. Licence to Thrill. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350211124.
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Licence To Thrill is the definitive scholarly study of the full history of the James Bond film series from the first picture, Dr No (1962), to the present. It considers the origins of the films in the spy thrillers of Ian Fleming and examines the production histories of the films in the contexts of the British and international film industries. James Chapman explores how the films have changed over time in response to developments in the wider film culture and society at large. He charts the ever-evolving Bond formula, analysing the films’ representations of nationhood, class and gender in a constantly shifting cinematic and ideological landscape. Licence To Thrill has been described as an ‘indispensable’ work for film historians and Bond fans alike. For this third edition, Chapman has thoroughly updated the existing content, written a new Introduction and added new chapters on the most recent films – Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre and No Time to Die - which star Daniel Craig as Bond.
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Fainberg, Dina, and Artemy Kalinovsky, eds. Reconsidering Stagnation in the Brezhnev Era. Published by Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978725836.
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This volume contributes to a growing reevaluation of the Brezhnev era, helping to shape a new historiography that gives us a much richer and more nuanced picture of the time period than the stagnation paradigm usually assigned to the era. The essays provide a multifaceted prism that reveals a dynamic society with a political and intellectual class that remained committed to the ideological foundations of the state, recognized the challenges that the system faced, and embarked on a creative search for solutions. The chapters focus on developments in politics, society, and culture, as well as the state’s attempts to lead and initiate change, which are mostly glossed over in the stagnation narrative. The volume challenges the assumption that the period as a whole was characterized by rampant cynicism and a decline of faith in the socialist creed and instead points to the persistence of popular engagement with the socialist ideology and the power it continued to wield within the Soviet Union.
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Holton, John. Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350399051.
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What happened to Alexander the Great’s empire when he died, and to the generals and companions that had conquered that empire with him? How did they begin to develop their own power and positions after his death? Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship reconstructs how the development of royal ideologies led to five powerful new kingships after Alexander’s death. It reveals how ideological performances and ongoing competition among the post-Alexander elite created the reality of the long-lasting institution of Hellenistic kingship, which would last for generations and even centuries as the model for autocratic power in the ancient world. A parallel study, Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors, then examines the innovative new traditions of royal ideology that were developed in the consolidation of the new Hellenistic kingships. Ranging from the early regencies and civil wars after Alexander’s death to the formation of multiple independent kingdoms and beyond, the generation of Alexander’s successors (323-276 BC) is comprehensively investigated. With a comparative perspective and detailed studies of diverse evidence, this is the first dedicated study of the beginnings of Hellenistic kingship and the first to put these beginnings in an international context. Alexander’s Successors and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingship examines the development of early Hellenistic kingship by the Successors of Alexander the Great across the period 323-276 BC. Focusing particularly on royal ideology and its impact, it draws the main actors of the period into a joint analytical framework and argues for the emergence of Hellenistic kingship as an international phenomenon. The book examines topics such as: how we can frame a unifying approach to Hellenistic kingship and the importance of ideological performance and competition; the articulation of superior status in the early post-Alexander years, via a detailed study of Craterus’ monument at Delphi; the use of heroic paradigms of rulership and imitatio in the establishment of authority; the creation of Hellenistic kingship via the use of symbolism such as the diadem and the staging of royal accession; and the ideological value of concepts such as ‘spear-won land’ in the emergence of new kingships. Together, these studies demonstrate how a shared vocabulary and syntax of royal ideology developed in the early Hellenistic world, constituting an emergent koine of Hellenistic kingship. Furthermore, the period of Alexander’s Successors had a formative longer-term impact on the development of Hellenistic kingship as a whole, and indeed royal histories beyond this. A companion volume, Royal Traditions and the Consolidation of Power by Alexander’s Successors, explores a range of additional topics to develop this picture further.
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Fèvre, Raphaël. A Political Economy of Power. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197607800.001.0001.
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Today, ordoliberalism is at the center of the ongoing debate about the foundations, the present governance, and future prospects of the European Union—and yet we do not dispose of a comprehensive definition of it. Whenever we talk of the dominance of the German model, the discussion should involve a detailed picture of ordoliberal principles. This book retraces the intellectual history of ordoliberalism, focusing in particular on the works of its main representatives Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke, together with references to the contributions of Franz Böhm, Alexander Rüstow, Leonhard Miksch, and Friedrich Lutz. The book highlights the crucial, albeit overlooked, role of economic and political power in the making of ordoliberal thought. More precisely, the book shows that ordoliberalism, in its ideological, epistemological, theoretical, and political components, can be defined as a political economy of power; that is, as a form of economic knowledge whose primary objective is to analyze the sources, action, and impact of power within society. By doing so, the book will offer a new perspective on ordoliberals’ key concepts built in the interwar period while contextualizing them within a broader intellectual project.
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Baumann, Walter, John Gery, and David McKnight, eds. Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781949979800.001.0001.
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This volume gathers fourteen essays by authors from eight different countries who offer new interpretations on Ezra Pound’s poetics, as well as new perspectives on his critical reception globally. It covers Pound’s work from his beginnings as a young poet in Philadelphia in the early1900s through his most productive years as a poet, critic, and translator, to the first critical treatments of his work in the 1940s and 50s, as well as translations of his poetry into other languages during the last half century. Although in our era such terms as “cross-cultural thinking,” “globalism,” “transnationalism,” and “internationalism” remain fluid and often stir controversy, especially in relation to modernism, the place of Pound as a prominent modernist figure worldwide remains unquestioned. Without attempting to be comprehensive, these essays provide a clear picture of the reach of Pound’s engagement, including the international scope of his literature, his translations, his editorial work on behalf of others, and the diverse historical, social, ideological, interdisciplinary, and theoretical contexts in which he can be read and interpreted. Divided into four categories, Cross-Cultural Ezra Pound considers his early influences, his collaborative, transnational, and interdisciplinary methods, questions of modernist translation (concerning both Pound’s translations and translations of his poetry), and cross-cultural readings of his literary stature.
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Willis, Jim. The Media Effect. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400684159.
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In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them? When those mediated depictions deviate from the truth of the actual situation, how serious a situation is that? Time and again, both anecdotal evidence and scientific research seem to confirm that the news media often influence government action. At the least, they speed up policy making that would otherwise take a slower, more reasoned course. Sometimes the media serve as the communication link among world leaders who may be ideological enemies. Because of the enduring popularity of television news, government leaders monitor the networks' story selections and track public opinion trends generated by interviews done in these stories. These then become the substance of proposed legislation and/or executive action, as politicians strive to prove themselves able listeners to the heartland of America and also prove themselves worthy of re-election. This book examines many specific events that show how major news operations either painted a truthful or distorted picture of national and international events, and how governmental leaders responded following those representations.
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Ansari, Emily Abrams. The Sound of a Superpower. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190649692.001.0001.
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Classical composers seeking to create an American sound enjoyed unprecedented success during the 1930s and 1940s. Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Howard Hanson, and others brought national and international attention to American composers for the first time in history. In the years after World War II, however, something changed. The prestige of musical Americanism waned rapidly as anti-Communists made accusations against leading Americanist composers. Meanwhile, a method of harmonic organization that some considered more Cold War–appropriate—serialism—began to rise in status. For many composers and historians, the Cold War had effectively “killed off” musical Americanism. In this book, the author offers a fuller, more nuanced picture of the effect of the Cold War on Americanist composers. She shows that the ideological conflict brought both challenges and opportunities. Some leftist Americanist composers struggled greatly in this new artistic and political environment, especially as American nationalism increasingly meant American exceptionalism. But composers of all political stripes would find in the federal government a new and unique channel through which to ensure the survival of musical Americanism, as the White House sought to use American music as a Cold War propaganda tool and American composers as cultural diplomats. The Americanists’ efforts to safeguard the reputation of their style would have significant consequences. Ultimately, they effected a rebranding of musical Americanism, with consequences that remain with us today.
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Panou, Nikos, and Hester Schadee, eds. Evil Lords. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199394852.001.0001.
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This edited volume uses the prism of bad rule or tyranny to sharpen our understanding of political discourse from the ancient world to the Renaissance. Eleven chapters present case studies examining Hebrew, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, early, high, and late medieval, and Renaissance conceptions and representations of bad or tyrannical government. Since bad rule is always a perversion of the norm, its shifting conceptualizations shed light on historically specific assessments of what constitutes legitimate and acceptable political behavior. Meanwhile, political debate also reflects specific power structures, authors, and audiences. The book’s chapters, therefore, examine notions of bad rule within the ideological frameworks and societal patterns of the respective periods, thus painting a picture of historical and intellectual change. However, these often profound variations notwithstanding, the book also shows that it is meaningful to think of its subject as a ‘premodern Western tradition’, in the sense of an exchange of ideas. There are shared roots in Greek and biblical thought, and ongoing cross-fertilization spanning two millennia. Moreover, the rationale of both pro- and anti-monarchical discourse by and large derives from virtue ethics, in their Greek, Roman, and Christian incarnations. This reliance on morality as the foundation of political organization only declined in the sixteenth century, which therefore marks the end of the story of tyranny in premodern political thought told in this volume.
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Charnock, Emily J. The Rise of Political Action Committees. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190075514.001.0001.
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This book explores the origins of political action committees (PACs) in the mid-twentieth century and their impact on the American party system. It argues that PACs were envisaged, from the outset, as tools for effecting ideological change in the two main parties, thus helping to foster the partisan polarization we see today. It shows how the very first PAC, created by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1943, explicitly set out to liberalize the Democratic Party by channeling campaign resources to liberal Democrats while trying to defeat conservative Southern Democrats. This organizational model and strategy of “dynamic partisanship” subsequently diffused through the interest group world—imitated first by other labor and liberal allies in the 1940s and 1950s, then adopted and inverted by business and conservative groups in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Previously committed to the “conservative coalition” of Southern Democrats and northern Republicans, the latter groups came to embrace a more partisan approach and created new PACs to help refashion the Republican Party into a conservative counterweight. The book locates this PAC mobilization in the larger story of interest group electioneering, which went from a rare and highly controversial practice at the beginning of the twentieth century to a ubiquitous phenomenon today. It also offers a fuller picture of PACs as not only financial vehicles but electoral innovators that pioneered strategies and tactics that have come to pervade modern US campaigns and helped transform the American party system.
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Clark, J. C. D. Thomas Paine. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198816997.001.0001.
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Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was England’s greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. None combined his roles as activist and theorist, or did so in the ‘age of revolutions’, fundamental as it was to the emergence of the ‘modern world’. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the ‘historic Paine’ was too often obscured by the ‘usable Paine’. This book attempts to explain Paine against a revised background of early and mid-eighteenth-century England. It argues that he knew and learned less about events in America and France than was once thought. It de-attributes a number of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been his own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including anti-slavery, women’s emancipation, and class action) with which he was once associated. And it argues that his formerly obvious association with the early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights, republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result, it offers a picture of radical and reforming movements as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant, political discourses. Delivering ideological change was much harder than used to be supposed.
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Roberts, Rosemary. The Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics". Edited by Li Li. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390892.001.0001.
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This book brings together research on China’s “red classics” across the entire Maoist period through to their re-emergence in the reform era. It critically investigates the changing nature and significance of China’s “red classics” at each point of their (re/)emergence in three key areas: their socio-political and ideological import, their aesthetic significance and their function as a mass cultural phenomenon. The book is organised in two parts in chronological order covering the Maoist period and post-Cultural Revolution respectively, and includes a representative range of genres including novels, short stories, films, TV series, picture books (lianhuanhua), animation and traditional style paintings (guohua). The book illuminates important questions such as: What determined what could and could not become a “red classic”? How was the real revolutionary experience of authors shaped by the regime to create “red classic” works? How were traditional forms incorporated or transformed? How did authors and artist negotiate the treacherous waters of changing political demands? And how did the “red classics adapt to a new political environment and a new readership in new millennium China? While most of the chapters focus primarily on one of the two periods under consideration many also follow the fate of their subject through both periods, creating overall a highly coherent overview of the changing phenomenon of the “red classics” over the seventy-five years since the Yan’an Forum and in the process simultaneously tracing the changing dynamic between the CCP and these classic narratives of the communist revolution.
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Efraim, Sicher. Jew's Daughter. Lexington Books, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978736764.
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A new approach to thinking about the representation of the Other in Western society, The Jew’s Daughter: A Cultural History of a Conversion Narrative offers an insight into the gendered difference of the Jew. Focusing on a popular narrative of “The Jew’s Daughter,” which has been overlooked in conventional studies of European anti-Semitism, this innovative study looks at canonical and neglected texts which have constructed racialized and sexualized images that persist today in the media and popular culture. The book goes back before Shylock and Jessica in TheMerchant of Venice and Isaac and Rebecca in Ivanhoe to seek the answers to why the Jewish father is always wicked and ugly, while his daughter is invariably desirable and open to conversion. The story unfolds in fascinating transformations, reflecting changing ideological and social discourses about gender, sexuality, religion, and nation that expose shifting perceptions of inclusion and exclusion of the Other. Unlike previous studies of the theme of the Jewess in separate literatures, Sicher provides a comparative perspective on the transnational circulation of texts in the historical context of the perception of both Jews and women as marginal or outcasts in society. The book draws on examples from the arts, history, literature, folklore, and theology to draw a complex picture of the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations in England, France, Germany, and Eastern Europe from 1100 to 2017. In addition, the responses of Jewish authors illustrate a dialogue that has not always led to mutual understanding. This ground-breaking work will provoke questions about the history and present state of prejudiced attitudes in our society.
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Ty, Eleanor. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040887.003.0001.
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While the hashtags #Asianfail, #failAsian and #Asianfailure on Tumblr, Instagram and Twitter feature pictures and humorous anecdotes of Asians who "fail" at doing what Asians are supposed to be good at, cooking rice, using chopsticks, excelling in Math, playing the violin, they are poignant reminders of the ideological power of stereotypes. The myth of the model minority, with its stress on economic and professional success continues to influence the way Asian North Americans see themselves and are perceived by others. The first decade of the twenty-first century has been characterized by economic instability and political insecurity that has resulted in a life of precarity and unhappiness for young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians, but it has also given rise to books and films that contest normative scripts of ethnic identity.