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Teachers' College Press High Attention Reading Preparing Students for
Book SynopsisOffers a new way to get students of all reading levels to independently read informational texts with more effort, attention, and stamina. In order to prepare students for the reading demands of high school, it is essential that we provide scaffolding for the habits of mind required to read this genre at a high level and the motivation to do so.
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Teachers' College Press Making Schools Work Bringing the Science of
Book SynopsisIf we teach in the way that human brains learn, both students and their teachers will thrive! This book aligns evidence from the learning sciences on how and what students need to learn with classroom practice (pre-K-12).Table of ContentsContentsForeword xiiiAcknowledgments xvii1. Why Now? 1 Looking Ahead 52. The Science of Success 7 At a Glance 7Introduction 7The How of Learning 11What Children Learn: A Breadth-of-Skills Approach Through the 6 Cs 24Where the How Meets the What of Learning 313. Case Study 1: The 6 Cs Go to an Independent School in Pennsylvania 34 At a Glance 34Introduction 34A Theme-Based Approach as One Embodiment of the 6 Cs System 38Themes, the 6 Cs, and the Principles of Playful Learning 484. Case Study 2: Designing for Equity in a Michigan School District 49 At a Glance 49Introduction 50Using Human-Centered Design After Exploring the Underlying Barriers 52Results: The System Shifts Toward Success for All 67Next Steps to Intensify Learning 68Slow Down to Speed Up 695. Case Study 3: Statewide Scale-Up of Playful Learning in New Hampshire Kindergarten Classrooms 71 At a Glance 71Introduction 71Motivation for Change 73Evidence-Based Approach for Change 74Impacts and Outcomes 80Guided Play in COVID-19 Classrooms 83Further Investment in Guided Play and Coaching 83Conclusion 85Chapter 5 Supplemental Resources 866. Bringing It Home: Adapting the Model for Your School 97 Step 1: Get Buy-In 101Step 2: Educate 101Step 3: Co-Design 102Step 4: Try It Out 103Step 5: Broaden Your Scope 103Step 6: Assess How It Is Going 104Step 7: Home and School 105Step 8: Have a School- or Grade-Wide Conclusion 1057. Authentic Assessment to Support the Science of Learning 106 At a Glance 106Introduction 106Motivation: Why Engage in Assessment? 107Measurement of the Knowledge and Skills That Matter 108Developmentally Appropriate Assessment 109Summative and Formative Assessment 110There Is More Than One Type of Authentic Assessment 115Clantete: Using Authentic Assessment to Support the 6 Cs 122Radnor Middle School: Authentic Assessment to Support Student Learning 123Conclusion 1248. Jumping Over School Walls: The 6 Cs and Learning Principles Are Everywhere 125 At a Glance 125Introduction 125Enter Playful Learning Landscapes: Informal Learning at Its Best 126Media: The Learning Principles and the 6 Cs Work Here, Too 129Conclusion 1349. Re-Imagining Education at Your School 135 Introduction 136The 6 Cs Prepare Students for Success 136How Can We Help Children Remember What They Learn So That It Is Sticky? 138How Do We Teach in a Way That Supports Transfer? 139How Do We Move From the "Memorize and Spit-It-Out-on-the-Test" Model to One in Which Students Are More Engaged in Their Learning? 139Appendix A: Visual Chapter Synopses 145Appendix B: Recommendations for Further Study 159References 163Index 179About the Authors 185
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Teachers' College Press Facilitating YouthLed Book Clubs as
Book SynopsisOffers research and theories grounded in culturally sustaining pedagogies and healing-centered engagements along with practical strategies for book club facilitators - from developing specific student-centered pedagogical approaches to embodying critical and humanizing dispositions.Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgments xi 1. Transformation and Inclusivity: The Foundation for Student-Centered Book Clubs 1 What Has Been My Journey to Book Clubs? 3 What Are Book Clubs? 5 What Does It Mean to Be Transformative and Inclusive? 7 Why Do We Need Book Clubs? 8 What Are the Benefits of Book Clubs? 9 Who Are Book Clubs For? 10 What Are the Theories That Ground Book Clubs? 12 What's Coming Up? 15 2. Getting Book Clubs Started Within Our School Communities 18 Who Can Start and Facilitate Book Clubs? 19 What Is the Purpose of Your Book Clubs and Who Will Participate? 21 Where and When Do We Meet? 21 Which Books Do We Use and How Do We Get Them? 23 How Can We Be More Intentional About the Books We Read? 28 How Do We Get Students to Join Book Clubs? 30 How Do We Build Community to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 30 How Do We Build Literacy Skills to Prepare Students for Classroom-Based Book Clubs? 31 3. Creating Student-Centered, Inclusive Spaces Through Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitative Practices 36 What Does It Mean to Be a Culturally Sustaining and Emotionally Responsive Facilitator? 38 What Happens During Our First Book Club Session? 45 4. Maintaining, Sustaining, and Assessing Book Club Conversations 55 What Are the Structures We Can Use to Maintain Book Clubs? 57 What Are the Rituals We Can Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 66 What Mini-Lessons Can We Use to Sustain Our Book Clubs? 68 How Can We Nurture Students' Reading Outside of Book Club? 72 What Assessments Can We Use to Maintain and Sustain Student Progress? 74 5. Developing Literacies and Spaces for Emotional and Identity-Based Engagements 81 What Do We Mean By Literacy Development? 82 What Does It Mean to Engage in Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 86 How Can We Address Trauma Within Our Book Clubs? 93 How Do We Simultaneously Address Reading Development Along With Emotional and Identity-Based Work? 94 How Do We Integrate Writing Into Book Clubs? 101 6. Developing Students' Social Awareness, Interpersonal Relationships, and Agency 104 How Can We Use Book Clubs to Develop Students' Social Literacies? 106 How Can Book Clubs Center Social Awareness? 112 How Can Book Clubs Help Students Develop Relationships? 114 How Can We Use Book Clubs to Impact Students' Sense of Agency? 121 7. Engaging With Youth Families and in Digital Spaces 129 How Can Book Clubs Be Inclusive of Our Students' Families? 129 What Do Book Clubs Look Like in Digital Spaces? 133 Epilogue: Centering Joy in Book Club Spaces 138 References 143 Index 156 About the Author 164
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John Wiley & Sons Igniting Social Action in the ELA Classroom Inquiry as Disruption
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Teachers' College Press AntiBlackness at School Creating Affirming
Book SynopsisWritten for pre- and in-service teachers and others working with Black children and youth, Anti-Blackness at School explores both the scope of anti-Blackness and how teachers can reject racism.
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Teachers' College Press Words Worth Using Supporting Adolescents Power
Book SynopsisProvides research-based instructional routines to support adolescents as they learn and use new words in their disciplinary learning. The book explores how academic vocabulary can position students as ‘insiders’ or ‘outsiders’, and how culturally sustaining instruction can welcome all students into discovering and using language.
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Teachers' College Press Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures
Book SynopsisNow more than ever, we need to teach the truth about history. This volume assembles a team of critical social studies Scholars of Color who share their nightmares and dreams for the future. The authors engage critical race theory and its many branches and offshoots to better understand the permanence of racism in the teaching of social studies.Table of Contents Contents Foreword Tyrone C. Howard ix Introduction Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez 1 PART I: A Dream Deferred 1. Beyond the Guise of Racial Neutrality: A CRT Analysis of Critical Moments and the Social Studies Profession 23 Christopher L. Busey2. What's Left Unsaid: A Critical Race Theory Analysis of NCSS Position Statements 35 Kristen E. Duncan and Natasha Murray-Everett3. Steady at the Bottom of the Well: Anti-Blackness and Social Studies Historiographies 47 ArCasia D. James-GallawayPart II: Racial Realities in Classroom Spaces 4. Unsettling Scenes and the Geographies of Racialized, Dis/abled Childhoods 59 Tran N. Templeton and Maggie Harvey5. Counterstorytelling and Racial Inquiry in Early Childhood Social Studies 69 Anna Falkner6. The Global Color-Line: Critical Race Theory and Global Citizenship Education in Conversation and in Classrooms 79 Hanadi Shatara and Esther June Kim7. Being in Difference, Together: Making the Classroom an Academic Home Through Critical Race Theory 89 Tadashi DozonoPart III: Possibilities of Praxis 8. Another Social Studies Is Possible: Challenging the Violence of Organized Forgetting Through Counternarratives 101 Ramon Vasquez9. Deconstructing Social Studies Classrooms: Youth Participatory Action Research as a Process of Radical Space-Making, Empowerment, and Imagination 111 Eva García, Amina Smaller, and Ryan Oto10. Enacting Cultural Citizenship Education for Black Liberation: A Dream for Social Studies Education 120 Denisha Jones11. Nurturing Seeds and Dreams of Freedom: Ethnic Studies as the Practice of Humanization, Solidarity, and Love 130 Christina Shiao-Mei Villarreal12. Soñando en/del Sur Latinx: Letting the Youth Disrupt Narratives of Division 140 Jesús A. Tirado and Timothy MonrealPart IV: Dreaming of Social Studies Futures 13. Indigenous Futurities and the Responsibilities of Social Studies 153 Turtle Island Social Studies Collective14. Teaching the Fullness of Black Women's Lives in Social Studies Education 164 Tiffany Mitchell Patterson15. Who's Afraid of Queer/Quare Social Studies? 174 Jon M. Wargo16. From a Curriculum of Violence to a Curriculum of Humanity: An AsianCrit Critique and Dream of Social Studies 182 Sohyun An17. On the Other Side of a Dream: Community, Love, Joy, and Freedom—Economics as It Could Be 192 Neil Shanks and Delandrea HallConclusion Amanda E. Vickery and Noreen Naseem Rodríguez 202 Afterword Cinthia Salinas 210 Notes 212 About the Contributors 214 Index 219
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Teachers' College Press Sustaining Disabled Youth Centering Disability
Book SynopsisBrings together a collection of work that situates disability as a key aspect of children and youth’s cultural identity construction. The book explores how disability intersects with other markers of difference to create unique cultural repertoires to be valued, sustained, and utilized for learning.Table of Contents ContentsSeries Foreword ix Acknowledgments xiii Disability and Asset Pedagogies: An Introduction to the Book xv Kathleen A. King Thorius and Federico R. WaitollerPart I: CENTERING DISABILITY CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN SCHOOLS AND SOCIETY 1. Disabled Lives: Worthiness and Identity in an Ableist Society 3 Anjali J. Forber-Pratt and Bradley J. Minotti2. Cultivating Positive Racial-Ethnic-Disability Identity: Opportunities in Education for Culturally Sustaining Practices at the Intersection of Race and Disability 17 Seena M. Skelton3. Smooth and Striated Spaces: Autistic (Ill)legibility as a Deterritorializing Force 31 Sara M. Acevedo and Robin Rosigno4. Luring the Vygotskyan Imagination: Notes for a New Bridge Between Disability Studies in Education and Asset Pedagogies 46 Federico R. WaitollerPart II: SUSTAINING DISABILITY IDENTITIES WITHIN PEDAGOGICAL APPROACHES 5. Black Deaf Gain: A Guide to Revisioning K–12 Deaf Education 59 Onudeah D. Nicolarakis, Akilah English, and Gloshanda Lawyer6. Disability Critical Race Theory as Asset Pedagogy 74 Subini Annamma, David Connor, and Beth Ferri7. Krip-Hop Nation Puts Back the Fourth Element of Hip-Hop: Knowledge with a Political Limp 86 Leroy F. Moore Jr. and Keith Jones8. Breaking Down Barriers: Hearing from Children to Learn to Teach Inclusively in Bilingual Education 95 Patricia Martínez-Álvarez and Minhye SonPart III: ON NURTURING TEACHERS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS 9. Of the Insubstantiality of "Special" Worlds: Curricular Cripistemological Practices as Asset Pedagogy in Teacher Education 111 Linda Ware, David Mitchell, and Sharon Snyder10 . Mothers of Color of Children with Dis/abilities: Centering Their Children's Assets in Family as Faculty Projects 126 Cristina Santamaría Graff11. Practicing for Complex Times: The Future of Disability Studies and Teacher Education 144 Srikala Naraian12. Curriculum Theorizing, Intersectional Consciousness, and Teacher Education for Disability-Inclusive Practices 156 Mildred Boveda and Brittany Aronson13. Leveraging Asset Pedagogies at Race/Disability Intersections in Equity-Expansive Technical Assistance 169 Kathleen A. King ThoriusNotes 183 References 185 About the Editors and the Contributors 222 Index 228
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John Wiley & Sons Queer Justice at School A Guide for Youth
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John Wiley & Sons Race Curriculum and the Politics of Educational Justice
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John Wiley & Sons ScreenAware Early Childhood A Realistic Approach to Helping Young Children Thrive in a Digitally Complex World
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John Wiley & Sons Fostering SchoolFamily Relationships in Multicultural Communities
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Womens Writing in Exile
Book SynopsisExamines the physical, sociopolitical, canonical, and psychological kinds of exile that women writers in Western culture have endured over the last hundred years. Djuna Barnes, Isak Dinesen, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, and Doris Lessing are among the writers whose narratives of exile are studied. Originally published in 1989.Trade ReviewA rich, multifaceted consideration of women's condition of exile.--New Directions for Women
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Social Life Local Politics and Nazism Marburg
Book SynopsisFocusing on Marburg, a contentious university town where voters demonstrated strong electoral support for Adolf Hitler's National Socialist party, this imaginative study discusses the political role of small-town organisational life and painstakingly reconstructs the full range of Nazi sympathizers' cross-affiliations with local voluntary groups.
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The University of North Carolina Press Democracy Betrayed The Wilmington Race Riot of
Book SynopsisThis study draws together scholarship on the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and its aftermath. Contributors hope to draw attention to the tragedy, to honour its victims, and to bring a clear historical voice to the debate over its legacy.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Taking Haiti Military Occupation and the Culture of U.S. Imperialism 19151940
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Captives and Cousins Slavery Kinship and
Book SynopsisAn examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throughout the Southwest borderlands from the Spanish colonial era to the end of the 19th century.Trade Review"Bold and brilliant, James Brooks's fresh look at raiding and slaving takes us beyond the familiar categories of Indians and Hispanics to reveal the deep divisions of gender and class within each group. Sweeping over four centuries, his vivid narrative tells us why people simultaneously preyed on one another and absorbed one another in this violent land." - David J. Weber, Southern Methodist University
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Chicagos New Negroes Modernity the Great
Book SynopsisAs early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism. This work argues that this mass consumer marketplace generated a vibrant intellectual life and planted seeds of political dissent against the dehumanizing effects of white capitalism.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina From Vulgar Latin to Old Proven231al
Book SynopsisExamines the Old Provencal language on the basis of philological interpretations of a few selected texts, both prose and poetry. The secondary source material includes a razo and two vidas from the troubadour biographies, as well as three poems selected from the works of Bernart de Ventadorn, the Countess of Dia, and Giraut de Bornelh.
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Southern Illinois University Press Deliberate Conflict
Book SynopsisIn what kind of public discourse do we want our students to engage? This text answers this question by providing a taxonomy, discussion, and evaluation of political theories that underpin democratic discourse, high-lighting the relationship between various models of the public sphere and rhetorical theory.Trade Review...this book will inform how we understand not just whether to teach argument but what kind of argument to teach and how. - Rhetoric Review ""Roberts-Miller provides a much-needed backdrop to discussions about how to teach argument and about how to help students become discursively responsive and responsible citizens of a democracy. The theory of deliberative democracy on which the author ultimately rests her argument is compelling - and persuasively presented."" - Susan Jarratt, author of Rereading the Sophists
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Southern Illinois University Press The Boy of Battle Ford and the Man
Book SynopsisCovers the author’s years growing up in early post-settlement Illinois, where he gave in to temptations such as drinking, gambling, and the lure of prostitutes before joining the army, finding God and becoming a preacher. Blackman peppers his story with the sordid details of the sinful times of his life as well as with discussions of faith and of struggling to understand his God.
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Southern Illinois University Press Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope
Book SynopsisRhetoric and feminism have yet to coalesce into a singular recognizable field. In this book, author Cheryl Glenn advances the feminist rhetorical project by introducing a new theory of rhetorical feminism. Rhetorical Feminism and This Thing Called Hope equips the field with tools for a more expansive and productive dialogue.
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Southern Illinois University Press Germans in Illinois
Book SynopsisExplores the influence and experiences of German immigrants and their descendants from their arrival in the middle of the nineteenth century to their heritage identity today. Miranda Wilkerson and Heather Richmond examine the primary reasons that Germans came to Illinois and describe how they adapted to life and distinguished themselves.
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Southern Illinois University Press Gettysburg
Book SynopsisGettysburg is a paradox: Today it is beautiful, still, and filled with visitors, yet this national military park serves as a powerful reminder of the clash of armies and the great loss of life that took place here. Gettysburg: This Hallowed Ground explores this Civil War battleground through contemporary photographs and poems.
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Southern Illinois University Press The New Chicago Way Lessons from Other Big
Book SynopsisCompares the decisions about Chicago's governance and finances with choices made in fourteen other large US cities. The problems that seem unique to Chicago have been encountered elsewhere, and Chicagoans, the authors posit, can learn from the successful solutions other cities have embraced.
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Southern Illinois University Press Vicksburg Besieged
Book SynopsisOffers a detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege. Ranging in scope from military to social history, contributors examine the role of Grant's staff, contributions of African American troops to the Union Army of the Tennessee, both sides' use of sharpshooters, the use of West Point siege theory, and more.Trade ReviewAn impressively informative body of original Civil War scholarship."—James A. Cox Midwest Book Review"Topically diverse in addressing matters on and off the battlefield (mostly the former), Vicksburg Besieged is another solid entry in the ongoing Civil War Campaigns in the West series and a notable contribution to our understanding of the still relatively understudied siege phase of the Vicksburg Campaign."—Andrew Wagenhoffer Civil War Books and Authors"Drawing on many decades of study, the contributors to Vicksburg Besiegedsupply welcome new perspectives on a pivotal moment in Civil War history. While these well-written essays will appeal chiefly to students of the war’s military history, historians of the environment, health, food, and the senses will discover much fodder for their future work."—Brian Matthew Jordan Civil War Monitor"Despite the battlefield being preserved in the Vicksburg National Military Park, the Siege of Vicksburg garners much less attention than other phases of the campaign. Yet its importance as the capstone of the campaign, where victory and defeat finally came, cannot be diminished. Scholars are slowly beginning to turn more attention to these events, and this collection of topical essays provides a wonderful introduction to several areas of importance in the siege."—Timothy B. Smith, author of The Decision Was Always My Own: Ulysses S. Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign"This collection of essays includes some of the best recent history written about the events during the siege of Vicksburg. It illuminates the importance of Vicksburg and how its surrender was a blow from which the Confederacy could not recover. The loss of Vicksburg was a turning point in the Civil War, because it effectively isolated the Trans-Mississippi from the rest of the Confederate states, and this excellent book provides a new look at various activities during the siege."—Anne J. Bailey, author of The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaigns of 1864Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Charles D. Grear 1. “By Hazard and by Spasms”: Grant and HisStaff at the Siege of Vicksburg Andrew S. Bledsoe 2. “Standing on the Banks”: African American Troops in the Vicksburg Campaign Scott L. Stabler and Martin J. Hershock 3. Plying the Deadly Trade: The Sharpshooters’ War at the Siege of Vicksburg Jonathan M. Steplyk 4. Nights at Vicksbur Steven E. Woodworth 5. Andrew Hickenlooper and the Vicksburg Mines Justin S. Solonick 6. A Community Besieged: Civilians of the Vicksburg Campaign John J. Gaines 7. Mournful Melodies: LouisianansPlayed the Swan Song of the Army of Relief Richard H. Holloway 8. “West of the Mississippi to UsIsNearly a Sealed Book”: Trans-Mississippians and the Fall of Vicksburg Charles D. Grear Contributors Index
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Southern Illinois University Press Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago A Dual
Book SynopsisThis well-crafted and engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and his wife, Eliza Clark Garrett, tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed and the remarkable spiritual journey of a woman attempting to overcome tragedy.Trade ReviewIn telling the story of Augustus and Eliza Garrett, Charles H. Cosgrove has done an excellent job pulling together the slender threads of antebellum Chicago history. More than just a biography of an early mayor and businessman, this history illuminates the importance of evangelical religion in the social and cultural life of early Chicago." —Theodore J. Karamanski, author of Rally 'Round the Flag: Chicago and the Civil War"Cosgrove focuses on two individuals who shaped and reshaped the diverse worlds of nineteenth-century Chicago political, religious, business, and educational life. Readable, enlightening, engaging, and instructive, the dual biography invites the reader into the fabric and feel of early nineteenth-century urban life. [Many] will appreciate greatly the careful attention to Eliza Garrett’s role in the founding of the institution that bears her name and her struggles with controlling clergy." —Russell E. Richey, coauthor of The Methodist Experience in America: A Sourcebook"Grounded in the development of Protestantism in Chicago and especially in the crucial role that Eliza Garrett played in founding Methodist institutions, this thoughtful look at an early Chicago couple who found economic success in the city's rise reminds us of just how many stories of early Chicago are yet to be told." —Ann Durkin Keating, author of The World of Juliette Kinzie: Chicago before the Fire"Cosgrove captures the personal, economic, and religious struggles of a unique nineteenth-century American couple. Steeped in original research, Cosgrove’s book not only brings the sights and sounds of Old Chicago back to life but also allows us to see how the Garretts formed a unique partnership, leading one to a career in early Chicago politics and the other to become the first woman in the United States to found a theological seminary." —Christopher H. Evans, author of The Social Gospel in American Religion: A History
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Southern Illinois University Press Transcending the Game
Book SynopsisA collection of inclusive essays that explore the role of debate in understanding and critiquing injustice and inequality. Edited by Shawn Briscoe, these essays closely examine multiple approaches to debate, considering their respective merits and controversies.Trade Review“Transcending the Game is a unique work that highlights the perceived styles of competitive policy debate and the impact of these styles on lived experiences. The beauty of this book lies in its inclusion of diverse scholars and perspectives that help to detail the evolution of a perfectly imperfect activity.”—ShuntÁ Jordan, head coach, Georgia Debate Union at the University of Georgia “Transcending the Game offers readers an in-depth and up-close look into the life-changing potential interscholastic debate can afford its participants. The authors’ diverse perspectives take the reader through a compelling journey of thought-provoking, uplifting, and heart-breaking stories that each exemplify the power debate creates outside of the competitive arena. For anyone considering getting involved in the activity, this book is a must read.”—Dr. Michael Greenstein, director of debate, Glenbrook North High School, and former director of debate, Georgetown University “Briscoe has an unparalleled ability to explain the oftentimes complicated and complex concepts of policy debate in a way that is easily understandable. Through his use of personal experience along with his explanation of the theory and idiosyncrasies of policy debate, he creates a space that makes debate open and accessible to all, regardless of background or experience. This text is extremely timely, relevant, and necessary to continue the longstanding tradition and evolution of policy debate.”—Nicole Freeman, associate professor of communication, University of Central Missouri.Table of Contents CONTENTS Preface Introduction Prologue: The Moment that Changed My Life Section One: The Nature of Competitive Debate 1. Debate and Disinformation 2. Truth, A Casualty of Intellectual Warfare? 3. Finding Home 4. Putting Debate Skills to Work Section Two: Audience-Centered Debate 5. Inspired Learning 6. Debate and the College Experience 7. Around the World and Back Again 8. Policy Debate in a Post-Modern Society Section Three: Progressive Debate 9. Defending Policy Debate 10. Debate as a Framework for Business 11. Engaging Each Other on the Merits of Our Arguments 12. A Mother's Journey from Debate to the NICU Interlude: Classrooms of Compassion Section Four: Nontraditional Debate 13. The Constant Pursuit for Inclusivity 14. Living Inupiat Storytelling in Four Generations of Family 15. Defining Black Cards 16. Ship of Faith 17. A Tool for Career Readiness Section Five: Power in Our Voices 18. In It Together 19. The Debater Contributors About the Author Bibliography Glossary
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Southern Illinois University Press Engineering Victory The Union Siege of Vicksburg
Book SynopsisIn this illuminating volume, Justin Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of US and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications.Trade Review "Solonick’s emphasis is on common soldiers, united by their western character and experience. Their success in taking Vicksburg is what matters most to Solonick, and he demonstrates how innovation produced a unique siege, different from those in the past and those that followed in the wars of the next century. This book offers a considered look at the siege of Vicksburg and should generate conversations about the decisive role western soldiers played in the Civil War."—Cecily Zander, American Nineteenth Century History "Engineering Victory is a truly original study that offers unprecedented insight into the mechanics of the Vicksburg siege from the Union perspective. It also serves as a powerful reminder that ultimate victory was not just a question of starvation but also one of skillful execution of the siege tactics of the period. Justin Solonick's impressive work is richly deserving of a place of high honor in the Vicksburg Campaign literature canon."—Civil War Books and Authors “By showing why Vicksburg fell when it did, Justin S. Solonick’s book sheds new light on one of the most important campaigns of the Civil War. By exploring how Grant’s army achieved that success, it illuminates the nature of Civil War armies and on the society that raised them.”—Steven E. Woodworth, author of Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 “If Vicksburg was the front door to the Confederacy, it was engineering that proved to be the key to opening the door. Thus argues Solonick, as he proceeds to methodically and convincingly make his case. Lacking professional engineers, U. S. Grant’s Army of the Tennessee often relied upon western ingenuity for mining and trenching. Their efforts, not fully appreciated by West Point theorists even after the war, won the day. Must reading not only for western theater enthusiasts but also for those who wish to grasp how the war evolved.”—Larry J. Daniel, author of Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861–1865 “Justin Solonick has produced an important and necessary study of siege operations at Vicksburg, setting the story within the context of European siege craft and pointing to new directions in the history of Civil War military operations. This book is a breath of fresh air.”—Earl J. Hess, author of Kennesaw Mountain: Sherman, Johnston, and the Atlanta Campaign "The author covers the spectrum of siege as practiced at Vicksburg, from establishment of the line of circumvallation to the saps, approaches, and parallels that led to the final phase of the siege. He also discusses the mining intended to destroy the earth and log bastions that guarded the city and blocked unfettered navigation of the Mississippi River. Solonick gives readers an excellent and comprehensive understanding of the complexities of the siege operations that sealed the doom of Vicksburg and with it the Confederacy. . .this book is a truly significant contribution to our understanding of the Vicksburg campaign. Engineering Victory is an outstanding work that fills one of the few, yet major, voids in the literature on the Vicksburg campaign and taps into scores of soldier memoirs, diaries, and letters that add much human interest to this study. Engineering Victory is an essentially important work that will enhance the most complete colelction of Vicksburg titles." —Terrence J Winschel, author of Triumph Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign, volumes 1 and 2 "Solonick's book provides a thorough and engaging study of the Union army's siege operations against the pivotal river city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Readers will walk away from the volume with a great deal of respect for the hardworking engineers of the Army or the Tennessee who faced various obstacles and challenges. Rather than just surrounding Vicksburg and waiting for its defenders to capitulate, Grant's men transformed themselves from a marching army into a besieging one."—Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Angelo State University "There is a lot to like about this book. Solonick demonstrates skill as both a researcher and a writer. He has scoured archives from New York to North Carolina...On the whole, Engineering Victory is a fine examination of the siege tactics used by the Federals at Vicksburg. It presents the complex story of Grant's efforts to topple the “Gibraltar of the West" in a clear and coherent manner."—Mark Barloon,The Annals of Iowa “Professor Solonick’s work offers the first detailed, single-volume study of the siege of Vicksburg. Instead of covering the entire campaign for the city, Solonick places a narrow focus on the federal army and the actual siege techniques it used. . . . The book is both insightful and important to our understanding of why the federals were finally successful in forcing a Confederate surrender.”—Dr. John D. Fowler, The Civil War Monitor “Justin S. Solonick offers the first detailed study of how Grant’s midwesterners serving in the Army of the Tennessee engineered the siege of Vicksburg, placing the event within the broader context of U.S. and European military history and nineteenth-century applied science in trench warfare and field fortifications. In doing so, he shatters the Lost Cause myth that Vicksburg’s Confederate garrison surrendered due to lack of provisions.”—Jim Miller, Civil War Notebook “This book is great for anyone interested in Civil War history or engineer operations. It sheds some light on a topic that is often overlooked. This work also provides an extremely useful, illustrative example of how a well-trained, well-informed cadre of leaders can have a positive influence on their Soldiers and affect the outcome of an operation.”—David S. (Scott) Franklin, Engineer: The Professional Bulletin of Army Engineers
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John Wiley & Sons Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health
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John Wiley & Sons Marayrasu
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John Wiley & Sons So Unimaginable a Price
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John Wiley & Sons Hegel Marx and the Laughing Matter of Spirit
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John Wiley & Sons Solo
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John Wiley & Sons Masculine Births Milton Women and the Law
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University of Pennsylvania Press Fighting for Faith and Nation Dialogues with
Book Synopsis"A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."-Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSBTrade Review"Highly recommended." * Library Journal *"Mahmood brilliantly interweaves Sikh militants' narratives-their aspirations, fears, beliefs, and actions-with an understanding of India's Khalistan movement in particular and of contemporary political conflict in general. . . . Fighting for Faith and Nation provides the theoretical and methodological tools for understanding the politics of violence and militancy and the troubled concepts of nation and freedom. More important, it provides a sensitive and responsible approach to difficult and contentious issues-to matters, literally, of life and death." * Carolyn Nordstrom, University of California, Berkeley *"A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists. The issues this book raises cannot be ignored." * Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara *
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Pens and Needles
Book SynopsisThrough an examination of the expressive arts of needlework, painting, and writing, Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and, in its final chapters, into literary texts such as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.Trade Review"Susan Frye's book is a beautiful and powerful contribution to scholarship on early modern women's material culture. . . . No other book covers such ground; Pens and Needles is an invaluable resource for art historians, social historians, literary critics, and anyone interested in the material world that early modern women made." * American Historical Review *"Susan Frye's book is most fascinating in drawing out the histories and texts, both written and sewn, of less well-known women, and showing that they saw their needlework as equally articulate, valuable, and artful as their words." * TLS *"Susan Frye's meticulously researched, beautifully illustrated, and brilliantly titled Pens and Needles makes a significant addition to a growing subfield in early modern gender studies: the expressive arts of women's needlework, which Frye sees as a mode of both female self-fashioning and creative communication." * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *"Frye beautifully succeeds in aligning the different material practices, especially in the surprising discovery of a new portrait of Mary Queen of Scots embroidered by Bess of Hardwick." * Maureen Quilligan, Duke University *"No other book analyzes the combination of visual, textile, and textual modes in relation to early modern women as this one does. Frye draws on a vast range of sources, from comments on the minutiae of Shakespeare's plays, to contemporary translations of the poems of Mary Stuart, to a range of theorists including Michel de Certeau, Marcel Mauss and Karl Marx, to make a complex and convincing argument about women's consciousness and work." * Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Note on Spelling Preface Introduction Chapter 1. Political Designs: Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, and Bess of Hardwick Chapter 2. Miniatures and Manuscripts: Levina Teerlinc, Jane Segar, and Esther Inglis as Professional Artisans Chapter 3. Sewing Connections: Narratives of Agency in Women's Domestic Needlework Chapter 4. Staging Women's Relations to Textiles in Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline Chapter 5. Mary Sidney Wroth: Clothing Romance Notes Selected Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£35.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Why Dont American Cities Burn
Book SynopsisUrban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.Trade Review"Katz brings together demographic, economic, and political evidence to form a new narrative of the modern city centered on the experience of the urban poor. He not only reveals what happened in inner cities in the last decade but writes convincingly about why it matters. And he gives hope that the long decline of urban places can be reversed, even neighborhoods like North Philadelphia." * American Journal of Sociology *"Katz's work begins to move us away from a story of inevitable urban crisis and decline to a more balanced interpretation that incorporates structural inequities and human agency, as well as policy failures and successes. Indeed, Katz is working toward nothing less than a revision of our understanding of urban America in the late twentieth century." * Journal of American History *"In June 2006, distinguished urban historian Michael Katz served as a juror in a murder trial in his hometown of Philadelphia. That case propelled Katz on a fascinating journey to understand the social conditions that lay behind the fates of murderer, victim, and the city where they both struggled to survive. With Katz as sage guide, we revisit urban America over the last half century as well as the public policy successes and failures that are an inseparable part of that story." * Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America *"Brilliantly conceived and beautifully written, Why Don't American Cities Burn? is a terrific read that is difficult to put down. Katz considers changes over the past half-century through the lenses of urban geography and population demographics, institutional structures, the public's ossified view of the deserving and undeserving urban poor, and how the zeal for market-based solutions has led towards new poverty technologies that recast the poor as entrepreneurial actors. Most important, Katz introduces his book with a story that humanizes the field of social sciences that-paradoxically-appears at times to have forgotten the people in the sea of quantitative analyses." * Peter Hendee Brown, University of Minnesota *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Death of Shorty Chapter 1. What Is an American City? Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality Chapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often? Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies Notes Index Acknowledgments
£19.19
University of Pennsylvania Press In My Mothers House
Book SynopsisThis book examines how ordinary families and communities of minority groups in Sri Lanka have dealt with prolonged civil war and resulting issues as diverse as child recruitment, generational and gender conflicts, political terror, refugee camp life, ethnic nationalism, and migration and mobility.Trade Review"Through a series of deeply moving narratives, Thiranagama analyzes the multiplicity of Tamil identifications in Jaffna and brings stories of Muslims back into academic understandings of the war. Thiranagama has written a fantastic and fascinating first book." * Journal of Asian Studies *"As an anthropologist, Thiranagama is interested in how uncontrollable eruptions of violence dislocate people's lives. . . . [In My Mother's House] leaves a profound sense of the victims' unfathomable losses." * Foreign Affairs *"The ethnographic In My Mother's House . . . places Sri Lanka's conflict in its right time-frame, bringing back into the discussion the history before 2009, and how the violence that people experienced over three decades changed lives and society forever." * The Hindu *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration Foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere Introduction 1. Growing Up at War: Self Formation, Individuality, and the LTTE 2. The House of Secrets: Mothers, Daughters, and Inheritance 3. From Muslims to Northern Muslims: Ethnicity, Eviction, and Displacement 4. Becoming of This Place? Northern Muslim Futures After Eviction 5. The Generation of Militancy: Generation, Gender, and Self-Transformation 6. Conclusions from Tamil Colombo List of Abbreviations Notes References Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Mixed Multitude
Book SynopsisBased on extensive archival research, this book explores the history of Frankism, a Jewish religious movement that began in Poland and spread into the Habsburg Empire and the German lands in the later eighteenth century.Trade Review"With this multifaceted study of Frank and Frankism, Paweł Maciejko has made a major contribution to our understanding of the intricacies and varieties of Judaism in eastern Europe in the eighteenth century. He brings tremendous erudition and insight to the religious history of early modern Poland." * Times Literary Supplement *"Magnificent. . . . [Maciejko] has seemingly mined every available text on Frank and the Frankists; unlike earlier scholars, such as Gershom Scholem, he commands the Polish sources as well. He tells the story in riveting style." * Jewish Review of Books *"A major scholarly achievement . . . this is the single best study written to date of Frank and Frankism in all their complexity and will be required reading for any student or scholar of early modern Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations, kabbalah, and Jewish messianism." * AJS Review *"Maciejko's scholarship is stunning in its comprehensiveness and the combination of careful analysis of detail with breadth of historical vision. This book fills a longstanding lacuna in European and Jewish historiography. It is innovative both in the sense that many new sources are consulted and in its conceptually innovative revision of the historical significance of Frank and his movement." * Gershon David Hundert, McGill University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1. In the Shadow of the Herem Chapter 2. The Peril of Heresy, the Birth of a New Faith Chapter 3. Where Does Frankism Fit In? Chapter 4. The Politics of the Blood Libel Chapter 5. How Rabbis and Priests Created the Frankist Movement Chapter 6. Ghosts of the Past, Heralds of the Future Chapter 7. The Fall of Edom Chapter 8. The Vagaries of the Charlatans Chapter 9. The Ever-Changing Masquerade List of Current and Historical Place Names List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Beguines of Medieval Paris
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An impressive demonstration of how far a scholar can go with painstaking investigation and interpretation of scattered and limited evidence. . . . There is a great deal to admire and ponder [in this book]." * The Medieval Review *"The Beguines of Medieval Paris is an informative and lively book that will make readers see these women not as the hypocritical figures of the satirical tradition nor as the targets of hostile papal pronouncements but as active and charitable women who carved out an important place for themselves in a city replete with religious orders and institutions." * Catholic Historical Review *"Tanya Stabler Miller presents the reader with an elegant, thoroughly researched and persuasively argued study, providing invaluable insight into this urban female community but also making an informed addition to the growing understanding of Later Medieval spirituality more broadly." * French History *"This lovely book engages with the histories of work, women, and spirituality, as well as with urban and intellectual history. . . . Excellent." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"This is a wonderful new study of the beguines who lived in Paris and enjoyed considerable public respect, especially by King Louis IX. . . . Tanya Stabler Miller provides a detailed discussion of the available sources and illustrates through a variety of approaches how and why the beguines could establish themselves so well against all protests and condemnations by the theologians and clerics." * Mediaevistik *"Tanya Stabler Miller writes with intelligence and clarity. The contributions she makes to our understanding of how female spirituality was connected to female labor are revelatory." * William Chester Jordan, Princeton University *"An important and rich case study. In telling detail, The Beguines of Medieval Paris sheds light on the broader contours of this religious movement." * Walter Simons, Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Prud'homme and the Beguines: Louis IX and the Foundation of the Beguinage of Paris Chapter 2. The World of the Beguinage Chapter 3. Beguines, Silk, and the City Chapter 4. Masters and Pastors: Sorbonne Scholars, Beguines, and Religious Instruction Chapter 5. Religious Education and Spiritual Collaboration at the Beguinage of Paris Chapter 6. "There Are Among Us Women Called Beguines" Chapter 7. The King's Beguines Appendix. Beguines Whose Occupations Are Known Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Machiavelli
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The edition by Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray, with translations by Ray, is an excellent volume of political, historical, and literary works by one of the great thinkers and writers of the Renaissance." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Including letters, dramatic works, and other texts that do not often come first to readers' minds when thinking of Machiavelli, Mark Jurdjevic and Meredith K. Ray have provided a selection of his work that paints a new and interesting portrait of the political theorist. Arranged chronologically, these lesser-known texts frame excerpts from The Prince, Discourses on Livy, and The Art of War, resulting in a finely grained intellectual autobiography. The volume is perfect for the classroom and for readers interested in gaining a fuller understanding of Machiavelli's thought." * Christopher S. Celenza, Georgetown University *Table of ContentsNote on Translation and Selection of Texts Introduction. Machiavelli in the Florentine Renaissance Chapter 1. Early Letters, Poems, and Military Writings (1498-1513) Chapter 2. Excerpts from The Prince (1513-15) Chapter 3. Excerpts from Discourses on Livy (1512-17) Chapter 4. The Mandrake (1518) Chapter 5. Articles for a Pleasure Company (post-1504) Chapter 6. Belfagor (1524) Chapter 7. Excerpts from The Art of War (1519-20) Chapter 8. Allocution to a Magistrate (1519-20) Chapter 9. Discourse on Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo (1520-1521) Chapter 10. Midcareer Letters (1517-24) Chapter 11. Duties of an Ambassador (1522) Chapter 12. Excerpts from the Florentine Histories (1525) Chapter 13. Late Letters (1525-27) Glossary Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Race and the Making of American Political Science
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Blatt has provided a service to intellectual historians. This well-documented and clearly written book achieves its objectives by squarely positioning racist assumptions at the heart of political science's origins in the modern academy." * The Journal of American History *"[N]ot only a historical work that traces the foundations of racialism within the discipline of political science but is also a compelling account about the disavowal and continued importance of race in politics...those trained in political science (undergraduates, graduates) and those teaching political thought would do well to stock Race and the Making of American Political Science on their bookshelves. " * Journal of African American History *"Jessica Blatt's groundbreaking book explores the leading thinkers who shaped the foundation of the political science discipline . . . [T]his book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the merger between science and politics. It makes a convincing argument that racialism and its various manifestations (White supremacy, colonialism/neocolonialism, imperialism,evolution, and racial psychometrics) have been instrumental to shaping political science." * History of Education Quarterly *"Jessica Blatt has delivered a masterful account of the illiberal fiber inherent in American political reality. That is, how a country committed to democratic equality and freedom has invested so much ink, blood, and money in ideas of racial difference to produce a conjoined history of unfreedoms and massive inequalities. She brings history to life on the page in her compelling telling of the ways that key intellectuals shaped the early field of political science through varied but sustained commitments to normalized white supremacy. Blatt has opened the way for a watershed reflective moment in her field-and beyond." * Duana Fullwiley, Stanford University *"Race and the Making of American Political Science is one of those rare books that makes an important scholarly contribution and a significant intervention in civic discourse. In examining carefully how racialist ideologies shaped the first half century of American political science, Blatt also provides a richly theorized and historically grounded account of what 'race' is as an ideology of essential human difference, how it has evolved, and how its premises continue to shape academic and popular discourses. This book is a must read for anyone interested in the history of the social sciences and anyone concerned with making sense of race ideology and how it works in our society." * Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania *"In an exhilarating story, which never flags in energy or excitement, Jessica Blatt shows how foundational racism and concepts of race were to American political science, not just at the beginning but in its heyday as a social science. A pioneering work exploding with insights and discoveries on every page, her book is also a cautionary tale for today, when academics and journalists increasingly turn to race as a category of political explanation, unwittingly repeating the maneuvers that Blatt so vividly documents and describes." * Corey Robin, Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center *"Jessica Blatt has written a fine book. She is correct that race is a dimension of disciplinary history that has not been seriously explored. Everyone notices the founding generation's Teutonism, but none of the major historical studies have taken it seriously as a species of racialism or examined its lingering consequences." * Dorothy Ross, Johns Hopkins University *"Race and the Making of American Political Science illuminates key elements in the past of American political science-the founding of the discipline around a core racialist scheme and the subsequent evolution of ideas about race within the discipline as practitioners adapted to the rise of U.S. power in the world." * Howard Brick, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. "The White Man's Mission": John W. Burgess and the Columbia School of Political Science Chapter 2. "All Things Lawful Are Not Expedient": The American Political Science Association Considers Jim Crow Chapter 3. Twentieth-Century Problems: Administering an American Empire Chapter 4. The Journal of Race Development: Evolution and Uplift Chapter 5. Laying Specters to Rest: Political Science Encounters the Boasian Critique of Racial Anthropology Chapter 6. Finding New Premises: Race Science, Philanthropy, and the Institutional Establishment of Political Science Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press For the Love of Humanity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] remarkable account of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) . . . For the Love of Humanity, conveys the complexity of both the WTI's endeavor and the universalist ideals that continue to engender humanitarian, cosmopolitan, rights-based, and imperialist moral-political projects around the world." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Part of what makes this book so impressive is that its radical vision is sustained and deepened by sophisticated reference to the ideas of many of the leading European political philosophers of the last 100 years and by a social science methodology that relies on an ethnographic record compiled by a participant observer who doubles as author. This fine, memorable book possesses a theoretical and practical significance that extends well beyond the confines of the World Tribunal on Iraq experience." * London Review of International Law *"What is the legacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI)? How can "for the love of humanity" be understood when it is used for both imperialist and anti-war arguments? These issues are elegantly interrogated by Ayca Cubukcu," * Middle East Journal *"This remarkable book about the World Tribunal on Iraq (set up shortly after the U.S. invasion by a multinational network of activists and scholars) is at once a valuable ethnography and a timely history of the present. It forces the reader to confront the conflicts between the legal and political perspectives that dominate our understanding of international affairs. For anyone concerned with global justice, For the Love of Humanity is essential-because thought-provoking-reading." * Talal Asad, The Graduate Center, City University of New York *"In this breakthrough ethnography of the World Tribunal on Iraq, Ayça Çubukçu raises new questions about the contemporary politics of human rights. She challenges the ease with which many hew to noble aspirations, as if crimes and mistakes in name of human rights were merely incidental perversions. Anyone concerned with the fate of cosmopolitanism in our era of the love of humanity and perpetual war must read this book." * Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World *"Mixing ethnographic material on the conduct of the World Tribunal on Iraq with analysis grounded in political theory and international law, Ayça Çubukçu's outstanding book offers thought-provoking arguments alongside first-hand reflections on the WTI's deliberations." * Stephen Hopgood, University of London *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Constituting Multitude: Founding a World Tribunal Chapter 2. Whose Tribunal? Chapter 3. Constituting Constitutions: The Fact of Iraqi Constitution, the Fatalism of Human Rights Intermezzo. Can the Network Speak? Chapter 4. "Humanity Must Be Defended" Afterword Appendices Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Vod250n Secrecy and the Search for Divine Power
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsA Note on Orthography and Style Introduction Chapter 1. Touring the Forbidden Chapter 2. Receiving the Forest Chapter 3. Secrecy, Objects, and Expanding Markets Chapter 4. Belief, Efficacy, and Transnationalism Chapter 5. Global Vodún, Diversity, and Looking Ahead Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Gandhis Body
Book Synopsis"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working... It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material."-Journal of the Royal Anthropological InstituteTrade Review"Gandhi's Body introduces Gandhi in a fresh way. . . . This book respects and at the same time revises our understandings of Indian culture, and it connects politics and culture with health, bio-discipline, and governmentality in a manner that is accessible and useful." * David Ludden, editor of Contesting the Nation *"Interesting, provocative, and highly recommended." * Choice *"This brilliant and infuriating book is the latest intriguing offering from one of the most original anthropologists working. . . . It offers us unpredictable and illuminating interpretations of classical material." * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Curiosities and Texts
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Highly recommended."-Library Journal
£49.30
University of Pennsylvania Press Conversion and Narrative Reading and Religious
Book SynopsisSzpiech draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing.Trade Review"In this book Ryan Szpiech has brought us a cogently argued, rigorously researched, and thoughtfully constructed theory of conversion narrative in the Middle Ages. His overall argument is compellingly simple: individual narratives of conversion are as much about the histories of religions as they are about the histories of individuals. . . . Szpiech demonstrates this thesis in a series of rigorous, close readings of conversion narratives written by Jews, Christians, and Muslims in an impressive range of languages." * Speculum *"This wide-ranging, erudite study brings a welcome new perspective to the subject of medieval interfaith polemics. . . . Szpiech's impressive analytical and linguistic skills have allowed him to produce a work of singular value, which will undoubtedly open up new lines of research for the future." * Catholic Historical Review *"Szpiech's insightful reading of a variety of conversion narratives produced within the Abrahamic religions between the ninth and the sixteenth century has produced this densely textured and important book which launches the study of conversion into new territory." * The Medieval Review *"A remarkably learned, ambitious, and important study. Conversion and Narrative will make a signal contribution to medieval studies in general, but more particularly to literary studies, intellectual history, and religious studies." * Thomas E. Burman, University of Tennessee *"This impressive book bridges the fields of religious studies and comparative literature in order to produce close and sophisticated readings of conversion narratives from the later Middle Ages across a broad array of languages (Latin, Castilian/Catalan, Arabic, and Hebrew). Very few scholars can move so gracefully among these languages and areas of scholarship while offering insights from the minutiae of philological analysis to high literary theory, reflections on the nature of religion, and notions of the self." * Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University *Table of ContentsNote on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration Introduction: Conversion and History 1. From Peripety to Prose: Tracing the Pauline and Augustinian Paradigms 2. Alterity and Auctoritas: Reason and the Twelfth-Century Expansion of Authority 3. In the Shadow of the Khazars: Narrating the Conversion to Judaism 4. A War of Words: Translating Authority in Thirteenth-Century Polemic 5. The Jargon of Authenticity: Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid and the Paradox of Testimony 6. The Supersessionist Imperative: Islam and the Historical Drama of Revelation Conclusion: Polemic as Narrative Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£46.50
