Drawing upon Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness and how black expressive cultures express remembrance, Gonzalez Mandri considers ways in which post- Revolutionary Afr
Linked historically, culturally, and geographically, the counties that make up Southwestern Virginia and Northeastern Tennessee are also connected by a shared decorative arts tradition. "Great Road St
Shifting perspectives between eclectic cultural criticism and intellectual history, Nash (English, Indiana U.) charts the appearance of the wild man in novels, broadsheets, pamphlets, and fair booths
American author Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) produced two novels, 32 stories, and numerous essays and articles. Independent scholar Prown examines O'Connor's development as an artist, particularly as
Collects 22 narratives from speculators, excursionists, rusticators, sportsmen, ornithologists, and others who traveled to the islands between 1650 and 1993. The accounts come from well-known visitors
In Digging through Darkness, Carmel Schrire interweaves art and fact to recreate a distant world. She combines autobiography, historical archaeology, and fictional reconstructions to explore the roots
This illustrated study is for historians, scholars, and others interested in history. Combining ideas from architecture, history, and social history, the book seeks to understand why the architect
For many people outside the state, North Dakota conjures visions of a remote, sparse, and seemingly inhospitable landscape, replete with ghost towns, scattered farmsteads, and settings reminiscent of
Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities.The Cross-Dressed Car
Studies of sexuality in Caribbean culture are on the rise, focusing mainly on homosexuality and homophobia or on regional manifestations of normative and nonnormative sexualities.The Cross-Dressed Car
"Buildings Of Delaware should prove to be an indispensable reference book. The book's value lies in its excellent maps, historic and modern illustrations, logical organization, and extensive research
In this illustrated book, scholars from multiple disciplines take the reader on John Smith's exploratory voyages and reconstruct the Chesapeake environment and its people as Smith encountered them.
Garraway (French, Northwestern U.) brings together 10 essays that examine the cultural, literary, and philosophical legacies of the Haitian Revolution. They consider stories, myths, and heroes in lite
Incorporating recent events in the Native American community as well as additional information gleaned from publications and public resources, this newly redesigned and updated second edition of Firs
Mitchell (English and women's studies, Temple U.) presents a biography of 19th-century British suffragist, essayist, journalist, theologian, and social reformer, Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904). In re
Collecting James' correspondence with friends, family and colleagues, during a three-year period, this volume contains approximately 500 letters and references 650 more. Of special interest are James'
Nine essays by literature academics focusing on 17th to 20th-century Anglo-American texts engage the relationship between epistolary texts and discourses of gender, class, politics, and commodificatio
A collection of essays celebrating and reflecting the spectrum of scholarship arising from an expanded definition of African-American archaeology, treating such issues as the analysis and presentation
Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplan
Nineteenth-century English nature was a place of experimentation, exoticism, and transgression, as site and emblem of the global exchanges of the British Empire. Popular attitudes toward the transplan
Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twent
Contradictory ideals of egalitarianism and self-reliance haunt America’s democratic state. We need look no further than Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and victory for proof that early twent
During the period around volume 3 of the Retirement Series, James Madison remained largely at Montpelier, except for occasional visits to neighbors and attendance at ceremonial dinners and semiannual
This abundantly illustrated, wide-ranging volume captures the rich and diverse architectural history of Rockbridge County, Virginia, including the two cities of Lexington and Buena Vista, from the eig
In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and governm
In the history of the early twentieth-century Americas, visions of hemispheric unity flourished, and the notion of a transnational American identity was embraced by artists, intellectuals, and governm
Rainey and Schrader explore an innovative University of Florida cancer hospital, focusing on its many patient-centered design features as well as the sophisticated planning process and construction ma
In early modern Germany, religious conversion was a profoundly social and political phenomenon rather than purely an act of private conscience. Because social norms and legal requirements demanded tha
This book explores scientific representations and Western popular cultural narratives of the tropical forest through the work of naturalists, adventurers, and documentarians of the early to mid-20th c
In the nearly two centuries since the first building’s completion in Thomas Jefferson’s academical village, programs and facilities at the University of Virginia have been continually expanded and upd
Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews cede
Social scientists, artists, writers, historians, and cultural scholars, explore social and cultural issues raised by the transformation of Ireland's image from a bastion of tradition to a cutting edge
By analyzing separate-opinion writing in the federal appeals courts, political scientists Hettinger (U. of Connecticut), Stefanie A. Lindquist (and law, Vanderbilt U.), and Wendy L. Martinek (State U.
Miami has long captured the world's attention in provocative ways. During the 1980s, a series of violent racial disturbances focused national and international attention there as analysts and observer
Covering the years from 1781 into the 1820s, these valuable accounts remain the chief source of information about Thomas Jefferson's domestic and personal life, interests, habits, appearance, and day-
In August 2017, violence burst forth in Charlottesville, Virginia, during two days of demonstrations by a combination of white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and counterprotest groups from the antifa and Bl
Weisiger lists and describes some 750 architecturally notable houses and buildings in the state of Wisconsin. The entries are grouped in six distinct geographical regions, such as the Lake District
October 15, 1793: the eve of Marie-Antoinette’s execution. The Reign of Terror has descended upon revolutionary France, and thousands are beheaded daily under the guillotine. Edmond Coffin and Jonatha
From 1951 to 1969, John Brinckerhoff (J. B.) Jackson founded, edited, and published Landscape, a magazine that changed the way scholars, writers, teachers, designers, planners, and artists came to und
Examining popular and partisan politics during the first few decades of the republic, historians of the US cover party development, parties and participation, the place of parties in American politics
