Mcfarland: 2486 books
Hard Living in America's Heartland
Rural Poverty in the 21st Century Midwest
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Despite living hard, endlessly challenging lives, the rural poor remain tirelessly optimistic, believing things will get better next year. As one struggling farmer explained, “Sometimes I feel like a jackass in a hailstorm—I just have to stand here and take it...but what the hell—it’ll stop...
Spanish Influence on the Old Southwest
A Collision of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanish conquistadors arrived in Central America 150 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. With them came missionaries who tried to convert the Pueblo...
James Madison Hood
Lincoln's Consul to the Court of Siam
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Captain James Madison Hood was the real U.S. Consul in the novel Anna and the King of Siam, but before his arrival in Bangkok, he was also a merchant ship captain, builder of clipper ships, legislator in both Massachusetts and Illinois, industrialist, and land speculator. He was present at the birth...
The Silent Appalachian
Wordless Mountaineers in Fiction, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader’s attention by what they don’t say.
by Todd Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students...
Bayou Country Bloodsport
The Culture of Cockfighting in Southern Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Cockfighting has had a long history in the United States. Now outlawed in all 50 states, the violent sport serves as a springboard to discuss controversial leisure activities. The author’s fieldwork, beginning before the ban of cockfighting and conducted mainly in South Louisiana, provides the basis...
Rum Point
A Baseball Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Set on the gulf coast of Florida and the Cayman Islands, this novel provides a unique blend of modern mystery thriller and baseball narrative. It tells the story of Felicity Lindsay, a small-town police officer who finds a battered murder victim on the beach. Her curiosity about the crime eventually...
Soccer Culture in America
Essays on the World's Sport in Red, White and Blue
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
What does the world’s favorite sport mean in the United States? Despite the common belief that it is only a women’s sport, an immigrants’ sport, a small kids’ sport—or that hating soccer is very American, the new essays in this volume attest that soccer indeed is a very American and very...
The Signs of James Bond
Semiotic Explorations in the World of 007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This book is an analysis of the most significant elements that compose the “Bond formula,” such as names, binary oppositions and narrative patterns. It tackles Ian Fleming’s novels as well as the 22 films of the Eon Productions series and follows the evolution of certain determining features...
The Past in Visual Culture
Essays on Memory, Nostalgia and the Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past—accessed with the touch of a finger—are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture affects our relationship with history and memory. This...
The Post-9/11 City in Novels
Literary Remappings of New York and London
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Post–9/11 fiction reflects how the September 11, 2001, attacks have influenced our concept of public space, from urban behavior patterns to architecture and urban movement. It also suggests a need for remapping the real and imagined spaces where we live and work. Through close readings of novels...
Castles in the Sand
A City Planner in Abu Dhabi
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Abu Dhabi—an obscure Middle Eastern principality that happens to be the richest city in the world. This book tells the story of Abu Dhabi’s ambitions to transform itself from a sleepy sheikhdom into a thriving international metropolis and a hub of business and leisure. It traces Abu Dhabi’s...
by James C. Burke
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
In its early years, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company survived multiple threats to its existence. Under its new corporate name, the Wilmington & Weldon Railroad Company would soon be put to the ultimate test, the Civil War. From mobilization to the last effort to supply Lee’s Army...
Bud Fowler
Baseball's First Black Professional
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This is the biography of Bud Fowler (né John Jackson), the first African American to play in organized baseball, and the longest tenured at the time that the color line was drawn. In addition to his professional playing career, which lasted more than 25 years, Fowler was a scout, organizer, owner,...