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A study of the life and thought of Benoit Malon (1841-1893), a spokesman for reformist socialism during the early years of the French Third Republic. Vincent analyzes Malon's role as activist, editor and author, arguing that Malon drew on a strong tradition of left-wing French republicanism.

The essays collected in this volume amount to a call to arms. Included is a series of monographs on a variety of great works of art. In other essays, the author uncovers perspectives in the art of the blind, in architectural space, in caricature and in the work of psychotics and autistic children.

Theatricality as deployed here encourages the rethinking of the 19th-century novel and its cultural contexts in all their instability and ambivalence. This rethinking yields not only a new interpretation of the 19th-century novel, but also a new theatrical approach to interpretation itself.

The act of translation is a political action. This title draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages.

Late in 1965, Ashaninka Indians, members of one of the Amazon's largest native tribes, joined forces with Marxist revolutionaries who had opened a guerrilla front in Ashaninka territory. This work presents the haunting story of a failed uprising in the Peruvian Amazon - told largely by people who were there.

A biography that restores the figure of Woodrow Wilson, America's twenty-eighth president (1913-1921), as an incurable dreamer, a poetic idealist whose romantic world view enshrined organic, evolutionary progress. Wilson's presidency occurred during some of the most brutal, divisive years of our century.

Columbus is the first star in a constellation of European adventurers whose right to claim and conquer each land mass they encountered was unquestioned by their countrymen. How a system of religious beliefs made the taking of the New World possible and laudable is the focus of this review.

Reconstructs the Barcelona disputation from the Christian and Jewish sources and sets it in its historical context, emphasizing post-disputation manoeuvres on both sides. This title focuses on Rabbi ben Nahman's efforts to reassure his fellow Jews in the face of new missionizing pressures.

Nurses and marines epitomize accepted definitions of femininity and masculinity. Using ethnographic research and provocative interviews, this title argues that our popular stereotypes of individuals in nontraditional occupations - male nurses and female marines for example - are entirely unfounded.

Vietnamese history prior to the tenth century has often been treated as a branch of Chinese history, but the Vietnamese side of the story can no longer be ignored. This title draws on both Chinese and Vietnamese sources to provide a balanced view of the early history of Vietnam.

A closely observed portrait of living in isolated missionary communities and treaty ports, against the background of one of the most turbulent periods of twentieth-century Chinese history. It is also a moving story of one family's obsessive and destructive love affair with China.

Presents a portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles. This book establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

Presents an intellectual history of the Meiji Restoration.

The black migration to San Francisco and the Bay Area differed from the mass movement of Southern rural blacks and their families into the eastern industrial cities. This title provides the picture of the lives of black San Franciscans from the 1860s to the 1940s.

Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. This title investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration which centers on the family.

Bankruptcy, once a term that sent shudders up a manager's spine, has become a potent weapon in the corporate arsenal. The author explores this change in our legal landscape, where corporations with billions of dollars in assets employ bankruptcy to achieve political and organizational objectives.

Viewing Zukofsky as a poetic innovator, this study argues that his works serve as a crucial link between American modernism and postmodernism. It describes his legacy to contemporary US poets, such as Ron Silliman and Charles Bernstein.

Focuses on the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. This work explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. It investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region.

These essays ask how patients and practitioners know what they know - what evidence of disease or health they consider convincing and what cultural traditions and symbols guide their thinking. The authors offer a range of information and suggest new theoretical avenues for medical anthropology.

The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In "Grounds for Play," Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives.Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the "Ramayana" or the "Mahabharata" for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media--records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.

Scholars have long held that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a centralized organization from its founding in 1921. In a departure from that view, this title demonstrates how the CCP began as a group of study societies, only evolving into a mass Marxist-Leninist party by 1927.

In sharp contrast to the United States, Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and practically no police brutality or corruption. This work examines the reasons behind Japan's phenomenal success when it comes to public order. It analyzes Japan's record in policing and crime, the life of patrol officers and police as an institution.

Examines the movement for comparable worth, or equal pay for comparable work, as a strategy to raise wages for the 'pink-collar' jobs that are most frequently occupied by women. This book explores the larger political implications of the movement.

Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. Using company archives, this title presents a study that bridges the divide between business, social, and labor history of France.

Features an alphabetical listing of over 100 toxics, identifying... what they are; how they are measured; where they are found; the symptoms of exposure; what their known risks are; and, how we can lessen or avoid those risks. This book helps readers identify toxics in 18 major groups, including indoor and outdoor air pollutants.

Looks at the inner workings of the House of Representatives in the post-World War II era. Reevaluating the role of parties and committees, this book views parties in the House - especially majority parties - as a species of 'legislative cartel.' It is suitable for students of Congress, the presidency, and the political party system.

Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. This title presents the breakthrough of 1989 in Eastern Europe as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events.