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Fresh from a battle against monarchy, the American Founders were wary of a strong executive, but they were equally conscious that unchecked legislative power risked all the excesses of democracy. Creating an effective executive who did not dominate the legislative body posed a significant challenge. In The Creation of the Presidency, 1775-1789, Charles Thach's lucid analysis reveals how these conflicting concerns shaped the writing of the Constitution...
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"Clothes make the manand other intergendered subjectivitiesin this stimulating study of the social meaning of fashion in the black community. Barnard English professor Miller surveys the history of sartorial style and flamboyance among black dandies and the cultural responses, both fascinated and alarmed, they have provoked. She paints a broad and teeming panorama: the 18th-century English dandy whose stylishness subtly subverted the markers of slavery;...
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"Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and...
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"Leonard Dinnerstein and David M. Reimers begin with a brief overview of immigration during the colonial and early national eras (1492 to the 1820s), focusing primarily on the arrival of English Protestants, while at the same time stressing the diversity brought by Dutch, French, Spanish, and other small groups, including "free people of color" from the Caribbean. Next they follow large-scale European immigration from 1830 to the 1880s. Catholicism...
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"The Aesthetics of Power: Essays in Critical Art History gathers together the key articles and essays by Carol Duncan, one of the pioneers of a new social-political approach to art history and criticism, and one of the strongest feminist voices to emerge in the 1970s and 1980s. These essays, many of which have become classics, explore a wide variety of subjects: images of mothers, fathers, and children in eighteenth-century art and culture; the image...
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"Rachel Schmidt's exploration of the impact of illustrations of the text on the literary reception of Don Quixote analyses both Spanish and English illustrated editions, including those by Jose del Castillo, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. William Hogarth, John Vanderbank, and Francis Hayman. She explores several iconographic traditions represented in the illustrations - the burlesque, the satirical, and the sentimental - demonstrating the intriguing...
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"For half a century after its introduction in Europe, printmaking remained the province of a specially trained group of professionals. What changed this situation was the invention of etching, which allowed for designs to be drawn directly onto a plate. Any competent draftsman could try his hand at this; many did, and as a result, we now have a wide-ranging corpus of major Renaissance and Baroque graphics made by artists who, though famous as painters,...
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"A valuable addition to the historical literature on late colonial Mexico and the very modified impact of the Bourbon reforms. Solidly based on research in the well-preserved local archives, the author investigates how a large city on the northern frontier differed from other cities in New Spain. Particularly rich in materials on labor and ritual"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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Slavery in the United States has been treated primarily as a nineteenth-century phenomenon; historians focused on the final thirty-five years of an institution that existed in this country for more than two centuries. With a shift in scholarly interest toward the culture of slaves, has come a new appreciation of its development over time and, accordingly, interest in the earlier years of the historical experience of African Americans. This fine, brief...
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