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Sugar Cane Capitalism and Environmental Transformation
An Archaeology of Colonial Nevis, West Indies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
In this deeply researched and multifaceted study, Marco G. Meniketti demonstrates how the landscape of the small Caribbean island of Nevis preserves and reveals artifacts and evidence of the highly complex and interrelated seventeenth- to nineteenth-century “Atlantic Economy,” comprising early...
Out of Many, One People
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
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As a source of colonial wealth and a crucible for global culture, Jamaica has had a profound impact on the formation of the modern world system. From the island's economic and military importance to the colonial empires it has...
by Ronald Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
***A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
A study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers***
F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene continues Ronald Berman’s lifelong study of...
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Writings on film from an award-winning filmmaker and poet.
As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks...
The Victory Album
Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2013
In these essays, a combination of personal remembrance and broad-stroke cultural history, Philip Beidler addresses the culture and politics of post–WWII America: the national blindness toward the Holocaust and a rising China, the canker of McCarthyism, ascendant cultures of hard smoking and heavy...
Sounding Real
Musicality and American Fiction at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Examining American realist fiction as it was informed and shaped by the music of the period, Sounding Real sheds new light on the profound musical and cultural change at the turn of the twentieth century.
Sounding Real by Cristina L. Ruotolo examines landmark changes in American musical...
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Liberals, the Second Empire, and Maya Revolutionaries, 1855–1876
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The Yucatán Peninsula has one of the longest, most multifaceted histories in the Americas. With the arrival of Europeans, native Maya with long and successful cultural and diplomatic traditions of their own had to grapple with outside forces attempting to impose new templates of life and politics...
Intricate Thicket
Reading Late Modernist Poetries
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
In Intricate Thicket: Reading Late Modernist Poetries, Mark Scroggins writes with wit and dash about a fascinating range of key twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets and writers. In nineteen lively and accessible essays, he persuasively argues that the innovations of modernist verse were not replaced...
The American Counterfeit
Authenticity and Identity in American Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Fakery, authenticity, and identity in American literature and culture at the turn of the 20th century
Focusing on texts written between 1880 and 1930, Mary McAleer Balkun explores the concept of the “counterfeit,” both in terms of material goods and invented identities, and the ways that...
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Toxic Tourism
Rhetorics of Pollution, Travel, and Environmental Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Tourism is at once both a beloved pastime and a denigrated form of popular culture. Romanticized for its promise of pleasure, tourism is also potentially toxic, enabling the deadly exploitation of the cultures and environments visited. For many decades, the environmental justice movement has offered...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature. Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos. Perhaps...
Canons by Consensus
Critical Trends and American Literature Anthologies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Scholars have long noted the role that college literary anthologies play in the rising and falling reputations of American authors. Canons by Consensus examines this classroom fixture in detail to challenge and correct a number of assumptions about the development of the literary canon throughout...
Traces of Gold
California's Natural Resources and the Claim to Realism in Western American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Broadening our understanding of what constitutes "realism," Nicolas Witschi artfully demonstrates the linkage of American literary realism to the texts, myths, and resources of the American West.
From Gold Rush romances to cowboy Westerns, from hard-boiled detective thrillers to nature...