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Authority: Construction and Corrosion by Bruce Lincoln
Booksplease Price: €29.51What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this... -
The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians by Bruce Lincoln
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €25.22"In The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia's role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the frontier in the development of the United States...... -
Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and with Comparison by Bruce Lincoln
Booksplease Price: €37.33Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context,... -
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology and Scholarship by Bruce Lincoln
Booksplease Price: €36.21In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by... -
Apples and Oranges: Explorations In, On, and with Comparison by Bruce Lincoln 9780226563916
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €115.31Comparison is an indispensable intellectual operation that plays a crucial role in the formation of knowledge. Yet comparison often leads us to forego attention to nuance, detail, and context,... -
Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship by Bruce Lincoln 9780226482019
Booksplease Price: €109.15In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by... -
'Happiness for Mankind': Achaemenian Religion and the Imperial Project by Bruce Lincoln 9789042925250
RRP: €141.61Booksplease Price: €136.61The product of twenty years' research, this is the first book to study the way religious concerns permeated Achaemenian culture, deeply influencing such varied things as categories of space, time,... -
Death, War and Sacrifice: Studies in Theory and Practice by Bruce Lincoln 9780226482002
RRP: €44.03Booksplease Price: €44.02One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical... -
Between History and Myth: Stories of Harald Fairhair and the Founding of the State by Bruce Lincoln
Booksplease Price: €67.08All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft-repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is the... -
Holy Terrors: Thinking About Religion After September 11 by Bruce Lincoln
Booksplease Price: €23.94It is tempting to regard the perpetrators of the September 11th terrorist attacks as evil incarnate. But their motives, as Bruce Lincoln's acclaimed "Holy Terrors" makes clear, were profoundly and... -
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia by Bruce Lincoln 9780465083244
Booksplease Price: €27.76For Russians, St.Petersburg has embodied power, heroism and fortitude. It has encompassed all the things that the Russians are and that they hope to become. Opulence and artistic brilliance blend... -
In War's Dark Shadow: The Russians before the Great War by W. Bruce Lincoln
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €19.96In the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pace. The industrial revolution, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, and the... -
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions by Bruce Lincoln 9780226481876
Booksplease Price: €36.21Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should... -
Religion, Rebellion, Revolution: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Collection of Essays by Bruce Lincoln 9780333379349
Booksplease Price: €107.77Papers from a symposium on "Religion and revolution," held at the University of Minnesota, 6-8 Nov. 1981.Springer Book ArchivesBook InformationISBN 9780333379349Author Bruce LincolnFormat... -
In the Vanguard of Reform: Russia's Enlightened Bureaucrats, 1825-1861 by W. Bruce Lincoln 9780875805368
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20The first decade of Alexander II's reign is known in Russian history as the Era of the Great Reforms, a time recognized as the major period of social, economic, and institutional transformation... -
Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification by Bruce Lincoln 9780199372362
RRP: €60.69Booksplease Price: €48.49Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic... -
Gods and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical Explorations in the History of Religions by Bruce Lincoln 9780226481869
Booksplease Price: €132.96Bruce Lincoln is one of the most prominent advocates within religious studies for an uncompromisingly critical approach to the phenomenon of religion-historians of religions, he believes, should... -
Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib Bruce Lincoln 9780226251875
Booksplease Price: €29.51In Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln identifies three core components of an imperial theology that have transhistorical and contemporary relevance: dualistic ethics, a theory of divine... -
Religion, Empire, and Torture: The Case of Achaemenian Persia, with a Postscript on Abu Ghraib Bruce Lincoln 9780226481968
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €91.99How does religion stimulate and feed imperial ambitions and violence? Recently, this question has acquired new urgency, and in Religion, Empire, and Torture, Bruce Lincoln approaches the problem via... -
The Great Reforms: Autocracy, Bureaucracy, and the Politics of Change in Imperial Russia by W. Bruce Lincoln 9780875801551
Booksplease Price: €110.08The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more... -
Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and his Protégé's Unsolved Murder by Bruce Lincoln 9780197689103
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €26.26The tale of a legendary scholar, an unsolved murder, and the mysterious documents that may connect them In early 1991, Ioan Culianu was on the precipice of a brilliant academic career. Culianu had... -
The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy by James M. Redfield
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €98.47Athens dominates textbook accounts of ancient Greece. But was it, for the Greeks themselves, a model city-state or a creative, even a corrupt, departure from the model? Or was there a model? This... -
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.75A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the present After centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the... -
Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism by Alexander Knysh 9780691191621
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.90A pathbreaking history of Sufism, from the earliest centuries of Islam to the presentAfter centuries as the most important ascetic-mystical strand of Islam, Sufism saw a sharp decline in the... -
Nietzsche's Orphans: Music, Metaphysics, and the Twilight of the Russian Empire by Rebecca Mitchell 9780300208894
Booksplease Price: €101.55A prevailing belief among Russia's cultural elite in the early twentieth century was that the music of composers such as Sergei Rachmaninoff, Aleksandr Scriabin, and Nikolai Medtner could forge a... -
Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives David Dodd 9780415511056
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02Scholars of classical history and literature have for more than a century accepted `initiation' as a tool for understanding a variety of obscure rituals and myths, ranging from the ancient Greek... -
Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968 Alessandro Iandolo 9781501785054
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80Winner of the Marshall Shulman Book Prize of the Harriman Institute of Columbia UniversityWinner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian... -
Dynasty Divided: A Family History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism by Fabian Baumann 9781501770920
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €110.08Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in... -
An Imperial World: Empires and Colonies Since 1750 by Douglas Northrop
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €54.57This text helps students understand world history by focusing on an issue that has profoundly shaped the modern world order: the establishment and collapse of global empires since 1750.An Imperial... -
The Enigma of Piero: Piero della Francesca by Carlo Ginzburg
Booksplease Price: €27.26Sifting the available evidence, Carlo Ginzburg builds up a vivid portrait of Piero della Francesca's patrons and convincingly explains the contemporary intrigues resonant in his painting. This new... -
Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy by Anais Spitzer 9781441100207
Booksplease Price: €49.72This is an examination of Derrida's work on myth and language, offering a postmodern, deconstructive theory of myth. In "Derrida, Myth and the Impossibility of Philosophy", Anais N. Spitzer... -
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective by Carlo Ginzburg
Booksplease Price: €29.73In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of... -
Irreverence and the Sacred: Critical Studies in the History of Religions by Hugh Urban
RRP: €114.24Booksplease Price: €104.27Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative... -
Myth Theorized Robert Alan Segal 9781781798638
Booksplease Price: €90.21Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary... -
Russia in Asia: Imaginations, Interactions, and Realities by 9780367519179
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.74This edited volume presents new research on Russian-Asian connections by historians, art historians, literary scholars, and linguists. Of particular interest are imagined communities, social... -
The Conflict Myth and the Biblical Tradition by Debra Scoggins Ballentine 9780199370252
Booksplease Price: €119.15There are many ancient West Asian stories that narrate the victory of a warrior deity over an enemy, typically a sea-god or sea dragon, and his rise to divine kingship. In The Conflict Myth and the... -
Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead by Bruce A. McClelland 9780472099238
Booksplease Price: €106.05The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer"A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations."-Adam Morton, author of On Evil"From the... -
Slayers and Their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead by Bruce A. McClelland 9780472069231
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €24.55The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer"A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations."-Adam Morton, author of On Evil"From the... -
Myth Theorized by Robert Alan Segal 9781781798645
Booksplease Price: €30.12Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary... -
The Bread of Affliction: The Food Supply in the USSR during World War II by William Moskoff 9780521522830
RRP: €51.17Booksplease Price: €47.71This book tells how the Soviet Union fed itself after the invasion by the Germans during World War II. The author argues that central planning became much less important in feeding the population,...