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This volume features essays describing how Americans' increasing loss of confidence in government during the 1970s led to fundamental changes in public policy. It offers analysis of the causes, processes, and consequences of the erosion of faith in public solutions to national problems.

A reading of the Cartesian corpus from the vantage point of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of the implications of Descartes' epistemology for feminists and the historical context of his intellectual relations with women. Contributors include Erica Harth and Ruth Perry.

A reading of the Randian corpus from contemporary feminist perspectives. The strategies of reading Rand range from the lightness of camp to the darkness of de Sade, and provide a forum for a re-examination of feminism and its relationship to egoism, individualism and capitalism.

Examines the fundamental role of rural labour in the making of modern Brazil. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including court records, rural worker records and government studies, the book aims to offer a sense of how rural labour politics were structured and experienced during this period.

This is the story of how one American Civil War site has garnered national attention and taught Americans lessons about the future of historic preservation. It covers the earliest moves to create the Manassas Battlefield Park up to the struggle to prevent the Disney site nearby.

This text assesses the impact of socialist collectivization on Bulgaria's rural economy over the past 50 years through a case study of one village. Since 1989, Bulgarian villagers have struggled to defend their earlier gains against both proto-capitalists and rehabilitated socialists.

This collection of historic documents illuminates the debate on emigration through the narratives of four black men who in 1853 travelled to the new black nation of Liberia. Their accounts offer different views and insights into a young country, offering both endorsements and condemnation.

This work looks at the appeal of Niagara Falls to the Americans as an icon of progress and technology. It was in the mid-1800s, when engineers "conquered" the Falls, that it captured the American imagination, and the transformation emerged as both a national shame and a symbol of modern America.

A study of the literary career of Sinclair Lewis during the period of his greatest achievement, the 1920s. The book examines the making of his novels, their sources, composition, publication and subsequent critical reception.

This text examines Swedish culture and mentality and draws upon statistics gathered over more than a decade of research. The author describes a range of factors influencing Swedish character, including population composition, rural background, and even climate.

An assessment of sovereignty as status and power, which also scrutinises what precisely constitutes a sovereign state. The concept of sovereignty and the role it may have in the "new world order" is also examined in this discussion.

Covering the period from about 1775 to 1810, this collection of historical documents examines the everyday lives of men and women from all walks of life. Taken together, the documents shed light on the experiences of 18th-century Philadelphians as they helped fashion an emerging American society.

This text describes the methods of the Castro regime's programme to change Cuban cultural attitudes to women, youth, sports and labour through coercive and non-coercive means, and how they were, generally, unsuccessful.

This text is a study of conversion to Islam in Inner Asia, among peoples until recently part of the Soviet Union, and its role in the shaping of communal self-understanding from the 14th to the 20th centuries. It includes translations and analyses of a range of passages from various sources.

A comprehensive training manual for all three fencing weapons, including exercises and drills, and up-to-date rules and strategies used in electronic scoring. It should be suitable for the beginner, the advanced fencer, coach and course administrator.

This text examines the contributions of Maurice Sendak to children's literature. Combining biographical, historical, cultural and literary views with the insights of depth psychology and archetypal theory, it traces the development of the symbolic child that is central to his writings.

Focuses on Mormonism as a case study of how unpopular new religions may survive and even flourish in spite of unrelenting opposition. Examines early patriarchal blessings bestowed upon early converts to Mormonism from 1834-1845, and their function as a commitment mechanism for converts.

Explores the architectural and cultural history of Princeton University from 1750 to the present. Includes 150 historical illustrations.

An English translation of a sixteenth-century Spanish manuscript, by an Inca Jesuit, about Inca religion and the spread of Christianity in colonial Peru. Includes an introductory essay.

Examines economics and environmentalism as competing public religions that derive from, and continue, a Christian worldview; argues that debates over global warming and other environmental issues are ultimately based on theological differences between their respective adherents.

After invading highland Guatemala in 1524, Spaniards claimed to have smashed the Kaqchikel and K'iche' Maya kingdoms and to have forged a new colony - with their leader, Pedro de Alvarado, as Guatemala's conquistador. This volume shows that the real story of the Spanish invasion was very different.

In the Middle Ages, textual amulets were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. Offering an analysis of many surviving textual amulets, this book provides a study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words.

Some 50,000 Soviets visited the USA under various exchange programmes between 1958 and 1988. This work shows how these exchange programmes raised the Iron Curtain and fostered changed that prepared the way for Gorbachev's "glasnost, perestroika", and the end of the Cold War.

This overview of the Oxford Movement highlights five key areas in which the movement affected English society more broadly - politics, religion and theology, friendship, society, and missions. The thematic approach illuminatesthe wider political, social, and cultural impact of the movement.

This text examines why some societies with market economies perform much better than others and what the less successful countries can learn from the more successful ones. It includes comparison of Latin American with East Asian approches as well as North American and Western European.

In "Prayer, Magic, and the Stars in the Ancient and Late Antique World", a distinguished array of scholars explores the many ways in which people in the ancient world sought to gain access to-or, in some cases, to bind or escape from-the divine powers of heaven and earth.

Provides a unique account of Cold War history during the Khrushchev era by one who witnessed it firsthand - Sergei, his only surviving son, in whom he often confided. In this book, Sergei tells the story of how the Cold War happened in reality from the Russian side, not from the American side.