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Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229
Sources in Translation, including "The Capture of Damietta" by Oliver of Paderborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced other...
Inquisition and Power
Catharism and the Confessing Subject in Medieval Languedoc
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
What should historians do with the words of the dead? Inquisition and Power reformulates the historiography of heresy and the inquisition by focusing on depositions taken from the Cathars, a religious sect that opposed the Catholic church and took root in southern France during the twelfth century....
Monsters
Evil Beings, Mythical Beasts, and All Manner of Imaginary Terrors
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The human mind needs monsters. In every culture and in every epoch in human history, from ancient Egypt to modern Hollywood, imaginary beings have haunted dreams and fantasies, provoking in young and old shivers of delight, thrills of terror, and endless fascination. All known folklores brim with...
The Gods, the State, and the Individual
Reflections on Civic Religion in Rome
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Roman religion has long presented a number of challenges to historians approaching the subject from a perspective framed by the three Abrahamic religions. The Romans had no sacred text that espoused its creed or offered a portrait of its foundational myth. They described relations with the divine...
Argentina Betrayed
Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The ruthless military dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983 betrayed the country's people, presiding over massive disappearances of its citizenry and, in the process, destroying the state's trustworthiness as the guardian of safety and well-being. Desperate relatives risked their...
Human Rights in American Foreign Policy
From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
International human rights issues perpetually highlight the tension between political interest and idealism. Over the last fifty years, the United States has labored to find an appropriate response to each new human rights crisis, balancing national and global interests as well as political and humanitarian...
Doomsayers
Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The age of revolution, in which kings were dethroned, radical ideals of human equality embraced, and new constitutions written, was also the age of prophecy. Neither an archaic remnant nor a novel practice, prophecy in the eighteenth century was rooted both in the primitive worldview of the Old Testament...
Empires of God
Religious Encounters in the Early Modern Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Religion and empire were inseparable forces in the early modern Atlantic world. Religious passions and conflicts drove much of the expansionist energy of post-Reformation Europe, providing both a rationale and a practical mode of organizing the dispersal and resettlement of hundreds of thousands of...
Religion in the Public Square
Sheen, King, Falwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rev. Jerry Falwell differed profoundly on issues of theology and politics, but they...
Queer Clout
Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively...
Imperial Medicine
Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British...
Parades and the Politics of the Street
Festive Culture in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Simon P. Newman vividly evokes the celebrations of America's first national holidays in the years between the ratification of the Constitution and the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson. He demonstrates how, by taking part in the festive culture of the streets, ordinary American men and women were able...
by Oleg Budnitskii
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In the years following the Russian Revolution, a bitter civil war was waged between the Bolsheviks, with their Red Army of Workers and Peasants on the one side, and the various groups that constituted the anti-Bolshevik movement on the other. The major anti-Bolshevik force was the White Army, whose...
by Brooke Conti
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography....