Slavery may no longer exist as a legal institution, but we still find many forms of non-freedom in contemporary societies. Looking at the Byzantine concept of slavery within the context of law, the labor market, medieval politics, and religion, this book illustrates how these contexts both reshaped and sustained the slave market.

Offers a story that reveals a Renaissance world that witnessed the rebirth of interest in the classics, a thriving homoerotic culture, the clash of Christian and pagan values, the contest between republicanism and a papal monarchy, and tensions separating Christian Europeans and Muslim Turks.

Jim Crow is the figure that has long represented America's imperfect union. This work of Jim plays and songs presents performances that assembled backtalk, banter, masquerade, and dance into the diagnostic American style.

Jerusalem is the site of some of the most famous religious monuments in the world, from the Dome of the Rock to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Western Wall of the Temple. This title provides a tour through the history of this image-filled city - from the bedrock of the Old City to the towering roofs of the Holy Sepulchre.

Science is about 6000 years old while physics emerged as a distinct branch some 2500 years ago. This title provides the perspective needed to understand contemporary developments in physics in relation to philosophical traditions as far back as ancient Greece. It presents a history of physics from the early beginning to our day.

Between 1880 and 1930, close to 200 women were murdered by lynch mobs in the American South. Many more were tarred and feathered, burned, whipped, or raped. This title presents a story that reveals how the complex drama of political power, race, and sex played out in the lives of Southern women.

Presents an analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. This book proposes that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but also the Human Capital Century.

Offers a provocative account of the history of American civil rights law. Covering the lost challenges workers and their lawyers launched against Jim Crow in the 1940s, this title shows how Brown only partially fulfilled the promise of civil rights.

Discusses the biology and plight of right whales, including their reproduction, feeding, genetics, and endocrinology, as well as fatal run-ins with ships and fishing gear. Employing individual identifications, acoustics, and population models, this title presents history of this animal.

In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. This book presents a portrait of the uses of verse in America. It shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words.

Orlando Furioso is Dante's medieval universe turned upside down and made comic. Characterized by satire, parody, and irony, the poem celebrates a humanistic Renaissance conception of man in an utterly fantastical world. This translation captures the energy, comedy, and great fun of Ariosto's Italian.

Ever since the Title I program in 1965 appropriated nearly one billion dollars for public schools, federal money and programs have been influencing every school in America. This title argues that enormous gaps existed between policies and programs, and the real-world practices that they attempted to change.

How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This book deals with this question.

Describes the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers. This book focuses on the health care of enslaved women, and argues for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.

Presents a story of the life, marriage, and death of a Roman woman - Regilla. Part archaeological investigation, part historical re-creation, and part detective story, this title is suitable for those interested in the private lives of the classical world and in a universal story of women and family in the distant past.

As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? This title responds to this question by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today.

Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer, two iconic scientists of the twentieth century, belonged to different generations, with the boundary marked by the advent of quantum mechanics. By exploring how these men differed - in their worldview, in their work, and in their day - this book provides insights into the lives of the two critical figures.

What should be the place of Shari'a - Islamic religious law - in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? This book envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari'a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies.

Presents the history of the War of 1812. This title offers an account that places the conflict in its strategic context within the Napoleonic wars. It draws on personal letters, diaries, and memoirs.

Scientists are famous for believing in the proven and peer-accepted, the very ground that pioneering artists often subvert. This book shows how innovation in the 'post-Google generation' is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences.