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History on the Margins
People and Places in the Emergence of Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
In his distinguished career as a historian of modern France, John Merriman has published ten books and scores of scholarly articles. This volume collects some of his most notable and significant explorations of French history and culture.
In a wide-ranging introduction Merriman reflects on...
by Pearl Baker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Robbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by canyons along the Green and Colorado rivers and bounded on the west by the Dirty Devil, discouraged...
Captives
How Stolen People Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small- scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists,...
Separation Scenes
Domestic Drama in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays—the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (ca. 1613), and Walter Mountfort’s The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s...
Talking Up a Storm
Voices of the New West
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In interviews with fifteen contemporary writers of the American West, Gregory L. Morris demonstrates what these widely divergent talents have in common: they all redefine what it is to be a western writer. No longer enthralled (though sometimes inspired) by the literary traditions of openness, place,...
Scarlet Experiment
Birds and Humans in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Split the Lark” refers to the “scarlet experiment” by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds—for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the United States alone,...
Playing with the Big Boys
Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Basketball has a lock on the Filipino soul. From big arenas in Manila to makeshift hoops in small villages, basketball is played by Filipinos of all walks of life and is used to mark everything from summer breaks for students to religious festivals and many other occasions. Playing with the Big Boys...
Mussolini's Children
Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Mussolini’s Children uses the lens of state-mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism in Fascist Italy. Between 1922 and 1940, educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy’s children between the ages of five and eleven undertook a mission to...
Corridor Talk to Culture History
Public Anthropology and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and doing anthropology. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies...
Colonial Mediascapes
Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions...
by Steven G. Kellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature–by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one—exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use...
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating...
by Alice Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and...
by Ted Kooser
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew...