“…This book is the first major study in English of the first three and a half centuries in Spain of a people, its gypsies or gitanos, who, despite their elevation by Spaniards and non-Spaniards alike to culturally iconic status in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, have until now remained largely invisible to history in the English-speaking world…”
Sumario

“…Study of historical regional geography that investigates the political, social, economic, technical-productive and spatial universe of the Recôncavo Baiano in two periods: 1930 until the middle of 1950 and from there until the year 2000. …”

“…Call it a control thing, but until recently–or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formats–you simply weren’t ready to make the move to digital photography. …”

“…The end user navigation equipment, bulky and expensive at the beginning, did not emerge until the microprocessor became viable during the late 1970s. …”

“…The book describes thousands of coins that have been discovered in the excavations at Mount Gerizim, from the Persian period in the fifth century BCE until the end of the Byzantine period, the seventh century CE. …”

“…How was the new pope to assert himself over a group of men who, until just moments before, had been his equals and peers? …”

“…Inge was German, half-Jewish and a Holocaust survivor, all of which she chose to deny until the very end. Talented and able, charismatic and infuriating, she surged through life constantly reinventing herself. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The origins of the emancipation campaign, November 1954 to May 1958 -- 3. Unveiling: the ‘revolutionary journées’ of 13 May 1958 -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Giovanna Garzoni and Venetian Witchcraft: Still Lifes as Natural Enchantments -- 9. Caterina Tarabotti Unveiled -- 10. Shining a Light on Giulia Lama’s Painting Practice in the San Marziale Four Evangelists -- 11. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Socrates : a new Socrates -- Kierkegaard as a religious socrates -- Subjectivity, city, and university -- Loss of subjectivity is loss of intimacy -- Anxious glances : selves transformed -- A seaward look renews the seeker -- Love, this lenient interpreter -- Masks reveal complexity in the self -- An ethics of becoming -- Sublime intimations of our next step -- Either/or : perils in polarity -- Crossing the aesthetic-ethical divide -- Repetition : gifts in world-renewal -- Repetition is not an impenetrable theme -- Fear and trembling : spectacular diversions -- Johannes de Silentio offers tempting misreading -- Postscript : capabilities imparted -- Conveying capacity rather than fact or theory -- Postscript : theater for ethics -- Existential contributions are not just intellectual -- Postscript : humor takes it back -- Revocation prepares for repetition -- Discourses : talk yields to prayer -- Words instill silence, yet to what end?…”
Sumario

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Involvement of the United States in forging and forming the Alliance until the end of the Cold War 29 -- 3. Historical explanations for US engagement in and with (NATO) Europe: Oscillating between unilateralism and multilateralism 36 -- 4. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Centenarians' Autobiographies between Life Sciences and Life Writing -- 3 Crossing the "Finish Line": Celebrating the Centenarian's 100th Birthday -- 4 Recruiting the Centenarian: Of Willing and Unwilling Subjects -- 5 Centenarians' Autobiographies as Advice Literature -- 6 The Role of Death and Dying in Centenarians' Autobiographies -- 7 Earning Citizenship in the Country of Extreme Old Age -- 8 Centenarians' Autobiographies as Ethnographies of Extreme Old Age -- 9 "The Elephant in the Room": The (In)visibility of the Co-Author in Centenarians' Autobiographies -- 10 Conclusion: Centenarians' Autobiographies as Master Narratives of Aging? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Habsburg border quarantines until 1837: an epidemiological ‘iron curtain’? / Sabine Jesner -- 2. …”

“…In this 2nd Part of this Essay, the slavery of the Indians is briefly described until its complete and definitive abolition. It is understood that it was not possible to avoid entering into the plan of this work such a subject, the importance of which will be approximated with the reading of this 2nd Part…”