Indiana University Press: 1129 books
Funeral Culture
AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
Contemporary forms of living and dying in Swaziland cannot be understood apart from the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to anthropologist Casey Golomski. In Africa’s last absolute monarchy, the story of 15 years of global collaboration in treatment and intervention is also one of ordinary people...
The Case for Auschwitz
Evidence from the Irving Trial
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
From January to April 2000 historian David Irving brought a high-profile libel case against Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt in the British High Court, charging that Lipstadt’s book, Denying the Holocaust (1993), falsely labeled him a Holocaust denier. The question about the evidence for Auschwitz...
Africa after Apartheid
South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad. By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline state in the fight for liberation, Schroeder...
World Without End
Mainstream American Protestant Visions of the Last Things, 1880-1925
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1999
"In this compelling intellectual and social history, Moorhead argues that for mainline Protestants in the late 19th century, time became endless, human-directed and without urgency.... Moorhead offers some brilliant observations about the legacy of postmillennialism and the human need for a definitive...
Contemporary African American Literature
The Living Canon
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier Harris,...
Muslim Democratic Parties in the Middle East
Economy and Politics of Islamist Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A.Kadir Yildirim and other scholars have used the term "Muslim Democrat" to describe moderate Islamist political parties, suggesting a parallel with Christian Democratic parties in Europe. These parties (MDPs) are marked by their adherence to a secular political regime, normative commitment to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This volume includes original pieces by the most respected scholars, artists, and archivists working on William S. Burroughs today, as well as an interview with Burroughs’ biographer.
This book is distinct from other volumes in its focus on Burroughs’ cut-up method - a specific method...
by Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1998
Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate...
Comrade Huppert
A Poet in Stalin's World
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
After discovering the autobiography of the Austrian communist and writer Hugo Huppert (1902–1982), historian George Huppert became absorbed in the life and work of this man, a Jew, perhaps a relative, who was born a few months after George’s father and grew up just miles away. Hugo seemed to embody...
The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church
A Chain Linking Two Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took root in the Oneida community. Personal bonds that developed between the Episcopal clergy and the Wisconsin...
Jaffa Shared and Shattered
Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu...
Misremembering Dr. King
Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr., the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism—what he called the "giant triplets." Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress this imbalance....
Almost Worthy
The Poor, Paupers, and the Science of Charity in America, 1877-1917
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
In the 1880s, social reform leaders warned that the "unworthy" poor were taking charitable relief intended for the truly deserving. Armed with statistics and confused notions of evolution, these "scientific charity" reformers founded organizations intent on limiting access to relief by the most morally,...
General Maxime Weygand, 1867-1965
Fortune and Misfortune
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
The career of the French general Maxime Weygand offers a fascinating glimpse into the perils and politics of military leadership and loyalty in the interwar years and after France’s defeat in 1940. Of obscure birth, Weygand had an outstanding career during WWI as chief of staff for Marshal Foch...