Social and cultural history Books
Louisiana State University Press Slave against Slave
Book SynopsisIn the first-ever comprehensive analysis of violence between slaves in the antebellum South, Jeff Forret challenges persistent notions of slave communities as sites of unwavering harmony and solidarity.
£50.40
Louisiana State University Press An Artisan Intellectual
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£36.86
Louisiana State University Press Uncovering Paris
Book SynopsisEmphasizing the role of erotic entertainment as an outlet and agent of modern sensibilities, Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Epoque offers a fresh approach to important topics of the period - Bohemian artists, the New Woman, and press censorship - and reinterprets them through the lens of la femme nue.
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press Becoming American in Creole New Orleans 18961949
Book SynopsisMoves the history of New Orleans' Creole community forward, documenting the process of “becoming American” through Creoles' encounters with Anglo-American modernism. The author tracks this ethnic transformation through an interrogation of New Orleans's voluntary associations and social sodalities, and its public and parochial schools.
£35.06
LSU Press Contesting Commemoration
Book SynopsisExamines identity and nationalism in the post-Civil War South through the lens of commemorative activity, namely Independence Day celebrations and the Centennial of 1876. The often colourful and engaging discourse surrounding these observances provides a fascinating portrait of this fractured moment in the development of American nationalism.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press True Blue
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£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Animal Histories of the Civil War Era
Book SynopsisCharts a path to understanding how the animal world became deeply involved in the most divisive moment in American history. The contributors to this volume - scholars of animal history and Civil War historians - argue for an animal-centered narrative to complement the human-centered accounts of the war.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Shantyboats and Roustabouts
Book SynopsisUses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.
£37.00
Louisiana State University Press The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records
Book SynopsisWith Paramount Records, Black America found its voice. Through creative nonfiction, Scott Blackwood brings to life the gifted artists and record producers who used Paramount to revolutionise American music.
£999.99
LSU Press The Downhome Sound
Book SynopsisAmerican roots music can be challenging to categorise, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and appeal of this seemingly disparate musical collective.
£44.20
LSU Press The Downhome Sound
Book SynopsisAmerican roots music can be challenging to categorise, spanning the genres of jazz, bluegrass, country, blues, rock and roll, and an assortment of variations in between. In The Downhome Sound, Mandi Bates Bailey explores the messages, artists, community, and appeal of this seemingly disparate musical collective.
£23.36
Louisiana State University Press Theatre on the American Frontier
Book SynopsisFor two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Thomas A. Bogar's Theatre on the American Frontier provides an overdue, balanced treatment of the accomplishments of the troupes working in the trans-Appalachian West.Trade ReviewThomas A. Bogar, a leading theatre historian, has created a skillfully researched and superbly written story of the theatre on the American frontier. From fragmented and oft-conflicting sources, he has summoned a colorful era that brought the stage's improbable characters and lively culture to the West." - Terry Alford, author of In the Houses of Their Dead: The Lincolns, the Booths, and the Spirits"Bogar does a yeoman job of tracing the travels and travails of legendary theatre names from the 1800s. The book offers a solid documentary record, as well as human interest stories and vivid evocations of the conditions they faced." - Felicia Hardison Londré, coauthor of The History of North American Theater: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present"Bogar shines an illuminating light on a little-known and underappreciated aspect of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American life: the many and varied live theatre performances that took place on the frontier from 1790 to 1890 from eastern Kentucky to the Dakota Territory. A fact-filled, sprightly written treat for theatre and history lovers." - Marc Leepson, author of Saving Monticello: The Levy Family’s Epic Quest to Rescue the House That Jefferson Built
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press PoBoy
Book SynopsisTells the story of how a humble sandwich became a symbol of New Orleans culture, history, and cuisine. Rich with historical detail, Po’Boy welcomes readers into the world of the city’s most iconic sandwich.Trade ReviewPerfect subject matter! Ain't many topics as near and dear to me as sandwiches, and few things soothe my soul like a dressed shrimp or oyster po'boy with some hot sauce and a cold beer on a sunny day in New Orleans!" - Chef Mason Hereford, coauthor of Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin in New Orleans"Who knew that so much delicious history could be contained in a single sandwich? Burke Bischoff's deep dive into New Orleans's ubiquitous poor boy loaf examines the working man's sandwich from all angles: the history, the ingredients, and that most vital element, the poor boy bread. Any lover of New Orleans food will find much delight between these pages." - Poppy Tooker, author of Louisiana Eats! The People, the Food, and Their Stories"With this book we discover that each bite of the beloved New Orleans sandwich is a bite of local history." - Peggy Scott Laborde, coauthor of Lost Restaurants of New Orleans"As a fan of culinary history, I recommend Burke Bischoff's book in which he describes, in detail, New Orleans's legendary poor boy sandwiches. My mouth was watering while reading the book. I have great memories of enjoying gravy-drenched beef poor boys and piping hot, crispy fried-oyster poor boys (my personal favorites) when I lived in New Orleans." - Marcelle Bienvenu, coauthor of Stir the Pot: The History of Cajun Cuisine
£18.00
LSU Press The Fabric of Civil War Society
Book SynopsisMilitary uniforms, badges, flags, and other material objects have been used to represent the identity of Americans throughout history. In The Fabric of Civil War Society, Shae Smith Cox examines the material culture of America’s bloodiest conflict, offering a deeper understanding of the war and its commemoration.Trade Review“With an inventive use of sources and a strikingly original analysis, Shae Smith Cox shows that uniforms, flags, and insignia did more than express individual or group identity in the Civil War era. They provided the means to connect people to broader political ideas and social organizations, with sometimes surprising results. By centering material objects and their power in people's lives, Cox discloses new elements of this oft-covered period in U.S. history.” - Laura F. Edwards, author of Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
£36.51
LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR Playing Cleopatra
Book SynopsisQuestions about the meaning of womanhood and femininity loomed large in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture. Holly Grout uses the theater - specifically, Parisian stage performances of the Egyptian queen Cleopatra by Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, and Josephine Baker - to explore these cultural and political debates.
£36.51
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Kings Three Faces The Rise and Fall of Royal
Book SynopsisReinterpreting the first century of American history, this book presents an argument that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This book shows that political conflicts assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king.Trade Review"This well-researched and scrupulously detailed work... is an insightful and provocative read, challenging our attitudes and assumptions about the mind-set of American Colonists." - Library Journal"
£28.76
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Living the Revolution Italian Womens Resistance
Book SynopsisReveals the vibrant, transnational, and multiethnic world of working-class women's politics. This title presents the Italian working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement.
£30.36
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina For the People American Populist Movements from
Book SynopsisOffers a new interpretation of populist political movements from the Revolution to the eve of the Civil War and roots them in the disconnect between the theory of rule by the people and the reality of rule by elected representatives. Ron Formisano seeks to rescue populist movements from the distortions of contemporary opponents as well as the misunderstandings of later historians.Trade ReviewFor the People is the most important work in print on the sources and development of the people's unofficial national faith from the Revolution to the Civil War: populism. It is by turns brilliant and arresting. A must read.--Bruce Laurie, University of Massachusetts, Amherst|""The American Revolution established the people's sovereignty as the fundamental principle of the new republic. Yet a direct claim to sovereignty was obscured and blunted by elite political power. Time and again in American history movements have risen to reassert that claim. Deeply grounded in decades of research and writing, Ronald Formisano's For the People presents a foundational synthesis of the first epoch of these populist insurgencies between the Revolution and the Civil War. Reaffirming his long-held position as one of this country's most eminent political historians, Formisano presents a compelling interpretation of how populist movements moved from eighteenth-century modes of violent resistance to nineteenth-century engagement in electoral politics. For the People will be required reading for a generation of historians, political scientists, and students of the American condition.""--John L. Brooke, Ohio State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Populisms, Progressive and Reactionary 2 The American Revolution and the Anti-Federalist Legacy 3 The Taming of the American Revolution 4 The Rise of New Social Movements 5 Anti-Masonry: A New Kind of Populist Movement 6 Anti-Masonry: Progressive and Reactionary 7 Anti-Masonry, the Parties, and the Changing Public Sphere 8 Two ""Wars"" of the 1840s 9 Epilogue and Prologue: The Know-NothingsNotes Index
£30.36
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Vote and Voice
Book SynopsisExplores the rhetorical and pedagogical practices through which two prominent post suffrage organizations - the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - challenged the conventions of male-dominated political discourse and trained women as powerful rhetors.Trade ReviewSharer's in-depth scholarship is superb; she has immersed herself in primary sources of the 1920s and 1930s and skillfully uses contemporary theory of rhetoric and composition to interpret it. - Molly Meier Wertheimer, coeditor of Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women
£31.46
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni An Old Creed for the New South Proslavery
Book SynopsisDetails the slavery debate from the Civil War through World War I. This title argues that African American slavery remained a salient metaphor for how Americans interpreted contemporary race relations decades after the Civil War. It draws on postwar articles, books, diaries, manuscripts, newspapers, and speeches.Trade ReviewA heavily researched and clearly written survey of pro- and antislavery American writings from Appomattox to Versailles. - Choice ""Scholars will find [An Old Creed for the New South] to be a perceptive analysis of racism in our profession and a useful guide to the literature."" - Journal of American History ""Smith shows, in striking detail, how the history of slavery was used to justify the segregation of blacks in 1865-66 and again in post-Reconstruction America."" - Law and History Review ""Smith's insightful study remains an essential text for students of slavery, race relations, and historiography."" - North Carolina Historical Review
£20.21
Northwestern University Press Singular Examples Artistic Politics and the
Book SynopsisFocuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. This book also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works.Table of ContentsExample 1: Introduction: Latter-Day Modernists; Part One: Out of the Cage; Example 2: Situation and Event: From The Pronouns to the Destinations of Sense; Example 3: Anarchy by Design: On Jackson Mac Low's Stanzas for Iris Lezak; Example 4: Pound's Cantos Lost and Found: Paragram and Authority in John Cage and Jackson Mac Low; Example 5: Merzing History: Kurt Schwitters, Jackson Mac Low, and the Aesthetics of Data Trash; Example 6: Transduced Objects and Spiritual Automata: Dimensions of Experience in David Tudor's Live Electronics; Part Two: Forays to the Dark Side; Example 7: Brakhage's Occasions: Figure, Subjectivity, and Avant-Garde Politics; Example 8: Fictional Truths: Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things Between Image and Language; Example 9: Beckett's Political Technology: Expression, Confession, and Torture in the Later Drama; Part Three: Coda; Example 10: Didactic Drifts: One or More Conclusions Notes.
£84.08
Northwestern University Press Lessons and Legacies XIII
Book SynopsisThe social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale of the individual or of a particular locale are juxtaposed with those that turn to broader studies of the war or postwar order.
£74.25
Northwestern University Press Occupying the Stage
Book SynopsisTells the story of student and worker uprisings in France through the lens of theatre history, and the story of French theatre through the lens of May â68. The book shows how theatre artists during this period used a strategy of occupation - buildings, streets, language, words, traditions, artistic processes - as their central tactic of protest.
£27.96
Northwestern University Press Eardrums
Book SynopsisThe first book-length study to explore the relationship between acoustical modernity and German modernism, charting a literary and cultural history written in and around the eardrum. The result is a book that outlines an entirely new approach to the study of literature as as the interaction of text and sonic practice, voice and noise.
£84.15
University of Pennsylvania Press Cultures of Power
Book SynopsisThe authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means.Table of ContentsPreface. List of Abbreviations Introduction —Thomas N. Bisson PART I. ELITES OLD AND NEW 1.Nobles and Knights in Twelfth-Century France —Theodore Evergates 2. Instruments of Power: The Profile and Profession of ministeriales Within German Aristocratic Society (1050-1225) —Benjamin Arnold 3. Castles, Barons, and Vavassors in the Vendomois and Neighboring Regions in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries —Dominique Barthélmy 4. Women and Power —Georges Duby 5. Proposing the Ordeal and Avoiding It: Strategy and Power in Western French Litigation, 1050-1110 —Stephen D. White PART II. STRATEGY, MEANS, PROCESS 6. England, France, and the Problem of Sacrality in Twelfth-Century Ritual —Geoffrey Koziol 7. Law and Power in Twelfth-Century Flanders —R. C. Van Caenegem 8. Papal Judges Delegate and the Making of the "New Law" in the Twelfth Century —Charles Duggan PART III. CULTURES OF POWER 9. Sacred Sanctions for Lordship —John Ven Engen 10. León: The Iconography of a Capital —John W. Williams 11. Jongleur as Propagandist: The Ecclesiastical Politics of Marcabru's Poetry —Laura Kendrick 12. Courtliness and Social Change —C. Stephen Jaeger 13. Principes gentium dominantur eorum: Princely Power Between Legitimacy and Illegitimacy in Twelfth-Century Exegesis —Philippe Buc Conclusion —Thomas N. Bisson List of Contributors Index
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Renaissance Culture and the Everyday
Book SynopsisIn Renaissance Culture and the Everyday, scholars illuminate the sometimes surprising issues at stake in such common matters of daily life as mirrors, books, horses, money, laundry baskets, graffiti, embroidery, and food during the Renaissance in England and on the Continent.Trade Review"A lively and illuminating collection of essays that extends the recent trend away from a concentration on structures of state power and religious authority and toward the domestic, the local, and the ordinary. But the ordinary, in the skillful analyses brought together in this volume, proves to be extraordinarily charged with conflict, strangeness, and dramatic intensity. Fumerton and Hunt have assembled some of the most interesting voices in Renaissance studies today." * Stephen Greenblatt *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press The Peoples of Philadelphia
Book SynopsisA picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented.Trade Review"Just the kind of book that is needed. It should be stimulating to all historians interested in urban America." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsPreface to the 1998 Edition Introduction 1. Poverty, Fear, and Continuity: An Analysis of the Poor in Late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia 2. Residential Mobility Within the Nineteenth-Century City 3. Urbanization as a Cause of Violence: Philadelphia as a Test Case 4. Fire Companies and Gangs in Southwark: The 1840s 5. Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840-70 6. Free Blacks in Antebellum Philadelphia 7. The Philadelphia Irish: Persistent Presence 8. "A Peaceful City": Public Order in Philadelphia from Consolidation Through the Civil War 9. Housing the Poor in the City of Homes: Philadelphia at the Turn of the Century 10. The Immigrant and the City: Poles, Italians, and Jews in Philadelphia, 1870-1920 11. Philadelphia's Jewish Neighborhoods 12. Philadelphia's South Italians in the 1920s 13. Recurring Themes Suggested Readings Index
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The sharpest feature of this book is that it takes poetry, pictures, and architecture seriously by seeing these as major items of historical testimony. . . . An engaging and sensitive study." * American Historical Review *"Smuts's great strength is his grasp of the politics of the age. . . . At every point he is able to buttress his arguments about Charles I's 'cultural policy' by reference to Charles's social, economic, and foreign policy." * Journal of Modern History *"The book's virtues are numerous. Smuts, a historian, has read widely, pulling together much valuable information while offering intelligent insights of his own. . . . Particularly valuable is the book's emphasis on the social and factional complexity of the court and thus of the art it produced and consumed." * Sixteenth Century Journal *"Smuts's book deserves a wide readership. Provocative in the best sense of the word, it challenges the reader at every turn and offers a running commentary on possibilities for future research." * Journal of British Studies *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press An Unsettled Conquest The British Campaign
Book Synopsis"Ultimately, the story of Nova Scotia's violent integration into the British system offers a case study in the limits of voluntarism in the ramshackle empire that preceded the Seven Years' War."-William and Mary QuarterlyTrade Review"A magnificent synthesis. . . . This is a work that must be read not only for its Acadian history but also for its prefiguration of contemporary forms of totalitarianism." * Journal of American History *"A story that resonates down to our own day." * Toronto Star *"An evocative and compelling book." * Ian K. Steele, author of Warpaths: Invasions of North America, 1513-1765 *"A compelling book, and it thoroughly traces the fates of the Acadians and Mi'kmaq who were caught between contentious British and French empires." * Times-Picayune (New Orleans) *"Ultimately, the story of Nova Scotia's violent integration into the British system offers a case study in the limits of voluntarism in the ramshackle empire that preceded the Seven Years' War." * William and Mary Quarterly *"Well-written. . . . A good introduction to a very compelling and complex story." * Journal of Military History *
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Crossovers
Book SynopsisCrossovers brings together four decades of popular and academic writings by folklorist, anthropologist, and jazz scholar John Szwed.Trade Review"In this collection of thirty-one short articles, essays, and reviews written over a thirty-six-year period, John Szwed consistently displays the extraordinary imagination and ingenuity that have made him one of the most respected scholars in African-American and Afro-diasporic Studies. Crossovers is both a revealing intellectual history of Szwed's development as a scholar and critic, and a unified and integrated argument on behalf of the aesthetic, moral, and political genius of the African diaspora." * George Lipsitz, H-Urban *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Musical style and racial conflict 3. Musical adaptation among Afro-Americans 4. An American anthropological dilemma: the politics of Afro-American culture 5. Reconsideration: the myth of the Negro past 6. Reconsideration: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati 7. The forest as moral document: the achievement of Lydia Cabrera 8. Race and the embodiment of culture 9. After the myth: studying Afro-American cultural patterns in the plantation literature 10. Speaking people, in their own terms 11. The lizards fake the fake 12. As it is prophesied, so it used to be 13. Greenwich's good gnosis 14. Free samples: Roy Nathanson and Anthony Coleman 15. Milling at the mall 16. Childhood's ends 17. Sweet feet 18. From "Messin' around" to "Funky western civilization": the rise and fall of dance instruction songs 19. The Afro-American transformation of European set dances and dance suites 20. All that beef, and symbolic action, too! : notes on the occasion of the banning of 2 Live Crew's As nasty as they wanna be 21. The real old school 22. Josef Skvorecky and the tradition of jazz literature 23. World views collide: the history of jazz and hot dance 24. Way down yonder in Buenos Aires 25. Improvising under apartheid: Afro blue 26. Sonny Rollins in the age of mechanical reproduction 27. Sun Ra, 1914-1993 28. Ornette Coleman: ?civilization 29. The local and the express: Anthony Braxton's title-drawings 30. Magnificent declension: Solibo magnificent 31. Metaphors of incommensurability
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Lucretia Motts Heresy
Book SynopsisLucretia Mott was a central figure in the interconnected struggles for racial and sexual equality in nineteenth-century America. This biography, the first in thirty years, focuses on Mott's long and controversial public career as an abolitionist, women's rights activist, and Quaker minister.Trade Review"This is the first biography of Mott in thirty years, and it proves to be thoroughly researched, well written, and fascinating. Faulkner's accessible writing style makes this book appropriate for any reader interested in women's history generally or the history of the U.S. abolitionist and women's suffrage movements." * Library Journal *"Mott did not make her biographer's task easy; except for a three- month period in 1840, she kept no diary, and although, like her compatriot Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she often spoke publicly, unlike Stanton, she seldom wrote for publication. Faulkner has more than met the challenge; her book is interesting and well written, offering fresh perspectives at every turn on Mott's roles within Quakerism and the antislavery and women's rights movements while also providing glimpses of her personal life. . . . With this timely book, Faulkner makes a compelling case for Mott's contemporary significance." * Journal of American History *"This much-needed, coherently argued, and beautifully written biography does justice to Mott's centrality to the history of antislavery, woman's rights, Quakerism, and Philadelphia." * Lori D. Ginzberg, author of Elizabeth Cady Stanton: An American Life *"Lucretia Mott is as important to the birth of the women's rights movement as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Sophisticated, lively, direct, and often riveting, Lucretia Mott's Heresy will be the definitive biography of Mott for decades to come." * Bruce Dorsey, author of Reforming Men and Women: Gender in the Antebellum City *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Heretic and Saint 1 Nantucket 2 Nine Partners 3 Schism 4 Immediate Abolition 5 Pennsylvania Hall 6 Abroad 7 Crisis 8 The Year 1848 9 Conventions 10 Fugitives 11 Civil War 12 Peace Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments Gallery appears after page 108
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians Material
Book SynopsisWild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America. Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.Trade Review"An important book. . . White's work challenges prevailing understandings about how ideas of race took hold and exemplifies how material objects, maybe even more so than archival sources, can tell a story that complicates prevailing notions about the multicultural societies that comprised colonial America." * American Historical Review *"White does an admirable job of integrating clothing into a larger discussion of identity formation in this fluid borderland society, demonstrating clearly how understanding the use and ownership of textiles shaped individuals views of themselves and of each other." * Textile History *"There is much to be learned from the excellent Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians-its stories, arguments, and interpretations but also its creative and important methodology. . . . A shining example of the ways in which new forms of evidence, examined in talented hands, have the power to change the way we address big historical questions." * William and Mary Quarterly *"Those who want to know how to work in a history of material culture should run to buy this book. It is packed with detail about clothing White has laboriously mined in several languages, backed up by voluminous research in the secondary literature. And she encases it all in the framework of clearly worded theoretical concepts. The illustrations are spectacular." * Thomas Ingersoll, The Historian *"Historians dream of writing a book that will give us a new lens to make sense of the past. Sophie White has done that with Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians. Her insistence on finding a way to look at colonial people allows the rest of us to see them with a new clarity that reveals how much we have missed in the contested process that made race in the Atlantic World." * Emily Clark, Tulane University *"Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians is a brilliant book. With intelligence and precision, White examines a trove of fresh material culture evidence from the Upper Mississippi Valley and advances a new mode of analysis that goes deep into the possible meanings of Frenchness and Indianness, ultimately revealing a much slower timeline than scholars have claimed for the progression of racialized categories that foreclosed the possibility of identity transformation." * Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania *"Drawing on French-language archival sources and an impressively interdisciplinary range of secondary literature, White argues that material culture-clothing and the clothed and groomed body-are central to understanding the complexity of the hybrid cultures of Upper and Lower Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians is a wonderfully original contribution to the English-language scholarship." * Ann M. Little, Colorado State University *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction I. FRENCHIFICATION IN THE ILLINOIS COUNTRY Chapter 1. "Their Manner of Living" Chapter 2. "Nothing of the Sauvage" Chapter 3. "One People and One God" II. FRENCHIFIED INDIANS AND WILD FRENCHMEN IN NEW ORLEANS Chapter 4. "The First Creole from This Colony That We Have Received": Sister Ste. Marthe and the Limits of Frenchification Chapter 5: "To Ensure That He Not Give Himself Over to the Sauvages": Cleanliness, Grease, and Skin Color Chapter 6. "We Are All Sauvages": Frenchmen into Indians? Epilogue: "True French" List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Reinventing Childhood After World War II
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together prominent historians of modern childhood in an effort to define how children's lives and our conceptions of childhood have changed since World War II. Essays explore how childhood has transformed in response to major elements of change, including schooling, parenting, law, culture, and the global economy.Trade Review"These well-researched essays, which frequently reference one another, providing a tight, synchronized analysis, would provide useful background reading in any course addressing childhood themes or artifacts. One comes away from this thin volume realizing that American children are growing up faster (in terms of marketers' and parents' expectations) and slower (in terms of monitoring and control) than ever before." * Journal of American Culture *"A satisfying volume, at once accessible and thought provoking." * Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth *"The essays in this volume not only survey a broad range of topics central to historical study, such as policy, family life, education, culture, and law, but also offer fresh and provocative interpretive content. The combination of overview and analysis is noteworthy; no existing work matches the depth and significance of these essays. The scholarship in Reinventing Childhood After World War II is more than sound; it is path-breaking." * Howard Chudacoff, Brown University *
£21.59
