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Blake in the NinetiesThe 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to re-evaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work. Blake in the Nineties grapples with...
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Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years WarAlbrecht Wallenstein was a legendary military commander and generalissimo of the Habsburg forces, yet was eventually assassinated on the orders of Emperor Ferdinand II. This accessible modern biography of Wallenstein for the English-speaking reader dispels the many historical myths surrounding this central character of...
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American Immigration and Ethnicity: A ReaderThis work aims to enrich studies of American immigration history by combining and comparing the experiences of both European immigration, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and Asian, Hispanic, Caribbean, and African immigrations in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Author: D. GerberPublisher: Palgrave...
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Samuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction: Problems in PostmodernismSamuel Beckett's Legacies in American Fiction provides an overdue investigation into Beckett's rich influences over American writing. Through in-depth readings of postmodern authors such as Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster and Lydia Davis, this book situates Beckett's post-war writing...
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Pound and Pasolini: Poetics of CrisisIntroduction: Pound and/or Pasolini Chapter 1: Family Portraits Chapter 2: Creatures Facing Backwards Chapter 3: Exposition Chapter 4: An Economy of Signs Chapter 5: Failure Coda: Afterlives Appendix A. The Pasolini-Pound Interview B. The Ronsisvalle-Pound Interview Author: Sean MarkPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 392Binding Type:...
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Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar EuropeIn addition to revising our view of the interwar period and the building of European democracies, this book cuts against the grain of most current theorizing in political science by explicitly discussing when and how ideas influence political behavior.Author: Sheri BermanPublisher: HarvardPublished: 07/01/1998Pages: 320Binding...
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Field Station Bahia: Brazil in the Work of Lorenzo Dow Turner, E. Franklin Frazier and Frances and Melville Herskovits, 1935-1967This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and...
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American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle: Art, Protest, and Cultural TransformationIn American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form - the little magazine - and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the...
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We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to TrumpWhen Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that Douglas Dowland asks in We, Us, and Them. In search of answers, he turns to narratives of American nationhood written since the Vietnam War--stories in which the...
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Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica RevoltA radical reinterpretation of "Attica," the revolutionary 1970s uprising that galvanized abolitionist movements and transformed prisons. Tip of the Spear boldly and compellingly argues that prisons are a domain of hidden warfare within US borders. With this book, Orisanmi Burton explores what he terms...
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American StateAn exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonprofits serving a range of municipal and cultural needs are now so ubiquitous in US cities, it can be difficult to envision a time...
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A Conflict Perpetuated: China Policy During the Kennedy YearsThe first comprehensive account of China policy during the Kennedy years, this study profiles John F. Kennedy as a man whose inner struggles and disparate characteristics made for an unpredictable foreign policy. While he was often a hostage to the Cold War, to constrictive...
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Democracy's Mountain: Longs Peak and the Unfulfilled Promises of America's National Parks Volume 5At 14,259 feet, Longs Peak towers over Colorado's northern Front Range. A prized location for mountaineering since the 1870s, Longs has been a place of astonishing climbing feats--and, unsurprisingly, of significant risk and harm. Careless and unlucky climbers have experienced serious injury and death...
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Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town Volume 4In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so--against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation--is the story Jesús Jesse Esparza...
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Mourning the Presidents: Loss and Legacy in American CultureThe death of a chief executive, regardless of the circumstances-sudden or expected, still in office or decades later-is always a moment of reckoning and reflection. Mourning the Presidents brings together renowned and emerging scholars to examine how different generations and communities of Americans have...
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Drone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote WarfareDrone warfare raises far-reaching questions about responsibility, war, and sovereignty. Who can be held accountable for drone strikes? How do wars conducted by drone disrupt ideas of national territories and sovereign boundaries? What does the occupation of a land or people look like if...
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Photo-Essays about Asian American Women in Life Magazine 1936 to 1965: Hidden Narratives and Breaking StereotypesThis book explores the ways in which mid-twentieth-century Life Magazine editors employed the photo-essay as a narrative art form to overcome racist stereotypes about Asian women and envision them instead as part of the American middle class. Author: Karen L. Ching CarterPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished:...
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Perspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean TroubadourPerspectives on the life and works of Gabriel García Márquez: Caribbean Troubadour explores both the big picture and the small details about the Colombian Nobel Prize winner: his development as an artist, the construction of his public persona, the characteristics and the significance of...
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Faith, Race, and the Lost Cause: Confessions of a Southern ChurchFaith, Race, and the Lost Cause is a new history of Richmond's famous St. Paul's Episcopal Church, attended by Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis during the Civil War and a tourist magnet thereafter. Christopher Alan Graham's narrative-which emerged out of St. Paul's History...
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The Talk of the Town: Information and Community in Sixteenth-Century SwitzerlandThe Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities. It does so through the lens of the St Gall linen trader Johannes Rütiner (1501-1556/7)...
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