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This provocative anthology brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists. They are concerned not only with current sexual issues-abortion, pornography, reproductive and gay rights-but they also raise a host of new issues and questions: How, and in what ways, is sexuality political? Is the ......
Presents a study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. This title examines Bailey Burritt's Professional Distribution of College and University Undergraduates (1912) noting that Burritt's categories oversimplify the data of the 37 institutions he studies.
Offers a survey of medieval European economy, and culture. This book demonstrates the diversity that the world of Middle Ages achieved, despite the fact that "the physical aspects of life were exceedingly difficult". It probes the problems faced by Jews in a predominantly Christian society, and contemplates as well the problems faced by women.
A collection of articles, reviews and speeches by Monthly Review founder, Paul Sweezy, about the development of societies, mainly within the former USSR, after Marxist revolution.
This classic collection of essays by E.P. Thompson, one of England's most renowned socialist voices, remains a staple text in the history of Marxist theory. The bulk of the book is dedicated to Thompson's famous polemic against Louis Althusser and what he considers the reductionism and authoritarianism of Althusserian structuralism. In lively and ......
Human Nature in Politics brings the competences and perspectives of law, philosophy and political science to bear on an imporant subject seldom treated at book length. The subject of human nature in politics is as old as systematic thought about politics. Out of favor for a period in modern times, it is now once more the subject of attention by ......
