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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2010
Is Italy il bel paese—the beautiful country—where tourists spend their vacations looking for art, history, and scenery? Or is it a land whose beauty has been cursed by humanity’s greed and nature’s cruelty? The answer is largely a matter of narrative and the narrator’s vision of Italy. The...
Degrees of Allegiance
Harassment and Loyalty in Missouri's German-American Community during World War I
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Historians have long argued that the Great War eradicated German culture from American soil. Degrees of Allegiance examines the experiences of German-Americans living in Missouri during the First World War, evaluating the personal relationships at the local level that shaped their lives and the way...
The Borders of Integration
Polish Migrants in Germany and the United States, 1870–1924
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2011
The issues of immigration and integration are at the forefront of contemporary politics. Yet debates over foreign workers and the desirability of their incorporation into European and American societies too often are discussed without a sense of history. McCook’s examination questions static assumptions...
Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste
Heirloom Seed Savers in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Brown Goose, the White Case Knife, Ora’s Speckled Bean, Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter — these are just a few of the heirloom fruits and vegetables you’ll encounter in Bill Best’s remarkable history of seed saving and the people who preserve both unique flavors and the Appalachian...
The Demographics of Empire
The Colonial Order and the Creation of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social...
Authentically African
Arts and the Transnational Politics of Congolese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Together, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture. In Authentically African, Sarah Van Beurden traces the relationship between the possession, definition, and display...
Land for the People
The State and Agrarian Conflict in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Half of Indonesia’s massive population still lives on farms, and for these tens of millions of people the revolutionary promise of land reform remains largely unfulfilled. The Basic Agrarian Law, enacted in the wake of the Indonesian revolution, was supposed to provide access to land and equitable...
Mountains of Injustice
Social and Environmental Justice in Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2011
Research in environmental justice reveals that low-income and minority neighborhoods in our nation’s cities are often the preferred sites for landfills, power plants, and polluting factories. Those who live in these sacrifice zones are forced to shoulder the burden of harmful environmental effects...
Cartography and the Political Imagination
Mapping Community in Colonial Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name — “Luyia” — appeared on the official census in 1948. The emergence of the Luyia represents a clear case of ethnic “invention.” At the same time, current restrictive theories privileging ethnic...
Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters...
by Sue Onslow, Martin Plaut
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe sharply divides opinion and embodies the contradictions of his country’s history and political culture. As a symbol of African liberation and a stalwart opponent of white rule, he was respected and revered by many. This heroic status contrasted sharply, in the...
by Judith Wambacq
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Thinking between Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty is the first book-length examination of the relation between these two major thinkers of the twentieth century. Questioning the dominant view that the two have little of substance in common, Judith Wambacq brings them into a compelling dialogue to reveal...
Gone Dollywood
Dolly Parton’s Mountain Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Dolly Parton isn’t just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart of that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year. Parton’s prodigious talent and incredible celebrity have allowed her to turn her hometown into one of the most popular...
Gongs and Pop Songs
Sounding Minangkabau in Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago. Jennifer A. Fraser counters this tendency by exploring a little-known gong tradition...