Social and cultural history Books
University of British Columbia Press Identities and Interests
Book SynopsisIdentities and Interests examines the electoral behaviour of racialized Canadians: how they self-identify, why they support minority candidates, and what these patterns mean for Canadian politics.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Framing and Explaining Affinity Voting3 Coethnic and Racialized Affinity in Canada4 The Importance of Self-Identification5 Ethnic Identity and Voter Behaviour6 The Role of Interests, Ideology, and Policy7 Affinity Voting in Federal Elections8 ConclusionAppendicesNotes; References; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Moved by the State
Book SynopsisThrough five diverse episodes of forced relocation across Canada, Moved by the State offers a new look at the power of the welfare state and the political culture of postwar Canada.Trade Review…the book is thought-provoking and will inspire discussion among those looking to Canadian social and political challenges of the past, as well as those considering them in the future. -- C. J. Taylor, Parks Canada * Prairie History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 “No More Canadians Will Starve!”: Development, Discipline, and Decolonizing the North2 “The Governmentality Game”: Problematizing, Resettling, and Democratizing Newfoundland3 “Artisans of Their Destiny”: Participation, Power, and Place in Quebec’s Backcountry4 “Deviating from the Strict Letter of the Law”: Race, Poverty, and Planning in Postwar Halifax5 “A Fourth Level of Government”? Urban Renewal, State Power, and Democracy in Vancouver’s East SideConclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press In the Spirit of 68
Book SynopsisIn the Spirit of ’68 tells the story of how a unique blend of local circumstance and global influence transformed Acadian New Brunswick’s youth culture, spawning one of the most influential revolutionary student movements in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Acadian Student Movements of the 1960s – A Leftist or Nationalist Force?1 The Golden Age, or the Acadian National Project at the Crossroads2 The Birth of an Autonomous Student Sphere in Moncton, 1957–663 The Early Liberal-Reformist Student Movement, 1964–674 The Birth of the Second Moncton Student Movement, 19685 Propagation of Neo-nationalist Ideas, 1968–74ConclusionNotes; Works Cited; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press In the Spirit of 68 Youth Culture the New Left
Book SynopsisIn the Spirit of ’68 tells the story of how a unique blend of local circumstance and global influence transformed Acadian New Brunswick’s youth culture, spawning one of the most influential revolutionary student movements in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Acadian Student Movements of the 1960s – A Leftist or Nationalist Force?1 The Golden Age, or the Acadian National Project at the Crossroads2 The Birth of an Autonomous Student Sphere in Moncton, 1957–663 The Early Liberal-Reformist Student Movement, 1964–674 The Birth of the Second Moncton Student Movement, 19685 Propagation of Neo-nationalist Ideas, 1968–74ConclusionNotes; Works Cited; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Born with a Copper Spoon
Book SynopsisBorn with a Copper Spoon tells the fascinating and far-reaching story of one of the world's most important metals.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Worlds of Copper? / Robrecht Declercq, Hans Otto Frøland, and Duncan MoneyPart 1: Connections, Technologies, People: Creating the Global Fabric of Copper1 The Gains of Going Global: The Return on Investment in International Copper Mining during the Second Industrial Revolution / Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, and Dimitrios Theodoridis2 Futures Markets as Trustbusters: The Secrétan Copper Cartel and the London Metal Exchange, 1887–89 / Nathan Delaney3 American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, 1880–1945 / Duncan Money4 The Path to Dominance: American Copper Mining, 1880–1916 / Jeremy Mouat5 Comparing Copper Nationalism in Zambia and Papua New Guinea, 1964–74 / Ingeborg Guldal and Frida Brende JenssenPart 2: Grounding Copper: Communities and Socio-Ecological Transformations6 Copper Mining in Cuba at the Beginning of Mining Internationalization, 1829–70 / Ángel Pascual Martínez-Soto, Miguel Á. Pérez de Perceval, and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez7 Copper Communities on the Central African Copperbelt, 1950–2000 / Iva Peša8 Confronting Kennecott: The Lost City of Bingham Canyon and the History of Mining-Induced Resettlement / Brian James Leech9 Global and Local Interactions: The Great War, Global Trade, and Community Impacts in the Australian Copper Mining Industry, 1900–20 / Erik EklundPart 3: Haves and Have-Nots: Copper in the Age of National Control10 The Copper Industry as National Enterprise in Modern Japan / Patricia Sippel11 Katanga and the American World of Copper: Mechanization, Vertical Integration, and the Territorialization of Colonial Capitalism, 1900–30 / Robrecht Declercq12 The Establishment of Iran’s Copper Mining Industry: The Downfall of Anaconda and Selection Trust in the 1960s–70s / Abdolreza Alamdar and Ali A. Saeidi13 Copper in Chile: From the New Deal to Full Concessions, 1955–81 / Ángel Soto and Alejandro San Francisco14 Producer Cartel, International Commodity Agreement, and the Role of the US Government Copper Stockpile / Hans Otto FrølandIndex
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Scandalous Conduct
Book SynopsisDrunken disorderliness. Cowardice in battle. Writing bad cheques. Vulgarity. Sexual indecency. Adultery. Following courts martial for such disgraceful deeds, hundreds of Canadian officers lost their commissions during the First and Second World Wars. Scandalous Conduct investigates the forgotten experiences of these dismissed ex-officers to offer a new critical perspective on constructed notions of honour and dishonour. Matthew Barrett explores how changing definitions of scandalous behaviour shaped the quintessential honour crime known as conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. As symbolized by the loss of commissioned rank, dishonour represented a direct challenge to the discredited officer's prestige, livelihood, and sense of manhood. Drawing on fascinating court cases that have never before been studied, Scandalous Conduct convincingly demonstrates a surprising conclusion. The scope of officer misconduct revealed that the ideal of military honour was notTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Honour and Dishonour in the British Army Tradition2 Dismissal and Cashiering in the First World War3 Coming Back and Making Good4 Dishonourable Records and the Interwar Period5 Dismissal and Cashiering in the Second World War6 Reclassification, Removal, and Re-enlistment7 De-officered and De-citizenedConclusionAppendix: Courts Martial DataNotes; Bibliography; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press A Legacy of Exploitation Early Capitalism in the
Book SynopsisA Legacy of Exploitation recasts the Hudson’s Bay Company’s experiment at Red River as a reaction to Indigenous peoples’ autonomy, challenging collective historical fantasies of Canada as a glorious nation of adventurers.Trade ReviewIn providing this “fundamental rethink” of Marxist analysis, the author has cleared a path that other scholars will surely follow. This is an important book. -- James Daschuk, University of Regina * The Western Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Exploitation and Autonomy1 Reciprocity and Dispossession: Processes of Transformation2 Monopoly and Competition: Contests over Indigenous Peoples’ Labour and Land3 Honour and Duplicity: Debts of Rivals, Dreams of an Aristocrat4 Servitude and Independence: The Settler Colonial “Experiment” Begins5 Menace and Ally: Proclamation as Provocation6 Consciousness and Ignorance: New Nation, Old GrievancesConclusion: Continuity and ChangeNotes; Bibliography; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Breaking Barriers Shaping Worlds
Book SynopsisBreaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds explores the lives and careers of women, famous and forgotten, who influenced Canada’s place in the world during the twentieth century.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Where are the Women?” / Jill Campbell-Miller & Greg DonaghyPart 1: Women in Missions, Aid, and Development1 Quietly Contesting Patriarchy: Dr. Jessie MacBean’s Medical Work in South China, 1925–35 / Kim Girouard2 A Mission for Modernity: Canadian Women in Medical and Nursing Education in India, 1946–66 / Jill Campbell-Miller3 Life Stories, Wife stories: Women Advisors on Economic Development / David WebsterPart 2: Women in International Resistance4 Historically Invisible: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1914–29 / Sharon Cook and Lorna McLean5 The Voice of Women, the Baby Tooth Survey, and the Search for Security in the Atomic Age / Susan Colbourn6 Marie Smallface Marule: An Indigenous Internationalist / Jonathan CrossenPart 3: Women in Diplomacy7 P.K. Page and the Art of Diplomacy: An Ambassadorial Wife in Brazil / Eric Fillion 8 Jean Casselman Wadds: Patriation, Dinner Party Wars, and a Political Diplomat / Steve Marti and Francine McKenzie9 Flora Macdonald: Secretary of State for External Affairs, 1979–80 / Joe ClarkConclusion: Breaking Historiographic Barriers / Dominique MarshallEpilogue – Greg Donaghy: An Appreciation / Patricia E. RoyBibliography; Contributors; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Feeling Feminism Activism Affect and Canadas
Book SynopsisFeeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.Trade Review...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada -- Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary * Social History/Histoire Sociale. *To call this book thought-provoking is a profound understatement. -- Phyllis Reeve * The British Columbia Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney1 Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women’s Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood2 The Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh3 Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel4 “Feeling My Way”: Women’s Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett5 Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile6 “Jesus Is Not Part of This Collective”: Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi7 Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward8 Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin9 An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna10 Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funké Aladejebi11 “Briser le mur du silence”: Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists’ Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet12 Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew FesnakIndex
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Feeling Feminism
Book SynopsisFeeling Feminism is a groundbreaking collection of interdisciplinary scholarship on second-wave feminist history and feminist social movements in Canada that puts emotions at the centre of the story.Trade Review...a fascinating collection of essays about second-wave feminist activism in Canada -- Nancy Janovicek. University of Calgary * Social History/Histoire Sociale. *To call this book thought-provoking is a profound understatement. -- Phyllis Reeve * The British Columbia Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Second-Wave Feminism and the History of Emotions / Lara Campbell, Michael Dawson, and Catherine Gidney1 Pride, Shame, and Anger: Women’s Struggles to Achieve Natural Childbirth in Postwar Canada / Whitney Wood2 The Good Mother of Science: Emotional Letters to Frances Oldham Kelsey during the Thalidomide Crisis / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh3 Therapeutic Political Spaces: Collective Resistance among Indigenous Women in British Columbia / Sarah A. Nickel4 “Feeling My Way”: Women’s Community Activism in the Company of Young Canadians / Kevin Brushett5 Tears and Tiaras: Affect, Beauty Pageants, and Protests / Patrizia Gentile6 “Jesus Is Not Part of This Collective”: Secular Passions and Religious Alienation among the Sisterhood / Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Taylor Antoniazzi7 Intense Times: Love, Fear, and Pride as Guides to Lesbian Feminist Organizing / Liz Millward8 Resisting Red Hot Video: Feminism, Pornography, and the Political Utility of Emotion / Eryk Martin9 An Assumption of Shared Fear: Feminism, Sex Work, and the Sex Wars in 1980s Kinesis / Emma McKenna10 Emotional Scripts of Difference: Black Women Teachers and Feminist Mobilization / Funké Aladejebi11 “Briser le mur du silence”: Emotions, Gender, and the 1981 Women Journalists’ Conference in Quebec / Josette Brun, Laurie Laplanche, and Sophie Doucet12 Anger, Melancholia, and Hope: The Feminist Politics of Emotion and the Centre for Women and Trans People at Wilfrid Laurier University / Matthew FesnakIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Liquor and the Liberal State
Book SynopsisCultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces how the Ontario provincial government's takeover of liquor regulation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved both discrete local politics and expansive constitutional questions.Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to a vocal prohibitionist movement and equally vocal liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the province. The drink question became as political as it was moral a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights and, ultimately, in the crafting of the moderTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Arguing over Liquor and LiberalismPart 1: Managing the Province’s Liquor Problem1 The Place of the Government in the Drinks of the People2 Centralization, I: The Crooks Act3 Power and Influence in the New System4 Politics, Law, and the License BranchPart 2: The Complications of Liquor in a Federal Liberal State5 How Drinking Affects the Constitution, 1864–836 McCarthy and Crooks Enter a Tavern, 1883–857 Attempting to Water Down the Scott Act, 1884–928 Plebiscites as Tools for Change? 1883–949 Talking and Blocking National Prohibition, 1891–9910 Dodging Decisions at the End of the Liberals’ Era, 1894–190511 Drinking in Whitney’s Conservative Liberal State, 1905–0712 Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907–16Conclusion: Liquor, Liberalism, and the Legacy of the Crooks ActAppendix 1: Questions Sent by the Select CommitteeAppendix 2: Liquor-Related Laws in Force in OntarioNotes; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Liquor and the Liberal State
Book SynopsisCultural pastime, profitable industry, or harmful influence on the nation? Liquor was a tricky issue for municipal, provincial, and federal governments after Confederation. Liquor and the Liberal State traces how the Ontario provincial government's takeover of liquor regulation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved both discrete local politics and expansive constitutional questions.Dan Malleck explores how notions of individual freedom, equality, and property rights were debated, challenged, and modified in response to a vocal prohibitionist movement and equally vocal liquor industry. While the liquor licensing regime helped build a vast patronage base for the governing Liberal Party, some believed it exceeded the constitutional authority of the province. The drink question became as political as it was moral a key issue in the establishment of judicial definitions of provincial and federal rights and, ultimately, in the crafting of the moderTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Arguing over Liquor and LiberalismPart 1: Managing the Province’s Liquor Problem1 The Place of the Government in the Drinks of the People2 Centralization, I: The Crooks Act3 Power and Influence in the New System4 Politics, Law, and the License BranchPart 2: The Complications of Liquor in a Federal Liberal State5 How Drinking Affects the Constitution, 1864–836 McCarthy and Crooks Enter a Tavern, 1883–857 Attempting to Water Down the Scott Act, 1884–928 Plebiscites as Tools for Change? 1883–949 Talking and Blocking National Prohibition, 1891–9910 Dodging Decisions at the End of the Liberals’ Era, 1894–190511 Drinking in Whitney’s Conservative Liberal State, 1905–0712 Centralization, II: Beyond the Crooks Act, 1907–16Conclusion: Liquor, Liberalism, and the Legacy of the Crooks ActAppendix 1: Questions Sent by the Select CommitteeAppendix 2: Liquor-Related Laws in Force in OntarioNotes; Index
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Pleasure and Panic
Book SynopsisPleasure and Panic illustrates how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption are complicated by the politics, economics, and culture of their times. Trade Review[Pleasure and Panic] is a compilation of fascinating studies that examine how the regulation and use of addictive substances have informed social movements, medical innovations, marketing, and even cultural identity. -- Dave Hazzan * Literary Review of Canada *"Despite the primarily Canadian focus and origins of this collection, there is much here for anyone broadly interested in the history of intoxicants." -- David Adler, Bournemouth University * The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs *Taken together, this collection [of essays] provides a valuable "state of the field," especially with regards to the history of drugs and alcohol in the Canadian context. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * Canadian Journal of Health History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Problems with Pleasures / Dan MalleckPart 1: Popular Pleasure and Panic1 The Transgressive Woman: Gender, Class, Alcohol and Drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh2 “To Find Out the Best Men and to Try to Get Them In”: Women, Temperance and Politics in Manchester 1873–1919 / Cynthia Belaskie3 Youth, Drugs, and Surveillance at Manseau’s Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion4 John Lennon, the LeDain Commission and the Rise of the Celebrity Activist / Greg MarquisPart 2: Medicinal Pleasure and Panic5 Manhood, Drink, and the “Medical Heresy” of U.S. Army Surgeon James Mann (1812–1816) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany6 Medicinal Purposes: Pharmacists, Professionalism, and Liquor Laws in Victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck7 A New Perspective on Harm Reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD Rescue Service / Christian ElcockPart 3: The Business of Pleasure and Panic8 Flogging a Dead Horse? Adulteration and Brewing in Nineteenth-Century England / Jonathan Reinarz9 Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The Story of the First Chinese-Canadian Hotel Licensee in Post-Prohibition Alberta / Sarah Hamill10 The Rise of the “Big Three”: The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945–1962 / Mathew J. BellamyIndex
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press Pleasure and Panic
Book SynopsisBooze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. And the history of drugs and alcohol is infused with what we understand as their proper and improper use.Pleasure and Panic reveals how cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities have always been deeply embedded in attitudes about drugs and alcohol. Long before John Lennon testified at Canada's Le Dain Commission in favour of marijuana decriminalization, social movements existed to challenge the view that consumption of mind-altering substances, especially by young people, posed a danger to society. The contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business.Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with theTrade Review[Pleasure and Panic] is a compilation of fascinating studies that examine how the regulation and use of addictive substances have informed social movements, medical innovations, marketing, and even cultural identity. -- Dave Hazzan * Literary Review of Canada *"Despite the primarily Canadian focus and origins of this collection, there is much here for anyone broadly interested in the history of intoxicants." -- David Adler, Bournemouth University * The Social History of Alcohol and Drugs *Taken together, this collection [of essays] provides a valuable "state of the field," especially with regards to the history of drugs and alcohol in the Canadian context. -- Catherine Carstairs, University of Guelph * Canadian Journal of Health History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Problems with Pleasures / Dan MalleckPart 1: Popular Pleasure and Panic1 The Transgressive Woman: Gender, Class, Alcohol and Drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh2 “To Find Out the Best Men and to Try to Get Them In”: Women, Temperance and Politics in Manchester 1873–1919 / Cynthia Belaskie3 Youth, Drugs, and Surveillance at Manseau’s Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion4 John Lennon, the LeDain Commission and the Rise of the Celebrity Activist / Greg MarquisPart 2: Medicinal Pleasure and Panic5 Manhood, Drink, and the “Medical Heresy” of U.S. Army Surgeon James Mann (1812–1816) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany6 Medicinal Purposes: Pharmacists, Professionalism, and Liquor Laws in Victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck7 A New Perspective on Harm Reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD Rescue Service / Christian ElcockPart 3: The Business of Pleasure and Panic8 Flogging a Dead Horse? Adulteration and Brewing in Nineteenth-Century England / Jonathan Reinarz9 Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The Story of the First Chinese-Canadian Hotel Licensee in Post-Prohibition Alberta / Sarah Hamill10 The Rise of the “Big Three”: The Emergence of a Canadian Brewing Oligopoly, 1945–1962 / Mathew J. BellamyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Scandalous Conduct
Book SynopsisDrunken disorderliness. Cowardice in battle. Writing bad cheques. Vulgarity. Sexual indecency. Adultery. Following courts martial for such disgraceful deeds, hundreds of Canadian officers lost their commissions during the First and Second World Wars. Scandalous Conduct investigates the forgotten experiences of these dismissed ex-officers to offer a new critical perspective on constructed notions of honour and dishonour. Matthew Barrett explores how changing definitions of scandalous behaviour shaped the quintessential honour crime known as conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman. As symbolized by the loss of commissioned rank, dishonour represented a direct challenge to the discredited officer's prestige, livelihood, and sense of manhood. Drawing on fascinating court cases that have never before been studied, Scandalous Conduct convincingly demonstrates a surprising conclusion. The scope of officer misconduct revealed that the ideal of military honour was notTable of ContentsIntroduction1 Honour and Dishonour in the British Army Tradition2 Dismissal and Cashiering in the First World War3 Coming Back and Making Good4 Dishonourable Records and the Interwar Period5 Dismissal and Cashiering in the Second World War6 Reclassification, Removal, and Re-enlistment7 De-officered and De-citizenedConclusionAppendix: Courts Martial DataNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Lessons in Legitimacy Colonialism Capitalism and
Book SynopsisLessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.Trade Review"Carleton’s multilayered approach offers a crucial and insightful perspective on the history of schooling – one that is sensitive to the spaces between state power and the paradoxical nature of the colonial project in Canada." -- Alex Gagne. York University * BC Studies *
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press The Slow Rush of Colonization Spaces of Power in
Book SynopsisThis history analyzes over one hundred years of complex interactions between the Mi’kmaw, Wabanaki, Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik, French, and English to show the continuity of Indigenous independence from the European newcomers.Trade Review"[Peace] highlights evidence that shows Indigenous people standing up to colonizing powers and significantly shaping encounters." -- L. De Danaan, emeritus, Evergreen State College. * CHOICE Connect *
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press The Slow Rush of Colonization
Book SynopsisThis history analyzes over one hundred years of complex interactions between the Mi’kmaw, Wabanaki, Peskotomuhkati, Wolastoqiyik, French, and English to show the continuity of Indigenous independence from the European newcomers.Trade Review"[Peace] highlights evidence that shows Indigenous people standing up to colonizing powers and significantly shaping encounters." -- L. De Danaan, emeritus, Evergreen State College. * CHOICE Connect *
£27.90
University of British Columbia Press Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi
Book SynopsisResistance and Recognition at Kitigan Zibi tells the modern history of Kitigan Zibi, the largest and oldest Algonquin reserve in Canada. This local history sheds light on the larger experience of the Algonquin First Nations whose traditional lands span the Ottawa River watershed and cross contemporary boundaries.Drawing on archival sources and interviews with community members, this work elucidates the relationship between culture and politics on the reserve during the twentieth century. Despite the disruptions of settler colonialism, the Algonquin have maintained a distinct identity and have waged a multifaceted struggle against assimilation and economic marginalization. This struggle has played out in political spaces including border-crossing celebrations, grand councils, and courtrooms. This fight has also informed strategic labour choices, interactions with game wardens, and protests against the Catholic Church. Resistance and Recognition at Kitigan ZTable of ContentsPositionality Introduction 1 Race, Land Loss, and Economic Marginalization 2 Strategies of Economic and Extra-Legal Resistance 3 Political Resistance to Land Loss and Economic Marginalization 4 Algonquin and Oblate Catholicisms 5 Algonquin Culture during the Twentieth Century Conclusion Notes; Bibliography; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press The Notorious Georges
Book SynopsisBoozy and boisterous. The Georges the communities of South Fort George and Fort George that ultimately became Prince George acquired a seedy reputation for a century, at times branded the dubious title of Canada's most dangerous city. Is Prince George really such a bad lad?The Notorious Georges explores how the pursuit of respectability collided with caricatures of a riotous settlement frontier in its early years. Anxious about being marginalized by the provincial government and venture capitalists, municipal leaders blamed Indigenous and mixed-heritage people, non-preferred immigrants, and transient labourers for local crime. Jonathan Swainger combs through police and legal records, government publications, and media commentary to demonstrate that the disorder was not so different from the rest of the province and respectable white residents were often to blame.This lively account tells us about more than a particular community's identity. It also sheds liTable of ContentsIntroduction: Anxious at the Very Gates of Hell1 Establishing the Georges and the Birth of a Bad Reputation2 The British Columbia Provincial Police, Regulatory Policing, and Keeping the Peace3 City Governance and the Prince George City Police4 Holding Court in the Georges5 Sensations, Front-Page Crime, and Community IdentityEpilogue: That Prince George BusinessNotes; Bibliography; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press From Where I Stand
Book SynopsisJody Wilson-Raybould outlines in impassioned, inspiring prose the actions that must be taken by governments, Indigenous Nations, and all Canadians to achieve true reconciliation in this country.Trade ReviewThe story of this ongoing narrative is of a cultural bridge disrespected in bias against gender and culture and, with her, all of us ingenuous in our optimism, we feel the tragic loss of an opportunity squandered. -- Linda Rogers * The Ormsby Review *Table of ContentsForeword | Senator Murray SinclairIntroductionMoving through the Postcolonial DoorWe Truly Have Come a Long Way ...Idle No More and Recapturing the Spirit and Intent of the Two Row WampumOn the Parallels, and Differences, between Canada and South AfricaOur Shared Histories and the Path of ReconciliationRights and RecognitionFriduciary Gridlock and the Inherent Right of Self-GovernmentTranslating Hard-Fought-For Rights into Practical and Meaningful BenefitsUNDRIP Is the Start, Not the Finishing Line Defining the Path of Reconciliation through Section 35Indigenous Rights Are Human RightsImplementing UNDRIPGovernance in the Post-Indian Act WorldToppling the Indian Act TreeFirst Nations Jurisdiction over CitizenshipHolding and Managing Our LandsOn Accountability and TransparencyDeveloping a New Fiscal RelationshipThe Governance Toolkit and Building on OUR SuccessBuilding Business Relationships and the Duty to ConsultEconomic Development Depends on Self-GovernmentFirst Nations Are Not a Box to Tick OffWho Owns and Is Responsible for the Water?On Certainty and Why It’s ElusiveRestoring Balance, Correcting Injustices, and Remaining VigilantA Litmus Test for Reconciliation Is the Status of WomenPreventing First Contacts with the Criminal Justice SystemOn Sticking Our Necks OutOn Obstruction, Denial, and Canada’s Failure to Uphold the Rule of LawEach of Us, In Our Own Way, Is a Hiligax̱ste’AcknowledgmentsA Note on Terminology and the SpeechesCase Law and Legislation CitedIndex
£18.99
University of British Columbia Press Our Long Struggle for Home
Book SynopsisIn this disquieting story of broken promises and thwarted justice, the Anishinaabe of Stoney Point tell of the long struggle to reclaim their ancestral homeland, both before and after the Ipperwash crisis.Trade Review"[Our Long Struggle for Home] is a particular telling of a pivotal and often overlooked chapter of Canadian history." * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsForeword / John BorrowsMapsGenealogyIntroduction1 No Word for Surrender2 “The House Was Gone”3 Disruption and Determination4 Under Cover of Prayer Meetings5 Burying the Hatchet under a Peace Tree6 Peacekeepers and Nation Builders7 Taking the Barracks8 September 5–6, 1995, Project Maple9 September 5–6, 1995, from Our Point of View10 After the ShootingEpilogue: Two Boats Travelling Side by SideAfterword: Learning to Be Treaty Kin / Heather MenziesNotes; Index
£18.99
Chelsea House Publishers The Apache Wars
Book SynopsisFor a quarter century - 1861 to 1886 - the US military attempted to subjugate one of the largest Indian tribes of the American Southwest. This book presents the tale of how thanks to leaders such as Victorio and Geronimo, the Apache Indians held out longer than any other major US tribe.
£29.71
The Trail of Tears
Book SynopsisIn 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. This book is an insightful exploration of the dark chapter in Native American history.
£27.16
Cornell University Press The Devil
Book SynopsisThis lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil and its personification as the Devil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament and across cultures and civilizations.Trade ReviewAll readers... will be enriched and stimulated by this honestly presented biography of the Evil One. The Devil, in religious myth, personal vision, and mystical reality, offers invaluable material for reflection and meditation. * Studia Mystica *Russell is not only a conscientious historian, anxious to examine in texts, myths, legends, art and literature the persistence and transformation of a particular idea. He is also an introspective essayist who acknowledges his own continuing struggle to understand the nature and source of evil. -- Robert Coles * New York Times Book Review *This fascinating story of 'the Devil' explores the concept and personification of evil (defined as 'the infliction of pain on sentient beings') from its ancient beginnings into New Testament times. * Seventeenth Century News *This is a serious work by a first-rate medievalist who has turned his eyes to antiquity in order to elucidate the sources of man's experience of the evil one. The result is scholarly, readable, and comprehensive.... Russell's notations are copious and impressive, attesting to the vast amount of research that has gone into this study. The text is richly illustrated with some fifty well-chosen plates.... An exceptionally lucid study and a major contribution to the field. * Review of Books and Religion *
£39.60
Cornell University Press Fieldnotes
Book SynopsisThirteen distinguished anthropologists describe how they create and use the unique forms of writing they produce in the field. They also discuss the fieldnotes of seminal figures—Frank Cushing, Franz Boas, W. H. R. Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, and...
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Cornell University Press Colonial Intimacies Indian Marriage in Early New
Book SynopsisIn 1668 Sarah Ahhaton, a married Native American woman of the Massachusetts Bay town of Punkapoag, confessed in an English court to having committed adultery. For this crime she was tried, found guilty, and publicly whipped and shamed; she contritely...Trade ReviewAnn Marie Plane takes an original approach to the subject of English-Indian relations in colonial America by focusing on marriage.... Plane reinterprets colonial New England's history by concluding that the English cultivated the idea of Indians as culturally different to keep Indians on the margins of English civil society.... This interesting argument allows Plane to formulate valuable, far-reaching insights into what marriage is and how it works.... The book is most illuminating... in explaining how English colonists understood and used cultural differences to create a sense of themselves. -- Nancy Shoemaker, University of Connecticut * Journal of American History *In this historiographical context, three genuinely inspired ideas drive Ann Marie Plane's fascinating study of Native American conjugal relations in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. -- Daniel K. Richter, University of Pennsylvania * Reviews in American History *Anne Marie Plane's Colonial Intimacies: Indian Marriage in Early New England offers a treasure of evidence and anecdotes about Native American women's and family history, reflecting years of dedication to researching a notoriously difficult subject. -- Eric Arnesen, University of Illinois at Chicago * Law and History Review *Plane does a wonderful job of reading closely Indian conversion narratives and court cases for telling hints of how the Puritans transformed Indians into an immoral and inferior subclass residing on the periphery of New England society.... This is an innovative and important work, and students of the ethnohistory of early New England will need to have a look. -- Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY, Geneseo * American Historical Review *Case studies support the author's conclusions and provide examples of real people trying to adjust to a foreign order. Recommended for undergraduate Indian and Colonial history collections. * Choice *Colonial Intimacies is a welcome addition to New England family history, providing a multicultural dimension to a field largely centered on Puritan households.... Her engaging text draws readers into a complex world of human relationships, with all the messy complications life can offer. Not the least of Plane's accomplishments is her ability to put a face on the impersonal forces of colonialism. -- Melanie Perreault, Salisbury University * William and Mary Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press The Evidence of Things Not Said
Book SynopsisThe Evidence of Things Not Said employs the rich essays of James Baldwin to interrogate the politics of race in American democracy. Lawrie Balfour advances the political discussion of Baldwin's work, and regards him as a powerful political thinker...Trade ReviewIn asking political theorists and literary critics alike to read Baldwin as a political analyst, The Evidence of Things Not Said usefully holds a mirror to our methodologies and to their relation to racial injustice itself. -- Priscilla Wald * The Review of Politics *This examination of James Baldwin's essays explores his contribution to political theory.... The book concludes with a discussion of Baldwin's complicated relation with language and a consideration of his significance in the political landscape of the 21st century. * Journal of Social Work Education *This sensitive, superbly written book teaches that social criticism must make people face their deepest fears and renounce comfort and security as selfish illusions. * American Political Science Review *A worthy reexamination of the works of a powerful writer. -- Vanessa Bush * Booklist *Balfour focuses on Baldwin's essays... with the acknowledged intent of tracing the trajectory of continuity throughout.... The first chapter serves as a lengthy background.... Subsequent chapters... offer new critical insights and approaches to Baldwin's essays, a genre that many critics have labeled his best and most significant writing. * Choice *Balfour... has written an unusual, complex analysis of novelist and essayist James Baldwin (1924-87) as a political theorist.... Intriguing. * Library Journal *Table of ContentsSpeaking of race; "a most disagreeable mirror"; blessed are the victims?; presumptions of innocence; the living word; Baldwin and the search for a majority.
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Cornell University Press Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
Book SynopsisAn innovative, substantial intervention in critical race theory, this book brings together an impressive roster of thinkers to trace the question of race in modern philosophical inquiry and explore its influence on contemporary philosophy.
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Cornell University Press Escaping Auschwitz A Culture of Forgetting
Book SynopsisOn 7 April 1944 a Slovakian Jew, Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg), and a fellow prisoner, Alfred Wetzler, succeeded in escaping from Auschwitz-Birkenau. As block registrars both men had been allowed relative (though always risky) freedom of...Trade ReviewLinn reawakens the most painful issue that has agitated the Jewish community since the Holocaust: did Jewish organizations (Judenrat) abet the Nazis in killing their own people? The book is well documented and argued. Recommended. * Choice *When Rudolf Verba escaped from the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in April 1944, he did so not only to save his and co-escapee Alfred Wetzler's life, he did so also to warn the more than half a million Hungarian Jews of their impending fate. Knowing perfectly well that it was the secrecy surrounding their actions that allowed the Nazis to herd the unsuspecting Jews and transport them as sheep to slaughter, Verba and Wetzler—as soon as they got in touch with Jewish community representatives in their native Slovakia—compiled a detailed report. They wrote what Auschwitz was all about and what awaited the Hungarian Jews once they got there: immediate death by gassing. Just as they were reading the Auschwitz Protocol—as the Vrba-Wetzler report would be known as The Hungarian Jewish leaders were involved in delicate negotiations with high ranking SS officer Adolf Eichmann. On surface, they were trying to get a deal that would allow them, their families and their friends to leave Hungary unscathed, with most of their worldly possessions in tow, and in exchange, the Nazis would get trucks and other such material from the Allies. Some of the Hungarian Jewish leaders would later acknowledge that both sides described the talks as 'blood for trucks'. Escaping Auschwitz should explode like a multi-megaton bomb among scientists in general and historians in particular, not only in Israel, but all over the world. And it should alarm nonscientific readers, as well, so they start asking uncomfortable questions about people who write their history for them, and how. Neither the story of the Auschwitz Protocols nor the writings of Rudolf Vrba have ever been made part of any school curricula in Israel, and neither the Auschwitz Protocols or Rudolf Vrba's writings have been published in Hebrew in Israel until the end of the last century, more than a half of a century after the fact. Ruth Linn's Escaping Auschwitz reads like a novel. It must have taken a lot of persistence and courage on her part to break through the establishment barriers, but she did it. And it took a lot of integrity on the part of Cornell University Press to publish this book. It deals with a most unpleasant topic, but it is one that must see the light of day. Escaping Auschwitz should be a must-have book in every school's and academic establishment's library, all over the world. * The Jerusalem Post *
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MB - Cornell University Press The Mirror of Antiquity American Women and the Classical Tradition 17501900
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Cornell University Press Red Brethren
Book SynopsisNew England Indians created the multitribal Brothertown and Stockbridge communities during the eighteenth century with the intent of using Christianity and civilized reforms to cope with white expansion. In Red Brethren, David J. Silverman considers the stories of these communities and argues that Indians in early America were racial thinkers in their own right and that indigenous people rallied together as Indians not only in the context of violent resistance but also in campaigns to adjust peacefully to white dominion. All too often, the Indians discovered that their many concessions to white demands earned them no relief. In the era of the American Revolution, the pressure of white settlements forced the Brothertowns and Stockbridges from New England to Oneida country in upstate New York. During the early nineteenth century, whites forced these Indians from Oneida country, too, until they finally wound up in Wisconsin. Tired of moving, in the 1830s and 1840s, the BrTrade ReviewBy examining the origin and development of race consciousness among the Brothertowns and Stockbridges, David J. Silverman opens a window onto Native explanations of colonialism and its discontents for Indian peoples.... Red Brethren is a concise, well-researched, passionately written case study of the formation of racial identity among two Native groups. Silverman suggests that these northeastern Alongonquian communities' racial identities as Indians emerged from practical struggles—principally the need to resist relentless land pressure—with a strong assist from awakened religion. He is careful not to homogenize the process and draws subtle distinctions in how it unfolded among the Brothertowns and the Stockbridges. But while the development of racial consciousness might not have been uniform across every community, Silverman sees race emerging within particular regional landscapes. Red Brethren invites, and will doubtless reward, close comparison with other studies of race formation among other peoples, not only Indians, throughout early America. * William and Mary Quarterly *David Silverman's Red Brethren is a welcome addition to a growing historiography concerning race in early America. Covering two hundred years, from the middle of the seventeenth century through the 1850s, the book traces the interrelated stories of Brothertown and Stockbridge, two Christian Indian communities that migrated repeatedly, eventually settling in Wisconsin, in order to escape the pressures of Anglo-American expansion. The story that Silverman tells may at first appear to be one of cultural assimilation, for he describes Native peoples converting to Christianity, abandoning traditional subsistence cycles in order to embrace market agriculture, transforming communal land holdings into privately held lots, and even accepting federal citizenship by the mid-nineteenth century. But Silverman in fact illustrates how these actions reflected strategies of resistance in a world that increasingly defined Native peoples as inherently inferior. In essence, Silverman explores how Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians redefined racial ideologies meant to marginalize them while attempting to defend their own self-determination. The result is a wonderfully well-researched, readable, and insightful relation of American Indian history. Red Brethren is an excellent book that offers historical context for understanding the ways in which race undermined tribal sovereignty, unity, and land ownership. Its rich research in primary and secondary sources makes it useful for the expert scholar, and its readable narrative assures that it should find a place in both the undergraduate classroom and on the avocational historian's bookshelf. -- Brad Jarvis * New England Quarterly *In this compelling book David J. Silverman examines two multitribal Christian native groups, the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians. Silverman's narrative spans two centuries and half a continent as he follows his subjects from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century, from greater Long Island Sound to western Massachusetts, central New York, and finally the lakeshore of Wisconsin. In doing so, he draws from sizeable caches of native-authored sermons, journals, and letters. This is not a study of postcontact Indian ethnogenesis nor is it a story of native conversion or migration though it covers each of these topics quite well. Instead the argument centers on these Indians' roles in creating and opposing emerging American notions of race.... Silverman sensitively explores how allegations of racial betrayal and impurity surfaced in disputes between Christian groups and their native neighbors, and between the groups' Indian and Afro-Indian members. This crisply written and thoughtful book is rich with vivid quotations from Indian sources that attest to Silverman's prodigious research. Red Brethren delivers on its promise of 'a deeply human lesson about the dark power of race in the history of America' (p. 9). -- Andrew Lipman * Journal of American History *Silverman's Red Brethren is deeply researched and well narrated; it tells a robust and nuanced story because of its attention to developments among the Oneidas and Stockbridges as well as the Brothertowns. It is deft in its critical examination of the internal conflicts that bedeviled these Native communities or set them against each other. Red Brethren offers tribal history, but it pushes beyond the older historiography of Indian history and Indian-white relations to examine fresh questions, including potentially the place of Indians within the larger narrative of American history.... Red Brethren shows that there's much more to be learned about American identity and principles and how they have been contorted by the problem of race. -- Matthew Dennis * Journal of the Early Republic *This is the best work on these Christian Indian communities and a notable contribution to the growing literature on the emergence of race in America. Highly recommended. -- D. R. Mandell * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologue: That Overwhelming Tide of Fate 1. All One Indian 2. Converging Paths 3. Betrayals 4. Out from Under the Burdens 5. Exodus 6. Cursed 7. Red Brethren 8. More Than They Know How to Endure 9. Indians or Citizens, White Men or Red? Epilogue: "Extinction" and a "Common Ancestor" Notes Index
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Cornell University Press To Live upon Hope Mohicans and Missionaries in
Book SynopsisWheeler explores the question of what "missionary Christianity" became in the hands of two native communities in the 18th century: the Mohicans of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and the Shekomeko of Dutchess County, New York.Trade ReviewBehind the mythology of The Last of the Mohicans and recent revisionist accounts, Native and otherwise, that regard the Christian mission to the Indians as an unmitigated disaster, there lies a tangled and often deeply moving tale, well told by Rachel Wheeler.... We should read it to better understand a crucial episode in the national story, and also to shine a comparative light on the working out of our own faith. * Christianity Today *In this meticulously researched and well-written book, Rachel Wheeler adds to the growing scholarship exploring how Native American communities adapted 'missionary Christianity' to suit their own needs....Wheeler successfully examines some of the complex responses native peoples developed in a rapidly changing colonial world. -- Shawn G. Wiemann * History: Reviews of New Books *Rachel Wheeler provides an impressive amount of texture, detail, and contingency as she traces the outline of two very different and intriguing mission towns. Throughout, Wheeler's emphasis is on how Indians 'adapted Christianity to preserve and construct community.' Wheeler is a deft storyteller. To Live Upon Hope is perhaps the most sophisticated analysis of northeastern Indian lifeworlds and religious interiority that we have to date, in part because of Wheeler's mastery of the difficult eighteenth-century Moravian manuscript archives—a feat claimed only by a few contemporary American historians. And for this and many other reasons, this excellent volume is sure to be enjoyed by students and historians interested in Native American studies and/or the religious history of early America. * Journal of Social History *This is a wonderful book for what it does for the field of mission history. Comparing two communities influenced by two different denominations brings into sharp relief the competition for native souls in colonial British America; Wheeler never loses sight of the ferocious power dynamics of colonialism. Wheeler has also accomplished a tough task, showing how Mohicans made two types of Protestantism their own. To Live upon Hope is a reminder that Christianity was not always a shock-troop weapon against native peoples; it could become a source of Indian pride and strength. Wheeler's dual approach is also a tragic statement on the bar of civility and racial superiority with some mission efforts that always set limits on native acceptance into Anglo-American society. There is much left to ponder with this work. * Journal of American History *To Live Upon Hope is a monumental study of the Mohican Indian mission experience in the eighteenth century.... Using her tenacious skill at uncovering countless obscure manuscript sources, Rachel Wheeler has re-created the little-known story of these Indian missions and, in comparing the two, placed her emphasis on the 'reconfiguration of peoples and the formation of racial identity.'... To Live Upon Hope outlines the careers of many fascinating characters, including Umpachene and Hendrick at Stockbridge and Shabash, Tschoop, and Joshua at Shekomeko. Wheeler's use of the sources is thorough and unmatched; indeed, her study serves as a sourcebook for the period.... Wheeler's history is a major work and should remain as the definitive study of the Mohican mission experience for many years to come. Demonstrating clearly and eloquently that the Mohicans did not rely on hope alone to survive in a changing world, she shows that they acted and they adapted. -- Lion Miles * The New England Quarterly *To Live upon Hopecontributes significantly to underattended topics through careful study of local archives. Rachel Wheeler applies appropriately adapted theory to develop fresh arguments about the relations of power between imperial and indigenous agency in a book that should make useful reading for scholars in Native American Studies and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies.... Chapter six (Mohican Men and Jesus as Manitou) and chapter eight (Mohican Women and the Community of the Blood) best exemplify her central arguments about Mohican Christianity. They are worth the purchasing price of the whole book for anyone interested in discussing the gendered dimensions of Indian religious conversion in eighteenth century America as part of an advanced undergraduate or graduate seminar. * James O'Neil Spady *Wheeler is particularly strong on Moravian Mohican spirituality, including its gendered dimensions, and her thorough and compelling reading of Edwards's relationship with the Stockbridge Mohicans must now stand as the authoritative discussion of that subject. The comparative dimension only adds to the book's richness, particularly by highlighting perhaps inadvertently the relatively limited role played by piety and religious practice, as opposed to political and material benefits, in motivating eastern Indians to work with Anglo-Protestant missionaries. To Live upon Hope is sure to become required reading for anyone interested in Indians and/or religion, particularly in eighteenth-century North America. -- Neal Salisbury * William and Mary Quarterly *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Indian and ChristianPart I. Hope 2. The River God and the Lieutenant 3. Covenants, Contracts, and the Founding of StockbridgePart II. Renewal 4. The Chief and the Orator 5. Moravian Missionaries of the Blood 6. Mohican Men and Jesus as ManitouPart III. Preservation 7. The Village Matriarch and the Young Mother 8. Mohican Women and the Community of the BloodPart IV. Persecution 9. The Dying Chief and the Accidental Missionary 10. Indian and White Bodies Politic at StockbridgeConclusion 11. Irony and Identity 12. The Cooper and the Sachem 13. Epilogue: Real and Ideal IndiansAbbreviations Notes Index
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Cornell University Press A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism
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Cornell University Press Jews and the Imperial State
Book Synopsis"This absorbing book is a fine contribution to the growing literature on official identification and the administrative life of the state, including its characteristic product, the paper document."—Jane Caplan, University of OxfordTrade ReviewIn recent years, scholars of late imperial Russia have paid considerable attention to the empire's nationalities issues and, in particular, the experience of its Jewish communities. This book, based largely on the author's use of regional and central archives in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Kiev, is a significant contribution to the literature.... Much of this slender but delicately nuanced volume is devoted to exploring the creative ways that Jews used the instruments of the czarist regime to their own advantage: 'At times, Jews forged passports, refashioned their social identities, and even converted in an attempt to subvert a maze of legal codes.' The new documents, many Jews soon realized, were 'a ticket for participation in the imperial social order.'. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Making Jews Legible 2. Power of Documentation 3. Movement and Residence 4. Invisible Jews 5. The Jewish Name Epilogue: Collapse of the Imperial Ghetto Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Black Yanks in the Pacific
Book SynopsisBy the end of World War II, many black citizens viewed service in the segregated American armed forces with distaste if not disgust. Meanwhile, domestic racism and Jim Crow, ongoing Asian struggles against European colonialism, and prewar calls for Afro-Asian solidarity had generated considerable black ambivalence toward American military expansion in the Pacific, in particular the impending occupation of Japan. However, over the following decade black military service enabled tens of thousands of African Americans to interact daily with Asian peoplesencounters on a scale impossible prior to 1945. It also encouraged African Americans to share many of the same racialized attitudes toward Asian peoples held by their white counterparts and to identify with their government''s foreign policy objectives in Asia.In Black Yanks in the Pacific, Michael Cullen Green tells the story of African American engagement with military service in occupied Japan, war-torn South Korea, andTrade ReviewDuring the decade following WWII, the US embarked upon two great historical journeys—the civil rights movement and the Cold War. In this brief but thought-provoking study, Green examines the interaction of these two forces through the eyes of African American soldiers stationed in postwar Asia.... A fascinating sidelight is Green's examination of the sad fate of African-Asian offspring left behind. A thoughtful, provocative study that skillfully integrates the interplay of domestic and foreign policy. Summing up: Highly recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Everyday Racial Politics in a Military Empire Chapter 1: Reconversion Blues and the Appeal of (Re)Enlistment Chapter 2: The American Dream in a Prostrate Japan Chapter 3: The Public Politics of Intimate Affairs Chapter 4: A Brown Baby Crisis Chapter 5: The Race of Combat in Korea Epilogue: Military Desegregation in a Militarized World Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Suffrage Reconstructed
Book SynopsisThe Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, identified all legitimate voters as male. In so doing, it added gender-specific language to the U.S. Constitution for the first time. Suffrage Reconstructed considers how and why the amendment''s authors made this decision. Vividly detailing congressional floor bickering and activist campaigning, Laura E. Free takes readers into the pre- and postwar fights over precisely who should have the right to vote. Free demonstrates that all men, black and white, were the ultimate victors of these fights, as gender became the single most important marker of voting rights during Reconstruction.Free argues that the Fourteenth Amendment''s language was shaped by three key groups: African American activists who used ideas about manhood to claim black men''s right to the ballot, postwar congressmen who sought to justify enfranchising southern black men, and women''s rights advocates who began to petition Congress for the ballot for Trade ReviewMuch of the work analyzing the Reconstruction constitutional amendments and their connection to women's rights has focused on the Fifteenth Amendment's restriction of suffrage to men. Hobart and William Smith College associate professor of history Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed expands the discussion to a detailed analysis of the Fourteenth Amendment's deliberate inclusion of the word male. While examining the expansion of voting rights, Free provides fresh insight into the dispute over who was considered worthy of full inclusion in American political life. She explains in detail how the debates led Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to ally themselves with the racist language and political philosophy of the Democratic Party. Free has made a valuable contribution to the discussion of women's rights and the history of suffrage in the United States. * The North Carolina Historical Review *The author depicts work by suffragists to turn voters against the (Fifteenth) amendment by using the racist language and stereotyping of the day, denigrating the very former slaves they had fought so hard to free. In doing so, they attempted to achieve voting rights for themselves by denying the same right to others. Free's book is an informative and sometimes shocking study of a little-known Reconstruction drama. * Choice *This book invites historians of the rise of American democracy to engage in dialogue with historians of woman suffrage. It is an invitation to be heeded. * Journal of American History *A decisive study of the evolution of American suffrage rights in the ante- and immediate post-bellum era(s), Laura Free's Suffrage Reconstructed makes significant contributions to the field of American intellectual history.... A wide audience of scholars, particularly African American and women's and gender historians would benefit from reading this text, as well as scholars interested in the political history of New York State. * New York History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: We, the People1. The White Man's Government2. Manhood and Citizenship3. The Family Politic4. The Rights of Men5. That Word "Male"6. White Women’s RightsConclusion: By Reason of RaceAcknowledgments Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Kith Kin and Neighbors
Book SynopsisPerhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, this book sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.Trade ReviewFrick's work is an inspiration and a treasury of information to any scholar dealing with almost any aspect of early-modern European history. It is exuberant in detail, yet not overburdened; such a book could have been written very differently. Frick leads the reader by the hand through the streets of a city throbbing with life, echoing to the sounds of bells from different churches and an almost Pentecostal variety of Vilnian voices. The book is an exciting time-travel guide besides its scholarly excellence. -- Maria Takala-Roszczenko * The Catholic Historical Review *"The book is studded with amusing anecdotes and memorable passages... This is a multilayered 'thick description' of innumerable archival documents, not an attempt to make sweeping generalizations or provide an overview of religious history is the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Cornell University Press also deserves praise for producing this long, complex, and fascinating book on a topic that would probably not appear to be at the height of present scholarly fashions. For anyone interested in Slavic linguistics, Polish-Lithuanian history in the modern period, or urban history in east central Europe, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors is a must-read, while the rich material and lively writing will captivate historians, linguists, and Slavists of any period." —Theodore R. Weeks, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Slavic ReviewThis remarkable volume spreads before the reader one of the most detailed pictures of social, cultural, and religious life in an early modern European town that I have ever seen. Since the town in question is Wilno (called Vilnius by Lithuanians and Vilna by Russians and Jews), capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was one of the constituent parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the picture is a complex one. It combines in a fascinating blend much that is familiar from other parts of Europe with the features specific to Eastern Europe....The book's great success is in capturing the immediacy of Wilno’s multiconfessionality through the intensive use of personal stories. The reader can thus get to know at least some of seventeenth-century Wilno’s population by name, to recognize the prominent families, and often to see the same people in action in a range of different settings. The author’s close attention to the source material also permits him to examine the full range of social structures and relations that made up early modern urban life without ignoring the frictions and tensions they inevitably caused. This is social history at its best[.]. -- Adam Teller, * The Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Over the Quartermaster's Shoulder2. The Neighbors3. One Roof, Four Walls4. The Bells of Wilno5. Stereotyping, Writing, Speaking6. Birth, Baptism, Godparenting7. Education and Apprenticeship8. Courtship and Marriage9. Marital Discontents10. Guild House, Workshop, Brotherhood Altar11. Going to Law: The Language of Litigation12. War, Occupation, Exile, Liberation (1655–1661)13. Old Age and Poor Relief14. Death in WilnoEpilogue: Conflict and CoexistenceAppendix A: Selected Streets and Areas Treated in the TextAppendix B: Genealogical TablesAbbreviations Notes Works Cited Index
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Cornell University Press Erotic Exchanges
Book SynopsisNina Kushner reveals the complex world of elite prostitution in eighteenth-century Paris by focusing on the professional mistresses who dominated it. Kushner’s primary sources include thousands of folio pages of dossiers and other documents generated by the Paris police.Trade ReviewEach chapter of Erotic Exchanges begins with a different woman's story and the questions raised by it... Making for an engaging readthis technique fosters acknowledgement that the woman who works in the demimonde were individual economic actors with complex and intimate social ties. Their eighteenth century was one in which coerced choice was part of the 'fabric of everyday life' (p. 220). -- Pamela Cheek * Eighteenth-Century Life *If a historian is like a detective, this book is like a thrilling page-turner that immerses the reader in the underworld of the demimonde in eighteenth-century Paris.... Kushner's book fulfils its main ambition of 'reconstructing the demimonde' (p. 4) and it constitutes a great addition to the existing literature on eighteenth-century prostitution, police and the sexual underworld. Notwithstanding the theoretical contentions surrounding the concept of 'sexual capital’ this book is a must-read not only for students of the eighteenth century, women’s history, gender or the history of sexuality, but for anyone interested in a broader historical perspective on the sex trade. -- Frank Ejby-Poulsen * European Review of History *In Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, Nina Kushner paints a vivid picture of elite prostitutes, or dames entretenues, and the men who supported them.... Through an impressive archival analysis of thousands of pages of police reports, Kushner describes where these women came from, for whom they worked, the terms of their employment, how much they made, and if they had private lives of their own.... In a veritable tour de force, Kushner draws compelling portraits of these women's lives.... Kushner's study is richly textured, smart, and it is a lively read. She navigates extremely well between individual lives, as recorded by the police, and the larger population of kept women. Moreover, in framing sex as work, her research sheds important light on the realities faced by many French women of the mid-century, namely, significant economic fragility. It also offers opportunities to rethink libertine literature and Rococo painting that never tired of depicting the dames entretenues. Erotic Exchanges thus represents an excellent example of sociocultural history that compellingly recreates the demimonde, the women who worked there, and the culture that made it all possible. -- Lesley H. Walker * American Historical Review *In spring 1758 Dame Boujard entrusted her thirteen-year-old daughter Marie to the elite brothel owner Madame Varenne, who promptly set about hawking the girl's virginity. The marquis de Bandol negotiated a price of ninety-six livres (about half the annual salary of a shopgirl), but the deal collapsed when the client claimed that the girl was not a virgin. Marie then spent six months at Varenne’s brothel before contracting a venereal disease (probably syphilis); at the age of fifteen she became the mistress of the marquis de Persenat who paid off her mother’s considerable debts and offered Marie herself a contract of three hundred a month. Forgotten figures like Marie, her mother, Varenne, and the marquis populate Nina Kushner’s richly detailed and persuasive sociocultural history of eighteenth-century Parisian prostitution.... [T]his generous but unsentimental study will be of enduring value to those interested in women’s history, libertinage, and urban culture. -- Thomas Wynn * French Studies *Nina Kushner examines the role of girls' and women's agency along the spectrum of sex work that catered to an upper-class clientele, and in doing so, evokes both sympathy and admiration for her subjects. * Bust *Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-CenturyParis brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... [W]hile several histories of prostitution have illuminated the world of sex work inthe early modern world, none has looked with extended attention at the women at the veryeconomic pinnacle of this domain, the elite prostitutes and mistresses in the demimonde. Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life and its relative separateness from the larger world of prostitution. -- Janine M. Lanza * Journal of Modern History *One of the most compelling features of the book is the fact that Kushner raises fascinating questions and draws attention to a number of paradoxes underlying the web of relations between police, prostitutes, clients and procurers.... Erotic Exchanges is not addressed to specialists in Enlightenment France (although those interested in the specific topic of eighteenth-century courtesans will appreciate having a social historian's expert perspective on the subject), but it offers a valuable contribution to the fields of women's history or history of prostitution. Kushner's combination of careful archives research and sharp sociological analyses makes her book an intriguing look into the universe of eighteenth-century France’s elite prostitution. -- Marine Ganofsky * French History *This history brings to life les dames entretenues—women who dazzled and scandalized eighteenth-century Paris as mistresses of powerful men. Kushner traces the pathways to élite prostitution: many mistresses began as actresses and singers; others were sold into the demimonde by their parents. She finds that mistresses were held to have a stabilizing influence on men's romantic whims, and they enjoyed some of the benefits of married women. Contracts guaranteed their pay, and they were often the primary breadwinners for their own families. Some mistresses found lifetime partners in their patrons, and some achieved financial independence, but many were discarded by their late twenties and began a life of streetwalking. Kushner avoids over-contemporizing her subject, affording her women agency but not more than they actually had. * New Yorker *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Police and the Demimonde 2. Leaving Home 3. Being Sold into the Demimonde 4. Madams and Their Networks 5. Contracts and Elite Prostitution as Work 6. Male Experiences of Galanterie 7. Sexual Capital and the Private Lives of Mistresses Conclusion
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Cornell University Press The Consuming Temple
Book SynopsisDepartment stores in Germany, like their predecessors in France, Britain, and the United States, generated great excitement when they appeared at the end of the nineteenth century. Their sumptuous displays, abundant products, architectural innovations, and prodigious scale inspired widespread fascination and even awe; at the same time, however, many Germans also greeted the rise of the department store with considerable unease. In The Consuming Temple, Paul Lerner explores the complex German reaction to department stores and the widespread belief that they posed hidden dangers both to the individuals, especially women, who frequented them and to the nation as a whole.Drawing on fiction, political propaganda, commercial archives, visual culture, and economic writings, Lerner provides multiple perspectives on the department store, placing it in architectural, gender-historical, commercial, and psychiatric contexts. Noting that Jewish entrepreneurs founded most German depTrade ReviewThis book does more than just providing another economic or business history of the rise of the centralized, rationalized and scientifically managed department store in Germany.... In comparison with the existing literature, which has often taken the 'Jewishness' of German department store owners for granted, Lerner excels at questioning and reflecting the multiple perspectives on the ‘figure of the Jew’ while analyzing their implications for the development of the German department store in general. -- Gerulf Hirt * Oxford Journals: German History *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Jerusalem's Terrain: The Department Store and Its Discontents in Imperial Germany2. Dreamworlds in Motion: Circulation, Cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish Question3. Uncanny Encounters: The Thief, the Shopgirl, and the Department Store King4. Beyond the Consuming Temple: Jewish Dissimilation and Consumer Modernity in Provincial Germany5. The Consuming Fire: Fantasies of Destruction in German Politics and CultureConclusionNotesSelected BibliographyIndex
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MB - Cornell University Press Holy Legionary Youth
Book SynopsisFounded in 1927, Romania’s Legion of the Archangel Michael was one of Europe’s largest and longest-lived fascist social movements. In Holy Legionary Youth, Roland Clark draws on oral histories, memoirs, and substantial research in the archives of the Romanian secret police to provide the most comprehensive account of the Legion in English to...Trade ReviewA relevant contribution to the field of fascist studies, Holy Legionary Youth opens new research avenues for students of European Fascism and Eastern European history. Highly interdisciplinary, analytically comprehensive, and informed by a prodigious array of both primary sources and secondary literature, Clark's book is a much-awaited reading for researchers, university professors, and students alike. It will serve as a useful teaching tool for undergraduate and graduate classes on the interwar history of Eastern Europe, the genesis of interwar anti-Semitism, and everyday life under totalitarian regimes. * Hungarian Historical Review *Establishing how the Legionary elite and their supporters lived, what they thought, and what were their shared attitudes towards the future of Romania, Clark substantially advances the field of European and Romanian studies of fascism. As such, there is no doubt that this study will provide a stimulus for future debate and research. * Slavic Review *Roland Clark's Holy Legionary Youth is a truly remarkable book, one that brings the historiography of Romania's most prominent fascist movement, known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael or the Iron Guardon, to a new and higher stage... the book offers fascinating insights into the intricate connections between Romanian traditional religiosity and Legionary fascism. It was not only through the church-sanctioned antisemitism and sporadic participation of priests and ecclesiastical hierarchs in the movement that Legionarism was strengthened. * H-Romania *Romania’s fascist past still arguably holds a firm grip over the country’s historical consciousness. Despite the communists’ attempt to exorcise it once and for all, contemporary Romania is yet to seriously engage with its legionary past. The recent decision to outlaw memory through legislative means suggests a politics of memory based on an attempt to forcefully master the past. It is in this field that Clark’s book could prove enlightening. Besides its undeniable scholarly merits, Clark’s work could also be regarded as contributing to Romania’s incomplete Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past). * Europe-Asia Studies *Clark's book is a fresh, reflexive, witty, and well-documented exploration of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, the central fascist movement in interwar Romania, in its own context, doubled by an attempt to approach Romanian ultranationalism on its own terms. * H-Net *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Roots of Ultranationalism2. Youthful Justice3. Mobilizing Support4. Elections, Violence, and Discipline5. The Power of Print6. Iron-Clad Breasts and Lily-White Souls7. Salvation and Sacrifice8. Rise and FallConclusionBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Claiming the Pen
Book SynopsisIn 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy''s plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women''s lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world, thus far understood to be a masculine province, even as they inhabited the limited, provincial social circles of the plantation South.Catherine Kerrison uncovers a new realm of female education in which conduct-of-life adviceboth the dry pedantry of sermons and the risqué plots of novelsformed the core reading program. Women, she finds, learned to think and write by reading prescriptive literature, not Greek and Latin classics, in impromptu home classrooms, rather than colleges and universities, Trade ReviewCatherine Kerrison's wonderful new book challenges scholars on a host of points. She asks us to think about how the history of the book, print culture, and reading can inform a broader intellectual history. She prods us to broaden our understanding of intellectual history to include the prescriptive literature, letters, journals, and commonplace books that formed the minds of eighteenth-century women. And she poses these questions on a ground unfamiliar and even alien to American historians: the intellectual history of women in the early South. -- Beth Barton Schweiger * The Book: Newsletter of the American Antiquarian Society *Kerrison skillfully weaves the stories of women—some famous, some obscure—into a compelling and sophisticated study. In so doing, she connects the intellectual and cultural history of the southern colonies to the better-known historiography of the Old House and raises new questions about gender, race, and the origins of a distinctive southern regional identity. * William and Mary Quarterly *Kerrison succeeds in uncovering the rich texture of women's evolving intellectual interests, concerns, and challenges throughout the eighteenth century and into the first decades of the nineteenth century.... Kerrison reconstructs southern women's intellectual lives by using a wide variety of sources more often associated with social history—wills, probate records, account books, newspapers, letters, and journals. Drawing upon these sources, Kerrison argues that although southern women faced more constraints in their intellectual development than their northern contemporaries, they nonetheless were able to construct their own intellectual identities and assert certain kinds of intellectual authority. -- Rosemarie Zagarri * North Carolina Historical Review *Table of Contents1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South3. Religion, Voice, and Authority4. Reading Novels in the South5. Reading, Race, and WritingConclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and AuthorityPostscriptAbbreviations Notes Index
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Cornell University Press Color Monitors
Book Synopsis"Color Monitors looks at a particular subset of imagined computer use, focusing on scenarios that demand from the person at the keyboard an intimate technical knowledge. My research has uncovered a peculiar pattern: race comes into sharp relief when...Trade Review"Color Monitors provides a much-needed survey of racialized representations vis-à-vis technology in contemporary mainstream American culture. Martin Kevorkian navigates among film, advertisements, and narrative fiction in a writing style that is eminently readable without eschewing complexity." -- Alexander Weheliye, Northwestern University"Martin Kevorkian argues, with wit and variety, that technology has become a preferred cultural tactic for containing blackness. Kevorkian's insight that the same dynamic that made slavery foundational to the American national project is also at work now in the technological formations of empire is astonishing." -- Joseph Tabbi, University of Illinois at Chicago
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Cornell University Press The Myth of Ethnic War
Book SynopsisV. P. Gagnon Jr. believes that the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s were reactionary moves designed to thwart populations that were threatening the existing structures of political and economic power.Trade ReviewBeautifully researched and written.... This is an excellent volume that makes an important and timely contribution to our understanding of the collapse of Yugoslavia. * International Affairs *Gagnon presents an impressive and very original 'social constructivist' analysis of the recent wars in Bosnia and Croatia. In refuting approaches that assume deeply felt ethnic hatreds, the author contends that Yugoslav elites responded to the end of the Cold War by pursuing strategies that would ensure their hold on power and privilege.... This is a must-read for those who want a deeper understanding of the conflict processes in the former Yugoslavia. * Choice *V. P. Gagnon challenges some widespread notions about the dangerous linkage between ethnicity and the upsurge of violence in the post-Cold War world, and he does it crisply and with plenty of carefully marshaled data. * Foreign Affairs *Table of Contents1. The Puzzle of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s2. Image versus Reality: Misidentifying the Causes of Violence3. Political Conflict in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, 1960s–19894. Serbia and the Strategy of Demobilization, 1990–20005. Croatia and the Strategy of Demobilization, 1990–2000ConclusionAppendix: A Brief Overview of the Literature Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Where Two Worlds Met
Book SynopsisDuring the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the expanding Russian empire was embroiled in a dramatic confrontation with the nomadic people known as the Kalmyks who had moved westward from Inner Asia onto the vast Caspian and Volga steppes. Drawing...Trade ReviewKhodarkovsky offers a short survey of Kalmyk society and a larger narrative on relations between Russia and the Kalmyks until they returned to Mongolia in 1771.... The story reminds readers of a pervasive theme of Russian history, the dangerous frontier, on which the Kalmyks were a formidable player in action that included the Crimean and Nogay Tatars, the Yaik and Don Cossacks, and Ottoman Turkey and Poland. * Choice *Khodarkovsky's book is a detailed account of relations between Kalmyks and Russians prior to 1771. To provide greater balance than was previously available, he matches Russian sources with material gleaned from the Ottoman archives, and he provides an initial chapter on the structure of Kalmyk nomadic society. -- James Critchlow * Russian Review *One welcomes this book by a scholar who is prepared to tackle the slippery subject of the clash of the nomadic and the sedentary worlds from the vantage point of both.... Michael Khodarkovsky offers a meticulously documented and admirably clear chronological account of Russo-Kalmyk relations within the wider context of Kalmyk society, international relations, and regional politics. -- Lindsey Hughes * The Slavonic Review *This book is a piece of solid scholarship which contributes substantially to our understanding of the history of the inner Asian nomadic world and Russia's relations with it. -- Yuri Bregel * Slavic Review *This book should not elude any serious student of Eurasia, for it makes a welcome contribution to our understanding of the empire-borderland equation. -- Azade-Ayse Rorlich * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press The Punished Self
Book SynopsisThe Punished Self describes enslavement in the American South during the eighteenth century as a systematic assault on Blacks'' sense of self. Alex Bontemps focuses on slavery''s effects on the slaves'' framework of self-awareness and understanding. Whites wanted Blacks to act out the role Negro and Blacks faced a basic dilemma of identity: how to retain an individualized sense of self under the incredible pressure to be Negro? Bontemps addresses this dynamic in The Punished Self.The first part of The Punished Self reveals how patterns of objectification were reinforced by written and visual representations of enslavement. The second examines how captive Africans were forced to accept a new identity and the expectations and behavioral requirements it symbolized. Part 3 defines and illustrates the tensions inherent in slaves'' being Negro in order to survive. Bontemps offers fresh interpretations of runaway slave ads and portraits. Such views of black people expressing Trade ReviewAlex Bontemps's book is principally concerned with the issue of African invisibility in the colonial South; that is, how Africans and their descendants, so vital to the U.S. South, were purposely confined to the margins of the society's self-projection and representation, and how some responded to their effacement.... This book should be read by all with interest in slavery, race, and the South. -- Michael A. Gomez * American Historical Review *Bontemps has created an imaginative and challenging work that provides a well-crafted template outlining the dynamic and psychic consequences of the process of enslavement.... It appears very likely that the central problem articulated here will be the site of rich future investigations. -- Sean Condon * H-Net Reviews *Bontemps's analysis is at once insightful and, in the fullest sense of the word, challenging. Believing that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, he painstakingly pieces together the sources of white elites to reveal both what was said in the records and, more importantly, 'what they left unsaid or only superficially acknowledged.' His close analysis and densely argued narrative challenges the dualities of accommodation and resistance, slavery and freedom. Asking new questions of standard sources, Bontemps reveals with insight and imagination the psychological consequences of objectification, and blacks' struggle to maintain a sense of self while adapting to the brutalities and dehumanization of enslavement. -- Michael A. Morrison * Georgia Historical Quarterly *Central to the discussion here is the recognition of the capacity of slaves to endure and survive... potential and real exploitation and harm. Equally remarkable was their awareness of both their own vulnerability and ultimate durability. Bontemps stresses that the burden of having survived was embedded in the triumph of survival. Much of this provides a fresh and insightful perspective on what has already been gleaned and defined by other historians. What is completely original is the early part of the book's concentration on viewing the slave experience through the gaze of painters and sketch artists. -- Mary Ellison * Race and Class *The author of The Punished Self has set for himself a daunting task: to try to extract from the available sources how, in a system of brutal repression and control, the enslaved retained a sense of self.... This book is a provocative addition to the literature on colonial slavery and the psychological toll the institution levied on the enslaved. -- Caroline Cox * North Carolina Historical Review *This theoretical study explores how Africans survived the dehumanizing institution of slavery in the British mainland colonies.... The questions raised by Bontemps are fundamental ones for scholars to consider. * Choice *
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Cornell University Press From Newgate to Dannemora The Rise of the
Book SynopsisA significant chapter in the history of American social reform is traced in this skillful account of the rise of the New York penitentiary system at a time when the United States was garnering international acclaim for its penal methods. Beginning...Trade ReviewIn his account of the formative half-century in the history of prisons in New York State, Lewis presents a carefully documented study that offers to the serious student or administrator the key to much of the development of modern correctional practices. * American Journal of Correction *Much of the material presented is dramatic enough in itself to interest a general reader.... The research is thorough and the documentation complete.... Certainly no one doing research in the history of American penology could afford to neglect this book, and students of New York State history will find no better account of one of the state's most significant social reforms, the Auburn penal system. * The Historian *This book ably reviews New York's experimental prison efforts.... Lewis shows how the contrasting personalities of successive agents and inspectors gave a varying emphasis to the conflicting objectives of punishment and correction, economy and discipline. He writes a fascinating account of the fluctuating contest between the brutal regime of Elam Lynds and other both at Auburn and Sing Sing and the modified version of the silent system developed by such men as Gershom Powers and David Seymour. He suggestively relates each of the principal administrators, including John Luckey, the chaplain, John W. Edmonds, the inspector, and Mrs. Eliza Farnham, the matron, to contemporary social and political trends in America, thus giving his book a broader relevance for pre-Civil War history. Despite the sometimes lurid character of his subject, Dr. Lewis maintains historical objectivity. * The New-York Historical Society Quarterly *This book contributes substantially to our knowledge of prison reform, long neglected by historians of nineteenth-century reform movements. It is a study of both the ideas and practices of penology, and it places them in their national and international setting.... On a number of accounts this is an excellent study. It relates attitudes towards criminals to the prevailing social and political environment. It is based upon a variety of sources.... Finally, the well-organized narrative is presented in a clear and readable style. * Quaker History *This is a useful addition to the literature of penal history.... It makes for some macbre reading, for over the building and operation of the two great prisons of Sing Sing and Auburn brooded the evil genius of Elam Lynds, a fanatical flogger—even of women far gone in pregnancy and epileptics—whose like was only found in the British penal settlements in Australia and the Nazi concentration camps. Part of the story recounted by Lewis is of the efforts of humanitarian reformers to control the abuses and excesses of Lynds and his small band of assiociates. * New Society *
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Cornell University Press The Mirror of Antiquity
Book SynopsisIn The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries.Trade ReviewThe Mirror of Antiquity is the best treatment of American women and the classics from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century ever published. Lucid, thoughtful, and well-researched, it is certain to become its own object of study, a classic. * Common-place *Caroline Winterer has produced an impressive piece of scholarship that casts those early American women with whom we are so familiar in a new light and causes us to view them with, perhaps, a more 'classical' eye than we have before.... The strength of Winterer's work lies in the her research's enormity and her compelling argument that American women did find ways 'through classicism' to be active participants in American society, either culturally or through activism and reform. * History: Reviews of New Books *Equally conversant in intellectual history and material culture, Winterer offers a compelling portrait of the 'superliterate' women at the top of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century American society.... Her sparkling, concise prose animates the book throughout, and generous illustration permits the reader to follow Winterer's visual insights. To use the language that her subjects would have known, these attributes make The Mirror of Antiquity at once instructive and entertaining to read. -- Scott Casper * Early American Literature *
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