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The Dragon and the Snake
An American Account of the Turmoil in China, 1976-1977
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The United States Liaison Office (USLO) served as the diplomatic contact for Sino-American relations between the time of the Nixon-Kissinger opening of China in 1971-1972 and the achievement of full normalization in 1979. This book presents the importance of the USLO to American foreign policy in the 1970s.
Human Rights in Iran
The Abuse of Cultural Relativism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Are the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non-Western cultures?...
by Jean Renart
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The author of at least two noteworthy romances of the early thirteenth century, Le Roman de la Rose or Guillaume de Dole and L'Escoufle (The Kite), as well as Le Lai de l'Ombre, Jean Renart is today recognized as the most accomplished practitioner of the "realistic romance" in Old French literature.
Her Life Historical
Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served...
by C. Pierce Salguero
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious and philosophical knowledge. It influenced many spheres of Chinese life, including the often overlooked...
Founding Acts
Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
All democratic constitutions feature "the people" as their author and ultimate source of legitimacy. They claim to embody the political form that citizens are in some sense supposed to have given themselves. But in what sense, exactly? When does a constitution really or genuinely speak for...
The Origins of Freemasonry
Facts and Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals...
Maimonides and the Merchants
Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh...
Lost Letters of Medieval Life
English Society, 1200-1250
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Everyday life in early thirteenth-century England is revealed in vivid detail in this riveting collection of correspondence of people from all classes, from peasants and shopkeepers to bishops and earls. The documents presented here include letters between masters and servants, husbands and wives,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
In the fifteenth-century republic of Florence, political power resided in the hands of middle-class merchants, a few wealthy families, and powerful craftsmen's guilds. The intensity of Florentine factionalism and the frequent alterations in its political institutions gave Renaissance thinkers ample...
by Amy Appleford
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first decade of the English reformation in the 1530s, Amy Appleford offers the first full-length study of the Middle...
The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker
The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
From the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan in 2001 to the withdrawal of U.S. troops in 2014, Pakistan's military cooperation was critical to the United States. Yet Pakistani politics remain a source of anxiety for American policymakers. Despite some progress toward democratic consolidation over...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
In Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship, scholars from a wide range of disciplines reflect on the transformation of the world away from the absolute sovereignty of independent nation-states and on the proliferation of varieties of plural citizenship. The emergence of possible new forms of allegiance...