This book offers a reexamination of the evidence about citizens' capacity for selfgovernance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both...
About the Author George E. Marcus is Professor of Political Science at Williams College and coauthor of Political Tolerance and American Democracy (1982).Russell L. Hanson...
Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the...
Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of thencontempory ideas about...
Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the death of philosophy and the death of the subject to consider more positively how philosophy can...
Mary Shelley lived and wrote during an age of religious instability, one that witnessed the spread of atheism, millenarianism, Methodism, Unitarianism, and Evangelicalism, among other...
Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and...
Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense, yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious thought, imagination, and...
In September 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new Federal Constitution to replace the beleaguered Articles of Confederation. Each state then had to...
This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the socalled 'church rates' controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in...
This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the socalled "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in...
The essays in Religious Upbringing and the Costs of Freedom are the personal stories of philosophers who were brought up religiously and have broken free,...
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the...
The twelve interdisciplinary essays collected here explore what Whitney Davis calls 'replication' in archaeology, art history, and psychoanalysisthe sequential production of similar artifacts or images...
Representing Belief Provides A Detailed Discussion And Analysis Of The Forms And Meanings In Religious Art Of Nineteenthcentury France. This Genre, Usually Assigned Minimal Importance...
Combining social history with literary criticism, James KrippnerMartnez shows how a historiographically sensitive rereading of contemporaneous documents concerning the sixteenthcentury Spanish conquest and evangelization of...
Often referred to as the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, Arshile Gorky (c. 19001948) appears as an interstice within art historys linear progression. Gorky...
Often referred to as the last Surrealist and first Abstract Expressionist, Arshile Gorky (c. 19001948) appears as an interstice within art historys linear progression. Gorky...
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First published in 1991 and reprinted in 1994 and 1998, MidLatitude Weather Systems has become a classic text in synoptic meteorology. It is the first...
An illustrated guidebook that describes fortynine natural places in Pennsylvania to explore and enjoy.In this sequel to the popular guidebook Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania, Marcia...
The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the...
The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the...
The Occitan literary tradition of the later Middle Ages is a marginal and hybrid phenomenon, caught between the preeminence of French courtly romance and the...
Museums of the Mind is the first book to explore the evolving relationship of collecting and the German literary imagination since the invention of the...
Drawing on his own diary as well as secret documents and transcripts of highlevel meetings, Anatoly Chernyaev recounts the drama that swept the Soviet Union...
The makers of public health policy face enormous challenges in the twentyfirst century. In the past, their field has been imprecisely defined, deeply conflicted, poorly...
Notre Dame Cathedral: A Comprehensive History Since its construction, Notre Dame Cathedral has served as a cornerstone of French cultural identity. Following the tragic fire...
A comprehensive discussion of Plato's treatment of techne (technical knowledge), which shows that the final goal of Platonic philosophy is nontechnical wisdom. The Greek word...