Books published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd

This volume reflects again the superb organization of the parliamentary body that met during these years.

Unlocks the secrets behind the images and music of an important Spanish musical manuscript compiled for a brotherhood of suspected heretics ca. 1500.

A richly detailed examination of the historical reception of Franz Schubert in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe, with a concentration on fin-de-siecle Vienna.

An exploration of the subject of Afro-Germans, which, in recent years has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for providing insight into contemporary Germany's transformation into a multicultural society.

Applies new approaches to the study of a small, densely populated region of West Africa, integrating them into a regional history that analyzes interactions between localities and the modern state.

A re-examination of the social processes behind religious conversions in the Ancient and Early Middle Ages.

A history of the Jewish National Fund and the ways it encouraged Jews around the world to buy land in Palestine in the years 1924-1947.The Jewish National Fund [JNF] is the executive body established by the Zionist movement in 1902 to buy land in Palestine for the Jewish people. Very quickly, however, it became an international organization and soon had branchesin many countries throughout the world. One of the tasks of these branches was to mediate between the central office in Jerusalem and the millions of Jews who donated money to buy land. The organization, which is still active throughout the Jewish world, concerned itself with "e;the marketing of ideology"e;: the dissemination of symbols, knowledge and ideas to the masses of the Jewish people, and converted them into money and real estate property. In thememories of much of World Jewry the JNF is linked with memories of their childhoods and the forming of their identities. The memory was, in fact, fashioned by the Propaganda Department of the JNF which worked through the mass communications media in the Jewish world and made its presence massively felt in the Jewish education networks in many countries. Among the most remembered items are "e;the Blue Box"e;, the flagship of the organization, and the stamps distributed to schools, which were miniature posters making political declarations. Up until today there has been virtually no research carried out on these aspects of Zionist propaganda which helped to fashion this collective memoryand left its mark upon Jewish culture in Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Yoram Bar-Gal is Professor of Geography at Haifa University in Israel.

A history of America's tangled involvement in the transition of British and French West African territories to statehood.

Hollywood's Film Wars with France examines how Hollywood was able to establish a permanent dominance over the French market for motion pictures by using monopolistic trade practices and diplomatic pressure.

Globalization and post-communist transition are currently two of the most important economic issues. Kolodko considers the links between them, and the way forward for post-socialist economies.Kolodko, former finance minister of Poland, considers the links between issues of globalization and post-communist transition, the two most important economic features of the turn of the century. He discusses the pattern of economic growth and contraction of the past fifty years, and reviews the options for the next half century. He accounts for the severity of the transitional recession in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a result of both thelegacies of the past and current policy mistakes, but demonstrates how structural reforms and gradual institutional building have enabled some postsocialist economies to recover. He proposes that, within the wider context of globalization, several of these emerging market economies will be able to catch up with the more advanced industrial countries, but emphasizes the need for quality growth policies and continuing coordination between development strategies and efforts toward structural reform. Grzegorz W. Kolodko is John C. Evans Professor in European Studies at the University of Rochester, and Director of TIGER -- Transformation, Integration and Globalization Economic Research -- at the Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management [WSPiZ].

An analysis of the historical and scientific effects of technology transfer from an imperial to colonial setting.

A new crop of essays on topics in the literature of Goethe and the Goethezeit, with a special section providing innovative readings of Goethe's lyric poetry.

Provides the first history of the North American farm novel, a genre which includes John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Sheila Watson's The Double Hook, and Louis Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine.

First specialized study of Meinhof and the RAF in English, focusing on their use of language to justify extreme violence.

New essays providing a wide-ranging cultural, social, and political picture of volatile between-the-wars Vienna.

In examining Schiller's often-neglected use of gesture, this study treats his dramas as written to be performed -- not merely read.

Essays examining aspects of German book history -- in relation to writers, readers, and publishers -- from the 1780s to the 1930s.

First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction deals with questions of German victimhood.

Pathbreaking examination of the prominent 19th-c. motif with an eye toward literature as social commentary.

Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.

Focuses on the literary implications of 17th-century religion, Shakespeare's Roman plays, and 16th-century poetry.

An advanced introduction to Benjamin's work and its actualization for our own times.

Volume focusing on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of "masculinity" in German culture from medieval times to the present.

Traces the development of ideas of Nuremberg as cultural and spiritual capital, thus offering a coherent view of German cultural and intellectual history.

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

Essays examining the rift between British and German intellectual and cultural traditions before 1914 and its effect on events.

Brings to light unsuspectedly rich sources of humor in the works of prominent nineteenth-century women writers.

First English translation of Moerike's strikingly modern artist-novel of 1832.