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A Subversive CollaborationThis book explores the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy and further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic "e;lens"e; might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters....

A panoramic history of African Americans in colonial America, ranging from the Seven Years' War to the election of Jefferson in 1800 ....

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How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire,        reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States?        Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to        Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-during the first half of the twentieth...

Leading scholars present state-of-the-art overviews of approaches to information structure in natural language and its interaction with general principles of human cognition and communication. The chapters include typological and diachronic perspectives and demonstrate the value of combining theoretical and experimental approaches....