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With the unification of Germany, it is now possible to trace German ancestry with a greater degree of accuracy than could be accomplished in earlier years. Before you endeavor to research by mail or travel to Germany, you will have to do some essential re ... Read more

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Pinches has acquired quite a reputation as an expert in heraldry, the principal visual codification of the landed classes in Great Britain and Europe. In this volume, he works his way through one specialized segment of the heraldic histories of all the western European nations. (The southeastern countries like Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria are omitted because they were under Turkish domination for so long, they never developed a western heraldic system). He's interested not in the arms granted to families but to the added ornamentation of an achievement: the crest, supporters, helm, assorted crowns and coronets, and the mantling, all of which have traditionally been more important on the Continent than in Britain. He fills out his discussion with an historical overview of the monarchy and nobility of each country, as well as the political histories of the emerging nation-states of Europe as they affected heraldic practice. Many maps and several hundred black-and-white illustrations make this an excellent reference tool in its field. ... Read more

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There is great interest in genealogy today along with an increasing search for family health history. In this third edition, readers will discover a dictionary that chronicles the past centuries including wars, disease, and longevity of life. A historical preface and introduction examine village life in Germany throughout the centuries leading up to the present day. Photographs of people and places enhance the introduction. The genealogical dictionary spans four centuries, following families from their European origins in 17th-century Germany up to the present day. Many German families left Europe to settle the Iowa prairie in the 19th century, and some of their lines can be traced back through as many as thirteen generations. Entries are arranged alphabetically by surname with dates of birth, marriage, death and burial, and place of birth wherever known. Also listed are the names of spouses and children, places of residence and occupations. A full-name index completes this work. ... Read more

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What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs.
The study ranges from Baroque, pre-Cartesian interpretations of body and embodiment, to the Cartesian elaboration of ontological difference and mind-body dualism, and it concludes with the parodic and violent aftermath of this legacy to the French Enlightenment. It engages work by philosophical authors such as Montaigne, Descartes and La Mettrie, as well as literary works by d'Urfé, Corneille and the Marquis de Sade. The examination of sexuality and the emergence of sexual difference as a dominant mode of embodiment are central to the book's overall design. The work is informed by philosophical accounts of the body (Nietzsche, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty), by feminist theory (Butler, Irigaray, Bordo), as well as by literary and cultural historians (Scarry, Stewart, Bynum, etc.) and historians of science (Canguilhem, Pagel, and Temkin), among others. It will appeal to scholars of literature, philosophy, French studies, critical theory, feminist theory, cultural historians and historians of science and technology.
Dalia Judovitz is Professor of French, Emory University. She is also author of Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit and Subjectivity and Representation in Decartes: The Origins of Modernity.
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Composed in the 1360s, Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris (Famous Women) was the first attempt at female biography in the history of post-classical Western literature. However, its humanistic credentials coexist uneasily with the remnants of medieval misogyny. This book-the first full-length study of De mulieribus claris in English-argues that it is essential to take into account the ideological complexities of early humanism confronted with the "woman question." It seeks to unravel the difficulties of the text, looking at its genesis, sources, relations to other writings-including Boccaccio’s vernacular works-its political dimensions, and its structure and methodology, to shed light on Boccaccio the humanist rewriting and rethinking his previous attitudes toward women. ... Read more

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Genealogists are now using molecular genealogy—comparing and matching people by matrilineal DNA lineages—mtDNA or patrilineal Y-chromosome ancestry and/or racial percentages tests. People interested in ancestry now look at genetic markers to trace the migrations of the human species. Here’s how to trace your genealogy by DNA from your grandparents back 10,000 or more years.

Anyone can be interested in DNA for ancestry research, but of interest to Jews from Eastern Europe is to see how different populations from a mosaic of communities reached their current locations. From who are you descended? What markers will shed light on your deepest ancestry? You can study DNA for medical reasons or to discover the geographic travels and dwelling places of some of your ancestors.

How do Europeans in general fit into the great migrations of prehistory that took all to where they are today based on their genetic DNA markers and sequences? Where is the geographic center of their origin and the roots of all people? Specifically, how can you interpret your DNA test for family history as a beginner in researching ancestry and your own family history? ... Read more

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The most sloppy book I have ever seen
Other than copying and pasting from various Web sites, no attempt was made to structure the material or coordinate its flow in different chapters. No editing work can be traced in the whole text.A good alternative to buying this book is to type in Google a few words from the title. An average reader should be able to do a better job compiling the references than the author did. ... Read more

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The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailedintroduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. His study takes in Foucault's early studies of transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French new novellists' of the 1960s, and his later concern with the genealogy of the author/intellectual, writing and theorizing within specific, historical mechanisms of social control and production. Foucault and Literature offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him, and goes on to develop new methods of post-Foucauldian literary/cultural analysis. ... Read more

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Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as aplaywright, director and actor manqué.Now, John C.Stout's highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theoristof biography.TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction 1 "Mon ami, ma chimère...": Early Prose Poems on Uccello and Abélard 2 Beneath the Monk's Cowl 3 Modernist Family Romance 4 The Drama of Desire Against Itself: Les Cenci 5 Self-portraits at Rodez Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ... Read more

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Historically underpinned, this study focuses especially on the period from the 1980s onward and looking forward into the new century. The authors begin their analysis with the phenomenon of the British Royal Family and their relationship with contemporary Britain through the media. This then extends into a comparative analysis of monarchy across Eurpoe, in its relation to political culture, including the republican tradition. The book also uses the concept of 'para-royals' such as the Perons, Kennedys, Clintons and now in Britain, the Blairs. It analyzes the nature of republican symbology as incorporated in media rituals and representations to try to define key differences within the category of the 'modern' in contemporary Europe. ... Read more

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Exploring the experiences of past generations of workers is essential if we are to find just solutions to the critical issues facing workers today. Many governments are struggling with the problems of deindustrialization, but few historical assessments of this dilemma exist to serve as tools of analysis. In The Miners of Decazeville, Donald Reid traces the rise and fall of industry over almost two centuries—from the final decades of the ancient régime until the Fifth Republic—in a coal-mining community in southwestern France. In Decazeville the miners experienced both full industrial development and deindustrialization, phenomena that are not simply economic but social, political, and human as well.

Reid analyzes the interactions of miners, managers, and the state in the making and unmaking of an industrial community. He unmasks the intricacies of the distribution of managerial authority, demonstrates the ramifications of the early intervention of the state, charts the development of workers' political and national identity, and sensitively portrays the struggle against insecurity that menaces workers' lives. This contribution to social and economic history, labor history, and the history of management sets agendas for future work in this significant area of contemporary history. ... Read more