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Describing various aspects of life in complex historical eras - cultural, social, religious, and political, this work details such day-to-day activities as cooking, games, dress, and parenting.

Focuses on the socioeconomic, political, and cultural milieu in which a new religious movement was born and has thrived. This work includes a discussion of the origins of Islamic law, spirituality and theology, mysticism, philosophy, and culture, as well as an appendix of individual page-length biographies of important figures.

Designed for use in various undergraduate courses focused on ancient Greece, this collection offers translations of the twelve legal speeches - including Lysias 1; Aeschines 1; and Demosthenes 21, 54, and 59 - useful for the study of classical Athenian social and cultural history.

Designed for use in various undergraduate courses focused on ancient Greece, this collection offers translations of the twelve legal speeches - including Lysias 1; Aeschines 1; and Demosthenes 21, 54, and 59 - useful for the study of classical Athenian social and cultural history.

Offers selections from the foundational texts of the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese Zen traditions. This title provides students with an introduction to the first 1200 years of this tradition. It includes general introduction and notes that provide historical, biographical, and cultural context.

An autobiography of a Counter Reformation mystic and monastic reformer of sixteenth century Spain.

Features many of the major Supreme Court decisions on abortion - as well as many majority, dissenting, and plurality opinions. This book sets these cases in political, historical, and philosophical context, and gives the reader a sense of what the issues in the constitutional law of abortion are likely to be in the future.

Focuses on modern constitutionalism with selections from Hume, Montesquieu, the Federalist, and Constant. This title features the author's translation of Constant's 1819 essay "On Ancient and Modern Liberty". It also includes selections from Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" and a Hegel selection.

Introduces classical Arabic philosophers through selections from key works in each of the fields - including logic, philosophy of science, natural philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and politics - to which they made contributions. This work provides introduction situating the works within their historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts.

Draws on a variety of eyewitness accounts, letters, and governmental documents to examine the causes of the Haitian Revolution and the impact it had on the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

A collection of epics from the Miao (Hmong) ethnic group of southwest China. The poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of the world and the peoples and creatures in it. These mythic narratives serves as encyclopedias of traditional myths, legends, and folk customs of the Miao people.

Provides readings from the works of eighteen Latin American thinkers of the nineteenth century, each of whom were engaged in examining the problems that Spanish and Portuguese America faced in the one hundred years after securing independence in 1810. This book includes biographical headnotes for each contributor, a glossary, and a bibliography.

Portrays the three indigenous rebellions that threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more than a quarter century before the Wars of Independence (1808-1825). This collection includes maps, a chronology of the rebellions, and a glossary of terms.

Includes readings from five classic thinkers with importantly distinct approaches to virtue, and five essays from contemporary thinkers that apply virtue theories to the resolution of practical moral problems. This book provides an introduction to the history of virtue theory, highlights the distinctive aspects, and suggests further readings.