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Hartley Lachter

Kabbalah and Catastrophe

"While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovat…

Robert Forster

The Go-Betweens

Farhat Hasan

Voices in Verses

"This book opens up an archive of women's verses found in the extant, but overlooked, women's biographical compendia (tazkira-i zanåana) written in the nineteenth century. As commemorative texts, these co…

Alessandra Montalbano

Ransom Kidnapping in Italy

This book analyses the media, cultural, and testimonial narratives of ransom kidnapping in Italy, a phenomenon linked to banditry and organized crime that terrorized the country for decades.

The Malayan Emergency in Film, Literature and Art

Examining film, literature and art produced during and after the Malayan Emergency, the guerrilla war fought between independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army and the military forces o…

Reginald Farrer

The Sundered Streams; The History of a Memory That Had No Full Stops

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Tania Branigan

Red Memory

"It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966 and 1976, children turned on parents…

Alessandra Montalbano

Ransom Kidnapping in Italy

This book analyses the media, cultural, and testimonial narratives of ransom kidnapping in Italy, a phenomenon linked to banditry and organized crime that terrorized the country for decades.

Jeremy Eichler

Time's Echo

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR • WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS • Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction • A stirring account of how music bears witness to h…

Reginald Farrer

The Sundered Streams; The History of a Memory That Had No Full Stops

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Omar Valerio-Jiménez

Remembering Conquest

"This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the natio…

David J Anderson,

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy and American Civil War Memory

It is surprising that scholars of Civil War memory have paid relatively little attention to the function of nostalgia within the Lost Cause movement created by white southern political, military, and civi…

Francesca K a Martelli

Souvenirs of Cicero

Souvenirs of Cicero studies the narratives that the letter collections of Cicero unfold and looks closely at the ancient format of Epistulae ad Familiares, the collection that incorporates Cicero's widest…

Suzan Kalayci

Reading Silences

Illuminating the unique experiences of Armenian and Turkish women both during and after genocide, this book explains why women's difficulties and strategies of survival were different to those of men. It …

Jade McGlynn

Memory Makers

'...the most reliable, up-to-date account of the use and misuse of history and memory in post-Soviet Russia' - Financial Times Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? I…

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling

Breaking the Bronze Ceiling comprehensively assesses the portrayal of women in public art and offers a fervent plea to address the severe underrepresentation of women in memorials.

David Rowell

The Endless Refrain

A veteran music journalist argues that the rise of music streaming and the consolidation of digital platforms is decimating the musical landscape, with dire consequences for the future of our culture … I…

Sandra Alfers

Traces of Memory

"A collection of poetry from the Theresienstadt ghetto leads the author to uncover the remarkable story of Holocaust survivor Else Dormitzer. Originally from Nuremberg, Germany, Dormitzer dedicated much o…

Sandra Alfers

Traces of Memory

"A collection of poetry from the Theresienstadt ghetto leads the author to uncover the remarkable story of Holocaust survivor Else Dormitzer. Originally from Nuremberg, Germany, Dormitzer dedicated much o…