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  • The Chile Pepper in China

    A Cultural Biography

    de Brian R. Dott ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are so common that ... Leer más

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    A Cultural Biography

    de Brian R. Dott ...
    Series series Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History
    Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China, chiles are everywhere, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed, they are so common that ... Leer más

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  • The Political Education of Democratus

    Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic

    Thomas Paine described the American Revolution as educative. However, as examined in Brian W. Dotts’ The Political Education of Democratus: Negotiating Civic Virtue during the Early Republic, what was learned was neither standardized nor uniform. The Federalists, for example, viewed the revolution as a triumph for representative government, but one intended to maintain many remnants of the ... Leer más

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  • Educational Foundations

    Philosophical and Historical Perspectives

    This educational foundations book offers a comprehensive overview of American education history and a variety of classical, Enlightenment, and contemporary educational philosophers. While Educational Foundations includes a history of American education, it also looks at numerous policies, constitutional law cases, events, and political, religious, and social conflicts for students to consider ... Leer más

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  • The Elusive Thomas Jefferson

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    Thomas Jefferson's writings on morality have largely been ignored. His thoughts on the subject, never developed in any formal work, are said to be unsystematic--a judgment reinforced by his shift from Stoicism (intentions are critical) to Utilitarianism (consequences are critical) later in life.Yet his writings and the moral works he recommended reveal much about his moral sense and views on good ... Leer más

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  • Philology

    The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

    de James Turner ...
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    A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, ... Leer más

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  • The Promise of Schooling

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