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Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working ClassThis new edition of Eric Lott's classic cultural history features a new foreword by Greil Marcus and afterword by the author....

In this Very Short Introduction, David Ford provides a balanced survey, for both believers and non-believers, to the central questions of contemporary theology. In this new edition, Ford includes updates to a number of areas, including theology between faiths, theological responses to science, and the effect of globalization and technology....

The Global Business of National IdentityWhat happens to the nation when it is reconceived as a brand? How does nation branding change the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world? Branding the Nation offers a unique critical perspective on the power of brands to affect how we think about space, value and identity....

This Handbook presents a comprehensive introduction and thirty-seven new analytical essays on the issues, contexts, and texts of the English Revolution. Offering textual, literary critical, historical, and methodological information, the volume exemplifies new and diverse approaches to revolutionary writing and maps out future avenues of research....

Jeffrey L. Rubenstein offers a translation from the Hebrew of The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni. Halivni's work is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian Talmud....

We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "e;collective afterlife"e; in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel Scheffler maintains that this assumption plays...