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Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor''s success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in u...

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Pigeon Trouble chronicles a foreign-born, birdphobic anthropologist''s venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania''s anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protes...

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In 1821, at the age of seventy-seven, Thomas Jefferson decided to "e;state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself."e; His ancestors, Jefferson writes, came to America from Wales in the early seventeenth century and settled...

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Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, &...

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In the early thirteenth century, semireligious communities of women began to form in the cities and towns of the Low Countries. These beguines, as the women came to be known, led lives o...

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In contemporary America, myths find expression primarily in film. What''s more, many of the highest-grossing American movies of the past several decades have been rooted in one of the most fundamental mythic narratives, the hero quest. Why is the ...

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In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "e;Black as Coal."e; Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-centur...

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In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this turning point of emancipation while often overlooking much of what came before. In Rites and Pass...

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"e;This book describes the roots of a set of ideals that effected a radical transformation of eleventh-century European society that led to the confrontation between church and monarchy known as the investiture struggle or Gregorian reform. Id...

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The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening to the voices of people who experience political violence—either as victims or as perpetrato...

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Issues of universal human rights are critically important topics in education today. Educators, scholars, and activists urge schools to promote awareness and understanding of human rights in their curricula from the earliest levels. Written by by ...

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Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror and sadness. Yet, as Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na''im and his contributors attest, our viewpoint is clouded a...

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999Since the 1968 publication of N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, a new generation of Native American storytellers has chosen writing over oral traditions. While their works ha...

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When we think about the European past, we tend to imagine villages, towns, and cities populated by conventional families—married couples and their children. Although most people did marry and pass many of their adult years in the company of ...

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with...

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In the final stages of his career, Roland Barthes abandoned his long-standing suspicion of photographic representation to write Camera Lucida, at once an elegy to his dead mother and a treatise on photography. In Writing the Image After Roland Bar...

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Identified only in 1986, the Nahuatl Holy Week play is the earliest known dramatic script in any Native American language. In Holy Wednesday , Louise Burkhart presents side-by-side English translations of the Nahuatl play and its Spanish source. A...

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One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of n...

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Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "e;apostles to the dead"e; and end by challenging God's right to damn? Why did certa...

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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired moves beyond the depiction of African Americans as mere recipients of aid or as victims of neglect and highlights the ways black health activists created public health programs and influenced public policy at...

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The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "e;Germans"e; pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the theme...

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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title"e;Speak of me as I am,"e; Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What ...

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Before the rise of universities, cathedral schools educated students in a course of studies aimed at perfecting their physical presence, their manners, and their eloquence. The formula of cathedral schools was "e;letters and manners"e; (li...

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Nearly half of the world''s eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set a...

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"e;Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."e;Semonides, seventh century B.C.Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afarand to take better aim at them f...

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In this study of sexual violence and rape in French medieval literature and law, Kathryn Gravdal examines an array of famous works never before analyzed in connection with sexual violence. Gravdal demonstrates the variety of techniques through whi...

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Argues that anyone—anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman—who uses what people say to find out what people think had better know how speech itself is organized.

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In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between pat...

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Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women''s hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in...

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Historians have emphasized the founding fathers'' statesmanship and vision in the development of a more powerful union under the federal constitution. In The Origins of the Federal Republic , Peter S. Onuf clarifies the founders'' achievement by d...

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