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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled
Television and Contemporary Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis,...
Sensational Modernism
Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such...
The Structure of Cuban History
Meanings and Purpose of the Past
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez Jr. argues that the country's memory of the past served to transform its unfinished nineteenth-century liberation project into a twentieth-century revolutionary metaphysics. The ideal of national sovereignty that was anticipated as...
Many Minds, One Heart
SNCC's Dream for a New America
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, how it fostered significant social change in such a short time. She offers new...
War! What Is It Good For?
Black Freedom Struggles and the U.S. Military from World War II to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
African Americans' long campaign for "the right to fight" forced Harry Truman to issue his 1948 executive order calling for equality of treatment and opportunity in the armed forces. In War! What Is It Good For?, Kimberley Phillips examines how blacks' participation in the nation's wars...
My Southern Home
The South and Its People
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The culmination of William Wells Brown's long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Brown's search for a home in a land of slavery and racism. Brown (1814-84), a prolific and celebrated abolitionist and writer often recognized as the first African American novelist for his Clotel (1853),...
by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando...
William James
Psychical Research and the Challenge of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims...
My Desire for History
Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World...
A Feeling for Books
The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Deftly melding ethnography, cultural history, literary criticism, and autobiographical reflection, A Feeling for Books is at once an engaging study of the Book-of-the-Month Club's influential role as a cultural institution and a profoundly personal meditation about the experience of reading. Janice...
Nationalism in Europe and America
Politics, Cultures, and Identities since 1775
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Examining the history of nationalism's pervasive influence on modern politics and cultural identities, Lloyd Kramer discusses how nationalist ideas gained emotional and cultural power after the revolutionary upheavals in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Nationalism in Europe and...
The Secret Eye
The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and reared in the tradition of the southern belle,...
Scarlett's Sisters
Young Women in the Old South
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2009
Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young, elite, white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the...
The Great Catastrophe of My Life
Divorce in the Old Dominion
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the...