The Baltic German Literary Contribution in the 1780s and 1790s
Andrew Blumbergs
ISBN13: 9781604975567
Date: 28-Dec-08
In the second half of the eighteenth century, an intellectual discourse developed in Livonia which shed light on the disastrous social conditions of the indigenous population. This book examines the premise that the resulting “nationalization” of the Latvians occurred in the 1780s and 1790s as a result of a German Enlightenment in Livonia.
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The Personal Governance of Sir Arthur Hamilton Gordon (Lord Stanmore)
Colin Newbury
ISBN13: 9781604976670
Date: 28-Jan-10
This study of an icon in imperial historiography is both innovative and revisionist. It treats the life of a man whose career covered six dependencies at different stages of political development as a case study in imperial clientage in ways that challenge the stereotypes of “despotic” power in the Victorian colonies. With few exceptions, there are no comparable books dealing with crown colony governorships in this manner.
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Being Russian in Israel
Elana Gomel
ISBN13: 9781604975987
Date: 28-Feb-09
Written by Elana Gomel, senior lecturer at Tel-Aviv University, this is an original and exciting investigation of the Russian community in Israel. It analyzes the narratives through which Russian Jewry defines itself and connects them to the legacy of Soviet history.
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The Former Shu Regime
Hongjie Wang
ISBN13: 9781604977646
Date: 18-Jun-11
This book sheds much light on the complicated national politics and intricate interstate relations of the divided tenth-century China. It examines how Wang Jian, a military governor of Tang, rose to power from obscurity in the chaotic late ninth century and founded an empire in what is today’s Sichuan province in the early tenth century.
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