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| AFRICAN CUSTOM & WESTERN LAW : The Development of the Rhodesian Criminal Law for Africans [Emmet V Mittlebeeler] Following the 1898 Southern Rhodesia Order in Council which effectively removed all criminal authority from the traditional African courts of Rhodesia, sole criminal jurisdiction was exercised by the European courts. This volume is a history of court decisions in the area in which African cus-tom and Western law clashed most forcibly -- marriage regulations, sexual offences, witch-craft and homicide. In each of these areas, Professor Mittle-beeler presents the significant cases and ju-dicial opinions, statutory enactments, and surrounding legislative debate. Reconstruct-ing Rhodesia's legal history, he is constantly concerned with the interplay of African cus-tom and Western law. In his effort to chart the ways in which custom was thwarted, ac-commodated, or supported, he presents each case in detail, supplementing the sketchier accounts with anthropological information. Whether tracing the uncertain evolution of matrimonial law -- which attempted to ac-commodate some traditional practice -- or the all-out effort to eliminate witchcraft -- which decisively reversed customary values -- Mittlebeeler provides a comprehensive view of the forces that have moved partici-pants on both sides of the conflict and a careful record of the shifting resolutions that have been reached in the past seventy years. In his effort to clarify beliefs and mo-tives, he explores such varied phenomena as African resistance to marriage registration, reverence for diviners, demands of bureau-cratic administration, and the threat to po-litical authority posed by witchcraft. In presenting each case, he examines the cus-tom which may lie behind the violation of Western law -- "seedbearing" in an alleged act of adultery, fertility sacrifice encompassed in ritual murder, martial rights exercised in an alleged rape – and the doctrines, conscious and unconscious, which judges have followed and legislators enjoined. Although as a legal historian the author focuses upon particular cases and statutes, in a lengthy concluding section he turns to the actual administration of law in Rho-desia, and the problems which confront any African government -- black or white -- in at-tempting to reconcile traditional beliefs with modernity and forge some measure of na-tional unity. Rhodesia's legal history is pecu-liarly its own, but what can be learned from that history extends well beyond Rhodesia's boundaries. { 248pp, 145x225mm, January 2008; HB, £25.00, 0841901074:9780841901070 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| AFRICAN SPACES : Designs for Living in Upper Volta [Jean-Paul Bourdier & Trinh T Minh-Ha] The diversity and complexity of African vernacular architecture remain widely unknown both to the general public and to architects. Yet Upper Volta (Burkino Faso) encompasses an astonishing variety of design principles and building techniques that belie the widespread image of the primitive hut so readily associated with rural Africa. This provides a convincing interpretation of the relationship between spatial organisation and daily activity in Gurunsi life. { 229pp, 280x240mm, January 1985; HB, £49.95, 0841908907:9780841908901 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| AMERICA'S CENTURY : Perspectives on US History Since 1900 [Iwan W Morgan & Neil A Wynn (eds)] More than any other nation, the US has shaped the course of world history during the 20th century which has been referred to as 'The American Century'. In this absorbing and accessible book, leading scholars of American history examine the century as a whole, highlighting the continuities underlying the cyclical change and apparent diversity that have marked America's development since 1900. { 359pp, 140x215mm, January 1993; HB, £35.00, 084191303X:9780841913035 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| BATTLE OF NORMANDY : The Falaise Gap [James Lucas & James Barker] The Battle of the Falaise Pocket was a disaster for the Germans in August 1944. This books sets the battle in the context of Allied Strategy in Northern Europe. Having set the scene, the readers is led through each phase of the action. The particular strength is that it draws heavily on German sources giving the reader a penetrating insight into an army trapped in a killing ground. { 172pp, 158x240mm, January 1940; HB, £24.95, 0841904189:9780841904187 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| BETWEEN HASHEMITES & ZIONISTS : The Struggle for Palestine, 1908-1988 [Martin Sicker] This book is an attempt to cut through the polemical fog that has beset key aspects of the Arab-Israeli issue by recalling the essential background of the problem in its real rather than imaginary political context. Only by understanding the real issues behind the conflict can there be hope of ever finding a means of resolving it. { 176pp, 160x235mm, January 1989; HB, £25.00, 0841911762:9780841911765 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| CHRISTIANS & JEWS IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- TWO VOLUME SET [Benjamin Braude & Bernard Lewis (eds)] This two-volume set explores the history of Christians and Jews in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire and how their identities as non-Muslims evolved over four hundred years. At the start of this period, in the sixteenth century, social community was circumscribed by religious identity and non-Muslims lived within the hierarchy established by Muslim law. In the nineteenth century, however, in response to Western influences, a radical change took place. Conflict erupted between Muslims and Christians in different parts of the empire in a challenge to that hierarchy. This marked the beginning, as the author illustrates, of the tensions which have to a large extent inspired the nationalist and religious rhetoric in the empire’s successor states throughout the twentieth century. In this way, Masters negotiates the present through the past. His book will make a major contribution to an understanding of the political and religious conflicts of the modern Middle East. Features: An innovative approach which considers the role of religion in defining identity in pre-modern Middle East; Explains the origins of nationalism among Arabic-speaking peoples and casts light on the roots of violence in the modern Middle East; Written by an established scholar of Ottoman and Christian studies. { 697pp, 155x230mm, January 1982; HB, £65.00, 0841905193:9780841905191 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| COLLAPSE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC, 2ND EDITION : Political, Economy & Crisis [David Abraham] Analysing the conflicts within and between organised industrial and agricultural forces in Germany as well as those between capital and labour, the author shows how these conflicts made it impossible for a coherent political force to emerge to hold the democratic republic together and how, after a period of costly cooperation with labour, and faced with unacceptable alternatives, Germany's elites found unity in a dictatorship that removed the working class from politics and obliged the dominant classes to abdicate all but their economic interests. { 352pp, 152x228mm, December 1987; PB, £14.95, 0841911185:9780841911185 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| CONTAGION OF MATTER [Valerio Magrelli; Translated by Anthony Molino] Magrelli writes with a capacious grasp of the enormous, still-to-be discovered potentialities of the great treasure house of Italian. His poetry is a soliloquy written with a pencil and small notebook during the latest and most silent hours of the night. It is poetry that looks at itself, but at the sight of its thought, vanishes. Here, a great deal of precious cargo has made it intact to the shores of the English-speaking world, and we are enriched by the arrival of such rich, strange and new matter. { 171pp, 125x195mm, January 2000; PB, £11.95, 0841914001:9780841914001 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| CONVERSION TO ISLAM [Nehemia Levtzion (ed)] Across the barriers of climate and culture in Asia and Africa, Islam has won converts and has been adopted by entire ethnic groups. From its dramatic emergence in the Arabian Peninsula in the 7th century to its spread across Africa in modern times, Islam has had a major impact on all forms of life. The essays in the volume span 13 centuries of Islam history. The important distinctions between conversion through military conquest and that through social and political action are discussed together with Islam's role its encounter with other religions. { 272pp, 160x235mm, January 1989; HB, £29.95, 0841903433:9780841903432 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| DAUGHTERS OF SARAH : Anthology of Jewish Women Writing in French [Eva M Sartori & Madeleine Cottenet-Hage (eds)] Translated into English. This book doesn't just fill a niche, it opens up a new perspective on the relations among Jewishness, gender and modernity in Europe. It will certainly spark new and creative thinking by anyone wise or lucky enough to dip into its contents. The writings are made all the more valuable by an excellent introduction that provides a context for the history of Jews and women in France as well as the position of women with the Jewish tradition. { 269pp, 152x228mm, January 2006; PB, £10.99, 0841914451:9780841914452 / HB, £24.00, 0841914362:9780841914360 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| DESTRUCTION OF THE EUROPEAN JEWS [Paul Hilberg] First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanised further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies. This revised and expanded edition of Hilberg's classic work extends the scope of his study and includes 80,000 words of new material, particularly from recently opened archives in eastern Europe, added over a lifetime of research. It is the definitive work of a scholar who has devoted more than 50 years to exploring and analysing the realities of the Holocaust. Spanning the 12-year period of anti-Jewish actions from 1933 to 1945, Hilberg's study encompasses Germany and all the territories under German rule or influence. Its principal focus is on the large number of perpetrators -- civil servants, military personnel, Nazi party functionaries, SS men, and representatives of private enterprises -- in the machinery of death. { 360pp, 152x228mm, January 1985; PB, £13.95, 0841909105:9780841909106 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| DUNKIRK : Anatomy of Disaster [Patrick Turnbull] The author takes a professional military historian's view of the ten months from the declaration of war to what he considers to be the defeat of Dunkirk. It is enhanced by the vivid and poignant memories of day-to-day sufferings endured by the men involved as well the courage and despair shown. His account of those months does not make for comfortable history but it does shed a sane light on what has become folk mythology -- a confused and painful part of history. { 186pp, 160x240mm, December 1978; HB, £24.95, 0841903964:9780841903968 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| EAST AFRICA & THE ORIENT : Cultural Syntheses in Pre-Colonial Times [H Neville Chittick & Robert I Rotberg (eds)] It is now apparent that East Africa cannot be viewed in isolation if its early history is to be adequately understood. Arabic, Indian, and Chinese influences have been discovered in the East African cultures, and evidence has shown that from about 100 B.C. the coastal fringe of eastern Africa was economically and culturally an integral part of the Indian Ocean basin. The available evidence relating to these early con-tacts is so scattered, however, that historians and archaeologists must rely on the findings of numerous related disciplines. The contributors to this volume make ingenious use of anthropological, geographical, ethnographical, zoological, linguistic, numismatic, and musicol-ogical evidence as they develop new historio-graphical techniques to open this challenging area of inquiry. Among them are the leading specialists in their respective fields: H Neville Chittick, Vinigi Grottanelli, Paul Wheatley, J S Trimingbam, Gervase Mathew, Pierre Wrin, Aldan Southall, Merrick Posnansky, James Kirkman, and Michael Gwynne. The topics in-vestigated include: the peopling of the East African coast, Chinese knowledge of East Africa, the Arab geographers, the problem of Malagasy origins, connections between the lacustrine peoples and the coast, and the origin and spread of various domestic food plants. Although there remain as many questions as answers, this volume serves as a vital summa-tion of our current knowledge and points the way toward further fruitful research in African history. { 343pp, 145x210mm, January 1975; HB, £30.00, 0841901422:9780841901421 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| EDGE OF THE DIASPORA : Two Centuries of Jewish Settlement in Australia [Suzanne D Rutland] This is the controversial story of a Jewish community founded in one of the furthermost corners of the world. Suzanne Rutland charts this community's history from its convict origins through the turmoil of the twentieth century which saw numerous waves of Jewish immigrants reach Australia's shores. Jews fleeing Nazism arrived in the thirties. They were followed by survivors of the Holocaust and then by refugees from Hungarian Communism in the fifties. More recent waves have brought Soviet and South African Jews. "Edge of the Diaspora" documents the story of this vibrant community that has integrated but maintained its Jewish identity. { 486pp, 155x230mm, January 2001; PB, £17.95, 0841914249:9780841914247 / HB, £37.50, 0841914230:9780841914230 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| ESCAPE VIA SIBERIA : A Jewish Child's Odyssey of Survival [Dorit Bader Whiteman] Whiteman presents a compelling story of survival. Through the story of one boy -- Eliott 'Lonek' Jaroslawicz -- she conveys the tale of the dramatic escape of thousands of Polish Jews from the encroaching Nazi menace. With the crack of a Nazi whip on his father's head, the world that Lonek knows is gone forever. Lonek and his family are forced to join the tide of refugees fleeing eastward. In the course of their flight they are imprisoned in a Siberian labour camp. A short-lived treaty between the Polish Government-in-Exile and the Soviet Government allows for the miraculous release of approximately one hundred thousand Polish citizens, including Lonek's family. They make their way to Tashkent, only to find that life there is harsh-hunger and sickness abound. When his father falls ill, Lonek's mother is driven to despair and leaves her ten-year-old son on the doorstep of an orphanage. Lonek is then swept up in another miraculous rescue. He joins the more than 900 Jewish children known as the "Teheran Children," who depart on the only kindertransport that emanates from Russia. After an arduous journey, the children are stranded in Iran due to the vagaries of war and failed diplomacy. Their plight is championed by Henrietta Szold while the leadership of Hadassah relentlessly pressures the American and British governments to assure the children's safe passage. Finally, eight months after they leave Tashkent and after a route that takes them through India and Egypt, Lonek and the other children safely reach Palestine. In ESCAPE VIA SIBERIA, Whiteman has crafted an elegy to the human spirit while emphasizing the tremendous international forces which affected the Polish Jewish escapees' lives and their persistent, heroic struggle in the face of tremendous odds. { 219pp, 160x235mm, January 1999; HB, £22.95, 0841914036:9780841914032 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| EUROPEAN POLITICS RECONSIDERED, 2ND EDITION [B Guy Peters & Christian Hunold] In this expanded, updated edition, the authors add a chapter on new structures of parliaments. They also reflect on recent developments in Germany since unification and reactions of most European countries to continued economic scarcity and public scepticism about government. EUROPEAN POLITICS RECONSIDERED documents the evolutionary political processes in Europe to provide a way of understanding a trajectory of its political future. { 369pp, 150x230mm, December 1999; PB, £14.95, 0841913641:9780841913646 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FASHION FOR MEN : An Illustrated History [Diana de Marly] From medieval times to the present, "Fashion for Men" describes the development of male attire, with the aid of nearly a hundred illustrations. Diana de Marly offers a lively discussion of the male ideal and its relationship to the clothes people wore. What was it that was considered so shocking about the ever-receding short skirts of fourteenth-century fashionable man? What was the significance of the rise -- and later the decline -- of the codpiece, so blatantly drawing attention to what later centuries were generally at pains to hide? The history of men's clothing is set in a wide social context, and the author shows above all that views about "masculinity" are subject to change, and that preoccupation with dress is not exclusively a female preserve. "Fashion for Men" will not only be invaluable to students of costume history and fashion design, but will also appeal to the general reader fascinated by the intricacies of costume and its development. { 164pp, 185x250mm, January 2008; PB, £15.00, 0841912408:9780841912403 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FATEFUL MONTHS : Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution: Revised Edition [Christopher R Browning] An important concern in understanding the "machinery" of the Holocaust is the timing of the decision to put into effect the Final Solution, the systematic murder of the European Jews. This book explores the crucial first steps in implementing the mass murder, including Hitler's role in the decision-making process. The participation of middle and lower middle echelon Germans, and the development of the technology of destruction, in particular, the gas van for use in the death camps. Looking at events from summer 1941 to Spring 1942, Christopher Browning sheds important new light on the historians' debate about how the policy of systematic mass murder emerged. { 113pp, 155x230mm, September 1991; PB, £7.50, 0841912661:9780841912663 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FILM & POLITICS IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC [Thomas G Plummer, Bruce A Murray, Linda Schulte-Sasse, Anthony K Munson & Laurie Loomis Perry (eds)] The purpose of this book is to contribute to a socio-political understanding of the film history in the Weimar Republic and to define some of the possibilities and limitations of examining the period's film production in the political confrontations between various factions of the right, middle and left. { 97pp, 225x290mm, December 1984; HB, £17.95, 0841975027:9780841975026 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FIRST AMENDMENT, FIRST PRINCIPLES : Verbal Acts & Freedom of Speech [John F Wirenius] The First Amendment, which guarantees our rights of expression, has come to epitomise the meaning of freedom in the United States. Yet as the ability to express ourselves expands into boundless opportunities with the advent of electronic media in the twenty-first century, new threats of censorship arise. In First Amendment, First Principles, attorney John F Wirenius explores these and other challenges to freedom of speech and examines the evolution of how the First Amendment has come to the meaning it bears today. In his bold rethinking of the concept of freedom of speech, Wirenius writes a thorough, scholarly discussion of the body of law surrounding free speech and a passionate defence of his convictions regarding the First Amendment. He reminds us that we must protect the First Amendment in order for it to protect us. In this revised edition, the author has added a chapter that explores liability for copycat crimes: What is the media's responsibility for violence committed in the aftermath of graphic depictions of murder and other violent acts? He also examines the laws surrounding the exercise of free speech during wartime and cites the latest cases dealing with such subjects as pornography, hate speech, and the Internet. { 439pp, 155x233mm, December 2004; PB, £18.95, 0841914354:9780841914353 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FOOTBALLERS & BUSINESSMEN : The Origins of Professional Soccer in England [Steven Tischler] This book describes the evolution of football from its origins as an English working class recreation to the present emergence as a highly professional and commercialised international sport. The author shows how the transformation of football into an entertainment business was fostered by the changing realities of 19th century English society in which industrialisation helped to extend commercial relationships to popular recreations. { 149pp, 160x235mm, December 1981; HB, £25.95, 0841906580:9780841906587 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FRENCH CITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY [John M Merriman (ed)] This book brings together some of the most significant and influential recent work in French urban history. The trend of historical thinking and research today, typified by such books as Montaillou, is to focus on the surviving demographic and socio-economic documentation of a given period or society as indicators of the changes undergone by the people of that time or place. Such is the direction of this important new study of the urban experience of France in the nineteenth century. Miraculously, the society and the era have survived almost intact in the wealth of extant demographic and socio-economic data: census figures, police and other official documents, urban surveys, marketing records, maps, firsthand accounts and diaries, genre paintings. photographs, and contemporary periodicals. The contributors are a group of noted scholars and each of their essays assesses a different aspect of the relations between urbanisation, structural change, politics, and the lives of ordinary men and women. { 304pp, 140x215mm, January 2008; HB, £19.25, 0841904642:9780841904644 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FROM HERZL TO RABIN : The Changing Image of Zionism [Amnon Rubinstein] This book traces the history of the Israeli state and provides the reader with a fascinating study of Zionism. Moving deftly between the roles of objective historian and persuasive politician, the author uses his skills to show both the political and religious aspects of Zionism and the attacks on it by the haredim and Post and Anti-Zionists. Israel's presence in the world has changed the status of Jews everywhere -- both inside and outside its borders. But a recent destructive reality threatens the classic Zionist perception. The threat comes from the danger of religious and 'haredi' Judaiism becoming the spearhead of nationalism in its most insidious form, and the threat to the essence of Judaism and Israel from the Left. { 283pp, 160x233mm, December 2000; HB, £25.00, 0841914087:9780841914087 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| FROM PROGRESSIVISM TO PROSPERITY : World War 1 & American Society [Neil A Wynn] This enlightening work examines how the First World War pushed the US into the 20th century. According to the author, America's accelerated modernisation during the early years of the century was brought on by the war's emphasis on unity, efficiency and standardisation in government, business and social life. This process both heightened public awareness of the many changes that had already taken place and brought to a head the conflict between old and new, rural and urban, which was to dominate the 1920s. { 268pp, 152x228mm, December 1986; PB, £12.95, 084191107X:9780841911079 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GENDER & LITERARY VOICE [Janet Todd (ed)] Is literature androgynous? Can a language used by men effectively express women's perceptions? This book debates the presence of a distinctive female style, voice, or content in the literature written by women from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Mary Wollstonecraft and Fanny Bur-ney wrote on the linguistic difficulties of women's prose; Virginia Woolf expressed hopes for an androgynous literary future. The authors of "Gender and Literary Voice" consider thematic and stylistic differences and then range themselves on both sides of this debate. The role of female experi-ence; the passive mode; female appropriation of traditionally male forms of literature such as the bildtingsroman: semantic idiosyncrasies -- these are the elusive topics raised by contemporary critics of women's literature. Among the contributors to this important volume of feminist criticism are Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Wilt, Marilyn Butler, and Mary Ann Caws. { 268pp, 140x215mm, January 2008; PB, £9.50, 0841906572:9780841906570 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GENERAL PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES & THE CANON'S YEOMAN'S PROLOGUE & TALE [Geoffrey Chaucer. Edited by A V C Schmidt] Thoroughly annotated with notes printed at the foot of each page, this edition of "The General Prologue" and "The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale" is a helpful introduction for the beginning student of Chaucer and contains much valuable information for more advanced scholars. The editor's introduction clarifies the many historical points which must be grasped in order to read Chaucer appreciatively and shows how The General Prologue is an important guide to the reading of the Tales as a whole. The editor describes Chaucer's method of creating a realistic effect through a pilgrimage that manages to bring together disparate characters who would be unlikely to meet in another context and shows how Chaucer uses clothing, language and social class as part of his characterisation of the pilgrims. Among the pilgrims who set out from Southwark and who are described in "The General Prologue", the Canon and his Yeoman are the only characters not included. Their sudden and dramatic arrival creates expectations of the unusual and these are not disappointed in the tale of alchemy which follows. In type, the Tale resembles those of the Merchant, Friar and Pardoner: stories about the duping of men who are the victims of their own lack off insight. The editor elucidates this argument and offers many new insights into the tale's polemical purpose, theme, structure and style. The commentary to the Tale gives the reader the necessary background in explaining the many allusions to practices of medieval alchemy. { 175pp, 140x215mm, January 1976; HB, £9.00, 0841902194:9780841902190 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GERMAN MINORITIES & THE THIRD REICH [Anthony Komjathy & Rebecca Stockwell] This book assesses the role of German minorities in East Central Europe before World War 2. Generalisations made under the influence of wartime propaganda created a stereotype of German minority behaviour according to which all ethnic Germans were fanatical supporters of Hitler, promoters of Nazism and obedient servants of the Third Reich's imperialistic foreign policy. These accusations were used to justify their mass expulsion after the war. The ethnic Germans defended themselves with counter accusations stating that they were the victims of prejudicial generalisations. { 217pp, 160x235mm, December 1989; HB, £29.95, 0841905401:9780841905405 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GERMAN WOMEN IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY : A Social History [John C Fout (ed)] Divided into two parts. The first focuses on middle and upper class German women and the second on working class women. The book addresses a range of important topics including growing up female in 19th century Germany, the impact of agrarian change on women's work and child care, female political opposition in pre-1849 Germany, women's role in working class families in the 1890s, women's education and reading habits, and Jewish women and assimilation. { 439pp, 150x230mm, December 1984; PB, £17.50, 0841908443:9780841908444 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GERMANY IN THE TWENTIES : The Artist as Social Critic [Frank D Hirschbach et al (eds)] This collection tries to highlight some of the numerous areas in which important contributions were made by social critics of the Weimar Republic. It deals with art, architecture, music, literature, the theatre, film, dance and the radio. It attempts to promote the observation that a dynamic democracy must include the possibility for creative and constructive criticism. In this endeavour, artists have an important role to play, If they often seem to be voices crying in the wilderness, the blame rests on the society and not the artists. { 121pp, 275x305mm, January 1984; PB, £15.95, 0841975019:9780841975019 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GIRL WITH TWO LANDSCAPES : The Wartime Diary of Lena Jedwab, 1941-1945 [Lena Jedwab Rozenberg; Translated by Solon Beinfeld] A journal account of a sixteen-year-old girl who in June 1941 bade farewell to her family for what was to have been a summer-long vacation camp. Lena Jedwab left her home in Bialystok, Poland and arrived in Russia just as Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Lena was stranded in a Russian children's home while her family was murdered by the Nazis at the Treblinka concentration camp for the crime of having been born Jewish. In her diary, Lena wrote in Yiddish as she agonised over the unknown fate of her family and the uncertainties of her future. Expressed are her conflicted emotions over what the war had done to her youth and the gratitude felt for being alive, nourished and in school while so many others were displaced, starving, and dying. Not since 'The Diary of Anne Frank', has there been such a personalised account by an adolescent girl caught up in the turmoil and terror of World War 2. GIRL WITH TWO LANDSCAPES is an incredibly important and highly prized addition to Judaic Studies and Holocaust Studies collections. { 191pp, 140x210mm, January 2002; HB, £17.95, 0841914273:9780841914278 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GOODBYE EVIL EYE [Gloria D Kirchheimer] The stories revolve around the tensions between Sephardic Jews and US urban life. With their superstitions, myths, and contradictions, the characters fight to retain the old ways or struggle to free themselves of them, sometimes with bizarre consequences: a female corporate executive agrees to perform the evil eye exorcism to rid her mother of depression; a father impersonates his son as a job applicant; a woman's belief that she is descended from Christopher Columbus colours her life. The life of the Sephardim has hardly been noted in American fiction. This collection will reveal to the public some exotic yet familiar characters. Kirchheimer's stories address the particular experiences of women, immigrants, and Jews in a pluralistic society, while at the same time assuming universal coloration and stature. { 150pp, 130x200mm, January 2000; HB, £17.95, 0841914044:9780841914049 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GREAT CHALLENGE : Nationalities & the Bolshevik State, 1917-1930 [Hélène Carrère D'Encausse; Translated by Nancy Festinger] In this enlightening and provocative book, a distinguished writer on international affairs traces the failure of Soviet nationalities policy to the formative years of the Bolshevik regime when that policy was formulated and implemented. The author explores the unfolding of the national question from pre-revolutionary period through 1930 bringing to light the broad array of national issues and nationality groups that made history in the old Soviet satellites around the Baltic. { 262pp, 160x233mm, December 1992; HB, £27.95, 0841912858:9780841912854 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GREAT POWERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1919-1939 [Uriel Dann (ed)] Perhaps the most critical period in the development of modern Middle Eartern politics occurred between the two world wars. Britain and France vied for influence and control in the region by making conflicting promises to the leaders of emergent Arab nationalism as well as to those bent on building a Jewish national home in Palestine. With the rise of Hitler, the area took on increased strategic importance for western democracies. This book examines the impact of great-power priorities on the region. { 434pp, 160x235mm, December 1988; HB, £47.50, 0841908753:9780841908758 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| GROWING A GLOBAL VILLAGE : Making History at Seabrook Farms [Charles H Harrison] In the first half of the twentieth century, a small corner of southern New Jersey became the first and probably the only rural global village of its kind and size in America. Here, in a township that did not appear on most state maps, thousands of men, women, and children from more than 20 countries and speaking as many languages, most of them uprooted and displaced by war or poverty, came to work at what Life magazine called in 1955, 'the biggest vegetable factory in the world'. That factory was Seabrook Farms, which pioneered frozen vegetables for Clarence Birdseye and became the prime provider for America's fighting men in both World Wars and the free world's population as well. Meet some of the people who worked and lived together harmoniously when multiculturalism wasn't even a word. This extraordinary population formed the base of a very remarkable food processing operation. Harrison has written a compelling study of the Seabrook Farms global village. Combining the technological history of agriculture and the social history of its labour force, GROWING A GLOBAL VILLAGE offers a heartening and enlightening look at an important but little known episode in America's past. { 163pp, 160x235mm, December 2003; HB, £25.00, 0841914281:9780841914285 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| HISTORY OF ZAMBIA [Andrew Roberts] Zambia is one of the most important states in modern Africa. Besides being a major exporter of copper, it plays a crucial frontier role in relations between black Africa and South Africa. This book draws together the results of recent research in a comprehensive survey of economic and social change, from the Stone Age to the completion of the Tamzam Railway. Dr Roberts has placed the Zambian past in a new perspective by combining evidence from archaeology, anthropology and oral traditions, as well as written records. Pre-colonial history is revealed as much more than a mere amalgam of stones, bones, potsherds and stories of tribal migrations. Instead, such themes as the rise of chieftainship and the expansion of trade are related to changes in patterns of settlement and production since the Early Iron Age. In tracing the origins of Zambia's present societies, Roberts focuses on the broad similarities and contrasts in language, religious belief and social in-stitutions that underlie the confusing variety of pre-colonial kingdoms and chiefdoms. Here, as elsewhere, he draws upon unpublished research to provide a new picture not just of the area that is now Zambia but of the whole savannah region of central Africa. The last three chapters relate the rise of African nationalism to the growth of modern industry on the Copperbelt and to the major problems faced by Zambia since independence in 1964. { 288pp, 140x215mm, January 2008; PB, £25.00, 0841904901:9780841904903 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc (Africana Publishing Co.) } |
| HITLER'S DEATH CAMPS : The Sanity of Madness [Konnilyn G Feig] Sheds the light of understanding on one of the most horrifying and inhuman episodes in history. Drawing on her first hand visits to all 19 primary concentration camps, on her contact with survivors and former Nazis, and on 20 years of study, the author brings the perspective of a historian and scholar to her quest for the meaning of the holocaust. { 546pp, 150x230mm, January 1981; PB, £22.50, 0841906769:9780841906761 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| HOLOCAUST & THE CRISIS OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR [George M Kren & Leon Rappoport] This book offers a provocative interpretation of the major historical and psychological factors contributing to the Holocaust and its long range implications. The authors provide insights into the behaviour of perpetrators, victims, bystanders and active resisters, exploring the unique German context of the Holocaust and the myths of victim passivity and SS psychopathology. But their enquiry probes beyond actions and behaviour to confront the meaning of the event and the limited ability of prior forms of knowledge, values, and conceptual theories to interpret it. { 228pp, 152x228mm, December 1994; PB, £13.95, 0841913056:9780841913059 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| IMPERIALISM & THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT, 1914-1964 [Partha Sarathi Gupta] In 1920, Lenin referred to Western Social Democrats as 'Social Patriots', linked the absence of European revolutionary zeal with support of capitalistic imperialism and singled out the craft unions as strongholds of what he called Menshevik sentiment. The issues raised by these charges are important for our understanding of trade union politics in the capitalist countries. This book is the first comprehensive study of the Labour Movement's foreign policy in an important period in British history. It is a thorough refutation of Lenin's arguments and the similar assertions of Marxists who have been using this conceptual framework. { 454pp, 147x220mm, December 1975; HB, £35.00, 0841901910:9780841901919 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| IRAN : A Decade of War & Revolution [David Menashri] This is a comprehensive and analytical history of Iran since the decline and collapse of the Shah's reign in the late 1970s. This collection of essays by David Menashri, a leading authority on Iranian affairs, traces on a year-by-year basis the unfolding of the Iranian Revolution and its institutionalisation by Khomeyni and his followers. The author also offers an extensive, substantive overview and a postscript discussing Iranian involvement in and perceptions of its arms deals with the United States. Menashri details the intricate political history of the revolu-tion, providing insightful portraits of its leading figures, as well as of their factions and the ideological conflicts among them. He also discusses Khomeyni's decisive role in almost all crucial events and decisions, Iran's internal problems -- not the least of which is a wors-ening economy -- and the history of Iran's war with Iraq. By analysing the changing nature of Iran's relations with the U.S., the Soviet Union, and other countries throughout the world, Menashri establishes a context essential to our understanding of cur-rent tensions in the Persian Gulf. { 410pp, 155x230mm, January 2008; PB, £12.50, 0841909504:9780841909502 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| LEGENDS, SORCERERS, & ENCHANTED LIZARDS : Door Locks of the Bamana of Mali [Pascal James Imperato; Foreword by Robert J Koenig] The Bamana people are known for their rich artistic traditions, including the creation of masks, statues, door locks, head dresses, and ritual and utilitarian objects: their door locks are among the most remarkable of all African art. Sculpted of wood in a rich variety of forms, they depict mythological and historical figures, social events, and representational figures -- crocodiles, lizards, tortoises, owls, bats, butterflies, humans. Known as 'konbarabara', these exquisite locks were once presented to young women at the time of their marriage and affixed to the doors of their new homes. The beauty of the carvings and the ingenuity of the locking systems present a fascinating study of this unusual art form. The volume is divided into three parts. Part 1 provides an overview of the Bamana people and their philosophical and spiritual beliefs. Part 2 presents a comprehensive discussion of Bamana doors and locks. Part 3 contains sixty-nine photos each with detailed captions explaining the symbolism of the various forms, interpretations of graphic signs, and descriptions of the locking devices. REVIEW: "...well researched and lucidly written. ...a welcome addition to Bamana studies and more broadly to African art studies..." -- Mary Jo Arnoldi, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. { 93pp, 240x255mm, December 2001; PB, £18.95, 0841914141:9780841914148 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| LURE OF THE LINGUISTIC : Speculations On The Origin Of Language In German Romanticism [Shelley Frisch] Focuses on how Romantic speculations on the origin of language blended 18th century European mystical and enlightenment musings about language to produce lyrical and compelling depictions of its origns and development. { 253pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £20.95, 0841914508:9780841914506 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MAIN TRENDS IN HISTORY [Geoffrey Barraclough] Places present-day historical studies in a new and comprehensive perspective. Anyone who wishes to understand the past in the light of current knowledge and interpretations will profit from reading this book. It summarises the developments associated with the explosion of new directions that young scholars have reached in re-interpreting old ideas. The author also examines the ferment that has characterised historiography during the last three decades. { 290pp, 152x228mm, January 1991; PB, £14.95, 0841910626:9780841910621 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MAIN TRENDS IN PHILOSOPHY [Paul Ricoeur] To assess the main trends of philosophy in the world today, the author avoids using a simple geographical framework and favours instead a schema that identifies philosophical fields or loci with questions being presently researched and discussed. The identification is made on the basis of the main conceptions that philosophers of various leanings have themselves formed of philosophy, its aspirations, course, function and task within the culture of our time. { 469pp, 152x228mm, January 1940; PB, £17.95, 0841905061:9780841905061 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MALINA : A Novel [Ingeborg Bachmann; Translated by Philip Boehm] A work of sharp, unforgettable images and an irresistible narrative. Here is the story of lives painfully intertwined: the unnamed narrator, haunted by nightmarish memories of her father, lives with the androgynous Malina, an initially remote and dispassionate man who ultimately becomes an iminous influence. Plunging toward its riveting finale, MALINA brutally lays bare the struggle for love and the limits of discourese between women and men. { 244pp, 152x228mm, January 1999; PB, £11.95, 0841911894:9780841911895 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MARIE CURIE : A Life [Françoise Giroud, Translated by Lydia Davis] Perhaps the most illustrious women of her era, Marie Curie is well-known for her Nobel Prize-winning research in physics and chemistry and for her discovery with husband Pierre of polonium and radium. Less familiar is the complex character of this renowned woman. While grounding her work in a historical context, the author provides a fresh human perspective on the life of this famous yet enigmatic precursor of today's atomic scientists. { 291pp, 145x220mm, January 1986; HB, £27.50, 0841909776:9780841909779 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MARTIN HEIDEGGER : Politics, Art & Technology [Karsten Harries & Christoph Jamme (eds)] This volume has its origins in the colloquium 'Art, Politics, Technology -- Martin Heidegger 1889-1989' held at Yale University in 1989. The centenary provided the obvious occasion: regardless of whether deplored or welcomed, the far-reaching influence of Heidegger today is beyond question, an influence underscored in that centenary year by the literally scores of conferences that took place all over the world. { 271pp, 155x235mm, January 1994; HB, £31.95, 084191334X:9780841913349 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MEMOIRS : Fifty Years of Political Reflection [Raymond Aron. Foreword by Henry A Kissinger] Raymond Aron has won the respect and admiration of leading figures from all spheres of twentieth-century life and from all points of the political spectrum. An independent thinker who was often called the lone voice of reason in the heat of political conflicts, Aron became well known for his bold, penetrating ideas. His dispassionate, probing analyses of international affairs, ethnic conflicts, social and economic problems, and contemporary history have become increasingly influential in the U.S. and foreign arenas of political discourse and public policy. Whether working with the Free French in London during World War II, voicing early support for the reconstruction of a devastated post-war Germany, or offering new insights on peace and war in a nuclear age, Aron consistently brightened areas of inquiry by his capacity for cogent and forthright reflection. In the foreground of many of the most important political events of the twentieth century, he developed relationships with others similarly engaged figures such as Charles de Gaulle, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Henry Kissinger, all of whom appear in his prize-winning Memoirs. Aron stimulated debate and elicited strong attachments in his roles as journalist, author, adviser, and professor in philosophy, political science, and sociology in Europe and the United States, where he contributed to periodicals such as the New York Times Magazine, Commentary, and Foreign Affairs. Since his death in 1983, Aron's brilliant works of social and political philosophy have found an increasingly large following among younger readers whose appreciation can only deepen with this behind-the-scenes glimpse of the man and his thoughts. { 510pp, 155x230mm, January 1990; HB, £25.00, 0841911134:9780841911130 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| MOTHERING THE MIND : Twelve Studies of Writers & Their Silent Partners [Ruth Perry & Martine Watson Brownley (eds)] Recognised period specialists look at a wide variety of nurturing relationships between men and women, both sexual and platonic. Mothering is examined as a component of marriage and as a sustaining force in less traditional but equally creative relationships. In some instances, actual mothers provide the encouragement and unconditional approvals that are hallmarks of the mothering role. Crucial questions are posed such as how and why did these attachments evolve? Are such relationships mutually beneficial? The book offers a balanced feminist approach and perspective and is an important contribution not only to the areas of biography and psychoanalytical criticism, but also to women's studies. { 261pp, 152x228mm, January 1984; PB, £13.95, 0841908931:9780841908932 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| OLD DEMONS, NEW DEBATES : Anti-Semitism in the West [David Kertzer (ed)] This book offers a provocative new view of the recent upsurge of anti-Semitism in the West. The authors -- including both well-known public intellectuals and major scholars -- address themselves to a broad audience. They describe the new anti-Semitism and show how it draws on older forms of Jew hatred while being fuelled by both anti -Americanism and anti-Zionism. Special attention is paid to the situation in Europe -- with a particular emphasis on France and Britain -- and the United States. As the authors show, the new anti-Semitism, far from being the exclusive province of the ignorant and unlettered, is nourished by intellectuals and elites. Is anti-Semitism really no longer a danger? Or are the demons back? OLD DEMONS is sure to trigger heated new debates on this crucial issue. { 219pp, 155x235mm, December 2005; PB, £12.95, 0841914397:9780841914391 / HB, £24.95, 0841914435:9780841914438 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| PARIS : Capital of Europe -- From the Revolution to the Belle Epoque [Johannes Willms; Translated by Eveline L Kanes] Few understand or appreciate the evolutionary process that transformed Paris from the capital of France into the capital of Europe. PARIS: FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE BELLE EPOQUE is the lively, provocative, meticulously researched story of that remarkable transformation. Johannes Willms, a historian and journalist, covers the years from the brink of upheaval on the eve of the Revolution to the First World War and masterfully weaves various social, political, artistic and economic threads into a vivid tapestry, allowing the general reader, as well as the scholar, the rare opportunity to grasp the city in Proustian detail. One reads not only of the Terror and the commune, for instance, but also of street life and repression, social customs, Napoleonic architecture, the growth of trade and commerce, work and wages, health and hygiene, morality, class struggles, crime, and of course art and entertainment. Willms culls his information from a wide range of sources: scholarly histories in several languages, municipal archives, novels, and even guidebooks. This careful and eclectic approach makes Paris a fascinating authoritative social history of the city whose reign as the capital of Europe may have ended long ago, but which, true to its motto -- fluctuat, nec mergitur (it is tossed by the waves but does not sink) -- remains redoubtable. { 436pp, 155x235mm, December 2002; PB, £14.95, 0841912467:9780841912465 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| PIETY & POVERTY : Working Class Religion in Berlin, London & New York, 1870-1914 [Hugh McLeod] The late 19th and early 20th centuries were regarded in many western countries as a time of religious crisis. This was generally believed to be most acute in cities and especially among the working class. This book focuses on working class religion in three of the world's greatest cities in this period of crisis. One of the most important matters at issue in the debate is that of the relationship between secularisation and urbanisation. { 256pp, 160x240mm, January 1996; HB, £32.95, 0841913560:9780841913561 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| PIGEONS ON THE GRASS [Wolfgang Koeppen] Here is an English translation of a post-war German classic. The events of the novel take place during the course of a single day in an unnamed city in occupied Germany where the endless drone of allied planes overhead increases the already heightened tension. Throughout this powerful narrative, the characters' experiences ultimately reveal how and at what cost Germans in the 1950s, by failing to confront their recent past, blinded themselves to its after effects. { 202pp, 152x228mm, January 1991; PB, £9.95, 0841912912:9780841912915 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| POLITICS OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS : Labor Activism & Migration in the World Economy Since 1830 [Camille Guerin-Gonzales & Carl Strikwerda (eds)] Immigrant workers are as crucial to the world and national economies as they are socially and politically controversial. This provocative book explores the rise of the global working class in the 19th & 20th centuries by examining the experiences of a wide range of immigrant workers in the US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Are immigrant workers more conservative or radical than native-born workers? Under what circumstances do workers act together and when do they fail to co-operate? These are just two of the questions addressed in this important collection of essays. { 333pp, 152x233mm, January 1998; PB, £13.95, 084191298X:9780841912984 / HB, £35.00, 0841912971:9780841912977 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| POLITICS OF SCANDAL : Power & Process in Liberal Democracies [Andrei S Markovits & Mark Silverstein (eds)] Through analytical discussions of such events as Watergate and Britain's Profumo affair, this book demonstrates that such political scandals are neither idiosyncratic to democratic regimes nor unique to the United States (or, for that matter, unique to world-weary Europeans). Nor are they, as some political scientists claimed some years ago, routine to those underdeveloped societies who have a high toleration of corruption. While sex and money play their part, at the heart of the great scandals of the post-war era lies the violation of process in the pursuit of power. { 275pp, 150x225mm, December 1988; PB, £13.95, 0841910987:9780841910980 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| REEVALUATING THE THIRD REICH [Thomas Childers & Jane Caplan (eds)] Despite the passage of time and the accumulation of information about the Nazi era, many crucial aspects still maintain their historical significance and moral urgency. In this thought-provoking volume, distinguished scholars provide critical yet controversial analyses of Nazi racism, economic and industrial policy, the place of ideology in decision making, and the structure and function of the Nazi state. The authors' interpretations of these significant issues are influenced by contemporary concerns such as the focus on social history and everyday life; feminist interest in the role of women and reproductive politics; the emergence of a eugenics paradigm; and investigation into the relationship of big business, labour, and the Nazi economic order. Yet these essays do not collectively normalise the Third Reich nor do they diminish the enormity of its project of systematic mass murder. This challenging book is certain to provoke further debate as it expands our knowledge of the complex dynamics of a brutal regime. { 270pp, 155x230mm, January 1993; PB, £10.50, 0841912289:9780841912281 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| REMEMBERING JEWISH AMSTERDAM [Philo Bregstein & Salvador Bloemgarten; Translated by Wanda Boeke] Consists of fragments of 77 interviews with Holocaust survivors who talk about their life in Amsterdam before the war. The authors use this rich material to compose a collective mosaic of memories that provide a fascinating view of Jewish life in Amsterdam during the years between 1900 and 1940. By dividing the material into chapters dealing with such topics as professions, religion, housing conditions, emancipation, Jews and Gentiles, and immigration, it becomes clear how many opinions on these subjects existed within the community. In his introduction, Bloemgarten describes the history of Jewish community in Amsterdam from the 17th century until the German occupation in 1940 and shows that for centuries it was one of the most important in Western Europe. While the Holocaust, which claimed the lives of three quarters of the Amsterdam Jews, casts a shadow over the memories of the interviewees, these testimonies re-create the spirit of time and place and present a vivid picture of a little known past erased by war. { 173pp, 160x240mm, December 2004; HB, £29.95, 0841914257:9780841914254 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| RESCUERS : Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust [Gay Block & Malka Drucker] A welcome addition to Holocaust literature, this work presents a series of 49 personal reminiscences of non-Jewish citizens in various European nations who risked their lives to hide resident Jews from the Nazi horror. Most of those interviewed felt their actions were done out of friendship and for people caught in a web of hatred and anti-Semitism. They did not feel that they were acting heroically but that they were doing what was right. Portraits by Block of each of the rescuers accompany the text. These 49 are representative of the 9,295 rescuers honoured at the Yad Vashem in Israel. This is recommended reading for general readers as well as for college and university libraries. { 256pp, 230x280mm, January 1992; PB, £20.95, 0841913234:9780841913233 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| RUSSIAN SYNDROME : One Thousand Years of Political Murder [Helene Carrere D'Encausse; Translated by Caroline Higgitt] Exploring the beliefs, ideology, and political culture of monarchs, dictators, revolutionaries and reformers, this work illuminates the complex and traumatic course of Russian history as it sheds light on the Soviet's future. { 477pp, 160x235mm, December 1993; HB, £27.95, 0841912939:9780841912939 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY [Malcolm Bradbury & David Palmer (eds)] The essays in this collection gently subvert traditional ideas. The very title "Shakespearian Tragedy", while reflecting conventional usage, disguises considerable doubts. 'There is no such thing as Shakespearian Tragedy,' Kenneth Muir has said, 'there are only Shakespearian tragedies'. The endeavour to define the common priorities of Shakespeare's tragedies has had a long life -- and persists still -- but often leads to reductive and schematic approaches to the plays, distorting their individual qualities for the sake of uniformity. The contributors to this volume by contrast have not presupposed that the plays share the same tragic vision or that they conform with one mode that is uniquely Shakespearian. The main interpretive emphasis is upon the variety of modes through which the tragedies communicate their meanings, the formal conventions and structural devices which were part of the stock--in-trade of the Elizabethan dramatist. The essays explore the versatility and inventiveness with which Shakespeare used these expressive sources in different plays, showing that such an interest in the art of the playwright is not merely technical but directly related to a critical understanding of the plays. The volume as a whole offers some fresh perspectives on the tragedies and on the interrelations between them. { 185pp, 140x215mm, January 1984; PB, £8.75, 0841909822:9780841909823 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| SNOWFIELDS : The War on Cocaine in the Andes [Clare Hargreaves] After the Colombian government and the Bush administration declared all-out war on the Colombian drug barons, cocaine traffickers turned their attention to Bolivia, the rugged landlocked country to the south. Already the largest producer of the raw coca leaf, Bolivia tripled its production of refined cocaine between 1989 and 1991 and now ranks second in the world. Profits from the cocaine industry have proved to be as addictive as the drug itself -- indeed, the Bolivian economy has become dependent on it. The prospect of weaning Bolivia off cocaine looks bleak without a drastic drop in demand from the West. This seems unlikely when the U.S. War on Drugs focuses on intervention abroad rather than education at home and the dismantling of Europe's borders results in an expanded European market for drugs. Unlike previous books on the cocaine trade, which examine the problem through Western eyes, "Snowfields" looks at the drug business through the eyes of the main players in Bolivia, where the white powder is made. In this compelling account, Clare Hargreaves draws from scores of interviews with drug barons who rule over vast empires, dirt-poor coca farmers, addicts, traffickers, the military, politicians, and America's drug warriors from the Drug Enforcement Administration. { 202pp, 140x215mm, January 1992; HB, £24.00, 0841913277:9780841913271 / PB, £10.00, 0841913285:9780841913288 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| SOCIALISM : The Active Utopia [Zygmunt Bauman] Arguing that "utopian" is frequently used as a pejorative term used to discredit whatever it describes, Professor Bauman describes the positive contributions of the utopian tradition to theories of society and especially stresses the important contribution of socialism to the history of utopian thought. He asserts that utopian thinkers are particularly able to apply new perspectives to developments in particular societies and to realise the implications of present trends for the future. Applying these arguments to the history of socialist thought as a utopian system, the author maintains that socialism is by no means the discredited theory of society that it is often labelled. Professor Bauman believes that modern socialism now con-centrates on the irrationality of capitalism as a functioning means of organising the political economy of man and contrasts this new focus with an earlier denunciation of the injustice and inequalities of capitalism. In delineating the historical back-ground of these two different approaches to socialism, he argues that Russian social-ism was a distortion of the original socialist ideals which had envisioned the abolition of a hierarchical society. The author especially values Antonio Gramsci's criticisms of the "stateolatry" developed in the Soviet Union and Gramsci's own theories of an "historical bloc" that creates a match between a particular social structure and its cultural and political superstructure. { 150pp, 140x215mm, October 1976; PB, £13.95, 0841902402:9780841902404 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| SPLINTERED CLASSES : Politics & the Lower Middle Classes in Interwar Europe [Rudy Koshar (ed)] In contrast with traditional approaches, which have seen a more or less uniform middle-class response to the polit-ical and economic crises of the age of fascism, this com-parative study of the politics and ideology of the urban lower middle classes in Europe from 1918 to 1939 rethinks the political history of these groups, stressing the diversity and splintering of middle-class constituencies under the pressures of the inter-war period. Examining these years from the perspective of a broad range of European countries, including England, France, Germany, Italy, and Romania, the writers focus on non-rural lower-middle class groups not only as objects of elite and state manipulation -- the traditional view -- but as ac-tive, often violent agents of political conflict. What political positions were available to these groups in Europe after World War I, which did they choose and why? What were the central themes and symbols of the leaders and politi-cians who supposedly represented them? By exploring how the lower middle classes defined (or failed to define) them-selves politically -- the alliances that they formed, the sen-timents they articulated, and the interests they pursued and defended -- this informative and provocative book sheds light on a crucial segment of European society between the two world wars. { 251pp, 155x230mm, January 1990; PB, £10.50, 0841912432:9780841912434 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| STRUCTURE OF POWER IN AMERICA : The Corporate Elite as a Ruling Class [Michael Schwartz (ed)] In a collective enterprise, fourteen leading social scientists have worked closely to explore the power network connecting U.S. corporate structure with other key sectors of the society. In clear, non-technical terms, the contributors examine such issues as interlocking boards, business control of banks, the government as an agent of the ruling class, the "cap-ture" of regulatory agencies by the businesses they were supposed to regulate, and penetration of various U.S. insti-tutions by a corporate "inner group." In addition, this volume contains the first general analysis of the structure of intercorporate co-ordination among multinational businesses and the expression of business interest in educa-tional systems, transportation policy, urban investment, and academic political theory. Together the essays address not only the processes of cor-porate decision making and policy formation, but also the vulnerability of the elite to mass discontent, the fragility of its role in the face of mass action. { 256pp, 155x230mm, January 1987; PB, £12.50, 084190765X:9780841907652 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| SUNS OF INDEPENDENCE [Ahmadou Kourouma; Translated by Adrian Adams] THE SUNS OF INDEPENDENCE, considered a masterpiece of modern African literature, enables the reader to gain unique insight into African culture and conflicts. Through Fama and Salimata, the husband and wife at the heart of the story, Kourouma conveys the confusion that torments many Africans when a traditional and a later, more materialistic culture collide. The last of the Dumbuya princes who had reigned over the Malinke tribe before the European conquest, Fama seeks a place for himself within the new hierarchy of bureaucrats and border guards. Salimata, haunted by memories of a ritualistic excision and a brutal rape, searches for the means to have a child who will pass on the Dumbuya legacy to future generations. Interwoven with tales and proverbs from the ancient Malinke traditions, this modern novel brilliantly captures the struggles, desires, and dreams of a people in a West African country living through the tumultuous days of Independence. { 136pp, 140x203mm, January 1997; PB, £10.95, 0841907471:9780841907478 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc (Africana Publishing Company) } |
| THEATRE OF ERWIN PISCATOR : Half a Century of Politics in the Theatre [John Willett] This is the first book in English to cover the theatrical career of Erwin Piscator. As one of the leading authorities on 20th century German theatre, the author is well-equipped to write about this important director. Most of the text is devoted to the Weimar period and is illustrated with rare pictures and documents. { 224pp, 160x240mm, January 1940; HB, £32.50, 0841905010:9780841905016 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| THEATRE OF THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC [John Willett] The most definitive, comprehensive study of the origins, development, achievements and ultimate destruction of the performing arts in Germany from World War I through the rise of Hitler, "The Theatre of the Weimar Republic" is an invaluable record of creativity born out of conflict. John Willett focuses on the intellec-tual and sociocultural factors that brought Weimar theatre to its peak and analyses the theatrical theories and movements of the era. In addition, he includes a unique section of appen-dices, spanning 1916 to 1945, supple-menting the text and providing detailed information on theatres, actors, perfor-mances, films, and radio and gramo-phone recordings. The theatre during this period was marked by bold, innovative playwright-ing and directing as well as by impor-tant advances in theatrical architecture, lighting, and stage design. Renowned talents such as Brecht, Piscator, Toller, and Weill were nurtured, and influen-tial movements and credos -- including Expressionism, agitprop, and Bauhaus theatre projects -- developed. A rigorous, fascinating assessment of the world-wide influences of Weimar theatre during its lifetime and in later years, the book will appeal to all readers interested in the art and politics of this turbulent period. { 350pp, 180x260mm, January 1988; HB, £40.25, 0841907595:9780841907591 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| THIRTIETH YEAR : Stories by Ingeborg Bachmann [Ingeborg Bachmann; Translated by Michael Bullock] This is collection of the stories written by a distinguished German author who died in 1973. Reading these stories entails abandoning the terms of one's own comfort. The author's relentless vision demands that readers allows themselves to be hypnotised, taken over by her repetitive cadences and burning images of grief and loss. And yet, in the beauty of her images there is a tremendous affirmation of the world. { 181pp, 127x195mm, January 1995; PB, £9.95, 0841910693:9780841910690 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| THREE PATHS TO THE LAKE [Ingeborg Bachmann; Translated by Mary Fran Gilbert] THREE PATHS TO THE LAKE, Ingeborg Bachmann's second and final collection of short stories, consists of five narratives about the lives and loves of five different women. Socially uprooted and emotionally isolated, each protagonist struggles with possibilities for survival in the 1960s. Bachmann's portraits reflect a compassionate yet unswerving perception of humanity. { 212pp, 140x203mm, January 1997; PB, £10.95, 0841910715:9780841910713 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| TRAGEDY & METATHEATRE [Lionel Abel; introduction by Martin Puchner] Lionel Abel's original Metatheatre, now published in the company of new essays, has inspired a whole generation of playwrights and critics since it first appeared in 1963. Indeed, to insiders the very word 'metatheatre', coined by Lionel Abel, has become as familiar as the plays the author uses to exemplify his theory. Abel's basic premise is that 'tragedy is difficult if not altogether impossible for the modern dramatist'. Having identified the modern, existential dilemma (for both playwright and audience), Abel sets out to provide a theory for its resolution. In doing so he illuminates plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Calderón, Racine, Wilde, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Pirandello, and others with ease and probity, offering a new generation of readers fresh, insightful interpretations. And if anyone thinks Lionel Abel has tempered his style be forewarned: As in his opening critique of those he considers to be playing 'language games', his criticism remains as piercing as ever. { 250pp, 135x205mm, December 2003; PB, £14.95, 0841913536:9780841913530 / HB, £30.00, 0841913528:9780841913523 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| UNDER A CRUEL STAR : A Life in Prague 1941-1968 [Heda Margolius Kovály] Heda Margolius Kovály's steady gaze at the lives caught up in Czechoslovakia's tragic fate under the Nazis and then during the Stalin era illuminates the chaotic life of a nation. Kovály was deported to concentration camps, escaped from a death march, nearly starved in the post-war years, only to be shattered by her husband's conviction (in the infamous 1952 Slansky trial) and his execution. Resonant with lyricism, this gripping memoir is uplifting even in the midst of horror. { 192pp, 140x215mm, January 2001; PB, £7.50, 0841913773:9780841913776 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| VICTORIANS [Laurence Lerner (ed)] How closely was the social reality of Victorian England reflected in the vivid picture evoked by its literature? In this survey of the Victorian era the relation between literature and society is explained by means of three distinct sections. The first delineates the literary history in two chapters on the Victorian novel and Victorian poetry respectively. In the second and largest section a series of essays discuss various fundamental aspects of Victorian society: the economic and social framework, government and institutions, the sense of the past, painting and illustration, religion and the role of women. The third section offers two essays which explicitly relate a particular work to the society: one on Dickens' Dombey and Son, and the other on Tennyson's 'The Princess'. By turning to each essay after the rounded picture of Victorian society given in the previous sections, the reader will not only find his appreciation enhanced, but will also be enabled to argue back on equal terms in a way that is never possible with a survey of literature alone. { 228pp, 140x215mm, January 1978; HB, £10.00, 0841904200:9780841904200 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| VICTORIANS [Laurence Lerner (ed)] How closely was the social reality of Victorian England reflected in the vivid picture evoked by its literature? In this survey of the Victorian era the relation between literature and society is explained by means of three distinct sections. The first delineates the literary history in two chapters on the Victorian novel and Victorian poetry respectively. In the second and largest section a series of essays discuss various fundamental aspects of Victorian society: the economic and social framework, government and institutions, the sense of the past, painting and illustration, religion and the role of women. The third section offers two essays which explicitly relate a particular work to the society: one on Dickens' Dombey and Son, and the other on Tennyson's 'The Princess'. By turning to each essay after the rounded picture of Victorian society given in the previous sections, the reader will not only find his appreciation enhanced, but will also be enabled to argue back on equal terms in a way that is never possible with a survey of literature alone. { 228pp, 140x215mm, January 1978; HB, £18.00, 0841904197:9780841904194 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WAR CRIMES OF THE DEUTSCHE BANK & THE DRESDNER BANK : Office of Military Government (US) Reports [Christopher Simpson (ed)] In November 1946, US Government financial experts inside former Nazi Germany concluded that Germany's most powerful banks must be liquidated if lasting peace was to be achieved. The giant Deutsche and Dredener Banks had completely intertwined themselves with the Nazi regime and were directly responsible for the systematic theft of Jewish property, slave labour, and financing the construction of SS concentration camps. As the Americans in the Finance Division of the Office of Military Government (US) -- OMGUS -- saw things at the time, the bank leaders should be tried as war criminals and barred from ever holding any positions of importance in German political or economic life. However, these recommendations were never implemented. In fact, many of the officials of the Deutsche Bank went on to be some of the most important figures in German economic development in the postwar period. The Deutsche Bank secretly retained almost a ton of gold taken from the dead at concentration camps; the Dresdener Bank re-emerged as a multinational financial giant. Meanwhile, the US Government buried the 500+ page report of its financial experts in classified files, where they gathered dust for decades. Today, the Deutsche Bank is the largest financial institution in the world and the Dresdener Bank is not far behind. { 417pp, 183x260mm, January 2001; HB, £35.00, 0841914079:9780841914070 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WAR OF THE DOOMED : Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944 [Shmuel Krakowski] Documents the Jewish resistance to Nazi occupation in Poland outside the confines of Warsaw. It tells of armed resistance in the forests and commando units as well as in POW and extermination camps. Also included is a fresh analysis of the Warsaw rebellion concerning the resistance that was hindered by the isolation and vulnerability of the participants. Taken together, the sources and memoirs reveal the ingenuity and bravery of Jews who proved themselves capable of heroic acts despite their previous mundane lives. { 340pp, 160x233mm, January 1984; HB, £35.00, 0841908516:9780841908512 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WEST GERMAN FILMMAKERS ON FILM : Visions & Voices [Eric Rentschler (ed)] This collection by West German film directors provides a dramatic and comprehensive overview of the New German Cinema and its history which since the 1960s has been marked by crisis and confrontation. Battling against political and aesthetic constraints, the filmmakers represented here demand that film not be a narrow defined means of escape or distraction, nor a diminishing of historical events or memory, and not a reduction of human and artistic experience. No serious observer of new German film can ignore the obstinate, defiant, and utopian visions reflected in this unique collection, the first of its kind to appear in any language. { 254pp, 152x228mm, January 1988; PB, £14.95, 0841909857:9780841909854 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WHERE SHE CAME FROM : A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History [Helen Epstein] After the death of her mother, Epstein decided to uncover her mother's past to learn more about her ancestors who were victims of the holocaust. A memoir of a central European Jewish family and three generations of remarkable women. { 322pp, 150x230mm, December 2005; PB, £13.00, 0841914443:9780841914445 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WHISTLEBLOWER OF DIMONA : Israel, Vanunu & the Bomb [Yoel Cohen] In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at Israel's highly secret nuclear arms research centre at Dimona, disclosed highly classified details about Israel's nuclear arms program to the London Sunday Times. As a result, Vanunu was kidnapped from London and taken back to Israel where, after a closed door trial, he was sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment for espionage and treason. Cohen discusses, among other questions, whether Israel should have the bomb, whether Vanunu was justified in his whistle blowing, and what the responsibilities of the Sunday Times are toward its informer. The book traces Vanunu's personal history and probes the lack of internal security at Dimona, which made it possible for Vanunu to provide the Sunday Times with such information. The book provides the first extensive publication of the deliberations at Vanunu's trial held behind closed doors. It is drawn from thousands of pages of court transcripts made available to the author. These include sensational testimony by senior Israeli ministers and officials intimately involved with the Dimona project. Cohen examines the consequences of the Vanunu Affair for Israel's intelligence community, the Israel-Arab balance of power, and the nuclear development of Iraq and Iran. Cohen also makes use of the most recent information available, integrating the records of the Vanunu trial that, until late 1999, had not been released by the Israeli courts. { 381pp, 155x233mm, December 2003; PB, £35.00, 0841914095:9780841914094 / HB, £35.00, 084191432X:9780841914322 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WOMEN & CLASS IN AFRICA [Clare Robertson & Iris Berger (eds)] REVIEW: "An important collection of essays... A landmark book in the field and an essential acquisition for undergraduate and graduate collections." -- Choice. { 310pp, 150x225mm, December 1986; PB, £13.95, 0841911878:9780841911871 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WOMEN & FILM [Janet Todd (ed)] This 4th volume in the series examines the portrayal of women in film, as well as their involvement in the medium -- as filmmakers, screenwriters, actresses, critics and characters. The collection of essays is introduced by an insightful discussion of feminist film theory. { 281pp, 155x233mm, January 1988; HB, £34.95, 0841909369:9780841909366 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WOMEN WRITERS TALKING [Janet Todd (ed)] Interviews by critics and scholars with fifteen of today's foremost women writers, including Maya Angelou, A S Byatt, Luce Irigaray, Erica Jong, Jeanne Moreau, and Grace Paley. { 262pp, 155x230mm, January 2008; PB, £8.75, 0841907579:9780841907577 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |
| WRITING & THE HOLOCAUST [Berel Lang (ed)] In this extraordinary collection of essays, historians, novelists and philosophers ponder the imponderable: Was the effort to exterminate the Jewish people a unique historic event or does it fit into a larger context? Is there justification for creating Holocaust fiction? Is humour an appropriate tool in Holocaust literature? Must a work about the Holocaust have redemptive value? With some exceptions, the essays were presented as papers at a 1987 conference at SUNY Albany. Among the participants were Saul Friedlander, Raul Hilberg and Aharon Appelfeld. Although a few contributions are oppressively intellectual, many brilliantly interweave anecdotes and issues to arrive at insights into the awesome task of writing about the Holocaust. Appelfeld, for example, vividly recollects pitiful child survivors who performed snatches of Jewish songs for coins before concluding, "The problem... has been to remove the Holocaust from its enormous, inhuman dimensions and bring it close to human beings." { 293pp, 152x228mm, January 1988; PB, £13.95, 0841911851:9780841911857 , Holmes & Meier Publishers Inc } |