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Contents Foreword, by Ron Suskind Introduction I. History, Memory, Politics The Past as Memory and Oblivion Alon Confino Human Connections: History and the Latin American Novel Herbert Tico Braun Your Culture or Your Rights?: Women and the Multicultural Dilemma Denise Walsh Best Sellers and Half-Truths: Misreading Iran in America Farzaneh Milani How to Understand 9/11, Iraq, and Bush's War on Terrorism William B. Quandt Writing Self and Society: East Asian Women Authors Ellen V. Fuller Approaching China: Philosophy, History, and Politics Brantly Womack Asian America: Studying Culture and Ethnicity Sylvia Chong Improvising America: Rethinking the Founding Peter S. Onuf Discerning Constitutional Meaning Daniel R. Ortiz The Life and Afterlife of Slavery Lawrie Balfour Ongoing Struggle: The Deeper History of the Civil Rights Movement Risa L. Goluboff "The Cruel Radiance of What Is": Poverty in America since 1945 Grace Elizabeth Hale Sex in the United States: Some History Cindy Aron New Histories of the American West Christian W. McMillen Political Power: How to Get It, Use It, and Avoid Losing It Larry Sabato Media and Politics: Media Effects? Media Bias? Paul Freedman Academic Capitalism: The Political Economy of Higher Education Brian Pusser Tintin and the American Menace: French (Mis)representations of the United States Philippe Roger Catastrophes and Commemorations: Shaping Nineteenth-Century Chicago Daphne Spain Urban Plans and Urban Realities: Understanding Cities Dell Upton Nations and Nationalism Krishan Kumar II. Mathematics, Science, Technology Light and Life: The Evolution of Visual Perception Dennis Proffitt Everyday Evolution Edmund Russell An Appreciation of Reality: Society and Science Reginald H. Garrett Starship Earth User's Manual 2.0: Revising the Balance of Nature Herman H. Shugart Perspectives on Global Warming Science Robert E. Davis The Environmental Other: Finding and Losing Ourselves in Nature Jonathan Cannon The Epic of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Universe Trinh Xuan Thuan Doing Science: Physics, Genius, and Creativity Paul Fendley Designing Matter: Molecules, Materials, and Their Importance to Society Cassandra L. Fraser How Computing Changes Thinking David Evans Symmetry and Group Theory Brian Parshall Arguments: Exploring the History of Logic James Cargile III. Literature At the Edge of War: Five from the 1850s Stephen Cushman Mourning and Modern Poetry Jahan Ramazani Doctors, Lawyers, and the Classics: Reading for Ethical Values Marcia Day Childress and Julia D. Mahoney Marketing Fiction: Victorian Serial Novels Stephen Arata Love, Guilt, and Reparation: Fiction That Guides Us Karen Chase Beside Ourselves: Ecstatic Poetry Lisa Russ Spaar The Euphoric Suffering of Modern Heroines Alison Booth Abroad at Home: Contemporary Interethnic Fiction Caroline Rody Women between Cultures: Latina Writers of the United States María-Inés Lagos Where Spain Is Real: The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Novel (and Beyond) Randolph D. Pope Joyce's Ulysses, Five Ways Michael Levenson Ovid's Metamorphoses Paul Barolsky Beyond Shakespeare: Some Other High Points of English Renaissance Drama Clare R. Kinney Dangerous Knowledge: Faust, Frankenstein, the Golem, and the Castle Jeffrey A. Grossman Tolling the Bells: Liturgy and English Literature Bruce Holsinger Return to the Word Hoard Elizabeth Fowler Literature as Re-Viewing J. Paul Hunter IV. The Arts Art and Science in the Renaissance Francesca Fiorani Maps, Graphs, and Icons: The Art of Visual Knowledge Representation Johanna Drucker A Pilgrim's Guide: The Visual World of Medieval Art Lisa Reilly "One, Two, Three, Four": One Hundred Years of Jazz and Counting Scott DeVeaux American Art and Material Culture Maurie McInnis "Reading" Popular Entertainment John Frick Music and Identity in the African Diaspora Melvin L. Butler The Pleasures and Terrors of Speaking (and Reading) Aloud Judith Reagan V. Mind, Body, Spirit The Beginning of Wisdom: Self-Knowledge Mitchell S. Green Babies, Toddlers, and Teens: How Children Develop Judy DeLoache Illness Narratives David B. Morris Psychiatric Anthropology: Mental Illness and Cultural Difference Larry Merkel Exploring Human Diversity: An Entrée into Anthropology Peter Metcalf Sex and Morality John Portmann For the Sake of Profit: Self-Interest, Self-Sacrifice, and Corporate Goals Ira Bashkow The Four Goals of Life in Classical Hinduism John Nemec Differing Inequalities: Considering India, Europe, and America R. S. Khare Islam, Christianity, Judaism: Reading across a Difference Peter Ochs The Need to Know Islam and Muslims Abdulaziz Sachedina Index
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