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Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics.
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For nearly eight centuries, the Iberian peninsula was remarkable for its religious, cultural, linguistic, and ethnic diversity. This... Læs mere
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In 1890, a delegation of African American activists formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization.... Læs mere
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Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past.
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"A lively first-hand account of Florentine history in the lifetime of Dante and Giotto."--
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How do nongovernmental organizations affect the world of human rights?
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Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what-or who-must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? Dolan reveals the... Læs mere
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The antebellum period has long been identified with the belated emergence of a truly national literature. Restoring a political dimension to... Læs mere
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Focusing on the rich heritage of art-making in the eighteenth century, this illustrated book positions both well-known... Læs mere
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Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique provides a bracing and controversial analysis of the scope of human rights and lays the groundwork for a multicultural and more universal understanding of these rights.
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Explores the life and teachings of the Bektashi mystic who established the first Bektashi community in America. Through stories, oral histories, and ethnography, Frances... Læs mere
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The first translation into English of a startling 1907 memoir of a writer who was born a boy, was raised as a girl, and who lived as a man. Who was the real N.O. Body, and why did he go to such lengths to hide not just his name but his Jewish identity?