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Metropolitan Phoenix
Place Making and Community Building in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big. They feel connected to individual neighborhoods and communities but drive farther to get to work, feel the effects of the regional heat island, and depend in part for their water on snow packs in Wyoming. In Metropolitan Phoenix, Patricia Gober...
by Clayton A. Hurd
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The school-aged population of the United States has become more racially and ethnically diverse in recent decades, but its public schools have become significantly less integrated. In California, nearly half of the state's Latino youth attend intensely-segregated minority schools. Apart from shifts...
Slaves and Englishmen
Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery was entrenched in law and practice, English men and women were well aware of the various forms of human bondage practiced in other nations and, in less systematic...
From Privileges to Rights
Work and Politics in Colonial New York City
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From Privileges to Rights connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.
Tradesmen in New Amsterdam occupied a distinct social...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The American Revolution conjures a series of iconographic images in the contemporary American imagination. In these imagined scenes, defiant Patriots fight against British Redcoats for freedom and democracy, while a unified citizenry rallies behind them and the American cause. But the lived experience...
by Marc Sageman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Misunderstanding Terrorism provides a striking reassessment of the scope and nature of the global neo-jihadi threat to the West. The post-9/11 decade experienced the emergence of new forms of political violence and new terrorist actors. More recently, Marc Sageman's understanding of how and why people...
by Howard Brody
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
How does your opponent put that tricky spin on the ball? Why are some serves easier to return than others? The mysteries behind the winning strokes, equipment, and surfaces of the game of tennis are accessibly explained by Howard Brody through the laws of physics. And he gives practical pointers to...
Crusade and Christendom
Annotated Documents in Translation from Innocent III to the Fall of Acre, 1187-1291
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom—the "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth"—and announcing a General Council of the Latin Church as redress. The Fourth Lateran...
Frontier Cities
Encounters at the Crossroads of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Macau, New Orleans, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. All of these metropolitan centers were once frontier cities, urban areas irrevocably shaped by cross-cultural borderland beginnings. Spanning a wide range of periods and locations, and including stories of eighteenth-century Detroit, nineteenth-century...
by Theodore Winthrop
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men—and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."—Christopher Looby, from the Introduction
Freshly...
The Queen's Dumbshows
John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
No medieval writer reveals more about early English drama than John Lydgate, Claire Sponsler contends. Best known for his enormously long narrative poems The Fall of Princes and The Troy Book, Lydgate also wrote numerous verses related to theatrical performances and ceremonies. This rich yet understudied...
Of Gardens
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes. Her writings allow readers to share in the experience of her extensive travels, from the waterways of Britain's Castle Howard to the Japanese gardens of Kyoto, and home again...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
"Would there have been a Renaissance without translation?" Karen Newman and Jane Tylus ask in their Introduction to this wide-ranging group of essays on the uses of translation in an era formative for the modern age. The early modern period saw cross-cultural translation on a massive scale....
Parrot Culture
Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
After completing his conquest of the Persian empire, Alexander the Great maneuvered his army across the Hindu Kush and into India. During his two years there, he traveled from dry frigid mountains to humid tropical lowlands and then back across one of the most punishing deserts on the planet. He fought...