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by Elizabeth Brown Pryor
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and reveals a complex and often trying woman.
Based...
In Darkest Alaska
Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Before Alaska became a mining bonanza, it was a scenic bonanza, a place larger in the American imagination than in its actual borders. Prior to the great Klondike Gold Rush of 1897, thousands of scenic adventurers journeyed along the Inside Passage, the nearly thousand-mile sea-lane that snakes up...
Middle Eastern Terrorism
From Black September to September 11
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Since the first airplane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in September 1970, Middle Eastern terrorists have sacrificed innocent human lives in the name of ideology. From Black September to the Munich...
The Disaster Experts
Mastering Risk in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before, yet the nation faces ever-increasing losses from such events? History shows that disasters...
Heavenly Ambitions
America's Quest to Dominate Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch...
Unsettling the West
Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The revolutionary Ohio Valley is often depicted as a chaotic Hobbesian dystopia, in which Indians and colonists slaughtered each other at every turn. In Unsettling the West, Rob Harper overturns this familiar story. Rather than flailing in a morass, the peoples of the revolutionary Ohio Valley actively...
by Julia Miller Vick, Jennifer S. Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
For more than 15 years, The Academic Job Search Handbook has assisted job seekers in all academic disciplines in their search for faculty positions. The guide includes information on aspects of the search that are common to all levels, with invaluable tips for those seeking their first or second faculty...
by Keena Lipsitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Tight political races with their emotionally charged debates, mud-slinging, and uncertain outcomes are stressful for voters and candidates alike, but that stress may be healthy for democracy. In Competitive Elections and the American Voter, Keena Lipsitz argues that highly contested electoral battles...
The Sports Franchise Game
Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Power, prestige, and millions of dollars—these are the stakes in the sports franchise game. In this book, sports attorney Kenneth Shropshire describes the franchise warfare that pits city against city in the fierce bidding competition to capture major league teams. Rigorous research, fascinating...
Medieval Theory of Authorship
Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
It has often been held that scholasticism destroyed the literary theory that was emerging during the twelfth-century Renaissance, and hence discussion of late medieval literary works has tended to derive its critical vocabulary from modern, not medieval, theory. In Medieval Theory of Authorship, now...
Power Play
The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste,...
True Relations
Reading, Literature, and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such...
Witchcraft and Magic
Contemporary North America
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Magic, always part of the occult underground in North America, has experienced a resurgence since the 1960s. Although most contemporary magical religions have come from abroad, they have found fertile ground in which to develop in North America. Who are today's believers in Witchcraft and how do they...
by Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Although world-famous for his novels Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt, Theodore Dreiser was also highly accomplished in journalism, autobiography, and travel writing. In 1919, having recently accepted the publishing contract of a new publisher, Boni and Liveright, Dreiser proposed to publish a "book...