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by Bernard Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Hollywood blacklist, which began in the late 1940s and ran well into the 1960s, ended or curtailed the careers of hundreds of people accused of having ties to the Communist Party. Bernard Gordon was one of them. In this highly readable memoir, he tells a engrossing insider's story of what it was...
The Drama's Patrons
A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. —Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected...
by Willard Potts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Uniting Catholic Ireland and Protestant Ireland was a central idea of the "Irish Revival," a literary and cultural manifestation of Irish nationalism that began in the 1890s and continued into the early twentieth century. Yet many of the Revival's Protestant leaders, including W. B. Yeats,...
A Camera in the Garden of Eden
The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
In the early twentieth century, the Boston-based United Fruit Company controlled the production, distribution, and marketing of bananas, the most widely consumed fresh fruit in North America. So great was the company's power that it challenged the sovereignty of the Latin American and Caribbean countries...
by Stephen Connely Benz
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Guatemala draws some half million tourists each year, whose brief visits to the ruins of ancient Maya cities and contemporary highland Maya villages may give them only a partial and folkloric understanding of Guatemalan society. In this vividly written travel narrative, Stephen Connely Benz explores...
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
From reviews of the first edition: "A compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest...writer of fantasy. With a keen appreciation of Borges himself and a pleasant disregard for the critical clichs, Bell-Villada tells us all we really want to know about the modern master-from pronouncing...
The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued...
by José Carlos Mariátegui
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Jose Carlos Mariátegui was one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century. He identified the future of Peru with the welfare of the Indian at a time when similar ideas were beginning to develop in Middle America and the Andean region. Generations of Peruvian and...
Our Lady of Controversy
Alma López's “Irreverent Apparition”
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Months before Alma López's digital collage Our Lady was shown at the Museum of International Folk Art in 2001, the museum began receiving angry phone calls from community activists and Catholic leaders who demanded that the image not be displayed. Protest rallies, prayer vigils, and death threats...
Torture in Brazil
A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979, Secretly Prepared by the Archiodese of São Paulo
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
From 1964 until 1985, Brazil was ruled by a military regime that sanctioned the systematic use of torture in dealing with its political opponents. The catalog of what went on during that grim period was originally published in Portuguese as Brasil: Nunca Mais (Brazil: Never Again) in 1985.The volume...
Leaving the Gay Place
Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2018
Acclaimed by critics as a second F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billy Lee Brammer was once one of the most engaging young novelists in America. “Brammer’s is a new and major talent, big in scope, big in its promise of even better things to come,” wrote A. C. Spectorsky, a former staffer at the New Yorker....
The Siren and the Seashell
And Other Essays on Poets and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Octavio Paz has long been known for his brilliant essays as well as for his poetry. Through the essays, he has sought to confront the tensions inherent in the conflict between art and society and to achieve a unity of their polarities. The Siren and the Seashell is a collection of Paz’s essays, focusing...
Brazil Imagined
1500 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The first comprehensive cultural history of Brazil to be written in English, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present captures the role of the artistic imaginary in shaping Brazil's national identity. Analyzing representations of Brazil throughout the world, this ambitious survey demonstrates the ways...
by Samuel Ramos
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico, originally written in 1934, is addressed to the author’s compatriots, but it speaks to people, wherever they are, who are interested in enriching their own lives and in elevating the cultural level of their countries. And it speaks with a peculiar timeliness to...