By Thomas Miller Klubock (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) In La Frontera, Thomas Miller Klubock offers a pioneering social and environmental history of southern Chile, exploring the origins of today’s forestry "miracle" in Chile. Although Chile's forestry boom is often attributed to the free-market policies of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Frontera shows that forestry development began in the early twentieth … Continued
Edited by Marie Drew-Bear (NHC Fellow, 1986–87), François Chausson, and Herwig Maehler This book has a double purpose: to edit, using papyri in the Austrian National Library, a municipal archive of Hermoupolis Magna known only by the handwritten transcriptions of C. Wessely in 1905 (Stud. Pal. V) without translation or commentary; and to reveal, using this … Continued
By Timothy Kircher (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) This study evaluates the way Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) assessed humanist moral philosophy in Renaissance Italy. It helps us understand not only the allure of Renaissance humanism, but also its shortcomings, through the writings of a leading humanist of the time. Alberti’s writings employ irony in order to illustrate … Continued
By Anne Firor Scott (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1980–81) Making the Invisible Woman Visible presents the pioneering women's historian Anne Firor Scott at her best, writing on women and their social, political, and cultural roles in American history. Scott focuses especially upon the centrality of education and voluntary organizations to the advancement of women over the … Continued
Edited by Barry Loewer (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) and Georges Rey Even in the eyes of many of his critics, Fodor is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of psychology of his generation. With Noam Chomsky at MIT in the 1960s he mounted a strenuous attack on the behaviourism that then dominated psychology and most … Continued
Edited by Stephen Vlastos (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition, sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices, ranging from judo to … Continued
By Ellen Stroud (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) The once denuded northeastern United States is now a region of trees. Nature Next Door argues that the growth of cities, the construction of parks, the transformation of farming, the boom in tourism, and changes in the timber industry have together brought about a return of northeastern forests. Although historians and … Continued
By Isidore Okpewho (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) Using stories he collected from narrators from the old West African kingdom of Benin, the author shows how the present mirrors the past in both folklore and political reality, suggesting that African states fail to create a level playing field for the plural identities within their borders, leaving marginalized … Continued
By James C. McCann (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia’s ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of … Continued
Edited by John F. Richards (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 2000–01)