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Sensibility and Creation: Studies in Twentieth-Century French Poetry
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Cardinal
July 08, 2026
Sensibility and Creation (1977) comprises a dozen critical studies by different contributors on a selection of major French poets of the twentieth century. These range from poets of long-established reputation, such as Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse and Paul Eluard, to contemporary ...
Stopping the Spread of Nuclear Weapons: The Past and the Prospects
1st Edition
By David Fischer
July 08, 2026
Although in the early 1990s, nearly fifty countries had a nuclear capacity, and many more were close to it, only a handful were actually in possession of nuclear weapons. David Fischer’s book, originally published in 1992, was of particular interest in the light of the collapse of the post-war ...
Taming Philippine Headhunters: A Study of Government and of Cultural Change in Northern Luzon
1st Edition
By Felix M. Keesing, Marie Keesing
July 08, 2026
In the high mountains and jungles of the northern Philippines lived a quarter of a million people, Malayan, Indonesian and Pygmy. These so-called ‘non-Christians’, differing widely in life and custom, were little touched by Western-style culture and government until the twentieth century. Taming ...
The American Male: A Penetrating Look at the Masculinity Crisis
1st Edition
By Myron Brenton
July 08, 2026
First published in 1967, The American Male explores broad social patterns and major societal trends as they affect men in America. The author argues that American men are burdened by an outdated code of masculinity that stifles their personalities and limits their ability to enjoy life at every ...
The Augustan Age
1st Edition
By John Butt
July 08, 2026
The Augustan Age (1962) examines the writing of the time, and the critical theory that supported it. By focusing on a few writers of paramount interest, the book looks at what men of letters such as Dryden, Swift, Pope and a few others have to say, set against the background of the age in which ...
The Catholic Church and the French Nation 1589–1989
1st Edition
By Norman Ravitch
July 08, 2026
“Paris is worth a mass” was the realistic response of Protestant Henry IV, who changed his faith to secure the throne of France, to the central importance of the French Catholic Church. Principle and pragmatism have since been, in alteration, the two prime constituents of French Catholicism. In his...
The Comely Frontispiece: The Emblematic Title-Page in England 1550–1660
1st Edition
By Margery Corbett, R.W. Lightbown
July 08, 2026
Many of the major books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 – one of the richest periods in English culture – were embellished with an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects twenty such title-pages which represent the different branches of learning – theology...
The Economy of Yugoslavia
1st Edition
By Fred Singleton, Bernard Carter
July 08, 2026
The creation of the Yugoslav state at the end of the First World War brought together the half-assimilated remains of several societies in various stages of development, each with centuries of rule by foreign powers. It was not until the Second World War when a fresh start was made under a new ...
The European Crisis of the 1590s: Essays in Comparative History
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Clark
July 08, 2026
First published in 1985, The European Crisis of the 1590s (now with a new preface by Peter Clark on the current literature on crisis and catastrophe) investigates in depth for the first time the origin and scale of the critical problems of the 1590s and their impact on European society. Among the ...
The Film in National Life: Being the Report of an Enquiry Conducted by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films into the Service which the Cinematograph May Render to Education and Social Progress
1st Edition
By The Commission on Educational and Cultural Films
July 08, 2026
The Film in National Life (1932) is the report by the Commission on Educational and Cultural Films, established in 1929, that aimed to establish a position on the treatment of film constructively in the interests of education in its widest sense. The Commission was aware that other countries were ...
The Formation of Modern Lebanon
1st Edition
By Meir Zamir
July 08, 2026
The Formation of Modern Lebanon (1985) examines the critical period around the 1920 establishment of Greater Lebanon and its impact on the political development of the country. It examines the ramifications of the annexation of the coastal region and the Beqa’a valley, with their mainly Muslim ...
The Free and Independent: The Trials, Temptations and Triumphs of the Parliamentary Elector
1st Edition
By Hartley Kemball Cook
July 08, 2026
The Free and Independent (1949) looks at Parliament from the point of view of the Elector rather than the Elected. After dealing with the early history of elections when the franchise was sometimes considered to be a nuisance rather than a privilege, it traces the recognition of the value of the ...