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  • 1
    UID:
    gbv_1758702087
    Format: 416 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781594206306
    Content: "From the New York Times bestselling author of THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK, the true story behind the creation of another masterpiece of world literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky's CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. THE SINNER AND THE SAINT is the deeply researched and immersive tale of how Dostoevsky came to write this great murder story-and why it changed the world. As a young man, Dostoevsky was a celebrated writer, but his involvement with the radical politics of his day condemned him to a long Siberian exile. There, he spent years studying the criminals that were his companions. Upon his return to St. Petersburg in the 1860s, he fought his way through gambling addiction, debilitating debt, epilepsy, the deaths of those closest to him, and literary banishment to craft an enduring classic. The germ of CRIME AND PUNISHMENT came from the sensational story of Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s. Lacenaire was a glamorous egoist who embodied the instincts that lie beneath nihilism, a western-influenced philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries. Dostoevsky began creating a Russian incarnation of Lacenaire, a character who could demonstrate the errors of radical politics and ideas. His name would be Raskolnikov. Lacenaire shaped Raskolnikov in profound ways, but the deeper insight, as Birmingham shows, is that Raskolnikov began to merge with Dostoevsky. Dostoevsky was determined to tell a murder story from the murderer's perspective, but his character couldn't be a monster. No. The murderer would be chilling because he wants so desperately to be good. The writing consumed Dostoevsky. As his debts and the predatory terms of his contract caught up with him, he hired a stenographer to dictate the final chapters in time. Anna Grigorievna became Dostoevsky's first reader and chief critic and changed the way he wrote forever. By the time Dostoevsky finished his great novel, he had fallen in love. Dostoevsky's great subject was self-consciousness. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT advanced a revolution in artistic thinking and began the greatest phase of Dostoevsky's career. THE SINNER AND THE SAINT now gives us the thrilling and definitive story of that triumph"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780698182882
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Birmingham, Kevin Sinner and the saint New York : Penguin Press, 2021
    Language: English
    Keywords: Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič 1821-1881 Prestuplenie i nakazanie ; Dostoevskij, Fëdor Michajlovič 1821-1881 ; Quelle
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  • 2
    UID:
    gbv_1755510543
    Format: xvi, 156 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9781800791831
    Series Statement: Peter Lang prompt
    Content: "In March 1949 the security service MI 5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an 'epicist ... who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny'. And it was precisely this scrutiny that troubled the guardians of the status quo. Lessing grew up in colonial Rhodesia and hated the scorn with which the colonists treated the native population. She worked tirelessly for a more just society and this drove her into support for communism. But a communist, as one of her fictional characters says, 'is hated, despised, feared and hunted'. Peter Raina's book, reproducing the secret files kept on Lessing, shows that this was largely true, even though her emphasis in these troubled times was always on Peace. Lessing was eventually disillusioned by communism, and sought a better understanding of human relations than Soviet-conforming clichés could provide. However, her understanding was much enriched by the experiences of her activism and knowledge of the opposition it aroused. The secret files show how strongly Lessing followed her convictions and throw new light on how her perceptions of society evolved. Peter Raina elucidates this in a short Introduction and an Epilogue discussing aspects of her writings"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781800791848
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781800791855
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781800791862
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Raina, Peter, 1935- Doris Lessing Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: Lessing, Doris 1919-2013 ; Großbritannien MI-5 ; Überwachung ; Akte ; Geschichte 1943-1960 ; Quelle
    Author information: Raina, Peter 1935-
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  • 3
    Book
    Book
    New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048576021
    Format: XVI, 272 Seiten , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780062879202
    Content: "A true renaissance man, Richard Claxton "Dick" Gregory was one of the pioneering satirists of his generation, a reformer and brilliant spokesperson for the downtrodden and forgotten who dedicated his life to speaking unadulterated truth--and to improving ordinary lives. A revered human rights and environmental activist, fearsome and uncompromising social critic, lauded bestselling author, and beloved nutrition guru, Gregory aimed not only to educate souls, but to liberate them. His words shaped a generation and remain vital for our own turbulent times, offering wisdom to enlighten and inspire a new activist age. This carefully curated anthology of selected writings reflects and celebrates Dick Gregory's wisdom and his vision. Divided into three sections--Body, Mind, and Spirit--it includes previously unavailable transcriptions and excerpts taken from his sixteen books, fifteen albums and audio compilations, and more than 1,200 hours of archival video, including lectures, interviews, and comedic performances. It is a breathtaking tour through the life of one of America's most prophetic and relevant cultural icons. This volume is a pointillistic portrait of a man who gave up a lucrative entertainment career to fight injustice on the front line of battle--leading protests and hunger strikes to end the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa; supporting civil rights, feminism, and Native Americans; and addressing hunger, poverty, and police brutality."
    Note: Part I: The Body (1931-1960). 1803 North Taylor -- Developing His Gifts -- Navigating a Wider World -- Lil -- No Business Like Show Business -- Breakthrough -- Part II: The Mind (1961-1970). Congressional Testimony on Discrimination in the Performing Arts (October 30, 1962) -- Interview with Ralph Gleason, KPFA Radio (May 25, 1963) -- Speech at St. John's Baptist Church, Birmingham (May 10, 1963) -- Medgar -- Selma Speeches (October 1963) -- Freedom Summer: Interview with Ramparts Magazine (June 1964) -- Interview with Larry Wilde, Great Comedians Talk About Comedy -- Malcolm -- Speech at Vietnam Day, University of California, Berkeley (May 21-23 1965) -- Martin -- COINTELPRO -- Write Me In -- Imagine: Bed-In for Peace, Montreal (June 1, 1969) -- Part III: The Spirit (1971-2017). My Answer to Genocide (October 1971) -- The Circuit: UCLA Speech (January 27, 1972) -- Caught in the Act: Final Nightclub Performance (August 5, 1973) -- The JFK Assassination: Good Night America (March 6, 1975) -- A Winning Formula -- Amandla Festival, Harvard Stadium, Boston (July 21, 1979) -- Iran Hostage Crisis: Press Conference at Logan Airport, Boston (September 9, 1980) -- Pilgrim in Search of Liberation: Message Magazine (March/ April 1981) -- "Something Must Be Wrong": Address at the Cleveland City Club (March 18, 1983) -- Hard on the Outside, Soft on the Inside, but Willing to Stick His Neck Out / Christian Gregory
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-06-287922-6
    Language: English
    Keywords: Gregory, Dick 1932-2017 ; USA ; Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Geschichte 1962-1983 ; Anthologie ; Quelle
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047675977
    Format: xxxiii, 442 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Modern Library edition
    ISBN: 9781984854308
    Uniform Title: Works Selections
    Content: Introduction -- Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Xenophon -- Plutarch -- Appendix -- Glossary
    Content: "The historians of Ancient Greece were pioneers of a new literary craft, and their work stands among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world and the foundation of a major discipline. This highly readable edition includes key selections from Herodotus--often called the "father of history"--Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch, whose biographies drew on primary sources since lost to history. It collects their most popular, and most widely taught, work in a single, accessible volume. The stories included here chart the landmark events of Ancient Greece--the Persian War, Peloponnesian War, and the lives of Alexander the Great and Demetrius--and add up to a sweeping portrait of the Hellenic world. The Greek historians were also the first to explore the possibilities of their craft, introducing, at the very dawn of the field, the concept that historical writing is far more than a chronicle of past events. Taken together, the Greek histories draw attention to each author's emphasis on religion, leadership, character, and the lessons to be drawn from war. How, for instance, should readers interpret Herodotus's inclusion of speeches and dialogues, dreams, and oracles as part of the "factual" record? What did Thucydides understand about human nature that (as he said) stays constant throughout time? How did Plutarch frame historical biography as a form of portraiture, a means of depicting the moral qualities of the great? Thucydides and Xenophon were also contemporaries of the eras they wrote about--the original word "historie" meaning "inquiry"--so their work provides a vital eyewitness account of turbulent times"--
    Note: Includes index
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9781984854315
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Griechenland ; Geschichte ; Quelle
    Author information: Romm, James S. 1958-
    Author information: Lefkowitz, Mary R. 1935-
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV049429258
    Format: lxi, 706 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Porträts , 21 cm
    ISBN: 9781598537345 , 9781598537895
    Series Statement: The library of America 366
    Content: "For too long, African Americans have been left out of the story of the nation's founding, their voices absent from the memory and celebration of the creation of the American republic. Black Writers of the Founding Era--by far the richest and most expansive anthology of its kind ever assembled--restores these voices. The writings gathered here reveal the complexity and dynamism of African American life and culture in the period and show how the principles of the American Revolution were seized upon and enlarged by Black Americans from the very beginning. Here are writers both enslaved and free, loyalist and patriot, women and men, Northern and Southern: soldiers, seamen, and veterans; painters, poets, and preachers; cooks, hairdressers, farmers, and many more. Alongside such better known works as Phillis Wheatley's poems and Benjamin Banneker's mathematical and scientific puzzles are dozens of first-person narratives offering a variety of Black perspectives on the political events of the times. These bold and eloquent contributions to public debate about the meanings of the Revolution and the republican values that gave rise to it dramatize the many ways in which protest and activism have always been integral for Black Americans. Intimate diaries and letters, many never before published, tell more private stories, indelibly altering our understanding of the lived experience of this crucial time in our history. A foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed and an introduction by James G. Basker, along with introductory headnotes and explanatory notes drawing on recent scholarship, illuminate these indispensable works. A 16-page color photo insert presents portraits of some of the writers and images of the original manuscripts, broadsides, and books in which their words are preserved."--Provided by publisher
    Note: Auf dem Umschlag: "A library of America anthology"
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-59853-735-2
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    Keywords: USA ; Literatur ; Schwarze ; Geschichte 1760-1800 ; Quelle
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  • 6
    Book
    Book
    London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047350153
    Format: viii, 189 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISBN: 9780367358914 , 9780367358907
    Series Statement: The Routledge guides to using historical sources
    Content: Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a "serious" activity can be used as sources for the study of history.From the vast world of games, the book’s focus is on board and card games, with reference to physical games, sports and digital games as well. Considering culture, society, politics and metaphysics, the author uses examples from various places around the world and from ancient times to the present to demonstrate how games and gaming can offer the historian an alternative, often very valuable and sometimes unique path to the past. The book offers a thorough discussion of conceptual and material approaches to games as sources, while also providing the reader with a theoretical starting point for further study within specific thematic chapters. The book concludes with three case studies of different types of games and how they can be considered as historical sources: the gladiatorial games, chess and the digital game Civilization.Offering an alternative approach to the study of history through its focus on games and gaming as historical sources, this is the ideal volume for students considering different types of sources and how they can be used for historical study, as well as students who study games as primary or secondary sources in their history projects
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-429-34247-9
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Spiel ; Quelle ; Geschichtswissenschaft
    Author information: Spanos, Apostolos Ph. 1969-
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  • 7
    Book
    Book
    New York : Oxford University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV047633253
    Format: xii, 234 Seiten , Illustrationen, Porträts , 25,4 cm
    ISBN: 9780190060084 , 9780190060091
    Content: "Pogroms: A Documentary History explores the remarkable long history of anti-Jewish violence in the East European borderlands beginning with the pogroms of 1881-1882 in the Russian Empire and concluding in Poland on the eve of World War II. This volume begins with a comprehensive introductory essay on pogroms followed by nine case studies. Organized chronologically, each chapter includes a unique array of archival and published sources, selected and introduced by a scholar expert in the period under investigation. The documents assembled here include eyewitness testimony, oral histories, diary excerpts, literary works, trial records, and press coverage. They also contain memos and field reports authored by army officials, investigative commissions, humanitarian organizations, and government officials. Each chapter explains the origins, timing, and consequences of pogrom violence at various levels of society, as well as the lives, relationships, activities, and interactions of those groups of people that rarely appear in the historical literature. By providing a nuanced analysis of the specific geopolitical context where the violence erupted, each chapter captures the specific nature of the waves of pogroms that broke out in different regions and at different times. Informed by the literature on collective violence and comparative genocide studies, this volume helps reevaluate the complex motivations, policy directives, and reactions of the most powerful decision makers to those officials and their accomplices operating in the provinces. The result is a balanced and accessible guide to the history of anti-Jewish violence"--
    Content: Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Pogroms: An Introduction -- 1. Pogroms in Russia's Borderlands, 1881-.1884 -- Document 1.1 Pogrom in Smela, Kiev Province [1881] -- Document 1.2 Leaflets Dropped around Kharkov Inviting People to Commit Anti-.Jewish Violence [1881] -- Document 1.3 Telegram to the Minister of Internal Affairs from Prince Donbukov, Odessa, May 5, 1881 -- Document 1.4 Telegram Sent to the Ministry of the Interior on May 5, 1881, from the Rovno Jewish Community, Volhynia Province -- Document 1.5 Circular Distributed on May 6, 1881, by E. I. Totleben, the Governor-.General of Vilna, to His Subordinates -- Document 1.6 Observations Made by a Nameless Doctor [1881 or 1882] -- Document 1.7 Secret Memo by the Deputy Chief of the Gendarme Department in Chernigov Province [1881] -- Document 1.8 Memo Written on June 9, 1881, by the Ekaterinoslav Governor to the Ministry of the Interior -- Document 1.9 The Russo-.Jewish Question: A Special Correspondent of the Jewish World [1881] -- 2. The 1898 Anti-.Jewish Violence in Habsburg Galicia -- Document 2.1 Pamphlet Widely Disseminated in Western Galicia: Jewish Secrets [1898] -- Document 2.2 Election Campaign Promotion from Wieniec Pszczólka [1898] -- Document 2.3 Report from the Kalwaria Zebrzydowska District Captain [1898] -- Documents 2.4 and 2.5 Anti-.Jewish Flyers [1898] -- Document 2.6 The Lutcza Indictment [1899] -- Documents 2.7 and 2.8 Three Trial Excerpts [1898] -- Document 2.9 Second Stary Sacz Proceeding [1898] -- Document 2.10 Parliamentary Debates on the Anti-.Jewish Riots [1898] -- 3. Kishinev Pogrom -- Document 3.1 On Hayim Nahman Bialik's "City of Killing" [1935] -- Document 3.2 Hayim Nahman Bialik, "City of Killing" [1903] -- Document 3.3 Testimony of Israel Rossman [1903].
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe, EPUB ISBN 978-0-19-006011-4
    Language: English
    Subjects: History
    RVK:
    Keywords: Osteuropa ; Antisemitismus ; Judenverfolgung ; Pogrom ; Geschichte 1881-1946 ; Quelle ; Konferenzschrift
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