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Melbourne University Publishing Sex Crimes In The Fifties
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£44.25
Melbourne University Publishing Facing Race White Australian Converts to Islam
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£31.46
Melbourne University Press Meanjin Vol 81 No 4
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£26.27
Princeton University Press Brooklyn
Book SynopsisA major new history of Brooklyn, told through its landscapes, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early 17th century to today.Trade Review"Winner of the PROSE Award in Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers""Finalist with Special Recognition for the Brendan Gill Prize, Municipal Art Society of New York""Finalist for the On the Brinck Book Awards, The University of New Mexico""Mr. Campanella . . . aims to give an account of ‘the Brooklyn unknown, overlooked and unheralded—the quotidian city taken for granted or long ago blotted out by time and tide.’ He succeeds admirably . . . Brooklyn: The Once and Future City is a nuanced portrait of a diverse group of communities. Genteel farmland, then a byword for urban blight, and now the apotheosis of hipsterdom and gentrification—Brooklyn has seen it all. Mr. Campanella, a native Brooklynite himself, brings both love and scholarship to his writing, revealing the true spirt of this fractured land." * The Economist *"Say the name Brooklyn these days, and many people think of Jay-Z or Barclays Center or, most often, skyrocketing real estate prices fueled by gentrification. But for 500 years now, Brooklyn has charted a rich history unique in the American experience. In Brooklyn: The Once and Future City, Thomas J. Campanella . . . has produced a meticulously researched and information-filled chronicle of a place that, in its own way, defines New York City."---Paul Alexander, Washington Post"An ambitious and accomplished book . . . . For lovers of history and of the city, this book is a dream. It feels like a book that Campanella was born to write."---Nick Ripatrazone, The Millions"Campanella’s book does a masterful job of showing how individual egos or ill-planned decisions of long ago set the stage for the city we know today."---Larry Getlen, New York Post"A lively biography of New York's second borough. . . . Teeming with information, this is a must-read for fans of urban history." * Kirkus Reviews *"A fascinating and well-written exploration."---Norman Oder, Curbed"Brooklyn’s history . . . is as specific and varied as its inhabitants. A single block can contain centuries’ worth of information, memories and relics left by heroes and villains alike. The prospect of writing a history of such a multilayered city must have been daunting even for as qualified a fourth-generation Brooklynite as Thomas J. Campanella. . . . Thankfully, Campanella takes a practical approach: Instead of attempting a chronology that traces themes or communities through the decades and centuries, he treats each chapter as a self-contained deep dive into a particular part of the borough, describing how that place came to be. . . . Illuminating."---Emily Gould, New York Times Book Review"Campanella . . . limns Brooklyn’s multiple identities and the tensions over what the borough was, and to whom . . . a fascinating chronicle."---Katrina Gulliver, New Criterion"Campanella's magisterial history . . . [is] always approachable and takes readers to the heart and soul of “the King’s County”."---Liz Thomson, Arts Desk"Every writer knows that there's inherent drama in an underdog story. Brooklyn is the ultimate urban underdog. Brooklyn native Campanella celebrates the onetime city, now-borough's astonishingly rich history, characterized by diversity, immigration, industrialization, decline, and now rebirth . . . vibrant and relevant."---Josh Stephens & James Brasuell, Planetizen"Campanella is always enlightening and remains critical throughout, with class and racial politics never far from the surface."---Darran Anderson, History Today"[Thomas Campanella’s Brooklyn is] not only the best history of Brooklyn, it’s one of the most entertaining works published this year, suffuse with fantastic tales of the achievements, iniquities, and dreams of its famous neighbor."---Anthony Paletta, American Conservative
£27.00
University Press of Kansas General Walter Krueger Unsung Hero of the
Book SynopsisGeneral Walter Krueger is still one of the least-known army commanders of World War II. This book resurrects the brilliant career of this great military leader while deepening our understanding of the Pacific War. By showing how he breathed life into Pacific war strategy, it gives him that credit and fills a gap in American military history.Trade ReviewHolzimmer's meticulously researched study rightfully places Krueger in the center of events between 1943 and 1945, helping to explain the achievements and frustrations of American commanders and soldiers as they pushed back the Japanese enemy. Michael Schaller, author of Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General ""A lucid and definitive military biography that offers a convincing portrait of Krueger both as an army commander and as an individual subject to great pressures from both the enemy and his own immediate superior. Excellent."" Stanley L. Falk, former Chief Historian, U.S. Air Force, and author of Decision at Leyte ""Makes a genuine contribution to the literature on World War II."" Edward Drea, author of MacArthur's ULTRA: Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945
£44.25
University Press of Kansas Nuclear Politics in America A History and Theory
Book SynopsisExamining the politics of nuclear power over the last 50 years, this study relates broad trends in American politics to changes in the regulation of the nuclear industry to show how federal policies in this area have been made, implemented and altered.
£28.01
University Press of Kansas Policing Sex in the Sunflower State
Book SynopsisTells the history of how, over a span of two decades, the Kansas detained over 5,000 women for no other crime than having a venereal disease. Nicole Perry offers a timely critique of a failed public health policy that was based on perceptions of gender, race, class, and respectability rather than a reasoned response to the social problem at hand.Trade ReviewPolicing Sex in the Sunflower State shows how patients became prisoners in Kansas as wartime venereal disease control measures shaped peacetime public health policies. Drawing on a unique source base of thousands of intake records, Perry demonstrates the diversity of experience that brought women to the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women while finding common threads of poverty, sexual victimization, and gender discrimination. With a close look at the women who advocated for and staffed the facility, Perry explores the mixed legacy of Progressive Era women's activism and the complicated role of women professionals. Chilling stories of women who traded freedom for medical treatment and reminders of how disease amplifies all kinds of social inequalities make this an important book for today's world." - Pippa Holloway, Douglas Southall Freeman Chair in History, University of Richmond "Nicole Perry provides a detailed, meticulously researched, and well-argued assessment of the creation of the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (KSIFW) and its operation during the 1920s and 1930s. Through this close examination of the KSIFW, Perry shows the powerful and sometimes life-changing consequences of the coming together of Progressive Era efforts to 'reform' working-class women, eugenics, and efforts by both the federal government and the states to contain the spread of venereal disease through a moralizing sexual double standard that held women accountable, and ultimately punishable, for its spread. Perry skillfully engages with multiple and often competing perceptions of the KSIFW while also acknowledging the real restraints historians encounter when using institutional documents to gain insight into the lived experiences of working-class inmates." - Michael Rembis, associate professor of history and director of the Center for Disability Studies, University at Buffalo (SUNY), author of Defining Deviance: Sex, Science, and Delinquent Girls, 1890-1960, and coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Disability History"Nicole Perry's Policing Sex in the Sunflower State offers a fascinating and timely look at the expansive power of state governments to quarantine individuals for the health of the public. Examining the impacts of venereal disease legislation passed during World War I, Perry's work details the use of such legislation to enforce a moral vision. In doing so it offers important insights into the potentially complex relationship among state power, morality, and gender." - Daniel Sledge, author of Health Divided: Public Health and Individual Medicine in the Making of the Modern American State
£22.46
University Press of Kansas Bill Clinton New Gilded Age President
Book SynopsisOffers an indepth perspective on the 42nd president of the United States and the transformative era over which he presided. Patrick Maney goes beyond personality and politics to examine the critical issues of the day: economic and fiscal policy, business and financial deregulation, healthcare and welfare reform, and foreign affairs.Trade ReviewAn outstanding study that places a recent White House occupant in illuminating historical context. . . . Anyone seeking to understand the late twentieth-century Clinton presidency can do no better than than consult this fine volume." - Journal of American History"A useful starting point for understanding this protean US politician’s White House years." - Choice"An exceptionally wellwritten and concise biography of Bill Clinton. Maney offers penetrating insights about both the complexity of Clinton’s personality and Washington politics during the socalled ‘New Gilded Age’." - Burton Kaufman, author of The PostPresidency from Washington to Clinton"It’s a tall order to place a recent president in historical perspective, but Patrick Maney succeeds brilliantly in his analysis of Bill Clinton and the ideological, financial, and technological developments that swirled about him and defined his era." - Donald A. Ritchie, author of Electing FDR: The New Deal of Campaign of 1932"This is a truly remarkable book. Patrick Maney gives us a penetrating, comprehensive, and thoroughly balanced account of the Clinton presidency, along with a shrewd, insightful assessment of the character of this fascinating and often infuriating denizen of the White House. This book will stand as the gold standard of works on this man and his era." - John Milton Cooper, Jr., author of Woodrow Wilson: A Biography"Patrick J. Maney’s Bill Clinton is an engagingly written account of a consequential presidency. Maney’s discussion of Clinton’s domestic, economic, and foreign policies is especially illuminating." - Michael Nelson, author of Governing at Home: The White House and Domestic Policymaking
£23.70
University Press of Kansas The Last Liberal Republican
Book SynopsisPresents a memoir from one of Nixon's senior domestic policy advisors. A member of the moderate wing of the Republican Party, John Roy Price’s memoir makes a valuable contribution to our evolving scholarship and understanding of the Nixon presidency.Trade ReviewAre you ready for some revisionism? Price's Nixon was trying to bring the country together. He understood that politics was 'poetry' - you needed more than good policy positions. But good ones he had. His domestic policies would have ended the financial incentives to break up low-income families and would have kept catastrophic health issue from bankrupting middle-class families. We see Nixon doing the right thing because it is the right thing. This book is thought-provoking from beginning to end." - Nicholas Evan Sarantakes, author of Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974"John Roy Price's The Last Liberal Republican is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the Nixon presidency as well as the presidential/congressional relationship as it relates to domestic policymaking. Price's memoir not only explains the domestic policy agenda during a seminal point in American history but also shows how a Republican president worked with a Democratic Congress to revise and expand parts of the New Deal and Great Society agendas. Price's ability to illustrate the policy battles as they played out on the political frontlines makes this book essential reading." - Lori Cox Han, author of Advising Nixon: The White House Memos of Patrick J. Buchanan"For all those who thought there was nothing more-nothing new-to say about Richard Nixon, John Roy Price has a surprise, and an important one. Here is a Nixon seldom seen, a Nixon leaning left even as he moved the Republicans right, a Nixon worried about his place in history even as he was soiling his place in history. No biography of the thirty-seventh president written in the remainder of this century can be unaffected by this vital and indispensable book." - David Shribman, Pulitzer Prize-winning nationally syndicated columnist and former executive editor, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
£41.36
University Press of Kansas A Military History of India since 1972 Full
Book SynopsisA definitive work of military history that gives the Indian military its rightful place as a key contributor to Indian democracy. Arjun Subramaniam offers an engaging narrative that combines superb storytelling with the academic rigour of deep research and analysis.
£46.50
University Press of Kansas The Green Years 19641976
Book SynopsisOffers the first comprehensive history of the period when the US created the legislative, legal, and administrative structures for environmental protection that are still in place today. The book tells a dramatic story of cultural change, grassroots activism, and political leadership that led to the passage of a host of laws attacking pollution.Trade ReviewThe Green Years is vivid, thoroughly researched, and authentic. Brings you into that era. Absorbing and full of insights." - Michael McCloskey, chairman (retired), Sierra Club"As we face the crisis of climate change, this important history of earlier environmental legislation helps us remember that organized movements can persuade even the most recalcitrant politicians to reshape their legislative agendas. The Green Years is a very compelling story." - Barbara Dudley, former executive director, Greenpeace USA"This book is an ambitious narrative history of environmental politics and policy in the 1960s and 1970s. The Green Years is the most comprehensive history of environmentalism’s legislative achievements during its most fruitful period." - Robert D. Lifset, author of Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism"The Green Years, 1964–1976, offers a detailed, well-documented, and thoroughly rewarding history of a unique period in US environmental policymaking. In the 1960s and 1970s, the federal government approved most of the modern conservation and environmental protection policies, typically with broad bipartisan cooperation. Given today’s often intense partisan polarization over many of the same issues, the book’s careful review of major policy decisions of that period speaks to what it takes to achieve that kind of bipartisanship today." - Michael E. Kraft, professor emeritus of political science and public and environmental affairs, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay"This book is a rich treasure trove that illuminates just how profoundly the polarization of America’s political parties has made more difficult—or arguably impossible—the responsiveness of the federal government to public attitudes and sentiment—the very ingredient that Abraham Lincoln argued was the bedrock of our politics. Today you simply can’t conceive that a presidential candidate of the minority party embracing a new issue—as Muskie did the environment in 1970—would stimulate a race to be even more responsive by the incumbent party, as Nixon did. Nixon was looking for bridges, not wedges. And that’s why we made the environmental progress we did. We need a new politics if we want to resume that path forward." - Carl Pope, former executive director, Sierra Club
£30.56
University Press of Kansas Before Bostock The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of
Book SynopsisFocusing on history, courageous LGBTQ+ plaintiffs, and the careful work of legal activists, Before Bostock illustrates how the courts can expand LGBTQ+ rights when legislators are more resistant, and it adds to our understanding about contemporary judicial policymaking in the context of statutory interpretation.Table of Contents Acknowledgments 1. LGBTQ Rights, Statutory Interpretation, and Judicial Policymaking 2. The History of LGBTQ Rights, Sex, and title VII 3. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins and the Shift in title VII Interpretation 4. Transgender Tights and Price Waterhouse 5. Sexual Orientation, Price Waterhouse, and Oncale 6. Bostock, Stephens, and Zarda in the Lower Federal Courts 7. The Supreme Court's Seemingly Minimalist but Remarkably Consequential Decision Notes Index
£37.76
Pluto Press Vicious Games
Book SynopsisBased on over ten years experience working in the industry, this is an expose of the gambling businessTrade Review'Cassidy takes readers behind the scenes of the commercial gambling industry to reveal how it reinvents itself in the face of shifting technology, economic prospects, and regulative logics. From machine-packed betting shops on London's high streets, to raffles at countryside churches, she offers a first-hand view of the dynamic -and sometimes vicious - interactions between the hunt for profit and punters' lives' -- Natasha D. Schull, author of 'Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas''Cassidy's book offers new insights into the gambling industry and its social order, perceived norms and lived values. At a time when gambling is struggling to maintain its reputation as a leisure pursuit, the stories in this book should be a wake up call to those who deny there is any need for reform' -- Anna van der Gaag, Chair of the Advisory Board for Safer GamblingTable of ContentsSeries Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Gambling’s New Deal 2. Raffles: Gambling for Good 3. The Birth of the Betting Shop 4. The Rise of the Machines 5. The Responsible Gambling Myth 6. The Bookmaker’s Lament 7. Online in Gibraltar 8. The Regulation Game Conclusions Notes References Index
£22.49
McGill-Queen's University Press Writing the Lives of the English Poor 1750s1830s
Book SynopsisFocusing on the words and experiences of the poor themselves, this book rewrites our understanding of English social policy for the period from the 1750s to 1830s.Trade Review"Steven King is one of a number of people who have for many years done the hard labour of trawling for and transcribing the scrappy – 'fugitive' is the word he uses, with its connotations of elusiveness, oppression and secrecy – letters from and about the poor, attempting to recover 'the pauper experience' by charting the process of requesting relief. King's study of these letters leads him to conclude that the timing of mass literacy, the democratisation of writing, has to be pushed back to the 1820s at least, though that still seems late when you consider that in 1740 Samuel Richardson constructed an entire novel in letters supposedly written by a 16-year-old servant girl, Pamela, to her impoverished parents." London Review of Books"In this wonderfully rich and scholarly book, Steven King provides a highly original approach to understanding the Old Poor Law from the bottom up based on an extraordinary excavation of an entirely new corpus of poor people's letters originating from a wide range of geographical settings. King maps out an entirely new corpus of evidence with which to explore a broad range of historical topics, from the emergence of eloquence and the spread of literacy to the experience of poverty and the provision of welfare. It is a book about letter writing as well as letter writers and will appeal to scholars across a wide disciplinary spectrum from literary studies to welfare historians. Above all, by using the words of the poor themselves, King amply demonstrates deep empathy as well as insight to the experience of poverty in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England and Wales." David Green, King's College London"Over the last two decades, Steven King has been a leading figure in the social history of poverty and poor relief in England during the industrial revolution. With this book, we enter an entirely new era of the old master project of writing social history from below." Thomas Sokoll, FernUniversität in Hagen"King has mastered an enormous database, and his analysis of it is thorough and imaginative. An impressive achievement." Martyn Lyons, University of New South Wales"Focusing in detail and through imaginative comparative analyses on documents that have thus far only been researched in regional case studies, Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s–1830s makes an innovative contribution to the history of poverty a
£999.99
Cornell University Press Manufacturing Advantage
Book SynopsisMuch of the hoopla surrounding quality circles, teams, and high-performance work systems has been based on anecdotes and very thin evidence. It has not been established that those employee involvement strategies amount to anything more than another...Trade ReviewThis small book packs a big punch. We've long sought evidence that innovative work practices, such as teams and employee participation in problem solving, are worth the effort that it takes to implement them. Anecdotal studies and manager self-reports have offered some support that overall firm performance improves, but we've had little empirical evidence for our skeptical colleagues. Manufacturing Advantage delivers. -- Wendy S. Becker, University at Albany * Personnel Psychology *
£28.49
Indiana University Press Russian Empire
Book SynopsisPerspectives on the strategies of imperial rule pursued by rulers, officials, scholars, and subjects of the Russian empire. This book explores the connections between Russia's expansion over vast territories occupied by people of many ethnicities, religions, and political experiences and the evolution of imperial administration and vision.Trade ReviewEighteen articles, mainly by US, Russian, and British scholars, cover various aspects of the Russian Empire from its foundation under Peter the Great to the rule of Stalin. The Russian participants, mostly historians and political scientists, come from the two Russian capitals and various other cities. The major focus is the geographies of rule in Russia. . . . The materials are derived in large part from Russian archives, especially those in Moscow. Several good maps aid readers' comprehension. . . . Recommended. * Choice *[D]emonstrates brilliantly how the Russian and Soviet empires were able to survive for so long . . . This is a genuinely valuable and thought-provoking collection of essays and it deserves a wide readership. * European History Quarterly *This book makes a substantial contribution to scholarship not only on Russian history but the whole study of empire. * New Zealand Slavonic Journal *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsComing into the Territory: Uncertainty and Empire Jane Burbank and Mark von HagenPart I: Space 1. Imperial Space: Territorial Thought and Practice in the Eighteenth Century Willard Sunderland2. The "Great Circle" of Interior Russia: Representations of the Imperial Center in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Leonid Gorizontov3. How Bashkiria Became Part of European Russia, 1762-1881 Charles Steinwedel4. Mapping the Empire's Economic Regions from the Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Nailya Tagirova5. State and Evolution: Ethnographic Knowledge, Economic Expediency, and the Making of the USSR, 1917-1924 Francine HirschPart II: People6. Changing Conceptions of Difference, Assimilation, and Faith in the Volga-Kama Region, 1740-1870 Paul Werth7. Thinking Like an Empire: Estate, Law and Rights in the Early Twentieth Century Jane Burbank 8. From Region to Nation: The Don Cossacks 1870-1920 Shane O'Rourke9. Bandits and the State: Designing a "Traditional" Culture of Violence in the Russian Caucasus Vladimir Bobrovnikov 10. Representing "Primitive Communists": Ethnographic and Political Authority in Early Soviet Siberia Nikolai Ssorin-ChaikovPart III: Institutions11. From the Zloty to the Ruble: The Kingdom of Poland in the Monetary Politics of the Russian Empire Ekaterina Pravilova12. The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia Elena Campbell13. The Zemstvo Reform, the Cossacks, and Administrative Policy on the Don, 1864-1882 Aleksei Volvenko 14. Peoples, Regions, and Electoral Politics: The State Dumas and the Constitution of New National Elites Rustem Tsiunchuk15. The Provisional Government and Finland: Russian Democracy and Finnish Nationalism in Search of Peaceful Coexistence Irina Novikova Part IV. Designs16. Siberia and the Russian Far East in the Imperial Geography of Power Anatolyi Remnev17. Imperial Political Culture and Modernization in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Sviatoslav Kaspe18. Federalisms and Pan-movements: Re-imagining Empire Mark von HagenList of Contributors Index
£22.49
University of Notre Dame Press The Person and the Common Good
Book SynopsisPresenting with moving insight the relations between man, as a person and as an individual, and the society of which he is a part, Maritain's treatment of a lasting topic speaks to this generation as well as those to come.
£18.89
University of Wisconsin Press Keep the Wretches in Order Americas Biggest Mass
Book SynopsisFrom 1917 the US Department of Justice systematically targeted the US's most radical union, the Industrial Workers of the World, resulting in the largest mass trial in US history. In the first legal history of the trial, Dean Strang shows how the case laid the groundwork for a fundamentally different strategy to stifle radical threats.Trade ReviewDean Strang tells a great story of America's struggle with fear and injustice a century ago while asking us to consider, 'What is the story of ourselves that we write today?' American workers still fight what the Wobblies fought in 1918, as the Justice Department during WWI overreached in ways similar to our current 'war on terror.' Dean is a great attorney and a gifted writer, borrowing lessons from the past to help guide our future." - Alec Baldwin"Strang humanizes this shameful chapter in our nation's history. With empathy and verve, he tells the story of abuse of executive power, a partial and wacky federal judge (and autocratic first baseball commissioner), and many ruined lives of working men and women." - Brad Snyder, author of The House of Truth: A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism
£16.76
The University of Michigan Press The Three Ages of Government From the Person to
Book SynopsisExamines the questions that citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without government. The Three Ages of Government rises above stereotypical thinking about government.
£23.70
The University of Michigan Press Mediating Gender in PostAuthoritarian South Korea
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Human Kinetics Publishers Table Tennis
Book SynopsisPresents essential table tennis techniques and strategies. This title features an 11-step approach that is designed to maximise table tennis instruction that helps readers learn the proper grip for their style of play, execution of the basic strokes and the correct way to apply spin to the ball.Trade Review"In Table Tennis: Steps to Success, Coach McAfee covers all the essential skills for becoming a successful table tennis player. Anyone who appreciates the sport and wants to learn more will love this book." Scott PreissU.S. National Table Tennis Coach Former U.S. World Team Trainer"Table Tennis: Steps to Success is quite impressive. The step-by-step instructions lead players of all skill levels through the rules, drills, and tactics of the game." Don MudtangamNational Coaching Director of ThailandFormer National Coach and PlayerTable of ContentsClimbing the Steps to Table Tennis SuccessThe Sport of Table TennisKey to DiagramsStep 1.Preparing to PlayStep 2.Hitting Drive StrokesStep 3.Understanding Spin and Footwork Step 4.Executing Spin StrokesStep 5.ServingStep 6.Returning ServeStep 7.Using the Five-Ball Training SystemStep 8.Understanding Styles of Play and TacticsStep 9.Playing Intermediate StrokesStep 10. Performing Intermediate Serves Step 11. Competing Successfully in Tournaments GlossaryAbout the Author
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press Local Governance in Transition Toward
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University of Illinois Press Funk the Erotic Transaesthetics and Black Sexual
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewEmily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016 Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016 "Funk the Erotic opens a new avenue in black thought and feeling, one dis/oriented by the sensorium rather than the cerebrum."--Feminist Wire"Funk the Erotic is a groundbreaking work in its scope, its methodological breadth, and the creativity and originality of the ideas in introduces into several discourses. In theorizing funk as a specifically erotic, bodily, and embodiable hermeneutic for understanding sexuality across mediums and genres, Stallings proposes exciting shifts in black feminist, performance studies, sexuality studies, and literary studies methodologies."--American Quarterly "Stallings reframes Black (female) sexualities for us in a fashion that moves us closer to recognizing and thinking it as a form of freedom in its practice."--Rinaldo Walcott, author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada"Where Toni Morrison theorized 'eruptions of funk' in African American literature, this book funks the erotic taking up trans politics, nineteenth-century freaks, funky beats, and other queerly sexed subjects that make up 'profane sites of memory.'"--Jennifer Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play"Funk the Erotic is a passionately delivered and urgently necessary analysis of black sexuality, literature, and popular culture. By reading the 'funky erotixxx' of black sexual cultures against the dominant trends in black studies, L. H. Stallings offers us an alternative archive of African American literature, one composed of forgotten novels, sex manuals, YouTube videos, adult magazines, and so much more. Funk the Erotic is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text."--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
£77.35
Stanford University Press The Epic of Gilgamesh
Book SynopsisSince the discovery over one hundred years ago of a body of Mesopotamian poetry preserved on clay tablets, what has come to be known as the Epic of Gilgamesh has been considered a masterpiece of ancient literature. This title presents the Epic to the general reader in a clear narrative.Table of ContentsA note to the reader; A note on the translation; Introduction; The epic of Gilgamesh; Appendixes.
£11.39
University of Illinois Press The Disney Animation Renaissance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and filled with knowledge. . . . The book shines a light on the Florida studio's legacy within the wider Disney history and its impact during the Disney Renaissance can't be undersold." --Boardwalk Times"Lescher’s admiring narrative, which incorporates her firsthand experience and interviews with fellow artists, illuminates the talent of Disney animators. Readers who cherish all things House of Mouse will find much to appreciate." --Publishers Weekly"An academic monograph that is also accessible to Disney animation and parks fans. . . . Animation fans will lock onto the history of the films that the studio contributed to making. Parks fans cannot help but be fascinated by the evolution of the attraction and the perceptions of the animators behind the glass. And most of all, the work shows how serious academic studies on animation endeavors can provide us with valuable lessons about business, technology, innovation, and culture. " --Between Disney"Utilizing personal interviews and vast repositories of documents in Disney archives, Lescher’s analysis and research is thorough. . . . An intriguing piece of Disney lore." --Library Journal"Adds significantly to the canon of Disney commentary. Mary Lescher was part of an interesting experiment--the creation of a working animation studio that doubled as a theme park attraction--and she was there at a crucial point in the history of animation, when the industry was on the brink of a technological revolution thanks to the development of 3-D digital tools. She chronicles that experiment, as well as the various changes swirling around animation, in an effective and even fond manner, letting us see behind the scenes."--J. P. Telotte, author of The Mouse Machine: Disney and TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Theme Park Attraction (1989-1990) Traditional or Digital: It’s All Hand-Drawn (1989-1990) B Unit to the Blockbusters (1991-1997) The Little Studio That Could (1998-1999) Shutting Down the Studio (2000-2004) Conclusion NotesAnimation GlossaryFilmographyBibliographyIndex
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Where Was the Working Class
Book SynopsisExplains why the working class was largely missing from the 1989-90 revolution which led to the fall of socialism in Germany. This book documents workers' day-to-day experience of the labor process, workplace union politics, and class. It shows how three factors led most workers to withdraw from politics.Trade Review"Clearly written, crisply argued, and accessible not only to sociologists but also to historians and political scientists." - Choice "Fuller tells her central story elegantly and persuasively... A valuable contribution to the emerging story of the fall of the Berlin Wall." -- Frederick D. Weil, Contemporary Sociology ADVANCE PRAISE "Where Was the Working Class? is a fascinating and highly readable account of the process of unification from the perspective of ordinary workers in the former East Germany. Fuller is unrelenting in her insistence on viewing this historic upheaval from below, arguing persuasively that most workers were spectators rather than active participants in the drama."-Ruth Milkman, author of Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II "This is what we've been waiting for-a book that looks at the fall of communism from the standpoint of workers and their daily lives."-Michael Burawoy, coauthor of The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism "A fresh and revealing look at one of the most significant events of our time, as seen from the perspective of the 'forgotten class'-those ordinary wage earners in East Germany whose experiences under the former 'worker's state' shaped their varying patterns of participation in the revolutionary movements of 1989...Ethnographically rich and theoretically compelling, Where Was the Working Class? offers important lessons, far and wide, for students of workplace politics and class formation."-Howard Kimeldorf, author of Reds or Rackets? The Making of Radical and Conservative Unions on the Waterfront
£39.95
Stanford University Press Sun YatSen
Book SynopsisArguing that the life and work of Sun Yat-sen have been distorted by both myth and demythification, the author provides a fresh overall evaluation of the man and the events that turned an adventurer into the founder of the Chinese Republic and the leader of a great nationalist movement.Trade Review"By setting Sun Yat-sen in his proper historical context, this excellent biography not only resuscitates a major historical figure but constitutes one of the best histories we have of the late Qing and early Republican period."—Frederic Wakeman, University of California, Berkeley"This is a most welcome book, one that everyone interested in modern China has wanted for a long while. It is a readable, balanced, and judicious study . . . the most thorough book about Sun in a Western language, and so minutely researched that it goes far beyond any existing study." —American Historical Review"This study, by a leading historian of early-twentieth-century China, shows Sun's strengths as well as his weaknesses and helps explain his appeal. . . . Bergère provides enough context to make the biography accessible to general readers. Very highly recommended."—ChoiceTable of ContentsNote to reader Maps Introduction Part I. The Adventurer of the Southern Seas, 1866-1905: 1. The formative years, 1866-1894 2. The symbolic creation of a revolutionary leader, 1894-1897 3. The symbolic creation of a revolutionary movement, 1897-1900 4. The awakening of Chinese nationalism and the founding of the revolutionary alliance, 1805 Part II. The Founding Father? 1905-1920: 5. Sun and the revolutionary alliance 6. The conspirator 7. The (adoptive) father of the Chinese republic 8. Crossing the desert, 1913-1920 Part III. Sun's Last Years: National Revolution and Revolutionary Nationalism, 1920-1925: 9. Sun Yat-sen, soviet advisers, and the Canton revolutionary base, 1920-1924 10. Sun Yat-sen's three principles of the people 11. Sun Yat-sen's death and transformation Biographical sketches Notes Bibliography Index.
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University of Illinois Press Defending Animal Rights
Book SynopsisMore than a contest of wills representing professional and economic interests, the animal rights debate is also an enduring topic in normative ethical theory. This book addresses the key issues in this sometimes acrimonious debate. It defends the inherent value of all individuals who are "subjects of a life".Trade Review"Regan's expertise in animal rights and moral philosophy, combined with the advocacy roles he has assumed over the years, provide a clear presentation of a[n] . . . animal rights position."--Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith
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University of Illinois Press Sarajevo A Bosnian Kaleidoscope
Book SynopsisAn anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities that examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.Trade Review"Markowitz dispels widely held myths that Sarajevo has become a purely Muslim city. . . . The author's many insights into Sarajevo and its kaleidoscope of inhabitants are welcome and valuable."Slavic Review"A warm and well-written portrait of Sarajevo during its first post-war decade."--Journal of the Royal Anthropological institute"Markowitz has succeeded in combining a solid work of scholarship with a personal take on her subject which she explores in a very thorough and balanced way. This is a rich contribution to the scholarship on the issue of identify in present-day Bosnia & Hercegovina and deserves a wide audience, appealing to both the academic and general reader."--Europe-Asia Studies"A stunningly fresh and invigorating analysis. Markowitz's inspired approach offers multiple possibilities for envisioning the city and for recasting Bosnian identity."--Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome"Recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Pronunciation Guide Introductions 1.Meeting and Greeting the City; 2. Practices of Place: Living in and Enlivening Sarajevo Bosniacs, Croats, and Serbs: The Constituent Nations of Bosnia-Herzegovina 3. National Legibility: Lines of History, Surges of Ethnicity; 4. Census and Sensibility: Confirming the Constitution Ostali: The Other People(s) of Bosnia-Herzegovina 5. Where Have All the Yugoslavs, Slovenes, and Gypsies Gone?; 6. Sarajevo's Jews: One Community among the Others; 7. Insisting on Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bosnian Hybridity Conclusion 8. After Yugoslavia, after War, after All: Sarajevo's Cultural Legacies Glossary; Notes; References; Index
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Stanford University Press The Art Firm Aesthetic Management and
Book SynopsisThis title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully readable and delightful text, reminiscent of the energy of Zizek's cultural diagnoses." -- Choice"Guillet de Monthoux's close contact with the cultural world and its players... leads to an important contribution to our understanding of organization and the broader economy as captured in this book." -- Organization Studies"With The Art Firm: Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing Pierre Guillet de Monthoux provides the growing contemporary research field of organisational aesthetics with an invaluable sourcebook. At once a history of ideas and a history of organisational forms, it demonstrates the profound relevance of aesthetic philosophy for management and organisation studies, while at the same time it reveals how the post-Kantian philosophical tradition has taken shape in and through a series of encounters with particular organisations." -- Philosophy of Management"Expansive in its scope, The Art Firm is one of the most interesting management books I've read in some time. It is eloquently written and delivers important conclusions that will be of enduring importance. It should become the authoritative work on the relationship of art and aesthetics and the practice of business." -- Robert D. Austin * Harvard Business School, Author of Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work *"Although there are many books that purport to address the issues of business and the arts, I have yet to find such an engaging, challenging, and intellectually playful investigation of these issues as The Art Firm. Guillet de Monthoux romps through European thought and artistic enterprises with remarkable agility. This work, peppered with illustrative examples from history to the present day, asks important questions of our management oriented culture." -- Ruth Bereson, Program in Arts Administration, Teachers College * Columbia University *"By evoking—really depicting and conjuring—successful models from both art and business, Guillet de Monthoux convincingly demonstrates that managers must look beyond the traditional places for their ideas of how to run businesses. This book is particularly timely, offering a valuable and too long neglected perspective on 'creative' and 'inspired' ways to run businesses." -- Claire Hill * Chicago-Kent College of Law *
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University of Illinois Press Waiting for Buddy Guy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBest Blues Book of 2016, Readers Poll in Living Blues magazine, 2017 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award in the Pop category, ASCAP Foundation, 2017 "Harper’s book, packed with interviews with club owners, musicians and magazine editors, and illuminated throughout by his own thoughtful and sensitive reactions to the many gigs he attends all over the city, is as enlightening as it is racy, as much an unblinking (and often engagingly self-deprecating) eyewitness account, full of telling detail, as an intriguing social history, dealing with such burning issues as authenticity, racial politics, music-industry practices, the difficulties of making a living as a blues player in an increasingly rock-dominated world."-- London Jazz News"Part memoir, part history and part. . . bluesological lament for a time and place that we will never see again."--Goldmine"Harper's memoir is beautifully wrought, and populated with an array of vivid and memorable characters… Flecked with insight, wit and warmth, it proves to be an evocative portrait of a bygone era."--MOJO"Like a great concert that makes you want the owner to leave the bar open for one more round, one more encore. A tip of the pork pie hat to Alan Harper."--American Blues Scene"Waiting for Buddy Guy, Harper's journal of three visits to Chicago, provides a vivid illustration of the 1980s music scene in a city which has fostered the urban blues like no other."--Times Literary Supplement"Harper absorbed Chicago blues utterly and wholly, and in this gem of a book, he imparts his passion and knowledge in a witty, intelligent, revealing and honest manner. It's a real page-turner."--Record Collector"A terrific book. Being from Chicago, it brought back a lot of memories."--Nick Digilio, WGN radio"Harper shares his stories of searching for the blues in Chicago in his crisply told, energetic, and vibrant memoir."--No Depression "The author has captured many encounters with black bluesmen and club owners which give the reader a good sense of the ambiance of the time. This book is a good primer on the modern evolution of blues in America.--Blues News "A page-turning memoir."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "The author has provided a painstakingly detailed glimpse into an almost forgotten era of the Chicago Blues scene. Reading this book filled in some personal lapses of memory, reminding me of the wonderful musical moments that I shared with some of the greatest musicians that I've ever known."--Billy Branch "An absorbing book, combining narrative flair with expertise lightly worn. Alan Harper deals with important subjects, such as the question of authenticity, in a highly readable style."--Dave Gelly, jazz critic, The Observer "It captures an era . . . when the blues scene was about midway through its descent. He profiles the players, the promoters, the clubs, the record labels, the disc jockeys, and much more that went into the early 1980s Chicago Blues scene."--Steve Cushing, author of Pioneers of the Blues Revival "There is a kind of Kerouacian feel to the storytelling. . . . The stories are vivid and well-drawn . . . and they inevitably generate a feeling of nostalgia in a reader, such as myself, who was on that scene at the time."--David Whiteis, author of Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories
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University of Illinois Press Werner Herzog
Book SynopsisWerner Herzog''s protean imagination has produced a filmography that is nothing less than a sustained meditation on the modern human condition. Though Herzog takes his topics from around the world, the Americas have provided the setting and subject matter for iconic works ranging from Aquirre, The Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo to Grizzly Man. Joshua Lund offers the first systematic interpretation of Werner Herzog''s Americas-themed works, illuminating the director''s career as a political filmmaker—a label Herzog himself rejects. Lund draws on materialist and post-colonial approaches to argue that Herzog''s American work confronts us with the circulation, distribution, accumulation, application, and negotiation of power that resides, quietly, at the center of his films. By operating beyond conventional ideological categories, Herzog renders political ideas in radically unfamiliar ways while fearlessly confronting his viewers with questions of world-hiTrade Review"This thoughtful study offers a worthwhile critical perspective on Werner Herzog, one of the world's great living film artists." --The Arts Fuse”From the fascinating films of Werner Herzog, Joshua Lund crafts a striking book that sheds light on the political significance of a range of aesthetic issues. Behind Herzog's films stands the ghost of America, confronting us with the tragic powerlessness of her heroes and meditating on the historical failure of her cultural-economic model. We have never seen Herzog's films with greater clarity.”—Luc Vancheri, author of Psycho: La leçon d'iconologie d'Alfred Hitchcock"This is a book that was written to be read. With a view to shedding light on Herzog’s notoriously hard-to-pin-down politics, Lund focuses on the idea of “America” as it figures in Herzog’s oeuvre, treating it as a broad and privileged category for reflecting on capitalist modernity. Each of the main chapters of Werner Herzog centers on a single film, tracing the arc of its plot, elegantly interweaving observations about other Herzog films, unusual historical and literary material, and commentary on the growing critical literature. It does all this without devolving into an easily forgotten scholasticism. Lund’s concerns go to the heart of what is so powerful and disorienting about Herzog’s work. By the end of each chapter, one has been expertly led along an unpredictable path to a fresh apprehension of the films. The book has everything what one wants from film criticism: excellent writing; suspense and surprise; erudition; and most of all, a strong and irreverent critical voice, worthy of Herzog’s own renegade sensibility."—Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky, author of The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
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Stanford University Press Something to Believe in
Book SynopsisLawyers in the US are frequently described as hired guns, willing to fight for any client or advance any interest. But there are others, those the authors call cause lawyers, who refuse to put aside their own convictions while they do their legal work. This book explores their work and the role of moral and political commitment in their practiceTrade Review"This superb new book . . . is a rich synthesis of several decades of research on cause lawyers and cause lawyering. . . . [It] is a must-read for all scholars and students interested in cause lawyers and the intersection between law and politics in the U.S."—The Law and Politics Book Review"Scheingold and Sarat have produced an excellent synthesis of the existing research on cause lawyers and lawyering. They have done us all a great service in writing this new book."—Law and Politics Book Review"Something To Believe In is a thoughtful and intellectual study of an approach to practicing law that elevates principle over pragmatic self-interest."—TRIAL"Two political scientists provide a brief and fascinating overview of 'cause lawyering,' or the use of legal skills to pursue ideological goals that transcend traditional client service."—California LawyerTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Cause Lawyering and Conventional Lawyering: Professional and Political Perspectives 2. Cause Lawyering, Civic Professionalism, and the Organized Legal Profession: A Brief History 3. Beating the Odds: Cause Lawyering and Legal Education 4. Careers in Cause Lawyering: Risks and Rewards 5. Cause Lawyers and Liberal Democracy: On the Possibilities of Democratic Advocacy 6. Conclusion: Cause Lawyering in Compoarative and Global Perspective Notes References Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Public interest law United States, Practice of law Political aspects United States, Practice of law United States Moral and ethical aspects
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University of Illinois Press The Huawei Model
Book SynopsisIn 2019, the United States' trade war with China expanded to blacklist the Chinese tech titan Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The resulting attention showed the information and communications technology (ICT) firm entwined with China's political-economic transformation. But the question remained: why does Huawei matter? Yun Wen uses the Huawei story as a microcosm to understand China's evolving digital economy and the global rise of the nation's corporate power. Rejecting the idea of the transnational corporation as a static institution, she explains Huawei's formation and restructuring as a historical process replete with contradictions and complex consequences. She places Huawei within the international political economic framework to capture the dynamics of power structure and social relations underlying corporate China's globalization. As she explores the contradictions of Huawei's development, she also shows the ICT firm's complicated interactions with other political-economic forcesTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice "With The Huawei Model, Yun Wen has written a superb book on the complex relationship between Huawei and China as well as the implications of their simultaneous rises, albeit in different roles, with regard to the information and communications technology (ICT) industry and geopolitics." --Chinese Journal of Communication "Yun Wen's book The Huawei Model provides a detailed and useful account of the evolution and global expansion of Huawei Technologies." --China QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction {Introductions and conclusions don’t typically have chapter numbers} Chapter 1. Huawei’s Domestic Accumulation: A Path Intertwining with China’s ICT Development Chapter 2. Going Global: Outward Expansion into the Global South Chapter 3. March into the Global North: Opportunity or Peril? Chapter 4. From Path-Dependent to Path-Breaking? Huawei’s Technological Capability Development Chapter 5. Ownership, Management, and Labor Discipline Conclusion Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press Shadow Traces
Book SynopsisImages of Japanese and Japanese American women can teach us what it meant to be visible at specific moments in history. Elena Tajima Creef employs an Asian American feminist vantage point to examine ways of looking at indigenous Japanese Ainu women taking part in the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition; Japanese immigrant picture brides of the early twentieth century; interned Nisei women in World War II camps; and Japanese war brides who immigrated to the United States in the 1950s. Creef illustrates how an against-the-grain viewing of these images and other archival materials offers textual traces that invite us to reconsider the visual history of these women and other distinct historical groups. As she shows, using an archival collection's range as a lens and frame helps us discover new intersections between race, class, gender, history, and photography. Innovative and engaging, Shadow Traces illuminates how photographs shape the history of marginalized people and outlines a method fTrade Review"A tour de force. Creef provides nothing less than a visual pedagogy for Asian American feminism. She mines the dark gaze of imperial power and blank spots of gender history as well as its secrets. When she engages the family album (and story of a hapless Japanese pet dog, Butch) as a site of memory and memorialization, you cannot put the book down."--Leslie Bow, author of “Partly Colored”: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South"In this carefully researched book, Elena Tajima Creef offers compelling feminist readings of archival photographs from the first half of the 20th century. . . . The important questions this book raises will no doubt stimulate further discussion and analysis of not only the historic representation of Japanese/American and Ainu women, but more broadly, some visual traces of power and resistance yet to be uncovered and witnessed." --Visual AnthropologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Those “Mysterious Little Japanese Primitives” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Looking at Japanese Picture Brides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413 Beauty behind Barbed Wire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694 Filling in the Blank Spot in an Incomplete War Bride Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
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Stanford University Press How Law Knows
Book SynopsisThe essays assembled in How Law Knows provide a sample of the diversity, responsiveness, and influence that law's knowledge practices have on legal outcomes and the world beyond law.Trade Review"This work raises new questions while also reexamining standard socio-legal issues in refreshing ways. The result is a rich and innovative look at the routines of truth seeking and fact finding."—Patricia Ewick, Clark University"How Law Knows is a useful and interesting collection addressing law's ways of knowing. The authors reveal that the establishment and organized use of legal facts is varied, historical, and amenable to a rich and diverse set of methods of inquiry."—Jon Goldberg-Hiller, University of Hawaii, ManoaTable of ContentsContents contributors000 Complexity, Contingency, and Change in Law's Knowledge Practices: An Introduction000 austin sarat, lawrence douglas, and martha merrill umphrey with connor clarke "Fact" and the Proof of Fact in Anglo American Law c. 1500-1850000 barbara j. shapiro Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Legal Knowledge Practices000 mariana valverde Legal Realism as Psychological and Cultural (Not Political) Realism000 Donald Braman and Dan M. Kahan How Law Knows in the American Trial Court000 robert p. burns Fact-Finding in Constitutional Cases000 david l. faigman index000
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University of Illinois Press A Century of Repression
Book SynopsisA Century of Repression offers an unprecedented and panoramic history of the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 as the most important yet least understood law threatening freedom of the press in modern American history. It details government use of the Act to control information about U.S. military and foreign policy during the two World Wars, the Cold War, and the War on Terror. The Act has provided cover for the settling of political scores, illegal break-ins, and prosecutorial misconduct.Trade Review"A timely and compelling “biography” of the Espionage Act, vividly told through the harrowing stories of whistleblowers, government employees, policy consultants and journalists, from prominent socialist Eugene Debs to whistleblower Edward Snowden. " --Los Angeles Review of Books"Engelman and Shenkman’s compelling history should inform deliberations about the roles of secrecy and publicity in our digital world for some time to come." --American Journalism"An impressive piece of both legal and journalistic history." --Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press"Carey Shenkman and Ralph Engelman's study of the history, law, and implications of these recent abuses of the Espionage Act is needed urgently, if we are to remain truly a democratic republic."--Daniel Ellsberg"This book could not be more timely. . . . This comprehensive look at its history is an enlightening read for students of journalism history, and, in fact, anyone who wants to understand what is at stake for journalists." --National Journal of Communication“A wonderful, detailed history of developments around the Espionage Act and the attempt by government to control expression within a democratic society. Of interest to anyone who is interested in government’s attempt to control information.”--David S. Allen, author of Democracy, Inc.: The Press Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere
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University of Illinois Press Labors Outcasts
Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, corporations consolidated control over agriculture on the backs of Mexican migrant laborers through a guestworker system called the Bracero Program. The National Agricultural Workers Union (NAWU) attempted to organize these workers but met with utter indifference from the AFL-CIO. Andrew J. Hazelton examines the NAWU''s opposition to the Bracero Program against the backdrop of Mexican migration and the transformation of North American agriculture. His analysis details growers’ abuse of the program to undercut organizing efforts, the NAWU''s subsequent mobilization of reformers concerned by those abuses, and grower opposition to any restrictions on worker control. Though the union''s organizing efforts failed, it nonetheless created effective strategies for pressuring growers and defending workers’ rights. These strategies contributed to the abandonment of the Bracero Program in 1964 and set the stage for victories by the United Farm Workers andTrade Review"A much-needed examination of two intertwined institutional histories: the effort to unionize farmworkers from the New Deal era to the eve of the UFW set alongside the growth and evolution of the Bracero Program. Labor’s Outcasts exhibits a remarkable depth of archival research into the actions of officials in the labor movement and the government."--John Weber, author of From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century"Why are farmworkers so poor? It’s not because they pick crops or get dirty, Andy Hazelton reveals in this important book. It’s because farmworkers--“Labor’s Outcasts”--were left out of the protections of American labor law. When farmworkers tried to organize anyway, they were crushed by a government-run labor supply system known as the Bracero Program. Long before Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers appeared on the scene, a fierce little farm labor union led by a southern socialist and a Mexican farmworker turned academic took on the agribusiness industry to battle the Bracero Program and organize farmworkers on both sides of the US-Mexican border. This is a story you don’t know and you won’t forget."--Cindy Hahamovitch, author of No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor"Labor's Outcasts shows how labor migration was a transnational phenomenon that benefitted growers and governments while it exploited the labor power of migrants and ignored the protests of citizen workers." --Pacific Historical Review
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Stanford University Press Fiction Agonistes
Book SynopsisFiction Agonistes defends literature as a space where we experience the difference between living and imagining, life and life-like, reality and invention.Trade Review"[Jusdanis] displays a wonderfully encyclopedic knowledge of criticism and literature from the ancient Greeks to contemporary postmodern and post-structuralist writers . . . Jusdanis has laid forth a provocative and interesting reflection on the current state of literature and its place in the world . . . [F]or anyone interested in the art of letters, [Fiction Agonistes is] a worthwhile read." -- Emily Manuel * Global Comment *"All in all, Jusdanis' insightful study offers a thought-provoking and important contribution to the debate on why literature matters. One of the strengths of the book lies in his lucid disentanglement of various conceptions subsumed under the slogan of art's death and his subsequent knowledgeable interrogation of these in light of the parabatic. His insightful observations invite further research as a wealth of other literary examples come to mind which could also be drawn on to substantiate his theses." -- Stella Butter"Fiction Agonistes is a formidable work: wide-ranging, erudite, and incisive in its entire range of argument. It represents a powerful effort to think through the issues that have surrounded the academic debate about the study of literature and to arrive at a full understanding of its centrality to the institutional processes of human life, and most especially to the reflective consciousness upon which any form of civilized life must depend." -- F. Abiola Irele * Harvard University *"In this well-written book Jusdanis defends art and literature in ways relevant to our own time. He takes into account the theoretical discussions of the last thirty years as well as our new social realities . . . Jusdanis does not hesitate either to take on large subjects or go against the current." -- Dimitris Tziovas"I read Fiction Agonistes with a sense of excitement and deep pleasure. Here is a critic engaged with issues of importance to any thinking person. Gregory Jusdanis asks hard questions: Does literature matter? If so, why? He reaches back to the Greeks (and others, such as Kant and Schiller) to find answers, and they are thrilling ones. Art, broadly defined, attends those boundaries between real and the imagined worlds, between matter and mind, body and soul. Our imagined worlds profoundly affect our real ones, affording opportunities to change realities in significant ways. Indeed, art—literature, in particular—enables social transformation itself. This is a wide-ranging and engaging study that strikes countless sparks, and I cannot imagine a more useful or important book for our times." -- Jay Parini * poet, novelist, critic, and author of Why Poetry Matters (2008) *"This is a wide-ranging and engaging study that strikes countless sparks, and I cannot imagine a more useful or important book for our times. Jusdanis asks hard questions: Does literature matter? If so, why? He reaches back to the Greeks (and others, such as Kant and Schiller) to find answers, and they are thrilling ones. Art attends those boundaries between real and imagined, matter and mind, body and soul. Our imagined worlds profoundly affect our real ones, affording opportunities to change realities in significant ways. Indeed, art—literature, in particular—enables social transformation itself." -- Jay Parini * poet, novelist, critic, and author of Why Poetry Matters (2008) *
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University of Illinois Press The Disney Animation Renaissance
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharp and filled with knowledge. . . . The book shines a light on the Florida studio's legacy within the wider Disney history and its impact during the Disney Renaissance can't be undersold." --Boardwalk Times"Lescher’s admiring narrative, which incorporates her firsthand experience and interviews with fellow artists, illuminates the talent of Disney animators. Readers who cherish all things House of Mouse will find much to appreciate." --Publishers Weekly"An academic monograph that is also accessible to Disney animation and parks fans. . . . Animation fans will lock onto the history of the films that the studio contributed to making. Parks fans cannot help but be fascinated by the evolution of the attraction and the perceptions of the animators behind the glass. And most of all, the work shows how serious academic studies on animation endeavors can provide us with valuable lessons about business, technology, innovation, and culture. " --Between Disney"Utilizing personal interviews and vast repositories of documents in Disney archives, Lescher’s analysis and research is thorough. . . . An intriguing piece of Disney lore." --Library Journal"Adds significantly to the canon of Disney commentary. Mary Lescher was part of an interesting experiment--the creation of a working animation studio that doubled as a theme park attraction--and she was there at a crucial point in the history of animation, when the industry was on the brink of a technological revolution thanks to the development of 3-D digital tools. She chronicles that experiment, as well as the various changes swirling around animation, in an effective and even fond manner, letting us see behind the scenes."--J. P. Telotte, author of The Mouse Machine: Disney and TechnologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction A Theme Park Attraction (1989-1990) Traditional or Digital: It’s All Hand-Drawn (1989-1990) B Unit to the Blockbusters (1991-1997) The Little Studio That Could (1998-1999) Shutting Down the Studio (2000-2004) Conclusion NotesAnimation GlossaryFilmographyBibliographyIndex
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University of Illinois Press Workers of All Colors Unite
Book SynopsisAs the United States transformed into an industrial superpower, American socialists faced the vexing question of how to approach race. Lorenzo Costaguta balances intellectual and institutional history to illuminate the clash between two major points of view. On one side, white supremacists believed labor should accept and apply the ascendant tenets of scientific theories of race. But others stood with International Workingmen’s Association leaders J. P. McDonnell and F. A. Sorge in rejecting the idea that racial and ethnic division influenced worker-employer relations, arguing instead that class played the preeminent role. Costaguta charts the socialist movement’s journey through the conflict and down a path that ultimately abandoned scientific racism in favor of an internationalist class-focused and racial-conscious American socialism. As he shows, the shift relied on a strong immigrant influence personified by the cosmopolitan Marxist thinker and future IWW cofounder Trade Review"Costaguta’s findings torpedo the familiar notion that nineteenth-century socialists were indifferent toward race, and the interracial internationalism he recovers should be recognized as part of early socialism’s enduring legacy." --Jacobin“Lorenzo Costaguta has produced an important book that reimagines the history of labor, racism and antiracism, socialism, and the post-Civil War United States. An extraordinary work.” --Angela Zimmerman, author of Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New SouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction. A Racialized History of the Origins of American Socialism Chapter One. “Freedom for All”: German American Socialism and Race before 1876 Chapter Two. “Geographies of Peoples”: Ethnicity and Racial Thinking in the Early SLP Chapter Three. Must They Go? American Socialism and the Racialization of Chinese Immigrants, 1876-1890 Chapter Four. “Regardless of Color”: The SLP and African Americans, 1876-1890 Chapter Five. Savage Capitalists, Civilized Indians: The SLP and Native Americans, 1876-1890 Chapter Six. The SLP in the 1890s: Americanization and Socialist Evolutionism Conclusion. The Past and the Future of Racial Socialism Notes Index
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Stanford University Press Tell This in My Memory Stories of Enslavement
Book SynopsisTaking up personal narratives of slaves and slave owners, Tell This in My Memory offers a new window into the study of slavery in modern Middle Eastern.Trade Review"Looking at slavery in modern Egypt from the perspective of both elite slave-owning families and slaves themselves, Tell This in My Memory offers a richly textured picture of how slavery was lived in one corner of the world. A marvelous book." * Martin Klein University of Toronto *"Troutt Powell's skills in story telling combine with her careful analyses to create persuasive portrayals of the nature of slavery in particular times and places . . . [S]he has done more than present a new perspective on the history of slavery. Troutt Powell adds a new dimension to understanding transcultural relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century." -- John O. Voll * Georgetown University *"In her evocative and well-crafted monograph, Eve M. Troutt Powell recreates the geographic, spiritual, and personal journeys of enslaved peoples . . . Her book makes a significant contribution to the study of slavery in the Middle East and the Sudan as it does to the global study of forced migrations and enslavement . . . Perhaps the strongest aspect of the book is its accessibility. It is highly readable and assignable to undergraduate students in a wide range of history classes. The author presents her arguments without much jargon and reads her memoirs with great sensitivity to historical context, literary genre, and audience." -- Dina Rizk Khoury * American Historical Review *"Tell This in My Memory: Stories of Enslavement from Egypt, Sudan, and the Ottoman Empire is a study of slavery, liberation, and remembrance between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Eve M. Troutt Powell examines the mechanisms of enslavement and the experiences of emancipation through the lives and narratives of captives and their descendants, slave owners, and European missionaries . . . [B]y integrating the histories of the Atlantic and Europe with African, Egyptian, Circassian, and Ottoman history, Troutt Powell opens the door to a global approach to the history of slavery in the region. Her work encompasses sub-Saharan, Middle Eastern and North African, European, and Atlantic studies because the story of slavery cannot be properly told within the geographical limits imposed by academic fields of specialization." -- Soha El Achi * Arab Studies Journal *"This eagerly awaited book exceeds expectations. Troutt Powell asks probing questions about the lives of enslaved and freed women and men, creatively providing answers through perceptive readings of chronicles, memoirs, photographs, and other sources. She skillfully narrates the stories of slaves, restoring dignity and meaning to their lives while simultaneously adding texture to our understanding of the experiences of owners. With its elegant prose and poignant tales, Tell This in My Memory is a literary masterpiece." -- Beth Baron * CUNY Graduate Center, author of Egypt as a Woman: Nationalism, Gender, and Politics *"A beautifully written account of the experience of Sudanese enslavement in the Central Islamic Lands in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Drawing upon multiple languages and variegated sources, Troutt Powell weaves a moving and evocative tapestry, employing multiple perspectives of the enslaved as well as slaveholders. Her analysis of the conditions of enslavement as well as the challenging processes through which those conditions become known is nothing short of brilliant. This is an extraordinary contribution to the intertwined studies of slavery, the Muslim world, and Africa's complex diaspora." -- Michael Gomez * New York University *"[S]cholars dealing with the legacy of slavery in the Islamic world will find this book a much-needed and welcome addition to this genre . . . Overall, the book masterfully unpacks unarticulated yet historical memories of previous generations of southern Sudanese and Darfuris who had been enslaved in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire across the Mediterranean." -- Ismael M. Montana * The Historian *"She looks at not only the lives of slaves but also the lives of others whom were influenced by slaves . . . By taking into consideration of all these accounts, it seems Powell has examined the 'slavery' issue not only as a historical fact but also as a living memory of the later generations of people whom owned slaves or were owned as slaves." -- Hatice Uğur * Osmanli Araştirmalari: The Journal of Ottoman Studies *"Powell performs an excellent service with this book by carefully examining the narratives she has chosen and showing us the choices her subjects made, the lives they were forced to lead, and the ways in which they came to accept their fate." -- Terence Walz * Middle East Journal *"Restoring the voices of long-silenced people, Troutt Powell's book leads the way in identifying and exploring some of the most important narratives of enslaved people-black and white, male and female-as they navigated the harsh conditions of slavery and claimed their freedom and dignity. Troutt Powell weaves a compelling set of stories into a unified interpretation and a grand narrative. This is an impressive work." -- Chouki El Hamel * Arizona State University *
£20.89
University of Illinois Press Aint I an Anthropologist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"As the public, scholars, writers, and creatives continue to engage with Hurston through ongoing book releases, studies, documentaries, and festivals, Freeman Marshall’s work provides an important intervention that calls us to think about how we reconstruct and deploy Hurston as not only a talented storyteller and incisive ethnographer but also a consummate intellectual." --Another Chicago"Freeman Marshall makes clear that Hurston’s reputation as an anthropologist has been undermined by the glamour of her rediscovery and subsequent literary 'canonization' . . . . Freeman Marshall also compellingly argues that 'Hurston’s anthropological work has not been more fully recognized within the field of anthropology in part due to the marginalization of American folklore and in, in particular, African American folklore within the discipline.' Hopefully, with this new study, Hurston’s contributions to anthropology will finally be recognized." --Southern Review of Books"Doomed to obscurity, Zora Neale Hurston was then resurrected as a 'founding mother' of Black literature and folklore. Yet her pioneering work in African diaspora ethnography and anthropology, especially her work in Haiti, remains little-known. . . . Marshall concludes that Hurston’s refusal to be defined as 'tragically colored' formed her genius as she 'embraces . . . the right to feel and be herself, idiosyncratic and sometimes puzzling, like any member of the human race.'" --Booklist starred review"An insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers. Hurston’s fascination, esteem, and passion to capture, preserve and return to the African diaspora their new world folk traditions used academic methods and Africana means to share our interior selves. . . . Freeman Marshall contends that 'contextualization and a commitment to interdisciplinarity remain central' to excavating Hurston. This excavation serves as a prism through which collective literary and cultural works can contribute to transformative ways of reading and understanding the hybrid Black feminist agency and legacy crafted by Zora Neale Hurston by her people for her people and humanity writ large." --Black Perspectives"A fascinating examination into the work of Zora Neale Hurston as an anthropologist, which has been all but forgotten, especially in comparison to her work as a writer and cultural icon. " --Ms. Magazine“Jennifer Freeman Marshall combines razor sharp analysis and clear prose that compel the reader to think carefully and critically about why Zora Neale Hurston is lionized in literature and marginalized in anthropology. Like a quilt, Freeman Marshall’s book has a strong frame, an aesthetically pleasing design, and an impeccable yet creative logic.”--Lee D. Baker, author of Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture"Freeman Marshall unfolds a Hurston whose anthropological work contributed to her ramified sense of difference and variegation in the lived world. Hurston emerges as situated simultaneously in her selfhood and her experience as a Black woman. As an anthropologist, Hurston tells stories that are 'multiple and ... grounded by ... diverse communities.’ Recommended." --Choice"Undoubtedly, Ain't I an Anthropologist should be essential reading for students and scholars of anthropology, as well as African American literature and folklore studies. With its careful and exhaustive documentation of the Black feminist literary and anthropological scholarship on Hurston's oeuvre, this book is both an archive and a treasure trove of information about Zora Neale Hurston that teaches us how to approach her work in new ways." --American AnthropologistTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: “Twice as Much Praise or Twice as Much Blame” On Firsts, Foremothers, and “The Walker Effect” Signifying “Texts”: The Race for Hurston Deconstructing an Icon: Tradition and Authority “Ain’t I an Anthropologist?” Mules and Men: “Negro folklore [. . .] is still in the making” The author arrives at no conclusion”? Reading Tell My Horse Notes Works CitedIndex
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University of Illinois Press Danzon Days
Book SynopsisWinner of the2024 BFE Book Prize (British Forum for Ethnomusicology) Older people negotiating dance routines, intimacy, and racialized differences provide a focal point for an ethnography of danzón in Veracruz, the Mexican city closely associated with the music-dance genre. Hettie Malcomson draws upon on-site research with semi-professional musicians and amateur dancers to reveal how danzón connects, and does not connect, to blackness, joyousness, nostalgia, ageing, and romance. Challenging pervasive utopian views of danzón, Malcomson uses the idea of ambivalence to explore the frictions and opportunities created by seemingly contrary sentiments, ideas, sensations, and impulses. Interspersed with experimental ethnographic vignettes, her account takes readers into black and mestizo elements of local identity in Veracruz, nostalgic and newer styles of music and dance, and the friendships, romances, and riTrade Review“Malcomson provides a superb ethnographic study of ambivalence in lived experience: danzón is disciplinary and jealously competitive, yet it gives aficionados room to be creative and convivial, and to weave identities around narratives of blackness and race mixture, local histories, and personal trajectories. A brilliant exploration of how people navigate the contradictions of everyday life.”--Peter Wade, coeditor of Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsVignette 1. Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel [Fiction] Introduction. Danzón, Veracruz, and Ambivalence Vignette 2. Teresita [Fiction] Chapter 1. Racial Ambivalence: Veracruz, Blackness, and Danzón Vignette 3. Pancho [Fiction] Chapter 2. Ambivalent Nostalgia: Histories and Memories of the Port and Its Danzón Vignette 4. Renata [Fiction] Chapter 3. Elegant Moves: Modernist Aesthetics and Danzón in Veracruz Vignette 5. Lulú and Antonio [Fiction] Chapter 4. Moves to Rescue: Reviving the Dance, State Sponsorship, and Power Vignette 6. Hettie and Uriel Chapter 5. United in a Viper’s Nest: Group Dynamics, Conviviality, and Rivalry Vignette 7. Carmen and Ernesto [Fiction] Chapter 6. Loving Ambivalence: Dance Groups, Amorous Encounters, and Ageing Bodies Vignette 8. Diana [Fiction] Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Select Discography Select Filmography Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press The Battle for China Essays on the Military
Book SynopsisThis project offers the first English-language general history of military operations during the Sino-Japanese war based on Japanese, Chinese, and Western sources.Trade Review"[I]t is the most comprehensive introduction to the [military history of the Sino–Japanese War] currently available . . . The articles provide a competent, detailed, strongly factual and authoritative account of the two main armies' strategy, tactics, doctrines, weaponry, equipment, training, indoctrination, combat effectiveness, discipline, logistics, communications, conscription methods, intelligence, force structure and command, and of the international environment. "—Gregor Benton, The China Journal"[The Battle for China] fills a major gap in the historiography of the Sino-Japanese War and makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the modern experience of East Asia . . . Historians should find this volume a much needed addition to their essential readings."—Ke-Wen Wang, Journal of World History"[The editors of The Battle for China] present to Western readers some of the best scholarship on the Sino-Japanese War by Chinese and Japanese historians, whose writings and publications previously were inaccessible to readers of English . . . [T]his rich and well-researched volume . . . should serve as an indispensable reference for the study of World War II."—Qiang Zhai, Frontiers of History in China"[R]emarkably well organized . . . In many ways, this book is a model of transnational scholarly collaboration . . . [T]his volume belongs on the shelf of all students and scholars of East Asian, international, and military history."—Edward A. McCord, China Review International"In-depth studies of critical moments of the war, combined with a comprehensive and well-written narrative of the larger events, make it a valuable addition to the literature for both specialists and the general reader."—David Gordon, Pacific Affairs"[The Battle for China] is by far the best academic treatment of the military history of the [Sino-Japanese] war in English . . . A chronology, fourteen maps, and a select bibliography in three languages make this an indispensable work for historians of modern China . . . In scope, it is the most comprehensive work on the military history of the war in English. It makes available a diverse body of scholarship, much of which has not been translated. It should stimulate additional research into one of the most significant events in the history of modern China."—Parks M. Coble, Chinese Historical Review"The Battle for China, an excellent collection of more than a dozen essays by nearly a score of American, British, Chinese, and Japanese scholars, is the first full English-language account of the Sino-Japanese War. Its unique description and analysis of military operations should please both the general reader and the specialist."—Colonel Stanley L. Falk, ARMY Magazine"A model of scholarship and tone, The Battle for China is a uniquely comprehensive overview of the military operations that shaped events in both China and Japan from 1937–1945. Each of the chapters has something to teach general readers and specialists about the semi-modern war that defined modern Asia."—Dennis Showalter, Colorado College"The Battle for China is a rare treasure that will likely renew interest in this underdeveloped field. For those interested in the Pacific war or greater insight into modern Chinese history, I highly recommend it."—Major Robert S. Burrell, United States Marine Corps, Naval History Magazine
£26.99
University of Illinois Press The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Russell has positioned her concise, structurally adventurous contribution to 'Stanwyck studies' to reflect the expanding range of cultural approaches to women in media published during the past decade. . . . The twenty-six bite-sized essays cover themes of work, gender, sexuality, ageing, misogyny, class and race." --Times Literary Supplement"Catherine Russell's The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck adds illuminating dimension to the actress's complex life story and equally vaunted career. Her meticulously researched and thoughtful analysis brings a fresh perspective to Stanwyck' s legacy, and captures the enduring power and charm of the classical Hollywood movie star." --Cineaste"The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck makes the choice to refuse to simplify Stanwyck’s career. It underscores Stanwyck’s importance, but it doesn’t pretend like she, the films, or the era that created them are something they’re not. As a result, Russell has put together an unflinching work of criticism that must be acknowledged as the definitive work on the subject. It’s essential reading for anyone interested in Stanwyck or the era of film she headlined." --NewCity“Catherine Russell’s inventive study of Barbara Stanwyck’s long, fascinating career as a ‘working star’ offers a tantalizing model for other feminist histories of women’s work in the film industry. Achronological and essayistic, Russell’s approach weaves back and forth between Stanwyck’s onscreen roles, her star persona, and her working life to document what Russell calls ‘the structural misogyny of the industry.’”--Shelley Stamp, author of Lois Weber in Early Hollywood and Movie-Struck Girls“A deeply creative and insightful critical study of Barbara Stanwyck’s agency and labor as a performer, The Cinema of Barbara Stanwyck is a stunning blend of feminist historiography, archival research, star-studies, biography, and film analysis--a rewarding and immensely pleasurable read.”--Julie Grossman, author of The Femme FataleTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction to Stanwyck Studies A All I Desire: Pastiche and Performance B The Barbara Stanwyck Show: Everyday Melodrama C Crimes of Passion: A Destructive Character D Dion the Son, and Barbara the Bad Mother E Edith Head: Clothing Makes the Woman a Woman F Forty Guns and The Furies: Angry Women G Gambling Ladies: Playing Games H William Holden: Making Men I Illicit: How to be Ultramodern J Jungle Films/White Women K Kate Crawley: Cross-Dressing in the Archive L The Lady Eve: Performativity and Melancholia M Fred MacMurray: Kissing and Playing N No Man of Her Own: Double Women and the Star O Annie Oakley: A Girl and a Gun P Paranoia, Abjection, and Gaslighting Q The Queen R Riding, Falling, and Stunts S The Stella Dallas Debates T Theresa Harris: Black Double U Union Pacific: Unmaking History V Voice, Body, Identity W Working Women and Cultural Labor X Exotica and Bitter Tears Y You Belong to Me: Archives and Fans Z Zeppo Marx: Comedy and Agency Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Illinois Press Shadow of the New Deal
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shadow of the New Deal is an ideal introduction for scholars new to the study of radio. . . . The book has an obvious appeal to media historians; indeed, it will no doubt become the standard reference work on this phase in radio history, though it offers fruitful information for scholars of other areas as well." --H-Net Reviews“Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence.”--Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry"Well researched and documented." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Advocacy: Media Reform, from Activism to Advocacy: Before and After the Communications Act of 1934 Chapter 2. Funding: The Philanthropic Mandate for Collaboration between Educational and Commercial Broadcasters Chapter 3. Distribution and Facilities: America’s Public Media Industry: From the Rocky Mountain Radio Council to the National Bicycle Network Chapter 4. Research and Development: The Emergence of Communication: Reception Research as a Strategic Tool of Media Reform Chapter 5: Policy: Public Media Policy, 1934-1967--Lessons from Reform History Conclusion Notes Index
£19.79
Stanford University Press The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers with
Book SynopsisThis book is the final volume of a comprehensive, fully annotated, three-volume edition of letters written by Robinson and Una Jeffers.Trade Review"What Stanford University Press accomplished in The Collected Letters of Jack London, it is now accomplishing on behalf of another giant of American letters. In The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, Professor James Karman is setting new standards for skillful editing, and the project itself, now underway, will further establish Jeffers as a leading American poet of prophetic vision." -- Kevin Starr"The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers represents a truly important addition to American literary scholarship. Not only was Jeffers a great Modernist poet, he was the only major one writing from the western half of the United States. In these splendidly edited volumes of his and his wife's letters, we are finally able to glimpse into the life and mind of this prophetic figure." -- Dana Gioia"This meticulous edition of his letters, many previously unpublished, profoundly complicates our understanding of Jeffers the person, offers powerful insights into his poetry, provides an important context for understanding the literary culture of California in the 1920s and 1930s, and reminds us that Modernism was an aspect of modern poetry and not the whole of it." -- Tim Hunt * Illinois State University *
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