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This is a reinterpretation of the political and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts, envisioning the Bay colony as a 17th-century one-party state. The author argues that ideologies, as well as ideological politics, are produced by self-conscious and class-conscious thinkers.

Studying the language of judges in courtrooms, the author of this text demonstrates that they are not impartial arbiters of due process, but are influenced by their own political-ideological stance and interpretation of the law. The effect on their interaction with defendants is shown.

Positioned at the boundary of traditional biblical studies, legal history, and literary theory, 'Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation' shows how the legislation of 'Deuteronomy' reflects the struggle of its authors to renew late seventh-century Judean society.

An examination of the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham which explores the relation of history and literature through the Wars of the Roses and the Hundred Years War and considers Legends of Holy Women, a collection of all female saints' lives written by Bokenham between 1443 and 1447.

Basing himself in the Indian city of Banaras, where magic is a familiar part of everyday life, the author reviews the major theories that have explained magic over the last century. He argues that all of these theories leave out something critical, namely what he calls "magical consciouness".

This text examines the usefulness of "casuistry", or "the method of cases" in arriving at moral decisions. It seeks to teach something about how we actually reason concerning life and death situations, and how we ought to reason if we wish both to be consistent and properly respect human life.

This is a social history of the families of the Keweenaw Peninsula area of Upper Michigan, from 1840 to 1875 when the district's main industry was copper mining. It is the story of these "reluctant pioneers", who survived in what was, in many ways, a hostile environment.

Part of the "Sloan Foundation Technology Book" series, this book explores the forces that drive technological development along the specific paths that it takes, using the nuclear power industry as a recurrent case-study example, but drawing in other technologies, such as personal computers and software, and electrical power and space flight.

This inderdisciplinary inquiry seeks to uncover how Buddhism was expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. It focuses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how he successfully revised Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism.

Using the tools of contemporary analytic philosophy, the author of this text offers a way of thinking and talking about women's sexual pleasures, preferences and desires. She discusses methods for mediating the tensions in feminist perspectives on women's sexuality.

This is a study of Cuban-American popular Catholicism, focusing on the shrine of Our Lady of Charity in Miami, which is the sacred centre of the Cuban community in exile. Tweed uses historical and ethnographic methods to discover why the shrine attained so much importance and attracts so many visitors, and what it can tell us about larger issues of religion, identity, and place.

This is a collection of essays drawn from Schwartz's previously published work in which he explores how each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. Arguing that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the biblical era to our own times, this collection serves as a useful guide to the history of that literature and its genres.

Offering a critique of traditional religion scholarship, this work focuses on multiple interrelated targets. It covers the history of religions as a discipline, and examines the ideological basis for, and service of, the "sui generis" argument.

This collection of essays brings together Elbow's theories on teaching writing. The volume includes sections on voice, the experience of writing, teaching, and evaluation.

This study examines the rise and subsequent disintegration of a US literary-political movement of the 1840s. "Young America" found a mouthpiece in "The Democratic Review", a magazine which had sponsored such writers as Hawthorne and Whitman, and influenced Melville, before the Mexican-American war.

This study of North American economic history argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. It focuses its examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original 13 states) and French Canada.

Viral Sex illuminates the origins and nature of the world's most lethal disease. It provides an eyewitness account of science's effort to understand and control the spread of this deadly virus.

It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Through a careful examination of Hume's views about understanding and cognition, Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are without basis and that Hume presents a rich philosophy with historical importance and contemporary significance.

This study examines how the basic constitutional structure of a government affects what it can accomplish. It also examines the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves, by drawing comparisons between the American system and other forms of government.

This ethnographic portrait of the human mind uses case studies from both industrialized and developing societies to argue that "cultural models" are necessary to the functioning of the human mind.

On the basis of taped interviews with male and female doctors in a private practice setting, the author of this book demonstrates how patients (and doctors) can wield considerable influence in interactions. She shows their employment of verbal strategies to construct power in medical discourse.

This text examines ethnicity and discourse in Southwestern Alaska, and should be of interest to linguists and anthropologists.

A study of self-control and individual autonomy. The concept of self-control, and its bearing on human behaviour, is examined, as well as its relationship to personal autonomy and autonomous behaviour.

Kronenfeld aims to present a comprehensive understanding of the process by which we use words in speech to refer to things in the world, and to develop a theory of the semantics of natural language which can account adequately for native speakers' intuitions regarding word meanings and their word usage.

Examining in detail the dramas of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange, this study describes how these black writers are preoccupied with the invention of a postimperial cultural identity. It charts the foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.

This is a collection of the most influential and important work of the distinguished sociolinguist Charles A. Ferguson, ranging from studies of baby talk across cultures to analyses of the impact of literacy and religion on cultures across the world.

A multidisciplinary work which examines how individuals and institutions shaped memory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The book studies diverse "memory-sites" to show how memory and history are fought over, shaped, and put to personal and ideological use.

The author investigates the distribution and placement of verbal particles, which are words that do not change their form through inflection and do not fit easily into the established system of parts of speech. He analyses data from Norwegian, English, Dutch, German, and other languages.

This study explores why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. The author re-examines such famous Puritan events as the Salem witch trials and the banishment of Anne Hutchinson to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue.