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Johns Hopkins University Press The Evolution of Western Private Law
Book SynopsisThe result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.Trade ReviewThe Evolution of Western Private Law is an innovative look at the development of the Western legal tradition. It makes an important contribution to the literature on legal history, and Watson has carefully examined the sources and the relevant legal documents. Although highly detailed and somewhat technical, Watson writes with great clarity. -- Gerald J. Russello Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Legislation2. Jurists3. Judges4. Custom5. Legislation and Jurists: French Delit6. Jurists, Judges, Custom, Legislation: Water Rights7. Legal Transplants I: The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law8. Legal Transplants 2: Other Reception of Roman Law9. The Case of English Common law10. Humanism, The Law of Reason, Codification11. ConclusionsNotesGlossaryIndex
£58.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Reluctant Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing cocoon citizenship,the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.Trade ReviewA surprisingly lively case study of the battles and alliances of politics, business and people that formed-or deformed-a great American city. Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the most entertaining and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time about urban growth and change... Important reading for anyone interested in contemporary urban development. [Fulton] tells a story that may sound uniquely Los Angeles, but really applies to every growing city in America. -- Richard Peiser APA JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction: The Collapse of the Growth MachinePart 1: Power Chapter 1: The Beachhead Chapter 2: Perestroika Co-opted Chapter 3: Suburbs of ExtractionPart 2: Structure Chapter 4: Chinatown Redefined Chapter 5: The Money Train Chapter 6: The Reluctant MetropolisPart 3: Land Chapter 7: The Education of Maria VanderKolk Chapter 8: The Politics of ExtinctionPart 4: Money Chapter 9: The Taking of Parcel K Chapter 10: Welcome to Sales Tax CanyonPart 5: Consequences Chapter 11: Whose Riot Was This, Anyway? Chapter 12: Cloning Los Angeles Chapter 13: Cocoon Citizenship and the Toon Town UrbanismAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Photography Credits
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Johns Hopkins University Press Flight in America From the Wrights to the
Book SynopsisHe offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.Trade ReviewThe standard history of the American aerospace enterprise-with good reason. -- Tom D. Crouch Museums New York 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface to the Third Edition Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918 Chapter 2: The Aviation Business, 1918-1930 Chapter 3: Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940 Chapter 4: Air Power at War, 1930-1945 Chapter 5: Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955 Chapter 6: Higher Horizons, 1955-1965 Chapter 7: From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975 Chapter 8: Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983 Chapter 9: Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000 Notes Index
£32.89
Johns Hopkins University Press Thinking with Objects
Book SynopsisExamining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.Trade ReviewClearly the result of meticulous research and extensive study, I suspect this work will stand the test of time. PhiloBiblos 2007 The revival of extensive discourses makes this a unique, invaluable resource for any study of the history of science. Choice 2007 Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of science... incredibly thorough. -- David Nuttall Physics Education 2007 An important contribution... and his book should find a welcome place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of the Scientific Revolution. -- William R. Shea American Historical Review 2007 A very interesting book... I have no doubt that it is destined to find a pivotal place in the study of the history of science. -- Michael Box Australian Physics 2008 The most important contribution to the history of mechanics of the last decade, likely to become a standard reference and without any doubt a must for every historian of physics. -- Jurgen Renn Renaissance Quarterly 2008 A superb, if difficult book, that belongs as basic to the curriculum of early modern history of science. -- Margaret Jacob History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007 Meli's stress on the importance of engagements with materiality in the development of seventeenth-century mechanics thus achieves a spectacular vindication in demonstrating the full meaning of Newton's pretensions to be contributing not just to 'mathematics' in the Principia, but to natural philosophy itself. -- Peter Dear British Journal for the History of Science 2008 [Meli's] approach is new and convincing... a groundbreaking change of focus. -- Sophie Roux Metascience 2009 Full of pertinent detail in the text itself, Thinking with Objects cleverly uses the captions of figures to provide more extended samples of seventeenth-century arguments, thus demonstrating in practice how helpful it is to think with visual or geometric representations. -- Edith Dudley Sylla Isis 2008 Thinking with Objects is a significant book. Its success lies in reformulating our ideas of the methods and practices of early modern sciences... No serious future study of early modern physics and its transformations will be able to ignore the analyses and conclusions of this work. -- Craig Martin Huntington Library Quarterly 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond Inertia: From Laws to Objects2. Motion and Mechanics3. The Role of Mathematics4. Experience and Experiment5. Practitioners, Sites, and Forms of Communication6. Structure and Organization of the Present Work1. Machines in the Field, in the Book, and in the Study1.1. Between Classical Theory and Engineering Practice1.2. Machines, Equilibrium, and Motion1.3. The Balance of dal Monte and the Problem of Rigor1.4. Pulleys and the Contingency of Matter1.5. Rival Traditions on the Inclined Plane2. Floating Bodies and a Mathematical Science of Motion2.1. Some Features of Archimedes' Floating Bodies2.2. Reading Floating Bodies2.3. Benedetti against the Philosophers2.4. Galileo's Early Speculations2.5. Mazzoni, Stevin, and Galileo3. The Formulation of New Mathematical Sciences3.1. The Broadening of the Mechanical Tradition3.2. Galileo at Padua and the Science of Motion3.3. From Buoyancy to the Science of Waters3.4. Motion between Heaven and Earth3.5. The Science of the Resistance of Materials3.6. The Science of Motion4. Novel Reflections and Quantitative Experiments4.1. Different Readings of Galileo4.2. Mersenne's Harmonie and the Dialogo4.3. Rethinking Galileo's Axiomatic Structure4.4. Continuity and the Law of Fall4.5. Trials with Projectiles, Pierced Cisterns, and Beams4.6. The Experiments and Tables of Riccioli5. The Motion and Collision of Particles5.1. The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy5.2. Mechanics and the Mechanical Philosophy5.3. Beeckman, Galileo, and Descartes5.4. Motion and Its Laws5.5. From the Balance to Impact: Beeckman, Marci, and Descartes5.6. The Workings of the Cartesian UniverseIntermezzo: Generational and Institutional Changes6. The Equilibrium and Motion of Liquids6.1. A Characterization of a Research Tradition6.2. Studies around the Time of the Cimento Academy6.3. Pressure and Equilibrium in Pascal and Boyle6.4. Studying the Motion of Waters North of the Alps6.5. Guglielmini and the Bologna Scene6.6. Experiments Combining Pressure and Speed7. Projected, Oscillating, and Orbiting Bodies7.1. The Tools of Investigation7.2. The Analyses of Orbital Motion by Fabri and Borelli7.3. Falling Bodies on a Moving Earth7.4. Projectiles and Air Resistance7.5. Huygens's Pendulum7.6. English Approaches to Orbital Motion8. Colliding Bodies, Springs, and Beams8.1. The Emergence of Elasticity8.2. Boyle and Elasticity8.3. The Transformation of the Impact Rules8.4. Springs between Technology and Cosmology8.5. Bending and Breaking Beams9. A New World-System9.1. Teamwork and Anti-Cartesianism9.2. Halley, Wren, Hooke, and Newton9.3. The Principia's Structure and Conceptual Framework9.4. The Role of Experiments9.5. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy9.6. A New World-System: Newton and Flamsteed10. Causes, Conservation, and the New Mathematics10.1. Mechanics at the Turn of the Century10.2. The New Analysis10.3. Conservation10.4. Early Responses to Newton's Principia10.5. The New Analysis and Newton's PrincipiaConclusion: Mapping the Transformations of MechanicsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Nylon and Bombs
Book SynopsisReflecting on the experiences and contributions of the company's engineers and physicists, Ndiaye traces Du Pont's transformation into one of the corporate models of American success.Trade ReviewFresh because of its innovative approach to the history of DuPont... Stimulating book. -- Terrence J. Gough Journal of Military History 2007 The reader who is well versed in the field will... gain insight into the significant contributions made by chemical engineers and into the interaction between technological developments and broad social, cultural, and political changes. -- Christiane Diehl Taylor Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Nylon and Bombs will no doubt be put to great use in the emerging field of engineering studies. -- Jody Roberts Technology and Culture 2008 A very important book that ought to be read by all chemical engineers who seek a broad understanding of the history of their profession. -- Robert W. Seidel Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 2008 Ndiaye makes a worthwhile contribution to the literature and opens up many questions with which specialists will want to engage. -- Jeff Hughes Isis 2008Table of ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. DuPont and the Rise of Chemical Engineering2. From Ammonia to Nylon: Technologies and Careers3. Culture and Politics at DuPont before World War II4. The Forgotten Engineers of the Bomb5. The Heyday and Decline of Chemical EngineeringConclusionNotesEssay on Sources and HistoriographyIndex
£41.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Horse People Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington
Book SynopsisCassidy's investigation reveals the factors-ethical, cultural, political, and economic-that have shaped the racing tradition.Trade ReviewCombining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£48.00
William B Eerdmans Publishing Co The Early History of God Yahweh and the Other
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Lincolns Campaign Biographies
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Northwestern University Press Deering Library An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisExplores the Deering and McCormick families, who funded the Deering Library project; the building's Collegiate Gothic architecture; its lore as a campus institution; and its role in the evolution of Northwestern University Library into one of the country's most prominent research libraries.
£999.99
The University Press of Kentucky The Kentucky Mint Julep
Book SynopsisJoe Nickell looks at the origins of the julep, offers a brief history of American whiskey and Kentucky bourbon, and shares some classic julep tales. The book includes numerous recipes -- for classic juleps, modern variations, non-alcoholic versions, and the author's own thoroughly researched "perfect" mint julep.
£14.00
The University Press of Kentucky Berea College An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisBerea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855.Trade ReviewAll who read Wilson's account of Berea College will acknowledge the school's uniqueness and appreciate its contribution to American life. - MARION LUCAS, WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
£32.00
The University Press of Kentucky Frank L McVey and the University of Kentucky A
Book SynopsisIn 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis. Moyen chronicles McVey's triumphs and challenges as the president sought to transform the university from a small state college into the state's flagship institution.
£34.20
The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln Seward and US Foreign Relations in the
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The University Press of Kentucky Boonesborough Unearthed
Book SynopsisThroughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort is the result of more than thirty years of research by archaeologist Nancy O'Malley.
£17.10
The University Press of Kentucky Making Bourbon
Book SynopsisUnique interdisciplinary study uncovering the complex history poured into every glass of bourbon.Table of ContentsIntroduction Heritage and Process Kentucky Distilling Kentucky's Distilling Environment Distilling Grain, Feeding Livestock Distillery Configurations Technology's Tools Complementary Industries Signatures of Risk Byproducts Connections Making it Work External Control and Landscape Temperance Troubles Making Whiskey at the Henry McKenna Distillery McKenna's Family Distillers Building James Stone's Elkhorn Distillery Marketing Whiskey, Managing Money, and Elkhorn Distillery's Demise Naming A Reconstructed Past Lives in the Present Making Bourbon, Making Landscape
£36.00
John Wiley & Sons A Hundred Acres of America The Geography of
Book SynopsisMichael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities. Trade Review"Michael Hoberman has opened up freshly the pathway in Jewish American writings about the sense of place, how Jewish life in America has come to be and feel at home." -- Jules Chametzky * professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; founder and editor of The Massachusetts Review *"At once critically imaginative and rigorously methodological, A Hundred Acres of America is a genuinely exciting, pathbreaking work of breathtaking historical, geographical, and cultural scope." -- Ranen Omer-Sherman * JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville *"Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how quintessentially American landscapes shaped American Jewish writing. Elegantly written and cogently argued, this study unsettles the stories we think we know about Jewish immigration and territorial belonging in America." -- Rachel Rubinstein * author of Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination *"A Hundred Acres is a worthy and lucid genealogy of the under-explored Jewish American geographical imagination, presented convincingly as an engagement with as well as departure from certain forms of dominant U.S. spatiality. Hoberman's nimble treatment of key texts captures the Jewish stamp on iconic American places, from 'the frontier' to the city and the 'suburban pastoral' as well as the Americanization of Jewish spaces elsewhere and, importantly, contributes to a shift in Jewish American literary scholarship away from the classic topics of immigration and assimilation toward a multidimensional criticism." -- Dalia Kandiyoti * author of Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures *"The Jewish Preview of Books—December 2018" by Rachel Scheinerman * The Jewish Review of Books *"The book discusses a variety of places important to Americans, including the evolving West of the 19th century, the small towns of the Midwest and 20th-century suburbia. It ends with a landscape that has been significant to the Jewish people for thousands of years: Israel [and] suggests that the works it examines ask questions that aren’t easy to answer — but then asking hard questions is a sign of good literature." * Greenfield Reporter *"Highly recommended." * Choice *"Hoberman Reads from Book," mention in The Shelburne Falls and West County Independent * The Shelburne Falls/West County Independent *"June 8-9, 2019: Jewish American Journeys: Michael Hoberman’s Books" http://americanstudier.blogspot.com/2019/06/june-8-9-2019-jewish-american-journeys.html * American Studies Blog *"Hoberman’s study...challenges us to reconsider what the canon of our literature ought to be in a series of original readings of both obscure and major figures whose vision of landscape — above all sites of memory and myth — shaped their vision of America in rich and striking ways." * Jewish Book Council *"Carefully chosen, sensitively read, historically contextualized, and situated within the broader currents of American literature....An apt reminder that Jews’ engagement with place has always been fraught and that the places that we take for granted are always in the midst of being imagined and invented, a process that is almost never innocent." * Marginalia *"Hoberman engages effectively with many important voices in the study of Jewish American literature today. [A] stimulating study that significantly refigures Jewish American literature." * American Studies in Scandinavia *"The richness of Hoberman’s work is partly a feature of its extensive chronology, which includes 150 years of literary history, and partly due to his careful comparisons that are geographically, literarily, religiously and culturally diverse and bring together an uncommon range of places, authors, texts, and histories. Hoberman offers a fresh perspective on a body of literature." * MELUS *"Short, smart, and pithy." * Shofar *"Jews Out West 18th-century Jewish American writers described America’s vastness in lyrical—and liturgical—terms" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *""Heterogeneous, well-researched, and well-written." * American Jewish History *"American Pastorals" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction. “A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us”: Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place—1-13 Chapter One. “In this vestibule of God’s holy temple”: the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862—14-55 Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910—56-98 Chapter Three. “A rare good fortune to anyone”: Joseph Leiser’s and Edna Ferber’s reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939—99-144 Chapter Four. “The longed for pastoral”: images of exurban exile in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls (1998)—145-186 Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the “topological turn” in Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002)—187-227 Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the “Wild West Bank” frontier: Jon Papernick’s The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller’s Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)—228-266 Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places—267-276 Acknowledgements Notes Index
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The University of Alabama Press Edgar and Brigitte A German Jewish Passage to
Book SynopsisEdgar and Brigitte is a consummate story of change and adjustment, integration and melding. Based on personal insights into the lives of her parents and grandparents, Rosemarie Bodenheimer reconstructs the experience of German Jewish immigrants in early twentieth-century America.Trade Review“Edgar and Brigitte presents a multifaceted look back at the German origins of two Jewish families and their relatives, friends, and professional colleagues. Based on letters and diary entries, Rosemarie Bodenheimer retraces the early emigration of her mother’s and father’s families to the United States and describes how they adapted and put down roots in their new home country.” —Tobias Brinkmann, editor of Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain, 1880–1914|“This sensitive, well-written consideration of Edgar and Brigitte’s lives allows the reader insight into this family and their relationship to twentieth-century historical events.” —Kirsten Fermaglich, author of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957–1965
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University of Pittsburgh Press Hebrew Union College Annual Volume 87
Book SynopsisThe Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. With a history spanning nearly a century, it stands as a chronicle of Jewish scholarship through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
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University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Exeter Performance Studies
Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?
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University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Essays on Popular Performers
Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?
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Te Herenga Waka University Press Print and Politics
Book SynopsisProvides an absorbing insight into a century and a half of printing history. Beginning in the early 1860s when the first typographical unions were formed in Dunedin and Wellington, this history ends in 1996 when printers and journalists amalgamated with the Engineers Union to form NZ's largest private sector trade union.
£28.45
National University of Ireland The Making of the AngloIrish Agreement of 1985
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Prometheus Books UK Mormon Polygamy A History
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University Press of New England Ceramics in America 2003
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Random House USA Inc The Personality Brokers
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Betty Crocker Lost Recipes
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DK The Feminism Book
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[T]his timely volume has a place in middle, high school, and public libraries.” —Booklist Online
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Arcadia Publishing Moxie
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Arcadia Publishing Prohibition in Bardstown Bourbon Bootlegging
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History Press Iconic Hollywood Dishes Drinks Desserts
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Orion Publishing Co Any Given Sunday The NFLs Epic 100Year History in
Book SynopsisAn authoritative 100-year-history of America's National Football League from its founding in 1920
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Simon & Schuster After the Miracle
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I just finished reading Art Shamsky’s new book about those ‘69 Miracle Mets and their upset victory over the vaunted Baltimore Orioles. I was a sophomore in high school and this book brought back all those vivid memories of that series. A great and insightful read.” -- Keith Hernandez"Charming. . . . a touching rendering of loving comrades reuniting to share memories of past glory. Messrs. Seaver and Harrelson are also astonishingly open about their ailments. I can only express my gratitude, as someone who grew up adoring these two great athletes from afar, for the glimpse this book affords into their elegance and bravery in the face of hard times." -- Alva Noë * The Wall Street Journal *“Not since Halberstam’s The Teammates: Portrait of a Friendship, have I read a more heartfelt and inspiring book about what it means to be linked forever. I personally know the kindness of the author, Art Shamsky, only he could pull off this hilarious and melancholy look at getting old but remaining forever young because of their shared ‘miracle’ in 1969.” -- Ron Darling“Impossible fifty years ago — and still unforgettable half a century later.” -- Bob Costas"After the Miracle is touching and beautiful—a magical book about a magical team.” -- Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man, Opening Day, and Ali: A Life"Wasn't that a time? When the last became first and anything seemed possible, in baseball and in life? After the Miracle recalls those thrilling days for now-old boys like me, and shows a new generation of fans that losing serves only to sweeten victory. Warmly and wistfully, Art Shamsky and Erik Sherman reunite the boys of summer, fifty years later." -- John Thorn, Official Historian of Major League Baseball and author of Baseball in the Garden of Eden"A revealing look at The Franchise." -- Steven Marcus * Newsday *"Terrific. . . . After the Miracle will quickly become one of the better, if not one of the very best, baseball books of 2019. The clarity with which it’s told, its ability to engage readers and make them feel like they are a part of the magical history, and its powerful attention to detail not only gives Mets fans new insight into the history of the 1969 season, but also stands as a testament to how a motley crew of baseball players inadvertently bridged the political and social divides that were so commonplace in 1969, even if it was only for a few days in October 1969." -- R. Zachary Sanzone * Spitball Magazine *
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Basic Books The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped
Book SynopsisIn April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three millennia. Tracing the remarkable history of the census from ancient China, through the Roman Empire, revolutionary America, and Nazi-occupied Europe, right up to today's Supreme Court battles, The Sum of the People shows how the impulse to count ourselves is universal, how the census has evolved with time, and how it has always profoundly shaped the societies we have built. As data scientist Andrew Whitby reveals, the earliest censuses in ancient China and the Fertile Crescent had purely extractive aims: taxation and conscription. Later, as Enlightenment-era governments began to answer to citizens, the census was reinvented to support political representation and to delimit the boundaries of new nation-states. As the role of government grew through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, censuses became more complex and scientific. Census bureaus spun out dozens of other surveys, which formed the statistical foundation of modern, technocratic, data-driven government. For the first time, counting every person on the planet became a real possibility-and debates about who was counted, who was not, and what questions they were asked became the subject of intense political controversy in places from Australia to South Africa to the United States. The census at its best is a marvel of democracy, but it has at times been an instrument of exclusion, and, as in the case of Nazi Germany, a tool of tyranny and genocide.Today, governments and businesses alike now routinely collect "big data" that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago, prompting fears similar to those the census once provoked and leading to some to suggest that traditional censuses will soon be obsolete. The Sum of the People closes by making the case that, for all its past faults, the census can be an alternative and an antidote to a future of constant, invasive surveillance.
£22.50
University of Arkansas Press U Of A Razorback Band
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University of Arkansas Press A History of Southland College: The Society of
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on dedicated Quaker missionaries in post-Civil War Arkansas. In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America. Their progressive racial vision was continued by a succession of midwestern Quakers willing to endure the primitive conditions and social isolation of their work and to overcome the persistent challenges of economic adversity, social strife, and natural disaster. Southland's survival through six difficult and sometimes dangerous decades reflects both the continuing missionary zeal of the Clarks' and their successors as well as the dedication of the black Arkansans who sought dignity and hope at a time when these were rare commodities for African Americans in Arkansas.
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Purdue University Press For Shade and for Comfort: Democratizing
Book SynopsisExplores the unprecedented burst of horticulture interest in the nineteenth-century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use and its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, For Shade and for Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians of the midwest, and those readers who simply love horticulture and gardening.
£36.51
Purdue University Press The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists
Book SynopsisThe Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite men-only policies in its main art institutions, it offered a myriad of unexpected ways for women artists to forge successful public careers. Women artists came from the provinces, Russia, and Germany to participate in its vibrant art scene. However, and especially because so many of the artists were Jewish, their contributions were actively obscured beginning in the late 1930s. Many had to flee Austria, losing their studios and lifework in the process. Some were killed in concentration camps. Along with the stories of individual women artists, the author reconstructs the history of separate women artists' associations and their exhibitions. Chapters covering the careers of Tina Blau, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Bronica Koller, Helene Funke, and Teresa Ries (among others) point to a more integrated and cosmopolitan art world than previously thought; one where women became part of the avant-garde, accepted and even highlighted in major exhibitions at the Secession and with the Klimt group.Trade Review“This is an excellent addition to the literature on fin-de-siècle Vienna, well-researched and well-argued. It highlights little-known artists and situates them in a novel interpretation of women’s roles in the art world. The author challenges dominant tropes of feminist historiography and thus sheds new light on twentieth-century art history and historiography,” —Michael Gubser, James Madison University.
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Purdue University Press Doing Business in America: A Jewish History
Book SynopsisAmerican and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American culture and development, and patterns of immigrant Jewish exploration of business opportunities reflect internal, communal, Jewish-cultural structures and their relationship to the larger non-Jewish world. As such, they see the subject rightly as a vital and underexplored area of study. Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, rises to the challenge of taking on the long-unspoken taboo subject, comprising leading scholars and exploring an array of key topics in this important and growing area of research.Table of Contents FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1, American Jewish Business: At the Street Level, by Hasia R. Diner CHAPTER 2, Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade, by Allan M. Amanik CHAPTER 3, Jewish Immigrant Bankers, New York Real Estate, and American Finance, 1870–1914, by Rebecca Kobrin CHAPTER 4, Far Away Moses & Company: An Ottoman Jewish Business between Istanbul and the United States, by Julia Phillips Cohen CHAPTER 5, The Roots of Jewish Concentration in the American Popular Music Business, 1890–1945, by Jonathan Karp CHAPTER 6, "Sometimes It Is Like I Am Sitting on a Volcano": Retailers, Diplomats, and the Refugee Crisis, 1933–1945, by Niki C. Lefebvre CHAPTER 7, Max Moses Heller: Patron Saint of Greenville's Renaissance, by Diane Vecchio CHAPTER 8, "A Just and Righteous Man": Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit, by Matt Garcia ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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University of Massachusetts Press Strangers and Neighbors Relations Between Blacks
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the relationship between blacks and Jews in America. Some texts highlight the mutual struggle for social jusitce, whilst others depict mutual accusations of racism. This text portrays the full complexity of black and Jewish relations in the US, over the past 300 years.
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University of Massachusetts Press When Roosevelt Planned to Govern France
Book SynopsisTells the story of a plan put forth by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War II to install an Allied military government in France in the aftermath of liberation, and of General Charles de Gaulle’s efforts as self-appointed leader of the Free French Movement to thwart FDR’s intentions.
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University of Massachusetts Press Buying the Farm: Peace and War on a Sixties
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of Montague Farm, an early back-to-the land communal experiment in western Massachusetts, from its beginning in 1968 through the following thirty-five years of its surprisingly long life. Drawing on his own experience as a resident of the farm from 1969 to 1973 and decades of contact with the farm’s extended family, Tom Fels provides an insightful account of the history of this iconic alternative community. He follows its trajectory from its heady early days as a pioneering outpost of the counterculture through many years of change, including a period of renewed political activism and, later, increasing episodes of conflict between opposing factions to determine what the farm represented and who would control its destiny. With deft individual portraits, Fels reveals the social dynamics of the group and explores the ongoing difficulties faced by a commune that was founded in idealism and sought to operate on the model of a leaderless democracy. He draws on a large body of farm family and 1960s-related writing and the notes of community members to present a variety of points of view. The result is an absorbing narrative that chronicles the positive aspects of Montague Farm while documenting the many challenges and disruptions that marked its history.
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Pelican Publishing Co Lost Restaurants of New Orleans
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) A History of Virginia Wines From Grapes to Glass
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The Library of America Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that
Book SynopsisTwo pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation''s revolutionary insights for todayWhen Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women?s consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women?s civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women?s liberation movement, and writing?powerful, personal, and prophetic?was its beating heart.Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works?many long out-of-print and hard to find?that catalyzed and propelled the women?s liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan?s Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi?s Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life?changes too often taken for granted today?but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.
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Triumph Books Boston Marathon
Book SynopsisOffering an inside look at the most famous marathon in the world, this exploration traces the Boston Marathon's 26.2-mile route from the starting line on narrow Main Street in Hopkinton to the Boylston Street finish line in downtown Boston, bringing to life the history, personalities, pivotal moments, and individual character of each city the race traverses. The Boston Marathon includes well-researched briefs on topics including Metcalf’s Mill at Ashland, the unmarked starting point of the first race in 1897, the infamous 1967 battle over Kathrine Switzer’s attempt to compete five years before women were allowed, and other vital race-day elements. The book also includes a tribute to the victims of the tragic 2013 bombing near the finish line. This is a supremely entertaining glimpse at the history of the greatest running event in the world—from wacky entrants to hard-fisted managers, tortured disappointments, and glorious triumph.
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University Press of Colorado The Menial Art of Cooking: Archaeological Studies
Book SynopsisAlthough the archaeology of food has long played an integral role in our understanding of past cultures, the archaeology of cooking is rarely integrated into models of the past. The cooks who spent countless hours cooking and processing food are overlooked and the forgotten players in the daily lives of our ancestors. This book shows how cooking activities provide a window into other aspects of society and, as such, should be taken seriously as an aspect of social, cultural, political, and economic life. This book examines techniques and technologies of food preparation, the spaces where food was cooked, the relationship between cooking and changes in suprahousehold economies, the religious and symbolic aspects of cooking, the relationship between cooking and social identity, and how examining foodways provides insight into social relations of production, distribution, and consumption. Contributors use a wide variety of evidence -- including archaeological data; archival research; analysis of ceramics, fauna, botany, glass artefacts, stone tools, murals, and painted ceramics; ethnographic analogy; and the distribution of artefacts across space -- to identify signs of cooking and food processing left by ancient cooks. This is the first archaeological volume focused on cooking and food preparation in prehistoric and historic settings around the world and will interest archaeologists, social anthropologists, sociologists, and other scholars studying cooking and food preparation or subsistence.
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University of Utah Press,U.S. The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the
Book SynopsisThe half century between statehood in 1896 and the end of World War II in 1945 was a period of transformation and transition for Utah. This book interprets those profound changes, revealing sweeping impacts on both institutions and ordinary people. Drawing upon expertise honed over decades of teaching, researching, and writing about Utah’s history, the authors incorporate fresh archival sources, new oral histories, and hundreds of scholarly articles and books as they narrate the little-known story of the crucial formative years when Utah came of age.During its sometimes awkward years of adolescence and maturation, Utah was gradually incorporated into the American political, social, and economic mainstream. Urban and industrial influences supplanted agrarian traditions, displacing people socially, draining the countryside of population, and galvanizing a critical crisis in values and self-identification. National corporations and mass labor movements took root in the state as commerce expanded. Involvement in world events such as the Spanish-American War, two world wars, and the Great Depression further set the stage for entry into the modern, globalized world as Utahns immersed themselves in national politics and became part of the democratic, corporate culture of twentieth-century America.Trade Review“What a wonderful example of how history should be written! It is engaging, warm, and colorful.”—Stanford J. Layton, author of To No Privileged Class: The Rationalization of Homesteadingand Rural Life in the Early Twentieth Century “This study represents not only a sound narrative, but puts forth excellent analysis and synthesis. A solid, positive, and needed contribution to Utah history.”—Philip F. Notarianni, former director of Utah State History; author of Carbon County: Eastern Utah’s Industrialized Island “A thorough, intelligent, and readable survey of Utah history.”—Association for Mormon Letters "The authors write in a concise and engaging manner that leaves readers with a clear sense of what life was like during the days of mass industrialization, flappers and distilleries. History buffs searching for a comprehensive and intriguing summary of Utah's early days following statehood should look no further than The Awkward State of Utah. It is sure to both educate and entertain."—Deseret News “Entertaining, informative, and highly accessible. …In scope and depth of Utah histories, [this book] stands alone. It offers a synthesis of hundreds of other works, illuminating a vital half-century in the state’s development. Anyone interested in Utah’s history will find it informative and enjoyable, including students, researchers, and the public at large.”—Utah Historical Quarterly “Charles Peterson and Brian Cannon have written a comprehensive, well-researched history, and a very readable volume of Utah’s past from its beginning days in the decade of the 1890s and statehood to the end of World War II.… This well written history is appropriate for general reading as well as pointing to links for further exploration.”—Western Historical Quarterly “The authors look in detail at thousands of ordinary people whose lives spanned this era. The information they gleaned from many oral histories adds life and personality to the book. . . . The writing style is clear and simple, making this book an understandable and enjoyable read for all.” —BYU Studies Quarterly “From a research base consisting of relevant archival materials, as well as a plethora of printed primary and secondary sources, the authors present their findings via a solid narrative. Their scope is extensive, to state the least, as they approach political, social, and economic matters from a variety of vantage points. Students of Utah and the American West, as well as political, economic, and environmental historians, will undoubtedly find much that is useful.”—New Mexico Historical Review
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