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Pericles on Stage

Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays

by Michael Vickers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014

Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens,...
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by David M. Pritchard
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians. This view of the Athenians misplaced...
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by Roderic H. Davison
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013

The effect of Western influence on the later Ottoman Empire and on the development of the modern Turkish nation-state links these twelve essays by a prominent American scholar. Roderic Davison draws from his extensive knowledge of Western diplomatic history and Turkish history to describe a period in...
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Dream West

Politics and Religion in Cowboy Movies

by Douglas Brode
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

While political liberals celebrated the end of “cowboy politics” with the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, political conservatives in the Tea Party and other like-minded groups still vociferously support “cowboy” values such as small government, low taxes, free-market capitalism, and...
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Duchess of Palms

A Memoir

by Nadine Eckhardt
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

Child of the Great Depression, teenage "Duchess of Palms" beauty queen, wife of an acclaimed novelist and later of a brilliant U.S. congressman, and ultimately a successful single working woman and mother, Nadine Eckhardt has lived a fascinating life. In this unique, funny, and honest memoir, she...
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On the Dirty Plate Trail

Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee Camps

by Sanora Babb, Dorothy Babb
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009

The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and the images of Farm Security Administration...
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Blood in the Arena

The Spectacle of Roman Power

by Alison Futrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010

From the center of Imperial Rome to the farthest reaches of ancient Britain, Gaul, and Spain, amphitheaters marked the landscape of the Western Roman Empire. Built to bring Roman institutions and the spectacle of Roman power to conquered peoples, many still remain as witnesses to the extent and control...
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by Juan de Betanzos
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were discovered in the collection of the Fundacin Bartolom...
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Islam

Origin and Belief

by Emory C. Bogle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world today. An understanding of its beliefs and practices has become essential knowledge not only for religious and political leaders but also for ordinary citizens who increasingly interact with Muslims as neighbors, coworkers, and schoolmates.This book...
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Charles Brockden Brown

An American Tale

by Alan Axelrod
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

Charles Brockden Brown: An American Tale is the first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer." The author of Wieland, Arthur Mervyn, Ormond, and Edgar Huntly, Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810)...
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The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Reconstructed From Her Diaries and Notes

by Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Arlene Reynolds, Arlene Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010

In her first year of marriage (1864-1865) to General George Armstrong Custer, Libbie Custer witnessed the Civil War firsthand. Her experiences of danger, hardship, and excitement made ideal material for a book, one that she worked on for years in later life but ultimately never published.In this volume,...
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by Robert Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013

The last quarter of the nineteenth century was crucial for the development of Kurdish nationalism. It coincided with the reign of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909), who emphasized Pan-Islamic policies in order to strengthen the Ottoman Empire against European and Russian imperialism, The Pan-Islamic doctrines...
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by Frederic Will
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014

In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century, led by a poet-narrator who is a comfortable and engaging guide and complemented by the artwork of John Guerin. Frederic Will recounts his odyssey: from Austria through...
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by John Forrest, Deborah Blincoe
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011

Traditional quilts serve many purposes over the course of a useful life. Beginning as a beautiful bed covering, a quilt may later function as a ground cover at picnics until years of wear relegate it to someone's ragbag for scrap uses. Observing this life cycle led authors John Forrest and Deborah Blincoe...
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