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GIs and Fräuleins
The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GIs and Frauleins, Maria Hohn offers a rich social history of this German-American encounter and provides...
Human Rights Treaties and the Senate
A History of Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The US has declined to approve most human rights treaties, despite widespread support for such treaties among other Western democracies. This study explores the legacy of the 1950s, when opposition to the treaties was articulated, and the residual strength of that opposition in contemporary deliberations.
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Hashtag Islam
How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Gary R. Bunt is a twenty-year pioneer in the study of cyber-Islamic environments (CIEs). In his new book, Bunt explores the diverse and surprising ways digital technology is shaping how Muslims across vast territories relate to religious authorities in fulfilling spiritual, mystical, and legalistic...
by Caroline M. Hibbard
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Hibbard begins by setting court Catholicism in the context of English court alignments on domestic and foreign policy. She then describes public reaction to royal policy and court Catholicism and the use parliamentary leaders made of anti-Catholicism from 1640 to 1642. In this first study to focus...
Fact and Fiction
The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction. Those who have praised the vitality of the new journalism have seen it as a fusion of the journalist's passion for detail and the novelist's moral vision. Hollowell...
by Philip Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Lowell's continuing productivity and his ever-increasing stature as a poet demand a new evaluation of his work, and Cooper has provided it in this penetrating study. Though Cooper's primary purpose is to demonstrate the principle of the interrelation of the poems, a secondary and equally important...
Restructuring Patriarchy
The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914-1940
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Susan K. Besse broadens our understanding of the political by establishing the relevance of gender for the construction of state hegemony in Brazil after World War I. Restructuring Patriarchy demonstrates that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas's Estado Novo...
The Eternal City
Roman Images in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citizen soldiers and the corrupt empire of power-hungry tyrants. The power of these images is second only...
The Caught Image
Figurative Language in the Fiction of Henry James
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Gale considers the imagery in all of the 135 novels and short stories of Henry James and presents what may well be the first extensive treatment of figurative language in the complete works of any novelist. All of the images have been recorded, but the author does not claim too much for his deductions...
Forsyth
The History of a County on the March
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2018
This is a carefully researched and completely rewritten version of Adelaide Fries's 1949 history that traced the Forsyth story from its Moravian beginnings through the joining of Winston and Salem and concluded with a forward look to Wake Forest College as a key to future cultural growth. The authors...
Catfish
a Savor the South® cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
While many fish, from bream and crappie to bass, trout, and shad, are popular in the South, none of them has settled as thoroughly in southern culture as the humble, bewhiskered, bottom-dwelling catfish. For Memphis natives Paul and Angela Knipple, enjoying "that steamy sweet white meat encased in...
Cornwallis
The Imperial Years
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This is the second and final volume of the Wickwires' definitive biography of Cornwallis. It details Corwallis's work in India, his contributions in Britain as master general of ordnance, his tenure as lord lieutenant and commander in chief in Ireland, and his diplomacy in negotiating the peace of...
Semi Queer
Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from public view. Gritty, inspiring, and often devastating oral histories of gay, transsexual, and minority truck drivers allow award-winning author Anne Balay...
by Pippa Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
In the first half of the twentieth century, white elites who dominated Virginia politics sought to increase state control over African Americans and lower-class whites, whom they saw as oversexed and lacking sexual self-restraint. In order to reaffirm the existing political and social order, white...