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Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and...

Charts the development of the public memory and historical understanding of the wars of the colonial and early national periods through the practice of battlefield tourism in the early American...

Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the...

Misery beneath the Miracle in East Asia challenges prevailing views of the East Asian economic miracle. Existing scholarship has overlooked the severity, persistence, and harmful consequences of the...

In Misrecognitions, Ben Parker mounts a defense of novelistic recognition scenes based on Karl Marx's account of commodity fetishism and reification. The novel as a form, Parker argues, is structured...

This book is about Presbyterian missionaries, other Americans with ideals, and their Iranian partners during the twentieth century. It analyzes the various ways in which their respective missions...

Missionary Diplomacy traces the connections between the Protestant foreign mission movement and the US State Department over the nineteenth century, with particular attention paid to the development...

In Missionary Interests, David Golding and Christopher Cannon Jones bring together works about Protestant and Mormon missionaries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, charting new directions...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging "knowledge" class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-Ausl?nder (foreigners from other EU countries),...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging "knowledge" class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-Ausl?nder (foreigners from other EU countries),...

Study of animal metaphor in particular and the literary representation of animals more generally in the Victorian and modernist periods--Author: Rasheed TazudeenPublisher: Cornell University...

A new afterword to this edition, "The Duty to Remember--But What?" tackles difficult issues of guilt and innocence on the individual and societal levels. Zygmunt Bauman explores the silences found in...

In the wake of the Muslim capture of Acre in 1291, literary works began to circulate around Europe that fantasized not only about the Christian European reconquest of the Holy Land but the wholesale...

This book examines Stalinist sculptural and architectural monuments, which were tasked with 'immortalizing the memory' of the era, for the edification of future generations. The book analyzes how...

How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been attracting the best international athletes since 1981?In More Than Medals,...

Nationalist and ethnic conflict can take many forms, from genocidal violence and civil war to protest movements and peaceful squabbles in democracies. Nationalist Passions poses a stark challenge to...

A consistent factor throughout New York State's dynamic history has been the complex interactions between groups with divergent worldviews and conflicting ambitions. Such scenarios have proven at...

New York History, Volume 105, Number 1 : Summer 2024Author: Robert Chiles, New York State Historian Devin Lander, Chief Curator Jennifer Lemak, Aaron NoblePublisher: Cornell University...

At the center of this book stands the story of a great but forgotten newspaper: the Gazette de Leyde, edited by Jean Luzac from 1772 to 1798. A French-language biweekly newspaper published in the...

In this book, David Lehman, the longtime series editor of the Best American Poetry, offers a masterclass in writing in form and collaborative composition. An inspired compilation of his weekly column...

Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian,...

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be...

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturally, as one of the last areas of Europe to be...

With an emphasis on readers and reading, Jonathan Culler considered deconstruction in terms of the questions raised by psychoanalytic, feminist, and reader-response criticism. On Deconstruction is...

In Out of Love for My Kin, Amy Livingstone examines the personal dimensions of the lives of aristocrats in the Loire region of France during the eleventh and twelfth centuries. She argues for a new...

Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century analyzes the emergence and consolidation of dynamic transnational agrarian social movements that seek to remake rural society and the world's food and...

People's Diplomacy analyzes the reconstruction of United States-China relations during the Cold War from the perspective of Americans and Chinese who promoted people-to-people exchanges in the...

This book depicts the lives of active construction workers in Tokyo's vanishing day-laborer district, San'ya. It asks how one group of men secured sociality and dignity under abject conditions of...

Philosophy at the Gymnasium sets Greek moral philosophy in its original context-Athenian gyms-to understand how training for the body sparked training for the mind. It explores Socratic dialogue set...