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This important book analyzes the dubious role of the so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement `Nashi´ in contemporary Russia. Part and parcel of the Putinist project of political stabilizati...

In the early twentieth century, the magic of radio was new, revolutionary, and poorly understood. A powerful symbol of modernity, radio was a site where individuals wrestled and came to terms with ...

Judicial Politics in the Early Nineteenth Century

The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement "Nashi" represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organized formation whose values have broad support in Russian society. Yet, at the...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Domestic and International Setting -- Toward a Reconstruction of American Strength: A New Era in the Claim to Global Leadership? -- Po...

The Author: Andreas Schönle is Professor of Russian Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. His main research is in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Russian literature and culture, in modern ...

Still in its infancy because of the overly conservative views and methods assumed by the majority of scholars working in it since the mid-19th century, the field of early Islamic and quranic studie...

The history of Italian colonial affairs has recently attracted renewed interest from historians and economists. It is a complex and involved question. Over the last few years, though perhaps slight...

The politico-economic reforms launched during the late twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia have led to contradictory and ambiguous results. The new economic environment and mode of governance t...

A Story of Puffery vs. the Pragmatic

Inhalt: M. Reimann, Introduction: Patterns of Reception - M. H. Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law in the Anglo-American World Before 1850: Lieber, Legaré, and Walker, Roman Lawyers in the Old South - A...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. GNOSTICISM AND GNOSIS -- PART ONE. IMAGE MOTIFS: THOMAS AND GNOSTICS -- III. LIGHT AND DARKNESS -- IV. THE CELESTIAL SEA -- V. HOUSE AND GARMENTS -...

Race and utopia have been fundamental features of US American culture since the origins of the country. However, racial ideology has often contradicted the ideals of social and political equality i...

This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987. The articles under ...

CrossAsia-eBooks was renamed Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing (HASP) in 2022. Titles with publication years 2016 to 2021 were published under "CrossAsia-eBooks". Swami Sahajananda (1781-1830), t...