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We Want Fish Sticks
The Bizarre and Infamous Rebranding of the New York Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The NHL’s New York Islanders were struggling. After winning four straight Stanley Cups in the early 1980s, the Islanders had suffered an embarrassing sweep by their geographic rivals, the New York Rangers, in the first round of the 1994 playoffs. Hoping for a new start, the Islanders swapped out...
The Naked Mountaineer
Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world’s most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were...
Franco-America in the Making
The Creole Nation Within
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making...
by Kevin J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America’s roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power.
But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first “century,”...
History of Nevada
(Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This updated edition of History of Nevada is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by the popular press. Historians as well as literary and art critics tend not to examine the Midwest in depth in their academic work. And in the popular imagination,...
Present at the Creation
My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL’s first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial...
by Alex Weingrod
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrod’s groundbreaking...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
New Life for Archaeological Collections explores solutions to what archaeologists are calling the “curation crisis,” that is, too much stuff with too little research, analysis, and public interpretation. This volume demonstrates how archaeologists are taking both large and small steps toward not...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than...
Queering Kansas City Jazz
Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, *Queering Kansas City Jazz *supplements the...
America's Digital Army
Games at Work and War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
America’s Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many...
Capitalist Family Values
Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Though best known for aircraft and aerospace technology, Boeing has invested significant time and money in the construction and promotion of its corporate culture. Boeing’s leaders, in keeping with the standard of traditional American social norms, began to promote a workplace culture of a white,...