Author: Jane G. Landers
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: revolutions, creoles, atlantic
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-02-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674035917
ISBN-13: 9780674035911

Sailing the tide of a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Big Prince Whitten, the black Seminole Abraham, and General Georges Biassou were “Atlantic creoles,” Africans who found their way to freedom by actively engaging in the most important political events of their day. These men and women of diverse ethnic backgrounds, who were fluent in multiple languages and familiar with African, American, and European cultures, migrated across the

Authors:Douglas Massey, Nancy Denton,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: underclass, making, segregation, apartheid, american
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1998-07-15
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0674018214
ISBN-13: 9780674018211

This powerful and disturbing book links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. "A major contribution to our study of both racism and poverty."--Washington Post Book World.

Author: G. E. M. Anscombe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: intention
Number of Pages: 106
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $23.50
ISBN-10: 0674003993
ISBN-13: 9780674003996

Intention is one of the masterworks of twentieth-century philosophy in English. First published in 1957, it has acquired the status of a modern philosophical classic. The book attempts to show in detail that the natural and widely accepted picture of what we mean by an intention gives rise to insoluble problems and must be abandoned. This is a welcome reprint of a book that continues to grow in importance.

Author: Charles Rosen
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: generation, romantic
Number of Pages: 744
Published: 1998-09-15
List price: $24.50
ISBN-10: 0674779347
ISBN-13: 9780674779341

An exhilarating exploration of the musical language forms and styles of the Romantic period, "The Romantic Generation" captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so conveys the very sense of Romantic music. 728 musical examples.

Authors:Ki-Baik Lee, Edward J. Schultz,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: korea, history, new
Number of Pages: 518
Published: 1984-01-01
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 067461576X
ISBN-13: 9780674615762

The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, A New History of Korea (Han’guksa sillon) was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. Translated twice into Japanese and currently being translated into Chinese as well, Professor Lee’s work presents a new periodization of his countryR

Author: Michael J. Trebilcock
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: contract, freedom, limits
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 1997-03-25
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0674534301
ISBN-13: 9780674534308

Our legal system is committed to the idea that private markets and the law of contracts that supports them are the primary institutions for allocating goods and services in a modern economy. Yet the market paradigm, this book argues, leaves substantial room for challenge. For example, should people be permitted to buy and sell blood, bodily organs, surrogate babies, or sexual favors? Is it fair to allow people with limited knowledge about a transaction and its consequences to enter into it without guidance from experts?

Author: Wilfrid Sellars
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: mind, philosophy, empiricism
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1997-03-25
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0674251555
ISBN-13: 9780674251557

The most important work by one of America’s greatest twentieth-century philosophers, Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind is both the epitome of Wilfrid Sellars’ entire philosophical system and a key document in the history of philosophy. First published in essay form in 1956, it helped bring about a sea change in analytic philosophy. It broke the link, which had bound Russell and Ayer to Locke and Hume--the doctrine of "knowledge by acquaintance." Sellars’ attack on the Myth of the Given in Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind was a decisive move in turning analytic phil