Women's emancipation movements in the nineteenth century : a European perspective

Europa

Concepts and issues / Challenging male hegemony / Karen Offen -- Recovering lost political cultures / History and historiography of first-wave femenism in the Netherlands, 1860-1922 / French feminist movement and republicanism, 1868-1914 / Women's movement in Germany in an international context / Modernity and the Norwegian women's movement from the 1880s to 1914 / Gender and feminism in Sweden / Emancipation of women for the benefit of the nation / Sisters or foes / Polish women's movement to 1914 / Feminism and equality in an authoritarian state / Rise of the women's movement in nineteenth-century Spain / National and gender identit in turn-of-the century Greece / British and American feminism / Women's emancipation movements in Europe in the long nineteenth century

Rights of personality in Scots law : a comparative perspective

Rights of personality in Scots law : issues and options / Unity in diversity : the history of personality rights in Scots law / Overview of rights of personality in Scots law / Protection of personality rights in the modern Scots law of delict / Protection of personality interests in continental Europe : the example of France, Germany and Italy, and a European perspective / Personality rights in South Africa : re-affirming dignity / Personality rights and English law / Does intellectual property have personality? / The Scots law of defamation : is there a need for reform? / Personality, privacy and autonomy in medical law / A rights of personality database / A hitchhiker's guide to personality rights in Scots law, mainly with regard to privacy

Women's emancipation movements in the nineteenth century : a European perspective

Concepts and issues / Challenging male hegemony / Karen Offen -- Recovering lost political cultures / History and historiography of first-wave femenism in the Netherlands, 1860-1922 / French feminist movement and republicanism, 1868-1914 / Women's movement in Germany in an international context / Modernity and the Norwegian women's movement from the 1880s to 1914 / Gender and feminism in Sweden / Emancipation of women for the benefit of the nation / Sisters or foes / Polish women's movement to 1914 / Feminism and equality in an authoritarian state / Rise of the women's movement in nineteenth-century Spain / National and gender identit in turn-of-the century Greece / British and American feminism / Women's emancipation movements in Europe in the long nineteenth century

European politics today : the democratic experience

Introduction : the triumph of democracy in Europe? -- Britain -- Social change and tradition in Britain -- British citizens and politics -- British political parties and interest groups -- British policy making -- Democracy in Britain -- France -- France : the historical and social background to politics -- French citizens and politics -- Grench policial parties and interest groups -- French policy making -- Democracy in France -- Federal Republic of Germany -- Democracy in a hostile setting : German history and society -- Citizens and politics in Germany -- German political parties and interest groups -- German policy making -- From "The German problem" to "Model Germany"? -- Italy -- The background to italian politics -- Citizens and politics in Italy -- Italian political parties and interest groups -- Italian policy making -- The performance of the "unstable" Italian Republic -- A new Europe? -- European unity : building a new Europe -- European Union institutions -- The European Union and "Agenda 2000" -- Conclusion.

The Reformation

Aventure de la réforme. English.

Introduction : revelation and the sacred in Christianity / A long exodus / Latin Christendom : a single society of men and states / The pre-Reformation climate / From humanism to Reformation / Luther and Europe / Zwingli / Calvin / The consolidation of the Reformation in Europe / The establishment of the Reformation in Switzerland / Italy and Spain : diffusion, failure and survival of Reforming convictions / France : failure or spiritual heritage? / The spread of the Reformation in Germany and Scandinavia (1530-1620) / The Rhineland success / England : the "via media" / Puritan dissent / The spread of the Reformation in eastern and northern Europe / Protestant orthodoxy / Daily life and the Reformed Church / Men and ideas on the margin of history / The rise of the schoolmaster / The Council of Trent and Catholic Reformation / Conclusion : the fate of the Reformation

Shadows of war : a social history of silence in the twentieth century

Thinking about silence / The social sound of silence : toward a sociology of denial / Europe. Breaking the silence? : Memory and oblivion since the Spanish Civil War / In the ashes of disgrace : guilt versus shame revisited / Olick ; On silence, madness, and lassitude : negotiating the past in post-war West Germany / Africa. Silences on state violence during the Algerian War of Independence : France and Algeria, 1962-2007 / African silences : negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914-2009 / Now that all is said and done : reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa / The Middle East. Facing history : denial and the Turkish national security concept / Imposed silences and self-censorship : Palmach soldiers remember 1948 / Forgetting the Lebanon War? : On silence, denial, and the selective remembrance of the "First" Lebanon War

Early modern cultures of translation

Translating the language of architecture.

Introduction / Translating the language of architecture / Translating the rest of Ovid : the exile poems / Macaronic verse, plurilingual printing, and the uses of translation / Erroneous mappings : Ptolemy and the visualization of Europe's East / Taking out the women : Louise Labé's Folie in Robert Greene's translation / Translation and homeland insecurity in Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew : an experiment in unsafe reading / On contingency in translation / The social and cultural translation of the Hebrew Bible in early modern England : reflections, working principles, and examples / Conversion, communication, and translation in the seventeenth-century Protestant Atlantic / Full. empty. stop. go. : translating miscellany in early modern China / Katherine Philips's Pompey (1663) ; or the importance of being a translator / Translating Scottish stadial history : William Robertson in late eighteenth-century Germany / Coda : translating Cervantes today

Early modern cultures of translation

Translating the language of architecture.

Translating the language of architecture / Translating the rest of Ovid : the exile poems / Macaronic verse, plurilingual printing, and the uses of translation / Erroneous mappings : Ptolemy and the visualization of Europe's East / Taking out the women : Louise Labé's Folie in Robert Greene's translation / Translation and homeland insecurity in Shakespeare's The taming of the shrew : an experiment in unsafe reading / On contingency in translation / The social and cultural translation of the Hebrew Bible in early modern England : reflections, working principles, and examples / Conversion, communication, and translation in the seventeenth-century Protestant Atlantic / Full. empty. stop. go. : translating miscellany in early modern China / Katherine Philips's Pompey (1663) ; or the importance of being a translator / Translating Scottish stadial history : William Robertson in late eighteenth-century Germany / Coda : translating Cervantes today

The world of caffeine : the science and culture of the world's most popular drug

Caffeine in history -- Coffee : Arabian origins -- Tea : Asian origins -- Cacao : American origins -- Europe wakes up to caffeine -- Monks and men-at-arms : Europe's first caffeine connections -- The caffeine trade supplants the spice trade : tea and coffee come to the west -- The late adopters : Germany, Russia, and Sweden join in -- Judgments of history : medical men debate caffeine -- Postscript : why did caffeine come when it came? -- The culture of caffeine -- Islands of caffeine (1) : Japan : the tradition of tea, the novelty of coffee -- Islands of caffeine (2) : England : caffeine and Empire -- The endless simmer : America and the twentieth century do caffeine -- Caffeine culture and Le fin de Millénaire -- The natural history of caffeine -- Caffeine in the laboratory -- Caffeine and the plant kingdom : "My vegetable love" -- Caffeine and health -- Caffeine and the body : health effects, reproductive issues, and fitness -- Thinking over caffeine : cognition, learning, and emotional well-being -- Caffeine dependence, intoxication, and toxicity.

Trust and proof : translators in renaissance print culture

Library of the written word. Handpress world ;

Translators' Rhetorics: Dedication and Imitatio -- Social Transmission of Translations in Renaissance Italy: Strategies of Dedication / Monkey Business: Imitatio and Translators' Visibility in Renaissance Europe / Rhetorical Ethos and the Translating Self in Early Modern England / Transcultural Translations -- Multi-Version Texts and Translators' Anxieties: Imagined Readers in John Florio's Bilingual Dialogues / "No Stranger in Foreign Lands": Francisco de Hollanda and the Translation of Italian Art and Art Theory / Authors, Translators, Printers: Production and Reception of Novels between Manuscript and Print in Fifteenth-Century Germany / Refraining Idolatry in Zapotec: Dominican Translations of the Christian Doctrine in Sixteenth-Century Oaxaca / Women Translating in Renaissance Europe -- Paratextual Economies in Tudor Women's Translations: Margaret More Roper, Mary Roper Basset and Mary Tudor / Translating Eloquence: History, Fidelity, and Creativity in the Fairy Tales of Marie-Jeanne Lheritier / Women Translators and Print Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany

The Cambridge companion to the modern German novel

Cambridge companions to literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

German novel in the long twentieth century / Contexts of the novel: society, politics and culture in German-speaking Europe, 1870 to the present / novel in Wilhelmine Germany: from realism to satire / Gender anxiety and the shaping of the self in some modernist writers: Musil, Hesse, Hofmannsthal, Jahnn / Franz Kafka: the radical modernist / Modernism and the Bildungsroman: Thomas Mann's magic mountain / Apocalypse and utopia in the Austrian novel of the 1930s: Hermann Broch and Robert Musil / Images of the city / Women writers in the 'golden' twenties / first world war and its aftermath in the German novel / German novel during the third Reich / History, memory, fiction after the second world war / Aesthetics and resistance: BoÌll, Grass, Weiss / kleiner Mann and modern times: from Fallada to Walser / 'critical' novel in the GDR / Identity and authenticity in Swiss and Austrian novels of the postwar era: Max Frisch and Peter Handke / Subjectivity and women's writing of the 1970s and early 1980s / postmodern German novel

New compass of the world : a symposium on political geography.

Political geography

Introduction: History : geography set in motion -- The Arctic and Antarctic spheres: The Soviet Union moves North / Canada : power vacuum, or pivot area? / The Antarctic sphere of interest / The heartland and the expansion of the U.S.S.R.: Heartland revisited / Marginal and interior lands of the Old World / The Soviet Union as a sea power / The rail, water, and air transport system of the Soviet Union / Yakutia and the future of the North / The Western frontiers of Russia / Population prospects of the Soviet Union / New frontiers in Central Europe: The political geography of Germany and Austria / TVA on the Danube? / The rise and decline of German "Lebensraum" / Strategic areas and life lines: Strategic bases / Life lines of the British Empire / Asia : one half of mankind: China's prospects / Inner Asian frontiers / The political geography of the new India / Population trends and the world's biological resources / Population changes in South and East Asia / Demographic imperatives for the peace in the former Japanese Empire / Science, the new machinery, and the population of Asia