By Monika Trümper (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) This book critically examines the existence and identification of purpose-built slave markets in the Graeco-Roman world from a cross-cultural perspective. It investigates whether certain ancient monuments were designed specifically for use as slave markets and whether they required special equipment and safety precautions, allowing them to be clearly distinguished … Continued
Edited by Benjamin Kahan (NHC Fellow, 2016–17) Heinrich Kaan's fascinating work—part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract—takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called "a unified field of sexual abnormality." Kaan's taxonomy consists … Continued
By Yehoshua Arieli (NHC Fellow, 1979–80)
Edited by Larry Eugene Jones (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) and Konrad H. Jarausch A critical re-examination by American, British and German historians of the history of German liberalism exploring the interconnections between liberal currents in culture, society, and politics. By focusing on local and regional developments, this collection also suggests that the failure of German liberalism … Continued
By Silvana Patriarca (NHC Fellow, 2005–06) How have the world of work and the aspirations of workers changed with the advancement of technology, automation, precariousness, smartworking that some say is the future? What happens to the rights in this scenario?
Edited by Charles Bergquist (NHC Fellow, 1980–81)
By Philip Nord (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) The Impressionists and Politics is intended to be an easily accessible introduction to the debates of which Impressionism is currently the subject. Up to what point can one qualify the impressionists of revolutionaries? Is the very dullness of "impressionism" well suited to designate this movement which brought about such upheaval in … Continued
Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (NHC Fellow, 1988–90) Multiculturalism. It has been the subject of cover stories in Time and Newsweek, as well as numerous articles in newspapers and magazines around America. It has sparked heated jeremiads by George Will, Dinesh D'Sousa, and Roger Kimball. It moved William F. Buckley to rail against Stanley Fish and Catherine … Continued
By Charles Townshend (NHC Fellow, 1987–88) In recent years, such episodes as the death of Blair Peach, the Miners' Strike, the Scarman Report, and the Ponting and Stalker affairs have raised serious doubts as to whether the "British trick" of maintaining law and order by consensus is still feasible. Beginning with the Swing, Chartist, and … Continued
Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt (NHC Fellow, 1997–98) and David Wallace Crime is a matter of interpretation, especially in the Middle Ages, when societies faced with new ideas and pressures were continually forced to rethink what a crime was-and what was a crime. These essays reveal how various forces in medieval society interacted and competed … Continued