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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations. A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Reconstruction Era. The Black Reparations Project gathers an accomplished interdisciplinary team of scholarsmembers of the Reparations Planning Committeewho have considered the issues pertinent to making reparations happen. This book will be an essential resource in the national conversation going forward. The first section of The Black Reparations Project crystallizes the rationale for reparations, cataloguing centuries of racial repression, discrimination, violence, mass incarceration, and the immense black-white wealth gap. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in economics, history, law, public policy, public health, and education, the second section unfurls direct guidance for building and implementing a reparations program, including draft legislation that addresses how the program should be financed and how claimants can be identified and compensated. Rigorous and comprehensive, The Black Reparations Project will motivate, guide, and speed the final leg of the journey for justice.Trade Review“A valuable asset for activists and lawmakers seeking to advance the cause of reparations.” * Publishers Weekly *"A must-read for local, state, and federal politicians; college students studying social justice; and pretty much every American who has ever thought, 'Reparations? That’ll never happen.'" * INDYWeek *"Well organized and presented in a thought-provoking manner that provides a great case for the progression of reparations." * Criminal Justice Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, and Lucas Hubbard PART ONE: THE CONTEXT AND CASES FOR REPARATIONS 1 Where Does Black Reparations in America Stand? William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen 2 Wealth Implications of Slavery and Racial Discrimination for African American Descendants of the Enslaved Thomas Craemer, Trevor Smith, Brianna Harrison, Trevon D. Logan, Wesley Bellamy, and William A. Darity Jr. 3 Unequal Housing and the Case for Reparations Walter D. Greason 4 Educational Inequities and the Case for Reparations Malik Edwards 5 The African American Health Burden: Disproportionate and Unresolved Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards PART TWO: THE PATH TO REPARATIONS AND RELATED CONSIDERATIONS 6 Learning from Past Experiences with Reparations A. Kirsten Mullen and William A. Darity Jr. 7 Considerations for the Design of a Reparations Plan Trevon D. Logan 8 Reparations and Adult Education: Civic and Community Engagement for Lifelong Learners Lisa R. Brown 9 The Children of Slavery: Genealogical Research and the Establishment of Eligibility for Reparations Evelyn A. McDowell 10 On the Black Reparations Highway: Avoiding the Detours William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen Appendix A. List of Documented Massacres and Instances of Mob Violence Perpetrated against Black Individuals, Civil War through 1950 Appendix B. Sample Pedigree Chart and Family Group Sheet from Sons & Daughters of the United States Middle Passage The Reparations Planning Committee Index

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Book SynopsisNorthern California Book AwardsShortlistThe comprehensive critical biography of silent-screen star Marion Davies, who fittingly referred to herself as the captain of my soul. From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, the public life story of the film star plays like a modern fairy tale shaped by gossip columnists, fan magazines, biopics, and documentaries. Yet the real Marion Davies remained largely hidden from view, as she was wary of interviews and trusted few with her true life story. In Captain of Her Soul, Lara Gabrielle pulls back layers of myth to show a complex and fiercely independent woman, ahead of her time, who carved her own path. Through meticulous research, unprecedented access to archives around the world, and interviews with those who knew Davies, Captain of Her Soul counters the public story. This book reveals a woman who navigated disability and social stigma to rise to the top of a young Hollywood dominated by powerful men. Davies took charge of her own career, negotiating with studio heads and establishing herself as a top-tier comedienne, but her proudest achievement was her philanthropy and advocacy for children. This biography brings Davies out of the shadows cast by the Hearst legacy, shedding light on a dynamic woman who lived life on her own terms and declared that she was the captain of her soul.Trade Review"Actor Marion Davies (1897–1961) may have lived ‘a life shrouded in mystery, rumor, and half-truths,’ but she was witty, talented, and loyal, according to this sparkling debut from film historian Gabrielle. . . . a breezy, colorful saga of Old Hollywood, full of showbiz picaresque, glamorous parties at Hearst’s San Simeon castle, and a touching romance between two flawed, magnetic personalities. Film buffs will want to check this one out." * Publishers Weekly *"[A] scrupulously researched biography of American actress Davies (1897–1961), who was for a long time better known as the mistress of tabloid publisher William Randolph Hearst. . . . For fans of old-Hollywood lore and classic movies, especially those starring Marion Davies." * Library Journal *"Now, finally, there is a deeply researched and fair-minded biography of Davies’s life and movie work . . . . Gabrielle, like a detective or an archaeologist, has reconstructed a life history and made a convincing case . . . . that Marion was a complex, happy, and talented actress . . . . her love affair with W.R. Hearst was genuine, long-lasting, and intensely satisfying." * Alta Journal *"An entertaining, first-rate biography that necessarily serves . . . . as a corrective to Hollywood myth.” * Air Mail *"Author Gabrielle has given us a gift: an honest biography of a woman whose life and career have long been misunderstood. . . . In short, this is the book Marion Davies has always deserved." * Leonard Maltin site *"Gabrielle's book proves to be a fascinating read, from start to finish. The author documents the glamorous and epic parties at San Simeon, giving readers a picture of Hollywood's golden era. She also reveals the complicated, but enduring romance between Hearst and Davies." * Pop Culture Classics *"One of the most striking qualities of Captain of Her Soul is how the author powerfully portrays the actress’s spirit through the pages. . . .a must-read." * The Wonderful World of Cinema *"Davies was a fierce woman who blazed a trail amidst a Hollywood increasingly dominated by powerful men. At last, she is treated with the respect and reverence she merits through Gabrielle's writing." * Entertainment Weekly *"Gabrielle’s research is impressive. . . . [she] points out that Davies’s motto came from William Ernest Henley’s famous poem, 'Invictus,' which deals with the struggle to overcome vicissitudes and to triumph: 'It matters not how strait the gate, / How charged with punishment the scroll, / I am the master of my fate, / I am the captain of my soul.'" * The New York Sun *"Lara Gabrielle is the reigning expert on Marion Davies. She has written a spirited, well researched, highly readable biography that will pull you straight back to [Davies’s] times." * Northern California Book Reviewers *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments A Note on Sources Family Tree Introduction Beginnings “One of the Most Popular Girls in Town” “Unusual Box Office Attraction” “If You Stutter, They Find You Guilty Right Away” “A Good Actress, a Beauty, and a Comedy Starring Bet” “It’s Very Convenient to Have a Double” “Drinking Champagne Out of a Tin Cup” “Why Don’t We Forget the Play That’s Written and Let Marion Do as She Does?” “I Cannot Do Sound Pictures” “A Butterfly with Glue on Her Wings” “I Didn’t Want a Part Where I Just Sit on My Tail and Recite Poetry” “Just Make One Good Picture a Year” “What Difference Does It Make If You Walk Up to the Altar?” “Marion Has to Take the First Step Herself” “The Girl Who Lies by My Side at Night” “My Bounty Is as Boundless as the Sea” “Not If They Offered Me Mars on a Silver Platter” “I Don’t Think She Was Afraid of Death” Epilogue Filmography Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDraws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification, Tanya Maria Golash-Boza tracks the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to displace and decimate the Black middle class. Through the stories of those who have lost their homes and livelihoods, Golash-Boza explores how DC came to be the nation's murder capital and incarceration capital, and why it is now a haven for wealthy White people. This troubling history makes clear that the choice to use prisons and policing to solve problems faced by Black communities in the twentieth centuryinstead of investing in schools, community centers, social services, health care, and violence preventionis what made gentrification possible in the twenty-first. Before Gentrification unveils a pattern of anti-Blackness and racial capitalism in DC that has implications for all US cities.Trade Review"Tanya Maria Golash–Boza’s fascinating new book, Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, offers an unflinching critique of the urban disinvestment policies that have destroyed both lives and communities in the nation’s capital." * Washington City Paper *"Golash-Boza grew up in the Petworth district of Washington, DC. . . . Her anger at the displacement going on in Washington, DC is directed at those in power who decided to invest in incarceration instead of working to prevent young people turning to illegal activities by re-opening community centers and programs designed to do exactly that. Her book makes a forceful argument that this was somewhat intentional and certainly preventable." * Counterpunch *"Before Gentrification examines the historical transition in selected older neighborhoods of Washington, DC, from enclaves of stable working- and middle-class households, to those experiencing disinvestment, and finally, to those later transformed by reinvestment. . . . The book is unusually well documented. Nicely supported by maps, tables, graphs, and photographs, it also includes chapter notes, a competent subject index, and a hefty reference list." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE: DISINVESTMENT 1. Dispossession and Displacement 2. The Violence of Disinvestment PART TWO: CARCERAL INVESTMENT 3. Cracking Down: The War on Drugs and Downward Mobility 4. Bringing in the Feds: Targeting Black Middle-Class Neighborhoods PART THREE: REINVESTMENT 5. Chocolate City No More: Gentrification through White Reclamation 6. Racialized Reinvestment: HOPE VI, New Communities, and the End of Public Housing Conclusion: Locked Up and Locked Out Appendix A: Interviewees Appendix B: Oral Histories Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA deep dive into racial politics, Hollywood, and Black cultural struggles for liberation as reflected in the extraordinary life and times of Sammy Davis Jr. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show businessfrom vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TVDancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Davis was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, antiJim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Frye Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race against the backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better unTrade Review"Davis was caught between warring views of what it meant to be Black in a racist U.S. Jacobson is one of the subtlest commentators on what it means to be caught in such a cultural bind. . . . A subtle, insightful book likely to be on many readers’ radar for its nuanced look at the consequences of a racial divide with roots that, as Jacobson makes clear, are longstanding, systemic, and institutional." * Library Journal, starred review *"In this intriguing deep dive, Yale University historian Jacobson (Roots Too) places singer and actor Sammy Davis Jr. (1925–1990) at the center of the intersection between race, culture, and politics in America. . . . Nuanced, incisive, and frequently surprising, this is a worthy reconsideration of a divisive public figure." * Publishers Weekly *"Jacobson’s own writing style is scholarly yet accessible, not bogged down with too many critical theory buzzwords . . . Particularly dynamic are Jacobson’s discussions of the racial hostilities that Davis and other Black entertainers faced off-stage in Las Vegas." * The Daily Beast *"Within Jacobson’s rich and layered description of the civil rights movement and post-civil rights era, he gives us a detailed and compassionate portrait of Davis; we understand his passion for the civil rights movement as well as why he was called a sellout and ostracized within his Black community. . . . It’s a testament to Jacobson’s sensitivity in writing about Davis that he closes Dancing Down the Barricades without reaching a conclusion about Davis’ authenticity." * NewCityLit *"Not exactly a biography, this subtle, expansive study is a scaffold for a searing assessment of white racism that forced African American entertainers into hard spaces during the long civil rights era. . . . Davis, who interacted personally with Martin Luther King Jr. and Richard Nixon, emerges as a complex cultural worker whose outstanding artistry allowed him access to worlds that modeled “self-emancipation” from strictures of white racism. Summing Up: Highly recommended." * Choice Reviews *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Author's Note Preface: The Long Civil Rights Era 1 • Star Rising at Twilight: A Childhood in Vaudeville 2 • "A Concentrated Bunch of Haters": War Time in Wyoming 3 • The All-Negro Cast, and Other Black Spaces 4 • The Vegas Strip, Network TV, and Other White Spaces 5 • "Division Is Not Our Destiny": Interracial Romance and Golden Boy 6 • Writing Wrongs in Yes I Can 7 • "The Skin Commits You": Civil Rights Itinerary Coda: What Is the "Post" of "Post-Civil Rights"? Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis stunning exhibition catalog visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond. Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation sits at the intersection of history and contemporary life. Building upon in-depth conversations about representations of enslavement and emancipation at the close of the Civil War, this project originates from an analysis of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward's The Freedman (1863), one of the first bronze representations of a Black person in the United States, and expands into an investigation of how living artists envision emancipation, freedom, and liberation today. Featuring interviews with artists Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith, the exhibition catalog explores their practices along with cutting-edge scholarship by Kirsten Pai Buick and Kelvin Parnell, among others, as well as a haunting story of embodiment and exploitation by celebrated science-fiction author N. K. Jemisin. Burdened by failed promises but buoyed by hope, this project is mournful and melancholy yet also reflective and celebratory in its aspirations for a brighter future. Published in association with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art Exhibition dates: Amon Carter Museum of American Art: March 12July 9, 2023 Newcomb Art Museum at Tulane University: August 5November 11, 2023 Williams College Museum of Art: February 16June 16, 2024Table of ContentsCONTENTS ARTIST INTERVIEW Jeffrey Meris ARTIST INTERVIEW Sadie Barnette THE FREEDMAN IN MULTIPLE: A LOOK AT ITS CASTING HISTORY Thayer Tolles ARTIST INTERVIEW Maya Freelon AN ANTIDOTE TO MELANCHOLY Margaret C. Adler WALKING AWAKE N. K. Jemisin INDEX

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Book SynopsisA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visitwww.luminosoa.orgto learn more. A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean brings together the fascinating personal stories of Jewish writers, scholars, and intellectuals who came of age in lands where Islam was the dominant religion and everyday life was infused with the politics of the French imperial project. Prompted by novelist Leïla Sebbar to reflect on their childhoods, these writers offer literary portraits that gesture to a universal condition while also shedding light on the exceptional nature of certain experiences. The childhoods captured here are undeniably Jewish, but they are also Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Egyptian, Lebanese, and Turkish; each essay thus testifies to the multicultural, multilingual, and multi-faith community into which its author was born. The present translation makes this unique collection available to an Engl

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Book SynopsisOne of the Best Nonfiction Books of 2022,Kirkus Reviews A righteous indictment of racism and misogyny.Publishers WeeklyA powerful account of violence against Black women and girls in the United States and their fight for liberation. Echoing the energy of Nina Simone's searing protest song that inspired the title,this bookis a call to action in our collective journey toward just futures. America, Goddamexplores the combined forceof anti-Blackness, misogyny, patriarchy, and capitalism in the lives of Black women and girls in the United States today. Through personal accounts and hard-hitting analysis, Black feminist historian Treva B. Lindsey starkly assesses the forms and legacies of violence against Black women and girls, as well as their demands for justice for themselves and their communities. Combining history, theory, and memoir,America, Goddamrenders visible the gender dynamics of anti-Black violence. Black women and girls occupy a unique status of vulnerability to harm and death, while the circumstances and traumas of this violence go underreported and understudied. America, Goddam allows readers to understand How Black womenwho have been both victims of anti-Black violence as well as frontline participantsare rarely the focus of Black freedom movements. How Black women have led movements demanding justice for Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Toyin Salau, Riah Milton, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and countless other Black women and girls whose lives have been curtailed by numerous forms of violence. How across generations and centuries, their refusal to remain silent about violence against them led to Black liberation through organizing and radical politics. America, Goddampowerfully demonstrates that the struggle for justice begins with reckoning with the pervasiveness of violence against Black women and girls in the United States.Trade Review"A searing investigation of the violent oppression experienced by Black women and girls in America. . . . Required reading for all Americans." * Kirkus Reviews *"In this fiery debut, Lindsey . . . decries historical and contemporary injustices against Black women in America. Interweaving her own harrowing experiences with astute cultural and political analysis, Lindsey sheds light on how police mistreatment, medical racism, poverty, intracommunal violence, and other social ills place Black women in a condition of 'unlivable living.'. . . Carefully researched and sharply argued, this is a righteous indictment of racism and misogyny." * Publishers Weekly *"This book quickly creates space for the reader to ponder and grow without feeling ashamed of their starting point in the discussion. . . . The debate and exchange between the reader and the author does not call for a change in beliefs, unless desired by the reader, but a realization of the alternative harsh reality that exists for Black girls and women." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Goddam, Goddam, Goddam 1 Say Her Name: Policing Is Violence 2 The Caged Bird Sings: The Criminal Punishment System 3 Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence 4 Violability Is a Preexisting Condition: Dying in the Medical Industrial Complex 5 Unlivable: The Deadly Consequences of Poverty 6 They Say I'm Hopeless 7 We Were Not Meant to Survive Epilogue. A Letter to Ma'Khia Bryant Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, “The Audition Marathon on Cinco de Mayo,” North Beach, San Francisco Introduction 1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography 2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory 3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism 4. “Stripper-Face” and Performative Heterosexuality Conclusion Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, “Place-Based Writing,” San Francisco Neighborhoods 157 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prelude: Field Notes, May 5, 2016, “The Audition Marathon on Cinco de Mayo,” North Beach, San Francisco Introduction 1. Sensual Knowledge Production: A Feminist Porn Archive and Queer Herstoriography 2. Erotic Altruism: Metamorphic and Sensuous Brown Bodies Interlude: Feminist Art Praxis and Autotheory 3. Erotic Resistance: The 1990s Renaissance of Strip Club Activism 4. “Stripper-Face” and Performative Heterosexuality Conclusion Postlude: Final Field Notes, June 10, 2022, “Place-Based Writing,” San Francisco Neighborhoods 157 Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDelving into what euthanasia activists, doctors, lawyers, religious leaders and lay people have thought and felt about dying, this book shows that understanding the radical historical shift in Western attitudes to managing dying and suffering helps us better grasp the stakes in today’s contestations over what it means to die well.

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Book SynopsisBorn into a genteel family of pastoralists and investors in colonial Victoria, Mabel Louise Kelly, or ‘Mab’, would grow up to make an enormous contribution to the arts, horticulture and early education in Australia. In this richly illustrated biography, Thea Gardiner recreates the fascinating, gilded, international world of Mab Grimwade.

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Book SynopsisA Woman''s Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts''s interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the outbreak of the Second World War. A Woman''s Place shows working-class women to be conscious of, and secure in, the separate, private sphere of home and family, with little feeling of male oppression, but more of class oppression and economic injustice to man and woman alike. A woman''s key place within the family as budget manager and domestic decision taker was widely recognized. It was, however, a position won at great cost. The hazards of childbirth, the grueling physical routines of washing, cleaning and cooking, the necessity of undertaking part-time, or (in Preston especially) full-time paid employment to boost the family''s meager income, were the coin with which that role was bought. Trade Review"Their talk is lively, and it's a wonder to read the voices of people who do not usually get to talk for themselves." (The Smart Set, 7 April 2011) "A Woman's Place is a book to which all future historians of the working-class will be indebted." Times Higher Education Supplement "A Woman's Place will be read with interest for the illuminating accounts of working-class experiences, but equally for Dr Roberts' erudite gloss on her material ... Her achievement is to record working-class lives as they were lived and her success in doing so establishes her as one of the most accomplished practitioners of oral history." Economic History Review "A highly readable picture of the lives of working-class women through childhood, adolescence, work, leisure, marriage (and more work), family and sexual relations ... and motherhood. Through them emerges a picture of a wider working-class reality, which is all the more vivid for its sensitivity to the ambiguous and the unexpected." New Society "This is a first-rate book for both expert historian and general reader; it deserves wider circulation." Women's Review of Books "Her two volumes appear austere but tell an absorbing tale. I hope she is collecting material for a third." Times Educational Supplement "... one of the best social histories of Britain before 1940." The Sunday ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Growing Up. Home Life. School. 2. Youth, Work and Leisure. The Status of Young Workers in the Family. Employers and Employees. The Work Ethic. Young Women at Work. Leisure. Courting and Pre-Marital Pregnancy. 3. Marriage. Sexual Relations and Attitudes to Family Size. Family Limitation: Knowledge and Methods. Pregnancy and Childbirth. Power Relationships within Marriage. The Effect of Social Change. 4. Women as Housewives and Managers. Working-class Homes. Family Income. Balancing the Budget. Were Working Class Women Successful Household Managers?. 5. Families and Neighbours. The Extended Family. Neighbours and Neighbourhoods. Conclusion. Appendices. . 1. Population of the Three Towns, 1981-1931. 2. Women's Occupations, 1891-1931. 3. Percentages of Women at Work, 1891-1931. 4. Wage Indices for 1905. 5. Respondents' Biographies. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisManicas argues that ideology is the defining characteristic of the social sciences in this critical review of the discipline. He contends that social science was originally based on a false ideal of science and that the historical assumptions of it are in general, too Eurocentric.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vi Author's Note viii Part I The Critical Ideas Introduction 3 1 Science and Philosophy 7 2 Of the Commonwealth 24 3 The Emergence of Political Economy 37 4 Progress: The Laws of Development 53 5 The German Conception of History: Herder or Hegel? 73 6 Scientific Socialism: Marxian Dialectics 97 7 From Ranke to Max Weber 117 8 Economy and Society: The Sociology of Pareto and Durkheim 141 9 The Genesis of Psychology 168 Part II The Modern Social Sciences 10 Capitalism, Science, and the University 193 11 The Americanization of Social Science 213 Part III Realist Philosophy of Social Science 12 The Critique of Empiricism 241 13 A Realist Social Science 266 14 Psychology: Theoretical and Applied 294 Bibliography 319 Index 336

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Book SynopsisDrawing material from the ancient and medieval worlds, Africa and the Americas, this book discusses slavery's economic role and the significance of kin, ethnicity, race, and religious and moral ideas in the structuring, maintenance and dissolution of slave societies.Trade Review"This is an intelligent and interesting account of an emotive and difficult topic." Journal of European Studies "Slavery covers the whole history from Classical times to the early 20th century in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas - a boon for students." Antiquity "...specialist readers would do well to take note of the judicious way in which Turley summarizes complex and controversial issues ... for anyone looking for an overview of the subject, it is hard to think of a better place to start." Times Literary Supplement "His bibliography is an excellent short reading list for scholars seeking to expand their knowledge beyond the Western Hemisphere ... The strength of Turley's book is its breadth of patterns and examples over time and culture." History: Reviews of New Books "... provides a useful introduction that avoids the simplifications often attendant upon overview ... As a result, the picture that emerges is blessed not only by clarity of form but also by a convincing complexity of content" The HistorianTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface. Acknowledgements. Maps. 1. Approaching Slavery. 2. Who Became Slaves, How, on What Terms?. 3. Societies with Slave and Slave Societies. 4. Stability and Disruption. 5. The Contraction of lavery. 6. Epilogue. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is a cross--cultural examination of slavery. It draws material from the many regions, and widely separated historical periods, in which slavery has existed -- ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, the Muslim societies of the Middle East and Africa, sub--Saharan Africa and the Americas.Trade Review"This is an intelligent and interesting account of an emotive and difficult topic." Journal of European Studies "Slavery covers the whole history from Classical times to the early 20th century in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas - a boon for students." Antiquity "...specialist readers would do well to take note of the judicious way in which Turley summarizes complex and controversial issues ... for anyone looking for an overview of the subject, it is hard to think of a better place to start." Times Literary Supplement "His bibliography is an excellent short reading list for scholars seeking to expand their knowledge beyond the Western Hemisphere ... The strength of Turley's book is its breadth of patterns and examples over time and culture." History: Reviews of New Books "... provides a useful introduction that avoids the simplifications often attendant upon overview ... As a result, the picture that emerges is blessed not only by clarity of form but also by a convincing complexity of content" The HistorianTable of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface. Acknowledgements. Maps. 1. Approaching Slavery. 2. Who Became Slaves, How, on What Terms?. 3. Societies with Slave and Slave Societies. 4. Stability and Disruption. 5. The Contraction of lavery. 6. Epilogue. Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisWere the 1930s in Britain a decade of growing prosperity, unprecedented levels of ownership and sane, competent government? Or was it a time of grinding poverty, long-term unemployment and political timidity? In this new book Andrew Thorpe cuts through the welter of dispute and mythology to provide fresh analysis of politics, economics and society in this most controversial of decades.Trade Review"Likely to be an introductory text widely used by students in schools and universities: it is short, the format is accessible, the paperback edition is cheap and it is a new addition to the successful series of Historical Association Studies published by Blackwell." Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Part I: Introduction:. Part II: Politics:. 1. The Conservatives and the National Governments. 2. The Labour Party and Socialism. 3. The Liberals. 4. The Communists. 5. The Fascists. 6. Conclusion. Part III: Economy:. 1. Cyclical Trends. 2. Structural Change. 3. Government Economic Policy: Causes and Effects. 4. Conclusion. Part IV: Society:. 1. A Class-Ridden Society?. 2. Domestication and Privatization? Housing and Leisure. 3. Health, Welfare, and Social Policy. 4. Conclusion. Part V: Conclusion:. Appendix 1: General Election Results, 1924-45. Appendix 2: Unemployment, 1929-40. References and Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisThis is a history of broadcasting and its impact on modern life in Britain from its origins in the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. Its concerns are with programmes and their makers and with the audiences for which they were made. It is a pioneering work of cultural and social history.Trade Review"Their work promises to change irreversibly our perception of both the history of British broadcasting and of its place in the wider political, cultural and social history of Britain." Sight and Sound "This admirably balanced new study . . . deserves the attention of lay readers as well as scholars . . an important piece of work." The Independent on Sunday ". . . an impressive volume . . . informed by concepts." The Guardian "This is a quite outstanding book: a social history of radio broadcasting in Britain up to 1939. It is a work of sustained scholarship but, although more that 150,000 words long, an immensely enjoyable read." Tom Nossiter, London School of Economics. " A truly magisterial work, unlikely to be bettered for a generation." ScreenTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Public Service Broadcasting part 1. Part I: Broadcasting and Politics: . 2. The Containment of Controversy. 3. The Management of News and Political Debate. 4. Broadcasting and Unemployment. 5. Broadcasting and Foreign Affairs. Part II: The Production of Information: News, Features and Talks:. 6. News Values and Practices. 7. Features and Social Documentaries. 8. Forms of Talk. Part III: The Production of Entertainment and Culture: Music and Variety:. 9. Music Policy. 10. Musical Tastes. 11. Time and Money, Entertainment and Culture. 12. Styles of Variety. Part IV: Broadcasting and its Audiences:. 13. The National Culture. 14. Local and Regional Broadcasting. 15. Manchester and its Programmes. 16. The Listener. Bibliography and References. Footnotes.

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Book SynopsisThis one thousand year history of the civilization of western Europe has already been recognized in France as a scholarly contribution of the highest order and as a popular classic. Jacques Le Goff has written a book which will not only be read by generations of students and historians, but which will delight and inform all those interested in the history of medieval Europe. Part one, Historical Evolution , is a narrative account of the entire period, from the barbarian settlement of Roman Europe in the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries to the war-torn crises of Christian Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Part two, Medieval Civilization , is analytical, concerned with the origins of early medieval ideas of culture and religion, the constraints of time and space in a pre-industrial world and the reconstruction of the lives and sensibilities of the people during this long period. Medieval Civilization combines the narrative and descriptive power cTrade Review'Jacques Le Goff is one of the most distinguised of the French medieval historians of his generation, a generation in which the French have consistently set the pace for medieval studies.' Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books "The richness, imaginativeness and sheer learning of Le Goff's work cannot be summarized and demands to be experienced." Times Literary Supplement '...Stimulating and impressive. It was high time that it should be translated into English' Douglas Johnson, The Observer "Covering 1000 years of civilazation in Western Europe and illustrated with a wide range of magnificant photographs, this popular and well-established French classic will both delight and inform." Publsihing News "Combines illuminating generalizations with appealing nuggets of fact." Jasper Griffin A rich portrait of the medieval world which historians will admire and any general reader can read with enjoyment." The Independent "Le Goff has taken the whole of Western Europe as a temporal sequence and he has asked what are the conceptual schemes which give it coherence. It is the structuralist scheme which makes this book stimulating and impressive. It was high time that it should be translated into English." The ObserverTable of ContentsPart I: Historical Evolution: . 1. The Barbarian Settlements (5th - 7th centuries). 2. The Germanic Attempt at Organization (8th - 10th centuries). 3. The Formation of Christian Europe (11th - 13th centuries). 4. The Crisis of Christian Europe (14th - 15th centuries). Part II: Medieval Civilization:. 5. Genesis. 6. The Framework of Time and Space. 7. Material Culture. 8. Christian Society. 9. Mentalities, Sensibilities, and Attitudes. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo The first comprehensive survey of a key area of contemporary sociology. aeo The author is respected worldwide as a leading authority in the field. aeo Carefully structured and clearly written.Trade Review"Piotr Sztompka's book on social change is at once a masterful textbook, a comprehensive encyclopedia of theoretical approaches and an innovative contribution to the field. This book by the prominent Polish sociologist will certainly change sociologists' and historians' view on social change." Prof Dr Hans Joas, Freie Universitat Berlin "I can think of no sociologist with more scope and sense of balance than Piotr Sztompka. The Sociology of Social Change gives remarkable evidence of both qualities. It covers the field thoroughly and well; it has to be the authoritative treatment of the subject. Moreover, it balances breadth and depth, objective reporting with critical interpretation, and others' ideas with Sztompka's own. This volume is simultaneously an original and synthetic contribution to our thinking about social change." Neil J. Smelser, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface. Part I: Concepts and Categories:. 1. Fundamental Concepts in the Study of Change. 2. Vicissitudes of the Idea of Progress. 3. Temporal Dimension of Society: Social Time. 4. Modalities of Historical Tradition. 5. Modernity and Beyond. 6. Globalization of Human Society. Part II: Three Grand Visions of History:. 7. Classical Evolutionism. 8. Neo-evolutionism. 9. Theories of Modernization: Old and New. 10. Theories of Historical Cycles. 11. Historical Materialism. Part III: Alternative Vision: Making History:. 12. Against Developmentalism: Modern Critique. 13. History as a Human Product: Evolving Theory of Agency. 14. New Historical Sociology: Concreteness and Contingenc. 15. Social Becoming: the Essence of Historical Change. Part IV: Aspects of Social Becoming:. 16. Ideas as Historical Forces. 17. Normative Emergence: Evasions and Innovations. 18. Great Individuals as Agents of Change. 19. Social Movements as Forces of Change. 20. Revolutions: the Peak of Social Change. Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging volume integrates documentary sources and contemporary archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Swahili history, anthropology, language and culture.Trade Review"[Horton and Middleton's] portrait of the Swahili is drawn from multiple sources of data, including archival records, ethnographic fieldwork, and recent archaeological finds expertly providing comprehensive, up-to-date accounts if African peoples that are both scholarly and accessible." CHOICE "Despite their high profile, the identity of the Swahili has been elusive to define. The sensible discussion of this issue by Horton & Middleton should finally put this question to rest ... The Swahili is a fine addition to the series on the peoples of Africa published by Blackwell. South African Archaeological Bulletin "Well supplied with maps and plates depicting locales, excavations, and architecture, the book will be useful to a general readership, as well as to younger scholars interested in the African littoral. The archeological chapters are very informative."Greg Cameron, Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The Swahili Coast. 2. Origins. 3. The Acceptance of Islam. 4. The Swahili Coast and the Indian Ocean World. 5. The Trading System of the Swahili Coast. 6. The Urban Landscape. 7. The Social Landscape. 8. Governance and Politics. 9. The Swahili in a Changing World. 10. Constructing the Mercantile Landscape. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Includes coverage of all the major political events that have shaped the turbulent history of South Africa. * Explores the ways in which power at central government level has been played out on the national stage.Trade Review"An exceptional survey of the political history of South Africa." Times Literary Supplement. "Barber ... has written a detailed, interesting, and accurate analysis of an extraordinary country during an exceptional time" CHOICE. "South Africa in the Twentieth Century is designed to introduce students of contemporary history, politics and international relations to key regions and themes which have dominated discussion of the past century. It does so admirably ... this is a book whose sheer erudition will guarantee it a prominent place on the shelves of anyone wishing to understand South Africa in the twentieth century." Contemporary British History "This book is very accessible and engrossing, but is nevertheless of a high academic standard ... South Africa in the Twentieth Century is a major contribution to the literature on South African politics. It is essential reading not only for any scholar interested in South African politics but also for those with wider interests in questions of national self-identification and the way this affects political behaviour." Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: The Clash of British Imperialism and Afrikaner Nationalism:. 1. Prelude to War: Afrikaner and British Imperial Nationalism. 2. War, Peace and Reconstruction. 3. Afrikaners, Blacks and Reconstruction. Part II: The White Union and Black Reaction:. 4. Responsible Government and the Union. 5. The New Union: White and Black Political Activity. 6. The Great War and its Aftermath. 7. The Pact Government and Segregation 1924-9. 8. From Pact to Fusion: Economic Depression and Black Opposition: 1929-39. Part III: World War II and Apartheid:. 9. World War II and its Aftermath 1939-48. 10. African Nationalism Transformed: 1939-48. 11. The National Party Government 1948-61. 12.African Opposition: Communists, Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. Part IV: The Wind of Change:. 13. The New Republic, Sharpeville and the Granite Response. 14. Vorster and the Development of the Bantustans. 15. Black Resistance Inside and Outside the Republic. Part V: Renewed Black Challenge: . 16. Soweto and its Aftermath. 17. Reform, Security and White Divisions Under P. W. Botha. 18. The Black Rising: and Answering Fire with Fire. 19. Retreat from the Rubicon: The Failure of Reform. Part VI: Forging the New South Africa:. 20. In Search of a New South Africa. 21. Reaching Agreement: Negotiation, Tension and Violence. 22. Towards the Promised Land. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe hardback edition has sold over 7,500 copies. Includes a chronology of key events. Draws on a wide variety of contemporary Roman sources. Takes account of much recent research, particularly anthropological. The hardback edition has sold over 7,500 copies. Includes a chronology of key events.Trade Review"Far better than anyone else who has written on daily life in ancient Rome, Dupont conveys a sense of the city itself as both physical and symbolic space." Times Literary Supplement "Dupont's book is filled with fascinating minutiae of the material aspects and customs of Roman life." Choice "A fascinating study of Roman society....This translation from French is lively and enjoyable." Library Journal "This book presents fascinating reading-material, made available in a well-written style." Mnemosyne "The author's often unusual approach and her striking ability to understand the Roman mind give it a unique stamp. She is very well served too by her translator whose version is remarkably fluent and graceful." Classics IrelandTable of ContentsForeword. Part I: The City and its People:. 1. Naming and Honour. 2. Wealth and Opulence. 3. Freedom. Part II: Places and Lives: . 4. The Organization of Roman Space. 5. Roman Houses. 6. The Family. 7. The Army. 8. Living in Rome. 9. Political Life in the City. Part III: Time and Action: . 10. Time and the Romans. 11. Measuring Time. 12. The Roman Calendar and Festivities. 13. The Ages of Man. Part IV: The Roman Body:. 14. People and Bodies. 15. Clothing, Finery and Bathing. 16. Food, Banqueting and the Pleasures of the Evening. Conclusion. Notes. List of Important. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisExamining the development of European states, this book explains the ways in which Europe's position has evolved in accordance with its all-important US links. It provides historical analysis of major ideas and events such as the evolution and collapse of the Cold War; and the rise of the New Left and New Right groups.Table of ContentsPreface. Part I: Setting the Stage:. Politics in the Atlantic Community: Late 1950s to the Early 1970s:. 1. Introduction to the Politics. 2. US Politics: Kennedy to Nixon. 3. West German and Austrian Politics: 1959-1974. 4. French Politics: 1958-1974. 5. Britain and the Smaller Northern Democracies, 1959-1974. 6. Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, 1958-1978. Part II: Transnational Cooperation and Conflict: 1958-1974:. 1. Keys to Western Security. 2. The Cold War: 1958-1974. 3. New Left and Cultural Revolution. Part III: Politics in the Atlantic Community: From the Mid-1970s to the 1990s:. 1. US Politics: 1974: Ford to Reagan. 2. US Politics: Bush to Clinton. 3. Germany: Divided and United. 4. France, 1974 to the Present. 5. Britain, 1974 to the Present. 6. Italy and the Iberian Peninsula, 1979 to the Present. Part IV: Transnational Cooperation and Conflict: 1975 to the Present:. 1. Keys to Western Security. 2. Cold War: End and Aftermath. Index.

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Book Synopsis* Provides an introduction to the study of death and remembrance in the past. * Focuses not only on material culture but also on theories of emotion and experience in the context of death. * Includes insights from outside archaeology, drawing on literary and historical sources. .Trade Review"An interesting and informative work." Choice "This is a thoughtful study that attempts to deal with subjects of major import ... no one will come away from this book without new ideas and perceptions about the nature of bereavement, how it is commemorated through material culture and how these objects have been interpreted." Times Higher Education Supplement "... [an] extremely important contribution to the fast-growing field of post-medieval death studies." Archaeological Journal "A stimulating read." Post-Medieval Archaeology "Tarlow's book is heartening evidence that bereavement research need not stay in a narrow ghetto." Bereavement Care "Throughout, there is a sense of the writer's own humanity ... There is a great deal of interest to be found in this book and it is to be hoped that it will encourage others who choose death as their subject to be as humane in the way they write about it." FolkloreTable of ContentsList of Figures. List of tables. Preface. 1. A historical archaeology of death. 2. Towards an archaeology of bereavement and commemoration: death, emotion and metaphor. 3. Changing commemorative practices in Orkney. 4. A living memory and a corrupting corpse. 5. Remembering the dead in the nineteenth century: a love story. 6. War and remembrance. 7. Loved and lost. Glossary. References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Takes a sweeping account of labor history from a social perspective from colonial times to the present, chronologically arranged. aeo Addresses black, white, native American, male, female, adult and child labor into a single volume.Trade Review"Jacqueline Jones is one of the nation's finest historians of race, class and culture and any project she turns her hand to is must reading for all those who claim to participate in the intellectual life of our times." Nelson Lichtenstein, University of Virginia "The explosion of scholarship in the field of labor history over the past twenty years has defied synthesis - until now. Jacqueline Jones has moved the diverse experiences of America's multicultural working class to the front and center of the national historical narrative. No other book so effectively brings the voices and struggles of working people together as does A Social History of the Laboring Classes." Alex Lichtenstein, Florida International University " Recent research in labor and working-class history that is staggering in scope. Recommended for all levels of college reader." D. Lindstrom, University of Wisconsin, Madison "A lively text grounded solidly in the latest research." Labour History ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. 'Strangers' and Other Workers in the Seventeenth-Century Colonies. 2. 'Be Sure to Come Free': Workers in the Eighteenth Century. 3. Crosscurrents of Slavery and Freedom in the Antebellum South. 4. The Northern Laboring Classes at Odds With One Another, Before and During the Civil War. 5. Ideologies of Race in a Modernizing Economy: The Cases of African-American and Chinese Workers. 6. The Laboring Chattering Classes in Turn-of-the-Century America. 7. The Rise of the State in Depression and War: The American Workforce, 1916-1945. 8. American Workers and the New World Order in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century. Index.

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to a key period in the history of Europe - the transition from medieval to Renaissance Europe. In this updated edition, Professor Holmes reveals the interactions between politics, society and ideas that contributed to the problems and changes of this period.Table of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: The Politics of Western Europe in the Fourteenth Century:. 1. The Netherlands. 2. The Kingdom of France. 3. The Hundred Years War: The First Phase to 1385. 4. Germany and the Empire to 1378. 5. Iberia. Part II: Italy, the Papacy and Europe:. 6. Italian Commerce. 7. The City-State. 8. The Avignon Papacy. 9. Italian Papacy. 10. Italian Politics to 1378. Part III: Economic and Social Forces:. 11. Population. 12. Landlords. 13. The Industrial and Commercial World. 14. The Social Rebellions of the Fourteenth Century. Part IV: The Fourteenth-Century World of Ideas:. 15. Universities and Courts. 16. The Beginnings of Renaissance Ideas. 17. Religious Movements. Part V: The Crisis of the Papacy and the Church:. 18. The Great Schism. 19. The Age of the Councils. 20. The First Reformation: The Hussite Movement. Part VI: Europe and the World Beyond:. 21. Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. 22. The Beginnings of European Expansion. Part VII: The Fifteenth-Century Crises of the Monarchies:. 23. France: The End of the Hundred Years War. 24. Castile and Aragon. 25. Germany and the Empire. Part VIII: Princes and Towns in the Netherlands and Italy:. 26. Valois Burgundy. 27. Italian Politics. 28. The Ideas of the Italian Renaissance. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe new edition of this classic history examines the political, economic, social, religious and cultural life of Europe at the height of the Renaissance. J.R. Hale not only records the events of 1480-1520, but also suggests what it was like to have lived in this period. He provides readers with an understanding of the quality of lives of people living at this time and includes processes and personalities not often covered by other books. For the second edition Professor Michael Mallet provides an updated bibliography and an extended introduction explaining the book''s place in the historiography of the subject. The book is arranged thematically, each chapter designed to provide information about a specific field of inquiry and also give an insight into the people of this era. J. R. Hale investigates how these people felt about their environment and the passage of time; their relationships with government and other institutions, from the Church to the family; their economic frTrade Review"Hale's picture of the years around 1500 is generally precise and not out-dated. He anticipated several areas of later writing, for example his emphasis on the history of the lower classes, on the impact of wars, on women's role in society, on social mobility among 'classes'. It is a book for the general public who already has some knowledge of the Renaissance." Gabor Almasi, Central European University Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Time and Space. 2. Political Europe. 3. Individual and Community. 4. Economic Europe. 5. Class. 6. Religion. 7. The Arts and their Audience. 8. Secular Learning. Appendix: Europe c. 1500: A Political Gazeteer. Maps. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisAn introduction to an age of conflict. Taking account of political, economic and social developments, the author examines the lines of division in late 16th-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich economy of the West and the poverty of the agrarian East.Table of ContentsPart I: The Europe of Cateau-Cambresis:. 1. The International Scene. 2. The European Economy. 3. The Problem of the State. Part II: 1559-1572:. 4. Protestantism and Revolt. 5. Catholicism and Repression. 6. The War with Islam. Part III: 1572-1585:. 7. Crisis in the North: 1572. 8. A Middle Way?. 9. The Growth of Spanish Power. Part IV: 1585-1598:. 10. The International Conflict. 11. The Discomfiture of Spain. 12. The Divided Continent. Maps. Genealogical Tables. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisEurope Divided is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to a complex age of movement and conflict. Professor Elliott''s strong narrative takes account of political, economic and social developments and provides vivid portraits of the leading personalities of the era. The book examines the hard lines of division in late sixteenth-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich, expanding economy of the West and the harsh poverty of the agrarian East. It was the period that saw the birth of the Dutch Republic; the defeat of the Spanish Armada; the western repulse of the Ottoman Empire; the revival of the papacy and an authoritarian Calvinism. It was also an era of strong political personalities, of Philip II and a powerful Habsburg Spain, of Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici, of Henry IV and Montaigne. Throughout the text, Professor Elliott has been concerned to reveal the complex interaction of events in different parts of Table of ContentsPart I: The Europe of Cateau-Cambresis:. 1. The International Scene. 2. The European Economy. 3. The Problem of the State. Part II: 1559-1572:. 4. Protestantism and Revolt. 5. Catholicism and Repression. 6. The War with Islam. Part III: 1572-1585:. 7. Crisis in the North: 1572. 8. A Middle Way?. 9. The Growth of Spanish Power. Part IV: 1585-1598:. 10. The International Conflict. 11. The Discomfiture of Spain. 12. The Divided Continent. Maps. Genealogical Tables. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisOffers a view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy. This book attempts to take the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day. It presents an account of how Britain was transformed from a society governed by the landed gentry to one responsive to the pressures of the newly-industrialized masses.Trade Review"Refreshing, inspiring and elegant, there are few historians active today who could write at once as stimulatingly and as readably." Historical Journal "The challenge implicit in Bentley's task is great. His response is witty, intellectually exciting, stylistically seductive, and itself stands as a challenge to broad perspectives on Victorian politics." Victorian Studies "Bentley writes with a wide fund of knowledge; his judgements are shrewd and always worth considering. Encrusted orthodoxies are often challenged and negative home truths are brought into the open." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Map: Some Places. Introduction to the First Edition. Introduction to the Second Edition. Part I: Pressure from Without, 1815-65: . 1. The Transformation of Party. 2. Renewal and Consolidation. 3. The Mechanics of Stability. Part II: Pressure from Within, 1865-1914: . 4. Occupying the Centre. 5. Conservative Ascendancy. 6. Breaking the Mould?. Appendix: Some People. Notes. Bibliography. Research Theses. Primary Sources. Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of eight essays and 24 supporting documents concerning mainland British North America includes essays about Native Americans, the transatlantic slave trade, regulation of the sexual behaviour of white and black women, and the creation of new religious practices.Trade Review"Here we have eight eminently discussible articles, each one matched with three substantial, thoughtfully edited primary sources, and introductory notes that invite rather than inhibit analysis. Who could ask for more? A superb reader." Fred Anderson, University of Colorado at Boulder "A deft, highly satisfying collection of original sources and trenchant scholarship that gets to the heart of colonial experience in early America." Jon Butler, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. A Note on the Texts. Introduction. 1. First Encounters:. Introduction. Article:. King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England: Virginia DeJohn Anderson. Documents:. Reasons to be Considered for ... the Intended Plantation in New England (1629): John Winthrop. Treaty between the Abenaki Indians and the English at Casco Bay (1727). Indian Explanation of the Treaty of Casco Bay (1727): Loron Sauguaarum. Further Reading. 2. Puritan Culture:. Introduction. Article:. A World of Wonders: David D. Hall. Documents:. A Model of Christian Charity (1630): John Winthrop. Trial of Mrs Lucy Brewster at a Court Held at Newhaven (1646): Charles J. Hoadly. Tryal of Susanna Martin in Salem (1692). Further Reading. 3. Making Race:. Introduction. Article:. From "Foul Crimes" to "Spurious Issue": Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race: Kathleen M. Brown. Documents:. Letter to his Parents (1623): Richard Frethorne. Virginia Slave Codes (1661–1705): William Waller Henning. Petition against Zachareah Jordan (1783): Ruth Tillett. Further Reading. 4. Africa Diaspora:. Introduction. Article:. Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on British Mainland North America: Ira Berlin. Documents:. A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea (1705): William Bosman. The Carolina Chronicle of Dr. Francis Le Jau (1706–1717): Francis Le Jau. A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, A Native of Africa, But Resident above Sixty Years in the Unites States of America (1700s): Venture Smith. Further Reading. 5. European Immigration:. Introduction. Article:. Worlds in Motion: Bernard Bailyn. Documents:. The Infortunate: The Voyage and adventures of William Moraley, an Indentured Servant (1743): William Moraley. Journey to Pennsylvania (1754): Gottlieb Mittelberger. Informations Concerning the Province of North Carolina (1700s): Scotus Americanus. Further Reading. 6. Awakening:. Introduction. Article:. "Pedlar in Divinity": George Whitfield and the Great Awakening, 1737–1745: Frank Lambert. Documents:. The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole (1741): Nathan Cole. A Letter ... to Mr. George Wishart (1742): Charles Chauncy. The Distinguishing Marks (1741): Jonathan Edwards. Further Reading. 7. Creating Gentility:. Introduction. Article:. Bodies and Minds: Richard Bushman. Documents. Autobiography and Other Writings (1790): Benjamin Franklin. Gentleman's Progress: The Itinerarium of Dr. Alexander Hamilton (1744): Alexander Hamilton. American Weekly Mercury (Philadelphia), no. 575 (Jan. 5, 1730/1): Generosa (Elizabeth Magawley). Further Reading. 8. Backcountry Worlds:. Introduction. Article:. New Worlds for All: Indian America by 1775: Colin Calloway. Documents:. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant (1766–8): Charles Woodmason. On Behalf of the Ohio Delawares, Munsies, and Mohicans, to the Governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia (December 4, 1771): John Killbuck. A Journal of Two Visits made to Some Nations of Indians on the West Side of the River Ohio, in the Years 1772 and 1773: David Jones. Further Reading. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Will serve students as a readable introduction and useful reference volume throughout their Victorian studies. aeo Includes extensive bibliographies directing the student to further reading. aeo Examines Victorian literature in its cultural and historical context.Trade Review"Each of the very varied contributions - there are 29 of them in all - is well equipped with exhaustive and up-to-date bibliographies, invaluable for further studies. There is also an excellent index. Altogether, therefore, this is an admirable and enduring book, which should certainly be added to the reference departments of all self-respecting university libraries - and a great many civic and municipal libraries, as well." Languages and Literature"This book has been planned to meet both short-term and long-range needs. It is a reference work for consultation. " The Victorian Newsletter "...Tucker's Companion, with its extensive range of topics (some truly original and rarely dealt with in similar books), its well-documented essays, and constant degree of serious scholarship, apears indeed as an extremely valuable tool for students and scholars alike, and a major contribution to Victorian criticism." The Journal of the South Central Modern Language AssociationTable of ContentsIntroduction x Notes on Contributors xiv Part One History in Focus 1 1832 3 Lawrence Poston 2 1848 19 Antony H. Harrison 3 1870 35 Linda K. Hughes 4 1897 51 Stephen Arata Part Two Passages of Life 5 Growing Up: Childhood 69 Claudia Nelson 6 Moving Out: Adolescence 82 Chris R. Vanden Bossche 7 Growing Old: Age 97 Teresa Mangum 8 Passing On: Death 110 Gerhard Joseph and Herbert F. Tucker 9 Victorian Sexualities 125 James Eli Adams Copyrighted Material Part Three Walks of Life 10 Clerical 141 Christine L. Krueger 11 Legal 155 Simon Petch 12 Medical 170 Lawrence Rothfield 13 Military 183 John R. Reed 14 Educational 194 Thomas William Heyck 15 Administrative 212 Robert Newsom 16 Financial 225 Christina Crosby 17 Industrial 244 Herbert Sussman 18 Commercial 258 Jennifer Wicke 19 Spectacle 276 Joss Marsh 20 Publishing 289 Richard D. Altick Part Four Kinds of Writing 21 Poetry 307 E. Warwick Slinn 22 Fiction 323 Hilary Schor 23 Drama 339 Alan Fischler 24 Life Writing 356 Timothy Peltason 25 Sage Writing 373 Linda H. Peterson Notes Contents Contributors ix 26 Literary Criticism 388 David E. Latané, Jr Part Five Borders 27 Under Victorian Skins: The Bodies Beneath 407 Helena Michie 28 On the Parapets of Privacy 425 Karen Chase and Michael Levenson 29 “Then on the Shore of the Wide World”: The Victorian Nation and its Others 438 James Buzard General Subject Index 456 Index of Victorian Works 481

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection of primary documents and previously published essays introduces students to the principal themes in recent scholarship on the social and cultural history of the Old South.Trade ReviewThis is an exceptionally well-conceived and well-executed collection of documents and scholarly essays. Mark Smith deserves high marks for at once presenting and recasting the antebellum South in bold and original ways. The Old South is absolutely first-rate." Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "This book provides an excellent introduction to the study of the antebellum South, covering the salient topics in the region's economic, political, and cultural history. Mark Smith's essay on the historiography is elegant and informative, and his choice of readings is judicious. Undergraduates will learn a great deal from this volume, and it is perfectly suited for course adoption." Joan E. Cashin, author of Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Map: The Old South in 1860. Chronology. Introduction. Part I: A Modern Old South. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 1. An "Old" Old South. Sketches of the South Santee, 1797-1798. A Georgia Planter on the Classical South, 1835. A Georgia Planter Bemoans the Cost of Slavery, 1846. An "Old" Old South. (Raimondo Luraghi). 2. An Old South by the Clock. The Importance of "Early Rising," 1851. Clock Time and Southern Railroads, 1834. Plantation Time, 1851. Timing Slave Labor by the Watch, 1843. Plantation Time from a Slave's Perspective, 1847. An Old South by the Clock. (Mark M. Smith). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part II: Southern Honor, Southern Violence. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 3. The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance. Affronts to Honor in a Southern Newspaper, 1843. Public Accusations of Falsehood, 1833. Codes of Honor and Dueling, 1858. The Appearance of Honor and the Honor of Appearance. (Kenneth S. Greenberg). 4. Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World. A Traveller's Comments on the "Barbarity" of the Southern Frontier, 1816. A Traveller Observes Techniques of Fighting. 1807. "Tall talk" Among Ruffians, 1843. Poor, Violent Men in a Premodern World. (Elliot J. Gorn). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part III: Constructing And Defending Slavery. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 5. Slavery Ordained of God. Frederick Law Olmstead Recounts Impressions of a Religious Meeting, 1856. James Henley Thornwell's Defense of Slavery, 1860. Slavery Ordained of God. (Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese). 6. Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen. James Henley Thornwell Associates Slavery and Gender Relations, 1852. John L. Manning's Letter to his Wife, 1860. George Howe Justifies the Subordination of Women, 1850. Proslavery, Gender, and the Southern Yeomen. (Stephanie McCurry). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part IV: Communities, Cultures, and Economies: Lives of the Enslaved. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 7. Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy. Charles Manigault's Plantation Journal, 1844. A South Carolina Rice Planter on the Slaves' Economy, 1858. Petition and Deposition of Former Slaves, 1873. Benefits of the Lowcountry Slaves' Economy. (Philip D. Morgan). 8. Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy. Former Slaves Recall Independent Production. A Foreign Traveller Observes Wage-earning Slaves, 1860. Slaves on Trial, 1846. Ambiguities of the Upcountry Slaves' Economy. (Lawrence T. McDonnell). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part V: Selling Southern Bodies. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 9. The Slave Trader in Image and Reality. A Boston Minister on Slave Traders, 1855. A Slaveholder Comments on Traders and Prices, 1846. A Trader Notes Market Prices for Slaves, 1859. The Slave Trader in Image and Reality. (Michael Tadman). 10. Reading Bodies, Answering Questions. A Southern Physician on "Unsoundness in the Negro," 1858-1859. A Trader Notes How Slaves Affect Their Sales, 1856. A Former Slave Notes Buyers Reading Bodies, 1855. A Slave Reads a Buyer, 1858. Asking Questions and Reading Bodies. (Walter Johnson). Study Questions and Further Reading. Part VI: Womanhood in Black and White. Introduction to Documents and Essays. 11. Breast-Feeding and Elite White Womanhood. Southern Medical Opinions on Wet Nursing and Breast Feeding, 1850. Newspaper Advertisements for Wet Nurses, 1859. A Southern Mother on Child-Rearing, 1844. Breast-Feeding and Elite White Motherhood. (Sally McMillen). 12. Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood. Defining a "Good Wife" and "Good Woman," 1835. Testimony of Three former Virginia Female Slaves. Elizabeth Keckley Resists Bondage. Slave Women and Definitions of Womanhood. (Brenda Stevenson). Study Questions and Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn The Real American Dream literary scholar Andrew Delbanco shows how Americans have organized their days and ordered their livesand ultimately created a cultureto make sense of the pain, desire, pleasure, and fear that are the stuff of human experience.Trade ReviewIn a tour de force of thoughtful intellectual and cultural history, the author reflects broadly on the history of the American dream. Moving deftly from the Puritans to contemporary America, Delbanco laments the loss of a common culture in our modern commercialized New Age. As a ‘meditation on hope’ he follows Emerson, who wrote: ‘let us do what we can to rekindle the smouldering nigh quenched fire on the altar.’ * Virginia Quarterly Review *Andrew Delbanco is one of America’s most acute and perceptive cultural critics… [This is] a beautifully written book. -- Richard Rorty * New York Times Book Review *One wishes that Delbanco had had more space to develop the nuances he plays like a cellist using vibrato… Delbanco, among the most astute and original scholars of history and literature, wisely and convincingly develops the point made by Tocqueville: ‘Faith is the only permanent state of mankind.’ By plumbing the faith of our fathers and mothers—its wrinkles and rosy cheeks—we can begin to rededicate ourselves to a new story of transcendence. -- Joshua Wolf Shenk * Washington Post *God, Nation, and Self: through these, writes Delbanco in these essays (so brief, yet so pertinent), the citizens of the U.S. have given their lives meaning to ward off melancholy, that ‘logical belief in a hopeless future.’ Puritan Calvinism seems benign next to consumerist Calvinism. That’s Calvinism as in Calvin Klein, where the free individual—the U.S.’s great gift to the world—is ‘marooned in a perpetual present, playing alone with its baubles,’ and the ‘ache for meaning goes unrelieved.’ But Delbanco’s wit is itself the measure of the land of the free. -- Vera Rule * The Guardian *The ‘fundamental question’ for the American mind, Andrew Delbanco says in The Real American Dream, ‘has always been how to find release from this feeling of living without propulsion and without aim’; what he has written is a short but deeply literate history of this quest, one by turns witty and affecting. -- Andrew Stark * Times Literary Supplement *It must be terribly satisfying to hear Andrew Delbanco speak. The Real American Dream, a series of lectures he gave at Harvard in 1998, is filled with impressive oratory. He manages sermons and political speeches with facility, invoking great voices from our nation’s history to contemplate the present state of the American Dream. Buttressing these far-reaching speeches with the quieter arts of poetry and prose, Delbanco builds a broad yet detailed ‘history of hope’ in the United States… Lucid empathy permeates Delbanco’s chapters, and earns the book’s subtitle, A Meditation on Hope. -- Doug Elder * Boston Book Review *Self, Delbanco points out, will surely prove an empty, unsatisfying, and ultimately self-defeating object of worship. Unless we recover some sense of a common good, he suspects, we may be headed for moral collapse—or worse yet, the rise of some nefarious ideology or movement. Delbanco does not believe that the apocalyptic ‘rough beast’ of despotism is right around the corner—or inevitable. But he offers his jeremiad as a timely warning and a reminder of things that matter. -- Merle Rubin * Christian Science Monitor *According to Andrew Delbanco, today’s consumerism exists to assuage our spiritual emptiness… Lurking behind our credit-card debt is the suspicion that our shopping sprees equate to nothing more than fidgeting while we wait to die. In [his] conclusion, Delbanco…[directs] to our attention the elemental human need to believe in something larger than the insular self, and identifies the solutions that filled this need in the past. These solutions are thoughtfully presented as guidance for us now. -- Kassie Rose * Columbus Dispatch *A critical premise of this remarkable book about creating hope in an absurd world is Delbanco’s definition of culture. He refers to it as a sustaining narrative that provides stories and symbols ‘by which Americans have tried to save themselves from the melancholy that threatens all reflective beings.’ With this in mind, he then identifies and ponders our historical devotion to God, nation and self, trends that have come into fashion at different times in American history… The Real American Dream is a concise, provocative narrative essay. -- Kassie Rose * Columbus Dispatch *An acute social critic surveys the soul of a country that believes first in God, then in nation (exemplified in the secular ambitions of Lincoln and Whitman), and finally in the narcissistic self, which has created a ‘post-modern melancholy’ in today’s culture. -- Scott Veale * New York Times Book Review *A fascinating, eminently accessible series of culture-forming ‘stories’ that focus on the pitched battle between the force of melancholy and that of hope. In the stories, Delbanco ruminates on American culture from the Puritans to the present. What binds the seemingly disparate stories of serious-minded ministers, secular politicians, and modern materialistic Americans is the struggle to find meaning in a world that often appears to be entirely random and spiritually incomplete. -- Sanford Pinsker * Philadelphia Inquirer *We’re in what Andrew Delbanco has identified as the third phase of the history of hope in America—or, rather, the history of hope’s disintegration… Americans, Delbanco says, have lost any sense of a common destiny. We have nothing larger than ourselves to worship… Unlike William Bennett and his ilk, Delbanco hasn’t written a prescription for spiritual renewal. He simply charts the path to our current post-modern holding pattern: waiting for the next big idea, hoping for the return of hope. He might not have the answer for us, but his voice provides a quiet comfort in the empty darkness. -- Becky Ohlsen * Willamette Week *Delbanco’s lecture-based essay is engaging and very timely. -- Ray Olsen * Booklist *[Delbanco] insightfully contrasts the sustaining force of hope with the melancholy that comes with its absence. * Kirkus Reviews *This represents as fine a synthesis as can be found on hope and the longing for something more in the collective American soul. -- Sandra Collins * Library Journal *A close and passionate reader of American literature, Delbanco believes that contemporary American culture has lost its once vital sense of the transcendent… His profoundly insightful readings of William Bradford, Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln and other American writers, stretching from early colonial times to the present, should succeed in prodding readers to think deeply about how the idea of the nation intersects—or doesn’t—with their deepest desires and hopes. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsPrologue GOD NATION SELF Notes Index

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Book SynopsisThis political history shows how the turmoil and transformation of nursing during the French Third Republic reflected the political and cultural tensions at work in the nation, including critical conflicts over the role of the Church in society, the professionalization of medicine, and the emancipation of women.Trade ReviewSchultheiss's study is positioned at the point of intersection of a number of critical conflicts in this formative period of the Third Republic. The book is essentially a political study of nursing. The social history of nurses, their daily work, living conditions, ages, marital status, and earnings makes an appearance, but is not the focus. The focus is the debate over, and within, nursing, how this debate interacted with the political forces, and its results upon hospital nursing and nursing education but also in forging a feminine version of citizenship. It is very well written. -- Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth CollegeAn exhaustively researched and documented study. A major work. -- Louise A. Tilly, New School UniversityKatrin Schultheiss...is one of a handful of non-nurses who understand what the profession has to teach us about the complex process of female emancipation, as well as about the development of modern healthcare systems. She recounts the torturous history of how the "professionalization" of nursing in France coincided with anticlericalism and the secularization of the field. Although her story focuses on the forty-year period from 1880 to 1922 and takes place in one country, the gender dilemmas Schultheiss explores have hampered nurses' ability to care for patients in healthcare systems around the globe, including in the United States. -- Suzanne Gordon * The Nation *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Hospital Nursing in Paris 2. The Nursing Sisters of Lyons 3. The Gardes-malades of Bordeaux 4. Class, Gender, and Professional Identity 5. The Nursing Profession in World War I 6. Nursing in Postwar France Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOf all the horrors of the last century, ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but as this landmark book attests, ethnic cleansing is neither new nor likely to cease in our time.Trade ReviewAs Norman M. Naimark observes…with broad enough standards the ‘ethnic cleansing’ label can be affixed to events as disparate as the destruction of Carthage, the crusade against the Albigensians, the expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Spanish conquest of the Incas and Aztecs, and the expulsion of Indians from tribal lands in the United States… He objects that such a catchall approach fails to explain current events in useful terms… Naimark provides…disturbing details—and much other cause for sad reflection. -- Anatole Shub * New Leader *What strands link the last century’s bloody spasms of ethnic cleansing—from the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust to Bosnia and Kosovo? Stanford University historian Naimark argues ethnic cleansing is a profoundly twentieth-century phenomenon, not a product of ‘ancient hatreds’… The ugliness of ethnic cleansing—its violence and brutality, its misogyny and totality, its effort to eradicate every trace of ‘the other’—poses unique challenges to an international community reluctant to intervene in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation state. -- Mary Carroll * Booklist *A needed measure of clarity… [Naimark] embeds ethnic cleansing in the history of 20th-century Europe…[and] undercuts the standard wisdom that holds ancient enmities responsible for atrocities perpetrated in the modern era… Students of history and international relations are indebted to professor Naimark for [his] sobering insights. -- James R. Holmes * Library Journal *As a contribution to the study of mass violence in this century, this book is very reliable, eminently readable, and highly educational. Naimark emphasizes that ethnic cleansing is a ‘profoundly modern experience’ and the international community, which has sometimes encouraged and more usually ignored large-scale atrocities, is responsible. -- Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard UniversityDuring the last decade, Americans and Europeans rediscovered the horrors of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo. Norman Naimark’s important research demonstrates that it was hardly an invention of the l990s, but has had a long history, often shrouded in silence because it was easier to live with the results. This is an immensely relevant and anguishing study. -- Charles Maier, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Armenians and Greeks of Anatolia 2. The Nazi Attack on the Jews 3. Soviet Deportation of the Chechens-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars 4. The Expulsion of Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia 5. The Wars of Yugoslav Succession Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisIn the beginning, North America was Indian country, but Native Americans soon yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.Trade ReviewThanks to the work of Richter and others like him who have set out to break with the traditional Eurocentric narrative, ‘the people without history’ have been given back their voice. -- J. H. Elliott * New York Review of Books *In his acclaimed volume Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel Richter turns the tables on ‘conventional’ histories of early European–Indian relations by looking east from the Mississippi River rather than west from the Atlantic Ocean… Richter approaches, from the Indian perspective, the history of early contact with Europeans through the founding of the U. S., with emphasis on tribes’ immeasurable contribution to the history of the continent. He culls Native voices from surviving documents and records, pulling Indians from the periphery of white America’s memory and making them the focal point of the post-contact story. -- Tom Wanamaker * Indian Country Today *Richter insists that we must look over the shoulders of American Indians to see the Europeans who settled the New World to have a complete understanding of our origins. His depiction of how these original Americans adapted to the newcomers and how they were inevitably betrayed by generations devoted to ‘freedom’ and ‘opportunity’ are especially telling. * Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News *[Richter] has written a provocative new interpretation of early America from pre-contact to the early 19th century… [H]e places early America in the context of Native American society and history and not solely in the rush of colonial expansion… Historians of the American West and scholars of Western Native American studies will find much value in Richter’s retelling of early American History. -- Joseph Key * Journal of the West *Most American histories treat North America’s indigenous peoples as ancillary to the more important story of the establishment of a European nation in the New World. What would happen if one shifted focus and transformed the usual bit-players into stars? Richter…makes that shift and produces what may, for its impeccable use of primary sources, smoothly well-wrought prose, and passionate argument, become a classic. -- Patricia Monaghan * Booklist *Richter demythicizes the standard accounts…to demonstrate how white settlers consciously created false images to justify economic, religious, and military exploitation of Native inhabitants… This [is an] innovative and well-written book. -- M. L. Tate * Choice *An excellent, ambitious attempt to restore to history long-overlooked Indians who ‘neither uncompromisingly resisted…nor wholeheartedly assimilated’ in the face of white encroachment… A hallmark in recent Native American historiography that merits wide attention. * Kirkus Reviews *Richter here offers a masterly work that eschews the long-standing perception that Native Americans were nothing more than marginalized bystanders as Europeans colonized North America. Focusing on the period between the 15th and 18th centuries, the author instead shows that Native American communities adapted to the many stresses introduced by the arrival of the Europeans and were active participants in creating a new way of life on the continent… [He] provides a valuable perspective that is often overlooked in books about the same period. Highly recommended for all public and academic libraries. -- John Burch * Library Journal *At the center of this bold and thoroughly astonishing history of Native Americans are narratives of three Indians generally known to Euro-Americans: Pocahontas, Blessed Catherine Tekakwitha, and the Algonquin warrior Metacom, also known as King Philip. Telling each of these stories—a romance, the life of a saint, the destruction of a ‘noble savage’—from the European and then the Native American perspective, Richter elucidates an alternative history of America from Columbus to just after the Revolution… Gracefully written and argued, Richter’s compelling research and provocative claims make this an important addition to the literature for general readers of both Native American and U.S. studies. * Publishers Weekly *Richter offers a brilliant retelling of the old stories of European colonies and empires through Native eyes. Facing East from Indian Country may be as close as any scholar has come to synthesizing an ‘Indian perspective’ on early American history. This is a book not to be missed. -- Philip J. Deloria, author of Playing IndianFrom its title to its very last page, Facing East from Indian Country spins us around. But rather than dizzying, this turnabout is clarifying, freeing us from the blinders of a European perspective on the early American experience. Vast in scope yet intimate in its attention to particular people, places, and moments, Richter’s book is a moving, thought-provoking work of scholarship. -- James H. Merrell, author of Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania FrontierWith keen insight, deep reading, and a sparkling wit, Richter makes new and compelling sense of American history, radically shifting our perspective on the past. Balancing vivid imagination and a respect for the unknown, Richter crafts a powerful and engaging story that is essential to understanding our place in time on this continent. -- Alan Taylor, author of William Cooper’s Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American RepublicTable of ContentsPrologue: Early America as Indian Country 1. Imagining a Distant New World 2. Confronting a Material New World 3. Living with Europeans 4. Native Voices in a Colonial World 5. Native Peoples in an Imperial World 6. Separate Creations Epilogue: Eulogy from Indian Country A Technical Note Notes Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisWeddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orations given in Latin. D'Elia shows how Italian humanists used these orations to support claims of legitimacy and assertions of superiority among families jockeying for power, as well as to advocate for marriage and sexual pleasure.Trade ReviewA concise, coherent analysis of a little-studied genre--the Renaissance wedding oration introduced in the 15th century in the lavish nuptials of the Italian courts. D'Elia has turned up a very impressive corpus of sources and offers a close reading of select orations, focused on the praise of the princely rulers and their families and the praise of marriage and its advantages. He places the genre as a whole in the context of ancient and medieval views on marriage, 15th-century concerns to encourage population growth after demographic crises, and humanist models of civic virtue drawn from antiquity. -- Ann Blair, Harvard UniversityIn an original and well-executed book that will be of interest to scholars of Renaissance humanism, the history of women, and the history of family and social values more generally, Anthony D'Elia establishes the significance of marriage as an issue of social concern for the Italian humanists by looking at their wedding orations. His work reinforces the view, not much discussed but of great importance for an understanding of the career of Western thought, that Italian humanism was a lay, secularizing movement, marking a turning-away from the clerically dominated culture of earlier centuries. -- Margaret King, Brooklyn College, CUNYD'Elia shows with abundant and incontrovertible evidence that it was the Italian Humanists of the fifteenth century, not the Protestant Reformers, who in a consistent and insistent way first exalted marriage over celibacy. He thus forces us to revise radically one of the unquestioned assumptions of the history of marriage and the family. -- John W. O'Malley, Weston Jesuit School of TheologyThis book by a superb Latinist is the first in-depth study in any language of the secular oratory of Italian Renaissance humanists. D'Elia's focus on the form and content of wedding orations leads to fascinating observations on fifteenth-century views on marriage as a political, economic, and social institution, as a source of sexual pleasure, and, surprisingly, as a bond between equals. -- Ronald G. Witt, Duke UniversityIn sum, the author argues convincingly that the revived genre of the wedding oration provides a window into Italian Renaissance court culture and at the same time sets forth ideas that would shake up the rest of Europe in the following century. This study should be of interest to a broad range of scholars and students of the Renaissance and Reformation. -- Jo Ann Cavallo * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Marriage and Wisdom from Antiquity to the Renaissance 2. The Revival of the Ancient Epithalamium in Courtly Weddings 3. Weddings as Propaganda: Rhetoric and Court Culture 4. The Culture of Marriage and Sex in Italian Courts 5. Humanist Criticisms of Celibacy and the Reformation Conclusion A Finding-List for Wedding Orations in the Italian Renaissance Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWhat was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity—and what place did Jewish communities have in Greco-Roman civilization? This account of the Jewish diaspora from Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple offers some surprising conclusions.Trade ReviewEloquently, learnedly, persuasively, Gruen invites the reader of his new book to consider familiar evidence from the Jewish past from a new—one might say a non-diaspora—perspective. His point is simple, but its historical implications are profound. As he observes, in the nearly four hundred years that stretch between Alexander the Great…and the emperor Nero…Jews could be found in large numbers, and in well-established communities, throughout the Mediterranean. Neither military compulsion nor the vicissitudes of captivity had brought most of them to those places. To state the point a little differently: the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 C.E. did not cause the second diaspora. Many ancient Jews—probably most ancient Jews—had by that point lived outside the land of Israel for centuries. They did so, evidently, because they wanted to do so. -- Paula Fredriksen * New Republic *[Gruen’s] book reminds us that, remarkably, there was a time in history when there was no anti-Semitism. Its virulent strain only broke out in the terrible race riot in Alexandria of 38 CE, when the Romans were already ruling the city and the Jews and the Egyptians were vying for their favor—and their jobs. Gruen’s fine book is obviously the labor of a lifetime. -- Erich Segal * Times Literary Supplement *Mr. Gruen, a specialist in the history of the Hellenistic period and author of the magisterial volume The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome, explores the complex and often ambiguous place of Jewish communities in the classical world and the ways in which Jewish literary culture grew and flourished in this diaspora. He argues forcefully that Greece and Rome were not the unrelenting oppressors that Jewish tradition makes them out to be. -- Mark Miller * Washington Times *Gruen’s greatest contribution is that he sees the events…of Jewish history and the literature produced by Hellenistic Jews against the backdrop of events of contemporary non-Jewish history and culture… I have seldom read a book on such a controversial topic that is so full of common sense—and so readable. -- Louis Feldman * American Journal of Philology *Gruen convincingly demolishes whatever remains of the polarized picture of Jews either faithful to their traditions and longing for Jerusalem or swallowed up in a hostile, alien culture… [A] learned and lively presentation of the evidence as well as the theme. -- Jonathan J. Price * Religious Studies Review *Rather than seeing Jews as passive or as mere victims of hostile forces, Gruen presents a complex picture of large and dynamic communities unafraid to assert their Jewish identity while interacting with other groups in Rome, Alexandria, and Asia Minor… This is a rich, novel, and accessible approach to the realities of one of history’s most important diasporas. -- B. Weinstein * Choice *Erich Gruen is a fresh, creative, and arresting voice, whose work is truly paradigm-shifting. The prevailing scholarly paradigm has viewed the Jews as on the defensive, nervous in their cultural engagement with Hellenistic culture. This book powerfully challenges that scholarship: I expect it to be discussed for years to come. Gruen’s expertise shines through on every page. This is a major intellectual achievement. -- John M. G. Barclay, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Jewish Life in the Diaspora 1. The Jews in Rome 2. The Jews in Alexandria 3. Jews in the Province of Asia 4. Civic and Sacral Institutions in the Diaspora Part II: Jewish Constructs of Diaspora Life 5. Diaspora Humor I: Historical Fiction 6. Diaspora Humor II: Biblical Recreations 7. Jewish Constructs of Greeks and Hellenism 8. Diaspora and Homeland Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. Separately, each chapter examines how Japanese have (en)gendered their ideas, institutions, and society.

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Book SynopsisIn this intimate memoir of a young Jewish woman’s adolescence and life in a nineteenth century Eastern European shtetl, Hinde Bergner recalls the gradual impact of modernization on a traditional world as she finds herself caught between her thirst for a European education, true love, and the expectations of her traditional family.

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Book SynopsisComparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece looks at the anthropology of the Greeks and other cultures across space and time, and in the process discovers aspects of the art of comparability. Marcel Detienne tries to see how cultural systems react not just to a touchstone category, but also to the questions and concepts that arise from the reaction.

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Book SynopsisUnderlying Nanjing’s 1930s policies was a concern for the capital’s image—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse; he puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible.

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Book SynopsisThe goal of Worldly Stage is to show how the theater acquired the figurative power to animate diverse aspects of literati cultural production. Conceptions of theatrical spectatorship, Sophie Volpp argues, helped shape a discourse on social spectatorship that suggested how a discerning person might evaluate the performance of status.

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Book SynopsisArguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time—their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant—Rosanvallon traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.Trade ReviewIn this unique synthesis of political theory and social history, Pierre Rosanvallon gives us a masterful interpretation of the French political experience from the Revolution to the present. He explores the tension between the Jacobin tradition, with its deep suspicion of civil society as partial and divisive, and the emergence in modern France of a robust associational life. More than a brilliant analysis of French politics and society, this book is a rich meditation on the theory and practice of democracy, past and present. -- Michael J. Sandel, author of Democracy's Discontent and Public PhilosophyPierre Rosanvallon [is] one of the most important writers of history in France today...His ideas have a clarity and a power similar to Furet's. -- David A. Bell * New Republic *Rosanvallon brilliantly demystifies the "illiberal mentalité" of men like Maximilien Robespierre, the "Incorruptible." Democracy emerges as complicated, valuable, and fragile. -- L. A. Rollo * Choice *

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Book SynopsisPark argues that the mukwa—Korea’s state military examination—was not only the primary means of recruiting aristocrats as new members of the military bureaucracy, but also a way for the ruling elite to partially satisfy the status aspirations of marginalized regional elites, secondary status groups, commoners, and manumitted slaves.

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