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Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired

Susan Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Health, Illness, & Caregiving
• Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950 Susan Smith Winner of the 1996 The Frances Richardson Kelle... Lees meer

Boiotia in the Fourth Century B.C.

• Hardcover | Engels
• The region of Boiotia was one of the most powerful regions in Greece between the Peloponnesian War and the rise of Macedonian power under Philip II an... Lees meer

The People of This Generation

Paul Lyons

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the heart of the tumult that marked the 1960s was the unprecedented scale of student protest on university campuses around the world. Identifying t... Lees meer

Takedown

Philip Mudd

• Hardcover | Engels
• On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White Hou... Lees meer

Shakespeare Trade

Barbara Hodgdon

• Paperback | Engels | New Cultural Studies
• In these provocative case studies, Barbara Hodgdon examines not only how Shakespeare's plays are staged and restaged by readers and critics as well as... Lees meer

Food Is Love

Katherine J Parkin

• Paperback | Engels
• Modern advertising has changed dramatically since the early twentieth century, but when it comes to food, Katherine Parkin writes, the message has rem... Lees meer

This Is Our Music

Iain Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• This Is Our Music , declared saxophonist Ornette Coleman's 1960 album title. But whose music was it? At various times during the 1950s and 1960s, musi... Lees meer

Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was c... Lees meer

Between Theater and Anthropology

Richard Schechner

• Paperback | Engels
• In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative ... Lees meer

Cultural Intermediaries

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Focusing on an epoch of spectacular demographic, political, economic, and cultural changes for European Jewry, Cultural Intermediaries chronicles the ... Lees meer

The Trotula

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Scholarly debate has long focused on the traditional attributi... Lees meer

Revolutionary Backlash

Rosemarie Zagarri

• Paperback | Engels | Early American Studies
• The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argue... Lees meer

Corrosive Solace

Daniel O'Quinn

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Corrosive Solace , Daniel O'Quinn argues that the loss of the American colonies instantiated a complex reorganization in sociability and politics i... Lees meer

The Cistercian Evolution

Constance Hoffman Berman

• Paperback | Engels | Middle Ages
• According to the received history, the Cistercian order was founded in Cîteaux, France, in 1098 by a group of Benedictine monks who wished for a stric... Lees meer

Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange

• Hardcover | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious ex... Lees meer

God's Peace and King's Peace

Bruce R O'Brien

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws t... Lees meer

A Road to Nowhere

Matthew W Slaboch

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the Enlightenment, the idea of progress has spanned right- and left-wing politics, secular and spiritual philosophy, and most every school of ar... Lees meer

Power Play

Jenny Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle Ages
• The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both me... Lees meer

Do Museums Still Need Objects?

Steven Conn

• Paperback | Engels | Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are v... Lees meer

Rites and Passages

Jay R Berkovitz

• Paperback | Engels | Jewish Culture and Contexts
• In September 1791, two years after the Revolution, French Jews were granted full rights of citizenship. Scholarship has traditionally focused on this ... Lees meer

Fighting for Faith and Nation

Cynthia Keppley Mahmood

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Ethnography
• The ethnic and religious violence that characterized the late twentieth century calls for new ways of thinking and writing about politics. Listening t... Lees meer

Glass and Print

Kevin Petrie

• Paperback | Engels | Glass Handbooks
• The great variety of aesthetic expression possible in printmaking techniques and the unique qualities of glass are explored in Glass and Print , throu... Lees meer

Warm Brothers

Robert Tobin

• Hardcover | Engels | New Cultural Studies
• In eighteenth-century Germany, the aesthetician Friedrich Wilhelm Basileus Ramdohr could write of the phenomenon of men who evoke sexual desire in oth... Lees meer

For the Millions

A.Joan Saab

• Hardcover | The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• An intriguing look at the changing roles of artists in modern America. Lees meer