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TRANSLATION, ANNOTATIONS AND ESSAY BY LIONEL GOSSMAN Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her German Junker husband, and set out as an independent, free-thinking individual, earning a precarious living as a writer. Zur Mühlen translated over 70 books from English, French and Russian into German, notably the novels of Upton Sinclair, which she turned into best-sellers in Germany; produced a series of detective novels under a pseudonym; wrote seven engaging and thought-provoking novels of her own, six of which were translated into English; contributed countless insightful short stories and articles to newspapers and magazines; and, having become a committed socialist, achieved international renown in the 1920s PB £19.95 9781783745548 with her Fairy Tales for Workers’ Children, which were widely translated including into HB £29.95 9781783745555 Chinese and Japanese. EPUB £4.99 9781783745579 Because of her fervent and outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she and her life- MOBI £4.99 9781783745586 PDF FREE 9781783745562 long Jewish partner, Stefan Klein, had to flee first Germany, where they had settled, and XML FREE 9781783746095 then, in 1938, her native Austria. They found refuge in England, where Zur Mühlen died, https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0140 forgotten and virtually penniless, in 1951. 2018 | 234 x 156 mm | 452 pp. | 17 b&w ill. ANZUS and the Early Cold War Strategy and Diplomacy Between Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1945-1956 ANDREW KELLY The ANZUS Alliance was a defence arrangement between Australia, New Zealand and the United States that shaped international policy in the aftermath of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War. Forged by influential individuals and impacting on global events including the Japanese Peace Treaty, the Korean War and the Suez Crisis, the ANZUS Alliance was a crucial factor in the seismic changes that took place in the second half of the twentieth century. In this compact and accessible study, Andrew Kelly lays out the tensions that underpinned the formation of the Alliance, as each power sought to extract maximum influence and prestige. He examines how the ANZUS powers worked together (or failed to do so) when responding to massive global events including the rise of the People’s Republic of China and the waning of the British Empire. Kelly comprehensively explores the reasons why Australia and New Zealand disagreed so regularly about mutual security issues, how US global leadership shaped ANZUS, and the British impact on the trilateral relationship, and PB £15.95 9781783744947 HB £24.95 9781783744954 outlines how these issues set the foundations for today’s world order. EPUB £5.99 9781783744978 ANZUS and the Early Cold War is essential reading for historians of Australian, New MOBI £5.99 9781783744985 Zealand and American international relations in the twentieth century. 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How did systems of information and communication shape and reflect this extraordinary change? Information and Empire brings together a range of contributions to shed some light on this complex question. Communication networks such as the postal service and the gathering and circulation of news are examined alongside the growth of a bureaucratic apparatus that informed the government about its country and its people. The inscription of space is considered from the point of view of mapping and the changing public ‘graphosphere’ of signs and monuments. More than a series of institutional histories, this book is concerned with the way Russia discovered itself, envisioned itself and represented itself to its people. Innovative and scholarly, this collection breaks new ground in its approach to communication and information as a field of study in Russia. More broadly, it is an accessible contribution to pre- PB £29.95 9781783743735 modern information studies, taking as its basis a country whose history often serves to challenge HB £44.95 9781783743742 habitual Western models of development. It is important reading not only for specialists in EPUB £5.99 9781783743766 Russian Studies, but also for students and non-Russianists who are interested in the history of MOBI £5.99 9781783743773 information and communications. PDF FREE 9781783743759 XML FREE 9781783744527 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0122 2017 | 234 x 156 mm | 444 pp. | 48 colour ill. The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry ROgeR PAULIN This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel’s extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel’s Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence.