Publication date: 1992-03-27
Dewey code: 323.11991509429
Price: $59.95
Review Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture / Cambridge University Press:This original ethnography brings indigenous people's stories into conversations around troubling questions of social justice and environmental care. Deborah Bird Rose lived for two years with the Yarralin community in the Northern Territory's remote Victoria River Valley. Her engagement with the people's stories and their action in the world leads her to this analysis of a multi-centred poetics of life and land. The book speaks to issues that are of immediate and broad concern today: traditional ecological knowledge, kinship between humans and other living things, colonising history, environmental history, and sacred geography. Now in paperback, this award-winning exploration of the Yarralin people is available to a whole new readership. The boldly direct and personal approach will be illuminating and accessible to general readers, while also of great value to experienced anthropologists.
Publication date: 1981-12-23
Dewey code: 305.5670924
List Price: $133.95
Price: $133.95
Review Index to The American Slave (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:
Publication date: 1992-01
List Price: $35.00
Price: $143.43
Review The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother, and Lady of the English / Blackwell Publishers:This is a biography of the Empress Matilda. Granddaughter of William the Conqueror and of King Malcolm of the Scots, and daughter of Henry I, Matilda fought for the throne of England, arguably hers by right, for nine years, and was denied it largely because she was a woman. Contemporary chroniclers said of her that she was "always superior to feminine softness and with a mind steeled and unbroken in adversity". In valour and determination Matilda may be compared with Boudicca, or with Elizabeth I, yet most of the serious work on her action-packed life and historical importance lies in untranslated German studies of the last century. In this book Marjorie Chibnall examines her career as a whole, as King Henry's daughter, as the wife and consort of Emperor Henry V, as Countess of Anjou after the Emperor's death, and as regent for her son, Henry II. In the final chapter the author examines the various ways in which Matilda has been judged by historians through the ages, and offers an assessment of the character and achievements of the woman who was described in her epitaph as "great by birth, greater by marriage and greatest in her offspring". This biography, pieced together from archival sources all over Europe, should be of value and interest both to scholars and the general reader.
Authors
- National Museum of Modern Art
Publication date: 1982-09
Dewey code: 745.72
List Price: $150.00
Price: $250.00
Review Japanese Lacquer Art / Weatherhill:
Publication date: 1978
Review The Jews of Harrisburg: An informal history by a native son / s.n:
Publication date: 1986-03-26
Dewey code: 191
List Price: $112.95
Price: $114.85
Review Alain Locke and Philosophy: A Quest for Cultural Pluralism (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) / Greenwood Press:Washington provides the first systematic critical look at the life and work of Alain Locke, an important American philosopher, in the context of a thoroughgoing analysis of the values, ideals, aspirations, and problems of the Black community. Alain Locke contributed significantly to the twentieth-century dialogue on ethics and society. Drawing particularly on the work of William James and Josiah Royce, Locke was perhaps the first to bring philosophy to bear on the problems of race relations and social justice in a multiracial society. He argued that racial problems in the United States stem from the fact that white Americans hold up their values as the only controlling and only acceptable model, to which other groups are forced to conform. First discussing what is meant by "Black philosophy" and what its concerns include, the author examines Locke's philosophic interpretation of Black America's historical experience, contributions to culture, and struggles for social justice. He provides a critique of Locke's model of the political community, with special reference to the work of Hannah Arendt. Looking at the impact of Locke, DuBois, and others on the Black community, he discusses their relation to the "Black Elite," their encouragement of Black artists and their positions on educational issues such as teaching Black history, parity for Blacks, and school desegregation. Other subjects considered are the "New Negro," the Harlem Renaissance, African art and culture, and Locke's views in light of changes that have occurred since his death in 1954. An important work on a philosopher whose insights are of continuing significance today, this book will be of interest for Afro-American studies, as well as for courses on American philosophy and American social and intellectual history.
Publication date: 1998-08-30
Dewey code: 920.0092034066
List Price: $115.00
Price: $115.00
Review "Gone Native" in Polynesia: Captivity Narratives and Experiences from the South Pacific (Contributions to the Study of World History) / Greenwood Press:Campbell presents a study of the lives and experiences of Europeans and Americans in the age of early industrial overseas expansions, who became detatched from their own societies and lived, sometimes for many years, among Pacific Islanders as integrated members of their communities, often with little hope of returning home and frequently with no wish to do so. As engaging as primitivism was to European philosophers, the realities of contact between seafarers and islanders who faced previously unimagined technological and human marvels were much more pragmatic. Jealousy, ethnocentrism, and violence on both sides competed with humanitarian interests and indigenous hospitality to shape the emerging pattern of relationships. At first, Europeans crossed the oceans only for compelling reasons: the passion for scientific research, the dedication to Christian evangelism, or the uncompromising profit motive. Later, settlers and government officials followed in the wake of these early explorers. Scattered in the interstices of contact relationships were large numbers of men whose interest was not in changing native society or profiting from it, but in experiencing primitive life and simply surviving itself. These men included castaways and deserters, some abandoned by their captains and others kidnapped by the islanders. Their prospects depended on their successful integration into Polynesian society-and in making themselves useful by applying European knowledge and skills to local situations and by mediating between islanders and their insistent visitors.
Creator: Michael Millgate
Publication date: 1980-10-16
Dewey code: 823.8
List Price: $375.00
Price: $202.66
Review The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy Volume 2: 1893-1901 / Oxford University Press, USA:Winner of the Thomas Hardy Society Book Prize.
Creator: Simon Keynes
Publication date: 1998-09-28
Dewey code: 942.019092
List Price: $70.00
Price: $115.00
Review Encomium Emmae Reginae (Camden Classic Reprints) / Cambridge University Press:The Encomium Emmae Reginae is, as its title suggests, a political tract in praise of Queen Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy, wife of King Ethelred the Unready from 1002 to 1016, and wife of the Danish conqueror King Cnut from 1017 to 1035. It is an important primary source that transports us into the heart of eleventh-century politics. This edition contains a new introduction that places the Encomium in the historical context in which it was written, and traces the career of Emma, a woman who was twice queen and who sought to preserve her position of power as queen-mother.
Publication date: 2006-05-01
Dewey code: 895.6134
List Price: $116.00
Price: $116.00
Review Thinking Like a Man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825) (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) / Brill Academic Publishers:In her political treatise, Hitori kangae (Solitary Thoughts, 1818), Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825) presents her observations and critiques of the intellectual and socio-political landscapes of the late Tokugawa period (1600-1868). It is especially the (samurai) woman’s perspective that makes Makuzu’s treatise such a rich source of, often implicit, information on the late Tokugawa period (1600-1868). The biographical details of Makuzu’s life and family are given social and historical context in terms of her self-conscious status as a samurai woman. Through close analysis of Makuzu’s philosophical and autobiographical writings, Dr. Gramlich-Oka reveals Makuzu to have been a natural product of the variety of intellectual schools and circles of her time. In extending Makuzu’s unique critique of the intellectual’s lack of concern with women to contemporary intellectual history, the author carves a new path in incorporating gender into intellectual history and biography writing.
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $50.00
Price: $250.00
Review Life? or Theatre? / B.V. Waanders Uitgeverji:
Authors
- Vladimir Chuguev
- Jeanne Vronskaya
Publication date: 1992-06
Price: $275.00
Review The Biographical Dictionary of the Former Soviet Union: Prominent People in All Fields from 1917 to the Present / Bowker-Saur:
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 949.502
List Price: $115.00
Price: $111.00
Review The Reign of Leo VI (886-912): Politics and People (Medieval Mediterranean, V. 15) / Brill Academic Publishers:
Publication date: 1997-09
Dewey code: 281.9092
List Price: $130.00
Price: $135.23
Review Theophylacht of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs, V. 2) / Variorum:This volume is as a result of the reading of the letter collection of Theophylacht of Ochrid, Archbishop of Bulgaria. The letters have been previously studied from an historical point of view, but in this volume the author concentrates on the letters as examples of Byzantine literature. The book attempts to place an epistolary text in a succession of literary and historical contexts, as well as to prove the reliability of any rhetorical text for straightforward biography. In addition, an analysis is also made of the personal networks of Theophylacht.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2003-01-06
Dewey code: 895.1148
List Price: $190.00
Price: $158.57
Review Harmony Garden: The Life, Literary Criticism, and Poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798) / RoutledgeCurzon:This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) poetry such as narrative, historical, didactic, eccentric, and nature verse. The study is concluded by a generous and representative sampling of Yuan's poetry in translation, the first to do justice to the wide variety and richness of his oeuvre. Although many shorter poems are selected, this is the first translation to include his outstanding longer poetry. Harmony Garden will completely revise current attitudes in the west concerning classical Chines literature during the eighteenth century, a period that was long viewed as one of decline, but now appears to equal the golden ages of antiquity.
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1986
Review Juana, a Spanish girl in central Texas / Texian Press:
Publication date: 2006-01
Review Kevin Lynch and the Irish Hunger Strike / Camline Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1995-01-17
Dewey code: 327.41052
List Price: $170.00
Price: $141.45
Review Britain and Japan: Bioraphical Portraits / RoutledgeCurzon:
Creator: Conan Kennedy
Publication date: 2005-10-01
Review The Diaries of Mary Hayden: 1878-1883 v. 1 / Morrigan Book Co:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1989-07-31
Dewey code: 252.0783
List Price: $159.00
Price: $159.00
Review Human Saliva / CRC-Press:
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