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"An English translation of recorded depositions by men arrested for sodomy or pederasty in eighteenth-century Paris, exploring complex questions about sources, patterns, and meanings in the history of sexuality"--

"Celebrates insects, their crucial role in our ecosystems, and people working to preserve biodiversity"--

Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians arrived to set up a mission in the 1740s, Shamokin had been a site of intertribal commerce and refuge for the Native peoples of Pennsylvania for several centuries. It served first as a Susquehannock, then a Shawnee, and then a primarily Lenape settlement and trading post, overseen by the Oneida leader and diplomat Shikellamy. Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence is an annotated translation of the diaries documenting the Moravian mission to the area. Unlike other missions of the time, the Moravians at Shamokin integrated their work and daily life into the diverse cultures they encountered, demonstrating an unusual compromise between the Church's missionary impetus and the needs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The diaries counter the dominant vision of the area around Shamokin as a sinister place, revealing instead a nexus of vibrant cultural exchange where women and men speaking Lenape, Mohican, English, and German collaborated in the business of survival at a pivotal time.The Shamokin diaries, which until now existed only in manuscript form in difficult-to-read German script in the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, allow today's readers to experience the Susquehanna confluence and the rich intercultural exchanges that took place there between Europeans and Native Americans.

Situates Chaucer's proverbs in their premodern cultural and intellectual contexts, arguing that Chaucer places proverbs at the center of the interpretive possibilities the Canterbury Tales extends to its readers.

Examines the emergence and stabilization of the barricade as a symbol of revolution in mid-nineteenth-century France.

An interpretation of architecture and urbanism in seventeenth-century Isfahan, Iran, through the analytical lens of urban experience.

Explores the transformative shift in nineteenth-century Chinese art, where artists used touch to establish a genuine connection with the past, challenge stagnant artistic norms, and foster deeper human connections.

An examination of Leo Strauss's 1948 notebook and other writings on the Euthyphro, Plato's dialogue on piety, using close analysis and line-by-line commentary.

Explores the cultural and religious significance of a series artworks painted onto the walls of the Tunisian city of Qayrawa n by women artists in the late nineteenth century.

Examines how fragile and decaying artworks transformed the relation between art, time, and value in eighteenth-century France.

Explores the author's career and evolution as a photographer during the turbulent 1960s, including his experimental photographs of some of the most significant concerts and artists in rock history.

A collection of essays examining the motivations and (sometimes) shared beliefs that led collectors to assemble significant holdings of American art in the nineteenth century.

Explores stereotyping and electrotyping in U.S. literature and history. Examines how printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers managed the transition as new technologies displaced printing traditions of the early nineteenth century.

Investigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice.

Examines the life and work of writer and political activist Georg Forster (1754-1794), a participant in Captain Cook's second voyage and one of the leading figures in the Mainz Republic.

Argues for the importance of public higher education and the work of teaching and emphasizes the shared ethical responsibilities that underpin the connections between teachers and students.

"Reconstructs Kenneth Burke's drafting and revision process for A Rhetoric of Motives and The War of Words, placing Burke's work in historical context and revealing his reliance on the concept of myth"--

Explores tactics that affirm, support, and even protect those who are the victims of hate speech while fostering democratic deliberation among those committed to combating hate.

Focuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and mission in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.

A collection of essays exploring medieval rape culture, survivors' speech, and female subjectivity in a late medieval lyric genre known as the pastourelle as well as in related literary works.

Reassesses the genre of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance by looking at a series of texts that exploit the potential of praise to undermine consensus and to challenge the normative values of society. The authors covered range from Isocrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Erasmus, Machiavelli, and Montaigne

"Examines the extraordinary drawings, photographs, casts, and sculptures produced by Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) and the Salpãetriáere School that combine medical knowledge and artistic expression"--

Examines a selection of artworks featuring pearls and pearl fishing scenes that demonstrate the interplay between materiality, power, labor, trade, and knowledge exchange that drove artistic production in the early modern period, and legitimated hierarchical and inequitable notions about humanity and nature.

Long considered the embodiment of national resilience and fraternal loyalty in the wake of World War I, Fernand Léger's art overshadows a far less heroic story, one that prompts a demythification of his legendary identification with the working class and provokes important questions about psychic trauma. This book draws on Léger's wartime letters to reassess his work and present an entirely new perspective on how the artist's war experience informed his art.Maureen G. Shanahan traces the legacy of war and historical trauma in Léger's work and uses the crisis of masculinity generated by World War I to explain the contradictions and paradoxes of his art and writing during and after the war. Drawing upon psychoanalytic and gender theory as well as memory studies, Shanahan historicizes the work of Léger and the Purist art movement within the psychiatric discourse of the era and anxieties about neurasthenia, which was associated with German Expressionism, Dada, and New Objectivity artists. Notably, Shanahan dismantles Léger's machine aesthetic as a utopian and regenerative investment and explores the significance of Léger's collectives of soldiers, female nudes, mass-produced objects, divers, and cyclists--his "machine men"--as vehicles for displacing trauma and disavowing loss.Informed by extensive archival research, this volume turns Léger into a case study of Cubism's most radical moment, machine modernism's relationship to war trauma, and aesthetic positions between Socialist Realism and geometric abstraction.

Explores the foundation and development of Marrakesh during the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, drawing upon recent work in archaeology, urban studies, and landscape preservation.

Examines the most extensively illustrated codex of the Vitae patrum, The Lives of the Desert Fathers, to show how images made the practices of the desert saints compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale.

Examines the United States Information Agency's program of photographic diplomacy with Africa, locating photography at the intersection of African decolonization, racial conflict in the United States, and the cultural Cold War.