Lexington Books: 3858 books
Yankee Colonies across America
Cities upon the Hills
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The arrival in 1620 of the Mayflower and Puritan migration occupy the first pages of the history of colonial America. Less known is the exodus from New England, a century and a half later, of their Yankee descendants. Yankees engaged in whaling and the China Trade, and settled in Canada, the American...
The Grand Strategy that Won the Cold War
Architecture of Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This book demonstrates that under the leadership of President Ronald Reagan and through the mechanism of his National Security Council staff, the United States developed and executed a comprehensive grand strategy, involving the coordinated use of the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic...
by George F. Botjer
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
The Morse telegraph launched the electronic telecommunications industry and reduced the travel time of information from days, weeks and months to seconds and minutes. It was one of the most important breakthrough inventions of all time. George F. Botjer's examination of the creator of the telegraph...
by Gisella Perl, Eva Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Gisella Perl’s memoir is the extraordinarily candid account of women’s extreme efforts to survive Auschwitz. With writing as powerful as that of Charlotte Delbo and Ruth Kluger, her story individualizes and therefore humanizes a victim of mass dehumanization. Perl accomplished this by representing...
Movement, Manifesto, Melee
The Modernist Group, 1910-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose...
Edgar G. Ulmer
Detour on Poverty Row
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row illuminates the work of this under-appreciated film auteur through 21 new essays penned by a range of scholars from around the globe. Ulmer, an immigrant to Hollywood who fell from grace in Tinseltown after only one studio film, became one of the reigning directors...
Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television
Captive Affects, Elastic Sufferings, Vicarious Objects
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The notion of mode is critical in the reevaluation of melodrama. As a mode, melodrama appears not only as a dramatic genre pervaded by sensationalism, exaggerations, and moral polarities, but also as a cultural imaginary that shapes the emotional experience of modernity, characterized by anxiety,...
Breaking Bad
Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Breaking Bad*: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series*, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. The book's first section locates and addresses the series from several contemporary...
French Civilization and Its Discontents
Nationalism, Colonialism, Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2003
What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era....
Vodou in Haitian Memory
The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Throughout Haitian history—from 17th century colonial Saint-Domingue to 21st century postcolonial Haiti—arguably, the Afro-Haitian religion of Vodou has been represented as an “unsettling faith” and a “cultural paradox,” as expressed in various forms and modes of Haitian thought and life...
Exceptional Leadership
Lessons from the Founding Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This book is about values and principles that have formed the backbone of the exceptionality of America. These values and principles have shaped the way leadership in America has evolved and prescribed the way leaders have practiced their craft. It is about what both leaders and their followers implicitly...
A Man Apart
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774 - 1781
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The American Revolution radically changed the lives of many, some of them friends of the Revolution, some not, and some who wished to have no part of it for either side. Rarely did one of these reluctant witnesses leave a narrative journal. Nicholas Cresswell, a young English gentry farmer, was one....
The Dangers of Dissent
The FBI and Civil Liberties since 1965
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
While most studies of the FBI focus on the long tenure of Director J. Edgar Hoover (1924-1972), The Dangers of Dissent shifts the ground to the recent past. The book examines FBI practices in the domestic security field through the prism of 'political policing.' The monitoring of dissent is exposed,...
T.S. Eliot, Poetry, and Earth
The Name of the Lotos Rose
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
T. S. Eliot enjoyed a profound relationship with Earth. Criticism of his work does not suggest that this exists in his poetic oeuvre. Writing into this gap, Etienne Terblanche demonstrates that Eliot presents Earth as a process in which humans immerse themselves. The Waste Land and Four Quartets in...