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Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France

This text examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Based on cultural criticism, poststructuralism and feminist theory, Bernstein's analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud's and Foucault's theories of confession.

This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is based on sources that include recently declassified Chinese documents.

This study explores the transition from slavery to freedom and what this transition meant for former slaves, former slaveowners, and the societies in which they lived. It covers areas such as Jamaica, Louisiana, Cuba, and French West Africa.

Between 1978 and 1985 the BBC televised the entire Shakespeare canon of thirty-seven plays, a remarkable technical and dramatic accomplishment. Susan Willis observed the making of a number of these television plays. Here she presents not only a full-scale history and analysis of the BBC series but an unprecedented eyewitness account of the productions.

In this account, Pfanz introduces the men and the units, examines the development of tactical plans and the deployment of troops, and discusses the roles played by the commanders' key subordinates, whose conduct has been the source of controversy. His emphasis is on the battle itself.

This first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency - how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises. Using advanced statistical techniques to analyze each national election of the Weimar era, Childres offers a new and challenging interpretation of who voted for Hitler's NSDAP and why.

Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court: The Story of Justice Wiley Rutledge

Moments of Despair: Suicide, Divorce, and Debt in Civil War Era North Carolina

North Carolina in the Connected Age: Challenges and Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy

Plain Folk's Fight: The Civil War and Reconstruction in Piney Woods Georgia

Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language in an Islamic Nation

African Republic: Black and White Virginians in the Making of Liberia

Doctoring the South: Southern Physicians and Everyday Medicine in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D.

American football is a great public spectacle with an immense following. The author of this book aims to show how the press projected it: football as pastime, as the sport of gentlemen, as a science, and as a game of rules and their infringements.

Exploring the cultural dimensions of the US contact with Haiti through a range of examples from the occupation and its aftermath, this text shows that what Americans thought and wrote about Haiti during those years contributed in crucial and unexpected ways to an emerging culture of Imperialism

This edition traces the role of Christian Identity figures in the events of the first half of the 1990s, from the Oklahoma City bombing, to the rise of the militia movement and the Freemen standoff in Montana. It explores the government's response to these challenges to the legitimacy of the state.

Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Radway argues that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading."

A thorough foundation for the fresh recognition of one of the great painters of eighteenth-century Europe, a leading fresco painter who is a colorist worthy of comparison to the best of his contemporaries.

Tropicalia was a watershed cultural movement in Brazil. This title shows how the tropicalists appropriated and parodied cultural practices in order to expose the fissure between their nation's idealized image as a tropical ""garden"" and the daily brutality visited upon its citizens.

This textbook offers students an introduction to classical Greek. Among the features of the book are a two-week introduction to spoken Greek, folklore stories from around the world rendered in classical Greek, and special sections on aspects of Greek culture.

Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the diary of plantation owner Thistlewood.

This work explores the role played by party politics in US trade policy. The author offers detailed case studies of almost all of the major trade issues of the Reagan, Bush and Clinton eras, including administrative and legislative efforts to curb auto, steel and other imports.

Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie

Henry Wallace's 1948 Presidential Campaign and the Future of Postwar Liberalism

Susan Van Dyne's reading of twenty-five of Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems considers three contexts: Plath's journal entries from 1957 to 1959 (especially as they reveal her conflicts over what it meant to be a middle-class wife and mother and an aspiring writer in 1950s America); the interpretive strategies of feminist theory; and Plath's multiple revisions of the poems.

Offers a theoretical and practical guide for the application of quantitative analysis in historical research. This book is designed for students of history and related disciplines who are curious about the possibilities of quantification and want to learn more about its development.

Eighty-two percent of German boys and girls between the ages of ten and eighteen belonged to Hitlerjugend or one of its affiliates by 1939. These adolescents were recognized by the SS as a source of future recruits to its own elite ranks. Gerhard Rempel examines the special relationship that developed between these two most youthful and dynamic branches of the National Socialist movement.

Explores the stormy American relationship with the Middle East from World War II through to the war in Iraq, focusing particularly on the interests that helped put the United States on a collision course with radical Islam. This book also examines oil, Israel, and other aspects of US policy.