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Contested Culture
The Image, the Voice, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Jane M. Gaines examines the phenomenon of images as property, focusing on the legal staus of mechanically produced visual and audio images from popular culture. Bridging the fields of critical legal studies and cultural studies, she analyzes copyright, trademark, and intellectual property law, asking how the law constructs works of authorship and who owns the country's cultural heritage.
The Strength of a People
The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Thomas Jefferson's conviction that the health of the nation's democracy would depend on the existence of an informed citizenry has been a cornerstone of our political culture since the inception of the American republic. Even today's debates over education reform and the need to be competitive in...
Whiting Up
Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface supercop in his hit music video "Dangerous."...
The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage
High Culture Vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as "Tocquevillian." In the work of three towering American literary...
A Foxfire Christmas
Appalachian Memories and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
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This captivating book of recollections celebrates the holiday traditions of Appalachian families as passed from one generation to the next. Based on Foxfire students' interviews with neighbors and family members, the memories shared here are from a simpler time, when gifts were fewer...
A Woman's Version of the Faust Legend
The Seven Strings of the Lyre
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
George Sand's The Seven Strings of the Lyre is a philosophical play written in poetic prose and never intended for perfomance on stage. Completed in 1838 during the early stages of Sand's romantic involvement with Frederic Chopin, it is one of the very few treatments of the Faust legend by a woman....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Epps has attempted to provide a translation of the Poetics to which all students could have access and thus gain a common terminology for this work. He has endeavored to make it clear enough that the average student with reasonable effort can understand the work without consulting aids.
Aunt Arie
A Foxfire Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, here is a loving portrait of a fondly remembered friend. This book is not just about Aunt Arie; it is Aunt Arie....
by Peter L. Phillips Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The Politics, Aristotle's classic work on the nature of political community, has been a touchstone of Western debates about society and government. In this volume, Peter Simpson presents a complete philosophical commentary on the Politics, an analysis of the logical structure of the entire text and...
Public Sentiments
Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
In this book, Glenn Hendler explores what he calls the "logic of sympathy" in novels by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. For these nineteenth-century writers,...
The Opium War, 1840-1842
Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by which They Forced Her Gates Ajar
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century...
by Elizabeth Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners.
"[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--Publishers Weekly
Hearthside Cooking
Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in 1986, it has become a standard guide for museum interpreters and guides, culinary historians, historical re-enactors, campers, scouts, and home cooks interested...
by Harry W. Pfanz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
The second day's fighting at Gettysburg--the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863--was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War.
Harry Pfanz, a former historian...