Stationery and miscellaneous items
University of Chicago Press Black Knights
Book Synopsis
£999.99
University of Chicago Press Foundations of Stream and River Ecology
Book Synopsis
£22.80
University of Chicago Press Plasticity in the Life Sciences
Book Synopsis
£28.50
University of Chicago Press Networks of Trust The Social Costs of College
Book Synopsis
£16.00
University of Chicago Press The Petrostate Masquerade
Book Synopsis
£999.99
University of Chicago Press The Young Fed
Book Synopsis
£30.40
University of Chicago Press Life in Language
Book Synopsis
£22.00
University of Chicago Press LongTerm Care around the World
Book Synopsis
£114.00
University of Chicago Press Governing the Global Clinic
Book Synopsis
£28.00
University of Chicago Press How Politicians Polarize
Book Synopsis
£24.70
University of Chicago Press Technology Productivity and Economic Growth
Book Synopsis
£114.00
University of Chicago Press Slips of the Mind
Book Synopsis
£22.80
University of Chicago Press The Barthes Fantastic
Book Synopsis
£22.00
University of Chicago Press Travels in the Americas
Book Synopsis
£14.25
University of Chicago Press Sins of the Shovel
Book SynopsisAn incisive history of early American archaeologyfrom reckless looting to professional scienceand the field's unfinished efforts to make amends today, told with passion, indignation, and a dash of suspense (New York Times). American archaeology was forever scarred by an 1893 business proposition between cowboy-turned-excavator Richard Wetherill and socialites-turned-antiquarians Fred and Talbot Hyde. Wetherill had stumbled upon Mesa Verde's spectacular cliff dwellings and started selling artifacts, but with the Hydes' money behind him, wellthere's no telling what they might discover. Thus begins the Hyde Exploring Expedition, a nine-year venture into Utah's Grand Gulch and New Mexico's Chaco Canyon thatcoupled with other less-restrained lootersso devastates Indigenous cultural sites across the American Southwest that Congress passes first-of-their-kind regulations to stop the carnage. As the money dries up, tensions rise, and a once-profitable enterprise disintegrates, setting the s
£15.20
University of Chicago Press A Fragile Life Accepting Our Vulnerability
Book Synopsis
£17.10
University of Chicago Press The Menace of Prosperity New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development 18651981
£24.70
University of Chicago Press Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering What Philosophy Can Tell Us about the Hardest Mystery of All
£15.20
The University of Chicago Press The Truly Disadvantaged
Book SynopsisLooks at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering an evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, this title offers essential information and a number of solutions to policymakers.Trade Review"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass." (David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World) "The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policymakers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they - as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races - would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis." (Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review)"
£21.00
John Wiley & Sons Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete
Book SynopsisTrade Review"These are understated poems grounded in imagism, snapshots of a life, where the poet speaks quietly to her reader with precision and insight." Armand Garnet Ruffo, author of Treaty#"Spanning continents and decades, the poems in Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete bear witness to beauty, pain, and injustice alike. Meditative and musical, Schönmaier's verse renders the world in vivid, attentive language." Annick MacAskill, author of Murmurations"Eleonore Schönmaier's poems are profoundly lyrical. Their words come from a brave and tender witness, and in their white spaces is the sound of an orchestra playing by the sea." Sadiqa de Meijer, author of The Outer Wards
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Democracy in Canada The Disintegration of Our
Book SynopsisArguing that Canadians must reconsider the origins of their country in order to understand why change is difficult and why they continue to embrace regional identities, Democracy in Canada explains how Canada's national institutions were shaped by British historical experiences, and why there was little effort to bring Canadian realities into the mix.Trade Review“[Democracy in Canada] provides a deep dive into Canadian federalism, regionalism, and the issue of centralized power.” *Prairie History *“Savoie’s work reminds us of what we likely should expect from our national institutions, namely full representation, accountability and equality. Given the threats posed by nascent separatist movements in Western Canada, let’s hope Canadians read this book, take its expert opinion seriously and begin pressuring politicians to act.” Alberta Views
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press Imperial Paradoxes
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Robert Merrett tackles our ancestors' world of eating and drinking with relish. Tapping into a lifetime's knowledge of literary texts, leavened with rare archival sources scattered throughout France, and more discursive readings into British, French, and Canadian history, he compellingly demonstrates that eating and drinking were part and parcel of the overall movement towards the Enlightenment and cultural imperialism." Donald W. Nichol, Memorial University of Newfoundland
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press The Russian Military Intervention in Syria
Book SynopsisThe Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia’s foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Soviet territory. Providing historical context and revealing the causes of Russia’s use of military power, this book is an authoritative overview of Russia’s policy goals and diplomatic handling of the Syrian conflict.Trade Review"Geukjian’s work will find its well-deserved place in courses on Russia’s foreign affairs and its engagement with regional players. The book is a worthy read for anyone interested in political psychology, Russia and its foreign policies, including towards the Middle East.” International Affairs
£27.90
McGill-Queen's University Press An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments Conflict and
Book SynopsisInterpersonal arguments, with their potential for defensiveness and hostility, can be difficult to navigate. This book examines the structure and dynamics of conflict to find new ways forward. Jull analyzes four personal stories through the lens of the Insight approach, an innovative way to decipher and re-shape the direction of everyday conflicts.Trade Review"This book is exciting and potentially generative in new and promising ways. Through its use of autoethnography and personal narrative, An Anatomy of Everyday Arguments is set to make a major contribution. The reflexive prose, layered introspection, and analysis of interpersonal relations make for a welcoming book to which readers are likely to relate in their own ways." Keith Berry, University of South Florida“The presentation and application of the insight approach through personal examples confirms the author’s high level of understanding and competence in insight theory. It is also refreshing to read something completely original, … . We need more works like this that examine theory and demonstrate how to apply it in practice.” Peace Research: The Canadian Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Deindustrializing Montreal
Book SynopsisDeindustrializing Montreal challenges the deepening divergence of class and race analysis by recognizing the intimate relationship between capitalism, class struggles, and racial inequality in historically white Point Saint-Charles, and multiracial Little Burgundy, home to the city’s English-speaking Black community.Trade Review“Deindustrializing Montreal is an excellent book animated by a rich and rigorous use of oral history and careful attention to race and language. High combines a mastery of international literature with a serious engagement with place. The result is a fascinating study of neighbourhood in the context of capitalism, community, politics, and economic change.” Steve Penfold, University of Toronto“There is no way to ignore the stunning presentation of Deindustrializing Montreal. With its large format, glossy pages, and dozens of photographs (many in color), it occupies a place between densely argued academic monograph and lavish coffee table book. High has succeeded in the difficult task of producing a volume that will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, from specialist scholars in urban and labor history to members of the general public interested in the evolution of Montreal’s Southwest or, more generally, the story of the twentieth-century North American city.” H-Sci-Med-Tech“A deluxe love letter to two neighbourhoods and their residents. The book is filled with colour photographs, and the extensive interviews and archival detail testify to High’s diligence … . High is known locally as a public- facing scholar, who conducts walking tours, writes op-eds, and organizes off- campus events. His work is the kind of deeply humanist tribute that all neighbourhoods deserve but that few receive.” Literary Review of Canada«Il est impossible de rendre justice, en quelques mots, au contenu de cet ouvrage exceptionnel. Il constitue un apport remarquable à l’histoire ouvrière, urbaine et politique de Montréal et de sa communauté noire. Enfin, soulignons les qualités esthétiques de ce livre dont la facture soignée reconnaît et rend hommage aux acteurs de cette histoire.» Le jury du Prix Lionel-Groulx
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press D.H. Lawrence and Attachment
Book SynopsisUsing concepts from attachment theory, D.H. Lawrence and Attachment presents innovative readings of Lawrence’s fiction. Ronald Granofsky teases out hidden patterns in Lawrence’s work, deepening our understanding of his fictional characters and revealing new significance to key thematic concerns like gender identification, marriage, and class.Trade Review"Ron Granofsky is an astute psychologist and literary critic in one. D.H. Lawrence and Attachment is an incisive, persuasive examination of the tricky lifelong balancing acts between merger and separation in Lawrence's life and works and, by extension, our own." Judith Ruderman, author of Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture "Offering a perceptive reading of Lawrence’s poetry, essays, and fiction, Granofsky considers issues such as individuation, narcissism, masculinity, estrangement, and maternal bonds in chapters that focus on abandonment anxiety, gender identification, marriage, class, attachment to home, and otherness. An authoritative, well-grounded, and sensitive inquiry." Choice
£26.59
McGill-Queen's University Press Take the Compass
Book SynopsisA strong theme of journeys is threaded through Take the Compass. In a sense, every poem is itself a journey – through cities and their outskirts, to rivers, forests, and graveyards. They travel in time into the troubled present, across decades into childhood, and into our perilous collective futures, seeking guides for these explorations.Trade Review“You never know what unpredictable imaginative connections Maureen Hynes will make of earth’s challenges in Take the Compass, but you can be certain to leave her poems surprised by a deeper awareness and a clearer vision than you would ever have thought upon entering them. Other people have books on a bedside table; but Hynes has a “silver pillbox” full of ampersands. Her associations unfold in calibrated order, her seriousness tempered by whimsy.Yet the poems in Take the Compass, with their environmental and social concerns, are not surreal. They’re grounded in a sure maturity of voice that can twist and turn Hynes’s flexible lines into helixes of fresh understanding.” Molly Peacock“In a world where ‘life’s a rough ascent, / an icy path, sometimes a precipice to hang from,’ the poems in Take the Compass point the reader to poignancy, compassion, and impish imagination. ‘Carry / curiosity and confusion in your hand,’ Maureen Hynes writes, and she does so bravely, in poems ranging from childhood to health and her bedside table. If ‘We have been too knotted / into death counts & pollen counts / & approval ratings’ then Hynes’s skilful poems are ‘silk or twine or rope for rescue or ascent.’” Kevin Irie“Maureen Hynes welcomes us as an articulate and compassionate friend to a neighbourhood as expansive as human nature itself. Brightness emerges through bleakness: magnolia buds, lapis lazuli, the body a source of renewal, the firm, clear uplift of resistance. These poems are radiant.” Susan Gillis
£15.19
McGill-Queen's University Press Do You Want to Be Happy and Write Critical
Book SynopsisThis new collection on Michael Ondaatje’s work – the first in twenty years – offers an innovative analysis of the author’s oeuvre from 1967 to the present. In twenty essays, contributors explore Ondaatje’s poetry, novels, and work in film, highlighting the transnational, postcolonial, and diasporic issues apparent in his writings.Trade Review“Chock full of complex theoretical language, Do You Want to Be Happy and Write? will likely appeal to academic audiences (and determined CanLit enthusiasts). But general readers may find this insightful analysis a welcome supplement to their continued enjoyment of Ondaatje’s enduring works.” Literary Review of Canada
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Yogalands
Book Synopsis
£17.99
John Wiley & Sons No Place Like Home
Book Synopsis
£17.99
£23.96
University of Illinois Press The Symbolic Uses of Politics
Book SynopsisA book in the field of political science.Trade Review"A truly social-psychological study of politics, done in an unconventional, imaginative, and appealing style." -- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
£19.94
University of Illinois Press California Polyphony
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be Californian? To find out, Mina Yang delves into multicultural nature of musics in the state that has launched musical and cultural trends for decades. In the early twentieth century, an orientalist fascination with Asian music and culture dominated the popular imagination of white Californians and influenced their interactions with the Asian Other. Several decades later, tensions between the Los Angeles Police Department and the African American community made the thriving jazz and blues nightclub scene of 1940s Central Avenue a target for the LAPD''s anti-vice crusade. The musical scores for Hollywood''s noir films confirmed reactionary notions of the threat to white female sexuality in the face of black culture and urban corruption while Mexican Americans faced a conflicted assimilation into the white American mainstream. Finally, Korean Americans in the twenty-first century turned to hip-hop to express their cultural and national identities.A compelTrade Review“A fascinating and groundbreaking glimpse into a complicated musical geography.”--Journal of American History"[A] compelling new study . . . Yang successfully demonstrates that many elements can and must be taken into account when addressing the formation of any modern musical identify."--American Music Review"Mina Yang offers a musical message of social hope without stepping back from fierce historical inequities. She shows how the meeting grounds and collisions marking California's racial landscape add up to far more than accidents. California Polyphony will sit on my bookshelf between Mike Davis's City of Quartz and George Lipsitz's Dangerous Crossroads."--Deborah Wong, author of Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music"A landscape of California's musical history that draws upon sociocultural and political forces that led to the creation, innovation, and appropriation of musical styles, genres, and forms. This welcome addition to music and cultural studies combines the musical contributions of African Americans, East Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans in a unique and refreshing way."--Cheryl L. Keyes, author of Rap Music and Street Consciousness
£26.25
MO - University of Illinois Press The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£77.35
MO - University of Illinois Press In Pursuit of Gold Chinese American Miners and
Book SynopsisA fresh assessment of Chinese immigrant participation in small-town AmericaTrade ReviewRecognized as an honor book in the competition for the Denver Public Library's Western History/Genealogy Department Caroline Bancroft History Prize, 2012. "Sue Fawn Chung is a talented miner of Chinese American History."--The Historian"An excellent explanation of the familial and cultural links between the Chinese of the Guangdong region and how that influenced their relationships in the United States."--Nevada in the West"In this groundbreaking study, Sue Fawn Chung illumines a world of Chinese miners and merchants that has long been ignored or forgotten. Acknowledging the challenges of discrimination and hostility, Chung demonstrates a wide range of contributions by Chinese Americans and identifies areas of positive interaction with the dominant Euro-American society."--James J. Rawls, coeditor of A Golden State: Mining and Economic Development in Gold Rush California "A rich and multifaceted social history of Chinese mining communities in Oregon and Nevada. Scholars of Chinese America will find the book to be a valuable addition to their libraries."--American Historical Review"With its interesting portraits of little-known towns and the Chinese Americans who inhabited them, In Pursuit of Gold is full of surprises and discoveries. It is a worthy contribution to the study of Chinese in the U.S.A."--Historical Studies in Ethnicity"Sue Fawn Chung has meticulously reconstructed the story of these Chinese mining enclaves as well as their interactions with the larger communities. Interesting details about many individuals effectively enhance both the book's readability and the author's analysis."--Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Note on Names and Romanization; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction; 1: The Coming and Early Challenges; 2: Onward to Eastern Oregon; 3: Eastward to Northeastern Nevada: Tuscarora; 4: Further East: Island Mountain and Gold Creek; Conclusion Bibliography
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Africans to Spanish America Expanding the
Book SynopsisExpands and enrichs African diaspora history in the AmericasTrade Review"A pioneering effort to write the history of Africans in colonial Spanish America using the African diaspora paradigm. The authors fully demonstrate the considerable potential of this approach."--Kris Lane, author of The Colour of Paradise: The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder Empires"A page-turning secret society history based on solid research and accuracy."--Southern Historian“Africans to Spanish America is both useful and provocative, with chapters drawing on a range of methodological approaches to explore the complexities and nuances of racial identity in diverse Spanish American societies.”-- Journal of Latin American Studies"Aside from "expanding" diasporic history geographically, Africans to Spanish America also reminds us that between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries the experiences of people of African descent in Spanish America were more varied than the paradigmatic plantation-centered historiography of the Caribbean and Brazil has implied."--New West Indiana Guide"Expands the spatial and chronological contours of the African diaspora. A rich anthology comprised of short, clearly argued, and jargon-free essays."--Hispanic American Historical Review"Deeply researched work. The essays pay due attention to the religious and political institutions that enabled Spanish colonial rule but show how African-descended subjects--in a departure from third-wave scholarship--identified with those institutions more often than they resisted them."--American Historical Review"The authors add valuable knowledge to the literature on slavery and colonialism in the Americas as they shift attention to the earliest phases of European imperialism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and to locations throughout the hemisphere. . . . An empirically rich work that contributes valuable knowledge to a fast-growing field of research."--International Migration Review"A truly significant contribution to the field of the African Diaspora in colonial Spanish America in the era of slavery and slave society. The volume's most striking feature is the depth of inquiry into various features of Spanish American slave society and their impact on the lives of people of African descent and on the character of the colonial societies and imperial policy."--David Barry Gaspar, coeditor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the AmericasTable of ContentsIntroduction 1Sherwin K. Bryant, Ben Vinson III, and Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 1. Complicating Identity in the African Diaspora to Spanish America 1. The Shape of a Diaspora: The Movement of Afro-Iberians to Colonial Spanish America 27Leo J. Garofalo 2. African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650 50Frank "Trey" Proctor III 3. To Be Free and Lucumi: Ana de la Calle and Making African Diaspora Identities in Colonial Peru 73Rachel Sarah O'ToolePart 2. Royal Subjects, Loyal Christians, and Saints in the Alley 4. Between the Cross and the Sword: Religious Conquest and Maroon Legitimacy in Colonial Esmeraldas 95Charles Beatty-Medina 5. Afro-Mexican Saintly Devotion in a Mexico City Alley 114Joan C. Bristol 6. "The Lord walks among the pots and pans": Religious Servants of Colonial Lima 136Nancy E. van DeusenPart 3. Comparisons and Whitening Revisited: Race and Gender in Colonial Cuba 7. Whitening Revisited: Nineteenth-Century Cuban Counterpoints 163Karen Y. Morrison 8. Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba 186Michele Reid-Vazquez 9. The African American Experience in Comparative Perspective: The Current Question of the Debate 206Herbert S. Klein Glossary 223 Bibliography 229 List of Contributors 263 Acknowledgments 268 Index 269
£68.25
University of Illinois Press Triple Entendre Furniture Music Muzak MuzakPlus
Book SynopsisAnalyzes and challenges the crucial boundary that separates an artistic concept from its actual implementation in life.Trade ReviewCertificate of Merit for Best Historical Research on General Recording Topics, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), 2014. "This wonderfully provocative book places the tradition of 'background music' or 'environmental music' such as Muzak into a distinctly modern perspective. A sharp interdisciplinary study that makes connections between the popular and the avant-garde."--Tim J. Anderson, author of Making Easy Listening: Material Culture and Postwar American Recording"If you have any interest in the relation between what is and what is not, (what is/is not music, creativity, but much more than that), if the boundaries between theory and public practice are too rigid for you (or too fuzzy to see) or if you don't know much about music but know what you like, then you will greatly profit from reading this book, as your surprised and delighted reviewer did."--Leonardo Reviews
£50.35
University of Illinois Press Negotiating Latinidad
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A valuable and welcome addition to the literature in Latina/o studies. I commend Aparicio on this important work. It will be a significant contribution to thinking about multicultural identities in immigrant-descendant generations, and about the traditional paradigm of American assimilation."--Rina Benmayor, coeditor of Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain"Aptly interweaving humanities and social science approaches to identity, Aparicio sets up some of the building blocks for what Latino Studies will become in the twenty-first century. Her compelling engagement with storytelling by Latinos articulating intraLatina/o identities in Chicago is a groundbreaking intervention in the study of U.S. Latinidad that transcends while honoring cultural nationalist models that may not always serve to capture our realities. Her use of the concepts 'horizontal hierarchies' and 'affective essentializing' to analyze co-existence, competition, love, conflict, and solidarity leaves us rethinking our lives in inter-Latino communities and how we describe them. While reading about linguistic battles between parents, grandmas seeking to win over their intraLatina/o children through food, and college students trying to find a sense of belonging to inter-Latino families, communities, and college settings, the reader witnesses intimate spaces of kinship building by intraLatina/os and is deeply engaged by the courageous truths of our communities."--Alaí Reyes-Santos, author of Our Caribbean Kin: Race and Nation in the Neoliberal Antilles
£68.25
University of Illinois Press Rocking the Closet
Book SynopsisThe all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assumebut not seetheir queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations. Vincent L. Stephens confronts notions of the closetboth coming out and staying inby analyzing the careers of Liberace, Johnny Mathis, Johnnie Ray, and Little Richard. Appealing to audiences hungry for novelty and exoticism, the four pop icons used performance and queering techniques that ran the gamut. Liberace's flamboyance shared a spectrum with Mathis's intimate sensitivity while Ray's overwrought displays as Mr. Emotion seemed worlds apart from Little Richard's raise-the-roof joyousness. As Stephens shows, the quartet not only thrived in an era of graTrade Review"Scholars interested in queer history, music history, race, and American popular culture generally will therefore learn much from this excellent book." --Journal of the History of SexualityAn Advocate Best Queer Non-Fiction Book of 2019 "Stephen's Rocking the Closet investigates how contemporary queer stars such as Little Richard navigated the mid-twentieth-century popular music landscape and, as important, how observers reacted to their unconventional gender presentation. . . . Stephens should be commended for the diverse range of primary sources marshalled in his study. . . . Rocking the Closet presents students and practitioners of queer cultural history, as well as those studying post-war cultural history, with fresher methods of examining popular culture and its legacies." --Cultural History"Distinguished by excellent writing Rocking the Closet achieves the admirable goal of being both a sound scholarly work and accessible to readers from all walks of life. It raises provocative ideas and arguments, challenging entrenched ways of thinking about the history of queerness in postwar America." --Notes "Well-argued and thoughtful." --Arts Fuse "Rocking the Closet is a worthy contribution to better understanding the queering of postwar masculine identities and popular music. . . . As the barriers between folk and popular cultures continue to be dismantled, scholarship such as Rocking the Closet follows an interdisciplinary trajectory that will satisfy scholars across disciplines." --Western Folklore "The spirit of Rocking the Closet is enjoyed in how deftly Stephens illuminates those nuances. He is as lucid about the music as about the cultural moment, the entertainment business, and the lives of the musicians." --On the Seawall "The contemporary mainstream LGBT narrative claims that artists should out themselves for the greater good. But Rocking the Closet makes a persuasive case that 'open secrecy' helped make stars of Little Richard, Liberace, Johnny Mathis, and Johnny Ray in the decades prior to and after Stonewall. These (until now) academically under-examined, yet enormously successful and influential musicians used the surprising leeway of the glass closet to develop artistic personae that were both appealing and ambiguous, leading to commercial success that rivals that of our current musicians. Stephens' insightful intersectional book will liven the debate in identity and popular culture scholarship!"--Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, Temple University
£77.35
University of Illinois Press A Gurus Journey
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study of the kathak dance form in the San Francisco Bay Area community formed by Pandit Chitresh Das.Trade Review"Novel, original, and impressive. A story of the dance and one of its most important personalities, and an important book for all interested in the diaspora of Indian and Eastern arts."--George E. Ruckert, author of Music in North India: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture
£68.25
University of Illinois Press The Black Intellectual Tradition
Book SynopsisConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. This volume presents essays on the diverse thought behind the fight for racial justice as developed by African American artists and intellectuals; performers and protest activists; institutions and organizations; and educators and religious leaders. By including both women’s and men’s perspectives from the U.S. and the Diaspora, the essays explore the full landscape of the Black intellectual tradition. Throughout, contributors engage with important ideas ranging from the consideration of gender within the tradition, to intellectual products generated outside the intelligentsia, to the ongoing relationship between thought and concrete effort in the quest for liberatioTrade Review"Argues for a more expansive field of Black intellectual history that includes, not just other genres of writing, but also art and cultural practices of specific communities. . . and race-conscious social organizations and institutions, such as the early Black masonic lodges and later HBCUs and the 'Divine Nine' fraternities and sororities that sent forth generations of Black activists, scholars, and artists." --Society for U.S. Intellectual History "Thoughtful, thought-provoking, and well-documented. . . The Black Intellectual Tradition provides information and insights of great value to educators and scholars of all disciplines, genders, and racial/ethnic identities." --Journal of American History
£77.25
University of Illinois Press The Spirit of Soul Food
Book SynopsisSoul food has played a critical role in preserving Black history, community, and culinary genius. It is also a response to--and marker of--centuries of food injustice. Given the harm that our food production system inflicts upon Black people, what should soul food look like today?Christopher Carter's answer to that question merges a history of Black American foodways with a Christian ethical response to food injustice. Carter reveals how racism and colonialism have long steered the development of US food policy. The very food we grow, distribute, and eat disproportionately harms Black people specifically and people of color among the global poor in general. Carter reflects on how people of color can eat in a way that reflects their cultural identities while remaining true to the principles of compassion, love, justice, and solidarity with the marginalized. Both a timely mediation and a call to action, The Spirit of Soul Food places today's Black foodways at the crossroads of food jusTrade Review"The Spirit of Soul Food is a must-read for anyone interested in challenging the industrial food system in practical terms." --Reading Religion"Christopher Carter's The Spirit of Soul Food is a deeply enlightening discussion of food, foodways, and how the lived experiences of people can shape and be shaped by what they grow, acquire, and eat." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews“I've never read a book like this before! Part history book, part cookbook, part call-to-action and resource for spiritual formation. The Spirit of Soul Food is suited for a variety of audiences ready for the timely challenge of inviting a deeper integration of our ethics, actions, and daily bread.”--Rev. Dr. Heber Brown III, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church"Carter’s excellent book breaks important new ground at the crucial nexus of race, religion, food, animals, and the environment. It is essential reading for anyone seeking to address this cutting-edge territory, which is crucial for the futures of human and more-than-human life."--David L. Clough, University of ChesterTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction: Knowing, Eating, and Believing 11 Transatlantic Soul 222 Food Pyramid Scheme 573 Being Human as Praxis 874 Tasting Freedom 122Conclusion: Food Deserts and Desserts 157Notes 165Index 179
£68.25
University of Illinois Press Dangerous Ideas on Campus
Book SynopsisIn 1960, University of Illinois professor Leo Koch wrote a public letter condoning premarital sex. He was fired. Four years later, a professor named Revilo Oliver made white supremacist remarks and claimed there was a massive communist conspiracy. He kept his job. Matthew Ehrlich revisits the Koch and Oliver cases to look at free speech, the legacy of the 1960s, and debates over sex and politics on campus. The different treatment of the two men marked a fundamental shift in the understanding of academic freedom. Their cases also embodied the stark divide over beliefs and values--a divide that remains today. Ehrlich delves into the issues behind these academic controversies and places the events in the context of a time rarely associated with dissent, but in fact a harbinger of the social and political upheavals to come. An enlightening and entertaining history, Dangerous Ideas on Campus illuminates how the university became a battleground for debating America's hot-button issues.Trade Review"A rich account of the dynamics of academic freedom at [the University of Illinois] in the 1960s. . . . A timely book." --Choice"Ehrlich has thoroughly researched and carefully presented two obscure but influential U of I episodes that had widespread effects in their own time and concern issues of free speech and its restriction still relevant to ours. It is a book well worth reading for fans of the U of I, for those who personally remember the 60s, and for anyone concerned about academic freedom." --Illinois Times"Matthew Ehrlich takes what might have been local events and uses serious research to illuminate and elevate them to national and historical significance. His thoughtful weaving of threads such as academic freedom, university governance, student life, and sexual mores becomes a lively story and analysis of higher education that builds suspense, then provides answers. One of the best accounts of campus life and problems in the early 1960s I have read."--John R. Thelin, author of Going to College in the Sixties"A captivating and thoroughly researched story of a single American university at a propitious juncture. Ehrlich's engaging writing propels the arguments, the contemporary relevance of which is both obvious from the narrative and well summarized in a final chapter. I am already chomping at the bit for the opportunity to share this exciting work with others."--Henry Reichman, author of The Future of Academic Freedom"Matthew C. Ehrlich's Dangerous Ideas on Campus uses the substantial controversies surrounding these two events to chronicle the evolution of the U of I in the early sixties and, to a lesser extent, explore the evolution of academic freedom in higher education during the postwar period." --Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society
£68.25
University of Illinois Press Danz243n Days Age Race and Romance in Mexico
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Malcomson provides a superb ethnographic study of ambivalence in lived experience: danzón is disciplinary and jealously competitive, yet it gives aficionados room to be creative and convivial, and to weave identities around narratives of blackness and race mixture, local histories, and personal trajectories. A brilliant exploration of how people navigate the contradictions of everyday life.”--Peter Wade, coeditor of Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsVignette 1. Gerardo, Elena, and Miguel [Fiction] Introduction. Danzón, Veracruz, and Ambivalence Vignette 2. Teresita [Fiction] Chapter 1. Racial Ambivalence: Veracruz, Blackness, and Danzón Vignette 3. Pancho [Fiction] Chapter 2. Ambivalent Nostalgia: Histories and Memories of the Port and Its Danzón Vignette 4. Renata [Fiction] Chapter 3. Elegant Moves: Modernist Aesthetics and Danzón in Veracruz Vignette 5. Lulú and Antonio [Fiction] Chapter 4. Moves to Rescue: Reviving the Dance, State Sponsorship, and Power Vignette 6. Hettie and Uriel Chapter 5. United in a Viper’s Nest: Group Dynamics, Conviviality, and Rivalry Vignette 7. Carmen and Ernesto [Fiction] Chapter 6. Loving Ambivalence: Dance Groups, Amorous Encounters, and Ageing Bodies Vignette 8. Diana [Fiction] Acknowledgments Notes Glossary Select Discography Select Filmography Bibliography Index
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Ballists Dead Beats and Muffins Inside Early
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Highly entertaining with useful appendices." --Spitball Magazine"Provides a wealth of detail about the origins of the Illinois game and the teams who played it from Chicago down south to Cairo and nearly every town in between." --St. Louis Post-Dispatch"A delightful collection of history and baseball anecdotes for both casual and serious baseball fans." --Illinois Times"Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins makes clear that there was a simplicity, innocence, and freshness to baseball in Illinois in these years, even as Sampson details the movement—probably inevitable—toward a more competitive and more professional level of play." --Third Coast Review"Effectively blends history and nostalgia, sparking an appreciation of the National pastime. . . . This 250-page gem by Robert D. Sampson is an exhaustive focus on baseball's early style and sweep when gentlemanly players, civic leaders, and hosts of spectators stressed the bliss more than the score." --Community Word“Detailed studies of baseball during these crucial years are rare, with ones that focus on a single state even more so. Bob Sampson’s Ballists, Dead Beats, and Muffins is thus both timely and valuable, confirming some long-accepted assumptions and forcing reexamination of others. Highly recommended!”--Peter Morris, author of Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in MichiganTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue A Dying Ember First Inning Baseball Fever and Pioneers Second Inning Organizing Clubs, Funding, Travel, and the Game’s Rituals Third Inning Playing Fields, Gambling, and Injuries Fourth Inning The Game and Its Players Fifth Inning Sharing the Fun Sixth Inning Barriers of Race and Gender Seventh Inning Trouble in Baseball’s Eden Eighth Inning Representative Teams Ninth Inning The Thrill Departs Epilogue Ghosts Appendix A Illinois Baseball Teams, 1865-70 Appendix B Bloomington’s Fifth Ward School-Grounds Neighborhood Appendix C Illinois Baseball Players, 1865-70 Notes Bibliography Index
£68.25
University of Illinois Press Shadow of the New Deal The Victory of Public
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shadow of the New Deal is an ideal introduction for scholars new to the study of radio. . . . The book has an obvious appeal to media historians; indeed, it will no doubt become the standard reference work on this phase in radio history, though it offers fruitful information for scholars of other areas as well." --H-Net Reviews“Equipped with a wealth of archival research and a fresh perspective, Shepperd reshapes the history of public broadcasting convincingly and with great respect for the practitioners, researchers, and reformers responsible for its development and influence.”--Deborah L. Jaramillo, author of The Television Code: Regulating the Screen to Safeguard the Industry"Well researched and documented." --ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Advocacy: Media Reform, from Activism to Advocacy: Before and After the Communications Act of 1934 Chapter 2. Funding: The Philanthropic Mandate for Collaboration between Educational and Commercial Broadcasters Chapter 3. Distribution and Facilities: America’s Public Media Industry: From the Rocky Mountain Radio Council to the National Bicycle Network Chapter 4. Research and Development: The Emergence of Communication: Reception Research as a Strategic Tool of Media Reform Chapter 5: Policy: Public Media Policy, 1934-1967--Lessons from Reform History Conclusion Notes Index
£68.25
University of Illinois Press On the Waves of Empire U.S. Imperialism and
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Riddell shows US sailors struggling for their own emancipation. Especially after 1898, he shows them also as fashioning themselves as white agents of empire. The potential for drama and tragedy is great, and fully realized, in this riveting book.”--David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History of Debt, Misery, and the Drift to the RightTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Seams of Empire A Leak in the Ship of State”: Maritime Labor Reform and U.S. Imperial Expansion, 1872-1900 Does Exclusion Follow the Flag? Imperial Labor Mobilization, Domestic Organized Labor, and the Emergence of a U.S. Metropole, 1902-1908 Riding the Waves of Empire: Craft Unionism, the La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915, and the Economic Dimensions of U.S. Imperial Power, 1908 -1915 Agents of Empire: Merchant Sailors, the Great War, and the New American Merchant Marine, 1898-1919 They Always Choose Exclusion: Internal Dissent, Postwar U.S. Maritime Policy, and the Fall of the Sailors Unions, 1915-1924 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£68.25
MO - University of Illinois Press We Are All Leaders The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£17.99
