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Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Cristina Malcolmson

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin ...
Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic

Heart-work: George Herbert and the Protestant Ethic

Cristina Malcolmson

This book places George Herbert's writing and biography within the history of social and economic change in seventeenth-century England.
The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a ...

The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a ...

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In a recent paper, Cristina Malcolmson argues that Cavendish's husband, William , may have brought back a copy of de Pizan's City of Ladies, among other works, from Europe.16 So despite the fact that Margaret Cavendish did not speak ...
Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society: Boyle, ...

Professor Cristina Malcolmson

Hall,Stuart (ed.)Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices(Sage Publications, 1997). Hammonds, Evelynn and RebeccaM.Herzig, (eds), The Nature of Difference: Sciences of Raceinthe United States from Jefferson to ...
George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest ...

George Herbert's Pastoral: New Essays on the Poet and Priest ...

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127–48; and Cristina Malcolmson, George Herbert: A Literary Life (Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), x–xi. 4. To emphasize Herbert's parliamentary career would have meant emphasizing Herbert's clientage to William Herbert ...
Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British ...

Humans and Other Animals in Eighteenth-century British ...

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Chapter 3 Gulliver s Travels and Studies of Skin Color in the Royal Society Cristina Malcolmson In his analysis of Gulliver's Travels, Michael McKeon demonstrates that Swift satirizes the "naTve empiricism" of the Royal Society, encouraged in ...
Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

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... Cataloging-in-Publication Data Debating gender in early modern England, 1500–1700 / edited by Cristina Malcolmson And Mihoko Suzuki p. cm — (Early modern cultural studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index.
A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "The Aguero Sisters"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Kirkwood, Cynthia Adina, “A Cuban Odyssey: It Took a Trip to Havana to Piece Together Cristina Garcia's History and Literary Quest,” in Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1992, p. E7. Lopez, Ruth, “Five Questions” (interview with Cristina Garcia), ...
Monkey Hunting

Monkey Hunting

Cristina García

In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America.
Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel

Dreaming in Cuban: A Novel

Cristina Garc??a

Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a ...
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

I Wanna Be Your Shoebox

Cristina Garcia

It just happens. The choice is either to sit and watch or to join the dance. National Book Award finalist Cristina García's first middle-grade novel celebrates the chaotic, crazy, and completely amazing patchwork that makes up our lives.
Female Subjective Strategies in Post-Franco Spain as ...

Female Subjective Strategies in Post-Franco Spain as ...

Kristin A. Kiely

Early in the text, we learn that Cristina does not care what her sisters think of her and that they feel she is wasting her life. Rosa, the middle child, arrives at the bar where Cristina works, and the discussion that follows reveals her feminist ...
No Condition Is Permanent

No Condition Is Permanent

Cristina Kessler

"Dis no be America." In an unforgettable novel that teems with details of African culture and life, Cristina Kessler heroically tackles one of the most important, most controversial issues for women of our time.
King of Cuba: A Novel

King of Cuba: A Novel

Cristina Garcia

A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows ...
The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: Evolution and Impact

The Arts of the Mamluks in Egypt and Syria: Evolution and Impact

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The use of the technical term of sgraffito is a considered decision, instead of sgraffiato, only used in some English language publications. However, Cristina Tonghini prefers the use of the term grafitta (Cristina Tonghini, Qal↩at Ja↩bar Pottery.
Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, ...

Clark Kerr's University of California: Leadership, ...

Cristina Gonzalez

Leadership, Diversity, and Planning in Higher Education Cristina Gonzalez. tunities for promotion, when regular positions open up, no one seems to remember that these individuals exist, are qualified, and are available (Daryl G. Smith, 2009).
Cars of Cuba

Cars of Cuba

Cristina García

Cars of Cuba - with an introduction by Cristina Garcia, author of the novel Dreaming in Cuban, and fifty-three color photographs by Joshua Greene - is a visit to the greatest American car museum in the world!
De darlings van New York

De darlings van New York

Cristina Alger

Pamela Dorman Books / Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. © Cristina Alger 2012 © Nederlandse vertaling Lidwien Biekmann, Gerda Baardman en Wim Scherpenisse / Nieuw Amsterdam Uitgevers 2012 Alle rechten ...
Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South ...

Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South ...

Maria Cristina Garcia

María Cristina García—a Cuban refugee raised in Miami—has experienced firsthand many of the developments she describes, and has written the most comprehensive and revealing account of the postrevolutionary Cuban migration to date.
Dreams of Significant Girls

Dreams of Significant Girls

Cristina Garcia

Book design by Krista Vossen The text for this book is set in Andrade Regular. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica 2 [t 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 Library ofCongress CatalogingeinePublication Data Garcia, Cristina, 1958* Dreams of significant ...
Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the ...

Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the ...

Maria Cristina Garcia

In this incisive book, María Cristina García tells the story of that migration and how domestic and foreign policy interests shaped the asylum policies of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
Altri orientalismi: l'India a Firenze, 1860-1900

Altri orientalismi: l'India a Firenze, 1860-1900

Filipa Lowndes Vicente

... hanno seguito costantemente la scrittura con interesse e attesa: Silvia Guimaràes, Cristina Ioanaz de Melo, Silvia Gusmano, Miguel Bandeira Ierónimo, Silke Kurth, Cristina Meirelles do Canto e Castro e Maria Iose' Chousal. Ringrazio ...
Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, ...

Locating Latin American Women Writers: Cristina Peri Rossi, ...

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This book considers the location(s) of four major women writers - Cristina Peri Rossi, Rosario Ferre, Albalucia Angel, and Isabel Allende - and their short fiction within these changing literary and social contexts.
Feminist ethics and natural law: the end of the anathemas

Feminist ethics and natural law: the end of the anathemas

Cristina L. H. Traina

Cristina L. H. Traina now reexamines both Roman Catholic natural law tradition and Anglo-American feminist ethics and reconciles the two positions by showing how some of their aims and assumptions complement one another.
Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification

Critical Systems: Formal Methods and Automated Verification

Laure Petrucci, Cristina Seceleanu and Ana Cavalcanti

Laure Petrucci, Cristina Seceleanu and Ana Cavalcanti. by Prof. Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre, Ireland) and Prof. Bernhard Steffen (TU Dortmund, Germany). We hereby thank the ...
A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban"

A Study Guide for Cristina Garcia's "Dreaming in Cuban"

Gale, Cengage Learning

ISBN13: 9781414473673 ISBN10: 1414473672 Contact your Gale, a part of Cengage Learning sales representative for ordering information. Printed in Mexico 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 16 15 14 13 12 Dreaming in Cuban Cristina Garcia 1992 Introduction ...
Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, ...

Manitoba Politics and Government: Issues, Institutions, ...

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They include Professor allen Mills who also acted as the discussant for the paper at the roblin Professorship conference. others who read and commented on the paper were Kim Malcolmson, nelson Wiseman, daniel schwartz, Phillip Hansen,  ...

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