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Capitalism by Gaslight
Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
While elite merchants, financiers, shopkeepers, and customers were the most visible producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and capital in the nineteenth century, they were certainly not alone in shaping the economy. Lurking in the shadows of capitalism's past are those who made markets by...
The Best Possible Immigrants
International Adoption and the American Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Prior to World War II, international adoption was virtually unknown, but in the twenty-first century, it has become a common practice, touching almost every American. How did the adoption of foreign children by U.S. families become an essential part of American culture in such a short period of time?...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Established in 1969, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is an intergovernmental organization the purpose of which is the strengthening of solidarity among Muslims. Headquartered in Jeddah, the OIC today consists of fifty seven states from the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Latin America....
Pulse of the People
Political Rap Music and Black Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Hip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social...
New Age Capitalism
Making Money East of Eden
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
The pursuit of health and wellness has become a fundamental and familiar part of everyday life in America. We are surrounded by an enticing world of products, practices, and promotions assuring health and happiness—cereal boxes claim that their contents can reduce the risk of heart disease, bars...
by D. Fairchild Ruggles
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
"In the course of my research," writes D. Fairchild Ruggles, "I devoured Arabic agricultural manuals from the tenth through the fourteenth centuries. I love gardening, and in these texts I was able to enter the minds of agriculturalists and botanists of a thousand years ago who likewise...
Dinah's Daughters
Gender and Judaism from the Hebrew Bible to Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The status of women in the ancient Judaism of the Hebrew Bible and Rabbinic texts has long been a contested issue. What does being a Jewess entail in antiquity? Men in ancient Jewish culture are defined primarily by what duties they are expected to perform, the course of action that they take. The...
Hopeful Journeys
German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated...
Irish Folk History
Tales from the North
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Made of the words of the people who live today in the beautiful, embattled countryside of Ulster, Irish Folk History is, in essence, the people's own statement of their past. In story, song, and spontaneous essay, these texts, selected from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, tell of the coming of Christianity,...
Military Cultures in Peace and Stability Operations
Afghanistan and Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
As of September 2017, the United Nations alone deployed 110,000 uniformed personnel from 122 countries in fifteen peacekeeping operations worldwide. Soldiers in these missions are important actors who not only have considerable responsibility for implementing peace and stability operations but also...
Domestic Intimacies
Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Although it is commonly thought that incest has been taboo throughout history, nineteenth-century Americans evinced a great cultural anxiety that the prohibition was failing. Theologians debated the meaning and limits of biblical proscription, while jurists abandoned such injunctions and invented...
The Most Beautiful Man in Existence
The Scandalous Life of Alexander Lesassier
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2013
1833, Catherine Jane Hamilton returned from India to Edinburgh to seek a divorce from her husband, the physician Alexander Lesassier. The charge was adultery, and proof for it lay in a trunk containing her husband's personal papers. Catherine won her suit without difficulty and the trunk was deposited...
by Markus Thiel
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Adherence to basic human rights norms has become an expected feature of states throughout the world. In Europe, the promotion and protection of human rights through national governments has been enhanced by the diversity of intergovernmental organizations committed to this cause. The latest addition...
The People of the Parish
Community Life in a Late Medieval English Diocese
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
The parish, the lowest level of hierarchy in the medieval church, was the shared responsibility of the laity and the clergy. Most Christians were baptized, went to confession, were married, and were buried in the parish church or churchyard; in addition, business, legal settlements, sociability, and...