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This text paints a portrait of Palestinian society on the verge of modernity. Through the voices of merchants, peasants and Ottoman officials, the book investigates the ways in which urban-rural dynamics in a provincial setting gave meaning to Ottoman rule and European economic expansion.

An analysis of oral histories, workers' journals, newspapers and official reports which presents a portrait of women munitions workers in Britain during World War I. The text demonstrates how working-class women were offered for the first time independence and a reliable income.

Leslie Salzinger worked in four "maquiladoras" in northern Mexico, and in this book she takes us inside the gendered world of these global factories. Her ethnographic work grounds contemporary feminist theory in an examination of daily practices and provides a fresh perspective on globalization.

Examines the effects of European contact and the fur trade on the relationship between Indians and animals in eastern Canada, from Lake Winnipeg to the Canadian Maritimes, primarily on the Ojibwa, Cree, Montagnais-Naskapi, and Micmac tribes.

Describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 and the encounter between the military superpower and the poorly armed Afghans.

A history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. This collection of essays explores the making of the Los Angeles metropolis during this remarkable decade. It examines the city's racial, political, cultural, and industrial dynamics.

Considers what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war. This book also considers how information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself.

A comprehensive study of Jewish identity and its meaning for the history of art, eleven influential scholars illuminate the formative role of Jews as subjects of art historical discourse.

Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book examines a broad range of Berenice Abbott's work - including portraits from the 1920s, little known and uncompleted projects from the 1930s, and experimental science photography from the 1950s.

Features the essays that reflect the diversity of approaches scholars follow in the study of China's past. This title reveals the depth and vitality of Chinese civilization and demonstrates how an understanding of traditional China can enrich and broaden our own contemporary worldview.

Defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity came to be in their present form. This book includes classics statements on the theory of myth by authors such as William Bascom, Jan de Vries, G S Kirk, James G Frazer, Theodor H Gaster, Mircea Eliade, Bronislaw Malinowski, C G Jung, and Claude Levi-Strauss.

This is a guide to the workings of festive behaviour, often seen as the "uniform expression of a collective consciousness". The book combines four case studies in multisite ethnography to demonstrate how concepts of race, ethnicity, history, gender, and nationhood are challenged and redefined.

Focuses on a number of religious practices across the Buddhist world, from Sri Lanka to New York, Japan to Tibet. This work provides a historical overview and briefly characterizes the three major variants of Buddhist tradition. It also takes note of a distinctive form of Buddhism that is emerging among non-Asian practitioners in the West.

Based on original research, this book demonstrates conclusively and in details how the transmission of ancient skepticism was a bital factor in the formation of modern thought. It is rich in implications for th history of philosophy, the history of science, and the history of religious thought.

In this study Harvey Levenstein tells of the remarkable transformation in how Americans ate that took place from 1880 to 1930. It devotes special attention to the deliberate attempts of various groups, notably nutritionists and large food processors, to change popular eating habits.

Offers an analysis of medicine and disease in colonial India that explores the vital role of the state in medical and public health activities, arguing that Western medicine became a critical battleground between the colonized and the colonizers.

Called by Plutarch 'the oldest and greatest of Alexander's successors,' Antigonos the One-Eyed (382-301 BC) was the dominant figure during the first half of the Diadoch period, ruling most of the Asian territory conquered by the Macedonians during his final twenty years. This book provides a detailed study of this great general and administrator.

"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

Brings to life the stories of legendary 'public enemies' for whom America's first supermax prison was created. This book contains answers to questions that have swirled about the prison: How did prisoners cope psychologically with the harsh regime? and What provoked the protests and strikes?

Presents a collection of 115 poems that introduces readers in English to Sultan Bahu (d 1691), a Sufi mystical poet who continues to be one of the most beloved writers in Punjabi.

Analyzing the ways US culture has been formed and transformed in the 80s and 90s by its response to the Vietnam War and the AIDS epidemic, this book argues that each has disrupted our conventional notions of community, nation, consensus, and 'American culture.'

Combining anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, this book examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century onwards. It raises important issues that are of comparative significance for understanding political life in other Muslim and nonwestern states as well.

Experimental approaches to evolution provide evidence of evolution by directly observing the process at work. This book summarizes studies in experimental evolution, outlining techniques and applications, and presenting the field's full range of research - from selection in the laboratory to the manipulation of populations in the wild.

Demonstrates that the many differences between blacks and whites stem not from race but from economic inequalities that have accumulated over the course of American history. This book presents research on racial differences in wealth mobility and security and discusses potential policy solutions to the racial asset gap.

A study of the Vietnamese conflict, examined through the lens of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary movements in the rural province of Long An up until American intervention in the area.

Jeanette MacDonald, the movie musical's first superstar, was an American original whose onscreen radiance mirrored a beguiling real-life personality. This biography takes us to a time when lavish musical films were major cultural events and a worldwide public eagerly awaited each new chance to fall under the singer's spell.

Combines the methods of anthropology and cultural history to examine the civic culture of Barcelona between 1888 and 1939 and shows how artists like Picasso, Miro, Casals and anarchists, and other political activists shaped and were influenced by the artistic and political culture of Barcelona.