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"Katherine French puts a human face on the history of the English medieval parish between the end of the fourteenth century and the Reformation."-Carol Davidson-Cragoe, TMR

The second of a three-volume set comprising papers by current or former membe of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, a research organization (established in London in 1946) concerned with relating the psychological an social sciences to the needs and concerns of society. The contributions, l

Janna Bianchini captures the extraordinary royal career of Berenguela of Castile: queen-consort in Leon, heir to the throne of Castile, mother of the conqueror Fernando III, and powerful sovereign in her own right. The Queen's Hand reevaluates the role of royal women in western Iberian monarchy.

Investigates the transformation of Cappadocia into a Christian society. Through vivid accounts of Cappadocians as preachers, theologians and historians, this work highlights the disruptive social and cultural consequences of the formation of orthodoxies in theology, history, language, and personal identity in the ancient world.

Morsink asserts that all people have human rights simply by virtue of being born into the human family and that we can know these rights without the aid of experts. He shows how the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights grew out of Enlightenment principles honed by a shared revulsion at the horrors of the Holocaust.

Traces the history of the corps since its founding, in 1901. "A work essential to any study of the corps or military medicine."-Choice

Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the bidding competition to capture a major league team, using interviews with major players to present an insider's perspective on the business side of professional sports.

"Imperial Medicine ... effectively situates Manson in two very different professional and political locations-China and London-and makes informative connections between the filarial and malarial stages of his career."-Victorian Studies

The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania is the definitive reference to the rich artifacts representing 14,000 years of cultural evolution and includes environmental studies, descriptions and illustrations of artifacts and features, settlement pattern studies, and recommendations for directions of further research.

In Politics of Temporalization, Nadia R. Altschul examines why, by whom, and to what ends certain populations, objects, and practices in nineteenth-century Ibero-America were named as living residues of the premodern Moorish past-and argues against this colonial temporalizing of "the now" as belonging to a constructed and othered "past."

From Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking to the community cookbook created by the First Baptist Church of Midland, Tennessee, Cookbook Politics explores the sensual and political implications of cookbooks, demonstrating how they create nations, establish ideologies, shape international relations, and form communities.

In Bank Notes and Shinplasters, Joshua R. Greenberg shows how Americans accumulated and wielded monetary information in order to navigate the early republic's chaotic bank note system. He demonstrates that the shift to federally authorized paper money in the Civil War era eliminated the public's need for detailed financial knowledge.

James Bernard Murphy challenges widely shared assumptions about personhood and its development through discrete stages, arguing they undermine our ability to see our lives as a whole. Drawing on classic and contemporary thinkers, Murphy argues that we live our whole lives as children, adolescents, and adults all at the same time.

Street commerce is deeply intertwined with myriad contemporary urban visions and planning goals and has become an increasingly prominent issue in urban areas. In Street Commerce, Andres Sevtsuk offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in implementing successful street commerce and suggests innovative solutions.

In dozens of slave conspiracy scares in North American and the Caribbean, colonists terrorized and killed slaves whom they accused of planning to take over the colony. Jason T. Sharples explains the deep origins and historical triggers of these incidents and argues that conspiracy scares bound society together through shared fear.

In Speaking Infinities, Ariel Evan Mayse explores the life and work of the Hasidic figure Rabbi Dov Ber Friedman of Mezritsh (1704-1772) to elucidate his theory of language in which all human tongues, even in their mundane forms, have the potential to become sacred when returned to their divine source.

Michael Chibnik was editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist for four years. Scholarship, Money, and Prose provides detailed ethnographic and historical descriptions of the operations of the journal as well as engaging anecdotes of his experiences. The book offers a window onto the past, present, and future of scholarly publishing.

Focusing on four influential, yet typically overlooked, French thinkers-Regis Debray, Emmanuel Todd, Marcel Gauchet, and Alain de Benoist-The Anthropological Turn shows how key issues of religion, identity, citizenship, and the state have been conceptualized and debated across a wide spectrum of political opinion in contemporary France.

David B. Ruderman examines a chapter in the history of Jewish-Christian relations in nineteenth-century Europe, focusing on evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul and his associates, both allies and foes, who were engaged in conversation about the nature of Christianity, Judaism, and their intertwined destinies in the past and present.

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society explores the political and social history of the Dutch colony of Suriname-a place where Jews, most of Iberian origin, established the largest Jewish agricultural community in the world and enjoyed various liberties, including the right to convert their slaves to Judaism.

Drawing on American political development's rich theoretical tradition and historical perspective in order to better understand how long-term institutional and ideational developments have shaped the Trump presidency, this volume offers broad reflections on the future of American institutions in a time of considerable social change.

In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu, Marten Soederblom Saarela shows how-through observation, inference, and reference to ideas on language and writing-intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Choson Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and the uses to which it was put: recording sounds and arranging words.

Featuring essays from thought leaders in public administration, Public Service and Good Governance for the Twenty-First Century offers insights into the governance challenges facing the nation-from diminished capacity to the failure to meet expectations for reform-and recommendations for how civic institutions and leaders might respond.

Former Guerrillas in Mozambique describes the trajectories of former RENAMO combatants in Mozambique and emphasizes the ways in which they navigate unstable and sometimes dangerous social and political environments during and after a civil war.

In this densely contextualized biography, K. Steven Vincent describes how Elie Halevy (1870-1937), one of the most respected and influential intellectuals of the French Third Republic, confronted the Dreyfus Affair, World War I, and the rise of interwar totalitarianism while defending a distinctively French version of liberalism.

Reading texts by Goldsmith, Malthus, Milton, Scott, Mary Shelley, Swift, and others, in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory, and colonial settlement, Charlotte Sussman traces a shift in thinking about population and mobility in Britain over the course of the long eighteenth century.

Featuring more than 75 illustrations, Selling Antislavery offers a thorough case study of the role of reform movements in the rise of mass media and argues for abolition's central importance to the shaping of antebellum middle-class culture.

In Early Modern Aristotle, Eva Del Soldato examines treatises, legends, proverbs, fictions, and rhetorical tropes to trace how recourse to the authority of Aristotle shaped intellectual discourse even during a period that challenged and overturned much of his teaching.