Examines how the concept of "Korean woman" underwent a radical transformation in Korea's public discourse during the years…

Who are the dominant owners of US public debt? Is it widely held, or concentrated in the hands of a few? Does ownership of…

A collection of essays on late imperial and modern Chinese history spans the brilliant forty-year career of the late…

This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun,…

Traces the genealogy of modern womanhood in the encounters between Koreans and American Protestant missionaries in the early…

A companion to "Luminous Debris", this title offers readings of late Roman and early Christian ruins in the author's adopted…

Contributes to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. This book examines case studies…

Introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by…

Illustrates the power of rites to help us navigate life's troublesome transitions. This book covers the significant life…

A collection of profiles and essays, which proffers observations on writers and writing in the post-1950s period. It…

Provides an introduction to the most prominent artists and musical styles that have emerged in Cuba since 1959, and to the…

What, where, and when is jazz? To most of us jazz means small combos, made up mostly of men, performing improvisationally in…

Using oral histories, reminiscences, newspaper reports, and other sources, this book examines interactions among…

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Produkt Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister - Moallem, Minoo zakoupíte na Bookshop.cz od nakladatele University of…

A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, 'beyond the Pale' of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia…

Offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religion and politics. The author sees Islamic…

An examination of Chicano antiwar mobilization. It demonstrates how the pivotal experience of activism during the Viet Nam…

Explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. This book shows…

Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a range of debates in social and…

Offers a discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and mammals, including…

Challenges the idea that American urban politics is the expression of social-group community experience, maintaining,…

Presents the development and aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature. This book traces symbolism…

This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which…

Brings together the contributions of various philosophers to the topic of personal identity. This book features essays…

Charles Mingus is one of the most important - and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically…

Offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. In this title, the…

Featuring essays by a multidisciplinary group of leading scholars and writers, this volume investigates the intersection of…

Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this…

Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures understanding of which environments really produce the best wine? Is…

Proposes a synthetic strategy, based on an application of Boolean algebra, that combines the strengths of both qualitative…

Shows how the Bush administration systematically misled Americans on a range of scientific issues affecting public health,…

Showcases thirty years of work by an American poet, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight books of…

Portrays the correlation between rationalism and capitalism; of the rise of the city, the decline of the landed estate, and…

A study that upsets the popular assumption that human relations in small-scale societies are based on shared experience. It…

Countering impressions of Moses reinforced by Sigmund Freud in his "Moses and Monotheism", this work begins with the…

Features an essay on the events surrounding and following the 1906 earthquake. This book also includes a lyrical essay that…

Offers an introduction to the concept of diaspora. This book incorporates several case studies - about the Jewish, Armenian,…

Examines the role of the body as a primary site of political signification in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France.…

Details the attempts by chemical and lead industries to deceive Americans about the dangers that their deadly products…

Although outlawed in many states, serpent handling remains an active religious practice - and one that is far more…

In 2004, Michael Burawoy, speaking as president of the American Sociological Association, generated far-reaching controversy…

Offers an account of the author's struggle to found the movement called 'Ni Putes Ni Soumises', aimed at shattering the law…

In the run-up to war in Iraq, the Bush administration assured the world that America's interest was in liberation -…

A interdisciplinary sociocultural account of music as a feature and a force in the shaping of Israeliness. Maps not only the…

Challenges many assumptions about gender and politics in the French Revolution. This title shows how revolutionary politics…

What are we to make of the speed with which the climate of national solidarity emerged after September 11? Does it not look…

This work gives an internal perspective on Palestinian politics, viewing political patterns from the Palestinian point of…