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Chinese in Colonial Burma
A Migrant Community in A Multiethnic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Using previously unexplored archives from colonial institutions and individuals, and primary materials produced by the Burmese Chinese, this comprehensive study investigates over a century of history of the Burmese Chinese under British colonial rule. Due to the peculiar position of Burma in the British...
Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants
Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.
Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage
Class, Poverty, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in American Theatre, 1890–1916
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
Defeating Japan
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Strategy in the Pacific War, 1943–1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
This book argues that American strategists in the Joint Chiefs of Staff were keenly aware of the inseparability of political and military aspects of strategy in the fight against Japan in World War II. They understood that war not only has political sources, it also has political purposes that establish...
Abandoning American Neutrality
Woodrow Wilson and the Beginning of the Great War, August 1914 – December 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
During the first 18 months of World War I, Woodrow Wilson sought to maintain American neutrality, but as this carefully argued study shows, it was ultimately an unsustainable stance. The tension between Wilson's idealism and pragmatism ultimately drove him to abandon neutrality, paving the way for America's entrance into the war in 1917.
George L. Mosse's Italy
Interpretation, Reception, and Intellectual Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Twelve years have gone by since the passing of George L. Mosse, yet his work still provides essential tools for historical analysis and influences contemporary research. This volume provides a re-examination of his historiographical production and an analysis of his influence in the context of Italian history.
The Move Beyond Form
Creative Undoing in Literature and the Arts since 1960
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond.
by Philip Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This book adds to this growing body of scholarship on the Italian Resistance by analysing, for the first time, how the 'three wars' are represented over the broad spectrum of Resistance culture from 1945 to the present day. Furthermore, it makes this contribution to scholarship by bridging the gap...
by Debbie Olson
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and philosophically - offers a unique opportunity to illuminate and interrogate the child presence within the cinematic complexity of Hitchcock's films.
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan represents the first serious academic engagement with auteur director M. Night Shyamalan and his work. The essays, including contributions from established film scholars David Sterritt, Murray Pomerance, Emmanuel Burdeau, R. Barton Palmer, Matt...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial approach illuminates the societies and cultures of the past. Here, leading experts explore the uses of space in two respects: how space can be applied to the study of history, and how space was used at specific times.
by S. Qi
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book studies the reception history of Western literature in China from the 1840s to the present. Qi explores the socio-historical contexts and the contours of how Western literature was introduced, mostly through translation and assesses its transformative impact in the cultural, literary as well as sociopolitical life of modern China.
The Gospel of Beauty in the Progressive Era
Reforming American Verse and Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Szefel investigates the use of poetry in addressing political reform at the turn of the twentieth century. It charts the work of poets and editors - many of whom were women and minorities - who created a network of organizations to nurture writers who addressed the problems wrought by Progressive-era capitalism.