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Romaine Brooks
The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874–1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been …
Hellenistic Poetry
The main aim of this book is to bring Hellenistic poetry to life for the contemporary reader. The selection of poems reflects the wide range of poetic genres, styles, themes and …
Jean-Luc Godard
In this biography, now translated into English for the first time, Bert Rebhandl provides a balanced evaluation of the work of one of the most original and influential film …
The Best Weapon for Peace
The Italian educator and physician Maria Montessori (1870-1952) is best known for the teaching method that bears her name. She was also a lifelong pacifist, although historians …
Migration and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia
Scandinavian societies have historically, and problematically, been understood as homogeneous, when in fact they have a long history of ethnic and cultural pluralism due to …
Carl Schmitt and the Jews
German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred …
Charlottengrad
As many as half a million Russians lived in Germany in the 1920s, most of them in Berlin, clustered in and around the Charlottenburg neighborhood to such a degree that it became …
Animals Under the Swastika
Never before or since have animals played as significant a role in German history as they did during the Third Reich. Potato beetles and silkworms were used as weapons of war, pigs …
A Visit to Priapus and Other Stories
Just as E. M. Forster's novel of gay love, Maurice, remained unpublished throughout his lifetime, Glenway Wescott's long story ""A Visit to Priapus"" was also destined to be a …
Jews, Turks, and Other Strangers
This text explores the causes of prejudice against Jews, foreign workers, refugees and emigrant Germans in contemporary Germany. Legge challenges the notion that German xenophobia …
Gaston Bachelard Subvers Human
Gaston Bachelard, who died in 1962, left 12 works on the philosophy of science, nine on the poetic imagination, and two on time and consciousness, written in an image-laden style …