Half a century after The Second Sex was published, French scholars address the multiple issues arising from the affective, personal, political, and sexual dimension of Parisian existentialist Beauvo
AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY in the Americas puts texts from English and French Canada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States into a hemispheric dialogue on national and
Fabian is one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. In this collection of four essays based on a lecture series at the Univers
Mixing chronological narrative with a full ecological portrait, anthropologists Helen C. Rountree and Thomas E. Davidson have reconstructed the culture and history of Virginia's and Maryland's Eastern
This volume brings together sixteen essays on the American Revolution by leading historian Jack Greene. Originally published between 1972 and the early nineties, these essays approach the Revolution a
For most of their history, the U.S. courts of appeals have toiled in obscurity, well out of the limelight of political controversy. But as the number of appeals has increased dramatically, while the n
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the Universi
When hate groups descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, triggering an eruption of racist violence, the tragic conflict reverberated throughout the world. It also had a profound effect on the Universi
Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--t
Bringing together new writing by some of the field’s most compelling voices from the United States and Europe, this is the first book to examine Italy--as a territory of both matter and imagination--t
Contemporary art, interdisciplinary research, traditional Appalachian culture, and advanced technology converge in The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Artists in Locale. Published to coincide w
The author examines the relationship between Reconstruction and the economic debates during the period through analysis of the interactions and influences of Reconstruction and political economy and p
In the shadow of the devastating 2010 earthquake, Munro looks at the consistent streak of apocalyptic thought in the history and culture of Haiti specifically and the Caribbean in general. It began wi
"This book offers both a history of apocalyptic culture in the Caribbean and an up-to-date account of the social, political, environmental, religious, and economic factors that have brought apocalypse
Author Martin Kemp presents readers with an illustrated textual application of Einstein’s missive that “All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge,” to both science and art.
Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky,
The enormous popularity of his pamphlet Common Sense made Thomas Paine one of the best-known patriots during the early years of American independence. His subsequent service with the Continental Army,
Thomas Jefferson read Latin and Greek authors throughout his life and wrote movingly about his love of the ancient texts, which he thought should be at the core of America's curriculum. Yet at the sam
The architectural history of Texas spans more than 300 years of European settlement and 10,000 years of habitation by native peoples. The incredibly diverse natural landscape and equally varied built
This collection of essays is an investigation into Thomas Jefferson's writings and his position on using classical philosophies and teachings of the ancient world as a model for modern policies. Jeffe
Reuss (historian, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retired) and Cutcliffe (history, Lehigh University) present essays on the permeability of nature and technology in history and in the present. They begi
The view of nature and technology inhabiting totally different, even opposite, spheres persists across time and cultures. Most people would consider an English countryside or a Louisiana bayou to be &
This collection of thirteen essays on ecocinema explores contemporary scholarship in green film criticism and examines the environmentally focused film genre as a form of activism. The work is divided
The contributors to Framing the World offer in-depth analyses of a broad range of films, including fictional and documentary, Hollywood and independent, domestic and foreign, experimental and indigen
"This is, by far, in my estimation, the most important, most perfectly balanced, most elegantly written, and most potentially useful such collection of historical essays I have seen since Beeman, Bot
Here's something that doesn't happen every millennium: Roughly 35 million years ago, a stray meteorite dropped out of the sky over Virginia and left an impact that helped shape one of the continent's
Drawing from the 2002 Page-Barbour Lectures he delivered at the U. of Virginia and adding four additional lectures and articles, Godelier, an anthropologist at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences
Poets, critics, and scholars in the US, Britain, and Ireland lay offerings at the feet of American poetry critic Vendler to honor her seven decade's of work in academia and the public. Perhaps the bes
Maryse Conde is a Guadeloupean writer and critic whose work has challenged the categories of race, language, gender, and geography that inform contemporary literary and critical debates. InSigns of Di
Conde (emerita French and Romance philology, Columbia U., New York) conducts a sustained reflection on the productive and critical limits of post-colonial theory, argues Fulton (French studies, Smith
American sociologist Rieff (1922-2006) named the Jew of culture as an ideal type about half-way through his writing career, but Eisen (Jewish Theological Seminary of America) says it appears from the
Twenty contributions, presented by Allister (English, St. Olaf College), combine ecocriticism (the study of environmental literature) with men's studies. The essays share no common theoretical approac
Listen for the calls of nesting ravens and warblers, watch the growth of wild geranium and black cohosh, and savor the first autumn blush in the tupelo trees. Revel, as did Frank Lloyd Wright, Benjami
Is literature dangerous? In the romantic view, writers were rebels--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of mankind"--poised to change the world. In relation to twentieth-century literature
Williamson (English, U. of California, Davis) challenges both feminist orthodoxy and men's-movement thinking to show how several important male writers have drawn creative strength from their identifi
In the late nineteenth century, prisoners in Alabama, the vast majority of them African Americans, were forced to work as coal miners under the most horrendous conditions imaginable. Black Prisoners a
This book traces the history of black prisoners in Alabama and their connections to and participation in the labor movement among miners in the late 19th century. Curtin (U. of Essex, UK) explores th
West African intellectuals have a long history of engaging with European intrusion by reflecting on their status as colonial and postcolonial subjects. Against the tendency to view this engagement as
Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? James H. Read examines how four key Founders--James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Wilson, and Thomas Jeffer
