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Indiana University Press Gender and Jewish History
Book SynopsisGender's critical importance to understanding Jewish historyTrade Review[T]he subject matter of the essays shows how gender analysis can and should belong in a variety of fields and areas of study, from religious thought to the history of art to activism and politics. The result is a fitting tribute to one of the great historians of modern Judaism. * Religious Studies Review *Written by authorities in their fields, these essays are nevertheless accessible and uncover many previously hidden aspects of social, cultural, religious, and political Jewish life since the mid-18th century. Fall 2011 * Jewish Book World *Gender and Jewish History will ultimately be valuable to both scholars and graduate students in a number of disciplines. Although these essays did not arise out of a conference, they nevertheless engage in dialogue with one another to a remarkable degree. * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *Owing to the calibre of its scholarship and the fact that it brings together important work by scholars of European and American Jewish history, literature, culture, religious studies, and Holocaust studies, this book is unquestionably the most significant volume on the topic to appear in English in over a decade.11.3 2012 * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *[T]he incredible breadth of essays in Gender and Jewish History proves that few topics in modern Jewish history can be understood without paying attention to gender, as a set of relationships that structure power. * The Jewish Quarterly Review *Imagine sitting down for delicious tapas at a long table with a group of old friends. The flavors are nuanced and varied, while the conversation is lively, provocative and deeply engaging. Reading Gender and Jewish History, edited by noted historians Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore, is a bit like that imagined leisurely meal. * Jewish Daily Forward *Marion A. Kaplan and Deborah Dash Moore have created a worthy tribute to Hyman's pioneering role in establishing gender as an essential component in the scholarly interpretation of the Jewish experience. * H-Judaic *Gender and Jewish History makes an important contribution to our understanding in three ways. First, it gathers together eminent and emerging scholars in one comprehensive collection. Second, its essays are engaging and wide-ranging in focus, depth and breadth, and accessibly written, without dense academic jargon, so that nonacademics can dig in, as well. Finally, it's a moving testament to just how much an individual can influence the development and trajectory of an entire scholarly field through persistence, persuasion and extraordinary vision. * ForeWord *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction / Deborah Dash Moore and Marion A. KaplanPart 1. Women's Culture in Modern Jewish History 1. How Does a Woman Write? Or, Pauline Wengeroff's Room of Her Own / Shulamit S. Magnus 2. Wives and Wissenschaft: The Domestic Seedbed of Critical Scholarship / Ismar Schorsch 3. Jews, Women, and Coffee in Early Modern Germany / Robert Liberles 4. Water into Blood: Custom, Calendar, and an Unknown Yiddish Book for Women / Elisheva Carlebach 5. "The Murdered Hebrew Maidservant of East New York": Gender, Class, and the Jewish Household in Eastern Europe and Its Diaspora / Rebecca Kobrin 6. Jewish Courtship and Marriage in 1920s Vienna / Marsha L. Rozenblit 7. "Did you bring any girls?" Gender Imbalance in a Jewish Refugee Settlement: Sosúa, the Dominican Republic, 1940-1945 / Marion A. Kaplan 8. The Contribution of Gender to the Study of the Holocaust / Dalia OferPart 2. Gendered Dimensions of Religious Change 9. Women in the Thought and Practice of the European Jewish Reform Movement / Michael A. Meyer 10. German Orthodox Rabbinical Writings on the Jewish Textual Education of Women: The Views of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch and Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer / David Ellenson 11. Gender and Conversion Revisited / Todd M. Endelman 12. The Politics of Love in Lev Levanda's Turbulent Times / ChaeRan Y. Freeze 13. Fruitful Weaving: Eve and Penelope as Icons in the Poetry of Linda Pastan / Anne Lapidus Lerner 14. Vernacular Kabbalah, Embodiment, and Women in the Early Modern and Contemporary Periods / Chava Weissler 15. Telling Stories: The Legal Turn in Jewish Feminist Thought / Claire E. SufrinPart 3. Jewish Politics in American Accents 16. "The Call to Action": Margaret Sanger, the Brownsville Jewish Women, and Political Activism / Judith Rosenbaum 17. "Too Good to Have Been Made by a Woman": American Jewish Women Artists as Political Activists from the 1920s to the 1940s / Lauren B. Strauss 18. Walkers in the City: Young Jewish Women with Cameras / Deborah Dash Moore 19. Assembling Eichmann's Shackles / Deborah E. Lipstadt 20. Golda and the Court Jew: Golda Meir, Henry Kissinger, and the Personas They Denied / Michael Scott Alexander 21. Gendered Journeys: Jewish Migrations and the City in Postwar America / Lila Corwin Berman 22. Constructing Manhood in American Jewish Culture / Beth S. WengerAfterword: An Emancipating Experience: The Jews of France in Paula Hyman's Oeuvre / Richard I. CohenBibliography of Paula Hyman's WorksList of ContributorsIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Stolen Childhood Second Edition
Book SynopsisSlavery's impact on children and familiesTrade ReviewKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's work is fresh and accessible. It fills key gaps in scholarship on slavery and would make for a worthwhile read for anyone from the casual reader of history to the scholar. * Tennessee Libraries *Drawing on extensive new scholarship and sources, [King] adds significant new demographic information regarding slave children and broadens her scope to include slave children born in the North and in urban centers. . . . Essential. * Choice *King has performed a valuable service to the historiographies of slavery and of children. It is important to be reminded that slaves were children before they became the men and women who form our more familiar images of slavery.Summer 1996 * Register Kentucky Historical Society *Wilma King's book is a welcome addition to the literature. . . The author compares the hardships of slave childhood with those created by war or siege.Fall 1996 * GEORGIA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY *[Until] the appearance of this book, no monograph had focused exclusively on the many topics relating to the enslaved young.April 1997 * American Historical Review *[King's] cogent general picture offeres a valuable entree into the topic, and provides a sound frame of reference for the temporally or spacially more specific research that her study should generate.39.3 Fall 1998 * American Studies *Stolen Childhood provides a broad overview of slave childhood throughout the nineteenth-century South and moves beyond the Civil War years to demonstrate that the brutality directed against enslaved children did not end with emancipation.May 2000 * Journal of Southern History *[T]his is an ambitious book that not only pioneered the history of African-American child slavery, but also made a significant impact on the discourse addressing slavery in the USA more generally. . . a masterful work. * Slavery and Abolition *Stolen Childhood mines the major American archives in order to present the ways in which enslaved men and women created a semblance of family life and cultural heritage. * Christian Science Monitor *Stolen Childhood is a welcome addition to the burgeoning literature on the slave experience in the United States. * History of Education Quarterly *King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience. * Choice *Wilma King has done a service in correcting a major problem in slave history. Her writing style gracefully conveys both the joys and the terrors of youth under slavery. * Southern Historian *[King] takes an enormous step toward filling some of the voids in the literature of slavery. * Washington Post Book World *Stolen Childhood is a wonderful book with manifold strengths of research and analysis. -- Nell Irvin PainterKing provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents. * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction 1. In the Beginning: The Transatlantic Trade in Children of African Descent2. "You know that I am one man that do love his children": Slave Children and Youth in the Family and Community 3. "Us ain't never idle": Slave Children and Youth in the World of Work 4. "When day is done": Play and Leisure Activities of Slave Children and Youth 5. "Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave": The Temporal and Spiritual Education of Slave Children and Youth 6. "What has Ever Become of My Presus Little Girl": The Traumas and Tragedies of Slave Children and Youth 7. "Free at last": The Quest for Freedom by Slave Children and Youth 8. "There's a better day a-coming": The Transition from Slavery to Freedom for Children and Youth Notes Appendixes Bibliography Index
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Indiana University Press The Unknown Black Book
Book SynopsisPowerful testimonies by Holocaust survivorsTrade ReviewThe book offers a great many insights to the reader. . . . It is impossible here to give a full account of the wealth of material contained in the book. March 19, 2010 * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *These accounts from those who saw what happened convey what we cannot learn from official documents about the nature of this vast criminal enterprise, in which hundreds of thousands were transformed into monsters . . . and millions of others became helpless, dehumanized, mutilated, and finally forgotten victims. * Wall Street Journal *An essential work for anyone who wants to explore the depth of German and collaborationist crimes against the Jews. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *The Unknown Black Book's main contribution is in exposing the English-speaking audience, for the first time, to one of the most terrible chapters of the Holocaust, as well as in challenging the current trend of presenting the Holocaust as merely another crime against humanity. * Russian Review *One of the most important sources on the Holocaust . . . [T]he editors and Indiana University Press have performed an invaluable service by preparing an English-language edition of The Unknown Black Book. -- Timothy Snyder * Yale University *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsThe Destruction of the Jews in German-Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union Yitzhak AradThe History and Fate of The Black Book and The Unknown Black Book Ilya AltmanNote on TranslationThe War and the Final Solution on the Russian Front Joshua RubensteinI. UkraineII. BelorussiaIII. LithuaniaIV. LatviaV. EstoniaVI. The CrimeaVII. RussiaVIII. Prisoners of WarDetailed Table of ContentsIndex
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Indiana University Press Anthropology and Egalitarianism
Book SynopsisA provocative introduction to fieldwork and the concept of cultureTrade ReviewOverall, this book is a success and a useful text for ethnographers of all types. Its self-reflective nature should make any researcher think deeply on her or his own process, and the accessibility of the writing makes it useful for classrooms of all levels. . . . Gable's writing is always pleasant and at times beautifully eloquent. * journal of Folklore Research *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Culture by Contrast and Theory in Anthropology1. Supping with Savages 2. Standing in a Line3. Jefferson's Ardor4. The Colonialist's Dress Code5. Taking Pictures in the Field, or the Anthropologist's Dress Code6. Beyond Belief7. The Sex Life of SavagesConclusion: Tending to Nature, Tending to Culture, or Is Anthropology History?Notes on SourcesReferencesIndex
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Indiana University Press City of Rogues and Schnorrers Russias Jews and
Book SynopsisOdessa--celebrated and vilifi ed as a Jewish city of sinTrade ReviewTanny delivers readers an inspired analysis of Odessa's role in Soviet history as a city that fueled cultural irreverence throughout the humorlessness of the Tsarist and Soviet ages. * newbooksinrussianstudies.com *[T]he book is a wonderful read, deeply infused with erudition and literary sensitivity, and an important complement to our understanding of Odessa and Russian Jewish history. * Marginalia *Outstanding . . . This is a delightfully written work of serious scholarship about urban rogues and schnorrers who transmitted an aspect of Jewish identity and culture into the broader Russian cultural world. * Jewish Book World *Just as the myth of Odessa crossed the boundaries between social classes and linguistic groups in Russian and Soviet societies, this book about the myth is bound to build important bridges between scholars of Yiddish and Russian cultures. In this lies its most important value. * Slavic Review *Tanny's goal—and accomplishment—is to trace the history of the Odessa myth in all its variegated aspects. To do so, he has marshaled an impressive body of primary and secondary sources . . . [T]his is a book that will inform (and entertain) both the student of modern Russian history and the intellectually curious lay reader. * American Historical Review *This meticulously researched book shows that the myth of old Odessa survived the Bolshevik Revolution, Stalinism, World War Two, and the stagnation of the Brezhnev era. It shows that paradoxically, the collapse of the Soviet Union has seen the revival of old Odessa. The myth of Odessa and its golden age has become part of the realm of collective memory. * Journal of Modern Jewish Studies *Books on humor do not always make for an enjoyable read. This one does. The case of the Odessa myth is a refreshing and funny account of the power of satire in a closed society and its relevance to the forging of popular historical images. Tanny's study reminds us that the Soviet state and its institutions were not the only actors on the historical stage. . . . It will appeal to scholars interested in the historical change in the image of Odessa as well as historians of Soviet and Jewish humor. * East European Jewish Affairs *Jarrod Tanny has written an entertaining study of the myth of old Odessa: his book is serious and funny, informative and amusing, witty and well written . . . . This is a very good book. * SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN JOURNAL *In this lively cultural study, Jarrod Tanny explores the origins, development, and echoes of a cultural trope: the myth of old Odessa, 'an improbable fusion of criminality, Jewishness, and humor'. * The Russian Review *[Odessa] A den of iniquity in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it attracted adventurers seeking wealth and pleasures. Much like storied Shanghai and New Orleans, it was a haven for criminals, smugglers, pimps and prostitutes. But above all, Odessa . . was perceived as a metropolis 'overrun and governed by Jewish gangsters and swindlers,' writes Jarrod Tanny in City of Rogues and Schnorrers . . . Tanny tells this story lucidly and authoritatively. * SheldonKirshner.com *I can honestly say this is a book that a non-scholar can appreciate. The author traces Odessa's politics and fortunes through the joke. You will not stop laughing even if you have never heard of Odessa. * Polin *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on TransliterationIntroduction. Why is This Town Different from All the Rest?1. The Birth of Old Odessa2. Crafting Old Odessa3. The Battle for Old Odessa4. Revival and Survival5. Rewriting Old OdessaEpilogue. The End of Old OdessaNotesBibliography
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Indiana University Press Colonial Blackness
Book SynopsisThe impact of slavery and freedom on black identity and cultural formationTrade ReviewWhat light is shed upon old topics when new sources are examined! In this major work on Afro-Mexican and, really, general Spanish American history, Bennett prowls through the neglected Mexican archival records [and] uncovers a vibrant black community developing its own customs and practices. . . . In place of a weak, shattered individualistic society . . . Bennett's Afro-Mexicans were a community that soon counted a majority of freedman living in an urban setting. What a contract with the Afro-Cuban slave society evolving to the east. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[T]his text, compelling and persuasive both in theoretical argumentation and use of primary sources, is a major achievement in understanding and reframing Afro-Mexican history. It is highly recommended for the sophisticated specialist already familiar with more conventional studies of Afro-Latin American history, and one who is also necessarily conversant with the terminology of postmodern and postcolonial studies. Vol. 17.1, Winter 2008 * Colonial Latin American Historical Review *A fascinating study . . . Bennett . . . challenges mission historians to go beyond those generalizations that often marginalize people and to examine not only the written sources about such groups but also to examine their behavior, creatively using archival sources that are available. -- Larry Nemer * Missiology *Oct. 2013 * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of ContentsList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Writing Afro-Mexican History1. Discipline and Culture2. Genealogies to a Past3. Creoles4. Provincial Black Life5. Local Blackness6. Narrating Freedom7. SinEpilogue: Colonial Blackness?BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press TelAviv the First Century Visions Designs
Book SynopsisDocuments early Tel-Aviv against the backdrop of its earlier yearsTrade ReviewThis is a learned and engaging collection of essays that will be of much interest to scholars, students, and readers. Due to the wide range of articles within the volume, it will also be extremely useful in undergraduate classes and graduate seminars on Israeli history, urban studies, and cultural studies. * Religious Studies Review *A splendid critical celebration of Tel-Aviv's first hundred years, this collection of essays reads like a spirited conversation across academic disciplines and across ideologies. * Jewish Book Council *The essays are stimulating and original. * Canadian Jewish News *This volume encompasses a wide range of disciplinary approaches and the latest research on the essence of Tel Aviv. Israel's main metropolis is scrutinized through the lens of history, geography, architecture, art, literature, and gender studies, presenting the many facets that have come to constitute the elaborate personality of a very complicated city and society. This is by all means a much-needed volume, and required reading for any student of Tel Aviv. * H-Judaic *Anyone who loves Tel Aviv, a 'hybrid of East and West; myth and reality', will want to own this book. It is a must for all academic collections dealing with Israel Studies and for most Jewish high schools and synagogues. This reader highly recommends this rich book. * AJL Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface: Maoz Azaryahu and Ilan TroenIntroduction: Tel-Aviv Imagined and Realized / S. Ilan TroenPart 1. Historical Issues 1. Telling the Story of a Hebrew City / Yaacov Shavit 2. Tel-Aviv's Birthdays: Anniversary Celebrations, 1929–1959 / Maoz Azaryahu 3. Tel-Aviv's Foundation Myth: A Constructive Perspective / Hizky Shoham 4. From "European Oasis" to Downtown New York: The Image of Tel-Aviv in School Textbooks / Yoram Bar-Gal 5. Subversive Youth Cultures in Mandate Tel-Aviv / Tammy Razi 6. Dirt, Noise, and Misbehavior in the First Hebrew City: Letters of Complaint as a Historical Source / Anat Helman 7. South of Tel-Aviv and North of Jaffa—The Frontier Zone of "In Between" / Deborah S. Bernstein 8. Jaffa and Tel-Aviv before 1948: The Underground Story / Nahum Karlinsky 9. Austerity Tel-Aviv: Everyday Life, Supervision, Compliance, and Respectability / Orit RozinPart 2. Language, Literature, and Art 10. Tel-Aviv Language Police / Zohar Shavit 11. Der Eko Fun Goles: "The Spirit of Tel-Aviv" and the Remapping of Jewish Literary History / Barbara Mann 12. A Poet and a City in Search of a Myth: On Shlomo Skulsky's Tel-Aviv Poems / Aminadav Dykman 13. Decay and Death: Urban Topoi in Literary Depictions of Tel-Aviv / Rachel Harris 14. Art and the City: The Case of Tel-Aviv / Dalia ManorPart 3. Planning and Architecture 15. The 1925 Master Plan for Tel-Aviv by Patrick Geddes / Volker M. Welter 16. Preserving Urban Heritage: From Old Jaffa to Modern Tel-Aviv / Nurit Alfasi and Roy Fabian 17. Balconies of Tel-Aviv: Cultural History and Urban Politics / Carolin Aronis 18. The Architecture of the Hyphen: The Urban Unification of Jaffa and Tel-Aviv as National Metaphor / Alona Nitzan-ShiftanAfterword: Tel-Aviv between Province and Metropolis / Maoz AzaryahuContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Freedoms Women
Book SynopsisExamines freedom's influence on the lives of African American women and families in Mississippi during and after the Civil War. Exploring issues of family and work, this book shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family, and community.Trade ReviewFrankel's scholarship in this carefully researched and clearly written study is impressive. Her examination of Civil War widows' pension records and other primary sources reveals a great deal about the importance of Mississippi slave families and how emancipation strengthened them. Although women gained fewer legal rights than men from Reconstruction, they obtained much that had been denied them during slavery. They shared family authority and economic responsibility so much that Frankel concludes the free African American family was neither patriarchal nor matriarchal, but combinations of both. Freedwomen did not rely solely on legal definitions of marriage but developed codes of morality based on community standards. Their community tolerated intimate relationships outside of legal marriages and recognized terminations of relationships without legal divorce. Extended kin were considered members of the family, and family responsibilities included support of orphans, unmarried pregnant daughters, and handicapped children. The study is thoroughly documented with 70 pages of footnotes and a 14-page bibliography, reflecting Frankel's grasp of the secondary literature as well as extensive work in primary documents. Upper-division undergraduates and above. —R. Detweiler, California Polytechnic State UniversitJune 2000 -- —R. Detweiler, California Polytechnic State University San Luis * Choice *
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Indiana University Press Race for Sanctions African Americans against
Book SynopsisTraces the evolution of the anti-apartheid movement from its origins in the 1940s through the civil rights and black power eras to its maturation in the 1980s as a force that transformed US foreign policy.Trade Review"An important contribution to the political history of this period [and] a must for those interested in the influence of the great pan-Africanists." Elliott P. SkinnerTable of ContentsTable of Contents: PrefaceList of Abbreviations1. Cold War and Apartheid2. The Movement against Apartheid3. "By Any Means Necessary": Black Power and Pan-Africanism4. "It's Nation Time": Pan-Africanism and African Liberation5. TransAfrica6. The Free South Africa Movement7. The Race for Sanctions8. Dismantling ApartheidNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Eloquent Body
Book SynopsisExplores dance as a physical expression of Renaissance Humanism.Trade ReviewThis book makes a notable contribution to the history of dance. It brings the art of dance into the scholarly fold, arguing persuasively that humanism influenced dance treatises as much as it affected poetry, music and philosophy, and demonstrates that skill in dancing in the Early Renaissance was a grace that every courtier had to master in order to distinguish himself as a true gentleman and to do well at court.24.1 2006 * Dance Research *Musicologist Nevile (Univ. of New South Wales) documents the place of dance in the intellectual, social, and cultural world of 15th-century Italian elites. She analyzes treatises by three maestri di ballo (dance masters)—Domenico da Piacenza, Antonio Cornazano, and Guglielmo Ebreo da Pesaro—that apply to dancing the precepts of proportion, harmony, and moderation that humanists applied to rhetoric, painting, and architecture. Treating dance as an extension of music, which was part of the traditional quadrivium, these men elevated dance both as a means of moral education and as an articulation of the geometrical rules by which the universe was ordered. In thus dignifying their field of expertise, the maestri di ballo asserted their own importance as arbiters of style. Extensive passages from secondary and primary sources document the uncontroversial observation that dance was integral to Renaissance court culture. More original is Nevile's analysis of the dance treatises: attending to Pythagorean proportions, moral edification, and social decorum, these works paralleled contemporaneous theorizing by Guarino Guarini about literary education and by Leon Battista Alberti about painting and architecture. A helpful appendix details the floor tracks and music of four balli by Domenico. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- K. Gouwens * University of Connecticut , 2005oct CHOICE *. . . Neville highlights [dance's] . . . important role in fifteenth-century Italian society, focusing on how it embodied humanist concerns. Vol.32.2 2009 -- Sue In Kim * DANCE CHRONICLE *[T]his is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of theatrical dance. * Early Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsManuscript AbbreviationsIntroduction Chapter 1: Dance and SocietyChapter 2: The Dance Treatises and Humanist IdealsChapter 3: Eloquent Movement - Eloquent ProseChapter 4: Dance and the IntellectChapter 5: Order and VirtueConclusionAppendix 1: Transcription and translation of Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1121 f. 63r-69v by Giovanni CarsanigaAppendix 2: The use of mensuration signs as proportion signs in the dance treatisesAppendix 3: Floor track and music of Anello, La ingrata, Pizochara and Verçeppe EndnotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Musician as Entrepreneur 17001914
Book SynopsisLeading international scholars consider the socio-economic history of Classical and Romantic musicians.Trade ReviewWeber is an excellent music historian and the book will please all readers interested in musical sociology . . . July 2005 * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceI. Overview of the Subject1. William Weber, "The Musician as Entrepreneur and Opportunist, 1700-1914"2. Richard Leppert, "The Musician of the Imagination"II. Early Musical Entrepreneurs3. Tanya Kevorkian, "Changing Times, Changing Music: 'New Church' Music and Musicians in Leipzig, 1700-1750"4. David Gramit, "Selling the Serious: The Commodification of Music and Resistance to it in Germany, c. 1800"III. Concert Management in the Nineteenth Century5. William Weber, "From the Self-Managing Musician to the Independent Concert Agent"6. Laure Schnapper, "Bernard Ullman-Henri Herz: An Example of Financial and Artistic Partnership, 1846-1849"7. Dana Gooley, "Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso as Strategist"8. Simon McVeigh, "'An Audience for High-Class Music': The Musician as Entrepreneur in late Nineteenth-Century London"IV. Women as Entrepreneurs9. Tia DeNora, "Embodiment and Opportunity: Bodily Capital, Reputation and Social Difference in Beethoven's Vienna Partnership"10. Paula Gillett, "Entrepreneurial Women Musicians in Britain: 1790s to the early 1900s"11. Jann Pasler, "Countess Greffulhe as Entrepreneur: Negotiating Class, Gender, and Nation"IndexContributors
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Indiana University Press Ordinary Germans in Extraordinary Times
Book SynopsisHildesheim is a mid-sized provincial town in northwest Germany. This title presents an account of how townspeople went about their lives and reacted to events during the Nazi era. It considers the actual customs and experiences of friendship and neighbourliness in a German town before, during, and after the Third Reich.Trade Review[Bergerson's] carefully crafted volume, divided into two major sections dealing with pre-Nazi and Nazi Germany and providing 'thick descriptions' of a number of the interviewees he so patiently worked with, is both insightful and fair-minded.June 2009 * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: New MannersI: Conviviality in Hildesheim1. Civility 2. Niveau 3. The Stroll 4. Dirty PoliticsII: Making Hildesheim Fascist5. Coordination 6. Polarization 7. Administration8. EpistemologiesConclusion: Dangerous DeedsSources
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Indiana University Press Creating a Hoosier SelfPortrait The Federal
Book SynopsisThe story of the New Deal program that produced the first guide to Indiana.Trade ReviewAn important history of the Indiana state Federal Writers' Project . . . straightforward . . . persuasive . . . impassioned. This is an important social history of Depression-era Indiana and a guide for future research.January 2006 -- A. B. Audant * CUNY Kingsborough Community College *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The National Context2. The Hoosier Situation3. The Indiana Guide4. Other Publications5. Oral History6. Almost Finished Projects7. Incomplete Projects8. Research Inventories9. Conclusions and LegacyNotesBibliographyIndexIllustrations follow page 000
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Indiana University Press Clothing Gandhis Nation
Book SynopsisTrade Review. . .a significant contribution to both Gandhian studies and our understanding of India between 1920 and 1940. * Religious Studies Review *. . . a fascinating and informative study of that most familiar artefact of Indian nationalism. Its main achievement is to present a coherent and very persuasive analysis of the ways in which this basic, everyday object became representative of the nation.Summer 2009 * Journal of Social History *Trivedi engages with relevant theoretical and historiographical issues, and this is done whle maintaining a clear, and readable narrative. . . . Students will find it accessible and informative as they study the history of modern India. Researchers working on nationalism, consumption and visual studies will find this thoughtfully argued book very useful indeed. Vol. 18.4, December 2010 * Contemporary South Asia *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Politics of Consumption: Swadeshi and Its Institutions2. Technologies of Nationhood: Visually Mapping the Nation3. The Nation Clothed: Making an "Indian" Body4. Rituals of Time: The Flag and the Nationalist Calendar5. Inhabiting National Space: Khadi in PublicConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Nazi Ancestral Proof Genealogy Racial
Book SynopsisTraces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics.Trade ReviewThoroughly researched and vigorously argued, this study seeks to explain how the National Socialist regime institutionalized its racial ideology, why it met with virtually no opposition, and how this contributed to genocide. Attorney Ehrenreich shows that, as with many other developments, 1933 was not the absolute watershed scholars usually assume it to have been. Tracing the history of genealogical practices, eugenics, and "scientific" racism from the imperial era (1871-1918) into the Weimar years (1919-33), the author reasons that Germans had become thoroughly accustomed to these discourses. Notwithstanding their scientific worthlessness, the Nazi version of these theories met with no meaningful resistance, as millions upon millions of Germans complied with the regime's demands regarding the racial purity of their ancestors. Compliance may have rested on a "combination of perceived benefits" rather than enthusiasm for the ideology, but whatever the basis for public acceptance, it allowed the Nazis to implement thousands of racial laws with virtually no opposition from either institutions or individuals. Whole new branches of commerce emerged to service a new public need—providing the proof that one was untainted by "Jewish blood." Ordinary Germans thus helped identify and isolate Jews, steps that led to their extermination. An important book, accessible to general readers. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- R. S. Levy * Choice *Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that were advanced in the late Imperial and Weimar periods by practitioners of genealogy and eugenics. This is a detailed study of the operation of the ancestral proof in the Third Reich and the link between Nazi racism and earlier German genealogical practices. The widespread acceptance of this racist ideology by ordinary Germans helped create the conditions for the Final Solution. -- Joseph Haberer * SHOFAR *The ancestral proof ... formed the bedrock of the regime's racial policies ... It is ... surprising that this issue has not received more scholarly attention, and Ehrenreich has made an interesting and valuable contribution by elucidating it.Vol. 42 2009 -- Lars Fischer * University College London *In this important study, Eric Ehrenreich demonstrates how genealogical studies and racist eugenics converged to help institutionalize racism in Nazi society.2008 -- Richard Weikart * GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW *. . . Washington-based lawyer Eric Ehrenreich has produced the most exhaustive study available on the way in which 19th- and early 20th-century German pseudo science and its Nazi successors carried out a war against non Aryans, particularly Jews.April 15, 2009 -- Arnold Ages * National Jewish Post and Opinion (KY ed.) *Peter Fritsche calls Ehrenreich's book 'an excellent contribution to our understanding of racism in the Third Reich' ... Richard Weikart, [on the other hand,] while praising Ehrenreich's explication of [the] Nazi 'ancestral proof,' ... rejects his argument that scientific racism ligitimated but did not lead to the Holocaust. That two reviewers can provide such markedly different assessments of the book suggests that something interesting is going on. And indeed, whether one agrees with Eherenreich or not, his book is worth reading.2009 -- Dan Stone * Journal of Genocide Research *. . . each contribution builds either explicitly or implicitly on the shared working assumption that conventional distinctions between (religious) anti-Judaism and (racialist) antisemitism may conceal as much as they reveal. Traditional anti-Judaism, these scholars agree, both framed and exploited politically instrumentalized forms of cultural and racial antisemitism, reflecting a 'Christian failure to understand and acknowledge Judaism on its own terms' . . . .Vol. 23. 1 Spring 2009 -- David J. Diephouse * Calvin College *Ehrenreich's book is an extremely well-argued, insightful exposition of the institutionalization of racism in everyday life during the Third Reich.2008 -- Peter Fritzsche * H-German *[P]rovides interesting insights into the institutionalization of racism in Nazi society. 28.4 2010 * German History *Ehrenreich's book carefully and clearly enumerates scientific racism's fallacies of logic. . . . [His book shows that] although racist eugenics was less logically coherent than hereditary health eugenics, greater numbers of 'racially acceptable' Germans appear to have been willing to accept racist eugenic doctrine in order to come to terms with their own failure to act in the face of their neighbors' suffering. In other words, Ehrenreich concludes. . . . racial antisemitism was an indicator of what people sincerely hoped to be true. I find this thesis both terrifying and plausible. . . . [The] book is an extremely well-argued, insightful exposition of the institutionalization of racism in everyday life during the Third Reich. -- H-GermanEhrenreich tells a fascinating story, and his book is a model of patient research and meticulous archival investigation. . . . a major contribution to the intellectual and social history of Nazism.Vol. 114.4 October 2009 -- DANIEL GASMAN * John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York *Thoroughly researched and vigorously argued, this study seeks to explain how the National Socialist regime institutionalized its racial ideology, why it met with virtually no opposition, and how this contributed to genocide. . . . An important book, accessible to general readers. . . . Highly recommended.November 2008 -- R. S. Levy * University of Illinois at Chicago *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionList of Abbreviations1. Racial Science2. The Origins of Racist Eugenics in Imperial Germany3. The Spread of Racist Eugenics in Weimar4. Making the Ancestral Proof in Nazi Germany5. The Reich Genealogical Authority and Its Tasks6. The Reich Genealogical Authority and the Ancestral Proof7. Three Beneficiaries of the Ancestral Proof8. Other Means of Generating Acceptance of Racism9. Racial Scientific Ideology and the HolocaustConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press Exiles on Main Street
Book SynopsisHow have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? This book explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture - in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman - led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews.Trade Review. . . Exiles on Main Street is an original contribution to the continuing story of the creative encounter between Jewish writers and America.Summer 2009 * Jewish Book World *Levinson's well-researched book makes a significant contribution to studies of Jewish American Literature and Jewish Cultural continuity.2007 -- S.L. Kremer * Choice Reviews Online *. . . a standout work in the field of American Jewish Literature . . . Levinson is well-attuned to the critical trends and thinking that are prevalent in the world of literary scholarship and applies them to the book's selected authors and texts in a way that is fresh and thoughtful. . . December 12, 2008 -- Shana Rosenblatt Mauer * Jerusalem Post *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Breathing Free in the New World: Transcendentalism and the Jewish Soul 1. Songs of a Semite: Emma Lazarus and the Muse of History 2. Ecstasies of the Credulous: Mary Antin and the Spirit of the ShtetlPart 2. Battling the Nativists: Mystics, Prophets, and Rebels in Interwar America 3. "Pilgrim to a Forgotten Shrine": Ludwig Lewisohn and the Recovery of the Inner Jew 4. Modernist Flasks, Jewish Wine: Waldo Frank and the Immanence of God 5. Cinderella's Dybbuk: Anzia Yezierska as the Voice of GenerationsPart 3. Yiddish Interlude 6. From Heine to Whitman: The Yiddish Poets Come to AmericaPart 4. "Orating in New Yorkese": The Languages of Jewishness in Postwar America 7. "My Private Orthodoxy": Alfred Kazin's Romantic Judaism 8. The Jewish Writer Flies at Twilight: Irving Howe and the Recovery of YiddishkaytConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press The End of the Holocaust
Book SynopsisRosenfeld charts the cultural forces that have minimized the Holocaust in popular perceptions.Trade ReviewThe time . . . is ripe for The End of the Holocaust, an important and deeply sobering book.7/11/2011 * Human Rights Service *Alvin Rosenfeld has written an important book that deserves a wide audience, not only to help us maintain a clear picture of our troubled past, in order to come to terms with its historical reality—but indeed to help us avoid a future that will bring back the darkness and the fog. 7/11/2011 * new-compass.net *Rosenfeld is never shrill and often eloquent. But his book, now the indispensable study of its subject, cannot be read with pleasure, even by people who believe that 'in the destruction of the wicked, there is joy.'June, 2011 * Scholars for Peace in the Middle East *The End of the Holocaust is an illuminating exploration that offers a worried look at Holocaust representation in contemporary culture and politics, reminding us that the great works focus on the distinctive tragedy of extermination, killing, radical dehumanization, and continuing trauma. August 2011 * H-Holocaust *Alvin Rosenfeld is a brave man, and his new work is courageous. [It] is not reluctant to take on the unexamined pieties that have grown up around the slaughter, and the sentimentalization that threatens to smother it in meretricious uplift. October 10, 2011 -- Ron Rosenbaum * Tablet Magazine *Although Holocaust denial threatens to undermine the record of Nazi Germany's criminal legacy, Rosenfeld persuasively argues that other forces are inadvertently as dangerous. -- Jack Fischel * Hadassah Magazine *What Rosenfeld has written, with passion and precision and some notably unanswered questions, is less an acccount of the Shoah being forgotten or denied than of being wrongly remembered. May/June 2011 * Moment *This book fills the reader with gloom and rage, in nearly equal measure. The heart sinks, the mind reels, in contemplating the variegated assaults on Holocaust memory that Alvin Rosenfeld describes, analyzes, and seeks to throw back. Vol. 16, Issue 35 * The Weekly Standard *Let us hope that, in the months and years to come, this important book finds a ready place on some important bedside tables. June 2011 * Israel Affairs *The End of the Holocaust is a model of critical intelligence, restrained in its judgments, never shrill or accusatory in its disagreements, always illuminating in its insights into the motives and achievements of the major Holocaust writers Rosenfeld discusses. June 15, 2011 * Forward *This work is an important and impassioned defense of the undeniable truth of the Holocaust and of its moral significance. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *For showing us how to remember the Holocaust, and how to recognize many of the ways in which its memory is being killed, we owe Alvin Rosenfeld a debt of immense gratitude. * Wilson Quarterly *Alvin Rosenfeld's The End of the Holocaust is a uniquely important work by one of the founding figures in the field of Holocaust literary studies. * Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas *Alvin Rosenfeld . . . has performed an invaluable service for the cause of memory and historical accuracy. . . . While simultaneously documenting the mutilation inflicted on the history of the Shoah by contemporary culture and politics, he eloquently argues for the specificity of the Holocaust and its continuing impact on survivor writers. * Modern Judaism *This book has monumental importance in Holocaust studies because it demands answers to the question how our culture is inscribing the Holocaust in its history and memory. * Arcadia *The End of the Holocaust is a work of historical research and scholarship. It is certainly a major contribution to our understanding of the relationship of history to society, which is after all the historian's task. The End of the Holocaust is an intelligently structured argument against current tendencies to relativize or negate the significance of the Nazi project of Jewish extermination. * H-German *This remarkable new work of scholarship—written in accessible language and not in obscure academese—is exactly the Holocaust book the world needs now. Indeed, it could not have been written before now because it is about now and how the specificity of the Nazis' gruesome, unprecedented and nearly sucessful genocide against Europe's Jews is being lost today, turned into mushy metaphor, unplugged from its historical roots. April 16, 2011 * Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog *Alvin Rosenfeld brings a wealth of information to this highly readable, intelligently argued account of how the Holocaust is being conveyed and distorted to modern day audiences. Fall 2011 * Jewish Book World *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Popular Culture and the Politics of Memory2. The Rhetoric of Victimization3. The Americanization of the Holocaust4. Anne Frank: The Posthumous Years5. The Anne Frank We Remember/The Anne Frank We Forget6. Jean Améry: The Anguish of the Witness7. Primo Levi: The Survivor as Victim8. Surviving Survival: Elie Wiesel and Imre Kertész9. The End of the HolocaustEpilogue: A "Second Holocaust"?
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Indiana University Press Modern Ladino Culture Press Belles Lettres and
Book SynopsisExplores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic JewsTrade ReviewBorovaya's meticulously-researched book examines the relationship between linguistic and historical developments as they come into view through these Ladino texts.1.2 2013 * Journal of Jewish Languages *Olga Borovaya's brilliant book—the first comprehensive study of modern Ladino print culture—transforms our understanding of the Ottoman Sephardi world in the era of westernisation that preceded its demise. . . [T]his terrific book is a work of prodigious scholarship and arresting insight. It should be required reading not just for modern Jewish historians, but for all those interested in literacy, secularisation and the impact of the West in the Ottoman world. Dec. 2015 * English Historical Review *With detailed notes and an index Borovaya presents a comprehensive but highly readable analysis which provides a welcome companion to the study of a rather rare collection of materials. * Jewish Book Council *Olga Borovaya has written a highly intelligent and highly intelligible book on Ladino literary production in the modernizing, secularizing final century and a half of the Ottoman empire. Borovaya brings clarity and freshness to an area of study that has long remained the hotly debated and often fiercely guarded domain of a small clutch of scholars. * Slavic Review *This is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the modernization of the culture of a minority group. ... On the basis of exhaustive research, Borovaya combines enlightening analysis with detailed information in a study that provides an innovative approach to the study of Ladino culture and Sephardi history. In addition to scholars of Sephardi studies, this work is of tremendous importance for those interested in cultural developments among minority groups, and the interconnections among various cultural aspects. * H-Judaic *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translation, Transcription, Proper Names, and DatesIntroductionPart 1. The PressThe Emergence of modern Culture Production in Ladino: The Sephardi PressThe Press in Salonica: a Case StudyPart 2. Belles LettresThe Serialized Novel as Rewriting Ladino Fiction: Case StudiesPart 3. TheaterSephardi Theater: Project and PracticeLadino Drama: Case StudiesConclusionNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press The Negro in Indiana before 1900 A Study of a
Book SynopsisPresenting the history of African Americans in a northern state from their first arrival in the eighteenth century, this study covers their developing legal and economic status, efforts against white racism, and the founding of distinctive African American institutions: fraternal, social, and charitable organizations; churches; and schools.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First Edition1. Involuntary Servitude2. Population Movement 1816-18603. Exclusion and Colonization Movements4. Personal Liberty5. Legal, Economic, Social Patterns6. Churches and Schools7. Civil War Years8. Population Changes 1865-19009. Attainment of Citizenship and Suffrage10. Equal Protection of the Laws?11. Political Activity12. Education 1865-190013. Earning a Livelihood14. Social Organization15. EpilogueIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press American Catholic Experience
Book SynopsisSpanning nearly 500 years, this book describes the Catholic experience from the arrival of Columbus and the other European explorers to the present day. Jay P. Dolan discusses Catholicism as it spread across the New World, transforming - and being transformed by - the land and its people.Trade Review"This book ... will quickly capture your attention, and engage your mind, and make you think what it meant—and means—to be 'a Catholic in America.' This book cannot be 'recommended.' It must be labeled 'essential.'" —Spirituality Today“The American Catholic Experience is a model of cogency, its every seam fastened by rivets of documentation. In it we see ourselves more clearly. This is what we ask from history, and here obtain.” —The Recorder“For anyone interested in American Catholic history, Dolan’s book is pivotal. The solid research and extensive citations make it a valuable teaching tool, while its solid writing makes the ideas easily accessible.” —St. Anthony Messenger“In this work, Dolan is concerned less with traditional institutional history—orders, bishops, churches—than with a broader social history of the Catholic experience itself. At the same time, he does not ignore structures and institutions, but seeks to place them within the context of Catholic life. Dolan’s style is provocative and allows him to hold the reader’s interest while providing endless material. This is a helpful volume which serves as an excellent introduction to Catholic experience in America.” —Review and Expositor
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University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisMirandé offers a detailed examination of Chicano social history and culture that includes studies of: Chicano labor and the economy; the Mexican immigrant and the U.S.-Mexico border conflict; the evolution of Chicano criminality; the American educational system and its impact on Chicano culture; the tensions between the institutional Church and Chicanos; and the myths and misconceptions of machismo.Trade Review“Rejecting the use of ‘Mexican-American’ as falsely connoting immigrant status, Mirande emphasizes that Chicanos are an indigenous people and that their significant indio/mestizo heritage has been neglected. Attaching the immigrant group model which concentrates on acculturation and assimilation, he discusses Chicano labor, criminality, education, the church, the family, and machismo ... an interesting and thought-provoking study.” —Library Journal“[The Chicano Experience] offers an understanding of social, cultural, and economic forces shaping the situation of Chicanos—a context absent from much of what has been written about them.” —Choice“This is a very interesting book because the subject is interesting, because the treatment of the subject is interesting, and because it is in reality an invitation to sympathy for the Chicano.” —Social Science Quarterly[Mirande’s] sophisticated discussion of the interrelationship of scholarly models and cultural pluralism will be of value to all students of American culture.” —American Studies“Mirande’s major contribution in The Chicano Experience is his proposal of a new perspective that provides for an alternative interpretation of Chicano socio-history, social status, and culture.” —Journal of American Ethnic HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 2. Chicano Labor and the Economy 3. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 4. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 5. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 6. The Church and the Chicano 7. La Familia Chicana 8. Machismo 9. Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix. Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Notre Dame Press Gringo Justice
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Mirandé examines the relationship of the legal system to Chicanos, emphasizing its role in the mobilization of bias against Chicanos as well as the expropriation of their land. Extensive attention is given to the development of the ‘bandito’ and gang images and the use, in changing forms, of these stereotypes to mobilize anti-Chicano relations. The book is detailed and highly instructive in the specific legal means used to deprive Chicanos of their Mexican land grants following the U.S. conquest of Mexican territory. . . . More than 325 references provide an excellent overview of materials on Chicano history and Anglo-Chicano relations, and are drawn from a wide variety of academic, historical, and popular writings on these topics.” —Choice“Gringo Justice should become part of the required reading list in Chicano Studies classes.” —Aztlan“[This is a] seminal work that will, no doubt, prompt further discussion and investigation. . . . Mirande’s . . . treatment of the technique of mobilization of bias and the role of the gangs in Chicano society and his ideas concerning theoretical perspectives for studying the Chicano are both provocative and compelling.” —Journal of American Ethnic History
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University of Notre Dame Press Nazis in Skokie
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Downs . . . presents a political, constitutional, philosophical, psychological, and sociological examination of the First Amendment issues involved in the Skokie incident. This case study of assaultive speech is profound, yet simply and clearly written. Highly recommended.” —Choice"Mr. Downs raises points civil libertarians must consider; his book is comprehensive, knowledgeable, fair and readable." —New York Times Book Review“Downs has given us a thoughtful, solid work that is informed by a sense of constitutional law, by a feeling for the people involved, and by an appreciation of history as living conscience.” —American Bar Foundation Research Journal
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University of Notre Dame Press Arabia Felix From The Time Of The Queen Of Sheba
Book SynopsisSheba, or Saba, is a region of high mountains and vast deserts situated in the southwest of the Arabian peninsula, in what is known today as Yemen. This book provides a detailed synthesis of this remote civilization, and the major events that shaped its history.Trade Review“[A] much needed contribution to the ancient Near East for the English-speaking world. What Jean-François Breton has produced is an impressive introductory account of our current state of knowledge of Yemen's history in the first millennium B.C. that is complementary to studies of the ancient Orient, and that will provide a more complete picture. . . . [H]is account is fresh, lively, and lucid. Breton is readable and reliable, and as fine an introduction to South Arabia as is now available in English.” —The Historian
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University of Notre Dame Press New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family The
Book SynopsisThe Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842, were the first African American Catholics to serve as missionaries. This story of their little-known missionary efforts in Belize from 1898 to 2008 builds upon their already distinguished work, through the Archdiocese of New Orleans, of teaching slaves and free people of color, caring for orphans and the elderly, and tending to the poor and needy. Utilizing previously unpublished archival documents along with extensive personal correspondence and interviews, Edward T. Brett has produced a fascinating account of the 110-year mission of the Sisters of the Holy Family to the Garifuna people of Belize. Brett discusses the foundation and growth of the struggling order in New Orleans up to the sisters'' decision in 1898 to accept a teaching commitment in the Stann Creek District of what was then British Honduras. The early history of the British Honduras mission concentrates especially on Mother Austin Jones, the superTrade Review"Brett has crafted a meticulously researched study which he effectively situates within three streams of scholarly discourse: United States foreign mission history, African American Catholic history, and the history of women religious. Utilizing previously ignored archival documents as well as a substantial body of personal correspondence and interviews conducted with a broad, balanced spectrum of informants, he has produced a lucid study of an African American sisterhood’s evolving concept of mission during a century of service." —Diane Batts Morrow, University of Georgia“The Holy Family Sisters made a large contribution to the education of women in the Belizean mission, and work with the poor eventually drew the sisters back to their original charism. The book will interest students and scholars in women’s studies, Afro-Caribbean history, regional history of the South, the history of missions, education, and American Catholic history.” —Angelyn Dries, O.S.F., Saint Louis University“This short, informative text tells the little-known story of the foreign missionary efforts of one of the two oldest Catholic orders for African American women in the US, the New Orleans-based Sisters of the Holy Family.” —Choice“Edward T. Brett engages extensive archival research, interviews with Holy Family sisters, and testimony by Garifuna community members to provide a compelling and comprehensive overview of the contributions of this pioneering group of women religious. He expertly contextualizes the work in the understudied history of African American Catholicism, U.S. mission history, and the history of women religious. . . . This is, in short, an important contribution to Catholic history that establishes the crucial role played by an African-descendent congregation in mission history.” —The Catholic Historical Review “Extensive interviews with and letters from the nuns authenticate the humanity in the Belize mission story. This narrative calls for additional work in the records of the Holy Family Sisters, whose voices must be more fully heard in American Catholic history.” —American Catholic Studies“This is an institutional narrative whose strength is Brett’s analysis of religious missionary life by black Catholics to black Catholics. . . . This volume is a welcome addition to the study of Black Catholic history, the examination of missiological approaches, insights into the lives of women religious, and Caribbean Catholic culture.” —Theological Studies“The New Orleans Sisters of the Holy Family: African American Missionaries to the Garifuna in Belize by Edward T. Brett is a significant contribution to Black Catholic history. Brett presents the history of the first overseas mission taken on by African American Catholic sisters. . . . Brett reveals the influence of the Second Vatican Council on the SSF women’s identity and ministry.” —Journal of African American History
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University of Notre Dame Press Priest Parish and People
Book SynopsisFrom the perspective of historical sociology, Richard N. Juliani traces the role of religion in the lives and communities of Italian immigrants in Philadelphia from the 1850s to the early 1930s. By the end of the nineteenth century, Philadelphia had one of the largest Italian populations in the country. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia eventually established twenty-three parishes for the exclusive use of Italians. Juliani describes the role these parishes played in developing and anchoring an ethnic community and in shaping its members'' new identity as Italian Americans during the years of mass migration from Italy to America. Priest, Parish, and People blends the history of Monsignor Antonio Isoleripastor from 1870 to 1926 of St. Mary Magdalen dePazzi, the first Italian parish founded in the countrywith that of the Italian immigrant community in Philadelphia. Relying on parish and archdiocesan records, secular and church newspapers, archives of religious orders, and FTrade Review"While Priest, Parish, and People is in itself a rich ethnographic story about a most unusual priest, a particular Philadelphia parish, and the growth of parishes to meet the needs of a rapidly growing immigrant population, it is also an important story of the struggle between Irish and Italian cultures in the assimilation process, and an interesting insight into church politics and the workings of the Roman Catholic Church." —William V. D'Antonio, Catholic University of America"Rich in detail and culled from an array of primary sources, including the extensive writings of the second pastor of St. Mary Magdalen dePazzi, Richard Juliani weaves a masterful story. By tracing the nuanced interconnections between this first Italian national parish in the United States, its formidable pastor, and the growing immigrant community in South Philadelphia, this book provides new insights about Americanization and the formation of ethnic identity. Priest, Parish, and People is essential reading for scholars of American religion, immigration and urban history, and for anyone wanting to understand the Italian American experience." —Joan Saverino, Ph.D., The Historical Society of Pennsylvania“Italians began arriving in the US in the 19th century, eventually becoming one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. Juliani . . . offers a detailed portrait of the history of St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi, the first church created to serve the particular needs of the residents of Philadelphia’s Little Italy . . . the book offers a rich descriptive account.” —Choice“Richard Juliani has written a history of Saint Mary Magdalen de Pazzi parish . . . a reference work for students of American Catholicism, Italian Americans, the Order of Saint Augustine, or Philadelphia, a thought-provoking read for scholars of biography and urban community, and a model for graduate students.” —American Catholic Studies“As Richard N. Juliani discovered, it was impossible to separate Isoleri's personal history from that of the institution to which he devoted his life. The expanded focus also permitted Juliani to examine the social and religious experience of Isoleri's Italian parishioners. What was the nature of their encounter with Catholicism in the American context? What role did religion play in the creation of the ethnic community? Questions like these are hardly new, but since the literature on Italian American religion is still relatively thin, they are well worth asking in this context.” —American Historical Review“Written by a professor of sociology, Priest, Parish, and People studies the historical development and complex communal relationships that marked parish life in Philadelphia's 'Little Italy' from incipient Italian immigration through the early 1930s . . . the author provides a significant micro-study not only of the cultural transformation of an important urban Italian community but also of its interaction with the political and religious fortunes of Catholicism in Italy and the United States.” —Church History“Richard N. Juliani made an inspired choice in placing Father Antonio Isoleri-who served as pastor from 1870 to 1926 of the nation's first dedicated Italian parish-at the center of an historical monograph. . . . Scholars of immigration and ethnicity will find that the book touches on many significant topics.” —Journal of American Ethnic HistoryThe story of this priest, his parish, and his people provides an intimate window into the development of one city's Italian-American community and holds broader implications for the study of immigration and Catholicism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . . this richly detailed study will be of great interest to scholars of Catholic and immigration history.” —The Journal of American History“Juliani tells us convincingly that, to fully understand the phenomenon, on which is, above all else, the central experience of America—immigration/assimilation—we cannot, and should not, separate biographical, institutional, and sociocultural realities. These realities he illustrates for us in the Little Italy section of Philadelphia by interweaving the histories of a priest, a parish, and a people.” —The Catholic Historical Review"This is a well-written, in-depth study of Philadelphia's Italian Catholic community. Focusing on a parish and its remarkable pastor, it chronicles the progress of an Italian immigrant parish from its earliest days in the mid-nineteenth century to its emergence as the social and religious center for the Italian community in the early twentieth century. For the author, writing this history was clearly a labor of love. He has provided all of us with a chapter in the history of Philadelphia Catholicism that was long overdue." —Jay P. Dolan, author of In Search of an American Catholicism: A History of Religion and Culture in Tension
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University of Notre Dame Press Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages
Book SynopsisHistorical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick establishes that early medieval historians conveyed in their texts a sophisticated set of multiple perceptions of the past. In these essays, McKitterick focuses on the Frankish realms in the eighth and ninth centuries and examines different methods and genres of historical writing in relation to the perceptions of time and chronology. She claims that there is an extraordinary concentration of new text production and older text reproduction in this period that has to be accounted for, and whose influence is still being investigated and established.Three themes are addressed in Perceptions of the Past in the Early Middle Ages. McKitterick begins by discussing the Chronicon of Eusebius-Jerome as a way of examining the composition and reception of universal history in the ninth and early tenth centuries. She demonstrates that Trade Review“Rosamond McKitterick’s work is extremely influential and highly regarded across all disciplinary aspects of medieval studies. Her latest work, part three of the Conway Lectures at the Medieval Institute, Notre Dame series, is a continuation of her response to the cultural imaginings of the past in various literary historical periods. . . . McKitterick elegantly opens up new avenues of thinking about the Carolingians in the world and about their own sense of their role in history.” —Journal of American Folklore“These studies, first offered as a lecture series at the University of Notre Dame, are here published with elegant illustrations and a full apparatus, reflecting the author's customary generosity to the work of other scholars.” —English Historical Review“McKitterick expands upon earlier work in which she examined the writing and reading of history in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth and ninth centuries, seeking out what was meant by history books, what the Franks understood of historical texts, and how they constructed and understood their past.” —Research Book News“As perceptive as it is learned, Rosamond McKitterick's book unpicks the complex web of Frankish perceptions of the past. Christian universal history and Roman imperial biography, Roman martyrologies and burial customs, pilgrimage accounts and annals—these and other threads are traced, sorted, and made to reveal fascinating information about lay and clerical, local and imperial experiences, attitudes and ideologies. McKitterick deftly transforms texts that previous scholars have usually dismissed into clues from which she draws cogent arguments.This study of historical imaginations in the past is itself a model of imaginative history.” —Anthony Grafton, Princeton University“What McKitterick calls the ‘explosion of historical writing’ in the Carolingian age marked the dawn of a radically new and lasting culture in Europe and disclosed the mind-sets of its creators. Yet, in many cases, published editions deform the texts, not least by omissions, and obscure what Frankish authors actually wrote. Building on her internationally acclaimed studies of oral and written communication in the early Middle Ages, McKitterick goes back to manuscript sources. She discovers what Carolingians actually wrote as she advances a compelling new key to the catalysts of Europe’s historical identity and how they did their work.” —Karl F. Morrison, Lessing Professor of History and Poetics, Rutgers University“Rosamond McKitterick is one of the three or four top early medieval historians in the world. This book makes an original and distinctive contribution to our understanding of how people in the early Middle Ages imagined the various pasts that lay behind them. McKitterick's treatment of universalizing histories is fresh and goes further than the work of her predecessors . . . her treatment of Rome in the Carolingian mind is original and really important, and her last chapter permits some fascinating insights into how contemporary events became historical, became history.” —Thomas F. X. Noble, University of Notre Dame
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University of Notre Dame Press Cuban Catholics in the United States 19601980
Book SynopsisEveryday life for Cubans in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s involved an intimate interaction between commitment to an exile identity and reluctant integration into a new society. For Catholic Cuban exiles, their faith provided a filter through which they analyzed and understood both their exile and their ethnic identities. Catholicism offered the exiles continuity: a community of faith, a place to gather, a sense of legitimacy as a people. Religion exerted a major influence on the beliefs and actions of Cuban exiles as they integrated into U.S. culture and tried at the same time to make sense of events in their homeland. Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980 examines all these facets of the exile and integration process among Catholics, primarily in south Florida, but the voices of others across the United States, Latin America, and Europe also enter the story. The personal papers of exiles, their books and pamphlets, newspaper articles, governmeTrade Review“Poyo provides a splendid overview of how Catholic thought shaped Cuban action and reaction to the momentous events of the second half of the twentieth century, in Cuba and in exile. A highly informative account of the complex process of emigration and assimilation at the intersection of politics and religion.” —Louis A. Perez, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill“Focuses on South Florida in a study of the identity and sometimes reluctant cultural integration of committed, rather than nominal, Roman Catholics in the Cuban exile community.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education"This important, impressively researched work focuses on the enormous role Catholicism played during the formative first decades of the Cuban exile community. It is a veritable X-ray of the formation of an influential diaspora community. . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice“ . . . a much-needed introduction to one of the most tormented Latino/a groups in the United States, Cuban American exiles. Poyo's historical text is based on careful archival research both on the island and in the United States . . . an extremely well-written overview of Cuban American Catholics, a wonderful narrative of religion, politics, and integration.” —The Journal of American History“Poyo gives a detailed analysis of how Cuban Catholics uneasily yet constructively integrated themselves into American society while resisting the assimilation experienced by other immigrant groups. . . . Cuban Catholics integrated into the Catholic Church in America on their own terms, too. Adapting to an ecclesiastical structure that centered on the local parish. . . . Poyo has written a vitally important book that must be read if one is to gain a complete and accurate understanding about revolutionary Cuba, the Cuban exile community in the United States, or simply study an outstanding example of a committed group of immigrants that maintained cultural identity while succeeding in America.” —American Catholic Studies“Clearly written and well organized, Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration provides an excellent understanding of one aspect of Miami's Cuban community. It is an important contribution to the social history of this most dynamic group.” —Journal of Southern History“Cuban Catholics in the United States, 1960-1980 is the rare book that delivers more than its title promises. Although it deals principally with Cuban Catholics in South Florida during the decades of the ‘historical exile,’ the first chapters offer detailed analyses of Catholics’ social thought and their growing involvement in Havana’s political scene from the 1920s to the 1950s. Subsequent chapters locate exiles in the currents of Hispanic Catholicism in the United States and the transnational routes of the Cuban diaspora.” —Journal of American Ethnic History“Thousands of pages have been written to narrate, interpret, laud, and accuse what has transpired in Cuba in the past fifty years. Gerald E. Poyo’s new book brings to readers a magnificent analysis, based on inquisitive and broad research, with a keen sense of the times and problems involved in each period discussed. . . . Poyo’s book is enlightening, and written with style, masterful research, and a keen sense of interpretation. In nine chapters and an epilogue, each a comprehensive unit, and each necessary to understand the full text, Poyo develops a magnificent narrative of the presence of the Catholic Church in Cuba since the early nineteenth century.” —American Historical Review“Gerald Poyo, in this important book on Cuban Catholics, follows their exodus to the United States and examines the role religion played in their struggle to survive and to maintain a cultural identity.” —The Catholic Historical Review“Gerald E. Poyo’s skilled, well researched, and balanced account of the evolution of Cuban-American Catholicism during the 1960s and 1970s concedes at the outset that ‘Catholics represent only a small slice of the Cuban exile story.’ Yet he convincingly demonstrates their importance in the larger exile narrative, suggesting that the religious traditions of first-generation Cuban-American Catholics offered coherence to a massive exile population shocked with the religious decay and general disruption brought on by postrevolutionary society.” —The Americas
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University of Notre Dame Press Rope and Faggot
Book SynopsisIn 1926, Walter White, assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of a horrific lynching in Aiken, South Carolina, in which three African Americans were murdered while more than one thousand spectators watched. Because of his light complexion, blonde hair, and blue eyes, White, an African American, was able to investigate first-hand more than forty lynchings and eight race riots.Following the lynchings in Aiken, White took a leave of absence from the NAACP and, with help from a Guggenheim grant, spent a year in France writing Rope and Faggot. Ironically subtitled A Biography of Judge Lynch, Rope and Faggot is a compelling example of partisan scholarship and is based on White''s first-hand investigations. It was first published in 1929.Rope and Faggot debunked the big lie that lynching punished black men for raping white women and it provided White with an opportunity to deliver a pen
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University of Notre Dame Press Choice of the Jews under Vichy The
Book SynopsisThe Choice of the Jews under Vichy is written from the joint perspective of a historian and a participant in the events he describes. An organizer of the communist faction of the Jewish resistance in France, Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony.Trade Review"The publication of an English translation of Adam Rayski's book ... is a welcome addition.... Rayski's book remains valuable largely for the valuable primary source material it brings to the fore.... [T]he University of Notre Dame Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should be commended for having made this work available in an excellent English translation.” —American Historical Review "Rayski renders justice to the numerous French Jews who joined the resistance. . . . [He] gives us for the first time a comprehensive picture of the collective attitudes of the Jews of France from 1939 to 1944." —L'Arche"Well researched and forcefully argued, . . . Adam Rayski's book describes not only what the Jews did, but makes a case for what they should have done. As such, whatever the viewpoint of the reader, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the mentalities of the time, and also a testament to some activists' faith in human solidarity." —Times Literary Supplement“Rayski, who served as an official of an important Jewish resistance organization under Vichy, examines Jewish responses to Vichy policy as a series of choices. . . . Rayski's approach effectively portrays French Jews as much more than passive victims of an oppression imposed on them from above; rather, through oral and written testimonies and extensive archival research, he conveys the Jews' involvement in their own collective destiny. . . . Recommended.” —Choice"[A] rich and detailed description of the challenges faced by French Jewry during World War II. . . . This complex . . . important book is recommended for scholars of French history and Jewish and Holocaust studies." —Library Journal"[Rayski] pieces together the 'hidden face' of daily Jewish life under the Occupation and relates the experiences of those who went underground—an especially rich and valuable discussion as this phenomenon has rarely been studied." —Library Journal"This highly recommended book is suitable for anyone concerned with resistance, the Holocaust, Jewish studies, or the history of the Jews under Vichy." —History: Reviews of New Books“One of the most informed memoirs of the Occupation, the book is also a shrewd and detailed analysis. It is nuanced in its approach and yet ready to be decisive and provocative in its judgments. Anyone searching for context as well as narrative will be richly rewarded by a thematic concentration on the multiple constraints which faced the Jews in Vichy France… This is both witness and history of exceptional provenance and quality.” —The English Historical Review“Reading the excellent English-language version of Rayski's original study is unsettling. Rayski is concerned first and foremost with erecting a pantheon for heroes of the war-Jewish activists on the Left in the Resistance-and condemning those elements in the French Jewish community who, in his estimation, blindly acceded to Vichy pressure and irresponsibly maintained the officially mandated stance throughout most of the war. If read as a testament by a significant representative of Eastern European Jewry to try to make sense of the world in which he lived and the decisions which he took, Rayski's book provides a viewpoint that will enrich the future historian's analysis of the ways that many survivors of the Holocaust in France interpreted their past.” —Journal of Modern History“The strength of the book, particularly taking its original publication date into consideration, lies in its ability to portray Jews not as passive victims but as active resisters and to emphasize a collective consciousness of self-affirmation.” — H-Net Reviews
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University of Notre Dame Press Choice of the Jews under Vichy The
Book SynopsisIn The Choice of the Jews under Vichy, Adam Rayski buttresses his analysis of war-era archival materials with his own personal testimony. His research in the archives of the military, the Central Consistory of the Jews of France, the police, and Philippe Pétain demonstrates the Vichy government’s role as a zealous accomplice in the Nazi programme of genocide.Trade Review"The publication of an English translation of Adam Rayski's book ... is a welcome addition.... Rayski's book remains valuable largely for the valuable primary source material it brings to the fore.... [T]he University of Notre Dame Press with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum should be commended for having made this work available in an excellent English translation.” —American Historical Review "Rayski renders justice to the numerous French Jews who joined the resistance. . . . [He] gives us for the first time a comprehensive picture of the collective attitudes of the Jews of France from 1939 to 1944." —L'Arche"Well researched and forcefully argued, . . . Adam Rayski's book describes not only what the Jews did, but makes a case for what they should have done. As such, whatever the viewpoint of the reader, this is a valuable contribution to our understanding of the mentalities of the time, and also a testament to some activists' faith in human solidarity." —Times Literary Supplement“Rayski, who served as an official of an important Jewish resistance organization under Vichy, examines Jewish responses to Vichy policy as a series of choices. . . . Rayski's approach effectively portrays French Jews as much more than passive victims of an oppression imposed on them from above; rather, through oral and written testimonies and extensive archival research, he conveys the Jews' involvement in their own collective destiny. . . . Recommended.” —Choice"[A] rich and detailed description of the challenges faced by French Jewry during World War II. . . . This complex . . . important book is recommended for scholars of French history and Jewish and Holocaust studies." —Library Journal"[Rayski] pieces together the 'hidden face' of daily Jewish life under the Occupation and relates the experiences of those who went underground—an especially rich and valuable discussion as this phenomenon has rarely been studied." —Library Journal"This highly recommended book is suitable for anyone concerned with resistance, the Holocaust, Jewish studies, or the history of the Jews under Vichy." —History: Reviews of New Books“One of the most informed memoirs of the Occupation, the book is also a shrewd and detailed analysis. It is nuanced in its approach and yet ready to be decisive and provocative in its judgments. Anyone searching for context as well as narrative will be richly rewarded by a thematic concentration on the multiple constraints which faced the Jews in Vichy France… This is both witness and history of exceptional provenance and quality.” —The English Historical Review“Reading the excellent English-language version of Rayski's original study is unsettling. Rayski is concerned first and foremost with erecting a pantheon for heroes of the war-Jewish activists on the Left in the Resistance-and condemning those elements in the French Jewish community who, in his estimation, blindly acceded to Vichy pressure and irresponsibly maintained the officially mandated stance throughout most of the war. If read as a testament by a significant representative of Eastern European Jewry to try to make sense of the world in which he lived and the decisions which he took, Rayski's book provides a viewpoint that will enrich the future historian's analysis of the ways that many survivors of the Holocaust in France interpreted their past.” —Journal of Modern History“The strength of the book, particularly taking its original publication date into consideration, lies in its ability to portray Jews not as passive victims but as active resisters and to emphasize a collective consciousness of self-affirmation.” — H-Net Reviews
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University of Notre Dame Press Needs of the Heart
Book SynopsisSerbin examines the transformational role played by clergymen and seminarians in the Brazilian Church of the mid-nineteenth century as they left seminaries to establish greater contact with the people. This would form part of the early liberation theology movement.Trade Review“Serbin’s superb new study offers a comprehensive look at the church from the colonial period to the end of the military government in the 1980s. He takes the long view in order to demonstrate his central argument: that the ‘progressive’ Catholic Church of the twentieth century, with its political activism and social consciousness, did not emerge out of a void but rather developed out of patterns already set in the colonial period that shifted as they played out against the backdrop of a changing Brazil. . . . The book is a welcome addition to the field of Brazilian history and the history of the Catholic Church in Latin America.” —American Historical Review“This work stakes out entirely new terrain in the history and historiography of Catholicism and society in Brazil. . . . Uncompromising and yet compassionate in its judgments, this second major work on the Church since the author's Secret Dialogues (2000) draws ably and amply on hitherto untapped, century-old archives of key religious congregations charged with clerical training and of Brazil's national hierarchy that oversaw it . . . In uncovering these notable findings and ably setting them within the push and pull of world and national forces, Serbin reconfirms his standing as one of the leading historians of Brazil's past.” —The Americas“Serbin . . . see[s] the equally vast and variegated military, political and religious history of Brazil through a narrower lens of changing cultural ideals of the clergy and seminaries. He charts the rise of priest revolutionaries imbued with the ideals of the enlightenment.” —Horizons“Needs of the Heart provides a rich analysis of the historical development of the Catholic Church in Brazil. Much more than in institutional history, this work examines how, over the course of five centuries, priests navigated the divide between Europe and America as they participated in shaping a Brazilian nation as well as a distinctly Brazilian church.” —Hispanic American Historical Review“ . . . by focusing on priests, and connecting their experience to broader socio-political dynamics, Professor Serbin enriches the stories of liberation theology and of the role played by the Catholic church in promoting democracy and social justice . . . a significant contribution to scholarship on Latin America.” —Latin American Studies“The long and winding history of the Brazilian Catholic Church is thus revealed in Serbin’s analysis as the partial work-product of its primary foot soldiers—its clergy. As such, the book provides a critical complement to previous work which has focused with relative exclusivity on the policies and practices of church leadership, whether in Brazil or the Vatican.” —The Catholic Historical Review"In Needs of the Heart, Kenneth P. Serbin examines the rise and crisis of a model of priestly vocation that was not 'traditional' but rather a new discipline, institutionalized in the mid-nineteenth century. Its intimate, splendidly documented analysis of men's responses to that model can give us a constructive perspective on the coverups of sexual misconduct within the American clergy. Needs of the Heart is also an extraordinary history of the Sixties in Latin America. The countercultural and experimental movements within Brazil's seminaries, ranging from psychoanalysis to 'living alongside the people,' offer us a touchstone for judging the promise and contradictions in the post-1945 Christian quest for individual fulfillment and social justice." —Dain Borges, University of Chicago“Kenneth Serbin’s Needs of the Heart, extraordinary in its breadth, depth, and compelling analysis, unveils the triumphs and tragedies of Brazil’s priests and the seminaries that formed them. The current world-wide tensions and scandals engulfing the priesthood are reflected in this study—a study that needs to be replicated throughout the Catholic world.” —Donald Cozzens, John Carroll University, author of The Changing Face of the Priesthood"This innovative analysis places the formation of a Brazilian priesthood at the center of a preeminently historical examination of the Catholic Church in Latin America's largest country, giving us a new understanding of the forces within and without that have uniquely and universally explained the controversial efforts of seminarians, priests, and bishops to redefine clerical identity in a a national context lying “between Europe and America.” Serbin brings an impressive amount of fresh evidence to reveal Brazil's Catholic Church from the inside, and his reliance on the voices of seminarians, priests, and religious [brothers] for dissecting the post-Vatican II debate over a priestly vocation goes to the heart of the future of the church in a twenty-first century world. This superb study takes church history in a new direction, appropriately recasting a Europe-centered ecclesia within its largest field of Third-World congregants." —Linda Lewin, University of California, Berkeley
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University of Notre Dame Press Open Your Heart
Book SynopsisIn this ethnography of Catholic religious practice in Fresno, California, David P. Sandell unveils ritualized storytelling that Mexican and Mexican American people of faith use to cope with racism and poverty associated with colonial, capitalist, and modern social conditions. Based on in-depth interviews and extensive field research conducted in 2000 and 2001, Sandell''s work shows how people use story and religious ritual (including the Matachines dance, the Mass, the rosary, pilgrimage, and processions) to create a space in their lives free from oppression. These people give meaning to the expression open your heart, the book argues, through ritual and stories, enabling them to engage the mind and body in a movement toward, as one participant said, the sacred center of their lives.Sandell argues that the storytelling represents a tradition of poetics that provides an alternative, emancipatory epistemology. Américo Paredes, for example, defined this tradition in his scholarsTrade Review"Open Your Heart is a major contribution to those of us working in the areas of ritual and religion, narrative, and individual life experiences. David Sandell is an anthropologist, and this is a beautiful, close ethnographic study of a group of people in the United Sates who are often badly misunderstood. He persuasively shows us how narrative and ritual work together to accomplish certain goals for the individuals who create and perform them for each other." —Beverly J. Stoeltje, Indiana University"In a finely woven narrative tapestry, David Sandell illuminates key religious moments in the lives of his Fresno, California, interlocutors. Sandell examines an array of religious rituals, and in particular ritual dance as a frame for stories—heterogeneous, and uneven in their telling. The combination of ritual and stories pulls people into a constantly evolving community. Drawing from his finely nuanced ethnographic material, historical reconstructions, and a richly textured narrative style, Sandell, with great aplomb and insight, ‘opens our hearts’ to the contradictions of the human condition experienced by his subjects. In the process, they, and we, move from spectators to co-producers of a life made meaningful by the shuffling back and forth that emerges in the meaning-making dance this book explores." —Richard R. Flores, University of Texas at Austin“Exceptionally well researched, organized and presented, Open Your Heart: Religion and Cultural Poetics of Greater Mexico is a seminal work of outstanding scholarship that is as informed and informative as it is thoughtful and thought-provoking.” —The Midwest Book Review“Sandell focuses on the concept of life as journey, and especially studies the religious community of Saint Anthony Mary Claret in Fresno, California. Through historical research and extensive interviews and observations into the life of the parish, he attempts to answer several questions, including why do these particular people practice religion, and what is the role of these particular rituals in both their daily lives and in the life of faith?” —Catholic Library Journal“This [ritual-based] approach allows Sandell to range widely from the specific conversations he has with church members to economic analyses of migrant labor, to trenchant retellings of Mexican American history, to tracings among anthropological theories. The result is a collage of impressions, voices and interpretations, which mostly works due to Sandell’s critical skill as a writer and observer.” —American Catholic Studies“Sandell literally provides new lenses for the reader to see the unknown depths intrinsic to ritual behavior engaged in by people of faith.” —Peace and Justice Studies“Sandell does not get bogged down in theoretical posturing but maintains a credible humanity throughout the contradictions he contemplates. He succeeds in giving optimism and hope for tolerance by demonstrating the cultural poetics that make life possible of the oppressed migrant. . . . Many history lessons are juxtaposed with contemporary migrant realities as he searches for the pathways that lead to opening our hearts.” —Journal of American Folklore
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University of Notre Dame Press Song Sparrow and the Child
Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking book, distinguished legal scholar Joseph Vining traces the complex roots of brutal twentieth-century human experimentation and extermination to worldviews that dehumanize both perpetrators and victims in distinctive ways, stripping them of their individuality as well as their intrinsic dignity and value. Vining finds a disturbing parallel between these worldviews and what he calls total theory. Total theories are beautiful and helpful explanations through attention to system and process that aggressively claim to account for the universe and everything in it. Vining maintains that some of the most gifted intellectuals and scientists of our time profess these theories without necessarily considering the implications of such totalizing worldviews.Using the example of the song sparrow and the child, Vining opens our eyes to the ramifications of total theory. He challenges readers to question casual acceptance of the total theories that are widely and quTrade Review“The Song Sparrow and the Child is a powerful indictment of the impulses toward intellectual imperialism that have arisen in the wake of the fragmentation of the human and natural sciences. Vining has given us an important book, illuminating as only he can the hidden connections among seemingly unrelated phenomena.” —Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University“The Song Sparrow and the Child is an astonishing and wonderful book. With exquisite sensitivity to science as an admirable human practice Joseph Vining has thought through the implications of the scientific ambition for “total theory,” for all-encompassing frameworks of explanation. Far from being intrinsic to the scientific endeavor, Vining argues that total theory is a threat—not only to science but also to the broader realm of human thought and ethical action. The Song Sparrow and the Child recalls us to a concern for particularity and for honesty about the infliction of suffering which is intellectually convincing and does so with both grace and passion. This is a book that demands, and rewards, thinking hard with the mind and heart.” —H. Jefferson Powell, Professor of Law and Divinity, Duke University“This book is an erudite, personal, and even poetic discourse on the conception of humankind’s role that may be necessary in order that the sparrow and the child, the lamb and the lion, and all humankind live together with a greater sense of awe and harmony.” —Harold T. Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University". . .The Song Sparrow and the Child is continuous with earlier writings that have established Vining among the more profoundly challenging but also more idiosyncratic and elusive (and as a result, I believe, underappreciated) legal thinkers in recent decades. . . one of the voices in the legal academy most worth listening to." —Michigan Law Review". . . wise, gentle, and impassioned book. . ." —Theological Studies"Vining uses words well, even elegantly. His book is a combination legal argument and sermon." —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press A French Slave in Nazi Germany
Book SynopsisElie Poulard's memoir tells of his experience as a young Frenchman deported to work sites in Nazi Germany under France's Required Work Service Law on 1943.Trade Review"A French Slave in Nazi Germany: A Testimony addresses a significant though little-known page of French history during World War II. While many people know of the Vichy government and its collaboration with the Nazis—in particular the deportation of French Jews—few people realized then, and now, the extent of such collaboration. It would surprise many to learn that the Vichy government provided Germany with French citizens who were deported and forced into slave labor in wartime Germany. Poulard's book confronts this unsavory part of French history and gives personal testimony to the terrible conditions under which the deported laborers existed." —Michael Khodarkovsky, Loyola University Chicago"The book vividly evokes the life of a young French man forcibly sent to work in Germany during World War II. Once the Vichy Government of France passed the Required Work Service Law in 1943, more than half a million young French men were deported to Germany where they worked in the harshest conditions to replace the German men sent to fight in the war. This testimony is particularly significant today, at a time when all aspects of the war are closely examined. The chapters about the effects of the Allied bombing in the western part of Germany are especially poignant as they allow the reader to witness the gradual collapse and final capitulation of the Nazi regime." —Thomas Pavel, Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago"This is a fascinating and depressing account of a young Frenchman sent by his own government to be a slave laborer in Nazi Germany. One can only have enormous respect for Elie Poulard, who persevered and kept his faith in the face of hardship and tragedy. He not only witnessed one of the darkest periods in modern history, but he survived it with cunning and dignity." —John J. Mearsheimer, author of Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics"As the passage of time silences the voices of the Second World War generation, we are grateful to have the memories of Elie Poulard. A French Slave in Nazi Germany tells the story of how Elie Poulard’s faith helped him endure the many years of suffering as a Déporté du Travail. His eloquent and gripping tale is testament to the abiding power of the human will in the face of adversity." —Michael Creswell, author of A Question of Balance: How France and the United States Created Cold War Europe“Jean Poulard of Michiana Shores had a large part in the release of his brother’s book. . . . In 1943, the Vichy French government, which collaborated with the German occupation in World War II, made a law, the Required to Work Service Act, that mandated young French males work for the Germans. Elie [was] one of 600,000 men who were forced into such service. . . . Firsthand accounts of this part of French history in World War II are rare, especially in books available in the United States.” —The News Dispatch"The Nazi war machine was powered by slaves. Elie Poulard was just one of the more than 600,000 French civilians who were rounded up by Vichy collaborators and sent to work in Nazi Germany. Now, more than 70 years after the end of the Second World War, Poulard is sharing his story. A French Slave in Nazi Germany, recounts the largely forgotten horrors and deprivations conscripted workers suffered at the hands of their captors, as well as the dangers they faced as Allied bombs rained down around them." —Military History Now“[This] book sheds light on an under-documented population who suffered under the Nazi regime and is a welcome addition to the literature of World War II.” —Catholic Library World“The book can be read in a few hours, and I would recommend it for anyone who wants to more fully understand French forced labor in World War II history.” —Carolyn Porter Book Review Blog"There are few STO memoirs translated into English, and Poulard’s testimony becomes all the more important as a result. Moreover, this is a book not about resistance or collaboration, but about those millions of French who complied with the rules of occupation as a means of survival. . . . [W]e see a story of fear and survival—one which replicates the experiences of most French people during that period." —H France Review
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University of Notre Dame Press Creating Conversos
Book SynopsisIn Creating Conversos, Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government positions. Rather than acting as alienated and marginalized subjects, the conversos were able to craft new identities and strategies not just for survival but for prospering in the most adverse circumstances. Martínez-Dávila provides an extensive, elaborately detailed case study of the CarvajalSanta María clan from its beginnings in late fourteenth-century Castile. By tracing the family ties and intermarriages of the Jewish rabbinic ha-Levi lineage of Burgos, Spain (which became the converso Santa María clan) with the Old Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Martínez-Dávila demonstrates the family''s changing identity, and how the monolithic notions of ethTrade Review"Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila's book, Creating Conversos, addresses subjects that might have seemed well-worn—the Carvajal and Santa-Maria families, and even the question of converso genealogy generally—and brings them together in original, creative, and compelling ways. Martínez-Dávila uses impressive archival work to demonstrate complex linkages among a small cluster of Old and New Christian families across the expanse of the Spanish empire. In the process he helps us rethink the creative strategies that conversos employed to integrate themselves into Spanish Christian society." —Gretchen Starr-LeBeau, co-editor of Judging Faith, Punishing Sin: Inquisitions and Consistories in the Early Modern World"Roger Martínez-Dávila shows how since the end of the fourteenth century conversos have proved to be resilient, ingenious, and resourceful people that could adapt with astonishing intelligence and ease to difficult social, religious, and political situations, regardless of where they found themselves. The study, which posits the existence of cooperation and collaboration between conversos and Old Christians, will doubtless be of great interest to academics working in Hispanic studies, early modern European and American history, religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, and political science." —E. Michael Gerli, Commonweal Professor of Spanish, University of Virginia“Roger Louis Martínez-Dávila skillfully unravels the complex story of Jews who converted to Catholicism in Spain during the 14th-16th centuries, migrated to colonial Mexico and Bolivia during the conquest of the Americas, and assumed prominent church and government positions. . . . The extensive genealogical research enriches the historical reconstruction, filling in gaps and illuminating contradictions in standard contemporary narratives. His text is strengthened by many family trees that assist the reader as the threads of political and social relationships are carefully disentangled.”—HaLadpid"Creating Conversos represents an important contribution to medieval Spanish social and religious history. Its discussion of two extended and interrelated families, the Old Christian noble family of the Carvajals and the New Christian converso family of the ha-Levi/Santa Marías, breaks new ground in the exploration of the highly contested topic of the identity of the conversos in Spain in late medieval and early modern times. Through an exhaustive use of archival material, genealogical research, and, to a lesser degree, artistic representation, Martínez explores a topic that, by its very nature, defies easy explanation.” —Jane Gerber, professor emeritas, The Graduate Center, City University of New York“By tracing the family tie and intermarriages of the Jewish rabbinic ha-Levi lineage of Burgos, Spain (which became the converso Santa María clan) with the Old Christian Carvajal line of Plasencia, Spain, Martínez-Dávila demonstrates the family’s changing identity, and how the monolithic notion of ethnic and religious disposition were broken down by the group and negotiated anew as they transformed themselves from marginal into mainstream characters at the center of the economies of power in the world the inhabited.” —Communique"Martínez-Dávila’s work is perhaps the most comprehensive and insightful study of an important converso family to date." —David Gitlitz, author of Secrecy and Deceit: the Religion of the Crypto-JewsTable of ContentsAbbreviations of Archives and Libraries Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Origins 2. Crisis and Impetus 3. Opportunity 4. Innovation 5. Turmoil and Struggle 6. Memory and Religion 7. Success and Loyalty 8. Complications from the Past Invade Their Future Bibliography
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University of Notre Dame Press Nannie Helen Burroughs
Book SynopsisThis collection of works by Burroughs illuminates her views on religion, society, black womanhood, and social justice and restores the spotlight to an integral African American theologian, philosopher, activist, and intellectual.Trade Review"As Kelisha Graves posits, most of the existing black women's historical, intellectual, and religious scholarship offers limited insight (if any) into the views and ideas of Nannie Helen Burroughs, despite her views and published writings on wide-ranging, important topics from democracy and human rights to gender and social justice. This volume offers the first compilation of Burroughs's scattered writings in a single text, ensuring them a more central role in future historical feminist, religious, and social justice narratives." —Sharon Harley, University of Maryland"Kelisha Graves's Nannie Helen Burroughs makes a valuable contribution to the field of black intellectual thought by providing a different analytical framework for those scholars studying African American women activists against Jim Crow's oppression and for civil rights for all people." —Linda D. Tomlinson, Fayetteville State University“Graves suggests that Burroughs has earned a place alongside some of the great thought leaders on Civil Rights. Her wide circle of acquaintances included everyone from famous educator Mary McLeod Bethune to Martin Luther King Jr., whose parents she knew well from her extensive work with the National Baptist Convention.” —The Fayetteville Observer"In a public career that spanned six decades, the educator and civil rights activist Nannie Helen Burroughs was a leading voice in the African American community. . . . In this collection of documents, the historian Kelisha B. Graves focuses on Burroughs’s published writings on race and racism, women’s rights, and social justice. . . . Graves has raised interesting questions about ambiguities in the black protest movement in the first half of the twentieth century." —The Journal of American History"This is a tremendous scholarly reintroduction of Nannie Helen Burroughs as a black thinker, a civil rights activist, and a race woman. It not only makes a substantial contribution to black intellectual history, but provides invaluable resources to black historians and black political theorists looking to theorize black women anew." —Tommy J. Curry, University of Edinburgh
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University of Notre Dame Press The Unstoppable Irish
Book SynopsisThis unique book captures the rise of New York''s passionately musical Irish Catholics and provides a compelling history of early New York City.The Unstoppable Irish follows the changing fortunes of New York''s Irish Catholics, commencing with the evacuation of British military forces in late 1783 and concluding one hundred years later with the completion of the initial term of the city''s first Catholic mayor. During that century, Hibernians first coalesced and then rose in uneven progression from being a variously dismissed, despised, and feared foreign group to ultimately receiving de facto acceptance as constituent members of the city''s population. Dan Milner presents evidence that the Catholic Irish of New York gradually integrated (came into common and equal membership) into the city populace rather than assimilated (adopted the culture of a larger host group). Assimilation had always been an option for Catholics, even in IreTrade Review"Unstoppable Irish is the only work I am aware of that analyzes lyrics over such a sustained—not to mention crucial—period of Irish American history. The analysis allows us to see the process of Irish Americanization reflected in an evolving cultural arena, and it shows how song lyrics contribute to the development of what Raymond Williams has called the 'structure of feeling' of any given epoch. In doing so, Milner not only offers insight into the connection between popular culture and American political development, but also leads the way for other cultural historians of Irish America to follow." —Peter O'Neill, author of Famine Irish and the American Racial State "Songs litter the archives of urban history. Apart from mining them for colorful quotations, however, most historians don’t quite know what to do with them. Dan Milner has found an answer by combining the microhistory of the Irish in New York City with a close reading of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century song lyrics from the city’s popular press and stage. Milner’s weaving together of local politics, urban sociology, popular entertainment, and Irish song culture provides insight into how the image of NYC’s Irish Catholics moved from that of unwanted poverty-stricken immigrants to acceptable new citizens, who, by the end of the nineteenth century, were taking charge of the city." —William H. A. Williams, author of 'Twas Only an Irishman’s Dream: The Image of Ireland and the Irish in American Popular Song Lyrics, 1800–1920"Dan Milner caps decades of performing and collecting traditional folk music with an insightful analysis of how songs illuminate the Irish journey from outsiders to insiders. This book is essential for understanding New York City and Irish America." —Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers University-Newark"Music and song is the royal road into the psyche of the Irish and this book is a profound meditation on the journey toward becoming that was taken by the Irish of New York in the 19th century. In all of us that journey lives and these songs and what they tell us about the hopes and dreams of our forebears, as well as the heartache they endured, reward the scrutiny that Milner brings to them here." —Irish Central"An incisive and enlightening exploration of immigrant culture and integration. Dan Milner offers insights into popular song as a means of protest and pride, which echo from nineteenth-century music halls to present-day rap. This is cultural history at its demotic best." —Peter Quinn, author of Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York"An excellent, well-researched work that tells a fascinating story about the early Irish Catholic experience in America. . . . The way Milner traces this history is fascinating. Rather than relying solely on dry sources like archival newspapers and secondary scholarship, he incorporates song texts—folk songs, street songs, and early variety theater lyrics, all taken from period sources such as broadsides, songsters, and published songs—to create a deeper and more nuanced reading of the Irish Catholic experience." —The Irish Echo“In this fascinating study Dan Milner focuses on the songs of the New York Irish and uses them to uncover the experience of that immigrant community in the century from 1783. The Irish experience over that period was essentially a struggle for Catholic incomers to achieve acceptance from a Protestant establishment.” —Dublin Review of Books"[A] treasury of mini-essays on many indelible songs from throughout the nineteenth century. . . . Milner brings Irish American history to life, through song, in this compelling book." —New York Irish History"MIlner offers evidence—largely through folk and popular period songs of the era—of how New York City’s Irish Catholic community gained acceptance in the city, culminating in the election of its first Catholic mayor, William R. Grace. Milner’s central premise is that the Irish integrated, rather than simply assimilated, within the larger New York population." —Boston Irish Reporter“The study focuses on the century-long period from the withdrawal of British troops from New York at the end of the American War of Independence to the first term of Irish-born William R. Grace, New York’s first Catholic mayor. Milner is clearly knowledgeable on the subject.” —ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Colonial New York The New York Irish in the New Republic Irish Famine and American Nativism The Civil War, and Draft Riots of 1863 The Road to Respectability Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Notre Dame Press Colonial Loyalties
Book SynopsisColonial Loyalties is an insightful study of how Lima's residents engaged in civic festivities in the eighteenth century. Scholarship on festive culture in colonial Latin America has largely centered on fiestas as an ideal medium through which the colonizing Iberians naturalized their power. María Soledad Barbón contends that this perspective addresses only one side of the equation.Barbón relies on unprecedented archival research and a wide range of primary sources, including festival narratives, poetry, plays, speeches, and the official and unofficial records of Lima's city council, to explain the level at which residents and institutions in Lima were invested in these rituals. Colonial Loyalties demonstrates how colonial festivals, in addition to reaffirming the power of the monarch and that of his viceroy, opened up opportunities for his subjects. Civic festivities were a means for the populace to strengthen and renegotiate their relationship with the Crown. Trade Review“Colonial Loyalties: Celebrating the Spanish Monarchy in Eighteenth-Century Lima makes a fascinating and original contribution to the field of colonial Spanish-American studies and a number of related disciplines. The questions the book raises about the performance of loyalty and the politics of praise in an evolving context of viceroyalty, empire, and nation are compelling and timely. María Soledad Barbón uses both canonical authors and previously overlooked archival materials and primary sources to make her argument that Lima’s residents used civic festivities to further their own agendas in ways that reflect both local and imperial realities.” —Karen Stolley, Emory University“Colonial Loyalties is rigorously researched and elegantly conceived, and I learned a great deal in reading it. It is a profound analysis of viceregal celebrations in honor of the Spanish monarchs that breaks new ground. By focusing intently and equally on the textual, performative, and material dimensions of such vehicles of loyalty, María Soledad Barbón gives the genre its just due.” —Ruth Hill, Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University"This important book is a valuable contribution to the growing field of the history of early eighteenth-century Spanish political culture and its renewed focus on the connections between the Baroque and the Age of Revolutions. Barbón's study has greatly enriched our understanding of the symbolic political economy of loyalty in the Spanish Empire." —Bulletin of Latin American Research"This study is an outstanding contribution to the burgeoning field of festival studies, and it shows just how rich the colonial Latin American context is for exploring some of the main issues that animate the field. . . .It strikes the right balance between attention to the continuities in festive practices and discourses and an analysis of how they evolved." —The Americas"This book explores the world of civic festivals in Bourbon Lima, which consolidated Hispanic monarchical power and helped counter social uprisings. . . .an interesting approach to the study of agency in colonial festivals." —Hispanic American Historical Review"Dedicated to the study of the royal festivities in Lima between 1701 and 1790, with an epilogue that extends the analysis until the transition to the republic, Colonial Loyalties constitutes a comprehensive study of the discursive corpus that surrounded these events during what is called the extended century XVIII." —Colonial Latin American ReviewTable of ContentsContents List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Celebrating the Monarchy in Bourbon Lima 1. The Politics of Praise 2. Discourses of Loyalty 3. Staging the Incas Epilogue: From the “Very Noble and Loyal” to the “Heroic City of the Free” Works Cited
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University of Notre Dame Press Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes
Book SynopsisEnormous changes affected the inhabitants of the Eastern Woodlands area during the eleventh through fifteenth centuries AD. At this time many groups across this area (known collectively to archaeologists as Oneota) were aggregating and adopting new forms of material culture and food technology. This same period also witnessed an increase in intergroup violence, as well as a rise in climatic volatility with the onset of the Little Ice Age. In Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes, Richard W. Edwards explores how the inhabitants of the western Great Lakes region responded to the challenges of climate change, social change, and the increasingly violent physical landscape. As a case study, Edwards focuses on a group living in the Koshkonong Locality in what is now southeastern Wisconsin. Edwards contextualizes Koshkonong within the larger Oneota framework and in relation to the other groups living in the western Great Lakes and surrounding regions. Making use of a canine surrogaTrade Review“Using a suite of analytical approaches, Richard Edwards’s Indigenous Life around the Great Lakes tackles many of the notions that have grown around the perceived cultural differences in cultural distinction distributed up and down the Mississippi river basin. He has drawn on an impressive array of data and research to support his arguments.” —James A. Brown, co-author of Cahokia"For the general archaeological community Edwards's demonstration that agriculture was organized among the Oneota without accompanying social complexity and hierarchy should serve as a wakeup call for all to carefully examine long-held assumptions. This is a valuable study for its methods, its comparative analysis, and its conclusions about agriculture and cultural complexity." —Choice"While Edwards’s focus looks back to a long tradition of midwestern environmental studies, his scientific rigor and comprehensive investigations mark the way forward for such research. Edwards’s Indigenous Lives sets the bar high for the new Midwest Archaeological Perspectives series." —Michigan Historical Review"Edwards's work, specifically relating to Koshkonong reliance on agriculture along with constrained mobility, is groundbreaking, and it represents an important shift from generalized Oneota paradigms with assumptions of broad diet breadth and increased logistical mobility." —American Antiquity
£31.50
University of Notre Dame Press The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the longtime archivist for the then Indiana Province of Holy Cross, and a well-published American Church historian, Father Jim Connelly is eminently qualified to write this long-overdue book. —Fr. Richard Gribble, CSC, author of Father of the Fatherless"I want to celebrate and applaud the publication of Father Jim Connelly's The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross. Father Connelly's book is the first to retell this great story. For this, we can all be forever grateful." —Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., president emeritus, University of Notre Dame“This is an important contribution to the history of the order from its early days in Le Mans, France, to its international institutional footprint at the end of the twentieth century. James Connelly has produced an important, incredibly well-researched volume.” —William B. Kurtz, co-editor of Soldiers of the Cross, the Authoritative Text"Without doubt, Fr. Jim Connelly is the foremost expert on the worldwide history of the Congregation of Holy Cross. This book is most welcome, especially with its critical and scholarly, yet highly readable, approach." —Rev. Arthur Wheeler, C.S.C., University of Portland"Connelly, the congregation's archivist, is understandably able to go much deeper into the spirit of hope that not only brought the order into existence in post-Revolutionary France but defines its ministries to this day. . . . [He] details how the congregation cultivated charisms or spiritual gifts for parish ministry, education and missions. " —The Journal Gazette"This book offers the first complete history of the Congregation, covering nearly two centuries from 1820 to 2018. James T. Connelly, C.S.C., focuses on the ministry of the Congregation rather than on its ministers in this book that will interest historians of Catholicism." —American Catholic Studies Newsletter"A religious order of priests, brothers, and at one time sisters, the Congregation of the Holy Cross is best known as the founder of St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal and of the University of Notre Dame. . . . Connelly traces the community and its work in France, Algeria, the US, Canada, Rome, Bengal, Chile, Peru, Ghana, Uganda, Haiti, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Mexico." —Choice"Connelly's book is thoroughly researched, and his subject is rich in human drama. Religious orders have helped to build the education, health, and social service infrastructures of many nations and account for nearly all of the experiments in communal living to survive long-term. These are achievements worth our attention." —Church History"This book represents . . . the first 'general' history of the congregation of Holy Cross, from its origins in France in the 1820s and 1830s to nearly the present day. . . . [Connelly's] thorough work supports the hope that God may not be done with the congregation yet." —American Catholic Studies
£35.10
University of Notre Dame Press Ancient Pottery Cuisine and Society at the
Book SynopsisThis innovative archaeological study of diet and cooking technology sheds light on ancient cuisine.Ancient cuisine is one of the hot topics in today's archaeology. This book explores changing settlement and subsistence in the Northern Great Lakes from the perspective of food-processing technology and cooking. Susan Kooiman examines precontact Indigenous pottery from the Cloudman site on Drummond Island on the far eastern end of Michigan's Upper Peninsula to investigate both how pottery technology, pottery use, diet, and cooking habits change over time and how these changes relate to hypothesized transitions in subsistence, settlement, and social patterns among Indigenous pottery-making groups in this area.Kooiman demonstrates that ceramic technology and cooking techniques evolved to facilitate new subsistence and processing needs. Her interpretations of past cuisine and culinary identities are further supported and enhanced through comparisons with ethnographic Trade Review“The issue of subsistence practices and how they change through time has dominated the literature of the Northern Great Lakes region for generations. Kooiman’s book sheds new light on these age-old questions. By focusing on pottery function and use-alteration analysis she provides a great deal of clarification on ancient cuisine as it changed through time.” —James Skibo, author of Understanding Pottery Function"The northern Great Lakes and the region north of it clearly experienced a long history of occupation by various groups of Indigenous peoples over several millennia. Kooiman debates the possibility that the selection of food was connected to the identity of a specific group of occupants. Her tactic of taking 'an integrated theoretical framework' structuring specific methodological and analytical techniques in a specific sequence is to be applauded." —H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Environmental and Cultural History of the Northern Great Lakes 3. Cuisine and Pottery Technology in the Northern Great Lakes 4. Pottery and Cuisine: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 5. Pottery Taxonomy, Chronology, and Occupational History of the Cloudman Site 6. Pottery Function 7. Diet and Cuisine at the Cloudman Site 8. Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Accounts of Diet and Cooking 9. Culinary and Technological Tradition and Change at the Cloudman Site
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Ancient Pottery Cuisine and Society at the
Book SynopsisTrade Review“The issue of subsistence practices and how they change through time has dominated the literature of the Northern Great Lakes region for generations. Kooiman’s book sheds new light on these age-old questions. By focusing on pottery function and use-alteration analysis she provides a great deal of clarification on ancient cuisine as it changed through time.” —James Skibo, author of Understanding Pottery Function"The northern Great Lakes and the region north of it clearly experienced a long history of occupation by various groups of Indigenous peoples over several millennia. Kooiman debates the possibility that the selection of food was connected to the identity of a specific group of occupants. Her tactic of taking 'an integrated theoretical framework' structuring specific methodological and analytical techniques in a specific sequence is to be applauded." —H-EnvironmentTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Environmental and Cultural History of the Northern Great Lakes 3. Cuisine and Pottery Technology in the Northern Great Lakes 4. Pottery and Cuisine: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 5. Pottery Taxonomy, Chronology, and Occupational History of the Cloudman Site 6. Pottery Function 7. Diet and Cuisine at the Cloudman Site 8. Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Accounts of Diet and Cooking 9. Culinary and Technological Tradition and Change at the Cloudman Site
£31.50
University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisThis revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant todayLatinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriqueños, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization.In this foundational text, Mirandé develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attenTrade Review“Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience is the 1985 landmark study devoted to the creation of Chicano sociology. The updated version will shape the dialogue for future generations.” —Robert J. Durán, author of The Gang Paradox“The Chicano Experience is a strident call for a complete revamping of all social science methodology in the field of Chicano politics.” —Benjamin Márquez, author of The Politics of Patronage"Filled with the latest research and current theorizing on racialization, the new edition of The Chicano Experience rises to the top rank of books about Chicanos and other Latinos in the twenty-first century." —Maxine Baca Zinn, co-author of Diversity in Families"The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective . . . offers fundamental sociological perspectives of the lives of the largest minority group in the United States. This edition provides a new interpretation of social, cultural, and economic drivers that shape Chicano/Latino lives today. —UC Riverside NewsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 1. Chicano Labor and the Economy 2. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 3. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 4. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 5. The Church and the Chicano 6. La Familia Chicana 7. Machismo Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix: Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
£87.55
University of Notre Dame Press The Chicano Experience
Book SynopsisThis revised, second edition of The Chicano Experience offers a new interpretation of the social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the situation of Chicanos today.For more than thirty years, and now in its ninth printing, Alfredo Mirandé's The Chicano Experience has captivated readers with its groundbreaking analysis of Chicanos in the United States. Although its original context differs markedly from the current demographic landscape, it remains no less relevant todayLatinos have emerged as the largest minority population in the United States. With updated chapters revised in light of contemporary scholarship, this second edition speaks to the Chicano of today, in addition to puertoriqueños, Central Americans, and other groups who share common experiences of colonization, racialization, and, especially in the last decade, demonization.In this foundational text, Mirandé develops a comprehensive framework for Chicano sociology that, in attenTrade Review“Alfredo Mirandé’s The Chicano Experience is the 1985 landmark study devoted to the creation of Chicano sociology. The updated version will shape the dialogue for future generations.” —Robert J. Durán, author of The Gang Paradox“The Chicano Experience is a strident call for a complete revamping of all social science methodology in the field of Chicano politics.” —Benjamin Márquez, author of The Politics of Patronage"Filled with the latest research and current theorizing on racialization, the new edition of The Chicano Experience rises to the top rank of books about Chicanos and other Latinos in the twenty-first century." —Maxine Baca Zinn, co-author of Diversity in Families"The Chicano Experience: An Alternative Perspective . . . offers fundamental sociological perspectives of the lives of the largest minority group in the United States. This edition provides a new interpretation of social, cultural, and economic drivers that shape Chicano/Latino lives today. —UC Riverside NewsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Toward a Chicano Social Science PART I DISPLACEMENT OF THE CHICANO 1. Chicano Labor and the Economy 2. The United States-Mexico Border: A Chicano Perspective on Immigration and Undocumented Workers 3. El Bandido: The Evolution of Images of Chicano Criminality 4. Education: Problems, Issues, and Alternatives PART II CHICANO CULTURE 5. The Church and the Chicano 6. La Familia Chicana 7. Machismo Epilogue: Toward a Chicano Paradigm Appendix: Chicano-Police Conflict: A Case Study Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
University of Notre Dame Press European Transformations
Book SynopsisMedievalists explore geographical regions and themes to expose the best current thinking about what was and what was not distinctive about the twelfth century.Trade Review"The long twelfth century whose many transformations are explored in this energetic volume is no longer exclusively that of the lettered and devotional elites that dominate and define most previous accounts of the period. Its subject is a geographically larger and vastly more diversified Europe, a Europe that developed a far greater number of distinctive institutional features and forms of communication than earlier surveys have usually allowed for. Learning, letters, and devotion are certainly here, but they are situated in a dense world of princely courts and cities, competing social orders and interests, men and (at last!) women, and a sharper and harsher recognition of the non-Christian, in which the past and custom confront a sharp and legal-minded present, not always in conflict. The twelfth century, both short and long, has merited and occasioned great scholarship. This audacious volume easily takes pride of place within it." —Edward Peters, University of Pennsylvania"In European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century, Thomas F. X. Noble and John Van Engen have assembled an impressive array of distinguished medievalists to explore geographical regions and a variety of themes to expose the best current thinking about what was and what was not distinctive about the twelfth century. Their collective efforts will be much cited for the innovative and well-argued contributions in this volume." —Paul Hyams, Cornell University“For many years now, historians have regarded the twelfth century in Europe as a watershed period of great revolutions in philosophy, theology, law, and the political landscape. . . . The essayists, from a variety of disciplines and universities, are preeminent authorities of the topics and the times. They discuss historians, Christian relations with Muslims and Jews, the changing nature of serfdom, and other topics that span the intellectual and social history of the period, and they cover all of Europe, from Scandinavia through England to Spain and back into Eastern Europe.” —Catholic Library World“Noble and Van Engen have assembled a remarkably distinguished team of contributors and the quality of the eighteen chapters is uniformly high. Almost all should be at or pretty near the top of any introductory reading list on their topics, as well as providing succinct and stimulating updates for those already in the game, who will also find the exhaustive notes an invaluable bibliographical resource.” —The Medieval Review“This volume of essays contributes much to the discussion about the twelfth century, revealing the complexity and diversity of the period. . . . Graduate students and professors alike will learn much from the essays, and the volume should find its way onto many bookshelves.” —Comitatus“. . . a great majority of mediaevalists will undoubtedly profit much from these studies.” —Mediaevistik
£105.40
University of Notre Dame Press Living Dangerously
Book SynopsisThe essays in Living Dangerously, written by some of the leading scholars in the fields of history and literature, examine the lives of those who lived on the margins of medieval and early modern European society. While some essays explore obvious marginalized classes, such as criminals, gypsies, and prostitutes, others challenge traditional understandings of the margin by showing that female mystics, speculators in the Dutch mercantile empire, and writers of satire, for example, could fall into the margins. These essays reveal the symbiotic relationship that exists between the marginalized and the social establishment: the dominant culture needs its margins. This well-written and lively collection covers a wide geographical area, including England, Spain, Germany, Italy, France, and the Netherlands, making it an ideal resource for a broad range of courses in European history and literature. Contributors: Barbara A. Hanawalt, Richard Firth Green, Vickie Ziegler,Trade Review“This volume contains six strong and diverse essays, each of which individually contributes to the substantial scholarly literature on medieval and early modern marginality.” —Modern Philology“The essays in this volume take the reader on an intellectual voyage of adventure across space and time in pre-modern Europe, stopping off in Germany, the Low Countries, England, Spain, and France. They lucidly explore those messy, contradictory, and fascinating realms of life and thought (marriage, theology, commerce, gender, sexuality, law) where transgression and convention intersect. Thought-provoking. A must-read.” —Ann Marie Rasmussen, Duke University“This is an excellent collection of essays written and edited by a distinguished group of scholars. Specialists in medieval and Early Modern studies will find much to savour and enjoy here . . . the focus of the essays is not only the underclass identified by Bronislaw Geremek in The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris but also relatively privileged people who lived dangerously.” —Parergon“This collection breaks new ground in its attention to the marginalized and rascalous members of medieval and renaissance society. First, it rightly treats as permeable the artificial boundary between ‘medieval’ and ‘renaissance’ cultures, seeing them synoptically rather than independently. Second, it boldly incorporates as contiguous both European and New World cultures, seeing them as related rather than discontinuous. These interdisciplinary essays are first rate.” —Daniel T. Kline, University of Alaska Anchorage“Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is an engrossing, learned collection of articles by recognized historians and literary scholars. Drawing on legal, archival, and literary evidence, they introduce us to real characters—in both senses—who transgressed boundaries and norms. Whether the lines crossed are social, financial, sexual, or spiritual, we learn that those on the margins are central to our understanding of these eras.” —Marjorie Curry Woods, The University of Texas at Austin“This diversity and interdisciplinary approach is welcome and should be of interest to a wide range of medieval and early modern scholars interested in social history, comparative literature, and the topic of marginality . . . the editors and contributors are to be commended for producing a fascinating and accessible study that moves the topic of marginality beyond the margins of contemporary scholarship and into the center of research on identity, community, law, gender, and sexuality.” —Sixteenth Century Journal“Writings on marginalized groups in medieval and early modern society in and beyond such familiar categories as criminals and gypsies.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education
£70.55
University of Notre Dame Press Five Biblical Portraits
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Deeply moving and enlightening.” —Chicago Tribune (review of a previous edition)“This collection of biographies of prophets does a masterful job of humanizing these figures. Elie Wiesel does more than inform us about their lives and supposed thoughts. He asks today’s questions in the context of the past. . . . There is no ambiguity or vagueness in Wiesel’s writing. He promises us portraits, and there is not a wasted brushstroke, not a blurred line.” —The Christian Century (review of a previous edition)Table of ContentsIntroduction by Ariel Burger 1. Joshua 2. Elijah 3. Saul 4. Jeremiah 5. Jonah Sources
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