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  1. Brownshirt Princess: A Study of the 'Nazi Conscience'

    Gossman, Lionel
    Open Book Publishers

    Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld was a rebellious young writer who became a fervent Nazi. Heinrich Vogeler was a well-regarded artist who was to join the German Communi...

  2. Telling Tales: The Impact of Germany on English Children's Books 1780-1918

    Blamires, David
    Open Book Publishers

    Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri’s Heidi quickly became classics but, as David...

  3. Henry James's Europe: Heritage and Transfer

    Open Book Publishers

    As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequently wrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. The plight of bewildered Americans adrift...

  4. That Greece Might Still Be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence

    St Clair, William
    Open Book Publishers

    When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousan...

  5. Letters of Blood and Other Works in English

    Printz-Påhlson, Göran
    Open Book Publishers

    This collection brings together for the first time select works in English by the major Swedish modernist poet and critic Göran Printz-Påhlson. It was Printz-Påhlson who introduced...

  6. Les Bienveillantes de Jonathan Littell: Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément

    Open Book Publishers

    Études réunies par Murielle Lucie Clément Les Bienveillantes (The Kindly Ones), caused a literary sensation in 2006. Described as "deliberately repellent" by The New York Times, Jo...

  7. Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright

    Open Book Publishers

    What can and can’t be copied is a matter of law, but also of aesthetics, culture, and economics. The act of copying, and the creation and transaction of rights relating to it, evok...

  8. Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas

    Roncaglia, Sara
    Open Book Publishers

    Every day in Mumbai 5,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city’s workers and students. Gi...

  9. How to Read a Folktale: The 'Ibonia' Epic from Madagascar

    Haring, Lee
    Open Book Publishers

    How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar:...

  10. Frontier Encounters: Knowledge and Practice at the Russian, Chinese and Mongolian Border

    Open Book Publishers

    China and Russia are rising economic and political powers that share thousands of miles of border. Yet, despite their proximity, their practical, local interactions with each other...

  11. Oral Literature in Africa

    Finnegan, Ruth
    Open Book Publishers

    Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fie...

  12. The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler

    Gossman, Lionel
    Open Book Publishers

    Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf...

  13. Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities

    Open Book Publishers

    Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When n...

  14. Peace and Democratic Society

    Sen, Amartya
    Open Book Publishers

    Recent acts of terrorism and the current unrest in the Middle East remind us how important it is to understand the relationship between violence, peace and democracy. In a challeng...

  15. A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture

    Cross, Anthony
    Open Book Publishers

    Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as "a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin’d", the Russians waited some three centuries before their subseque...

  16. Bourdieu and Literature

    Speller, John R.W.
    Open Book Publishers

    Bourdieu and Literature is a wide-ranging, rigorous and accessible introduction to the relationship between Pierre Bourdieu's work and literary studies. It provides a comprehensive...

  17. On History: Introduction to World History (1831); Opening Address at the Faculty of Letters, 9 January 1834; Preface to History of France (1869)

    Michelet, Jules
    Open Book Publishers

    Edited by Lionel Gossman, this volume contains three programmatic essays by Michelet. The first two are available here for the first time in English translation. The third, the Pre...