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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Egyptian Coffeehouse Culture Politics and Urban Space
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Narrating Muslim Sicily
Book SynopsisWilliam Granara is Gordon Gray Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he is also the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He has published widely on medieval Arabic literature and translated several novels from Arabic to English.Trade ReviewWoven together from historical, geographical, literary, and legal sources, Narrating Muslim Sicily is an intricate and fascinating account of a medieval civilization lying on the frontier between Islam and Christendom. William Granara brilliantly teases out the different ways that Arabs and Muslims viewed the island – from eyewitnesses of the golden years of Sicily’s Islamic period, to later poets and scholars who reimagined its history. At the heart of Granara’s groundbreaking book is a subtle argument: that while all of these sources collectively constituted a “zone of contradiction”, they nevertheless consistently appealed to the concept of jihad as a tool to extract meaning from Muslim Sicily’s unique experiences. * Robert Wisnovsky, James McGill Professor of Islamic Philosophy, McGill University, Canada *an invaluable resource for specialists in medieval Sicily, and invites more general readers into this rich literary world * Joshua C. Birk, Associate Professor of History, Smith College USA. *
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AuthorHouse Tomorrow Jerusalem The Story of Nat Turner and the Southampton Slave Insurrection
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AuthorHouse Tomorrow Jerusalem The Story of Nat Turner and the Southampton Slave Insurrection
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AuthorHouse An American Passion Being an Account of the Killing of Crazy Horse War Chief of the Oglala Lakota Sioux
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AuthorHouse Charge to Glory The Song of the First and Third Louisiana Native Guards
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AuthorHouse The Seventh Flag Comanche Indians in Texas
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AuthorHouse Golf History Unusual facts figures and little known trivia Book One Unusual facts figures and little known trivia Book One From 1400 to 1960 Known Trivia Book One from 1400 to 1960
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Crown Everything but the Burden What White People are Taking from Black Culture
Book SynopsisWhite kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis?Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to tell him, “everything but the burden”-from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is i
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Random House USA Inc Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
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University of Ottawa Press Moroccan Jews in France and Canada
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Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc People of the Deer
Book SynopsisIn 1886, the Ihalmiut people of northern Canada numbered seven thousand by 1946, when Farley Mowat began his two-year stay in the Arctic, the population had fallen to just forty. With them, he observed for the first time the phenomenon that would inspire him for the rest of his life: the millennia-old migration of the Arctic''s caribou herds. He also endured bleak, interminable winters, suffered agonizing shortages of food, and witnessed the continual, devastating intrusions of outsiders bent on exploitation. Here, in this classic and first book to demonstrate the mammoth literary talent that would produce some of the most memorable books of the next half-century, best-selling author Farley Mowat chronicles his harrowing experiences. People of the Deer is the lyrical ethnography of a beautiful and endangered society. It is a mournful reproach to those who would manipulate and destroy indigenous cultures throughout the world. Most of all, it is a tribute to the last People of the Deer,
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Heritage Books Native American Directory Vital Records of Maine Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York and Wisconsin
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Springer The Changing University How Increased Demand for Scientists and Technology is Transforming Academic Institutions Internationally 59 Nato Science Series D
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Boekdiva Uitgewers Black Pioneers
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Augsburg Fortress Publishers Spirit and Resistance
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Talmudic Stories
Book SynopsisThe book features an appendix including the original Hebrew/Aramaic texts for the reader's reference.Trade ReviewThis book offers the best set of literary readings of Talmudic materials in English, and the best English introduction to the issues such readings entail, that this reviewer has seen. Choice This book goes well beyond the explanation of difficult Talmudic stories. It presents, indeed, an entirely innovative theory. Rubenstein's argument is not only important, but also, I think, persuasive. This book should not be allowed to go unnoticed: in a well-trodden field like Talmudic studies one rarely gets the feeling that a major breakthrough has been achieved. -- Sacha Stern Journal of Jewish Studies Rubenstein has produced a fascinating volume... Anyone who reads this book will find important new insights. -- Gary G. Porton Shofar This is a mature work, in which the author invested much labor and thought. The thoroughness, methodical diversity, and scholarly discretion can serve as a model of the demanding standards that are to be expected from serious research into rabbinic literature. -- Eliezer Segal Journal of the American Academy of Religion It analyzes several notable rabbinic stories in a fresh and detailed manner. -- Carol Bakhos Journal of Biblical Literature A distinctive and nuanced analysis of six narratives from the Babylonian Talmud... I would recommend this excellent book to Rubenstein's intended audience as well as anyone who is interested in the literary analysis of religious narratives... Rubenstein's analyses are careful and thorough, and he argues his points well. In addition, Talmudic Stories opens up a host of new challenges. -- Jonathan Schofer Hebrew Studies This work establishes Rubenstein as the leading scholar of narrative in the Babylonian Talmud. -- Marc Bregman Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction *Torah, Shame, and "The Oven of Akhnai" (Bava Mesia 59a-59b) * Elisha ben Abuya: Torah and the Sinful Sage (Hagiga 15a-15b) * Torah and the Mundane Life: The Education of R. Shimon bar Yohai (Shabbat 33b-34a) * Rabbinic Authority and the Destruction of Jerusalem (Gittin 55b-56b) * Torah, Lineage, and the Academic Hierarchy (Horayot 13b-14a) * Torah, Gentiles, and Eschatology (Avoda Zara 2a-3b) * Conclusion
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service A Man of Three Worlds Samuel Pallache a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe
Book SynopsisAt once a sweeping view of two continents, three faiths, and five nation-states and an intimate story of one man's remarkable life, A Man of Three Worlds is history at its most compelling.Trade ReviewA fascinating account of the way in which a Jewish family survived and flourished while living at the heart of three warring cultures... The book illuminates a little-known side of the 17th-century world. Church Times Samuel Pallache has gone down in history as an honorable figure, a slightly less successful version of Disraeli's Jewish hero Sidonia... This fascinating little book, however, based on research in the Dutch, Belgian, Spanish, and Portuguese archives, reveals a very different sort of man-a ruthless adventurer, whose duplicity was only matched by his audacity. Times Literary Supplement Well referenced, with many vignettes that help to paint for the reader a vivid picture of the times. -- Robert Nussenblatt Lettre Sepharade A coherent and revealing picture of [Samuel Pallache's] complex career... Generally judicious in its conclusions and shrewd in its utilization of detail... Along the way, it explores a hitherto unobserved pattern of ties between North African Jews and moriscos active in Christian Europe... A significant contribution to the history of the political information web of early modern Europe and the men behind it. American Historical Review Fascinating... A valuable snapshot of the 'new world order' of global powers and grand alliances at the time, and the way in which the members of a relatively poor and socially marginalized family managed to play them to their advantage. Canadian Journal of History A significant study which opens a window on a culture that was necessarily often submerged. Journal of Jewish Studies Garcia-Arenal and Wiegers have brought to life not only one Jewish merchant in the age of mercantilism but his entire culture. Mediterranean Historical Review A fascinating study. Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et RenaissanceTable of ContentsContents: Foreword Preface Note on Terminology IntroductionChapter 1. From Fez to Madrid Chapter 2. Jews in Morocco Chapter 3. Between the Dutch Republic and Morocco Chapter 4. Privateering, Prison, and Death Chapter 5. After Samuel: The Pallache Family Conclusion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press When Champagne Became French Wine and the Making of a National Identity 01 The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Book SynopsisThis ability to mask local interests as national concerns convinced government officials of the need, at both national and international levels, to protect champagne as a French patrimony.Trade ReviewExcellent book. -- Harry W. Paul Journal of Modern History 2005 The denouement of Kolleen Guy's fascinating book is the violent explosion known as the 'revolution of Champagne' in 1911. How the revolt occurred is the heart of this skillful study of a region's economy and society and its relationship to the nation state. -- Thomas Brennan Journal of Social History 2004 A strong contribution to our understanding of the processes by which French national identity was constructed. -- James. R. Lehning Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2005 [Guy] convincingly describes how the circumstances surrounding the evolution of this regional beverage explain changes within French society... Students writing research papers in the fields of gastronomy would find this an excellent model of how they should approach similar topics. Massachusetts Beverage Business 2004 Guy's fascinating book... traces in extensive detail the forces at work to transform this formerly regional product into a world-recognized symbol of French patrimony, elitism, and spirit. In lively style, Guy chronicles the history of champagne production in France and, in turn, the history of France itself through eras of industrialization and war. All readers will find this book absorbing: history buffs, novices to the bubbly, and full-fledged experts. -- Janine Sutherlin France Today A fascinating study of champagne in the years before the Great War... Guy makes us consider the current popularity of products which, like champagne, have a strong regional identity and their increasing centrality to contemporary France's sense of identity. Times Literary Supplement A fascinating book... [Guy] demonstrates how a region with few environmental advantages for grape and wine production was able not only to succeed but to become synonymous with grace, style, and joyful gatherings. Choice 2003 Guy's illustrated book is a well-researched look at one of France's proudest achievements. -- Lori D. Kranz Bloomsbury Review 2007Table of ContentsContents: AcknowledgmentsOne IntroductionTwo Consuming the Nation: Champagne Marketing and Bourgeois Rituals, 1789-1914Three Industry meets Terroir: Champagne Producers in the MarneFour Resistance and Identity: Cultivation Methods and the Wine Community, 1789-1890Five Boundaries: The Limits of the "True" Champagne, 1900-1910Six Revolution and Stalemate: The Revolt of 1911Seven Conclusion: Champagne and Modern FranceAppendix Notes Bibliographic Essay Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Noble Brutes How Eastern Horses Transformed English Culture Animals History Culture
Book SynopsisThis radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating thesis, absorbing in its many insights and detours, and lovingly argued. -- Allan Mallinson Country Life 2009 Only someone who is both a cultural historian and a devoted horse person could have written this remarkably engaging, wide-ranging book. Landry... tells in clear, vivid, fascinating detail of developments that will engage cultural and literary historians and animal fanciers. Choice 2009 Donna Landry has produced a book of clean organization and admirable coherence. She writes with telling precision, as well as first-hand acquaintance with all horsey matters. -- Pat Rogers Times Literary Supplement 2010 An important and most welcome contribution to our understanding of the multi-faceted impact of horses on humans and focuses on the significant influence of Eastern imports on English culture... Johns Hopkins University press have published a book with exemplary production values to complement the content. -- Peter Harrigan Arabian Studies 2010 A timely and valuable contribution to the recently burgeoning field of animality and animal studies in the early modern period. -- Richard Nash Eighteenth-Century Studies 2010 It would make a surprising story and support claims that animal studies can make important contributions to the study of history and culture. -- Nicholas Russell American Historical Review 2009 A multi-faceted work that will serve as a landmark in the emerging field of animal and cultural studies. -- Peter Edwards Agricultural History 2010 All historians of the early modern period would benefit from reading this multi-faceted and fascinating book. -- Mike Huggins Journal of Social History 2010Table of ContentsIntroduction: What the Horses Said: An Equine History1. Horsemanship in the British Isles before the Eastern Invasion2. The Making of the English Hunting Seat3. Steal of a Turk: Tracking in Bloodstock4. About a Horse: The Bloody Shouldered Arabian5. The Noble Brute: Contradictions in Equine Ideology, East and WestEpilogue: Her Ladyship's Arabian: AftermathsAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Atlantic Diasporas Jews Conversos and CryptoJews in the Age of Mercantilism 15001800
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Rome A Living Portrait of an Ancient City Ancient Society and History
Book SynopsisIn doing so, he offers a dramatic picture of a complex and changing urban center that, despite its flaws, flourished for centuries.Trade ReviewAn important addition to the literature on classical Rome... Highly recommended. Choice 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface1. Approaching the Ancient City2. The Creation of the Ancient Megalopolis of Rome3. Rome after Hannibal4. From Sulla to Octavian5. The Creation of the Imperial City6. The Consolidation of the Imperial City7. The Antonine City8. Neighborhoods, Pathways, and Rituals of the Imperial City9. Supply, Service, and Productivity: The Urban Economy of Ancient Rome10. The People of Imperial Rome11. On the Fringe: Rome beyond the Pomerium12. The Prelude to the Christian CityNotesGlossary of Latin TermsBibliographyIndex
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Hopkins Fulfillment Service Tribe Race History Native Americans in Southern New England 17801880 125 The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Book SynopsisShedding new light on regional developments in class, race, and culture, this groundbreaking study is the first to consider all Native Americans throughout southern New England.Trade ReviewOutstanding work... The book is filled with gems... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Mandell has made a very valuable contribution to our understanding of Native American history in a period long overlooked. -- Jenny Pulsipher American Historical Review 2008 A carefully crafted, well-researched book... This review does not do justice to this rich account of the complex interactions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in the survival of native peoples. -- Thomas D. Hall Journal of American History 2009 Mandell's superb book on a long-neglected subject should affect the way the larger narrative of this era of American history is written. -- Rachel Wheeler Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2009 A wide-ranging, intricately argued, and thoroughly researched book. It is well written and historiographically significant, and Mandell's nineteen-page essay on the source materials a the end of the volume is a boon for scholars. Overall, Mandell has produced an outstanding addition to the field of American Indian history in New England. -- Christopher J. Bilodeau Journal of American Ethnic History 2009 Consummate and exemplary researcher, Daniel Mandell has once again filled some significant gaps in our collective knowledge on the history of New England Native Americans... Very useful to the growing number of historians of this genre for generations to come. It will be a catalyst for many vital discussions and hopefully provoke some very important new research and writing. -- George Price H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews 2009 This is a book that every scholar of Native Americans should own. The research is deep and thorough. The book makes excellent reading for a senior or honors class or a graduate class. The citations to sources are invaluable Connecticut History 2009 An impressive, timely and thoroughly researched piece of scholarship. Historical Journal of Massachusetts 2009 Mandell carefully reconstructs what the historical records tell us about how these communities adapted to the environments of their non-Native neighbors and states while maintaining regional ties withother Native communities... His detailed recording of these tribes and individuals shows that they did not disappear but were ignored when they no longer fit the new paradigm of 'Indian' shared by most Americans. Massachusetts Historical Review 2010 An ambitious book. -- D. Elliotte Draegor Journal of Social History 2011 Reveals the complex and hitherto poorly understood internal dynamics at play within these communities... an innovative work of cultural history. New England Quarterly 2011Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Land and LaborTribal ReservesSmall CommunitiesWork off the ReservationIndian Reserves as Refuges2. Community and FamilyIndian Networks in the Early RepublicMarriages with "Foreigners & Strangers"Anglo-American Views of Indian IntermarriageIndian Views of Race and IntermarriageIntermarriage and Assimilation3. Authority and AutonomyGuardians ReappointedMashpee and Gideon HawleyThe Standing Order, Class, and IndiansGuardians and Tribal ChallengesThe Mashpee Revolt4. Reform and RenascenceMaintaining InstitutionsIndians, the Society for Propagating the Gospel, and ReformsIndians, State Governments, and Economic EnterpriseRenascence and Resistance5. Reality and ImageryIndians at MidcenturyEmployment and WorkwaysTribal Identity and PoliticsImages of IndiansLocal Histories6. Citizenship and TerminationRace and Civil RightsProposing TerminationRejecting TerminationCompelling TerminationEpilogueList of AbbreviationsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Within the Four Seas
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University of Toronto Press Family Church and Market
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Bloomsbury USA An Edible History of Humanity
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Taylor & Francis Inc Highway of Dreams
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John Wiley & Sons The Incas of Pedro Cieza de Leon
Book SynopsisTrade Review[This] translation is the finest in English, and I think there is little doubt that this rendering of Cieza de León is the best all-round presentation of both the man and his writings."" - Gordon R. Willey,Science
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John Wiley & Sons Spotted Tails Folk
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John Wiley & Sons Living the Sky
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John Wiley & Sons The Apaches
Book SynopsisThis is an account of the history and activities of the Apache Indians, as well as the tortuous course of events that led to the tribe's subjugation. The author examines a racial and cultural struggle in which the duplicity of white government officials proved to be a decisive factor.
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John Wiley & Sons The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt
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John Wiley & Sons A Texas Frontier
Book SynopsisSurveys the formative development of northwest Texas where the Clear Fork of the Brazos cuts a path between the timbered region and the treeless plains beyond. Based on primary sources, and sensitive to recent historiographical trends, this book reinterprets and amplifies an old and familiar story of frontier development.
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John Wiley & Sons Bad Medicine and Good
Book SynopsisThis texts collects together 44 stories covering Kiowa history from the 1700s through the 1940s, all gleaned from interviews with Kiowas (who actually took part in the events or recalled them from the accounts of their elders), and the notes of Captain Hugh L. Scott at Fort Sill.
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John Wiley & Sons Apaches
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John Wiley & Sons Black Elk
Book SynopsisThis biography of Black Elk is based on extensive interviews with Lucy Looks Twice, the holy man's last surviving child, as well as others who knew him personally. It portrays him as a victim of Western subjugation, doomed to live out his life as a relic of the past.
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John Wiley & Sons Navajo Expedition Journal of a Military Reconnaissance from Santa Fe New Mexico to the Navaho Country Made in 1849
Trade ReviewFrank McNitt makes the coin of the past ring true…. He has given us the New Mexico-Arizona world as it looked on the eve of an era during which U.S. traders and government people were to become a daily factor in Navajo and Pueblo life."" - New Mexico Quarterly
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John Wiley & Sons Battlefield and Classroom Four Decades with the American Indian 18671904
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John Wiley & Sons Popol Vuh Literal Poetic Version Translation and Transcription
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John Wiley & Sons The American Indian Past and Present
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John Wiley & Sons Cherokee Medicine Man The Life and Work of a ModernDay Healer
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John Wiley & Sons Inventing Los Alamos The Growth of an Atomic Community
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John Wiley & Sons Inkpaduta Dakota Leader
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John Wiley & Sons To Change Them Forever Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School 18931920
Trade ReviewA welcome addition to the study of cultural transformation and Indian struggle for survival."" - Southern Historian
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