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In this book, Robert Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems, "Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes". It is a sequel to his previous book, "Milton in Government".

This work explores the necessities of freedom, the set of conditions without which freedom would not exist. It surveys competing conceptions of freedom and traces debates about the nature and reality of freedom to confusions about knowledge, humanity and nature rooted in modern Western thought.

Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was arguably this country''s greatest theologian and its finest philosopher before the nineteenth century. His school if disciples (the "New Divinity") exerted enormous influence on the religious and political cultures of late colonial and early republican America. Hence any study of religion and politics in early America must take account of this theologian and his legacy.Yet historians still regard Edward''s social theory as either nonexistent or underdeveloped. Gerald McDermott demonstrates, to the contrary, that Edwards was very interested in the social and political affairs of his day, and commented upon them at length in his unpublished sermons and private notebooks. McDermott shows that Edwards thought deeply about New England''s status under God, America''s role in the millennium, the nature and usefulness of patriotism, the duties of a good magistrate, and what it means to be a good citizen. In fact, his sociopolitical theory was at least as fully developed as that of his better-known contemporaries and more progressive in its attitude toward citizens'' rights.Using unpublished manuscripts that have previously been largely ignored, McDermott also convincingly challenges generations of scholarly opinion about Edwards. The Edwards who emerges from this nook is both less provincial and more this-worldly than the persona he is commonly given.Gerald R. McDermott is Assistant Professor of Religion at Roanoke College.

Based on readings of representative poems by eight Peninsular writers, this book demonstrates that the lyric was a crucial site for the negotiation of masculine identity as Spain's noblemen were alternately cajoled and coerced into abandoning their identifications with images of the medieval hero and assuming instead the posture of subjects.

Presents the letters of the British General who led the campaign against Fort Duquesne, a pivotal episode in the French and Indian War.

Provides a firsthand account of William Penn's 1677 travels in Holland and Germany visiting Quaker congregations and preaching his message of religious toleration. This book helps understand Penn's early years, before he obtained the charter for Pennsylvania in 1681, as well as the reasons for later German-speaking migration to the New World.

Presents information on the buying, selling, and publishing of books in Philadelphia. This book provides insight into the early antiquarian book trade in America.

This work offers an explanation of the way corporate power has achieved its dominant position in contemporary American society. It does so through an examination of history, law, ideology and economics spanning two centuries. It shows that judge-made and statutory laws have had a strong influence.

"Rather than write another of the countless studies in the Weberian tradition, Lutz Kaelber has attempted nothing less than to be Max Weber''s ghost writer and to produce one of the great studies he did not live to undertake-The Christianity of the Occident. The result is a fascinating and engrossing work that adds immensely to our understanding of both then and now." -Rodney Stark, University of WashingtonMax Weber argued that medieval religious movements were an important source for the distinctive rationality of Western civilization. He intended to study precisely this theme but died before he could do so. In Schools of Asceticism, Lutz Kaelber builds on Weber''s ideas by presenting a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of orthodox and heretical religious groups in the Middle Ages. He explores how doctrine and social organization shaped ascetic conduct in these groups from the twelfth century on. Kaelber first examines monastic and mendicant groups, correcting common misperceptions about the nature of their ascetic practices and their significance for the emergence of a Protestant work ethic. Then he turns to two of the largest and most widespread heretical groups in the Middle Ages, the Waldensians and the Cathars. For the most part, Waldensians and Cathars practiced a form of "other-worldly asceticism" resembling that of monks and nuns. For the Austrian Waldensians, however, Kaelber documents a type of "inner-worldly asceticism" that resembled what Weber described for early modern Protestant groups. Both types of asceticism originated in distinctive heretical establishments: Waldensian schools and Cathar "houses of heretics." As these establishments disappeared, the boundaries separating Waldensianism and Catharism from Catholicism collapsed. Kaelber is therefore able to link organizational aspects of heretical communities to the tenacity of heresy in the Middle Ages.Based on exhaustive research into both primary and secondary sources, Schools of Asceticism is a bold and original book that bridges the disciplines of comparative historical and theoretical sociology, medieval history, and religious studies.Lutz Kaelber is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lyndon State College in Vermont.

"This tactical reading of Lyotard, Deleuze, and Foucault accomplishes a lot. May provides something most of us did not expect by now-a truly fresh understanding of the energies and ethical concerns of some of the most important thinkers of this century."-Thomas L. Dumm, Amherst CollegeThe political writings of the French poststructuralists have eluded articulation in the broader framework of general political philosophy primarily because of the pervasive tendency to define politics along a single parameter: the balance between state power and individual rights in liberalism and the focus on economic justice as a goal in Marxism. What poststructuralists like Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard offer instead is a political philosophy that can be called tactical: it emphasizes that power emerges from many different sources and operates along many different registers. This approach has roots in traditional anarchist thought, which sees the social and political field as a network of intertwined practices with overlapping political effects. The poststructuralist approach, however, eschews two questionable assumptions of anarchism, that human beings have an (essentially benign) essence and that power is always repressive, never productive.After positioning poststructuralist political thought against the background of Marxism and the traditional anarchism of Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon, Todd May shows what a tactical political philosophy like anarchism looks like shorn of its humanist commitments-namely, a poststructuralist anarchism. The book concludes with a defense, contra Habermas and Critical Theory, of poststructuralist political thought as having a metaethical structure allowing for positive ethical commitments.

"Bouton is to be congratulated for producing an enterprising and imaginative rereading of a seminal moment in the history of French popular protest."-Journal of Modern History"A principal merit of this lucidly written, intelligently argued study is that it focuses our attention on community politics in pre-revolutionary France. Cynthia Bouton shows how, during a period of political and economic crisis, rioters formulated and satisfied their demands for food at fair prices. At the same time, they redefined community boundaries and allegiances and renegotiated community power relations, while reshaping individual and collective consciousness in the process."-Darline Gay Levy, New York UniversityIn the spring of 1775, a series of food riots shook the villages and countryside around Paris. For decades France had been free of famine, but the fall grain harvest had been meager, and the government of the newly crowned King Louis XVI had issued an untimely edict allowing the free commerce of grain within the kingdom. Prices skyrocketed, causing riots to break out in April, first in the market town of Beaumont-sur-Oise, then sweeping through the Paris Basin for the next three weeks. Known as the Flour War, or the guerre des farines, these riots are the subject of Cynthia Bouton''s fascinating study. Building upon French historian George Rudé''s pioneering work, Bouton identifies communities of participants and victims in the Flour War, analyzing them according to class, occupation, gender, and location. As typically happened, crowds of common people (menu peuple) confronted those who controlled the grain-bakers, merchants, millers, cultivators, and local authorities. Bouton asks why women of the menu peuple were heavily represented in the riots, often assuming crucial roles as instigators and leaders. In most instances, the people did not steal the provisions but forced those they cornered to sell at a price the rioters deemed "just." Bouton examines this phenomenon, known as taxation populaire, and considers the growing "sophistication of purpose" of rioters by placing the Flour War within the larger context of food riots in early modern Europe.

An explanation of the ideas of leading socialist and anarchist theorists about nationalism and the challenges it presented to the labour movement from the mid-19th to the mid-20th centuries.

This text tells the story of a major episode of intelligence intervention in politics in the mid-1970s that led to the derailing of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States and to the resurgence of the Cold War in the following decade.

Explores the unacknowledged spirit of reflection, debate, and experimentation present in foundational Spanish American writing. In highlighting the parallels between sixteenth-century debates and post-structuralist approaches to the study of history, this book uncovers an important legacy of the Hispanic intellectual tradition.

Seeks to understand early twentieth-century France by examining novels written about professional women, bourgeois and working-class heroines, and the particular dilemmas that they faced. This book can change the way we think about the Belle Epoque and the interwar period in French literary history.

Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valle's. This book reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism and evolution, understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method.

This investigation of US relations with Mexico during World War II, includes information on spies and internal bureaucratic struggles in both countries. Although the book focuses on the interactions of the two countries, it shows how Mexico evolved politically in crucial ways during this period.

The new pioneers of this text are ordinary people who have tried to break away from mainstream consumer culture and return to small-town, rural America. The dilemmas, frustrations, adaptations, and triumphs of these neo-homesteaders offer insights to anyone thinking of a move "back to the land."

An interpretation of Rousseau's thought that focuses on his complex concept of nature as one major key to understanding his legacy to modern political philosophy. It examines his efforts to show why, despite a challenge from science, nature can remain a standard for human behaviour.