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People Get Ready
The Future of Jazz Is Now!
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s...
Black Business in the New South
A Social History of the NC Mutual Life Insurance Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 1993
At the turn of the century, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company became the "world's largest Negro business." Located in Durham, North Carolina, which was known as the "Black Wall Street of America," this business came to symbolize the ideas of racial progress, self-help,...
Disintegrating the Musical
Black Performance and American Musical Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2002
From the earliest sound films to the present, American cinema has represented African Americans as decidedly musical. Disintegrating the Musical tracks and analyzes this history of musical representations of African Americans, from blacks and whites in blackface to black-cast musicals to jazz shorts,...
Days on Earth
The Dance of Doris Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 1993
Now available in paperback, Days on Earth--originally published in 1988 (Yale University Press)--traces the dance career and artistic development of one of the founders of American modern dance. In this biography of dance pioneer Doris Humphrey, Marcia B. Siegel follows Humphrey's career from her...
The Yale Indian
The Education of Henry Roe Cloud
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival research establishes the historical significance of key chapters in the Winnebago’s remarkable life....
A Sentimental Education for the Working Man
The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
In A Sentimental Education for the Working Man Robert Buffington reconstructs the complex, shifting, and contradictory ideas about working-class masculinity in early twentieth-century Mexico City. He argues that from 1900 to 1910, the capital’s satirical penny press provided working-class readers...
The Provocative Joan Robinson
The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a career that lasted some fifty years. She was...
by David Rodowick
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 1997
Although Gilles Deleuze is one of France’s most celebrated twentieth-century philosophers, his theories of cinema have largely been ignored by American scholars. Film theorist D. N. Rodowick fills this gap by presenting the first comprehensive study, in any language, of Deleuze’s work on film...
Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology
Trees and Toxics in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Environmental problems present democratic dilemmas. The problems are so large and so often pit localities and interest groups against each other that they challenge basic democratic institutions, particularly the ideal of citizen participation in society’s choices. In this book, Daniel Press examines...
Pikachu s Global Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including...
The Limits of Ferocity
Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which convey a loathing of middle-class culture or,...
Archives of Empire
Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2004
A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts...
Ghosts of Passion
Martyrdom, Gender, and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The question of what caused the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is the central focus of modern Spanish historiography. In Ghosts of Passion, Brian D. Bunk argues that propaganda related to the revolution of October 1934 triggered the broader conflict by accentuating existing social tensions surrounding...
Containment Culture
American Narratives, Postmodernism, and the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1995
Alan Nadel provides a unique analysis of the rise of American postmodernism by viewing it as a breakdown in Cold War cultural narratives of containment. These narratives, which embodied an American postwar foreign policy charged with checking the spread of Communism, also operated, Nadel argues, within...