Sidney Kingsley: Five Prize Winning Plays

Literature & Fiction

Sidney Kingsley

Dramas & Plays

The Ohio State University Press

Faith and Action: A History of the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996 (Urban Life and Urban Landscape)

Roger Fortin

Religion & Spirituality

For Geoffrey Chaucer and many of his contemporaries, the literary life of England began in ancient Troy. In Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Alex Muellerexplores Middle English alliterative romances that challenge this genealogical fantasy and decentralize Troy as the eastern origin of western authority. Until the sixteenth century, the Trojans were widely believed to be the ancestors of the English people: the destruction of Troy led to the birth of Rome and eventually the foundation of a New Troy in Britain. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fall of Troy was such a popular subject that the production of Troy books became an industry in itself. Products of a northern network of alliterative poets, the poems Mueller investigates resist the pervasive fashion to envision England as the inheritor of imperial power. Translating their Latin sources into concussive verse well suited for the rhythm, pace, and spectacular violence of battle, the poems belie enthusiasm about Trojan ancestry through critiques of the chivalric practices cherished by the metropolitan nobility. The consistency of their metrical choice, militaristic subjects, and anti-imperialistic sentiment suggest that these northern romances emerged from a Trojan word-hoard of provincial skepticism toward aristocratic claims to sovereignty.

Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance (Interventions: New Studies in Medieval Culture)

Mueller, Alex

British & Irish

Un-American Womanhood focuses upon antifeminism and its female adherents who flourished in the 1920s.

UN-AMERICAN WOMAN: ANTI-RACISM, ANTI-FEMINISM, AND THE FIRST RED SCARE

NIELSEN, KIM

History

Book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Charles Dickens

TRIAL OF EBENEZER SCROOGE

Charles, Dickens

BRUCE BUENO DE MESQUITA

United States

To predict likely policy developments around the world over the next thirty years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita uses game theoretic models as described in Predicting Politics. The tools used in this book have found wide application in business and in the development of significant American foreign policy initiatives over the years. The author uses data from 1948 to show the ability of models to predict the end of the Cold War. He then turns to data from 1980 for about one hundred countries and simulates future states of the world, especially with regard to further democratization. In the process he shows strong evidence that the burst of democratization that occurred at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s was predictable based on replicable data known in 1980. While delving into rather gloomy predictions about likely developments in Russia and China's domestic affairs, he offers a novel explanation for the failure of Russia to attract more investment and to achieve the higher growth rates commonly associated with democratic government. Although Russia is certainly more democratic in an absolute sense today than it was in 1980, it has fallen farther behind the rest of the world in terms of democratization and so lacks the comparative advantages of property rights, rule of law, and transparent governance that are essential for attracting investment. Bueno de Mesquita shows how policy situations and game theoretical analyses can explain the past, illuminate the present, and forecast future events. At the same time he provides the tools necessary for others to create their own rigorous estimates of future foreign policies.

Predicting Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Bueno De Mesquita, Bruce

Politics & Government

FEMINISM IN THE HEARTLAND

Feminism in the Heartland tells the story of second-wave feminism. Set in a “typical” American city, Dayton, Ohio, it traces the history of a dynamic, utopian movement that transformed the lives of thousands of women who fought to make their city and country responsive to women’s needs. Life stories of fifty-eight activists, woven throughout, give voice to the subjects themselves and transmit to younger generations a feel for what it was like to be a feminist in the 1970s.

Feminism in the Heartland

Judith Ezekiel

Americas

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