Indiana University Press imprint: 1080 books
Mourning Headband for Hue
An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
“An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom.” —Publishers Weekly
Vietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives...
After the Roundup
Escape and Survival in Hitler’s France
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
On the nights of July 16 and 17, 1942, French police rounded up eleven-year-old Joseph Weismann, his family, and 13,000 other Jews. After being held for five days in appalling conditions in the Vélodrome d'Hiver stadium, Joseph and his family were transported by cattle car to the Beaune-la-Rolande...
Encountering Morocco
Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to...
by H. Roger Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
“[A] wealth of vignettes and more than 100 black-and-white illustrations . . . Does a fine job of humanizing the iron horse” (The Wall Street Journal).
In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad’s “golden age,” from...
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2
Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 1998
Praise for Volume 1:
... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." —Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books
Volume 2 of this convenient two-volume chronological reader’s edition provides the first comprehensive...
UNESCO on the Ground
Local Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
For nearly 70 years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has played a crucial role in developing policies and recommendations for dealing with intangible cultural heritage. What has been the effect of such sweeping global policies on those actually affected...
Playing on the Edge
Sadomasochism, Risk, and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand...
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
Unlikely Champion of Women's Rights
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
A fascinating biography of the New York socialite who played a surprising role in the fight for suffrage.
Born in the middle of the nineteenth century, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont was known to be domineering, temperamental, and opinionated. She married two millionaires, and pressured her daughter...
Psychedelic Popular Music
A History through Musical Topic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Recognized for its distinctive musical features and its connection to periods of social innovation and ferment, the genre of psychedelia has exerted long-term influence in many areas of cultural production, including music, visual art, graphic design, film, and literature. William Echard explores...
Amateur Movie Making, Enhanced eBook
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
A compelling regional and historical study that transforms our understanding of film history, Amateur Movie Making demonstrates how amateur films and home movies stand as testaments to the creative lives of ordinary people, enriching our experience of art and the everyday. Here we encounter the lyrical...
by Wendy Greenhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A highly regarded impressionist-style artist, George Ames Aldrich drew on his years of experience living and studying in Europe to create beautiful landscape paintings. His life and work are explored in this gorgeous book. Many of the artist's finest creations, some representing French subjects and...
Visions of Avant-Garde Film
Polish Cinematic Experiments from Expressionism to Constructivism
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Warsaw- and London-based filmmakers Franciszka and Stefan Themerson are often recognized internationally as pioneers of the 1930s Polish avant-garde. Yet, from the turn of the century to the end of the 1920s, Poland’s literary and art scenes were also producing a rich array of criticism and early...
Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2
Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
The Midwest has produced a robust literary heritage. Its authors have won half of the nation’s Nobel Prizes for Literature plus a significant number of Pulitzer Prizes. This volume explores the rich racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region. It also contains entries on 35 pivotal Midwestern...
American Philanthropic Foundations
Regional Difference and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
Once largely confined to the biggest cities in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes states, philanthropic foundations now play a significant role in nearly every state. Wide-ranging and incisive, the essays in American Philanthropic Foundations: Regional Difference and Change examine the origins, development,...