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Unselfing: Global French Literature at the Limits of ConsciousnessAltered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood. Unselfing explores the nature of disruptive self-experiences and the different shapes they have taken in literary writing. The book...
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Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it "borderblur." Borderblur...
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The San Francisco OracleA complete copy of the legendary psychedelic underground newspaper originally published in the Haight Ashbury during the Summer of Love The San Francisco Oracle, published in the Haight Ashbury from 1966 to 1968, was one of the most unique and beautiful publications of the...
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A Country Storekeeper in Pennsylvania: Creating Economic Networks in Early America, 1790-1807In early America, traditional commercial interaction revolved around an entity known as the general store. Unfortunately, most of these elusive small-town shops disappeared from our society without leaving business-related documents behind for scholars to analyze. This gap in the historical knowledge of America has...
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The Trial of the Cannibal Dog: The Remarkable Story of Captain Cook's Encounters in the South SeasThis vivid book retells the story of Captain Cook's great voyages in the South Seas, focusing on the encounters between the explorers and the island peoples they "discovered." While Cook and his men were initially confounded by the Polynesians, they were also curious. Cook...
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Genealogies of Long Island Families, from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. in Two Volumes. Volume I: Albertson-Polhemius. IndexedSince its inception in 1870, "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" has been at the forefront in publishing articles on Long Island families, many of them lengthy, definitive studies spread out over several issues. In a number of these articles the English or...
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Virginia GenealogiesHere is one of the most comprehensive single-volume compilations of Virginia family histories every assembled. Besides the families mentioned in the title, lineages and extensive genealogical notes are devoted to the following families: Alexander, Argyll, Armistead, Ashby, Ashton, Baldwin, Bankhead, Barnes, Bertrand, Blackburn, Blackwell,...
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The Cold War: A History in Documents and Eyewitness AccountsThe Cold War contains a selection of official and unofficial documents which provide a truly multi-faceted account of the entire Cold War era. The experiences of the East Berlin housewife are placed alongside those of the South African student; the participation of political leaders...
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A Texas State of Mind: The Texas State University System Story Still Going Strong After a Hundred YearsThis book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the State from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the Hill Country, to the Rio Grande. It is a story of colleges established with a limited mission that,...
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The the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1991The Cold War in East Asia studies Asia as a second front in the Cold War, examining how the six powers--the United States, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, and North and South Korea--interacted one another and forged the conditions that were distinct from the...
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The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish LiteratureThe Necromantics dwells on the literal afterlives of history. Reading the reanimated corpses--monstrous, metaphorical, and occasionally electrified--that Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, W. B. Yeats, Bram Stoker, and others bring to life, Renée Fox argues that these undead figures embody the present's desire to...
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Twisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial BritainTwisted Words: Torture and Liberalism in Imperial Britain examines torture across the fiction, periodicals, and government documents of the British Empire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Placing acts of torture and words about torture in relation to changing definitions of citizenship...
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Widening the Sphere: Mid-To-Late Victorian Popular Fiction, Gender Representation, and CanonicityThis work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period....
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Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body StudiesUntil recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging...
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Illustrious Heritage, An: The History of Tan Tock Seng and FamilyTan Tock Seng, one of Singapore's most illustrious pioneers, was an influential Chinese community leader. In the early 1820s, he responded to Sir Stamford Raffles' call to open up Singapore for trade, and later became a prominent entrepreneur, a social leader of the Chinese...
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The American Vagrant in Literature: Race, Work and WelfareThis book argues that the rapid development of anti-vagrancy laws in the late nineteenth century, which were written alongside widespread public fascination with 'tramps', facilitated a transatlantic dialogue between sources eager to modernize the state's ability to describe, catalogue, and manage this roving population....
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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?: Reflections on the Relationship Between Colonialism and National SocialismForty years before the war of annihilation in eastern Europe and the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German South West Africa perpetrated the first genocide of the twentieth century. From Windhoek to Auschwitz? interrogates the relationship between colonialism and National Socialism, using genocide, the...
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Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960sHere is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did...
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James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk ProjectThis collection arose out of a 2019 conference to commemorate the completion of the fourteen- volume Correspondence of James K. Polk. Its scholarship--which pays tribute to the Polk Project itself, as well as to the controversial nature of the Polk legacy--will result in a...
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Two Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner ReportTwo Societies: The Rioting of 1967 and the Writing of the Kerner Report studies this rioting and examines how this 600-page report was written in only seven months and unanimously adopted by a committee of both Republicans and Democrats. Designed so that each chapter...
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