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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
The Yoruba people today number more than 30 million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language and linguistics, literature, philosophy, religion, and art. The 285 entries...
Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia
Performing Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with...
Islamic Central Asia
An Anthology of Historical Sources
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central...
Salvation and Suicide
Jim Jones, The Peoples Temple, and Jonestown
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1991
An “ambitious and courageous” examination of the Jonestown cult viewed through the lens of theology (Journal of the American Academy of Religion).
Re-issued in recognition of the 25th anniversary of the mass suicides at Jonestown, this revised edition of David Chidester’s groundbreaking book...
by Robert S. Korach, Jr.Herbert H. Harwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
From 1901 to 1938 the Lake Shore Electric claimed to be—and was considered by many—"The Greatest Electric Railway in the United States." It followed the shore of Lake Erie, connecting Cleveland and Toledo with a high-speed, limited-stop service and pioneered a form of intermodal transportation...
Masquerading Politics
Kinship, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Yoruba Town
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In West Africa, especially among Yoruba people, masquerades have the power to kill enemies, appoint kings, and grant fertility. John Thabiti Willis takes a close look at masquerade traditions in the Yoruba town of Otta, exploring transformations in performers, performances, and the institutional structures...
Mothers of the Nation
Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2000
British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many ways in which they attempted to shape British public policy and cultural behavior in the areas of religious and governmental...
Mercury, Mining, and Empire
The Human and Ecological Cost of Colonial Silver Mining in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
On the basis of an examination of the colonial mercury and silver production processes and related labor systems, Mercury, Mining, and Empire explores the effects of mercury pollution in colonial Huancavelica, Peru, and Potosí, in present-day Bolivia. The book presents a multifaceted and interwoven...
Richard G. Lugar, Statesman of the Senate
Crafting Foreign Policy from Capitol Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Two-time chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Richard G. Lugar has been one of the most widely respected foreign policy experts in Congress for over three decades. In this illuminating profile, John T. Shaw examines Lugar’s approach to lawmaking and diplomacy for what it reveals about...
Long Awaited West
Eastern Europe since 1944
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
What is Eastern Europe and why is it so culturally and politically separate from the rest of Europe? In Long Awaited West, Stefano Bottoni considers what binds these countries together in an increasingly globalized world. Focusing on economic and social policies, Bottoni explores how Eastern Europe...
Moses Mendelssohn’s Living Script
Philosophy, Practice, History, Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) is often described as the founder of modern Jewish thought and as a leading philosopher of the late Enlightenment. One of Mendelssohn's main concerns was how to conceive of the relationship between Judaism, philosophy, and the civic life of a modern state. Elias Sacks...
The Colonial Legacy in France
Fracture, Rupture, and Apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Debates about the legacy of colonialism in France are not new, but they have taken on new urgency in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Responding to acts of religious and racial violence in 2005, 2010, and 2015 and beyond, the essays in this volume pit French ideals against government-sponsored...
Blood Ties and the Native Son
Poetics of Patronage in Kyrgyzstan
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social...
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
Editing the Past, Fashioning the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the...