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An Agrarian Republic
Farming, Antislavery Politics, and Nature Parks in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
The familiar story of the Civil War tells of a predominately agricultural South pitted against a rapidly industrializing North. However, Adam Wesley Dean argues that the Republican Party's political ideology was fundamentally agrarian. Believing that small farms owned by families for generations led...
Cosmos and Tragedy
An Essay on the Meaning of Aeschylus
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the <3>Ortesia<1> and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine justice, and he sees a carefully...
by Felix Frankfurter
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The power of the commerce clause touches most intimately the relations between government and economic enterprises, and the process by which the conflicting claims of the nation and states are mediated through the Supreme Court is of continuing interest. This study is a clear exposition of the various...
Chiasmus in the New Testament
A Study in Formgeschichte
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This study is devoted to the tracing of the Hebrew literary influence of the Greek text of the New Testament. It discusses specifically one form, the extensive use of the inverted order called chiasmus, a form that seems to be a part of Hebrew thought itself, whether in poetry or in prose. Originally...
The Gulf Stream
Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating science and history of this sea highway known as the Gulf Stream, a watery wilderness that stretches from the Caribbean to the North Atlantic. Spanning both...
by William Harmon
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Throughout nearly sixty-five of writing, Pound specialized on the suffocating effects of time on poetry, aesthetic form, and history. Harmon examines Pound's strategies for dealing with time and arrives at a persuasive reading of Pound's works in general and of the The Cantos in particular. By concentrating...
The Sound of Navajo Country
Music, Language, and Diné Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this ethnography of Navajo (Diné) popular music culture, Kristina M. Jacobsen examines questions of Indigenous identity and performance by focusing on the surprising and vibrant Navajo country music scene. Through multiple first-person accounts, Jacobsen illuminates country music’s connections...
Paths Not Taken
British Labour and International Policy in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Distinguished historian Henry Winkler examines the changing and often contradictory views that characterized the British Labour party's approach to foreign policy from the end of World War I through the 1920s. He documents the progression from Labour's general indifference toward international issues...
by Paul B. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's...
The World in a Skillet
A Food Lover's Tour of the New American South
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Paul and Angela Knipple's culinary tour of the contemporary American South celebrates the flourishing of global food traditions "down home." Drawing on the authors' firsthand interviews and reportage from Richmond to Mobile and enriched by a cornucopia of photographs and original recipes, the book...
by Arthur F. Raper
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book deals with the quest for a preventive to lynching which can be undertaken only after one has an understanding of what it is that is to be prevented. This necessary analysis of lynching--its background, circumstances, and meaning--introduces many baffling elements. The author has made a detailed...
This Ain't Chicago
Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution "I hope you know this ain't Chicago." In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African...
Response to Imperialism
The United States and the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This is a study of the impact of the Filipino Insurrection on American society and politics. It is the first work to evaluate in detail the response of public opinion to that war and to analyze official and popular response in the light of the values and anxieties of the American people. Although...
Entrepreneurs of Ideology
Neoconservative Publishers in Germany, 1890-1933
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Stark examines the importance of publishers and the book industry in the rise of twentieth-century Germany's radical right-wing cultural movements. He shows that these men thought their their professional "calling" conferred upon them the right and responsibility to provide guidance for the German...