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What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? In exploring these questions, Ranajit Guha points out that the South Asian colonial state was a historical paradox. Britain may have ruled India as a colony, but it never achieved hegemony over most of the population, collaborating with the nationalist elite but never persuading the masses.

The first book to trace the history of adolescent medicine, A Doctor of Their Own draws on oral histories of physicians in the field, patient records from adolescent medical facilities, medical and popular advice literature, and letters from teenagers and their parents.

Twenty-Two Years presents the results of a unique longitudinal study of the first 22 years in the lives of more than 200 young people with varying degrees of mental retardation.

Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this landmark work on custody arrangements, the developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and the legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children.

Between loyalty and disobedience; between recognition of the law's authority and realization that the law is not always right: in America, this conflict is historic, with results as varied as the mass protests of the civil rights movement and the armed violence of the militia movement. Carter argues for the dialogue that negotiates this conflict.

Within 12 years of the first appearance of "Leaves of Grass" in 1855, Whitman produced three further editions. Michael Moon concludes that what was subjected to revision was an historically specific set of principles governing how the human body was conceptualized in mid-19th-century America.

Since the beginning of modern warfare, one of the favorite crusades of the international peacemakers has been toward disarmament. Crosby investigates the British origin of the disarmament idea--from World War I through the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.

McGowan sets out to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. He makes fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals while presenting topics that range from gigantism to intellect.

Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, the Dictionary of American Regional English preserves a language that lives and dies as we breathe. It will amuse and inform, delight and instruct, and keep alive the speech that we have made our own, and that has made us who we are.

Like its popular predecessor, Volume II of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a treasury of vernacular Americanisms. The more than 11,000 entries contained in Volume II-from the poetic and humorous to the witty and downright bawdy-will delight and inform readers.

Presenting historical and current terminology, the authors provide definitions of terms central to ethological writing. Additionally, special attention is given to terms from related disciplines, particularly evolutionary biology, physiology, and ecology.

One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with authenticity while evoking the nostalgia, bitterness, and comedy of the Confederacy.

Scientists act within a social context and from a philosophical perspective that is inherently political. Whether they realize it or not, scientists always choose sides. This book explores the political nature of scientific inquiry, advancing its argument within the framework of Marxist dialectic.

Mr. Newton concludes his book with a timely discussion of the vital role that landscape architecture plays in the conservation of natural resources and in protection of the environment.

In the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of dependency theory, Robert Packenham describes its origins, substantive claims, and methods. He analyzes the movement comparatively and sociologically as a significant episode in inter-American and North-South cultural relations.

On June 12, 1962, 60 young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation-The Port Huron Statement-that ignited a decade of dissent. Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart-and to the streets.

This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life?

H. W. Perry, Jr., takes the first hard look at the internal workings of the Supreme Court, illuminating its agenda-setting policies, procedures, and priorities as never before. Among his contributions is a decision-making model that is more convincing and persuasive than the standard model for explaining judicial behavior.

This work looks at the travails of political parties in the United States, by analyzing a congressional election. A new chapter which discusses the return of divided government, via the Republicans' takeover of Congress in 1994, is also included.

Listening in on public conversation that recreates Elvis after death, Marcus tracks Presley's resurrection. He grafts together snatches of film, music, books, newspapers, photos, posters, and cartoons, and amazes us with what America has been saying as it raises its late king-and also what this obsession with dead Elvis says about America itself.

The Harvard University Art Museums hold one of the world's finest collections of early 19th-century drawings; the nearly 500 works reproduced here-many published for the first time-include the most significant groups of drawings outside France by the masters of the age: David, Gericault, Ingres, Delacroix, and Prud'hon.

This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations offers the authentic answer to the question "What is Dada?" Prepared by Motherwell in collaboration with such major Dada figures as Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst, the book creates a composite picture of Dada-its convictions, antics, and spirit.

Freccero enables us to see the Divine Comedy for the bold, poetic experiment that it is. Too many critics have domesticated Dante by separating his theology from his poetics. Freccero argues that to fail to see the convergence of the letter and the spirit, the pilgrim and the poet, is to fail to understand Dante's poetics of conversion.

Few other social phenomena are likely to impact the future character of American society as much as the ongoing wave of "new immigration." This cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new immigration: Mexican immigration to the U.S.

This book examines the political nature of legal decisionmaking, and offers a sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy, and psychology. At its center is the question of how politics affects judicial activity-and how lawmaking by judges affects American politics.

Two centuries later, the French Revolution-that event that founded modern democracy-continues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume not only presents the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also brings one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.

In this eye-opening book, llana Pardes explores the tense dialogue between dominant patriarchal discourses of the Bible and counter female voices.