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Established in 1944,the University of South Carolina Press is one of the oldest and most distinguished publishing houses in the South. With well over 1,000 books available in print and digital formats, and publishing approximately fifty new books annually, the Press enhances and expands the scholarly reputation and worldwide visibility of the University of South Carolina.In helping the University fulfill its mission of research and teaching and outreach, the Press publishes a wide range of critically acclaimed works in the following subjects: Southern History, African American Studies, Civil Rights, and South Carolina. In addition, the Press publishes long-running scholarly series in Literary Studies and Rhetoric/Communication. Our editorial profile aligns with several of the institutional strengths of the University and underscores the Press’s mission to serve teachers and learners and readers in the academy and the broader culture, both in North America and around the globe.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2024Tracking the Jews
Ecumenical Protestants, conversion, and the Holocaust
by Carolyn Sanzenbacher
This book sheds light on an unprecedented Protestant conversion initiative for the global evangelisation of Jews. Founded in 1929, the International Committee on the Christian Approach to the Jews (ICCAJ) aimed to bring Jewish people to their 'spiritual destiny', a task it saw as both benevolent and essential for a harmonious society. By the time of Hitler's rise to power it was active in thirty-two countries, educating Protestant churches on the right Christian attitude towards Jews and antisemitism. Reconstructing the activities of the ICCAJ in the years before, during and immediately after the Holocaust, Tracking the Jews reveals how ideas disseminated through the organisation's discourse - 'Jewish problem', 'Jewish influence', 'Judaising threat', 'eternal Jew' - were used to rationalise, justify, explain or advance a number of deeply troubling policies. They were, for vastly different reasons, consciously used elements of argumentation in both Protestant conversionary discourse and Nazi antisemitic ideology.
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Dust
by Steedman
In this book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a sometimes irreverent investigation into how modern historiography has developed. Writing about the practice and writing of history, she considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the 19th century, with which modern history writing attempts to grapple. Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world.
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February 2005Ich, Prinzessin Elisabeth von England
Historischer Roman
by Meyer, Carolyn / Deutsch Braun, Anne L
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November 2010Im Nebel eines neuen Morgens
Kriminalroman
by Haines, Carolyn / Übersetzt von Ebnet, Karl-Heinz
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2003Plants, patients and the historian
(Re)membering in the age of genetic engineering
by Paolo Palladino, Bertrand Taithe, Roger Cooter, Carolyn Steedman
God is dead. Thanks to the decoding of the human genome, the 'word' has been rendered into 'flesh' and 'we can all be proud of our species as it closes in on this summit of self-knowledge'. Yet, the very architects of its decoding have also warned that 't. Provides a history of genetics in Britain from its inception as a science in the early years of the twentieth century. Seeks to examine the roots of these two paradoxical assessments of the decoding of the human genome. Explores the intersection of historiography, critical theory, and science and technology studies, aiming to reaffirm the inescapable presence and necessity of the 'Absolute. ;
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The ArtsJune 2006Mourning becomes...
Post/memory and commemoration of the concentration camps of the South African War 1899–1902
by Elizabeth Stanley, Bertrand Taithe, Roger Cooter, Carolyn Steedman
This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts about the concentration camps run by the British during the South African War. The author demonstrates that much of what we have traditionally understood about these camps originates the testimony which was solicited, selected and published by key women activists within Boer proto-nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, she shows that much of the history of the camps results from a deliberate imposition of 'post/memory' - a process by which what was 'remembered' was shaped and reshaped to support the development of a racialised nationalist framework. Many of the camps' occupants died from successive epidemics of measles, typhoid, enteritis and pneumonia rather than deliberate ill-treatment, yet the book shows how mourning for those who died was overridden by state commemorative activities concerned with promoting pan-Boer nationalist aspirations. The innovative and groundbreaking approach of the author invites the reader to step into and explore with her the commemorative sites passed by nationalist land acts, which still powerfully mark the South African landscape. ;
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MedicineJune 2012Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination
by Ian Burney, Bertrand Taithe, Roger Cooter, Carolyn Steedman
This fascinating book looks at the phenomenon of murder and poisoning in the nineteenth century. Focusing on the case of William Palmer, a medical doctor who in 1856 was convicted of murder by poisoning, it examines how his case baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges. The investigation commences with an overview of the practice of toxicology in the Victorian era, and goes on to explore the demands imposed by legal testimony on scientific work to convict criminals. In addressing Palmer's trial, Burney focuses on the testimony of Alfred Swaine Taylor, a leading expert on poisons, and integrates the medical, legal and literary evidence to make sense of the trial itself and the sinister place of poison in wider Victorian society. Ian Burney has produced an exemplary work of cultural history, mixing a keen understanding of the contemporary social and cultural landscape with the scientific and medical history of the period. ;
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January 1986Als hundert Blumen blühen sollten
Autobiographie und Zeitdokument. Die Lebens-Odyssee einer modernen Chinesin im Strudel der revolutionären Umbrüche vom Langen Marsch bis heute
by Yue-Daiyun / Beiträge von Wakeman, Carolyn; Übersetzt von Künzel, Helga
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The ArtsApril 2006Benjamin's Arcades
An unGuided tour
by Peter Buse, Bertrand Taithe, Ken Hirschkop, Roger Cooter, Scott McCracken, Carolyn Steedman, Bertrand Taithe
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin's unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin's Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits. Written by three literary scholars and one historian, this text is both a reading companion and a vigorous interpretation of one of the most important humanistic texts of the twentieth century. Benjamin's Arcades is composed of 16 entries and a specially designed 'convoluted' index. Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui, Marx, Giedion), others look intensively at key themes, obsessions, and images (the gambler, commodity fetishism, the Angel of History, magic). Throughout there is discussion of the relationship of Benjamin's work to current and past debate on topics such as modernity, Judaism, fascism, and psychoanalysis. Benjamin's Arcades opens up Benjamin's texts to a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives and will be an essential text for those seeking to better understand this extraordinary work. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2024Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
by Carolyne Larrington
Over the last twenty-five years, the 'history of emotion' field has become one of the most dynamic and productive areas for humanities research. This designation, and the marked leadership of historians in the field, has had the unlooked-for consequence of sidelining literature - in particular secular literature - as evidence-source and object of emotion study. Secular literature, whether fable, novel, fantasy or romance, has been understood as prone to exaggeration, hyperbole, and thus as an unreliable indicator of the emotions of the past. The aim of this book is to decentre history of emotion research and asks new questions, ones that can be answered by literary scholars, using literary texts as sources: how do literary texts understand and depict emotion and, crucially, how do they generate emotion in their audiences - those who read them or hear them read or performed?
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August 1987Erzählungen und Tagebuchblätter
Ausgewählt und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Hermann Hesse
by Friedrich Hebbel, Hermann Hesse
1813 18. März: Christian Friedrich Hebbel wird als Sohn des Tagelöhners und Maurers Claus Friedrich Hebbel und seiner Frau Antje Margaretha, geb. Schubart, in Wesselburen geboren. 1817 Besuch der Grundschule der Jungfer Susanna. 1819 Besuch der Volksschule. 1827 Tod des Vaters. Hebbel arbeitet beim Kirchspielvogt Mohr zuerst als Laufbursche, dann als Schreiber. 1835 Reise nach Hamburg, wo er von der Schriftstellerin Amalie Schoppe unterstützt wird und seine Freundin, Gönnerin und spätere Geliebte Elise Lensing kennenlernt. 1836 Jurastudium in Heidelberg, das er aber bald wieder abbricht. Freundschaft mit Emil Rousseau. Wanderung über Straßburg und Tübingen, wo er Uhland besucht, nach München. Dort wohnt er beim Tischlermeister Anton Schwarz. Erste Gedichte und Erzählungen entstehen. 1838 Tod der Mutter und Emil Rousseaus. 1839 Wanderung über Göttingen nach Hamburg. Dort Arbeit an der Tragödie Judith. Mitarbeit an dem von Karl Gutzkow herausgegebenen ›Telegraph für Deutschland‹. 1840 6. Juli: Uraufführung von Judith in Berlin. November: Geburt des Sohnes Max. 1842 Ein Sammelband mit Hebbels Gedichten erscheint. November: Erste Reise nach Kopenhagen. Dezember: Erste Audienz beim dänischen König Christian VIII. 1843 Die Tragödie Genoveva erscheint. Von König Christian VIII. erhält Hebbel ein zweijähriges Reisestipendium, das ihn bis 1845 nach Paris, Rom, Neapel und Wien führt, wo er sich dauerhaft niederläßt. März: Arbeitsbeginn an der Tragödie Maria Magdalene, die er im Dezember abschließt. Oktober: Sohn Max stirbt. 1844 Mai: Geburt des Sohnes Ernst. Maria Magdalene erscheint. Promotion in Erlangen. 1846 13. März: Uraufführung von Maria Magdalene in Königsberg. Bruch mit Elise Lensing und Heirat mit der Schauspielerin Christine Enghaus. 1847 Gastspielreisen nach Berlin, Graz, Leipzig und Dresden. Neue Gedichte erscheinen. Dezember: Geburt der Tochter Titi. 1848 Hebbel arbeitet als Korrespondent für die ›Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung‹. Kandidatur für die Frankfurter Nationalversammlung. 1849 Die Novelle Die Kuh erscheint. 19. April: Uraufführung der Tragödie Herodes und Mariamne in Wien mit Hebbels Frau in der Hauptrolle. 13. Mai: Uraufführung von Genoveva in Prag. 21. November: Uraufführung des Märchenspiels Der Rubin in Wien. 1852 Reise nach München anläßlich der Uraufführung der Tragödie Agnes Bernauer. Reise nach Italien. 1853 Reise nach Hamburg und Helgoland. 1854 Juli-August: Kur in Marienbad. 1856 Die Tragödie Gyges und sein Ring erscheint. 1857 Besuch bei Arthur Schopenhauer und Eduard Mörike. 1858 Juni-Juli: Reise nach Weimar. Bekanntschaft mit Fürstin Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein. 1860 Reise nach Paris. 1861 31. Januar und 18. Mai: Uraufführung der Tragödien-Trilogie Die Nibelungen in Weimar. Plan, nach Weimar überzusiedeln. 1862 Reise nach London. Hebbel gibt den Plan, nach Weimar umzuziehen, auf. 1863 März: Hebbel erkrankt. September: Kur in Baden bei Wien. 13. Dezember: Hebbel stirbt in Wien. 1864 Das unvollendete Trauerspiel Demetrius erscheint. Hermann Hesse, geboren am 2.7.1877 in Calw/Württemberg als Sohn eines baltendeutschen Missionars und der Tochter eines württembergischen Indologen, starb am 9.8.1962 in Montagnola bei Lugano. Er wurde 1946 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur, 1955 mit dem Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet. Nach einer Buchhändlerlehre war er seit 1904 freier Schriftsteller, zunächst in Gaienhofen am Bodensee, später im Tessin. Er ist einer der bekanntesten deutschen Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.
