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Uwe Steiner's Walter Benjamin: An Introduction to His Work and Thought is a comprehensive and compelling account of Walter Benjamin's life and work, which will satisfy both newcomers to Benjamin and those with an existing interest. In this review, I argue that Steiner's account goes beyond similar encounters with Benjamin in two main ways: first, by focusing specifically on Benjamin's personal and intellectual relationship with 'modernity' and, second, by presenting Benjamin's enduring appeal as a result of the creative interpretation of his work according to changing times and tastes. Yet Steiner's historicising account of Benjamin also somewhat neutralises his critical potential as a historical-materialist thinker. Drawing on the work of Benjamin's erstwhile friend and contemporary Ernst Bloch, as well as on Peter Osborne's concept of modernity as a specific consciousness of time, I argue that the act of interpretation itself requires a weakly teleological concept of history, such as we find with Bloch and, between the lines perhaps, also with Steiner's Benjamin.

The disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991 led to the de-colonization of the world's last remaining empire. Taking this into account, this article seeks to argue two points. Firstly, many of the imperial policies imposed by the imperial core in the Soviet empire were similar in nature to those imposed by imperial powers in Ireland, Africa, and Asia. Secondly, the nation and state building policies of the post-Soviet colonial states are therefore similar to those adopted in many other post-colonial states because they also seek to remove some—or all—of the inherited colonial legacies. A central aspect of overcoming this legacy is re-claiming the past from the framework imposed by the former imperial core and thereby creating, or reviving, a national historiography that helps to consolidate the new national state. All states, including those traditionally defined as lying in the "civic West," have in the past—and continue to—use national historiography, myths, and legends as a component of their national identities.

By comparing Australia with the USSR (and not with the UK or other British dominions as is most often done) we advance two principal arguments. Firstly, despite the claims of some historians, veterans as a social entity are not the exclusive product of postwar discourse and the postwar political, cultural and social milieux in the countries for which soldiers fought. Rather, their emergence as a social group reflects the experience of mass soldiering in an age of total war. Secondly, it is possible to identify the factors which influenced the extent to which veterans' claims to special entitlements were translated into special status. We identify eight structural factors which, if they did not determine, at least heavily influenced, the policy outcomes of veterans' activism.

"The Holy Roman Empire lasted a thousand years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire distilled the disdain of generations when he quipped it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states. And its legacy can be seen today in debates over the nature of the European Union. Heart of Europe traces the Empire from its origins within Charlemagne's kingdom in 800 to its demise in 1806. By the mid-tenth century its core rested in the German kingdom, and ultimately its territory stretched from France and Denmark to Italy and Poland. Yet the Empire remained stubbornly abstract, with no fixed capital and no common language or culture. The source of its continuity and legitimacy was the ideal of a unified Christian civilization, but this did not prevent emperors from clashing with the pope over supremacy--the nadir being the sack of Rome in 1527 that killed 147 Vatican soldiers. Though the title of Holy Roman Emperor retained prestige, rising states such as Austria and Prussia wielded power in a way the Empire could not. While it gradually lost the flexibility to cope with political, economic, and social changes, the Empire was far from being in crisis until the onslaught of the French revolutionary wars, when a crushing defeat by Napoleon at Austerlitz compelled Francis II to dissolve his realm."--Provided by publisher

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Energy and Population -- Chapter 2. Climate and Biological Diversity -- Chapter 3. Cities and the Economy -- Chapter 4. Cold War and Environmental Culture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Frontispiece; Title Page; Title Page Verso; Dedication; Letter from Sydney Lawford; Letter from F.W. Towsey; Prefaces; I: John Aston; II: L.M. Duggan; Acknowledgements; Body Matter; I: May to October, 1915; II: 2nd October, 1915, to 2nd May, 1916; III: 3rd May to 22nd August, 1916; IV: 23rd August to 18th October, 1916; V: 20th October to 31st December, 1916; VI: 1st January to 31st May, 1917; VII: 1st June to 5th July, 1917; VIII: 6th July to 15th August, 1917; IX: 16th August to 23rd September, 1917; X: 25th September to 17th November, 1917

Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction: "Just Another Day in a War Without End": Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear -- Abstract -- Chapter 2 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain's Denial of Player Expectations: The War Game that Isn't -- Abstract -- Chapter 3 History, Historicity, and Fiction: Pseudorealities in Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain -- Abstract -- Chapter 4 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction and Reality: Anguish and Agony -- Abstract -- Chapter 5 The Phantom Pain's Opening Mission: Hospital as Slaughterhouse and an Introduction to Trauma -- Abstract -- Chapter 6 "You Can't Patch a Wounded Soul with a Band-Aid": Manifestations of Trauma in the Characters of Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain -- Abstract -- Chapter 7 "Who Are You? Snake? It's not You . . . Is It?": Contradiction and Fragmentation at Game's End -- Abstract -- Bibliography -- Index

1. Greek pederasty and modern homosexuality / Jan Bremmer -- 2. Lesbian Sappho and Sappho of Lesbos / Andre Lardinois -- 3. To the limits of kinship : anti-incest legislation in the early medieval west (500-900) / Mayke de Jong -- 4. A bridle for lust : representations of sexual morality in Dutch children's portraits of the seventeenth century / Jan Baptist Bedaux -- 5. The woman on a swing and the sensuous voyer : passion and voyeurism in French Rococo -- 6. Venus Minsieke Gasthuis : sexual beliefs in eighteenth-century Holland / Herman Roodenburg -- 7. De Sade, a pessimistic libertine / Arnold Heumakers -- 8. Sexual morality and the meaning of prostitution in Fin-De-Siecle Vienna / Karin J. Jusek -- 9. Mannish women of the Balkan mountains / Rene Gremaux -- 10. A history of sexology : social and historical aspects of sexuality / Gert Hekma.

AbstractSocial science research has a strong tradition of explicating the link between race and educational attainment. This review explores racial differences in achievement in higher education with the added dimension of family immigration history. In particular, this article focuses on Black students and compares African‐Americans or native Blacks with those Black students whose families immigrated to the United States within the past two generations. Theories which aid in this comparison are: socioeconomic explanations, segmented assimilation theory, theories of social capital, the theory of oppositional culture, and stereotype threat. Empirical evidence for each theoretical explanation is provided. This article concludes with a call for further research in differences in educational attainment by race and immigrant generation, focusing on early education, emerging multi‐racial groups, and gender.

Kalapalo warrior biographies are concerned with dialogical processes of challenge, resistance, debate, and the negotiation of meaning—with the struggles that take place as people try to understand and experience anew. Although warriors were trained to aggressively defend their communities against enemies, these narratives describe how they attempted to refashion ideological forms connected with ethnic allegiance and moral community. The personalities of warriors, closely connected to the training they underwent in adolescence, are particularly important in this regard. While biographies are often understood as texts in which history is merely a context surrounding the progress of individuals, descriptions of personal development are shown here to constitute testimony about historical processes themselves, in this case the experiences of refugees fleeing from centers of European expansion in lowland South America.