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The Babylonian Talmud is the most important text of Rabbinic Judaism. Produced between the third and sixth centuries from both Babylonian and Palestinian sources, it records debates among the Rabbis over matters of law and custom, and forms the backbone of much of Jewish practice even today. In this book, Richard Kalmin probes the fault lines...

A full account of the reception of the second-century prose fiction    The Golden Ass (or   Metamorphoses) of Apuleius, which has intrigued readers as diverse as St Augustine, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton. Robert H. F. Carver traces readers' responses to the novel from the third to the seventeenth centuries....

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In Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Woman's Rights Movement, Sally McMillen        unpacks, for the first time, the full significance of the revolutionary convention        that changed the course of women's history. The book covers 50 years of women's        activism, from 1840-1890, focusing on four extraordinary figures--Lucretia...

The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux KlanIn Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan, David Cunningham tells the story of the astounding trajectory of the Klan during the 1960s by focusing on the pivotal and under-explored case of the United Klans of America (UKA) in North Carolina. Why the KKK...