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Roman Tragedy
Theatre to Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Roman tragedies were written for over three hundred years, but only fragments remain of plays that predate the works of Seneca in the mid-first century C.E., making it difficult to define the role of tragedy in ancient Roman culture. Nevertheless, in this pioneering book, Mario Erasmo draws on all the...
Tense and Narrativity
From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In this pathfinding study, Suzanne Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language. Fleischman sees linguistics as laying the foundation...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Three forces—dwindling British power, rising American influence, and nationalism in a variety of forms—have transformed Australia, New Zealand, and the adjacent islands since 1919. In this volume, some of the most distinguished scholars of the Pacific region assess these significant historical changes....
Mass Media and Free Trade
NAFTA and the Cultural Industries
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
As United States television programs, movies, music, and other cultural products make their way around the globe, a vigorous debate over "cultural imperialism" is growing in many countries. This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, and communications to...
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam
How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
In this compelling study, Rena Steinzor highlights the ways in which the government, over the past twenty years, has failed to protect children from harm caused by toxic chemicals. She believes these failures—under-funding, excessive and misguided use of cost/benefit analysis, distortion of science,...
Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey
The Paradox of Moderation
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Moderation theory describes the process through which radical political actors develop commitments to electoral competition, political pluralism, human rights, and rule of law and come to prefer negotiation, reconciliation, and electoral politics over provocation, confrontation, and contentious action....
Quality Education for Latinos and Latinas
Print and Oral Skills for All Students, K–College
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As educators and legislators across the country debate how to improve public schools, the most vital factor often disappears from the equation—the relationship between the teacher and the student. According to veteran educators Rita and Marco Portales, this relationship is the central issue in the...
by Stanley Brandes
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world's largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico...
An Expedition to the Ranquel Indians
Excursion a los indios ranqueles
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The encounter between Native American peoples and Europeans and their descendants has marked the history of every nation in the Americas, both North and South. Lucio Mansilla's Una excursión a los indios ranqueles, published in Argentina in 1870, is one of very few works in American letters that presents...
Obliging Need
Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
For centuries throughout large portions of the globe, petty agriculturalists and industrialists have set their physical and mental energies to work producing products for direct consumption by their households and for exchange. This twofold household reproduction strategy, according to both Marxist and...
The Black Death in Egypt and England
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Throughout the fourteenth century AD/eighth century H, waves of plague swept out of Central Asia and decimated populations from China to Iceland. So devastating was the Black Death across the Old World that some historians have compared its effects to those of a nuclear holocaust. As countries began...
The Neoliberal Diet
Healthy Profits, Unhealthy People
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Why are people getting fatter in the United States and beyond? Mainstream explanations argue that people simply eat too much “energy-dense” food while exercising too little. By swapping the chips and sodas for fruits and vegetables and exercising more, the problem would be solved. By contrast,...
We Could Not Fail
The First African Americans in the Space Program
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the long and bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson utilized the space program as an agent for social change, using federal equal...
Nuevo South
Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced both...