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In An Imagined Geography, anthropologist JoAnn D'Alisera demonstrates persuasively that the long-held anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, and unique communities, geographically located and neatly localized, must be reconsidered in light of the range and diversity of the Sierra Leonean diaspora.

During the seven years of British occupation that spanned the American Revolution, communities conventionally depicted as hostile opponents were, in fact, in frequent contact.

Examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. This work includes essays that draw on an array of documentary evidence - such as library catalogs and prefaces - to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation.

A major thirteenth-century Spanish law code whose tenets can still be found in the state laws of California, Texas, and Louisiana.

A collection of 10 original essays that explore the social context in which paintings, statues, textiles, maps, and other artifacts were produced and consumed in Renaissance England.

Covers the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany. This work presents an assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.

Covers the story of prejudice against Jews from the time of Christ through the rise of Nazi Germany. This work presents an assessment of this egregious human failing that is nearly ubiquitous in the history of Europe.

"The definitive study... A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject."-Choice

"A broad and deep analysis of Mary Magdalene's prominence through overlapping discourses of late medieval English culture... An elegantly written and valuable resource on theater, gender, and religion."-Baylor Journal of Theater and Performance

This first paperback edition ever of the oldest English book on hunting includes a hearty introduction by Theodore Roosevelt.

"Barbara Newman has written an erudite and wonderful book... From Virile Woman to WomanChrist should be required reading in every university-level women's studies course."-Caroline Walker Bynum, The Catholic Historical Review

This study attempts to survey the historiography, history and central interpretative problems surrounding the issue of investiture and the clashes between church and monarchy during the Middle Ages.

"This engaging book tackles the contentious issue of categorizing the Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula."-Historian

"In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini's Ricordi occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an insight into the views and sentiments of its author as these reflections of the great Italian historian... Like Machiavelli's Prince, the Ricordi form one of the outstanding documents of a time of crisis and transition; but unlike the Prince, they range over a wide field of private as well as public life. In doing so, they revel the man as well as the political theorist."-Nicolai Rubenstein, from the Introduction "Unlike Machiavelli-inveterate dreamer and cynic-Guicciardini's mind is remarkable for the balance and masterly coolness of its judgment."-Federico Chabod

Envisioning an English Empire examines the founding of Jamestown in 1607 within its global, political, and cultural contexts.

Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."-Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

A major new study of the last great historian of classical antiquity.

Basic theoretical texts for landscape architects.

Analyzes the stories in James Joyce's "Dubliners". This work examines the text for counterindictions and draws on the social context of the writing in order to offer readings from diverse theoretical perspectives.

"A stunning, emotionally charged, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically crafted fieldwork memoir. This is a book I will teach often, recommend to colleagues, and share with family and friends for its multifaceted delights."-Kirin Narayan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."-Choice

"The book ... will find a broad audience. It would work well in the classroom... Effectively combating the nonspecialist's view of the Middle Ages as a monolithic and static society, it will encourage more subtle thinking about gender identities in the past and in the present.-American Historical Review

"All the contributions are interesting and, from their own different perspectives, throw light on the different aspects of the vexed question of human rights."-Political Studies

This volume chronicles documented visits to the pre-Columbian city of Tikal in the century following its discovery in 1848 and presents the post-Conquest material culture recovered by the Tikal Project in the course of its investigations.

A nontechnical introduction to architectural structure, history, and criticism. This book includes a discussion of the basic inspiration for architecture, an exploration of space, system, and material, and an examination of the language and history of architecture. It shows the nonspecialist how to read a design in plans, sections, and elevations.

Challenges social theorists and cultural critics who, using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought, consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. This book argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric.

The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Europe. Green here presents the first modern English translation of the so-called standardized Trotula ensemble, a composite form of the texts that was produced in the mid-thirteenth century and circulated widely in learned circles.