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To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty
A Study in Anglo-American Relations, 1783-1843
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, which led to the settlement of the Canadian boundary dispute, was instrumental in maintaining peace between Great Britain and the United States. Jones analyzes the events that aggravated relations to show the affect of America's states' rights policy, and he concludes...
Union in Peril
The Crisis Over British Intervention in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Jones studies the crisis in Anglo-American relations during the Civil War and its impact on the South's attempt to win foreign support during the crucial years of 1861 and 1862. He argues that the central issue was the possibility that Britain would grant diplomatic recognition to the Confederacy,...
The Art of Forgetting
Disgrace and Oblivion in Roman Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilation of portraits and public inscriptions. Harriet Flower provides the first chronological overview of...
Kingdom to Commune
Protestant Pacifist Culture between World War I and the Vietnam Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This collection of essays explores the lives and roles of women in antiquity. A recurring theme is the relationship between private and public, and many of the essays find that women's public roles develop as a result of their private lives, specifically their family relationships.
Essays on...
by Dale M. Bauer
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
American women novelists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries registered a call for a new sexual freedom, Dale Bauer contends. By creating a lexicon of "sex expression," many authors explored sexuality as part of a discourse about women's needs rather than confining it to...
Your Health, Your Decisions
How to Work with Your Doctor to Become a Knowledge-Powered Patient
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
In nearly every medical-decision-making encounter, the physician is at the center of the discussion, with the patient the recipient of the physician's decisions. Dr. Robert Alan McNutt starts from a very different premise: the patient should be at the center. McNutt challenges the physician-directed,...
Belabored Professions
Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists, or as "doers of the word." In Belabored Professions, Xiomara Santamarina examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended...
Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
The Development of Their Form and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Phialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts,...
Religion as Critique
Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates...
Rhetorical Occasions
Essays on Humans and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of...
A Different Shade of Justice
Asian American Civil Rights in the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by African Americans in their fight for civil and human rights. Although they were not black, Asian Americans generally were not considered white and thus were...
Securing Sex
Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival records, he shows that by midcentury, conservatives--individuals and organizations, civilian as well as military--were firmly situated...
Religion and Politics in the Age of the Counterreformation
Emperor Ferdinand II, William Lamormaini, S.J., and the Formation of Imperial Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Confirming what historians have long suspected--that the influence of a court confessor could be crucial for the formation of policy--Bireley explores the relationship between Ferdinand and Lamormaini during the Thirty Years War. The author shows how Lamormaini planned for the restoration of Catholicism...