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Religion and the Racist Right
The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right (1994), Barkun provided the first sustained exploration of the ideological...
A History of the Oratorio
Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an...
Cuba in the American Imagination
Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these...
The Harpsichord Owner's Guide
A Manual for Buyers and Owners
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems,...
Underdevelopment and the Development of Law
Corporations and Corporation Law in Nineteenth-Century Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Means provides the first major study of both the historical development of private law in a Latin American country and the shifting role of business corporations or share companies in Latin American development. He shows that Colombia's corporate law provisions for commercial codes held only a tenuous...
by June Howard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Examining the novels of Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, and other writers, June Howard presents a study of American literary naturalism as a genre. Naturalism, she states, is a way of imagining the world and the relation of the self to the world, a way of making sense -- and making narrative...
Eating Puerto Rico
A History of Food, Culture, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into an examination of Puerto Rican society from the Spanish conquest to the present. Each chapter is centered on an iconic Puerto Rican foodstuff, from rice...
by Raphael Sealey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Based on a sophisticated reading of legal evidence, this book offers a balanced assessment of the status of women in classical Greece. Raphael Sealey analyzes the rights of women in marriage, in the control of property, and in questions of inheritance. He advances the theory that the legal disabilities...
The Supreme Court and Legal Change
Abortion and the Death Penalty
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The authors analyze abortion and death penalty decisions by the Supreme Court and argue that they provide prime examples of abrupt legal change. After proposing that the strength of legal arguments has at least as much impact on Court decisions as do public opinion and justices' political beliefs,...
by Earl J. Hess
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military action of the Civil War. He transforms exhaustive research into a moving narrative account of the assault from both Union and Confederate perspectives, analyzing its planning, execution, aftermath, and legacy.
Almighty God Created the Races
Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the...
Challenging the Secret Government
The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Just four months after Richard Nixon's resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country's best investigative...
Two Great Rebel Armies
An Essay in Confederate Military History
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee's army was a better army--not just one with a better high command.
"Sheds new light on how the South lost...
Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume II
New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This is a work vast in scale, soaring in its scholarly ambition, and magnificent . . . in its achievement. The author's command of the primary sources is staggering in breadth and depth, deftly orchestrated and rich with insight. . . . Deploying an avalanche of evidence. . . Rahe shows how alien the...