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Performing plague: Antonio Zanchi and the dynamics of spectatorship at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco in Venice
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-11)
Thirty‐five years after the 1630–31 plague outbreak in Venice, Antonio Zanchi created ‘The Virgin Appears to the Plague‐Stricken’, a monumental painting in the stairway of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco that memorialized ...
Once within Borders: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging since 1500. By Charles S. Maier. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii, 387. $29.95.)
(Belknap Press of Harvard University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-07)
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature . By John Aberth . ( Abingdon, England : Routledge , 2013 . Pp. xvi , 326. $39.95.)
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Routledge, 2014-09)
Characteristics of homeless jail inmates: Implications for social work
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Human Sciences Press; Human Sciences Press, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-04)
This study set out to validate the hypothesis (belief) that homeless people were likely to commit minor offenses as solutions to their conditions. Jails, and maybe prisons, would provide three meals a day, a place to sleep, ...
A natural experiment in styles of capitalism: Professional sports
(Elsevier, 1994)
This study compares two professional sports-baseball and basketball. In organization professional baseball comes closer to a US style individualistic capitalism system, with relatively free competition for players and a ...
"Of Low Grade Mexican Parentage:" Race, Gender, and Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1928-1952.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that from the 1920s into the 1950s tropes of disability deployed through the notion of “feeblemindedness” converged with nativist concerns over Mexican immigration to mark certain Mexican-origin ...
An approach to the direct measurement of community mean information fields
(Springer-Verlag; The Regional Science Association, 1963-12)
Analogs, theories, and decision making
(Springer-Verlag; The Regional Science Association, 1971-12)