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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Irish place and personal names -- Abbreviations -- I. Political history -- Introduction -- 1. Early background: Ulster's central role in -- 2. Eleventh to twelfth centuries: Ulster's growing isolation -- 3. The Ulster earldom to the late thirteenth century: co-existence and Anglicization -- 4. The fourteenth century: absenteeism and Gaelic recovery -- 5. The fifteenth century: 'a balance of power'? Gaelicand Anglo-Irish paramount lordships -- 6 The Ulster chiefs and the Geraldine chief governors -- Plates -- II. Culture and society -- 7. Kings and kingship -- 8. The church in medieval Ulster -- 9. Ulster poets -- 10. Other Ulster 'men of art/learning' (áes eladan) -- 11. Warriors and warfare -- 12. Court ladies and the place of women in Gaelic society -- 13. The life of the people: popular assemblies, farming, houses, clothing and food -- 14. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

Aus dem Englischen von Klaus-Dieter Schmidt. Die wichtigsten Dinge, die wir über Adolf Hitler zu wissen glauben, sind falsch, das zeigt Brendan Simms in dieser Biografie. So kreiste Hitlers Denken nicht etwa, wie allgemein angenommen, um den "Bolschewismus", sein wichtigster Bezugspunkt war vielmehr "Anglo-Amerika", so Simms. Die Vereinigten Staaten und das Britische Empire galten Hitler als Vorbilder für ein deutsches Weltreich, das sich ebenfalls auf Landgewinn, Rassismus und Gewalt gründen sollte. Der Historiker zeichnet in seinem Buch nicht nur ein völlig neues Bild von Hitlers Weltanschauung, er zeigt zugleich, warum diese zwangsläufig zu einem Krieg globalen Ausmaßes führen musste: Um zu überleben, musste das deutsche Volk eine mindestens ebenso starke Machtposition erringen wie "Anglo-Amerika". Und für kurze Zeit schien es sogar möglich, dass Hitler die Herrschaft über die gesamte Welt erringen würde. (Klappentext)

"Brendan Simms offers a radically revisionist biography of Adolf Hitler, arguing that Hitler's main strategic enemy, from the very start of his political career in the 1920s, was not the Jews or the Soviet Union, but the United States, whose massive economic and military potential he hoped to balance through annexation of territories to the east."--

Zusammenfassung: For generations we have been hypnotised by the catastrophic, implausible way that Hitler came to seize power - the familiar story of the innumerable obstacles which fell aside to allow such a strange figure to rule a major European state. Brendan Simms's major new biography has a very different focus. It is the first attempt fully to get to grips with the true origins of Hitler's ideas themselves. Simms focuses on what those ideas really were and how they emerged. This gives a very different picture of Hitler, highlighting both how deeply he had always reflected wider (and now forgotten) paranoid geopolitical German concepts, as well as what was original, particularly Hitler's obsession with the United States (which loomed far greater in his imagination than the Soviet Union). It was this poisonous mix which was to have such a terrible impact on Europe's future. Brendan Simms's new book is the first to take these beliefs seriously, demonstrating how, as ever, it is ideas that are the true source of the most murderous behaviour

Introduction: a napkin can turn a father into an activist -- What is distracted driving? -- What causes distracted driving? -- What are the costs and risks of distracted driving -- How can drivers protect themselves and get help? -- Recognizing signs of trouble

A Brief History of African American Settlement in Madison -- Oral Histories -- Billy McDonald -- Dolores Simms Greene -- Lois Waldon McKnight -- Georgia Harris Henderson -- Jean Hopkins Redwood, Hannah Hopkins Christian, and Geraldine Hopkins Clarke -- James Lincoln Greene -- Ralph Lee -- Michael Shivers -- Edwin Hill Jr. -- Paul Washington -- Sara Davis Wells -- Marie "Patsy" Caire Thomas -- Edith Lawrence Hilliard -- Pia Kinney James -- Peaches Mosley Lacey -- Margaret Hall Studesville -- Addrena Matthews Squires -- Mary Hanna -- Odell Taliaferro and Dimetra Taliaferro Shivers -- Beatrice Russey Gulley -- William Gothard -- Walter Hargrove -- Supplemental Oral Histories -- Fran Remeika : on Equal Housing -- Joe Cerniglia : on Ethnic Communities of the Greenbush -- Appendix A: Book Lovers Club Minutes -- Appendix B: Families Documented in the 1930 Census.

The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law. One of them died, one went mad, another became a heretic and the other came back as a traditional exegete and teacher. Based on that legend, this book examines a small group of late 19th and early 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. These men and women, comedians in both the sense of stage actors and clowns or witty performers, believed they had entered a new secular and tolerant society, but discovered that there was no escape from their Jewish heritage and way of seeing the world. This monograph looks into the imperfect mirror of cultural experience, discovers a hazy world of illusions, dreams and nightmares on the other side of the looking glass, and sometimes constructs a midrashic conceit of the comical and grotesque screen between them.

"In 1815, the deposed emperor Napoleon returned to France and threatened the already devastated and exhausted continent with yet another war. Near the small Belgian municipality of Waterloo, two large, hastily mobilized armies faced each other to decide the future of Europe--Napoleon's forces on one side, and the Duke of Wellington is on the other. With so much at stake, neither commander could have predicted that the battle would be decided by the Second Light Battalion, King's German Legion, which was given the deceptively simple task of defending the Haye Sainte farmhouse, which dominated a crucial crossroads on the way to Brussels. In The Longest Afternoon, Brendan Simms recounts how these 400-odd riflemen beat back wave after wave of French infantry until finally forced to withdraw, but only after holding up Napoleon for so long that he lost the overall contest. Their actions decided the most influential battle in European history."--Jacket flap

Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of interpretation and understanding, and at its heart is the experience of reading literature. In this clear and comprehensive guide to Gadamer's thought, Karl Simms:presents an overview of Gadamer's life and works, outlining his importance to hermeneutic theory and its place in literary studiesexplains and puts into context his key ideas, including 'dialogue', 'phronēsis', 'play', 'tradition', and 'horizon'shows how Gadamer's ideas have been influential in the interpretation of literary textsexplains Gada

Antonio Gramsci : the man, his politics, and his conception of religion -- The politics of religion in plantation society -- Black theology : a weapon in the struggle for freedom -- "I am a non-denominational Christian and a Marxist socialist" -- "We shall utilize propaganda in our fight" -- A Gramscian analysis of the African and European politico-religious struggle