Purdue University Press imprint: 164 books

Flying the Beam

Navigating the Early US Airmail Airways, 1917-1941

by Henry R. Lehrer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

With air travel a regular part of daily life in North America, we tend to take the infrastructure that makes it possible for granted. However, the systems, regulations, and technologies of civil aviation are in fact the product of decades of experimentation and political negotiation, much of it connected...

Women Count

A Guide to Changing the World

by Susan Bulkeley Butler, Bob Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2011

Throughout history, women have struggled to change the workplace, change government, change society. So what’s next? It’s time for women to change the world! Whether on the job, in politics, or in their community, there has never been a better time for women to make a difference in the world,...

From Shtetl to Stardom

Jews and Hollywood

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex...
by Irene Marques
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012

This exploration of class, feminism, and cultural identity (including issues of race, nation, colonialism, and economic imperialism) focuses on the work of four writers: the Mozambican Mia Couto, the Portuguese José Saramago, the Brazilian Clarice Lispector, and the South African J. M. Coetzee. In...

Calculated Risk

The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom, Revsied and Expanded

by George Leopold
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

Unlike other American astronauts, Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom never had the chance to publish his memoirs. Killed along with his crew in a launch pad fire on January 27, 1967, Grissom also lost his chance to walk on the moon and return to describe his journey. Others went in his place. The stories...

Unfinalized Moments

Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative

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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012

Focusing on a diversely rich selection of writers, the pieces featured in Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative explore the community of Jewish American writers who published their first book after the mid-1980s. It is the first book-length collection...

"Cap" Cornish, Indiana Pilot

Navigating the Century of Flight

by Ruth Ann Ingraham
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

Clarence "Cap" Cornish was an Indiana pilot whose life spanned all but five years of the Century of Flight. Born in Canada in 1898, Cornish grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He began flying at the age of nineteen, piloting a "Jenny" aircraft during World War I, and continued to fly...

Center Stage

Operatic Culture and Nation Building in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

by Philipp Ther
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014

Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long"...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Jews and humor is for most people a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of or perhaps because of a history of crises and living on the edge Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is "humor"? and what makes certain types instances or performances of humor "Jewish"?...
by Charles Ingrao, Jovan Pešalj
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2011

In the late spring of 1718 near the village of Pozarevac (German Passarowitz) in northern Serbia, freshly conquered by Habsburg forces, three delegations representing the Holy Roman Emperor, Ottoman Sultan, and the Republic of Venice gathered to end the conflict that had begun three and a half years...

Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund

A Memoir of Interwar Poland

by Bernard Goldstein, Marvin S. Zuckerman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

Bernard Goldstein’s memoir describes a hard world of taverns, toughs, thieves, and prostitutes; of slaughterhouse workers, handcart porters, and wagon drivers; and of fist-and gunfights with everyone from anti-Semites and Communists to hostile police, which is to say that it depicts a totally different...

Reframing Italy

New Trends in Italian Womens Filmmaking

by Bernadette Luciano, Susanna Scarparo
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

In recent years, Italian cinema has experienced a quiet revolution: the proliferation of films by women. But their thought-provoking work has not yet received the attention it deserves. Reframing Italy fills this gap. The book introduces readers to films and documentaries by recognized women directors...

Never Look Back

The Jewish Refugee Children in Great Britain, 1938-1945

by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012

Between December 1938 and September 1939, nearly ten thousand refugee children from Central Europe, mostly Jewish, found refuge from Nazism in Great Britain. This was known as the Kindertransport movement, in which the children entered as "transmigrants," planning to return to Europe once...

Crowns, Crosses, and Stars

My Youth in Prussia, Surviving Hitler, and a Life Beyond

by Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller Baroness von Sell
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

This is the story of a remarkable life and a journey, from the privileged world of Prussian aristocracy, through the horrors of World War II, to high society in the television age of postwar America. It is also an account of a spiritual voyage, from a conventional Christian upbringing, through marriage...
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