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Sensitive NegotiationsThroughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims. In Sensitive Negotiations, Nikki...
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Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell's Racial RealismAfrican American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell--an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose academic and political work included his employment as a young attorney with...
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Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States During the Long 1980sThe 1980s was a period of political and social tumult in Britain and the United States. Facing resurgent conservative forces, feminist and queer activists organized in ways that not only resisted conservative hegemony but also helped to forge new communities, communications, and futures. Resist,...
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Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Volume OneThe origins of the United States' distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. Long before 1776 or 1619, Englishmen understood themselves to be a part of a larger, lost British empire that might disappear forever in the globe-girdling...
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Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era ReformThe last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance trace the origins of these and...
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This Side of Philosophy: Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish LettersStruck by the contrast between the prestige of their literary tradition and their apparent philosophical insignificance, modern writers from Spain have devoted themselves to exploring the relation between literature and philosophy. This Side of Philosophy focuses on four major authors--Miguel de Unamuno, José Ortega...
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A Passionate Life: W. H. H. Murray, from Preacher to ProgressiveOne hundred fifty years ago, the Adirondack Mountains were overrun. Thousands of middle-class urbanites from Boston and New York City abandoned the comfort of their homes and rushed into the unknown, northern wilderness, believing they would find great restorative and even curative powers. These...
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Lichen Tufts, from the AlleghaniesIn her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher,...
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L'Ivresse de la Liberte: La Revolution de 1908 Dans l'Empire OttomanEnglish summary: Starting with a pursuit of the origin of the Young Turks revolution, this book examines the implementation of the new regime on the governmental, administrative, and communal level. It then takes the reader into the provinces of the empire, before analyzing 1908...
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Drops of Inclusivity: Racial Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as Roberto Clemente and Ruth Fernández, are well known, others, such...
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Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation FictionThe first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation...
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of NaturalizationAn ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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Henry Constable: The Complete PoemsElizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, is a fascinating case study in how religious and political preoccupations could drive the learned across the unstable confessional divide. He threw over an early career of government service to work towards the return of...
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The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, Sj: Volume 2: 1588-1597The rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies, and its integration into the wider historiographical project, continues to focus attention on Robert Persons as one of the most significant public figures of the Reformation era in England. As the superior of the Jesuit...
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The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women's Equality in a Turbulent AgeA 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThis book addresses the ways in which Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age....
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Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896Reimagining the Educated Citizen contends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a U.S. national identity are inseparable from the simultaneous emergence of transatlantic constructs of an educated citizen along transnational and transracial lines. The nineteenth century is...
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After Apollo: Cultural Legacies of the Race to the MoonExploring the impacts of NASA'sspace program on American society and culture After Apollo explores howNASA's space program impacted American society during and after the race to theMoon, looking back at the 1969 Apollo 11 Moonlanding from the perspective of the present day. Centering on...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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