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The critical examination of language must be a central part of any effort to fight imperialism, militarism, demagoguery, racism, sexism, and other structures of injustice. Globalizing Collateral Language examines the discourse surrounding 9/11 and its entrenchment in global politics and culture.

Presents essays that explore the long shadow of America's 'War on Terror' discourse. Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, this book calls on us to resist the tyranny of collateral language at a time when the need for such interventions in the public sphere is more urgent than ever.

The first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence front and centre. Kylie Hulbert tells the story of privateers at home and abroad while chronicling their experiences, engagements, cruises, and court cases.

Shining new light on Martin Luther King's largely implicit economic and political theories, and expanding appreciation of the Black radical tradition to which he belonged, Andrew Douglas and Jared Loggins reconstruct, develop, and carry forward King's strikingly prescient critique of capitalist society.

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in the South's largest cities. Terry also adds to our understanding of the underexplored historical period of the civil rights movement, prior to the 1960s.

Charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms.

Charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples of what was then called nature writing, through writing after 2000 that gradually redefines the environment in increasingly human terms.

Translates selections from Mathilde Anneke's fascinating correspondence with Fritz Anneke and Mary Booth, making the letters accessible to English-speaking historians, students, and members of the wider public for the first time.

Draws on more than fifteen years of research to present a direct, focused engagement with both the planning history that shaped Washington, DC's landscape and the intricacies of everyday life, politics, and planning practice as they relate to business improvement districts.

In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins expands our understanding of wartime disability by examining a variety of bodies and ailments, ranging from the temporary to the chronic, from disease to injury, and both physical and mental conditions.

Neither a true biography in the Boswellian sense nor a work of cultural studies, although it combines elements of both. Even as biographer Jerry Grillo has investigated and pursued the facts, this life history of Col. Bruce reads like a novel-one full of amazing and hard-to-believe tales of a musical life lived on and off the road.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe. Louisa had already made her mark as a writer; May was on the verge of a respected art career. This book presents a selection of May's drawings along with the letters written by the two Alcott sisters during their trip.

Takes OutKast's aesthetic as a lens through which readers can understand and explore contemporary issues of Blackness, gender, urbanism, southern aesthetics, and southern studies more generally. These essays collectively offer a vision of OutKast as a key shaper of conceptions of the twenty-first-century South.

Explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. These essays capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century.

Uses a new dataset of more than three hundred organisations affiliated with the United Nations Human Rights Council to compare the extent to which religious and secular NGOs differ in their framing, discussion, and operationalisation of human rights work.

Explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. These essays capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century.

What can consumerism and material culture teach us about how ordinary Americans remembered their Civil War? This book explores ways in which Americans remembered the war in their everyday lives. Each essay offers a case study of a product, experience, or idea related to how the Civil War was remembered and memorialized.