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3. Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History

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2. Straight Talk about Your Child’s Mental Health: What to Do When Something Seems Wrong

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1. Life Inside: A Memoir

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2. Quality of Life: From Nursing and Patient Perspectives

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3. Caring for Women Cross-Culturally

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Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West ed. by Gary Noy

b o o k R e v ie w s 2 2 3 Distant Horizon: Documents from the Nineteenth-Century American West. Edited by Gary Noy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. 467 pages, $22.00. Reviewed by Karen English San José State University Distant Horizon is an anthology of nineteenth-century documents, remi­ niscences, and accounts concerning the American West. While the texts are works dating predominantly from the last half of the nineteenth century, there are a few twentieth-century commentaries as well. Noy groups the texts the­ matically into eleven chapters ranging from “Westerners of Color” to “The Railroad in the American West.” Clearly conceived as a reader for a classroom, the anthology has a minimum of editorial material. Short thematic introduc­ tions begin each chapter, and sporadic general comments preface or follow some texts. For example, in his introduction to Walt Whitman’s “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” Noy explains in italics, “In selected stanzas of this poem Whitman embodies the driving impetus of westward expansionist thought" (12). The volume ends with a particularly useful chapter-by-chapter bibliography of sources and a brief index. The great strength of this anthology lies in the variety of the texts chosen for inclusion. Teachers ofhigh school and introductory college courses will ben­ efit from the gathering ofso many writers from such diverse backgrounds. Many of the documents that are included provide valuable texts for cultural studies as well. For example, a partial text of the Homestead Act of 1862 illuminates the chapter on “Farmers and Townsfolk”; and excerpts of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo strengthen the chapter on “Soldiers in the American West.” Combined with newspaper accounts and autobiographical reminiscences, these documents help round out the historical record for classroom study. The great strength of this anthology is related to its weakness as a collec­ tion. Because Noy emphasizes a range of texts, he is forced into the editorial position of relying on excerpts from longer texts. In cases where he includes an entire chapter or a complete portion of a journal or diary, the text retains its literary integrity. Often, however, Noy omits portions of chapters, documents, and accounts so that we do not have even the complete sections of a particu­ lar text. Why include only a few stanzas of Whitman’s poem “Pioneers! O Pioneers!” or selected portions of a chapter from Cather’s M;y Antonia? Selections from longer works, like Sarah Winnemucca’s autobiography, become merely a series of excerpts. This editorial practice compromises the effect of longer works by turning them into a series of digestible writing bites— akin to television’s sound bites. And without notes, the reader has no sense of what has been omitted or why. In his general introduction, Noy uses the phrase “unique American west­ ern mosaic” to describe his project; he also uses the model of the “sampler.” 2 2 4 WAL 3 5 .1 S u m m e r 2 0 0 0 Both ofthese ideas are carried out conscientiously inhis anthology. Overall, this is a useful resource to have for anyone who teaches American history or cultural studies and wishes to sample a variety of literary works in the classroom. The Lizard Speaks: Essays on the Writings of Frederick Manfred. Edited by Nancy Owen Nelson. Sioux Falls, S.Dak.: Center for Western Studies, 1998. 228 pages, $15.95. Reviewed by Gordon Johnston Three Rivers Community College According to the editor, the theme around which this collection is built is Manfred’s “innate connection to the primordial ‘lizard brain’ which is the center of the creative process” (vii). To Manfred, the “Old Lizard” (“intuition” is a useful but inadequate synonym) was the source of his voice as a writer; this theme also played out in his fiction in the actions of his characters. A master storyteller, Manfred wrote novels to explore our relationship to the land, our animal nature as a source of knowledge and power, our relationship to our ancestors and our cultural heritage, and the male/female duality of our inner selves. As Manfred’s voice developed, he explored all these themes as aspects of that primordial lizard brain. As is often the case...

Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors. Melville Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales

Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors. Jacobs on Northwest Indian Myths and Tales. Edited by William R. Seaburg and Pamela T Amoss. Northwest Readers. (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2000. Pp. 310. $24.95 paper) Much of what can now be known of the oral literature of Native Americans of what are now the states of Oregon and Washington is due to Jacobs. Certainly this is true if one adds through their own languages. Trained by Franz Boas for such work, Jacobs, while in some ways all his life a dapper New Yorker, went west in 1926 to work with Sahaptin, then little studied. From this came his dissertation, a grammar of Klikitat Sahaptin, and a rich body of texts, some still unpublished. Jacobs stayed on at the University of Washington, devoting himself to preserving as much as possible in the languages of the region. He had the great luck to discover Victoria Howard, a speaker of Clackamas Chinook, thought extinct. From her, before she died, he took down two volumes of text, material that continues to attract interpreters. He obtained valuable texts in both of the Coos languages (Hanis, Miluk) from Annie Miner Peterson. He brought out the one collection of texts in the several varieties of Kalapuya, many obtained by himself, many obtained earlier by another Boas student, Leo Frachtenberg. The latter include fine myths and reflections in Mary's River Kalapuya from William Hartless. In this work he was aided by John B. Hudson, who had known Hartless, and who himself provided texts in Santiam Kalapuya. Seaburg and Amoss present an attractive, scrupulous account. The first part, Melville Jacobs: An Introduction to the Man and His Work (1-30) together with a bibliography of Jacobs's work (31-36), is admiring but not uncritical. The second part, Toward a Theory and Method of Literature Research reprints five essays on approach and interpretation. There follows in two parts a small anthology of English translations, nine as Oral Traditional Texts with Interpretations, eleven as Oral Traditional and Ethnographic Texts. Five in the first set, one in the second, with detailed interpretations, are from a manuscript left unpublished at Jacobs's death. Each chapter's headnotes inform as to narrators and other sources, and many offer context and subsequent work by others-they are models of their kind. Let me note that chapter 10, Joe Hunt's Sun and his Daughter (Klikitat Sahaptin) is a likely source for a remarkable transformation in Charles Cultee's Sun's Myth in nearby Kathlamet Chinook (cf. Hymes 1995). Here, as usually elsewhere, however, Jacobs does not consider neighboring versions. Nor, oddly, given his psychological interest, does he consider that a version might represent an individual response to tradition (as I believe is the case with Victoria Howard's Seal and her Younger Brother; cf. Hymes 1995). Interpretation treats of a culture. Jacobs had a fine hear, a strong work ethic, and devotion to many of those with whom he worked. He was also capable of succinct judgements on colleagues he did not like. He considered his work part of science, and at the same time drew partly on psychoanalysis for interpretation. …

The Cistercian world: monastic writings of the twelfth century (review)

156 Reviews Matarasso, Pauline, ed. & trans., The Cistercian world: monastic writings of the twelfth century, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1993; paper; pp. xxi, 319; R.R.P. AUS$13.95. This Penguin Classic provides an anthology of writings of various Cistercian authors of the twelfth century. Famous figures, such as Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St Thierry and Aehed of Rievaulx, share space with the less well known Guerric of Igny, Isaac of Stella, Gilbert of Hoyland, John of Ford, and A d a m of Perseigne. It is pleasing to see in translation such historically valuable texts as the Admonition of Stephen Harding and the Exordium Parvum, describing the early history of the Order. Unfortunately, not all the texts are translated in their entirety. Only individual chapters are translated of such important hagiographical writing as the Vita prima of Bernard of Clairvaux. The passages chosen single out 'attractive virtues' of the abbot of Clairvaux rather than the full picture of Bernard's political allegiances or strict asceticism. Fascinating episodes in the Vita prima about the influence of his mother and his rejection of feminine temptation are not translated. Although Bernard's life and writings perhaps deserve a whole volume, the anthology still serves to introduce something of his intensely personal reflections on love and the experience of spiritual enlightenment. William of St Thierry is another author who warrants rather fuller presentation than the three meditations presented here. The best of these writings focus with great intensity on the emotions and personal experience. Perhaps the most appealing is Aehed of Rievaulx, the great theorist of friendship. The passages chosen from Walter Daniel's Life of Aelred, as weU as Aehed's On spiritual friendship and The mirror of charity may provoke readers to seek out fuller translations of these twelfthcentury classics. Musicologists m a y not know of the biting commentary on contemporary musical practice in The mirror of charity. The Cistercian writings should not be dismissed simply as manifestations of an otherworldly piety. Not alltextsare equally interesting. John of Ford's Life of Wulfric of Haselbury introduces a figure probably known only to a handful of specialists. It seems a shame that the life of a relatively minor anchorite should be given twice the amount of space as the Vita prima, a collection of lives of a personality of much greater importance to the period. Any anthology such as this is bound to attract complaints from specialists that i t does not contain all their favourite texts. Nonetheless, this volume's Reviews 157 achievement is to bring these writings to the attention of a wider audience that would not automatically have access to volumes in the Cistercian Fathers series. Something is better than nothing. Matarasso's translation is fresh and idiomatic, avoiding the stodginess that can beset 'pious'texts.Her rendition of the anonymous Description of the abbey of Clairvaux fully recaptures the naturalistic elegance of this masterpiece of twelfth-century prose. The text also happens to teach us a lot about the sophistication of irrigation at the abbey. This inexpensive volume provides a valuable addition to the growing number of Penguin Classics from the medieval period. Constant J. M e w s Department of History Monash University. Mayer, Hans E., Kings and lords in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Collected studies series, 437), Aldershot, Variorum, 1994; cloth; pp. x, 338; R.R.P. £52.50. This is the third volume of the collected studies of Hans Mayer to appear in the Variorum Collected Studies Series, the two previous ones being: Kreuzztige und lateinischer Orient and Probleme des lateinischen KOnigreichs Jerusalem (both 1983). This latest collection of Mayer's articles comprises eighteen studies in German, English, and French published between 1982 and 1991. Professor Mayer of Kiel University is amongst the most prominent scholars of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem in the world. His output is prolific and it would be impossible to do more than to list the various studies here if each were to be mentioned. Therefore, comment has been limited to selected articles. Mayer's work is always full of surprises. If it has a particular characteristic, it is that he is a master of ferretting away at primary...

Generic Buildings and Cultural Landscapes as Sources of Urban History

Buildings and landscapes are active participants in social and cultural processes, making the study of changing urban forms (“urban morphogenesis”) an important theme in urban history. Ordinary landscapes are especially valuable texts of social and cultural history. Building types with unknown cultural histories are important as they shed light on the neglected aspects of urban history and its pluralistic nature. This essay explains how a “historian of cultural landscapes” approaches the study of common environments in his own research (by studying the cultural history of a prevalent building type—the residential hotel) and in his teaching. In both, the evolution of cultural landscapes is placed within the broader framework of urban history.

Hegel-Studien, vol. 10 (review)

354 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Hegel-Studien, vol. 10. Ed. Friedhelm Nicolin and Otto POggeler. (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag Herbert Grundmann, 1975. Pp. 459. Paper.) These Hegel studies are sponsored by the Hegel Committee of the Rheinisch- Westfalische Akademie der Wissenchaften and the editors connected with the publication of the first historic -critical edition of Hegel's Gesammelte Werke by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, (of which volumes 4, 6, and 7 have been released). Not only this ambitious venture, but also the publication of the Hegel-Studien, give conclusive evidence of a great Hegel renaissance in West Germany and elsewhere. The current volume contains four valuable texts and documents, five essays, a contribution to a critical discussion, and, finally, quite a number of reviews of current publications on Hegel. But this is not all: the volume ends with a bibliography briefly describing essays on Hegel research, 1973 (collected and edited by Joseph Wachter), where we find additional material outlining new and original ideas. Among the documents, the most important ones are Nicolin's findings about Hegel's early concepts of constitutional monarchy and Manfred Baum's and Kurt Meist's amazing discoveries concerning the fledgling philosopher's political opinions, culled from his editorial work with the Bamberger Zeitung in 1807 and 1808. From Nicolin's material, which he calls "a fragment from the first lecture on legal philosophy" (ein Splitter aus der ersten Rechtsphilosophie - Vorlesung), it clearly appears that the young Hegel had quite liberal ideas about constitutional monarchy far remote from any admiration of the Prussian state that later was considered as the epitome of the legal power system. In the original version, we do not find the unilateral declaration that the power of the prince forms "the summit and the starting point of the whole system." The early version of Rechtsphilosophie only recently was made available for publication; the text concerns a hand-written copy left by the jurist Carl Gustav Homeyer who had heard the lecture delivered by Hegel in his first Berlin semester, that is, during the winter 1818/1819. Its title was Naturrecht und Staatswissenschaft (Natural Law and Political Science). The manuscript has two parts: a paragraph dictated by Hegel and written down word by word by Homeyer; and explanations following it, jotted down in loose keywords. This material was published by Karl-Heinz Ilting as the "original version" of Rechtsphilosophie . Nicolin connects it with two small fragments from Hegel's first lecture on legal philosophy given a year before the Berlin course. They convey the same notions as those developed in Ilting's interpretative thesis. According to Ilting, for reasons of adjustment to the Prussian regime, Hegel's liberal political concepts were concealed in the printed text of Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, published in 1820. Therefore, one could not consider this famous textbook as the authoritative description of his philosophy of law, since earlier and later lectures had different versions. It is interesting that in lectures delivered in Heidelberg in 1817 and 1818 on his philosophy of law, Hegel had given the following dictation : "In a nation that has developed into a society of citizens, altogether into the consciousness of the infinity of the free self, only a constitutional monarchy is possible" (Nicolin's emphasis). This proposition was omitted in the two editions of Natural Law published in 1821 and 1833. Baum and Meist, in their essay "Politics and Philosophy at the Bamberger Zeitung: Documents on Hegel's Editorial Activity, 1807-1808," rightly claim that, except for one publication by Wilhelm R. Beyer, Hegel scholars have paid very little attention to the political ideas expressed in his articles and editorial work at the Bamberger Zeitung. Yet the year of Hegel's editorship of a political daily was of great significance for Germany and Europe because Napoleon, through the defeat of Prussia at the battlefield and in the peace treaty of Tilsit, established at that time a temporary stabilization of his hegemony on the European continent. Hegel did not conceal his admiration for Napoleon and his legislative efforts (his dubbing him the "Weltgeist on horseback" is well-known), and he confessed to his friend Niethammer that he "was following the world events with curiosity." He also made...

A Caesarean Text in the Catholic Epistles?

In giving their appraisal of the host of then unexamined minuscule codices of the Greek New Testament, Westcott and Hort wrote these intriguing words: ‘Valuable texts may lie hidden among them; many of them are doubtless sprinkled with relics of valuable texts now destroyed.’. 1 Beside this supposition should be set a well-attested fact, that ‘the Precedence of manuscripts depends, not on their age, but on their Pedigree’. 2 These two statements kept on recurring to the writer's mind as she concentrated on a group of six minuscule codices in the area of the Catholic Epistles: MSS 69, 1243, 1319, 1424, 1739, and 1874. 3 The Leicester Codex, MS 69, has long been known to Preserve an ancient lineage even though it was actually copied in the fifteenth century. Might not others of this group, less well known, also Perpetuate a rich heritage? It is the opinion of this writer that one of them does.4

Notes On the Tria Opuscula of Proclus

The new critical edition of Proclus's three monographs by Boese x) has provided the necessary materials for further interpretation and correction of these valuable texts. Plenty of puzzles still remain; the following suggestions deal with a limited number of cases where a plausible solution seems now within reach. The available sources are: (i) the Latin translation made in 1280 by Guilelmus de Morbeka (= Guil.); (2) Greek marginalia in a Vatican MS. of Guilelmus, pp. 267-271 Boese (= Vm) ; (3) a Christianized and shortened version of the Greek text by the Sebastocrator Isaac Comnenus (= Is.); (4) some short extracts in Philoponus, Lydus and Psellus. Errors in Guilelmus can be due to the Greek original, to mistranslation, or to the transmission of the Latin text. As a general principle, he deserves more trust than Isaac, who rewrote the treatises and was therefore free to make any change he wished. The Greek words in the margin of Vat. lat. 4568 (Vm) were written by a scribe who knew no Greek, so that they are often badly disfigured. Yet they are of unquestionable usefulness, because they are mostly unusual or doubtful words, many of which were misunderstood by Guil. A very few are glosses (Prov. 17, 6/7 ?p??e???? at 1. 8 t?t?a??, Mal. 19, ? ???? ?a? s??t???? at preceps, i.e. p??pet??), and there is one double reading (Dub. 65, 1), but the great majority were taken from the Greek text itself; as yet I can see no reason why they should not be from Guil.'s own copy.