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Rebellious Parents
Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Parental activism movements are strengthening around the world and often spark tense personal and political debate. With an emphasis on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, this collection analyzes formal organizations as well as informal networks and online platforms which mobilize parents to advocate...
White Robes, Silver Screens
Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
The Ku Klux Klan was reestablished in Atlanta in 1915, barely a week before the Atlanta premiere of The Birth of a Nation, D. W. Griffith’s paean to the original Klan. While this link between Griffith's film and the Klan has been widely acknowledged, Tom Rice explores the little-known relationship...
Dancing Class
Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2000
Tomko blazes a new trail in dance scholarship by interconnecting U.S. History and dance studies.... the first to argue successfully that middle-class U.S. women promoted a new dance practice to manage industrial changes, crowded urban living, massive immigration, and interchange and repositioning...
by Daniel Dupre
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Alabama endured warfare, slave trading, squatting, and speculating on its path to becoming America’s 22nd state, and Daniel S. Dupre brings its captivating frontier history to life in Alabama's Frontiers and the Rise of the Old South. Dupre’s vivid narrative begins when Hernando de Soto first...
by Mark Wyman
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 1998
From 17th-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the 19th century, Wisconsin’s frontier era saw thousands arriving from Europe and other areas seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their...
Amateur Movie Making
Aesthetics of the Everyday in New England Film, 1915–1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 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 William D. Middleton
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
In this lavishly illustrated memoir, William D. Middleton invites readers to climb aboard and share with him 60 years of railroad tourism around the globe. Middleton’s award-winning photography has recorded events such as the final days of American Civil War locomotives in Morocco and the start...
Woman, Native, Other
Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
"... methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious... " —Text and Performance Quarterly
"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines...
From War to Peace in 1945 Germany
A GI's Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
As an Official Army Photographer, "Mac" Fleming’s assignment was to take motion pictures of significant wartime events for the US Army. In the pouch intended to carry his first-aid kit on his belt, he instead carried a small personal camera, which he used to take pictures of the people and places...
Screening Transcendence
Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
During the 1930s, Austrian film production companies developed a process to navigate the competing demands of audiences in Nazi Germany and those found in broader Western markets. In Screening Transcendence, film historian Robert Dassanowsky explores how Austrian filmmakers during the Austrofascist...
The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida
Religion without Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1997
Caputo’s book is riveting.... A singular achievement of stylistic brio and impeccable scholarship, it breaks new ground in making a powerful case for treating Derrida as homo religiosis.... There can be no mistaking the importance of Caputo's work." —Edith Wyschogrod
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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume I
Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—some 20,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated,...
Seeking a Sanctuary, Second Edition
Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
The completely revised second edition further explores one of the most successful of America’s indigenous religious groups. Despite this, the Adventist church has remained largely invisible. Seeking a Sanctuary casts light on this marginal religion through its socio-historical context and discusses several Adventist figures that shaped the perception of this Christian sect.
Sites of Exposure
Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death and with broader issues such as political...