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Living History Society - HOME   Living History Society Age and Structural Lag: Society's Failure to Provide Meaningful Opportunities in Work, Family, and Leisure by Matilda W. Riley, In twentieth-century industrial societies most of us live longer and healthier lives than ever before in history. Yet the social structures and institutions that provide opportunities for our lives are still marked by age constraints that were appropriate a century ago. Education is still primarily reserved for the young; work and family responsibilities are crowded into the middle years; while leisure and free time are allocated to the ...

Anachronism Creative History Living Society - HOME   Anachronism Creative History Living Society The Creative Age: Awakening Human Potential in the Second Half of Life by Gene D. Cohen, In a single generation, the view of life after fifty has changed dramatically.Today's society is shaped by unprecedented growth in the number of people living in their "golden years," shifting patterns of work and home life, and advances in health care that offer the promise of longer, more active lives. In this fascinating, life-affirming book, Dr. Gene Cohen debunks harmful myths about aging and illuminates the biological and ...

Living History - HOME   Living History Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction by Susan Geiger, How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a ...

History Society - HOME   History Society A History of Islamic Societies by IRA M. Lapidus, Long considered a classic, A History of Islamic Societies is now that much more useful a reference for general readers and scholars alike. Widely praised for its balanced and comprehensive account, Ira Lapidus' work has been fully revised in its coverage of each country and region of the Muslim world through 2001. It incorporates the origins and evolution of Islamic societies and brings into focus the historical processes that gave shape to the manifold varieties of contemporary Islam. The concluding chapters ...

Culture History Society - HOME   Culture History Society Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People by Linda Civitello, An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history, culture, and food that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Covering prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris ...

Top History Book - HOME   Top History Book Hockey's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of Wicked Slapshots, Bruising Goons, and Ice Oddities by Floyd Conner, X -- Takes an irreverent look at the sports world's best balance of power and speed -- Discover interesting players and amusing moments in hockey history -- Written by the author of nine titles in the Most Wanted series, including books on baseball, football, wrestling, golf, tennis, basketball, the Olympics, and Hollywood, as well as Golf!: Great Moments & Dubious Achievements in Golf History The history of hockey is filled with the bizarre, ...

History Medieval Renaissance - HOME   History Medieval Renaissance The Renaissance in Europe: A Reader by Keith Whitlock, This series of three course texts and two anthologies, published in association with the Open University, under the title The Renaissance: A Cultural Enquiry, explores the Renaissance from the perspectives of history, literature, drama, religion, the history of art, philosophy, music, and political thought. Three of the books are published now; two more volumes will be published in the fall of 2000. Together the books provide students and general readers with an unprecedented analysis of this vital period. How important ...

Poland People - HOME   Poland People The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland "The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland" takes a fascinating look at the history of Polish cinema from 1945 to 1989. Exploring how Poland was affected by the political, social and cultural upheavals throughout those eras. Poland has produced a number of successful and highly regarded directors. Paul Coates pays particular attention to the work of Krzysztof Kieslowski and Andrzej Wajda while placing them within the wider context of Polish cinema. This volume includes unique ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume - HOME   Womens Medieval Renaissance Costume Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly ...

Medieval Womens Costume - HOME   Medieval Womens Costume Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney, 2 dolls, 16 costumes worn between 1200 61350 AD. Includes tunics, chain-mail armor and fur-trimmed capes for men; gowns, brocaded tunics and a sleeveless chemise for women. Palio - Palio is the name given in Italy to an annual athletic contest, very often of a historical character, pitting the neighbourhoods of a town or the hamlets of a comune against each other. Typically they are fought in costume and commemorate some event or tradition of the Middle Ages, and thus often ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Woman Culture and Society - HOME   Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Religion Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Society Spirituality The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism by Hans A. Baer, Spiritual churches in the United States represent one of several religious movements that African Americans have adopted in their efforts to cope with mainstream society. In this groundbreaking work, first published in 1984, Hans A. Baer explores the richness and creativity of Black Spiritualism. It sets forth an illuminating ethnography of the movement that corrects numerous stereotypes of African American religion. Baer shows that the Spiritual churches blend diverse elements, borrowing aspects of African American Protestantism, ...

Woman Culture and Society - HOME   Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality - HOME   Religion Shintoism Society Spirituality History of Japanese Religion by Kazuo Kasahara, Seventeen distinguished experts on Japanese religion provide a fascinating overview of its history and development. Beginning with the origins of religion in primitive Japanese society, they chart the growth of each of Japan's major religious organizations and doctrinal systems. They follow Buddhism, Shintoism, Christianity, and popular religious belief through major periods of change to show how history and religion affected each other -- and discuss the interactions between the different religious traditions. A History of Japanese Religion closes with discussions of ...

History Literature World - HOME   History Literature World A History of the Modern World by R. R. Palmer, The first edition of A History of the Modern World was published 50 years ago. Subsequent editions have proven its staying power, relevance, and importance. A History of the Modern World has been used as a textbook at more than 1,000 schools; it has been translated into six languages. A comprehensive story of how our world came to be, it is among the most highly praised history texts ever published. It begins with the rise of Europe during ...

Famous Native American - HOME   Famous Native American Famous Native Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Famous Native North Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Native American name controversy - The Native American name controversy concerns ...

Native American Genealogy - HOME   Native American Genealogy A Student's Guide to Native American Genealogy by E. Barrie Kavasch, Discusses Native American history and culture and offers guidance in constructing a Native American family history The West Pole by Diane Glancy, In this groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction, American Book Award winner Diane Glancy juxtaposes personal essays, Cherokee myths, and imaginative sketches to explore her experiences as a Native American mixed-blood coming to terms with the fragmentary nature of her life. The West Pole is a book about story-making; in it, Glancy explores the ...

Native American Genealogy - HOME   Native American Genealogy A Student's Guide to Native American Genealogy by E. Barrie Kavasch, Discusses Native American history and culture and offers guidance in constructing a Native American family history The West Pole by Diane Glancy, In this groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction, American Book Award winner Diane Glancy juxtaposes personal essays, Cherokee myths, and imaginative sketches to explore her experiences as a Native American mixed-blood coming to terms with the fragmentary nature of her life. The West Pole is a book about story-making; in it, Glancy explores the ...

Native American Genealogy - HOME   Native American Genealogy A Student's Guide to Native American Genealogy by E. Barrie Kavasch, Discusses Native American history and culture and offers guidance in constructing a Native American family history The West Pole by Diane Glancy, In this groundbreaking work of creative nonfiction, American Book Award winner Diane Glancy juxtaposes personal essays, Cherokee myths, and imaginative sketches to explore her experiences as a Native American mixed-blood coming to terms with the fragmentary nature of her life. The West Pole is a book about story-making; in it, Glancy explores the ...

Ancient Roman Architecture - HOME   Ancient Roman Architecture Roman Architecture and Society by Anderson, James C., Jr., Focusing primarily on Rome and other cities of central Italy, James C. Anderson, jr., describes the training, career path, and social status of both architects and builders. He explains how the construction industry was organized -- from marble and timber suppliers to bricklayers and carpenters. He examines the political, legal, and economic factors that determined what would be built, and where. And he shows how the various types of public and private Roman buildings relate to the urban space as a whole. Drawing on ancient literary sources as well as on contemporary scholarship, "Roman Architecture and Society" examines the origins of the architectural achievements, construction techniques, and discoveries that have had an incalculable influence on the postclassical Western world. This detailed and concise account will appeal not only to students and scholars of Roman history, but to all with an interest in ...

History Historian - HOME   History Historian Historians on History: An Anthology by John Tosh, A collection of writings of some of the key historians of the last century! Examines key debates on historical practice and theory. Illuminates the political, social and Personal assumptions which have governed and sustained historical practice and theory. Brings into focus the key historiographic trends since World War two Historians of History is a collection of readings examine historical practices and theory including Marxism, people's history, gender and race and represents all main schools up to the wake of postmodernism. Major ...

Famous Native American - HOME   Famous Native American Famous Native Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Famous Native North Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Native American name controversy - The Native American name controversy concerns ...

Famous Native American - HOME   Famous Native American Famous Native Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Famous Native North Americans by Bobbie Kalman, Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers. Native American name controversy - The Native American name controversy concerns ...

Confucianism China History - HOME   Confucianism China History An Intellectual History of Modern China by Merle Goldman, An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century.While existing studies tend to focus on individual Chinese thinkers, this book includes all the major Chinese thinkers, as well as political figures who have influenced China's modern history. Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-fan Lee introduce this this collection of essays, drawn from the later volumes (Volumes 12, 13, 14, 15) ...

History Literature World - HOME   History Literature World A History of the Modern World by R. R. Palmer, The first edition of A History of the Modern World was published 50 years ago. Subsequent editions have proven its staying power, relevance, and importance. A History of the Modern World has been used as a textbook at more than 1,000 schools; it has been translated into six languages. A comprehensive story of how our world came to be, it is among the most highly praised history texts ever published. It begins with the rise of Europe during ...

Medieval and Renaissance - HOME   Medieval and Renaissance Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded ...

California Gold Rush History - HOME   California Gold Rush History Jewish Voices of the California Gold Rush: A Documentary History, 1849-1880 by Ava Fran Kahn, In 1848, news of the California Gold Rush swept the nation and the world. Aspiring miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs from all corners of the globe flooded California looking for gold. The cry of instant wealth was also heard and answered by Jewish communities in Europe and the eastern United States. While all Jewish immigrants arriving in the mid-nineteenth century were looking for religious freedoms and economic stability, there were preexisting Jewish ...

Medieval Renaissance - HOME   Medieval Renaissance Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition by Barbara K. Gold, Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century. This collection reclaims a vast body of long-neglected Latin texts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and examines how they represent the feminine and the female body. The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by ...

Medieval Clothing and Costume - HOME   Medieval Clothing and Costume Medieval Clothing and Costumes: Wealth and Class in Medieval Times by Margaret Scott, X Examines the role of clothing in medieval society and discusses trends in clothing styles and the characteristic dress of different classes of people. Costuming Made Easy: How to Make Theatrical Costumes from Cast-Off Clothing by Barb Rogers, Enter the fascinating world of conversion costuming! Make your own theatrical costumes for less than a day's rental price and make them your way without any conventional sewing using patterns. Included in this book are ...

People Village - HOME   People Village Civility in an English Village by William Stephens, This English village has "solved" most of our American social problems. The village is not perfect, and some problems remain. But in many ways it stands as a lesson to us all. The village is safe. Women can walk at night. People are trusting. Conflict is kept down. The people are so tolerant that troublemakers, eccentrics, shy and awkward persons, are taken in and included in the social life. Children are well-behaved. The school trains them to be this way. Since ...

Society for American Archaeology - HOME   Society for American Archaeology The Archaeology of the Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare, & Exchange Across the American Southwest & Beyond by Michelle Hegmon, How and why did styles, materials, conflicts, and religious ideas spread across prehistoric landscapes? The Archaeology of Regional Interaction investigates these issues, using the rich resource of the American Southwest and covering periods from the Folsom to the nineteenth century. Editor Michelle Hegmon has compiled superbly researched essays -- originally presented at the 1996 Southwest Symposium in Arizona -- into a comprehensive examination of regional interaction. The Archaeology of Regional Interaction surpasses most regional ... Southwest. A series of chapters devoted to expanding the coverage beyond the borders of the traditional Southwest examines the surrounding areas, including Nevada and Utah, northern Mexico, and the Plains. The volume also provides a unique treatment of religion -- including manifestations such as Flower World Iconography, Medicine Societies, and ceremonial textiles -- as a form of regional interaction. Women in Ancient America by Karen Olsen Bruhns, This first comprehensive work on women in precolumbian American cultures describes gender roles and relationships in North, Central, and South America from 12,000 B.C. to the ...

Essay History in Later Medieval - HOME   Essay History in Later Medieval Essays on Medieval Indian History Essays on Medieval Indian History Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception by Carolly Erickson, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception Universality (medieval history) - In Western history, the term universality refers to the medieval concept of an absolute, all-encompassing morality that justified a universal secular rule by one all-powerful Holy Roman Emperor, and also justified as universal the religious rule by one all-powerful all-encompassing (hence the term catholic) church. In the 17th century, the doctrine of ...