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This anthology presents Aristotle's "Rhetoric" in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. It assesses the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and the public sphere.

Covering more than one hundred years of American history, this title examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed - and continues to shape - the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest.

Catcalls, wolf whistles, verbal slurs, pinches, stalking - virtually every woman has experienced some form of unwanted public attention by men. This title explores the important yet little-examined issue of gender-related public harassment. It documents the various types of indignity visited on women in public places.

'Africa for the Africans' was the name given in Africa to the extraordinary black social protest movement led by Jamaican Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940). This title presents the story of the Pan-African commercial schemes that preceded Garveyism, documenting the establishment of UNIA chapters throughout Africa.

Explores what it means to be modern and what it means to be Korean in a culture where courtship and marriage are often the crucible in which notions of gender and class are cast and recast. Focusing on many important issues, this work offers us a fresh appreciation for how Koreans have adapted this pivotal social practice.

Between 279 and 229 BC, the Aitolian "koinon", a federation of mountain cantons in west central Greece, expanded to incorporate many of the neighbouring lands and peoples between the Adriatic and Aegean Seas. This text examines the political history of the Aitolian "koinon" in its era of expansion.

A play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. It is suitable for students of Chinese cultural and literary traditions.

Introduces representation theory into the study of Ciceronian persuasion and contends that an understanding of milieu - social, political, topographical - is crucial to understanding Ciceronian oratory.

How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply "God, Harlem USA"? This text portrays the life and career of one of the 20th century's most intriguing religious leaders, Father Divine.

Examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an 'Orient' for their new nation state. This title argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.

Conceived as a novelistic journey through the worlds of California, this book represents the experience of California both physical and metaphysical, in fiction, poetry, essays, travel writing, confessions, reportage, and social criticism.

This text compares North American and Japanese medical and political accounts of female middle age, together with narratives given by Japanese women, to challenge Western assumptions about menopause.

Neither a city nor a traditional suburb, Orange County, California represents a striking example of a new kind of social formation. This multidisciplinary volume offers a case study of the "postsuburban" phenomenon. Winner of the 1992 Western History Association Robert G. Athearn Award.

The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness, was also a scene of revulsion and combat. This book reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment.

Who is Bert Corona? Though not readily identified by most Americans, nor indeed by many Mexican Americans, Corona is a man of enormous political commitment whose activism has spanned much of this century. This is an autobiography of Bert Corona.

During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness. This book explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. It discusses ideas about illness and health care.

Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from 12th-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality.

Focuses on the work of Kuki Shuzo, a philosopher and the author of the classic "'Iki' no Kozo", to explore culture and theory in Japan during the interwar years. This title shows how Japanese intellectual culture ultimately became complicit, even instrumental, in a repressive and militaristic regime that ultimately brought the world to war.

This work takes an anthropological approach to the fundamental question of what makes life worth living. It considers the issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United States and Japan.

Advocates of 'new musicology' claim that technical methods of music analysis are conservative, elitist, positivist, and emotionally arid. This title challenges those claims, asking why cultural, sociopolitical, or gender-studies approaches to music should be deemed more democratic or expressive of music's content or impact.

An ethnography that examines the gendered nature of large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, it discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals.

Explores the transition from oral to written history that is taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. This book discusses the substance of tribal history through the eyes of its creators.

This work presents evidence for the phenomenon of "Asylia", the practice of declaring religious places precincts of asylum in the Hellenistic period. It lays out the documents and discusses their historical implications.

In a critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, this text demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. It illustrates how American women have asserted their ethnic voices despite the interests of publishers and readers.

Revealing information that has been suppressed in the Chinese Communist Party's official history, this work presents a view of the Party's origins. It traces Chinese Communism's roots to the country's culturally conservative agrarian heartland.

Tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste.

This collection explores 12 different Hindu goddesses, all of whom are in some way related to Devi, the Great Goddess. They range from the liquid goddess-energy of the River Ganges to the possessing, entrancing heat of Bhagavati and Seranvali.

This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Political, religious and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that informed the moral position they adopted, often at great cost.

Provides an analysis of the making and unmaking of class consciousness among the urban poor. This title chronicles the transformation of Peru's poor from a culture of deference and clientelism in the late 1960s to a population mobilized for radical political action.

This translation brings to English-speaking readers the brooding work of Ludovico Ariosto, a poet of the Italian Renaissance. The unfinished "Cinque Canti" are tragic in tone, depicting the disintegration of the chivalric world of Charlemagne and his knights.