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  • - Engaging with Carole Pateman
     
    424

    A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman and her theories of democracy and feminism.

  • - A Journey into Mi'kmaw Myth
    av Jennifer Reid
    847

    Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.

  • av Alex Nava
    451 - 911

    Explores the language of wonder in the history of the New World. Traces the preoccupation with this concept in the history of the Americas from the colonial era to the twentieth century, with the emergence of so-called magical realism.

  • - German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
     
    451

    A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.

  • - Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia
    av Thomas F. Rzeznik
    451 - 911

    Examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s.

  • - German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-Century North America
     
    911

    A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.

  • - Poetry and the Problem of the Populace After 1381
    av Lynn (Brock University) Arner
    411,99 - 847

    Examines the transmission of Greco-Roman and European literature into English in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, when literacy was burgeoning among men and women from the nonruling classes in England.

  • - Toward a Feminist History of Utilitarian Philosophy
    av Catherine Villanueva Gardner
    421 - 777

    Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover theirphilosophy and categorize it as feminist.

  • - Culture, Communication, and Political Action in Hungary
    av David Boromisza-Habashi
    411 - 707

    An empirical study of hate speech in Hungary, examining the cultural foundations of public communication and how cultural thinking can be used to inform political action through public expression.

  • - Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
    av Frank (Associate Professor & University of Saskatchewan) Klaassen
    477 - 911

    Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic, which could not.

  • - Writings on the United States
     
    387

    An English translation of the writings of French constitutional theorist Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) on the United States. Subjects include the American Revolution, federal Constitution, and the emerging political culture in the United States.

  • - Writings on the United States
    av Guillaume Ansart
    847

    An English translation of the writings of French constitutional theorist Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) on the United States. Subjects include the American Revolution, federal Constitution, and the emerging political culture in the United States.

  • - Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist
    av G.Reginald Daniel
    427 - 1 037

    Examines how racial identity and race relations are expressed in the writings of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazil's foremost author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • - Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest
    av J. Michael Francis
    407

    In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. This title reconstructs the tale of the Jimenez expedition, the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Muisca territory, and the foundation of the city of Santa Fe de Bogota.

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    491

    This anthology examines the work of Hegel from diverse critical perspectives. The essays gathered together here focus on gender issues found in his philosophy, including the passages on woman and and the feminine, which feature prominently in his work.

  • - American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement
    av Jay P. Childers
    487 - 707

    Examines, through an analysis of seven high school newspapers, the evolution of civic and political participation among young people in the United States since 1965.

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    1 111

    A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective.

  • - How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government
    av John F. M. McDermott
    547

    A narrative history of the gains in economic and political equality in the United States starting in the 1870s. Argues that many of these gains have been reversed since the 1960s, and proposes solutions for reversing this downward spiral.

  • av Angela Vergara
    424

    Traces the history of the labor movement in Chile through the experiences of copper miners employed by the Anaconda Copper Company from 1945 to 1990. Covers the economic, political, and social history of the 45-year period when the Cold War dominated Chilean politics.

  • - Reassessments and New Approaches
     
    467

    In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret's revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based.

  • - The Emergence of French Social History, 1815-1970
    av Jonathan DeWald
    847

    The interest in social history and private life is often seen as a 20th-century innovation. This book shows that we need to look back into the 19th century, when French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ. It also compares French approaches to social history with those of German historians between 1930 and 1970.

  • - The Time of Troubles and the Founding of the Romanov Dynasty
    av Chester S. L. Dunning
    571

  • - A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson
    av Anne M. Ousterhout
    561 - 651

  • - The Letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon
     
    424

    The letters contained in As Ever Yours, published here for the first time, reveal an epistolary love story-and they provide fresh insights into Perkins the man and Perkins the editor. The Perkins-Lemmon letters illuminate the thoughts and experiences of the greatest literary editor of the twentieth century.

  • - Prophecy and Politics in Renaissance Italy
    av Marion Leathers Kuntz
    477

  • - Prayer as Rhetoric and Performance
    av William Fitzgerald
    441 - 707

    Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine.

  • - A Study in Yoruba Myth and Human Consciousness
    av Velma E. (Winthrop University) Love
    691

    Explores the dynamics of African American engagements with the Holy Odu, the unwritten sacred scriptures of the West African Ifa Orisha tradition. Examines the experiences of selected practitioners, focusing on the ways in which the divinatory narrative and associated mythology impact self-understanding and worldview.

  • av Cheng Chen
    424

    The fall of communism in the Soviet Union led many to expect that liberal democracy would take root, since then however, a very different picture has emerged. This work examines this phenomenon and shows how liberalism and nationalism were more difficult to reconcile because Leninism was indigenous and had a significant impact on nation-building.

  • - The Letters of Max Perkins and Elizabeth Lemmon
     
    557

    The letters contained in As Ever Yours, published here for the first time, reveal an epistolary love story-and they provide fresh insights into Perkins the man and Perkins the editor. The Perkins-Lemmon letters illuminate the thoughts and experiences of the greatest literary editor of the twentieth century.

  • - Author-Publisher Relations in the Victorian Era
    av David Finkelstein
    1 087

    The Scottish publishing house of William Blackwoood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in 19th- and early 20th-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors, including George Eliot and Joseph Conrad. This is a look at its success and eventual demise.

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