An examination of how the community of Lynchburg, Virginia, experienced four distinct but overlapping events: secession, civil war, black emancipation, and reconstruction. The book seeks to demonstrate how ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.
The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse
Spongberg (women's history, Macqurie U., Australia) explores how the perceived source of disease contamination contracted from all women's bodies to those just of fallen women between the late 18th and 20th centuries. Drawing on modern AIDS-related cultural studies, she discusses such aspects as re
Although Jewish communities have thrived in Iraq, Tunisia and Morocco, as well as in south-west Asia and North Africa, knowledge of these cultures is limited. This book presents an anthology of work describing the lives and culture of Jews in the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907-1932
Like many of her fellow missionaries to China, Pearl Buck found that she was not immune to the influence of her adopted home. In this book Lian Xi tells the story of Buck and two other American missionaries to China in the early twentieth century who gradually came to question, and eventually reject, the evangelical basis of Protestant missions ......
What, if anything, did enslaved black women in the South have in common with powerful female leaders in Iroquois society? Were female tavern keepers in the backcountry of North Carolina any more free than nuns and sisters in New France religious orders? This title deals with these questions.
What, if anything, did enslaved black women in the South have in common with powerful female leaders in Iroquois society? Were female tavern keepers in the backcountry of North Carolina any more free than nuns and sisters in New France religious orders? This book deals with these questions.
Imagine a traditional Jewish community on the eve of the 19th century, and you will most likely picture the Eastern European shtetl. This prevailing European-oriented view obscures the fact that Jewry is a coat of many colors, with many diverse yet traditional manifestations, including the numerous Jewish communities of North Africa and Southwest ......
First Women's Rights Convention and Its Meaning for Men and Women Today
In 1848 the first Women's Rights convention occurred in Seneca Falls, New York, led by the suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The only man to support her was a black man, Frederick Douglass. This book looks at the story of Stanton and Douglass, and argues for a new kind of humanity in the future.
German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises
In a unique and relevant approach, Aschheim (history, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) presents new insights into the existential dilemma of German-Jewish intellectuals who, having shared in the disposition of a great German cultural tradition, found themselves victims of its National Socialism. Within this
