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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
During the era of the Atlantic slave trade, vibrant port cities became home to thousands of Africans in transit. Free and enslaved blacks alike crafted the necessary materials to support transoceanic commerce and labored as stevedores, carters, sex workers, and boarding-house keepers. Even though...
Faithful Republic
Religion and Politics in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Despite constitutional limitations, the points of contact between religion and politics have deeply affected all aspects of American political development since the founding of the United States. Within partisan politics, federal institutions, and movement activism, religion and politics have rarely...
by Catherine M. Chin
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius,...
The Breakthrough
Human Rights in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki...
New World Orders
Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
As the geographic boundaries of early American history have expanded, so too have historians' attempts to explore the comparative dimensions of this history. At the same time, historians have struggled to find a conceptual framework flexible enough to incorporate the sweeping narratives of imperial...
Messengers of the Right
Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
From Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck and Matt Drudge, Americans are accustomed to thinking of right-wing media as integral to contemporary conservatism. But today's well-known personalities make up the second generation of broadcasting and publishing activists. Messengers of the Right...
by Joseph E. Illick
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
The experiences of children in America have long been a source of scholarly fascination and general interest. In American Childhoods, Joseph Illick brings together his own extensive research and a synthesis of literature from a range...
The Purposes of Paradise
U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
For half a century, the United States has treated Cuba and Hawai'i as polar opposites: despised nation and beloved state. But for more than a century before the Cuban revolution and Hawaiian statehood of 1959, Cuba and Hawai'i figured as twin objects of U.S. imperial desire and as possessions whose...
Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe
French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Though the field of book history has long been divided into discrete national histories, books have seldom been as respectful of national borders as the historians who study them—least of all in the age of Enlightenment when French books reached readers throughout Europe. In this erudite and engagingly...
by Thomas T. Allsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over...
by George W. Dameron
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2013
By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from...
The Altar at Home
Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Displays of devout religious faith are very much in evidence in nineteenth-century sentimental novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women, but the precise theological nature of this piety has been little examined. In the first dedicated study of the religious contents of sentimental literature,...
Entangled Histories
Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
From Halakhic innovation to blood libels, from the establishment of new mendicant orders to the institutionalization of Islamicate bureaucracy, and from the development of the inquisitorial process to the rise of yeshivas, universities, and madrasas, the long thirteenth century saw a profusion of...
Women in Frankish Society
Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Women in Frankish Society is a careful and thorough study of women and their roles in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods of the Middle Ages. During the 5th through 9th centuries, Frankish society transformed from a relatively primitive tribal structure to a more complex hierarchical organization....