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In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Spivak, Thomas describes colonialism not so much as a discourse but a project--a project in which the interactions among colonizing and colonized people ar...

MADHU DUBEY is Assistant Professor in African American Literature at Northwestern University.

This important book fills a gap in our knowledge.... Highlyrecommended." -- Library Journal ..". highlyrecommended... " -- Choice "With admirable clarity andremarkable brevity, Jackson surveys the history of the movement and raises...important issues... " -- The Journal of American History Animportant history of the Ramakrishna movement, the very first and in many ways themost important Asian religious group to appear in the United States.

Written for advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students, this book aims to introduce students to a serious level of p-adic analysis with important implications for number theory. The main object is the study of G-series, that is, power series y=aij=0 Ajxj with coefficients in an algebraic number field K. These series satisfy a linear differential equation Ly=0 with LIK(x) [d/dx] and have non-zero radii of convergence for each imbed...

In this comprehensive social history of the Bon Marché, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, Michael Miller explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the new emporia so vividly dramatized. Through an original interpretation of paternalism, public images, and family-firm relationships, he shows how this new business enterprise succeeded in reconciling traditional values with the com...

...a serious and insightful account of the changing role of the UN in the Iran-Iraq conflict...by an able diplomat who was directly involved." - Shibley Telhami. In 1985, faced with conflicts involving Iran and Iraq, the United Nations Security Council's permanent members joined forces for the first time to mobilize the U. N. against threats to international peace and security. Cameron R. Hume's authoritative account follows the transformation...

An impressive collection of ninety-two abridged essays identifyingthe Christian elements in Shakespeare's plays... a great feast of learning andbeauty." -- First Things"This is an exceptionallyvaluable book... very highly recommended" -- Sixteenth CenturyJournal..". an exemplary work. In an age when footlingmatters often replace the great religious quandaries about what it means to live anddie before God, Shakespeare's Christian Dimension help...

In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of "perverse" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality as represented in Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness, Cherrie Moraga's play Giving Up the Ghost and Sheila McLaughlin'es film She Must Be Seeing Things, among others.