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Bishop von Galen
German Catholicism and National Socialism
Clemens August Graf von Galen, Bishop of Münster from 1933 until his death in 1946, is renowned for his opposition to Nazism, most notably for his public preaching in 1941 against Hitler’s euthanasia project to rid the...
Symbolic Forms and Cultural Studies
Ernst Cassirer's Theory of Culture
Cassirer thought of culture anthropologically as the entire complex of human modes of meaning and existence: it encompassed science, technology, language, and social life in addition to art, religion, and philosophy. This...
Negotiating Daily Life in Traditional China
How Ordinary People Used Contracts, 600-1400
This intriguing book explores how ordinary people in traditional China used contracts to facilitate the transactions of their daily lives, as they bought, sold, rented, or borrowed land, livestock, people, or money. In the...
Guns and Rubles
The Defense Industry in the Stalinist State
For this book a distinguished team of economists and historians—R. W. Davies, Paul R. Gregory, Andrei Markevich, Mikhail Mukhin, Andrei Sokolov, and Mark Harrison—scoured formerly closed Soviet archives to discover...
Treasure-House of the Language
The Living OED
The untold history of the celebrated Oxford English Dictionary and its makers, from the first edition’s completion in 1928 to the present day The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today...
The Phoenix and the Flame
Catalonia and the Counter Reformation
It is commonly assumed that the Counter-Reformation touched Spain only lightly, affecting the religious institutions but not the ordinary Spaniards. Henry Kamen now challenges this view by providing an intimate look at what...
Complaining, Teasing, and Other Annoying Behaviors
A close look at the mean, nasty, and annoying things people do to one another and how the painful impact of these behaviors can be reduced Everyone has teased, nagged, betrayed, or lied to another person...
Spy Capitalism
ITEK and the CIA
What happens when the world of venture capital collides with the world of espionage? To find the answer, Jonathan E. Lewis takes us inside the executive suite at Itek Corporation during the Cold War years from 1957 to...
Importing Poverty?
Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural America
American agriculture employs some 2.5 million workers during a typical year, most for fewer than six months. Three fourths of these farm workers are immigrants, half are unauthorized, and most will leave seasonal farm...
Bridge Across Broken Time
Chinese and Jewish Cultural Memory
In this remarkable book, Vera Schwarcz explores the meanings of cultural memory within the two longest surviving civilizations on earth. The author of previous books that the New York Times Book Review called "moving"...