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Native American cultures of Puerto Rico prior to the arrival of the Spanish in 1493.A book on the prehistory of a modern geopolitical entity is artificial. It is unlikely that prehistoric occupants re

A Publication in the Centennial Series of the American Dialect Society in celebration of the beginning of its second century of research into language variation in America.“Heartland” English is the f

Original essays exploring important developments in radio and television broadcasting.The essays included in this collection represent some of the best cultural and historical research on broadcasting

A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of

A dynamic account of the history, practice, and theory of poetry as performance.Distant Reading considers poetry as performance, offers new insights into its popularity, and proposes a new history of

Multidisciplinary essays examinig the historical and cultural history of the Sephardic experience in the Americas, from pre-expulsion Spain to the modern era, as recounted by some of the most outstand

The first book-length interpretation of the new conservative leaders of America's largest Protestant denomination. Uneasy in Babylon is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern B

In The Unwritten War, Daniel Aaron examines the literary output of American writers—major and minor—who treated the Civil War in their works. He seeks to understand why this devastating and defining m

Uneasy in Babylon is based on extensive interviews with the most important Southern Baptist conservatives who have wrested control of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) away from moderates. Known t

Argentina is home to the largest Jewish community in the Hispanic world, the second largest in the Western hemisphere. During successive political and social regimes, Argentina alternately barred Jews

During their presidencies, both Virgilio Barco Vargas (1986-90) and Cesar Gaviria Trujillo (1990-94) sought to end the long-running armed disturbance by the leftist guerillas, narcotics traffickers, a

This is the only book to seriously treat the intriguing linguistic and cultural phenomenon of the intimate contact between Yiddish and English over the past 120 years. Yiddish arrived in America as th

When John Rockwell, a Yankee captive at Andersonville, reaches across the prison's "dead line" to pluck a bunch of violets, Confederateguard Jack Foster is supposed to shoot him. Con

This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century.From early 20th-century writings to present-

This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama representsexhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.The Ku Klux Klan has wielded considerable power both asa terrorist g

Drawing upon new material from Russian archives, interviews, and letters, Amnesty International USA's Rubenstein (Russian studies, Harvard U.) provides a chronology (1891-1967) and insight into the co

Marronage - the process of flight by slaves from servitude to establish their own hegemonies in inhospitable or wild territories - had its beginnings in the early 1500s in Hispaniola, the first Europe

Contains 19 essays on contemporary American poetry and poetics, previously published as journal articles between 1975 and 1989, focusing on several major and lesser known American experimental poets f

How the tropes of science fiction infuse and inform avant-garde poetics and many other kindred arts This insightful, playful monograph from Golston does exactly what it advertises: modeling poetics based on how poetry (and some parallel artistic endeavors) has filtered through a century-plus of science fiction. This is not a book about science fiction in and of itself, but it is a book about the resonances of science-fiction tropes and ideas in poetic language. The germ of Golston's project is a throwaway line in Robert Smithson's Entropy and the New Monuments about how cinema supplanted nature as inspiration for many of his fellow artists: "The movies give a ritual pattern to the lives of many artists, and this induces a kind of 'low budget' mysticism, which keeps them in a perpetual trance." Golston charts how the demotic appeal of sci-fi, much like that of the B-movie, cross-pollinated into poetry and other branches of the avant garde. Golston creates what he calls a "regular Rub