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Mesoamerican Voices: Native-Language Writings From Colonial Mexico And Guatemala, Matthew Restall, Lisa Sousa, Kevin Terraciano

Lisa Sousa

Translated into English, these texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. This collection provides college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.

Visualizing Africa In Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology (1934), Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

No abstract provided.

Nightmare's Fairy Tale: A Young Refugee's Home Fronts, 1938-1948, Gerd Korman

Gerd Korman

Link provided is to the Cornell University Library catalog record. Fleeing the Nazis in the months before World War II, the Korman family scattered from a Polish refugee camp with the hope of reuniting in America. The father sailed to Cuba on the ill-fated St. Louis; the mother left for the United States after sending her two sons on a Kindertransport. One of the sons was Gerd Korman, whose memoir follows his own path—from the family’s deportation from Hamburg, through his time with an Anglican family in rural England, to the family’s reunited life in New York City. His memoir …

Gender Across Borders: Transnational Perspectives On Drugs, Department Stores, Feminists, And Adoption In The Americas, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

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"Presidents And The Development Of Medicare In The U. S.", Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

No abstract provided.

An Chaehong’S Thought And The Politics Of The United Front, Ji-Won Lee, Paul Nam

Paul Nam

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The Painted Word: Malaika Favorite’S ‘Furious Flower’ Poetry Quilt-Painting And Pan-African Memory, Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

No abstract provided.

Visual Order To Organizing Collections, Maryanne Horowitz

Maryanne Cline Horowitz

No abstract provided.

Primo Levi, The Truce, And The Politics Of Holocaust Representation, Marla Stone

Marla Stone

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Sport In Canada: A History, Donald Morrow, Kevin Wamsley

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

The Intellectual Origins Of Popular Catholicism: Catholic Moral Theology In The Age Of Enlightenment, Michael Printy

Michael Printy

The popular Catholic revival of the nineteenth century was preceded by an intellectual revolution that enabled the Catholic Church to overcome its traditional suspicion of popular religious practices. Central to this transformation was the elaboration of the moral-theological doctrine of equiprobabilism in response to rigorist Augustinian moral pessimism, most fruitfully by Alphonsus of Liguori (1696-1787). His moral theology would set the Church in confrontation with the Catholic Enlightenment. On account of this shift in moral theology, Catholicism was best able of the major Christian churches to preserve within its institutional fold the broad religious revival of the nineteenth century.

Joseph Horner Memorial Library, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

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From Barbarism To Religion: Church History And The Enlightened Narrative In Germany, Michael Printy

Michael Printy

The subject of this essay is the historical vision of the German Catholic Enlightenment as seen in the work of Michael Ignaz Schmidt, a Catholic priest and author of the eleven-volume History of the Germans (1778–1793). A proper acknowledgement of Schmidt's career helps us revise the standard account of German historicism and historical practice in the eighteenth century, and also sheds light on the place of religion in the German Enlightenment. Schmidt wrote a thoroughly modern ‘history of manners’ that was indebted both to Voltaire and to Robertson. Yet his work passed into obscurity largely because he focused on the …

A Fall Fur-Hunt From Maine To New Brunswick, Canada – The 1858 Journal Of Manly Hardy, William Krohn

William B. Krohn

Through Women's Eyes : An American History With Documents, Ellen Dubois, Lynn Dumenil

Lynn Dumenil

[This text] integrate[s] women's history into U.S. history while ensuring a balanced sense of the broad diversity of American women.-Back cover.

The Life And Writings Of Manly Hardy (1832-1910): Fur Buyer, Hunter, And Naturalist, William Krohn

William B. Krohn

Remembering Fernand Léger’S Metallic Men, The Great War, And An Armored Masculinity, Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

No abstract provided.

The Franco-Venezuelan Migrations And Metamorphoses Of Simón Bolívar: 1950/2004, Maureen Shanahan

Maureen G. Shanahan

No abstract provided.

Nature Exposed: Photography As An Eye Witness In Victorian Science, Jennifer Tucker

Jennifer Tucker

No abstract provided.

Lincoln History Permanent Galleries, Virginia Heaven

Virginia Heaven

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Martin Knutzen Philosophischer Beweis Von Der Wahrheit Der Christlichen Religion (1747), Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

Review: This text, and the series it introduces, are of interest to Anglophone scholars on a number of grounds. Martin Knutzen (1713-51), although forgotten in Germany as well as in the west, was in his day a bright light of Ko¨nigsberg scholarship and bridged the period between the time when Halle Pietism was the dominant force in the scholarship of East Prussia and the Enlightenment of the later eighteenth century. That Immanuel Kant and Johann George Hamann (who referred to him as 'the famous Knutzen') were his pupils suggests clearly enough that he was man of substance; and the object …

A Source Of Our Wealth, Yet Adverse To Our Health? Butter And The Diet-Heart Link In New Zealand To C. 1990, Frances Steel

Frances Steel

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Life After Death: Widows And The English Novel, Defoe To Austen, Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

This monograph argues that images of the widow in the early novel served to express, explore, and construct concepts of appropriate female activity in emerging capitalism during the eighteenth century in England. Drawing on novels published between 1719 and 1818, this study investigates how different classes of widows (affluent, working class, impoverished, and criminal) functioned to challenge and affirm emerging economic values. A concluding chapter on widows in Jane Austen's work shows how changing notions of appropriate female economic activity had settled by the establishment of both the capitalist economy and the novel in the early nineteenth century.

"The Presidency Of U. S. Grant: A Reconsideration", Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

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Jenish, D'Arcy. Epic Wanderer: David Thompson And The Mapping Of The Canadian West. Lincoln: University Of Nebraska Press, 2004. Information Bulletin, March., Bruce Sarjeant

Bruce Sarjeant

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The 'Diaspora' Diaspora, Rogers Brubaker

Rogers Brubaker

As the use of ‘diaspora’ has proliferated in the last decade, its meaning has been stretched in various directions. This article traces the dispersion of the term in semantic, conceptual and disciplinary space; analyses three core elements that continue to be understood as constitutive of diaspora; assesses claims made by theorists of diaspora about a radical shift in perspective and a fundamental change in the social world; and proposes to treat diaspora not as a bounded entity but as an idiom, stance andclaim.

Incest Laws And Absent Taboos In Roman Egypt, Anise Strong

Anise K Strong

For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full sisters and raised families with them. During the same era, Roman law firmly banned close-kin marriages and denounced them both as nefas, or sacrilegious, and against the ius gentium, the laws shared by all civilized peoples. In Egypt, however, Roman officials deliberately chose not to enforce the relevant marriage laws among the Greek metic, hybrid, and native Egyptian populations; the bureaucracy also created loopholes within new laws which tolerated the practice. This policy created a gap between the absolute theoretical ban …

New Dictionary Of The History Of Ideas, Maryanne Horowitz

Maryanne Cline Horowitz

No abstract provided.

"New Zealand Is Butterland”: Interpreting The Historical Significance Of A Daily Spread, Frances Steel

Frances Steel

No abstract provided.

Could Duke Phillip The Good Of Burgundy Have Owned The Bayeux Tapestry In 1430, George Beech

George T. Beech