In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the ......
In The Fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov seeks to examine both generic theory and a particular genre, moving back and forth between a poetics of the fantastic itself and a metapoetics or theory of theorizing, even as he suggest that one must, as a critic, move back and forth between theory and history, between idea and fact. His work on the fantastic is ......
The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung-the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms-developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. The word would be translated into English as "empathy" and migrate in meaning from the aesthetic to the interpersonal sphere. Combining close analysis and ......
The Feeling of the Form explores the concept of Einfuehlung-the projection of human feelings and life into inanimate forms-developed by German aesthetic theorists in the late nineteenth century. The word would be translated into English as "empathy" and migrate in meaning from the aesthetic to the interpersonal sphere. Combining close analysis and ......
Winner of the New South Wales Premier's History Awards, General History Prize (2022) The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing Filipino migrants as critics of the family and cultural ......
The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups. Mina Roces suggests alternative ways of conceptualizing Filipino migrantsas critics of the family and cultural constructions of sexuality, as consumers and investors, as philanthropists, as ......
Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany
The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog" at the brink of gaping coal pits became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology: campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises East Germany's political system could not resolve. Notorious by the late 1980s as "the filthiest ......
Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany
The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog" at the brink of gaping coal pits became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology: campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises East Germany's political system could not resolve. Notorious by the late 1980s as "the filthiest ......
Kekkonen, Kennedy, and Krushchev's Cold War Showdown
The Finnish Front Line is a historical biography of Urho Kekkonen, the eighth and longest-serving president of Finland. The most controversial as well as the most misunderstood figure in Finnish history, Kekkonen governed Finland for twenty-five years from 1956 to 1981. Gordon F. Sander focuses on Kekkonen's pivotal first term as president, ......
