Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Tank Driver
With the 11th Armored from the Battle of the Bulge to VE Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2003
Tank Driver is the story of a young man’s combat initiation in World War II. Based on letters home, the sparse narrative has the immediacy of on-the-spot reporting. Ted Hartman was a teenager when he was sent overseas to drive a Sherman tank into combat to face the desperate German counterattack...
Keeping Faith with the Party
Communist Believers Return from the Gulag
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
How is it that some prisoners of the Soviet gulag—many of them falsely convicted—emerged from the camps maintaining their loyalty to the party that was responsible for their internment? In camp, they had struggled to survive. Afterward they struggled to reintegrate with society, reunite with their...
Mass Culture in Soviet Russia
Tales, Poems, Songs, Movies, Plays, and Folklore, 1917–1953
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1995
This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture...
Gettysburg Heroes
Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together....
Hunt for the Jews
Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews).
Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death...
Looking After Minidoka
An American Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A “clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book” that is “rich with the closely observed details of internment camp life” (Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family).
During World War II, 110,000 Japanese...
Tennessee Frontiers
Three Regions in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001
This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehistoric frontiers and a millennia-long habitation by Native Americans. The rest of the book deals with Tennessee’s historic period beginning with the...
Chinese Looks
Fashion, Performance, Race
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical...
Geographies of an Imperial Power
The British World, 1688–1815
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact...
by H. Roger Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance travel. At a time when most roads were unpaved and horse and buggy travel...
Oliver Mtukudzi
Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume....