Vincent: 2487 books

After the 1854 abolition of slavery in Peru, a new generation of plantation owners turned to a system of peasant tenantry to maintain cotton production through the use of cheap labor. In Peasants on Plantations Vincent C. Peloso analyzes the changing social and economic relationships governing the...

The Spanish and Portuguese empires that existed in the Americas for over three hundred years resulted in the creation of a New World population in which a complex array of racial and ethnic distinctions were embedded in the discourse of power. During the colonial era, racial and ethnic identities...

Michael Wharton described Vincent McNabb as “a saintly man so hostile to machinery that he had even made his own fountain pen”. His tract on bodily resurrection is a sober and careful analysis of the Scriptural evidence, buttressed by the teaching of Thomas Aquinas and sidelights from contemporary...

'I Hope I Don't Intrude' takes its title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play Paul Pry, which was an immense success on the London stage and then rapidly in New York and around the English-speaking world. It tackles the complex, multi-faceted subject of privacy in nineteenth-century...

In this fascinating new book, Vincent Henry (a 21-year veteran of the NYPD who recently retired to become a university professor) explores the psychological transformations and adaptations that result from police officers' encounters with death. Police can encounter death frequently in the course...

Set in the Bronx's Little Italy, Sally Boy tells the story of Salvatore Scalise and his bloody rise to power in the New York underworld. As a youth, Sal was a member of the Golden Guineas, a feared street gang made up of the sons of Italian immigrants. He learns how to fight, to value a trusted friend,...

In premodern Moroccan Sufism, sainthood involved not only a closeness to the Divine presence (walaya) but also the exercise of worldly authority (wilaya). The Moroccan Jazuliyya Sufi order used the doctrine that the saint was a "substitute of the prophets" and personification of a universal "Muhammadan...

In this major new book, Vincent Sherry reveals a fresh continuity in literary history. He traces the idea of decadence back to key events from the failures of the French Revolution to the cataclysm of the Great War. This powerful work of literary criticism and literary history encompasses a rich trajectory...

Do you think of Shakespeare as something you had to read in school? Or do you think of Shakespeare as that famous author that you ought to read but that you never get around to?If you do, then Filling the Cheap Seats aims to convince you that Shakespeare is fun! This short book offers fun thoughts and unusual ideas about Shakespeare the playwright and his thirty seven plays.

First off, relax and open your mind to new possibilities! This can easily be accomplished by examining the shortcomings which are all too obvious in our society and religious beliefs. If we apply scrutiny and look where we are not directed to, we can all find enough contradictions to cause doubt and...

Is there a Fundamental Primordial Element we missed?Know the Taboo about you!Is all DNA a single eco-system?Was the Garden of Eden; in early Atlantis?Know the nuts & bolts of Meditation!Could we be Universal Secretions?Are Ancient Texts; ancient history?Explore Fractal Holographic Reality!The Consciousness...

These are the questions we all have about life. Some of us are afraid to ask them, some of us are convinced there are no good answers to these questions, and still yet others are too distracted by life to consider asking them. Somewhere – greed plays into this too as a root emotion. Me, Me, Me!!!!! The...

An introduction to the miracles of forgiveness. A way to look at the world we see differently. The book examines and challenges the accepted notions of life, death, sin and guilt, and asks the readers to consider forgiveness as an alternative. It gives the reader the tools to stop the world and get off.

The unique encounter of African Americans with the Bible has shaped centuries of spirituality and social engagement of a whole continent. Highly respected biblical scholar Vincent Wimbush here outlines the five phases of African American reading and shows how the Bible offered a language-world...