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Considers the moral problems associated with improving the social and economic position of disadvantaged groups. This title includes discussion on compensation, liability, victimization, the significance of group membership, the intrinsic importance of racial, sexual, or meritocratic criteria, and the overall effects of preferential policies.

A collection of articles that focuses on moral questions about war. It covers a range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law.

Based on the litigation strategy and court papers filed in the case of Joseph C Steffan v Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense, et al, this title argues that gays constitute a politically powerless class that has been unjustly deprived of its constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

Published in 1991, this collection of nineteen essays delves into themes such as: death, the body, the soul, the individual, and relations between mortals and immortals; the mask, the mirror, the image, and the imagination; the self and the other, and the concept of otherness itself, or "alterity."

The Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience.

The Swiss thinker JJ Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or 'mother right,'. This book includes an autobiographical essay and selections from "An Essay on Ancient Mortuary Symbolism", "Mother Right", and "The Myth of Tanaquil".

What has been the value of numerical values? Beginning with the late eighteenth century and continuing into the twentieth, this title includes essays that support the view that centralizing states have been the major promoters of numerical precision.

Aims to showcase some of the best historical work in textual theory, literary history, and cultural criticism. This volume contains essays that illuminate literary periods ranging from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern, a variety of literary texts that includes "Macbeth", "The Jazz Singer", and "The Chosen Place, the Timeless People".

"The focus of any genuinely new piece of criticism or interpretation must be on the creative act of finding the new, but deconstruction puts the matter the other way around: its emphasis is on debunking the old. But aside from the fact that this program is inherently uninteresting, it is, in fact, not at all clear that it is possible."

Includes twenty contributions dealing with the culture that generated the great novels of Dostoevsky and the criticism of the Russian formalists of the early twentieth century, whose perceptions still shape our views of Russian and much of world literature. This title includes evaluations of books by Jakobson and Bakhtin.

Presenting an English translation of a key volume of essays, this is a work of methodological, theoretical, and historiographical significance to German studies. It includes two empirical essays, one by Lutz Niethammer on life courses of East Germans after 1945 and other by Ludtke on modes of accepting fascism among German workers.

Presents an interdisciplinary collection of essays on the social and cultural life of late imperial Russia. This book describes the struggle of elites to take up a "middle position" between the tsar and people. It analyzes the attempt of educated Russians to forge new identities, and the social, cultural, and regional fragmentation of the times.

The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.

Three Japanese authors - Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi - survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. This work contains the English translation of Hara's "Summer Flowers", the English translation of Ota's "City of Corpses", and the translation of Toge's "Poems of the Atomic Bomb".

Based on popular leaflets, diaries, civic chronicles, and iconographic sources, this book explores the expression of a culture in which nature, religion, and politics formed a unified system with a uniform code of interpretation. It connects the decline of prophecy in Italy with the end of the Italian wars.

The description for this book, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, will be forthcoming.

Presented here is an English translation of a study that was part of a distinguished French series on the country's post-Revolution history. Unlike much Napoleonic literature that features the personality and foreign policy of the Emperor, it describes the condition of France and the French people during the fifteen years immediately following their great revolution. The translator, R. R. Palmer, is a distinguished historian who has written and translated many books in French history, including The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre (Princeton).Applying the methods of the new social history (Annales school), the author covers the political, administrative, social, economic, and cultural facets of the First Empire. Part I deals with the domestic program and institutions under Napoleon and the fervor of the new chief of state as he sought to establish a coherent, efficient, and thoroughly controlled regime. Part II examines the opposition to his system and the reasons behind the imperfect realization of his ideal. It discusses population and demographic trends, social structure, and economic activity--all of which eluded Napoleon's grasp.

Explores the legal and social evolution of Russia's agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship.

A collection of essays, which focus not on individual and family behavior but on a complex set of processes that have been at work over a long period, degrading the inner cities and, inevitably, the nation as a whole.

The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and 'civilize' all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens. This title tells the dramatic success story of the renascence of the tribe.

A collection of essays that represents an archivally based reassessment of Dulles' diplomacy and examines his role during one of the most critical periods of modern history. Rejecting familiar Cold War stereotypes, it reveals the hidden complexities in Dulles' conduct of foreign policy and in his own personality.

"Originally published, with appendix, in the Greenwood Press series, Contributions in Afro-American and African studies, no. 36, Westport, CT, c1979"--T.p. verso.

Applying the tools of modern political economy to a developing-country context, this title analyzes the different patterns of national economic and political behavior that arose in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Venezuela. It is suitable for those who are interested in comparative politics, international studies, and development studies.

The renowned economist Joseph A Schumpeter (1883-1950) made seminal contributions not only to economic theory but also to sociology and economic history. This anthology emphasizes his broad socio-economic vision and his attempt to analyze economic reality from several different perspectives.

One of the important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. This work shows how the insights of these seminal essays have been amplified by exhibitions and scholarship.

Features fifteen original essays where eminent cultural historians and classicists not only discuss sex, but demonstrate how norms, practices, and even the very definitions of what counts as sexual activity have varied significantly over time.

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture.

Offers discussions of the ways the 'inner life' is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the 'external' social and economic spheres. This volume features essays focusing on the fluidity of gender, the economics of sexual and sibling rivalry, the power of the visual, and the cultural echoes of the uncanny.

Comprising both interpretive essays and a selection of documents that bear on Dvorak's career and music, this volume addresses fundamental questions about the composer while presenting an argument for a radical reappraisal.

Originally published in 1973, this study of John Keats established a frame of reference for the reading of Keats's works which was rooted in mainstream criticism, but which also pointed the way towards the new deconstructive and revisionary approaches of criticism used today.