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by Joseph B. Solodow
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Synthesizing a wealth of detailed observations, Joseph Solodow studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and Virgil's presentations of Aeneas. He argues that for Ovid metamorphosis is an act of clarification,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious...
Desperate Faith
A Study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin, and Updike
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This book traces the developing view of the human conditions through the major works of these five writers. The method is inductive, and the works are seen as a record of human experience not as an illustration of philosophical theory. A final chapter places them in the larger perspective of traditional...
by Michael T. Taussig
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict...
Blurred Borders
Transnational Migration between the Hispanic Caribbean and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of origin.
Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that...
by Tiffany A. Sippial
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Between 1840 and 1920, Cuba abolished slavery, fought two wars of independence, and was occupied by the United States before finally becoming an independent republic. Tiffany A. Sippial argues that during this tumultuous era, Cuba's struggle to define itself as a modern nation found focus in the social...
Mothers and Strangers
Essays on Motherhood from the New South
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands...
Sunstar and Pepper
Scouting with Jeb Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This stirring story of a scout with Jeb Stuart is fiction with an historical background. The action begins a few weeks after the Battle of Seven Pines in 1862 and ends shorly before the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.
Originally published in 1947.
A UNC Press Enduring Edition --...
by Roy Underhill
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thing after another until you have a house and everything in it.' Through his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop,' and his previous books, Roy has...
The Woodwright's Apprentice
Twenty Favorite Projects From The Woodwright's Shop
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous books and his popular PBS series, The Woodwright's Shop, now in its sixteenth season, Roy has inspired millions to take up chisel and plane. The master woodwright...
Turning the Tables
Restaurants and the Rise of the American Middle Class, 1880-1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
In the nineteenth century, restaurants served French food to upper-class Americans with aristocratic pretensions, but by the turn of the century, even the best restaurants cooked ethnic and American foods for middle-class urbanites. In Turning the Tables, Andrew P. Haley examines how the transformation...
Religion, Art, and Money
Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and...
The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912
Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2005
In this landmark work, Thomas Tweed examines nineteenth-century America's encounter with one of the world's major religions. Exploring the debates about Buddhism that followed upon its introduction in this country, Tweed shows what happened when the transplanted religious movement came into contact...
Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire
Thomas Thistlewood and His Slaves in the Anglo-Jamaican World
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive...