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Fighting High Ltd Slybirds
Book SynopsisThe 353rd Fighter Group, the `Slybirds’, participated in the major WWII aerial battles. 450 photographs provide a unique window on this historic group.Trade ReviewA real boon for modellers is the Markings, Nose Art and Famous Aircraft section, with its splendid views of various P-47s and P-51s. This is a classy book indeed. * Airfix Model World *The basic story and detailed information is interesting reading, while the number of archive photos, and mix of both colour and black and white images will be a delight to modellers and 8th Air Force historians alike. Heartily recommended. * Military Model Scene *As well as being of interest to general readers, this is a very useful book for modellers seeking detailed archive pictures. * Flypast Magazine *This superb book by 353rd FG historian Graham Cross is packed with 450 photographs covering the highs and lows of life serving with a fighter group from both the air and groundcrew perspective. * Editor - Model Boat World *In one book you will get photos of the main US aircrafts and their pilots, what should come handy in our [military modelling] hobby. Moreover, it might be important to read in order to understand some things connected to 353rd fighter group. * DetailScaleView *Every now and then a book comes along that is so good in every aspect - content, photo reproduction, editing, production values - that it can't possibly be matched...That benchmark may have just been surpassed. * Flightpath Magazine *The book gives a comprehensive look at the 353rd Group, and a unique look at the men and machines which made up this formidable fighting force, Highly recommended. * Britmodeller.com *Packed with nearly 450 photos, the majority of which are previously unpublished, unseen wartime colour photographs and detailed captions, this book is a visual and informative feast providing a unique window on a Fighter Group at war. Essential for any student of the air war over Europe. * Classic Wings *An amazing photographic tribute to the 353rd fighter group of the USAF. Magnificent. * Books Monthly *The photo selection is little short of outstanding…succeeds in representing all aspects of life on a US Army Air Forces fighter station in the latter stages of the war. *Winner of the November 2017 Book of the Month award* * Aeroplane Magazine *A very nicely produced book which will be enjoyed by USAAF enthusiasts with its unique collection of images and information. * Air Modeller *A magnificent book on the distinguished career of a ground attack and bomber escort unit. * Aviation News *
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Cambridge University Press Armed Citizens and Citizens in Arms
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of Mesoamerica the indigenous groups of precolonial North-Central America is rich and varied but relatively little-known. In this ground-breaking book, Alexus McLeod introduces the philosophical traditions of the Maya, Nahua (Aztecs), Mixtecs, Zapotecs, and others, focussing in particular on their treatment of language, truth, time, creation, personhood, knowledge, and morality. His wide-ranging discussion includes important texts of world literature such as the K''iche Maya Popol Vuh and the Aztec Florentine Codex, as well as precolonial glyphic texts and imagery. This comprehensive and accessible book will give students, specialists and other interested readers an understanding of Mesoamerican philosophy and a sense of the current scholarship in the field.Trade Review'This book arrives at a timely moment, as non-canonical philosophical traditions are getting increased attention. This is an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to one of the least well known of these traditions, Mesoamerican philosophy. McLeod shows that this culture produced challenging and unique perspectives on many central questions in philosophy, including the nature of language, knowledge, and reality itself.' Peter Adamson, University of MunichTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Cultural and Historical Background; 1. The Nature of Philosophy in Mesoamerica; 2. The Nature of Language, Truth and Meaning; 3. Time; 4. Identity, Self and Personhood; 5. Creation and the Gods; 6. Being and Worlds; 7. Knowledge, Seeing; 8. Ethics; Conclusion – Mesoamerican Philosophy and the Contemporary World.
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Cambridge University Press Law and Religion in Colonial America
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Cambridge University Press The Coming of the Kingdom
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Cambridge University Press Being the Heart of the World
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Cambridge University Press Enemy Literature
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Cambridge University Press Enemy Literature
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Cambridge University Press A Tale of Two Granadas
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Cambridge University Press The Taft Court 2 Volume Paperback Set Volume 10
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Cambridge University Press A Colonial Book Market
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Cambridge University Press The Price of Empire
Book SynopsisProviding the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early American imperialism in the Pacific. It describes how the racial legacy of early cases of imperialism led to modern denial of rights claims in US Pacific territories.
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Cambridge University Press Plebeian Consumers
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Cambridge University Press The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York
Book SynopsisOriginal and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demography and economics, Michael J. Douma shows that slavery in eighteenth-century New York was mostly rural, heavily Dutch, and generally profitable through the cultivation of wheat. Slavery in Dutch New York ultimately died a political death in the nineteenth century, while resistance from enslaved persons, and a gradual turn against slavery in society and in the courts, encouraged its destruction. This important study will reshape the historiography of slavery in the American North.
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Cambridge University Press Emersons Civil Wars
Book SynopsisKenneth S. Sacks explores how America''s first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eventually supported collective action to abolish slavery. Ralph Waldo Emerson was successful in creating a national audience for his philosophy and enjoyed the material and social rewards of that success. Contrary to most other Emerson scholars, however, Sacks argues that Emerson resisted active abolition and did not become a supporter until events forced his hand. Committing to the antislavery movement was risky and ran against his essential belief in social gradualism. Events in the mid-1850s, though, hastened Emerson''s conversion and he eventually became a leader in the movement. A study of an intellectual under the pressure to engage in political action, Emerson''s Civil Wars enriches our understanding of Emerson''s antislavery activities, life, and career.
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Cambridge University Press Pain into Purpose
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Cambridge University Press Violín
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Cambridge University Press Warriors in Washington
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Cambridge University Press Protecting Women
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Legare Street Press Illustrated Historical Atlas of Noble County
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Legare Street Press Indian Linguistic Families of America North of
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD The Language of the Mississaga Indians of Skugog.
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Legare Street Press Gravestone Records in the Ancient Cemetery and
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LEGARE STREET PR A History of Chatham Massachusetts
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Legare Street Press A Complete History of the Mexican War
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Introduction to American Comics
Book SynopsisThis accessible, up-to-date textbook covers the history of comics as it developed in the US in all of its forms: political cartoons and newspaper comic strips, comic books, graphic novels, minicomics, and webcomics. Over the course of its six chapters, this introductory textbook addresses the artistic, cultural, social, economic, and technological impacts and innovations that comics have had in American history. Readers will be immersed in the history of American comicsfrom its origins in 18th-century political cartoons and late 19th-century newspaper strips to the rise of the wildly popular comic book, the radical, grassroots collectives that grew out of the underground comix movement of the 1960s and 1970s, all the way through contemporary longform graphic novels, the vibrant self-publishing scene, and groundbreaking webcomics. The Routledge Introduction to American Comics guides students, researchers, archivists, and even fans of the medium through a contemporary history
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Taylor & Francis Environmental Justice in North America
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the voices of activists, this bookâs diverse contributors examine communitiesâ common experiences with environmental injustice, how they organize to address it, and the ways in which their campaigns intersect with related movements such as Black Lives Matter and Indigenous sovereignty.The global COVID-19 pandemic exposed the ways in which BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and white working-class communities have suffered disproportionately from the crisis due to sustained exposure to toxic land, air, and water, creating a new urgency for addressing underlying conditions of systemic racism and poverty in North America. In addition to exploring the historical roots of the Environmental Justice movement in the 1980s and 1990s, the volume offers coverage of recent events such as the DAPL pipeline controversy, the Flint water crisis, and the rise of climate justice. The collection incorporates the experiences of rural and urban communities, Alaska Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Race, Place, and Environmental Justice in the United States 1. Urban Environmental Justice Movements in the United States 2. Resilience at the Periphery: North America’s Non-Urban Environmental Justice Movements 3. Intercultural Alliances Part 2: Indigenous Movements and Environmental Justice in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean 4. Environmental Justice in Hawaiʻi and Oceania 5. Alaska Native Environmental Activism 6. Indigenous Peoples in Canada and Beyond: The Inuit Circumpolar Council’s Climate Change Advocacy Work 7. Ecocide, Ethnic Rights, and Extractivism: Struggles for Environmental Justice in Mexico 8. Plundered Paradise: The Puerto Rican Struggle Against Environmental Colonialism Part 3: Environmental Justice, Climate Justice, and Sustainability 9. Indigenous Environmental Justice, Renewable Energy Transition, and the Infrastructure of Sovereignty 10. The Food Justice Movement 11. "We Are Missing Our Lessons to Teach You One": Youth Activists on the Frontlines of Climate Justice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Impeachment in a Global Context
Book SynopsisThis volume considers the use of impeachment within a global context. The book brings together leading scholars and experts to give an insight into significant periods in the development of impeachment and its modern comparative use. Divided into five parts, the opening chapter introduces the topic and underlines its significance in terms of understanding the relationship and inter-dependence among politics, governance and the law. It also offers a novel conceptual framework that facilitates the global mapping of impeachment processes. Part I presents a thematic approach that explores the topic of impeachment through the lenses of democracy, human rights and the rule of law. With these themes in mind, Part II focuses on those parts of the world where impeachment is generally recognised as a core constitutional process including the United States, South Korea, Brazil and other countries in South America. Part III continues with the process of constitutional mapping by moving to a focTrade Review‘A book for our troubled times. Monaghan, Huq, and Flinders have convened an exceptional cast of contributors to illuminate the uses and abuses of impeachment in a comparative context. From Africa to the Americas and from Asia to Europe, this outstanding volume draws from doctrine, history, and theory to highlight understudied problems and questions through riveting case studies that expose the many functions of impeachment as a check on executive power, as a device for accountability, and as a weapon for retribution in constitutional politics. “Impeachment in a Global Context” is a home run study of impeachment around the world.’Richard Albert, Professor of World Constitutions, The University of Texas at Austin‘Whether it is a judge, minister, or chief executive in removal proceedings, impeachment brings with it thorny legal questions and often intense political ramifications. Impeachment in a Global Context acknowledges and engages these difficulties by providing deeply contextualized accounts of impeachment within individual countries, set within a broader framing of comparative analysis and theoretical insight. From those systems in which impeachment is core to constitutional governance to countries where it is only newly emerging as a tool, the book’s breadth is a boon for scholars and practitioners interested in constitutional design. And the book’s empirical focus on how impeachment actually functions sheds important light on its normative desirability. In short, this deftly constructed volume will serve as an essential resource on impeachment long into the future.’Erin F. Delaney, Professor of Law, Northwestern University‘Impeachment looms large in the current US political imaginary. It also shapes democratic politics across presidential systems worldwide: it has been deployed on almost every continent in the last decade, in ways that served both to bolster and undermine commitments to democracy and rule of law. In this important new volume, Monaghan, Huq, and Flinders bring together a star-studded list of contributors to survey these trends, their underpinnings, and significance for our understanding of democratic constitutional design and practice.’Rosalind Dixon, Professor of Law, University of New South Wales‘Impeachment remains a central institution to constrain executive power, but it is often abused. This rich volume transcends the conventional study of impeachment proceedings in presidential regimes to show their role in semipresidential and parliamentary systems across the world. The contributors address the impact of impeachment on democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.’Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs, University of Notre DameTable of Contents1. Understanding Impeachment: An Exercise in Comparative Cartography; PART I. FOUNDATIONS; 2. Impeachment as Cause or Cure of Human Rights Violations; 3. Impeachment and Democracy: Does Impeachment Have an Effect on Democracy in Third Wave Presidentialism?; 4. Impeachment and the Rule of Law: It’s Complicated; PART II. CORE; 5. The Role of the Judiciary in the Presidential Impeachment Process in Korea; 6. Latin America: Between Governability Crises and the Impeachment Trap; 7. Contemporary Impeachment in Brazil: Political Time and Aporias; 8. Impeachment in the United States; PART III. PERIPHERY; 9. Impeachment in Iceland; 10. Impeachment in Denmark: Law and Practice; 11. The Impeachment of the Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Dr Shirani Bandaranayke; 12. Impeachment in the Philippines: Politics, Institutions and Leadership; PART IV. SATELLITE; 13. Impeachment in Central and Eastern Europe; 14. Impeachment in Nigeria: Process, Practice and Failure; 15. The Politics of Impeachment in Pakistan’s Hybrid Democracy; 16. The United Kingdom and Impeachment: Justification, Renewal, and the House of Commons as a Guardian of the Constitution; PART V: FUTURES; 17. Impeachment in Comparative Perspective: An Empirical View
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Taylor & Francis The United States and the Origins of World War II
Book SynopsisThis volume spans 1914â1939 to provide a concise interpretation of the role the United States played in the origins of the Second World War. It synthesizes recent scholarship about interwar international politics while also presenting an original interpretation of the sources of American policy.The book shows how the drive for international reform, beginning with Woodrow Wilson, reflected both Americaâs unusual power and its fears about maintaining its domestic freedoms in a world dominated by arms races and the threat of war. The American desire to reform or to escape from the existing international system reshaped Europeâs balance of power from 1914â1929, leaving it precarious and unlikely to produce lasting stability. Americaâs power continued to loom globally even as it retreated into isolationism, contributing to the Westâs appeasement of Hitler, and to his sense that time was running out to achieve European hegemony. The epilogue analyzes how the United States affected
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Engaging Children in Vast Early America
Book SynopsisEngaging Children in Vast Early America examines the often overlooked roles that children played in moments of contact between Indigenous groups, Europeans, and Africans in North and South America over the course of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.Adulthood is the default lens through which most of history is examined. This is because so few historians analyze the age or life stage of those they study. As a result, people of the past are often assumed to be adults when their actions or experiences align more closely with what modern society deems adultlike. Many of these assumed adults, however, were agentive children. This collaborative collection is the first of its kind to invite experts in the field of Vast Early America to engage with the history of childhood and youth. The result is nine innovative essays that expand our understanding of childhood and agentive children but also of empire and everyday life in Vast Early America.This accessible
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Taylor & Francis Black Religion in America
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Horror and Science Fiction Cinema and Society
Book SynopsisExamining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional us-versus-them scenarios, this book analyzes the different ways such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in American politics and society.Starting with the killer ants film with an anti-communist subtext Them! (1954) and concluding with Jordan Peele's social horror film with revenge-seeking homicidal doppelgängers Us (2019), Martin Harris highlights social and political contexts, contemporary reviews and responses, and retrospective evaluations to show how American horror and science fiction films reflect and respond to contemporary conflicts marking various periods in U.S. history from post-WWII to the present, including those concerning race, gender, class, faith, political ideology, national identity, and other elements of American society.Horror and Scienc
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Taylor & Francis General Philip H. Sheridan
Book SynopsisThis biography explores General Philip H. Sheridanâs impact on the United States during and after the tumultuous Civil War era, offering new insight into Sheridanâs changing perspectives on leadership and war and how various individuals, including family, authors, artists, and entrepreneurs, shaped Sheridanâs legacy after his death in the summer of 1888.The son of Irish immigrants, Sheridan played a critical role in crushing the Confederacy during the Civil War, fighting to ensure the protection of Black people during Reconstruction and safeguard the political rights of Black people after the Civil War. He also exerted enormous influence as part of the federal governmentâs campaigns to corral Indigenous peoples on reservations in the 1850s and the decades after the Civil War, earning Sheridan the ire of Indigenous peoples and their allies. With an array of primary sources, maps, and illustrations, this volume enriches understanding of one of the most significant military figures in the second half of the nineteenth century.General Philip H. Sheridan is an ideal resource for students and scholars interested in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and historical memory.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Impeachment in U.S. History
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Taylor & Francis Opposition and Challenges
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of America and the World Volume 4 1945 to the Present
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Cambridge University Press Crack
Book SynopsisA shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling ''rock'' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was a lucrative enterprise for the ''Horatio Alger boys'' of their place and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late twentieth-century capitalism.Trade Review'In 1980s mainstream culture, Ronald Reagan celebrated unfettered capitalist enterprise as the font of national virtue, global supply chains revolutionized the production and distribution of consumer goods, 'greed was good', the tabloids celebrated the flashy self-display of Donald Trump - and the rise of crack cocaine darkly mirrored it all. With great moral passion and flashes of wit, David Farber provocatively demonstrates in this riveting chronicle that while crack, in the awful devastation it wreaked, was a business like no other, it also was a business, like any other. A must-read contribution to the history of our time.' Rick Perlstein, author of The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America'David Farber pulls off the historical equivalent of The Wire, but for crack instead of heroin. A master of political and social history, Farber puts the story of violent urban drug markets right where they belong: at the intersection of buccaneering capitalism, dark-slide globalization, and America's enduring divides of race and class.' David Courtwright, author of Dark Paradise and The Age of Addiction'In the late 1980s, Americans came to believe that illegal drugs were the nation's biggest problem. Crack is an essential read for anyone hoping to understand why. This lively, well-researched history of America's crack cocaine years introduces readers to entrepreneurial dealers, desperate users, and draconian drug policies. Along the way, it illuminates the era's racism, political excesses and media exaggerations, as well as the lasting damage crack and crack dealers wrought in countless neighborhoods of color.' Pam Kelley, author of Money Rock: A Family's Story of Cocaine, Race, and Ambition in the New South'A great primer for anyone who wants to know more about how crack cocaine got so big in the United States … [A]ccessible, dramatic, and with a clear sense of how the drug blew up and fizzled out. The divide between those most affected by crack, and those who crafted the official response to it is the key factor in explaining why America's war on drugs hasn't worked, and Farber does a good job of bridging the divide.' Tom Feiling, author of Cocaine Nation: How the White Trade Took Over the World and Short Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the New Colombia 'This thoughtful, well-researched history highlights the futility of viewing drugs as strictly a matter for law enforcement while ignoring their socioeconomic context.' Publishers Weekly'[A] riveting account of the crack years in America …' Sean O'Hagan, Observer'And you put down Crack with a feeling that this exploration of a dark part of our history has given you an improved understanding of today, and maybe tomorrow … There are no heroes in David Farber's Crack. There are lasting lessons on how not to handle the next drug epidemic.' Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'… a scholarly, yet highly entertaining codex showing the solid economic stability reaped by crack dealers.' Darryl Robertson, Vibe'Crack will give readers, especially white readers, a new perspective on what went on during the crack years and how it was handled. For younger readers who didn't experience the time period firsthand, it piques interest in something that their parents lived through and have opinions on.' Amanda Salazar, Kings County Politics'In succinctly presenting a thorough look at the political, economic, and cultural contexts for the crack enterprise, Farber concludes that the players who decided to sell crack were rational actors in a culture of 'entrepreneurial greed.' In the end, we may begin to wonder how the dealer in the hood might be distinguished from the dealer in Big Pharma's executive suite.' Kim Hewitt, The Metropole'The social history of illicit drugs was lacking a thoroughly researched account on crack use in the 1980s and US historian David Farber has filled the gap with a concise, well-written and informative book that sheds light on a dark episode of contemporary American history, and further illustrates the link between racial and economic inequality and psychoactive substance abuse. The reading is at times absorbing, with some short biographies of crack dealers and users, which provide a fascinating glimpse into the underworld; ... In sum, this excellent tome will likely become the essential text for a contemporary social history of crack cocaine in the United States, and one that will hopefully spur more contributions, focusing on specific places in the country.' Chris Elcock, Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsChoosing crack: an introduction; 1. First comes cocaine, then comes crack: origin stories; 2. Crack the market: commodification and commercialization; 3. Crack up: the cost of hard-core consumption; 4. Crack money: manhood in the age of greed; 5. Crackdown: the politics and laws of drug enforcement; 6. Crack's retreat: a nation's slow, painful, and partial recovery.
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Cambridge University Press Female Husbands
Book SynopsisLong before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories of ordinary people who lived as men despite tremendous risk, danger, violence, and threat of punishment. Female Husbands weaves the story of their lives in relation to broader social, economic, and political developments in the United States and the United Kingdom while also exploring how attitudes towards female husbands shifted in relation to transformations in gender politics and women''s rights, ultimately leading to the demise of the category of ''female husband'' in the early twentieth century. Groundbreaking and influential, Female Husbands offers a dynamic, varied, and complex history of the LGBTQ past.Trade Review'An altogether fresh and innovative take on centuries-old identities and relationships, Female Husbands shows its readers how the most forward-thinking and progressive conceptions of gender and sexuality can find their origins in the past. … Manion's female husbands are brought to life by energetic prose and an insistence on their continued cultural and political impact.' Hannah Roche, Times Literary Supplement'Female Husbands is a powerful work not only because Manion insists on taking the past on its own terms, but also because she refuses to tell her reader if she is reporting on a history that can be made legible to our 21st-century ideas about sexuality, sex, or gender identity.' Los Angeles Review of Books'… a detailed, synoptic history of a fascinating dimension of 18th- and 19th-century cultural history in Britain and the US.' Grace Lavery, The Guardian'The challenges of interpreting the fragments of evidence about these people's lives, written by those who had the social and economic order of marriage to defend, becomes in Jen Manion's hands a masterclass in historical rigor, empathy, and craft.' Catherine Baker, History Today'Manion's triumph is to treat with an openhanded and flexible approach a series of lives that resisted categories and flourished through ambiguity.' Karen Harvey, BBC History Magazine'An absolutely stunning deep-dive into historical transgressions of gender.' Manhattan Book Review'… a treasure trove of historical insights… The research makes a refreshing intervention in the fraught debates about the intersections between queer, lesbian, feminist, and trans histories.' Heike Bauer, Times Higher Education'In this painstakingly researched study, Jen Manion opens a window into a previously unseen dimension of the British and American past. Female Husbands explores the lives of people who transed gender, lived as men, and married women between the colonial period and World War I, situating them in the context of broader political and social developments including changing understandings of gender and women's rights. The book is a stunning and path breaking achievement.' Drew Faust, President Emeritus and the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Female Husbands combines intellectual rigor and impeccable historical research with sensitivity and even imagination to illuminate this fascinatingly varied cohort of gender rebels.' Emma Donoghue, author of Room and Akin'… fascinating … extremely thought-provoking.' Christina Patterson, The Sunday Times'Jen Manion offers a spectacular historical survey of people assigned female at birth who went on to live as men and marry women. In doing so, they demonstrate that contemporary attention to trans issues is just the tip of a vast, submerged legacy of gender variance, traversing both sides of the English-speaking transatlantic world, that stretches back hundreds of years.' Susan Stryker, author of Transgender History and The Transgender Studies Reader'Jen Manion mines Anglo-American newspapers, books, and pamphlets and shows us how 'female husbands' confounded conceptions of sex, gender, and sexuality. An engaging account of the unruly history of 'transing', and the surveillance of it, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States'Grounded in extensive archival research, this study by Manion (Amherst College) explores how the term 'female husband' - used to describe a person categorized as 'female' at birth but who occupied a social position as a (heterosexual) 'man' - went in and out of public use in the UK (1740–1840) and the US (1830–1910) … A clear, compelling, and compassionate text … Highly recommended.' T. E. Adams, Choice'Female Husbands cultivates and enriches the terrain of trans history. The successes of Manion's book hinge on its ability to chart a collective premodern and modern history of trans livelihood and archival presence … Manion models trans care work … as it further legitimates and makes known trans pasts, presents, and futures.' Jeremy Chow, ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640–1830Table of ContentsIntroduction: extraordinary lives; Part I. UK Husbands, 1740–1840: 1. The first female husband; 2. The pillar of the community; 3. The sailors and soldiers; 4. The wives; Part II. US Husbands,1830–1910: 5. The workers; 6. The activists; 7. The criminalized poor; 8. The end of a category; Conclusion: sex trumps gender; Epilogue: the first female-to-male transsexual.
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Cambridge University Press American Slavery American Imperialism
Book SynopsisArmstrong charts the legacy of slavery in the United States by tracing the representations of global slavery's victims and perpetrators in popular culture after the Civil War. In doing so, she reveals the rhetorical manoeuvres that were used to justify exploitation and forced labour both in the US and globally.Trade Review'This important and original interdisciplinary book sheds new light on how the US used slavery to mould its own post-war identity through the rhetorical tool of 'othering'. Wide-ranging in its theoretical and methodological scope and geographic context, Armstrong successfully draws upon diverse forms of popular culture to decipher how the nation sought to identify itself as an antislavery imperialist power between the ending of the Civil War and the onset of World War I.' Emily West, Professor of American History, University of Reading'In this elegant and deeply-researched book, Catherine Armstrong discusses how Americans came to terms with unfree forms of labour in an era when slavery had been abolished. Overlooking the domestic persistence of unfree labour, many Americans linked the continuation of slavery around the world to non-white 'others' that in turn helped to justify the need for white imperialism. This book has powerful resonances for the analysis of modern-day slavery.' Tim Lockley, University of Warwick'Drawing astutely on recent scholarship, Armstrong illumines how, from Reconstruction to WWI, Americans manipulated their depictions of slavery, including its perpetrators and victims, to reinforce either a conservative or progressive racial, imperial, or gendered agenda … Recommended.' J. D. Smith, ChoiceTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. A rhetorical continuum? How representations of antebellum slavery endure in post-war culture; 2. Global contexts: how external factors drive US perceptions of slavery; 3. Othering the slave owner; 4. Othering the enslaved; 5. Gender and the rhetoric of slavery; 6. Resistance and the slavery counter-narrative; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Our Time Is Now
Book SynopsisPostcolonial histories have long emphasized the darker side of narratives of historical progress, especially their role in underwriting global and racial hierarchies. Concepts like primitiveness, backwardness, and underdevelopment not only racialized and gendered peoples and regions, but also ranked them on a seemingly naturalized timeline - their ''present'' is our ''past'' - and reframed the politics of capitalist expansion and colonization as an orderly, natural process of evolution towards modernity. Our Time is Now reveals that modernity particularly appealed to those excluded from power, precisely because of its aspirational and future orientation. In the process, marginalized peoples creatively imagined diverse political futures that redefined the racialized and temporal terms of modernity. Employing a critical reading of a wide variety of previously untapped sources, Julie Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and settlers to manage contested ideas ofTrade Review'It is hard to write a modern Guatemalan history that is a not just a grim march to the genocide of the 1980s, but this exciting, meticulous book does it spellbindingly. Refusing to universalize colonizing linear time, Gibbings pries open the archive to engage the pluriverse of transforming Mayan experience with salutary attention to gender. While rooted lovingly in place, this is a profound analysis of plantationocene worlding that will resonate for anyone concerned with today's global crisis of racialized climate collapse.' Diane Nelson, author of Who Counts? The Mathematics of Death and Life After Genocide'Through nuanced analysis of archival materials and oral histories, Gibbings reveals indigenous peoples' perspectives, strategies, and responses to local and national politics. In so doing, she captures the complexity of class, gender, ethnic, and power relationships amongst Q'eqchi Mayas and between them and Hispanic authorities.' David Carey, author of I Ask for Justice: Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898-1944'Gibbings deftly renders the radical imaginaries of indigenous Guatemalans, for whom the legacies of empire, liberalism, forced labor, and political violence weighed like a nightmare. This theoretically sophisticated and archivally-grounded book not only recasts the history of post-colonial Guatemala but also, like the very Q'eqchi Maya alternative modernities at the heart of its story, unsettles the normative temporalities and teleologies of Western racial capitalism.' Kirsten Weld, author of Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala'Packed with insights, this work is essential reading for all Guatemalanists and specialists interested in Native intermediaries, rural land and labor systems, and subaltern histories of the transition to capitalism.' J. T. Way, Hispanic American Historical Review'Our Time Is Now is an extensive, carefully researched and elegantly argued book that presents its readers with multiple, intertwined histories: of the development of coffee production and the nation-state in Guatemala's majority Indigenous Alta Verapaz region; of the concurrent emergence of key ideas about race, progress and 'modernity' in Guatemala as a whole; and also, more reflexively and, as its title suggests, about the often-contentious ways in which history is created, and how such processes may be tied to contested definitions of time itself.' Nathaniel Morris, Journal of Latin American Studies'Theoretically profound, painstakingly researched, thoughtfully argued and beautifully written, Julie Gibbings' Our Time Is Now is a brilliant addition not only to Guatemalan and Latin American history but to colonial and postcolonial studies in general.' Michael D. Kirkpatrick, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies'… a fascinating history … meticulously researched … this book has much to offer both historians of Guatemala and people interested in historical methodologies.' Catherine A. Nolan-FerrellTable of ContentsIntroduction: History Will Write Our Names; I. Translating Modernities: 1. To Live without King or Castle: Maya Patriarchal Liberalism on the Eve of a New Era, 1860-1871; 2. Possessing Sentiments and Ideas of Progress: Coffee Planting, Land Privatization, and Liberal Reform, 1871-1885; 3. Indolence is the Death of Character: The Making of Race and Labor, 1885-1898; 4. El Q'eq Roams at Night: Plantation Sovereignty and Racial Capitalism, 1898–1914; II. Aspirations and Anxieties of Unfulfilled Modernities: 5. On the Throne of Minerva: The Making of Urban Modernities, 1908–1920; 6. Freedom of the Indian: Maya Rights and Citizenship in a Democratic Experiment, 1920–1932; 7. Possessing Tezulutlán: Splitting Time in Dictatorship, 1931-1939; 8. Now Owners of Our Land: Nationalism, History, and Memory in Revolution, 1939-1954.
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Cambridge University Press First Peoples in a New World
Book SynopsisOver 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers became the first people to set foot in the Americas.They soon found themselves in a world rich in plants and animals, but also a world still shivering itself out of the coldest depths of the Ice Age. The movement of those first Americans was one of the greatest journeys undertaken by ancient peoples. In this book, David Meltzer explores the world of Ice Age Americans, highlighting genetic, archaeological, and geological evidence that has revolutionized our understanding of their origins, antiquity, and adaptation to climate and environmental change. This fully updated edition integrates the most recent scientific discoveries, including the ancient genome revolution and human evolutionary and population history.Written for a broad audience, the book can serve as the primary text in courses on North American Archaeology, Ice Age Environments, and Human evolution and prehistory.Trade Review'The book is an exciting read that offers a lot of information, but always takes the reader along because the author knows how to explain … the book is highly recommended.' Herausgeber, AmerIndian ResearchTable of Contents1. Overture; 2. Glaciers, climates and environments of Ice Age North America; 3. The search for Ice Age Americans: the path from Paleoliths to Paleoindians; 4. Ascertaining archaeological evidence of antiquity; 5. What language, skeletal anatomy and genetics reveal (or not) of the population history of the Americas; 6. Who, from where, when and how? The search for consensus; 7. What do you do when no one's been there before?; 8. Clovis adaptations and Pleistocene Megafaunal extinctions; 9. Settling in: late Paleoindians and the waning ice age; 10. When past and present collide.
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of Canada
Book SynopsisMargaret Conrad''s history of Canada explains what makes up this diverse, complex, and often contested nation-state. Beginning in Canada''s deep past with the arrival of its Indigenous peoples, she traces its history through the conquest by Europeans, the American Revolutionary War, and Confederation in the nineteenth century to its prosperous present. This impressive second edition has expanded by 20 percent, including revised chapters and an insightful analysis of the fraught relationship between Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump. As a social historian, Conrad emphasizes the relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers, French and English, Catholic and Protestant, men and women, rich and poor. It is this grounded approach that drives the narrative and makes for compelling reading. Despite its successes and its popularity as a destination for immigrants from across the world, Canada remains a cautious and contested country. This thorough yet concise new edition explains why.Trade Review'This rich survey of Canada's past features lively prose, shrewd judgments, and crisp synthesis. It integrates the history of women, Indigenous people, Atlantic Canada, and the West into a dozen well-conceived chapters that make an old story (the one built around Ontario and Quebec men) new again. I recommend it wholeheartedly.' Gerald Friesen, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Manitoba'With this updated volume, Marg Conrad provides a well-conceived, thoughtful, and diverse account of the complicated pasts of this place now called Canada. This accessible and engaging book is well-suited for university undergraduates, more advanced students, and for anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of Canadian history.' Rhonda L. Hinther, Associate Professor of History, Brandon University'A concise but masterful overview of the nation's past by one of Canada's most respected historians. Margaret Conrad pulls the big themes out of a complex history of a country whose identity has always been contested.' Greg Marquis, Department of History and Politics, University of New Brunswick Saint JohnTable of ContentsIntroduction: a cautious country; 1. Since time immemorial; 2. Natives and newcomers, 1000–1661; 3. New France, 1661–1744; 4. The struggle for a continent, 1744–1763; 5. A revolutionary age, 1763–1815; 6. The great northwest, 1763–1849; 7. Transatlantic communities, 1815–1849; 8. Coming together, 1849–1885; 9. Making progress, 1885–1914; 10. Hanging on, 1914–1945; 11. Liberalism ascendant, 1945–1984; 12. Anxious times, 1984–2015; 13. Where are We Now?
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Cambridge University Press Bonds of Empire
Book SynopsisBonds of Empire reveals how English law facilitated the expansion of slavery in British America. Moving beyond an examination of criminal law, the book suggests that plantation slavery and the laws that governed it were not beyond the pale of English imperial legal history.
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Cambridge University Press Running from Bondage
Book SynopsisRunning from Bondage examines the ways in which enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War. Exploring who these women were and what motivated them to escape, Karen Cook Bell places their compelling stories within the broader historical narratives of slave resistance and the American Revolution.Trade Review'Karen Cook Bell's research brilliantly shows that the phenomenon of Black female flight in the period of slavery was not idiosyncratic but was, in fact, pervasive. This pathbreaking and beautifully written work centers the voices of Black women in slavery and abolition. A must-read.' Anne C. Bailey, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, History Department, and Director of the Harriet Tubman Center for the Study of Freedom and Equity, Binghamton University'In this new account of the American Revolution, Karen Cook Bell tells the story of how Black women flipped slavery's geography of containment upside down and redrew it as a treasure map to self-liberation. Her deep dives into fugitive sources bring back amazing stories of women who seized a time of war and disruption as the opportunity to carry themselves and their loved ones out of bondage. After Running from Bondage, no account of this period will be complete unless it shows how Black women's freedom-seeking brought about revolutionary changes.' Edward E. Baptist, Professor of History, Cornell University'Fugitive lives matter! Through the lives and actions of fugitive enslaved women, Running from Bondage will compel the reader to consider the impact of the enslaved upon the American Revolutionary Era. Karen Cook Bell simultaneously restores women to the discussion of fugitivity while restoring both women and fugitivity to the larger narrative of slave resistance during the period.' Peter J. Breaux, Associate Professor of History, Southern University and A&M College'Collectively, Running from Bondage artfully situates fugitive women in the history of the American Revolution and Black resistance … Future scholars of Black women's experience in the Revolution and beyond would be wise to consult Bell's findings and to mirror her approach.' G. Patrick O'Brien, H-Net Reviews'Gracefully written and convincingly argued, Running from Bondage deserves the attention of anyone interested in gender, slavery, or the American Revolution.' Natalie Zacek, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'Bell has offered an invaluable service in bringing to the center those who have held a 'peripheral position' in the historical record.' Ryan C. McIlhenny, Journal of the Early RepublicTable of ContentsIntroduction: Enslaved women's fugitivity; 1. 'A negro wench named Lucia': Enslaved women during the eighteenth century; 2. 'A mulatto woman named Margaret': Pre-Revolutionary fugitive women; 3. 'A well-dressed woman named Jenny': Revolutionary Black women, 1776–1781; 4. 'A negro woman called Bett': Overcoming obstacles to freedom in Post-Revolutionary America; 5. Confronting the power structures: Marronage and Black women's fugitivity; Conclusion.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Atlantic Lives
Book SynopsisAtlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chapter features primary source selections from a variety of non-traditional sources, including travel narratives from West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The fully revised and expanded second edition goes into even greater depth in exploring the diverse roles and experiences of women, Native Americans, and Africans, as well as the critical theme of emerging capitalism and New World slavery. New chapters also address captivity experiences, intercultural religious encounters, and interracial sexuality and marriage. With classroom-focused discussion questions and suggested additional readings accompanying each chapter, Atlantic Lives provides students with a wide-ranging introduction to the many voices and identities that comprised the Atlantic World.Table of ContentsPrefacePreface to the Second EditionIntroduction: What Is Atlantic History?Chapter 1: Into the Atlantic CrucibleSelection 1: An Early Portuguese Encounter with West AfricansSelection 2: First News of Native Americans in Europe Selection 3: An Indian Perspective on the Europeans' Arrival in North AmericaDiscussion QuestionsSuggested Readings Chapter 2: The Columbian ExchangeSelection 1: An Elizabethan Scientist Admires Indian Agriculture Selection 2: The Exchange of Furs and Microbes in New FranceSelection 3: A Military Officer Contemplates Life in a Beaver Lodge Selection 4: Black Philadelphians Face a Yellow Fever EpidemicDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 3: CaptivitiesSelection 1: A German Soldier Fears being Cannibalized by his Native American CaptorsSelection 2: The Captivities of Captain John Smith and PocahontasSelection 3: A Pennsylvania Woman's Adoption into an Indian Family Selection 4: An African-American Sailor’s Serial CaptivitiesDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 4: Religion and ConversionSelection 1: A Revolt among Mission Indians in New MexicoSelection 2: Native American Converts in Seventeenth-Century CanadaSelection 3: A Christian Indian Challenges His Colonial Mentor Selection 4: An African American’s Conversion Experience during the Great AwakeningDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 5: West Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade Selection 1: A Scottish Explorer Describes Slavery and the Slave Trade in AfricaSelection 2: A European Describes a Slave-Trading PostSelection 3: A Former Slave Remembers his Enslavement in AfricaSelection 4: A Surgeon Describes Conditions on a Slave ShipDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 6: The Plantation Complex in the CaribbeanSelection 1: Servants, Slaves, and Masters in Barbados Selection 2: A Description of African Maroon Communities Selection 3: A Former Slave Condemns the Inhumanity of Caribbean SlaveryDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 7: The Spanish and Portuguese in the AmericasSelection 1: An English Traveler Explains the Repartimiento System in Spanish AmericaSelection 2: An Italian Priest Describes Social Relations in Mexico CitySelection 3: A Description of Plantation Society in Portuguese Brazil Discussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 8: The Dutch, French, and English in North AmericaSelection 1: An Dutch Traveler in New Netherland/New York, 1679-80Selection 2: A French Military Officer Describes the Indians of Canada, 1757 Selection 3: Benjamin Franklin Calculates the Population of British North AmericaDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 9: The Wooden World: Maritime Labor and PiracySelection 1: A Dutch Pirate in the Seventeenth-Century CaribbeanSelection 2: A Pirate Faces Execution in BostonSelection 3: An American Sailor Experiences Impressment in the British NavySelection 4: A Woman's Perception of Life on a Whaling ShipDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 10: The Atlantic Highway: European MigrationsSelection 1: An Englishman Enters into an IndentureSelection 2: A German Migrant’s Passage to AmericaSelection 3: A French Account of a Passage to Canada Selection 4: Two Scottish Opinions on the Emigration Experience Discussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 11: Interracial Marriage and Sexuality in the Atlantic WorldSelection 1: A French Nun Remarks on Native American WomenSelection 2: A Scottish Woman’s Impressions of Gender and Sexual Relations in the British West Indies and North Carolina Selection 3: Interracial Intimacy in the Fur TradeSelection 4: An Interracial Marriage Causes Controversy in New EnglandDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 12: Enlightenment and RevolutionSelection 1: A French Expatriate Describes Colonial Society in British North AmericaSelection 2: A Trans-Atlantic Revolutionary's Attack on Monarchy and Aristocracy Selection 3: An Anti-Slavery Advocate Defends the Slave Rebels in Saint-DomingueSelection 4: A Creole Revolutionary's Vision for the Future of Spanish AmericaDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChapter 13: Out of the Atlantic CrucibleSelection 1: A German Traveler Describes the Race-Based Social Order of Mexico Selection 2: A French Traveler Considers the Future of Race Relations in the United States of AmericaSelection 3: A Free Black's Incendiary Call for the Destruction of Slavery Selection 4: A Native American Challenges the Pilgrim StoryDiscussion QuestionsSuggested ReadingsChronology of Important Events in Atlantic World History
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Telenovelas in PanLatino Context
Book SynopsisThis concise book provides an accessible overview of the history of the telenovela in Latin America within a pan-Latino context, including the way the genre crosses borders between Latin America and the United States. Telenovelas, a distinct variety of soap operas originating in Latin America, take up key issues of race, class, sexual identity and violence, interweaving stories with melodramatic romance and quests for identity. June Carolyn Erlick examines the social implications of telenovela themes in the context of the evolution of television as an integral part of the modernization of Latin American countries.Trade Review"Erlick is quite persuasive in her contention that the popularity of telenovelas has combined with their mobility to create a quietly subversive force in socially conservative Latin America." - Glenn Garvin, television critic, the Miami Herald, in ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America, Winter 2018. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Discovering Telenovelas Change Agents: Beyond the Melodrama Beyond Betty: Gender and Sexuality Gay Love, Gay Kisses Black, White and Brown: Telenovelas and Race Narconovelas: Beyond the News Conclusions : Looking Backward and Going Forward
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Title IX
Book SynopsisThis book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation and implementation of Title IX have been transformed over time to extend far beyond the law''s relatively narrow statutory text. The analysis considers the impact of Title IX on athletics, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and, for a time, transgender discrimination. Combining legal and cultural perspectives and supported by primary documents, Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education offers a balanced and insightful narrative of interest to anyone studying the history of sex discrimination, educational policy, and the law in the contemporary United States.Trade ReviewThis provocative view of Title IX by Busch and Thro provides a valuable examination of the statute’s origin and scope. From the law’s quest for gender equity in intercollegiate athletics through its development as the primary deterrent to sexual discrimination at the nation’s colleges and universities, the book indeed makes an important and timely contribution to the higher education community.- Oren Griffin, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives & Professor of Law, University of Mercer School of LawA thoroughly researched and well-written volume, Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education is a must read for all interested in Title IX, whether students, faculty members, compliance officers, and/or attorneys. This is the most current book on Title IX; written in jargon-free language, it provides a comprehensive, cutting-edge analysis of the law’s applications from its earliest days through today’s controversies on from its earliest use as a mandate for equal opportunity in sports to its application to sexual harassment to contemporary disputes about sexual assault and campus disciplinary proceedings.- Charlie Russo, Director, Ph.D. Program in Educational Leadership and Research Professor of Law, University of Dayton Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Adoption of Title IX: A Ban on Sex Discrimination in EducationChapter 2: Title IX's Transformation into a mandate for Equal Representation in Athletics: The 1979 Three Part TestChapter 3: The Expansion of Title IX Liability to Sexual Harassment: The 1997 Sexual Harassment Guidance DocumentChapter 4: Title IX's Transformation Into A Mandate to Adjudicate Campus Sexual Assault: The 2011 Dear Colleague Letter.Chapter 5: The Politicization of Title IX Guidelines and its Implications
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