Author: Yair Mintzker File Type: pdf A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism Joseph Suss OppenheimerJew Sussis one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the court Jew of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified misdeeds. On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd just outside Stuttgart. He is most often remembered today through several works of fiction, chief among them a vicious Nazi propaganda movie made in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. The Many Deaths of Jew Suss is a compelling new account of Oppenheimers notorious trial. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence, Yair Mintzker investigates conflicting versions of Oppenheimers life and death as told by four contemporaries the leading inquisitor in the criminal investigation, the most important eyewitness to Oppenheimers final days, a fellow court Jew who was permitted to visit Oppenheimer on the eve of his execution, and one of Oppenheimers earliest biographers. What emerges is a lurid tale of greed, sex, violence, and disgracebut are these narrators to be trusted? Meticulously reconstructing the social world in which they lived, and taking nothing they say at face value, Mintzker conjures an unforgettable picture of Jew Suss in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound. The Many Deaths of Jew Suss is a masterfully innovative work of history, and an illuminating parable about Jewish life in the fraught transition to modernity. **

Author: Jane K. Cramer File Type: pdf font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxThis edited volume presents the foremost scholarly thinking on why the US invaded Iraq in 2003, a pivotal event in both modern US foreign policy and international politics.spanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxIn the years since the US invasion of Iraq it has become clear that the threat of weapons of mass destruction was not as urgent as the Bush administration presented it and that Saddam Hussein was not involved with either Al Qaeda or 911. Many consider the war a mistake and question why Iraq was invaded. A majority of Americans now believe that the public were deliberately misled by the Bush administration in order to bolster support for the war. Public doubt has been strengthened by the growing number of critical scholarly analyses and in-depth journalistic investigations about the invasion that suggest the administration was not candid about its reasons for wanting to take action against Iraq.spanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxThis volume begins with a survey of private scholarly views about the wars origins, then assesses the current state of debate by organising the best recent thinking by foreign policy and international relations experts on why the US invaded Iraq. The book covers a broad range of approaches to explaining Iraq the role of the uncertainty of intelligence, cognitive biases, ideas, Israel, and oil, highlighting areas of both agreement and disagreement.spanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxThis book will be of much interest to students of the Iraq War, US foreign and security policy, strategic studies, Middle Eastern politics and IRSecurity Studies in general.spanfont

Author: Harriet Archer File Type: pdf The Mirror for Magistrates, the collection of de casibus complaint poems in the voices of medieval rulers and rebels compiled by William Baldwin in the 1550s, was central to the development of imaginative literature in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Additions by John Higgins, Thomas Blenerhasset, and Richard Niccols between 1574 and 1610 extended the Mirrors scope, shifted its focus, and prolonged its popularity inparticular, the texts later manifestations profoundly influenced the work of Spenser and Shakespeare. Unperfect Histories is the first monograph to consider the texts early modern transmission history as a whole. In chapters on Baldwin, Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccolss complaint collections, it demonstrates that the Mirror isan invaluable witness to how verse history was conceptualized, written, and read across the period, and explores the ways in which it was repeatedly reinterpreted and redeployed in response to changing contemporary concerns. The Mirror corpus encompasses topical allegory, nationalist polemic, and historiographical skepticism, as well as the macabre humour and metatextual play which have come to be known as hallmarks of Baldwins mid-Tudor writings. What has not been recognised is the complex interaction of these themes and techniques right across the Mirrors history. Higgins, Blenerhasset, and Niccolss contributions are analysed for the first time here, both within their own literary andhistoriographical contexts, and in dialogue with Baldwins early editions. This new reading offers a lively account of the texts depth and variety, and provides insight into the extent of the Mirrors influence and ubiquity in early modern literary culture.**About the AuthorHarriet Archer is Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Harriet Archer is Lecturer at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She received her doctorate in early modern English literature from the University of Oxford, and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Newcastle University. She is the co-editor, with Andrew Hadfield, of A Mirror for Magistrates in Context Literature, History, and Politics in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and with Paul Frazer of a critical edition of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackvilles Gorboduc for the Manchester Revels Plays Series.

Author: Randall Holcombe File Type: pdf Entrepreneurship is the engine of economic progress, but mainstream economic models of economic growth tend to leave out the entrepreneurial elements of the economy. This newbook from Randall Holcombe begins by identifying areas in which evolutionary and Austrian approaches differ from the academic mainstream literature on economic growth, before moving on to distinguish growth from progress.The author then analyzes economic models of the firm based on the idea that it is entrepreneurship that drives economic progress. The book should prove to be a natural successor to recent Routledge books by Frederic Sautet and David Harper.About the AuthorRandall G. Holcombe is DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, USA.