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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Order and Civility in the Early Modern Chesapeake captures a variety of experiences in the early modern Chesapeake illustrating the race, class, ethnic, and gender diversity that created a unique New World experience. Students and scholars will find this book essential to understanding the colonial Chesapeake.
Society, History, and the Global Human Condition
Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2010
This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new...
Metamorphoses of the Zoo
Animal Encounter after Noah
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah is a volume dedicated to radically transformative approaches to spaces set aside as zoological parks or gardens. Historically, these establishments served as symbols of power and venues for entertainment, but today, they have taken to portraying...
by Robert McParland
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that...
Writing Beijing
Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of socialist ideol-ogy and revolutionary culture....
by Ariel Clark Silver
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
The enduring search for female salvation in American literature is first expressed through typology, an interpretive framework that pairs type with antitype, historical scriptural promise with future spiritual fulfillment. When Cotton Mather invokes the typos of Esther in Ornaments of the Daughters...
Picturing Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau in American Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few are aware that he was deeply engaged with...
German Jews in Palestine, 1920–1948
Between Dream and Reality
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
With an approach both personal and symbolic, this volume leads us through the imagined worlds, delusions, discoveries, questions, hopes, ambivalences, anxieties, and historical, cultural and psychological dynamics of six German-Jewish writers and intellectuals who arrived in Palestine between the...
Role Model and Countermodel
The Golden Age of Iberian Jewry and German Jewish Culture during the Era of Emancipation
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book explores the “Golden Age” of Sephardic Jewry on the Iberian Peninsula and its perception in German Jewish culture during the era of emancipation. For Jews living in Germany, the history of Sephardic Jewry developed into a historical example with its distinctive valence and signature...
Jewish–Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity
Seven Twentieth-Century Converts
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book is an exploration of what would seem to be a simple question, but is actually the object of a profound quest—“who is a Jew?” This is a deeply complex issue, both within Judaism, and in interactions between Jews and Christians. Jewish–Christian Difference and Modern Jewish Identity:...
The Promise of Phenomenology
Posthumous Papers of John Wild
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild includes articles that remained unpublished during Wild's lifetime, a journal, wherein he recorded conversations with major British and Continental philosophers during 1957-8, as well as a masterful exposition and commentary on Emmanuel...
Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom
The Ordeal of Evangelicalism in the Colonial South
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the evangelical heartland of Scotland...
Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics and the Discourse of Mark 13
Appropriating the Apocalyptic
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
The apocalyptic discourse of Mark 13 predicts that cataclysmic events will occur within the generation of Jesus’ contemporaries, but readers today know these events have not taken place. Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics enables a reader to understand this text as a presentation of truth rather than...
Beyond the Problem of Evil
Derrida and Anglophone Philosophy of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Beyond the Problem of Evil tackles the reinventing the philosophy of religion by way of a topic familiar to anyone who has encountered the field. By considering how “the problem of evil” is historically structured by commitments to theism alongside the recent calls for cross-cultural relevance...