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This work examines the history of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (1898-1956) and the Republic of Sudan that followed in order to understand how colonialism worked on the ground, affected local cultures, influenced the rise of nationalism, and shaped the postcolonial nation-state.

The American presidential election of 2000 raised fundamental questions not only about American democracy, but also about the nation's constitution and about the legitimate role of American courts, state and federal. This text presents a reaction to the legal aftermath of the election.

Presents a study of sex, power and knowledge in modern Japan. It provides a detailed history of the formation and application of a science of sex from Meiji through mid-twentieth century Japan. It analyzes the conflicts and negotiations that aimed at producing a normative sexuality.

Legal thought in America has always focused on the rules rather than on the persons affected by the rules. This text aims to restore the balance by taking a person-centred view of the law. The author shows how even great jurists have chosen the "masks of the law" over persons.

In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This second volume of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century.

In classical Chinese, 'The Great Enterprise' means winning The Mandate of heaven to rule over China, the Central Kingdom. This first of a two-volume work on 'The Great Enterprise' of the Manchus is the first scholarly narrative in any language relating their conquest of China during the seventeenth century.

This study of contemporary crypto-Jews - descendants of European Jews forced to convert to Christianity during the Spanish Inquisition - traces the group's history of clandestinely conducting their faith and their present-day efforts to reclaim the past.

Ten years of research and the discovery of long-forgotten letters and photos enabled the author to bring new recognition to this talented, intelligent, and independent photographer whose life embodied the cultural and political values of many artists of the post-World War I generation.

In this work Erich Gruen draws on a variety of literary and historical texts from antiquity to explore a central question: how did the Jews accommodate themselves to the larger cultural world of the Mediterranean while at the same time reasserting the character of their own heritage within it?

Documenting the lives of Armenians since the early 1980s, this text is based on interviews with 300 Armenians and brings together firsthand testimony about the social, economic and spiritual circumstances of Armenians during this era when the country faced an earthquake, pogroms and war.

This volume focuses on the totality of Buddhism in the West, establishing a comparative and theoretical perspective for considering the wide variety of Buddhist traditions, schools, centres and teachers that have developed outside of Asia.

Explores Japan's 'scientific colonialism' through a study of the changing roles of Taiwanese doctors under Japanese colonial rule. By integrating individual stories based on interviews and archival materials with discussions of political and social theories, this work unearths the points of convergence for medicine and politics in colonial Taiwan.

A reference to the sharks, rays, and chimaeras found in California's waters - from the intertidal zone to 500 miles offshore. It includes information on the California marine environment, ecology and conservation, and shark biology.

The leading poet of French symbolism, Stephane Mallarme has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writing. In this volume C.F. MacIntyre has translated 43 of his poems including the "Ouverture" and "Scene" from Herodiade.

A study of American evangelicals that assesses the common stereotype of evangelicals as intolerant, right-wing, religious zealots seeking to impose a Christian moral order through political force.

Offers an account of the particular visions that drove the period of Anglo dominance in the Los Angeles region, from about 1850 to about 1985. This title shows that Anglo settlers and developers wanted nothing more than to make sense of their surroundings, but that their two dominant paradigms were at war with each other.

In 1966 Peter Jan Honigsberg arrived in the South to help provide legal representation for civil rights workers. This memoir describes how the Deacons worked with the Bogalusa Voters League to boycott the white-owned businesses in the downtown area and to integrate the local schools, restaurants, parks, and paper mill.

A study of the popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, the text shows that during the 1980s and 1990s, rock and pop music have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state.

Traces the history of lining out from the time of slavery, when African American slaves adapted the practice for their own uses, blending it with other music, such as work songs. This book explores the role of lining out in worship and pursues the cultural implications of this practice far beyond the limits of the church.

The final of four volumes in the "California History Sesquicentennial Series", this text compiles original essays which treat the consequential role of post-Gold Rush California government, politics and law in the building of a dynamic state, with lasting impact to the present day.

What will California look like by the middle of the twenty-first century? Change is occurring in the state at a breathtaking pace. This title examines the powerful undercurrents - economic, demographic, and political - shaping California at this critical juncture in its history.

Tells the story of conservation by local government and private land trusts in California. This title describes the remarkable extent to which communities have protected their landscapes and draws lessons for disseminating successful preservation strategies across the country.

Offers an intimate portrait of Puerto Rican life in Chicago and San Sebastian, Puerto Rico - two places connected by a long history of circulating people, ideas, goods, and information. This title provides a window on the many strategies people use to resist the negative consequences of globalization, economic development, and gentrification.

Brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the 'propagandistic' art and architecture of the Jesuit order as exemplified by its late Baroque Roman church interiors. This study evaluates how the term 'propaganda' functions in art history, distinguishes it from rhetoric, and proposes a precise use of the term for the visual arts.

Rarely has an artist been so closely associated with a single work as is Jay Defeo with her painting "The Rose". In this major study of "The Rose" in particular and of Jay DeFeo in general, 11 art and cultural historians and writers unfold the story of the creation and rescue of her masterpiece.

An examination of Berkeley's celebrated Free Speech Movement (FSM) of 1964. Drawing from the experiences of many movement veterans, this collection of scholarly articles and personal memoirs illuminates one of the most important events in the recent history of American higher education.

Provides a comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top. This book traces the careers of approximately four hundred of the country's notable politicians, military officers, clergy, intellectuals, and capitalists.

Looking at the political awakening that occurred in America's Silicon Valley in the late 1990s, this title offers analyses of, among other things, the digital divide and the nuances of party subdivisions.

This collection of essays paints a portrait of American Protestantism at the beginning of the 21st century - a denomination that has remained quietly, but firmly, influential in the public sphere, through political action and the provision of social services.

This selection of essays taken from "Hollywood Quarterly" reflect the astonishing eclecticism of the journal, with sections on animation, the avant-garde, and documentary to go along with a representative sampling of articles about feature-length narrative films.