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Barbarous Antiquity
Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014
In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured into the eastern Mediterranean to trade directly with the Turks, the keepers of an important emerging empire in the Western Hemisphere, and these initial exchanges had a profound effect on English literature. While the theater...
Crossing Borders
Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary...
Shame and Honor
A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
"It's a nice piece of pageantry. . . . Rationally it's lunatic, but in practice, everyone enjoys it, I think."—HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Founded by Edward III in 1348, the Most Noble Order of the Garter is the highest chivalric honor among the gifts of the Queen of England...
Animal Encounters
Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Traces of the living animal run across the entire corpus of medieval writing and reveal how pervasively animals mattered in medieval thought and practice. In fascinating scenes of cross-species encounters, a raven offers St. Cuthbert a lump of lard that waterproofs his visitors' boots for a whole...
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey's charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers' responses to the work...
The Venetian Qur'an
A Renaissance Companion to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have...
Flora's Empire
British Gardens in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple...
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa. But how does constitutionalism deal with the lingering effects of colonialism? And how does constitutional law deal with Islamic principles in the region? African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam seeks to answer...
by Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make an extended...
Genocide
The Act as Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The term "genocide"—"group killing"—which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Since then...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence...
Counter Jihad
America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million...
The Risk of War
Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)—a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing...
Eve of Destruction
The Coming Age of Preventive War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded. The great powers are moving toward norms less restrictive of intervention, preemption, and preventive war. This evolution is taking place not only in the United States but also in many of the world's...