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A social history of salsa in Colombia.

Martin Marty, in his new introduction for the Wesleyan reissue of H. Richard Niebuhr's The Kingdom of God in America, call it "a classic." First published in 1938, "It remains the classic reflection of the Protestant roots and ethos behind pluralistic America and its religions today." Marty notes that the new "raw and rich pluralism" that challenges the Protestant hegemony in American life has left many Protestants longing to "get back to their roots." Niebuhr's book, perhaps more than any other, identified and describes those roots for Protestants, especially Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Quakers, Baptists, and Lutherans.Marty writes, "Most remarkably, Niebuhr began to chronicle the spiritual disease that was afflicting mainstream Protestantism years before the resulting losses were to become apparent."H. Richard Niebuhr was one of the most noted of American theologians. Among his books are several that are regarded as classics of American religious thought, The Kingdom of God in America, The Social Sources of Denominationalism, and Christ and Culture. He was both a pastor and a scholar; he was ordained in 1916 by the Evangelical and Reformed Church after being graduated from Elmhurst College in 1912 and from Eden Theological Seminary in 1915. He served a pastorate in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1916 to 1918, and joined Eden Theological Seminary as a professor. He became president of Elmhurst College, then taught at Yale Divinity School from 1931 to 1962. Niebuhr was named Sterling Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics in 1954. He died in 1962."One of our most valuable interpretations of American religious history."-Robert Hastings Nichols"A truly seminal book."-Perry Miller

In four impressively researched essays Georg Iggers recounts the transformation of historical studies in Europe during the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on the historiography of the past fifteen years. Although the book does survey a broad area of contemporary historical thought, it is primarily a careful analytical examination of the methodological and theoretical reorientation of certain influential European historians.The first essay discusses the emergence at German Universities during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of the concept of history as a scientific discipline, distinct from the classical tradition of literary history, and the later broad acceptance of this mode of Enquiry in the Western world. Against this background Mr. Iggers then considers the challenge to this mode of the political, social, and intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century, especially after World War II.The three essays following examine important attempts to develop alternate paradigms for historical study: the French historians of the Annales tradition; the German political historians of the 1960s; the various Marxist historians of France, Poland, East Germany, and Great Britain.In despite of the frequent insistence by philosophers and theorists of history that history is not a science in contemporary terms, historians themselves have striven in recent years to strengthen the quantitative aspects of historical study, moving away from traditional patterns of writing and adopting methods and concepts from the systematic social sciences. Mr. Iggers' book is an excellent introduction to these contemporary changes in historiography, and in its comparative analyses itself makes a contribution to historical studies.

Continued is a selection of poems by Piotr Sommer, spanning his career to date. A kind of poetic utterance, these "talk poems" are devoid of any singsong quality yet faithfully preserve all the melodies and rhythms of colloquial speech. Events and objects of ordinary, everyday life are related and described by the speaker in a deliberately deadpan manner. Yet a closer look at the language he uses, with all its ironic inflections and subtle "intermeanings," reveals that the poem's "message" should be identified more with the way it is spoken than with what it says. The poems in this volume were translated into English with the help of other notable poets, writers, and translators, including John Ashbery, D.J. Enright, and Douglas Dunn.

A seminal and original work that delves deeply into what slaveholders thought."Outstanding . . . One of the few books that systematically explores what slaveholders thought. A great book, essential for black history courses and for intellectual studies"-- John Blassingame."Required Reading for every serious scholar in the field." - F. N. Boney, The American Historical Review"I recommend this volume to the attention of all conservatives, students of historiography, and historians of the South.. Genovese is perfecting the instrument of Marxist historical scholarship. Those of us who are otherwise persuaded should even now prepare to answer. For he is clearly the variety of Marxist we can ignore only at some peril. - M. E. Bradford, National Review"Sparkles with originality . a most important contribution." -J. H. Plumb, New York Review of Books"The book is full of fresh material and striking instances of analysis.. [It] also contains a large number of obiter dicta that will inspire readers to make novel economic studies and adopt unconventional lines of thought." - Allan Nevins, Saturday ReviewEUGENE D. GENOVESE is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rochester. In 1987-1988 he was on leave at the Humanities Research Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and in 1988-89 he was visiting professor at William and Mary.

A treasure trove of writings by America's only dancing philosopher.

Provocative cultural readings of avant-garde literature and art.

One of the first science fiction novels to describe alien life forms.

A groundbreaking study of the 92nd Street Y and its major influence on 20th-century American culture.

A fascinating analysis of the music scene in Austin, Texas.

Stanley Aronowitz traces the history of the cultural issue - in both British and American manifestations.

The diverse strategies employed by Southern slaveholders to keep their slaves under control-and those employed by the slaves to resist

A critically acclaimed and accessible biography of one of the towering figures of New England's colonial period; winner of The Conference on Christianity and Literature's Book Award.

An outstanding examination of the Crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689.

Explores how early radio and sound recording influenced modernist literature.

A shocking and extreme interpretation of culture, history, and the father of psychoanalysis. In Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, social philosopher Norman O. Brown radically analyzes and critiques the work of Sigmund Freud. Brown attempts to define a non-repressive civilization, draws parallels between psychoanalysis and the theology of Martin Luther, and also examines the revolutionary themes present in western religious thought, such as ideas found in the work of William Blake and Jakob Bhme.';Life Against Death cannot fail to shock, if it is taken personally; for it is a book which does not aim at eventual reconciliation with the views of common sense. The highest praise one can give to Brown's book is that, apart from its all-important attempt to penetrate and further the insights of Freud, it is the first major attempt to formulate an eschatology of immanence in the seventy years since Nietzsche.' Susan Sontag';One of the most interesting and valuable works of our time. Brown's contribution to moral thought... cannot be overestimated. His book is far-ranging, thoroughgoing, extreme, and shocking. It gives the best interpretation of Freud I know.' Lionel Trilling

A leading authority's panoramic history compares the experiences of immigrant-ethnic groups, African-Americans, and Native Americans to each other and in relation to the national political culture.

Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time.

A stimulating examination of early American literature

This volume has brought together authors researching in Asia who redress this imbalance and describe what the West can learn from the East.

A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.

A first-hand exploration of the diverse roles music plays in people's lives.

Revised edition of a Latin American classic in a tour-de-force translation.

An ethnographic account of gay, lesbian and queer club culture in the 1990s New York City.

New poems from the most iconoclastic poet of his generation.

A rich selection from the broad range of a prolific Native American writer's work.

Classic poems from a famous American poet