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This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the early twentieth century were inspired by European mode

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Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguardin

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Contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others.

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Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. This work addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. It analyzes the crucial role that small communities of critical thinkers play in developing new ideas.

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Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures.

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Examines changes in religious beliefs, in motives for work, in the issues that give rise to political conflict, in the importance people attach to having children and families, and in attitudes toward divorce, abortion, and homosexuality.

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This text traces the intellectual and institutional deployment of the culture concept in England and America in the first half of the 20th century. It works across disciplinary lines to embrace literary, literary critical, and anthropological writing.

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Offers a perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. This readers includes essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions.

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This collection of essays examines the dynamic cultural world of Russia's lower classes during the last decades of the prerevolutionary order.

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"This volume grew out of seminars and colloquia organized by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University under its program from 2008 to 2010 titled 'Cultures and Institutions in Motion'"--Acknowledgments.

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Looks at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. This book questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. It also examines contemporary globalization.

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Presented in three parts, this book explores what's alluring and what's revolting in cunning. It draws on a range of sources: tales of Odysseus; texts from Machiavelli; pamphlets from early modern England; salesmen's newsletters; Christian apologetics; sermons; philosophical treatises; famous, infamous, and obscure historical cases; and more.

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The author examines how states canand haveused international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use.

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The description for this book, Curvature and Betti Numbers. (AM-32), will be forthcoming.

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How do cyclic and chaotic dynamics arise in economic models of equilibrium How can empirical methods be used to detect nonlinearities and cyclic and chaotic structures in economic models In examining these questions, this book brings together the work that has been done in economics-based chaos theory.

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Aims to construct "motivic cohomology theory," whose existence was conjectured by A Beilinson and S Lichtenbaum. This is achieved in the book's fourth paper, using results of the other papers whose additional role is to contribute to our understanding of various properties of algebraic cycles.

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"The importance of Czartoryski could hardly be overestimated for the whole complex of 19th century political adjustments from Russia to Spain, England to the Dardanelles...Thorough and well-constructed, this definitive study will have a very considerable effect upon diplomatic history of the Napoleonic and Restoration periods in Europe."--S. Harris

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For about eight months in 1968 Czechoslovakia underwent rapid and radical changes that were unparalleled in the history of communist reform; in the eight months that followed, those changes were dramatically reversed. H. Gordon Skilling provides a comprehensive analysis of the events of 1968, assessing their significance both for Czechoslovakia and

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