Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Wilfrid Laurier University Press is a scholarly press based in Waterloo, Ontario.
View Rights PortalYour Search Results
-
Promoted Content
Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2025The Global 1923 and the Treaty of Lausanne
Peace, imperialism, and the Eastern question
by Ilia Xypolia, Dionysis Tsirigotis
This book is a cutting-edge analysis of how the peace treaty was achieved in Lausanne by placing it in the global context. The Treaty of Lausanne reconsidered explores events from the long great war to the conclusion of the Treaty of Lausanne, examining imperialism and divergent - among and within states - motives, actions and constraints that shaped the peace settlement. It shows that peace can only last if it is a product of negotiation and not imposition. In doing so, the book addresses the silences and the absences that eventually formed controversial aspects of the settlement. It highlights the degree to which the Eastern Question discourse and the western powers' concerns in light of the emerging Turco-Soviet alliance, shaped the proceedings in Lausanne. The Treaty of Lausanne reconsidered reveals how the entanglement and the contestation at Lausanne continues to inform our contemporary politics today.
-
Promoted Content
June 2018Ausgewählte Werke:. »Ich schicke meinen Schatten voraus«
Band 1: Prosa
by Marina Zwetajewa, Ilma Rakusa, Elke Erb, Ilma Rakusa, Margarete Schubert, Marie-Luise Bott, Hilde Angarowa
Marina Zwetajewa, neben Anna Achmatowa die bedeutendste russische Dichterin des 20. Jahrhunderts, war auch in ihrer Prosa unverkennbar Lyrikerin. Ob sie, wie in ihrer Tagebuchprosa, das Chaos der Revolutions- und Bürgerkriegsjahre schildert oder in ihren autobiographischen Erzählungen die verlorenenen Kindheitsparadiese aufruft, immer ist die Sprache – assoziativ, lyrisch, intensiv – die eigentliche Protagonistin. Der Band versammelt Texte unterschiedlicher Lebensphasen: Die Moskauer Aufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1917-1921 geben Zeugnis von den Revolutions- und Kriegswirren. »Über Deutschland« entwirft das Idealbild von einem Ort des Geistes, das während der Jahre ihrer Emigration rasch zerfallen wird. 1933, in der Not des Exils, beginnt Zwetajewa, sich in autobiographischen Erzählungen ihrer frühesten Erfahrungen zu versichern: behütete, doch unruhige erste Lebensjahre mit Stationen in Freiburg, Nervi und Lausanne, die überschattet waren vom frühen Tod der Mutter. Die »Erzählung von Sonetschka« vergegenwärtigt ihre Liebe zu der Schauspielerin Sofia Gollidej. Mit der vorliegenden Auswahl gilt es die Prosa einer der größten europäischen Dichterinnen der Moderne neu zu entdecken, deren Leidenschaft und Dringlichkeit man sich kaum entziehen kann.
-
Trusted Partner
June 1989Vathek
by William Beckford, Franz Blei, Robert Picht, Reinhold Grimm, Stéphane Mallarmé
An Weihnachten 1781 veranstaltete Beckford – laut Byron der reichste aller Söhne Englands – auf seinem Landsitz Fonthill ein ausgelassenes Fest, dessen Teilnehmer das einzige Ziel haben sollten, »sich an allem zu erfreuen, was Geld und Macht ihnen geben konnte«. Fonthill verwandelte sich während der drei Tage des Festes in einen Palast der fünf Sinne: Zärtliche und schmachtende Blicke, ins Ohr geflüsterte Worte, das bezaubernde Lächeln auf den Gesichtern, der süße Duft der Rosen, all das erzeugt eine wollüstige Stimmung …« Unmittelbar nach dem Fest schrieb Beckford seinen »Vathek« nieder, und zwar innerhalb von drei Tagen! Er vertraute das Manuskript seinem Freund Samuel Henley an, der das Werk ohne Namen und ohne Beckfords Einverständnis 1786 veröffentlichte, und zwar in einer englischen Übersetzung (Beckford hatte das Buch in französischer Sprache geschrieben). Diese französische Urfassung erschien im folgenden Jahr in Lausanne und Paris. Das Buch erwies sich als großer Erfolg, und weitere Ausgaben wurden gedruckt in den Jahren 1809, 1815, 1819 und 1876, mit einem Vorwort von Stéphane Mallarmé. Vathek ist ein Kalif, der sich über alle göttlichen und irdischen Gesetze erhaben glaubt. Giaour, der Bote der Mächte der Finsternis, verspricht ihm den Palast des Unterirdischen Feuers zu öffnen und ihm die darin enthaltenen Schätze und Geheimnisse zu übergeben, unter der Bedingung, daß er ihm und seiner Gier die Kinder seiner Höflinge ausliefere. Vathek erfüllt die schreckliche Bedingung und gelangt nach vielen Abenteuern in der Gesellschaft einer kleinen Prinzessin, die als Knabe verkleidet ist, in den Palast von Eblis, wo er das furchtbare Los derer teilt, die sich wie er ganz den weltlichen Freuden verschrieben haben.
-
Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2018Gender and Migration
A Gender-Sensitive Approach to Migration Dynamics
by Christiane Timmerman, Maria Lucinda Fonseca, Lore Van Praag, Sónia Pereira (eds)
The impact of gender on migration processes Considering the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between gender relations and migration, the contributions in this book approach migration dynamics from a gender-sensitive perspective. Bringing together insights from various fields of study, it is demonstrated how processes of social change occur differently in distinct life domains, over time, and across countries and/or regions, influencing the relationship between gender and migration. Detailed analysis by regions, countries, and types of migration reveals a strong variation regarding levels and features of female and male migration. This approach enables us to grasp the distinct ways in which gender roles, perceptions, and relations, each embedded in a particular cultural, geographical, and socioeconomic context, affect migration dynamics. Hence, this volume demonstrates that gender matters at each stage of the migration process. In its entirety, Gender and Migration gives evidence of the unequivocal impact of gender and gendered structures, both at a micro and macro level, upon migrant’s lives and of migration on gender dynamics. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content). Contributors: Marianna Bacci Tamburlini (Universidade de Lisboa), Milena Belloni (University of Antwerp), Kitti Baracsi (University of Pécs), Kamila Fiałkowska (University of Warsaw), Hilde Greefs (University of Antwerp), Kenneth Hemmerechts (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Alexandra Parrs (University of Antwerp), Ferruccio Pastore (Forum Internazionale ed Europeo di Ricerche sull'Immigrazione FIERI Torino), Alina Poghosyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia), Ilse Ruyssen (Ghent University), Sara Salomone (Ghent University and UNU-CRIS), Romina Seminario Luna (Lausanne University), Christiane Timmerman (University of Antwerp), Lore Van Praag (University of Antwerp), Thomas Verbruggen (University of Antwerp), Zeynep Zümer Batur (University of Antwerp)
-
European historyAugust 2012A European Life
by Michael Tracy
"To those who think Europe matters, and even more so, to those who don’t”… Michael Tracy’s “Memoirs” recount his experiences from boyhood in wartime Scotland, through hi life in “public school” and university, to postings in various international organisations and a senior position within the European Union in Brussels; then to involvement in Russia and other Central/European countries in the 1990s. The book concludes with an assessment of current issues facing both the EU and Russia; also Britain in its relations with the EU. . . . . . Michael Tracy grew up in Scotland during the war of 193945. After gaining scholarships to Fettes College in Edinburgh, then to Cambridge University (studying Modern Languages, then Economics), he worked in international organisations and for ten years was a Director in the Council Secretariat of the European Union. He also pursued an academic career, writing on agricultural policy and economics and lecturing in various European universities, including Wye College in England and the College of Europe in Bruges. In Moscow in 1991 he witnessed at close quarters the collapse of the Soviet Union, and subsequently was involved in a new institute in St. Petersburg. Subsequently he had advisory and teaching roles in the countries of Central/Eastern Europe during their transition to market economies and accession to the European Union. His final chapter assesses the issues currently facing both the European Union and Russia. Taking the story up to May 2010, it discusses the prospects for the eurozone, and the implications of Britain’s new coalition government for Britain’s relations with the EU (a subject which he has followed from the outset in the late 1950s). This is not a history: it is a personal, lively and often humorous account of Michael Tracy’s experiences, in which personal contacts figure largely. Nor is it a tract for or against the European Union; on the other hand, it sheds a more human light on proceedings in “Brussels”. Graham Dalton of the University of Aberdeen admires the depth of knowledge at the heart of Michael Tracy’s memoir and concludes: “His thoughts on Europe are wellfounded, rounded and are to be taken seriously.” Michael Tracy has been President of the British Agricultural Economics Society and is an honorary member of the Académie d’Agriculture de France. His other main works are: Government and Agriculture in Western Europe, 18801988 (3rd edn. 1989); Food and Agriculture in a Market Economy – an introduction to theory, practice and policy (1993); and in retirement: The World of the Edwardian Child, as seen in Arthur Mee’s Children’s Encyclopædia 19081910 (2008). c After retirement, Michael continues to live mainly in Belgium, where he and his wife have a “hobby farm” with pedigree sheep. He also spends time in an Andalucian mountain village. His main hobby in both places is as an amateur pianist, is making music with friends.
-
FictionThe House Where Yvonne Lived
by Seidi Saikkonen
One day, Anna gets a surprising phone call. Yvonne, a disabled woman for whom she had worked for years as a personal assistant in Switzerland, is dead. The funeral will be held soon, and Anna is on the guest list. Anna is shocked but not necessarily saddened by the news. On the way to the funeral, Anna thinks back to the years spent with Yvonne. Who was Yvonne, actually, and what happened between them? Set in the peculiar atmosphere of a small alpine town where even the friendliest smile can hide terrible secrets, The House where Yvonne Lived is a psychological thriller that holds the reader firmly in its grip.
-
The ArtsOctober 2020The Art of Jazz
A Visual History
by Alyn Shipton; foreword by John Edward Hasse
The Art of Jazz celebrates the ways in which the expressionism and spontaneity of jazz – the twentieth century’s most influential of musical art forms – spilled onto its album art, posters, and promotional photography, and even inspired standalone works of art. As John Edward Hasse, curator at the Smithsonian Institution Museum of American History, writes in the introduction: “Jazz appears most directly to the ear but also engages the eye. Yet the visual dimension of jazz is often overlooked.” Internationally renowned broadcaster and writer Alyn Shipton explores how graphic designers, photographers, artists, and illustrators crafted a fresh visual language for the new music. Arranged chronologically, each chapter covers a key period in jazz history, from the earliest days of the twentieth century right up to postmodern jazz and the twenty-first century. Lavishly produced and with over 350 photos and illustrations, The Art of Jazz is both a timely and significant contribution to the literature of this intrepid art form.
-
Photography & photographsJuly 2013GERALDO DE BARROS: THAT’S IT
by Fabiana de Barros (author)
Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) was one of the most important representatives of Brazilian’s Modernism. He learned the principles of the Ulm Superior School of Design (Germany), brought them to South America and encouraged many of his colleagues to join the movement of concrete art. He cultivated contacts with the European artistic avant-garde and, in Brazil, was a pioneer in developing and experiencing new trends such as pop art and happening. This book presents an overview of his life and work, chrono-logically arranged and covering all aspects of his production with an emphasis in photography.
