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My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment...
by Richard Schechner
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others...
The Anatomy Murders
Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Up the close and down the stair,
Up and down with Burke and Hare.
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,
Knox the man who buys the beef.
—anonymous children's song
On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last...
Women at War
The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the...
American Georgics
Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with...
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility
The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents,...
by Emily Toth
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.
by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....
Before the Normans
Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted....
Blind Impressions
Methods and Mythologies in Book History
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object...
American Justice 2016
The Political Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
When the Democrat-appointed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg criticized Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, she triggered concerns about judicial ethics. But the political concerns were even more serious. The Supreme Court is supposed to be what Alexander Hamilton called "the least dangerous"...
Postmodern Fairy Tales
Gender and Narrative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Postmodern Fairy Tales seeks to understand the fairy tale not as children's literature but within the broader context of folklore and literary studies. It focuses on the narrative strategies through which women are portrayed in four classic stories: "Snow White," "Little Red Riding...