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The Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining...
American Colossus
Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the “Golden Age of Sports” in the 1920s. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the imagination of a nation. The indisputable force behind the emergence of professional tennis as a...
Cather Studies, Volume 11
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s...
by Barrie Jean Borich
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich’s Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself.
One...
Upside Down
Seasons among the Nunamiut
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century’s...
by Ann Marie Low
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“Life in what the newspapers call ‘the Dust Bowl’ is becoming a gritty nightmare,” Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that “gritty nightmare” as it was lived by one rural family—and by millions of other Americans.
The books opens in 1927—“the...
Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Society’s duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, public school teachers, and...
Flock Together
A Love Affair with Extinct Birds
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
After stumbling upon a book of photographs depicting extinct animals, B.J. Hollars became fascinated by the creatures that are no longer with us; specifically, extinct North American birds.
How*,* he wondered, could we preserve so beautifully on film what we’ve failed to preserve in life?
And...
From the Mouths of Dogs
What Our Pets Teach Us about Life, Death, and Being Human
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man’s best friend”? And more broadly, how have all of our furry, feathered, and four-legged brethren managed to enrich our lives? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars...
Radio in Revolution
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employed wireless technology in the form of radiotelegraphy and radio broadcasting to alter the course of the revolution and influence how political...
Política
Nuevomexicanos and American Political Incorporation, 1821–1910
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Política offers a stunning revisionist understanding of the early political incorporation of Mexican-origin peoples into the U.S. body politic in the nineteenth century. Historical sociologist Phillip B. Gonzales reexamines the fundamental issue in New Mexico’s history, namely, the dramatic shift...
The Plan de San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African...
Apollo Pilot
The Memoir of Astronaut Donn Eisele
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In October 1968 Donn Eisele flew with fellow astronauts Walt Cunningham and Wally Schirra into Earth orbit in Apollo 7. The first manned mission in the Apollo program and the first manned flight after a fire during a launch pad test killed three astronauts in early 1967, Apollo 7 helped restart NASA’s...
Go, Flight!
The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965–1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building...