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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts Cited -- Introduction -- Part I: Christian Rome -- Introduction -- 1. The Church and Machiavelli's Depiction of Italy's Historical Situation -- 2. The Ravages of Christianity -- Part II: Pagan Rome -- Introduction -- 3. The Foundation for Tyranny in Rome -- 4. Corruption, Youth, and Foreign Influences -- 5. Machiavelli's Ambiguous Praise of Paganism -- Part III: Machiavelli's New Rome -- Introduction -- 6. Old Lands and Machiavelli's New One -- 7. A Temporal Christianity and the Princes of the Republic -- 8. Machiavelli's Rule and Human Liberty -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

"The gossip surrounding Content Mason and Peter Wood had circulated for years. Many thought the young widow Mason would quickly remarry. Instead, she found company with the already-married Mr. Wood. Juicy gossip surrounding their relationship turned into serious accusations once Peter's wife conspicuously left town after the birth of Content's second illegitimate child. Content realized that they had to get away. So she packed what she could from her father's house, pocketed some money, and fled with Peter. Along with all of her hurried thoughts on abandoning her home, she must have conceded that life could take unexpected turns. Thirteen years prior, in 1679, the twenty-year-old Content was just beginning her married life and settling in as a goodwife in the Massachusetts Bay town of Dorchester. Unfortunately, her husband died after only three years of marriage, leaving Content a young widow with two little children. She must have had suitors over the years, but no single man could win her hand in marriage. Rumors started to spread about exactly where her heart wandered. Things got worse when Content and Peter's wife, Abigail, both delivered sons only ten days apart, in the spring of 1688. Not until a few years later, though, with the birth of Content's second illegitimate baby, did things come to a head"--

Why Girard? why dialogue? -- Dramatis personae: the characters of the dialogues -- Living water: a parable -- Why do we read literature: a symposium -- Mimetic desire: a conversation with William James -- A crowd of theories -- Scapegoating sacrifice -- Concluding reflections on violence

Evolving Nationalism examines how the idea of Israel as a nation-state has developed within Zionist and Israeli discourse over the past eight decades. Nadav G. Shelef focuses on the changing ways in which the main nationalist movements answered three distinct questions in their private and public ideological articulations between 1925 and 2005: Where is the "Land of Israel"? Who ought to be Israeli? What should the Zionist national mission be?Framed within broader debates about how and why changes in foundational definitions of the nation occur, Shelef's analysis centers on the mechanisms of ideological change and then subjects them to empirical scrutiny. He thus moves beyond the common but problematic assumptions that such transformations must be either a rare, rational adaptation to traumatic shock or a relatively constant product of manipulation by power-hungry elites. He finds that nationalist movements, including radical and religious fundamentalist ones, can and do change cardinal components of their ideological beliefs in both moderating and radicalizing directions.These changes have more to do with the unguided consequences of engagement in day-to-day politics than with strategic reaction to new realities, the use of force, or the changing incentives of leaders. Engaging with some of the most contentious debates about the nature of Israeli nationalism and the geographic, religious, and ethnic definition of the state of Israel, Shelef has made signal contributions to our understanding of Middle East politics and of the ideological underpinnings of nationalism itself

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terms and Translations -- Introduction: A Different Kind of War -- 1 Foundations: A Just War Analysis of the War against al-Qaeda -- 2 Traditions: The Moral Constraints of War in Islam -- 3 Narratives: Al-Qaeda's Dual Nature -- 4 Tactics: Al-Suri and al-Qaeda's Model of War -- 5 Counter-narratives: Moderate Muslim Voices and a Debate within the Tradition -- Conclusion: Operationalizing Counter-narratives in the War against al-Qaeda -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- About the Author.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Untitled -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing Jewish American and Asian American Marriages -- 2. Understanding the Current Racial and Religious Landscape in the United States -- 3. Intermarriage - Moving Beyond the Interfaith Debate -- 4. Jews and Asians - Separate or the Same? -- 5. Love and Marriage -- 6. What About the Kids? -- 7. Looking Forward - Becoming JewAsian -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index.