What does it mean to be a Jew in the twenty-first century? Exploring the multifaceted and intensely complicated characteristics of this age-old, ever-changing community, <I>Judaisms</I> examines how Jews are a culture, ethnicity, nation, nationality, race, religion, and more. With each chapter revolving around a single theme (Narratives, Sinais, Zions, Messiahs, Laws, Mysticisms, Cultures, Movements, Genocides, Powers, Borders, and F ...
Whereas many textbooks treat the subject of world religions in an apolitical way, as if each religion were a path for individuals seeking wisdom and not a discourse intimately connected with the exercise of power, James W. Laine treats religion and politics as halves of the same whole, tracing their relationship from the policies of Alexander the Great to the ideologies of modern Europe secularists, with stops in classical India, China, and the ...
This book traces the journeys of a stone across the world. From its remote point of origin in the city of Nishapur in eastern Iran, turquoise was traded through India, Central Asia, and the Near East, becoming an object of imperial exchange between the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires. Along this trail unfolds the story of turquoise–a phosphate of aluminum and copper formed in rocks below the surface of the earth–and its discovery and export ...
The second half of the nineteenth century marks a watershed in human history. Railroads linked remote hinterlands with cities; overland and undersea cables connected distant continents. New and accessible print technologies made the wide dissemination of ideas possible; oceangoing steamers carried goods to faraway markets and enabled the greatest long-distance migrations in recorded history.<br> <br> In this volume, leading scholars ...
In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and «Eurasian» often a derisive term?&l ...
England 1455: Die Lancastrianer fuhren einen verzweifelten Kampf, bis schlie?lich mit Edward IV. der erste Konig aus dem Hause York die Krone erringt. Fur Julian und Blanche of Waringham brechen schwere Zeiten an, denn mit dem Widerstand gegen das neue Regime riskieren sie nicht nur ihr eigenes Leben. Doch in den Klauen der Yorkisten in Wales wachst ein Junge heran, der Englands letzte Hoffnung sein konnte … ...
Das abenteuerliche Leben zweier Menschen auf der Suche nach Freiheit In den schottischen Kohlengruben herrscht das Gesetz der Sklaverei. Doch Mack McAsh, ein junger Bergmann, traumt davon frei zu sein. Er flieht nach London – und gerat in eine andere Form von Knechtschaft: Als Aufruhrer verurteilt, wird er in Ketten nach Virginia verschifft. Dort trifft er auf Lizzi Jamisson, die Frau, die ihm einst zur Flucht verholfen hat und dabei ihr eigene ...
