Old Is Gold

1. Beginnings.- 2. A Terrace of Generations.- 3. The Brindled Cats: Language and Translation.- 4. Journeys to the Past: Identities, Histories, & Myth.- 5. The Grumbling Questioning Poet: Politics & Social engagement.- 6. Conclusion.Author: Clíona Ní RíordáinPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 01/28/2021Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize:...

This moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad.Author: M. Höhn, M. KlimkePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 11/17/2010Pages:...

Savannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in...

In Disruption, Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in...

The land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations...

Michael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement...

Now in its second edition, American Adventurism Abroad traces US foreign policy from the late 1940s through the past six years of America's 'war on terror, ' and examines the impact of its repeated militaristic meddling into developing nations. Examines 34 cases of overseas...

Dwight Eisenhower's encounter with the Holocaust altered how he understood the Second World War and shaped how he led the United States and the Western Alliance during the Cold War. This book is the first to blend scholarship on Eisenhower, World War II, and...

The plan of this work is to record the genealogies of all families resident in Guilford from the settlement of the town in 1639 to about 1890. Special attention is accorded the earliest families, of course, but in general all families resident in Guilford...

This is the first collection of records the researcher should turn to in any genealogical investigation in the Buckeye State. Taking the place of pre-1820 census records, this work presents a county-by-county list of Ohio settlers and residents from about 1800 to 1825. Along...

This book re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874-1902--the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion--and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. The book utilizes an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers...

In 1921 Austria became the first interwar European country to experience hyperinflation. The League of Nations, among other actors, stepped in to help reconstruct the economy, but a decade later Austria's largest bank, Credit-Anstalt, collapsed. Historians have correlated these events with the banking and...

A sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China.In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China. American foreign and strategic policy in...

This landmark book - entirely unobtainable for several years - is the single essential study of how the best-known Bront novels - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - achieved their world-wide fame. It offers a fascinating account of how the novels have passed into...

This book on Egyptian Pentecostalism is considered the first integrated monograph on the topic. It invites scholars and students of Religions, Renewal Studies, and Pentecostalism around the world to discover a new arena of research. Due to the sociocultural perspective of this study on...

The last decades have seen a revival of fragmentation in British and American works of fiction that deny linearity, coherence and continuity in favour of disruption, gaps and fissures. Authors such as Ali Smith, David Mitchell and David Shields have sought new ways of...

English summary: Contrary to German studies on the causes of the First World War and the events on the Western and Eastern fronts, publications about what happened in South Eastern Europe are scarce. The fighting around the Dardanelles (Gallipoli) in 1915 is still vaguely...

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction. On the 50th anniversary of the most dangerous confrontation of the nuclear era, two of the leading experts on the crisis recreate the drama of those tumultuous days as...

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion. The overall goal of this volume...

International contributors from the fields of political science, cultural studies, history, and literature grapple with both the local and global impact of World War I on marginal communities in China, Syria, Europe, Russia, and the Caribbean. Readers can uncover the neglected stories of this...