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Book SynopsisJulia Hauser explores the global history of vegetarianism from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. She demonstrates that vegetarians in India and the West shared notions of purity, which drew some toward not only internationalism and anticolonialism but also racism, nationalism, and violence.Trade ReviewVegetarianism’s political and ecological imperatives have long wanted for a historian capable of excavating their roots. Julia Hauser offers an electric, wholly original account of the nationalist and international politics, racial paradigms, and unexpected encounters between German, Swiss, American, and Indian thinkers as they crafted modern vegetarianism’s moral stance. -- Benjamin Siegel, author of Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern IndiaCentral today to many modern lifestyles and movements, vegetarianism is in fact rooted in a deep history, now masterfully explored by Julia Hauser. Rich in detail, often surprising, and written in clear prose, this study is sure to challenge established notions of West and East, modern and traditional, left and right. Much food for thought! -- Paul Nolte, Free University BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction1. In Search of Purity: European Vegetarians and Their Spheres of Projection2. Evolution, Cows, and Communalism: Vegetarianism and the Colonial Encounter in India, ca. 1880–19123. The Chicago Effect: Internationalizing Vegetarianism4. Between Buddha, Gandhi, Sufism, and Militant Masculinity: Relating to South Asia in Interwar German and Swiss Vegetarianism5. Race, Nation, and Peace: (Re-)Internationalizing Vegetarianism After the Second World WarEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCodes of Modernity explores the global history of Chinese script reforms—efforts to alphabetize or simplify the writing system—from the 1890s to the 1980s.Trade ReviewA brilliant book on the political economy of script reforms in modern China. For the first time, Uluğ Kuzuoğlu clarifies how the technologies of writing, such as the making of new or simplified scripts to manage labor, information flow, and so on, became increasingly central to the political struggles over the future of China and its place in the world. This rich and well-researched study is a major contribution to the fields of Chinese history and global history. -- Lydia H. Liu, author of The Freudian RobotKuzuoğlu’s achievements in Codes of Modernity are unmatched. Analyzing a dazzling array of transnational historical, linguistic, and communications phenomena, he presents nothing less than the ascendancy of China’s twentieth-century political economy of information. Kuzuoğlu proves convincingly that it both shared features with and departed from global labor regimes of economy and efficiency. -- Christopher A. Reed, author of Gutenberg in Shanghai: Chinese Print Capitalism, 1876-1937Uluğ Kuzuoğlu's Codes of Modernity is not only one of the most rigorous and fascinating histories of Chinese scripts ever written, it is also a story of media, of the conditions of thought and language, and of the technological mythologies structuring the goals of 'modernity' that were central to China's ongoing transformations during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This is a field-defining book, as rich in analysis as it is in archival insights. Kuzuoğlu brilliantly reframes the history of China's efforts at language and script reform as part of a much larger economy of information and knowledge work. Codes of Modernity brings questions about the evolving conditions of Chinese orthography into conversation with the rise of information capitalism, computation, and global politics. Codes of Modernity will be indispensable to scholars of Chinese writing, but it also deserves a much wider readership—a book of archival treasures and powerful synthesis for anyone interested in the evolution of information technologies over the past two centuries. -- R. John Williams, author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Alphabetic Labor Time: Scripts, Wires, and Brains in the Late Qing2. The National Phonetic Alphabet: Scripts and the Birth of Language Politics3. Basic Chinese: Cognitive Management and Mass Literacy4. Simplification of Chinese Characters: Mining, Counting, Seeing5. The New Dunganese Alphabet: Latinization Across Eurasia6. The Chinese Latin Alphabet: A Revolutionary Script7. The Empire of PinyinEpilogue: A New Age of CodesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Tobias Higbie's Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life is a slim volume with an expansive reach. . . . It suggests that education, formal or informal, can spark radical social change. . . . Higbie's book is profoundly optimistic, if subtly so." --American Historical Review"Labor's Mind places working people's ideas and intellect--not just their quotidian lives and labor--at the center of historical study. Higbie has given us a rich portrait of working men and women thinking as the United States emerged as a global industrial power, a portrait they richly deserve." --North Carolina Historical Review"A major contribution to the history of American working people's thought and movement-building in the modern era. Brophy would be pleased." --Journal of American History"Recommended." --Choice"Labor's Mind cogently demonstrates how democratic education plays a key role in improving the daily and future lives of working people." --H-Net Review"Higbie's book helps us understand people like Williams, Mills, and Keylor. They--and the men and women featured in his book--belong to a long and continuing tradition among working-class people. Such folks fascinate me and, if you read this book, they will come to fascinate you as well." --Society for US Intellectual History"Higbie productively tackles the ambiguity of class position. Labor is of many minds, and with Higbie's helpful start, scholars must now move on to examine the character of the labor mind in its diverse and changing formations." --International Review of Social History"Labor's Mind serves to remind us of the rich and neglected intellectual life of the American working class." --Journal of American Culture "Labor's Mind places working people's ideas and intellect--not just their quotidian lives and labor--at the center of historical study. Higbie has given us a rich portrait of working men and women thinking as the United States emerged as a global industrial power, a portrait they richly deserve." --North Carolina Historical Review "Higbie makes the point that, contrary to widespread prejudices about working class intelligence, laborers were not blank slates. They often brought an enthusiasm, a determination to rise above injurious labels, and a sense of adventure. A valuable addition to a still under-researched topic."--Laura Hapke, author of Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

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Book SynopsisLeonard Arrington, who died in 1999, is considered by most, if not all, serious scholars of Mormon and western history as the single most important figure to write on LDS history. Great Basin Kingdom is perhaps his greatest work. A classic in Mormon studies and western history, Great Basin Kingdom offers insights into the underdeveloped' American economy, a comprehensive treatment of one of the few native American religious movements, and detailed, exciting stories from little-known phases of Mormon and American history. This edition includes thirty new photographs and an introduction by Ronald W. Walker that provides a brief biography of Arrington, as well as the history of the work, its place in Mormon and western historiography, and its lasting impact.Trade Review"A masterful account of the politics and practices that enabled Mormons to settle in the hostile environment of the Great Basin."--The Christian Century"A landmark book."--David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books"Easily the most informative single volume yet published on the Mormons in Utah. It is economic history written in proper fashion, by an author who never forgets that economic factors cannot be studied in isolation from the prevailing social, intellectual, and political climate."--Rodman W. Paul, Mississippi Valley Historical Review"Arrington's most important book."--Thomas G. Alexander, Journal of American History

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Book SynopsisBusiness leaders, conservative ideologues, and even some radicals of the early twentieth century dismissed working people''s intellect as stunted, twisted, or altogether missing. They compared workers toiling in America''s sprawling factories to animals, children, and robots. Working people regularly defied these expectations, cultivating the knowledge of experience and embracing a vibrant subculture of self-education and reading. Labor''s Mind uses diaries and personal correspondence, labor college records, and a range of print and visual media to recover this social history of the working-class mind. As Higbie shows, networks of working-class learners and their middle-class allies formed nothing less than a shadow labor movement. Dispersed across the industrial landscape, this movement helped bridge conflicts within radical and progressive politics even as it trained workers for the transformative new unionism of the 1930s. Revelatory and sympathetic, Labor''s Mind reclaims a foTrade Review"Tobias Higbie's Labor's Mind: A History of Working-Class Intellectual Life is a slim volume with an expansive reach. . . . It suggests that education, formal or informal, can spark radical social change. . . . Higbie's book is profoundly optimistic, if subtly so." --American Historical Review"Labor's Mind places working people's ideas and intellect--not just their quotidian lives and labor--at the center of historical study. Higbie has given us a rich portrait of working men and women thinking as the United States emerged as a global industrial power, a portrait they richly deserve." --North Carolina Historical Review"A major contribution to the history of American working people's thought and movement-building in the modern era. Brophy would be pleased." --Journal of American History"Recommended." --Choice"Labor's Mind cogently demonstrates how democratic education plays a key role in improving the daily and future lives of working people." --H-Net Review"Higbie's book helps us understand people like Williams, Mills, and Keylor. They--and the men and women featured in his book--belong to a long and continuing tradition among working-class people. Such folks fascinate me and, if you read this book, they will come to fascinate you as well." --Society for US Intellectual History"Higbie productively tackles the ambiguity of class position. Labor is of many minds, and with Higbie's helpful start, scholars must now move on to examine the character of the labor mind in its diverse and changing formations." --International Review of Social History"Labor's Mind serves to remind us of the rich and neglected intellectual life of the American working class." --Journal of American Culture "Labor's Mind places working people's ideas and intellect--not just their quotidian lives and labor--at the center of historical study. Higbie has given us a rich portrait of working men and women thinking as the United States emerged as a global industrial power, a portrait they richly deserve." --North Carolina Historical Review "Higbie makes the point that, contrary to widespread prejudices about working class intelligence, laborers were not blank slates. They often brought an enthusiasm, a determination to rise above injurious labels, and a sense of adventure. A valuable addition to a still under-researched topic."--Laura Hapke, author of Labor's Canvas: American Working-Class History and the WPA Art of the 1930s

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Roger Grant's thoughtful and well-researched study of a handful of late-comer railroads in western Iowa is far more than a regional addition to the existing literature. Not every railroad was a Pennsylvania or a Santa Fe, and not every builder was a Vanderbilt or Harriman, but hometown folk pursuing local rail construction projects provide a valuable case study that showcases the optimism still extant during the twilight years of railroad expansion, the result being these short and often marginal late arrivals."—Carlos A. Schwantes, co-author of Crossroads of a Continent: Missouri Railroads, 1851-1921"Roger Grant has done another masterful job in presenting an aspect of railroad history that is too often overlooked. The last burst of railroad construction, particularly in the Midwest, is overshadowed by the tumultuous years after the First World War. Grant has taken the histories of five short line railroads in Iowa and placed them in the larger context of the sunset of railroad expansion in the United States. In doing so he's produced an interesting an enjoyable book for scholars and the general reader."—Nick Fry, Curator, John W. Barriger III National Railroad Library at University of Missouri - St. LouisTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Sunset Years: Railroad Fever2. Atlantic Northern & Southern Railway: Cass County3. Iowa & Southwestern Railway: Railroad Problems4. Creston, Winterset & Des Moines Railroad: An Empty Corridor5. Iowa & Omaha Short Line Railway: Treynor6. Des Moines & Red Oak Railway: Gestation of an Interurban7. Epilogue: The Sunset Complex MattersNotes

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Book SynopsisVital Connections is the first book-length treatment in English of the evolution of social security in Chile and its privatization under the Pinochet regime. Borzutzky''s study contains a dynamic history of Chilean politics, a sophisticated discussion of social inequalities, and an in-depth analysis of social security policies in Chile from 1924 to the present. Her work focuses on three critical historical periods: the mid-1920s, the late 1960s, and the early to mid-1970s. In each of these key epochs, Chile experienced a crisis which prompted a reform of its socioeconomic organization and, consequently, of its social security system.Throughout this concise, readable book, Borzutzky argues that Chile''s social security system presented to the world a positive image, while hiding a political reality that was steeped in profound inequality. According to Borzutzky, Chile''s social security system helped to create a narrative that portrayed the country as a unified societTrade Review“Backed by solid research, this book sheds light on modern Chilean history, the ties between politics and state policies, and the connections between political goals and social security.” —Hispanic American Historical Review“…the study is well-argued and readable … a good overview of the topic.” –Iberoamericana“Borzutsky’s readable analysis of political and policy problems in Chilean social security has implications for advocates of both social democratic and market-oriented approaches to social policy. Recommended for undergraduates and above.” —Choice“...[A]n empirically rich account of the development of social security policies in Chile in the twentieth century. The book’s detailed account of Chile’s social security reforms demonstrates the vital connections of the Chilean case with contemporary policy debates over pension privatization.” —Latin American Politics and Society“This book offers a timely and important contribution to the examination of social security that is relevant for Chile and for the countries that have studied and adapted the so-called Chilean model in Latin America. . . . While there have been a number of articles on this subject in English, this is the first book on the evolution of social security in Chile.” —Latin American Perspectives

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Book SynopsisThere have been many studies analyzing the philosophy of Blaise Pascal, but this book is the first full-length study of the philosophies of his sisters, Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal Périer, and his niece, Marguerite Périer. While these women have long been presented as the disciples, secretaries, correspondents, and nurses of their brother and uncle, each woman developed a distinctive philosophy that is more than auxiliary to the thought of Blaise Pascal. The unique philosophical voice of each Pascal woman is studied in The Other Pascals.As the headmistress of the Port-Royal convent school, Jacqueline Pascal made important contributions to the philosophy of education. Gilberte Pascal Périer wrote the first philosophical biographies of Blaise and Jacqueline. Marguerite Périer defended freedom of conscience against coercion by political and religious superiors.Each of these women authors speaks in a gendered voice, emphasizing the right of women to develoTrade Review“The Other Pascals is an excellent introduction to the thought of Pascal’s sisters, Jacqueline Pascal and Gilberte Pascal Périer, and niece, Marguerite Périer. It is the first thorough study of these important seventeenth-century figures, written for a nonspecialist audience. It places these prominent women in some of the period’s more significant debates (about virtue, conscience, and education) and reveals the courageous manner in which they navigated the secondary role assigned to early modern women. It will be of interest to historians of all types.” —Christia Mercer, Gustave M. Berne Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University“The book is clearly written and well researched. John Conley gives the reader a growing awareness and appreciation of how all the Pascals are connected in a joint philosophical enterprise. The Other Pascals is a solid contribution to the history of philosophy that should have important repercussions for how philosophy is done now and in the future.” —James P. Sterba, University of Notre Dame"John Conley’s beautifully written and cogently presented study, The Other Pascals, ambitiously and sensitively inscribes these gendered female theologians into their appropriate and well-earned historical, cultural, and religious context. In so doing, Conley adds immeasurably to our understandings of the history, philosophy, and theology of the seventeenth century." —Catharine Randall, Dartmouth College“In the present volume he turns his attention to Pascal’s sisters and examines their philosophical and theological writings. . . . This is an important book for a number of reasons, not least of which is the role it can play in expanding the philosophical canon to include women.” —Choice"Previous studies of the female members of the Pascal family have mainly focused on biography, especially how they help us understand the French intellectual Blaise Pascal. This clear and readable volume examines Blaise's sisters and niece as independent thinkers and not as mere appendages to him or to Port-Royal." —Early Modern Women"Conley's careful reading and pedagogical presentation of the life and work of 'the other Pascals' is a valuable contribution to the gendering of literary and philosophical history." —Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsTable of Contents Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction: A Familial Philosophy 2. Jacqueline Pascal: Virtue and Conscience 3. Gilberte Pascal Périer: Philosophical Portraiture 4. Marguerite Périer: Creed and Resistance 5. Conclusion Appendices Appendix A: Jacqueline Pascal, Letters Appendix B: Gilberte Pascal Périer, Life of Jacqueline Appendix C: Marguerite Périer, Profession of Faith Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTraces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers.Trade ReviewWell researched and organized, this is a major social and economic study on Luanda's past. Oliveira examines new sources and convincingly demonstrates the central role African women played in the social and economic organization of Luanda. Mandatory reading for those interested in urban slavery, slave trade, and African's urban past."" - Mariana P. Candido, University of Notre Dame""In describing women's urban work in relation to food production, land ownership, legal issues regarding marriage and inheritance, and the shift from the international slave trade to 'legitimate' trade while continuing to rely on slave labor, Oliveira brings new insights to African history with her focus on nineteenth-century Luanda."" - Kathleen Sheldon, University of California, Los Angeles

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Book SynopsisProvides a starting point for teachers to illuminate this crucial event in world history. Using a vast array of source materials - from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews - the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts.Table of Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Challenges and Necessity of Teaching the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century 3 Laura J. Hilton and Avinoam Patt Part One: Teaching Specific Content Antisemitism: Understanding Its Meaning, Context, and History When Teaching the Holocaust 19 Jonathan Elukin The Rise of Nazism 32 Mark E. Spicka Legislation as a Path to Persecution 45 Russel Lemmons and Laura J. Hilton Jewish Responses to Nazism in Vienna after the Anschluss 60 Ilana F. Offenberger Understanding the Holocaust in the Context of World War II 81 Waitman Wade Beorn Tools of the State: The Universe of Nazi Camps 95 Geoffrey P. Megargee The Decentralized System of Nazi Ghettos in Eastern Europe 108 Martin Dean Teaching about Collaboration: A Case Study Approach 127 Steven P. Remy Resistance and Rescue 142 Laura J. Hilton Life in the Aftermath: Jewish Displaced Persons 159 Avinoam Patt Postwar Trials and Justice 178 Gabriel N. Finder Part Two: Sources, Methods, and Media for Teaching the Holocaust Teaching with Holocaust Diaries: Voices from the Chasm 199 Amy Simon Strategies for Teaching the Holocaust with Memoirs 213 Jennifer Goss Teaching Holocaust Literature in the Twenty-First Century 228 Victoria Aarons The Grey Zone of Holocaust Education: Teaching with Film 243 Alan S. Marcus Survivor Testimonies and Interviews 261 Margarete Myers Feinstein Teaching with Photographs 275 Valerie HÉbert Teaching the Holocaust in Museums 294 Daniel Greene Memorials, Monuments, and the Obligation of Memory 309 Stuart Abrams Why Should We Teach the Holocaust Today and Tomorrow? 326 Robert Hadley Contributors 341 Index 347

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Book SynopsisNearly a decade of fiercely divisive debate over foxhunting in Britain culminated with passage of the Hunting with Dogs Act of 2004. This book recounts the long and colourful history of hunting in Britain, offers a fresh perspective on the conflicts, and concludes with a critique of the hunting controversies.Trade Review"'A strikingly rich and subtle social history of hunting.' Tristram Hunt 'A highly readable and scholarly account of hunting, showing its immovable place in the history, politics and identity of our country.' Roger Scruton '... a serious, intelligent and readable history of blood sport.' Jane Shilling, The Sunday Telegraph 'Seven' 'Not only is her thorough and insightful book an endlessly fascinating piece of cultural history, of great interest even to those who might imagine that hunting is a subject of no relevance, but it's also quite scrupulously unbiased.' James Delingpole, Literary Review 'Griffin's book commands admiration because it attempts to be scrupulously fair.' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Emma Griffin has written a balanced and analytical history.' Jane Ridley, The Spectator '... an even-handed overview rich in scholarship and ripe in detail at all levels of the social scale.' Iain Finlayson, Times 'Her thorough research enables Griffin to draw some poignant conclusions. One is that hunting can be many things - from a means of obtaining food and clothing to a display of wealth and skill, and utilitarian to recreational - but ultimately a hunter's actions cannot be removed from the questions of land and power.' The Field"

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSelected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries Finalist for Independent Publisher Book Awards 2004 in the Photography category Winner of the 2005 Congress on Research in Dance award for Outstanding Publication in Dance Research Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2005Finalist for the 2003 Theatre Library Association’s George Freedley Award “There is simply no other history of twentieth-century dance that is as detailed, comprehensive, and readable as No Fixed Points. Much thought has gone into it, along with prodigious research.”—Lynn Garafola, co-editor of The Ballets Russes and Its World "If anyone wants to know the history of international dance during the 20th century, they need look no further than this comprehensive and authoritative account of it, skillfully compiled by Nancy Reynolds."—Moira Shearer "No Fixed Points is a monumental tribute to dance in the twentieth century. Astoundingly well researched, insightful, clear, and inspiring, it is a real treasure."—Frederic Franklin; Dancer, Director, Choreographer "Nancy Reynolds and Malcolm McCormick focus an enormous spectrum of information into a clear and elegant narrative. At the same time they make us feel the passion that produced contemporary dance and that continues to drive its revolution."—Christine Dakin, Artistic Director, Martha Graham Dance Company "A book that’s both an indispensable reference, and a reading experience as absorbing as an adventure tale. An achievement at once vital and invaluable."—Alan M. Kriegsman

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Book SynopsisA profusely illustrated survey of posters from the French Revolution to the present.

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Book SynopsisHere is a vital new source of need-to-know information for cotton industry professionals. Unlike other references that focus solely on growing the crop, this book also emphasizes the cotton industry as a whole, and includes material on the nature of cotton fibers and their processing; cotton standards and classification; and marketing strategies.Trade Review"This text is a remarkable, Scholarly work. In the preface it states that the author's aim is to provide the reader with an appreciation of cotton's rich history and understanding of current technology and a glimpse of its future. The book certainly makes a valiant effort to cover a wide range of subject concerning cotton." (E-Streams, Volume 4, no. 6 - June 2001)Table of ContentsORIGIN AND HISTORY. The Origin and Domestication of Cotton (C. Brubaker, et al.). Taxonomy and Gemplasm Resources (A. Percival, et al.). Develpoment of the World Cotton Industry (O. May & K.Lege). History of Cultivar Development in the United States (C. Smith, etal.). THE COTTON PLANT. Morphology and Anatomy of the Cotton Plant (D. Oosterhuis & J.Jernstedt). Physiology of the Cotton Plant (J. Cothren). Cotton Fiber Quality (C. Benedict, et al.). The Cotton Seed (N. Hopper & R. McDaniel). Qualitative Genetics (R. Percy & R. Kohel). Techniques for Development of New Cultivars (D. Calhoun & D.Bowman). Future Horizons: Biotechnology for Cotton Improvement (A. Paterson& R. Smith). PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION HAZARDS. Production Statistics (C. Smith). Production Practices (J. Silvertooth, et al.). Insect and Mite Pests of Cotton ( B. Leonard, et al.). Diseases of Cotton (A. Bell). Cotton Nematodes (A. Robinson). Weeds and Their Control (C. Bryson, et al.). Cotton Marketing (C. Anderson). PROCESSING AND PRODUCTS. Ginning (W. Mayfield, et al.). Classing of Fiber (H. Ramey). The Spinning Process (H. Smith & R. Zhu). Yarn Preparation, Fabric Formation, and Finishing (J. Price, etal.). Cottonseed Processing (S. Gregory, et al.). Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers readers a well-rounded and accurate account of the amazing and unpredictable sequence of inter-related events experienced by the field of scholarly publishing in the 20th century. Examining the related worlds of book, journal, and electronic publishing; information technology; and library advances, this is the first work to record the trends of the modern history of the information/knowledge transfer process. Using an analysis of the past 100 years, it also makes predications regarding future trends and the roles of the publishing and library communities in tomorrow''s information marketplaceTrade Review"contains 15 essays that summarize the strange sequence of interrelated events through which the information/knowledge transfer process passed.... The editors...sought out the foremost living players in the worlds of books, journals, electronic media, and libraries...the list of contributors reads like an all-star...roster." (Reference & Research Book News, August 2002) "...provides a unique view into the world of scholarly publishing...there are no works that treat so thoroughly the history, current situation, and future prospects of scholarly publishing..." (College & Research Libraries, Vol. 64, No. 1, January 2003)Table of ContentsForeword (P. Wiley). Preface (R. Abel and L. Newlin). Acknowledgments. 1. The Growth of Printed Literature in the Twentieth Century (A. Henderson). 2. Introduction: The Change of Book and Journal Infrastructure: Two Publishers, Consolidation, and Niche Publishers (R. Abel). 3. Growth and Change in Trade Publishing: What I Learned at the Library (S. Vaughan). 4. Growth and Change in Trade Book Publishing: What I Learned From the Numbers (S. Oda). 5. Textbook Publishing (R. Follett). 6. University Press Publishing in the United States (P. Givler). 7. The Creative Role of the Professional or STM Publisher (J. Dill). 8. Diversity and the Growth of Serious/Scholarly/Scientific Journals (A. Henderson). 9. From Bibliotheque to Omnitheque (A. Veaner). 10. Development of Public Libraries (B. Dean). 11. The Growth of Scholarly and Scientific Libraries (H. Edelman). 12. Appearance and Growth of Computer and Electronic Products in Libraries (R. Shoffner). 13. The Economic Crisis in Libraries: Causes and Effects (M. Gorman). 14. The Impact of the Library Budget Crisis on Scholarly Publishing (J. Goellner). 15. The Place of Scholarly and Scientific Libraries in an Increasingly and More Widespread Competitive Information Knowledge Marketplace (C. Hamaker). Conclusion (R. Abel and L. Newlin). Coda (K. Strauch and B. Strauch). Index. Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThis is a lively, narrative history of the world's great weather tragedies - the greatest storms in history - and the epic quest by pioneering scientists to figure out how to accurately predict the weather. It tells the story of the development of meterology from the time of Aristotle up to current-day breakthroughs in weather prediction.Trade Review"A fascinating volume in which John D. Cox looks at both thescience and the personalities of the men who made modernmeteorology." (The Associated Press) "...a fascinating volume in which John D. Cox looks both atthe science and personality of the men who made modernmeteorology..." (The Associated Press, 14 October 2002) "...This lively, inspiring account reveals thecourage and bravery of the early weather pioneers..."(Firstscience.com, 15 May 2003)Table of ContentsIntroduction. PART I: A Newborn Babe. 1. Benjamin Franklin: Chasing the Wind. 2. Luke Howard: Naming the Clouds. 3. James Glaisher: Taking to the Air. PART II: American Storms. 4. William C. Redfield: Walking the Path of Destruction. 5. James P. Espy: "The Storm Breeder". 6. Elias Loomis: Mapping the Storm. 7. Joseph Henry: Setting the Stage. 8. Matthew Fontaine Maury: A Storm of Controversy. 9. William Ferrel: A Shy Genius. PART III: The Main Artery. 10. Robert FitzRoy: Prophet Without Honor. 11. Urbain J. J. Le Verrier: Clouds over Crimea. 12. Cleveland Abbe: "Ol' Probabilities". 13. John P. Finley: Down Tornado Alley. 14. Mark W. Harrington: Civilian Casualty. 15. Isaac Monroe Cline: Taking Galveston by Storm. 16. Gilbert Walker: The Southern Oscillation. 17. C. LeRoy Meisinger: Death by Daring. PART IV: Together at the Front. 18. Vilhelm Bjerknes: The Bergen Schoolmaster. 19. Lewis Fry Richardson: The Forecasting Factory. 20. Jacob Bjerknes: From Polar Front to El Ni?o. 21. Tor Bergeron: A Gifted Vision. 22. Carl-Gustaf Rossby: Conquering the Weather Bureau. 23. Sverre Petterssen: Forecasting for D-Day. PART V: Suddenly New Science. 24. Jule Gregory Charney: Mastering the Math. 25. Jerome Namias: The Long Ranger. 26. Edward N. Lorenz: Calculating Chaos. 27. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita: Divining the Downburst. 28. Ants Leetmaa: Out on a Limb. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe untold story of the world''s premier bourbon and the family that made it #1 American Still Life tells the intertwined true stories of America''s favorite whiskey and the family dynasty that produces it to this very day. Jim Beam is the world''s top-selling bourbon whiskey, with sales of over five million cases per year. Not a day has passed in the 207 years of Jim Beam''s existence when a Beam family member has not been master distiller. Dedicated to quality, and dedicated to the family legacy, the Beams have shepherded their particularly American spirit to the top of their industry. And they''ve done it in an industry beset by challenges, from government regulation and prohibition, to changing consumer tastes, to fierce new global competition. By creating a brand of unparalleled quality and consistency, and by tying the success of their product with the good name of the family, the Beams have established a lasting legacy as perhaps one of the greatest famiTrade ReviewHow does a sour mash corn whiskey brand go from being a Kentucky family's "adjunct farming activity" to founding a corporation that ships over five million cases worldwide each year? Pacult (Kindred Spirits: The Spirit Journal Guide to the World's Distilled Spirits and Fortified Wines) extensively researched the story of the Beam family, which is just as much a 19th-and 20th-century American history. The young country's struggles with slavery, Prohibition and war, its sociopolitical maturation and its shift from the agricultural to an industrial economy all come into play. A prolific spirits writer, Pacult has an expert's grasp on the topic, which carries the book through its slow periods. Upstanding citizens to a man, the Beams don't always make for scintillating reading - no scoundrels, no scandals - and only Jim Beam's grandson Booker Noe, the refreshingly blunt, six-foot-four, 360-pound former master distiller, emerges as a character with any color. Trying to keep all the Beams straight might make readers feel like they've just downed a few shots of the bourbon itself. Most interesting is Pacult's examination of American popular culture and its effect on the bourbon business: how bourbon became déclassé in the 1970s, the venerable spirit losing out to sexy newcomer vodka (and its inadvertent pitchman, James Bond), and how scotch whiskey's rising popularity in the 1980s fueled the production of bourbon's answer to the single-malt, the small-batch bourbon. The book could use a few more colorful details, however, such as the bit about temperance activist Carry Nation and her ax attacks on taverns. (Aug.) (Publishers Weekly, June 16, 2003) "...It's a fascinating glimpse of American political history..." (Drinks International, December 2003)Table of ContentsForeword vii Preface ix Acknowledgments xv Part One: The Foundations 1 Jacob Beam and Surviving in a Harsh Land 3 2 David Beam and Pre-Civil War Kentucky 37 3 David M. Beam and the Debris of War 59 Part Two: The Dynasty 4 Jim Beam and the Making of a Bourbon Whiskey Brand 85 5 T. Jeremiah and Carl Beam: Jim Beam Bourbon Steps onto the World Stage 115 6 Booker Noe: Big Man, Small Batch 141 7 Other Beams: Behind Every Good Bourbon Whiskey 169 8 Finding a Crown for the Jewel 189 Appendix A Tasting Notes on Jim Beam Bourbons 209 Appendix B The Jim Beam Bourbon Timeline 221 Bibliography 229 Index 233

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Book SynopsisProvides an integrated view of the five kinds of enabling technologies in terms of knowledge media architectures such as: multimedia and hypermedia, object oriented GUI and visual programming, reusable component software and component integration, network publishing and electronic commerce, and object oriented and multimedia databases.Trade Review"…very interesting…recommended…" (E-Streams, Vol. 7, No. 4)Table of ContentsPreface. 1 Overview and Introduction. 1.1 Why Meme Media? 1.2 How Do Meme Media Change the Reuse of Web Contents? 1.3 How Do Meme Media Work? 1.4 Frequently Asked Questions and Limitations. 1.5 Organization of this Book. 2 Knowledge Media and Meme Media. 2.1 Introduction to Knowledge Media and Meme Media. 2.2 From Information Technologies to Media Technologies. 2.3 Summary. References. 3 Augmentation Media Architectures and Technologies—A Brief Survey. 3.1 History and Evolution of Augmentation Media. 3.2 History and Evolution of Knowledge-Media Architectures. 3.3 Meme Media and their Applications. 3.4 Web Technologies and Meme Media. 3.5 Summary. References. 4 An Outline of IntelligentPad and Its Development History. 4.1 Brief Introduction to IntelligentPad. 4.2 IntelligentPad Architecture. 4.3 Worldwide Marketplace Architectures for Pads. 4.4 End-User Computing and Media Toolkit System. 4.5 Open Cross-Platform Reusability. 4.6 Reediting and Redistribution by End-Users. 4.7 Extension toward 3D Representation Media. 4.8 Summary. References. 5 Object Orientation and MVC. 5.1 Object-Oriented System Architecture—A Technical Introduction. 5.2 Class Refinement and Prototyping. 5.3 Model, View, Controller. 5.4 Window Systems and Event Dispatching. 5.5 Summary. References. 6 Component Integration. 6.1 Object Reusability. 6.2 Components and Application Linkage. 6.3 Compound Documents and Object Embedding/Linking. 6.4 Generic Components. 6.5 What to Reuse—Components or Sample Compositions? 6.6 Reuses and Maintenance. 6.7 Integration of Legacy Software. 6.8 Distributed Component Integration and Web Technologies. 6.9 Summary. References. 7 Meme Media Architecture. 7.1 Current Megatrends in Computer Systems. 7.2 Primitive Media Objects. 7.3 Composition through Slot Connections. 7.4 Compound-Document Architecture. 7.5 Standard Messages between Pads. 7.6 Physical and Logical Events and their Dispatching. 7.7 Save and Exchange Format. 7.8 Copy and Shared Copy. 7.9 Global Variable Pads. 7.10 Summary. References. 8 Utilities for Meme Media. 8.1 Generic Utility Functions as Pads. 8.2 FieldPad for the Event Sharing. 8.3 StagePad for Programming User Operations. 8.4 Geometrical Management of Pads. 8.5 Proxy Pads to Assimilate External Objects. 8.6 Legacy Software Migration. 8.7 Special Effect Techniques. 8.8 Expression Pad. 8.9 Transformation Pads. 8.10 Summary. References. 9 Multimedia Application Framework. 9.1 Component Pads for Multimedia Application Frameworks. 9.2 Articulation of Objects. 9.3 Hypermedia Framework. 9.4 Summary. References. 10 IntelligentPad and Databases. 10.1 Relational Databases, Object-Oriented Databases, and Instance Bases. 10.2 Form Bases. 10.3 Pads as Attribute Values. 10.4 Multimedia Database. 10.5 Hypermedia Database. 10.6 Geographical Information Databases. 10.7 Content-Based Search and Context-Based Search. 10.8 Management and Retrieval of Pads. 10.9 Summary. References. 11 Meme Pool Architectures. 11.1 Pad Publication Repository and the WWW. 11.2 Pad Publication and Pad Migration. 11.3 Web Pages as Pad Catalog. 11.4 URL-Anchor Pads. 11.5 HTMLViewerPad with Embedded Arbitrary Composite Pads. 11.6 New Publication Media. 11.7 Annotation on Web Pages. 11.8 Piazza as a Meme Pool. 11.9 Reediting and Redistributing Web Content as Meme Media Objects. 11.10 Redistribution and Publication of Meme Media Objects as Web Content. 11.11 Summary. References. 12 Electronic Commerce for Pads. 12.1 Electronic Commerce. 12.2 From Pay-per-Copy to Pay-per-Use. 12.3 Digital Accounting, Billing, and Payment. 12.4 Ecology of Pads in the Market. 12.5 Superdistribution of Pads. 12.6 Pad Integration and Package Business. 12.7 Summary. References. 13 Spatiotemporal Editing of Pads. 13.1 Geometrical Arrangement of Pads. 13.2 Time-Based Arrangement of Pads. 13.3 Spatiotemporal Editing of Pads. 13.4 Information Visualization. 13.5 Summary. References. 14 Dynamic Interoperability of Pads and Workflow Modeling. 14.1 Dynamic Interoperability of Pads Distributed across Networks. 14.2 Extended Form-Flow System. 14.3 Pad-Flow Systems. 14.4 Dynamic Interoperability across Networks. 14.5 Workflow and Concurrent Engineering. 14.6 Summary. References. 15 Agent Media. 15.1 Three Different Meanings of Agents. 15.2 Collaborative-and-Reactive Agents and Pads. 15.3 Mobile Agents and Pads. 15.4 Pad Migration and Script Languages. 15.5 Summary. References. 16 Software Engineering with IntelligentPad. 16.1 IntelligentPad as Middleware. 16.2 Concurrent Engineering in Software Development. 16.3 Components and Their Integration. 16.4 Patterns and Frameworks in IntelligentPad. 16.5 From Specifications to a Composite Pad. 16.6 Pattern Specifications and the Reuse of Pads. 16.7 IntelligentPad as a Software Development Framework. 16.8 Summary. References. 17 Other Applications of IntelligentPad. 17.1 Capabilities Brought by the Implementation in IntelligentPad. 17.2 Tool Integration Environments and Personal Information Management. 17.3 Educational Applications. 17.4 Web Page Authoring. 17.5 Other Applications. 17.6 Summary. 18 3D Meme Media. 18.1 3D Meme Media IntelligentBox. 18.2 3D Application Systems. 18.3 IntelligentBox Architecture. 18.4 Example Boxes and Utility Boxes. 18.5 Animation with IntelligentBox. 18.6 Information Visualization with IntelligentBox. 18.7 Component-Based Framework for Database Reification. 18.8 Virtual Scientific Laboratory Framework. 18.9 3D Meme Media and a Worldwide Repository of Boxes as a Meme Pool. 18.10 Summary. References. 19 Organization and Access of Meme Media Objects. 19.1 Organization and Access of Intellectual Resources. 19.2 Topica Framework. 19.3 The Application Horizon of the Topica Framework. 19.4 Queries over the Web of Topica Documents. 19.5 Related Research. 19.6 Summary. References. 20 IntelligentPad Consortium and Available Software. 20.1 IntelligentPad Consortium. 20.2 Available Software. 20.3 Concluding Remarks. Author Index. Subject Index. About the Author.

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Book SynopsisProvides the first comprehensive review of the evolution of tropical rain forests on a continent by continent basis, within an up--to--date tectonic, palaeogeographical and palaeoclimatic framework primarily by reference to the record of fossil pollens and spores.Trade Review"No other book contains such an in-depth study of the history and evolution of rain forests set in a geological framework...this will stand as a definitive treatise on the subject." (Biologist, November 2000) "This book gives an unsurpassed state of the art account and should be used and read by all students of tropical rain forests, vegetation history and history of Angiosperms" (Blumea, Vol 44/2, 1999) "...will be of interest to all concerned with tropical rain forests." (Bois et Forest des Tropiques, Vol 265, 2000) "...The quality and the high number of illustrations ...as well as a well-selected, although not exhaustive, bibliography, makes this book enjoyable to read." (Journal of Quaternary Science, July 2003) Table of ContentsPresent-Day Tropical Rain Forests. Geological Time Framework, Palaeoecological and Palaeoclimate Definitions. Geological Evidence for Rain Forests. Early Angiosperm History and the First Megathermal Rain Forests. South and Middle America. Africa. India. Southeast Asia and the Eastern Pacific. Australasia. Northern Hemisphere Megathermal Rain Forests. Interplate Dispersal Paths and Land Bridges. Synthesis. The Future of Rain Forests? Appendix. Glossary. References. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on oral histories from archives as well as new interviews with living participants, Conquering Heroines chronicles a pivotal period in the histories of the University of Michigan and the women's movement.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent case study of a nation-wide problem."—Senior Women Web, Jo Freeman, Feminist Scholar and author of We Will Be Heard

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Book SynopsisPresents essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore The Dybbuk’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.Trade ReviewOffers new insights into The Dybbuk and of some of its noteworthy productions and adaptations…The book augments earlier scholarship that situates the play squarely among the great achievements of 20th-century Western theater, astutely probes its complicated and nuanced gender politics, walks us through numerous examples of how it was received in its early years, and takes us on a tour of how it has inspired, and continues to inspire, artists and audiences." - Joel Berkowitz, University of Wisconsin"The essays in this volume, like The Dybbuk and its performers themselves, roam across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East as they examine the play’s origins, incarnations, and the controversies it has raised. The scholarship is not only sound and well-written, but also engaging and often moving." - Barbara Henry, University of Washington

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAndrew Gould's Origins of Liberal Dominance is a splendid contribution to comparative politics. Ranging confidently over four well-chosen cases, this book shows that institutions, historical starting points, and political choices shaped modern liberalism. The lessons hold for the present as well as the past, and far beyond Europe." —Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University

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Book SynopsisLutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg. This is the first book to concentrate on his attitudes toward both Jews and Turks, and it does so within the dynamic interplay between his apocalyptic thought and lived reality in shaping Lutheran identity.Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Chronology Introduction Chapter One. Kabbalistic Encounters: Osiander as a Christian Hebraist Chapter Two. Jewish Mirrors I: Osiander and Lutheran Identity Chapter Three. Jewish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Resistance Chapter Four. Turkish Mirrors I: Osiander and Imperial Dreams Chapter Five. Turkish Mirrors II: Osiander and Lutheran Reform Chapter Six. Blood Libel: Osiander’s Defense of Jewish Toleration in Context Conclusion Appendix: English Translation of Andreas Osiander’s Blood Libel Treatise Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of Greek military practice. In Part V he takes up stone throwers, slingers, and booty.

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Editorial Principles Introduction 1. The Emblematic Woman 2. Bizzarrie Femminile: Opera and the Accademia degli Incogniti 3. Didone and the Voice of Chastity 4. "Disprezzata regina": Woman and Empire 5. The Nymph Calisto and the Myth of Female Pleasure 6. Semiramide and Musical Transvestism 7. Messalina la Meretrice: Envoicing the Courtesan Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffers readers a look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. Donald Crafton presents a panoramic view of the talkies' reception as well as an in-depth look at sound design in selected films, amongst other issues.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Uncertainty of Sound PART 1: A NEW ERA IN ELECTRICAL ENTERTAINMENT 2 Electric Affinities 3 Virtual Broadway, Virtual Orchestra: De Forest and Vitaphone 4 Fox-Case, Movietone, and the Talking Newsreel 5 Enticing the Audience: Warner Bros. and Vitaphone 6 Battle of the Giants: ERPI and RCA Consolidate Sound 7 The Big Hedge: Hollywood's Defensive Strategies 8 Boom to Bust 9 Labor Troubles 10 Inaudible Technology 11 Exhibition: Talkies Change the Bijou PART 2: THREE SEASONS: THE FILMS OF 1928-1931 12 The New Entertainment Vitamin: 1928-1929 13 Taming the Talkies: 1929-1930 14 The Well-Tempered Sound Track: 1930-1931 15 The Sound of Custard: Shorts, Travelogues, and Animated Cartoons 16 Outside the Mainstream 17 Foreign Affairs PART 3: HEARING THE AUDIENCE 18 The Voice Squad 19 Constructive Criticism: The Fans' Perspective 20 Buying Broadway: THE JAZZ SINGER's Reception 21 "The Great Ninety Per Cent" Appendix 1: Selected Box Office Grosses, 1928-1931 Appendix 2: Academy Awards Related to Sound, 1927-1931 List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Picture Sources General Index Index of Films

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Book SynopsisFounded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I The Luxembourg Gallery, I750-79 2 D' Angiviller's Louvre Project 3 The Revolutionary Louvre 4 The Musee Central des Arts 5 Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments Conclusion Appendix I Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, I750 Appendix II D' Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon Appendix III Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in I797-8 Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index

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Book SynopsisLegal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the masks of the law over persons.Trade Review"A classic work, highly influential, widely cited." - Martin Shapiro, author of Seeking the Center "I am struck by the timelessness of the work. I have always thought of it as a great book. What I now see is that it is a book that will never be out of date. The reason is simple: it brings a great legal mind of our own time into conversation with the greatest legal minds of the past." - Robert P. George, author of The Clash of Orthodoxies "Persons and Masks of the Law is a brilliant conception, beautifully realized. I congratulate the author on this sparely and wholly expressed idea." - Robert K. Merton, Columbia University "A beautifully written and probing discussion by an eminent legal philosopher. Professor Noonan strips the facade from judge-made law, and exposes the often unpleasant reality that citizens must confront daily." - Norman Dorsen, New York University School of Law "Noonan's analyses challenge even as they charm; simultaneously they constitute both pieces of creative scholarship and literary gems. I have read and re-read this slim volume and have strongly recommended it to students as an example of how an imaginative scholar can start with what seems commonplace and force us to reexamine our own conclusions - and occasionally values." - Walter F. Murphy, editor of American Constitutional InterpretationTable of ContentsPreface to the 2002 Edition Foreword 1. THE MASKS OF THE PARTICIPANTS 2. VIRGINIAN LIBERATORS 3. THE OVERLORD OF AMERICAN LAW AND THE SOVEREIGN OF COSTA RICA 4. THE PASSENGERS OF PALSGRAF 5. THE ALLIANCE OF LAW AND HISTORY Notes and References Index

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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Tour de France since its creation in 1903. This book links the history of the Tour to key moments and themes in French history. It examines the popularity of Tour racers, and explores how their public images have changed.Trade Review"There are several books to tell you who first won the yellow jersey or the identity of the youngest post-war winner of the Tour de France, the kind you might receive as a gift. This is sort of book you'd buy for yourself." //Inrng: The Inner Ring "This book is filled fascinating material... Thompson has made a great deal of sense out of this complicated story." Podium Cafe "A comprehensive history of France from the race's inception, long before Greg LeMond or Lance Armstrong were born." The Bike Blog-Albany Times UnionTable of ContentsPreface to the 2008 Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. La Grande Boucle: Cycling, Progress, and Modernity 2. Itineraries, Narratives, and Identities 3· The Geants de La Route: Gender and Heroism 4. L 'Auto's Ouvriers de La PedaLe: Work, Class, and the Tour de France, 1903-1939 5· The Forr;ats de La Route: Exploits, Exploitation, and the Politics of Athletic Excess, 1903-1939 6. What Price Heroism? Work, Sport, and Drugs in Postwar France Epilogue Appendix: Racers' Occupations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA collection that features an assortment of ephemera, or paper collectibles, related to food. Suitable for food lovers, collectors, designers, and curators alike, it includes images of postcards, match covers, menus, labels, posters, brochures, valentines, packaging, advertisements, and other materials from 19th- and 20th-century America.Trade Review"A food lover's print version of the Antiques Roadshow... Perfect for the foodie collector and history buff." Epicurious.com " The 352 color plates, accompanied by informed, diverting text [tell] us much about who we've been as well as what we've eaten ... and drunk." Wall Street Journal "What makes this book special is Weaver's careful, engaging contextualization of each piece, giving the reader a comprehensive understanding of how the ephemera fit into everyday life." STARRED REVIEW Library Journal "Every page has at least two or three stories you'll want to repeat over a good meal." John Mariani's Virtual Gourmet "Weaver provides insightful commentary." -- George M. Eberhart College & Research Libraries News "The artwork ... is a wonder to behold, filled with colorful examples of culinary imagination. The text is as fascinating as the pictures." Minneapolis Star Tribune "A lovely coffee-table book to open serendipitously, or a thoughtful reference for those who wish to dive in more deeply." -- Denise Ramzy GastronomicaTable of ContentsPreface: Seduced by Yum-Yum Introduction: Why Culinary Ephemera? 1 Almanacs and Calendars 2 Americans Abroad 3 Beer, Wine, and Other Drinking Ephemer 4 Broadsides, Handbills, and Posters 5 Brochures and Advertising Literature 6 Business Cards 7 Diet and Health 8 Labels 9 Match Covers 10 Menus 11 Postcards 12 Recipe Books and Product Pamphlets 13 Sheet Music 14 Stoves, Canning, and Cooking Classes 15 Trade Cards 16 Valentines and Mottos 17 Wrappers and Packaging 18 Wild Cards Epilogue: The Legacy of Yum-Yum Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFood and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all, is one of the most basic human needs and a foundational part of social and cultural histories. This book delivers an unprecedented review of the state of historical research on food, endorsed by the American Historical Association.Trade Review"Any remaining doubts about the legitimacy of food history are put to rest by this edited volume." -- A. B. Audant CHOICETable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Paul Freedman Introduction: Food History as a Field Warren Belasco Part One: Regional Histories 1. Premodern Europe Ken Albala 2. China E.{ths}N. Anderson 3. India Jayanta Sengupta 4. Out of Africa: A Brief Guide to African Food History Jessica B. Harris 5. Middle Eastern Food History Charles Perry 6. Latin American Food between Export Liberalism and the Via Campesina Jeffrey M. Pilcher 7. Food and the Material Origins of Early America Joyce E. Chaplin 8. Food in Recent U.S. History Amy Bentley and Hi'ilei Hobart 9. Influence, Sources, and African Diaspora Foodways Frederick Douglass Opie 10. Migration, Transnational Cuisines, and Invisible Ethnics Krishnendu Ray Part Two: Cuisine 11. The French Invention of Modern Cuisine Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson 12. Restaurants Paul Freedman 13. Cookbooks as Resources for Social History Barbara Ketcham Wheaton Part Three: Problems 14. The Revolt against Homogeneity Amy B. Trubek 15. Food and Popular Culture Fabio Parasecoli 16. Post-1945 Global Food Developments Peter Scholliers List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWith a uniquely balanced combination of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy flavors, Thai food burst onto Los Angeles's culinary scene in the 1980s. Flavors of Empire examines the rise of Thai food and the way it shaped the racial and ethnic contours of Thai American identity and community. Full of vivid oral histories and new material from the archives, this book explores the factors that made foodways central to the Thai American experience. Starting with American Cold War intervention in Thailand, Mark Padoongpatt traces how informal empire allowed U.S. citizens to discover Thai cuisine abroad and introduce it inside the United States. When Thais arrived in Los Angeles, they reinvented and repackaged Thai food in various ways to meet the rising popularity of the cuisine in urban and suburban spaces. Padoongpatt opens up the history, politics, and tastes of Thai food for the first time, all while demonstrating how race emerges in seemingly mundane and unexpected places.Trade Review"I highly recommend this book; it is a feast of great flavours." * Pacific Affairs *"Padoongpatt provides a much-needed narrative on Thai Americans in Los Angeles by focusing on Thai food and its connection to globalism, policy, immigration, race, notions of empire, and making place in Los Angeles." * Journal of Asian American Studies *"An important contribution that not only illuminates the formation of the Thai American community but also offers a novel approach that takes foodways as a critical entry point to explore the entanglements of American empire, Thai migration and racialization." * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Thailand to Thai Town 1 • “One Night in Bangkok”: Food and the Everyday Life of Empire 2 • “Chasing the Yum”: Food Procurement and Early Thai Los Angeles 3 • Too Hot to Handle? Restaurants and Thai American Identity 4 • “More Than a Place of Worship”: Food Festivals and Thai American Suburban Culture 5 • Thailand’s “77th Province”: Culinary Tourism in Thai Town Conclusion: Beyond Cooking and Eating Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Notaker’s impressive work of research calls for cookbooks to be read and valued the same as literature . . . . A History of Cookbooks also serves up a wonderful history of publishing, since that first printed Italian cookbook coincides with the advent of Gutenberg’s press" * Print Magazine *“This stirring work will enhance our engagement with the kitchens of our ancestors.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A complex and dense read, and the author is to be complimented on maintaining clarity throughout. For the food historian it is a useful reminder that cookbooks have scope beyond that of mere instruction, and for the literary historian it highlights the complexities that underlie apparently simple manuals. It is a book for serious students of both fields." * Petits Propos Culinaires *“It is the work of a polyglot, a researcher passionate about his subject, and an indefatigable reader. . . . Henry Notaker’s work is a reference book worth having in any good library.” * Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject.” * CHOICE *"...a dense but well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. FOOD AND TEXT-COOK AND WRITER Prologue: A Rendezvous 1. The Cook 2. Writer and Author PART TWO. THE TEXT AND ITS FORM 3. The Origin and Early Development of Modern Cookbooks 4. Printed Cookbooks: Diffusion, Translation, and Plagiarism 5. Organizing the Cookbook 6. Naming the Recipes 7. Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches 8. Paratexts in Cookbooks 9. The Recipe Form 10. The Cookbook Genre PART THREE. THE TEXT AND ITS WORLD 11. Cookbooks for the Rich and the Poor 12. Health and Medicine in Cookbooks 13. Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days 14. Vegetarian Cookbooks 15. Jewish Cookbooks 16. Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism 17. Decoration, Illusion, and Entertainment 18. Taste and Pleasure 19. Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books Epilogue: Cookbooks and the Future Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Notaker’s impressive work of research calls for cookbooks to be read and valued the same as literature . . . . A History of Cookbooks also serves up a wonderful history of publishing, since that first printed Italian cookbook coincides with the advent of Gutenberg’s press" * Print Magazine *“This stirring work will enhance our engagement with the kitchens of our ancestors.” * Times Literary Supplement *"A complex and dense read, and the author is to be complimented on maintaining clarity throughout. For the food historian it is a useful reminder that cookbooks have scope beyond that of mere instruction, and for the literary historian it highlights the complexities that underlie apparently simple manuals. It is a book for serious students of both fields." * Petits Propos Culinaires *“It is the work of a polyglot, a researcher passionate about his subject, and an indefatigable reader. . . . Henry Notaker’s work is a reference book worth having in any good library.” * Agricultural, Food and Environmental Studies *"Well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject.” * CHOICE *"...a dense but well-argued and researched work, taking a new and intriguing approach to a popular subject." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIllustrations Preface Acknowledgments PART ONE. FOOD AND TEXT-COOK AND WRITER Prologue: A Rendezvous 1. The Cook 2. Writer and Author PART TWO. THE TEXT AND ITS FORM 3. The Origin and Early Development of Modern Cookbooks 4. Printed Cookbooks: Diffusion, Translation, and Plagiarism 5. Organizing the Cookbook 6. Naming the Recipes 7. Pedagogical and Didactic Approaches 8. Paratexts in Cookbooks 9. The Recipe Form 10. The Cookbook Genre PART THREE. THE TEXT AND ITS WORLD 11. Cookbooks for the Rich and the Poor 12. Health and Medicine in Cookbooks 13. Recipes for Fat Days and Lean Days 14. Vegetarian Cookbooks 15. Jewish Cookbooks 16. Cookbooks and Aspects of Nationalism 17. Decoration, Illusion, and Entertainment 18. Taste and Pleasure 19. Gender in Cookbooks and Household Books Epilogue: Cookbooks and the Future Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFirst Farmers: the Origins of Agricultural Societies offers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in all parts of the world. Uses data from archaeology, comparative linguistics, and biological anthropology to cover developments over the past 12,000 years Examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture Focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica and the northern Andes Covers the origins and dispersals of major language families such as Indo-European, Austronesian, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and Uto-Aztecan Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsDetailed Contents. List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective. The disciplinary players. Broad perspectives. Some key guiding principles. 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations. The significance of agriculture: productivity and population numbers. Why did agriculture develop in the first place?. The significance of agriculture vis-à-vis hunting and gathering. Under what circumstances might hunters and gatherers have adopted agriculture in prehistory?. Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia. Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans and the Americas. Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists. Why do ethnographic hunter-gatherers have problems with agricultural adoption? A comparative view. To the archaeological record. 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia. The domestication of plants in the Fertile Crescent. The hunter-gatherer background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 BC. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the increasing dominance of domesticated crops. How did cereal domestication begin in Southwest Asia?. The archaeological record in Southwestern Asia in broader perspective. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. The real turning point in the Neolithic Revolution. 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming Beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia. The spread of the agricultural economy through Europe. Southern and Mediterranean Europe Cyprus, Turkey and Greece. The Balkans. The Mediterranean. The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic. The TRB and the Baltic. The British Isles. Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe. Agricultural dispersals from Southwest Asia to the east. Central Asia. The Indian Subcontinent. The domesticated crops of the Indian Subcontinent. Regional trajectories from hunter-gathering to farming in South Asia. The consequences of Mehrgarh. Western India: Balathal to Jorwe. Southern India. The Ganges Basin and Northeastern India. Europe and South Asia in a nutshell. 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development?. The spread of the Southwest Asian agricultural complex into Egypt. The origins of the native African domesticates. The development and spread of agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in China. Environmental factors and the domestication process in China. The archaeology of early agriculture in China. The archaeological record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins. Later developments (post 5000 BC) in the Chinese Neolithic. The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang. 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania. The background to agricultural dispersal in Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia. Early farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia. Early farmers in the Pacific. The New Guinea agricultural trajectory and its role in Pacific colonization. 8 Early Agriculture and its Spread in the Americas. Some necessary background. The geography of early agriculture, and general cultural trajectories. Current opinion on agricultural origins in the Americas. The domesticated crops. Maize. The other crops. Early pottery in the Americas. Early farmers in the Americas. The Andes. Amazonia. Middle America (with Mesoamerica). The Southwest. Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline). Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest?. Independent agricultural origins in the Eastern Woodlands. 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory?. Language families and how they are studied. Issues of phylogeny and reticulation. The identification and phylogenetic study of language families. Introducing the players. How do languages and language families spread?. How do languages change through time?. Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor. Languages in competition - language shift. Languages in competition - contact-induced change. 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics. Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa. Indo-European. Indo-European from the Pontic Steppes?. Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it?. Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European Debate. Afroasiatic. Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans. A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory. Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic. Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo. Nilo-Saharan. Niger-Congo, with Bantu. East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families. Austronesian. Piecing it together for East Asia. “Altaic”, and some difficult issues. The Trans New Guinea Phylum. The Americas – South and Central. South America. Middle America, Mesoamerica and the Southwest Uto-Aztecan. Eastern North America. Algonguian and Muskogean. Iroquoian, Siouan and Caddoan. Did the first farmers spread their languages?. 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor. Are there correlations between human biology and language families?. Do genes record history?. Southwest Asia and Europe. South Asia. Africa. East Asia. Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians). The Americas. Did early farmers spread through processes of demic diffusion?. 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion Homeland, spread and friction zones, plus overshoot. The stages within a process of agricultural genesis and dispersal. Notes. References. Index

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Book SynopsisOffers readers an understanding of the origins and histories of early agricultural populations in various parts of the world. This book focuses on agricultural origins in and dispersals out of the Middle East, central Africa, China, New Guinea, and the northern Andes. It examines the reasons for the multiple primary origins of agriculture.Trade ReviewWinner of the AAP PSP Award for Archaeology and Anthropology 2005 A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Peter Bellwood - 2006 SAA Book Award - The Society for American Archaeology annually awards a prize to honor a recently published book that has had, or is expected to have, a major impact on the direction and character of archaeological research, and/or is expected to make a substantial contribution to the archaeology of an area. "Do not be misled by the humble title of Bellwood's book ... this volume stands alone in its scope and depth ... No student of anthropology, irrespective of subfield, should leave this book unread. It is and will remain one of the most important anthropological volumes of the 21st century." Choice "This book is a superb advertisement for archaeology as part of a multidisciplinary approach to the problem of how, where, and why our ancestors settled to plough and pasture." Times Higher Education Supplement “Bellwood is not afraid to challenge the established orthodoxy. This is a stimulating and thought-provoking assessment of one of the most important questions in archaeology today.” Peter Bogucki, Princeton University “This wonderful book is a fascinating treasure-house of information about human history since the origins of agriculture. It deserves to be a standard reference for archaeologists, linguists, geneticists, and anthropologists interested in the formation of the modern world.” Jared Diamond, University of California, Los Angeles; author of Guns, Germs, and Steel “A tour de force of historical anthropology. Rarely does one encounter a book with the sweeping historical scope of Peter Bellwood’s convincing worldwide synthesis of agricultural origins and population dispersals.” Patrick Kirch, University of California, Berkeley “Global in its scope, Peter Bellwood’s First Farmers boldly correlates the spreads of early farming with episodes of human population and language dispersal. It offers a powerfully coherent perspective, which challengingly sets one of the great themes of human history in a new and simplified vision.” Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge "Bellwood is a master at summarising complex information... the real strength of this volume is that it will make accessible to students such a wide range of data and interpretations." New Book Chronicle "Unlike many books, Bellwood's represents the cogent unfolding of a complex argument that draws on disparate types of information ... It is certainly the most scholarly, single-authored review of global agricultural origins on the market." Austrlian Archaeology "The book certainly contains a good deal of interesting data and analysis." Anthropology in ActionTable of ContentsList of Figures xii List of Tables xv Preface xvi 1 The Early Farming Dispersal Hypothesis in Perspective 1 The Disciplinary Players 3 Broad Perspectives 4 Some Key Guiding Principles 9 2 The Origins and Dispersals of Agriculture: Some Operational Considerations 12 The Significance of Agriculture: Productivity and Population Numbers 14 Why Did Agriculture Develop in the First Place? 19 The Significance of Agriculture vis-à-vis Hunting and Gathering 25 Under What Circumstances Might Hunters and Gatherers Have Adopted Agriculture in Prehistory? 28 Group 1: The “niche” hunter-gatherers of Africa and Asia 31 Group 2: The “unenclosed” hunter-gatherers of Australia, the Andamans, and the Americas 34 Group 3: Hunter-gatherers who descend from former agriculturalists 37 Why Do Ethnographic Hunter-Gatherers Have Problems with Agricultural Adoption? A Comparative View 39 To the Archaeological Record 42 3 The Beginnings of Agriculture in Southwest Asia 44 The Domestication of Plants in the Fertile Crescent 46 The Hunter-Gatherer Background in the Levant, 19,000 to 9500 bc 49 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic and the Increasing Dominance of Domesticated Crops 54 How Did Cereal Domestication Begin in Southwest Asia? 57 The Archaeological Record in Southwest Asia in Broader Perspective 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic A 59 The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B 61 The Real Turning Point in the Neolithic Revolution 65 4 Tracking the Spreads of Farming beyond the Fertile Crescent: Europe and Asia 67 The Spread of the Neolithic Economy through Europe 68 Southern and Mediterranean Europe 71 Cyprus, Turkey, and Greece 71 The Balkans 74 The Mediterranean 74 Temperate and Northern Europe 75 The Danubians and the northern Mesolithic 77 The TRB and the Baltic 80 The British Isles 81 Hunters and farmers in prehistoric Europe 82 Agricultural Dispersals from Southwest Asia to the East 84 Central Asia 84 The Indian Subcontinent 86 The domesticated crops of the Indian subcontinent 87 Regional Trajectories from Hunter-Gathering to Farming in South Asia 89 The consequences of Mehrgarh 89 Western India: Balathal to Jorwe 91 Southern India 92 The Ganges Basin and northeastern India 93 Europe and South Asia in a nutshell 95 5 Africa: An Independent Focus of Agricultural Development? 97 The Spread of the Southwest Asian Agricultural Complex into Egypt 99 The Origins of the Native African Domesticates 103 The Development and Spread of Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa 106 The Appearance of Agriculture in Central and Southern Africa 107 6 The Beginnings of Agriculture in East Asia 111 Environmental Factors and the Domestication Process in China 117 The Archaeology of Early Agriculture in China 119 The Archaeological Record of the Early Neolithic in the Yellow and Yangzi Basins 120 Later Developments (post-5000 bc) in the Chinese Neolithic 122 South of the Yangzi – Hemudu and Majiabang 124 The spread of agriculture south of Zhejiang 125 7 The Spread of Agriculture into Southeast Asia and Oceania 128 The Background to Agricultural Dispersal in Southeast Asia 130 Early Farmers in Mainland Southeast Asia 131 Early Farmers in Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia 134 Early farmers in the Pacific 141 The New Guinea Agricultural Trajectory and its Role in Pacific Colonization 142 8 Early Agriculture in the Americas 146 Some Necessary Background 148 The Geography of Early Agriculture, and General Cultural Trajectories 150 Current Opinion on Agricultural Origins in the Americas 153 The Domesticated Crops 154 Maize 155 The other crops 157 Early Pottery in the Americas 158 Early Farmers in the Americas 159 The Andes 159 Amazonia 164 Middle America (with Mesoamerica) 165 The Southwest 168 Thank the Lord for the freeway (and the pipeline) 171 Immigrant Mesoamerican farmers in the Southwest? 173 Independent Agricultural Origins in the Eastern Woodlands 174 9 What Do Language Families Mean for Human Prehistory? 180 Language Families and How They Are Studied 181 Issues of Phylogeny and Reticulation 183 The Identification and Phylogenetic Study of Language Families 185 Introducing the Players 189 How Do Languages and Language Families Spread? 190 How Do Languages Change through Time? 193 Macrofamilies, and more on the time factor 195 Languages in Competition – Language Shift 196 Languages in competition – contact-induced change 198 10 The Spread of Farming: Comparing the Archaeology and the Linguistics 200 Western and Central Eurasia, and Northern Africa 201 Indo-European 201 Indo-European from the Pontic steppes? 201 Where did PIE really originate and what can we know about it? 204 Colin Renfrew’s contribution to the Indo-European debate 206 Afroasiatic 207 Elamite and Dravidian, and the Indo-Aryans 210 A multidisciplinary scenario for South Asian prehistory 213 Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Elamo-Dravidian, and the issue of Nostratic 216 Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa: Nilo-Saharan and Niger-Congo 217 Nilo-Saharan 217 Niger-Congo, with Bantu 218 East and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific 222 The Chinese and Mainland Southeast Asian language families 222 Austronesian 227 Piecing it together for East Asia 229 “Altaic,” and some difficult issues 230 The Trans New Guinea Phylum 231 The Americas – South and Central 232 South America 233 Middle America, Mesoamerica, and the Southwest 237 Uto-Aztecan 240 Eastern North America 244 Algonquian and Muskogean 245 Iroquoian, Siouan, and Caddoan 247 Did the First Farmers Spread Their Languages? 250 11 Genetics, Skeletal Anthropology, and the People Factor 252 Are There Correlations between Human Biology and Language Families? 253 Do genes record history? 254 Southwest Asia and Europe 256 South Asia 262 Africa 263 East Asia 264 Southeast Asia and Oceania (mainly Austronesians) 265 The Americas 271 Did Early Farmers Spread through Processes of Demic Diffusion? 272 12 The Nature of Early Agricultural Expansion 273 Homeland, Spread, and Friction Zones, plus Overshoot 274 The Stages within a Process of Agricultural Genesis and Dispersal 277 Notes 280 References 292 Index 350

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000 years of Christian Church history.Trade Review"This book is an excellent summary of Christian history from the apostolic period to the current day and is written in an engaging way. It will be profitably used by scholars and students in all Christian traditions and is a helpful text not only for introductory seminary church history or historical theology courses, but also for historiography in university graduate courses." History and Sociology of Religion "Expert historians are not always as good at self-reflecting on their craft at practicing that craft. Euan Cameron, however, is an exemption as shown by his careful assessment of what the historians of this and previous generations have both taken for granted and spelled out explicitly in writing the history of Christianity. As one might expect from a distinguished student of the sixteenth century, Interpreting Christian History is particularly good on what the rise of Protestantism meant for understanding the Christian past." Mark Noll, Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Diversities of Belief, Practice, and Priorities. History and Diversity. Steering Between Two Extremes. The Compass and Structure of the Book. History and Theory. 1 The Unfolding of Christian History: a Sketch. Christianity: a Jewish Heresy Spreads Across the Eastern Empire. Greek and Latin, East and West. Persecution, Legal Establishment, Empowerment, and Retreat. The Eastern Church, the Spread of Islam, and Expansion Northwards. The Western Church of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Disputes over Control, and the Rise of a Continental Church. The High Medieval Synthesis. Later Middle Ages: the Era of Fragmentation. Challenges and Ruptures: Renaissance and Reformation. The Age of Competing Orthodoxies. Challenges to Orthodoxy: Reason, Enlightenment, and Revolution. The Era of Romanticism and its Implications. The Multiple Crises of the Twentieth Century. Reflecting on the Process of Historical Development. 2 Constantly Shifting Emphases in Christian History. Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals. Asceticism: Giving Things Up for God. Expecting Miracles. Martyrdom. Sacrament and Sacrifice: the Eucharistic Church. The Company of Heaven: the Communion of Saints. Purity of Doctrine and Instruction: the School of Faith. The Christian Community and its Membership. Reflections on Shifting Priorities. 3 Church Historians’ Responses to Change and Diversity. The Early Church: Eusebius of Caesarea. Early Medieval Church History: Bede. The High Middle Ages: A Monastic Chronicle. Renaissance Historiography: Rhetoric and Skepticism. The Reformation and the Rise of a Sense of History. The Rise of Reformed Schools of Church History. Confessional Histories in the Age of Orthodoxy. Writing Christian History in the Shadow of the Enlightenment. Toward “Modern” Histories of Christianity. Postmodern and Liberation-oriented Approaches to Christian History. Summary and Conclusions. 4 Some Theologians Reflect on the Historical Problem. The Historical Background to Historical-critical Theology. The Challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to “Modernizing” Theology. German Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Responses to Liberalism in the Twentieth Century. Thomism, Mysticism, and Neo-liberalism: Some Roman Catholic Responses. Cultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, and Postmodernity. Drawing the Threads Together. Conclusion. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the theological lessons to be learnt from 2000 years of Christian Church history. An exploration of the theological lessons to be learnt from the difficult history of the Christian churches over the past 2,000 years Opens with an introductory essay on the whole of Church history, making the book suitable for lay readers as well as students Combines historical, historiographical and theological analysis Reunites the disciplines of theology and Church history Concludes that we can only ever perceive a facet of Christianity given our historical and cultural conditioning Written by a distinguished Church historian. Trade Review"This book is an excellent summary of Christian history from the apostolic period to the current day and is written in an engaging way. It will be profitably used by scholars and students in all Christian traditions and is a helpful text not only for introductory seminary church history or historical theology courses, but also for historiography in university graduate courses." History and Sociology of Religion "Expert historians are not always as good at self-reflecting on their craft at practicing that craft. Euan Cameron, however, is an exemption as shown by his careful assessment of what the historians of this and previous generations have both taken for granted and spelled out explicitly in writing the history of Christianity. As one might expect from a distinguished student of the sixteenth century, Interpreting Christian History is particularly good on what the rise of Protestantism meant for understanding the Christian past." Mark Noll, Wheaton CollegeTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. Diversities of Belief, Practice, and Priorities. History and Diversity. Steering Between Two Extremes. The Compass and Structure of the Book. History and Theory. 1 The Unfolding of Christian History: a Sketch. Christianity: a Jewish Heresy Spreads Across the Eastern Empire. Greek and Latin, East and West. Persecution, Legal Establishment, Empowerment, and Retreat. The Eastern Church, the Spread of Islam, and Expansion Northwards. The Western Church of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Disputes over Control, and the Rise of a Continental Church. The High Medieval Synthesis. Later Middle Ages: the Era of Fragmentation. Challenges and Ruptures: Renaissance and Reformation. The Age of Competing Orthodoxies. Challenges to Orthodoxy: Reason, Enlightenment, and Revolution. The Era of Romanticism and its Implications. The Multiple Crises of the Twentieth Century. Reflecting on the Process of Historical Development. 2 Constantly Shifting Emphases in Christian History. Means to Holiness Become Ultimate Goals. Asceticism: Giving Things Up for God. Expecting Miracles. Martyrdom. Sacrament and Sacrifice: the Eucharistic Church. The Company of Heaven: the Communion of Saints. Purity of Doctrine and Instruction: the School of Faith. The Christian Community and its Membership. Reflections on Shifting Priorities. 3 Church Historians’ Responses to Change and Diversity. The Early Church: Eusebius of Caesarea. Early Medieval Church History: Bede. The High Middle Ages: A Monastic Chronicle. Renaissance Historiography: Rhetoric and Skepticism. The Reformation and the Rise of a Sense of History. The Rise of Reformed Schools of Church History. Confessional Histories in the Age of Orthodoxy. Writing Christian History in the Shadow of the Enlightenment. Toward “Modern” Histories of Christianity. Postmodern and Liberation-oriented Approaches to Christian History. Summary and Conclusions. 4 Some Theologians Reflect on the Historical Problem. The Historical Background to Historical-critical Theology. The Challenge of Ludwig Feuerbach to “Modernizing” Theology. German Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. Responses to Liberalism in the Twentieth Century. Thomism, Mysticism, and Neo-liberalism: Some Roman Catholic Responses. Cultural Diversity, Liberation, Postliberalism, and Postmodernity. Drawing the Threads Together. Conclusion. Notes. Index

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Book SynopsisTelevision in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an artthe book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate. Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events Trade Review“One could hardly ask for a more entertaining introduction to the history of entertainment media and its role in contemporary culture.” Stephen O’Leary, Annenberg School for Communication, USCTable of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 No Small Potatoes 1 Communication and Transportation: The Divorce 1 Water, Water Everywhere 6 Electrical Bananas 9 Here Comes the Judge 10 Say What? 11 2 A Downstream Medium 21 The Show Business 22 Radical Consumerism Occupies the Middle 27 Networking 31 Quality Control 34 3 A Burning Bush? 37 Broadcasting: Love It or Need It? 38 A Vertical System of Culture 44 Compatible Software 46 4 Staging and Screening 53 Sets 53 Getting with the Program 55 The Origins of ABC 58 5 Corruption and Plateau 66 Technology 66 Industry 67 Art 67 Scandals and Shake-Outs 70 6 Dull as Paint and Just as Colorful 76 TV Rules 76 Just Plain Folks 84 Television Gothic 86 7 A Myth is as Good as a Smile 89 When No News Was Good News . . . in Prime Time 91 Shows Without Trees 94 As Real As It Got 98 Regulation and Social Effects 103 Programming and the Television Industry 108 8 Oligopoly Lost and Found 111 The Train and the Station 114 The Shock of the News 121 The Third Mask of Janus 126 Index 131

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Book SynopsisTelevision in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an artthe book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate. Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events Trade Review“One could hardly ask for a more entertaining introduction to the history of entertainment media and its role in contemporary culture.” Stephen O’Leary, Annenberg School for Communication, USCTable of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 No Small Potatoes 1 Communication and Transportation: The Divorce 1 Water, Water Everywhere 6 Electrical Bananas 9 Here Comes the Judge 10 Say What? 11 2 A Downstream Medium 21 The Show Business 22 Radical Consumerism Occupies the Middle 27 Networking 31 Quality Control 34 3 A Burning Bush? 37 Broadcasting: Love It or Need It? 38 A Vertical System of Culture 44 Compatible Software 46 4 Staging and Screening 53 Sets 53 Getting with the Program 55 The Origins of ABC 58 5 Corruption and Plateau 66 Technology 66 Industry 67 Art 67 Scandals and Shake-Outs 70 6 Dull as Paint and Just as Colorful 76 TV Rules 76 Just Plain Folks 84 Television Gothic 86 7 A Myth is as Good as a Smile 89 When No News Was Good News . . . in Prime Time 91 Shows Without Trees 94 As Real As It Got 98 Regulation and Social Effects 103 Programming and the Television Industry 108 8 Oligopoly Lost and Found 111 The Train and the Station 114 The Shock of the News 121 The Third Mask of Janus 126 Index 131

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Book SynopsisA Social History of Psychology documents the rise of psychology in the 20th century and its growing influence on Western society. The book focuses on practical, or 'applied', psychology and examines the causes and social consequences of psychology's omnipresence in our society.Trade Review"Finally, for those teachers of history of psychology willing to assign a challenging text and supplement it with primary and secondary sources, a multi-authored textbook has arrived that they can be proud of...one must salute the writers of this path-breaking new history...hopefully it will find widespread adoption in the classroom." William R. Woodward, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences "By emphasising that psychology is above all a practical discipline, rooted in real-world crises and dilemmas rather than simply theoretical ones, this erudite yet approachable book casts a difference light on its history." Times Literary Supplement "Much of the pedagogical literature on the history of psychology that is available today has not been informed by recent scholarly research and is almost a culture unto itself. This textbook can help to bring the two cultures in the history of psychology closer together. It thus represents a valuable contribution to the literature of the field." Adrian Brock, University College Dublin “The history of psychology has for too long focused on academic developments while failing to see the importance of the gradual dissemination and infiltration of the psychological into every day life. This accessible volume provides an important corrective by demonstrating that the social history of psychology in Europe and North America is not only worthy of investigation but can make us reconsider the entire history of the discipline from the bottom up.” Hank Stam, University of Calgary “Reading A Social History of Psychology was a great pleasure. It’s an up-to-date textbook with two interacting themes - Jansz and van Drunen describe the development of psychology in the broader context of American and European societies, and they delineate the history of psychology as a practical science. The book is informative, well written, nicely illustrated and clearly recommendable to anyone interested in the history of our field.” Helmut E. Lück, FernUniversität, Hagen, GermanyTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Peter van Drunen and Jeroen Jansz. 1. Psychology and society; an overview: Jeroen Jansz. 2. Childrearing and education: Peter van Drunen and Jeroen Jansz. 3. Madness and mental health: Ruud Abma. 4. Work and organisation: Peter van Drunen, Pieter J. van Strien, and Eric Haas. 5. Culture and ethnicity: Paul Voestermans and Jeroen Jansz. 6. Delinquency and law: Ido Weijers. 7. Social orientations: Jaap van Ginneken. Epilogue: Peter van Drunen and Jeroen Jansz. About the authors. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, originally intended asthe first of two comprising The Making of English Law, provides the first full-length account of the Old English law-codes for over eighty years, and the first that has ever been published in the English language. It is designed to be both an authoritative work of reference for scholars seeking enlightenment on particular legal manuscripts or texts and a coherent account of how the corpus of Old English law from the seventh to the twelfth century came to subsist and survive. Part I opens with an account of the historians of early English law, including the immortal F. W. Maitland (1850-1906) and Felix Liebermann, author of the definitive edition of the law codes (1898-1916). It then provides the most detailed examination English of law and legislation on the European continent in the post-Roman era and of the earliest Anglo-Saxon legislators in the seventh century. This sets the scene for the law making of King Alfred and his successors.Trade Review"This publication is an event, eagerly awaited and now exceeding expectation." Times Literary Supplement "The Making of English Law is the century's finest monograph in English on medieval law. It is also essential reading for those interested in continental law, in kingship and in early medieval rule and in Anglo-Saxon education...(an) outstanding work on the history of law." English Historical Review "The first volume of this long awaited work is a magisterial analysis of the manuscripts and texts of Anglo-Saxon laws." History "Wormald's masterful analysis of early European legislation can and should be required reading for undergraduate and academic alike." Medium Ævum "Just in time for the twenty-first century comes Patrick Wormald's long-anticipated synthesis of years of research and fresh thinking to provide both neophytes and those with more advanced knowledge a comprehensive view of the history of scholarship on the laws, their continental relations, their physical preservation and context, and their significance as evidence. Wormald is well qualified for this ambitious undertaking and, as he threads his way through problematic issues such as the relationships among Frankish legal codes, he provides us with a sense of territory that simply cannot be found anywhere else ... Through tables, cross-references, maps, and formidable indexes, Wormald has made the book accessible and usable to anyone who has an interest in the origins of English law ... we are unlikely to see a comparable treatment of the subject for years to come." Mary P. Richards, University of Delaware "[Wormald] provides a wealth of primary material, often quoted verbatim in translation, and accompanied by twenty tables of structures, transmission, and contents of the codes, and the times and places of the councils which pronounced them ... Bound elegantly with copious footnotes, this is a monument to a scholar's lifetime work." Canadian Journal of History "This book is a great gift to scholarship of many kinds ... A further volume is promised ... but, even if this were to stand alone, it would put us all in great debt to its author." Arbitration Journal "In the last twenty years Wormald has been the most assiduous explorer in the area, his brilliant essays constituting individual expeditions into the territory. The Making of English Law represents the atlas ... Its breadth is astonishing; one moment describing the western European context of post-Roman law, the next subjecting nib widths to microscopic examination to identify the scribe who wrote quire signatures in English law's oldest manuscript. The results, great and small, change how we interpret preconquest law ... Wormald's massive and brilliant study truly for the first time puts us in a position to know the history of the origins and early development of English law." SpeculumTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Preliminaries: . 1. Prologue: Early English Law and the Historians. 2. The Background and Origin of Early English Legislation. Part II: The Making and Meaning of Written Law, 886-1135: . 3. The Impact of Legislation. 4. The Manuscripts of Legislation. 5. Legislation as Text. 6. Legislation as Literature. 7. Conclusion: Legislation as Legal Culture. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays that analyze the hard-to-define phenomenon of 'technology' in America. It covers some of the important features of American technology, including developments in automobiles, television, and computing. It includes discussions of how technologies interact with race, gender, and class in American society.Trade Review"These essays serve the purpose of establishing a base of information for the reader to better understand the process of technology, how it is defined, and how it can be traced throughout the history of the nation ... An excellent collection." Journal of Southern History "The very breadth of the subject matter and analytical techniques in these contributions is extremely impressive. A stimulating collection." History "Highly recommended." ChoiceTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 Carroll Pursell PART I BEGINNINGS 1 Technology in Colonial North America 9 Robert B. Gordon 2 The American Industrial Revolution 31 James C. Williams PART II SITES OF PRODUCTION 3 The Technology of Production 55 Carroll Pursell 4 Technology and Agriculture in Twentieth-Century America 69 Deborah Fitzgerald 5 House and Home 83 Gail Cooper 6 The City and Technology 97 Joel A. Tarr 7 Technology and the Environment 113 Betsy Mendelsohn 8 Government and Technology 132 Carroll Pursell 9 Medicine and Technology 156 James M. Edmonson PART III SITES OF CONTEST 10 The North American “Body–Machine” Complex 179 Chris Hables Gray 11 Gender and Technology 199 Rebecca Herzig 12 Labor and Technology 212 Arwen P. Mohun PART IV TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS 13 The Automotive Transportation System: Cars and Highways in Twentieth-Century America 233 Bruce E. Seely 14 Airplanes 255 Roger E. Bilstein 15 Technology in Space 275 Roger D. Launius 16 Nuclear Technology 298 M. Joshua Silverman 17 Television 321 Douglas Gomery 18 Computers and the Internet: Braiding Irony, Paradox, and Possibility 340 Jeffrey R. Yost PART V PRODUCING AND READING TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURE 19 The Profession of Engineering in America 363 Bruce Sinclair 20 Popular Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century 385 Molly W. Berger 21 Art and Technology 406 Henry Adams 22 Critics of Technology 429 David E. Nye Index 453

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Book SynopsisThis popular text has now been revised to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the growing number of people interested in all the main philosophical traditions of the world. Introduces all the main philosophical systems of the world, from ancient times to the present day. Now includes new sections on Indian and Persian thought and on feminist and environmental philosophy. The preface and bibliography have also been updated. Written by a highly successful textbook author. Trade Review‘A multicultural feast of ideas and arguments! In language that is expressive, clear and often humorous, David Cooper has written a compelling history of philosophy, covering as it does not only the major figures in Western thought but also the main trends in non-Western philosophy.' Robert L. Arrington, Georgia State University ‘By opening the door to cross-cultural comparison, Cooper has let in a draught that may blow away the whole house of cards, and uncover the parts of philosophy that the histories never reached.' Jonathan Rée, Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsPreface to second edition. 1. Introduction. Part I: Ancient Philosophies: . 2. India. The 'Schools' and their Framework. Nyaya. Samkhya and Yoga. Advaita Vedanta. Buddhism. Ethics and Indian Philosophy. 3. China. The Character of Chinese Philosophy. Confucianism. Mohism. Taoism. 4. Greece. Legacies. Naturalism and Relativism. Plato. Aristotle. Epicureanism, Scepticism and Stoicism. Part II: Middle Period and 'Modern' Philosophies: . 5. Medieval Philosophies. Religion and Philosophy. Neo-Platonism and Early Christianity. Islamic and Jewish Philosophy. Thomism and its Critics. Medieval Mysticism. 6. Developments in Asian Philosophy. Theistic Vedanta. Neo-Confucianism. Zen Buddhism. Illumination. 7. From Renaissance to Enlightenment. Humanism and the Rise of Science. Scepticism. Dualism, Materialism and Idealism. Monism and Monadology. Enlightenment and Its Critics. Part III: Recent Philosophies:. 8. Kant and the Nineteenth Century. Kant. Absolute Idealism. Philosophies of the Will. Marxism and Social Darwinism. Positivism, Pragmatism and British Idealism. 9. Recent Non-Western Philosophies. India. China and Japan. The Islamic World. Africa. 10. Twentieth-Century Western Philosophies. Philosophies of Life. Phenomenology, Hermeneutics and Existentialism. Logical Atomism and Logical Positivism. Naturalisms. Postmodernism and Related Tendencies. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisJohn Storey, a leading figure in the field of Cultural Studies, offers an illuminating and vibrant account of the development of popular culture. Addressing issues such as globalization, intellectualism, and consumerism, Inventing Popular Culture presents an engaging assessment of one of the most debated concepts of recent times. Provides a lively and accessible history of the concept of popular culture by one of the leading experts in the field. Traces the invention and reinvention of the concept of popular culture from the eighteenth-century discovery of folk culture to contemporary accounts of the cultural impact of globalization. Examines the relationship between the concept of popular culture and key issues in cultural analyses such as hegemony, postmodernism, identity, questions of value, consumerism, and everyday life. Trade Review“John Storey's lively and provocative history of popular culture is interwoven with a characteristically clear and intelligent critique of the politics of its operation. Storey remains one of the most lucid and readable writers to be found in cultural studies, and this is a wonderfully tight, punchy, and illuminating book.” Graeme Turner, University of Queensland “Storey accomplishes something truly unprecedented in this book as he traces the evolution of the idea of popular culture. His cogent analyses of the key polemics are compelling because they demonstrate so vividly why we still need cultural studies, if for no other reason than to better understand how intellectuals imagine ordinary people.” Jim Collins, University of Notre Dame "An excellent resource for academic libraries; as an introduction to cultural studies, this is hard to beat." Library JournalTable of ContentsPreface. 1. Popular Culture as Folk Culture:. Nature and Nationalism. Pastoral Life as Primitive Culture. Music Hall and the Masses. Imagining the Past to Make the Present. Notes. 2. Popular Culture as Mass Culture:. Culture Against Anarchy. The Culture of Hyperdemocracy. The Marxist Masses. Ways of Seeing Other People as Masses. Notes. 3. Popular Culture as the ‘Other’ of High Culture:. The Making of High Culture. The Modernist Revolution. The Politics of Cultural Exclusion. Culture and Class. Notes. 4. Popular as an Arena of Hegemony:. Hegemony: From Marxism to Cultural Studies. Wandering from the Path of Righteousness. Side Saddle on the Golden Calf. An Inclusive Media and Cultural Studies. Notes. 5. Popular Culture as Postmodern Culture:. The New Sensibility. Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine: The Postmodern Condition. Back to the Future: Opera Postmodern. Notes. 6. Popular Culture as the ‘Roots’ and ‘Routes’ of Cultural Identities:. Postmodern Identities. The Roots of Cultural Identities. The Routes of Cultural Identities. Mixing Memory and Desire: Dusty Springfield and ‘The Land of Love’. Coda: Performing Identities. Notes. 7. Popular Culture as Popular Art:. Cultural Power. When Gravity Fails: An Aesthetics of Popular Culture?. Beyond Aesthetic Essentialism. Notes. 8. Popular Culture as Global Culture:. Globalisation. Trading Commodities in the American Global Village. The ‘Local’ as the New Folk Culture. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of a linguistic autobiographiesa by 23 British linguists who played a major role in the development of the subject in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. aeo Includes contributions from 23 major British linguists. aeo Provides an overview of the rapid growth of linguistics in the last 50 years.Table of ContentsPreface vii Jean Aitchison 1 W. Sidney Allen 14 R. E. Asher 28 John Bendor-Samuel 43 Gillian Brown 53 N. E. Collinge 67 Joseph Cremona 78 David Crystal 91 Gerald Gazdar 104 M. A. K. Halliday 116 Richard Hudson 127 John Laver 139 Geoffrey Leech 155 John Lyons 170 Peter Matthews 200 Anna Morpungo Davies 213 Frank Palmer 228 Randolph Quirk 239 R. H. Robins 249 Neil Smith 262 J. L. M. Trim 274 Peter Trudgill 286 John Wells 297 General Index 307

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