The Friendship of the Barbarians: Xenophon and the Persians

History

Hirsch, Steven W.

Ancient Civilizations

Tufts Univ

The Cape Cod National Seashore: A Landmark Alliance

Foster, Charles H. W.

Americas

The life and times of Mahatma Gandhi from 1920 to 1948, told through a selection of his autobiographical writings.

Gandhi in India: In His Own Words

Gandhi, Mahatma

Asia

Animals and People Sharing the World

Timely essays by Harriet Ritvo, James Serpell, Elizabeth Lawrence, Stephen Kellert, & others on the range of interactions of humans, animals, & the environment.

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Format Paperback Subject Performing Arts Theater Publisher University Press of New England

Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts

Humor & Entertainment

No markings. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges are clean. Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Includes index. Very clean, crisp, and tight copy. Not Ex-Library. All books offered from DSB are stocked at our store in Fayetteville, AR. Save on shipping by ordering multiple titles. 201pp. Hardcover Fine Condition Size: 6 1/2" x 9 1/2" English Text

Tricksterism in Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

A re-examination of New England's cultural society, in which Puritans share the stage with many other discourses.

By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (Civil Society Series)

Round, Phillip H.

In a major interdisciplinary reinterpretation of first-generation New England cultural formation, Phillip H. Round demonstrates that Puritanism was only one ingredient in the creation of a new American civil society. Examining five discourses at work in the early modern era -- civic order, truth-telling, gender difference, authorship, and ethnicity -- he provides fresh readings of early American writers like William Bradford and Anne Bradstreet, and historical figures like Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Morton, that reveal the true transatlantic and civil dimensions of our nation's earliest literature. Though the struggle over social authority took place within a Reformed Protestant context, it was actually far more eclectic, heterogeneous, and secular than contemporary published Puritan discourses -- and their latter day interpreters -- would admit. Round steps outside the official Puritan discourse to emphasize several other modes of rhetorical expression: transatlantic letters, urban revolutionary discourses and performances, town records, and pamphlets and tracts that engaged questions of racial and gender difference. The result is a version of the "New England Mind" and public culture which is far more complicated and interesting than prevailing theories suggest.

From Neighborhood to Nation takes on a key issue in the debate over expanding the civic culture, namely how neighborhood-based systems of local participation and governance can contribute to building a civil society that has meaning and positive impact beyond the local community. Advocates have long called for greater reliance on local participatory processes for improving the quality of civil society and governance, while critics maintain that neighborhood-based mechanisms promote parochialism and the politics of exclusion. Intensive research in four urban neighborhoods -- Birmingham AL, Dayton OH, Portland OR, and St. Paul MN -- enables Ken Thomson to provide the first meaningful and quantified response to these abstract civic culture questions. He develops scales to measure the extent of neighborhood organization and effectiveness in the political process, thereby focusing the debate on three essential components: deliberations and decisions of the core grassroots groups, their outreach to all citizens in their area, and their relationship to the political process.

From Neighborhood to Nation: The Democratic Foundations of Civil Society

Thomson, Ken

Politics & Government

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The Friendship of the Barbarians: Xenophon and the Persians

The Cape Cod National Seashore: A Landmark Alliance

Gandhi in India: In His Own Words

Animals and People Sharing the World

Animals and People Sharing the World

Gender in Performance: The Presentation of Difference in the Performing Arts

Tricksterism in Turn-Of-The-Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective

By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (Civil Society Series)

By Nature and by Custom Cursed: Transatlantic Civil Discourse and New England Cultural Production, 1620-1660 (Civil Society Series)

From Neighborhood to Nation: The Democratic Foundations of Civil Society