Social and cultural history Books
University of Washington Press Education at the Edge of Empire
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Scholars interested in Indian boarding schools, particularly as they compare to one another, will learn from this book, as will those who are interested in the intersecting ecologies of colonization and schooling. Gram's book, moreover, illustrates how education, particularly that of children, is a phenomenon that communities hold in a paramount position that need not be contained within the school itself." -- Andrea Lawrence * History of Education Quarterly *"[N]ot your typical book about Indian schools. . . . Gram demonstrates a deeper complexity of the boarding school experience and its relationship to several dynamically active communities. . . . This book is well researched through multiple collections and draws on the existing scholarship in ways that show a keen intelligence and great synthesis while incorporating rich primary source materials, many of them gathered from the Santa Fe Indian School. It is amazingly approachable, phenomenally thorough, and easily teachable." -- Brian S. Collier * Western Historical Quarterly *"Gram provides a nuanced view of the power relationship between the Santa Fe and Albuquerque US government boarding schools and the New Mexico Indians these schools served from the 1880s into the 1930s." * Choice *"[A]ccessible and interesting. . . . Education at the Edge of Empire is a wonderful addition to the literature of off-reservation boarding schools." -- Andrae Marak * Journal of American History *"This book offers a fascinating and unexpected view of the Indian boarding experience. It is a welcome addition to Native American historiography and should be of interest to anyone who values a deeper understanding of the way in which Pueblo people in New Mexico were able to make an institution dedicated to destroying their way of life work instead for them." -- Rick Hendricks * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *"The author does well to illustrate the unique and compelling relationship between Pueblo communities of the Southwest and the two boarding schools that served so many of their children, the Albuquerque Indian School (AIS) and the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS). . . . Gram’s study of AIS and SFIS provides not only a useful addition to the literature on American Indian boarding schools, but a valuable illustration of the limitations of imperial efforts toward Native people in a borderlands setting." -- John A. Goodwin * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *"Adds new layers of complexity. . . . Gram aptly demonstrates how the nexus of national and local politics provided Pueblo people with opportunities to exact change from school officials. Gram’s development of a political economy of Indian education stands among the most important contributions of this book." -- Kevin Whalen * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Economics of Education 2. The Consequences of Competition 3. Geographies of Imagination 4. Everyday Encounters 5. The Integrations of Worlds Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Hope of Another Spring
Book SynopsisTakuichi Fujii (18911964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started a family, and began his artistic practice. When war broke out between the United States and Japan, he and his family were incarcerated along with the more than 100,000 ethnic Japanese located on the West Coast. Sent to detention camps at Puyallup, Washington, and then Minidoka in Idaho, Fujii documented his daily experiences in words and art. The Hope of Another Spring reveals the rare find of a large and heretofore unknown collection of art produced during World War II. The centerpiece of the collection is Fujii's illustrated diary that historian Roger Daniels has called the most remarkable document created by a Japanese American prisoner during the wartime incarceration.Barbara Johns presents Takuichi Fujii's life story and his artistic achievements within the social and political context of the time. Sandy Kita, the artist's grandson, provides translations and an introdTrade Review"While this book will be of particular interest to institutions in the Northwest (and Chicago), where Fujii was professionally active, it is broadly relevant and widely recommended as American History. Fujii’s diary is approachable and intimate documentation of an under-emphasized chapter and perspective, and Barbara Johns brings welcome attention and analysis to this artist and his work." -- Adam Robinson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *"The book and exhibition, together, shed a powerful new light on a troubling chapter in U.S. history. . . . Compelling as both artwork and history." -- Michael Upchurch * Seattle Times *"This altogether beautiful book by noted Seattle-based art historian and curator Barbara Johns strikingly testifies to the oft-stated judgment that a picture is worth a thousand words." -- Art Hansen * Nichi Bei Weekly *Table of ContentsForeword by Roger Daniels Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Another Spring: Biography 2. Painting and Recognition in the 1930s 3. An Issei Diary of World War II 4. Public and Private: Expanding upon the Diary 5. Abstract Expressions MinidokaXX | The Art Diary of Takuichi Fujii Introduction to the Diary: The Nature of the Workand of Its Translation, by Sandy Kita Art Diary / Takuichi Fujii Transcription by Honda Shōjō Translation by Sandy Kita with Honda Shōjō Appendix 1. Artist Statement Appendix 2. Exhibition History
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Between Memory and Reality Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin 18701970
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Commercialization of News in the Nineteenth
Book SynopsisThis work traces the major transformation of newspapers from a politically based press to a commercially based press in the 19th century. Gerald J. Baldasty argues that broad changes in American society, the national economy and the newspaper industry brought about this dramatic shift.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Ethnographers Magic And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis work deals with the history of anthropology, setting out to define the historiographer as a composer, responsive to his own lived experience and to those whom he encounters. The essays address the work and influence of Franz Boas and Bronislaw Malinowski.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Volksgeist as Method and Ethic Essays on Boasian
Book SynopsisFranz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.
£23.85
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Historical Atlas of Wisconsin
Book SynopsisDespite Wisconsin's rich history, no historical atlas has been produced in the state since 1878. This text presents a colourful portrait of the state's complex development. The atlas highlights the peoples and cultures, economy and land, and the socio-political landscape of Wisconsin.
£31.96
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Creating Spaniards Culture and National Identity
Book SynopsisThis history explains the intersection of politics and culture, and the formation of a national identity, during Spain's Second Republic and Civil War. It counters recent scholarship claiming that leaders of the Second Republic had no programmes to encourage a Spanish national identity.Table of ContentsThe Intellectual and Social Roots of Republican Spain; ""If These People Had Received But a Refrain of Poetry""; Creating Consent Through Culture; Theater as Secularized Religion; Taming the Seventh Art - the Battle For Cultural Unity on the Cinematographic Front; The Cult of Reading - Literacy and Regeneration; The Spanish Civil War - Culture on the Battlefield.
£18.86
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Social World of Batavia Europeans and
Book SynopsisIn the 17th century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus of the Dutch Asian Empire. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of Batavia's social world.Trade ReviewThe best analysis in English or Dutch of the colonizers' interaction with Asian and Eurasian women and the distinctive Indo-Dutch, Mestizo culture that resulted. - Michael Adas, Journal of Asian and African Studies ""Shows how this society, far from being static, underwent an evolution; how it opened or closed itself to external influences, transformed immigrants or was changed by them, and loosened or tightened its links with the European homeland through time."" - Michele Boin in Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ""Once again Jean Taylor demonstrates her originality and insight in a revision which will ensure that Social World of Batavia remains a seminal scholarly work."" - Nigel Worden, University of Cape Town, author of Slavery in Dutch South Africa
£22.46
MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin An IrishSpeaking Island State Religion Community and the Linguistic Landscape in Ireland 17701870
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Protest on the Page Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865
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University of Wisconsin Press Remembering Leningrad The Story of a Generation
Book SynopsisBy weaving history and anecdotes to create a picture of Russia’s cultural center, McAuley underscores the impact of time and place on the Russian intelligentsia who lived through the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet life. The result is a remarkable group portrait of a generation.Trade Review“Better than a time-machine, McAuley takes readers on an exclusive guided tour of Leningrad in the 1960s and up to present day St. Petersburg. In this elegy for a city, the friendships she forged across fifty plus years lie at the heart of a nuanced, intimate, and serious portrait of Russians living through tumultuous times.” —Kathleen E. Smith, Georgetown University“McAuley provides an engaging introduction to everyday life in Leningrad/St. Petersburg since World War II.” —Emily Johnson, University of Oklahoma
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Philippine Sanctuary A Holocaust Odyssey
Book SynopsisBetween 1938 and 1941, the Philippine Commonwealth provided safe asylum to more than 1,300 German Jews. In highlighting the efforts by Philippine president Manual Quezon and High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, Bonnie Harris offers fuller implications for our understanding of the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust.
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University of Wisconsin Press The Toni Morrison Book Club
Book SynopsisIn this startling group memoir, four friends - black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American-born - use Toni Morrison's novels as a springboard for intimate and revealing conversations about the problems of everyday racism and living whole in times of uncertainty.Trade ReviewWhat can the work of Toni Morrison teach us about the world we live in? Morrison's work provides a scaffolding here; the narrative frame of the distinct voices is unique and makes for an intriguing multivocal experience." - Emily Bernard, author of Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine"Poignant. Fear and dread run through this book in a really impactful way, and every revelation felt substantive and singular. Reading Morrison becomes vital to the group’s efforts to mourn and to march forward in their own lives." - Michelle S. Hite, Spelman College
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Rise of the Brao Ethnic Minorities in
Book SynopsisIn the early 1970s, the Khmer Rouge became suspicious of communist Vietnam and began to persecute Cambodian ethnic groups who had ties to the country, including the Brao Amba. Many fled north as political refugees, and some joined the Vietnamese effort to depose the Khmer Rouge. This book ecxplores this troubled period.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Insults in Classical Athens
Book SynopsisScholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians.Trade ReviewInherently interesting, entertaining, and timely. Kamen strikes a good balance between details and the big picture. In analyzing material intelligently and considering insults and abuse across a wide variety of sources, this volume seeks to understand this significant and sometimes problematic feature of citizen experience under the Athenian democracy." - Matthew Christ, Indiana University-Bloomington"Insults in Classical Athens examines a decidedly understudied subject that is vast and multifaceted, successfully introducing the reader to the complexities and reasons why further study is necessary and important. Overall, this is a thoughtful and learned volume by an experienced scholar." - Konstantinos Kapparis, University of Florida
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University of Wisconsin Press Insults in Classical Athens
Book SynopsisScholarly investigations of the rich field of verbal and extraverbal Athenian insults have typically been undertaken piecemeal. Deborah Kamen provides an overview of this vast terrain and synthesizes the rules, content, functions, and consequences of insulting fellow Athenians.
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University of Wisconsin Press Exodus and Its Aftermath Jewish Refugees in the
Book SynopsisDuring World War II, some two million Jewish refugees relocated from the western regions of the USSR to the Soviet interior. This book’s insights into the regional distribution and concentration of these emigres offer a behind-the-scenes look at the largest and most intensive Jewish migration in history.Trade Review“Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Kaganovitch shows that Soviet wartime and postwar propaganda about the warm embrace of evacuees by their fellow citizens masks a far more complex reality of hunger, disease, and discrimination.”—Eliyana R. Adler, Penn State University “Plumbs Soviet archives and published materials to provide considerable statistical data and compelling individual narratives of the plight of Jewish refugees in the Soviet interior. . . . Although the events of the Shoah overshadowed the predicament of these Eastern European Jews, Kaganovitch’s informed narrative reclaims their stories.”—CHOICE Reviews “A welcome contribution to the relatively limited field of wartime displacement in the USSR. Additionally, the book provides a fresh look at the history of Jewish people in the Soviet Union during World War II by examining the war’s impact on Jewish refugees from the USSR’s western regions to its east.”—H-Russia “Rich with examples from memoirs and a multitude of archival materials, which are accompanied by much statistical data, based on large-scale quantitative studies. All of these sources give a detailed picture of the situation regarding the places where Jewish refugees arrived.”—AJS ReviewTable of Contents List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments Transliteration Notes, Names, and Places Introduction 1 Wartime Migration to the Eastern Regions of the USSR 2 The Local Authorities Facing Refugees 3 “He who does not work, does not eat” 4 Famine, Mortality, and Some Help 5 Orphanages, Adoption, and Jewish Children 6 Culture Clashes 7 Statistics on Refugees and Their Migration 8 The Difficult Road Back Conclusion Notes Bibliography
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Understanding and Teaching Native American
Book SynopsisA timely and urgently needed remedy to a long-standing gap in history instruction. This volume is designed to help teachers effectively integrate Indigenous history and culture into their lessons, providing richly researched content and resources across the chronological and geographical landscape of what is now known as North America.Trade ReviewThis impressive volume from noted experts includes a variety of essays all suited to inform the teaching of Native and American histories. From broad concepts to helpful, concrete suggestions, these essays make it easier for everyone to engage with Indigenous history." - Malinda Maynor Lowery, Emory University"Comprised of 21 erudite and informative contributions by experts in the Native American History that are deftly organized into three major sections. . . . A seminal, unique, and unreservedly recommended core addition to personal, professional, college and university library Native American Studies collections and supplemental and developmental studies curriculum studies lists." - Midwest Book Review"[An] excellent collection. . . . Quite a feast of knowledge awaits readers." - CHOICE ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroductionPart One: Reflections on Teaching Native American History Chapter One: Learning to Teach Indian History: A Memoir By Theda Perdue Chapter Two: Teaching American Indian History Using the Medicine Way By Donald Fixico Chapter Three: Transnational History and Deep Time: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from Australia By Ann McGrath Chapter Four: Being There: Experiential Learning by Living Native American History By Bernard Perley Chapter Five: čwÈ·ˀn neyękwaˀnawèrih: Reflections on Teaching Indigenous History from a Native Student By Taylor HummelPart Two: Reflections on Invasions, Epidemics, War and Genocide Chapter Six: Before Columbus: Native American History, Archeology, and Resources By Maureen Meyers Chapter Seven: Teaching and Understanding Genocide in Native America By Gray Whaley Chapter Eight: The “Virgin” Soil Thesis Cover-Up: Teaching Indigenous Demographic Collapse By Tai S. Edwards Chapter Nine: Teaching Indian Wars By Mark van de Logt Part Three: Essential Topics in Native American History Chapter Ten: Teaching Indian Slavery: From First Slaves to Early Abolitionists in Four Myths By Denise I. Bossy Chapter Eleven: Teaching the American Revolution from Indian Country By Charles W. Prior Chapter Twelve: Teaching the Broad and Relevant History of American Indian Removal By John Bowes Chapter Thirteen: Teaching and Understanding the History of Allotment By Rose Stremlau Chapter Fourteen: Teaching Federal Indian Law through Literature By N. Bruce Duthu Chapter Fifteen: Nation-to-Nation: Understanding Treaties and Sovereignty By Margaret Huettl Chapter Sixteen: Teaching Indigenous Environmental History By Paul Kelton and James Rice Part Four: Reflections on Identity and Cultural Appropriation Chapter Seventeen: An Appropriate Past: Seminole Indians, Osceola, and Florida State University By Andrew K. Frank Chapter Eighteen: Looking Past the Racial Classification System: Teaching Southeastern Native Survival Using the Peoplehood Model By Marvin Richardson Chapter Nineteen: Teaching Native American Religions and Philosophies in the Classroom By Brady DeSanti Chapter Twenty: Sustenance as Culture and Tradition: Teaching About Indigenous Foodways By Devon A. Mihesuah Chapter Twenty-One: Native American Art 101 By Nancy Marie Mithlo
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University of Wisconsin Press Redeeming Objects A West German Mythology
Book SynopsisTraces the afterlives of things. Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany’s consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany’s modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige.Trade ReviewScholz explores the afterlife of Nazism as a repurposing and remythologizing process. Scholars have yet to learn how to account for the ‘affective legacies’ of the Third Reich, or even to realize that they existed. Scholz’s analysis of the postwar fabric of Nazi myth showcases a subject and an approach that could be of great consequence for contemporary German and, more generally, post-totalitarian scholarship." - Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
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Yale University Press The American Mind
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Yale University Press Roman Social Relations 50 B.C. to A.D. 284
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Yale University Press Fins de Siécle
Book SynopsisExploring the final decade of each century from the 15th to the 20th, this work investigates factors such as cultural and economic attitudes, and artistic, scientific and political change. It finds that a consciousness of time has influenced the way people perceive their place in history.Trade Review"an extraordinary, panoramic view of British society in transition over 700 years." Amanda Foreman, the Independent "the contributors...have produced a series of unusually lively sketches." John Gross, The Sunday Telegraph "well timed...provides plenty of food for thought" Martin Jacques, The Observer
£17.63
Yale University Press The English Aristocracy 10701272
Book SynopsisWilliam the Conqueror's victory in 1066 was the beginning of a period of major transformation for medieval English aristocrats. This book examines the fate of the English aristocracy between the reigns of the Conqueror and Edward I.
£40.38
Yale University Press The Ceremonial City
Book SynopsisPresents in their broad, historical context the major events that took place in Venice in the 1570s, culminating in a severe outbreak of the plague in which one quarter of the Venetian population perished. This work sheds fresh light on the historical machine that produced the distinct civic and cultural ethos of the city.
£42.50
Yale University Press The Heart
Book SynopsisProvides an illustrated account of changes in our perception of what the heart does and what it means. This book explores the symbolic significance of the heart in ancient Egypt, China, India and Greece, its role in Aztec ceremony and its place in the medieval world. It considers the centrality of the heart in Christianity and other religions.Table of ContentsLouisa Young: The Human Heart; Francis Wells: The Renaissance Heart; Emily Jo Sargent: The Sacred Heart; Fay Bound Alberti: The Emotional Heart; Ayesha Nathoo: The Transplanted Heart; Melissa Larner: The Healing Heart; Ted Bianco: The Animal Heart; Michael Bracewell: The Broken Heart; Jon Turney: The Future Heart.
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Yale University Press The London Square
Book SynopsisModern-day London abounds with a multitude of gardens, enclosed by railings and surrounded by houses, which attest to the English love of nature. This title delves into the history, evolution, and social implications of squares, which have been an important element in the planning and expansion of London since the early 17th century.Trade Review“Very accessible and entertaining. . . . This exploration of the special world of these often private, sheltered spaces within an urban area may make the reader long to have just such a retreat.”—Joan Richards, Current Books on Gardening and Botany (Chicago Botanic Garden) -- Joan Richards * Current Books on Gardening and Botany (Chicago Botanic Garden) * Winner of the 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize, given by the Foundation for Landscape Studies. -- 2013 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize * Foundation for Landscape Studies *Shortlisted for the 2013 William MC Berger Prize for British Art History. -- William MB Berger Prize * William MB Berger *Shortlisted for the 2014 Art Book Prize given by the Authors’ Club and supported by The Art Newspaper. The Art Book Prize is awarded annually to the best book on art or architecture. -- Art Book Prize * The Authors' Club *
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Yale University Press Growing Up in England The Experience of Childhood
Book SynopsisPresents a fresh view of the upbringing of English children in upper and professional class families over three centuries. Drawing on direct testimony from contemporary diaries and letters, this book revises previous understandings of parenting and what it was like to grow up in the period between 1600 and 1914.Trade Review"Fletcher has written an important synthesis of the rearing of elite English children in the modern period. Using a wide variety of sources including diaries and letters, Fletcher details a continuity in parenting that has been generally overlooked. Recommended. All academic levels/libraries."—Choice * Choice *"Growing Up in England is a valuable contribution to the histories of gender, families, education, and children. His simple argument: "gendered parenting. . . produced gendered children" should spur new inquiries into the gendered nature not only of childhood, but of adulthood and the institutions they created and inhabited." —Amy Harris, Journal of British Studies -- Amy Harris * Journal of British Studies *"For Fletcher, children were instructed in class-specific masculinity and femininity in order that they could perform their gendered roles as adults. . . . Fletcher draws on extensive existing scholarship, as well as archival and printed source material, to demonstrate this thesis copiously. . . . Fletcher is intimately acquainted with the extraordinary relics of the Trench family, the twelve volumes of Lucy Lyttelton's lyrical diary, and many other gems dug up from county record offices."—Aysha Pollnitz, Journal of Modern History -- Aysha Pollnitz * Journal of Modern History *"Meticulously documented...[Growing up in England draws] on a wealth of firsthand accounts of parents and children in letters and diaries."--Andrew O'Malley, 1650-1850 -- Andrew O'Malley * 1650-1850 *
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Yale University Press Weimar From Enlightenment to the Present
Book SynopsisWeimar was a centre of the arts during the Enlightenment. This book offers a complete history of Weimar, from its meteoric eighteenth-century rise from obscurity through its glory days of unbridled creative expression to its dark descent back into artistic insignificance under Nazi rule and, later, Soviet occupation and beyond.Trade Review‘Kater has written a fascinating account of this extraordinary city. It is highly readable, capable of great wryness and, considering the cultural and political ground it covers, mostly very convincing.’—Philip Hensher, The Spectator -- Philip Hensher * The Spectator *‘Kater makes a convincing case that myth and reality don’t quite add up in Weimar – that for much of its history the town was fusty and reactionary.’—Marcus Tanner, The Independent -- Marcus Tanner * The Independent *‘Political shadows, which hung heavily over Weimar for much of the 20th century, naturally permeate Michael Kater’s thorough and thoughtful account of its history.’—Roger Morgan, THES -- Roger Morgan * THES *'Michael Kater has written a vivid account of the evolution of a German town that is also a powerful symbol of German culture: of the heights but also the depths. The result is that this is not just a history of Weimar, it is a profoundly insightful examination of the dilemmas of Germans in the face of their heritage.' - Harold James, author of Europe Reborn: A History, 1914–2000 -- Harold James‘From Mr. Kater we get an intricate account of its atrocities and of the close integration — administrative, commercial, financial— of camp and town. Here as elsewhere, the author draws on the full range of scholarly research, going into immense, even excessive detail.’—T.J. Reed, Wall Street Journal Europe. -- T.J. Reed * Wall Street Journal European Edition *‘Kater’s breadth of knowledge must come from a life-time’s studying, and readers interested in any aspect of the Weimar legacy will come away from his book with new nuggets of information.’—Julian Preece, Times Literary Supplement. -- Julian Preece * TLS *
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Yale University Press The Social Life of Coffee
Book SynopsisProvides an account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing the author reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century.Trade Review"'A well-researched, wide-ranging and fascinating book... Cowan adds rich colours and shades to a picture we had hitherto only in outline.' (Kevin Sharpe, Times Literary Supplement) 'Because the modern world was washed into existence on a tide of caffeine, the subject is too important to be left to historians of food and drink... Cowan is concerned with the political history of coffee houses and points to the heterogeneity of coffee house culture.' (London Review of Books) 'Erudite and persuasively argued, this work is based on a truly impressive range of primary and secondary sources, as demonstrated in the extensive bibliography.' (William Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Institute of Historical Research)"
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Yale University Press Opium
Book SynopsisIs opium a vile curse on society, a blessed medicine from God, or possibly both? This fresh history offers surprising new insights.Trade Review“Opium: Reality’s Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy, is that rare thing: both an extraordinary work of scholarship and a rip-roaring read.”—Rebecca Rose, Prospect -- Rebecca Rose * Prospect *“Thomas Dormandy is an elegant, dryly amusing writer who plainly has an unquenchable appetite for research.”—John Preston, Daily Mail -- John Preston * Daily Mail *“Rich and engaging . . . a rare triumph.”—Washington Post * Washington Post *“…[A] lively and fascinating chronicle of opium…The book is a remarkable synthesis of different fields of knowledge.”—Peter Swabb, Daily Telegraph -- Peter Swabb * Daily Telegraph *“…[A] scholarly yet wonderfully readable book.”—Teresa Levonian Cole, Country Life -- Teresa Levonian Cole * Country Life *"Rich in stories and an entertaining read, Dr Dormandy has traced the many lives of opium, from the Stone Age to the War of Terror." —Yangwen Zheng, BBC History Magazine -- Yangwen Zheng * BBC History Magazine *“A wide-ranging and highly engaging history of one of the world’s most prominent (and most addictive) narcotics."—Library Journal * Library Journal *
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Yale University Press The Culture of Food in England 12001500
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this meticulously researched study, Christopher Woolgar serves up a feast of information about food in medieval England… By successfully interrogating the relationship between, communities, institutions and food, Woolgar provides some fascinating new perspectives on medieval life.”—Louise Wilkinson, Literary Review -- Louise Wilkinson * Literary Review *“Woolgar has written a social history of cooking and eating that will provide raw data for many years to come and inspire many more...”—Economic History Review * Economic History *
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Yale University Press Beyond the Tower
Book SynopsisFrom Jewish clothing merchants to Bangladeshi curry houses, ancient docks to the 2012 Olympics, the area east of the City has always played a crucial role in London's history. The East End was the home to Shakespeare's first theatre and to the early stirrings of a mass labour movement. This book offers an illustrated history of this district.Trade Review"[A] major achievement."—Euan Ferguson, Time Out -- Euan Ferguson * Time Out *“[S]uperb…”—Stephen Howe, The Independent -- Stephen Howe * The Independent *"Perhaps the International Olympic Committee officials should read this terrific book as their chauffeured cars purr up and down the commandeered streets of Whitechapel next year."—Sinclair Mckay, The Daily Telegraph -- Sinclair Mckay * The Daily Telegraph *“East London’s turbulent story as an area always culturally and economically on the fringe (and for centuries beyond legislative reach thanks to the city wall) is mapped out in frequently fascinating detail in this rather good history…..John Marriott convincingly suggests that the east’s identity has always been distorted by its mythologies.”—Claire Allfree, Metro (London) -- Claire Allfree * Metro (London) *“[Marriott] is at his most perceptive and sympathetic in his accounts of the struggles of the working people in the East End and its age-old role as the nursery of the waves of immigrants who have enriched British society...”—Tim Knox, Country Life -- Tim Knox * Country Life *“Marriott’s new history of the East End, Beyond The Tower is an expert guide to the area. The author gives an authoritative overview of East London’s history that is scholarly and lucid, handling complex economic and demographic issues with impressive clarity…..The narrative is enriched by descriptions of the vivid personalities and vital culture of East Enders…..Marriott’s book gives us a fuller portrait of the communities of East London.”—Otto Saumarez Smith -- Otto Saumarez Smith“…..gripping….I hope we will see more of this: a new focus on East London encouraging a serious look at our history.”—Stephen Timms MP -- Stephen Timms MP“….. [Marriott] is at his most perceptive and sympathetic in his accounts of the struggles of the working people in the East End and its age-old role as the nursery of the waves of immigrants who have enriched British society: Huguenot weavers, Jews from Germany, Poland and Russia, the ‘lascars’ and Chinese of the Docks, and in more recent years, refugees from the former colonies of the British Empire, especially India.”—Tim Knox, Country Life -- Tim Knox * Country Life *“….he has done a brilliant job of gazing past the theme-park standbys (from Jack the Ripper to the Krays) to give us a portrait of an area that once more – as in the 17th and 18th centuries – contains pockets of wealth, as well as steep poverty. The difference now is that the wealth is clustered upon the river’s edge, where once lascars, street children and old men and women struggled daily to survive. Perhaps the International Olympic Committee officials should read this terrific book as their chauffeured cars purr up and down the commandeered streets of Whitechapel next year.”—Sinclair Mckay, The Daily Telegraph -- Sinclair Mckay * The Daily Telegraph *“[it has] juicy details throughout…Start reading now and come the Olympics, you’ll be able to reel off anecdotes with the best of them.” —James Pallister, Architects Journal -- James Pallister * Architects Journal *"Erudite but readable, this history of East London in its mutinous variety traces the flow of change in glorious detail."—Boyd Tonkin, The Independent -- Boyd Tonkin * The Independent *
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Yale University Press A Deadly Legacy
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking reassessment of the crucial but unrecognized roles Germany's Jews played at home and at the front during World War ITrade Review“A brave and brilliant history that presents a new view of the German Jewish community during the First World War. Measured in style and magisterial in quality, this accomplished account sheds light on the enormous diversity of Jewish experience.” —Wolfson Prize Judges SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE“The first book to explore the active participation of Jews in Germany during WWI. . . A grimly ironic history.”—Military History Monthly“This is a fascinating and recommended work.”—David Filsell, Stand To“A comprehensive social, political, and cultural history of German Jews in the Great War”— Ulrich Wyrwa, American Historical Review“Grady’s book is a terrific achievement, as it fully integrates Jews into the history of the First World War [. . .] This is an outstanding contribution to the historiographies of the First World War and Jewish experiences in modern Germany” –Christian S. Davis, The English Historical ReviewShortlisted for the 2018 Wolfson History Prize given by The Wolfson FoundationA Deadly Legacy was shortlisted for the 2018 Cundill History Prize"With a deft pen, Grady weaves vast erudition into an engaging narrative of German Jews and the First World War. He compellingly argues that the Great War brought to a head the simultaneous inclusion and marginalization that characterized the history of German Jewry and its tragic end."—Paul Mendes-Flohr, author of German Jews"A superb book. Grady brilliantly describes the diversity of Jewish experience, the dilemmas with which they were faced and the delusions to which many succumbed. Above all, it underlines what a disastrous turning point the First World War ultimately was for Germany's Jews."—Neil Gregor, author of Haunted City: Nuremberg and the Nazi Past"This powerful new book brings to life the diversity and range of German-Jewish experiences of the First World War. Grady is particularly good at identifying the connections between Jews and other Germans, and the inter-twined nature of their responses to the war's many personal and political challenges."—Matthew Stibbe, author of Germany, 1914–1933"Seen from the other side of World War Two, Jewish support for the German national cause in World War One appears troubling and naïve. In an account that will unsettle deterministic perspectives on the Holocaust, Tim Grady restores the logic and integrity of Jewish identification with the politics of German imperialism. A valuable and lively book."—Deborah Hertz, author of How Jews Became Germans
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Yale University Press Ravaged Art and Culture in Times of Conflict
Book SynopsisThe year 2014 marks the one hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and the beginning of World War I. Beginning with the Trojan War and weaving a cross-cultural narrative that ends in the 21st-century Middle East, this title explores how cultural treasures often became silent victims of armed conflict.
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Yale University Press Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an
Book SynopsisA critical edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American historyTrade Review“This is the most thoughtful collection of materials to accompany a major primary text that I have seen. The editors deserve particular commendation for including a section on teaching Douglass’ narrative.”—Craig Kaplowitz, Judson University“The primary document sections are especially valuable as teaching aids. They supplement the narrative and allow readers the opportunity to explore for themselves Douglass’s influences and challenges.”—Jennifer Helgren, University of the Pacific“Carefully selected to provide diverse perspectives on distinct aspects of Douglass’ life and story, the primary sources offer a fascinating window into the early nineteenth century worlds in which he lived. This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today. It is exceptional.”—Nancy Hewitt, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Rutgers University
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Yale University Press Sovereignty for Survival
Book SynopsisIn the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.S. federal laws, turned their attention to the abundant resources buried beneath Native American reservations. By the 1970s, however, a coalition of Native Americans in the Northern Plains had successfully blocked the efforts of powerful energy corporations to develop coal reserves on sovereign Indian land. This challenge to corporate and federal authorities, initiated by the Crow and Northern Cheyenne nations, changed the laws of the land to expand Native American sovereignty while simultaneously reshaping Native identities and Indian Country itself. James Allison makes an important contribution to ethnic, environmental, and energy studies with this unique exploration of the influence of America's indigenous peoples on energy policy and development. Allison's fascinating history documents how certain federally supported, often environmentally damaging, energy projects were perceived by American Indians as potentially disruptive to indigenous lifeways. These perceived threats sparked a pan-tribal resistance movement that ultimately increased Native American autonomy over reservation lands and enabled an unprecedented boom in tribal entrepreneurship. At the same time, the author demonstrates how this movement generated great controversy within Native American communities, inspiring intense debates over culturally authentic forms of indigenous governance and the proper management of tribal lands.
£999.99
Yale University Press The Peoples Galleries
Book SynopsisThis innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“…comprehensive and exceptionally well-researched analysis... What Giles Waterfield’s book does, quietly and non-polemically, is to rescue the zeal and enthusiasm of those who opened great civic art museums from the condescension of art history.”— Charles Saumarez Smith, Literary Review -- Charles Saumarez Smith * Literary Review *“…a sophisticated work of scholarship that tells a detailed and fascinating story. As instructive and entertaining as the Victorian museums with which it is concerned, it will be an invaluable resource for many years to come.”—Susan Owens, TLS -- Susan Owens * TLS *
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Yale University Press Hard Times Inequality Recession Aftermath
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addressed the financial crisis, very little has been written about its social consequences. Journalist Tom Clark draws on the research of a transatlantic team led by Professors Anthony Heath and Robert D. Putnam to determine the great recession's toll on individuals, families, and community bonds in the United States and the United Kingdom. The ubiquitous metaphor of the crisis has been an all-encompassing financial storm, but Clark argues that the data tracks the narrow path of a tornadodestroying some neighborhoods while leaving others largely untouched. In our vastly unequal societies, disproportionate suffering is being meted out to the poorand the book's new analys
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Yale University Press The Tiger in the Smoke
Book SynopsisTaking an interdisciplinary approach that looks at film, television, and commercial advertisements as well as more traditional media such aspainting, The Tiger in the Smoke provides an unprecedented analysis of the art and culture of post-war Britain. Art historian Lynda Nead presents fascinating insights into how the Great Fogs of the 1950s influenced the newfound fashion for atmospheric cinematic effects. She also discusses how the widespread use of color in advertisements was part of an increased ideological awareness of racial differences. Tracing the parallel ways that different media developed new methodsof creating images that variously harkened back to Victorian ideals, agitated for modern innovations, or redefined domesticity, this book's broad purview gives a complete picture of how the visual culture of post-war Britain expressed the concerns of a society that was struggling to forge a new identity. Published in association with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review"This is a luminous book about the greyness that delayed Britain’s search for modernity in the postwar era." — Frances Spalding, The Guardian "This is an absolutely terrific book." — David Marx, David Marx: Book Reviews "acute and wide-ranging analysis" — Mark Jones, Albion Magazine Online“[A] closely argued study of culture and society in post-war Britain” – Ruth Guilding, TLS“Far from being a dry and dusty tome it fizzes with an energy for anyone who is interested in the environment around them.” —Hampshire Chronicle“Here, the author prowls around corners, inhabits bombsites and lurks in the fog, uncovering, through her persuasive text and generous illustrations, a new and nuanced vision of a city that reveals its character in the obscured, the elided and the everyday”—Catherine Jolivette, Burlington Magazine
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Yale University Press Antiquity Matters
Book SynopsisA sharp, often surprising, view of the classical world by a major classics scholar at Cambridge and author of The Glittering Prizes
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Yale University Press Enlightened Princesses
Book SynopsisCaroline of Ansbach (16831737), Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (17191772), and Charlotte of Mecklenberg-Strelitz (17441818) were three German princesses who became Queens Consortor, in the case of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent, and Princess Dowagerof Great Britain, and were linked by their early years at European princely courts, their curiosity, aspirations, and an investment in Enlightenment thought. This sumptuously illustrated book considers the ways these powerful, intelligent women left enduring marks on British culture through a wide range of activities: the promotion of the court as a dynamic forum of the Hanoverian regime; the enrichment of the royal collection of art; the advancement of science and industry; and the creation of gardens and menageries. Objects included range from spectacular state portraits to pedagogical toys to plant and animal specimens, and reveal how the new and novel intermingled with the traditional. Published in association with the Yale Center for BritisTrade Review“Erudite but accessible and ambitious in scope, it is visually stunning and consistently engaging.”—Matthew Dennison, World of Interiors -- Matthew Dennison * World of Interiors *
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Yale University Press Classics for the Masses
Book SynopsisMusicologist Pauline Fairclough explores the evolving role of music in shaping the cultural identity of the Soviet Union in a revelatory work that counters certain hitherto accepted views of an unbending, unchanging state policy of repression, censorship, and dissonance that existed in all areas of Soviet artistic endeavor. Newly opened archives from the Leninist and Stalinist eras have shed new light on Soviet concert life, demonstrating how the music of the past was used to help mold and deliver cultural policy, how undesirable repertoire was weeded out during the 1920s, and how Russian and non-Russian composers such as Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Bach, and Rachmaninov were canonized during different, distinct periods in Stalinist culture. Fairclough's fascinating study of the ever-shifting Soviet musical-political landscape identifies 1937 as the start of a cultural Cold War, rather than occurring post-World War Two, as is often maintained, while documenting the efforts of musicians and bureaucrats during this period to keep musical channels open between Russia and the West.Trade Review“These books give fuller, finer-grained and better-shaded accounts of Soviet policy ups and downs and their impact on musicians than any previous study.”—Richard Taruskin, Times Literary SupplementWon the 2017 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic TitleHas just been awarded the Women's Forum Book Prize of the British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).
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Yale University Press The Romans and Their World
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Yale University Press Jerusalem
Book SynopsisTrade Review “This book reads like a scholastic thriller, full of ghost scrolls, forgeries, buried texts and thieving bishops”— Frank Lawton, Spectator“[The book] creates for the reader a new landscape of the mind, and it reminds us why, even though we may feel we have heard enough of the Holy City, it remains a place of marvels—Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith, Catholic Herald"Mack and Balint deserve credit for their fresh approach to telling a story of Jerusalem"—Rabbi Dr. Charles Middleburgh, Church Times“An unforgettable journey through the world of books in Jerusalem, and an unparalleled portrait of one of the world’s great cities.”—Matti Friedman, author of The Aleppo Codex“For those who love Jerusalem, Jerusalem: City of the Book will be a welcome treat. But all those interested in what religions share, and how they may co-exist, will also learn a great deal from this lively, and often surprising book.”—Miri Rubin, Queen Mary University of London“Traveling across Jerusalem and beyond, two humanist flâneurs find shame and pride, secrecy and sacredness, and a palimpsest made of innumerable religious and secular texts and libraries. A wonderfully wondrous journey.”—Cyrus Schayegh, author of The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World“In their exquisite and brilliant exploration of the intricacies of Jerusalem’s libraries, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint provide us with one of the most intimate and beautiful portraits ever written of Jerusalem. In unraveling the written treasures of Jerusalem, the overlapping maps of the sacred of the three Abrahamic religions unfold before our eyes, constituting Jerusalem as a simultaneous space of sublimity, rivalry, rupture and return.”—Moshe Halbertal, author of Maimonides: Life and Thought“A marvelous book which brings alive the history over many centuries of Jerusalem’s books, libraries, and the librarians who have been—and still are—their guardians. Sensitively and thoughtfully making links between the contested and controversial past and the present, the authors illuminate how books and libraries can bridge divides and shape the future.”—David Bates, former Director of the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London
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Yale University Press Agents of Faith
Book SynopsisTrade Review“One of the great gifts of global consciousness has been to remind Western secular culture that some art has power beyond the aesthetic. And that power is what this book, the catalog for a show at Bard Graduate Center Gallery in Manhattan (through Jan. 6), is about. It brings together objects of spiritual significance from Africa, Asia, Latin America, medieval Europe and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington. Each item was designed to seal a vow, ask for help or give thanks for an answered prayer. Together they demonstrate that art is alive and interactive.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times “Lavishly illustrated with colour plates, it is an absolute joy to turn pages that open up a complex expression of faith—namely, the desire on the part of the devotee to present something to a deity either in petition or gratitude”—Christopher Colven, Art Newspaper
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Yale University Press What We Did in Bed A Horizontal History
Book SynopsisPulling back the covers on the fascinating, yet often forgotten, history of the bed If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse youin fact, it's so entertaining, it will keep you awake long into the night.Paul Chrystal, author of In Bed with the Ancient Greeks and In Bed with the Romans Louis XIV ruled France from his bedchamber. Winston Churchill governed Britain from his during World War II. Travelers routinely used to bed down with complete strangers, and whole families shared beds in many preindustrial households. Beds were expensive itemsand often for show. Tutankhamun was buried on a golden bed, wealthy Greeks were sent to the afterlife on dining beds, and deceased middle-class Victorians were propped up on a bed in the parlor. In this sweeping social history that covers the past seventy thousand years, Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani look at the endlessly varied role of the bed through time. This was a plTrade Review“[An] entertaining new study”—Helen Davies, The Sunday Times“This book is a fascinating read. It is full of anecdotes set in and around the bed, making use of primary sources where possible, and the authors can't seem to stop themselves from relating interesting facts only tangentially linked to the topic in hand”—Hollie L.S. Morgan, History Today“Anyone wishing to appreciate the pedigree of this unjustly overlooked item of furniture should dive between the covers of this volume to experience the ultimate bedtime story.”—Current World Archaeology“Drawing on a range of sources – mythology, folklore, philosophy, literature, advice manuals, diaries – it is when Fagan and Durrani use archaeological and anthropological research that they broaden our understandings of this horizontal (if occasionally, vertical) history…Fagan and Durrani stretch the definition of the bed, encompassing all those places where one might lay their head to sleep.”—Vicky Holmes, Cultural and Social History“If you thought that your bed was only good for sleeping in, having sex in, or dying in, then this book will disabuse you—in fact, it’s so entertaining, it will keep you awake long into the night.”—Paul Chrystal, author of In Bed with the Ancient Greeks and In Bed with the Romans“This is a fascinating account of an important object that has not previously received the attention it deserves.”—Chris Scarre, Durham University"This delightful expose of one of humanity’s most beloved furnishings is the ultimate bedtime story. Discovering the tales that beds could tell brings a new meaning to pillow talk."—Matthew Symonds, editor, Current World Archaeology
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Yale University Press Big and Small A Cultural History of Extraordinary
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thoughtTrade Review“A compelling and innovative account of why size matters. . . Brings much-needed height and breadth to a neglected field.”—Louisa Yates, THES"A pleasure to read. Vallone constantly pushes her inquiries beyond period- or genre-boundaries to ask broad questions that concern us all, as human beings as well as professional specialists. Big & Small should rank alongside the best, most far-reaching studies of childhood and human culture available today."—Professor Rachel Falconer, University of Lausanne"Size matters. Whether our bodies are classed as "ordinary" or "extraordinary", such evaluations have a major impact on how we move through the world. Lynne Vallone's mediations on bodily size are both delightful and insightful. She has a formidable grasp of literary, scientific, and historical approaches to bodies, which she tackles with political as well as personal engagement. I loved reading this book."—Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London."Big and Small is a fascinating and innovative work which deals with a topic we tend to overlook – size and human measure. Through a careful and thorough analysis of literature, art, and science from the eighteenth century to the present Vallone demonstrates that size matters in all aspects of our lives. Convincing and highly significant, her book will change our views of how we determine all aspects and values of bodies."—Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota"Vallone’s skill in moving between divergent bodies of material with such assured interdisciplinary gusto means that this is something of a magnum opus: the type of major scholarly achievement that only the best kind of critical mind is capable of producing after years of searching inquiry into a very broad range of sources drawn from literature, art history, sociology, and gender studies. An outstanding and resourceful work."—Prof. Joseph Bristow, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles
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