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It has often been said that early America was the "best poor man's country in the world." After all, wasn't there an abundance of land and a scarcity of labourers? This book presents the evidence for poverty versus plenty and concludes that financial insecurity was a widespread problem.

First published in 1987, "Beyond the Covenant Chain" was one of the first studies to acknowledge that the Iroquois never had an empire. This book remains a valuable study of diplomatic amd military relations among Native American groups in 17th- and 18th-century North America.

This work aims to clarify the debate between moral relativists and moral absolutists by showing what is right and what is wrong about each of these positions, by revealing how the phenomenon of moral diversity is connected to moral relativism.

A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the best small museums in Pennsylvania, interweaving anecdotes with the author's own visits along with descriptions of their histories and collections. Travel directions and complete information on each site's visiting hours and more are included.

This is a comprehensive account of how conflicts over the powers to tax, spend and borrow have been at the centre of American politics and how these budgetary conflicts have shaped national politics by determining the size and role of the federal government.

Images of and references to women are so rare in the corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of these 15 essays show it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences to find rich resources for feminist theory and practice.

This text is a collaborative effort by policymakers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference in which high-level verterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations.

This text is a collaborative effort by policymakers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference in which high-level verterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations.

Inspired by Martin Heidegger, John Lysaker develops a concept of ur-poetry to explore philosophically how poetic language creates fresh meaning in our world and transforms the way in which we choose to live in it. To demonstrate ur-poetry in action, the book focuses on the work of Charles Simic.

In this study, Christopher Rickey examines the internal logic of Heidegger's ideas to explain how they led him to become a powerful critic of liberalism and a Nazi supporter. Key to Rickey's interpretation is the radically antimonian conception of religiosity he finds in Heidegger's work.

In this study of the press during the French Revolutionary crisis of the early 1830s, Jeremy Popkin shows that newspapers played a crucial role in defining a new repertoire of identities - for workers, women and members of the middle classes - that redefined Europe's public spheres.

This volume aims to sift through the polemics to make sense of religious belief and practice in late antiquity. It aims to describe the mechanisms of ritual with semiotic terms, so that we can better see how they worked and how they affected the social identities of their followers.

Grounded in the history of political thought, and illuminated by legal studies and feminist theory, this book offers a challenging approach to thinking about liberty in the wake of decades of criticism of liberalism from feminists, communitarians and conservatives alike.

This text explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940 in Mexico City. Katherine Bliss focuses on public debates over legalized sexual commerce and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases during these years.

This text explores the question of what is meant by "race", once it is clear that race is not a tangible reality as reflected through colour. It addresses how race and colour interact in relationships between men and women, within families and in the larger community.

English translations of the complete poems and prose narratives of Hartmann von Aue (c.1170-1215), one of Germany's earliest courtly writers who influenced both Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach.

An analysis of five case studies on the transference of power in South America from military to democratic governments. Using a "historical-institutionalist" approach, the author compares transitions in Brazil and three countries of the Southern Cone - Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.

This work is a collection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, history, and political science - on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. It challenges stereotypical views of Latin American women.

An anthology of the principal source materials for the study of the formation of Middle English as a discipline. The first section traces the development of ideas about Middle English in the work of 13 writers, and the second section represents literary criticism and commentary by 19 authors.

The "comprehensive liberalism" defended in this title offers an alternative to the narrower "political liberalism" associated with the writings of John Rawls. It opens the way for dealing more adequately with problems of human rights and economic inequality in a world of cultural pluralism.

A study of the way in which republican theorists in different eras - Livy, Machiavelli and Rousseau - retell the story of the rape of Lucretia to support their conceptions of republicanism. The recurring presentation of the story as theatre reveals the performative elements of republicanism.

An introduction to Plato's dialogues, where literary form and philosophical content are inseparable. It deals in turn with Plato's relation to and portraits of Socrates, the literary and philosophical character of the dialogues, and the modes of argumentation employed.

A wide-ranging exegesis that systematically traces the history of philosophical conceptions of the passions in the work of such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Spinoza, Descartes, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant and Freud. It asks whether passion tortures people because it blinds them.

A study of George Palmer Putnam, American 19th-century publisher. It discusses his productive life in print, interrelating this with the life of his family, with the changing patterns of life in New York City and the nation, and with the institutionalization of modern print culture.

A study of judicial reform and the transition to democracy in El Salvador. It analyzes the role of international actors, notably the USA and the United Nations, and the contributions and limitations of international assistance in efforts to establish accountability and reform the justice system.

This text offers an exploration of the impact of World War I mobilization on American political development in the interwar period and its legacy for the New Deal era and beyond.

These essay cover a wide diversity of subjects in Hume's work. This includes his theory of knowledge; his conception of human inquiry and the human mind; his views on our knowledge of the external world and the future; and his treatments of the passions, emotions and virtue.