their slaveowning West Indian cousins were feeling the mounting pressure of British abolitionism on the London government. Abolitionism in America might similarly use the power of the government in Washington to suppress slavery in the South. If so, now was the time, and the tariff was the issue...
Smith also notes that she’s generally wary of food trends. “I’m also over the whole bean thing,” she says, with a touch of exasperation. “What we need is more cool snacks. I’m waiting for the crazy nuts and pretzels. There’s a way for people to play around with that. I...
Ballhorn-Rosen first introduced his sonFriedrichAugust in Sanskrit and father and son con-tinued to read Sanskrit together.Friedrich Rosen was one of the first European scholars to studyVedictexts,believingthat“the character andgenius of Indian languageand literaturecouldonlybecompletely ...
Ramlee’smost passive protagonist, although, in keeping with the Malay cinema’s ver-sion of this Indian stereotype, there is a final moment of aggression – here, ofcourse, self-directed.Singapore, the metropolis, comes to represent intolerance and class-con-sciousness in contrast to Penang, ...