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Dedicated to discussing writings of the European Renaissance that dissented from the dominant values of the period. Who during the Renaissance could have dissented from the values of reason and...

In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and traditions that shape American culture evolved from the...

"Dialogue" is one of American religion's shopworn terms. Although we hear much talk about dialogue, very little of it actually takes place. Religious discourse - especially about politics and public...

Outer billiards provides a toy model for planetary motion and exhibits intricate and mysterious behavior even for seemingly simple examples. It is a dynamical system in which a particle in the plane...

1. Dramas 1800-1850.--2. Dramas 1850-1900.--3. Comedies.--4. Farces.--5. Pantomimes, Extravaganzas, And Burlesques. Edited By Michael R. Booth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

New York Times Bestseller, Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, The Guardian, New York and moreLucie Blackman—tall, blond, twenty-one years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the...

A richly illustrated volume accompanying the first retrospective of Black and Indigenous American sculptor Edmonia Lewis. Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) broke international, racial, and gender barriers...

The first large-scale application of feminist theory to the study of Greek and Roman cultures, this book points to some striking similarities between our culture and that of the ancient world,...

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Can Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany be compared? Not long ago, the answer seemed obvious: they could be and they were. Nationalist rhetoric, hostility to the left and to parliamentary government, and...

Among the most influential philosophers of modern times, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) declared in this classic study that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of...

A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most...