Freedom and the Responsibility of Science Science and the Public

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Academic essays in Germany either start or end with a citation from Goethe. I cannot refrain from this tradition as I have in mind three lines which described the situation in his time and during the last century, but which no longer hold true in our changing world. This is not easy to accept, especially for a scientist.     

Rachel and Lea. or: On the survival of outdated paradigmas in the study of the origin of Israel,II

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Reader-oriented intertextuality opens perspectives to see the in-terpretation of the Hebrew Bible in the New Testament and in rabbinic litera-ture in a new light. This article discusses possible readings of the crux inter-pretum Leviticus 12,2 in the New Testament (Hebrews 11,11) and in rabbinic literature. It shows that both play with manifold meanings and facets of texts from the Hebrew Bible in a sometimes associative way, linking different con-texts with one another and creating a new intertextual network.     

Historians,the War of American Independence,and the Persistence of the Exceptionalist Ideal

Prince Kaunitz and the Balance of Power; Franz A.J. Szabo

The American Revolution in an International Perspective: Views from Bicentennial Symposia; Lawrence S. Kaplan

The Reign of Sir Edward Grey as British Foreign Secretary F.H. HINSLEY, ed. British Foreign Policy under Sir Edward Grey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1977. Pp. 702; ZARA S. STEINER. Britain and the Origins of the First World War. New York: St Martins Press 1977. Pp. 305.; Samuel R. Williamson, Jr     

Chastity Models in the Legenda Aurea and in the Sermones de Sanctis of Jacobus de Voragine

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The Sermones de sanctis of Jacobus de Voragine is not an independent text but the last written link of a communicative chain that starts with the holy figurae of the Legenda aurea and is completed with a final speech from a preacher to his audience. Chastity is represented in this hagiographical material, which is closely connected to the most important saints of the Dominican calendar, through absolute models that are removed from everyday experience: these models need to be interpreted by a preacher's spoken words and to be illustrated with a choice of exempla to reach laypeople effectively.     

On the Paradoxical Place of Political Philosophy in the Structure of Reality

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Carey, George W., and Bruce Frohnen, eds. Community and Tradition: Conservative Perspectives on the American Experience, Lanham MD. Rowman and Littlefield. 204 pp., $53.00 clth, $22.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-8660-4 cloth, ISBN 0-8476-8661-2 paper Publication Date: August 1998 Lawler, Peter Augustine, and Dale McConkey, eds. Community and Political Thought Today. Westpott, CT Greenwood, 256 pp., $59.95 ISBN 0-276-596096-X Publication Date: September 1998

The decline of community in America has become a major preoccupation of present-day political theory. Contemporary theorists frequently lament the erosion of civic spirit and social ties in modern society. And increasingly, they trace that erosion back to the calculating “selfishness” of the modern individual. Once celebrated for liberating human beings from the repressive restraints of premodern tradition, modern individualism is today often blamed for the disintegration of smaller communities, such as families and neighborhoods, that humanize society. Thus, as Western jurisprudence makes him ever more aware of his “rights” as an individual, democratic man paradoxically finds himself criticized for being too self-interested and for not taking his social responsibilities seriously enough.

UNITED STATES: Politics and Public Policy, Baseler, Marilyn C. “Asylum for Mankind”: America, 1607-1800. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 353 pp., $42.50, ISBN 0-8014-3481-5 Publication Date: 1998

Tarr, G. Alan. Understanding State Constitutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 247 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-01112-5 Publication Date: October 1998

Sunstein, Cass R. One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 290 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-674-63790-0 Publication Date: March 1999

Herbst, Susan. Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 256 pp., $41.00 cloth, $ 16.00 paper ISBN 0-226-32746-9 cloth ISBN 0-226-37747-7 paper Publication Date: 1998

Nissen, Bruce, ed. Which Direction for Organized Labor? Essays on Organizing, Outreach, and Internal Transformations. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. 264 pp., $28.95 paper ISBN 0-8143-2779-6 paper Publication Date: February 1999

Ravitch, Diane, ed. Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 1999. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 462 pp., $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-7355-2 paper Publication Date: March 1999

Blank, Robert H. Brain Policy: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 194 pp., $60.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-712-X cloth ISBN 0-87840-713-8 paper Publication Date: April 1999

Shull, Steven A., ed. Presidential Policymaking: An End-of-Century Assessment. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe. 310 pp., $66.95 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0259-8 cloth ISBN 0-7656-0260-1 paper Publication Date: March 1999

Fackre, Gabriel, ed. Judgment Day at the White House: A Critical Declaration Exploring Moral Issues and the Political Use and Abuse of Religion. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. 190 pp., $12.00 paper ISBN 0-8028-4671-8 paper Publication Date: 1999

Hula, Kevin W. Lobbying Together: Interest Group Coalitions in Legislative Politics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 180 pp., $55.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-720-0 cloth ISBN 0-87840-721-9 paper Publication Date: April 1999

Brands, H. W. What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press. 335 pp., $54.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-521-63031-2 cloth ISBN 0-521-63968-9 paper Publication Date: October 1998

Etzioni, Amitai. The Limits of Privacy. New York: Basic Books. 280 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0-465-04089-6 Publication Date: March 1999

Wallin, Bruce A. From Revenue Sharing to Deficit Sharing: General Revenue Sharing and Cities. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 162 pp., $53.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-698-0 cloth ISBN 0-87840-699-9 paper Publication Date: November 1998

Finnegan, Margaret. Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women. New York: Columbia University Press. 222 pp., $49.50 cloth, $17.50 paper ISBN 0-231-10738-2 cloth ISBN 0-231-10739-0 paper Publication Date: April 1999

Manuel, Paul Christopher, and Anne Mane Cammisa. Checks and Balances? How a Parliamentary System Could Change American Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview. 226 pp., $49.00 cloth, $15.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-3026-2 cloth ISBN 0-8133-3027-0 paper Publication Date: November 1999

UNITED STATES: Foreign Policy and National Security, Pastor, Robert A., and Rafael Fernandez de Castro, eds. The Controversial Pivot: The U.S. Congress and North America. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 214 pp., $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-6924-5 cloth ISBN 0-8157-6923-7 paper Publication Date: November 1998

Scott, James M., ed. After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 427 pp., $64.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2134-3 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2266-8 paper Publication Date: 1998

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, Welch, Cliff. The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924-1964. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press. 412 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-271-01788-0 cloth ISBN 0-271-01789-9 paper Publication Date: February 1999

Peloso, Vincent C. Peasants on Plantations: Subaltern Strategies of Labor and Resistance in the Pisco Valley, Peru. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 251 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2229-3 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2246-3 paper Publication Date: March 1999

EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES, Wachtel, Andrew Baruch. Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 302 pp., $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-3180-2 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3181-0 paper Publication Date: August 1998

Brenner, Michael. Terms of Engagement: The United States and the European Security Identity. Westport, CT: Praeger/CSIS Series. 144 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-275-9649605 cloth ISBN 0-275-96497-3 paper Publication Date: October 1998

Serfaty, Simon. Memories of Europe's Future: Farewell to Yesteryear. Washington, DC: CSIS Press. 148 pp., $18.95 paper ISBN 0-89206-347-5 paper Publication Date: February 1999

Laitin, David D. Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 417 pp., $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper ISBN 0-8014-3495-5 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8495-2 paper Publication Date: June 1998

Dunlop, John B. Russia Confronts Chechnya: Roots of a Separatist Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 234 pp. + xiv, $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-521-63184-X cloth ISBN 0-521-63619-1 paper Publication Date: September 1998

AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Clingman, Stephen, Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 500 pp., $29.95. ISBN 1-55849-135-X, Publication Date: May 1998

Wright, Stephen, ed. African Foreign Policies. Boulder, CO: Westview. 260 pp., $65.00 cloth, $26.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-2406-8 cloth ISBN 0-8133-2407-6 paper Publication Date: November 1998

Schaffer, Frederic C. Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 168 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8014-3398-3 Publication Date: 1998

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, De Bary, Wm. Theodore. Asian Values and Human Rights: A Confucian Communitarian Perspective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 196 pp., $27.95, ISBN 0-674-04955-1 Publication Date: September 1998

Hagerty, Devin T. The Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation: Lessons from South Asia. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 205 pp., $17.50 paper ISBN 0-262-58161-2 paper Publication Date: August 1998

Alagappa, Muthiah, ed. Asian Security Practice: Material and Ideational Influences. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 851 pp., $75.00, ISBN 0-8047-3347-3 Publication Date: August 1998

Park, Tong Whan, ed. The United States and the Two Koreas: A New Triangle. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 318 pp. + xi, $55.00, ISBN 1-55587-807-5 Publication Date: September 1998

Murray, Geoffrey. China, the Next Superpower: Dilemmas in Change and Continuity. New York: St. Martin's. 260 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-312-21533-9 Publication Date: November 1998

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LAW, AND ORGANIZATION, Wallerstein, Immanuel. Utopistics: Or, Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century. New York: New Press. 93 pp., $12.95 paper ISBN 1-56584-457-2 paper Publication Date: 1998

Yost, David S. NATO Transformed: The Alliance's New Roles in International Security. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press. 450 pp., $19.95 paper ISBN 1-878379-81-X paper Publication Date: 1998

Boone, Peter, Stanislaw Gomulka, and Richard Layard, eds. Emerging from Communism: Lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 244 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-262-02447-0 Publication Date: October 1998

Berger, Thomas U. Cultures of Antimilitarism: National Security in Germany and Japan. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 256 pp., $38.00, ISBN 0-8018-5820-8 Publication Date: July 1998

Srinivasan, T. N. Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System: From GATT (1947) to the Uruguay Round and the Future Beyond. Boulder, CO: Westview. 126 pp., $39.00, ISBN 0-8133-3419-5 Publication Date: January 1998

Spenser, Daniela. The Impossible Triangle: Mexico, Soviet Russia, and the United States in the 1920s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 254 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2256-0 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2289-7 paper Publication Date: 1999

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY, Desrosières, Alain; trans. Camille Naish. The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 416 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-674-68932-1 Publication Date: 1998

Gallagher, Susan E. The Rule of the Rich? Adam Smith's Argument against Political Power. University Park, PA: Penn Slate University Press. 140 pp., $28.50, ISBN 0-271-01774-0 Publication Date: November 1998

Parker, Geoffrey. Geopolitics: Past, Present, and Future. Washington, DC: Pinter. 199 pp.+ viii, $24.95 paper ISBN 1-85567-397-5 paper Publication Date: January 1998

Ober, Josiah. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 417 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-691-00122-7 Publication Date: September 1998

Mazlish, Bruce. The Uncertain Sciences. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 328 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-07477-8 Publication Date: December 1998

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY, Levine, Andrew. Rethinking Liberal Equality from a “Utopian” Point of View. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 140 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-8014-3543-9 Publication Date: 1998

Myers, Peter C. Our Only Star and Compass: Locke and the Struggle for Political Rationality. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 269 pp. + xi, $63.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-9098-9 cloth ISBN 0-8676-9099-7 paper Publication Date: 1998

Keane, John. Civil Society: Old Images, New Visions. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 201 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-3628-6 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3629-4 paper Publication Date: November 1998     

Two notes on the early history of the thema of Cherson

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1. The creation of a thema in Crimea: 841

According to the closely related accounts in De administrando imperio and in Theophanes Continuatus, the creation of a thema in Cherson was instigated by a report submitted to the emperor Theophilos by the spatharokandidatos Petronas Kamateros upon his return from a mission to Sarke1. Thus the dates of Petronas' mission determine the chronology of the creation of the thema.     

Images of towns in Frankish Morea: the evidence of the ‘Chronicles’ of the Morea and of the Tocco

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In the summer of 1205 Raimbault of Vacqueyras, the troubadour who had shared Boniface of Monferrat's exploits in central Greece, exclaimed enthusiastically in Salonica:

‘Never did Alexander or Charlemagne or King Louis had such a glorious expedition, nor could the valiant lord Aimeri or Roland with his warriors win by might, in such noble fashion, such a powerful empire as we have won, whereby our faith is in ascendant; for we have created emperors and dukes and kings, and have manned strongholds near the Turks and Arabs, and opened up the roads and ports from Brindisi to St. George's Straits'.     

Intellectual property and the professionals

Scientific lecturing and the industrial revolution

Alan Q. Morton and Jane A. Wess, Public and Private Science: The King George III Colletion, (Oxford: Oxford University Press in association with the Science Museum, 1993), pp. x + 710

Larry Stewart, The Rise of Public Science: Rhetoric, Technology, and Natural Philosophy in Newtonian Britain, 1660–1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. xxxiv + 453     

Methods of Russian Heritage Site Dating on the Spitsbergen Archipelago

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Russian Pomor people used Spitsbergen as a hunting and trapping area for over 300 years, from the early sixteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. The early dating of Pomor activity is discussed with respect to written sources, dendrochronology, epigraphy, direct dating and geomorphological relationships.     

Female Representation in the Discipline of Geography

This report updates earlier findings of women's progress in the discipline of geography from a feminist perspective. A variety of data sources are used in the analysis, including survey data from doctorate-granting US geography departments. Results reveal that there has been progress; however, significant inequity remains in student and faculty representation, particularly in the upper levels of the discipline.     

On the Completion of Political Life and the Incompleteness of Political Philosophy

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Political life means the normal life of a human being in its cycles from conception to death. A life is complete when it passes through these cycles. Political philosophy confronts the remaining issues of immortality and justice that arise in the lives of the citizens of actual cities.     

Shakespeare in the Original Klingon: Star Trek and the End of History

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Maisel, L. Sandy, ed. The Parties Respond: Changes in the American Party System Boulder, CO: Westview Press 363 pp., $50.00, ISBN 0–8133–0881-X Publication Date: October 1990

Jelen, Ted G. The Political Mobilization of Religious Beliefs New York: Praeger 208 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93439-X Publication Date: March 1991

Seiden, Martin H. Access to the American Mind: The Damaging Impact of the New Mass Media New York: Shapolsky 232 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0–944007–71–6 Publication Date: May 1991

DeMott, Benjamin The Imperial Middle: Why American Can't Think Straight about Class New York: William Morrow and Company 264 pp., $18.95, ISBN 1–55710–023–3 Publication Date: October 1990

Alexander, Yonah and Richard Latter, eds. Terrorism and the Media: Dilemmas for Government, Journalists and the Public McLean, VA: Brassey's 147 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–08–037442–5 Publication Date: December 1990

Manheim, Jarol B. All of the People All of the Time: Strategic Communication and American Politics Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe 255 pp., $25.00, ISBN 0–87332–796–9 Publication Date: March 1991

Johnson, Haynes Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan Years New York: W. W. Norton 500 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0–393–02937–9 Publication Date: March 1991

Heale, M. J. American Anticommunism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830–1970 Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 235 pp., $10.95, ISBN 0–8018–4051–1 Publication Date: November 1990

Hoeveler, J. David, Jr. Watch on the Right: Conservative Intellectuals in the Reagan Era Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press 333 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0–299–12810–5 Publication Date: April 1991

Heale, M. J. American Anticemmualsm: Combating the Enermy Within, 1930–1970 Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 235 pp., $10.95, ISBN 08018–4051–1 Publications Date: November 1990

Kellerman, Barbara and Ryan J. Barilleaux The President as World Leader New York: St. Martin's Press 225 pp., ISBN 0–312–03603–5 Publication Date: 1991

Stephenson, D. Grier, Jr., ed.An Essential Safeguard: Essays on the United States Supreme Court and Its Justices Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 192 pp., $42.95, ISBN 0–313–27438-X Publication Date: March 1991

Koocher, Gerald P. and Patricia C. Keith-Spiegel Children, Ethics, and the Law: Professional Issues and Cases Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press 230 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8032–4731–1 Publication Date: September 1990

Darling, Arthur B. The Central Intelligence Agency: An Instrument of Government, to 1950 University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 509 pp., $17.50, ISBN 0–271–00717–6 Publication Date: November 1990

Marston, David W. Malice Aforethought: How Lawyers Use Our Secret Rules to Get Rich, Get Sex, Get Even … and Get Away With It New York: William Morrow and Company 264 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–688–07705–6 Publication Date: March 1991

Sutter, Robert G. The Cambodian Crisis and U.S. Policy Dilemmas Boulder, CO: Westview Press 135 pp., $22.50, ISBN 0–8133–8047–2 Publication Date: December 1990

Lowenthal, Abraham F., ed. Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press 422 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0–8018–4131–3 Publication Date: April 1991

Koster, R. M. and Guillermo Sánchez In the Time of the Tyrants: Panama, 1968–1990 New York: W. W. Norton 448 pp., $22.95, ISBN 0–393–02696–5 Publication Date: October 1990

Morales-Gómez, Daniel A. and Carlos Alberto Torres The State, Corporatists Politics, and Educational Policy Making in Mexico New York: Praeger 197 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93484–5 Publication Date: 1990

Mitchell, R. Judson Getting to the Top: Cyclical Patterns in the Leadership Succession Process Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press 237 pp., $23.95, ISBN 0–8179–8922–6 Publication Date: 1990

Brown, J. F. Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe Durham, NC: Duke University Press 338 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8223–1145–3 Publication Date: May 1991

Peters, B. Guy European Politics Reconsidered New York: Holmes &; Meier 293 pp., $19.95, ISBN 0–8419–1161–4 Publication Date: February 1991

Freedman, Robert O., ed. The Middle East from the Iran-Contra Affair to the Intifada Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press 441 pp., $18.95, ISBN 0–8156–2502–2 Publication Date: February 1991

Lee, Manwoo The Odyssey of Korean Democracy: Korean Politics, 1987–1990 New York: Praeger 184 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–275–93660–0 Publication Date: September 1990

Menashri, David, ed. The Iranlan Revolution and the Muslim World Boulder, CO: Westview Press 282 pp., $32.00, ISBN 0–8133–7751-X Publication Date: November 1990

Genther, Phyllis A. A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship: The Passenger Car Industry Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan 242 pp., $14.95, ISBN 0–939512–40–8 Publication Date: 1990

Liska, George The Ways of Power New York: Basil Blackwell 511 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0–631–17188–6 Publication Date: 1990

Kimmel, Michael S. Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press 252 pp., $44.95 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0–87722–736–3 cloth ISBN 0–87722–741–1 paper Publication Date: December 1990

Freedman, Lawrence, ed. Europe Transformed: Documents on the End of the Cold War New York: St. Martin's Press 512 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0–312–05225–1 Publication Date: October 1990

Kinney, Douglas National Interest/National Honor: The Diplomacy of the Falklands Crisis New York: Praeger 372 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0–275–92425–4 Publication Date: 1989

Lodge, Juliet, ed. The 1989 Election of the European Parliament New York: St. Martin's Press 249 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0–312–04494–1 Publication Date: September 1990

Strom, Kaare Minority Government and Majority Rule New York: Cambridge University Press 293 pp., $39.50, ISBN 0–521–37431–6 Publication Date: July 1990

Scharpe, Fritz W., trans, by Ruth Crowley and Fred Thompson Crisis and Choice in European Social Democracy Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 303 pp., $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0–8014–2221–3 paper Publication Date: May 1991

Smart, Paul Mill and Marx: Individual Liberty and the Roads to Freedom New York: St. Martin's Press 202 pp., ISBN 0–7190–3333–0 Publication Date: 1991

Maxwell, Kenneth, ed. Spanish Foreign and Defense Policy Boulder, CO: Westview Press 265 pp., $31.50, ISBN 0–8133–1113–6 Publication Date: May 1991

Derogy, Jacques Resistance &; Revenge: The Armenian Assassination of the Turkish Leaders Responsible for the 1915 Massacres and Deportations New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction 206 pp., ISBN 0–88738–338–6 Publication Date: 1990

Procter, David E. Enacting Political Culture: Rhetorical Transformations of Liberty Weekend 1986 New York: Praeger 144 pp., $37.95, ISBN 0–275–93489–6 Publication Date: October 1990     

Red Toryism and the Case of the Lost Revolution

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This article explores the theological commitments of Red Toryism through an engagement with the work of Phillip Blond and John Milbank. Investigating the notion of the common good in Red Toryism from ecclesiological and ecological perspectives, and making a comparison with the "long revolution" proposed by Raymond Williams, I argue that Red Toryism misses the theological potential of the long revolution. Losing this revolution presses theology without warrant towards an unnecessarily conservative construal of civil society.     

Stanley Hauerwas,With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology

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The dualism between logos and praxis is still a root-cause of contemporary theological and religious discourse. Consequently, interreligious dialogue is divided as a field either related to comparative theology or philosophy or in pursuit of a common action for social justice. Instead of the traditional logos and the liberationist praxis, this paper will argue the Tao as an alternative paradigm that overcomes this dualism and is more germane to this age of globalization in the ecological crisis. It will propose three reconfigurations of interreligious dialogue; (1) from an "either-or" mode of thinking to a "bothand" way of life (T'ai-chi), (2) from an epistemology of knowing to a discernment of the way toward life in and through sociocosmic narratives of the exploited life (ch'i), and (3) from an ideologically motivated action based on a historico-anthropocentric subjectivity to a participatory embodiment in an intersubjective communion with the theanthropocosmic trajectory (Tao).     

The Birth of the Textile Industry in Western Colombia

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‘No industries are to be found in this Province. Everything is imported from the outside at considerable expense. Artisans living by their craft are hardly known, since everyone to a greater or lesser extent tries to subsist as a farmer.’

El Oidor Mon y Ve1arde, 17861     

Life History and Origin of the Camelids Provisioning a Mass Killing Sacrifice During the Chimú Period: Insight from Stable Isotopes

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The site of Huanchaquito-Las Llamas, situated in the Moche Valley, Peru, dated to the Late Intermediate Period (AD 1100-1470), represents a single event mass killing of children and domestic camelids of the Chimu society. Reconstruction of the life histories of 82 camelid individuals based on stable isotope analysis of bone collagen indicates that they originated from the lowlands. Isotopic inter-individual variability indicates diversity in dietary sources, consisting of wild plants and cultigens, grown in water-limited and non-water-limited conditions, as well as a large proportion of C₄ plants, suggesting that the animals originated from various herds that were differently managed. In contrast, uniformity in terms of restricted coat colour and young age could suggest that the animals derived from specialised herds. It is possible that the requirement in a short period of time for a massive number of animals meeting certain criteria exceeded the capacity of these herds. This study presents the largest isotopic dataset measured at a single pre-Hispanic site so far and the first to record herding practices for the Chimú society. Comparison with previous isotopic datasets shows differences between ritual and non-ritual groups, as well as diversity in pastoralism practises through time in the Central Andes.     

The Other Side of the Tamar: A Comparison of the Pixies of Devon and Cornwall

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A consideration of pixy traditions of Devon and Cornwall reveals similarities and differences. Although people from both places described the supernatural beings in similar ways, examples of migratory legends diverge, particularly when comparing those from the far west of the peninsula with those from Devon. A method employing Reidar Christiansen’s index demonstrates that differences in these narratives reflect the isolation of far western Cornwall. This analysis indicates that nineteenth-century Cornish folklore should be seen as distinct from English traditions.     

Report of the Portable Antiquities Scheme 2010

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This paper deals with a group of metal tobacco boxes which are probably all of Dutch or German origin. The tobacco box industries of both countries and their backgrounds are considered, as are box design themes, boxes known from archaeological and pictorial contexts, and existing dated or signed examples in the group and in comparable collections. German craftsmen and their workshop techniques are also discussed. The concluding section contains a plea for further information on the various topics dealt with in the paper.     

Village restoration in the Czech Republic

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The recent political changes in the Czech Republic have led to a major re‐evaluation of the role of the countryside. An extensive Village Restoration Programme is now underway, which is here described, with a detailed example from south Moravia. The holistic nature of the programme is notable.