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by Sarah Maza
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.
Designed...
The Culture of Control
Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and "zero-tolerance" policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response...
The Chinese Love Pavilion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013
Paul Scott is most famous for his much-beloved tetralogy The Raj Quartet, an epic that chronicles the end of the British rule in India with a cast of vividly and memorably drawn characters. Inspired by Scott’s own time spent in India and Malaya during World War II, this two powerful novel provides...
Ancient Perspectives
Maps and Their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Ancient Perspectives encompasses a vast arc of space and time—Western Asia to North Africa and Europe from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE—to explore mapmaking and worldviews in the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. In each society, maps served as...
Liberalism and Empire
A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet it also served to justify an empire built on political domination. Uday Mehta argues that imperialism, far from contradicting liberal tenets, in fact stemmed from liberal assumptions about reason and...
People of Plenty
Economic Abundance and the American Character
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty—a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundance. In this important book, David M. Potter breaks new ground both in the study of this phenomenon and...
Transition Scenarios
China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
China’s rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat this transitional period as a novelty, but history...
Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam
Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined—and continues to define today—the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths. Lassner looks closely at the debates occasioned by modern Western...
Before Nature
Cuneiform Knowledge and the History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In the modern West, we take for granted that what we call the “natural world” confronts us all and always has—but Before Nature explores that almost unimaginable time when there was no such conception of “nature”—no word, reference, or sense for it.
Before the concept of nature formed...
The Sins of the Fathers
Germany, Memory, Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over—the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could...
Homeschooling
The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
In Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice, James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters examine homeschooling’s history, its methods, and the fundamental questions at the root of the heated debate over whether and how the state should oversee and regulate it. The authors trace...
by Marika Seigel
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
It is a truth widely acknowledged that if you’re pregnant and can afford one, you’re going to pick up a pregnancy manual. From What to Expect When You’re Expecting to Pregnancy for Dummies, these guides act as portable mentors for women who want advice on how to navigate each stage of pregnancy....
Concrete Revolution
Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Water may seem innocuous, but as a universal necessity, it inevitably intersects with politics when it comes to acquisition, control, and associated technologies. While we know a great deal about the socioecological costs and benefits of modern dams, we know far less about their political origins...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The digital humanities is a rapidly growing field that is transforming humanities research through digital tools and resources. Researchers can now quickly trace every one of Issac Newton’s annotations, use social media to engage academic and public audiences in the interpretation of cultural texts,...