Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
This book presents an unconventional history of minority nationalism in interwar Eastern Europe. Focusing on an influential group of grassroots activists, Tatjana Lichtenstein uncovers Zionist projects intended to sustain the flourishing Jewish national life in Czechoslovakia.The book shows that Zionism...
Material Vernaculars
Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance...
The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
By Anonymous Members of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
**“Remarkable . . . provides a graphic and unparalleled description of the conditions under which the Jews of Kaunas tried to live and survive.” —**The Forward
As a force that had to serve two masters, both the Jewish population of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania and its German occupiers,...
Chuck Taylor, All Star
The True Story of the Man behind the Most Famous Athletic Shoe in History
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006
The true story of a man, a company, a sport, and a nation.
In 1921, Converse hired 20-year-old Chuck Taylor as a salesman, sparking a nearly 50-year career that defined the Converse All Star basketball shoe. Although his name is on the label of the legendary All Stars, which have been worn...
A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes
The Yale Law School New Statutes of England
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript’s unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader’s perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence...
My Life with Trains
Memoir of a Railroader
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
“A vivid memoir” of a long career in the industry, packed with color photos (Classic Trains).
Named one of the “75 People You Should Know” by Trains Magazine, Jim McClellan was a railroading legend and one of the railroad industry’s titans. An iconic and innovative executive, McClellan...
The Well-Dressed Hobo
The Many Wondrous Adventures of a Man Who Loves Trains
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
A “sweeping and grand epic on the renaissance of American railroading” from the Fortune journalist and author of The Men Who Loved Trains (The Baltimore Sun).
After decades of covering the railroad industry for Fortune magazine, journalist Rush Loving Jr. offers his unique insider’s view...
by J Parker Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2012
This generously illustrated narrative follows the evolution of dozens of separate railroads in the Meridian, Mississippi, area from the destruction of the town’s rail facilities in the 1850s through the current era of large-scale consolidation. Presently, there are only seven mega-size rail systems...
Looking behind the Label
Global Industries and the Conscientious Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2015
What does it mean when consumers "shop with a conscience" and choose products labeled as fair or sustainable? Does this translate into meaningful changes in global production processes? To what extent are voluntary standards implemented and enforced, and can they really govern global industries? Looking...
Debt
Ethics, the Environment, and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
From personal finance and consumer spending to ballooning national expenditures on warfare and social welfare, debt is fundamental to the dynamics of global capitalism. The contributors to this volume explore the concept of indebtedness in its various senses and from a wide range of perspectives....
Spirited Wind Playing
The Performance Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Peppered with tips, helpful hints, and personal anecdotes to illustrate real-life application, this performance guide is essential for any wind player interested in taking his or her virtuosity to the next level. Internationally renowned bassoonist Kim Walker has compiled into one book the teachings...
Race Harmony and Black Progress
Jack Woofter and the Interracial Cooperation Movement
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Founded by white males, the interracial cooperation movement flourished in the American South in the years before the New Deal. The movement sought local dialogue between the races, improvement of education, and reduction of interracial violence, tending the flame of white liberalism until the emergence...
Global Governance and the UN
An Unfinished Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
In the 21st century, the world is faced with threats of global scale that cannot be confronted without collective action. Although global government as such does not exist, formal and informal institutions, practices, and initiatives—together forming "global governance"—bring a greater measure...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The editors of this volume have gathered leading scholars on the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey to chronologically examine the sweep and variety of sociolegal projects being carried in the region. These efforts intersect issues of property, gender, legal literacy, the demarcation of village...