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The Donme: Jewish Converts, Muslim Revolutionaries, and Secular Turks מאת Marc Baer This book tells the story of the Dönme, the descendents of Jews who resided in the Ottoman Empire and converted to Islam along with their messiah, Rabbi Shabbatai Tzevi, in the seventeenth century. For two centuries following their conversion, the Dönme were accepted as Muslims, and by the en...

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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection מאת Judith Butler As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what “one” is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucaul...

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The Fall of a Sparrow: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) מאת Dina Porat The Fall of a Sparrow is the only full biography in English of the partisan, poet, and patriot Abba Kovner (1918–1987). An unsung and largely unknown hero of the Second World War and Israel's War of Independence, Kovner was born in Vilna, "the Jerusalem of Lithuania." Long before the r...

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Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) מאת Martin Hagglund Radical Atheism presents a profound new reading of the influential French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Against the prevalent notion that there was an ethical or religious "turn" in Derrida's thinking, Hägglund argues that a radical atheism informs Derrida's work from beginning to end. ...

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Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp מאת Maya Rosenfeld Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation. It is based on extended field research carried out by an Israeli sociologist-anthropolog...

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The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940-1945 (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) מאת Steven Bowman The Agony of Greek Jews tells the story of modern Greek Jewry as it came under the control of the Kingdom of Greece during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In particular, it deals with the vicissitudes of those Jews who held Greek citizenship during the interwar and wartime period...

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Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) מאת Jacques Derrida Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representati...

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Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis מאת Terence Halliday The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations insisted that legal reforms could help protect markets from financial breakdowns. Sitting at the nexus between t...

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Germans into Jews: Remaking the Jewish Social Body in the Weimar Republic (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) מאת Sharon Gillerman Germans into Jews turns to an often overlooked and misunderstood period of German and Jewish history—the years between the world wars. It has been assumed that the Jewish community in Germany was in decline during the Weimar Republic. But, Sharon Gillerman demonstrates that Weimar Jews...

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On Ethics and History: Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng מאת Philip J. Ivanhoe Zhang Xuecheng (1738–1801) has primarily been read as a philosopher of history. This volume presents him as an ethical philosopher with a distinctive understanding of the aims and methods of Confucian self-cultivation. Offered in English translation for the first time, this collection of Zhan...

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A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1200: Fourth Edition מאת M.C. Ricklefs Recognized as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in light of new scholarship. New chapters at the end of the book bring the story up to the present day, including discussion of recent events such as the 2002 Bali t...

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Inventing New Beginnings: On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) מאת Asher Biemann Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very fundamental, yet hitherto strangely und...

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California stepping-stones Robert Kingery Buell

California stepping-stones מאת Robert Kingery Buell

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A General Theory of Crime מאת Michael Gottfredson By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise should be about. They argue that prevalent academic criminology—whether sociological, psychological, biological, or economic—has been u...

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The Invisible Cage: Syrian Migrant Workers in Lebanon (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I) מאת John Chalcraft The Invisible Cage uncovers the hidden history of the cycle of labor migration and return of hundreds of thousands of un- and semi-skilled Syrian workers in Lebanon. It traces how Syrians came to comprise a significant proportion of Lebanon's workforce during the 1950s and 1960s, th...

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Anonymous Life: Romanticism and Dispossession (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Jacques Khalip Romanticism is often synonymous with models of identity and action that privilege individual empowerment and emotional autonomy. In the last two decades, these models have been the focus of critiques of Romanticism's purported self-absorption and alienation from politics. While such critiq...

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Giorgio Agamben: A Critical Introduction מאת Leland de la Durantaye Giorgio Agamben is a philosopher well known for his brilliance and erudition, as well as for the difficulty and diversity of his seventeen books. The interest which his Homo Sacer sparked in America is likely to continue to grow for a great many years to come. Giorgio Agamben: A Crit...

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The Arts and the Definition of the Human: Toward a Philosophical Anthropology מאת Joseph Margolis The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and language. Margolis rejects the idea that a...

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Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge מאת Abraham Lowenthal California is at the cutting edge of technological change, demographic transformation, and international engagement. It has the country's largest population, and is its biggest producer of agricultural and manufactured goods, its main exporter and importer, and a leading center for higher educa...

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As Light Before Dawn: The Inner World of a Medieval Kabbalist (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C) מאת Eitan Fishbane As Light Before Dawn explores the mystical thought of Isaac ben Samuel of Akko, a major medieval kabbalist whose work has until now received relatively little attention. Through consideration of an extensive literary corpus, including much that still remains in manuscript, this study ex...

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One Homeland or Two?: The Nationalization and Transnationalization of Mongolia's Kazakhs מאת Alexander Diener How do ethnicity and notions of a traditional homeland interact in shaping a community's values and images? As Alexander C. Diener shows in One Homeland or Two?, the answer, even in a diaspora, is far from a simple harking back to the "old country."Diener's research focuses on the comple...

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Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy: The Industrialization of Argentina, 1890?1930 (Social Science History) מאת Yovanna Pineda In 1890, Argentina was a wealthy nation on the brink of industrialization. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy examines Argentina's failure over the next forty years to develop an efficient manufacturing sector, even as countries in similar circumstances—Meiji Japan, Braz...

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The Price of Monotheism מאת Jan Assmann Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. ...

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Radiographic Atlas of Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist מאת William Greulich “Here is a book which compiles the most accurate data on bone age in an extremely useful form, so that the practicing clinician, pediatrician, general practitioner, internist, or radiologist may find data quickly and accurately. . . . This book represents a tremendous amount of work, a study of ov...

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Romanticism and the Rise of English מאת Andrew Elfenbein Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary criticism: the disappearance of the history of the English language as a relevant topic. Elfenbein argues for a return not to older modes of criticism, but to questions about the relation betw...

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The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil?s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 מאת Hal Langfur The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupat...

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Human Rights for the 21st Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) מאת Helen Stacy A new moral, ethical, and legal framework is needed for international human rights law. Never in human history has there been such an elaborate international system for human rights, yet from massive disasters, such as the Darfur genocide, to everyday tragedies, such as female genital muti...

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Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I) מאת Haggai Ram Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back fr...

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Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 (Cold War International History Project) מאת Pawel Machcewicz Rebellious Satellite: Poland 1956 offers a social history of the mass movements that prompted political change and altered Polish-Soviet relations in 1956 but avoided a Soviet armed response. Pawel Machcewicz focuses on the people's expression of grievances, and even riots—as opposed t...

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In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy מאת Douglas Biow In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discre...

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The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Pierre Hadot In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy in ...

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Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת William Franke In Poetry and Apocalypse, Franke seeks to find the premises for dialogue between cultures, especially religious fundamentalisms—including Islamic fundamentalism—and modern Western secularism. He argues that in order to be genuinely open, dialogue needs to accept possibilities su...

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Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India מאת Raka Ray Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with...

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Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) מאת Bernard Stiegler Disorientation is the first publication in English of the second volume of Technics and Time, in which French philosopher Bernard Stiegler engages in a close dialogue with Husserl, Derrida, and other philosophers who have devoted their energies to technics, such as Heidegger and S...

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Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History) מאת Paul Drake Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis...

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Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil מאת Stanley Bailey The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as n...

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The Present Alone is Our Happiness: Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Pierre Hadot In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, Pierre Hadot explains that for the Ancients philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy in ...

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The Power of Representation: Publics, Peasants, and Islam in Egypt מאת Michael Gasper The Power of Representation traces the emergence of modern Egyptian national identity from the mid-1870s through the 1910s. During this period, a new class of Egyptian urban intellectuals—teachers, lawyers, engineers, clerks, accountants, and journalists—came into prominence. Ad...

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Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Studies in Asian Security) מאת Edward Aspinall Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leader...

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Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture in France and England, 1600-1800 מאת Julie Hayes Translation, Subjectivity, and Culture examines the evolution of neoclassical translation theory from its origins among the first generation of French Academicians to its subsequent importation to England by royalist exiles, its development under the influence of such translator-cri...

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Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East מאת Asef Bayat In the popular imagination, the Muslim Middle East is frozen in its own traditions and history—a land of mosques and minarets, veiled women, despotic regimes, and desert sand. But this assumption fails to recognize that social and political change comes in many guises. In this eye-opening boo...

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Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War (Stanford Security Studies) מאת Robert Cassidy Since September 2001, the United States has waged what the government initially called the "global war on terrorism (GWOT)." Beginning in late 2005 and early 2006, the term Long War began to appear in U.S. security documents such as the National Security Council's National Strategy for Vic...

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Human Rights Matters: Local Politics and National Human Rights Institutions (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) מאת Julie Mertus Among human rights advocates, dominant wisdom holds that the promotion and protection of human rights relies not on international efforts, but on domestic action. International institutions may capture news headlines, but it is national groups that effectively shape local expectations and ultim...

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The Flesh of Words: The Politics of Writing מאת Jacques Ranciere This new collection of challenging literary studies plays with a foundational definition of Western culture: the word become flesh. But the word become flesh is not, or no longer, a theological already-given. It is a millennial goal or telos toward which each text strives. Both witty ...

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Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 (Cold War International History Project) מאת Sergey Radchenko Using newly available archival sources, Two Suns in the Heavens examines the dramatic deterioration of relations between the USSR and China in the 1960s, whereby once powerful allies became estranged, competitive, and increasingly hostile neighbors. Sergey Radchenko's authoritative accou...

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The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890-1930 מאת Robinson Jeffers This book is the first volume in what will be a three-volume, fully annotated edition that collects all of Robinson Jeffers' letters and the most important of Una Jeffers' letters. Volume One, comprised of letters written between 1890 and 1930, also contains a substantial introduction to Jeffer...

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Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada מאת Paul Ehrlich As the human population skyrockets and the toxic impact of human society spreads, the natural habitats of birds degrade and diminish and the bird populations decline. Two hundred years ago, when the United States and Canada were home to less than 5 million people, they were also home to some 650 spe...

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Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor מאת Elizabeth Perry This work is an important addition to the rather limited literature on the social history of China during the first half of the 20th century. It draws on abundant sources and studies which have appeared in the People's Republic of China since the early 1980s and which have not been systematically us...

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(Re)Negotiating East and Southeast Asia: Region, Regionalism, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Studies in Asian Security) מאת Alice Ba This book seeks to explain two core paradoxes associated with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): How have diverse states hung together and stabilized relations in the face of competing interests, divergent preferences, and arguably weak cooperation? How has a group of les...

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Irene Nemirovsky: Her Life And Works מאת Jonathan Weiss "...with the acclaim that accompanied the posthumous publication of Suite Francaise....the question almost sizzles: Was Nemirovsky--could she have been--an anti-Semitic writer? And, whether yes or no, what exactly was her relationship to her Jewish, as well as her Russian and adopted ...

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Iranophobia: The Logic of an Israeli Obsession (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I) מאת Haggai Ram Israel and Iran invariably are portrayed as sworn enemies, engaged in an unending conflict with potentially apocalyptic implications.Iranophobia offers an innovative and provocative new reading of this conflict. Concerned foremost with how Israelis perceive Iran, the author steps back fr...

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Consumption and Social Change in a Post-Soviet Middle Class מאת Jennifer Patico What happens when your once-dignified profession no longer supports a dignified lifestyle? In 1990s St. Petersburg, teachers had to find out the hard way. Although the institutions and ideologies of Soviet life situated them as "cultured" consumers, contemporary processes of marketizatio...

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Surrendering to Utopia: An Anthropology of Human Rights (Stanford Studies in Human Rights) מאת Mark Goodale Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportuniti...

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The Rewards of Punishment: A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement מאת Christine Horne The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so m...

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Caught in Play: How Entertainment Works on You מאת Peter Stromberg Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade. Although we are likely to enjoy these experiences in the realm of entertainment, we rarely think about what effect they might be havin...

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Less Rightly Said: Scandals and Readers in Sixteenth-Century France מאת Antonia Szabari Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"—yet this period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire th...

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Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Roberto Esposito No theme has been more central to international philosophical debates than that of community: from American communitarianism to Habermas's ethic of communication to the French deconstruction of community in the work of Derrida and Nancy. Nevertheless, in none of these cases has the concept been...

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China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 מאת Daniel Bays China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these...

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The Ridiculous Jew: The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky מאת Gary Rosenshield This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly e...

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Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II (Stanford Studies on Central and Eastern) מאת Holly Case The Transylvanian Question—the struggle between Hungary and Romania for control of Transylvania—seems at first sight a side-show in the story of the Nazi New Order and the Second World War. These two allies of the Third Reich spent much of the war arguing bitterly among themselves over...

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Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia (Studies in Asian Security) מאת Edward Aspinall Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a fascinating study of the genesis, growth and decline of a nationalist movement. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with nationalist leader...

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From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 מאת Jeffrey Barlow This book discusses the role of the U.S. Navy within the country's national security structure during the first decade of the Cold War from the perspective of the service's senior uniformed officer, the Chief of Naval Operations, and his staff. It examines a variety of important issues of ...

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Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India מאת Ajantha Subramanian After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to court. They called on the state to recognize them as custodians of the local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling, and r...

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Flesh of My Flesh מאת Kaja Silverman What is a woman? What is a man? How do they—and how should they—relate to each other? Does our yearning for "wholeness" refer to something real, and if there is a Whole, what is it, and why do we feel so estranged from it? For centuries now, art and literature have increasingly valorized un...

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Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth מאת Anne Newman This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in Ameri...

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Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Michael Rothberg Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonizat...

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The Rewards of Punishment: A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement מאת Christine Horne The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so m...

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Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) מאת Lawrence Wittner Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war. This abbreviated version of Lawrence Wittner's award-winning trilogy, The Struggle Against the Bomb, shows how a worldwide, grassroots campai...

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China's Christian Colleges: Cross-Cultural Connections, 1900-1950 מאת Daniel Bays China's Christian Colleges explores the cross-cultural dynamics that existed on the campuses of the Protestant Christian colleges in China during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on two-way cultural influences rather than on missionary efforts or Christianization, these...

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Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism מאת Paul Gilmore Aesthetic Materialism: Electricity and American Romanticism focuses on American romantic writers' attempts to theorize aesthetic experience through the language of electricity. In response to scientific and technological developments, most notably the telegraph, eighteenth- and nin...

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Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850 מאת Michael Marrinan "Romantic Paris" is a richly illustrated survey of cultural life in Paris during some of the most tumultuous decades of the city's history. Between the coups d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte and of his nephew, Louis-Napoleon, Paris weathered extremes of political and economic fortune. Once the shining c...

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Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Michael Rothberg Multidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time. Employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the book makes a twofold argument about Holocaust memory in a global age by situating it in the unexpected context of decolonizat...

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Can We Live Together?: Equality and Difference מאת Alain Touraine In this book, a leading French social thinker grapples with the gap between the tendency toward globalization of economic relations and mass culture and the increasingly sectarian nature of our social identities as members of ethnic, religious, or national groups. Though at first glance, i...

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Bronzes to Bullets: Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941-1944 מאת Kirrily Freeman Bronzes to Bullets tells the story of French statues and monuments that were melted down and shipped to Nazi munitions factories during the Second World War. Beginning with the economic context that led to the destruction of public art, the book goes on to detail the process by which mon...

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Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence מאת Karen Pinkus How can we account, in a rigorous way, for alchemy's ubiquity? We think of alchemy as the transformation of a base material (usually lead) into gold, but "alchemy" is a word in wide circulation in everyday life, often called upon to fulfill a metaphoric duty as the magical transformation of mat...

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Customizing Indigeneity: Paths to a Visionary Politics in Peru מאת Shane Greene How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism? For the Aguaruna, an ethnic group at the forefront of Peru's Amazonian Movement, incorporating practices and values they define as customary allows them to shape their own experience as modern indigenous sub...

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Envisioning America: New Chinese Americans and the Politics of Belonging (Asian America) מאת Tritia Toyota Envisioning America is a groundbreaking and richly detailed study of ...

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For Love of the Father: A Psychoanalytic Study of Religious Terrorism (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) מאת Ruth Stein Ruth Stein's pioneering study explains suicidal terrorism from a psychoanalytic perspective. She argues that most Islamic extremists undertake destructive and self-destructive actions not out of blind hatred, nor even for political gain, but to achieve an explosive merger with a transcendent aw...

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Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe Timothy Reiss

Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe מאת Timothy Reiss Through extensive readings in philosophical, legal, medical, and imaginative writing, this book explores notions and experiences of being a person from European antiquity to Descartes. It offers quite new interpretations of what it was to be a person—to experience who-ness—in other tim...

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The Impertinent Self: A Heroic History of Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Josef Fruchtl The Impertinent Self provides a philosophical and cultural theory of modernity by constructing a parallel between the philosophical self and the hero figure found in certain cinematic genres. Früchtl argues that modernity is not unified and should be conceived as a phenomenon consisting...

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Village China Under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008 מאת Huaiyin Li Village China Under Socialism and Reform offers a comprehensive account of rural life after the communist revolution, detailing villager involvement in political campaigns since the 1950s, agricultural production under the collective system, family farming and non-agricultural economy in...

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Resisting McCarthyism: To Sign or Not to Sign California's Loyalty Oath מאת Bob Blauner Of the sixty-nine professors fired nationwide for political reasons during the McCarthy Era, nearly half were from the University of California. A small band of men and women at California's Berkeley and Los Angeles campuses defied the stranglehold of McCarthyism in a refusal to sign the non-co...

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Refugees, Women, and Weapons: International Norm Adoption and Compliance in Japan מאת Petrice Flowers In a world dominated by considerations of material and security threats, Japan provides a fascinating case for why, and under what conditions, a state would choose to adopt international norms and laws that are seemingly in direct conflict with its domestic norms. Approaching compliance from wi...

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Habermas: A Critical Introduction מאת William Outhwaite

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Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past מאת Jonathan Jansen This book tells the story of white South African students—how they remember and enact an Apartheid past they were never part of. How is it that young Afrikaners, born at the time of Mandela's release from prison, hold firm views about a past they never lived, rigid ideas about black people, a...

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The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults מאת Jean-Marie Apostolides The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Hergé) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with translations published in over 50 languages and mor...

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Paths to Peace: Domestic Coalition Shifts, War Termination and the Korean War מאת Elizabeth Stanley Paths to Peace begins by developing a theory about the domestic obstacles to making peace and the role played by shifts in states' governing coalitions in overcoming these obstacles. In particular, it explains how the longer the war, the harder it is to end, because domestic obstacles to...

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Legacies of Race: Identities, Attitudes, and Politics in Brazil מאת Stanley Bailey The United States and Brazil were the largest slave-trading societies of the New World. The demographics of both countries reflect this shared past, but this is where comparisons end. The vast majority of the "Afro-Brazilian" population, unlike their U.S. counterparts, view themselves as n...

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Maps of women's goings and stayings Rela Mazali

Maps of women's goings and stayings מאת Rela Mazali

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The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment מאת Herbert Abrams This updated paperback edition of the acclaimed analysis of medical and political events surrounding the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan includes a new Postscript on the election of 1992 and “the public’s right to know ” which covers the health problems and disclosures of Bush, T...

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Borderlines: The Shiftings of Gender in British Romanticism מאת Susan Wolfson Opening with the revolution-era debates of the 1790s, Borderlines reads Romantic genders across a mobile syntax, tuned to such figures as the stylized "feminine" poetess, the aberrant "masculine" woman, male poets deemed "feminine" or "unmanly," the campy male "effeminate," and hapl...

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The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: Volume Five Textual Evidence and Commentary מאת Robinson Jeffers This final volume of the first comprehensive edition of all of Robinson Jeffers’s completed poems, both published and unpublished, consists of commentary: various procedural explanations and textual evidence for the edition’s texts, transcriptions of working notes for the poems and of altern...

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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) מאת Talal Asad Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern ...

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Bohemia in America, 1858-1920 מאת Joanna Levin Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter ...

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Romantic Paris: Histories of a Cultural Landscape, 1800-1850 מאת Michael Marrinan Romantic Paris is a richly illustrated survey of cultural life in Paris during some of the most tumultuous decades of the city's history. Between the coups d'état of Napoléon Bonaparte and of his nephew, Louis-Napoléon, Paris weathered extremes of political and economic fortune. Once ...

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Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain מאת Ruth Mack Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent philosophical writing on history, offering a new view of eighteenth-century philosophies o...

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From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand: The Uneven Path of Telecommunications Reform in China מאת Irene Wu From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand uses telecommunications policy as a window to examine major contradictions in China's growth as an economic and political superpower. While China policy analysts wonder why the government occasionally restrains growth and raises prices, technologist...

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The Metamorphoses of Tintin: or Tintin for Adults מאת Jean-Marie Apostolides The Belgian artist Georges Remi's (Hergé) legendary creation, Tintin is a figure whose adventures have enchanted readers in Europe for the last eighty years. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the twentieth century, with translations published in over 50 languages and mor...

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From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative מאת Sheldon Lu A comprehensive, comparative, and cross-cultural study of the poetics of the entire Chinese narrative tradition. ...

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Between Movement and Establishment: Organizations Advocating for Youth מאת Milbrey McLaughlin This pathbreaking book examines the strategies, successes, and challenges of youth advocacy organizations, highlighting the importance of local contexts for these efforts. Working between social movements and the political establishment, these organizations occupy a special niche in Ameri...