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Sarajevo Under Siege
Anthropology in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Sarajevo Under Siege offers a richly detailed account of the lived experiences of ordinary people in this multicultural city between 1992 and 1996, during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Moving beyond the shelling, snipers, and shortages, it documents the coping strategies people adopted and the...
How We Elected Lincoln
Personal Recollections
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Abram J. Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform. Even though he was in his early twenties, he quickly established himself as a savvy and creative campaigner, and when...
Poetical Dust
Poets' Corner and the Making of Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
In the South Transept of Westminster Abbey in London, the bodies of more than seventy men and women, primarily writers, poets, and playwrights, are interred, with many more memorialized. From the time of the reburial of Geoffrey Chaucer in 1556, the space has become a sanctuary where some of the most...
Made Flesh
Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
During the Reformation, the mystery of the Eucharist was the subject of contentious debate and a nexus of concerns over how the material might embody the sublime and how the absent might be made present. For Kimberly Johnson, the question of how exactly Christ can be present in bread and wine is fundamentally...
On the Old Saw
That May be Right in Theory But It Won't Work in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
In this famous essay, first published in 1793, Kant considers the alleged conflict between theory and practice in the conduct of human affairs in three widening contexts: those of the common person faced with a moral decision, of the politician and the citizen concerned with the extent and limits...
American Justice 2015
The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
American Justice 2015: The Dramatic Tenth Term of the Roberts Court is the indispensable guide to the most controversial and divisive cases decided by the Supreme Court in the 2014-15 term. Steven Mazie, Supreme Court correspondent for The Economist, examines the term's fourteen most important cases,...
The Fabrication of American Literature
Fraudulence and Antebellum Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Literary histories typically celebrate the antebellum period as marking the triumphant emergence of American literature. But the period's readers and writers tell a different story: they derided literature as a fraud, an imposture, and a humbug, and they likened it to inflated currency, land bubbles,...
by Frans Becker, Menno Hurenkamp
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated health insurance for every American, stronger gun control laws, broader sex education programs, laws that would make it easier for unions to organize, and...
Parrots and Nightingales
Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The love songs of Occitan troubadours inspired a rich body of courtly lyric by poets working in neighboring languages. For Sarah Kay, these poets were nightingales, composing verse that is recognizable yet original. But troubadour poetry also circulated across Europe in a form that is less well known...
Animal Characters
Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2011
During the Renaissance, horses—long considered the privileged, even sentient companions of knights-errant—gradually lost their special place on the field of battle and, with it, their distinctive status in the world of chivalric heroism. Parrots, once the miraculous, articulate companions of popes...
The Demon of the Continent
Indians and the Shaping of American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people...
by Charlene Mires
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed through...
Toronto
Transformations in a City and Its Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global...
Blues for New Orleans
Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American...