As with more recent famines, in the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea in the 20th century, cannibalism was turned to as a last resort.Swift's proposal followed a vogue for social "reformers" to propose solutions to poverty . He felt that many of these pronouncements came from men who...
Reformers and Revolutionaries: The Rise of Antisystemic Movements and the Paradox of Power, 1848–1917 labor movement during 1848 to 1917. Yet, labor and an often closely related socialism, despite their import, are only part of an overall challenge here. The resistance and revolt brought to be...
Biblical exegesis serves hereas amedium for debating timelyquestions; investigation into Mosaic lawbe-comesasort of debate on social reform in which Moses is construed as sidingwith enlightened social reformers. In fact,Mosaic lawistouted as the modelof alegal codex perfectlyadaptedto the“national ...
In the common Western imagination, the image of the veiled Muslim woman stands for oppression in the Muslim world. This makes it hard to think about the Muslim world without thinking about women, sets up an "us" and "them" relationship with Muslim women, and ignores the variety of ways of...
Other crucial figures that were instrumental to the growth of religious Medieval literature were St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and John Wycliffe. All three authors were religious reformers in their own right. Martin Luther Thomas Aquinas’ treatises were highly regarded by the Catholic Church. ...
The Protestant reformers were not only interested in maximizing their own capacity to know by close study of scripture, but were also interested in limiting the access of others to competing knowledge. 2 Gregory Bateson, discussing what parts of bodies one is allowed to look at among certain ...
One of Chu's more arresting examples of this tension is the "Chinese house," or tong lau, a tenement typology peculiar to Hong Kong. Early urban reformers in the colony routinely pathologized these buildings, blaming them and their inhabitants for the spread of disease. But tong lau were ...