Descent into the Maelström

Descendants of Hanan and Hurin Cuzco remained privileged for the duration of Spanish rule. Throughout the Andes, descendants of Huayna Capac and Tupa Inca Yupanqui held hereditary ...

This chapter presents the proof for the Fundamental Theorem of Descent in buildings: that if Γ‎ is a descent group, the set of residues of a building Δ‎ that are stabilized by a su...

This chapter shows that if Ξ‎ is an affine building and Γ‎ is a finite descent group of Ξ‎, then Γ‎ is a descent group of Ξ‎∞ and (Ξ‎∞) is congruent to (Ξ‎∞). Ξ‎Γ‎ and Ξ‎ can be vi...

Russia's renewal since the collapse of Communism has proved extraordinarily disturbed, and was marked by escalating conflict between President Yeltsin and the Congress of People's ...

This chapter examines the convergence of events that thrust Harold Gibbons into the maelstrom of national politics and led to his estrangement from the Teamsters's hierarchy. It fi...

This chapter examines Christianity as a lived experience for women of African descent, both in the world and in the cloister. By the seventeenth century, thousands of free and ensl...

Hosea Easton and David Walker described and analyzed racism in New England during the late 1820s. New England had initially been more receptive to its black population than were ot...

Abstract The word “voodoo” originated in the United States nearly two hundred years ago. Since its inception, “voodoo” has been a mechanism for prejudiced individual...