harvard university press jan 2025 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questions: Which states of nature should be restored Who should choose Is human-designed wilderness really wild Restoration work leads us to reimagine nature and the nature of environmental justice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 2,500 years of India's dazzling literary tradition, translated from a wide range of classical languages, and introduced by an award-winning poet. Romantic ghazals and devotional quatrains, medieval battles and separated lovers, Buddhist women on their journeys toward nirvana and Ram's battle against a demon army to rescue Sita-all this and more can be found in the Murty Classical Library of India's Ten Indian Classics. Beginning in the sixth century B.C.E. and coming up to the eighteenth century, spanning the Indian subcontinent, the selections in this anthology include some of the oldest women's writing in the world, exquisite Sanskrit court poems, verses from the Sikh sacred tradition recited by millions around the world, the renowned chronicle of the Mughal emperor Akbar, and Tulsidas's retelling of the epic Ramayana that is cherished in north India to this day. Here, too, are the poems of Surdas, Mir Taqi Mir, and Bullhe Shah, which continue to inspire artists today and live on in contemporary music. The anthology showcases original translations by leading experts from a vast array of India's literary traditions: Hindi, Kannada, Pali, Panjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Telugu, and Urdu. With a foreword by the award-winning poet and translator Ranjit Hoskote, Ten Indian Classics is an invitation to readers worldwide to immerse themselves in a literary tradition that continues to shape modern South Asian culture and aesthetics in all its stunning diversity.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Velleius Paterculus, soldier and senator, chronicles in concise fashion the story of Rome and Roman culture from the fall of Troy to the time of his work's publication in AD 30 and provides much valuable information, especially about the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius (30 BC-AD 37), for which no other eyewitness historical depiction survives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jonathan Haslam reveals how US foreign policy from Bush Sr. to Biden helped set the course for the Russo-Ukrainian War. After the Cold War, Ukraine moved to the center of fraught negotiations between Russia and the West-especially the US, eager to extend its global hegemony and neglectful of Russian ire over the shifting balance of power in Europe.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The crises of American democracy and criminal justice are intimately connected. David A. Sklansky shows how police, courts, and prisons helped to break American democracy and can be reformed to empower equitable self-governance. Seeking durable change, Sklansky urges pragmatic proposals rooted in a strong commitment to pluralism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For over two decades, Theresa S. Betancourt researched former child soldiers from Sierra Leone's civil war to find out if they could reintegrate into communities where they had been forced to commit atrocities. She found that the key to resilience after trauma was not just their individual capacities, but the layers of support and care around them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Chinese Animation is the first edited book that explores the multiple histories, geographies, industries, technologies, media, and transmediality of Chinese animation. From silent short to CGI, it covers more than a century of animation across different languages, including Mandarin, Cantonese, and Taiwanese.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The surprising story of the sixteenth-century Lutheran scholar who became Europe's foremost authority on Ottoman Greece, shedding new light on the place of Greek culture and religion in the Western imagination. In the late sixteenth century, a German Lutheran scholar named Martin Crusius compiled an exceptionally rich record of Greek life under Ottoman rule. Although he never left his home in the university town of Tubingen, Crusius spent decades annotating books and manuscripts, corresponding with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, and interviewing Greek Orthodox alms-seekers. Ultimately, he gathered his research into a seminal work called the Turcograecia, which served for centuries as Europe's foremost source on Ottoman Greece. Yet as Richard Calis reveals, Crusius's massive-and largely untapped-archive has much more to tell us about how early modern Europeans negotiated cultural and religious difference. In particular, Crusius's work illuminates Western European views of the religious 'other' within Christianity: the Greek Orthodox Christians living under Ottoman rule, a group both familiar and foreign. Many Western Europeans, including Crusius, developed narratives of Greek cultural and religious decline under Ottoman rule. Crusius's records, however, reveal in exceptional detail how such stories developed. His interactions with his Greek Orthodox visitors, and with a vast network of correspondents, show that Greeks' own narratives of hardship entwined in complex ways with Western Europeans' orientalist views of the Ottoman world. They also reflect the religious tensions that undergirded these exchanges, fueled by Crusius's fervent desire to spread Lutheran belief across Ottoman Greece and the wider world. A lively intellectual history drawn from a forgotten archive, The Discovery of Ottoman Greece is also a perceptive character study, in which Crusius takes his place in the history of ethnography, Lutheran reform, and European philhellenism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Josep Manuel Peramàs's A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato's Republic, 1793 analyzes Guaraní-Jesuit communities and aspects of civic experience such as weddings, public festivals, and political offices. This bilingual Latin and English edition offers new perspectives on the Guaraní and literature in the Americas.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion 'panic' that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire's Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small-Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India's population during the nineteenth century-Bengal's majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the permanent ejection of religious minorities from Indian ideals of nationhood. Mou Banerjee details what happened as Hindus and Muslims grew increasingly suspicious of converts, missionaries, and evangelically minded British authorities. Fearing that converts would subvert resistance to British imperialism, Hindu and Muslim critics used their influence to define the new Christians as a threatening 'other' outside the bounds of authentic Indian selfhood. The meaning of conversion was passionately debated in the burgeoning sphere of print media, and individual converts were accused of betrayal and ostracized by their neighbors. Yet, Banerjee argues, the effects of the panic extended far beyond the lives of those who suffered directly. As Christian converts were erased from the Indian political community, that community itself was reconfigured as one consecrated in faith. While India's emerging nationalist narratives would have been impossible in the absence of secular Enlightenment thought, the evolution of cohesive communal identity was also deeply entwined with suspicion toward religious minorities. Recovering the perspectives of Indian Christian converts as well as their detractors, The Disinherited is an eloquent account of religious marginalization that helps to explain the shape of Indian nationalist politics in today's era of Hindu majoritarianism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The changing faces of Maya rulership and their foundational ties to symbolic material objects, architecture, ancestral beings, deities, and written monuments are fully explored in Faces of Rulership in the Maya Region. This volume brings Maya history and archaeology into the current conversation about rulership in premodern times.