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Narrative, Etiology, and Queer TheoryCausality dominates today's discussions of LGBT rights: anti-gay voices imagine gay proliferation through seduction, influence, and corruption, while queer communities largely embrace biological determinism, saying they are "e;born gay."e; Reading popular rhetoric, psychoanalytic theory, and British...

Britain, France, and their Roads from EmpireThe story of the dramatic collapse of the British and French colonial empires in the aftermath of the Second World War - now told for the first time as part of one global process...

A LexiconThis Lexicon clarifies and illuminates the multiple facets of post-conflict peacebuilding by presenting its major themes and trends from an analytical perspective. It features 26 essays on key elements, written by international experts. Reflecting a diversity of perspectives, it highlights the challenges associated with post-conflict...

Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900For as far back as school registers can take us, the most prestigious education available to any Irish child was to be found outside Ireland. Catholics of Consequence traces, for the first time, the transnational education, careers, and lives of more than two thousand...

Stories of Ex-Hasidic JewsLeaving a religion is not merely a matter of losing or rejecting faith. For many, it involves dramatic changes of everyday routines and personal habits.  Davidman bases her analysis on in-depth conversations with forty ex-Hasidic individuals. From these conversations emerge accounts of the great fear, angst, and sense of...

&'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner&'In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a...