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On Captivity
A Spanish Soldier's Experience in a Havana Prison, 1896-1898
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
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On Captivity is the first translation into English of Del Cautiverio, Manuel Ciges Aparicio’s account of his imprisonment in the notorious La Cabaña fortress in Havana during the Cuban War of Independence (1895–98).
Ciges...
Scientific Characters
Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Scientific Characters chronicles the contests over character, knowledge, trust, and truth in a politically charged scientific controversy that erupted after a 1994 Chicago Tribune headline: “Fraud in Breast Cancer Research: Doctor Lied on Data for Decade.” In the aftermath of this dramatic news,...
Mieres Reborn
The Reinvention of a Catalan Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.
Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities...
Reachable Stars
Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the...
by Phaedra Carmen Pezzullo, Robert Asen, Helene A. Shugart
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
This book explores the ways that scholars, journalists, politicians, and citizens conceive of “the public” or “public life,” and how those entities are defined and invented. For decades, scholars have used the metaphors of spheres, systems, webs, or networks to talk about, describe, and map...
Gardens of Prehistory
The Archaeology of Settlement Agriculture in Greater Mesoamerica
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The prehistoric agricultural systems of the New World provided the foundations for a diverse set of complex social developments ranging from the puebloan societies of the American Southwest to the archaic state polities of Mesoamerica and the Andean region. From the tropical forests of Central America...
Lost in the Lights
Sports, Dreams, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A veteran journalist’s collection of sportswriting on the blue-collar South.
Sport mirrors life. Or, in Paul Hemphill's opinion, “Sport is life.” The 15 pieces in this compelling collection are arranged along the timeline for an aspiring athlete's dream: “The Dawning,” with stories...
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America
An Interpretive Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
A comprehensive and essential field reference, Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America reveals the spiritual landscape in the American Archaic period.
Beliefs and Rituals in Archaic Eastern North America describes, illustrates, and offers nondogmatic interpretations of rituals...
Curators and Culture
The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.
As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided not so much by European examples, but rather by the imperatives of the American democratic...
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus.
Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations, arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals following...
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and...
Money and Modernity
Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Marsh locates Pound and Williams firmly in the Jeffersonian tradition and examines their epic poems as manifestations of a Jeffersonian ideology in modernist terms.
The modernist poets William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound were latter-day Jeffersonians whose politics and poetry were strongly...
by George H. Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In this first effort to define an American scientific community, originally published in 1968, George Daniels has chosen for special study the 56 scientists most published in the 16 scientific journals identified as “national” during the period 1815 to 1845. In this reprint edition, with a new...
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
*Education for Liberation *completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War...