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A community of 250 whose genealogy has been obscured by the absence of a written tradition, the Lacandones may nevertheless be traced back linguistically and culturally to the great Maya civilization. This book offers an account of life among the Lacandon Indians of Naha in southern Mexico and chronicles their imperiled Mayan culture.

Examines the Chinese confrontation, on the Pacific Coast, as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. This title focuses on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War.

A manifesto against systematic thinking, this text on literary theory, first published 70 years ago in 1928, is a difficult book by a famously difficult writer.

Taking us into a composer's workshop, this title reevaluates what we call 'twentieth-century music' - a term used to refer to modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or 'common practice', of the preceding three centuries.

Arthur Eckstein's interpretation challenges the way Polybius' "Histories" have long been viewed. He argues that Polybius evaluates people and events as much from a moral viewpoint as from a pragmatic, utilitarian, or even Machiavellian one.

An original and highly imaginative analysis of the role time schedule plays in social life. Focusing on social time, it provides a penetrating and profound analysis of the subtle and diverse significance of time in organizing our social relationships and lives.

Joining philosophical argument to epigram, lyric, and satire, this work has three arguments: a denial of the Christian belief in personal immortality; a plea for recognition of the inexhaustible quality of the only life we have; and, a derisive assault on the posturings and hypocrisies of the professional theologians of 19th-century Germany.

More than half a century after the Holocaust, in countries where Jews make up just a tiny fraction of the population, products of Jewish culture have become very viable components of the popular public domain. But how can there be a growing Jewish presence in Europe, without the significant presence of Jews? The author explores this phenomenon.

Elizabethan foreign policy was very much the policy of Queen Elizabeth l herself. It was not foreplanned, envisaged whole in advance. It was built up out of her responses to questions and problems posed by her relations with neighboring and, in the case of France and Spain, far more powerful countries.

Offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity. Focusing on the early work of Paul Cezanne, this title offers a competing version for modern painting rooted in the evocation of emotive "expression," emblematized by scenes of murder, sexual violence, and anxious domesticity.

Presents a study of the two important artists of the twentieth century that links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in their attempts to test the limits of art - both what it is and where it is.

Prewar Shanghai means casinos, brothels, Green Gang racketeers, narcotics syndicates, gun-runners, underground Communist assassins, and Comitern secret agents. This title provides a panoramic view of the confrontation and collaboration between the Nationalist secret police and the Shanghai underworld.

The account of Bartok's compositional processes stresses the composer's position as one of the masters of Western music history, and avoids a purely theoretical approach or one that emphasizes him as an enthusiast for Hungarian folk music.

Emphasizing feminist cross-talk, transnational collaborations and influences, and cultural differences in context, this title heralds an approach to studying feminist history.

A scrutiny of the Weimar jurisprudence of crisis that offers an overview of the perils and promise of constitutional development in states that lack an entrenched tradition of constitutionalism.

An analysis of the complicated relationship between two cinemas - Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's - in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The text examines the split course of German popular film from the early 1930s until the mid 1950s.

For many Germans the hyperinflation of 1922 to 1923 was one of the most decisive experiences of the twentieth century. This title investigates the effects of that inflation on German culture during the Weimar Republic.

Franklin D Roosevelt is the only twentieth-century president consistently ranked by historians with the Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln. This title provides an original and insightful reexamination of Roosevelt's life and legacy, showing how the Roosevelt legend - for good and for ill - has shaped the modern presidency.

Presents a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. This book offers an analysis of political, musical, and aesthetic factors that produced more engaged listening.

The work of inner-city emergency psychiatric units might best be described as 'medicine under siege'. This title is based on the author's two-year immersion in one such unit and its work.

This work pieces together the complex story of the Shanghai Green Gang and its charismatic leader, Du Yuesheng. In analyzing the Green Gang's system of organized crime in Shanghai, the author aims to broaden understanding of a critical aspect of Chinese urban history.

Provides historical narratives, detailed references, citations, and commentaries on all the cities founded or refounded in Europe, The Islands, and Asia Minor during the Hellenistic period.

Examines how developments in physics, biology, medicine, psychology, politics, and art employed the metaphor of the working body as a human motor. This title demonstrates how the utopian obsession with energy and fatigue shaped social thought across the ideological spectrum.

Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely regarded as one of the most original and intellectually challenging figures within the so-called renaissance of German-Jewish thought in the Weimar period. This book seeks to restore Rosenzweig's thought to the German philosophical horizon in which it first took shape.

This collection of essays on Hildegard of Bingen, ranging from medieval theology to medicine to music, offer an understanding of how one woman could transform so many of the traditions of the world in which she lived.

The massacre of Canudos in 1897 is a pivotal episode in Brazilian social history. Looking at the event through the eyes of the inhabitants, this title challenges traditional interpretations and gives weight to the fact that most of the Canudenses were of mixed-raced descent and were thus perceived as opponents to progress and civilization.

Possibly no comparable area on earth displays as many varieties of weather simultaneously as the San Francisco Bay Region. This book provides the tools necessary for understanding the grand show of nature that takes place around the San Francisco Bay - from Napa Valley in the north to San Jose in the south.

Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world.

The grammarian was a pivotal figure in the lives of the educated upper classes of late antiquity. This profession contributed to the social as well as cultural continuity of the Empire. This title provides a study of the place and function of this important but ambiguous figure.

Presents contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire that recreate the world of Russian labor during this period of rapid industrialization and social change as well as explore the daily experiences, social relations, and aspirations of factory, artisanal, and sales-clerical workers.