The war of 1812

a forgotten conflict

This comprehensive and authoritative history of the War of 1812, thoroughly revised for the 200th anniversary of the historic conflict, is a myth-shattering study that will inform and entertain students, historians, and general readers alike. Donald R. Hickey explores the military, diplomatic, and domestic history ...

The invention of Hebrew

The Invention of Hebrew is the first book to approach the Bible in light of recent findings on the use of the Hebrew alphabet as a deliberate and meaningful choice. Seth L. Sanders connects the Bible's distinctive linguistic form--writing down a local spoken language--to ...

The american discovery of Europe

The American Discovery of Europe investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, the book ...

Written in red

the communist memoir in Spain

The first major study of the profound impact of international communist politics and culture on Spanish letters The intense struggle of political ideals that blazed through early- twentieth-century Europe reached its climax in Spain, where Spanish and foreign revolutionaries, liberals, and reactionaries found themselves caught ...

Africans in Europe

the Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain

What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements. Tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea, it explores a small former Spanish colony in central Africa. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of ...

God, science, sex, gender

an interdisciplinary approach to christian ethics

Eds. Patricia Beattie Jung, Aana Marie Vigen.God, Sex, Science, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics" is a timely, wide-ranging attempt to rescue dialogues on human sexuality, sexual diversity, and gender from insular exchanges based primarily on biblical scholarship and denominational ideology. Too often ...

Minoan kingship and the solar goddess

a near eastern koine

Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbours. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's ...

Contesting archives

finding women in the sources

The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents - and therefore whose history - is important. Finding that women ...

The legacy of Edward W. Said

With the untimely death of Edward W. Said in 2003, various academic and public intellectuals worldwide have begun to reassess the writings of this powerful oppositional intellectual. Figures on the neoconservative right have already begun to discredit Said#s work as that of a subversive ...

Sasanian jewry and its culture

a lexicon of Jewish and related seals

Introduction by Norman Golb. An impressive collection of Jewish signet rings and seals from the Sasanian Empire. Biography: Daniel M. Friedenberg is the president of John-Platt Enterprises. A recipient of the Heath Literary Award for Distinguished Numismatic Achievement, he is the former curator of coins ...

The rule of women in early Modern Europe

Edited by Anne J. Cruz and Mihoko Suzuki. Table of contents: Acknowledgments VII Introduction Anne J. Cruz Mihoko Suzuki 1 Part 1 The Rule of Women: Theories and Constructions 1 Notions of Late Medieval Queenship: Christine de Pizan's Isabeau of Bavaria Tracy Adams 13 ...

The only true God

early christian monotheism in its jewish context

A provocative reexamination of the shared monotheistic views of Jews and Christians in New Testament times. Biography: James F. McGrath is an associate professor of religion at Butler University and the author of John's Apologetic Christology: Legitimation and Development in Johannine Christology.

Science and Scientism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Exploring the natural scientific foundations of far-reaching social ideologies The nineteenth century produced scientific and cultural revolutions that forever transformed modern European life. Although these critical developments are often studied independently, Richard G. Olson's "Science and Scientism in ""Nineteenth-Century Europe" provides an integrated account ...

Global TV

new media and the Cold War, 1946-69

Exploring the relationship between the growth of global media and Cold War tensions and resolutions. James Schwoch is an associate professor of communication studies at Northwestern University and the coeditor, with Mimi White, of Questions of Method in Cultural Studies.

The american discovery of Europe

"The American Discovery of Europe" investigates the voyages of America's Native peoples to the European continent before Columbus's 1492 arrival in the "New World." The product of over twenty years of exhaustive research in libraries throughout Europe and the United States, Jack D ...

Indo-European sacred space

vedic and roman cult

In "Indo-European Sacred Space", Roger D. Woodard provides a careful examination of the sacred spaces of ancient Rome, finding them remarkably consistent with older Indo-European religious practices, as described in the Vedas of ancient India. Employing and expanding on the fundamental methods of Emile Benveniste ...

Speech rights in America

the first amendment, democracy and the media

The First Amendment is the principle guarantor of speech rights in the United States, but the court's interpretations of it often privilege the interests of media owners over those of the broader citizenry. In "Speech Rights in America", Laura Stein argues that such rulings ...

Marketing nutrition

soy, functional foods, biotechnology, and obesity

The concise hoistory of woman suffrage

The massive size of the original six- volume History of Woman Suffrage has likely limited its impact on the lives of the women who benefitted from the efforts of the pioneering suffragists. By collecting miscellanies like state suffrage reports and speeches of every sort without ...

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