Old Is Gold

Considers how Irish poets have drawn on discourses of locality to articulate new forms of place and belonging amid Ireland's transforming global identity.Author: Shirley Lau WongPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 07/01/2023Pages: 246Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69dISBN: 9781438493824About the...

An "all-you-can-eat" tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved.Author: Elizabeth AldrichPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 05/01/2023Pages: 392Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88dISBN: 9781438493060About the AuthorElizabeth Aldrich is Curator Emeritus of Dance at...

A classic work on the history of New York City written by one of America's greatest politicians.Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 178Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438492391About the AuthorWilliam N. Tilchin was a full-time history...

The Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York-or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved...

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality. McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism...

Does literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative...

Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth...

Author: Margot TudorPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/14/2023Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009264921This title is not returnable

Rome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to...

This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of 'Greater India', implying a Hindu colonization of Southeast Asia, and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a colonial power, reproducible...

How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties...

Sharon Tate Volume 2 is one of only a handful of presentable biographies of Sharon available to the general public. The book's theme focuses solely on this colorful and historical person of the 20th century. In the past, publications, movies, television, Internet platforms, fans,...

Alphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America. Entries include cowboy types, equipment, dress, work, and recreation. illustrated, with informative appendixes, an index, and bibliography.Author: Richard W. SlattaPublisher: ABC-CLIOPublished: 06/30/1994Pages: 474Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...

This book sheds new and revealing light on British cultural and information policies in Greece by unearthing previously unexamined or insufficiently examined primary sources. These sources draw an intricate picture of a complex moment when, in the ruins of post-war southern Europe, British institutions,...

The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class-...

The veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...

Tales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer an illuminating new comprehensive study of W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction from 1903-1928. Erika Renée Williams begins by revisiting Du Bois's tale of being rebuffed by...

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth...

The Lower Danube--the stretch of Europe's second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea--was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches--the Iron Gates...

Engaging Italy charts the intertwined lives and writings of three American women in Italy in the 1860s and '70s--journalist Anne Hampton Brewster (1818-92), orphanage and industrial school founder Emily Bliss Gould (1825-75), and translator Caroline Crane Marsh (1816-1901). Brewster, Gould, and Marsh did not...