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  • av Karol K. Weaver
    424

    Examines folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes to show how over the course of the twentieth century the men and women of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made.

  • - Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
    av Jane McLeod
    1 031

    Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state.

  • - Williamsport and Minor League Baseball
    av Louis E. Hunsinger & James P. Quigel
    424

  • - Works from an Inquisitional Theorist, a Heretic, and an Inquisitional Deputy
    av Martin Austin (University of Miami) Nesvig
    357

    Examines writings by three early modern Spanish Franciscans in Mexico. Alfonso de Castro, an inquisitional theorist, offers a defense of Indian education. Alonso Cabello, convicted of Erasmianism by the Mexican Inquisition, discusses Christ's humanity in a Nativity sermon. Diego Munoz, an inquisitional deputy, investigates witchcraft in Celaya.

  • - A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
    av John Evan Seery
    597

    Examines the history, theory, and politics behind the age qualifications for elected federal office in the United States Constitution. Argues that the right to run for office ought to be extended to all adult-age citizens who are otherwise office-eligible.

  • - Process and the Democratic State
    av Paulina Ochoa Espejo
    477

    Examines the concept of the people and the problems it raises for liberal democratic theory, constitutional theory, and critical theory. Argues that the people should be conceived not as simply a collection of individuals, but as an ongoing process unfolding in time.

  • - The Politics of Chile's Coal Communities from the Popular Front to the Cold War
    av Jody Pavilack
    557 - 1 161

    Examines the politics of coal miners in Chile during the 1930s and '40s, when they supported the Communist Party in a project of cross-class alliances aimed at defeating fascism, promoting national development, and deepening Chilean democracy.

  • - Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature
    av Deborah A. Green
    481 - 967

    Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities.

  • - Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages
    av Michael D. Bailey
    491

    It was during the late Middle Ages that the full stereotype of demonic witchcraft developed in Europe, and this is the subject of this volume which places the Dominican theologian Johannes Nider at the centre of an emerging set of beliefs about diabolical sorcery and witchcraft in the 15th century.

  • - Quevedo and Political Authority in the Age of Print
    av Ariadna Garcia-Bryce
    491 - 817

    Examines the political writings of the seventeenth-century Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo within the context of the social and material practices of spectacle culture.

  • - Elements of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Society
    av Joshua Woods & Vladimir Shlapentokh
    777 - 817

    Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies.

  • - Building Security in a New World
     
    557

    This text studies how states in differing regions of the world are taking more control over their own affairs. It argues that universal principles of foreign policy are dangerous as regional orders differ, and policy must accommodate these differences if it is to succeed.

  • - Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience
     
    557

    Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation.

  • av Benjamin Rush
    391

    A description, originally published in 1789, of Pennsylvania German culture. Reprint of 1875 edition, with notes, preface, and appendixes by Pennsylvania historian Daniel Rupp.

  • - A Book for Instruction: Rauch's Pennsylvania Deitsh Hond-Booch: En Booch for Inshtructa
    av E. H. Rauch
    424

    A dictionary and guide to the language of the Pennsylvania Germans. Includes English-Pennsylvania German and Pennsylvania German-English translations, along with a phrase book and bilingual sections on conducting business in various settings. Concludes with translated excerpts of poetry, Bible verses, and Shakespeare.

  • - A History of Interesting Events, Traditions and Anecdotes of the Early Settlers of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
    av Ella Zerbey Elliott
    491

    A collection of folklore, stories, anecdotes, and reminiscences of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from its earliest settlement in the eighteenth century to its foundation as a county and growth into a major hub of mining and industry.

  • - As Sung in the Backwood Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840-1910
    av Henry W. Shoemaker
    381

    A collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century folk songs and ballads, compiled with the assistance of John C. French and John H. Chatham from Union, Snyder, Centre, Lycoming, Clinton, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Forest, Cameron, Elk, and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania.

  • - Santiago, Teresa of Avila, and Plural Identities in Early Modern Spain
    av Erin Kathleen Rowe
    477 - 1 037

    Examines the controversy in early seventeenth-century Spain over the elevation of Saint Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Assesses the crucial role of sanctity in the symbolic representation of the nation in early modern Europe.

  • - Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding
    av Alexis Shotwell
    411,99

    Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding.

  • - Volume 2: Bajazet
    av Jean Racine
    411 - 651

    An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Bajazet (1672). Includes critical notes and commentary.

  • - The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness
    av Robert S. Taylor
    557

    Compares the theories of John Rawls and Immanuel Kant, and offers an internal critique and reconstruction of justice as fairness, reconceiving it as a comprehensive, universalistic Kantian liberalism.

  • - Fictional Events and Actual Emotions
    av E.M. Dadlez
    491

  • - Volume 1: The Fratricides
    av Jean Racine
    437

    An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays.

  • - The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
    av Gabriel A. Ondetti
    424

    Analyzes the development of the movement for agrarian reform in Brazil, and attempts to explain the major moments of change in its growth trajectory, from the late 1970s to 2006.

  • - Accumulation, Imperial Designs, and Transnational Social Fields
    av Margarita Cervantes-Rodriguez
    547

    Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. This study of international migration in Cuba aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields.

  • - Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
     
    421

    An English translation and critical edition of a refutation, written about 1603 by the soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, of Bartolome de las Casas's famous Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1558).

  • av Daniel Levy & Natan Sznaider
    387

    Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices.

  • - Gender, Race, and Health Sector Reform in Peru
    av Christina Ewig
    491 - 911

    Analyzes the politics of neoliberal health sector reform and its effects in Peru. Focuses on the intersecting dynamics of race, class, and gender in the developing world.

  • - Moral and Legal Foundations
    av Adam Daniel Moore
    967

    Provides a definition and defense of individual privacy rights. Applies the proposed theory to issues including privacy versus free speech; drug testing; and national security and public accountability.

  • av Stephen L. (Professor of Philosophy & Michigan State University) Esquith
    411,99 - 777

    A discussion of how everyday bystanders can learn to recognize and meet their shared and institutional political responsibilities for hunger, poverty, famine, civil war, wars of conquest and invasion, epidemics and pandemics, and genocide.

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