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Sound States
Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
By investigating the relationship between acoustical technologies and twentieth-century experimental poetics, this collection, with an accompanying compact disc, aims to 'turn up the volume' on printed works and rethink the way we read, hear, and talk about literary texts composed after telephones,...
Raza Sí, Migra No
Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2017
As immigration from Mexico to the United States grew through the 1970s and 1980s, the Border Patrol, police, and other state agents exerted increasing violence against ethnic Mexicans in San Diego's volatile border region. In response, many San Diego activists rallied around the leadership of the...
Making a Living
Work and Environment in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2009
In an innovative fusion of labor and environmental history, Making a Living examines work as a central part of Americans' evolving relationship with nature, revealing the unexpected connections between the fight for workers' rights and the rise of the modern environmental movement.
Chad Montrie...
Cloud by Day
A Story of Coal and Coke and People
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book, written from the author's personal knowledge of the district, is a picture of the fabulous and violent past of Pennsylvania's famed coke region and of its uncertain present. In tracing its history Sheppard shows the changes in methods of production and in the racial character of the population;...
Iron and Steel
Class, Race, and Community in Birmingham, Alabama, 1875-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In this study of Birmingham's iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city's social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and...
Settling Scores
German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945-1953
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
Classical music was central to German national identity in the early twentieth century. The preeminence of composers such as Bach and Beethoven and artists such as conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and pianist Walter Gieseking was cited by the Nazis as justification for German expansionism and as evidence...
Radical Relations
Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay...
by John M. McManamon
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
By studying the funeral orations of Renaissance Italy, McManamon analyzes Italian humanism as a characteristic phase in Western rhetorical culture. By examining hundreds of funeral speeches, he provides a valuable overview of major civic issues and humanistic themes, adding significant new material...
The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move
Identities on the Island and in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican....
Game, Set, Match
Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity. In this winning combination of biography and history, Susan Ware argues that King's challenge to sexism, the supportive...
by Jerome Loving
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Loving finds in the lives and works of the two writers a symbiosis of spirit that transcends the question of literary influence. Tracing the parallel careers of Emerson and Whitman, the author shows how each served his literary apprenticeship, moved beyond his vocation, prospered, and, finally, declined...
Revolution in the Countryside
Rural Conflict and Agrarian Reform in Guatemala, 1944-1954
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Although most discussions of the Guatemalan "revolution" of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a...
by Stephanie J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation...
Capturing the South
Imagining America's Most Documented Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their...