Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
A History of Britain
1945 to Brexit
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
A journey through the events of the postwar years that “makes the outcome of Britain’s Brexit referendum much easier to comprehend” (Julian Lewis, member of Parliament).
In 2016, Britain stunned itself and the world by voting to pull out of the European Union, leaving financial markets...
The Golden Wave
Culture and Politics after Sri Lanka’s Tsunami Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the...
The Ohio Frontier
Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1998
The Ohio Frontier
Crucible of the Old Northwest, 1720–1830
R. Douglas Hurt
"This exhaustively researched and well-written book provides a comprehensive history of Ohio from 1720 to 1830."
—Journal of the Early Republic
Nowhere on the American frontier was the clash of cultures...
Derailed by Bankruptcy
Life after the Reading Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
What happened when the US government stopped investing in railroads and started investing in highways and air travel? By the late 1970s, six major eastern railroads had declared bankruptcy. Although he didn’t like trains, Howard H. Lewis became the primary lawyer for the Reading Railroad during...
by Bill Marvel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This richly illustrated volume tells the story of a legendary railroad whose tracks spanned the Midwest, serving farms and small-town America for more than 140 years. One of the earliest railroads to build westward from Chicago, it was the first to span the Mississippi, advancing the frontier, bringing...
Stolen Childhood, Second Edition
Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition....
John Frank Stevens
Civil Engineer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt...
The Iron Road in the Prairie State
The Story of Illinois Railroading
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas agreed on one thing: Illinois needed railroads. Over the next fifty years, the state became the nation’s railroad hub, with Chicago at its center. Speculators, greed, growth, and regulation followed as the railroad industry consumed unprecedented amounts...
Mahler and Strauss
In Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
A rare case among history's great music contemporaries, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949) enjoyed a close friendship until Mahler's death in 1911. Unlike similar musical pairs (Bach and Handel, Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg and Stravinsky), these two composers may have disagreed...
French Cinema—A Critical Filmography
Volume 1, 1929–1939
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This invaluable resource by one of the world’s leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958)...
by Bill Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
The third edition of Bill Nichols’s best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes...
At the Mind’s Limits
Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and Its Realities
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
This searing memoir of the author’s concentration camp experience “is the autobiography of an extraordinarily acute conscience” (Newsweek).
“Whoever has succumbed to torture can no longer feel at home in the world.”
At the Mind’s Limits is the story of one man’s incredible...
Politics in Color and Concrete
Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous—the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom,...