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An account of Chinese literary modernism, written from the perspective of Republican China. Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time and analyzes pivotal issues, such as decadence and Orientalism.

Brings together Thomas Carlyle's essays on history and historical subjects. This title includes essays on the French Revolution, Cromwell, Frederick the Great, and medieval Scandinavia. It also includes a historical introduction and illustrations along with textual apparatus.

Examines the aspects of Hannah Arendt's life and thought including: her complex identity as a German Jew; her commitment to and critique of Zionism and the state of Israel; her works on "totalitarianism", Nazism, and the Eichmann trial; and, her intimate and tense connections to German culture.

Mary Palevsky needed to come to terms with the moral complexities of the atomic bomb: her parents worked on its development during World War II and were profoundly changed by that experience. After they died, unanswered questions sent their daughter on a search for understanding. This chronicle presents the story of that quest.

Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B1 in the diet, beriberi is characterized by weakness and loss of feeling in the feet and legs, then swelling from fluid retention, and finally heart failure. This book offers a comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi.

This study in philosophical psychology asks the question: How can one deceive oneself if the very idea of deception implies that the deceiver knows the truth? The resolution of this paradox leads to fundamental insights into the mind at work.

Examines the changing representations of "home" in 20th-century English literature. The text argues that literary allegiances are always more complicated than expected and yet curiously visible in textual reformulations of "home".

Disabled veterans were World War I's most conspicuous legacy. Nearly eight million men in Europe returned permanently disabled by injury or disease. This is a comparative analysis of the very different ways in which two belligerent nations - Germany and Britain - cared for their disabled.

This collection of essays showcases the work of some of the most influential theorists of the late-20th century as they grapple with the question of how literature should be treated in contemporary theory.

Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. This title shows how they attempted to reconstruct the 'bodily integrity' of the nation by pointing to the dangers of homosexuality and pornography.

This text examines the city of Peking during the Ming and Qing periods. Using Peking's temples as a starting point, the book excavates the city's varied public arenas, its transformation over five centuries, its human engagements, and its rich cultural imprint.

Nearly seven million people live in southwest China, but most educated people have never heard of them. This work intends to bring this part of the world to life. It is a collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society, and social changes.

An exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions of collective suffering - a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide.

Focuses on representative individuals for whom American Constitution is a vital part of life. This title covers a range of American life in the profiles and stories about public and private heroes who challenge assaults on the Bill of Rights.

This study of the employment of Mexicans as labourers in the USA between World War I and the Great Depression relates the social and economic experiences of the Mexican workers. It describes the roles of women, the Catholic church and labour unions.

This ethnographic study of factory workers engaged in radical labour protest gives a voice to a segment of the Japanese population that has previously been marginalized. It is a portrait of how workers grapple with a slowed economy and the contradictions of Japanese industry in the post-war era.

Pachomius, who died in 346, has long been regarded as the "founder of monasticism". This reading of the available texts, first published in 1985, reveals that Pachomius's pioneering enterprise has been consistently misread in light of later monastic practices.

In his enduring study of Spanish-speaking Californians - a group that includes both native-born Californians, or Californios, and immigrants from Mexico - the author charts one of the earliest chapters in the state's ethnic history, and, in the process, he sheds light on debates and tensions that continue to this day.

Reveals how federal agencies - including the Department of Defense, the executive branch, and the CIA - have monitored and controlled public access to information. This book is suitable for those interested in the inside secrets of government spying, censorship, and the abrogation of First Amendment rights.

This study, first published in 1978, offers a history of anti-Japanese prejudice in California, from the late 19th century to 1924, when an immigration act excluded Japanese from entering the USA, and set the stage, politically, for the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

This study introduces the principles and practices of prescribed burning, which apply far beyond California, within a historical and ecological perspective. First published in 1989, this edition includes a new foreword.

The transition from a planned to a market economy that began in China in the late 1970s unleashed an extraordinary series of changes, including increases in private enterprise, foreign investment, the standard of living, and corruption. This title considers the impact that this new class is having on China's politics.

Offering a diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. It features essays that reflect the fact that mass media are as ubiquitous in Cairo and Karachi as in Los Angeles and Detroit.

Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. This book demonstrates the influence of these crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature.

Taking us from the open spaces of rural New Mexico and the fields of California's Great Central Valley to the intellectual milieu of student life in Berkeley during the 1950s, this title presents a testimonio of a young Mexican American woman's struggle to rise out of poverty.

Shows how Munich's urban form developed after 1945 in direct reflection of its inhabitants' evolving memory of the Second World War and the Nazi dictatorship. This book identifies a spectrum of competing memories of the Nazi experience. It shows that the memory of Nazism in Munich has been defined by constant dissension and evolution.

The Jews (Falasha) of northwestern Ethiopia are a unique example of a Jewish group living within an ancient, non-Western, predominantly Christian society. This title helps unravel the complex nature of religious coexistence in Ethiopia and provides tools for analyzing and evaluating inter-religious, interethnic, and Jewish-Christian relations.

Nearly every day, the media recount stories about the degradation of the Earth's environment. This work presents testimonies from environmental scientists who have seen firsthand the sobering effects of global change: the extinction of species, worldwide damage to ecosystems, and the increasing alienation of human life from the natural world.

The exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which this book examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and the Empire. It focuses on exhibitions in England, Australia, and India from the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Empire.

Examining contemporary poetry by way of ethnicity and gender, this book tracks the Renaissance invention of the Wild Man and the recurrent Adamic myth of the lost Garden. It discusses the first anthology of American Indian verse, "The Path on the Rainbow" (1918), which opened Jorge Luis Borges' university surveys of American literature.