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A Happier Eden maps the largely unexplored terrain of the Stuart epithalamium, or wedding poem, focusing in particular on the complex attitudes toward marriage it reflects. Heather Dubrow examines...

This book traces the evolution of historically white colleges and universities and highlights histories of race-based exclusion and oppression. Drawing on abolitionist frameworks of social change, it...

Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffee, tea, and gin were introduced into Europe as a result of early modern colonial...

In America's Cold Warrior, James Graham Wilson traces Paul Nitze's career path in national security after World War II, a time when many of his mentors and peers returned to civilian life. Serving in...

Focusing on the parallels and intersections between late eighteenth century revolutionary textual dissemination and present-day methods in the digital humanities, this collection of essays evaluates...

This book portrays the lives and work of 10 architects who comprise the Millar Howard Workshop architectural firm based in the Cotswolds in the United Kingdom. Focusing on their activities and their...

The book's trans-imperial approach draws connections among Belgian, British, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese colonies to show that the technological and infrastructural imperatives of motor...

Drawing on sources in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and English, this book examines how the seasonal freezing, thawing, and flooding of the Yalu River between Korea and Manchuria (northeast China)...

Rather than the exclusive focus on discourses about the eleventh-century medieval Church's religious reform, this book's study of economic practices, religious traditions, and the natural environment...

Beginning with Anglo-Egyptian colonialism and ending with Barack Obama's presidency, Bounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's engagements with modern Sudan.--Author: Christopher...

An analysis of the role played by slavery in the making and execution of American foreign policy from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln--Author: Steven J BradyPublisher: Cornell University...

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to...

Over the past two decades, many states have heard demands that they recognize and apologize for historic wrongs. Such calls have not elicited uniform or predictable responses. While some states have...

A history of prostitution in France and colonial Senegal in the century following the abolition of slavery in 1848, illuminating the key role that the regulation of prostitution played in policing...

This book illuminates the link between the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War--Author: Michael De GrootPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Mar 15,...

In Dividing the Public, Matthew Gardner Kelly analyzes how district property taxation won against alternative approaches to education funding during the early years of American public education. He...

An account of the conflict between our positive and negative emotional relationships to the Earth and how they will be resolved for the Symbiocene, the next period in the history of the...

Author: David SchuylerPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2020Number of Pages: 282 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1501752073ISBN-13: 9781501752070

In a narrative-redefining approach, Engaging the Evil Empire dramatically alters how we look at the beginning of the end of the Cold War. Tracking key events in US-Soviet relations across the years...

This book focuses on interpolation in medieval manuscript histories of Britain, particularly the thirteenth-century Brut tradition, arguing that historians used this form to stage debates about how...

Author: Beverly BellPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: May 13, 2013Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0801477697ISBN-13: 9780801477690

In the spring of 1789, the Senate and House of Representatives fell into dispute regarding how to address the president. For Fear of an Elective King is Kathleen Bartoloni-Tuazon's rich account of...

Translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense and on the charges against him.Author:...

Explores the experiences and memories of the 1.5 million German POWs held by the Soviet Union in World War II and how they were used in postwar economic reconstruction-Author: Susan C. I...

Funk the Clock reveals how time is racialized, how race is temporalized, and how race, racialization, and racism condition the time perspectives of black youth in urbanized space.--Author: Rahsaan...

A biography of one of the most important chroniclers of the Fourth Crusade, whose perspective as a military leader brings to light new understandings of that war and its ramifications--Author:...

This book examines refugee governance in the European Union and East Africa with a focus on two hotspots of urban migration: Paris and Nairobi. Applying a multi-scalar methodology focused on racism...

Stephen Van Evera's Guide to Methods makes an important contribution toward improving the use of case studies for theory development and testing in the social sciences. His trenchant and concise...

Author: Lisa A. TuckerPublisher: Cornell University PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 150175338XISBN-13: 9781501753381

Beginning with the interwar period and concluding with the defeat of Japan, this book examines diplomatic, legal, military, and social issues the Western Allies (Great Britain, the United States, and...