Social and cultural history Books
Cornell University Press War Revenue and State Building
Book SynopsisPollack shows how war, revenue, and institutional development are inextricably linked in the United States, delineating the mechanisms of political development and revealing the ways in which the United States, too, once was a "developing nation."Trade Review"In War, Revenue, and State Building, Sheldon D. Pollack shows a masterful grasp of an enormous range of scholarship in history and American political development. His impressively comparative perspective ensures that this book could be put to good use in a number of courses on American political development. In Pollack's view, the American state, which had virtually no tax capacity at its birth, has developed a very effective revenue system today—one largely shaped by the nation's wartime experiences."—David Brian Robertson, University of Missouri–St. Louis"In the crisply written War, Revenue, and State Building, Sheldon D. Pollack analyzes the influence of internal and external variables on state formation and war-making in a systematic fashion. Pollack is adept at producing a narrative that allows the reader to draw their own conclusions from the arguments he deploys."—Andrew D. Grossman, Royal G. Hall Professor of the Social Sciences, Albion College"How does a presumed 'antistatist' polity maintain a military apparatus the size of all the other militaries in the world put together and a social welfare state as well? As Sheldon D. Pollack tells us, that is quite a feat, and it demands (and has gotten, since 1913), a highly efficient taxation apparatus. Whether the American state can continue to meet these extraordinary demands is the very big question Pollack asks as he reconstructs the political history of the national revenue state from the beginning to the present, enmeshing it in a rich tapestry of theoretical and comparative observations. A must for students of American political development."—Elizabeth Sanders, Cornell University
£26.59
Cornell University Press Slavophile Empire
Book SynopsisEngelstein asks how Russia's identity came to be defined in terms of an consensus opposed to Western-style liberalism, examining debates on religion and secularism, the role of culture and the law, and the status of the empire's ethnic peripheries.Trade Review"Slavophile Empire has a clear logic and coherence: the divisions of law, religion, and art all revolve around the central question of identity and relationship to the 'West.' I found the chapters on Slavophiles and art especially stimulating and original." -- Gregory FreezeV, ictor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of HistoryBrandeis University, author of The Parish Clergy in Nineteenth-Century Russia"Laura Engelstein's writing is always thoughtful and instructive. The essays in Slavophile Empire are a pleasure to read. They illuminate the battle that Russian thinkers and artists waged with one another and with the government to define the terms of Russia's encounter with modernity and indeed to define what it meant to be Russian in a modern world whose categories of thought derived primarily from Europe." -- David L. Ransel, Robert F. Byrnes Professor of History and Director of the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana UniversityBloomington, author of A Russian Merchant's Tale: The Life and Adventures of Ivan Alekseevich Tolchënov, Based on His Diary"The tensions between nationalistic aspirations and imperial status and self perception in many ways defined Russia's search for identity for nearly two centuries and have not lost their relevance until the present day. In her fascinating book Laura Engelstein offers an erudite and sophisticated analysis of the dynamics of these tensions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian culture from legal consciousness to religious thought and art criticism. I am sure that Slavophile Empire will become required reading for anyone interested in Russian cultural and intellectual history." -- Andrei Zorin, Professor of Russian, University of Oxford"These concise and lucid essays by Laura Engelstein reveal the complex and straitened political culture of moderate and conservative Russia in the century before the 1917 revolution. Engelstein provides a compelling analysis of the futile quests of liberals and conservative thinkers and artists to find a basis for a viable Russian national identity either in civic ideals or in Orthodox religion while facing an unyielding autocracy and an increasingly intransigent revolutionary movement." -- Richard Wortman, Columbia University
£24.64
Cornell University Press A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism
Book SynopsisUncovering the unacknowledged role of sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers in America.Trade ReviewA beautifully researched and well-argued analysis, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturism is a must-read for all those devoted to a deeper appreciation of the interpenetration between literary works and the social sciences. * MFS: Modern Fiction Studies *Superbly researched and intellectually provocative, A Genealogy of Literary Multiculturalism should be required reading for those interested in multiculturalism. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Multiculturalism's Cultural Revolution1. Zora Neale Hurston, D’Arcy McNickle, and the Culture of Anthropology2. Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the Literature of Sociology3. Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and Desegregation4. John Okada and the Sociology of Internment5. Américo Paredes and the Folklore of the Border6. Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and Cultural Nationalisms, 1965–19757. N. Scott Momaday: Blood and Identity8. Ishmael Reed and the Search for Survivals9. Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec SurvivalsConclusion: The Multicultural Complex and the Incoherence of Literary MulticulturalismNotes Bibliography Index
£20.69
Cornell University Press The Orient Within
Book SynopsisBulgaria is a Slavic nation, Orthodox in faith but with a sizable Muslim minority. That minority is divided into various ethnic groups, including the most numerically significant Turks and the so-called Pomaks, Bulgarian-speaking men and women who have converted to Islam. Mary Neuburger explores how Muslim minorities were integral to Bulgaria''s struggle to extricate itself from its Ottoman past and develop a national identity, a process complicated by its geographic and historical positioning between evolving and imagined parameters of East and West. The Orient Within examines the Slavic majority''s efforts to conceptualize and manage Turkish and Pomak identities and bodies through gendered dress practices, renaming of people and places, and land reclamation projects. Neuburger shows that the relationship between Muslims and the Bulgarian majority has run the gamut from accommodation to forced removal to total assimilation from 1878, when Bulgaria acquired autonomy frTrade ReviewIt is a rare pleasure to read a book on a subject so multifaceted and to find the product refreshingly erudite, concise, and a well-written example of meticulous scholarship. Mary Neuburger's text will be a standard for years to come. Her research is thorough and incisive; she has examined recent scholarship and analyzed it for the benefit of her readers. She has also filled her narrative with abundant supportive examples that will leave even the most skeptical reader satisfied she has made her point well.... This is outstanding work.... Neuburger does a commendable job of dealing with the entire question of Bulgarian identity.... I can think of no criticism of this work. * American Historical Review *Mary Neuburger describes how the veil, fez, and other trappings of Arabo-Turkic culture in Bulgaria became important instruments to define an emerging Bulgarian national identity.... Neuburger's scope is the whole of modern Bulgarian history, and she shows how the process of making Bulgarians out of Pomaks was not a straightforward process. * Times Literary Supplement *Nationalism has been the bane of the Balkans for the past two centuries. Each country has dealt with the phenomenon according to its own definitions and has interacted with its minorities accordingly, ranging from absorption to ethnic cleansing.... This scholarly yet quite readable book... examines the various pressures on the Muslim populations that ranged from forced assimilation to forced emigration.... While focusing on the Muslim minorities, Neuburger provides a sound history of modern Bulgaria and its bout with modernity. * Choice *Neuburger carefully explores how Muslim minorities sometimes resisted, sometimes diverted, and sometimes accommodated the modernizing schemes of those in power. * Foreign Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and SourcesIntroduction 1. The Bulgarian Figure in the Ottoman Carpet: Untangling Nation from Empire 2. Muslim Rebirth: Nationalism, Communism, and the Path to 1984 3. Under the Fez and the Foreskin: Modernity and the Mapping of Muslim Manhood 4. The Citizen behind the Veil: National Imperatives and the Re-dressing of Muslim Women 5. A Muslim by Any "Other" Name: The Power of Naming and Renaming 6. On What Grounds the Nation?: Parcels of Land and Meaning ConclusionBibliography Index
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Cornell University Press To Live upon Hope
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 Workshop to Office Two Generations of Italian
Book SynopsisCohen examines shifting patterns in the family roles, work lives, and schooling of two generations of Italian-American women, paying particular attention to the importance of these women's pragmatic daily choices.Trade ReviewCohen has written a book that will be debated for years. Workshop to Office makes a valuable contribution to the growing study of Italian immigration and women's history. -- Gary R. Mormino * Journal of American History *Cohen joins scholars who seek to understand the role of gender in historical processes of group change....Through the lens of gender, she reveals important questions about the meaning of mobility in migration processes and the transformation of immigrant cultures. -- Claire B. Potter * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
£33.25
Cornell University Press The Abolitionist Sisterhood
Book SynopsisA small group of black and white American women who banded together in the 1830s and 1840s to remedy the evils of slavery and racism, the "antislavery females" included many who ultimately struggled for equal rights for women as well. Organizing fundraising fairs, writing pamphlets and giftbooks, circulating petitions, even speaking before...Trade ReviewThe overall aim of showing the impact, complexity and dynamic quality of female anti-slavery work is amply realized. * Slavery and Abolition *This fine collection of essays explores the initial development of American women's political culture through the antislavery movement led by women reformers from the Northeast in the late 1830s. * Journal of American History *
£27.54
Cornell University Press Living with the Dead in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisWhereas modern societies tend to banish the dead from the world of the living, medieval men and women accorded them a vital role in the community. The saints counted most prominently as potential intercessors before God, but the ordinary dead as well were called upon to aid the living, and even to participate in the negotiation of political...
£20.79
Cornell University Press The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages
Book SynopsisThe Song of Songs in the Middle Ages is a wide-ranging and insightful book that is carefully researched and gracefully written. It is of importance alike to those interested in mysticism, Middle English, the twelfth century, the fourteenth century...Trade ReviewThis deceptively slender volume is valuable in a number of ways. Astell further substantiates even as she extends and deepens the insights of historical scholars such as Beryl Smalley by distinguishing more precisely the various forms taken by the twelfth-century reemphasis on the letter of the Biblical text and by specifying the psychohistorical circumstances that conditioned that response. She contributes original and insightful readings of important texts, including St. Bernard's Sermones, the mystical writings of Hugh of St. Victor and Richard Rolle, the Middle English religious lyrics, and Pearl. And her bold claim that the 'powerful fusion of letter and allegory in readers' experience of the Song from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries provided the key definitional model for Christian poetics and rhetoric during that time' encourages a new look at other works.... Astell's book is both stimulating and convincing. * Journal of English and German Philology *Astell proves herself to be a very good close reader.... Her sensitive attention to shifts of gender and their rhetorical motivation yields subtle and compelling results. * Speculum *The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages is a wide-ranging and insightful book that is carefully researched and gracefully written. It is of importance alike to those interested in mysticism, Middle English, the twelfth century, the fourteenth century, and feminist approaches to literature. * Studia Mystica *
£29.45
Cornell University Press Colonial Intimacies
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 *
£24.69
Cornell University Press DPs Europes Displaced Persons 194551
Book Synopsis"Wyman's book is the only one that comprehensively, and sensitively, depicts the plight of the postwar refugees in Western Europe."—M. Mark Stolarik, University of Ottawa "This is a fascinating and very moving book."—International Migration Review...Trade ReviewThis is a fascinating and very moving book. * International Migration Review *Wyman interviewed some eighty DPs as well as employees of various agencies who served them; he cites a broad range of published primary sources, secondary sources, and some archival material.... This book presents a useful overview and should stimulate further research. * Journal of American Ethnic History *
£18.99
Cornell University Press Land of Women
Book Synopsis"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an...Trade Review"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. Bitel challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."—Times Higher Education Supplement"Lisa M. Bitel's extraordinary excavation of pre-modern women's lives . . . is useful and fascinating. . . . Male-authored medieval texts provide access to prevailing gender ideologies and at the same time reflect anxieties about how these ideologies were threatened by the productive reality of women's lives. . . . As Bitel shows in her beautifully written account, early Ireland witnessed a wide range and flexibility in gender relations."—Nancy J. Curtin, Lingua Franca"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."—Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"An overview of this kind is not an easy undertaking. . . If by provoking the specialists Bitel gives an impulse to the indispensible groundwork, she fully deserves our gratitude."—Doris Edel, Utrecht University
£26.59
Cornell University Press Strong of Body Brave and Noble Chivalry and
Book SynopsisMedieval society was dominated by its knights and nobles. The literature created in medieval Europe was primarily a literature of knightly deeds, and the modern imagination has also been captured by these leaders and warriors. This book explores the...Trade Review"In straightforward narrative, Bouchard introduces the reader to a fascinating and often complex subject. . . . Written with clarity and wit, it is unencumbered with lengthy and obscure footnotes, and contains a useful bibliography of primary and secondary sources, many of which are available in English translation. A refreshing monograph, indeed. General readers; undergraduates."—Choice"This excellent little book . . . introduces undergraduates to the nobility of high medieval France, A.D. 1000-1250, but it can also be read with profit by other medievalists, and its clear and direct style will appeal to the general reader. . . . This book is highly readable throughout, while at the same time deeply informed by the most up-to-date findings made by recent researchers. . . . Its coverage and emphasis are just right for its subject."—Arthuriana"With Strong of Body, Brave and Noble, Constance Bouchard has produced a book that merits an enthusiastic reception from all medievalists. As the author of numerous works on the medieval aristocracy, Bouchard is ideally qualified to produce this general study of the aristocracy during the High Middle Ages. Although her primary focus is on France north of the Loire between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, Bouchard incorporates recent scholarship on the aristocracy in England, Germany, and the Midi to provide a more balanced and complete picture of the richness and diversity of aristocratic society. This work offers the same clear, readable prose and thorough grasp of the sources and current state of scholarly debates that have distinguished Bouchard's other writing."—History"By no means meant for specialists, Strong of Body serves as an introduction for students, with brief and well-balanced discussions of historiographical issues for teachers and more casual readers. this is her task, and she succeeds admirably. Indeed, it will become the standard text in my own medieval courses. . . . By the intelligent blending of both primary sources and secondary studies, and creative admission of the inconsistencies, ironies, and fluidities that complicate any simple attempts to characterize or define the nature and culture of medieval French nobility, Bouchard has presented an honest and very practical introduction to that world."—Joseph P. Byrne, Belmont University, Church History. March, 2000."In this book, the author skillfully synthesizes the results of a generation of research on the french nobility in the high Middle Ages. . . .Strong of Body, Brave and Noble offers both general readers and scholars a valuable discussion of the social history of the high Middle Ages. Bouchard's clear exposition leads the reader to a sophisticated understanding of many complex topics, while her valuable annotated bibliography outlines further reading."—Mary Alberi. The Historian"The focus of this compelling work by a University of Akron faculty member is on the nobles of these centuries, who are shown to make up a complex and fluctuating social group that defies simple definition. Teachers and scholars of the Middle Ages will especially appreciate this work for its deft, careful, and well researched handling of these complexities, but one not need be a specialist to appreciate and understand Bouchard's fastidiously constructed and clearly presented ideas."—Roberta Millikin, Ohioana Quarterly. Summer, 2000."'Strong of Body, Brave and Noble' is an original and interesting synthesis of a generation's worth of scholarship on the medieval aristocracy and chivalry in France. Bouchard has a thorough command of the sources, methodology, and secondary literature. The book is well organized and a real pleasure to read."—Theodore Evergates, author of Feudal Society in the Bailliage of Troyes under the Counts of ChampagneTable of Contents1. Nobles and Knights2. Nobles and Society3. Noble Families and Family Life4. Nobility and Chivalry5. Nobility and the ChurchConclusionsBibliographyIndex
£23.74
Cornell University Press The Morning Breaks
Book SynopsisA riveting firsthand account of Angela Davis's 1970 trial and her ultimate triumph, written by an activist in the student, civil rights, and antiwar movements who was intimately involved in the struggle for her release.Trade ReviewAn essential read for the present generation of activists. * The Gaither Reporter *
£999.99
Cornell University Press Going Native
Book SynopsisHuhndorf looks at modern cultural manifestations of the desire of European Americans to emulate Native Americans, showing how seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and oppression.Trade ReviewGoing Native will be graciously welcomed into American Indian Studies and the study of colonialism/imperialism. Huhndorf's detailed research and methodology are important contributions to American Indian Studies because they allow for the examination of cultural texts and social positions of power without having to resort to arguments of what is authentic and non-authentic Indian culture. * H-Net Reviews *For teachers, Going Native provides a wealth of examples we might bring into the classroom, as well as a critique of identity politics that students will find interesting.... As a Native person working in academia, I am heartened by an inquiry that uses white representations of nonwhite peoples to examine European American identity and insists on applying identity theory to the dominant culture. -- Katy Gray Brown * Hypatia *Huhndorf's shrewd analysis goes beyond simply identifying and then castigating those European Americans who have disregarded the repercussions of their cultural appropriation. The result is that Going Native persuasively demonstrates how such acts can be much more revealing of their historical moment then they at first might seem. * American Literature *Teaching American Indian history, more than other courses, demands attention to the politics of representation. Non-native students are likely to be completely unfamiliar with the historical material presented to them and, at the same time, to feel an ownership and strong attachment to particular images of Indians. As Shari M. Huhndorf argues in Going Native, the racial dynamics of conquest, encoded into popular culture, are still very much central to non-native American identity. For this compelling reason, this book is a useful and imaginative addition to the literature on Indian-white relations. * Journal of American History *The book's central focus is the eradication of an old, and the birth of a new, nation. It is about the origins and significance of manifest destiny—perhaps the most original analysis of that process I have seen.... This is a fascinating book and the opening quotation by Vine Deloria on how Indians haunt the collective unconscious of the white man sets the tone for a lively read.... It is an important contribution to the literature on a topic that deserves much more public debate. * Cultural Survival Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction. "If Only I Were an Indian"Chapter One. Imagining America: Race, Nation, and Imperialism at the Turn of the CenturyChapter Two. Nanook and His Contemporaries: Traveling with the Eskimos, 1897-1941Chapter Three. The Making of an Indian: "Forrest" Carter's Literary InventionsChapter Four. Rites of Conquest: Indian Captivities in the New AgeConclusion. Rituals of Citizenship: Going Native and Contemporary American Identity
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Cornell University Press A Centre of Wonders
Book SynopsisImages of bodies and bodily practices abound in early America: from spirit possession, Fasting Days, and infanticide to running the gauntlet, going "naked as a sign," flogging, bundling, and scalping. All have implications for the study of gender...Trade ReviewA Centre of Wonders provides early Americanists with an illuminating introduction to this burgeoning interdisciplinary field. While most historians of the body concentrate on gender, essays here also engage questions of conquest, strategies of colonization, and constructions of race In an excellent and refreshingly brief introduction, Lindman and Tarter provide a crash course in the analytical paradigms grounding the history of the body.... This anthology comprises the research of outstanding, mostly young scholars working with skill and perspicuity. If those are foretastes of books to come, we may expect a rich and illuminating outcome. -- Marilyn J. Westerkamp * Journal of American History *A well-assembled collection of fascinating essays, A Centre of Wonders opens many interpretive possibilities. If we follow its example, the early American body will assume its rightfully complex and complicating role in historical narratives. -- Sharon Block * William and Mary Quarterly *Each of the volume's essays assumes that the human body was an important measure of cultural suppositions about the world and examines a different aspect of the body's meaning in early America.... The result is that often promised but rarely achieved object: an interdisciplinary project with contributions from scholars of history, art history, the history of science, and literature. And the range of topics considered is remarkable, demonstrating that concern over the body is not imposed by current scholars on the past but deeply embedded within the past. -- Joyce E. Chaplin * Common-place *All of the essays in A Centre of Wonders stimulate us to think about the human body in novel and original ways, and by so doing, to gain deeper insight into the early modern mind. -- Elizabeth Reis * Journal of the Early Republic *The American past of transcendentalism, utilitarianism, utopianism, and spiritual freedom here has its necessary counter or complement in this corporal history of early America.... While the materialism of early Americans may be less than revelatory in an age of slavery, tribal genocide and the more or less extreme proscription of women's activity, the approach is nonetheless useful to detail the interactions between, and conceptions about, bodies classified as white, black, red, male and female. * Book News *The publication of the inspired and inspiring new collection of essays, A Centre of Wonders: The Body in Early America, edited by Janet Moore Lindman and Michele Lise Tarter, marks the arrival of an important new avenue of scholarly inquiry into early America. It also introduces the work of a promising group of young scholars from diverse fields, showcasing both the continuing vitality of early American studies and the new shape of a field that has rapidly begun to embrace interdisciplinary perspectives. -- Nicole Eustace * Journal of Social History *This volume brings together a range of new work on the history of the body in colonial North America.... The book is admirably interdisciplinary in the range of its contributors... -- Mary Fissell * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
£31.35
MB - Cornell University Press Indians and Colonists at the Crossroads of Empir
Book SynopsisOn the eve of the Seven Years' War in North America, the British crown convened the Albany Congress, an Anglo-Iroquois treaty conference, in response to a crisis that threatened imperial expansion. British authorities hoped to address the impending...Trade ReviewThis quietly written account of the Albany Congress as a stage in the evolution of empire comprehends the historical issues of the congress and raises some historiographical issues by implication... His work is to be welcomed. -- Francis Jennings, Newberry Library * The Journal of American History *
£21.84
Cornell University Press The Five
Book SynopsisThe Five is an captivating novel of the decadent fin-de-siècle written by Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940), a controversial leader in the Zionist movement whose literary talents, until now, have largely gone unrecognized by Western readers.Trade ReviewFor Jabotinsky, Arab national aspirations, like those of the Zionists, were legitimate. Hence his acknowledgment of the inevitable violence of the struggle.... In Jabotinsky's future, Arab and Jew would not be neighbors so much as carefully differentiated groupings within the body politic of the new state.... In Jabotinsky's writing, Zionism both affirms and doubts itself. What would Israel look like today if the modern leaders who have claimed to take their inspiration from him—Begin, Netanyahu, Sharon, and now Olmert, who referred to Jabotinsky in his speech to the first session of the new Knesset at the beginning of May—had shown themselves capable of such radical self-questioning. -- Jacqueline Rose * The Nation *In his sympathetic depiction of the flawed Milgroms, Jabotinsky at once created a paean to the beloved city of his youth while providing Russian literature with the very type of sympathetic Jewish novel whose absence he bemoaned, and which he predicted was not likely to appear even when Soviet Russian literature matured. -- Louis Gordon * Jerusalem Report *The most remarkable thing about The Five is not that it was written by a man who, the year before its publication, was occupied day and night in leading his Revisionist Party out of the World Zionist Organization and founding a rump Zionist body after a negotiated truce between him and Ben-Gurion was voted down.... The Five would be just as tender yet unsentimental a novel, and as technically accomplished, even were it to turn out that its author had been publicly played by a double while spending his time holed up in his Paris apartment, composing leisurely draft after draft. The most remarkable thing about this novel is how good it is. -- Hillel Halkin * The New Republic *This autobiographical novel was first published in Russian in Paris in 1936. Set in the Odessa of the author's youth and narrated by a character much like himself, it recounts the fortunes of a Jewish family, the Milgroms, through whom we witness the rise and fall of Jewish Odessa from the beginning of the twentieth century to the Russian Revolution. It also offers a fervent account of the temporary success and ultimate failure of Jewish assimilation in the Russian empire. The Five portrays the lost world of Odessa's Jews in all its color and vitality, its historical vulnerability and perennial optimism; now appearing in English, it is bound to become indispensable for American literary fiction readers and students of Jewish-Russian literature. * Booklist *
£19.94
Cornell University Press Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland
Book SynopsisFrom the Middle Ages until World War II, Poland was host to Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish population. By 1970, the combination of Nazi genocide, postwar pogroms, mass emigration, and communist repression had virtually destroyed Poland's...Trade Review"Historians who would integrate Polish history into the history of Europe must come to terms with the enormously complex topic of antisemitism. This book meets that challenge admirably, and is simply indispensable. The team of scholars that Robert Blobaum has assembled includes some of the very best writers on modern Polish history. The result is an unusually coherent volume, seamlessly uniting American and Polish perspectives to ask us to examine the very meaning of Polishness. Antisemitism appears here in all its nationalist, political, ideological, and religious complexity. Antisemitism and its Opponents is essential reading for scholars of Poland and of Jewish history. Any student of European history, too, will find that this book significantly advances our understanding of one of the central problems of modernity."—Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado, Boulder"This state-of-the-art book about modern Polish antisemitism tackles some of the most difficult questions in the still highly sensitive history of Polish-Jewish relations. Robert Blobaum has assembled an impressive team of authors from Poland and the West. Their scholarship is dispassionate, learned, and takes advantage of newly accessible sources. This important volume marks a new stage in the post-Jedwabne debate."—Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
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Cornell University Press Bread and Circuses Theories of Mass Culture as
Book SynopsisLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the...Trade Review"Bread and Circuses is a joy to read. Brantlinger is learned, witty, and, best of all, inviting of conversation."-Voice Literary Supplement "Bread and Circuses is a valuable analysis of attitudes toward not only mass culture but also theories of social order, utopian (and dystopian) possibilities, and the connections between literature and politics."-Criticism "Brantlinger's substantial insights are worthy of reflection-insights, for example, on the equivocal position of religion vis-a-vis elitism and mass culture or the hitherto insufficiently noted recurrence of classicist nostalgia in essentially nonclassicist ages. The book remains useful and thought-provoking."-American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Two Classicisms2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate3. "The Opium of the People"4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society
£15.19
Cornell University Press Gendered Domains
Book SynopsisMaking available the best papers on the public/private theme delivered at the 1987 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Gendered Domains will be welcomed by anyone interested in women's studies, including historians, political scientists, feminist theorists, anthropologists, sociologists, and philosophers.Trade ReviewGenuinely feminist and provocative scholarship; in telling the stories of all kinds of women, more and less empowered or oppressed, the essays inspire additional critiques and questions. * Journal of American History *
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MB - 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...
£26.59
Cornell University Press Mystic and Pilgrim The Book and the World of
Book SynopsisA biography of the medieval English religious pilgrim Margery Kempe and a social and cultural history of her world.Trade Review"...here Dr. Atkinson establishes the influence on the Book of previous writings especially those of St. Birgitta), but Dr. Cox forcefully demonstrates the basic originality of Margery Kempe...This is an excellent book that makes a great deal of sense out of a difficult-to-understand personality..." —Adris Newsletter"Atkinson's exposition of the Book of Margery Kempe...represents the first full-length treatment of the Book since its discovery and edition in the 1930s, and one of the first attempts ever to enter sympathetically into the religious world and experience of a woman usually dismissed as "hysterical." After describing Kempe's relations with family and clergy, Atkinson sets her spirituality in the context of high medieval affective piety in Eng- land and ideas of female sanctity fostered on the Continent. The book is...an attractive and well-written introduction to Kempe's religious world, which, in the conclusion, is still further illuminated by drawing upon psychoanalytic and feminist studies." —Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceCHAPTER ONE - "A Short Treatise and a Comfortable": The Book of Margery Kemp CHAPTER TWO - "A Haircloth in Thy Heart": Pilgrim and Mystic CHAPTER THREE - "She Was Come of Worthy Kindred": The Burnham Family of King's Lynn CHAPTER FOUR - "Her Ghostly Mother": Church and Clergy CHAPTER FIVE - "In the Likeness of a Man": The Tradition of Affective Piety CHAPTER SIX - "A Maiden in Thy Soul": Female Sanctity in the Late Middle Ages CHAPTER SEVEN - "Ordained to Be a Mirror": Interpretations of Margery KempeSelected Bibliography Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Neither Slave Nor Free
Book SynopsisThese ten essays constitute "a distinctive contribution to the enticing but treacherous domain of a comparative history. (The book) succeeds because it is written by qualified scholars who address a delimited, manageable subject" ("American Historical Review").Trade ReviewAn important collection of 10 essays on the almost totally neglected subject of the freedman in North and South American slave societies that developed out of a symposium held at Johns Hopkins University in 1970... All of these essays furnish important insights into our understanding of racism and slave societies in the Americas. Much significance is attached to the ratios of freedmen to slaves; the statistical information alone is invaluable. All this and much more makes this book one that belongs in every college library. ChoiceTable of ContentsNotes on ContributorsIntroductions1. Colonial Spanish America2. Surinam and Curacao3. Colonial brazil4. The Frech Antilles5. Saint Domingue6. Jamaica7. Barbados8. The Slave States of North America9. Cuba10. Nineteenth0Century BrazilAppendix: Population TablesIndex
£25.20
Johns Hopkins University Press Tropics of Discourse Essays in the Contemporary
Book SynopsisTropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism. Vico, Croce, Derrida, and Foucault are among the figures he assesses in this work, which also offers original interpretations of a number of literary themes, including the Wild Man and the Noble Savage. White's commentary ranges from a reappraisal of Enlightenment history to a reflective summary of the current state of literary criticism.Trade ReviewLike most of White's work, the book arises from a boldly imaginative transaction between the philosophy of history, literary criticism and semiotics. Notes and Queries No other historian appears to be at the frontier of so many developments or so skillful at integrating them into traditional American scholarship in the history of ideas. In this White seems a successor to A. O. Lovejoy and Ernst Cassirer. Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Tropology, Discourse, and the Modes of Human ConsciousnessChapter 1. The Burden of HistoryChapter 2. Interpretation in HistoryChapter 3. The Historical Text as Literary ArtifactChapter 4. Historicism, History, and the Figurative ImaginationChapter 5. The Fictions of Factual RepresentationChapter 6. The Irrational and the Problem of Historical Knowledge in the Enlightenment Chapter 7. The Forms of Wildness: Archaeology of an IdeaChapter 8. The Noble Savage Theme as FetishChapter 9. The Tropics of History: The Deep Structure of the New ScienceChapter 10. What is Living and What is Dead in Croce's Criticism of VicoChapter 11. Foucault Decoded: Notes from UndergroundChapter 12. The Absurdist Moment in Contemporary Literary TheoryIndex
£25.20
Hopkins Fulfillment Service The Social History of Rome
Book SynopsisThis book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.Trade Review"Excellent discussions of the plebians and their struggle for political recoginiton, the nature of the aristrocracy, the nobles, the economy, the senatorial and equestrian orders with their ladders of promotion, the municipal aristocracy... [An] excellent introduction to the subject by a historian of international reputation. Classical WorldTable of ContentsPreface to the English EditionPreface to the First German Edition (1975)Chapter 1. Early Roman SocietyChapetr 2. Roman Society from the Beginning of Expansion to the Second Punic WarChapter 3. The Structural Change of the Second Century BCChapter 4. The Crisis of the Republic and Roman SocietyChapter 5. The Social System of the Early EmpireChapter 6. The Crsis of the Roman Empire and Structural Change in SocietyChapter 7. Late ROman SocietyNotexIndex
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Intimacy and Power in the Old South
Book SynopsisStowe examines three types of rituals central to the elite planter culture ofthe pre-Civil war south as played out by three families.Trade ReviewImpossible for a brief review to do justice to this intricately woven book, filled as it is with intriguing detail that, whatever it reveals about the collective consciousness, is guaranteed to engage the interest of any committed historian of the South. American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I. Ritual: Between Indulgence and ControlChapter 1. The Affair of Honor: Character and EsteemChapter 2. Courtship: Sexuality and FeelingChapter 3. Coming of Age: Duty and SatisfactionPart II. Family: The Routines of IntimacyChapter 4. The Gastons: The Treaure of OffspringChapter 5. The Lacys: The Thing, Not Its VisionChapter 6. The Kings: Waiting for FatherConclusionNotesBibliographical EssayIndex
£24.75
Johns Hopkins University Press After Auschwitz History Theology and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded edition, Richard Rubenstein returns to old questions and addresses new issues with the same passion and spirit that characterized his original work.Trade ReviewAll of the essays in this edition are passionate and provocative and some are brilliant. As the summation of decades of burningly honest inquiry into some of the most fundamental issues in modern history, this work will remain one of the seminal books of this generation. Australian Jewish TimesTable of ContentsPreface Preface to the first editionPart I. The Encounter of Christian and JewChapter 1. The Dean and the Chosen People Chapter 2. Person and Myth in the Judeo-Christian Encounter Chapter 3. Religion and the Origins of the Death Camps: A Psychoanalytic InterpretationChapter 4. The Auschwitz Convent Controversy Part II. The Meaning of the HolocaustChapter 5. The Unmastered Trauma: Interpreting the HolocaustChapter 6. Modernization and the Politics of Extermination: Genocide in the Historical ContextChapter 7. Covenant, Holocaust, and Intifada Part III. Theology and Contemporary JudaismChapter 8. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 9. Covenant and Divinity: The Holocaust and the Problematics of Religious Faith, Part 1Chapter 10. The Rebirth of Israel in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 11. War, Zionism, and Sacred Space Chapter 12. The Meaning of Torah in Contemporary Jewish TheologyChapter 13. Death-of-God Theology and Judaism Chapter 14. Jews, Israel, and Liberation Theology Chapter 15. Muslims, Jews, and the Western World: A Jewish ViewChapter 16. God after the Death of God Notes Acknowledgements Index
£25.20
Johns Hopkins University Press Reading George Steiner
Book SynopsisGeorge Steiner is a central figure on the contemporary intellectual scene. In this book, a group of eminent American and European critics offer an assessment of Steiner's work.Trade ReviewThe collection is a model of editorial acuity, the essays persuasive and eloquent, ensuring that by the end almost every aspect of the Steiner oeuvre has been mentioned, if not discussed. -- Dan Gunn Times Literary Supplement
£25.17
Johns Hopkins University Press The World of the Paris Café
Book SynopsisThis rich and provocative study offers a bold reinterpretation of the social history of the working men and women of Paris.Trade Review[Haine] invites the reader of The World of the Paris Cafe to step up to the serving counter of a nineteenth-century Parisian cafe to eavesdrop on the conversations and to observe the dynamics of this unique working-class establishment... These cafes were far more than places to eat and drink to the great majority of working-class Parisians, who also frequented such establishments seeking shelter from authorities, exchanging and developing and sometimes enacting their ideas. -- Jack B. Ridley History: Review of New Books As its subtitle indicates, this book is as much about the emergence and flowering of working-class sociability as it is about the cafes that fostered this sociability, as much about milieu as it is about lieu... This study is both wide-ranging and well researched... At once serious and lively. -- Elizabeth Ezra Labour History Review Haine takes the cafe as an institution with its own history... But Haine's greatest contribution is the impressive archival work... The World of the Paris Cafe is a rich study to which dix-neuviemistes in their turn can raise a glass. -- Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson Nineteenth-Century French Studies
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press On the Pill
Book SynopsisHer study helps us not only to understand the contraceptive revolution as such but to appreciate the misinterpretations that surround it.Trade ReviewThis is an exemplary study of how the nation which first had access to oral contraceptives first came to terms with their advantages, and their drawbacks. -- Jon Turney Times Literary Supplement Intelligent and well-structured... An admirable exercise in social history. -- Richard Davenport-Hines Nature A particularly fascinating issue, trim and focused, sophisticated and helpful, fresh and very interesting. -- Rickie Solinger American Historical Review In every carefully organized, lucidly written chapter Watkins provides surprising corrections to conventional thinking about the new birth control method... One especially noteworthy theme is the book's exploration of the politics of the pill, including Planned Parenthood [Federation] of America's concerted efforts to rebut critics, federal officials' dramatically shifting positions from the 1950s to the 1970s on birth control, population control and family planning, and pill-induced tensions among feminists. -- Janet Farrell Brodie Journal of American History Any study of the development of the birth-control pill will be centrally concerned with the expansion of women's reproductive choices. But, as this book so clearly demonstrates, it involves other questions too. In part, it is about the risks that come with the ingestion of oral contraception. It is about the relationship between women and doctors, between women and their partners and betwen science, medicine and the media. Not least, it is about how women have responded differently to this intervention into their bodies. Underpinned by some excellent archival material, interviews with key individuals and an extensive use of the newspapers, magazines and medical journals of the time, this study is particularly strong in its discussion of concerns over the safety of the Pill... This is not the only area of interest within this valuable book. Anyone concerned with the debate over scientific advance and medical authority will find this a highly stimulating study... For her, the Pill brought the possibility of voluntary pregnancy, and feminist (and other) critics of its medical effects and social repercussions will need to engage carefully with her arguments if this important debate is to be taken to a new level. -- Martin Durham Journal of American StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Genesis of the Pill Chapter 2: Physicians, Patients, and the New Oral Contraceptives Chapter 3: Sex, Population, and the Pill Chapter 4: Debating the Safety of the Pill Chapter 5: Oral Contraceptives and Informed Consent Chapter 6: Conclusion Notes Bibliographical Essay Index
£23.85
Johns Hopkins University Press Civil Wars
Book SynopsisAbove all, Goodman shows that novels of manners are central to American literature, and that these novels speak in a large cultural way about who and what composes America.Trade ReviewGoodman aims to show the many ways in which American novelists have scrutinized the norms of everyday life for clues about character, history, morality, social change, and national identity... Her discussions of William Dean Howells, Ellen Glasgow, and Jessie Fauset are particularly cogent. -- Merle Rubin Washington Times Foregrounding questions of taste and manners leads Goodman to a number of new perspectives on the literary production of her subjects. -- Alex Feerst American Literature 2004 Goodman presents an original and compelling argument that forces readers to acknowledge that the novel of manners-which typically focused on attitudes toward race, class, and national identity-did in fact play a central role in American literary and cultural history. This book is notable for its insight and originality. Choice 2003Table of ContentsContents: Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: American Novelists and Manners 1 William Dean Howells: The Lessons of a Master 2 Henry James: The Final Paradox of Manners 3 Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance 4 Willa Cather: "After 1922 or Thereabout" 5 Ellen Glasgow: A Social History of America 6 Jessie Fauset: The Etiquette of Passing Conclusion: Excursives Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£38.70
Johns Hopkins University Press Manly Meals and Moms Home Cooking Cookbooks and
Book SynopsisMore than a history of the cookbook, Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking provides an absorbing and enlightening account of gender and food in modern America.Trade ReviewHave you ever wondered why women's cooking tends to be tired and routine, while men can make culinary magic with hotdogs, omelettes, and fried potatoes? Or why juicy steaks are man-food, while dainty salads are for women? These stereotypes may sit like a rock in the belly, but the message has been reinforced over the past century in American cookbooks, says Jessamyn Neuhaus, author of Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking. She explores generations of cookery instruction and finds they didn't stop at recipes for Jell-O salad and tuna casserole. From Fannie Farmer and The Joy of Cooking to The I Hate to Cook Book, cookbooks have long told women more than how much flour to put in their devil's food cake. They have reflected and reinforced social attitudes about the distinct roles of men and women... Readers-especially veteran home cooks-are likely to find Manly Meals and Mom's Home Cooking worth tasting. -- Julie Finnin Day Christian Science Monitor An engaging analysis... Neuhaus provides a rich and well-researched cultural history of American gender roles through her clever use of cookbooks. -- Sarah Eppler Janda History: Reviews of New Books Neuhaus examines a huge number of both well-known and obscure cookbooks, as well as hard-to-find magazine articles and offers persuasive evidence about the culture of the period. -- Barbara Haber Women's Review of Books An excellent addition to the history of women's roles in America, as well as to the history of cookbooks. Choice 2004 The book has many strengths, including excellent research and cogent presentation... Good enough to entice more scholars to step into the kitchen. Journal of American History 2004 The entire book is well researched and documented, helping readers to see that cookbooks have supported America's dominant ideologies about gender. -- Anne L. Bower Gastronomica 2004 Even if you missed Jell-O salads or Pu-Pu platters, after reading Neuhaus buying a cookbook will never be the same. -- Eileen Boris American Historical Review 2006Table of ContentsContents: Acknowledgments Introduction "The Purpose of a Cookery Book"PART ONE "A Most Enchanting Occupation": Cookbooks in Early and Modern America, 1796-1941One From Family Receipts to Fannie Farmer: Cookbooks in the United States, 1796-1920 Two Recipes for a New Era: Food Trends, Consumerism, Cooks, and Cookbooks Three "Cooking Is Fun": Women's Home Cookery As Art, Science, and Necessity Four Ladylike Lunches and Manly Meals: The Gendering of Food and CookingPART TWO "You are First and Foremost Homemakers: Cookbooks and the Second World WarFive Lima Loaf and Butter Stretchers Six "Ways and Means for War Days": The Cookbook-Scrapbook Compiled by Maude Reid Seven "The Hand That Cuts the Ration Coupon May Win the War": Women's Home-Cooked PatriotismPART THREE The Cooking Mystique: Cookbooks and Gender, 1945-1963Eight The Betty Crocker Era Nine "King of the Kitchen": Food and Cookery Instruction for Men Ten The Most Important Meal: Women's Home Cooking, Domestic Ideology, and Cookbooks Eleven "A Necessary Bore": Contradictions in the Cooking MystiqueConclusion From Julia Child to Cooking.comNotes Essay on Sources Index
£40.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Gods Mountain
Book SynopsisThis new chronology provides the framework for a fresh consideration of the literary and archeological evidence, as well as new understandings of the religious and social dynamics that shaped the image of the Temple Mount as a sacred space for Jews and Christians.Trade ReviewEliav uses his impressive knowledge of Talmud, the Bible, archeology, languages, rabbinic texts, the classics and patristic literature to debunk the notion that the Temple Mount was a sacred space for ancient Jews and Christians. According to him, it did not achieve this status until long after the Second Temple was destroyed. In a dazzling display of erudition, he supports his thesis by providing new readings of familiar sources and by citing many little-known references. Publishers Weekly Readable and well illustrated and documented, this book is recommended for religion and seminary collections of all stripes. Library Journal 2005 Eliav writes in a clear style that makes it accessible to most readers. Highly recommended. -- Aaron Howard Jewish Herald-Voice 2005 This is a wide-ranging book on a fascinating topic. Its main thesis is that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem became an important concept invested with religious significance only after the Temple had been destroyed by the Romans in 70 CE. -- Pieter W. van der Horst Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006 All readers will be rewarded by Eliav's judicious insights, his nuanced reinterpretations, and his wide-ranging scholarship. Choice 2006 This book means to awaken an important scholarly debate and it deserves to succeed. Shofar 2007Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceA Note on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction1. Transmuting Realities: From David to Herod, From Micah to Josephus2. Locus Memoriae: The Temple Mount and the Early Followers of Jesus and James3. Delusive Landscapes: From Jerusalem to Aelia4. A Lively Ruin: The Temple Mount in Byzantine Jerusalem5. The New Mountain in Christian Homiletics6. The Temple Mount, the Rabbis, and the Poetics of MemoryAfterword: A Mount without a TempleAbbreviationsNotesBibliographyPrimary SourcesScholarly WorksIndex of Ancient CitationsGeneral Index
£43.00
Johns Hopkins University Press The Book
Book SynopsisThe volume includes a glossary of terms, a timeline of important events, and a selected bibliography of useful resources for further information.Trade ReviewThe book is arguably the one technology that has made all others possible... What Howard does is provide an exceedingly accessible retelling of the book's life story, one that shows precisely how books represent a peak of technology, giving permanence and form to ideas and relevance and resonance to their readers. Libraries & the Cultural Record A very succinct history of the book that will be quite useful, in introductory book history courses as a survey text (or by any bibliophile who wants to know more.) philobiblos.blogspot.com 2009Table of ContentsIntroductionTimeline1. Ancestors: Books before Print2. Infancy: The Earliest Printed Books, 1450–15003. Youth: Books in the Sixteenth Century4. Adulthood: Early-Modern Books, 1600–18005. Maturity: Books in the Age of Automation, 1800–19006. The Future of Books: Twentieth Century and BeyondGlossaryBibliographyIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press For Business and Pleasure RedLight Districts and
Book SynopsisHer study extends into Prohibition and discusses the various effects that scattering vice and banning alcohol had on commercial nightlife.Trade ReviewKeire's innovative and wide-ranging history makes For Business and Pleasure a welcome contribution to the field. -- Annemarie Kooistra Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010 Keire's focus on the business of vice makes an important contribution. -- Jennifer Fronc American Historical Review 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: It's a Wonderful Life: Red-Light Districts and Anti-Vice Reform1. Segregating Vice, 1890–19092. The Sporting World, 1890–19173. Race, Riots, and Red-Light Districts, 1906–19104. The Vice Trust: A Reinterpretation of the White Slavery Scare, 1907–19175. The War on Vice, 1910–19196. The Syndicate: Prohibition and the Rise of Organized Crime, 1919–1933Conclusion: Progressivism, Prohibition, and Policy OptionsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£45.90
Johns Hopkins University Press Moses of South Carolina A Jewish Scalawag during
Book SynopsisRevisiting the story of the South's most perfect scalawag, Ginsberg contributes to a broader understanding of the essential role southern Jews played during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Trade ReviewMoses of South Carolina is a welcome and long overdue reappraisal of the firebrand governor... There is much to recommend Ginsberg's work. The author makes the Byzantine politics of the period understandable. His discussion of Moses's marginality, the politics of corruption, the economy, and land reform in the state is compelling, intriguing, and audacious. -- Edmund L. Drago Civil War Book Review 2010 Historians of Reconstruction should applaud the fact that someone has at last taken the trouble to draw scholarly attention to such an important and little-understood figure. -- Bruce E. Baker Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010Table of ContentsPreface1. A Southern Moses2. The Making of a Scalawag3. Reinventing South Carolina's Government4. Speaker Moses5. Governor Moses6. Exiled from the Promised LandCodaNotesIndex
£40.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Fly Away The Great African American Cultural
Book SynopsisBroad in scope and original in its interpretation, Fly Away illuminates the origins, development, and transformation of national culture during an important chapter in twentieth-century American history.Trade ReviewThe authors, while attentive to necessary statistics and succinct in general historical background, transform the migrating millions from an indistinguishable mass into distinct communities. As Rutkoff and Scott take the reader to Chicago's Bud Billiken Day or Houston's Juneteenth, August Wilson's Pittsburgh, or Walter Mosley's Los Angeles, 'the flashes of the West African spirit that black rural southerners brought north' are rendered visible. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Fly Away is intended for an academic audience and its footnotes display the depth of the research. However, the authors' engaging style also should appeal to the general reader with an interest in African-American cultural history. Charleston Post and Courier 2010 Adds considerably to our understanding of this national exodus... The authors, who teach history at Kenyon College, argue that the black migrants preserved many of their West African roots and customs in the move north, just as they had during the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. These authors stress the cultural freedom afforded by holding on to a vision of Africa as the homeland. In preserving their African roots, the black migrants could take pride in where they came from and in who they were in their new circumstances. Wall Street Journal 2010 Illuminating and impressive cultural history... Highly recommended. Choice 2011 [A] well-written, thought-provoking book. The authors have created a broad-ranging study that is well worth reading. It provides many new ways of thinking about and interpreting the impact of African American migration both on the migrants and the nation. -- Spencer R. Crew Journal of American History 2011Table of ContentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Out of Africa2. New Africa3. Negro Capital of the World4. Mules and Men5. Blues Pianos and Tricky Baseballs6. Walkin' Egypt7. Bronzeville's Pinkster Kings8. Dixie Special9. California Dreaming10. Circle UnbrokenNotesIndex
£37.35
Johns Hopkins University Press American Nursing
Book SynopsisScholars in the history of medicine, nursing, and public policy, those interested in the intersections of identity, work, gender, education, and race, and nurses will find this a provocative book.Trade ReviewA valuable resource and an excellent addition to any library's collection for those interested in the history of nursing and the struggle of a profession to become autonomous. Doody's Review Service 2010 This new book is both a remarkable story about a noble profession and a rich illustration of the important place of the scholarly press. -- Dan Doody MedInfoNow 2010 A rich analysis. Bookwatch 2010 The vignettes in this book provoke images of nurses not as powerless but rather as strong, often independent, women who take life fully into their own hands. -- Peter I. Buerhaus JAMA 2010 Recommended. Choice 2011Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Nurses and Physicians in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia2. Competence, Coolness, Courage—and Control3. They Went Nursing—in Early Twentieth-Century America4. Wives, Mothers—and Nurses5. Race, Place, and Professional Identity6. A Tale of Two Associations: White and African AmericanNurses in North Carolina7. Who Is a Nurse?AppendixNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press From Black Power to Black Studies
Book SynopsisShedding light on the black power movement, Black Studies programs, and American higher education, this historical analysis reveals how radical politics are assimilated into the university system.Trade ReviewRojas' book makes a significant contribution to the small but growing literature on social movements within organizations; those who study knowledge politics will also find it a useful read. -- Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur Mobilization From Black Power to Black Studies is a valuable sociological study of the way in which militant student protest led to the institutionalization of African American Studies in higher education. Moreover, it provides insightful analyses of the pitfalls, both institutionally and politically, that have conspired to hamper Black Studies' growth and legitimacy as an academic discipline... Rojas has provided a thoughtful and substantive contribution to the emerging new literature on the origins of Black Studies. -- Peniel E. Joseph Left History Rojas has made a qualified yet significant scholarly contribution relevant to multiple disciplines in myriad ways. -- Stephanie Y. Evans Higher Education Review A fascinating account of the development of black studies departments in American colleges and universities. -- Anna-Maria Marshall Administrative Science Quarterly There is more than one way to analyze historical phenomena, and the sociologist Fabio Rojas has chosen to approach the issue in sociological terms... historians of the civil rights movement and of American higher education will profit considerably from reading this work. -- Richard H. King Journal of American History Carefully conceived and designed, and contributory... adds to the social science literature on ways in which marginalized groups mobilise to alter established organizations and institutions. -- Thomas O'Brien History of Education Rojas's organizational perspective, informed by a strong foundation in sociological theory, provides valuable insights. As a study of the major issues surrounding the birth and development of Black studies, the book works very well, covering most of the important controversies, often in careful historical detail. -- Mario Luis Small Journal of Black Studies Roja's treatment of the subtleties and ambiguities of the coevolution process that black studies and American academia underwent together is well-balanced and complex. Kritikon LitterarumTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Terminology1. The Movement That Became an Institution2. The Road to Black Studies3. Revolution at San Francisco State College4. The Life and Death of Black Studies Programs5. The Ford Foundation's Mission in Black Studies6. Constructing the Discipline7. Black Studies as the Loyal OppositionAppendixesA. Note on Research MethodB. Archives ConsultedC. Newspapers ConsultedD. People Interviewed by the AuthorE. Sample Interview QuestionsF. Interviews Collected by OthersG. Quantitative Data UsedH. The Survey of Issues in Africana StudiesNotesIndex
£22.95
Johns Hopkins University Press Hotel Dreams
Book SynopsisThe fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.Trade ReviewA rigorously researched and elegantly written study of the role of the hotel in shaping and embodying ideals of progress, luxury, and technology in a consumer capitalist society. Berger's monograph is a welcome contribution to the growing scholarly literature on the history of hotels in modern America, and is a must-read for scholars of business history, the history of technology, architectural and urban history, and the history of consumer culture. American Historical Review [Berger's] nuanced interpretation of technology makes her work so important to design historians... Hotels have served as realms of the fantastic that permit guests to escape the everyday and enter into a world of dreams where service and splendour define new experiences. It is this dream world that Berger successfully evokes in this important book and others should follow her lead by exploring this remarkably rich topic. Journal of Design History A salutatory and important book. Hospitality & Society Journal A worthwhile addition to the growing scholarly literature on hotels. Journal of American History In a relatively compact study, Berger has provided a rich, revealing portrayal of her subject that is likely to remain a basic source for scholars examining the history of the city no less than of the hotel itself for some years to come. Journal of Social History Complements and expands on A.K. Sandoval-Strausz's Hotel. Choice A very informative and entertaining read. Past In ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction1. The Emergence of the American First-Class Hotel, 1820s2. The Tremont House, Boston, 18293. The Proliferation of Antebellum Hotels, 1830–18604. The Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, 18605. Production and Consumption in an American Palace, 1850–18756. The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, 18757. The "New" Modern Hotel, 1880–19208. The Stevens Hotel, Chicago, 1927ConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£48.60
University of Toronto Press The New Christianity
Book SynopsisThis volume, a survey of the Canadian scene that urged various reforms, appeared shortly after the First World War. It was considered to be extremely radical in its proposals and implications at that time and had the distinction of being one of that rare breed of attempts to survey Canadian developments in terms of large principles of analysis or historical development. In The New Christianity, Salem Bland tried to place the unrest of the times in a large historical perspective and brought social, political, and economic developments into conjunction with main trends of religion in recent decades. His central theme was that the processes of industrial and social consolidation, the growth of organized labour, and the spread of sociological ideas spelled the end of the old order of capitalism and Protestantism which had dominated most of western Christendom for three centuries. Specifically, the primary impediment to full realization of democracy and brotherhood, Bland argued
£13.29
University of Toronto Press A Heritage of Light
Book SynopsisA Heritage of Light is of equal importance to collectors and historians in the United States and Canada. This newly reprinted edition of Russell's classic 1968 study has a new introduction by Janet Holmes.
£66.60
University of Toronto Press Wheat and Woman
Book SynopsisAn established writer before she came to Canada, Georgina Binnie-Clark (1871-1947) settled in Saskatchewan in 1905 to become a farmer. It was an unlikely ambition for a woman in her day, particularly an English gentlewoman, and in the opinion of many, an impossible one. The reaction of onlookers was unhesitatingly and unqualifiedly unsupportive. Binnie-Clark, however, proved their skepticism to be unfounded.Originally published in 1914, Wheat and Woman is an autobiographical account of Georgina Binnie-Clark's first three years on the prairies, the story of how she learned to define and deal with her anomalous position in pre-war prairie society. Although Binnie-Clark does not dismiss the difficult lessons of life on the land for an 'English greenhorn,' or the loneliness of a woman pursuing what was considered to be a man's job, she emphasizes the unique opportunities for women in Canada. If life was difficult in Canada, it was impossible, for some, in England. With a
£29.70
University of Toronto Press The Indians of Quetico
Book SynopsisA fascinating picture of the industrious life of the Ojibwa before the coming of the white man. The Indians lived in an intimate relationship with the forest and the spiritual forces they found in nature. They were completely dependent on wild game, trees, and plants for their food, their clothing, and their dwellings, and they realized that it was in their best interest to protect these things, to ensure their livelihood year after year and for the generations to come.The author traces the outlines of this Indian civilization—the Ojibwa's social organization, family life, the quest for food, their handicrafts, and the world of the supernatural with which they lived in such intimacy. The result is an authoritative and entertaining account. The book contains 8 photographs, 25 line drawings and two-colour end-paper map.
£13.29
MY - University of Toronto Press The Workers Revolt in Canada 19171925
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University of Toronto Press The Developing Canadian Community
Book SynopsisProfessor Clark's thesis is that the development of Canadian society can only be understood by examining how changes taking place in the underlying structure of the Canadian community. The first part of the book examines the development of forms of social organization in Canada over the years 1600 to 1920. In the second and third sections the focus shifts to the general forces in Canadian society shaping the character of institutions and forms of social life. The book concludes with four essays devoted to an examination of the relationship of sociology to history. This volume demonstrates the mutually enriching value of a sociological-historical approach, and is very useful for those interested in communities, social change and organization, and the structure of Canadian society.
£29.70
University of Toronto Press The Bunkhouse Man
Book SynopsisJournalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada’s railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First World War. E.W. Bradwin drew on his own experience as an instructor for Frontier College, working alongside his students during the day and teaching at night, to present this graphic portrait of life in the camps from 1903 to 1914. No detached observer, Bradwin played a vigorous role trying to improve the lot of the men—practicing the sociology of engagement advocated by radical sociologists today.Work camps have existed in Canada from early pioneer times to the 1970s and are unlikely to disappear. In the years of Bradwin’s study there were as many as 3,00
£22.49
