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Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe : 1890-1945
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Preface . . ix
1 Democratic Liberty on a Continental Scale? . . 1
2 Where are our Madisons? . . 25
3 The Dilemma of Modern Democracy . . 47
4 How Britain has Lost its Voice . . 64
5 Why Constitutions are Important . . 81
6 Three Forms of the State . . 102
7 Creating an Open Political Class . . 122
8 Europe and the Global Market . . 151
9 Europe and the United States . . 171
10 Europe, Christianity and Islam . . 189
11 Political Moderation and Social Diversity in Europe: The Future . . 215
A Brief Bibliography . . 232
Index . . 239
Vietnam at war
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS . . xi
LIST OF PLATES . . xii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS . . xiv
MAP OF VIETNAM AT WAR, 1954—1975 . . xv
Prelude . . 1
1. Visions of the Future . . 9
2. The French War . . 41
3. The Coming of the American War . . 77
4. Experiencing War . . 115
5. War's End . . 147
Coda . . 183
FURTHER READING . . 197
NOTES . . 203
PICTURE AND TEXT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS . . 227
INDEX . . 229
Central Europe : enemies, neighbors, friends
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Preface ix
Introduction: Where Is Central Europe? 3
1 Central Europe and the Roman Christian West, 400-1000 13
Romans and Barbarians: Christians and Pagans Roman CatholiG Eastern Orthodox, and IslamicEmpires:
Charlemagne, Byzantium, and the Rise of the Ottomans
2 Feudal Foundations, 1000-1350 27
TheDisunited GermanEmpire
Austrian, Bohemian, Hungarian, and PolishDynasties
Bohemia's Imperial Bid: King Otakar's Thirteenth-Century Empire
The German "Drive to theEast, " 1200-1350
Stemming the German Tide? The Battle of Grunwald
3 The Great Late Medieval Kingdoms: Poland and
Hungary, 1350-1500 45
The Wedding of Poland and Lithuania, 1386
The Greatest Hungarian King: The Reign of Matthias I, 1458-1490
Empire Building at the Altar: Habsburg Marital Diplomacy,
1477-1515
4 The Bulwarks of Christendom: Religion and Warfare,
1400-1550 64
The Crack in the Foundation: Jan Hus and the Bohemian Precedent
Western ChristianityDivided: TheReformation
Western Christianity Threatened: The Rise of the Ottomans'
European Empire
5 The Counter-Reformation: The Roman Catholic Church and
the Habsburg Dynasty Triumphant, 1550-1700 85
Breaking Bohemia 's Back: The Battle of White Mountain, 1620
Winners and Losers: The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
Defeating the Infidel, or Poland Saves the West: Lifting the Turkish
Siege of Vienna, 1683
The Consolidation of the HabsburgEmpire
6 Absolutism as Enlightenment, 1700-1790 103
Triangular Conflict in theEast: Poland-Lithuania, Sweden, and
Russia
The Polish Paradox: Freedom Without "Enlightenment"
Frederick the Great and Prussian Pathology
Russia's Westward Turn: Peter the Great and Catherine the Great
HabsburgEnlightenment: Maria Theresia andJoseph II
7 Nations Without States, States Without Nations, 1790- 1848 124
The Partitions of Poland, 1772-1795
Central Luropean Soul: Volksgeist
From Nations to Nationalisms
The Politics of Language
The "Jewish Question"
8 The Demise of Imperial Austria and the Rise of
Imperial Germany, 1848-1890 149
The "Springtime of Nations ". The Revolutions of 1848
ThePrussian Unification of Germany, 1866-1871
Imperial German Geography: Mitteleuropa
9 World War I and National Self-Determination,
1914-1922 171
Austria-Hungary: The "Prison of Nations, "
1914-1918
The Resurrection of Poland, 1918-1922
Dictating Peace and Drawing Borders: The Treaties of
Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon, 1919-1920
10 Spheres of Influence I: Germany and the Soviet Union 197
German-Soviet Cooperation: The Spirit of Rapallo,
1922-1933
Hitler's Foreign Policy: From the Revision of Versailles
to the Nonaggression Pact with Stalin, 1933-1939
Space, Race, and Nazi Germany's New European
Order, 1939-1945
11 Spheres of Influence II: East and West, or
“Yalta Europe” 223
The Polish Problem, 1939-1945
Yalta: Bungling or Betrayal ?
The Making of Eastern Europe, 1945-1948 Dividing Germany, 1949 Starting the Cold War
12 The Failure of Eastern Europe, 1956-1989 249
Revolutions and Reforms: 1956, 1968, and 1980-1981
The Idea of Central Europe
The Gorbachev Factor
Epilogue: Postrevolutionary Paradoxes:
Central Europe Since 1989 275
Notes 309
Index 327
Careers of couples in contemporary societies : from male breadwinner to dual earner families
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List of Figures xi
List of Tables xiii
Contributors xvi
I. INTRODUCTION
1. A Cross National Comparative Approach to Couples' Careers 1
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD AND SONlA DROBNIC
2. Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers 16
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD AND SONJA DROBNIC
II. THE 'CONSERVATIVE' WELFARE STATE REGIME
3. Spouses' Employment Careers in (West) Germany 53
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD, SONlA DROBNIC, AND GOTZ ROHWER
4. Couples' Labour-Market Participation in the Netherlands 77
JOHN HENDRICKX, WIM BERNASCO, AND PAUL M. DE GRMF
5. Couples'Careers in Flanders 98
MARTINE CORIJN
III. THE 'MEDITERRANEAN' WELFARE STATE REGIME
6. The Employment Behaviour of Married Women in Italy 121
FABRIZIO BERNARDI
7. Spouses' Employment Careers in Spain 146
MARIA lOSE GONZALEZ-LOPEZ
IV. THE 'LIBERAL' WELFARE STATE REGIME
8. Married Women's Employment Patterns in Britain 175
ANDREW MCCULLOCH AND SHIRLEY DEX
9. Coupled Careers: Pathways Through Work and Marriage in the
United States 201
SHIN-KAP HAN AND PHYLLIS MOEN
V. THE 'SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC' WELFARE STATE REGIME
10. Earnings as a Force of Attraction and Specialization in Sweden 233
URSULA HENZ AND MARIANNE SUNDSTROM
11. Work Careers of Married Women in Denmark 261
S0REN LETH-S0RENSEN AND GOTZ ROHWER
VI. THE (FORMER) 'STATE SOCIALIST'REGIME
12. Employment Patterns of Married Women in Poland 281
SONJA DROBNIC AND EWA FRĄTCZAK
13. Employment Patterns in Hungarian Couples 307
PETER ROBERT, ERZSEBET BUKODI, AND RUUD LUIlKX
14. Job-Shift Patterns of Husbands and Wives in Urban China 332
XUEGUANG ZHOU AND PHYLLIS MOEN
VII. RESULTS OF CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS
15. Careers of Couples and Trends in Inequality 371
SONIA DROBNIC AND HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD
Subject Index 387
Author Index
Armageddon averted : the Soviet collapse 1970-2000
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Preface . . vii
Note on the text . . xiv
List of plates . . xv
List of maps . . xvii
Introduction . . 1
1 History's cruel tricks . . 10
2 Revivingthedream . . 31
3 The drama of reform . . 58
4 Waiting for the end of the world . . 86
5 Survival and cannibalism in the rust belt . . l13
6 Democracy without liberalism? . . 142
7 Idealism and treason . . 171
Notes . . 197
Further reading . . 233
Index . . 237
The Alcoholic Empire : vodka & politics in late Imperial Russia
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1 Introduction . . 3
2 Singing One's Way to Sobriety: The State's Guardianship . . 14
3 Drugs Are Our Business: Physicians Stake a Claim on Therapies . . 36
4 Battling Booze: Strategies for Sobriety in the Military . . 52
5 The Church's New Social Mission . . 69
6 Women's Physical and Political Use of Alcohol . . 90
7 Tea and Symphony: The Laity Mobilizes against Alcohol . . 111
8 The Politics of Alcohol . . 129
9 Conclusion . . 146
Epilogue . . 151
Notes . . 163
Bibliography . . 215
Index . . 235
Photo Gallery follows p. 68
Camille Saint-Saëns 1835-1921 : a thematic catalogue of his complete works. Vol. 1, The instrumental works
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Preface and Acknowledgements . . ix
Introduction . . xiii
The Catalogue Entry . . xxi
Abbreviations . . xxv
List of Plates . . xxvii
The Catalogue
I Piano Music . . 1
Piano Solo . . 3
Piano Duet . . 69
Two Pianos . . 76
II Organ, Harmonium, and Harp Music . . 91
Organ and Harmonium Music . . 93
Harp Music . . 135
III Chamber Music . . 139
IV Music for Military Band . . 241
V Orchestral Music . . 253
VI Works for Solo Instrument(s) and Orchestra . . 333
VII Transcriptions of Works by Other Composers . . 429
Transcriptions and Arrangements 431
Transcriptions with Realization of the Figured Bass
VIII Cadenzas . . 507
Addenda . . 525
Appendices . . 529
A Index of Instrumental Works . . 531
B List of Instrumental Works by Opus Number . . 541
C Chronological List of Instrumental Works by Date of Composition . . 545
D Chronological List of Instrumental Works by Date of Publication . . 557
E Dedicatees . . 566
F Transcribers of Saint-Sacus's Compositions . . 576
G Publishers of First and Early Editions . . 586
Select Bibliography
Index . . 607
The thief of time : philosophical essays on procrastination
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Notes on the Contributors . . xi
Introduction . . 3
PART I
1 Procrastination: The Basic Impulse . . 11
2 Economic Models of Procrastination . . 28
3 Is Procrastination Weakness of Will? . . 51
4 Intransitive Preferences, Vagueness, and the Structure of Procrastination . . 68
5 Bad Timing . . 87
PART II
6 Prudence, Procrastination, and Rationality . . 99
7 Procrastination and Personal Identity . . 115
8 The Vice of Procrastination . . 130
9 Virtue for Procrastinators . . 151
10 Procrastination as Vice . . 165
PART III
11 Overcoming Procrastination through Planning . . 185
12 Coping with Procrastination . . 206
13 Resisting Procrastination: Kantian Autonomy and the Role of the Will . . 216
14 Procrastination and the Extended Will . . 233
15 Procrastination and the Law . . 253
Bibliography . . 275
Index . . 293
Letters concerning the English Nation
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Acknowledgements . . vi
Introduction . . vii
Note on the Text . . xxviii
Select Bibliography . . xxxiii
A Chronology of Voltaire . . xxxvii
LETTERS CONCERNING THE ENGLISH NATION . . 1
Appendices
A: Letter XXV, 'On Paschal's Thoughts concerning Religion, &c.' . . 122
B: Extracts from Voltaire's An Essay upon the Civil Wars of France and also upon the Epick Poetry of the European Nation from Homer down to Milton . . 151
C: Extract from Oliver Goldsmith's Memoirs of M. de Voltaire . . 162
D: Original anecdote of Voltaire and a Quaker . . 172
Explanatory Notes . . 175
Blasphemy in the Christian world : a history
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List of Illustrations . . xiii
Postscript . . xv
Introduction . . 1
1. The Past Invades the Present: Blasphemy in the Contemporary World . . 12
2. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part I, 1500—1800 . . 42
3. Blasphemy in Words and Pictures: Part II, 1800—2000 . . 72
4. Who Were the Blasphemers? . . 106
5. Controlling the Profane . . 147
6. Responses to Blasphemy: Victims and Communities . . 184
7. Last Temptations and Visions of Ecstasv: Blasphemy and Film . . 208
Conclusion . . 233
Select Bibliography . . 249
Index . . 261