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This text examines the historical formation of community in Monterey. It is also an investigation of how historical narratives are produced, looking at competing accounts of "civilizing" the Native Americans, Yankee progress, ethnical diversity and environmental protection among other issues.

Klezmer, the Yiddish word for a folk instrumental musician, has come to mean a person, a style, and a scene. This work investigates American klezmer: its roots, its evolution, and its spirited revitalization. It focuses on the history of klezmer, using folkloric sources, records of early musicians unions, and interviews with immigrant musicians.

In 1925, William and Charlotte Wiser arrived in the North Indian village of Karimpur. Over the next five years they wrote one of the first studies of village India, originally published in 1930. This book traces the insightful story of the village and the people who came to study it.

Features essays that present a range of subjects on the cause and consequence of protest movements in Latin America, from an examination of the varying faces but common origins of rural guerilla movements, to a discussion of multiclass protests, to an essay on las madres de plaza de mayo.

Studying the economic and cultural upheaval that shook mainland Greece and the Aegean area in the eighth century, this work also looks at the role that poetry played in this upheaval.

Illness has changed in the postmodern era - roughly the period since World War II - as dramatically as technology, transportation, and the texture of everyday life. Exploring these changes, this title tells the fascinating story of what goes into making the postmodern experience of illness different, perhaps unique.

A critical biography of Walt Whitman. It offers insights into many aspects of the poet's life, including his attitudes toward the emerging urban life of America, his relationships with his family members, his developing notions of male-male love, his attitudes toward the vexed issue of race, and his insistence on the union of American states.

Documents the building of the first roads over the Sierra Nevada.

In the Puget Sound region of Washington state, indigenous people and their descendants have a long history of interaction with settlers and their descendants. This title offers a comprehensive account of these interactions, from contact with traders of the 1820s to the Indian fishing rights activism of the 1970s.

Religious conservatives and secular liberals have battled over the 'appropriate' role of women in society. This title presents an exploration of Women's Aglow Fellowship, one of the largest women's evangelical organizations in the world, that challenges the simple generalizations often made about charismatic or 'spirit-filled' Christian women.

The abolition movement is perhaps the most salient example of the struggle the United States has faced in its long and complex confrontation with the issue of race. This book presents an interpretation of abolitionism. It pays particular attention to the role that blacks played in the movement.

Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment, this work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. It discusses nearly one hundred Arabic autobiographical texts and presents thirteen selections in translation.

This work aims to show that literature has a powerful role to play in understanding life's ethical problems. It offers a critique of Kantian ethics, which has enjoyed a preeminent place in moral philosophy in the United States, arguing that it does not do justice to the reality of our lives.

Deepening and developing the seminal vision of "Habits of the Heart" California, 1985), this volume presents original essays by leading thinkers in the social sciences, philosophy, and religion.

This study explains how women composers and librettists gained access to concert halls in the age of the French Revolution. At the same time it aims to demonstrate how the Revolution fostered many dreams and ambitions for women that would be doomed to disappointment in the post-Revolutionary era.

The dynamics of work and parenthood are in the midst of a revolutionary shift in the United States. Focused around a major factor in this shift - the rise of dual-income families - this volume provides an informative snapshot of the intricate fabric of work and family in the United States.

This study explores odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in the light of modern anthropological and literary theory. The author examines, in particular, how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhetorical figures.

Emphasizes how thoroughly the Salvation Army entered into 19th-century urban life. This book follows the movement from its Methodist roots and East London origins through its struggles with the established denominations of England, problems with the law and the media, and public manifestations that included street brawls with working-class toughs.

Throughout European history, Jews have been associated with commerce and the money trade, rendered both visible and vulnerable, like Shylock, by their economic distinctiveness. This is the story of Jewish perceptions of this economic difference and its effect on modern Jewish identity.

Offers a revisionary feminist argument about the origins, cultural function, and formal structure of the English novel. This title contends that the novel principally came into being in order to manage the social and psychological strains of the modern sex-gender system.

In studying the human subject and the way the human culture mirrors itself, the author redefines holography as "the exact equivalence, or comprehensive identity, of part and whole in any human contingency".

Examines social representations of the fat body. This work questions discursive constructions of fatness while analyzing the politics and power of corpulence and addressing the absence of fat people in media representations of the body.

In the fifth century AD, Proclus served as head of the Academy in Athens that had been founded 900 years earlier by Plato. This bilingual edition comprises Proclus's 17 arguments (II-XVIII) on the eternity of the world and for the existence of God.

In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. This work examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945.

Camembert, despite now being mass-produced internationally, still remains a national symbol for France, emblematic of its cultural identity. This text weaves together culinary and social history in a tale about the changing nature of food with implications for every modern consumer.

An immigrant from a small Armenian village in eastern Turkey, Arshile Gorky (c 1900-1948) made his way to the US to become a painter in 1920. This title tells the story of Gorky's life and career.

Long-time residents and professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on Earth, Las Vegas. They offer a portrait of the other side of the city - the people and institutions that support the glitter of the gaming and entertainment industry.

A biography of Paul Bowles, the famously enigmatic writer-composer. It questions the biographer's role, the subject's credibility, and the very nature of 'truth' in the telling of a life. It talks of Bowles' difficult childhood and of his grief over his wife's - the author Jane Bowles, who died in 1973 - illness, of exile, dreams, and madness.

Offers a fresh approach to a freedom that is often taken for granted in the United States, yet is one of the strongest and proudest elements of American culture: religious freedom. This book asserts that freedom of religion, as James Madison conceived it, is an American invention previously unknown to any nation on earth.

Beginning with the western foothills, this book evokes a picture of the varied plant and animal life encountered as the elevation increases, tops the crest, and drops to the more precipitous, arid eastern Sierra slope. It takes the reader through chaparral and mountain meadows, pine and fir forests, granite expanses and snowy peaks.