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To Virginia Woolf, London was a source of creative inspiration, a setting for many of her works, and a symbol of the culture in which she lived and wrote. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and social theories, Susan Squier explores the transformed meaning of the city in Woolf's essays, memoirs, and novels as it functions in the creation of a mature feminist vision.

Offers a piercing view of the role of science in nineteenth-century women's rights movements and provides historical perspective on the debates about gender and science. This title presents a full-length biography of Jacobi, the most significant woman physician of her era and an outspoken advocate for women's rights.

Black Culture and the New Deal: The Quest for Civil Rights in the Roosevelt Era

Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects of social, political, and religious anxiety.

Now considered America's foremost colonial poet, Edward Taylor was virtually unknown until some of his poems were discovered in the Yale library and published in 1937. The intellectual brilliance and the emotional intensity of his poetical meditations have led critics to compare him to John Donne and George Herbert. These poems are one of the great achievements in American devotional literature.

When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution ""I hope you know this ain't Chicago"". In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates African Americans as central shapers of contemporary southern culture.

Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807

Building a Latino Civil Rights Movement: Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in New York City

Latino Generation: Voices of the New America

Uncovers the history and religious experiences of the first American Indian converts to Pentecostalism. Drawing on new approaches to the global history of Pentecostalism, Angela Tarango shows how converted indigenous leaders eventually transformed a standard Pentecostal theology of missions in ways that reflected their own religious struggles and advanced their sovereignty within the denomination.

Craig discusses the impact of modern thought and invention upon literature's essential business of communication; the continuing vitality of a classic as illustrated by the abiding influence of Lucian; and the significance of the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia.

Argues that cultural propaganda played an enormous part in integrating Austrians and other Europeans into the American sphere during the Cold War. In Coca-Colonization and the Cold War, Reinhold Wagnleitner shows that'Americanization' was the result not only of market forces and consumerism but also of systematic planning on the part of the United States.

In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in Sunflower, tracing the development of organizing strategies in separate racial communities over four decades.

Combines the histories of Oklahoma's Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This title presents the changing definitions of what it means to be Native American, African American or white.

Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove

Tracing the philosophical, legal and grassroots components of the campaign to open Texas universities to black students, this book shows the complex range of strategies and the diversity of ideology and methodology on the part of black activists and intellectuals who promoted educational equality.

Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540-1859

Tells the compelling story of postemancipation Colombia, from the liberation of the slaves in the 1850s to the country's first general labour strikes in the 1910s. As Jason McGraw demonstrates, ending slavery fostered a new sense of citizenship, one shaped both by a model of universal rights and by the particular freedom struggles of African-descended people.

Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian

Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of an American Reform Movement, 1817-1921

Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist theory, Taussig finds that the fetishization of evil, in the image of the devil, mediates the conflict between precapitalist and capitalist modes of objectifying the human condition.

Illuminates discussions about the value of women's work through analysis of texts and images created by writers, women's rights activists, Native American women, and more. Focusing on the range of materials through which domesticity was produced in the West, the author integrates voices into the study of domesticity's imperial manifestations.

While technological threats to personal privacy have proliferated rapidly, legislation designed to protect privacy has been slow and incremental. In this study of legislative attempts to reconcile privacy and technology, Priscilla Regan examines congressional policy making in three key areas: computerized databases, wiretapping, and polygraph testing.

Henry James and Pragmatistic Thought: A Study in the Relationship between the Philosophy of William James and the Literary Art of Henry James

Heide Fehrenbach analyses the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film - and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship - during a period of abrupt transition to democracy.

Anglo-American writers in the revolutionary era used pastoral images to places themselves as native to the continent, argues Thomas Hallock in this text. Beginning in the mid-18th century, he shows how authors explored the idea of wilderness and political identities in fully populated frontiers.

Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, this book uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace, particularly poorer women, on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.

Paulo Freire and the Cold War Politics of Literacy