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The Port Huron Statement
Sources and Legacies of the New Left's Founding Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
The Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the New Left student movement of the 1960s. Initially drafted by Tom Hayden and debated over the course of three days in 1962 at a meeting of student leaders, the statement was issued by Students for a Democratic Society as their founding...
Spaces in Translation
Japanese Gardens and the West
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
One may visit famous gardens in Tokyo, Kyoto, or Osaka—or one may visit Japanese-styled gardens in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Berlin, London, Paris, São Paulo, or Singapore. We often view these gardens as representative of the essence of Japanese culture. Christian Tagsold argues, however,...
Dice, Cards, Wheels
A Different History of French Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history. In Dice, Cards, Wheels, Thomas M. Kavanagh scrutinizes the changing face of the gambler in France over a period of eight centuries, using gambling and its representations in literature as a lens through which to observe French...
The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon
A Twelfth-Century Epic
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually...
Essay on Gardens
A Chapter in the French Picturesque
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape,...
Werner Scholem
A German Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Werner Scholem never took the easy path. Born in 1895 into the Berlin Jewish middle class, he married a young non-Jewish woman of proletarian background. He was the youngest member of the Prussian Parliament in the 1920s, one of the leaders of the German Communist Party, and the editor of the influential...
Beyond Civil Rights
The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Shortly after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Daniel Patrick Moynihan authored a government report titled The Negro Family: A Case for National Action that captured the attention of President Lyndon Johnson. Responding to the demands of African American activists that the United States go beyond civil...
The Steppe and the Sea
Pearls in the Mongol Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on...
by Marc Sageman
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
On July 7, 2005, at the end of the morning rush hour, three near-simultaneous explosions tore apart the London Underground. Within an hour, the entire subway network was evacuated, and a fourth explosion in a bus underscored that this was a terrorist operation. The bombings shattered the British counterterrorism...
by Maximianus, A. M. Juster
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Not much can be known about the life of Maximianus, who has been called "the last of the Roman poets," beyond what can be inferred from his poetry. He was most likely a native of Tuscany, probably lived until the middle of the sixth century, and, at an advanced age, went as a diplomat to...
Masking Terror
How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
In Sri Lanka, staggering numbers of young men were killed fighting in the armed forces against Tamil separatists. The war became one of attrition—year after year waves of young foot soldiers were sent to almost certain death in a war so bloody that the very names of the most famous battle scenes...
Human Rights Under African Constitutions
Realizing the Promise for Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Some of the most massive and persistent violations of human rights occur in African nations. In Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves, scholars from a wide range of fields present a sober, systematic assessment of the prospects for legal protection of human...
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop
Health and Safety of the World's Garment Workers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of the global garment industry and revealed its failures as a competitive and self-regulating industry....
On the Move for Love
Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Since the Korean War, gijichon—U.S. military camp towns—have been fixtures in South Korea. The most popular entertainment venues in gijichon are clubs, attracting military clientele with duty-free alcohol, music, shows, and women entertainers. In the 1990s, South Korea's rapid economic advancement,...