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Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Any review of 20th-century American theatre invariably leads to the term realism. Yet despite the strong tradition of theatrical realism on the American stage, the term is frequently misidentified, and the practices to which it refers are often attacked as monolithically tyrannical, restricting the...
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2011
In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.
The poets and poetry that...
Imperfect Fit
Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Imperfect Fit: Aesthetic Function, Facture, and Perception in Art and Writing since 1950 is an expansive and incisive examination of the patterns of connectedness in contemporary art and poetry. Allen Fisher—a highly accomplished poet, painter, critic, and art historian as well as a key figure in...
Mieres Reborn
The Reinvention of a Catalan Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.
Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die. As in countless thousands of rural communities...
Reachable Stars
Patterns in the Ethnoastronomy of Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Modern Westerners say the lights in the sky are stars, but culturally they are whatever we humans say they are. Some say they are Forces that determine human lives, some declare they are burning gaseous masses, and some see them as reminders of a gloried past by which elders can teach and guide the...
Curators and Culture
The Museum Movement in America, 1740-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This volume argues that a small, loosely connected group of men constituted an informal museum movement in America from about 1740 to 1870.
As they formed their pioneer museums, these men were guided not so much by European examples, but rather by the imperatives of the American democratic...
In the Name of Necessity
Military Tribunals and the Loss of American Civil Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2014
Analyses the ways American leaders have justified the use of military tribunals, the suspension of due process, and the elimination of habeas corpus.
Though the war on terrorism is said to have generated unprecedented military situations, arguments for the Patriot Act and military tribunals following...
Animal, Vegetable, Digital
Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Winner of the Elizabeth Agee Prize in American Literature
In Animal, Vegetable, Digital, Elizabeth Swanstrom makes a confident and spirited argument for the use of digital art in support of ameliorating human engagement with the environment and suggests a four-part framework for analyzing and...
Education for Liberation
The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
*Education for Liberation *completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861-1890 by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War...
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering...
by Amy Eisenberg, Amy Eisenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Aymara Indians are a geographically isolated, indigenous people living in the Andes Mountains near Chile’s Atacama Desert, one of the most arid regions of the world. As rapid economic growth in the area has begun to divert scarce water to hydroelectric and agricultural projects, the Aymara struggle...
SunWatch
Fort Ancient Development in the Mississippian World
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
The last prehistoric cultures to inhabit the Middle Ohio Valley (ca. A.D. 1000–1650) are referred to as Fort Ancient societies, which exhibited a wide variety of Mississippian period characteristics. What is less well-known and little understood are the social processes by which Mississippian...
Weapons of Choice
The Development of Precision Guided Munitions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
History and deployment of smart weapons.
In the United States, efforts to develop precision guided munitions—PGMs—began during the First World War and resulted in an 'aerial torpedo' by the 1920s. While World War II was dominated by large-scale strategic bombing—essentially throwing out...
Popular Stories and Promised Lands
Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on television, in popular magazines, and even on the funny...