University Of Illinois Press: 158 books
Bach Perspectives
VOL. 5: BACH IN AMERICA
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2002
In Bach in America, volume 5 of Bach Perspectives, nine scholars track Johann Sebastian Bach's reputation in America from an artist of relative obscurity to a cultural mainstay whose music has spread to all parts of the population, inspired a wealth of scholarship, captivated listeners, and inspired...
Recovering the Commons
Democracy, Place, and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
This penetrating work culls key concepts from grassroots activism to hold critical social theory accountable to the needs, ideas, and organizational practices of the global justice movement. The resulting critique of neoliberalism hinges on place-based struggles of groups marginalized by globalization...
The Work of Mothering
Globalization and the Filipino Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Women make up a majority of the Filipino workforce laboring overseas. Their frequent employment in nurturing, maternal jobs--nanny, maid, caretaker, nurse--has found expression in a significant but understudied body of Filipino and Filipino American literature and cinema. Harrod J. Suarez's innovative...
Beyond Respectability
The Intellectual Thought of Race Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s through the Black Power era of the 1970s. Eschewing the Great Race Man paradigm so prominent in contemporary discourse, Brittney C. Cooper looks...
Serbia under the Swastika
A World War II Occupation
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The 1941 Axis invasion of Yugoslavia initially left the German occupiers with a pacified Serbian heartland willing to cooperate in return for relatively mild treatment. Soon, however, the outbreak of resistance shattered Serbia's seeming tranquility, turning the country into a battlefield and an area...
by Barbara Mennel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
From hairdressers and caregivers to reproductive workers and power-suited executives, images of women's labor have powered a fascinating new movement within twenty-first century European cinema. Social realist dramas capture precarious working conditions. Comedies exaggerate the habits of the global...
A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered
US Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Scholars, journalists, and policymakers have long argued that the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act dramatically reshaped the demographic composition of the United States. In A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered, leading scholars of immigration explore how the political and ideological struggles...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
At present, human beings worldwide are using an estimated 115.3 million animals in experiments ”a normalization of the unthinkable on an immense scale. In terms of harm, pain, suffering, and death, animal experiments constitute one of the major moral issues of our time. Given today's deeper understanding...
The Fight for Asian American Civil Rights
Liberal Protestant Activism, 1900-1950
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From the early 1900s, liberal Protestants grafted social welfare work onto spiritual concerns on both sides of the Pacific. Their goal: to forge links between whites and Asians that countered anti-Asian discrimination in the United States. Their test: uprooting racial hatreds that, despite their efforts,...
Teaching with Digital Humanities
Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Jennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who...
The Mexican Revolution in Chicago
Immigration Politics from the Early Twentieth Century to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Few realize that long before the political activism of the 1960s, there existed a broad social movement in the United States spearheaded by a generation of Mexican immigrants inspired by the revolution in their homeland. Many revolutionaries eschewed U.S. citizenship and have thus far been lost to...
Hockey
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice stars and...
Football and Manliness
An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Women, African Americans, and gays have recently upended US culture with demands for inclusion and respect, while economic changes have transformed work and daily life for millions of Americans. The national obsession with the National Football League provides a window on this dynamic period of change,...
The Banquet
Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2007
The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a host’s wealth and power, provided an occasion for nobles from distant places to gather together, and even served as a form of political propaganda. But what was it really like to cater to the tastes...