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Mind of Thucydides
The publication of Jacqueline de Romilly's Histoire et raison chez Thucydide in 1956 virtually transformed scholarship on Thucydides. Rather than mining The Peloponnesian War to …
Learning the Birds
"e;The thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is filled with wonder. When I bird, life is bigger, more vibrant."e; That is …
Subterranean Estates
"e;Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."e;-Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at …
Soundings in Critical Theory
In Soundings in Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his attempt to fashion a historiography that is at once critical and self-critical-a project he initiated in Rethinking …
Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America
Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology …
Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma
Fifty Years in the Karen Revolution in Burma is about commitment to an ideal, individual survival and the universality of the human experience. A memoir of two tenacious souls, it …
Green Hornet Street Car Disaster
As rush hour came to a close on the evening of May 25, 1950, one of Chicago's new fast, colorful, streamlined streetcars-known as a Green Hornet-slammed into a gas truck at State …
St. Maximus the Confessor's "e;Questions and Doubts"e;
Despina D. Prassas's translation of the Quaestiones et Dubia presents for the first time in English one of the Confessor's most significant contributions to early Christian …
Survival Migration
International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by …
Poland
Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval …
Is Time out of Joint?
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future-and their relationship to the present-been reordered? The past, it seems, has …