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This first-ever dictionary of important issues in the U.S. Latino struggle for civil rights defines a wide-ranging list of key terms.

In his address at the 200th convocation of the University of Chicago, June 11, 1940, President Hutchins invited American youth to reexamine the principles which make life worth living.This enterprise is most urgently necessary in removing the intellectual unpreparedness of the nation. Far worse than the military and economic deficiencies in equipment and armament are the spiritual dissensions among the various groups of our time. In the universal conflict those nations will prevail whose unity results from spontaneous and free devotion to values which are recognized as worth living and dying for. We can reintegrate the nation, when we succeed in breaking the continuous secularization which, parallel to the rapid industrialization after the Civil War, is undermining the ethos of American life. The ethos which made this commonwealth great, was the fighting spirit of enlightenment. The backbone of the political principles of the Constitution, is the spirit of the Christian Law of Nature; that means political freedom as the fullfilment of the rules of the Almighty. This unity between the three spheres: nature, man and God was discarded by the process of secularization. The ethics of enlightenment shifted to the demand for universal comfort and for good living. The attitude of a boundless optimism prevailed which considered history an unending process of perfection. It was thought that this state of continuous improvement would result from the scientific organization of social and political institutions; their progress would eliminate eventually what the less scientific past had ascribed to the finiteness and sinfulness of man.

Fun and Useful -- Welcome! -- Dead Men's Wrong Ideas? -- Pioneers and Contenders -- Wealth and Power: Mercantilism -- The Physiocrats and Law of Nature -- Classical School -- Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand of the Market Mechanism -- Thomas Malthus and Effectual Demand -- David Ricardo and Differential Rent -- John Stuart Mill and the Peak Time of the Classic School -- The Rise of Socialism -- Antagonists to the Classic School -- Karl Marx and the Collapse of Capitalism -- Marginal Analysis -- The Marginal School in France -- The Marginal School in Germany, Austria, and the U.K -- Application and Extension of the Marginal School -- Alfred Marshall and the Foundation of the Neo-Classical School -- Theories of Imperfect Competition -- Contemporary Trends -- The Boom of Mathematical Economics -- The Institutional School -- Keynes and Keynesian Economics -- Early Austrian School -- The Rise of the Chicago School -- Epilogue: Economic Ideas in Retrospect -- Further Readings.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Jews, Liberalism, Antisemitism: Towards a Twenty-First-Century History -- Globalizing the Dialectics of Inclusion -- Recontextualizing Liberalism and the Jews -- Crossroads of Liberalism and the Jewish Experience -- Jews and/beyond the Nation, Jews in/beyond Europe -- Bibliography -- Part I: The Limits of Liberalism -- Chapter 2: Liberalism and Antisemitism: A Reassessment from the Peripheries -- Antisemitism in Romania -- The Algerian Antijuifs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Osman Bey's The Conquest of the World by Jews (1873): A Liberal Antisemitism? -- Antisemitic Pamphleteer and Militant Liberal -- Founding Modern Conspirationism: La conquête du monde par les Juifs -- The Cultural and Intellectual Sources of Osman Bey's La Conquête -- Osman Bey and the Jews: A Liberal Antisemitism? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Jews and Other Others -- Jews and Other Others: What We Know and What We Miss -- The Uses and Pitfalls of Discussing Jewish Power and Privilege -- Toward a New History of Jews and Other Others -- Bibliography -- Part II: Living Liberalism -- Chapter 5: The Material of Race: Caribbean Jews, Clothing, and Manhood in the Age of Emancipation and Liberal Revolution -- Fashion, Citizenship, and Race -- Fabric -- Tailoring -- Clothing, Emancipation, Liberalism -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Liberalism, Antisemitism and Everyday Life in Vienna: The Tragic Case of Heinrich Jaques (1831-94) -- Becoming a Jewish Liberal: Thinking and Living in Mid-Century Vienna -- Life as a Liberal, Jewish Politician in Vienna, 1879-94 -- Conclusion: A Lasting Legacy? -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Giving and Dying in Liberal Italy: Jewish Men and Women in Italian Culture Wars -- Living the Secular -- Giving and Dying -- Shades of Chiaroscuro.

When scholars who work on Peronism reveal their area of expertise to non-Argentinean colleagues, reactions tend to fall along two lines. Most respond eagerly with their favorite anecdotes about Juan and Evita. But some have a perception that research on Peronism has been exhausted or that the subject is passé - or as one colleague put it, with a suitably outmoded expression, "Isn't Peronism old hat?" The reality is that the field of "Peronism studies" shows few signs of stagnation. Indeed, the quantity of publications on Peronism appearing each year is daunting, to say nothing about the high quality of many works. Although researchers are scattered across the globe and represent a range of disciplines, the bulk of this scholarship is produced in Argentina, which explains, regrettably, its partial invisibility to academics elsewhere. For non-specialists perhaps most surprising is that the majority of new works are not studies of organized labor. This is not to say that labor is "dead": far from it, as excellent labor studies continue to be produced and to ignore working women and men in the study of Peronism would be foolish. Yet the problems of state-labor rela- tions that once defined the field have given way to broader research agendas and methodological experimentation

This article tracks the origin of modern public history in China. Through a critical survey of the landscape, the article focuses on why public history has such a widespread appeal among ordinary Chinese, and how it is used for social cohesion and identity building to mobilize a general population. The author argues that public history has flourished in the last two decades alongside a deteriorating notion of national identity unified by the state; the genesis of this can be traced back to the turn of the twentieth century. Three propositions are suggested for further developing public history in China, namely writing differently, a broader and more liberal understanding of history, and an emphasis on rigour.

Who did the ancient Greeks describe as the world's best athlete? What does the Koran say about women's rights? How has the digital revolution changed life in the modern age? From the law courts of ancient Iraq to bloody Civil War battlefields, explore the daily lives of people from major world cultures throughout history, as presented in their own words. Bringing useful and engaging material into world history classrooms, this rich collection of historical documents and illustrations provides insight into major cultures from all continents. Hundreds of thematically organized, annotated primary