Slavery and peasantry in the Caribbean

Sidney W. Mintz. Caribbean Transformations. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1974. xii + 355 pp. Figures, references, and index. $12.50.     

伊朗喜欢的颜色

<正>伊朗:黑色头纱下火热的心"旅游?"签证官抬起了头,似乎有些生气又不可理解。"是的,旅游。"面对为何来伊朗这个问题,我又肯定地回答了一次。凌晨3:00,从伊斯坦布尔的航班到达德黑兰。伊朗是中东国家中为数不多的准     

The Neo-Aramaic Dialects of Iran

Spoken vernacular dialects of Aramaic, generally known as Neo-Aramaic dialects, have survived down to modern times in various regions of the Middle East and can be divided into various subgroups. There are some islands of Neo-Aramaic in the West of Iran, which are situated on the eastern periphery of the Neo-Aramaic area. These include dialects spoken by Christians and Jews belonging to the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic subgroup in the West Azerbaijan, Kordestan and Kermanshah provinces and Neo-Mandaic spoken by Mandaeans in the Khuzestan province. This paper examines a number of distinctive features of the Neo-Aramaic dialects of Iran, including those that have been induced by contact with other languages in the area.     

The avatars of modern poetry

This paper examines the reactions to the British labour unrest of 1910–1914 among the writers associated with two Edwardian periodicals, the Catholic Distributivist New Witness, and the advanced socialist New Age. Both papers were thrown into sympathy with the strikes whether through libertarianism, hatred of capitalism or the glorification of violence and struggle. This prompted theoretical discussions on the future organisation of labour in which liberty and consensus were precariously balanced, and mediated through elitism. By examining the contested and ambiguous origins of guild socialism, the paper draws tentative conclusions about its troubled legacy.