By Jack Goody (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) The East in the West reassesses Western views of Asia, which much European history and social theory has seen as "static" or "backward." Jack Goody challenges these Eurocentric assumptions, including the notion of a special Western rationality, and differences in mercantile activity. Other factors "inhibiting" the East's development, such … Continued
Edited by John D. French (NHC Fellow, 1995–96) and Daniel James The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers examines the lives of Latin American women who entered factory labor in increasing numbers in the early part of the twentieth century. Emphasizing the integration of traditional labor history topics with historical accounts of gender, female subjectivity, … Continued
By Donald R. Kelley (NHC Fellow, 1984–85) Not since the works of Lovejoy and Burt has a scholar attempted such a grand-scale inquiry into the idea of law as the vehicle of culture and social and moral thought. Donald Kelley’s major premise is that law and the theory and practice of jurisprudence—civil science—represent the most concrete … Continued
By Francis Oakley (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1990–91)
By Gerard Passannante (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving … Continued
Edited by Franklin W. Knight (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Colin A. Palmer (Trustee; NHC Fellow, 1989–90) This collection of thirteen original essays by experts in the field of Caribbean studies clarifies the diverse elements that have shaped the modern Caribbean. Through an interdisciplinary examination of the complexities of race, politics, language, and environment that mark … Continued
By Elizabeth A. Clark (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 2001–02) Around the turn of the fifth century, Christian theologians and churchmen contested each other’s orthodoxy and good repute by hurling charges of “Origenism” at their opponents. And although orthodoxy was more narrowly defined by that era than during Origen’s lifetime in the third century, his speculative, Platonizing … Continued
By Robert Bireley (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Unlike the traditional terms Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reform, this book does not see Catholicism from 1450 to 1700 primarily in relationship to the Protestant Reformation but as both shaped by the revolutionary changes of the early modern period and actively refashioning itself in response to these changes: the emergence … Continued
By Timothy D. Taylor (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) From the early days of radio through the rise of television after World War II to the present, music has been used more and more to sell goods and establish brand identities. And since the 1920s, songs originally written for commercials have become popular songs, and songs written … Continued
By Jonathan Freedman (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- … Continued