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by Euclides da Cunha
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality.
"Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is...
Cutting the Fuse
The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Cutting the Fuse offers a wealth of new knowledge about the origins of suicide terrorism and strategies to stop it. Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman have examined every suicide terrorist attack worldwide from 1980 to 2009, and the insights they have gleaned from that data fundamentally...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently...
Walden Warming
Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be too late. In the 160 years since Thoreau’s writings,...
This Land Is Your Land
The Story of Field Biology in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments—an understanding gleaned only...
Mixed Medicines
Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their colonial enclaves, they found themselves negotiating...
by Richard A. McKay
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The search for a “patient zero”—popularly understood to be the first person infected in an epidemic—has been key to media coverage of major infectious disease outbreaks for more than three decades. Yet the term itself did not exist before the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...
Defectives in the Land
Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the “undesirable immigrant.” Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton’s groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability,...
by Norman Itzkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
This skillfully written text presents the full sweep of Ottoman history from its beginnings on the Byzantine frontier in about 1300, through its development as an empire, to its late eighteenth-century confrontation with a rapidly modernizing Europe. Itzkowitz delineates the fundamental institutions...
The Worldmakers
Global Imagining in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
In this beautifully conceived book, Ayesha Ramachandran reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was...
American Indians
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
William Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Daniel M. Cobb has taken over the task of updating and revising the material, allowing the book to respond to the times. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the...
Custer's Last Stand
The Unfinished Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame and critical acclaim—as well as the devotion of readers worldwide. When he died in 1990, Maclean left...
Slavery
A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
This third edition of Stanley M. Elkin's classic study offers two new chapters by the author. The first, "Slavery and Ideology," considers the discussion and criticism occasioned by this controversial work. Elkins amplifies his original purpose in writing the book and takes into consideration the...
The Cruel Way
Switzerland to Afghanistan in a Ford, 1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of...