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The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and EthicsThe field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order...
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Chinese Americans in the Heartland: Migration, Work, and CommunityThe term "Heartland" in American cultural context conventionally tends to provoke imageries of corn-fields, flat landscape, hog farms, and rural communities, along with ideas of conservatism, homogeneity, and isolation. But as the Midwestern and Southern states experienced more rapid population growth than that in...
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British Literature and Archaeology, 1880-1930British literature and archaeology, 1880-1930 reveals how British writers and artists across the long turn of the twentieth century engaged with archaeological discourse--its artefacts, landscapes, bodies, and methods--uncovering the materials of the past to envision radical possibilities for the present and future. This project...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, 7-Volume SetSince the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes...
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Military Innovation in the Interwar PeriodThis study of major military innovations in the 1920s and 1930s explores differences in innovating exploitation by the seven major military powers. This volume of comparative essays investigates how and why innovation occurred or did not occur, and explains much of the strategic and...
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Adventure Narratives in the Early Soviet UnionThe book proposes a critical historical reconstruction of early Soviet adventure-craze and its lasting popularity in socialist realism. It also offers innovative theoretical propositions for a philological analysis of adventure fiction that arises from this unique historical constellation.Author: Riccardo NicolosiPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 12/31/2024Pages:...
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How Dehumanization Leads to Murder and Genocide: Lessons from the Nazi EraThis book discusses psychological aspects of dehumanization and of the human tendency to dominate, control and potentially murder those considered "less than", or dangerous to the dominant group. It explores how increasingly severe dehumanization resulted in the genocide of six million Jews in the...
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The Papers of Andrew Jackson, Volume 12: 1834This volume presents more than five hundred annotated original documents from Andrew Jackson's sixth presidential year. They include his private memoranda, intimate family letters, official messages, and correspondence with government and military officers, diplomats, Indian leaders, political friends and foes, and plain citizens throughout...
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Die Rumanisch-Judische Frage: Die Entstehung Einer Europaischen Anomalie (Ca.1772-1870)Dass Liberalismus und judische Gleichstellung im 19. Jahrhundert Hand in Hand gingen, kann fast schon als Allgemeinposten europaisch-judischer Geschichtsschreibung bezeichnet werden. Die Entwicklung Rumaniens widerspricht dieser Gleichsetzung, da es hier 1866 zu einem kollektiven rechtlichen Ausschluss von Juden als "Fremde" durch selbsternannte "Liberale" kam....
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Route 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon: Mother Road to Mythic American BywayRoute 66 and the Formation of a National Cultural Icon: Mother Road to Mythic American Byway by David Milowski explores the divergence between Route 66 myth and reality and provides a critical examination of the cultural origins of the Route 66 myth and the...
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Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, ReappraisalsThis long overdue reevaluation of Jack Kerouac gives fresh perspectives on his unique literary output, his vexed relation to issues of race, class, and gender, as well as his continuing cultural afterlife. This collection of essays by esteemed Beat commentators reassesses one of the...
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Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German FictionWriting the Mountainsreconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and argues that in a range of texts, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Die Bergwerke zu Falun" (1819) to Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten(1995) and beyond, mountains serve as...
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Have You Got Good Religion?: Black Women's Faith, Courage, and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights MovementWhat compels a person to risk her life to change deeply rooted systems of injustice in ways that may not benefit her? The thousands of Black Churchwomen who took part in civil rights protests drew on faith, courage, and moral imagination to acquire the...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of BlacknessContributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations...
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Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female AthleteSkimpy Coverage explores Sports Illustrated's treatment of female athletes since the iconic magazine's founding in 1954. The first book-length study of its kind, this accessible account charts the ways in which Sports Illustrated-arguably the leading sports publication in postwar America-engaged with the social and...
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Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s-1970sAs protest movements took to the streets during the 1960s and 1970s, a group of lawyers joined forces with America's most confrontational activists. In pursuit of radical change themselves, these militant attorneys went beyond providing mere representation. They identified with their clients, defied the...
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Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century MiamiIn the early twentieth century, Miami cultivated an image of itself as a destination for leisure and sunshine free from labor strife. Thomas A. Castillo unpacks this idea of class harmony and the language that articulated its presence by delving into the conflicts, repression,...
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Us Public Opinion Since the 1930s: Galluping Through HistoryThis is both a history book and a book on public opinion. George Gallup, who pioneered survey sampling methods and whose name in fact became synonymous with public opinion polls, conducted his first survey in 1936. The main part of this book starts there...
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Our Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil RightsOur Portion of Hell: Fayette County, Tennessee: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights offers an unrivalled account of how a rural Black community drew together to combat the immense forces aligned against them. Author Robert Hamburger first visited Fayette County as...
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