Christopher Reed: 24 books
If Memory Serves
Gay Men, AIDS, and the Promise of the Queer Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But without memory there can be no future, argue Christopher...
by Christopher Reed
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Manx McCatty is a hard boiled feline detective prowling the back alleys of San Francisco in search of a killer ghost. With his mysterious friend, Fiddler, he searches through the foggy nights, tracking down a phantom killer who's leaving a trail of blood in his wake. As rumors spread that a mythical...
Bachelor Japanists
Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in...
by Christopher Reed
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2005
Written from the perspective of the factory worker and peasant at the ground level, this study of Russia during the Revolution 1917-21 aims to shed light on the realities of living through and participating in these tumultuous events. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in history, Soviet studies, and politics.
Cotswolds & Forest of Dean Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The ‘quintessentially English’ Cotswolds is a gentle hilly countryside region of southcentral England. This popular tourist destination is spread over 790 square miles and is close to the cities of Gloucester, Bath, Oxford, and Stratford-upon-Avon. The Cotswolds has been designated an English...
Edinburgh & Glasgow Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Edinburgh, Scotland is one of Europe’s most breathtaking cities. With beautiful architecture, the city’s Old Town has ancient, labyrinthine cobbled streets and small alleyways. On the other hand, New Town has a happening shopping and nighttime entertainment scene. Edinburgh attracts four million...
Liverpool & Manchester Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From humble beginnings Liverpool has become one of the United Kingdom’s most vibrant cities. Liverpool has changed for the better over the past decade. With new, state-of-the-art, city-centre shopping malls and flashy tourist attractions in Albert Dock, Liverpool is attractive and modern. The city...
Art and Homosexuality
A History of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern...
Oxford & Stratford-upon-Avon Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Oxford is a beautiful and historic city in the south of England. With one of the world’s most famous universities, the city has no less than nine hundred buildings that are listed as having architectural or historical merit, and most of them are located within one square mile! The High Street has...
Dublin, Cork & Galway Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Ireland's capital city of Dublin is a thriving international centre of culture, music, food and nightlife. In Dublin you can drink Guinness at its source, bask in the splendour of ancient cathedrals and enjoy the lively spirit at a local pub in Temple Bar. Cork is Ireland’s southern-most and...
Leeds & York Travel Guide
Attractions, Eating, Drinking, Shopping & Places To Stay
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Leeds in West Yorkshire is one northern England’s largest cities. The city rose to prominence in the 19th century as a major hub of manufacturing and commerce. Its importance during the Industrial Revolution brought jobs, people, and construction to Yorkshire, some of which exists today which...
Black Chicago's First Century
1833-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
In Black Chicago’s First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of an African American population in a nineteenth-century northern city beyond the eastern seaboard. Reed’s study covers the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements...
by Jack Halberstam, Imani Perry, Christopher Freeburg
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
This issue of Profession contains Russell A. Berman's introduction to his Presidential Forum, Language, Literature, Learning, held at the 2012 MLA convention, and the essays of the forum participants Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Christopher Freeburg, Jack Halberstam, B. Venkat Mani, and Imani Perry. To mark...
The Depression Comes to the South Side
Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline—a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused...
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