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While the Jesuits claimed Xu as a convert, he presented the Jesuits as men from afar who had traveled from the West to China…

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Monstrous Motherhood will compel scholars in eighteenth-century studies, women's studies, family history, and cultural…

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The third installment of Rubenstein's trilogy of works on the subject, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud is essential reading…

Courtney Weikle-Mills discusses such characters as Goody Two-Shoes, Ichabod Crane, and Tom Sawyer in terms of how they…

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Representationalism and its subject mark the beginning of political modernity; Shakespeare's tragedies greet political…

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Featuring extensive reviews of the literature, this volume will be invaluable for scholars and students of sociology and…

In explaining the institutions and individuals that permitted this type of negotiation, O'Connell offers a historical…

Ultimately, Natures in Translation demonstrates that-far from being separate from the dominant concerns of British imperial…

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Engagingly argued and written, Beyond Sacred Violence significantly extends our understanding of religious sacrifice and…

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As England's faithful began to worry less about everlasting felicity in heaven and more about life on earth, these diverse…

Drawing on scholarly literature, three decades of fieldwork, and ample historical documents-most of which have never before…

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Jolly Fellows proposes a new interpretation of nineteenth-century American culture and society and will inform future work…

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This first systematic study of how the United States responded to "Barbary Captivityshows how public reaction to…

Sources include open source material but internal secret files and highly classified audiotapes of Saddam Hussein that were…

Communism on Tomorrow Street demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international…

In other words, she gives a voice to silence.…

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Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book…

Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for…

Combining economic theory with the history of technology, Making Tobacco Bright revises several narratives in American…

November's thoroughly researched and lively study makes clear for readers the motives behind computerizing the study of life…

Based on Stearns's analysis of Muslim and Christian legal, theological, historical, and medical texts in Arabic, Medieval…

Scholars of British literature and women writers will welcome this important study of one of the eighteenth century's…

Many of the assumptions about class, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions at the end of the…

He contends that biblical laws did not emerge from social imperatives in ancient Israel, but instead from the careful,…

Designed to spur debate on how to incorporate democracy and human rights initiatives into the mainstream foreign policy of…

An Amish Paradox captures the complexity and creativity of the Holmes County Amish, dispelling the image of the Amish as a…

Bradley's century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.…

A concluding chapter discusses the policy implications of aspirational constructivism for Russia and other nations and a…

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