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Let Nobody Turn Us Around
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth …
Renaissance Beasts
Animals, as Lévi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance …
Who Belongs in America?
Through their rhetoric, presidents help to create the frame for the American public's understanding of immigration. In an overarching essay and ten case studies, ""Who Belongs in …
Coastal Nature, Coastal Culture
One of the unique features of the Georgia coast today is its thorough conservation. At first glance, it seems to be a place where nature reigns. But another distinctive feature of …
The 2016 Presidential Election
The 2016 Presidential Election: The Causes and Consequences of a Political Earthquake critically analyzes the 2016 presidential election. The chapters in this book identify key …
The Gold Rush Letters of E. Allen Grosh and Hosea B. Grosh
When brothers Ethan and Hosea Grosh left Pennsylvania in 1849, they joined throngs of men from all over the world intent on finding a fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their …
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.300–1500 AD
Profound cultural change defined the Byzantine world. For centuries after its embrace of Christianity, exchanges of ideas, objects, peoples and identities continued to flow across …
Affirmative Development
According to Gordon and Bridglall, the ability to learn is more of a developed human capacity than a fixed aptitude with which one is born. They argue that the emergence of …
Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800
With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider …
Battle Against Extinction
Dissertations On The History Of Metaphysical And Ethical, And Of Mathematical And Physical Science (1835)
Countering New(est) Terrorism
How should we analyze and assess new terrorist behaviors? What are the particular risks and challenges from new terrorism? Should we negotiate with terrorists, and, if so, how? …