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A comprehensive study of Kimbanguism, founded by Simon Kimbangu in 1921. Compares it to other African-initiated churches, and examines its role, alongside other global religious movements, in Black liberation.

An abridged, annotated translation of Girolamo Benzoni's 1572 History of the New World, which describes firsthand encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, New World geography, and indigenous flora and fauna.

A study of the concept of artistic process in the Western tradition of the visual arts. Focuses on modern and contemporary art and analyzes the development of process as a discourse that increasingly locates the primary value of art in the artist's creative labor.

A collection of essays on the American collecting of Italian Baroque paintings in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Looks at the influence of art exhibitions and exhibition catalogues on the understanding and popularity of Italian Baroque art.

Explores Theophilus' On Diverse Arts, a twelfth-century treatise on artistic techniques. Examines the system of values according to which medieval artists operated and created art objects.

Explores the issues surrounding the architectural design of insane asylums in the late nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, including the paradox of maximizing individual freedom within an environment of involuntary confinement.

Examines the influence of experimental science, concerned with the workings of the body, the mind, and their various pathologies, on the works of late nineteenth-century artists Maurice Denis, Edouard Vuillard, August Strindberg, and Edvard Munch.

Explores the aftermath of 9/11 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Describes how the local community remembered the event and how it was affected by national media attention. Follows the creation of the national memorial built at the site to honor those aboard Flight 93.

Explores the making of seventeenth-century Seville's greatest Baroque monuments. Conceived as a spiritual solution to Seville's problems, these works had a profound real-world effect on the city in crisis. Examines Baroque art as a collaborative process involving not only painters but altarpiece designers, plaster carvers, embroiderers, printmakers, and authors.

Explores the history of horse-human relationships over the long eighteenth century, and how these relationships in turn influenced performances of gender. Examines the agential influence of horses in their riders' lives, horses on stage and the early circus, and the politicization of human-animal being.

Explores the vibrant visual and theatrical culture of eighteenth-century England. Focuses on the central role of images in the invention of modern celebrity culture.

A collection of essays exploring the nature and experience of love, its contradictions and limits, and its material and ideal forms. Drawing from leading contemporary Continental philosophers, contributors focus on love as it relates to such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, hatred, politics, and desire.

An analysis of the constituent elements of Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 presidential election campaign, all of which contributed to his victory then and have proved foundational for the way campaigns and politics more broadly are conducted now.

Examines the role of anger and forgiveness in the autobiographical, literary, and philosophical works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Argues that for Rousseau, anger is an inevitable outcome of social intercourse, and that forgiveness is central to his understanding of subjectivity and hence of moral and political action.

Through the photography of William T. Clarke, explores the impact of the logging industry on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century north-central Pennsylvania.

Focusing on the Handbook of 809, explores how the liberal arts, and in particular astronomy, experienced a revival in the ninth-century court of Charlemagne. Documents the utility of the constellations for prelates who needed to fix the floating feast of Easter and reckon time.

A study of medieval gossip, this work shifts the debate and argues that gossip functions primarily as a transformative discourse, influencing not only social interactions but also literary and religious practices.

Examines post-Cold War discourses about the use of power to promote international security. Uses case studies of United Nations interventions in Haiti and Croatia to highlight the dynamics at play in encounters between local societies and international peacekeepers.

A listing of burials in various Moravian cemeteries in Lititz, Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1906.

A first-hand account, by a U.S. diplomat, of the 1967 military coup in Greece, and of how U.S. policy was formulated, debated, and implemented during this period. Explores Greek-U.S. relations within the larger historical framework of the Cold War.

Compares services and opportunities for older Americans by region and state. Examines the criteria of recreational lifestyle, meaningful contributions and supportive communities, affordability and safety, health and high-quality medical care, and accessible, high-quality long-term care.

Brings together autobiographical narratives and reflections by philosophers who were brought up in strict religious environments.

The role of elites vis-a-vis the mass public in the construction and successful functioning of democracy has been a subject of central interest to political theorists. This book explores this theme in Thucydides' famous history of the Peloponnesian War as a way of rendering our thoughts about this relationship in our own modern democracy.

Explores the political philosophy of John Rawls in relation to public policy issues, including war, mental disability, nonhuman animals, legacy, and affirmative action. Pays special attention to the relationship of religion to these issues and to the processual characteristics of Rawls's method.

A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

"Explores the democratization and decentralization of governance in Mexico and finds that informal political networks continue to mediate citizens' relationships with their elected authorities. Analyzes the linkages between informal and formal power by comparing how they worked in three Mexican cities: Tijuana, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, and Chilpancingo"--Provided by publisher.

Examines the political and social influences behind the creation of the postrevolutionary Mexican welfare state in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

This work provides a re-examination of the evidence about the citizen's capacity for self-governance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both empirical and normative perspectives.