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The Shepheardes Calender
Johnson, Lynn Staley / Staley, Lynn
978-0-271-02848-4The Shepheardes Calender is the poem that launched Edmund Spenser's career and changed the direction of English poetry. In this reappraisal, Lynn Staley Johnson demonstrates that Spenser himself made a self-conscious effort to create a new literature, a new esthetic for a new era. Drawing upon a wid...
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"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region
Higgins, Kathleen J.
978-0-271-03270-2To studies of Brazilian slavery this book adds a new dimension by showing how it developed in a region where mining was the chief commercial activity and how important a role gender played in this frontier setting in creating opportunities for slaves to achieve some measure of autonomy, compared wit...
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Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza
978-0-271-03516-1This volume brings together international scholars working at the intersection of Spinoza studies and critical and feminist philosophy. It is the first book-length study dedicated to the re-reading of Spinoza's ethical and theologico-political works from a feminist perspective. The twelve outstandin...
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Limiting Resources
Haglund, Ladawn
978-0-271-03719-6The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...
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American Immigration After 1996
Arnold, Kathleen R.
978-0-271-04890-1Few topics generate as much heated public debate in the United States today as immigration across our southern border. Two positions have been staked out, one favoring the expansion of guest-worker programs and focusing on the economic benefits of immigration, and the other proposing greater physica...
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A Catholic New Deal
Heineman, Kenneth J.
978-0-271-02886-6Our popular image of the era of the Great Depression is one of bread lines, labor wars, and leftist firebrands. Absent from this picture are religiously motivated social reformers, notably Catholic clergy and laity. In A Catholic New Deal, Kenneth Heineman rethinks the religious roots of labor orga...
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Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States
Daniel, G. Reginald
978-0-271-03288-7Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial groups, the development of their societies followed different trajectories in defining white/black relations. In Brazil pervasive miscegenation and the lack of form...
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Canon Fodder
Weiss, Penny A.
978-0-271-03520-8This book is an exercise in the recovery of historical memory about a set of thinkers who have been forgotten or purposely ignored and, as a result, never made it into the canon of Western political philosophy. Penny Weiss calls them "canon fodder," recalling the fate of soldiers in war who are trea...
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From Progressive to New Dealer
Miller, Kenneth E.
978-0-271-03743-1A native Pennsylvanian, born in Meadville in 1867 and a graduate of Allegheny College, Frederic Howe dedicated his life early on to the cause of improving society and played a major role in many movements for progressive change from the early 1890s to the Second World War-the period that Richard Hof...
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Into Print
978-0-271-05072-0The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French Revolution finds present-day parallels in the battle between those who see the Enlightenment at the origins of modernity's many ills, such as imperialism, racism, misogyny, and...
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Cultural Imperialism and the Indo-English Novel
Afzal-Khan, Fawzia
978-0-271-03295-5"Fawzia Afzal-Khan's excellent book could stand as a reply to those hostile critics who today attack 'multiculturalism' for reductively politicizing literature. In her trenchant discussion, Afzal-Khan shows just how complex the politics of 'liberation' can be for colonial and postcolonial novelists....
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Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests
Carruyo, Light
978-0-271-03326-6Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to such a vocabulary through a study of "local knowledge" that exposes the relationship between culture and...
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