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A Culture of Fact
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Barbara J. Shapiro
Categories: Curiosities and wonders
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Shapiro traces the genesis of the fact, a modern concept that originated not in natural science but in legal discourse. She follows the concept's evolution and
Red Dynamite
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Carl R. Weinberg
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism's tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in rel
From Reliable Sources
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Martha C. Howell
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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A lively introduction to historical methodology, an overview of the techniques historians must master in order to reconstruct the past.
Making Space for the Dead
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Erin-Marie Legacey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting
Sacred Folly
Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Max R. Harris
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-02 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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For centuries, the Feast of Fools has been condemned and occasionally celebrated as a disorderly, even transgressive Christian festival, in which reveling clerg