Between 1880 and 1914, Eastern European Jewish immigrants in New York's Lower East Side defined themselves as American not only by their occupations or education but by their spending practices as wel
More than 99 percent of all life that has ever existed on this planet is extinct. Moreover, human acceleration of the extinction of species has created a crisis in biodiversity. How can the history of
After years of labor unrest, America in 1915 was teetering on the brink of an industrial "civil war," thought economist John R. Commons. Commons, then a member of the United States Commission on Indus
During the French colonial period (1900-1945), Vietnamese peasants wrote vigorously about the effects of French policies on their living conditions. The vast majority of their writings were censored o
Originally published by Columbia U. Press in 1969, this volume presents in English translation an extensive collection (some 70 documents) of Medieval sources for the history of the popular heresies i
Masks of Conquest reveals how English studies introduced in India under British rule came to be an effective form of political control abetting voluntary cultural assimilation. The author argues that
Volume 2 details the workings of the Court's experimental practice of sending Justices around the country to serve as judges at sessions of the various federal circuit courts. The documents in this vo
Translated from the French edition, 1983. An attempt to find the most fundamental laws of cognitive development operative in all forms of acquiring knowledge, from the first mental constructions to th
I don't know why the hell I write so many letters, Raymond Chandler once mused to a correspondent. "I guess my mind is just to active for its own good."In the seven novels from The B
