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Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of...
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
A Forgotten Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major...
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in paradise? And since people had no need for clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did animals serve? Would carnivorous animals have preyed on other creatures? These were but a few of the...
Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...
Roots of the Arab Spring
Contested Authority and Political Change in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In December 2010, the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor set off a wave of protests that have been termed the "Arab Spring." These protests upended the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen while unsettling numerous other regimes throughout the Middle East and North...
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors'...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
Republican Character
From Nixon to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making...
The New World Power
American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America's emergence as...
by Christine Chism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and...
The Al Qaeda Factor
Plots Against the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The horrific and devastating events of September 11, 2001 changed the world's perception of Al Qaeda. What had been considered a small band of revolutionary terrorists capable only of attacking Western targets in the Middle East and Africa suddenly demonstrated an ability to strike globally with enormous...
Top Down
The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted...
by Jeremy M. Schott
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early...
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Jesus was five he killed a boy, or so reports the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A little boy had run into Jesus by accident, bumping him on the shoulder, and Jesus took offense: "Jesus was angry and said to him, 'You shall go no further on your way,' and instantly the boy fell down and died."...