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A pathbreaking, new intellectual biography of the composer and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler.

Conductors (Music) --- Composers --- Furtwängler, Wilhelm, --- Furtwängler, Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm, --- Furtwängler, W. --- German composer. --- Nazi era. --- Third Reich. --- Wilhelm Furtwängler. --- artistic legacy. --- composer. --- conductor. --- intellectual biography. --- music history. --- political context. --- political thought.

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This volume has a special focus on the topic of proxy actors and irregular forces in medieval warfare. John France and Jochen G. Schenk offer broad overviews: France addresses the military role of non-noble combatants and the significance of differences between medieval and modern ideas of the "legitimacy" of war-fighters, while Schenk applies a concept originating in political science - Mary Kaldor's idea of "New Wars" - to the conflicts of the Middle Ages, showing that in some ways, what is old is new again. Alex Mallett likewise ties the past to the present, comparing Muslim responses to the Crusades with modern responses to the Western-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. Michael Lower and Mike Carr, meanwhile, examine important groups of foreign fighters employed by North African states and Byzantium.
In addition, the volume encompasses a study of Anglo-Norman siege engines (by Michael Fulton), three pieces on war and politics in fourteenth-century Iberia (by Douglas Biggs, Donald Kagay, and L.J. Andrew Villalon), and David Green's magisterial survey of imperial policy and military practice in the Plantagenet dominions in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

Contributors: Douglas Biggs, Mike Carr, Michael S. Fulton, David Green, Donald Kagay, Michael Lower, Alex Mallett, Jochen Schenk, Andrew Villalon

Military history, Medieval. --- Military art and science --- Military history --- Naval history --- Medieval military history --- History. --- Military history, Medieval --- Civilization, Medieval --- History --- Medieval warfare --- Anglo-Norman Siege Engines. --- Crusades. --- Fourteenth Century Iberia. --- Fourteenth Century. --- Iraq. --- Irregular Forces. --- Medieval Conflict. --- Medieval Warfare. --- Middle Ages. --- Military History Journal. --- Military History. --- Military Practice. --- New Wars. --- Political Context. --- Political Science. --- Politics. --- Proxy Actors. --- War. --- Western-led Invasion.

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With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust--whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian--in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.

Historiography --- 20th century scholarship. --- ancient roman historian. --- ancient roman history. --- ancient rome. --- biography. --- catilines war. --- conspiracy. --- gaius sallustius crispus. --- histories. --- immorality. --- julius caesar. --- law and order. --- literary context. --- moral decline. --- morality. --- old roman aristocracy. --- partisan career. --- partisanship. --- patron. --- political advancement. --- political context. --- rivalry. --- roman historian. --- roman politics. --- roman republic. --- roman senate. --- rome. --- sallust. --- sallustian studies. --- social context. --- the jugurthine war.

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"On the Politics of Educational Theory considers the political significance of educational theory as a specific genre of public discourse. Rather than understanding educational theories solely as addressing issues of childrearing and instruction, this book aims to view educational theories in a broader socio-political context. It explores the role of educational theories in the construction of collective and political identities, and analyses them as rhetorical strategies operating as political discourses.Defining the methodological framework through the perspectives of Michel Foucault and Ernesto Laclau, each chapter examines the ways in which theories of education contribute to the creation of social realities and identities. Such issues as the construction of visibility and invisibility of power, the tropes of temporality, or the use of postulational language where theorists say what ‘should’ be done in and by education, are some of the threads that weave through particular theories – from Rousseau to the discourse of education in the knowledge-based society – analysed as ontological rhetorics constitutive of political identities.This book suggests a direction for a more conscious way of dealing with the political in education. As such, it will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of educational research, philosophy of education, curriculum studies, social and political theory, and theory of education."

Education --- Education and state --- Political aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Aims and objectives. --- Education policy --- Educational policy --- State and education --- Social policy --- Endowment of research --- Aims and objectives of education --- Educational aims and objectives --- Educational goals --- Educational objectives --- Educational purposes --- Goals, Educational --- Instructional objectives --- Objectives, Educational --- Purposes, Educational --- Educational sociology --- Politics and education --- Government policy --- Ernesto Laclau;educational theorising;identity theory;language;Michel Foucault;postulational rhetorics;semiotic structures;socio-political context;Tomasz Szkudlarek

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El libro analiza la relación entre vanguardia y humorismo gráfico en dos periodos históricos críticos: la Guerra Civil Española (1936-1939) y los primeros años de la Revolución Cubana (1959-1961). Secentra en los periódicos y la llamada prensa de trincheras en España orientada a un público adulto, tanto en el bando republicano (No Veas, Trincheras, L'Esquella de la Torratxa, entre otras) como enel nacional (Vértice y La Ametralladora). En la parte dedicada a Cuba, el análisis se centra en el diario Revolución y en la revista de humor vanguardista El Pitirre, que discurrió paralela al suplemento cultural Lunes de Revolución y corrió similar suerte cuando tanto Lunes como El Pitirre fueron clausurados en 1961. El enfoque del libro traza la trayectoria de la vanguardia en el humorismo gráfico en ambos periodos, cuando el compromiso político y la militancia desplazaron paulatinamente el desarrollo de la vanguardia estética. La especial coyuntura socio-política planteó retos a los artistas gráficos de índole ideológico y estético-conceptual, estableciendo áreas de contacto e influencia entre España y Cuba. The book studies the relation between the avant-garde and graphic humour in two critical historical periods: the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the early years of the Cuban Revolution (1959-1961). It focuses on the so-called war magazines in Spain on the Republican side (No Veas, Trincheras, and L'Esquella de la Torratxa, among others) and the Francoist side (Vértice and La Ametralladora). In the part devoted to Cuba, the analysis covers the newspaper Revolución and the avant-garde humour magazine El Pitirre, which ran simultaneously to the cultural supplement Lunes de Revolución and shared the same fate when Lunes and El Pitirre were closed down in 1961. The book unveils the trajectory of the avant-garde graphic humour in both periods, when the political commitment progressively overshadowed the development of the aesthetic avant-garde. The special socio-political conjuncture posed ideological and aesthetic-conceptual challenges to graphic artists, establishing contact areas and influences between Spain and Cuba. Jorge L. Catalá Carrasco es Lecturer in Hispanic Studies en Newcastle University.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Spanish wit and humor, Pictorial --- History --- Political satire, Cuban --- Political satire, Spanish --- Press and politics --- Cuban wit and humor, Pictorial --- History and criticism. --- Spain --- Cuba --- Press coverage. --- Spanish political satire --- Spanish wit and humor --- Cuban political satire --- Cuban wit and humor --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Politics and the press --- Press --- Advertising, Political --- Government and the press --- Journalism --- Political aspects --- Küba --- Guba --- Kkuba --- Republic of Cuba --- República de Cuba --- キューバ --- Kyūba --- Kuuba --- Espagne --- Espainiako Erresuma --- España --- Espanha --- Espanja --- Espanya --- Estado Español --- Hispania --- Hiszpania --- Isupania --- Kingdom of Spain --- Regne d'Espanya --- Reiaume d'Espanha --- Reino de España --- Reino d'Espanya --- Reinu d'España --- Sefarad --- Sepharad --- Shpanie --- Shpanye --- Spanien --- Spanish State --- Supein --- イスパニア --- スペイン --- Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) --- Revolution (Cuba : 1959) --- 1900-1999 --- Artistic Movements. --- Cuban Revolution. --- Cultural Influence. --- Graphic Humor. --- Guerra Civil Española. --- Historical Analysis. --- Historical Periods. --- Humorismo Gráfico. --- Political Context. --- Revolución Cubana. --- Spanish Civil War. --- Vanguardia.