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    The Lost World of Unspoken Horrors: Aharon Appelfeld’s Holocaust Universe
    Abramovich, D (Hybrid publishers, 2023-12-04)
    This volume offers a close reading of five novels by Aharon Appelfeld (1982-2018), Israel’s most celebrated Shoah author. Fuelled by a desire to introduce this literary giant to foreign language readers, this illuminating collection of essays is a tribute to a prolific writer who, for more than four decades, won international acclaim for his subtle and enigmatic novels, which shimmer with premonitions of the unimaginable horror to come. Overflowing with lucid insights, this deeply reflective study demonstrates how Appelfeld’s stories, usually set in the years immediately before and after the destruction of European Jewry, transform memory into fiction and encase within their midst unfathomable depths in the search for meaning and healing.
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    Albrecht Dürer's Material World
    Wouk, EH ; Spinks, J ; Wouk, EH ; Spinks, J (Manchester University Press, 2023)
    The painter and printmaker Albrecht Dürer is one of the most important figures of the German Renaissance. This book accompanies the first major exhibition of the Whitworth art gallery's outstanding Dürer collection in over half a century. It offers a new perspective on Dürer as an intense observer of the worlds of manufacture, design and trade that fill his graphic art. Artworks and artefacts examined here expose understudied aspects of Dürer's art and practice, including his attentive examination of objects of daily domestic use, his involvement in economies of local manufacture and exchange, the microarchitectures of local craft and, finally, his attention to cultures of natural and philosophical inquiry and learning.
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    Plague in Antiquity
    Jamieson, A ; Tully, C ; Hitchcock, L (Peeters Publishers, 2023)
    This volume came about based on the recognition that the rise and spread of Covid-19, in order to both take advantage of the authors’ lived experiences and to situate the world’s recent experience of plague and its effects within a long-term historical framework as provided.by the texts and archeological evidence of the ancient Near East, Asia, and the Mediterranean. Our research has lead contemporary scholarship to consider the possibility that there will be an increasing acceleration of new and highly transmissible plagues, viruses and other diseases linked to the mass travel and trade that characterizes hyper-globalisation. As historians and archaeologists studying the civilisations of the most distant past, we felt that we had something to contribute to this conversation through providing a historical perspective, with the twin goals of relieving the social anxiety caused by pandemics and taking advantage of our present experiences to see how we might view our own research in a fresh, new light. Archaeologists and scholars of ancient history know that epidemic plagues and other environmental catastrophes are nothing new: disease and illness are clearly represented in the archaeological and historical record.
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    Shal'burg: patriot-predatel'
    Kirkebæk, M ; Beyda, O (Nestor-Istoriia, 2022)
    The Russian translation of the award-winning biography of Christian Frederik von Schalburg - top Danish National Socialist, collaborator, and a Russian emigre. Originally published as Schalburg: En Patriotisk Landsforæder (Gyldendal, 2008). The book won multiple awards for literature and was nominated to the 'Best Book in History' prize (Royal Ministry of Culture).
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    Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Volume 7, No. 2
    Fedor, J ; Umland, A ; Makarychev, A ; Yurchuk, Y ; Umland, A ; Makarychev, A ; Fedor, J ; Yurchuk, Y (ibidem, 2022-03-07)
    This issue includes the fifth special section in our series 'Issues in the History and Memory of the OUN' and the second instalment of 'A Debate on "Ustashism", Generic Fascism and the OUN', both guest edited by Andreas Umland and Yuliya Yurchuk.
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    French Revolution: The Basics
    von Guttner, D (Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group), 2021)
    French Revolution is an accessible and concise introduction to the history of the revolution in France. Combining a traditional narrative of with documents of the era and references to contemporary imagery of the revolution, the book traces the long and short term causes of the French Revolution as well as its consequences up to the dissolution of the Convention and the ascendancy of Napoleon. The book is written with an explicit aim for its reader to acquire understanding of the past whilst imparting knowledge using the underlying the historical concepts such as evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, significance, empathy, perspectives, and contestability. Key topics discussed within the book include: The structure of French society before 1789. The long- and short-term factors that contributed to the French Revolution. How ordinary French people, including women and slaves participated in the revolution. What brought about the end of the ancien regime. The major reforms of the National Assembly, 1789-1791 and how they lead to the division and radicalisation of the revolution. How did the alternative visions of the new society divide the revolution and what were the internal and external pressures on the revolution that contributed to its radicalisation. The forms of terror which enabled reality triumph over the idealism. The rise of Napoleon Bonaparte as military leader and Emperor. This book is an ideal introduction for anyone wishing to learn more about this influential revolution in the shaping of modern Europe and the world.
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    Aëtiana V: An Edition of the Reconstructed Text of the Placita with a Commentary and a Collection of Related Texts
    Mansfeld, J ; Runia, DT ; Mansfeld, J ; Runia, D (Brill, 2020)
    The present edition and commentary on the Placita has been a very long time in the making. In the case of Jaap Mansfeld, its origins go as far back as the research he did on ps.Hippocrates De hebdomadibus in the late 1960’s.1 David Runia first came into contact with doxographical texts when analysing Philo of Alexandria’s puzzling work De aeternitate mundi in the late 1970’s.2 We made the decision to work together on the Aëtian Placita in 1989 and the project entitled ‘Aëtiana: the Method and Intellectual Context of a Doxographer’ was born. The present volume consisting of four parts is the project’s culmination. Four preparatory volumes (in five parts) have preceded it.3 We will not again describe the project’s origins and development. The interested reader is referred to the Introduction to Volume 4, where a full account is given.
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    Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850
    Dalton, H ; Dalton, H (Amsterdam University Press, 2020)
    Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile, 1550-1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over a three hundred year period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.