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by Laurie A. Finke
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In this rewarding book, Laurie A. Finke challenges assumptions about gender, the self, and the text which underlie fundamental constructs of contemporary feminist theory. She maintains that some of the key concepts structuring feminist literary criticism need to be reexamined within both their historical...
Dangerous Guests
Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. During the War for Independence, American revolutionaries held more than thirteen thousand prisoners—both British regulars and...
Russia's Unfinished Revolution
Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For centuries, dictators ruled Russia. Tsars and Communist Party chiefs were in charge for so long some analysts claimed Russians had a cultural predisposition for authoritarian leaders. Yet, as a result of reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev, new political institutions have emerged that now require...
Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment
The Race for Space and World Prestige
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
In a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world’s first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged that he responded...
Priest, Politician, Collaborator
Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Priest, Politician, Collaborator, James Mace Ward offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language biography of the Catholic priest and Slovak nationalist Jozef Tiso (1887–1947). The first president of an independent Slovakia, established as a satellite of Nazi Germany, Tiso was...
Poetry in Speech
Orality and Homeric Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Applying linguistic theory to the study of Homeric style, Egbert J. Bakker offers a highly innovative approach to oral poetry, particularly the poetry of Homer. By situating formulas and other features of oral style within the wider contexts of spoken language and communication, he moves the study...
The Populist Persuasion
An American History
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day.
Kazin...
Forced to Be Good
Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Preferential trade agreements have become common ways to protect or restrict access to national markets in products and services. The United States has signed trade agreements with almost two dozen countries as close as Mexico and Canada and as distant as Morocco and Australia. The European Union...
by Charles K. Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
North Korea, despite a shattered economy and a populace suffering from widespread hunger, has outlived repeated forecasts of its imminent demise. Charles K. Armstrong contends that a major source of North Korea's strength and resiliency, as well as of its flaws and shortcomings, lies in the poorly...
Hirelings
African American Workers and Free Labor in Early Maryland
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Hirelings, Jennifer Dorsey recreates the social and economic milieu of Maryland's Eastern Shore at a time when black slavery and black freedom existed side by side. She follows a generation of manumitted African Americans and their freeborn children and grandchildren through the process of inventing...
The Invisible Camorra
Neapolitan Crime Families across Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The organized crime group that dominates much of the socioeconomic life of contemporary Naples, the Camorra, is organized by kin and geography, and it is notoriously the most violent, fractious, and disorganized mafia in Italy. The Camorra controls local extortion rackets, the drug and counterfeit...
The Working Class Majority
America's Best Kept Secret
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2011
In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also...
Whistleblowers
Broken Lives and Organizational Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a dark departure from our standard picture of whistleblowers, C. Fred Alford offers a chilling account of the world of people who have come forward to protest organizational malfeasance in government agencies and in the private sector. The conventional story—high-minded individual fights soulless...
by John Mueller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution...