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Creating Human Rights
How Noncitizens Made Sex Persecution Matter to the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Creating Human Rights offers the first systematic study of a pioneering women's refugee movement and its challenge, as an international trigger case, to more conventional paths toward human rights policy development. Lisa S. Alfredson...
The Oldest Revolutionary
Essays on Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Benjamin Franklin is the model American of an America that we have created. But if we can go beyond our preconceptions of Franklin and the 1776 and 1976 image of America, we can learn something of the truth, as well as the art, of his writings. The essays in this volume evaluate Franklin as a printer,...
Literature, American Style
The Originality of Imitation in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Between 1780 and 1800, authors of imaginative literature in the new United States wanted to assert that their works, which bore obvious connections to anglophone literature on the far side of the Atlantic, nevertheless constituted a properly "American" tradition. No one had yet figured out,...
Front Lines
Soldiers' Writing in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In Front Lines, Miguel Martínez documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. Against all odds, these Spanish soldiers produced, distributed, and consumed a remarkably innovative set of works on war that have been almost completely neglected in literary and historical scholarship....
Empires of Love
Europe, Asia, and the Making of Early Modern Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries—epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation—Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the...
Recipes for Thought
Knowledge and Taste in the Early Modern English Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
For a significant part of the early modern period, England was the most active site of recipe publication in Europe and the only country in which recipes were explicitly addressed to housewives. Recipes for Thought analyzes, for the first time, the full range of English manuscript and printed recipe...
Machiavelli's Legacy
"The Prince" After Five Hundred Years
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince is one of the most celebrated and notorious books in the history of Western political thought. It continues to influence discussions of war and peace, the nature of politics, and the relation of private ethics to public duties. Ostensibly a sixteenth-century manual...
Christian Slavery
Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could perpetual enslavement be justified? In Christian Slavery, Katharine Gerbner contends that religion was fundamental to the development of both slavery and race in the Protestant Atlantic world. Slave...
by Evan Haefeli
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion."...
Professional Indian
The American Odyssey of Eleazer Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Born in 1788, Eleazer Williams was raised in the Catholic Iroquois settlement of Kahnawake along the St. Lawrence River. According to some sources, he was the descendant of a Puritan minister whose daughter was taken by French and Mohawk raiders; in other tales he was the Lost Dauphin, second son...
Zamumo's Gifts
Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy...
This Side of Silence
Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
We are accustomed to thinking of torture as the purposeful infliction of cruelty by public officials, and we assume that lawyers and clinicians are best placed to speak about its causes and effects. However, it has not always been so. The category of torture is a very specific way of thinking about...
The Anti-Slavery Project
From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were...
Maoists at the Hearth
Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The Maoist insurgency in Nepal lasted from 1996 to 2006, and at the pinnacle of their armed success the Maoists controlled much of the countryside. Maoists at the Hearth, which is based on ethnographic research that commenced more than a decade before the escalation of the civil war in 2001, explores...