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From Out of the Smokies
Knoxville native Charlie Tombras may be best known for his fifty-seven-year leadership of the nationally recognized advertising firm the Tombras Group, but in his moving memoir, …
A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Classical World
Though many of the sexual practices of the Ancient Greeks and Romans are known and accepted today, the meanings the Ancients associated with these acts were often utterly …
The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus
Cicero's Brutus (46 BCE), a tour-de-force of intellectual and political history, was written amidst political crisis: Caesar's defeat of the republican resistance at the battle of …
Visualizing Spanish Modernity
While the simultaneously creative and destructive forces of modernity in Western Europe have been well studied, the case of Spain has often been overlooked. Visualizing Spanish …
A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a time when people began to take stock of their intrinsic worth as individuals. Of course, slaves were still property, servants and apprentices were …
Die Hochzeit von Philipp Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg und Anna von Juelich-Kleve-Berg (1574)
Gegenstand dieser Publikation sind die narrativen Beschreibungen zur Neuburger Hochzeitsfeier 1574, die bislang weder editorisch noch gattungsanalytisch erschlossen wurden. Die …
The World of Tacitus' Dialogus de Oratoribus
Coming to terms with the rhetorical arts of antiquity necessarily illuminates our own ideas of public discourse and the habits of speech to which they have led. Tacitus wrote the …
A Cultural History of Food in the Renaissance
Food and attitudes toward it were transformed in Renaissance Europe. The period between 1300 and 1600 saw the discovery of the New World and the cultivation of new foodstuffs, as …
Children of Colonialism
Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of unions involving European men and local women. …
Fashioning Socialism
Fashioning Socialism is the first history of communist fashion in East Germany. Using clothing as a lens to read society, the author unveils wider tensions between the regime and …
A Cultural History of Food in Antiquity
From Archaic Greece until the Late Roman Empire (c. 800 BCE to c. 500 CE), food was more than a physical necessity; it was a critical factor in politics, economics and culture. On …
Writing the History of the Global
The early part of the twenty-first century has witnessed a profound turn in history writing and museum culture towards global and world history. Historians and curators are rapidly …