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The crystallization of counter-enlightenment and philosophe identities: theological controversy and catholic enlightenment in pre-revolutionary France: RECENT works of modern French history have found it fashionable, when focusing on the eighteenth century from across the jagged shoals of nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, to reductively treat Francophone national identity as the dialogical interaction of two related "imagined communities." (1) On the one hand, as scholars such as...; Tags: American, Cartesian, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Early, Fall, G., God, H., History, J., Jacques, Jeffrey, Jesus, John, Joseph, Journal, L., La, Les, M., O'Connor, Old, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics, Society, Voltaire Inc., W.; Research articles 2008-12-01
Standard Oil and Yukos in the Context of Early Capitalism in the United States and Russia: Abstract: The author compares two conflicts between large businesses and the state in the United States and Russia. Although almost one hundred years apart, the Standard Oil and Yukos cases are comparable in so far as they erupted in the context of early capitalism in a weak institutional environment. Both...; Tags: American, Federal, Friedman, Morgan, Politics, Rockefeller, Rosneft, Russian, Society, Standard Oil, Yuganskneftegaz, Yukos; Research articles 2008-07-01
Visibility, accountability and discourse as essential to democracy: the underlying theme of Alan Dershowitz's writing and teaching: I have been writing about the law and justice for half a century. My first published law review piece appeared in 1960 as a student note in the Yale Law Journal. (1) Since that time, I have published nearly thirty books and hundreds of articles covering a wide range of...; Tags: A14, American, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, David, God, Harvard College, History, Holocaust, INTRODUCTION, J., Jews, John, Justice, King, Paper, Paul, Politics, Power, Rules, Seattle Times Co., U.S. Supreme Court, Warner, Yale University; Research articles 2008-06-22
Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896: THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...; Tags: American, C., Charles, Cross, Democratic Party, East, Farmers, Gregg, H., Hill, History, James, John, Journal, L., Labor, M., Martin, Miller, Politics, Reform, Thomas, Turner, W., William; Research articles 2008-05-01
Portable politics and durable religion: the moral worldviews of American evangelical missionaries: INTRODUCTION We began this study with the assumption that American international missionaries, having been exposed to a foreign culture, would relativize their own perspective on American culture, religion, and politics. In particular, we were interested in whether American international missionaries from the Pacific Northwest PNW exhibited similar traits to...; Tags: American, Americans, Bush, Christians, Contact, Culture, Freedom, God, Green, Michael, N, Oxford University Press, Political, Politics, Press, Protestant, Religion, Smith; Research articles 2007-12-22

Books received but not reviewed/Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December 2007/Januar-Decembre 2007: Ajzenstat, Janet, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi, 200 pp. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, David, Early, History, James, John, Politics, Pp, Press, Social; Research articles 2007-12-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros. Ed. and trans. Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii + 304 pp. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978-0-934977-61-6. Bruno, Giordano. De la causa, principio et eno/Uber die Ursache, das Prinzip und das Eine. Ed. and trans. Thomas Leinkauf. Giordiano...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, David, De, E., Ed, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, Letters, Life, Maria, Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Renaissance, Rome, Strasbourg, Susan, Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-22
Freedom of the press and Catholic social thought: reflections on the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic church in the United States: FROM THE FIRST REPORTS in the 1980s in the National Catholic Reporter to the Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in 2002 in the Boston Globe, the free American press played a central role in uncovering the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in the United States. That role has been highly...; Tags: Allen, American, American Media Inc., Catholic, Church, David, Dialogue, God, Identity, II, John, Paul, Politics, Rome, Social, Sources, Taylor, Western; Research articles 2007-12-01
Books received: Adorno, Theodor W. History and Freedom: Lectures 1964-1965. Ed. Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006. 348 pp. Almond, Brenda. The Fragmenting Family. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. 259 pp. Arthur, John. Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 330 pp. ...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Ed, John, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Philosophy, Politics; Research articles 2007-10-01
Books received.: AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, El, English, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Leo, Les, Life, M., Nicholas, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Rhetoric, S., Simon, Susan, Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received: Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William; Research articles 2007-09-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: d'Aubigne, Agrippa. Les Tragiques. Champion Classiques Serie "Litteratures" 4. Ed. Jean-Raymond Fanlo. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 1120 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. chron. bibl. [euro]25. ISBN: 2-7453-1475-0. Durning, Louise, ed. Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford. Trans. Sarah M. Knight. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2006. 128...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Catherine, Chapel, Church, Court, David, De, E., Ed, Education, English, F., History, II, INTRODUCTION, J., John, La, Les, Maria, Medieval, Nature, Nicholas, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Rome, Science; Research articles 2007-06-22
"Beyond Beards, Scarves and Halal Meat" [1] : Mediated Constructions of British Muslim Identity.: Yasmin Moll School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Abstract There is an emerging identity discourse among young British Muslims in the twenty-first century that strives to create a space for itself in the public sphere beyond both assimilation...; Tags: American, Culture, God, Identity, James, John, Liberal, Oxford University Press, Politics, West, Western; Research articles 2007-03-22
Canada's workers movement: uneven developments: WITHIN THE CONTEXT of North America, Canada's economy, politics, and labour movement, as well as the country's diverse cultures, have a dual, almost divided, character. On the one hand, they exhibit highly independent and distinctive features; on the other, they are deeply entwined with--indeed operating in the shadow of and...; Tags: American, Bryan, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., D., David, Economy, Evidence, Fall, Harris, History, James, John, Labor, Palmer, Paul, Political, Politics, Social, Union, White; Research articles 2007-03-22
Racial categories and the politics of difference in late imperial Russia: The past two decades have produced a virtual explosion in academic interest in racial theory and the history of race and racism. Historians, literary critics, and moral philosophers have published a staggering number of books, articles, and journals and organized countless conferences, symposia, and seminars devoted to these themes. The...; Tags: A., American, D., David, Empire, G., History, Jew, Jews, John, Judaism, L., M., N., NJ, Oxford University Press, P., Paul, Politics, Press, Princeton University, Racism, S., Science, Social, West, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01
Potemkin sovereignty: statehood without politics in the new world order: Introduction Since the end of the Cold War, the major Western powers and political commentators in them have argued that national sovereignty is a dead letter. The pressures of economic globalisation, the growth in communication technology, and universal human rights are all invoked to justify the encroachments of international...; Tags: A., Human Rights, Oxford University Press, Politics; Research articles 2007-01-01
Books received.(Bibliography): ABECASSIS, JACK I. Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices. Parallax Re-Visions of Culture and Society. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. ABRAMSON, GLENDA, AND HILARY KILPATRICK, eds. Religious Perspectives in Modern Muslim and Jewish Literatures. Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures 8. London: Routledge,...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Brandeis University, Cambridge University Press, God, History, Holocaust, Jews, Oxford University Press, Politics, Princeton University, Syracuse University; Research articles 2006-09-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Andrewes, Lancelot. Selected Sermons and Lectures. Ed. Peter McCullough. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. lx + 491 pp. index. append. chron. bibl. $175. ISBN: 0-19-818774-2. Bellori, Giovan Pietro. The Lives of the Modern Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: A New Translation and Critical Edition. Ed. Hellmut...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Church, David, De, Ed, English, History, J., John, La, Leo, Les, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Science; Research articles 2006-09-22
Who's Your City: How Creative Class Cities Will Beat the Recession: In this interview with BNET, Richard Florida explains why his latest book "Who's Your City?" matters to workers during a recession and how a business's location affects not only the talent pool, but also its ability to innovate. ...; Tags: Recession, Hillary Clinton, Economic Conditions, Urban Communities, Knowledge Worker, City, Creative Class, Books, Richard Florida, Paul Kaihla, Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Outsourcing, Obama, NorCal, Florida, Politics, BNET Feature, Barack Obama, John McCain; Articles 2008-03-20