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Frontiers of History
Historical Inquiry in the Twentieth Century
First Edition
This book, the third volume of Donald Kelley’s monumental survey of Western historiography, covers the twentieth century, especially Europe. As in the first two volumes, the author discusses historical methods and ideas of...
The Tainted Muse
Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time
A provocative look at Shakespeare in his age by one of our most influential theater figures This book is a masterful and engaging exploration of both Shakespeare's works and his age....
The Nature of Entrustment
Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
This groundbreaking book addresses issues of the keenest interest to anthropologists, specialists on Africa, and those concerned with international aid and development. Drawing on extensive research among the Luo people...
Mortgaging the Ancestors
Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
This fascinating interdisciplinary book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Drawing on years of ethnographic observation, Parker...
A Girl's Childhood
Psychological Development, Social Change, and The Yale Child Study Center
A uniquely detailed study of child development theory and practice in the post–World War II era Sixty years ago, a group of prominent psychoanalysts, developmentalists, pediatricians, and educators at the...
Regulation by Litigation
Federal and state regulatory agencies are increasingly making use of litigation as a means of regulation. In this book, three experts in regulatory law and theory offer a systematic analysis of the use of litigation...
A Right to Discriminate?
How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association
Should the Boy Scouts of America and other noncommercial associations have a right to discriminate when selecting their members?Does the state have a legitimate interest in regulating the membership practices of...
The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle
Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre
The most beloved American comedic actor of the nineteenth century, Joseph Jefferson made his name as Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle. In this book, a compelling blend of biography and theatrical and cultural...
On the Ideological Front
The Russian Intelligentsia and the Making of the Soviet Public Sphere
Having emerged, exhausted but triumphant, from the bloody and divisive Russian Civil War, V. I. Lenin and his colleagues turned to eliminating perceived ideological foes from within. In On the Ideological Front, Stuart...
Children of the Gulag
This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive documentary history of children whose parents were identified as enemies of the Soviet regime from its inception through Joseph Stalin's death. When parents were...