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Work on Women is the French Enlightenment's most in-depth feminist analysis of inequality-and its most neglected one. In it, Louise Dupin, also known as Madame Dupin (1706-1799), reveals the sexist bias ("masculine vanity") that informs the knowledge and institutions that shape women's lives and argues that the subjection of women is a modern phenomenon, based on an illegitimate, abusive marriage contract. This is the first-ever edition of selectedtranslations of Dupin's massive project, developed from manuscript drafts. Robust introductions to the text contextualize Dupin's working methods-including the role of her secretary, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-and emphasize the importance of feminist thought to the development of moral and politicalphilosophy.

In Statelet of Survivors, Amy Austin Holmes charts the history of the Kurdish statelet-Rojava-which sits immediately adjacent to the southeastern Turkish border. Drawing from four years of research trips to northern and eastern Syria, Holmes highlights that the movement is founded on the idea of equality between people of different religious and ethnic backgrounds and does more to empower women and minorities than any other region of Syria. An in-depthexamination of Rojava, this book tells the story of the statelet who both triumphed over ISIS and created a model of decentralized governance in Syria that could eventually be expanded if Assad were to ever fall.

Inference is at the core of all inquiry, whether philosophical or scientific. If we hope to ascertain what is true, we must follow sound procedures of inquiry. The American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), who was also a leading scientist of his age, spent his life reflecting on what these procedures are, whether they are valid, and how we can make our inferences stronger. Peirce on Inference presents a comprehensive account of Peirce'slifelong reflections on these topics, including how Peirce responds to various objections to the validity of inferences.

John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93) was, for much of the nineteenth century, America's leading music critic and an important figure among New England Transcendentalists. This biography charts his relationships with other writers and thinkers, as well as his evolution into a powerful and persuasive writer, while situating his story in its nineteenth century and Transcendental contexts. Dwight's enormous body of essays, reviews, and translations are illuminated in thisbiography and reveal the indelible influence that his newspaper, Dwight's Journal of Music, had on music criticism-the impacts of which still resonate today.

Katherine Brading and Marius Stan provide a new framing of natural philosophy and its transformations in the Enlightenment and propose an account of how physics and philosophy evolved into distinct fields of inquiry.

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context. It aims to connect their abstract doctrines to particular social changes taking place at the time, and to profile each of their views against the others.

In Body and Soul: Essays on Aristotle's Hylomorphism, well-known scholar Jennifer Whiting gathers two sets of her previously published essays on Aristotle's hylomorphism, one focused on his conception of an animal's body as standing to its soul as matter (hulê) to form (morphê); the other focused on his conception of practical reason as standing to human desire as form to matter.

This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law, a complex and highly influential tradition of jurisprudence spanning over two millennia of Indian history (300 BCE-1800 CE). As such, this book both contributes to our understanding of how male attitudes toward women evolved in pre-modern India and provides crucial context for important colonial debates on Hindu widow remarriage and the Hindu custom ofwidow self-immolation or sati.

Mirror of Nature, Mirror of Self considers theories of consciousness in Indian philosophical traditions through the metaphor of reflection in a mirror. Just as a face appears where it is not in a mirror's reflection, so do consciousness and its properties, such as the sense of self, subjectivity, and experience. In a dialogue with psychoanalytical theory and contemporary philosophy of mind, the book develops a new model of consciousness and contributes tocontemporary debates.

In Rethinking Islam and Human Rights, leading Islam and human rights scholar Ozcan Keles examines how social movement practice unknowingly and unintentionally produces Islamic knowledge on human rights (i.e. change) in both scriptural reinterpretation and societal disposition, through a focus on the interaction between the two.

With a diverse set of over 70 cases, quizzes, and a problem-based learning approach, this volume expertly provides an interactive and in-depth learning experience for any medical professional.

Voice, Slavery, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Florence argues for the power of sound - particularly musical and vocal sounds - to systems of racial and ethnic difference. Foregrounding newly discovered archival sources, Emily Wilbourne documents the significant presence of foreign and racially-marked individuals in Medici Florence, many of whom were living under conditions of slavery or unfree labor. This book considers how the musical and verbal soundsof these individuals were recruited to represent or communicate access to subjectivity, agency, and voice.

Physical organic chemistry is a modern scientific subdiscipline whose reach is pervasive throughout chemistry, underpinning every academic and industrial synthetic process. In Thinking Like a Physical Organic Chemist, Professor Steven M. Bachrach uses analogies and colorful examples to provide experts and nonexperts alike with an alternative way of thinking about organic chemistry. He highlights a number of reaction mechanisms, walking through the importantexperiments that they rest upon, with an emphasis on the rules and logic systems that organic chemists have built to understand and predict reaction outcomes.

Newly updated with chapters featuring peripheral nerve stimulation, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Second Edition is an informative guide to the clinical fundamentals required for safe and effective implantation of neuromodulation devices for both surgical and non-surgical pain practitioners.

Combee is based upon original research and offers the first full account of Tubman's Civil War service and the Combahee River Raid. In the process, it also offers the story of enslaved families living in bondage and fighting for their freedom, and does so using their own distinct and individual voices.

Religious Minorities at Risk examines the conflict behavior of 771 religious minorities in 183 countries between 2000 and 2014. Discrimination, deprivation, and inequality cause grievances, which in turn generate conflict. Different types of discrimination, though, produce different types of grievances. Similarly religious, political, and economic grievances each have a unique influence on outcomes, from nonviolent organizing to rioting to rebellion.Ultimately, it demonstrates that grievances are a central part of conflict processes.

The American Law Institute is the preeminent legal reform organisation in the United States and its centennial is a landmark event. This book brings together an outstanding group of expert scholars to provide an in-depth scholarly history of the ALI, its role in legal reform, and the various ways it has impacted law in the United States.

This Handbook presents chapters that explore the causes and consequences of politics within economic history using social-scientific theory and methods.The first section summarizes the state of the field and provides an overview of the data and techniques typically used by HPE scholars. Subsequent chapters survey major HPE research areas in political economy, political science, and economics, as well as the long-run economic, political, and social consequences ofhistorical political economy

In the first and second centuries CE a small elite of affluent slaves and wealthy free persons prospered in Rome amidst a mass of impoverished free inhabitants and impecunious enslaved people. Roman Inequality reconstructs the role that slaves and women played in this economy.

Enchanted Revolution moves religion and gender to center stage in the Chinese Communist revolution, examining the mobilizational dynamics of anti-superstition propaganda in support of the Communist Party's rise from rural backwaters to national dominance.

Entitlement and Complaint explores the history of the right to retirement and the shaping of the modern life course, applying insights from social, cultural, and political history as well as gerontology to retirement dossiers from the post-Revolutionary French Ministry of Justice. David G.Troyansky traces the origins of state pensions in nineteenth-century France, which were increasingly understood by retirees as a right as opposed to a reward. Alongside theempirical data, Troyansky examines the ways retiring magistrates used their written requests for state pensions as an opportunity to engage in "life reviews." Through the analysis of more than five hundred individual dossiers, Troyansky uncovers the personal narratives of those working in a multitude ofFrench political regimes.

The most commonly asked-and bitterly debated-question about Germans during the Nazi era is, "how much did they know?" Were they aware of what was being committed in their name? As Mary Fulbrook argues in this haunting and original new book, that's the wrong question to ask. It's not what people knew; it's what they did with what they knew.