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Making Love in the Twelfth Century
"Letters of Two Lovers" in Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Nine hundred years ago in Paris, a teacher and his brilliant female student fell in love and chronicled their affair in a passionate correspondence. Their 116 surviving letters, some whole and some fragmentary, are composed in eloquent, highly rhetorical Latin. Since their discovery in the late twentieth...
by Kevin Uhalde
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Augustine, bishop of Hippo between 395 and 430, and his fellow bishops lived and worked through massive shifts in politics, society, and religion. Christian bishops were frequently asked to serve as intellectuals, legislators, judges, and pastors—roles and responsibilities that often conflicted...
Louisiana
Crossroads of the Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Located at the junction of North America and the Caribbean, the vast territory of colonial Louisiana provides a paradigmatic case study for an Atlantic studies approach. One of the largest North American colonies and one of the last to be founded, Louisiana was governed by a succession of sovereignties,...
America at the Ballot Box
Elections and Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Elections are, and always have been, the lifeblood of American democracy. Often raucous and sharply contentious, sometimes featuring grand debates about the nation's future, and invariably full of dramatic moments, elections offer insight into the character and historical evolution of American politics....
The Ingenious Dr. Franklin
Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, "Practical...
Religion in Republican Rome
Rationalization and Ritual Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Roman religion as we know it is largely the product of the middle and late republic, the period falling roughly between the victory of Rome over its Latin allies in 338 B.C.E. and the attempt of the Italian peoples in the Social War to stop Roman domination, resulting in the victory of Rome over all...
Youthscapes
The Popular, the National, the Global
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors....
Between North and South
Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Between North and South chronicles the three-decade-long struggle over segregated schooling in Delaware, a key border state and important site of civil rights activism and white reaction. Historian Brett Gadsden begins by tracing the origins of a long litigation campaign by NAACP attorneys who translated...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Proponents of education reform are committed to the idea that all children should receive a quality education, and that all of them have a capacity to learn and grow, whatever their ethnicity or economic circumstances. But though recent years have seen numerous reform efforts, the resources available...
by Marc Sageman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
For decades, a new type of terrorism has been quietly gathering ranks in the world. America's ability to remain oblivious to these new movements ended on September 11, 2001. The Islamist fanatics in the global Salafi jihad (the violent, revivalist social movement of which al Qaeda is a part) target...
Depression
Causes and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than forty years ago, Dr. Aaron T. Beck's pioneering Depression: Causes and Treatment presented the first comprehensive account of all aspects of depression and introduced cognitive therapy to health care providers and patients struggling with one of the most common and devastating diseases of...
Crimes of Peace
Mediterranean Migrations at the World's Deadliest Border
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Among the world's hotly contested, obsessively controlled, and often dangerous borders, none is deadlier than the Mediterranean Sea. Since 2000, at least 25,000 people have lost their lives attempting to reach Italy and the rest of Europe, most by drowning in the Mediterranean. Every day, unauthorized...
Mapping Decline
St. Louis and the Fate of the American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American...
Western Welfare in Decline
Globalization and Women's Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
The feminization of poverty is increasingly recognized as a global phenomenon, affecting women not only in third world countries but also in the West. Taking globalization as its starting point, Western Welfare in Decline explores the plight of poor single mothers in five English-speaking nations...