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Confronting the Veil
Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2003
In this book, Jonathan Holloway explores the early lives and careers of economist Abram Harris Jr., sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, and political scientist Ralph Bunche--three black scholars who taught at Howard University during the New Deal and, together, formed the leading edge of American social...
Rudolf Otto
An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists. Elements of Otto's theories are shown to be closely related to the social and intellectual...
The Sin of Sloth
Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Wenzel presents the history of the concept of acedia, of spiritual sloth," from its origins among the Egyptian desert monks through the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The investigation proceeds in chronological order and pays close attention to the different emphases and changes the concept...
Love's Argument
Gender Relations in Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Novy demonstrates how the plays are theatrical transformations of tensions in both ideals and practices in Renaissance society. Analyzing the dramatic images of lover and beloved, of husband and wife, of parent and child, Novy examines the ways in which the conflicts are resolved in the comedies and...
Serpent in Eden
H. L. Mencken and the South
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The appearance in 1920 of H. L. Mencken's scathing essay about the intellectual and cultural impoverishment of the South, "The Sahara of the Bozart", set off a firestorm of reaction in the region that continued unabated for much of the next decade. In Serpent in Eden, Mencken scholar Fred...
The Search for Form
Studies in the Structure of James's Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This volume is a study of the structure of certain of James's works, as well as a search for the structural principles that inform James's fiction and lie behind the technical dicta of his essays and prefaces. It also develops the thesis that most of James's structures are determined by logical and...
Constructing Bangladesh
Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant moments in the region's history from medieval to modern...
by Henry Samuel Levinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In this first detailed examination of Varieties of Religious Experience, Levinson locates James securely in the academic study of religion, demonstrates James's debts to Darwin, and reconstructs the case for the supernatural that James thought so critical to his work. The author discusses the contribution...
Revolutions Revisited
Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment--the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and...
Making the World Safe for Democracy
A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
In this interpretive study, Amos Perlmutter offers a comparative analysis of the twentieth century's three most significant world orders: Wilsonianism, Soviet Communism, and Nazism. Anchored in three hegemonical states--the United States, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany--these systems, he argues,...
The German Influence in France after 1870
The Formation of the French Republic
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Mitchell believes that the history of the French Third Republic remains incomplete until one understands the German impact on France after the Franco-Prossian War. As the French groped unsteadily toward a redefinition of their national identity, they were constantly under the influence of the victorious...
They Should Stay There
The Story of Mexican Migration and Repatriation during the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Here, for the first time in English—and from the Mexican perspective—is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful...
Search for Security
Saudi Arabian Oil and American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Miller shows how the American stake in Saudi Arabian oil challenged the United States to create closer ties with the Saudi kingdom, compelling the move from isolation to involvement with the Middle East. He describes the growing awareness of the stratehic importance of Saudi Arabia, U.S. shrinking...
Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception
A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The authors analyze the tortuous course that Puerto Rico has followed in evolving a population policy, highlighting the island's rapic economic growth, its role as a laboratory for testing different methods of birth control, and the inevitable conflicts between church and state. The strands of colonialism,...