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This collection of autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present day. The 30 narratives included cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years.

A study probing the ambiguities of German nationhood. Berman takes a theoretical perspective of cultural studies, exploring such themes as: the constitution of nationhood; what holds a citizenry together; and history's role in providing a framework for current identities and institutions.

This poem commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Simone Weil. Acquaintance of Trotsky, Spanish Civil War revolutionary, fighter in De Gaulle's French Resistance, Simone Weil (1909-1943) has also been called the greatest woman philosopher in the Western tradition.

Standing as a tribute to Fred Harrington of Wisconsin-Madison University, this book argues that in the last 100 years, United States presidents have received foreign policy advice from government servants who define world views for them, not only advising but often taking action to implement them.

Eminent political scientist Crawford Young and a distinguished panel of contributors assess the changing impact of cultural pluralism on political processes around the world, specifically in the former Soviet Union, China, India, Ethiopia, Guatemala and the United States.

Traces the operation of the law transmission system - the process by which the general principles of equal opportunity written into the 1964 and the 1991 Civil Rights Act were translated into improved conditions for minority and female workers today - and sounds some warnings about their operation.

This history of the print, from its origins in the 15th century to the late-20th century, examines the evolution of the relief, intaglio, planographic and stencil processes. It focuses on five major printmakers - Albrecht Durer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso and Jasper Johns.

This practical introduction to the use of correlation and regression analysis concentrates on the kinds of analysis that form the broad range of methods used in the social sciences. The text introduces statistical techniques and contains practical examples from scholarly works.

In this memoir, West Indian poet and scholar Kamau Brathwaite conjures his wife, Doris, and tells of her death from cancer.

Demonstrates how evolutionary theories shaped the American socialist movement and examines the attempts of radicals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to synthesise the evolutionary ideas of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer with socialist philosophy, social theory and political practice.

Studies the development of the Cossack hero and identifies him as part of Russian cultural mythology. Judith Kornblatt explores the power of the myth as a literary image, aiming to provide challenging readings of 19th- and 20th-century works by Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoi, Khlebnikov, Babel and others.

An exploration of the journey in relation to literature and discourse. The author focuses on movement as concept and metaphor, examining relations between travel experience and narrative, and discussing the whereabouts of writers and readers in Cervantes' novels.

This workbook, for intermediate-level students of Norwegian, accompanies an anthology intended primarily to complement ""Norsk, Nordmenn, og Norge"" a widely used Norwegian text. It contains a comprehensive grammar review and exercises, along with explanations of constructions found in the anthology.

This work deals with the history of anthropology, setting out to define the historiographer as a composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters. The essays address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.

Describes the history of the beer-making industry in Wisconsin - its pioneers, the evolution of its taverns, the brewery buildings as art forms and the consumers whose thirst for beer made the whole history possible.

This volume attempts a critical historical consideration of the varying colonial situations in which (and from which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays cover regions from Oceania, Southeast Asia and southern Africa to North and South America.

A history of Brazilian racial inequality from the abolition of slavery in 1888 up to the late 1980s, showing how economic, social and political changes in Brazil during the last 100 years have shaped race relations. It traces how discrimination led Afro-Brazilians to mobilize in various ways.

Brings together interrelated essays on aspects of oral production and reception in Western European medieval contexts from modern and post-structuralist perspectives. The contributors discusss the physical, social and semiotic qualities of medieval oralism, exploring a range of issues.

Probing the ambivalence of Romantic writers on the subjects of "passion" and "beauty", the author shows how this ambivalence is also central to the experience of the modern critic in Western society. In doing so, he also explores the problematic place of passion and beauty in Romantic radicalism.

A re-reading of five texts canonical to modern European intellectual history focusing on gender issues. He shows how values central to our cultural inheritance - truth, reason, the self, work, pleasure, desire - have been constructed by a predominantly white male intellectual tradition.

Americans have a long-standing reputation for relying upon the legal system to deal with all manner of problems and issues; litigiousness is often seen as an American disease. Yet 99% of legal cases started in the courts never even make it through the courthouse door, because formal court action is never initiated. Instead, participants reach an out-of-court settlement. What does this dominance of negotiated settlement over adjudication mean? Has "Equal Justice Under Law" given way to "Let's Make a Deal"? So far, most of the evidence from judges and lawyers, policy makers and researchers has been anecdotal, and the public image of complex legal machinations and back-room deals derives from a few spectacular and atypical cases. Based on findings from the Civil Litigation Research Project, begun in 1979 and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Herbert Kritzer has constructed a coherent picture of the routine of ordinary litigation. He shows, for instance, that the vast bulk of "ordinary cases" that account for most claims in federal and state courts are rather "cut-and-dried" affairs that deal with relatively modest amounts of money--important information for the proponents of litigation reform. He examines the economics of bargaining, for both lawyers and their clients, and the extent to which litigation is governed by monetary concerns. Evaluating the models of negotiation and game theory that are currently in vogue, Kritzer posits a more useful typology for understanding what actually happens when lawyers, plaintiffs, and defendants sit down to "make a deal." His illuminating insights into the divergent interests of attorneys and clients correct many of the assumptions of standard economic theories of litigation and bargaining.

A collection of essays about women and welfare in America, this book discusses how welfare programmes affect women and how gender relations have influenced the structure of such programmes. Issues such as race and class are also discussed.

The aim of this book is to present in their historical context the debates that have been taking place in the Muslim world recently. It describes the place of Iranian culture in contemporary art and thought and the increasing influence Muslims are having on Western societies.

An analysis of literary criticism that explores the origins of modern criticism in Romanticism and discusses work by Wordsworth, Derrida, Foucault and de Man. The book argues that there is a complex interplay between concepts of subjectivity and linguistic choices.

With this fourth volume, a history documenting the evolution of political processes in the United States is complete. The four volumes in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections record the process by which the Confederation Congress and the thirteen original states implemented the electoral provisions of the federal Constitution of 1787. Contemporaries understood that the first federal Congress would "flesh out" the Constitution, and that the first federal elections were therefore an important step in the continuing struggle to shape, influence, and control the central government. The Constitution and the Confederation Congress allowed the states wide latitude in choosing Senators and in framing their laws for the election of the first presidential Electors and Representatives. This latitude encouraged experimentation and a lively public discussion about the entire electoral process. In all the volumes of The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections, the reader will find a wide range of sources from official proclamations to contemporary newspaper accounts, from biographical sketches of candidates to the election results. Maps showing electoral districts accompany the political developments in each state. Volume IV contains documents relating to elections in North Carolina and Rhode Island as well as to the election of the president and vice president.

In this, the fourth volume to win the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Lisa Zeidner's twenty-two poems introduce a surprising range of characters, from a cryogenically preserved caveman to a 78-year-old widow arrested for shoplifting. These poems attempt to offer not just poetic moments, glimpses of joy or loss, but a sense of self in time and history.