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"Crises resulting from war or other upheavals turn the lives of individuals upside down, and they can leave marks on a community for many years after the event. This volume aims to explore how such crises were remembered in the ancient world, and how communities reconstituted themselves after a crisis. Can crises serve as catalysts for innovation or change, and how does this work? What do crises reveal about the 'normality' against which they are defined and framed? People living in post-crisis societies have no choice but to adapt to the changes caused by crisis. Such adaptation entails the question of how the relationship between the pre-crisis situation and the new status quo is constructed, and by whom. Due to the reduced possibility of using the immediate past, which is tainted by conflict and bad memories, it may involve revisions of historical narratives about communal pasts and identities, through the selection of new 'anchors', and sometimes even a discarding of the old ones. Crises affect all areas of life, and crisis recovery likewise spans different spheres. This volume finds traces of such recovery strategies in texts as well as visual representations; in literary as well as in documentary texts; in official ideology as much as in subaltern responses. The contributors bring together the diverse testimonies for such ways of coping that have survived from antiquity."--

"This book provides a comparative and critical study of the issues involving military veterans and land expropriation, focusing on the two cases of the client-army era of the first-century BC Roman Republic and contemporary Africa. Obert Bernard Mlambo centralizes culture and the body of the soldier, while examining the cultural production of images and representations of masculinity, to advance theoretical thoughts on war, masculinity and violence. His analysis of these historical and contemporary cases serves to identify the cultural logic that connects masculinity, violence and expropriation. Mlambo employs a transcultural comparative approach which is based on one constant found in both societies, namely land expropriation. Such appropriation takes place in the context of war-ingrained masculinities, often articulated within the overarching framework of patriarchy. In discussing the issue of claims for rewards or compensation for veterans in the context of war, and their consequences -- expropriation, confiscations, violence, etc. -- this book fosters a deeper understanding of these social processes, adding an important facet to the study of masculinities and military violence. What is revealed is that a non-Western cultural perspective can broaden the understanding of classics and can illuminate the discussion of veterans, war, masculinity, violence, land and gender in a classical culture."--

In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile. Readership: All interested in the history of Judaism, social history of the ancient Near East, and migration studies, including scholars in Biblical studies and Assyriology.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. What It Meant to Be Liberal from Cicero to Lafayette -- CHAPTER 2. The French Revolution and the Origins of Liberalism, 1789-1830 -- CHAPTER 3. Liberalism, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Social Question, 1830-48 -- CHAPTER 4. The Question of Character -- CHAPTER 5. Caesarism and Liberal Democracy: Napoleon III, Lincoln, Gladstone, and Bismarck -- CHAPTER 6. The Battle to Secularize Education -- CHAPTER 7. Two Liberalisms: Old and New -- CHAPTER 8. Liberalism Becomes the American Creed -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. The modernist paradigm: strengths and weaknesses; 3. Foundations of a new nationalism theory; 4. Killing and dying for love: the common fatherland; 5. Competing for honour: the making of nations in late medieval Europe; 6. The nationalist transformation of borders and languages; 7. Humanist nationalism; 8. A German Emperor for the German people; 9. Nation and denomination; 10. Conclusion