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The World of Magda Portal, with a Selection of Her Poems
Examines the life and poetry of Magda Portal, a major figure in Latin American revolutionary politics. Includes a selection of poems available for the first time in English translation.
Privatization and the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico
Beginning in 1983, the Mexican government implemented one of the most extensive programs of market-oriented reform in the developing world. Downsizing the State examines a key element of this reform program: the privatization of public firms.
Drawing upon interviews with government officials, business executives, and ......
The Henry Disston Saw Works and the Tacony Community of Philadelphia
A rich history of the unique relationship between life and work in an American factory town from 1840 to 1984, A Place to Live and Work tells the remarkable story of Henry Disston's saw manufacturing company and the factory town he built. The book provides a rare view of the rise of one of America's largest and most powerful ......
Charles A. Berst, University of California at Los Angeles; John A. Bertolini, Middlebury College; Charles A. Carpenter, Binghamton University; L. W. Conolly, Trent University; R. F. Dietrich, University of South Florida; Bernard F. Dukore, Virginia Tech; Peter Gahan, Documentary Film Editor, Los ......
This is the first of two volumes detailing Pennsylvania’s battalions and line during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783.
Volume 1 contains brief regimental histories, supplemented by letters and diary entries from the leadership, rosters of field and staff officers, and rolls of enlisted men in each company and ......
Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more—to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza’s notion of conatus and Hobbes’s ......
Clare of Assisi, Agnes of Prague, and the Struggle for a Franciscan Rule for Women
Early in the thirteenth century a young woman named Clare was so moved by the teachings of Francis of Assisi that she renounced her possessions, vowing to live a life of radical poverty. Today Clare is remembered for her relationship with Francis, but her own dedication to poverty and her struggle to gain papal approval for a Franciscan Rule ......
