"[To grasp this subject] one needs a multifaceted, multidisciplinary approach by a variety of expert hands such as have been brought together in this book. Here one has the whole argument, from the inter-Testamental and earliest Christian periods through medieval and early modern times up to the complex overlaps with the New Age, or Pentecostalism ......
Truong Nhu Tang was a founder of the National Liberation Front and Minister of Justice for the Vietcong Provisional Revolutionary Government. He met Ho Chi Minh in Paris as a student and was dazzled by Ho's charisma and commitment. He and many of his colleagues joined with the North Vietnamese in what they thought was a struggle for democratic ......
This study examines the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America. Marysa Nararro looks at early indigenous societies, and at the Spanish and Portuguese who claimed the "New World", noting the interaction of race and class. She illustrates this through portraits of individual women, as well as ......
Between the years 1942 and 1943, under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were gassed in the concentration camps. This is the story of Operation Reinhard, recording the history of the death camps from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943. Using sources previously overlooked, such as German ......
How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools
"Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away...This is one of the more helpful recent statements of the case for the classics, accompanied by rather venturesome curricular suggestions." - ......
The editors argue that if we are to understand the meanings of blackness in the African diaspora, and elsewhere, we must critically examine paradigms that have emerged over the past five centuries out of Euroamerican racism and black liberation. In their introduction to this volume the editors present two challenges. The first is to understand the ......
The Holiness serpent handlers, who originated around 1910, are one of the most controversial religious groups in America. Their practice has brought them into conflict with authorities many times, and the often sensationalized media accounts of their services fascinate and horrify us. But as David Kimbrough so ably documents, snake handlers are ......
