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"The first encyclopedia of Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, this comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference pro...
English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse
Michael Andindilile in The Anglophone LiteraryโLinguistic Continuum: English and Indigenous Languages in African Literary Discourse interrogates Obi...
A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation
Caribbean Visionary: A. R. F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation traces the life of Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1880โ1932), a distinguis...
Richard Hooker presents information on Theravada Buddhism, as a part of his World Civilizations resource. Hooker discusses the origins, basic doctrine...
Film Poetics and the Aesthetic of Disturbance
The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong's filmmaking te...
Movie Stars of the 1960s
New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s tells the story of the final glory days of the studio system and changing conceptions of stardom, conside...
Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism
Apophasis and Overcoming Theomania
This book explores the co-dependency of monotheism and idolatry by examining the thought of several prominent twentieth-century Jewish philosophers Co...
From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care
Although scorned in the early 1900s and publicly condemned by Abraham Flexner and the American Medical Association, the practice of homeopathy did not...
The American Voice looks to find the vital edge of modern American writing. The journal, whose contributors come from the U.S., Canada, and Latin Amer...
International Deaf Spaces and Encounters
Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada afte...
Hugh Clifford & the Discipline of English Literature in the Straits Settlements & Malaya, 1895-1907
Breaking the Silence of Centuries
In 1964, a little-noticed albeit pioneering encounter in the Holy Land between the heads of the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church spawned ...
Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945
This study consolidates, refines, advances and grounds recent scholarship that challenges familiar platitudes about family farming and rural life in t...
The Chicago Sisters of Mercy and the Evolution of a Religious Community
When the Sisters of Mercy lost their foundress Sister Catherine McAuley in 1841, stories of Mother Catherine passed from one generation of sisters to ...
Histories of Sexuality and Religion in the Twentieth-Century United States
Gay People on Trial
In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting ...
Local Experiments with Alternative Elections
Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950
A Virtual Reconstruction of the New World's First English-Language Book
Annotation In 1638, the first printing press was imported to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and a group of local religious leadersincluding, it is thoug...
The study of medieval liturgy can tell us a great deal not only about the worship of the church, but also about the people who practised it. However, ...
Reading Rousseau Through Fanon
Asking whether one can develop an approach to studying political life that reflects its heterogeneity, Jane Anna Gordon offers the creolization of pol...
U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
"Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. Whaley examines ...
Community-university Research Partnerships in Global Perspectives
25. Participatory sustainable waste management project in Brazil: Crystal Tremblay and Sarah Amyot...
In line with the federal structure of the Nigerian State, tax administration in the country is multi-tiered. The Federal Inland Revenue Service is res...
The Feminine Symptom takes as its starting point the problem of female offspring for Aristotle: If form is transmitted by the male and the female prov...
Modern Business Decision Making in Central and Eastern Europe
A Sad Tale of Strife and Dissension