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Uncovering the unexplored archive in the history of poetics, the author shows that the history of prosody is tied to the ways Victorian England argued about its national identity.

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Essays discuss the Depression, the Cold War, the Great Society, and the Silent Majority.

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The idea that Christianity started as a clandestine movement among the poor is a widely accepted notion. This book addresses beliefs and historical facts, and brings a sociologist's perspective to bear on the puzzle behind the success of early Christianity. It provides insights into why people convert and how new religious groups recruit members.

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This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questi

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Focuses on magic in early medieval Europe. This title shows how many of the more discerning leaders of the early medieval Church decided to promote non-Christian practices originally condemned as magical - rather than repressing them or leaving them to waste away or 'growl'.

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Brings together four schools of institutional analysis - rational choice, organizational, historical, and discursive institutionalism - to examine the rise of neoliberalism. It examines neoliberalism's rise on three continents and explores changes in macroeconomic policy, labor markets, taxation, banking, and health care.

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Antimodernism, a popular movement growing out of fear and hostility toward an emerging new world, became a central ideological trend in late nineteenth-century Europe. Shulamit Volkov explains its development in Germany by providing a biography of one group--the urban master artisans--whose political attitudes came to be dominated by antimodernist

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This is the first work to set one of the great bloodless revolutions of the twentieth century in its proper historical context. John Dunlop pays particular attention to Yeltsin's role in opposing the covert resurgence of Communist interests in post-coup Russia, and faces the possibility that new institutions may not survive long enough to sink roots in a traditionally undemocratic culture.

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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, this title traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies.

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Combining historical, sociological, and legal expertise, Bruce Frier discloses the reasons for the emergence of law as a professional discipline in the later Roman Republic. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingui

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The Medicine Rite is performed by medicine men upon the initiation of a member to their cult. Presenting a transcription of the Medicine Rite, the most sacred ritual of the Winnebago Indians, this work captures a poetic source of profound importance to the understanding of mystical experience.

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The genesis of President Clinton's plan for health security.

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The essays in this book were originally presented by Professor Viner as the 1966 Jayne Lectures of the American Philosophical Society. The relationship between religious doctrines and economic theory and behavior had long interested Professor Viner, and the conclusions he discussed represented years of thoughtful study. They focus in particular on

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